Note to self: NEVER make Hollandaise sauce again. Jazus. Do you know how many cigs I smoked during the endless whisking? Hel, I even added flour AND and extra egg yolk. Hollandaise is good, but it ain't nectar of the gods. And I'm still trying to reduce it.
Stupid recipes that say "this will be easy." No, it most certainly will be not.
MO state legislator submits bill to offer $1k bounties for turning in "an illegal."
I refer you to Richard Pipes, discussing the process by which the Tsars of Russia degraded their people into the most abject of slaves:
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"It has been noted above that the Code of 1649 made one exception to the rule forbidding peasants to complain against landlords, and that was when the complaint concerned actions detrimental to the [local agents of the Tsar]. …
Denunciation would not have been half as effective a means of control were it not for the collective responsibility inherent in 'tialgo' [communal taxation]. Since the taxes and labour services of anyone who fled his … community fell on its remaining members…, the government has some assurance that tialgo-payers would attentively watch one another.…
So the state watched its subjects, and the subjects watched one another. The effect of this mutual surveillance on the collective mind of Russian society can be readily imagined. No one would allow someone else in his group or caste to improve his lot because it was as likely as not done at his expense. Self-interest required social levelling. The Russian was required to denounce and he was eager to do so. … Under such conditions, society could neither develop any sense of common cause nor undertake joint resistance against authority."
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As has always been the case, turning society against itself is a predecessor to mass enslavement.
Take from this what you will--at the end of the main part of my dream last night I dreamed that I was writing out that dream here on Wonkette, and it was frustrating for two reasons--one, I couldn't remember "Jane Fonda" and kept writing the wrong names while trying to tell y'all about that aspect of the dream, and then secondly I mentioned that in my dream there was a part involving my credit card and everyone here was like, "you need to cancel that! Cut it up!" and I was like, "at top it says it was a DREAM!" but nobody would listen.
In real life, husband brought home Earl Grey scones that look really good, and sound good for a cozy morning with coffee, but I can't drink tea at all, even a little, without IMMEDIATE action so I'm afraid to taste these. I wonder if there's a tiny enough amount, or that it being baked, would change the reaction?
I really want one, and also--I'm not all that sensitive to things--he KNOWS I can't have tea, so what the hell?
Seems kinda like that CEO’s killer is getting a huge police response, costing millions, that an ordinary citizen would not. A nineteen year old was murdered in broad daylight near my apartment, and the police did not even knock on doors even though the killer was known (motive robbery). Unequal justice
Of course. Even assuming the detectives would prefer to put equal work into both cases (I know, shut up), the media attention on this one would pressure them to put more effort on this.
This is why I am skeptical of the guy from the hostel. As far as the police have let out the only thing connecting the two are a casual appearance.
But the media has stated they are in fact the same person, but do nothing to follow up on why or ask why the police are calling him a "person of interest" rather than a "suspect".
Hell, a cop stubbed his toe here and the entire force went out to the hospital for a photo op. There was a mass shooting in the city at the time which got minimal attention from both the press and the police. They knew exactly who committed the mass shooting, but took two years before getting around to arresting him.
The media. A random 19 year old gets killed? Are they a very pretty white girl? If not, the media doesn't even notice that story until/unless their killer is found to be an undocumented immigrant. But a CEO? That's ratings for days.
Afternoon spuggers, a wild old day here due to Storm Darragh. Rowing was cancelled so it was the exercise bike and kettlebells. It's the sort of dreich day my Dad used to declare as "in bed or out of barracks", you either hunker down and don't bother anyone else or you go out for the day.
You remember that plan to deport all the immigrants on day one?
Remember how that plan depended upon the military?
Well you can forget that plan. Because on Friday morning the Health Insurance lobby FLOODED congress with new legislation making the federal government take on the task of protecting Insurance companies with AOT:K National Guard units.
That whole mass deportation will have to be done with sheriiff's deputies and vigilantes.
Because one thing the Oligarches of America have always demanded is the constitutional right for "the common defense" to be, first and foremost, a defense of the ruling class property and lives.
So wait a minute... the insurance companies kill people by not covering their maladies or providing treatment and the answer is to have the fucking National Guard play secret service to the CEOs?
Members of the US military do not don their uniforms to provide guards for the too damned fucking entitled.
The shit is really going to hit the fan with this crap. I know of several veterans who will become utterly LIVID if this entirely unacceptable shit is made manifest.
