My homeowner’s insurance for camp and this house are due roughly around the same time so I just mail a single check for both. Because it was near the due date I mailed it as a certified letter. The fcuking letter made it to Portland in 24 hours and sat there for 2 weeks before some fatass could be bothered to pick it up. The cancellation letters went out with great efficiency though. I’m thinking that because it was the middle of the summer Darlene or Madge, who normally gets the mail at the post office, was off sitting by a lake and the college interns were left in charge
Reading lumps article from last night – And I brought it up before but both my mom and her sister are big vax’ers. They BOTH had strokes w/in 6 months of each other. They’re both older, so it happens, but strokes haven’t really happened on that side of the family, so w/in 6 months is … weird.
“Kay pointed out that Team Pink – which was largely comprised of trans women – not only won the entire tournament, but flattened the opposing Team Black – which had only two trans women – in the finals with a 7-1 win.”
Nice video, Mare. When we had a pond it was really neat how many different creatures suddenly appeared. Although while I was waiting for that first waterlily blossom to emerge every spring I was not amused by the lilypads being devoured by a mama deer, putting the plants behind schedule. And sometimes when I’d walk out there to sit with a coffee in the morning, a frog would suddenly scream and jump in the water, which was startling. I flinched and lost some coffee every time.
Yes, Green frogs can scream. The little idiots.
*shriek* *splash*
So, ethan STILL hasn’t received orders and he said that in previous instances, those were the folks being sent to a C school. He’s not happy.
BUt he said that after the last set of orders came in NONE have come. not for his class or the classes behind him which should have started getting orders.
Navy’s probably busy insuring trans people are properly represented in all the different rates.
I saw that trans hockey player hit yesterday somewhere, maybe PJ Media. It hardly looked like a big hit although the clip could be deceiving. The only hockey I’ve seen is the NHL on TV and they deliver massive hits and checks which are usually tolerated because the players are aware it’s coming. Defenseless players do get hit now and then but it’s the exception.
After reading that Daily Mail article (actually skimming through it because I don’t care enough about it to read for detail) I’m even more confused about the whole thing. The entire episode and league reminds me of circus freaks which frankly is an insult to circus freaks.
Every now and then I have the idea that building a little pond in the back yard would be fun but then I worry that the EPA would find an endangered animal there and make me leave it there forever. It would be pretty easy given the layout of my yard with two areas that are downhill slopes with hillocks on either side. The natural flow of water from rain goes in the depressions and is almost always moist and soggy much like your mom. Building a wall on the downhill side would allow water to accumulate pretty fast.
Pretty sure our bus drivers when we were kids were not drug free. I know for a fact one wasn’t. He got narced out by a student and brought a dirt bag friend along to intimidate the kid at the bus stop! This happened on my best friend’s bus. Kids who saw it were talking about it at school.
I think there’s a different story to be told about public education. Most of what I hear is that teachers are quitting because the job sucks. And it does, mostly. But parents are also quitting.
Enrollment in public schools is down and it’s predicted to keep going that way.
We’ll end up with a two tiered system pretty soon, I think.
We’ve got many tiers now. “Public schooling” was the original “public option” like they tried for insurance when they were pushing what eventually became the garbage of 0-care. At the time they stoked fears among the WASPs that all the Catholic schools being opened by waves of immigrants were going to make the US a hostage of Rome as the children grew up and converted.
As I watched this I couldn’t help but think about that cartoon with the two wolves looking at the fire and asking “What’s the worst that could happen?” with the second panel showing some effete purse dog
People said my life-sized Advent Calendar with a person behind every door wasn’t feasible, but they’ve been notably silent now that they’re trapped in my Advent Calendar
ANd, I have a comment. Much is made about how we have to cut the breasts off of young girls or they’re going to kill themselves …
Three people in my circle have died in the last week – pretty sure all were suicides/ if not by OD. You know how many people I know who killed themselves because they didn’t receive gender affirming care? ZERO. We have drugs killing people on the daily,and those assholes have the NERVE to celebrate themselves for their meaningless distraction yesterday?
And why do the lives of the gender confused matter more than that of the drug addict? Open the boarder and let that shit flow in to kill so many every day. But I have to hear about transgender this and that about every HOUR of my life.
