Sturgeone Pond, with Yeaster Lilies.
(Why do pond names come first and lake names come second? Ā Walden Pond and Lake Placid.) Ā Ā
I too was thinking āGORDO RETURNSā but had decided to suppress the urge.
Not sure of your part of the country.Ā What sort of denizens are likely to lurk under all that beauty?Ā
No gators so far, mostly frogs, turtles, and fishies, with maybe an otter or snake crossing or twoĀ
And plenty of water birds, egret, storks, herons, etc
Jamie – good thing it is continuing to rock and roll.Ā If it ever stopped that would be the time to be concerned.Ā Just like the Yellowstone caldera, that one is going to make a mess of Wyoming.
sturge, good question about the names.Ā maybe that’s the real reason behind the brit’s reference to the atlantic ( u.s. being across the pond). Ā no ocean pacific, artic or indianā¦ so must all be ponds? or ponds are oceans?Ā and what about the dead sea? Ā
patd – speaking of the “Pond”.Ā Here is Lost in the Pond, a fun look at the differences between Britain and the U.S.
In the good news department, First Lady and Mr. P are back sprucing up their Arboretum nest.Ā It got a little voyeuristic and several hundred of their fans wereĀ on line to confirm they mated three times (THREE) Yeah!.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) showed how not to use protective gloves during a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in Miami on Wednesday.
DeSantis was criticized and ridiculed in equal measure on Twitter after he wore a glove on his left hand, but bizarrely not on his right. He also touched his face with his bare hand (against advice from public health officials) and clasped both hands together.
DeSantis initially resisted calls to issue a statewide stay-at-home order to combat the spread of the virus, which has now killed almost 15,000 people nationwide. He finally relented on April 1.
āHalf-assing it just like he has with this #coronavirus management,ā one Twitter user commented on DeSantisā decision to wear just one glove.
Thoreau was a goofy little critter, speaking of Walden Pond. I think he was one mess kit shy of a camping trip.
Oh, plenty of wild turkeys and hawks of various types, but so far no eagles.Ā
Sturg, nice pond. Think āskeeters might breed in it, or are they so thick in your area whatās one pond more or less anyway?
Joe will pick who Joe will pick. Heās said his VP will be a woman and perhaps a minority. Ok. I say focus on someone who can boost minority turnout in Fl, PA, MI & WI. Oh, and someone who is smart.Ā
Facing the sunrise, thereās a meadow to the right, the pond is in front, and to the left a salt water tidal creeklet. Ā On those super high tides the salt water bleeds into the pond so itās not purely fresh water as itās a dug out pond and has no outlet. (Dig 3 feet here and you strike water.) like if you dammed a stream. Ā Itās big enough to avoid being stagnant. But at any rate the land is a bluff with great breeze and the county does a lot of āmosquito controlā for the landed gentry and the tourists so the upshot is that the pesky mosquitoes mostly hang out over there in the woods which I studiously avoid.
in ky OTOH so to speak,
Ā
(CNN)Kentucky is urging residents to avoid Easter services this weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic, warning that anyone who attends in person will be ordered to quarantine for 14 days.
Officials are aware of about six churches planning to hold in-person services, Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement. The state police will record attendeesā license plates and notify them it is a misdemeanor violation of orders issued by state health officials, the governor said.
āLocal health officials then will contact the people associated with those vehicles and require them to self-quarantine for 14 days. This is the only way we can ensure that your decision doesnāt kill someone else,ā Beshear said.
Itās crucial for the state to take the measures especially after an outbreak that left dozens sick and multiple people dead in Hopkins County was traced to a church revival there last month, he said.
āFolks, we shouldnāt have to do this,ā he said. āWhat weāre asking is for you to love your neighbor as yourself. We shouldnāt have to do this.ā
There are at least 1,693 coronavirus confirmed cases and 90 deaths in Kentucky so far, according to Johns Hopkins University.
āThe next couple of weeks being absolutely critical not only to us blunting or flattening the curve but really protecting those that are most vulnerable, especially our seniors that are in different types of assisted living facilities,ā he said.
In a tweet Friday, Sen. Rand Paul, who is recovering from coronavirus, criticized the governor.
