RE: Aberdeen Angus

Nice hack.

I’ve been adding cheese tortellini to my chunky Chicken soup. Lotsa pepper flakes too.

RE: Are You Ready?

RE: Are You Ready?

RE: What Do You Call It?

“Operation Overthrow”

RE: Supreme Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsberg

I so want to post a Clip of the munchkins!! rolling on the floor laughing

RE: Refrigerator door is not closing any longer, just discovered that the rubber all around in lose

Congrats on new.

You do have CL near BC Metro areas


RE: Unconstitutional

It’s about time!

RE: Refrigerator door is not closing any longer, just discovered that the rubber all around in lose

Ok, I messed up that equation!!

W/ / 12
D /12
H. / 12

Then W x D x H


Oops

RE: Refrigerator door is not closing any longer, just discovered that the rubber all around in lose

Do you have a local Craigslist? I find deals there all the time. My current fridge was $20, it’s been doing fine for 2 years. It has a broken shelf guard, but otherwise works great and it freezes ice cream rock hard.

To calculate cubic feet. If measurements are in inches.

Width x depth x height / 12

RE: Refrigerator door is not closing any longer, just discovered that the rubber all around in lose

I actually like the bottom freezer, I don’t have to stoop to find the ‘science experiments’ hidden behind stuff on the bottom shelf.laugh

RE: Refrigerator door is not closing any longer, just discovered that the rubber all around in lose

This is a tough one, Jen.

You really have three options.

1. Replace the gasket. This will be tough as finding the schematic to get a viable part number is not easy, even on the internet. You will need the model number off the tag on the back, then search that and “door gasket”. Finding a parts place is much easier these days. Prices vary widely based on manufacturers, model and overall size.


2. Glue this one. In which case I’d suggest thermal gasket paste, from Amazon or other online retailer. The key is the temperature range that it covers. I have some that goes from -30F to 700F (used on my 3D printer head). It’s a silicon paste that you use to make custom gaskets. Might also find it at an auto parts shop. About $6-9

3. Replace it. Which is the most pricey, but it’s new, energy efficient and comes with a warranty.

The repairs are not difficult.

RE: Got Investment Tips?

OP gambling when the deck is stacked. laugh

RE: October Surprise

Project Blue Beam?

RE: Are You Ready?

I’m thinking that the fires that are ravaging my area are deliberate.

RE: Nancy Pelosi

Kinda backfired, Joe’s feelers were hurt so he has stated that he WILL debate Trump. I guess Malig-Nancy didn’t get the memo to Squid Pro Joe’s camp ahead of her announcement. Perhaps she hadn’t taken her neurotropic dose yet.

RE: will i run 5 miles again everyday?

Bust
Out
Another
Thousand


laugh rolling on the floor laughing laugh

RE: Trump in Trouble

RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)



RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)



RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”

Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)



RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
What is REALLY interesting is that Saul Alinsky died in 1972, almost 50 years ago…

So, these political tactics are, at a minimum, fifty years old. They were designed to deal with a political situation in existence during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s – a world totally different from today. Yet, many activist groups laud these tactics without realizing their in-appropriateness in the 2020 world.

What Alinsky, and his followers, failed to comprehend is that they created a whole generation of people who cannot see beyond screaming criticism and offer any modern day solutions to social problems beyond a social shift to the hungry and dreary world of socialism/communism – something they definitely do not actually want to happen.

The counter reaction to this situation has been the rise of the humongous populist movement that elected Donald Trump. This group doesn’t put up with Alinsky-like nonsense. They outnumber the Alinski-ites 100,000 to 1.

RE: Trump in Trouble

Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals…
Here is the complete list from Alinsky.



RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)



RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”

It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)



RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”

Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)



RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)



RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)



RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)



RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)



RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”

Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RE: Trump in Trouble

20. False evidence. Whenever possible, introduce new facts or clues designed and manufactured to conflict with opponent presentations as useful tools to neutralize sensitive issues or impede resolution. This works best when the crime was designed with contingencies for the purpose, and the facts cannot be easily separated from the fabrications.

