Heroic Mulatto Has Been Smoking a Brisket Since 5 AM July 4th Open Thread
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Is that a whole packer?
Yes.
Nice. Post results plz.
I shall. Depending on total beers drunk.
All of them, I would assume.
Did you crack the first one as you put the meat on the grill as god intended?
Looks like flat + point to me, but I’m a naïf about such things . . .
(I’ll be over around 4. No BBQ sauce, please — ruins a good brisket.)
Agreed. No sauce for this one.
At first glance, I though it was a giant phallas of some type. But I drank quite a lot last night.
I’ll just leave this here:
http://amazingribs.com/recipes/beef/texas_brisket.html
Nice article!
That’s the best writeup I’ve seen on how to cook brisket the proper way.
This is the best recipe I’ve seen if you want to shortcut:
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/smokerless-smoked-brisket
Bookmarked. I did a HOF Sunday. I forgot sugar in my rub so it wasn’t out of this world good. I did it on the kettle with indirect wood chunks. (apple and hickory) I think my best brisket yet even though I forgot the sugar. I bought it from a local family ranching conglomerate of 6 ranches. The HOF was trimmed too much imho. Next time I will get a whole packer and trim it myself.
Saved for future perusal…
No festivities for me as of yet. I’m at the shop(I took that job; for anyone who remembers me ranting about it a few weeks ago) because my boss’s/step-brother’s father has advanced cancer and went into hospice care last week. He’s spending what little time is left with him so nothing but long days for me all week to get him caught up.
Can’t complain. I’d hope he would do the same for me in that situation.
Enjoy your 4th, all. 🙂
Congratulations on the job!
And my condolences.
Thanks and thanks.
So you’re doing the staining/carpentry? Are you out of personal training altogether?
I still have people who want me to keep my boxing side classes going but now I need to find another gym to do that in the evenings. Which means now I’ll have to pay a weekly rental fee for the area and time. I think I may have something lined up for that. It’s still worth the bother, just a little less so.
Good luck and good 4th.
Nice, TH! I hope it goes great!
Luck with the new job. I hope it is nothing but good.
The hospice folks do amazing work. They are a different sort of good people. I am sorry to hear your step bro’s dad went into that. They will treat him right.
As doomco said, congrats and condolences, good luck in the new venture
Same here, my condolences and congratulations to you.
I thought I’d be disappoint, but the posting (for once) isn’t a euphemism.
I thought you were a Buddhist? Was the brisket not killed for consumption?
As I understand it, the prohibition is against meat from animals specifically slaughtered for the individual. Such as if I said I was dropping by your house and you replied, “Great! I’ll cook up one of my goats for you!” Purchasing meat in a market where the butcher doesn’t know who will buy the meat isn’t considered against the teaching.
That there’s some legalese bullshit worthy of the Jews and Papists.
Also, it’s not a mandating vegetarian thing as much as against unnecessary extravagance. As typically, in 500 BC India, an animal was only slaughtered for a VIP’s visit. However, politeness to one’s host always out-ruled that rule. Indeed, the Buddha died after eating bad pork from a pig that had been slaughtered in his honor by a village elder after a visit to his village.
Sincere question: are most Buddhists these days vegetarian? If so, based on your 12:26 comment is that through choice rather than doctrinal requirement?
Vegetarianism for all is only mandated by a few schools of Northeast Asian Buddhism. The historical Buddha did not maintain a vegetarian diet, and most Theravadan Buddhists (Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, etc.) are not vegetarian. That having been said, vegetarianism is considered by all sects as a good thing, if not taken to extremes (i.e., the Middle Way). Buddhists are not Jains.
Cool, thanks.
Next band name: “The Historical Buddha”
Close second: “Sects as a good thing”
The thing about naming your band “The Historical Buddha” is that you have “Bad Pork Tour” all lined up for your breakup.
“Live Sects On Stage!”
and that village elder was named “chipotle”
*honors you with a gassho*
Meat is good.
MEAT IS MURDER!!!
Tasty, tasty murder.
The gun is good. The
penismeat is evil.the euphemism stands either way, tbh
I have cut back on meat consumption in my old age. I still could never be a complete vegetarian because I don’t get nearly the thrill out of picking a tomato as I do when a pheasant flushes after the dog has worked it for 60 yards and I nail it.
One of my favorite memories is the last hunt of my old mutt. It was one of the first hunts of my oldest son (where he was carrying a gun). We were getting ready to go, when my dog got birdy around a cat tail swamp and we told my son to go over there in case he jumped a bird. The pheasant kept running around in the cat tails trying to get away but my dog and son kept cutting him off. Finally he jumped and tried to fly away. My son nailed him on the rise and he fell back into the cat tails. 5 minutes later my old dog comes out of the cat tails with the bird and brings it over to my son.
I’ve picked all sorts of vegetables, and I’ve never had that much fun picking any of them.
Sweet.
Happy Independence Day!
I’ve had a pork shoulder in the smoker since about 7 this morning. I’ve been smoking them for about 4 hours, then pulling it out, wrapping in foil, pouring a little apple cider vinegar in the foil and finishing them in the oven. I take it out at 190 internal temp. They turn out well and I don’t have to keep feeding wood into the smoker. I have found that after the first few hours, you’re really not adding any more smoke flavor to the meat.
Yep. I’ve found this true as well.
Being from Texas, I can say with confidence that your brisket will not meat (!) our standards.
Probably not.
It ain’t called the Texas crutch for nothing.
Yep, smoke longer than four or five hours just makes it bitter tasting in my experience.
OT:
I’m thinking about starting up a beehive in my backyard, but I’m worried that the bees might bother the neighbors. The nearest area of my neighbor’s property (where people actually go) is a little cantina out-building roughly 50 feet away from where I plan to keep the bees.
I’ve read that if you give the bees everything they need in one spot, they won’t really go anywhere else in large numbers. Is this true?
Do you expect them bees to put in more effort than the average city dweller?
“Oh look food, water”
“What about the stuff over the fence?”
“Fly all the way over there?”
I spend a few weeks last summer building a deck/pergola about 25 feet from 4 bee hives, when I walked to get tools materials out front I crossed directly in front of them. I never saw any around other than on the hives and zipping in and out as I walked past. You can actually judge their flight pattern and can tell just how close you should or shouldn’t get to avoid them. The owner said they wouldn’t bother you even if you walked right up through them but I never tested that.
