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Heh, this one made me think of Hammie:
Gary Schroeder, a Maryland-based tax preparer, said. “If you receive $500 to kill your neighbor’s annoying rooster…….
Much warmer here but we supposed to get rain off and on all day.
Mornin’ Gang
Morning gang. Very froggy out here this morning with limited visibility and IFR conditions all around. Not freezing though, so that’s a plus. Not certain what’s next on the agenda after coffee, but I’ll figure out something. I’m being tempted to get up on the step ladder and check out that intermittent light bulb. I could probably work off the top of the kitchen table for more stability. I’ll have to do more thinking about that – last thing I want is to do something stupid like fall off a ladder.
The sous vide pork ribs are still churning over there. The heater has a phone app for my phone that works great – much easier setting and checking the thing out on the app than it is to actually try to punch buttons on the unit itself. I initially set them up for 22 hours, and according to the app, there’s still about 11 hours left to go. My plan was to take them out about 5PM, so I think that’s going to work out just about right.
OK, you all have a great day. More later as it happens.
For sale over yonder on the Kubota page; A pristine 2003 Grand L3830 Kubota with 532 hours!? Dayaam Nice Machine.
I could probably work off the top of the kitchen table for more stability. I’ll have to do more thinking about that – last thing I want is to do something stupid like fall off a ladder.
Well not that I have a vote in the matter, but if I did I would cast it for the table rather than the ladder. I’m tired of reading about misfortune. Y’all be safe out there.
I was over at the Clear Lake Memory page and saw a neat ad for the Jalapeno Tree.
Anybody remember L.C. Roots & Co? Man we had a lot of good times at the Jalapeno Tree.
Yup ole Biden has it all figured out;
Smartest Man I know?
BTW; Can you imagine the Media Heads Asploding if Trump had called a reporter, any reporter, a Stupid SOB? ~SPITS~
I really don’t care if Brandon called a reporter a stupid SOB. Nor do I care if he apologized for it. If Trump had done it (and probably did) I don’t care about that either. But it is awfully entertaining remembering the histrionics of the media back in the Trump days over virtually anything he said vs. the virtual crickets from those same whiners now that their guy is in office making bombastic comments.
10 Dooood
I don’t care about Biden calling members of the press SOBs. I do think the public should never be allowed to forget Biden called his corrupt, disgusting, dissipated drug addict son “the smartest man he’s ever known”.
I just saw the story of the Pct. 5 constable who was murdered in cold blood by this thug, Oscar Rosales. They don’t even know what the murderer’s real name is.
In Texas, why are there 4 commissioners’ court precincts, 8 constable precincts and 160 voter precincts ? They are all different and I’ve never understood why they came up with this system and never changed the terminology.
The Infrastructure of Progress
By Anthony Matoria
The progressive disdain for the institutions and traditions that have produced the modern world is, at base, an ignorance of the conditions and structures that are necessary to civil society. They arise from an arrogance that believes that ideologies are facts and that policies can command nature. Societies and states may improve the imperfect levels of justice, opportunity and well-being of their citizens, but they cannot do so while ignoring and attacking the very truths, traditions and institutions that have provided the highest degree of justice, opportunity, and progress that the world has ever known.
A very clear description of the lunacy of the left. Definitely one to read.
Izzit possible that M42 has completed her 80th lap around the sun today?
FWIW; I certainly don’t care if Biden calls anyone a SOB. The point I was trying to make in #9 Is that A) If Trump had said that it would be all over the news for two weeks and B) Biden’s comment will NOT be reported on by any of the Lame stream media ever. We all know this but it still pisses me off.
I do think the public should never be allowed to forget Biden called his corrupt, disgusting, dissipated drug addict son “the smartest man he’s ever known”.
I couldn’t agree more. If we actually had any kind of objective media that would happen. Considering the people Brandon surrounds himself with, what if Hunter actually is the smartest man he’s ever known? At least that he remembers anyway, LOL.
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Crap! I guess I shouldn’t have said that but I thought it was mild enough.
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Yesterday, Super Dave linked to GovTrack.us and their laughable list of the most conservative senators. Tristan Justice at The Federalist exposes GovTrack to be just like the rest of the lying weasels in Washington DC.
The congressional tracking service GovTrack.us, a private website allowing users to follow legislative activity, began to tag Republican House members who challenged President Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College as insurrectionists. Democrats who made similar objections in 2017, 2005, and 2001 remain on the website with no such descriptor.
