Watch where you step.
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 336 Comments › )Filed under Open thread, Uncategorized at June 21st, 2024 - 6:21 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
First!! Lol!
@ rightymouse:
Shhh. Today is Hiding Day. We’re hiding.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ok. Will be going out soon with hubby for a few hours, so SHHHHHHHHHH!
um, WHAT? Boeing again………
Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing’s Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/astronauts-stranded-in-space-due-to-multiple-issues-with-boeings-starliner-and-the-window-for-a-return-flight-is-closing
Finally I can comment on a thread and be on topic!
That is an example of how a cat can lay next to you in bed, place its arms and legs on your back and push, constantly and all night.
Eventually the cat is taking up over half of the bed. The claws emerging randomly help the movement of the immovable object ( me ) across the bed.
Unfortunately in this case the cat in question was pushing against the wall, it is a cat thing.
Eventually the cat pushed so hard the whole house fell down!!!!
If you do not believe me I can prove what happened.
@ eaglesoars:
I posted in the last thread 12 days ago they ain’t coming back in it. I am NOT a rocket scientist.
Most foods are easy to enter into my stupid spreadsheet but chicken parts are not. Reason I am concerned is a delivery of parts is due soon. The cheapest chicken there is.
No wings!!!!! the price of them is stupid per pound.
Anyway, there is real data and authorities sites, USFDA that list nutritional value of cooked chicken. But what kind? Which part?
Succulent and plump breasts with no skin? Legs with skin and bones?
Anyway chicken parts and cat treats arrive soon. I will post an update.
@ Possum:
OK, I think a moderator or an adult that runs this place should rotate the image of the topic of this thread through 90 to the right.
All will be revealed.
The cat is pushing the pillow off the chair.
Just like my cats try to push me of my tiny bed.
Possum wrote:
No.
Then it would be merely a picture of a cat on a chair.
Someone is retaliating against us by coming after the cats.
we got a door hanger Tuesday from the county animal control department. They wanted to do a welfare check on our pets.
I tried calling Tuesday night and got their answering service which doesn’t take messages. I left a message on Thursday and got a call back about half an hour later.
I guess they’ve had four or five calls in the past year, complaining about the number of cats that we have. It sounds like they’re getting a little fed up with it too. Someone had come out last year after the first complaint and talked to Mrs. RW and didn’t have any concerns.
they wanted to check to make sure that we were still able to handle everything all right though.
She did say that they talked to the compliance officer in our city, and he said as long as we aren’t breeding, they’re not gonna worry about it. Under state law, we could have as many as 19 before we need to be, licensed as a shelter.
Mrs. RW thinks it’s that Joker she had working for her who her and ended up getting fired, my first thought was the idiots who screwed around on our deck.
Any bets that JD Vance is Trump’s VP pick?
eaglesoars wrote:
This is what happens when ideologues get into positions of power in Corporates like Boeing and alas most Western corporates who decide to bet the farm on the current ideological morons. This what happens to corporates who forget about making business work for customers, share holders, staff, workers and the economy.
When ideology takes centre stage and ideologues wriggle their way into positions of power, corruption is never far behind. It took 70 years to kill 100 million human beings, multiple wars and 2 world wars and the destruction of the State of Russia’s economy due to communist ideologues. The US appears determined to destroy the economy of the USA and potentially kill 300 million citizens in just half that time. Ideology has rivers of blood on its hands. Ideology and corruption always ends up in evil and death.
right_wing2 wrote:
Very likely to be one of the final four but probably at least a 10 to 1 shot at VP!
🙂
@ right_wing2:
How many cats do you have?
@ Possum:
Dogs RULZ!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
17. Almost all came straight from the street. Most were kittens, but it can still take a long time for them to trust.
One is just now letting us put and scratch him after 11 years. The newest is a work in progress. Got her (?) 3 weeks ago after she got dumped. She’s probably about 2.
@ Aussie Infidel:
We rescued a pit from our old neighborhood. Damn cancer.
I have a severe cat problem.
In the fall of 2017 two cats decided living with me was an awesome place to live. They were about 9 months old and the way they got in to snuggle in bed was through a second floor window that was open at night.
As they were obviously feral I got the lady spayed and her ear clipped as is what any responsible person does with a feral cat. That indicates to animal control the cat should not be removed from the area.
Her name is Natasha, and she is the sweetest cat you could ever imagine. After doing the TNR thing and keeping her safe while she recovered for four days she never left.
Other cat got named Boris. He did not get the snip until about 2019. Only annoying tendency he had which is a male cat is he pissed on the door on his way out. Marking his home.
Fast forward to February 16th 2020 when I found two kittens in a shoe box with a bottle of Gatorade. Children said they found them. They were about two days old, umbilical cords still attached.
So I did what everybody does and bottle fed them. 2020 when COVID struck!
Plan was to raise them to about six weeks onto solid food then dump them at a shelter but alas, all shelters closed due to COVID, then car caught fire.
After Christmas 2022 kittens were no longer kittens but two year old un-neutered male cats and getting territorial.
Boris decided to pack his belongings and leave….
@ Possum:
So after over two years guess what was on the doorstep at 7:20am when I got back from the store.
FINALLY!!
Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside London for the last five years and fought extradition to the United States. He is expected to return to Australia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/julian-assange-reached-plea-deal-us-allowing-go-free-rcna158695
He should still watch his back. I read Trump wanted to let him go but Pompeo threatened to resign.
Possum wrote:
Ha!!!
@ Possum:
Is Boris fluent in Español now?
In case anyone was wondering whether Jack Carr can actually shoot:
@ lobo91:
Comments are interesting, not a lot of drivel.
“Nice scan at the end in case any of those other metal targets tried to draw on him.”
After the FBI raided her home last week, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was obviously pissed at a presser, said she did nothing wrong, and she’s under attack by rich people because she grew up poor.
The money trail is going to be interesting to watch, even if she is innocent. The trash collection company is a spiderweb of corruption.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-fbi-raid/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It’s called “train the way you fight.” Carr is the only one there who’s ever shot at targets that were shooting back. Taran teaches competition shooting, not combat shooting. The best example of that is in John Wick 2, where Keanu Reeves flips a shotgun upside down, with the stock on his shoulder, to reload it. That’s 100% a competition move that Taran taught him. Works fine when your enemy is steel plates or paper targets. Not a good move when facing actual people.
huh
LAWFARE: Biden and Garland sent the FBI to raid Trump’s home armed with props used to create damning photos leaked to the media. Jack Smith now admits that the FBI planted coversheets with classified markings on top of the documents found in Trump’s home. @julie_kelly2 first uncovered the fact that the FBI had doctored and planted evidence – the president’s special counsel has now been forced to admit it in open court.
Looks like that asshat Jamaal Bowman lost his primary in NY. AOC will be crushed.
Meanwhile, Lauren Boebert apparently won the Republican primary in her new district in CO.
What a week.
Mrs RW was in Rochester MN for her friend’s cancer surgery, last Thursday. Things are pretty good, but they’re keeping a close eye because she has cystic fibrosis.
I got a call Sunday night around 11. “Guess who’s a patient at the Mayo Clinic?!
Mrs had tripped over an uneven piece of concrete, between the ramp from the parking lot and the sidewalk at the front door. It had sunk probably 7/8”. She fell and broke her humerus. So I had to rent a car one way and drive to MN yesterday (3 1/2 hours sleep) then bring her back in her car today.
They suggested seeing an orthopedic surgeon, so she’ll get with her doctor on that.
The hotel filled a claim with their insurance, but we’ll probably call an attorney anyway.
When we were going out to take pictures, this young guy, probably early 20’s, tipped at the same place. Imagine if a 75 year old, or someone using a cane or walker fell.
@ right_wing2:
Getting old sucks. I can remember jumping off the backs of 5 ton trucks on a regular basis when I was young.
When I bought my F-150 last year, the first thing I added was a retractable step to reach the bed.
lobo91 wrote:
It’s not the ‘getting’. It’s the ‘being’.
Finished Carr’s book. FANTATISC!
eaglesoars wrote:
Ok, I can’t spell.
Gavin Newsom’s gonna be a Biden “surrogate” in CNN’s Spin Room after Thursday’s FJB/FJT circus. Puke.
https://www.kcra.com/article/gavin-newsom-joe-biden-surrogate-presidential-debate/61409543
@ eaglesoars:
I’m almost done with it. Agree
Coup underway in La Paz…
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-military-deployment-arce-coup-fears-028cd88f3be1fb02164c05deb0faa099
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Join the queue!
