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Quark,
I just particularly remember Matthews interviewing a family member of a 9/11 victim, a young man who was against the initial invasion of Afghanistan, a year maybe after the fact. Matthews interrupted him and screamed nobady was against the Afghan invasion. Been pissed at him since then.
What's the deal with the so-called Cat Food Commission? If congress is going to be forced to come back during the holidays to pass the budget adjustment, couldn't this important topic dealing with medicare, medicaid and social security be lost in the holiday shuffle?
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/difi_socialsecurity_medicare/?r=5067...
Zero G. and DDay,
You give new meaning to the words "Cake Boss."
http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/cake-boss/cake-boss.html
DDay,
I find melting the butter in a double boiler works better.
DDay,
Do you have any interest in working on the Rybak for governor campaign?
http://www.rtrybak.com/
@ Richard
Since you live in California....find a friendly M.D. and get your card. Then select your favorite brownie recipe. (Duncan Hines Double Fudge Mix is a good alternative.) Clean your medicinal herbs extremely well. (no seeds or stems). Powderize as much as reasonable. Heres the gourmands trick: mix however much herb ,(1/4 to 1 full cup) you can afford or desire with melted butter in a saute' pan over low heat for just a minute or two and add to the brownie batter. This will make the finished product yummy and sneaky. I developed this technique in the middle seventies at the University of Iowa. It was very popular. No cave needed...at least until after these have been consumed! Happy Hannuka!
I'm concerned about the so-called cat food commission that will possibly be enacted during the holidays under the guise of upping the federal budget limit.
This is an important issue and could be lost in the shuffle of the holidays.
This would be a group of people who will be able to cut the budget by cutting medicare, medicade, and social security without the usual public process used for normal budget cuts.
Thom, have you discussed this? Will you look into it?
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/difi_socialsecurity_medicare/?r=5067...
Speaking of acid like Trips from eating moldy bread, I remember reading some years ago that a theory was postulated that the French citizens that stormed the Bastille may have likely been eating such bread and that it may had directly contributed to the French revolution. It was suggested this was quite an irony considering many believe that when the Queen said "Let them eat cake" was a loose translation and word could have just as easily been translated as bread.
I get the feeling that those who are saying half a loaf is better then nothing are channeling Marie Antoinette.
Zero G.,
These Matthews comments seemed particularly infuriating, since he has defacto dismissed all the work that we liberals (who DO show up and do the work) have done over our lifetimes!
I e-mailed Ben Nelson:
What is all the concerned with the embryo and then HATE the child?
Have you even read Genesis 2:7?
Why don't you just say you how you really feel about women?
I hope you find your rewards in Hell for selling out the people to the Big Corp. Money Handlers!
Matthews ALWAYS disses liberals, what's new...
@ Nels Nelsen
you're right. it would be a lump of sugar in the middle.
and obama would make a speech telling us how nutritious the entire concoction actually was, contrary to our initial and visceral impressions.
and obama's apologists would expain how we just didn't quite understand the complex strategy he was involved with...
@ DDay,
L'chiam!
Matthews Disses Liberals
DDay,
Here's the Chris Matthews video clip that you and I saw yesterday that made us both "see red." 'Thought the rest of us might be interested (starting at approx. min. 2:50):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matt...
@ Zero G
I prefer to drink my rye. :-)
The problem was, it not only intoxicated, it led to gangrene of the limbs.
All this wheat talk is making me feel the need to bake brownies and leave them in a cave to cool . . .
DDay, correct, Ergot, specifically. Not only wheat, but Rye as well.
The wall-to-wall Salvation Army adverts on KTLK 1050AM here in Los Angeles are beginning to totally tick me off:
1. Christmas or not . . . No one should ever go hungry,
2. Paramilitary hate organizations should not attempt to rehabilitate themselves on my time . . . Although they should free to spend all their dimes . . . , AND
3. Until they change their stance on homosexuality and immigration, they get zero from me.
@ZeroG
Re: St. Anthony's Fire
Yes, I believe that the operating theory is that due to a mold in the wheat which produced a toxin with LSD like properties, people who ate bread sometimes took a "trip". History suggests that this was a problem in the region where St. Anthony resided at that time. Is that it?
On another front Obama's honeymoon on the global stage is also over. He received a cool reception in Copenhagen:
Barack Obama's Speech Disappoints and Fuels Frustration at Copenhagen
US president offers no further commitment on reducing emissions or on finance to poor countries
by Suzanne Goldenberg and Allegra Stratton in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN - Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act "boldly and decisively" on climate change.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends the morning plenery session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)But his speech offered no indication America was ready to embrace bold measures, after world leaders had been working desperately against the clock to try to paper over an agreement to prevent two years of wasted effort - and a 10-day meeting - from ending in total collapse.
Obama, who had been skittish about coming to Copenhagen at all unless it could be cast as a foreign policy success, looked visibly frustrated as he appeared before world leaders.
from: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/18-0
DON'T PANIC!
The GOP and Lieberman and so forth WANT us to panic over health care. As long as reconciliation is an option, there's no reason to give up prematurely.
@ binxster what a horrible and disgusting metaphor you have created there... do you seriously think that a health insurance company would actually put nourishment in that concoction for a starving man.... when a cheap placebo would suffice.
Drop Medicare buy-in down to 18 and fully fund SCHIP for all human-spawn.
Carrying the poisoned bread/food metaphor a little farther - anyone familiar with St. Anthony's Fire.