WKRLEM: Things ed can not say to the blonde.

Not if he knows what's good for him.

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks For to get a big dish of beef chow mein

As our good friend and Western Historian edutcher could tell you chow mein is an American invention not a Chinese one. Much like chop suey it was a dish popularized in California during the Gold Rush where the chinese  cooks would whip something up for the hungry miners with whatever was on hand.

Chow mein and chop suey were staples of old fashioned Cantonese style Chinese food. That was the food that most Americans were familiar with in the 1950's and 1960's when they went our for chinks. It wasn't until the 1970's that Szechuan and Hunan styles became popular. The spicy Szechuan style become very popular in the mid seventies when I was first starting out as an accountant, My boss Eddie Deutsch was an old style Yid who had about twenty Chinese Restaurants as clients. We would go there with our adding machines and green ledger papers and do the books in between the lunch and dinner rush. That's right. I would bring an old school adding machine with an extension cord to add up the ledger that I would write by hand. No computers. We didn't even have calculators. Just pencils and paper.

When we would come in the waiters would run around like General Taso's Chicken without a head and shout "Eddie Kuaiji Si" which means accountant in Chinese. We would find a table in the back and set up shop. One of our joints was on 46th and Second Avenue. In fact it was his first client and was a feeder for new businesses. A waiter and a line cook would come to work there and learn their trade. Then they would start their own place somewhere in the City and of course they would want us for accountants. So we would get a new account somewhere in the Bronx or Staten Island. This was the time of full service sit down Chinese Restaurants before they started hole in the wall take out joints that seem to be on every other block these days.

Anyhoo the workers would all come out to eat their lunch during this time. They would all sit around the big table and they would put a big bowl of something in the middle of the table. Everyone would have a small  bowl of rice and would fish out stuff with chopsticks and put it in the bowl. When I say fish out I really mean fish out as it was usually fish heads or some other offal that I would never eat in a million years. So they would bring me a plate and it was often Chow Mein.

I make my own Chow Mein these days. I make it West Coast style which is with soft noodles which is often called Lo Mein on the East Coast. The other kind is with fried noodles which is mainly what you get when you order it in New York. It is called Hong Kong style. In any event it is a lot better than fish heads or tripe in brown sauce.We can't eat good greasy Chinese food with MSG anymore. It is not gluten free and the wife can't have it. If I am going to get anything on the sneak it is gonna be pizza so say goodbye to fried dumplings or chow mein.

But at least my hair is perfect.

Edutcher Western Theater

 

"Why did you ask me out Marshal? I thought you were a homo?"
"No that's Doc Holliday. He likes gladiator movies. I swing both ways. I am an acrobat."
"Well that's nice but you can put me down now."
"But I like to show off my muscles carrying you around like this."
"That's fine but I want to walk on my own two feet. And one more thing."
"Yes?"
"Stop staring at my tits.

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” ― John Wayne

I want to address Ed's epic post in segments because there is so much to talk about.


"There's something bigger than us."

There is a lot of truth in this. Most Westerns have the underlying theme of bigger issues under the surface of the story they are telling. Westerns started of course in novels and dime novels that were popular before the advent of movies and television. In these novels the story is often set against the backdrop of bigger issues that transcend the plot.

I trace the Western from the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Hawkeye is the genesis of the heroic yet stoic frontiersman who was the precursor of the cowboy. The seminal novel "Last of the Mohicans" is the most famous but I prefer "The Pioneers" which was in fact the most popular of his novels during his lifetime. Natty Bumppo is the stoic hero who is the prototype of the cowboy played by people like the Duke, Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood.

Movies that illustrate the thought that there are bigger issues include "Fort Apache" "The Magnificent Seven"
"High Noon" "Last of the Mohicans" "They Died With Their Boots On" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

Here is the Duke addressing it directly.

Backdoor Censorship?

It seems that google is doing some "Backdoor censorship."

When I went on my phone this morning to check out some of my favorite blogs the address for the Don Surber Blog did not come up. This is one of ed's favorites and he is an excellent Pro Trump true conservative site that I check every morning. I had to go back door. So to speak.

I clicked on his Amazon page that had some his blog posts and got on the site that way. It appears to ok on the computer because I already had it cached but it was impossible to directly access on my phone where I do most of my reading these days.

I think google is deliberately hiding and blocking sites that are Pro Trump. This really sucks because I don't want to waste time searching them out.

I really really hope they don't start doing that to Instagram because I can't have them blocking my all time favorite site "Babes for Trump."

Then I will really have to go back door.

Added: It looks like they changed it this afternoon after a bunch of protest from many conservative sites. But I will keep an eye on it. So to speak.

Ed makes a very good point!

The estimable edutcher makes a great point in one of his very astute comment:

"Something I ought to put in here just so people have a point of reference.

Did a little reading on Anthony Fauci, who Fake News loves because he occasionally contradicts Trump.

He's 80 years old and has spent his entire professional life working for the Feds. Yeah, from the day he got out of medical school. Better than 50 years. Kind of the Obiden-Bama of government medicine.

His big rep in epidemiology comes from work on AIDS. Given how badly that was mishandled, next time you hear the name, might not hurt to get a second opinion."

So we are relying on the same sort of Deep State bureaucratic hacks that brought us the War on Terror in Afghanistan and the war on drugs. The same idiots. The ones who are wrong about everything all the time. 

The media is beating the same drum in trying to destroy President Trump. You know no matter what he does they will say he is wrong and killing babies or something. When the whole Democratic party is based on murdering babies. This is just bullshit to the max. 

