Hey, Suzanne~~~

hey dwr1

Wow, a Phish song that’s only 4:17 long?

i know!

Phish Phans!

Where’s my bag of Doritos, Hershey bars and Mountain Dew?

grabbing some b&j phish food ice cream

What’s on your mind tonight?

Getting employed.

Or giving up food or cable and internet service.

One or the other.

Been Dugg already!

I’d go with employed, but if you have to give up one, ditch cable. TV sucks anyways.

sorry – Phish Phlashback-induced munchies seem to have set in…

ouch… hoping for employment but thinking internet would be the last to go in my book.

Hi Suzanne….. kind of looks like the local news are turning on McBush…. AND starting to report some of the hard truth……one of the military who may have ingested contaminated water in Iraq and died soon after he returned….

But the high-speed internet is connected to the cable. I think it would be easier to give up food.

Ditto. What’s eating about if you can’t get onto the net! And I’m not kidding.

‘zackly.

good news and very bad news. how many more before there is accountability and those responsible held responsible?

Hannibal – TV does suck, but our Alaska weather this summer sucks even more. If we could tap how much it sucks, we’d need billions of gallons less of foreign oil.

May as well be dead than no high speed connection to da toobz:>(

The Aspens are turning.

-G

Sure seems like diesel’s found a new friend in motorcycles lately. Royal Enfield, HDT, Neander, and now some old, retired Harley engineers.

employment is the solution. can’t be getting food from the food banks and spending time at the library using their internet.

forking employment situation sucks – jobs are few and far between

Got a garden started? Lettuce, beets, lovely white eggplant…..and divine okra (fried, lightly floured)…. tomatoes, and some herbs. Yeh.

I actually did find a prospect that I know I can get but there’s a problem applying for it. So I need some advice but want to be cryptic since we are talking out loud on the world wide web, so play along.

I answered an employment ad on that guy’s list whose initials are C. I received an email reply saying they had so many responses, they wanted me to use this website & supplied a link. I went there and completed the process. I never heard back, even though this was my job and fit me to a T.

This was Saturday. Today, same ad pops back up. I send an email with resume attached, again, and get same reply to go to same website. Website seemed weird, so I click on their About Us link. Says it’s free to employers and job seekers because they get their revenue from advertising. OK. There were NO ADS on the website. And my pop up blocker doesn’t go off. So I’m like, WTF?

I forward it to my friend who is a paralegal with awesome research skills. She sends back links from WHOIS, who I’ve never heard of, but says they’re a “click through” site, basically spammers. I read the links and see where they’ve been sued for this. Wow.

I really want this job and think I can get it if I can just get interviewed, but I suspect that this bogus site is not passing applicants back to the employer. Why? Because they reposted the same job today after having too many apps to process themselves, and if they had seen my resume, they would have called me for an interview. Like I said, the job is me to a T.

Question… I now have the HR Mgr’s full name, as well as email addy, how do I let him know he has hooked up with a bogus site without making him feel like a fool and dashing my chances at this job?

TBogg swindled me out of 49 cents tonight. I’ll let you know if I’m happy about it later. *g*

But they are still intertwined at the roots.

Might seem that way, but coming from someone who’s had to go without food, the cable TV and internet really, really aren’t that important. Of course, this is coming from a guy who’s gone a few months without electricity, so I’ve learned the hard way what is and isn’t necessary.

Trust me, life is hell without the food.

This is good and pass it around….
“Debunking the Lies About John McCain’s Money”

Sure do, but too hot for lettuce and toms. Basil’s doing good and I should have done Okra, it loves this heat. Fixin’ to start the seeds for the Fall garden, maybe I’ll get tomotoes then.

Oh, and nice to meetcha, DWR1!

eating is way over-rated.

There’s always the criminal-defense-lawyer diet – Vodka, Valium and Vitamins (offered without comment).

Or if one is looking to lose some serious weight, might I suggest the “cheap gin” diet?

ok, it is later.. well?

And don’t forget the okra. Most people have only had it in gumbo type preparations. Rinsed and lightly floured, salted and peppered and fried til just browned…..absolutely wonderful. And the okra plant is just a beautiful garden display. You need your green stuff!

Tell Him the Truth of what you have found out… he just may be thankful… and if he is smart he will hire you and not pay for the spammers SERVICES scam

I have a couple little yellow zucchini and it looks like the green zucchini will start producing soon….. cucumbers are blooming and the melon vine is also blooming….. they made it past the HOT weather and will be producing now until the frost…..

