Way back when they illegalled their import, the Feds confiscated containers full of tons of Chinese AKs and SKSs. Given fedgov’s tendency to keep stuff squirreled away forever, those might still be in some storage depot somewhere.
We can send those to Scotland. For their women to use.
Possibly, and all things considered no great loss. More likely is some of the tons of AKs purchased for the Iraqi and Afghan militaries are preserved in cosmoline in U.S. stateside depots. I understand we paid for some pretty high quality Eastern Europe production AKs, much nicer than the Chinese crap, so we could send those.
De-greased an SKS (Yugo 59/66) once, and got to use the ‘summer sun and black plastic bag’ method in California Summer. Good heavens, what a mess!
(Century sold a batch where they welded a sleeve over the grenade launcher, so CA DOJ did not get the vapors.)
Yes, I got the gunk out of the firing pin channel, and then put in a Russian firing pin with a spring,
Scotland is a bit short of summer sun to sweat the cosmoline off.
Importing freedom seeds is only a problem because they’re so heavy; rearranged some of my boxes today and was sweating profusely on a pretty nice day here.
Seems like with the appropriate .stl file and cheap printers and filament, that particular challenge is less of such than when one had to quietly import piles of carefully greased steel tubular “farm equipment”.
The ammo is more of a problem, though I should think much less so than completed “farm equipment”.
I should think extant untaxed materials import associations would up to the job of moving quantities of 9 and 5.56 flavors into the region after their long record of moving other consumables.
Smokeless powder might be ideal. Black powder, tolerable. But those are not only options. Non-ideal, but a butane-air mix WILL go bang. And lighters are everywhere. (And if ox can think of this in a couple seconds, what might smart folks with time come up with?)
Spud gun. Spud gun with “secret toy surprise” for spud catcher? Spud gun with hairspray? Spud gun with …
Aaaaand now I half want to do a search for which brand of hair spray provides the most oomph per spritz for a spud gun. The rest of me doesn’t want my browser going to that neighborhood.
Akshully, there were two Minnesota Shooters this year.
One identified as the other sex.
The other identified as a trained assassin under orders from Tim Walz.
Snopes might say that it is a completely mysterious question why communist Democrats might overlook any connection to Democrat use of communism to incite patsies.
In chemistry, ‘organic’ simply means any compound containing carbon. Anything without carbon is inorganic. Therefore, silicon carbide and tungsten carbide are organic, but salt is inorganic.
Two semesters required for my Engineering School major, inorganic first, organic second, lecture and labs running late at night, and I remember effectively none of it other than how cool Buckminsterfullerene buckyballs are.
Well, salt is a bad analogy there – it’s inorganic under either of the definitions.
However, that prompted a bit of research to satisfy my curiosity. Apparently, there does NOT need to be a direct C-H bond in the compound to make it an organic.
The compound CO4H4 (orthocarbonic acid) interposes oxygen between the carbon and the hydrogen on all four bonding sites – but it is still organic (classified as an unstable alcohol, swiftly breaking down into carbon dioxide and water). It’s been synthesized in the laboratory, but is hypothesized to exist in the gas giants Uranus and Neptune, formed under high pressure from methane and water.
Okay, enough diving into the rabbit hole. Need to get a shower and head out on errands…
Hum. Not a good one, IMHO – more likely a CO2 standard – or as noted, a carbide or carbonate. No wonder many think that ANYTHING with carbon is organic.
Anyway, I am feeling a bit too much like a crying unshaved wojack, who wants to correct Mr. Goose with a spreadsheet full of items regarding spree shooters over the past twenty or twenty five years.
But, I do not want to do the actual work of preparing the spreadsheet and filling it in. So, you will be spared a screen shot captioned ‘the left cannot meme’, about my actual views on the unusual positive correlation between spree shooters and trans, and maybe the also notable negative correlation between spree shooters and long held conservative views combined with regular attendance at a theologically sound church.
Anyway, very interesting week this week.
I don’t really have much useful or thoguhtful to say.
I’m personally curious about the relationship between shooters an SSRI users. I started notice a lot of the big spree shooters seemed to be on those, and I’d expect a heavy overlap of transgenders and SSRI users.
We are also talking about some very rare events. If I had exactly the correct six or so documents at hand, and spent a couple weeks reading up, I might have the statistical language to be less vague than ‘probably a bunch of factors’.
We are basically looking at three obvious groups of contributing factors.
Teacher selection in transwash bully, and self selection of trans by the future shooters.
Effects of ideology, communist or trans.
Chemical.
