This is the most amazing poll ever:
The examples of the GOP’s reflexive opposition to President Obama’s agenda are many but this may be the best one yet: by a 27 point margin Republicans say they disapprove of the President’s executive order last year pardoning two Thanksgiving turkeys (Macaroni and Cheese) instead of the customary one. Only 11% of Republicans support the President’s executive order last year to 38% who are opposed- that’s a pretty clear sign that if you put Obama’s name on something GOP voters are going to oppose it pretty much no matter what.
Like I said in 2009, tire rims and anthrax, people. Remember that the next time some one tells you that Obama is divisive.
redshirt
Obama could sell me some tire rims.
Villago Delenda Est
The near sheriff is near.
That’s all these assholes need to know.
jl
Yeah, I saw that.
Bigotry and racism is all it is with a lot of people.
Ran into a GOPer small business guy down the street glued to Fox news diatribe about Obama’s weak behavior after Paris attacks. I decided to pose as someone unfriendly to Obama in attempt to explore this guy’s thinking. So I compared point by point W and Obama’s behavior and blandly wondered aloud about how even though Obama sucks, there wasn’t much difference on that score.
Small business dude said, well, the difference was that Obama showed weakness and W didn’t.
And I asked how was that. Answer: Obama is weak.
And I thought ‘OK, I get it, you’re a bigot.’ Whether it was bigot on partisan or racial basis or both, I don’t know and don’t care, since I won’t be going back there,
dmsilev
Clearly, Obama is soft on crime in the Avian-American community.
Not like that true American Patriot Sarah Palin.
p.a.
Today Republicans denounced Obama’s stated hope for fair weather and timely rain.
Amir Khalid
I think a lot of American liberals are still waiting for Obama’s weekly address on the topic “Clorox is Not A Beverage”.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: Oh, I wish!
jl
@dmsilev: Thanks. One of my favorite youtube clips ever. And having spent quite a bit of time around Wasilla, fun to soak up memories of the local atmosphere as well as the laughs.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: I’ve been waiting for Barack and Michelle to jointly record a series of Public Service Announcements entitled “Don’t drink bleach or lick live power sockets”.
max
Like I said in 2009, tire rims and anthrax, people.
I think the current contenders would deride tire rims as being for weaklings. ANTHRAX and BLACK PLAGUE are what’s on the menu.
max
[‘If they brought back Newt they could get SYPHILIS in there.’]
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Amir Khalid: I’m going to just start telling people that Michelle Obama says it’s bad for you.
max
@Amir Khalid: I think a lot of American liberals are still waiting for Obama’s weekly address on the topic “Clorox is Not A Beverage”.
‘Mixing Clorox and Ajax is a dangerous practice which I am urging the FDA(?) to ban today.’
max
[‘The Empiricists Strike Back.’]
beltane
@dmsilev: It’s a terrible thought, but the country could be free of wingnuts if Obama just said the magic words. They would all self-deport to the great beyond.
SarahT
@Amir Khalid: And the following week, “Plugged-in appliances & bath Water don’t mix”.
redshirt
Obama: Don’t pay your taxes or obey any federal law.
Redneck: Well I’ll show that obummer by filing a detailed tax form well ahead of the deadline.
goblue72
Remember all those morons you went to high school with? The vast majority you couldn’t WAIT to get away from once you graduated? The Neanderthals for whom high school homecoming was the “best part of their lives” / peak moment?
Yeah – those people. They didn’t disappear. They just got older and now vote.
David Koch
CBS Poll – Iowa — Nov 15-19
Trump……………….30%
Cruz…………………21%
Carson……………..19%
Rubio……………….11%
¿Jeb ?……………….5%◄
CBS Poll – New Hampshire — Nov 15-19
Trump……………….32%
Rubio……………….13%
Cruz…………………10%
Carson……………..10%
¿Jeb ?……………….6%◄
MattF
@dmsilev: Well, licking electrical sockets gives you direct insight into the Zeitgeist, so– I wouldn’t recommend it, but I wouldn’t forbid it either.
piratedan7
Obama could solve a lot of our problems if he would simply tell White America to stop investing in inner city projects and improved infrastructure. Then he could follow that up by stating that there’s absolutely no way that we could put a GOP science base on Venus….
MattF
@David Koch: Uh, let me guess… lots of evangelicals in Iowa?
dmsilev
@David Koch: Clearly, !Jeb is surging.