āTaking license plates at church? Quarantining someone for being Christian on Easter Sunday? Someone needs to take a step back here,ā the US Senator for Kentucky said.Ā
Well we should ~~certainly listen ~~ to an idiot like Rand Paul. Shit, the Pogo family had to self-quarantine in East Bumfuck because we had been to NYC. Rand exposed a fair number of his colleagues, self absorbedĀ dumbfuck that he is.
in case you need pictures to get the point of the floriduh man comment
Rand Paul and Louie Gohmert are running neck and neck.
good news silver lining in the dark clouds from the guardian:
A nationwide lockdown imposed across India almost two weeks ago to stop the spread of the coronavirus ā the largest lockdown of its kind attempted anywhere ā has led to widespread chaos and suffering, especially among the countryās 300 million poor. Yet in Delhi, the worldās most polluted city, it has also resulted in some of the freshest air the capital has seen in decades.
It is a lockdown silver lining being repeated across the world, as toxic megacities such as Bangkok, Beijing, SĆ£o Paulo and BogotĆ”, where varying coronavirus restrictions have been imposed, all reported an unprecedented decline in pollution. Yet it is countered with one cruel irony: with most residents of these cities strictly confined to their homes, few have any way to appreciate this newly fresh air, except through an open window or a during speedy trip to the supermarket.
In Delhi, air quality index (AQI) levels are usually a severe 200 on a good day (anything above 25 is deemed unsafe by World Health Organization). During peak pollution periods last year they soared well into a life-threatening 900 and sometimes off the measurable scale. But as Delhiās 11m registered cars were taken off the roads and factories and construction were ground to a halt, AQI levels have regularly fallen below 20. The skies are suddenly a rare, piercing blue. Even the birdsong seems louder.
Dr Shashi Tharoor, a politician and author who has been vocal on environmental issues, said he hoped that it was a wake-up call. āThe blissful sight of blue skies and the joy of breathing clean air provides just the contrast to illustrate what we are doing to ourselves the rest of the time,ā said Tharoor. āToday the typical Delhi AQI hovers around 30 and one blissful afternoon, after a spurt of rain, it dropped to 7.ā
patD – If we make it to Christmas, everyone is getting liquid soap and hand sanitizer.
Sturg…. I LOVE that picture. Ā I grew up with a small pond in my backyard. Ā Had lots of birds, turtles, and a pair of muskrats.
Ā
Well… Ā I, for one, found Bink’s response last night to Nash funny as hell!
Ā
ps… Ā Rick got an email yesterday telling him that the annual meeting of the Thoreau Society in Concord Massachusetts this July has been canceled.
renee, if you are referring to his cookie offer comment, yeah LOL
BiD, for COBOL Iād guess your best bets are BlueBronc or Flatus.Ā
Yes, I too enjoyed Binkās and patdās responses to Nash.Ā
bId – COBOL is a business language that was popular enough to be used by millions of companies and governments.Ā They should have learned their lesson in 1999-2000 and switched to something more in tune with the new world.Ā Say clay tablets and sticks. Yes, I know COBOL, I am still trying to remember if I ever used it professionally, if I did it would have been in the Seventies or Eighties.Ā I have a day job which is now going to be extended a year or two longer than expected due to my retirement stuff being creamed due to a moron, so I don’t think I want to wrack my brain on any project.Ā I have to deal with Linux, C (and variations), Python, PHP, R, RoR, ROS, Java, Java script, Microsoft macros, and a couple more in my day job.Ā Adding COBOL would make me a very screwed (even more than now) up woman.
Excellent pics & cartoons. What can ya say about repubes like DeSantis? Dumb MFers.
Craig, when this is over, or wanes, we all should meet in Orlando at Hogwarts.Ā I need a new wand.
Yes, if your current wand canāt fix this mess, you need a new one.Ā
BB – Clay tablet & sticks! Ha! Ā (Vaguely remember an old boyfriend using COBOL and FORTRAN, Ā I think.) Ā Iām surprised things havenāt been upgraded. Ā You know, with 17 million of us on the dole, theyād better have super-duper security on those state sites…and I suspect they do not.
Sturgeon Pond. That is so cool and the pond is beautiful
Itās Stur-JOE-nayĀ
lol
When my ancestors came over they dropped the āeā to āfit in gooderā. Ā Me and a few others around the country decided to put it back where it belongs.
āEā is a very important letter. Makes me think of budwEisEr…….
