Hey, Christy, still too busy laughing at the pic and the headline to get the post read, but I’m confident it’s great!

This is one of those schadenfreude-licious hoist, meet petard moments. *g*

that’s just too funny. And I can’t say I’m surprised, either.

I await this evening’s Lou Dobbs hour with baited breath. hehehehehe

epu’d-

Thanks to everyone downstairs for your feedback on autoworker salaries!

Thanks Christy.

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Chertoff declined to comment. “We’re very constrained in what we can say about anybody who has any kind of issue with the department,” he said.

I’ll bet “we” are!

Christy, your headline and the photo underscore that Chertoff would have been/still could be a great James Bond villain. Is he perfect for that or what?

Something tells me that anyone working within close proximity to Chertoff will be taking much Exedrin migraine medication today.

Just got done reading, and it really makes me wish a copy of this post could go directly to the repeat offender aka Michael Chertoff. OTOH, if he is as vindictive as he is arrogant, I would be afraid for your safety and the continuation of the blog itself. People as incompetent as Chertoff have no business serving in positions of power.

one of NPR’s “sponsors” was the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify system

Primo indicator of the depths to which NPR has sunk. :-(

He does have that Goldfinger je ne sais quois, doesn’t he?

btw, am baking some lemon pecan butter cookies this morning. My whole house smells heavenly…need to bake more often while I’m blogging. *g*

I used to do commentaries for MPR (MN Public Radio). The growing constraints were subtle then, but my left-leaning (bwahahahaha) “stuff” got edited out, presumably to avoid teeing off corporatistas who fill their coffers.

zero sex appeal

Must. Have. Recipe. Please . . . .

(Love the LOL Cat, btw, Christy)

Hoamlan Sikurty…ur doin it wrong!

Heckuva job…= worst job review possible. Where did this guy, with his arroagant whine, come from? As he continues to build a horrible wall in So TX destroying people’s property. SO?

Aren’t the folks here just the best? Not only do they know how to search for links to facts, but they are so obliging in helping out a friend.
((FDL Pups))
and, Good Morning Everyone!

Here you go:

Lemon Pecan Refrigerator Cookies

1/2 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. lemon extract
1 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. finely chopped pecans

In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, scraping down sides of bowl at least twice to fully combine. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in pecans. Shape into two rolls; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 2 hours until firm. Unwrap dough; cut into 1/8 inch slices. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 250 F (not a misprint!) for 21 to 22 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 8 dozen.

I top mine with a little powdered sugar mixed with lemon juice glaze, and add some finely minced lemon zest to the cookie batter as well. Very nummy!

(((demi))) g’mornin’.

Oh, gag me with a spoon!

I can’t wait for this ghoul to exit stage right. He’d vaporize exiting stage left.

Bless you! Ms. MN Chocolate allergy has been trying to find a yummy thing to bake at annual cookie-fest with my daughter mini-barbara. Merci, ma’am.

Kin ah lick tha bowl?

Bravo Christy – your post brightened an otherwise foggy, unusually chilly dark Monterey coast morning. No one can capture the morbid rascal better than vous.

RevBev, I’ve heard that Janet Napolitano isn’t a supporter of the wall and hopes are high that she will put a stop to it.

Physical appearance was likely a key job qualification.

She favours using National Guard troops along the border.

You’re probably right. Mr. Rogers types need not apply.

I just had an image of all the bakers here sending you their bowls of left over batter.

Which border, Afghany- Paki?

I’ll send him a bowl ok!

Mornin’.

With the US losing half million jobs a month I don’t know how much longer those south of the border will be making a bee line for the not-so-green-anymore pastures north of the border. Trapped between a rock and a hard place hopefully many will return to their own country and throw out the bums who helped destroy their economy.

I made the dough yesterday — double batch. I roll mine into smaller rolls, so that i get bite-sized cookies for my gift tins. (Easier to pack smaller cookies.) These are really lovely. Sometimes I do the drizzle glaze or frosting, sometimes I just roll the outside of the cookie roll in some more chopped pecans which toast up nicely in the oven to form a rim.

Will be doing snickerdoodles and rum balls later in the day. We have gift exchanges with family this weekend and I have to finish before Sunday.

Yeah, that’ll work.

Good morning christy.

Those cookies sound really good. I’d ask for one, but after what I’ll be doing, I guess my cooky will go to the Peanut.

Goldfinger je ne sais quois,

That s at the end of quoi is superfluous.

Heckuva job Chertoff.

