I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Good morning.
Hello, mer!
Slice, yes - and dice.
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morning
i think what he meant by "light" was the subject matter wouldn't be too heavy. 
Atrios,
Did you ever post that Really. Exciting. Post. you were on about Thursday night?
"Posting will be light, on and off, throughout the holiday season. "
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Essentially, they want to argue, we want to make a difference.
Any thoughts?
And besides, Kos hasn't told us all what to say yet!
from below.
I want to see Heaven/Hell before I die -- that way, I can see what, if anything, I like about it, and adjust accordingly.
Culture of Truth | Homepage | 12.23.06 - 10:48 am | #
Oh yeah! As if the Devil won't make you stand on your head in that ankle deep shit filled room.....
Good morning. Yesterday, my husband asked me which presidential candidate was my choice for '08. I told him that I was interested in how the Democratic Congress (how sweet it it)would perform in '07 and doing whatever I could to help. He took that to mean that I wasn't interested in '08 and, instead, was looking ahead to 2012. I think we have a very narrow window to prove ourselves to the American people before we worry about the White House right now.
I loved Meryl Streep in "Adaptation."
Although the Starbucks Coffee Liquer definitely has alcohol in it.
I think my tongue is going numb.
I wonder if that's supposed to happen?
Oh, sorry...wrong topic.
"Posting will be light, on and off, throughout the holiday season. "
He meant that he would be posting like flashing Xmas lights.
If I could conjure a Venti Mocha at this juncture, I would.
Hi Buckeye.
I really hope the new year brings a focus on Congress and not on who the next presidential hopefuls will be. I shudder that Bush has two more years in office, but any two-year campaign for president is too much for me. I wish they couldn't even annouce their intentions until the beginning of 08.
Scotch eggs?
(shudder)
from below:
I do recommmend Scandinavia, most highly. I'd like to go to New Zealand, not the least because then I can compare Norwegian fjords and New Zealand fiords:
Buckeye
One way or another, I am getting to Milford Sound before I die.
SteveNS | 12.23.06 - 10:45 am
Oh,yes. Ideally more than one day, perhaps some kayaking.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~abroad/
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And then spend time in Abel Tasman:
http://www.jeremyparsons.com/
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I suspect this has to do with the fact that the right-wing blogosphere is merely a forum for already existing conservative movement institutions, whereas the liberal blogs actually represent a newly organized set of progressives. Essentially, they want to argue, we want to make a difference.
This is precisely the point I try to make when I post that I'm sick of the anger on liberal comment boards. When the discourse revolves around anger (and yeah, there's a lot to be pissed about, but we've had six years to be pissed, too - get over it and be productive), it doesn't do much to make a difference, it just devolves to the liberal version of LGF or Freeperville.
plantsman, could you conjure me one as well? my coffee is just now brewing
plantsman, could you conjure me one as well? my coffee is just now brewing
I think my tongue is going numb.
I wonder if that's supposed to happen?
That means it's working. Keep drinking until your whole body is numb.
Negative negative negative! This blog is totally negative!
Scotch eggs?
(shudder)
Molly Ivors
I wanted to ask downstairs, but I didn't dare.
What is it?
What is it called when you biscuit-cutter the center out of a piece of toast, and fry an egg in it?
I owe Sweet Sue a beverage. I can't type fast enough.
What is it called when you biscuit-cutter the center out of a piece of toast, and fry an egg in it?
Bird in the nest, or toad in the hole.
My kid loves that, even at 18.
What is it called when you biscuit-cutter the center out of a piece of toast, and fry an egg in it?
Eggie in a basket.
Vicki,
Scotch eggs.
Ick.
I will try, FireFox, but know my Jeannie costume is at the cleaners.
Gashouse egg is what we call it. Bestest egg ever, lots o butter.
It's toad-in-the-hole around here.
Yeah, I'd heard toad in the hole, but never bird in the nest, though that makes the most intuitive sense.
What is it called when you biscuit-cutter the center out of a piece of toast, and fry an egg in it?
Johnny Reb's disappearing bowels
Bird in the nest, or toad in the hole.
I thought toad in the hole was meatballs or other bits of meat cooked up in yorkshire pudding.
What is it called when you biscuit-cutter the center out of a piece of toast, and fry an egg in it?
Down South, eggs-in-a-basket.
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Scotch eggs.
Ick.
I s'pose you prefer Guinness eggs?
Hi Buckeye.
