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Vito Corleone to Sonny, (while swatting him with his hat): "NEVER let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking."

said hat probably a Borsalino from Alessandria, Italia:

http://www.villagehatshop.com/borsalino.html

actual Borsalino website: nice hats, nice picturas.....

http://borsalino.com/

Gov Blog is apparently looking for a group buy for Horse's.... How many Senate seats in IL.?

You know how those head games go....

Sturge -- If I was a mob guy, I'd probably go whole hog on a hat and wear this one: Borsalino Super Fino Montecristi Fedora. If you are gonna flaunt your occupation, I say really flaunt it.

ahhhh........a fine looking chapeau, but if it were on my head, I'd quickly place it upon someone else's head and just as quickly DUCK........lol

uneasy lies the head which wears the crown

tight as Dick's hatband.......

I own a Borsa... it's a good hat.

yep. the best there be. IM in no way HO

I'm wearing mine one morning in a diner and this old guy is toddling along with his cane and he stops when he gets to me and looks.......I look up as if to say "Yes?" and he says, "Nice hat." and then toddles on by......

Oh, I got some stories...

it's a good hat.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01262009/news/nationalnews/just_plane_despicable_152033.htm

"JUST PLANE DESPICABLE
'RESCUED' CITI BUYING $50M JET"

Conyers to Rove: "Who's gonna protect you now?"

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/01/house_judiciary_chairman_subpoenas_karl_rove_1.php

Whoa -- Tony, I surfed a little at the NY Post after reading the jet article....Fred Dicker flatly calls Paterson a liar!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01272009/news/columnists/paterson_lyin_king_of_state_152202.htm

I'm frugal. Even when it comes to hats. I do have one from the Atlanta Olympics that's really impressive. And, almost every time I wear it I'm asked if I was there.

When I tell them no, I get the quizzical look. Then I add, "Bought it at Big Lots." which is the truth. Most of the questioners look as if they've been cheated; I feel good.

Patsi

How is the ice?

Looks like on the map the bad stuff went just north of you.

Jack

I got mine at the goodwill.....pre-owned hats......talk about frugal........lol

it was like finding a little piece of gold.......

Jack -- yes, the worst just missed us...it's raining now and there's a little icing on the trees. This little cat (I'm calling her Miss Girl) is still POd because I won't let her outside -- but I am SO glad I got the heads up yesterday and brought her in! When I went to bed, it wasn't bad -- no rain, cold but not terrible. Under those circumstances I might have let her out...she does like to prowl at night.

On the other hand, my son-in-law has to drive from Bowling Green to Nashville this morning...hope Kentucky is okay. Back when I made the Kansas trip every Christmas, Kentucky roads in the winter (especially the Land Between the Lakes) were often treacherous.

Like my Cleveland Indians hat--picked it up at the Shaw AFB thrift shop. Every time I wear it, it starts a conversation about 1948.

Patsi

Looks like the Kennedy machine is in full attack mode

Jack

Every time I wear it, it starts a conversation about 1948.

Posted by: Flatus | January 27, 2009 8:32 AM

You mean y'all talk about the time Strom Thurmond ran for president?

Hey, it turns out that Obama can learn alot from Bush.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/AR2009011402791.html

I wonder if there is a way to tape a cell phone conversation.

Jack, RE: Paterson. I stilldon't see much difference between him and Blago. Both looking for the campaign contribution effect of anappointment.

Meanwhile, I have an urge for an old Southern treat: egg and olive salad on white bread.

"You mean y'all talk about the time Strom Thurmond ran for president? "

Sturg, you're too much! :)

When _my_ Indians won the World Series. Poor old Strom was one of a kind. Sometimes good, but with a lot of baggage.

"I wonder if there is a way to tape a cell phone conversation."

Patsi, if they are capable of working with a hearing aid, or have blue tooth, or have a headset jack, then they would be.

I remember there was a mail order SOHO shop that did nothing but telephone stuff. Wonder if they are still around. It may have been this outfit:
http://www.globusinc.net/

Patsi

Google

Cell phone , recording

Looks like they plug into where the headset plugs in.

Jack

Patsi, here's a fella who managed to do it:
http://dereksemmler.com/2008/02/26/how-to-record-a-cellphone-conversation/

good morning gang....

are we still on the Caroline stuff..... LOL!.... I swear politics is better than any soap opera....