Edit: Summary chart. You can hear the GOP establishment types weeping as we speak.
MazeDancer
@dmsilev:
You have an excellent future on Twitter. Very smooth flashback to the Palin turkey death moment.
WereBear
@goblue72: I did not peak at 17. Good point.
Frankly, I’m hoping the best is yet to come.
David Koch
@MattF: They love his multiple marriages and multiple affairs with (illegal?) immigrants.
The candidate of family values (multiple families).
WereBear
Unlike some, I wish for a Trump candidacy. The Republicans have to meltdown sometime. Please, let it be soon.
trollhattan
@David Koch:
Cruz prying some seperation from Rubio? Sheesh.
Archon
@David Koch:
If something is gonna happen with Trump’s poll numbers they better happen soon, because right now I think it’s just as likely that he sweeps the early states and cruises to the nomination then he implodes.
justawriter
“Obama comes out in favor of breathing”
goblue72
@WereBear: For a lot of us, it is. For Trump supporters, their lives have been on the downswing since high school. You know, basically since they had to fend for themselves.
Betty Cracker
Twenty-seven percent margin, you say? I am a firm believer in coincidence and a natural skeptic, but this constant recurrence of 27% defies credulity.
WereBear
@goblue72: I think it says a lot about a person when they consider high school the most wonderful part of their lives. I’ve talked to people with careers and families and things I would think they value: and yet, if the magic booth appeared that would wipe all that away and whisk them back to the halls of Podunk High… they would do it.
That’s really sad.
Citizen_X
@David Koch: Wow. So, Doctor Sleepy really has been this year’s Herman Cain, huh?
Gravenstone
@max: Clorox and ammonia is the one you want to steer clear of. Have the President issue a PSA about that and we’ll be wiping out whole wingnut hordes.
Litlebritdifrnt
As suggested above but I would go a little further. A couple of weekly addresses such as “I plan on suggesting legislation to make it illegal to clean your gun while it is loaded” and “I plan on issuing an executive order making playing Russian Roulette a jailable offense” should do the trick, we could kill two birds with one stone so to speak.
redshirt
So one can view Michelle Obama’s kid activity programs as dark attempts to fatten up white Americans and plump them for ever more diabetes and related health issues.
Kay
@David Koch:
Kasich is trying to capitalize on the Trump event in Ohio. I’m not sure who he’s scolding- GOP primary voters? They’re the people going to the rally.
Mary G
I actually heard some old asshole complain last year about the pardoned turkeys being named Macaroni and Cheese because only “those people” eat that at Thanksgiving. When I asked “what people?” I just got the look.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@WereBear:
I think it’s related to when Rep. Steve King was lamenting that the world didn’t stay as simple as it was when he was a child — the people who think like that never realize that the world *seemed* simpler when they were children, but it was a false impression. Even to stick to King’s own childhood, it’s hard to claim that any post-Holocaust society was part of “a more innocent time.”
I first realized this when I heard a filmmaker talk unironically about the 1970s being “a more innocent time” with no apparent comprehension that it only seemed that way because he was a child at the time. No one who was an adult (or even a teenager) could claim with a straight face that the 1970s was a more innocent time.
SiubhanDuinne
They truly are infuckingsane.
Hmmmmm…
goblue72
@Mary G: Seriously? That is majorly effed up.
I grew up not too far from Pennsylvania Dutch country. My fathers side of the family was German-American – we always had mac and cheese for Thanksgiving. And Christmas.
SatanicPanic
@dmsilev: won’t someone talk about bird-on-bird crime?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Mary G:
You mean Lutherans?
/snark
We didn’t have it because we’re (mostly) Italian Catholics, so we had to choke down my aunt’s terrible lasagna instead, but I knew plenty of whiter-than-white folks who had mac and cheese for winter holidays, especially the Northern Europeans (German, Dutch, even Swedish).
SFAW
@beltane:
I used to think I was reasonably intelligent, but I guess I’m missing something: how is that a “terrible thought”?
Or are you one of those Lie-berals who hates (the real, non-wingnut version of) America?
goblue72
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I seem to recall reading some study way back about how the time period that people often think of as the “golden age” in the past – that is, when things were “better back then” – tends to overlap closely to the time period when they were children / teenagers. Life seemed better/simpler/more hopefully back then simply because as children they had adults taking care of them and sheltering them from reality.