It sure is Hannibal. Once lived on oatmeal for 2 weeks straight.

Breakfast.

Lunch.

Dinner.

I’m not in dire straights just yet, hubby’s employed and we have a little savings. Not to mention an obscene amount available on the credit cards (not going there!).

Something will turn up before I have to go flip burgers.

Visualize!

Prolly wouldn’t hurt to drop a few lbs so I can get into my fancy interview clothes again. ; )

And cheap booze, it was never a question.

One oncologist that I worked with was teased a lot for her “air” sandwiches ….. slice bread folded in half……

jen over at the group news blog has joined a food coop and gets a buttload of fruits, veggies, and herbs every week. she has been posting how she is prepping them, storing them, and using them. might be a good place to look for info for when the garden comes in.

link is to her week 7 piece, the most recent.

Yeah, just need to be careful with the wording. I don’t think he’s paying anything for the service, therefore getting his money’s worth.

Maybe I should second think this company, huh? : )

And, you know what I think? I don’t think that flipping burgers is a bad deal. No benes, of course, but honest work. I’ve always been a big advocate of honest work. I’m mad that our country let things get so bad….. and we aren’t at bottom yet — by a long shot…..but we’ll always be, at core, people who do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay ( maybe we’d be better off if we outsourced our CEO’s.)

Oatmeal, lightweight. Try water, that nasty tasting protein powder, an onion, and syrup for a week.

Fry it dry in the skillet to get the snot off, add stewed tomatoes and onions, maybe some herbs. And garlic. Yummers!

( maybe we’d be better off if we outsourced our CEO’s.)

heh. Send ‘em to India and let ‘em see if *they* can understand ‘Indian English’.

And isn’t the okra plant one of the prettiest in the garden?!

ok – time for me to go lie quietly. (I lie much more loudly during the daylight hours).

Night all.

Don’t you get free burgers?

g’nite jayt

Research the company more … check with…ouch chamber of commerce owoowow
Maybe even the state agencies who deal with such companies… just saying if the job is something you like do some more research… good luck!

OK, you win. But I hear onions are good for your circulation.

Sweet dreams, jayt. Good “seeing” you!

but not so good when circulating….

Bring in an Indian businesman to run an oil company at 1/5 the cost of the fools we have running the show…. or a Japanese auto-exec to run our failing auto companies. Makes sense to me. And most of the Indian customer service folks I’ve talked to……dozens and dozens (I do catalog shopping and other online stuff that slips me off to India frequently) have much better manners than the jerks who are pulling down the big bucks over here.

Maybe, but try eating one raw. And no, onion and syrup is not a good combination at all.

You don’t have a husband with a kob and benefits at UT? Am I mixing you with someone else?

omg! Food! Food is everything! Sleeping under a car in a snowstorm, no problem. No food, big problem.

Could also just throw out everyone with an MBA. Every time I’ve met someone with one of those, I always have the urge to check my wallet afterwards.

The company is probably OK, the service they hooked up with for recruiting looks like a scam. And the pay looked pretty damn good.

But they didn’t put their name in the ad, just what they do and where they are. From that, I have a pretty good idea who it is and they’ve been in business here for a long time.

It’s pretty good, really. Half way through now.

Tell me about it, I put way too much garlic in the last batch of pesto! But it was ok, since Mr. D and I both ate it. When you both have garlic breath, it doesn’t count.

Sweat the onions…. syrup for flavor and to enhance the carmelization ….. over noodles (or day-old toasted white bread.) Hey, why not?

I had oatmeal, bread, a little peanut butter and some apricot jam for 2 weeks. That was many years ago and I’ve still never eaten apricot jam again.

sweet

No, that’s me. Thank dawg! Just found out I need a root canal ASAP. Scheduled for this Monday. 80% paid for.

Well then it may be worth perusing.. specially since you have the HR managers info…nothing ventured nothing gained:>)

Hiya, Margot! I’m surprised I can still eat oatmeal, myself.

sigh – dental insurance

Face to the wind, wang……face to the wind. You’ll work it. And there is a whole clan out here who have your back. Isn’t that amazing. Yes, it is!

Whoa whoa what in hell are you talking about “Way too much GARLIC” No such thing as too much and Garlic in the same sentence… Garlic is the king of herbs… we have some most days… important in my chili… and I mean lots of it!!

there is garlic and then there is garlic. i once transported an undocumented juvenile who was in protective custody. the poor kid had been eating only garlic for 2 weeks.

