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... deserves a place right up there with... so... megyn kelly and bret baier interviews will probable be admitted as evidence in trump's retention o' documents case... and is a whole lotta additional opportunities for undignified efforts at seppuku by trump 'tween now and the current may trial date. am baffled that anybody would wanna be trump's attorney... and am reminded o' a classic fauci moment. Fauci on Trump coronavirus comments: ‘I can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him down’ HA! Good Fun!

organic doesn't have a fixed definition, so am having difficulty taking it too serious. processed is also not a big deal for us but that is mostly 'cause o' the way we cook. we make a whole lotta soup and we start with homemade stock and vegetables which were at least fresh at some point, but our concerns 'bout store bought is less process and additives than it is sodium content. (edit: also, as have noted previous, better than bullion chicken and beef options is frequent added to our stews and soups albeit in small amounts. the stuff is fantastic for elevating flavor and is no question even the organic options qualify as processed.) we have a reputable butcher we visit, but again is less 'bout process than it is a matter o' quality as well as humane treatment o' the meat while it were ambulatory. we eat catfish regular (and other fishes often enough,) but the truth is we would prefer it to be farmed as 'posed to river or lake caught. farmed fish means it is less likely to have high levels o' toxins and/or parasites. same goes for game meat you might acquire just about anywhere in the continental US-- assume such game is loaded with toxins and parasites. is worcestershire sauce and tomato paste processed? sure they are and we can't imagine trying to replace 'em in a host o' recipes we make. etc. regardless, given the fact we do so much homemade cooking and the fact quality and fresh ingredients is so readily available in our vicinity, processed just isn't a frequent issue. 'course am thinking people can get curious fixated on the evils o' processed. am not saying processed foods is always harmless, but somehow the idea o' processed is bigger than the reality. are the process phobes gonna give up their hard liquor and beer? pasteurizing milk has valuable health benefits and on the spectrum o' process, is less concerning than is even home crafted beer. bread is by necessity processed but not ultra-processed. even so, while is not difficult to bake bread, real bread has a notorious short shelf life and people rare make in single serving portions. in any event, we rare bake, so... oh, and cheese. am s'posing we could make our own cottage cheese and end up with minimal processed, but such is so not what we mean by cheese. we need cheese. the infrequent pizza doesn't scare us. heck, we will travel the ~64 km to auburn to get a #9 and a half order of fries from wiener works. no fear. no guilt. process be damned. am thinking it is a good idea to minimize ultra-processed foods from a diet, y'know 'cause that is the consensus o' the big brain medical and science folks who am recognizing know far more 'bout such stuff than we do, but am not losing any sleep over our current diet and am likewise not concerned 'bout a whole host o' foods which is somewhere on the spectrum o' processed. also, am lucky wiener works is a +50 minute drive from our location. HA! Good Fun!

mike williams died. on august 21 williams was doing electrical work at a construction site and suffered a head injury-- hit with a steel beam. on septmber 1, williams were hospitalized. after hospitalization, williams father had a gofundme page with a few details regarding his son's accident and medical situation. william's father were requesting monetary contributions so he could travel from texas to see his son who were hospitalized in tampa, florida. following his fourth round rookie contract, williams signed a $40 million deal with the bucs. $9 million guaranteed. none o' it actual matters, but of course we got questions 'bout the delay between the accident and hospitalization as well as why williams were doing electrical work after an nfl career which shoulda' seen him earn in excess o' $12 million dollars. maybe williams enjoyed electrical work and were doing for fun, but perhaps he had managed to lose his fortune. not enough info, but it sure sounds as if there were multiple tragedies at play in the untimely death o' mike williams.

