Screw this weather. I just opened a large Stone Brewery Arrogant Bastard (at 55f)
At Arrogant Brewing, we believe that pandering to the lowest common denominator represents the height of tyranny—a virtual form of keeping the consumer barefoot and stupid. Brought forth upon an unsuspecting public in 1997, Arrogant Bastard Ale openly challenged the tyrannical overlords who were brazenly attempting to keep Americans chained in the shackles of poor taste. Since the very beginning, Arrogant Bastard Ale has reveled in its unprecedented and uncompromising celebration of intensity. There have been many nods to Arrogant Bastard Ale…even outright attempts to copy it…but only one can ever embody the true nature of Liquid Arrogance!
and lit a Wrath Habano Churchill cigar…a great smoke by the lads at Oliva
and am cooking Carne Asada as taught to me buy the sage of San Diego.
It is warm somewhere and the sun is shining in my heart, where it counts.
DAMN THIS GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
I have defeated the vile north wind by constructing a wind block for the smoker area.
BWAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Call me Ishmael…
🙂
Hweat! We gar Dana!
@ coldwarrior:
ahhh, arrogant bastard, truly a fine libation
myself, I am indulging in a shiner ruby redbird *smack*
beer is PROOF that God loves us and wants us to be happy
@ rain of lead:
Mr Franklin, my favorite historical figure, was absolutely correct.
If it were the 50 degrees they tell me it is, my hardy beagle puppy would be able to tolerate 10 mins on the deck. She lasts 2 before shivers set it. Even Willow, the chunky matron, is sick of it.
Beagles are not huskies or malamutes by any stretch, but they’re not yorkies either and when they don’t want to be outside, it sucketh.
@ eaglesoars:
It sucketh, verily.
Hence, arrogance and Carne.
So let it be written, So let it be DONE!
An offering of Carne Asada to Manbearpig just might bring some warming!
The altar is prepared.
If not, human sacrifice may be in order.
I have a Southern Tier Unearthly Imperial IPA.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Always a good choice
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I have some Princess Vika The Divided Sky Squall Line Ale in the fermenter right now.
@ coldwarrior:
Sounds yummy!
Which hops?
eaglesoars wrote:
“They” keep saying it’s going to warm up from here on out.
So, snow next week again probably…
Simcoe, cascade, and Willamette
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
THEY LIE!!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
Nice.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
It’s great stuff. I’ll set a big one aside for ya. Maybe send one to Rain.
The beautiful thing about a nice Churchill is that it lasts 90 minutes.
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks!
I’m watching the Pens game with the wife.
It’s been a 64 hour work week and it’s only Friday…
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I know the feeling
I hear talk of glaciers forming in Linesville….
Found a few of these last weekend, Muskoka Brewery Salt Caramel Truffle ice cream beer. I had one and the fiancee promptly claimed the remaining two. I have corrupted her taste in beer very well I have to say. 🙂
http://z1035.com/muskoka-brewery-created-canadas-first-ice-cream-inspired-beer/
I’m seeing some speculation that funding for the wall is actually hidden in the military budget as a sneaky move by Trump. To be built by Army Corps of Engineers.
I don’t know the origin of this, I’m just seeing people talking about it.
coldwarrior wrote:
*jaw drop*
yes please
@ eaglesoars:
seen that as well
we will see
@ eaglesoars:
hmmm…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3641992/posts
It’s not an official ‘Federal Budget’. It’s an Omnibus bill…not a Budget…He outsmarted them again…Congress basically screwed themselves by not passing a Budget…
Per the Constitution…the President must adhere to a Budget set forth by Congress and direct the expenditures as provided therein.
This is another one of those big Porkulus Bills, like they gave Obama for 8 years. This is not a Budget..
An Omnibus Spending Bill may have some ‘instructions’ as to how the money will be spent…but Obama ignored them. He spent the money, or didn’t spend it, however he wanted to.
And Congress didn’t do a thing about it! Because they couldn’t..
I think our President observed how this happened, year after year. He is bound to realize that those ‘appropriations’ for different things in these Omnibus bills…are merely ‘suggestions’.
So like Obama, Pres Trump can spend this money on whatever he wants to. Or…not spend it.
Planned Parenthood? What if our President decided to tell the Treas Dept to ‘slow-walk’ that money to Planned Parenthood…until the Senate gets off their ass and confirms his appointees?
Sanctuary Cities? What if our President decided to ‘slow-walk’ that money too…until those Sanctuary Cities assist ICE in rounding up criminal illegal aliens?
Splodey heads? From the Dems and the Enemedia? Why yes. There would be a colorful display of splodey heads.
