Patterico's Pontifications

Ding.

Patterico (1daa89) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:07 pm

a bag of frozened kale

no idea.

I got it from TJ’s like 7 years ago

I put it in a saucepan with a half cup of water like the package said and let it go to town on high for five min

then the package said to season that bad boy

ok sure

so…

this is so above my paygrade

I splisher splashered some olive oil

added a crapload of sesame seeds so it wouldn’t end up looking so spinachy

I used a lot of cavender’s greek seasoning, cause it’s hard to go wrong with that

then I dusted it with cumin – cumin in my experience tends to make stuff taste more savory than it actually is, which is needed here I think

we’ll see how this goes

happyfeet (8ce051) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:12 pm

If any of y’all want to see a real man of the NFL, as opposed to that braggart Sherman, check out Charles Tillman’s acceptance of the Walter Payton Award on the NFL Honors show.

Peyton Manning’s sentiments ain’t half bad, either.

Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:23 pm

the NFL is mostly illiterate thugs

illiterate crimey thugs

it’s like what you get when you force feed United Autoworkers some tasty steroids what you thoughtfully seasoned with a dash of cumin for to make them taste more savory than they actually are

happyfeet (8ce051) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:26 pm

I just had some rewarmed gyros and pita and french fries and now I’m going to eat two Hershey bars.

nk (dbc370) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:29 pm

Well maybe they should go Rollerball, not the remake with Chris Klein, but the original with James Caan,

narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:31 pm

leftover mediterranean

i love that

I went to Hayat’s Kitchen this week, which is my go-to for sublime mediterranean

they bill themselves as Lebanese, which, you know – whatever

I’ll miss that food when I leave here more than Anna Kendrick misses her cups even

i always get an extra side of their baba and I try to save it for company but sometimes I fail

happyfeet (8ce051) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:34 pm

Speaking of which;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9wXBkdWEg

narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:37 pm

Not to say that Sherman’s behavior was ok, but there is a context to it.
You know how often a personal foul gets called in a game because the ref saw what happened in response to something bad, but missed the original penalty? Apparently it was a similar issue here. Apparently the WR (blanking on his name) was rude and disrespectful to Sherman at an NFL celebrity golf tournament over the summer.
So…evening a score may not be the best thing to do, but it was evening the score, not an out-of-the-blue rant.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:37 pm

she’s so awesome I might even watch 50/50 again

even though honestly it was kinda not very impactful the first time around

but a friend wants to see it and something I subscribe to is showing it

the fat friend was stupid

needed more better music

and that was back when everyone still thought Joseph Gordon was gay

come to think of it I haven’t seen a single movie he’s done since he came out as straight

I should go back and watch Brick again

happyfeet (8ce051) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:42 pm

I have slow cooker dip beef sandwiches! Yum yum. Plus a side order of irony…….AP reporters don’t want to pay higher contributions to their health insurance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/ap-writers-byline-strike-contract_n_4695042.html?utm_hp_ref=media

Pine Baroness (a1d9be) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:43 pm

For Chicagoans, it’s Franksville at the SW corner of Harlem and Addison. Beats Portillo’s ten ways from Sunday for Italian beef, Polish sausage, and gyros. I always get two or three meals at a time there.

nk (dbc370) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:47 pm

Are you sure, you’re not going out on a ledge, sarc;

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/02/01/climate-change-skeptics-have-a-right-to-free-speech-too/

narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:48 pm

Spinach salad was the best part. Spinach, obviously, with some red onion, vinegar and oill, and some feta and black pepper.

The steak was nice, too. My stove doesn’t get hot enough to do that correctly, but it came out OK.

Good friends are harder to cook up, but recommended.

Snip (031824) — 2/1/2014 @ 8:08 pm

Well, I was gonna go on a rant against ‘The Leader of the Free World’ and how, at the Google Town-Hall (or whatever the hell it’s called) a man said “I’m a fry cook, I make minimum wage, my hours have been cut due to Obamacare, now I don’t make enough money to get by”; and how this piece of crap with a phone and a pen responded by saying “This is why we need to tell Congress to raise the minimum wage”. . . .
But I’m not gonna lose my cool and go on that rant — no sir.

Icy (b22f5c) — 2/1/2014 @ 8:12 pm

Oh good, Sammy and I can wax off-off-off-topic without a care. Yay.

You’ve heard about trouble in Argentina, China and Japan. Greece is not to be forgotten, Mike Shedlock:

Greece could have defaulted in 2009 with perhaps a €40-50 billion mess to clean up. In a foolish attempt to prevent contagion, the nannycrats turned a relatively small mess into major €325 billion problem, virtually assuring the contagion they set out to prevent.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/1/2014 @ 8:29 pm

Well, I think hawking found his black hole, gary.

narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2014 @ 8:35 pm

17. Meaning he slipped beneath the event horizon? Pretty please.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:08 pm

Rep, Culberson, yes another Texan shows he has the gonads to b-slap the shit-bum prezzy. God- Bless all the Texas hearts.

mg (31009b) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:08 pm

Surfs up at Coos Bay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQVUtrJ9O0Q#t=14

Cowabunga.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:10 pm

I want to know know how much the pay the dude at the 2.25 minute mark.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:13 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xYfBNs8ls

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:21 pm

rove and his three groups of money stealing progressives are down 98% in donations this year.
Thank-You, Tea-baggers.

mg (31009b) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:22 pm

Woody Allen makes my skin hurt.

mg (31009b) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:29 pm

Sherman the next day said the #1 thing he relearned was the old adage that you don’t make yourself bigger by making the other person look small… and that was after apologizing to his team mates for making things about him after the game rather than focusing on the great game his team had played.

He’s a smart kid (25 years old?) his yapping doesn’t bother me, he’ll grow up and be OK.

I saw some of the Man on the Street segments sherman did down on Bourbon St last year where he asks fans what they think of Richard Sherman of the Seahawks… the one where the guy says Sherman is overrated and looked fat and slow is funny

steveg (794291) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:31 pm

well he was funny up about 1975.

narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:32 pm

S.S. menu-
Slow smoked sausage-garlic and cheese, hot, sweet, and chinese.
Tuscan Artichokes
Kale and roasted butternut squash salad with toasted almonds and my wife’s secret dressing.
Home made Eclairs.
Fresh roasted Costa Rican coffee.
Fruits and Nuts imported from Cantafordya.

mg (31009b) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:37 pm

23. Woody Allen makes my skin hurt.

Comment by mg (31009b) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:29 pm

I’m going to leave that one alone.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:50 pm

Here is a great use for a drone

drone and go pro film waves at pipeline

The first few seconds shows about 4 guys disappearing to go tumbling for coral and then a little later a guy gets dropped in on and kinda tries to trap the offender back too deep in the pocket for a little payback.
Oh and the water looks real clear because it is, but also because that coral isn’t all that deep

steveg (794291) — 2/1/2014 @ 9:56 pm

23.Woody Allen makes my skin hurt.

— Next time, tell him to rub with the grain.

Icy (b22f5c) — 2/1/2014 @ 10:09 pm

Slate writer decides Atlanta snow storm and racism are inextricably linked

Atlanta weather is racist

steveg (794291) — 2/1/2014 @ 10:26 pm

1. Everything that begins has a cause.
2. The universe began.
3. Therefore the universe has a cause.

Jim S. (94591b) — 2/1/2014 @ 10:51 pm

Slate writer decides Atlanta snow storm and racism are inextricably linked.

Say what you will about the rest of the economy, but the racial grievance industry has absolutely thrived under Obama.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/1/2014 @ 11:03 pm

32. You msy be proud of that one.

Possible thread winner.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/1/2014 @ 11:20 pm

This one falls in the “if you don’t buy it I will” category.

http://monstermiata.com/

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Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:32 am

TFS heads not being my favorites. But you know, I wouldn’t kick ’em out of bed neither.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:35 am

If someone gave me an engine and it had trick flow heads on it I’d be like, OK.

But you owe me!

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:48 am

I don’t normally do the small block Ford.

But when I do.

