-- Newt Gingrich to the Occupy Wall Street protesters, at last night's Christian Family Leader "values forum" which included most of the GOP candidates for president
A few weeks back I said I was going to narcisolate (temporarily) anyone who had multiple posts responding to BF. Much as I love Cecil's regular posts, here goes.... pffft, zap!
November 19, 2011
Many Washington pundits who championed the false tales about Iraq’s WMD have returned to center stage in the new accusations about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. And some of the Iran charges are falling apart just like the Iraq ones, as Gareth Porter reports.
Generally speaking, the whole enterprise seems absurd as Dennis Moore and the lupins, I noticed though ,even one of those more level headed commenters, Glennn Garvin, chose
to present an uplifting view of the coffee
clatch down here, which is to be fair, more toned down than the Mothership in Manhattan,
Even Sara appears to believe that BF is Dana G. Ward, onetime Pitzer instructor. Yet BF continues to deny it.
I don't have any more of a clue than anyone else who he is is what he does. What difference does it make? He is just another name on a computer screen.
What is the hangup with having to know what BF does? I really don't get it. Why is it so important?
Lost for words I see. I am done with you, take some prozac and calm down.
This is really insulting. Very cleo-like and out-of-line.
Why you think I'm anything but calm escapes me. It is blog comment section, not a world summit. There is nothing here that is worth thinking about when not here. Nothing life or death or earth-shaking. It's a damn blog for Pete's sake.
"Darpa, the Pentagon’s mad-science shop, announced last week that it’s looking to improve on technologies that sniff out biometric signatures like heartbeats from behind walls. Dubbed “Biometrics-at-a-distance,” the program seeks to build sensors that can remotely identify humans from farther away and tell them apart in a crowd.
I'm all for anything that will save lives for the military, but in any other application, this sounds scary as hell. Way way too much intrusion.
... The long or the short of it all is that between now and the elections almost one year from now the frantic antics and the doings and undoings of whomever the Republicans nominate for president can be spun until you come all undone.... and it won’t make one thin dime’s worth of difference to me. You know right now if you’ve got a smidgen of a scintilla of the sense God gave a goober that you will vote for that candidate and against Barack Obama come hell or high water. And if you know that, knowing who is really just a detail. Vlad the Impaler? Sounds like he's got just the accessory those Occupiers need.
Local Malay paper had a story this morning about a sudden run on Malaysian gecko's. The critters have suddenly become endangered because a new pseudoscience fad from China has come out, saying that eating their dried tongues and internal organs will cure Cancer and HIV. Geez.
Btw, Captain, does the current team lineup,
warrant 'the mass hysteria, and dogs and cats
living together'
Not sure what that's in reference to narc, since this thread has been hijacked into almost complete incomprehensibility that Maguire obviously doesn't mind being associated with him. That repository of deniers you linked is worthy of being nuked from orbit though.
As for Iggy's link to McCannz, the problem is that anybody takes her father seriously; although she's replaced Amy Carter as a cautionary tale against having children too late in life.
Although it may seem that our Sara has gone over to the dark side, it's really a very sophisticated JOM plot. Now that it's done, we can speak about it openly. One of us had to match the brainwaves of the class of leftists represented by our trolls, penetrate and control.
Good morning. Just read this by Rich Lowry at NRO:
Thanks to everyone who joined us for a very enjoyable turn on the high seas. Those of us who witnessed the Steyn, Goldberg, Genn “night owl” session won’t soon forget it; never has exotic underwear been discussed so brilliantly and hilariously.
I am hoping Jane will expand on this hilarity for our amusement too. (Did it have anything to do with thong underwear?)
In the McCombs case, the billionaire entered into transactions known as variable prepaid forward contracts. He received about $259 million for lending an investment bank his Clear Channel shares with a promise to deliver the stock for good a few years later. The arrangement enabled McCombs to defer paying capital gains tax because he hadn’t sold his shares, lawyers for the billionaire said. The IRS deemed the transaction a sale since the bank paid McCombs cash and got the use of his stock almost immediately.
Mel,It's what Schoen and Cadell said yesterday. It expains Chrissy Matthews turn about--the Dems fear he's killing them and they want him out of the WH
Good thing it didn't go on much longer. I was down to "Who else has the cause for ultimate suffering?" and "There will be blood tonight!" which I'm pretty sure would've given the game away.