Every time there is a big enough riot in any city where business interests are being burned you can absolutely depend upon the NG being mobilized, deployed and given orders to shoot looters on sight.
EVERY time. I am old enough to remember the Long Hot Summer of 1967. Most of those riots ended with curfews and NG units patrolling the streets with guns.
Every time there is a big enough riot in any city where business interests are being burned you can absolutely depend upon the NG being mobilized, deployed and given orders to shoot looters on sight.
Ugh! And the health insurance companies will bill us in higher premiums for protecting them. We need to get rid of private health insurance - Medicare for all!
"A motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated declaration of martial law this week has failed after members of his party boycotted the vote."
Everybody who likes art: Germany is about to slash arts funding
https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-still-pay-for-arts-funding/a-70947145
This just in: the entire world sucks, is crap
The Federal Gov’t here cut funding to Sculpture by the Sea.
OT: Five dead, others missing after The Hague flat explosions
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clykk717n1ko
Daaaaaaaammn...already in Damascus
Bashir I'm sure is on a plane to Tehran
To have seen that city at its height would have been quite something.
Note to self: NEVER make Hollandaise sauce again. Jazus. Do you know how many cigs I smoked during the endless whisking? Hel, I even added flour AND and extra egg yolk. Hollandaise is good, but it ain't nectar of the gods. And I'm still trying to reduce it.
Stupid recipes that say "this will be easy." No, it most certainly will be not.
Got a bad lesson about plastic lemon juice, recently. Tried it as a short-cut in a recipe and should have not used it.
If RFK jr. came t'my place for Christmas, I'd give'im the cold shoulder, but fear he'd only take it if it was road kill.
Hey Hooper! Thank you for your service.
We are lucky enough to live in Mexico now, and there is a great Peruvian Restaurant nearby. Never had Pisco Sours anywhere else, but I love them.
You know, I'm kind of optimistic about the next year; CEO's are scared and MSM are bleeding viewers and subscribers.
The real news is it was just one.
...so far
https://xcancel.com/krassenstein/status/1865368271890812949#m
MO state legislator submits bill to offer $1k bounties for turning in "an illegal."
I refer you to Richard Pipes, discussing the process by which the Tsars of Russia degraded their people into the most abject of slaves:
-------------------
"It has been noted above that the Code of 1649 made one exception to the rule forbidding peasants to complain against landlords, and that was when the complaint concerned actions detrimental to the [local agents of the Tsar]. …
Denunciation would not have been half as effective a means of control were it not for the collective responsibility inherent in 'tialgo' [communal taxation]. Since the taxes and labour services of anyone who fled his … community fell on its remaining members…, the government has some assurance that tialgo-payers would attentively watch one another.…
So the state watched its subjects, and the subjects watched one another. The effect of this mutual surveillance on the collective mind of Russian society can be readily imagined. No one would allow someone else in his group or caste to improve his lot because it was as likely as not done at his expense. Self-interest required social levelling. The Russian was required to denounce and he was eager to do so. … Under such conditions, society could neither develop any sense of common cause nor undertake joint resistance against authority."
--------------------
As has always been the case, turning society against itself is a predecessor to mass enslavement.
Take from this what you will--at the end of the main part of my dream last night I dreamed that I was writing out that dream here on Wonkette, and it was frustrating for two reasons--one, I couldn't remember "Jane Fonda" and kept writing the wrong names while trying to tell y'all about that aspect of the dream, and then secondly I mentioned that in my dream there was a part involving my credit card and everyone here was like, "you need to cancel that! Cut it up!" and I was like, "at top it says it was a DREAM!" but nobody would listen.
In real life, husband brought home Earl Grey scones that look really good, and sound good for a cozy morning with coffee, but I can't drink tea at all, even a little, without IMMEDIATE action so I'm afraid to taste these. I wonder if there's a tiny enough amount, or that it being baked, would change the reaction?
I really want one, and also--I'm not all that sensitive to things--he KNOWS I can't have tea, so what the hell?
I bet it was a brain fart where tea = liquid.
Or he’s knocking you off for insurance money.🤷♀️
I just mentioned it to him, and he's like, "well, the thing that makes it Earl Grey is an additive".
"Yes, Sweetheart--and they add that bergamot to TEA."
"Oh, so you think that's a problem?"
For a smart guy he's so oblivious.
I'm going to try a bite and then await the coming upset.