there is numerous online guides which offer builds which exploit aeon summoning, but am never having gone that direction for very long. we played a couple different aeons and am personal not enamored o' the summoning route even if am able to see the potential. late game, an aeon acquires spells and abilities which makes most any aeon party functional invulnerable for boss battles, but there is a whole lotta game which ain't late game, and by late game most o' the other mythics (and legend) is sooper powerful too. early game, which particular on higher difficulties is where the game is most challenging, is a tough(er) slog for aeon 'cause other than the nice ab, spell dc boosts or the attack o' opportunity buff, the aeon gets an ok dispel ability and not much else; compared to other mythics, the aeon lags more than a little early game. however, with a high initiative character who gets many attacks per round, as soon as the aeon gets the greater dispel power, game challenge difficulty evaporates. most wotr foes is so tough 'cause owlcat gives 'em every conceivable buff, and then bends/break the pnp rules to give 'em a few more buffs. an aeon makes all those buffs evaporate. is possible to stack initiative through the ceiling in wotr, so your ranged or melee aeon should almost always attack first, and once you do... on the plus side, there is few drawbacks to building a high initiative melee or ranged character for wotr. particular on higher difficulty settings, initiative becomes an all but essential concern. you aren't losing anything by conscious stacking initiative. HA! Good Fun!

sad music which nevertheless comforts? am knowing there is studies which explain the brain chemistry, but for us the studies don't change the primal strangeness. top o' the list is gonna be arvo pärt, samuel barber... maybe ryuichi sakamoto songs? roberta flack were probable the artist who gut punched us at the earliest age. edit: is worth noting the linked song were the inspiration for the roberta flack piece and it also reached us on a fundamental level. a more recent top choice. HA! Good Fun!

well, after murdering all the younglings, anakin kinda reduced the pool o' possible worst padawan competitors by a dramatic amount. add the order 66 purge and is gonna be incredible limited challengers for any worst since anakin trophy. nevertheless, am agreeing with the sentiment. ahsoka plot points thus far has been more akin to a slasher movie wherein one predictable marvels at the abject stoopid o' the protagonists. however for ahsoka, the curious drive to self-destruction is not so much a character flaw o' the "protagonists" as it is o' sabine. HA! Good Fun!

one of our aunts turned 88 on the seventh, but she didn't answer her phone when we called her so we reached out to her 84 year old sister, just to make sure everything were ok. with somebody in their late eighties, you never know, eh? turns out everybody is fine, although the older aunt had a refrigerator give up the ghost (she lives alone and maintains two refrigerators and two large freezers *eye roll*) and the younger aunt's cat, a feline of eighteen years, has kidney problems. color us shocked. from the younger aunt we heard a great deal about the cat's health problems, and how joe biden was at fault for all the dirty, immigrant, homeless people down in los angeles. our older aunt most certain does not share her sister's views on homelessness, so the younger aunt unloaded on us. 'cause? what were weird were our aunt insisting how our father, when he were younger, looked "identical" to the host of fear factor... which didn't immediate register for us as we had literal never watched fear factor. joe rogan? ... had same reaction as axel same build, same facial features, same ability to do that exaggerated bug-eye stare. our father never lost his hair and were o' darker o' complexion, but otherwise a younger Gromnir sr. and a fear factor aged joe rogan with hair could ez pass as brothers. credit to our aunt as we had never seen the similarities until our she mentioned. weirder still, our aunt shared the fact our father loved to dance when he were young. apparently he danced all the time at home. our grandfather wired stereo speakers into their basement so the our father and his two sisters could dance to music whenever they wanted to. our father competed in and won local and regional dance contests. our father were ex-military and the "ex" were something he never quite accepted. the dad we knew ate old horseshoes for breakfast and the only time we saw him smile were when he were about to hurt somebody, but he loved to dance? ... well, ok then. am mid-fifties and still learning things 'bout our immediate family. go figure. HA! Good Fun!

the only reason the aesthetic arguably fits is 'cause a long line o' similar individuals has ignorant or intentional perpetuated the pilgrim buckles-on-hat nonsense. the fact such hats look right in any context is wrong. however, am wanting to make clear that this is not the kinda thing which would prevent us from watching and possibly enjoying a slasher film. yeah, pilgrim hat ornamentation is eye roll worthy, but almost by necessity so will a hundred or thousand other film details. ridiculous situations and people behaving improbable is fundamental in slashers, so the idea the hat is a deal breaker is tongue-in-cheek. even so, we reflexive become annoyed when we see the buckles on pilgrim hats. small annoyance, but by now it should be an unnecessary annoyance. HA! Good Fun!

