September 16, 2024
Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/16/24)*****
The Quotes of The Day
Quote I The Secret Service failures in Florida are as crude and obvious as they were in Pennsylvania which means that, in the words of my former GB News colleague Neil Oliver, this is happening because they want it to happen. They want Trump to die, and they are willing to create the necessary conditions. Mark Steyn
Quote II “I want to give people a plant-based option. If I can give people a place to have the option that’s placed smack dab in the middle of where your McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, and Burger King [are], people may see a Hart House and say, ‘I’m going to go plant-based today.'” Comedian Kevin Hart
Quote III "We found that children using saltwater nose drops had cold symptoms for an average of six days, where those with usual care had symptoms for eight days," Dr. Steve Cunningham
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What Godzilla Has Put Together Let No Man Tear Asunder Cafe
No one knew whose side of the family he was from,
and no one was brave enough to ask.
No one knew whose side of the family he was from,
and no one was brave enough to ask.
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Leftist Hits
Ron DeSantis will open his own independent investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt.
Hawley releases whistleblower report on the Secret Service's botching of the first Trump attempted assassination.
Ron DeSantis will open his own independent investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis revealed that the state will conduct its own investigation into what authorities are calling an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The incident occurred Sunday at Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, where gunshots were fired in close proximity to the former president, who is also the GOP's frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race. DeSantis made the announcement via X, formerly known as Twitter, stressing the importance of accountability and transparency. "The people deserve the truth about the would-be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee," he wrote. The FBI is already conducting its own investigation, with Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw commenting on the security circumstances surrounding Trump at a briefing Sunday afternoon. "At this level he is at right now, he's not the sitting president. If he was, we would have this entire golf course surrounded. But because he's not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible," Bradshaw explained. Bradshaw confirmed that Trump was 300-500 yards away from the shooter when Secret Service agents intervened. The suspect was taken into custody without incident, and no injuries were reported. This marks the second assassination attempt on Trump this year, following a July incident that prompted the formation of a bipartisan congressional task force. In response to Sunday's shooting, task force leaders are now requesting a briefing on the latest security breach. As the state's investigation moves forward, DeSantis is expected to push for more stringent security protocols surrounding Trump, especially given his continued prominence in the 2024 election cycle. The dual investigations by Florida and federal authorities aim to ensure accountability and prevent further security lapses.The DOJ, FBI, DHS, and Secret Service will block and harass him at every turn. And people will, justifiably, find this obstruction and subversion to be suspicious.
Hawley releases whistleblower report on the Secret Service's botching of the first Trump attempted assassination.
Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker BREAKING. Senator @HawleyMO releases *WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT* on the failed J13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The whistleblower made a number of allegations. Highlights: * Majority of DHS personnel unfamiliar with security protocols
* Only training received by many HSI agents was a single two-hour webinar
* Law enforcement was supposed to be on roof where Crooks shot Trump, post was abandoned
* Night before the rally, Secret Service denied offers to utilize Butler County's drones
* USS Counter Surveillance Division (CSD) did not perform routine pre-event surveillance
* Gunman would have been handcuffed after being spotted with range finder if USS CSD present
* Secret Service lead agent lacked competence and experience
* Secret Service preemptively informed Pittsburgh field office the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources Hawley's whistleblower report concludes: "Two months have now elapsed since former President Donald J. Trump was nearly assassinated. And the American people still know far too little about why this happened." "The Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security have not been forthcoming with the American people. Far from it: they have closed ranks, refused to confirm or deny whistleblower allegations, and resisted meaningful oversight. In fact, sources with direct knowledge of Secret Service's own internal investigation have alleged to Senator Hawley that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on Secret Service not to comply with document requests from Congress." [...] "Left alone, these agencies will not reform themselves. They will continue to stonewall and obfuscate. Plainly, it is now up to Congress and the President to clean house at these failing agencies at the earliest possible opportunity."
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Emergency Love Transfusion Open Thread
The only things I could post make me angry and hateful and even worse, so here's something nice.
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"We May Never Know the Assassin's Motive," Vows Media That Filled Assassin With His Motive to Kill
Ryan Wesley Routh portrayed himself online as a man who built housing for homeless people in Hawaii, tried to recruit fighters for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, and described his support and then disdain for Donald Trump -- even urging Iran to kill him.How's the search for a motive going, AP? Still inconclusive?