Patsi.... nice of you to take in the little cat.... and I agree with you on Blago....
all of politics is quid pro quo.... I'm sure they'll impeach the guy.... but I bet they'll never actually prove anything....

sturg..... nice hat....

"are we still on the Caroline stuff..... LOL!.... I swear politics is better than any soap opera.."

Apparently the American public likes tabloid clique politics. People are still hoping to be part of the kool kids klub.

"People are still hoping to be part of the kool kids klub."

Ha -- true.

I am shaking my head over this woman who just had eight babies.

Patsi and all you Southern cooks- Do any of you make those green beans boiled forever in beef stock? Can't find my recipe and can't get a hold of my family. If you can refresh my memory I'd greatly appreciate it.

"People are still hoping to be part of the kool kids klub."

True and for most of them it is a futile search. They end up looking like a bunch of pom pom waving wannabes.

Which is sad because all they really had to do was hang around with me. I am where cool starts.:-P

Jack

" Do any of you make those green beans boiled forever in beef stock? Can't find my recipe and can't get a hold of my family. If you can refresh my memory I'd greatly appreciate it."

OSH -- I don't have a recipe...but I do tend to boil fresh green beans forever...with onions, bacon, brown sugar, a little katsup....splash of vinegar.

Impeachments aren't about justice, they are all about politics.

The court system deals in justice, some days.

Blago is a walking lesson in the evils of nepotism. What a maroon.

Jack

OSH

I always thought it was a ham hock
http://southernfood.about.com/od/greenbeans/r/bl30211q.htm

It's ham hock on this side of the great divide...........

osh

never heard of beef broth.

Grandma's recipe was one ham hock and cook until they look dead.
There is something about cooking green beans until the water is gone It concentrates the grease and salt so that you never notice the dead beans.

Jack

If you are too poor to aford a ham hock any fat trimmings from the ham will work too. Just need the grease and salt.

Jack

Thanks all , i ain't got no ham hock, but will hafta make do.
Jack - would that be a coconut maroon?

Hamhock, Prince of Denmark, SC.

Colorado Bob may have had his rest disturbed in the wee hours

http://cbs11tv.com/local/FedEx.Cargo.Plane.2.918605.html

Aha Jack, good idea.thanks Was asking because I just got a half ham for 12 dollars , a steal here, and wanted to just do a southern dinner with it. Maybe its a Georgia thing, the boiling in beef stock.

Oh don't start talking about Southern cooked to death green beans. Chris and David want canned and think I'm crazy when I get the fresh ones and boil them forever with bacon or ham hocks

Alas poor porker, I knew him well.

Jamie-It is a kinda strange thing to do to fresh veggies, but it sure tastes good! How much bacon do you put in?

Oh, that this too too solid hock would melt,
thaw and resolve itself into a stew.......

Three or four slices per pound. It's a matter of taste. Oh and that cooking time looked pretty short. I simmer until virtually all the fat is gone and leaves bits of bacon behind.

To thine own self be true ... adjust the recipe.

OSH

this looks good
http://medcookingalaska.blogspot.com/2008/02/recipe-greek-beef-and-green-bean-stew.html

There is nothing either good or bad, but cooking makes it so.............

Keeping score on Blago despite all the media fried baloney
Blago is the only one on the scoreboard

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said today the state's second U.S. Senate seat should remain vacant until Gov. Rod Blagojevich is impeached and a new appointment can be certified. "At this point we've clearly reached an impasse," Durbin told reporters at his Chicago office. Durbin said a candidate for the job must have signatures from the governor and secretary of state on his certification papers. Secretary of State Jesse White has not certified Roland Burris.
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/01/odds_and_ends_a.php

Hotline After Dark -- Still Crazy After All These Years
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"World News" led with Pres. Obama issuing two presidential memoranda dealing with the environment. "Evening News" led with massive layoffs. "Nightly News" led with massive layoffs.

IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) continued to make the TV rounds. Some highlights from his appearances:

Blagojevich, asked if he is a dirty pol: "No, I'm a very honest politician and I see myself -- and you can laugh and call this delusional -- but when all the facts come out you will see that I'm right."

ABC's McFadden: "But your political career is over now, wouldn't you agree to that?"

Blagojevich: "Well, I think it's not very promising right now and to be put in a place in the not too distant future, where I'll be looking for another livelihood, but I'm not as important..."

McFadden: "No, but I mean all these big dreams. You talked about running for president in 2016. That's over isn't it?"