insta fail for perpetuating the pilgrim buckles-on-hat nonsense. ... only kinda kidding. HA! Good Fun!

well, it took a bit o' time, but the "retarded" people o' the US did eventual deport osho's con man arse, so score one for the developmental challenged, eh? furthermore, pretty much nobody says retarded anymore and even if they did the actual issue is ignorance as 'posed to some kinda endemic learning disability. however, the guys who invented modern representative democracy were quite aware o' the importance o' an educated electorate. "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- thomas jefferson, from one o' his innumerable letters to... somebody. is ez to find similar insights from madison, franklin and others. 'course for jefferson and other founders, their recognition of education as an essential prerequisite for protecting liberty were another reason why they were okie dokie with only having landed and educated white men enjoy the franchise. 2023 is a also bit different than 1787. the internet allows many millions o' undereducated americans to convince selves they is aware of and informed 'bout relevant issues 'cause they did online research regarding covid, climate change and january 6. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/09/07/republican-voters-january-6-trump-enten-ac360-vpx.cnn thanks to the internet, never has so many dangerously ignorant people been so unshakably certain in their stoopid held beliefs. HA! Good Fun!

when we make pulled pork, which is too often, we typical regret not also making carolina gold bbq sauce. am a fan o' the tang from the apple cider vinegar mixed with mustard... although am liking less sweet than it is traditional prepared. HA! Good Fun!

has it? this specific situation is a bit unusual and am not sure how much pardons would benefit ivanka or trump jr even ignoring how trump has apparently thrown his progeny under the proverbial bus in recent depositions, which will no doubt make thanksgiving dinner at casa de trump especial fun this year. the ambiguous possibility o' pardons may be enough to convince 2024 white nationalist voters to keep faith with trump (as if they have another candidate choice,) without further antagonizing educated republican women and independents. actual pardons helps with white nationalists and ultra-alt right voters, but who else? a schrödinger pardon solidifies the trump base and gives other conservative leaning voters a chance to pretend as if trump wouldn't actual grant pardons. am just not seeing a real upside for actual pardons. even for the future political prospects o' trump spawn, actual pardons would seem to be an overall net loser. edit: am reminded o' just how improbable is trump. donald beat hillary to become President but both hillary and trump were historical unpopular and trump has lost the popular vote 2x. trump even managed to lose the electoral and popular vote to joe freaking biden. the electoral college process o' selecting the President were not intended to be democratic, so is hardly a surprise when a President isn't elected popular. even so, it took a long causal chain o' unlikely to transform a process intended to make a populist President nigh implausible so that what we got today is "the most disliked politician in all of America," running as a populist candidate and having a not 0% chance o' winning... again. HA! Good Fun!

something something something doj weaponization something. political witch hunt something something hillary something something something. something something establishment democrats something obama. antifa, blm something something something. banana republic something something. as little as fifteen years past, could you imagine republican leadership public embracing organizations such as the proud boys and oath keepers? is so not normal to see mainstream gop excusing extreme groups who embrace intolerance just so long as they is fighting the right enemies: establishment democrats, socialists, immigrants, etc. don't expect reasonable or rational. is ridiculous ez to dupe those who have surrendered to hopelessness. give 'em any excuse to be outraged. channel jungian archetypes? perhaps voodoo? dunno. regardless, is not difficult to string together the right dog whistles and triggers to reach the alt-right/trump base collective unconscious. however, trump only cares 'bout trump. IF he were to be reelected, which seems highly unlikely seeing as how in 2023 he is not even as popular as he were when he lost the 2020 Presidential contest, what motivation would he have for pardoning proud boys and oath keepers? maybe the proud boyz has a much larger real estate portfolio than am aware, but am not seeing the juice for the squeeze. trump can't be elected President more than twice, so if he somehow won in 2024, what would be the point o' further appeasing a bunch o' working class white nationalists? HA! Good Fun!