"You are free to assassinate Trump," Routh wrote of Iran in an apparently self-published book in 2023, "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," which described the former President as a "fool" and "buffoon" for both the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and the "tremendous blunder" of leaving the Iran nuclear deal.
... Three officials who identified Routh spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and search for a motive.
Through his voluminous online footprint, public records, news interviews and videos, a picture emerged of Routh as a man with a criminal past, plenty of outrage and shifting politics."Shifting politics."
... Routh also made 19 small donations totaling $140 since 2019 to ActBlue, a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates, according to federal campaign finance records.We may never know his political leanings, the media vowed. The quest for a motive continues, fruitlessly.
Son of alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh says his dad hates Trump like 'all reasonable people' but he's never owned a gun and wouldn't do anything bats*** crazyLeftists never believe they inspire their own leftist assassins. Lefties are still claiming that the communist Lee Harvey Oswald was "inspired" by "dark right wing chatter" in Dallas of 1963. Or at least that's what they claim. I think they know damn well they're instigating their more deranged Paramilitaries into Direct Action. They just don't want to admit they're deliberately assassin-baiting. This latest leftwing Democrat-Media Assassin was a Known Wolf who was very welcome inside the world of leftwing corporations.
The son of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump's Florida golf club on Sunday, has said his father is not a violent person and did not even believe him to own a gun. Routh's son, Oran Routh, reached by DailyMail.com shortly after Sunday's shooting, said this was the first he'd heard of the alleged assassination attempt. 'This was the first I heard about it,' the 35-year-old exclusively told DailyMail.com. 'Was my father shot or injured?' He said his father hates Trump as 'every reasonable person does. 'I don't like Trump either,' the son added. But he said his dad is not a violent person and couldn't believe his father would target the president.
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The EU Commissioner Who Demanded That Elon Musk Censor Speech or Be Arrested Has Been Forced to Resign
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with his decision to force Europe's censorship regime on American speakers, or if this is just the usual knife-fight-in-a-telephone- booth that Marxist authoritarians are always engaged in.
Maybe a little of both. VodkaPundit:VodkaPundit then turns to wondering about the last major innovations that came out of Europe, and wonders if the lack of such innovations may be connected to its Atheist Jihadist views on heretical thoughts.
Thierry Breton, the European Union commissioner who tried to bully Elon Musk into banishing free speech from Twitter/X, resigned in shame from his post today and liberty lovers everywhere should rejoice. Breton, who truly deserves a spot on this long-dormant blog, quit in an open letter where he accused European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of plotting against him. "You asked France to withdraw my name -- for personal reasons that in no instance you have discussed directly with me -- and offered, as a political trade-off, an allegedly more influential portfolio for France in the future College," he wrote. According to Deadline, Breton has been "at odds with von der Leyen [since] August when he sent a letter to Musk, urging him to ensure that X adhered to EU regulations and moderated content."Translation: Breton embarrassed Brussels and had to be sidelined. Had Musk caved, Breton would still be hard at work, determining what is "safe" for people to be allowed to read in Europe -- and even in this country.
In response, Musk told Breton to back-off with an expletive-laden meme on X, taken from the satirical action thriller Tropic Thunder. The European Commission would not comment on the insult, but a spokesperson stated that "the timing and wording" of Breton's letter to Musk had not been coordinated with von der Leyen or other commissioners, in a response that was seen as a rebuke to the commissioner.
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Gallup: Young Women Are More Woke and Politically Shrill Than At Any Point In History; Completely Unrelated: Young Women Now Celebrating the "Empowerment" of Dining Out -- Alone
Totally unrelated matters. I don't even know why I'm putting them in the same post. It just makes no sense for me to put two stories with absolutely no shared connective tissue in the same post, but I've got Monday Madness!
Young women are now more leftwing and hateful towards their many, many out-groups than at any other point in the last 20 years of data.It's not just that they lean left, which women, particularly young women, have always done. It's that hardline progressive Marxism is now a core part of their identities as human beings.
Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data. Over the past few years, about 4 in 10 young women between the ages of 18 and 29 have described their political views as liberal, compared with two decades ago when about 3 in 10 identified that way.
