Gromnir

Hill heard on audio discussing son's abuse case Tyreek Hill Allegedly Threatened Fiancee, 'You Need to Be Terrified Of Me Too, B!tch' somebody needs to help hill's son. somebody should make a hard choice and help hill rather than simply enabling him even if that help is hard. this is a lifetime decision, for multiple people.

we do not drink alcoholic beverages, so posting in this thread may be quixotic, but... George Washington’s “To Brew A Small Beer” Michael Stein and Peter Jones Ingredients 4 lb Light Dry Malt Extract 1 lb flaked oats .5 lb two row malt 12 oz molasses 1 total ounce of cluster hops Heat 3 gallons of water to 155 degrees. Add flaked oats and .5 two row malt in malt bag to water. Steep for 45 minutes. Remove grain bag. Start heating to boil. Add “first wort hop addition” .25 oz Cluster hops to kettle Stir occasionally as rise to boil. Add Dry Malt Extract. Note time of first boil. Add .25 oz Cluster hops 30 minutes after first boil. 45 minutes after boil- let chiller sanitize, add molasses. 55 minutes after boil, add .5 oz Cluster Hops. 60 minutes after boil, turn off heat. Add one gallon of water. Start chilling. Chill to below 90 degrees. Take specific gravity reading. Add water until you hit your desired gravity reading. Transfer to carboy, add yeast to wort (under 80 degrees, lower the better). Install airlock. Relax, Don’t worry, have a homebrew. Check fermentation after 1-2 weeks for krausen or lack thereof. Check gravity. Check gravity 3 days later. If the same, you can safely bottle. https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/ep-2-red-white-and-brew "of all the founding fathers, he was the beer geek." speaking of thomas jefferson. jefferson's brewmaster were peter hemings, the brother of the famous sally hemings. regardless, if hurl wants to recreate george washington's beer, he may do so. HA! Good Fun!

How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed American Music didn't know the steel guitar were a hawaiian invention or how widespread were influence o' the distinct island music on blues and country. the 30 minute audio is likely more than any but serious music historians is gonna wanna listen to, but has a bit more info than the written article. HA! Good Fun!

agreed. sadly, obsidian isn't making even that amount o' effort. ethics gradient and draego did what you ask of obsidian. is not a new trend. developers posts info at reddit or discord or something awful or wherever, and then a boardie imports. has become the new normal. HA! Good Fun!

a week ago, when similar news were made available by the obsidians, draego were the one who posted obsidian's discord reveal, and the boards were not down at the time. a one-line post here or a one-line post... somewheres else. is a choice. am not understanding the choice, but am hopeful you are correct and the obsidians change course sooner rather than later. HA! Good Fun!

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War while some folks is uninterested in the sins of their forefathers, am finding tv is rare as compelling as when it does history well. the civil war has garnered a great deal o' attention from tv writers and directors over the years, and with good reason. the civil war were bloody, transformative and arguable complete unnecessary. am always willing to watch well-made civil war tv. the thing is, the reconstruction period gets far less attention from tv and movie makers than the civil war itself. sure, we get incidental and tangential exploration o' the reconstruction whenever the transcontinental railroad is subject matter, but the reconstruction itself is all-too often handled in a perfunctory manner. the linked is free stream o' a recent pbs documentary 'bout reconstruction. hurl and gd might already have seen, but for others, we highly recommend giving the series a looksee. HA! Good Fun!

the release o' info by obsidian employees, info which would interest many posters at the obsidian boards, typical appears not at the obsidian site. this reality, which has been ordinary course o' business for awhile now, still manages to be... irksome. regardless, ty for doing that which one would expect the obsidians to do. HA! Good Fun!

