The Food Thread

[Vrede too]

I'm a friend of all fish.

Those aren't skipjacks on your platter.

[JTA]

I'm a friend of all fish.

Those aren't skipjacks on your platter.

I'm more of a friend of pancakes than I am fish though. Hell, I'm a friend of any type of food. Especially if that food be pizza from the gas station up the road.

Excuse me if I'm chilling, hey what, say what? What's a fat man without food in his gut?

[Vrede too]

Rush Limbaugh warns ‘Obama regime’ is sending government-paid lesbian farmers to invade red states

In his latest crazy on-air rant, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused “the Obama Regime” of trying to unleash on red states a scandalous scourge of lesbian farmers.

“What they're trying to do is convince lesbians to become farmers,” he told listeners.

There’s a specific sinister motive to the sapphic shift, Limbaugh claimed: Ruining conservative voting blocs.

"They are trying to bust up one of the last geographically conservative regions in the country; that's rural America," he said....

"I never knew that lesbians wanted to get behind the horse and the plow and start burrowing. I never knew it. But apparently enough money [made] it happen, and the objective here is to attack rural states." ...

“#limbaugh says federally paid lesbian farmers could invade your town! And we're growing zucchini, people! Lots and lots of zucchini,” tweeted comic Dana Goldberg....

Or fruits?

Aside from Rush's obvious paranoid stupidity, hardly any farmers use "the horse and the plow" anymore and I doubt that there's a state left where even the wholesale changeover in farmers would switch the state from red to blue. Mechanization and consolidation, duh.

[O Really]

So Lady O and I spent much of last weekend on various parts of the Foothills trail. Could not have picked a better time for absolutely perfect Chanterelle mushrooms. We came back with probably five pounds (current retail about $30/lb if you can find them). One night we had them sauteed on a nice slab of salmon, then the tastiest mushroom soup ever. Bear Grylls would be happy with us - finding our food in the forest.

[Seth Milner]

Rush Limbaugh warns ‘Obama regime’ is sending government-paid lesbian farmers to invade red states
"I never knew that lesbians wanted to get behind the horse and the plow and start burrowing. (burrowing? )

... hardly any farmers use "the horse and the plow" anymore ....

I'm wondering if this piece was tongue-in-cheek, as the horse and plow thing, I feel, is a metaphor. I'm not gonna touch the lesbian element of the article; I can come up with too many jokes puns that would hurt sensitive feelings here, and I'll wind up being called bigoted, homophobic, misogynist, and whatever hell else can rain down from Canada and one other point closer to home! <hee hee>

(anything Rush Limbaugh says should be taken tongue-in-cheek)

[O Really]

Anything Limbaugh says should be totally ignored. Not good for your health.

True story - back about 10 or 12 years ago, my house was about 45 min to an hour from my office, depending on traffic. (that is one of the reasons we now mostly live in the mountains). Because radio stations played more obnoxious ads than music and I didn't have satellite, I started listening to yap radio on the commute. Maybe Limbaugh, Hannity, some blackish guy called himself the Avenger or something. Anyway, I thought it was entertaining - I could yell at the idiots (the hosts and the callers) and ridicule their right-wing looniness. I'd get home all stressed out over the traffic and the people with out of state plates obviously on vacation choosing for some reason to drive around during rush hour, and the constant construction, yada. One day after ranting about some of the radio idiotry, Lady O asked (short version) if maybe there was more stress coming from the garbage I was listening to than from the traffic. So I started listening to audio books instead. What a difference! Traffic wasn't that awful to deal with, drivers around me suddenly got better, I'd get home de-stressed from the rest of the day. Seriously made a real difference in my mental health and, by extension, physical health. I got home and felt like a walk on the beach, a bike ride or trip to the gym. When I was listening to yap radio, I got home feeling like I'd been beat up all day and had to grab the scruff of my own neck to do anything. Same job and job challenges; same people to work with; same trip home - the only thing that changed was what I listened to (and didn't listen to). Those radio yappers are truly toxic - literally as well as figuratively.

[Vrede too]

20 or 25 years ago I listened to rightwing radio for a couple of years or less - know the enemy - decided it sucked, haven't since.

[Seth Milner]

I guess we'll have to change this to The Music Thread 2.

