Day: September 26, 2024

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20240926

Cover image: Lake Cumberland, Kentucky

Okay, so, the family was on a camping trip in the old pop-up camper, and we had entirely too much rain for a couple days. Mom had a nasty cold. We were all in the station wagon waiting for mom and dad to take down the camper, and mom let her side down first and WHOOSH. The rain that collected on the roof of the camper for a few days drenched her. My brothers were like, Hey, Mom, do that again. It happened in Lake Cumberland State Park.

Badlands News Brief – September 25, 2024

Majority of Americans Admit to ‘Self-Silencing’ on Hot-Button Issues, Survey Finds

It’s a matter of keeping the peace in most cases.

It’s the ‘Caddyshack’ Election

Sundance responds to a reader:

Dear Bob Parker…

Senate Homeland Security and Govt Affairs Committee Releases Interim Report on Butler Assassination Attempt of President Trump

Mistakes were made…yeah, there’s an understatement for you.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams Indicted by DOJ

Indicted, huh. Let’s see what the indictment says before we, the people get all excited.

*** General Flynn on Eye of the Storm

Not stupid, just lazy

MMA fighter reveals why he’s entitled to beat up on women in the Octagon

Spiciest one-minute take on entire COVID sham: it was all about hysterical female energy…

COVID…Prohibition…[insert female led movement here]

The Vast Pharmaceutical Conspiracy to Silence Dissent Online

I went out to lunch with a friend on Wednesday and we got to talking about this. She and I are so on the same page, it’s not even funny.

Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration

Money talks.

Pope expels a bishop and 9 other people from a Peru movement over ‘sadistic’ abuses

Hey, there’s a stunner. The Vatican did something right for once.

TWEETS!

https://twitter.com/newstart_2024/status/1838665564648280274

Another post on this UN thing. VERY important.

MEMES and FUN STUFF

Play the E natural first.

It’s really more stylish than the Delorian.

Or osteosarcoma. Yes, it happens to runners.

Anymore, it’s a pain in the backside.

Shut up, little girl.

She called her husband Fang while doing stand-up. Great lady.

It’s the little things….

Couldn’t happen in a nicer city…says the St. Louisan where we regularly question Chicago’s spotlight.

I 💕 capybaras.

https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1839020048800977258
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1838951600351748601

That has to be a guy thing.

Just because it’s my current earworm….

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And now for the business portion.

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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, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

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Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever. 5The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 6The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 7All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. 8All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. 10Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already, in the ages before us. 11There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

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SATIRE

Come live out here during tornado season.

And for those looking for wholesome content on YouTube, I’ve been following this lobster fisherman in Maine. We know farming, but do we know commercial fishing?

WEEKEND STARTER

Martha’s Cider-Bourbon Cocktail

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup apple cider
  • ⅓ cup bourbon
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 2 (2 ½-inch-long) thin slices fresh ginger
  • 2 thin slices from a small apple, such as lady, for garnish

Directions

  1. Make cocktail:Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add cider, bourbon, lemon juice, and ginger; shake until well chilled.
  2. Strain and serve:Strain and divide cocktail between two glasses. Garnish with apple slices.

Have a good one y’all.