General Discussion, Thursday, October 3, 2019

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    October 3, 2019 at 1:36 am

    Tomorrow Czarina and I take our GGS to his first Oktoberfest for a real German meal. His Momma’s from a German family – her gramma immigrated – and GGS looks like an Aryan recruiting poster so it should be fun.

    We’re taking a couple of my older but cheaper ‘steins’ for us – maybe one for him too. Don’t know what Dr Pepper tastes like coming out of a stein but that’s his problem. Biggest issue is that he is a…picky…eater, it’s a fight getting him to eat anything but processed crap and the main dish is a schlachteplatte so he may have the traditional Oktoberfest der Hamburger instead. Baby steps…baby steps…

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      October 3, 2019 at 2:08 am

      Introduce him to some German pastries like the little spicy, iced German gingerbread cookies. We loved them at Christmas. Yummy! My mother’s side of the family was commonly called by the misnomer of Pennsylvania Dutch (German).

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      • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
        October 3, 2019 at 9:16 am

        When the oven is working again, I’ll have him make those with me. He’s been making cookies with me since he was about 3.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 3, 2019 at 3:01 pm

        The misspelling of Pennsylvania Deutsch. We have a few centuries-old German cookie molds, nothing you’d actually use any more but they make nice ‘hangers’.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      October 3, 2019 at 2:42 am

      Czar, should be great, do me a favorite, raise one for the Fatherland.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 3, 2019 at 11:47 am

        I have 4 blond-hair/blue-eyed boys on the march and two blond/blue girl. One granddaughter, two grandsons and two great grandsons. We’re doing our best.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      October 3, 2019 at 3:04 am

      Morning Everyone, Hot water for Tea is ready, coffee is dripping……..

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      October 3, 2019 at 8:34 am

      This time a year ago I discovered spaetzle and you tutored me on how to cook it. I gave away some excellent frozen broths and stocks I had made for it when we moved and emptied the freezer, but I must still have a half dozen bags of the noodles. There for awhile last fall I explored a little German cooking.

      It’s odd that I’ve never taken much interest in learning to cook German dishes when that is my family tree, the part we know about, anyhow.

      It has been so long since I cooked anything. I might not know how now, but I’ll get up to speed soon. The house we are buying if all continues to go well, has the most wonderful kitchen. It has a gas range, and it even has a huge stone fireplace on the end wall which faces the entry and living room. I foresee lots of happy and productive times in that kitchen.

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      • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
        October 3, 2019 at 9:18 am

        Old house? Or fireplace for atmosphere….

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        October 3, 2019 at 10:01 am

        Another way to prepare those noodles is to mix them with fried onions and buttered seasoned bread crumbs and bake in a casserole. Yum!

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 3, 2019 at 11:53 am

        Paul Prudhomme was once asked what he thought Heaven would be. He replied that he
        saw Heaven as a huge kitchen with the best of fresh ingredients, the best implements and the best gas range. He was then asked what he thought Hell would be like. Much the same, he said, but with an electric stove. Life’s too short for dull food.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      October 3, 2019 at 9:15 am

      Picky eaters are a problem. I happen to be one too. 😦

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    • SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:
      October 3, 2019 at 3:55 pm

      When I tried Spätzele for the first time (with fried onions) I thought I had found out what manna from heaven was. In Switzerland they are called “Knöpfli” (little buttons) because the size is more like a squished pea (a little button) than the longer Spätzele. It’s key to rinse them immediately in cold, cold water after they are cooked, then drained on a cloth towel. Melt some butter to brown them. We sometimes add sautéed onions, and then spoon all of it into a buttered casserole dish, top with coarsely grated Gruyére cheese, and bake until melted and hot.

      As a lad in Germany in 1981 (on a scholarship), I went to one of those medieval fairs outside of Regensburg and tried a one-inch slab of hot Leberkäs (like a giant baloney loaf) on a fresh roll with a dollop of mustard. And a beer. A giant beer. Mmmm.

      I’ve attend *the* Oktorberfest in Munich several times. It’s fun for a few hours. So nice to see younger people in traditional costumes wandering around. Sturdy lads in Lederhosen and curvy gals in Dirndls — quite the sight to behold. The giant tents and staging areas serve great food and beer. If you do go, BRING EAR PLUGS. The oompah-oompah bands are deafening. You can hear them just fine with earplugs.

      Pro tip: one of the most popular songs to sing along to at Oktoerfest anywhere (lately) is “Take me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver. It is a hoot to see Europeans (and other non-Americans) sing wildly and gleefully.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 3, 2019 at 4:56 pm

        I was at an Oktoberfest down by the Chiemsee in the early 60s at a large local gasthaus where there were two tables full of WWII vets singing military songs. My grandfather (Wehrmacht Oberst) and Mom (Luftwaffe) and my Dad (8th Air Force) were there and it was a most Gemütlichkeit Fest I’d ever been to. No hard feeling any more, we ALL hated the Russians so we had that in common.

        One of my aunt’s had an apartment just off the square where the fest parade started and close to the Festwiese so accommodations were never a problem. I loved the tents with the huge ovens that had hundreds of roasting chickens and the oxen roasting. I’d eat and drink myself senseless and start over again the next day. No one does excess better, not even New Orleans.

        I still have a few bubble mass among my collection, bars balk at filling them, but my halb-krug go over just fine. I’ll be using my 1972 Munich Olympics lidded stein and Czarina will be using my Gasthaus Traunstein halb-krug. GGS will be using one of my BBK mugs from my high school days in the early 60s, it’s got memories (not impacted by the dead brain cells from its use) but I have replacements and he’s our GGS. I’m sure the meal will be somewhat Americanized as real blood sausages have problems getting commercialized. Eitrher way it beats the %$#@ out of Oktoberfest at Applebee’s.