Nice knowing you, anyway.
Seems kinda like that CEO’s killer is getting a huge police response, costing millions, that an ordinary citizen would not. A nineteen year old was murdered in broad daylight near my apartment, and the police did not even knock on doors even though the killer was known (motive robbery). Unequal justice
https://abc13.com/post/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-update-manhunt-goes-nationwide-police-learn-suspect-murder-brian-thompson-left-nyc-bus/15626563/
Yokel murdered = not news
Fuckillionaire murdered = news.
Should we not question the unequal allocation of police resources? Tupac
Of course. Even assuming the detectives would prefer to put equal work into both cases (I know, shut up), the media attention on this one would pressure them to put more effort on this.
This is why I am skeptical of the guy from the hostel. As far as the police have let out the only thing connecting the two are a casual appearance.
But the media has stated they are in fact the same person, but do nothing to follow up on why or ask why the police are calling him a "person of interest" rather than a "suspect".
I mean, I know they go loco when a cop gets killed, understandable, but how is this more important than any other murder?
Hell, a cop stubbed his toe here and the entire force went out to the hospital for a photo op. There was a mass shooting in the city at the time which got minimal attention from both the press and the police. They knew exactly who committed the mass shooting, but took two years before getting around to arresting him.
The media. A random 19 year old gets killed? Are they a very pretty white girl? If not, the media doesn't even notice that story until/unless their killer is found to be an undocumented immigrant. But a CEO? That's ratings for days.
Afternoon spuggers, a wild old day here due to Storm Darragh. Rowing was cancelled so it was the exercise bike and kettlebells. It's the sort of dreich day my Dad used to declare as "in bed or out of barracks", you either hunker down and don't bother anyone else or you go out for the day.
You remember that plan to deport all the immigrants on day one?
Remember how that plan depended upon the military?
Well you can forget that plan. Because on Friday morning the Health Insurance lobby FLOODED congress with new legislation making the federal government take on the task of protecting Insurance companies with AOT:K National Guard units.
That whole mass deportation will have to be done with sheriiff's deputies and vigilantes.
Because one thing the Oligarches of America have always demanded is the constitutional right for "the common defense" to be, first and foremost, a defense of the ruling class property and lives.
So wait a minute... the insurance companies kill people by not covering their maladies or providing treatment and the answer is to have the fucking National Guard play secret service to the CEOs?
fuck that noise.
Members of the US military do not don their uniforms to provide guards for the too damned fucking entitled.
The shit is really going to hit the fan with this crap. I know of several veterans who will become utterly LIVID if this entirely unacceptable shit is made manifest.
Every time there is a big enough riot in any city where business interests are being burned you can absolutely depend upon the NG being mobilized, deployed and given orders to shoot looters on sight.
EVERY time. I am old enough to remember the Long Hot Summer of 1967. Most of those riots ended with curfews and NG units patrolling the streets with guns.
It’s gonna be “sheriffs” and “deputies.” I’m thinking Portland, but West Texas-style
Not for long.
Those poorly armed and trained “Immigration law enforcers” are going to be driving into neighborhoods filled with guns, ammo and plenty of rage.
Every law enforcement technique they know will go right out the window when the bullets start flying.
CNA ranks decimated not good for healthcare.
Can the National Guard be used to protect private companies?
Every time there is a big enough riot in any city where business interests are being burned you can absolutely depend upon the NG being mobilized, deployed and given orders to shoot looters on sight.
EVERY time.
In theory, no. In practice? We'll find out.
They fired on striking miners in WV during the Blair Mountain saga. They shot kids at Kent State.
Any recent examples? And was the latter to protect private property?
Also hurricane Katrina
In geological time, that's nothing.
Ugh! And the health insurance companies will bill us in higher premiums for protecting them. We need to get rid of private health insurance - Medicare for all!
I’m having way too much fun playing Neil Young’s “Helpless,” with a capo at the 2nd fret instead of open.
Been meaning to leave this for Tetman Callis (your substack won’t allow comments unless paid subscriber?)
“No man is a pirate, unless his contemporaries agree to call him so.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
* Commenting on Francis Drake’s path to knighthood...
"A motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated declaration of martial law this week has failed after members of his party boycotted the vote."
Hmm. . . is that an echo of history I hear?
"I could've pulled that off. My lover Kim tells me I'm the very smartest presidenter." -Trumpler