America: “I’ve declined and fallen and I can’t get up!”
The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 during the month from the previous record of 8,733,461 set in June, according to newly released datafrom the Social Security Administration.
The 8,753,935 workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July exceeded the population of 39 of the 50 states. Only 11 states—California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey—had more people in them than the number of workers on the federal disability insurance rolls in July.
Virginia, the twelfth most-populous state, had 8,096,604 people in 2011, according to the latest Census Bureau estimate. That would make Virginia’s population about 657,331 less than the number of workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July.
Congress enacted legislation in 1956 to add federal disability insurance to the Social Security system. Over the decades, the number of Americans actually working has dramatically declined relative to the number claiming federal disability insurance payments.
By July 1967, there 74,520,000 Americans actually working and 1,145,663 workers taking disability payments. That made a ratio of 65 actual workers for each worker collecting disability. In July 1987, there were 112,634,000 people actually working and 2,759,852 people collecting disability—a ratio of about 41 actual workers to each worker collecting disability.
When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, there were 142,187,000 people actually working and 7,442,377 workers collecting disability—a ratio of about 19 to 1.
In June, there were 142,415,000 people actually working and 8,733,461 workers claiming disability—a ratio of about 16 to 1.
The takers have just about entrenched themselves permanently into the majority. Can we really wait another several election cycles hoping the GOP wakes up?
I read a suggestion, with no back-up supporting link, that in England it sounded so much better politically to have “disabled” folks rather than unemployed. I wonder if this is the tactic.
It’s been suggested that the roles are increased because people are unemployed and figure going this route is their best option, currently. But I wonder if there have been any behind the scene changes that could have made this happen.
Or does no one really care about the disability crises we are facing? You’d think someone would be interested enough to investigate.
roles – rolls. as in SSD rolls.
Or jelly rolls.
And they’re off… Food stamps are winning this race, with one out of seven Americans eating off of the dole. Disability is bravely struggling to catch up. This is an exciting race, folks! It’s nectar and neck brace! Think how exciting it will be when every American has an EBT card and a hoveround!
Between disability and TANF the average worker is fully supporting their family and 1 additional person.
(142m workers, 8.7m disability, 4.4m TANF)
Oddly, according to my math, the average worker only spent $234 in 2011 on TANF.
Source acf.hhs.gov
The worst you can have is people sucking up money while being only engaged enough in life to order delivery in front of their TV and believing that they’re protected because “No body dare be mean to me! I’m a human being! I done be suffering!”
Oh, good. That’s what we have. Yay.
Another $5,131 for disability in FY 2011.
Source ssa.gov
Lastly, this represents about ~9% of the median family income in 2009.
Source census.gov
Since philosopher-king John Roberts the Just has determined the Crown can tax you for inactivity, can it tax you for disability as well? The Crown taxes you for being able-bodied, and taxes you for being idle. Hell, it just owns your asses, in effect. You are its property. Boy.
Or from Steyn: “In the last three years, 2.6 million Americans have signed on with new employers, but 3.1 million have signed on for disability checks.”
Pursuant to more Steyn:
and
Can we really wait another several election cycles hoping the GOP wakes up?
Wake up? They’re not asleep. They know exactly what they’re doing, and we’re the fools who think that their apparent spinelessness owes to ignorance or lack of vision.
Please.
Lucy draws back the football in full knowledge that Charlie Brown will go Whump! on his back.
That’s why she does it, yo. She also knows that old Chuck will always come back for more. It’s not the GOP that’s asleep, it’s us.
Just a couple of days ago I saw a tv commercial for a company which exists solely for the purpose of finding a way to put “you” — any “you” listening to the commercial, we can take it — onto the disability rolls of the US government. Such a commonplace constitutes, for ordinary purposes, the state of the nation.
Sweeet.
Michael Mann, upon being accused of being the “Jery Sandusky of climate science” by Steyn on NRO, is suing NRO for defamation of character.
Go, Steyn, Go.
I’ve never been so proud of my alma mater. Good Lord, what happened to that place?
You graduated, Squid. They had nothing to cling to.
Michael Mann, upon being accused of being the “Jery Sandusky of climate science”
well he did bugger the data
well he did bugger the data
Read the comment thread on the Steyn post and despair.
Never seen such an infestation of Leftist scum and villainy.
I’m still looking for a “Vatican of the Big Ten” sweatshirt. It’s like the Rhymesayers say: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold!
– How’s that Boooooosssh narrative working out for you?
Jeff is on disability.
