(It needed explaining to my husband because he’d never heard of “vote, vote, vote like a baby stoat,” and I didn’t realize he’d been living under a rock for 12 years)
I have been there, though another finger, and it was some idiot's pet ferret with shitty socialization who was trying to attack one of mine. I had to demonstrate the "safety hold" for the idiot, too. MY kids never acted like hers.
A little iodine took care of any potential problems :-D
Also? Rescue squirrel actually bit a finger once and held on like a pit bull. Fun!
NOTE: The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel
I've never heard "vote, vote, vote like a baby stoat" either. My introduction to the word "stoat" was from a Bugs Bunny cartoon where the Tasmanian Devil's diet was listed.
The seed oil conspiracy is mostly pseudoscience, based on the idea that canola oil oxidizes when cooked. Or something along those lines.
Now, there IS a lot of evidence that we should try to eat a variety of oil sources. Biochemically, our brains need a certain amount of EPA and DHA (mostly EPA) and certain kinds of oils are definitely not as good for you in the long haul as others. (Did you know coconut oil has the most saturated fat out of all the oils? That's why it's solid at room temp.) There's also been some buzz about C150 lately, which we can get from grass fed dairy fat.
But all that means is that canola oil, or peanut oil, or palm kernel oil, or sunflower oil, or walnut oil, should not be the ONLY source of fat in your diet.
In the same way that beef tallow or butter or margarine should not be the only source of fat in your diet.
Eat a variety of foods! AND eat a variety of fat sources.
You can probably get away with only eating oily fish, though, since that's definitely got the good stuff.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is ‘Nazi.’ Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
Someone is trying to rock the vote in the Northwest. Police are looking for this Volvo linked to ballot box fires in Oregon and Washington "Finding the car — and the person or people believed to have used it to target ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver — may not be straightforward. The car lacked a front license plate and had what police called an “unknown rear plate.” Sounds likes Sovereign Citizen BS from here. The place is crawling with them. Three boxes burned. Anyone in Washington or Oregon who used boxes in those areas can check online if their ballot was received. I mailed mine in. I recommend that for this year at least.
Who knew that the FDA is “against “ hyperbaric chambers! I guess all our wound and burn patients are now added to the list of “illegals”. Seriously, I fear RFK Jr has a lot of drug induced brain damage.
Salon has a piece today arguing for pro-Palestinian voters to vote for Harris from a first generation Palestinian-American, who I hope has a bit more credibility than a yelly old white guy:
"Palestinians can’t afford a protest vote: Muslim and Arab American voters must make their choice"
Or maybe not. This bitch makes it clear that despite Arab-Americans' real and legitimate grievance over Gaza, the impetus of the movement is just cover for the Tankie crusade to destroy their Democratic rivals for the left, the only thing they have ever given a damn about:
"Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it"
Tankies care about Gaza the same way evangelicals care about babies. As an excuse. The entirety of their politics is "I hate liberals just as much as Republicans do."
Aussies are much smarter than Americans. They can distinguish between hate filled bullshit and the mythical "Free Speech."
Open racism is such an integral part of MAGA that they just can't help spewing it out at every opportunity, even when it does not help their campaign. Their stupidity and hatefulness is truly amazing.
Riding your lawnmower into your pool? Man, I sure wish trump or vantz would do some mowin'.
MAGA is the American version of the Taliban. Project 2025 just confirmed it.
1.) Why is Gene Krupa's drum kit at the front of the stage instead of on a platform in the back like all the other drummers. Are all the other drummers doing it wrong?
2.) What's wrong with olive oil, and is that considered a seed oil?
In the Big Band and Jazz era, drummers were more out front, often it was their band. When R&R shows got really rolling by the late 60's the "down the line" stage setup with drums in the middle, flanked by amplifiers became the model. The Grateful Dead were actually the trailblazers with the rugs and the amps and the setup.. I saw Levon Helm with his own band in the 90's, he setup on the front of the stage, it was his band.
Russian Circles, an epic post-rock/post-metal* trio, puts their drummer, David Turncrantz, front and center, because he's an outstanding drummer. That's the only modern example I can think of.
Most bands put the drummer on a riser, so the beat carries out, where the band and audience can hear and feel it. Who started that? Oh, I forget their name, had "beat" in it somewhere, drummer's name was Ringo...
*I think that just means heavy, and mostly instrumental.
As to your second question, I was focusing on where we'd get enough tallow. How many more cows would we have to raise? Maybe the answer to your question is to be found in the term "frying oil". I don't think that is a common use for flavorful oils like olive oil.
Your hed gif source info:
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/baby-stoats-doing-their-civic-duty
(It needed explaining to my husband because he’d never heard of “vote, vote, vote like a baby stoat,” and I didn’t realize he’d been living under a rock for 12 years)
https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/942d4043-5466-445b-a20d-1c54c1098c56?utm_source=share
BBC has your info on the difference between stoats and weasels: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-stoat-and-a-weasel
Apparently I've been living under that same rock. Your husband must be the exceptionally charming person I met there.
