Power Line got even uglier.

Harsanyi one here seen Kelly?

Well, there’s two minutes of my life gone forever.

Someone could write a book about Bloomberg’s tsar-tinged nannyism, so we won’t dwell on his ban of smoking outside or on private property — because that mugging of individual freedom has already gone mainstream.

As a smoker, let me just say: BOO FUCKIN’ HOO. Smoking bans are not Auschwitz & you are not Anne Frank. Self-righteous smokers’ rights dickheads can join the tobaccophobe ex-smokers on the march to the wood-chippers as far as I’m concerned. It’ll likely lead a few to quit so it’s fine by me – that just leaves (heh) MOAR delicious cigs for the rest of us! Not to mention second-hand smoke. Harsanyi needs to crack a history book some time: back in Teh Good Old Days O’ Freedumb, it used to be illegal in some jurisdictions for women to smoke ANYWHERE.

those New York anarchists who want to run a gourmet food trucks[sic], salt or no salt, can only do so after attaining a “Food Protection Certificate” and a “Sales Tax Certificate of Authority” and then, if they’re lucky, a “Mobile Food Vendor” permit.

Heartwarming to see someone standing up for the little guys – & by “the little guys” I mean those good wholesome upstanding American bugs E. Coli, salmonella & botulism. If you’re not willing to shit out your stomach lining for the sacred principle of personal liberty, it must mean you want the terrorists to win.

Taking Back Amerika, One Organ Failure At A Time!

OK, for once I got out of the boat. Is this kid in the 6th grade? There’s no there there, he doesn’t say anything. Is it all dog whistles that I can’t hear? Make a friggin’ argument cabeza de flan!

Whew, takes deep breath, goes back and looks again. Licensing requirements for food carts == gulag. Recommendations on sodium intake== nanny state in jackboots. I wonder what color vomit is in his world.

uh oh jim, you’re gonna piss off jennifer.

If I’d known jim was going to take up the cudgels I’d have stayed in the boat. On the smoking deck.

If they could find some way to make a ridiculous amount of money from weddings, methinks they would change their tune.

Oh, and don’t tell Dave that Michelle Bachman has no problem with the NY law, because “it’s a state issue.”

There’s no reasn to get out of the boat unless you’re impressed yet another false comparison, or three. How shocking that Bloomberg requires food vendors to be inspected and pay taxes *clutches pearls* Authoritarianismishness! Still, it’s impressive to watch wingnuttia fly so close to the concepts of positive liberty without realizing it kills every economic and social argument they’ve been making for the last 30 years. Oh hey, this melty thing my wings are doing is central to my point that I am actually not close to the sun!

you’re gonna piss off jennifer

Huh? Only pissing off ONE Sadlynaut?
Well, in my defence, I still haven’t had my morning coffee yet … which my nose tells me is now ready.

*slips back into the shadows kitchen*

I am pretty sure local government licensing requirements have existed since at least the 19th century. So if you are trying to make an argument about islamofascist feminazis, it might be better to mention our policies of mandatory abortions for conservatives or requiring every social group to have a sassy gay friend.

Um, I think I may have said too much.

Hey, Níðhöggr, the eagle says you’re a douche!

OK, for once I got out of the boat. Is this kid in the 6th grade? There’s no there there, he doesn’t say anything. Is it all dog whistles that I can’t hear? Make a friggin’ argument cabeza de flan!

Indeed. He’s mad about the “compelling public purpose” phrase and is mad about it. Also angry and sneer PELOSI CHAVEZ.

Russian-pinko-commie freedom hater.

Fly, little penguin! Fly, and be free!

And therefore it also has the power to FORCE-MARRY YOU TO ANOTHER MAN!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (pinky to corner of mouth)

I’m not pissed, jim. Well, not at you, anyway.

You know what’s cute? The way this allegedly educated guy, instead of rebutting Bloomberg’s statement that there’s “no compelling public purpose” in prohibiting gays from entering into domestic contracts, decides instead to attack the notion that ANY compelling public interests exist – for anything. As jim pointed out, if a hot dog vendor wants to lace his product with cyanide, who are we to stand in his way?

Perhaps someone could sell a kit for wingers heading to NYC. A saturated fat hydrogenated oil salt paste concentrate to smear on their food and stick it to the man. It would work well (heh) with the salami Alkon travels with.

Perhaps someone could sell a kit for wingers heading to NYC. A saturated fat hydrogenated oil salt paste concentrate to smear on their food and stick it to the man.

The kit would also need to include a full-body condom so they don’t catch the libs and/or the ghey.

Cabeza de flan! I like that. When I was a kid, we had a cat that my sister was tasked to name. I had almost forgotten about “Puddinhead.”

A politician did what voters elected him to do. Oh, the humanity.

Some funny friend has signed me up for The Blaze newsletter, which now shows up in my box every day, along with Townhall. The townhall folks actually give me stock updates, mostly warnings about the end of the U.S. economy and how we should all be invested in some end-times hedge fund managed by christians.

At first I was a little perturbed by this prank, but then I remember some friends and I sending subscriptions of Playboy to the pastor and deacon of our small church. Our prank caused quite a stink, since the rural postal carrier was a regular jabber mouth. We never fessed up and to this day I feel little pangs of guilt for this mischief. Perhaps I am being repaid in kind.