Since the first ‘revolution’ back in the 1860s they have had at least 72 revolutions …. and counting. I lost count and gave up counting. Hell they even has TWO revolutions in ONE day back about the mid 1980s. The folks in La Paz were so ‘past the whole revolutions thingie that they just cleared the main street and carried on regardless and left the various forces to kill each other.
Even the schools didn’t flee home the classes just went on as usual. At 1030 AM the Airforce with about 50 jeeps armed with .50 cal and 7.62 Brownings drove down the switch back road from the 11,000 foot long runway and base on the AltoPlano, to downtown La Paz. Attacked the army barracks and ‘brassed up the centre of town . By lunchtime the revolution was over and everyone came out for lunch. Then after the army had had their lunch and the dead and wounded had been cleared from the streets the army had a turn.
The army drove the airforce back up the 1000 foot high switchback road to the AltoPlano that was at 6000 feet above sea level. La Paz is at 5000 feet altitude!
Then everyone went to dinner. The next morning the Hotel Europa opened as usual and right on 7AM as usual the slightly out of tune presidential band struck up its daily wake up call for el Presidente and also woke up all of the guests in the Europa Hotel … as usual… as it was right beside the President’s palace.
Life went on and everyone got on with their lives…. as usual
YAWN
🙂
Right where President Are is standing on the first floor (second floor if you are an American!) wearing a bulletproof vest, was right alongside of where my third floor room in the Europa Hotel was located. The band used to play their semi-Mariarche marching band type music that was slightly out of tune …. right below my room and woke me up every bloody morning….. grrrrr!
La Paz is a crazy place and when you get to explore the capital is quite an evil place. Especially in the ‘witches market’ where you can buy the usual blood of own; eye of newt; foetus of lama type concoctions. They sell fresh human foetuses as well if you ask about, for ritual spell casting and such!
Diesel is for sale Tuesdays and Fridays although if travelling up across the AltoPlano you can buy beer bottles of diesel at the mud brick villages from the local entrepreneurs, along the way across the AltoPlano on the way to Chile.
President Arce = President Arc …. grrr bloody predictive strikes again!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
President Arce is scheduled for tomorrow.
This is a really good interview by Allison Hagendorf with The Warning, as they get ready for a private show at the Whisky, tomorrow’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel and then the release of their new album all in one week:
Why Trump’s mic may be muted during the “debate”. 😀
https://x.com/i/status/1806193809941762341
From last night’s release show at the Whisky, starting with the first live performance of Six Feet Deep:
Kinky Friedman has died
A Boris update for anyone interested. If I had a car when he showed up on the doorstep after over two years gone I would have taken him to the vet and said goodbye.
He is in a mess, so thin his shoulder blades and hip bones show. He is a medium to long haired cat so bones should not show. His fur is unkempt and his once snowy white paws and chest are not white.
He was having trouble breathing and the bridge of his nose and forehead is swollen and puffy and soft to the touch. He looks like a Klingon.
Also I know he is FIV+ so impossible to find a forever home for him so It looks like we are stuck.
His tail had a dreadlock hanging off it, Mr Scissors cured that and I took another sand burr off his tail.
So, as of today he is eating very well, drinking very well, depositing things in the litter box that are the correct size, colour, consistency. He now has a snotty discharge from his nose and seems to be breathing much better. Maybe because he was dehydrated his capacity to generate snot was diminished.
As to his behavior, well, it is like he never left. He knows where the Temptation cat treats are served, and he is my bed buddy again!
Natasha sniffed at him once then they ate from the same dish and she knows him and he knows her.
As to the twin cats they know something is not right with the universe. They are both staying in the lounge, or outside, while Boris stays in the bedroom or on the balcony.
eaglesoars wrote:
They ain’t makin’ Jews like Jesus any more. They ain’t makin’ carpenters who know what nails are for.
@ Possum:
Oh, FIV is the cat equivalent of Human HIV. Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
FIV is not spread by sharing food, water and litter boxes. It is spread by deep bites. And Boris don’t bite anyone, except for my ankle if he snuggles up next to my left foot and wants a head scratch.
His snotty nose is loosening up, cat snot is not pleasant. He is not running a temperature as far as I can tell by touching his snotty nose. Even though Boris is the nicest and calmest cat I ever have known there is no way I am pushing my luck by sticking a thermometer up his ass.
Anyway, keeping him fed and hydrated and preventing the boys from bothering him and hoping he gets back to his old self.
That will take a long time, he is so malnourished.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I don’t think carpenters used nails 2000 years ago. They were professionals using tongue and groove and mortice joints and string and shit like that.
On a different topic I gave in to the very low carbohydrate thing yesterday and made mac and cheese with chopped up summer sausage.
2oz dry pasta
1oz sharp cheddar
1oz cream cheese
2oz summer sausage
580 calories, 43g carbs and this morning I was still in ketosis.
So, today I am gradually going to introduce carbs and still keep below 1200 calories per day for a while.
Got to crack that 200 pound barrier.
LOL so today’s grocery order from Walmart included lettuce and a 5lb bag of Russet potatoes!
( Carb wise on a low carb diet potatoes are BAD. However on a low calorie diet potatoes are actually GOOD if you watch out for the things you put on them )
A mouse mat is something you have to wiggle your mouse on.
However if you have a cat it should be called a cat mat.
Why? Because the cat lays on the mat and you have to reach under its belly to move the mouse to do Internet things.
It is a win-win scenario! You get to use the Internet and have a warm hands, and Boris gets a belly massage.
In two years he has forgotten nothing….
@ Possum:
Our FIV girl, Willow, is a sweetheart. She curled up on my lap for an hour today. It might’ve been longer, but Mrs RW will be needing help for a while.
Her Orthopedic Surgeon has X-rays and will call next week to schedule consultation and surgery.
Well an hour to go until the debate and I am going to really laugh my ass off at Biden and his dementia.
He is gone, it is obvious to anyone who has seen it and experienced it.
The reason I watch and laugh at all the examples of Biden doing dementia shit is because I know he is as happy as a clam. The people forcing Biden to carry on instead of letting him live out the rest of his life in a nice place should be, well I cannot say it here but sent to prison for life will do.
@ right_wing2:
FIV is not treatable but as I said it is only transmitted by severe bites.
There are FIV vaccines available but last time I researched it they only immunized against 2 of the 4 variants.
@ Possum:
I was just watching a news story out of San Francisco about a 78 year old woman who crashed her car into a bus shelter while going 70 in a 35 zone. She killed a family of 4.
People were outraged. “Why do we let 78 year olds drive?!”
At least half those people see no problem voting for a clearly failing 81 year old to be president, though.
@ lobo91:
I am not 78 but to be honest I will never drive again.
Just this week I put my shoes on then realized I did not have my trousers on yet. Not the first time that happened.
Cannot do simple math addition in my head.
LOL used to drive the Strawberry Picker, now can’t even get Pornhub.
@ Possum:
So happy for you and him.
A casual food post while we are waiting for the debate to start.
Chicken. Bought a shit load last week, no wings as they are expensive per pound but got some drumsticks ( Tyson ) and a 10lb bag of chicken leg quarters for $5.57
Hey what a deal, chicken for 56 cents a pound.
So I weighed one of the chunks of chicken then cooked it. Put it on a plate then weighed it.
Ate the yummy chicken, spat out the stringy bits and left the bones and spine and other stuff on the plate.
Yeah, I am spread sheeting what I eat.
It mathematically appears that I only actually ate 1/4 of the cheap chicken leg quarter.
So being honest I am no longer buying the cheap per pound chicken things because in reality it is cheaper to buy skinless and boneless chicken breasts. 100% meat instead of 25% meat.
@ right_wing2:
Long way to go…
“Why does Trump believe top earners and corporations should pay even less in taxes than they do now?”
Nope…no bias at CNN…
OK ten minutes in and Biden has fucking lost the plot
“We finally beat Medicare.”
Umm…what?
Possum wrote:
How long is this supposed to last? 90 minutes? Biden’s not going to make it to the end the way he’s going
Biden’s losing it
Well, he almost made it through the first segment without referring to Trump as a “convicted felon”
I thought he’d fallen asleep earlier.
I can’t believe that anyone who’s watching this could vote for Biden. Of course, most people aren’t watching it, and will only see bits edited to make him look competent.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/06/27/democrats-panicking-over-bidens-disastrous-debate-performance-n2641074
Possum wrote:
That was the follow-up lyric. Blame Kinky.
As for nails, someone was nailed to a cross, and I don’t think wooden pegs were used.
@ Possum:
I gained three pounds between Monday and Wednesday but that was offset by a very good bp reading of 117/68.
What the hell was that?
Tacticool….