Detroit school board has decided to remove the name of Dr Ben Carson, who did the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, from a high school in Detroit.
People who overcome modest beginnings to excel in difficult fields are only worthy role models if they vote D and the field is basketball, boxing, or football.
Regarding the mountain dog in a snowbank comment from last night, we had the opposite – a little black Lab mix who would happily lie on her back in the sunniest part of the yard when it was 100 degrees out. (She also hated water. Never seen a Lab that hated water before or since.)
I can power snatch. I can’t get under the bar for a full snatch.
For non-lifters – video. A LOT of novices actually just catch it in a power then squat down low enough (or ride the bar down). But if you watch the REALLY good lifters, they basically catch it at the bottom. They get UNDER it. It’s a thing of beauty.
I’d forgotten the squat in a barbell snatch. A KB snatch is much more like a power snatch, just upward motion, hips don’t come down save for the very beginning of the swing.
I have no problem with dumbbell snatches. And as I said I can power snatch. I just feel like barbell snatches are pointless for me because I doubt I could ever get under the bar fast enough. Very few people at the gym do them well tbh.
New doctor is a spaz but not woke, so I’ll keep her. The nurse asked if I’d had the jab, I said no, and she nodded and said quietly, “Good.” Doc didn’t say anything about it at all but suggested I get a flu shot (no). It was such a rapid fire conversation, I was exhausted afterwards.
I went to Costco afterwards, thinking it’s Wednesday morning, it shouldn’t be too crowded. I don’t think many people are working any more, but somehow they have money for shopping.
Jess is getting paid for 3 days. I guess once she got home and starting playing scenarios through her head, she became a crying mess. Another CoW posted on the Next Door App, and now she’ll be losing her job. They don’t tell you during orientation about social media do’s and don’ts, but they are there.
Simmering some white beans with a home-cured and smoked turkey leg in there. I am trying Aldi’s bone broth and as far as I can tell, it’s top notch.
Comes in a glass jar, no starches or msg or weird stuff in the ingredients. Ingredients list indicates it is a stock of vegetables and chicken, that’s it, and it tastes good, tastes almost like real homemade chicken broth, not like that insipid ‘college inn’ crapola or the ones that taste like the tin can. Plus it is strong enough that I was able to add some water I needed to, without it making the broth taste too diluted.
Gonna put some more of those in the pantry. Need to try the beef one next. I love soups in winter, especially the ones that take all wintry Sunday to make. But now and then you want to throw an easy one together and it’s hard to make enough home-canned broth ahead of time. I’m down to a few jars of mine and it’s starting to feel precious.
Maybe I just need a whopping big canner so I can make bigger batches at one time. Mine is 7 quarts and it just doesn’t seem like a good deal anymore.
We got two bone in hams from work. Dan is making a soup tomorrow. He didn’t want a chowder. I told him about the bone broth, but he’s going with regular chicken stock. He called me “Grogu.” Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian loves bone broth.
Comment by Dave's not here on December 14, 2022 6:53 pm
Some one explain. I don’t get the logic.
The Whitehouse is lit with green lights for the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
What? Were the dead Martians? I’m as confused as Brandon is.
John Tyler, America’s 10th president, was born in 1790. He has a living grandson. Read that again as many times as you need to fully absorb it. pic.twitter.com/TxGYOSxsfk
I went to high school with the great grandniece of Rutherford B Hayes. She’s a new anchor in South Bend now, and sadly widowed last I heard. Husband died in an accident.
It’s all of a piece. If the CDC doesn’t collect the data, there’s no problem If they collect but don’t compile the data, there;s no problem. If they pay for no research into the vaccine adverse effects, there’s no problem.
If parliament boycotts this member’s speech, there’s no problem.
Shut your eyes and you become invisible.
Yo!
My gift box for Secret Santa went out Monday. I really ought to look at the tracking number to make sure it’s moving.
My homeowner’s insurance for camp and this house are due roughly around the same time so I just mail a single check for both. Because it was near the due date I mailed it as a certified letter. The fcuking letter made it to Portland in 24 hours and sat there for 2 weeks before some fatass could be bothered to pick it up. The cancellation letters went out with great efficiency though. I’m thinking that because it was the middle of the summer Darlene or Madge, who normally gets the mail at the post office, was off sitting by a lake and the college interns were left in charge
We got some snow overnight, just a dusting
wakey wakey
Reading lumps article from last night – And I brought it up before but both my mom and her sister are big vax’ers. They BOTH had strokes w/in 6 months of each other. They’re both older, so it happens, but strokes haven’t really happened on that side of the family, so w/in 6 months is … weird.