No, I think 'my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die' really would do it. Then again, nothing in either
that film or Spinal Tap, comes close to the absurdity we saw yesterday.
Speaking of which, RIP to Ted Forstmann, who gave away hundreds of millions to the cause of education, notably in support of voucher programs and charter schools.
Not surprising henry. The template was laid back in the 60s and much of the 70s was spent examining why the implementation did not go as planned.
Interesting they want Hillary as I have little doubt based on what she and Bill pushed that we would be in same place on ed but without the stupid side comments that created the Labyrinth thread.
I hope you appreciate how close that GE quote is to our favorite vendors' thoughts as well. Which I have a hard copy of.
And on a lighter note I am in charge of the turkey which I will be brining on Wednesday if anyone would like to suggest their favorite spices to add to the brine.
And on a family funny note my younger sister refused to listen to me when I tried to explain why you want to let any roasted meat, but especially turkey, rest. She insisted on carving it immediately and gave herself a turkey steam sauna and we had dry meat. In her mind she proved she was a peer and in my mind she reminded me why I think she's a twit. Ah the holidays.
Hillary was the original Alinskyite, she wrote her thesis at Wellesley on him, she apprenticed at Treuhaft's office, the Watergate committee, but the pupil became
the master.
Great points, Narciso. What a spot they're in. Obama they won't support anymore and Hillary is a loser. Even their own staff know it. But we'll let the MSM keep pushing them until it's too late to choose someone else.
A little more wisdom from Chrissy Matthews before it disappears from the web:
And Mrs. Obama, she’s an amazing asset. And what has she done? Obesity? How about connecting with the American people about being Americans? I don‘t think she’s, I don‘t think she’s happy. I don’t think they like being in the White House. The American people can tell that. They don’t seem thrilled at the fact the American people have selected them as our first family. I don’t sense the gratitude, the happiness level, the thrill of being president.
CC--Chris is a Dem propagandist. He has lost the tingle and wants O out because the internals show O taking down the party. No one can challenge O openly without splitting off the Dems' most reliable base--black voters--so they want to build up a groundswell using hacks like Matthews to do it.
Is anyone else having trouble posting? I've got a comment that Typepad just Will. Not. Post. no matter how I format it. I have no idea why. I took out the bold, the italics, the link. I've tried in Safari and in Firefox.
Tweety must be off the sauce because he hasn't made this much sense since he was disappointed in Slick banging Monica until he was told it was "just about sex".
Ace is up early pounding on Mega McCannz, a topic that's more in his wheelhouse than wailing "OMG these candidates are horrible".
Btw, I want Rick to tell me why I shouldn't regard this whole debt commission failure as something Boehner shouldn't have gotten snookered into doing; not that I don't think the whole thing won't end up being a big fat nothingburger.
Lordy, lordy rse, I thought no one would ever ask. This is long and many will hate me for posting it, but I'm willing to live with the humiliation. If you make this turkey your life will be "fundamentally transformed." Promise.
The Best Turkey in the World
(three parts to recipe: curing the turkey, the browned sage butter that goes under the skin, the spices that are rubbed on the skin just before going into the oven)
Cured turkey:
1 1/3 Cups Hawaiian or kosher salt
1/2 Cup plus 2T. sugar
2 bay leaves
1 T. dried thyme
7 whole cloves
1/2 tablespoon whole allspice berries, coarsely cracked
1 t. juniper berries, crushed (I buy these at the health food market)
2 gallons water, approximately
one 12-14 lb. turkey, not ever frozen, not injected with junk
In a very large stock pot combine the salt, sugar, bay leaves, etc. (all the spices). Add the water and bring to boil over high heat. Let cool to room temperature, put the turkey in this fragrant bath, and cover. Refrigerate for up to 24 hours (or put it outside if you live in a cold place and aren’t visited by wolves.) If the brine doesn’t completely cover the turkey, turn it once in a while so all areas get exposed.
Sage butter:
1 stick unsalted butter
20 fresh sage leaves
In a small saucepan or skillet bring the butter to a simmer over medium heat and cook until it turns nicely browned, about five or six minutes, stirring to keep solids from sticking. The last minute add the sage leaves, then remove from the heat and let steep until the butter cools. Throw away leaves (or eat them, like I do) and refrigerate butter until solid. (Can be done a day or two ahead as long as kept in a covered container)
Spice mixture for rubbing into turkey skin:
1 1/2 T. fennel seeds
1 large dried chili pod
1/2 T. whole allspice berries
1/2 T. whole black peppercorns
Toss all of the above in a pan over high heat until fragrant. Cool, and then grind in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle. (Can be kept at room temperature for a couple of days.)