for many years (possibly seven?) the obsidian boards had no like feature. sometime during one o' our multi year hiatuses, obsidian added likes and we responded with an amused half-smile and a dismissive shoulder shrug. fast forward and am having same reaction to new like features. am clear not the target. but Gromnir is easy. amentep, and a couple others, will recall the mess which were the old interplay boards which became hopelessly cross threaded from time-to-time. as long as the board software is at least minimal intuitive and allows us to post predictable to posts, then am satisfied. HA! Good Fun! ps while checking out our profile page, we did notice how our "about me" were truncated. am suspecting whatever were the old word count limit has been reduced as our profile ends not only mid sentence but midword. is not a bug, and is not a complaint by us neither. regardless, for those who indulged in a bit o' verbosity when penning their self descriptions, you may find you are less today than you were yesterday.

into the blistering wilderness of shur does hurlshot go and moses' journey to midian was more brief and less arduous than the trial before you. fare thee well traveler. fare the well. HA! Good Fun!

would be hypocritical for us to criticize one who fights a pointless multiyear battle as we have been part o' more than one such conflict... and Gromnir has never even been married. am nevertheless morbid curious to see just how long marceror approaches his chosen obstacle the exact same way. am betting it took the cat less than five years to realize this approach to becoming hydrated were flawed. HA! Good Fun!

didn't notice 'til today. apologies. took us 'til second poem to realize the lyrics were actual poems-- somehow the yeats poem sounds so much different in our head that we didn't recognize... which were a nice revelation actual. still, kinda embarrassing to not make the connection 'til halfway through joyce we weren't hearing original lyrics but well-known poems set to music, albeit jazz. am thinking we enjoyed the lewis carroll portion most. ... will likely to disappoint, but it would appear the best way to have Gromnir enjoy jazz is to include in animation that's two for the year. show in the win or loss column? HA! Good Fun!

our dyslexia has us reading the title o' the thread as: Forum Comments and Issues Suppository were initial intrigued where schin were going with that. HA! Good Fun!

have not checked steam for predictable pre-patch changes. 'til we see something substantive, am gonna play this one like mcqueen HA! Good Fun! ps advice to the kids: don't smoke.

am thinking this issue got attention earlier in the thread. is little which would prevent murray, if he tanks over the next four years o' his rookie contract, to reconsider an mlb career. opposite would be prohibitive... start baseball then try and do football as an older rookie if basebol is not good to him is an extreme long shot. am not thinking is confidence so much as naked pragmatism. has been a few last minute rumors o' the giants trying to work a trade for murray. weirder things have happened, but am doubting the veracity o' such. on the positive, it appears as if most teams share Gromnir's assessment o' the top qbs. we nevertheless expect multiple qbs to be drafted earlier than their talent would warrant, but am not seeing trubisky kinda overreach for the 2019 draft. is good news/bad news for qb starved teams. HA! Good Fun!

