It certainly wasn’t warm and overcast yesterday. Weather liars are liars. Dunno what it will be like today, but I’m hoping for more cool and clear, but not quite ‘cold’ and clear. We’ll see.
I did auction and kid stuff yesterday. Had my drop off pushed to today, but made a couple of pickups. Then it was Tuesday night, and for some reason that means a lot of local auctions closing all at the same time. I did manage to win a few preps. Couple more kerosene heaters and some propane hoses. Some bleach and cleaners. Couple small things for the BOL. Couple things for my non-prepping hobby. Another 100w solar panel. I passed on the beekeeper stuff. Keeping bees looks like a lot more work and trouble than I have time for right now.
I passed on the chicken stuff too, but there has been a fair amount of it. Waterers and feeders, incubators, automatic coop doors, water heaters for their water bucket… even chicken plucker machines. Nesting boxes and shredded bedding too. I think the reality of chicken raising led to a lot of stuff being returned. Some is estate stuff, but the majority is returns. My thanks to @stevef for his ‘slice-o-life’ tales from the coop. I’d like to have eggs, but keeping the chickens sounds like a million ways to screw up to me, and a big project. It’s definitely one of those things you should start BEFORE the need arises, but I’m already a bit past “maxed”.
Which is why you need a network and a community. No one can do it all by themselves. It’s why humans are social creatures who form groups and bonds- so we can work together.
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Dinner last night was a bit of an experiment. It worked out so I’m sharing. I’d previously cut some thin pork chops from the “dark meat” end of the pork loin, pan-fried them and served them to the kids successfully. I was looking at a pork shoulder roast (pork butt) in the fridge, thinking about breaking it down into my normal big chunks for pulled pork or carnitas, when I thought I could carve off a couple of big steaks. They’d be like the “shoulder chops” sold as cheaper alternative to pork chops, only sliced thicker. So I boned out the roast, and sliced off a couple of 1″ thick steaks from the biggest chunk of meat. Battered and put in pork fat in the big cast iron skillet…
Well, the batter was just panko crumbles, so really just ‘breading’ and it didn’t stick, but the steaks browned up nicely anyway. For sides I did instant potatoes (baby reds, mashed), and pork gravy from a packet. Probably could have used some more color on the plate, but it was all delicious, and I should have cooked a third steak. Kids were licking the plates. One more cheap meal in the rotation, hooray.
While I had the pan hot, I cut the rest of the roast into big chunks and browned them for carnitas. 2 3/4 pounds will go in the slow cooker today, the other 2 3/4 pounds got vac sealed and frozen.
Preps used- cheap meat, instant potatoes, instant gravy mix, cast iron cookware, and saved up bacon fat. A can of peas would have been nice too.
There you have it, another cheap meal that was simple and delicious. I used Adkins spice mix on the pork but it’s basically just salt, pepper, garlic, and maybe some citrus zest? KISS principle in action.
Cast iron cleaned up easy so I’ve got a decent ‘seasoning’ going on that piece too. Love it when I get a chance to use a piece in every day cooking.
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So, stack some stuff, but also try some new things. You might find a new fan favorite.
nick
Nick, the pork steaks sound delicious. If you were to beat those out flat, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, eggagain and crumb again (or use panko, since you have it) you now have pork Schnitzel. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t like Schnitzel…
If you would like to keep chickens, but they sound like too big a commitment, consider trying a few quail. They can live in a roomy cage, and need less “stuff” than chickens.
https://www.backwoodshome.com/raising-quail/
In other news, my pneumonia turns out to be bacterial, so I am on a heavy dose of cefuroxime. I took the first pill (about the size of a football) last night. Maybe a coincidence, but I slept like a rock, until way past my usual waking hour. Taking the next pill now, at breakfast.
Remigration isn’t going to work. The “donor” countries don’t want them back, for the most part. Just start killing the “migrants”. That’s where it’s going to end up anyway and every day of delay means another rape or murder by someone who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
But keep in mind: If you’re faced with an enemy and a traitor and you have only one bullet, shoot the traitor. In practice, since none of us should be short on bullets, this means that you need to keep tabs of who in your acquaintance group is pushing for open(er) borders and increased support for the “migrants”.
