I’m couch-bound and feeling lazy, so here is a thread for you (and a kitty):
Additionally, the Thursday menu for this weekend:
1. Grilled Sirloin with Spicy Blueberry Sauce
2. Garlic Mashed Potatoes
3. Steamed Zucchini
4. Coffee w/Biscotti
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I’m couch-bound and feeling lazy, so here is a thread for you (and a kitty):
Additionally, the Thursday menu for this weekend:
1. Grilled Sirloin with Spicy Blueberry Sauce
2. Garlic Mashed Potatoes
3. Steamed Zucchini
4. Coffee w/Biscotti
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JK
Recipe for spicy blueberry sauce please even if it is rough estimates of quantity. Sounds yummy.
Xanthippas
Jeez. I had Subway and a diet lemonade for dinner.
Xanthippas
Well, that didn’t work.
robertdsc
Henry Waxman has put together a website that lists possible benefits from HR3200, broken down by state and district. Good stuff.
JK
Positively Fourth Gear Revisited
https://balloon-juice.com/?p=26039
GPS Voices I’d like to see
Joe Pesci, Tony Sirico, James Gandolfini, Joe Mantegna, Denis Leary, Ray Romano, Jerry Stiller, Larry David, Willie Nelson, Noam Chomsky, Will Lyman (PBS Frontline narrator), baseball announcers Jon Miller and Vin Scully, sports radio hosts Joe Benigno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8qTMtr8pE4,
Chris Russo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ba2U5UrjMA&feature=related,
and Mike Francesa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI5xJfYH7NI,
Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Nicole Kidman, Emma Thompson
On a related note to GPS voices:
Cockney rhyming at cash machines
A cash machine operator has introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its ATMs in east London.
h/t http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8217499.stm
I’d like to see a US bank introduce jazz hipster slang, a la Lord Buckley, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw1eSo8-Zns, to some ATMs.
General Winfield Stuck
Somethin’ bad gonna happen.
Demo Woman
@JK: John has a link to the site which has the recipe. yum
Clutch414
OH NOES!! It looks like Kitteh is chargin’ hiz lazors!!!
cleek
sounds yum-o
we had a little hoisin beef & asparagus stir-fry. very five-spicy.
Calming Influence
Kiiiiiitty cat! Those are some be-ootiful whiskers you got there…
jacy
Wow – almost identical to our menu tonight: grilled ribeyes, roasted new potatoes with garlic and herbs, corn on the cob, and blueberry bramble for dessert.
Will have to try the spicy blueberry sauce next time out.
You can never have too many blueberries.
fliegr
That’s either a Tunch-sized cat or a Tunch-sized child.
JK
Congrats to Keith Olbermann for calling out the slimy, sleazy, obnoxious cocksucker John McCain for his spinning bullshit about how he would have negotiated with Ted Kennedy on a health care bill. It will be a profound tragedy if the lying loudmouth McCain gets to speak at Kennedy’s funeral service.
AhabTRuler
@JK: No, he gets to speak at the wake. Too bad gramps doesn’t have to drink a pint of whiskey first, then we might get to meet the real Johnny Mac.
JK
@Demo Woman Duh! Thanks.
AhabTRuler
OTOH, I wouldn’t mind finding out what kind of prick Kerry is after a few car bombs. Also.
JK
@JK:
Hi JK,
I’ve been posting comments to this site for months using the screen name “JK”. Would you be open to the idea of modifying your screen name to avoid confusion between us?
Crashman06
My wonderful girlfriend fell backwards into free field box seats at Fenway this evening. Too bad for her: the Sox are getting bombed 8 – 0 in the 4th.
SiubhanDuinne
@JK/8:23 pm
I think I heard that Johnny Mac is, in fact, going to speak at the funeral. I will have my thumb poised over the mute button on the remote during that part of the service.
paradox
Pretty cat.
General Winfield Stuck
Will the real Jk please stand up. oh nevermi…..
General Winfield Stuck
Good to see the correct priorities for we baseballers.
Demo Woman
@Crashman06: 9-0
Ash Can
@John Cole:
What did you do? Pull a muscle on those mojitos last night?
Litlebritdifrnt
I appear to be in some sort of alternate Doctor Who universe where my posts don’t show up until much, much, later, and no it is not even “in moderation” universe, it is just not there at all, not even in the post counter thingy until much later. Very strange, perhaps I should expect a Darlek and Cybermen at my front door soon.
cleek
and that brings us full circle!
Betsy
What a cutie!!! And the cat’s all right too. :)
General Winfield Stuck
@Ash Can:
Just Tunch practicing his knot tying.
gnomedad
@JK:
How about Homer Simpson?
Litlebritdifrnt
@JK:
We have one of those stand alone atm machines in a convenience store near where I work that has a distinctly scottish female voice in it. Very strange.
Demo Woman
@SiubhanDuinne: It would be nice if McCain just disappeared.
jnfr
Just don’t let Lily bite your nose!
JK
@AhabTRuler: @SiubhanDuinne:
If a Republican senator has to speak at Kennedy’s funeral, it should at least be a Republican who voted in favor of Sotomayor. McCain repeated the stupid talking points about Sotomayor when announcing his intention to vote against her. He also accused Obama of being a traitor because he’d rather “lose a war than lose an election”.
McCain should have been censured for his disgusting remarks questioning Obama’s patriotism and should have been forced to deliver an apology to Obama from the floor of the Senate. Instead, the MSM continues to drool over this unrepentant prick.
JK
@gnomedad: Agreed.
Softail
Yes. Spicy Blueberry Sauce recipe.. Please…
Alan
How ’bout some evening scooter zen from the streets of Vietnam. :)
I ran across the video from the scooter scoop blog.
gnomedad
@JK:
Um, no agreement necessary, it’s real. Follow the link.
