Cedric the Entertainer roasts Condi…
It’s been a full court press on the Condi Rice Reputation Rehab tour this weekend. With rats like Rove, Gonzales, and Snow jumping ship, insiders like Condi who are staying on for the full Bush cruise have had to resort to reputation rehab by proxy. To wit:
In this effort, Rice’s bond with Bush has emerged as her key asset — but possibly also her critical weakness. It has made her the president’s top foreign policy confidante and helped her cultivate a public image imbued with power and influence. But at the same time, friends and former colleagues marvel at how Rice has been transformed by the president she so devotedly serves — from a hardheaded foreign policy “realist” to a wholehearted supporter of Bush’s belief in the power of freedom and democracy.
Yes, Mother Teresa has nothing on Condi, let me tell you. Her devotion is nothing short of…full out devoted idiocy. When in the hell did we decide that the best course of action was to enforce “Bush’s belief in the power of freedom and democracy” at the barrel of a gun without regard to how much of a failure it is? And when did saying ”yes, sir” become consulting fully on American foreign policy strategy? Jeebus.
I knew earlier in the week when I read the NYTimes piece on Condi’s many book efforts — with Kessler of the WaPo, Elizabeth Bumiller of the NYTimes, and Marcus Mabry of the Times — that we’d be subjected to a whole passel of malarky. Loyalty to a President who keeps on failing just makes you a loyal failure. And no amount of staged photo-op lunacy changes the facts on the ground. The fact that you still have to pull a “surprise visit” to Iraq four years into the mess just reinforces the fact that it isn’t safe to actually have a state visit…like we do every other freaking time the President of the United States travels to a foreign country. Do we see him in a flack jacket ensemble in Canada? Nope.
Here’s a legacy descriptor for you, Condi: arrogant indifference. I’ll see those Ferragamos and the Matrix ensemble, and raise you some new Versace black-quilted patent leather logo with a silver cuff boots. No, really, they are SO you.
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Please tell me no one will buy those boots.
Zed?
We need to watch out with Condi. If she is out again shopping for shoes we have real cause to worry about the state of the world.
oops. I forgot to keep refreshing. stopped to read kirk murphy’s comment. Oh well. I am here. Now to read Christie’s post.
I really must update the graphic I did a while back.
Morning Christy!
Oh, well. I didn’t stop to read, even. Good morning, everyone! Kids and grandkids gone back home, gorgeous sunny day, just getting back to the lake and the morning paper. Long bike ride later. Life is good (at least, until I start reading and get upset again).
A waste of time rehabilitating Condi, she will go down as ineffective, much due to Cheney running things.
What do I remember about Elizabeth Bumiller? Not good I think. Also this current rehab project – a clear sign that they have given up on her bringing about Israe*i-Palestinian peace. And the Iran bombing venture sure ain’t goina help on that front.
Condy – first Dom to serve as Sec of State?
OT..Digby sums up how we got here:
I’m sure that in rarefied Big Money Republican circles there is a lot of soul searching going on about what went wrong. They are looking at Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and others and they are wondering which decisions and wrong turns were the ones that made the difference. But if they really want to know what the truly worst decision was they need look no further than the mirror. They foisted this fool on the world when they all went down to Texas and decided that it didn’t matter that he was completely unqualified by experience, temperament or intelligence — he could be president anyway.
Digby
To be rehabilitated, you have to have a reputation to begin with. What was Condi’s, other than Dumbya’s loyal handmaiden and foreign policy “wife?”
Just for a second, there, I read “A Tale of Two Condos,” but then realized that was another Dickens story.
Ms. Rice’s legacy: Uninterrupted irrelevancy.
And Ms. Rice will make bundles of money soon on the lecture circuit. So will Bush and Rove and the rest. Rewarding failure. I suppose it makes sense. Look at the golden parachutes that failed ceo’s rake in.
dalloway @ 13
Most of Stanford doesn’t want her back.
Rice has been sooo busy as Sec of State, that there has been so little time to publicly discuss what she’s been up to. /snark
We haven’t had a Sec of State for nearly 3 years now….
Might git to see the lil’ piss-ant in a flak jacket in…wait for it….
Australia.
Nice work Mr. Decider. The Aussies hate yer skanky, bike-riding ass, those ‘Surrender Monkey’ Brits are buggin’ out of Basra and the ‘Special Relationship’ both.
The Austrians and Poles left some time ago.
Pooty-Poot is givin’ ya the finger.
Man, Poppy and Bar must be sooooooooooooo proud!
What a man, what a job.
It’s no wonder that Condi-Lies-a-Lot loves you so much. And as fer her she must be suckin’ on dat Crack pipe if she thinks she’s goin’ back to Stanford!