I really hope the new year brings a focus on Congress and not on who the next presidential hopefuls will be. I shudder that Bush has two more years in office, but any two-year campaign for president is too much for me. I wish they couldn't even annouce their intentions until the beginning of 08.
mer | 12.23.06 - 10:52 am |
I'd love for the press to actually focus on Congress (and hopefully hearings and investigations) but alas the press is stupid and has ADHD, and there will many more missing white women/mountain climbers out there to distract them.
I think the MSM is talking about presidential candidates rather than the mess the repukes have left the new Democratic Congress with and don't forget how they have ignored shrubs complete failure in iraq.
Vicki,
Scotch eggs.
Holy cow! Deep frying cholesterol in cholesterol!
Our platform includes lots of surging.
I always thought it was 'toad in the hole' too.
blerb
Wiki says they're both toad in a hole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Toa...oad_in_the_hole
Ick.
Molly Ivors
I dunno, sounds kinda perversely greasalicious to me.
I'm going to have to consider cleaning up and shaving -- I'm supposedly going to Lamb's market, and I fear it will be hellishly busy if I wait too long.
Ick.
Molly Ivors
I bet that would be good with bacon.
Scotch eggs?
(shudder)
Molly Ivors
I wanted to ask downstairs, but I didn't dare.
What is it?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 12.23.06 - 10:54 am
Dr. Barmpot has got a recipe for it, make sure you have a cardiologist standing by.
I'm going to have to consider cleaning up and shaving
Why shave?
Todays distraction is the Duke rape oh um sexual assault case.
Sick.
Of.
It.
Holy cow! Deep frying cholesterol in cholesterol!
You forgot the sausage. that makes it "deep frying cholesterol-wrapped cholesterol in cholesterol."
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spammity-spam, wonderful spam......
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Gates offered that his limited experience on the job may give him "a perspective that those who have been intensely involved with it for the past several years don't have."
That's my motto, too: The less you know, the better off you are.
but know my Jeannie costume is at the cleaners.
I'm a dirty, long-haired hippy and put my hair in a pony on top of my head at work sometimes when asked for impossible results.... a twitch of the neck...and ....it never works for me
I had an old Joy of Cooking that mentioned boiling potaoes in a caulron of melted Pine rosin next to an iced-over pond as a wintertime treat for buoys and gulls.
Okay, I'm off to dress and get my grades in and get Thers a proper stereo for his car, which I guess is now our car, since we'll be commuting together.
Have a wonderful, festive day, darlings!
Is plantsman here?
Hey plantsman, my daughter just received a call from her dad. He had a couple of "mini-strokes" and apparently, there is a little bit of damage to his brain.
He'll be in the hospital until tomorrow.
How in the hell do they treat this, going forward? I've read that people with TIA are more likely to have a stroke within a year.
I wanted to ask downstairs, but I didn't dare.
What is it?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
The ones I know about are hardboiled eggs, peeled, covered in sausage (bulk, obviously) and cooked or fried or something (probably fried).
Your annual limit of cholesterol in one breakfast. Unless your Amish, of course.
I had an old Joy of Cooking that mentioned boiling potaoes in a caulron of melted Pine rosin
I think MLB outlawed that.
it's quite clear form reading that Salon article that facts are deadly to freepers.
too bad they're mostly immune to them.
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Drudge, Goldberg and several other Free Republic stars have left; visits are reportedly down to less than half what they were a year ago; Free Republic's founding guru, Jim Robinson, has been sued by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times; and a swelling number of haters have turned up the volume of death threats, gay-bashing, name-calling and conspiracy theories tying the father of Republican front-runner George W. Bush to drug-dealing by the CIA.
Man, that's hilarious.
I dunno, sounds kinda perversely greasalicious to me.
blerb
Agreed. And, if you've got the oil at 350 degrees, the sausage wouldn't absorb the oil and you'd end up with a less-greasy product at the end.
I'm a dirty, long-haired hippy and put my hair in a pony on top of my head at work sometimes when asked for impossible results.... a twitch of the neck...and ....it never works for me
Are you in the 'edited' version, with the belly-button covered?
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I think the MSM is talking about presidential candidates rather than the mess the repukes have left the new Democratic Congress with and don't forget how they have ignored shrubs complete failure in iraq.
I think that this is basically correct. So much easier to focus on the mundane than it is to focus on reality.
Things to do: Keep track of AP writer Erica Werner after this piece on challenges facing progressives
ick! Lump of coal for Erica.
I think MLB outlawed that.
I thought it was the Geneva Conventions.