Because it IS a perfect day for Banana fish.Ā
Five Stages of Covid-19 Infection (one of those “not-so-damn-funny” jokes)
Day One: you go to a party with a group of close friends.
Day Two: you develop a cough, a headache, and a fever.
Day Three: you are extremely ill and you spend the whole day in your pajamas, watching Trump on TV and cursing your fate.Ā You start making a ābucket listā of things you want to do before you die, and then you realize you barely have enough energy to get to the bathroom, let alone Paris.
Day Four:Ā you are feeling much better so you take a shower and clean your house.
Day Five: You are so happy to be alive that you invite a group of close friends over for a party.
Jamie:Ā Krakatoa is one of the wonders of the world.Ā Thanks for the news update.
After years of badgering people to bring your bags, for some reason now you canāt bring because apparently they are germ factories. Ā People wash your bags! Ā Must be the same people who donāt wash there pet dishes
So, is Cali using brown paper bags, exclusively, for retail transactions, now?
good timely quote gov Cuomo started with this morning
Unfortunately, i surmise weāre at the middle of the beginning.
Guitar guy goes to great lengths to show exactly why he thinks Lennon was a genius rhythm guitarist.Ā
for this last night. Ā agree or disagree with maher or with daily beast’s stern? Ā
Bink
yes to the paper bag or you can have plastic. Ā The paper bags are cheap shit and they arenāt allowed to double bag
Bill Maher is just a troll trying to stay relevant, only HBO and some limelight-seeking political nerds are fooled by his casual racism.
Thanks for your reply, KGC
Oh, F The Daily Beast, the high and mighty, PC police. Ā Ā Bill is right. Ā Weāre gonna PC ourselves to death. Ā Itās the Wuhan virus. Ā More specifically, the Wuhan Virology virus. Ā Based on our report, folks were keeling over in November, not after the December wet market. Ā But whether a lab accident or a wet market, culture and tradition are often used to support cruelty. Ā Folks like July 4th BBQs here, but grilling animal flesh is cruel. Ā Itās the Wuhan virus, based on the outbreak. Ā Itās the China virus, based on that governmentās lies to cover it up. Ā Itās also Trumpās plague, based on his lies and poor decisions once the virus landed in this country. Ā Maybe he can use those ~tremendous~ negotiating skills to recoup losses from China for their virus.
Ā
Let the hypocrites go to church. One can only hope that there will be a few less votes for SFB
You think American racists would call for a shutdown of the industrial livestock industry if a coronavirus jumped from a cow to a human in Montana?
Calling it āWuhan Virusā is just a blame-shifting attempt to try and absolve trumpco for its inept response, full stop.
More locusts swarming, bringing famine. Ā Letās see, we had fires in Australia. Now plague has spread far and wide. Ā Whatās Ā next, red tide or frogs?
Folks everywhere need to leave animals the F alone. Ā Stop trapping them, stop experimenting on them, stop killing them, stop eating them.
This is isolated tracks from the Beatles recording Sgt Pepperās…..
BiD & bink,Ā we wouldn’t be having this argument if IMpotus hadn’t made such a big damn deal of repeatedly calling it the china virus with emphasis on the china part and if media had accepted the Wuhan VirusĀ version I’ve seen used by the virologists.Ā I don’t even think the mega MAGAts would be harassing Chinese-Americans any more than they usually harass any other non-MAGAt had SFB not kept blowing his dog whistle about it.Ā
Well…. I, for one, can’t wait ’til it gets warmer around here and we can drag out the gas grill and throw a couple of ribeye steaks on it….. Ā YUM!
Stay sane, peoples. Ā Keep crazy out the same way you are with Covid-19. āļøā¤ļøšŗšø
There are idiots and then there are idiots. They are.Ā
I donāt agree with Maher on this. While itās true that viruses and other illnesses have been mine for the geographic origin of them, the president of the US didnāt name any of those prior viruses or flus – that was done by the scientists working on them or the media covering their spread, or …. Ā SFB meant for China virus to be an offensive racial slur as red meat for his racist base. Ā The virus is known as COVID-19. Ā That should be good enough.Ā
Renee, grilling season is underway here. So far, steak, chicken and burgers. Last outing was last night (burgers). I also smoked a pork loin last Sunday, and it was delicious.Ā
bId — it’s the bean counters who kill upgrades.Ā They look at the cost and time of implementing a new system and say no way.Ā They look at the immediate costs of systems people, developers, computers, software, dual systems, new everything and the years it will take to move a large system to a new system.Ā What they do not look at, page ten in the memo, is the current system is not secure, cannot be made secure, does not contain current software, the software is obsolete and cannot do the job, the programmers and systems people have retired and to do the upgrade in the future will cost a hundred times more and take a hundred years longer to get running.