Now if the ‘Democrat’ Party LeaderSheep kin only git it’s act together we can all sing a few bars of dat Ol’…
…Impeachment Rag!
Lea (no uh) @ 17
I’m dreaming of an Andy Card-like reception.
Didn’t Rice once have a Chevron oil co. tanker named after her?
Princess Sparkle Pony is very good at snarkily cataloging Condi’s antics.
SF gossip sez some femmes here missed her –
but subs can’t tell their “masters” what to do – or where to go.
Slightly OT but this is one Condi’s legacies: LINK
We haven’t included these civilians in the official death toll.
Ms. Rice’s legacy: Mushroom Cloud.
no one could ever have imagined it.
Good Morning everyone…. it is funny that the Condi for Prez phrase sure has dropped out.
Just how do you rehab from being Bushes work wife?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 21
Yes….
I think it sank tho’
Hah…hah! Jes funnin’
As for Stanford, the ‘administration’ there is nuts if they think faculty and students will welcome her back. Especially after the draft is reinstitituted.
And Ms. Rice will make bundles of money soon on the lecture circuit. So will Bush and Rove and the rest. Rewarding failure.
The bright side is that the losers who will listen to those losers will be separated from their cash… to hear – nothing.
Would I rather have a poolside chat with Henry the K or Condi?
hitler knew that he was burning bridges for any of his followers, every nazi. This was deliberate, as it is required for fealty.
the idiot has done so by the same means. Funny thing, these followers of fashion did it by choice. They turned on the country to profit and become agents of a foreign power.
if we examine the relationship, it appears our government pretty much get paid by external sources. what else could explain looting our treasury to protect the country that provided the people that attacked us to get this all started. republicans don’t do anything that doesn’t profit them, they have no other driving force. One might argue fear, but that easily equates to bomb shelter mentality that we see.
may I ask a question? it appears to me that all the sunday TV shows are absurd at best. There is no reality discussed. it is a group of the same players that have never been realistic, or even sage, about matters affecting this country. so, the question; why do we care what these twits say? they don’t know what they are doing, they have proven this every day they open their mouths.
why do you bother to watch these people when no one else in the country does?
The Queen Midas of diplomacy.
Everything she touches turns to sh*t.
Hmmmmm…
How “commanding”.
I heard or read something last week about an incident between Condi and a clerk in some store/boutique where she was looking at jewelry. Apparently she thought the clerk was rude or inattentive and told her that she (the clerk) was just a clerk making a clerk’s wages while she made a lot more and she should shape up. Nice lady.
Cedric was very sweet to Condi. Nothing but sycophancy disguised as fluff. If that was a roast, I’ll eat her Ferragamos.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 29
I’d throw both of ‘em in the pool and watch ‘em push each other under in their efforts to climb out.
recoveringlurker @ 33
The Princess documented that on this page. Scroll down a little, I think.
Why Oklahoma @ 29, are you implying that having an oil tanker named after you is not the epitome of well-deserved honor and the ultimate measure of success in America today?
Ain’t Condi sumthin? Part of the Pantheon of C’s: Condi, Clarence and Collin.
Good day, all.
Went to a wedding Saturday evening. The groom had done three tours of Iraq and was set to go for a fourth when he got a great job in the private sector and was allowed to leave the Army (I forget what that is called.) Anyhow, we sat with a bunch of his army buddies – We are Bride’s friends – and don’t know much about the groom, except that he (and his brothers) are hunks. Mr. Gnome started to talk with one of the now ex-GI’s about Iraq. When asked how he thought it would all turn out, the former soldier had one word: “Tragically.” Sums it up for all sides, doncha think?
‘Morning Christie. Enjoyed the pun on flack (flak) jacket.
Good morning all.
CanI just tell you how much respect I have for TRex and Teddy SF? They do this lat night and late late night gig week in and week out.
The comments came so fasst! and I fell asleep on the cuch about half way thrugh late late night. ANd then slept half the day away today.
But it was a blast. Kinda like a cocktail party with friends from all over the country.
Thanks s much.
AZ Matt @ 24
In past wars, would some of this work have been done by soldiers?
Richmond @ 10
Is Elizabeth Buhmiller the next Judy Miller? Why haven’t Liz and Michael Gordon been put out to pasture yet? Isn’t anyone awake at the NYT?
OT, but interesting:
Mexico’s trucks get ready to roll in US
looseheadprop is being a tad modest. Late Nite rocked last night!
Condi is in charge of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
It isn’t safe for Bu$hl3r to land anywhere in the U.S. unless it’s a heavily fortified airbase populated with friendlies in the military. The vision of him in summer wear saluting military chaps dressed for a jaunt across the Antarctic is quite the sight for sore eyes.
