My niece just returned from seven months in Japan, so we had her belated birthday dinner last night.
At one point she said she had been so jet lagged that she hadn’t even looked at a computer for a few days, so she asked what was in the news. My daughter said, “Trump is stirring things up with the NorKs.” And I said, “You blame Trump for that?” And she said “Well, I guess not, but he used some pretty aggressive words.” And I said, “Yeah, instead of appeasement words, like the past eight years.”
She then changed the subject.
How does a nice guy like me end up with a flaming lib for a daughter?
CoAlex, one of Rebecca’s therapists just got back from a vacation in Oregon. Said the forests were amazing, but when they drove into the cities, it was like stepping into a different world. Homeless people EVERYWHERE, out in the open, many of them between the ages of 16-25.
Marijuana is legal, so there are people out on the streets holding signs, showing everyone where they can buy pot. Some of the homeless were on meth or heroin – nobody that she asked attributed the number of homeless people to marijuana use.
She was happy to get back home, but was troubled by what she saw. Started to wonder if she was the weird one, and worried that this was a glimpse into her daughter’s future.
I worry about the same thing – how long before this reaches where we live?
Comment by Colorado Alex In Exile on August 11, 2017 12:40 pm
My idiot sister was big into the feminist crap while she lived in Portland. She and my huge lib cousin were besties and spouted all that stupidity. Then sis started dating this libertarian dweeb, who got her into shooting, and sis and he started a group that advocated for concealed carry on campus and lib cousin did not like that one bit. After sis and dweeb got married and moved to the midwest, I’ve heard that she’s really started to shed the stupidity as she realized that the world doesn’t work like all her lib friends told her. Our lib cousin, meanwhile, is a drunk who gets meaner every year.
Comment by Colorado Alex In Exile on August 11, 2017 12:41 pm
Teresa, Portland has always had that problem, and the pot only makes it worse. Colorado is the same: you can’t go downtown in some cities without being swamped by homeless and smelling nothing but pot.
We legalized recreational pot last November by a very slight majority. Close enough that a recount was proposed (not sure it happened, I knew it was going to pass unless soundly defeated). They’re still debating regulations for it. The medical marijuana people are pissed. All their money is gone down the shitter.
Why, exactly, isn’t the federal gubmint stepping in and track my down on all of these states defying federal law, when they’ve been more than willing to do so in other cases (abortion springs to mind)?
I don’t especially want to watch this country turn into one that is controlled by drug cartels – and that is the only end that I can see coming.
Teresa, that’s unlikely in the case of marijuana, no cartel is needed when the drug is easily cultivated. We’ll be surrounded by dope fiends and lazy dweebs, but organized crime won’t have any more of a role in it than they do in tomato farming.
Alex, you want to get a big vessel and a lot of ice. Dice up a big cuke and a bunch of strawberries, then layer ice and fruit until the vessel is full, then fill the gaps with water and wait a bit, maybe an hour. Pour off just the water (a filter spout helps here) and drink. It’s a simple, cold-water infusion.
I need to do a better job of emptying my pockets before doing laundry. Between the washer & dryer, I found a ten spot 2 fives, four singles and change.
Screw fasting – I may just treat myself to pizz tonight!
Rather than sucking Chinese cock, Trump is calling them out. They’re the key in all this IMO. All the sanctions in the world are a moot point unless China exerts an influence. See also Pakistan vis a vis Afghanistan and Iran with Iraq and every other Middle East shithole.
Hotspur, you shoulda brought up her chocolate hero’s arming the crazy woman-hating mullahs with nukes and pallets of untraceable cash. Is Trump going to have to fix that mess too?
I’ve been making ice tea that way. Fill a liter Nalgene bottle with water and put two tea bags in there. Leave it in the fridge and a day later you have a refreshing beverage with nary a cucumber in it.
Preston Roberts died, secondary character on Mountain Men. Hell of a guy, by all accounts. He was only 60 and in what looked like vigorous health. Damn shame.
Regarding the nipples, get a manual pump and keep it in the diaper backpack (don’t waste time on a diaper bag, just get a good backpack). Ducts can get clogged and human suction may not be enough to clear them.
I’ve heard that if you search the article title you can read the whole article. I’m a subscriber … the only on line subscription I have for news media.
Ok, I just made some peach syrup (Juice reduced about 40% using a double boiler) from juice I pressed out of some over-ripe peaches. Added to some sun tea. This is so good I expect it to be outlawed by the weekend by California.
i sent that gif to Paula earlier and she wants to get the go pro going for some action shots of Rowan chasing the frizz. I told her I’d toss the frisbee and she can hold the camera
Mrs. Pupster has some nice slo-mo movies of The Wonder Dog frisbee chasing, they are on instagram so I don’t know how to poat them here without revealing her secret identity.