continuing a theme from our recent simon and garfunkel linked vid am repeating our self, but am feeling the need to once again opine that tina weymouth never got the credit she deserved. HA! Good Fun! ps linked song is in our list o' top ten favorite song titles.

am not a stephen king fan, but after not liking a couple o' his novels, we discovered we enjoyed more than one o' his short stories. in any event, we won't be reading the new king novel, but we thought the rolling stone article were interesting. HA! Good Fun!

we don't follow ina garten... at all. however, at a cooking site we saw a link to an article where ina recommends store bought alternatives she always uses instead o' making from scratch. we saw pepperidge farm stuffing mix were included and figured we would give it a try. we were all set to find something to quibble 'bout regarding the dressing, but our post cooking concerns were extreme minor. the pepperidge farm stuffing mix is a bit salty but not excessive so-- am suggesting to avoid salted butter when preparing and make certain your chicken stock is low sodium... unless you like salty. proviso: we did not follow directions exact. after sautéing vegetables (we went a bit heavy on the celery and onion and next time would likely add mushrooms... maybe?) we added chicken stock and one egg yolk to the four cups o' stuffing mix and then cooked on the stovetop in a large skillet so we could better produce carbonized bits in the dressing. again, we tried to find complaints but is all minor. the bread cubes was small and we prefer a bit larger torn bread pieces. perhaps the dressing woulda' benefited from a smidge more thyme and sage? ordinarily our chicken/turkey dressing is a bit complex, but the pepperidge farm mix is easy and good. am doubting many posters make dressing frequent, but the ina suggestion is a time saver and results in a nice dressing which may easily be customized to suit individual tastes. aside, our new normal for making boneless and skinless chicken breasts is to buy those split and bone-in chicken breasts and then debone 'em our self. the resulting boneless-but-skin-on breast am finding is our ideal cooking option when am forced to prepare breasts. saw the method at atk. bonus: the leftover bones is great for making chicken stock. we pound the breasts flatish and then cook two-to-three salted/seasoned breasts skin side down in a large skillet. is becoming increasing difficult to find younger bird breasts here in california, so as often as not, even with a twelve inch skillet, am only able to fit two flattened breasts in the pan. once the chicken breasts are in a medium-high heat pan, we place a 5.5 qt. cast iron dutch oven on top o' the breasts, resulting in constant pressure and uniform pan contact. in our sooper-slick cast iron pan we need zero cooking oil as the skin renders enough fats to prevent any kinda sticking. with a stainless steel pan we require minimal oil. depending on thickness, we cook ~7.5 minutes before removing the dutch oven and flipping the chicken to cook reduced to medium for another seven-to-eight minutes. depending on the heat distribution o' your pan or hob, you may need rotate the chicken once-per-side so as to get even doneness. the skin helps keep the chicken moist and the pan leavings is perfect for gravy or any kinda chickeny pan sauce. if your dinner guest don't like skin, remove the offending organic matter after cooking, but pretty much all the fat from the skin is gonna have rendered out while cooking. HA! Good Fun!

lukas kristjanson was just laid off by bioware. the perversity of the universe tends towards the maximum