Incompetent, plain and simple. Part of the Republican plan to destroy black America is to elevate the least talented, allowing everyone so inclined to say, “See, I told you so!”
It’s why Barack scares them so much.
Gnome de Plume @ 38
The military provides years of expensive training to jet engine mechanics, helicopter mechanics, etc. After fulfilling their enlistment, many of these men go to work for Dyncorp or another private contractor for quadruple the pay and other perks. If things get too hairy, they can opt to not re-up their contracts. Then, bigger carrots get dangled.
So our military trains Halliburton’s employees for them for free. Kind of like the soc*alism or welfare Rush is always harping about. something.
~~~ModNote: Edited for content to clear filters.~~~
looseheadprop @ 40
It was super!
And 675 comments…Ms. Popularity :)
recoveringlurker @ 33
It sounded like a “soft racist” incident, to me. The clerk assumed that an AA couldn’t afford anything “good”.
The Mother Teresa comparison is out of date. We now know that Mother Teresa was burdened with self doubt. If Condi Rice had a moment of doubt, she would have realized that Bush gives her millions of reasons to doubt.
OT Meanderings and musings:
So let’s say that Billy Martin gets Larry Craig’s (mailed-in)(gawd) guilty plea set aside. Then he takes the case to a jury – and wins.
Then what? Is Larry a player again? Does the R party look *really* bad for abandoning their innocent and upstanding colleague?
Doea all of this play out just in time for the 2008 election cycle?
Fern @ 41
Certainly, yes, but not so profitably.
That’s the great thing about our country – war may be hell for the many – but Private Contractor execs can do pretty well, indeed, these days – ‘PROGRE$$,’ you know. America IS the cutting edge. We should all be SO proud.
And LHP is a tad bit modest. Yes?
Deez boots is made fer walkin’
and that’s just what they will dew
and wunna theez dayz theeze boots are gunna
walk all over yew
as sung by a Bush Crime Family Gumba.
Condi = Urian Heepette
lhp, you were a thoughtful, erudite, and attentive host.
and well-written!
hope the Lake sees you at Late Night again soon…
I had fun – thanks.
Hackworth, the groom was doing his IT work for the big local bank, but yes, the GI we talked to was working for a defense contractor. A third soldier, a beautiful black woman, is set to go to Iraq for the first time in March. My dad worked for one of the major defense contractors all of his career, recruited from his civil service job in electronics for navy, after Korea. So I am very familiar with the revolving door. Many of my parents friends are retired generals and such.
David W. Bartoo @ 52
Even active duty types can use Iraq to get out of debt from today’s NY Times.
BU’USH’S SIX-HOUR FIRST-HAND ASSESSMENT OF EYE-RACK
In one ear and out the other, with nothing to block the sound.
Moreover, the reason we lose wars like these is because, for us, they’re “rotations,” whereas for our enemies the fight is life-long to the death.
How many bios does Condi need? Could she still be entertaining the hope of being VP?
Just who is going to read even one of her bios? The Macaca wing of the GOP? The African Americans of New Orleans? Perhaps all the solders coming home from Iraq?
Seriously outside of wingnut welfare book buying or people interested in how deluded people weave protective rationalizations just who is her audience?
delightful snark this morning, ladies and gentlemen…..keeping me here at computerside when I’m supposed to be working out, taking kids to buy school supplies, and picking up this mess of a house.
Did anyone catch the 60 Minutes piece last night on the Haditha killings? The interview with that soldier was the most bone-chilling thing I’ve seen in a long time.
crickets
things come undone @ 60
foot fetishists?
dakine @ 58
Oh, aye. Saw the NYT piece. But that person HAS TO GO there, and his rewards are still relatively meager … and, well, the ‘cost’ for him could get a bit serious … harm’s way and all that. Sunburn in the Caymans is a bit less permanent.
kirk murphy @ 62
yeah. Jeez…..was it something I said? : (
Here’s something (from NYT) that will resonate with several Firepups:
The United States was not previously a homeland, it was just our land, and that unhappy neologism with its Orwellian echoes, its sense of exclusion rather than inclusion, its faint fatherland-like echoes, seems to capture the closing and the menace and the terror-terror refrain with which we have all learned to live. /snip
BobbyG @ 59
Pretty cavalier outlook, what?
David W. Bartoo @ 53
That is what I thought – that means that casualty rates for soldiers would be higher if so much was not being done by contractors this time around.
And yes, LHP is a bit too modest – Late nite rocked! The tone of the post and the involvement of the poster has a big influence on the nature of the conversation that follows, I find.
Bush is a classic sociopath. Seriously. I’ve read every one of the Iraq books these last 4 years but the best so far which deals with the sociopathic Bush is Greenwald’s “A Tragic Legacy”. It’s outstanding, explains Bush’s Manichean worldview, simplistic Good vs. Evil in great detail.