Achtung! Ze old days are back, ja!
German missiles in Ukraine aimed at Russia und now talk of repoening ze kampfs.
Cue John Barrowman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca7063tXIP4
Just a comment on acquiring new/replacement PCs. I am currently undertaking an upgrade exercise for the half dozen or so family and friend systems I ‘support’. Given they choose to use Windows (I use Ubuntu mainly) I recommended getting onto Windows 11 supported devices whist I perceived the price to be right (second hand systems).
Typical spec is an HP mini tower, with i3-8100 processor, 8GB memory, 256 SSD with Windows 11 for GBP70.
All the systems seem in good working condition and for normal household use work well. Nice and compact and easy to work on.
Make sure that the memory and SSD are not soldered onto the board.
8GB is a bit tight for Windows. Does the board feature another memory slot for expansion?
Laptops are going disposable, following Apple’s lead, but where 8 GB might be fine for “Apple Silicon”, Windows hardware is not going to be as tightly integrated until Redmond decides to build their own Arm CPU/GPU/Memory combination.
I’ve seen a lot of low end PCs here in the US featuring whatever AMD has left of their AM4 chips.
I built a new system with a Ryzen 5 5600 (no ‘X’ or ‘G’ suffix) last year and have been pretty happy with the end result both in terms of performance and cooling.
I did upgrade the stock fan.
Chilly and overcast this morning.
But it looks like it might open up with the ball o fire in the sky.
Meanwhile, there is coffee.
n
I’ve posted here/other many times that mRNA is a pseudo-mecho-gene-splicing mess. And, that goobermint agencies quickly changed the definition of “vaccine” without telling anybody. As Mr. SteveF points out, the medical community shot itself in the foot years ago, and, continues to do so. Question everything, even your personal doctor. Get second opinions and READ.
I hope mRNA spike proteins are eliminated from my body (I’ve only had the twofer). Now that I’m retiring from MrsAtoz’s company, when a school says, “you need an eighth booster”, I’ll answer with: Eat The Crust From My Shorts.
I blew off my personal doctor every time the “vaccine” came up.
Once I found out that some of his children didn’t receive the jab and that he took Ivermectin himself the moment he tested positive, the subject of the Wuxu Flu stopped coming up during my visits to his office.
The only quackery I get hit with since the kabuki faded is hints that he would like to put me on Adderall. Yeah, that isn’t happening, especially after what happened at the tolling company, where I suspect the entire management chain was on that cr*p.
The troll is making trouble. Even if God-forsaken Blue State U. wasn’t on Spring Break this week, he has three sections of Freshman Comp II this semester without a palette cleanser of a higher level course.
On bio-hacking:
I’m reading Dave Asprey’s “Smarter Not Harder: The Biohacker’s Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want”.
I don’t expect to live past 100 (I’ll be 69 in June), but I want a high quality of life. I’m trying some stem cell releasing products, electrolytes, sleep hacks, fitness, brain enhancement, carnivore (the things Mr. lpdbw posted several days ago), etc. I like sparkling water and have a Soda Stream, but I bought a 5lb tank kit to fizz up used sparkling water bottles. I found a beverage-grade supplier of CO2 in SA and will try to get my tank filled there. I add a splash of non-alcoholic bitters to a glass. Tasty.
I ordered some Modafinil to try. It’s a prescription drug, so I found an overseas pharmacy to get some. LOL, they only take Bitcoin! Luckily, I keep several types of cryptocurrency in my Arculus wallet. Due to the pump of BTC, I had plenty to cover a 90 day+ supply. A little over $100. The drug is already on it’s way after a day.
I almost missed this one:
WA Supreme Court Eliminates Bar Exam Requirement in Pursuit of Equity
Read that as the Amish can’t pass the bar. Things are already dicey in WA. Now Aunt Shaqueen can be a practicing lawyer via an online jurisprudence degree. Next, WA should eliminate all jails and prisons. Nobody will be going.