I know I’m old and boring but this 15 min video had me riveted and is so charming I wanted to share.
I love this: https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1602723204207886342
“Kay pointed out that Team Pink – which was largely comprised of trans women – not only won the entire tournament, but flattened the opposing Team Black – which had only two trans women – in the finals with a 7-1 win.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11534043/PICTURED-Trans-ice-hockey-player-formally-known-Kyle-left-female-male-rival-CONCUSSED.html
Nice video, Mare. When we had a pond it was really neat how many different creatures suddenly appeared. Although while I was waiting for that first waterlily blossom to emerge every spring I was not amused by the lilypads being devoured by a mama deer, putting the plants behind schedule. And sometimes when I’d walk out there to sit with a coffee in the morning, a frog would suddenly scream and jump in the water, which was startling. I flinched and lost some coffee every time.
Yes, Green frogs can scream. The little idiots.
*shriek* *splash*
So, ethan STILL hasn’t received orders and he said that in previous instances, those were the folks being sent to a C school. He’s not happy.
BUt he said that after the last set of orders came in NONE have come. not for his class or the classes behind him which should have started getting orders.
Navy’s probably busy insuring trans people are properly represented in all the different rates.
I didn’t see a derp last night, is Sean okay?
Secret Santa gift should have gone out yesterday, but I worked past the time the post office was open. Looks more likely today.
I saw that trans hockey player hit yesterday somewhere, maybe PJ Media. It hardly looked like a big hit although the clip could be deceiving. The only hockey I’ve seen is the NHL on TV and they deliver massive hits and checks which are usually tolerated because the players are aware it’s coming. Defenseless players do get hit now and then but it’s the exception.
After reading that Daily Mail article (actually skimming through it because I don’t care enough about it to read for detail) I’m even more confused about the whole thing. The entire episode and league reminds me of circus freaks which frankly is an insult to circus freaks.
Every now and then I have the idea that building a little pond in the back yard would be fun but then I worry that the EPA would find an endangered animal there and make me leave it there forever. It would be pretty easy given the layout of my yard with two areas that are downhill slopes with hillocks on either side. The natural flow of water from rain goes in the depressions and is almost always moist and soggy much like your mom. Building a wall on the downhill side would allow water to accumulate pretty fast.
What’s a C school?
Cooking?
How many ways can you make chipped beef on toast?
Grits 101
2nd day without enough bus drivers for the school system. “Remote learning” via Zoom is happening now.
Going to be a long school year.
Bummer, Leon. Kids are getting shafted for education.
Carin, that Ngo link is awesome.
They start the truck drivers at like $18 an hour and can’t fill slots. I get that it’s not the greatest job, but that’s crazy.
Truck? Bus. Not even sure you need a CDL.
You do have to be drug free and the bus routes go next to 2 “dispensaries” so maybe that’s the issue.
Pretty sure our bus drivers when we were kids were not drug free. I know for a fact one wasn’t. He got narced out by a student and brought a dirt bag friend along to intimidate the kid at the bus stop! This happened on my best friend’s bus. Kids who saw it were talking about it at school.
Our bus drivers were mothers in the parish.
farmers drove our buses.
wonder if Ethan will give us tips from cooking school. Laura could follow the recipe up until the first step.
We rode a train
on your mom
I think there’s a different story to be told about public education. Most of what I hear is that teachers are quitting because the job sucks. And it does, mostly. But parents are also quitting.
Enrollment in public schools is down and it’s predicted to keep going that way.
We’ll end up with a two tiered system pretty soon, I think.
We’ve got many tiers now. “Public schooling” was the original “public option” like they tried for insurance when they were pushing what eventually became the garbage of 0-care. At the time they stoked fears among the WASPs that all the Catholic schools being opened by waves of immigrants were going to make the US a hostage of Rome as the children grew up and converted.
Well-to-do families always opted out for education, just like they do now for medicine, banking, etc.