I think some of my fussiness over the chemical hypothesis where trans spree shootings are concerned may be that we have two distinct plausible single factor scenarios, and I do not see that we have the evidence that each would predict. Single factor SSRI, and single factor hormones. Single factor SSRI has the problem that there are a lot more people on SSRIs than just trans, and the spree shooter pool had too much of a sudden shift towards trans shooters. Single factor hormones would predict a lot more acts of violent crimes by trans than simply the spree shootings.
So I am sure that if we have chemicals contributing, it is not the chemicals in isolation, but also other factors.
A second factor for hormones could be that the other elevated rates of crimes have been covered up.
A second factor for SSRIs could simply be that the SSRIs for other patients are simply that much more frequently overseen by competent ethical psychiatrists.
I am sure that chemical factors, such as recreational drugs, and psych drugs including SSRIs, are important contributing factors in spree shooters. But, spree shooters may have a characteristic psychology (I think they do). In general, it is easy or at least possible to break someone with neurochemistry, but the effects are maybe not selective or ‘efficient’ enough to get, say, ninety spree killers out of a hundred people dosed.
Whatever is going on with trans, has an unusually high yield.
Possibly it is only the intersection of SSRIs and hormones, in combination with ideology and selection.
Rare events and multiple explanations make for difficult or weak scientific statistical inferences.
Before that we consider that this is specificalyl psychology, pharmacology, and rare criminal acts.
I too would like to understand the relationships better. I’m not sure that I would trust any statistical study as being strong evidence, even if I did it myself (1).
(1) Explicitly leaving aside issues with my lack of skill, and also my other qualities. (2)
(2) Like a wild arrogance, and certainty that I can do the things correctly
The thing is, it hasn’t just been the trans shooters that have been on them. It seems like the majority of mass shooters have been on SSRIs going back at least a couple of decades.
And what I’d like to see is all instances of unjustified violence by SSRI users compared to the general population. If it is a contributing factor, then I’d expect to see people on SSRIs behave in other ways short of mass murder.
I’ve seen speculation that the shooter may have stopped the hormones recently, with the testosterone levels increasing dramatically. Possibility of increased tendency to rage away, and if he had gotten the likely grief in school as a proto-tranny, the school/church would be a logical target.
That and $5.00 (maybe) might get you a coffee at Bigbuck’s.
If you can set the mirrors at the correct (not necessarily right) angle, you can get just about as many reflections of the Marxy Bird as you want/need. So, all Birds of the (Despicable) Word…
Fascism and National Socialism are apparently vampire forms of Marxism and so don’t have reflections. (The others are zombie forms, especially with the demise of the USSR – shambling undead brain eaters, but they still have reflections.)
Both Em and I got sick Tuesday night, but hers got worse yesterday, so I’m waiting with her in the ER to be admitted for treatment of COVID because of breathing difficulty. I seem to be recovering. I’d rather it was the other way around.
My mom fell and had to spend a week or so in a Skilled Nursing Facility (“sniff”); we went to visit, and she was telling us about the squirrels she could see out her window – who were flying little helicopters.
Coincidence? For the first time in, well, since I’ve been singing there, the church where I sing had a service of prayer and healing today, unannounced until the start of worship.
And since it’s now Star Wars canon that being belly-stabbed right through with a lightsaber is merely a minor flesh wound, easily recoverable with a couple days bed rest, I would start yelling HAN LIVED if I cared anything for that dead-to-me franchise anymore.
Heh. Regarding “Meat Tea”, this was actually a thing up to at least the early twentieth century.
The Centennial Cook Book and General Guide (1876):
Beef Tea.
This is the simplest of all soups, being but a pound or two of shin of beef cut in small pieces, and gently stewed, with a little salt, in a pint of cold water to each pound of meat, without either vegetables or spice, for three hours. It is generally served in a basin, with toasted bread.
Table and Kitchen (1916):
Beef Tea.—Mince one pound good lean beef and put into jar with one cup cold water; cork closely and set in boiler or steamer to cook. It will require three or four hours. Strain and season.
There were a lot of things called “tea” in older cookbooks.
Don’t be the bigger person today. That path leads to obesity.
For tech workers, there’s also a category “Management that doesn’t constantly insult our intelligence.”
The usb meme needs to be updated to usb-c. It’s an EU mandate.
In the opened computer: Is that Python 2.x or Python 3.x?
I would call them clankers only if I were writing a steamy Victorian novel.
Chicken broth is green meat tea. Beef broth is black meat tea.
“Say the Pledge of Allegiance”:
“I pledge allegiance To the Press Of the Deep State of America And to the Bureaucracy which it defends Government Almighty Above the law Unelected With no limits on power at all”
“…pass a law the criminalizes flag burning and desecration” – but which flag?
