The Morning Rant: Reflections Edition

Good morning Horde. Charlie Brown's Dildo inquired if I would take his Rant threads today and on Thursday. Something about him being "detained" concerning an incident with maple syrup, "French toast" and turkey link sausage.

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I'll be upfront with you folks. After considerable thought I came to the realization that I didn't have any specific "Rant" topic. I believe it is a result of the Post-Election Trump Glow.

Instead, I have some general thoughts about events that do have me irked. Take for example the unbelievably shocking pardon issued by President MushHead for ~~his crimes~~ Hunter's crimes from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024.

By pardoning Hunter, Joe has basically taken care of any loose thread ripping at the fabric of the Biden Crime Family.

"Corrupt To The Core": Dems In Disarray Over Hunter Pardon As 'Rule Of Law' Narrative Implodes
Absolute chaos has broken out on the left following Joe Biden's blanket pardon of his son Hunter - which spans the period right before Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma (for $1M/year), through yesterday evening.

Of course we "despicable, deplorable, garbage people" knew that this would always happen. Even if the scum sucking bottoming feeding media told us otherwise.

Then they pontificate on how much wiser and caring they are. FOAD.

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I recently made a home owner's insurance premium payment. Not only has inflation struck the grocery stores it has hit the Property & Casualty markets as well. And this is one of the reasons why. Pure utter mind boggling stupidity at it's finest.

A $3 million mansion in a high-end Connecticut neighborhood met a fiery demise on Thanksgiving when the home was inundated in flames from a turkey frying inside a garage.
Heart-pounding images captured the raging inferno surrounding the Weston home just after 3:40 p.m. on Thursday as firefighters rushed to contain the fire.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze by an automatic fire alarm on Weston Road before several 911 calls were made about a garage fire.
“When we arrived, the whole garage end of the house was on fire – like a third of the house,” Weston Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Pokorny told CT Insider.

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Do our "Intelligence Agencies" have any intelligent employees? Where were the highly esteemed 51 intelligence gurus with their prediction of the Syria civil war reigniting?

Amid the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and the Iran-Contra controversy that had the US providing some arms to Iran through Israel, then-prime minister Yitzhak Shamir remarked that both sides in the war were “crazy,” and “we have no reason to wish either of the parties success.”
Over time, this quote morphed into Shamir's saying when asked about the war: “We wish both sides success

This is an older story. But, it demonstrates our esteemed intelligence racket. Obviously intelligence at the DC level has no interest in curiosity.

Reporting from Amman, Jordan — Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war.
The fighting has intensified over the last two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.

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This strikes me as funny. However Russian taxpayers might be a bit miffed.

UNDER FIRE Moment Putin’s blundering Dad’s Army proudly shoot down ‘Ukrainian’ drone in TV debut… only to find its one of their own

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:00 AM (fwDg9)

2 And dutifully called so onto content

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:01 AM (fwDg9)

3 Hmm

Posted by: Scarymary at December 03, 2024 11:01 AM (sPtu7)

4 Saucy monkey...

RIP Gorilla Pundit

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 11:01 AM (xcxpd)

5 Not first, I'm guessing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

6 Wow

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 03, 2024 11:02 AM (+H2BX)

7 Shake shake shake
shake shake shake
Your Manhattan

Posted by: When CBD is away, the Horde will play at December 03, 2024 11:02 AM (PiwSw)

8 I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 03, 2024 11:02 AM (+H2BX)

9 Also: Friendly Fire, isn't.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 11:03 AM (xcxpd)

10 Top 10!

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:03 AM (g8Ew8)

11 RIP Gorilla Pundit

Mega-dittoes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2024 11:03 AM (Q0kLU)

12 Looks like it's Strippers And Blow Week at the HQ.
The hangover is going to be one for the books, and I might have to check in on that rash

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:04 AM (yYROg)

13 Just for the record, I started frying turkeys when I was 19, and even then I was intelligent enough to put the burner and pot on a hard surface well away from a structure.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:04 AM (lTGtQ)

14 Lefties are just pretending outrage...they knew the pardon was gonna' happen, just like the rest of us.

Posted by: BignJames at December 03, 2024 11:04 AM (Yj6Os)

15 It feels like an ont but its not.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (RIvkX)

16 Just for the record, I started frying turkeys when I was 19, and even then I was intelligent enough to put the burner and pot on a hard surface well away from a structure.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Alton Brown did a Good Eats ep on deep-frying turkey. It was amazing all the safety precautions he took.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

17 Just for the record, I started frying turkeys when I was 19, and even then I was intelligent enough to put the burner and pot on a hard surface well away from a structure.

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The trick is to put it as far away from your home as possible, but as close to your neighbor's as possible.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (sX1BW)

18 Don't you do a "dry run" with cold water to determine how much oil to use?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (+H2BX)

19 Weston, Connecticut Fire Department "Save the Basement" strategy continues to pay dividends.

Posted by: Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (nS6qG)

20 I found a “Kash Patel Legal Offense Fund” on X. LOL!

Not to be confused with a “defense fund”

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (TRQaF)

21 So drones are not immune to friendly fire just like humans are.
War is dangerous

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (fwDg9)

22 Retard is going to have to pardon the entire family, since all of them are documented as having taken bribe money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (lTGtQ)

23 As for Pooty, he's taking a phat L in Syria. Unsure about Georgia however, it looks like his boys won one fairly.
Trump's negotiation skills will be very handy there. Since Syria is a Turk-against-Russian game, letting Georgia have a Kremlin-leaning government might be something we can live with. Fuck NATO.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (yYROg)

24
Where were the highly esteemed 51 intelligence gurus with their prediction of the Syria civil war reigniting?

Live BBC coverage of Korean situation

https://t.ly/o6Zta

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (63Dwl)

25 Thank you M.H.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (jvJvP)

26 15 It feels like an ont but its not.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (RIvkX)N
No it isn't. on the bright side The Fabulous just put away 6 wonderfully made fruit cakes.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (QXQ4l)

27 Well Hell!
I was gonna have scrambled eggs for breakfast but now its French toast and syrup all the way Baby!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (W/lyH)

28 The only thing that I find surprising about the Hunter pardon is that it wasn't delayed until the last week or so of the regime. Isn't that how it usually works? The pardons gets overshadowed by the coming inauguration and other news about the exiting regime so gets less coverage. This was bad timing by the handlers.

Or maybe it was intentional to give a big middle finger to the country.

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (GUOwU)

29 Looks like things are getting spicey in S Korea.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 11:08 AM (QB+5g)

30 Flippin' Gorilla!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 03, 2024 11:08 AM (LxER7)

31 You know when I saw that picture up top, my first thought was that this thread was going to be about Cenk Uyger.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:08 AM (wyMQY)

32 Catch 22 showed how money is made by both sides of a conflict. A bit over the top but still making fun how both sides profit.

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:08 AM (fwDg9)

33 >>Retard is going to have to pardon the entire family, since all of them are documented as having taken bribe money.

YUP

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2024 11:08 AM (u1uWe)

34 No it isn't. on the bright side The Fabulous just put away 6 wonderfully made fruit cakes.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (QXQ4l)

Made with...alcohol?

Posted by: BignJames at December 03, 2024 11:09 AM (Yj6Os)

35 South Korea parliament votes to block martial law.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:09 AM (63Dwl)

36 I'll take a big slice of fruitcake. Pleeze!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 11:09 AM (RIvkX)

37 As for Pooty, he's taking a phat L in Syria. Unsure about Georgia however, it looks like his boys won one fairly.
Trump's negotiation skills will be very handy there. Since Syria is a Turk-against-Russian game, letting Georgia have a Kremlin-leaning government might be something we can live with. Fuck NATO.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (yYROg)

Let Russia nuke the Middle East. I'll promise to turn my back while they're doing it.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

38 I'll take a big slice of fruitcake. Pleeze!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You forgot the sarc tag.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:10 AM (v6JzV)

39 Don't you do a "dry run" with cold water to determine how much oil to use?

Posted by: no one of any consequence

Rule of thumb, depending on the pot, is about 60% full, which will cover the bird when it displaces oil upon insertion. Then, put the turkey in the oil when it gets close to 300 degrees. The oil will rapidly hit 350 when the turkey goes in. Don't wait for 350 to add the bird.

Of course, every year we see someone who decides to put a FROZEN turkey in 350 degree oil, and hilarity ensues, except for property owners, and those that hoped to eat some turkey.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)

40 Heh

https://tinyurl.com/ym8v9rwk

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2024 11:10 AM (u1uWe)

41 But it is OK to put the fryer next to my Mercedes EV? Correct?

Posted by: Muffy Beauregard Higginbotham IV at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

42 So drones are not immune to friendly fire just like humans are.
War is dangerous
Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:06 AM (fwDg9)

Friendly fire...isn't.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (W/lyH)

43 Actually MisHum I'm baffled at the trends in some insurance markets. Absent government distortion and misregulation, insurance is the simplest business in existence (and underappreciated as one of the pillars of modern prosperity).

Actuarial data (how often specific shit happens, and what it costs) + reserve for 2-sigma+ events + profit margin = insurance premiums. Of course, disastrously, we have "+ government interference leading to oligopolies, cost-shifting, etc" added to the equation.

But absent a change in the actuarial data (i.e., reality), or an increase in reserve or profit margin, what gives with these sudden, dramatic cost increases? Real insurance is sort of a super-tanker, it doesn't shift or turn quickly.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (1m82a)

44 >>> 13 Just for the record, I started frying turkeys when I was 19, and even then I was intelligent enough to put the burner and pot on a hard surface well away from a structure.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:04 AM (lTGtQ)

I'm guessing the fryer was too wussy to take it outside in the cold. I see the article says there were 25 guests at a 10k ft^2 home... you couldn't fcking afford to *buy* a fried turkey, or two or three? Well the guests - and family - certainly won't forget this holiday!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (KcwUg)

45 "South Korean Parliament votes against martial law decree. All 190 members who were able to enter the main hall voted in favor of the bill. None voted against."

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (2cS/G)

46 I still contend that the *biden's are not all that smart. They're not cunning like Hillary or shielded by the media and hangers on like Obama. They're stupid criminals from Delaware. This was *biden's attempt to thwart any investigations into his own criminal dealings by putting a wet blanket over all of his son's (his bagman's) crimes.

Past crimes. Not crimes that may (likely) be committed in the future.

But it may not cover Joe and Jill's tax issues that go back decades. The IRS has the receipts for those, but will they use them? Magic 8-Ball says "probably not."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

47 I’ve seen the Syrian fight characterized as Alien vs. Predator; fun to watch, but neither side is one you want to be on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (wyMQY)

48 Thank you, MH.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (w+hdv)

49 So, in order to protect South Korea from North Korea, South Korea has to become North Korea? That about it?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (u73oe)

50 Bannerman's surplus lead the way in providing arms to either side in any conflict. Their business model was genius. Buy up arms after a conflict for pennies on the dollar,sell them for top dollar when the next rumble starts, then buy them back.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 11:12 AM (gm9Sb)

51 X had a post of RFK Jr frying a turkey. Some commenter made a snide remark about it, butit looked like he knew what he was doing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 03, 2024 11:12 AM (gfViB)

52 MisHum, miss you man (in my best 2 am drunk voice).

Watching a couple live feeds out of South Korea.

One shows a mob outside the a large gate that leads to a large building which, based on the second feed imagery, is the parliament building. The crowd is surly.

The second one is of the parliament building. Inside and outside people are hanging around. Some of the feed's comments are from Koreans which I am able to translate. It seems the the assembly is meeting to rescind martial law.

What is clear everything is foobar. From what I can figure out the President declared a coup on the country and the country isn't happy about this. As for the NORK loving opposition - who knows.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 11:12 AM (vO42M)

53 NEXTA @nexta_tv 24m
⚡️ BREAKING: South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung said that "Yoon Suk Yeol is no longer the president of South Korea."

NEXTA @nexta_tv
The leader of Korea's “Democratic Party,” which controls the parliament is trying to get to the National Assembly.
https://tinyurl.com/mt33rdsd
1:44 minutes with [crappy?] translation

The broadcast shows him trying to get into the parliament building by climbing over a fence.
https://tinyurl.com/mryajzjj

NEXTA @nexta_tv
‼️ BREAKING: Opposition MPs were detained by the military as they tried to enter South Korea's parliament building.

https://tinyurl.com/k2adj2ep
4 videos

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:12 AM (hovnC)

54 40 Heh

https://tinyurl.com/ym8v9rwk
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2024 11:10 AM (u1uWe)

Excellent!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:12 AM (W/lyH)

55 Timing of pardon might have been related to some pre-sentencing process/investigation, according to some familiar with the mechanics of this sort of thing. Thus waiting til January not the best option.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:13 AM (1m82a)

56
Friendly fire...isn't.
Posted by: Diogenes

The Vulcan Hello

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:13 AM (63Dwl)

57 I guess the JAV Code and movie title for Hunter Biden would be....

BDEN-003 "My NEET cokehead son is using MY bribe money to bang these Chinese hookers in an amazing honeypot gangbang! I hope he doesn't get caught or else I'll have to pardon him."

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 11:13 AM (jvJvP)

58 Can't see any way other family members get pardons in next 46 days.

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:14 AM (fwDg9)

59 >>> 28 The only thing that I find surprising about the Hunter pardon is that it wasn't delayed until the last week or so of the regime. Isn't that how it usually works? The pardons gets overshadowed by the coming inauguration and other news about the exiting regime so gets less coverage. This was bad timing by the handlers.

Or maybe it was intentional to give a big middle finger to the country.
Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:07 AM (GUOwU)

They're still trying to start WW III, not to mention the look a UFO!!! news has been ramping up lately, so apparently they assume there will be distractions.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:14 AM (KcwUg)

60 Is South Korea a thing? WTF is going on there?

CNN is reporting it. Fox is still on Hunter Biden pardon.

The President declares martial law, the parliament gets together to vote it down and soldiers storm the parliament (not passing judgment here on who is right and wrong but kind of the point of martial law is that legislators don't get to vote about it)

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:14 AM (xhfG9)

61 So, in order to protect South Korea from North Korea, South Korea has to become North Korea? That about it?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

It sounds like the Prime Minister had a bunch of leftie confederates in his office and told him he had to call martial law. The guy is toast.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (IG4Id)

62 "South Korean Parliament votes against martial law decree. All 190 members who were able to enter the main hall voted in favor of the bill. None voted against."
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (2cS/G)

Will the military execute them for insurrection?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (ExV1e)

63

As of September 2023, there are approximately 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. These forces are primarily there to help deter potential aggression from North Korea and to strengthen the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (63Dwl)

64 Not too concerned about the pardon other than for the optics and timing.
Joe will croak any day, Jill will be swept into the dustbin of history, and Hunter will snort himself into a jail cell within a year.
Good riddance.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (W/lyH)

65 The President declares martial law, the parliament gets together to vote it down and soldiers storm the parliament (not passing judgment here on who is right and wrong but kind of the point of martial law is that legislators don't get to vote about it)
Posted by: blaster

Wow.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (v6JzV)

66 X had a post of RFK Jr frying a turkey. Some commenter made a snide remark about it, butit looked like he knew what he was doing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

He fried his in tallow, which sounds fantastic.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (lTGtQ)

67 Quality Content

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (3hycG)

68 When Otzi the Iceman was found in the Alps in 1991, he was determined to be around 5,000 years old. Interred with him were Holiday fruitcakes from the same era. They were judged just as tasty as the day they were made.