For many young women, their liberal identity is not just a new label. The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also jumped by double digits, Gallup found. Young women "aren't just identifying as liberal because they like the term or they're more comfortable with the term, or someone they respect uses the term," said Lydia Saad, the director of U.S. social research at Gallup. "They have actually become much more liberal in their actual viewpoints." Becoming a more cohesive political group with distinctly liberal views could turn young women into a potent political force, according to Saad. While it is hard to pinpoint what is making young women more liberal, they now are overwhelmingly aligned on many issues, which could make it easier for campaigns to motivate them. ... Young women began to diverge ideologically from other groups, including men between 18 and 29, women over 30 and men over 30, during Democrat Barack Obama's presidency. That trend appears to have accelerated more recently, around the election of Republican Donald Trump, the #MeToo movement and increasingly successful efforts by the anti-abortion movement to erode abortion access. At the same time, more women, mostly Democrats, were elected to Congress, as governor and to state legislatures, giving young women new representation and role models in politics. The change in young women's political identification is happening across the board, Gallup found, rather than being propelled by a specific subgroup. Taylor Swift's endorsement Tuesday of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, after her debate against Trump, illustrated one of the issues where young women have moved to the left. In Swift's Instagram announcing the endorsement praised Harris and running mate Tim Walz for championing reproductive rights.Now to that unrelated point: Young spinsters are now spinning their loneliness and lack of romantic relationships with men as, get this, yet another girlboss point they're "self-empowered" by. The lonely childless cat lady's guide to dining out alone.
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Affidavit Signed by ABC "News" Employee: ABC "News" Agreed In Advance to Not Bring Up Damaging Issues for Kamala, Like Her Knowledge of Biden's Dementia; Linsey Davis Admits They Plotted to "Fact"-Check Only Trump
Note that this affidavit was signed before the actual debate, which occurred on September 10. This affidavit is signed September 9, accurately previewing the rigged debate, and he says he enclosed this affidavit in multiple sealed envelopes which he sent through the mail to himself. (Thus establishing the sealed envelopes were in the US mail system as of September 9.)
He says he did this for "future investigatory purposes" -- that is, when Congress investigates, he'll be able to prove he knew that ABC would only "Fact" check Trump before it ever happened. He's also submitting this to Congress.
Three things must happen: 1, obviously Congress must investigate and put all parties at ABC/Disney under oath, from executives to "news" producers to "news" staffers. They must be grilled, on pain of perjury, about these allegations. 2, as Instapundit used to point out, the airwaves are not owned by the networks. They are granted, for free, to these mega-media-corporations on the condition they they are used "for the public trust." Not for the narrow sectarian interests of an oligarchy determined to put its boot on the neck of the public. All grants to the three major networks must be reviewed and, frankly, cancelled. They should be given to other start-up stations. 3, the law granting these airwave bands to the network does so on the condition that they run a news (or "news," as it's become) broadcast in the evening every night. By demanding this, Congress thus demands these leftwing Marxist mega-corporations run propaganda operations against the right. Congress should end the provision of any network being required to run a "news" program. Let them decide themselves. Maybe eventually some executives will decide the fake news business is too costly for too little return, and simply kill their network "news" budget. But we definitely have to yank the licenses for these networks to broadcast. This is a trillion-dollar benefit stolen from the taxpayers and the public trust to directly fund the Marxists' information operations against the public. In the 1990s, Ted Kennedy inserted his own personal political stipulation into the law of broadcast band allocation. He inserted his own little f***-you spite provision that said that the same man could not own both a newspaper and a broadcast channel in the same region. He did this target one single man: Rupert Murdoch, whom he hated for running the right-leaning Boston Herald. In the Fox News purchase of many of CBS' TV stations, he had acquired a station in Boston. Kennedy forced Murdoch to sell this station due to his hatred of Murdoch having one newspaper in Massachusetts that questioned the Kennedys. The GOP should do no less. Correction (Maybe): Joe Mannix says that the networks already do bid on the broadcast spectrum. From Wikipedia:
ABC News' Linsey Davis, one of two moderators for last week's presidential debate, admitted to the Los Angeles Times that the plan was only to fact-check former President Donald Trump, and not Vice President Kamala Harris. As Breitbart News noted, Davis and co-moderator David Muir fact-checked Trump seven times -- often incorrectly -- while never fact-checking Harris once, even when she used hoaxes, such as the Charlottesville "very fine people" hoax. Davis told the Times that ABC had deliberately targeted Trump -- and only Trump -- because of perceptions that he had been allowed to get away with false statements in the CNN debate against President Joe Biden in late June. As the New York Post noted:Davis admitted that the moderators studied past statements -- "Politicians tend to say the same things again and again" -- but somehow did not prepare to check Harris's repeated use of hoaxes. (Harris used the "very fine people" hoax in 2020 during the vice presidential debate with Mike Pence, who fact-checked her onstage at the time.)