For the sake of being snarky, I’ll note that before H1-B, there was Operation Paperclip. (In seriousness, both sides of the immigration debate have reason to despise H1-B as being a bucket of toxic waste.)
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken
“A [strike]gun[/strike] knife-and-axe-control advocate is someone who would rather see a woman dead with her pantyhose around her neck than alive with a [strike]gun[/strike] knife and axe in her possession”
From its very beginnings, the Democratic Party has been about “managing” race relations in the US. Only the details have changed.
Socialism turns the rulers and nomenklatura into aristos – something that no amount of money can buy in a free-market economy.
Why is the chick in the restaurant wearing a napkin on her head?
Whimsy, plus some armor and a spiked mace, will help you go far.
Unsolicited advice? Pull up a chair! (although, now it’s solicited advice, so I dunno.)
Quartz brass? In Da Hood, that’d be Quartz Gold! (I used to want quartz gold shirt studs and cuff links for my tux shirt, but no reason to wear the fancy stuff any more, so cancelled that. Gold quartz shirt studs simply don’t exist, though a competent jeweler could make them – stud bases are readily available.)
The NASA / SpaceX meme is both hillarious and (usually) right on point, but there is a certain dark flip side to it.
NASA, bolstered by Certain Guys in Congress (looking at you, normally-sensible Ted Cruz) who restored deep cuts to the insanely-overpriced SLS / ‘Orion’ / Gateway Station incarnation of the Artemis Project, is still planning for our next Artemis / ‘Orion’ mission to be a re-do of Apollo 8’s round-the-moon trajectory.
Only, the last Artemis flight showed major erosion of the (slightly redesigned from Apollo for both ‘Green’ and ‘manufacturability’ reasons) ‘Orion’ capsule’s heat shield. The ‘fix’ to this is, believe it or not, to fly a slightly less “aggressive” re-entry trajectory next time, and figure all will be fine.
And, the first test flight of the new life-support system will both have astronauts on board and be around the Moon instead of in low Earth orbit (permitting a quick return if something went wrong).
Of course there are reasons for this, like the massive cost and slow production rate of SLS, which can only fly once a year even if we could afford it more often.
Regulars at space sites (like Zimmerman’s “Behind the Black” which has been covering this in detail for years) will find no news in the above. But, to be mostly slow and timid, and then be very bold just when slow-and-steady might win the race… is not exactly optimal.
(And I say ‘Orion’ because to many of us, these past several decades, there’s only one, and that’s Project Orion from the 1960s. None genuine without the on-tempo nuclear explosions aftward…)
You know if you linked that waterway up with the Mackenzie River and did some decent dredging, you’d have a great Northwest Passage. Think of the opportunities for drone deliveries to passing ships!
As a not-so-random side note, I went to a talk by a woman (who had apparently been one of the teachers when I was in high school, but I never had her) who was speaking to the power of prayer. She had good reason to validate that, as her husband had been shot and killed right next to her in a public park when she was taken hostage, and prayer helped her through that horrific moment.
When you have someone who survives a situation like that attest the power of prayer, it’s pretty powerful, and people who discount it obviously don’t understand.
The “Going out to dinner and someone starts painting” one got me when I looked at it again today, and noted the CAT at the table, glaring balefully, as well! ;^)
I confess I find sleeping on a sofa much more comfortable than on a bed. Mine is old, with conforming curves pressed into the cushions from use, a back rest to press against when horizontal, and a variety of pillows to prop my head up, with the bottom arm keeping me from slip-sliding away down and prone. Exact configuration adjusted each night till I am comfortable. Then my dear Kitten chooses her spot for similar comfort. I do awaken a couple of times a night, but from nature’s call.
We have Purple, the gel hex kind, and it hasn’t significantly degraded over the years that we’ve had it. (I did discover that the bed risers weren’t in great shape, though; sagging was happening at the FRAME level.)
According To Hoyt 
After seeing all those Coffee Memes, I had to get more coffee. 😉
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Forgot to click the button.
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So you did need more coffee!
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Here’s a song for all you coffee lovers. Ruby Quaker by Devin Townsend
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And another!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xiFRLakKXM
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Clicked the button this time.
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And how fairs the fierce lass and her friend with the head wound?
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A GSG has been put up to help with expenses. I can post the link, or look up “Justice for Lola and Ruby”
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And in other news, it’s time to re-start running guns to Éire, and add Alba & England to the delivery schedule.
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Hard No. We sent ’em a buncha guns at the beginning of WWII. When the war was over, very few donors saw their weapons again.
Unless you’re talking about something along the lines of a Liberator pistol . . .
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Way back when they illegalled their import, the Feds confiscated containers full of tons of Chinese AKs and SKSs. Given fedgov’s tendency to keep stuff squirreled away forever, those might still be in some storage depot somewhere.
