09:19 – Things are warming up. It was 37.4F (3C) when I took Colin out this morning. The driveway was about 25% covered in ice with standing water on it. Most of that should be gone by tomorrow.
Barbara just left to head down to Winston. She has an eye doctor appointment this morning, lunch with a friend, errands this afternoon, and then she’s spending the night at her sister’s house. Errands again tomorrow morning and then she’ll head back up to Sparta, stopping at Costco on the way out of town. Costco has a $3 off sale on 2-packs of 48-ounce peanut butter, so I added two 2-packs to her list. Twelve pounds of peanut butter to go into LTS food storage. The open jar in the kitchen has a best-by date of May 2015, and neither of us can tell any difference between it and fresh. If we just stuck the four new jars on the shelf and forgot about them, they’d still be perfectly fine for at least another five years, and probably longer.
When I checked the thermometer in the garage this morning, it read 44.3F (7C), so I think we’re past any danger of stuff freezing out there, at least until the next extremely cold spell. It’s still a bit chilly for us to work out there, but we did pick up a small 1,500W (5,100 BTU/hr) radiant space heater that we can use for localized heating if we do want to work out there.
We’ve had a flurry of science kit orders over the last couple of days. With about 33% of the month gone, we’re at about 53% of January 2015 revenue, so we’re likely to be on track or better for the month.
I see that Obama, that asshole, broke down in tears while giving his final speech as president. Only fitting, considering that his actions as president have had most of us Normals in tears for the last eight years. I hope that over the next couple weeks Obama suffers an incredibly painful illness, communicates it to all of his family and staff and the Congress, and that they all die in agony just as Trump is inaugurated. I guess that’s too much to hope for, but hope springs eternal. The only Good progressive is a Dead progressive. Of course, what no one ever admits is that Trump, too, is a progressive.
I hope that over the next couple weeks Obama suffers an incredibly painful illness, communicates it to all of his family and stuff and the Congress, and that they all die in agony just as Trump is inaugurated.
He’s smoking himself into an early grave, but that probably isn’t fast enough for you.
OTOH, the terminal phase will be horrible, probably involving a trach tube and oxygen tank rolled around behind him by the Secret Service detail.
As for the rest of the Progs, Obamacare/Kaiser Permanente just killed one of my wife’s former co-workers in WA State and nearly killed another, both Obama voters. I can’t believe that we are statistical outliers. “Hope and change” is coming for them.
AS of the day before yesterday we had an official 21-inches of snow (I have measured more than that here at my house, 26-inches). Yesterday we got another 8-inches and 4 more inches are predicted for today.
The state and city road crews continue to display their incompetence. There are portions of Interstate and highway that have been closed for 2-days now, it is essentially impossible to travel South from the Tri-Cities. One of our neighbors works for a construction company. This morning he brought in a front loader and cleared the streets in our neighborhood. Last night when he was coming home he got stuck on our corner and I used my big-ass snowblower to get him free. He said that this morning was “pay-back”. FYI, him plowing a public street with private equipment is against the law (so was my snowblower operation in the street). We see nothing, to quote Sgt. Schultz.
Temperatures are going sub-zero tonight.
I am so extremely pissed at all the fake news and actions of the communist-treasonist-liberals that I am going to have to keep my mouth shut.
I do like the idea that all our weapons are going to have to have “green” bullets and warheads (must bio-degrade and have seeds in them). Now we have a reason to totally destroy all mooslem countries and create a new Eden Garden (that is different than the Garden of Eden, look it up, here is an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjptUYhEdU).
44 here, too, and sunny, also very breezy. Supposed to hit 46 tomorrow and then slide back down to more normal temps by the end of the week.
And from the More Lefty Agitprop Movies from Hollyweird Department:
http://www.vdare.com/articles/why-not-a-movie-about-jack-crenshaw-the-white-man-who-actually-did-what-hidden-figures-credits-to-black-women?content=treat%20with%20reverence.
Fake news and fake history, what’s not to like?
Soon they’ll be airbrushing actual historical figures from official photographs, just like the Soviets used to do.