We just got a special offer from our bank. They organize occasional events – this one is for a concert, and we actually want to go.
You have to sign up on the web. To sign up, you have to enter a personalized, 12-place code from the invitation they sent you. Clever designers clearly did not consult with any IT folks about their font choice. They used a sans-serif font, where there is no difference between ‘0’ the digit and ‘O’ the letter. Also no difference between ‘1’ the digit, ‘l’ the lower-case letter and ‘I’ the upper-case letter. Fortunately, the code includes some sort of error-checking, so you are told when the code you entered is incorrect.
It took us a while to sign up for the tickets…
Y’all mentioned the excess deaths in the US, which have continued since Covid. I don’t think you can blame them on the Covid vaccine. The European countries, for example, had vaccination rates at least as high as the US.
The US has, for a long time, had a lower life expectancy than other Western countries. That’s pretty clearly due to obesity. But that doesn´t explain the continued, sharp drop in life expectancy in the past 2-3 years. Here’s an article with an informative graph.
None of the articles I came across even had a suggestion as to the cause. Weird.
If no one will even guess out loud, there is active suppression.
n
FFS, people talk freely about Nessie, and alien butt probes… so if people aren’t willing to even speculate, that means something.
n
SSDs are either 2.5″ or onboard M.2 slotted. Memory two slots, but for what most of the users require, 8GB is fine.
Clever designers clearly did not consult with any IT folks
– or, if one is cynical enough, it could be deliberate to limit the number of people who accept the offer. Make it hard or annoying enough and some people will drop out/ stop trying.
n
Excess deaths in Switzerland. I don’t think the families of 3000 extra dead people would agree that it’s only an American problem.
Similar data exists for Austrailia and some other countries. If you look at John Campbell’s youtube channel, you can see clear, lucid presentations and analysis of excess death data around the world, done by Phd and MD presenters. And a couple of Members of Parliament.
Campbell started out as a pro-vaccine cheerleader. But he’s a real scientist, and new data makes him change his mind.
One would expect, in the years just after a pandemic, that excess deaths would be reduced, due to the die-off of vulnerable people. Any noticeable excess deaths during that time must have a cause.
Why not look into the cause?
WA Supreme Court Eliminates Bar Exam Requirement in Pursuit of Equity
Reminds me of the article I read, some years ago, where how medical schools were caught passing – and graduating – black students despite their failing grades.
The really stupid thing is: This “equity” treatment justifies racism. You cannot go to a black doctor, or a black attorney, because you have no idea if they are competent, or just an “equity” graduate. The one who are, in fact, competent must be so pissed at this.
Because it would be political suicide and expose the government officials for the lying pack of worthless cretins they wear like a tailored suit.
We have been lied to, manipulated, experimented on, coerced and otherwise scammed by the entire Covid affair. Yes, Covid is real, yes, people died. The solution was not properly vetted or tested.
The vaccine companies made billions. The worthless scum politicians made millions in stock in the drug companies. The same can be said of the syringe manufacturers. Decisions were based on money and controlling the population with fear, not science.
When I worked at Tau Beta Pi I knew several black engineers. I never saw them as black, I saw them as very intelligent people with whom I enjoyed associating. Every single one of them were angry about the passing of black students with substandard grades to make quotas simply because of skin color. Doing so diminished what these accomplished engineers had worked hard for and accomplished much.
I read the article, but the following paragraph makes me wonder about the unwritten assumptions the researchers have.
“Research is underway to understand the more fundamental societal causes that may explain the vulnerability of the U.S. population to successive epidemics, from HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 to gun violence and opioid overdoses.”
The common factor would seem to be “these things are all bad!”, and until the authors give further thought to what they’re trying to look at, they’ll be unable to come up with any reasonable conclusions.
“Sounds like a good idea to me. How about doing the same here?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/sounds-like-good-idea-to-me-how-about.html
“There’s pressure in Germany to stop economic migrants sending money back to their countries of origin.”