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/06/27/texas-police-chief-indicted-2-years-after-uvalde-mass-school-shooting/
lobo91 wrote:
I caught the 2nd half, and CNN’s rules seemed to work. The moderators didn’t argue with the candidates and only “begged the question” a couple of times. Trump ignored the false premises for the most part and went off on his own, Biden bumbled as expected. I noticed that Joe’s eyes were blue for the first time in a long while.
The aftermarket “Spin Rooms” were insufferable, that even though Trump’a a lying convicted felon Biden was a mess.
coldwarrior wrote:
Something about who can carry a golf bag for nine holes, Rodney Dangerfield or Ted Knight.
Possum wrote:
That was one of the reasons I quit my consulting job last year. I was also having trouble solving problems with multiple variables and was making amateur errors.
A couple years ago I could barely do a crossword puzzle. I’d read the clue and by the time my eyes went to the grid I’d have forgotten what it was.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
How do you measure yourself against other golfers…
Lol
@ coldwarrior:
By length and girth.
I’ll be very surprised if corn pops nemesis is the nominee in nov.
coldwarrior wrote:
He shouldn’t even finish out this term.
@ coldwarrior:
@ lobo91:
The spinroomers were hinting about that out loud, even proposing 3rd party as a better alternative. We don’t have cable so we didn’t get to hear what Gav Newsom had to say in the CNN wrap up.
Keep Me Fed is officially out. I just downloaded my copy.
People have been complaining that the new songs were too “pop.”
I wonder what color the sky is on their planet?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I watched it on the Daily Wire site, so I didn’t see any of that stuff. I watched the latest episode of The Boys on Amazon instead. I figured that it was more realistic than anything they would come up with.
Couldn’t help myself. I just had to find out.
Headline from The Onion:
“Nation Can Tell Exactly When In Sentence Biden Emptying Into Catheter.”
When they’ve lost Cenk Uygur, he’s done:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Was he expecting them to come over to the podium with defibrillator paddles?
@ lobo91:
He wanted another debate between Trump & the moderators so Joe could have pee breaks.
@ lobo91:
Cenk’s election night meltdown was epic.
@ lobo91:
Comments on that TYT Utoobage are hilarious. It’s a pie fight.
https://smarkets.com/event/41938283/politics/us/2024-presidential-election/2024-presidential-election-winner
I’m looking forward to seeing the polling numbers is a week or 10 days.
Who’s going to replace Joe? Kamala? Michelle? Gavin? Wes Moore (MD Gov)? AOC?
Okay, this is a seriously cool video for Six Feet Deep. The actresses they got to play their younger selves are perfect. They’re even wearing outfits like they wore when they appeared on Ellen in 2014:
right_wing2 wrote:
My guess is Newsom
Last night’s Kimmel performance. They looked great. The sound mix was awful, and Pau was missing half her kit. Still, a decent introduction to a wider audience:
SCOTUS tossed the “obstruction of Congress” charge in January 6th case.
And Chevron deference is toast
lobo91 wrote:
Does this mean they get released now or does it get tossed back to DC Circuit?
@ eaglesoars:
I haven’t read it’ so I’m not sure what they actually did. Pretty sure that it would have been remanded back to the lower court, which will have no choice but to order a release.
There’s not going to be any mass release of people from prison, though. Each case will have to go back before the court individually. If that was the only charge, they’ll end up being released.
The problem is with the hundreds who took plea deals. Part of the standard language in a plea bargain is that you give up your right to appeal. Those people may be screwed.
lobo91 wrote:
If the other charges are minor (trespassing) then I THINK they could be released on ‘time served’ arguments
eaglesoars wrote:
Right. But that’s why each case has to go back to court individually, because they’re all different.
eaglesoars wrote:
no, not that easy
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1806720373976911976
@ eaglesoars:
Did you see this?
@ lobo91:
Good summary. Who or what is Shipwreckedcrew?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew
@ Possum:
Grassyass.
Bongino is being more obnoxious than usual today. I gotta find a better alternative.
Cat update. Boris is starting to clean himself. Only in 30 second short attempts but he is trying.
So, I got out a comb and attempted to help.
Boris gave me that “fuck off” look and went outside onto the balcony.
Guess he is feeling better….
@ Possum:
Good sign when a cat remembers that he’s expected to be an asshole.
Kamala Harris w/ Anderson Cooper.
https://x.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1806534901178458315
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
“It’s just a flesh wound”
So I had an old platoon dog call me of late to catch up. He stayed in way to long and did to many tours in the sandbox, but has been doing contract work in DC. He told me DC is freaking out over the recent EU elections. “Why? I asked. It’s just the same phenomenon as with Trump. The public “servants” are whores for special, or foreign, interest groups rather than serving the electorate. They are fed up. Inflation, immigration, debt, etc… sound familiar? No one with any ethical mindset should be surprised.”
Alas. What interesting times we live in.
lobo91 wrote:
Yes. I’ve followed him for a long time.
SCOTUS has turned down Bannon’s emergency appeal. He has to report to prison by July 1. Don’t know where tho
NY Times Editorial Board is calling for Biden to step down from the race
I just got a Biden campaign ad on Youtube with Barack Obama:
“Five dollars. That’s enough to change this race.”
No. It’s really not.
The unaired second song from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel performance:
Martin Mull died.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13580297/Joe-pass-wind-terrible-presidential-debate-suspicious-noise.html
BREAKING: STEVE BANNON JUST ANNOUNCED HE WILL BE HOSTING WAR ROOM OUTSIDE OF THE FEDERAL PRISON ON MONDAY MORNING
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1807066683430916370
Broke the 200 pound barrier this morning at 199.6 but don’t hold your breath.
Woke up this morning with a mouth like the bottom of a parrot’s cage when I weighed myself and it took two mugs of steaming hot tea before I could do a piss test.
Cannot wait until I stop restricting carbs and just concentrate on calories only.
Breakfast was four eggs and an ounce of cheddar, all scramblied up. Zero carbs. 430 calories and not that filling.
A 10oz baked potato topped with 3oz chopped onion and an ounce of sour cream would have come in at 325 calories but 59g of carbs. The carb content would have kicked me out of ketosis.
But on a normal but calorie restricted diet the ketosis thing does not matter.
@ Possum:
I have diagnosed myself and it seems I have a very rare mental disorder.
Potnonomicaphobia
Going to seek therapy tomorrow as it is ruining my life….
Possum wrote:
Throw out the potatoes.
@ rightymouse:
I tried really hard to make Mr Potato my friend again. Cooked a nice small, plump and fluffy baked potato. 5 mins on high in the microwave then 20 mins at 350F in the air fryer.
Served it with a can of that expensive chunky tuna, not the Chicken of the Sea mush, a blob of sour cream and a sprinkle of sharp cheddar.
Couldn’t do it. Only ate half the potato and hid the other half in the fridge behind the lettuce.
Maybe I should have started with one of those tiny red potatoes, boiled. But I don’t think Walmart sells them individually.
Anyway before supper tonight I will do a urine test and the result will tell me if I can have brussels sprouts and chicken or I have to eat cauliflower instead.
I hope the test is positive because I really fancy brussels sprouts tonight.
Today calories 681 so far but unfortunately 37g carbs. Beer carbs only 7g. That half a potato fucked up my beer drinking this hot and sunny Sunday afternoon.
🙁
An excellent discussion of the Chevron decision
https://x.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1807513128479150478
For those who don’t understand what Chevron Deference is, and why SCOTUS ended it, here’s the long and short of it:
A family fishing company, Loper Bright Enterprises, was being driven out of business, because they couldn’t afford the $700 per day they were being charged by the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor their company.
The thing is, federal law doesn’t authorize NMFS to charge businesses for this. They just decided to start doing it in 2013.
Why did they think they could away with just charging people without any legal authorization?
Because in 1984, in the Chevron decision, the Supreme Court decided that regulatory agencies were the “experts” in their field, and the courts should just defer to their “interpretation” of the law.
So for the past 40 years, federal agencies have been able to “interpret” laws to mean whatever they want, and the courts had to just go with it.
It was called Chevron Deference, and it put bureaucrats in charge of the country.
It’s how the OHSA was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab, or be fired.
No law gave them that authority, they just made it up.
It’s how the ATF was able to decide a piece of plastic was a “machine gun”.
It’s how the NCRS was able to decide that a small puddle was a “protected wetlands”.
It’s how out-of-control agencies have been able to create rules out of thin air, and force you to comply, and the courts had to simply defer to them, because they were the “experts”.
Imagine if your local police could just arrest you, for any reason, and no judge or jury was allowed to determine if you’d actually committed a crime or not. Just off to jail you go.
That’s what Chevron Deference was.
more at the link
hey y’all
https://www.nashvilleparthenon.com/
guess who has an internship
A cat post.
Boris has started to clean himself, but he has a long way to go.
