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Chris Bray's avatar

I should mention that when I made it home I drove right over to Musso and Frank and paired prime rib with whiskey, medically.

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F Wolf's avatar

Small trivia fact and nobody will care like I do, but I'm very goofy... in Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", Pitt and DiCaprio go to Musso & Frank and their movie valet (with no lines) is an actual long time Musso & Frank valet. Isn't that sorta exciti.... Whatever, good stack as always, Chris Bray.

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Susan G's avatar

In Bosch, on Prime Video, Harry goes there to celebrate old LA/Hollywood.

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John Anthony's avatar

As you should. When doom is inevitable, get what you can while the getting is good. There’s no shame in recognizing your own contribution adds up to an infinitely small contribution to the recognizably infinitely small $9 billion dollars in cuts that will fail the House vote. Doom is already written.

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suannee's avatar

Good ole Musso and Frank. We got to take my then 78 year old Dad there. He had never been West of the Mississippi from PA until 5 years earlier. The guy who played Fish in a sit com was at the restaurant. My Dad was in heaven. When I re-read this, I realized my Dad was not in heaven quite yet. haha.

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F Wolf's avatar

Fish from Barney Miller?! Abe Vigoda, very cool! Mind me asking what part of PA? My Mom was from Pittsburgh (McKeesport) and we'd often watch Barney Miller there (also in State College).

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suannee's avatar

Yes, Fish from Barney Miller.

York, PA nearer to Philadelphia and 50 miles from Baltimore. I didn't get way out west to Pittsburgh until I was 22. Then we moved way out west to Ohio. Then we moved WAAYYY out west to NM.

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K2's avatar

Sound medical advice (for entertainment purposes only)TM.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

Physician heal thyself.

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Warthog's avatar

Medication, with a side of nutrition.

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Randy Farnum's avatar

Just what MAHA would have prescribed 😂

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SimulationCommander's avatar

It's really quite something how quickly the GOP reverted back to its Washington Generals roots.

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Mick's avatar

I expected nothing, and somehow, they've still managed to disappoint.

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Bandit's avatar

Yeah. It's still a kick in the gut. It kinda makes you wish they'd all get covid. 😖🙄

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I was hoping for something far more serious. Covid turned out to be a fart in a hurricane.

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mileytheduchess's avatar

The fart that launched a thousand jabs. Well, several billion I suppose.

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suannee's avatar

Good one. Mick

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Name Invalid's avatar

I have used the washing generals analogy for years…

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Turns out Rush Limbaugh said the same thing! He was....before my time.

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libgurl's avatar

RIP Rush

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Bandit's avatar

>snicker<

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Steve Campbell's avatar

Now, that, is funny, especially for this old fart who saw the Globetrotters 25 times. And just like the Democrats do with Republicans they always made the Generals look foolish. Primary the entire bunch.

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Brian DeLeon's avatar

Wait, I want to continue talking about Musso and Frank. Best martinis ever, love the sidecar shaker.

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suannee's avatar

yep

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libgurl's avatar

I think we already know how this will end. Why is Lindsay Graham still in office????

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Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

Makes me embarrassed for the voters of the state of South Carolina. My parents retired to Charleston after my father’s naval career, and he referred to South Carolina as “the last frontier.”

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mileytheduchess's avatar

Because the state Republican machine wants him there. I'm in SC and there isn't a single senator I can vote for. Yes, there will be a primary. No, I don't expect to unseat the old war pig.

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Bandit's avatar

To torture us all.

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John Cocklereece's avatar

Chris, I am only marginally more optimistic than you are, but have to start somewhere. However I think the better numerical calculation is $9B/$2T (the annual deficit). The first step to getting out of a hole is to quit digging deeper.

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

And at that rate, they’re up to almost one half of one percent. Top. Men.

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GP's avatar

I’m pretty sure the consumption of a bag of dehydrated squash and lentils would dessicate your life’s essence and leave you a whispery husk beside the pitted trail.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Correct

I'm not sure what made it back, but it may only be a portion of what went out.

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suannee's avatar

On our last backpacking trip, my husband who was a fly fisherman determined to catch some brown trout for dinner. I brought some veggies and he packed a bottle of Meursault (white burgundy). He got a lot of blisters from his new hiking boots. He caught fish too early in the day and waited until later so they would be right out of the water. Unfortunately, the fish stopped biting. We had the wine with a Lipton's dried pasta and some ersatz kind of chicken. Yeah, dried food. I hope it isn't our future.

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Madjack's avatar

I hope my future isn’t wishing I had that. I’m at a bad age for the civil world to collapse

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mileytheduchess's avatar

Yeah, but we got the cream.

I'm 70, and I got the best of both worlds, pre and post internet, the sweet straddling of the 50s. We were still mostly free and uncensored, a country of families. Life was what you witnessed and touched, not imagined with faceless strangers at a distance.