Well, smoked clams sound amazing. Michigan, not so much (even though Carin’s place looks like a wonderland). Also, I’ve traveled a lot this summer and my goal is to save for next summer. Florida is hotter than crap June, July, August and most of September.
I’m hoping and scrimping to save for a longer time away during the summer at my sister’s condo in Maui. It’s a rental unit and I couldn’t just take 2 months without paying, although she’d say I could, it would be wrong to take it out of the rental pool. Anyhoo, I’m working on that.
I love clams and muscles. I’ve never had smoked clams and it astounds me that when I visit Tacoma none of the water restaurants I go to don’t serve them. Really, they sound amazing.
I’ve never had a dog, although I love them. I would enjoy seeing Carin’s sweet Newfoundlands. I would love to have a medium sized, mix, rescue, who would fit the name, Mr. Scrufums.
I bring it up for the worst of reasons; because I struggle to find a worse song title. Year after year, it’s the worst.
(I also never learned how to use a semicolon). EmJay told me semi’s are a sign of genius but I’ve only found that they are a nuisance since yo0u can’t park a semi in the front and you sure as hell can’t get that thing in the garage.
Whatever’
GUITARZAN11!!1
I’ve taken a job with the State Architects office and now find myself in another world. A more wretched hive of blahblar and star wars you will never find.
I love my new gig!
Any who, with any luck I’ll soon be having fun in these annals with ye and can fill in the blanks.
Here’s to the gunk that binds us.
One and All.
Comment by Colorado Alex In Exile on August 12, 2017 2:48 am
Elegance in eloquence – for sale or rent or hire
Should I say – yes I match his best
Then I would be a liar
Symphonies that soothe the derp
When lovers hearts catch fire
Comment by roamingfirehydrant on August 12, 2017 7:03 am
I’ve only had clams once this year. Time to remedy that. Steamers, fried, chowder (tomato based and cream based {SYWM} broth)and clam cakes. Never had smoked clams. Time to find a recipe.
Well, we call them smoked clams, but they’re really not. Just clams cooked on a grill with smoke until they open. They get just a hint of the grill flavor.
They’re a pain in the ass on direct charcoal because half of them spill their liquor when they pop. But we do it anyway because they’re so sweet and good.
Five (?!) years ago at Lapeerpalooza I, it took me forever to finish cooking the clams because there wasn’t enough heat in Carin’s offset smoker to get them open quickly. I had never used one before. Finally I cottoned on that all the heat was next to the barrel, moved the clams over there in batches, and got it done.
Another bad thing is that clam juice dropped down through the smoker and leaked all over Carin’s deck.
We might bring the little Smoky Joe and do this out in the yard this year. Or we could just steam them, it’s easier.
Boom boom bang.
https://is.gd/eh6zwe
I’m not seeing the Prague connection. I’m saying a bit further north. Up in the disputed principalities between Prussia and Denmark. Holstein, maybe.
The categories are genius.
Car in needs to get her started on some Zumba before it’s too late.
Ok. I’m out. Y’all have a busy, productive day and don’t forget to go fuck yourselves.
Jam2, your HHD made me miss Cyn all over again.
Pupster, she seems nice. Got some gravitational pull, too.
The science is settled then.
Gross. She’s perfect.
Do we know who is going to attend Lapeerpalooza 2: The one where someone goes missing?
Wakey wakey
Not really MJ, but I really should know. I need to know how many holes to dig.
DAAAMMMMMNN!
pup knows boobs!
carin you may want this
http://tinyurl.com/ybvftu83
Fire And Fury is now Locked And Loaded
*stuff Trump said Part 54,329
Hmm, sounds like the next 2 Ben Coes books.
I’ll bet mare isn’t going to LP2:TOWMJGM
*shoots Jay in the face with the porcupine & thumbtacks shotgun*
Amp up your dinner! This sounds pretty good:
https://www.srirachastix.com/
I amped up your mom
My niece just returned from seven months in Japan, so we had her belated birthday dinner last night.
At one point she said she had been so jet lagged that she hadn’t even looked at a computer for a few days, so she asked what was in the news. My daughter said, “Trump is stirring things up with the NorKs.” And I said, “You blame Trump for that?” And she said “Well, I guess not, but he used some pretty aggressive words.” And I said, “Yeah, instead of appeasement words, like the past eight years.”
She then changed the subject.