You are not making an accurate comparison. The gun laws in no carry townships of the "old west" and pretty much everywhere else are not dissimilar to what we have today. It is pretty settled the that the right to "bear" arms does not extend to carrying them around openly or concealed. At least so far as the 2nd Amend is concerned. That leaves it up to each state to figure out who can carry what and why so long as there is no prohibition of owning one altogether (thank you Heller & MacDonald) . I'm cool with that. The 10th Amendment is tied with 23 others as my favorites (the 3rd is a solution to a problem we don't have anymore and the 17th & 18th were both mistakes IMO). In my state you need a permit to carry concealed. Same in 44 of the others. Who gets a permit and why is up to the people of that state. In Tombstone you had to "check yer iron" when you got into town but you didn't have to worry about the Earps kicking down your door to take them away from you for no reason at all when you were home. Or not giving them back to you when you leave. THAT is what has gotten the ball rolling in the "2nd Amendment Sanctuary City" movement in Colorado. A new state law empowering the police to do exactly that that a third of the state's Sheriffs have stated they will not follow. And good for them I'd say. They would get my vote. I'm a little surprised you would rather have seen McDonald vs Chicago go the other way. If i understand correctly (damn it Jim I'm an engineer not a lawyer) that was the decision that confirmed the 2nd Amend was incorporated. You tread on dangerous ground when you start giving legislatures the power to determine what rights are rights and how they may be enjoyed and by whom. Nearly every act of a legislative body is a limitation on liberty rather than an enhancement of it. misapprehension there were no permit process in tombstone or deadwood, though admitted there were a common sense approach to such stuff. many o' those towns had flat prohibitions on firearm possession within city limits. you would be physically relieved o' your firearms when entering town, and if sheriff had reasonable suspicion to believe you possessed a firearm in town, even in your residence, they could kick in your door and take possession o' your weapon and arrest you if they felt warranted to do so. typical, you would need pick up your firearm from sheriff when leaving town. the local gun ordinances were frequent blanket prohibitions on possession w/i a specific geographical area which could encompass an entire town +. you are purposefully trying to reimagine such laws so they do not violate your modern notions o' liberty. "In so ruling, the Court brought to the fore and attached legal import to the history of gun laws. This development, when added to the desire to know our own history better, underscores the value of the study of gun laws in America. In recent years, new and important research and writing has chipped away at old myths to present a more accurate and pertinent sense of our gun past. Researchers and authors including Saul Cornell, Alexander DeConde, Craig Whitney, and Adam Winkler have all published important work making clear that gun laws are by no means a contemporary phenomenon. Yet even now, far too few understand or appreciate the fact that though gun possession is as old as America, so too are gun laws. But there’s more: gun laws were not only ubiquitous, numbering in the thousands, but also spanned every conceivable category of regulation, from gun acquisition, sale, possession, transport, and use, including deprivation of use through outright confiscation, to hunting and recreational regulations, to registration and express gun bans. For example, the contemporary raging dispute over the regulation of some semi-automatic weapons that began in late 1980s was actually presaged seven decades earlier, when at least seven states banned such weapons entirely—a fact that seems to have been unknown to modern analysts until now. A vast newly compiled dataset of historical gun laws reveals that the first gun grabbers (as contemporary gun rights advocates like to label gun control proponents) were not Chablis-drinking liberals of the 1960s, but rum-guzzling pioneers dating to the 1600s."-- robert j spitzer we keep saying, but folks don't get it: democracy is the enemy of liberty. gd reflexive thinks it is wonderful when locals vote to protect those liberty values he cherishes, but the whims o' people is mercurial, and tomorrow democracy is as likely to have those locals voting to restrict and restrain liberties. can't have it both ways gd. if you wanna cheer locals for standing up to the fed to protect your liberty rights, you are gonna be smacked with the ruler of remembrance when those locals pass ordinances which offend. the earliest municipal gun ordinances did not run afoul o' the 2nd amendment for most simple of reasons: gunpowder restrictions. *chuckle* almost every city complete prohibited the possession o' gunpowder within town limits. this effective prevented use o' such weapons w/i the city w/o triggering a 2nd amendment issue. when mark anthony frassetto completed his database on american gun laws, he noted how he avoided collection o' gunpowder laws as there were too many such. nevertheless, in the mid/late 1800s when ammunition changes became dramatic, local ordinances changed to match technology. as to our opinion o' the Court, am thinking the Justices have read clear meaning o' the text wrong as often as not. am confused by the Court's gymnastics concerning what they deem a weapon which would be protected by 2nd amendment. the Justices took a strange historical approach in mcdonald and heller, strange 'cause history actual conspired 'gainst 'em. admitted, the ubiquitous nature o' local gun ordinances were not fully understood until after mark anthony frassetto completed his database in 2013, but such is why use o' history is such a dangerous approach to Constitutional analysis and why Scalia general advocated text-based analysis over original intent silliness... is why heller is so disappointing for us. history, which Scalia relied 'pon so heavily, suggests the second amendment has been viewed different in cities as 'posed to rural areas and that the Court has been ok with such a binary view o' the 2nd Amendment for over 200 years... or until 2008. might be time to consider a legal recognition o' what has been true for almost all US history since before 1787: a presumption o' the validity o' local firearm ordinances. in rural areas, such as where gd lives, is likely such local ordinances will protect his gun ownership rights, but that won't always be the case. can't have it both ways gd. wanna advocate for greater support o' state and local sovereignty, then gotta be prepared for the consequences o' such a choice. 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mark hamill reading trump tweets as the joker is funny. am suspecting kevin conroy reading sections o' the mueller report as batman would be fun too. ... though am admitting, the justice league unlimited's question would be unique amusing if a bit abstruse for the average listener. shady and the star trek fans likely knows jeffery combs from all the bit parts he did over the years on st shows... and amentep is more likely to recall re-animator? HA! Good Fun!