Wazup?

This post has got me imaging how all of the invasive security technology put in place will be/can be used to play gotcha with a whole buncha folks who will be exiting DC soon….but not soon enough.
And, how when asked for things like emails, they thought they could get away with saying things like, Oh, um, we uh lost those. Remember how furious Leahy was when he explained how the emails could be retrieved?
Maybe I spend too much time imagining.

Not much up here but in NOLA!

In a rare moment for the New Orleans region, snow is falling this morning, with flurries being reported on the North Shore as far south as Mandeville, as well as in New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, LaPlace and other parts of the south shore.

Gift tins, eh? So, if I send you my mailing address . . . ? *g*

hieeee

Ooops, late. Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Ahem . . . cookie . . . . *g*

Dibs on the sickerdoodles bowl!

Great post, Christy. Chertoff is just so hopeless. I can’t wait until Napolitano is at the helm.

We just had out neighborhood cookie exchange. I need to wait until tomorrow to bake more cookies. The damp weather destroys my gingerbread, Scottish shortbread and fudge.

Thanks for posting this lemon bar cookie recipe.

You might enjoy some of the recipes here.

Am waiting on making my fudge as well. Stupid rain…

Too funny: I’m looking at a new recipe called “Lemon Angels” that’s very heavy on the ingredients you mention….need one more item from the store to give it a trial run today. Sounds like it should turn out very “shortbready”…..Yummmmms.

The Peanut and I will be making some spritz cookies when she gets home from school. She made me promise that we’ll use the “cookie machine,” as she calls it, today.

I’m deeply grateful for MPR’s overnight classical music feed.

Do wish NPR hourly news wasn’t now running Pelosi on an endless loop.

sounds silly I know, but I like the green ones.

True dat. :-)

What do you know about freezing fudge? Fudge and brownie making is on my list for this afternoon, and some of it is for teacher gifts next week, but some is for serving here on the actual holiday.
(I will stand in line behind Jim for a lick of snickerdoodle batter.)

Is snow in NOLA a prelude to hell freezing over?

mini-barbara’s mini-barbara (I am SO full of myself!) loves to mix red and green and white dough together in the “machine,” which results in kinda tie-dyed spritz. Pretty cute.

There is NO such thing as stupid rain here, it’s going nuts out there and we need it soooo badly.

Remember Van Morrison’s “Snow in San Anselmo”?

Sorry y’all are still having so much drought.

BTW Christy,

I shared at EW’s and did not share here…But I wanted you to know in light of your puppy rescue a little while back. The FDL dog community gave me the courage to face my minor dog allergies with a rescue of a hypoallergenic breed. The klynn’s have a new puppy as of two weeks ago. He’s quite fun and a sweetie. Now 10 weeks, he’s a mini black schnauzer.

Never heard of it. Please explain. I’m ordering kids books on another window, so don’t want to google.

he sounds cute enough to eat

Oh yay! Sounds like a cutie!

Well, if the morons in North Georgia could, like, PLAN it might not be so bad.

Snow in San Anselmo
The deer cross by the lights
The mission down in old San Rafael
A madman looking for a fight
A madman looking for a fight

The massage parlor’s open
The clientele come and they go
The classic music station
Plays in the background soft and low
Plays in the background soft and low

The silence round the cascades
The ice crisp and clear
The beginning of the opera
Seem to suddenly appear
Seem to suddenly appear

The pancake house is always crowded
Open 24 hours of every day
And if you suffer from insomnia
You can speed your time away
You can speed your time away

Snow in San Anselmo
My waitress my waitress my waitress
Said it was coming down
Said it hadn’t happened in over 30 years
But it was laying on the ground
But it was laying on the ground

kinda like the national guard troops that helped smuggle illegal immigrants? http://www.startribune.com/nat…..:_Yyc:aUUF

But then again, why should this be a problem when one of the heads of the borders patrol was caught with an illegal immigrant maid on staff, or when border patrol agents are some of the most prolific smugglers? Not that I really mind.. I don’t really think there should be a border anyway, nonetheless, the hypocrisy and the schadenfreude opportunities seem to be endless.

Interesting article on Napolitano
http://www.villagevoice.com/20…..co-border/

Oh, I’m sorry. It sounded as though you were expecting people in leadership positions to actually plan. So silly of me… *g*

Thanks. Nice.

