— Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
By Blue Bronc, a Trail Mix Contributor
Can you imagine getting hired for the most difficult job on Earth. A job so difficult that those who take it age decades in four years, and are beyond any hair coloring after eight years. A job which requires tremendous diplomatic skills. From Washington to Obama, the man in this job worked hard, and many played hard or drank hard.
Then the little people of America spoke, or rather voted. Although they were not many, they were in the best districts to flip an election to the loser. Some day we will know if they had help from the real nasties of the world.
So, a loser ends up being president. A man so unready that elephants had severe gut bombs hit them. A man who still does not know he won.
What do we do now?
Follow the twit’s twitter tweets? No. You would probably end up blocked because you would mock the idiot and he does not like that. Best to just follow several people like KO. Following others who do follow the senile old man lets you see others who probably would throw their waffle iron through the window when they read certain tweets.
Next, we need to write, call, visit our representatives in the Congress to tell them that the nutso has to be stopped and controlled. Your representative, whether a fruitcake R or a Dem, needs to know you do not approve of someone who thinks people talking to him are talking on the telephone being in office. It may be that your representative or senator is thinking the same thing.
One of the most important points is whether or not the guy is actually working. He spends most of his life not working. He is on “vacation” right now. The problem is I am not sure if prior to this afternoon we do not know if he was working.
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Thanks BB. Very poignant and perfect timing – day 1 of the “vacation”. There’s only one thing that scares me more than drumpf not working, and that is trump working.
your weekly dose of carl Hiaasen:
Huckabee Sanders’ book on Trump will be stranger than fiction
[….]
Voters who actually believed he’d get Mexico to pay might be surprised to hear it’s the “least important” issue between the two countries. Clearly the president’s real phone calls are more politically problematic than his imaginary ones.
While he enjoys a 17-day golf vacation, there will be no rest for Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others in the White House press office. Every day the challenge is to devise creative explanations for Trump’s own words.
And every night you go home, gulp some Advils, and work on your book.
also from the herald:
Al Gore on Miami’s future, new sequel to his climate movie and Donald Trump
This weekend when theaters nationwide begin showing “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” former Vice President Al Gore’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning documentary on climate change, Miami appears as a key supporting cast member.
Gore last visited South Florida in 2015 as part of a training session for his Climate Reality Project that encourages grassroots activism by presenting the slide show that also helped win him a Nobel Peace Prize. The session happened to coincide with a king tide, giving Gore, and a pair of documentary filmmakers trailing him, the perfect opportunity to showcase the perils of rising seas on Miami Beach’s submerged roads.
After breathtaking views of the arctic’s melting polar ice caps, the documentary pivots to soggy South Florida, where Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine takes Gore to see four new massive pumps, part of a half-billion dollar fix to keep the city dry.
“Kind of hard to pump the ocean,” Gore says as dirty storm water sloshes over the tops of his rain boots.
thanks BB, i’m taking the weekend off from TrumpOpera, back to my civic duties Monday. Getting my drivers license renewed today, and smoking a leg lamb for friends tomorrow
A beautiful morning glory to the trail.
extended trump family goes on 17 day spa vacation for botox touch-up, collagen treatments, facelifts, cool sculpting, blood transfusions and of course manis and pedis!
My fellow Americans, we are feeding and housing a lot of rich people since trump’s election heist…plus providing them with security. Meanwhile, the fbi watches us get data raped and no one stops it, tells us it happens and moves to keep it in the shadows…only piece by piece gets to see the light of day.
craig, if you’re lucky to have any lamb left over, lamb curry with couscous or saffron rice is a real treat. be sure to add golden raisins.
This is worth re-linking as just one article on how an election can be digitally stolen and the link between the rnc data, trump data and the fake news to precinct voting level. This crime must be prosecuted and future laws passed so this does not happen again. How does the fbi get to watch a crime in process and not sound the alarm, loudly to all citizens?
from the article —
This wasn’t a completely raw startup. Kushner’s crew was able to tap into the Republican National Committee’s data machine, and it hired targeting partners like Cambridge Analytica to map voter universes and identify which parts of the Trump platform mattered most: trade, immigration or change.
one of my favorite quotes of the week (and from of all people, a faux newser)
“Look, I was a prosecutor for 32 years,” Pirro answered. “You can indict a ham sandwich.”
and, believe it or not, the ham sandwich in question actually passed it along in a twit tweet
also on Miami underwater from wapo:
Flooding in Miami is no longer news — but it’s certainly newsworthy
look who else is on vacation — putie fishing.
It seems putie and trump are planning an upcoming episode of ‘Undercover Boss.” I wonder how putie will disguise himself to get to the heart-wrenching life stories from the US branch office, WH location. Who will get fired, who will get promoted at the tear jerking end of the show?