This is what living with a cast for two months ends up with.Ā I did wash a few of these a couple weeks ago, but being here twenty-four/seven means cooking more meals.Ā I usually cook from scratch so I need more pots and pans for a meal.Ā Now that the cast is off I can lookforward to more cooking space. Next up is trying to rearrange the storage room and then the server and routers.
Well I just bought a rack of lamb and I like Flatus’s idea of drippings over rice, Fresh asparagus from the garden. As I would have to go out again amongst the germy people for spring greens…. hmmm, I do have Iceberg lettuce, blue cheese, bacon. That would be Mrs Jacks favorite salad, the wedge salad. As a child she loved just plain lettuce, no dressing, nothing.Ā
OH, I love this social isolation, I get to eat all 8 lamb chops. Ā Over the grill,Ā rare…ā¦.. As much as I would like to, I can’t share don’t want to be responsible for someone getting sick…ā¦. Did I say cooked rare?
Ā
Jack
BBĀ
The secret is to not own that many pans, The more pans you have the higher you can pile them before you say, OK I’ll wash the dishes.
Jack
BB couldnāt wash the pans wrist in a cast
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/world/yanomami-amazon-coronavirus-brazil-trnd/index.html
Thatās a lot of pans. Ā I have 4, but only 1 fits in the cupboard ; the others live in the dishwasher. Ā If I need one, Ā I take it out and wash it by hand; they all get washed about 2 or 3 times a week when I run the dishwasher, even though they probably havenāt been used. Ā
Folks need to re-prioritize budgets to include the thing we rely on most, which is tech. Ā
I miss open-faced, radish sandwiches with Blue Bonnet margarine on rye bread with a little salt on top. Ā Ā My Danish, great-grandma always cut them in half. Ā A half slice of bread was one, whole sandwich to her. Ā Heaven forbid you wanted more than ā2ā sandwiches, which was just one slice of bread. Ā Ā
All time favorite liverwurst on rye mustard and onion
KGB
Yes and?
I liked my breakfast sandwich this morning PB&J with a fried egg. Quick easy and I got out the door.
Jack
KGC – I have been planning on making bread just for sandwiches like that!Ā Usually I make rye bread, which is good for certain sandwiches, but for a liverwurst the bread has to be a white but a nice European white.Ā Liverwurst is so good done right.Ā I was the only kid in grade school who proudly ate liverwurst sandwiches.Ā Of course right after WWII some German things were a bit of an issue with some folks.
Ā
Jack – tonight I have two lamb rib chops for which I am still making up my mind on what to do with them.Ā One option (the favorite since five o’clock this morning) is to roast a few cloves of garlic until soft and sweet, sear the lamb chops then finish in an oven.Ā Now the problem is time.Ā It is getting late and all that would take almost two hours.Ā So. . . perhaps brunch could be something like that. Then for tonight I can reheat a couple of crab cakes I made last night from crab I picked last October. Yum.
and nothing perfect as is
BB
Iāve never had it on white bread. Probably good on sour dough. Ā I donāt have liverwurst too often these days
BB
As I remember the last time I just did olive oil with salt, garlic and Black pepper. Good lamb doesn’t need much. I looked on line and they all looked like a good way to ruin tasty meat.Ā I used to over cook them but once I tasted lamb chops rare I never cook them any other way. I have a counter top convection oven and I set it on 400, brown the fat, pull it out and serve.Ā
Jack
Ms Dallas,
What do you do to get vitamin B-12 ? I need barrels of it to keep the stinging down.
Iāve got a boneless leg-o-lamb. From a lamb very unsteady on its feet Iād wager.Ā
Jack, right on, bruddah.Ā
From the Wikipedia article on alex azar :Ā In 2018, National Security Adviser John Bolton dismantled the task force charged with responsibility for planning and response to epidemics. The team’s leader, Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, was the leader of the anti-malarial efforts under presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.[48] White House Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert, who had advocated a comprehensive biodefense strategy against both pandemics and potential biological attacks, departed from the White House on the same day Bolton arrived.
