vxbush 1/21/2021 5:10:22 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/21/2021 5:21:07 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

If they are, since grits are a Southern dish, that makes this a white supremacist blog, right?///////

Maybe by the new standards, but then, since everyone here voted for Trump, we're already considered white supremacist extremists, even though none of us supported the attack on the Capitol by a bunch of crazies who largely looked more like crazies at a leftist protest than Republicans and conservatives.

vxbush 1/21/2021 5:23:44 AM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: If they are, since grits are a Southern dish, that makes this a white supremacist blog, right?/////// Maybe by the new standards, but then, since everyone here voted for Trump, we're already considered white supremacist extremists, even though none of us supported the attack on the Capitol by a bunch of crazies who largely looked more like crazies at a leftist protest than Republicans and conservatives.

There seems to be a fair amount of rejoicing on the left that Biden removed Trump's executive order on training in federal workplaces on diversity. 

PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 5:25:03 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

That's definitely oatmeal. Probably quick oats rather then regular rolled oats.

vxbush 1/21/2021 5:35:17 AM

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In #4 PaladinPhil said: That's definitely oatmeal. Probably quick oats rather then regular rolled oats.

Huh. Sure doesn't look like it to me, but then I don't make a habit of studying the texture and look of my oatmeal. 

PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 5:46:36 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

There's three basic types of oatmeal. Rapid, quick, and rolled. Rapid is used in instant oatmeal pouches and is practically milled. Rolled oats are just the flattened grain. Quick oats are in the middle. Boils down to the rolling process and all the other grades are sifted out from the regular rolled oats mostly I believe.

buzzsawmonkey 1/21/2021 6:10:56 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 6:

You are forgetting steel-cut oats, which are---as far as I'm concerned---the only edible oatmeal.  Much more granular, much less mushy, and much, much tastier.

lucius septimius 1/21/2021 6:43:50 AM

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Two of Biden's first acts were to destroy 42,000 jobs by nixing the Keystone pipeline and destroy for all time women's sports by mandating the boys in dresses be allowed to compete as "women."

I would like to think that the latter, which primarily hurts middle class girls hoping to get Title IX mandated athletic scholarships, might get all those soccer moms who voted for Dems to rethink their position, but I doubt it.  Rational thought is not their strong suit.

doppelganglander 1/21/2021 6:54:30 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

I make steel cut oats in the Instant Pot for breakfast 3 or 4 days a week. It's got a nice, chewy texture and slightly nutty flavor. 

doppelganglander 1/21/2021 7:02:17 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:

Next up, an epidemic of girls being sexually assaulted in the locker room by women with penises.

lucius septimius 1/21/2021 7:02:57 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 10:

Except there won't be any girls in the locker rooms.

buzzsawmonkey 1/21/2021 7:03:56 AM

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In #8 lucius septimius said: nixing the Keystone pipeline

The Keystone pipline should have been up and running and untouchable a decade ago.  Safer, cleaner and more efficient than shipping oil by rail, but of course that very thing harmed Warren Buffet's rice bowl, and the Obama crowd delayed and delayed it.  

BeetleBiden is off at a gallop.

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 7:44:40 AM

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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: You are forgetting steel-cut oats,

You kids today and your newfangled technology. I prefer bronze-cut oats.

Kosh's Shadow 1/21/2021 7:46:48 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: You kids today and your newfangled technology. I prefer bronze-cut oats.

Paleo stone-cut is the way to go!/

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 7:46:57 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:

Gropey Joe appears to be in a mad rush to mandate every terrible left-wing idea that’s been thought up in the last two decades, within his first 48 hours in office.

vxbush 1/21/2021 7:53:31 AM

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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: BeetleBiden is off at a gallop.

BeetleBiden?  Could you explain that reference? Is it a Beetle Bailey reference? 