Thanks DWR1, I will work it! And it will all turn out for the better.

fingers and toes crossed for ya, wangdang

Although I tend to agree with nahant, I once worked with a girl that ate so much raw garlic, it oozed out her pores. It wasn’t a nice pleasant garlic-breath odor, to be sure.

God you people are pampered. Nobody’s mentioned ramen noodles and pork and beans? The ultimate poverty food! And rice of course. All this oatmeal and jam stuff. Pffft!

Judge Bates decision that Meirs and the others subpeonaed have to testify was good news from Emptywheel today.
Outsourcing American jobs…not!!!!
I like the French loyalty to their business folks in the neighborhood. They shop mom and pop stores. No living wage no middle class. Outsourcing is a corporatist gream. And they would rather build prisons for low income that pay a decent wage for a days work. Masses of folks are getting in trouble with the Bushco triclke down economics while his cronies are of to the islands with the booty from cromy capitalism.

We’re in a scary-damned time and we cannot, I fear, count on our government to do the right thing on anything. But people are good. We need to stand together. That’s one of the nice things about FDL…… a sense of community that is often lacking in the ‘real’ world.

Thanks, Suz!

Garlic works great in damn near everything. Pickled garlic is especially great with spinach, and in sandwiches.

Smiles……. as I wipe jam off my chin.

I sure didn’t mean to ONLY eat garlic but you could survive on it if you had to and no other food… Parent who did that to kid hopefully was prosecuted to the full extant of the law!! Kids and us need balanced diet normally… My dietitian told me so today…

the kid i transported had been eating it raw too. he came across the border with two braids and had been living on it.

Suz, I also worked with juveniles. If people knew how kids are growing up! Well, you know.

ya just have to be eating garlic and you won’t notice it at all… but I do know what you mean… while serving in Germany we had a Polish labor service guy who when he had visited his girl friend in France he would reek of garlic… even after showering…

Heh, Bob Barr has a new video up. It’s so much fun to see McCain attacked from the right, by someone with some principles.

How about a little Obama poetry slam?

speaking of poetry, did darkblack find out he was the winner of tedfest?

Thanks Hannibal Bob telling Mc Pain just how foolish he is.. but this straight talk stuff???

tedfest?

tedfest, the ted stevens poetry contest…

I’m craving garlic stuffed olives.

Icelandic!

How about garlic & onion twice baked potatoes… one of my classics with roast beef medium rare of course…

He hung up a “gone fishin’” sign at his blog.. but I left him a message and a link.

satisfied

Is there sour cream in those twice baked potatoes?

i was trying to remember who had let him know..thought it was you but wasn’t sure. thanks eureka

darkblack went fishin’, too?

& lotsa butter all melted through them…

That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout.

“….jen over at the group news blog has joined a food coop and gets a buttload of fruits, veggies, and herbs every week. she has been posting how she is prepping them, storing them, and using them. might be a good place to look for info for when the garden comes in.”

Suzanne: hope that was an organic butt ……

Oh yeah some good R&B… rocking and a grooving to the rhythm

Organic in, organic out.

Hi Suzanne!

All of this down-and-out food talk got me to thinking about my plan to send, by FedX air, for your party, my famous flourless chocolate tort. I am trying to obtain, on short notice, the Callebaux chocolate type around which I developed this torte many years ago in France.

I also must decide whether the coolness required during such hot weather can be achieved in shipping without separating out wax from the chocolate, ruining the texture. Working on both….

Inasmuch as the weekend is, essentially, here and I don’t know whether I will be able to contact you after tonight or not, please advise me where to send this, assuming that all the loose pieces of the plan come together successfully. I cannot attend: I live very far away from where you are.

Shake yer bootie!

I think it wouldn’t be hard to find people in this country who’d be willing to work for 1/5 of what CEOs receive now. Heck, I’m perfectly willing to do it. I can ruin a megacorporation for 1/10 of what they paid Carly Fiorina to ruin HP.

on the phone pups.. be done soon.. baby girl is at a alt christian rock festival in monterey!!!

What’s wrong with garlic bread? I know I’m jumping in late, but I’m starting to crave some. It’s simple if you know how to operate an oven.

I’d sure like that recipe.

Pretty please?

Dude! Bang your head!!

(What would a Thursday Late Late be without a cheery drive-by from Hmmm?:)

OT — Anthrax mailing suspect Bruce Ivins “apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges”

Link

(And on that note… off I go! Best to all.)

Not a damn thing wrong with garlic bread. Had some last night with the spaghetti and salad.

