Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Woo Hoo T Day in 24... Fill My Plate

Ah Mr Obama is becoming Presidential.. Very nice dinner, Sending troops to War, Hanging with the crowds from Bollywood.

Maybe there is Hope for more Change and he will wake up on the disaster that the Congress is putting forward in the Healthcare Tax Bills. Maybe Obama will help find real reform.
And we fry all the Turkey of a Congress we have now.

Ping

We can start with the 40 Republican Senators who are refusing to let more than 100 already passed House bills come to the floor. Then the nation can be truly thankful something useful can actually be done for the 99% of the country that needs help.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/opinion/25dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

If anything ever happens to the Clintons, Maureen Dowd won't have a career. What would the woman write about without a vitriol fueled vengeful vendetta?

huff has pretty good collection of photos this am on the dinner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/state-dinner-pictures-det_n_370024.html

wonder if the "greenhouse" look was part of the go green theme and are all those lights in the chandeliers leds? can't find the usual grousing comments on energy waste for the shindig. they must have done their homework.

here's one republican that came to dinner

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/11/obamas_welcome_guests_includin.html

Jamie - If those house bills have the spend and tax and spend - and the far left liberal touch of Nancy P.. Then more to say Thanks as we canNOT afford to continue the direction started under Bush and now going Viral with this New Liberal Spend Tax Tax Tax Spend Congress.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272144

patd

Here is some info on the colors and place sittings. It was a tribute to the flag of India and the love of bright colors

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/24/first-lady-unveils-state-dinner-tidbits/

Love it! The Time Magazine Cover is: The Decade From Hell. Guess the century has no way to go but up.

Ping

Talking about tax and spend Democrats when Boehner blows $70,000 on three golf outings is just a little silly.

The truth is that under Democrats, the debt goes down. Under Republicans it skyrockets. Trickle down and the country goes broke. Bubble up and we get rich. So the claims of frugality on the part of the GOP should just produce guffaws from anyone not blinded by the hype.

patd

Slight correction. The colors were mainly a tribute to the national bird of India: The Peacock

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272143

Jamie,
Ya,Dowd never misses a chance to turn the screw on the Clinton's..Hell,she's just plain MEAN!! I do however agree with the last line in her piece; "Bill Clinton may not have cared any more about contributors than Obama does, but he was such a talented politician that he made them feel as though they were in “a warm bath,” as one put it.

Obama is more like a cold shower."

Last month, there was a sign on the south lawn pardoning the mess because of a concert the week before...and now they pitch a tent on it? Their poor gardener.

Is Faux gonna have a problem with a vegetarian meal? I can see it now: Culinary "bowing" to India.

Craig's use of turkey in a video was appropriate; it did not go to waste. Wake-up Willie's use of the poor bird this morning really ticked me off. If the thing had to die, at least don't use it as a prop and destroy it so it can't be eaten...and after the way it was manhandled, I can't imagine it could be eaten. Especially sad to see with this economy.

Also, there was very little Texas two-step in Tom DeLay's Texas two-step last night. AND I COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT HIS NUT SLIDE INTO THE CAMERA. (That should be left to Springsteen, thank you.)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272146

Ping,
I suppose your against a war tax too?? Only Republican's wage multiple wars while providing massive tax cuts to the wealthiest amongst us...Again,Republican's labeling Dems as big tax and spenders is laughable...

ping - What's the difference between my insurance premium going up every year, many times by double digits, and the gov't taxing us and making sure we can't be denied coverage.

The money is still coming out of our pockets, but at least it would be spread across the board. Right now, the insurance comany is basically collecting the tax to distribute as excessive compensation for their few in return for denying as many services as they can manage to do.

We need HEALTH CARE coverage, and as I've said before, insurance companies are in the gambling business and the house never loses. Now that's a hotel/casino they don't have in Vegas yet: The Blue Cross.

and speaking about waste..... guess the Republican talking points machine didn't want to waste yet another opportunity to be petty....

their slogan for upcoming year should be....
pettiness is a terrible thing to waste....

Blue - Why are they not regulating Health Insurance like Home owners or Power Companies Or Or Or???
Why do this Congress which acts like the freind of the people that is going to take a big bite out of your wallet not open up compitition?
We need to improve Healthcare Yes - But not deystroy the system that has brought the advancements.
Real Reform is innovation not Taxation.