Ash Can
And by the way, that photo is simply precious. :)
Morbo
Admit it; you just put that pic up to deflect attention from Tunch’s weight.
shelley matheis
Ooh, alien kitty. Looks like laser beams are about to shoot out of it’s eyes.
Some delicious green beans from the garden tonight. It’s the one veg that’s done any near well this summer.
Demo Woman
@Demo Woman: John has the link…
JK
Andrew Breitbart (Stay classy, Big Hollywood https://balloon-juice.com/?p=26037) is a raving, drooling, bedwetting lunatic
Financial Times Site Warning: Don’t Email Our Articles
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/financial-times-site-warn_n_270291.html
Bad Horse's Filly
@JK: Click on my name or this link:
http://whats4dinnersolutions.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/thursday-night-menu-western-edition/
Graeme
I will just say I’m looking forward to Andrew Sullivan coming back. This month the blog has been a walking zombie of Culture 11, and I didn’t need to be reminded C11 sucked and deserved to be put out of its misery.
smiley
Tonight, red snapper caught caught recently in the gulf (fresh, fresh, and yummy), fresh green beans, and a potato (btw, if you like the skin, which is about all I like, poke a bunch of holes in said potato, rub olive oil on it and bake it at 400 degrees for about an hour. The skin is thus delicious.).
Tomorrow: A Hamburger and a sensible salad. Maybe some fries or chips.
Sunday: Probably take out. General Tso’s chicken and an egg roll. Maybe some pot stickers. That sounds pretty good. We’ll see.
JK
Who Are the 13 Senate Democrats Holding Out On the Public Option?
h/t http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/who-are-the-13-senate-democrats-holding-out-on-the-public-option.php?ref=fpa
RedKitten
Gorgeous kitty! His fur looks very, very soft, and he’s obviously a very patient cat to let the tiny hyooman carry him around like that.
Radon Chong
What kind of countertops does that kid’s family have?
freelancer
@Graeme:
I speculated that he staffed it with complete wankers so his voice would stand out noticeably when he got back. The only two over there that are worth a damn are his two Dish interns. The latest backbencher Hanna Rosin is horrid.
SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten/9:04 pm
Speaking of Tiny Hyoomans, could we please have an update on the Littlest Member of the Kitten Family? If possible with a recent picture.
Demo Woman
@RedKitten: Both the kitten and girl are quite attractive. How’s it going?
General Winfield Stuck
Ms Megan brings the wingnut logic.
See, simple when you wank it the right way.
cbear
@RedKitten: I love that mortified expression cats always adopt in those circumstances.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Fuck me rigid. Lumpy McPOW is on Larry King glubbering about Kennedy. The only good thing about that oversized grub is his Veep pick must have given Kennedy a bunch of laughs when he needed them most.
Stupid fucker, why does anyone care what that dumb fuck has to say?
Anne Laurie
@Demo Woman: I agree that it would be nice if McCain left the political scene, but he was a longtime personal friend of Teddy Kennedy’s, and under the Irish tradition, entitled to make a bad-faith spectacle of himself at Teddy’s funeral. Who knows, perhaps he’ll take the opportunity to recant his sins and announce that he’s going to vote in favor of Obama’s HCR bill. Or, perhaps more realistically, he’ll have achieved a state of drunken rage where he’ll start ranting a version of Palin’s word-salad with extra Naval-quality obscenities, before wetting himself on-camera and falling face-forward into the casket.
Besides, it beats the horror of listening to John Boehner or that sociopath Justice Roberts puling pieties as the “official” Rethuglican representative, right?
RedKitten
@SiubhanDuinne: Sure. I’ll give John a holler and ask him to post one up.
Samuel’s doing very, very well. He’s an awesome baby — very easygoing and a great sleeper. Last night, we both slept from 10pm to 1:30am, then from 2am to 5:30am, and then from about 6am to almost 9am. So I’ve been getting a very enviable amount of sleep for a new mom. We went for a walk today, trying him out in the stroller for the first time, and it went very well.
So far, so good, anyway. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Anne Laurie
Incidentally, the WordPress Ghods are angry tonight. I just got moderated on the last thread, so don’t take it personally if you’re the next victim.
Here’s hoping John’s webmistress has a productive and stress-free next few days…
General Winfield Stuck
@Anne Laurie:
Pretty bad when the moderators get moderated. I must living right cause it hasn’t happened recently, or the mod gods just giggle at my scratchings and move on.
zanzibar
The Great White Hope woman is about to become famous…
Maybe she’ll go on Beck and they can reminisce about how the 1940s in the South were so much better.
trollhattan
@Clutch414 is on to something wit doze lazor eyes. Perhaps that’s doctor Evil’s second kitteh?
And for something completely different, an outcome to a local story from decades back that I would have never expected. Creepy to the infinite power.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL&tsp=1
Ash Can
@Anne Laurie:
I’m a bit shocked to think of how much I’d be willing to pay to see that.
South of I-10
@RedKitten: That is great news! A baby that sleeps is a beautiful thing. Glad to hear everything is going well.
arguingwithsignposts
@General Winfield Stuck:
Is it just me, or does McArgle-Bargle seem like she’s gotten a lot more testy since the health care debate started? Maybe it’s pre-wedding stress or something.
But the whole “it wasn’t a statistic, it was a hypothetical” thing seemed even beyond McA stupid.
JK
@General Winfield Stuck:
I was tempted to call McArdle a horse’s ass, but that would be too insulting to a horse’s ass.
“Unlike many libertarians, I’m a believer in voting for major party candidates. Voting is, of course, expressive behavior… Not voting seems like a way of trying to shuck responsibility for having a preference… I’m not voting because I forgot to register. But that doesn’t absolve me from whatever happens next, because I wanted Obama to win.” – Megan McArdle, Nov 4, 2008 9:36 am, http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/vote_though_it_pains_you.php#comments
arguingwithsignposts
@Anne Laurie:
speaking of which, when is the new site design supposed to roll out. Will we get a warning so we can stop jabbering and trying to access the server while it’s going up?
