The world is bat-shit crazy, but…
I’ll tell youse guys it’s all changing. There’s some movement on not being so focused on a war with China. This is promising.
It all fits together.
What the world needs right now is ART…
This Artist Inks People With Micro Pop Culture Tattoos, And Here Are His Best Works
Go big or go home? How about go small and conquer the Internet while securing a career in the craft you love? Eden Kozokaro, aka Kozo Tattoo, is a tattoo artist from Israel who made a name for himself with his micro designs. From popular TV shows and movies to comic books and music, Eden’s colorful miniatures often feature pop culture elements, and look so detailed and precise, the man could’ve easily become a surgeon.
More: Instagram h/t: boredpanda
5 Amazing Cat Inventions You Must See
Not a paid promotion. I just thought these inventions were just crazy cool!
Lukashenko meets Xi Jinping. Cold war lines are being drawn
- Don’t march on Moscow.
- Don’t bluff the Chinese.
Chinese people give utmost respect due a head of state. In around the year 1400s, a Sulu king (Sulu Sultanate of southern Philippines ) who paid Chinese emperor a visit died of illness in China. The muslim Sulu king, Datu Paduka, was accorded funeral ceremonies fit for a king. His grave is still there, very well kept. History tells us that Chinese people are a respectful people and does not look down or belittle smaller countries..
Final statement: “It’s looking like a Chinese-led bloc.”
South Korea to ask US to let chip makers keep investment in China
After bearing the consequences of obeying Biden orders to sanction China, South Korea experience first hand: a drastic drop in chip revenue, excess chip stock problem and price collapsed, and a historic massive trade deficit with China. US me-only policies will end up self-decoupling from the rest of the world. The force of markets, factors of production will turn against the barbarian regimes in favour of the win - win China. One should note that China is super careful in selecting the list of US companies for sanctions.
Article here
The Deep State is pushing the U.S. to war over this LIE | Redacted
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What Was It Like To Be In Hiroshima Survivor On August 6, 1945?
“The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, reflecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors opening to the south.
Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was sprawled on the living room floor exhausted because I had just spent a sleepless night on duty as an air warden in my hospital.
Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled me – and then another. So well does one recall little things that I remember vividly how a stone lantern in the garden became brilliantly lit and I debated whether this light was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks from a passing trolley.
Garden shadows disappeared. The view where a moment before had been so bright and sunny was now dark and hazy. Through swirling dust I could barely discern a wooden column that had supported one comer of my house. It was leaning crazily and the roof sagged dangerously.
Moving instinctively, I tried to escape, but rubble and fallen timbers barred the way. By picking my way cautiously I managed to reach the roka [an outside hallway] and stepped down into my garden. A profound weakness overcame me, so I stopped to regain my strength. To my surprise I discovered that I was completely naked How odd! Where were my drawers and undershirt?
What had happened?
All over the right side of my body I was cut and bleeding. A large splinter was protruding from a mangled wound in my thigh, and something warm trickled into my mouth. My check was torn, I discovered as I felt it gingerly, with the lower lip laid wide open. Embedded in my neck was a sizable fragment of glass which I matter-of-factly dislodged, and with the detachment of one stunned and shocked I studied it and my blood-stained hand.
Where was my wife?
Suddenly thoroughly alarmed, I began to yell for her: ‘Yaeko-san! Yaeko-san! Where are you?’ Blood began to spurt. Had my carotid artery been cut? Would I bleed to death? Frightened and irrational, I called out again ‘It’s a five-hundred-ton bomb! Yaeko-san, where are you? A five- hundred-ton bomb has fallen!’
Yaeko-san, pale and frightened, her clothes torn and blood stained, emerged from the ruins of our house holding her elbow. Seeing her, I was reassured. My own panic assuaged, I tried to reassure her.
‘We’ll be all right,’ I exclaimed. ‘Only let’s get out of here as fast as we can.’
She nodded, and I motioned for her to follow me.”
It was all a nightmare…
Dr. Hachiya and his wife make there way to the street. As the homes around them collapse, they realize they must move on, and begin their journey to the hospital a few hundred yards away.
“We started out, but after twenty or thirty steps I had to stop. My breath became short, my heart pounded, and my legs gave way under me. An overpowering thirst seized me and I begged Yaeko-san to find me some water. But there was no water to be found. After a little my strength somewhat returned and we were able to go on.
