Don't Shoot!

The NY Times runs a guest op-ed with a perfectly sensible message - Let’s Agree Not to Kill One Another.

However, in classic "This is how you get more Trump" fashion, the author, a port-side Green, can only manage to criticize Trump and offer as a US example the case of Dr. Blasey Ford.

As an attempt to persuade the left not to shoot at righties, this might find some traction [Narrator: It won't find traction].

However, it fails as an attempt to change minds on the right by failing to notice that these social media death threats have moved to the real world on the left as well as the right. Could he have mentioned that Republican Congressman were exposed to actual gunfire by an aggrieved Bernie-bro, not just nasty comments on someone's blog? Could he have found any number of examples of righties getting death threats from the left, including Brett Kavanaugh's family?

Of course he could have. But when faced with a choice between criticizing his own tribe as well as the other, he backed down. Utterly predictable, yet disappointing.

Comments

[Jim Eagle]

Jane,

Appreciate the invite. Capt. Eric in Sarasota may be there but I think he goes to DC. I will keep you up to date.

Has there ever been a POTUS in anyone's lifetime who has done so much to turn an election in his favor with these rallies?

[Man Tran]

Lyle,

Is your uncle still living? My FIL passed nearly 20 yrs ago, so no crosscheck with him. (Lifelong smoker like many from that era.)

[Jane]

Ex,

Another Barabara's brine recipe which she posted here many years ago. Spectacular!

[Janet]

((Clarice, regarding your 3:18 post, didn't Mueller charge one of those Russian defendants with defrauding the USA? I would think Rosenstein and Mueller both could be in similar jeopardy themselves. The SC investigation is itself fraudulent, and Mueller has been burning through the money like crazy.))

Tom,
This post at CTH brings up that latest charge against some Russian lady - https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/20/rank-and-file-a-conspicuous-absence-of-visible-indignation/

scroll down to - "So that takes us to yesterday: Friday, October 19, 2018…"

It seems pretty lame.

". The DOJ is charging a Russian woman named Ms. Khusyaynova with “conspiracy to defraud the U.S.” through social media facebook memes and shit-posting on twitter."

[Extraneus]

Brining is the way to go, Jane. After that, Alton recommends coating the bird with butter and starting the roast at 500F, then putting a heavy-duty foil "breastplate" on it after the skin is nicely browned and going 350 the rest of the way. Comes out great every time.

I knew some Puerto Ricans many moons ago who would use hypodermic syringes to inject wine into the turkey, which also turned out quite good.

(One of them was a nurse, I think.)

[Jim Eagle]

Janet,

Be careful. You could be next. These Asshats have no conscience when it comes to protecting the Deep State.

[Extraneus]

Trump approval jumps ahead of Obama’s midterm approval rating

The poll found Trump's approval rating at its highest level for that poll yet, at 47 percent. Obama's approval rating was 45 percent around the same time in 2010, according to a similar NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken in late October 2010.

Obama's approval rating was reaching a record low in October 2010, just before his party lost a significant number of seats in the House and Senate.

Trump is a historically unpopular president among the general U.S. population, but consistently retains extremely high levels of Republican support. Recent polls have put him at around a 90 percent approval rating among Republicans.

Many see the midterm elections as a referendum on the current president.

[Extraneus]

Michael Goodwin: Count on Hillary to run in 2020

Good piece. :-)

[Jim Eagle]

Ex,

Sometimes Alton Brown is so anal retentive, I cannot stay and follow him. Plus most of his recipes take a moon to configure and replicate. But glad you found one that works for you.

[Janet]

Extraneus's 6:09 is EXCELLENT news! Oh my goodness!!!

[maryrose]

Ext:
Read the Goodwin article.
She will never get the nomination.Some leftist will take a shot at her before the campaigns begin.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

We bought an oil less fryer for turkeys and absolutely love it. Just some cajun injection under the skin and into the breast, and put it in and set it for the weight. Auto cooks and shuts off when done. Super juicy!

And no messy clean up or oil to dispose of. And no fireman visiting when frying a turkey and it wasn't quite defrosted yet.

I use the drippings to make the gravy with a bit of an add of more turkey stock and then add whatever else you want to put in the gravy and all done. I like lots of boiled egg and the giblets from the inside.. just saute and dice and add plus a bit of the meat from the bird.

Nice thing is you can use it on the back deck/porch and not have the house heat up to 200 degrees when all the company arrives. Saves the oven for casseroles, too.

You can also use the oil less fryer for prime rib or pork roast, and it is just as juicy.