Cognitive dissonance for sure, but it does explain some of it.
FlyingToaster
@Mary G: 4-year olds? Italians? Italian 4-year olds?
I swear, people are getting even stupider, every single day.
Myiq2xu
I see you’re still covering the important stuff. Meanwhile:
JPL
It seems to me that Malia’s skirt wasn’t appropriate for the pardoning. Maybe that was for another event though.
goblue72
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Its true. Was raised Lutheran in 50% Pennsylvania German household (the other half Slavic mutts). We always had mac and cheese for holiday meals. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…shit, I swear we had mac and cheese for Presidents Day, Columbus Day and the 4th of July – and even birthdays.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): So Represtive King is pining for the presidency of Jimmy Carter and Disco then. I thought hating the 70s was some Conservative litmus test.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): An excellent point. Which indicates they never grew up, did they?
WereBear
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Heck yeah! That’s when you got the homemade kind with browned bread crumbs on top.
Anoniminous
@David Koch:
With those numbers, his national support, and the new 20% rule Trump will waltz to the GOP nomination.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Myiq2x0:
Let me know when they actually find something, unlike Benghazi. And the IRS “scandal.” And all of the other “scandals” that fizzled out when they belched up from the depths of the fever swamp into the light of day.
Mike J
@JPL: Because pardoning the turkeys is such a solemn occasion. Story on it.
WereBear
@Enhanced Voting Techinques: And glitter t-shirts, platform shoes, blaxploitation films, rampant high school drug use, the energy crisis, and men in beige suits.
Who wouldn’t miss all that?
Well, I am a blaxploitation fan. But I had to throw that in as emblematic of the era.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Enhanced Voting Techinques:
He specifically mentioned “Fun with Dick and Jane,” but maybe he meant the Jane Fonda movie?
Patricia Kayden
@redshirt: Me too. I am very proud of President Obama. Even when I disagree with him on something, I’m still proud that he’s in the White House and has remained so dignified and calm despite having to deal with raving lunatics aka Republicans.
@WereBear: It’s looking as if you’ll get your wish then. If out and out racism and fascism isn’t denting Trump’s leads in the poll, then he’s got the GOP nomination. He’s exactly what they deserve. May Secretary Clinton beat him in a brutal landslide next November.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@WereBear:
I was a kid in the 1970s, but I remember Patty Hearst and Jonestown, among other major events. The only way in which I think of it as “a more innocent time” is that kids were allowed to walk to school or around town by themselves instead of having to be driven everywhere for their “safety.”
Kendall
Paging Mr. Cleek, is there a Mr. Cleek here?
Calouste
@goblue72: Some people just never grow up.
Villago Delenda Est
@Myiq2xu: So, anything backing this up besides anonymous sources?
I thought not.
Calouste
@Anoniminous: I have seen the 20% rule mentioned a few times, do you have a link? I’m interested in the details.
blackcain
@goblue72: I am hungry now for mac n cheese. The gourmet stuff, not that franco-american crap. With some made in portland hot sauce (miss delta hotsauce.. so good).. YUM. Unfortunately, today is fried rice, from the leftover rice from the south indian food I made two days ago.
JPL
@Mike J: Thanks.. I would have blamed Drudge but the article was interesting since the GOP staff member had been arrested for shoplifting.
Calouste
@Patricia Kayden: And if Adolf Trump doesn’t get the nomination, it’s obvious he goes third party. Because for Trump “fair play” means “everybody does what I say”. He has the GOP by the balls, they either lose with him or lose without him.
goblue72
@Myiq2xu: BENGH-ISIS!!!!!
Julie
@Mary G: Macaroni and cheese libel! My family is about as white and Midwestern as they come and we love our macaroni side dishes.
Richard Mayhew
Reading through that comments thread was interesting in seeing who is still around, who disappeared and McLaren praising Putin.
blackcain
@Julie: Who doesn’t? Isn’t it considered the american food that everyone had back in the 50s and stuff? I mean good grief, it is as american as pie. When did it become something associated with just black folks?
Bobby Thomson
@dmsilev: The turkey is not the issue, dude! We’re talking about unchecked aggression.
Corner Stone
@blackcain: Is this the stuff you are talking about? The site says it is a mild hot sauce. Any personal review/insight you can provide on this sauce?