That’s only because he tried to lift his house one-handed and wound up tweaking his thumb.
I remember that, Squid.
It was heartbreaking.
OT ( as per usual ) but why are all the comments numbered “1” ? Every link I hit , when I return it goes back to the top of the thread.
Overheard on local sports radio, and too good not to share:
You probably heard that Penn State took down the statue of Joe Paterno that stood outside the stadium, but you probably didn’t hear where it went. The statue was moved to the university library, where it will serve as a stern reminder to everybody to keep their mouths shut!
I laugh to keep from crying.
One thing that pushes people to try for disability is that the only way to discharge your student loan debt is to be declared permanently disabled. Loose standards on what constituted disability have made this an option even though being disabled isn’t an automatic loan discharge.
A story from 11 months ago.
OT: A.B. Stoddard is spreading stupidity about guns on the FauxNewz panel.
They seem to be saying that people can buy guns online without any checks or something. Plus, she thinks that no one uses an AR-15 for home defense which is pure BS.
According to their opinion, I should likely be investigated for my ammo purchases, because, I guess, no one needs that much ammunition.
Time to buy some more.
I forgot, the issue was people with thousands of rounds of ammo are likely terrorists.
A.B. Stoddard is spreading stupidity about guns on the FauxNewz panel.
though it is a stupid device someone should use the “chicken hawk” ploy: if you never own a gun you can’t opine on guns.
Or the side issue was.
How about, if you’re going to opine on guns you should at least shoot a few of them. There would be a bonus in that many people who are anti-gun turn pro-gun after actually experiencing how fun it is to shoot.
Those who are ostensibly on “our side” disappoint way too often.
yea that works too. i wish that there were a way to show these talkheads are ignorant on many of the topics they opine on.
Bill O’Reilly is also basically retarded when it comes to gun control.
It’s relatively safe to say Bill O’Reilly is basically retarded on every subject. Or, at least, I’m content to go with that.
Indeed.
Sorry, looks like RD/sinister/Conrad/etc., signed up for yet another email address so he could bypass the integrity of the registration system and post his suggestions that I don’t really have a family and I live off the government.
— Though I am a kike. That part is true.
The only thing O’Reilly has going for him is that he’s slightly less retarded than Hannity.
Hmm. I thought you were a hebe? Didn’t he call you that, as well?
– Thats alright Jeff. Some of my best friends are kikes and kikettes.
I have to take your word for that, Abe. I have an old analog retardometer that isn’t very accurate at those levels.
baracky & the vets
Obama said he had kept his promise to uphold “America’s sacred trust with our veterans” including hiring thousands more claims processors at the VA.
“For the first time ever, we’ve made military families and veterans a top priority not just at DOD, not just at the VA, but across the government,” he said.
“Where we still have more to do, we will not rest,” Obama said. “That’s my vow to you. I’ve got your back. I’ve got your six.”
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I have an old analog retardometer that isn’t very accurate at those levels.
try calibrating it when bor is doing his big oil speil
“– Though I am a kike. That part is true.”
I’m 75% ‘squat lowlands brutal’ type kraut. The rest is swiss french and scotch irish n’ shit.
That means I yell at my family and they yell back and I like smoked meat too much. It might make me a beer swiller but I REALLY severely cut that stuff back so I could have more time with soda- pop. I also like zesty tomato sauce.
There are no major ethnic slurs for my kind because no one ever gave a half a crap about us. Nor do I blame them for their lack of interest. The family got kicked out of Prussia politely in the late 1880’s and shipped off to go be a pain in some other landlord classes ass. We went to New Sweden (near Manor Texas) and around 1950 most of us headed for the cities and suburbs. I was born in 71 in Austin as part of Gen X the “who gives a damn, and I’m really tired of hearing about the freaking 60’s ” generation. I like .mp3’s way better than the tapes I had as a kid.
“I’ve got your back. I’ve got your six.”
– Isn’t he just to kool for words?
– Glad you’ve got my six dickhead, but the towels are coming in from your nine.
There are no major ethnic slurs for my kind because no one ever gave a half a crap about us.
About the worst thing you can do to a man is call him a Texan.
I don’t get the hatred for jews and poles. They seem like nice dependable folks to me. I don’t see a high incidence of assholes to individuals in either group. Seems to me that bohunks are the real enemy. And even then its nothing to fight about.
i’ve got your 18 holes
bohunks are the real enemy.
is it because of the pierogis ?
“About the worst thing you can do to a man is call him a Texan.”
I have empirical evidence to the contrary. It’s called Illinois.