Me too.
“Moon Landing Mission Profiles”
https://xkcd.com/2909/
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2909:_Moon_Landing_Mission_Profiles
Moving the Moon closer would make a great space station and vacation spot.
Until it broke up and then rained on the Earth for hundreds of years.
“Next-gen geothermal could provide 10% of additional clean, firm power US needs to decarbonize: DOE”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/next-generation-geothermal-could-provide-up-to-10-of-clean-firm-power-us-needs-t/710793/
“Advanced geothermal resources are on pace to meet the Department of Energy’s $45/MWh by 2035 target, according to a new “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff” report.”
Here we go again. The geothermal systems can be built easily using today’s technology. But the maintenance is out of this world with the corrosion and deposits. These systems typically run for three months and then shut down for six months of cleaning and equipment replacement.
The Oxford AstraZenica jab is adenovirus based, not mRNA.
Oxford AstraZenica was never approved for the US due to potential clotting issues similar to the Johnson and Johnson adenovirus shot.
Plus, adenovirus does not advance the agenda of short cutting 20 years off mRNA “vaccine” development for other diseases. The mRNA-based RSV jab is already being pushed in the US under another “emergency”.
“”It’s Enraging”: NYC Homeowner Arrested For Changing Locks After Squatters Take Over”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-enraging-nyc-homeowner-arrested-changing-locks-after-squatters-take-over
This is a very clear violation of the 4th amendment, an illegal seizure of property by the state.
WalMart makes big money off of the remittances to points south.
How about stopping any welfare for “refugees”. Nothing if you are not a citizen.
Stop the anchor baby scam, too. If neither parent is a citizen, the baby isn’t a citizen just because of where it was born.
I sure could have used a few months of food stamps way back but I didn’t qualify. I didn’t have a car or cable TV. I made enough for a one bedroom apartment in a rundown complex and a phone (wired) and that was too much income.
Lost more weight. Didn’t run home to Mom and Dad. I made it on my own. Scraped by.
“Sounds like a good idea to me. How about doing the same here?”
January 2025 Executive Order:
ex-U.S. money transfers require verified U.S. ssn or be subject to 50% withholding for FICA and income taxes.
Squatter law is brutal in some states.
Florida is particularly ugly for the property owner.
AND Texas starts parking one of their white “Texas IllegalImmigrant Deportation Service” vans out front of all Western Union locations.
Instead of welfare for folks, illegal or not, how about no welfare. No cash anyway. Make it like WIC. Just basic foods, no sodas or chips or cookies.
HEB tags WIC items on the shelf.
WalMart makes big money off of the remittances to points south.
So does the big Concrete company in Mexico and Texas, I think that it is Cemix ???
Western Union is a pain in the ass with having to do SARs and the like. Now you expect the guy at the grocery store business center to actually give a flying F of of having to verify a SSN with the threat of jail for a mistake?
“Yeah, sorry dude, the computer is down”. Forever.
“Beating the war drums: UN climate adviser says white people are taking up ‘too much space’”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/beating_the_war_drums_un_climate_adviser_says_white_people_are_taking_up_too_much_space.html
When are we going to kick the UN out of the USA and stop paying ANY dues ?
Western Union is a pain in the ass with having to do SARs and the like. Now you expect the guy at the grocery store business center to actually give a flying F of of having to verify a SSN with the threat of jail for a mistake?
SARs == Search And Rescue ?
Nah, I know what it is. I got one or more filled out on me two years when a 20+ year Russian customer sent me some money to pay his bill to use my software.
SARs == Suspicious Activity Report.
You know, when everyone is filling out a SAR, everyone is getting a SAR.
1984 is here and we are far beyond it. The proxy war with the East is just the topping on the misery.
Squatter law is brutal in some states.
Florida is particularly ugly for the property owner.
Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
In India, you can hire four large guys with baseball bats to solve your problems.
You know, when everyone is filling out a SAR, everyone is getting a SAR.