At the top of each GOP lawmaker’s profile who voted to reject the 2020 election results over process concerns of electoral integrity now sits a note indicting them of participation in a “months-long attempted coup that included the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.”
On their website, GovTrack goes to great lengths to claim their fairness, impartiality and strict independence. What a joke.
Coffee & Covid ☙ Tuesday, January 25, 2022 ☙ A GREAT ASSET
And we’re back! Good morning and happy Tuesday, C&Cers. Sorry about the wait. Today we have a steaming cup of Covid news, including: a DC rally update; the FDA cancels monoclonal antibody treatments; Biden shows how classy and definitely not mean the new administration is; a judge blocks New York’s mask mandate; Scott Gottlieb, of all people, calls for an end to mandates; great news about US Covid infections; quadruple-jabbed Israel sees cases continue to escalate; France and Spain jump on the Narrative 2.0 bandwagon; and Florida’s weekly report looks GREAT.
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*THE C&C ARMY POST*
Sunday, I spoke before thousands at the March for Freedom Rally in Washington DC, framed by the Lincoln Memorial, in freezing weather, with dozens of other high-profile speakers from across the political spectrum, continuing for almost three hours until the park service cut the power promptly when the rally’s permit expired at 3:30pm.
I was in the final segment, just after Del Bigtree and Angela Stanton King. Del was the final speaker before the power went off, but fortunately someone from the giant crowd happened to have a handy portable PA system, and they wired it in, allowing us to continue for several more minutes until law enforcement made it clear the event was over.
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It was a terrific, high-energy event, despite the temperature and the long program, … The speakers included nearly everyone publicly engaged in the battle against mandates, plus many more, like first responders, vaccine injured folks, a platoon of doctors, comedians, singers, and political figures. Notable by their absence: no politicians.
The airports were half empty, as were the planes, both ways. I don’t know whether it had anything to do with the lecture that the pilot delivered before takeoff yesterday, explaining how much authority he and the cabin stewards have to enforce mask mandates, or the TWO “mask safety checks” that had to be completed before we got underway. I also don’t know whether it had anything to do with the pilot’s omission of any suggestion to “relax” or “enjoy your flight.” Or whether it was his instruction to replace the mask between bites of pretzel.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Yesterday the Florida Department of Health announced it is closing ALL of the state’s monoclonal treatment centers. According to a press release, the reason is that the FDA abruptly, without warning, revoked the existing EUAs for the two most common mABs — Regeneron and bamlanivimab. The FDA’s rationale was that these two mABs are “not effective against Omicron,” although there is no clinical evidence showing the lack of effectiveness, much less a total failure to help.
I might add that all the experts agree, and all the studies confirm, that the VACCINES are also not effective against Omicron. So we should revoke their EUAs too, to be consistent, right? Anyone? Bueller?
Science! Shut up!
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Meanwhile, the FDA has green-lighted wide scale distribution of Merck’s Covid pill, Molnupiravir, which according to a December 13 article in the journal Nature, failed to show any more efficacy than a placebo in its final clinical trials. The Nature article’s headline advises, “Merck’s COVID pill loses its lustre: what that means for the pandemic.”
Furthermore, the article explains that some scientists are actually worried about Merck’s drug, saying “molnupiravir’s novel mechanism of action has the potential for long-term safety risks.” The drug works by incorporating itself into Covid’s genes and interfering with its ability to replicate. But, according to Nature, “intentionally introducing mutations into viral RNA might create a more dangerous version of SARS-CoV-2, critics say.” Sounds great.
The FDA did not comment on why it approved an EUA for a drug whose CLINICAL TRIALS failed to show efficacy but cancelled the EUA for existing drugs without any clinical evidence of a failure to show efficacy. So. Weird. [Note: Yet, how many will line up to be guinea pigs, because they think a nanny government really, really, really cares for them? Just my two cents.]
I say Florida’s Department of Health should use its clinics to distribute free horse dewormer and fluvoxamine, since the mABs are now arbitrarily unavailable.
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At the end of a photo op yesterday, responding to a question from Fox’s Peter Doocy about whether inflation was a political liability, Hunter Biden’s father, Joe Biden, answered clearly, on camera, that “it’s a great asset—more inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.”
It’s a good thing we don’t have that disrespectful mean-tweeter in office anymore!
