Here in San Diego, I wish to vent about PD47 allowing Iran to "wipe us out." Letting us all get killed seems a bit harsh. Although I can see his point. 4 out 5 Congressional Districts here are Dem, and expected to stay solid Dem, the 5 th is predicted to turn blue next month as well. He is turning Independents into Democrats here. Good Job Tubby.
But I am not the least bit afraid of getting wiped out. We have the 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, and THREE aircraft carriers stationed here, including the Lincoln who would like some payback I'm sure. Not to mention a lot of combat ships and the Pacific's submarine fleet here as well. Plus a ton of former military people retired here who remember how to pull a trigger.
The Republicans are trying to legitimize Trump's criminal regime with phony prosecutions. So far, I think the only one that got traction was the neocon John Bolton, who copped a plea, ironically for the same crime as (one of the many) committed by Trump, who was saved by SCROTUS and the election.
I'm becoming disillusioned about Liberalism's ability to defend itself in the face of hyper attenuated asymmetrical social public warfare the fascists are willing to engage in . . .
We're making pot roast of foraged lion's mane mushroom, lots of veggies (onion, shallot, garlic, celery, carrot including the teensy ones from our garden, parsnip, turnip, tiny potatoes). good Portuguese red wine, homemade veggie stock. lots of herbs, and the first ingredient, love. You're invited.
OT: Someone posted over the weekend, surprised to see network tv ads during NFL games for Paxton, even in games that didn't involve any Texas teams.
Others noticed it too. And, as I suspected, it was the only option for the PACs to run ads. Many local stations already have ad time booked and those with slots open are hella expensive right now. So, throwing Paxton ads on network NFL ads, where most viewers aren't even in Texas, was the cheapest expensive way to get their message out to Texas voters this close to the mid-terms.
I noticed a few more on the YouTubes about Talarico and "6 Genders!". I think I've seen like 2 anti-Hinojosa ads, everything seems to say they're terrified of Talarico.
I think thats what is so "hot" - he knows he's right and will defend it.
Just noting that the bar is in hell apparently. Someone with gumption and knows he's right is a thing of beauty this day and age. Too many dumbfucks, with a b, not knowing shit about shit but think they know everything.
Though we (I and the Wonkettelian snarkmob at large, et al) often look askance at the "manosphere", I would genuinely groove on having a beer (berlermakers!) with Jack Smith and Bruce Springsteen.
"And maybe Marlon Brando could be there by the fire
And sit and talk of Hollywood and the good things there for hire
The GOP idea of a "man" is someone who insults women, can't tie a necktie, doesn't pay his bills, can't drive, eats McDonalds, cheats on his wives, and who wears spanx and elevator shoes, while sporting fake hair, fake teeth, and a fake tan. You know -- an incel who has to use money or violence to get near any woman. Someone who has the conversational skills of a four-year-old.
Lawyers for a former Olympian who was cleared of charges of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are asking internal government watchdogs to investigate the conduct of senior Justice and Interior Department officials, accusing prosecutors of indicting him despite knowing that a renovation of the pool was failing.
In a letter sent on Tuesday to the inspectors general for those agencies, lawyers for the former athlete, David Hearn, say the agencies ignored their own evidence in a rush to satisfy President Trump’s desire for criminal charges. Prosecutors then provided a court “blatantly false” information about when they became aware that the real culprit for the badly peeling liner in the pool was a botched renovation overseen by Mr. Trump, his lawyers wrote.
“Because of the actions of various D.O.J. and D.O.I. employees, Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he did not commit, threatened with incarceration of up to 10 years and endured the defaming of his name and reputation by high-ranking government officials,” Mr. Hearn’s lawyers wrote. Among the lawyers requesting the investigation is Michael R. Bromwich, a former inspector general at the Justice Department.
Ta, Evan. Photos from the Power to the People concert were the first time I ever saw a smile on Jack Smith's lovely face. He was having fun. To quote Patti Smith, 🎶People have the power!🎶
We're waiting for the cutting board to dry so we can do prep for our foraged lion's mane mushroom pot roast. Onion, garlic, carrots, tiny potatoes (including a few from our garden), parsnip, turnip, homemade veggie stock, red wine, herbs and spices -- all cooked in our beautiful vintage cast iron Dutch oven. Someone had discarded the Dutch oven on our block in the East Village. It had a tiny bit of rust inside the lid; quickly remedied. Beloved Meccalopolis researched it online. It's from a foundry in Chicago that burned to the ground in the 1930s. The great things people throw away! We'll let you know how our pot roast turns out. We already know it's going to be yummy.
We don't covet your old yellow one, because we have our beautiful old black one. I was shocked and amazed that it still had the handle, in perfect condition. The tiny rust spot on the inside of the lid was its only flaw, and that was remediated quickly. We are so very happy to have it!
