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Dropping Like Flies

My heavens, we're going to need to assemble a scorecard to keep track of all the falling Leftists, although unlike Matt Lauer, Al Franken still has his cushy gig. But the same can't be said for Garrison Keilor, according to the latest news from Lake Woebegone, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average”:

Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” said Wednesday he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior.

The Lauer announcement also came this morning, so we got a two-fer in terms of dethroned Lefties. And just last week, CBS booted Charlie Rose. Really, they're dropping like flies - or maggots.

 

Hard-Working

It's 45 degrees up here, though with the rain and breeze, it feels like 35. Yet somewhere down the hill, someone's mowing a lawn in the rain. Who does that? I'm guessing one of those freelance "yard maintenance" guys with a pickup truck and trailer. If those guys want to get paid, they have to look as though they're doing something. Wet grass doesn't cut worth a darn, but at least there'll be lawnmower wheel-tracks across the yard. Whoever he is, it wouldn't be surprising if he showed up to mow after we get snow.

I was reading earlier that Clatsop County is number three in Oregon, per capita, when it comes to bum population. Even the little coastal town of Seaside is having problems with aggressive panhandlers, bums camping in business doorways, and all the usual problems the vagrants bring. You'd think that with winter coming on, they'd migrate south, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Ever notice that the bums congregate in "progressive" areas? This is somehow a problem that "we" need to fix. That seems straightforward enough: don't give them money or "services", and they'll either get jobs or migrate elsewhere.

 

Put Down The Bottle

Researchers at Harvard say using mouthwash products more than once a day can greatly increase your risk of developing diabetes. Professor Kamudi Joshipura of Harvard’s School of Public Health says the fresh-tasting cleaners kill both harmful and helpful bacteria in the mouth; some of which protect the body against obesity and diabetes.

Using mouthwash twice a day, it is claimed, increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 55%, and about one-third of those using such products more frequently were diagnosed with the disease after three years.

No word on what happens if you use mouthwash and immediately follow it up with a deep French-kiss....

 

Dunces Of Daesh

They're pushing propaganda posters threatening New York City, London, Paris, and Rome just ahead of "the Crusader fest" known as Christmas. Guess they're really mad over being booted out of Syria.

How Southern Can You Get

In Lakeland, Florida - just to the east of Tampa - a train carrying molten sulfur derailed yesterday morning, so that smell of brimstone wasn't due to a visit from Old Nick. The stuff is shipped at 290 degrees F., however, so it's not exactly innocuous. The 911 phone call just prior to the wreck was pure deep South:

A person in the area of the incident called 911 just before the crash to report he saw a problem with the train.

Caller: “It’s fixing to lose the whole tire off one of these cars here, one of the train cars. It’s throwing sparks out across the field. And the rub on it is as red as it can be. Fixing to lose it. Probably cause it to derail. I don’t know how to get ahold of CNX, CSX but it is bad.”

Fixing to; how Southern! Last time I heard that term was when Festus was a-talkin' to Marshall Dillon.

The Verdict Is In.

This evening I seared a two-pound chuck roast with some olive oil in the new pot, dumped in some chicken broth, then placed the lid on and set it to pressure-cook for 45 minutes. Cut some potato cubes and set them aside along along with some carrots and sage. After 45 minutes elapsed, I vented the pot and dumped in the veggies, then set it to pressure-cook for another 10 minutes.

The result: a cheap cut of beef, fork-tender and tasty with perfect veggies and sauce. The family will get at least two meals out of that, and the girls loved it, so the verdict is in. All in about an hour of prep and cooking.

Another big plus: pressure-cooking actually retains 95% of the vitamins in the foods, according to studies published in the Journal of Food Sciences: veggies that are steamed lose as much as 30% of vitamin content, while boiling reduces nutritional value by as much as 60%. I've used pressure cookers in the past, but when this one's done, it switches to warming - just in case you lose track of the time. Nice touch.

Next up: daughter wants to use it as a rice cooker.

 

Poly-Ticks

Unbelievably, John McCain offered up some good advice for Pantsuit during the course of an interview with Esquire magazine today: “One of the almost irresistible impulses you have when you lose is to somehow justify why you lost and how you were mistreated: ‘I did the right thing! I did!’” He said. “The hardest thing to do is to just shut up.”

He's right; her problem is that she doesn't have anything to do.

Trump's not going anywhere, and she just needs to shut up. Even Crazy Uncle Joe Biden's had about enough of her nonstop yapping.

Not only is Trump not going anywhere, he's actually made some good progress - China's cutting their high tariffs on US imports into their country, for one thing. That didn't happen during eight long years of O'Bumbler, and it wouldn't have happened in a Pantsuit administration.

And on illegal aliens, he's also making progress, with help from police:

BENSALEM, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Dozens of police departments in the United States have been granted new powers, or are seeking them, to check the immigration status of people they arrest, aiding President Donald Trump’s broad crackdown on people living in the country illegally. Since Trump took office in January, 29 departments have joined a special program under which they are deputized to perform some tasks of immigration agents, doubling its size in 10 months, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

The program, known as 287(g), deputizes local officers trained by ICE to use federal records to vet arrestees they suspect of being in the country illegally and then turn them over to federal agents if they are.

Currently, 62 departments in 18 states are participating, with more planning to do so. Unsurprisingly, the apologists really dislike the program.

Oh Deer

Chronic wasting disease is from the same prion family that causes mad-cow disease, but it affects deer.

Hunters in Michigan are taking their deer to check stations to have the carcasses tested for the disease; Wednesday was the season opener, and 150 deer were brought into one station alone, despite inclement weather. For good reason: the disease that causes spongiform encephalitis, or brain-wasting, is thought by some researchers to be on the verge of crossing over to humans.

And cooking doesn't kill it.

It may already have begun to make the jump:

In 2002, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel identified two Minnesota men who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the human mad cow variant, after years of eating wild game from CWD-contaminated regions.

 

Rapid Turnaround

This has to be a record: Taiyesha Baker received her license as a registered nurse Oct. 30 and went to work at Indiana University Health. Briefly. Less than a month after getting her license, she's already been fired. Why?

Because she took Stupid to a whole new level. She went on Twitter and posted a series of offensive items, such as:

 

 

And that was hardly the least of it.

Just the sort of gal you want taking care of you....

 

Fetch The Fainting Couch!

Time Inc. - which publishes not only Time, but Sports Illustrated and People magazines as well - last night agreed to be acquired by Meredith Corp, which publishes Better Homes and Gardens, among other strong performers, and owns several television stations as well. Lefties are freaking out because the Meredith deal came about in part thanks to a cash infusion from the dreaded Koch brothers, although the brothers will have no role in corporate operations.

It's always amusing to watch the Lefties lose it; they react like Dracula to the sight of a cross.

Unlike Meredith Corp, Time's been losing money. Some poor folks just don't get it.

Chris

Portland 4 minutes ago

If I had a waiting room and stocked it with magazines, I would cancel all these subscriptions. Evil forces are at work here. It's a small thing you can do to quell the greed and insane, insatiable want for power that is nibbling away our freedoms.