If the hive isn’t threatened, the average honeybee isn’t going to go kamikaze.
“Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say…”
Used to wear an onion on my belt, it was the style back then
That’s my line.
Music to eat meat and ponder cultural appropriation by
A Nigerian named “Roy Chicago” singing an italian crooner-tune in Highlife-style with a calypso influence
Making pork chops with vinegar slaw and roasted potatoes. We’ll eat around 12:30, then head down to Newport Beach for a house party and fireworks on the sand. And booze. Lots of booze.
Say that reminds me.
Evan Williams and sweet tea.
Damn. Looks much better than my plans. I’m doing chili dogs now, burgers and steak later.
Since we’re all talking about grilling and smoking…
I made a new batch of non-poisonous ham (yes, I followed everyone’s advice and threw away the poisonous batch). It came out awesome. I hot-smoked it for about an hour, so it had a much stronger smoke flavor than storebought ham, which is great.
So far, I’ve used it for:
– A pizza topping
– Split pea soup
– Steamed collard greens (which I grew in the garden)
… All of which turned out fucking awesome.
I missed that conversation.
How did you end up with poisonous ham?
I cured some pork with sodium nitrite (the stuff that gives ham, salami, corned beef, etc. the pink color) but I accidentally used way too much. I posted a comment here asking if it was *really* too dangerous to eat, and the consensus was that it was.
Sodium nitrite can make you very sick if you ingest too much of it.
Yep. That’s why it’s died pink. 1 teaspoon of instacure/prague #1 per 5lbs of meat. No more, no less.
I don’t eat allegedly “uncured” meats for exactly this reason.
“Uncured” meats are in fact cured by naturally occurring nitrites in celery powder. However, the amount of nitrite occurring in celery powder is highly variable, so they always have to add way more than is necessary.
The “healthy” option… isn’t.
Yep. And the evidence is still unclear that the amount of nitrites present in cured meat is even bad for you.
It really amuses me how often something like this is the case.
Huh. I would’ve expected HM to serving up a big pork butt, not brisket.
While a worthy choice, tonight’s repast is sensitive to the dietary requirements of my Saracen guest.
You know who else smoked a lot of meat in the summer?…
jesse.in.mb?
The boys on Fire Island?
MR. LIZARD ERMAGAHD THERE’S A GODZILLA MARATHON ON EL REY AND IT’S WHAT ALL GOOD REPTILES SHOULD BE WATCHING TODAY!!!
I’ve been waiting to say that all morning.
Kaijuly Roarth!
Except they’re showing that lousy American Godzilla movie. (As opposed to the good American Godzilla movie.)
There’s no such thing as a good American Godzilla movie, there is such a thing as about thirty minutes of good scenes in an American Godzilla movie.
More accurately, there’s that one Jean Reno movie where sometimes he’s not on screen and it’s terrible.
Sadly yes. A better one starts in 45 min.
So I’m sticking with The Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-fi channel.
I would like to see a Zardoz vs Godzilla matchup
Is that Zardoz movie actually any good that I should watch it?
Like all John Boorman movies, it is beautifully filmed, but it isn’t an uplifting film.
Should be seen once.
I rented and watched it after Gojira’s review, I was not impressed. It’s not a ‘good’ movie in any sense that I would use the term, however, If it cost you noting and you got the time to waste, go ahead and watch it. Like reading Gravity’s Rainbow or listening to Pet Sounds, you won’t enjoy it but at least you now know what all the hub-a-loo is about.
It’ll help you grok the inside jokes, and as long as there isn’t something more entertaining, happening (like having a bone set) … it’s not awful.
Well, those are far from rave reviews, guys. But I didn’t even notice Gojira reviewed it. So maybe I should read that first.
Old bald guys named “Big _____”
Patriotic Hitler?
Sonny?
Sitting, drinking a Moscow Mule, will grill hotdogs and hamburgers later, contemplating life.
Happy 4th, Glibs.
I started my day with a Moscow Mule (Tito’s, of course), too. Well, strictly speaking, i started my morning with my husband (we are still making up for my 2-week absence for work). But then he made me a nice flavored vodka shot and a Muley. He gets me. He really gets me.
He’s a keeper!
You know that’s right, sistah!
How long have we been at Glibertarians now?
Has there ever been a flame war here?
Even once?
It’s not like we all agree with each other.
You’d think there would be massive eruptions and shit.
You’re stupid and your opinions are meaningless.
Fuck you you motherfucking motherfucker!!!
Your just saying that because you want kids to die.
Your mother is a nice lady.
She is. She gave me 20 bucks. Didn’t even wipe the jiz out of her eyebrows.
John posted here last week, so anything is now possible.
Deep dish and circumcisions for everyone!
You talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded.
My sister’s ‘tarded.
She’s a pilot now
Welcome to Costco. I love you
First post went up February 12.
There have been arguments (eg. whether abortion should be legal, race is a social construct, etc.) but I haven’t seen any flame wars. I think it’s because this place is rather unusual in that anyone arguing tries to argue in good faith.
In other news, I think I’m just going to take it easy this 4th. I felt a sharp pain in my underarm about a week ago, and decided to just ignore it. Today, it hurts every time I try to move my left arm.
Today, it hurts every time I try to move my left arm.
Then stop doing that.
I put a gel pack in the freezer. I’m hoping that will help.
Only if you propped it up with a bottle of Absolut.
I feel morally obligated to ask you to evaluate whether you may be having a cardiac event.
Thanks, although I’m pretty sure it’s an injured muscle. It feels like the teres minor, but it’s difficult to tell, because it also feels a bit inflamed.
my single land tax post may have been the closest and it was civil. mosrly. i may have called someone an idiot.
I just read an article, “Why Society Hates Entrepreneurs”, that was rather amusing. But the comments are filled with name-calling.
Not that I’ve seen. There’s been a few minor arguments. So normal stuff. Helps a lot that there’s no trolls.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
You’re Tulpa!
I recall either Ken S or Gilmore and someone who I’m completely blanking on getting fairly nasty a while back, I believe either Swiss or Sloopy had to step in and tell them to tone it down. But I drink a lot so I could have just imagined it.
