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It’s the weekend! Time to get moving, I slept until almost 5:30 and then got the coffee pot going so I’m off to a good start. 40 degrees here and hoping for low 60’s later.
Mornin’ Gang
Texanadian Prayers for you and wife’s family. 90 Is a good long life though.
Still praying for our two hospital patients and waiting for the latest update. And it sounds like things are improving after TexMo’s second repair. He is a trooper.
Sunrise @ Marley Mill on this chilly 40 degree December morning. And to think we had highs in the low 80’s last week. 😉
Morning Gang – it’s 42 and grey here in the woods… and prayers are up for TexMo and TedTam…
Text from daughter; When your Ops Director gives the HR manager liquor for Christmas.. 😀 Hidden in Crossfire Beanies….Hint daughter is the HR Manager. 😉
I’ve not mentioned but SIL is recovering from his second bout with COVID so he can’t be at his lease in Fredericksburg but one of his buddies bagged a fine 8 pointer late yesterday. 19.5″ spread, here is a better picture of his antlers taken right he was down. 😉
Wagonburner
I went on the dashboard last night to post something for today. You had already scheduled this for today, but you forgot to write a headline so I did it for you.
That’s two whacks.
Morning all, 1-F here this AM, windchill makes it feel like -15. This is today’s high.
More later. Coffee.
#6 SD: My guess is that fine specimen is about 5 years old. A 5 year old doe tastes a whole lot better. Once my freezer is full, then I start looking for trophies.
What is missing from this short video? Even if it is not ‘perpetual’ it is darned clever.
1 F = -17 C
Morning gang. Back from coffee this morning. Supposed to get down near freezing last night but just got to 40. Sunshine today, so it should be a nice one. Bitter cold coming sometime next week. I’m going to fill my car with gas and get a side container of a few gallons in case I need the generators. Got enough propane to run the big one if necessary. Some football to watch today, but no other serious plans. Might cut some holes for new electric sockets once I decide where exactly to put them. Keeping an eye out for favorable updates from our infirm patients, both in the hospital and those walking around on wooden canes.
Nothing else to report on the horizon right now. You all have a great day. BTW, here is the WIP for your review. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/the-week-in-pictures-die-harder-edition.php.
Squawk
Check out this evil crap Liz Warren is trying to get passed. If they can’t pass digital currency in a transparent bill through the front door, these sleazebags are going to try sneaking it in through the back door piecemeal.
“The new crypto bill proposed by Elizabeth Warren would be a bullet to financial privacy and not fraud,” Natalie Brunell, host of the “Coin Stories” podcast, told host Charles Payne. “It’s trying to KYC [Know Your Customer] non-custodial wallets like cold storage and bitcoin miners and really it’s just directly attacking personal freedom, and the bottom line is many policy makers unfortunately at this time, they don’t understand bitcoin.”
“They don’t understand that it’s a freedom technology and a human rights tool, and property rights are really at the foundation of both, you know, prosperity and freedom,” Brunell continued. “We don’t want a dystopian surveillance state.”
They’re trying to scare everybody over this FTX crypto scandal and claim their legislation is to protect “The People” when it’s actually attempts to legalize the fake digital dollar.
By the way, I did some background work on Natalie Brunell. She is very impressive.
Morning, gang! Deciphering our Pyromaniac’s Christmas tableau:
I see the seated woman on the couch as Gramma, the standing man as Grampaw, the kneeling woman as their daughter and Mom to the 2 boys. Mom is helping her older son put the tinsel on the tree, while her husband is holding their younger son.
Texpat
these sleazebags are going to try sneaking it in through the back piecemeal.
And that is what they do, we are where we are because of incrementalism. Reminds me of the old Johnny Cash song One Piece At a time. The end game is to control us. This bastiges see what is going on elsewhere (CHINA) and are following suit. I am amazed at the amount of influence the WEF has over our government.
#13 EG
The metal cane, a relic of my post-knee surgery PT sessions from about 10 years ago, has been a lifesaver. My appointment with the bone doc is not until Dec 29. Although I asked to be notified if there was a cancellation earlier than that, I was told it was unlikely because many people are using up their annual medical allotments at the end of the year.
#14 #16 This is what they can’t stand; This Note is Legal Tender For All Debts, Public And Private.
If they can see every and all transactions they can use the IRS to go after you if they see anything unusual. Of course the banks are already doing this, notifying the Feds if you have a large expenditure or one that is unusual to your normal activity…..Oh and 87,000 new IRS agents toting guns no less!!! ~SPITS~
Things seem to be pretty quiet out here today for some reason. It’s still a week until Christmas, but I think the travelers are getting an early start. Brother with stents seems to be doing ok now but is still taking it easy.
Wait till our benevolent task masters in Washington start installing and implementing climate change regulations. they wanna do like Mastercard for a start.
Mastercard is a shadow of what is to some. The card measures your “carbon footprint” and cuts ypu off when you reach their limit thus controlling your life style. This story is form 2019 but has been implemented in select areas and spreading.