Posted by: Circus Peanuts, Too! at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (nS6qG)

69 South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has declared martial law in an apparent power struggle with the legislature, which is controlled by an opposition party.

https://tinyurl.com/yck93d6t

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (paSBy)

70 Meanwhile - South Korea, Syria, and Ukraine all getting action right here right now.

Did anyone predict that having an absentee senile Presidnet in office would lead to world chaos?

Narrator: of course they knew

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (xhfG9)

71 Looks like it's Strippers And Blow Week at the HQ.
The hangover is going to be one for the books, and I might have to check in on that rash
Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024

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I thought we had that already, back around 11/5?

We can have another one around Jan. 20.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (J2vNu)

72 64 Not too concerned about the pardon other than for the optics and timing.
Joe will croak any day, Jill will be swept into the dustbin of history, and Hunter will snort himself into a jail cell within a year.
Good riddance.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (W/lyH)

That's my Christmas wish! *cackle cackle*

Posted by: The Vice President of the United States at December 03, 2024 11:17 AM (PiwSw)

73 X had a post of RFK Jr frying a turkey. Some commenter made a snide remark about it, butit looked like he knew what he was doing.
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Well he's no uncooked burger connoisseur.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:17 AM (3hycG)

74 There is a Live feed from inside the Assembly building. Very calm, people sitting in their seats, occasionally someone scurries to and from the dais, but no troops or anything like that visible.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:17 AM (2cS/G)

75 >>> 66 X had a post of RFK Jr frying a turkey. Some commenter made a snide remark about it, butit looked like he knew what he was doing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

He fried his in tallow, which sounds fantastic.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:16 AM (lTGtQ)

Yes!

Make McDonald's Fries Great Again, Bobby!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:17 AM (KcwUg)

76 NEXTA @nexta_tv 8m
⚡️ BREAKING: South Korean Special forces break the Parliament windows to enter the building

https://tinyurl.com/2uf796hn
26 seconds; maybe 'storming' was correct; funny that the legislature is sitting at around 1AM there but the Leader of the Opposition was outside. Weird stuff.

NEXTA @nexta_tv 6m
⚡️⚡️ BREAKING: South Korean Parliament Speaker declares martial law "invalid" after MPs vote to lift it - Yonhap News

https://tinyurl.com/2xr88m58
two photos; not a full House -- don't know if there's a quorum or not.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:17 AM (hovnC)

77 S Korea opposition leader says Yoon Suk Yeol is no longer in charge.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (QB+5g)

78 When Otzi the Iceman was found in the Alps in 1991, he was determined to be around 5,000 years old. Interred with him were Holiday fruitcakes from the same era. They were judged just as tasty as the day they were made.
Posted by: Circus Peanuts, Too! at December 03, 2024

***
Which, no doubt, is why the little time bombs were buried with him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (J2vNu)

79 Is South Korea a thing? WTF is going on there?

CNN is reporting it. Fox is still on Hunter Biden pardon.
***

HEY!!! LOOK AT US!!!
WE ARE DOING REA NEWS!!!
HONEST!!!

Posted by: SeeInIn at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (W/lyH)

80 South Korea looks like it’s doing the South American “autogolpe” (self-coup). This is where the President, with the backing of the army, leads the coup himself and uses it to get rid of the rest of his government. Classic banana republic move.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (wyMQY)

81 always shop around with insurance, both home and auto. I change carriers often because there’s always a better deal somewhere.

I just did this a few weeks ago. I noticed my premium was at over $3000!! You don’t notice it since everything is on auto pay and minor increases kind of slide under the radar. But those minor increases add up eventually. And I was like WTf? $3k for home owner insurance? It was $1000 not that long ago. So I got a few online quotes and found one for $2100. Same coverages, same everything, one of the big name carriers.

It’s like any other service. New customers get better deals than existing customers. See what you’re paying for internet. Chances are there’s a promo with a competitor for 1/2 price compared to your current plan. Same with a cell phone plan, electricity plans, you name it.

It takes some effort but if you’re willing to put in that effort you’ll save money.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (Q4RRN)

82 "Timing of pardon might have been related to some pre-sentencing process/investigation, according to some familiar with the mechanics of this sort of thing. Thus waiting til January not the best option.

Posted by: rhomboid"

That might be the case. I was looking at Clinton pardons, there were several group pardons in his 8 yeas. However the largest and most controversial were released his very last day in office.

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (GUOwU)

83 South Korean Parliament votes against martial law decree. All 190 members who were able to enter the main hall voted in favor of the bill. None voted against."
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:11 AM (2cS/G)

Will the military execute them for insurrection?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (ExV1e)

Who knows. Koreans be crazy when they be pissed.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (g8Ew8)

84 Does Sleepy Joe care about his brother going to prison or is that pardon yet to come?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (aD39U)

85 Intelligence Agencies are a Racket might be a good follow-up to this book, from 1935.

https://tinyurl.com/ymtd53n5

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (VNX3d)

86 28 The only thing that I find surprising about the Hunter pardon is that it wasn't delayed until the last week or so of the regime.

His sentencing hearing was scheduled for this week.

Biden has no reason to wait until his last days in office. What are they going to do? Impeach him?

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (xhfG9)

87 SoKo is going whacky? Well, that's not good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (HsOwE)

88 CNN reports "We are seeing Law Enforcement leave".

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (2cS/G)

89 68 When Otzi the Iceman was found in the Alps in 1991, he was determined to be around 5,000 years old. Interred with him were Holiday fruitcakes from the same era. They were judged just as tasty as the day they were made.
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And it was... MURDER!!!

I think he was banging a local girl and the boyfriend ambushed him.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (hovnC)

90 Recall that fisticuffs *inside and between MPs* is sort of a thing in South Korea (as in Taiwan), so a bit of rough stuff is a sort of norm. This of course is different. But anyone who's shopped at H Mart for any length of time will sort of get that Korean life and culture are sort of contact sports, compared to what we're used to.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (1m82a)

91 >> BREAKING: South Korean Special forces break the Parliament windows to enter the building

Johnny Somali really fucked that country up!

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (vGiQ3)

92 X had a post of RFK Jr frying a turkey. Some commenter made a snide remark about it, butit looked like he knew what he was doing.

Except that IIRC, he's not wearing any shoes. Deepfrying a turkey barefoot is next level stupidity.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:20 AM (xCA6C)

93 As to who comes out on top in SK - as in all Banana Republic power plays, it depends on which side the army is on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:20 AM (wyMQY)

94 75 RFK Jr. stated he is a fan of fries made with tallow. He said that in the UK McD's they have three ingredients, potatoes, salt and tallow. Here it's like 17 ingredients.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 11:20 AM (gm9Sb)

95 84 Does Sleepy Joe care about his brother going to prison or is that pardon yet to come?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (aD39U)
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I rate brother pardon at 80% likely.

I rate a pardon for himself at 40% likely.

Posted by: WisRich at December 03, 2024 11:20 AM (G0vdT)

96 88 CNN reports "We are seeing Law Enforcement leave".
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:19 AM (2cS/G)

I thought the police was evil and needed to be defunded. So isn’t this a good thing?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:20 AM (Q4RRN)

97 I am still interested in who Brandon does *not* pardon.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:20 AM (KcwUg)

98 In some circles the thinking with regards to the ROK is that the government's been infiltrated by DPRK 'agents of chaos' and, well, this is what you get. A group of politicians who are actually communist agents of change from your sworn enemy that stir up shit.

Not unlike here. Except without the drama. Our opposition just bends over and takes it up the ass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2024 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

99 >>Does Sleepy Joe care about his brother going to prison or is that pardon yet to come?

His entire family is getting pardons.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:21 AM (vGiQ3)

100 I have a feeling that JoePedo Biden's pardon pen is going to get a workout and his hand will be cramping from writing "Biden" on all of them.

Also I fully expect a second Hunter pardon that starts on December 2, 2024.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 03, 2024 11:21 AM (17s+e)

101 The S Korean people were able to prevent the Army from breaking up the meeting. Video shows some soldiers trying to get in through broken window. But IMOP it doesn't look like they were trying very hard.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 11:21 AM (QB+5g)

102 are we just going to let msnbc die? I have trump anxiety and I haven't been able to watch any of my favorite msnbc shows for longer than 10 minutes a pop, but I'm worried that our favorite shows will end up canceled!

Inshallah

I wouldn't put any of this shit on God. If anything, Nov. 5, 2024 proved there is no God

Maybe reflect on why watching MSNBC causes anxiety? Like because it is their business model, for instance? If you are weaning yourself off of MSNBC maybe count that as a win, not a loss.

Will we care next year when we have no media presence whatsoever? The lack of presence across various TV / online platforms is part of what doomed us in 2024.

My boycott of MSNBC is over, and I've gone back to watching all of MSNBC. It's clear the 2 "papers of record", the Times and WaPo, are both playing ball with the incoming Trump admin...for example, overanalyzing the Hunter pardon while passing on stories like how the AG nominee took a bribe to drop an investigation into Trump U. MSNBC is the only network that you can count on getting more "truth" from.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (JCZqz)

103 Looks like someone tried to carjack Janet Yellen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (lTGtQ)

104 Alton Brown did a Good Eats ep on deep-frying turkey. It was amazing all the safety precautions he took.

Which was basically his way of saying "This is a dumb idea, don't do this. But if you do, don't blame me if you burn your house down."

Posted by: Oddbob at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (/y8xj)

105 I wonder how our troops in S. Korea are doing?
The last time this happened, a good friend of mine was flying a Guardrail mission up n the DMZ and he was told to go out over the water and loiter. He was on fumes when they finally had him land.
Sporty times!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (W/lyH)

106 Who knows. Koreans be crazy when they be pissed.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (g8Ew

I remember teaching English there. There was some sort of big union strike in our city. Helicopters overhead. Crazy.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (jvJvP)

107 >>> 98 In some circles the thinking with regards to the ROK is that the government's been infiltrated by DPRK 'agents of chaos' and, well, this is what you get. A group of politicians who are actually communist agents of change from your sworn enemy that stir up shit.

Not unlike here. Except without the drama. Our opposition just bends over and takes it up the ass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2024 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

...

...

'opposition'???

Posted by: GOPe at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (KcwUg)

108 Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (Q4RRN)

Do yourself the biggest favor of your life and get rid of cable.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (3hycG)

109 Euros eat a fuck ton of bread. Especially Mediterranean countries. And they’re also not obese. Why? Because the bread they make is vastly different than the bread we make. Ours has sugar and all sorts of other crap added, theirs doesn’t.

This is one area where I’d love to be more European.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4RRN)

110 >> Looks like someone tried to carjack Janet Yellen

Don't worry Janet...

Car Ownership is Transitory.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:23 AM (vGiQ3)

111 His entire family is getting pardons.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:21 AM (vGiQ3)

garrett is correct.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:23 AM (xhfG9)

112 However the largest and most controversial were released his very last day in office.
Posted by: Ripley

The Dickens you say!

Posted by: Marc Rich at December 03, 2024 11:23 AM (nS6qG)

113 I am confused as to how the opposition party in South Korea could be NORK-sympathizing? They like eating bark and grass?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2024 11:23 AM (A1k5O)

114 Ripley, exactly right about the last-minute pardons under Bubba. Including several that were arranged by the loathsome then-deputy AG Eric Holder - actions which blackened (no pun intended) his reputation considerably. Much of the stink of those pardons attached to Holder. Was in DC at the time and clearly recall there was a "he'll never get another gig in this town" tone to the discussion.

Well well. Fast forward to the absurd election of 2008, and, well you know the rest.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:23 AM (1m82a)

115 >>Euros eat a fuck ton of bread. Especially Mediterranean countries. And they’re also not obese. Why? Because the bread they make is vastly different than the bread we make. Ours has sugar and all sorts of other crap added, theirs doesn’t.

Shelf Stability isn't a consideration there.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:23 AM (vGiQ3)

116 Alton Brown did a Good Eats ep on deep-frying turkey. It was amazing all the safety precautions he took.

Which was basically his way of saying "This is a dumb idea, don't do this. But if you do, don't blame me if you burn your house down."

Anyone who deep fries a turkey inside anything is an idiot. Go outside, and make sure you aren't near anything flammable. And then up your fire insurance.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (xCA6C)

117 It's honestly hilarious Democrats are actually running with "if only we could expose people to our message...".

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (3hycG)

118 Honestly, I cannot believe anyone is surprised by Biden pardoning Hunter. Was that shit hard to see coming?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)

119 77 S Korea opposition leader says Yoon Suk Yeol is no longer in charge.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 11:18 AM (QB+5g)

¡Pronunciamento!, says AH Lloyd.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (yYROg)

120 I am confused as to how the opposition party in South Korea could be NORK-sympathizing?

$$$$$$

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

121 Euros eat a fuck ton of bread. Especially Mediterranean countries. And they’re also not obese. Why? Because the bread they make is vastly different than the bread we make. Ours has sugar and all sorts of other crap added, theirs doesn’t.

This is one area where I’d love to be more European.

Russian bread has a large proportion of sawdust, ground glass, and mealworms.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (xCA6C)

122 Did the election timing affect the South Korean situation? It may be that the SK President decided that the best time for this is the approximately 2 months with no one really in charge in Washington.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (wyMQY)

123 Euros eat a fuck ton of bread. Especially Mediterranean countries. And they’re also not obese. Why? Because the bread they make is vastly different than the bread we make. Ours has sugar and all sorts of other crap added, theirs doesn’t.

This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4RRN)
***

Ditto.
When I was in Turkey, I'd get a fresh loaf of ekmek (bread) every morning. If I timed it right, it was still warm. Damn it was good!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (W/lyH)

124 P. J. O'Rourke had a story about how violent the politicians in S Korea can get. Some Korean asked him if he liked "Korean Democracy" after he saw a riot on the floor of their National Assembly.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (QB+5g)

125 The wit and wisdom of Fire Marshall Bowman.

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Julio Rosas@Julio_Rosas11
Rep. Jamaal Bowman repeats over and over that Biden didn't lie about pardoning Hunter because "the context has changed" since Trump won the election.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

126 >>> 109 Euros eat a fuck ton of bread. Especially Mediterranean countries. And they’re also not obese. Why? Because the bread they make is vastly different than the bread we make. Ours has sugar and all sorts of other crap added, theirs doesn’t.

