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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Sardines in a skillet with oil, lemon, garlic, and parsley is pretty darned delicious. Served on crackers, toasted bread/bagel and yeah, I dig it. -
Think about it for a minute though. The timberland some tribes own in Wisconsin, the mineral resources on the Pine Ridge reservation in SD and other tribal lands across the country, the casino properties, etc Just as many Japanese-Americans lost much of their assets during WWII when they were removed to camps far away from their homes, others stepped in and reaped the windfall of their labor. There are plenty of people who wouldn't bat an eyelash at this type of action. There is a good article in a recent Smithsonian magazine about a few cool Americans who did the right thing and tended farms etc for their neighbors while they were away and welcomed them back when they were able to return.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Mrs Whiggins replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
These are sound ideas; if a certain Tier I SEC university isn't having too much buyer's remorse regarding the jv coach they hired after a very expensive buyout of the former coach, I would say wrap it in maroon and white and dub it The Elkmo and it will probably sell this fall for waay more than the initial purchase price. The key is the timing. Gotta act before the roller coaster hits peak velocity. -
Texas. Apparently (see above post by Diggler) don't mess with Texas means just leave everything everywhere.
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One of my 'hobbies' if you will is picking up trash as I finish my outdoor exercise. If I could catapult some of the drive through coffee shops into the sun I would do it. For what its worth, I don't think it is the boomers who are grabbing an iced coffee, drinking it, and then tossing the ice-filled cup out the window. The weight of the ice tends to force the lid off so instead of one piece of trash it's often cup plus the lid and straw. Even better is when the landscape services don't bother to stop and thus shred the plastic into pieces that are a PITA. I can fill a kitchen sized garbage bag every week (I usually pick up weekly or bi-weekly) simply walking several blocks. The little foil granola bar wrappers are another PITA. At least the shitty beer drinkers have turned to the equally shitty spiked teas and seltzers so I can spot the neon bright cans easily. The one item I don't see so much anymore? Cigarette butts. The vape cartridges have yet to match the numbers, maybe people are better about throwing those away.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Anchovies. You can flavor a lot of pasta, etc with those little buggers. We even got our kids to like them early on. Sorry for the derail. Yeah, eggs are high but I was still able to get a whole chicken for a reasonable price. Bought two and froze one. You can stretch out a roast chicken (pot pie, soup, etc) for a couple of meals if you serve it with a lot of vegetable sides that first night. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Definitely. I could've gone with a global list of rankings based on human rights abuses but many of the players listed above make the top 25 so it seemed pointless. The anti-abortion stance is central to the document and the rejoining may be a harbinger of the next four years w/respect to womens' reproductive healthcare in the US. Oral contraception, which many women take for reasons other than reproduction, is something I would not be surprised to see become forbidden. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
This was first initiated by former SoS Mike Pompeo during the first term of Trump and central to its function is preventing access to abortion, so women having children they cannot feed in impoverished countries, women dying in hospital parking lots, women becoming infertile due to late stage complications, is so much about "allowing" women more opportunities to suffer, which is exactly what Pompeo's rapture based faith seems to promote. Given that many women from these countries experience hell on earth, maybe death is welcome. -
Speaking of endangered species, here is a link on the proposal to place the monarch butterfly on the list. The deadline for comments will be here all too soon (March 12, 2025): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-12-12/pdf/2024-28855.pdf be aware--this is not a short read, so you may wish to skip to how to submit comments with the info below... Some more info The proposal to list the monarch butterfly, and designate critical habitat, will publish in the Federal Register on December 12, 2024. A 90-day comment period will open on December 12, 2024, and will close on March 12, 2025. Information about how to submit comments can be found on regulations.gov by searching for docket number FWS-R3-ES-2024-0137. This docket also includes information about how to attend two virtual public information meetings, and associated public hearings, about this listing proposal. We are woefully behind when it comes to protection of species (lol, including our own). By the time things move to this stage, so much damage has been done. Pollinator numbers are crashing everywhere and yet we seem to think some of our food crops will just bloom and grow without them--when over 80% of flowering species need pollinators for reproduction. Anecdotally, I've certainly witnessed the decline as I have butterfly weed all over the garden. Numbers of adult monarchs and caterpillars have been way down and what is worse is that due to a longer warm season, the ones that arrive to feast and lay eggs are coming quite late and then the offspring cannot emerge from the chrysalis in time to migrate. I used to cut the weed down in the fall to encourage migration, but now it's a matter of just keeping some alive in the hopes that a percentage make it to Mexico. The western monarch (overwinters in California) is at a 95% chance of extinction while the eastern monarch is at a 56-75% chance. Not great to know that the monarch, while an iconic butterfly to most people and readily identified, is likely one of many many species that will disappear in our lifetime.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
