Why baby formula recipes are often old recipes in the USA

The ongoing baby formula crisis partially explained on NPR

Once again, I have been listening to NPR in the car so you don't have to. I caught part of an interview by NPR's Elissa Nadworny, speaking with Ron Belldegrun, CEO of ByHeart, a manufacturer of baby formula, "about his meeting with President Biden" to discuss the nationwide shortage and how to fix it. (Actually, it seems to have been a call with several manufacturers.)

You can listen or read the transcript at the link.

A couple of comments to start with: I have never heard of ByHeart baby formula. And people say "yeah" and "you know" a lot in NPR interviews.

This CEO also used a word that I had never heard before. "Incent". So I looked it up on Webster's online:

Incent:

transitive verb: incentivize
First Known Use of incent
1981, in the meaning defined above

It's interesting that now the government (or some other undefined entity) now needs to "incent' manufacturers instead of just getting out of their way.

I also find it remarkable that the President was the person chosen to speak in a conference call to this CEO and others about how to fix this baby formula shortage. But there were a few interesting things in this short, very informal interview:

NADWORNY:

President Biden said he didn't know about the baby formula shortage until April, but industry executives have said they anticipated that this would be a dire shortage back in February, when there was the voluntary recall of baby formula from a major manufacturer, Abbott. What was your reaction to the president's remarks?

BELLDEGRUN:

Look, I won't speak directly for, you know, the president or, you know, the administration specifically, but this was a surprise to a lot of people and a lot of parents. One of the biggest misconceptions of this space is that you would actually think there's a lot of choice. And any stakeholder would think that there's dozens of companies that are supporting this most important foundational food. But the reality is 90% of that shelf is from three brands that have dominated for decades. And every single new entrant in the last few decades has taken the same path, and that is to outsource to the one and only contract manufacturer in the country, utilize an expedited kind of generic path to market, which only really allows for incremental change based on old recipes and does not contribute new clinical research or new manufacturing because it's sort of all outsourced. So it's a much more fragile supply chain than I think a lot of people thought.

So current regulations and regulatory practices inhibit innovation and new investment. Perfect. Compare to pharmaceutical innovation and manufacture. Anything that triggers a new FDA product application is extremely expensive.

Remember that the current special incentives and protections for vaccine manufacturers came as a result of a crisis, too. Companies were exiting the market due to lawsuits. So vaccine manufacturers had to be "incented".

BELLDEGRUN:

. . . You know, this is sole-source nutrition for babies. . . . And so it's appropriately the most highly regulated food in the world, right? This is the only food that requires clinical studies, you know, FDA registration. We talked also about, you know, the supply chain bottleneck is a huge deterrent to new entrants - right? - because, you know, as I shared our own experience, you're sitting at a point in time and saying, hey, either I go and I effectively outsource to the one and only contract manufacturer, but then I need to rely on, you know, old recipes and old clinical research. And I can't - you know, it's sort of very restrictive to innovation.
Or you need to go out and acquire manufacturing facilities and, you know, do all internal R and D and run major clinical trials. So the barriers to entry in this category are enormous. And so for this to really be - you know, for the U.S. to really never again find ourselves in this situation, we need to incent more companies to do the work that we have done. And that was to forgo the outsource route and instead invest in manufacturing and clinical research. And that's important not just for shoring up a supply chain but also for advancing this really critical nutrition.

Okay. What would it take to do that without relying on special favors from government?

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Fifth flight of baby formula from Europe

Operation Fly Formula

How humiliating is this? Operation Fly Formula????

The U.S. government is relying on Nestle's distribution channels to get formula out to the nation. Wonder if they had to incent the corporation to do this.

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Are they doing all this on purpose?

If Biden Intended To Destroy America, What Would He Be Doing Differently?

Deliberate and intentional. Two words you can expect Republicans to utter a lot more as they make the case that what ails America now isn't an accident. It's Joe Biden's design."
That's how Just the News' John Solomon characterizes the shift in tone among Republicans in the runup to the midterm elections this fall. The leftist media is sure to attack this sort of language as crazy and dangerous QAnon conspiracy talk.
But ask yourself, what would Biden be doing differently if his goal was to purposely send the country into a tailspin?

He set off a 40-decade-high inflation spiral with his $2 trillion "rescue" plan. He exacerbated supply-chain problems by paying people not to work. He threw open the borders to millions of illegal immigrants. He needlessly kept COVID mandates and restrictions in place. He worsened shortages of baby formula and spiking gasoline prices. He encouraged foreign adversaries with his disastrous Afghanistan retreat.
In every instance, Biden has said he and his top officials were "caught off guard." In other words, his is pleading incompetence. The public has picked up on this, which is why most Americans now believe that "incompetent" is the word that best describes this president.
But incompetence doesn't do Biden justice. In every case, Biden knew, or should have known, what would happen if he pushed his policies. Yet he did so anyway. . .

What do you think?

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Get set for the weekend

Prepare for the gardening and pet threads, with some news anchors of the recent past. No gardening in high heels.

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Music

Judy Garland would have been 100 years old yesterday. I guess that means she was a contemporary of Betty White. I don't think of them together, somehow. Commentary on some of her top vocal performances in film.

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The number nine pick above, For Me and My Gal

And their top pick, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Almost cut from the film.

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's Thread, June 4, California Update. Gas prices, Transgender homeless housing, infighting over Pride Month in San Fran, David Nunes and the Sussman Trial, The Train to Nowhere, Bees that are fish, ending mandatory reporting of students who threaten schools, campus trespassing is OK on private campuses, no property taxes for counties from solar fields, stripping doctors of medical licenses for wrong-speech, Johnny Cash and The Beach Boys.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:15 AM

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1 This "when did Biden know" crap is stupid.

Either he knew and approved and should be impeached, or he is incompetent enough that he should be impeached.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:20 AM (ESjRY)

2 All I know about the baby formula operation is that the so-called whistleblower was claiming things that almost certainly aren't true, and the claims that babies died from the formula is almost certainly not true either.

So they shut down a whole industry, for no good reason, and then had no plan in place to mitigate the damage.

It's almost as if starving babies and scaring the shite out of parents was the point.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:20 AM (NWBBy)

3 Oh, and anyone at the FDA arrested yet? No? Fired? No? Publicly humiliated? No?

Then Biden approved.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:20 AM (ESjRY)

4 It's almost as if starving babies and scaring the shite out of parents was the point.

You don't say?

Posted by: The Georgia Guidestones at June 11, 2022 11:21 AM (ESjRY)

5 So they shut down a whole industry, for no good reason, and then had no plan in place to mitigate the damage.

It's almost as if starving babies and scaring the shite out of parents was the point.

Almost.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:20 AM (NWBBy)

And just so we're clear, when I say "they" I mean the government. The government did this. Period. Full stop.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:22 AM (NWBBy)

6 Related to Chris P. Bacon video
Just the punchline:
"A good pig like that, you don't eat it all at once!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 11, 2022 11:22 AM (jTmQV)

7 Judy Garland was such a shining talent.

And she was completely abused and exploited by Hollywood, so badly that she killed herself.

She was publicly called a 'fat pig with pigtails' by an executive.

What an absolute fuckhead, the scumbags cost us such an amazing talent

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 11, 2022 11:22 AM (setIA)

8 It's almost as if starving babies and scaring the shite out of parents was the point.
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You don't say?
Posted by: The Georgia Guidestones at June 11, 2022 11:21 AM (ESjRY)

Most people have never heard of the Guidestones. But it's amazing how many social ills we're seeing today fit right into the plan that's laid out there.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:23 AM (NWBBy)

9 Biden didn't know and isn't running anything. He's 'John Gill' from ST:TOS. His administration and the Fed Leviathan is what is destroying the nation. For Our Own Good!

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 11, 2022 11:24 AM (sAmhv)

10 The supply chain thing is a huge problem across most industries--the corpos all outsourced EVERYTHING, starting in the late 80s, to just a few (mostly overseas) companies that do the actual blue-collar type work of forging, molding, etc. Incredibly fragile. So it just took a little push for everything from cars and computers to toilet paper and baby formula to become scarce.

Posted by: CppThis at June 11, 2022 11:24 AM (UewuT)

11 Frances Ethel Gumm, a once in a lifetime talent...

destroyed by the Entertainment Factory.

Towards the end of her life she was a despicable character. This is not unexpected among the Hollywood female stars of the past, but in Judy's case I think the copious amounts of pharmaceuticals that she ingested, first under duress, then voluntarily, had quite a bit to do with her personality change.

Posted by: kallisto at June 11, 2022 11:25 AM (DJFLF)

12 Judy Garland was such a shining talent.

And she was completely abused and exploited by Hollywood, so badly that she killed herself.

She was publicly called a 'fat pig with pigtails' by an executive.

What an absolute fuckhead, the scumbags cost us such an amazing talent
Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 11, 2022 11:22 AM (setIA)

Substitute the name Judy Garland with damn near EVERY other child star in Hollowood, and make it clear there was a sexual abuse component to all of it, and you have it.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:25 AM (NWBBy)

13 The supply chain thing is a huge problem across most industries--the corpos all outsourced EVERYTHING, starting in the late 80s, to just a few (mostly overseas) companies that do the actual blue-collar type work of forging, molding, etc. Incredibly fragile. So it just took a little push for everything from cars and computers to toilet paper and baby formula to become scarce.
Posted by: CppThis at June 11, 2022 11:24 AM (UewuT)

As I mentioned yesterday, now that Walmort has bought the Denver Broncos, are they going to get all their players from China?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:27 AM (NWBBy)

14 What this baby formula shortage did was piss off a ton of suburban moms so much they flipped political sides. Everything the dems did just sent more people to the right.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:28 AM (pmoqr)

15 It really is amazing what damage the government can do to society. Everyone knows that high taxes decrease innovation, but your point that regulation also restricts invention and thinking outside the box is extremely important.

Imagine what our country would be like if government simply got out of the way of business!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 11:28 AM (XIJ/X)

16 Hey Man, people need this formula, for sure, else they will go grody.

Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2022 11:28 AM (X5CsJ)

17 40 decades is 400 years...
I know, math.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 11, 2022 11:28 AM (jTmQV)

18 Deliberate and intentional. Two words you can expect Republicans to utter a lot more…

Which Republicans are these?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 11:28 AM (U+Oxn)

19

40 decades!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2022 11:29 AM (63Dwl)

20
Substitute the name Judy Garland with damn near EVERY other child star in Hollowood, and make it clear there was a sexual abuse component to all of it, and you have it.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:25 AM (NWBBy)

I read a book by Judy's minder. She described how Judy used to relate how they were summoned to the "Monster Bed", where the old moguls and execs molested and violated the child stars.

The minder attributed the stories to Judy's imagination.

Posted by: kallisto at June 11, 2022 11:29 AM (DJFLF)

21 >>18
The America first maga type.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:29 AM (pmoqr)

22 Biden didn't know and isn't running anything. He's 'John Gill' from ST:TOS. His administration and the Fed Leviathan is what is destroying the nation. For Our Own Good!

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 11, 2022 11:24 AM (sAmhv)

The funny part is, every now and then he wakes up, looks around, sees what's going on and starts ranting and raving about how he's supposed to be the President, and is sick and tired of everyone contradicting everything he says.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:30 AM (NWBBy)

23 Before: The President is not only personally responsible for every prison guard sergeant in the Army, he's responsible for the weather.

Now: Of course the president isn't responsible for what the leadership of the FDA does. He's only the president after all.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:30 AM (ESjRY)

24 Gag me with a spoon.
Formula is so bitchen.
He was like freaking me out...
He called me a beastie...
That's 'cause like he was totally blitzed
He goes like bag your face
I'm sure!

Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2022 11:31 AM (X5CsJ)

25 Pelosi and her cabal of octogenarian oligarchs think the 1930s were the golden age and they are doing everything they can to get us back there, by hook or by crook.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at June 11, 2022 11:31 AM (9X60i)

26 "NADWORNY"? "BELLDEGRUN"? I looked at those names and thought these must be some sort of hip new acronyms I hadn't heard of yet.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at June 11, 2022 11:31 AM (6fYsh)

27 I don't care if it is June or not, I will not give up my mancard for Judy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 11:31 AM (BP3/z)

28 Read a article couple weeks ago that said all us 29 yo never had any baby formula

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 11, 2022 11:32 AM (U3e9X)

29 My mother told me that she fed my brother PET canned milk mixed with water and Karo syrup. The Dr gave her the recipe.

There was no such thing as formula.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 11, 2022 11:32 AM (oeVy+)

30 It's like grody...
Grody to the max
I'm sure
It's like really nauseating
Like barf me out
Gag me with a spoon
Gross
I am sure
Totally...

Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2022 11:33 AM (X5CsJ)

31 Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:25 AM (NWBBy)

I read a book by Judy's minder. She described how Judy used to relate how they were summoned to the "Monster Bed", where the old moguls and execs molested and violated the child stars.

The minder attributed the stories to Judy's imagination.
Posted by: kallisto at June 11, 2022 11:29 AM (DJFLF)

It's understandable, but obviously the minder was wrong.

Something tells me Hollowood found (finds) people to be minders for these kids, knowing the types who will not look too hard, and/or keep their mouths shut.

Sadly, that's often the parent.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:33 AM (NWBBy)

32 So 90% of the baby formula made in the USA is manufactured by three companies and none of the so-called experts could foresee a potential problem when one of them is taken off-line for an extended period of time.

Top. Men. We're led by Top Men.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 11, 2022 11:33 AM (xxG/v)

33 So that's why TCM had all those Judy Garland movies on yesterday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2022 11:34 AM (63Dwl)

34 Incredibly fragile.

Kara McKinney highlighted the sinking of the Vasa almost 400 years ago in one of her Historical Spotlights (available on Rumble and almost always worth watching) this week. Part of the reason it sank is that the weight was distributed too high in the ship; very little wind was required to tip it far enough to take on water and be unable to right itself.

Sounds like a metaphor.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 11:35 AM (U+Oxn)

35 The America first maga type.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:29 AM (pmoqr)

So the ones NOT in leadership, the ones who will be kicked of twatter, and undermined/thwarted by Cocaine Mitch and Frank Luntz' boyfriend.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:35 AM (NWBBy)

36 Judy Garland was such a shining talent. And she was completely abused and exploited by Hollywood, so badly that she killed herself.