Pretty dry here in Northern Los Angeles. I’m afraid to put a tree up yet. It’ll be empty branches in three days. But, I did find out from some firemen I was chatting up at the grocery store the other day that we don’t have to worry about mudslides (after all the fires) because there is only 6 inches of soft soil on top of the rocky hills. Good to know and also tells me why there’s only scrub growing up there.
Jest a little geology lesson for you guys.
Back to Chertoff and The Cookies.

From “Hardnose the Highway” a truly great album that sort of flew under the radar.

(Van Morrison)
Did you ever hear about the great deception
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
Have you ever been down to love city
Where they rip you off with a smile
And it don’t take a gun

Don’t it hurt so bad in love city
Don’t it make you not want to bother at all
And don’t they look so self righteous
When they pin you up against the wall

Did you ever, ever see the people
With the tear drops in their eyes
I just can’t stand it, stand it no how
Living in this world of lies

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singers
Got three or four Cadillacs
Saying power to the people, dance to the music
Wants you to pat him on the back

Have you ever heard about the great Rembrandt
Have you ever heard about how he could paint
And he didn’t have enough money for his brushes
And they thought it was rather quaint

But you know it’s no use repeating
And you know it’s no use to think about it
‘Cause when you stop to think about it
You don’t need it

Have you ever heard about the great Hollywood motion picture actor
Who knew more than they did
And the newspapers didn’t cover the story
Just decided to keep it hid.

Somebody started saying it was an inside job
Whatever happened to him?
Last time they saw him down on the Bow’ry
With his lip hanging off an old rusty bottle of gin

Have you ever heard about the so-called hippies
Down on the far side of the tracks
They take the eyeballs straight out of your head
Say son, kid, do you want your eyeballs back

Did you ever see the people
With the tear drops in their eyes
Just can’t stand it no how
Living in this world of lies

Yes, you are so right. I’ll blame it on my “francophonyness”.

The sun is shining in MN. Wasn’t supposed to. The audacity of sun! Time to feed our birds. Have a great day, all. May there be plenty of schadenfreude to go around (serve with mugs of steaming hot cocoa).

He’s a nice combo of playful, lapdog, and outdoor play. He’s not yippy and is nearly housebroken and crate trained. He’s very expressive too. We are going to keep him in the puppy cut because he almost looks like a scotty dog.

BTW the recipe link at 47 has the Pleasant Hill lemon pie recipe which is wonderful.

Two days of glorious rain. Happy trees!!! There might be snow in the mountains tonight so I’m sure the noon news will be filled with a winter storm watch.

LOL. I’m setting myself up big time, aren’t I?! *g*

Ok to freeze fudge? Anyone? I’m not a huge baker, but if I’m going to do it, I don’t want to Fudge it up. *g*
Really. I even bought Mint Cookie and Pecan Pie scented candles yesterday at the 99 cents only store to keep the house smelling good.

stock up on bread and milk! And now from the home depot in Roswell, a big run on batteries and ammo!

I don’t know that I would freeze fudge — but I make mine with marshmallow creme, and I’d be afraid it would get weepy when it thawed.

Frozen fudge will keep for months if wrapped in waxed paper then again in aluminum foil and stored in an air-tight container. Wrap each individual slice or the entire box with plastic or aluminum foil and seal thoroughly. Properly wrapped it should keep for several months. Leave fudge in its wrapping for at least two hours upon removal from the freezer to permit it to return to room temperature.

Fudge stored in the refrigerator can last 2-3 weeks when kept in an air-tight container.

Fudge stored at room temperature in an air-tight container will last 7-14 days. Fudge should be stored in an air-tight container (tin or plastic), each layer separated by a sheet of waxed paper. Fudge stored in an air-tight container at room temperature will “ripen” over the first 24 hours.

The news has barely mentioned the news about Chertoff and I doubt that Lou Dobbs will mention it. Remember that old adage IOKIYR

You are such a Rennaissance man this morning. *g*

Yes, just double seal. Just don’t make it on a rainy day…it gets gritty and fails to create a smooth texture.

thx

Always enjoy the lyrics you share. “Of an age”, we are. *g*

Thanks, thanks and thanks.
I make mine with condensed milk, but I think I’ll just put it in the fridge. Oh, who am I kidding? More like HIDE it in the fridge. I’ll be lucky to have enough to put in gift tins for teachers next week. :O

Such a time it was.

I prefer to stock up on beer and chocolate, myself.