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Davis said she wanted to address concerns that Trump's statements could be allowed to "hang" there unchallenged by his opponent or the moderators, as they were when Trump and Biden debate on CNN in June. "Davis, wearing pink glasses while speaking to The Times over breakfast at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, said the decision to attempt to correct the candidates was in response to the June 27 CNN debate between Trump and President Biden, whose poor performance led to his exit from the race," the Times reported. "People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators," Davis told the outlet on Wednesday morning.
UOkay, I think I'm wrong. (But I'm not sure they mean television bands.) Still, there must be an enforced requirement that these licenses are used "for the public trust."
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conducts auctions of licenses for electromagnetic spectrum. The FCC has been conducting competitive auctions since 1994 rather than assigning spectra through comparative hearings under which the specific merits of each applicant is litigated, or through lotteries.[33][34] Since July 1994, the FCC has conducted 87 spectrum auctions, which raised over $60 billion for the U.S. Treasury (not all of which has been collected). When initially planning and designing the spectrum auction, major telephone companies and the federal government relied on the input of various theorists including Paul Milgrom, Charles Plott, Barry Nalebuff, Preston McAfee, and John McMillan among others.[35] The auctions assigned thousands of licenses to hundreds of licensees. The auction approach is widely emulated throughout the world. To be considered a qualified [bidder] by the commission, companies or individuals have to submit an application and an upfront downpayment. FCC auctions are conducted electronically and are accessible over the Internet.[36] Bidders can follow the progress of an auction and view the results of each round.[33]
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NBC's Claimed "Republican" Lester Holt: The "Apparent" Assassination Attempt on Trump Was Caused by Trump's "Fierce Rhetoric" and "Baseless Claims" About Haitian Immigrants in Springfield
Happy Monday, though it is already shaping up to be maddening one.
Lester Holt knows who really incited a leftwing Biden-Harris supporter to try to kill Trump -- Trump himself, of course. Not the egregious hatred and hoaxes directed at him by the hard left (which definitely includes the vile propaganda channel NBC). MSNBC is singing from the same hymnbook, of course. They're both the same organization, but NBC usually likes to let MSNBC take the lead in pushing the most bitterly, vilely partisan propaganda. Not this time! Lester Holt, who is claimed (anonymously, by NBC's whisperers) to be a "Republican," is right there with MSNBC blaming Trump's "apparent" assassination attempt on Trump's rhetoric.Posted by: Ace at 12:07 PM | Comments (435) | Trackbacks (Suck)
THE MORNING RANT: Broken Institutions & the Rot that Ensued from Kicking Out Conservative Institutionalists
"I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, I don't even think I could define myself narrowly as either a liberal or a conservative anymore. The one thing I know that I fundamentally do believe is…that the dominant institutions of American life--in education, in the arts, in politics--are either totally broken or so weak or corrupt that they're becoming irrelevant. In a way, the only thing I know that I believe in is brokenness."Over at Twitter, the always insightful Coddled Affluent Professional offered up this spot-on observation a few months ago: “One of the stupidest things libs have done is kick conservatives out of the institutions. No one is more committed to an institution’s mission, reputation, and good health than a conservative institutionalist. There are so many key tasks that libs lack the work ethic and temperament for that conservatives will just take care of instinctually. Terminal narcissists, the libs were unaware of the free ride they were getting. Now there’s chaos and things are collapsing left and right, and it’s just a bunch of libs shrieking hysterically at each other.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington
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The Morning Report — 9/16/24
So, Donald Trump is at fault for getting shot at twice? Nice job of blaming the rape victim for dressing provocatively, or the Jew for wearing a yarmulke and a star of David openly on a college campus. Remember, as Ace brilliantly states: "Our speech is violence, but their violence is speech." And of course, the latter is a natural and normal reaction to the former since it is to protect our precious democracy. Not to turn your stomach so early in the morning, but recall what Maxine "Love Canal" Waters demanded of people very early on in Trump's first term:
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt questioned whether former President Donald Trump should consider “toning down” his rhetoric Sunday following what may have been an assassination attempt on the former president.
