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New Cookbooks

Yeah! Just got two new ones for $4.50 - going price would've been closer to $50. I do all of the grocery shopping and cooking around here, so always like to peruse different ideas. I can buy a cheap cut of beef at around 99 cents a pound or less, and have it as tender as mignon in a couple of hours. Not big-time science, but I do like to see other ideas and add my own stuff in. Generally turns out well, according to the local food critic (my daughter).

Like Clockwork

It happens every year.

Late on Sunday, September 29, Cade Edmond Siemers, a 48-year-old U.S. citizen currently living in India, suffered severe burns to a significant portion of his body after falling into thermal water near the cone of Old Faithful Geyser. Rangers and paramedics responded to the Old Faithful Inn at midnight where Siemers was staying. He told rangers that he had gone for a walk off boardwalk without a flashlight and tripped into a hot spring. He got himself back to his hotel room and called for assistance. Rangers detected evidence of alcohol use.

Since rangers were not at the scene of the incident last night, they went out at first light this morning to investigate in the thermal area. They discovered several items near the geyser (the man’s shoe, hat, and a beer can), footprints going to and from the geyser, and blood on the boardwalk.

Hold my beer and watch this! It seems unlikely that he learned anything, but then, anything is possible. Idiocy can sometimes be painfully cured. But it's often fatal. There's a reason why you're supposed to stay on the walkways there.

This is the first serious injury in a thermal area in two years. In June 2017 , a man sustained severe burns after falling in a hot spring in the Lower Geyser Basin. In June 2016 , a man left the boardwalk and died after slipping into a hot spring in Norris Geyser Basin. In August 2000, one person died and two people received severe burns from falling into a hot spring in the Lower Geyser Basin.

Some folks just seem to have to learn the hot way.

 

 

 

Babied Too Much

On the plus side, he gets free room and board...

Thomas Gilbert Jr., the spoiled Princeton graduate who murdered his father because his allowance was being cut, was sentenced to 30 years behind bars in New York City on Friday. 

The 34-year-old shot his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr., in 2015 in their Upper East Side Home after arguing with him because he threatened to cut his allowance. Gilbert Jr., shot his father, Thomas Sr., in the head at his Upper East Side Home because he had been gradually reducing his allowance.

The playboy had been living on $1,000-a-week and had his apartment paid for him separately.

He was however furious when his father insisted that he get a job and start looking after himself.  

He was sentenced to 30 years to life for the crime.

And it's doubtful that the kid will be shooting anybody else.

Who at that age is still sponging off mommy and daddy?

Such an entitled boy!

 

 

 

 

Ran Across This Today

Stilton nails it more often than not, although a sword might have been a better choice of weaponry, given that we live in Da'esh times at present.

And one begins to wonder if Gropy Joe hasn't given up on his presidential aspirations:

Former Vice President Joe Biden has said many strange things during his run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but none have been quite as odd as his refusal to make his case for why Americans would want him to be president.

WQAD-TV’s (Davenport, Iowa, I believe) Denise Hnytka was talking with Biden on Friday about the unemployment rate in Iowa and mentioned that President Donald Trump won the state by 10 percent in 2016, The Washington Times reported.

“They were employed before he got elected,” Biden replied, according to The Daily Wire. “I’m not suggesting that he didn’t win by 10 percentage points; what I’m suggesting is he’s not the reason for that employment rate being down.”

But when Hnytka pressed Biden to tell her why voters would want a change in leadership, he refused to give her an answer. “Well that’s up to them to decide,” he said. The reporter pushed back, “Well, make your case.” “I’m not going to,” Biden said.

The guy won't - or can't - present his case to answer the question regarding why Iowans should elect him during an interview in one of the major television stations in the Midwestern Quad-Cities area. Wow. What politician doesn't salivate at any opportunity to make the case to vote for them! This dumbell has been reelected automatically so often that he forgot how to campaign. Maybe the Hunter and Joe news has him nervous.

 

California Shocker: Deriminalize Crime - Get More Crime

VACAVILLE (CBS13) — You’ve likely seen the videos on social media or the local news: groups of people rushing into a store, grabbing armfuls of merchandise. The brazen crimes are on the rise and CBS13 has learned, in most cases, the crooks get away from authorities. 

After searching police reports and arrest records, CBS13 found that while the rate of these grab and dash crimes is on the rise, the rate of arrest is down. We turned to law enforcement and the retail industry for answers. Both blame a California law intended to make “neighborhoods safe.”

The law of unintended consequences is hard at work.

They've since passed another law that makes organized grab and dash involvement a felony. There's just one problem:

cops have to be able to catch them.

 

Washington State Gun Control

Violent crime in Tacoma is up significantly, with 22 people killed in the city so far this year. It’s gang violence. Their average is 16 a year. And there's still a ways to go, this year.

