Afrolicious Ethnic African Cuisine

It seems that Gill has found some tasty African food in Hamilton and wants to share.

When you think of African food, what’s the first thing that pops into your head?  Do you picture just little bowls of cornmeal or rice?  You’re wrong!  Africa is a diverse continent with foods as diverse as her people and the influences brought by traders and colonizers.

Afrolicious Ethnic Cuisine offers a western style café with foods so deliciously exotic you will think you are in Johannesburg or Nairobi. 

What Did I have?

I opted to have something that I had not really had since childhood.  I ordered chicken on skewers (kabobs for the uninitiated).  I also ordered chapati, a flat bread known more to India and Pakistan, however due to Indian influence on places like South Africa and Kenya, it joined the family of foods.  Unfortunately they didn’t have chicken for the kabobs, so I tried the lamb.  I have not eaten much lamb in my lifetime, but this was a reminder of something my dad made. It was grilled to perfection!  Suddenly, I was transported back to a family BBQ from when I was less than ten. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!  Lamb on skewers!

Let me tell you also a bit about the sauce. It was part spicy part sweet, but not overwhelming. 
Question

What country’s food would you like to try for your next food adventure?

So They’re Sex Offenders, Then?

Here’s an especially silly and pointless example of useless politically correct language.

Sex offenders in Colorado are getting a new label after the state’s Sex Offender Management Board voted to change the terminology referring to them.
CBS Denver reported board voted 10-6 to change the term sex offender to “adults who commit sexual offenses” during a meeting on November 19. The vote will not change how sex offenders are referred to in the state’s criminal justice system or in written law.
The board – which manages and tracks adult sex offenders across the state – heard arguments from sex offenders, survivors of sexual assault, and advocates on whether or not the phrase should be changed during the spring of 2021.
Proponents of the change argue the term sex offender is offensive to people who have committed sex crimes, places stigma on a large population, and generalizes the crimes committed by sex offenders.

And changing the terminology into essentially the longhand for the words sex offender is going to fix that how, precisely?

If you really want to be useful, maybe spend the time you’re currently burning on being absolute fools on working to enact policies that better define what a sex offender is. If there’s a problem, it isn’t the words. It’s who gets caught up in the words. Why is a person who gets legitimately tangled in a “But she said she was 18!” scenario or a teenager who shares nude photos with another teenager finding him or her self classified in the same way as a flasher, a rapist or a pedophile? That’s what needs to change if we’re going to be out here changing things. Otherwise, as long as you’re being treated humanely in the prison you belong in, sit down, be quiet and be a sex offender. You earned it.

On The Bright Side, He Probably Blew A Few Of His Own Moles Away, Too

I think someone may have seen all those stories in the news about massive property damage caused by people trying to get rid of pests and said “hold my beer.” Then he politely asked if you would walk to the fridge and get him another one, because he’s not going to be walking anywhere for a while.

A Czech man’s overzealous attempts to rid his garden of a mole problem ended up with him nearly blowing his legs off.
The 45-year-old took the ill-advised decision to use the kind of explosives contained in powerful fireworks to blast the tiny animals to oblivion.
He packed the F4-type “Dum Bum” explosives inside the mole tunnel, covered them with concrete tiles and, for unknown reasons, then decided to stand on top.
The usual minimum distance for fireworks that contain this type of material is 75 feet. 
When he detonated the explosives, the ensuing blast was evidently far greater than anything he had anticipated.
Police who were sent to the scene found a 3ft-deep crater in the ground, the sort of hole that would normally be left “after the destruction of ammunition or a mine explosion,” they said in a statement.
Blood was splattered around the detonation site, they said. Some of the concrete tiles had been blown more than 60ft by the force of the blast.

Sticky Keys

Hard drive joke goes here. And I may never touch anything in a Walmart again.