How does a nice guy like me end up with a flaming lib for a daughter?
Gross. She’s perfect.
——-
Concur.
How does a nice guy like me end up with a flaming lib for a daughter?
No idea, but tell me what you did so I can not do that.
Rosetta BBF-worthy udders. Nicely done, Pupster.
“How does a nice guy like me end up with a flaming lib for a daughter?”
She’s surrounded by them.
How does a nice guy like me end up with a flaming lib for a daughter?
Happened to me as well, though I may not be as qualified in the “nice” category.
Because they are surrounded on all sides by flaming liberal propaganda.
I mean, seriously how mentally defective do you have to be to believe that “aggressive words” cause a war.
Stop shooting shit into the air and threatening us, or we’re going to obliterate you.
It’s really more a statement of fact.
Gross: http://www.dailywire.com/news/19584/vile-vogue-magazine-feature-transgender-traitor-amanda-prestigiacomo
It’s not Monday!
Putting out an offer today on 10 acres not too far from the other place. I’m optimistic that it will have better drainage.
CoAlex, one of Rebecca’s therapists just got back from a vacation in Oregon. Said the forests were amazing, but when they drove into the cities, it was like stepping into a different world. Homeless people EVERYWHERE, out in the open, many of them between the ages of 16-25.
Marijuana is legal, so there are people out on the streets holding signs, showing everyone where they can buy pot. Some of the homeless were on meth or heroin – nobody that she asked attributed the number of homeless people to marijuana use.
She was happy to get back home, but was troubled by what she saw. Started to wonder if she was the weird one, and worried that this was a glimpse into her daughter’s future.
I worry about the same thing – how long before this reaches where we live?
Happened to me as well, though I may not be as qualified in the “nice” category.
You’re pretty nice. You don’t shoot bazookas at people.
*sideeyes laura
New episode of Mountain Men!
My idiot sister was big into the feminist crap while she lived in Portland. She and my huge lib cousin were besties and spouted all that stupidity. Then sis started dating this libertarian dweeb, who got her into shooting, and sis and he started a group that advocated for concealed carry on campus and lib cousin did not like that one bit. After sis and dweeb got married and moved to the midwest, I’ve heard that she’s really started to shed the stupidity as she realized that the world doesn’t work like all her lib friends told her. Our lib cousin, meanwhile, is a drunk who gets meaner every year.
Teresa, Portland has always had that problem, and the pot only makes it worse. Colorado is the same: you can’t go downtown in some cities without being swamped by homeless and smelling nothing but pot.
We legalized recreational pot last November by a very slight majority. Close enough that a recount was proposed (not sure it happened, I knew it was going to pass unless soundly defeated). They’re still debating regulations for it. The medical marijuana people are pissed. All their money is gone down the shitter.
Yep, still adrift
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/23/politics/what-maines-new-recreational-marijuana-market-will-look-like/
Watched a pretty good WWII movie last night – Walking With the Enemy.
Acting was a little sappy at times, but on the whole well done.
interesting plot line, HS, will check it out.
It’s on Netfucks.
Why, exactly, isn’t the federal gubmint stepping in and track my down on all of these states defying federal law, when they’ve been more than willing to do so in other cases (abortion springs to mind)?
I don’t especially want to watch this country turn into one that is controlled by drug cartels – and that is the only end that I can see coming.
I’m fasting today, so I made strawberry-cucumber water to sip on. Love this stuff, and not just when I’m fasting. Awesome summer drink.
Leon, how do you make it? I’m fasting as well until tomorrow, and chai with cream gets old after a while.
Teresa, that’s unlikely in the case of marijuana, no cartel is needed when the drug is easily cultivated. We’ll be surrounded by dope fiends and lazy dweebs, but organized crime won’t have any more of a role in it than they do in tomato farming.
Alex, you want to get a big vessel and a lot of ice. Dice up a big cuke and a bunch of strawberries, then layer ice and fruit until the vessel is full, then fill the gaps with water and wait a bit, maybe an hour. Pour off just the water (a filter spout helps here) and drink. It’s a simple, cold-water infusion.
I infused your mom.
I need to do a better job of emptying my pockets before doing laundry. Between the washer & dryer, I found a ten spot 2 fives, four singles and change.
Screw fasting – I may just treat myself to pizz tonight!
Next time make your poat longer so you can say you found $20.
Your mom prefers when I round up.
I usually find money after doing the husband’s laundry. Torn up Kleenex too, that gets on everything.
How is it that my ring finger is a size 5.5 and my booger hook is an 8? Boogers don’t weigh so much as to create bulky hooks.
wouldn’t that water be easier to make by boiling, then pouring over ice? cold water seems counterintuitive.