You’re talking about the links debacle. We’re not supposed to talk about that.
No, I remember that. This was another time, an actual argument about some issue.
Ah, ok.
I aint do nothing!
NEEDZ MOAR LINKS!
Most unseemly.
<fx: adjusts monocle and frowns … >
Somebody got cat-butted in the Memorial Day thread.
Really? I only remember shreek getting the cut-butt. I didn’t realize there was a second cat-butt, must have missed it.
That guy who posts sometimes on H&R and who has a horribly convoluted theory on Lost that he refuses to accept is wrong even when on-screen events contradicted it (Robert?). It may have been a “sufficiently advanced autism is indistinguishable from trolling” situation though.
I have to look for the post, I hate missing a realy catass as it’s a rare event.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/05/memorial-day/
Comment #12
And a follow up here: https://glibertarians.com/2017/06/thursday-afternoon-links-16/
starting with Pomp’s 6:14pm post.
Colonialism may end up on abortion and open borders pile of unmentionable topics.
Other than that, it’s pretty chill around here because catassing did the trick early on.
It’s almost as if almost all of that sort of thing is caused by trolls who are behaving in bad faith, and once you eliminate them, discussions don’t default to that mode.
I got my Granddaughter A Ken Doll, Ken. In Marine Dress Blues,
he’s going to say Make Me a Sammich!
Where the white [libertarian] women at?
That looks tasty.
I’m just grilling said burgers and dogs. Average temperature in Phoenix on July 4th are around 110F so going outside watching the slow cooker isn’t a summer pastime. Also on the menu is grilled corn, pineapple and I’m sure my sister has a bunch of goodies as she’s constantly recording The Kitchen on Food Network…Washed down with Rogue American Amber Ale, Stone Pilsner and some “local winter lager” Total Wine left in the clearance section.
Its been a few years since I spent the fourth at home. Normally I go up north and play drunk Catholic in Utah or play ugly American in Mexico. Good times.
That’s one hell of a long title for a T.V. show.
Goddamnit.
Sad, not said. Dumbass Apple software.
My outdoor thermometer on my deck is reading 102. You light the grill and watch it from inside. Add wood/chips when the smoke lightens. It is easier and less hot than grilling burgers.
I don’t have that kind of patience for smoking, also why I don’t golf.
Plus, it was 102 during the three hours this morning I spent doing yardwork. My backyard faces west and is covered in cobblestone so it really isn’t any cooler to smoke rather than grill.
You’re not smoking meat on the deck are you? Isnt that a fire hazard?
Ya, it is a fire hazard if the deck catches on fire. But I like to keep the fire in the grill. Safety first!
I spent time in Phoenix last summer. 120 is getting silly, but 102 is whatever. Still, Phoenix in the summer has shit on many places like Basra. It gets warm in Basra in August. 55C+ is just stupid.
I imagine its humid in Basra too. Never been there, I was up the river in Talil (Al Nasiriyah). Summer there reminded me of home…if home sucked.
grilled a pork loin for lunch.
yum.
DICK JONES! I WORK FOR DICK JONES!
There’s also a Robocop marathon on.
Bitches leave.
Have you played 8th yet? I like it a lot.
I’m smoking ribs. So there.
Ribs for me too. With potato salad.
Still early here. Started the day with re-reading the Declaration of Independence and putting up the Gadsen Flag. Pan searing fresh caught ahi for lunch and then grilling the last of my elk steaks for dinner. I brought back a selection of biers from Germany last week and they will not be around for the fireworks display.
My town puts on a privately funded and run fireworks display. I’ll stroll over to the beach with a good strong G&T in a sports container (since it is illegal to drink on a public beach).
America, fuck yeah!
That is a great 4th. Nice. Enjoy!
Where did you take the elk?
Far western Washington about a mile off the Columbia River. It was my first Roosevelt. I’ll be going back this fall since even if I don’t take my elk I will pick plenty of wild chanterelles. Plus there is a fantastic nano-brewery in Cathlamet. If anybody is in the area I can endorse with pleasure River Mile 38 (aka RM38) brewery. Great beer and since they don’t serve food you can bring your own in. You can fill your growler or they will can for you whatever you want on the spot.
I know that area. A bit. I was stationed in Westport back in the day. Wiliapa Bay was the southern end of our op area though. I had orders to lifeboat school at Cape D when I opted to get out of the CG. Oh to live ones life over and make different choices.
Here’s some guess the source. Just saw an article online about how statism is failing in North Korea and Venezuela. The first line of the article is ‘Donald Trump has been a vulgar shithead for as long as he has been in American public life’.
Guess the source.
That’s not an article, that’s a Reason podcast. And, despite the fact that Reason is mired in TDS, Welch is not wrong on that point, Trump is a vulgar shithead. If only they were willing to hold career politicians to the same standards they hold him.
“That’s not an article, that’s a Reason podcast.”
Sigh… JT just likes to ruin the fun.
I don’t mind thier opinion on trump. I don’t understand what that sentence has to do with the government of Venezuela or why it’s failing.
That’s what I was pointing out. Doesn’t matter what they write anymore, they can sneak some TDS in it.
To reiterate JT’s point, It’s an hour long podcast covering many issues, Valenzuela being one Trump being a dueche-bag is another. They aren’t meant to be related.
“Valenzuela”
Is that guy the jazz musician or the artist?
I thought baseball. Pitcher?
You may be right. Shortstop?
AKA the Mexican Hulk?
Fernando Valenzuela pitched for the Dodgers
Like I said they covered many issues Venezuela, Valenzuela, spell checking, etc…
I think it’s just forgiven around here when someone makes a type-o. I mean most of us drink while typing. I made an absolutely fantastical one yesterday and got off easy.
If youz goes spull chaked mei evary tim i pastad hur i wood huv raan of moths agu.
which reminds me…. late last week, Trump admin-officials indicated they were going to do something that Reason magazine has been demanding for ~5 years – namely, retract the “dear colleague” letter which threatened universities with investigation if they failed to be uber-aggressive in their Title-IX sexual-harassment enforcement.
i haven’t heard a single mention of it over there. I know Robby’s on sabbatical, but you’d think it would be worth at least a blog-entry. If it was mentioned, i missed it.
here’s the last entry on the topic (April)
“Six Years Ago Today, Obama’s Education Department Made All Sex Unsafe on Campus“
“Here’s some guess the source. Just saw an article online about how statism is failing in North Korea and Venezuela. The first line of the article is ‘Donald Trump has been a vulgar shithead for as long as he has been in American public life’.”
