The Sheriff is the top authority within a county, and apparently does have the right to arrest federal workers if necessary. (Smiles, followed by evil grin.)
Not the right, the authority. People do not gain any rights as a result of being in the government; they are granted limited authority to carry out the government’s work.
This is what the various flavors of Leftroids, collectivists and Eurotrash fail to understand about our Constitution. The government has no rights. The People have rights. The government has limited authority delegated to it by The People, which we have the right to rescind if it is abused. However difficult that might be in practice.
Almost everything the government is doing these days is abuse of its authority.
Quoting Monty Python: “It’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame.” I’m hoping that a bunch of sheriff’s use that authority to keep FEMA slugs out of the way.
Sadly, they’ll get the Lon Horiuchi treatment: The FYTW clause of the Constitution makes Federal workers who claim to be engaged in “official activities” exempt from all those petty, silly State and local laws. (“No ‘Patents of Nobility’? We s[h,p]it on that clause prohibiting patents of nobility!”
Hey, if the Feds can loose track of hundres of thousands of illegal immigrant children, no reason the locals can’t loose track of some Feds from a while.
He’s new. Transplant from Commiefornia. Moved here so his kids wouldn’t get transgenderized. If you look close you can see the little sprog’s blond hair sticking out behind his left elbow.
LT. Paris’ comment might have a 21st century application. The investigation of the Navy collision near Singapore a few years ago mentioned confusing user interface as a possible problem. (It might have been the McCain.)
A friend of mine (pilot and software engineer) was excited about a job offer working on avionics — until he found out that the software was built on top of Windows. He instantly said “never mind” and looked elsewhere.
The first one, though… When my grandmother’s mind began to go, I learned more about life growing up around the turn of the (last) century than I ever had before or since.
Not to discount her teaching me to read and basic arithmetic when she was still sharp as a tack. But about teaching in the one room schoolhouse – that I wasn’t going to easily get elsewhere.
As a heads up, it’s around a couple hours before the largest of the three CMEs predicted impact with the Earth’s shields, predicted at 05OCT 2000UTC-ish , so if you see extra weirdnesses in personal electronics and the intertubes, it’s likely from the Earth’s shields getting rung like a bell hit with a shotgun slug.
WP(DE) put my 1627 reply elsewhere. Still seeing locals (400 miles) on 40 meters, and one at 2000 miles. Fairly good for that frequency. Time 1928 GMT/UTC/BBQ
WNC locals are fed up with FEMA. Doubt this individual has the authority to arrest FEMA personnel getting in the way. But could keep equipment from being confiscated.
The thing is, loss of comms works both ways, so arresting and throwing in the cooler over officious FEMA types on suspicion of impersonating a federal busybody, with a plan to eventually “oops! Oopsie!! We didn’t have comms to check your story and you were being such an ass that it was unbelievable you were really a Fed! Sorry, you are free to go.” would probably ensure that sheriff gets reelected.
Not Just WNC. I’m morally certain there are ways of getting around cock blocking understaffed feddiebois, but am officially ignorant of what those ways might be. Like, you know, directly giving, church giving, sharing while cleaning up, unofficial swap meets, hosting, dead drops…
We uns is jest po’ hillbilly folkses. We’d not know nuthin’ bout that ay-tall!
There are…. as long as you treat delivering relief supplies as a combat mission.
PS: Don’t expect a lot of names; most people are understandably reluctant to get J6’d into the gulag. Stasi Catch-22: “We demand you plead guilty to felonies in advance, or it’s “rumors and disinformation”, citizen.”
No. Baked goods are the one place I stick closely with the recipe. I don’t like fried cookies. (Now, there’s no such thing as too many chocolate chips, that I completely agree with.)
$SPOUSE does an oatmeal raisin recipe. When real vanilla went sky-high, we tried almond extract. It’s quite good. (OTOH, the current bottle predates the full “benefit” of Kameconomics.”
Adjusting for altitude is interesting, and when the recipe is for anything gluten-free, it’s very, very interesting. The ingredients are odd to begin with, and don’t play by wheat rules. ($SPOUSE figures it out. If necessary, I’ll transcribe the recipe-that-works for her notebook.)
That first one was thought provoking and feels exactly right. I wish I had thought of it when my father was dealing with dementia.