SiubhanDuinne
@AhabTRuler/8:26 pm
Took me a while to scroll back and read your clarifying comment. I hadn’t made a distinction between speaking at the wake and speaking at the funeral. So I guess McCain is going to be at the wake (which happens tomorrow night, right?) and Obama speaks at the actual funeral on Saturday. I feel relieved, as I had NOT been looking forward to made-for-cable Dueling Eulogies.
Demo Woman
@Anne Laurie: When McCain campaigned he seemed as though he was totally losing it. Upon reflection, I think he was just having trouble keeping all his lies straight. Kennedy believed in redemption because we all know, he practiced it, but McCain is such hypocrite, lying , jerk anything that he said would be an insult. FYI, since you live in MA, where is Kerry?
arguingwithsignposts
@JK:
(whichever JK you happen to be), I am especially enamored of that particular bit of McArgle-Bargle funny, because it seems many of her parishioners and people in general seem to believe she *voted* for Obama, even now. Lazy-ass bloggers in their pajamas – she are one.
JGabriel
@SiubhanDuinne:
Really? I knew Hatch actually was friends with Kennedy, but I didn’t think McCain had anything other than a professional relationship with him
.
General Winfield Stuck
@arguingwithsignposts:
She seems about normally her nutty self to me. Though I don’t follow her that closely. Some of her nuttiness, like the article I posted, is kind of a little sociopathic to me. I mean reasoning it’s OK for people to carry guns at political events by way of comparing them to normal protests, is a just creepy. Though she’s not the only winger to say similar things, it’s the ho-hum manner of dissing any shred of common sense.
JK
@SiubhanDuinne:
John McCain is the biggest media whore in the Republican party. I’ve lost track of how many tv interviews he’s given since Kennedy died. I change the channel every time he comes on the air. He’s a first class scumbag.
Ash Can
@arguingwithsignposts: When the site’s taken down for repairs, let’s all bombard John with e-mails telling him that his POS site is fucked up again. He’d love that.
JGabriel
@Litlebritdifrnt:
You are not alone, Litlebrit. That’s happened to me several times in the last 24 hours. At first, I thought that maybe the moderation warning was simply disabled, but now I don’t know. It seems like it might be a bigger problems, since I can’t tell why those posts would have been moderated.
It seems quite random.
.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Via Rumproast: Speaking of food and boobs, someone has started an online petition to cover this woman’s breasts lest they cause naughty thoughts and stirrings in the dirty bits.
Exactly what they want her breasts covered with, the petitioners don’t say.
arguingwithsignposts
So is JC the only person allowed to post YouTube embeds in the comments? I’m testing.
If not, this song goes out to Sen. Ted Kennedy. A little Irish Whiskey music for the ev’nin’:
If the embed screws up, here’s the link.
Seen em at Liberty Lunch in Austin, mid-80s.
arguingwithsignposts
@arguingwithsignposts:
Yep, I guess no embeds.
smiley
This is interesting. Usually, when one of the front pagers here posts about food, the comments fill up with comments about food. Weird. There must be something else going on somewhere.
JK
@arguingwithsignposts: McArdle is a real piece of work and quite the hypocrite. She becomes more repulsive and repellant with each statement she posts on her stupid blog.
@JGabriel: I’d rather see Dick Lugar, Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins speak instead of John McCain. It’s nauseating to see McCain continue to be worshipped by the MSM.
General Winfield Stuck
Well yea, and why?
This is the Juice. I am Cole the Magnificent Raisuli, sherif of the Balloon Juice rift. I am the true defender of the faithful and the blood of the blog prophet runs in me and I am but a servant of it’s will. You have nothing to say? Minion
General Winfield Stuck
The Trolls chased off all the smart funny peoples, so here we are.
Max
I am proud to announce that my dog has spent the day in a house with cats and did not eat them! This means that I have found a place to board him when I go out of town. Being around kitty cats was the test and it appears that he passed it! I was very nervous, as he likes to chase the neighborhood cats that come into the yard.
At the last place I used to board him, he was attacked by a Mastiff. He’s a 45 lb Wheaten who held his ground, but still walked away with 9 tooth marks around his neck. I wasn’t comfortable bringing him back here, obviously.
Whew.
It’s very stressful being a pet owner. I don’t know how you parents of humans do it.
ellaesther
Oh.My.God.
The Onion is not a satirical “news” outlet — it is an outlet of PROPHECY!!!
My evidence: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784
arguingwithsignposts
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
LOL. I like this one:
Tonal Crow
@JK:
McCain had a chance to do so, and didn’t. GOP him and the horse he rode in on.
arguingwithsignposts
@General Winfield Stuck:
Wasn’t bitching, just unsure if it was possible. As you could probably tell, I was not – until your comment – aware of ALL Internet traditions.
General Winfield Stuck
@arguingwithsignposts:
I didn’t take it as you bitching, which if you were, would be fine by me. I just can’t pass up a chance to try a joke, even a lame one.
arguingwithsignposts
Another topic: IBD still trying to have their way with Stephen Hawking’s condition.
General Winfield Stuck
@arguingwithsignposts:
And right now, I am in a really weird mood. I don’t know if others here who follow politics feel the same way. But is surreal to the point that seems like something new, and not all that pleasant. That Onion video sort of sums it up.
Even during the darkest days of Bush/Cheney, the issues we were debating were of substance I could recognize and form opinions about to counter the wingnuttery. They were bizzarre at times, but now it’s like we aren’t even in the same dimension with them. And it has just gotten even more surreal since Ted’s passing, with all indications of getting more and more into free associative narratives of crazy with our opponents.
Sometimes I think it is all the right wing has left but to shat on the national dialogue to where people just give up and give them what they want. Which of course is and always has been Power.