Breezy here but not too bad. Not like last night. The wind woke me up half an hour after I went to bed, and a good thing because there were weather-related “issues” that had to be dealt with. Bad night, but not in the usual bad night way.
I wonder what losers, dopers, crooks and now trannies Odooshnozzle will pardon before he croaks. “Chelsea” Manning is supposedly on the short list. A must for Obola’s LGBTQxyz agenda. The Navy dude is petitioning using the Coffin Cankles defense. No way will Ofukstik pardon him.
BTW, I love the fake news “Golden Shower” intel on tRump. The MSM/SJW/Libturdians fell for that HLS.
I wonder what losers, dopers, crooks and now trannies Odooshnozzle will pardon before he croaks.
Hollyweird obviously wants Roman Polanski pardoned before he dies. This might be their last chance.
Julian Assange and/or Snowden would be fun, but I don’t think either would happen.
IM(not so)HO, “use by” dates are incredibly conservative, i.e., of very short duration. I recently found a previously opened container of prunes in the cupboard marked use by ?? ?? 2008. Several dozen quite dry and firm remaining. Decided to try one and subsequently consumed one per day until finished several months ago.
Still waiting for a reason to 911.
The globalist powers-that-be have it in very heavy for Assange and Snowden; they’ll be lucky not to be droned anytime during the rest of their lives.
I’d sort of forgotten about Polanski until recently, when I saw something about Charlie being a problem child all during his incarceration, plus an update on ‘where are they now?’ for the rest of the Family. One of them just croaked and all but one of the rest are either in prison for life or deceased. Linda Kasabian was living out west somewhere, and previously over in New Hampshire; all she did was drive the car they used that night, since no one else had a driver’s license. Here they were, about to commit atrocious murders, and they were worried about the driver’s license. True psychopaths.
Yeah, with very, very few exceptions, canned goods remain safe and nutritious effectively forever. Don’t take just my word for it. The USDA says just that. Assuming the food was properly canned to start with and that the can has maintained integrity, a can of food is just as safe 10 years or 100 years later as it was the day it was canned. And the nutrition declines only very, very slowly.
I’ve verified this experimentally, using vitamin C levels as a proxy for nutrition in general. Vitamin C is one of the more fugitive nutrients. I titrated vitamin C level in a can of fruit. Many years after the best-by date, I repeated the titration on a second can from the same lot. The vitamin C level was the same, within experimental error. And the old can tasted just fine.
In the 70’s I ate canned goods that had been packed for the US military in WWI. They tasted fine to me and I showed no ill effects from eating them.
But if you hadn’t eaten them, possibly you’d have developed laser eyes. There’s no evidence suggesting this would not have been the case, therefore my theory must be taken seriously, therefore it’s reasonable to make policy based on predictions from my theory.
In other news, I’ve decided that all science should be done with the rigor of economics.
therefore it’s reasonable to make policy based on predictions from my theory.
Say, did you provide the tRump “Golden Shower” intel?
I can neither confirm nor deny…
Actually, I had nothing to do with that one and SFAIK don’t know anyone who had anything to do with it. I may, possibly, at indeterminate times in the past, have laid out a few lines of BS which were eagerly taken up and run with. Nothing so spectacularly successful as the golden shower of crap, if you’ll pardon the mixed and rather unpleasant metaphor.
I am very much bothered by the fact that it is beginning to appear that the FBI and/or CIA conspired with CNN to blackmail Trump. Bold, very bold. Was it Machiavelli who said, “never do the King a small harm” ?
Yah. That’s been a topic of discussion.
What’s that famous line? Oh, right. “You’re fired!”
On recovering and reselling canned goods, the story of the wreck of the Diamond Knot is interesting. Five million cans of salmon recovered in 1947 from the wreck in the same year. And resold.
I am not sure that would happen today. I am sure the cans today would have been expired before the wreck finished sinking.
http://saltwaterpeoplehistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2011/12/salvage-of-diamond-knots-cargo-by-r-h.html
http://www.boydski.com/diving/dives/diamond_knot.htm
Bill Nye “The Douchebag Guy” this year: California flooding is due to Climate Ejaculation.
