Good morning, Elliott! Thanks for the new breakfast recipe, which we’ll all have this morning when I return, and thanks for the work you do pulling all this together for us. As Atrios says, it’s important to “document the atrocities.” Off to look at the Times and make those Pop Up Pancakes.

Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd, Friedman, Kristof and Rich this morning in the NYT. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t tell, and don’t much care, whether MoDo is writing a column or a piece of fiction. Today she gives us “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” in which she says Bill Clinton and Sarah Palin are not unique, but rather the most recent examples of public figures who, driven by ego and a fixation on public perception, have behaved erratically. It’s time she considered different medication… The Moustache of Wisdom, in “Green Shoots in Palestine II,” says for the first time since Oslo, there is an economic-security dynamic emerging on the ground in the West Bank that has the potential to lay the foundations for a Palestinian state. Mr. Kristof, in “How to Recharge Your Soul,” says following these 10 easy steps will help you and your family overcome “nature deficit disorder,” avoid bears and recharge your soul with ease this summer. Mr. Rich asks “Is Obama Punking Us?” He says while it’s unlikely that the chorus of President Obama’s most strident doomsayers will be proven right, there is growing cause for concern that the president is not the reformer he promised to be.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge for later, and thanks to Elliott we’ve got those yummy looking Pop Up Pancakes to try. I’ve got warm maple syrup, and I’ve also got fresh strawberries, raspberries and blueberries to fill them with. YUM! Before yesterday’s rain the Savannah Daily Disappointment said we were 8″ above normal rainfall so far this year. I guess the drought in this end of the state is over. Have a great day.

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Oh and I don’t watch

Farce of the Nation

Meek, the Press

This Weak with George Stephanopoulos

I watch CSPAN Washington Journal where I can actually call in and question representatives, Senators and other people and I have.

Morning all. Elliott thank you once again for your doing this compilation.
It appears that Meat the Press is getting some of its just deserts as its ratings continue to plummet. Fareed Zacharia is usually the best of the Sunday AM lineup but Chelsea’s wedding plans?

Good Morning. I read Rich’s column and, unfortunately, wonder the same thing.

Insomnia sucks until you find a blog post that blows you out of the water.

This post details what I have known in my heart for years. Please if someone can get this to Ms. Jane, I would be grateful. I think there used to be a place to email her but alas I have not slept and I don’t know where anything is on the site anymore!!!LOL can’t find the search feature anymore.

This post is explosive. This is what every American needs to understand about healthcare. I am no statistician but I am sure that there are many readers here who can verify this statistics and logic of this post. If this blogger is correct an insurance company executive testafied to Congress that between 10 and 50 percent of very sick people get their health insurance recinded as in cancelled. If we are even in the neighborhood of 10 percent of very sick people this is explosive. Americans need to understand that this means when you actually get sick after years and years of paying you have a high probability of getting cancelled, that is if you can still afford the premiums by that time. IMHO the system is designed so they don’t have to recind you because by the time you get that far you can no longer afford the coverage. You can no loger afford it or cobra has run out and you can’t get a new individual policy because of pre-existing condition. Oh and did I mention that the time it takes to get Medicare is approximately 3 years if you are disabled. Do the math, you are already financially ruined by that time unless you are extremely wealthy.

http://tauntermedia.com/2009/0…..able-math/

Please distribute far and wide.

Oh, Elliott . . . that picture.

*smacks lips*

I used to work at Walker Brothers Pancake House when I was in college, and they made those same German Pancakes not in a muffin pan, but a 12 inch skillet. They puffed up in the oven until the edges were 6 inches tall, then they were pulled out, dusted with confectioner’s sugar, and served with lemon wedges. Squeeze a little fresh lemon onto one spot, tear it off (either with fingers or with a fork), and pop it in your mouth for a taste of heaven.

Yum. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Now where’d I put my coffee?

