Turkeys, New Food Review and the Orange Menace

Greetings Fellow Humans.  The heat has broken for awhile.  I think it's going to come back, but for now it is much more pleasant than it has been.  

There has been riding to the lake.  None of my photos have been particularly good.  The brown ducks are always in shadow and look like brown lumps.  The attractive kayaks are too far away.  I liked the way the green of the kayaks looked against the yellow of the millfoil.  This year's crop has been really large.

Apparently the quail and the turkeys have had an excellent summer of reproduction.  This flock was in the side yard the other day.  There was one Mom and her teen aged off spring following in her wake.

We have now tried two of Kevin's sauce packets.  In this area they do not come as part of a meal kit, one must procure and cook one's own chicken.  One does not (!) want to follow their cooking instructions.  They seem to have cut and pasted the text from the meal kit, which contains cooked chicken, and put them here.  Trust me, chicken takes longer than that to cook.

The Tikka Masala sauce was good.  If you like Indian restaurant food, you'll like this.  It's not overly hot, and we'll eat that one again.  The Lemongrass Basil sauce had good flavor, but, it was so hot it was painful. That one is not a repeater for us because we're hot food wimps.  We doused the left overs in plain yogurt which helped some with the heat.  So that is my new product review.

Thus far the press has not been covering the VP's campaign rallies.  They show the ones done by the orange menace, but not hers.  Instead, they kvetch and moan about the fact that she won't give interviews.  Why should she?  She's talking directly to the US citizens and she saw how MSM buried President Biden under coverage of he's too old, and nothing about what he's accomplished.  So I say to the press, piss off.

A truly extraordinary article is up on The Hill.  They are a right of center publication, but not bat shit crazy like OAN.  I will now excerpt some of what they said.  Actually that's the bulk of the article, I'm just so shocked to see this in a conservative newspaper.  Article, with no paywall, is here.

California political reporters were stunned when, in the middle of a news conference, Trump suddenly spun a riveting story of barely escaping death in a helicopter with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown – a scary flight during which, according to Trump, Brown never stopped trashing then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris.  

Soon other reporters fleshed out the story. Trump was dead wrong about everything. He did not take a helicopter ride with Willie Brown. He took one with then-Gov. Jerry Brown to view damage from California wildfires. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom was also onboard. Both Brown and Newsom confirmed there was no problem with the aircraft, no emergency landing, and no discussion of Kamala Harris. 

Then it got even more bizarre. Former state Sen. Nate Holden of Los Angeles revealed that, years ago, he had, in fact, once shared a helicopter ride with Trump — from New York City — that experienced engine failure and made a bumpy landing. But, again, no talk about Kamala Harris. 

In other words, Trump just made it all up, confusing the Black Willie Brown with a white Jerry Brown, a Brown with a Holden, and New York City with California. He probably also invented the trash talk about Kamala Harris. One can only imagine how Republican leaders and the media would have condemned President Biden if he had made such a wild string of errors. 

One, Trump’s goal (which got lost in the helicopter story) was to respond to an obviously planted question by spreading an old attack line on Harris: that she only got where she is today because she had been in a relationship with Willie Brown. It’s the ugly misogynist smear used against any successful woman. It’s sexist, disgusting, and an insult to all women of America. 

It’s time the media stopped treating Donald Trump like a normal candidate and started portraying him for what he is: An angry old man, the oldest man ever to run for president, with increasing signs of mental health issues — and clearly unfit to be trusted with the office of president. 

That last paragraph!  WAPO, NYT, CNN, and MSNBC should all be saying this.  

Today's speech in North Carolina was to have been about the economy.  He immediately went off topic. 

Despite the event’s supposed focus on the economy, Trump appeared disinterested and out of his depth on the subject. “This is talking about a thing called the economy,” he rambled. “So we are doing this as an intellectual speech. You are all intellectuals today. Today we’re doing it. And we’re doing it right now.” But when he did attempt to discuss economic issues, he made puzzling remarks like, “They say the economy is the most important subject...I'm not so sure it is.”

More text and video can be found here.  It's worth reading.

Other than this, I have not too much to say, other than I will be glad when the elections are over and he loses.

Ok, this is really funny.  Go here and play the video.
Jim just sent me this, which is also hilarious.  Watch to the end, it's worth it.  It's from a movie, with new sub-titles.