So, Donald Trump is at fault for getting shot at twice? Nice job of blaming the rape victim for dressing provocatively, or the Jew for wearing a yarmulke and a star of David openly on a college campus. Remember, as Ace brilliantly states: "Our speech is violence, but their violence is speech." And of course, the latter is a natural and normal reaction to the former since it is to protect our precious democracy. Not to turn your stomach so early in the morning, but recall what Maxine "Love Canal" Waters demanded of people very early on in Trump's first term:
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is calling on her supporters to confront Trump administration officials and staffers in public amid widespread backlash to the President’s zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration. “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters told a crowd in California over the weekend. “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”Well, See if you can spot where Maxine's voice is coming from now:
Kamala’s running mate Tim Walz was campaigning in Wisconsin this weekend when he told a crowd that the race is going to be a battle in which you speak to people in the grocery store and ask them if they’ve voted yet. When Walz was first introduced, he tried very hard to frame Trump and J.D. Vance as “weird.” I’m thinking this was a case of projection. Also, isn’t this the same guy who always says people should mind their own damn business? The November election will be a “margin-of-error race,” Walz predicted, saying Wisconsin would be one of a handful of states necessary to win. “This thing’s going to be a battle for the next 52 days,” he said. “It’s gonna be won in rooms just like this. It’s gonna be won door-to-door, call-to-call, $5 donation, trying to have that hard conversation in the produce aisle with the person you saw there at the grocery store.”"Hard" like brass knuckles that last for more than four hours hard, Timmy? Last bit of revulsion to drive the point home, as if we need it:
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took to X on Sunday to decry what he called “extreme MAGA Republicans,” adding, “We must stop them.” Notably, Jeffries made this declaration an hour after former President Donald Trump survived a second assassination attempt.So, were these last two attempts from within our own corrupted governmental establishment, or independent Democrat psychos hopped up on Democrat eliminationist rhetoric? Or some combination of both. I get the sense that whether it's within the top levels of the Junta or the grassroots Democrats, they know that unless the cheat is so absolutely huge as to be impossible to hide, Trump is going to win and going to win massively, and in places that will shock them to their core. Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., said a suspect has been apprehended and an AK-47 rifle was found in the bushes at Trump National, citing law enforcement officials.
Donald Trump Reported Safe After Gunfire Near His Location
- Routh, who has a lengthy criminal record from North Carolina, frequently posted about politics and exclusively donated to Democratic candidates and causes dating back to 2019.
Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh, 58, of Hawaii echoed Harris, Biden’s anti-Trump rhetoric as he backed Dem candidates
- Daniel Greenfield: Two assassination attempts on Trump in three months.
Kamala Supporter Attempted to Assassinate Trump - This trend highlights the significant role of immigration in shaping recent US population growth....
FRONTLINES: Number of foreign-born US citizens reaches highest level in over 100 years - One of the things that leftist city dwellers who live far from nature don’t realize is that nature is not pretty and cuddly but red of tooth and claw (and beak).
Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ playing out for real in Scotland(bring in some Haitians - jjs)
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Daily Tech News 16 September 2024
Top Story
- The Polaris Dawn mission, operated by SpaceX and funded by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, was a huge success and an important step forward in making manned spaceflight truly practical and not just a weapon of the Cold War. (Ars Technica)
Just watching the resources put into the capsule recovery was impressive, and that was one of the simpler components of the project.
The communists in the Ars Technica comments are livid.
And they're getting downvoted to oblivion by the mere socialists who thing spaceflight is cool.
- So, after a year of trying to order the Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 case here in Australia, it finally showed up for pre-order.
I placed my order.
It disappeared from the site.
They just cancelled.
I tried to order directly from Hyte despite the horrifying expense, but they no longer know where Australia is.
Fuck.
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September 15, 2024
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/15/24)
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The Quotes of The Day
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The Comments of The Week
Quote I “We are grateful the victim only sustained minor injuries, due to the mother’s quick actions and child’s resiliency,” WDFW Sergeant, Ken Balazs.
Quote II “We understand that the legal process in the DRC allows for defendants to appeal the court’s decision,”
State Department spokesperson Matt Miller
Quote III I'm simply not interested in electric cars. They are just white goods. They're washing machines, they're microwave ovens. And you can't review those, you can't enjoy them. They are just shit.” Jeremy Clarkson
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Trump Shooter Identified: A Pro-Ukranian Maniac?