[Extraneus]

I was a big fan of Alton's when we used to watch Food Network. Learned a lot from him. Even bought one of his books.

He thinks of the science of cooking. The why, as opposed to simply following recipes.

After watching him, I actually spent several years reading On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, two or three pages a night to get to sleep. Great book.

[Jim Eagle]

Hail to the Redskins,
Hail Victory,
Braves on the Warpath,
Fight for old DC.

What a play. Take that 'boys.

[maryrose]

Dallas is cooked.

[DrJ]

I cook the turkey in a smoker. It is very moist (!) and tastes great. Everyone who has had it loves it. Do try!

[Miss Marple]

I used to match Alton Brown all the time, when I had cable.

He's got a wicked sense of humor, but he is also very anal-retentive on food prep and p ice dure

[Extraneus]

Like one of these, Steph? Never heard of them before.

(Click to open.)

[Extraneus]

A pellet smoker, Doc? I have one, and have a tried turkey breast in it but it didn't come out so great. Any clue as to smoking temp or wood type?

[DrJ]

Ext,

Our smoker is simple: an electrical resistance heater with chip tray at the bottom, and an aluminum barrel above it. There is a pan or two to catch drippings.

I drench the chips -- usually a mix of cherry or apple and a darker wood like mesquite -- and then heat to where the chips steam. So it is as much steaming as smoking, I suppose, and that's what keeps it moist.

It works well.

[daddy on iPad]

captain or Catsmeat. Am on a library run. what is that book by Crews u 2 guys are raving about?

[henry]

Trump tweet;

Facebook has just stated that they are setting up a system to “purge” themselves of Fake News. Does that mean CNN will finally be put out of business?

[Pinandpuller]

James O'Keefe has more senate race candid candidate videos coming out in the home stretch:

Louder With Crowder https://youtu.be/xZiP8pM3fvk

[Extraneus]

Kamala Harris Rolls Out $6,000 Annual Tax Gimmick Three Weeks Before Midterm Election

"Americans are working harder than ever but stagnant wages mean they can’t keep up with cost of living increases," Harris said in a Thursday statement, citing a 2017 survey from Bankrate.com which found that more than half of Americans can't afford a $500 unexpected expense - such as a medical bill, rent increase or child care.

According to Harris’ office, recipients could receive the money in either monthly payments or annually.

“The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates the (bill) would impact one in every two workers and two out of every three children in America,” according to Harris’ office, in addition to approximately 1 million Pell Grant-eligible college students. -SacBee

Harris' plan has the support of several prominent liberals, such as California NAACP president Alice Huffman, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs and the mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and Long Beach.

Back to Michael Goodwin, is this woman even worth worrying about? Wages aren't stagnant, Kameltoe.

[Pinandpuller]

Separation of Church and State

When convenient...

[Miss Marple]

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

This has all of President Trumo's tweets from this afternoon.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It would be delightful if by the end of Trump's second term the 9th circuit had been turned into an actual court of law.

[Jim Eagle]

Me thinks the Gruden brothers are the biggest frauds in pro football since the Ryan family was projected on us.

[gentlejim]

I’m way behind so I don’t know if this has been answered. Is Spartacus Booker a “wide stance” guy?

[Jim Eagle]

HTTR
HV
BOTW
FFODC
:)

[Beasts of England]

Great photo, Kev!! 😎

[Extraneus]

I’m way behind so I don’t know if this has been answered. Is Spartacus Booker a “wide stance” guy?

Not exactly, gj. He's a guy who likes gay male groupies and fondles them before trying to get ... well, you know.

[Beasts of England]

Whoops.

Great photo, Pin!! 😎

[lyle]

MT, if my uncle is still alive, it would be just barely. Last I spoke with him was March and he was going downhill fast. He’s 89. Lives in the San Diego area.

I never roast or smoke turkey without brining.

[Beasts of England]

Deep-fried turkey is the only way to go. And no brining is required. :)

[DrJ]

I never roast or smoke turkey without brining.

Agreed. The brining helps a lot.

[daddy on iPad]

I'm wondering what song was ringing in Corey Booker's head when he was sexually assaulting this gay guy in the toilet in 2014. My guess is it was Charlie XCX's 2018 hit, No Angel.

[Beasts of England]

Welp, I passed on the Lyle Lovett / Robert Earl Keen concert this evening, and now I'm really starting to regret it...

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Will this stop the BS.

"“The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.”"

[lyle]

Deep-fried turkey is the way only way to go.