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New York State’s mask mandate was blocked yesterday by a Nassau County judge, who ruled the mandate is unconstitutional and violates state law. But since there was a previous ruling by another state-court judge that the mandate WAS constitutional, New York’s delusional governor Kathy Hochul said that the order was effectively stayed, and so several school districts have announced they will not comply with the injunction. Sound familiar? Game on.
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Yesterday, former FDA director and new Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb, in a Squawk Box interview, said that mask and vaccine mandates should be ended. “I think certainly on the east coast where you see cases declining dramatically we need to be willing to lean in and do that very soon; I think as conditions improve we have to be willing to relax some of these measures with the same speed that we put them in place,” he said.
The former commissioner explained that “the only way to get compliance from people and get accommodation [is] if we demonstrate the ability to withdraw these [mandates] in the same manner in which we put them in.”
[I’m confused – those who refused the jab for whatever reason are now expected to go along because nanny government is being nice about it? We’ll be suckered by a pull instead of a push? Or do they think we’ll just wander casually into the vaccine corral if we’re not being whipped?]
So. But don’t throw away your masks yet.
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US Covid infections have been falling sharply. According to an article in the Epoch Times yesterday, back on January 10th, 4,110 out of every million Americans recorded infections, but that rate was only 2,643 as late as Friday, and had fallen to only 615 per million by Sunday. This sharp drop tracks the South African experience with Omicron, where the final wave was tall but very narrow, meaning the cases shot up quickly and then fell again just as fast as they had increased.
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But in Israel, where two boosters are now required, cases are still on the rise. Health authorities reported a 30% positivity rate yesterday. That’s one out of every three tested. The vaccine-happy country reported 67,198 new cases on Sunday alone, with over 500,000 active cases — which would be equivalent to 18 million active cases here in the US. Just saying.
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Joining other European countries like Britain, Ireland, Scotland, and the Czech Republic, late last week France announced easing of Covid restrictions possibly including its draconian vaccine passport. According to France24, Health Minister Olivier Véran said “we are a bit more confident in saying we can relax some of these constraints and let people return to life as normal as possible.”
France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex and other officials said that even the vaccine passport system might be cancelled if the Covid numbers continue to improve.
Similarly, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told reporters late last week that the European Union should just treat Covid like the flu, since studies and data have shown Omicron is far less virulent than previous variants. “What we are saying is that in the next few months and years, we are going to have to think, without hesitancy and according to what science tells us, how to manage the pandemic with different parameters,” Sánchez said obliquely.
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*COVID IN FLORIDA*
There’s great news in the Florida weekly report! We see clear evidence now that the winter wave is already headed back DOWN.
Most significant is Florida’s R-naught, which has now dropped to 0.54 — a clear sign that infections are shrinking fast. It is even close to the low point of 0.40 at the pre-Omicron trough.
Cases, which had slowed in the last update, but had still increased a little, fell dramatically ….cut almost in half. Beds fell for the first time since the winter wave began, from 11,276 to 10,794. Since hospitalizations are a lagging indicator, we’ll be anticipating an even more significant drop in next week’s update.
No hospitals were overwhelmed.
Positivity rates and cases per 100K were also down from the previous week’s report.
So the best evidence that we have shows Covid infections are falling fast, all around the country. Just in time for the State of the Union!
#17 SD, I’m with you. PO’s me too. But yeah, in hindsight anything Trump said WAS beaten to death and beyond in the media. I gave up on the idea of them being fair and impartial long ago – even before Trump. So now I just ignore them. Apparently a lot of other people are too. Take a gander at CNN’s ratings lately and take heart. They’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
#15 What he said; RTWDT.
I love American Thinker they have very good articles.
HEADLINE: Report: Ben & Jerry’s Owner, Unilever, Loses $26 Billion After Ice Cream Boycott in ‘Occupied Territories’
This just couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of folks. I hope their rabid anti-Semitism bankrupts them.
#21 Thanks Texpat, just as I expected since I couldn’t understand the numbers at all.
This qualifies as a solid pegging out of the OH-CRAP-O-METER
Izzit possible that M42 has completed her 80th lap around the sun today?
Maybe she’ll tell us but I think she has one more year to go…..If I remember right. 😉
I just saw over yonder that Canadian truckers are starting a Tea Party of sorts, getting tahrred with their government.