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jamie, my questions were not to the color green but to the ecologic, energy efficiency concept. surely some sorehead would point out some no-no along that line. you know, hypocricy hyping like accusing al gore of gas guzzling.

Once again, Maureen friggin' Dowd has written a piece about one thing, and managed to turn it into a slap at Bill Clinton. The woman is effing OBSESSED. I cannot stand her.In fact -- I would rather have lunch with Sarah Palin than Maureen Dowd. I would be able to stop myself from slapping Palin. At least Palin is honest about her nut jobbery.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272143

Ditto what Jamie said about the article, too....

Blue -- I thought the same thing about Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-Hunter's alleged Texas Two-Step. HUH?

Good morning TM…..now this is the Thanksgiving Spirit, - stop whining Democrats and be thankful:

http://www.slate.com/id/2236558/

Unfortunately much of what Bruce Reed characterizes as Obama-positive remains to be seen. Still, there is much the administration is engaging in far from media’s myopic interests, despite Dowd whining that Obama should be more like Palin.

In the Middle East, the US, the Saudis and Israelis are all engaged in naval operations to seek and interdict illegal Iranian arms and materials going to Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen. The Jordanians are now fighting Iranian proxies in Yemen in an area that rivals Afghanistan:

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6388

Meanwhile Iran is racing to build dummy silos and decoy missiles defense batteries to confuse enemy fighters, missiles and drones. Ahmadinejad understands the Arab air space is open for Israeli action. While the latest US defense collaboration in Israel exposed present limitations in missile defense, DOD tests last week downed aerial targets with a truck borne laser.

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=941

Iran is deploying new midget subs in the Gulf and beyond which the US and Saudi navy is seeking to detect. The implication of advanced technology should be obvious. The administration is also aware Syria still refuses to even acknowledge to the IAEA how Israel discovered their nuclear WMD collaboration with North Korea and Iran. Obama has certainly been shown the hacked computer Intel. He knows there are many pressing questions involving secret North Korean and Syrian nuclear facilities. He knows more than we do about what the Iranians are up to. The Saudis know, the Jordanians know. Egypt knows. Israel knows:

http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/9600080/Israel_readying_new_arms_to_meet_Iran_challenge

Obama has an unusual opportunity to bring the Arab/Israeli sides together in a new alliance. The thorn is of course, the intractable Palestinians and an Israeli President contending with a 4% approval rating of Obama’s Middle East policy and what has happened in Gaza. In light of Obama’s Arab gestures, Netanyahu can’t afford to look weak so he tosses his base a bone with Gilo while largely accepting the ground rules established by Bill Clinton and Israeli President Barak. As I said long ago, he works best as a foil.

So to conservatives, I would repeat Reed’s admonishing: stop whining. Things could be far worse.

Why Capricorns have strong auroras: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/video-saturns-spectacular-aurora-in-action/

P.S. ACORN, too cheap to buy a shredder?

Advanced Souls will not get involved in personality conflicts and petty squabbles (shuts out the engery of light and love) but are only concerned about the work -- the Plan for Humanity. There is so much to be done. Time is running short. And, only the good of the Whole matters, and not the individual parts.

"The New Age will not be ushered in and find true expression of its latent energies through the medium of old and patched up forms, or through the preservation of ancient techniques and attitudes. It will come into being through entirely new forms and by means of the intelligent discarding of old modes of religion, government and economic and social idealisms. It is always difficult for the (Servant of Humanity and Goodwill) who is working in the world of human affairs to strike the happy medium between sound physical plane techniques in expression and the measure of the vision which he sees; it is never easy to adapt and to relate the old to the new, thus producing that which the present requires. The task of the disciple, (servant of humanity) as you can see from the three words—old, new and present—is therefore primarily concerned with Time. This right comprehension of the time element requires the eye of vision, plus right interpretation of that which it sees (or envisions)." [Discipleship in the New Age II, Alice A. Bailey] Thank God for the Agents of Change who try to make a difference in the lives of ordinary human beings, whose intentions and Duty are to uplift the conditions of the people and to serve the people.... They try to raise the minimum wage, they try to extend unemployment benefits, they try to make sure there is clean water and clean air, but its hard and there is always a fight from the best Congress money can buy, whose mission is to stall and to obstruct and to incite fear! And, at this time in our history, so much is Crying Out for Change. And, as Science teaches us to do nothing and to be static only leads to decay -- only leads to death. Let these Agents of Change fight on with joy which will call in the "higher Angels of their being" and with solidarity, which is their strength.

