It’s Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for “day drinking.” And night drinking as well. I’m queued up with a bottle of something interesting from Mexican Sharpshooter and, of course, margarita makings. Coincidentally, the always-delightful Chef John posted his margarita recipe, which is touted as “Perfect” and probably is, since it’s pretty much what we do- much less sweet and much more flavorful than the typical crap you get at restaurants and bars. Having it made by a Jew, of course, is Step 1 in cultural appropriation. Or is it?
One book I loved reading was Bernal Dial del Castillo’s classic “The True History of the Conquest of New Spain,” his eye-witness account of Cortes’s wars against the Aztecs and eventual conquest of Mexico. And interestingly, if there was one thing Cortes enjoyed doing more than killing Aztecs, it was killing Jews or even people suspected of being Jews. In a particular instance of ingratitude, the Catholic conquistadors burned Hernando Alonzo, who was accused of being a secret Jew, at the stake- the fact that he had made himself wealthy and (in an early form of asset forfeiture) his possessions would be confiscated had nothing to do with it. Hmmm, hated Jews, hated people who made themselves successful and wealthy while being himself quite wealthy, looks like Cortes would fit beautifully into today’s Democratic Party. They might even make him vice-chairman.
In any case, (((we))) have a long history in Mexico, the revolution pretty much ended the Catholic practice of Jew-killing and granted (((us))) far more religious freedom, so fuck you, I’m drinking margaritas today. And bringing you links.
We all laughed at the moron city councilman from Washington, DC who claimed that Jews controlled the weather. Well, who’s laughing NOW, assholes?
The gods are angry. I’m thinkin’ it’s time for some human sacrifice. I can name some federal judges who would be a good start.
Isn’t it delightful that with Team Red in control, people who love to talk about smaller government and the rule of law, that the whole unconstitutional domestic spying thing is going awa… oh wait, never mind.
The more I hear about Charlie Rose, the more I like him. #mepoo
In the running for the weirdest story of the day. My first reaction was, “Which politician’s brother-in-law owns the company providing these mobile dildos?”
Old Guy Music today of course follows the theme “Mexicans and Jews,” though to be fair, there’s not much Steve Berlin in this cut. Doesn’t matter, it’s a great song.
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Flaming kites? Really?!?
These soy boys do not make good terrorists.
And when the wind thwarted their ability to instigate violence less of them died. Funny how that works.
And they didn’t thank Allah.
He cited a variety of factors that might have contributed to the increase, potentially including changes in the amount of historical data companies are choosing to keep, the number of phone accounts used by each target
Who pinned that kick me note on my back?
Potato, patato, citizen, target.
Not really OT, but the ball and chain asked about this here website I frequent. Conversation went like this.
That’s every conversation at my house, starting when I look in the mirror.
I had “the talk” with my wife two weeks ago. She thought I was still hanging out at hit n run. I explained the rift, exodus, and the founding of Glibertarians. She thought it was funny and cool.
Deat fod I hope she never lurks here.
“Capabilities include video surveillance; the ability to broadcast recorded and live messages in the event of an incident; and the ability to ensure it avoids people and objects in its path.”
They didn’t mention the flamethrower.
Somebody has seen too many episodes of Dr. Who.
A woman who gave a Loudoun County, Virginia restaurant an average rating online after ordering food says she got a scare after the manager showed up at her home unannounced later that night.
Yesha Callahan, an editor for online magazine The Root, says
Yeeeeeeeaah.
In a response to FOX 5, La Porchetta’s manager said it was all a misunderstanding.
~No shirt, no shoes, no The Root editors~
“I went to her house to give her a replacement order…”
Of course she is complaining. Dude tries to fix things, The Root bitches. You cant win so why try?
The Root are morons. Also sounds like a poor decision on the manager’s part to show up unannounced. I’ve never understood what goes through some people’s thought process.
I once came home to a FedEx package at my backdoor. The driver had apparently thought it was a good idea to hop two locked gates and ignore very prominently posted beware of dog signs, complete with pictures of large black GSDs to drive home the point. Fortunately the dogs were locked up in the house.