Named Ivar the Boneless ?
Garden of Life Vitamin Code Raw B12
I donāt know what āstingingā youāre talking about, but magnesium helps with pain, as well as turmericĀ
Which may be why patients who require ventilation are less likely to recover and even have damage from the ventilator if they do recover. Ā Theyāre mechanically manipulating the lungs, but thereās not enough oxygen in the blood.Ā
NPR tiny desk concert has a new video up, a tribute to John Prine
Just for grins and chuckles I wrote down the programming languages I have worked with professionally.Ā There are many that I do not remember because it would be for something like a seventies calculator or something I saw once or twice as an electronic technician.Ā I do not write code anymore, but I have to be able to read it and troubleshoot things so the list contains a couple of the newer languages.Ā I am going to learn more of them as my system moves to the cloud. Ā Fortran, ADA, Pascal, PL1, LISP, Basic, C, C , C#, C , Python, R, Ruby on Rails, ROS, JAVA, Java script, Unix, Linux, 4-bit Forth, 8-bit Forth, DOS, Windows, many assembler languages, Android stuff, PERL, SQL, and many more. Oh, I do not remember using COBOL professionally.
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sturge, your very own walden pond?
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Sturgeone Pond, with Yeaster Lilies.
(Why do pond names come first and lake names come second? Ā Walden Pond and Lake Placid.) Ā Ā
I too was thinking āGORDO RETURNSā but had decided to suppress the urge.
Not sure of your part of the country.Ā What sort of denizens are likely to lurk under all that beauty?Ā
No gators so far, mostly frogs, turtles, and fishies, with maybe an otter or snake crossing or twoĀ
And plenty of water birds, egret, storks, herons, etc
Krakatowa is blowing its stack again
Jamie – good thing it is continuing to rock and roll.Ā If it ever stopped that would be the time to be concerned.Ā Just like the Yellowstone caldera, that one is going to make a mess of Wyoming.
sturge, good question about the names.Ā maybe that’s the real reason behind the brit’s reference to the atlantic ( u.s. being across the pond). Ā no ocean pacific, artic or indianā¦ so must all be ponds? or ponds are oceans?Ā and what about the dead sea? Ā
patd – speaking of the “Pond”.Ā Here is Lost in the Pond, a fun look at the differences between Britain and the U.S.
In the good news department, First Lady and Mr. P are back sprucing up their Arboretum nest.Ā It got a little voyeuristic and several hundred of their fans wereĀ on line to confirm they mated three times (THREE) Yeah!.
Egg watch now begins.Ā Ā
gov epitome of the infamous “floriduh man”
huffpo:
Thoreau was a goofy little critter, speaking of Walden Pond. I think he was one mess kit shy of a camping trip.
Oh, plenty of wild turkeys and hawks of various types, but so far no eagles.Ā
Sturg, nice pond. Think āskeeters might breed in it, or are they so thick in your area whatās one pond more or less anyway?
Joe will pick who Joe will pick. Heās said his VP will be a woman and perhaps a minority. Ok. I say focus on someone who can boost minority turnout in Fl, PA, MI & WI. Oh, and someone who is smart.Ā
Facing the sunrise, thereās a meadow to the right, the pond is in front, and to the left a salt water tidal creeklet. Ā On those super high tides the salt water bleeds into the pond so itās not purely fresh water as itās a dug out pond and has no outlet. (Dig 3 feet here and you strike water.) like if you dammed a stream. Ā Itās big enough to avoid being stagnant. But at any rate the land is a bluff with great breeze and the county does a lot of āmosquito controlā for the landed gentry and the tourists so the upshot is that the pesky mosquitoes mostly hang out over there in the woods which I studiously avoid.
in ky OTOH so to speak,
Ā
oops, edited out the link to above CNN story
Well we should ~~certainly listen ~~ to an idiot like Rand Paul. Shit, the Pogo family had to self-quarantine in East Bumfuck because we had been to NYC. Rand exposed a fair number of his colleagues, self absorbedĀ dumbfuck that he is.
in case you need pictures to get the point of the floriduh man comment
Rand Paul and Louie Gohmert are running neck and neck.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-programmers-new-jersey-trnd/index.html
Anyone still know COBOL?
good news silver lining in the dark clouds from the guardian:
patD – If we make it to Christmas, everyone is getting liquid soap and hand sanitizer.