From Politico:

For their part, Obama and Reid appear prepared to reach much higher, putting substantial Medicare savings on the table if Republicans would accept added revenues. With the House GOP leadership in New York, all of Monday’s White House maneuvering was Senate-centric. But Obama’s hope is that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), with whom he met privately last week, will be intrigued by a bolder package that might also help neutralize the Medicare issue now hurting the GOP among elderly voters.

How can I get Obama into my poker games? This guy folds his winning hands every freakin time!

Among the multi-dimensional wrongnesses enclosed here is the fact that it was the State of New York that made gaynups mandatory, nothing to do with Lil Mikey B.

Banned in our school for racial undertones</a.

stupid eagle. And that pretty much goes for squirrels.

Scratch a libertarian, find a Republican, disinfect your finger.

nothing to do with Lil Mikey B

I’m not a fan of his, but he did publicly support it, which carries some emotional and political weight, if no actual representative weight.

Dude’s reasoning skills have gone galt.

I had a Mexican friend that was fascinated with American slang which is very different from the chilango code he was used to. For instance he loved all the different kinds of heads there are, boneheads, shitheads, dickheads, airheads, pinheads, buttheads etc. I will never forget the look on his face when he heard somebody (a drummer, natch) described as a puddin’ head. His eyes got huge as if this was the craziest thing ever.

Cabeza de flan? he said.

Seeing as there is such a predeposition toward PENIS here at S,N! I stumbled upon this. It is old news, but I felt I had to share this headline:
Weiner Is Gone, but His Staff Will Hold the Fort

Pretending to use capitalism (but mosty just coercion) to compel the “right” behavior is the excuse of every two-bit dictator in history.

I don’t know what it is about Libertardians and teh word coercion. It’s inconceivable that they would be using it wrnog considering how they like to bring it out whenever possible.

The tyrranical despotic dictatorial gubmint has launched a voluntary program of salt reduction? One developed in partnership with industry? O.M.G. Coercive! Elected governments using gas taxes to discourage gas consumption? Dictatorial!

OTOH, telling homofags that their relationships aren’t recognized by society – FREEDOM!

Shorter Harsanyi vast majority of Libertarians:
Everybody has to agree with me and do exactly as I tell them to. If they don’t, they are being coercive.

His Staff Will Hold the Fort

I’ll bet it will…

My staff may not be able to hold a fort, but it can hold a sopping wet beach towel with no problem.

OT: Keepin’ It classy Rudy noun-verb-9/11 style.

Steerpike said

The flagpole salutes itself.

My staff may not be able to hold a fort, but it can hold a sopping wet beach towel with no problem.

There are little blue pills that will give it the ability to hold a fort, but if it holds a fortnight please contact your doctor immediately.

FYWP I SO closed that tag.

VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES ARE THEFT!

I’m not pissed, jim.

Oh fudge! Another golden opportunity for Troll’s Remorse shot to hell.

Voluntary sodomy guidelines for restaurants! Cool!

Oh…. Never mind.

Kids today just don’t know anything about sodium.

My word! You’re telling me that Libertarians will drop all pretense of caring about any actual meaningful socially liberal policy at the drop of a hat, but will always cling to “economic freedom” issues that mostly relate to how people are allowed to kill each other for freedom (food poisoning, tainted goods, second-hand smoke in crowded areas where someone can’t easily avoid it if they’ve got medical issues).

How shocking.

And I’ll also note that Libertarians are pretty much the only atheists I encounter who have problems with gay marriage.

And I’ll also note that Libertarians are pretty much the only atheists I encounter who have problems with gay marriage.

Word. There’s this libertarian asshole who hangs around a local newspaper columnist’s blog and keeps bloviating about how gay marriage is “a radical redefinition of marriage,” but the only reason he’s opposed is because it would require government to issue more marriage licenses, and he’s opposed to any expansion of government, no matter how tiny.

Sheesh. Do these guys ever listen to themselves?

Voluntary sodomy guidelines for restaurants! Cool!

I think I’m pretty liberal, but I don’t want voluntary sodomy in my restaurants. Bars and nightclubs, ok. But I draw the line at restaurants.

DKW-

I don’t know what it is about Libertardians and teh word coercion.

I imagine it’s the standard white guy with no problems attempt to argue that you got bad problems. Like when white people try and sing the blues and it ends up being about paying taxes or having to pick new carpet samples or some such shit.

Claiming coercion allows a libertarian to engage in their favorite activity which is engaging in pointless debate about semantics in order to smuggle in an emotional context or shared history that doesn’t fit.

Well, technically laws restricting some minor activity that isn’t really much of an inconvenience and does a lot of good for the public can be technically seen as an imposition and so on, so if you report it in the most melodramatic stretching of terms way, it can sound like oppression to people who have never been oppressed.

Oh my, you are being coerced in how you eat and where you smoke, poor white baby.

Overall, though, as a woman, the repetition of coercion just screams at me that these are people who desperately need to spend a day living as a woman and have otherwise never had to deal with rape, the denial of bodily autonomy, or any actual coercion that matters.