– Baracky, he really likes him dat CIC gig, especially the drones. Man thats just some kool shit right there.
– Hey now, call me a commie jew, but lay off my pierogis.
I’ve witnessed a lot of anti-semitic talk in my life, but anti-Polish? Polish jokes used to be big, but they were like a kissing cousin to Italian jokes. More or less benign.
Pierogis are a Polish thing. Bohunks probably just stole the idea. Of course so did I.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no such thing as Polish food, Jewish food, Czech food or whatever. Just Eastern European shit that everyone takes credit for. Except Ghoulash. Hungary seems to own that.
Who came up with Polenta? That stuff is awful. I had to eat it to be polite too. I still have nightmares. It’s like a tamale casing melted on a plate on top of some garlic.
– Yeh, they stole them from us Russki’s.
Ghoulash doesn’t look right, but I don’t care. I can’t spell baba ghanoush either.
I love polenta. Eat at better restaurants, dude.
Ghoulash should be made from on only the freshest ghouls.
In my house just about ANY casserole type dish was called a ghoulash. Tuna helper is a ghoulash. Our culinary ignorance prior to the internet was astounding.
“Czech food or whatever.”
Bohunk Chow. Use the proper terminology.
My mother – from Minnesota – calls everything a hot dish.
Yes, you Wends are all bohunks too. Just because you comb your hair and tuck in your shirts you think we won’t know what you are, but we do! You guys built some nice churches in Thorndale, TX though so there is hope for ya.
– Kulitch, pot cheese, and Borscht, but what I miss most is the sausage.
Okay, I’m tired of pretending that I hate bohunks and hold them in collective contempt now. They seem like nice people too.
June Meyer’s Authentic Hungarian
Goulash
“Hot dish” is Minnesotan for goulash.
Well that sounds like our goulash but we use macaroni instead of potatoes. Actually we do a scalloped potato version come to think of it.
– Theres only one place I know of here in San Diego where you can get the authentic fresh made sausage. Its a Orthadox church, and its hard to get to because of its location. Haven’t had any for too many years.
as a member of the bohunk community i don’t give two sh&ts about what you call thinking
“bohunk community”
That’s not what you call a bunch of bohunks. A bunch of bohunks are a parade.
Or open mike night at the coffee house.
Open mic? Yeah, that looks better.
Don’t sit to close to Open Mike. If he thinks you care he’ll spill his guts.
In college I tended bar at a Hungarian (Hunky) Club, and the wedding parties made me feel like an extra in The Deer Hunter. Jesus are interior Pennsylvanians hicks. I’m surprised Newrouter has a computer.
Hungarians aren’t bohunks. Bohemians are. They originated as a people in Moravia and parts of Silesia in the former Czechoslovakia.
Oh. I assumed that they comprised the “hunk” part.
Hungarians aren’t bohunks. Bohemians are.
dude bo hunks no strovia
Hungarians aren’t bohunks. Bohemians are.
bohunks are eastern europeans except pollacks and jews
Nope. Bohemians only.
Polish jokes used to be big,
I remember telling Polack jokes by the truckload as a kid. Then when I heard somewhere that “Polack” meant “person from Poland,” I wondered why they’d choose a demonym that was the same as the word in the jokes.
Hungarians are Mags.
Bohunks?
I’m surprised Newrouter has a computer.
actually there’s a site that allows you use the telegraph to browse the internet
Merriam-Webster disagrees. Vindication!
Still wrong.
If you call a Hungarian a bohunk around here they’ll point you to the bohemians and their long hair wire frame glasses and greasy faces.
wiki
Bohunk
(North America) a person of east-central European descent. Originally referred to those of Bohemian (now Czech Republic) descent. It was commonly used toward Ukrainian immigrants during the early 20th century.[20] See also hunky.
– Man, ABC news is doing the goat dance on it’s willie on this Holmes thing, from the git-go.
Yep. Bohemian.
Never heard it used for Ukrainians but then I don’t know of any Ukranians around here so it probably just doesn’t come up much.
Good lord! I clicked on that git-go link and saw a picture of Newt Gingrich having a python dropped on him!
here in deer hunter land back in the steel mill days bohunk described eastern europeans in general
Yeah well, that’s Pennsylvania.
In Cen-Tex (please God, don’t let people start officially calling my region that) it’s fairly nonsensical to try and hang it on anyone but a Bohemian.
And even then its a dance hall taunt between farmer’s kids at worst.
