How oddly predictable.
Google says they are a French delicacy, but they skeeve me out. When I was eight or nine years old, I saw a Creature Feature movie about giant leeches; it gave me a lifelong horror of hematophages.
I vaguely remember reading a book in which lamprey were mentioned repeatedly as a food source. Or… maybe I just dreamed it.
Lamprey’s get mentioned a lot in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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I guess I didn’t dream it then…
…what a relief.
Martin writes about food quite extensively, doesn’t he?
If this whole “Ice and Fire” thing doesn’t work out for him, maybe cook books?
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Henry I thought so. Rather too much, in fact.
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Miss Manners (essayist Judith Martin) says that manners are the ultimate democracy, because they require you to treat everyone equally no matter who (or what) they are. She would totally approve of Ellen’s approach to politely discourage racist shitlampreys.
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I agree with that. Miss Manners FTW!
My response to @anon30760835 upthread originally contained a bit about manners being an expression of the social contract because they implicitly acknowledge the personhood and natural rights and privileges of other people. It got really pedantic really fast.
Also, glad to see shitlamprey catching on. Weasels do deserve better.
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The troublesome thing is that they are okay with tolerating bad apples and furthering racist shitweasel agendas or else they wouldn’t continue to contribute to the organization.
I’m not convinced that’s really better.
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Well there’s that whole “primarily” thing.
But aside from semantics. Whats publicly confirmable seems to be a quite small amount of money (thousands, though I’m willing to bet its more). And a whole bunch of NRA peeps like to go on RT a whole lot while Russia’s trolley campaign promoted a lot of NRA shit and 2nd amendment nut adjacent conspiracy the last few years.
Though they seem to do a lot more of that on the Right. Its roughly the same type of Russian ties as we see with Jill Stein. Is the Green Party primarily involved in funneling Russian money to Washington? Or their promotion of divisive racial campaigns, from both sides (but again more so on the White Nationalist end of things).
Whereas their marketing and lobbying efforts on behalf of the Fire Arms industry is like almost all they ever do. The NRA are powerful, influential American nut jobs that drive divisive trends in American politics. The over all Russian strategy is to ratchet that up as much as they can, and they clearly have preference (and much more success) using Right wing causes and groups like the NRA. But the NRA is doing this shit anyway, Russia just finds it useful to poke that with a stick.
He didn’t write it but this cook book and the blog it came from are awesome
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L7CG58/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/home/game-thrones-recipes/a-feast-of-ice-and-fire/
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The NRA literally objects to “reasonable and effective gun regulations” specified on the receipt.
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I’m fairly sure a small restaurant in Dallas isn’t hoping to expand into gun regulation as a sideline. Perhaps you mean ‘Ellen’s supports regulation’?
And of course they have a right to do what they wish with the proceeds from their business, don’t they?
I think adding a few fairly banal words to the bottom of a receipt is hardly an offensive action. I’m considering doing something similar with the receipts from my business (note, where I live we have sensible gun regulation, but there are other causes).
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Have you ever noticed the Second Amendment uses the term “Well regulated”?
Well neither does the NRA or its supporters. 
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Even though the second Amendment literally uses the words “well regulated”.
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That was a poor choice of words. The NRA gets support from Russia.
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I’ve argued the wording with lots of unpaid gun lobbyists (i.e. NRA supporters). They’ll say it’s not the guns being regulated, it’s not the people being unregulated, it’s just the militia to be regulated. Fine, explain to me how you can have unregulated weapons owned by unregulated individuals somehow forming a well-regulated militia. Haven’t heard an adequate answer to that.
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Yeah, turns out it’s not an attempt to drive away business, it’s more a filter to improve their customers.
Sadly, I don’t think cops take death threats very seriously either. Now they get the stress of the threats, the time spent dealing with them, and most likely the cops saying, “Oh, they’re on the internet? The phone messages weren’t from Texas area codes? Oh well, we can’t do anything” and shrugging.
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Sure they do.
But what’s not happening is Russia funneling/laundering money through the NRA for the sake of buying loyalty from a particular political party.
If that’s what your looking for in Russia’s manipulation your gonna miss the biggest chunk of how they did what they did.
Russia supports and promoted the NRAs message because it’s divisive here in the US and their actions embarrass us abroad. It’s fundamentally a propagandistic program. The NRA was already well funded to the tune of millions and billions, And insanely influential before Russia got involved. And what they do was already destabilizing here and embarrassing abroad. Russia just needs to poke that with a stick to keep it going, heighten it. And make it as visible abroad as possible.
And that’s how they pulled most of this off. They hacked the media coverage, And our general conversation on the election and politics. They boot strapped crazy into our media. By doling out hacked info to major news orgs and putting American political entities on RT.
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Other than what was described in the article and several others on the same subject.
Here is another one mentioning exactly what you claim is not happening
You are missing the ultimate point of the actions here. To what purpose does it serve for such propaganda and division? Essentially having a US which is bowing out of or failing to uphold our end of international affairs, alliances and treaties which affect Russia and to a large extent China as well. In addition the US has become the place for Russian and Chinese oligarchs to launder their money.
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