More importantly, "we (are Higher Selves, the engery of light and love) are the Change we have been waiting for". We must get too it!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272151

Hey, Tony, I took my swipe at Dowd above. Sure, all we need now is for Obama to ditch his strongest suit of communication and be like Palin....lol.

Jamie, I'll save the problems with where the Democrats are going on healthcare for after Thanksgiving. One foul at a time......

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272162

Some one had too much Wheaties this morning.....

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272161

Max

ACORN gets millions. Blackwater et al get billions. So far no convictions of fraud for ACORN. Blackwater et al found guilty of fraud several times over and they still got contracts.

More misplaced Republican priorities?

Kill People - Get money
Help People - Get stomped On

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272163

Max,

I might surprise you and agree with a whole lot of problems with this health care bill. So table it for a good discussion after Thanksgiving.

WASHINGTON: The United States and India signed a deal here Tuesday aimed at promoting the development of technology that will produce cleaner forms of energy.

The memorandum of understanding was signed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and India's external affairs minister S M Krishna, during a high-profile visit to Washington by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The deal will "enhance cooperation on energy security, energy efficiency, clean energy and climate change," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

"Both countries will work jointly to accelerate development and deployment of clean energy technologies and to strengthen cooperation on adaptation to climate change, climate science and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests and land use," he added.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1020396/1/.html

crabfest at the white house...........yay

can people in india get clip-on turbans?

that reminds me........what do you call a pakistani at the rodeo?

turban cowboy

here's an interesting angle on what the new polls might mean
http://patchworknation.csmonitor.com/csmstaff/2009/1125/what-obama%E2%80%99s-approval-ratings-could-mean-for-midterm-elections/

but note these catchy patchwork nation's labels: “Industrial Metropolis” and “Monied ’Burbs” – wealthy, largely suburban counties, “Immigration Nation” (heavily Hispanic), “Minority Central” (heavily African-American), and “Military Bastions” (near military bases), “Tractor Country” and “Mormon Outposts,” “Evangelical Epicenter” counties, “Service Worker Centers” and the “Boom Towns”

another of betty ann's jumprope chants....long before the 45 rpm by somebody as the "clap song"

Three, six, nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco
On the streetcar line

The line broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven
In a little row boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnCB7oni8o

the clapping song by shirley ellis, 1965; follow-up to the name game song........

surreal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSc11eirMhY&feature=video_response

tom waits version of the clapping song

surrealer

Apparently, Republicans, like Ping, are now waking up to the fact that public debt has to be repaid. Tax and spend is preferable to tax-cut and spend, which we did under the previous three Republican administrations.

That was what you call a jive turkey.lol

and now for those that like a little disco with their turkey....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4h5xKLGuE

and in honor of the vegetarian state dinner....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnotK6bRXhU

Where does all this vegetarian stuff come from ? Sikhs aren't vegetarians.

Maureen O is obsessed with Bill as KO was with Hil'ry. It does make a person wonder...

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Here's mine -- Sarah working on her foreign policy experience for 2012

"After being kicked out of the book-signing, Walsh and her crew then waited outside...
"Hey, remember us, we're the Canadians! "When we asked you that question, we didn't hear your answer."
Palin strolled over... "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit."

In addition to those comments, Walsh said, she found it equally bizarre that no one was allowed to ask Palin any questions at the book-signing.

"We're in a bookstore, at a public event, in a place one would think was a bastion of free speech. And no one was allowed to ask questions. What are they afraid of?"

** Umm, that she would open her mouth and speak **

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091124/entertainment/palin_marg_delahunty

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And just in time for Thanksgiving - Change we can believe in, huh? I don't think he wants a second term. I think he just wanted the WH to do it. Once he was sworn in, he'd met his goal. Now all he has to do is become enough of a failure that someone else can get the Dem nom for 2012.