I am, the most interesting man in the world.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:57 am

I’m kinda a sucker for AFR heads.

http://www.airflowresearch.com/index.php?cPath=21_22

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:35 am

‘ceptin when I’m doing Cleveland Fords.

http://www.chiheads.com.au/

Then I go for the good Aussie s***.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:38 am

MD in Philly #9,

The other player’s name is Michael Crabtree. After Sherman’s outburst at the NFC championship game, Sherman’s older brother told the Seattle Times that Crabtree tried to start a fight with Sherman at a charity event last summer, and that was the source of Sherman’s irritation. However, an unrelated party said Sherman was the instigator of the dispute at the charity event.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 2/2/2014 @ 3:31 am

If you are wondering about the Woody Allen comments, read this.

PS — Fair warning to those who don’t like the New York Times. The link is to a letter by Dylan Farrow printed in a New York Times’ column by Nick Kristof.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 2/2/2014 @ 3:38 am

Thug Eric Holder has refused the lead investigator from testifying in the IRS probe. Sturdy Oak Branch, please.

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:23 am

Bill Maher’s face would make an excellent shooting bulls-eye.

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:35 am

The Dylan Farrow letter is heart-breaking. It will make no difference to Hollywood. Pedophilia and other sexual perversions are the rule there. Have you read what was done to the two Coreys? Woody Allen will still be feted and Oscared and fawned on and sucked up to and even envied. And outside Hollywood he will have his fans and defenders just like Polanski does. There will also be people who in private would not spit on him if he was on fire who will defend him publicly because he is “one of our own”. This last group is the one Billy Kristof and the NYT are most likely to get grief from for publishing Dylan Farrow’s letter. Oh, I’m not shy. Jews.

nk (dbc370) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:36 am

Pedophilia and sexual perversions run rampart in d.c. as well, nk.
Bill Clinton.

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 5:03 am

the nature of the scam;

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/the_state_of_the_static_union_and_universalist_claptrap.html

narciso (3fec35) — 2/2/2014 @ 5:38 am

I got on Twitter for the first time last night. And I’m already “retweeted” by Glenn.

So I’m bragging.

SPQR (768505) — 2/2/2014 @ 5:57 am

Good work, SPQR.

JD (a00966) — 2/2/2014 @ 6:57 am

Hoist a glass in honor of the anniversary of Chuck the Groundhog biting ex-Mayor Bloomberg.

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:19 am

Does cumin make groundhog taste more savory?

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:20 am

Seattle plus 2.5 points (less than a field goal) is an attractive proposition: the Seahawk defense is truly outstanding and defense wins championships. Additionally, Seattle has youthful enthusiasm in abundance which has allowed them to win games all season when the sputtering offense (strong running game, marginal passing attack) seemed incapable of making first downs let alone putting points on the scoreboard. The Seahawks come to the game riding an emotional tsunami which will only serve them well if (big if) their recently elevated college coach can keep his talented and highly spirited players focused on the game and their emotions under control. Seattle’s chances may well rest on that factor, since kickoff isn’t till 6:30pm EST the players (on both sides) have more than enough time to work themselves into an emotional lather.

To Denver’s advantage, they have more big game experience at the key positions, both Peyton Manning and coach John Fox have been to the big dance. And, the Broncos have a pretty darn good defense of their own. All season they’ve been able to stuff the run and force other teams to throw against an experienced secondary just waiting for pick-off opportunities.

Instead of thinking too much in terms of Denver’s high flying offense against Seattle’s rock solid defense, consider Seattle’s iffy offense against Denver’s damn good defense. That just might tell the tale.

So, if the outcome hangs in the balance in the final 2 minutes and it comes down to Seattle’s youth and enthusiasm vs Denver’s maturity and experience, the odds makers are telling you to ride the wild horse. They’re usually right.

ropelight (e68175) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:58 am

Yes it does, Cliff Diver and throw in 6 to 8 bay leaves, 4 table spoons of dark chili powder and a 6 to 8 pound groundhog in a crock pot, set to low cook setting and you will be amazed at the delicious results.

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:00 am

My wife insists on trying her hand at chili making, so there will be no “Dave’s chili” this year. She’s a great cook, so shouldn’t be a let down. Also her special homemade guac, homemade flour tortilla chips, gorgonzola cheese, Boudin’s sourdough bread (America’s best!!!), shrimp/Dungeness crab dip w/veggies and chips.

Go Broncos!

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:10 am

==I got on Twitter for the first time last night. And I’m already “retweeted” by Glenn. So I’m bragging.
Comment by SPQR (768505) — 2/2/2014 @ 5:57 am==

Quality will out, SPQR. That’s quite an accomplishment!

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:11 am

Apparently the supply of news is dwindling and Hiltzik is very concerned.

In recent months some of the hottest names in the business — the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, Nate Silver of the New York Times, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian — have jumped from their old perches to join or launch new digital news ventures aimed at melding their grasp of 21st-century technology to the old verities of news reporting and writing.

It’s exciting, and dangerous. The danger is that these changes won’t usher the old standards and goals of journalism into the future so much as relegate them to the past. And that may already be happening. If so, it will be a shame, because the leaders in the digital transformation of the news are among the most accomplished and promising voices in the field, who have delivered important reporting with real impacts on politics, government and business.

…

Many specialty and news websites offer expert reporting and analysis that’s indispensable today. It’s difficult to understand fully the issues we face in healthcare without the assistance of theincidentaleconomist.com, a group blog devoted to the topic; UC Berkeley economist Brad DeLong’s unique new Equitablog at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth already has emerged as an important clearinghouse of data and commentary on economic inequality. Kevin Drum’s blog at motherjones.com and Josh Marshall’s talkingpointsmemo.com manage to combine the aggregation of news reported elsewhere with original insights and analysis that do provide context you can’t find anywhere else.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20140202,0,1097804.column#axzz2sBJDlsa8

Dana (9a8f57) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:14 am

elissa, oh not really that much of an accomplishment. I was being facetious.

SPQR (768505) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:14 am

Rand Paul has certainly stirred the pot and MoDo is on the case and yet, the most ironic bit of hypocrisy comes from her,

Monica had to be sacrificed for the greater good of the Clintons and feminist ambitions. Hillary was furious at Bill — stories were leaked that he was sleeping on the couch — but she also had to protect her political investment. If he collapsed, she was done. And she was going up — to the Senate and eventually the Oval Office.

Do these people ever step back and connect the dots? I don’t believe they do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-the-gospel-according-to-paul.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

Dana (9a8f57) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:28 am

50. Does cumin make groundhog taste more savory?

Comment by Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:20 am

I can speak to that.

Sage.

You want a wine recommendation?

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:48 am

Surprisingly, Chardonnay works remarkably well with groundhog.

And, really, any rodent. Let’s face it.

But Zinfandel has to be my pick for the plucky hog of the ground.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:59 am

Groundhog is one of those meats that could go either way in terms of white or red. Not like reptile.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:00 am

Also her special homemade guac, homemade flour tortilla chips, gorgonzola cheese, Boudin’s sourdough bread (America’s best!!!), shrimp/Dungeness crab dip w/veggies and chips.

Since moving from San Diego to Tampa, I’ve been very disappointed in the Mexican cuisine. Only the VIP Room in Saint Pete is worth eating at. You’d think with the number of Mexicans that live here, there’d be the equivalent of a Roberto’s #2,341,786 on every other corner.

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:11 am

There’s really no excuse for bad Mexican food.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:15 am

60.Groundhog is one of those meats that could go either way in terms of white or red. Not like reptile.

Reminds me of the Beverly Hillbillies, when Granny would make varmint stew—I think she chased it with her rheumatiz medicine!

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:16 am

There’s really no excuse for bad Mexican food.

Someone recommended a place called Mia Casa. I just wanted a carne asada burrito. The waitress said they had a carne asada plate, so I ordered it. When it came back it was f’ing cubed beef!

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:18 am

Dana-
Eleanor and Franklin had no marriage in the true sense for many many years. With them, there were sly rumors, obvious infidelities, not unlike the Clintons in some respects. Still, the Roosevelts were officially a couple and remained so. They both realized that their social position, personal and political goals demanded it. Sure, the times and mores are different but I’ve always thought the Clintons had all this history very much in mind as they remain together legally while everyone recognizes that they increasingly live separate private lives.

In contrast, look at the grief presidential hopeful Newt took about his affairs and leaving his wife to actually marry someone he is by all accounts very much in love with and very happy with. My gosh we certainly can’t have an adulterer run for president or live in the White House. Hypocrisy is alive and well.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:24 am

Steve57–have you ever wondered why people polirely decline invites to your dinner parties?