Okay. . . when you’re ready to assemble and begin cooking: Remove turkey from brine and dry him/her/it. Stuff it with whatever you regularly use. With your fingers, loosen the skin from the breast without tearing, and (also with your fingers) spread the softened browned sage butter between the flesh and the skin. Rub the spice mixture all over the turkey’s skin. Bake as you usually do.
You do all that for a turkey? You are the stamina leader in the clubhouse. What ever happened to rubbing a little butter on it, some salt and pepper, stuffing it and sticking it in the oven to burn to a crisp:)
" The MF Global case has fast-tracked the evaporation of trust in all the places, large and small, where American One-percenters stash their cash. The redemption orders must be flying through their transoms like radioactive black swans. By lunchtime tomorrow this could include all the TBTF banks. That's what the pundits mean by "contagion." Where will that money go now (if they can get it out)?
I don't see where else it can go now except to shiny yellow and white metal, and maybe some oil positions. But the mechanisms of the precious metals trade have also been monkeyed with, and you'd best be careful where you place your order. As for oil, if lending really does seize-up, then letters-of-credit will not be issued and tankers will not be moving any product. More to the point, the global revolving debt system has depended on colossal transfers of ultra-short-term borrowed money. If short-term borrowing is simply unavailable, things could go south very quickly - and by that I mean food stops arriving at the supermarkets, which hold just a three-day supply. Wouldn't that make for an interesting Thanksgiving?
I have admittedly painted an extreme picture this week. But this week presents the most extreme convergence of events the world has seen since September of 2008, and perhaps a good bit worse."
Dude, weak, again. You cite "Republican 'Leadership'" and follow with a story about an organization run by a Democrat. It doesn't work.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:00 AM
"It doesn't work"
Here's something else that don't work;
Maintaining Order Since 32 AD
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:04 AM
You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:05 AM
" You cite "Republican 'Leadership'" and follow with a story about....."
I think he just pastes in whatever scrolls by on his RSS feed, Cecil.
Posted by: JM Hanes | November 21, 2011 at 12:06 AM
I'm just so desperate to find something we can agree on. How about this....
http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/
"Go get a job after you take a bath."
-- Newt Gingrich to the Occupy Wall Street protesters, at last night's Christian Family Leader "values forum" which included most of the GOP candidates for president
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:07 AM
A few weeks back I said I was going to narcisolate (temporarily) anyone who had multiple posts responding to BF. Much as I love Cecil's regular posts, here goes.... pffft, zap!
Ahh.
Posted by: jimmyk | November 21, 2011 at 12:09 AM
or this...http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/19/cracks-open-in-iran-nuke-charges/
Cracks Open in Iran Nuke Charges
November 19, 2011
Many Washington pundits who championed the false tales about Iraq’s WMD have returned to center stage in the new accusations about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. And some of the Iran charges are falling apart just like the Iraq ones, as Gareth Porter reports.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:10 AM
Your first story was better.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM
Generally speaking, the whole enterprise seems absurd as Dennis Moore and the lupins, I noticed though ,even one of those more level headed commenters, Glennn Garvin, chose
to present an uplifting view of the coffee
clatch down here, which is to be fair, more toned down than the Mothership in Manhattan,
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM
"I think he just pastes in whatever scrolls by on his RSS feed, Cecil."
I strive to be as discriminatory as any ideologue, Ms Velo
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:12 AM
Yes you're very smart. Shut up.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:13 AM
I think the second one is better. Advise and consent is gonna be a lot harder, now that the usual suspects are known.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Are you trying to trick me?
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:16 AM
Don't pander by calling me 'smart'. That's not very smart.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:17 AM
Please understand I hold you in the highest respect.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:18 AM
Denial is a long and winding river, you would think they would have some shame by now,
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/deniers.html
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 12:18 AM
Talk to you in the mourning. It's gonna be a long day, and I need my beauty rest.
Gird up your loins, JOMers.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 12:20 AM
Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 12:21 AM
Btw, Captain, does the current team lineup,
warrant 'the mass hysteria, and dogs and cats
living together'
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 12:27 AM
It's probably hardly worth the effort, she was in my fishwrap, yesterday, like the dolphins that get caught in the tuna nets, in the LUN
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 12:39 AM
Heh, Caro! It is a pretty great town when the cultural highlight is a ginormous naked Indian. Thanks for coming by.