"...the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. We decided that our land mine policy remains in effect"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/24/national/w135403S69.DTL&tsp=1

Maureen Dowd is an ASSHOLE .

sorry Craig, but she is.

Xrep....
it's been reported that the Prime Minister of India is a vegetarian. So what if Sikhs aren't veggies by religion..... anyone can choose to be one if that's what they want to be....

OSH..... agreed.... and I agree with Patsi.... I think Sarah Palin would make a far more interesting lunch companion than Dowd....

Thought for the day -

" Jobs not Dobbs "

Hey guys,

Happy Thanksgiving! Does anyone know who the fat French guy was on Larry King complaining about the simple @## desserts that were served last night at the state dinner?

When people are hurting why does Chef "Imtoofattoshower" think it's appropriate to blow a huge wad on an ornate dish???

Ping Pong,

When will Republicans come out and admit that the main reason George W. Bush pisses away a projected $10 Trillion surplus in less than 3 years was so the Republican party could use "Fiscal Discipline" to eliminate Social Security, Medicaid or any other social program that benefits people with a corporate pedigree?

Hey Bear -- I missed Larry King...but did you see that Bohner (sp?) is spending up to $30,000 from his PAC at every golf tourney he goes to????

Pro-Big Government pong is trying to fool us into thinking that rapeblicans like him are for tiny government and a balanced budget. What an underhanded, deceitful, conniving, amoral, greedy, Whited Sepulchre.

Give us back New Orleans and the World Trade Center, you rapeblican frauds - you could have prevented their destruction, but you were too damned avaricious and cruel to do so.
Give us back America the way it was before
your rapeblican S & L Disaster,
your rapeblican Enron and WorldCom Disasters,
your rapeblican Wall Street Meltdown,
your rapeblican Mortgage Banking Disaster,
your rapeblican Derivitives Disaster,
your rapeblican Depression.

Give us back our America as it was before your shameful rapeblican Defeats in
Viet Nam,
Cambodia,
Lebanon,
Iraq (X2), and
Afghanistan.

Give us back our dead sons and daughters, the husbands and wives, mothers and fathers whose brains were blown apart by IEDs made from the ammo dumps you were too stupid to secure. Give us back those young people who are now vegetables lying in bins in nursing homes waiting for death.

Give us back the America we were proud of, before your weasel-worded lies and schemings dirtied all our dreams.

When you rapeblican fools, liars, thieves, and war criiminals have made all your vile mistakes and crimes right again, when you have healed the wounds and the families, when you have raised the people you slew in your abyssal ignorance, your lunatic avarice, your brutal insouciance, only then might you regain the standing to criticize any other human being.

But not before.

Have I made myself clear ? Does anyone have difficulty understanding all this, besides the pong & fraud daddy ?

Ping,

Going to be on your side today..I agree with you that this health bill sucks...for not for the same reasons...it sucks because all it does it throw more money out the window..and into the Ins corp doors...

Medicare wastes more than 75 blillion per year...you are right that we need reform...this bill will only add to that waste...and not imo...but as a fact....this alone could pay for U. H. almost...the rest would be easy....

What I don't like is that you keep saying that government is the problem...you must agree that almost all of the tarp money, and the stimulus money, whent to the big Banks, and other Corps (wall st) that is not government.. name some of the little corps, people that has been helped so far??

Obama has to allocate the remaining money that is still in the Tarp fund from the Bush admin. and the rest of the stimulus money; to small corps..that are the middle class working people...we need this...NOW..he needs to give out more $ not less....but it must be done in a way that it won't be deverted by State Gov's , or City Mayor's for anything other than what it is intended to do....

You have to stop the Government (Obama) is at fault meme..he needs to tell Elizabeth Warren to spend the rest of the Tarp Money on the middle class...or there won't be any left to balance the Rich, and the Poor......Bush DiD this so stop you bs...starting to lose a little respect ...

Happy Thanks giving to all....

X-Guess you haven't figured out yet that there is an element of liars and thieves on both sides. And I wouldn't be blaming all of Viet Nam on the republicans either. You can pretty much figure you've gone too far when I start defending a republican. Anyways, no need for such condescending attitude, pong isn't an idiot, I have no idea who fraud daddy is though- Pong just disagrees with you and is a member of a party you admittedly once belonged too.