flip side o' kp hand-wringing over possible fifth columnist legislators Wisconsin Supreme Court flips liberal, creating a ‘seismic shift’ americans is so polarized that there is a few issues which result in disproportionate voter participation. crime fears benefits conservatives even in democrat strongholds. converse, abortion and trump is losing propositions for republicans even in otherwise red states. for the vast majority o' elected officials, their primary job is to seek reelection. overt betrayal by an elected legislator, judge, school board member or even dog catcher is gonna decrease the odds o' reelection for the individual who overt lied to voters. even with targeted gerrymandering which may fundamental alter the demographics o' a legislator's voters, nobody wants to be associated with fredo corleone. so unless the aspiring sith lord legislator is planning on a fox news gig, the kinda thing indulged by cotham in north carolina will be exceptional 'cause is ordinarily self defeating for anybody with future political ambitions. however, am thinking republicans and democrats need to wise up a bit and actual pay attention to their voters as posed to reading tweets from their most vocal supporters. in state after state, republicans is getting hammered on abortion and their unsubstantiated claims o' voter fraud. yeah, as improbable as it sounds, most republicans believe the 2020 election were stolen, but most independents do not share such beliefs and a significant % o' republicans are tired o' the voter fraud silliness. "most republicans" ain't anywhere near enough to carry tight races. same goes for progressives who is dismissive o' complaints about rampant crime or fears o' raising taxes. in the history o' forever, raising taxes and being soft on crime has been overwhelming loser positions. tell us 2023 fears about crime is largely manufactured hokum is so preaching to the choir. the reality is it doesn't matter if the fear is unjustified if voters remain afraid. for the past couple decades, republicans have been extreme successful at developing a unifying narrative for their base. is doubtful most boardies listen to conservative radio or watch fox news, but if you fix cars, repair roofs or drive trucks for a living, chances are you are the target audience o' the no-longer-so-alt right messaging which has become increasingly extreme in a relative short span o' time. to most educated liberals, rush's feminazi schtick seemed gross but silly in 2000. not funny anymore. not even fringe. republican messaging has been extreme effective such that we no longer have a shared reality about many basic facts in this country. covid? democrats has been far more splintered in their messaging. however, thanks to dobbs and trump, democrats got issues which unify them, bolster their resolve and even peel off a few conservative voters. is doubtful democrats are able to genuine unify to the degree you see with working class whites and republicans, and the last thing we wanna see is both parties going all in on campaigns o' fear and grievance, but am thinking democrats have a real opportunity to have a shared vision which they is able to communicate to voters. wisconsin's supreme court flip should be textbook. the change weren't managed with a fifth columnist or some other sleight o' hand. wisconsin republicans, like republicans in indiana, texas and elsewhere, went all-in on making access to abortion and voting more difficult. in response, democrats made republicans pay for their overt stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

two wolf and snow movie recommendations: and completely different fantastic cinematography from hiro narita. HA! Good Fun!

am ok with a single letter designation for the platform formerly known as twitter, but am thinking elon stopped just shy o' the appropriate identifier when progressing through the alphabetic sequence. "Y" would be a spot on name choice for not-twitter. HA! Good Fun!