But what could they do about it. Hah.
Our President could just say…’What! Congress should’ve passed a Budget.’
done finished…research was done…and it is so very humorous actually….our VSG..just said just give me money for the military and the wall…put anything else you want in it…and those goofballs did.
In this case, as per above….he doesn’t have to spend a dime….because it is not a budget…and even if it was…researched….he could still spend as he please… Congress appropriates….up to the President to spend it…or not….as he pleases..
Again, that is why Obama never had a Budget in his Presidency…Congress did continual Omibus’s and he just took the money….for 8 years…and no one seems to know where it went…
@ rain of lead:
ehhh, maybe not
According to this, had congress not lifted the cap, military budget would be maxed at $549 bil. Trump got $650 bil, and extra $100 bil
23.8 for 14 ships
10.2 for 90 fighter planes
1.8 for 24 f/18 planes
That’s $35.8 so far. Continuing –
11.5 for missile defense
1.6 Apache choppers
1.1 Blackhawks
34.4 family/health
That’s 48.6 bil for about 85.4 bil total (check my math I still have my socks on). That leaves 14 bil unaccounted for of the extra $100 bil. So – the wall?
numbers courtesy Stars and Stripes
https://www.stripes.com/news/military-budget-was-key-in-winning-trump-s-approval-for-overall-spending-bill-1.518420
rain of lead wrote:
WHAT ‘maybe not’?? I like where you were going with this
eaglesoars wrote:
nevermind, I’m reading the thread
@ eaglesoars:
the R’s are a bigger enemy to trump than the dems are
pretty sure they would stand up to trump after rolling over for obammy for 8 yrs
@ rain of lead:
yep. I’ve got some chores to finish up, then I’m off to read. later.
@ rain of lead:
I wish we could afford to dump about 90% of the Republican incumbents. Replace them with Democrats for a cycle and then get some candidates with fiscal sense and a spine. Or a pair of big brass ones.
It’d never work though.
right_wing2 wrote:
Nope, it would just get worse. Once in office, it’s harder than heck to get anybody out. We don’t want Pelosi and Chuck U Schumer running things. Ever. Even the Turtle is better than that
doriangrey wrote:
glaciers are forming at my parent’s house, north.
coldwarrior wrote:
So the climatologists were right in the 70’s?
@ rain of lead:
the guy doesn’t become a billionaire in the toughest real estate market in the world without learning a thing or two.
i chose to sit back and watch.
AZfederalist wrote:
weird how that solar minimum works.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2011/06/18/65667/
large thermo-nuclear reactor, 6 light minutes away might just maybe perhaps have an effect on our climate? /
carne and a drought year kendall-jackson merlot…mmmmmhmmmm.
yes please
@ AZfederalist:
Exactly. I think we’d be better off if we skipped elections and just started picking names at random to serve 3 years and then go home.
right_wing2 wrote:
buckley.
wel said.
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view. -1959
rain of lead wrote:
There, fixed that for ya!
@ coldwarrior:
Last time I checked, it was 8.3 light-minutes away…. 😎
they have taken to viking on pymatuning…
blood and smoked fish as the glaciers build!
Deplorable Macker wrote:
i didn’t do the math. farther away makes the effect stronger…or some mumbling from Nietzsche.
coldwarrior wrote:
So… it no longer feeling like you are walking on a waterbed there now?
coldwarrior wrote:
These days, I’m not sure there would be any difference. Can we pick some mid-western rural town’s phone book instead?
An interesting comment from an article at the Daily Mail about today’s march
I learned yesterday from a cat [car?] full of students talking on the Metro that what this article doesn¿t say, is that a lot of these youngsters were offered an all expense paid trip to DC on the condition that they attend the march – they went on to say they don¿t care about the march but they are getting out of school for 5 days with no penalty to be here so they accepted the trip
someone named ‘I have lady parts’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5539363/Crowds-descend-DC-historic-March-Lives-protest.html#reader-comments
morning y’all
so the panther is on the kitchen table looking out the window
and watching all the birds flying around in the back yard,
it’s like kitty tv, he’s really wound up, tail lashing, chattering, his inner sabertooth really wants to go to town
@ lobo91:
I wonder if they stayed at Trump’s hotel
@ lobo91:
Just one more reason why I have lost interest in the NFL.
so lemme see if I have this straight, this CR that Trump signed is a maximum amount that can be spent and the executive has total discretion on where money goes and how much is spent?
So if he tells his secretary of ‘x’ only to spend 60% of their allotted budget, its law. if he wants to build the wall with DoD funds under national security then its more or less done?
hell, i i were potus i’d love these CRs!
