ALL the skandahoovians got in on that action, except the Finns and the Sami. Hard to believe that that titchy little peninsula between the North Sea and the Baltic used to rule not only Norway but all the relatively warm parts of Sweden, plus a hefty chunk bitten out of Britain (the Danelaw).
My kitten-boy just brought a bleeding, half-dead mouse onto my bed. He was all hunched over it like I was gonna make sure his sib didn't steal it or something. Ugh, boyo, put the poor little bugger out of its misery on the floor, please. I shut him and the mouse (that he hadn't dropped) in the bathroom. Either it'll escape or he'll dispatch it.
I am SO pissed at Rashida Jones right now for canceling Mehdi Hasan's show. Brings to mind when Martin Bashir was ousted. Sure, officially he "resigned".
It is such a hit at work this morning, I give you free of charge, the Sweet Hot Chili Sauce recipe
feel free to add cranberries... :)
You need a food processor to chop up the bits just right, any chopper will do, no need to be fancy, I used the Ninja express chop which is like 20 bucks at Walmart
5 red hot chili peppers (no need for Thai). Cut the tops off and quarter them (don’t pull out the seeds!) – into the Ninja!
8 cloves of garlic either pressed or just skinned and into the Ninja
An equal quantity of fresh ginger skinned and cut into chonks and into the Ninja!
Put it on full whack until all the bits are tiny.
Get a saucepan
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 quarter cup red wine vinegar
All the good bits from the Ninja
5 TBSP Worcestershire sauce for umami flavor
Put it on medium heat until it starts to boil, then simmer and stir. As the steam comes off, it will slowly thicken. Keep cooking it so it continues to thicken and when the
Steaming becomes slow, take it off the heat.
You can use it directly on top of grilled chicken or pork, you can use it as a marinade, but I would NOT use it to cure pinkeye. Maybe get sweet and sour chicken from the Chinese joint and use this as a dipping sauce!
I feel like all this focus on Kissinger and his war crimes is taking attention off the accomplishments of Vladimir Putin in the field. How many invasions and genocides does a guy have to do to get some recognition?
First, I believe Putin will have his day in hell; but second I believe there is an important thing happening in the conversation around Kissinger -- far too many Democrats have held him up as an exemplar of what the U.S.'s presence should be on the world stage (see H. Clinton, B. Clinton, and B. Obama's past statements about valuing his friendship and advice) without the barest acknowledgement that he was anti-democracy and created entire platforms of thought which excused indiscriminate killing of poor people and minorities. It is because of Kissinger that the US supported dictators in Latin America instead of democracies.
"check out this rundown of the time a scammy company tried to make a “drinkable sunscreen” from James Welsh, a makeup artist whose YouTube videos about bad TikTok beauty “hacks” and deep dives on sketchy beauty brands I seriously cannot stop watching"
“It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future … which meant I had to break the law,” Huffman told CNN affiliate KABC News in Los Angeles on Thursday.
I really feel for these rich celebrities just trying to get by as best they can.
If she was only good enough to get into Cal-Irvine or Cal St Fullerton or just Junior College, then that's what it is and she can make the most of what she's got.
Aw come on Julianna Margulies. It hurt when we lost Randy Quaid to psychosis because of “Cousin Eddie,” but you were always so talented and sweet. Dammit, what is wrong with these people.
Remember that MSNBC, as is NBC, as is Universal, are owned by Comcast, which is OWNED & RUN by a bunch of right-wing billionaires. ABC, owned by Disney - yep, right-wing billionaires.
I could go on, but NONE of the major networks are owned by liberals - period.
What happened was that when Rupert Murdoch bought 20th Century Fox, he did what the three main networks - ABC, CBS, NBC were doing. They were creating shows that skewed liberal. So the Dirty Digger, being a businessman first, created the Fox TV network (not cable, that came later).
No American network would give British comedian Tracy Ullman the time of day, but Rupes would, having been ensconced in UK media for ages.
And the Ullman show spawned ''The Simpsons'' and other similar shows, and also at a certain point Fox had FIVE SHOWS ON FEATURING BLACK CASTS when the other 3 networks had NONE. Rupes saw a void and filled it.
What I am trying to show here is that Murdoch made his money by putting on things that were popular with all sorts of people, not just boring old white people.
Of course once cable starting booming and CNN became popular, and Fox was an established name in TV, Murdoch was able to create the Fox News CABLE network.
So we have only ourselves to blame by accepting the LIE that the MSM has been liberal for decades.
IT HAS NOT
And this made it easier for rich, white, bigoted conservatives to snatch up the major cable and broadcast networks.
Mind you, to some extent they are just following Rupert's model. Let's give them 'liberal' TeeVee shows on over-the-air stations. Let's let them pretend that MSNBC is their progressive alternative, and now with the WarnerDiscovery right-wing über-bigot David Zaslov owning CNN, well, I think we've seen the results there.
So I am not surprised that they got rid of Medhi, whom with Ali Velshi and Rachel Maddow were/are my faves. And it was not important to me that two of them are Muslim, and one is a lesbian. I am neither. But they TELL/TOLD THE TRUTH.