I will never forgive Republicans for voting him into office a second time, after the Iraq occupation had started. (Even though I think Kerry won, the margin wasn’t huge)
apologies for the OT, but is “purple cherokee” a low-acid tomato variety?
(trying to figure out tomato canning…)
Okay, so I finally turn on the telly in hopes of…
There’s nothing on but, OMG there’s Paladin.
Anyone else “mature” enuf to remember Richard Boone’s “Paladin”? “Have Gun Will Travel” on the telly ages ago?
An u thot chimpy wasn’ wearin’ a “uniform” this time. oh yeah, he’s still role-playin’.
Got it, jr! Now, go home and stop “using” the troops as cardboard cutouts for yer wretched photo-op mania. G’wan! Shoo!
hey, Paladin never had a goil friend, did he?
whut’s condi for?
Condi Rice, after 9/11: “Nobody could have ever imagined they would use planes as missles.”
Um…pardon me, Madam NatSecAdv.
In 1972 Southern Airways Flight 49 was hijacked, flown to Oak Ridge, Tennessee (among other places), where a hijacker ordered the pilot to “Dive it into a reactor.”
The pilot talked him out of it. The plane, IIRC, ended up in Cuba.
Madam Secretary, do not insult our intelligence and memories. Anyone old enough to watch TV in ‘72 was aware of this model of attack. We DO remember, and we will make sure to tell those who don’t.
Why don’t you go shopping for the good of the country or something?
David W. Bartoo @ 63
David,
Look again, he was Air Force and volunteered to go. He could have found another assignment and avoided Iraq I imagine.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 42
Alas I think it is part of the plan, though Gordon got clobbered recently and felt a need to write a letter to the editor and got it published to support himself. Stranger and stranger.
Suggestion:
That shrub be called “mo,” short for moron.
“Chimpy” demeans a fine animal.
Breaking on CNN:
AP: President Bush says some U.S. troops could be sent home if security conditions across Iraq continue to improve.
kirk murphy @ 70
“Researchers at Mississippi State University have found that most tomato fruits have a pH of between 4.3 and 4.6.”
If Adie’s still here, I’m sure she can tell you more, but I think you have to treat them all the same and add lemon juice to each jar when you process them. IANACE (canning expert), I just read a lot about it.
OC Democrat @ 76
Ahhhh…Lucy with the football.
So, Bush is in Iraq to see progress, without leaving the base where he landed, because, well because it’s not quite totally safe for Bush out there.
The question is, “Did he bring back his plastic turkey?”
kirk murphy @ 70
don’t know about cherokee, but I thot home economists were recommending adding a bit of citric acid to ALL canned tomatoes, just to be on the safe side.
I put up 100’s of jars of Big Boy, and even San Marsano [kinda low acid, but great for sauce] tomatoes years ago, and never had trouble, but all it takes is one to lay ya low.
Then there’s always pressure canning, which can make even beef stew safe if you follow directions to the letter, but I gather hardly anyone uses them nowadays. Gawllllleeee, I’m feelin’ old, just sitting her flappin’ my fingers on the keyboard.
Lea (no uh) @ 66
Mayhap when Hilarious takes the helm we can prevail upon her to change it to the ‘Motherland.’
Jonathan @ 75
Excellent point! ;->
David W. Bartoo @ 53
This is the most overlooked aspect of America’s occupation efforts in Iraq. It was an immoral and illegal effort on every front and an absolute failure in almost every regard save one; the outsourcing project worked flawlessly to accomplish the primary purpose it was intended for. The outsourcing of projects and efforts in Iraq made BILLIONS of dollars in profit for its insider participants. Government contracts were given, unchallenged, to the select few contractors with inside connections and — while the results of those projects have been easily as dismal and worse failure than anything the military has been expected to accomplish — the money is in the bank, regardless of the pathetic results. THAT is the glaring success of America’s illegal occupation of Iraq. And, if that story is not told, if that unpleasant truth is not made realized, it will be a blue print played out on the world stage for years to come. And the United States won’t be the only player in that capitalistic nightmare.
Wait until the masters of commerce realize that they can outsource to third world governments the same way Dell outsources technical support to New Delhi. The New World Order will be rewritten as a story of capitalistic conflicts, controlled by whatever upheaval appears the most profitable at the time.
It could be about the worst thing the human race could do to itself. That seems so interestingly insane it almost makes one believe in the devil.
dakine @ 73
Indeed. But hazardous duty is more ‘lucrative’
and, had he known, he could have held out for duty ‘over’ Iran. My friends who flew in the big bombers in Nam always said that ‘”war was hell” – when the air conditioning failed …’
Thanks Lea (no uh) and Adie -
I’ll break out the ascorbic acid (don’t have citric, but can still adjust pH….)