All Pennsylvanians are hicks. It’s like there’s a giant meteor under the surface of the state sucking all the intelligence out of in inhabitants.
Except Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is also full of hicks, but nice ones. Not the rude douche-y ones on the East Coast side. Especially in Reading.
I just found out that Sally Ride died of Pancreatic Cancer today at the age of 61.
– Yeh you do. Me. Actually Bolla Russia (White Russia/Georgia) but close enough.
Believe me, I know from hicks. Coming from several generations of tenant farmers (mom’s side) and hard-headed German horse traders (dad’s), I’m either related to hundreds of them or have met them in six or eight states.
to try and hang it on anyone but a Bohemian.
Welcome to http://www.texasczechs.com! To all you lovers of Czech Music and culture, these pages are for you.
here in hickland we had chunk of eastern europe come to work for mr.s frick,carnegie,westinghouse et al
Cue the Pennsylvania Polka, nr.
” http://www.texasczechs.com”
Agggh! It burns!
I can’t believe that Sally Ride died. That makes me feel really old. We don’t even have a shuttle program anymore.
Paleo, you should work on your Czech accent. You could sound like that sexy Eastern European doctor on ER did. All those buckle bunnies in Austin will think you’re exotic.
– ‘Course I’d get thrown out of the clam for saying I was Russki, Geogians just love that.
Agggh! It burns!
apply a pierogi and sour creme
At least you guys aren’t mainly mutts. I’m half German, half French so I can feel superior to myself. My poor kiddos are more German than I am with some Irish stirred in.
– Sally Ride, as in the astronaut – Damn I feel old.
Sally had pancreatic cancer. She hung in for almost a year after the diagnosis. RIP Sally.
Your French half isn’t as French as it would have you believe.
My German half tells my French half to shut up and make it an omelet.
“Hot dish, a traditional Minnesotan main course, hot dish is cooked and served in a single baking dish, and commonly appears at family reunions and church suppers, although it can grace any table. If doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, it’s probably hot dish.”
ABC news is going full nuclear retard over this shit, huh.
Boy did this thread go sideways!
Anyway, I just want to say I’m officially outraged by Di’s Steyn quote: “2.6 million Americans have signed on with new employers, but 3.1 million have signed on for disability checks”. Appalled, that’s me.
As for hicks, I come from a long line of cattlemen, city people would probably think them hicks. Any one of them had/has more dignity and honor than any twelve of DC’s sophisticated elite.
Whenever my mother made a hot dish, there was always jell-o served on the same plate, so you’d get some fruity flavor bleeding in. Mmmm…
Shoulda refreshed! Hicks for leigh at 7:03…
You know what, Lee? We hicks will be the ones to survive the coming societal melt-down, what with our resourcefulness, work ethic and survivor skills honed from years of being stone broke.
i propose packages of lime jell-o in every ssid check
Also, I feel guilty and ashamed for relaying the media story that the theater shooters mom told them they had the right guy. Apparently, they asked if the was ____(insert name), mother of ______(insert name), and she said “yes, you have the right person”.
Fucking media. I bet he wasn’t a TEA Party guy either…
All I really know is that whenever I describe what my mother (born and raised in South Dakota) called goulash my Minnesotan friend says it’s hot dish. There could be a lot of different things in it, though noodles and mushroom soup were common ingredients.
“I bet he wasn’t a TEA Party guy either…”
FLASHBACK: when Dr. Amy Bishop shot her colleagues, the Left speculated that she was a Tea Partier. In fact, she was an Obama donor.
FLASHBACK: Discovery Channel hostage-taker was supposedly a climate change denier. In fact, he was an enviroweenie, D.Channel intern.
FLASHBACK: the census-taker was supposedly hanged by extremist anti-tax Tea Partiers. In fact, he hanged himself.
FLASHBACK: the Times Square Bomber was speculated to be upset about [Health Care Reform]. In fact, he was jihadi scum.
FLASHBACK: the guy who flew his plane into the IRS in TX was supposedly a Tea Partier. In fact, he quoted from the Communist Manifesto.
FLASHBACK: the guy who was stabbing NYC cabbies was supposedly an anti-Ground Zero Mosque Tea Partier. In fact, he supported the GZM.
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Yeah, I definitely remember noodles and mushroom soup being in stuff. My mother used to make all kinds of silly concoctions, though they usually weren’t from scratch. Kind of crafty bastardizations of commercially bought stuff.
My mother was born in South Dakota, too. Smack dab in the middle of nowhere.