I saw a proposal to raise the $10,000 tripwire number by the rate of inflation since the Nixon admin, which would be $83,000 in current money. Round up to $100,000 for this years inflation.
Squatter law is brutal in some states.
Florida is particularly ugly for the property owner.
https://legalhearsay.com/understanding-florida-squatters-laws/
Gotta have adverse possession for seven years including paying the property taxes.
You know, when everyone is filling out a SAR, everyone is getting a SAR.
I saw a proposal to raise the $10,000 tripwire number by the rate of inflation since the Nixon area, which would be $83,000 in current money. Round up to $100,000 for this years inflation.
I have had at least two SARs filed on me for less than $10,000. One was for $7,000 and the other was $8,000. Both by banks.
This reminds me of an old sci-fi movie I have on my server and watched a couple months ago: Crack in the World. Scientists/goobermint are always screwing stuff up.
I would definitely break out the Book of Dirty Tricks if a squatter was in my house. It is just crazy this goes on.
Only a Redumblican can do this, and only tRump has the balls.
Unfortunately, I can only give tRump a 50/50 chance of being reelected. Only the Amish vote and Independents can help, but dirty tricks are afoot.
LOL, it is a good thing I still have my TSLA stock:
Biden administration announces climate rules to phase out gas cars and make sure majority of vehicles sold by 2032 are electric or hybrid
If McSpongeBrain is reelected, I’ll become a millionaire!
I am still running my office on exclusively Starlink. I still have my Peplink 30 MUX box in place but only the Starlink WAN is connected to it. I just pulled the WAN plugs for the two AT&T DSL 12/1 mbps lines last night.
No real problems so far. The only real problem was that I had to change from using FTP to WinSCP for talking with my main website.
The Starlink appears to use IPv4 at the moment. And it is constantly slipping the main address to the closest satellite to me so that address does not change at all. Very interesting.
Overall Starlink seems to have about 5X the bandwidth coming down and 10X the bandwidth going up over the AT&T DSL lines. The latency appears to be the same, 30 ms to 100 ms to get anywhere in the USA.
I’ve been advocating for YEARS that we ought to have a 50% tax on “remittances”, money sent from Mexicans here to people in Mexico. If we can’t make MexicO pay for Trump’s border wall, at least we can make MexicANS pay for it.
@“Western Union is a pain in the ass with having to do SARs and the like. Now you expect the guy at the grocery store business center to actually give a flying F of of having to verify a SSN with the threat of jail for a mistake? “
Verify or withhold 50%.
Failure to do one or the other and WU is on the hook for 100% plus 100% penalty.
Oh, yeah. DNA on file, too.
“Rare star explosion will be visible for a week”
https://www.earth.com/news/rare-star-explosion-will-be-visible-for-a-week/
“For the first time in eight decades, a celestial phenomenon will grace our night sky, offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness a star’s brilliance with the naked eye during a dramatic explosion.”
“Known as T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, this star resides 3,000 light-years from Earth in the Northern hemisphere’s expanse and is on the brink of an intense outburst.”
Oh no.
Years ago I had to take something to Receiving. I forget what it was the genius FedEx guy dropped off at the Business Center.
I went by the Deli because the fresh bread smells so good. 🙂
Peggy was clearing stuff out of the cooler. She was sort of not happy. Might be because she was using a milk crate as a stool. There was a lot of “fancy” meat that expired the next day. The stuff like Columbo Soppressata (sp) salami that was pushing $5 a package at the time. All going to the compactor. I asked “why not mark it down? Slap a $1 sticker on there!” “Because (boss name) is a lazy idiot.”
So it’s all going to the trash. I went on to Receiving and on my way back I asked Peggy if it would be ok for me to take that ¾ full hand basket and throw it away for her? “Why, thank you!” <cough cough> What if I happened to bag it up and take the “trash” home? “Don’t breath a word of we’ll both be fired!”
I don’t work there anymore and neither does Peggy.
I scored almost $200 of “trash”. It was all scanned out of inventory.