Heh, don’t ask what size her middle finger is. It gets more exercise.
“Yeah, instead of appeasement words, like the past eight years.”
Make that 20 years and aiding/abetting (reactors and $5B)
Jay, BAHAHAHAHA!
Surprisingly, my middle finger is a lean, mean, FU machine at a size 7!!
You’re not cooking the fruit, Jay, you’re letting the flavor slowly enter the water, like cold-brew coffee. Cooking it would make soup.
Think lemon water, not tea.
Make that 20 years and aiding/abetting (reactors and $5B)
Oh, I know. I just couldn’t resist taking the shot at her chocolate hero.
When you only get your news from NPR and Facebook, and everyone you know (except your dad) is a liberal, you tend to be fairly uneducated.
But I still love her.
Tangerine water is pretty nice that way too Leon. I’ve got a pitcher of that going in the fridge right now. Quite refreshing.
Everything we’ve done with the Norks since the ceasefire was the wrong thing.
Rather than sucking Chinese cock, Trump is calling them out. They’re the key in all this IMO. All the sanctions in the world are a moot point unless China exerts an influence. See also Pakistan vis a vis Afghanistan and Iran with Iraq and every other Middle East shithole.
Hotspur, you shoulda brought up her chocolate hero’s arming the crazy woman-hating mullahs with nukes and pallets of untraceable cash. Is Trump going to have to fix that mess too?
I’ve been making ice tea that way. Fill a liter Nalgene bottle with water and put two tea bags in there. Leave it in the fridge and a day later you have a refreshing beverage with nary a cucumber in it.
Preston Roberts died, secondary character on Mountain Men. Hell of a guy, by all accounts. He was only 60 and in what looked like vigorous health. Damn shame.
I should see when my parents are visiting next.
IMPORTANT NEWS!
The Cardinals may have found Rally Cat after a brief disappearance.
/IMPORTANT NEWS!
How do we know…
Still hoping the Rally Tits come out for Sox vs Yankees tonight
Does everyone know that when a chick gets preggo her nips get darker?
True story.
Everyone knows the babies have UV vision and lock on the darkened nips like a homing beacon
Her belly tends to swell a lot, too.
Regarding the nipples, get a manual pump and keep it in the diaper backpack (don’t waste time on a diaper bag, just get a good backpack). Ducts can get clogged and human suction may not be enough to clear them.
Can’t you keep that stuff in your cargo shorts?
Pockets in shorts are best used for wipes.
anyone know the shortcut to read full articles of the WSJ?
I’ve heard that if you search the article title you can read the whole article. I’m a subscriber … the only on line subscription I have for news media.
tried that, but got through on a slashdot link. Why I Got Fired By Google by Damore.
I think we have 6 people coming over tomorrow, so that makes 8.
We have indoor seating for 4-5 and the weather looks iffy.
Could be interesting.
Well, the womenfolk should be in the kitchen making sammiches and fetching beers, so I think you’ll be fine.
Check your jay mail
J’ail.
Ok, I just made some peach syrup (Juice reduced about 40% using a double boiler) from juice I pressed out of some over-ripe peaches. Added to some sun tea. This is so good I expect it to be outlawed by the weekend by California.
Country style ribs and sauerkraut in the crockpot. The last couple of batches on the grill didn’t really turn out great, trying something different.
https://is.gd/ori6Fz
Hey Leon,
I’ll bet this one can dig some potatoes.
https://is.gd/DXCU4H
i sent that gif to Paula earlier and she wants to get the go pro going for some action shots of Rowan chasing the frizz. I told her I’d toss the frisbee and she can hold the camera
Hey Jam2, how’s the gazebo project coming along?
https://is.gd/M6Pkrw
That looked a lot like Ruby on her way in to break Laura’s sister’s tooth, at her birthday party.
Greetings, East End boys and West End girls.
Mrs. Pupster has some nice slo-mo movies of The Wonder Dog frisbee chasing, they are on instagram so I don’t know how to poat them here without revealing her secret identity.
Your dog has a secret identity? Cool.
Lapeerapalooza (the one where Moose goes missing) is only 2 weeks away.
You should go, Mare.
Don’t go, mare. It’s all a setup so she can have a captive audience for her Tool fanfiction.
There will be smoked clams. Lots of them.
and 300 lbs of dog……well at the start anyway.
A-are you gonna…eat some of the dog?
Who eats dog?
That one guy, Barry something. Used to be on teevee a lot.
Who eats dog?
The last president with the freakin jug ears, for one. Or was that a rhetorical question?