Lump on his head not getting smaller. Catzilla had the same kind of lump and died of nose cancer.
Well she did not actually die from it I had her killed 7th December 2011 because she could no longer breath and one of her eyes was pointing in the wrong direction.
Deja vue….
Results are in.
Tonight supper is lettuce.
Lettuce and what?
Just lettuce…
rain of lead wrote:
Reader girl?! Give her my best
@ Possum: I had a Reuben sandwich, with 3 craft brews. No idea how I did, health- wise. Oh, yeah, greetings everyone ! After an absence fo a couple weeks.
I suspect some people are taking liberties with their time off, for the past few Mondays & Fridays. It seems like there are more call-ins and absences on those days each week. Noting like 9+ hour work days at the start & end of the work week :rolleyes:
@ Buckeye Abroad: More and more, it feels like we are a nation in decline.
SCOTUS released the opinion in the Trump immunity case. Basically, they said that presidents have absolute immunity for official acts, but not for unofficial acts. They laid out a test for the lower courts to use to determine whether a particular act is official or unofficial and sent the case back to the district court to make that determination.
Pretty much exactly what I expected.
Trump v. United States
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, and I think this screws Jack Smith
Here is Bannon holding court outside prison
https://americasvoice.news/
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s certainly not going to be resolved anytime soon.
@ lobo91:
“Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.”
https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1807786318463742355
what is ‘preclusive’?
I think this was a 6-3 decision, have to find out who the 3 are
@ eaglesoars:
You have to ask? The usual suspects
@ lobo91:
Things that he is specifically not permitted to do
@ eaglesoars:
That was really the only possible decision for this case, particularly when the two sides were arguing the absolute extreme positions. Clearly, neither was viable. No, the president doesn’t have “absolute immunity” to do whatever he wants, but the DOJ position was equally absurd. If a president has no immunity whatsoever, he basically can’t make any decisions, because someone, somewhere, is going to object to literally everything he does.
eaglesoars wrote:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by fellow liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, delivered a sharply worded dissent, saying the ruling “makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of government, that no man is above the law.”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/
lobo91 wrote:
yeah but you never know………..
OOOPS!
Justice Thomas pens a note — in the form of a Concurring Opinion – to Judge Cannon in Florida.
SC Smith is not lawfully appointed.
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1807802957637021889
home from work trip for a day or 2.
i’m looking at a stack of lumber and power tools…i’m also looking at the beer fridge and the humidor and the lovely back patio of the new house (we call it the propylaea as the view is quite nice).
i’ve worked 4 of the last 5 days.
see if yinz can guess what choice i make.
😆
biden…’i got my handicap down to 6 when vp.’
😆
yeah…no. i got my handicap down to 4-7 a couple of times. it requires meticulous work, lessons lessons lessons, lots of range times with the pro, hours of work, and athletic ability. the short game from 150 yards in is key and that dude has no short game, or any game at all. he aint as bad as shankapotus tho.
@ coldwarrior:
*burp*
Possum wrote:
ha!
bellhaven scottish ale and a partagas 1968!
possum for the win!!!
@ Possum:
I had a non-alcohol beer at a bistro in L.A. Saturday. $15 for 6-oz in a brandy snifter on a small patio facing an alley with a rat trap and fornicating sparrows, and I got to listen to a couple of fat lesbian nurses trash talk their co-workers non-stop. The “brunch” was five skinny sprigs of grilled asparagus with a spoonful of red sauce. The missus had a poached egg in a bowl with rice. Total bill came to $80 including the tip.
The waitress was hot.
Mrs RW has an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon next Tuesday afternoon. We’re trying to reach an attorney who’s at least somewhat trustworthy. A friend’s lawyer is good, but doesn’t practice Personal Injury law. We’re working on a referral from him.
oooh…
a new trail brewery double and an aj fernandez diesel.
life is good.
Man, the lefties are going crazy today. It’s been a bad week for them.
AOC is vowing to file articles of impeachment against the Supreme Court
Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YzCxEv92E
Where the action is.
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/01/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-july-1-2024
The Warning is this month’s MTV Push artist. I think that means they’ll be in what they used to call “heavy rotation.” Goes nicely with the new album:
@ rain of lead:
send personals to me.
my bro at at fortune 500 is looking for a librarian.
This takedown…
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1808007085570842899
Trump’s sentencing in Manhattan is being delayed while they try to figure out if yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling affects the case.
Stand by for another meltdown from the left
And Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in NY
When Biden said something about Trump sleeping with a prostitute, what if Trump had responded with a comment about Biden showering with his daughter?
@ Canoe Convoy:
The west is in decline. Some of the posters here have been talking about that for 2 decades. I think it is simply becoming more undeniable for the rest of the public at large.
Well, I’m hearing Mark Kelly is about something or other.
I learned a very important lesson tonight. I need to get my shit together, clean the apartment up, make friends with someone who has a car ( actually make some friends ) or buy a car myself.
To cut a long story short. At 7pm as it cooled down I walked to the store to get myself a six pack, three tomatoes and two cucumbers. When I got back I started to prepare supper for later tonight. Chicken legs. The cheap shit.
I had already cooked it but it needed de-boning. This was about 7:30pm. One of the black cats jumped up on the kitchen counter to help. I did not check which one but 99% of the time it is Georgie that helps. I gave him a few juicy shredded morsels on a plate so he would stop licking mine.
He just sniffed at what I selected for him then jumped off kitchen counter and went and did cat stuff. I put my chicken in the fridge.
About 8pm went into kitchen and there was a black cat in the middle, pretending to be asleep and in the fucking way as usual. Happens all the time here.
About 8:30pm went into kitchen for another beer and a black cat was in front of the fridge, cats are assholes, it grumbled when I opened the door but did not move.
Just after 9pm went into kitchen to find a cat laying in a pool of drool and with a moist rear end that smelled of cat shit, and howled when touched.
10pm cat went into massive seizures and by 10:30pm I now have a dead cat on the kitchen floor.
Still have four beers left. Will worry about what to do with a dead cat tomorrow.
@ Possum:
Oh, man.
Been there.
Done that.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
From a normal cat to dead in just over two hours was something I never experienced before.
Has not really hit yet. I wish I had bought as 12 pack.
Fuck knows how I am going to explain this to his twin brother Glenn.
Had them both since they were two days old.
yeah that sucks
merlin aka the panther passed away a couple of months ago, and that is how I found him dead on the kitchen floor
@ Possum:
I’m so sorry.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/07/02/dem-sen-butler-if-biden-needs-schedule-accommodations-like-naps-lets-find-those/
@ right_wing2:
Maybe we should send an official notice to Iran, China, Russia and North Korea informing them that the president will only deal with imminent threats during the hours of 10 AM to 4 PM, Monday thru Friday. Also he gets 10 days off after every overseas trip. Please schedule your attacks accordingly.
Oh my God. What a nightmare.
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/07/03/poll-shows-michelle-obama-defeating-trump-as-biden-alternative-n2176318
America wouldn’t survive.
@ right_wing2:
Of course, that was a nationwide poll, so it bears little relation to how the president is actually elected. Swing state polls would be more significant, but I don’t think they’ve had time for any of those since the debate.
@ Possum:
That’s horrid, I am so sorry!
I really don’t think they have any option besides Harris, for a couple of reasons. The obvious one is that passing her over risks alienating the minority vote, without which they’re screwed.
The other is money. All that money from Democrat donors went to the Biden-Harris campaign. If someone else becomes the nominee, they have to start from scratch. If it’s Harris, she gets that money.
This Tasmania. Apparently this is due to a lack of water
Graphic content ahead.
Ginger Tree Syndrome.
(Google it)
First noticed a rise in the amount of big Eucs bleeding heavily. I was aware of the syndrome but it wasn’t highly visible.
It was isolated too.
Not anymore.
E, globulus with
advanced bleeding
They’re dead now.
https://x.com/Seantooker2/status/1808272668648759646
@ lobo91:
Well, they stole it before, they probably think they can do it again
been telling people this
NBC noticed
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4248607/posts
the DNC’s 2022 document outlining procedures for the convention, there is a process for replacing Biden if he voluntarily chooses to step aside after the Aug. 22 conclusion of the convention.
Under the existing rule, Democratic National Committee Chair Jamie Harrison would name a new nominee, in consultation with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Democratic Governors Association Chair Tim Walz of Minnesota. Their choice would be presented to DNC members — a group of party leaders much smaller and more elite than the delegates to the convention — for ratification or rejection.
His nomination is expected to occur before that, in a virtual roll call of state delegations in late July or early August. A date for that is expected to be set by the convention’s rules committee at a July 19 meeting.