I got a hold him and asked wtf he was thinking. He said that he was trying to be helpful. I explained why that was a poor course of action and to just take the package back with him next time if I was unavailable or it wouldn’t fit in the oversized package box at the gate.
The Root’s readership is filled with morons. The Root itself is acting rationally when it comes to money. It’s a pretty sweet racket. That UPS dude was nuts. Your house sounds like a fortress.
Yeeeeeeeaah?
I would ban The Root editors from my business. Virginia, unlike Mr. Damore’s California, does not have any laws against “viewpoint discrimination.”
I’d do it if only to provoke a lawsuit that an element of racial discrimination was actually at play. Because they could actually easily win that with one simple move: Point out, “Defendant did not ban editors from other divisions of the Gawker Group, which clearly are equally obnoxious and insufferable.”
So instead of “making efforts to produce a secure workplace” by having perhaps fired a known predator a few decades ago, they’ll now presume every male employee is a toxic sex monster in need of yearly re-education theater. Progress!
Ugh. I accidentally visualized what Charlie Rose feces looks like.
They look up at you with macabre look and say, ‘Come to us!?
Everyone will be under lock and key for 8 hours a day!
Secure!
Next question!
Apparently, Albertsons is racist! Because only Hispanic, err, Latino workers ever speak in Spanish. Nope, no whites know how to speak that.
Nope, all us white people are just like this.
“Latinx,” please. English-only policies can sometimes be sensible. Other times, especially if too zealous as possibly here, they can be unwise or shortsighted. Sometimes they are downright obnoxious. Geno’s Steaks, the world-famous beef-and-cheese sandwich place in Philadelphia (the one that’s diagonally across from equally famous archrival Pat’s) installed a sign in 2006 reading, “This is America. When ordering Speak English.” As you might imagine, this sign’s purpose is not really (as it nominally might suggest, and as its owner originally claimed) to address a problem of customers demanding that Geno’s staff communicate with them in their language of choice regardless of the staff’s language proficiency; it was (as it took quite little prodding in interviews to reveal) more a matter of expressing visceral frustration at one particular ethnic group. No prizes for guessing which.
I refuse to eat at Geno’s. It is an overrated tourist trap with mediocre meat, and cheap prov and additions that they just lay on top of the meat whole after cooking it, instead of mixing it into the chop. Same with Pat’s.
“‘Por favor’? No
soupcheesesteak for you!”I can’t find anyone who mixes the cheese in. Peppers and onions, sure, but I can’t stand the cheese sitting there on one side.
Sonny’s (228 Market St by the Liberty Bell) for example is probably the third-most touristy steak place in Philly; it was the first steak I ever ate after I wandered in there off the train. Unlike Pat’s and Geno’s this tourist place is actually excellent and respected by locals (the Katz’s of Philadelphia, if you will) and they mix in the cheese.
“Pizza Steak” from Pat’s is pretty good. Fuck Geno’s. Sonny’s is good.
One book I loved reading was Bernal Dial del Castillo’s classic “The True History of the Conquest of New Spain,”
How about Captain from Castile?
Nobody’s buying “he wrote the N-word on my receipt” any more.
About the girl who gave the 3-star review and was later visited by the manager: “The zeppoles barely had any powdered sugar on them & were soggy from the styrofoam container.”
Haha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppole
My personal favourite is the ‘sfogliatella’ which dates back to the 17th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfogliatella
And no, you do NOT eat the cream-filled variety. It’s akin to putting pineapples on a pizza or adding cream to alla carbonara.
The cream/mayo fetish is worst than the opiates crisis. We put that shit on/in everything.
worse.
Jesus, that’s twice this week I do that!
/injects custard up ass as punishment.
Kinky.
My job is done.
I don’t think much of Yelp in general but if they actually sold soggy pastries my sympathy lies entirely with her. If they were the slightest bit warm from the oven, for example, they should never have been allowed to be taken to go.
Agreed. You have to give it time to harden.
NO I WILL NOT WATCH MY PHRASING.
“Dammit, Marcia, give it a minute, I’m not twenty anymore.”
All American Bad-Ass … with a cane.
He timed it PERFECTLY.
That’s great. Love the simple trip move.
