Press Secretary Sarah Sanders went to Twitter with this fact about the tax bill.

A typical family of four earning $45,000 per year will get a tax cut of $1,379 next year under our plan. Democrats will vote against it anyway because they care more about big government than working families

— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 19, 2017

Some #resistance dipshit fired back with this.

https://twitter.com/RESISTAllDayOK/status/942951172121305088

This is the profile for RESISTAllDayOK.

“Love trumps hate, lets eliminate Trump supporters.”  Their definition of “love” is very different than mine.

The girl in the picture looks like she’s in college, so I have a feeling she’s still on daddy’s money.

For working Americans, lets see what a family of four making $45,000 a year looks like.

$45,000/yr is roughly $21.00/hr.   That is median for a CNC machinist in Alabama.

Dad had an Associates and is a machinist.  Mom is a stay at home mom because the cost of daycare for two kids is more than she’d make with a full time job at $12/hour after taxes.

OR

The median income for automotive service technician is $16/hr.  That comes out to about $33,000/yr.

Dad is a service tech changing oil at the Midas and mom has a minimum wage job with two kids in public school.

What will an additional $120/mo buy them?

That’s two full tanks of gas for dad’s used F150 making it easier for him to get to work.

That’s an additional week’s groceries.

That is a used car payment for mom.

That is the chance to take the family out for dinner and movie.

For a family on a tight budget, $120/mo can make a big difference in quality of life.

But according to RESISTAllDayOK, this makes the Press Secretary an idiot.  The because she can spend $120/week in Starbucks or $120/night in microbrew on dad’s Platinum Visa card, what a working family goes through is nothing she knows or cares about.

The funny thing is, when she graduates with her degree in Transgender Dance Studies and starts making $11/hr at Starbucks, $120/mo will be important to her.

According to Campus Reform, the University of Minnesota is trying to put the kibosh on Christmas – or any other religious celebration – on campus this holiday season.

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty fucking sure that is a solid First Amendment violation.  Twice, once for the “prohibiting the free exercise thereof [religion]” clause and the “abridging the freedom of speech” clause.

Back when I was in college, we had white boards and wrote messages on them.  I used to post Happy Hanukkah and pass out Star of David shaped cookies.

I still pass out Star of David shaped cookies at work and do my Hanukkah decorations at my desk.  I have to, I am the lone Jew at the company.

If a public school administrator tried to punish me for passing out Hanukkah cookies as a student… well… I’d welcome it actually.

First I would sue his ass for violating my religious freedoms, then I’d sue his balls for violating my freedom of speech.

The point is, there is nothing so innocent, nothing so innocuous, nothing so fun and joyous that these pricks won’t try and ban it and punish people for doing it.

They can take my blue and white frosted, Star of David sugar cookies from my cold dead hands.

All I need is the Hebrew translation for Molon Labe.

They are offering the trifecta of tourniquet, Israeli bandage and trauma shears for $29.97.

I know you suckers have minded my complains and all of you have a basic kit like this already, but if you were thinking about a spare or a significant and loving gift for somebody else, this is your chance.

Go order one 🙂

Chapman University is a private college in Orange County, California, which costs about $50,000/yr in tuition.

From that information, take a guess how the politic of the school and its student body lean.

So a poli-sci major at Chapman wrote an OpEd for the school newspaper that was about is inside the box, stereotypical as you can imagine.

Centrism is a privilege.

Many progressives acknowledge the existence of privileges that counterbalance oppression. The most commonly referenced and recognizable is white privilege, which describes the benefits that white people, often unknowingly, receive from a society that can be discriminatory against racial minorities.

Good start.  Nothing makes friends like telling people that they are awful because of the color of their skin.

Liberals and progressives can be quick to call attention to many privileges, but one that often goes unrecognized is centrist privilege.

Centrist privilege, that’s new.  Tell me more, self hating white man.

In a political environment that receives criticism for polarization, it has become almost honorable to self-describe as a “moderate” or a “centrist.” While there is value in recognizing opposing viewpoints and reaching compromises, the Republican Party has become too conservative for this to be possible.

So the Republicans are the problem.  That’s not what Pew Research has found.  Two years ago the New York Times asked Have the Democrats Pulled Too Far Left, which was before the rise of Bernie Sanders.

This has created a situation in which liberals who follow the moderate, compromising path – as opposed to holding steadfast progressive values – quietly benefit from the struggles of countless Americans. 

And here we come to the thesis of the OpEd.  What Mr. Joy is suggesting is a policy of “no compromise.”

Centrism is as vile as right-wing conservatism, but it contains the additional atrocity of having no social consequences for holding views that leave fellow Americans at a disadvantage. This creates a type of privilege. Centrist ideas must only garner electoral support when they are the final option standing between the public and a conservative disaster, and even then must be met with reluctance. Just as progressives denounce white privilege, it is time to denounce centrist privilege.

Yeah!  Forget trying to come up with policy that tries to accommodate a wide swath of people of different political and socio-economic backgrounds.  There is no middle ground with the enemy.  Just take that hard Left policy and guilt trip Americans into letting the Left ram it down their throats.

I think when progressives hear the word “privilege” they expect the rest of America to react the same way that they do.

