I'm here to piggyback on the excellent posts done by Jane and Brendan on NARAL's Nancy Keenan and her strange Susan-Estrich-like ineffectiveness as head of what was once a top-shelf pro-choice advocacy group.
Many of you were wondering, as the news of the Roberts Court's decision criminializing the safest form of late-term abortion had spread, if Ms. Keenan — whose refusal to back a filibuster of Alito, and support for Rape Gurney Joe (against the express wishes of NARAL's own Connecticut chapter!) — made the Roberts Court possible — would have the gall to use the emergency she'd created as a pretext for putting out the collection plate. Sure enough, right on schedule yesterday afternoon, NARAL Nancy put out a begging letter. Excerpts therefrom:
So how are we going to defeat this ban now that Bush’s appointees upheld it? Simple. We’re starting an all-out campaign to support the Freedom of Choice Act.
Here’s how it starts: The Freedom of Choice Act is legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, and guarantee the right to choose for generations to come. But this legislation is just the first step. To ensure we never face an attack like this again, we’re not stopping until we’ve elected a pro-choice president in 2008!
Sound impossible? You’ve already proven it’s not.
As a supporter of NARAL Pro-Choice America, you helped send 1.4 million pro-choice Americans to the March for Women’s Lives. You helped defeat the South Dakota abortion ban. You elected 26 pro-choice leaders to Congress in 2006. You are a part of the million-member-strong political leader of the pro-choice movement. Together, we can make this happen, but we need your help to fund the fight. Click here to help.
It’s up to us. We can do it. Click here to make your gift today.
What Ms. Keenan isn’t telling you is that Tuesday’s Scalia-Roberts Supreme Court ruling does an end run around Roe while leaving it technically intact. As for the Freedom of Choice Act, while it may well indeed undo Tuesday's Roberts Court abomination if passed, NARAL’s own site mentions that it’s been floating around Congress since 1989 — eighteen years — and hasn’t got anywhere.
By the way: I couldn’t find the actual text of the bill on NARAL’s website; all the references I can find are just variations of the same vague smiley-face verbiage that came with the begging letter. But links to it are available over at an anti-choice site run by the National Right to Life Committee, complete with links for a current list of sponsors. It's scary when the other side has better info on your own bills than what your side is giving you.
Comparing and contrasting these two sites just helps to illustrate yet another example of how Keenan’s not doing much of anything with the cash she’s Hoovering up from us. I swear, I could pick five people at random from the comments thread for this post and they could do a much better job of online outreach, to say nothing of political outreach.
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HOKIES!
Hello, everyone!
PW!
Gotta go take care of dinner — will be back soon (my internet is being poky tonight)!
pick me, PW! :)
lolo @ 2
Yup, that’s me. ;-)
How is everyone tonight?
Phoenix Woman @ 4
YA, what’s cooking?!
Not
Actually
Reasonable
Actions
Lately
Pick me! Pick me!
Thanks for the Joe Lieberman, there, NARAL.
Have we found out the composition of the NARAL Board of Directors? Is there a way to bring real pressure to bear on this careerist? She’s proven again and again which side of the Beltway her bread’s buttered on. NARAL’s skirts are what Boxer hid behind in defending RGJoe’s pro-choice “credentials” even after the Alito vote and his short-ride comment.
Keenan must go.
Neglecting
Abortion
Rights
A la
Lieberman
Tweety’s talking about Abortion 2008 right now.
You know, my contempt for Joe Lieberman knows no bounds. I hope every time somebody utters the word “Lieberman,” Al Gore feels a slight pang for elevating that tool to the political A-list.
Phoenix Woman @ 6
There’s a lot of dirtballs to be angry with this week, as per usual.
But I’d like to see a list of the Hannibal of Connecticut’s strategeric prognostications wrt Iraq, just for the record.
From the Speaker’s email “House Call” today:
Supreme Court Criminalizes Late-Term Abortions
No mention of Nancy Keenan’s bill.
I’m bored.
So, Gonzo didn’t resign today?
The decision is scary in one particular way. The one that matters.