The Biden campaign wants everyone to think “chaos would reign” if the president stepped aside, said one person familiar with the DNC process. “Thats why they’re not admitting there’s a rule.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Money on the virtual table says
59.52% Trump
14.29% Harris
10.20% Biden
05.56% Newsom
03.45% Obama
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Gaviino got a bump after the *ahem* debate. He was below Michello.
Now Gav is promoting a podcast called “Politikin” where he discusses issues with two black guys, and probably does it in dialect.
Kamala’s been pulling the same pandering schtick, but so far nobody has surpassed Hillary’s “Ah ain’t no ways tard” speech.
The Sun Triggered Hurricane Beryl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbnXZE0Vdw&t=1s
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/gavin-newsom-marshawn-lynch-podcast-governor/01430634de88f0c1995f20aa
I guess this is important
SUPER CHARGED ⚡ ORNL researchers have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kilowatt wireless power transfer to a light-duty #EV. https://bit.ly/3RzMhR1
https://x.com/ORNL/status/1808585066592850027
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I see people talking a Hillary/Newsom ticket
@ eaglesoars:
Oh gawd…
eaglesoars wrote:
If there was ever a time for someone to send SEAL Team 6 after someone, that would be it.
Well, a burner on my gas stove popped a leak AGAIN and won’t get fixed until next week. The entire stove is disconnected so I have no idea how to boil potatoes for potato salad.
YAYYYY ME! I don’t have to cook!
@ eaglesoars:
I’d let you borrow my portable propane stove, but you’re about 2000 miles away
@ lobo91:
Thanks anyway!
@ eaglesoars:
Now if I could just get Cody off my lap
He’s terrified of fireworks, and some people in the neighborhood decided to start early
This is a really good interview, with some thoughtful questions. And, as a bonus, Ale actually speaks!
July 3 2020
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/03/biden-campaign-refuses-to-release-cognitive-test-results/
“Happy 4th of JULY”, y’all !! The Founders are rol … well, you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjUY3pjN8E
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The country wouldn’t survive.
Si I made scrambled eggs in the microwave and I love the texture, light,fluffy, much better than stovetop
4 eggs
1/4 c milk
salt
whisk really well in microwave safe bowl. Nuke at full power for 30 secs. Wisk again. Another 30 secs
Basically you nuke for 30 secs, whisk on repeat until you like the eggs
took 2 mins I think. My microwave is 1000w
Happy Independence day!
@ eaglesoars:
Other than a few hospital stays, I’ve eaten a Jimmy Dean biscuit, egg, bacon and cheese breakfast sandwich with a dollop of ketchup for the past …..
24 years. No lie.
With my coffee, of course.
@ 4_Sticks:
I make my own egg mcmuffin most days, using one of these:
DASH Mini Maker Electric Round Griddle
WalMart sells pre-cooked frozen sausage patties that are prettty good. One minute in the microwave
@ 4_Sticks:
I might try pasta. Tomorrow. For the rest of the day it’s just salads. It’s just too hot, even Mia, after an hour outside early this morning, wants no part of it
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
Well, I’m very happy to say how happy I am that neither of you said: “Are you NUTS ?”
I forgot to mention that I cut the bacon and cheese slice down to about 50% of the original size. Its my way of telling myself that “It can’t be all THAT bad, I mean, look at what I’m tossing out (to the backyard furries), right ?’
As to the sausage, up until maybe 5 years ago I did eat the ones with sausage but only because my local stores didn’t carry the bacon ones. I really burnt myself out on sausage. I wouldn’t call these’ bacon’ either, its paper thin but it does provide some flavor. Actually, over the years I’ve tried eliminating both, together and separately, but nope, its just not the same experience.
@ 4_Sticks:
I don’t really like that paper-thin bacon either
I’m very happy that I’m happy. Really Sticks ?
Well, I just had to acknowledge that I acknow … oh, damn.
I could really benefit, and spare y’all while I’m at it, if there were a way to edit your words here on WordPress, ya know ?
Oh, speakin’ of healthy eating and fine dining, I forgot to mention my newest dish! A small can of B&M baked beans over a plate of microwaved Stouffers mac and cheese, well stirred of course! For holidays and special occasions I allow myself the fancier ‘4 cheeses’ type, It juSt DELISH !
* I love FETTUCCINI ALFREDO but the Stauffers is just not thick/creamy enough, not compared to their mac and cheese at least.
I’m still trying to find Bush’s Baked Beans without all that maple sugary goop so I can do beans on toast like Houston barrio possums do.
@ 4_Sticks:
Well, I HATE mac n cheese, so that’s not happening
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Because I’m a yinzer I know this. That is an original Pittsburgh recipe Heinz is a Pittsburgh company and beans on toast MUST be made with Heinz beans. I prefer toasted sour dough bread, altho raisin bread is pretty good too.
From a Brit
https://www.christinascucina.com/beans-on-toast-the-proper-british-way-recipe-by-a-brit/
happy 4th y’all
@ rain of lead:
No.
huh
https://nypost.com/2024/07/04/us-news/biden-tells-dem-governors-he-needs-more-sleep-no-events-after-8-p-m-report/
wait wut?
During the same gathering, the outlet reported, Biden responded to a question from Hawaii Gov. Josh Green about his health by saying while his health was fine, the problem was “just my brain,” an apparent attempt at humor
Interesting historical fact to remember when celebrating the fourth July.
All the Founding Fathers were British, and so were the first four American Presidents.
I knows history…
I think somebody is sandbagging ol joey choo choo
this stuff is being exposed way too fast
@ Possum:
at some point didn’t they all also became convicted felons?
@ rain of lead:
I think so but they ran away and were hidden in a secret place by the French.
LOL in my alternate universe ya’ll would be speaking French. You ended up driving on the French side of the road anyway!
( Historical note, how did that happen? Watch the old cowboy movies and the driver with the reins sits on the right hand side. )
Possum wrote:
lol
I’ve pointed that out a few times to people who like to get pissed off. It works.
Possum wrote:
German would have been more likely, but English won out.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I worked in the food production industry in the mid west and was amazed by the number of places I visited where the main language was German or Dutch.
And the food at the gas stations was AWESOME!!!!!
I like diversity, but only integrated diversity if that makes sense.
@ Possum:
I’d guess over half my grade school classmates had German surnames, and some of them were first generation immigrants.
We had a lot of Greeks, too; they ran the chili parlors. Theodora Tsiomina had a faint mustache and a uni-brow.
Currently there is a General Election happening in the UK. A General Election is kind of like a Federal Election.
Voting for members of parliament equivalent to Senators and House Representatives. UK has no president, the majority party in parliament selects a prime minister.
That is how and why the prime minister can be changed without an election. A bit like your speaker of the house can be changed without a mass vote from the people.
Anyway my point is the polls just closed. Results are counted by hand and the counts for the whole of the UK should be in within the next four hours.
Why does it take the USA weeks?
Well one reason is on a USA ballot form there are tens if not hundreds of boxes to tick or cross. In a UK general election you make ONE choice. Who do you want as your member for parliament?
Simples…
Also you may say ” Well the UK can count votes faster as they are one sixth of the population of the USA.”
My answer, as always is ” In the USA there are six times the available people to count votes ”
Anyway in a few hours votes will be counted.
Currently there is a General Election happening in the UK. A General Election is kind of like a Federal Election.
Voting for members of parliament equivalent to Senators and House Representatives. UK has no president, the majority party in parliament selects a prime minister.
That is how and why the prime minister can be changed without an election. A bit like your speaker of the house can be changed without a mass vote from the people.
Anyway my point is the polls just closed. Results are counted by hand and the counts for the whole of the UK should be in within the next four hours.
Why does it take the USA weeks?
Well one reason is on a USA ballot form there are tens if not hundreds of boxes to tick or cross. In a UK general election you make ONE choice. Who do you want as your member for parliament?
Simples…
Also you may say ” Well the UK can count votes faster as they are one sixth of the population of the USA.”
My answer, as always is ” In the USA there are six times the available people to count votes ”
Anyway in a few hours votes will be counted.
@ eaglesoars:
Sounds like some childhood trauma ? Teasin’, just teasin’. But, speakin’ of ‘childhood’: When my Mom used to make Kraft Mac and cheese on the evenings my Dad had to work, I was the one who clamored to get the really thick stuff stuck to the wooden spoon after she stirred it up. Been a fan ever since (over 60 years).
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
When I get off this stupid diet then I am going to eat myself silly.
Only place around here that sold goat has closed down, also this local Walmart does not stock lamb.
There are some faux Greek restaurants that do take away but they are fake “Mediterranean Cuisine” places.
Biological note. Sheep and goats look the same. Some breeds of sheep look more like goats than goats do and some breeds of goat look very sheepish.