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:26 am

One of my pet peeves is bad food in general. I do sushi. My sushi has to be good; I’m white. I can’t pass.

On the other hand…

Well, I’m not going to single anyone out.

Bottom line; I can’t drag some people into my place. Because they’ve eaten other people’s sushi, and now they think that’s what sushi is.

If there’s a bottle of Sriracha sauce on the table, run don’t walk.

And I like Sriracha sauce. There’s a time and a place.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:26 am

*politely*

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:26 am

66. Steve57–have you ever wondered why people polirely decline invites to your dinner parties?

Comment by elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:26 am

What do you mean “politely?”

I think we hang in different circles.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:28 am

I understood what you meant.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:29 am

53. Certainly as much or more than Viking or Packer country, Central MN are Bronco fans. And today overwhelmingly.

Should be a cliffhanger but these games tend to disappoint.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:30 am

One of my pet peeves is bad food in general. I do sushi. My sushi has to be good; I’m white. I can’t pass.

Agreed. I really like maguro and hamachi. I went to a sushi buffet in San Diego for lunch—no himachi! It was $22.50!

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:32 am

elissa @66, I don’t tell them up front they’re eating groundhog.

Of course, you can only do that once.

There’s probably a reason why most of my friends are Cajuns.

Or, they just drink my beer and order pizza.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:34 am

Sean Trende is about as reliably objective as poll wonks get, bet Karl would agree. Is his latest conjecture something?

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/02/01/the-stupid-party/

Mmmm, could be. No chance of a cloture-proof majority in the Senate. Chance of 51 without the base on the back of no turnout whatever?

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:34 am

73. I’ll stick with grass-fed Angus, thanx anyway.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:36 am

I think I’ve been to that place. Is it just off of 8?

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:36 am

One of my friends has a running (non-lethal) battle with squirrels that constantly outwit him and get into his bird feeders. I sent his wife an email which included an elegant southern recipe for squirrel stew and suggested they might want to just alter their approach. They thought I was serious! But, it’s become sort of a running joke and others who are invited to dinner at their house sometimes wonder why we laugh about having squirrel lasagna, squirrel pot pie and squirrel meatballs.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:37 am

Dude, grass-fed groundhog ain’t that bad.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:38 am

elissa,

I agree re Roosevelts. My quibble is the utter hypocrisy of MoDo and other feminists who beat the same old drum while freely admitting they sacrificed another woman to supposedly advance their cause. The entire Clinton debacle lost smart women to the feminist cause. The hypocrisy then and now outs them as self-serving back stabbings. They eat their own.

Dana (9a8f57) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:44 am

77. But no squirrel brains, there’s a BSE-similar syndrome emergent in KY that may be behind some squeamishness.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:46 am

Re: Squirrels. I watched a coyote from my kitchen window about 20 feet away at the woodpile. He sat rather patiently waiting for something to come his way. And eventually he must’ve gotten impatient because he began pouncing in the funniest manner on the tarp covered wood, repeatedly so. Looked like a happy little pup – if you didn’t take into consideration his size, predatory demeanor and hungry lean body. Clever fellow, in a matter of seconds a number of squirrels came scrambling out from underneath the tarps, darting to and fro as they quickly realized one of them would be breakfast. He did some fast maneuvering and was met with success.

Dana (9a8f57) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:48 am

I had gator once, I likened it to meat gum, maybe they didn’t cook it well enough,

narciso (3fec35) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:49 am

Sushi in Chicago in the late seventies did me in for good. It was the eel, specifically.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:52 am

Sweet Jesus, people, yer gonna set Simon off again w/teh racoons…

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:56 am

“It was the eel, specifically.”

gary – Chicago River eel is an acquired taste. I think it’s the heavy metals.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:57 am

Roasted Skunk Very Possible

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:57 am

“He did some fast maneuvering and was met with success.”

Dana – Heh. Witness teh coyote breakfast dance!

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:00 am

Mr. Cliff Diver @72, I said I wasn’t going to pick on anyone but I am going to riff off your comment.

The problem I experience is that people go to places like those all-you-can-eat sushi places, and they think that’s sushi.

I mean, how long has it been sitting out? And I don’t care where you are, there’s only so much good fish. You can be in a place like Sandy Eggo, you’re still going to blow through it.

Plus, not every place is good for everything. Sandy Eggo is good for Tuna (Maguro) but I’m still flying in my Salmon.

The hell of it all is you run into people who’ve tried sushi once and decided they don’t like it. Because it sucked where they went.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:01 am

85. “It was the eel, specifically.”

gary – Chicago River eel is an acquired taste. I think it’s the heavy metals.

Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:57 am

I’m all for working what’s locally available but this is taking things a bit too far, doncha think?

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:07 am

Took a trip out on my late Bro-in-Law’s large boat a number of years ago… out to the 14 mile bank between Newport Beach and Catalina Island. We’d partied on the boat the night before and I wasn’t feeling too swift the next morning. None-the-less, I grabbed rod and reel and commenced to fishing and between my chumming over the side of the boat and enjoying the camaraderie, I ended up hooking what was about a 20 lb. yellowtail. After a good fight, I landed that sucker. My bro-in-law’s brother… a good-hearted fellow who once got so excited during a Mako shark fishing tournament that he almost shot a hole in the bottom of the boat in a crazed, possibly drug-fueled attempt at dispatching a shark one of our party had caught (but that’s a story for another day), then asked me if I had any issue with him cutting a section near the tail of the yellowtail off. I said “no, not at all”, which he then did and gave me a slice of it, pulled jars of wasabi and soy sauce out of his jacket and I have to say the sweet taste was a pleasant surprise to this guy who’d always had a natural aversion to eating fishbait before that day.

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:14 am

Oh good, Sammy and I can wax off-off-off-topic without a care. Yay. You’ve heard about trouble in Argentina, China and Japan. Greece is not to be forgotten…

Comment by gary gulrud (e2cef3)

Gary, I find your links to various reports on economics (particularly the zerohedge.com ones) to be interesting and are among the few posted in these threads that I’ll make an effort to click on (I tend to be lazy about the rest). Part of that is because I’m not sure exactly how bad the ongoing financial situation is throughout the world is. For some time now I’ve been feeling like a rubbernecker driving past a major auto accident on the side of the road, and I’m not sure if my own car is going to be smashed in the process.

Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:18 am

I then cleaned the yellowtail, took it to a friend’s place in Orange, Ca., he put it in his freezer late that same afternoon and then we went to see Little Feat open for Carlos Santana in Costa Mesa. Next day, got up, put the frozen yellowtail in my carry-on bag and flew back to NorCal from John Wayne airport. The looks that I got when that fish went thru the x-ray screener at the gate were priceless. This was probably a decade before TSA would’ve had me in a full-lock power cavity search for trying to do that.

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:20 am

The key, Il Capitano di Fregato, is fresh ingredients.

Which is what the shysters with the sriracha sauce are trying to hide.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:20 am

“I’m all for working what’s locally available but this is taking things a bit too far, doncha think?”

Steve57 – The river has gotten a lot better over the past 30 years since so many businesses have shut down.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:22 am

*di Fregata*

Scusi.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:23 am

Well, just so you know Mr. daley fresh water eel is one of the things we cook thoroughly.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:26 am

If you are wondering about the Woody Allen comments, read this.

The Dylan Farrow letter is heart-breaking.

Sheesh. I’ve only had a brief awareness of controversy surrounding Allen over the past many years, assuming all of it pertained to his marrying his adopted daughter—which is bad enough. But I never knew the guy who loves to portray himself as the diffident, non-self-confident nerd with glasses was also a flat-out pedophilia, a flat-out child-molesting parent.

I also once assumed a lot of the animus directed at him by his ex-wife perhaps was due largely to basic jealousy on her part, since she herself is a typical Hollywood liberal and hardly a paragon of virtue. Oops, was I ever wrong about what apparently is at the core of her contempt.

Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:30 am

“I have to say the sweet taste was a pleasant surprise to this guy who’d always had a natural aversion to eating fishbait before that day.”

Colonel – One charter fishing trip probably 15 years ago on Cape Cod Bay the mate was cleaning the Striped Bass and Bluefish we had decided to keep on the way back to the harbor. We had a French couple with us that day who were business associates of my father. The decided it would be great to eat the livers out of a couple bluefish as the mate was cleaning them. The rest of us managed to avoid chumming over the side while declining their invitation to join them.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:32 am

“Well, just so you know Mr. daley fresh water eel is one of the things we cook thoroughly.”

Steve57 – Probably a very good thing.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:34 am

Colonel Haiku on the latest Christie thread:

Forget this BS Kris Krispy squirrel that the lapdog liberal media is slobbering over, here’s a list of firsts associated with the gimp in the Oval Office:

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/obamas_impressive_list_of.php

About one third of these are just wrong, especially the first two, and half of the remaining don’t matter, and some of them are not really properly characterized as “firsts” and some of them are described in the wrong way.

And why are 3 of them about immigration, with two of them looking like duplicates?

Some of them have merit.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:40 am

99. “Well, just so you know Mr. daley fresh water eel is one of the things we cook thoroughly.”

Steve57 – Probably a very good thing.

Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:34 am

Millennia of experience. I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:40 am

Some of them have merit.

But just some, Sammy.

Besides, I understand that Obama really isn’t a staunch, unrepentant leftist. He’s actually more of a squish, more of a moderate.

Oh, btw, commentator Pat Buchanan loves blood and violence.

Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:44 am

This is Superbowl Sunday? I had no idea. I think my constant reminders to my cohorts that I do not “do” TV has born some major fruit. Think what you will of me, but if it really is SBS, then I am living my dream of being “in” the world, but not “of” it.

Oh, and I fully endorse the exchange at #16, 17, 18.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:44 am

I don’t mean to sell myself short. You’re not likely to get better unagi anywhere else.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:45 am

92. I then cleaned the yellowtail, took it to a friend’s place …

Comment by Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:20 am

Ahh, the yellowtail tales I could tell.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:49 am

Comment by Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:18 am

Gary, I, too, enjoy those zerohedge links.

HEH, what do you make of my 3 commas, Steve?

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:50 am

When I tell people that unagi is my favorite, they always respond – “but that’s cooked”

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:52 am

“I stand on the shoulders of giants.”

Steve57 – I don’t mean to ethnically stereotype or anything, but you’re talking about Japanese giants, right? We’re not talking Sumo wrestlers or anything?

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:52 am

Sammy… Apologist for Obama much? Funny how you choose to put these under yer investigative microscope and yet feel free to pass along the most trivial, mundane, banal crapola wholly unchallenged.

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:52 am

163 on the New York Times Christie thread. Comment by elissa (ce1db2) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:17 pm

Oh good grief. O’Doul’s is a famous non-alcoholic beer brand. Your google skilz seem to have failed you tonight, Sam.

Google isn’t actually really that good. The old advantage of Google, back in 1998, when I first started using it, was that it was AND search, while all the other search engined were OR or something clsoe to it by default – they alwasys wanted to gove you something even if it had nothing to do with what you are serching for.

Google keeps you too much in a bubble.

I sometimes look like a better searcher because I rad something somewhere, or read about something, and I just have to find something I know about, and once I know about an article, I can use special keywords to get to it. And sometimes I may even have gotten a link somewhere.

And then there’s the William Tell situation, where you first hit something, and then draw a circle around it – in other words, I find something and realize it’s relevant somewhere, and link it in one of the threads where could belong.

164. Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2014 @ 7:22 pm

I even gave the context clue

That didn’t help. I thought O’Doul was a name of someone involved in some kind of a “very weak near beer” scandal. So I tried searching for O’Doul and found Lefty O’Doul the baseball manager. Then I tried O’Doul Obama, figuring maybe this could be something to do with Obama, like Benghazi, or the IRS, or Fast and Furious – a little unlikely since I’d never heard of it, but this was a small beer scandal, but I came up with nothing.

I had no idea that O’Doul’s was a type of beer.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:55 am

Better to take it to a friend’s place than Woody Allen’s, Steve!

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:55 am

No, I’m not talking about Japanese giants. Only.

If Enzo Ferrari set out to make sushi, would he have made inferior sushi?

I rest my case.

I make the Ferrari of sushi.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:57 am

“Google keeps you too much in a bubble.”

Sammy – Nowhere near as badly as the New York Times.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:57 am

Sounds like a good trip except for the last part, daley!

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:58 am

The problem I experience is that people go to places like those all-you-can-eat sushi places, and they think that’s sushi.

It was a group thing we did at work. The tempura veggies were very good. They were done to order.

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:59 am

Steve57 – Could not resist a meatball over the plate, so to speak.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:59 am

Thanks for sharing your thought process, Sammy.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:01 am

I make the Ferrari of sushi.

This reminds me that a music critic (IIRC) once called Puccini the “Verdi” of opera.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:02 am

Since moving from San Diego to Tampa, I’ve been very disappointed in the Mexican cuisine. Only the VIP Room in Saint Pete is worth eating at.

That’s like moving from Milwaukee to Atlanta and wondering why you can’t find good Polish food.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:05 am

When in Sasebo, I heartily recommend the Steak Salon.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298217-d1027658-Reviews-Steak_Salon_Asakura-Sasebo_Nagasaki_Prefecture_Kyushu_Okinawa.html

The funny thing was, he had all these diplomas or certificates or whatever hanging on the wall.

And I don’t read French.

Had they been in Japanese I might have made heads or tails out of them.

There I was. In Japan. Trying to un**** French.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:07 am

109. Comment by Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:52 am

Funny how you choose to put these under yer investigative microscope and yet feel free to pass along the most trivial, mundane, banal crapola wholly unchallenged.

There’s a few good ones. I don’t need a microscope to know some of them are very bad. Social Security number from a different state?

Besides the fact that this actually could happen, without it meaning much, I think it was his father’s Social Security number that was from Connecticut.

One is actually understated.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

Not just a man in space. Even a satelite. Hard to believe, right?

That’s true, because the United States had no other method of putting a satellite into orbit except to carry it aboard the space shuttle!

And he didn’t even propose remedying this in the State of the Union message.

There is some kind of multi-year plan by NASA to get back this capability.

In the meantime there are some private companies trying to do this.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:09 am

116. Steve57 – Could not resist a meatball over the plate, so to speak.

Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:59 am

Sometimes the fish strikes cuz it’s just bored.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:09 am

That’s like moving from Milwaukee to Atlanta and wondering why you can’t find good Polish food.

C’mon, wouldn’t you expect decent mexican food with such a large population of mexicans? BTW, in my hometown in Upstate New York, we had a large Polish community and we could get galumkis and pierogis in quite a few restaurants.

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:13 am

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

Every president is always the first to do something or other, so this is no “first.”

Not sure he’s really even the first to kind of officially declare what he won’t enforce. But that would have been a better way to put it.

If this is not passed into law this year, the next Republican presidential candidate will basically have to promise to do the same.

Or maybe he’ll try double talk.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:13 am

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.

Boeing. But that was the National Labor relations Board – why aren’t unrecess appointments in this list?

And what they tried to do was declare that opening up a NEW factory in South Carolina was an unfair labor practice.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:15 am

Thanks for the additional note, DRJ.
My source was majarushie, who does know a few things about celebrity golf tournaments. That said, he did not make it clear whether he had first hand knowledge of the Crabtree-Sherman run in at Larry Fitzgerald’s golf tournament or was hearing it from someone else.

Who knows, maybe it goes back further than that.
But as also said, Sherman has made apologies of some sort for making the comments, but I don’t think he has apologized to Crabtree. Maybe he doesn’t think he owes him anything. Maybe he doesn’t, IDK.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:16 am

Anyhoo the way I looked at it was if Mr. Steak Salon could make the Infiniti of French country cooking, I could make the Ferrari of sushi.

It was inspiring.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:16 am

My daughter and a friend are going to have an anti-superbowl event, where they turn off the sound and listen to only the commercials…

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:17 am

I wouldn’t necessarily expect good Mexican food in Florida, simply because the climate is not conducive to growing good chiles and I can’t stand the Florida avocado. I’m sure you can find a handful of good Mex places (just as there probably is a decent Polish place in Atlanta), but they won’t be in the same league as Cuatro Milpas or El Indio.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:17 am

Ok, this is the only time I will give unsolicited stock advice: buy MNKD because Afrezza will be approved after April 15.

Full disclosure: I am long MNKD in both my IRA and regular trading accounts. You will thank me.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:17 am

R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman

Icy (490d89) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:18 am

Hoffman info

Kevin M (536c5d) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:18 am

sonuva biscuit, Icy. That’s a loss, great actor. Another man claimed by the fruit of the poppy.

Colonel Haiku (f069e2) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:20 am

Cause of Hoffman death unknown. Could be bad sushi or drug overdose, needle found in his arm may mean nothing.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:21 am

131.R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman

No way! What a great loss!

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:21 am

Sad about Hoffman. It’s weird that the article Kevin M linked to claims that until recently he had been clean (from drugs) for 23 years. I find that to be far-fetched — the kind of garbage a well-paid publicist tries to peddle.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:24 am

India is apparently buying Japanese flying boats.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/nation-world/us-2-the-amphibious-aircraft-india-may-buy-from-japan/developed-by-shinmaywa-industries/slideshow/20308751.cms

I don’t know how to feel about this.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:27 am

First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

This sounds interesting and incredible – Obama is trying to get a company to make someone amulti-billionaire?

But I think this must be J. P. Morgan Chase, (I am not sure it adds up to $20 billion, I thought it was about $13 billion) and a lot of money was to go some federal agency or something.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/19/investing/jpmorgan-mortgage-settlement/

But it doesn’t actually go in one place or get under the control of one person.

Here’s where some of this is going:

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (combined) $4 billion

The Department of Justice: $2 billion (not tax deductible, unlike all the rest)

The National Credit Union Association: $1.4 billion.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: $515 million.

New York State: $614 million.

California: $299 million.

Illinois: $100 million.

Massachusetts: $34 million

Delaware: $20 million

Other states too, not separately mentioned in the article.

And there are some other lawsuits and settlements – there was $4.5 billion settlement with institutional investors – and maybe that’s how they get $20 billion.

I think some money will go to Madoff victims.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:27 am

R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman

I can’t figure out why that person has earned a top-of-the-headline link at the drudgereport. I guess I’m just not that big a follower of the entertainment industry as others are, including Matt Drudge, so I scratch my head and go “huh?”

I can see Drudge snorting how we’ve become a Kardashian-bug-eyed society, spending more time focusing on the bilge of reality-TV shows and Hollywood minutiae and sloughing off, for example, “what-difference-does-it-make?!,” Benghazi-type matters. Yet his own website in this one instance fit the stereotype that we’re increasingly becoming an Obama-mama world.

Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:27 am

I had no idea PSH was in the second Hunger Games movie. I viewed Hunger Games just recently after a colleague recommended it to me. I passed on the second movie for no particular reason. so now I will make a point of viewing HGII as well as SPH’s last appearance (Mockingjay part 1) just to honor his acting.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:29 am

“I can’t figure out why that person has earned a top-of-the-headline link at the drudgereport. I guess I’m just not that big a follower of the entertainment industry as others are”

Mark – For the first part of your comment, because Hoffman was a very talented and versatile actor. For the latter, if you aren’t familiar with a subject, why follow the Finkelman pattern and feel compelled to comment on it unintelligently anyway?

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:32 am

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. </i.

Now, come on, that's not true. Nobody is getting replaced, and FDR was maybe the first predsident
to run a lot of thinbgs out of the white House.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

What? The first president to sue a state?? That’s not true, and not illegal in any way.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the US, including former convicts.

Secret??

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

No, he didn’t abrogate it, he gained control of the creditor’s committee, by lending the GM and Chrysler a lot of money, and THEN only preserved what was of interest to the UAW.

If there was anything irregular it was using TARP funds for that, since that wasn’t the original purpose.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:33 am

Yes, Mark, whenever an actor dies it’s all about politics.

Icy (490d89) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:36 am

Well, Mark, I am sure that you and I appreciate many of the same things (whatever they may be, say brilliant acting. This is simply a case where we differ in that I find (found, sadly) PSH’s acting to be sublime in every role (that I saw) he played – including Owning Mahoney. PSH’s passing is, to me and many others, worthy of main-page news.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:37 am

I can’t figure out why that person has earned a top-of-the-headline link at the drudgereport.

He’s also a breaking story at the L.A. Times, but that is probably to be expected for Hollywood’s hometown paper.

I think a lot of Hoffman’s popularity stemmed from the fact that he wasn’t another prettyboy with a fantastic jawline and awesome hair. He was also apparently very active in theater, so for the pretentious types he could be considered a true thespian. Not that I don’t agree he was a good actor, but I don’t look forward to all the overwrought wailing and gnashing of the teeth that generally follows when a Hollywood figure dies too young.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:38 am

missed the closing parenthesis -should read:

…(whatever they may be), say brilliant acting.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:39 am

elissa #77 – I have squirrels that *love* to get my macadamia nut crop just before it is ready (for humans) … I have already humanely relocated over a dozen squirrels over the years … I am pretty much ready for macadamia-nut-fed squirrel stew, at this point …

(mutter, grumble)

Oh – and if you believe that squirrels are cute and cuddly, after seeing them open a macadamia nut (that I need to use vice-grips to open), ain’t no squirrel getting anywhere near any part of my anatomy about which I care, no sirree ! (Except as stew, of course)

Alastor (2e7f9f) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:40 am

91- sounds mighty tasty Col.
A few times a year I’m fortunate to go out with a friend in his small boat with a custom two man troller system. Eating the Nantucket bay scallops fresh out of the shell is quite a treat.

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:40 am

…”but I don’t look forward to all the overwrought wailing and gnashing of the teeth that generally follows when a Hollywood figure dies too young”.

Neither do I, JVW -there is something very “Mother courage” about it.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:44 am

Good ones, maybe:

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

What he did was rely on a faulty and phony scientific finding I think. This kind of misleading of a court has been done by other administrations.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

Good, because somebody should have known aboutthe effect of environmental Impact Statements and other laws on construction projects since the 1960s.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

Autopen has been around since about 1956 (it was semi-secret at first and discovered by an autograph dealer) but nobody tried this before.

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

Something like that might be true, but I don’t know.

First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case

Apparently, this:

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-fires-inspector-general-who-uncovered-fraud-and-corruption-and-honors-defrauder-instead

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize one month into his first term.

Although he didn’t make that happen.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

This possibly may have grown with each of the last few presidents.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

Official White House dog trainer?

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

A fancy way of describing Obamacare, but I don’t think it is the first time ths has been done, albeit it didn’t apply to all Americans, but then this doesn’t actually either.

Back in the 1930’s companies traded on stock exchange were required to hire certified public accountants.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:46 am

A fancy way of describing Obamacare, but I don’t think it is the first time ths has been done, albeit it didn’t apply to all Americans, but then this doesn’t actually either.

Back in the 1930′s companies traded on stock exchange were required to hire certified public accountants.

That is a BIG category mistake – on the scale of auto vs. Obama insurance.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:50 am

“Google keeps you too much in a bubble.”

Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:57 am

Sammy – Nowhere near as badly as the New York Times.

The New York Times may miss certain things, but the searching is better than Google. It doesn’t have a bias toward most linked articles – towarda subset of what is there.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:51 am

There is a BSE-like disease of squirrels in Kentucky?
That is in addition to the CWD of deer which is BSE-like.

Strange. But then sometimes “new” things were always there, we just didn’t pay attention or didn’t have the technology or whatever to observe it.
Somebody had to have a reason to look at squirrel brains under a microscope for BSE-like changes to find it.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:53 am

I find that to be far-fetched — the kind of garbage a well-paid publicist tries to peddle.

Why is that far-fetched? I’ve been sober longer than that. It is also a sad truth that people who relapse after long periods of sobriety have a pretty bad time of it. I’ve buried several friends that way.

Kevin M (536c5d) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:54 am

Comment by felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:50 am

That is a BIG category mistake – on the scale of auto vs. Obama insurance.

Right, if the focus is not on requiring people to do business with private companies, but on ALl americans. Except Obamacare does have some exceptions.