Go, dudes!
#14 Dave
Thank you, thank you! I had sorta forgotten about it myself this morning. Yep, 78 — am I the oldest Hamster? No, I’m not, I think Adee has a few years on me.
35 INSTANCES WHERE YOU REALLY QUESTION THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE
Hopefully the above will not pollute the gene pool.
25 Bonecrusher
I wish I could say the plunge in Unilever value is because of their hatred of Israel. Some of the devaluation can be attributed to it, but Unilever is just a poorly run company. I read only yesterday where activist investors are buying into Unilever to try and force the management and board to make some major changes. Unilever is a behemoth with hundreds of different consumer brands spread across numerous categories. I don’t see how you can have a coherent vision with that mix. I think the company should be broken up into smaller, more efficient units.
I don’t want them to mess with my Dollar Shave Club razors though.
I’m a Harry’s man myself.
HEADLINE: ‘Pope Francis’ – A Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing?
[SUB-HEAD] Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano sheds a disturbing light on the “Deep Church.”
It is getting real out there. I tend to agree with those who have determined that the current “pope” is in fact the anti-pope who will be instrumental in ushering in the One World Religion.
Happy birfday, Mharper!
I didn’t realize these two guys at Harry’s cashed out for $1.37 Billion.
Happy Birthday mharper!
I caught part of a Dior fashion show. While I expect some crazy at the haut couture events, Dior’s fashions were, for the most part, respectable and pretty.
But the models…oh, the models.
I guess they are taught to walk with dead faces, and very little arm swing. Hunched over at the shoulders. Lifeless mannequins marching around. While they are supposed to be beautiful, they looked ugly. I swear, one of them is a tranny guy. Others were simply androgynous. And the venue was butt ugly.
This is supposed to sell designer clothing? After watching that, I wanted to escape.
#32 TP: I have long believed that when an entity, primarily a government, gets outside of its original mission and bounds, both the original mission and everything that it touches out of bounds suffer.
The 10th Amendment is very specific, yet how many states have sued or withheld tax receipts for serial violations of the 10th? How many judges have been removed from the bench for misbehavior, including the many obvious violations of the clear wording of the Constitution? If failing to rule in accord with the clear meaning of The Constitution doesn’t constitute ‘bad behavior’ then what does?
When the Federal Govt got outside of the boundaries erected by the Constitution, like the establishment of the Department of Education by Jimmah Cawtah, for example, education across the country began to suffer. Our standing relative to the world in educational achievement has degraded steadily since that time. To add insult to injury, our taxes have necessarily gone up to fund failure. The money which should have been spent elsewhere when down the rat-hole of Big Education and we all suffer for it. Education has gotten worse – not better, yet we still keep doing that which fails and refuse to do that which succeeds.
The EPA and OSHA are also examples of this failure; they may have been good at one time but have since grown to the point that they are enforcement arms of the totalitarians against the normal behavior and good will of We The People.
#38 TT: Lemme guess, they all looked like heroin addicts and/or shaped like young teenage boys, right?
#34
Indeed, this is becoming more of a concern. Taylor Marshall played a video clip of Bp. Roche actually coming out and admitting that the VII mass is a different religion.
I can’t come out and say that the VII mass is illegitimate, but many do. I have a hard time reconciling the apostolic Church and heresy.
There will be a large number of Catholics who will have to make hard choices soon.
#38 TT: Lemme guess, they all looked like heroin addicts and/or shaped like young teenage boys, right?
Nailed. It.
Okay, I’m considering a project, and I need some help. Other than the current denizens of the Couch, what were past handles of our group? Here are the ones I remember. Let’s take this back to our earlier home, LST.
GTO
BigIron45
Matt Bramanti
Wino & Sue
Hamous
Smacktle
Headshaker
Who am I forgetting?
TT #43;
CajunMaverick but I don’t remember if he has ever been in this group.
Just saw a meme:
Ukraine Invites Kyle Rittenhouse To Guard Their Border
From the Babylon Bee, of course.
Bwahahahaaha!!!
Happy birthday mharper!
Any corpirate entity that decides to boycott Isreal is going to be poorly run. A decision that bad in one area means bad decisions will be made in others.
Four years ago today I sat at the airport in Dubai having a drink at 7:30 in the morning while waiting for my last flight home from my stint in Saudi.
Happy heavenly birthday to my PawPaw. He would have been 103 today.