The one about “hill to die on” reminds me of this quote, seen on Joe Huffman’s blog: “You can have my gun when you can take it with your cold dead hands” — Akatsukami
The one about Western Turkey reminds me of the crazy hullabaloo a decade or two ago, when Greece objected to — and actually was permitted to prevent — the nation of Macedonia calling itself that. The pretext was that Macedonia refers to some place in Greece — comical of course given that Macedonia was the neighboring country that conquered Greece, back around 330 BC. And why would country A have any right to interfere with country B’s choice of names? Civilized people don’t do that — consider Belgium, which doesn’t have any problem with the country of Luxembourg even though they have a province of the same name.
On valuing your dog: today’s Wall St. Journal has a nice essay pointing out that “I have no choice” is almost always inaccurate. Instead, all choices necessarily come with consequences, and your decision is all about weighing the pros and cons of each choice and the consequences that go with it.
Exactly! Everything you do is a choice. Everything you don’t do is a choice. Your choices might be restricted by external forces and conditions, but they are still yours, as is responsibility for the consequences.
Used to work at a small college; one of the professors told me about a student office visit. Don’t recall the topic, but said student reacted to advice with “But that’s a value judgement!”
One thing I learned reading the works of Ludwig von Mises is that economics is a branch of psychology, and money is a psychological object. For example, a sale involves two people, each of whom gives something he values less for something he values more. It follows that the notion of “objective value” must be bunk.
And money, or more precisely the fact that some objects are considered to have value, is a psychological statement. Or perhaps a religious one. This is very obvious for fiat money, but it applies even to “real money” such as gold, at least to some extent.
As one of my characters puts it: “What’s the use of a fifty-pound diamond? What could you do with it? All I can think of is, lock it in a vault and spend a fortune guarding it. No, big diamonds are nothing but a money sink. They immobilize capital by tying it up in something that’s flashy, but useless.”
Currency, gold, silver and jewels are symbols of value. They’re useless if you can’t exchange them for useful items. Like the 16th century Spanish. They hauled in so much gold and silver from South America that everybody was rich. They all stopped working to enjoy their immense wealth. Fields weren’t planted, livestock not looked after, their fancy palaces were allowed to deteriorate from lack of maintenance. Before long, there was nothing for all that gold and silver to buy.
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Governments can only print money; they can’t make it worth anything. They can make it worth nothing.
It only takes a 9-pound hammer to make a 50-pound diamond valuable.
But, yeah. It seems so obvious: if there’s more money, it’s gonna cause the same old problem if there ain’t more goods for it to chase. No way is Kamala (et al) too dim to understand that.
Never mistake for incompetence what can only be explained by malice.
A few years back, I saw ads for “invest in gold” where people could “own” gold in vaults miles away from where they lived.
Besides the problem of “did you really purchase that gold” or “was somebody fooling you”, there was the problem of “when you need that gold now, how are you going to get it”?
Oh, I suspect that this fraud game is still happening.
I liked the “buy a gold certificate. We’ll store the gold for you so you won’t have to worry about thieves, and you can redeem it at any time.” Suuuuuure. Riiiiiight.
No, you chose not to take the time to check your draft. You had other priorities. And now you have to deal with the consequences. Just like adults who chose not to do preventative maintenance on their cars before a long trip.
“Americans don’t like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?
“The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That’s right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
“There’s another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
”Niu-York is a rural settlement in Toretsk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located on the left-bank of the Kryvyi Torets River…”
Of course that New York being someplace Ghengis Khan’s sons or grandsons might have ridden through makes it a bit more unique than the one the Dutch didn’t keep.
Re dealing with dementia, with all that’s been going on I have been around assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing quite a bit over the past several years, and the thing that struck me is how many families are willing to have what could be their last interactions with their relatives in effect be arguments. “No, mom, it’s 2024, so Jimmy graduated from college last year”, “No, dad, remember, you sold that house…” , “No, Aunt Rose, your brother passed away in 2013” and so on.
Or alternately, they hammer them with endless questions, trying to “help” them “remember”, like some verbal board exam.
They are really just desperately trying to somehow say just the right thing to convince those they love to just be well again, but that never works. Some days are better than others, but not thanks to the perfect set of “reminder” questions, and the disease trajectory continues.
At some point you will lose the ability to have a two-way conversation completely, either through disease progression or finally as they pass away, so take advantage of being there with them now. Talk with them to generate your happy memories of visiting with them, through reminiscing, not a quiz show, because you won’t be able to make those memories later.
Cinnamon spiced fish, like cinnamon meat and cinnamon spaghetti, is A Thing in certain circles. And if you already have ginger along with your cinnamon and salmon, you might as well invite nutmeg to the party.