Bill Nye “The Douchebag Guy” last year: California drought is due to Climate Ejaculation.
Sounds like “weather” to me. This guy needs to die.
Just remember that Bill Nye isn’t really a science guy. He got his degree in douchebaggery.
(Side note: Huh. The dictionary in this version of Chrome has “douchebaggery”.)
To add some data points.
Self vac sealed ground coffee, one year later- not as rich or aromatic, but still tasty and very drinkable. Coffee was left in its 11oz foil bags, with one way air valve. Vac seal was not still sucked down hard. I expect better results with the coffee that is still sealed hard.
Soda in aluminum cans- will corrode and leak out of the cans around the marked expire date. At least coke products will. Cans are super thin.
Mac and Cheese (the ‘healthy’ brand sold in packs at costco) doesn’t taste good 6mo to 1yr after expire. The cheese sauce is grainy and barely edible. Just tastes ‘old.’ High in fat though, and fat doesn’t last.
UHT milk turns to tapioca like chunky liquid after expire date.
The costco peach slices in single serve cups get dark and soft after expire date, but still taste ok in cobbler.
Costco “Newmans Own” grape juice in clear plastic bottle gets chunky after expiry.
Uncle Bens rice in pouches (heat and eat) dry out and get old tasting long after expiry.
Flavored tuna in aluminum pouches will eat thru the pouch eventually and rot.
I’ve had ONE creamed corn in a pouch get puffed up after expiry. Pretty sure I wouldn’t have wanted to eat it earlier either. Others discolored enough that I tossed them.
Cans with the pop top seals (prescored lid with pull ring) will fail sooner than cans without.
I like the single use cups for the kids lunches. I like the pouches because they won’t rust in the swamp here. I acknowledge that they can’t be expected to last like cans.
nick
May I extrapolate from those data points that “junk” and “processed” products won’t last very long and that we should stick to solid old-school cans of vegetables, fruit, and meats?
That’s what I’ve got here, so far, anyway, plus bags of rice, pasta and beans.
In other nooz, possibly “fake,” it turns out that Cankles will allegedly be seated front and center right behind tRump at the “inauguration,” and presumably Larry and Princess Chelsea will be right next to her. Rumors abound that she has been planning some kind of mind-boggling revenge but I guess we’ll all find out about that, if true, along with whatever disturbances the commie agitators will fire up on that day.
Just to be clear, I’m talking about traditionally-canned items. Those in metal cans or glass jars, although heavy aluminized retort pouches are about as effective at preserving the food. I’ve drunk coffee that was stored in the manufacturer’s retort pouch on the shelf for five years past it’s best-by date, and it seemed fine to me. I didn’t compare it side-by-side with a freshly-dated pouch, but if there was any degradation it was minimal. I have less confidence, as you say, in those thin pop-top cans.
As far as oils and fats going rancid, a lot depends on the type of oil and how it’s stored. The higher it is in saturated fats, the longer it’ll store without going rancid. Unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats in chemical terms contain a lot of double and triple bonds. Chemically, those types of compounds are very reactive, while molecules that contain most or all single bonds are much less reactive. There are several mechanisms by which rancidity occurs. For most food storage, the most important of those mechanisms is hydrolysis, which requires the presence of water. That’s why fats have been rendered to make them more suitable for storage. Rendering drives off all the water, removing a primary mechanism for rancidity.
In short, highly saturated fats (which tend to be solid at room temperature) can be stored at room temperature for several years without going rancid. I have dozens of cans of Crisco shortening stored, some of which are at least three or four years past their best-by dates. We periodically open one, and haven’t yet detected any noticeable rancidity. I use Barbara’s very sensitive nose as my test equipment. If she says it just smells like Crisco, I know we’re fine.
29° here with about 6″ of snow on the ground. . Half an inch shuts Portland down, so I expect to be housebound for several days. Pictures of our house at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-ptFKUhoJ1jWm5GTk9nV01hU2c
If that link doesn’t work, try https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ptFKUhoJ1jWm5GTk9nV01hU2c
Just remember that Bill Nye isn’t really a science guy. He got his degree in douchebaggery.
Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer like myself. He makes the rest of us engineers look bad.
Costco has a $3 off sale on 2-packs of 48-ounce peanut butter, so I added two 2-packs to her list. Twelve pounds of peanut butter to go into LTS food storage.
Creamy or crunchy ? Sams Club dropped their crunchy JIF, I have been very disappointed.
We buy creamy.
I am jealous of all youse who are getting snow; we’ve gotten virtually nada so fah here. And today and tomorrow is a preview of Mud Season, apparently.
Creamy peanut butter for me, too; like it on Saltines or on Italian bread alongside lasagna or spaghetti-and-meatballs, a half-century holdover from my skool lunch daze.
Raining & warm here. Wiping out all of the nice, fluffy ski trails that the local ski place worked so hard to groom for us.
Hoping that all this warming crap doesn’t do too much damage to the trails and the ski race goes off as planned on Sunday. If not, it will be delayed 2 weeks. (I could use the time to train, but I’d rather get it over with.)
77 F (25 C) and very muggy (58%) here in the Land of Sugar. We spun up all the air conditioners yesterday afternoon and have been running them since. Two at the office and two at the house.
78F, 66RH, mixed cloudy and sunny. Got the air on here too.
Damp outside, esp. anything that holds cold and gets covered with condensation (dew.)
Looked at my gardens. The orange tree, completely wrapped in black plastic for the cold shows no damage. The grapefruit, mostly bagged at the top and 60w light bulb, is showing yellow leaves where they contacted the dropcloth, and where it wasn’t covered. Lime tree, completely uncovered, is yellow all over. Man I hope I don’t lose it. It was just starting to really produce. Meyer Lemon, covered, with 60w light, all good.
Fence ‘window boxes’, covered with 40w lights under the covers, all ok.
Raised beds, covered with blankets, collards, broccoli, and maybe a cabbage, all seem ok. Various ornamentals- anything with soft leaves is mush.
Peach tree, with no leaves, seems ok. We’ll see.
At 21F it was pretty cold and most of my stuff is only rated for a mild frost, not what we got. Just one of those gardening things, and another way to starve to death post-SHTF.
nick
Still another way to starve to death after SHTF is when we don’t have our currently stamped ration cards handy or lose them or sell them for ammo or something. Or the thugs at the ration center don’t like the cut of my jib and tear up my ration card. I can have a new one if I bow down to the Diversity Goddess, though, and confess the errors of my ways.
I keep showing up at the ration center to make it look good, that we’re not “hoarding” or anything. I carefully avert my eyes when the commissars drive by in their Lincolns.
Still another way to starve to death after SHTF is when we don’t have our currently stamped ration cards handy or lose them or sell them for ammo or something.
My Dad has my grandparents WWII ration cards. Somewhere.
I carefully avert my eyes when the commissars drive by in their Lincolns.
I carefully avert my eyes when the commissars drive by in their Teslas.
FTFY.
The little lefties will be driving Teslas. The high and mighty will still be swanning around in Lincolns and Cadillacs. If you take too long to avert your eyes and kind of make a little obeisance when they slide on by, they snap their fingers and you get disintegrated by a drone instantly.
True enough, and I apologize for any unintended insult-splatter.* Let’s say he got his BS in MechE, then did journeyman and mastery work in douchebaggery.
* I seldom apologize, but do hate it when I let an unintended insult slip past.
They’ve lost their freaking minds.
“Madonna who posted an image of herself and Obama with the caption: ‘Good-bye Mr. President! There will never be another one like you! Barack Obama you are a King amongst Men.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108736/A-king-men-Madonna-leads-chorus-celebrities-gushing-President-Obama-farewell-speech.html
Sweet flippin’ jebus.
Unless she means Canute, then she’s got it right on….
n
Today in OlyPen area, temps all day around 32F, high clouds, minimal wind.