Shannon #1;
Does the $500 payment apply to canine?
WARNING: I can’t p[lay this video loud right now so I don’t remember if it had swearing. I thin there’s a few f-bombs.
Happy Birthday mharper!
Re: Pope and the current condition of The Church
Return to Tradition: The Vatican’s Next Demonic Move Against Tradition Confirmed
An excellent take on the Neil young issue he made with Spotify to pull Joe Rogan’s podcasts.
I don’t recall Lynyrd Skynyrd demanding radio stations pull Young’s music or even “Southern Man” from the air. Instead, they responded in kind with a rebuttal and extended the debate. One might think Young in particular would learn from that experience, especially while working in an industry that has resisted ratings, parental intervention in sales, and correctly sided with free-market speech principles in defending obscenities and violent rhetoric in rap music particularly as nothing more than free speech and authentic reportage of urban life.
Rogan may well be wrong, very wrong on these issues. But the antidote for bad speech is more speech, and the corrective for misinformation is better information. Silencing and deplatforming people leaves the distinct impression that these challenges don’t have a legitimate answer and that the establishment in question doesn’t want to answer for itself, not that the critics are wrong. And what’s more, Young has now given Rogan even greater cachet as someone fighting off cancel culture and muzzling by the establishment.
The one point almost no one ever makes when the feminists start ranting about body image and shaming, blaming heterosexual men for the weird looking models in the fashion industry.
Who chooses these models for their anorexic, bulemic bodies ? Who teaches them to walk and strut on the runway like cadavers from some zombie horror flick ? Who runs the fashion houses and design studios ?
Gay men.
There are no straight guys out there imposing these images on society.
From the exemplary Robert Boylan, we read examples of temple worship outside Jerusalem.
On the topic of (accepted) blood sacrificial sites outside of Jerusalem, Jacob Milgrom wrote:
It must be borne in mind that the book of Deuteronomy forbids only blood sacrifices outside the central sanctuary: “you must bring everything I command you to the site that the Lord your God will choose to establish his name: your burnt offerings and other slain offerings, your tithes and contributions, and all choice votive offerings that you vow to the Lord” (Deut 12:11; cf. vv. 6, 14, 27). Even H, which prohibits all worship outside the Tabernacle, in effect, also limits itself to blood sacrifices: “If any person of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them sacrifices a burnt offering or another slain offering, and does not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to offer it to the Lord that person shall be cut off from his people (17:8-9). Thus, all cultic laws in the Bible that prescribe that legitimate worship is possible only on one authorized altar (cf. Josh 22:23) limit this prescription to blood sacrifices without even mentioning incense.
In the Dead Sea Scrolls, in the text 11Q19 (AKA 11QTa and 11QTemplea), if one is three days away from Jerusalem, one was allowed to set up a sacrificial altar and engage in cultic (temple) sacrifice. In 11QT 52:13-16, we read:
And you shall not plough with an ox and an ass together. You shall not slaughter an ox, or sheep or he-goat which are pure in any of your gates which are nearer than three days’ walk from my temple, but instead you shall slaughter it inside my temple, making it into a burn-offering or peace offering; and you shall eat and rejoice before me in the place where I shall choose to put my name upon it.
(Bold mine)
Only blood sacrifices were not performed outside of Jerusalem. All other temple worship were recognized.
Is there a limit on the number of edits? Mine disappeared after editing like four times. LOL!
It’s a time limit…5 minutes, I think.
Happy birthday, MH42!
Excellent news: OSHA withdraws the ETS (emergency temporary standard) effective tomorrow. This is especially good news for people working for large companies who were facing termination for not taking the jab.
Tedtam;
Sounds right. Will it come back after 24 hrs or so? I hope. 🙂
Darren –
I checked, and there are no posts waiting for moderation.
Usually, the edit window closes once the time is up. The post doesn’t disappear; you just can’t change it after that point.
If you are saying a post disappeared, it’s gone. Somehow it got deleted.
If you are asking if the edit window disappeared and will open back up in 24 hours…nope.
You can copy and paste your original post into a new one, make your edits, and save. You may have the option to delete the original one that you changed. Or just let us know that you are repeating a post, with edits.
Nope, no deletion option. Just a repost with edits.
Happy Birthday MHarper!
Who edits posts on here anyway. Just toss it out there and let the reader interpret whatever it is you were trying to say. Perfection not required.