What is it called when you biscuit-cutter the center out of a piece of toast, and fry an egg in it?
Down South, eggs-in-a-basket.
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Cynicus
Toad in a hole, I'd thought.
Why shave? In truth, when my beard was reddish-blond I rather liked it, now that white encroaches, not so much.
Scotch eggs?
(shudder)
Molly Ivors
What about scotch, eggs, sausage, and scotch?
That's not got much scotch in it.
I think MLB outlawed that.
Culture of Truth
There is no God.
I owe Sweet Sue a beverage. I can't type fast enough.
mer
I don't know why, but how about an egg nog, laced with Maker's Mark bourbon and topped with whipped cream.
The dish you all are discussing, wasn't that what V served Natalie Portman?
We got Mick Shrimpton again
A senior Taleban commander and associate of al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Afghanistan, the US military says.
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Usmani's vehicle was reportedly hit in an air strike in Helmand province in south Afghanistan.
The US said Mullah Usmani was the chief Taleban military commander in southern Afghanistan - scene of heavy clashes between the Taleban and US-led forces.
"A stinking mackerel in the garbage can of truth"
Pretty much sums up the GOP.
What about scotch, eggs, sausage, and scotch?
That's not got much scotch in it.
driftglass
Hmnmm..I haven't had breakfast yet. Scotch, scones, scotch, scotch, coffee, and scotch.
That's not got much scotch in it, either.
Gashouse egg is what we call it. Bestest egg ever, lots o butter.
mer | 12.23.06 - 10:56 am | #
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mer imho...there is nothing in this world that cannot be improved with a whole lot of grade A butter
How in the hell do they treat this, going forward? I've read that people with TIA are more likely to have a stroke within a year.
It varies. Generally, priority #1 is getting hypertension under control. Sometimes anticoagulants (aspirin, coumadin) are started against clots. Addressing cardica problems next, with weight loss, all that. Stress reduction if necessary.
But the big ones are working on high blood pressure and anticoagulants.
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The dish you all are discussing, wasn't that what V served Natalie Portman?
Yes indeedy.
mmmm, think I'll go make some of those artery blocking eggs
see yas
How in the hell do they treat this, going forward? I've read that people with TIA are more likely to have a stroke within a year.
My mother had an attack earlier this year and spent a couple of days in the hospital. All the docs have her on is an aspirin a day.
Alternatively, anticoagulants may be prescribed.
I think that this is basically correct. So much easier to focus on the mundane than it is to focus on reality.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 12.23.06 - 11:01 am | #
Sam Seder recently had a show on this topic and cable news. CNN was reporting that Obamas name which sound alot like Osamas name and Obamas middle name that sounds alot like Saddams last name, along with how Obama dressed like Irans president, would really be a problem for him in the up coming elections! And they call that news
The Dems policies stand tall. Their candidates stand short. Because Presidential politics is a personality cult, thinking about Hillary (wife of Bill) or Al or John K. or John E. (previous losers) or Wes (we're losing the war, therefore a loser) confuses things. The whole arc of what's-in-it- for-me collapses and is replaced by "do I like this guy/gal?"
The exception is Obama. If he doesn't get Swiftboated, he will cause a stir like you ain't seen for a while, and I think it would be good for all of us to let him shine if he can and not pre-empt him in favor of another candidate (who we may already have endorsed).
The only way to win the personality cult game is to elect a guy who doesn't seem to care about it all that much. Even wingers don't like what Bush has done; but a lot of people still "like" him, and that's because the teevee has hammered that in their heads. We shouldn't hate people for being somewhat vulnerable to things like that. They need a counter-role-model, somebody different, and I just have this feeling about Obama. He could change the way we're going and I don't think he would turn out to be crazy, as a recent VP nominee sure as hell did.
Cynicus,
Thanks.
The exception is Obama. If he doesn't get Swiftboated...
He's already getting Osamaboated.
Al Gore didn't lose the election. It was stolen from him.
Media coverage of the Obama campaign - "How many ways can we point out that he's, you know, brown, without getting called on it?"
Pfui.
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Vicki, from my own TIA experience, they'll probably put him on blood pressure meds if it was an ischemic (clot-based) event. My lasting effects are only numbness in the left 2 fingers of my left hand. I lost my horticultural database entirely for nearly a year and the ability to write or print for a few weeks. Attitude and desire to find normalcy is key.
The confusion I felt, and inability to express same scared the shit out of me. I had had a very good experience with physical therapy a year earlier after knee surgery. I found that approaching mental decline like physical therapy really took the fright out.