Sea,

That' right on...both party's put us in the trick bag that we are in...we can argue...who is more responsablie..but that should be evident.!

The wars are the same; almost..Pres Jonshon chose to continue VN.. he was advised that we had no chance of winning.....he then chose to do what was in his political interest...and sent even more troops to their death....

Obama will do the same today-this week: He is sending more troops to die..in the Pak areas.....

Sea, have a great Turkey day...tell your dad that Solar is on his side..luck

OK, Ms Renee,

Prime Minister Singh is free to be a vegetarian Sikh, if that is what he wants, just as a Vishnaite Hindu is free to eat cows, until one of the Fundamentalists has him/her stoned to death for bovicide. I think it's fine that the P.M. chooses to be a vegetarian, because it means more meat for me.

I had lamb last night. It was a lamb that has a right to feel extremely proud.

ps I love "Pettiness is a terrible thing to waste"

No, Solar, Ms Sea's not entirely right on VN.

My charge was not that the republicans invented the Viet Nam War, but that they lost it.

nixon took office in Jan 1969. Within 2 weeks of his inauguration, he said in a recorded phone conversation that the war was "unwinnable", but that he would continue to wage it, because he wasn't about to become the 1st US president to lose a war. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding the transcript. In fact, the audio tape might have been re-recorded and distributed to Youtube. nixon's stated plan was to 'stay the course' until he could pass the carnage and onus of the Viet Nam defeat on to his successor.

5 1/2 years and 33,000 dead Americans later, gerry ford finally airlifted the last Americans from the roof of the US Embassy. By that time the republican White House was busily preparing the way for the khmer rouge victory in Cambodia through incompetent leadership in Langley, and secret deals with the unpopular soon-to-be incompetent dictator lon nol.

BTW, around this time, the grossly incompetent General william westmoreland was running for Senate in VA as a (what else ?) republican.

this is a vegetable?

http://mumbaifish.com/Prawns/White%20Prawn.jpg

even cooked with green curry, a prawn has neither leaves nor roots and is not of botantical ilk.

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XR, I can understand your anger, but I honestly think Ping is one of the good guys--a Republican in the better traditions of the party when most people on both sides of the aisle worked for thoughtful solutions to our country's problems. I bet you were that kind of Republican, as well.

upon cursory search, there appears to be room to argue whether seafood is meat (see lent rules) but the case is closed about it being a vegetable.

I'm surprised people, other than Clinton haters, still read Maureen Dowd.

She is a mean, spiteful gossip columnist.

Switching gears..I hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving....even Maureen Dowd...

XR,

Thanks. About Nixon; yes you are right..but I don't think that Sea was talking about being right. Like me maybe she is tired of the blame game that goes on between the two party's. Johnson had the chance to get us out of there..but decided not too...

Have a nice Thanks giving day..You and Sweetie.

patd....
yup.... some people consider themselves vegetarians even though they eat seafood. I remember from biology 101 that there are only 2 kinds of life on this planet.... flora and fauna. Although some things in the ocean are hard to classify. IMO, if it's not a plant and one is eating it, one is not a vegetarian.

As for myself.... my motto is: give me a good steak or give me death.... :0)

Actually.... I need to modify my above post....

if it's not a plant... and one has to take it's life in order to eat it....
there are of course.... lacto vegetarians (includes dairy products).... ovo vegetarians (includes eggs) and lacto ovo vegetarians ( includes both dairy and eggs).... and then there are vegans.... who won't eat/and or use any animal products whatsoever....

Oh for Cripps sake, they lost it? I think its just as bad to start to start a war. Each party contributed to that deplorable loss of lives. We all lost.

Isn't it wonderful holiday news to know more boys will be sent overseas , only come home in a box. Thank you democrats and of course republicans too- although they aren't the majority this time.

Hey Solar, thanks, you have a great day too, will read your post tomorrow to my Da (they have snuck off to a casino to avoid the chaos of the holiday).

And one more thing, I'm sick of his god damn arrogance, now he's telling us that we'll all agree that it is a good thing to send more troops once we hear what he has to say. Not me, won't happen.