We can send those to Scotland. For their women to use.
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Given the tenor of the time, I suspect that those either ended up getting recycled (slagged) or turned into artificial reefs.
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Or sold to cartels. Or trans-shipped to anti-American Muslims in the Turd World by the Obama or Biden administrations.
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Possibly, and all things considered no great loss. More likely is some of the tons of AKs purchased for the Iraqi and Afghan militaries are preserved in cosmoline in U.S. stateside depots. I understand we paid for some pretty high quality Eastern Europe production AKs, much nicer than the Chinese crap, so we could send those.
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Cosmoline, ugh!
De-greased an SKS (Yugo 59/66) once, and got to use the ‘summer sun and black plastic bag’ method in California Summer. Good heavens, what a mess!
(Century sold a batch where they welded a sleeve over the grenade launcher, so CA DOJ did not get the vapors.)
Yes, I got the gunk out of the firing pin channel, and then put in a Russian firing pin with a spring,
Scotland is a bit short of summer sun to sweat the cosmoline off.
Importing freedom seeds is only a problem because they’re so heavy; rearranged some of my boxes today and was sweating profusely on a pretty nice day here.
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I was thinking a bit more recently. Such as when certain people provided things to the Provos, like the AR18
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Ah, me little Armalite..
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Wasn’t that a great idea – use this to kill a German and get their gun.
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9mm to better utilize local supply.
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Seems like with the appropriate .stl file and cheap printers and filament, that particular challenge is less of such than when one had to quietly import piles of carefully greased steel tubular “farm equipment”.
The ammo is more of a problem, though I should think much less so than completed “farm equipment”.
I should think extant untaxed materials import associations would up to the job of moving quantities of 9 and 5.56 flavors into the region after their long record of moving other consumables.
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Smokeless powder might be ideal. Black powder, tolerable. But those are not only options. Non-ideal, but a butane-air mix WILL go bang. And lighters are everywhere. (And if ox can think of this in a couple seconds, what might smart folks with time come up with?)
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Spud gun. Spud gun with “secret toy surprise” for spud catcher? Spud gun with hairspray? Spud gun with …
Aaaaand now I half want to do a search for which brand of hair spray provides the most oomph per spritz for a spud gun. The rest of me doesn’t want my browser going to that neighborhood.
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Oh, that’s for the folks that can’t get calcium carbide?
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So, not a hoax? Glad to hear it.
The memes need bagpipes “Scotland the Brave”
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Mr. Goose,
(Phoenix Wright ‘Objection’ image captioned ‘Factcheck!’)
Akshully, there were two Minnesota Shooters this year.
One identified as the other sex.
The other identified as a trained assassin under orders from Tim Walz.
Snopes might say that it is a completely mysterious question why communist Democrats might overlook any connection to Democrat use of communism to incite patsies.
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Well, if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.
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Or an ‘evolved’ gas.
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If excited enough you’re a plasma.
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But what about emulsions?
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That’s a strategic detergent.
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as long as it’s run through the pot 3 times, I will gladly make the solution part of myself.
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Twice through the stills is usually enough.
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I’m a deep believer in tradition. Thrice distilled, single copper pot still. Éire abú!
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Is chili a solution or a precipitate?
We do know it eventually becomes and evolved gas.
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And does “organic chili” labeling imply the existence of non-carbon-based inorganic chili?
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“I only eat organic food. That silicon stuff tears up my innards.”
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That silicon stuff is bird food (for gizzard health).
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(Horta scraping, scratching, burning…)
(NO FILL I)
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In chemistry, ‘organic’ simply means any compound containing carbon. Anything without carbon is inorganic. Therefore, silicon carbide and tungsten carbide are organic, but salt is inorganic.
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Actually… carbides aren’t organic. Neither are carbonates. To be classed as organic, the compound has to have a carbon-hydrogen bond.
Don’t ask me why – I dunno. I liked my sanity enough to skip organic chem in college (also fluid dynamics). Quantum physics was enough of a hazard!
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Because thems the rules.
Two semesters required for my Engineering School major, inorganic first, organic second, lecture and labs running late at night, and I remember effectively none of it other than how cool Buckminsterfullerene buckyballs are.
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Because some molecules with carbon are obviously produced by natural non-living processes, and also act differently from organic materials.
Witness that if you heat up salt and cool it back down, it’s still salt.
If you heat up sugar and cook it back down, well, what you have depends on exactly how hot you made it, but it’s not sugar any more.
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Well, salt is a bad analogy there – it’s inorganic under either of the definitions.
However, that prompted a bit of research to satisfy my curiosity. Apparently, there does NOT need to be a direct C-H bond in the compound to make it an organic.