When I'm dictator I will pass a law that no one under 18 is permitted to work in the performing arts. That includes musical prodigies, too. If they have talent, it will still be there when they're adults; there's no reason people have to watch an 8-year old play the piano or violin, except for the novelty value.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at June 11, 2022 11:35 AM (6fYsh)

37 What did folks do before this so called "baby formula"?

Also, Judy was regarding as the best giver of head during her time in Hollyweird.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 11, 2022 11:36 AM (R/m4+)

38 So 90% of the baby formula made in the USA is manufactured by three companies and none of the so-called experts could foresee a potential problem when one of them is taken off-line for an extended period of time.

I've seen stories say this particular plant makes 40% of the formula in the US. Which if true is absurd.

In a rational world the FDA leadership that signed off on closing this facility would be brought before congress and asked what their plan was to mitigate the shortage, and when they said, "Oh that's not MY job" fired on the spot.

Also...*anyone* talking about the need to break up the apparent baby formula cartel? If one lone facility makes 40% of the market...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:36 AM (ESjRY)

39 So 90% of the baby formula made in the USA is manufactured by three companies and none of the so-called experts could foresee a potential problem when one of them is taken off-line for an extended period of time.

Top. Men. We're led by Top Men.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 11, 2022 11:33 AM (xxG/v)

The company taken offline, Abbott, accounts for about 40% of the market, including I believe, most of the formula made for babies with special needs.

The same government who made this decision are the ones preventing countries outside the U.S. from importing their formula. You know, third world countries like Canada, Britain, france, and Germany.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:37 AM (NWBBy)

40 KT your a trooper for having to sit through a NPR show.

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 11, 2022 11:37 AM (U3e9X)

41 If Biden Intended To Destroy America, What Would He Be Doing Differently?

FFS, I'm so sick of people saying Biden did this. This has been the plan for decades. Biden has not been doing anything other than what people order him to do, because his brain has been degenerated to mush since at least summer of 2020. He's a puppet.

The World Economic Forum, the Deep State (Republicans and Democrats), the United Nations, the World Health Organization.

The Great Reset and "Build Back Better" has been their plan for decades. And you don't build back better until you destroy what is currently in existence.

Until people stop blaming the situation in the world on Biden and understand this is a global issue pushed by the organizations I listed, we're never going to have a chance to stop it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

42 willowed

Beserker - it only boils the coolant when i stop, then the coolant gets pushed into the overflow tank and from there onto the ground. once it cools, it will empty the ovefflow tank by syphoning the coolant back into the system.

leads me to suspect the radiator cap, otherwise the system would suck air through an opening, crack, bad hose somewhere else. really don't want to pull the engine for head gasket replacement, cause parts are scarce and i may as well do valve stem seals, rings and the hydraulic lifters while i'm in there. and if i do that, i may as well split the case and do the crank seals/bearings and cam chains. probably cheaper to scrap the bike at that point. maybe get one of those sourkraut burning sewing machines known as bmw at that point. maybe a pasta burner ducatti, the multistrada 1200 seems like a good choice for road trips to me.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (UgAdJ)

43 Ok, blaming the experts isn't quite correct and a bit too harsh to a condemnation of the non-political experts. The administration appointees, however, should have seen this as a serious problem and pushed it up the Biden administration's chain of command.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (xxG/v)

44 >>35
Don't count us out yet, the silent majority is not silent anymore. Especially since twitter is getting new management soon, and we have Trump's truth social.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (pmoqr)

45 Someday soon Sundowner will be like a Goldfish seeing that sunken castle every day like it wasn't there before.

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (U3e9X)

46 I can only figure that Shirley Temple was fiercely protected by family and friends from the Hollywood Machine. She seemed to have turned out normal. Granted, she didn't have much of a career once she reached her adult years, which may be a tell.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (sAmhv)

47 Now I'm wondering if Ana Navarro can cross her legs.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (eGTCV)

48 The recent Judy movie came up on one of the streaming services as a $5 purchase a few months ago. I’d been avoiding it because it was either going to be bullshit and not worth watching, or true and not something I’d want to watch.

There’s probably a lot of both in it, but it certainly seemed to get the sense of her final days right from what little I know about them. And Zellweger did an amazing job; probably too good of a job in this case.

Never go full Judy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 11:39 AM (U+Oxn)

49 If one lone facility makes 40% of the market...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:36 AM (ESjRY)

.... it's because the government creates the conditions under which competition is not possible.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:39 AM (NWBBy)

50 Just a reminder ...

Your helpful government bureaucrats warn that it is unsafe for you to make your own baby formula. Your baby is better off going hungry until you can find something after searching store shelves in a 200-mile radius and phoning all the pediatricians in your state.

Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2022 11:41 AM (6RgRK)

51 I can only figure that Shirley Temple was fiercely protected by family and friends from the Hollywood Machine. She seemed to have turned out normal. Granted, she didn't have much of a career once she reached her adult years, which may be a tell.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (sAmhv)

I recall Katherine Heigl talking about her experience working on that Stephen Segal movie when she was in her mid teeens. She said the men would come around, and she's yell "MMMOMMMM!!!" And her mother would come chase them off.

So yeah, some of them are protected, but many of them aren't.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:42 AM (NWBBy)

52 It's true, I used to listen to NPR on the way to work. It was a 4 minute drive and NPR almost always said something hilariously stupid in those 4 minutes.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at June 11, 2022 11:42 AM (3AD8C)

53 That includes musical prodigies, too.

See: Tanya Tucker.

I still can’t believe her version of Delta Dawn was sung at 13. Great voice, and as you said, would still have been there at 18. Probably would have been better at 18 than it was after five years of abuse.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 11:42 AM (U+Oxn)

54 leads me to suspect the radiator cap, otherwise the system would suck air through an opening, crack, bad hose somewhere else. really don't want to pull the engine for head gasket replacement, cause parts are scarce and i may as well do valve stem seals, rings and the hydraulic lifters while i'm in there. and if i do that, i may as well split the case and do the crank seals/bearings and cam chains. probably cheaper to scrap the bike at that point. maybe get one of those sourkraut burning sewing machines known as bmw at that point. maybe a pasta burner ducatti, the multistrada 1200 seems like a good choice for road trips to me.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (UgAdJ) **

I have a 1976 Honda GL1000 that has been sitting outside in the weather for over ten years. Would it be worth trying to fix up? And how much would something like that cost.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM (R5lpX)

55 My mother told me that she fed my brother PET canned milk mixed with water and Karo syrup. The Dr gave her the recipe.

There was no such thing as formula.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 11, 2022 11:32 AM (oeVy+)

Out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago I googled "homemade baby formula" and nearly every result was: Don't make your own formula it's DANGEROUS. I did stumble across one site with a recipe that looks like yours.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM (wZUnB)

56 Just a reminder ...

Your helpful government bureaucrats warn that it is unsafe for you to make your own baby formula. Your baby is better off going hungry until you can find something after searching store shelves in a 200-mile radius and phoning all the pediatricians in your state.
Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2022 11:41 AM (6RgRK)

And meanwhile, the parents who DO manage to find formula in the stores are being treated like they're worse than Hitler for wanting to stock up.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM (NWBBy)

57 I was a Mamatitty baby, then went to fresh cow milk (with Caro syrup) . We generally had 2 cows milking at the same time, a Jersey and Guernsey. I suppose I turned out ok.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 11:44 AM (gktX6)

58 I just noticed something.

I have one of those articulating wooden drawing figures beside my desk for practice. I generally just have the fellow standing at attention. I looked over and he wasn't. One arm across his face centered at the elbow and the other straight out the same direction. It took me a while, "he's dabbing!".

I didn't even know what a dab was until someone told me. But I know who did this, my daughter! Mischievous.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (t/4Zp)

59 >>>And people say "yeah" and "you know" a lot in NPR interviews.

Only when they're lying?

Posted by: m at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (kIwWn)

60 Out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago I googled "homemade baby formula" and nearly every result was: Don't make your own formula it's DANGEROUS. I did stumble across one site with a recipe that looks like yours.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM (wZUnB)

I'm surprised someone hasn't spliced together audio of Trump saying "Give. Babies. Bleach."

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (NWBBy)

61 Why would making your own baby formula be dangerous? It's food. Okay, maybe it is dangerous but why?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (eGTCV)

62 Until people stop blaming the situation in the world on Biden and understand this is a global issue pushed by the organizations I listed, we're never going to have a chance to stop it.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

I agree that Biden is not the mastermind. He has, however, been going along with this destruction his entire life. (not that he's ever been smart enough to see what was really going on or what the end result would be.)

Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (6RgRK)

63 Baby formula: grind a handful of peanuts to a powder, blend with ½ cup honey, and add two raw eggs. Mix in a fifth of rum.

In 9 months you’ll have a baby.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 11:46 AM (U+Oxn)

64 I was a Mamatitty baby, then went to fresh cow milk (with Caro syrup) . We generally had 2 cows milking at the same time, a Jersey and Guernsey. I suppose I turned out ok.
Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 11:44 AM (gktX6)

Well it definitely didn't stunt your growth.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:46 AM (wZUnB)

65 I never knew about Garland's abuse until I read Johnny Mercer's biography which detailed several instances.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 11, 2022 11:47 AM (jTmQV)

66 Incent (not to be confused with Incel).

All part of the Newspeak, Comrade.

Posted by: boynsea at June 11, 2022 11:47 AM (cx155)

67 Until people stop blaming the situation in the world on Biden and understand this is a global issue pushed by the organizations I listed, we're never going to have a chance to stop it.

Getting the LIVs to follow the exact details is difficult. Getting them to blame Biden is moving them in the right direction and completely reasonable.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:48 AM (ESjRY)

68 The first vid - Chris P. Bacon - of news anchors laughing was from my nbc affiliate in Paducah.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 11, 2022 11:48 AM (D4MZJ)

69 Out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago I googled "homemade baby formula" and nearly every result was: Don't make your own formula it's DANGEROUS. I did stumble across one site with a recipe that looks like yours.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM (wZUnB) **

Several several years ago, I knew a couple who's baby couldn't digest any kind of milk product for a while after it was first born. They tried everything. I think the husband even tried to milk a pig. Their doctor finally suggested they feed her small amounts of beer and that did the trick until the baby became able to eat solid food.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 11:48 AM (R5lpX)

70 Baby formula: grind a handful of peanuts to a powder, blend with ½ cup honey, and add two raw eggs. Mix in a fifth of rum.

In 9 months you’ll have a baby.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 11:46 AM (U+Oxn)

I've given birth to that baby the next morning. Didn't take me 9 months.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:48 AM (NWBBy)

71 Operation Fly Formula. The other plus for the America-hating marxists is fhe elimination of borders, one-world, it takes a village blather. Couples nicely with the world virtue signaling for Ukraine.

Operation Fly Formula lso sounds like a message Brundle Fly would approve of. Fitting for the horror story administration.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 11, 2022 11:48 AM (3Or4S)

72
I'm surprised someone hasn't spliced together audio of Trump saying "Give. Babies. Bleach."
Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (NWBBy)

Get an electric baby.. You can just plug them in like electric cars

Posted by: Recession and Inflation at June 11, 2022 11:49 AM (bs+z0)

73 Didn't moms heat whole milk and test it by bouncing the nipple of the bottle on her wrist to see if it was too hot for the baby?

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 11:49 AM (+ya+t)

74 Their doctor finally suggested they feed her small amounts of beer and that did the trick until the baby became able to eat solid food.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 11:48 AM (R5lpX)

And that baby grew up to have a successful music career!

RIP Amy.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 11:50 AM (NWBBy)

75 Baby formula: grind a handful of peanuts to a powder, blend with ½ cup honey, and add two raw eggs. Mix in a fifth of rum.

In 9 months you’ll have a baby.

I thought you need a 6 pack of cheap beer and the back seat of an old beater?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:50 AM (ESjRY)

76 'If you don't really care what happens to your country, you don't notice it's slowly being destroyed.'
-any politician

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 11:51 AM (gktX6)

77 Has Congress been able to legalize murder with an AR-15 at 21 years old yet?

Bullets and beer and baby formula. Keep your priorities straight, people.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 11:52 AM (BP3/z)

78 Okay. What would it take to do that without relying on special favors from government?

You know, I can't, you know, take BELLDEGRUN the stakeholder at his word, you know, because, well, is English his first language?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 11:52 AM (YdNEG)

79 55 My mother told me that she fed my brother PET canned milk mixed with water and Karo syrup. The Dr gave her the recipe.

There was no such thing as formula.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 11, 2022 11:32 AM (oeVy+)

Out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago I googled "homemade baby formula" and nearly every result was: Don't make your own formula it's DANGEROUS. I did stumble across one site with a recipe that looks like yours.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM

If it worked before it would be better than no formula? I don't get it. I can understand if your baby has some sort of allergies. I think modern formula has vitamins but a Dr could prescribe liquid vitamins. None of this makes any sense. My mother keeps talking about it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 11, 2022 11:53 AM (oeVy+)

80 The first vid - Chris P. Bacon - of news anchors laughing was from my nbc affiliate in Paducah.

Years ago I was watching the local news. There had been a plane crash shortly before at a small airport in the area.

Since it had crashed shortly after take off family members were THERE and trying to get through the woods to the crash, and the reporter on the scene was running up to them asking them questions like, "Have you seen any body parts hanging from the trees?" and "Do you think anyone survived?" and...after a bit of this they cut back to the anchors who were all smiles.