I found the last of it all in the bottom of the freezer the other day. Eight packages left.
A frosty package of Jamon Serrano, made in Spain, packaged in Germany, went into the fridge for a couple of days to thaw.
It’s just like new. Even if the Best By date is February 17, 2010.
D4 wants to watch the Roadhouse remake coming out on Amazon tomorrow. I said, let’s watch the original, which we did last night. A definite cult movie.
I just watched a clip of the new movie. Uh, the “band” is female and it looks like the Double Doosh owner is an Amish female. WTH, Amazon?
And Jake Gleek-N-Hall is no Patrick Swayze. Greek-N-Hall has the body and moves, but none of Swayze’s cool and swagger. I read they paid Connor McGregor between $6-10 million. What a waste. But, I bet most of the viewers have never seen the original, nor know who Patrick Swayze was.
I got an email problem.
Today when I tried to open Thunderbird I got a pop-up and a warning. The pop-up said: “Authentication failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com.”
The warning was a tab that said: “Warning” Potential Security Risk Ahead Thundrbird detected a potential security threat and did not continue to live.thnderbird.net. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.
Restarting it and restarting Windows did not fix it.
Gmail opens correctly amd seems to be working properly but I can’t get into settings.
I checked the updates for Thunderbird and the last one was done automatically on marcdh 7th. I tried to reinstall Thunderbird but Windows will only let me uninstall it.
Also when I tried to subscribe to a site I got a error message say it couldn’t to that.
D4 wants to watch the Roadhouse remake coming out on Amazon tomorrow. I said, let’s watch the original, which we did last night. A definite cult movie.
Just don’t watch the uncut version with your mother. Lots of naked women running around that movie. We moved to another movie after a while.
Today when I tried to open Thunderbird I got a pop-up and a warning. The pop-up said: “Authentication failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com.”
You need to use OAUTH2 for Gmail with Thunderbird.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20
BTW, I do not use IMAP with Thunderbird. I POP everything down but, I get 300 to 500 emails a day.
The whole making the guy at the grocery store responsible to verify someone’s SS number with the threat of getting fired and going to jail for a mistake…. Sorry, oh, so so sorry folks, the computer is down. I get paid $12 an hour and that’s not enough for the potential of jail.
There’s a way around Western Union. Get a NetSpend card. It’s a Visa Debit card. You can have a couple of cards per account. Cash your paycheck (for $3) and load your card for free. Mother or Wife in Mexico has a loaded debit card to use and she doesn’t have to go to the Western Union location to get the money…. and pay a fee to get the money.
Now, I have no idea what ATM and currency exchange rates run at an ATM in Mexico. But loading a NetSpend card is a heck of a lot faster than dicking with Western Union. Even with a per transaction fee, cheaper than Western Union. Lot quicker than mailing a check, too.
“Biden administration announces climate rules to phase out gas cars and make sure majority of vehicles sold by 2032 are electric or hybrid”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13219567/Biden-administration-announces-climate-rules-phase-gas-cars-make-sure-majority-vehicles-sold-2032-electric-hybrid.html
Bite Me has no right to do this. None whatsoever.
Bite Me thinks that he is a dictator.
You see a lot more of Patrick Swayze naked from various camera angles depending on the cut.
A landmark of gay cinema, right up there with the volleyball scene from the oroginal “Top Gun”.
Every fan of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” remembers Patrick Swayze and “Roadhouse”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug
The legend is that Joel Hodgson felt weird about doing the sketch after Patrick Swayze died, but the widow passed along word that her husband *loved* the song and felt deeply honored to have been immortalized that way in what is arguably one of the best MST3K segments, right up there with “Torgo’s Pizza”.
Looking for some travel advice.
We are driving down to New Orleans this summer. Our plan is to take a few days to do this and make stops on the way. So far, it looks like the first half day lands us in Columbus Ohio. The second day gives us choices in Tennessee: Memphis, Nashville, or maybe Knoxville. We expect to be in the Big Easy on the third day. We were floored by the hotel prices in Memphis and Nashville.