Each time you use Mastercard’s new Do Black credit card, it tallies the carbon footprint of your purchase—and when you’ve exceeded your carbon budget for the year, the card will cut you off.
Can you imagine the amount of control the government will exert with digital currency that they control?
Four Republican senators joined Democrats in shooting down an amendment to a massive defense authorization package that would have reinstated troops discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed the Senate 83-11 Thursday night, and along with it a provision overturning the Biden administration’s service-wide vaccine requirement. Republican Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mike Rounds of South Dakota voted no on a last-minute amendment to the bill re-enlisting thousands of troops separated for refusing the vaccine mandate, collapsing the proposal 54 to 40.
“These were direct orders from commanding officers,” Cassidy* said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation, referring to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who announced the vaccine mandate. “I voted to end the COVID vaccine mandate in the military, but it is not Congress’s place to intervene in the chain of command and set a precedent for military personnel to ignore direct orders.”
I have questions. The vote on the amendment was 54 NO and 40 YEA. Every Democrat voted no plus 4 fake Republicans. There were 6 Republican senators absent and didn’t vote. If all six of those Republican senators plus the 4 traitors had been present and voted, it would have been a 50-50 tie vote unless even one Dem senator like Manchin or Sinema could have been persuaded to cross the aisle.
Did the six senators not bother to show up because they knew it was a lost cause concerning the 4 traitors ? Would the four have been more inclined to vote YEA if they knew it would be that close ? As it is, their four votes are cost free on top of the ten vote Democrat margin. I don’t know if the absent six Republicans had valid reasons for not being there, but this is a huge (and ridiculously expensive) appropriations bill and were I a senator, I would have been there.
*RE: Sen. Cassidy-R Louisiana
This man is a fool. Does he think members of the military do not have a right to make decisions about their own medical treatment ? A commanding officer can order soldiers to risk their lives and get killed fighting evil enemies, but he doesn’t (or shouldn’t) have the authority to force a soldier to take medicine he believes will harm himself.
Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who voted to impeach President Trump for “incitement of insurrection”. Any questions ?
A group of private companies have published a digital ID blueprint encouraging state governments to implement policies involved in creating a digital ID system.
The blueprint was published by the Better Identity Coalition, a group of 27 US companies, including Mastercard, Equifax, AT&T, and more. The group either wants to stop the worry about ID fraud or to profit from preventing ID fraud by pushing to normalize digital IDs.
and,
The coalition is encouraging states to make their department of motor vehicles the core of developing and maintaining digital ID systems because these departments are central to each state’s identification systems.
If you can’t get Congress to create a national ID/Passport/Social Grading system for all citizens, then try to get the states to do it. This sh*t is outrageous. Make no mistake about it – there are plenty of people on the Left who oppose this crap, too. The problem is they aren’t in the US Congress.
Here is the Better Identity Coalition’s blueprint for states.
Just remember – this is for your own good.
I’ve been sitting on this article for several days. I’ve started to post it here, but just reading it makes me nauseated. I don’t whether Texanadian is aware of this or not. Canada is descending into a dark hellhole. I would flee the country if I had kids or grandchildren.
From The Catholic Register (bold emphasis in the original):
TORONTO – In a prestigious medical journal, doctors from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children have laid out policies and procedures for administering medically assisted death to children, including scenarios where the parents would not be informed until after the child dies.The article appears just three months before the Canadian Council of Academies is due to report to Parliament on the medical consensus about extending voluntary euthanasia in circumstances currently forbidden by law. The Canadian Council of Academies is specifically looking at extending so-called assisted dying to patients under 18, psychiatric patients and patients who have expressed a preference for euthanasia before they were rendered incapable by Alzheimer’s or some other disease.The Sept. 21 paper written by Sick Kids doctors, administrators and ethicists was published in the British Medical Journal’s J Med Ethics and backed by the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics.
In a flowchart that outlines how a medically induced death would occur at Sick Kids, authors Carey DeMichelis, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Adam Rapoport do not mention conversation with family or parents about how the child dies until after the death occurs in the “reflection period.”
TxMo report:
Shannon update. He is alert today. Low pain. We may be here for longer than we expect. They found the leak last night but they feel there is another small one. Still oozing bile in the drains. So we are waiting to see the output. Dr told us it’s a wait and see bc shannon digestive system is very particular they don’t want to disturb it too much. Praying not to have to go back to the OR for them to close the leak
Apparently my bowels are made of paper mache. Who knew?
I pray that Tedtam an Gordo’s brother is healing up.
One of our priests stopped by today to anoint me and bless me. That was nice.
Turned out to be a nice day, except it is cool. I went and got gas for the car and also an extra 2 gallons for generator if necessary. I just do not trust the Reps in Austin to keep ERCOT alive again if the weather gets too cold. Good to hear from the institutionalized among us. Keep those good reports coming.
It’s great to hear from you, TexMo.
There’s a moratorium in effect here banning anyone else complaining about their health problems because none of us have had to go through your ordeal. It’s in force until you recover.