I enjoyed, at one time, most all types of music, with the exceptions of Hard Rock, Metal, and most other of that screaming shit, along with rap.(crap)

Most country songs told a story: Mama, trucks, drinking, cheating, lost loves, etc. . . . Nowadays what is called Country is pure whining bullshit.
I still enjoy the Oldies in Country, Pop, Rock, 50's, 60's, 70's etc. ... to an extent.

Agreeing with O'Really about the stress from listening to radio; I too experienced the same condition. My job was stressful enough, and I was finding that listening to the radio while commuting was not relaxing as it used to be, and I was learning new vocabulary and hand signals.

I now find "Elevator Music" music to have a relaxing effect, so most of my radio enjoyment comes from PBS and other Instrumental music venues.
I have also found that *some* Southern Gospel music can be enjoyable, (not that 7-11 Contemporary stuff)

20 or 25 years ago I listened to rightwing radio for a couple of years or less - know the enemy - decided it sucked, haven't since.

Most PBS stations are left-wing, so when commentaries and/or news reports come on, I go to another station. I do not listen to any stations with political agendas or positions. Commentator programming is out of the question.

[JTA]

I guess we'll have to change this to The Music Thread 2.

I enjoyed, at one time, most all types of music, with the exceptions of Hard Rock, Metal, and most other of that screaming shit, along with rap.(crap)

Most country songs told a story: Mama, trucks, drinking, cheating, lost loves, etc. . . . Nowadays what is called Country is pure whining bullshit.
I still enjoy the Oldies in Country, Pop, Rock, 50's, 60's, 70's etc. ... to an extent.

Agreeing with O'Really about the stress from listening to radio; I too experienced the same condition. My job was stressful enough, and I was finding that listening to the radio while commuting was not relaxing as it used to be, and I was learning new vocabulary and hand signals.

I now find "Elevator Music" music to have a relaxing effect, so most of my radio enjoyment comes from PBS and other Instrumental music venues.
I have also found that *some* Southern Gospel music can be enjoyable, (not that 7-11 Contemporary stuff)

20 or 25 years ago I listened to rightwing radio for a couple of years or less - know the enemy - decided it sucked, haven't since.

Most PBS stations are left-wing, so when commentaries and/or news reports come on, I go to another station. I do not listen to any stations with political agendas or positions. Commentator programming is out of the question.

WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! STOP!

Not all rap is bad. There's some really good hip-hop. I used to be on that hip-hop hating bandwagon but I've since jumped off to jump around to some funky bass lines and rythyms and rhymin'

[Seth Milner]

WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! STOP!

Not all rap is bad. There's some really good hip-hop. I used to be on that hip-hop hating bandwagon but I've since jumped off to jump around to some funky bass lines and rythyms and rhymin'

I wouldn't know, JTA; I don't linger long enough to find out!
I suppose I'm old school; I can't get into the baggy pants hanging off their ass, the hand gestures, the beat-boxing, backward caps, etc. that defines the rap/hip-hop scene. I can't describe here what comes to mind when I see or hear it.

There's a cable commercial (Charter?) that comes on TV with this guy sounding like he's spitting mouthfuls, swaying his head back and forth while a group of young women sing out the company's phone number. When that comes on I can't hit the mute button fast enough!
Sorry . . . ain't my bag.

[JTA]

WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! STOP!

Not all rap is bad. There's some really good hip-hop. I used to be on that hip-hop hating bandwagon but I've since jumped off to jump around to some funky bass lines and rythyms and rhymin'

I wouldn't know, JTA; I don't linger long enough to find out!
I suppose I'm old school; I can't get into the baggy pants hanging off their ass, the hand gestures, the beat-boxing, backward caps, etc. that defines the rap/hip-hop scene. I can't describe here what comes to mind when I see or hear it.

There's a cable commercial (Charter?) that comes on TV with this guy sounding like he's spitting mouthfuls, swaying his head back and forth while a group of young women sing out the company's phone number. When that comes on I can't hit the mute button fast enough!
Sorry . . . ain't my bag.

I always liked hip hop that told a story:

https://youtu.be/SJ4EVnAxHIc

https://youtu.be/BONgL61snlM

Then you have rappers like Eazy-E who died at age 30 and had over twelve kids. That guy was a piece of trash. But I still listen to him

[Vrede too]

Most PBS stations are left-wing, so when commentaries and/or news reports come on, I go to another station. I do not listen to any stations with political agendas or positions. Commentator programming is out of the question.

You're thinking of the 1970s before Congress cracked down on NPR. It's not like it's the former Air America, which I never got into listening to.