But they are distinct species. A goat has 60 chromosomes, 30 pairs and a sheep has 54 chromosomes 26 pairs.
But both goat and sheep are yummy!
@ 4_Sticks:
That is just gross
@ Possum:
exit polls show Labour in a landslide
https://x.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1808977460580544695
Starmer? The guy gives me the creeps
@ 4_Sticks:
This big bowl of pasta and any sauce is an American thing.
I personally do not like a big meal of the same stuff.
I lived in Italy for over a year, well technically not lived there, flew out Sunday night, flew back Friday night.
Anyway, an Italian meal is not a shit load of spaghetti and meatballs.
An Italian meal is a starter of something like prosciutto and olives or my favorite Insalata Pomodoro which is sliced tomatoes and real soggy mozzarella with a dressing.
Next comes a small bowl of pasta and sauce. Maybe a meatball or two. My favorite one was not pasta based but gnocchi in a cream sauce.
Then you get your main course which is a chunk of meat or fish. That is it. Just meat or fish.
Finally dessert!
Small portions of each but a complete meal.
As an aside, where I worked was not in a big city in Italy where there were tourists and all wait staff had to know basic English and the menu was in English.
I worked in the industrial South of Italy, restaurants there had no menus, you just asked the waitstaff to cook what you wanted.
Me not speaking Italian, wait staff not speaking English usual routine was for me to point to a table near me and nod.
Never had a bad meal or anything I did not like.
LOL that was beyond the average American comprehension. Commuting to another country just a two hour flight away! A different language, culture and more importantly a different cuisine.
A two hour flight here and you are still in the same state!
I exaggerate, but you know what I mean.
@ Possum:
I’m taking a 3 hour flight in October to go to a concert. Going to Seattle to see The Warning at their final US show of 2024.
LOL buggered if I know who I am voting for if I could be bothered but just looked at my pension fund for shits and giggles.
My monthly outgoings are $800 rent and just under $1000 per month food and phone and utilities and wine and beer.
This month spending on non rent items exploded to $1200 due to yearly, mandatory renter insurance of $232.
Anyway, as to pension fund, which I am not drawing down on yet, over the last two weeks it has increaced by about GPB2000 per day.
That is $2551 per DAY!!!!
What ever caused this please politicians do not fuck this up.
Hey CW, I think this is in your neck of the woods?
LOCAL NEWS
Former President Donald Trump coming to Butler County, will hold rally next weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/former-president-donald-trump-coming-to-butler-will-hold-rally-next-weekend/
@ lobo91:
So you know what I mean! When you get there all will look the same, except it will probably be cooler and raining.
Possum wrote:
Actually, Seattle pretty much looks like a different planet compared to the New Mexico high desert where I live.
But yes, I do know what you mean.
This time last year, I was in the middle of a 32 day RV excursion around the middle of the country. I drove 3500 miles on that trip and only visited 5 states
One year ago today, Cody and I were in Medora, North Dakota, which is a small town that mainly serves as the entry to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Big Independence Day celebration. Unfortunately, the firework launch site turned out to be about 150 yards from our campsite. Cody was terrified.
@ lobo91:
And that is why whenever an American that says to me “I would love to go to Europe” I answer back “”where have you been in the USA? ”
Usual reply is “I never left the state.”
The USA is a really big geographically ginormouse place.
I wish I had seen more of it.
I will correct what I said, all of the big cities in the USA look the same.
lobo91 wrote:
OK now go to the middle of England, fill up your gas tank and drive 300 miles in as straight of a line as the roads allow.
In about six hours you will have still got gas in your tank and you will have driven about 300 miles.
However, you will be either floating in the North Sea, The Irish Sea or the Atlantic.
Best to stop when you reach the coast is my advise.
The UK is tiny.
@ lobo91:
As to fireworks and 4th July. I would bet $100 there is no American citizen within a five mile radius of where I live.
But here they cannot resist drinking vast quantities of Modella and setting off fireworks and shooting guns for any occasion.
Except Cinco De Mayo, that is an American only thing.
@ Possum:
Of course, that works both ways. Europeans frequently look down on Americans when they hear that most don’t have a passport. And they don’t understand why we have so many cars, and put so many miles on them.
Those are people who have never been to the US or, if they have, only visited NY City.
@ Possum:
But most Americans would tell you that it’s Mexican Independence Day (which is actually September 16th).
@ lobo91:
Americans go nuts about St Patricks day. Why is that?
@ Possum:
Hell if I know
It is best that I log off now. I think it is an Iron fist rule.
Today so far Calories according to spreadsheet 1200 calories consisting of 1500ml red wine. ( that is two bottles in American ) and zero calories food
Yesterday 3/7/2024 was 1490 calories consisting of beer and wine and 0 calories food.
Day before when cat died 2/7/2024 608 calories of which 100 calories was food.
Am I drunk? Yes! Am I hungry? no…
Damn cat!
I remember talking to 2 German guys in a bar in DC. They were going to fly to Miami in the morning and pick up a rental car, then drive to San Fran in the next TWO DAYS. Everybody at the bar cracked up. We told them we’d meet them back at the bar in a month.
A month later 2 very shell shocked German guys…..So how was TEXAS??
@ eaglesoars:
What we’re about to witness, is the media elites and establishment powers in the bureaucracy and the Democrat party, subverting democratic process.
All 50 States had primary elections for the candidate….and they voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for President in 2024.
Now we’re seeing a major effort to prevent the certification of that result.
In other words….an insurrection.
Only Nevada and Wisconsin have State laws that mandate that this form of insurrection is illegal!
Makes one think again about what currently passes for reality is actually reflected in the real world.
Biden Campaign Unveils New Slogan
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a hotly anticipated announcement, the Biden 2024 Presidential Campaign has just unveiled its exciting new campaign slogan: “Only Senile Some Of The Time.”
Staffers say that the motto is meant to help redirect growing distrust of the president’s failing mental capacities by reminding Americans that Biden is only senile some of the time, rather than suffering from dementia all of the time.
“Joe’s been catching a bad rap lately, and we just think that people don’t realize that he’s actually fairly lucid for about three to four hours each day, depending on medications,” said Curt Kristoferson, a senior Biden campaign staffer and slogan designer. “He doesn’t really even start showing his age until about 4:00 in the afternoon — he’s sharp and energetic for a good couple of hours before that. We just want to remind voters that he’s not as far gone as he always looks in debates, press conferences, campaign speeches, global summits, and other public appearances.”
President Biden was available for comment, as it was only 3:30 when he was asked. “That’s right, Jack! No more of this dementia malarkey — just good old thrubmelisbtieusty…uh, campaigning! I’m not sen…senate…senectile! That’s a lie straight outta old Corn Pop! We’re gonna…guh…that’s right! Just you watch, Jack!”
At publishing time, staffers in an unmarked warehouse with a “Kamala 2024” sign carelessly propped against the door had been heard pitching the slogan “Only Gauge-Your-Eyes-Out Irritating Most Of The Time.”
AHHHH!
Gotta luv the Bee!
🙂
HEH
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I am not seeing that. I AM seeing attempts to get him to step aside. Hunter and Jill are blocking that.
The sun is barely below the horizon and the my world is rumbling with fireworks.
Possum wrote:
“Dove il gabinetto?” is an important Italian phrase to know.
lobo91 wrote:
Are you related to one of the band members, or are you just an obsessed stalker?
😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We had people with some serious artillery. Easily $1,000 on fireworks.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I wouldn’t have known that was satire if you hadn’t cited the source.
That’s how screwed up the world is now…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
They’re sisters, so it would be hard to be related to “one” of them.
Just a fan.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LOL the toilets are not hard to find.
I have not been in Europe for a quarter of a century but when I often visited for work and pleasure the toilets were often not segregated.
Especially in France. On entering there were usually washbasins etc on one side and the stand up male pissy things the other side. The sit down accommodations then were at the end of the room.
Most men went in the pissy things and the ladies walked to the sit down things. No fuss, we all got to go.
That was before transexual perverts were invented.
@ Possum:
Also one thing those non-binary toilets had in common was an old lady sitting at a desk with a large ceramic bowl next to her. You were supposed to toss in a few centimes or a franc or two as you did whatever you had to do and left.
Her job was to keep the place clean. They were spotless.
OK in Mexico land it seems fireworks get set off at Midnight.
Seems stupid, on the Fourth fireworks are set off at dusk.
Or if you want to know real history the “fireworks” were actually the first Royal Navy attack using rockets on Fort McHenry on September 13-14 1814.