Apparently gefilte fish is ground-up fish, with eggs and breadcrumbs/matzo crumbs for filler, turned into cakes. (Yes, I’ve never had it. Sorry. I have not experienced the full breadth of Jewish cuisine.)
So basically, it’s a crab cake without crab, and that means you can put chile pepper, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, etc. into the gefilte fish, assuming that’s okay with dietary regulations.
I have no idea how this fits with gefilte fish that come in jars.
OK, I looked up some articles, and it’s poached fish turned into fishcakes, and then served cold (to get around the cooking/fire thing, I guess).
Well, obviously a lot of people eat smoked salmon with flavorings on it, so I guess there’s no absolute problem with serving chilled fishcakes with flavorings in them or on top of them. You’d want to experiment a lot, and it would be time-consuming. But it could be done.
Serving horseradish on the side, which is apparently traditional, might not be a workable thing, though.
OTOH, the kind of salmon that looks orangey would be great for a pumpkin spice appearance.
Big thumbs up to Israeli exports of “finding out.” Love those secondary explosions, guys.
Locally the Toronto cops are rather ostentatiously setting up some “find out” for October 7th.
It seems some ‘youths’ around here have planned some ‘demonstrations’ to celebrate Gaza’s ‘great victory’ last year. (Not kidding, that’s what it says.)
Planning on staying home Monday with a big bag of popcorn. >:D
I have an incentive to be in Flyover Falls on Tuesday, not Monday. Not sure if there are many resident or visiting Hamassholes, but if they try FA, the FO is likely to be impressive. The preemptive actions by the “I’m armed and so are these 10 of my buddies” crowd made the June 2020 St. George of Fentanyl parade very peaceful. Whether the current slimebags know/remember this will be instructive to somebody…
When Three-letter-group paraded here in 2020, the police were mildly irked by the lack of advanced notice so that they could divert traffic. Locals lined the street, armed and polite, while other locals sat on the roofs of businesses, armed and polite. The three-letter-group said they were “raising awareness of [whatever].” The local civil rights groups had not been notified either, and were steamed.
Three-letter-group never came back that I heard or saw of.
The three-letter group stayed away after that, but the three-syllable group is widely suspected of setting fires, including one largeish one that rather ticked off the tribes. Somebody tried a fire that would have afflicted $TINY_TOWN; it was caught right away. FWIW, the majority of the town residents belong to the Klamath tribes. To borrow Anna Russell’s quote about Alberich in Der Ring, they were frightfully annoyed.
No further incidents occurred locally. I’m happy to say I have no knowledge as to why.
The Pope called for a day of fasting and prayer for the Oct. 7 victims, dead and alive. Since I’m off tomorrow, I might actually be able to do fasting.
(I can do intermittent fasting up to a point, at which point I get very very unwell. Canon law/moral theology says I don’t have to do any obligatory fasts, therefore. I love canon law.)
The Musk speech was quite good, especially given his often disjointed “Oh, what I just said made me just think of something to improve on my rockets” speaking style.
Not to mention that the old “Gorilla Arm Syndrome” of the 1960s is making a comeback.
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“If violence is the answer, then it must have been a really stupid question.”
Unfortunately, there are far too many people out there asking those sorts of really stupid questions. (The classic one being “Your money or your life?”)
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If a weapon is legit for the Secret Service to use to protect the White House and the First Family, then it’s legit for me to use to protect my house and family.
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I’m sure a mischievous soul could devise a list of books and other reading materials that the Usual Suspects would totally totally agree should be banned from school libraries & classrooms. Some would be awfully rank, while others would merely blaspheme against the Sacred Narrative.
Suggest that a high school library carry “Guns & Ammo” magazine, or The Failure of Feminism, or More Guns, Less Crime, or the GOR novels, or Unintended Consequences, or The Turner Diaries, on the grounds that banning any books from high school libraries is Evil Book-Banning Censorship of McEvil. And watch the heads explode.
Our son is now looking in horrified disbelief at a “producer,” named Scott Shaw who has produced, among other epics, “Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell.” and, “Quest of the Invisible Ninja.”
I mention this because we could all use a laugh. Or something.
I did play with Alex Yeager, back when he joke-developed Kung Fu CB Mamas on Wheels vs. the Aztec Motorcycle Wrestling Nuns from a parody character sheet that somebody else did as art. The University of Toledo’s gaming club, UT-BASH, was very active back in the day, and also ran BASHCon. (Which is still running. They had BASHCon 38 in March of this year.)