And then Chief Justice John Roerts removed the requirement, and said there was nothing illegal about not buyinbg the insurance.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:54 am

Sad, and a loss. PSH was one of the few great natural actors of that generation in my opinion. But he’s been messed up and reportedly abusing his body for a while. I recently saw him on DVD in the lesser known Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead — an intricate Sidney Lumet crime movie in which Hoffman co-starred with Ethan Hawke, Michael Shannon and Albert Finney. I think Hoffman may have understood the character he played in that film quite well, unfortunately.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:54 am

Who is Philip Seymour Hoffman?

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:55 am

Not only did Hoffman have a best-actor Oscar, and nominated for others, which puts him a rare crowd, but he’d also been nominated for at least one Tony.

This is big news in tinsel-town. Might be a big problem for the last Hunger Games movie.

Kevin M (536c5d) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:56 am

Are macadamia nuts guaranteed to draw the little buggers out of my attic and walls into a trap, or is it an acquired taste??

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:56 am

Well, those of you who will watch the SB, enjoy the show; I know I enjoyed it in the past, more so when I viewed it with family. I will do what you are doing; enjoying the life I was given in the peace that was fought for by others who gave everything (courage, honor, decency) that is now being frittered away by our “betters”.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:00 pm

I can’t figure out why that person has earned a top-of-the-headline link at the drudgereport.

Pretty sure Drudge is a good judge of what drives traffic.

Kevin M (536c5d) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:00 pm

MD in Philly #159 – I don’t know about the already-shelled ones … I suspect that peanut butter is just as good for that … to keep rodents out of the house, it takes the outer surface of the house being rodent-proof … and that often involves chicken-wire over some remarkably small openings …

Alastor (2e7f9f) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:01 pm

156. …But he’s been messed up and reportedly abusing his body for a while.

Comment by elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:54 am

I don’t mean to be cruel, but this is one of those guys I thought was already dead.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:01 pm

The surprise is that he’s still alive.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:02 pm

Why is that far-fetched? I’ve been sober longer than that. It is also a sad truth that people who relapse after long periods of sobriety have a pretty bad time of it. I’ve buried several friends that way.

Well, I live here in the LA area and though I don’t work in the entertainment industry I have some friends who do, and I think I recall be told years ago (the Boogie Nights era) that PSH was a big “partier.” Granted, he may have limited his intake at the time to alcohol, but a recovering addict ought to be laying off the sauce too, one would think.

And maybe this is unfair, but the fact that he so often had a bloated appearance always suggested to me that he didn’t take great care of himself and was living hard. But who knows, maybe he weakness during those periods was chocolate sundaes or something. RIP nevertheless.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:02 pm

Or, was.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:04 pm

65. Comment by elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:24 am

look at the grief presidential hopeful Newt took about his affairs and leaving his wife to actually marry someone he is by all accounts very much in love with and very happy with.

He did that twice, but I don’t think this actually caused him too much trouble. Spending too much money on jewelry maybe caused him more trouble.

Not being able to explain what he did for Freddie Mac was worse – also using some Bain research on Romney that must have been rejected as unfit for use by Democrats.

Not being able to spend money on ads explaining why he resigned as House Speaker and from the House after the 1998 elections also hurt him.

(it didn’t have anything to do with ethics accusations a year before, except maybe in the sense that it caused him to owe money.)

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:05 pm

Speaking of great food, met Morimoto @ Japonais. Sublime.

JD (c0a33e) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:06 pm

Granted, he may have limited his intake at the time to alcohol, but a recovering addict ought to be laying off the sauce too, one would think.

Far-fetched as in “I had other information”? Well, OK then. There are drug addicts in NA who think alcohol isn’t barred, but it is pretty much a minority position. Also the thing about no old bold pilots.

Kevin M (536c5d) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:06 pm

#156… IMHO, that was a superb movie and performance, elissa… Albert Finney’s as well

Colonel Haiku (c840dd) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:08 pm

Go #18 !!!!!

JD (c0a33e) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:08 pm

I’m pretty sure Hoffman’s primary residence with his family was NYC not LA. But the happiest man in the world today has to be Woody Allen. His Hollywood buds and entertainment media will have something else to focus on instead of Dylan Farrow.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:13 pm

and feel compelled to comment on it unintelligently anyway?

So, daleyrocks, you don’t think the so-called Kardashian-ization of society, where fluff like a Beyonce and Jay Z are feted at the White House not too differently from visiting heads of state, isn’t a bit over-the-top?

Somewhat related to this is how even the intelligentsia in NYC/DC/Hollywood (who presumably should be, or likes to think of itself as, more discerning than the hoi polloi) still apparently watches the really bad, really tired TV show “Saturday Night Live,” enough so to keep it in the news, and enough so that showbiz types still think it deserves awards on a regular basis.

but that is probably to be expected for Hollywood’s hometown paper.

I can see a bit of commotion in that case, sort of like how news about Microsoft will be treated in Seattle differently compared with elsewhere.

Simply put, the name “Philip Seymour Hoffman” doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue as easily as, say, “Jack Nicholson” or “Tom Hanks.”

Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:15 pm

Far-fetched as in “I had other information”? Well, OK then.

It’s not to say that my friends are infallible. Lots of people in Hollywood like to gossip and pretend they have first-hand knowledge of stuff they have heard about second-hand. We’ll probably hear more about PSH’s personal battles in the days to come. I may be seeing one of those friends at a SB party later today, so I’m sure the topic will come up.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:16 pm

God has taken away the cold weather for the Superbowl.

The temperature at 3:14 is 54 degrees (!)

Those who bet on cold weatehr (the higher or klwere at kickoff or down was 34 degrees, even money oth sides) are going to lose.

Cold weather returns after the Superbowl, and it should start to rain, later snow, at about midnight.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:18 pm

As long as Russell Wilson and Montee Ball play great, I don’t care who wins.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:18 pm

I’m pretty sure Hoffman’s primary residence with his family was NYC not LA. But the happiest man in the world today has to be Woody Allen. His Hollywood buds and entertainment media will have something else to focus on instead of Dylan Farrow.

So you’re saying that Woody probably gave PSH the fatal overdose? I mean they are both New Yorkers, right? And Woody obviously knew the NYT piece was coming.

Oh wait, this isn’t that sort of site.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:20 pm

Damn, looks like I’m a gonna have to wrestle the remote away from my wife, otherwise it’s the Puppy Bowl or watching TV in the bedroom or upstairs in teh loft.

Colonel Haiku (c840dd) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:22 pm

Re; Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/world/europe/after-crisis-greeks-work-to-promote-social-economy.html?_r=0

Non profit and mostly volunteer co-ops are starting, selling in parking lots and bypassing supermarkets, whose managers often required bribes to order and to place something on different shelves (the money went to the managers, not the owners)

Today Mr. Mavromatis is a regular at the no-middlemen markets. While he said he got a slightly lower price than before, he no longer has to worry about paying bribes or getting checks that bounce. Struggling families, meanwhile, get to buy household detergent, fruit and a host of other goods at a fraction of the normal market price.

Flush with cash for the first time since Greece’s economy went into a nose dive in 2008, Mr. Mavromatis recently bought a new Mercedes-Benz truck to transport his detergents from his factory in a village near the town of Katerini, the regional capital, and has expanded his product line to include toilet paper.

Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:24 pm

“So, daleyrocks, you don’t think the so-called Kardashian-ization of society, where fluff like a Beyonce and Jay Z are feted at the White House not too differently from visiting heads of state, isn’t a bit over-the-top?”

Mark – So, trying to switch the subject again? In you comment which I addressed you admitted you did not know why drudge headlined the death of Hoffman or follow entertainment news enough so it was a head scratcher.

Yet you somehow decide based on that lack of knowledge to write the following:

I can see Drudge snorting how we’ve become a Kardashian-bug-eyed society, spending more time focusing on the bilge of reality-TV shows and Hollywood minutiae and sloughing off, for example, “what-difference-does-it-make?!,” Benghazi-type matters. Yet his own website in this one instance fit the stereotype that we’re increasingly becoming an Obama-mama world.

Now you’re accusing me of not thinking this, that and the other thing that have changed over the years are not important? Good luck with that.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:26 pm

169-Sure sounds great. yum

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:27 pm

==you don’t think the so-called Kardashian-ization of society, where fluff like a Beyonce and Jay Z are feted at the White House not too differently from visiting heads of state, isn’t a bit over-the-top?==

I am confused. The Kardashian-ization of America relates to the death of an established award winning actor in what way?