Oh, have you been “coerced” because your business is no longer allowed to gas school children? My heart bleeds that you now have to be conscious of laws and other people. Let me ask my partner who has been raped and abused by several romantic partners how much sympathy she can spare for that soul crushing amount of coercion.

And I’ll also note that Libertarians are pretty much the only atheists I encounter who have problems with gay marriage.

I had a co-worker like that. Self-declared libertarian – “small l” he’d remind me – that self-identified as “non-religious”*, he was staunchly anti-gay marriage. Not only did he feel it’d open up marriages to dogs and power tools and I don’t know what all, but he also said “It is so a sacred union. Marriage didn’t exist before Christianity.” I must admit, I was rendered speechless, afraid that some of the stupidity would get into my mouth if I said anything. I should note this kid’s only read two books since finishing high school 10 years ago – an Ann Coulter book and The Lesser Bush’s biography – and didn’t finish either, and got all his news from satellite radio. One probably shouldn’t be shocked, I suppose.

* He gave me shit for declaring myself an atheist, using the whole “atheists are just as fundamentalist and close-minded as Christians”. I took a line from XKCD and told him he was lucky he’d stumbled on a philosophy that let him feel superior and act smug to both. He said, “Yeah.” Not a bright boy, but a good cook.

Sheesh. Do these guys ever listen to themselves?

I haven’t seen sheesh here since last evening. Do you really want an answer to that question?

You knew i would say that sodomy should be mandatory in restaurants. On public transportation too.

Teh “coercion” thing is especially bad re:NSRI. The program is a public-private partnership thing. If you look at the thing and read the glowing industry comments, you might think that industry had a hand in setting the reduction goals. Well quelle surprise, they did. It’s a program where industry can voluntarily sign up to meet goals they set in the first place. COERCION!

It doesn’t even make sense as a “coercing teh public to reduce salt intake” argument. Many of the comapnies that have signed on already had salt reduction programs and goals implemented. This program just allows salt-reducing companies to self-identify as salt-reducers. Thus letting salt-loving hypertension-ridden guardians of FREEDOM to choose non salt-reducing productive meal choices.

1. It is voluntary.
2. Teh pogrom is about self-labelling. And that’s it.

You knew i would say that sodomy should be mandatory in restaurants.

I DON’T THINK SO. I mean you’re picking up the daiquiri and someone plunges into your ass and BOOM blender drink in the taco salad.

BOOM blender drink in the taco salad.

Geez, you make assfucking sound so dirty.

From Politico:

Thank you. We are always a trustworthy news source and not a high tech trolling machine. Maybe you’d like to play poker with us?

Texas takes a well-deserved beating here in SNaughtsville, but I just had a reminder of why I will never leave Austin: THE BEST MEXICAN FOOD IN THE WORLD!1!!! And, yes, I realize that Mexico is in The World, and I have eaten several meals in Mexico. But, TOP THIS, Pup:

Blackened tilapia enchiladas with a creme chipotle sauce garnished with a mango relish, Spanish rice and the best charro beans in Austin!! With a glass of iced-tea for $12.00 US!!!

Curra’s Grill, 78704, bitchez!!!

The real problem with this kind of argument is that it fails in reality. Sure, in theory locales could stop at the ‘voluntary’ stage, but the slipper slope – while overplayed in many arguments – has a lot of evidence here. NY just stole a whole neighborhood by claiming they wanted to build a new one… then only built a basketball stadium. San Francisco is trying to ban circumcision, and both Republicans and Democrats are appointing authoritarian statists to the bench, so it isn’t like you can trust the courts to come to the rescue.

What this guy has wrong is that he wants to EXPAND that kind of abusive power to cause even more harm.

A saturated fat hydrogenated oil salt paste concentrate to smear on their food and stick it to the man.

HA HA Look at the Man now he has food stuck to him with adhesive food concentrate!
I am personally responsible for the half roast chicken glued to his left knee.

Sodomy was not requested, nor delivered.

So, per D-KW, it is essentially free advertising for restaurants that want to promote low-sodium menus, because restaurant-goers know that excessive sodium will eff up their health & make them leeches on the state in their old age, which is bad, bad, bad!

Way to go, libtards! How fucking stupid can you get?

Word to soullite:

“San Francisco” is not “trying to ban circumcision.” Regular, stupid non-government people have gathered enough signatures for an anti-circumcision measure that is on the ballot there this November. It has nothing to do w/ the government of the City & County of San Francisco, you paranoid fool.

Stop eating my brilliant comments, WP!

So, per D-KW,

Ah-yup. Also “low-sodium” menus. These are industry set targets for salt reduction. Don’t believe me? Let’s go to teh whores’ mouth.

How did you define the categories?
We started by defining categories of food that contribute to salt intake. The categories – 62 for packaged food and 25 for restaurant food – correspond to those generally recognized by consumers and industry. The foods in any given category can be produced and marketed with lower average salt levels than they now contain. Industry helped refine the category definitions to ensure that each category contained an appropriate mix of related products.

How did you set the targets for salt reduction?
The initiative’s goal is to reduce salt intake by 20% over five years – an achievable goal if we can reduce the salt content of packaged and prepared foods by 25% over the same period. We held more
than 100 meetings to work with industry representatives to set realistic targets for each category. The NSRI will assess industry’s progress in 2012 and again in 2014.

