Fine and aromatic musings
…functionally retarded?
With the exception of the handful of blogs I frequent, I rarely dig into the comment section of anywhere. Today I took a bit and started reading comments on some of the videos I watched.
Holy shit, most of these people make Jay Leno’s “Jay Walking” folk look like Einstein.
Oh yeah, and bare with me, I’m burnt out on politics at the moment, this will change.
I want to slap who ever coined this term.
Why does everything that the Government do have to have a czar attached to it? What’s the fascination with Russia’s monarchy? I thought Kings and Russians were bad things?
Not only are our policies superior, but baby we we do corruption. We do CORRUPTION!
Later on November 5, Blagojevich said to Advisor A, “I’ve got this thing and it’s [expletive] golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for [expletive] nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”
Selling a senate seat? Are you fucking kidding me? The shear sack required stupidity to even dream this up, especially when he’s being shadowed by a USA, is just jaw dropping. I have to admit, it’s been cracking me up all day.
See GOP, even with all your corruption scandals, you ain’t got nothin’!
What’s the top story on Memeorandum?
The economy? No. Iraq? Nope! Anyone of the numerous crises this country is facing? Of course not. It’s the turd that won’t flush:
Suit contesting Barack Obama’s citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court Friday
ZOMG!!! His parents faked his birth certificate years ago, with the help of the prophet Muhammad, just so 47 years later we could have a Muslim in the office of the President who will turn the US into a big fucking Madrassa. The whole thing is more absurd than the Clinton death list.
Ed Morrissey calls for sanity:
The Chicago Tribune briefly revives the Obama-birth-certificate kerfuffle in an update today, if only to throw more cold water on it. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court confabs over whether to grant a review to Leo Donofrio’s lawsuit after having it rejected in district and appellate courts:
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I’m sure the comments section will fill with various conspiracy theories over Indonesian school records, Kenyan births, and so on. None of it — absolutely none — has any real, solid evidence showing that Obama was born anywhere else than Hawaii apart from sheer speculation and hearsay, and even less evidence that Obama’s stepfather renounced Obama’s birthright citizenship, which he didn’t have the power to do anyway. It’s a conspiracy theory spun by conspiracy theorists (Philip Berg is a 9/11 truther) who use their normal thresholds of evidence for this meme.
Even if this stupidity does see it’s day in court, when the obvious conclusion that, Yes Obama is a natural born citizen emerges, the paint huffers that are pushing this will still not be satisfied. They’ll pour through the court documents looking for evidence that the transcript was faked or that Obama’s lawyers did something or other, or I dunno. I’m sure whatever it is will be completely stupefying. These mouth breathers will not be satisfied. Period.
And yes, if you care you can see the finer points being debated in Ed’s comments. It’s humorous, yet sad.
What I do find amusing is the links attached to Ed’s post
On one side you have Right Wing News and Ed which say:
Personally, I hope that they take the case so that they can squash this whole issue once and for all. Barack Obama is an American citizen and if the Supreme Court officially rules that way, then these particular stories will, for the most part, go away.
As I noted above, I doubt that. Then you have a hedging of bets over at STOP the ACLU.
Interesting, very interesting [quote from Chi Trib article]
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Personally, I am about 95% sure Barry is an American citizen. But, let’s consider something which has been driving this case: why won’t Obama release his birth certificate? He gives us this “certificate of live birth,” which people have shot massive holes into. He originally released it to The Daily Kos. Why? His campaign demanded, along with the Compliant Media and the Left, all of McCain’s medical records, apparently going back to the beginning of time. McCain released over a thousand pages of medical records, and that wasn’t enough. They demanded more.
You can tell he wants this story to be true…so…bad…he..can TASTE IT!!. Sorry dude.
Then you have the complete wack job which title’s their post:
Ed Morrissey /HotAir misleads about Obama birth certificate
The meat of the post:
Ed Morrissey of HotAir offers “The sadly obligatory SCOTUS birth-certificate post” (link) in which he joins the long line of people misleading about the Obama citizenship issue. As with others, he links to the Sara Olkon/James Janega article and, among many other misleading statements, says:
The State of Hawaii only keeps birth certificates from births in Hawaii. The State of California only keeps birth certificates from births in California, Minnesota only keeps those from births in Minnesota, and so on. They don’t store information on births outside of their state. Why would they bother to do that? Use some common sense.
That’s a false statement. Under Hawaii law, those born in other states or foreign countries can obtain Hawaii birth certificates if their parents are residents of that state.
Like I said, nothing the SCOTUS could say will deter the true believers.
Here is what I find amusing.