I was still naked, and although I did not feel the least bit of shame, I was disturbed to realize that modesty had deserted me. On rounding a corner we came upon a soldier standing idly in the street. He had a towel draped across his shoulder, and I asked if he would give it to me to cover my nakedness. The soldier surrendered the towel quite willingly but said not a word. A little later I lost the towel, and Yaeko-san took off her apron and tied it around my loins.
Our progress towards the hospital was interminably slow, until finally, my legs, stiff from drying blood, refused to carry me farther. The strength, even the will, to go on deserted me, so I told my wife, who was almost as badly hurt as I, to go on alone. This she objected to, but there was no choice. She had to go ahead and try to find someone to come back for me.
Yaeko-san looked into my face for a moment, and then, without saying a word, turned away and began running towards the hospital. Once, she looked back and waved and in a moment she was swallowed up in the gloom. It was quite dark now, and with my wife gone, a feeling of dreadful loneliness overcame me.
I must have gone out of my head lying there in the road because the next thing I recall was discovering that the clot on my thigh had been dislodged and blood was again spurting from the wound.
I pressed my hand to the bleeding area and after a while the bleeding stopped and I felt better
Could I go on?
I tried. It was all a nightmare – my wounds, the darkness, the road ahead. My movements were ever so slow; only my mind was running at top speed.
In time I came to an open space where the houses had been removed to make a fire lane. Through the dim light I could make out ahead of me the hazy outlines of the Communications Bureau’s big concrete building, and beyond it the hospital. My spirits rose because I knew that now someone would find me; and if I should die, at least my body would be found. I paused to rest. Gradually things around me came into focus. There were the shadowy forms of people, some of whom looked like walking ghosts. Others moved as though in pain, like scarecrows, their arms held out from their bodies with forearms and hands dangling. These people puzzled me until I suddenly realized that they had been burned and were holding their arms out to prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together. A naked woman carrying a naked baby came into view. I averted my gaze. Perhaps they had been in the bath. But then I saw a naked man, and it occurred to me that, like myself, some strange thing had deprived them of their clothes. An old woman lay near me with an expression of suffering on her face; but she made no sound. Indeed, one thing was common to everyone I saw – complete silence.
All who could were moving in the direction of the hospital. I joined in the dismal parade when my strength was somewhat recovered, and at last reached the gates of the Communications Bureau.”
Dr. Michihiko Hachiya lived through that day and kept a diary of his experience. He served as Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital approximately a mile from the explosion’s epicenter. His diary was published in English in 1955
Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions – The New York Times
John Liu and
John Liu and Paul Mozur, who are based in Seoul, interviewed dozens of semiconductor experts on the geopolitics of Taiwan’s chip making.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s biggest maker of advanced computer chips, is upgrading and expanding a new factory in Arizona that promises to help move the United States toward a more self-reliant technological future.
But to some at the company, the $40 billion project is something else: a bad business decision.
Internal doubts are mounting at the Taiwanese chip maker over its U.S. factory, according to interviews with 11 TSMC employees, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Many of the workers said the project could distract from the research and development focus that had long helped TSMC outmaneuver rivals. Some added that they were hesitant to move to the United States because of potential culture clashes.
Their concerns underline TSMC’s tricky position. As the biggest maker of chips that power everything from phones to cars to missiles, the company is strategically important with highly coveted technical know-how. But caught in a deepening battle between the United States and China over technological leadership, TSMC has tried to hedge its bets — only to find that its actions are creating new kinds of tensions.
Its factory expansion in the northern outskirts of Phoenix is meant to bring advanced microchip production closer to the United States and away from any potential standoff with China. Yet the effort has stoked internal apprehension, with high costs and managerial challenges showing how difficult it is to transplant one of the most complicated manufacturing processes known to man halfway across the world….
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Arnold Ziffel’s “Extra! Extra!” News: Hooterville Secedes from the Union – Green Acres – 1971
*****TODAY IS THE DAY ****** (Allegedly)
***** TODAY is the day *****
If, as we reported earlier this week, Big Shot Officials are going into the “Hotel” (i.e. Bunkers), we ought to be able to see some signs. In my original report (HERE) I revealed that a senior Aide to a `sitting US Senator for 25 years, was told earlier this week to pack bags and be ready to leave for “the Hotel” Sunday, March 5. The phrase “the Hotel” is government-speak for the nuclear bunkers.