That news cast has stuck with me...the lack of humanity is just...stunning.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:54 AM (ESjRY)

81 >>> Didn't moms heat whole milk and test it by bouncing the nipple of the bottle on her wrist to see if it was too hot for the baby?
Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 11:49 AM (+ya+t)

I did that wrist thing for heated formula but it never worked for me. I don't have sensitive wrists or hands. Too much dish washing in my past. The only way was a thermometer or my lips. Formula tastes horrible. But the lips generally worked. Years of drinking scalding hot coffee meant my tongue and the inside of my mouth was are also insensitive. But a few drops on my lower lip was good enough. And I repeat formula tastes horrible. A metallic taste. bleh

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 11:55 AM (t/4Zp)

82 Has Congress been able to legalize murder with an AR-15 at 21 years old yet?

Bullets and beer and baby formula. Keep your priorities straight, people.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 11:52 AM (BP3/z) **

Chris Murphy, dipshit from the great state of Connecticut, has said the 21 age limitation for purchasing a semi-auto rifle is DOA in the Senate. He is making back door deals with the squishier RINOs in order to get the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 11:56 AM (R5lpX)

83 Its all intentionally done. They knew. Nobody is this stupid. Every action the administration has taken has been a disaster. Stepping on rakes at every turn. From energy to fiscal policy to handouts to law enforcement, education, foreign policy. Military policy. Guns ..... All of it intended for maximum pain.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 11, 2022 11:57 AM (0OmEj)

84 >>> That news cast has stuck with me...the lack of humanity is just...stunning.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:54 AM (ESjRY)

That whole scene you described seems demonic in nature.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 11:58 AM (t/4Zp)

85 Its all intentionally done. They knew. Nobody is this stupid. Every action the administration has taken has been a disaster. Stepping on rakes at every turn.

Not only do they step on the rakes, which BTW, they put there, they then pick up the rakes, sharpen the tines, and drive them into their skulls. It doesn't seem to hurt them, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (/NCI4)

86 Judy Garland was never my cup of tea but she was a consummate professional.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (YdNEG)

87 If formula tastes as bad as that stuff you have to shove through a stomach feeding tube it's nasty.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (gktX6)

88 They tell you not to make your own formula for the same reasons they tell you not to make your own dog food. They want you to buy commercial stuff. All you have to do is add some vitamins to it. I believe they used canned milk because it would be convenient to have on hand and was a pretty sterile product. It does lack the fats you get in fresh milk.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (YynYJ)

89 Chris Murphy, dipshit from the great state of Connecticut, has said the 21 age limitation for purchasing a semi-auto rifle is DOA in the Senate. He is making back door deals with the squishier RINOs in order to get the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 11:56 AM (R5lpX)

I don't understand. Is he saying it's dead on arrival? Or is he saying it's going to pass?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (t/4Zp)

90 "Top 10 Best Judy Garland Musical Numbers"
Ack, that announcer's voice. Not euphonious.

Posted by: m at June 11, 2022 12:01 PM (kIwWn)

91 You know, we have to utilize best practices to incent key stakeholders in order to maximize throughput and shift the paradigm. We have to double click, drill down, and peel the onion to make sure that everything is in the right bucket.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 11, 2022 12:01 PM (u73oe)

92 One thing you never see anymore is glass bottles. My ex insisted on those, had a bottle scrubber and sterilized them. People might say a toddler could break one, and let the kid run around with a scroungy looking plastic bottle, but maybe a toddler should be bottle broke. Tommy tippy cup for the win.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:01 PM (lz5hY)

93
pResident Cotton Swab is just the hammer used to solve every problem, none of which are nails.

Would we expect any different outcome?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 11, 2022 12:03 PM (pNxlR)

94 >>> They tell you not to make your own formula for the same reasons they tell you not to make your own dog food. They want you to buy commercial stuff. All you have to do is add some vitamins to it. I believe they used canned milk because it would be convenient to have on hand and was a pretty sterile product. It does lack the fats you get in fresh milk.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (YynYJ)

They tell you not to do it for the same reason they would grab you and throw you to the ground to prevent you from saving your child from a murderer. There is a plan and a schedule and interference will not be allowed.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:03 PM (t/4Zp)

95 >>>Out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago I googled "homemade baby formula" and nearly every result was: Don't make your own formula it's DANGEROUS. I did stumble across one site with a recipe that looks like yours.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM
---------------------

And you can trust that those search engines algorithms are totally unbiased.
'

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 12:03 PM (YdNEG)

96 >>> One thing you never see anymore is glass bottles. My ex insisted on those, had a bottle scrubber and sterilized them. People might say a toddler could break one, and let the kid run around with a scroungy looking plastic bottle, but maybe a toddler should be bottle broke. Tommy tippy cup for the win.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:01 PM (lz5hY)

I think they may have even banned them.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:04 PM (t/4Zp)

97
You know, we have to utilize best practices to incent key stakeholders in order to maximize throughput and shift the paradigm. We have to double click, drill down, and peel the onion to make sure that everything is in the right bucket.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Oh, sure, but first we need to have pre-meeting meetings to ensure that everyone knows one another's preferred pronouns and also that we all get our heads into thinking in "equity space".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 11, 2022 12:05 PM (pNxlR)

98 don't understand. Is he saying it's dead on arrival? Or is he saying it's going to pass?
Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:00 PM (t/4Zp) **

My understanding is that Murphy is trying to make deals with the GOPe in order to get a gun control bill across the finish line. I either saw it on Fox or CFP. There was talk about strengthening red flag laws and waiting periods, ect. He (Murphy) said that the age limitation would be off the table, but stronger vetting for purchase would be required.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:06 PM (R5lpX)

99 The laughing news anchors was, frankly, pretty darn funny and I got a good laugh from watching it. The first time in quite a long time that I got laugh-tears over something as silly as Chris P. Bacon. We have become way, way too faux-offended, militant, and driven by the idiot narratives pushed by kultur aficionados and screeching Karens. An occasional bit of silliness is a good thing.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at June 11, 2022 12:06 PM (2Jd8G)

100 >>89
It is dead on arrival Murphy is trying to defibrillate it back to life.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:07 PM (pmoqr)

101 When Gov't gets involved, it's often a CF.
As Milton Freidman so eloquently said,
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:07 PM (ynpvh)

102 Frances Ethel Gumm, a once in a lifetime talent...

destroyed by the Entertainment Factory.

Towards the end of her life she was a despicable character. This is not unexpected among the Hollywood female stars of the past, but in Judy's case I think the copious amounts of pharmaceuticals that she ingested, first under duress, then voluntarily, had quite a bit to do with her personality change.
Posted by: kallisto

I remember seeing her on the Tonite Show and her hands were constantly shaking and she chain smoked the entire time.

Posted by: JT at June 11, 2022 12:07 PM (arJlL)

103 I never knew about Garland's abuse until I read Johnny Mercer's biography which detailed several instances.

Booth her and Mickey. Too cute and talented for their own good. They were really put through the grinder.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:08 PM (KZzsI)

104 I have just achieved blog synchronicity. I watch the video of laughing anchors, look to the sidebar see the quote about weigel throwing fireballs at mushrooms, look up a picture of weigel, have a good laugh, then scroll up and click on the felecia link, and it takes me to a book by Dave Weigel on Amazon.

What does it all mean?

I think it means that the wind that has been sowed in the garden of the elites has blossomed into a whirlwind they will soon harvest.

Posted by: David Prince at June 11, 2022 12:08 PM (WUxVt)

105
Baby formula: grind a handful of peanuts to a powder, blend with ½ cup honey, and add two raw eggs. Mix in a fifth of rum.

In 9 months you’ll have a baby.

Batter up!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 11, 2022 12:08 PM (pNxlR)

106 This is probably "meh" news to you folks but there is a very serious domestic helium shortage going on since the early part of the year that is supposed to be over sometime early next year.

Seems a couple of government agencies got into a pissing contest and shut down a key facility responsible for helium a large percentage of the US helium supply.

Consumers of helium gas and liquid have had their supply cut to about 25% or less. Some of you might not be aware of the fact that MRIs use liquid helium to cool their superconducting magnets.

All this is due to the government being in control of a critical link in the supply chain and acting in a fashion that completely disregards the needs of consumers.

Again.

Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 12:09 PM (wsHtO)

107 But incompetence doesn't do Biden justice. In every case, Biden knew, or should have known, what would happen if he pushed his policies. Yet he did so anyway.
What do you think?

Biden is too stupid to coordinate this. And he is too cognitively impaired. This is being done by those around him.
The incompetence is in the second and third tier management if every government agency. Men and women who have years invested and will now do anything to save their pensions. They know better.
They just don't care.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2022 12:09 PM (anj39)

108 100 >>89
It is dead on arrival Murphy is trying to defibrillate it back to life.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:07 PM (pmoqr)

Just received an email from the San Diego Unified School System...talking about kids protesting for more gun control. Well yeah, when you brainwash them day in and day out, what do you expect?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

109 Just to be clear, gun rights is a main platform thing for Republicans been this way for years. I can see 5 or 6 saying yes to the gun bill but not 10.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:10 PM (pmoqr)

110 Judy Garland was never my cup of tea but she was a consummate professional.

Yeah I thought she was adorable but I didn't care for her singing voice. This guy from Wings of Pegasus has a great breakdown channel on voices, he isolated her voice from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and shows how incredibly professional and gifted she was

https://youtu.be/Vak63mrbNYo

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

111 45 Someday soon Sundowner will be like a Goldfish seeing that sunken castle every day like it wasn't there before.
Posted by: Skip's phone at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (U3e9X)

LOL

Posted by: m at June 11, 2022 12:10 PM (kIwWn)

112 i am noticing nicaragua inviting russian soldiers in as 15000 people let themselves in this country

some just took off hiking ,military, good shape young men

Posted by: yoeman at June 11, 2022 12:11 PM (BYNHj)

113 103 I never knew about Garland's abuse until I read Johnny Mercer's biography which detailed several instances.

Booth her and Mickey. Too cute and talented for their own good. They were really put through the grinder.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:08 PM (KZzsI)

Back in the 1930's, my grandmother was approached by a "talent agent" and said he would make a star out of my Dad (my Dad was a cute kid). My grandmother sagely refused.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:12 PM (ynpvh)

114 Your helpful government bureaucrats warn that it is unsafe for you to make your own baby formula.

Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2022 11:41 AM (6RgRK)

I saw that, and it infuriated me. It's like the admonitions against taking HCQ or Ivermectin for Wuhan Flu. Because you might overdose? Fvck you FDA...you can overdose on Advil and Tylenol and cold medication and....

There is nothing complicated about making one's own formula. Just follow a recipe and it should be just as good as the commercial stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:12 PM (XIJ/X)

115 109 Among the five or six Republicans saying AOK on a gun bill, you'll have three, one from Alaska, one from Maine, and one from Utah, all places where no right thinking person would own a gun.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:13 PM (lz5hY)

116
I have a 1976 Honda GL1000 that has been sitting outside in the weather for over ten years. Would it be worth trying to fix up? And how much would something like that cost.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy

if you do it yourself, only the cost of your spare time, any special tools you don't already have, and parts. partzilla.com is good for parts, they're all oem, so expect a premium there. big question, is how patient are you with tedious teeny tiney assemblies you cannot quite reach that necessitate major dissassembly of other things just to get one bolt out? there's a reason people justifiably hate on jap bikes, they're a pain in the ass to work on.

what's wrong with it that had you stick it to the side? ake a list of the stuff you'll need to repair it and then do a cost benefit decision exercise to repair or scrap.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 12:13 PM (UgAdJ)

117 Your helpful government bureaucrats warn that it is unsafe for you to make your own baby formula.

I guess there's something to that, depending on what they mean. If you use a tried and trusted old formula, you're fine. If you just try to invent it with stuff from the larder you might really hurt your child.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:13 PM (KZzsI)

118 >>> Judy Garland was never my cup of tea but she was a consummate professional.

Yeah I thought she was adorable but I didn't care for her singing voice. This guy from Wings of Pegasus has a great breakdown channel on voices, he isolated her voice from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and shows how incredibly professional and gifted she was

https://youtu.be/Vak63mrbNYo
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

Jewel does a very good job in her Dorothy performance.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:13 PM (t/4Zp)

119 >>>115
I'm referring to the senate. I know about the rinos in the house.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:14 PM (pmoqr)

120 It's like the admonitions against taking HCQ or Ivermectin for Wuhan Flu. Because you might overdose?

About that... Millions did it, was there even one proven example of someone OD'ing on Ivermectin?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:14 PM (KZzsI)

121 Didn't the "keep fucking that chicken" line come from some news anchor?

Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 12:15 PM (wsHtO)

122 Because you might overdose? Fvck you FDA...you can overdose on Advil and Tylenol and cold medication and....

There is nothing complicated about making one's own formula. Just follow a recipe and it should be just as good as the commercial stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:12 PM (XIJ/X) **

There was a recent article about a woman who basically ODed from too much Tylenol use. She got toxic shock syndrome from the acitominophene(sp) from over use and is really screwed up now.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:15 PM (R5lpX)

123 Belay my previous comment brain ant running on all cylinders.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:15 PM (pmoqr)

124
I remember seeing her on the Tonite Show and her hands were constantly shaking and she chain smoked the entire time.
Posted by: JT

Some months back we were watching a (Netflix?) biopic about the designer Halston. My lasting impression of it was the lead character and nearly everyone else smoking cigarettes nearly incessantly.

It went on throughout to the point where I found it repellant and reminiscent of when my parents threw parties in the evening for their friends. We four young kids would be upstairs in our bedrooms trying to sleep and if we had to go to use the bathroom, we had to navigate a hallway of thick, thick, cigarette smoke.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 11, 2022 12:16 PM (pNxlR)

125 119 Senators Collins, Romney, and old Murkowsky, however you spell her name.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:17 PM (lz5hY)

126 What does it all mean?

I think it means that the wind that has been sowed in the garden of the elites has blossomed into a whirlwind they will soon harvest.
Posted by: David Prince at June 11, 2022 12:08 PM (WUxVt)
***

That is a nice turn of a phrase. I shall remember it and likely repeat it in the coming months.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2022 12:19 PM (anj39)

127 My great aunt gave us tea, whiskey and honey for sore throats or probably to just shut us up. No wonder I like bourbon.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 12:19 PM (+ya+t)

128 111 45 Someday soon Sundowner will be like a Goldfish seeing that sunken castle every day like it wasn't there before.
Posted by: Skip's phone at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (U3e9X)

LOL

Posted by: m at June 11, 2022 12:10 PM (kIwWn)

I thought you were gonna say upside down in his fish bowl...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

129 what's wrong with it that had you stick it to the side? ake a list of the stuff you'll need to repair it and then do a cost benefit decision exercise to repair or scrap.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 12:13 PM (UgAdJ) **

It was my brother's. I was just thinking about fixing it up instead of/before selling it. I guess if I can find the key and see if the motor is locked up or not, that would effect my decision.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:20 PM (R5lpX)

130 117 Your helpful government bureaucrats warn that it is unsafe for you to make your own baby formula.