...to burn down your garage. 😬

[Beasts of England]

I didn't say it was risk-free, lyle... ;)

[Extraneus]

Some moons ago, I bought a house that used to be a gun club. I'd been there for a bachelor party 15 years prior, in fact, but it was ultimately converted to a house. In the backyard, there was a concrete slab, about 4x4'. I deep fried a few things there, and I think that was the whole point of the slab.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Highly moral people who have great imaginations work for tobacco companies and help billionaires addict and kill mainly lower income people.
Then they retire, brag about it on Facebook and skulk around lecturing people who had perfectly honorable and productive jobs.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

https://www.amazon.com/Char-Broil-Oil-less-Liquid-Propane-Turkey/dp/B071VT9RRR/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1540165882&sr=8-5&keywords=oil+less+fryers

This one. Super simple.

[sbwaters]

I bought a house that used to be a gun club

Lead residue tests first?

[daddy on iPad]

Sounds to me like the Saudi's did just what the DEM's have been advising their followers to do for years----Kashoggi went to a fist fight and the Saudi's brought knives, so what's the problem?

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

My son's in laws fry about a dozen turkeys for various friends and relatives and have a rig set up in the back yard with a stainless steel rope between two trees and a pulley system on it to raise lower their turkeys. Can't be too careful.

I can't tell the difference between the oil less and the ones he does - he used to do one for us every year til I got the new toy. Now if it is bad weather, I just put the oil less on the covered deck and no messing with mud/snow/etc.

[DrJ]

I will say that my favorite Tehran-born, NYC-German-raised Pakistani swears by her deep-fried turkeys. I've not had them.

[Extraneus]

Lead residue tests first?

No, and I'm sure there was plenty. Also clam shells everywhere, and even a defunct beer machine out by the southern wetland, but the only stuff I grew to eat there was grown in a box garden. Never used the native soil.

[Extraneus]

The loser really, really wants to talk to us. So sad.

[lyle]

This past week I brined two turkey thighs and roasted them in the oven, let them cool, shredded them, mixed in homemade roasted tomato chipotle lime salsa and made enchiladas. Drank a ‘14 Maison Leroy Montagny with them...

(Okay, not really. I ordered that bottle last Sunday at The Ram in Sun Valley village for Mrs lyle’s b-day. The bottle arrived promptly. The rest of the dinner not so much. To say the service was a disaster is an understatement. The manager comped the food, I paid for the wine sans gratuity and walked out two and a half hours later.)

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

A corrective:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1054083263369744418

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Blocked four of the angry dwarf's retardations without reading a word of them in less than a couple of seconds.
Should start a contest; whack-a-moron.

[Extraneus]

He likes Ignatz best because Ignatz is the only one who ever acknowledges him. I used to try to talk to the fool myself, but he disabused me of the idea.

[DrJ]

To move away from Turkeys and to music, here are the Rachmaninoff Preludes (Lugansky):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj84l05xWg0

Do read the comments from my favorite Singaporean lawyer.

[Extraneus]

Sounds good, lyle.

[lyle]

Do try it, Ext. The dark turkey meat in enchiladas is utterly amazing. Way better than chicken.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

The usual suspects:

https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1054023292158464001

[Extraneus]

Hey lyle, I stayed at the Sun Valley Lodge last year on my way from Jackson Hole to Boise. While there, I saw one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.

A troupe of girly-boys being drilled in figure skating. After noticing this scene, I really couldn't control myself except to take a short video before losing it watching these twinks.

Don't think I've laughed that hard in years.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Relinking that twitter video I think it was JiB who linked earlier of Trump taking down the mawicious mowefactor progs.
Hilarious.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--A troupe of girly-boys being drilled in figure skating.--

Now when you say girly-boys being drilled...

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

How do you make a hormone?

Tell her she has to pay Trump's legal fees!

[Jack is Back!]

Thanks guys. I am now salivating over a turkey breast, or leg. Cittaerella had turkey pot pies. I guess they’ll have to do.

Slaap lekker, tot morgen

[lyle]

That’s my stomping grounds, Ext., for 30+ years. I have a very funny story involving Brian Boitano practicing for the ice show that I’ll share one day. NB for everyone unfamiliar with Sun Valley: they put in an ice rink when the lodge was built in ‘38. Ice shows are still a big thing to this day, drawing the best talent on earth. Not necessarily my thing but it’s a big deal to the tourists, believe me.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I may have to get that oilless thing Steph has. I'm as much a turkey nut as Ralphie's dad in A Christmas Story but I have never liked cooking them.
I do see Char Broil has a very similar but infrared version for a bit more. Wonder which is better.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Guess who said this in July 2014?