This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4RRN)

Fresh-baked bread with butter, yum.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (KcwUg)

127 Maybe reflect on why watching MSNBC causes anxiety? Like because it is their business model, for instance? If you are weaning yourself off of MSNBC maybe count that as a win, not a loss.

—

lol. Buddy if watching TV causes anxiety you have bigger problems than MSNBC. This is like how leftists whined that they were afraid to turn on their phones every morning for fear of what Trump just tweeted. And this caused them to live in a constant state of anxiety.

Uhm assholes, just don’t go to Twitter. Problem solved. But you love the drama and being a victim so you can’t help yourselves.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:25 AM (Q4RRN)

128 118 Honestly, I cannot believe anyone is surprised by Biden pardoning Hunter. Was that shit hard to see coming?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)
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Everyone knew he was going to do it. The Dem's just had to pretend he wouldn't.

Posted by: WisRich at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (G0vdT)

129 >>When I was in Turkey, I'd get a fresh loaf of ekmek (bread) every morning. If I timed it right, it was still warm. Damn it was good!

If I lived on Arthur Avenue, I'd do that too.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (vGiQ3)

130 When I was in Turkey, I'd get a fresh loaf of ekmek (bread) every morning. If I timed it right, it was still warm. Damn it was good!
Posted by: Diogenes

Yes. Ekmek was awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (v6JzV)

131 Rep. Jamaal Bowman repeats over and over that Biden didn't lie about pardoning Hunter because "the context has changed" since Trump won the election.

Ah, the magic context. I wonder if that idiot even knows what the word is supposed to mean. Scratch that, I don't wonder.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (xCA6C)

132 This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald

You are so correct! We Norwegians have 78 different tubes of mackerel paste to serve on our open-face sandwiches. To die for!

Posted by: Jens Jenssen at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (nS6qG)

133 Yep hard to see brother Jim not getting a pardon. He's really the hands-on center of the family shakedown/influence peddling/grifting empire. Joe was just the "connection".

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (1m82a)

134 I think pardoning Hunter was a mistake. The odds of anything actually happening to this slimy crackhead criminal was basically zero. The pardon -- and it's ridiculous overbreadth -- only highlights what a slimy crackhead criminal this guy is, and makes him look much more guilty that he otherwise did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

135 This is one area where I’d love to be more European.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4RRN)

You could bake your own...not hard.

Posted by: BignJames at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (Yj6Os)

136
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 JUST IN: MSNBC is now calling for Joe Biden to issue “PREEMPTIVE PARDONS” for HIMSELF, saying “he will need a pardon!”

DARN RIGHT HE WILL!

They also said Biden should pardon Jack Smith and his associates, because they KNOW they’re in some deep crap.

They’re in FULL ON damage control mode now!

… Why would the “fine people” at the DOJ need a pardon ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (TRQaF)

137 Anyone who deep fries a turkey inside anything is an idiot. Go outside, and make sure you aren't near anything flammable. And then up your fire insurance.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (xCA6C)

Safely deep frying a turkey is pretty simple.

- Set up in your living room to avoid wind.
- Frying the turkey may take quite a while so have several spare propane tanks.
- Make sure the turkey is fully frozen before dropping into the oil.
- Enjoy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (ExV1e)

138 Russian black bread is awesome and not for the meek.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (QB+5g)

139 As above...

OSINTdefender @sentdefender 52s
The South Korean Parliament has Voted 199-0 to lift the Martial Law declared by President Yoon Suk Yeol, as Soldiers continue to Storm the National Assembly Building in an attempt to Arrest the Lawmakers.

https://tinyurl.com/3tj8xhrc
photo; maybe MPs are voting by phone or the like, explaining the empty seats?

Also, I'm off to Wiki [or wherever] to see if a Prime Minister runs the legislature; and the President is head-of-state/executive. The President seizing legislative control from the PM [like your Speaker of the House] might be going on -- for good or ill. And a PM is not the "Opposition" but legislative head from the majority party or coalition of parties.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (hovnC)

140 Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (yYROg)

Who are you and what have you done with gKWVE?

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (xhfG9)

141 overanalyzing the Hunter pardon

What's to analyze? Hunter was crooked for ten years, fingered a "Big Guy" in his laptop almost certainly his crooked dad, and got a carte-blanche pardon for the dozens of crimes he did over ten years. If that's not a story to DU then they're coping hard.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (yYROg)

142 115 My Dad, the Finn baker had a specialty, Reikaleipa, Finn hole bread. Round loaf with a hole in the center. This was for hanging in a warm dry spot with a pole, usually between rafters. No preservatives and it would last a winter until sliced.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (gm9Sb)

143 Honestly, I cannot believe anyone is surprised by Biden pardoning Hunter. Was that shit hard to see coming?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)

Same. My surprise is that others are surprised.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (Q4RRN)

144 Where were the highly esteemed 51 intelligence gurus with their prediction of the Syria civil war reigniting?

Where? Busy supplying them with weapons, funding, training, and intelligence! We weren't about to tip you off to their planning.

Posted by: 51 'Former' Intelligence Agents at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (zMQny)

145 Euros eat a fuck ton of bread. Especially Mediterranean countries. And they’re also not obese. Why? Because the bread they make is vastly different than the bread we make. Ours has sugar and all sorts of other crap added, theirs doesn’t.

This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 1

***
Are there any breads available here that skip the sugar and other junk?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (J2vNu)

146 Safely deep frying a turkey is pretty simple.

- Set up in your living room to avoid wind.
- Frying the turkey may take quite a while so have several spare propane tanks.
- Make sure the turkey is fully frozen before dropping into the oil.
- Enjoy.

You forgot the napalm fire starter.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

147 Here you all go.

1 minute plus youtube video of the mansion in flames posted 17 hours ago.

https://tinyurl.com/22kpptjf

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (jvJvP)

148 Yyrog sounds like a Michael Moorcock character.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (yYROg)

149 Huh.
I see the general in charge of the evacuation and the "last man out of Afghanistan" has been tapped for a fourth star. I'm OK with this as the debacle of the withdrawal was not the fault of the military. They had a plan, it probably would of worked, but Biden and the State Dept totally fu*ked it up.
All for political timing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (W/lyH)

150 >>You could bake your own...not hard.

It IS, how do you say?...difficult to get close enough to the counter, first thing in the morning.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (vGiQ3)

151 Rep. Jamaal Bowman repeats over and over that Biden didn't lie about pardoning Hunter because "the context has changed" since Trump won the election.

Ah, the magic context. I wonder if that idiot even knows what the word is supposed to mean. Scratch that, I don't wonder.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (xCA6C)
______

"Sorry honey, I know I said I wouldn't cheat on you, but THE CONTEXT HAS CHANGED once I saw that other girl's monster rack. You know how these contexts are, right?"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

152 118 Honestly, I cannot believe anyone is surprised by Biden pardoning Hunter. Was that shit hard to see coming?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)

That’s why most everyone on our side is laughing and having fun with it - we have always known it was coming. It was all the sanctimonious leftists who spent a year swearing that Joe Biden was too Pure and Honorable and Dedicated to the Rule of Law to ever consider doing something like this, who are now trying to crawfish and take back what they said.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (wyMQY)

153 I believed Joe about he wasn't planning to pardon Hunter. That and all the other pardons were supposed to be Job #1 of Prez Harris.

Change of plans.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 03, 2024 11:29 AM (fxCK2)

154 Safely deep frying a turkey is pretty simple.

- Set up in your living room to avoid wind.
- Frying the turkey may take quite a while so have several spare propane tanks.
- Make sure the turkey is fully frozen before dropping into the oil.
- Enjoy.

You forgot the napalm fire starter.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

And setting everything up in the base of a moon rocket.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 03, 2024 11:29 AM (VNX3d)

155 >>> 136
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 JUST IN: MSNBC is now calling for Joe Biden to issue “PREEMPTIVE PARDONS” for HIMSELF, saying “he will need a pardon!”

DARN RIGHT HE WILL!

They also said Biden should pardon Jack Smith and his associates, because they KNOW they’re in some deep crap.

They’re in FULL ON damage control mode now!

… Why would the “fine people” at the DOJ need a pardon ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (TRQaF)

If Brandon pardons the entire DoJ or even a bunch of those clowns, it would be funny if DeSantis and/or Abbott to say fine, we're going to consider them civilians and see what they did against *state* law for the duration of the feralgov pardon.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:29 AM (KcwUg)

156 You forgot the napalm fire starter.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

I thought that was obvious.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

157 Sounds quite sporty in SK

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)

158 makes him look much more guilty that he otherwise did.

In all fairness, it's hard to make a man look more guilty than actual pictures from his actual laptop would make him look.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (yYROg)

159 Speaking of Euro bread. I got a few pop-up ads for an outfit called Brot Box. They "par-bake" German rolls, breads, etc. and ship them to you in a way that they take just 10 minutes in the oven to finish. The "brotchen" (crusty, chewy dinner/sandwich rolls) look exactly like the ones I basically lived on in Germany. Order placed, waiting for the box to arrive. I will report results once I've tried the bread.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (2cS/G)

160 Europe is full of bakeries that make fresh bread each morning. There are so many that one can usually walk over and get fresh bread daily, made with flour, salt, a tiny bit of sugar, and water.

We have doughnut shops with fried treats having various frosted toppings within a 15 minute drive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (lTGtQ)

161 This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald

It's the result of a combination of many factors. Eating in European dining facilities with NATO troops, the Europeans usually had plates full of vegetables and fruit, with small portions of meat and other calorie-dense main dishes. Everything in Europe is much smaller portion size in general, and they tend to walk a lot more, burning of a few more calories here and there throughout the day.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (JCZqz)

162 Russian bread (esp. black bread) is great. In the Glorious Era of Soviet Power, I lived there for a bit, and of course food was not among the highlights, to put it mildly. But black bread, (freshly churned) butter - outstanding. Have been meaning to try to make some here at home but the process looks like a bit of work. And I am sort of lazy on the bread thing, have found I can make decent stuff just with the Dutch oven and simple recipes.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (1m82a)

163 When I was in Turkey, I'd get a fresh loaf of ekmek (bread) every morning. If I timed it right, it was still warm. Damn it was good!
Posted by: Diogenes

Yes. Ekmek was awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (v6JzV)

And back then about 20 cents a loaf.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:31 AM (W/lyH)

164 You could bake your own...not hard.
Posted by: BignJames at December 03, 2024 11:26 AM (Yj6Os)

Sure I can make anything at home. That’s not really an answer in the macro sense.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:31 AM (Q4RRN)

165 Do our "Intelligence Agencies" have any intelligent employees? Where were the highly esteemed 51 intelligence gurus with their prediction of the Syria civil war reigniting?

Is this a serious question or gas-lighting?

Our intelligence agencies and government fomented, funded, equipped, and are backing the Syrian "civil war" because the west desire to see Assad deposed.

Posted by: Reality at December 03, 2024 11:31 AM (981OP)

166 The wit and wisdom of Taylor Lorenz.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Planning a Covid safe book launch took months and THOUSANDS of my own dollars ensuring testing, outdoor space, far UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. Meanwhile u dumbfucks are out raw dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbors. We are not the same

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I saw Rae Dogging the Air open for the Sex Pistols at the Palladium in '79.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:31 AM (L/fGl)

167 Rep. Jamaal Bowman repeats over and over that Biden didn't lie about pardoning Hunter because "the context has changed" since Trump won the election.

The context is that the election is over. There is no reason now to lie about respecting the law and all that.

Hunter's pardon has always been happening. But they thought the optics would be bad for the election. After the election he was getting a pardon no matter who won.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:31 AM (xhfG9)

168 If Brandon pardons the entire DoJ or even a bunch of those clowns, it would be funny if DeSantis and/or Abbott to say fine, we're going to consider them civilians and see what they did against *state* law for the duration of the feralgov pardon.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:29 AM (KcwUg)

Accepting a pardon is prima facia evidence of guilt. We cannot have the department of "justice" staffed by criminals. Therefore, everyone is fired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:31 AM (ExV1e)

169 Going around the corner to a bakery In Kaiserslautern, Germany for fresh broetchen and a loaf of mischbrot was a weekend treat for me. Germans insisted on fresh bread.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:32 AM (g8Ew8)

170 Trump to Kastro's Kid: Fix your country our it is going to become the 51st state and I will keep you around as governor so I can fuck around with you.

Kastro's Kid: giggles, looks around nervously, and realizes he his gay bitchy act is just not gonna fly with this crowd.

And just like that Trump made starkly clear Canada is his bitch.

This interpretation of events was not approved by the MSM censorship committee.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 11:32 AM (vO42M)

171 152 118 Honestly, I cannot believe anyone is surprised by Biden pardoning Hunter. Was that shit hard to see coming?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)

That’s why most everyone on our side is laughing and having fun with it - we have always known it was coming. It was all the sanctimonious leftists who spent a year swearing that Joe Biden was too Pure and Honorable and Dedicated to the Rule of Law to ever consider doing something like this, who are now trying to crawfish and take back what they said.

Posted by: Tom Servo
===

Doesn't mean that we decent and civilized people can't use the obvious lies of the media to attack them. We should and make it brutal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 03, 2024 11:32 AM (17s+e)

172 I will cut the Russian Home Guard a little slack here. How the Hell can you even ID a drone? It's the responsibility of the drone operators to make it known to their friendlies if they are operating in the theater.

And that's why they use drones, after all. They are only hardware. Expendable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:32 AM (+u0WJ)

173 Are there any breads available here that skip the sugar and other junk?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You need a small amount of sugar to feed the yeast.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:32 AM (lTGtQ)

174 I was a loafer in a bakery.

Posted by: Bud Abbott at December 03, 2024 11:33 AM (nS6qG)

175 Europeans generally eat small meals...

because they barely work more than they nap, each day.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:33 AM (vGiQ3)

176 Are there any breads available here that skip the sugar and other junk?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:27 AM (J2vNu)
***

*looks around*

Pssssttt!
Yo. Got a brand new bread maker here still in the box. It was a gift for Mrs D a couple of years ago before I learned the lesson of never, EVER, buying a birthday gift that has a plugin. She'll never miss it.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:33 AM (W/lyH)

177 Legislative branch
At the national level, the legislative branch consists of the National Assembly of South Korea. This is a unicameral legislature; it consists of a single large assembly. Most of its 300 members are elected from-member constituencies; however, 56 are elected through proportional representation. The members of the National Assembly serve for four years; if a member is unable to complete his or her term, a by-election is held. The National Assembly is charged with deliberating and passing legislation, auditing the budget and administrative procedures, ratifying treaties, and approving state appointments. In addition, it has the power to impeach or recommend the removal of high officials.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (hovnC)

178 Safely deep frying a turkey is pretty simple.

- Set up in your living room to avoid wind.
- Frying the turkey may take quite a while so have several spare propane tanks.
- Make sure the turkey is fully frozen before dropping into the oil.
- Enjoy.