Julie
@blackcain: Exactly. That just boggles my mind.
Corner Stone
I love mac N cheese, in basically a bunch of different varieties. Not big on all the gourmet versions, but I’ll give ’em a shot. I like my own homemade version but anyone with a Luby’s nearby should give their mac a chance.
jeffreyw
@WereBear: You betcha!
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: That looks delish but I, personally, am less enamored of the baked versions.
MomSense
@Corner Stone:
Have you ever tried lobster mac’n cheese?
jeffreyw
@Corner Stone: I don’t get out much, what other kind is there?
NotMax
Turkeys this year ought to be named Malcolm and X.
Just because heads will ‘splode.
raven
@jeffreyw: More fresh fish down here. Big Black Drum fillets on the grill!
Corner Stone
@MomSense: No, not had the chance as yet. However, my culinary history is such that when I get the chance to eat lobster, I just want lobster and nothing mixed in with it.
I imagine it’s pretty rich with an interesting texture. Is it good?
LWA
I know that Nate Silver and other smart folk are telling us not to get worried about Trump, but its not Trump that worries me, its the base he represents.
Trump could fall into a black hole tomorrow, and whoever takes his place will be forced to kowtow to these people.
Which is why it is so awful to see the media contort themselves into knots trying to present a fair and balanced debate on pepperoni and sausage versus anthrax and tire rims.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: Not-baked.
Gimlet
Great editorial cartoon. Hits ’em where they live!
http://assets.amuniversal.com/9657e76073eb01331f06005056a9545d
rikyrah
@David Koch:
Your listing of polls with Jeb never fails to crack me up.
Mary G
For huge laughs go to John Scalzi’s site, Whatever, and read In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For, 2015 Edition. I choked myself, I laughed so hard.
rikyrah
That 27 is so magical, it’s become almost comical
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Since you invoked me on an earlier thread, this is my suggestion for wardrobe choice to wear for Thanksgiving.
From this morning’s thread:
Corner Stone: You can wear a dhoti, basically a piece of fabric. What you see in this song is the the Bengali version. There are as many versions of draping a dhoti as there are of the sari. Not recommended for New England winters but might just work in Texas.
NotMax
Still an exercise in spontaneous street theater after all these years, the now obligatory Sarah Palin Turkey Interview.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat: Oh, that’s the stuff alright. I’ve been alternating between scrubs and the Anakin Skywalker brown Jedi cloak my mother made me a couple years ago.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: I have no idea how Madhuri can dance in a sari, practice I guess. Whenever I am wearing a sari, I secure it with elebenty pins and try not to move around much.
Anoniminous
@Calouste:
Have to dig into the various state party rules for the exact wording but it’s generally something like (example from Alabama):
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: No. Lobster is good. Macaroni and cheese is good. I don’t know what makes people think they’d be good together.
NotMax
@schrodfinger’s cat
Love means never having to sway your sari.
SarahT
@LWA: Exactly. This.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Oh, man. That was just sari.
schrodinger's cat
@NotMax: That’s funny. Its kind of sad that I have no opportunity to wear saris. The last time I wore one was for a rehearsal dinner, at my Norwegian friend’s wedding. Even in India, saris are kinda falling out of favor among the city folks.
schrodinger's cat
@Gin & Tonic: Agreed! I too like my lobster unadulterated without any fatty garnish including butter.
MomSense
@Corner Stone:
It can be really good and also god awful. When it is good it is fantastic.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Go away.
Corner Stone
@blackcain: For goodness sake, man! Could you please answer me? We’re not talking about some flighty topic like sports, this is a matter of hot sauce!
benw
Obama ought to announce that the WH Thanksgiving dinner will be vegan this year, with lots of arugula!
NotMax
@schrodinger’s cat
Worst sounding lobster dish ever?
*yuck-o*
schrodinger's cat
@benw: Tofurkey is a crime against humanity.
mellowjohn
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
fortunately for him, Steve King as stayed a simple as he was as a child.
schrodinger's cat
@NotMax: Do. Not. Want.
benw
@schrodinger’s cat: so you’re saying we’d have two consecutive criminal WH occupants?
goblue72
@Corner Stone: I’ve made it at home and its fantastic. Have it with a full-bodied Chardonnay and a simple mixed greens or frisee salad, and you are in for some good eats.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@benw:
I am not a vegan, but the Trader Joe’s Turkey-Less Stuffed Roast doesn’t look that bad. Better than the boil-in-bag pressed turkey loaf my sister-in-law served one year.