She was also told not to reveal anything to anyone except for close relatives to tell them she would be out of the loop for awhile. The aide told her sister. The sister told me.
Anyone near Green Briar in West Virginia? That is a Hotel where the US built underground nuclear Bunkers for the US Congress back in the 1950’s but it is allegedly decommissioned now. Any significant helicopter traffic there?
We know Sen. Fetterman from PA was admitted to a “hospital” for . . . (ahem) “Depression” so he’s out of public eye.
We also know that Sen. Fetterman’s wife took the kids and left for CANADA!!!!! So they’re far away.
We know Sen. Feinstein was allegedly admitted to hospital for Shingles even though the only treatment is a prescription for Valacyclovir and being sent home, so SHE is out of the public eye.
We know Gov. DeWine of Ohio allegedly broke his leg in East Palestine and he’s out of the public eye.
Last Wednesday, Gov. Newsome of California left the state on “Personal travel” and hasn’t been heard from since. No idea where he is or when he’ll be back.
I was told last night that Newsome was sent to the DENVER AIRPORT Continuity of Government facility underground there, but I cannot verify that.
I was also told last night that all the other Governors are being sent to various facilities and they are NOT being told where the other Governors are. CANNOT verify that, either.
Either way, TODAY is the day a lot of these folks are supposed to be traveling, so do we have any info on any of it?
If they’re traveling today, my guess is the SHTF tomorrow.
Any info will help, guys!
Self-Driving Car That Takes Off If You Miss A Payment!
The World’s Greatest Gallery Of Seductive Carrots
This kind of high-quality relevant content is exactly the reason why Al Gore invented the internet. Scroll down to see the greatest collection of seductive carrots in the world!
h/t: sadanduseless
Yes. China knows the crusaders are preparing for a preemptive strike. So they have setup nationwide defense mobilization office:
Confessions Of A Man Who Cleans Porta-Potties For A Living
Is it as bad as it sounds? Not denigrating you, just it sounds like tough work.
Honestly not really. After awhile you kind of get used to it, it is a dirty job but I’m paid well.
How well?
I’m paid $18 an hour to basically drive around and do five minutes of work every 10 to 20 minutes or so. I get 40 hours a week over the winter and overtime in the summer, which can hit 20 plus hours a week.
In the winter time, how do you deal with frozen water and other temperature related problems?
In the winter time we run a brine solution in the blue stuff to prevent it from freezing usually keeps a liquid or until -12°F
How long have you been doing this job?
I’ve been doing the job for about two years and I’m 32 almost 33
So, how exactly does cleaning a porta pottie even go? And how long does it take?
I’m not sure about every company but my company prides itself on the cleanliness of its units.
First we suck out the tank. Then we apply the cleaning agent, which is an acid based cleaner. Next we scrub down all of the affected areas that are heavily soiled and then we rinse with clean water. Refill the hand sanitizer and the toilet paper, then we move on to the next one. The whole process on a bad day takes about 5 to 7 minutes per unit. On a good day about two and a half. It all depends on how much scrubbing with a brush you have to do
Do you wear full body suits? Protective masks and goggles?
No, none of that. We wear safety glasses and puncture resistant rubber gloves. It’s pretty much on the driver how much extra gear they want to wear.
Have you dealt with one that’s been tipped over? Is that just heinous?
It is really gross, not going to lie, but we are given the proper equipment to clean those units up. About two years ago, right after I started, we had one of the biggest wind storms we’ve had in my area and I spent 18 hours of my day with that order. I went through 450 gallons of water that day, on a normal day I go through 50.
Who makes the bigger mess, tailgating or festivals?
Neither. County parks are by far the worst toilets that I’ve ever had to clean. People poop in the urinals. Elementary schools also. Little fucking bratz throwing sticks and rocks and other bullshit into the tank.
What kind of stuff do you find?
There’s a lot of drug paraphernalia in units; needles, meth pipes, pot pipes, that kind of stuff.
Cell phones, if we find them in working condition we try to contact the owners via the contacts. If we can’t turn the device on we throw them away.
What’s the most expensive thing you ever fished out?
A functioning iPhone 10
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve found in a potty?
By far the weirdest thing I’ve ever found in a porta potty is literally a females and males entire outfits including shoes inside of the tank.