The compound CO4H4 (orthocarbonic acid) interposes oxygen between the carbon and the hydrogen on all four bonding sites – but it is still organic (classified as an unstable alcohol, swiftly breaking down into carbon dioxide and water). It’s been synthesized in the laboratory, but is hypothesized to exist in the gas giants Uranus and Neptune, formed under high pressure from methane and water.
Okay, enough diving into the rabbit hole. Need to get a shower and head out on errands…
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The salt was the inorganic standard.
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Hum. Not a good one, IMHO – more likely a CO2 standard – or as noted, a carbide or carbonate. No wonder many think that ANYTHING with carbon is organic.
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Why not? Is not salt inorganic? Does it not show what the difference is? Then you can look for it in carbon-contained compounds.
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Sodium chloride does indeed melt when heated, and is still the same compound.
Calcium carbonate, on the other hand, decomposes into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
Both are inorganic. Thermal decomposition is, indeed, a characteristic of all organic compounds – but not unique to them.
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Plastic fruit may keep forever, but it’s tasteless and hard to chew.
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Anyway, I am feeling a bit too much like a crying unshaved wojack, who wants to correct Mr. Goose with a spreadsheet full of items regarding spree shooters over the past twenty or twenty five years.
But, I do not want to do the actual work of preparing the spreadsheet and filling it in. So, you will be spared a screen shot captioned ‘the left cannot meme’, about my actual views on the unusual positive correlation between spree shooters and trans, and maybe the also notable negative correlation between spree shooters and long held conservative views combined with regular attendance at a theologically sound church.
Anyway, very interesting week this week.
I don’t really have much useful or thoguhtful to say.
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I’m personally curious about the relationship between shooters an SSRI users. I started notice a lot of the big spree shooters seemed to be on those, and I’d expect a heavy overlap of transgenders and SSRI users.
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RFK is correct to ask about SSRIs.
We are also talking about some very rare events. If I had exactly the correct six or so documents at hand, and spent a couple weeks reading up, I might have the statistical language to be less vague than ‘probably a bunch of factors’.
We are basically looking at three obvious groups of contributing factors.
Teacher selection in transwash bully, and self selection of trans by the future shooters.
Effects of ideology, communist or trans.
Chemical.
I think some of my fussiness over the chemical hypothesis where trans spree shootings are concerned may be that we have two distinct plausible single factor scenarios, and I do not see that we have the evidence that each would predict. Single factor SSRI, and single factor hormones. Single factor SSRI has the problem that there are a lot more people on SSRIs than just trans, and the spree shooter pool had too much of a sudden shift towards trans shooters. Single factor hormones would predict a lot more acts of violent crimes by trans than simply the spree shootings.
So I am sure that if we have chemicals contributing, it is not the chemicals in isolation, but also other factors.
A second factor for hormones could be that the other elevated rates of crimes have been covered up.
A second factor for SSRIs could simply be that the SSRIs for other patients are simply that much more frequently overseen by competent ethical psychiatrists.
I am sure that chemical factors, such as recreational drugs, and psych drugs including SSRIs, are important contributing factors in spree shooters. But, spree shooters may have a characteristic psychology (I think they do). In general, it is easy or at least possible to break someone with neurochemistry, but the effects are maybe not selective or ‘efficient’ enough to get, say, ninety spree killers out of a hundred people dosed.
Whatever is going on with trans, has an unusually high yield.
Possibly it is only the intersection of SSRIs and hormones, in combination with ideology and selection.
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Rare events and multiple explanations make for difficult or weak scientific statistical inferences.
Before that we consider that this is specificalyl psychology, pharmacology, and rare criminal acts.
I too would like to understand the relationships better. I’m not sure that I would trust any statistical study as being strong evidence, even if I did it myself (1).
(1) Explicitly leaving aside issues with my lack of skill, and also my other qualities. (2)
(2) Like a wild arrogance, and certainty that I can do the things correctly
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The thing is, it hasn’t just been the trans shooters that have been on them. It seems like the majority of mass shooters have been on SSRIs going back at least a couple of decades.
And what I’d like to see is all instances of unjustified violence by SSRI users compared to the general population. If it is a contributing factor, then I’d expect to see people on SSRIs behave in other ways short of mass murder.
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Well, when pretending to be a girl didn’t solve all their problems like the left-wing wackos promised, what’s left but mass murder?
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It’s also cross sex hormones doing weird things to the brain.
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And Marijuana has gotten much, much stronger.
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I’ve seen speculation that the shooter may have stopped the hormones recently, with the testosterone levels increasing dramatically. Possibility of increased tendency to rage away, and if he had gotten the likely grief in school as a proto-tranny, the school/church would be a logical target.
