2024 US Presidential Election

[moose eater]

tis a fine night for shit slinging!

i got some pretty good black afghani gold seal from time to time in the late 60's early 70's.

We were buying quarter-lb. discs ('plates") of Black (outside, jungle green interior) Afghani hash in Fairbanks in the early 80s (1980/1981) for a good price, before the CIA more formally stepped in and was supplying the Mujahideen later on with more modern weapons than they were building from portable forges (WWI and WWII British .303's on forges in the mountains) and taking down Soviet gunships in the canyons with cables, after having them suckered into chasing their people on horseback. Truly commendable and brave folks they had..

Most of their hash and opium/heroin was coming over the Khyber Pass, to where there were open weapons and other markets on the Pakistani side. And the US was waist-deep from New York to Hawaii and from Alaska to Florida in the stuff (Black Afghani 'plates')..

I asked people pointedly back then, with US Customs being what it claims to be, "How do you suppose so much of this hashish was imported as to bury the Country?" Yes, it was a rhetorical question.

 

[moose eater]

Crisis is non starter...see you next time! Lol

C'mon man!! Don't run away!! Some of us are nice thoughtful people with really good drugs and drink!!

 

[mudballs]

Qualifier here being "some"

 

[moose eater]

Qualifier here being "some"

Sometimes, if you're the right guy, I try to make up for others' deficiencies.

I have treats, too!!

 

[mudballs]

This is a poor choice moose and we all know it

 

[mudballs]

That whack news blurb about Colorado was chat worthy...beyond that we are in a holding pattern...as you were gents

 

[moose eater]

This is a poor choice moose and we all know it

Which choice? The candidates? Yep, some of the worse, and they've been swirling the shitter for decades in re. to quality of candidates, yet people keep rationalizing why they need to allow themselves to be prodded down the proverbial partisan cattle chutes.

But if it's my treats you're commenting on, c'mon, mang, give them a try!! I swear you'll like them!!

 

[mudballs]

Which choice? The candidates? Yep, some of the worse, and they've been swirling the shitter for decades in re. to quality of candidates, yet people keep rationalizing why they need to allow themselves to be prodded down the proverbial partisan cattle chutes.

But if it's my treats you're commenting on, c'mon, mang, give them a try!! I swear you'll like them!!

Me in here, continuing...it's a bad idea.

 

[moose eater]

Me in here, continuing...it's a bad idea.

"A man's got to know his limitations."

 

[mudballs]

No...i know the limitations of where this leads

 

[moose eater]

No...i know the limitations of where this leads

Same:same, really.

Part of why I rarely go to parties. (or even memorial services).

When the shallow, superficial, poorly veneered, disingenuous, disconnected-from-themselves folks near the punch bowl, shifting nervously, ask me the quintessential All-American, shallow, nervous, frightened-of-anything-deep question, "So, what do you do for a living?", I've been known to actually tell them, often in full honesty, and then involve them in a mostly-one-sided conversation that increasingly clearly makes them feel uncomfortable.

Call it a gift.

 

[xtsho]

C'mon man!! Don't run away!! Some of us are nice thoughtful people with really good drugs and drink!!

 

[moose eater]

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Noooo. A 94-points silver tequila and spiced rum, Canadian whiskey, deep-fried tempura beer batter halibut, (today) grilled bone-in ribeye steaks over charcoal, fresh heirloom spuds from the garden, and much, much more.

Living well is the best way to flip your opposition the bird!!

Edit: And numerous craft beers, too!! But with alcohol, it's truly a matter of all things in moderation".

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Noooo. A 94-points silver tequila and spiced rum, Canadian whiskey, deep-fried tempura beer batter halibut, (today) grilled bone-in ribeye steaks over charcoal, fresh heirloom spuds from the garden, and much, much more.

Living well is the best way to flip your opposition the bird!!

Edit: And numerous craft beers, too!! But with alcohol, it's truly a matter of all things in moderation".

Hey I'm about to make some ribeyes.

 

[moose eater]

Hey I'm about to make some ribeyes.

Jinx!!

They were on sale at Kroger, with the store sale and digital coupon combined, for $7.97 per lb. for choice grade, which is often a slight half-step from Prime..

Had fresh fried (home fries) French Fingerlings with a couple smaller German Butterball spuds from the garden/field for brekkie, with sliced uncured andouille sausage and an egg over easy on top of the sausage and spud hash, topped with some Tapatio sauce.

In heavy medical debt, but few to no barriers to travel, fishing, good eats, good smoke, various hallucinogens, various amphetamines when necessary to make expedited travel time on the highways after natural energy declines, and lots of fringe life benefits that make me extra grateful I'm not in Gaza or Sudan.

 

[greyfader]

Last time I brought Nepalese Temple Ball back from A-dam was 1997. I brought back 9 different types of hash, totaling 18.5 grams, (and three varieties of seeds), to do the 'around the world hash tour' at the end of each workday when my truly international crew of skilled vagabonds, travelers, and trades people were constructing my VERY warm home here.

