Day: July 14, 2023

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230714

The Real Mojito

Ingredients

  • 10 fresh mint leaves
  • ½ medium lime, cut into 3 wedges, divided
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar, or to taste
  • 1 cup ice cubes, or as needed
  • 1 ½ fluid ounces white rum
  • ½ cup club soda, or as needed

Directions

  1. Place mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into a sturdy glass. Use a muddler and crush to release mint oils and lime juice.mint leaves and lime wedge being muddled in a clear glassDOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  2. Add remaining lime wedges and 2 tablespoons sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture.additional limes and sugar being muddled in clear glassDOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  3. Fill the glass almost to the top with ice.clear glass with muddled mint, lime, and sugar filled with iceDOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  4. Pour in rum and fill the glass with club soda.a high angle view of a clear glass with rum and ice poured in on top of muddle sugar and lime.DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  5. Stir, taste, and add more sugar if desired.an eye level view of several mojito cocktails.

How’s the weather out there?

Short one again today as a brother and nephew are visiting, and I’m spending a lot of time away from home with a Sheltie. Ying might get jealous.

Rabbit Faced Baby Found in Iowa, Buck Toothed Mom Chewed Carrots While Pregnant

Badlands News Brief – July 13, 2023

America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded

The Big Gaslight

Rep. Matt Gaetz: Don’t Haiti My Florida

New MSG “Sphere” in Vegas is remarkable, but the backstory on how it came to be is even better…

New court doc reveals Biden’s FTC browbeat an accounting firm to “punish” Elon after he purchased Twitter…

WEF: ‘Digital Cash’ Will Force Climate Agenda onto Public

Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’

One Bubble Is About to Pop…and No One Is Talking About It

Opill, first over-the-counter birth control pill, approved by FDA

Considering that the trials for the original birth control pill were moved out of the country because too many women were dying, was it ever really safe to begin with? Those warnings on the ads are no joke.

Murdoch Outlet – Struggling DeSantis Discounts Admission Price for Rich People to Meet Him in Hamptons

Tweety Tweets:

Remember the whole push about fitness being a right wing conspiracy theory? Part of that is stories like this:

I’ve been following this guy for a while. He’s doing something about his weight and posting his daily progress complete with meals cooked, and videos of workouts. The weightlifting community has been nothing but supportive, and all the keto cooks are as well. Recently, Dave proposed to his girl, and they are getting married in November. His is not at all the only story of this sort out there. Why this is being politicized when these people are taking steps to help themselves be healthy is a mystery.

Not really, but at least they are speaking out.

Good question.

Variety is the spice of life

Creative writers do need to unite on this one. It would save Hollywood – hooked on franchise continuation – a lot of money not to have to pay human talent.

Welcome aboard, Jim.

MEME STASH:

I may have to rethink my opinion of crows.

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

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MATTHEW 10:16-23

16“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, 18and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. 19When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; 20for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; 22and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of man comes.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!