I really don’t know what to make of it, and making compulsive jokes about everything is a way to cope, I guess.
JK
Aggravating Headlines from Huffington Post
Inhofe: I’ll Vote Against Reform Without Reading Bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/inhofe-ill-vote-against-r_n_270636.html
Dem Rep. Marshall: I Haven’t Read the Health Care Bill And I Won’t Vote For It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/dem-rep-marshall-i-havent_n_270779.html
With Talk of Hitler and Socialism Seniors in Virginia Air Grievances on Health Care
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-freeman/with-talk-of-hitler-and-s_b_269849.html
Rex Rammell, Idaho Republican, Jokes About Hunting Obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/rex-rammell-idaho-goper-j_n_270751.html
kommrade reproductive vigor
Christ, if investors do read the IBD it would explain a lot about the current state of the economy.
No, you were flat out and spectacularly W-R-O-N-G, because everyone who reviewed this piece was an Olympic-caliber T-O-O-L. Bitching about mean old liberals who laughed at your flagrant display of ignorance doesn’t make you less W-R-O-N-G.
But it sure makes you funny.
tripletee
@Max:
Firm, consistent discipline and little chicken-and-liver treats when they do something right.
kay
@General Winfield Stuck:
The RNC are speculating that health care could be rationed according to party affiliation on voter registration records.
That’s not what’s scary.
They’re insane, so I read that and think, “well, they’re insane, now, so that’s just crazy talking”.
Here’s what’s scary.
The American Medical Association just rebutted that claim. The AMA just countered the RNC claim that the House Democrats are planning to kill Republican voters.
So, no, it’s not just you. It’s getting creepy. It’s not funny anymore.
The Moar You Know
@arguingwithsignposts: I get the feeling that somebody over at IBD is willing to kill Hawking themselves, if they must, to prove their point.
arguingwithsignposts
@kay: @General Winfield Stuck:
Kay just gave me an idea that I think may actually explain a lot of this crazy. The wingnuts are projecting. They think about what they would do if they were able to run the government the way they want, and then assuming that the democrats are going to do exactly that.
Think about the crazies at these town hall meetings and the freepers, etc. they all talk a big game about revolution and taking down the commies, fascists, etc. Their goal is power, and they can’t see anyone else having any other goal (like, say, improving the lot of humanity). So they automatically assume that if progressives are in power, their goal will be to screw the other side. It’s a zero sum game in their minds. My way or the highway.
It’s all just a giant, psychotic projection.
WereBear
@kay: Get The Freak Out.
Well, this has passed a Level of Crazy for me, now.
Sweet Fancy Moses.
kommrade reproductive vigor
IBD also stands for Irritable Bowel Disorder.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
General Winfield Stuck
@kay:
I generally try not to project stuff into the future, I did a lot of that when younger and it only gives you worry worts. But when it gets to the point of your below quote, I can’t help but ask what comes next. Folks say it was just as crazy when Clinton was presnit, and it was in a lot of ways, but something seems different and more ominous now. It seems to me a fuse has been lit for open rebellion in the near future. And it really isn;t all about Obama being president. Though that could be the catalyst that puts it past the fail safe point.. It is about two vastly different ways of seeing the world and how we should live in it as a country, And one side with perennially violent tendencies. A split in viewpoints that has always been there. Maybe it’s all rattle and shake and a funky mood I;m in. I sure hope so.
Time for a pleasant movie.
WereBear
@arguingwithsignposts: Yup. Everything is zero sum to these people.
This also explains their panic over President Obama.
All that oppression and murder… how can he not WANT HIS REVENGE?!?!?!?eleventy
It’s both scary and pathetic. The Republicans keep coming up with new emotional combos that were previously beyond my imagination.
wilfred
Most people stopped paying attention but the last two months in Afghanistan have been the worst since the war started. In addition, the war has been widened under the radar. Now for the Proustian scent of Vietnam madelaine:
See Halberstam, Sheehan, et al. Right under the nose; and consider the source.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=64401
General Winfield Stuck
@WereBear:
It’s almost as though they are trying to make a big decision and looking for reasons to justify it/.
2th&nayle
@kommrade reproductive vigor: hahahahaha! Thx for the link! Geez that’s funny!!
steve s
@General Winfield Stuck:
“Ms Megan brings the wingnut logic.”
Is there some kind of requirement that she has to post 10 times a day or something? Because if I had to post 10 times a day, I would occasionally say the kind of stupid shit she gets quoted here as saying. I don’t know how often she posts, because I never bother reading her blog, because the stupid shit she’s been quoted saying about healthcare was some really stupid, mindless glibertarian nonsense.
JK
@wilfred:
Great post. Especially enjoyed the reference to Marcel Proust.
Chad N Freude
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
1. Babies should not be breast-fed lest they be disturbed and sexually promoted.
2, “Her excessive cleavage-revealing outfits” are certainly appropriate for a “learning show” about bosoms.
3. Who besides the originator of this movement to suppress chef cleavage is distracted from … what? what?
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@JK: Internet cage match with BOB as referee.
Chad N Freude
@JK:
Agreed, but HP really should tone down the (often misleading) sensationalism of their headlines. The site is an excellent aggregator, but the headlines are frequently booga-booga-booga where a single booga would suffice.
Chad N Freude
@General Winfield Stuck:
A Rogue
Try Grilling the Zuchini. We’ve done that with our’s from the garden all summer long. Just baste a little olive oil. Cut lenghtwise. Mmmmm. Less heat and little time. you’ll love it.
Fulcanelli
@arguingwithsignposts: You win! Better late than never, bro. This has been going on for years. I spout off about it once and a while here and elsewhere, but nobody pays much attention.
Present day “conservatism” is a personality disorder. Textbook. The creepy part lately is how the worse the symptoms, the greater the “street cred” with the ‘Real Americans’. At this rate the wingers will be carrying drooling, helmet wearing Spice Guild John Birchers in sedan chairs to the 2012 GOP convention.