RIX wrote:
been 5 years since i’ve watched a game. i quit watching because the state of play is horrid.
now i have yet another reason not to bother.
coldwarrior wrote:
no. I’ll get if for you, but later in the thread, it’s debunked. hold on.
I keep seeing NeverTrumpers go on TV and state that Trump is lying.
They get that in every interview, yet they provide no examples.
I can at least understand all of their other misplaced, idiot ideas and judgments.
I just don’t know what they’re talking about.
Here’s the thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3641992/posts
scroll down to comment #9 by ‘BlessedBeGod’
This is a rolled up twitter thread by Larry Schweikart that explains the obstacles of ‘authorize’ and ‘appropriate’. A quick look:
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3) First, there is the “Authorization” process. The House, then the Senate . . .
3) contd: . . . AUTHORIZE every department and agency to spend up to a certain amount of money. Think of this as giving your kid permission to spend the money in his piggy bank.
4) The APPROPRIATIONS process then actually allocates how much of that authorized $ can be spent.
5) So, you “authorize” your kid to spend $10 . . . but there is nothing in the piggy bank to spend. Then you put in $5 that you have “appropriated.” He still can only spend $5, because that’s all that has been appropriated.
6) Departments turn in their budgets yearly.
6) contd. Typically, Congress does what’s called “baseline budgeting,” wherein they assume a department starts with LAST year’s budget #s, and Congress works up from there. (another reason for constant deficits).
7) “Zero-based” budgeting would require a dept be reviewed . . .
7) contd. . . . annually with new hearings. Actually, as much as we hate “baseline,” it would be almost impossible to run any government of any size on “zero.” But a five-year zeroing out would be reasonable.
8) So, DoD gets its budget:
8) contd. You have $xm for tanks, $ym for planes, $zm for pay.
DoD CANNOT willy-nilly just “move” money from tanks to planes. That hasn’t been AUTHORIZED.
—————-
This is why rain and I did the ‘nevermind’ thing
coldwarrior wrote:
Right, they should concentrate on raising the quality of the game, and do social justice on their own time.
Instead you have Goodell and owners like Kraft and the Muslim in Jacksonville encouraging this behavior
from semi-literate dolts.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
they don’t have to be talking about anything. Look at what John Brennan did the other day. with absolutely no evidence, he stated that Trump is afraid of Putin, Putin must have something on him.
This is a story they’re telling that they hope will ‘take’. It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be believed.
@ eaglesoars:
yeah, i havent been paying close attention. its not worth the trouble for a 6 month spending bill when the debt went down last year and record tax receipts are coming in.
to me this looks like trump moved the budget debate to the front burner next september, right in the middle of campaign season. his bully pulpit at that time will be yuge.
@ eaglesoars:
so the departments, that the president is the executive of, dont have to spend the money.
RIX wrote:
its too late. they took most of the contact out of the practices. tackling, for instance was getting abysmal a few years ago…the decline started about 10 years ago
they really shot themselves in the OTHER foot with this sjw crap.
@ eaglesoars:
Correct. And this “omnibus” bill is the appropriation side of it, not the authorization side.
There are supposed to be 13 different appropriations bills each year, that fund different activities/departments. The “omnibus” rolled them all into one big bill, on a “take it or leave it” basis. When you have the separate bills, if the president objects to something in, say, the Agriculture Department’s bill, Congress can’t use the military funding as a hostage.
@ coldwarrior:
as far as the 6 mos time limit is concerned, that seems to be a Paul Ryan misleading ‘item’. According to Dave Bratt, the Senate added a clause that they won’t be doing a budget ‘next time’. But I don’t know what ‘next time’ means. Next year? what?
NO department is obligated to spend the money it’s been authorized to spend, including the executive.
As for the wailing, gnashing of teeth, blah blah blah. Time to grow the fuck up. We are in the middle of a political coup attempt. The enemy is not at the gates, they are in the stables, armory and treasure vaults. And even if we weren’t, we have to continue to de-reg the economy, build up the military and all the other things Trump wants to do – and is doing. I’m not in the business of cutting off my nose to spite my face, I play the hand I’m dealt and get on with it. People who want to go to the fainting couches in the vapors over ‘betrayal’ need to stay there when the shooting starts, because my aim ain’t that good.
@ lobo91:
thanks
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
indeed, thanks.
now…on to bigger and better things.
@ eaglesoars:
?
John Bolton is vowing to clean out the Fifth Column Deep State. I like the thought, we’ll see.