One of the guys that I work with found a “Great American Challenge” (an 18 inch 6 inch around silicone dildo,) in one of the toilets. We stuck it to the back of our bosses flatbed truck that he uses for hauling containers. We still don’t know if he found it before he left the yard, or if it fell off somewhere along the road.“
I’ve heard that there are always lots of undigested vitamins/pills at the bottom. Is that so?
By the time we usually get to them we clean them once a week there’s not really any solids left. In the healthy and wealthy areas, I see more of this kind of granular sludge that I think is attributed to taking a lot of pills or something similar.
Ever seen any poop graffiti?
Yes actually, more frequently than I’d like to.
I used a porta potty once and saw shit ABOVE THE RIM. Has this ever happened to one of your jobs? Why would it get this bad?
First off shooting above the rim of the toilet is actually more common than you’d think. I have no idea how it happens. It’s just there.
Have you ever cleaned a porta potty as part of an investigation?
No I have not but I have turned over things to the local authorities that were suspicious items in the toilets
Like what??
Usually anyting that’s suspect is pulled out of the unit and the customer contact that we have is notified unless it is more seemingly detrimental then we will contact the authorities
Knives, keys, identification cards, credit cards, wallets. I actually carry a box of gallon Ziploc bags with the double zippers in my truck just in case I find things like these. One of guys found a empty magazine in one of the toilets and turned it in. I don’t know if anything came of that, but hey it might have actually helped.
Have you ever become physically sick from your job? Like didn’t use enough protection one day and ended up with a stomach bug?
Aside from a slight cough from the cleaners we use on the toilet which are acid-based that usually clear up in 10-15 minutes, I’ve never actually gotten physically ill from doing the job. Sometimes the smell makes you wrech, but that’s about it.
How does one get a job like this? Do you need any certifications?
Depending on how big of a tank you have on your truck you have to have a tank endorsement otherwise just a DOT examiner card and a class d driver’s license
Are you employed or an independent contractor?
I am a full-time employee of one of the three largest companies in the state I’m in
What’s your diet like surely working 10 hours a day? Would be tough on yourself right?
I eat breakfast at home bowl of cereal eggs bacon that kind of stuff in the morning for lunch I stop and have a salad or maybe a burger depending on how warm it is that day and I have a great home-cooked meal things to my wife in the evenings every day actually I recently have lost almost 60 pounds just by changing my diet and getting rid of energy drinks and switching just a regular soda
Why not find a better job?
Honestly this is got to be the easiest job I’ve ever done with the least amount of manual labor. Not that I’m lazy, but I broke my back about 10 years ago in six places, so driving around and doing this is better than sitting at home on disability
You know what they say in the start of the dirty jobs intro “it’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.”
You know if it’s one thing that this job has taught me it’s to respect all of the service industry and the people that work in it because there are some jobs that I would hate to do and I’m just glad I don’t have to do that particular job and I fulfilled that same role not everybody wants to do it but they want the service, so I do it with a smile on my face and a kind heart.
Lisa Brings Hairdos to “Hootersville” – Green Acres – 1965
EU-China Relations and the War in Ukraine: A Reappraisal
One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Chinese scholars assess its impact on EU-China relations and take a look at the future.
Dear Everyone,
Last week, Sinification examined a piece by Zhang Jian that discussed the economic and political impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on the EU.
Its assessment was particularly bleak (I have included a summary of his piece at the end of this post). EU-China relations were written all over Zhang’s analysis of European strategic autonomy but he refrained from discussing these ties in direct terms.
Today’s edition provides a brief rundown of four commentaries that complement Zhang’s piece well.
They were chosen on the basis of two relatively loose criteria: having been recently published (≤ 2-3 months); and providing a fairly comprehensive overview of the recent and future trends in EU-China relations and/or European strategic autonomy.
As one might expect, EU-China relations do not attract as many heavyweight scholars as the analysis of US-China relations does. What’s more, recent analyses by some of China’s more senior EU specialists have tended to remain fairly superficial.
I have nevertheless included those views that I did come across in the “key takeaways” section provided below. Much like Sinification’s coverage of the US-China spy balloon incident, I have proceeded by using bullet-point summaries of these articles rather than translations.
Your feedback on this new format was much appreciated last time and will be again today.