Alex runs AMIGO Games these days. He was always a go-getter (in a good way), so this doesn’t surprise me.
It does make me happy to see that things have been going well, for various people and organizations, when I haven’t been paying attention.
Your dog is your ally, household member, and maybe even your battle buddy. If it’s a criminally dangerous human vs. your dog, obviously the dog is the one that requires support.
I mean, sure, pray for the soul of the bad human you had to shoot, but your dog is the one who’s helping you.
According To Hoyt 
“We’re from the government and we can’t help.”
“Then get out of the way and we’ll do it ourselves.”
“You can’t do that!”
Sounds like the same way they’re handling everything else at the moment.
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Sundance at CTH linked this tweet. https://x.com/BroSpencer/status/1842215667065303142
The Sheriff is the top authority within a county, and apparently does have the right to arrest federal workers if necessary. (Smiles, followed by evil grin.)
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Joining the evil grin.
Hope it happens. Put them into general population, with labels. Can’t put them to work, they’ll just get in the way, again.
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Not the right, the authority. People do not gain any rights as a result of being in the government; they are granted limited authority to carry out the government’s work.
This is what the various flavors of Leftroids, collectivists and Eurotrash fail to understand about our Constitution. The government has no rights. The People have rights. The government has limited authority delegated to it by The People, which we have the right to rescind if it is abused. However difficult that might be in practice.
Almost everything the government is doing these days is abuse of its authority.
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Quoting Monty Python: “It’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame.” I’m hoping that a bunch of sheriff’s use that authority to keep FEMA slugs out of the way.
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Oops, Grocer’s plural! My bad. (WordPress, can we get an edit button?)
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So far, so good at 1627 GMT. I’m on 40 meters via JS8Call.
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Sadly, they’ll get the Lon Horiuchi treatment: The FYTW clause of the Constitution makes Federal workers who claim to be engaged in “official activities” exempt from all those petty, silly State and local laws. (“No ‘Patents of Nobility’? We s[h,p]it on that clause prohibiting patents of nobility!”
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Remember, the 10th Amendment was buried at Appomattox.
The Sheriffs do anything, and that Insurrection Act comes out. All roads lead to boog.
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Hey, if the Feds can loose track of hundres of thousands of illegal immigrant children, no reason the locals can’t loose track of some Feds from a while.
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His family wheeled Jimmy out for his birthday. He looks absolutely awful. In all seriousness, send up a prayer.
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If Hollywood made an actor up to look like he’d spent a century begging for death that would not come… The guy does not look like he’s doing well.
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For a man in Hospice care, he is remarkably durable. Kudos, Mister Carter.
Never Quit.
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Also, for all those Habitat for Humanity homes, bless you sir.
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Yes. Carter’s best work came after his presidency.
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For many decades, I have been calling him one of our best ex-presidents. (grin)
When Hurricane Andrew smashed most of south Florida down to the slabs, in some neighborhoods the only homes left standing were Habitat homes.
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I love the, “I could adjust my attitude, but my insurance doesn’t cover those meds,” meme.
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That guy in square A3 needs to go back to Appalachian Guerrilla School.
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He’s new. Transplant from Commiefornia. Moved here so his kids wouldn’t get transgenderized. If you look close you can see the little sprog’s blond hair sticking out behind his left elbow.
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Hunting over bait.
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I thought “Thunderbirds” was fiction:
“International Rescue Teams Arrive in Bosnia after Devastating Floods and Landslides”
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/bosnia-floods-eu-help-missing/2024/10/06/id/1183035/
F A B! (grin)
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LT. Paris’ comment might have a 21st century application. The investigation of the Navy collision near Singapore a few years ago mentioned confusing user interface as a possible problem. (It might have been the McCain.)
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Let me guess — the ship’s control systems were contracted to MicroShaft. :-o
(I laughed at the Seattle software company with daemon issues in Monster Hunter Grunge, which was Totally Not MicroShaft.)
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I,particularly liked the blue screen of death.
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A friend of mine (pilot and software engineer) was excited about a job offer working on avionics — until he found out that the software was built on top of Windows. He instantly said “never mind” and looked elsewhere.
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At this point, Jimmy Carter is no more than 4th or 5th worst. If Kackling Kamela gets installed next January, he’ll drop another place.