Sturg…. I LOVE that picture. Ā I grew up with a small pond in my backyard. Ā Had lots of birds, turtles, and a pair of muskrats.
Ā
Well… Ā I, for one, found Bink’s response last night to Nash funny as hell!
Ā
ps… Ā Rick got an email yesterday telling him that the annual meeting of the Thoreau Society in Concord Massachusetts this July has been canceled.
renee, if you are referring to his cookie offer comment, yeah LOL
BiD, for COBOL Iād guess your best bets are BlueBronc or Flatus.Ā
Yes, I too enjoyed Binkās and patdās responses to Nash.Ā
bId – COBOL is a business language that was popular enough to be used by millions of companies and governments.Ā They should have learned their lesson in 1999-2000 and switched to something more in tune with the new world.Ā Say clay tablets and sticks. Yes, I know COBOL, I am still trying to remember if I ever used it professionally, if I did it would have been in the Seventies or Eighties.Ā I have a day job which is now going to be extended a year or two longer than expected due to my retirement stuff being creamed due to a moron, so I don’t think I want to wrack my brain on any project.Ā I have to deal with Linux, C (and variations), Python, PHP, R, RoR, ROS, Java, Java script, Microsoft macros, and a couple more in my day job.Ā Adding COBOL would make me a very screwed (even more than now) up woman.
Excellent pics & cartoons. What can ya say about repubes like DeSantis? Dumb MFers.
Craig, when this is over, or wanes, we all should meet in Orlando at Hogwarts.Ā I need a new wand.
Yes, if your current wand canāt fix this mess, you need a new one.Ā
BB – Clay tablet & sticks! Ha! Ā (Vaguely remember an old boyfriend using COBOL and FORTRAN, Ā I think.) Ā Iām surprised things havenāt been upgraded. Ā You know, with 17 million of us on the dole, theyād better have super-duper security on those state sites…and I suspect they do not.
Sturgeon Pond. That is so cool and the pond is beautiful
Itās Stur-JOE-nayĀ
lol
When my ancestors came over they dropped the āeā to āfit in gooderā. Ā Me and a few others around the country decided to put it back where it belongs.
āEā is a very important letter. Makes me think of budwEisEr…….
Because it IS a perfect day for Banana fish.Ā
Five Stages of Covid-19 Infection (one of those “not-so-damn-funny” jokes)
Day One: you go to a party with a group of close friends.
Day Two: you develop a cough, a headache, and a fever.
Day Three: you are extremely ill and you spend the whole day in your pajamas, watching Trump on TV and cursing your fate.Ā You start making a ābucket listā of things you want to do before you die, and then you realize you barely have enough energy to get to the bathroom, let alone Paris.
Day Four:Ā you are feeling much better so you take a shower and clean your house.
Day Five: You are so happy to be alive that you invite a group of close friends over for a party.
Jamie:Ā Krakatoa is one of the wonders of the world.Ā Thanks for the news update.
After years of badgering people to bring your bags, for some reason now you canāt bring because apparently they are germ factories. Ā People wash your bags! Ā Must be the same people who donāt wash there pet dishes
So, is Cali using brown paper bags, exclusively, for retail transactions, now?
good timely quote gov Cuomo started with this morning
Unfortunately, i surmise weāre at the middle of the beginning.
Guitar guy goes to great lengths to show exactly why he thinks Lennon was a genius rhythm guitarist.Ā
boy, did bill get slammed by daily beast atĀ
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-goes-on-despicably-racist-rant-against-china-over-coronavirus
for this last night. Ā agree or disagree with maher or with daily beast’s stern? Ā
Bink
yes to the paper bag or you can have plastic. Ā The paper bags are cheap shit and they arenāt allowed to double bag
Bill Maher is just a troll trying to stay relevant, only HBO and some limelight-seeking political nerds are fooled by his casual racism.