So if you find these summarised overviews helpful, please do let me know by liking this post, leaving a comment or by getting in touch with me as you did last time.
Similar overviews on different topics will follow if I sense that this is something that is both useful and enjoyable for everyone to read. Translations will of course remain the core focus of this newsletter.
Key takeaways:
- The war in Ukraine has hobbled the EU’s push for strategic autonomy, but its desire to pursue this goal remains.
- The war has increased the EU’s dependence on and tilt towards the US. This trend is largely expected to continue.
- The war has accelerated the EU’s shift of emphasis to “competitor” and “rival” in its triadic “partner-competitor-rival” positioning on China.
- Beijing’s stance in the Russo-Ukrainian war has been misunderstood and has contributed to Europe’s growing antagonism towards Beijing.
- The influence of pro-US (and China-sceptic) countries in central, eastern and northern Europe over EU decision-making has increased considerably over the past year. This is not good for EU-China relations.
- The EU is beset with economic, political and social problems and the situation continues only to get worse. This is detrimental to the EU’s pursuit of strategic autonomy.
- The bloc remains a key player in international relations but its strength and influence are declining when compared with other major powers, notably the US and China.
- Nevertheless, the EU is often seen as key to alleviating the diplomatic and economic pressure brought by the US on China.
- Areas of cooperation with Europe still exist: global governance, climate change and economic cooperation tend to be the most frequently cited.
- Past and upcoming visits to Beijing by European leaders signal that Europe still wants (or needs) to strengthen economic ties and engage with Beijing even if this means going against US wishes.
- The EU’s economy is in the doldrums. Deepening economic ties will continue to be one of the keys to fostering closer relations with the EU and its members states. But the pull of the Chinese market will not prevent the EU from reducing its dependence on China in certain areas. Nor will it prevent the EU’s continued “interference” in and around the Indo-Pacific.
- Transatlantic ties may have strengthened over the past year but rifts remain and could widen again in future. EU-US economic competition and European distrust of Washington should encourage the EU in its pursuit of strategic autonomy and prevent it from tilting too far towards the US (see also Xin Hua).
- France and Germany remain the two key “pragmatic” countries that China should continue to engage with, though they have less sway over the EU than they used to. France continues to be seen as the country most aligned with China’s hope for a more independent EU.
- Germany’s forthcoming China strategy will act as a bellwether of EU-China relations.
- Outlook for 2023: Uncertainty prevails. Assessments range from the pessimistic to the cautiously optimistic but adding a positive twist to such predictions is often de rigueur in China.
Opinion | To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan – The New York Times
WITH a single bold act, President Obama could correct the country’s course, help assure his re-election, and preserve our children’s future.
He needs to redefine America’s mindset about national security away from the old defense mentality that American power derives predominantly from our military might, rather than from the strength, agility and competitiveness of our economy. He should make it clear that today American jobs and wealth matter more than military prowess.
As Adm. Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared last year, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.”
There are dozens of initiatives President Obama could undertake to strengthen our economic security. Here is one: He should enter into closed-door negotiations with Chinese leaders to write off the $1.14 trillion of American debt currently held by China in exchange for a deal to end American military assistance and arms sales to Taiwan and terminate the current United States-Taiwan defense arrangement by 2015.
The View’s Hysterical Meltdown Over 3rd Political Party!
Indonesian Pork Skewers
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 1/4 cup prepared mustard
- 1/4 cup light molasses
- 2 tablespoons ginger preserves or orange marmalade
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 (1 1/2 pound) lean boneless pork, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1/2 medium pineapple, halved lengthwise, cored and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices
- 1 medium red sweet pepper, cut into strips
Instructions
- Combine the vinegar, mustard, molasses, ginger preserves and ginger in a small mixing bowl.
- Alternately thread the pork cubes, pineapple slices and pepper strips on 12 (6-inch) metal skewers, leaving about 1/4 inch between pieces.
- Brush with the molasses mixture.
- Grill the kabobs on the rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium-hot coals about 12 minutes or until no pink remains and juices run clear, turning and brushing with molasses mixture after 6 minutes.
- Heat the remaining molasses mixture and pass with the kabobs.