Campfires, Canadian beer, lots of decent hashish, stories, a partly illegal but skilled crew working for 'cashish', and a fine product of a very warn structure in the end. It withstood a 7.9 quake since then.

I'm heavily into overkill a lot of the time.

i'm something of a redundant builder myself. this is a dome i foolishly started at the age of 71. it was intended to be the main room of a home with kitchen and bedroom wings built off of it.

the dome is 2 frequency, 30 ft diameter, 600 sq ft, 14 ft headroom. a single great room with no center supports. it has aircraft series 6000 aluminum hubs and steel connector plates attached to 2x8's that were reinforced both sides with 2x4's. the planking is full 1" 5/4 southern yellow poplar. i put 11,000 nails into it.

i re-injured my spine right after this pic was taken and had to quit building it as a house. i had a builder put a small custom home on the site to live in and now the dome is a "shop" building. no other human touched it.

 

[xtsho]

Noooo. A 94-points silver tequila and spiced rum, Canadian whiskey, deep-fried tempura beer batter halibut, (today) grilled bone-in ribeye steaks over charcoal, fresh heirloom spuds from the garden, and much, much more.

Living well is the best way to flip your opposition the bird!!

I haven't been able to drink tequila since the mid 90's when I was in Guaymas Mexico for a week during Carnival. At night they blocked off the streets and it was one big party. They were selling shots at booths but they were more like 3 shots. There were bowls of lime and salt. I drank way more than I should have. To this day the smell of tequila repulses me.

Good memories though. Now I drink scotch and bourbon with the occasional gin, vodka, or rum finding their way into the rotation. But I'm mostly a beer drinker. IPA's especially. But hey, I'm from Portland. We've had good beer since the 80's.

 

[xtsho]

Jinx!!

They were on sale at Kroger, with the store sale and digital coupon combined, for $7.97 per lb. for choice grade, which is often a slight half-step from Prime..

Had fresh fried (home fries) French Fingerlings with a couple smaller German Butterball spuds from the garden/field for brekkie, with sliced uncured andouille sausage and an egg over easy on top of the sausage and spud hash, topped with some Tapatio sauce.

In heavy medical debt, but few to no barriers to travel, fishing, good eats, good smoke, various hallucinogens, various amphetamines when necessary to make expedited travel time on the highways after natural energy declines, and lots of fringe life benefits that make me extra grateful I'm not in Gaza or Sudan.

You have that Alaska surcharge. $5.97 here at Fred Meyer which is owned by Kroger. I put a bunch in my freezer.

 

[Brother Nature]

I remember those rumours the HA’s were defending ‘Murica from Antifa back in like 2019 too…. Fantasy land yo…

 

[moose eater]

i'm something of a redundant builder myself. this is a dome i foolishly started at the age of 71. it was intended to be the main room of a home with kitchen and bedroom wings built off of it.

the dome is 2 frequency, 30 ft diameter, 600 sq ft, 14 ft headroom. a single great room with no center supports. it has aircraft series 6000 aluminum hubs and steel connector plates attached to 2x8's that were reinforced both sides with 2x4's. the planking is full 1" 5/4 southern yellow poplar. i put 11,000 nails into it.

i re-injured my spine right after this pic was taken and had to quit building it as a house. i had a builder put a small custom home on the site to live in and now the dome is a "shop" building. no other human touched it.
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Cool!!

I've had one spine surgery (a triple laminectomy about 6.4 years ago) and still owe my wife a sauna, which we picked a place for and designed half-ass-edly in conversation.

But back pain of a spinal/nerve-damage type, affecting lumbar, thoracic, cervical, hips, etc., and cancer can put a damper on all sorts of things.

Looking at another spine surgery but still developing trust in my new-to-me neurosurgeon.

The fellow and his amazing PA who did my triple laminectomy (both of whom I trusted a lot) retired and went out of business, selling his third of his clinic in Anchorage. His PA was last heard from skiing various prestigious ski resort around the world. She was/is a sweetie, for sure.

And the findings that the cancer in my right hip's lymph gland basically laughed at the radiation we applied to it in April, which we discovered just the other day, meaning that it actually -thrived-, got brighter on the scan and slightly more plump, leaving no other clear and simple options at this time than Androgen Deprivation Tx, which I've been a hard "NO!!" on up until now, and perhaps still, leaves only a few unlikely, less than plausible options.

And at some point, the projects like building, hygienists' teeth cleaning, new Rx bifocal shades (that are now done and waiting for me) and other projects, become frivolous in nature.

At the moment, my older son is out and about, looking in places I directed him to for dry, solid, river-bank-sourced cottonwood driftwood to process and smoke some traditional Native-style cold smoked salmon strips, and we're running out of weather to afford that specific process, whereas the white man-style salmon fillets that are smoked a bit hotter with peeled green-cut alder, and with a different brine and time altogether, we can still do in colder weather. Not so much the traditional strips.

So we'll see how he does.

My wife's been out back peeling the bit of green-cut alder she cut in our driveway and trailer parking area.

The traditional Native-style strips are time/labor INTENSIVE. But the reward is incredible!