I don't know where you live, Bitter, but check your local thrift shops and Craigslist. I'm always amazed when I find cast iron at one, but I suppose the people whose chore it is to clean out Mom's place don't know how to use it or care for it. I found ours sitting on top of a garbage can on our block. We've used it to bake bread and beans, and it's perfect for pot roast.
I got a Food Channel one. Was a reasonable price. Probably got it at Kohl’s. They do have sales once in a while. Don’t get one too small. Visualize a decent size roast with veggies capacity.
Here in San Diego, I wish to vent about PD47 allowing Iran to "wipe us out." Letting us all get killed seems a bit harsh. Although I can see his point. 4 out 5 Congressional Districts here are Dem, and expected to stay solid Dem, the 5 th is predicted to turn blue next month as well. He is turning Independents into Democrats here. Good Job Tubby.
But I am not the least bit afraid of getting wiped out. We have the 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, and THREE aircraft carriers stationed here, including the Lincoln who would like some payback I'm sure. Not to mention a lot of combat ships and the Pacific's submarine fleet here as well. Plus a ton of former military people retired here who remember how to pull a trigger.
Anyway, that's all I have to say about that.
🎶i pick up daddys on the playground, that’s how I spend my day now, loosen up the frown make them feel alive 🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7hHZnvjCbVw&ra=m
I plan to title the memoir of *my* personal Vietnam “Aneurysm Now.”
I love the smell of pennies in the morning. Smells like....
Jack Smith should smile more often – he looks ten years younger and way less intense! https://bsky.app/profile/kamalanation.bsky.social/post/3mx32wgktns2u
The Republicans are trying to legitimize Trump's criminal regime with phony prosecutions. So far, I think the only one that got traction was the neocon John Bolton, who copped a plea, ironically for the same crime as (one of the many) committed by Trump, who was saved by SCROTUS and the election.
I did not know that "hot daddy" was a literary genre.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/279053-hot-daddy
I'm becoming disillusioned about Liberalism's ability to defend itself in the face of hyper attenuated asymmetrical social public warfare the fascists are willing to engage in . . .
The institutions can't do shit if they're staffed by the unwilling, unfortunately.
𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬?
That's easy: I'd keep the reservation.
*Sets up barbecue on gallbladder’s lawn*
O.@
Hey...HEY!!!
Did you at least bring brats? And where are my goddamned Bits 'n Bites?!? The midterms are only three weeks away and I need some serious snackage!
Bits n' Bites? I thought you preferred Kibbles n' Bits.
Gallbladder calls them bits and bites, I call them nuts and bolts. I guess what you prefer is a childhood thing.
*puppyhood
We're making pot roast of foraged lion's mane mushroom, lots of veggies (onion, shallot, garlic, celery, carrot including the teensy ones from our garden, parsnip, turnip, tiny potatoes). good Portuguese red wine, homemade veggie stock. lots of herbs, and the first ingredient, love. You're invited.
[rings doorbell with absinthe in-hand]
I got about 20 pounds of the damn things, somehow there was always something else that needed to go in there.
Shreddies? Regular and frosted.
Four kinds of pretzels
Bugles, all kinds of cheesy bits. I got enough to fill a kiddie pool.
Yeah that's all very well and good, but it doesn't answer my...
...will you put that goddamned razor down!
Hey, is that all you can think about? What a drama queen!
It's an inch away from my eye!
PS hold still and stop wiggling
It would be a short statement at least. "Steven Cheung died today of suspected Steven Cheung causes".
"Direct all inquiries to Steven Cheung."
OT: Someone posted over the weekend, surprised to see network tv ads during NFL games for Paxton, even in games that didn't involve any Texas teams.
Others noticed it too. And, as I suspected, it was the only option for the PACs to run ads. Many local stations already have ad time booked and those with slots open are hella expensive right now. So, throwing Paxton ads on network NFL ads, where most viewers aren't even in Texas, was the cheapest expensive way to get their message out to Texas voters this close to the mid-terms.
So, yeah, desperation move.
https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2678014691/
I noticed a few more on the YouTubes about Talarico and "6 Genders!". I think I've seen like 2 anti-Hinojosa ads, everything seems to say they're terrified of Talarico.
So I guess “land of hope and dreams” and “no kings” are unpatriotic statements at this point
The White House is a branch office of the Kremlin.
Republicans love their country -- Russia.
krasnov! красный!
red is beautiful!
Their country is greed and domination. Russia is happy to facilitate that for them.
"Jack Smith's concept of individual rights could undermine our beloved tyrant!"
Paraphrasing The Simpsons
Jack Smith makes standing up to Trump corruption look cool and easy, but for sure you know what he’s dealing with is neither cool or easy.
No doubt (with a B!). Dude has brass balls.
I think thats what is so "hot" - he knows he's right and will defend it.
Just noting that the bar is in hell apparently. Someone with gumption and knows he's right is a thing of beauty this day and age. Too many dumbfucks, with a b, not knowing shit about shit but think they know everything.
speaking of the letter B, Donald Trump is dum.