And yet again Britain was the inspiration for not only fireworks but also the main theme for your song you sing at baseball games. “The Star Spangled Banner”
If we are going to be historically accurate instead of setting off fireworks on the fourth you all should be hiding under an asbestos blankie and hoping you don’t get hit by a rocket!
right_wing2 wrote:
There’s someone within a block that’s got a stash of heavy stuff that he shoots off year round, usually after 10pm, sometimes as late (early) as 3am. I’m tracking him…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:LOL I know who you mean.
100% here will not.
@ Possum:
i gots trained by a engineer and i cant help mysef
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It is an African American doing it.
A person that was born in Africa and became an American citizen.
Them African Americans are wild dudes…
CA Gov Gav signed a budget that includes $12 million for reparations to blacks who were never slaves in a state that didn’t have slavery.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4753045-california-budgets-12m-for-reparations-laws-what-to-know/
CA population = 331.4 M (2020 census)
12.4% black = 41.1M
Reparations of $12M / 41.1M = $0.29 per black person.
Vigano has been excommunicated
via Warroom
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/05/joe-biden-says-he-was-the-first-black-woman-to-serve-with-a-black-president/
I was born a poor black child
@ eaglesoars:
Pope “pepe” is an apostate. The jesuits need to be thrown out of the faith. Yet again.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
He’s a KGB infiltrator.
eaglesoars wrote:
No way that’s going to happen now. The Dems are going to have to prise his cold dead fingers from the ‘baubles of power’ when Old Joe finally kicks off his ‘clogs’. The words Too late and a pound short rings true for the Dems. Sure they will use ANY strategam to hold on to power and I do mean ANY!
70 years of tormenting electorial thieving doesn’t make getting a clean slate election any easier. Hell your CIA even jiggered an Australian Federal election when Whitlam was shown the door! Having the CIA ‘fixing’ an election is now the default operation these days. Expect it!
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
You’re both correct. It’s been common knowledge for years. 🙂
You put a former Marxist ‘bar bouncer’ into power and this shit always follows!
HEH
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
The Jesuits were thrown out back in the day, but some kind (naive) soul thought it may be a good idea to allow them back in 70 years later!
WRONG again!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ Buckeye Abroad:
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/7274-glaringly-obvious-signs-that-the-spirit-guiding-francis-s-synod-is-not-holy
That is what I was about to say out aloud, but this guy says it a lot more cognizantly
🙂
FWIW – several people citing 2nd hand reports that Biden is experiencing a medical emergency on Air Force One
First brisket at new house went on the smoker an hour ago.
19 lbs
Might be done tomorrow
@ coldwarrior:
yeah, can’t rush a brisket, bad things happen
huh
pre taped, edited all to hell and this was the best he could do
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/abc-news-pundits-react-horror-biden-interview-stephanopoulos/
I see Wisconsin is allowing drop boxes again.
@ eaglesoars:
Well, there goes Wisconsin.
Well,there goes Wisconsin. The cheat is in.
@ Calo:
It was always a given
May I present today’s winner of the innernut wisdom award
https://x.com/Judianna/status/1809667813977796771
eaglesoars wrote:
Laura Loomer was Xweeting that all over the place without evidence. Apparently she was the source as well.
@ Calo:
CALO!
Any Beryl action yet?
Some outer bands is all.
That means there’s some thunderstorms.@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Cannot speak for Calo but here we are having weird pop up out of nowhere really heavy thunderstorms that last 10 minutes.
Something to do with
So the weather here depends on the roads and where the Interstate is.
I think Calo will be OK. She lives 13 miles away and not near any Interstates.
Where I live is at the junction of two Interstates and it is pissing it down.
@ Possum:
Two cats under the kitchen sink kind of thunderstorms.
Is that a CAT 2 storm?
Boris is on the bed, he is a kind of don’t really give a shit CAT storm person
On a slightly related note…
The Texas Acting Governor Patrick issued a disaster declaration for 40 counties ahead of Hurricane Beryl’s landfall.
So, we are declaring a disaster 2 days before Ms Beryl is due to arrive.
Us Texans have turned into a bunch of pussies.
Axios (via Stelter):
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/06/biden-abc-interview-democrats-support
@ Possum:
Sounds like typical summer day in Houston – 3 downpours a day.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yep, then not a drop of rain for a month.
But this time it is an emergency!
Distraction from the Feds again
#BREAKING: A group called the Patriot Front are have been spotted marching down in downtown Nashville
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1809689235118502211
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m not her biggest fan but that’s about her personality, not her integrity.
I’ve not known her to be wrong in terms of her profession. She may have been misled but from what I’ve seen today, I wonder if she was an unwitting part of an op. Now it comes out that all sorts of med personnel have been visiting the WH for months (Parkinson’s specialists etc) and the press corp is pleading ignorance.
Nah. They covered for him
eaglesoars wrote:
Has “Patriot Front” done anything other than march around in khaki pants and cloth masks?
Sister’s still in a rehab facility for seniors (she’s the youngest one there) and she got a nightshift nurse arrested. Cool.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
oh do tell!
As far as the Patriot Front is concerned, I think they just cos play what they think are ‘ordinary’ Americans.
@ eaglesoars:
cough*fed*cough
@ eaglesoars:
Sis has been in the convalescent wing of a senior facility north of Cincinnati for over a month. The facility has a good reputation, in fact, it’s the same one that Sis had selected for our mom before our ailing Mom passed away some years ago.
Sis likes the place, has fun with staff, is finally getting the physical therapy she needs.
A week ago there was a late night argument going on outside her door, so she went out to the hall to ask them to keep it down. One of the nurses (a temp) was a tall black woman who took offense, walked up to my 5′-4″ sister and haranged her, threatened her in fact. Next day, Sis reported the incident, and that she’d heard the same woman harassing elderly Alzheimer’s patients.
Eventually the police showed up, interviewed my sister and others, then arrested the bitch and took her to jail.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
wow
I like this Beryl thingy!!!!!
Window open, it is a chilly 76F and for the first time in a couple of months I am not sitting in front of the computer wearing only socks.
Sweatpants and a T-Shirt tonight, it actually feels strange.
20 minutes until Midnight and I am excited!
Anyone that has taken any interest in my life knows Midnight is important. That is when the day total of calories, carbs and shit like that get saved and I start fresh.
Been a bit of a naughty day so far. There was still some wine left in the cheap 5L wine box that was delivered on 3rd July, plus today I took some excersise and walked to the store to get a six pack of Busch Light. The 16oz cans, not the girly 12oz cans.
Anyway, totals for 6th July are….
1842 calories, of which 1482 were beer and wine.
@ Possum:
The remaining calories were a small chunk of ham and the last two slices of Bologna in the fridge.
So in now 10 minutes Mr Spreadsheet re sets to zero and I can eat something!
Um, not really hungry. Chips and dip would be nice, or a huge chunk of pizza.
Neither are available. But I do have lettuce and a tomato.
Scientists stunned to discover oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years
“We knew they were old, but not that old,” one scientist said.
Some fossilized termite mounds have been discovered dating back millions of years. The oldest inhabited mounds before this study were found in Brazil and are around 4,000 years old. They are visible from space.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientists-stunned-discover-oldest-inhabited-termite-mounds-active-340-rcna160309
Visible. From. Space.
And we thought cockroaches would be the survivors
A thread on the excommunication of Vigano
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1809735320294027653
nite
Possum wrote:
If you hoard your food calories you can have more cheap beer.
eaglesoars wrote:
Don’t the space shuttle people have better things to do?
Amazing.
https://x.com/damintoell/status/1809644355428245744
eaglesoars wrote:
I remember some years ago when I made mention of the three century long global Masonic movement, and you expressed little knowledge of Masons’ authoritarian globalist power structures, especially in the US context.
Now that they have unmasked somewhat now I trust that you under stand my trepidation when speaking of the Masons.
Laura Loomer is vindicated
I have waited to say anything until I got three confirmations. I represent and have represented the health crews on AF1 as part of my role as GC.
Anyway, I have verified there was a medical emergency on AF1. Our president has Parkinson’s and he is hallucinating. He had an episode on the plane and they had to give him anti psychotics so when the plane landed he “looked fine.”
I have hesitated to release this information because of the controversy it may cause, but if this is what is going on, as a country we need to deal with it and not hide it. Anyone who has served our country deserves better treatment than this during his/her final illness. I may not agree with our politicians, but there is no question, this is not appropriate treatment of a Parkinson’s patient and that is why I am speaking out. And this issue may well come up with the Monarch, so this is not a political issue, it’s a health care issue and it’s about how we deal positively with aging and the shifts of life. GSK, GSP
https://x.com/barristerlawusa/status/1809931853870068170
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Oh yeah!