Green Acres – Oliver’s Souped-Up Tractor
Fears of Eros, Dreams of Thanatos: Sensual Illustrations by Alex Varenne
Alex Varenne (29 August 1939 – 19 October 2020) is a French comic book artist, master of erotic drawing and plastic arts. Unfortunately, Varenne has been dead for two years, but his legacy lives on – the Frenchman’s illustrations and comics are so gentle and powerful that they can without exaggeration be included in the list of European cultural classics.
Slightly NSFW.
The history of the world according to cats – Eva-Maria Geigl
The most amazing part about cats is that humans are literally the only other species that they fully acknowledge and communicate with. Cats speak to us. They look us in the eye. They speak to no other species except for the occasional bird and mouse chatter or meowing at a familiar dog, and hissing at strangers. The friendly chatter and meow, meowing back at us while looking at us, everything that we hear from our cats is directed solely at us, no one else. Not to the other cats, not to the dog, but only for us, and that’s pretty amazing if you think about it.
Confessions of a Man Who Just Found Out His 15-Year-Old Daughter Isn’t His Child
I just found out my 15 years old daughter is not my biological child.
My daughter was preparing for a family tree project for an online class and wanted an ancestry test.
My father is half Native American but he died several years ago and I don’t know precisely what Native American blood is in the family.
My daughter came to me because it was my father and we didn’t mention it to her mother at the time. Well it turned out my daughter doesn’t have any Native American blood.
The obvious conclusion didn’t occur to me at first because the truth of the situation didn’t seem possible. I assumed there was a mistake, my first thought was that my father hadn’t been part Native American.
After our ancestry tests were different due to her lack of Native American blood we got proper DNA tests and everything became apparent.
It was a very emotional situation for me and my daughter. What I will remember the most was after she started crying she hugged so tightly and just kept saying over and over “I love you daddy.”
At home I confronted my wife and she looked like she’d had a stroke. She started crying and apologizing, you can probably imagine it.
My wife and I got married BECAUSE she was pregnant. We had been together for more than a year when it happened.
It turns out she was sleeping with multiple guys at the time. She says it didn’t mean anything and she doesn’t even remember some of their names.
When she realized she was pregnant she said she she wasn’t sure who he father was. Since I was unaware of her extracurricular activities, she let me believe I was the father because I was the most financially stable.
In terms of that she may have chose correctly, I have been very successful in my career and building passive income streams has been a hobby of mine for a long time.
My daughter got my wife to admit to this on tape as my daughter records the whole thing.
I asked my wife several times, and she keeps insisting that she has been faithful for the entire time we have been married. I’ve never suspected anything but I also didn’t realize she was sleeping around before we got married so I’ve said I don’t believe her.
I’ve come across a lot of the ‘red flags’ of cheaters and I can’t think of any of them during our marriage.
She doesn’t use social media and she has never been guarded about her phone.
She only drinks on special occasions and doesn’t go out for girls night or anything. Also she is a stay at home wife/mom so here aren’t any coworkers to worry about.
She exercises at home as we have a very nice home gym. I don’t believe her when she says she hasn’t cheated after getting married but I can’t think of anything suspicious.
We have a pre nup so I’m not worried about divorce if It comes to that
My daughter is another story. She is absolutely livid about the whole situation.
I know teenagers can be emotional, I certainly remember how I was at her age. But she has never been very expressive, something I thought she or from me (nature vs nurture?) my daughter can’t stand to be around her mother.
She has said some truly awful things to her mother. Basically variations of calling her a dirty sl@t who ruined our family.
Whenever my wife tries to talk to her, my daughter yells and swears and cries like I have never seen.
My daughter has even come to me privately saying that in the event of divorce she wants to stay with me.
I have made it clear in no uncertain terms that she is my daughter and I am her father regardless of the situation.
I’ve reiterated to her repeatedly that she can stay with me and I will never leave her.
She has even asked if it is possible to disown her mother and be adopted by me. I haven’t told this to my wife.
…
I need some time to process this. I think I’m writing this as a way to just come to terms with everything that has happened.
Chicken and Pork Adobo
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 pounds boneless chicken, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1 pound pork or beef, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar (optional)
- Hot steamed rice
Instructions
- Add oil to saucepan and heat on medium heat.
- Add chicken, pork, bay leaves and garlic. Sauté about 5 minutes or until chicken and pork are light brown.
- Drain off excess oil.
- Add black pepper, onion, vinegar, soy sauce and brown sugar; cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
- Stir meat to cook evenly in the sauce.
- Serve with hot steamed rice.