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:29 pm

Heroin. It took out Dee Dee Ramone, ya know.

Icy (490d89) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:35 pm

168. Speaking of great food, met Morimoto @ Japonais. Sublime.

Comment by JD (c0a33e) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:06 pm

I am an artiste, sir.

You would know this if you studied one of my slant sixes.

The subtleties, I feel they are lost on the small block Ford. Brute power overcomes all.

Alas.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:37 pm

182. …I am confused. The Kardashian-ization of America relates to the death of an established award winning actor in what way?

Comment by elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:29 pm

If I were to hazard a guess?

I’d bet every single one was a nice a**.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:47 pm

The Kardashian-ization of America relates to the death of an established award winning actor in what way?

“Award winning” in today’s era makes me think of the context of “Barack Obama” and the Nobel.

Grade inflation.

Moreover, we do live in an age when I hear (and read about) way too many people who should know better chattering away with the comment, “did you watch Saturday Night Live?! There was that hilarious bit of…,” and “I go, uh, o-kay.”

Mark (b71448) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:47 pm

Now I feel the need to explain myself.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:49 pm

Which of Hoffman’s movies have you seen, Mark? He’s been working in film and theatre for about 25 years.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 12:54 pm

“I said blow away, blow away
This cruel reality
And keep me from its storm
Suspicion has crept in, and ruined my life
I’m messed up, and hassled, and worn

Well its pure indignation
Just another sensation
And I’d like to knock on that door
But the boy he keeps on callin’ for more

Yes and my sweet China White
She ain’t here tonight
And love has robbed me blind

So cast away, cast away
From this ball full of pain
For it sinks beneath the waves”

http://youtu.be/quK-QCmuXHA

Colonel Haiku (c840dd) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:03 pm

teh Legendary Electric Lycantrope Session:

http://youtu.be/29-xxM7FrjM

Colonel Haiku (c840dd) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:07 pm

no worries

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/02/confirmed-obama-inaugural-donor-in-charge-of-dinesh-dsouza-prosecution/

narciso (3fec35) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:14 pm

I am going to posit another scenario for your consideration, Mark. Perhaps knowing that Philip Seymour Hoffman has been steadily employed (in fact prolific) in film and theater for several decades–yet you are not very familiar with him or his body of work–suggests that he was in fact not part of the fluff and faux celebrity culture you so disdain.

Think about that.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:23 pm

I believe one can certainly appreciate the art of fine acting, while simultaneously disdaining the fluff and vapid culture surrounding it. Kardashians act, albeit not fine art, has certainly been a riproaring monetary success for them . I’m still not sure what they do to earn it other than display great asses.

Dana (f2954b) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:41 pm

Heh, naughty autocorrect. I meant to put “great assets” but “great asses” works just as well.

Dana (6e0d7f) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:44 pm

91, 106. Thanx, I know that one common interest we all share its arresting the decline of America.

The reason I offer the links is events modify the ‘possible’ future.

Frankly, a good deal of our discussion of political intrigues in Congress, may not regularly attend to realities on the ground, what futures are possible given the constraints placed by events on our circumstances.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:50 pm

I think HBO2 had Capote, one of PSH movies, on last night( I’d seen some of it before ).

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/2/2014 @ 1:55 pm

Even now

If I see in my soul the citron-breasted fair one

Still gold-tinted, her face like our night stars,

Drawing unto her; her body beaten about the flame,

Wounded by the flaring spear of love,

My first of all by reason of her fresh years,

Then is my heart buried alive in snow.

Even now

If my girl with lotus eyes came to me again

Weary with the dear weight of young love,

Again I would give her to these starved twins of arms

And from her mouth drink down the heavy wine,

As a reeeling pirate bee in fluttered ease

Steals up the honey from the nenuphar.

Even now

If I saw her lying all wide eyes

And with collyrium the indent of her cheek

Lengthened to the bright ear and her pale side

So suffering the fever of my distance,

Then would my love for her be ropes of flowers, and night

A black-haired lover on the breasts of day.

Even now

My eyes that hurry to see no more are painting, painting

Faces of my lost girl. O golden rings

That tap against cheeks of small magnolia leaves,

O whitest so soft parchment where

My poor divorced lips have written excellent

Stanzas of kisses, and will write no more,

Even now

Death sends me the flickering of powdery lids

Over wild eyes and the pity of her slim body

All broken up with the weariness of joy;

The little red flowers of her breasts to be my comfort

Moving above scarves, and for my sorrow

Wet crimson lips that once I marked as mine.

Even now

They chatter her weakness through the two bazaars

Who was so strong to love me. And small men

That buy and sell for silver being slaves

Crinkle the fat about their eyes; and yet

No Prince of the Cities of the Sea has taken her,

Leading to his grim bed. Little lonely one,

You clung to me as a garment clings; my girl.

Even now

I love long black eyes that caress like silk,

Ever and ever sad and laughing eyes,

Whose lids make such sweet shadow when they close

It seems another beautiful look of hers,

I love a fresh mouth, ah, a scented mouth,

And curving hair, subtle as a smoke,

And light fingers, and laughter of green gems.

Even now

I remember that you made answer very softly,

We being one soul, your hand on my hair,

The burning memory rounding your near lips:

I have seen the priestesses of Rati make love at moon fail

And then in a carpeted hail with a bright gold lamp

Lie down carelessly anywhere to sleep.[“Black Marigolds,” translated from the Sanskrit by B. Powys Mathers.]

Thank God for Steinbeck. Otherwise I might not have come across it.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 2:04 pm

Very well said, Dana@193. The Kardashians and Paris Hilton (just to name a few) are in a class by themselves– “celebrities” famous simply for being famous and getting themselves seen and photographed. Then there are also a lot of great looking but middling talent actors and musicians out there who come and go. There are some very lucky actors who fall into great parts or into great ensembles and became famous that way, and are able to build careers from that. Some stand the test of time and some don’t. Then there are a few actors who have the magic and just stand above the crowd in every vehicle and every role. One hates to see those talents extinguished too soon and before their time.

elissa (8fe002) — 2/2/2014 @ 2:23 pm

If you really want to know what hate looks like, stick around when I change the sheets.

Oh. Oh really. Those are queen size sheets. Then why does that corner keep popping off?

I would dearly love to meet up with the joker who came up with the concept of fitted sheets.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 3:11 pm

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, R.I.P. … Apparent drug O.D.

Too bad, he was an exceptionally talented actor.

IGotBupkis (aacc3d) — 2/2/2014 @ 3:48 pm

The thing is, this guy was someone’s pride and joy.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:17 pm

…and three children’s father.

Dana (9a8f57) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:24 pm

Sadly, these deaths are too common in today’s entitled lifestyle.

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:28 pm

i never done heroins my whole life

and this wasn’t a hey let’s try heroin weekend – it just went way too fast plus I still have grocery shoppings to do – i want some pork shoulder to try Mr. red’s taco recipe

and next weekend I can already tell you isn’t going to work for heroin

Firefox can’t find the server at http://www.tryheroin.com.

Lame.

happyfeet (8ce051) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:36 pm

202. …and three children’s father.

Comment by Dana (9a8f57) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:24 pm

Really? And he doing drugs?

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 4:58 pm

hey feets: check the comments on the recipe.

several people thought their choice of beer for that ingredient made it taste funky, but they were able to salvage the final product.

redc1c4 (abd49e) — 2/2/2014 @ 5:27 pm

I’m sure you can find a handful of good Mex places (just as there probably is a decent Polish place in Atlanta), but they won’t be in the same league as Cuatro Milpas or El Indio.

Wow, El Indio! Do they still have that tortilla making machine in full view. Really great Mexican food. It was always packed.

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 2/2/2014 @ 6:33 pm

#184.”You would know this if you studied one of my slant sixes”

Steve, I have the utmost respect for slant sixes. My 1976 Volare (Plymouth) station-wagon had 350,00 miles on it when I gave it away, still running like a top, to my little brother.

felipe (6100bc) — 2/2/2014 @ 6:57 pm

How great is it that rebel tea-baggers have out raised the grand ole party. Goodbye karl marx rove.

mg (31009b) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:17 pm

Vo-la-re…ohohohohhh….

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:38 pm

Wow, El Indio! Do they still have that tortilla making machine in full view.