They managed to follow that up with something about Trump calling up news stations anonymously and bragging about cheating on wives. I have no idea what that is all about, first time I’ve heard it.
Probably this
It’s something ENB could over. As she wrote about such things in the past.
“These campus star chambers, conducted behind closed doors and hidden by federal privacy laws, have resulted in an unknown number of expulsions.”
Why is it unknown? If schools are required to report to the government, then it shouldn’t be difficult to tally.
i think its one of those things where schools are required to report the number of “investigations” in response to complaints, but not the results of them.
the metric that rape kultur fans were looking for as ‘progress’ was “growing #s of investigations” There was a funny thing a few years ago when a feminist digital-magazine published a graphic showing “hundreds of schools being targeted by OCR for failure to meet Title IX requirements”…. and they said that “we shall not rest until EVERY school is under investigation!”
as though that would be de-facto a ‘good thing’. they seemed to think that the way to combat rape was to have ‘federal bureaucrats policing college bureaucrats policing kids’ over any perceived infraction = and that the more infractions being policed, the better! no matter what they are or what the results are. Growth in investigations was a sign of ‘doing something’.
amazingly, this was pretty much the same view taken by the Obama admin.
Fair enough. Constantly monkeying around with how the various laws and regulations are applied makes it difficult to follow. And probably on purpose.
They also keep expanding the definitions of words.
Although I don’t think the care about “the way to combat rape”. They don’t want to solve a problem. Anything that might actually reduce rape is dismissed as victim blaming. What they want is to perpetuate the idea that there is an epidemic problem in order to advance their political agenda.
*correction = trump’s people made comments about pulling back OCR in mid-june, and sent out a clarifying memo in late june… i think it wasn’t really given much coverage until the last 2 weeks.
I clicked through and didn’t see any citation for this. This is not the first time I’ve seen a clickbaity summary article at The Federalist which has inaccurately summarized facts and linked to non-citation citations. Hopefully all of the below markup works…
“take a less confrontational approach” links here, where we read the following quote on topic :
(emphasis mine)
The Federalist goes on to further “cite”…
They link “could be considered for reversal” to this DOE press release.
I click through there, I ctrl-f “dear”, I see nothing.
That document links to the interim report PDF. I ctrl-F “dear” in that document, and it appears only once. There is absolutely no language about doing anything to the specific “dear colleague” letter in question.
The closest we have is this :
Which is boilerplate that describes what Trump’s executive order instructs them to do and has nothing to do with a statement of intent to do anything to any particular prior letter.
tl;dr – I’m thinking maybe Reason hasn’t mentioned the DOE stating their intent to rescind the “Dear Colleague” letter because… DOE hasn’t stated their intent to rescind the “Dear Colleague” letter.
I think you’re being a bit weeny about it. yes, there is no single sentence quoted anywhere where those exact words were used. And i’d agree with you that its an over-reach…. except for the fact that everyone who has been following the topic seems to think it indicates exactly the same thing the Federalist does.
e.g. the headlines (from WaPo, LA Times, HuffPo, NBC news, CNN, and a bunch of education + law related trade journals) since late May/mid-June =
“Change is Upon Us: Trump Administration’s OCR Issues Memorandum Regarding Changes to Investigation Practices”
“Trump administration details new civil rights approach to college attorneys”
“Trump Primed On Gutting Agencies of Civil Rights Authority ”
“Proposed Trump Budget Would Cripple The Overworked Office Enforcing Title IX”
“Trump administration plans to minimize civil rights efforts in agencies”
” Is the Trump Education Department Really “Rolling Back” Civil Rights?”
“Trump administration narrows civil rights investigations ”
and so on.
You might still say, “But there’s no ‘very explicit and hard evidence anything has changed!” and you might be technically right. You could say the same to each of the people who wrote the above stories, not just ‘the federalist’.
My point was simply this = Reason has been all over this story for years. there have been developments in this story in the last month, which a dozen other orgs have seen fit to report as ‘significant’, but they haven’t (afaik) said anything about it.
Given the sort of chickenshit non-stories they see fit to blog about on a daily basis, i don’t think its unreasonable to expect updates to issues related to OCR.
Ok, I say it to them as well. But you cited the Federalist. 😀
The Federalist does seem to be above average in terms of summarizing things as saying things they do not say, while often veering into clearly editorial content in supposed “news” stories. I would put them in at least the 90th percentile of misleading summation/headlines and clickbaity outrage-farming content, with the Jezebels and Heat Streets of the world. I get the impression they used to be more respectable than this, but when I get linked to their content in CURRENT_YEAR this is what I experience.
I agree with your overall point that it’s odd/lame that Reason hasn’t kept on top of that story considering how heavily they covered it in the past. I also agree, for the record, that the DOE is likely to rescind the letter, as they are a department of the executive and the executive has, in practice, instructed them to do so.
My personal read of the situation is there is actually nothing happening there right now, but that stories being reported are just keeping the fire burning until something does happen.
FTR, I don’t contest that I’m being a
little weeniepedant about it.For some reason I find that YouTube channel very relaxing. I think I watched at least 50 videos. It’s calm and nice and nothing stressful
Kinda like that primitive technology channel
Which youtube channel?
That being said Romanians traditionally eat beans and sausage on national day, and mici which are some minced meat caseless sausage contraptions. That looks better somewhat. Alas smoking brisket is illegal round these parts
Alas smoking brisket is illegal round these parts
?!
Ya, that is a big WTF?
I’d really like to have a beer, but I’m out and I guess we’re going to go see fireworks. Where I would definitely find some beer. But cannot get wifey to hurry up and get ready to go. Damnit. I have a bottle of rum that’s starting to look really good…
If you drink it fast enough you dont have to drive!
I’m not going to drive, we’re calling Uber so that I can drank.
Pick the Uber driver named Barney so you can purple drank….
Were you the one who mentioned Amarula? That stuff tastes like alcoholic Milk Maid Royals.