        BTW, I suggested the leftover spaetzle as a makkaroni und kase dinner. We’d sautee onions, toss in cooked real bacon, smoked ham and maybe a dusting of garlic…then bake it. We’d slice leftovers and gently cook them in butter or bacon grease (or both if you’re feeling particularly immortal) and serve with eggs for breakfast on a cold morning.

        Opp[s…gotta go…appears to be someone in a black uniform from the Center for Science in the Public Interest at my door.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 3, 2019 at 5:03 pm

        The memory was jogged loose from the kase-sotted memory base so here’s for you:

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      • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
        October 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm

        I went in 1999 to Munich’s Oktoberfest. My favorite food was the whole fish cooked over a charcoal pit. Ate it every day for a week. While waiting in the line, I also heard the Chuck Berry song, “You never can tell” over & over again because it was playing with the carnival ride next door.

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 3, 2019 at 1:38 am

    Miz Stella and Stellars

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  3. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 3, 2019 at 1:55 am

    ANG F-35s Arrive • Bonus Demo Team Cockpit Footage
    Gung Ho Vids

    The first two (of 20 scheduled) F-35 Lightning II strike fighters arrive at Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vermont on September 19, 2019. Plus, a promo clip of F-35 demo team over Oregon International Airshow on September 21, 2019. Film Credits: Video by Master Sgt. Michael Davis, 158th Fighter Wing — Video by Senior Airman Alexander Cook, F-35A Demo Team Public Affairs.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      October 3, 2019 at 2:56 am

      Lucille thank you for the Apachee tape. It’s the round ball above the rotor blades, or the single straight mast. The D-50 series (Kiowa Warrior) was acquired the target, the finder, then the shooters would move into positions too shoot…

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 3, 2019 at 12:12 pm

        Ohhh I remember when they were first developing the Longbow, we were amazed at its ability to track over 120 targets at once. Remember the AN/APG-78’s daddy, the mast mounted sight on the old Kiowa?

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        October 3, 2019 at 12:52 pm

        Next coffee klatch you have, in addition to the Stellars, perhaps invite all the Apache pilots you can conjure up and you guys can reminisce while we sit and happily listen.

        Have a great day!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      October 3, 2019 at 3:04 pm

      And we send first-line fighter aircraft to the state that elected Bernie Sanders?

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  4. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    October 3, 2019 at 2:01 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
    Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

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  6. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    October 3, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    Portland (Oregon, if you had any doubts) city council has banned urinals in the men’s rooms of the city’s new administration building so as not to make transgender ans people with gender issues feel ill at ease.

    https://godfatherpolitics.com/portland-officials-ban-urinals-in-mens-rooms-to-make-transgenders-feel-better/

    How long will the people of Portland stand for this?!

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  7. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 3, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    Six ways to Sunday? Intelligence chiefs not only altered rules about firsthand knowledge to file whistleblower report…
    By Monica Showalter – October 2, 2019

    Remember when Sen. Chuck Schumer, in response to criticism President Trump leveled at the Intelligence Community, retorted with this?

    “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s host Rachel Maddow.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/six_ways_to_sunday_intelligence_chiefs_not_only_altered_rules_about_firsthand_knowledge_to_file_whistleblower_report.html

    What the IC didn’t take into consideration…Donald Trump himself and all us deplorables!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      October 3, 2019 at 3:41 pm

      I am seeing and hearing of more and more folks in the intel business who’re worrying that Trump just might meet a guy on a grassy knoll. It sounds conspiratorial and paranoid but it’s being wished for openly by the Left and feared by professionals on the Right.

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        October 3, 2019 at 6:15 pm

        One thing sure…we won’t take it nice and quiet like we did with Kennedy. One of my friends was working as a social worker for L.A. County. Upon hearing of the assassination, a guy in their office cheered, indicating it was about time. No one responded to him. I remember being shocked that no one said or did anything to the jerk.

        After about 15 days or so, an idiot in my office started complaining he was tired of seeing the American flag at half staff. I let him have it verbally. If it had happened today, I still wouldn’t do anything to him physically (I don’t want to be put in jail). But I just might push everything off his desk for him.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          October 3, 2019 at 8:42 pm

          I think the urban/suburbanites would find something else to blame – availability of guns and ‘hate speech’ would be my guess. The usual government psyops campaigns to redirect the public’s ire and attention would be rolled out too, never waste a good tragedy, especially if you’ve planned it.

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  8. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 3, 2019 at 6:19 pm

    Tropical Reef Camera powered by EXPLORE.org

    In the vid explanation: “This tropical reef exhibit is modeled after the coast of Palau and houses more than 1,000 animals.”

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  9. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    October 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  10. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    October 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:

    Prayer to St. Michael

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
    be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
    May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
    and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
    by the power of God,
    thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
    who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  11. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    October 3, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    I took a fall last night. I wanted to change the direction of the ceiling fan and used a dressing table seat to do it. It is more sturdy than any other piece of furniture I have. But, my knee collapsed when I put weight on it, and I fell. I have to believe there were angels that helped me. I ended up between my bed and a cedar chest. It is about the width of my body, but I didn’t hit my elbow, shoulder, or head on the chest. I really can’t explain how I ended up there. I just was left with a sore knee and a bruise on my other shin. I went to the chiropractor just to make sure everything was ok. I can’t believe I came out of the fall hurt so little.

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