Get better. That’s an order.
Praying for you TexMo.
This is a Jack Hunter piece over at The Spectator World that is behind a sign-in wall. Ed Driscoll at Instapundit put together a post with it. I have an account there, but I figure most readers here do not.
How did free speech become a right-wing value?
In early May, I explored the left’s reaction to billionaire Elon Musk potentially buying Twitter and his vow to make it a free speech platform again. Since then, Musk and his vision have repeatedly been portrayed as “right-wing.”
It’s the damndest thing.
Canadian Conservative politician Andrew Scheer picked up on this strange phenomenon back in April, saying that that the corporate media framing free speech as a “right wing value” was just plain weird. As though to drive home the point, Twitch’s Zachary Ryan called Musk a right-winger on Monday. And over the weekend, entrepreneur Samir Tabar had a question for a whiny Robert Reich…
The obvious fact the Right in America is now virtually the only defense of the First Amendment is undeniable evidence we are living in George Orwell’s future now.
Continuing prayers for our fellow Hamsters who are ill. It is distressing at any time of year but more so at Christmas time it seems, in the midst of preparations for the holidays when all is supposed to be merry and bright, but sometimes isn’t very much so.
I am fortunate thus far to be finishing the physical therapy sessions ordered by the doctor that was to last well into January to now need only two more visits next week because I am getting better faster than anticipated at the start. Pretty much everything now I can do on my own, be it walking up and down our driveway twenty times (but not on our subdivision road) in an outing and/or riding our stationary bike in the garden room. That bike has been idle for quite a few years but still works well. And riding it doesn’t matter when the weather outside is nasty. The therapist agrees our having horses for 42 years has created a lot of muscle memory that is still useful for what I need now.
Christmas decorations are completed. Yea.
Eleven and a half minutes of Baxter Black clips. America is a lesser place without him.
A cowboy first, A veterinarian, an author and a poet.
TT report:
I’m home and have drugs that I can sell on the street. In a lot of pain but the hospital personnel were very proud of my progress. Steve is making a sandwich for me as we speak. I’m trying to figure out where to sleep tonight, keeping the getting up process in mind.
Credit where credit is due.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm vacated the decision by the department against J. Robert Oppenheimer that stripped him of his security clearances and forced him to the sidelines simply because he was against development of a thermonuclear weapon system.
I personally think that this was the result of him being of teh Jew. It sucked that this was so long after he died, but at least it happened.
Good evening, fellow Couch Critters! Good to hear from TexMo, but how about Tedtam? Oh, never mind…I see #33 now.
I went to the neighborhood XMAS event, held near our pool and playground, but at the home of a family that decorates beyond the imagination. His 40′ high inflatable Santa, for example… I just wanted to get out of the house and see the gang, but it was cold and attendance was low during the first 2 hours. It appears that since I left the board, they haven’t mastered the art of advertising the few events that are held. They were also planning a hayride to start at 5 pm tonight, but I was cold and tired long before then, so came home and had a nice nap instead.
I ran into 2 guys at the party who knew me by name, but I had no idea who they were. Turned out I did know them, but they grew humongous beards since last time I saw them. Practically every man in the neighborhood has an impressive beard now.
Got the rib roast from HEB today, well, ad said they had a ten pounder but they didn’t so they ordered and I can pick up at noon tomorrow. Ten lbs, prime. Ouch. We have a Discover credit though. :shrugs:
Watched the 20/20 show on the Chipendales Murder last night, did not know, or remember much, of the whole story. Crazy.
#35 GJT
How are you going to cook/grill that big boy?
Let’s make a quick trip to HEB she said. Oh yeah, gotta pick up something from Target in The Woodlands… oh yeah, lunch…oh yeah, Bed Bath something or another….then it was dark.
Glad to hear Tedtam is home! Yes those at home logistics can be hard go figure out…specially for the wimminz folks.
#39 LOL
Almost sounds like you need a quick trip to a medical facility to avoid all that fun. Just kidding. Just kidding. I need y’all to keep living normal lives so I can live vicariously through you. 🙂
We’ll keep trying TexMo! Texpat said we couldn’t complain about aches and pains till you got better, he said nothing about shopping with the wife though!
I couldn’t control myself last night.
Binged all of the available new Yellowstone episodes.
Welcome home, Ms. Tedtam.
Now, stifle your Type A+++++ self..
37 Shannon
Wish I had been there.
Maybe next time.
#32 – I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed Baxter B.’s humor at Thursday Cowboy Poetry night at the Buckhorn Exchange in Denver – 10th & Osage – only a few short blocks from my house.
TexMo
#35 GJT
How are you going to cook/grill that big boy?
In the oven, WB gave me good instructions on reverse searing last year and it was great. Ima have to axe him for instructions again though, I don’t remember where or if I saved it. Por Favor WB??? Please??
Last year, wife had won a raffle which included a nice certificate to a fancy meat market in Cypress, so we ordered one there and paid extra for fully dressing it out. This year I’ll need to do the doctoring, I have a set of beef ribs that I’m thinking of doing my own bone morrow for marinating.