I can’t wait. Sigh.
Brachiator
@smiley:
Too bad. I’ve got back after some serious dental work and can’t eat, so I looked forward to at least being able to read a bit about other people enjoying their meals.
Fulcanelli
@Chad N Freude: Agreed and seconded. A perfect example were the insulting Hillary headlines after Bill came back from N. Korea with those two jailed women. Just dumb.
Chad N Freude
@General Winfield Stuck:
Hey, we just need a Free Weapons Zone, you know, like the Free Speech Zones during President Bush events.
gbear
@Alan:
Thanks for that scooter zen video. I just got back from riding my Kymco (a Taiwanese make that looks like 3/4 of the scooters in that video). I feel like I’m seeing a lot of scooters if I see one every three blocks around here. The numbers of scooters in that video was amazing.
BTW, great name…
Chad N Freude
@kay:
The AMA? You mean those soc-i-al-ist purveyors of that Hippocratic Oath propaganda?
Comrade Darkness
Maybe this has been posted already, but someone just sent me a link to this company staffed entirely by atheists who for a fee will rescue the pets of raptured households.
Damn, why didn’t I think of this?
Chad N Freude
@General Winfield Stuck:
Yes, General. We now have an American Democracy in which the objective is not to do all that silly old-world stuff in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but rather to to attain and hold on to the POWER to determine who is to benefit from
access toexploitation of (what used to be called) the commons.Chad N Freude
@arguingwithsignposts:
Sorry. My last comment made the same point (I hope); I had not read your comment before posting it.
asiangrrlMN
@Comrade Darkness: That’s fucking awesome, as is the pic of tiny girl and HUGE kitteh!
I’m tired to my bones of all the silly nonsense. I feel another four-day self ban (from politics) coming on. I’m gonna pull a wasabi gasp and see if hibernation improves the state of our political discourse.
DaBomb
@Chad N Freude: Completely concur with that statement. That site has become such a tabloid rag. I pretty much stay away from it unless here’s a link that leads to an article that is useful not lame. They have kinda been on an Obama slant too.
Sometimes I would rather read all the bodice ripping occurring over at The Great Orange Satan than read Huff Po.
James K Polk, Esq.
My (fairly) new kitty Claude is settling in quite nicely…
Just kickin’ it.
mai naem
Please tell me the Kennedy family is not stoopid enough to have McCain give one of the speeches on Sat. Puhleeze, no. Seriously, I would take Mitt fucking Romney over McCain. Surely they can find a decent moderate republican. William Weld? Jim Jeffords? John Danforth? Linc Chaffee?
JK
@Brachiator:
You’re just the opposite of me in this regard. If I were unable to eat, the last thing I’d want to read about was people describing meals they enjoyed. Liked your take on the music question from late last night.
Curious to get your take on how Democrats should respond to Rush Limbaugh’s diatribe about Ted Kennedy’s death being exploited to pass a heath care bill:
Rush Limbaugh: “We’re told today how Ted Kennedy was a “uniter” and how he was a legislator. You know what? I actually want them to put Ted Kennedy’s name on the health care bill. I want ‘em to do it. The DC elite just don’t get it. In fact, they don’t get the reaction to the coverage out there. They are in a totally different world from the rest of this country. I think one of the easiest, sure-fire ways to defeat the health care bill is to put his name on it. So I officially today, as host—only host—on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, suggest and join my friends on the Democrat side of the aisle: “Yes, please name Obamacare after Ted Kennedy. Please do so. It’s only appropriate. Do it this week! Do it during the funeral. Do it during the memorial service. Do it while the nation’s attention is riveted.” Obama, with health care, is trying to build a monument to himself in Washington. Obama wants to be FDR the Second. He wants to be the black FDR. And put Teddy Kennedy’s name on it…? (chuckles) Yeah, his ego is such that that might stand in his way. That’s a good question. Would Obama go along with it being called Kennedycare, the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Reform Act and blah, blah?… (interruption) If you put Kennedy’s name on the bill, when the thing turns into a disaster you blame him and there’s nothing he can do about it. “Oh, it’s the Ted Kennedy bill. It’s all screwed up. I had nothing to do with that bill. It’s the Ted Kennedy bill. We did that in honor of Senator Kennedy. That’s why it’s screwed up.” (chuckles) Well, that’s a great question, Stewart. Obama is narcissist enough to be concerned about that. Speaking of naming the bill under Ted Kennedy, we have a State-Run Media montage here, day two: pushing health care for Kennedy. Here we have John King of CNN, Jessica Yellin of CNN, Roger Simon of Politico, David Gregory at NBC, David “Rodham” Gergen at CNN, Brian Williams of NBC, Kelly O’Donnell at NBC, and Kiran Chetry at CNN all talking about the passing of Senator Kennedy and health care reform.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082709/content/01125109.guest.html
@Chad N Freude: @Fulcanelli: You have a valid point. Their headlines can be very misleading at times. These 4 stories are genuinely very disturbing. I don’t think they were hyped up. Speaking of Booga Booga, that was the title of a very funny David Steinberg album from many years ago. Would love to have a copy to listen to right now.
The Other Steve
I am deeply concerned for Tim F.
I just want to know. Are you ok? Are you still coughing?
LOL! :-)
Bob In Pacifica
Tomorrow afternoon I’m going to the Rib Shack in San Bruno. A rack of pork ribs and a rack of beef ribs. Mmmm.
asiangrrlMN
@James K Polk, Esq.: Oh my goodness! Sir Claude is looking wonderful. What an adorable boy!
Comrade Darkness
@asiangrrlMN: I’ve gone politically tone deaf and feel much better. I use only wonkette as my political news source. Keeps me up to speed, and the mockery-fu makes it go down sweetly if not laugh out loud.
