Done with 4 nights in a row. But, no time to slack off. There is what promises to be one of the greatest football games in the history of College Ball tonight. As it is Saturday morning for me, some details have to be attended to. The pellet reactor smoker is lit, and we have fission smoke. I’ll nap whilst the Cajun brined and injected turkey breast gets layered with my Yankee Smokers proprietary blend of wood pellets. The girls demand beer-can chicken. that will go an later.
A cigar is in order, as well as a shot and a beer whist Mrs Coldwarrior is at the gym. A Perla Del Mar Churchill, a fridge temperature Stoli shot, and a Cigar City Brewing Maduro chaser fits the bill nicely. The Perla Del Mar is something that every cigar lover should have in their humidor. It’s damn near perfect. I almost always buy my cigars at auction, these, I pay full price for, gladly.
#3 Clemson versus #1 LSU at 8:00 PM from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in N’Orleans. The pretenders and wanna-be over rated programs are weeded out. There are no Sooners, Tide, Buckeyes, or Ducks. It’s TIGERS all the way down!
LSU is giving 6 to Clemson (as of yesterday and I am going with that). That LSU offense is flat out great. They could beat some pro teams. Clemson is no slouch on O either. Both defenses are really good too. Clemson’s QB is undefeated, 25-0. And he’s ‘just’ Sophomore! ‘Clemson allows the fewest points of any team in the country (11.5 per game) and the second-fewest yards (264.1).’ but they don’t play in the SEC like LSU. It comes down to Clemson’s defense. LSU can make any D look foolish. I would not be surprised if LSU wins by 3 touchdowns.
Back to the 6 point spread.
38/69…1600/1000 thus far. That’s a 60% ROI (with fake money because I would never bet real money on a bunch of 20 y.o. kids, ever.). I’ll put $100 on Clemson to cover…but LSU wins. The bet is on the ‘line’, not on the eventual winner. I won’t bet more as I don’t have confidence. Clemson beat Ohio State with some late game heroics and a ‘bend don’t break’ defense. That might not work against the LSU machine.
Ohio State was over-rated again by the media, and are always over rated by their fans, sorry, my doppelgänger. But it’s the truth. Ohio State is in fact one Woody Hayes quality head-coach away from dominating NCAA ball. But, that only comes around once in a lifetime…and they had theirs. They have the talent but not the discipline.
The cigar is all but finished, my booze is done, the smoker is on auto-pilot. Nap time.
Have a great day. See yinz tonight.
You have to wonder who has dibs on playing “Hold that Tiger!”
During the reg college season, my heart’s always with the Tide and Clemson. Folks in New Orleans HATE LSU, but I have to admit that their awesomeness of this team cannot be underrated and they’ve earned their No. 1 ranking and will be hard to beat. But in full disclosure, I will be rooting for Quarterback surfer dude.
Although, after this weekend, watching Baltimore fall to the Titans, anything is possible. My only hope is that Kansas City stays alive. And here’s hoping Middle America kicks the crap out of Poop City in the Conference final.
“Ohio State was over-rated again by the media, and are always over rated by their fans, sorry, my doppelgänger. But it’s the truth.”
Blasphemy! Though all my Michigan acquiantances have suddenly found themselves to be born-again Clemson fans and have been serving up the crow. Meh.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
The BCS always wants Ohio State in the mix. Same with Notre Dame. The agonizing they went through to get the latter in the finals in 2013, leaving most people who follow college ball gobsmacked, resulted in such a shellacking by the Tide that many people had turned the game off by halftime. It was, after all, a work night.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
lol
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I feel for ya, I do.
@ The Barbarian:
They have favorites.
Hell, Miami u gets over rated every year.
Door dash might be the greatest app ever.
Juss sayin.
@ coldwarrior:
I say that because I decided to do rotisserie chicken and the charcoal took forever to light…the girls have softball practice…
Order some wood fired pizza!
Dad saves the day.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Wait.
M peeps cant serve crow by definition. They haven’t beat Ohio state in how long?
the line has gone fromm 6 to 5.5 to 5 in the past 48 hours.
that means money has been going on Clemson to cover
@ coldwarrior:
I agree. Nothing better on a rainy night when there’s nothing to make for dinner.
However, lately in my area they’ve been slacking off. We ordered from Carl’s Jr. last week at 6:30 and the food didn’t arrive until over an hour later and the fries were ice cold. My thing now is to wait until they get there to tip them in cash. That way they aren’t sitting on a generous tip and screwing off.