That and $5.00 (maybe) might get you a coffee at Bigbuck’s.
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Wojak?
“Who memes ya, baby!”
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Other people might, indeed.
Quartz brass knuckles sounds like a D&D monk item!
I voted for hope. But liberal tears are a nice bonus while things get nasty in government.
Set your watches ahead 1400 years…. Yes, yes indeed….
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In the computer: I guess everybody’s running Python these days.
Fascism is also a reflection of the Marxism Bird.
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Some peoples’ computers have bugs . . .
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If you can set the mirrors at the correct (not necessarily right) angle, you can get just about as many reflections of the Marxy Bird as you want/need. So, all Birds of the (Despicable) Word…
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I notice that there’s no reflection of National Socialism? Isn’t its body count high enough?
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Fascism and National Socialism are apparently vampire forms of Marxism and so don’t have reflections. (The others are zombie forms, especially with the demise of the USSR – shambling undead brain eaters, but they still have reflections.)
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I wasn’t aware there were any non-vampiric forms of Marxism.
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Both Em and I got sick Tuesday night, but hers got worse yesterday, so I’m waiting with her in the ER to be admitted for treatment of COVID because of breathing difficulty. I seem to be recovering. I’d rather it was the other way around.
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YIkes. Prayer loaded. Shot out.
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Thank you.
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Prayers up for you both.
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Thanks.
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prayers.
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Oh no. and I totally get this. Tell her she’s in my prayers.
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Eek. Prayers.
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My mom is in the hospital and not doing well mentally.
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Aaiee… This is one of those weeks. Don’t know if the prayer tower has enough oomph to reach Portugal, but I’ll try.
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Unfortunately, merely being in the hospital can cause dementia until release.
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She broke her hip and had surgery. The surgery went well, but her mind hasn’t come back.
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Praying for you both.
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Thank you.
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likewise. Prayers up.
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Prayer flag raised. I’ll let some others know, just the general need.
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Thank you. She’s in her mid nineties, so this is terrifying.
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hugs
But getting her out of there may help with that.
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Yikes!
Hospitals are bed for you, full of sick people!
My mom fell and had to spend a week or so in a Skilled Nursing Facility (“sniff”); we went to visit, and she was telling us about the squirrels she could see out her window – who were flying little helicopters.
Good wishes to your mom.
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Were they offering free one-way helicopter rides to the communist squirrels? 🐿️ 😄
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so maybe not unusual. My MIL did something like, but never came back.
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It’s not just the sick people. Even if you are isolated, it’s a strange location, which is bad for memory.
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More prayers up.
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More prayers sent. Hugs.
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Hugs. Many.
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Dang.
I’m sorry. That is hard with her an ocean away (at minimum because don’t know exactly where you two landed).
Putting up prayers for her.
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I’m making chicken soup tomorrow, but have no idea of how to get it to you. So… Broadcasting a prayer for Em – and for you. Take care.
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Prayers are raised, and I’ll let my team know.
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Thanks to all of you, and it must be helping; Em improved overnight to the point that they’re weaning her slowly off oxygen.
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Very good. Thank heavens. I can’t be this worried about TWO people in critical condition. HUGS. Tell her we’re all thinking of her and love her.
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Thanks, Lord!
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Glad you are ok. Praying for her.
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Coincidence? For the first time in, well, since I’ve been singing there, the church where I sing had a service of prayer and healing today, unannounced until the start of worship.
Make of it what you will.
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I never expect an answer, I just try to be grateful when it comes. 🙏🙏🙏
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You are welcome for the Shadowquacks meme.
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SFBS!
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Hey Kylo, passive voice much?
And since it’s now Star Wars canon that being belly-stabbed right through with a lightsaber is merely a minor flesh wound, easily recoverable with a couple days bed rest, I would start yelling HAN LIVED if I cared anything for that dead-to-me franchise anymore.
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Heh. Regarding “Meat Tea”, this was actually a thing up to at least the early twentieth century.
The Centennial Cook Book and General Guide (1876):
Beef Tea.
This is the simplest of all soups, being but a pound or two of shin of beef cut in small pieces, and gently stewed, with a little salt, in a pint of cold water to each pound of meat, without either vegetables or spice, for three hours. It is generally served in a basin, with toasted bread.
Table and Kitchen (1916):
Beef Tea.—Mince one pound good lean beef and put into jar with one cup cold water; cork closely and set in boiler or steamer to cook. It will require three or four hours. Strain and season.
There were a lot of things called “tea” in older cookbooks.
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From Max: https://youtu.be/gZKviDlCyQU?si=pEIGas3QFH4NPrxc
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that was s’posed to be an embed.