Yeah that was utterly spot-on. The badassery, of course, came in the form of bravery in the face of an armed, likely dangerous man running with a Glock in his hand–namely the cop who was chasing the suspect. Most people would have, quite reasonably, run the fuck out of the way when they saw one in that situation.
And it wasn’t an accident. He didn’t get run into. He planned what he was going to do.
Looks like they put in a new tower near the mountain compound.
I feel bad for folks having thier lives ruined by natural disasters like floods, tornadoes, etc. at the same time knowingly living next to a hole that very regularly spews molten rock, ash, and earth farts tempers my sympathies.
I live by a river that floods every 50 years, but would not have if there was not a dike to prevent catastrophe.
Volcanoes like earthquakes are much less predictable in thier frequency and intensity.
Thoughts about the eruption from Oahu. This current breakout is common and from a geologic standpoint entirely predictable. We are about 230 miles from the scene of the action. I didn’t even feel the magnitude 6.9 earthquake yesterday. This eruption is taking place near the 2014 breakout in a known rift zone of the volcano and has been the usual well behaved Hawaiian eruption. If the sequence follows the last events the lava will spread from this area for a month or so until the lava tubes harden up and then the eruption will return to the main Pu’o’o crater. Pu’o’o has been erupting since 1983 and is the source of most of the current lava flows. Of course maybe this will turn Pu’o’o to dormancy and build up from here. There is no way to know. The main crater of the Kilauea also has activity in the lava lake a few miles west of the side crater of Pu’o’o. (Don’t ask me to pronounce it correctly.)
The subdivision has lost a couple of houses and the flows have been confined to some slow moving lava called a’a. A’a is a blockey lava that builds up and slowly out. If/when the gas content of the lava shifts the lava will change to pahoe’hoe which is much more flow flowing and will burn more structures. A few decades ago a flow destroyed about 100 houses in the same area. Back in 2014 the same type of eruption happened in a neighboring subdivision. I think about a dozen homes were destroyed and the county landfill encroached upon. A good friend of mine parent’s house was in the area. It survived and they have since sold the house. (How I am not sure.)
There are subdivisions rebuilt directly on top of earlier subdivisions. (You retain title, just at a higher altitude.) Eventually that entire side of the island will be covered by newer flows until Hawaii moves too far north and the hot spot builds up a new volcano, which has already started south of Hawaii. The good thing is that Kilauea has thousands to ten’s of thousands of years before the eruptions will change to something more akin to St Helens or Vesuvius before committing to the new volcano. Longer term the volcano will collapse into the Pacific, bringing havoc to the Pacific Basin on up to four continents followed by a few thousands of years of minor eruptions in or near the collapse zone from the over pressure being removed.
Right now Pele(Hawaiian volcano goddess) is the local kid who plays with matches from time to time and not the Unabomber making explosions. Geology geek turns off.
Who would issue insurance for such a property? Please tell me it’s the Feds, and that we’re paying to rebuild houses with a double-digit likelihood of firey destruction.
Proggy churches decide to follow Reason’s example and social signal about Trump, and in so doing drive away some attenders and supposedly bring in the millennials. (Libertarian, err, “Christian” Moment?)
Paywalled.
It’s paywalled (here‘s the archive) but I didn’t have to read behind “mainline churches.” The mainlines probably count their nationwide attendance by the hundreds at this point on any given Sunday, and they are dropping every year as they die off. They are essentially wedding chapels at this point. (For WASPs too classy to deign to go to Vegas.)
Any article chronicling their increasing desperation is boring make-news until they pull the plug and bring in the strippers. They lack any theology, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
I wish this were true of the local Catholic church. It’s so damn crowded that they run Sunday services in shifts and it completely fucks up traffic all day.
There are more and more nonbelievers every year, finally booming even in this most pious of secular countries. But they are full of shit. What is a more convincing display of God’s providence, than that He made a covenant with His people such that, 3500 years later, they would leave their cars at home every week and–perish the thought otherwise–Yom Kippur. Being hated and resented by the nations over parking is the last thing they need.
You’re not in an area where they’re closing Catholic churches?
Attendance at the churches around me has been up, compared to 10 years ago. Enrollment at the Catholic schools has been down (that’s what happens when you double the cost of tuition in a matter of 15 years), but parish enrollment and church attendance is slightly up.