JK
@mai naem:
I’ve been fuming ever since I heard last night that McCain is going to speak at Kennedy’s funeral. It’s amazing to me that McCain always gets away with bullshit. I can’t believe that he wasn’t censured by the Senate when he said “Obama would rather lose a war than lose an election”.
Last month, it was reported that McCain’s staffers suggested Palin use the line that Obama was “palling around with terrorists”
About a week ago, there was a wire story reporting that McCain has been voting along strict party lines about 95% since election day. It’s obvious he’s doing everything possible to fuck Obama up.
If McCain had won and Obama were in the Senate, the MSM would constantly be on his case about why he’s trying to block McCain at every turn.
arguingwithsignposts
Oh, by the way, LA Times and Gallup concern-trolling Obama’s job approval.
Buried at the bottom:
arguingwithsignposts
@arguingwithsignposts:
Just to add to that, I think a major contributor to the state of politics today is the presence of too many fucking polling outfits.
Comrade Luke
Where’s the best place to find a basic risotta recipe?
All I want is the base – Arborio rice, chicken stock – to which I can then add my own ingredients. But I don’t know if I have all the basic ingredients (am I supposed to add butter for example?), or how much of everything I should be using.
It seems like it would be easy to find but every time I search I get these exotic recipes. All I want is the basics!
thanks
JK
@arguingwithsignposts:
This polling nonsense has gotten totally out of hand. The MSM is getting more pathetic every day. It’s bad enough that 90% of presidential campaign stories are either about poll ratings or fundraising dollars.
Now, even after election day, the only thing that matters to the nailbiters and bedwetters in the Washington press corps are presidential approval ratings. These alleged journalists are just plain scum.
Comrade Luke
I think I might’ve found a basic recipe.
Does this sound right?
Indylib
@Comrade Luke:
Try Allrecipes
http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx?WithTerm=risotto.
There’s usually tons of recipes and the reviews can be helpful.
mai naem
@Comrade Luke:
On the back of a risotto box?
Comrade Luke
@JK:
Can we all just agree that polls are easily manipulated by how they’re worded?
It’s yet another way to avoid talking about real issues. They put poll numbers up on the screen and then they spend all their time talking about how the poll is b.s. because of the way the question is worded.
I’m really just numb about all of this right now. It doesn’t seem like anything positive is happening, anywhere, and I’m not sure how to stop the spiral.
Desert Rat
I don’t know which is cuter. Actually, it’s the little girl, hands down. The cat looks very much like he’d rather be somewhere else. :)
Comrade Luke
@Indylib:
Thanks!
Man, there sure are a lot of variations on risotto…
Comrade Darkness
@Comrade Luke: Really basic? Okay, easier just to tell you. Make a stock. Out of anything you want. Chicken stock, for example (saffron adds a nice touch). Leave it simmering on one burner. Make sure to have extra. You *must* not run out before the risotto is finished. Heat a broad, moderately deep pan on a burner on the high side of medium. Add a generous pour of olive oil. Sweat finely chopped onions in it. Pour in a cup of arborio rice and stir it until a nutty aroma rises from it (this is the key key key step that makes the dish risotto rather than muck). Pour in your stock liquid to just cover the rice and stir. Do not stop stirring, ever. When that liquid is just about gone, add another half cup of stock. Keep stirring. Repeat until the white cores of the rice are just about to vanish. Taste test (it should be al dente). Serve immediately.
Butter is not a common ingredient from what I know, but it’s your kitchen and you rule there. My experience is with just a little olive oil, the dish is rich as hell already.
My favorite is butternut squash risotto. Bake up a squash and add the scooped out flesh when you add the first liquid.
General Winfield Stuck
@Chad N Freude:
Nope. not lost being never found. I’ve been on the run from the long arm of grammar law all my life. Edit function had been hiding me out, until recent.
Steeplejack
@Comrade Luke:
Here’s a risotto recipe I like from Jamie Oliver.
It’s pretty basic. The only “non-stock” things are the onion and celery–maybe the garlic. (And I guess you could consider the vermouth or white wine non-basic.) You could substitute your ingredients for those and do all right with this recipe.
I like Oliver a lot, and he has a sort of surprising (to me) affinity for Italian cuisine. His book Jamie’s Italy is very good. Not fussy, and good results.
asiangrrlMN
@Comrade Darkness: You’re smart. I need to do the same. It’s really getting me down.
Instant poll: 45.7% of sane people think Megan McArdle is a jerkface, whereas 40.9% think she’s insane. The other 13.4% of sane people think she’s both!
Comrade Darkness
@Comrade Darkness: I forgot the cheese step, which your link reminded of. Mix grated parmesan or pecorino romano at the end just before serving. Lots of it.
Indylib
TPM has some nice pics of the memorials etc. springing up for Teddy. The last picture with the candles and the signs at the vigil in DC is good.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2009/08/hyannis-port-to-dc-official-kennedy-mourning-commences.php?img=1
JK
@Comrade Luke:
“Can we all just agree that polls are easily manipulated by how they’re worded?”
This reminds me of Benjamin Disraeli’s observation that there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
In spite of healthy majorities in the House and Senate, the deck seems stacked against Obama. Despite Doug’s post about pushback from James Fallows, Steven Pearlstein, and Joe Klein against Republican lies, the MSM is filled with nailbiters and bedwetters who either grovel at the feet or suck on the cock of the first Republican they can find.
I’m dreading the midterm elections. If the Republicans pick any seats in Congress, the MSM will be screaming that Obama has been dealt a crippling blow.
Tattoosydney
@Comrade Luke:
@Comrade Darkness:
“Add a generous pour of olive oil. … Butter is not a common ingredient from what I know, but it’s your kitchen and you rule there.”
I like to use half olive oil and half butter at the start… I think it makes the rice a little toastier, and gives a tastier result…
“My favorite is butternut squash risotto.”