You forgot the napalm fire starter.

And a big, roaring fire in the fireplace

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (GUOwU)

179 Why would those "fine people" at the DOJ need a pardon ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (RHGPo)

180 I know people who are influential in the IC and they actually believed all the bs about how Shi'ites and Sunni would never work together, that putting the American embassy to Israel i Jerusalem would start a war, that all Putin wants to do is "cause chaos."

You have to be pretty well-educated to believe all of that crap.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (xhfG9)

181 Some breads are easy. But traditional yeast bread is rather labor and time intensive to make by hand. Damn tasty when slathered with real butter and washed down with a glass of cold whole milk though.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (pohLc)

182 >>> 152
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That’s why most everyone on our side is laughing and having fun with it - we have always known it was coming. It was all the sanctimonious leftists who spent a year swearing that Joe Biden was too Pure and Honorable and Dedicated to the Rule of Law to ever consider doing something like this, who are now trying to crawfish and take back what they said.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 11:28 AM (wyMQY)

Which journotard called Brandon "the living embodiment of the rule of law"???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (KcwUg)

183 Executive branch
The executive branch is headed by the president. The president is elected directly by the people, and is the only elected member of the national executive. The president serves for one five-year term; additional terms are not permitted. The president is head of state, head of government and commander-in-chief of the South Korean armed forces. The president is vested with the power to declare war, and can also propose legislation to the National Assembly. The president can also declare a state of emergency or martial law, subject to the Assembly's subsequent approval. The President can veto bills, subject to a two-thirds majority veto override by the National Assembly. However, the president does not have the power to dissolve the National Assembly. This safeguard reflects the experience of authoritarian governments under the First, Third, and Fourth Republics.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (hovnC)

184 Dr. Pork Chops, you were in K-town? We went there all the time. I was at Baumholder/Idar-Oberstein.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (2cS/G)

185 E'rrybody poppin off

@EYakoby 33m
BREAKING: Hamas supporters have taken over and are occupying the Parliamentary Building in Ottawa.

Will Trudeau label this a violent insurrection and use the Emergencies Act as he did when Canadian truckers were protesting?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (IG4Id)

186 The president is assisted in his or her duties by the Prime Minister of South Korea as well as the Presidential Secretariat. The Prime Minister is appointed by the president upon the approval of the National Assembly, and has the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of the Cabinet ministers. The officeholder is not required to be a member of the National Assembly. The Prime Minister is assisted in his/her duties by the Prime Minister's Office which houses both the Office for Government Policy Coordination and the Prime Minister's Secretariat, the former of which is headed by a cabinet-level minister and the latter by a vice minister-level chief of staff. if the president is unable to fulfill his duties, the Prime Minister assumes the president's powers and takes control of the state until the President can once again fulfill his/her duties or until a new president is elected.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (hovnC)

187 I was a pilot in a bakery. Picked up the bread in one corner, and piled it in another.

Posted by: Lou Costello, 1952 at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (nS6qG)

188 Make my own bread with my own starter. A nice long fermentation is easy, tasty, and healthy. That's the bread we ate for thousands of years.

Commercial yeast was designed to be profitable which means quick which unfortunately leads to undigestible taste-free muck.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:35 AM (3hycG)

189 Lincolntf that sounds great, will check into that outfit.

Best croissant I ever had was in Saigon (TPHCM to be formally correct). Amazing. A couple of those and V'mese coffee (without the ice) sitting along a major avenue during morning rush hour was a great start to the day.

Second best was in Quebec City at a little bar/restaurant near the Chateau Frontenac. Bowls of cafe au lait and those amazing croissants.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:35 AM (1m82a)

190 Biden is the living embodiment of a rat turd.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:36 AM (pohLc)

191 Not a Rant but maybe a Minor Irritation, mostly because of the historical ignorance. Saw pictures of "Jesus was a Palestinian" signs at "protests" again. No, and no. Jesus was a Jew and the Romans hadn't gotten around to re-naming the area yet.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 03, 2024 11:36 AM (izAv/)

192 >>Best croissant I ever had was in Saigon (TPHCM to be formally correct). Amazing. A couple of those and V'mese coffee (without the ice) sitting along a major avenue during morning rush hour was a great start to the day.

There is a French Bakery in missoula that makes really good croissants and breads.
Their Almond Croissant is absolutely awesome.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:36 AM (vGiQ3)

193 bill in AR, that sounds very interesting. Finland has long been on my to-do list (hockey, x-c skiing, and - no longer relevant since attached - women). Did manage a Finnish-American victim along the way, though. Amazing eyes.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:36 AM (1m82a)

194 I like bread. But I rarely eat it. It's just a mountain of calories and carbs. I'd rather put those calories to better use.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

195 It's the result of a combination of many factors. Eating in European dining facilities with NATO troops, the Europeans usually had plates full of vegetables and fruit, with small portions of meat and other calorie-dense main dishes. Everything in Europe is much smaller portion size in general, and they tend to walk a lot more, burning of a few more calories here and there throughout the day.
Posted by: Military Moron at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (JCZqz)

Absolutely there are many factors. I used bread as one example of how their food is more healthy. The same goes for most mass produced food. There’s generally a lot less stuff added like sugars and preservatives vs North America.

As for walking, that’s sort of a myth. Yes Europeans in big cities do walk a lot. But so do Americans in big cities. Nobody owns a car in NYC for example.Euros who live in the burbs or the country aren’t walking 5 miles to work. They’re in a car or subway or bus.

Do Europeans walk more overall? I guess maybe. But it’s not this giant chasm between the two groups that people think it is.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (Q4RRN)

196 Speaking of Euro bread. I got a few pop-up ads for an outfit called Brot Box. They "par-bake" German rolls, breads, etc. and ship them to you in a way that they take just 10 minutes in the oven to finish. The "brotchen" (crusty, chewy dinner/sandwich rolls) look exactly like the ones I basically lived on in Germany. Order placed, waiting for the box to arrive. I will report results once I've tried the bread.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024

***
Ten bucks or so for a four-pack of olive ciabattini or a five-pack of brotchen doesn't sound too bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (J2vNu)

197 "Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Planning a Covid safe book launch took months and THOUSANDS of my own dollars ensuring testing, outdoor space, far UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. Meanwhile u dumbfucks are out raw dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbors. We are not the same "

She forgot the mobile abortion clinic.

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)

198 113 I am confused as to how the opposition party in South Korea could be NORK-sympathizing? They like eating bark and grass?
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They're in the pay of Big Grass!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (hovnC)

199 145 This talk reminded me to order some Korppuu, Finnish dunking toast. I like the cardamom flavor. Ordered six bags so I can pass some out. Company blurb says the shelf life is one year, and that's just packed in brown paper with no preservatives.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (gm9Sb)

200 I used to spend a lot of time in Paris. Every morning I was there I would get fresh bread and croissants. Delicious.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (lTGtQ)

201 In a bad mood this morning (looooooooong story, don't want to talk about it until my therapist can calm me down), so pardon my Huguenot French: WHY THE F*** WAS AMERICA EVER INVOLVED IN SYRIA?! Why did we ever care about their civil war? Sure, they used chemical weapons (badly, because they had been poorly maintained after they got the weapons from Iraq in 2003) on their own people, but you know who has treaties and regulations for that s***? The UN, that's who. NOT AMERICA. So the Pentagon (who committed treason by keeping troops in Syria after their CinC told them to leave) and the CIA (who is just treasonous in general) can go and fight on either Syrian civil war side themselves if they believe so strongly in it. Taxpayer money can be used to issue them one vest, an M16 and some ammo, and a plane ticket to Damascus. Don't even pay for their body bags, they don't want to fight for this country, they want to fight for someone else's, that country can bury them.

Posted by: pookysgirl, channeling her inner Oscar The Grouch at December 03, 2024 11:38 AM (dtlDP)

202 Will the military execute them for insurrection?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:15 AM (ExV1e)

Can they shoot Johnny Somali now? Pretty please.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:38 AM (+u0WJ)

203 181 Some breads are easy. But traditional yeast bread is rather labor and time intensive to make by hand. Damn tasty when slathered with real butter and washed down with a glass of cold whole milk though.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (pohLc)

You're killing me.
I can't have carbs until Christmas.
But now I really want bread and butter.
At least I can have the milk now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 11:38 AM (xcxpd)

204 Biden's in capital form again...

@Breaking911 11m
TOTAL JERK: Biden in Africa: "We Bidens are like poor relatives. We show up when we're invited, we stay longer when we should, eat all your food, and don't know when to go home."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 11:39 AM (IG4Id)

205 Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (pohLc)

Most of the time though is just waiting. I can make a delicious loaf that takes 9 hours start to finish but only uses about 4 minutes of my time.

It does take some effort and time to develop the skill of shaping, and also identifying when it's ready to proceed to the next stage.

But there are some no knead recipes out there that are essentially foolproof. If I ever did classes, the first bread I would have anyone make is focaccia. Takes basically zero skill and produces an astonishing product that would give anyone confidence they can make great bread.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:39 AM (3hycG)

206 Dr. Pork Chops, you were in K-town? We went there all the time. I was at Baumholder/Idar-Oberstein.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (2cS/G)

Idar Oberstein was a nice little town. Baumholder has too many very very cold memories of gunnery exercises on the Winter Hawk.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

207 It'll be funny when the Muzzies go jihad on the DU for saying there is no God, especially after having used "Inshallah"!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:39 AM (hovnC)

208 If Brandon pardons the entire DoJ or even a bunch of those clowns, it would be funny if DeSantis and/or Abbott to say fine, we're going to consider them civilians and see what they did against *state* law for the duration of the feralgov pardon.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Much like the "Gaza War", the pardon issue has split DU. They're all over the place. Several dumbasses actually believed Biden's promise to respect the law and not pardon Hunter, while others only realize it hurts their party by looking extremely bad.

There's a list of various individuals a middle group is hoping he'll also pardon, including Jack Smith and various celebrity minority convicts.

The craziest are wishcasting for insane blanket pardons...like all illegal immigrants pardoned for any immigrants violation. Or all registered Democrat voters for...something(?)...to make it harder for Trump to round them up into the camps.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 03, 2024 11:40 AM (JCZqz)

209 bill in AR - where are you getting this Finnish bread?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:40 AM (1m82a)

210 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 11:40 AM (XYJTg)

211 "Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Planning a Covid safe book launch took months and THOUSANDS of my own dollars ensuring testing, outdoor space, far UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. Meanwhile u dumbfucks are out raw dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbors. We are not the same "

She forgot the mobile abortion clinic.
Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)

She needs a full biohazard suit. Not to protect her, but to protect us.

She might also be a good candidate for a NASA science experiment. Send her to the ISS, and see what effects weightlessness has on insanity. Dylan Mulvaney could go with her, to test Gender Dysphoria in space.

They can stay with a Russian Spetznaz crew on NASA's last manned mission.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (VNX3d)

212 "Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Planning a Covid safe book launch took months and THOUSANDS of my own dollars ensuring testing, outdoor space, far UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. Meanwhile u dumbfucks are out raw dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbors. We are not the same "

She forgot the mobile abortion clinic.
Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 p.i]

***
Wait. Did she mean a "Covid-safe" book launch NOW? Two years after the hoax was exploded?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (J2vNu)

213 >>> 192
==
There is a French Bakery in missoula that makes really good croissants and breads.
Their Almond Croissant is absolutely awesome.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:36 AM (vGiQ3)

Ben Had, one of the hosts of the TX MoMee (which will be in its *tenth* year, have I mentioned that?), is fond of those.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (KcwUg)

214

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (J2vNu)

215 We have the option of eating nutritionally too. But it’s crazy expensive vs the shitty stuff. That’s what needs to change. Food is no more expensive in Europe than here. Their good stuff costs what our shitty stuff costs? Why is that? Solve that problem and the obesity problems start taking care of themselves.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (Q4RRN)

216 I am thinking that a general pardon for every federal employee from January 20, 2021 through January 20, 2025 would be a bit broad.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (lTGtQ)

217 >>Posted by: pookysgirl, channeling her inner Oscar The Grouch at December 03, 2024 11:38 AM (dtlDP)

Well, before we completely abandoned them...the Kurds were an ally we utilized in Iraq. Made them a lot of promises that we had no intentions of actually seeing through.

However, we are there because our State Department wanted a convenient theater of war in the ME and we had already lost our appetite for the Iraq war.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (vGiQ3)

218 It'll be funny when the Muzzies go jihad on the DU for saying there is no God, especially after having used "Inshallah"!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:39 AM (hovnC)

DUers probably think Muslims are atheists just like them.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (RKVAD)

219 I used to spend a lot of time in Paris. Every morning I was there I would get fresh bread and croissants. Delicious.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:37 AM (lTGtQ)

I make croissants in the European style. Great for bacon egg and cheese toasties.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:42 AM (3hycG)

220 We have doughnut shops with fried treats having various frosted toppings within a 15 minute drive.
------
"Tim Horton's" Canuck worship word!!!

You will not speak them!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:42 AM (hovnC)

221 I spent 90% of my time at Strassburg Kaserne in I-O. Great little town. My unit was a single BN, small enough that all the locals liked us and were very used to us in their bars/restaurants. Unlike Baumholder where the town was pretty sick of the thousands of us roaming the streets all night.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:43 AM (2cS/G)

222 Jamaal Bowman Suggests Biden Should Pardon Everybody on Death Row

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Not that he's pro crime or anything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:43 AM (L/fGl)

223 The President declares martial law, the parliament gets together to vote it down and soldiers storm the parliament (not passing judgment here on who is right and wrong but kind of the point of martial law is that legislators don't get to vote about it)
Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:14 AM (xhfG9)

apparently under S. Korean law, they do. So this appears to be a coup started by all reports, by a very unpopular head of state in response to the legislature refusing to pass his laws.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 11:43 AM (D7oie)

224 TOTAL JERK: Biden in Africa: "We Bidens are like poor relatives. We show up when we're invited, we stay longer when we should, eat all your food, and don't know when to go home."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 11:39 AM (IG4Id)

Really rubbing it in to Democrats. I love it. Keep talking Joe.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:43 AM (3hycG)

225 There is a traditional bakery near my farm in the Ozarks called Serenity Farm Bakery. They use traditional recipes dating back 1000 years. Ship all over the country. They are damn proud of their bread though 10+ bucks for a loaf.
Mighty tasty bread, though I don't think 10 buck tasty.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (pohLc)

226 Might say pretty creative for charges said to be Russian disinformation

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (fwDg9)

227 Martial law in S Korea was NOT on my bingo card this morning. Black swan?

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (XYJTg)

228 If they give Jack Smith et al a pardon, then Merrick Garland will need one also.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (RHGPo)

229 Posted by: pookysgirl, channeling her inner Oscar The Grouch at December 03, 2024 11:38 AM (dtlDP)

Well, before we completely abandoned them...the Kurds were an ally we utilized in Iraq. Made them a lot of promises that we had no intentions of actually seeing through.