Suz tell cleanth send please please… sounds real good after a big bowl of Da chili, some Peach Pie (yes I will make one for ya special) then the flourless chocolate tort… Julie just may have to drive home after all that

I think, with little training at all…just some good advisors… I could manage to NOT ruin America at 1/10th what it cost us to have BushBoy.

Anyone get that license plate?

ok, off the phone and scrolling up to see what i missed

Nothing at alll… we get garlic Grace Bakery ( from Santa Cruz way) with whole cloves baked right in to the loaf… real good toasted with lotsa butter..mmmmmmmm

I promised I wouldn’t stay up till 2:00 and drink all the beer.

Oh well.

Regrets; I deem it proprietary. When French patrons opine that it is the best they have ever tasted, well, I hold this one closely. If I can get it to Suzanne’s party, you can sample it there, perhaps.

It helps to be in a well-stocked professional kitchen where one can get mostly whatever one might want and the ability to perfect through repitition.

I once took a break from professing at university and did a stint as a pastry chef in France, you see.

sorry, cleanth.. i was on the phone.

i’ve baked flourless chocolate cakes – they are pretty stable even if they are egg white based. email me at ten67x at gmail dot com.

cleanth, I think you’re pimping us on that recipe…..but a good read. I didn’t know whether to smack you upside the head or ask for the recipe. I just laughed.

butts and bowels appear to be my typos du jour this week.

I need to perfect my typing through repetition. Typo in my previous post.

got it in the news queue and g’nite hmmm

darkblack stopped in about a week ago. Sounded like he was ready for some changes.. or change was ready for him..I think he will be back, just might be a while.

Here is a link to his blog.

Oh not at all! I’m a dab hand in the kitchen. It appears that many of the Firepups are as well.

I hope to hear from the chocolate purveyors as to whether I can get what I want/need, or its equivalent. These chocolates go by numbers, and the formulae are constantly changing. The chocolate jobbers will know the details.

Mmmm. I usually crush the garlic. Spread enough of it over the bread and it’s still potent.

Haven’t found a bakery yet around here that does a good job, but there aren’t a lot of good Italian places up here, either.

The Times, quoting an unidentified colleague, said the scientist had taken a massive dose of a prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine.

I am no chemist, but I would think a chemist would come up with something better than that.

And I was afraid that might be the answer. Although I was thinking secret family recipe. With temps of 102, I doubt it would make it to Central Texas as anything more than pudding if I could talk you into mailing me one. But I am not deterred. I shall bake the Chocolate Frangelico Cheesecake as consolation.

People taking leave……..whatever happened to Raven? I miss his take on things. And, while ACitizen was sometimes …. well, whatever…. did he get banned or just go elsewhere? I still miss OklahomaKiddoe and Lahoma. Where did Pach go? I got busy at work and when I tried to catch up, folks were just gone. My computer fried in a power surge and I got offed, too. Managed to crawl my way back, but still miss some of the old timers.

Down in Hollister during the “Garlic Festival” the have garlic ice cream…

sprit west coast is actually held at the laguna seca raceway in del mar. she said the festival was totally awesome

Are you sending that on over for the Pod party???? please please!!

that was last weekend :(

I like to crush the garlic and mix it in soft butter, let it sit and meld awhile, then spread it on a good baguette and sprinkle with fresh Oregano and a little mild Paprika for color before I pop it in the oven for a few minutes.

there is an ebb and flow to the commenters here at the lake. pach is still around – he is working on the business end of the lake. just as with yourself, commenters come, go, and come back again.

I’ve always wondered about that garlic ice cream. but I’ve made sopa de ajo (gazillion cloves of garlic sour) and after slowly cooking it, wow, very sweet and delicious. Garlic is godly.

i bake garlic and then mush the baked goodness inside onto bread. yummy all soft and carmelized goodness.

I think I’ve found my limit.

I’ll have to try the paprika.

Like I said earlier The King of Herbs… we use only fresh garlic… never that stuff in a jar… garlic essence is gone… has to be fresh kept in a drawer in the dark… with the onions, potatoes and shallots…

Oooo, I love roasted garlic!

Don’t forget the Parmesan cheese grated on top mmm

it’s different when there are bad feelings or some kind of blow up. in those cases especially i think it is natural to want to reach out to repair the damage if possible.

Oh, I dunno. I’m willing to try it.

I made basil ice cream once. It was surprisingly good!

and roasted onions served with the top split open and topped with melted butter, sour cream or both.