Navy C schools …
https://profound-answers.com/what-are-c-schools-in-the-navy/
public rural schools are different
Heh, almost a disaster in the holiday party invite!
Join us next Tuesday for our annual holiday party!
good thing they won’t see us
so, c school for cooking is grilling, or breakfast?
The c school your mom went to was for cockteasing. She was double promoted twice.
They are doing “gym” via Zoom meeting, with “Let it Gooooooooo” dance music blaring and badly distorted.
And yet God won’t relent on that promise not to flood the world again. Because He loves us…
He doesn’t want to go. It’s just a rumor so I told him to not get too worked up over it.
I’m sure he’s chomping at the bit to DO stuff rather than just LEARN stuff
I think he can head home, and they will let him know it’s time for fry school. Hurry up and wait is the military motto.
Exactly Jimbro. He’s tired of being a “student”.
Joe Biden looked like shit yesterday.
As I watched this I couldn’t help but think about that cartoon with the two wolves looking at the fire and asking “What’s the worst that could happen?” with the second panel showing some effete purse dog
https://mobile.twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1602689504309043201
SOBEK: https://welcometorockville.com/?fbclid=IwAR0tQtZKMMmM5l6dOflLklRWmGRL0hVkdFYqi23EkJL3LkMI069p4fzLLYw
the well fed baby pic is primo, car in
A guy on my YT subs has a “do 100 snatches in 5 min” video up.
Look, I’m not that young anymore. It takes me a good 10 min just to get warmed up for your mom.
Interesting …
ANd, I have a comment. Much is made about how we have to cut the breasts off of young girls or they’re going to kill themselves …
Three people in my circle have died in the last week – pretty sure all were suicides/ if not by OD. You know how many people I know who killed themselves because they didn’t receive gender affirming care? ZERO. We have drugs killing people on the daily,and those assholes have the NERVE to celebrate themselves for their meaningless distraction yesterday?
And why do the lives of the gender confused matter more than that of the drug addict? Open the boarder and let that shit flow in to kill so many every day. But I have to hear about transgender this and that about every HOUR of my life.
Snatches are stupid.
I’m salty because I can’t do them.
I can do them, but I think clean&press is better for my shoulder and more applicable to most of my yard work log tossing.
Detroit school board has decided to remove the name of Dr Ben Carson, who did the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, from a high school in Detroit.
nice work, Detroit!
Here’s an example of C school.
Rusty’s son went to A school for Fire Controlman.
His C school was on the CIWS weapon’s fire control.
People who overcome modest beginnings to excel in difficult fields are only worthy role models if they vote D and the field is basketball, boxing, or football.
“Fermented Honey Garlic”
What are three words that should never be that close together.
https://www.outkick.com/detroit-school-board-to-remove-dr-ben-carsons-name-from-public-school-over-his-political-opinions/
Regarding the mountain dog in a snowbank comment from last night, we had the opposite – a little black Lab mix who would happily lie on her back in the sunniest part of the yard when it was 100 degrees out. (She also hated water. Never seen a Lab that hated water before or since.)
I can power snatch. I can’t get under the bar for a full snatch.
For non-lifters – video. A LOT of novices actually just catch it in a power then squat down low enough (or ride the bar down). But if you watch the REALLY good lifters, they basically catch it at the bottom. They get UNDER it. It’s a thing of beauty.
This was kettlebell snatches, but yeah, same movement more or less.
This in slow motion shows really how amazing it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpeUxij7YY
That bar just gets to a certain height, and then they just get underneath it. It is hard as fu…
You’re trying to pull it up, then catch it from the bottom.
I’m not in favor of hard snatch.
Huh. Suicidal Tendencies is still doing shows.
“This in slow motion shows really how amazing it is:”
That looks really difficult. I don’t think I will try it.
I’d forgotten the squat in a barbell snatch. A KB snatch is much more like a power snatch, just upward motion, hips don’t come down save for the very beginning of the swing.
I have no problem with dumbbell snatches. And as I said I can power snatch. I just feel like barbell snatches are pointless for me because I doubt I could ever get under the bar fast enough. Very few people at the gym do them well tbh.