I’m thinking of doing my own bone morrow for marinating.
Well, that’s pretty weird.
Marrow sorry lol.
A quick Drive-By has turned into something else. TexMo good to hear that you’re posting here, you have to be getting better even though we know it’s still serious and also good to hear that Tedtam has made it home, hospitals are no place to be while recuperating, too many sick folks there.
Prayers continued as usual.
#37 – Shannon… Wowzer… I had to listen to some of the others from that album… “Were You There?” is one of my all time favorites but I’d never heard him sing it and I’d never heard “The Darkest Hour” before but it’s amazing. I can see why it’s a favorite!
Yea, Tedtam is home.
Postop patients usually arrive home with meds that help reduce pain and discomfort, but the biggest chore seems to be figuring out how to navigate around the house while encumbered by effects of the meds and managing the surgical area tenderness to produce the least discomfort. The one or two successful marches using a walker around the nurses’ station before you can come home pretty much determines when you can come home.
“Time heals all wounds,” but in its own time. And the reverse of that saying, totally amusing nonetheless is “and wounds all heels.” 🙂 Much truth in that.
Dave’s “Drive-By”; I just wanted to say that the wife and I watched “The Stranger” on Netflex tonight and just let me say that it was 2 hours and 3 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back! Mercy! WTH is wrong with those Aussies? A movie that was so weird that at the end you still wasn’t sure what was going on.
Beautiful song Shannon.
One more thing; Cletus, over in Arguta got his lovely bride a Suburban! She’s been wanting one for years but he just couldn’t raise the cash. But hey! He did find a real Jewell. 😀
Oh and for you folks in Rio Linda, it’s a 59 Plymouth Custom Suburban Wagon.
Great to hear that Tedtam is home, as well… Praying she has a restful nite!
Well, I consumed some football today on TV. Rice lost as expected. It’s 34 degrees outside right now headed down tonight. I’ll head back there in a little while. Hope you all have a good evening. I’ll probably not be back in here until the morn, so night night.
Good night all,
We’re expecting a freeze here tonight, so it was haul out the old sheets to cover the patio plants, even bring some of them onto the back porch and cover them. Winter has arrived, and it appears ready to stay for a bit and bring temps in the 20s at night and only the 40s by day. It appears it was accidentally prudent not to plant winter flowers this year since there are plenty of plants that are part of the landscaping that froze a year ago and have survived to put out leaves, but they are very small compared to what they were when they were planted. They might have to be covered by overturned buckets to survive.
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yo all the rest of you hosers
all the rest of you hosers yo
A cold 30 degrees here and the cold weather will be here through Christmas. And it’s supposed to be in the high teens on Friday night.
Mornin’ Gang
Morning, Gang… it’s 33 and dry here in the woods… And my first cuppa coffee tastes like heaven… TexMo and TedTam still in my prayers – and will be til they “call off the hounds”
I think trying to talk Hubby through making my coffee was almost as painful as trying to get out of bed.
#65 – Prayerfully, you succeeded in BOTH!!!!
I fixed up the coffee maker 2.5 hours ago.
And never turned it on.
Yo Brother Phil yo. The turtle sends his love.
Good morning. -11 F rising to to -8 later in the day. Off to the airport in a few hours. Going to be a long day.
#69 – Prayers for Peace, Strength, and Solace are UP!
I stayed under the covers until daylight this morning Echo told me it was 26 degrees when I asked, and I wanted to stay a little longer but bladder issues intervened. Bright sunshine today should warm thing up into the mid 50’s according to weather guessers. I did enjoy taking in some of the minor bowl football games yesterday, and I even watched a little Jackson State thrown in to the mix as well. Whether or not Neon Dion can win at Colorado is one question, but the certainly brought the attention and money raising to a new high. And top talent as well. It’s as if he could just go out across the countryside and pick which players he wants from where ever he wants to make up a team. We’ll just have to see how that goes.
Not sure what’s on tap today. I might make up some chili, but I’ve still got some cabbage soup, so maybe that can wait. Maybe meat loaf instead. Do inside chores, but parts have not arrived yet. I do need to take care of some more mundane tasks around here, but they are not nearly as exciting as installing a new wall socket or tinkering with my internet network. BTW, I’ll talk a little more about the internet network here in a bit as well as other components of the smart devices.
Meanwhile, you all have a great day out there. Even you who are confined due to infirmity.
Bright and beautiful here on the moors of the Brazo; 33 overnight and frost on the pastures is slowly evaporating. More leaves down make a larger carpet on the grass, just waiting for the next norther to blow in and rearrange them.
We’re waiting for the Chron to be delivered and find out what disapproval of Mr. Musk they have today. The media should have run out of them already. As much as they hope the common folk are unhappy with him, methinks it is rather more like “If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride” for the lefties.
What has happened with the big gap between the commenters’ name and the comments? Is it something we accidentally did?
Try refreshing the page, Ms. Adee
Lately, I haven’t even been making coffee – going days without. It’s very strange.