I guess there's something to that, depending on what they mean. If you use a tried and trusted old formula, you're fine. If you just try to invent it with stuff from the larder you might really hurt your child.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:13 PM (KZzsI)

The fat size in goat's milk is pretty safe for kids, unlike cow's milk which can kill. Even my kids had issues when my wife drank cow's milk and then breastfed them, so she had to quit the moo-moo juice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

131 121 Didn't the "keep fucking that chicken" line come from some news anchor?

Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 12:15 PM (wsHtO)

Probably some Jihadi who got tired of goats, camels, and little boys.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

132 was there even one proven example of someone OD'ing on Ivermectin?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:14 PM (KZzsI)

I don't think so.

Even if they weren't effective (the newer studies show that they probably aren't), they are two incredibly safe drugs, with literally billions of doses given over decades, and multiple studies showing their safety.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:22 PM (XIJ/X)

133
I saw that, and it infuriated me. It's like the admonitions against taking HCQ or Ivermectin for Wuhan Flu. Because you might overdose? Fvck you FDA...you can overdose on Advil and Tylenol and cold medication and....

There is nothing complicated about making one's own formula. Just follow a recipe and it should be just as good as the commercial stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Oh, c'mon, CBD, surely you remember the television show from the 60s that ran in tandem with Wagon Train called Bureaucrat Train.

You remember, of course, that it was about a second wagon train filled with bureaucrats and all their accoutrements that followed alongside the Wagon Trainers to keep them out of trouble by providing a steady stream of gubmint "help" pamphlets and up to the moment updates of the latest regulations?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 11, 2022 12:23 PM (pNxlR)

134 My great aunt gave us tea, whiskey and honey for sore throats or probably to just shut us up. No wonder I like bourbon.

She probably could have left off the cocktail cherries and serving it in a coupe.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2022 12:23 PM (/NCI4)

135 127 Mom and Dad would concoct something with booze and honey for sore throat. And Dad , later in my life, would let me have a sip of beer, and later, Ohio had 3.2 beer for 18 and above and nobody cared as long as you had a drivers license, and then I joined the Marines. See how it goes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:23 PM (lz5hY)

136 The antitrust laws need to be used when one company controls too much of the market, and Abbot seemed to have dominance in that certain type of formula.

The thing is, monopolies can be the natural outcome of "free markets" which we see clearly with Big Tech giants. There are good regulations and bad of course. But overall it might be useful for government to incent ... to establish a competitor. The break up of ATT is probably a good example, not that I have really studied it.

But yeah, this seemed deliberate. Biden is a vegetable, but his people knew ... the leftist scum in charge think $10 gas will save the planet, but the Davos crowd is pushing their NWO, Build Back Brandon ... they intend to crash us first, then they will not let the manufactured crisis go to waste.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (Cus5s)

137 Only problem with DIY formula is the recipe.
Do you still have great grandma's recipe or is it something someone just made up?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (YdNEG)

138 >>> I saw that, and it infuriated me. It's like the admonitions against taking HCQ or Ivermectin for Wuhan Flu. Because you might overdose? Fvck you FDA...you can overdose on Advil and Tylenol and cold medication and....

There is nothing complicated about making one's own formula. Just follow a recipe and it should be just as good as the commercial stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:12 PM (XIJ/X)

If cars were invented today you would not be allowed to drive them. And I think the idiotic push for "autonomous vehicles" is all about trying to get there anyway.

It's my personal belief that if airplanes were invented just a half-century or earlier, in the 1800s and first overseas there wouldn't even be an FAA at the level we have today. The key would be to mass-produce them. Take someone's idea and spit out thousands of them. But it would have to be done before the administrative leviathan started to rise from the swamp to wrap its tentacles around all things.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (t/4Zp)

139 132 was there even one proven example of someone OD'ing on Ivermectin?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:14 PM (KZzsI)

I don't think so.

Even if they weren't effective (the newer studies show that they probably aren't), they are two incredibly safe drugs, with literally billions of doses given over decades, and multiple studies showing their safety.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:22 PM (XIJ/X)

Ivermectin was knows for many years to be an anti-viral to some extent, and had the the de-rigeur treatment for certain parasites.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (ynpvh)

140 has BEEN the de-rigeur treatment. Damn finger stutters.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

141 Cigarettes build character at the same time they destroy your lungs and sinuses.

We're still waiting on the returns from smoking weed.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 12:27 PM (BP3/z)

142 . And Dad , later in my life, would let me have a sip of beer, and later, Ohio had 3.2 beer for 18 and above and nobody cared as long as you had a drivers license, and then I joined the Marines. See how it goes.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:23 PM (lz5hY) **

Yeah, drinking alcohol early in life affects the brain synapses and causes one to join the Marines instead of one of the other better services, like the Air Force. Although tbf, I did drink a fair amount of beer when I was in my early teens.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:27 PM (R5lpX)

143 As far as DIY baby formula is concerned, I don't doubt there's a profit motive in telling you not to do it, but there's also the risk (damn near certainty) of a lawsuit. if they say it's okay.

"The website didn't TELL me not to put ground glass in it."

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2022 12:27 PM (/NCI4)

144 136 The antitrust laws need to be used when one company controls too much of the market, and Abbot seemed to have dominance in that certain type of formula.

The thing is, monopolies can be the natural outcome of "free markets" which we see clearly with Big Tech giants. There are good regulations and bad of course. But overall it might be useful for government to incent ... to establish a competitor. The break up of ATT is probably a good example, not that I have really studied it.

But yeah, this seemed deliberate. Biden is a vegetable, but his people knew ... the leftist scum in charge think $10 gas will save the planet, but the Davos crowd is pushing their NWO, Build Back Brandon ... they intend to crash us first, then they will not let the manufactured crisis go to waste.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (Cus5s)

Gov't considers itself to be a "good" monopoly, and they'll disarm you, jail you, and kill you to prove it, too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

145 Reverse Marshall Plan to feed American babies. World's only superpower, folks. Bask in the majesty and grandeur of the US of A.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 11, 2022 12:28 PM (KFhLj)

146 137 Only problem with DIY formula is the recipe.
Do you still have great grandma's recipe or is it something someone just made up?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (YdNEG)

Goat's milk was the "formula" used on me from about 2wks of age...
May explain my hard-headedness...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

147 They were both reading from a script.

Posted by: Marooned at June 11, 2022 12:29 PM (w6hJ9)

148 Actors.

Posted by: Marooned at June 11, 2022 12:29 PM (w6hJ9)

149 Stacey Abrams Says "The Bible Is Nothing But A Political Thriller"

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Thank you, Reverend Tank.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 11, 2022 12:29 PM (FVME7)

150 143 As far as DIY baby formula is concerned, I don't doubt there's a profit motive in telling you not to do it, but there's also the risk (damn near certainty) of a lawsuit. if they say it's okay.

"The website didn't TELL me not to put ground glass in it."

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2022 12:27 PM (/NCI4)

And for God's Sake, don't use a vegan formula like those stupid vegans did to their kid. Undersized, malnourished, refused to give him "animal products". Idiots! What the HELL do you think mother's milk is FOR?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

151 142 I don't know if that is the whole story about joining the Corps, but at an early age I received a 64 count box of Crayolas, with the sharpener.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (lz5hY)

152 Goat milk makes kids baaaad.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (gktX6)

153 I agree that Biden is not the mastermind. He has, however, been going along with this destruction his entire life. (not that he's ever been smart enough to see what was really going on or what the end result would be.)
Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2022 11:45 AM (6RgRK)

You give Joe Biden too much credit. He's an amoral bully and sex-molester. As long as something enriched himself or (to a lesser degree) his family, he couldn't care less.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (pJWtt)

154 150
Vegans should be punished by death for doing that.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (pmoqr)

155 149 Stacey Abrams Says "The Bible Is Nothing But A Political Thriller"

-
Thank you, Reverend Tank.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 11, 2022 12:29 PM (FVME7)

You ain't seen nothin' yet, honey.

Posted by: Satan at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

156 Yeah, drinking alcohol early in life affects the brain synapses and causes one to join the Marines instead of one of the other better services, like the Air Force. Although tbf, I did drink a fair amount of beer when I was in my early teens.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:27 PM (R5lpX)

I was going to join the Air Force but then they discovered my parents were legally married.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2022 12:32 PM (anj39)

157 OKAY the last laughing news guy has a definite Ron Burgundy vibe

Posted by: DB at June 11, 2022 12:32 PM (geLO8)

158 152 Goat milk makes kids baaaad.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (gktX6)

No, that Sheep's milk. Goat's milk makes one "maaaad"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

159 I agree with John Solomon and have made those points here before. Except for describing the current state of affairs as the result of "incompetence" when this has been their stated, intended outcome. They have enjoyed spectacular success.
1. Devalued the currency
2. Degraded the military
3. Instituted political terrorism
4. Diminished American influence throughout the world, emboldened our geopolitical enemies, and frightened away erstwhile allies
5. Created mass social chaos, violence, and economic dislocation especially in the cities

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2022 12:33 PM (EZebt)

160 A pal of mine failed the physical for Air Force.
He had hemorrhoids and the AF only accepts perfect assholes.
(rim shot)
Thanks, I'll be here all week, try the veal.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (jTmQV)

161 I'm off. Have fun. Don't waste too much baby formula.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

162 Also...*anyone* talking about the need to break up the apparent baby formula cartel? If one lone facility makes 40% of the market...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2022 11:36 AM (ESjRY)

Look at all the milk-based beverages now sold in your local C-store's cooler. The machinery used to blend, pasteurize, and package that stuff could easily be used to make and package baby formula.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (FHqju)

163 151 142 I don't know if that is the whole story about joining the Corps, but at an early age I received a 64 count box of Crayolas, with the sharpener.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (lz5hY) **

If you didn't at least try to eat the crayons, you weren't true Marine material. >grin<

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (R5lpX)

164 I received a 64 count box of Crayolas, with the sharpener.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:31 PM (lz5hY)

And when you finished eating them you joined the Marines?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (XIJ/X)

165 If you are hit with a micro meteorite, who's fault is that?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (4FDGE)

166 . I guess if I can find the key and see if the motor is locked up or not, that would effect my decision.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy

good place to start. by the way, if you wind up using jumper wires on the switch because you cannot find the key, partzilla can help there with new switch and matching lock cylinder for the steering column.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (UgAdJ)

167 146 137 Only problem with DIY formula is the recipe.
Do you still have great grandma's recipe or is it something someone just made up?Posted by: Braenyard
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Goat's milk was the "formula" used on me from about 2wks of age... May explain my hard-headedness...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at Ju
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That's accurate factual information.
That's what mothers with nursing problems need.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YdNEG)

168 I've been recommending titties for 70 years

you never go wrong with nice pair of melons

multi tasking

Posted by: REDACTED at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (us2H3)

169 >>Also...*anyone* talking about the need to break up the apparent baby formula cartel? If one lone facility makes 40% of the market...

Are you talking about taking on Big Baby?

Posted by: DB at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (geLO8)

170 at an early age I received a 64 count box of Crayolas, with the sharpener.
------
Rich kids.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (+ya+t)

171 Look at all the milk-based beverages now sold in your local C-store's cooler. The machinery used to blend, pasteurize, and package that stuff could easily be used to make and package baby formula.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (FHqju)

And if ( a big IF) there had been a baby formula shortage under Orange Man, this would have happened months ago

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (mR6Gs)

172 and we have Trump's truth social.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (pmoqr)

Which practically nobody uses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (FHqju)

173 Neighbor lady's father, a not so gentleman farmer, raises a few goats. She has told me of a few new mom's being provided with goat's milk by him, and if this wasn't Arkansas he would have a SWAT team at the door.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (lz5hY)

174 A Marine killed in an aircraft crash Wednesday in Imperial County, California was identified as a son of ex-Los Angeles Dodgers great Steve Sax.

Capt. John J. Sax, 33, was one of five Marines killed when their Osprey tiltrotor aircraft went down during a training exercise roughly 20 miles northeast of the city of Holtville.

Sigh. RIP

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2022 12:36 PM (d0Qel)

175 Hey Nanzi, I need to know if it's safe to drive in Napa tonight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2022 12:36 PM (EZebt)

176 break up of ATT

The era of "baby Bells".
I was looking for those little cheeses.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 11, 2022 12:36 PM (/Ym0t)

177 and we have Trump's truth social.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (pmoqr)

Which practically nobody uses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (FHqju)

I am on it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2022 12:37 PM (d0Qel)

178 Out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago I googled "homemade baby formula" and nearly every result was: Don't make your own formula it's DANGEROUS. I did stumble across one site with a recipe that looks like yours.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 11, 2022 11:43 AM (wZUnB)

Well, gurgle is being paid to lie about that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:37 PM (FHqju)

179 All jokes aside about Marines, I basically grew up visiting MCRD San Diego almost daily when I was growing up. My dad was a civilian employee on the base after he got out of the Navy.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:37 PM (R5lpX)

180 Old pressure cooker cookbooks have recipes for babies and infants, although I haven’t seen a specifically “formula” recipe yet. The one I have (for me, not for baby) recommends cooking 50% longer for infants than for adults and older children. I also see what looks like a nice custard: eggs, milk, sugar. Everything a growing baby needs!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 12:37 PM (U+Oxn)

181 Dumb enough to flunk out of college and get drafted, smart enough to enlist Navy.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 12:38 PM (gktX6)

182 I am on it.

I’m on it too. Seems to be an active community. I take part more than I do on twitter, but that’s not a high bar, as I long ago gave up finding any use for twitter.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (U+Oxn)

183 As Matthew Noto just asked - the government had a plan to distribute crack pipes, but not baby formula?

And that question sums up just how much of a failed state we are.