According to an arrest report, Alexander Pearce, 28, was captured Friday afternoon on store surveillance video “hunched over a laptop with his hands in his pants.” Pearce had been barred from the retailer since July, when he was arrested for shoplifting.
When a cop confronted Pearce outside the Walmart, he claimed to have been “watching music videos on a laptop.” While initially denying that he viewed pornographic material, Pearce “then admitted he was looking at ‘pictures.’”
Though he denied masturbating in the store, Pearce reportedly told an officer that he “probably” still had ejaculate “on his hands from 4 hours prior.”

Stick ’em up joke goes here. And here’s the one about him touching Rolling Stones albums.

Or Else She’ll Fry

You’ve got a problem. There are a couple of drug cases hanging over your head. One for being caught with meth and fentanyl and another because you sold meth to an undercover cop. You’re going to need a good lawyer, but those can get pretty expensive. What to do…what to do?

I suppose you could always deal fentanyl to pay for it, but that wouldn’t be very bright and nobody would actually do that.

Nicole Gregory, 28, was busted after a sheriff’s deputy spotted her dropping a bag that held four baggies containing the synthetic opioid. “The defendant did intend to sell said substance,” the investigator alleged.
After being collared on a St. Petersburg street, Gregory reportedly admitted that she “sells the drug for $10 per ‘bump.’” Gregory then claimed she was “selling the narcotics to make money for an attorney for a pending drug charge.”

Yes, she gets to pay for another lawyer now. Hopefully she’ll find a better way of doing that this time. If she’s got a decent singing voice, maybe she could busk. Perhaps start with that song about swallowing flies.

No Life Saving Here. Do You Have Any Idea How Hard It Is To Change The Name Of A Town?

Story is months old, but no way I’m passing up the chance to inform you all that the school board in a place called Killingly decided not to host a COVID vaccination clinic at a school there.

The Killingly Board of Education shot down a proposition to host a voluntary vaccination clinic on school grounds at its meeting Wednesday night, despite support from some parents and climbing case numbers in the area.
The board voted 5-2 to reject the proposed clinic, which would have been in partnership with nearby Day Kimball Healthcare, with one board member abstaining. The reasons behind the board members’ vote included skepticism over the vaccine’s safety and opposition to holding it on school property.

Full story is here. Come for the obvious name humour, stay for the Nazis and 5G nanoparticles.

You will also doubtless be shocked to learn that Windham County, in which Killingly resides, had both the highest positivity and lowest vaccination rates in the state of Connecticut at the time this article was published.

That’s One Way To Cut Down On Coffee Cups

Lots of blame to go around here.

Throwing a coffee (even one that’s warm not hot) on a customer from inside the drive-thru window is rarely good. However, if the employee says that they cannot add Timbits to an order that’s already been made, then they cannot add Timbits to that order. That’s the end of it. You may not like the policy, but now is not the time for that discussion. If you wanted them, you should have ordered them. That you didn’t is on you. Either go without or go around again. Whatever you do, get out of the line and stop harassing the underpaid children who are just trying to do their best.

Jackson, a 41-year-old woman, told police that when she got to the drive-thru window, she asked to add Timbits to her order. She said the 16-year-old worker told her no.

She said she told the worker it was “kind of (expletive) up” that the doughnut holes couldn’t be added.
The worker told the woman it wasn’t her fault that the food couldn’t be added to the order.

The woman told police that she told the employee, “I understand that, but you also understand this is stupid. You haven’t given me my change back, you haven’t given me my coffee back. You can’t just throw Timbits in there?”
The worker then slammed the window shut, the woman said. She told police she turned to her husband in the passenger seat and said, “What a (expletive).”
That’s when the worker grabbed a coffee, opened the window, and chucked it at her.
She said the coffee was warm, not hot, and she was not injured in the assault. She declined medical treatment.

An employee who witnessed the incident alleges that the victim was swearing at the suspect when told she couldn’t add anything to her order.
“The lady, she was just nasty from the start,” the witness said.
The witness told police that when it is busy, items can’t be added at the window. However, another employee added the Timbits to the order and went to get them after the argument.