However, we are there because our State Department wanted a convenient theater of war in the ME and we had already lost our appetite for the Iraq war.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (vGiQ3)
_________

The Kurds were another lost opportunity

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

230 TOTAL JERK: Biden in Africa: "We Bidens are like poor relatives. We show up when we're invited, we stay longer when we should, eat all your food, and don't know when to go home."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024

***
Who activated his "honesty" chip?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (J2vNu)

231 Speaking of woofloo, was this already linked earlier?
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
https://shorturl.at/Lk4Sv
(PDF report, 557 pages)

(also, there are some bots infesting the end of the Morning Report thread)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (KcwUg)

232 It's the pardons for the coup participants that might be the most important, if they happen. Would think they would. Unless it's assessed that statutes of limitations and judicial inertia will protect them.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (1m82a)

233 209 There's a few outfits up in MI (UP) that sell Finn Rye, but no hole bread. I just ordered toast off one ( won't give the name because of Spam filters) but you can look it up under Korppuu for sale. Lots of on line recipes for various Finn breads, and I might suggest pulla. Pretty close to challah. Served slathered with butter with coffee.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

234 When I was in Paris I found it interesting that Starbucks was packed every morning. But just for coffee. Nobody bought their food items. It was get a SBUX coffee then go next door to get a croissant.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (Q4RRN)

235 Good morning, MisHum! I think we all, having a soul and conscience, are a bit stunned on the Hunter Biden pardon, even if we knew it was going to happen. I am not sure we anticipated such an amazingly broad pardon. As I continue to reflect on it, I get more aggravated over the fact it happened because there would be zero downside to it- the Dems would dutifully carry Biden’s water for him all while screaming cult at us.

By the way, my orange robe still hasn’t arrived and I am getting concerned I won’t have time to have it altered before the inauguration sacrif….I mean ceremony. It will take away from the seriousness of the occasion if I trip over it and go rolling down the aisle and into the alter.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (p4NUW)

236 Jamaal Bowman Suggests Biden Should Pardon Everybody on Death Row

Why not just pardon everyone in federal custody. That would surely cement the Democrats as the party of law, order, and safety.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

237 The President declares martial law, the parliament gets together to vote it down and soldiers storm the parliament (not passing judgment here on who is right and wrong but kind of the point of martial law is that legislators don't get to vote about it)
Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:14 AM (xhfG9)

apparently under S. Korean law, they do. So this appears to be a coup started by all reports, by a very unpopular head of state in response to the legislature refusing to pass his laws.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 11:43 AM (D7oie)
___________

"Motherfuckers! Why didn't they tell me I could do that?? [Burp]"

-- Kumswala Harris

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

238 Bill Clinton Denies Visiting Epstein Island in New Memoir
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And he would never lie to us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

239 SK Military says "Martial law will remain in place until after the President rescinds it".

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (2cS/G)

240 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?

Posted by: DMZ Pastry Shoppe at December 03, 2024 11:46 AM (nS6qG)

241 225 There is a traditional bakery near my farm in the Ozarks called Serenity Farm Bakery. They use traditional recipes dating back 1000 years. Ship all over the country. They are damn proud of their bread though 10+ bucks for a loaf.
Mighty tasty bread, though I don't think 10 buck tasty.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (pohLc)

This same loaf is $1.50 in France or Italy, why? That's my overarching point. Whatever it is that makes good bread orders of magnitude more expensive here is a problem and needs solving.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:47 AM (Q4RRN)

242 Next thing you know, the Spanish Inquisition will pop in.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 11:47 AM (XYJTg)

243 >>> 238 Bill Clinton Denies Visiting Epstein Island in New Memoir
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And he would never lie to us.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

What an odd thing to say.

Posted by: Bart Simpson at December 03, 2024 11:47 AM (KcwUg)

244 When I was in Paris I found it interesting that Starbucks was packed every morning. But just for coffee. Nobody bought their food items. It was get a SBUX coffee then go next door to get a croissant.

Posted by: It is Go Time

The French like their coffee overcooked just like Starbucks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:47 AM (lTGtQ)

245 bill in AR, thanks. Will look that up.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:47 AM (1m82a)

246 Well, before we completely abandoned them...the Kurds were an ally we utilized in Iraq. Made them a lot of promises that we had no intentions of actually seeing through.

However, we are there because our State Department wanted a convenient theater of war in the ME and we had already lost our appetite for the Iraq war.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (vGiQ3)

Oh, I've been an advocate of Kurdistan for years. They're ethnically and culturally distinct from their neighbors, this is their ancestral homeland, and they're not exactly sitting on prime real estate, so why not give them their own country? Oh, right, being against it is the only thing that the d-bag countries of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria can agree on, so CLEARLY we can never uphold our promises to the Kurds, who helped us out in OIF.

Posted by: pookysgirl, channeling her inner Oscar The Grouch at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (dtlDP)

247 Whatever it is that makes good bread orders of magnitude more expensive here is a problem and needs solving.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:47 AM (Q4RRN)

Time.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (3hycG)

248 The President declares martial law, the parliament gets together to vote it down and soldiers storm the parliament (not passing judgment here on who is right and wrong but kind of the point of martial law is that legislators don't get to vote about it)
Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 11:14 AM (xhfG9)

apparently under S. Korean law, they do. So this appears to be a coup started by all reports, by a very unpopular head of state in response to the legislature refusing to pass his laws.
Posted by: Kindltot

I am still giggling about the SK President banning "false propaganda." That is some divinely inspired nonsense right there.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (vO42M)

249 Speaking of raw dogging . . .

Jamie Foxx Stuns Fans – “Diddy Did Something to Me… I’m the One Who Called the Feds on Him”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

250 240 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?
Posted by: DMZ Pastry Shoppe at December 03, 2024 11:46 AM (nS6qG)

Sure, their tree bark bagels are all the rage. Along with mud pies and weed muffins.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (pohLc)

251 240 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?
Posted by: DMZ Pastry Shoppe at December 03, 2024 11:46 AM (nS6qG)

It’s closed for 364 days a year.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (Q4RRN)

252 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?

Posted by: DMZ Pastry Shoppe at December 03, 2024 11:46 AM (nS6qG)

sawmill?

Posted by: BignJames at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (Yj6Os)

253 SK Military says "Martial law will remain in place until after the President rescinds it".
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (2cS/G)

Which suggests that the legislature CANNOT vote against it, regardless of what the law actually says.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

254 The worst coffee is French Roast Coffee.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (vGiQ3)

255 I spent 90% of my time at Strassburg Kaserne in I-O. Great little town. My unit was a single BN, small enough that all the locals liked us and were very used to us in their bars/restaurants. Unlike Baumholder where the town was pretty sick of the thousands of us roaming the streets all night.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:43 AM (2cS/G)

Heh. Baumholder was NOT Germany. It was occupied American territory. Just a few yards past the city limits it was Germany again.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (g8Ew8)

256 >>Jamie Foxx Stuns Fans – “Diddy Did Something to Me… I’m the One Who Called the Feds on Him”

That's not how you keep it on the Down Low.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:49 AM (vGiQ3)

257 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?
Posted by: DMZ Pastry Shoppe at December 03, 2024

***
They could. But the owner would want to gobble all the products himself, and everybody would try to flee to another neighborhood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:49 AM (J2vNu)

258 The "brotchen" (crusty, chewy dinner/sandwich rolls) look exactly like the ones I basically lived on in Germany.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:30 AM (2cS/G)

5p each when I lived there so about a cent and a half apiece.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 03, 2024 11:49 AM (aD39U)

259 I am still giggling about the SK President banning "false propaganda." That is some divinely inspired nonsense right there.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (vO42M)

Now who can argue with that?

Posted by: gKWVE Johnson at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (gKWVE)

260 The worst coffee is French Roast Coffee.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:48 AM (vGiQ3)

I like it.

Posted by: BignJames at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (Yj6Os)

261 The president is assisted in his or her duties by the Prime Minister of South Korea as well as the Presidential Secretariat.
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Of course, of course!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (hovnC)

262 If you want shitty coffee, Israel is a good place to start, with Switzerland and France close behind. Yuck.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (pohLc)

263 227 Martial law in S Korea was NOT on my bingo card this morning. Black swan?
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (XYJTg)

And a pop up here indicated Aasad's palace has been stormed.

Way to go Joe, fucking evil retarded piece of shit.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (QXQ4l)

264 Dr. Pork Chops, you were in K-town? We went there all the time. I was at Baumholder/Idar-Oberstein.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (2cS/G)

I was down near Erlangen on my first tour. (Herzoganurnarch) and then in Augsburg for the second.
Great assignments.
Nurnberg was only 20 KM away. Great times.
But Graf!!!! Brrrrr!!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (W/lyH)

265 That's using your head!

Arizona Coach Headbutts Player Who Was Wearing Helmet, Left Bloodied

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:51 AM (L/fGl)

266 MSNBC has all but declared the Biden Administration the "Most Corrupt Administration in US History"

.. so why shouldn't we assume they stole the in election in 2020 ?

asking for a friend

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:51 AM (RHGPo)

267 Oh and the Russian bread with cellulose and sawdust was in Leningrad during the siege. By the late Soviet era the bread was back to normal, and very good. Limited range and very *Russian* - heavy, not subtle - but good.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:51 AM (1m82a)

268 Jamaal Bowman Suggests Biden Should Pardon Everybody on Death Row
Does he have something approaching a rationale, or is that just something he found in his ass?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 11:51 AM (RKVAD)

269 I'm just going to soak in this for awhile.

Kamala Harris is the 1st candidate since Herbert Hoover 1932 who did not flip a *SINGLE* county

https://is.gd/R30sCm

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 11:51 AM (xCA6C)

270 Biden in Africa: "We Bidens are like poor relatives. We show up when we're invited, we stay longer when we should, eat all your food, and don't know when to go home."

Translator/handler "The president woudl like to extend his thanks for your hospitality"

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 11:51 AM (GUOwU)

271 256 >>Jamie Foxx Stuns Fans – “Diddy Did Something to Me… I’m the One Who Called the Feds on Him”

That's not how you keep it on the Down Low.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:49 AM (vGiQ3)

Perhaps he enjoys going down rather than being on the down low.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at December 03, 2024 11:52 AM (QXQ4l)

272 240 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?
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Literal "hole bread"!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:52 AM (hovnC)

273 Doughnut shops have the capability to produce bread without all of the additives at a reasonable price when done at scale. But, it probably would take a cultural change for people to buy it there and eat it daily like the Europeans do.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:52 AM (lTGtQ)

274 MisHum you might be hearing about the "palace" in Aleppo that was taken by the rebels a few days ago. I don't think Damascus has been approached yet.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:52 AM (1m82a)

275 >>I like it.

They cook the caffeine AND the flavor out of it when they Roast it that deep/Dark.

Medium Roast. Pulled as a double shot of espresso and tempered with some, not quite boiling, water.
Americano style.
That's how you make good coffee.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:53 AM (vGiQ3)

276 Looks like someone tried to carjack Janet Yellen.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (lTGtQ)

Once upon a time that would have been seen as "very suspicious" on the level of "hokey-pokey on the government level" but the way the dems have turned DC and pretty near any large urban area into San Salvador circa 2015, I guess thems the breaks.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 11:53 AM (D7oie)

277 Free pardon with every soy froth latte.
And receive a bag of cocaine and a painting as well.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:53 AM (RHGPo)

278 The worst coffee is French Roast Coffee.

Posted by: garrett

It's better with some maple syrup.

Posted by: Some confused Morons, probably at December 03, 2024 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

279 Does anyone ever open a North Korean style bakery?
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Literal "hole bread"!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024

***
As a kid, the first time I saw "donut holes" advertised outside a bakery, I thought it was a gag.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

280 NEXTA @nexta_tv 23m
⚡️ BREAKING: Police and other units are leaving the grounds of the South Korean National Assembly, they are not complying with the martial law anymore.

Any and all soldiers who still comply with the martial law will be punished for sedition.

This is South Korea's biggest political crisis since the 1980s when the last martial law was instituted.

NEXTA @nexta_tv 10m
🇰🇷❗️ The moment the South Korean military left the National Assembly building (parliament)

https://tinyurl.com/3beret8p
34 seconds; no audio translation!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (hovnC)

281 By the way, my orange robe still hasn’t arrived and I am getting concerned I won’t have time to have it altered before the inauguration sacrif….I mean ceremony. It will take away from the seriousness of the occasion if I trip over it and go rolling down the aisle and into the alter.
Posted by: Piper

You can carry the gonfalon, and use it to break your fall.

And don't forget to wear your fez.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (v6JzV)

282 My first time ordering coffee in France I got the smallest cup imaginable. Maybe 3 ounces of coffee. I ordered a refill stupidly thinking well you know coffee refill is free right? Did that 2 more times. Bill comes, I’m charged for 4 coffees. 😳

Lesson learned.

There’s a reason why there are many Starbucks stores in Paris all doing brisk business.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (Q4RRN)

283 The “False Propaganda” bit is almost certainly a translation from Korean.

Think about it. It says a lot more about the West than it does the East.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (2RHvg)

284 Secret Service confirms agent opened fire on carjackers outside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's home

.. I guess they will need a pardon as well

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (RHGPo)

285 Trump to Attend Notre Dame Cathedral Reopening

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I hope Super Catholic Joe doesn't show.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

286 Italy for coffee, the coffee bars, people watching at the coffee bars, or just doing the Italian thing of coming in, ordering, jabbering with the staff, quickly downing it, and off you go. Fantastic.

But hanging out at coffee place in Vietnam had its rewards too, people watching and especially appreciating the fauna.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (1m82a)

287 This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4RRN)

bread is easy to make. Just catch up with me and I can give you some pointers.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (D7oie)

288 Short of an Espresso setup...Pour Overs are the way to go for flavorful coffee.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 11:57 AM (vGiQ3)

289 So, on bread...American sammish bread is the way it is for a reason: shelf life. Fresh bread goes rock hard in a day or so. Sammish bread will stay soft and spreadable for a week or more if you store it in your fridge. American sammish bread is also mold resistant compared to classic bread.

Everything is a tradeoff.