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (wNDOJ)

184 You should all be breast-feeding anyway.

Posted by: Sen. Debbie Stabmenow at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (EZebt)

185 >>> describing the current state of affairs as the result of "incompetence" when this has been their stated, intended outcome. They have enjoyed spectacular success.
1. Devalued the currency
2. Degraded the military
3. Instituted political terrorism
4. Diminished American influence throughout the world, emboldened our geopolitical enemies, and frightened away erstwhile allies
5. Created mass social chaos, violence, and economic dislocation especially in the cities
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Yup. The politburo is running the show and busily putting things in order.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (YdNEG)

186 sorry, OT

"The idea we’re going to provide – the way to deal with gun safety is to provide teachers with guns in classrooms?" Biden said at the event. "There’s a reason why the military takes so long to train somebody. It’s not easy to pick up a rifle or a gun and blow somebody’s brains out."

Posted by: DB at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (geLO8)

187 "If only Biden had known!" his supporters wail.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (+io4N)

188 Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (UgAdJ) **

Thanks.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:40 PM (R5lpX)

189 >>>Thanks, I'll be here all week, try the veal.

Posted by: gourmand du jour

>I tipped my waitress, but she wouldn't let me take her home. Her husband wanted me to pay for his auto maintenance but Joe Biden's inflation is killing me.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 12:40 PM (BP3/z)

190 Stacey Abrams Says "The Bible Is Nothing But A Political Thriller"
___

Boy, is she in for a shock.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 11, 2022 12:42 PM (VmzRz)

191 I've been recommending titties for 70 years

you never go wrong with nice pair of melons

multi tasking
Posted by: REDACTED at June 11, 2022 12:34 PM (us2H3)

Our granddaughter has been able to breastfeed our new great-granddaughter. At her baby shower, all her girlfriends that have had children gave breastfeeding advise; apparently there is a new sort of breast-pump that is the schizznit. It seems that the trend among the 20-something mommies is to go back to breastfeeding.

Of course this means that our granddaughter's boobages have gotten bigger, but that is a sacrifice her husband is willing to make!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 11, 2022 12:42 PM (pJWtt)

192 at an early age I received a 64 count box of Crayolas, with the sharpener.
------
Rich kids.
Posted by: dartist

*draws middle finger in the dirt with stick*

i know, right?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 12:43 PM (UgAdJ)

193 How about powdered milk for kids? No babies will starve in America.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 12:43 PM (+ya+t)

194 >>> and we have Trump's truth social.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (pmoqr)

Which practically nobody uses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (FHqju)

Some producers like Steve Inman that had to wrangle with being banned all the time from the twats seem to have given it up and moved to Trump's thing recently. But I have never been there. Like you, I don't think it has the weight to draw people to it yet. But maybe someday it will. 🤷‍♂️

Also, I'm still undecided I like the format of short quips. I think it has been detrimental to thought and really only beneficial to propagandizing.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:43 PM (t/4Zp)

195 The President as victim excuse...

Wow what strong leadership there Joey

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2022 12:43 PM (l8tgf)

196 >>> You should all be breast-feeding anyway.
Posted by: Sen. Debbie Stabmenow at June 11, 2022 12:39 PM (EZebt)

^This

Posted by: Pete Buttjizz at June 11, 2022 12:45 PM (t/4Zp)

197
I worked with an openly gay guy who would put Judy Garland on his boom box and dance away. Judy Garland made him very happy. I mean, it's nice to see people happy, but I didn't understand it at all.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 11, 2022 12:45 PM (dQvv7)

198 My MIL made her own " formula " from evaporated milk, syrup and literally a splash of vitamins. Her kids are now 81 and 84. Seems to have been safe. Packaged formula is not the only game in town for most babies

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:45 PM (ONvIw)

199 "There’s a reason why the military takes so long to train somebody. It’s not easy to pick up a rifle or a gun and blow somebody’s brains out."
___

lol

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 11, 2022 12:46 PM (VmzRz)

200 I've mentioned it here before, I have a really good memory for some small things. Cream of Wheat had a recipe on the box "for baby". I'm sure that's off, along with the black man in an honorable profession.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:46 PM (lz5hY)

201 178. It didn't used to be dangerous bit was normal

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (ONvIw)

202 It was my brother's. I was just thinking about fixing it up instead of/before selling it. I guess if I can find the key and see if the motor is locked up or not, that would effect my decision.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:20 PM (R5lpX)

The battery will almost certainly be dead. Motorcycle batteries don't tolerate neglect, at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (FHqju)

203 Just a heads up about truth social dropped the apple ios only thing in May.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (pmoqr)

204 " reality is 90% of that shelf is from three brands that have dominated for decades. And every single new entrant in the last few decades has taken the same path, and that is to outsource to the one and only contract manufacturer in the country ..."

The way I read that, he is not saying regulation prevents innovation, it is that they all outsource to the same manufacturer. Not clear why that manufacturer could not change up the ingredients a little while they switch over to different brand labels on the packaging.

idk what makes formula production so difficult that regional upstarts can't produce their own, but economy of scale is a real thang.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (Cus5s)

205 My MIL made her own " formula " from evaporated milk, syrup and literally a splash of vitamins. Her kids are now 81 and 84. Seems to have been safe. Packaged formula is not the only game in town for most babies
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:45 PM (ONvIw)

Excellent! People today refuse to think for themselves but listen to the government on what to do.

Make your own "formula" and be happy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 11, 2022 12:48 PM (R/m4+)

206 Judy Garland on his boom box and dance away. Judy Garland made him very happy. I mean, it's nice to see people happy, but I didn't understand it at all. **

Same with Striesand. The gay dudes really like her.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:48 PM (R5lpX)

207 110 Judy Garland was never my cup of tea but she was a consummate professional.

Yeah I thought she was adorable but I didn't care for her singing voice. This guy from Wings of Pegasus has a great breakdown channel on voices, he isolated her voice from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and shows how incredibly professional and gifted she was

https://youtu.be/Vak63mrbNYo
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 11, 2022 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

Really great.

Posted by: m at June 11, 2022 12:50 PM (kIwWn)

208 There are plenty of old formula recipes out there. My MIL got it in the " baby book" she was given at the hospital in 1938

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:50 PM (ONvIw)

209 >> and we have Trump's truth social.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (pmoqr)

Which practically nobody uses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:35 PM (FHqju)

Worst name for a conservative product since The Proud Boys.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 11, 2022 12:50 PM (85Pr6)

210 The antitrust laws need to be used when one company controls too much of the market, and Abbot seemed to have dominance in that certain type of formula.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:24 PM (Cus5s)

The reason why Abbott has such a large chunk of the market is precisely BECAUSE the government cleared the field for them. They outlawed the import of formulas from other countries like Canada, Germany, Britain and france. They regulate the industry in THIS country to the point where startups and small market competitors is not possible.

Government action to "fix" the problem isn't going to help, when government created the problem in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 12:51 PM (47mFt)

211 "There’s a reason why the military takes so long to train somebody. It’s not easy to pick up a rifle or a gun and blow somebody’s brains out."

It's called learning how to fight as a team, dumbass. Marksmanship is only a small part of the training.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2022 12:51 PM (anj39)

212 205 Baby vitamins. What won't kill you makes you strong. That stuff you administer with an eyedropper is, let us say, fragrant.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:51 PM (lz5hY)

213 Even if they weren't effective (the newer studies show that they probably aren't), they are two incredibly safe drugs, with literally billions of doses given over decades, and multiple studies showing their safety.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2022 12:22 PM (XIJ/X)

I cannot tell you for certain that it works, but I can say for certain that it doesn't not work. Two instances this
Winter, I had hugs from women with active Omicron. Each time, I popped a 6 mg IVM tablet upon returning home. Did not get the omicron. Now maybe if I had done nothing, I would not have gotten it anyway. But, had I come down with the coof after taking the IVM, that would certainly cast doubt upon its efficacy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:52 PM (FHqju)

214 We don't need imported formula. We need domestic competition and Abbott to reopen

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:52 PM (ONvIw)

215 Until people stop blaming the situation in the world on Biden and understand this is a global issue pushed by the organizations I listed, we're never going to have a chance to stop it.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 11, 2022 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

Hear, hear! I get sick of hearing it, too. Given that piece of shit way too much credit.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at June 11, 2022 12:52 PM (gao0c)

216 >>> I worked with an openly gay guy who would put Judy Garland on his boom box and dance away. Judy Garland made him very happy. I mean, it's nice to see people happy, but I didn't understand it at all.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 11, 2022 12:45 PM (dQvv7)

A lot of it is just cosplay. Engaging in child-like role-play of something you are not. Something adults don't do. The changed speech affectations are of the same sort. So I would guess they are imagining themselves as Judy. I would guess many gay dudes don't do any of that.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (t/4Zp)

217 And the best breat milk replacement would be goat milk mixed with filtered water.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (gao0c)

218 That would be BREAST milk.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (gao0c)

219 idk what makes formula production so difficult that regional upstarts can't produce their own, but economy of scale is a real thang.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (Cus5s)

*FDA enters the chat*

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (47mFt)

220 The gay thing with Judy Garland was real. The Stonewall riots started the day after she was buried.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (i0slg)

221 They were both reading from a script.
Posted by: Marooned at June 11, 2022 12:29 PM (w6hJ9)

No doubt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 12:54 PM (FHqju)

222 Judy Garland was one of my Marine Corp dad's favorite singers. He loved her Over the Rainbow. I never asked him how he felt about her becoming a gay icon because I knew he would say ' I don't give a crap. I like what I like.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 11, 2022 12:54 PM (85Pr6)

223 212. My kids loved the poly-vi-sol drops. The idea that vitamins are bad for kids is usually peddled by adults who take a multi, calcium , and CoQ 10

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:55 PM (ONvIw)

224 We don't need imported formula. We need domestic competition and Abbott to reopen
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:52 PM (ONvIw)

Yeah, but the narrative is that Abbott killed babies and it's just too darned dangerous to leave the production of baby formula to mom and pop shops. Or third world shitholes like Canada and Britain.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 12:55 PM (47mFt)

225 They showed the chick tripping, lets see the tumor.

Posted by: Holy Crap at June 11, 2022 12:56 PM (glGDV)

226 223 Yeah, but they sure smell.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 12:56 PM (lz5hY)

227 Hah and my mother's favorite singer was Barbara Streisand.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 11, 2022 12:57 PM (85Pr6)

228 The gay thing with Judy Garland was real. The Stonewall riots started the day after she was buried.

Coincidence? I think not.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (i0slg)

So you're suggesting the Kops who came in and busted heads for no damned reason was because the Kops are all gay?

Wouldn't shock me. At all.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 12:57 PM (47mFt)

229 Heh. From Kyle Mann,

"At @BabylonBee we suspend writers for not retweeting sexist jokes."

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2022 12:57 PM (ZSK0i)

230 We never went to the doctor as kids unless it was serious. Our doctor actually came to the house with the fvcking black bag when I was young. How old can you get?

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 12:58 PM (+ya+t)

231 217. Probably, but women did not move from 100% breast milk to packaged powder formula. They made batches at home, put it in sterilized glass bottles and replaced it every couple of days.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:58 PM (ONvIw)

232 224. This is bullshit of the first water

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 12:59 PM (ONvIw)

233 So you're suggesting the Kops who came in and busted heads for no damned reason was because the Kops are all gay?

Wouldn't shock me. At all.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 12:57 PM (47mFt)

Well that's not what happened at Stonewall but okay.

Posted by: blaster at June 11, 2022 12:59 PM (6TxNR)

234
They should just say that every time your baby eats, a grandma dies and we are all in this together during these troubling times and your rights don't mean anything when grandma could die and everyone who feeds their baby is a grandma serial killer and anyone who complains about is Trumpy and selfish and Trumpy and a wrecker and Trumpy.

Presto change-o, crisis averted.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2022 12:59 PM (xPIwr)

235 Judy Garland on his boom box and dance away. Judy Garland made him very happy. I mean, it's nice to see people happy, but I didn't understand it at all. **

Same with Striesand. The gay dudes really like her.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:48 PM (R5lpX)

Hello boys!

Posted by: 'Bathhouse' Bette Midler at June 11, 2022 12:59 PM (4I/2K)

236 idk what makes formula production so difficult that regional upstarts can't produce their own, but economy of scale is a real thang.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (Cus5s)

*FDA enters the chat*
Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 12:53 PM (47mFt)

I'm sure there is a whole host of steps to show compliance with the regulation. Show your recipes comply with safety regulations. Show your production processes produce a product that conforms with your compliant recipes. Show you have a quality system that tracks deviations and changes to the process to ensure they still comply and still conform. Lots of constant testing would be done even with a fully compliant operational factory. And then if everything is shut down every process has to be re-validated from the beginning. A mess.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (t/4Zp)

237 "*FDA enters the chat* Posted by: BurtTC

ha. Yeah, mostly I think FDA has given us a safe and cheap food supply. But with Woke infiltrating every agency, along with the corruption ... maybe they use their power to make sure the bribes get paid on time.

Abbot was offered a chance to bid on a Hunter Original and they declined ... they had to be shown who is boss?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (Cus5s)

238 Mrs. F. breastfed both our kids and I have fond memories of them happily munching away while also trying pick her nose or pull her lips off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (EZebt)

239 That chunky Hawaiian ukelele player does a great version of Over the Rainbow.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (eGTCV)

240 Biden's $1.9-trillion 'free money' plan might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but it wasn't the cause of this record-breaking inflation. The cause was the more than $1-trillion per year in 'free money' stimuli over the past decade of QE programs and their cousins.

Once started on this funny-money tour, the Fed didn't know how to stop or get off. The real question is "why did inflation take so long to show up?"

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (K58O6)

241 Same with Striesand. The gay dudes really like her.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:48 PM (R5lpX)

But why?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (mR6Gs)

242 Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 12:58 PM (+ya+t)

I can't remember going to the doctor as a kid except for the required physical for sports participation. I had the Hong Kong flu and didn't go to the doctor. I probably should have though. Or the hospital.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 11, 2022 01:02 PM (85Pr6)

243 If Abbott is so dangerous, why is the Mexican facility still in operation

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:02 PM (ONvIw)

244 Later gang.
Mrs D has incented me to go to the store.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2022 01:02 PM (anj39)

245 >>> idk what makes formula production so difficult that regional upstarts can't produce their own, but economy of scale is a real thang.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 12:47 PM (Cus5s)
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Maybe there's not enough demand to create more competition.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 01:02 PM (YdNEG)

246 Intentional destruction of the nation, but not by Biden. He is a clueless buffah. Not by the Cabinet, they are just more buffahs. Obama is just a buffah, in the know but still just doing as ordered.

Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2022 01:02 PM (X2jB7)

247 Biden is the ultimate creation of the Beltway/Swamp/Deep State.

Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 01:03 PM (kYVzH)

248
Abbot was offered a chance to bid on a Hunter Original and they declined ... they had to be shown who is boss?
Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (Cus5s)

Or... they reaped a multi-billion dollar windfall on useless, inaccurate government-mandated tests and were asked to step up to the plate and take some blame at an opportune time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2022 01:03 PM (xPIwr)

249 That chunky Hawaiian ukelele player does a great version of Over the Rainbow.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (eGTCV)

He's playing "Under the Turf" now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 01:03 PM (FHqju)

250 242 Had the flu in the 50s when I was a little kid. Doc showed up with his Gladstone bag, Mom and Dad kept me comfy on the couch. The end.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 01:04 PM (lz5hY)

251 Well, my bacon and eggs are eaten. Time to go get some work done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 01:05 PM (FHqju)

252 246 I agree it's intentional, but not that the cabinet is clueless. Nobody can tell me that Garland, Mayorkas and Becerra are not actively trying to damage the country

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (ONvIw)

253 I started working on my old Honda C70 passport, thinking I might need the gas mileage. I think it was running when I last used it, 15 years ago.

And of course, as soon as I go out to the barn and start messing with it, Mrs928 calls out that the pex pipe over the kitchen in the house is leaking. So I have to go from fun work to drudge work. It's like 150 degrees up there and there is a pinhole spray coming from the hot line.

I think I will just cut the hot water off until tonight when it is cooler in the attic.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (yQpMk)

254 He's playing "Under the Turf" now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 01:03 PM (FHqju

Ishouldhaveusedthepasttense. )

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (eGTCV)

255 Abbot was offered a chance to bid on a Hunter Original and they declined ... they had to be shown who is boss?
Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (Cus5s)

Probably something like that.

There's a reason many big corps these days jump on the Woke bandwagon so quickly. It's mostly a fascist system, where government decides who can and can't stay in business, based on a variety of strongarm tactics.

I don't doubt there are plenty of good FDA agents, just as there are plenty of good agents in all the three letter agencies, but government is a criminal enterprise. There were probably plenty of good mafia hit men who just wanted safe neighborhoods for their family and friends too.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (47mFt)

256 Same with Striesand. The gay dudes really like her.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 11, 2022 12:48 PM (R5lpX)
But why?
Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (mR6Gs)

Because when a sodomite wants to dress up as a broad he knows he will be better looking than both Babs and Bette.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (R/m4+)

257 Three military aircraft crashes, two with fatalitie(s), in the CA area in a one week period.

Sadly, all were American aircraft. No bogies splashed.

Let us not forget their pronouns*.

*Dark humor, for sure; I blame the retards in charge.

May their families remember their sacrifices and our gratitude for serving.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 11, 2022 01:07 PM (F0YaR)

258 Garland, Mayorkas, Becerra, et al are doing as ordered.

We don't see or hear from the people actually pulling the strings.

Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2022 01:07 PM (X2jB7)

259
I think I will just cut the hot water off until tonight when it is cooler in the attic.
Posted by: G'rump928
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The joys of home ownership.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2022 01:08 PM (8On0t)

260 >>>We never went to the doctor as kids unless it was serious. Our doctor actually came to the house with the fvcking black bag when I was young. How old can you get?

Posted by: dartist

>This is where he rubbed some dirt on it and told you to man up. Here's a lolly now quit bothering your parents.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 01:08 PM (BP3/z)

261 "Don't Make Your Own Formula ... Dangerous"

also ... "We are working on emergency approval of this mRNA treatment, now available for babies."

It was not enough to kill babies at 9 months pregnancy... they want to damage/kill them after they are born. Maybe they are bringing a Fauci/Gates formula onto the market ... bugs and algae, now in new flavors.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 01:08 PM (Cus5s)

262 I found a nice album of American composers, Copeland, Sousa, Gershwin, etc.. A little Glass thrown in there and a bunch of others. DECCA: Stars & Stripes Forever

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 01:09 PM (t/4Zp)

263 Posted by: CN

I think Garland is just actively trying to protect democrats. Mayorkas and Becerra seem to be dedicated to giving the United States to South American peasants.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2022 01:10 PM (Wy1BU)

264 >>> Nobody can tell me that Garland, Mayorkas and Becerra are not actively trying to damage the country
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (ONvIw)
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they are willing participants but they are not calling the shots.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 01:10 PM (YdNEG)

265 But why?
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The schnoz I'm betting.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 01:10 PM (+ya+t)

266 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 01:04 PM (lz5hY)

I developed such a high fever that I got out my parents bed where they had put me and thought someone was trying to kill my father in the front yard. I ended up opening the bedroom window that had been painted shut for years and crawling out of into our yard screaming for my father . Good news was my fever broke.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 11, 2022 01:11 PM (85Pr6)

267 We don't see or hear from the people actually pulling the strings.
Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2022 01:07 PM (X2jB7)

We kinda did, when they were directly working for Bobama, but I guess they learned it's better to stay completely hidden, rather than just mostly hidden.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 01:11 PM (47mFt)

268 I thought pex was the magic wonder replacement water pipe?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2022 01:11 PM (4I/2K)

269 I thought pex was the magic wonder replacement water pipe?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2022 01:11 PM (4I/2K)

So they say. Mine is 20 years old and has always been a problem. I talked to a plumber about replumbing everything and he wants to go back with more pex rather than pvc or copper.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 01:13 PM (yQpMk)

270 Nobody can tell me that Garland, Mayorkas and Becerra are not actively trying to damage the country
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:06 PM (ONvIw)

they are willing participants but they are not calling the shots.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 01:10 PM (YdNEG)

I don't pay close enough attention to know who's calling the shots and who's carrying out orders.

This really is a fascist operation, so choose your own nazi analogies to show who's who in this Administration.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 01:14 PM (47mFt)

271 I developed such a high fever that I got out my parents bed where they had put me
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You're lucky you didn't get the ice bath treatment.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 01:14 PM (+ya+t)

272 According to Rasmussen, the Rutabaga is at or past his previous record low approval ratings; he's at -33%.

Whale shit is coming in higher than that.

Whale shit (ambergris) is worth a lot more than him.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 11, 2022 01:15 PM (F0YaR)

273 dartist @ 230-
I was born in a little house in a cottonfield, delivered by root doctor lady and MD showed up week later to do birth certificate. I is old.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2022 01:16 PM (gktX6)

274 I think I will just cut the hot water off until ~~tonight~~ November when it is cooler in the attic.
Posted by: G'rump928

That's what I would do.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2022 01:16 PM (4I/2K)

275 266 Heh. If that was the flu strain I had in the fifties, it's amazing how much you remember. My fever broke in the late evening, and the 11 o'clock news was on the 15" Zenith. Mom and Dad, hovering over me, asked how I was doing and I said I wanted a hamburger. Dad walked to the corner bar and got me two (probably had a shot and a beer while waiting).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2022 01:17 PM (lz5hY)

276 >>>I talked to a plumber about replumbing everything and he wants to go back with more pex rather than pvc or copper.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 01:13 PM (yQpMk)
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What happened to galvanized pipe?
Oh, that's right, they have to measure their cuts.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 01:17 PM (YdNEG)

277 " We don't see or hear from the people actually pulling the strings. "

Interesting how your comment ties in to the very plot of the Wizard of Oz, which is the man behind the curtain, who runs Oz.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 11, 2022 01:17 PM (jTmQV)

278 "Maybe there's not enough demand to create more competition."

iirc, Abbot may have a large government contract ... IF low demand was an issue, or the cost point is not worth the investment, it could be that Abbot gets a government subsidy to provide at lower cost, or fulfills a lot for those on welfare ... I'm just surmising.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 11, 2022 01:18 PM (Cus5s)

279 "The real question is "why did inflation take so long to show up?"

Well I hope it's not going to take a decade to go away. I don't think we'll be around that long.

Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 01:18 PM (kYVzH)

280 And btw I think Mead Johnson is still open for production. There was no honest reason to shutter Abbott for an extended period, we don't even do that with rat infested Chipotle

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:19 PM (ONvIw)

281 I developed such a high fever that I got out my parents bed where they had put me
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You're lucky you didn't get the ice bath treatment.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 01:14 PM (+ya+t)

I think that is still a medically approved method for lowering ultra high fevers.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 11, 2022 01:19 PM (F0YaR)

282 dartist @ 230-
I was born in a little house in a cottonfield, delivered by root doctor lady and MD showed up week later to do birth certificate. I is old.
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I think you just may have me beat, lol. My hat is off to you and I'll be careful to stay on the sidewalk.

Posted by: dartist at June 11, 2022 01:19 PM (+ya+t)

283 Sweat your copper pipes with lead-free solder. BOOM! Lasts a lifetime or until an illegal alien guts your home.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 11, 2022 01:21 PM (BP3/z)

284 "The real question is "why did inflation take so long to show up?"

Well I hope it's not going to take a decade to go away. I don't think we'll be around that long.
Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 01:18 PM (kYVzH)

The way I understand it, inflation isn't the increase in prices, it's the devaluation of the money, so there's always going to be a lag between when the government acts to increase the money supply, and it starts to hit the marketplace.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 01:22 PM (47mFt)

285 OT- I agree with this blogger at "Victory Girls". For some reason Liz Cheney has an irrational. Deep hatred of Trump which I don't understand either, and I also doubt Trump said " Pence ought to hang."

https://tinyurl.com/yy9xvezz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 11, 2022 01:22 PM (fZouj)

286 nood

plants

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 01:23 PM (t/4Zp)

287 Interesting how your comment ties in to the very plot of the Wizard of Oz, which is the man behind the curtain, who runs Oz.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 11, 2022 01:17 PM (jTmQV)

Won't everyone be surprised when it turns out the wizard isn't a kindly old man, but an Iranian rat woman.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 01:23 PM (47mFt)

288 Ref 216: there's also a lot of Liza and Barbra cosplay in that community for some reason.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 11, 2022 01:24 PM (cKnoj)

289 285. Nothing irrational about it. The political dynasties did not like Trump shaking the foundation of the myth that one needed to be a long term pol, or be to the political manor born. That effed with the graft. And they liked the idea of hereditary fiefdoms. When Hillary said she'd take foundation half of DC with her, it was a bipartisan threat

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:26 PM (ONvIw)

290 That chunky Hawaiian ukelele player does a great version of Over the Rainbow.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens

Dean Koontz dedicated one of his novels to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole because, he said, he wrote that novel listening to his music.

Funny. He doesn't look Jewish.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 11, 2022 01:27 PM (FVME7)

291 285 OT- I agree with this blogger at "Victory Girls". For some reason Liz Cheney has an irrational. Deep hatred of Trump which I don't understand
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She's an agent for the uniparty.
Her daddy's been an agent since Nixon.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 01:27 PM (YdNEG)

292 There be a Garden Nood!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 11, 2022 01:28 PM (uEfm6)

293 288 both regularly performed in gay clubs, Streisand and Midler more than Minelli. And Vincent Mineola was at vet least bi

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:28 PM (ONvIw)

294 That chunky Hawaiian ukelele player does a great version of Over the Rainbow.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:01 PM (eGTCV)

He's playing "Under the Turf" now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2022 01:03 PM (FHqju)

Turns out being that fat isn't healthy after all. Who knew!

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2022 01:30 PM (47mFt)

295 , you know,

Posted by: Corona at June 11, 2022 01:31 PM (nakGR)

296 Pretty sure Mom used Carnation Evaporated with water and Poly-vi-sol. She mostly breast fed, but while weaning she did the milk thing. Most moms did back then, and most moms didn't work outside the home, because working inside the home was more than a full time job. But then, nobody was using birth control and aborting their babies.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 11, 2022 01:33 PM (LOVUx)

297 To break the government-enforced baby formula oligopoly, why doesn't someone sell a packet of powdered nutrients and vitamins to be added to an old recipe for homemade formula?

Just label it as something else, like wallpaper paste or something. I know that sounds radical, but we're living under a Stalinist dictatorship, and adjustments have to be made.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 11, 2022 01:34 PM (sWM8x)

298 Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:26 PM (ONvIw

I understand the hatred for Trump being an outsider and not part of the political establishment, but Cheney it almost seems like she's a wounded teen-that Trump pretended to be her boyfriend and dumped her or that he never gave her the attention which the supermodels got. It seems too personal

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 11, 2022 01:35 PM (fZouj)

299 296 Yep. Totally common and we survived without FDA approval.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:35 PM (ONvIw)

300 >>OT- I agree with this blogger at "Victory Girls". For some reason Liz Cheney has an irrational. Deep hatred of Trump which I don't understand either, and I also doubt Trump said " Pence ought to hang."

Look at her father.

DC has been run for many decades by people who more than anything believe in what George Herbert Walker Bush famously called a "new world order". Globalism. The letter behind their name was somewhat irrelevant. People tend to shrug it of or roll their eyes but the truth has been hiding in plain sight all along. These people do not truly believe in American exceptionalism and as Obama said we are just another country, nothing special.

Trump represented an existential threat to that way of thinking. For all his faults he absolutely and unabashedly loves the USA and knows we are indeed an exceptional country without peer. The only thing that can bring us down is ourselves which is where that meat puppet in the White House comes in. Trump truly believes in America first. They do not.

Socialism does not raise people. The only way to make us all equal is to lower the exceptional. That's exactly what's happening right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 01:36 PM (ZLI7S)

301
Once started on this funny-money tour, the Fed didn't know how to stop or get off. The real question is "why did inflation take so long to show up?"
Posted by: LCMS Rulz

In a healthy economy a rising income and productivity balance the inflation.