IOW, we created a complicated categorization system with dozens of different classes of foodstuffs according to what industry told us made sense and certainly not to set-up any loopholes or anything – and then set salt reduction targets based on what industry representatives told us were teh right numbers.

Blackened tilapia

*shudder*

Its not a party til someone on a low-sodium diet is unexpectedly fucked in the ass.

Tilapia’s not too exciting but it’s cheap and sustainable. Great in fish tacos.

Its not a party til someone on a low-sodium diet is unexpectedly fucked in the ass.

There’s a salting the snail joke in there somewhere that I’m too hot and tired to figure out.

I mean it’s almost like an attempt to get around the FDA labelling rules for calling something “low sodium”.

FDA requirements

140 mg or less per RACC (and per 50 g if RACC is small)
Meals and main dishes: 140 mg or less per 100g

NSRI Packaged Food: Significantly higher in every category.
NSRI Meals: Significantly higher in every category.

And, you get to use a weighted average of all foodstuffs you sell in teh same category.

Is this [item] low sodium? Are you kidding, it’s National Salt Reduction Initiative Approved!

Its not a party til someone on a low-sodium diet is unexpectedly fucked in the ass.

Low sodium santorum. Google it!

I have no frickin clue what tilapia tastes like. Since it was blackened and slathered with chipotle creme sauce, it tasted like blackened (fish) with chipotle creme sauce. WTF is tilapia and why did I never hear of it until about ten years ago? Did some other kind of aquatic animal evolve into it recently?

All the other ocean fish have been harvested to extinction. It’s tilapia’s turn.

It’s just a plain old (mostly farmed I think) mild-tasting white fish. Somewhat delicate in texture. It’s boring but versatile.

I DON’T THINK SO. I mean you’re picking up the daiquiri and someone plunges into your ass and BOOM blender drink in the taco salad.

And you would deserve it. Everyone knows that only margaritas go with taco salad.

tilapia

Tilapia grows in water too hot, low in O2 and contaminated for any other fish to grow in, even catfish. That’s OK with me, I just think it has very low food enjoyment value. They harvest those weird looking khlong fish right out of the disgusting canals in Bangkok and they’re delicioius.

Also too, while we’re on teh misleading labelling rant – veggie burgers. Good for you? Well lower in fat, but teh salt is through teh roof. And incidentally teh NSRI treats veggie burgers totally separate from all other sandwich-type foods. Teh 2014 targets for burgers are:
Hamburgers 330 mg per 100 g
Cheeseburgers 410 mg per 100 g
Veggie burgers 1,200 mg per burger.

Which is totes reasonable if your veggie burger has a 12 oz. patty.

ut, TOP THIS, Pup:

Blackened tilapia enchiladas with a creme chipotle sauce garnished with a mango relish, Spanish rice and the best charro beans in Austin!! With a glass of iced-tea for $12.00 US!!!

Curra’s Grill, 78704, bitchez!!!

A FUCKING HEM.

IOW, if your veggie burger only has slightly moar salt than a Big Mac, it qualifies as NSRI approved.

So even if the eebil gummint outlaws salt in processed food altogether—they’re banning salt shakers as well? Horrors!

Seriously, though some people can get so puritanical on this issue. I’m not a vegetarian, but I respect someone who’s reached that as an ethical decision, but honest to doG, people—salt is a fucking mineral! There’s no moral or ethical dimension to it. Period. Some people should reduce their salt intake, and if we can help them by making it more transparent to add or not add salt to their diet, what’s the harm? But jeez, Louise! Leave the rest of us alone.

One of the most annoying parts of this whole crusade is the “sodium” part. It’s salt—sodium chloride—that can raise blood pressure in the half of the population that’s sensitive to it. It’s so easy to zap a sample of something with a laser and send the plasma through a mass spectrometer, though—so that’s all you get on labels is the content of elemental sodium.

What we should be encouraging people to do is get tested to see if their blood pressure is sensitive to salt in the first place. They’ll test your BP, give you a couple of salt pills, wait 20 minutes or so, and test it again. If your BP spikes, it’s sensitive to salt. If it doesn’t, avoiding salt won’t do you any good. If your blood pressure isn’t high or borderline high, avoiding salt won’t do you any good, either.

Some of these purity trolls are just insane on the subject of food—anything that anybody should avoid, or that anybody, anywhere, has ever been allergic to, has to be purged from the food supply to protect the purity of our Precious Bodily Fluids™. </rant>

I do have a theory, though, about people who avoid salt and whose BP is sensitive to salt, but who don’t get the results that want. There are other sources of sodium besides salt, and all having salt in your bloodstream means is that you have equal numbers of sodium and chloride ions. Now where I live, we have the softest water in the country and then pollute it with enough chlorine to make it smell like swimming pool water. I wonder if you could get sodium from other compounds and chlorine from the water, and it adds up to enough salt to cause problems? Just a theory.

Tl;dr? Shorter: Get offa my lawn, food nazis!

A FUCKING HEM.

Well, OK. Did I fail to mention that it required zero labor on my part and was brought to me by a lovely Mexicana who could turn the world on with her smile?