Yep. If it’s cold out, my favourite is to add (right at the end, with the parmesan) pumpkin which has been roasted until it’s soft with burnt bits, slow roasted tomatoes, some grilled Spanish or Portuguese chorizo and a little chopped parsley…. too many ingredients for the purists, I am sure, but it tastes very nice.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Anyone who is too damn stupid to remember to register to vote @JK: does not deserve to blog for the Atlantic.
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Fake-hubby! How are you? You cook, too? You are quite the catch.
@JK:
Fixed it for ya.
Comrade Darkness
@Tattoosydney: I find that butter makes it seem greasy, but that might be me. If I use the stainless steel pan, toasty aromas are not a problem.
Yeah, that’s a lot of ingredients. The Italians are pretty jihadi about one at a time.
My trick with the squash, which would work for the pumpkin too, is to roast the seeds with some vege oil and salt in the toaster oven, and garnish the top of the risotto with them. Tasty, and a nice texture contrast.
Comrade Luke
@Comrade Darkness:
Awesome! That’s the one I’m going with. I’m planning on adding some chopped prosciutto on top as well.
The thing that confused me was all the references to butter and dry white wine. I don’t think I need that for a basic dish.
thanks again.
asiangrrlMN
I gotta say, nothing is sexier than a person who cooks–for ME! ‘Coz I don’t cook. (Except in bed).
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
My now.
is it a little warm in here? Fans self.
jeffreyw
I call it risotto, but I use jasmine rice just for the hell of it. I agree with the half butter half olive oil comment previously mentioned. Stir the rice about in the mixture until it’s ready, then splash in a few cups of white wine, keep stirring and add stock as needed. Extra ingredients make the dish interesting, I favor button mushrooms.
OT Protip: Keep the kitteh out of the booze.
asiangrrlMN
Dunno. Are you cooking for me?
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Dunno. Are you cooking for me?
asiangrrlMN
@jeffreyw: Aw, what a cuuute kitteh. Yeah, I had to guard my bourbon from my boys earlier, so I know of which you speak. Heh.
Comrade Darkness
@Comrade Luke: I noticed after posting that you said you wanted amounts, and I’m thinking, gah, I don’t know the amounts. I just use the “right amount,” which isn’t very useful to you. You can probably get an idea about how much stock per cup of rice from. Suffice to say, the rice with expand way more than you imagine. Unless you have a dinner party, start small.
Oh, and you will need some other recipes for the next day. Leftover risotto omlettes are amazing. Add the rice while the egg is very runny still, so it embeds and warms up from the fridge.
And also deep fried risotto balls. Italian bar food specialty. You crack an egg into the leftovers and mix, roll the risotto into a ball about the size of your cupped hand, press a cube of ham into the center, roll in egg and bread crumbs and drop into a deep frier until brown. You can be half dead from starvation and two of these will make you full like thanksgiving.
Gah, must go find snack…
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Fans self some more/I can make water boil.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Heh. Somehow, I don’t think that qualifies as cooking!
General Winfield Stuck
@jeffreyw:
LOL. Thank you jeffrey! that made me belly laugh.
jeffreyw
@General Winfield Stuck:
My pleasure, general.
Comrade Luke
@Comrade Darkness:
I think I can Bing for amounts on the internets.
(yes, I have a friend who works on Bing :)
jeffreyw
@General Winfield Stuck:
The hummers are starting to leave, only going through a couple quarts of sugar water these ast few days.
tripletee
@Comrade Darkness:
That’s the best thing I’ve seen on the Interwebs in months. Pure, unfiltered win.
General Winfield Stuck
@jeffreyw:
I still have plenty, but the male Rufous’s and Adult Caliopes have left. I’ve gone thru almost 10 pounds of Pure Cane Sugar just since this past weekend. They get really frenetic until about mid September when they start to thin out. By October they are pretty much gone with a few stragglers.
jeffreyw
A bit of roasted chicken goes well with risotto
Comrade Darkness
@Comrade Luke: Oh, Bing dreams of being a verb, eh?
jeffreyw
@General Winfield Stuck:
Yeah, at the peak we were going through 5 qt/day. I marvel at the different kinds you get.
Comrade Luke
@Comrade Darkness:
Bing is really pretty good, and I say that as a long-time Live Search hater.
auntieeminaz
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Awesome cat!
Makewi
I think its nice that Obama has decided to use the NEA to “commission” works that help his agenda. I think for the first piece they should commission a statue of evil right wingers pissing all over Kennedy’s grave as an expression of how important health care reform is.
I see a whole line of piss christ like works in the future too. Piss Limbaugh. Piss Beck. Piss Palin.
It’s a brave new day comrades.
monkeyboy
@James K Polk, Esq.:
My sister had a fatter hairy black cat looking like yours that loved to sit in people’s laps. I suggested that she rename it “Merkin” but then I had to explain the joke.
General Winfield Stuck
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Wow. that is a gorgeous kitteh! Love that bushy black tail.
Tattoosydney
@asiangrrlMN:
“You cook, too?”
I do. My current passion is Portuguese food. My honey cake would make you cry (or at least move to Portugal) and I make a mean chicken and chorizo casserole.
Third Eye Open
@Makewi: I was thinking more along the lines of dried turds with their names written in puffy paint, hanging on the ‘ole Christmas tree.
Didn’t you used to post on ratemypoop.com? You really have some impressive bowels.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Do that and the wingnutz will show up and start bitching about how they are being cheated out of “free weapons” promised by Obama. After all, the libruls got their free speech zones, right?
It’s times like this I wonder what the fall of Rome was like to live through. All great empires rise and fall and these nutz are trying to bring our country down. If you ain’t one of them then you are the enemy, deserving of death, even if you are a fellow citizen.
And they consider themselves patriots?
Fix’t.
Chad N Freude
@Makewi:
You forgot “Piss off.” So: Piss off.