When the money was handed out without regard to producing anything the money chased a limit supply of goods... demand and intentionally caused supply chain limits (no refineries to produce fuel for an increasing population for instance) we get run away inflation.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 11, 2022 01:36 PM (uEfm6)

302 Kamakawiwoʻole suffered from obesity throughout his life, at one point weighing 757 pounds (343 kg) while standing 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall. He endured several hospitalizations because of his weight. With chronic medical problems including respiratory and cardiac issues, he died at the age of 38 in the Queen's Medical Center at 12:18 am on June 26, 1997, from respiratory failure.

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You can call me Slim.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 11, 2022 01:36 PM (FVME7)

303 298. Personal in so far as daddy benefitted financially and his hetero princess wants no disruption of the loot. Also see grifters McConnell, and the bipartisan lair of Trump haters working as lobbyists for China.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:39 PM (ONvIw)

304 Nothing is more personal to DC than money

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:40 PM (ONvIw)

305 Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 from Barber is one of the most evocative pieces of music ever written. Find it and listen to it you'll recognize it. It's been used in many movies.

And it's a very contemporary work. 1936, and he captured the essence of and communicated emotions that many greater more talented composers did not. Isn't that interesting?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2022 01:40 PM (t/4Zp)

306 THE PRESIDENT: We're going to make sure that everybody knows Exxon's profits. Why don't you tell them what Exxon's profits were this year - this quarter? Exxon made more money than God this year. And, by the way, nothing has changed.

And they're not - by the way, one thing I want to say about the oil companies: They talk about how we have - they have 9,000 permits to drill. They're not drilling. Why aren't they drilling? Because they make more money not producing more oil. The price goes up, number one. And, number two, the reason they're not drilling is they're buying back their own stock - which should be taxed, quite frankly - buying back their own stock and making no new investments.

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Putin's fault!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 11, 2022 01:42 PM (FVME7)

307 Cheney's hatred of Trump seems truly psychotic.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:42 PM (eGTCV)

308 >>Cheney's hatred of Trump seems truly psychotic.

She doesn't just hate Trump. She hates us. Trump is just the manifestation of our desires.

"It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again."

- David Plouffe

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 01:47 PM (ZLI7S)

309 If we had an actual news company in this country there might be a serious inquiry into who actually is making decisions cause everyone with a brain cell realizes Brandon doesn't even have the ones he used to have, and he didn't have many even 30 years ago.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 11, 2022 01:47 PM (3/XaG)

310
got both cam chain tensioners out. they each jad three more notcjes left for extension to correct the cam chain tension. yeah! no internal engine damage from that. still need to pull the inspection plate to verify the sacrificial wear plate, but will do that when i install the new tensioners.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 11, 2022 01:47 PM (UgAdJ)

311 And any "conservative" who partners with Nanzi Pelosi reeks of sulphur.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:47 PM (eGTCV)

312 307 the idea of losing out on money or having it's swampy flow curtailed can lead to severe and dangerous behavior. This happens outside of politics, too. People kill for money.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 01:48 PM (ONvIw)

313 Fantasia by Vaughn Williams is in Master and Commander.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 11, 2022 01:50 PM (Jubev)

314 Venal, corrupt liars who say their Trump hatred is based on their concern for decency, honor and the constitution are a special class of hypocrite.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 01:50 PM (eGTCV)

315 The establishment of zillionaires, corporate heads, and politicians no matter what letter they sport, are on a mission to make themselves aristocrats, entitled to their positions and able to hand them down to their children no matter what they do or the results of it. They are aligned with their peers internationally and they all see those "below" them as a threat. General prosperity helps those below them. Accountability and a way to remove them from their positions threatens them. Belief in a higher power threatens them. The almightiness of government as a belief strengthens them. They are playing a game now to see if they can impoverish those below them enough to weaken them without causing enough breakdown that society becomes brutish enough that force rules over elderly lawyers.and stockholders. That's the danger for them. If things get wild enough that the system breaks some charismatic colonel will decide that he really doesn't have to take orders from a frail 80 year old with a title.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 11, 2022 01:57 PM (3/XaG)

316 I'll play.

We can't open factories so workers can produce old baby food recipes, but we can make and ship and inject an experimental mRNA vaxxine in two weeks.

Is that about right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 11, 2022 01:57 PM (O9sAO)

317 If we had an actual news company in this country there might be a serious inquiry into who actually is making decisions cause everyone with a brain cell realizes Brandon doesn't even have the ones he used to have, and he didn't have many even 30 years ago.

It's pretty obvious who is making the decisions.

Does anyone really think our global elite from government, big tech and big business go to Davos every year for the cheese and yodeling? They openly talk about the globalist agenda and just like that it is what is happening. We don't need the media, they have a website and everything.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9bn2nh

When your opponents are telling you exactly what they are going to do and then they do it it's a good idea to listen. There are no conspiracy theories, just conspiracies.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 02:01 PM (ZLI7S)

318 When your opponents are telling you exactly what they are going to do and then they do it

The extreme hubris underlying this transparency of intent is still a bit shocking to me. In hindsight, it would seem that I was a tad too much of an idealist.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 11, 2022 02:06 PM (Xrfse)

319 I can kind of, sort of, wrap my brain around Cheney's Trump hatred but Adam Kinzinger baffles me. Is he just a nowhere man who's found a train to jump on?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 11, 2022 02:08 PM (eGTCV)

320 315 or the oligarch from Microsoft

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 02:11 PM (WIhee)

321 Adam Kinsinger wants to be the next Joe Scarborough.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 11, 2022 02:11 PM (u73oe)

322 Adam Klinger can't wait to be the Devil's servant

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2022 02:14 PM (2JoB8)

323 >>The extreme hubris underlying this transparency of intent is still a bit shocking to me. In hindsight, it would seem that I was a tad too much of an idealist.

The global warming hoax was created by the Club of Rome, another globalist group of elite dunces that openly said they came up with the idea of global warming because they said the world was becoming overpopulated and too industrialized and they needed to put a stop to all that success. Lots of eugenics enthusiasts in that group. Incidentally, the Club of Rome is also headquartered in Switzerland like so many other globalist bullshitters. They didn't hide what they were doing, they openly stated it.

From there it was off to their partners in the UN and here we are with $5/gallon of gas and climbing and the climate is just doing it's normal thing.

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 02:15 PM (ZLI7S)

324 What do you think?

I think Barack Hussein Obola knows exactly what he is doing.

Joe. I mean Joe. Obviously he is running it.

Or Obola.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at June 11, 2022 02:15 PM (ZW1rs)

325 315. They're playing a dangerous game. After Elon, I became more interested in Twitter and read a lot. The minority element hates the outsourcing pols and oligarchs more than I do. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that when a crash comes, don't blame your neighbors, even your white ones, Richie rich and the pols have homes and families too,They say

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 02:16 PM (WIhee)

326 Take a gander at ByHeart's engineered baby formula.

If I had a kid I would let them nurse on a goat .

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2022 02:20 PM (x4FiP)

327
Pex vs copper:

I have a forty five year old home with copper plumbing and am quite handy with a torch. What I have figured out over the years is that certain locations with high flow are gonna tear up the copper. Replace with pex to the point where the flow divides. I have no clue whatsoever how long the pex will last. But looking at my age (yikes!) I think I'm good for the rest of my life.

Sharp corners in high flow locations are what I've learned are gonna take a beating. I guess it's all the particulate matter in water that causes the damage to the soft copper. I really don't know how pex will be any different. But it will be easier to replace if it fails.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 11, 2022 02:22 PM (dQvv7)

328 >>I can kind of, sort of, wrap my brain around Cheney's Trump hatred but Adam Kinzinger baffles me. Is he just a nowhere man who's found a train to jump on?

It shouldn't. Do you know who was given a copy of the Steele dossier by McCain's team before it went to the FBI?

Adam Kinzinger.

McCain was balls deep in the corruption in Ukraine along with his buddy Joe Biden. Kinzinger is just another globalist dirtbag. That's who we are really fighting.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 02:22 PM (ZLI7S)

329 Stacey Abrams Says "The Bible Is Nothing But A Political Thriller"

And probably much better written than her bodice rippers.

Leftists would adore that sort of comment. I imagine that the church going Blacks in Georgia wouldn't be so thrilled with it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 11, 2022 02:22 PM (l7p9i)

330 Reading the thread at work reminded me I think my mom had to have goat milk as a baby, and think through life isn't a milk drinker .

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2022 02:26 PM (2JoB8)

331 Just give me 5 minutes alone with him to explain the voter's mandate to him.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 11, 2022 02:27 PM (4FDGE)

332 Globalist, a virus? A franchise?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 11, 2022 02:29 PM (4FDGE)

333 And granted I don't live in Georgia so I am not familiar with Stacy Abrams entire political presentation, but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of her where she's smiling or where she has anything positive to say about her state or her country.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 11, 2022 02:30 PM (l7p9i)

334 Similac Sensitive is 90% soy.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2022 02:30 PM (x4FiP)

335 Why is there no room for people who aren't particularly Trump supporters but don't hate him either?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 02:30 PM (VdGjU)

336 I imagine that the church going Blacks in Georgia wouldn't be so thrilled with it.

And yet, their allegiance in the voting booth (D) seldom wavers. I just don't know how this cycle can be broken.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 11, 2022 02:31 PM (Xrfse)

337 Pondered the pex route, been doing copper and have a good supply of fittings on hand.

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2022 02:32 PM (2JoB8)

338 Stacey Abrams Says "The Bible Is Nothing But A Political Thriller"

That should impress black Christians.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 11, 2022 02:33 PM (VdGjU)

339 Dick Cheney
_1968, American Political Science Association congressional fellowship
_1969, Special Assistant to the Director; Office of Economic Opportunity, Nixon
_1970, Special Assistant to White House Council (D.Rumsfeld), Nixon

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 02:34 PM (YdNEG)

340 _1971, White House staff assistant, (D.Rumsfeld), Nixon
_1971-1973, Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council, Nixon
_12/18/74–11/21/75, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Gerald Ford
_11/21/75-1/21/77, White House Chief of Staff, Gerald Ford

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 02:34 PM (YdNEG)

341 _1/3/79 –3/20/89, U.S. House of Representatives (minority whip), Wyoming
_1981-1987. Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.
_3/21/89-1/20/93, Secretary of Defense. GHW Bush
_1995-2000, CEO of Halliburton
_1/20/01-1/20/09, Vice President of the United States, GW Bush

Served every Republican president since Nixon except Reagan. Reagan, the only Republican president not part of the cartel.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 02:34 PM (YdNEG)

342 Putting off a replacement of shower faucets, but will require taking out the powder room wall behind the tub wall, maybe.

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2022 02:36 PM (2JoB8)

343 Scooter Libby was wrongfully convicted by a DC jury of leaking top secret soccer mom and convertible jaguar driving Valerie Plame's name as a CIA officer. In fact, it was Colin Powell's deputy Dick Armitage who leaked her name to columnist Robert Novak. But he was left swimming in the breeze by our globalist betters.

It was left up to Trump to finally pardon Libby for a crime he didn't commit.

The Bushes and the Cheneys vs normal Americans.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 02:37 PM (ZLI7S)

344 328. I assume most pols are on the take, even if it's jobs for the wife and kids. DC is not flush with honor. I still maintain that money is the motivator, if people will kill to get out of child support or the divorce split, they'll have no guilt over destroying someone to keep their loot and their asses out of jail.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 02:37 PM (ONvIw)

345
Leftists would adore that sort of comment. I imagine that the church going Blacks in Georgia wouldn't be so thrilled with it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Alveda King certainly isn't happy with her.

https://tinyurl.com/bddszf3e

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2022 02:41 PM (aex1q)

346 344 328. I assume most pols are on the take, ...

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 02:37 PM (ONvIw)
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Good grooming for the nomenklatura.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 02:41 PM (YdNEG)

347 Dad was the anti-Reagan. Daughter is the anti-Trump.

Posted by: pawn at June 11, 2022 02:43 PM (kYVzH)

348 Dad was the anti-Reagan. Daughter is the anti-Trump.
Posted by: pawn
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The psychosis doesn't fall far from the tree.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2022 02:46 PM (aex1q)

349 Pawn is she still anti-trump after shtf recently.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 11, 2022 02:46 PM (pmoqr)

350 Electron question. I have a small electric scale that seems to drain the AAA batteries even when turned off. So I was thinking I should remove them when not in use but then I wondered if I could just turn one around so the batteries are +to+ and -to-. Would that keep them from draining?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 02:50 PM (yQpMk)

351 To break the government-enforced baby formula oligopoly, why doesn't someone sell a packet of powdered nutrients and vitamins to be added to an old recipe for homemade formula?

Start advertising nutrients and vitamins, and the government exerts even more control over you. My favorite beer was killed because they put a bog-standard nutrition label on it (Yakima Brewing). ATF hounded the company to death after that.

It’s the same reason you don’t see much in the way of vitamin-fortified snacks. The government “discourages” it, by which they mean the regulators will kill your company with the death of a thousand cutsXXXcompliance agents if you try and are remotely successful.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 02:50 PM (U+Oxn)

352 >>>Scooter Libby was wrongfully convicted by a DC jury of leaking top secret soccer mom and convertible jaguar driving Valerie Plame's name as a CIA officer.

As the wife of an American State Dept diplomat she was a defacto US Agent (moreso than a mere citizen) but she was also a secret agent riding a desk at HQ... probably had a sticker for the CIA parking lot on the same car she took to the salon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2022 02:54 PM (ULTkq)

353 Would that keep them from draining?
Posted by: G'rump
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Do not do that...just don't. If you want a quick and easy fix, just slip a thin bit of plastic (or paper) between the end of one of the batteries and the contact. I am assuming here that the batteries are in series.

It takes a moment, of course, but it will stop the battery drain.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2022 02:55 PM (aiTDG)

354 I wondered if I could just turn one around so the batteries are +to+ and -to-.

Probably not a good idea. Battery “voltage” is almost literally just the difference between the number of electrons on one end vs. the other. The - end should have more electrons than the + end, causing electrons to flow from the minus (excess electron) to the + (deficient electrons).

Batteries not in use don’t necessarily lose charge at the same rate. This means that if you flip them, there might still be a voltage difference, and it might be in the wrong direction. That is, the two + ends (or the two - ends) might have different charges, causing electrons to move through the circuit. If they move the wrong direction through the circuit, and the circuit has no protection against that, it could damage the device.