Hey, you want tilapia to be a prized delicacy, rather than a bottom-feeding garbage fish? Easy! Just have Michele Bachmann or Sara palin say Tilapia is better than lobster, and *poof!* that Wikipeida article will be updated faster than you can say “revisionism”!

Tilapia is the most Socialist of all the fishes. I read that on Wikipedia.

Cerberus said,
June 29, 2011 at 19:09

Conservative/libertarian politics = gateway drug eventually leading to hardcore addiction. You get into it because you agree with the conservatives on this or that issue (I assume it’s economic freedom or states’ rights or whatever “small government!” rhetoric for the libertarians) – that’s the gateway drug.

So you find conservatives to read/watch/listen to because you like what they have to say, so they must be a trustworthy source, right? Then, as you go on reading them, you get exposed to the full range of their beliefs, whether it’s on marriage or abortion or foreign policy or police powers or whatever.

At that point, either you realize “these guys are fucking insane” and you get out then and there, or you go “well, this comes from a trusted source so it must be right” and dive in headfirst which is what the “libertardians” do. That’s how you end up with so many libertarians opposing same-sex marriage and abortion and supporting the endless sliding slope giving more and more powers to military, police and intelligence agencies. (It’s also how you end up with “Christians” supporting war and greed-is-good economics).

Easier for the GOP to do that because of the lockstep, all-or-nothing, with-us-100%-or-you’re-a-RINO-which-is-really-another-word-for-liberal-which-is-really-another-word-for-communist logic.

No, smed, you did not share that critical information. Nor did you tell us whtehr they have mandatory (or even voluntary but encouraged) sodomy. And hawt Mexicano waiters.

Damn, did it again. brb….

These lyrics need rewriting.

The spousal unit was not distracted, therefore, I must conclude that the waiters, while Mexicano, were insufficiently hawt. Sodomy was not observed amongst the customers. I can offer no opinion on what happened to the fish and chicken before they were brought to our table.

The spousal unit was not distracted, therefore, I must conclude that the waiters, while Mexicano, were insufficiently hawt. Sodomy was not observed amongst the customers.

So people go there…why? That’s a one star review, that is.

At that point, either you realize “these guys are fucking insane” and you get out then and there, or…

…you go “You know, I am outraged by Chappaquiddick!”

It really is astounding how people come to believe such bizarre stuff. Nicely explained!

These lyrics need rewriting.

Maybe Weird Al can do a Mandatory Sodomy video. Oh, it’ll be kooky!

I liked that song ok. Better than all the other stuff I heard.

Blackened tilapia enchiladas with a creme chipotle sauce garnished with a mango relish, Spanish rice and the best charro beans in Austin!! With a glass of iced-tea for $12.00 US!!!

Free refills on the tea?

Get me another motherfucking iced tea!

Poor, poor Rexella!

I liked that song ok. Better than all the other stuff I heard.

Three stars, meaning mostly good with something irritating.

What’s this then about voluntary sodomy guidelines?
.

LESS WILLIE NELSON
MORE THE COMMUNARDS AND BRONSKI BEAT
TINTIN IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME

Tl;dr? Shorter: Get offa my lawn, food nazis!

As one who is trying to avoid eating too much salt, Rev, I can tell you it isn’t very easy.

Because every fucking thing you buy either has tons of salt, huge tons of salt, or costs much more because it doesn’t have so much fucking salt in it.

Apparently it’s a lot easier to use cheap ingredients and dump a ton of salt in it than make something good.
~

Poor, poor Rexella!

Rexella Van Impe is pure JanusNode.

As one who is trying to avoid eating too much salt, Rev, I can tell you it isn’t very easy.

Because every fucking thing you buy either has tons of salt, huge tons of salt, or costs much more because it doesn’t have so much fucking salt in it.

Apparently it’s a lot easier to use cheap ingredients and dump a ton of salt in it than make something good.

Oh, no—I was agreeing with that part, ITTDGY. By all means have the minimum amount of salt in the food we buy. It’s really no hardship to add as much or as little as you want afterward.

It’s the people who look at you askance in a restaurant when you pick up a salt shaker that annoy me. Maybe things are different outside my little commie enclave here in Seattle, but apparently there is some huge ethical or moral faux pas involved in shaking some crystals on your food.

Pro tip: cut your salt (and fat) intake AND save money by shopping only around the outer edges of the supermarket. Don’t even think about going down the frozen foods aisle.

Sel de mer
Sel Gris
Himalayan pink salt
Smoked sea salt
Finnish salt
Hawaiian sea salt
Black salt

NOT money savers.

Well the thread was dead – I hadda salt it to preserve it.

Oh sure.

I can’t think of anything I buy from the frozen food section.

And I used to buy prepared spaghetti sauces, but no more. (As much because I’m off pasta, except occasionally in a restaurant.)

But things like taco-sized tortillas? Why does only 1 of these have to have over 500 mgs in it?
~

Because people won’t buy them if they aren’t laden with salt. Over the years, as highly processed foods have become larger and ever larger portions of most people’s diet, the amount of salt in those diets has increased _faster_ than just by proportion. The foods themselves keep getting saltier because people are used to salty foods – it’s a vicious coicle, as Leslie whatshername said in Victor/Victoria. If the manufacturer doesn’t keep increasing the amount of salt, sales slip because people find it bland.