Thanks also for mentioning the pressure canners. I just have the stuff for water-bath canning.
For fruits and veggies, is there any need for pressure canning? (The canners seem so expensive – but I guess they last a long time…)
On the other hand, from a guy perspective, the pressure canners sure look like Big Tools..and that’s a good thing.
David W. Bartoo @ 83
I was AF enlisted for a quite specific reason – I knew that for the most part, it was ocifers going and getting their a**es shot off in the AF and not so much for the enlisted.
My momma only raised one fool, and he moved back to Grand Rapids.
john Swifty @ 83
Exactly so! And VERY WELL said! Your name is most appropriate indeed, real or chosen. A sincere tip of my hat.
great piece.
One thing, tho:
Condi was never a foreign policy “realist” or anything else.
She was whatever the people who payed her wanted her to be. She is a total chameleon and has no existence separate from whoever happens to be paying her at the moment. Remember her tanker? Exxon, wasn’t it?
People at Stanford are NOT looking foward to her likely return.
Emeritus History Prof. Paul Seaver chaired a committee that shaped the Cultures, Ideas and Values (CIV) program, which focused, in part, on non-Western cultures. Seaver recalled his frustration when Rice eliminated the CIV program in favor of the current Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) curriculum.
“She was very authoritarian,” he said. “The final confrontation over the CIV program was before a committee of some people from the [Faculty] Senate and so on, and in the course of her attack on the CIV program, she said ethnicity and gender and class are so ‘80s.”
“There was a kind of universal sigh of relief when she left,” Seaver added. “I think people who remember all of that will not be happy to see her. That’s true of ethnic faculty who had more run-ins with her than any of the rest of us. Our women faculty — black faculty in particular — and Hispanic faculty do not have fond memories.”
http://daily.stanford.edu/arti…..InWhatRole
BobbyG @ 6
BobbyG, I think I told you before but I’ll say it again: Best photo shop ever. Besides the one Bush got busted on.
johnSwifty @ 83
The world divided into huge trading blocs with unified militaries, endless economic competition backed by force, with the resource drain, private police forces, and controlled media serving to keep populations in check. An equilibrium state of global capitalist feudalism.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil.”
newtonusr @ 20
Excellent, U Mass! More of this.
OT, but since Richmond still seems to be around, he had a comment on a previous thread about both the Boston Globe and the NYT having an article about us and Iran on today’s front page. I have been unable to find either article, so I was wondering if he could provide a link. I did find a link to Larisa’s article at Raw Story. I know that Raw Story sometimes lacks credibility, but Larisa is generally pretty reliable. P.S. Here’s a link to what Markos had to say about the Maccabee story. DKos also has a ton of other stories or diaries about the hoax. Still, I’d like to find out what the Globe and NYT are saying and figure out why indications all seem to be pointing in a similar direction. Seems the wingers are getting a big kick out of our apparent gullibility.
Richmond @ 74
Gordon wrote a LTE to the paper he writes for?
dakine …
You is clearly no fool and I’m not really arguing with with you – I am just feeling appalled that everything I care about in the world (and the world itself) is being destroyed for the love of money. Peace?
David W. Bartoo @ 87
Ditto.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 92
Sock-puppetry in the Corporate Owned Media…
Ann in AZ @ 92
Gullibility over what? Knowing what the Decider said last week, and knowing his history as well, it is certainly with in the realm of possibility that we could attack Iran.
dumbya @88
So you think Condi is an authoitarian, chameleon/conformist who it seems has internalized the values of her oppressor. You don’t think she is sublimating her ideas for G.W’s because she likes him, (ick) even a little.
Adie, if you’re here.
FWIW, I do mix flaxseed in when cooking brown rice.
David W. Bartoo @ 93
Nor was I arguing with you. I’ve been one of them DFH peace-niks even when I was in ROTC back in the day.
David W. Bartoo @ 87
Thanks, the handle is chosen, of course. I envisioned blogging with a classic sense of satire in the mold of the master until I found that a clever individual with more time, effort and talent had beaten me to it: Jon Swift
And besides in light of the glaring iniquities witnessed on the world stage these days, it takes a true talent and a strong stomach to remain satirical.
There have always been masters of war who profit from the horrors of conflict. I know this. But that it is now found to be sooo much more profitable and easily controlled to actually remove government forces from the process; well, that’s just mind numbing. It is on par with the economic realization that the gold standard was an obsolete aspect of world commerce. Governments are an obsolete aspect of world conflict, in terms of garnering profit. What could be more evil?
kirk murphy @85
I used water bath canning for Tomatoes, peaches, pears and other fruit but pressure canning for green beans, corn, pumpkin and salmon (Dad used to go to Alaska Keni every couple of years).