What IS condensed milk? My mother used to use it in a lot of things, I think because you could store it forever, so I remember it. My Q is a scientific one: is it just milk with some of the water content extracted? Also, why does it have a distinct flavor? Because it’s in a can?

don’t think i’ve ever heard that one. wonderful lyrics. thank you.

btw, the answer is the Tahitian vanilla is my fave. Thanks so much, again — we’ll be using it in some spritz this afternoon. :)

sweetened. I cajun cooking they just call it sweet milk.

That explains part of it, or maybe most of it. Thanks.

Condensed milk, also known as sweetened condensed milk, is cow’s milk from which water has been removed and to which sugar has been added, yielding a very thick, sweet product that can last for years without refrigeration if unopened.

wiki

Here’s wiki on condensed milk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_milk

In addition to being sweetened, it is more concentrated, i.e. some water content removed as the name suggests.

Looking at the little can now. It’s actually sweetened condensed milk. Ingredients: milk, sugar.
I’ve only ever used it in the fudge recipe I use from my ancient Good Housekeeping Cookbook.

There’s also a plain condensed milk, without added sugar, which I think is simply milk with some of the water taken out of it, and canned. It does keep longer on the shelf and has a funky taste — I’ve never figured out if it was the can or something about taking the water out of it. My granny used to use it in her morning coffee.

Heh, Raven, shall I put on another pot of coffee for ya, or will tea do?

My father used it in his coffee.

See, if I had copied the whole passage. . .

The two terms, condensed milk and sweetened condensed milk, have become synonymous; though there have been unsweetened condensed milk products, today these are uncommon.

I’m rendering video tutorials and there is a lot of time between actions!

lol. i’m glad you had fun with them. peanut is going to grow up with so many wonder memories of you and cooking all mixed up with the flavors and scents.

I finished ordering the books, so was able to google for myself.

CHS – if you’re interested, I dropped an epu comment on your gitmo thread, with a little response to your ‘riddle me this’

Chertoff – as head of crim div of DOJ gave the thumbs up torture and went on the torture field trip; as head of DHS gave solace to and bought time for Chiquita execs who were aiding terrorists; during Katrina did nothing but watch Americans die and suffer; and now has been hiring illegal aliens – what a gem. And then there was that Heritage Foundation symposium on 24 (really, truly – you cannot make this stuff up) the Series, where Chertoff solemnly told the audience, including 24 fan Clarence Thomas, that 24 was “just like” real life.

What a gem.

Chertoff & torture: he likes to watch.

I guess the end of this thread made up for the creepy, scarey photo at the top?
Chertoff vs. Sweetened Condensed Milk.
PS…Raven, you’re an honorable man to site wiki, but it undermines Christy’s Renaisance Man comment earlier. Like when I tell people I got my nice suit at the thrift store. I’m just teasing you. :)

Thanks Mary — the entire mess we’ve made of things the last few years gives me a splitting headache. Trying to come up with any real way forward is next to impossible, but leaving things as they are is utterly untenable.

Jeebus, we will be years and years in the unravelling of all this bullshit. Am hoping to have something in Iqbal later today if I can get time to finish writing it up…

8 – Quanta of Malice

Christy. I remember one of our sweet PUAC threads, where someone told how grandma would bake cookies with her grandchildren and take photos. She’s put the photo along with the recipe in an album for the kids.
Do you remember that? Might be something to do with your girl.

106 – I’ve left the headaches. I just go straight to the heartsick and nausea if I think about it, so I try not to – but sill do.

104 – seriously, if you read Mayer’s book, she points out that the same CIA operative who was responsbile for el-Masri’s treatment also made trips to watch KSM being waterboarded, not bc she was invovled in the questioning, but bc she wanted to be entertained by the waterboarding. She later got a reprimand – supposedly – where she was told the torture wasn’t for her personal entertainment. And apparently her identity has to be kept secret now bc after all that, she took a covert assignment. Uh huh.

Cynical me, I have to wonder how strongly someone like Muller or Rodriguez wanted to protect her and if she was on any of the waterboarding tapes that were destroyed.

That reprimand is in the personnel record supposedly, and yet Mukasey unblinkingly says there is “no” evidence of any sadism. Uh huh.

Has any questioned why and how Homeland Security has $ for advertising on NPR?

The CIA is advertising on MSNBC

There is also evaporated milk, in a can.

Sometimes these radio stations do “exchanges.” Like “in-kind” donations and such. Maybe Homeland Security does a “trade out” with NPR.

s/

Not surprised at all. One more demonstrated incompetency by Chertoff who should have been fired with Brownie in the Katrina aftermath.