Also, I think part of it has been people fleeing churches east of us that have been spreading Jesuit Commie Pope’s message, and seeking refuge in our pews.
As far as I know, no. This particular one seems to be ethnically a mix of Polish, Mexican, and suburban whites.
Are you implying that Polocks aren’t white?
Chicago still seems pretty Catholic. Played a show at the Empty Bottle the night Pope JP II died. Took us three hours to get out of the city the next morning. You know, cause of all the mourning.
There are places they’re emptying like mainlines and places they’re bursting at the seams. If you live in some place where the Catholic ethnics are being displaced by yuppies, you’ll see the former. If by Latinos, Filipinos, etc., the latter–for now. A few decades ago Puerto Ricans were unusual for having a small Protestant minority of any size; nowadays we count the days until Latin America is half Protestant. Nearly all those still within the Church are “Charismatics” (the Catholic version of Pentecostals) at this point; I have no idea why it struck a chord so incredibly deeply with this once extremely traditional Catholic people.
Anyway Catholicism is still popular and/or growing in the developing world. So if you get lots of immigration pouring from there you are either going to have that or a mosque overflowing with services.
One of those Unity churches is right up the street from me. A few months ago, they had “Love Trumps Hate” on their billboard thingy which usually contains spiritual messages.
They also had a bunch of these signs around the church: http://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hate.two_.jpg
(noticeably absent from those signs is the message being written in Cyrillic…. shocking, I know)
So glad to have my conservative catholic churches on the west side of Cincy. Most the people I know from church – including my super religious grandparents – absolutely despise Commie Pope and loathe social justice nonsense. As my grandmother likes to say “it’s like they never read Aquinas”.
Korean seems an oddball inclusion there.
shut up, Koreaphobe
So, the new job, travel, and busy weekends has kept me away from here more then I would like. But I haven’t forgotten about you beer drinking people. I am still hoping to be able to put together a spring BIF (Beer It Forward). So far, the list of participants for this run is much less then the last, and I blame myself. Those who I have heard from are:
Yusef
MikeS
Trials and Trippelations
On top of this, there’s myself and the Mexican Sharpshooter.
If you’re interested, post here, and drop me a line at my handle @ gmail. For those who don’t know what a BIF is, it’s a way to try beers that you will usually never get your hands on. Each participant will be shipping 50-72 ounces of local beer to another participant. If you want to throw in some local brewery swag as well, feel free. I’m planning on sending out a final e-mail to the participants Thursday or Friday of next week for a go/no-go decision, with shipping hopefully happening in the next two weeks (by the Glorious 25th of May).
Saintly struggle
It wasn’t a business crisis that had mobilized the company, however. It was politics.
Hours earlier, President Trump had announced plans to sharply reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah. Bears Ears, an expanse of red-rock canyons rich with archaeologically significant sites, would be slashed in size by 85 percent, more than one million acres. Another monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante, would be reduced by half.
Mr. Trump said the decision was about reducing federal overreach. “Some people think that the natural resources of Utah should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in Washington,” he said. “And guess what. They’re wrong.”
Yet to the tribal groups and conservationists who had been monitoring the situation, including Patagonia, the decision realized some of their worst fears: that the Trump administration would be waging an assault on public lands, and potentially opening up protected areas to drilling and mining.
“The President stole your land.”
What a giant steaming pile of bullshit.
Totally forget to mention that bears ears had been restricted by Obama in his last few months. 85%+ of Utah is owned by the federal government, anyone from the East really had no room to talk about western land policy
The president who made it a national monument in the first place, maybe.
The overwhelming majority of land is still public Federal land with a healthy dose of state owned land as well. The difference is that it is managed as multiple use by the BLM and USFS.
I for one am looking forward to digital narrowed gazes that are delivered with sub second performance.
Why haven’t you luddites that call yourselves “Founders” gotten busy upgrading?
BEEP.
*narrows gaze*
WHIRRRRR
CLUNK
And, of course, this:
In December 2016, with less than a month left in his administration, Mr. Obama designated two new national monuments, including Bears Ears. It was a last-ditch effort by Mr. Obama to secure as much of his environmental legacy as possible. But with Mr. Trump’s inauguration looming, supporters of the monuments knew the victory might be fleeting.