Thanks for your reply, KGC
Oh, F The Daily Beast, the high and mighty, PC police. Ā Ā Bill is right. Ā Weāre gonna PC ourselves to death. Ā Itās the Wuhan virus. Ā More specifically, the Wuhan Virology virus. Ā Based on our report, folks were keeling over in November, not after the December wet market. Ā But whether a lab accident or a wet market, culture and tradition are often used to support cruelty. Ā Folks like July 4th BBQs here, but grilling animal flesh is cruel. Ā Itās the Wuhan virus, based on the outbreak. Ā Itās the China virus, based on that governmentās lies to cover it up. Ā Itās also Trumpās plague, based on his lies and poor decisions once the virus landed in this country. Ā Maybe he can use those ~tremendous~ negotiating skills to recoup losses from China for their virus.
Ā
Let the hypocrites go to church. One can only hope that there will be a few less votes for SFB
You think American racists would call for a shutdown of the industrial livestock industry if a coronavirus jumped from a cow to a human in Montana?
Calling it āWuhan Virusā is just a blame-shifting attempt to try and absolve trumpco for its inept response, full stop.
More locusts swarming, bringing famine. Ā Letās see, we had fires in Australia. Now plague has spread far and wide. Ā Whatās Ā next, red tide or frogs?
Folks everywhere need to leave animals the F alone. Ā Stop trapping them, stop experimenting on them, stop killing them, stop eating them.
This is isolated tracks from the Beatles recording Sgt Pepperās…..
BiD & bink,Ā we wouldn’t be having this argument if IMpotus hadn’t made such a big damn deal of repeatedly calling it the china virus with emphasis on the china part and if media had accepted the Wuhan VirusĀ version I’ve seen used by the virologists.Ā I don’t even think the mega MAGAts would be harassing Chinese-Americans any more than they usually harass any other non-MAGAt had SFB not kept blowing his dog whistle about it.Ā
Well…. I, for one, can’t wait ’til it gets warmer around here and we can drag out the gas grill and throw a couple of ribeye steaks on it….. Ā YUM!
Stay sane, peoples. Ā Keep crazy out the same way you are with Covid-19. āļøā¤ļøšŗšø
There are idiots and then there are idiots. They are.Ā
I donāt agree with Maher on this. While itās true that viruses and other illnesses have been mine for the geographic origin of them, the president of the US didnāt name any of those prior viruses or flus – that was done by the scientists working on them or the media covering their spread, or …. Ā SFB meant for China virus to be an offensive racial slur as red meat for his racist base. Ā The virus is known as COVID-19. Ā That should be good enough.Ā
Renee, grilling season is underway here. So far, steak, chicken and burgers. Last outing was last night (burgers). I also smoked a pork loin last Sunday, and it was delicious.Ā
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/us/skink-species-evolution-transition-scn-trnd/index.html
Cool
Yāall are either lying or blind
The Queenās Easter message is embedded down further in this link (not the green dress, the candle).
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/world/queen-elizabeth-easter-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
bId — it’s the bean counters who kill upgrades.Ā They look at the cost and time of implementing a new system and say no way.Ā They look at the immediate costs of systems people, developers, computers, software, dual systems, new everything and the years it will take to move a large system to a new system.Ā What they do not look at, page ten in the memo, is the current system is not secure, cannot be made secure, does not contain current software, the software is obsolete and cannot do the job, the programmers and systems people have retired and to do the upgrade in the future will cost a hundred times more and take a hundred years longer to get running.
This is what living with a cast for two months ends up with.Ā I did wash a few of these a couple weeks ago, but being here twenty-four/seven means cooking more meals.Ā I usually cook from scratch so I need more pots and pans for a meal.Ā Now that the cast is off I can lookforward to more cooking space. Next up is trying to rearrange the storage room and then the server and routers.
Well I just bought a rack of lamb and I like Flatus’s idea of drippings over rice, Fresh asparagus from the garden. As I would have to go out again amongst the germy people for spring greens…. hmmm, I do have Iceberg lettuce, blue cheese, bacon. That would be Mrs Jacks favorite salad, the wedge salad. As a child she loved just plain lettuce, no dressing, nothing.Ā
OH, I love this social isolation, I get to eat all 8 lamb chops. Ā Over the grill,Ā rare…ā¦.. As much as I would like to, I can’t share don’t want to be responsible for someone getting sick…ā¦. Did I say cooked rare?
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Jack
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The secret is to not own that many pans, The more pans you have the higher you can pile them before you say, OK I’ll wash the dishes.