Yes, I like it. I mean I don’t typically drink it, my wife does.
Oh, no. Wasn’t meant to be a slam. Just reminds me of Brachs’ Milk Maid Royals that I ate as a kid. Except with alky. Anything more than a tiny glass on ice at one sitting is too sweet, but it’s a nice dessert drink.
It’s something I might take a shot of if it’s sitting around and I’m already buzzed.
BBC probably fails to appreciate people who come out looking bad in this article are not the ones they wanted to look bad.
So Dr Doom is making Latvia great again?
Heyyyy Mekharena!
Ack, happy 4th, fucker.
“Ehhh, Mekharena!”
So they inadvertently published the truth about “economic migrants”?
All of the migrants are women and babies. Why is everyone so afraid of them?
Smoking, heading to daughter’s where SIL is smoking pork butt. Then stumbling 500 yds to city fireworks, then my allergic-to-alcohol wife drives me home. Happy birfday US of A!!
Can John Titor account for his whereabouts? Or, as is more appropriate for a time traveller, whenabouts?
Hmmm. Sounds like someone I have read the rantings of.
The whole thing is so embarrassingly Canadian
We can’t even fascism* correctly!
* (yes, yes, cultural not racial, shut up, McInnes)
Oh, Canada.
The Fusionist?
Nonsense, St. Augustine wasn’t Western, he was African.
I am many things.
I am not stupid enough to crash native events when a Liberal government is in power, who will demand they be punished even if they conformed to the Codes of Conduct.
On Saturday, a group of five men carrying a Red Ensign flag approached a gathering at the Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax.
Also I can’t bloody wait until the idiots in the media start trying to frame the Dominion flag as a white supremacist hate symbol, it’s going to be so retarded.
Days like today, I’m reminded why Trump won.
There is a staggering amount of pseudo intellectual bullshit and whining on Facebook today.
Trump won because he was blessed by Kek. Other things are unrelated
Wait… it’s not Putin? Is that not true?
Putin is just an illusion. in the minds of the westerners.
Let me guess, lots of whining about slavery and stealing land and what-not?
Or is it more of the “TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK FROM SECRET NAZI PRESIDENT” style?
I would guess the latter.
Both.
Hang on, I’ll go get one.
“Don’t let anyone tell you what it means to be an American.Don’t let whoever can shout the loudest define who is and is not a Real American. Ronald Reagan and Audie Murphy were Americans. So were Sandra Bland and Mother Jones and Fred Hampton and Eugene Debs and Paul Robeson.
Don’t let other people use their total ignorance of history to invent an America that never was and then insist that we must return to it. Don’t let anyone rewrite American history as an unbroken tableau of pure Rugged Individualism devoid of collective action, community, public goods, and the role of central government. Don’t support the fallacy that America has buried all of its problems in the past; that, OK, maybe a few people used to be racist but now we elected a black president so racism is over; that the drum beat of war hawks may have led us astray a few times, but this time is different; that we used to discriminate against women but stopped, and we used to treat poor people badly but now we don’t, and that unfettered Robber Baron capitalism brought us to ruin once but this time just you watch and see the magic.
Don’t be swayed by symbolism and empty emotional appeals. Think about what being an American means. Don’t forget to remember all that we do have without forgetting all of the ways in which we can do better.”
Other than the Robber Baron stuff that seems pretty legit.
Except for the whole fact that it’s an empty emotional appeal claiming to be bipartisan, and then immediately slips into left-wing hysterics about the imaginary horror show the right is going to enslave you all to. The end of ‘we can do better’ is really just prog-speak for “give into my demands”.
The entire thing is “WAAAAhhhh. PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!! Flag and parade bad, me good!!!!!”
And yeah, we’re so bad to our women!
“Ronald Reagan and Audie Murphy were Americans. So were…Eugene Debs and Paul Robeson.”
100% American Paul Robeson commemorates Josef Stalin on the occasion of the latter’s death
“In 1937, a highly expectant audience of Moscow citizens – workers, artists, youth, farmers from surrounding towns – crowded the Bolshoy Theater. They awaited a performance by the Uzbek National Theater, headed by the highly gifted Tamara Khanum. The orchestra was a large one with instruments ancient and modern. How exciting would be the blending of the music of the rich culture of Moussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khrennikov, Gliere – with that of the beautiful music of the Uzbeks, stemming from an old and proud civilization.
“Suddenly everyone stood – began to applaud – to cheer – and to smile. The children waved.
In a box to the right – smiling and applauding the audience – as well as the artists on the stage – stood the great Stalin.
“I remember the tears began to quietly flow. and I too smiled and waved Here was clearly a man who seemed to embrace all. So kindly – I can never forget that warm feeling of kindliness and also a feeling of sureness. Here was one who was wise and good – the world and especially the socialist world was fortunate indeed to have his daily guidance. I lifted high my son Pauli to wave to this world leader, and his leader. For Paul, Jr. had entered school in Moscow, in the land of the Soviets.”
oops –
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9804/robeson.htm
An Open Letter to Eugene V. Debs:
Issued by the Central Executive Committee
of the Communist Party of America.
[circa May 1919]
“What made you accept the [Socialist Party] nomination we know not. We can only infer that the “political charlatans,” the “cowardly compromisers,” who have not hesitated to lie to you in the past, have done so again….
“Between the Communist Party and the Socialist Party there can be no compromise. The latter is the most dangerous enemy of the working class and as such, we shall wage a bitter struggle against it. Their attempt to use your name in order to fool the masses will avail them of nothing. Their betrayal of Socialism has been too complete and too cowardly. Not even your name can hide their counterrevolutionary tendency. The class-conscious workers of America are through with the stinking carcass that calls itself the Socialist Party of America.”
collective action, community, public goods, and the role of central government.
So I wonder which collective action he likes better, the Trail of Tears or the internment of the Japanese?
Don’t be swayed by symbolism and empty emotional appeals.
Except the ones I make.
am i missing something, but is this sort of a “have your cake and eat it too” type thing….
…only its, “Have your Patriotic Virtue-Signaling, But Shit on The Flag Too”?
It seems to me if you want the latter, just stick with that. But trying to appropriate fireworks and say, “Today is just as much about remembering the communist americans as it is “patriots””… seems pretty high on the retard-scale.