I am an old, straight white guy, and I trust most of the other straight white guys in this country less and less every day.
"I am an old, straight white guy, and I trust most of the other straight white guys in this country less and less every day."
Same on all counts.
Thanks for the information. I had been wondering what the connection between Fox news and Fox network was. It just seemed so strange that one network would cover all those bases
Absolutely. One has to remember that like many, conservatives their main interest is making more money. Rupert Murdoch is one prime example of that.
In the 1997 James Bond film,''Tomorrow Never Dies'' there is a media mogul called Elliot Carver (clearly based on Murdoch) who manages through his Fox-like company to arrange a fight (based on false informantion) between the Chinese and the British, and as such Bond and a Chinese agent have to fight to prevent an all-out war.
It's actually a really good film and one that people that don't think this kind of thing could happen should watch and think what has actually happened since 1997...
It’s an electro “Over the Rainbow” by German artist Marusha. Listen to it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/over-the-rainbow-techno-style
What is the purpose of this?
If someone did a mash-up of that version and the one by Sam Harris, we would achieve nuclear fusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZyjSuOrRBw
Stay away from the brown acid!
Damn, 'Tini, have you been hitting the acid again? :-D
I kinda feel like “German electro” speaks for itself 😆
"German electro" made me think of Techno Viking!
I love that guy! Although why am I remembering him as Danish?
Vikings are Danish? I think it was at a German festival?
ALL the skandahoovians got in on that action, except the Finns and the Sami. Hard to believe that that titchy little peninsula between the North Sea and the Baltic used to rule not only Norway but all the relatively warm parts of Sweden, plus a hefty chunk bitten out of Britain (the Danelaw).
It was Germany. It’s my memory that’s flawed.
My kitten-boy just brought a bleeding, half-dead mouse onto my bed. He was all hunched over it like I was gonna make sure his sib didn't steal it or something. Ugh, boyo, put the poor little bugger out of its misery on the floor, please. I shut him and the mouse (that he hadn't dropped) in the bathroom. Either it'll escape or he'll dispatch it.
My cat has been bringing me very much alive and healthy chipmunks 😬
I am SO pissed at Rashida Jones right now for canceling Mehdi Hasan's show. Brings to mind when Martin Bashir was ousted. Sure, officially he "resigned".
me too. love me some mehdi.
At least she isn't the Rashida Jones I liked.
Actress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Jones_(television_executive)
It's Quincy's daughter, the one from SNL.
And boy he must be disappointed in her lacklustre acting.
It is such a hit at work this morning, I give you free of charge, the Sweet Hot Chili Sauce recipe
feel free to add cranberries... :)
You need a food processor to chop up the bits just right, any chopper will do, no need to be fancy, I used the Ninja express chop which is like 20 bucks at Walmart
5 red hot chili peppers (no need for Thai). Cut the tops off and quarter them (don’t pull out the seeds!) – into the Ninja!
8 cloves of garlic either pressed or just skinned and into the Ninja
An equal quantity of fresh ginger skinned and cut into chonks and into the Ninja!
Put it on full whack until all the bits are tiny.
Get a saucepan
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 quarter cup red wine vinegar
All the good bits from the Ninja
5 TBSP Worcestershire sauce for umami flavor
Put it on medium heat until it starts to boil, then simmer and stir. As the steam comes off, it will slowly thicken. Keep cooking it so it continues to thicken and when the
Steaming becomes slow, take it off the heat.
You can use it directly on top of grilled chicken or pork, you can use it as a marinade, but I would NOT use it to cure pinkeye. Maybe get sweet and sour chicken from the Chinese joint and use this as a dipping sauce!
ENJOY!!
seriously, this shit is "go start a food truck" good.... NOM NOM NOM!!!!!
Any sunscreen is drinkable if you're not a coward.
Finally Henry Kissinger is dead. After a century of war crimes and getting away with them. RIP
I feel like all this focus on Kissinger and his war crimes is taking attention off the accomplishments of Vladimir Putin in the field. How many invasions and genocides does a guy have to do to get some recognition?
First, I believe Putin will have his day in hell; but second I believe there is an important thing happening in the conversation around Kissinger -- far too many Democrats have held him up as an exemplar of what the U.S.'s presence should be on the world stage (see H. Clinton, B. Clinton, and B. Obama's past statements about valuing his friendship and advice) without the barest acknowledgement that he was anti-democracy and created entire platforms of thought which excused indiscriminate killing of poor people and minorities. It is because of Kissinger that the US supported dictators in Latin America instead of democracies.
"check out this rundown of the time a scammy company tried to make a “drinkable sunscreen” from James Welsh, a makeup artist whose YouTube videos about bad TikTok beauty “hacks” and deep dives on sketchy beauty brands I seriously cannot stop watching"
Thanks Robyn. Subscribed!