Blagojevich: "Let me say that, things are taken out of context and what I have to do now is focus on doing the best I can while I'm still the governor of Illinois."
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/01/hotline_after_d_514.php

Thanks Jamie!

KGC- that does look good! Will definitely save that for a greek day.

KGC

That does look good. I use both a red and white wine in my braised short ribs. Also use a couple of garlic cloves in the browning stage. Never thought to put green beans in with the carrots and onions

The Peta superbowl ad rejected by NBC

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/01/petas-sexy-vegetarian-super-bowl-ad-rejected-by-nbc-video/

Achoo!!! That will be five pounds please

http://www.fiercebioresearcher.com/story/obesity-researchers-finger-cold-virus-culprit/2009-01-27

Mornin'

Well, so far it's just a snow event here - and just enough to make things a mess and close the schools since we don't have a decent DOH to keep streets clear and things moving. Patsi - glad to see you're here today - how's the weather down your way?

BTW, Patsi, those are some highfalutin green beans you make. OSH, I tend to just use the ham seasoning (hock or bacon, depending on what I have), plus salt and pepper. Boil 'em until you think you've boiled them too long, then boil them for another half hour. If you've got a pressure cooker, use it.

Ben Affleck 1, Newsweek 0, cont'd

We detailed this back-and-forth earlier at CF, and how Newsweek chose to ignore the salient points actor Ben Affleck recently raised about the magazine's coverage of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson last autumn. (Oops sorry, Newsweek claims Affleck raised no salient points.)
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200901260018?show=1

KGC,

That was funny. Nothing like a defense of "why do you pay attention to us. We don't know what we are talking about."

I've long suspected that about the news magazines, but I never expected one to admit it.

KGC -- awesome link on the rejected ad. Made my day!

"Am I Not Human" blog campaign against torture no matter who is doing it.

Read up on campaign here

http://rootsofhumanity.blogspot.com/2008/10/am-i-not-human-blogging-campaign.html

And then this contribution about bringing Bush-Cheney practitioners to justice

http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/01/am-i-not-human-torture-on-dark-side.html

Corn snow, what a ridiculous form of precipitation.

Last time I boiled a cured ham, I did it in beer. People said it was excellent--one guy said it was the best he ever had. But, he was so stewed, it could have been a leg of lamb and he would have said the same thing.

I had never seen "Taxi to the Dark Side" and didn't know it had been nominated for an Oscar for full length documentary.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987535946644608661

About a year ago I discovered frozen soybeans in the frozen food section. Tried them and was pleasantly surprised. Nice flavor and a firm texture.

A great lecture on world population and world economic stats.

Some of it may suprise you
Great graphics btw

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

The widow of musical icon Buddy Holly will receive expanded royalties, fees and her name on a new local park under the terms of the contract the Lubbock City Council approved with little public discussion Monday.

Lubbock will pay Maria Elena Holly $20,000 in license fees and increase her royalty income by an estimated $80,000 over the 20-year life of the contract, according to city staff estimates.

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/012709/loc_381901504.shtml
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You folks have no idea how much this town hates Maria Elena Holly.
To have her name on a park here, it's just too much.

"You folks have no idea how much this town hates Maria Elena Holly."

Don't keep us in the dark. Dish the dirt.

KGC -
She's a bandit with a death certificate , she married Holly 6 months before he died , but to hear her tell it she was the reason he became famous, and was the fount of all his creativity . Buddy's whole family hated her guts. Her only job for 50 years has been "grieving widow", with a royalty contract to blot away the tears.

Jack,

The major problem with those stats is that all those people with smaller families and longer lives now want a lifestyle similar to the "developed" countries of the 1960s when there were 6 billion people. You now have more than three billion more people today (almost 7 billion expected to go to 9 by 2025) who want to eat, live, and work in a world unable to support a middle class lifestyle.

This is one of the major causes of the economic downturn in the world ... spreading fewer and fewer "necessary" jobs over a larger and larger population and corporations willing to get it's labor at the cheapest possible cost.

All that growth is catching up with us. Of course this is how the bubonic plague helped create the middle class and why serfdom is making a come back.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/brods-oprah-gambit.html#comment-193895

OSH, I notice they don't mention the company that you seem to prefer. Any news about that?