I am telling you they are deliberately trying to tank the economy to destroy Trump's presidency. Think of all of the ways they have tried to destroy him. They think this will work. They don't care if they cause a panic or destroy peoples livelihoods. They want to stop Trump's rallies and any gathering of people exercising their constitutional right to assembly.

I am telling you that this is extremely serious. If they can get away with abrogating our right to assemble they will move on to our right to bear arms. To our right of freedom of religion. Cuomo would be happy to expel religious people who own guns. He has explicitly said so. Now he is using the National Guard against the people. This is how it starts..

(Aside to Lem. I hope an image of a Unicorn farting will not cause you to be reported to the Google Gods. I don't  know how I can post explicit pics of Betty Rubble getting railed by Dino and don't hear a peep.)

WKRLEM: Another old school western where almost everyone grew up to be more famous than the Star of the show.

Here is an old school western called "Tate; Bounty Hunter."  See if you can recognize the big names who play bit parts in this shoot em up that was a summer replacement for the old Perry Como show. I mean guess them before the final credits. One is really obvious but a couple of others not so much.

This is an interesting dark series. This was just about the first show with a handicapped hero who had a dead arm from the Civil War.  The atmosphere just seemed very interesting to me. Sort of a film noir western if that makes any sense. It has a elderly Irish poet with a ripe young wife. Two bounty hunters. Shoot outs. And a really great coat that the hero has that I wish I owned today. I had one like it in the 1970's. Man I miss that coat.

Do you remember this one ed?

This ones for you ed.

Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft November 3, 2016

It’s happening folks…
Donald Trump now leads Hillary Clinton by 3 points in the latest Rasmussen poll.
Via Rasmussen Reports:

Republican Donald Trump has a three-point lead in Rasmussen Reports’ White House Watch survey. Among voters who are certain how they will vote, Trump now has over 50% support.

The latest national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows Trump leading Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton 45% to 42%. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has four percent (4%) support, and Green Party hopeful Jill Stein picks up just one percent (1%). Two percent (2%) like another candidate, and four percent (4%) are still undecided.

Trump also leads Hillary Clinton by 5 points in the latest LA Times – USC Dornsife Poll.
Trump leads Hillary 47.5% to 42.5%.

Overheard At Lem's

Overheard at Lem's:

edutcher said...
Thanks for the mention. 

As Charlie Brown once observed, it's thrilling to be recognized in one's own lifetime.
But why would this post annoy me? 

deborah said...
Yes, I think Ed hit the nail on the head. A man that can ring his lady's chimes is much more likely to keep her. 

It also applies to the woman who can make her man rise to the occasion and hit high C every time.
October 11, 2015 at 4:29 AM

The heteros strike back

Chick-fil-A eats KFC's lunch:

"Anyone in the northern half of the U.S. is likely scratching her head and wondering why she hasn’t seen Chick-fil-A outlets opening in the neighborhood. Last year Chick-fil-A only had about 1,775 U.S. stores to KFC’s 4,491, and most are in the South. Yet in dollar terms the Colonel is coming up short even with that much larger footprint: Chick-fil-A’s 2013 sales passed $5 billion, while all of KFC’s U.S. restaurants rang up about $4.22 billion, according to Technomic. And that’s with zero dollars coming in to Chick-fil-A on Sundays, when every restaurant is closed."

Yahoo

h/t edutcher
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 Ed points out, "I think some of the homosexual rights crowd are getting the message that this sort of thing can lose them all the good will they have lied so hard to get."

Between this and Mozilla, I think it will be an interesting next few years as people vote with their pocketbooks. It used to be thought that the population was made up of about 10% homosexuals, but now I'm hearing 2%. Either way, I predict a more cautious approach by businesses in the future. 

edutcher was wondering...

                                                     

I mentioned The Blonde's interest in doing a blog. She wants to do it on nursing, where she feels she has a lot of knowledge to impart. Of the commenters here, what's your expertise, the field on which you think you can really expound for all the world to see? And maybe critique?

You know you have one.

                                

edutcher was wondering...

The Blonde and I returned to one of our favorite controversies yesterday - whether she should start a blog.

Here's a woman with 43 years' nursing experience in many fields - oncology, communicable disease, rehab, med-surg, etc.; a great diagnostician (she can tell by your smell if you're sick), excellent knowledge of medicines and their interactions, and so on. She wants to do a Q&A format - kind of a nursing Dear Abby or a legal Althouse.

So, the question is,  you want to impart knowledge to a great many people, particularly those in your profession, what's a good blog format? And how do you handle comments? Or is such altruistic thinking a wasted effort?

Or do you go the Althouse route and keep it general with an emphasis on your strong suit?

Some Frontier Justice And Forgiveness For Edutcher

edutcher said...

Old spaghetti Western:

God Forgives, I Don't.

Pretty much how it works.

August 11, 2013 at 10:49 AM

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It's not Sergio nor "The Unforgiven" but it's close to it:

edutcher was wondering...

A few years ago, I was attending a marketing class in pursuit of a graduate certificate and one speaker who specialized in search engine optimization got on the subject of blogging.

He said only about 1% of Internet users blog and then asked if anyone commented. He went on to say only 10% of surfers actually comment and I just wonder what drives our commenters to do so.

I know I got tired of reading some of the nonsense in the news and commenting is a way not only to vent, but to slip in an alternate POV. I've also enjoyed sharing the lives of the Lemulites and I think engaging in the hurly burly of idea exchange helps keep the Alzheimer's at bay.

So why do you comment?

edutcher was wondering...

Through a few odd happenstances, I had to learn how to install a fluorescent light this summer. One of the common bits of advice always out there is never stop learning.

Anybody else learned something new the last few months?