Under the Constitution: Hillary Clinton is not currently eligible to be SoS.
There is a growing debate on the web and in the media regarding Senator Hillary Clinton’s eligibility to be appointed to the office of Secretary of State by President-Elect Barack Obama.
The controversy centers on the “Emoluments Clause” of Article I, section 6 of the United States Constitution, which states that “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time….” Because the salary (or ”emoluments”) of the office of the Secretary of State has been increased since Senator Clinton was re-elected in 2006, she would be constitutionally ineligible for appointment.
Now there is the Saxbe fix:
One solution would be for the Senate to simply vote to return the salary of the top US diplomat to its level before the previous Senate vote.
That solution has worked before — notably when senator Philander Knox was nominated as secretary of state by president William Taft in 1909 and most recently when president Bill Clinton made senator Lloyd Bentsen Treasury secretary.
The tactic became known as the “Saxbe” fix after president Richard Nixon used it to ease the nomination of senator William Saxbe as attorney general.
“There is precedent for how to address this issue and Congress will act if necessary,” said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi.
…but the wingnuts are letting me down. This has all the hallmarks of a wingnut hissy fit. Clintons, Constitutional abnormalities that their party created and now the Dems are working with, and did I mention the Clintons?
Yet I’ve heard little about it, instead all the nutcakes are focused on a birth cirtificate. Actually I guess I get it, these idiots are so appalled that they lost, that everything they stood for was not just repudiated, but ran over and backed up over again and again, I can see how they might ignore the Clintons for a bit if they can tilt at a windmill in the hopes of denying “the One”, “Barry” from ever taking office.
You wingnuts provide a never ending source of amusement for me. Don’t ever change!!
…next time you hear a Republican yodel about fiscal responsiblity.
A Senate staffer has confirmed to TPMmuckraker that the hold placed on the nomination of Neil Barofsky to be inspector general for the bailout has now been removed.
Politico had reported the removal of the hold earlier today, as we noted.
So now the focus is squarely on the identity of the GOP senator who placed the hold. And it now seems pretty clear, as we suspected from the start, that it was Jim Bunning of Kentucky.
Holding up the confirmation of the person that’s supposed to over see all of the TARP funds is not being fiscally responsible. That’s just giving money away. Might as well just launch a swarm of helicopters over Wall Street and just dump hundred dollar bills on to the streets.
I have nothing to say about Obama’s picks for his cabinet. All of them seem pretty sane to me so far. The wingnuts are starting to maybe, kinda show a bit of sanity. Outside of the fact that it seems there is no oversight of TARP (gee didn’t see that coming under the Bush administration), Bush is predictably giving us all one last ass fuck without lube. I sorta have nothing to say.
With that in mind, here is some Warcraft blogging.
I’ve been playing since day one. Really. I went down to the CompUSA on Market in San Francisco, waited in a big line and bought my first copy. I started on a PVE server. Cenarion Circle. I ran some battlegrounds then. Did my time in MC and Ony’s layer, but I ran into a battle at Tarren Mill one night that sold me on World PVP. It was a rush. There was no whining in BG chat, just a raid that worked together to take down TM. I soon left my PVE server for a PVP server (and moved from the Alliance to the Horde).
At first my new server had some great world PVP. When that wore down I moved to another server. They also had some great world PVP. Soon it also wore down and then I resorted to ganking and being ganked. That was fun for a good three years. Then i became tiresome. While it was always fun to WTFPWN someone for stealing my node or mob, I found myself longing for the days when I could just quest in peace and not have to worry about some douche of a rogue stunlocking me.
So I bought WotLK. I started out in the Tundra. Did my first questing. When I’d finished in the starting zone, I headed off to the next flight path quest hub, only to be immediately ganked by a crew of 5 Lv 80s who were camping the new hub. It was then that I realized, PVP servers just weren’t fun anymore. It hit me at that time, that Northrend has a dedicated PVP zone. I could if I wanted, flag myself and engage in some 1v1 PVP. I could have all this AND be able to quest unecumbered if I switched to a PVE server.
And I did. And I love it. And the bonus? There has been more World PVP on this server than on my last three PVP servers. Imagine that.
I’m loving it. I can do my thing when I want, I can kill when I want.
There are some downsides. I can’t take someone out for steeling my mob or node.
The upside? I’ve had several friendly Ally’s help me on taking down some elite quest mobs. Things I have to remember…you can’t buff an ally. If you try it doesn’t work and you’re flagged. You’re then a target. I found this out on day 1 on my new server. How I’d forgotten!! I was trying to be nice, buffed a NElf (or tried to) and was ganked a few minutes later by a dwarf huntard.