If you are someone who wants to or can bake bread every day, do that. If not, get some whole wheat sammish bread and call it a day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 11:57 AM (xcxpd)

290 The worst coffee is French Roast Coffee.

Posted by: garrett

It's better with some maple syrup.
Posted by: Some confused Morons, probably at December 03, 2024 11:53 AM (JCZqz)
***

Heh.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:57 AM (W/lyH)

291 Diogenes, our unit motto might as well have been "Fuck Graf".

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:57 AM (2cS/G)

292 Kamala Harris is the 1st candidate since Herbert Hoover 1932 who did not flip a *SINGLE* county

—

Funny what happens when 7 million Biden “voters” disappear into thin air.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:57 AM (Q4RRN)

293 If you want shitty coffee, Israel is a good place to start, with Switzerland and France close behind. Yuck.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

I assumed Israel makes it like everyone else in the Middle East/former Ottoman empire areas?
https://tinyurl.com/2ymjjk2w

I assume they don't always use sand to heat it, but the little cup with the grounds is universal throughout Turkey and the Balkans.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 03, 2024 11:58 AM (JCZqz)

294
But hanging out at coffee place in Vietnam had its rewards too, people watching and especially appreciating the fauna.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024

***
There's a coffee shop/bakery in the suburbs that offers Vietnamese coffee. I go there only rarely, because I'm usually out there only in the morning, and the windows face east -- and the weather here is viciously hot for ten months a year. I should go back soon, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 11:58 AM (J2vNu)

295 Martial law in S Korea was NOT on my bingo card this morning. Black swan?
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 11:44 AM (XYJTg)

And a pop up here indicated Aasad's palace has been stormed.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (QXQ4l)

Remember four years ago when the world was increasingly at peace? Good times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 11:58 AM (ExV1e)

296 Secret Service confirms agent opened fire on carjackers outside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's home

.. I guess they will need a pardon as well
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (RHGPo)
***

And some time on the range.

Black Swan?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

297 Diogenes, our unit motto might as well have been "Fuck Graf".
Posted by: Lincolntf

Steffi?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 11:58 AM (v6JzV)

298 Liberal Women Are Undergoing Sterilization and Blaming Trump

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He can impregnate women just by being in the same city as them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 11:59 AM (L/fGl)

299 Don't store bread in the fridge!!! That is the most unideal temperature for bread. Freezing is much better and it will keep for a couple months if stored properly.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 11:59 AM (3hycG)

300 Brother's BIL at T-giving dinner rekindled my interest in getting an espresso machine, which I had and enjoyed years ago. There are several that have a small footprint on the counter and don't cost a fortune, though they're not giving them away. Really can't beat being able to whip up an espresso or latte any time you like.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:59 AM (1m82a)

301 286 Funny how you can remember the best cuppa coffee. Mine was at a Japanese place in Iwakuni, down in the prefecture district. They made it at your table with a device that looked like scientific glass and a small alcohol burner.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 11:59 AM (gm9Sb)

302 As a kid, the first time I saw "donut holes" advertised outside a bakery, I thought it was a gag.

I assume it was, at first.

OTOH, I'm pretty sure I've seen donut-makers shaped like, well, donuts, but maaaaaybe in Ye Olden Times doughnaughts were made differently and people cut the centers out so they'd cook more evenly or something.

(Funny how I've never seen "bagel holes" being sold, though.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at December 03, 2024 11:59 AM (1Idb6)

303 Diogenes, our unit motto might as well have been "Fuck Graf".
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 11:57 AM (2cS/G)

I'm convinced the only people who liked Graf were the ones stationed there.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 11:59 AM (W/lyH)

304 Europe has sandwich bread as well. And it doesn’t have all that sugar added. There’s restrictions on that shit.

Why does bread need fucking sugar added? It’s bread Fer crying out loud.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (Q4RRN)

305 "BREAKING: Police and other units are leaving the grounds of the South Korean National Assembly, they are not complying with the martial law anymore.

Any and all soldiers who still comply with the martial law will be punished for sedition.

This is South Korea's biggest political crisis since the 1980s when the last martial law was instituted."

Sounds tense and chaotic but is nothing compared to the tourists armed with zip tie that nearly destroyed Our Democracy Jan. 6

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (GUOwU)

306 It’s a lot of work, that’s why.

Years ago some Bosnian immigrants er, “refugees” set up a bakery or two around town, mostly for their own community. I’d see pallets of 4 roses bread flour stacked up out front. $1 a loaf, in the early 2000s. Not bad stuff. But a busy family in that bakery.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (2RHvg)

307 299 IDNKT! I'll try it.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (XYJTg)

308 We weren't that hard up, @Bulg.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (2cS/G)

309 Its funny, I like Turkish coffee, which is ground to a flour like consistency and no filter, but I don't like French coffee, which is well ground but burned.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (lTGtQ)

310 "they are not complying with the martial law anymore"

Can't be bothered.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (XYJTg)

311 Jamaal Bowman Suggests Biden Should Pardon Everybody on Death Row

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Not that he's pro crime or anything.

Honestly, I'd be surprised if the number of people on death row for FEDERAL crimes couldn't be counted on two hands.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (/y8xj)

312 "Sounds tense and chaotic but is nothing compared to the tourists armed with zip tie that nearly destroyed Our Democracy Jan. 6"

In fairness, one Dread Insurrectionist also sat in Nancy's Comfy Chair.

Posted by: Zek at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (5FPX4)

313 South Korean president declared martial law and called his opposition a bunch of communist sympathizers because the legislature wouldn’t pass a budget.

I like his style.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (iEVEt)

314 Diogenes, our unit motto might as well have been "Fuck Graf".
Posted by: Lincolntf

Steffi?
Posted by: Bulg

Steffi Graffl > Biden Family Graft > Grafenwoehr Training Area

Posted by: Military Moron at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (JCZqz)

315 >>Mine was at a Japanese place in Iwakuni, down in the prefecture district. They made it at your table with a device that looked like scientific glass and a small alcohol burner.

I have mentioned them before, but Tony's Coffee in WA is the best roaster I have found. Their Sugar Bee and Classico Espresso Roasts are phenomenal.
And they offer them in 5lb bags. Which is just about a month's worth of beans, here.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (vGiQ3)

316 > Secret Service confirms agent opened fire on carjackers outside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's home
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Anyone notice that there are a lot, I mean a LOT of people who seem to warrant Secret Service protection?

I have questions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (Q4IgG)

317 304 Europe has sandwich bread as well. And it doesn’t have all that sugar added. There’s restrictions on that shit.

Why does bread need fucking sugar added? It’s bread Fer crying out loud.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 12:00 PM (Q4RRN)

Apart from feeding yeast? It also enriches and preserves the bread so it lasts longer.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

318 There's been some penetration of the market but far less than I expected for both V'mese coffee, and sandwiches (banh mui). Both excellent variations on those staples.

Just had a few days in Miami during which I managed to consume excellent Cuban sandwiches three times. Wonder why that stuff doesn't show up more out here and everywhere.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (1m82a)

319 Try kopi luwak coffee. It's not really my thing because I like my coffee very strong and cut it with a lot of half & half -- like a trailer park latte. But if you like super-smooth, medium roast coffee and drink it black, then kopi luwak is your coffee. Bring money, though.

Caveat: 99% of the "kopi luwak" coffee on Amazon is cheap imitation garbage. You need to be sure you're getting the real deal.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

320 Middle East coffee is boiled. When coffee is boiled, it's burnt. No, effin, good.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (pohLc)

321 "Secret Service confirms agent opened fire on carjackers"

I wish everybody would do that.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (XYJTg)

322 Kimchee's getting spicy.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (KAi1n)

323 Biden basically admitted that Hunter is guilty of all sorts of shit with that pardon.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (iEVEt)

324 When I buy a loaf of whole grain bread that I'm not going to open and eat soon, it goes in the freezer. When I am ready, it goes into the lower non-freezer portion. I've had too many loaves start growing a science experiment on them when I left the bread in a breadbox or elsewhere at room temp. And at $4+ per loaf I can't be wasting any of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

325 It seems...

SK President declares a coup.

The locals go, not so fast bitch.

The legislature, while army dudes are trying get into the building, tells the SK President to piss off.

Army dudes look sad and leave.

Korean stock market goes up 1.86% (if I am reading the right data).

SK President goes, uh oh, this didn't go well.

This interpretation of events was not approved by the MSM censorship board.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (vO42M)

326 Anyone who misspells or conspires to misspell "martial law" as "marshall law" shall be shot on sight.

Posted by: Marshall Law Edict 4-1.02(d)(ii) at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (5FPX4)

327
Apart from feeding yeast? It also enriches and preserves the bread so it lasts longer.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

How long are people storing sandwich bread? lol. In my house with teenage kids it’s gone in a day or two after purchase.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (Q4RRN)

328 Israel is a tea country. Like most of Asia, Australia, England.

If you want coffee in a tea country you're SOL.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (RIvkX)

329 I have mentioned them before, but Tony's Coffee in WA is the best roaster I have found. Their Sugar Bee and Classico Espresso Roasts are phenomenal.
And they offer them in 5lb bags. Which is just about a month's worth of beans, here.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (vGiQ3)

Noted, thank you man

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (xcxpd)

330 So, in order to protect South Korea from North Korea, South Korea has to become North Korea? That about it?

'Unlimited liquidity' has been guaranteed, so. I guess the elites are getting what they can before... I don't know, the CHIPS Act? Haven't been paying attention to South Korea at all.

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (OkFiN)

331 Try kopi luwak coffee. It's not really my thing because I like my coffee very strong and cut it with a lot of half & half -- like a trailer park latte. But if you like super-smooth, medium roast coffee and drink it black, then kopi luwak is your coffee. Bring money, though.

Caveat: 99% of the "kopi luwak" coffee on Amazon is cheap imitation garbage. You need to be sure you're getting the real deal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Coffee made from beans that have been shat out by a civet? No, thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (v6JzV)

332 Middle East coffee is boiled.

Boiled? You add water? Just chew the roasted beans like a man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

333 Americans have gotten used to buying big loaves of bread made with bleached flour and making sandwiches with them. Better bread is going to take some marketing to stimulate demand.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)

334 South Korea :
Army sides with President: legislature is finished.

Army sides with Legislature: President is finished.

We’ll see which way it falls soon enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (wyMQY)

335 Jamaal Bowman Suggests Biden Should Pardon Everybody on Death Row

-
Not that he's pro crime or anything.

Honestly, I'd be surprised if the number of people on death row for FEDERAL crimes couldn't be counted on two hands.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 03, 2024 12:01 PM (/y8xj)
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That goatfucking piece of shit Boston Bomber is, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

336 Sugar isn't a bread preservative. Milk and oil are. The yeast can be activated with teeny tiny amounts of sugar - and many bakers use it in the form of a special type of barley malt - but honestly sugar itself is not needed. The yeast will break down flour and extract what they need.

I do use it sometimes in my bread but only for taste.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (3hycG)

337 328 Israel is a tea country. Like most of Asia, Australia, England.

If you want coffee in a tea country you're SOL.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (RIvkX)

It's tea country because their coffee sucks so bad.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (pohLc)

338 Anyone who misspells or conspires to misspell "martial law" as "marshall law" shall be shot on sight.
Posted by: Marshall Law Edict 4-1.02(d)(ii)

Can we compromise with "Marshal" law?

Posted by: GOPe at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)

339 Caveat: 99% of the "kopi luwak" coffee on Amazon is cheap imitation garbage. You need to be sure you're getting the real deal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024

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That's the stuff made from beans that civets have eaten and crapped out, right? And $250/12 oz.? Pass. I hate paying more than $5 for 12 oz.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

340 Romanian coffee is godly. I am confident the only two interesting things to come out of Romania are its coffee and the Roma people's scams.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (vO42M)

341 Try kopi luwak coffee. It's not really my thing because I like my coffee very strong and cut it with a lot of half & half -- like a trailer park latte. But if you like super-smooth, medium roast coffee and drink it black, then kopi luwak is your coffee. Bring money, though.

Caveat: 99% of the "kopi luwak" coffee on Amazon is cheap imitation garbage. You need to be sure you're getting the real deal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Coffee made from beans that have been shat out by a civet? No, thanks.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (v6JzV)
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Don't ask how the sausage is made, bro!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

342 Love all the coffee styles - American drip, espresso, Vietnamese, Turkish/Lebanese, Ethiopian. Can make most of those at home already and do, frequently, just need an espresso machine.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (1m82a)

343 326 Anyone who misspells or conspires to misspell "martial law" as "marshall law" shall be shot on sight.
Posted by: Marshall Law Edict 4-1.02(d)(ii) at December 03, 2024 12:03 PM (5FPX4)

My favorite is, “ He wasn’t read his Mandrin Rights when he was arrested!”

It the right to a tasty duck.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (iEVEt)

344 >>Noted, thank you man

Once a month they usually run a special. Every other month or so it is a full 20% discount. When they have that deal, I endorse sampling their Toffee.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (vGiQ3)

345 Middle East coffee is boiled. When coffee is boiled, it's burnt. No, effin, good.

Posted by: Xipe Totec

If they do it correctly, they take it off of the heat just before the boil, when it starts to form a light foam.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (lTGtQ)

346 Hunter got marshmallow law.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (L/fGl)

347 The moment the South Korean military left the National Assembly building (parliament)
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So the military issues a statement supporting martial law, but soldiers walk out of the parliament building.

Wow.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (paSBy)

348 My wife told me that the SK president was on his way to being impeached, and the martial-law thing was his attempt to shut the impeachment process down.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (v6JzV)

349 There are many fine Romanian women.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (3hycG)

350 340 Romanian coffee is godly. I am confident the only two interesting things to come out of Romania are its coffee and the Roma people's scams.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (vO42M)

Ahem.

Posted by: Gymnasts at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (Q4RRN)

351 Interested in WW3 and, especially, whatever the hell is going on in Syria? The brilliant Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel political analyst, explains it all in a Free Press podcast.

https://tinyurl.com/7b3zddww

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (lVdyj)

352 >>just need an espresso machine.

I picked up an Ascaso Steel Duo PID about 6 months ago when my Pasquini finally died.

I like it a lot. Though you need a 20A Circuit to put it on.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:07 PM (vGiQ3)

353 Meanwhile in Hoserland...

Jews Say No To Genocide @JewsSayNo 2h
BREAKING: Jews and allies forced out of parliament

https://tinyurl.com/mus2p2t2
1:09 minutes; 'Jewish' Hamassholes being led out of the Public Gallery. Non-X link so [I hope] they don't get any money per view.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 12:07 PM (hovnC)

354 333 Americans have gotten used to buying big loaves of bread made with bleached flour and making sandwiches with them. Better bread is going to take some marketing to stimulate demand.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

You can get freshly baked bread...most places have a Panera nearby, many grocery stores bake it every day, it's pretty easy to do at home, etc. But regular loaf bread is MUCH easier and more convenient...the two things that made America what it is today! (For good and bad)

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 03, 2024 12:08 PM (JCZqz)

355 343 326 Also, it's the manual for courts martial.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 12:08 PM (gm9Sb)

356 In the late Eighties I tried some "Turkish" coffee, a blend being marketed with that name at a small coffee shop chain that has since vanished. What I recall about it was a sort of roast peanuts flavor to it. Is that what Turkish is really like?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:08 PM (J2vNu)

357 I make bread in the winter. I seal mine up in a plastic bag, and get a week, easy, out of it. On the counter.

Posted by: MkY at December 03, 2024 12:08 PM (+Pp+Q)

358 I like to get my bread from the Bunny Bread store where they have all the expired "sell by" loaves for cheap.

It's just bread.