Suzanne, as per my comment to DWR1, I am awaiting a response from the Callebaux representative. I have got to have the exact chocolate, or its equivalent. Otherwise, being somewhat (!) a culinary perfectionist, I would not send anything I had not tested myself, and I do not have time nor $ to make more than one example of the tort now if it has got to be a chocolate with which I have not worked. I surely do hope this works out. I like helping friends move: I think it is part of community. But I cannot come there now, alas. My heart is on the West Coast of the USA; specifically the Sierra Nevada, which is the geography of my heart.

Also, it is good to have your back-channel email addy: I want to talk to you a bit about results of my ruminating over a little wee comment, nicely subtle, concerning the immediate concerns of most on these boards at FDL. As you have seen, my wonted ways are to go into things. I was an intellectual historian (a proper academic field: history of ideas), with predominant latter-day interests in physics. That is actually where I got my start, but I took a long perigrination through political philosopy, analytic philosophy, and linguistic theory. So I am interested in going back farther than would suit pragmatic election cycle concerns, and I now believe that this approach does not well serve the immediate needs of FDL. During my years as a political scientist, I was never interested in voting behaviour and such pragmatic aspects of the discipline, but rather in the history of political philosophy. A long, longtime interest has been the roots of political obligation.
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I have heard that gmail is not safe: that they troll for much personal data and that they are in bed with the data-collecting nuts in Bushco.

I’ll get back to you, progbably Saturday, after I hear back from the chocolate reps. I’ve got a full schedule tomorrow….

Roasted with chicken roast beef or by it self all good… who said too much and garlic in the same sentence???? Sounds like we have a lot of garlic lovers here at the Lake:>)

It’s mostly for eye appeal, adds color.

those concerns are not anything i can help you with – i am here at nites but am not the blog owner nor do i make personnel decisions. i just run the late nite part – any concerns about the late nites are always welcomed.

also, the pack party is sunday so you would have to overnight it…

Did something like that once, halved sweet onions (1015s) and added a dab of butter then some beef boullion crumbles. Baked till soft. I should really do that again, was dee-lish.

40 clove of garlic chicken

…who said too much and garlic in the same sentence????

Oh shit, I think that was me. I take it back!

no bullion- too much salt. just plain baked with a dab of butter and then topped with sour cream when plated.

Thanks for your sensitivity, selise. I think for some of us who find a kind of camaradarie at this special place, it is hard to see people go away …. for whatever reason….but maybe especially if they go away hurt or get bounced or whatever. I lurked for years and years. Enjoying the fact that others had the time and pizzazz to check in so regularly. Anyway………..

Fifty lashes with a wet noodle and you are forgiven:>)

I shall bake the Chocolate Frangelico Cheesecake as consolation.

That sounds lovely.

Have you ever done anything with fangipane? Now there is something delicious. (I mean genuine frangipane, which is a paste of confectioners’ sugar, egg whites, and ground almonds.)

Wouldn’t it be lovely one day to get all the FDL cooks together for a party of culinary decadence? Lots of talent on FDL. Sometimes I think that I ought to open a coffee house with Marion. I have been roasting for half a century, and Marion obvously has the muffin and scone bits down pat. (I have a gorgeous and wonderful, quaint even) Jabez Burns 1 pound sample roaster. This is standard of the coffee industry still today for cupping rooms. If this intrigues any, I am always happy to relate how this all came about for me.)

Heh, Bob Barr has a new video up. It’s so much fun to see McCain attacked from the right, by someone with some principles.

Does anybody know about this guy’s darker side? Because he makes one hell of a lot of sense on this video. Obama’s handlers ought to see that Barr gets a hefty campaign contribution.

he was involved in the clinton impeachment if that helps explore his darker side

I used unsalted butter and not a lot of boullion

Disclaimer: I am not a vegetarian.

Surprise!!!

I like the boullion crumbles……great idea! I’m going to try that.

Speaking of blasts from the past, I finally found this old TRex article about the Star Trek fans at NRO. I wanted to find it for an article, and for some reason Google wasn’t cooperating today.

The matters I mentioned are not blog concerns. All is good on that respect. They are, rather, personal concerns and I merely wanted to do what I seem already to have done: let you know the resuts of my sincere ruminating. Nothing further needs to be done on this front.