Jason Rantz reports for MyNorthwest.com that Loretta Cool, spokesperson for the Tacoma Police Department, told the Tacoma News Tribune that “gang violence has not increased.” However, gang members are involved.

The mental gymnastics are fantastic on this spin:

“What we’re seeing is people who are identified as gang members are some of the people who are committing crimes,” Cool insisted, “but the crimes are more interpersonal relationship related or just that individual that’s committing a crime and though that person may be identified as a gang member, that doesn’t mean that it’s a gang-related crime.”

 That's all very PC and all, but it doesn't accomplish much, Loretta.

 

We May Not Have To Fall Into The Pacific

Just over half of California’s registered voters have considered leaving the state, with soaring housing costs cited as the most common reason for wanting to move, according to a new poll. Young voters were especially likely to cite unaffordable housing as a reason for leaving, according to the latest latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times. But a different group, conservatives, also frequently suggested they wanted to leave — and for a very different reason: They feel alienated from the state’s political culture.

One in five Californians pay more than 50% of their income for housing, according to the state Department of Finance.

The Berkeley IGS poll found that 82% of the 18- to 29-year-olds considering leaving the state cited housing costs as a reason, as did nearly 80% of 30- to 39-year-olds. The poll suggests some “real threats” to California should those voters actually leave. “That impacts the young workforce. The old folks are growing in number, and you can’t have the young folks shrinking in number.”

California's just not as attractive as it seemed to be in the 60s. But Oregon's not very far behind: in Portland, the city's latest "ban plan" to promote "gender neutrality" and demonstrate how "progressive" they are involves -

Yep.

So to make things gender-neutral, the most radically left-wing city in America has reportedly banned urinals from its most iconic building, the Portland Municipal Services Building.

Standing 15 stories high in downtown Portland, Oregon, the building is currently being remodeled, and part of the remodeling involves making its bathrooms gender-neutral.

And it just so happens that in a gender-neutral world, urinals simply cannot exist.

“The City of Portland banned urinals in the remodeled Portland Building,” local station KGW reported last week, adding that this means urinals must be banned “even in the men’s room.”

The Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart wrote to employees,

“I am convinced that this is the right way to ensure success as your employer, remove arbitrary barriers in our community, and provide leadership that is reflective of our shared values."

Well, I don't "share" Tom's "values". And so if I have to visit a city building, one of the first things to happen will involve me peeing on a wall - where the urinals used to be.

 

Vapors

NBC News commissioned laboratory tests of knock-off marijuana vapes that found a pesticide linked to hydrogen cyanide in 10 out 10 products.

Some 12 people have died from mysterious lung illnesses linked to vape pens, and 805 others have been hospitalized in 46 states, according to federal health officials.

It's probably not a good idea to inhale cyanide.

The products all contained myclobutanil, a fungicide that can transform into hydrogen cyanide when burned.

Oregon's state health authorities put it bluntly:

"Public Health Warning: People should stop vaping immediately" reads the headline on a press release from the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon's top state governing body for a variety of health initiatives and programs.

At least two people have died in Oregon from vape-related illnesses, with a total of five vape-related illnesses reported throughout Oregon, with more reported throughout the nation, according to state officials.

“People should stop vaping immediately,” said Dean Sidelinger, MD, state health officer. “If you vape, whether it’s cannabis, nicotine or other products, please quit. These are addictive substances, and we encourage people to take advantage of free resources to help them quit.”

He added: “If you haven’t started vaping, don’t start.”

I don't know about the "free resources" part, but it seems reasonable to regard vaping with suspicion.

 

Plane Bad

Never been big on sky-diving, myself. Jumping out of a perfectly good plane? No thanks.

A parachutist was killed Thursday afternoon when she struck a tractor-trailer and crash-landed on Highway 99 outside Lodi Airport and the trouble-plagued skydiving facility based there, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP officials said the 28-year-old woman parachuting with a group was making a descent about 2 p.m. when she collided with the rear of a big rig on southbound Highway 99 in Acampo. It wasn't immediately clear what caused her to drift onto the highway, but an onlooker who saw the aftermath reported strong winds in the area.

The Skydive Lodi Parachute Center has had numerous fatalities in recent years. FBI agents raided the facility last year, confiscating records and video footage.

They've had 21 deaths at Lodi - if not more - since 1981.

There's no sky-diving around Portland International Airport, but we make do with our own brand of weirdness:

A man apparently shot himself inadvertently while struggling with a police officer over a gun at the Portland International Airport baggage claim Friday morning, police said.

Unfortunately, he appears to have survived. It would have been nice to clean up the gene pool a bit.

 

Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article235523712.html#storylink=cpy

be cautions

Really? Whatever happened to media editors?