“We never got the chance to celebrate the monument being created,” Mr. Ewing said. “The writing was on the wall. There wasn’t ever a moment when we thought the monument was safe.”
Racist Trump tears down Obama’s legacy! Nazi!
You mean a federal judge hasn’t already overturned Trump’s rescinding of Obama’s designation?
I think it said something in there about Patagonia opposes the damming of rivers. I tentatively, with much ignorance at this point, may be on board with that. From what I know, damming really is probably overdone these days. It’s got a pretty damn heavy footprint in terms of environmental alterations. There are so many other alterations that we do, including those using river resources, that are much less dispensable. Power you can get from all sorts of other sources.
Where I live is heavily influenced by one of NYC’s reservoirs. They’re really shitty neighbors.
oh shut up! We own the place, your urban Life has driven you Proggy, be Careful My Friend, they won’t stop til they get you!
They should carve into a mountain Trump’s smug grin and next to it Obama with tears running down his face.
Wouldn’t be much less politicized than Mount Rushmore. As you can probably guess by who is on it, its real purpose was propaganda for Teddy Roosevelt.
This is just some rich pompous asshole with too much time on his hands, not someone with any expertise in science. And marches aside, the progression of this attitude is still much less advanced than most people suppose (outside of certain highly politicized specialties like public health). But vigilance is in order. I wouldn’t bet money on any prediction for the world ten years from now.
The problem is that they make really good gear. I am still using various rock climbing things I purchased from them in the 1970’s. Their software (clothing) started strictly utilitarian and for a decade or more was THE choice for serious climbers. In the late 1980’s Patagonia took changes to expand their market and became known as “Pata-Gucci” among climbers. Other companies moved in to serve the extremely niche serious climber market.
I have known a few people who worked there and loved it. Still I hope their lawsuit loses. What one EO can start, another EO can end. If Obama wanted to protect the land then he should have waged the multiple year effort to get Congress to establish another National Park. (Pro-tip: Only Congress can establish National Parks, Battlefields, Recreation Areas. National Monuments are from Executive Orders.)
Will someone beat the shit out of Marchand already? The Bruins always used to complain how the Habs were rats but they always had the biggest rats in their line-ups. Linseman was nicknamed ‘The Rat’ FFS.
And Marchand is the most talented rat I ever saw.
But he needs a real clonking.
Or the NHL needs to step in since you know, they emasculated the league with the instigator rule. Once upon a time you would send your second-tier enforcer (you had to save Miller, Nilan, Probert, Kocur etc. for the real jobs) to whack the fuckers skating around acting like dicks with, shall we say, reckless abandonment.
Give him and Luis Suárez a hotel room together.
That is a suggestion with teeth.
Why progressives are actually remedial dumbasses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States
How they think the trifecta of Sormy, Russia and gun-control is a winning formula I’ll never know.
We have a name for them in the muppet community: Muppets.
Calling on ‘Q’ and other philosophers here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1LhcEh8Ms
Thoughts?
Postmodernism is not real philosophy; it is made-up gobbleygook falsely claiming the intellectual heritage of older authors that have been neglected by the analytic tradition (the only intellectually rigorous tradition of any respectable size alive today, though they are correct to claim that it has rather narrowed itself in many areas). Jordan Peterson himself does not seem to be particularly knowledgeable of philosophy in general; listening to some professional lit-crit bullshitter “refute” him for 20 minutes could be a tall order.
That was my thinking about JP as well. He’s a psychologist; not a philosopher. He runs a tight line when he ventures into that heavy subject. It’s not his area of expertise but I still think he’s more on ‘cue’ and postmodernism does have a tinge of Marxism – or at least hovers around it it seems to me.
I fear JP may over extend himself a bit. He should stick to freedom of speech issues in academia and psychology. I don’t mind he ventures into other areas of interest like his Bible lectures though.
The Molyneux-Thaddeus Russel debate on postmodernism was interesting. I’d rather see someone besides Molyneux debate Russel, but that’s the one we have.
My plan is going extraordinarily well. In Geoje and will be island hopping tomorrow. Lady is napping.