The beheading of the Regime's soldiers by ISIS and its portrayal of the media after the storming of the 17th Brigade is brutal but an effective military tactic, the group knows what they are doing.

Its Google translate but you get the gist:

[Captain Hate]

Welp, I passed on the Lyle Lovett / Robert Earl Keen concert this evening, and now I'm really starting to regret it...

The appeal of Lovett completely eludes me, although I acknowledge he's a good musician. Keen's weirdly interesting and is the one I'd go see even though I like Joe Ely's versions of his songs better.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Barack Obama?

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

https://twitter.com/Solmemes1/status/1054143129073475586

Evidently there is a NPC meme war going on. This one is pretty good.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Its nearly as incoherent, but consider the subject of this two week kerfluffle.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Ig... I actually have the infrared. Didn't realize I posted the non IR one. Either works well. I started my meat smoking prowess using a Char Broil IR electric smoker then graduated to the Master Bilt gas vertical smoker.

[DrJ]

The appeal of Lovett completely eludes me

Same here, but the local performance house featured him on a glossy card-board mailer. It works well for getting a door with an underlying rubber strip to close properly.

[lyle]

I acknowledge he’s a good musician

Huh. Speaking as a huge fan for years I’d say I’ve been always more drawn to his lyrics. And how he has surrounded himself with good musicians. And loads of black gospel singers...😎

[Captain Hate]

LOL, DrJ.

Michigan looked really good yesterday even though they still committed a bunch of dumbass penalties. This might be the year Harbaugh gets over on Urban.

[lyle]

And of course the eponym thingie...

[DrJ]

CH,

Yes, they did look good.

Before the last couple of games, I thought that they could beat the usual lousy teams but no more. I think that they really are pretty good, and their defense is outstanding.

We'll see.

[Captain Hate]

WJOM time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3l9tKKEHG0

[Pinandpuller]

Joel McHale used to make fun of a soap called Passions when he hosted The Soup. Passions featured a Bookeresque character named Chad. He hooked up with someone named Vincent. Wiki says V is intersex but at this point WTF does that even mean? I mean really.

I looked and looked but I can't find find the scene where Chad is in a bar telling a friend he had a thing with V but,"I'm not gay!

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Oh it was cheesy beyond belief, completed with a soup con of demon poession and other errant foolishness, there was some diversity as with the daughter of one our leading commentators the late agustin tamarin, but it should have been nuked from orbit.

[daddy on iPhone]

Since eating salad usually blows, how come being in your salad days means you're living high on the hog?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

A third of my grill is IR but I've never quite discovered the point of it.
Any faster cooking is more than lost on clean up.

[Porchlight]

I have been a Lyle Lovett fan in the past. I love his voice.

Wish I could go to Houston tomorrow!

[Porchlight]

.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Its transgender pin, but they used performers who looked nothing alike its Mike Brady and the Darren Stevens on steroids.

[lyle]

Watching The Mummy (1959) muted with classical radio playing Faure’s Requiem. Metaphorically what? 🤓

[lyle]

(b), Porch. And (c), it’s a giant setup funded by the commie left.

[Neo]

Three USA is an “experiment in democracy”.
The problem is that the Left never imagined that they weren’t in the ‘control group’.

[Miss Marple]

daddy,

It means being new and green. It comes from Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

You get a taste of the cheese factor here:

http://soaps.sheknows.com/passions/characters/vincent-clarkson

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Found a new IR one in an open box for a mere $69 on ebay.
Once again I do my research first on Amazon and then always find it cheaper elsewhere.

[Porchlight]

Y'all probably saw already but Rs are beating Ds in mail-in voting in Florida. No data yet on early voting. My folks will be arriving there in time to cancel out each other's votes as usual.

Trump must be saving Florida and Michigan rallies for the home stretch. Good strategy.

[Catsmeat]

Daddy, sorry to be late with this, but it's A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

[DrJ]

Do listen to Luganky's take on the B flat major Rachmaninoff Prelude. Wonderful.

[Porchlight]

I like that you are a turkey fan, Iggy. Hope the Bumpus hounds don't get ahold of any of them.

No better smell than turkey in the oven.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

The fellow referred above was half white, (who dies that sound like?)
http://soaps.sheknows.com/passions/characters/chad-harris

[Catsmeat]

daddy, cause this-- [Cleopatra]: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then!

[Catsmeat]

Or, as MM says!

[Captain Hate]

eating salad usually blows

You're doing it wrong.

[Pinandpuller]

Gary Byrne breaks down Hillary's collapse.

[Pinandpuller]

https://youtu.be/rLeIVZuzewk