Any advice and experiences on where to stay in Tennessee that doesn’t break the bank?
Who owns the auto parts store?
Now that was seriously cool casting in the original.
In Memphis, the Holiday Inn Express Medical Center (thanks Ray), but the Bass Pro pyramid hotel if you are up for a splurge.
Nashville – another Holiday Inn Express, near the Grand Ole Opry, convenient to Cooter’s Place.
(If you are an X-er and remember “The Dukes of Hazzard”, do not skip Cooter’s Place)
Chattanooga – Hampton Inn Lookout Mountain.
All three offer a hot breakfast of some kind, and both Nashville and Chattanooga have Publix stores which generally feature very good bakeries.
How about an Amendment like this:
“Any Regulatory Measure or Combination of Measures, by any Federal Agency, that shall cost businesses or consumer’s an estimated 1% or more above current costs, shall require it pass a non-omnibus super-majority vote by the combined Congress.”
LOL, too late! D4 remarked, “There are a lot of ti**ies in this movie.”
Not just tiddies, the scene where the Dr gets out of bed and crosses the room, backlit, has what the modern kids call “thigh gap” with pretty clear genitalia visible, iirc. Can’t check my VHS copy, which might be kinda worn in that scene… she was hot!
n
FWIW, as I rewatch the canon with the kids, all the 80s movies had a lot of female nudity, or at least some in every film…
n
Congress could simply pass a law taking auto emissions standards and MPG out of the hands of the EPA, but they’ve been punting on that for nearly 50 years.
“Capricorn One” – OJ’s first film! – had a gratuitous nude scene and one “a**hole” in the rated ‘R’ cut which made theaters when I was a kid, but, at some point, the studio realized they had something of a cult classic which could otherwise play on HBO/Showtime before the 8 PM EST ‘magic’ hour so they had Peter Hyams recut it.
The PG print is the one on home video. I’ve never seen the rated ‘R’ cut outside of the theater.
Higly recommended if you see a copy at Goodwill. That flick was the pinnacle of 70s megacheese, stunt casting, and “high concept”, and a couple of careers beyond OJ’s were launched by the production.
Despite the clickbait, there are some interesting stats in the article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13215759/Tracey-cox-reveals-gen-z-sex-grow-up.html
n
In Nashville, look for something in the Franklin or Cool Springs area. That is on the south side and there are some reasonable options there. You can find a deal in Nashville proper, but it takes work. When we made our first trip up to Vandy for my son’s first endocrinologist appointment, we found a nice boutique hotel that was close to the hospital, as the appointment was at 0800.
I stayed in the Hampton Inn in Bellevue, right off of I-40 last Summer and didn’t have any complaints, but the room was a bit pricey. The tradeoff is that anything you need is right there, including a decent selection of restaurants, stores, gas, and even McKay’s at the next freeway exit – the reason I chose to stay in that section of Nashville.
The Hotel Avery right across the street looked okay with cheaper rates, but the online reviews were mixed. The Hampton also had a light breakfast which was the tradeoff for the higher price.
They could, but my amendment is lot broader, covers a LOT of cases…
Been a while since I was in any of those places. Some of the best food I had on the trip was in Memphis in a restaurant with a funny name. Old school family place, not cheap. Folks Folly says the interwebs… they have a dress code.
Knoxville I ate at someone’s wedding in the back room with staff (I was there to meet caterers and party planners) so no help.
Nashville left no mark on me, sorry.
The “Mid South” used to be my territory 20 years ago… but I haven’t really been back or even thru since then. I did have a funny story about traveling with a vegetarian and how hard it was to find food for her. We were at a BBQ place for dinner, she told the waiter she was a veg but wasn’t militant about it and would eat whatever they had that didn’t have meat. It turned into the Python “Spam” skit pretty quickly after she was offered a salad… which had meat in it. ALL of the dishes had some meat in them, even the green beans and mac n cheese.
We ate a lot of BBQ on that tour. She ate a lot of salad and bread.