Honestly, I don’t think it would, but I wouldn’t recommend finding out.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 11, 2022 02:59 PM (U+Oxn)

355 >>As the wife of an American State Dept diplomat she was a defacto US Agent (moreso than a mere citizen) but she was also a secret agent riding a desk at HQ... probably had a sticker for the CIA parking lot on the same car she took to the salon.

If I was a foreign agent I might just monitor who was going into the CIA parking lot every morning. I'm not a trained spy but that seems like a good idea to me.

The whole thing was a farce and Bush/Cheney allowed it to happen. I'll never forgive them for that.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 03:02 PM (ZLI7S)

356 I wondered if I could just turn one around so the batteries are +to+ and -to-. Would that keep them from draining?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 02:50 PM (yQpMk)

Does the battery set stop draining if you remove one of them rather than all of them?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2022 03:03 PM (ZSK0i)

357 I will just take the batteries out when not in use.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 03:06 PM (yQpMk)

358 Cheney's hatred of Trump seems truly psychotic.

There's a lot of that going around. DeNiro, Reiner, Midler are other examples. Kathy Griffin.
It's not about politics, it's personal.
Trump makes them lose sleep, drink, take drugs, whatever.
Even now, out of office, Trump haunts their dreams and is the star of their nightmares. No doubt all of them are seeing shrinks---in addition to their regular one---to deal specifically with Trump issues.
But they can be written off as Hollywood weirdoes.

Our problem here is that are millions of Americans just like them, people who will gladly pay $20 a gallon of gas or $20 for a hamburger or have millions of OTHER PEOPLE'S babies nearly starve or OTHER PEOPLE'S sons get killed in a war for Ukraine as long as they think not having Trump as president will help them sleep at night.

Our country is in an awful place right now and we won't get out of it for a long time. Those of us over 29--or on the cusp of it--may die never seeing another day of true Unified American Greatness.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 03:06 PM (mR6Gs)

359 Apropos of using the scale, my new AR57 PCC weighs 6lb 6oz with a Romeo5 red dot and a full 50rd P90 magazine.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 11, 2022 03:08 PM (yQpMk)

360 Our country is in an awful place right now and we won't get out of it for a long time. Those of us over 29--or on the cusp of it--may die never seeing another day of true Unified American Greatness.
Posted by: JoeF.

I fear you are not wrong.

Posted by: Infidel at June 11, 2022 03:10 PM (E0NVW)

361 Contact points of battery operated device can get corrosive, even a screw driver and scratch the contact to see if it's clean.

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2022 03:11 PM (2JoB8)

362 And why? Partly because Hillary Clinton and her people could not stand losing to Trump and injected the poison of Russian Collusion into our body politic and mass culture and her millions of followers went along enthusiastically.

If that alcohol-sodden old kvnt had stood up on Election Night 2016 and gracefully conceded to Trump, urging all to unite behind him for the good of the country the last five years would have played out differently.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 03:11 PM (mR6Gs)

363 The other night, I took the toddler for our evening constitutional, this time to a chicken place about a mile away. One I've been to many times. Ordered my chicken to go, and sat at the bar to drink some Wild Turkey while I wait, as usual. The bartender kicked me out for having a minor with me, and I understand the reason for that law, but I've never seen that happen with a toddler in a stroller. Unreal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2022 03:13 PM (xPIwr)

364 Hell, they probably would have gotten some things that they wanted if they had played ball with Trump, always susceptible to flattery, and forever willing to deal.

Perhaps Trump wouldn't have delivered such a "divisive"--in their view--Inaugural Address if Hillary hadn't called for Resistance.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 03:14 PM (mR6Gs)

365 358. I don't accept the psychosis idea for most Trump haters, certainly not Reiner or Midler. For those two, open borders amounts to a religious issue as it does for many like them. Closed borders is a sin that is atoned for on YK. That is why these two call him and other conservatives bigots and nativists and, antisemitic.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 03:15 PM (ONvIw)

366 364. Resistance and upheaval were virtuous only a couple years ago. Amazing. Now they are crimes.l

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 03:18 PM (ONvIw)

367 I don't accept the psychosis idea for most Trump haters, certainly not Reiner or Midler. For those two, open borders amounts to a religious issue as it does for many like them. Closed borders is a sin that is atoned for on YK. That is why these two call him and other conservatives bigots and nativists and, antisemitic.
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 03:15 PM (ONvIw)

You are on to something, but because so many of the Trump haters in and out of politics happen to be ( but far from exclusively) Jewish, it opens up a can of unpleasantness and recrimination.

But Cheney is a real POS, making common cause with the very people who would have GLADLY hung her own father as a War Criminal.
It's mind-boggling.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 03:19 PM (mR6Gs)

368 If that alcohol-sodden old kvnt had stood up on Election Night 2016 and gracefully conceded to Trump, urging all to unite behind him for the good of the country the last five years would have played out differently.

That's not who they are.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 11, 2022 03:20 PM (Xrfse)

369 If that alcohol-sodden old kvnt had stood up on Election Night 2016 and gracefully conceded to Trump, urging all to unite behind him for the good of the country the last five years would have played out differently.

That's not who they are.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 11, 2022 03:20 PM (Xrfse)

I'm ashamed to admit that contrary to my upbringing, education and religious instruction I HATE them all---Clinton, Cheney, Pelosi, Schumer, Bush and OBAMA and his whole fucking CULT.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 03:24 PM (mR6Gs)

370 And Mitt Romney

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 03:25 PM (mR6Gs)

371 >>And why? Partly because Hillary Clinton and her people could not stand losing to Trump and injected the poison of Russian Collusion into our body politic and mass culture and her millions of followers went along enthusiastically.

It goes much deeper than that. What the Sussmann trial helped expose is that the Russia collusion crap wasn't just a Hillary production, it was perpetuated by the FBI, the Obama administration and private contractors and the media among others.

I know most are disappointed with the Sussmann trial outcome no matter how predictable a DC court decision is, me too, but I would urge all to read the trial transcripts and the exhibits. Jake Sullivan, Biden's NSA, was at the heart of this scam and he's still directing a large part of our foreign policy. The Epoch Times has all the documents.

OJ was acquitted too.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2022 03:30 PM (ZLI7S)

372 Nadworny interviews Belldegrun?

Where do these people from? Bulgaria or something?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevarax at June 11, 2022 03:47 PM (wpPM0)

373 367. Being Jewish, I find the fixation on borders and CRT to be unfortunate and scary. The weird solidarity with any and all minorities, irrespective of their goals, is ill considered. It's also being noticed. One would think that if you're really uncomfortable you'd want to be less outspoken, not as attention getting.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 03:55 PM (ONvIw)

374 Where do these people from? Bulgaria or something?

The internet sez Nadworny is a Polish surname.

Doing a direct search on Belldegrun doesn't yield much, but based on the origins of some of the Belldegrun name holders plus the way translate.google.com wants to decipher it, it seems to be Norwegian or Finnish, i.e. Bell de Grønne...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2022 03:58 PM (ZSK0i)

375 But most likely Norwegian.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2022 04:00 PM (ZSK0i)

376 Being Jewish, I find the fixation on borders and CRT to be unfortunate and scary. The weird solidarity with any and all minorities, irrespective of their goals, is ill considered. It's also being noticed. One would think that if you're really uncomfortable you'd want to be less outspoken, not as attention getting.
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 03:55 PM (ONvIw)

Not Jewish, but could some of "weird solidarity" with all minorities be attributed to a general distrust of --or perhaps "fear" --of the majority population, because of historic "reasons?"

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 04:07 PM (mR6Gs)

377 376. Yep, but being antagonistic and assuming that other minorities share your love is worrisome.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 04:15 PM (ONvIw)

378 350 Electron question.
Posted by: G'rump928(c
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A small piece of thin plastic, I use Saran Wrap, between the battery and the contact. That will stop the leak and a battery hunt. - turning battery the wrong way not recommended

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 04:23 PM (YdNEG)

379 376. I am also opposed to inherited guilt. I grew up in Michigan in the 60s and 70s and did not experience antisemitism, just curiosity. Blaming and fearing people over things they had no part of seems wrong. And calling Trump and Trump voters nazis is needlessly inflammatory and mean, just as assuming all whites want to bring back slavery is wrong and baseless

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 04:29 PM (ONvIw)

380
Not Jewish, but could some of "weird solidarity" with all minorities be attributed to a general distrust of --or perhaps "fear" --of the majority population, because of historic "reasons?"
Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 04:07 PM (mR6Gs)-
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They don't fear us, we are in the way.
They want to rebuild America in their image and
God Almighty and Jesus Christ are in the way.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2022 04:37 PM (YdNEG)

381 380. I beg to differ, being Jewish. The Horde has no monopoly on worries about cattlecars and camps. More than any time in my life ( born in 1957) people are preoccupied by WWII imagery and stories and looking for parallels where mone exist. My SIL's BIL told his kids when HW Bush was elected that they would likely be removed from school and told to move from Roslyn , NY. Reagan didn't scare him, but the WWII pilot did. Yeah, irrational, but so is " they wanna put you'll back in chains"

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 04:48 PM (ONvIw)

382 Yeah, irrational, but so is " they wanna put you'll back in chains"
Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 04:48 PM (ONvIw)

That's irrational, inflammatory, delusional and downright stupid. But it's given a fair, respectable airing by the media.
That is the problem. NOT that some asshole said it, but no one questions it. That signals that there must be something to it.

The Late Great Rush ( RIP) used to tell the story about Al Gore at the 1996 VP debate giving "props" to Jack Kemp ( supposedly an expert on racial matters because, as a former football player, he showered with blacks) for not being a racist like "the rest of the Republicans."

Kemp then chided Gore for the libel and then launched into a full-throated defense of GOP policies and how they enable blacks to rise out of poverty--as well as a detailed history of the GOP's historical mission as the party of Color-blindness and acceptance from it's earliest days under Lincoln.

Nah, just kidding.

Kemp looked at Gore and said, "Thank You."

Posted by: JoeF. at June 11, 2022 05:02 PM (mR6Gs)

383 382. Never heard that story.

If no one questions it, it's because it serves a political purpose, not because there's any truth. Yet, I agree that is the signal desired by the dems and their media. I never saw that Trump's tweets were even a tiny bit as mean as the "racist" slur.

Posted by: CN at June 11, 2022 05:16 PM (ONvIw)

384 "Adam Kinsinger wants to be the next Joe Scarborough."

What, he's tired of being an asshole and wants a promotion?

Posted by: irongrampa at June 11, 2022 05:39 PM (KATBx)

385 I dont think Biden has the capability, intellect or intent to do any of this. I think he's a fucking muppet reading a script. It's the Obamunists running the Biden admin as Obama's 3rd term, that are diligently working to dismantle America

Posted by: rayra at June 11, 2022 07:18 PM (eJd7P)

386 So here's my political funny. The nice guy up the road from me who is very liberal reads my political signs. He also dialogues with his brother who voted for Trump. He told me if would be a good idea if conservatives didn't get all their political information from Fox News. I said I have never listened to Fox news and haven't had a working TV since 2011 and so I don't listen to any TV news now. I didn't tell him I occaasionally listen to bits of clips from Tucker Carlson. I also said that apparently FOX news had a program celebrating a family whose daughter age 11 or so was "transitioning" to be a boy and they had known from age two that she was really a boy and that this didn't sound conservative to me. It's good to laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 11, 2022 07:22 PM (l7p9i)

387 Most of us still live with the happy mythos of the "Sovier refugee astounded by variety of US grocery store." I've harped for years on the disturbing fact that most of that variety is in appearance only. There may be 50 "brands" of chocolate on the shelf, but they're all from three big companies, with a blinding admixture of new and improved added ingredients and packaging. This is not free market competition.

In the actual store, grocery companies charge fees up front to have your product displayed on their shelves, and operators like "Audrey's Marinade" or "Pappy's Sassafras Tea" are hard-put to even get in there.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 11, 2022 07:30 PM (videA)

388 i have an old book that i stole from my mom's garage. it was my gram's. "Health and Longevity" fifteen books-one volume by 20 specialists. it was published in 1911 by the home health society...it claims to be "ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY ON EVERY SUBJECT" the copyright is 1909...it says "NO OTHER MEDICAL WORK IN THE WORLD HAS SUCH A LIST OF EMINENT PHYSICIANS AND SPECIALIST FOR EVERY DEPARTMENT" on page 786, "Substitute for Human Milk.-The best substitute for human milk is that of the ass or cow, with a sixth part of tepid water and some loaf sugar. Three tablespoonfuls are sufficient for each repast for a new-born infant. Asses/milk has a decidedly sedative effect."

Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 11, 2022 07:51 PM (CqHIp)

389 phoenixgirl at June 11, 2022 07:51 PM

We have an old Mexican friend from the back country who attributes his lifelong health (in spite of being a binge drinker) to having been given donkey milk as a child and dried rattlesnake meat later.

You must kill the rattlesnake before it gets angry.

Posted by: KT at June 11, 2022 08:19 PM (rrtZS)

390 Stringer Davis at June 11, 2022 07:30 PM

This type of arrangement is probably more pronounced now than it was just a few years ago.

Posted by: KT at June 11, 2022 08:23 PM (rrtZS)

391 "What do you think?"

Absolutely deliberate and intentional, and I'm glad the GOP is finally catching on, even if it took The Stupid Party way too long to do so.

But like Winston Smith asked "I understand how, I don't understand why". The answer is simple, but more than O'Brien's response "power".

The answer is that we have an electorate that has bought completely into the environmental religion. This religion holds that man is a pestilence upon the planet, and that we must amend for our sins by living in poverty, or better yet, eliminating most of our numbers.

They are the ones who tell us "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy", all the while eating bugs and weeds, suffering without A/C, living in rented housing where your corporate landlord tells you you can't smoke (at least tobacco) inside or keep a firearm. You'll have to get permission to spend anything you are still allowed to earn under their digital currency regime. And your mobility will be limited to places they let you go, since you won't even have a car--electric or otherwise.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at June 11, 2022 09:58 PM (WusEB)

392 "What do you think?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=makeONYZfXM#t=21s

Substitute "you're" with "they're" in Clarks rant...

Posted by: Lawrence L at June 12, 2022 12:28 PM (FAuXd)

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