I’m having to make it twice as strong these days, so it doesn’t taste like weak branch water.
I always made strong coffee.
We shopped at our local grocery/deli last night. The bill was $131 and includes nothing but food items. In reviewing the receipt we estimated the same list of food would have cost us about $85 less than a year ago.
Well, we have a little lull in the action, so let’s talk about home internet networking. I’ve been through the One Mesh concept and implementation so I’ll try not to duplicate it too much here. It is a system developed by TP-Link to make most of their routers and most of their range extenders communicate with each other in order to form a mesh network rather than having one network at the router and another network with the .EXT suffix on the router, meaning that you would physically have to change the network connection on your phone or other device to benefit from it. The mesh concept allows you to roam freely throughout the devices with the phone automatically moving from one extender to the other seamlessly. The difficulty with something like this is that the client device tends to lock on one signal and not want to release it even though there might be a stronger signal available, so there are tweaks available that cause the client devices to take advantage of these signal strength shifts seamlessly and easier. Any, over time, the network, including the router and its extenders (nodes) figure things out and work to optimize they system and its relationship with the client devices. Keep in mind that modern mesh networking devices do this at much greater speeds and much easier, but my goal is to try to stay about 5 years behind the latest in technological advances – in this case it looks like I’m only about 3 years behind, so it’s got a good 2 years before I even consider anything else.
When I first fired this thing up and was placing the extenders or nodes, and even the router, all the client devices, or which there are about 30 at last count, were all trying to connect with their old connection, so say the kitchen computer would try to connect with the node in the back bedroom even though the kitchen node was much better. These 30 devices include computers, TVs, Kindle readers, Amazon Fire Sticks, Alexa Echos, as well as light bulbs, switches, and sockets. It’s is somewhat difficult to determine which node a device is connected to, but it can be done mostly through trial and error by turning stuff off and turning it back on – not very scientific and very time consuming. But anyway, this is called a smart network for a reason apparently.
When I would check out my router connections with the Echo devices for instance, the connection would show as low or marginal or some such. I have 3 of the Echos, one in the kitchen, one in the den, and one in the bedroom. They will all take orders and turn everything off or on, answer questions, and the like independent of the others, but still have to be connected to the same network – thus the reason for being unable to use a free standing “.EXT” type extender requiring the mesh network in the first place. But I digress. I’ve noticed that after a few days now, all the Echo devices are showing “excellent” connection speeds and conditions. What this means is that they have discovered the proper node to connect to get the strongest proper signal and optimize their performance – all on their own and without interference from me. I can control these client devices (at least the lights, switches, plugs, etc.) from any of several sources – the Alexa app on my phone, the app on the Kindle (which also offers a dashboard of all the devices and which is on or off, etc., each of the Amazon Fire Stick remotes, or the Echo devices themselves. The TV remote, the Fire Stick remotes, the phone, and the Kindles can all operate the smart devices through voice commands. So let’s say I’m driving up to my dark house after sunset, I can tell Alexa on my phone to turn on the porch light, or all lights, or selected lights, and it will happen even before I put the car in park. I think I can do this remotely as well, but I’m not quite that far along yet. I have not set up any routines or anything like that either which would automatically switch stuff off or on at dark or specified times, and the like. For now, just being able to turn the lights on from the kitchen, walk all the way to the back bedroom, and switch everything off from back there is novelty enough.
OK, that’s enough for now. If I really had any idea what I was doing it would probably be much more complex and interesting, but I learn slow, and for now, this is enough. More later.
I just had to log in, first time in weeks but I did have to restart this abomination that is Bill Gates Baby so there’s that.
Warming up here but only to 50 so far. Since it was Sunday I fixed sausage, eggs, grits and Biscuits for breakfast and man was it good. I need to do this more often.
#78 El Gordo,
You can always holler for help on Hambone. Surely somebody who posts here can help. Not me of course, as I am firmly stuck in the novice category. 🙂 Fortunately spouse is the expert in this household. And Purrscilla is not interested at all, since happiness is a full food dish and water bowl, a lot of petting, a soft place to sleep, and playing catch with her ball.
It’s interesting the fact Warren Buffett, huge Democrat donor, never gets mentioned in any railroad contract stories. After all, he owns CSX and Burlington North Santa Fe railroads, but we wouldn’t want to embarrass a rich Leftie by pointing out Buffett is so greedy he is only offering rail workers one paid sick day per year.
Anyway, here is where the Secretary of Transportation was when America was days away from the major crisis of a rail strike.
News of Buttigieg taking a vacation at a time of high-stakes negotiations in the transportation industry comes as he faces anger from rail worker unions over the results of those contract negotiations. Unions’ chief demand of paid sick leave was absent from the final contract, which was not reached through an agreement but rather forced through by federal law earlier this month. Though President Joe Biden tapped Buttigieg as one of the administration’s leaders for negotiations, the ambitious politician appeared more concerned with campaigning and fundraising for Democratic candidates in the lead-up to the midterm elections than with securing benefits for the unions.