It interferes with medical decisions to satiate raging ideologues. That is wrong. Always.
Let’s suppose you had a tumor that was certainly cancerous. Now let’s suppose you had a high-risk pregnancy – say, identical triplets with transfusion syndrome, at 20 weeks. Now let’s suppose the doctors best advice was “this pregnancy is almost certain to result badly anyway, but you have an opportunity to give your wife a better chance of survival and give your existing child a chance of growing up with a mother. This is not exactly a theoretical situation – it’s one that would have happened to me if it wasn’t Christmas time and so they didn’t have an appointment and they didn’t notice the tumor.
Why fhe fuck does any government entity have the right to interfere in that medical decision? Because they are theocratic fuckwits who don’t give a fucking rats turd what happens to actual people. Except, of course, for the universal Republican rule “when it happens to us, it’s different” aka the “Dick Cheney lesbian daughter” rule.
[Edited by moderator: No advocating violence against public officials. Period.]
P.S. I don’t know what we would have decided – but it’s our damn decision to make, not some assholes in Congress who will never, ever, ever meet us. We have two healthy girls, but we are lucky beyond belief. Lucky that we have two girls instead of none, lucky that (so far) they still have a mother, lucky that they aren’t severely disabled.
On Olbermann, a clip of Bush saying “there is ample time to debate this war”.
Alicia @ 13
DING!
Is it legally clear, now, what the boundaries are for a statute? I’m still trying to absorb the analyses, but if the court has flipped against a woman’s right, and is prepared to dictate what she must accept for her own good, it’s not clear to me that a statute reaffirming the woman’s right would be assumed to be constitutional by the S.Ct’s current majority. When Kennedy presumed to tell women what’s good for them, and translated that into a constitutional principle, I think he loosed something very dangerous for individual rights generally.
Just catching up after being at work all day.
So, McCain says people who criticize his “bomb Iran” ditty need to “get a life”?
Glad MoveOn is doing an ad in response to his attempt at humor. The last thing this country can afford is another sociopath in the White House.
I dislike two Democrats intensely. One of these is Lieberman.
cleter @ 19
and here I was, counting on dump-Fredo afternoon news.
KO’s gonna hit McCain on his little ditty tonight per the intro.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 20
A*hole
Renee in Ohio @ 23
Apparently those who would “get a life” do not include the Iranian people.
Got “The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down” on—I can empathize with the feelings after watchin THEM drive this country down.
I just sent them a nasty note, saying, among other things, that I’ll do all I can to make sure no one gives them any money because of Alito & Lieberman. The link seemed to be broke the other day.
I fished around on the website, but couldn’t see a listing of trustees.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 23
Is the other one the spouse of Lieberman’s former running-mate’s boss?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/V…..02007.html
Looky here *IMPEACHMEMT*
lolo @
17
Nobody resigned.
eCAHN here ya go, EPU’d:
Gleef had this yesterday.
Nancy Keenan, you’ve just been PWned!!
Seeing Bush speaking on Olbermann, starts that old Spike Jones ditty in my head everytime now. “Seig Heil, sieg heil, right in Der Fuehrer’s face”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StdwfRlleFU
TeddySanFran @ 11
this is from December…
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
not sure if current…
Richard A. Gross Board Chair
Dagmar Dolby Second Vice Chair
G. Angela Henry Secretary/Treasurer
JoAnn Eisenberg
Nonie Hawkes Greene
Rosalyn Levy Jonas
Judy Kovler
Wendy Mackenzie
Sally J. Patterson
Anna Quindlen
Barbara Silby
Nancy Silverman
Rev. Dr. Paul Smith
Felicia Stewart
James Trussell
Colburn Wilbur
Judith Zarin
(This list was from guidestar dot org, but the link I had is broken.)
Loo Hoo @ 33
pussies. Just another afternoon of killing on teevee.
Loo Hoo @
33
Americablog is floating rumors about Gonzo resigning over the weekend, but they are just rumors as far as I can tell. Sometimes I think they’ll never leave, but then Rummy did..sort of.
LooHoo,
Good day at work? TGIF?
lolo
egregious @ 34
Thx. I don’t know any of them, nor do I have any idea how we can get to them.
cleter @ 31
;0)
Oklahoma kiddo @
36
I just went and pulled the song up on my machine and listened to it. I had loaded it on from Dr Demento’s 25th anniversary discs…
egregious @ 34 et al
OOOPS. I think Liz Hager is a college classmate of mine. She lives in NH, according to the alum directory & as of 04 was exec dir of United Way. As of 3/07 NARAL news release which came up in google, she’s now a NH rep as well as being on Board of NARAL. So it seems to fit.
I did not know her at school, but would be happy to write her an email. I wouldn’t know exactly what to say, though. Know I would need to be polite, but what else. Any suggestions?
eCAHNomics @ 39
Amy Madigan is the actress I believe. Was in Field of Dreams w/Costner.
Dru’s list @ 37 has Anna Quindlen, the Newsweek columnist.
Those are the only names I recognized.
I don’t think there is much to be gained by contacting board members unless you know them VERY WELL. Random letters from the public would not generally have any impact in my experience as a board member. ymmv
I have document drop withdrawal.
lolo @ 40
The end of a LONG week. Alice in Wonderland play before open house. Soon to start the freaking standardized testing. (Keeping in mind that the texts are all crap.)
Thanks for asking, neighbor.
(with apologies to Steve Miller)
for Nancy “Take the Money and Run” Keenan:
Oklahoma kiddo @ 23
Technically, Lieberman isn’t a Democrat. He is Chairman of the Independent People’s Party of Liebermania or something. He’s a mavericky maverick, like elderly comedian J. Sidney “Maverick” McCain III.
LS @ 47
No kidding. Feast or famine.
dakine01 @ 43
The good doctor Demento. ;0)
I woke up last night and was struck with the realization about how far down the rabbit hole our nation has plummeted when I thought about the sad spectacle of the Gonzales testimony.
The chief law enforcement officer in America reduced to amatuerish blather and street thug denials on the stand.
Bush’s America on proud display.
-GSD
lolo @
40
POETS’Day also works (P*ss On Everything Tomorrow’s Saturday)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 52
I keep the iTunes on party shuffle and never know when something from that is gonna pop-up.
[Modnote: please don’t multiple re-quote comments containing links, thanks]
You know, seeing Gonzo’s hideous performance made me think that is why Bush appeared before the 9-11 Commision in private, no transcript, with Dickie holding his hand. I think Bush testimony in an open hearing would be just as awful.
I supppose I resent it that Lieberman is being allowed to caucus with the Dems. My party. I want Mr. Lieberman gone. ;0)
Still no reply to my email to Nancy Keenan. Not that I asked for a response, but usually advocacy groups respond. Probably just got deleted. Besides, they think we’ll just shut up and go away.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 54
Make Lieberman caucus with the other members of the Mighty Party of Lieber-Men.
My guess is that Gonzo will decide to leave in within three months- after things have died down a bit so that Bush can’t be accused of knuckling under to pressure.
Dana Milbank “I think there might be an opening at FEMA”
??
I shudder to think ,come 2009, we may have another chicken hawk on the Middle East in the WH.
Milbank, we don’t hear about Condi running for governor of California anymore too.
??
cleter @ 18
looks like i lost my bet with gunga djinn.
Loo Hoo @ 63
I got that one, her cred is shot so she has no such political future.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 62
i don’t want any kind of hawk in the white house.
egregious @ 65
I’d never heard she was considering it. NFL, yes, govenator, no.
selise, it was a win/win.
selise @ 61
Well, let’s start a new pool. I’ll take next Friday at five.
LS @ 47
http://www.oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1262
Me too.
This helped for about 5 minutes.
Okay, I’ll put in $20.00 to Blue America if he’s not gone by 5:00 next Monday.
egregious @ 62
Nobody with “Senior Bush Administration Official” on their resume is gonna get elected to anything anywhere.
Is Kenaan a triangulator too?
OT but if you’re watching KO, the one question Chimpy was asked that he had no clue how to answer, here’s the point:
In DoD contracting or any contracting with the gov’t, for a product to be considered “American Made” it needs to have 51% of the components made in USA.
That is all.
Raw Story:
I wonder if the dems will legislate that a doctor must save the life of a woman if a pregnancy could put her at risk. Seems kinda straight forward to me.
Looks as though I’m one ‘e’ short and one ‘a’ too many.
cleter @ 68
Loo Hoo @ 70
great! you guys are so much fun!
i’ll take tuesday… if gonzo doesn’t resign on tuesday, i lose. but, i’ve got to limit my participation to $10 a shot.
the loser(s) pay into the blue america pac.
who else wants to play?
Don’t forget that Bush gave the fundies a big old sloppy wet kiss that wipes out a hundred Gonzos. I’m concerned about the ramifications of this
SCOTUS decision, but I’m more concerned about the fact that the evangelicals will see this as “Bush delivers!” and rally round him.
Honestly, I don’t care whether Gonzo goes or stays. We thought we were getting a good deal when Ashcroft left. All they’ll do is replace him with someone worse.
I will kick $100.00 to the Blue America PAC if Gonzo does resign by or before midnight next Friday.
Think positive.
Baldwin’s phone message to his 11 year old daughter is truly flesh crawling.
Oilfieldguy @ 80
woohoo! you so rock OFG!
punaise @ 71
kirk murphy @ 5
OK, you’re #1!
Oilfieldguy @ 80
Woo-hooo!
prescience, cleter…
Sorry I was gone so long — my internet connection’s been problematic this afternoon, and I gave up and had dinner. How’s everyone been holding up?
I want the AG gone. For political and PR reasons. But based upon the Rumsfeld replacement, can we expect a better succesor to Gonzales? Or will it be Rove business as usual?
Alicia @
79
But the congress has changed considerably since Abu was confirmed. Twould be fun to watch new hearings. (Or read on FDL as the case may be.)
cleter @
84
Are you sure you’re name’s not Karnac the Magnificent?
Scarecrow @ 22
That’s what I suspect, too. I strongly suspect that Roberts, Scalia and Kennedy gamed their decision specifically to make the Freedom of Choice Act impossible to enforce, should it ever be made law.
Selise,
Thought of you when I noticed the hearing on extraordinary renditions will replay tonight on cspan. It’s a long hearing and all very good but the last hour (ish) is do not miss.
The problem with Gonzo resigning is the same problem with Scooter Libby being convicted. Once that’s done, then what? The underlying problem is still there. We still don’t have any accountabililty for the Valerie Plame leak. We still have political manipulation of US Attorneys.
It’s a hollow victory, and then the Repubs will say, “You got your pound of flesh – isn’t that enough?” The real culprits, meanwhile, continue to elude capture while the patsies fall on their swords.
I want Rover. Bring me Rover.
Congress acknowledges that all human beings (male or female) have the right to live; and that any medical procedures agreed upon solely between a patient and their physician, and that said procedure abides by the physician’s oath to cause no harm to the patient, and in recognition that the body of the patient is property of the patient; recognizes the right of any patient to pursue elective lifesaving procedures.
AZ Matt @ 7
We had a light salad of field greens and carrots, followed by steak and mushrooms courtesy of the George Foreman Grill (the ’shrooms actually were done in the microwave; two sliced ’shrooms, a few dabs of Brummel and Brown, and 60 seconds of nuking).
lisadawn82 @ 9
OK, you’re #2…
I had pork chops, green beans, and mashed potatoes and gravy. It was really good.
Renee in Ohio @ 23
Yep.
cleter @ 98
Yummmm!
Bush is an in-your-face Democrats kind of a guy. He’s never going to replace anyone who resigns with a reasonable replacement. Get Rove, and you’ll get Dick and George.
About this ruling–it says that this Federal law is constitutional. Federal laws can also be undone without fooling with the Constitution at all. Repeal the law first, then work on the other law pining away for 18 years.
Here’s an extremely hopeful and promising headline from Raw Story: NYT Sat: Bush loyalty facing severe challenges… Developing…
Just a note:
The updates to my Bush scandals list which selise has been putting in red will probably be changed over to regular text sometime this weekend so if you want to see easily the changes and additions now or soon would be a good time. I am up to 142 so far.
http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html
Now back to your regularly scheduled post.
cleter @
98
Two fried egg sandwiches from the griddle side of the waffle iron and a bowl of sliced cantalope.
Loo Hoo @ 90
Oh, I’ll watch the hearings all right. But I’m still skeptical that anything important is going to change until they find a way to address the stinking, corrupt partisan undermining of the DOJ, which I don’t think getting rid of “No Pain, No Gain” will do.
eCAHNomics @
82
I heard about this but didn’t hear what he actually said.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 101
You got it, pal!
Loo Hoo @ 107
Oh, it’s vile. It’s hard to reconcile that side of him with the liberal activism he spouts. I’m done with him.
Phoenix Woman @ 100
Mmmmm…comfort food.
Tonight, I am embarrassed to say, I had hot dogs..but the other night, we made Old Bay Shrimp fest. That was shrimp, potatoes, corn, onions, etc…Mr. LS is away at a gig so I just ate hot dogs (secretly, they were really good!) Heh, heh.
Curious in Central Texas @ 103
Nice!
Phoenix Woman @ 88
We’re still bored cuza no resignations or impeachments.
OK, that takes the cake. Keith Olbermann just did a piece on that awful rant Alec Baldwin left on his daughter’s voice mail and he blamed the person who leaked it more than Baldwin!
How about that all you people who want to have Keith’s babies?
Look, I know he’s the only TV journalist who’s got the guts to call Chimpy out, but still, inside he’s a horrible person.
eCAHNomics @
82
How did this come out? Did his wife/daughter/girlfriend drop a dime on him? I’ve heard he was a jerk and a hothead before (in fact all the Baldwin males are apparently jerks).
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Several administration officials and the House Republican Conference chairman said Friday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should step down, following the harsh response to his Senate testimony on last year’s firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
The green beans are cooked in some sort of secret spicy manner that I am not permitted to witness. I do know that it involves an unholy amount of butter. I also think cumin is involved.
Good for Keith O.
dinner in a couple of hours. l’aperitif prior.
loo hoo, 112:
I’m having hysterical laughter spasms. It is so pathetic and so true.
cleter @ 98
Milk gravy?
Maybe tomorrow I will grill something. Perhaps a salmon.
Salad, Ribeye, Medium-rare, steamed broccoli and baked potato(e).
Loo Hoo @ 117
Milk gravy, from scratch, using the pork chop drippins.
Riesz Fischer @ 113
OK, that takes the cake. Keith Olbermann just did a piece on that awful rant Alec Baldwin left on his daughter’s voice mail and he blamed the person who leaked it more than Baldwin!
How about that all you people who want to have Keith’s babies?
Look, I know he’s the only TV journalist who’s got the guts to call Chimpy out, but still, inside he’s a horrible person.
From what little I know of the Baldwins, the daughter might be the best of them all. If the leaker’s who I think it is, Olbermann was right.
Thing is, does leaking the message to the media hurt or help the little girl? She must be mortified right now that this all came out. I know I would be.
I’m poised for a dreadful day tomorrow.
Oilfieldguy @ 81
I kind of want him to stick around for a little while longer. I want to see how many more heinous things will come out in the media. If they ditch him now then the lizard brains will never know how bad an AG he really is……….. FITZ
Oilfieldguy @ 122
Why? Is Alec Baldwin going to call you?
cleter @ 127
Heh, heh. Nah, I have to take an oversized load through downtown Pittsburgh.
Eureka Springs @ 93
thank you!
i want to get a recording of that one… last time my connection dropped out while i was asleep. the bit of the end that i did hear was mind blowing.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 20
He’s in no rush since no one from his family is or ever will serve. I wonder why this is OK with Republics?
selise, You are so welcome. Someday I will have high speed access and spend years listening to your mp3’s…)
selise @ 129
I saw the tail end of it the other day, and what I saw was mind blowing. 10:30 ET. CSPAN 2
Oilfieldguy @ 122
And you still have $100. for the Blue America. Good for you! I’m thinking selise is right, maybe after next week we should keep the pool to $10. It could go on a while and we don’t want to spoil the fun. Plus a lot more puppers will be able to join in the fun!