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Don’t be the bigger person today. That path leads to obesity.
For tech workers, there’s also a category “Management that doesn’t constantly insult our intelligence.”
The usb meme needs to be updated to usb-c. It’s an EU mandate.
In the opened computer: Is that Python 2.x or Python 3.x?
I would call them clankers only if I were writing a steamy Victorian novel.
Chicken broth is green meat tea. Beef broth is black meat tea.
“Say the Pledge of Allegiance”:
“I pledge allegiance
To the Press
Of the Deep State of America
And to the Bureaucracy which it defends
Government Almighty
Above the law
Unelected
With no limits on power at all”
“…pass a law the criminalizes flag burning and desecration”
– but which flag?
For the sake of being snarky, I’ll note that before H1-B, there was Operation Paperclip. (In seriousness, both sides of the immigration debate have reason to despise H1-B as being a bucket of toxic waste.)
Not Netflix
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hCK9KJA-l-E/VxuCXc5z7cI/AAAAAAAA5Yw/gF3sdjdx-aYCCSSvXndmKwJVWN5ri8moACKgB/s640/Mary_Fields.jpg
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken
“A [strike]gun[/strike] knife-and-axe-control advocate is someone who would rather see a woman dead with her pantyhose around her neck than alive with a [strike]gun[/strike] knife and axe in her possession”
From its very beginnings, the Democratic Party has been about “managing” race relations in the US. Only the details have changed.
Socialism turns the rulers and nomenklatura into aristos – something that no amount of money can buy in a free-market economy.
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The way that TPTB are going in the UK, they’re going to start talking about rope control by Christmas. Or, lamppost control.
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Some of those look Rather Familiar.
And some that I didn’t post anywhere, but I know are in my collection. Of course, the collection has been expanded.
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Why is the chick in the restaurant wearing a napkin on her head?
Whimsy, plus some armor and a spiked mace, will help you go far.
Unsolicited advice? Pull up a chair! (although, now it’s solicited advice, so I dunno.)
Quartz brass? In Da Hood, that’d be Quartz Gold! (I used to want quartz gold shirt studs and cuff links for my tux shirt, but no reason to wear the fancy stuff any more, so cancelled that. Gold quartz shirt studs simply don’t exist, though a competent jeweler could make them – stud bases are readily available.)
Lola > Taylor.
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So she won’t get food in her hair. Duh. 😄
You’ll get more with a kind word and an axe than with just a kind word? 😜
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I note the scowl on the guy’s face is matched only by the scowl on the cat’s face.
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It’s just my Mom, I represent that remark.
Mom would’ve liked the Scot Girl, too bad there’s no Scottish men left. I guess all the real men moved to America and else where.
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Back when this started, the authorities persecuted them, and allowed the immigrants to do so too.
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The only real Scottish men immigrated to America. You might see some at the NH Highland Games, September 19-21, at Loon Mtn Resort in Lincoln NH.
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First time I went home on leave from the Army, one of Mom’s close friends repeatedly hit on me. I grew up with her kids, so really weird.
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The NASA / SpaceX meme is both hillarious and (usually) right on point, but there is a certain dark flip side to it.
NASA, bolstered by Certain Guys in Congress (looking at you, normally-sensible Ted Cruz) who restored deep cuts to the insanely-overpriced SLS / ‘Orion’ / Gateway Station incarnation of the Artemis Project, is still planning for our next Artemis / ‘Orion’ mission to be a re-do of Apollo 8’s round-the-moon trajectory.
Only, the last Artemis flight showed major erosion of the (slightly redesigned from Apollo for both ‘Green’ and ‘manufacturability’ reasons) ‘Orion’ capsule’s heat shield. The ‘fix’ to this is, believe it or not, to fly a slightly less “aggressive” re-entry trajectory next time, and figure all will be fine.
And, the first test flight of the new life-support system will both have astronauts on board and be around the Moon instead of in low Earth orbit (permitting a quick return if something went wrong).
Of course there are reasons for this, like the massive cost and slow production rate of SLS, which can only fly once a year even if we could afford it more often.
Regulars at space sites (like Zimmerman’s “Behind the Black” which has been covering this in detail for years) will find no news in the above. But, to be mostly slow and timid, and then be very bold just when slow-and-steady might win the race… is not exactly optimal.
(And I say ‘Orion’ because to many of us, these past several decades, there’s only one, and that’s Project Orion from the 1960s. None genuine without the on-tempo nuclear explosions aftward…)
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NASA went from number one to number 2 space organization in the U.S. due to failure to launch.
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“Acceleration, stand by.”