My jams and jellies I just put it in the jar with the hot lid and put on the ring and put the jar on its top for 20-30 minutes. The jar usually self seals (pop) and they are good.
The pressure canner may seem expensive but it is a one time purchase that will last you years and years of canning.
RonD @ 72
I think someone wanted to fly one into the white house once too. Imagine? The house he is living in?
looseheadprop @ 40
Cocktail Party. Yeah, that is how it feels. I had never really thought about it that way, but it definetly is. With small groups discussion different topics. It’s a great way to unwind at the end of the day. Some nights are more serious, some are just plain silly. Depending on the political and thermal heat.
Condoleeza Condoleeza
Dems have blamed you
For you always seem to
Speak with fork-ed tongue
When you’re sitting
In the War Room, Condoleeza
Do you care about
Our daughters and our sons?
When you called George Bush
Your Husband, Condoleeza
Were you trying to drive
A stake through Laura’s heart?
You’re the girl who brought
His quagmire to the Congress
Thousands died there
Cause you lied there
We all know your not
For real, Condoleeza
You’re just helping George Bush
Tear the world apart
kirk murphy @ 85
My boss had a hunting lodge in North Dakota and he got into canning heavily. He even canned pheasant and quail.
Condi, read my bumpersticker:
“Blind faith in bad leaders is not Patriotism”
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 97
Gullibility because there were 1372 comments and most recommended the diary even though it turned out to be a hoax.
My favorite recently seen bumpersticker:
“Viva Tancredo!”
Oh, the irony.
Ann in AZ @ 92
Yeah we catch our mistakes and correct them the Wingers and Fox News never admit they make mistakes. We might not be perfect but we get a lot more respect as a news source for admitting when we are wrong.
The NY Times better not get snippy with us about a questionable story exposed in a day, I do believe the Times still hasn’t asked Judy Miller to give back her Pulitizer.
john Swifty @ 101:
So write you are. More, please. Satire is difficult for many reasons today, but, in large part, it requires a sense of subtlely and history now seriously lacking in our society.
katymine @ 102
Canning stuff:
http://www.canningpantry.com/index.html
Loo Hoo. @ 91
Thanks LooHoo. I forgot to add Andy to my scandal sheet.
Richmond @ 74
I know I have been doing my part writing about him everytime he puts out another one of his propagandistic joke sourced pieces. He has been a big promoter of the line: “The Iranians are coming, the Iranians are coming.” He felt so cool saying EFPs when all the other lowly hacks were still talking about the usual run of the mill IEDs. He has been a willing participant in the military’s campaign to blame their failures in Iraq on Iran. He has also been a shameless shill for selling a war with Iran. When Odierno decided that anyone shooting at us in Iraq was al Qaeda, Gordon was right there parroting the new buzz-speak.
As bad as Gordon is, I think it is really important to remember that he couldn’t slop this swill if it weren’t for the complicity of Big Daddy superhawk wannabe and executive editor of the NYT Bill Keller.
And don’t get me started on a burned out case like John Burns.
SusanD @ 107
“War Crimes Are Un American, Dick!”
Hey Kirk!
I like the idea of a guy canning. Way.To.Go!
and I assume any acid will do. Are you sitting there trying to smush vitamin C chewables right now? heh.
I was just googling cherokee tomatoes. manoman they sound scrumptious! Mebbe try some next year.
I’ve gotten lazy the last several years, so just skin quarter & trim, & throw tomatoes in freezer containers. Often I’ll use broth I’ve previously frozen, and make up soup base from garden greens, fresh tomatoes, etc. & freeze it, to haul out and add a few leftovers for quick meal in the winter. The flavor is fantastic and fresh. But of course freezers grind away on one’s electric bill.
We also used to do quite a bit of drying. I have 2 dryers (fan and thermostat, the real deal), and many San Marzanos were simply rinsed, sliced, dried and then sealed up in tight containers without any further prep. Good substitute for the fawncy schmawnsy roasted/dried tomatoes in gourmet section of the local deli, and a mere fraction of the price.
[I guess you could use oven, but most I know don’t have temp. setting low enough to work well.]
In case you’re interested, the elec. dryers I used were “Equi-Flow”, probably found through Garden Way catalog. I don’t know if the company still exists. Dryers are neat and handy, and well made. Got them in the 70’s(!)
You can even make your own fruit leather out of applesauce, applebutter, anything. Nifty gadgets.