Posted by: DrJ | November 21, 2011 at 01:08 AM
Even Sara appears to believe that BF is Dana G. Ward, onetime Pitzer instructor. Yet BF continues to deny it.
I don't have any more of a clue than anyone else who he is is what he does. What difference does it make? He is just another name on a computer screen.
What is the hangup with having to know what BF does? I really don't get it. Why is it so important?
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | November 21, 2011 at 01:41 AM
ISTM that someone is sockpuppeting Cecil.
Posted by: glasater | November 21, 2011 at 01:46 AM
Lost for words I see. I am done with you, take some prozac and calm down.
This is really insulting. Very cleo-like and out-of-line.
Why you think I'm anything but calm escapes me. It is blog comment section, not a world summit. There is nothing here that is worth thinking about when not here. Nothing life or death or earth-shaking. It's a damn blog for Pete's sake.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | November 21, 2011 at 01:48 AM
"Darpa, the Pentagon’s mad-science shop, announced last week that it’s looking to improve on technologies that sniff out biometric signatures like heartbeats from behind walls. Dubbed “Biometrics-at-a-distance,” the program seeks to build sensors that can remotely identify humans from farther away and tell them apart in a crowd.
I'm all for anything that will save lives for the military, but in any other application, this sounds scary as hell. Way way too much intrusion.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | November 21, 2011 at 02:27 AM
Eeeewwwww!
HAZMAT Called in to Remove 200 POUNDS OF FECES Near #Occupy Santa Cruz Squatters Camp
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | November 21, 2011 at 02:51 AM
Vanderleun and I agree:
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | November 21, 2011 at 03:01 AM
Local Malay paper had a story this morning about a sudden run on Malaysian gecko's. The critters have suddenly become endangered because a new pseudoscience fad from China has come out, saying that eating their dried tongues and internal organs will cure Cancer and HIV. Geez.
Posted by: daddy | November 21, 2011 at 04:45 AM
Btw, Captain, does the current team lineup,
warrant 'the mass hysteria, and dogs and cats
living together'
Not sure what that's in reference to narc, since this thread has been hijacked into almost complete incomprehensibility that Maguire obviously doesn't mind being associated with him. That repository of deniers you linked is worthy of being nuked from orbit though.
As for Iggy's link to McCannz, the problem is that anybody takes her father seriously; although she's replaced Amy Carter as a cautionary tale against having children too late in life.
Posted by: Captain Hate | November 21, 2011 at 05:42 AM
ISTM that someone is sockpuppeting Cecil.
Close. Actually, I was just randomly quoting lines from Princess Bride. (Which makes as much sense as C&Ps from DKos.)
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 06:30 AM
Ha ha Cecil!
I was worried. I was gonna' suggest you take 2 Malay Gecko tongues and call a Doc in the morning:)
Posted by: daddy | November 21, 2011 at 06:49 AM
Daddy, sympathies with your chicken and fish choices.
Can't you take some haute cuisine on board with you?
I remember once on a two-week sail from Africa to England, the fish started tasting like chicken and vice versa!
Posted by: BR | November 21, 2011 at 07:07 AM
Although it may seem that our Sara has gone over to the dark side, it's really a very sophisticated JOM plot. Now that it's done, we can speak about it openly. One of us had to match the brainwaves of the class of leftists represented by our trolls, penetrate and control.
Posted by: The Imp | November 21, 2011 at 07:09 AM
Good morning. Just read this by Rich Lowry at NRO:
I am hoping Jane will expand on this hilarity for our amusement too. (Did it have anything to do with thong underwear?)
Posted by: centralcal | November 21, 2011 at 08:01 AM
In the McCombs case, the billionaire entered into transactions known as variable prepaid forward contracts. He received about $259 million for lending an investment bank his Clear Channel shares with a promise to deliver the stock for good a few years later. The arrangement enabled McCombs to defer paying capital gains tax because he hadn’t sold his shares, lawyers for the billionaire said. The IRS deemed the transaction a sale since the bank paid McCombs cash and got the use of his stock almost immediately.
Posted by: Neo | November 21, 2011 at 08:02 AM
The WSJ has an op-ed calling for iBama to use the LBJ gambit and let Hillary run.