New doctor is a spaz but not woke, so I’ll keep her. The nurse asked if I’d had the jab, I said no, and she nodded and said quietly, “Good.” Doc didn’t say anything about it at all but suggested I get a flu shot (no). It was such a rapid fire conversation, I was exhausted afterwards.
I went to Costco afterwards, thinking it’s Wednesday morning, it shouldn’t be too crowded. I don’t think many people are working any more, but somehow they have money for shopping.
Fred MacMurray
Osita, you are correct.
Jess is getting paid for 3 days. I guess once she got home and starting playing scenarios through her head, she became a crying mess. Another CoW posted on the Next Door App, and now she’ll be losing her job. They don’t tell you during orientation about social media do’s and don’ts, but they are there.
I have no problem with dumbbell snatches.
Back in my dating days I didn’t either, but as I’ve gotten older I find myself less and less tolerant.
So the restaurant you see behind this little scene? That’s where I worked for years in Detroit. We were just there for ERin’s birthday.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/status/1602995969703944194
Seems nice.
well then
are you watching a soap opera, oso? sounds like a doozy
Employee social media policy: Don’t.
twitter: The sting that netted Brinton
NSFW unless you work at a strip club
Simmering some white beans with a home-cured and smoked turkey leg in there. I am trying Aldi’s bone broth and as far as I can tell, it’s top notch.
Comes in a glass jar, no starches or msg or weird stuff in the ingredients. Ingredients list indicates it is a stock of vegetables and chicken, that’s it, and it tastes good, tastes almost like real homemade chicken broth, not like that insipid ‘college inn’ crapola or the ones that taste like the tin can. Plus it is strong enough that I was able to add some water I needed to, without it making the broth taste too diluted.
Gonna put some more of those in the pantry. Need to try the beef one next. I love soups in winter, especially the ones that take all wintry Sunday to make. But now and then you want to throw an easy one together and it’s hard to make enough home-canned broth ahead of time. I’m down to a few jars of mine and it’s starting to feel precious.
Maybe I just need a whopping big canner so I can make bigger batches at one time. Mine is 7 quarts and it just doesn’t seem like a good deal anymore.
We got two bone in hams from work. Dan is making a soup tomorrow. He didn’t want a chowder. I told him about the bone broth, but he’s going with regular chicken stock. He called me “Grogu.” Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian loves bone broth.
J’ames, living in a gangster paradise.
Mmm hambone
IKR? Turkey shortage, so we all got bone in hams.
I found the turkey legs on sale and decided to turn them into ham. But yours is better.
In other news, I love watching this kind of skill.
Some one explain. I don’t get the logic.
The Whitehouse is lit with green lights for the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
What? Were the dead Martians? I’m as confused as Brandon is.
That Tech Burrito video is amazing. The Co-working doesn’t even give him a wide swath, he knows how skilled he is with that equipment.
My dads mom was related to John Tyler. 6 generations. I still find this story crazy.
I went to high school with the great grandniece of Rutherford B Hayes. She’s a new anchor in South Bend now, and sadly widowed last I heard. Husband died in an accident.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/04/last-person-to-receive-pension-from-us-civil-war-dead-at-90/
This one is a little dated, 2014
https://www.ibtimes.com/world-war-i-veterans-benefits-continue-be-paid-100-years-after-fighting-began-1628778
I tried looking for survivor pensions for the Spanish-American War but hit a dead end and said phuket
The empty seats.
It’s all of a piece. If the CDC doesn’t collect the data, there’s no problem If they collect but don’t compile the data, there;s no problem. If they pay for no research into the vaccine adverse effects, there’s no problem.
If parliament boycotts this member’s speech, there’s no problem.
Shut your eyes and you become invisible.
December tornados in TX are shitty. Grapevine Sam’s lost their roof.
CDC Walensky is the devil.
Dan is currently decrying dessert tamales. He’s pretty good about dessert empanadas
Natural warrior detected.
https://9gag.com/gag/aA0xWdZ
This sudden realization happened to me, but about ten years later.
https://9gag.com/gag/a1PQerG
https://beckernews.com/twitter-kept-prominent-covid-critics-on-secret-blacklist-to-keep-americans-from-getting-second-opinions-48169/
Soyuz on the space station is leaking something. This is not good, if shit happens, there’s 3 people without a ride back to Earth.
Darren enjoyed Robby’s patter.