TT #61;
No, there were no posts deleted, I was just wondering how the edit feature works. If it is timed, that makes sense. Now that you bring it up, I think that’s how it’s always been. It’s just been a pretty long time since I’ve used it here.
Thanks for checking and for the feedback.
If I didn’t edit my posts, you guys would think I am an even more incompetent writer than I already am. That’s what 139 college credits towards an engineering degree will do to you.
#47: I just heard on Bloomberg radio that Unilever is cutting 15% of its executive force. Gee, I wonder if that had anything to do with with losing $26 BILLION had anything to do with it? See #25 above.
#43
GTO
BigIron45
Matt Bramanti
Wino & Sue
Hamous
Smacktle
Headshaker
OTL and Richard Willette but I’m not sure if either were ever here.
El Gordo;
I do not expect perfection but I do like the ability to adjust my posts. Sometimes they really need it. 🙂
Texpat
Riddle me this Batman. How does the greatest military super power become nothing more than a bunch of toy soldiers and cannon fodder
Rice U. Board of Trustees just announced that they are relocating the statue of the founder which sits in the center of the academic quadrangle at Rice. He once repoed a couple of slaves a debtor had pledged as collateral on a loan he had made.
#70 Squawk: Bidet, just like his mentor, Barky O’JugEars, is leading with his behind.
The USS Harry Truman and associated strike force vessels under NATO command & control??????????????
This cannot / will not end well sportsfans!
THANK goodness the USS Georgia (OHIO class sub) is also in the Med and please God hopefully under OUR control!
(not that our C&C wimps will actually utilize Her)
Marc Boyd belongs on the lustvasxwell as Ol Timer Lynn
Squawk
I don’t believe NATO will actually do anything. They’ll sit there and watch Putin overrun Ukraine. Joe will blame all the criticism on NATO and the Europeans and be the laughingstock of the world. Again.
Old LSTrs?
IIRC – OPS (Duffy) was around back in the day.
NICE Gent! He gave me a ride to the motorcycle shop a couple of times
NATO is useless, and without the US, NATO is nothing. US should just withdraw and sell NATO to the EU for $10 and other good and valuable consideration. Let the Euro weenies deal with their own problems – they seem to prefer socialism anyway. Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole – China is the big deal. Russia is just testing the waters for China. Nobody cares about Russia and/or Ukraine – China and Taiwan is a different deal.
#68 GJT
“OTL and Richard Willette but I’m not sure if either were ever here”.
Richard Willette = CbR and I’ve been a Squak’s shadow moderating some and creating/admin’ing several http/https sites along with about 6 FB pages as well but mostly lurking the past few years. So it’s my guess I ain’t really missing just burned out.
GTO
BigIron45
Matt Bramanti
Wino & Sue
Hamous
Smacktle
Headshaker
Southern Tragedy, of course
And who could forget Shamaal
Lee from down-under
Jamie, he was in Clear Lake
FasterNyou
Sally Loud Mouth
Meglett
Big Gene, he changed his handle BTW
Rastus
Beach Bum
Simple Simon
Nancy Drew
Neocon
Love2hammer
Bob42
American Woman
Astrosmith
Big Jolly
Malcolm
Fagan
Marc (passed away)
Liz (also passed away)
Griz
Duh Moose
LowRents
Eric?
Maybe some more will come through since I have a few back in the corners of my head that aren’t clear yet. 😉
#78 – Howdy CbR!
Re: Old LST FOLKS
Lessee there was Kid with Tape, WURSPH, Kevin Whitehead, Jeremy “Pandaman” Weidenhof. I think all of these guys made guest appearances here. Americanwoman, BWeldon, cFree, duhmoose, emmekelley, gtotracker, hogfan, jimB, MegletTX, raiderdave, SimpleSimon, Southern Tragedy (GRHS)
Greets CBR my old friend. Now that BSue and I are officially retired and I no longer am caretaker with my Mom, we gotta get together for the coffee I owe ya.
Off topic, but I got my government sponsored COVID at home test kit in the mail just now. I posted the back of the package over yonder, and if someone could bring it over here, it makes for interesting reading. It basically says that it is not FDA approved, likely to give false reading, and most interestingly, is made in China. You must read it to believe it.
#82 Squawk – You bet and the sooner da betta! If’n ya still on 4014, I’ll give a shout and we’ll figger it out.