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Hi Max,
Swipe away,she deserves it,you funny...Very good info in your post's today,Wheaties,ha ha...Hope you and Sue have a wonderful TG...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272175

"Tax and spend is preferable to tax-cut and spend, which we did under the previous three Republican administrations."

Joe,
Very good point..I was thinking about that very same point today and wishing i would have made that case to Ping..

"nixon took office in Jan 1969. Within 2 weeks of his inauguration, he said in a recorded phone conversation that the war was "unwinnable", but that he would continue to wage it, because he wasn't about to become the 1st US president to lose a war. "

Get real, XREP -- I am a huge LBJ fan but that is EXACTLY what he did! It was all about looking weak! Don't try to re-write history.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272202

Kathleen,
I agree.Hearing President Obama give another pretty speech won't change my mind,bring the troops home now!! Change,what change....

"I agree with you that this health bill sucks...for not for the same reasons...it sucks because all it does it throw more money out the window..and into the Ins corp doors..."

Hi Solar,
Very true...I'm almost at the point that I think there should be no bill passed at all..If they get rid of the tiny Public Option then I say no to all...My only fear is a complete loss of the Congress to Republican's.The people don't deserve that,but the politicians do...I'm cooking now and getting as much done for tomorrow as possible..I just made my cornbread for the stuffing,wished you had a slice with butter..Happy TG to you and the family...

OSH, Tony -- I agree....God I am getting sick of the BS!

Tony,

Thanks. That sounds good to me.. I would take a flight to taste that cornbread...............>>>>>>>................>>>>>>>>.......if you had some cooked dillo on the side...ahaha..have a good T. G day pal.!

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Solar,
Take a flight,come on down..Cooked dillo,hey you would have to catch them first,there fast and dig quickly...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272208

Patsi,
I had Jeff's big mansion to clean today..Jeff's a great guy,but such a right winger..Get him and Grace together and its one big Obama downer...I defend him ,but only because the stuff they accuse him of is blatantly false!! Sadly the things I have a problem with him on aren't even on their RADAR!! Today they both agreed GWB became more like a Democrat and that's why he failed as President..HA, i told them its a pity they elected him twice and inflicted him on all of us and the world...

Hey Tony and Miss Patsi! I just love the timing of it all, we're so stupid we won't notice through all the state dinner details. Now there is something to scrutinize.

Hi y'all--just dropping in to say a happy Thanksgiving to all--

(don't forget, Charlie Brown's on at 8 PM tomorrow night on ABC ;))

sooooooooooooooo.....what's up, dillweeds.......

I guess i shouldnt recommend marlon brando's book again, but sometimes i caint hep it........Songs my mother Taught me, by marlon brando........

sweetest book i ever read

and i did have read a buncha books, by golly......

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patd

It was the alternate selection for that course. Diners could choose either the vegetarian or shrimp.

The whole menu was as follows:

Dinner Menu
Potato and Eggplant Salad
White House Arugula
With Onion Seed Vinaigrette
2008 Sauvignon Blanc, Modus Operandi, Napa Valley, California
≈
Red Lentil Soup with Fresh Cheese
2006 Riesling, Brooks “Ara”, Wilamette Valley, Oregon
≈
Roasted Potato Dumplings
With Tomato Chutney
Chick Peas and Okra
or
Green Curry Prawns
Caramelized Salsify
With Smoked Collard Greens
and
Coconut Aged Basmati
2007 Granache, Beckmen Vineyards, Santa Ynez, California
≈
Pumpkin Pie Tart
Pear Tatin
Whipped Cream and Caramel Sauce
Sparkling Chardonnay, Thibaut Janisson Brut, Monticello, Virginia
≈
Petits Fours and Coffee
Cashew Brittle
Pecan Pralines
Passion Fruit and Vanilla Gelees
Chocolate-Dipped Fruit

let me see now, the big issue during the primary and the general last year was who voted for war and who didn't. whatever happened to that guy who didn't?

pat......smoke and mirrors........shut up and vote.......
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jamie, did they say anything about how they cooked the smoked collard greens? bet they snuck a ham hock in at some point.

maybe the greens were smoked but not inhaled and thus escaped the anti-meateater's police

"St. Vincent contemplates cutting ties with queen"

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1350880.html

I'm going to drink the sacred beer, eat the sacred beef and contemplate what it means to know all you really sacredly goofy people.......