But, a power outage in my area due to a transformer fire at the local substation. Lasted about 8 hours. Used my generator the last 3 hours, as it was starting to get dark.
Discovered that I have a broken garage door spring, which made it really hard (impossible) to lift the steel sectional door. Hooked it up to the generator (also in the garage long enough to lift the door, then moved the generator out on the driveway. (And I note that it is important to run the generator for a short period each month, as I had to use the pull-start to get it running; took about 7 pulls, so not too bad.)
Also discovered that the DirecTV and LED TV worked just fine off of the generator; used a good quality surge protector on that circuit. Also discovered that some of my little cell phone battery packs are missing, so need to order some more.
Another discovery: the propane fireplace we have doesn’t put out much heat with convection-only (no fan) to heat the air. Not much better with the fan, either. So that is on the list for replacement.
And decided that we need to up the priority of getting a generator bypass panel installed to make that easier.
We get a few power outages each year (three so far this winter), and are in a residential area, so our ‘power priority’ is a bit higher than if we lived out in the ‘sticks’.
Other than that (and the inconvenience of the bathroom fan not working…), not too bad. Have relatives in CA that have had worse problems; power outage of 4 days, and rain/flood/mudslides blocking roads in the Nevada City/Grass Valley area. Not to mention I-80 and CA-50 closed for a couple of days due to ongoing blizzards.
“They’ve lost their freaking minds.”
Typical shit-for-brains celebs. I’m not a celeb but I’ll say ‘good riddance to bad rubbish.’ Eight years with that clown and he did as much damage as he possibly could. Now we’ll have a small window of opportunity to get ready for whatever’s coming down the pike at some point; probably financial collapse, would be my guess. Coupled with more mass unrest and violence in the cities and Grid outages. But make no mistake; tRump was basically a “moderate Dem” back in the day and this latest Repub incarnation is just typical ‘whatever works’ methodology for yet another megalomaniac and/or psychopath.
The good nooz is that he probably won’t light off a war, possibly with nukes, with Russia, like the demented hag would have done. And he’ll probably leave our guns alone. As Jerry Pournelle used to say, that’s “good enough.”
Off early in the AM tomorrow for the two-hour drive down to White River Junction to meet with the state veterans service officer and a ratings officer from the VA on my disability claims. Not sure how that will pan out. I’ll drive back up to Burlap in time for the weekly vets group meeting, and after that at some point Mrs. OFD will have arrived back in Moh-ree-all and be driving home from there.
Thanks to Mr. RickH for the prepping stuff he’s been dealing with and a word to the wise on a lot of it. We’ve had maybe a couple of brief power outages here in the last four years, each year, due usually to storm damage. Peeps out in the hills and valleys to our east often end up without power for many days or a couple of weeks in the winter. We noted that during our last outage, the water coming outta the faucets had decreased pressure by about half. I used that opportunity to remind the wife about getting a generator at some point, and that it would probably cost us a bit less than what we paid to get the wood stove in here, which has been really great.
My next projects, if I can stave off the nasty cold that she caught from her mom, is to better secure the front and back doors and get a storm door on the rear entrance. Plus I still have the five-page to-do list that never seems to get shorter.
I’m spoiled rotten in Vegas. The only time the power has been out in 11 years is when NVEnergy slapped on one of those remote meters. Even with all that A/C during the Summer (Mar – Nov), no brownouts, blackouts, etc. Those casinos are real power hogs, too.
She’s waiting for you at the VA Office, Mr. OFD. Enjoy, sir!
When you’ve had your fill, let Mr. SteveF have a crack (lol)!
America’s Sweetheart for the new century! What a doll!
Is she auditioning for the starring role in the new Miss Piggy flick?
The only time the power has been out in 11 years is when NVEnergy slapped on one of those remote meters. Even with all that A/C during the Summer (Mar – Nov), no brownouts, blackouts, etc.
We lose power every freaking week for minutes at time. Just long enough for me to have to reset all the clocks in the house, the microwave, the oven, my alarm clock, etc. The real problem is when we lose power for hours, now that is a pain. Usually happens at least once per year.