Posted by: Making Mountains Out Of Molehills at December 03, 2024 12:08 PM (Y5VD5)

359
You can get freshly baked bread...most places have a Panera nearby, many grocery stores bake it every day, it's pretty easy to do at home, etc. But regular loaf bread is MUCH easier and more convenient...the two things that made America what it is today! (For good and bad)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 03, 2024

***
Panera tomato basil bread --! Good stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

360 Anyone who misspells or conspires to misspell "martial law" as "marshall law" shall be shot on sight.
Posted by: Marshall Law Edict 4-1.02(d)(ii)

Can we compromise with "Marshal" law?
Posted by: GOPe at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)
***

That Juan Marichal was a great pitcher.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 12:09 PM (W/lyH)

361 Can we compromise with "Marshal" law?

Marshal, Marshal, Marshal!

Posted by: Jahn at December 03, 2024 12:09 PM (/y8xj)

362 Romanian coffee is godly. I am confident the only two interesting things to come out of Romania are its coffee and the Roma people's scams.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (vO42M)
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I've known some hot Romanian babes. Bat-shit crazy insane, to be sure. Might give you the best night of your life. Or might stab you in the dick. But hot.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

363 Tried hemp coffee once. One sip, walked outside and poured in the grass. Ugh.

Posted by: DiddlySquat at December 03, 2024 12:09 PM (5LAwZ)

364 If they do it correctly, they take it off of the heat just before the boil, when it starts to form a light foam.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (lTGtQ)

An A-rab in Jerusalem told me it was traditional to let it foam up 7 times before serving. I tried it, and it tasted like 7 times burned disgust.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 12:10 PM (pohLc)

365 I like to get my bread from the Bunny Bread store where they have all the expired "sell by" loaves for cheap.

It's just bread.
Posted by: Making Mountains Out Of Molehills at December 03, 2024

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There's a "bread outlet" store on a side street near me. I need to stop by and see what they have, and what they think is a "discount."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

366 If you want coffee in a in Australia, order a "long black"

That is a shot of espresso in a big cup of boiled water. Yum.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 12:10 PM (RIvkX)

367 You need a small amount of sugar to feed the yeast.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 11:32 AM (lTGtQ)

You do not. Yeast will feed on flour easily, and if you want an extra push to the rise you can add malt.

Flour is basically bound up glucose, and the yeast feeds on it, though it can only attack the end of the carbohydrate chain. Malt breaks those chains in the middle and gives the yeast more area to feed on.

Sugar is used as a "softening" agent in that it is hydrophilic and traps water in the dough as it is baked, leaving it softer. You do not need sugar to get your yeast to start, you just need time, and warmth.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 12:10 PM (D7oie)

368 I always thought it was marshall law because of Marshall Matt Dillon… no??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2024 12:10 PM (ZtAny)

369 334 South Korea :
Army sides with President: legislature is finished.

Army sides with Legislature: President is finished.

We’ll see which way it falls soon enough.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 12:04 PM (wyMQY)
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So what do US troops do during this crises. I guess keep watching the North.

Posted by: WisRich at December 03, 2024 12:10 PM (G0vdT)

370 garrett, interesting, your input on machines is welcome, just starting my due diligence.

Wolfus, that might have been the coffee with cardamom added. Most Lebanese/Turkish coffee is sold with those two options. The one with cardamom is usually packaged with green packaging, the regular with red.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (1m82a)

371 Tried hemp coffee once. One sip, walked outside and poured in the grass. Ugh.
Posted by: DiddlySquat at December 03, 2024

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As much as I love most things New Mexico, that was pretty much my reaction to "pinon" coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

372 There's a "bread outlet" store on a side street near me. I need to stop by and see what they have, and what they think is a "discount."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Those are the places to buy hamburger and hot dog buns. Into the freezer they go!

Posted by: MkY at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (+Pp+Q)

373 If a certain Chicago storeowner had moved to Britain, joined the army, and risen up to the top rank, he would've been Field Marshal Marshall Field.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (v6JzV)

374 It can can be lunch time, but I am hoe so anytime is lunch time

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (fwDg9)

375 Subway makes their own bread, but it sucks so bad.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (XYJTg)

376 What about cold-brew nitro pourover coffee?!?!?!

Posted by: Gastrochemical Hipster at December 03, 2024 12:11 PM (JCZqz)

377 373 lol

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (XYJTg)

378
If anything needs "reform" its the type of completely over the top, incredibly dangerous, punishment-without-due-process "SWAT" raids as conducted on various Aggravated Paraders who meandered the Capitol on J6.

It should already by implied by the 4th, 5th, 8th and other amendments, but to make it clear, there should be a federal law that (a) forbids any federal agency to use a militarized, forceful entry in any but very restricted, defined circumstances, and (b) creates harsh mandatory penalties in PMITA prison for any f*ckwad participating in one without making sure it's necessary.

Posted by: Zek at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (5FPX4)

379 Always singing the praises about the Braum's stores (regional restaurant and small grocery). Their bread has a really good shelf life due to double bagging and you don't see the preservative crap on the label.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (gm9Sb)

380 The best thing the Trump team can do is go radio-silent on legal pursuit of the Biden family post-inauguration! The Bidens would love to believe that no more pardons are required. Encourage Jotatoe in that belief! Send all the traditional GOPe "peace in our time" signals. Reach across the aisle to reassure them. Have Turtle mouth platitudes.

Then on day 2... SIEZE the opportunity, and POUNCE on all their asses!

And when the DemoMedia cries foul - "You promised!" - tell the country loudly that it was better to lose one minnow, in order to catch the whole school of stinking fish!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (gfztU)

381
Wolfus, that might have been the coffee with cardamom added. Most Lebanese/Turkish coffee is sold with those two options. The one with cardamom is usually packaged with green packaging, the regular with red.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024

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So I heard, and bought some cardamom -- I've tried it in the grounds and in the brewed coffee. Maybe I didn't put enough in there, because I sure didn't get "roast peanuts" out of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (J2vNu)

382 You need three things, sugar, corn, and water. And a secluded spot. We’re making whiskey, right?

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (dtj4g)

383 In the late Eighties I tried some "Turkish" coffee, a blend being marketed with that name at a small coffee shop chain that has since vanished. What I recall about it was a sort of roast peanuts flavor to it. Is that what Turkish is really like?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

There are several variant recipes. I make mine with plain arabica beans. Grind it into a flour, and add 1 tsp of ground cardamom to 3 tablespoons of coffee. Take two tablespoons of that mixture and add to a half cup of water. Heat to near boil and pour into your cup. Give it a minute to settle, and then drink. Once done, you can chew the grounds in the bottom if you like.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (lTGtQ)

384 374 It can can be lunch time, but I am hoe so anytime is lunch time
Posted by: Skip

Is that how it works (cackle cackle)!??! I'm a hoe, too, so I guess I'll have some lunch (cackle cackle).

Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 03, 2024 12:13 PM (JCZqz)

385 68 When Otzi the Iceman was found in the Alps in 1991, he was determined to be around 5,000 years old. Interred with him were Holiday fruitcakes from the same era. They were judged just as tasty as the day they were made.
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Well, the were covered in Otzi Special Sauce.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:13 PM (jFCkp)

386 I was a late adopter of BRCC bean water because people naturally expect me to be drawn to gun stuff. I guess I showed them! Total victory!!!

Anyhow, I buy the Beyond Black (BB) blend but am thinking of switching to the Murdered Out (MO) blend.

The End

Posted by: Weasel at December 03, 2024 12:13 PM (fghTy)

387 Subway makes their own bread, but it sucks so bad.

Jimmy John's sells day old bread for like fifty cents.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 03, 2024 12:13 PM (/y8xj)

388 Franpsycho, back in the 90s in NZ we encountered a "flat white" coffee option. Can't even recall what it was. Years later, that term started being used here, even by S'bucks. Can't recall what it is here either, but it was not what they did in NZ. Weird.

And espresso in hot water is usually an americano, in Italy.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:13 PM (1m82a)

389 "....." and Kindltot should guest blog a bread thread here some time. I'd take notes.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:14 PM (1m82a)

390 "Subway makes their own bread, but it sucks so bad."

You can tell when one's in the oven when the whole place smells like feet.

Posted by: Zek at December 03, 2024 12:14 PM (5FPX4)

391 South Korea looks like it’s doing the South American “autogolpe” (self-coup). This is where the President, with the backing of the army, leads the coup himself and uses it to get rid of the rest of his government. Classic banana republic move.

Thank you!

Posted by: The "Classic" Intelligence Agency at December 03, 2024 12:14 PM (HeV6l)

392 Didn't know there were so many Bread fans here.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (v6JzV)

393 OSINTdefender @sentdefender 26m
The Crowd outside of the National Assembly Building in Seoul cheers, as Soldiers withdraw from in and around the Building.

https://tinyurl.com/5e4rkc24
27 seconds; I think they're saying "Let's go, Brandon!"

OSINTdefender @sentdefender 19m
South Korean UH-60P “Blackhawk” Helicopters seen landing near the National Assembly Building in Seoul earlier tonight, at the beginning of the Martial Law and Failed Coup led by President Yoon.

https://tinyurl.com/4a7ba39f
three photos

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (hovnC)

394 Flat white is shot of espresso in hot milk

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (RIvkX)

395 366 If you want coffee in a in Australia, order a "long black"
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Oh my! I'll take two!

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (JCZqz)

396 >> garrett, interesting, your input on machines is welcome, just starting my due diligence.

If you are making a lot of foamed Milk Drinks, you probably want to look at a proper Double Boiler unit.

But. If you only make the rare Milk Drink, you can get away with one of the modern Heat Exchange machines. Which is a big savings over a Double Boiler.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (vGiQ3)

397 In a previous life a Romanian coworker often invited me to have dinner with him and his family. They absolutely hated American food and spent absurd amounts of time finding proper ingredients. Those were some of the best meals I had in my life and were only exceeded by my Grandmother's meals which she made from scratch for every single meal including fresh bread.

On a side note, they advised me to never visit Romania which I always found amusing.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (vO42M)

398 Anyone who misspells or conspires to misspell "martial law" as "marshall law" shall be shot on sight.

Posted by: Marshall Law Edict 4-1.02(d)(ii)

To be fair, Marshall Law was an amusing comic for its time.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (OUMaO)

399 Hello Mis.Hum.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 03, 2024 12:15 PM (FjReC)

400 392 Didn't know there were so many Bread fans here.
Posted by: Bulg

Who Draws the Crowd
And Plays so Loud
Baby Its The Guitar Man

Posted by: Bread at December 03, 2024 12:16 PM (JCZqz)

401 @EYakoby 33m
BREAKING: Hamas supporters have taken over and are occupying the Parliamentary Building in Ottawa.

Will Trudeau label this a violent insurrection and use the Emergencies Act as he did when Canadian truckers were protesting?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 11:34 AM (IG4Id)

Hey, Hamas! If you guys whack Castreau and his entire cabinet, I will be sure to say something nice at your hanging.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 12:16 PM (+u0WJ)

402 Good deals at the bakery thrift stores.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 03, 2024 12:16 PM (CUw7C)

403 On a side note, they advised me to never visit Romania which I always found amusing.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Now they tell me.
-- Jonathan Harker

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:16 PM (v6JzV)

404 >> Give it a minute to settle, and then drink. Once done, you can chew the grounds in the bottom if you like.

Pro Tip: A touch of an ice cube or a cold spoon will force the grounds to drop.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:16 PM (vGiQ3)

405 Post-Election Trump Glow.

No refractory period, and the Schadenboner rages on.

Posted by: Roy at December 03, 2024 12:17 PM (z+ik4)

406 Our beautiful neighbours and friends we cat share with make their own bread using 3 or 4 ingredients.

We pay the kids for it. $3 Can a loaf.

It's fantastic. And delivered to the house adorably by the kids.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 12:17 PM (jvJvP)

407 "Subway makes their own bread, but it sucks so bad."

You can tell when one's in the oven when the whole place smells like feet.
Posted by: Zek

That stuff they call bread at Subway stores might as well be made in a jungle drug lab.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:17 PM (vO42M)

408 Weasel, another coffee outfit with a military twist is Old Salt Coffee, run by former squids. Good stuff. BRCC generated some dust with politically weaselly (sorry) behavior back in 2020, I think. Many dangerous right-wing extremists thereupon switched away from them.

But their videos of Christmas carols played on steel plates with ARs can't be beat, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:17 PM (1m82a)

409 Yes, I would call a long black an americano too.

I had a remarkably difficult time understanding their English. Too many half-words.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 12:18 PM (RIvkX)

410 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 03, 2024 12:18 PM (DobEs)

411 397 Heh. Bosnian food. Would you like some meat with your meat? And how about a shot of slivovitz? Or two or three. We might be muzzie, but what the hell.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2024 12:18 PM (gm9Sb)

412 382 You need three things, sugar, corn, and water. And a secluded spot. We’re making whiskey, right?
Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (dtj4g)

Second most important thing after the still, is the yeast.

Posted by: Roy at December 03, 2024 12:18 PM (z+ik4)

413
martial = the martial arts, martial law
marshal = lawman
Marshall = that geek in your science class

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 12:18 PM (/7KEl)

414 I was a late adopter of BRCC bean water because people naturally expect me to be drawn to gun stuff. I guess I showed them! Total victory!

I see a LOT of it, but on they shit on Kyle Rittenhouse, I got the vive they were either more GOPe-types or purely posing a conservatives to make money. Pass.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 03, 2024 12:18 PM (JCZqz)

415 Subway makes their own bread, but it sucks so bad.

If make their own, that makes their inferiority to Togo's seem intentional. Their bread always seems weak.

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2024 12:19 PM (jTkkJ)

416 So how will Blackrock ruin Jersey Mike's? There is no way they can slice the meat any thinner.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:19 PM (jFCkp)

417 Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:17 PM (1m82a)
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Yep. I shunned them for a while because of that. Was recently looking at Death Wish coffee. Anyone have experience with them?

Posted by: Weasel at December 03, 2024 12:19 PM (fghTy)

418 DUers probably think Muslims are atheists just like them.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 11:41 AM (RKVAD)

They pray to Satan. Does that make them atheist?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (+u0WJ)

419 So I see Stoli is filing for bankruptcy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (v6JzV)

420 >>> 287 This is one area where I’d love to be more European.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4RRN)

bread is easy to make. Just catch up with me and I can give you some pointers.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 11:55 AM (D7oie)

Have you tried' growing' your own starter?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (KcwUg)

421
>>>UNDER FIRE Moment Putin’s blundering Dad’s Army proudly shoot down ‘Ukrainian’ drone in TV debut… only to find its one of their own.

hahaha, sure
Every single negative thing about Russia/ukraine has been a lie, but I'm sure this is true.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (aFSBW)

422 412 382 You need three things, sugar, corn, and water. And a secluded spot. We’re making whiskey, right?
Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 12:12 PM (dtj4g)

Second most important thing after the still, is the yeast.
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So you need to bring a date?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (jFCkp)

423 416 So how will Blackrock ruin Jersey Mike's? There is no way they can slice the meat any thinner.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Perhaps it's time to think...Beyond Meat(r)

Posted by: New Jersey Mike's at December 03, 2024 12:21 PM (JCZqz)

424 When their prices suddenly doubled, cold cuts became 'charcuterie.' This preserves their value proposition.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Out Of That at December 03, 2024 12:22 PM (XYJTg)

425 Thanks garrett, I definitely want the option to make steamed milk concoctions, so will spend to get a good set-up for that. A crazy (well, one of the crazy) girlfriend gave me a S'bucks-branded espresso machine waaay back in the mid-90s, it was great, but lost it in a move. Don't know what the actual brand was - it was Italian-made.