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Looks like a good cure for lonliness to me!
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The Citation one might be the best one.
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With my luck? Chevy Citation….
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It’s the first
Chevy of the Eighties!
This might be the car
you have in mind!
Chevy Cit-TAAAAAAA-tion.
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“Citation”, because “No Va” was already in use.
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c4c
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Every one is good today!
The first one, though… When my grandmother’s mind began to go, I learned more about life growing up around the turn of the (last) century than I ever had before or since.
Not to discount her teaching me to read and basic arithmetic when she was still sharp as a tack. But about teaching in the one room schoolhouse – that I wasn’t going to easily get elsewhere.
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As a heads up, it’s around a couple hours before the largest of the three CMEs predicted impact with the Earth’s shields, predicted at 05OCT 2000UTC-ish , so if you see extra weirdnesses in personal electronics and the intertubes, it’s likely from the Earth’s shields getting rung like a bell hit with a shotgun slug.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov
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WP(DE) put my 1627 reply elsewhere. Still seeing locals (400 miles) on 40 meters, and one at 2000 miles. Fairly good for that frequency. Time 1928 GMT/UTC/BBQ
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Yeah nothing showing up on the realtime monitors yet. Right now from the graphical forecast it looks like the larger whack is forecast ~2300UTC.
The space wx radio dashboard page is pretty interesting:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/radio-communications
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Ooh! That looks like a handy page. Just added to the weather bookmarks.
Thanks!
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The fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re smarter than everybody else, either.
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Your quip is even funnier coming right after the above spaceweather geekout thread.
Why yes, I Ride Thread. (grin)
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More stories:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/892540052794572
WNC locals are fed up with FEMA. Doubt this individual has the authority to arrest FEMA personnel getting in the way. But could keep equipment from being confiscated.
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The thing is, loss of comms works both ways, so arresting and throwing in the cooler over officious FEMA types on suspicion of impersonating a federal busybody, with a plan to eventually “oops! Oopsie!! We didn’t have comms to check your story and you were being such an ass that it was unbelievable you were really a Fed! Sorry, you are free to go.” would probably ensure that sheriff gets reelected.
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Not Just WNC. I’m morally certain there are ways of getting around cock blocking understaffed feddiebois, but am officially ignorant of what those ways might be. Like, you know, directly giving, church giving, sharing while cleaning up, unofficial swap meets, hosting, dead drops…
We uns is jest po’ hillbilly folkses. We’d not know nuthin’ bout that ay-tall!
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Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse is local to West NC. I just threw some extra TetraDrachma in their bin.
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They also adhere strictly to the accounting guidelines his late father set up for the Graham ministry in the 1950s.
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There are…. as long as you treat delivering relief supplies as a combat mission.
PS: Don’t expect a lot of names; most people are understandably reluctant to get J6’d into the gulag. Stasi Catch-22: “We demand you plead guilty to felonies in advance, or it’s “rumors and disinformation”, citizen.”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/06/mike-vansteuben-thread-fema-n2401831
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Correction … that is the exact perfect amount of butter.
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No. Baked goods are the one place I stick closely with the recipe. I don’t like fried cookies. (Now, there’s no such thing as too many chocolate chips, that I completely agree with.)
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Maybe the recipe calls for more butter. My favorite chocolate chip recipe looks just like that.
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Try the Tollhouse recipie, but with these mods:
Whole wheat flour.
real butter
real vanilla
double chips
a hint of nutmeg
option 1: add 1/2 the chip volume of either walnuts or butterscotch chips
option 2: bake as cookie bars.
..
The above were my “11B’s bakesale bombs”.
No one ever mocked me twice. (Grin)
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I have an oatmeal chocolate chip recipe that friends describe as my “evil cookies – but in a good way.”
Real butter – check
Real vanilla – check
Hint of nutmeg – nope, no spices need apply
Whole wheat flour – something I use all the time in savory baked goods, but haven’t yet dared to try in the sweet ones.
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$SPOUSE does an oatmeal raisin recipe. When real vanilla went sky-high, we tried almond extract. It’s quite good. (OTOH, the current bottle predates the full “benefit” of Kameconomics.”
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Might be worth it to make your own vanilla.
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Adjusting for altitude is interesting, and when the recipe is for anything gluten-free, it’s very, very interesting. The ingredients are odd to begin with, and don’t play by wheat rules. ($SPOUSE figures it out. If necessary, I’ll transcribe the recipe-that-works for her notebook.)