And patience and self-love. Gotta stress that.
Scotch egg
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A typical packet of supermarket scotch eggs
Inside a scotch eggThe Scotch egg was invented in the London food store Fortnum and Mason in 1738 [1]. It is not, contrary to popular legend, a Scottish dish. It consists of a cold, hard-boiled egg removed from its shell, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried. It is eaten cold, typically with salad and pickles.
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yuuuuuuuuuuuuuum Fortnums
English food is an aquired taste
ummmm kippers and eggs
De nada, vicki.
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Mmm. Haggis, then, all 'round?
The truth of the matter is that racism is rampant in the United States. Michael Savage and Rush are racists and bigots. You don't see some hippie dippie with a radio show spewing peace, love, and understanding. I'd like to think that the hippies made a dent in the opposite direction, but that's all been put to rest by the drone of the SCLM, sadly.
So Obama is a liability.
I think that this is basically correct. So much easier to focus on the mundane than it is to focus on reality.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I think that our entire commercial media is allergic to narratives that have "America has failed"or "America is wrong" as their basic subtext. Thus, they will never entertain the idea that invading Iraq in the first place was a disastrous blunder and moally wrong. It will never happen, no matter how true it might be. The worse things get there, the harder it is to see it any other way, so they will desparately try to change the subject.
The exception is Obama. If he doesn't get Swiftboated...
Oh, the GOP would never be that low again.
English food is an aquired taste
ummmm kippers and eggs
sittenpretty ,MCI SUCKS
Lived in the Midwest for awhile, where the food was more decidedly English than I was accustomed to (salt and pepper were considered both "exotic" and "spicy").
And had a few meals in England, long, long ago. Also have some very English cookbooks. Always figured English food was an acquired lack of taste.
But then, I put hot sauce on my breakfast eggs, so what do I know?
I also started taking Tickle® Online IQ tests to measure my progress or lack of same. When I got a 133, I eased off on the self-edumacation.
And patience and self-love. Gotta stress that.
plantsman, lowercase | 12.23.06 - 11:09 am | #
plantsman, for that you dont have to bathe, you don't have to shave. Just have a great day!
Ack, look at the time!
Got to go do things before all the land shuts down for the secretive celebration of a holiday that's warred-upon because of the religionists of said holiday, who are a tiny minority, cruelly oppressed.
Later, all.
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The confusion I felt, and inability to express same scared the shit out of me.
Interesting. Thank you so much.
He went in Monday night, and was released on Wednesday. They were saying that he had an irregular heart beat, and that he might have to have a procedure done in January.
So he goes to work on Thursday, his speech starts to slur, and he drives himself to the hospital. (Don't get me going on this - that was a poor decision on his part.)
That's where the confusion set in. He was crying, embarrassed he was back in, didn't want to see anyone.
I remember that my grandma would get very emotional when she had the first of several small strokes.
This is where Sam Seder got the topic of how the press is reaching for news.
"GREENFIELD: Now, it is one thing to have a last name that sounds like Osama and a middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than helpful. But an outfit that reminds people of a charter member of the axis of evil, why, this could leave his presidential hopes hanging by a thread. Or is that threads? -- Wolf." http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com...ives/
011510.php
"December 12, 2006
The Sam Seder Show - Tuesday
Did you ever think to associate Sen. Barack Obama with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? And if so, was it because they both favor wearing open shirts with no ties?
No? We didn't think so.
So how on earth did this story end up on CNN??
Posted on December 12, 2006 9:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (213)"
http://www.bluestateblogs.com/ma...chives/2006/12/
And patience and self-love. Gotta stress that.
plantsman, lowercase | 12.23.06 - 11:09 am | #
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its like butter...it helps evrything ...thanks again for the reminder! 
But then, I put hot sauce on my breakfast eggs, so what do I know?
Rmj, Street Credentialed
There are people who don't put hot sauce on their breakfast eggs?
Personally I'd rather see the Senators concentrate on governing rather than running for President. We really need that to happen.
I think that our entire commercial media is allergic to narratives that have "America has failed"or "America is wrong" as their basic subtext. Thus, they will never entertain the idea that invading Iraq in the first place was a disastrous blunder and moally wrong. It will never happen, no matter how true it might be. The worse things get there, the harder it is to see it any other way, so they will desparately try to change the subject.
blerb |
And since Liberals are Merkin haters, it's clear that the commercial media is allergic to the stories that read that Liberals are right. see my above link with juicy tidbits like this for breakfast.
:::Yet they risk getting pinched between liberals itching for impeachment hearings and a quick end to the
Iraq war, and more centrist Democrats looking to make common cause with Republicans on fiscal issues.
And that's assuming progressives can settle on their own goals from a long list of priorities, including universal health care, action on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, voting reform and fixing the trade imbalance.:::
And plantsman, my daughter just told me that he was on meds for HBP, but that he refused to take them regularly.
Arrrggghhhh.
I disagree about the lasting impact of hippie-dippy culture. Natural and organic foods pervade the
marketplace now. The blame conservatives have tried to lay at the feet of libruls regarding Vietnam, et al. has been undone by the Iraq fiasco. The hate wingers spew toward the 60's is revealed as the mere bile it is.
I have this to say to those (above) who want Congress to prove itself: it ain't that easy. Given the state of the MSM and the continued strength of the Repukes, we're STILL on defense, although we can press more aggressively. Over the next two years you're going to learn big big hate for a guy named Mitch McConnell.
As for the tendency of even lefty blogs to spew - we're intellectuals. Underneath it all, we're bored with Bush. And I'm bored with the constant necessity of criticizing one talking head after another. I want to go after them as a BLOCK - that is, I wanna target a network, preferably Faux, for getting its license pulled for real. No kidding around. Take their billion-dollar franchise away and explicitly give it to a homegrown group of DFH.
I think that our entire commercial media is allergic to narratives that have "America has failed"or "America is wrong" as their basic subtext.
I heard Meredith Whats-her-name on the Today show talking about Americans see themselves as "pure" and then went on to question that "purity" with the results of the recent study that up to 90% of the populace dating back the the 1940's engaged in pre-marital sex.
As long as "purity" begins and ends with pre-marital sex and the like with no mention of the millions of people that have been killed (Viet Nam, Iraq in 91 and hte latest mess) at the hands os the "pure" I would expect nothing else from the media.
And I'm bored with the constant necessity of criticizing one talking head after another. I want to go after them as a BLOCK - that is, I wanna target a network, preferably Faux, for getting its license pulled for real.
I agree with you. Attack all of the big guns with big guns.
I understand your feelings, Vicki -- I had been warned about my blood pressure before my TIA, but foolishly, I paid no heed. Youthful feelings of invulnerability, I ascribe it to.
I want to go after them as a BLOCK - that is, I wanna target a network, preferably Faux, for getting its license pulled for real. No kidding around. Take their billion-dollar franchise away and explicitly give it to a homegrown group of DFH.
cecrops
That would be a pyrrhic victory. It would feed a stronger counter-narrative to do that than it could ever itself create. Fox will be defeated not when its license gets pulled, but when it goes belly-up because nobody is watching it anymore.
I drove myself to and from the hospital. @ lousiest drives I ever had. Single people do funny things, sometimes.
And plantsman, my daughter just told me that he was on meds for HBP, but that he refused to take them regularly.
Arrrggghhhh.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 12.23.06 - 11:16 am
Arrrggghhhh indeed. Non-compliance is a problem, hopefully now he'll understand why it is that he needs to take the meds. If they are causing side effects, he needs to explain that to his doctors, and see if there are alternatives.
Reminder to Silly Peeps:
If a trusted doc prescribes blood pressure meds, take them like clockwork.
Chris Dodd drapes
Buckeye's right. The first several BP meds my primary care doc tried me on made me feel horrid.
The regimen the hospital neurologist put me on
is the one I take to this day, and the side effects are so mild as to be unnoticeable. Much mo' betta.
We may be bored with criticizing w but the son of a bitch is still president and may yet do something so egregious that even we are surprised. He has shown a remarkable talent for that.
We have to keep on it, bored or not. It is our civic duty.
I hate the primaries... it makes party members turn on each other, the same way their opponents do in the full elections... it's very distasteful, though the primaries themselves are necessary... another problem is when there are too many good choices - Gore, Clinton, Obama in '08? do I have to pick just one???
I think most of us are rather annoyed that vapid presidential primary talk already dominates the coverage of politics and don't wish to contribute to it
evidence of establishment democrats' dirty tactics also gets dismissed in a like fashion.
I won't read the polls nor stump speeches until mid to late '07. Positions may change meanwhile or one or two of the candidates could get hit by a bus.
Its very likely Iraq will be a lesser problem than Iran and the US economy.
Its just too early. Why jump into the pool before all the water's in it?
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