Well, smoked clams sound amazing. Michigan, not so much (even though Carin’s place looks like a wonderland). Also, I’ve traveled a lot this summer and my goal is to save for next summer. Florida is hotter than crap June, July, August and most of September.
I’m hoping and scrimping to save for a longer time away during the summer at my sister’s condo in Maui. It’s a rental unit and I couldn’t just take 2 months without paying, although she’d say I could, it would be wrong to take it out of the rental pool. Anyhoo, I’m working on that.
I love clams and muscles. I’ve never had smoked clams and it astounds me that when I visit Tacoma none of the water restaurants I go to don’t serve them. Really, they sound amazing.
I’ve never had a dog, although I love them. I would enjoy seeing Carin’s sweet Newfoundlands. I would love to have a medium sized, mix, rescue, who would fit the name, Mr. Scrufums.
Michigan kicks ass.
Way better than Florida.
Plus ..smoked clams and dogs!
It’s settled.
Mare will be there.
Oooh, I’m so close here. Let me know when your expectations are low enough for an overweight German-Scottish Settler Gif Hound Mix.
Blerg
Update on tiny penis guy. Friend gave it a go and said it went well.
Just … you know. Finishing the story.
He actually came in with his young son and parents and I waited on them. Very cute and nice. He’ll do fine, even though he has a small penis.
CLAMS
Whatever. You guys suck.
Guess I’ll go to bed.
Peen and Clams,
There is a joke there
My internet finally came back after being down all day. I’m glad I got to find out the ending to the tiny penis story. My life is now complete.
Also, I think I’m fighting the keto flu. Tired, headaches, the usual. I laid down at 5pm and slept until 9pm and now I feel a little bit better.
GUITARZAN!!!
-the really dumbest name of a song. Ever.
I bring it up for the worst of reasons; because I struggle to find a worse song title. Year after year, it’s the worst.
(I also never learned how to use a semicolon). EmJay told me semi’s are a sign of genius but I’ve only found that they are a nuisance since yo0u can’t park a semi in the front and you sure as hell can’t get that thing in the garage.
Whatever’
GUITARZAN11!!1
I’ve taken a job with the State Architects office and now find myself in another world. A more wretched hive of blahblar and star wars you will never find.
I love my new gig!
Any who, with any luck I’ll soon be having fun in these annals with ye and can fill in the blanks.
Here’s to the gunk that binds us.
One and All.
Chumpo! Congratulations!
Chumpo!!!!
***tacklehugs***
***trips***
Umm….sorry ’bout that, dude – you might want to get that looked at….
oh sure, way to kill it!
Elegance in eloquence – for sale or rent or hire
Should I say – yes I match his best
Then I would be a liar
Symphonies that soothe the derp
When lovers hearts catch fire
Aggie sighting
http://tinyurl.com/yblz45co
I’ve only had clams once this year. Time to remedy that. Steamers, fried, chowder (tomato based and cream based {SYWM} broth)and clam cakes. Never had smoked clams. Time to find a recipe.
Smoke + Clams = Smoked Clams?
Good spot Roamy. I read that yesterday and missed it. I didn’t miss the hypocrisy.
Smoked Clams Recipe?
I wasn’t really paying attention, and it was a long time ago, but if memory serves..
First thing you have to deuce the deck.
Jobs unforeseen just 10 years ago: Sex Doll Repairman
Most disturbing part of this surprisingly long article is the repairman referring to the doll as “she”.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/01/it-turns-out-that-sex-dolls-are-high-maintenance/
I can just picture Mike Rowe doing a Dirty Jobs segment on the life and times of one of these guys.
I think there are some jobs even Mike Rowe wouldn’t do…
Most disturbing part of this surprisingly long article is the repairman referring to the doll as “she”.
I thought the title itself was more disturbing than that. There’s not enough bleach in the world…
Well, we call them smoked clams, but they’re really not. Just clams cooked on a grill with smoke until they open. They get just a hint of the grill flavor.
They’re a pain in the ass on direct charcoal because half of them spill their liquor when they pop. But we do it anyway because they’re so sweet and good.
Five (?!) years ago at Lapeerpalooza I, it took me forever to finish cooking the clams because there wasn’t enough heat in Carin’s offset smoker to get them open quickly. I had never used one before. Finally I cottoned on that all the heat was next to the barrel, moved the clams over there in batches, and got it done.
Another bad thing is that clam juice dropped down through the smoker and leaked all over Carin’s deck.
We might bring the little Smoky Joe and do this out in the yard this year. Or we could just steam them, it’s easier.
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