May their votes (figuratively) rip the flesh of the Trumpists!
Rzzzzz!
They're all so adorable.
I can't get it out of my head.
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1163494078/photo/monty-pythons-flying-circus.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=gi&k=20&c=HmYjNHeTqzI92quhf7ApgP2fVUV0UeHvPxdySTlJPUI=
Three minutes of a weasel just weaseling around.
https://youtu.be/QzBZCao0kLE?si=3d-fSh8-FfckkSoe
I've seen Ozzy before!! Aren't they a riot!? And those little, wild ones are waaayyy faster and scarier than our domesticated funsters.
I'm reminded of my pet weasel. I named her Ellie. Ellie Weasel.
Cousin of Lefty Weasel? https://youtu.be/8tbrLDA18C4
------------->>>> !!!!
Photo of weasel riding on the back of an in flight woodpecker:
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-stoat-and-a-weasel
Actually go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw-OOdfogUQ&t=1s
CALLED IT.
KNEW those were stoats, and NO, I've never heard that phrase.
I'm a former, 20-year ferret Mommy and I'll die on the hill that there are no pets more fun.
WEASELS FTW!!!!
A ferret with its teeth through ones thumb isn't necessarily that fun.
I have been there, though another finger, and it was some idiot's pet ferret with shitty socialization who was trying to attack one of mine. I had to demonstrate the "safety hold" for the idiot, too. MY kids never acted like hers.
A little iodine took care of any potential problems :-D
Also? Rescue squirrel actually bit a finger once and held on like a pit bull. Fun!
Or that tender bit of flesh inside the elbow.
Try a nip to the upper eyelid! :-D
They can be real rascals when they're little and learning social niceties.
Are you aware of the Fuffy Ferrets channel on YouTube? You might enjoy it.
Noooo, thank you and also, goddamn you for the temptation, you enabler!!!
*two of mine were Maine rescues: Baxter and Margaret ❤️
RZZZZZ!
Indeed they are Stoats not Weasels, you can tell by the little black tip 'o the tail.
They're both. Stoats are Mustelidae, aka WEEEEASELSSSS!!!
*as are actual, literal Weasels in their various sorts*
Larger than Weasels, and Weasels are larger than Lesser Weasels, Ferrets being the largest of the Weasels. RZZZZZ!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae
NOTE: The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel
RZZZZ.
So get a witch's shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The weasel family
Snap! Snap!
TRY MARTENS.
Got ya, suckah!
And I'm not even going WOLVERINE.
Good! Go Green!
Cute! And smart! VOTE!!!!!!!!
Those wee creatures are ALL of the adorbs.
I still hear that phrase in my head, and I love it.
I've never heard "vote, vote, vote like a baby stoat" either. My introduction to the word "stoat" was from a Bugs Bunny cartoon where the Tasmanian Devil's diet was listed.
"Eats Aardvarks, Ants, Bears, Boars, Cats, Bats, Dogs, Hogs, Elephants, Antelopes, Pheasants, Ferrets, Giraffes, Gazelles, Stoats, Goats, Shoats, Ostriches, Lions, Jackals, Muskrats, Minks, Dingoes, Zebras, Foxes, Boxes, Octopus, Penguins, People, Warthogs, Yaks, Gnus, Newts, Walrus---Wildebeests. Page two: Moose, Mice, Moles, Snipes, Elk, Wapati, Tortoise, Road Runner, Elands, Foxes, Wolves, Guinea Hen, Vultures, Eagles, Humming Birds, Squids, Salamanders, Water Buffalo, Bison, Kangaroos, Pigeons, Daws, Unicorns, Vixens, Octopus, Ox, Penguins, Widgeons, Wart Hogs, Yaks, Newts, Walrus, Gnus, Wildebeests. And especially RABBITS!"
Wapati... Say WApati? waPATi? wapaTI? Maybe just "elk"...
There are some duplicates on that list.
"You said littering twice."
"I like littering."
"I take no responsibility."
https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil
Hey - who hasn’t went back for seconds -
Well, it's certainly in character.
Dated that one in college
The seed oil conspiracy is mostly pseudoscience, based on the idea that canola oil oxidizes when cooked. Or something along those lines.
Now, there IS a lot of evidence that we should try to eat a variety of oil sources. Biochemically, our brains need a certain amount of EPA and DHA (mostly EPA) and certain kinds of oils are definitely not as good for you in the long haul as others. (Did you know coconut oil has the most saturated fat out of all the oils? That's why it's solid at room temp.) There's also been some buzz about C150 lately, which we can get from grass fed dairy fat.
But all that means is that canola oil, or peanut oil, or palm kernel oil, or sunflower oil, or walnut oil, should not be the ONLY source of fat in your diet.
In the same way that beef tallow or butter or margarine should not be the only source of fat in your diet.
Eat a variety of foods! AND eat a variety of fat sources.
You can probably get away with only eating oily fish, though, since that's definitely got the good stuff.