(She has gotten better at cooking and even made an actual from-scratch bird last year that wasn’t too bad. Still, the pressed turkey loaf and Potato Buds holiday will live in infamy for decades to come.)
max
@Gravenstone: Clorox and ammonia is the one you want to steer clear of. Have the President issue a PSA about that and we’ll be wiping out whole wingnut hordes.
That too! (I was actually thinking of ammonia and Barkeeper’s Friend, I think.) Generally, this is a pretty exciting mixture. I was thinking ammonia and clorox are too dangerous for wingnuts to be uh, ENcouraged from using them.
max
[‘Don’t want to take out the whole house.’]
Suzanne
I am making Gruyere mac and cheese for Thanksgiving. We’re doing prime rib rather than turkey this year, though. We all decided we needed a turkey break.
I am also making a tarte tatin with honeycrisp apples.
My boss made more snide comments about HRC and POTUSBHO today. I did not rise to his bait. But I really, REALLY hope that I can subtly rub it in the day after the election. Maybe I’ll wear a whole bunch of jingle bells to work that day. Oh, he’ll be so annoyed.
Corner Stone
@Suzanne:
{Homer donut noises…}
Suzanne
@Corner Stone: Honeycrisp apples are the most delicious fruit ever. Seriously. They are like the Platonic ideal of an apple. This time of year, I eat plenty of meals that consist solely of a giant honeycrisp with some peanut butter.
blackcain
@Corner Stone:
Yes! Yeah, it’s not really hot, but it has a ton of flavor and has a good bright kick to it which contrasts really well with mac n cheese. If you want hotter of course, there are others.
max
@Corner Stone: For goodness sake, man! Could you please answer me? We’re not talking about some flighty topic like sports, this is a matter of hot sauce!
Try this stuff, dude. It’s obviously not the same thing, but I’d bet it’s actually fairly close based on the description of the Portland stuff.
max
[‘HTH.’]
max
{laughs} NOW there’s an answer.
max
[‘Such a day.’]
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne: I don’t know if they travel much out of New England, and it probably helps that if I draw a circle of two-mile radius centered on my house I’ll find like five apple orchards, but Macouns are the apple to eat.
schrodinger's cat
@Gin & Tonic: Braeburns are the best, also too Gala.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat:
Considerably inferior to the Honeycrisp.
Gin & Tonic
@schrodinger’s cat: Damned immigrants.
NotMax
@schrodinger’s cat
Braeburns, Jazz, Northern Spy (heirloom variety, much harder to find than in the good old days) all good.
Rome for baked apples.
Corner Stone
@max: I like pickapeppa for something different once in a while on certain dishes. I generally like my hot sauce to be more hot than vinegar. But I’ll try all kinds, thanks.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
So old recall when the choices were limited to Tabasco, Frank’s and Firehouse brands in most stores.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: I prefer them, I like apples with a touch of tartness to them. I find Honeycrisps too sweet. YMMV.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Amateur, I make my own hot sauce, sauces actually. One with green chilies and one with red.
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: Is she wearing a sari in that dance number? It seems to be pants and a long skirt with blouse-like top.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Suzanne:
If they sell them near you, try a Pacific Rose. I like them even better than Honeycrisp, but they’re winter-only and sometimes West Coast only. I’ve gotten them at Whole Foods and Safeway.
Suzanne
@Corner Stone: Concur. I like Galas, but they don’t hold a candle to honeycrisps.
I am mentally checked out of work….it’s going to be hard getting through the week.
schrodinger's cat
@PurpleGirl: Madhuri is most definitely wearing a sari, in chalak chalak, she turns around at around 2.50 min mark in the song. The men are wearing a kurta and a dhoti.
devore
Interesting, I clearly remember your 2009 post about tires and anthrax.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat: I make my own salsa but for bottled hot sauces I like trying as wide a variety as I can get my hands on. Always open to suggestion, he said suggestively.
Mike in NC
@Corner Stone: Half Moon Bay Trading Company has the best selection of hot sauces.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Not a sauce by any measure, but something I often use for undertones of heat when cooking Asian/Asian fusion/stir fry (or in drops on top of servings of chili or mac & cheese) is called Mongolian Fire Oil. Surprisingly, widely stocked at places like Target.