RIX wrote:
Does he have a flamethrower?
every year i plant tomatoes that i grow from seeds that i got from the old italians who came ‘off the boat’ a a hundred or so years ago. i’ve been using the same italian seeds for almost 30 years. today i transplant the seedlings from the trays to the bigger pots.
so, where am i going with this? i start them on the same day every year. feb 15 or so. next year I am going to have to start them later because for the past few years it has not been warm enough to get them in the ground when they are ready and this causes a logistical and space and light problem.
also, my japanese cherry trees are blooming later each year as well.
global warming my ass.
@ eaglesoars:
To your point about vacillating support for Trump. Listening to radio comments after his announcement about
the budget bill there is disalusionment. We were out to dinner last night, and our table was all Trump supporters
and they’re pissed. I am still with Trump, even though disapproving of not vetoing the bill. But I a telling you
from what I observed a lot of people are feeling had.
@ coldwarrior:
Look on the bright side: You don’t have to dye Easter eggs this year. Just toss them out into the snow, and they’re instantly hidden
lobo91 wrote:
seriously.
Watching FOX right now and they are covering the gun control march on Washington.
The people on air now covering the march sound like MSNBC anchors.
@ RIX:
Of course you’ll find the most total and complete overreactions on conservative-leaning websites.
I just keep reminding myself that the majority of Trump’s voters AREN’T these people.
“I’m never voting for Trump again!!!!!!” seems common online today. This is an emotional overreaction.
The only thing I worry about is the belief by some who admit to voting for Trump but liked “someone else.”
I keep asking them to name the “someone else” and they can’t. Even people that would have preferred Cruz seem to have figured out that he can’t win in this climate.
What I’m done voting for is someone who is nominated on principles but doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of winning.
Until they come up with this magical candidate, I’m with Trump, who has done a hell of a lot of good.
RIX wrote:
That’s OK.
Trump supporters by and large aren’t Obama sheeple.
It was a terrible bill.
I’m of the opinion that this was, as I’ve seen written, a “tactical retreat.”
And I think Mattis had a lot to do with it.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/they-should-start-packing-their-sht-john-bolton-set-to-purge-obama-holdovers-from-white-house/
@ Twitchy
Bolton is serious about cleaning house. Do you think that somebody will bring a legal challenge on some
weird legal theory that is not supported by statute, case law , or the Constitution? Think that some federal
judge will entertain it?
@ RIX:
I’m not the biggest Bolton fan, but I think he will be an upgrade over the duplicitous McMaster who I’m pretty sure was a NeverTrump go-between.
I’m pretty sure he has the right to fire, but hiring may be difficult.
Maybe there will just be more unfilled positions.
I do think Trump needs to flex his executive muscle in the next week or so.
(That was NOT A PUN…)
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Bolton is a mixed bag, he has some attitudes that I Don’t like. He seems to think that war is the answer for
everything. You only go for a compelling reason and then use overwhelming force wit reasonable rules of
engagement. But if he can clean this mess up, good on him.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I agree with that. This bill is generational theft, our kids are stuck with the bill for this corrupt crap.
But. I am still on the Trump Train.
@ RIX:
As uncomfortable as it sounds, there’s also a fatigue factor to consider.
The attacks on the man from thousands of influential people every single day (some from “inside the building”) has got to be unprecedented in modern history.
It’s not an excuse, as I doubt Trump would ever admit even to himself that it’s working away at him, but there has to be an effect. He’s human.
A little support for the man himself (and not just the odd proposal they like) from the GOP congress would be nice, but you can count them on two hands.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Political appointees are “at will” positions. They have no civil service protections.
@ lobo91:
So Bolton would be free to replace them without any obstacles?
Interview here in about an hour with Royal Caribbean. Pays better than what I’m making now, but not a lot. You can make bonus though. After a year, you get a year to take a cruise, space available. Of course you cover the excursions & transportation and any cabin upgrades. I’d kind of like to go to Alaska, and for that I’d want a balcony.
The big one is on Monday at the power company which would be the 38% raise. That’s the one I really want!
I just found out the other day too that as a seasonal quality evaluator, I’m making less than the seasonal Team Leader who is making less than the permanent Team Leads.
That gives me another reason to get the h-ll out of that place.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
you know what? I think I’ll write him a letter.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Park Service has moved back the date for the cherry blossoms here because of the weather. And once again, they told me it was 43 outside but the water in my bird batch hadn’t even begun to thaw. I had to go out there with a pail of hot water to melt it and give my birds their little spa.
@ right_wing2:
good luck!
@ right_wing2:
Sounds great!