Great White Sharks Are Completely Terrified of Orcas we knew great whites were afraid o' killer whales, but the liver bit were new for us. HA! Good Fun!

reminds us... huge river landmark didn't help US Congressman identify the border's location. as to the second amendment sanctuary bit, am actual ok with that, but gd ain't seeing the flip side we s'pose. one o' the reasons why shows like deadwood and wanted: dead or alive is pure fantasy is 'cause all during the 1800s, local firearm ordinances were de rigueur. we would be perfect okie dokie if 2nd amendment weren't deemed fully incorporated and were left up to local and state governments. legal issues aside, there were a kinda sanity and reasonableness in letting local folks decide how best to regulate the 'mount o' firearm violence they were willing to accept. have big government step in and tread on the values and choices o' people in la salle, illinois? need a pretty compelling reason for such and am not certain we feel so strong 'bout firearms. HA! Good Fun!

Weren't you rich? There must be something more useful you can offer them? am knowing you are speaking to bruce, but am gonna observe how we ain't gonna send money aid to sri lanka. is only two national charities we contribute dollars to: st. jude children's research hospital and the national breast cancer foundation. another large % o' our charity contributions go to smaller organizations. examples: mustard seed school and pine ridge girl's school. our accountant hates us, but the most significant charity we does is technically gifts. anonymous contribution to help somebody make car or rent payment(s) is common. local kid we knew who had been on-again/off-again mustard seed school got scholarships to cal poly which were gonna cover tuition and some housing, but nothing else, so we made sure she got a decent laptop and a modest clothing allowance. medi-cal covers eyeglasses for kids and residents o' nursing homes, but you are outta luck if you are over 21 and living on the street. medi-cal will pay for testing to get a prescription, just won't pay for lenses and frames. local food bank knows o' dozens o' folks who need glasses and we help out from time-to-time. etc. is so many folks close to Gromnir who need help that it seems wrong to ignore the immediate and proximate needy... and is arguable selfish on our part, but am liking to be able to actual see positive and personal impact, even if am remaining anonymous. aside: in our mind is not 'bout who deserves help. the people most in need o' help is frequent hopelessly self-destructive. have never let deserve get in the way o' help. if roles were reversed, and Gromnir needed help, we would hope somebody would offer, even if we were too proud or stoopid or angry to take such help. am finding is easy to provide money when what is often needed is volunteers, so we do try and make self available, and as o' may 4, we expect am gonna be doing much more such contributions o' time as is our semi-official retirement day. regardless, even if makes us a bad person, am not gonna be sending money to victims in sri lanka or to the folks rebuilding notre dame. is literal dozens o' folks who come through the doors at snahc every day who need help. HA! Good Fun! ps so is clear, am not criticizing folks who send money to sri lanka victims or whatever other charity you see fit. is so many people and organizations needing help. if you are able to help and do, then you get no criticism from us. am only mentioning why we avoid making contributions when there is a natural or man-made crisis which affects people Gromnir will never meet.

time travel is a cheap and hackneyed plot device unless is done for laughs. unavoidable paradox gets a presumptive fu from Gromnir 'cause it leaves us with mental equivalent o' brain freeze. worse is when writers use time travel as a %$#&ing reset button to invalidate one hour o' movie or half a season o' episodes. wtf? we watch helpless as nick destroys himself. we know what is coming as soon as we know is time travel, but we steel self and try to sit through the movie/show... as we internal beg for nick not to go where we know he is going. you can watch that scene a million times, and nick is gonna blow his brains out every time no matter how much you plead with him. is same with time travel movies. $#@&ing hate time travel, case we didn't make clear how much we loathe time travel. HA! Good Fun! ps am glad you enjoyed brick.