<<WHAM>><<WHAM>>
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Beat me to the Footfall quip, you did.
Mud in your eye! (Grin)
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You know if you linked that waterway up with the Mackenzie River and did some decent dredging, you’d have a great Northwest Passage. Think of the opportunities for drone deliveries to passing ships!
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What they really need to do is make that Viking longship hammock so you can actually sail the thing. 😆
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No, don’t combine those – some enterprising archer might see your boat nap and grab a light…
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#vikingworldproblems
Although that sounds like something Mad Mike (Williamson) would have a field day with.
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When Sanders and Sharpton ‘do lunch’ we pay for it. Every damn time. 😡
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As a not-so-random side note, I went to a talk by a woman (who had apparently been one of the teachers when I was in high school, but I never had her) who was speaking to the power of prayer. She had good reason to validate that, as her husband had been shot and killed right next to her in a public park when she was taken hostage, and prayer helped her through that horrific moment.
When you have someone who survives a situation like that attest the power of prayer, it’s pretty powerful, and people who discount it obviously don’t understand.
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This was kind of cool.
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Al Sharpton & Bernie Sanders weren’t wondering who would pick up the check. They were just brainstorming the best way to stick it to the taxpayer.
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Billzebub Gates: “There are too many people in the world. I have to do something about that!”
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The only reason I have survived these last forty years is an automatic coffee pot with a timer.
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I miss older son being in the house. Coffee was made when I woke up.
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No true scotsman treats a lassie like that.
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The “Going out to dinner and someone starts painting” one got me when I looked at it again today, and noted the CAT at the table, glaring balefully, as well! ;^)
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…and the two women are flirting with the painter. Those are ‘come-hither’ looks if ever there were. 😃
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Yep.
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I love that his wife (I think) is, in modern terms wearing hte napkin ON her head, like she misread the instructions.
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Been fighting “snoring” when the problem was “wrong bed”.
Folks, if you have the budget, or can rearrange the list, replace your bed with the best one you can afford.
The mattress, and the supporting box or other springs. (And -good- ones that get flipped often only last 7-8 years.)
Go try them out. Find the right firm level. Get the -good- one.
I just replaced what had seemed “good enough, no complaints” with ….
I need a cigarette. (Nah, don’t smoke, but yeah) Can’t lay down without passing out for an hour. Feel -good- when waking.
Needed max firm, but added my own foam topper so can adjust at need. Got more/better sleep in the last three nights than in years.
Even Miz Kitty has abandoned her favorite couch/petbed for any unoccupied spot on newbed.
Don’t scrimp on bed. You are going to spend ~1/3 of your life there.
If you don’t feel rested, consider it may be a “where/what” problem.
…
Blatant plugs:
Original Mattress Factory:
Extra firm really is. Worth every penny.
MyPillow:
Pillows, slippers, and mattress toppers.
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LOL. Apparently that loud “crack” I heard last night was a main beam in my ancient comfy couch. Sat down just now and …. well, you can imagine.
-Why- it went crack at oh dark thirty, when we were elsewhere, is a mystery.
Miz Kitty us going to be highly annoyed when I remove and discard Das KittehThunderBunker.
Nope. Already scolding my “no entry” mods. Alas….
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…aaaaaannnndddd….
“Oh my! …. It’s full of cattoys….”
…
Like, I just filled a small bucket with the things, and need another…..
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I confess I find sleeping on a sofa much more comfortable than on a bed. Mine is old, with conforming curves pressed into the cushions from use, a back rest to press against when horizontal, and a variety of pillows to prop my head up, with the bottom arm keeping me from slip-sliding away down and prone. Exact configuration adjusted each night till I am comfortable. Then my dear Kitten chooses her spot for similar comfort. I do awaken a couple of times a night, but from nature’s call.
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We have Purple, the gel hex kind, and it hasn’t significantly degraded over the years that we’ve had it. (I did discover that the bed risers weren’t in great shape, though; sagging was happening at the FRAME level.)
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Because its easier to row across the pacific than it is to protect your daughters and wives from the Muslim rapist the British government protects. So fucking much for Braveheart.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/08/30/three-scottish-brothers-set-record-for-fastest-row-across-pacific-ocean/
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Practice for their future United Caliphate Navy service.
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Oops. That MAGA shark was from Scott Adams’ twitter account.
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MAGA Shark do do do do do doot…
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LOL
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I liked the one with what employees REALLY want
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Boss: “Anything I can get you guys. Anything at all?”
…
Me: “Raises. We all want raises. Ten percent is a good start.”
(boggled boss – highfiving coworkers)
Yes, still employed. (Grin)
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hahahah
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and I like how that little meme or image showed pizza parties from boss view and just the pizza from employee view
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