Darkrose
Since lots of y’all have kitties, I thought I’d ask: does anyone have recommendations for a good vacuum cleaner? Specifically, one that does a good job with pet hair and litter? Despite the fact that the refrigerator doesn’t close, the oven door can’t be opened all the way, the roof leaks, the bathroom sink leaks, and the grout’s a memory in the shower, our apartment management has told us our unit is in “unacceptable condition” because there was a lot of cat litter on the floor during the recent inspection.
wasabi gasp
The Dog Song – Nellie McKay
jeffreyw
@Darkrose:
We have a Dyson DC17 that works well, high dollar machine. Try some review sites, Dyson has a rep for costing too much. Mrs Jeffreyw likes it, proudly displays the canister full of hair it sucks out of the front room carpet with every use.
Linkmeister
@jeffreyw: “proudly displays the canister full of hair it sucks out of the front room carpet with every use.”
Heh. The simple pleasures. I’ve done that. “Look at this! Isn’t this cool?”
And the person I’m showing it to politely says, “of course,” when what he or she really means is “What’s the big effing deal?”
Third Eye Open
@Darkrose: Do you have regular inspections, or was the Commandant coming over?
Seriously, call me a whiner, but I don’t want my landlord in my house at any point except the day I move in and the day I move out. Every other day is my time to happily live in squalor and pet toys.
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Damn grrl! Two consecutive nights off and I miss everything. Combining sex and food can be a tricky gray area, just ask George Costanza. And then there’s the shame the morning after:
http://ugliesttattoos.com/2009/08/11/funny-tattoos-mom-told-you-to-chew-before-you-swallow-2/
Indylib
@Darkrose:
Little late for an answer, but I have a Dyson for pet hair. It’s excellent.
Here’s the Amazon link. It’s a little pricey, but I have to move it every 3 years and I need one that won’t fall apart.
http://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Cyclone-Animal-Upright-Vacuum/dp/B000079R7G
Anne Laurie
@freelancer:
I’d never seen Hanna Rosin’s name until now, and she’s already risen to the top of my “Worst Female Bloggers in the Multiverse” list, beating out such tough competition as McArdle and the Anchoress. SLATE sucks, as a general rule, and Double X sucks even harder, but Rosin works hardest of all to earn a giant gift basket of lightly-salted cyanide-flavored elephant dicks.
Anne Laurie
@General Winfield Stuck:
During the 2004 Republican national convention in NYC, McArdle suggested that protesters should be “beaten with two-by-fours” because, once herded safely into the ‘protest pens’, they interfered with McArdle’s Starbucks-seeking experience. When readers protested this, she claimed she “didn’t really know” what a 2×4 was. Perhaps she can suggest a compromise — gun carriers will be permitted outside presidential venues, but only after a select cadre of Secret Service agents has beaten them with two-by-fours.
Makewi
@Anne Laurie:
Do you have a link to the actual McArdle article with that now famous quote? Attempts to google it only return people making claims about it.
Anne Laurie
@Demo Woman:
Haven’t seen him since the media caught him on camera coming out of the Hyannisport house the morning after Kennedy died. Poor man looked absolutely gutted — Teddy had been his mentor as a well as a personal friend. Politics is always a blood sport around here, and the maneuvering to fill the open Senate seat is going to be particularly insane, because the Democratic legislature passed a no-appointment-only-election law five years ago to keep then-Governor Romney from appointing a Republican to hopefully-President-Kerry’s seat, and that law is now threatening to leave Boston’s huge medical industry with only one vote during this Fall’s Health Care Reform battle. Apart from his personal grief, I suspect our new Senior Senator Kerry is staying under wraps so as not to stir up the Rethuglicans, instate and national clans both.
Anne Laurie
@Makewi: McArdle was still doing her “Jane Galt” blog then. Don’t know if that’s still searchable or not, don’t care enough to bother looking.
Makewi
@Anne Laurie:
Oh, I figured since you put it in quotes that you were making a direct quote. In this case its more of a heres-what-i-heard-from-others sort of ironic quote.
I guess its ok to slur someone if you don’t really care about it though.
Anne Laurie
@General Winfield Stuck:
By the time the WSJ started hawking the “Mena papers”, claiming Clinton was personally responsible for international drug-runners murdering dozens or hundreds of people when he was Arkansas’ governor, the Dow Jones Average was skyrocketing and Clinton’s administration was on the way to eliminating the national debt. So the average Low Information Voter, bless his narrow little mind, treated the whole Clenis “scandal” the same way people treat Michael Jackson’s death — as a diversion. Today, the economy is in the tank, everyone who hasn’t already lost their job is afraid they’ll be next, and those same Low Info people are looking for a scapegoat.
I was a teenager during the Watergate years, and that’s what the current level of general random paranoia and meanness reminds me of, actually. Try to take comfort in the fact that we survived Nixon, and even Kissinger.
Ming
@robertdsc: thanks.
Thunderbird
I guess its ok to slur someone if you don’t really care about it though.
Here it is, Makewi: http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/vote_though_it_pains_you.php
The internet is your friend.
Thunderbird
Crap, wrong quote. My apologies, Makewi.
Thunderbird
HERE’s the right one, Makewi.
http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/003959.html
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Oh, god. Will you marry me? Oh, wait! You already did!
@freelancer: You snooze, you lose, baby!
As for 2×4, just put Jane Galt and 2×4 in the Googles machine, and you will get plenty o’ results. Took me two seconds!
Tony Alva
One of the best pet pictures ever!
Makewi
@Thunderbird:
Thanks. The usage is not really even close to what Anne is suggesting it is. I suspected as much.
I do appreciate your apparent commitment to facts. I should have searched her site on “two-by-four” rather than “2×4”, which was a waste of time.
bubba
My granddaughter with “Ange”. Both the cat and granddaughter are Tunch size.