Here yaggo El Gordo. Click this link for a larger virgin.
CBR
Oh crap the number is no longer valid. I’ll PM you on Facebook shortly
#85 – Well, my photo cut off the bottom part where it says “Made in China.” Trust me, it says that on the package.
Wow, I’ve forgotten so many of those folks. I wonder how they are all doing?
And Wino married Nancy Drew – where did I get “Sue” from?
As Russian attempts to assert hegemony over Eastern Europe, I fail to see how this will benefit them financially. Either Russia preemptively cuts gas and oil to Europe or sanctions imposed by Europeans will accomplish that especially if the US and the Saudi’s vow to make up the difference. Russia has been hurt by the lagging crude prices in 2020. Global prices have risen to the level Russia likes now. Why Putin would risk that is beyond me. Maybe the Chinese can pick up the excess Russian production.
I am sure face diaper wearing Der Puddingkopf will simply capitulate and Russia will be emboldened. However like others have said, let the Europeans handle this.
#79
It looks like Dave files away old user IDs in the same place he files car history trivia. That’s quite an impressive list!
About the only ones I was going to mention are already covered. Duh Moose, GTO, FasternU, BigIron45, and, American Woman. Didn’t GTO or FasternU pass away within the last two or three years?
Also, I do remember Hamous instituting a lifetime ban on Shamaal and Bob42. Best to let sleeping dogs lie else you’ll have Hammy’s Granny and Hamous himself hauting our couch.
I thought OTL i.e. Old Timer Lin was Lin Graham. He is still very active over yonder.
GTO passed away suddenly about a year ago? Maybe longer, it doesn’t seem that long but it was before the ‘rona.
I had made something for him and was surprised when he didn’t respond to my emails. We’d met in person only about two weeks prior, he gave me an office chair.
Then someone here found his obituary. It was a sudden illness, unspecified.
#78
Sorry CbR, I knowed that but completely forgot.
Sally Loud Mouth wasn’t her real handle. That was a name Little Green Jolly Footballs gave her about the same time he called me a liar.
92 Tedtam
The GTO situation is why I got so quickly alarmed about Mark. GTO was only about 57 or 58 or maybe even a little younger.
My brother got his wife dressed, loaded into the van, to a doctor’s appointment and then to the private family visitation for their brother-in-law whose funeral is tomorrow. I don’t know how he does it by himself.
I couldn’t do all that just for myself, much less doing it for two.
Since there is no one else here for me to brag about my cooking to, I’ll just do my bragging right here. I’m starting to get the hang of this sous vide stuff, and my country style pork ribs came out great – 22 hours at 150 degrees, crusted over just a few minutes on the F. Foreman grill. Tender as can be, moist, but with plenty of texture rather than just falling off the bone. If I could eat BBQ sauce they would be even better, but just some garlic, liberal dose of Slap Yo Mama did the trick. I need to remember this one.
I’m starting to get the hang of this sous vide stuff, and my country style pork ribs came out great – 22 hours at 150 degrees, crusted over just a few minutes on the F. Foreman grill.
I wonder how that technique would work on a leg of lamb. Adjust the seasonings to be lamb friendly.
Imagine the thought cloud over my head, gears spinning, thinking of food. . . . .
I wonder how it would work with a big beef chuck roast . . . . .
Season, vacuum seal, sit for a day or two in the fridge, soak in the hot tub for half a day, then sear on a big azzed skillet.
Now to figure out a cheapo way to convert a cheapo cooler into a cooker with temp control and a submersible heating element. I don’t need a bluetooth hook up, just be able to set the temp and forget it; I’ll set a timer on my phone.
Squawk #70;
The Department of Defense are intensely invested in cracking down on White. Nationalism, mostly where it does not exist, and Climate Change, also mostly where it does not exist. We’re safe from Putin.
/Heavy sarcasm
Texpat # 96;
Your brother’s a rock star. Let him know there is always help available to assist with at least some things though. If this brother is the one here, he should get this message. 🙂
Let’s bring Bob 42 back! What about Shammal? LOL!
Neil Young becomes ‘the Man’ that he hated in the 60s and 70s.
I hope Neil Young will remember that we don’t need him or his music around anyhow.
#85;
Woohoo! El Gordo is living like a true Redneck! 😆
Dr. Phil;
“Old man, look at my life, I’m [NOT] a lot like you”!