"A fresh approach to eating fish
Is a Dutch fishmonger about to change our attitudes to catching and consuming seafood?....
The idea is to get people to connect with their fish in the way they do with their meat. But where butchers can now tell you which farm an animal grew up on, who its parents were and how it voted on X Factor, "the sea is not that transparent", says van Olphen drily. Provenance is not that easy with fish unless it has MSC certification. North Sea cod could have been caught anywhere within thousands of square miles, within a wide time frame and by a variety of unspecified methods"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/26/bart-van-olphen

and if none of you might mind i may sample the sacred medicinal marijuana.......I don't really HAVE any.....just going to sacredly channel it........know what I mean?

t is for the thawing turkey

h is for hoping the thawing turkey thaws in time

a is for the anxiety agrowing hoping the thawing turkey thaws in time

n is for not

knowing

some way to end this silliness.
sturge, please pass the sacred bottle.

ms pat.......you'd be first on the right.......or the left, as the case may be.......but......it's only medicinal....it's in no way to be construed as having ANY damned thing to do with fun.......follow me?

sturge, who said anything about fun. this is purely therapeutic treatment for ptsd
(pre turkey supper depression)

am just a poor wayfaring stranger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhpHZ85Ozk&feature=related

of constant sorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQjBjwe3-s

joan

joanie (al capp go to hell) sings "little darlin' "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQjBjwe3-s

sorry......meant to say "al capp....gai en drerd....."

i posted about frankie fitzsimons dying the other day......his mom escaped from mexico early 20th c. she's the one who introduced me to joan baez.........

to all curiousos...................read everything by Leo Rosten......please.

Leo Rosten.......

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272218

Jamie, if the only reason for being there was the menu, I'd pass.

sorry.....again.....joanie does "Little Darlin...." a dear, dear rendition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Us1hOp8OG4

here is the voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys playing at that Crossroads Festival that Eric Clapton put on several years ago at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The players are Dan Tyminski and Ron Block. Their main gig is in Alison Krauss's band Union Station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8LCYS_85Dk&feature=related

just thought you all might like to see what the voices looked like in real life.

Lenny Bruce sings......."All Alone"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TrQxeNEPLo

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272221

patd

Since the collard greens went with the prawn option, that wouldn't have been a problem. :-) The Coconut Basmati went with both options.

Gotta pay attention to those "ors" and "ands" when hanging out with the cognoscenti.

Sturgeone,

You are playing some fine music tonight.

Light rain in Southern New Hampshire tonight, no politics on tonight or tomorrow's menu. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Bowmanc

Today's playlist:

Jonathan Edwards
Taj Mahal
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Bob Dylan - Highway 61
Marcia Ball
Willie Nelson & Leon Russell

I'm going to drink the sacred beer, eat the sacred beef and contemplate what it means to know all you really sacredly goofy people.......
Posted by: sturgeone | November 25, 2009 7:48 PM

I sure hope Craig brings back the comment of the day for Sturge's treasure.

"...I defend him ,but only because the stuff they accuse him of is blatantly false!! Sadly the things I have a problem with him on aren't even on their RADAR!!"

Same here, Tony.

Photos are springtime, but some of them were taken in the Great Smoky Mtns. National Park:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOYYlanm1k

and the vocal is angelic.

Happy Turkey Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlTzt24Izw&feature=related

Playing with my IPOD. Just hit the CCR version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine. Marvin Gaye was wonderful, but I just love the rhythm line on CCR. You actually can dance sitting down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZe9OtFNt_8

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/state-dinner-politics.html#comment-272251

I thought I was the only one who did that to CCR's "Grapevine"!

Craig.....

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours...

God Bless.

Fair

There is no way you cannot move to that drum sequence, not to mention pumping the air with one hand on each word of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" :-)

Time for Criminal Minds.

I'll check in tomorrow in the middle of all the cooking.

Hope the night shift has a good time.

Festivities have begun, ambulance just hauled away inebriated son. I can see this is going to be a good holiday.

listen to the sunrise of another thanksgiving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHBqdlorCeo&feature=related