Trying to “privilege shame” moderates into being radical leftists might be effective in California.  Here in Alabama, a progressive accusing someone of some sort of privilege results in a hearty “Fuck you!”

I think a better title for this OpEd would be “How to never win a national election ever again.”

“While terrorists may be willing to die for their cause, and their “calling card is to start killing people straight away,” there is ample evidence to suggest that they are just as ready to embrace a resolution that provides them with some sense of accomplishment or victory.
Negotiations can create meaningful dialogue, exchange of information, and opportunities to resolve the event without risking further injury to hostages, law enforcement personnel, or the suspect.”

R E S C U E , R E S P O N S E , AND RESILIENCE A critical incident review of the Orlando public safety response to the attack on the Pulse nightclub.

I have always been suspect at the way police responded to the Pulse active shooting in Orlando and I have to admit that I was partially wrong. The initial response by the officer present when it began and those who immediately came after was the accepted & successful protocol: Go towards the sound of fire and do your shit. They did that and more and that must be commended.

But the way I am reading the report so far (about one-fourth in ) when the response and responsibility starts crawling up the chain of command, things start to get complicated. Although the report keeps mentioning the top honchos (with lots of attaboys and back-patting) and how their respective agencies have been planning and training for events like this, apparently the simple item to call Fire Rescue was somehow left out of the planing and response.

The other thing that surprised me is that in their planning, a mass shooting is a unique event on its own rather than a tool. Pulse is consider in the report as a terrorist event early on and that is when the focus changed. Somehow the idea that a terrorist can use a mass shooting as weapon rather than a car or vest bomb seems a foreign concept for the upper echelons.

I also detected a huge quote mistake about the Golden Hour, but I will leave that to an involuntary diagramming screw up rather than an intellectual sleigh of hand.

I am just 55 pages in so there is more to read. But the info between the lines and not quite well decorated is worrying.

PS: I am leaving the Meaningful Dialogue with an Active Shooting Terrorist part for you to chuckle about on your own.

I saw a video about Bourbon made by Bloomberg news.

Bourbon is a lie.  Most of the brands of Bourbon you buy are made from a large distillery and not small individual distilleries.

And?  Beer works the same way.  So do a lot of products.

What’s next, an expose on how the Twix commercials are a lie and there is no left and right factory and they are all part of Mars, Inc.?

Less then a minute into the video, I was done.

“What can distinguish one Bourbon brand from another may be little more than how long the liquid sat in the barrel.”

NO FUCKING SHIT ASSHOLE, THAT IS 99% OF THE SCIENCE OF WHISKY MAKING.

This is chemical engineering, right up my alley.

Step one, make the mash.  Use a grain containing sugar and ferment the grain into a solution of ethanol and water.  This has to be done under the right conditions or the yeasts will produce fusel alcohols as well.  The mineral content of the water, the type of grain used, the fermenting conditions all have an effect on how much ethanol or fusel alcohol is made.  This is why Scotch makers go on and on about the stream they got their water out of.

Step two, distill.     Using heat, separate as much ethanol as you can from everything else.  Too much heat and you get other impurities in your condensate.  Too little and you don’t get much of anything.  Distillation is not a perfect means of separation, so some of the other organics and aromatics from the mash come through  into the distillate.  You may want this or not.  For a Vodka, you don’t want any flavor so you distill several times to get as much out as you can that is not ethanol.  For a rye whisky, the rye imparts a flavor so you keep it.

Step three, make the barrel.  Take an oak barrel.  Burn the inside.  The inner layer turns into charcoal.  The outer layer is raw wood.  In between the heat caramelizes the natural sugars in the wood.  The more intense the heat, the darker they turn, and the more the flavor varies.  This is the same science as is used in candy making.

Step four, age.  Put the ethanol solution in the barrel.  Diffusion will occur, and ethanol will dissolve into the wood.  Then it reaches steady state and the ethanol will move back out of the wood into liquid in the barrel, carrying the caramelized sugars and other wood flavors with it.  The charcoal will adsorb some of the other flavors as well.  The longer you age, the more wood flavors and sugars go into solution.  Bourbon uses new barrels.  Other whiskies use used barrels from wine, brandy, or beer production so the whiskey absorbs some of the flavors left in the barrel from the previous spirit.

This process of diffusion, along with the charring of the barrel is critical to the flavor of the Bourbon.  You have little control over the diffusion rate so all you can do is vary the time.

Aging time is important in wine, cheese, tea, beef, etc.  This know-nothing Bloomberg dipshit acts like aging time is a scam.  Bullshit.  Aging time is the difference between a fine Bourbon and throat burning piss.  It’s the difference between farmer’s cheese and a fine roquefort.

This is what happens when a journalism major tries to explain something he knows nothing about.

I have always wanted to make whisky in clean glass corboys.  Rather than charring the barrels, I’d carefully roast different wood chips at different temperatures to control the amount of caramelization that occurred in each batch of chips.  Then adjusting the ratios of the different roasts of chips, I could adjust the flavor.  Using small chips, the solution would reach equilibrium faster (shorter diffusion distance) and aging time could be decreased without a reduction in flavor.  This would be scientific whisky making.

About the only way Colin Kaepernick will ever toss a ball as quarterback in the NFL is to officially become Diddy Combs’ whore and be pimped.

That is Black Pride indeed.