KCG -
If Lubbock didn't pay Maria Elena, we'd have to take his name off this place :

http://www.buddyhollycenter.org/specEvents/EventsPage.aspx?ID=2530

oh god..... all the talk about green beans cooked with bacon or ham have made me very hungry.... I need a lunch break.... ;)

CBob.... skiers HATE corn snow....

CBob

Thanks sounds charming. Does she live in Lubbock?

By the way, the giant pair of glasses that sit out front of the center are done by an artist here. He's in the middle of making giant spurs for the Ft. Worth Stockyards. They will form the entrances into the district there.
His name is Steve Teaters, and he's a real piece of work.

KGC -
Dallas

If you want to get to hell from Lubbock, first you go to Dallas, and change planes.

Is anyone else having trouble posting?

Craig -
When you get on the air with Imus tomorrow, ask him if he knows what next Tuesday is ?

Answer :
The day the music died

Jamie where is your proof.

Economics isn't a zero sum game.

The stats in that video say you logic doesn't connect.

As one graphic clearly showed the world is catching up to us not dragging us down to them.

Don't forget the great series being done by the Des Moines Register

http://data.desmoinesregister.com/holly/index.php

Jamie

Nobody is looking for a 1960's life style

They want as much of the 21st century as they can afford.
And if Cbob gets the new energy economy going then there is room for all.

Why did the "Population Bomb " miss the mark so wide? One thing is it forgot about the influence of technology to make our lives bettter.

Jack

And they wonder why no one takes them seriously.

no one but you

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/brods-oprah-gambit.html#comment-193919

Jack, Economics may not be finite, but resources are. They aren't making any more land, water, or air.

Now if you just want to argue economics, the average middle class wage is starting to fall. The trend is even now catching up with some of the higher paid white collar jobs. The women have been sent to work so that it now takes two incomes to create the lifestyle of their parents.

The corporations lay off their higher paid workers and then "can't find" anyone to do the job, so they import them from India for a few thousand less a year. Microsoft has been screaming that they need more H1B Visas, but they just had a layoff.

Just because it hasn't caught up with you yet, doesn't mean it isn't happening.

"This was a subpoena for "records to be produced" are described as follows:

"Per Executive Order from January 16, 2009, ...

Documents to include:

- Certified copy of original long vault birth certificate
- Certified copies of any and all passports and passport applications held in the U.S., Indonesia, Great Britain and Kenya.
- Certified copies of any and all school applications, school registrations, grant or student loan applications or funding received for Occidental College, Columbia University, Columbia College, Harvard University
- Certified copies of any U.S. Port of Entry Records
- Certified copies of any documentation pertaining to Social Security. Documentation showing multiple social security numbers being held
- Certified copies of documentation showing a social security number being applied for in the state of Connecticut
- Certified copies of immigration and naturalization records
- Certified copies of any records showing legal name and name change. "

http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/proof-of-service-to-us-attorney-patrick.html

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/brods-oprah-gambit.html#comment-193918

Well the only time "No Quarter" appears here is when Gordo is having one of his flights of fancy and from back when a lot of noise making was going on at the height of the campaign.

I never read it and don't really know anyone other than Republicans or professional Obama haters who do. It's pretty inconsequential for such a blatantly self promotion type site.

Jamie

In 1960, the typical middleclass family lived in an 1100 sq ft house owned one car, had one black and white , rabbit ear tv that picked up 3 channels. one phone line with a black rotory dial phone, dined out at most once a week.

Show me a modern middleclass family that would accept such deprivation.

Jack

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/brods-oprah-gambit.html#comment-193923

Jamie

You are doing the economic equivalence of mistaking weather for climate

I can remember when Bangledesh was the poster child for the Malthusian crowd, in the eighties it was one of the countries too far gone to be helped.

What a change a few years and a little international trade did.

Old Sea -
I read your link the other day about the Cape Wind Project, and I want to thank you for posting it. I was aware of the ongoing battle over it, but I never looked into the details. I didn't sign the petition however.
Here's just one reason why -
Under threats to the sound :

Unfortunately, Nantucket Sound is vulnerable to activities that degrade the special qualities that make it such an important part of our regional coastal ecosystem. Overuse, pollution, and habitat loss are stressing natural systems beyond their capacity to cope and leading to environmental degradation.

The primary threats to the Sound are from septic system discharge, storm water and fertilizer runoff, discharge of vessel sewage, development in near shore and offshore waters, and deposits of airborne nitrogen from air pollution.
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Jack Welch's golf course on Nantucket is a lot harder on the sound that the towers for these turbines will be. In fact, as soon as they are installed , sea life will begin to make a home around each one of them.