Matthews’ panel talking about the racist noise & recalling Nixon resignation & the Clinton trip. One comment from Repub govs meeting in Aspen; Yes, Palin running really hard; they’re (govs) aren’t happy about that. Pointed comment that Repub base is small, white, Southern, aged, mostly men (Can’t live forever).

When will CNN..Wolfy Wolf do a one on one with Osama Bin Laden?

What is happening to the Republican Party reminds me of nothing more than that scene from the Wizard of Oz where the Wicked Witch has been hit with the bucket of water and is screeching, “I’m melting, melting! Oh, what a world..what a world!” These folks are thrashing around, slugging it out, damaging whatever is closest by – they are going to wake up and I think they are going to find out that they have become the “Birther Party”, the “Right to Lifers”, the “Flat-earthers” and so on.

I was gonna write something , but I’ve been completely distracted by that picture of pancakes , and the thought of eating some delicious Vermont maple syrup.
Be back later gotta go eat !!

Sarah Palin gets an attempted bribery charge against her…

http://alaskareport.com/pdf/bribery.pdf

Hey, Toby -

Been meaning to let you know I tried your recipe for chocolate zucchini cake (by turning it into muffins) and it was maaaaaaaarvelous! *smooch* Light as the proverbial feather! Gotta scoot for a shower ’cause I’m going to a morning showing of Julie & Julia……with a trip afterwards to a nearby truck farm. Later……

Math class is hard. For the AP, that is:

WASHINGTON — Nearly eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have left 4,000 soldiers killed in action, more than 34,000 wounded — and only six considered worthy of the nation’s highest military award for battlefield valor.

AP, let me Google that for you. As of today,

Iraq: 4,317
Afghanistan: 763
Total (not counting many hundreds of contractors, of course): 5,080.

Whatever.

I’m now beginning to understand that, rather than journalism,
the Associated Press is actually engaged in high-concept performance art.

Personally I don’t think the Republican Party is finished. In fact they have an opportunity to grow. Why, because Obama is being exposed as a “poser.” His notion of healthcare “reform” is becoming nothing more than a political stunt. His economic team is made up of the same people that caused the meltdown. His selection of Rahm Emanuel should have been a clue. The fact that the lives of average Americans are not improving and will not improve given Obama’s weak and timorous approach will only alienate and anger even more people and you can bet the Republicans will be right there to capitalize on that anger and the betrayal average Americans are beginning to feel. Do the Republicans have a viable answers to the growing anxiety and fear of the public. Of course they don’t but they are an option. Personally I’d like to see a primary challenge of Obama organized with Bernie Sanders as the real reformist candidate.

My, that will be fun….Outta here. Cheers, B

I don’t agree, the angry crowds we see, are just a very small and noisy minority and by no means represent the vast majority of Americans.
As far as Obama bring a poser . Did any one really expect the economy or anything else at that matter to change in the matter of a few short months?
No this is just another example of the instant gratification that so many have come to expect .
Change , real change, takes time ,sometimes years I don’t expect 30 plus years of bad politics and bad policy to change overnight .
Be patient change is coming !

It’s a slow starting morning here, poured all night long.
I’m listening to call-ins on WJ. Town Halls. Some of the callers are makin’ my brain hurt.

Caller called on rationing claims, on some page 29. Host won’t let him go on without reading that out loud. Apparently there is no page 29, caller hangs up unable to spout out all the phony talking points. Slen the call slayer.

It’s a lovely confection, that movie. Enjoy it!!

(((billybugs)))

George Stephy has both Cokie Roberts *and* Nooners?

My teevee could explode.

The panel on Tweety’s frolics was celebrating the 35th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation by declaring he would be remembering for ‘opening China’, and never once mentioning Clinton’s prosperity but saying essentially that he’d be forgotten.

Richard Stengel declared 80% of Merkins like their health care. Gave no source.

A new low is rather fitting for the event we’re celebrating.