When The Ho and I first got together he would, on those rare occasions he did grocery shopping, sometimes come home with some frozen, highly processed prepared crap. I couldn’t even eat them, too fucking much salt. By the time a year or two had passed of him eating mostly my cooking, not going to restaurants, therebwere only one or two more instances of his buying that shit. “well,” he would say, looking at me sheepishly, “you know I like that stuff.” I patiently reminded him that no, he didn’t actually like it and after attempting to eat it i would hear “I don’t know why I do that – that stuff sucks – can’t taste anything but salt.”. It’s been many years now since he’s done it.

A lot of processed food is also full of sugar (a drug, btw), so the American palate has gotten used to tasting a lot of sweet notes…even in foods that should be savory.

Maybe things are different outside my little commie enclave here in Seattle, but apparently there is some huge ethical or moral faux pas involved in shaking some crystals on your food.

Possible responses:

Stare hard, retard.
Why don’t you take a picture? It will last longer.
What? Is there a booger on my face?

Like when white people try and sing the blues and it ends up being about paying taxes or having to pick new carpet samples or some such shit.

And that’s not even getting into the rapping.

The preservatives in my system will enable me to outlive all you food faddists. Possibly as a mummy, possibly unwrapped.

To me tilapia have a muddy, earthy taste, like most fresh water fish. The taste reminds me of catfish, but the texture of tilapia is not quite as mushy as that of catfish. The catfish from rivers and creeks have a firmer flesh than pond or lake catfish because they’re always having to swim in a current.

In the South, not everybody would eat still water catfish because of the mushiness, but when catfish farming became popular, folks discovered that the flesh had firmed up, mainly because the fish are fed by broadcasting pellets on top of the water, requiring the fish to compete for food.

Otherwise, pond and lake catfish are bottom feeders. I have seen catfish as big as fifty pounds, but with the head cut off, they’d weigh only half that. I have gutted catfish and found in their stomachs pieces of tin cans, light bulbs (the screw in part), metal buttons, hooks, lead weights, coca cola bottle tops, coins, empty shotgun shells, rubbers, keys, just about anything you could imagine,

I could be driven to violence. In order to prevent that, someone should ESFOADIAF. I got yer peer pressure right here, bud, let me apply it vigorously.

Vigorously applying peer pressure.

A judiciously placed typo would turn that into “peen pressure”…..

Judiciously typoing.

Yeah, I think that guy needs to feel the pressure of my boot on his neck.

Beck and his family would have been fine at an outdoor rap concert. They would have been fine at a sporting event. They would have been fine at any paid event, mostly because people who work for the government and live in rent-controlled apartments would be too cheap to attend.

It’s the name that whingnut game time at S,N! Idnetify the author of the above and win a free lifetime subscription to S,N! and bonus autographed celebrity pic of actor212 Tintin!*

*Pic to be supplied after retrieving the camera we placed in his boudoir.

Ann Coulter, he guessed wildly.
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The fact is, shut up, your bias in the liberal media is full of it, the Tea Party is talking back America and you liberals are spiining and twisting in the wine

The fact is, faggots are defective and should not be encouraged or held out as an example to youth of an ideal for way to be in USA

Ah, for the Rupperts of yesteryear…this is just sad.

Back when I was little, we had real Gary Rupperts. Not like this rubbish today!
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ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
June 30, 2011 at 3:10

Were I not a gentleman I would suspect you of cheating.

Not like this rubbish today!

Not enough Hitler in it!

None the less, the candid celebrity pic of …. whoever it is will be in your inbox just as soon as it happens. In the meanwhile, enjoy your FREE subscription to Sadly, no!

Pulled out all the stops tonight. Sloppy Joes (recipe on request), Mac salad (little Ajvar really ups the game with that shit) and homemade potato chips. I *might* do some canned green beans (frenchy style, just add seasoning and BUTTER) but we’ll hafta see – the gin might get in the way.

I did cheat, so I didn’t vote. So the only reason the worthless parasites that work for the government and live in rent-controlled apartments wouldn’t go to see Glenn Beck is because they’re too cheap? Yeah, that makes sense.

Beck and his family would have been fine at an outdoor rap concert. They would have been fine at a sporting event. They would have been fine at any paid event, mostly because people who work for the government and live in rent-controlled apartments would be too cheap to attend.

Rapping the concert—up on the Beck-stroke.

The last story I heard was that someone behind them spilled half a glass of wine by accident.

But I know wingnuts have never invented a story to further their tales of endless martyrdom, so that can’t be right.
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I might have cheated a little bit. I have to sleep on it before I can decide.
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For some reason I just noticed this:

http://www.vanmag.com/Restaurants/Vancouver_Restaurant_Awards_2011

Only, what, six hours from Portland?

Pup – I share your salt aversion. I can’t buy deli meat anymore because of the salt. I typically don’t salt things when I cook (some things I do, minmally) because I can really taste it, after all these years of not eating fast food, rarely eating in restaurants, and NEVER eating the processed frozen shit.

up on the Beck-stroke

THIS = WIN

Thanks, Jim. I’ll make sure not to spend it all in one place.