Our WORST experience was a big order from KFC that the driver apparently just took home with her and then reported she’d left it at our doorstep because we didn’t answer the door. We were tracking her progress and she took off for parts unknown and when we called her she said she had an emergency and that we needed to call DoorDash. But she’d already picked up the order according to KFC. She was telling quite a few stories all around.
But I give them credit – they are REALLY good about issuing a refund right away if something goes wrong.
Clemmons last loss was at The University of Pittsburgh.
Yep.
@ The Barbarian:
I wont do fries on an order. They need to be had right out of the frier
Watch out for the Aussie venomous Drop Bears of Kangaroo Island.
This brave Scottish ‘reporter lady’ here to comment on the Aussie bushfires took the challenge, after getting suitably dressed in her armour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiSUdoqsDv0
Only in Oz!
🙂
Interesting piece on the Aust. Bushfires by Delingpole.
Some interesting facts I didn’t know about, including this one from Judith Curry:-
“Eight megadroughts are identified in eastern Australia including one 39 year drought (A.D. 1174–1212), which occurred during an unprecedented century of aridity (A.D. 1102–1212).”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/12/delingpole-australian-climate-fires-are-pure-fake-news-propaganda/
Must have been caused by all those knights riding around on their 1000 CC horses!
🙂
Yet the fascist Left cry that the 2019-20 fire season is the biggest in history.
Not even close.
Current fires 8.5 million hectares.
1974-1975 was 117 million hectares. That’s not a misprint.
The level of lying about these fires by the fascist Left is reaching epic proportions folks.
SPIT
trump is at the game
he’s getting lotta cheers
crowd chanting usa, usa
it’s tigers all the way down
@ Aussie Infidel:
117 000 000
Damn
rain of lead wrote:
That was quite a reception
lobo91 wrote:
Because it’s not true?
eaglesoars wrote:
Sorry…that answer only works in the real world.
We apparently departed there a while back
Keep an eye on this. He’s been around for awhile and I missed it.
The name Abu Youssef ring a bell? Masterminded the Munich Massacre.
His grandson is here, has been here for quite awhile and is apparently a US citizen. He worked in the Obama admin.
And now he’s running for office in CA. Promises to be Trump’s worst nightmare.
Meet Ammar Campa-Najarr
https://deplorablekel.com/2019/05/23/grandson-of-munich-massacre-terrorist-running-for-congress/
There’s a link in this piece to a Breitbart article from 2018, so he’s not a new face.
nite
@ coldwarrior:
Order them without salt.
I’m hoping for a Chiefs-Packers matchup.
@ The Barbarian:
With the BCS it’s about the money. OSU is one of the 5 football programs that actually makes a profit.
coldwarrior wrote:
2011 was the last time TTUN beat the Buckeyes. They have long gone silent on my social media, but a few send me “I hate Ohio State” gifs. I enjoy thier pain. LOL.
@ right_wing2:
Me too. I’d have a team where I’d have some interest in the outcome, since Rodgers went to Cal.
But San Francisco beat Green Bay rather handsomely in the regular season.
BTW – LOVED the cheers in the Dome for the President and First Lady at the National Championship. Went on for quite awhile.
But really, I live on the West Coast and it was what – almost 8:30 PST at the start of the 4th Quarter? East Coast was looking at what – after MIDNIGHT for the game to be over?
WHY do they put this game on a Monday night and start it so damn late? Especially in the midst of the NFL playoffs, two weeks after the playoffs when NO ONE is thinking about college ball? Why not have it on a FRIDAY night right before the first Wild Card game?
I applied for a job at a title insurance company this morning, through a local headhunter.
@ The Barbarian:
Exactly
@ right_wing2:
oh good luck!
Everybody go find James O’keefe’s video of the Bernie campaign guy, Kyle somebody. Field organizer in Iowa. Talks about the advantages of Stalin’s gulags (they were paid wages, we will put billionaires in them to break rocks 12 hours a day so they no longer think they’re superior, etc.). Threatens to burn down Milwaukee if Bernie doesn’t get the nom. Pure leftist totalitarianism on parade. Just in time for the debate tonite. Everybody in Bernie’s Iowa campaign is making all their social media accts private.
Here’s a bit if you have a twitter acct
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1217085388050833408
Also, it looks like this guy was arrested for drugs about a week ago – for the 2nd time.