Understanding the immediacy of that, we aren't giving up without a fight. The deep state knows they'll never take us and will have to wait for us to die.

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suannee's avatar

I'm 83 and growing up in the 40s seems like a different world. That's because it was a different world. Movies influenced me and my sisters. Now that I could watch them on netflix or the other providers I see nothing that interests me. I hate my cell phone but use it for texts with friends, not with companies. I love the photo options too. Otherwise, I consider it an invasion of privacy. I get very annoyed if someone I'm having dinner with hauls theirs out and uses it. How rude!

I'm not sure they're waiting for us to die. I think they're speeding up the process as much as they can. Something we can't avoid or really fight is the spraying of toxins in the skies. Check out your air quality index with accuweather to see what you might be breathing. The AQI in rural northern NM is often enough worse than Los Angeles, CA!

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mileytheduchess's avatar

Not much I could do about air quality. I live in a rural area, which helps. I garden and get plenty of sunshine, and I avoid jabs :)

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suannee's avatar

I avoid jabs, even the polio jab. I also live in a rural area, but it doesn't matter. If you find out what's going on in rural areas in the Netherlands, the UK, etc., you may see that rural may not save you.

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GP's avatar

Yeah, but you had the Meursault. Presumably chilled in the waters of the stream that refused to yield any afternoon trout.

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suannee's avatar

We DID have the chilled Meursault. Yay!

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mileytheduchess's avatar

"He caught fish too early in the day and waited until later so they would be right out of the water."

This is why you set up a fish corral as a holding tank. Look into it, could save your life some day :)

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suannee's avatar

Thanks for the advice, but I don't fish. I have mobility issues and can't really even hike. I'm grateful I can still walk. Uneven ground can be a problem. It ain't easy getting old.

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mileytheduchess's avatar

MiL is 95, I know what you mean. She'd be lost without her rollater.

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K2's avatar

LOL!

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DancingInAshes's avatar

Failing to disembowel the NGO complex will be a lasting failure that will continue to haunt any Republican administration in the future.

These are the people getting paid by the government to push the part of the DNC agenda that they can't pass through congress.

It's also a massive, massive slush fund for employing the wives, husbands, children, family of politicians, and those of the donor class, in six figure do-nothing jobs.

The NGO complex is mostly about providing jobs to untalented Democrats and free money to politically connected people. They provide almost no services to actual American citizens above the poverty line.

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Bandit's avatar

So, all the dumbocraps in the country work for ngo's? They must because I know they are all untalented, lazy, know nothings.

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Chesterton's Fence's avatar

Off topic but it was very cool to get the new issue of County Highway and see your piece right there on the front page. That newspaper is the best writing in America

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Secret Squirrel's avatar

Yeah, that was really cool!

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Mary Poindexter McLaughlin's avatar

I can't wait to read the adorable yet mildly depressing children's book based on your subhed.

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Honestly, 9.4 billion when you added $150 billion to military spending in the "One Big Beautiful Bill." It's all so very stupid and insulting, both from the White House and from Congress.

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Congress should be made to live on dehydrated squash and lentils for a year to understand what a real budget cut feels like.

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Steenroid's avatar

They will get hung up on NPR/PBS so ISAID can slip through.

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Bandit's avatar

Yep. Grift, grift, grift.

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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

Chris, from a former long distance backpacker, think Mountain House. Their marketing sucks compared to Backpacker’s Pantry and the other “fancier” brands, but the actual flavor is much more robust and appealing. They also sell freeze dried meat (hamburger, chicken) that you can combine with “filler” like dried veggies and rice noodles, and mix with your own spices. It doesn’t have to be food torture out there.

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Chris Bray's avatar

I like these a lot:

https://peakrefuel.com/collections/meals/products/chicken-coconut-curry

But not the squash. No to the squash.

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Bandit's avatar

It doesn't have to be freeze dried to say no to squash. 🤢

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suannee's avatar

lol

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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

I used to make a chicken coconut curry backpacker meal with powdered coconut cream from the Asian grocery. Big flavors work well outdoors.

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Richard Parker's avatar

AlpineAire(sp) used to be the best. I believed that they are still in business.

Vegetable Cheesy Bows was my favorite meal. Use to eat it at home mid-winter.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

isn't dehydrated squash kind of like dehydrated orange?

you earned that prime rib

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Longstreet's avatar

Guys, in the immortal words of Will Rogers, just be glad we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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NanaW's avatar

You are a glutton for multiple punishments, aren’t you? lol

Bad enough to endure the political stuff, but dehydrated hippie food?

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libgurl's avatar

Note to self: jerky.

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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

Word. Or biltong, if you can get it.

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