This won't be behind the paywall.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | November 21, 2011 at 08:06 AM
(Did it have anything to do with thong underwear?)
Indeed. Crotchless thong underwear.
Think about that.
Posted by: Jane | November 21, 2011 at 08:10 AM
Mel,It's what Schoen and Cadell said yesterday. It expains Chrissy Matthews turn about--the Dems fear he's killing them and they want him out of the WH
Posted by: Clarice | November 21, 2011 at 08:10 AM
What is the hangup with having to know what BF does? I really don't get it. Why is it so important?
Because you insist that DoT did a terrible thing to Dana Ward. But BF says he isn't Dana. So I guess DoT didn't do the things you said he did to BF.
Posted by: Porchlight | November 21, 2011 at 08:13 AM
"I was just randomly quoting lines from Princess Bride."
Oh Lordy, that's every kinda funny. LOL!
Posted by: JM Hanes | November 21, 2011 at 08:19 AM
Good thing it didn't go on much longer. I was down to "Who else has the cause for ultimate suffering?" and "There will be blood tonight!" which I'm pretty sure would've given the game away.
But BF says he isn't Dana.
No, she says Dana isn't her BF.
[What? Ben who? Oh.]
Err . . . never mind.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 21, 2011 at 08:24 AM
About Chrissy's meltdown yesterday. I wonder if he will be punished by his overlords at MSNBC?
Posted by: centralcal | November 21, 2011 at 08:25 AM
No, I think 'my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die' really would do it. Then again, nothing in either
that film or Spinal Tap, comes close to the absurdity we saw yesterday.
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 08:28 AM
I'm sure this is all a coincidence, no seriously, how else could it happen, in the LUN
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 08:36 AM
Jane, Monday and I have to think about crotchless thong underwear? Good thing this is a short work week.
Posted by: henry | November 21, 2011 at 08:37 AM
rse, Drucker predicted our educational mess. The link has quotes from his 1969 book "The Age of Discontinuity."
Posted by: henry | November 21, 2011 at 08:46 AM
narciso-
1. Does Soros (and the other Billionaires for Obama) have a position in Embraer? (Brazil the county of the future and it will always be.)
2. Have they promised to build the aircraft in a US state?
3. Could we be looking at a smaller scale "tanker scandal"?
Posted by: RichatUF | November 21, 2011 at 08:49 AM
Henry,
Just think dental floss.
Posted by: Jane | November 21, 2011 at 08:50 AM
No these are not my winnings, honestly;
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/11/03/#axzz1eLczmX8H
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 08:53 AM
I wonder having read the Quest, was DSK really that bad, neither have a clue, but;
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57326856/christine-lagarde-facing-down-worldwide-recession/?pageNum=4&tag=contentMain;contentBody
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 08:59 AM
My guess he'll be at the top floor in no time,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45383207/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/spies-outed-cia-suffers-hands-hezbollah-lebanon/#.TspbtlZ-jct
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 09:12 AM
Drucker predicted our educational mess.
Speaking of which, RIP to Ted Forstmann, who gave away hundreds of millions to the cause of education, notably in support of voucher programs and charter schools.
Posted by: jimmyk | November 21, 2011 at 09:15 AM
Of course, Ashgari, referred in the article, was more than likely the 'Curveball' in the 2007 NIE,
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 09:25 AM
Not surprising henry. The template was laid back in the 60s and much of the 70s was spent examining why the implementation did not go as planned.
Interesting they want Hillary as I have little doubt based on what she and Bill pushed that we would be in same place on ed but without the stupid side comments that created the Labyrinth thread.
I hope you appreciate how close that GE quote is to our favorite vendors' thoughts as well. Which I have a hard copy of.
And on a lighter note I am in charge of the turkey which I will be brining on Wednesday if anyone would like to suggest their favorite spices to add to the brine.
And on a family funny note my younger sister refused to listen to me when I tried to explain why you want to let any roasted meat, but especially turkey, rest. She insisted on carving it immediately and gave herself a turkey steam sauna and we had dry meat. In her mind she proved she was a peer and in my mind she reminded me why I think she's a twit. Ah the holidays.
Posted by: rse | November 21, 2011 at 09:25 AM
Hillary was the original Alinskyite, she wrote her thesis at Wellesley on him, she apprenticed at Treuhaft's office, the Watergate committee, but the pupil became
the master.