Kind of crafty bastardizations of commercially bought stuff.
campbell’s soup casseroles
My mother was born in South Dakota,
oh noes you got hick blood
My mother was from Gregory, population 4000 or so.
My dad was raised on a farm. Gregory was a big town to him.
My mother was born in Groton, population 1,400.
According to Wikipedia, the pop was 946 when she was born.
oh my the bitter clinger thread
The population of Gregory in 1930, when my mother was born, was 1034. So, I win.
I don’t know where I got the 4000 figure, even now only 1295 people live there.
Darnit, you win, Abe.
Though I grew up in San Diego, I have bitter clinger roots.
I’ve heard hot dish before but I thought that was just a way of making sure people weren’t all bringing the same thing. So you’d say, I’m thinking of bringing a hot dish (entree, warm) or a salad or a side or a desert and the other person would say that there was already plenty of hot dishes and deserts expected so maybe you could bring that pasta salad that everyone likes.
I didn’t know it was actually a thing. That’s a casserole to my peoples.
– Looks like the Proggies just lost another sacred cow. Let the rending of clothes and hair pulling commence.
– Obi to guard: “These are not the WMD’s you are looking for, so we can move along”….
Not Jell-O, salad.
There were a few fathers in Cicero who only described other kids by their ethnicities. The Italian Dad: get Johnny and Frankie and that Polack kid and those two Micks and I’ll open the fire hydrant. The Polish dad: pull that bohunk’s father off the Sokol bar stool and get him into Sat night mass – he’ll be drunk till Monday otherwise. The Irish dad: get your brothers, the one wop family from across the alley, and those Polack twins and we’ll play 9 on 9 baseball in the parking lot.
baracky lies syrians die for hummus abedin
who only described other kids by their ethnicities.
evil “whites” ignoring victimhood
“Dessert” would probably make more sense above.
Ha!, My Uncle was an artist! We rented his house in Vivtorville when I was a small lad.
Make sure you check out the Family Heritage and Art Pedigree at the bottom, hicks…
I spel like a bohunk.
– That ABC bunch of journalist school morons just keep digging the hole. Mosks account of the telephone coversation does not support their contention either, not something a moron trying to hype the story would csre about.
– Shoving about 98% of the Pravda press into a wood chipper and using the remains as coolant in a nuclear plant might go a long way to cleaning uo the environment.
Oh, that was me above, Ernst, making the classic desert/dessert mistake you’d hope your fourth grader would outgrow.
By the way, do you guys still like those hot dishes/casseroles? I ate so much of that as a kid I’ve developed a real aversion. Noodles and cream of anything makes me want to go find a large piece of meat to grill.
I used to do the noodles and cream of mushroom soup and meat thing because I’m really lazy, but I haven’t had it for a few years.
There’s a couple hot dishes we still make. But only when the thermometer drops below 10 degrees or so.
Of course, chili is considered a hot dish, so there’s that.
A casserole, by any other name, is still a hot dish of goulash, ‘cuz of we forgot to take something out of the freezer.
Noodles and cream of anything makes me want to go find a large piece of meat to grill.
heartless what about the “poor” people?
Okay, if chili is a hot dish then, yeah, I’m pretty sure the good German and Scandi people around here are using the term in pretty much the same way.
It’s not really a casserole then. Casserole would be a subset of hot dish.
I get the occasional urge for a few of them. Creamed corn mixed with hamburger meat and thrown in the oven topped with mashed potatoes is still pretty tasty. Kind of like Shepherd’s Pie. Generally though, I don’t make that kind of stuff if I’m cooking for myself because I’d have to eat it for a week.
That’s certainly why we ate it, nr. Nothing reminds you of your lean years quite like realizing how the majority of your meals didn’t have any protein. It’s a miracle it didn’t stunt my growth.
hunky restaurant review
Dining Review: Jozsa Corner
A taste of Eastern Europe: One-man operation in Hazelwood serves and entertains those who come Hungary
– Tuna casserole is a subset of the Devil.
Just to further sidetrack an already side tracked thread, you all know that the reason the east europeans are even dirtier than the typical dirty (west) european is due to the fact that the slavs were the original swamp people, right?
My mother fried everything. Breaded, deep or shallow fried. And baked a lot of pie.
Yet, my peoples live long and are skinny while noshing on fried chicken and biscuits with beer or iced tea followed up by cigarettes and many hands of Pinochle.
Minnesota chili is made with ketchup and eaten with a spoon, bh.
Just like Bar-Be-Cue and Tack-Os
I’ve never heard of Minnesota chili. Then again, my mother didn’t know about Minnesota meat raffles until I brought them up.