Restaurant Awards:

I like the “formal/casual” division. I hate that “must wear pants for service” bullshit, & it’s good to know where not to go.

“No Pants, No Shorts, No Service?”

Attention Easter egg hiders:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270811/phpdrupal-developer-nro-new-york-city-nro-staff

“Hey, Baby! Wanna play ‘Hide the Easter egg?'”

Yawn!
Yet another ‘libertarian’ whining about the oppression of not be allowed to poison people for profit and yet dead silent about how much protection the poisoners already enjoy from that very same government.

It’s almost as if “Freedom” isn’t actually what he is trying to sell.

I mean if Bob the Baker should be free to use rancid butter to improve his profit margin, shouldn’t I be free to hold his children ransom to cover my medical costs?

Pup & jen, Im kind of with you there as well. Fast food or prepackaged food wasn’t an option in 70’s Scotland (we only got the 1st McD’s in 1986) and my mother’s didn’t cook with salt, so except for potatoes, I early ever added any. Mrs Lobbey is from a different background and throws salt all over stuff, sometimes without thinking, although we are getting to the stage now where she at least tastes the food first.

Low sodium packaging of food has been around in the UK (& Europe) for a few years now, and I don’t know if it has effect, its nice to be able to make the choice. Islamofachism, it aint.

Going galt for salt?

The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,

June 30, 2011 at 7:14

Thanks, Jim. I’ll make sure not to spend it all in one place.

Does that mean you will split the winning evenly over multiple porn sites?

Does that mean you will split the winning evenly over multiple porn sites?

Everybody here knows me so well.

Kids today just don’t know anything about sodium.

Some seem to.

I guess I’m doing it wrong. 🙁

http://www.vanmag.com/Restaurants/Vancouver_Restaurant_Awards_2011

I’m trying to imagine the categories for the Okefenokee Restaurant Awards.

Best Food Served at a Gas Station
Southern Steam Tray Buffet
Best Lame BBQ Restaurant That Closes In Under One Year
Traditional Gas Station Food
Best Thawed Cardboard Gas Station Pizza
Best Meemaw’s Lunch Counter
Dairy Queen
Best Real Pit BBQ WITH NO FECKING PIT ON THE PREMISES
Classic Gas Station Food
Best Prepackaged Microwavable Sausage Egg Biscuit Pre-Dawn Logger Snacks

Last night I did a dinner party: fresh fettucini arrabiatta, salade Nicoise w/grilled dorado instead of tuna, pain ordinaire, glazed custard tart with fresh peaches and our own blueberries. Two guests (out of ten) cancelled, there’s lots of leftovers.

Shorter John Hinderaker:

Even black people know that niggers can’t run a country. If only Americans knew the same.

No more catfish talk, I promise. Unless you want to hear about the night we saw thousands of these creatures form a series of giant circles in the middle of Lake Seminole and put their mouths just on the surface of the water and made strange clucking sounds…..

The pols and their cousins in the media are really good at keeping Americans focused on the silly. Pres Obama says were gonna draw down in Afghanistan, meanwhile this article appears in the Asia Times (and quotes Walter Pincus from WaPo): http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MF30Df04.html

We’re not drawing down, we’re expanding.

Ooh. I’ve had a hankering for salade Nicoise lately, haven’t gotten round to it. Maybe tomorrow, so that The Ho can accuse me of being Catholic, as he is won’t to do when I indulge my cultural roots. We _always_ had fish on Friday in my family (though dad sometimes said the seafood should be lobster or mom would make a dreamy oyster stew). In the small German Catholic town every bar (there were an astonishing number of bars in town, the only institutions outnumbering the Catholic churches – 5 of those in a town of 6000 people) had a fish fry on Fridays. It’s just a cultural thing I keep telling him. Then he arches an eyebrow archly and says “sure it is, Pup, sure it is.”

FY autocorrect. WONT. Wont wont wont.

The best restaurant in Waycross (Ware County): http://pondviewinn.com/index.html

Ware County: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ware_County,_Georgia

Many years ago a couple of friends and I canoed the entire length of the Suwanee River, from the head waters in the Okefenokee to the Gulf of Mexico. Amazing trip. The best time of the year to do this is March, when the mosquitoes are not out and the river is fairly deserted.

Hey…what’s up people? I heard there was sodomy going on here. Is that true? AFAF.

Perhaps the lack of comments is due to all the sodomy going on. Not everyone is as … practiced as I in typing while buttfucking.

The best restaurant in Waycross

That’s sort of like being the best bookstore in Tegucigalpa.

Or The best bar in SLC.

Shorter Scott Johnson:

I was getting shitfaced at lunch yesterday when some black guy came on tv and started talking about taxing corporate jets. My question is, why tax corporations at all?

Some seem to.

That was very timely as I’m going to a friend’s summer house this weekend and need a new prank to pull on him. I’m going to loosely affix a piece of pure sodium to the inside of the lid of one of his toilet’s upper decks. Loosely, because I hope that it will fall into the water only when someone who isn’t me plops down on the seat. Does anyone know if the tank is likely to become compromised somehow or should I expect a less funny outcome? I bet Mikey would know.

I recommend Okefenokee in April, the water lilies are better.

Hey…what’s up people? I heard there was sodomy going on here. Is that true? AFAF.