J K Rowling was nice enough to tweet one of my favorite quotes: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. In reading the whole article on Heinlein’s Razor which gave the credit, I came across the Sturgeon’s Law from another fine Science Fiction Author: “ninety percent of everything is crap”.
Apparently Trump is doing his damnedest to fulfill both aphorisms while serving as a constant reminder to not rule out malice.
90%? I thought the rule was 80/20.
clarification on sturgeon’s law vs. the Pareto (80/20) principle.
d’souza visits gorka and bannon whilst trump prepares for vacay. Delivers summer reading list.
A change in rnc staffers…and a return to data at the rnc for fired walsh.
“It seems putie and trump are planning an upcoming episode of ‘Undercover Boss.'” -BW
haha, good visual
The Mercers, Putie so many puppet masters no wonder they are jerking around
Craig, have a couple cans of spaghetti on the counter for those friends who shriek, “Mutton, yeww!” as they enter your domain.
ha, Flatus, good advice but I cleared the lamb with dinner guests in advance. I always do that these days, there are so many picky eaters out there. About the only food I can’t stand is liver and onions
i’ll be at DMV about 12:45p ET — will wave to the web cam:
https://dmv.dc.gov/node/823652
They are all Trump
In searching for all the variations on quotes about the human ability to do pratfalls, my newly learned favorite is from the British:
“Cockup Before Conspiracy” applied generously to Brexit.
flatus & craig, I found a lot of that cooked ewe-iness goes away the less fat and the more garlic there is.
and make sure it’s well-dressed with herbs…
but you can forget the above garter belt if grilling
Really good with lamb marinade of chili paste and pomegranate molasses
too bad there’s not a chart showing the number of purposeful leaks from wh to skew the conversation away from trumpRussia inc. to distract, misdirect and to spread disinformation. I agree with mojo as reported by realclearpolitics:
On Friday’s edition of ‘Morning Joe,’ host Joe Scarborough said media people are beginning to speculate about the possibility that the Trump White House itself leaked the transcripts of President Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia. He suggested that because the media jumped on them so fast, even though the leak of a high level conversation between world leaders seems unseemly, perhaps Trump himself planned it to make the media look bad.
I love lamb. For a leg, I use slivers of garlic nicely spaced along the outside of the leg. Herb of choice is Rosemary, then, of course, sea salt and freshly ground pepper. I’ve not tried smoking one; I always count on the drippings for a wonderful gravy.
Usually I start my carving in the kitchen; that allows me to capture and use the flood of juices in the gravy. I generally cook mine medium rare. It also gives me a chance to reclaim the slivers of garlic thereby precluding surprises. And, as a minimum, I’ll enlarge the flat spot upon which I want the cut to rest as I do the rest of the carving at the table. Then, after double checking the wine…
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wow, got thru drivers license renewal in exactly one hour, including wait time. not bad, especially for DC gov.
But, you live in Virginia
Just now – UN Security Council Unanimously passes new ventures or business deals w/no Kors.
We’ll see.
nope Flatus, TM HQ is in the belly of the DC beast, 1.2 mile from WH
I put an aluminum foil handmade pan underneath smoking lamb and get plenty of drippings for a nice sauce
And, after imbibing, it’ll make a dandy hat!
My nephew’s memory of my father’s sister is “I like my lamb bloody.”
Hi gang – sorry I haven’t been on lately – but you see I’ve been on vacation ;o). Actually a week at Rice U in seminars and then a week moving my daughter cross country to Penn State for law school.
I can tell you two things after coming back:
1. Watching the news – it seems to me that I wasn’t gone for more than a couple of minutes. Same BS, same turmoil, same indecision, same Trump!
2. If you ever, and I mean ever, want to get a really good idea what Congress should be addressing – just drive a 26 ft U-Haul 1700 miles across I-70 and our other highways. Our infrastructure is shit – they know it – and they don’t care.
“…I-70 and our other highways. Our infrastructure is shit.”
Really? I find I-70 to be rather smooth sailing. What state were you in when you beheld it with disfavor?
Used to run I-70 out west quite a bit, but dat was 30 yrs ago
Blink – Oklahoma, Misery, Indiana and Ohio to Columbus – where we turned North towards Cleveland and the best freeway I drove on.
And, of course, going through St. Louis was the worst. Interesting note: I grew up in St. Louis from birth to 18 – the same roads were horrible and under construction in what I remember the same places.