As to the timing, ues, I know that. I had planned upon overnight air FedX, if it all comes together, which I hope it will do.

the link is to this post cujo

No dice on the link, cujo

Garlic salt with parsley works for that, too.

ok :)

looking forward to sampling it upon arrival (fingers and toes crossed)

I have no expericence with frangipane, but I love almonds. I do believe your culinary endeavors are beyond my scope. I can turn out a pretty mean Biscotti, though. And a damn fine Hoppin’ John.

butts and bowels appear to be my typos du jour this week.

“Bowls and bats” are the inclulsive terms for the baterie de cuisine, and I am always cheered when I hear talk of bowls and bats :-)

Oh crap. Two tabs, fifty percent chance of being wrong, well, that means it will be wrong. Try here. I figure it’s even odds it will work this time.

Update on Solar we signed on the dotted line for the system…. will take 10 to 12 weeks to final turning on the system.. As we will be becoming generation station lots of hurdles to be jumped over… They do everything we just approve the design and the installation and no nada $$$$ money to be paid until system is up and producing power…
They will no longer be offering that program as the Fed tax breaks go away at the end of year (Obstructionist Rethuglians saw to that) and it takes so long to get one installed… from site inspection, design regulatory approvals and so forth… But we will be making our own electricity soon… other advantage I thought of is WHEN the fully electric cars are available we can FILL UP free!!!

“with”

Insert it where it’s missing.

woohoo… thanks.. what a trip down memory lane

I can turn out a pretty mean Biscotti

Now biscotti! what wonderful things.

One time the executive chef came to my kitchen and told me to make biscotti. I never had done. The first batch came out nicely. But then I got to make it daily for months, and bit by bit they got better and better. Yum, biscotti and coffee.

You can do the biscotti for our big culinary bash in the sky!

IIRC he led the charge to Impeachment… for a BJ… I stll can’t get over that one and the Dems won’t impeach this asswipe… sure is a sad time for this country to let a blatant criminal get off scott free… beyond the pale in my book…

That is so cool, nahant! I’ve been hit or miss lately and didn’t even know you were working on it. Glad it’s all coming together for you!

I hope you will keep us updated on how this goes for you, nahant. I live in a sun zone, and solar could be productive. My house even has an old system atop. But the cost is high. I will be looking for updates as this comes along for you.

Are you sending that on over for the Pod party???? please please!!

Hooping to do so, Nahant!

sorry, didn’t attribute that first line to Hannibal (#82).

one of my staples is a baked potato, quartered, mashed with a fork and slathered with Spanish olive oil (which is the BEST relatively cheap extra virgin you can find . “La Espanola” in most supermarkets here in Germany. Hopefully it’s available in the states. A lot of supposedly Italian olive oil is actually Spanish (or Tunisian) and simply bottled in Italy. I love to grate Pecorino (more than Parmesan, which is OK, too) cheese on my ‘taters.

ok, pups, time for me to bail. i’ll be off tomorrow night – but will be back with a toon for sat night.

g’nite all and thanks for hanging with me tonight.

I dislike Barr for his social “views” and a couple of other things, but, and if I am remembering this wrong I will atone, Barr sought Clinton’s impeachment on the basis of his deposition in the Paula Jones matter.

Goodnight, Suzanne.

Me neither!! could ya guess..

Still no one died was tortured or constitution violated raped and as Bush so famously stated “It is Just a piece of Paper” pompous ass… he should spend time in the corner for just that one alone never mind all the other stuff:>(

yeah, he’s up front about that at the beginning of the video. I meant any other stuff. A Republican from Georgia wouldn’t normally be a person I would find myself agreeing with about much of anything politically but maybe it’s just campaign blather, or maybe not.

He was one of the forces behind that one. But, like Khan (see the picture from the previous link), the man is consistent. I’ll give him that.

Sadly, if you want to vote for someone who’s clearly against the Iraq War, outspoken about the need to impeach Bush, and unequivocally in favor of the privacy rights we just lost last month, Barr’s the only candidate.

And I was wrong…

Barr lists such allegations against the Clinton White House as conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws, including the supposed illegal raising of foreign money and the charges of favorable government treatment in return for campaign contributions, as grounds for an inquiry.

looking forward to sampling it upon arrival (fingers and toes crossed)

Same here!

If it cannot be this time around, well, I hope to live longer :-) I love cooking for people and have not had much chance to do that since returning to the USA from a long time abroad.
BTW, you have mentioned “personnel issues”. Nothing in my concerns has anything to do with personnel, so I am at a loss for that point you made in your recent post.