@ eaglesoars:
If Warren and Bernie are the Democrats’ best hope in 2020, then even the popular vote for Trump won’ be an issue this time.
@ The Barbarian:
There IS no best Dem hope in 2020. They’re all the result of political inbreeding of failed dystopian wet dreams.
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks. A college friends daughter actually used to work for the same company doing the same thing, and she really didn’t enjoy it. I think it’s something to be more up my alley though.
As far as Sander’s goes, I guess they recently found video of him blasting John Kennedy for opposing communism in Cuba.
@ right_wing2:
https://www.weaselzippers.us/441855-flashback-bernie-says-jfks-opposition-to-castro-regime-made-him-want-to-puke/
right_wing2 wrote:
Watch Trump start connecting the dots. It was a Bernie Bro who shot Scalise, Matt, et. al.
When they tell you to your face they want you enslaved and/or dead, believe them. Buy more ammo.
38/70 and 1500/1000…not bad.
I had a hunch LSU was gonna blow out Clemson.
The quest for the perfect crust continues.
Emile Henry 795503 Italian Bread Baker, 13.4″ x 5.3″, Charcoal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079P8CLK3/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_JFHhEbV168T4P
coldwarrior wrote:
$130!!!!
@ The Barbarian:
The machine wants it to be Biden.
Trump will crush that doltard.
eaglesoars wrote:
THE.QUEST.CONTINUES.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Those things last forever. I expect it will be used generationally.
I have a 70 y.o. le creuset peice and many Griswold cast iron pans that are about 100 years old. Those belonged to great g’ma coldwarrior.
Israel in the process of attacking bases in Syria (Homs area, I think). I suppose it has something to do with Iran, usually does.
@ coldwarrior:
My Griswold cast iron waffle iron is pushing 100 years. It gets used weekly.
@ coldwarrior:
Hmmm…..I have a Cuisinart bread machine, but the artisian breads, while they can be mixed and proofed in the machine (which is nice, because you don’t have to watch it, just wait for buzzer to mix in any special ingredients, it has to be baked in an oven. I don’t have the type of baking pan I think would do it justice. This looks like just the thing. You recommend this?
coldwarrior wrote:
I let my sister take all those. They’re great but I’m not big on slinging kitchen equipment that weighs more than I do.
It’s called getting one’s priorities right!
🙂
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-fires-mallacoota-pub-gets-emergency-beer-run-hmas-choules/ba346381-6335-4f14-96e6-f10ceafb5efe
@ The Barbarian:
I’ll let ya know. It gets here Thursday
@ Aussie Infidel:
Ye gods!
A pub with no beer?
Bricks without straw!!!
@ eaglesoars:
My mom handed them over to me for exactly the same reason
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/14/project-veritas-highlights-violent-wing-inside-bernie-sanders-campaign/
Ok, listen to me. You’re going to hear stories that the Russians hacked Bursima. The security firm that is confirming this is called Area 1.
AREA 1 IS CROWDSTRIKE. The same crew that said the DNC was hacked by Russia.
The way this is going to play – IMHO – is that we’re going to be told Russia was doing Trump’s dirty work looking for dirt on Biden, ergo nothing can be reported on this because it’s all Russian propaganda.
I have no clue if Burisma was hacked or not, could care less. At this point, I just assume everybody gets hacked.
And right on cue
Russians appear to be re-running their 2016 hacking playbook, once again to benefit Donald Trump.
Will the media play along again?
Will the GOP open the door again?
Will the Russians help pick our POTUS again?
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1217132986006691841
Watch this video of a FRNSW truck driving through fire.
Mental cases!!
No Station Officer in the front…..for some reason…..a Firefighter is in charge of the appliance.(yellow helmet)
The guy in the back shits himself (as I would!) and takes off his bushfire gear and starts pulling on his structural ensemble.
How these guys aren’t toast is a miracle!
🙂
https://www.infowars.com/thousands-stranded-on-beach-encircled-by-flames-as-bushfires-rip-through-australia/
@ coldwarrior:
I can probably do better with a standard oven. 😀
Then again I have experience and training. 😉
@ Aussie Infidel:
These were the morons who refused to evac the beach, right? I’d never ask other people to risk their lives for those people
PaladinPhil wrote:
Yep!