21. Call a Grand Jury, Special Prosecutor, or other empowered investigative body. Subvert the (process) to your benefit and effectively neutralize all sensitive issues without open discussion. Once convened, the evidence and testimony are required to be secret when properly handled. For instance, if you own the prosecuting attorney, it can insure a Grand Jury hears no useful evidence and that the evidence is sealed an unavailable to subsequent investigators. Once a favorable verdict (usually, this technique is applied to find the guilty innocent, but it can also be used to obtain charges when seeking to frame a victim) is achieved, the matter can be considered officially closed.

22. Manufacture a new truth. Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific, investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do so authoritatively.

23. Create bigger distractions. If the above does not seem to be working to distract from sensitive issues, or to prevent unwanted media coverage of unstoppable events such as trials, create bigger news stories (or treat them as such) to distract the multitudes.

24. Silence critics. If the above methods do not prevail, consider removing opponents from circulation by some definitive solution so that the need to address issues is removed entirely. This can be by their death, arrest and detention, blackmail or destruction of their character by release of blackmail information, or merely by proper intimidation with blackmail or other threats.

25. Vanish. If you are a key holder of secrets or otherwise overly illuminated and you think the heat is getting too hot, to avoid the issues, vacate the kitchen.

RE: Trump in Trouble

9. Play Dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues with denial they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect.

10. Associate opponent charges with old news. A derivative of the straw man usually, in any large-scale matter of high visibility, someone will make charges early on which can be or were already easily dealt with. Where it can be foreseen, have your own side raise a straw man issue and have it dealt with early on as part of the initial contingency plans. Subsequent charges, regardless of validity or new ground uncovered, can usually them be associated with the original charge and dismissed as simply being a rehash without need to address current issues — so much the better where the opponent is or was involved with the original source.

11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the “high road” and “confess” with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made — but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, “just isn’t so.” Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later. Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for “coming clean” and “owning up” to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.

12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to loose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.

13. Alice in Wonderland Logic. Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards with an apparent deductive logic in a way that forbears any actual material fact.

14. Demand complete solutions. Avoid the issues by requiring opponents to solve the crime at hand completely, a ploy which works best for items qualifying for rule 10.

15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions. This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned with contingency conclusions in place.

16. Vanishing evidence and witnesses. If it does not exist, it is not fact, and you won’t have to address the issue.

17. Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. This works especially well with companions who can “argue” with you over the new topic and polarize the discussion arena in order to avoid discussing more key issues.

18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.

19. Ignore proof presented, demand impossible proofs. This is perhaps a variant of the “play dumb” rule. Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed or withheld, such as a murder weapon). In order to completely avoid discussing issues may require you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or other authorities have any meaning or relevance.

RE: President Joseph Biden Powerful DNC Acceptance Speech

thumbs up
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing

RE: Bugs lives matter

Correct, and drawn to carbon dioxide.

RE: Compensation

No...

RE: To Vote Or Not To Vote, That Is The Question

The four boxes of liberty...

1. The Soap box
2. The Ballot box
3. The Jury box
4. The Ammo box


Please use in that order.


Anyone wanna bet on how long before we go to #4?

RE: Supreme Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Briefly admitted yesterday that she’s battling liver cancer.

RE: Joe Biden's Independence Day Message:

Lmaolaugh

RE: No One Is Talking About It

Nobody is talking about Dr. Richard Bartlett of Texas!!!!!

RE: Let's all get drunk

RE: If you were suddenly and unexpectedly transported back to the stone age

Coffee. Bourbon.

By virtue of being a modern human, the flora of my GI tract would lay waste to all things living.

Wells was correct about the Martian invaders, as would time travelers be exposed and expose. Intentionally or not.

The smallest inhabitants would prove the most dominant.

RE: What Did You Have For Dinner?

Glitching site!

Linguini with clams in Spicy pepper sauce. Parmesan, Romano and Asagio cheeses. Cucumber and tomato salad and garlic bread.

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