You’re correct, but it was basically about a BJ. Clinton recanted his deposition almost immediately, and the question had nothing to do with the investigation. In contrast, Karl Rove got four tries to get it right in the Scooter Libby trial. Impeachment was an overreaction.

Will look for the Spanish olive oil. I usually just clip a $1 off coupon or get the store brand. Sometimes the health food store has a special and I’ll get a liter of the good stuff.

Nite Suz… I will be shopping for ingredients for chili and pie tomorrow… Chili needs to start tomorrow to be ready for Sunday…

I will update on solar as things progress… 1 hour after signing we were already welcomed to the fold by email… Sales person came to house just to make it easy for us:>) Invited us to his house to see his installation… Company is trying to be green as possible and gives sales reps a Prius for work…

Nighties, Suz! Thanks for the vittles.

I am thrilled to hear of this! A constellation full of stars for you, Nahant!

I will deem it chili when you show me the recipe. Unless it has beans in it. Then it’s bean soup.

Yes, it’s terrific. Too bad the Republicans screwed it up for the rest of us.

I’m a chili fan. I’d love to hear how you make it. Every time you mention your chili-ness I salivate a bit. Got recipe? Or do you just do what you do?

I think it may becomming evident to Firepups that I have had a crazy and wonderful life. In my incarnation as an aging DFH just before Woodstock, I was riding around NM in a big bus with a notorious commune (nuff said). We visited Peter van Dresser up in El Rito, NM. Peter developed the first mail carrying rocket and was lifelong involved in rocketry. He was also a solar power visionary and designed many prototypical solar homes. He learned from his mistakes, which were many. But he was a true believer, and he kept at it. The man was assuredly a genius. An socially aware. It has taken us so long in the US to get onto solar and wind. I am so heartened to hear of Nanaht’s efforts here.

DWR1:

Are you compiling a cookery book? ;-)

Beans beans but of course at least six different varieties… I also ground beef, pork and lamb… lots of GARLIC tomatoes onions… peppers did I say peppers lots of and many types from the medium to the very hot… just for the base… Also brown sugar to MY taste… got to get you eating it so you don’t notice the heat until way too late and by then you can’t stop eating it at least for most two to three bowls… and for those who dare I will have a separate pot with peppers floating on the top.. Dam making myself hungry…. Oh I don’t measure anything so thats as close to a recipe as you will get out of me :>)

one caveat If I don’t like it YOU don’t get any./.. rare but sometimes…..

Lordy, Nahant! I am temted to book a flight just to taste this wonder! No kidding.

I’m not with that, nahant.
You could wake up in a bitchy mood, make a great batch, hate it, and we get dissed.
No fair!

That’s how engineering and invention usually work. The more innovative something is, the longer it takes to get right.

I’m hoping that someday soon we can all afford to generate at least part of our own electricity from something we put on our roofs. I know that at least a couple of different startups are trying to make solar panels you can use as shingles. If they can make the them and the connections reliable enough to last twenty years or so, they’ll definitely have something.

Newton has sampled at last meetup at Suz’s in March… he is the one who insisted I bring it again…

‘nite Suzanne, wangdang,and all you folks. i’d best go pretend like i’m working.

one final: everybody does know that the legendary Billmon has made an appearance, right? if not, he posted over at Kos on the McCain pretzel machine and received a heartwarming welcome (something like 400 comments were up when i read it earlier). cheers.

I don’t measure anything in my chili either. But beans are against the rules.

one caveat If I don’t like it YOU don’t get any.

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That is why I am so cautious about my baking, too. But if I can get the chocolate I know and want, it will turn out as expected. After all, I made hundreds of them decades go. But it has always got to pass the sternest critic: me.

Nah if it passes my muster then it must be served or it would be wasted… I don’t wake up in pissy moods either:)

you talking Texas chili…. not my cup O chili:>)

Well, clock on the clubhouse wall says it’s past time for me to go. Have a great evening, all. BTW, if you get a moment, check out my article on the whole W as Batman thing. It’s hardly the first one, of course, but now it’s the only one where you can follow a link back to TRex’s article.

Goodnight.

Billmon, huh? That’s a good sign.

Sweet dreams, fahrender.

Yeah, I’ll cop.
It was major. But I’m anxious for you to bring the heat this time.

I measure by counting cans.