Ah, Super D got Bob 42 in #72. Kings to you!
#99 – I started out with a 4 gallon bucket that came from the candy factory where they bought bulk peanut butter. Just cut a hole in the lid to accommodate the heating unit and that worked very good for a while, but then the bucket began degrading, presumably from the hot water. (as an aside, I always fill my bucket with hot water from the tap so that the heating time is not so long to bring it up to temp. When I saw all the little powder like white stuff floating around in the water, I naturally presumed that there was a problem with my hot water heater so I took it all apart and found nothing. Turns out it was the bucket. But anyway, I’ve switched over to a cheapo ice chest cooler, and it’s working just fine – the heat unit just clamps to the side and I don’t close the lid.
I’ve tried little pieces of meat like steak and such, and it doesn’t take long (relatively speaking) but then you still have to sear it and make all the mess associated with just cooking the steak the old fashioned way, and I determined that it’s just not worth the exercise. But with tougher and larger cuts, I’m a believer. Thing is, once you set the proper temp, you can never over cook it. For a leg of lamb I’d go at least 140 degrees for 18 hours or so. Plenty of You Tube videos out there and you can mix and match to suit your personal tastes and needs. Like it more rare, lower the temp, but don’t cut the time short. There are temp charts that show the proper temps for rare, med rare, etc. Plus, you can do the LOL in a sealed vacuum bag early, put it in the fridge after its cooked sous vide, and then pull it out for finishing in the oven when it’s time. That’s how all these restaurants get their meals done now for items such as ribs and the like – just rip open the bag, slap it on the grill for a couple of minutes, and serve.
Anyway, I’m getting a little better at it and starting to get some good results. I got the Inkbird 1000W unit, and it comes with the phone app, and it’s much easier than trying to set the little buttons on the unit itself – just put in the time and the temp and press go on the phone, plus constant monitoring on call without having to go check on it. I do add a little hot water every few hours for evaporation loss.
Kid Rock is definitely no saint, spiritually or politically, but this made me happy:
#95 Texpat
92 Tedtam
The GTO situation is why I got so quickly alarmed about Mark. GTO was only about 57 or 58 or maybe even a little younger.
Yeah, when the question of “Where’s Hammy?” came up, the alarms started going off in my head, for the same reason.
Hubby watched part of Church Militant’s evening news with me.
I never get tired of them calling Biden “the unelected president,” “the fake Catholic,” etc. Pro-choice politicians are called “baby killers”. I tell ya’, they pull no punches on that newscast.
Hubby LOL’d quite a bit.
I was looking at my post where I’ve named my dehydrator after Fred Dryer. I realized an interesting word factoid:
dryer: One who dries
drier: Having less moisture than something else
How many other words are like that?
Take that back. There are probably a lot of words that sound alike with different meanings. I guess the “dry” thing caught my eye.
I’m listening to Huffines on Tucker.
You know, these wannabe office holders can complain all they want about the deficiencies of the current office holder, and they can make RFU type promises about what they are going to accomplish should their “wannabe” status changes.
But most of what he said he wants to do would probably illegal, if not unconstitutional.
Tedtam, I haven’t thought of the TV show Hunter in almost 30 years. I found it on the Peacock channel. They’ve got all 7 seasons. I watched the first two tonight. I do not think I’ll rewatch the entire series, but it is something to fill in the gaps if I get tired of another show.
In the second episode, Fred Dryer is in a scene without his shirt on. He obviously didn’t skip out on the weights and workouts after his pro football career was over.
Hubby likes the TV Drama channel on Pluto. We get MacGyver, Hunter, Cagney & Lacy, and some other good ones there. Some nights when I need something soothing, I can catch “Touched by an Angel” before I go to sleep.
Getting close to bedtime out here. I didn’t get to start on War and Remembrance tonight, but I’ll get to it tomorrow most likely. Didn’t get anything much done today in fact, but that’s OK – I needed a day off. As I mentioned earlier, I’ve still got the light bulb issue in the kitchen to take care of, parts on order for other projects have not yet arrived, so just sort of a slow day.
Anyway, you all have a good night. More tomorrow or as it develops.
Sarge 117,
Well, that just proves karma is not necessarily a good thing all the time. 🙂 What a dunce. She likely believes everything she reads in her local newspaper and the abundant drivel on TV, and of course online where anything goes on some websites.
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