[Seth Milner]

I recall those days too. Many topics that are discussed on PBS stations, though not outright political in nature, still have somewhat left-wing leanings. Maybe they've discovered a way to circumvent the rulings. About the only time the FCC will investigate infractions is if somebody, or enough somebodies complain. Even at that, the FCC is so understaffed, they may not feel the complaint is worth checking into.

I recall an incident in Oklahoma once where a man called the FCC in Washington to complain about a neighbor who had a high-powered CB base station with a huge antenna array and he was notorious for harassing and cursing truckers and anyone who would come back to him and ask him to tone his language down. His broadcasting would bleed over into TV's, radios, and phones. CB radios were only "allowed" to broadcast at 4 watts, whereas his base station was easily hundreds of watts as many truckers said they could hear him all over the U.S. Anyway the FCC sympathized with him and told him they did not have the manpower any more to chase down illegal CB stations; they would only intervene if his station interfered with emergency radio transmissions.
I read recently that the U.S. has the largest number of illegal and unlicensed AM and FM radio stations in the world. (no, I didn't verify) Most are low-power broadcasts out of basements, and many of them are hate or political smear-oriented. So much for the FCC and congressional rulings, huh?

[rstrong]

I recall an incident in Oklahoma once where a man called the FCC in Washington to complain about a neighbor who had a high-powered CB base station with a huge antenna array and he was notorious for harassing and cursing truckers and anyone who would come back to him and ask him to tone his language down. His broadcasting would bleed over into TV's, radios, and phones.

I once lived next to a CB fanatic with a huge antenna array.

When he was broadcasting - which was always - we'd hear him through our stereo speakers even when the stereo was turned off. He'd disrupt the TV picture if it was on. We'd hear him from the telephones if they weren't in use. If someone left a message on the answering machine and he was broadcasting at the time, we'd hear him instead.

We complained, of course. The CRTC sent a truck out to monitor him for a few minutes, declared that he was using a legal amount of power, and so there was nothing else we could do.

[Vrede too]

... there was nothing else we could do.

Oh, you Canadians! I can think of things.

[JTA]

I recall an incident in Oklahoma once where a man called the FCC in Washington to complain about a neighbor who had a high-powered CB base station with a huge antenna array and he was notorious for harassing and cursing truckers and anyone who would come back to him and ask him to tone his language down. His broadcasting would bleed over into TV's, radios, and phones.

I once lived next to a CB fanatic with a huge antenna array.

When he was broadcasting - which was always - we'd hear him through our stereo speakers even when the stereo was turned off. He'd disrupt the TV picture if it was on. We'd hear him from the telephones if they weren't in use. If someone left a message on the answering machine and he was broadcasting at the time, we'd hear him instead.

We complained, of course. The CRTC sent a truck out to monitor him for a few minutes, declared that he was using a legal amount of power, and so there was nothing else we could do.

You should've gotten a bigger antenna and talked smack about how his antenna wasn't as big and erect as yours.

[O Really]

I recall those days too. Many topics that are discussed on PBS stations, though not outright political in nature, still have somewhat left-wing leanings.

Such as?
Just interested in knowing what you'd consider "left-wing" that's not political.

[billy.pilgrim]

I recall those days too. Many topics that are discussed on PBS stations, though not outright political in nature, still have somewhat left-wing leanings.

Such as?
Just interested in knowing what you'd consider "left-wing" that's not political.

history and books and stuff

[O Really]

I recall those days too. Many topics that are discussed on PBS stations, though not outright political in nature, still have somewhat left-wing leanings.

Such as?
Just interested in knowing what you'd consider "left-wing" that's not political.

history and books and stuff

Yeah, that's what I figured, all things considered. Not to mention stories about Wobegon where all the kids are above average. Surely got to be some socialism in there somewhere.

[Seth Milner]

... there was nothing else we could do.

Oh, you Canadians! I can think of things.

Yeah, well, somebody cut his coax a couple of times until he chained a monster dogasaurus outside his window where the coax came out. He was back in business for a while. Last I heard though, a sharp-shooter shot the antenna down off it's mast. Don't know any more after that.

You should've gotten a bigger antenna and talked smack about how his antenna wasn't as big and erect as yours.

rstrong didn't say he had a radio, but if he did, I'll change your response:

"You should've gotten a more powerful linear and talked smack about how his antenna wasn't as big and erect as yours. (I let the latter part stand . . no pun intended!)