We used to semi-regularly have a tuna-slicedtomato-swisscheese pie in a rice pieshell, topped with a salad dressing of some sort, like the bottled orange french stuff I think. Pretty good vittles, thinking back on it.
I ordered chili in Indiana once and it was beans and macaroni with hamburger in tomato sauce. I think there was a pinch or chili powder in there.
There was also a scary salad on the salad bar with multi-colored marshmallows in it.
that the slavs were the original swamp people,
nah the eastern church held on until the western church got going again. victory,winners and other propaganda
I cannot imagine Minnesota Chili. The people here appear to think adding a little pepper makes food too spicy.
Minnesota chili:
two cans of beans, any variety (kidney is most common)
1 pound pulverized meat
pour into baking dish and cover with ketchup
heat until warm, salt and pepper to taste. top with cheeze whiz and serve.
– Something tells me Diane Sawyer won’t be getting any exclusive enterviews with the Holmws family.
The swamp people were all pagans, newrouter, until Cyril and Methodius saved their heathen souls.
Forget Rule 5; guns and ethnic jokes.
– Huffpoop made the mistake of posting a couple of articles on the Syrian WMD’s thing, and they’re getting ripped in the comments section by both sides. The right is mocking and laughing at the ‘blind’ progressives, and the Left is totally dispondent because their propaganda organ has betrayed the “invisable WMD’s’ narrative.
With the way things are going, Hamburger Helper may become a treat. That and its cousin, Tuna Helper.
The swamp people were all pagans, newrouter, until Cyril and Methodius saved their heathen souls.
the collapse of the east This article is about the 1453 siege
the resistance of the west Battle of Vienna
Minnesota meat raffles
Sounds like something you’d find on Urban Dictionary… if one were brave enough to look.
“What is seen cannot be unseen!”
“Your French half isn’t as French as it would have you believe.”
Yeah if the French half was in charge she’d have said half French and half Westphalian. I keed, I keed.
No, they actually have meat raffles in bars and the like. I think it’s more popular outside the cities, but my local bar has one every Friday at 4:30 pm.
I ordered chili in Indiana once and it was beans and macaroni with hamburger in tomato sauce. I think there was a pinch or chili powder in there.
There was also a scary salad on the salad bar with multi-colored marshmallows in it.
My ex-sil served a “salad” once that had snicker’s bars in it. She served it WITH dinner.
She was from Minnesota.
The swamp people were all pagans, newrouter, until Cyril and Methodius saved their heathen souls.
the collapse of the east This article is about the 1453 siege
the resistance of the west Battle of Vienna
If the West hadn’t blackjacked the East in 1204, the Turks don’t get into Europe. There’s a good chance they don’t get all of Anatolia, even.
Well, spilt milk under the bridge.
Why is a whisky raffle considered perfectly normal, while a meat raffle is some kind of offense against God and Nature? Here’s the thing, kids: you come home from the VFW with a big chunk of red meat, and your wife ain’t gonna yell at you for being out late.
Honestly, I don’t understand why meat raffles haven’t taken the nation by storm.
The thing about Minnesota Chili is not exaggerated. There was a commercial on the radio some years ago, advertising “Cajun Night” at one of our casinos. The waitress in the ad said, “You want that mild, extra-mild, or North Shore style?” Sure, it was meant in jest, but a kernel of truth and all that…
Recipe?
On the hotdish topic: my grandmother had a casserole (she was a Yuper, so no hotdish) that was pretty cool, but it would have been even better with bacon. ‘course, she learned to cook during the Depression, so none of the meats would have any of the fat drained off.
But she didn’t die of anything cholesterol-related, so there’s that. Nor was it lung cancer, despite her 2-(sometimes 3-)pack-a-day habit.
Or maybe the Greeks should have just paid this greedy bastard his asking price. Then he wouldn’t have had to go over to the Ottomans.
They probably should have kept the formula for Greek Fire some place where they could find it again as well.
Or maybe the Greeks should have just paid this greedy bastard his asking price. Then he wouldn’t have had to go over to the Ottomans.
They probably should have kept the formula for Greek Fire some place where they could find it again as well.
It would have been nice to pay Orban for cannons, but they were even broker than they are now. Broke the bank getting John VIII out of Venice’s debtor’s prison. Which was a shame, since his son was whip smart, but had to play power politics with a busted flush.
Greek fire wouldn’t have made a huge difference. Another 7500 troops and a fleet would have.