Now it appears that attending his vacation in Europe was also higher on his priority list.
The trip gives fuel to critics who say the administration has abandoned blue-collar workers who helped put Biden in office. Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.), who voted against the rail contract and has urged his party to capitalize on the administration’s failed negotiations, said Buttigieg’s decision to fly to Portugal was “a joke.”
“Pete Buttigieg will take paid vacation in Europe for days on end but doesn’t think rail workers should get more than one day of sick leave,” Hawley said.
After two years, I still cannot get over the fact our Secretary of Transportation is a little, feminine manboy who looks like Mr. Rogers’ illegitimate offspring.
ElGordo
Sounds like fun, but a little complicated.
I think I’ll pass. After all, the only exercise I get these days is walking to the fridge, a light switch, or thermostat.
🙂
47 timtom
You gotta tell me about the foofy meat market in Cypress.
Wrap the roast in a couple layers of cheesecloth and put on a rack over a plate or some other dish and put in the fridge on the bottom shelf in the back for as long as you can (I like to do about 3 weeks if I can, but 5 days helps) and just forget about it.
When ready to cook.
Take roast out of the fridge an hour or two before you want to start cooking to let it come to room temp. Trim any dry bits off the surface. Truss the roast if you want in order to make it more regular in shape (I might try this next time; never have before). Heat oven to 250F and remove top rack. Insert a probe thermometer into the roast as close to dead center of the roast as you can. You can rub some garlic, thyme, rosemary, and/or sage all over the surface. Salt liberally.
Put in oven on the lower rack that’s still there. Cook until the thermometer hits 116-118F (for med rare a little on the rare side; maybe 120-121 for more medium; remember in any case, there’ll be more cooked pieces near the ends for the Philistines among your guests).
Remove from oven, put on a cutting board, and loosely tent with foil, set it aside, and let it rest. The internal temperature will continue to rise to about 130F while it rests. Turn oven up as high as it will go without auto-locking the door.
Pour any drippings into a heatproof cup. Keep the rack & pan; you’ll need again in a bit. The drippings can be used to make Yorkshire puddings. If you want to do that, mix the batter now.
After about 30 minutes, put the roast back on the rack and pan and put back into the oven. Cook for 10-15 minutes or until a good crust forms. You’ll want to pay attention to this part.
When you get the crust you want, remove from the oven and carve; resting is not needed this time.
I have readers in the Middle East?
Dude looks like a caveman.
#82 – I have a lot of clutter and a very narrow path from the kitchen (which also doubles as my office) to the bedroom. I’m also old and have all the artificial joints I’m going to get, so I don’t want to be tippy toeing down the dar hallway at night and fall down. That’s the reason for turning on the lights along the pathway, then turning them all off after I reach the bed.
This is indeed fascinating. If they can expand this to figure how to cure the rampant urinary tract infections among American women it would be great.
(No snarky comments, GJT)
Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have engineered the first-ever “Vagina on a Chip” in the world that replicates the human vaginal tissue microenvironment in vitro, Scientific American reported on Wednesday.
It is composed of the human vaginal epithelium and underlying connective tissue cells and it replicates many of the physiological features of the vagina, according to Harvard.
Best of all, it can be inoculated with different strains of bacteria allowing researchers to study their effects on the organ’s health.
“The vaginal microbiome plays an important role in regulating vaginal health and disease, and has a major impact on prenatal health.
#83 Texpat – I believe that is the cartoon version of a former boss of mine’s favorite saying… An expert is “a has-been drip, under pressure” (wait – maybe that was an ex-spurt)
Dennis Prager writes:
I will never forget a man who cruised with me years ago on one of my annual listener cruises. He was a successful businessman and a pastor of a church. He told me that he had three sons, each of whom had doctorates — one from Yale, one from Princeton and one from Stanford.
“And they are all leftists,” he sighed.
All three had chosen the values of the university over religious and conservative values.
The great tragedy of American life since World War II is that many Americans failed to explain American values to their children. As I have said since I began lecturing in my early 20s, the World War II generation decided to give my generation — the so-called “baby boomers” — “everything they didn’t have” — such as material comforts, financial security and a college education. And they largely succeeded. The problem is that they failed to give them everything they did have — such as a love of country, commitment to liberty, self-discipline, religion, etc.
The same problem held true among Christians and Jews. Most Christians failed to explain Christianity to their children and most Jews failed to explain Judaism to theirs.
This is how Justice Clarence Thomas spent his Saturday this weekend.
I have not yet recovered from my outing yesterday. I got up, put on a coat and went out back to put out wild bird seed for a small flock of pigeons seeking breakfast on the patio. Then went on out the back gate and could see the rolled HouChron on the driveway, and headed slowly in that direction. I was using my cane, but several times I just froze up and took a breather for a couple of minutes. I was in one of those pauses when my favorite board member/neighbor came into view out in the street with her 2 big Australian collies (if I remember correctly) — pulling her in all directions with their leashes. She brought me up to speed on all the events of last night, and finally walked on. I made it to the paper and headed back up the driveway with it.