Nope. I just like to cook. I make a fine chili myself….but I love getting tips from others. I’m just kind of a home cooker…. but I have managed to learn some great stuff over the years. I’d never, for example, had brisket until my family was invited to share a seder dinner with friends….. I’ve cooked brisket time and again over the years and spiked the recipe with ideas I’ve had and tips I’ve learned. I’m teaching my own kids to cook things with enthusiasm. I’ve learned to make tamales and have taught some of my Mexican friends whose mothers’ forgot to teach them. I make some delicious enchiladas, too. Learned those from a friend who grew up in AZ. My German grandmother made a fine Puerto Rican pot roast (I have no idea where she learned that, but I was blessed to inherit her recipe) and I’m teaching my kids that recipe, too.

nite cujo – yeah, you piece was good. again.

I’m out of here. Goodnight, if anyone remains. I am often the last one out; I am a night-person.

I had a pile of books needing attention, but thought I could get away with just a peek at FDL this time. Hah! Can never eat just one peanut, or read just one post, either.

I’ll check back in the later morning so as not to miss your wit.

good system… but the meat I do it by the pound… and if there might be some Roast beef left well it gets chunked and into the pot…
I use very large pot 4 gallon .. my special chili pot

Not just Texas chili.

Competition chili.

; )

have a pleasant evening cleanth :>) nice chatting with ya

nite cleanth

Measuring isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Nighers, Cujo. Thanks for the link!

OK OK but for me gotta have the beans… like I said six to seven varieties….
I have been told many times to enter a chili cook off but mine takes more than one day to just the way I want it… so no chili cook offs… I mean how can you make a good chili in a couple of hours?????… no time for things to get all warm and fuzzy together..

You are on…. but you have to eat it… no saying it is toooooo hot now… the regular chili will get you sweating but the hot stuff will get you burning and drinking did I mention the beer in the chili… A must…

Don’t get me wrong – you emphasized the sweet last time. I’m not looking to make fire…

I like beans with my chili, too. I just make ‘em up in a separate pot then eat ‘em in the same bowl.

I can’t imagine anyone putting pasta in it though, that’s just wrong. (It was in my rules link.)

And I agree that chili needs to meld for awhile. Gotta let the flavors marry.

Dam almost 1 am again… and I was up early… good nite pups and see ay all next late late nite… oh and thanks for digging Suz’s post!!

Beans on the side. Hot sauce on the side. Corn bread on the side … or tortillas. Sour cream for the cool down for those who get all anxious!

pasta in chili???? some one would have to be crazy to do that… what waste:>(
Poof….

Sweet dreams, nahant. You got me looking forward to chili weather!

my family was invited to share a seder dinner with friends

OK, one last yarn, then I’m out of here.

I once worked for a German blue-eyed, blonde haired genial Nazi chef. They celebrated Hitler’s birthday in this kitchen, and it was not in Germany, either. They referred to the bank of ovens in my bakery kitchen as “the Jew ovens” and other tasteless jokes in that vein. For all of that, this chef was, this crap aside, personable and likable. When I had first started with him, Easter was just ahead, and in those days I still celebrated Easter in a big way. I explained, or tried to explain, to the chef that I had got to attend Easter Mass. He replied that this was a big day: “all them Jews come and spend a lot of money here”. He told me to go back to my bake shop “and the god will understand”. Then he grew more serious and said, angrily: “Venn you tell me vhere vas the god vhen dem Jews in my country cried ‘God! God!’ in the gas chambers, den I vill talk to you about your god! I saw that I was getting nowhere with him, and returned to work with my tail between my legs, so to speak. Later, the chef came to see me: “Vell, look, I don’t want to take any chances vith this god; I’ll drive you to the Holy Mass in my Mercedes! And he did.

Came Passover. The standard greeting between myself and the chef was: “Boss, how goes it?” To which he always made the reply “Vell, you know how it is!” You see, he was honing after women, it cost him a fortune, and things did not often last long or go well. And sommeties his hair dyd failed, and came out orange, not yellow! He looked serious and also said “I vent to a Passover seder last night. Oh! Did I learn some things.” As I said, there were redeeming things about this often brutish Nazi.

Yeah, that’s what I said. Saw it in the rules and said WTF kind of idiot would do that?

Ever had Cincinnati chili? Such fun! Chili over angel hair or regular spaghetti — you get it whatever way: with beans, with cheese, with onions. Cinnamon touch…..maybe even some nutmeg? Divine! It’s not traditionall chile, but it is sooooo good.

OK, that’s where I thought they were bastardizing chili. Thanks for the confrimation, DWR1!

Confession… I have put a tiny pinch of cocoa in mine. Not enough where you can put your finger on it, though.

And that’s it for me, I had a wonderful night!

Goodnight, Irene.

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