Alternatively, this stuff.
J R in WV
@goblue72:
When I was a little boy, I tried to dig a bomb/fallout shelter in our crawl space. I was 11. I got several wheelbarrow loads of dirt and broken rock out, and then I was into a hard sandstone cap-rock strata that needed a compressor and jack-hammer and/or explosives to penetrate. So I quit at that point. The Russian fleet had turned around, anyway, by then.
Years later my dad needed a new furnace, and the plumbing and heating contractor brought in a compressor and jack-hammer and removed about 8 times as much rock as I removed by hand during the Cuban missile crisis to pour a flat concrete floor and install a new furnace. It took about a week, I heard, after I got out of the Navy, where I learned even more about nuclear warfare.
Of course, a fallout shelter would have taken a lot bigger hole than the rock that was removed to provide room for a furnace. So even with an air compressor and jack-hammer we wouldn’t have been able to build a realistic shelter – we would have worked really hard and then died anyway.
My youth was simple and not threatening, except for the ever present threat of whole earth nuclear war all the time. Every public building had fallout shelter signs, and stacks of food and water packages under the stair wells. I’m talking about the YMCA, the Library, city hall, the court house, and the school buildings. Wait, the banks also had Civil Defense materials stored, in case the world ended on Tuesday.
And when Nixon was President it was less stressful, because the people dying were 12,000 miles away, and mostly brown natives.
I have a good friend who’s father was a pilot in the USAF in the 1960s and ’70s. He flew heavy cargo planes from SE Asia to Hawaii, and from Hawaii to Dover, DE. Where the military accepts the corpses of troops killed in action. Buzz, the 90+ year old pilot, can’t deal with death, as he dealt with 10s of thousands of bodies in coffins with American flags on them, when I was a child..
Ross Douthat, Damm you for admiring Richard Nixon, master War Criminal, master Geopolitical strategist, master fabricator of untruth, Republican Hero criminal.
Corner Stone
@Mike in NC: Good low investment option for Xmas suggestions to the fam, thanks!
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Also too (the brand name escapes me) there’s a sauce brewed up in Costa Rica with scotch bonnet peppers, vinegar and peaches which is wicked good and wickeder hot.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Blend together freshly grated ginger, chopped garlic, thai bird’s eye chilies, cilantro and lime juice. Blend with a little water. Use as a marinade for fish, shrimp, chicken etc.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: I think that’s Marie Sharp’s out of Belize, maybe? I had a friend come back from there several years ago and tell me to pick some up.
I have bought quite a few items from there, if that’s who you are referring to.
ETA, ok, just re-read and saw the “peaches” part so maybe not Marie Sharp’s. If you think of it let us know.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Google to the rescue.
agorabum
@johncole – I borrow your “tire rims and anthrax” analogy from time to time. Still one of the best responses out there to “divisiveness” and “compromise” from those addicted to faux centrism.
Bill Murray
@Corner Stone: pickapeppa is my favorite sauce, especially for philly sandwiches and cheese tots
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Going to pick up some of that, thanks.
schrodinger's cat
@PurpleGirl: The sari is draped in the traditional Bengali style in that song. In Pinga, its a nine yard sari draped in the Marathi style. The usual sari, is six yards.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
This.
I’ve said many times that things may have been different 50 yrs ago but harder or easier is related to what someone had to do to feed and shelter themselves. And that is somewhat a matter of age and a matter of the economy. Four yrs ago I would have said that life is tougher now than in the 70s, because mine was. Today I’d say virtually no difference. And in the late 60s-mid 70s I had to deal with the draft and the military and that’s always fun.
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: Ah, I see. Thank you.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Use sparingly at first. The punch of the heat sneaks up on a time delay. And that punch is smokin’ and flaming.
Shall keep an eye out for your review.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Dave’s hot sauces, um, take some getting used to.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: That would clear up some problems we have with irrational Obama hatred.
Paul in KY
@Litlebritdifrnt: I like the way you think!
lethargytartare
@Gravenstone:
having created chloramine during a particularly aggressive cleaning session, I can attest to these dangers. For maximum fun, Obama should propose a law against mixing 3 jugs of Ammonia with 1 jug of Clorox in the deep sink.
Michelle could just go on The View and suggest people shouldn’t clean litterboxes with bleach in enclosed areas and Fox viewer numbers would drop by 10% .