I know I ended up back in bed after I had fed the cats, but actually don’t recall whether I had a breakfast or not. I did work the sudoku with no errors. As I was crawling back into bed, I know I punched in an hour on my nap timer, but when I got up later, I saw that 1.00 was still on the timer so I have no idea how long I had spent on Snooze #2. But I do know I needed every minute of it.
Maybe the Washington Post has lost 500,000 subscribers because they publish stupid, insulting headlines like this:
Why doesn’t Argentina have more black players in the World Cup
It was featured in a WaPo tweet and they got this reply from an Argentine account:
“Because we are a country, not a Disney movie.”
Thanks Pyro!
I don’t believe dry aging, even for four-five days will pass the wife test. The rest I will follow to the T. Except for maybe some bone marrow butter.
I had a late, quick lunch, and when I took my plate to the sink, there were no dishes already there, so it appears I had no breakfast today. I had worked the puzzle, then went back to bed.
(No snarky comments, GJT)
Too much romance involved for me.
Couldn’t find antifreeze tester so went down to parts store to get one to test my vehicles, including my tractor which is in the garage, but it’s my baby! Reminded my boys to check their’s, especially my youngest with projects all over the place, the race car – no antifreeze allowed on tracks so it’s pure water in it. Of course, he hadn’t even thought about it.
So, reminding you boys that service your own stuff….
Still surviving here in the Med Center. Incremental gains are still being made.
Clouding up and cooling off out here. I’m having an early dinner, having skipped my nap today and getting hungry. I was thinking of making a cheesecake but somebody told me they are not keto, so I’m holding off on that for now. I’ve got the stuff to make another apple dump cake/cobbler, but I’m holding that in reserve in case I get a last minute dinner invite for Christmas. I do miss not spending the holidays with BFF after doing it so many years prior to her passing.
OK, dinner is done. Guess I’ll go see if there is something interesting on YT or if I can find an old movie to watch. More later.
PS – mh, I know that you are working on doctor appointments and such, but you should not be in that bad a shape. Hopefully they will put their heads together and get it figured out. It’s not just a pulled muscle or something sounds to me like. Be interesting to see what BC thinks.
91 timtom
The marrow idea sounds good. A good garlic compound butter would also be.
You need to splain your wimmin that steak places dry age their beef for 3-4 weeks on the regular.
So you forgot your half… Where’s the foofy meat place in Cypress?
Pyro
47 timtom
You gotta tell me about the foofy meat market in Cypress.
Stone Cold Meats, I think on Grant.
You need to splain your wimmin that steak places dry age their beef for 3-4 weeks on the regular.
I know, we buy it already dry aged sometimes and she is fine with it. But the process you know…
My youngest son cracks me up, he is obsessed with expiration dates on anything, one spec of mold in the pack of cheese and he dumps it, one day expired on milk and he freaks out. He’ll buy a dry aged steak at HEB any day though lol.
When I dry age the roasts, there’ll be a little mold on the outside, like a salami but not as thick. I trim it off because it’s on the dried-out part anyway.
Don’t tell her what you’re up to. Use the beer fridge in the garage.
Lol, good strategy.
Rib roast done kilt da blog.
Really glad to hear that TT and TexMo are the mending side, please ABBA, let the healing be swift and complete with no complications.
In order to figure out what is going on with M42, I would have to literally lay hands on her while she was on my table. Being there when a lock up occurs would be really helpful, yet statistically, almost impossible.
Once I finally peeled myself away from watching youtube shorts this morning I distilled a batch, pressure washed the back patio, the side of the garage and the fence along the driveway. I also cooked breakfast for my lovely Mrs., and have a batch of chili on the stove – 60/40 hamburger to venison.
Today was a busy day.
/definitely NOT like SuperDave busy, but busy for me on a weekend.
I still thinks it’s weird that he’s going to “use my own bone marrow”.
Sounds painful to me.
BlackRock hedge fund and its CEO, Larry Fink, have gotten so much bad press in the couple of months over their WOKE ESG campaign they are now running high dollar TV commercials bragging about how they make the world wonderful for everyone. I saw two ads last night and now…
F**king hilarious. They’re running schmaltzy commercials on Mark Levin’s Sunday night show. Nobody despises Fink and Blackrock more than Levin’s viewers.
The hamburger/venison chili is outstanding!
Back in the day we had folks who wanted us to hang their heavy beef quarters for 21 days. 30 days was a bit of overkill. They were charged extra for tying up that cooler space, which included a PIA fee because it’s a pretty nasty affair processing it the rest of the way (cutting and packaging). A good, swift clean up was also needed before processing the next customer’s meat. Keep in mind they were also losing some overall moisture content.
107 Bones
That’s what we’ve been using for a number of years.
For this recent experimental batch of Carroll Shelby chili I used half chili meat instead of regular ground. I’ve decided I don’t like the big, coarse ground anymore.