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yeah, it worked in the singular and highly limited scenario described. am not doubting somebody will try again, and is not as if this is the first time such a thing has happened in history neither. more than a few o' those individuals who flipped were doing so 'cause o' mercenary reasons. politicians first job is to get reelected and in part 'cause o' how scientific and analytical is gerrymandering these days, politicians may find their constituencies literal altered over night. however, as part o' a larger schem or plan, cotham is very much an exception. republicans did encourage tricia to run as a democrat, but am suspecting kp cherry picks from the story if he failed to notice the following: "republican leaders cultivated her before she ran and, seeing her growing estrangement, seized a chance to coax her across party lines." so, come up with all the factors which made possible and then replicate in a predictable fashion. as part o' a broader scheme, monumental paradigm shifts such as dobbs is the exception as 'posed to the rule... and again, in spite o' some folks needing to double-down, am gonna observe Gromnir pointed out that overturn roe was something neither the leadership o' democrats or republicans actual wanted, and particular on the national level, dobbs has been terrible for republicans. each time a republican candidate is asked if they would support extreme six-week bans, the ordinary response is a pivot. the kansas referendum on abortion should be illustrative as it failed 60:40. trump garnered 56% o' the kansas vote in 2020. on abortion, republicans is being forced to double-down on a loser issue which is why in north carolina they went an extreme route trying to find a fifth columnist who would advocate for bodily integrity. again, in part 'cause o' how gerrymandering works nowadays, you will always have a few candidates trying to play both sides o' the political divide. self preservation. the thing is, particular in 2023 as political rhetoric has become more extreme, is much more difficult for a candidate to successful sell themselves as a believable advocate o' the other guy's platform. so, to make work you need a political paradigm shift, a fundamental altering o' constituency, a level o' animosity 'tween a politician and their current party and a candidate who don't mind being compared to fredo corleone for the rest o' their life. am not shocked you is serious thinking cotham represents a new and insidious republican scheme on scale, but such don't appear credible. is also weird how the same people who deride politicians for their incompetence will simultaneous ascribe to them ingenious sooper villain plans. am personal dismissive o' conspiratorial thinking, but am s'posing we see the allure for a certain kinda person. as for name recognition... *snort* name recognition impact is not singular and exceptional. the impact o' name recognition has been observed and measured many times. for gawd's sake, trump had zero political experience when he started his pre 2016 run for President. armed with a bunch o' catchphrases and his b/c-list celebrity, trump managed to win his party nomination in part 'cause every time an establishment gop candidate dropped outta the race, trump picked up the largest % o' those political orphans. even today trump makes no attempt to hide the fact his business (political, real estate, or hawking steaks,) is 'bout promoting his brand. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/star-power-in-politics Using data from Japan spanning from 1962 to 2013, Reeves found that when celebrities ran for seats in the upper house in national legislative elections (which have high levels of intraparty competition), they won more than half the time. But in elections for the same office run at the local (prefectural) level, which are held under different electoral rules involving fewer candidates and greater competition between parties, celebrities won less than a third of the time. When surveyed, Japanese voters overwhelmingly reject celebrities in the abstract, so the data, Reeves said, suggest “a disconnect between what voters say they want and what they end up doing in the voting booth.” Electoral rules that lead to large numbers of candidates from a single party, Reeves argued, create the conditions that favor the famous—thus “leading to outcomes that are at odds with voters’ own stated preferences.” check studies for political wins for dead people or the spouses o' recent dead candidates. kennedy is one o' the most recognized names in politics. one thing we all shoulda learned in the last few years is that there is thousands o' no-name bloggers who is just a loony and conspiratorial as is rfk jr. so, what sets kennedy apart? impact o' the kennedy name is not quite the age thing to which some millennials predictable offer a reflexive hand wave when dismissing. the fact young people is unaware o' jfk save for fact he were an President and a democrat icon helps rfk jr 'cause democrats had different values in the 60s compared to today. jfk rhetoric on military spending and immigration would shock the conscience o' 2023 progressives and even lindsey graham would hesitate to support such extremes. unfortunate, young people is just as much suckers for celebrity (more so) than is old people. is more than a few democrats who don't know sh!te about rfk jr but they know they don't like biden. if you don't like trump or biden, then you might be tempted to vote anybody else, and studies show name recognition is a big deal in such situations. there is also a significant % o' democrats who is just as loony as republicans in terms o' conspiracy silliness. conspiracy is not a middle-aged, white, republican disease. kennedy is gonna get votes 'cause o' his name and also 'cause many democrats think the government is not trustworthy, hiding from us the truth about covid and uap. so, tween name recognition and the fringe element o' the democrat party, could rfk jr shave off a few thousand votes who woulda' otherwise voted biden in a battleground state? seems far more likely than a wave o' cothams. 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a fan of mad max preparing to do something monumental stoopid? HA! Good Fun!

none o' this should be funny, but with trump, the ludicrous is normal. is not difficult imagining trump standing in front o' a bathroom mirror, practicing his mugshot. ... if in 2015 you had told us we would still be wasting oxygen on this buffoon in 2023, we woulda' dismissed the notion w/o a second thought, and that mistake is on us. is not shocking to us that disaffected working class whites glomped onto a political snake oil salesman's platform o' outrage and grievance, but am still baffled an incompetent b00b managed the trick particular w/o the presage o' a war or crisis (economic or otherwise) which ordinary accompanies the rise o' a demagogue. whatever. HA! Good Fun!

am a big fan o' the boxer "how are they doing that?" am not typical a fan o' highly produced music, but... HA! Good Fun!