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I always melt the butter and add half a teaspoon of water (which used to be in the recipe). We like crispy cookies.
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This works. Tasty crispy goodness.
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That first one was thought provoking and feels exactly right. I wish I had thought of it when my father was dealing with dementia.
The one about “hill to die on” reminds me of this quote, seen on Joe Huffman’s blog: “You can have my gun when you can take it with your cold dead hands” — Akatsukami
The one about Western Turkey reminds me of the crazy hullabaloo a decade or two ago, when Greece objected to — and actually was permitted to prevent — the nation of Macedonia calling itself that. The pretext was that Macedonia refers to some place in Greece — comical of course given that Macedonia was the neighboring country that conquered Greece, back around 330 BC. And why would country A have any right to interfere with country B’s choice of names? Civilized people don’t do that — consider Belgium, which doesn’t have any problem with the country of Luxembourg even though they have a province of the same name.
On valuing your dog: today’s Wall St. Journal has a nice essay pointing out that “I have no choice” is almost always inaccurate. Instead, all choices necessarily come with consequences, and your decision is all about weighing the pros and cons of each choice and the consequences that go with it.
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Exactly! Everything you do is a choice. Everything you don’t do is a choice. Your choices might be restricted by external forces and conditions, but they are still yours, as is responsibility for the consequences.
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Used to work at a small college; one of the professors told me about a student office visit. Don’t recall the topic, but said student reacted to advice with “But that’s a value judgement!”
Yes, indeed. That’s what adults do.
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One thing I learned reading the works of Ludwig von Mises is that economics is a branch of psychology, and money is a psychological object. For example, a sale involves two people, each of whom gives something he values less for something he values more. It follows that the notion of “objective value” must be bunk.
And money, or more precisely the fact that some objects are considered to have value, is a psychological statement. Or perhaps a religious one. This is very obvious for fiat money, but it applies even to “real money” such as gold, at least to some extent.
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As one of my characters puts it: “What’s the use of a fifty-pound diamond? What could you do with it? All I can think of is, lock it in a vault and spend a fortune guarding it. No, big diamonds are nothing but a money sink. They immobilize capital by tying it up in something that’s flashy, but useless.”
Currency, gold, silver and jewels are symbols of value. They’re useless if you can’t exchange them for useful items. Like the 16th century Spanish. They hauled in so much gold and silver from South America that everybody was rich. They all stopped working to enjoy their immense wealth. Fields weren’t planted, livestock not looked after, their fancy palaces were allowed to deteriorate from lack of maintenance. Before long, there was nothing for all that gold and silver to buy.
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Governments can only print money; they can’t make it worth anything. They can make it worth nothing.
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It only takes a 9-pound hammer to make a 50-pound diamond valuable.
But, yeah. It seems so obvious: if there’s more money, it’s gonna cause the same old problem if there ain’t more goods for it to chase. No way is Kamala (et al) too dim to understand that.
Never mistake for incompetence what can only be explained by malice.
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A few years back, I saw ads for “invest in gold” where people could “own” gold in vaults miles away from where they lived.
Besides the problem of “did you really purchase that gold” or “was somebody fooling you”, there was the problem of “when you need that gold now, how are you going to get it”?
Oh, I suspect that this fraud game is still happening.
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I liked the “buy a gold certificate. We’ll store the gold for you so you won’t have to worry about thieves, and you can redeem it at any time.” Suuuuuure. Riiiiiight.
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“Invest in gold!”
“Naw, I’ll invest in steel, brass and lead. If the time comes when you really need that gold, you’ll be begging to exchange it for my metals.”
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Gold doesn’t always find good Soldiers.
Good Soldiers can always find Gold.
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“But I didn’t have time to check my draft!”
No, you chose not to take the time to check your draft. You had other priorities. And now you have to deal with the consequences. Just like adults who chose not to do preventative maintenance on their cars before a long trip.
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Possibly, you choose to squander your time in such a manner that you did not, in fact, have time to check.
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“Americans don’t like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?
“The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That’s right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
“There’s another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
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”Niu-York is a rural settlement in Toretsk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located on the left-bank of the Kryvyi Torets River…”
So, pot, kettle.
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Of course that New York being someplace Ghengis Khan’s sons or grandsons might have ridden through makes it a bit more unique than the one the Dutch didn’t keep.