I never buy the more expensive Black Angus branded beef. It shrinks worse than George Constanza – even in the fridge while waiting to be cooked. Then you cook it and it shrinks even more.
I wonder if Black Angus quarters have water dripping out of them in the cooler?
Although I asked to be notified if there was a cancellation earlier than that, I was told it was unlikely because many people are using up their annual medical allotments at the end of the year.
Indeed. When Fay fell and internally lacerated her liver, three days before Christmas, Memorial Hermann (TMC) didn’t have any room. Thankfully, Ben Taub said they would take her. So she got a nice helicopter ride from Katy and a very long tunnel transfer on a gurney from Hermann TMC to Ben Taub.
December is a very busy month in the hospitals because of insurance deductibles.
110 Shannon
I never buy the more expensive Black Angus branded beef.
Black Angus Beef – what a scam. I think it started with some slick beef marketing guys out of Colorado. It’s cattle racism !
I was always disappointed Brangus breeders didn’t stand up for the best beef and do a better campaign. They could still do it.
One of the most successful marketing campaigns in meat history.
just amazing
#112 TP et al;
I would love to see a side by side comparison of ribeyes from different breeds of cattle raised in the same area, same feed, etc. Which retains the most weight during cooking, which has the most weight gain birth to harvest, which has the best marbling, which has the better, richer flavor.
In my limited experience, a 2″ thick steak, seared in its own fat, in a black iron skillet is just about perfect. Do an oil based, rub and let it fester for a couple of hours and let er rip on the flat iron.
I think the wagyu craze has gotten silly, wagyu brisket? Isn’t the point to cook slow to tenderize? Wagyu hamburger??? Isn’t hamburger tender as it is?? And…I think a lot of not so wagyu is probably being sold as wagyu to jump on the craze.
I’m not saying Black Angus is “bad” meat.
I challenge anyone to go buy a Black Angus cut of meat. Buy the same thing in generic HEB Choice Grade beef (or anywhere else) with matching weight.
Treat them exactly the same and cook them exactly the same. Let me know if it the cost premium is justified.
I’m not an expert, far from it but seems to me prime has better marbling than select or choice.
GJT
I have never had wagyu. I have a feeling that the real thing really is something special. It’s not just tender, there’s supposed to be something special about the flavor, too.
Wagyu hamburger is just silly.
I try to get ribeye with the most cap on it but it’s getting harder.
Shannon, I’ve never had it before either. Heard it is, the real stuff anyway, does have a special flavor. I just ain’t buying there is all the sudden this much availability.
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Yes, Prime Grade certainly has more marbling.
But I’ve had some mighty fine Choice over the years.
A lot of it comes down to personal choice and if the fancy trip is worth the freight.
For instance, you bring to my table the finest Filet and the finest Rib Eye on the planet.
I’ll choose the Rib Eye steak every time.
I usually buy whole choice ribeyes at Sams. When I get a good one (I say that because I have had a few that were somewhat flavorless compared to the others) I would put it up against anybody’s.
Mom loved bacon-wrapped filets. She could cremate them and they’re still tender.
🙂
124 Shannon
I’m laughing and laughing. Nobody else would understand.
Yummmm ribeye smothered in a layer of chili with beans. Don’t forget the dash of Tobasco
I’ve found up here in NJ that “choice” and “prime” can be subjective. As I’ve said here before, I only buy beef at Costco. A primary reason is the beef labeled “choice” at Costco looks and cooks better than what I see labeled as “prime” in the local supermarket chains here like Shoprite. The retailers in any given area are going to supply to the taste, knowledge and demand of the local customer base and if they’ve never been exposed to high quality beef, they won’t know the difference.
Recently, some good friends of mine who live close by went to visit their son who lives and works in San Antonio. They were texting me from Fredericksburg and then their tour of HEBs and Central Markets. They were completely blown away by those stores. They both grew up in New Jersey and had never seen grocery stores like that. They couldn’t believe the quality of the meats, the selections or the prices.
I got my helper to dig out the mud-filled water meter box to expose the cut-off valve. I’ll be shutting the water off Friday afternoon. Perhaps for more than a day or two. Need to bring in my Hurricane Garbage Can, which I fill up for toilet flushing.
Probably pick up another case of 32 bottles of water….to add to the three cases that I usually keep on hand.
It’ll be pretty easy for me to move into town if the State really has dropped the ball on the power grid.
Shannon
I’m looking at Weather Underground and they’re saying 16° on Friday morning at 7 AM with a 2° wind chill factor. You better turn that water off on Thursday evening.
You’ve got a 19° wind chill factor on Thursday night at 8 PM.
Yes. I meant Thursday
At the same time it will be 16° on Friday morning at 7 AM in Bellville, it will be 53° in Bergen County, NJ and raining like hell.
No kidding.
Yep. They’re talking about sustained 40mph winds around here. Sheeeesh. That’s cold.
Guess I’ll be taking a spit-bath to go sing at 4pm Sat Christmas Eve. Nothing like a cold water shave.
I guess I could let it grow…..look like the rest of the riffraff around here.
🙂
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