Rare is the month that we do not use air conditioning at some time during the month.
Got the office 14 acres mowed and weed-eated this morning. Looks great !
I’ve got my compromise house down to $581,500. Just another $31,500 down to go and I might buy this place.
http://www.har.com/6302-Bridlewood-Dr/sale_88639944
And with a cool 3D walk-thru:
http://www.6302bridlewood.info/
Looks nice but didn’t you just spend a bundle fixing up your current house?
n
I know we could spend a bundle on this one, still; well, not really a bundle, per se, but enough that we can only do it a piece at a time. Emergency power is a consideration on a par with security as far as I’m concerned but due to a variety of circumstances, one small step at a time.
And no plans whatsoever to bug out anywhere, short of a major train derailment of tanker cars filled with nerve gas or something, or a large plane crashes into the ‘hood. Our long-term plan is to be carried outta here feet-first; we are bugging in, so to speak.
That kinda $ up here in northern Vermont would get us a 40-acre horse farm, in pretty good shape, too. Or a house and several acres next door to Bernie and Jane.
Remind me to dump Linux ASAP and replace it with Windows 10:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/01/11/2021252/windows-10-will-soon-lock-your-pc-when-you-step-away-from-it
Looks nice but didn’t you just spend a bundle fixing up your current house?
I still have yet to modify my current house to convert two of the bedrooms and a bathroom into a master suite. I would rather just move. Plus I think that I can get most of my improvements back in the price if I sold it.
If I bought the new house, I would add a new master suite of about 1,000 ft2 to this house, behind the garage. Probably cost $150K. I doubt that the owners are going to sell it that low though. But, they moved out a couple of months ago so are sweating owning it still. I made the $550K offer when they were asking $625K and I do not intend to pay a dime more. If I do not get the house then there will be another one some day. Or maybe we will get enough cash to build a house the exact way that we want it (4,000 ft2 with two master suites and a large game room).
Will there be enough space in the game room for us to move our entire house down there and into it? (roughly 1,400 square feet) Will it have A-C? And is there a way to keep out the gators, water moccasins, rattlers, coral snakes, and copperheads? Also, the Gila monsters? And the packs of coyotes? If so, we’ll be on our way, amigo!
Priceless:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/comrade-ushanka-sends-2/
Will there be enough space in the game room for us to move our entire house down there and into it? (roughly 1,400 square feet) Will it have A-C? And is there a way to keep out the gators, water moccasins, rattlers, coral snakes, and copperheads? Also, the Gila monsters? And the packs of coyotes? If so, we’ll be on our way, amigo!
No, yes, maybe, yes, no. You forgot the 150 lb mountain lion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_cougar
No Gila monsters around here. The gators eat them all.
Your house will almost fit in the 39 ft x 33 ft game room for this 6,152 ft2 house that already has a second master suite for $690K:
http://www.har.com/6218-Waterwalk-Ct/sale_88425162
lol! We just watched A Christmas Story. Opolelikr.
“There are portions of Interstate and highway that have been closed for 2-days now, it is essentially impossible to travel South from the Tri-Cities.”
Well, of course, I mean: y’all never get snow up there, so why should they know how to clear roads?
We have some snow on the ground, and were supposed to get a big delivery yesterday. The driver took a look at our road, and said “hopeless, no way”. We asked: “What about snowchains?” He said, nope, he didn’t have any of those.
Today, the company sent a different driver. First, he said “What? All our trucks have snowchains”. Second, he didn’t need them, even though our access road is unplowed, and pretty steep. Damned good driver, got a good tip…
Today, it’s raining, turning the snow into slush. Tomorrow, it freezes, and then we get more snow. So: snow on top of ice. I think we’ll avoid driving anywhere unnecessarily. Our car would be fine – all-weather tires and 4×4 – but the city-folk driving around in the 2WD cars with summer tires are a menace.
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Rancidity by hydrolysis? Shows what I know – I always thought exposure to atmospheric oxygen was the primary mechanism.