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@Nick
My dinner tonight:
2-lbs carrots, peeled, into Insta-Pot
¾ cup chicken broth
Place rack over carrots
Add 1 Hormel marinated pork loin
Close her up and set for 35 minutes.
Wait 20 minutes.
32 ounces of Ore-Ida Golden Fries. Handy instructions for half or three-quarters of a bag. Noting that the inevitable result of placing a partial bag that does not have a zip closure back in the freezer is fries on the floor, I declined to follow the instructions of The Potato Gods: The whole bag went into the air fryer for 18 minutes, and got turned twice with a spatula.
When time is up on Insta-Pot, move lever to release position. With a little practice I found an intermediate short of full release and the cloud of hot water vapor aka steam-like substance that it generates.
Fries are ready. Place two scoops on dinner plate and artfully decorate with Hunts HFCS-free tomato catsup.
Enjoy with big glass of milk.
Open Insta-Pot. removes pork loin to cutting board, slice into ¼-3/8 slices. Remove rack. Place copious pile of carrots on dinner plate. Top with garlic pepper. Move remainder of carrots to side. Place 5-6 slices of pork loin on plate with carrots. Return remainder of pork loin to pot, basing with juice. Baste pork loin slices on plate, also. Turn I-P off, so it will cool.
Add more fries to plate and ketchupify as needed. Enjoy with second glass of milk.
When I-P is cooled, portion pork loin and carrots in microwave plastic containers to make several lunch/dinners, with balance into large container. Leftover fries go into plastic container–microwave works, but air fryer warm-up is better.
All leftovers to refrigerator.
Cleanup.
The pork loins were on sale. The various flavors also vary in weight, from almost 24 ounces for the Garlic Herb (my choice) to almost 20 ounces for the Terriyaki (good with rice). At 24-ounces, the cost was about $2.70 per pound. I put a few in the freezer.
@Nick
“We ate a lot of BBQ on that tour.”
Alleviates why they call it “work”.
Huh, hadn’t thought about those marinated loins in a long time. When I was first married and we were still doing hard core Atkins diet, we ate a lot of those. We were always looking for new flavors of meat…
I’ll have to look in the store, as $2.50 /lb isn’t that much of a premium over the best sale price for plain loin, and they add variety to a menu plan.
Not that I specifically plan. Kid is always asking me if there “is a plan for dinner” when I pick her up. The answer is not really. Unless that plan is “look in the freezer and figure out what to cook today.” or “the plan is to make something.”
I did plan today, because I cooked the pork shoulder from yesterday’s comments as “apple smoked bourbon pulled pork” in the crock pot. Couldn’t find the carnitas seasoning packet. Family ate every lick of the 2 ¾ pounds as little mini sandwiches. It was good.
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>> I hope mRNA spike proteins are eliminated from my body (I’ve only had the twofer). Now that I’m retiring from MrsAtoz’s company, when a school says, “you need an eighth booster”, I’ll answer with: Eat The Crust From My Shorts.
Hold on there…the crust is the best part…oh wait, that’s for a PB&J sandwich. Never mind.
>> Any advice and experiences on where to stay in Tennessee that doesn’t break the bank?
Uhh, @Ray’s RV??
Your DSL kinda sucks, but it is also an antique. Don’t they offer fiber by now? That would surely be cheaper than Starlink!
Your DSL kinda sucks, but it is also an antique. Don’t they offer fiber by now? That would surely be cheaper than Starlink!
$550/month with a five year contract for 10/10 mbps. 1/1 gbps is $1,550/month. My office is in the sticks even though I do have a AT&T 32 ??? strand fiber at the front of my property. Only 3 or 5 of the strands are being used at the moment. They would pull a strand loose, install a repeater, and run a fiber the quarter mile to my office building.
Starlink is $120/month after the $600 kit. Works good enough for these tough times. I would like the fiber but moving back in town is not going to happen.
That’s crazy talk. Geez. That’s exactly what we have, for about $70/month. In our little town of 400 souls.
How can they justify prices like that?
“we’re the phone company”