It’s been over a year since I’ve been there (I live closer to Los Angeles), but it was still in use at my last visit. Taking home a dozen fresh tortillas is one of the best parts of visiting there; same with Old Town Mex Cafe.

JVW (709bc7) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:11 pm

Mark, there are a lot of outstanding people who get caught up in drugs or booze. That doesn’t make them “bad” people.
By the same token, there are a lot of jerks who live a “clean” life.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber, and the Kardashians.

Elephant Stone (9d30f3) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:29 pm

Reformed piate addicts who relapse are in great danger for two reasons: They have lost their tolerance and their previous usual dose is an overdose, and/or they are naltrexone/Vivitrol and try to override it. But I’m just guessing. It could just as well be the varying purity of the stuff on the street.

My daughter told me today that heroin was “all teenagers”. I took it is as “mostly teenagers” and told her that’s because most teenage heroin addicts don’t live long enough to grow out of their teens. We talked a little about how heroin kills people, including the transmission of AIDS and hepatitis. She told me not to worry because she’s afraid of needles. Sigh. One junkie is pathetic. A hundred thousand junkies tolerated and romanticized, not shamed but instead made sympathetic, can poison a whole society. And there are others, besides druggies, we can say that about.

nk (dbc370) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:53 pm

*opiate addicts*

nk (dbc370) — 2/2/2014 @ 8:54 pm

nk–watch your wonderful daughter like a hawk. The kids in the burbs are smoking heroin too. They don’t need needles. A report on TV tonite showed how kids are offered a “joint” by somebody at a party and take it believing it’s weed. But it’s not and they get hooked.

elissa (66c08b) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:12 pm

Yes, definitely, elissa. My fear with my daughter is not what she reads, or TV, or the internet, but her “friends”. She’s in sixth grade now, in a very good school, with good kids from good families. We know all her friends and their parents — we think. Our local high school is not as good. Her mother and I are hoping to get her into a place like St. Ignatius. And still ….

nk (dbc370) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:24 pm

210. Vo-la-re…ohohohohhh….

Comment by MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/2/2014 @ 7:38 pm

You laugh, dottore. But six in a row, she makes her go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JEQIQmQa-c

Dean Martin – Volare-An Evening in Roma

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:31 pm

It’s pure vahrfegnuging, doc!

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/2/2014 @ 10:03 pm

Art Howe in Moneyball.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/2/2014 @ 11:21 pm

Damn, looks like I’m a gonna have to wrestle the remote away from my wife, otherwise it’s the Puppy Bowl or watching TV in the bedroom or upstairs in teh loft.

Don’t you feel stupid now? You could have watched the Puppy Bowl.

Kevin M (536c5d) — 2/3/2014 @ 1:49 am

VDH is excellent at Pajama’s Media.

mg (31009b) — 2/3/2014 @ 5:03 am

Yes, Kevin, the puppies put up more of a fight.

Colonel Haiku (c840dd) — 2/3/2014 @ 6:40 am

216. Comment by nk (dbc370) — 2/2/2014 @ 9:24 pm

My fear with my daughter is not what she reads, or TV, or the internet, but her “friends”.

Very true, and I don’t really understand why any other theory should have any adherents. Maybe because it makes it easier to propose one all-purpose remedy.

Sammy Finkelman (4eddd7) — 2/3/2014 @ 11:21 am

I found this interesting.

http://www.hughhewitt.com/former-clinton-white-house-counsel-lanny-davis-struggles-list-hillarys-achievements-state/

As Hugh points out, Lanny Davis is a master at the spin. Yet he couldn’t name one single thing Hillary! accomplished as SecState.

This was the best he could do:

HH: All right, one question, you’ve got a minute. Summarize for me what she accomplished as Secretary of State.

LD: Well, the biggest thing of all is goodwill around the world, which is what secretaries of State do.

HH: Like in Syria…

LD: I don’t know what any secretary of State…

HH: …and Egypt and Libya?

LD: I don’t know, well, Libya and certainly the intervention in Libya and getting rid of Qaddafi, you would say that’s a pretty good achievement for the President. But these are presidential achievements with a partnership of the secretary of State. What do secretaries of State do? For example, she was very instrumental in the details of the Iranian sanctions program, which has produced, apparently, some results. I’m very skeptical about this deal in Iran on the nuclear weaponry. But the credit she deserves on this sanctions program, which literally was her program in the State Department to enforce, but in partnership with Barack Obama.

HH: So her achievement is that…

LD: But this doesn’t change the question about the secretary of State having achievement. This is a secretary of State is the most popular woman in the world and restored relations with everyone in the world.

HH: All right, Lanny, we’re out of time, but your achievement is one that’s been swept away by the President.

This is a pathetic joke. And it will grow more pathetic and less of a joke with time.

Steve57 (5b9a77) — 2/3/2014 @ 4:37 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0&list=FLVkT8VdQ3_qox4FwMmtb7Zg&index=11

narciso (3fec35) — 2/3/2014 @ 4:47 pm

Sorry that was in relation to this;

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/02/03/as-the-christie-story-evolved-the-times-should-have-noted-a-change/

narciso (3fec35) — 2/3/2014 @ 4:49 pm

I know the line;

http://freebeacon.com/herridge-fmr-cia-director-morell-may-have-altered-benghazi-talking-points-to-benefit-obama-admin/

narciso (3fec35) — 2/3/2014 @ 5:54 pm

Ode to President Obama…
“Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.” — Macbeth

Colonel Haiku (38a9fa) — 2/3/2014 @ 6:42 pm

I have to acknowledge that this country has repeatedly made me look like a sap, but somehow electing a bag lady POTUS just seems beneath even a second-rate banana republic.

I mean Cristina Fernandez is almost hot by comparison.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/3/2014 @ 8:15 pm

Of course, he hasn’t been looking out for the folks in five years

http://therightscoop.com/mr-president-why-do-you-feel-its-necessary-to-fundamentally-transform-the-nation/

narciso (3fec35) — 2/3/2014 @ 8:18 pm

230. He does seem to be keeping up with TV shows I’ve never seen, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, House of Cards, Hunger Games, etc.

I guess that’s evidence of an adept in our post-post-literate age. We are past the stage where reading a Steven King novel was cutting-edge.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/3/2014 @ 8:25 pm

Well I’ve seen all but the first, I’m familiar with it, the Houses of Westeros, bear more then a passing resemblance with current political factions

narciso (3fec35) — 2/3/2014 @ 8:28 pm

232. Yeah, well, apart from his prepared speeches I don’t think SCOAMF reads.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/3/2014 @ 8:36 pm

Worried about a Greater Depression peoples rue yesterday’s slide in the Dow of 2%.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/02/03/4-Feb-14-World-View-Monday-s-market-plunge-continues-that-1929-feeling

The Nikkei dropped 4% tonight, the Hang Seng 3%.

Count your blessings.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/4/2014 @ 1:45 am

Dell, newly LBOed, is laying off 15K, Radio Shack closing 500 stores, JC Penny playing out the hand of a penny stock, etc.

Current EM collapse will drive the stake thru EU banks hearts, in a coffin filled with their native soil.

If we don’t achieve RESET this year, 2015 will not disappoint.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/4/2014 @ 7:34 pm

Gary, what’s going on with the fight that broke out at a democratic caucus in Mpls
Phylis Kahn and some somali were upsetting the mob?

mg (31009b) — 2/4/2014 @ 7:42 pm

236. I’ll look into it.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/4/2014 @ 8:25 pm

236. Here’s some background:

http://www.mndaily.com/city/neighborhoods/cedar-riverside/2014/02/03/noor-challenges-u-area-standby

And another:

http://politicsinminnesota.com/2014/01/noor-challenges-kahn-for-minneapolis-seat/

It would seem this fellow was elected to the school board upon the death of the predecessor in that explosion.

He seems to have gotten this idea that his path to the Legislature needed a helping hand. He has strong support from the 6th Ward but that ward is part of multiple state house districts. I gather at the caucus he wanted participants to stop at his table perforce to identify themselves.

Caucus completion evidently on hold.

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/4/2014 @ 9:16 pm

Pot, meet Kettle:

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/02/05/House-Intel-Chair-Suggests-Glenn-Greenwald-Selling-Snowden-NSA-Docs

gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 2/5/2014 @ 9:10 am

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