I believe in meat and beer and blowing shit up. People who want to make speeches should be thrown in the pool.
The pool is too good for them.
This is all about fucking up the party for everyone else, and then patting themselves on the back for it.
Same shit with Lena Dunham’s Father’s Day tweet.
I’m not even going to ask.
I’m going to guess its something like,
“We should take this day to remember all the Wife Beaters and the drunks and all the damage that toxic masculinity has done to the world, so on this father’s day, you should probably slam your dick in the car door just to show how woke you are”
Pardon the source:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/06/19/lena-dunham-trolls-fathers-day-you-dont-need-a-father/
“you don’t need a father”
I’m curious if she made this determination after a long series of prison-interviews.
That was fucking hilarious.
Just out of curiosity… is that just a reprint of this
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2016/07/03/patriotic-reflections/
or did someone actually post that screed on Facebook and pretend it was their own?
Ed put it on his Facebook, and it was shared repeatedly on my feed.
“Ed”
Ed K from reason?
“Dear every white person right now who’s like “lol gunshots or fireworks?”,
YOU PAY $2500/mo TO LIVE IN A SAFE GENTRIFIED NEIGHBORHOOD EVEN THOUGH YOU THINK YOU’RE REALLY HARD AND LIVING ON THE EDGE. IT’S FIREWORKS, ASSHOLE.
Love,
Ed”
I went for a long bike ride along the Mississippi river today. On the St. Paul side, there are lots of very expensive houses along the East River trail. I was amazed at how many of them had some sort of shrine in their front yards. Some sign would have a rainbow and a slogan about inclusivity, another sign would have something saying Trump was mean or dumb (or both) and there would be a bunch of small american flags.
Talk about social signalling.
How far of a ride? My ~25 mile ride saw quite a few people just rocking the American flag clothing today?
What smoker do you have HM?
Char Griller offset smoker
Where are my beef pics?
Cool thanks.
BBC is starting to go more tabloidy.
Headline: Italy holds violent ‘Clockwork Orange’ teen gang
Content: not even close.
And, as a photo shows, they weren’t even stylishly dressed.
“BBC is starting to go more tabloidy”
I think WaPo and NYT are going down that path as well. FAKE NEWS < celeb boobies.
Given Italy has plenty of Ultras, that violence does not seem ultra enough
Welp, PM Zoolander is really making waves in international affairs
sock diplomacy? I dunno sounds like a big circle-jerk to me
It’s about time we got to the important news.
It’s important – nay, vital – to Canada’s interest that PM Zoolander spend as much time preening and posturing as he can. Then he’s not doing damage to us.
Isn’t that the only thing he’s good at? Yeah, you’re probably right, best if he doesn’t try to do any serious stuff. Did he legalize weed yet?
Totally coming by this time next year, for reals, honestly.
Two more years. He just needs to virtue signal for another two years and we can hopefully at least slap the idiot down to a minority government. I know I’ll be voting Tory, not that it matters in my riding.
Speaking of Canada. I know someone who asked me about Halifax Canada because he’s going there. I remembered Gavin McInnes saying that no one’s ever been around there. So I said ‘Halifax? Why are you going there?’ So he told me that he just thought it looked like somewhere cool to go. So I said ‘I don’t know, no one’s ever been there. You might see a shark washed up on a street’. He just looked at me with a blank look, and I said ‘It’s just a joke, but I don’t know anything about it, never been there’.
Nova Scotia’s beautiful and Halifax is a pretty nice city, and actually significantly less retarded than the bigger urban centers. Lots of military there too, and Maritimers are a decent sort.
Yeah, I was just taken by surprise when the guy asked me about it. I honestly don’t know anyone who’s been there, the only reference I could think of was that Gavin McInnes video about why the liberals are not moving to Canada because Hillary lost.
Only problem with Halifax is too many broken men hanging ’round the Pier. We gotta find them a better place to congregate.
Maritimers are a decent sort.
I can attest to this. Once you convince them you are not a dickhead american. Initial first response for many is an ass beating for the american. They don’t like americans so much in my experience. Kind of like most of Canada.
Also, Happy Belated Canada day JT and the rest of the Canadian contingent. I missed that on the 1st.
Happy “we revolted a tyrannical monarchy to set up our own tyrannical oligarchy” day!
That’s horribly unfair, latter half of 18th century – first half of 19th century Britain is the best example of Tyrannical Oligarchy since the Roman Republic.
David Drake noted the similarities and utilized them in his RCN series and damn, the man is right.
Oh, we’ll do the best one, yet.
I just love the logic…
“Oligarchy sucks!”
“And how do you fix that?”
“Top Men!”
*chugs drano*
Drano?
Maybe that’s what my wife put in the first batch of cocktails.
No, I don’t know why today is a rich day for stupid, but I’m bored and have no booze handy.
Insert Nelson “ha-ha” here
NDP = Commies.
Everyone still have all their fingers? How about kids, still got all your kids? Do the kids still have all their fingers?
Ok, then get back to drinking and stuffing your faces.
And this is why I’m in favour of redesigning the Oath of Allegiance so we can actually depose scumbag MPs like this. I don’t care if you act this way as a private citizen, but as an MP this should disqualify you from office.
*shrug*
Good thing about our system is that MPs are irrelevant cogs in the party machine so his plagiarism means nothing. As far as content goes, when you are paying a real actual traitor $10 million instead of hanging him off Halifax Pier, may as well have MP go on about how much he hates the country.
Not happy about that either, but I have the low bar of expecting MPs to actually be qualified for their office. And those qualifications include not detesting the country you’re supposedly representing in office.
Awesome Burgers and Hot dogs, Potato salad and chips.
Sierra Nevada Sidecar and Torpedoes,
Merry Independence Day To all us Glibs! Fuck Yeah!
Fuck Yeah!!!!
Except for that I’m still waiting for nap time to end.
And then, alcohol and throwing my kids around the pool until they cry. AMERICA
“Don’t let anyone tell you what it means to be an American.Don’t let whoever can shout the loudest define who is and is not a Real American.
Bullshit. Let Taiwanese Animated News tell you how to correctly American on Independence Day like a Real American!
How did they get Burt Reynolds car?
That reminds me, I need to refill my Zippo.