I have a buddy at work that buys one share of Carnival stock every year, then sells it after he takes the “shareholder discount cruise.” Then buys another one.
Says it’s well worth it.
@ right_wing2:
My company just built a bunch of benches for Royal Carribean.
They didn’t have bolt holes at the feet and were designed to be free-standing, so I’m guessing not on boats.
Talk about your bad luck.
Madison Bumgarner injury: ‘Horrible news’ for Giants as X-rays reveal fractured left hand
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/madison-bumgarner-injury-horrible-news-for-giants-as-x-rays-reveal-fractured-left-hand/
Last day of Spring Training…
And check out the screen shot here
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/hogg-wild-david-hogg-rallies-democrats-in-dc-if-you-listen-real-close-you-can-hear-the-people-in-power-shaking-video/
Is this even real??
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
James Wood NAILED his sister’s ass for that. She withdrew the tweet with what I’m pretty sure was a sincere apology because she did not understand the baggage they come with.
As for David – it’s past time to stop referring to this monster as ‘one angry kid’. He may be only 17 but he’s a totalitarian thug and if you watch that video, he’s in it for the power. The question is – what path will he try?
Yes, it’s real. It’s tempting to dismiss him on the grounds of his age. That would be a mistake. He’s an evil spawn and it’s time to treat him as such. If the gun control issue hadn’t fallen into his lap, it would have been something else.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
that’s worth keeping in mind.
@ eaglesoars:
The old “If you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler, would you?”
@ eaglesoars:
Hmmm.
The site says the discount is only available per 100 shares. Maybe they changed it.
Current price is 64.41.
@ eaglesoars:
OK. He is full of sh*t.
coldwarrior wrote:
Serious question, from seed to a fruiting tomato plant takes how long approximately? Assuming decent weather for the growing season.
@ PaladinPhil:
We’ll, depends on the weather. From seed to first fruit is usually 5 months or so.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
no. I’d make him politically unviable, tho, a laughing stock, a passing fad who fades into the mists of time.
This David Hogg is straight out of The Omen. Damien. If it were up to me, I’d frame him for animal abuse and child porn. Make him untouchable. Who knows, it might not even be a frame. This spawn is anything put pure as the driven snow, he’s got baggage.
Who is full of it? The Caribbean Cruise guy on one share a year?
@ eaglesoars:
Go look at drudge. That POS looks like a little Hitler
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/03/24/disgusting-sign-at-marchforourlives-sets-bloody-sights-on-marco-rubio/
@ Twitchy
The children that we must listen to and can not be criticized launch a vile attack on MRco Rubio.
These kids are enjoying the pub and the party and being funded by Planned Parenthood etal.
Does anybody miss the irony of Planned Parenthood bankrolling anything to do with life in its name?
new thread
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, that’s taken from the video from gateway pundit Bumr50 posted. Watch the video. It’s pretty impressive. Do not underestimate him or his appeal.
Who know who got the benefit of that underestimation once before, right?
@ coldwarrior:
*mumbles and counts on fingers* Crap. Well there goes that idea I think…
PaladinPhil wrote:
go to a greenhouse and buy some plants that have already been started.
@ coldwarrior:
Plot idea, collapse type scenario and people planning ahead kind of thing. Might be able to make it work. Will have to do some asking around up here though for more information. Won’t throw the idea out just yet though.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Given the amount of physic’s I have studied over the years, I cannot begin to express just how much I have come to hate that question. It is not the question most people think it is. In reality, that question is. “Should destroy the entire Universe on Monday at 2pm, or on Wednesday at 4pm?”
This question only exists, because most humans have a frighteningly poor grasp of a concept in physic’s known as “Causality”. Physic’s 101 here; Effect never ever proceeds Cause.
But… You said… Destroy the Universe…
Yes, I did. And that is exactly what would happen if you went back in time and changed even one single event in history, let alone a major event like the life of Adolph Hitler.
Imagine if you can. 60 to 200 million people whose deaths were a direct result of WWII suddenly no longer being dead. For the second Hitler died prematurely the entire Universes time line would have to change. What had previously been history would instantly cease to exist. And with it, the entire Universe. Poof, gone just like that.
Would a brand new universe appear in its place? Would it matter? The odds of you being here to not even be aware that the Universe had suddenly completely changed is somewhere on the order of 1 to 1 times 10 to the minus 17. You actually have a better chance of winning the lottery 100 times in a row and your odds of doing that are only about 1 x 10 -7.
Per capita murder rate https://www.billwhittle.com/firewall/number-one-bullet. The problem looks to be democratic mayors. Denying just them gun makes the US the most peaceful country in the world.