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 7:56:45 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 16:

https://youtu.be/Xp9xJ9PbclE

doppelganglander 1/21/2021 7:56:54 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 11:

Eventually only rich girls will have access to sports - the ones whose parents can pay for private figure skating or tennis lessons. Private soccer and softball leads might form, but again, $$$. Track and field events will be 100% male very soon. I doubt anyone noticed that black girls dominate track and field and it's a sport where the male/female gap is especially wide. And I'm sure no one has considered the research that shows participating in sports improves girls' future career performance. It really is all about erasing women. 

/rant

doppelganglander 1/21/2021 7:59:56 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

Serious question - since many of these EOs are plainly unconstitutional, can they be challenged in court? Or do we have to wait until the GOP gets a majority in Congress?

buzzsawmonkey 1/21/2021 8:12:10 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 17:

Thanks for beating me to it!

JCM 1/21/2021 8:23:31 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Porridge. Sign of things to come.

JCM 1/21/2021 8:24:16 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 6:

Steel cut... my wife insists on steel cut. No idea what the difference is.

JCM 1/21/2021 8:27:22 AM

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RE: EOs.

Obama certainly legislated with EOs and the courts upheld them.

Trump attempted to roll back Obama EOs and political hacks like WA AG Sideshow Bob sued to stop Trump. And the courts decided EO's are permanent and can't be undone.

But now Biden is rolling back Trump EOs and that is just peachy keen.

EOs have just become another tool of tyranny.

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 8:49:05 AM

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Well, thank goodness things are returning to normalcy in the middle east under the wonderful leadership of Joe Biden:

https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/first-big-suicide-attack-in-baghdad-for-three-years-kills-at-least-32/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 8:57:41 AM

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In #19 doppelganglander said: Serious question - since many of these EOs are plainly unconstitutional, can they be challenged in court? Or do we have to wait until the GOP gets a majority in Congress?

Some are constitutional, others not.  In theory someone with standing could litigate the point.  But then it depends on the leanings of a particular court.  We damn well need a conservative majority (I'm no longer saying a "GOP" majority) in Congress to do anything that's guaranteed (more or less) to stick. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/21/2021 9:01:04 AM

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In #25 Occasional Reader said: We damn well need a conservative majority (I'm no longer saying a "GOP" majority

That is being declared white supremacist and illegal  as we speak.

buzzsawmonkey 1/21/2021 9:24:47 AM

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I was just looking for something on YouTube and ran across a piece of excrescence called "Seasons of Trump," by something calling itself "Randy Rainbow."  

I will not link to it, but it can be easily found if you're looking for disgust.  The sheer vileness is ...remarkable.

doppelganglander 1/21/2021 9:32:37 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

Yes, we need to vote in conservatives, if we can find any. In the meantime, I would think any qualified woman who was denied a place on a sports team has standing. 

JCM 1/21/2021 9:35:29 AM

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How long before the COVID vaccine is plentiful, and Biden takes credit for fixing the mess left by Trump?

I think after heard a news blip that Biden signed 10 covid related EOs.

How much you want to bet cases and death start dropping dramatically and Biden has fixed the covid crisis by late April early May.

All they have to do is go back to the pre-covid data analysis methodologies for flu, and presto cases and death will drop dramatic, below epidemic levels.

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 9:58:31 AM

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In #29 JCM said: How long before the COVID vaccine is plentiful

Even to evil white people, who don't deserve it? 

lucius septimius 1/21/2021 10:40:23 AM

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Reply to JCM in 29:

Daniel Henninger today was saying that in every case, the problem with getting vaccines out is government fuck-up.  The Dems keep thinking that more government is the solution when it's really the cause of the difficulty.  Hence whatever solution Biden's "team" comes up with, it will only complicate matters.  But the press and the left still won't get it.  Red states have been far better because they haven't decided to freight the process of vaccinating people with myriad social-engineering goals. 

JCM 1/21/2021 10:49:12 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 30:

I'm sure they will be a wokeness score for whitey since they are an inferior race.

PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 10:50:55 AM

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PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 11:08:20 AM

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Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 11:12:25 AM

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In #33 PaladinPhil said: Online learning for Senior Kindergarten and Grade one students is a farce in my opinion. :/

I feel your pain... at this very moment, in fact, as i try to shepherd Little OR through his online class, and do something resembling work myself at the same time.

PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 11:14:57 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 35:

And we still have no proper internet connection so I am using my personal laptop set up in the dining room. Which means I can't do anything while he's online. The internet wifi we are accessing is only viewable by my current laptop and only in this location.

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 11:22:18 AM

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In #32 JCM said: whitey since they are an inferior race.

Melanin scientifically proves that.

For further details, please consult the department of justice, civil rights division. Thank you.

JCM 1/21/2021 11:29:06 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 36:

That's tough. I had completely upgrade my home network, 3 kids online school and me working online.

I've got an old Mac laptop that runs fine but is gathering dust I could send your way if that would help.

PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 11:33:23 AM

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Reply to JCM in 38:

We're good really. Just that the good wifi is a 5g signal (not cell phone 5g), and my old laptop doesn't see that range. The poor lady in charge of the ISP in the park is trying to unf*ck the late owners slap dash set ups and other poor technical decisions.

Occasional Reader 1/21/2021 11:36:49 AM

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In #29 JCM said: How long before the COVID vaccine is plentiful, and Biden takes credit for fixing the mess left by Trump? I think after heard a news blip that Biden signed 10 covid related EOs. How much you want to bet cases and death start dropping dramatically and Biden has fixed the covid crisis by late April early May. All they have to do is go back to the pre-covid data analysis methodologies for flu, and presto cases and death will drop dramatic, below epidemic levels.

Related.

JCM 1/21/2021 11:39:54 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 39:

Any of the local 'net providers offering COVID packages? Around here families with kids in school are getting free or low cost 'net connections.

vxbush 1/21/2021 11:42:36 AM

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In #39 PaladinPhil said: We're good really. Just that the good wifi is a 5g signal (not cell phone 5g), and my old laptop doesn't see that range. The poor lady in charge of the ISP in the park is trying to unf*ck the late owners slap dash set ups and other poor technical decisions.

We've had to work with a lot of workers at home trying to help them understand their home networking and the issues they are running into. It has been a heavy slog for a lot of IT people. 

JCM 1/21/2021 11:46:42 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 40:

I just have to laugh, a wry, sad laugh.

PaladinPhil 1/21/2021 11:49:15 AM

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Reply to JCM in 41:

We have a very local ISP. As in it just looks after our trailer park. We are out of range of any of the big names or small name ISP's. There's a larger company that does service rural areas but it's about twice the cost of what we are currently paying for unlimited.

JCM 1/21/2021 11:55:08 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 44:

Ouch, and ouch.

buzzsawmonkey 1/21/2021 12:38:55 PM

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Trying to sell my late affinity's furniture.  Nice stuff, but the NYC exodus has rendered it a drug on the market.  

Another piece of pain.

JCM 1/21/2021 1:27:33 PM

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What do you expect from a Carter Judge who is 80 years old.

Seattle judge says Amazon won't have to restore Parler web service

Nothing in AWS's ToS about that Parler violated. AWS made it up.

Now making up contract clauses for the purpose of silencing political opponents is judicial precedent.

doppelganglander 1/21/2021 2:32:41 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 40:

It's only the first full day if the Administration and I'm already tired of being right.

JCM 1/21/2021 2:36:20 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 48:

I often when it comes to this stuff hate being right.

My being right means something is very wrong with something much larger than myself.

I much rather be personally wrong and have the big stuff be right.

Kosh's Shadow 1/21/2021 2:41:52 PM

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The modern witch hunt. Need to rewrite the Python sketch

"We have found a Trump supporter.  May be burn him?"

"How do you know he is a Trump supporter?"

"By the hat" - points to a red hat

"This isn't a MAGA hat; it's just a red one"

Kosh's Shadow 1/21/2021 2:43:31 PM

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This just in - the National Bridge Association has declared use of trump cards to be racist!/

(I should submit that to the Babylon Bee)