Felicity Huffman on college admissions scandal: ‘I had to give my daughter a chance at a future’ -
https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/felicity-huffman-college-admissions-scandal-interview/index.html
“It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future … which meant I had to break the law,” Huffman told CNN affiliate KABC News in Los Angeles on Thursday.
I really feel for these rich celebrities just trying to get by as best they can.
The world needs ditch diggers too, Felicity.
If she was only good enough to get into Cal-Irvine or Cal St Fullerton or just Junior College, then that's what it is and she can make the most of what she's got.
I guess she couldn't afford to hire 17 tutors to get her progeny up to speed.
She makes it sound as if she had to boink the principal, like Forrest Gump's mom.
It was either that or hope the kid was qualified to get in on her own merits.
Maris Callas is indeed one of the greats, but she sin't no Charpini and Brancato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7g78J4SRA
I kind of love the prescience of this 1963 article I found thanks to the rabbit hole I went down following Martini's TABS this morning:
https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1301
"Who do you think you are, Kitty Wells?"
Exactly...and shut up, Mom!
That was very interesting. Thanks!
Our esteemed Wonkette writers will be fighting over who gets to write a post about this:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/christian-ziegler-florida-gop-chair-sexual-assault-moms-for-liberty-1234906540/
I am for shocked!
(starts chanting) Evan! Evan! Evan! Evan!
I wish I was still capable of being shocked by this sort of thing.
Of course they are a couple of total hypocrites.
is anyone, anywhere surprised by this news?
Maybe the Wonkette writers could all band together and create a polyphonic post, or even a rock opera.
Do I risk turning on the radio/Spotify and being sent to Whamhalla on the very first day of Whamagedon?
Or do sit and do my university work in silence?
Hard choice.
Aw come on Julianna Margulies. It hurt when we lost Randy Quaid to psychosis because of “Cousin Eddie,” but you were always so talented and sweet. Dammit, what is wrong with these people.
She looks so odd in one of the images on Google ... like she's gotten an eating disorder or has gotten too into Ozempic
Dennis Q is fucked up too...
Whoa. I think I have to pay for Max (no), but that first Dr. Phil episode. That lady is crazy.
"MSNBC draws backlash for canceling Mehdi Hasan show"
Welp...there goes the last vestige of legitimacy of the MSM...I always suspected that even MSNBC wasn't to be entirely trusted...
Medhi was the ONE GUY I pointed to to say that MSM wasn't ENTIRELY dead...and now it is...
Remember that MSNBC, as is NBC, as is Universal, are owned by Comcast, which is OWNED & RUN by a bunch of right-wing billionaires. ABC, owned by Disney - yep, right-wing billionaires.
I could go on, but NONE of the major networks are owned by liberals - period.
What happened was that when Rupert Murdoch bought 20th Century Fox, he did what the three main networks - ABC, CBS, NBC were doing. They were creating shows that skewed liberal. So the Dirty Digger, being a businessman first, created the Fox TV network (not cable, that came later).
No American network would give British comedian Tracy Ullman the time of day, but Rupes would, having been ensconced in UK media for ages.
And the Ullman show spawned ''The Simpsons'' and other similar shows, and also at a certain point Fox had FIVE SHOWS ON FEATURING BLACK CASTS when the other 3 networks had NONE. Rupes saw a void and filled it.
What I am trying to show here is that Murdoch made his money by putting on things that were popular with all sorts of people, not just boring old white people.
Of course once cable starting booming and CNN became popular, and Fox was an established name in TV, Murdoch was able to create the Fox News CABLE network.
So we have only ourselves to blame by accepting the LIE that the MSM has been liberal for decades.
IT HAS NOT
And this made it easier for rich, white, bigoted conservatives to snatch up the major cable and broadcast networks.
Mind you, to some extent they are just following Rupert's model. Let's give them 'liberal' TeeVee shows on over-the-air stations. Let's let them pretend that MSNBC is their progressive alternative, and now with the WarnerDiscovery right-wing über-bigot David Zaslov owning CNN, well, I think we've seen the results there.
So I am not surprised that they got rid of Medhi, whom with Ali Velshi and Rachel Maddow were/are my faves. And it was not important to me that two of them are Muslim, and one is a lesbian. I am neither. But they TELL/TOLD THE TRUTH.
I am an old, straight white guy, and I trust most of the other straight white guys in this country less and less every day.
"I am an old, straight white guy, and I trust most of the other straight white guys in this country less and less every day."
Same on all counts.
Thanks for the information. I had been wondering what the connection between Fox news and Fox network was. It just seemed so strange that one network would cover all those bases
So Cynical isn't it?
Absolutely. One has to remember that like many, conservatives their main interest is making more money. Rupert Murdoch is one prime example of that.
In the 1997 James Bond film,''Tomorrow Never Dies'' there is a media mogul called Elliot Carver (clearly based on Murdoch) who manages through his Fox-like company to arrange a fight (based on false informantion) between the Chinese and the British, and as such Bond and a Chinese agent have to fight to prevent an all-out war.
It's actually a really good film and one that people that don't think this kind of thing could happen should watch and think what has actually happened since 1997...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies