Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

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A person I always liked and respected, veteran broadcaster Hugh Downs. Downs strongly believes that people should obtain news from a variety of sources, including ones that espouse viewpoints different from their own: "it is all to easy to accept information that support your own beliefs and to discount information that supports other points of view." Conglomerate ownership of media outlets, their continual thirst for ratings and the need for short sound bites all prevent the media from communicating the full, accurate story. Just something to keep in mind.

woo-hoo.

Moose chili?

With regards to the last thread and Kucinich...his criticism of his own party would be best with the following:

"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."

Jameson,

Where is Hugh Downs these days? I haven't seen or heard of him since he left 20/20 and I just assumed he had passed away.

I did the Glassboth quiz, here were my results

Richardson-82%
Obama-81%
Edwards-78%
Kucinich-77%
Clinton-76%

Ron Paul was the top Republican at 55%

Jamie,

I enjoyed completing the Glassbooth poll. I tried to proceed without using all 20 points, but it wouldn't let me.

Dodd & Edwards were #1 & 2. My guy, Joe, was 7th, and we agreed at 67%. That's close enough.

Hugh Downs, who has to be in his mid 80's, is still alive and well to the best of my knowledge.

It's easy to use the 20. They don't make it real clear that if you want to give all 20 to one issue, you can. I skipped some, gave others 2, 3 and major issues 5. That combined with the follow up quiz gets pretty accurate.

Moving the glassbooth quiz over here for those that might miss on last thread.

Great Quiz at Glassbooth to match you with a candidate

http://glassbooth.org/

Took the quiz. Today Dennis is mah man. I must be fickle as mah man changes from time to time.

tt

dickipedia *L*

tt

Christopher Dodd 94% similarity 2 Hillary Clinton 76% similarity 3 Dennis Kucinich 76% similarity

i said getting rid of the ot laws and protecting the right to choose were important

getting rid of pot laws

Horsedooty was matched with Skinny Dennis at like 94%
Gravel at like 94% and then Bill at 30%

yo soy Horsedooty!

"...Thompson did his best to boost his latest poll numbers in the state – which, at 4 percent in a University of New Hampshire survey, did not even climb above the margin of error."

Great way to start my day! A bona fide zinger!

Please pass the scrambled squirrel brains to enjoy with my moose chili.

Bosom Buddies, Pals and Good Friends...???
It's the Mitt and Rudy Friendship!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/romneys-dig-at-his-friend/

Dex,

I'm not looking to support either of those guys, but in reading the article, I see Romney's as the stronger case. I'm okay with a governor, who inherits a deficit, and wipes it out by increasing fees and closing corporate tax loopholes, making the claim that he did it without increasing taxes.

I wouldn't be so lenient, if he hadn't inherited a large deficit, but given that fact, I'm sure the state had to increase its revenues somehow. If he wiped out the deficit without changing income tax rates, he's got a right to trumpet that accomplishment.

anyone saying we are winning in Afghanistan needs to read this article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2214994,00.html

yo soy Horsedooty!

75% Richardson, 75% Gravel, 73% Skinny Dennis.

I guess my main problem with Kucinich is that when Russert asked him if he'd ever seen a UFO, he didn't answer: "See one? Hell, I piloted one."

I just had a near Rudy experience in Nashua. I went to swim at the Nashua Raddison and Rudy was coming to give a speech or have dinner or something. I did not see him, I did not hear him. All I saw was a small crowd of people and several of his busses. I was really looking to see if Craig was there, but I didn't hang around very long. By the time I was done at the pool it seemed like the event was under way. So Craig, if you were there, sorry to miss you. Anyway Rudy doesn't interest me too much I didn't try to get in to the event, carrying my gym gear.

Note of interest. The quilting show last week drew a lot more people than Rudy. There was not a parking spot to be found for the quilting show, plenty of open spots today.

A day of naps! A perfect way to spend a holiday Saturday! I suspect Thompson already knows he's blown it and will drop out shortly after Iowa, he's only staying in at this point to avoid the label of quitter.

A good idea for a cold, rainy day.

Unfortunately when I woke up I realized I was out of pie! So I have one in the oven now!

the great george:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BTU0cy22k

Damn, George showed up!

yo soy Horsedooty!

Hank jr and waylon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BTU0cy22k

say when

when

i started to post Tn. Ernie Ford doing a cover of an Otis Redding song long ago recorded by Frank Sinatra but I chickened out.

EdVB: Remember when Goldwater promised to raise taxes to offset deficit spending?
I campaigned as hard as a teenager could against Barry G. as I was taught Extremism was indeed a vice.
In long range retrospect, I see Goldwater was not the clown the Democrats made him out to be. Wacky, but no clown.
Remember, this was the guy who's plans for the Vietnam War were to annihilate the entire country over there.
That's why I campaigned vigorously for LBJ...imagine...LBJ was my choice for a war president , when it was clear as glass I would end up over there in a few years!

the pentagon is an equal opportunity employer?

A Prairie Home Companion livestream right now:

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/

Brian,

We're starving out here...how can you mention a pie in the oven and not even let us know what kind it is...lol

bear did you find the Lee Harvey O graveyard?

yo soy Horsedooty!

No dooty,

Didn't go looking for it...decided to volunteer at a soup kitchen and then went to some friends for dinner...I still can't decide if I like deep fried turkey more or less than mesquite smoked turkey...

Richardson will be on This Week with George Stephanopoulos tomorrow. He'll be discussing the quality of Brian's pie crust...

i vote for mesquite-smoked turkey!

Yo Soy Dexter!

I have only had deep fried turkey once and it was edible but I think I prefer oven roasted the way the wife makes it. Could be that after 31 years she has me trained by now.

Bear,
lee harvey will still be there when you finally go looking for him.

yo soy Horsedooty!

Everyday apple

I could sure go for some moose chili right about now! Even better , would be some moose and squirrel chili! LOL!

Here's a story that makes one think twice about illegal immigrants:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7543489

Sounds good Brian, I'm going to heat some up now as well.

Let me ask you all this...

My great aunt was from Nebraska and had a great recipe for Apple Pie that she would bake in a paper bag. Unfortunately she was 99 when she passed away so I was never able to get the recipe from her. The only other written copy was the one she gave my mom and lord knows what happened to that one after she died.

Anyone have a recipe for that by chance?

The comments about Moose chili remind me of a Utah Phillips story. Go to:

http://www.utahphillips.org/utah.html

and click on "Moose Turd Pie."

Bear, if you google apple pie paper bag you get several links. My sister tried that once but not being a fruit pie person, I couldn't tell you if it was better than without the bag.

there is a guy in Dallas that roasts a turkey in a brown bag.
never tried it though.

yo soy Horsedooty!

There's a guy in the Denver bus station that drinks Colt 45 malt liquor from a brown bag.

U Utah Phillips is a scream. I have the Moose Turd Pie bit on an old record. My dad who was railroad thru and thru loved him.

yo soy Horsedooty!

I've sampled more'n a dozen deep-fried-in-peanut-oil turkeys and many more oven-roasrteds, but only one slow-cooked mesquite-smoked turkey, which was cooked in a commercial turkey smoker. It was ten years ago but I never forgot how good it was.
I love turkey legs and oven roasting dries out the legs too much. I suppose cuz nobody 'cept me likes the legs, so why bother worrying about them.
Our Thanksgiving was great, but next time , if we ever go there again, I will bring the two items that were sorely missed, at least by me!
1) some kind of cranberry dish...nary a cranberry on the table!
2) sweet potatoes---I only eat them once a year, but I want them on that day! I should not have assumed someone would have brought them...my bad...never again!

By the way , Hugh Downs is alive. He has been on 2 different informercials for some medical secrets book. It usually airs on the weekends.

Bag -roasted bird? WTH? Sounds like it's gotta be good if all you guys have heard of it.
I worked with a guy , Bill.
Bill was THE cheapest dude in the world!
He never used the vending machines ... always drove his mini-car to the discount house for the cheapest stuff, preferably from the dent-table (deep discounts on dented and ripped packaging).
Well, microwave popcorn becane the rage years ago, but Bill refused to buy it , even at the discount house.
Now some of us had plastic bowls , made for microwaving loose-pack corn. Bill was too cheap to even buy a re-usable popping bowl.
He bought some loose-pack popcorn, and kept it in his locker.
When he wanted popcorn, he would filch around in the dumpster for a McDonald's paper sack, dump in some corn and stick in the microwave oven. Inevitably it would smoke and burn and he would get a little corn that was decent enough to eat. And was it down with a dented can of generic soda from Sav-A-Lot.

Oh...one time Bill found a regular paper grocery bag...the large one.
He decided to make a bag of corn.
For some reason , it popped up perfectly...he showed me, grinning like Johnny in The Shining.
It had made a half-grocery bag of popcorn.
Bill would not waste anything. It took him hours, but he ate all that popcorn. Wow...dat's a lotta corn!

What's with bag cooking??

tt

People who can't cook think shoving the food in a bag before you cook it will somehow work a miracle. *shrug*

TT,

Just thinking about my great aunts recipe...

I didn't go to school here, but is there anything in college more impressive than this band playing this fight song? I have to say it's my favorite of them all...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WaTbniMUr8k

Thanks, Brian. *L*

Anytime TT!

Gol-ll-ll-eeeee, Bear! Them girls iz half-nekkid!

Corey: Hugh Downs "starred" in a documentary , when his knee replacement surgery was taped for all the world to see. It was the bloodiest , most disgusting thing I have ever seen on teevee! No holds barred, just knee gristle and bone and lotsa blood.

An 8 minute vid of a marching band? I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, like a George Bush streaking or something.

"angel god" feeds Jackson Heights homeless EVERY DAY
(video)

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=489fcb03550e4e83a1fbf50111c08461a47aacc1

NH Candidates Schedules for this week.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071125/NEWS08/311250068/-1/news

Food for Thought article on Obama by David Broder

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301250.html

I would really be interested in Bear's reaction to some of the points he makes.

The Bickersons on Meet The Press - Carville / Matelin

Good Article by Edwards

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071124/OPINION01/711240307/1036/OPINION

The Land of the Dying Dollar

http://www.newsweek.com/id/71888

It would be funny if we gave it all back to Britain now that the pound is running 2 to 1

Or just move to Canada - Tylenol can take a bow for her home country on this one

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/canadas_moral_compass.html

Richardson and McCain on This Week.

This should be good...

thompson and that stuffed deer head he was standing under have a lot in common......

Sturg,

Did Chris Matthews say that deer head looked Presidential?

lol

yes, and played a clip of the deer head 15 times during his show.......

If you haven't seen this: What JFK would say to GWB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkryNyxlubY

Morning peeps. God I hate the end of long weekends. The silence has been just golden!

Some James Madison quotes; sent to Andrew Sullivan by one of his readers:

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”

“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.”

“Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.”

I always thought it was:

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"

Brian,

You left off the last four words, " . . . but not for long. "

Next time I'm having tea with Miss Austin I'll let her know Ed.

Brian,

Just because she didn't write them, doesn't mean those words weren't there.

Ed I second guess politicians, not literary immortals!

In that case, stop arguing with me.

Modesty has precluded me from mentioning it here, but I am a legend in my mind.

scary place your mind must be!

Only to the uninitiated.

Gotta run. Have a good one.