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 09:28 AM
Thanks, Clarice.
I was "unavailable for comment" for most of yesterday. Something about football...
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | November 21, 2011 at 09:29 AM
Minus 18 at Raz today.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | November 21, 2011 at 09:35 AM
Back to Thanksgiving.
Matt Labash has some sage advice on The Day and a very unique way to carve that turkey.
I wonder if some family Thanksgivings end up with pepper spray being dispersed?
Posted by: Jack is Back! | November 21, 2011 at 09:36 AM
Great points, Narciso. What a spot they're in. Obama they won't support anymore and Hillary is a loser. Even their own staff know it. But we'll let the MSM keep pushing them until it's too late to choose someone else.
Posted by: BR | November 21, 2011 at 09:37 AM
LOL, some good advice right there,
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 09:38 AM
Thanks to Sara, the battering ram, and all the gates flew open :)
Posted by: BR | November 21, 2011 at 09:45 AM
You know, it's understandable to make a mistake, possibly out of category error, but to make the same mistake
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 09:53 AM
A little more wisdom from Chrissy Matthews before it disappears from the web:
Butt, she is an "amazing asset." Okay.
Posted by: centralcal | November 21, 2011 at 09:53 AM
He has assimilated 'doublethink' to an art,
hasn't he, there will likely be a Rubakov
level mea culpa, coming down the pike.
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 09:57 AM
CC--Chris is a Dem propagandist. He has lost the tingle and wants O out because the internals show O taking down the party. No one can challenge O openly without splitting off the Dems' most reliable base--black voters--so they want to build up a groundswell using hacks like Matthews to do it.
Posted by: Clarice | November 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Is anyone else having trouble posting? I've got a comment that Typepad just Will. Not. Post. no matter how I format it. I have no idea why. I took out the bold, the italics, the link. I've tried in Safari and in Firefox.
Posted by: JM Hanes | November 21, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Tweety must be off the sauce because he hasn't made this much sense since he was disappointed in Slick banging Monica until he was told it was "just about sex".
Ace is up early pounding on Mega McCannz, a topic that's more in his wheelhouse than wailing "OMG these candidates are horrible".
Posted by: Captain Hate | November 21, 2011 at 10:08 AM
No problem posting here, JMH.
Posted by: Captain Hate | November 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Nope, JMH.
Try and download Ccleaner, run it, and try again. Save the post in a Word file or something, so you can c&p it later.
Ccleaner.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | November 21, 2011 at 10:11 AM
LOL, Captain, seeing as he just got Admiral
Ackbar's telegram, re the Super Committee,
'It's a (deleted)'
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 10:13 AM
I'm not having a problem today, jmh. OTOH my Apple goes nuts on Lucianne's site--I think it's all those ads.
Posted by: Clarice | November 21, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Btw, I want Rick to tell me why I shouldn't regard this whole debt commission failure as something Boehner shouldn't have gotten snookered into doing; not that I don't think the whole thing won't end up being a big fat nothingburger.
Posted by: Captain Hate | November 21, 2011 at 10:15 AM
--Close. Actually, I was just randomly quoting lines from Princess Bride. (Which makes as much sense as C&Ps from DKos.)--
LOL. Talk about pushing buttons.
Posted by: Ignatz | November 21, 2011 at 10:18 AM
CH-
What do you think the first action of the Democrat's Senate representation on the SuperCommitte was?
It tells you exactly what it was designed to do.
Fundraising, only.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | November 21, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Mel that's not giving me a fuzzy feeling. Although if it serves to eliminate Congress of incumbents of both parties, that's a win for me.
Posted by: Captain Hate | November 21, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Lordy, lordy rse, I thought no one would ever ask. This is long and many will hate me for posting it, but I'm willing to live with the humiliation. If you make this turkey your life will be "fundamentally transformed." Promise.
The Best Turkey in the World
(three parts to recipe: curing the turkey, the browned sage butter that goes under the skin, the spices that are rubbed on the skin just before going into the oven)
Cured turkey:
1 1/3 Cups Hawaiian or kosher salt
1/2 Cup plus 2T. sugar
2 bay leaves
1 T. dried thyme
7 whole cloves
1/2 tablespoon whole allspice berries, coarsely cracked
1 t. juniper berries, crushed (I buy these at the health food market)
2 gallons water, approximately
one 12-14 lb. turkey, not ever frozen, not injected with junk
In a very large stock pot combine the salt, sugar, bay leaves, etc. (all the spices). Add the water and bring to boil over high heat. Let cool to room temperature, put the turkey in this fragrant bath, and cover. Refrigerate for up to 24 hours (or put it outside if you live in a cold place and aren’t visited by wolves.) If the brine doesn’t completely cover the turkey, turn it once in a while so all areas get exposed.
