Day: May 17, 2024

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20240517

YES! It’s Preakness weekend. I can still hear the ads for Pimlico from the early 80s when I lived south of Baltimore. “HI HO PIMLICO!” Unfortunately, youtube doesn’t have the ad.

Baltimore Bang

  • Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 ounces bourbon whiskey
  • 1 1/2 ounces apricot brandy
  • 1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • Orange slice, for garnish
  • Maraschino cherry, for garnish

Steps to Make It:
Gather the ingredients.

  • In a cocktail shaker, pour the whiskey, apricot brandy, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Fill with ice.
  • Shake well.
  • Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
  • Garnish with a skewered orange slice and cherry flag. Serve and enjoy.

Uh, yeah, w-h-i-s-k-e-y is the spelling reserved for Irish whiskey. Everybody else it’s “whisky.”

Minor…little…things.

And…yeah, Maryland still has the coolest flag in the union:

Alright, enough of the pretty state I love even if it’s on the beltway.

Badlands News Brief – May 16, 2024

Rep Harriet Hageman Outlines Rep Dan Goldman Connection to The New York City Trial Against Candidate Donald Trump

Trump is a Lightning Rod

Biden Regime Covering Up Tapes from Special Counsel!

GWINN: NFL Says They Do Not Agree with Harrison Butker After He Voices Christian Values

He’s Catholic and was giving a commencement address at a Catholic college to fellow Catholics. Essentially, he said, get married and have lots of kids. This is not something we all haven’t heard before. Bigger families are coming back. I see them all the time at Church.

Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine’s Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?

Chiefs’ Harrison Butker jersey ranked among NFL’s bestsellers amid kicker’s faith-based commencement address

CROCKETT CRACKS: Unhinged Democrat ERUPTS Starts SCREAMING and CUSSES at GOP Member During House Oversight Hearing on AG Garland’s Contempt of Congress (VIDEO)

Kansas City Under Investigation for Alleged Human Rights Violations After Doxxing Chiefs’ Kicker Harrison Butker

Really not well done by the KC people. There’s a reason there is practically a brick wall down the middle of the state of Missouri. Okay…at the St. Charles and Franklin county lines to the west.

Tweets & Stuff From X

For those who want to know what the hubbub with Harrison Butker is about, the transcript is at the link:

Yes, this is important enough to be in the opener twice:

Memes & Other Fun Stuff

Yeah…. It’s doubtful most right wing men would be interested.

A bad 1980s thrift store.

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:

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

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1 CORINTHIANS 1:26-31

26For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; 27but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, 28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption; 31therefore, as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord.”

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!