by 1900, the US military were back down to 25,000 regulars from total o' __________ combatants. am unsure o' a number 'cause estimates is all over the place. gd likely knows better than us. am not guessing total civil war combatants, but peak at any one time. guestimate and say peak were a bit more than 1 million combatants, though casualties were horrific high. pre civil war, total military personnel were close to 17,000. world war 1 appears to be what genuine changed the dynamic as the folks in power recognized how wanting to be isolationist in the 20th century were less viable than were the case in the 19th and 18th century. the world were effective smaller, and it were impossible to ignore how a relative minor event in europe could result in the US needing decide whether or not to send many thousands o' young men abroad to fight and die for reasons they little understood. argue right or wrong, but ww1 appears to have resulted in a fundamental change in philosophy insofar as standing armies n' such is concerned. ww1 had US military at ~280k, but post ww1 numbers dropped far less precipitous than after the civil war. total numbers were down to ~190k by late 1930s. 'course am not taking US population growth into account. US population near tripled 'tween 1850 and 1890, yes? so military increase from pre civil war to post didn't even keep pace as a % o' population growth. am honest not sure what were US population during the 1930s. bit less than doubled from 1900? am complete guessing. *shrug* regardless, appears as if ww1 were the big change. HA! Good Fun!

larry has become a little colorful as he ages, and is arguable now a bat crap crazy liberal (am stressing the crazy part and not the liberal... liberal is not a dirty word in Gromnir's lexicon), but even he cautions 'gainst impeachment. vote trump out is the obvious best solution, but am admitted worried the democrats (and a few independents) is gonna screw up what should be an obvious choice. HA! Good Fun!

So, there's a rush on for something in the coming days. Seems reasonable to guess that they want to do all their announcements in one go-- the TTRPG rulebook, the final challenge mode, the big patch/update we've been waiting for, and maybe more info on the console release. Looks like Matt delivered on the TTRPG: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1119063636322869248 Momma didn't raise no lair [sic] indeed. so matt rushes to get done that which will now languish 'til at least after easter? deserves two swearengens HA! Good Fun!

I was reading a bit more myself. There is a whole lot of things he WANTED to do but met with refusals or just failed. One thing is crystal clear, calling him dishonest is an understatement. Like I said... there is a shocker. success o' trump's efforts is not requisite for a crime. the code speaks in terms such as "endeavours to influence" and the like. during barr's presser, he were explaining trump motivations for his actions. reason for this is the criminal defense for trump would be predicated not on his failure to material obstruct the investigation, but rather his lack o' criminal intent. such a defense would be embarrassing for trump and the nation, not 'cause it would reveal trump as some kinda criminal mastermind, but quite the opposite-- defense would be dependent on trump showing there were no forethought. the President hates it when folks in media and his political opponents suggest the President is dangerously impulsive and has only the most limited capacity for self-reflection. to stay out o' prison would require trump to fully embrace a "i can't help myself" defense? any kinda a trial would be an absolute circus and not a fun circus but rather the kinda circus where lions and tigers and elephants get loose and eat the audience, but only after bad peanuts resulted in many folks becoming violently ill and assuming a spontaneous f-5 tornado managed to destroy the circus survivors... and two or three neighboring towns. HA! Good Fun!

thanks for the announcement. read a bit more o' the muelle report. have been giving barr benefit o' the doubt, but is getting difficult. the mueller report presents more than a little evidence o' obstruction. legally sufficient? mueller appears to specific caution prosecutors from making such a determination as a President is likely not subject to criminal prosecution while in office but to be charged with a crime current would undue burden a future defense 'gainst such charges and speedy trial requirements would be undercut. as such, as far as we can tell, the reason mueller did not choose to make a determination on obstruction were precise 'cause he saw grounds for leveling such charges. lack o' a recommendation on obstruction is far from an exoneration and is not even representing ambivalence. rather, lack o' a specific determination appears to be a strategic choice which preserves a possible future criminal prosecution if Congress does not choose to prohibit the corrupt use o' a President's authority. reads more like an anticipatory admonishment o' Congress, and the more we read, the worse it reads for trump. will be looking forward to mueller testimony before Congress.