I’d like to think that someone with his PENIS up your ass is more than just a friend.

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El Manquécito said,

June 30, 2011 at 17:13

“That’s sort of like being the best bookstore in Tegucigalpa.”

Hah! I was in Tegus about a year ago, stayed in a nice little hotel called El Nuevo Boston (rates were $18 s). True, there are not many bookstores, but I did find one about three blocks from the Catedral, on the west side. This little shop had a very interesting collection of old history books written by Jesuits, if I remember correctly. Also, along the same calle were a number of booksellers with their merchandise spread out on the sidewalk. Some interesting titles, mostly libros antiguos.

As for the The Pond in Waycross, I threw this in because I thought maybe someone might break down on I-95 and freak out thinking there would be no place to get a decent bite to eat.

Wow!! RT, OBE

Perhaps, in your long exile, you forgot that Waycross is 35 miles from I-95. There are a couple of good places to eat much closer, Cargo, in Brunswick or Delany’s on St Simons or Gary Lee’s excellent bbq three miles from exit 29. Any SadlyNauts break down around here they should prolly just call me.

Bet Linda is miffed.

Wow!! RT, OBE

OMG MUSLINS ARE IN TEH PALACE

“I’d like to think that someone with his PENIS up your ass is more than just a friend.”

When a friend was diagnosed with HIV, this would have been early/mid 80s AIR, the health dept. Official went through the contact tracing thing. My friend laughed and said with some astonishment, “what, you think I knew their NAMES?!?!”

true story.

OMG MUSLINS ARE IN TEH PALACE

But, but, sufis are the good mooslims, the musical ones, and there’s the adorable stage patter. He’s harmless! His kids go to the same private school as the X-Gubernator.

Imagine a possessive plural after gubernator.

true story.

Male lust is a helluva drug.

I’m going to loosely affix a piece of pure sodium to the inside of the lid of one of his toilet’s upper decks.

I hear from a friend that the hydrogen explosion from sodium + water can destroy toilets.

I hear from a friend that the hydrogen explosion from sodium + water can destroy toilets.

Because of their ceramic, unforgiving nature even small explosions will crack toilets. Or so I hear. Still, they’re cheap and easy to replace and a good laugh is always a good idea. Make sure whoever sits on it is not wearing his squirrel suit.

Cumin, garlic, chipotle in adobo, salt and pepper and fresh oregano into the blender with some olive oyl, blitzed. Small fresh picnic (skin on, bone in pr0k shoulder) poked all over with a small knife got the incisions crammed w/ the mix of the previous sentence. Skin scored crosshatchly. Is now in a 250 F oven, and looselytented w/ foil. So it shall remain until this evening when I will then remove the foil and give it good blast at 450 to crisp up the skin. Black beans and rice Cubano style and, if I can find some decent examples, plantains. Some sort of salad depending on what I see at New Seasons market that looks nice. Pretty sure there’s a mostly full bottle of Mt. Gay in the likker cabinet (antique Chinese wedding cabinet to which I added lights and lined with mirrors, stemware and stuff on the top shelf, booze on the lower shelf, accessories and implements along with cocktail onions, grated Ginger, homemade maraschino cherries and various locally sourced bitters and shit like that there on the bottom. It’s really sweet, exactly what the suffistemicated urban fag should have) so I think mojitos will be this evening’s cocktail.

Mebbee I’ll make creme caramel.

You’re right of course, Waycross is a pretty good piece from 1-95, but I was plugging for The Pond as an opportunity to visit lonely Waycross and perhaps be lured to a Swamp tour. I should have just stated my intentions at the outset: Visit the Okefenokee. Oh, btw, Brunswick used to smell really bad. Has that changed?

[In my best Pee Wee Herman voice] “If you hate the gays so much Michele, why did you marry one?”

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/06/29/257646/bachmanns-husband-calls-homosexuals-barbarians-who-need-to-be-educated-and-disciplined/

See video clip. IMO, he is not just a “Pray the Gay Away” entrepreneur but also a client.

Pure sodium won’t sit there quietly, not with all that moisture. In my experience it will react, albeit slowly, even in “dry” air. How would you affix it anyway? Definite potential for injury here, as much as I like the idea generally, I hafta to say bad idea.

So Bachmann’s husband says that gays “Need to be disciplined”.

Man, sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

Picture explosive candiru. Nope, NOT a good idea.

“Man, sometimes the jokes just write themselves.”

YO whingers: self awareness, UR DOIN IT RONG.

Pupienus said,

June 30, 2011 at 18:08

That all sounds really beautiful. Really beautiful. You have a very nice life.

More than 80% of the Swamp and related forests just burned and all Park facilities are closed. Sure, visit Okefenokee, just not this year.

I hear from a friend that the hydrogen explosion from sodium + water can destroy toilets.

Yeah, yeah, me too! A “friend” told me that – that’s the ticket! My “friend” also noted potassium is even more effective.

Or so I hear.

El Manquécito said,

June 30, 2011 at 18:30

“More than 80% of the Swamp and related forests just burned and all Park facilities are closed.”

I had not heard of this…..hopefully these fires are just the regular, cyclical fires that have been occurring for years and years.

Picture explosive candiru
Worst Beatles lyrics evah.