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Re dealing with dementia, with all that’s been going on I have been around assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing quite a bit over the past several years, and the thing that struck me is how many families are willing to have what could be their last interactions with their relatives in effect be arguments. “No, mom, it’s 2024, so Jimmy graduated from college last year”, “No, dad, remember, you sold that house…” , “No, Aunt Rose, your brother passed away in 2013” and so on.
Or alternately, they hammer them with endless questions, trying to “help” them “remember”, like some verbal board exam.
They are really just desperately trying to somehow say just the right thing to convince those they love to just be well again, but that never works. Some days are better than others, but not thanks to the perfect set of “reminder” questions, and the disease trajectory continues.
At some point you will lose the ability to have a two-way conversation completely, either through disease progression or finally as they pass away, so take advantage of being there with them now. Talk with them to generate your happy memories of visiting with them, through reminiscing, not a quiz show, because you won’t be able to make those memories later.
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Oh, you just HAD to go an issue that challenge. I’m going to suggest that to my Jewish, almost-daughter-in-law.
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Cinnamon spiced fish, like cinnamon meat and cinnamon spaghetti, is A Thing in certain circles. And if you already have ginger along with your cinnamon and salmon, you might as well invite nutmeg to the party.
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Apparently gefilte fish is ground-up fish, with eggs and breadcrumbs/matzo crumbs for filler, turned into cakes. (Yes, I’ve never had it. Sorry. I have not experienced the full breadth of Jewish cuisine.)
So basically, it’s a crab cake without crab, and that means you can put chile pepper, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, etc. into the gefilte fish, assuming that’s okay with dietary regulations.
I have no idea how this fits with gefilte fish that come in jars.
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OK, I looked up some articles, and it’s poached fish turned into fishcakes, and then served cold (to get around the cooking/fire thing, I guess).
Well, obviously a lot of people eat smoked salmon with flavorings on it, so I guess there’s no absolute problem with serving chilled fishcakes with flavorings in them or on top of them. You’d want to experiment a lot, and it would be time-consuming. But it could be done.
Serving horseradish on the side, which is apparently traditional, might not be a workable thing, though.
OTOH, the kind of salmon that looks orangey would be great for a pumpkin spice appearance.
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Big thumbs up to Israeli exports of “finding out.” Love those secondary explosions, guys.
Locally the Toronto cops are rather ostentatiously setting up some “find out” for October 7th.
It seems some ‘youths’ around here have planned some ‘demonstrations’ to celebrate Gaza’s ‘great victory’ last year. (Not kidding, that’s what it says.)
Planning on staying home Monday with a big bag of popcorn. >:D
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I have an incentive to be in Flyover Falls on Tuesday, not Monday. Not sure if there are many resident or visiting Hamassholes, but if they try FA, the FO is likely to be impressive. The preemptive actions by the “I’m armed and so are these 10 of my buddies” crowd made the June 2020 St. George of Fentanyl parade very peaceful. Whether the current slimebags know/remember this will be instructive to somebody…
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When Three-letter-group paraded here in 2020, the police were mildly irked by the lack of advanced notice so that they could divert traffic. Locals lined the street, armed and polite, while other locals sat on the roofs of businesses, armed and polite. The three-letter-group said they were “raising awareness of [whatever].” The local civil rights groups had not been notified either, and were steamed.
Three-letter-group never came back that I heard or saw of.
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The three-letter group stayed away after that, but the three-syllable group is widely suspected of setting fires, including one largeish one that rather ticked off the tribes. Somebody tried a fire that would have afflicted $TINY_TOWN; it was caught right away. FWIW, the majority of the town residents belong to the Klamath tribes. To borrow Anna Russell’s quote about Alberich in Der Ring, they were frightfully annoyed.
No further incidents occurred locally. I’m happy to say I have no knowledge as to why.
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Ouch. Making any of the tribes not happy is not a good thing. Not these days.
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I have various reasons to go peacefully about my business on 7 October.
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The Pope called for a day of fasting and prayer for the Oct. 7 victims, dead and alive. Since I’m off tomorrow, I might actually be able to do fasting.
(I can do intermittent fasting up to a point, at which point I get very very unwell. Canon law/moral theology says I don’t have to do any obligatory fasts, therefore. I love canon law.)
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Watching Trump speak in Butler, from within the Trump Terrerium.
That lexan is so thick, probably would stop a 20mm. Gotta have A/C.
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The Musk speech was quite good, especially given his often disjointed “Oh, what I just said made me just think of something to improve on my rockets” speaking style.
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So, much like Trump’s “tangled skein of consciousness”.