Three states have claimed the title of first Interstate Highway. Missouri claims that the first three contracts under the new program were signed in Missouri on August 2, 1956. The first contract signed was for upgrading a section of US Route 66 to what is now designated Interstate 44. On August 13, 1956, Missouri awarded the first contract based on new Interstate Highway funding; this work began on US 40 (now I-70) in St. Charles County.[17]
Kansas claims that it was the first to start paving after the act was signed. Preliminary construction had taken place before the act was signed, and paving started September 26, 1956. The state marked its portion of I-70 as the first project in the United States completed under the provisions of the new Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.[17]
The Pennsylvania Turnpike could also be considered one of the first Interstate Highways. On October 1, 1940, 162 miles (261 km) of the highway now designated I‑70 and I‑76 opened between Irwin and Carlisle. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refers to the turnpike as the Granddaddy of the Pikes.[17]
Leg of lamb. Sounds really good. I baked mine with thin lemon slices for a dash of citrus flavor and removed before serving. What time is dinner?
Welcome back dvitale. Best wishes to the university bound.
Always get the lamb when I go to a Greek Restaurant but have never cooked any…..The Other “don’t like lamb”
I find that I can trust the “Grecians”……..
I remember I70 back in the day. Take the old Dodge and wind it out, see how fast it’ll go. speedometer pegged at 140mph as I remember and we got a little more out of it. No traffic, just the occasional Highway patrol or local Deputy dog. Now you are lucky to get up to speed limit anywhere between KC and St Louis, No wonder millennials don’t drive, no fun in it any more.
Jack
“never attribute to evil when stupidity will suffice”
a good rule of thumb. First heard it from a professor I had in the backwater directional U that I attended. He was a Harvard grad, building a resume for greater things, the same year he got a MacArthur genius grant and moved on. Mid 70’s It wasn’t original to him at the time. But is by far the best version, I like the succinctness of it.
Jack
Let me add Jack’s 50% observation to the mix
When dealing with any bureaucratic organization 50% of the people you talk to know what they are doing, 50% of them care enough to help you.
God help us from ignorant caring people, the damage they can do….
Jack
https://youtu.be/jQ5tKh0aBDc
eprof, flatus & anyone else who cares my lamb leg is now in my homemade marinade of many citrus juices, olive oil and spices overnight for tossing in the smoker early afternoon tomorrow.
Sounds like a recipe for delicious Poobah. Mrs p loves lamb chops and I’m not bad at grilling them. And I like them too.
Craig,
The lamb sounds delicious. You are hitting me where I live. Enjoy! ?
Flatus,
Do you have a ‘go to’ wine that you serve with your lamb?
“About the only food I can’t stand is liver and onions”
Craig,
Have been told that liver and onions is an acquired taste. After almost 63 years I’ve yet to acquire it. Just don’t like it. How something that can smell so good while it is cooking can taste so bad is quite beyond me.
Warming up in the anti-Trump bull pen
Republican Shadow Campaign
Craig/Jace
Add me to the “I’ll eat dirt before liver” crowd.
George Lopez, killin’ it, right now.
Where?
Kennedy center. “Gluten hasn’t hit the Mexican community, yet.”
My Liver & Onion Recipe
1. Slice up 2 medium sweet onions. Place in frying pan with butter.
2. Salt and pepper to taste. Add a pinch of garlic powder.
3. Fry up the mess of onions until they are just past pearly, and getting yellow. Remove from heat.
4. Throw out the liver.
Serves two.
I never met a lamb I didn’t like. From rare to well done. They were all wonderful. Only duck and Black Crappies (or American Shad) are equal to lamb. However, I haven’t eaten giraffe, rhinoceros, pangolin, sloth, bats, whooping crane, wombat, human, and a few other critters. I’ve led a sheltered life.
Welcome home, Mr 300.
lamb is one of the meats I am very picky about. It has to be American, preferably from Colorado or Wyoming, although Eastern is good too. I like mine pink, no matter what it is cooked with or in. A few months ago I discovered a grocery store which puts its lamb on sale on certain day.
Liver and onions is a very good meal, if done right. Beef liver should be thick, I like an inch, then put in a milk bath for many hours. Drain then drenched in seasoned flour, then fried to a light brown and the meat slightly pink. Calf liver, if thick cut can be grilled and served with melted butter, again it should be light pink inside.
It is a bright moon tonight. Very nice.
I like some chopped liver recipes. It needs plenty of egg and garlic, and figure a dash of pepper to each crackerful. You can add the salt after the cooking, grinding, and mixing until you think it has just enough. I prefer beef chopped liver to chicken. The liver should be hard boiled, not fried. Course ground after boiling is okay. Ground like commercial liver sausage is waaaay too fine. You want to be able to feel some texture on your tongue.
Some times I want a caper or two on top. A nasturtium (Genus Tropaeolum) leaf on the cracker will do in place of a caper, and keep the chopped liver from making the cracker soggy. High in protein, vitamin B, and iron. I like it with dry red wine or a brown ale.