Another item from the site -
In Denmark, a nation that derives about 20% of its electricity from wind power, electricity costs are roughly three times higher than the US average.
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Denmark isn't sitting on the world's largest coal reserves. In fact, if Denmark hadn't moved on wind power, their electrical costs would be far higher.

The site makes big point that wind power is intermittent, and therefore not viable. But the wind resource map for the U.S. shows that the wind blows there more than the here. In fact it's rated at 6.3 out of possible 7.

http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_maps.asp

If the wind is so spotty there , how does Ted Kennedy's sail boat move around ?

Now as to the motives for the developers, that I don't know enough about. I'm sure they have padded their claims as well. I do have one question if you could let me know ? Will they be paying property taxes to the state of Mass. ?

Jack,

Africa is a very large continent. The starvation just keeps moving.

http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/13962

Of course that still doesn't change the problems of pollution and limited resources. For Africa the increasing desertification is another member of the list of problems. Then there is AIDS, Biafra, Civil War, blood diamonds, and petroleum production that impoverishes the natives while enriching the rulers ... just a huge fun park of economic interests

Jack -
Pick another country , Bangledesh is going to be under water pretty soon, and all those people are going to be on the move.
No other large population center is going to be affected as soon what we will see out of Bangledesh.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/brods-oprah-gambit.html#comment-193935

Jack,

In 1964 I had a four bedroom home in a nice suburb that two people in their early 20s were able to buy for 3,000 down on a 21,900 mortgage. Of there were two kids, two telephones, two cars, two jobs ... sorry only one color TV.

That home recently sold for 500,000 and I don't know many couples in their 20s who could have afforded the down payment.

Tell me again how good we have it now?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/brods-oprah-gambit.html#comment-193931

I was 15 in 1960. I got a drivers license that year. We moved into a big house that my dad built. 3 bedrooms. Mom had a car and dad had a truck. I am pretty sure we had at least 2 telephones in that house. One in the kitchen and one in Mom and Dads bedroom. I got a truck later that same year when my grandfather sold me his 1951 5 window Chevy truck. We did only have one TV and of course it was black and white.

Disease stalks Bangladesh flood victims

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6939150.stm

Bangladesh cyclone hits poor hardest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7100879.stm

Dramatic Expansion Of Dead Zones In Oceans Likely With Unchecked Global Warming

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2009) — Unchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas in the ocean where higher life forms such as fish, crabs and clams are not able to live. In shallow coastal regions, these zones can be caused by runoff of excess fertilizers from farming. A team of Danish researchers have now shown that unchecked global warming would lead to a dramatic expansion of low-oxygen areas zones in the global ocean by a factor of 10 or more.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090125142118.htm

Poor Jack

We are sort of ganging up on him. :-)

Bob, having traveled extensively on wind driven vessels along the coast of Maine (and from NJ to ME as well, but not as extensively)- which is remarkably similar to the coast of MA, but with a WHOLE lot fewer folks - I can say that wind is what drove the coasting trade until the age of steamships, and there's enough wind on the MA coast that it is literally the epicenter of East Coast recreational sailing. (Sorry NYYC, but it's true). Yeah, wind is variable everywhere - it's kind of its nature, but it's also very dependable in the sense that it comes with pretty fair regularity even though it isn't constant. Will there be disturbance of the ocean environment? Of course - particularly in the construction phase - but that occurs no matter the activity, and IMHO wind generation of energy is a pretty beneficial use. Fact is, wind generation is a huge modern day NIMBY project - they've been fighting it tooth and nail in Preston County WV, but it hasn't ruined the mountains there. Fair disclosure - I'm an advocate of wind power.

NIMBYites were active during every major infrastructure shift during the last century. Some examples--turnpikes, high-tension electric cables, reservoirs, airports and canals.

The Founders were prescient when they allowed for constitutional takings. Now, all we need are politicians willing to take the heat by doing what is in the best interests of our people.

Flatus, true enough. The trick, of course, is finding politicians who know what activities are in the best interests of the people.

John Updike, dead at 76.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28updike.html?_r=1&hp

Gibbs is sure a welcome change from Dana! He knows how to laugh with people - so far he's more pleasant to watch than any of them for years. I did like Joe Lockhart, tho.