Daily Grail Quote of the Day:
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is ‘Nazi.’ Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
A.R. Moxon
Someone is trying to rock the vote in the Northwest. Police are looking for this Volvo linked to ballot box fires in Oregon and Washington "Finding the car — and the person or people believed to have used it to target ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver — may not be straightforward. The car lacked a front license plate and had what police called an “unknown rear plate.” Sounds likes Sovereign Citizen BS from here. The place is crawling with them. Three boxes burned. Anyone in Washington or Oregon who used boxes in those areas can check online if their ballot was received. I mailed mine in. I recommend that for this year at least.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/10/police-are-looking-for-this-volvo-linked-to-ballot-box-fires-in-oregon-and-washington.html
TBF, chips fried in beef tallow are the ONLY chips worth eating. And I say this as someone who has lived in Britlandia.
Are you talking potato chips or French fries? I have never tried tallow ones. Does it taste like beef?
Fries, or “chips” in Britland. Tastes like savory yumminess.
Who knew that the FDA is “against “ hyperbaric chambers! I guess all our wound and burn patients are now added to the list of “illegals”. Seriously, I fear RFK Jr has a lot of drug induced brain damage.
These parrots must read Wonkette. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w79nQibBn8
Happy to see the format return to easier to follow comment treads!
If you don't like seed oils...don't use them?
Also, vitamins and such are totally available.
Nobody's keeping you from anything, not even stuff that might be dangerous or misguided--you're fine, my dude.
He means the phony vitamins in the supplements beings like Alex Jones sells.
Salon has a piece today arguing for pro-Palestinian voters to vote for Harris from a first generation Palestinian-American, who I hope has a bit more credibility than a yelly old white guy:
"Palestinians can’t afford a protest vote: Muslim and Arab American voters must make their choice"
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/27/palestinians-cant-afford-a-vote-muslim-and-arab-american-must-make-their-choice/
Or maybe not. This bitch makes it clear that despite Arab-Americans' real and legitimate grievance over Gaza, the impetus of the movement is just cover for the Tankie crusade to destroy their Democratic rivals for the left, the only thing they have ever given a damn about:
"Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/24/michigan-democrats-failed-gaza-voices-from-the-swing-states
Tankies care about Gaza the same way evangelicals care about babies. As an excuse. The entirety of their politics is "I hate liberals just as much as Republicans do."
See also: the green party. And Briana grey joy.
Green = Tankie. It’s not that way everywhere, and it wasn't always that way here. But in today's America, they are one and the same.
YUP
Trump statue loses head. More of that on the way....
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/pop-up-statue-donald-trump-nude-woman-portland-10272024/
Story ends, for now. And just like that, Trump pop-up statue next to famous Portland bronze nude disappears from downtown (the plaque too but the base is still there) https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/10/and-just-like-that-trump-pop-up-statue-next-to-famous-portland-bronze-nude-disappears-from-downtown.html
They look an awful lot like my Scottish Fold special-needs kitty. Glad I don't have to do that rant again.
The anti-seed oil campaign is really just astroturfing by Big Arterial Clog.
To be honest, McDonald's french fries were better when they used beef tallow.
We have a weakness for meat-flavored flavors.
Cookies were also better when they used pure hydrogenated oil.
Another Big Stent dark money group.
Aussies are much smarter than Americans. They can distinguish between hate filled bullshit and the mythical "Free Speech."
Open racism is such an integral part of MAGA that they just can't help spewing it out at every opportunity, even when it does not help their campaign. Their stupidity and hatefulness is truly amazing.
Riding your lawnmower into your pool? Man, I sure wish trump or vantz would do some mowin'.
MAGA is the American version of the Taliban. Project 2025 just confirmed it.
Guessing RFKJ has no problem with whale oil though ... 🐋
#FREEWILLY
Well it is animal-based. And from endangered species even. His pants get tight when he thinks about it.
I has questions:
1.) Why is Gene Krupa's drum kit at the front of the stage instead of on a platform in the back like all the other drummers. Are all the other drummers doing it wrong?
2.) What's wrong with olive oil, and is that considered a seed oil?
In the Big Band and Jazz era, drummers were more out front, often it was their band. When R&R shows got really rolling by the late 60's the "down the line" stage setup with drums in the middle, flanked by amplifiers became the model. The Grateful Dead were actually the trailblazers with the rugs and the amps and the setup.. I saw Levon Helm with his own band in the 90's, he setup on the front of the stage, it was his band.
Russian Circles, an epic post-rock/post-metal* trio, puts their drummer, David Turncrantz, front and center, because he's an outstanding drummer. That's the only modern example I can think of.
Most bands put the drummer on a riser, so the beat carries out, where the band and audience can hear and feel it. Who started that? Oh, I forget their name, had "beat" in it somewhere, drummer's name was Ringo...
*I think that just means heavy, and mostly instrumental.
As to your second question, I was focusing on where we'd get enough tallow. How many more cows would we have to raise? Maybe the answer to your question is to be found in the term "frying oil". I don't think that is a common use for flavorful oils like olive oil.
Star drummers like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich led their own big bands and got to put their kits out front.
I got to see Buddy Rich in his later years. He sat at the back of the stage.