Jack
BB couldnāt wash the pans wrist in a cast
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/world/yanomami-amazon-coronavirus-brazil-trnd/index.html
Thatās a lot of pans. Ā I have 4, but only 1 fits in the cupboard ; the others live in the dishwasher. Ā If I need one, Ā I take it out and wash it by hand; they all get washed about 2 or 3 times a week when I run the dishwasher, even though they probably havenāt been used. Ā
Folks need to re-prioritize budgets to include the thing we rely on most, which is tech. Ā
I miss open-faced, radish sandwiches with Blue Bonnet margarine on rye bread with a little salt on top. Ā Ā My Danish, great-grandma always cut them in half. Ā A half slice of bread was one, whole sandwich to her. Ā Heaven forbid you wanted more than ā2ā sandwiches, which was just one slice of bread. Ā Ā
All time favorite liverwurst on rye mustard and onion
KGB
Yes and?
I liked my breakfast sandwich this morning PB&J with a fried egg. Quick easy and I got out the door.
Jack
KGC – I have been planning on making bread just for sandwiches like that!Ā Usually I make rye bread, which is good for certain sandwiches, but for a liverwurst the bread has to be a white but a nice European white.Ā Liverwurst is so good done right.Ā I was the only kid in grade school who proudly ate liverwurst sandwiches.Ā Of course right after WWII some German things were a bit of an issue with some folks.
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Jack – tonight I have two lamb rib chops for which I am still making up my mind on what to do with them.Ā One option (the favorite since five o’clock this morning) is to roast a few cloves of garlic until soft and sweet, sear the lamb chops then finish in an oven.Ā Now the problem is time.Ā It is getting late and all that would take almost two hours.Ā So. . . perhaps brunch could be something like that. Then for tonight I can reheat a couple of crab cakes I made last night from crab I picked last October. Yum.
and nothing perfect as is
BB
Iāve never had it on white bread. Probably good on sour dough. Ā I donāt have liverwurst too often these days
BB
As I remember the last time I just did olive oil with salt, garlic and Black pepper. Good lamb doesn’t need much. I looked on line and they all looked like a good way to ruin tasty meat.Ā I used to over cook them but once I tasted lamb chops rare I never cook them any other way. I have a counter top convection oven and I set it on 400, brown the fat, pull it out and serve.Ā
Jack
Ms Dallas,
What do you do to get vitamin B-12 ? I need barrels of it to keep the stinging down.
Iāve got a boneless leg-o-lamb. From a lamb very unsteady on its feet Iād wager.Ā
Jack, right on, bruddah.Ā
From the Wikipedia article on alex azar :Ā In 2018, National Security Adviser John Bolton dismantled the task force charged with responsibility for planning and response to epidemics. The team’s leader, Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, was the leader of the anti-malarial efforts under presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.[48] White House Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert, who had advocated a comprehensive biodefense strategy against both pandemics and potential biological attacks, departed from the White House on the same day Bolton arrived.
Named Ivar the Boneless ?
Garden of Life Vitamin Code Raw B12
I donāt know what āstingingā youāre talking about, but magnesium helps with pain, as well as turmericĀ
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173
Well, this is interesting. Ā Covid interferes with iron in your blood. Ā Iron carries oxygen. Ā If youāve ever been anemic, you know what it feels like; it causes extreme fatigue, shortness of breath and heart palpitations. Ā
Which may be why patients who require ventilation are less likely to recover and even have damage from the ventilator if they do recover. Ā Theyāre mechanically manipulating the lungs, but thereās not enough oxygen in the blood.Ā
NPR tiny desk concert has a new video up, a tribute to John Prine
Just for grins and chuckles I wrote down the programming languages I have worked with professionally.Ā There are many that I do not remember because it would be for something like a seventies calculator or something I saw once or twice as an electronic technician.Ā I do not write code anymore, but I have to be able to read it and troubleshoot things so the list contains a couple of the newer languages.Ā I am going to learn more of them as my system moves to the cloud. Ā Fortran, ADA, Pascal, PL1, LISP, Basic, C, C , C#, C , Python, R, Ruby on Rails, ROS, JAVA, Java script, Unix, Linux, 4-bit Forth, 8-bit Forth, DOS, Windows, many assembler languages, Android stuff, PERL, SQL, and many more. Oh, I do not remember using COBOL professionally.
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