Have never checked, I assume she is swimming in $$ since then. Was set to one day become the US tax lawyer for one of the richest dudes in the Gulf, a fairly famous one. A bit nutso though.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:22 PM (1m82a)

426 Stollen Valor.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (hovnC)

427 Hey, the Israel ceasefire is over.

Lasted 10 times longer than I thought it would.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (jvJvP)

428 If you are in need of a rant, I have one for you! Biden just announced a billion dollars for Africa to rebuild…waiti for it…houses damaged in storms.

I am, in fact, having a duck fit over this.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (pZEOD)

429 The Silverback with an attitude is such a perfect visualization of you Mishum. It made me smile. Enough to satisfy me. Thanks brother.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (F3SmE)

430 When I was in Paris I found it interesting that Starbucks was packed every morning. But just for coffee. Nobody bought their food items. It was get a SBUX coffee then go next door to get a croissant.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:45 AM (Q4RRN)

https://youtu.be/wp84sRpM1Js

Top five croissants in Paris during the Paris riots

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (D7oie)

431 I always thought it was marshall law because of Marshall Matt Dillon… no??

^^^

No

Posted by: Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (Y1sOo)

432 South Korea Ends Shortest Martial Law In History

"Some twisted midnight f**kery."

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (RHGPo)

433 The president is assisted in his or her duties by the Prime Minister of South Korea as well as the Presidential Secretariat.
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Of course, of course!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 11:50 AM (hovnC)

Well, that's a horse of a different color!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (+u0WJ)

434 On South Korea, the important question is, will my 10k mile warranty on my Kia still be honored?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (o+xVs)

435 That stuff they call bread at Subway stores might as well be made in a jungle drug lab.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

You people get on my nerves!

Posted by: Jared at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (nS6qG)

436 From the coffee comments here my approach is going to be considered a toxic waste hazard.

Behold:

2.5 lb bag of Starbuck's Italian Roast ground to near powder at Costco.

Drip coffee maker that uses flat bottom filters filed to about 8 cups according to the scale on the pot.

Toss in a couple healthy scoops of what used to be coffee.

Hit the big MAKE COFFEE button.

The only thing I am aware of that jump starts you heart better are defibrillator paddles.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (vO42M)

437 "Some twisted midnight f**kery."

Sounds like a good title for an album.

Posted by: Zek at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (5FPX4)

438 Weasel-
Me-again Kelly advertises some military honor type coffee on her podcasts, Can't remember the name or what color Megyn's eyes are.

I'm hooked on King Harv's

Posted by: DBCooper at December 03, 2024 12:24 PM (3oMnW)

439 Everybody was Kung Fu fighting (huh!)
Those cats were fast as lightning (ha!)
In fact, it was a little bit frightening (huh!)
But they did it with expert timing (ha!)

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 12:25 PM (RHGPo)

440 >>I definitely want the option to make steamed milk concoctions, so will spend to get a good set-up for that.

Heat exchangers can do the Frothed Milk thing, just not as well and definitely not back to back to back...like a double boiler does.

I primarily drink Americanos or Espresso. So, having that second boiler solely for Milk Prep is overkill for my needs. Which is why I went with the aforementioned Ascaso machine.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:25 PM (vGiQ3)

441 And no comments about the hotness of South Korean women....

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 12:25 PM (jvJvP)

442 Franpsycho, try far south South Island NZ accents some time. Distinct elements of Scottish accent still there. Very friendly fun great people but we did a lot of "um, what?" while there. Stopped at a roadside place to try mutton (first and last time) somewhere between Dunedin and ?, it wasn't down to the level of pointing and grunting, but we were definitely divided by a common language.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:25 PM (1m82a)

443 417 Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:17 PM (1m82a)
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Yep. I shunned them for a while because of that. Was recently looking at Death Wish coffee. Anyone have experience with them?
Posted by: Weasel at December 03, 2024 12:19 PM (fghTy
Never put something called Death Wish in your mouth.
- something Han Solo may have told Luke.
but did Luke listen? No, he got cocky.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 12:26 PM (dtj4g)

444 Perhaps it's time to think...Beyond Meat(r)

"It's made of... people"

Posted by: Soylent Mike's at December 03, 2024 12:26 PM (l5F6b)

445 Megyn Kelly says bad words

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 12:26 PM (/7KEl)

446 SK protesters blocking a Humvee type vehicle outside the Assembly.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 03, 2024 12:26 PM (2cS/G)

447
Jersey Mikes is the best sandwich chain out there. Period. Full stop.

Posted by: Jersey Mike at December 03, 2024 12:26 PM (+oR7L)

448 441 And no comments about the hotness of South Korean women....
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I've sampled a few. Other than the garlic smell they can be quite hawt.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:26 PM (jFCkp)

449 I hope Ace hasn't taken the time machine to South Korea.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 12:27 PM (hovnC)

450 Maybe this will work.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at December 03, 2024 12:27 PM (XYJTg)

451 Jersey Mikes is the best sandwich chain out there. Period. Full stop.
Posted by: Jersey Mike

Jersey Mike's and Firehouse Subs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:27 PM (v6JzV)

452 I hope Ace hasn't taken the time machine to South Korea.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024

***
The SKs would love to take the time machine back a few thousand years and bomb the hell out of the Japanese.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:28 PM (J2vNu)

453 And no comments about the hotness of South Korean women....
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I've sampled a few. Other than the garlic smell they can be quite hawt.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Don't piss 'em off, though. Submissive Asian women they are not!

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:28 PM (v6JzV)

454 With tech giants sucking up power supplies for their new AI data centres, utility bills skyrocket and an outraged public demands action.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 12:28 PM (RHGPo)

455 Thanks garrett. Probably a double-boiler for me. Still just self-edumucating on the terminology. PID, OPV, etc. Reminds me of the glory days of arms control acronyms - SNDV, FROD, on and on.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:28 PM (1m82a)

456 Mining for sub puns

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (o+xVs)

457
The libs here in the US are saying "Trump would declare martial law sometime during his administration!"

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (+oR7L)

458 >>From the coffee comments here my approach is going to be considered a toxic waste hazard.

Biggest improvement you can make is grinding fresh for use.
Get a Burr Grinder and keep your beans whole until you plan to use them. Store in a cool, dry and dark place.
Try and never buy more than 2-3 weeks worth of fresh roasted beans.
Ideally, you want to use beans 5-7 days after roasting for peak flavor.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (vGiQ3)

459 Aldi's Midnight Roast coffee is pretty good, esp. at $4.95/12 oz.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (J2vNu)

460 Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 12:13 PM (1m82a)

Holy crap you're right. You may have discovered the one thing I know anything about!

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (3hycG)

461 French toast with maple syrup and turkey link sausage sounds delicious.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2024 12:30 PM (NpAcC)

462 I use Seattle's Best coffees with good results

they are owned by Nestle and I didn't see any woke shit on their website

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 12:30 PM (/7KEl)

463 459 Aldi's Midnight Roast coffee is pretty good, esp. at $4.95/12 oz.
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Jeebus, Aldi's sells German coffee. It sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:30 PM (jFCkp)

464 How did I miss Delaware has a Trannie Congressman?

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 12:30 PM (fwDg9)

465 426 Stollen Valor.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 12:23 PM (hovnC)

I should have known this was you but I was figuring muldoon

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 12:31 PM (3hycG)

466 PID is no scam. It actually does make a more flavorful shot.

And, bizarrely, WDT Tool is probably the cheapest and single best improvement I have found to the entire process.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:31 PM (vGiQ3)

467 THE COMMENT SAYING JERSEY MIKE'S MAKE THE BEST SANDWHICHES IS FUNNY BECAUSE JERSEY MIKE WROTE THE COMMENT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 03, 2024 12:31 PM (vO42M)

468 So, I was just skipping through the Art Thread to see if there was any funny stuff there, when I noticed-

a whole bunch of whining about the great Flannery O'Connor and the fact that she doesn't post big authorial intrusions to make sure that you get the POINT or the MESSAGE of her story.

All I can say is...Isn't it nice to read an author who respects the intelligence of the reader, and rather than giving you a big fat authorial message sign with flashing lights, instead gives you the point of her story through the characters, actions and type of prose she writes?

As always...YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (eDfFs)

469 Biggest improvement you can make is grinding fresh for use.

Get a Burr Grinder and keep your beans whole until you plan to use them.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (vGiQ3)

He may have shit taste in Crocs, but he is 100% correct about this!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (F8hJk)

470 Which sandwich chain was the one with the Danny Devito ads? Jimmy Johns?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (v6JzV)

471 "How did I miss Delaware has a Trannie Congressman?"

It's easy. Didn't you see "The Crying Game?"

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (XYJTg)

472 457
The libs here in the US are saying "Trump would declare martial law sometime during his administration!"
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (+oR7L)
Probably not, they’re lots of marital laws already on the books, plus the scriptures are full of them.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (dtj4g)

473 Have you tried' growing' your own starter?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (KcwUg)

Had mine going since 2014. I do freeze him though as a backup because sometimes you lose it, and starting over is no fun.

Needs about 90 days to reach maturity and from there it has top rising/flavoring power and only changes with the flour you give it.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (3hycG)

474 How did I miss Delaware has a Trannie Congressman?
Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2024 12:30 PM (fwDg9)

They look so much like a non-transgender woman you couldn't tell?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 03, 2024 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

475 I should have known this was you but I was figuring muldoon
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I typed 'valour' in American to confuse youse.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 12:33 PM (hovnC)

476 NOOD

TayLo

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 12:33 PM (KcwUg)

477 nood

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at December 03, 2024 12:34 PM (XYJTg)

478 Romanian coffee is godly. I am confident the only two interesting things to come out of Romania are its coffee and the Roma people's scams.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:05 PM (vO42M)

Ahem.
Posted by: Gymnasts at December 03, 2024 12:06 PM (Q4RRN)

Roma are gypsies, and actually originated in India. They really have no connection to Romania. I think they adopted the "Roma" name in an effort to shed the bad juju of being gypsies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 12:34 PM (+u0WJ)

479 Making your own starter is easy. Expose it outside for a bit to get some wilder yeast in there.

Posted by: MkY at December 03, 2024 12:34 PM (cPGH3)

480 "And, bizarrely, WDT Tool is probably the cheapest and single best improvement I have found to the entire process."

Really? Hmm....

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 03, 2024 12:34 PM (QB+5g)

481 Biggest improvement you can make is grinding fresh for use.

Get a Burr Grinder and keep your beans whole until you plan to use them. Store in a cool, dry and dark place.
Try and never buy more than 2-3 weeks worth of fresh roasted beans.
Ideally, you want to use beans 5-7 days after roasting for peak flavor.

Posted by: garrett

I thought about that and went I am too lazy. My solution is optimal garbage.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:34 PM (vO42M)

482 Get a Burr Grinder and keep your beans whole until you plan to use them.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 12:29 PM (vGiQ3)
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Do you have any fucking idea what my wife would say if I was grinding coffee beans at 0430 in the morning?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:35 PM (jFCkp)

483 469 He may have shit taste in Crocs, but he is 100% correct about this!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2024 12:32 PM (F8hJk)

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There's good taste in crocs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

484 If you try to make your own starter, save yourself a huge headache and use some real (canned) pineapple juice for the first few feeds.

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 12:35 PM (3hycG)

485 Nobody for the animal poop coffee ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 03, 2024 12:36 PM (NtVYv)

486 They really have no connection to Romania. I think they adopted the "Roma" name in an effort to shed the bad juju of being gypsies.
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The Thuggees became Democrats. It seems to have worked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:36 PM (jFCkp)

487 Roma are gypsies, and actually originated in India. They really have no connection to Romania. I think they adopted the "Roma" name in an effort to shed the bad juju of being gypsies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My former Romanian friends never missed an opportunity to complain about the Roma. Because of them I am something of an expert about how to slur Roma people.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:36 PM (vO42M)

488 441 And no comments about the hotness of South Korean women....
Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 12:25 PM (jvJvP)

Can confirm South Korean women can be very hot. Very into beauty compared to other cultures.

I'm also getting into SK cinema and finding it mostly good. Better than Hollywood for most stuff.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at December 03, 2024 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

489 There's good taste in crocs?
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Only after they have been bedazzled by Garrett's bedazzler.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:37 PM (jFCkp)

490 It is almost Christmas and I haven't seen a single Chia pet ad on TV.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 03, 2024 12:38 PM (vO42M)

491 490 It is almost Christmas and I haven't seen a single Chia pet ad on TV.
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This gives me the sadz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:39 PM (jFCkp)

492 Have you tried' growing' your own starter?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 12:20 PM (KcwUg)

I did for years, it is a hassle. I use commercial yeast, and put two cups of water and one cup of flour in a quart yogurt tub, and let it work for a day, then use the entire batch to make bread.
It is even better if you are using a cup of whole meal flour or Scotch oats since the extended soak gets the bran and the germ broken down more completely

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2024 12:43 PM (D7oie)

493 Only after they have been bedazzled by Garrett's bedazzler.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 12:37 PM (jFCkp)

Is it legal to hunt crocs by pitlamping?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 12:44 PM (+u0WJ)

494 Garrett, is Goldsmiths still operating there in Missoula? They had fantastic espresso. And ice cream, and other pure calorie delights.

I can make a decent ersatz “pull” camping (or even not camping) with a teeny tiny aluminium italian job invented a couple hunnert years ago. Remember Coffee entered the West by way of the eye-ties. It looks like a salt shaker inside, and only makes a few ounces.

I like to use it with regular grind or whatever. It saves on both coffee and water, when that is a concern. M’adaglia D’oro is OK for a retail espresso coffee. Bustelo is a little less costly. A strong cup will tell you whether the coffee is any good. Shitty coffee is not improved by concentration, it will reveal defects

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2024 12:49 PM (DSQyT)

495 No Sugar Tonight!

Make them Yeasties work for a living for a day or two. Otherwise they get metabolic syndrome. Obesity.

Seriously a “Poolish” or aging bread dough will achieve much better aroma, crust, flavor, and color upon baking. It smells wonderful. A real good whang to it, complex flavors.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2024 12:53 PM (DSQyT)

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