Some years ago, as a subsidy measure, the Swiss government started buying up butter from dairy farmers. They have accumulated thousands of tons of the stuff, and kept it for years. Finally, a couple of years ago, they came to their senses and began selling it off in the export market. I suppose they must have kept it frozen, to prevent rancidity?
Politicians. They complain that the farmers produce more milk than the country consumes. The farmers complain about falling milk prices. The politicians vote for more subsidies. Rinse and repeat. What is wrong with this picture?
@brad, our government’s choice in that situation is to pay the farmers NOT to produce.
Nice work if you can get it.
nick
“Rancidity by hydrolysis? Shows what I know – I always thought exposure to atmospheric oxygen was the primary mechanism.”
Well, it WOULD be the primary mechanism, except that most people don’t keep their LTS food stored in containers that are open to the air. That’s why we add oxygen absorbers to those containers. It’s also why our ancestors stored bacon and other meats in barrels that were filled with rendered lipids like lard or tallow. They’d scrape off the top layer, which had gone rancid, and the meat and fat beneath it was preserved because the environment was oxygen-free.
Hydrolysis is why dehydration and lyophilizing (freeze-drying) have been used for thousands of years to preserve foods. Taking absence of oxygen as a given, the next rancidity mechanism to worry about is hydrolysis. Drying removes enough water than rancidity is greatly slowed.
Creamy peanut butter is the food of hell. I only eat crunchy.
SteveF or DH, go get Lena while the getting’s good. Truss her up in the cellar and forget about stockpiling provisions. There’s a lot of good eatin on those thighs, although probably not as good as the virgin lamb SteveF’s used to.
DH wrote:
“That kinda $ up here in northern Vermont would get us a 40-acre horse farm, in pretty good shape, too. Or a house and several acres next door to Bernie and Jane.”
In Mitcham, South Oz it would get you a 550 m^2 parcel of land with a 200 m^2 house on it.
I was gonna comment on the Lena piece… even steeled myself to read it and glance at the pix. Yikes. Surely this fat harridan’s time in the spotlight is over? She molested her younger sister- and wrote about it. She’s gotten naked on screen. She “once again pushed the boundaries of what most would consider good taste…” Oh, way past the good taste, all the way to the taste of vomit in your throat.
She’s also clearly delusional as she says “‘For the first time in my career, posing for pictures feels honest and joyful. ” The evidence, right before our eyes, says otherwise. If that’s her happy face, I’d hate to see her looking sullen and spiteful.
The only reason I’m commenting on this disgusting individual at all, is that it goes to something deeper in our current society. She’s perverse, well outside the norm for “hollywood starlet” (their words not mine), celebrated as a ‘feminist’ because she gets naked and uses her body for gain, and says she’s happy while looking grim. In otherwords, she’s the embodiment of the psyche of the left. It’s opposite world over on the left side. Ugly is desirable, exploiting your appearance makes you a feminist, admitted perversion makes you a hero, and a show about how shallow hipsters are makes you a deep thinker.
The lefty control of the media continues to push the big asses, naked fat girls, perverts as hero, beliefs make reality narrative. They are pushing harder and harder as their world crumbles around them. Violence comes next as they flail about trying to rescue their world as change comes.
ugg, I wish I had some brain bleach.
n
I can’t offer you brain bleach, but how about a link to the Swiss performance artist, Milo Moire, who likes to perform in the nude? She does some pretty outrageous stuff, and is definitely a pleasure to look at 🙂
That’s more like it.
n
In otherwords, she’s the embodiment of the psyche of the left.
There it is, Mr. Nick. The next four years are going to be interesting. Libturdians are constantly bashing tRump, and, he’s not even President yet. It’s amusing to hear libturds whining how tRump is going to throw out everybody but WHITEY! He hates Gays, Blacks, Women, XYZ. He’s going to take away ObolaCare, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Where do they get these ideas? He is a Dumbocrat at heart, he’s just fiscally conservative. Hollyweird “starlets” are going to whine themselves out of a job.