And I don’t.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Bravery in action
coldwarrior wrote:
Well not exactly. This particular crew seems to have misplaced their SO (Station Officer) for some unknown reason. Maybe he was having a beer someplace. 🙂
They obviously left their run waaaaay late and were lucky that their engine didn’t stop due to the heat whereupon they’d be crispy critters.
Bravery? I guess so but skilled clear means that you don’t have to show your bravery.
🙂
They probably scared themselves shitless and won’t do that again any time soon!
HEH!
eaglesoars wrote:
Nah
There were just a crew of Professionals who had got themselves into a hazardous situation and had to grit their teeth and take a punt on getting through. I have no idea where their ‘red hat’ SO was. It’s just lucky these buggers managed to find a way through that wasn’t impeded by fallen timber, dropped by the fire.
I bet they won’t do that again any time soon!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’d like to know the vehicle model
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/14/interest-rates-bond-data-back-to-black-death-shows-low-rates-here-to-stay.html
I’ll have to get that paper and have a read.
I think Sidney Powell is about to file – or has filed – to withdraw General Flynn’s plea deal.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sara Carter has confirmed. She’ll be on Hannity
https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1217256150183432197
The Barbarian wrote:
What about Joe? I thought he was in the lead
coldwarrior wrote:
Scania P320 with special stretched cab and a custom designed pumper providing over 3600 litres per minute.
Room for a nominal crew of a SO plus three -5 firemen including the specialist driver.
Scanias are the most common of the NSW Fire Brigade pumpers and specialist vehicles.
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
I’m not watching the debate, but Ann Coulter is saying that as it stands now, their best chance is Michael Avenatti
eaglesoars wrote:
She is often disappointing lately, but still manages to hit one or two out of the park. That one is gone and into the cheap seats if not over the wall.
Two General Motors engineers arrested for street racing in 2020 Chevrolet Corvettes
I don’t see the problem, officer
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/chevrolet-engineers-arrested-street-racing-2020-chevrolet-corvettes
eaglesoars wrote:
proof of concept testing, officer.
eaglesoars wrote:
welp….
Michael Avenatti Arrested by Feds at California State Bar Hearing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-avenatti-arrested-by-feds-at-california-state-bar-hearing
The entire Russian cabinet has resigned. Effective immediately.
???
https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1217443122260725763
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-prime-minister-medvedev-cabinet-submit-resignation-11579095839
@ eaglesoars:
What kind of conspiracy are Trump and Putin involved in now?
///
eaglesoars wrote:
I was just about to post that. That would be enough to destroy a normal person on the right. Death by association. Who are the nazis again? All these Bernie supporters are totalitiarian thugs ready for violent tantrums if things don’t go their way and violent revolution if things do go their way.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
And it was a Bernie Bro who tried to kill Steve Scalise, et. al.
But not a word at the debate.
@ eaglesoars:
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course not, to reveal anything about that is to reveal the truth about the entire left. Not allowed. Isn’t allowed for our side to say either. Their side can make up lies though, tying us to any kind of atrocity.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
In light of the Project Veritas video, all the Bernie campaign organizers have now locked down their Twitter accounts. I imagine they are going through their entire Twitter feeds and deleting all pro-Commie/gulag/violence/Castro/Stalin references. They’ll be back when they’ve been scrubbed clean.
Meanwhile, of course, they forget that there are people who liked and responded to them. Screen shots are probably being taken now before the Tweets are deleted. If O’Keefe doesn’t have them already.
Oh you guys are gonna LOVE this. Turns out the “commemorative pens” that Sloppy Chompers handed out after she signed the Articles to send over to the Senate had the word “UNITED” misspelled as “UNTIED”.
I’d like to think the pen manufacturer is a Trump supporter and misspelled it on purpose knowing that Speaker Sloshy wouldn’t be bothered to check.
@ The Barbarian:
oh gosh! got a link? I want to put it in our newsletter.
I do not have a good feeling about this. Probably because I no longer trust anything or anyone, but I just don’t.
McConnell: No quick dismissal of impeachment charges
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/mcconnell-no-quick-dismissal-of-impeachment-charges
Get ready
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but it increasingly looks like associates of Donald Trump were planning a mob hit to murder an American ambassador.
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1217423502627758082
The ambassador referred to is Yavanovitch. And if you think that tweet is straight out of a reddit wet dream, Jon Cooper is chairman of the Dem Coalition and was L.I. campaign chair for Obama
sweet dreams