Day: August 11, 2023

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230811

Dirty Shirley

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces vodka
  • 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
  • 6 to 8 ounces lemon-lime soda, to taste
  • 1 to 1 1/2 ounces grenadine, to taste
  • 1/2 ounce maraschino cherry syrup from the jar, optional
  • 1 to 2 maraschino cherries, for garnish

Steps to Make It

  1. Gather the ingredients.Ingredients to make a Dirty ShirleyThe Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck
  2. Add the vodka and lime juice to a tall glass. Top with plenty of ice.A glass with lime, vodka, and iceThe Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck
  3. Add the lemon-lime soda, then top with grenadine and maraschino cherry syrup, if using. Stir to combine.A glass of lime, vodka, soda, and grenadine being stirredThe Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck
  4. Taste, adding more soda or grenadine if desired. Garnish with a maraschino cherry or two and serve immediately.A Dirty Shirley garnished with two maraschino cherries

Badlands News Brief – August 10, 2023

Growing Number of Leprosy Cases Reported After COVID-19 Vaccination

That’s one that’s really curious. Although, Leprosy did pretty much disappear once immune systems were stronger than in Biblical times.

Target hit with shareholder lawsuit after Pride backlash damaged stock price

A Modest Proposal to Defeat the Political Class

There should be nothing modest about it. It’s all or nothing at this point.

Evil Never Takes a Holiday

The petty totalitarians have moved from a marathon’s pace to a sprint not because the finish line is just ahead, but because too many ordinary people have begun to figure out what is going on around them. The left has been slowly herding Westerners like a flock of sheep to a pen down the road, but now the sheepdogs have begun nudging the herd toward a different direction. In the process, it appears that there are a lot more sheepdogs hiding among the sheep than anybody ever knew. That is a problem for the wolves who have assumed that they could lock everyone into a new cage and begin feasting without a fight. The wolves have become visibly authoritarian because unexpected resistance has made them foolishly desperate.

Fighting the Flying Monkeys

Political Prosecution: A Constitutional Crisis In The Making

For Washington Post’s Feared ‘Pinocchio’ Fact Checker, Forthrightness Dies in ‘Updates’ to Biden-Burisma Story

Legal expert says 2020 election interference was ‘Deep State FBI’

At this point, anything is possible.

Could walking extend your lifespan? – study

Oh, man, I hope so.

COVID-19 is ‘heating up all around’ this summer. Should we be wearing masks again?

Like it worked so well the last time.

Liberal Republican donors are souring on DeSantis because of his pro-life, pro-family record

Somehow, I don’t think that’s why.

7 Trends That Indicate Economic Disaster Is Approaching Very Rapidly

So the FBI’s Los Angeles and Portland field offices also helped out with targeting Latin Mass Catholics?

“There’s a Fresh Wind Blowing” For Religious Freedom in America

EV startup Lucid is losing over $500,000 for every car it sells

Everyone who wants a car run on batteries already has one.

Biden Corruption Context and The Lightbringer

I think Sundance will be surprised at just how much gets exposed.

Bidenomics – Multiple Key Performance Indicators Spell Trouble Ahead

Nothing new, just another voice to add to the Greek chorus.

Snarky and Brilliant – President Trump Will Travel to Iowa State Fair With 9 Florida Republicans Who Endorsed Him, On Same Day DeSantis Will Attend

He he he

Tweety Tweets:

If it actually happens….

I swear to God that this division in the republican party is going to cost us the election. I have friends voting for DeSantis. I’m not going to try to change their mind, but many DeSantis supporters are all up and down my feed screeching like liberals.

Literally repeating the same thing over and over. Trump isn’t going to win. There’s no way. Might as well vote for DeSantis. Trump is selfish. If he cared about the country, he would back DeSantis.

Who tf are you trying to convince here? Apparently not confident enough to keep regurgitating the same thing over and over.

You’re not changing my mind or other Trump supporters’ minds.

You will cost us the election.

I put a half a pound of those in my fruitcake every year.

Not good.

Amen.

Can any North Carolina peeps confirm this?

MEME STASH:

Yeah, I know. GONG!

Yuck. And it’s teflon, too.

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

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Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

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JOHN 15:4-10

4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!