Yeah, who was the stupid bint that said her biggest fear was that Trump would “put her in a camp.” Rachel someone? WTF is wrong with people? From the over sized ego (he knows you and wants you controlled) to the over active (and yet stunted) imagination. Don’t these F’ers ever READ? There are millions of words written about the .gov locking people up for some reason or another, some plausible, most not, but this cow thinks she’ll be forcibly taken to a “camp” without any reason WHY. I’m guessing she’s gay? Or is white, whiny, and female enough reason for her? ‘Cuz Trump so clearly hates the wimminz that he’s been married to 3 of them, has some as daughters that he clearly values, employs women in real positions of power and influence, and who’s biggest sin is that he LIKES TO GET SOME?
And then, she completely misses the right side argument for gun ownership, which is that it’s a LOT FUCKING HARDER to put people in camps if they have GUNS.
Add to that the DEMONSTRATED lack of taking her own fear seriously. If she really was afraid, like say Salmon Rushdee was, she’d hire security, change her routine, maybe phone in her appearances via skype, etc. Nope, none of that. Just derp along, running her terrified big mouth, waiting for big gov to swoop in and send her to the rape camp…… oh wait, that really happens in the places controlled by the sort of people she thinks are superior to the western white male, but it’s likelihood in the FUSA seems slim.
Yep, projection, redirection, fervid imagination, repression, and all sorts of other -ions are gonna be the news du jure for the next 4 years. Just look at the golden shower story for more of what we got coming.
nick
I expect that from 330 million persons there, you’ll have plenty of characters like just (it just the big numbers theory). So why waste so much time writing about them..?
Some rise to prominence and then influence the zeitgeist disproportionately.
Take out the biggest guy in the prison yard and you don’t have to take out the 100 smaller guys?
Anyway, I could talk about my neighbor, or wife’s facebook friends, but no one else would know anything about them. This particular one is especially vexing because the media keeps promoting her as a modern woman to be a good model for everyone’s behavior and belief. Which I find as a nice summary of everything abhorrent in the US’s modern lefty progressives.
nick
I have nuttin’ to add to Mr. Nick’s cogent and well-informed analysis of the situation.
What a beast.
@Mr. Eugen; she’s just the latest in a long line of fugly beasts that the MSM here tries to foist on us as beauties and brilliant role models for us all. We’re just deuced sick of hearing about them and even more sick of having to look at them.
It’s like in the novel 1984, the left is trying to change the meaning of words and deny objective reality.
White is black, war is peace, truth is lies.
Feminism = displaying your outward physical body for profit/attention
Perversion = normal
Ugly = beauty
happy = sad
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I handle all that by not watching or paying attention to them. There are other people and facts-like news/articles worth spending time on.
“It’s like in the novel 1984, the left is trying to change the meaning of words and deny objective reality.”
You got it!
Like I’ve said here before in several different ways: they live and believe in a different reality than the rest of us; it’s a Mirror World. And if you’ve tried reasoning or arguing with any of them, you find out very quickly how useless it is.
Also, if you, during a discussion or argument, keep bringing up salient and rational points, their usual reaction is get louder and more belligerent and bellicose. And they’ll accuse YOU of behaving the way THEY’RE behaving.
The only new frontier for lovely Lena to explore is swimsuit modeling. Cutting-edge swimsuit modeling uses painted-on suits rather than cloth, and Lena will push the boundary even farther by having a swimsuit made of butter. Just look at her; you know she loves her butter. Yes, a nice, thick coating of butter covering up the naughty bits. A coating of butter warming in the sun. Butter melting and running down her thighs, turning rancid from contact with her sweat. Someone needs to get Lena cleaned up before the next shoot. Who will be first in line to lick her clean?
While everyone else is barfing on their keyboards, Miles_Teg is buying airplane tickets and limbering up his tongue.
Arrggh…cough…splutter…
…damn you, SteveF…
Damn you…
I had something pithy to say but I just upchucked everything in my guts… what a mess…
You are sick. Sick, sick, sick.
I’m reporting you to somebody, I haven’t figured out who, yet. There was no trigger warning for an uncontrollable gag reflex.
Thanks a lot.