"Never let 'em see you sweat."
Though we (I and the Wonkettelian snarkmob at large, et al) often look askance at the "manosphere", I would genuinely groove on having a beer (berlermakers!) with Jack Smith and Bruce Springsteen.
"And maybe Marlon Brando could be there by the fire
And sit and talk of Hollywood and the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome, and the first teepee.
Marlon Brando, Pocohontas, and me."
- Neil Young, "Pocohontas"
Quincy Jones on Marlon Brando:
Marlon would fuck anything! he'd fuck a mail box if he could.
and according to Truman Capote, so dumb it would make your skin crawl
the horror.... the horror....
"Whatta ya got?"
- THE WILD ONE
Lenny Bruce: "Put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud."
When Odd Slob wears a tee shirt, nobody can read what it says ‘cuz there is always so much food spillage slathered all over it
Go look at Jack Smith
Has the arms of a blacksmith
A real man, MAGA
fucking walking roll of paper towels right there....
I understood this reference.
The GOP idea of a "man" is someone who insults women, can't tie a necktie, doesn't pay his bills, can't drive, eats McDonalds, cheats on his wives, and who wears spanx and elevator shoes, while sporting fake hair, fake teeth, and a fake tan. You know -- an incel who has to use money or violence to get near any woman. Someone who has the conversational skills of a four-year-old.
OFF TOPIC:
𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲
Lawyers for a former Olympian who was cleared of charges of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are asking internal government watchdogs to investigate the conduct of senior Justice and Interior Department officials, accusing prosecutors of indicting him despite knowing that a renovation of the pool was failing.
In a letter sent on Tuesday to the inspectors general for those agencies, lawyers for the former athlete, David Hearn, say the agencies ignored their own evidence in a rush to satisfy President Trump’s desire for criminal charges. Prosecutors then provided a court “blatantly false” information about when they became aware that the real culprit for the badly peeling liner in the pool was a botched renovation overseen by Mr. Trump, his lawyers wrote.
“Because of the actions of various D.O.J. and D.O.I. employees, Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he did not commit, threatened with incarceration of up to 10 years and endured the defaming of his name and reputation by high-ranking government officials,” Mr. Hearn’s lawyers wrote. Among the lawyers requesting the investigation is Michael R. Bromwich, a former inspector general at the Justice Department.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/politics/reflecting-pool-vandalism-case.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlE.8YRG.XO8Kebh_ucFJ&smid=url-share
Noice. It's good to see Mr. Hearn putting the wood to them using resources that few of us have access to.
Ta, Evan. Photos from the Power to the People concert were the first time I ever saw a smile on Jack Smith's lovely face. He was having fun. To quote Patti Smith, 🎶People have the power!🎶
We're waiting for the cutting board to dry so we can do prep for our foraged lion's mane mushroom pot roast. Onion, garlic, carrots, tiny potatoes (including a few from our garden), parsnip, turnip, homemade veggie stock, red wine, herbs and spices -- all cooked in our beautiful vintage cast iron Dutch oven. Someone had discarded the Dutch oven on our block in the East Village. It had a tiny bit of rust inside the lid; quickly remedied. Beloved Meccalopolis researched it online. It's from a foundry in Chicago that burned to the ground in the 1930s. The great things people throw away! We'll let you know how our pot roast turns out. We already know it's going to be yummy.
Sounds wunderbar.
I have a silly mental image of employees tossing meat and veggies into the Dutch oven as they evacuate the fire.
I never used parsnips & turnips.
What do they taste like?
whatever you soak em in, and a bit sweet
SQUEE!!!!! I love them.
I will have to give’em a try.
A really good Dutch oven is a thing of lasting beauty. Everybody wants my old yellow one.
We don't covet your old yellow one, because we have our beautiful old black one. I was shocked and amazed that it still had the handle, in perfect condition. The tiny rust spot on the inside of the lid was its only flaw, and that was remediated quickly. We are so very happy to have it!
I love pot roast, and as soon as it gets really cold, will get off my ass, go get a Dutch oven, and cook me some.
Anyone want to recommend a particular brand or whatever? Also, what's a standard size?
I don't know where you live, Bitter, but check your local thrift shops and Craigslist. I'm always amazed when I find cast iron at one, but I suppose the people whose chore it is to clean out Mom's place don't know how to use it or care for it. I found ours sitting on top of a garbage can on our block. We've used it to bake bread and beans, and it's perfect for pot roast.
I got a Food Channel one. Was a reasonable price. Probably got it at Kohl’s. They do have sales once in a while. Don’t get one too small. Visualize a decent size roast with veggies capacity.
Mine is about a 14-inch diameter, unbranded and beat to shit inside.
We got a fairly inexpensive one, Our Home or somesuch name. Works great!
Yeah, I won't sweat it. It's not like it's high-tech equipment.
Get one with a ceramic lining, not nonstick. It’ll last forever.