Anyone out there in need of same, I’ve gotta part with pressure- and water-bath canners,& a bunch-a stuff in the next year or so. Shipping would be insane, so – caveat: if you live near N.E. OH….
sorry for all the OT folks, z-e-r-o concentration level today here-bouts *g*
I’m stunned by jr playing “Paladin” in the eyewrack. Don’t they have cheaper sandpiles in westTXus?!?!
Cheney=Richard Cranium
things come undone @ 110
Here is the Boston Globe piece (the NYT I read the old fashioned way (paper) and don’t subscribe on line. They are authored by the same 2 people (unusual for the 2 papers, though they are both owned by the same company). And recently the Globe has been less “gung ho” war than the NYT.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/
SusanD @ 107
My compliments on the distilled essence of a perfect bumper sticker: Simply and elegantly stated, a few words of truth.
BTW, Happy Labor Day, everyone!
thanks katymine and ccmask!
ooh – and I’m so glad I didn’t sit down to can last night when I was tired.
looks I confused use of ascorbic acid to prevent browning (can do – or use citric acid)
with tools for adjusting acidity.
Thank you Adie and Lea (no uh) – if not for you, I’d already be goofing up!
Now off to buy lemons (can’t figure out where to get citric acid on a holiday in SF…)
Hugh @ 114
Absolutely Hugh. But still the killing Gordon got from readers over the last crap article must have been telling. I don’t know that Judy got so vilified so early in the process of her war-pushing by readers.
I’m watching Festival Express on the Independent Channel. I just love Janis Joplin. She was so great. She seemed like such a nice & happy person. I miss her. Something I didn’t know was that Woodstock tickets were $16.00 and there were protests over the price!!
ccmask @ 122
CC -I got another one for your list:
G.W. Bush: AWOL and DWI- at a minimum.
Re Bumiller, here is something from an overlong super-puff piece on her as Very Serious Journalist.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ma…../index.htm
ccmask @ 122
She is my favorite as well. I saw her in one of her last concerts in VT. Out of her skull drunk and still brilliant.
http://www.niagarafallsreporte…..er265.html
ccmask @ 121
I thought I was being ripped off when it cost me $28 for four tickets to Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skinner, Foghat, and Ross at Memphis Memorial stadium in ‘74.
Richmond @ 123
Thanks. I think Cheney had a dui also.
Richmond @ 121
It’s probably because they remember that Gordon co-wrote some of Judy Miller’s infamous Iraq WMD pieces.
http://www.counterpunch.org/kalvoda04202004.html
Here’s Kalvoda’s review of Condi’s dissertation. Hilarious.
Adie @ 71
Forgot all about Paladin. We had a cheer:
As Paladin said as he rode into town
Have gun,,will travel,,
Defense,,unravel,,
Jonathan @ 99
HiYa! Goodie. Company!
Yeah. Still ambling around the threads, trying to avoid labordaywork, sigh.
Someone made a big deal out of the need to grind up the seed – but they were making some sort of “smoothie” drink. We love the flavor just whole in a grain dish.
Did you try toasting them?
Might as well just pour them all over the floor & get it over with! There HAS to be a way, cause the flavor just begs for toasting. Mebbe one of those screen skillet-covers supposed to stop grease splatters – NOT. *g*
All morning, I’ve been thinking about Laura Doty’s question late yesterday afternoon about what we are willing to do if/when the Iran attack happens.
Read this on Buzzflash:
It is pointless – and counterproductive – to simply throw yourself under the wheels of such a monstrous machine in futile spasms of rage and despair.
and,
So whatever we can do, we must do it ourselves. If we have no power or influence, if we cannot take large actions, then we must take small ones. Every word or action raised against the overthrow of the Republic will find an echo somewhere, from one person to another to another to the next — each isolated, individual voice slowly finding its way into a swelling chorus of dissent.
It might be too late. It might not work. But failure – and much more horror — is guaranteed if we don’t even try.
Both quotes from the full article here.
ccmask @ 122
Useless factoid..Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendricks both died in 1970; 2 1/2 weeks apart.
Condi wrote an oped recently that no one would print but I don’t remember the topic. That should have stung, but then these people have hides of rhinos.
Hugh @ 129
You know, I don’t think I noticed that at the time, it was only later when I realized it made a huge difference who was writing what at the Times that I put the two together (re: the Journalist becomes the story). The guy they got to write about right wing religious stuff is as bad -Fitzpatrick I think his name is. Basically they have hired too many people who put ideology above balanced reporting, and they don’t seem to care.
dumbya @ 130
Wow. Just wow.
Here’s how Condi needs to measure her legacy: How many nations have a more favorable opinion of us now than when Condi and friends first came to power?
hey: flaxseed oil and cottage cheese may be a cancer cure. google joanna budwig or “budwig diet.” I am not insane. Budwig was a german biochemist who was sued by the German oils industry for her statements and they lost.
Richmond @ 136
It’s the mark of Keller, and probably the vacuous Pinch.
Condi was the one who was going to show that women are tough, independent, and smart.
So sad.
things come undone @ 110
I’ll grant you that it seems disingenuous to be feeling vindicated by this hoax when the very people who are laughing are the ones who still believe Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. Also, all the other administration lies that they’ve fallen for. Plus, they’ll be laughing out of the other side of their mouth if there is an attack on Iraq in the month of Sept., 2007, by us.
All in all, I just take at as a matter of misery loves company.
demi @ 133
I’m a firm believer in the awesome power of simply being a P.E.S.T. NOT giving up. The “powers-that-be” lob all sorts of rotten stuff at you, but if you keep your cool, somehow, and just keep at it, s.t.u.b.b.o.r.n. can work.
I highly recommend it, especially the well-informed variety.
Come to think of it, that’s why I’m here. Some of the most brilliant ideas in the universe just keep bubbling up from this Lake on a regular basis. They give me hope, AND ammo ;->
Richmond at 118, thanks!
dumbya @ 139
hee hee. No. Really. While yer at it, git yer whole grain, high fiber, gramma’s “roughage” remedy right here. Chomp on the seeds to get to the oil. IF you like em that way. ymmv
Do you guys already know there’s a new thread?
In our household we think of Condi as Bushit’s irritating good ole boy in high drag. Stanford can do so much better.
kirk murphy @ 120
Probably any full-service grocery store, in the canning aisle. Or, try a pharmacy(!) & tell em what it’s for. They might have it right handy in crystalized form for easy measuring.
ccmask @ 128
Yep!
And another thing….
Question: Would YOU pay 50,000 to hear dumbya speak, they say? I could-a sworn the price tag’s been a whole lot higher than that, eh??!?! And, when were we ever asked, as if we had a choice??!
It’s been HIway robbrie by land and sea, but mostly aeroforced1! *bleghrts*
Adie,
Of course, and I agree with you. A great place for ideas and ammunition. The article I linked is long and heady.
It’s just like me to make a serious comment at the very end of a thread. I’ve copied it and will re-post later.
Since Bush is off in IRACK, I guess it is up to us to do this:
Fanfare for the Common Man
Steve-AR @ 12
And now they’re doing the same thing with Fred Thompson, aren’t they?
Power is an addictive narcotic.
Bob in HI
Thanks again, Adie.
Wish my granmother in Worthington were still alive – I’d visit her and give you a call about the canning gear….
Hope this summer is a good one for you and your family, and the neighbor gets the help (a job? drug treatment? moving?) that would let you all live in peace.
FWIW, Bumlicker Bumiller ought to be remembered for her years of fawning at the White House, in particular this episode: the famous ‘this is scripted’ press conference.
Phoney-Ass Traitorous Bitch
My friends and I have long awaited the day when the masses would see Condi Rice for what she is; a presidentially appointed Lemming.
Like a trained monkey, she played the piano and while the organ-grinder (Bush/Rove Co.) collected funds from the admiring (special interest, no-bid contracting holding m-f) crowd. And what was her job again? National Security Advisor and Secretary of State!!!
As a Black Woman, i am just disgusted with her job performance ESPECIALLY because she knows first hand what it feels like to be completely disenfranchised; existing in a system where you’re at the bottom of the pecking order.
I guess she forgot her roots somewhere between the University of Denver and her conversion from Dem to Repub … but i digress.
Considering the state of our country today, I’d like everyone who’s every had a ‘performance review’ at work to seriously reflect upon the condition of our ‘national security’. How ARE our relations with other major countries (Australia and Papau New Guinea don’t count)? How would you rate Ms. Rice’s job performance in the past 6 years?
Incompetent Idiot – with blatant disregard for human lives … that sums it up for me.
(the shoe shopping after Katrina will NEVER be forgotten! – get your priorities straight you cold-hearted bitch!)
Angry Black Woman
HR Professional
kirk murphy @ 153
posted long after the bell: what sweet thots. Thank you. I think we’ll be o.k. here. Head-of-household appears to have been absent several days next door, & lord-of-the-flies mentality took over for a bit amid the teen flock, but things appear settled now, and grandma’s back to keep order, as well as she can. Wouldn’t trade for her tough job for all the money in, well, China it is, now, I guess… thanks to jr. (i know, AND a bunch-a others)
{{{{{peace}}}}}
Had I been the National Security Adviser who ignored terror warnings prior to 9/11, I would have resigned at the least. In China, she would have received a bullet in the back of the neck; in Japan she would have been expected to kill herself. But Condi felt she deserved a promotion for being such a loyal soldier.