However this ends up, whether it turns into a bend-the-knee for federal aid or some grifting scheme, we should never forget President Trump's visit to San Juan, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. -
Our therm is typically set from 65-67 in the colder months. We have warm clothes, blankets, socks(!), etc and the kids learned to use a microwave heatpack if they felt cool in the house. I love the winter months.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Mrs Whiggins replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Edited out the bits about the President as that has its own thread in CR, but speaking of Elon and healthcare...I never paid a whole lot of attention to the neuralink implants other than having some skepticism and also the interesting dilemma of asking for volunteers for the implants among the disabled community to be test subjects. However, now that Mr I Like Government Money and Control is in DC and has his finger in some pies in different sectors, I happened to run across some blurb about TeslaCare, a little handheld device that uses terahertz tech to "operate on the principles of energy healing, utilizing specific frequencies and heating elements to encourage the body’s innate ability to recover. " Yes, you read that correctly. Here is a pic of the device: Strangely, though, I cannot find anything that shows whether this is something manufactured by one of his companies or a quack device that is using the Tesla name to sell pseudo health care. Most of the web info is just fakey reviews and links to buy them (cheapest I saw was around $500.00) but I did locate a business startup registered in New York with a foundation date of 1/18/25. (Yes, I'm wasting my morning break time). Anywho, the domain is using a privacy filter or whatever it's called so I suspect that it's the latter--someone just using the name and trading off of it-- but the RFK Jr. nomination, if it were to succeed, would greatly benefit so many of these types of shit, whether it's Musk grabbing the $$ or some other low end grifter. I mean that game has been going on for centuries, but the wealthiest dude having access to things like the FDA (FDA approved!! You can trust us!), NIH research $$ and so on just grinds my gears. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Mrs Whiggins replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Sometimes I reach the point of no return and I want to leave planet earth but yet I save a prayer for a new religion; one that is kind to others, selfless, and bold in love. You might say I'm hungry for that. Hungry like the wolf. -
touché my friend, touché.
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Since series set in Korea has been under discussion, I did notice last night that season 2 of The Recruit begins at the end of the month (Jan 30). Noah Centineo is the lead; first season got mid reviews but the second (shorter--six episodes) season is has cast Teo Yoo (Past Lives, Leto, and a really funny romcom called Love To Hate You) as the connection Centineo has in Seoul when tasked with an operation in South Korea. Yoo is pretty good so I may watch. Sidenote: I really hate the trend toward truncated seasons now though. I get that some folks prefer it, but why should I care about a story when the characters are so undeveloped and underwhelming. It doesn't have to be a years long Days Of Our Lives soap opera, but Succession was four seasons of ~10 episodes each and rather enthralling. A one or two year commitment of about 16-20 episodes seems like a better long term strategy than a short and awful series but what do I know. I may end up watching that Lucifer series above because it looks interesting and it's got a long play.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Mrs Whiggins replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah, it is crazy isn't it? He went from open hand on heart to stiff fingers with an alacrity that excludes the plausible deniability for which the typical crowd of supporters is known. Elon is someone who, on the one hand, thinks he's the smartest guy in the room (remember all the shitposting he did when it became evident that Twitter was going to be his and people just prior to that, during the takeover, and then on) and yet is filled with insecurities displays behaviors that IMO shows both his distorted belief system and his emotional needs. He's not a leader, he's not emotionally healthy, he's not someone you could trust with anyone or anything you care about. So he has money and is given a platform and we (Americans) have only ourselves to blame. Just because someone says they're on your side doesn't mean they're telling you the truth. He's a high tech grifter and silicon slicky with some powerful contacts and a spigot of our tax dollars. He's going to tighten that lasso on everyone's wallets and keep yanking until we're broke. Yee haw. -
His golf course in Scotland. Two decades ago there was to be a wind farm near where he owned land and wanted to place a course (Aberdeen). He went ahead and built the course several years later and attempted to delay the wind farm with, what else, a court battle and complaining. The windmills went up sometime around then while the lawsuit was going on. He lost the suit and its appeals and ramped up the rhetoric about windmills. It's personal because of course it is.
