Weekend Open Thread
Weather the Storm
Photograph by RJ Hooper, National Geographic Your Shot
Waiting for a storm to pass in Utah’s Zion National Park paid off for Your Shot member RJ Hooper, who submitted this image of a rainbow stretched across a golden, post-tempest sky. “A brutal autumn thunderstorm rocked the higher elevations of Zion,” he says. “I hunkered next to some bushes to wait out the storm, [and] it paid off!”
I’m in Martinsburg doing VA stuff when this posts – have a ball!
ADDED: This came in after the Open Thread posted;
Category: Open thread
Good Morning!
Everyone catch the *update* up above?
I bet Bernath went full coconut when he saw that.
I bet he’s still shitting flaming squirrels over that! ????
Surprising exactly no one:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-flew-suicide-route-on-home-simulator.html
I’ve been in aviation my entire adult life, and aircraft do not simply vanish for no apparent reason. I thought this stunk of an inside job from day 1.
Frankie! How’s your friend?
Dear Denizens of TAH,
I have two pounds of dried lima beans and three pounds of ham, and I don’t know what to do with either of them. Should I throw the beans out and use the ham for sandwiches? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sincerely,
Slowly Domesticating in the Midwest
Recommend that you shoot a red star cluster over into Ex-PH2’s grid square and see what she may have to say about what to do with all of that.
I took your advice and accidentally set the neighbor’s cat on fire, so I guess that’s a no-go. Hope they don’t notice.
Well… crap. It just ran inside their house. Where’s a contingency plan when you really need it.
Well see, you waited too long.
You should have tossed the cat immediately up into a tree ILO the Red Star Cluster./smile
Reference: TAH Blog #38023.
That class was taught in John “Not my real name” Starks’ The Stunning Agency SERE course.
The money shot:
John claims to be Marine Recon and a Navy SEAL. John also runs “The Stunning Agency” where for a nominal fee John will provide Sniper Cover Fire while he leads you through Afghanistan, Iraq and a host of other countries. All you have to do is send John a bunch of money.
John also claims that his company has conducted over 250 hostage rescue mission throughout the world and basically John is full of shit…
Johns other problem besides scamming people is not knowing how to use spell check on his website. And its hard to take John’s claims of being a sniper seriously when he writes “Cross Heirs” instead of Cross Hairs.
Johns survival techniques also come into question when he suggests catching snakes by baiting a fish hook with a live rat or lizard and it seems like a lot of work to first run down a rat or a lizard. Better yet is when John suggests throwing a burning squirrel into the top of a tree for a signal fire…
I hear that All Points Logistics uses The Stunning Agency for corporate retreats.
WAIT, according to The Stunning Agency guidelines a flaming squirrel is what should be flung into the air as a signaling device!
No, No. Don’t throw the beans out until you talk to Sparks.
He’d low crawl through 50 miles of broken glass just to get a smell of those beans.
blackflag79…MY MAN! If you put those lima beans and ham together correctly and into the proper Meat cans, you’ll get my all time favorite of Ham & Motherfuckers. That’s good eatin’ there my friend. You’re just some John Wayne biscuits away from eating in the bush.
I’d be glad to swap you my ham and mothers for your peaches or poundcake anytime you want, Sparks…
Ham and lima bean soup. of course!
8 ounces dried baby lima beans
2 cups chopped onions
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) reduced-sodium chicken broth
1-1/2 cups cubed fully cooked lean ham
1 cup sliced fresh carrots (1/4-inch slices)
1/2 cup water
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1. Place lima beans in a Dutch oven or soup kettle; add water to cover by 2 in. Bring to a boil; boil for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand for 1 hour. Drain and rinse beans, discard liquid.
2. In a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray, cook onions and garlic until tender. Stir in the broth, ham, carrots, water, jalapeno, parsley, pepper and lima beans. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 50 minutes or until beans are tender. Yield: 5 servings.
Thanks to “Taste of Home” website.
Okay, okay, okay.
Soak beans overnight in water, no salt.
Make sure the pot lid is on the pot.
For soup, use beef broth and chicken broth for cooking liquid. Add copious quantities of carrots, celery, onion, then add beef & chicken broth to cover.
Add garlic, Mrs. Dash (for the pepper). You don’t need additional salt because the ham has plenty.
You can also include any of the following: Weber’s Mesquite seasoning, chili powder, dried oregano, parsley and thyme.
Cover and cook slowly until beans are tender. Leave the ham bone in the pot.
For ham and MoFos, throw beans into crock pot/slow cooker on low with enough water to cover to two inches.
Add ham off the bone, throw in the bone, too.
Add garlic to taste.
Add a dash of thyme powder or leaves.
Cover and cook slowly until tender and lima beans are falling apart and the water is mostly absorbed.
Serve with cornbread and fresh veggies on the side.
Note: Seasoning is ALWAYS to taste, but ham and canning liquid for beans both have a lot of salt, which is why extra isn’t needed.
Additional seasoning to taste may be obtained with liberal doses of that product whose manufacturing headquarters is in Avery Island, LA.
Very true.
For some reason, Elaine Ricci comes to mind.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2016/07/stock-photo-attractive-female-officer/
Oh, God, I’m glad this weekend’s almost over. Maybe tomorrow I’ll be able to get some answers. My financial guardian has got me by the balls. My last two weekly checks arrived in my mail box…..unsigned. I didn’t even notice the missing signature until the bank teller pointed it out to me. I took the worthless piece of paper and ripped it up right then and there. When I got home, I put the pieces into an envelope and mailed it back to this person. This Friday, same thing happened. Now I’m thinking the worst. Eviction. I’m wondering if my rent will even be paid this month. Being homeless is no joke. I spent 4 years 9 months 29 days on the street. Damn near wasted me. Sometimes, I take a deep breath and think of it as a minor miracle. A goddamn miracle that I am still alive. But this…this thing with the unsigned checks is driving me nuts and I’m sorry that I had to come down here and bitch about it. But it’s OK, I’ll get through it. Somehow.
Call him up.
I’m afraid to. Afraid I’ll lose my temper and say something I’ll regret later.
I thought I’d mention this JFSAG, I was listening to news about the current heat wave and they were mentioning that temps were going to be around the 100 degree mark in Philly during the DNC convention. My thought about the protesters expected to show up is “They’re hippies and anarchists, who cares?”. An estimated crowd of 10,000 bikers (“Bikers for Trump”) showed up in Cleveland and the violence level was lower than expected, I haven’t heard about any wanting to show up in support of Hitlery Rotten Cankles!
I wish I had an appropriate thread to put this in. Yesterday, in Baltimore, all charges against the remaining officers to be tried in the Freddie Gray Debacle were dropped. Done. Finished. That sorry ass prosecutor made the announcement from Gray’s old drug haunts (recall, he had about 20 arrests as an adult) and complained that the defendants got to pick whether to be tried by judge or jury! Prosecutrix Mosby went 0-6. The taxpayers went 0-14,000,000 EXCLUDING the costs of the riots. You see, the trials cost over 7 mil and the city paid off the Gray survivors to the tune of 6.4 mil!