Success!

A 74-year-old Jerusalem woman accidentally incinerated NIS 10,000 to crisps in a bid to disinfect them from COVID-19, ynet reported.
The woman, who has not been named, said she collected the banknotes and, while wearing gloves, put them in a bowl with bleach and microwaved them. As a result, they were set afire.
The woman notified the Bank of Israel about the incident and apologized, saying she intended to replace the money but noted that her financial situation made this difficult.
The Bank of Israel, after investigating, decided to fully reimburse the sum, ynet reported.

I assume that the investigation found her to be a dementia case or otherwise mentally impaired, because I have a hard time imagining that a bank would pay you back after something like that if you were just a regular old John Q. Dumbfuck.

And what’s with the line about her replacing the money, but not being able to afford it? If it’s her money, why was *she* apologizing and intending to replace it? That makes no sense unless the bank gave her the money and said “ok Agnes, take care of this for us until we get back.”

Also, NIS stands for Israeli New Shekel and 10000 of it is worth nearly $3800 Canadian, in case you were wondering like I was.

My Hermit Status Is No More

Yup. I caught COVID. I started feeling symptoms on Friday, but the test came back negative. I think if I had just waited a couple more hours, the test would have been a screamin’ positive, because all I wanted to do was bundle up, and pray that the pain in my head would juuuust goooooo awaaaay! Then Saturday, I spent most of it sleeping. I think I might have been awake four hours of that whole 24. It was inhuman. Then Sunday, I tested, and there was no doubt about it. It was a definite positive. Also my throat hurt like hell and my voice sounded all squeaky and sad, and still does. But my headache was gone, and has stayed gone, thank god. That was bad news. I felt like someone put my head in a vice and started to slowly squeeeeze. Today, my throat still hurts, I’m kind of dizzy, and now, I wonder if all those toilet paper-buying crazies might have been on to something, because I have had to make a lot of trips to the john! Yuck! I mean, they bought way too much of the stuff, but a little extra couldn’t hurt. On top of that, I feel all unfocused and foggy.

But I’m still not too bad, and I shudder to think about what would have happened to me without the vaccines. COVID is a mean mean bug. Don’t get it. And if you have to get it, at least come to the fight armed.

The Only Way To Stop A Good Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun Making Split Second Decisions

Pro-gun types like to say that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. If you have a brain, though, you quickly realize how stupid this is for one very simple reason. When there are guns everywhere, how do you tell who the good guys are?

I would ask you to perhaps put that question to someone like John Hurley, but that won’t be happening unless you know a good medium.

Hurley, a good guy with a gun who had just finished killing a bad guy with a gun, was shot and killed by another good guy with a gun when that good guy with a gun thought that perhaps the fellow holding a handgun and an AR-15 might be the bad guy with a gun who had been doing some bad guy with a gun things in the area. Got all that?

The police killing of a Colorado man praised as a hero for preventing a mass shooting earlier this year illustrates how laws that allow the concealed or open carry of guns in public complicate police response to shootings.
Police say that John Hurley, 40, confronted Ronald Troyke after he shot and killed Officer Gordon Beesley in the west Denver suburb of Arvada. Investigators recovered a document written by Troyke with statements revealing his intent to kill police officers, including, “Today I will kill as many Arvada officers as I possibly can.”
The local prosecutor announced last week that responding Arvada Police Officer Kraig Brownlow will not face criminal charges for fatally shooting Hurley, who was holding a handgun and Troyke’s AR-15 when Brownlow shot and killed him.

In a letter laying out their decision, prosecutors said that while Hurley’s acts “were nothing short of heroic,” the facts from Brownlow’s point of view show that he did not know or could not have known of officer’s death or of Hurley’s “role in eliminating the threat” posed by Troyke.

I’m not so naive as to think that a gun has never saved a life. But the more guns there are, the more complex those equations become. If we’re going to have guns, we need less of them and in as few hands as possible. What we don’t need is an infinite supply without a care for where it ends up.