Phoenix Woman @ 114
Balwin is a creep who deserves tobe locked up in an institution. But whoever released the msg
[Edited by moderator. No advocating violence, period.]
Judge will decide outcome, not me, which is probably good because I would show no mercy.
Eureka Springs @ 131
if there’s anything particular you want… email me at speakeasy dot net and i’ll send you a cd snail mail.
cleter @ 123
One of my favs too. Course I’m from Norwegian stock.
dakine01 @ 105
ummmmmm what kind of bread?
All this food business. Alright. Now I’m hungry. For hot buttered cornbread ‘n milk. Going to make some now.
LS @
110
LooHoo, I had HoDos for lunch with a LOT of chopped onions. don’t know how you prepare, but I nuke ‘em in water for five minutes in a little plastic thingie (straight from the freezer to the m/w). Just about like boiling or steaming on the stove.
this is turning into a
“Chill up a pair”Pull up a Chair food thread…I don’t think Gonzo will resign before a
credible, imminent even, threat of impeachment is in the midst. Why would he go through that public embarrassment yesterday unless they intended to stretch his time out as long as possible? But I cannot afford to bet on it just now…)Alicia @ 79
Oh, yeah. They get to replace him with Gonzo II, but the scandal will have gone away. Win-win for them. Better that he stay put and be a constant wart on Bush’s public face.
Loo Hoo @ 133
we don’t have to all do the same amount…. especially since it’s blue america pac that’s getting the $$.
i wouldn’t want my financial situation to constrain anyone else.
punaise @ 140
We’re bored and frustrated, so we’re eating.
lolo @ 137
Honey wheat. Take two slices, butter one side each slice, take a cookie cutter and cut a hole out of one slice. Take complete slice butter side down, slice with hole butter side up, break the egg into center and pull the griddle over top. Toasted fried egg sandwich.
If you’re a cheese lover, you can add the cheese between the slices or just use two complete slices for a grilled cheese.
Keith Olbermann’s military analyst, forget the name, made a good point about Bush aiding the enemy by showing a graphic of all the Outposts in Bagdad. Transcript not available until Monday.
punaise @ 140
Works for me! I can discuss both food and politics. (Hell, after this raucous week, a little food talk is, well, comforting.)
There is a hearing on Cspan3 3/2/06, talking about Jack Abramoff, it’s about Lobbyist. Greenberg Traurig Law Firm. Hmmmmmmmmm
punaise @ 140
My father was a great cook and I learned watching him. He made pretty good fried chicken as I do but not as good as his two older sisters made. Fortunately, I manage to eat well with out becoming gargantua.
The only time I use my oven is if my dryer is broke.
punaise @ 140
Pull up a meal? That’s because we’re bored, as noted above.
Dakine, I didn’t have dogs tonight, but when I do it’s on the BBQ. Hebrew National with onion, Jack Daniels mustard, and kraut.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 138
Oh my, the depression babies, dessert of choice..although, iirc, it’s best in buttermilk.
LS @ 144
It’s either that or “Pull Out Your Hair.”
Eureka Springs @ 152
That and rollie-pollies.
tw3k @ 146
That was good. He compared it to Geraldo drawing the battle plan in the sand. Bush f*cked up big time on that one.
Loo Hoo @ 151 says:
Oops! That was LS that had the dogs. My bad.
I just love to talk about cooking though. Always learned to use a recipe first time I make something then embellish and modify to taste. Thank god as I really dislike cheese which leaves out pizza and refuse to eat MacDonalds (other than the Sausage biscuit).
Phoenix Woman @
111
Update: NYT Sat: Bush loyalty facing two pronged challenge on Wolfowitz, Gonzales scandals
Eureka Springs @ 152
That’s how my dad always ate it.