Our love motel has a mirrored ceiling, and everything is right in the universe.
A pleasant morn to y’all.
So you didn’t celebrate Black Day?
She is black…
Do you let the Koreans touch her hair?
Marxism: I’m not dead yet. I’m feeling better. I think I’ll go for a walk.
Activists seeking to combat injustice and inequality, it can be argued, have turned not to class struggle but to social movements focused on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and the environment. “Intersectionality” – the notion that people are defined by multiple identities, where class is just one among many – would seem to have a lot more appeal today than the effort to end “exploitation.”
However, as a scholar of Marxist theory and practice, I find that such announcements of the death of Marxism are premature.
Marx’s message is still relevant
Yeah. We’ll get it right next time. We just need a bigger pile of skulls.
More interesting: Should we celebrate Karl Malone on his 55th birthday (coming up this July)? Where does his legacy stand now, in light of Tim Duncan’s?
The Mailman>Timmy D
You mad bro?
At least Malone has a personality, a self professed redneck. Duncan is a 7 foot tall bundle of meh. He’s got the hardware, congratulations. But if I have to go to dinner with one of them, it’s going to be Malone.
The difference between Marxism and Fascism is that nobody says true fascism has never been tried.
That is because it so rapidly racked up so many relatively faithful implementations in its infancy–far faster than Marxism ever did. Mussolini, Dollfuss, Franco, Salazar, Metaxas, Zog I, Horthy, Roosevelt…
The founder of scientific socialism was born 200 years ago on May 5.
“Scientific Socialism”?
What a fucking joke. It’s more like a fairy tale.
It seemed like a good idea at the time…
A Chula Vista school mural that depicts the bloody, severed head of President Donald Trump on a spear sparked a controversy that prompted officials to cover it and issue a response distancing themselves from the work.
The statement also said the artist will alter the painting.
“We understand that there was a mural painted at the event this past weekend that does not align with our school’s philosophy of non-violence,” read the statement from MAAC Community Charter School director Tommy Ramirez. “We have been in communication with the artist — who has agreed to modify the artwork — to better align with the school’s philosophy.”
The event Ramirez referred to was the annual Battlegroundz, a scholarship fundraiser held during the last weekend of April.
During the fundraiser, students and invited artists paint murals that highlight urban art in an alley behind the school.
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Baluca said Battlegroundz attracts amateur and professional artists from around the world. Artist Sasha Andrade painted the part of the mural with Trump. She could not be reached Friday.
The mural depicts three warriors, each with different types of dress. One appears to be holding a human heart and another wears a leopard headdress and is holding a spear. At its end is the severed head of Trump, with the spear’s tip protruding from his mouth.
While school officials said Andrade has agreed to change the painting, she was defiant and proud of it on Facebook post earlier this week.
Maybe they raised a ton of money.
Imagine a painting of the severed head of Obama on a pike.
Mirth and Girth was nearly 30 years ago already.
I am surprised no one has attempted to put a normal, respectful picture of Trump (let alone a hagiographic one like Obama got) in their part of the mural when they have these things, just for the troll. I’m sure damn near all of us here would, if we had the skills.
I hope some of you saw the Army/Sharks game last night. It had a little of everything (except that gay face-licking thing). Best part? The two guys the Wild let get away in expansion combined for 3 of the five goals, including the game winner.
https://www.nhl.com/video/tuchs-second-goal-of-the-game/t-298241168/c-60255903
That’s pretty.
As I am not yet middle-aged (or older), I do not appreciate margaritas as much as others.
Still, that looks like a good recipe. I’ll hold on to it. Maybe in another 10 years…
Get off my lawn….
**takes her scotch with her**
Come over to my lawn. Bring the scotch.
Speak of the devil. Wanna post your margarita recipe again?
On my way! I’ll be careful not to spill any, except into my mouth.
**Prefers vodka anyway**
EDG posted a good looking recipe (yesterday?) that might be worth a spin. Scotch is groovy, but summer demands something more. Besides, the limes will keep you from getting scurvy.
La Paloma
Put a healthy dose of tequila over ice in a tall glass. Squeeze a half lime over it and stir. Top with grapefruit soda (Squirt will do, or grapefruit juice with some soda water). Sprinkle salt over the top. Enjoy.