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I am wondering what can of whoopass they open up on the Madmullahs. Hopefully something ingeniously clever.
Like de-orbit a guided 1-ton slug of tungsten carbide, into someone’s “nuke proof” bunker.
Knock Knock!
Who is there?
IDF.
…. I hate this joke!
BOOM!
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For some reason that made me think of the Land Shark skit on SNL, lo, these many years ago.
Knock, knock!
Who is there?
Land shark
No really, who is there?
Candygram!
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NOM!
Of course, the best is “Candygram for Mongo!”
How about “Candygram for Ayatollah!” (Kzin grin)
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Not only can you find it online, with a little tweaking the skit is suitable for scout campfires.
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The pictured “export find out” looks uncomfortably like an export of “canned sunshine”.
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Saw a very small “anti-war,” protest today. I felt a but of sympathy until I saw the, “No more aid to Israel,” and, “Ceasefire Now!”
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I’d love to get some time at the controls of a Cessna CitationJet. I’ve heard they are a delight to fly.
And I’m with the cat and the daily walk. At least it’s dark enough late enough that I can stroll in the morning without getting up at “0-gads-awful.”
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From my pilotus firends: They are.
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Random Thoughts:
“I don’t want to touch screens anymore”
Haptic Controls Matter!
Not to mention that the old “Gorilla Arm Syndrome” of the 1960s is making a comeback.
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“If violence is the answer, then it must have been a really stupid question.”
Unfortunately, there are far too many people out there asking those sorts of really stupid questions. (The classic one being “Your money or your life?”)
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If a weapon is legit for the Secret Service to use to protect the White House and the First Family, then it’s legit for me to use to protect my house and family.
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I’m sure a mischievous soul could devise a list of books and other reading materials that the Usual Suspects would totally totally agree should be banned from school libraries & classrooms. Some would be awfully rank, while others would merely blaspheme against the Sacred Narrative.
Suggest that a high school library carry “Guns & Ammo” magazine, or The Failure of Feminism, or More Guns, Less Crime, or the GOR novels, or Unintended Consequences, or The Turner Diaries, on the grounds that banning any books from high school libraries is Evil Book-Banning Censorship of McEvil. And watch the heads explode.
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The Turner Diaries are their bible
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I’ve always formulated that quote as “If government is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question”
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Now that’s just silly. The question could be “What is the greatest threat to liberty?”
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How can we scam our way into millions of dollars, legally, and have tens of thousands begging us to steal more?
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SFBS
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Our son is now looking in horrified disbelief at a “producer,” named Scott Shaw who has produced, among other epics, “Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell.” and, “Quest of the Invisible Ninja.”
I mention this because we could all use a laugh. Or something.
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Maybe this one….
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Anyone remember the old RPG “Macho Women With Guns”?
Too funny.
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I did play with Alex Yeager, back when he joke-developed Kung Fu CB Mamas on Wheels vs. the Aztec Motorcycle Wrestling Nuns from a parody character sheet that somebody else did as art. The University of Toledo’s gaming club, UT-BASH, was very active back in the day, and also ran BASHCon. (Which is still running. They had BASHCon 38 in March of this year.)
Alex runs AMIGO Games these days. He was always a go-getter (in a good way), so this doesn’t surprise me.
It does make me happy to see that things have been going well, for various people and organizations, when I haven’t been paying attention.
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Pretty much (via Insty open thread):
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I appreciate that we’re all on a government watchlist together.
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“a”?
Amateur.
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Bands from NC rivals join together in tribute to the victims of Helene.
Amazing Grace
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2024/10/05/must-watch-nc-state-and-wake-forest-marching-bands-unite-in-touching-tribute-to-neighbors-in-western-nc-n2180192
Americans
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“Value my dog more than someone’s life? I don’t even f*ckin’ know you, dude. I have my tasty breakfast cereal more than your life.”
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“I like my dog more than I like most people.” :-P
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Your dog is your ally, household member, and maybe even your battle buddy. If it’s a criminally dangerous human vs. your dog, obviously the dog is the one that requires support.
I mean, sure, pray for the soul of the bad human you had to shoot, but your dog is the one who’s helping you.
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“My dog is here by invitation. You, on the other hand….”
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The “protesters creating jobs” one has been around since 2016. Still true though.
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Just don’t fly like this guy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYvktsoWoAAzzs7?format=jpg&name=900×900
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At least it isn’t a Chevy Citation
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