That’s enough. Alright I’m off to pick a fight at TM.
I love cooking, I love prepping too. Slicing, dicing, all that. No one who knows me would ever call me anal, and for everything else in life, I’m not. But I love prepping.
Menu Tomorrow:
Oh yeah and wine and martinis. Should be a good time!!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
John Cole got “tagged” and writes this truism:
I don’t think most people really appreciate how important good salt and good pepper are for cooking. I watch people go through all sorts of elaborate rituals with their cooking, using expensive ingredients and arcane procedures to cook their “gourmet” meal, and then I watch them use Morton’s table salt and/or McCormick’s pure ground pepper (which is really only good for sneezing) and wonder what the hell they are thinking. Good salt and pepper really make a profound difference in how your food can taste, and you will end up using less salt.
If you use crap S&P in you cooking, you will honestly bring you cooking to the next level by using sea or kosher salt and real cracked pepper the next time you cook.
Also!
If you brown something in a pan, when you pull it out take a few minutes to add either wine or stock to the pan afterwards. Dissolve and scrape up those brown bits of flavor. Reduce and add to whatever it is you are cooking. Really it does not matter, what you are cooking. Add it. This is deglazing. It’s pure flavor.
Hint, alcohol deglazing picks up different flavors than water or stock based deglazes. And no that’s not just because wine tastes different than stock. Alton Brown says so.
Madeleine Kamman, the French cooking teacher and author, would have you deglaze a pan only with stock or even salted water, never wine. She says wine must be brought to a boil and simmered slowly by itself to get rid of the harsh taste of the alcohol before adding it to a sauce, or the flavor will suffer. Using wine for deglazing or reducing it with stock will result in disappointment, she says.
I’ve never had a problem with alcohol taste in my deglazes. It’s a technique I use for almost all my cooking you should too. In fact for my chicken salad, I throw that reduction in when I add the mayo, it’s maybe a tablespoon or so, but I can tell you, it makes the difference between good and great!!
For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and sharing a feast. But on Tuesday, when the youngsters meet for their turkey and songs, they won’t be wearing their hand-made bonnets, headdresses and fringed vests.
Why? Because of one overly sensitive pin head named Michelle Raheja.
Parents in this quiet university town are sharply divided over what these construction-paper symbols represent: A simple child’s depiction of the traditional (if not wholly accurate) tale of two factions setting aside their differences to give thanks over a shared meal? Or a cartoonish stereotype that would never be allowed of other racial, ethnic or religious groups?
“It’s demeaning,” Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, wrote to her daughter’s teacher. “I’m sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation’s history.”
Yes, you dolt, a bunch of kindergartners dressing up as pilgrims and native americans is demeaning, just like the holocaust. Except that at the first Thanksgiving, native Americans and their European friends sat down to feast. It wasn’t until years later that we started to fuck over the Native Americans. Yeah, just like slavery or the holocaust, you fucking douche.
Oh but the drooling of idiocy continues:
Raheja, an English professor at UC Riverside who specializes in Native American literature, said she met with teachers and administrators in hopes that the district could hold a public forum to discuss alternatives that celebrate thankfulness without “dehumanizing” her daughter’s ancestry.
Yeah because cutting out native dress out of construction paper is really fucking demeaning. I mean I know you as a professor, want to educate…how about cutting something beyond the turkey hand. How about representing your “tribe” and actually putting time into you design….wouldn’t that be pretty educational? Ah, no, it’s easier to frame a 40 year old tradition in terms of Hitler than it is spending time with your kid or educating others, in an age appropriate format, about your views.
Kathleen Lucas, a Condit parent who is of Choctaw heritage, said her son — now a first-grader — still wears the vest and feathered headband he made last year to celebrate the holiday.
“My son was so proud,” she said. “In his eyes, he thinks that’s what it looks like to be Indian.”
See fucktard?
Instead of pushing your agenda on to everyone, how about just not having your child participate? You are no different than the right wing trying to push their view of Christianity on me.
You Michelle Raheja are the left’s equivalent of a wingnut. Your way or the highway, and it doesn’t matter who you push your agenda on, it just matters that you are right and you view and ONLY your view is the only one that should be given the light of day.
Eat me.
Proof that my wife is right. Page Six is the only worthwhile page in the NY post
THAT although we didn’t think it would be possible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reactionary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut
Having only broken one bone in my body in life, my jaw, I can sympathize, yet, I’m not an idiot that pimps myself all over any camera that’s in view. So to her I say:
LAWLZ!!!