Not a recipe per se. Just homemade mix. Simple syrup, fresh lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, pineapple. Mint, basil, or cilantro for garnish. Cherries soaked in Cointreau.
The point is to get in the kitchen and juice a bunch of fresh citrus. You see, if you spend all day drinking you won’t feel like an alky if you are “perfecting a recipe”.
You see, if you spend all day drinking you won’t feel like an alky if you are “perfecting a recipe”.
Wisdom.
I like the way you think.
You see, if you spend all day drinking you won’t feel like an alky if you are “perfecting a recipe”.
Preach it brutha.
It’s Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for “day drinking.”
Around these parts, día libre is Spanish for day drinking. I have always been a sweet and sour mix in the margarita sort of guy. I have made my own sweet and sour before and used that but it was super sweet, and super sour. That stuff needed extra tequila to level out the flavors. I will try Chef John’s recipe some time when I win the lottery and can afford Cointreau again. That stuff is stupid expensive. I spaced out proper cultural appropriation and did not get margarita fixings this weekend. I bought rye to make BBQ sauce ala SP’s bourbon sauce. I like to drink rye over bourbon so my sauce gets rye.
Um, did the stylesheet just change or something?
And just as quickly it changed back.
Thats cool. I had a bagel with lox for breakfast. Who’s appropriating now?
I have Yelp reviewers more than Mexicans and Jews put together. They’re completely worthless. Almost as bad as the retards who review movies on Rottentomatoes. Similar to that particular set of subhumans, the most cuntish think verbosity is a sign of intelligence no matter how cliched what they’re saying is. Someone went to some local dive and wants to complain that their fatass didn’t get their iced tea refilled quickly enough the third time in 300 words and gives it a 2 star. The same asshole will probably give the local Applebees 4 stars (note – I hate Applebees almost as much as Yelp reviewers).
Most people have horrible taste on top of being petty, selfish assholes.
I don’t have them at all. 😉
I hope you’re OK with people who review movies for Glibertarians.
Yelp reviewers, Applebees, Jews, Mexicans, Jews and Mexicans together, and Glibertarian movie reviewers. I’ll give you one guess where they rate on the pantheon of things I hate (which includes almost everything by defeault).
The ability of a single determined enemy to rather easily destroy your reputation–and, with it, your business or career, dating prospects, etc., and life–is definitely the dark, scary side of the Internet. But it’s a “natural” consequence of technological progress; we cannot control it and maintain the advantages of the Internet in anything close to the present form. And like CP, explosives recipes, illegitimately obtained secrets, etc., open libel is an example of how we cannot suppress information in the future, even for things we might acknowledge we should. We will have to deal.
Far worse than Yelp are the “consumer protection” websites that host solely complaints and make money solely by blackmailing the horrified victims of the libel they host. What really gets me is that the unfathomably lazy and stupid (yeah, I really should have no expectations) people who work in journalism continually publicize these sites, referring to them as “consumer protection sites” with “consumer protection experts” and asking for their input when there is a consumer protection issue in the news. This even though these people are positively reptilian and lowlife in appearance and manner in person, and the fact that the biggest part of their sites are “complaints” about individuals who do not run businesses at all. (That so-and-so is a con artist, drug user, child molester with social diseases, etc.) I haven’t been a victim so far, but I live in terror of the day.
The only hope for a free people is to develop a culture where we truly internalize these facts, and drop this outdated intuition of putting any kind of credence in the things we read online. When everything really is said about everyone, it will all be noise and we can be truly free again. I don’t know if we have it in us to truly get there, but of course the dumb media is doing everything it can in its incompetence to impede that day. (Libel laws, too, may be counterproductive, which is what I brought up on this subject a few weeks ago.)
My approach to internet reviews is thus – star values mean next to nothing, since each person has their own philosophy of starring. The text is unreliable, because an unknown proportion of the reviewers are lying. What’s important is to look for patterns. Same or similar verbiage – bots, discard those. Similar sentiments phrased differently – possible sign of the truth.
I’m totally with you on the Applebees. Although I’m happy the tasteless masses go there instead of crowding into the local mom and pop making excellent food they have no way of appreciating.