As with Muslim terrorism: We have to worry about the hypothetical backlash before we spend a single second talking about the real forelash.
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Food Thread – 9/15/2024
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Oysters and Salmon
Our normal host for this thread, Mr. CBD, is taking the day off from writing about food, presumably because he is currently researching the subject. There is a good chance that his research involves oysters, which he mentions in most every one of his Food Threads.
I share his gustatory passion for oysters. On a recent trip to Florida, I had baked oysters as an appetizer at one dinner, then I followed it with fried oysters as my entrée. When the plates were being cleared, my wife jokingly asked the waiter if the restaurant had any desserts that featured oysters. He said they could improvise if needed.
So where are the desserts or sweet & savory dishes involving oysters? How about an oyster sundae?
Anyhow, it seems inconsistent that I love oysters served any style (including raw), and I also love crustaceans, but as for finfish, I can take it or leave it. If fish is blackened, fried, smoked, or covered in a sauce, I generally like it, but if it’s just oven baked, I’d rather pass.
My wife, however, loves salmon. One thing she does that makes it more palatable to me is a simple, homemade dill sauce. Her quick recipe is equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream mixed with dill seasoning to taste. (She uses Spice Hunter Deliciously Dill.) The dill sauce is then slapped on a piece of salmon that was cooked in the toaster over. It’s quick, easy, and very good.
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Artisanal Bologna
As homogenized as this country is, it’s still fun to seek out local food specialties. One of the unexpected treats that I found when moving to East Tennessee is artisanal bologna. And it’s good!
There are numerous trendy and semi-upscale restaurants hereabouts where homemade bologna is featured as a protein, and where “artisanal bologna” sandwiches are on the menu alongside gourmet sandwiches and burgers.
Pit smoked bologna is also a thing here.
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Nostalgia for Defunct Food Products
What defunct foods from your younger days do you find yourself nostalgic for?
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First World Problems...
Too much great food. Too much great wine.
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Reaching Across The Aisle? It's For Sell-outs And Those Without A Coherent Political Philosophy
The headline says it all, but the current sleaze in the news -- The Cheney Clan -- is a perfect example of how political expediency and plain old graft easily subsumes the mushy political philosophy of many of the people who have claimed the mantle of 'elite" in our government.
Dick Cheney, or "Judas Iscariot," as a friend just called him, is, in retrospect, a Halliburton whore with delusions of statesmanship. He is dug in like a disease-ridden tick into the flesh of American government, taking his cut, pushing policy in the direction that benefits him and his foul family the most. That cut is more important than the lives and treasure of America that he has wasted during his career. And of course, his piggish daughter, the disgraced Wyoming representative who was absolutely destroyed by the good people of The Cowboy State when she exposed herself as the spawn of her grasping father, is just as bad. They have never seen a war fought with our blood and treasure they didn't support, and they have no concept of the simple idea that America is a grand place with a unique and special political system, and it and its people are worthy of their love, their loyalty, and their unwavering support. But they see this great country as a source for money and power, and anyone who gets in the way of their all too common grift is deserving of their scorn and vitriol. Lard-ass Liz Cheney was bitterly critical of Chlamydia Harris during the 2020 primary campaign, correctly calling her out as a "radical liberal," is now, along with her senile father, supporting her! Their grift is more important than anything, and they are willing to whore themselves out to the highest bidder. The fever dreams of the NeverTrumpers have never been based in anything other than a childish dislike of Trump The Man, rather than his eminently rational policies. The Uniparty is proudly...angrily against American values, and Trump is standing in their way. They would rather hasten the end of American exceptionalism and drive us into the 3rd world path of ever-growing entitlements, onerous restrictions on commerce, and unfettered immigration. Just peer across the Atlantic Ocean to see how that turns out!Posted by: CBD at 12:08 PM | Comments (294) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 09-15-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
(HT: Dash my lace wigs!)
(HT: Dash my lace wigs!)
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Daily Tech News 15 September 2024
Top Story
- The Kneecap Loophole: Twelve defendants have been sentenced over a highly technical criminal scheme to steal people's cryptocurrency. (DOJ)
The scheme worked like this: They'd break into your house, tie you up, and torture you until you gave up your password.
Yeah.
- Further update to the Boeing strike story: I have a copy of the bargaining agreement, but it's 336 pages and I haven't had time to wade through it yet. There's certainly a lot more give and take than just a 25% pay rise.
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