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Thank you for taking the time--I didn't know that thread existed and will now have a few more things to watch!
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From the article: Umm, is it just me, or did he just describe DEI and certain reactions to it but inverse? I mean, he's referring to his 'morality' which I'm not going to take a stab at guessing how he defines that but I have a pretty good idea that he comes out okey-dokey but others not so much. Then I like (sarcasm alert) this next quote by the senator: It's called a commandment because that is how (you) wish to wield it. It's not encouraging, it's enacting rules and laws that bind others to these while ignoring that many of the earliest documents were crafted by people who were fleeing just such type of "encouragement." The very first commandment, which I notice is lacking mention in the interview is that one shall have no other Gods before me. What principle in education is that serving exactly? What happens if a student takes the Lord's name in vain (#3) in the classroom? Who decides the spectrum upon which the penalty of "vain-ness" is enacted? Is a by gawd it's hot in here going to get a seventh grader sent to detention? Instead of working to assist with restricting access to weapons, mental health support, and other useful ways to spend tax dollars to actually improve education, yes let's command via the law that public schools place the ten commandments in the classroom. It can go right alongside thoughts and prayers the next time commandment #6 is violated.
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It takes a wide lens to view the panorama of hate. I mean, the point about time and development (website) is rational---but then again, it's a little gaslighty to minimize it given the stretch of 2016-2020 actions don't you think? There is an EO (day one or two) that gives Homeland Security rather vague and loose options when coordinating with state and individual law enforcement agencies to act as federal immigration officers. "Just pull 'em over and we got your back!" I disagree with immamac that the EOs are all performative nonsense. Some, sure. But others seem like test balloons. One thing I do agree on is the grift and of course, there is an EO for that: Which is why the EO changing the directives for equal opportunity had to be signed.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
It 100% would have made a difference. Disagree. The grievances were going to be had no matter the topic. The right keeps talking...yes, yes they do. A little less would certainly suit me just fine, but if there is serious self-reflection and thinking prior to speaking, America would be better served, yes? It seems it is too great an ask to have. ...the left keeps thinking they know better. Oh? Didn't realize the right could read minds to know what others are thinking. That's the danger of placing the population in this binary way of right v left regardless. Not going to debate the 'both' sides terminology but the push for 'sides' is what leads to the attitude that is displayed in the next sentences that I'm not quoting. Guess which class of people (hint: those standing at the top of the wealth pyramid) are doing most of the pushing...cha ching. I've had covid 3 times. Sorry for your misfortune. -
If you had already rec'd it on this very long thread, I do apologize as the search function on this website does miss things; but we were thoroughly entertained with this series. I was actually a little surprised that I couldn't find a discussion but then again I think it initially aired stateside as the US was coming out of the worst of covid in 2021 and the algorithm for Netflix suggestions is also not the greatest. The lawyers (paging @TwiceHorn @Brisketexan @Ghost of LL et al) on Surly ought to give it a watch just for the courtroom scene(s) and a couple of other legal maneuverings that were amusing. Thumbs up from us and I now have my eye on both the screenwriter, Park Jae-beom and the director, Kim Hee-won as ones to watch for future endeavors.
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According to the Associated Press, the Spanish language pages also have been removed (SIAP) with the explanation that the website was being "tweaked/updated/insert bullshit here" and would eventually return--a removal that also occurred in 2017 with a similar explanation but the pages were only restored in 2021 under former president Biden. (also according the the AP--no linky because fuck it--some Hispanic voters for Trump are now experiencing the awareness that...well do I need to move this part of the post to the LEPF thread?)
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Oh. I think I finally understand why so many of those Corps of Cadets guys seem to like him.
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'member all those "adults" who were so proud of the FJB phrase and even spent $$ on stickers to display their hard earned 'wit'? Yeah I 'member. So, in that spirit: FDT!
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