Was out of town last weekend and found this awesome little out of the way spot making great fried chicken and there was only a few people there. Meanwhile the local sports bar and grille (mostly restaurant) serving the same crappy bar food you can get anywhere has a line out the door. Have at it.
Debbie and I met at that Applebee’s!
did the stylesheet just change or something?
I have been getting random occasional page format changes for a while.
Charlie Rose must be a Shasha Baron Cohen fan.
Still messing around with making Boring videos with no sound.
I learned four things with this one – I still suck at framing the action. How to properly split the clip, how to zoom, and how to speed up a clip. I suppose the overlay of the fastforward symbol might count, but I kind of already knew how to make that work.
Cool, what video editor are you using?
Priemere elements at the moment.
Ah cool. I was looking at getting that. I don’t do a lot of video even though my camera has the functionality.
I actually don’t recommend it – it tries to hide the actual editing capacity from the user. There are probably cheaper and better options out there.
Good to know. I have VLC which works ok as a media player. I needed it because my Panasonic has some not so common video format although the quality is great. I don’t think it has any editing functionality at all though
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/05/gonzaga-asks-students-not-to-be-offensive-when-cel/
I’m putting all you non-Irish persons in notice. St. Patrick’s Day is a relatively minor holiday in Ireland, however, in the United States St. Patrick’s Day has evolved into a commemoration of Irish culture and heritage, particularly in areas with large Irish populations.
So keep your grubby hands off my Guinness and Jameson’s. I’m watching you.
My understanding is that the practice of American-style St. Patrick’s Day parades has spread like wildfire around the world, including to Ireland. (Don’t think they have or will allow the bars to be open on that day, so probably a lot less rowdy.) For obvious reasons, we are the biggest cultural influence on them alongside the UK. Seems that the American accent is the go-to one for cringy young people affecting an accent to seem cool and sophisticated, the way we’d affect British ones.
Britain and America, two countries separated by a common language.
Yeah, we’re such an evil country everyone wants to be like us. I don’t necessarily consider that to be a good thing. No one seems to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
One of the oddest things I have always observed in Canada is that the very people who profess to be the most viscerally disdainful of the U.S. and the prospect of becoming like us, proud of how different they are and not American and so forth, seem to be the people who show the most disrespect for the thing that does the most to distinguish our very similar nations–their historical traditions and heritage and historical symbols of Canadianness and so forth.
It’s sad that acedemia doesn’t recognize that we’re all one big family. Damn science deniers.
I recently started getting into high end Mezcal. These are not the plastic worm in the bottle nightmares that caused numerous hangovers in my youth. Different agaves, different terroir show off a lot more variation than most tequilas. These are made for sipping and contemplating. A good starter is Del Maguey “Chichicapa”. A bottle should run around $60.
Australia.
https://imgur.com/a/2wq4cLT
Is that a new fetish?
I’m reminded of the Borderlands 2 mission when you’re collecting inspirational photos for Scooter’s love poem.
“That is some artsy-fartsy shit right there! Chicks dig that shit!”
Decent collection.
http://archive.is/eQsVT
However, stay tuned in evening lynx cause I’ve got a group that’ll knock your socks off.
34 & 36.
I called it good at 1.
Yeah, I liked 1 as well
Bottom story of the day.
https://pagesix.com/2018/05/04/dj-khaled-wont-perform-oral-sex-on-women-because-they-should-praise-the-man/
His loss. I could do it all day.
Wow. I could smell the Summer Fresh wafting from the screen.
I’d just assumed it was because, as a Weight Watchers spokesman, he’s being careful about what he eats nowadays.
So, what is this? 5th of May, that’s a holiday? I’ll take it. Anyway, just got back from the local tap house.
Something something Stout?
Anyway, it was extra loud in there tonight. Maybe it was them Messicans? I don’t know. No one was wearing any ponchos and they don’t even have burritos there. And everyone was white. And there’s no white folk in Messico, right? So yeah… Ok, there’s the one black lady who works there, the one with the bootay. Come to think… every woman who works there has a great body, including the new one I never seen before. No one is doing that on purpose, right? Because you know, this isn’t Alabama and everyone here be woke.