Isn’t the panda their symbol for the Communist Chinese government?
So they’re saying the ChiComs are encouraging Americans to engage in reckless and dangerous behavior on the Fourth of July?
It’s a metaphor for how Chinese purchase of US debt contributes to the America’s reckless lifestyle.
Or they like putting the panda in – though yeah, I was expecting the Taiwanese Bear to give the lessons in Being Awesome..
So, what’s on David Brooks’ mind today?
What’s the Matter With Republicans?
So, I have seen this column written about six million times by liberal Democratic columnists. I don’t even see how this guy qualifies as a House Republican anymore.
The article also has choice poetic prose such as “A single night of gambling or whatever can produce life-altering bad choices.”
This was basically the entire theme of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” That book was quickly elevated to scripture status by the left so all their commentators keep offering companion interpretations.
So, what’s on David Brooks’ mind today?
Who gives a fuck. How is he even employed?
why do you think they hired Brett Stephens? They need to replace Brooks, so they hired the most-statist, half-republican person they could find. but i expect he will have a shorter shelf life than brooksie, who i think was sustained by the Bush era more than anything.
“Why do working-class conservatives seem to vote so often against their own economic interests?”
/face palm.
Why Trump won reason 45477.
Right??
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vaqR1k6RL4
This is how you independence day. This was last year and I don’t plan on doing it again, but damn it was fun. Sparklers can do a lot more than you think.
For Independence Day, have my favorite G&P character and third-favorite WW2 tank.
Down with the traitors, up with the stars!
I found the equivalent of a playground for Pan Zagloba.
Like that’s me-specific! I cannot comprehend a man who wouldn’t want to go paintballing with tanks.
Happy Canada Day, you guys.
Wait… the queen is still on your money,
Withdrawn.
Least our Queen wasn’t a Wookie for eight years.
if you can replace them with former eastern-european models every few years, they’re not a queen.
But she’s also not a Slovene superhottie for at least four 🙁
Once we come to Charles III, we need a new Cromwell.
You don’t want your female monarchs to be the slutty hot chicks, that’s the job of the aristocracy. You want the proper woman with the half-dead libido that doesn’t make you want to masturbate while in military uniform.
Challenge accepted?
I think I made my opinion on the greatest Queen of England clear before.
Could be the redhead thing, granted – and yes, I know she was an embarrassment later on trying to maintain an illusion of youth, but in her younger days she was supposed to be a bit of totty.
OK, do tell: first and second favorite?
#1 T-34/76 (85mm variant is much better but the huge gun throws the aesthetic off, and it wasn’t as revolutionary), a working man’s tank
#2 Valentine 6pdr variant (Marks VIII-XI?) – it wasn’t a particularly awesome tank, but it looks great, low profile, 6pdr is a good gun overall, and, unlike some other British designs, is reliable and not hangar-queeny
German tanks don’t do it for me (although PIV was a workhorse worthy of respect for lenght of service) compared to their assault guns and tank hunters – StuG III and Hetzer are awesome.
German tanks don’t do it for me
I knew this was really a creepy fetish thing, like those people who fuck cars. A Jagdpanther would probably melt your dick off from the exhaust alone.
Thanks.
You really know your….erm….tanks.
(Psychologists scratch “panzerphilia” off list of terms for “sexual attraction to heavy armor”)
Cursory search says the closest term would be “(h)oplophilia” or “panoplophilia”.
If we allow Latin, “armatophila” has a nice ring.
Y’all are weird. And I love you. And I might or might not be a little drunk.
Cheers, America!
I’m working on it. And yes, I drank a strawberry margarita on the 4th of July.
In summer, we buy these ridiculous things from the local liquor store and add rum or vodka (they already contain alcohol, but spiking it makes it liquid sooner and of course, tastier). You can call it candy, but I love the stuff and don’t have to futz with a blender.
If there was such a thing as a Hickory Daiquiri, I wonder what you’d call the dock on which it was unloaded?
Damn, son! Get thee to a punnery!
Cheers to America from Prussia.
Backatcha! Prost! (?)
This seems like an opportune time to tell you that I enjoy your nick tremendously.
Boom goes the supply side!
Cool! And happy Independence Day to you!
Does “I enjoy your nick tremendously” mean you like my handle, “Hayeksplosives”, or are we talking about something that shouldn’t be on the internet…?
Your handle, I assume — and I concur, one of my favorites of all time.
Many years ago, I was a Republican. As in, I was the president of the Young Republicans group in my high school. (My best friend was president of the Young Democrats, so we hosted joint events, which is how it should frikken work.) Then I got jaded, and my older brother told me I wasn’t a republican, I was a libertarian. I was intrigued and began researching. Hayek was the one whose writing really went straight to my heart. He started writing purely about economics, then went on to philosophy, politics, and life. Because economy is only an indicator of how humans interact!! You can’t separate economy from freedom and humanity.
I recommend reading Hayek’s “The Constitution of Liberty” if you haven’t already read it.
I also routinely give out to High school grads a copy of the Road to Serfdom along with a $20 bill.
We have a local tradition on the 4th called The Ironman. (2 of my friends have won it so far)
Well, today, this happened:
http://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2017-07-04-ktla-reporter-gets-vomited-on-during-live-shot/
Anybody who voluntarily becomes a journalist for a mainstream network deserves that shit.
Ha!
I drank a strawberry margarita on the 4th of July.
It’s cultural appropriation, all the way down.
I just ate a salad for lunch. I hope I don’t go into shock.
Get this man 500 ccs of pulled pork, stat!
I also cleansed in anticipation of meat.
Spinach salad.
Random video which popped up in my feed (i think because i clicked on a story about the McMansions/Zillow thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5wcwy_njB4
has some cool shots of an abandoned subdivision. the first thought i had was, “Do you normally build the houses before you’ve even built a road?” Its like someone just plunked down these 75% complete gaudy homes into the middle of the woods. Great setting for post-apocolyptic indie film.
from the description
“The failure of this project saw that two individuals were sentenced to 5 year jail terms for committing bank fraud.”
We call that the “Jane Sanders”
What’s the McMansions/Zillow thing?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/29/an-online-housing-giant-picked-a-fight-with-a-one-woman-blog-and-lost/
I never got the “cookie-cutter” complaint when what they really don’t like is the also-mentioned “conspicuous consumption”. In fact it seems to me that working-class housing is almost certainly going to be more “cookie-cutter” than a row of McMansions.