France has fallen
Paris — Chaotic scenes in the city center as masked leftist rioters and Antifa are running through the streets to celebrate the socialist and communist coalition electoral win. An explosive device goes off at the Place de la République.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1810037967182016735
uh huh
I’m calling on President Joe Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, to appear for a
@GOPoversight
transcribed interview regarding his medical assessments of Joe Biden & involvement in the Biden family’s business schemes.
Dr. O’Connor’s medical assessments have been potentially influenced by his business pursuits with the Biden family.
https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1810014905438708136
My poor Mia. She is HOWLING at me to let her out to get that squirrel on the patio
It’s 97F, she can’t go out. Hell, I can’t go out and I’m not wearing a fur coat.
Here’s what happened in France.
Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party won massively in the first round.
So Macron colluded with the far-left to block the right from winning by tactically withdrawing candidates for the second round.
Now the far-ledt Socialists/Communists have won
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1810034297341895054
some interesting comments
eaglesoars wrote:
Took her long enough. Her first attempt at backup was documentation from January 2020.
@ eaglesoars:
There goes France. Further down the crapper.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
HAR! I missed that!
right_wing2 wrote:
Now let’s see what happens to Germany/EU from the knock-on effects
I love it when the Left masturbates in public.
Check out the pic
https://x.com/newrepublic/status/1810009748697448541
We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews—being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement’s full face.
Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”
We unreservedly choose the latter course. And so we have assembled herein some of our leading intellectual historians of fascism; a member of the fourth estate who learned firsthand what the Trump lash feels like; a leading expert on civil-military relations; a great Guatemalan American novelist with a deep understanding of immigrants’ lives; one of our most incisive cultural critics; and a man with all-too-real experience in living under a notorious authoritarian regime. The scenarios they describe are certainly grim. We dare you to say, after reading these pieces, that they are impossible.
@ eaglesoars:
His daughter and son-in-law are Jewish, as are their 3 children.
London police station stormed by jihadists demanding they release some of their arrested “brothers”.
Of course you won’t see this on the “news” as the imaginary “far right” are the problem for opposing these 7th century IQ leveled plebs.
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1810020955135074535
video at the link
eaglesoars wrote:
…who don’t know what the hell fascism is.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I really have to stop drinking beer. I don’t drink enough fast enough to get drunk. 6 cans in a 14hr awake time.
Topping up my alcohol intake with a couple of coffee mugs ( 300ml ) cheap boxed Cabernet Sauvignon just makes me sleepy, not playful.
That is 1000 to 1300 calories I could be eating instead.
Today braved the hurricane and just got a six pack ( 762 calories ) and am craving sardines on toast, but I have no toast.
However on the bright side the ribs are cooked!
It is embarrassing to eat a plate of ribs by first weighing the ribs and plate then writing it down on the notepad on the top of the microwave. Eating the meat and spitting out the gristly bits and bones back onto the plate.
Then weighing plate and bones and subtracting the weight from the starting weight to calculate how much meat I ate.
Cooked pork 297 calories per 100g, 21g fat, 26g protein.
LOL
As we are having a deep and meaningful discussion about weighing a chunk of meat before eating it and weighing the residue after one thing surprised me.
I got a 10lb bag of chicken hind quarters for $5.57 the ones that have huge chunks of chicken leg, spine, lungs and ass attached.
Air fryer baked one, sat and picked it apart just eating the nice meat, discarding the skin and was very surprised to learn that I only ate one quarter of the weight of the thing.
So, even though chicken legs and skin tastes different to plain old boneless/skinless chicken breasts the price per pound of edible meat is the same!!!!!
@ Possum:
When I was little grampa told me to always check the bucket of chicken or else all you’ll get are feet and backs.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
He must have been related to my grampa.
Hotdogs are made from lips and arseholes.
The French Antifa leader Raphaël Arnault, classified as S (a threat to the French state by the security services) has been elected Member of Parliament.
He defeated the National Rally candidate 55%-45% in the second round.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1810091199656612036
Look at this genius. He’s growing a hedge on his head. He’s 22
NEW: Sam Carling, who just became the youngest politician in the House of Commons, brags about all his life experiences at 22 years of age.
Carling was just elected as a Labour (left-wing) MP for North West Cambridgeshire.
The ‘brainiac’ got stumped after being asked about all his life “experiences” that made him qualified for the job.
Carling: Why does being older make you better for the job?
Host: Because you’ve got more experience.
Carling: But what kind of experience?
Host: By definition, over the years you gain more experiences.
Carling: But what kind of experience, right?
Host: Life experience.
Carling: Well, we are going around in circles.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1810033316411949382
eaglesoars wrote:
Thank God for that Eagles. If what I said to you all those years ago, causes the scales to fall from just one other person’s eyes, then we are heading in the right direction. Now it’s your turn to do likewise to just at least one other and allow geometric expression do its thing!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
To see why he was elected you need to know who he was running against and the election result.
https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001401
eaglesoars wrote:
Obviously Carling didn’t understand the question. Ideology got in the way and he willingly blinded himself.
Terminal stupidity, and especially among so called ‘brainiacs’ like Carling is terminal to rationality.
Poor ‘man-child’!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Reminds me of the time Obama was asked about what kind of experience he had in leadership or management during the 23008 campaign (which, as anyone who knows anything about him knows, was zero).
He cited his presidential campaign.
Possum wrote:
Sure Reform split the rightwing vote, but a heady mix of conservative hubris (AKA the attitude of ‘to the Manor Born’ plus two decades of incremental, covert, leftist march through the Conservatives of old) could have saved this Conservative seat if Reform has stayed away. But all that would have happened was a postpone the evil day when the seat is lost perhaps forever. Reform bit the bullet and got it over fast.
Now perhaps the days of the identity politics of the Shailesh Varas of this world will pass, inside the Conservative Party of the UK may even reach 327+ MPs at the next election. If there is a recognisable UK left! the bag of stinking hubris that is the current Conservative Party, needs this time in the wilderness to find it’s true self again!
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
And to make this historical hubris even more on point, was that Obama 1.0 probably actually believed this nonsense!
Or perhaps Obama was just truly evil and knew exactly what he was doing.!
Giving his things turned out I’m going with option #2!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
You got it.
Last General Election the Reform Party stood down. They sent a warning to the Conservative Party to change.
The warning was not heeded so this time they made sure the Conservatives suffered a humiliating defeat. Change or die!
As to Sam Carling winning the seat, if it had been a “normal” election he would have stood a snowflake in hell chance of winning but the Labour party just needed a name on the ballot.
They named him. LOL they going to regret that choice!
A bit like VP Kamala seemed a good choice at the time…
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
… and some folks make it their life’s task to make short soup. I once lived in a flat full of Chinese students. The first time they made ‘short soup’ I dug deep into the broth and pulled up the clawed feet of several chickens. I moved out shortly thereafter!
🙂
Possum wrote:
Alas the hubris was still too strong amongst ‘to the Manor Born’ crew who populated the Conservative Party. Now the suffering will prevail for a time and perhaps next time Reform may many former Conservative seats.
First Past the Post has serious flaws within what nominally sounds like a good idea.
Many bitch about various brands of proportional representation. It’s a real bitch but it’s a bitch that stops two Party States and guards against incremental, covert, ‘leftist march through the conservative party’ and identity politics, leftish capture.
Better sometimes to bite on your belt and suffer the cauterising of a political wound. Get it over fast, endure the pain and move on.
The trick is to have anything left of the polity after the suffering has been accomplished.
🙂
@ Possum:
Just for you mate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2iLA3h_u60
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
There’s a large Vietnamese population around here and the word is that if you go to a VN restaurant to bring a VN friend with you.
Well past the 300 mark, so it’s new thread time.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2024/07/08/friends/
Possum wrote:
The red wall to the North switched back to Labour after all of the nonsense that those ‘bergers’ stood for with so called conservatives, after the ‘Red Wall fell all those years ago. The conservative core remained but all of those former Labour voters couldn’t bear the rubbish faux- conservatives a moment longer so they stated away in droves and the socialists of Labour took full advantage and roared back. Actually that is wrong. The voters were screwed by faux-conservatives who were actually socialists and the voters stayed away in droves and gave the faux conservatives a good walking by staying away from the polls in droves. Frankly I don’t blame the poor ‘done unto’ buggers!
🙂
walking = wacking
Bloody predictive strikes again!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I knew his back ground and who sponsors that degenerate POS.
One of my old army acquaintances, who passed at age 44, became a priest and said straight up he wanted nothing to do with the jesuit order because they are straight up commmunists.
I do acknowledge they make great teachers, but they are pushing poison. Met quite a few of their acolytes in Dublin and I noticed they share same peculiar traits. And they do NOT like being called out on their duplicity and unethical approach to their “way of thinking.”