Eureka Springs @ 153
Don’t have any hair left to pull out. :}(
Eureka Springs @ 152
My mother grew up in the ’30s and ’40s and her Swedish mother gave her buttered bread sprinkled with sugar as a treat. (Yeah, my mom grew up dirt-poor.)
Eureka Springs @ 153
Now that I’ve eaten, I may resort to that!
Phoenix Woman @ 142
Zactly, PW. Don’t give these guys an easy out.
Phoenix Woman @ 160
When I was a kid, it was either the buttered bread and sugar or a bowl of cheerios after I cleaned my plate.
Phoenix Woman @ 160
Yes, my great grandmother served me all of these things. Anyone remember milk toast? (actually one of the few things that tastes better with oleo instead of butter)
sorry Mod… end zig
[The Mod sez: 2 or 3 quotes, ok if just notes; don’t quote a linky, it makes margins hinky.]
Phoenix Woman @ 160
I remember coming home from high school and eating 6 to 8 pieces of cinnamon toast. It was Wonder bread, but it was cheap and filled the stomach.
Eureka 164, I’ve always wondered what exactly milk toast is. Is it just milk over toast or is it sweet?
dakine01 @ 158
My parents, both from Oklahoma, ate it that way, too. I love hot buttered cornmeal with honey.
Loo Hoo @ 165 says:
When I was stationed in Hawaii, my housemate and I would take a slice of sweetbread, butter it, sprinkle a little cinnamon sugar and nuke it for 15-20 seconds. Real tasty hot pastry.
I wonder why TeddySanFran isn’t chiming in with his favorite recipe???
New thread from the esteemed Phoenix Woman.
Stand By Your Man
So, the the bored & fed (Chinese for me) of you, check out Scott Horton’s retelling of how Carl Schmitt subsumed the Weimar Republic prosecutors to the political system as the first step in creating a totalitarian state.
http://www.harpers.org/archive…..070420xovi
LS – As Nanny made it. Toasted white bread set in steaming milk with a little sugar and oleo dissolved in the milk.
When I was a hippie, we ate cookie dough (fairly often) and also cottage cheese with Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup on it. Both were actually really good.
LS @ 165
I got yer milquetoast right here.
I actually did the fried chicken works last Sunday. Fried chicken (after soaking over night in salt water) in the iron skillet. Fresh whipped potatos, country style green beans with bacon/onion, bisucits, and milk gravy.
This Sunday is gonna be pot roast, red potatos, carrots, onions, and celery.
Have to make that big Ssunday dinner doncha know.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 157
No one reads the NY Times anymore…at least not the Saturday Edition. Sundays at least got the big crosswords!
Margot @ 167
Those born of one or two Oklahomans are then Oklahomans. Also. ;0)
eCAHNomics @ 171
Wow, wow, wow!!! Whitehouse! That was some might tasty dessert!!!!
Phoenix Woman @ 87
I’ll take that bet. If has not resigned his office by the end of Friday (midnight PDT) I’ll put $100 in BAPAC. BAPAC wins either way. Please to remind.
Eureka Springs @ 164
My southern Mema used to give me milk toast when I was sick.
Oilfieldguy @ 128
cleter @ 127
Good luck tomorrow, OFG!
Oilfieldguy @ 125
Plan on having a good day — it’s too important to leave to chance.
Way deep into EPU zone, I know. But have we learned nothing from the past 6 or 10 years?
Forget about all-out campaigns or any of that kind of stuff. That’s “hard work”!
Just call it the “Fetus and Blastocyst Protection Act 2007.” Problem solved.
Fee waived.
Thank you.
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“Freedom of Choice Act”—still the same lame naming/framing! While the other side goes for the jugular by inventing terminology (Partial Birth Abortion) that the media and even our side embraces (most recently, Hillary in her response to the Supreme Fart’s ruling), we put out a weak name that almost trivializes the issue…yeah, choice, like buying shoes.
Why not give the damn thing a real name that reflects the importance of the issue….how about WOMENS HEALTH PROTECTION ACT?? Something which has some meat to it, that may make Americans THINK, for once, about the issues involved instead of being swayed by misleading hype by the creeps??