Aristocrats traditionally hate aspiring class-jumpers more than they hate the working class, but only by matter of degree. So new aristocracy is disgusted by them both.
Hell, the suburb I grew up in had about 4 different layouts of houses. You went into a couple, you knew them all.
I’m not sure that if a developer can get away with it, they won’t pave the road last so the construction workers don’t ruin the road as the go to work every day. While watching, I assumed the first one was wrecked to strip wire, but I saw wire in the walls. My bet is the sheetrock sub got screwed and his crew went back and wrecked the place.
Probably had plenty of dirt roads that have grown over in the last ten years, there’s no point in paving until the project’s mostly done.
Good for Rauner for not giving in to the Illinois legislature’s little tax racket. That’s one governor that I hope gets reelected.
Does he not understand his role in government kabuki? He was supposed to sign “Rauner Tax Hikes” and get himself honorably defeated next time.
The main actress in this current Godzilla movie of the marathon is quite tasty. In a sexual way.
https://www.google.com/search?q=yumiko+shaku&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsuPeB1fDUAhUDOyYKHTpIBMEQ_AUICigB&biw=320&bih=408
Mmmmmmmmmmm…
IMDB says she was in this, which seems like a movie up your review alley.
Which channel?
El Rey
I approve.
Wash her and bring her to me.
I’ll be on my futon.
Time to buy a futon https://youtu.be/bJhj7n1BJhU
Sargon takes on a journalist screeching about Dangers Of Overheated Rhetoric. Can’t keep from laughing during the video.
As people have said before, antifa are basically delusionally cosplaying revolutionaries. In a similar vein the journalist class is delusionally cosplaying their fetishized self-image as ‘truth tellers’ being oppressed by a horrific regime.
Hi all, I’m back from the folks house with out incident.
Great looking brisket.
This is the sound track playing in my brain every time I BBQ.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQynViAF6Ds
This is the sound track playing in my brain every time I BBQ.
That’s awesome. I don’t know if I’m more impressed with those suits, or that double-neck Mosrite (?) guitar.
good spot on the mosrite. those things are interesting.
https://reverb.com/item/3494311-mosrite-joe-maphis-double-neck-1966-sunburst-layaway-available
On this day, allow me to note, there is one thing no other country will touch: making electric guitars.
Dude, you gotta check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47G-Wa4qfs
That reminds me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRFj2bD0VpE
Good cure for shoulder pain?
Sweet. My wife and I first met at a Rev show and have seen them many times since.
Since this is open BBQ post and I drank all my beer and have moved on to the Bulleit, I have a BBQ etiquette question. I got some take out from a new BBQ joint here last week. We talked to the owner as he awkwardly made our to go cartons and he is a nice guy but having a hard time of it. This is a small town and most new restaurants fail. He is filling a space that another BBQ joint went out of business in last year. Short version of the story is, his BBQ sucked ass. Horrible. It was roasted meat poorly spiced with sauce on the side and his sauce sucked also. One can’t just add black pepper to ketchup and call it a hot BBQ sauce. I have made some shit dishes in my day, (trailer park pizza) but my worst blind drunk effort topped this dudes cooking by a long shot. He is an out of work oil field guy like me so I felt his pain and appreciated his efforts at making a go of a new career.
Should a person give constructive criticism and say, “bro, your food is ass you need to work on it”, or just let him go out of business?
If his food is that bad, he won’t be able to improve it long enough to stay in business.
Er, quickly enough.
His name isn’t Babu is it?
Every major fast food chain and half the minor ones plus one third of all other restaurants seem to do fine selling ‘Ass’ food, fuck the constructive criticism, invest in that shit.
Whoa. That blew my mind. Also, the bourbon blew my mind.
I think its always better to tell the proprietor that their product is subpar than to, say, post shitty reviews on Yelp, etc.
there were a couple of places that opened up in my old hood where I got served basically ‘inedible failures’. I told the proprietors and got 2 entirely different reactions. One told me to fuck off. He went out of business within a few months. The other apologized and explained that he was hiring ex-cons as his cooks and they were all still training. That guy actually got his shit together and had a very successful business for a decade+.
i think doing it right depends on your attitude. i never went asking for my money back or intending to beg for an apology. i just told them because it was probably important that they know. Sometimes they don’t know that their own kitchen is pumping out garbage, and if you come complaining their instinct will be to defend their people.
in your guy’s case, he’s probably fucked either way (as others point out). but its probably good to let him know anyway. its sort of like telling a drunk that they’ve got a drinking problem. No one person will ever convince them. but after 100 people tell them the same thing, it has an effect.
I was cooking at a restaurant, and I told the managers they were doing it wrong. They wouldn’t listen. I got fired. Then a month or so later I heard they got shut down by the health inspector.
In college I worked with a guy who had previously been employed in the security section for Yum brands. He was young and would basically get hired at joints where they suspected fraud and figure out how the owner was skimming. Then they’d bust him.
Anyhow, one of his best stories was he got hired at a Taco Bell in Nashville to figure out what was going on. The problem was that the store was reporting too much revenue. What he found was that the owner hired a bunch of guys from the county work farm. The cons would get off the bus, clock in, give the owner $20 and leave and fuck around for 8 hours. Then they’d come back, get on the bus and go back to the county jail.
The owner was also skimming their wages. Since he was doing so much money on that, he didn’t want to fuck it up by skimming the revenue or cheating the franchise in any way. The result was that he reported a lot more revenue than anyone around him and got busted anyhow.
Most restaurants close down within the first year, it may not make a difference if the food is bad.
No love for sous vide? Shit, I first heard of sous vide cooking from one of you jerks on TOS.
I’m still eating left overs from a pork shoulder that I cooked sous vide for 36 hours and then smoked for 1 hour. I have also been cooking ribs for 36-48 hours in the sous vide cooker before quickly smoking them.
My wife who started out mocking me for my dedication to sous vide cooking has become a believer after eating the ribs.
I can only hope your wife is appreciating it appropriately. I am preparing to unhinge my jaws and “thank” Mr Hayeksplosives for his grilling magic.
May it ever be thus!