Sage butter:
1 stick unsalted butter
20 fresh sage leaves
In a small saucepan or skillet bring the butter to a simmer over medium heat and cook until it turns nicely browned, about five or six minutes, stirring to keep solids from sticking. The last minute add the sage leaves, then remove from the heat and let steep until the butter cools. Throw away leaves (or eat them, like I do) and refrigerate butter until solid. (Can be done a day or two ahead as long as kept in a covered container)
Spice mixture for rubbing into turkey skin:
1 1/2 T. fennel seeds
1 large dried chili pod
1/2 T. whole allspice berries
1/2 T. whole black peppercorns
Toss all of the above in a pan over high heat until fragrant. Cool, and then grind in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle. (Can be kept at room temperature for a couple of days.)
Okay. . . when you’re ready to assemble and begin cooking: Remove turkey from brine and dry him/her/it. Stuff it with whatever you regularly use. With your fingers, loosen the skin from the breast without tearing, and (also with your fingers) spread the softened browned sage butter between the flesh and the skin. Rub the spice mixture all over the turkey’s skin. Bake as you usually do.
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Posted by: (Another) Barbara | November 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM
(A)B
That sounds fabulous, I'm in. This is my first year brining my fresh Amish Turkey.
Thanks
Posted by: kave | November 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM
They put Becerrra and McMillan, Kerrey and Murray, and 'Heckle and Jeckle' for good measure, what could go wrong?
Posted by: narciso | November 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM
(A)B,
You do all that for a turkey? You are the stamina leader in the clubhouse. What ever happened to rubbing a little butter on it, some salt and pepper, stuffing it and sticking it in the oven to burn to a crisp:)
Also, you'all have wolves in Hawai'i?
Posted by: Jack is Back! | November 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM
The Dems used it for fundraising, I believe the Repubs actually made an effort, but ran into the "Taxes Only, or Else" crowd on the other side.
It was a truly futile effort on Reid's behalf.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | November 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM
"Actually, I was just randomly quoting lines from Princess Bride. "
Well, that had me worried. I thought he was actually developing 'wit'
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 11:19 AM
TK 'socking' Orly Taitz
http://www.concordmonitor.com/blogentry/293335/orly-taitz-challenges-obamas-us-citizenship?CSAuthResp=1321892457%3A4uf28d42aish6qhpc6h4ckc6o3%3ACSUserId%7CCSGroupId%3Aapproved%3A0A226F80DA4BDF5473E9330A3D468051&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 11:22 AM
How are your food stores? Most of you have firearms, but if you don't, you better arm yourself.
http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/11/the-blue-bus-is-calling-us.html
" The MF Global case has fast-tracked the evaporation of trust in all the places, large and small, where American One-percenters stash their cash. The redemption orders must be flying through their transoms like radioactive black swans. By lunchtime tomorrow this could include all the TBTF banks. That's what the pundits mean by "contagion." Where will that money go now (if they can get it out)?
I don't see where else it can go now except to shiny yellow and white metal, and maybe some oil positions. But the mechanisms of the precious metals trade have also been monkeyed with, and you'd best be careful where you place your order. As for oil, if lending really does seize-up, then letters-of-credit will not be issued and tankers will not be moving any product. More to the point, the global revolving debt system has depended on colossal transfers of ultra-short-term borrowed money. If short-term borrowing is simply unavailable, things could go south very quickly - and by that I mean food stops arriving at the supermarkets, which hold just a three-day supply. Wouldn't that make for an interesting Thanksgiving?
I have admittedly painted an extreme picture this week. But this week presents the most extreme convergence of events the world has seen since September of 2008, and perhaps a good bit worse."
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | November 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Because, God forbid, we should know what the oppo is up to during an election year.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | November 21, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Sara, if we want to know what they're saying on DKos, we could go to that website. The cut and pastes are pointless and rude.
Posted by: MJW | November 21, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Lord love a duck, enough already.
Posted by: kave | November 21, 2011 at 02:42 PM