Gonna go watch the talking heads ,no WiFi in the TEEVEE room.

Catch ya all later !

Hi Marion.

Rich must be reading FDL, dya think.

If MofW is accurate about green shoots in Palestine, it much be time for Israel to make another provocative move to make sure THAT doesn’t continue.

Which is why I never watch the Sunday Morning Gasbags. I can’t afford to keep buying new TVs! The campaign debates were bad enough — fortunately I had enough rolled up socks to throw.

Enjoyed Slen confronting the caller, myself. And the lady earlier, going to Rep. Jackson’s town hall meeting and telling folks to come out and shout down the crazees.

it actually takes 24 months after qualifying for SSDI to qualify for Medicare.

I’m hearing wonderful things about it.

jayt – lolol!

later! billybugs

I wasn’t suggesting that the birthers and baggers represent a legitmate uprising of the American people. Of course they are nothing more than Republican/corporatist goon squads. I have the feeling that any healthcare “reform” no matter how ill considered or weak will be hailed by Obamaa as a victory for the American people when what it actually means is it’s a victory for big insurance and big pharma. Maybe for the Polyanna’s of the world this is the change they can believe in.

bits and pieces come out of that show but Tweety has a Clinton hangup to be sure

Here’s the Chain of Command:

Freedom Works = Dick Armey = Fox News = Glenn Beck & other right wingers with a national microphone to rally the buffoons!

AstroTurfing at it’s finest!

Elliot, the right wing of our country on cares about the life of…

Zygotes

Stem cells

104 year olds

Everyone in between can screw!

Good Morning Elliot and Firedogs,

grandma cbl called those pancakes – dutch babies

here is a quick and dirty version we’ve successfully executed in the past

pre heat oven to 400 deg

4 eggs
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. milk
1/2 tsp. salt
tsp vanilla
1/3 c. butter
Lemon juice
chopped up fruit of your choice (strawberries are good w/ the lemon)
Powdered sugar

Melt butter in 400 degree oven in large cast iron skillet (a casserole will do, but better with cast iron)

Combine eggs, milk, vanilla, flour and sugar in blender. Pour into skillet and bake in 400 degree oven 10 minutes. Lower temp to 350 for another 10 minutes. remove from oven and drop in the fruit if you’re using any

Serve with powdered sugar and lemon

Everyone in between can screw!

not exactly.

That’s almost identical to a recipe my mother used to make. They were delicious!

Oh Mitch McDouchebag, you little beady eyed weasel. You talking points are so tired and transparent. Go fuck yourself.

Not exactly? You mean some aren’t screwing another human being or that the republicans only screw over those who don’t have an “R” after their name?

lmao

Picking on the astroturfers indicates some weakness in the Democrats’ position – according to Mitch McConneell, that beady eyed weasel.

then drench in maple syrup

yumyumyum.

they certainly can’t enjoy it if they do.

Screwing in the good sense just isn’t condoned. Screwing over is okay. Elliott gotz it.

OMG, Pannekoekens! Was that a national chain, or unique to Svenska-land?

Betcha this doesn’t get anywhere near the coverage — much less the *respectful* coverage — given to her asinine lies about a “death panel”.

Aebleskiver!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86bleskiver

Paul Gigot is a hypocritical liar

you won’t get your knee replacement, you’ll have to go to the end of the line.

….thus making him a self-servicing candidate for KayInMaine’s “everyone in between can screw.”

When Mitch McConnell tries to claim these Town Hall protests just show how upset people are, it’s helpful to review this little Republican memo

daughter cbl tells of a chain w/ a S Calif location that serves them (The Pancake House ??)

marion in savannah – funny that, was thinking of you while looking for the recipe :D,

if we had a semi functioning media – someone somewhere would be talking about -

the Feds seizing the AK Medicaid program (250+ deaths)

or the starving delta villages (Emmonak) she ignored for months and months – many unable to make their subsistence on fish due to Palin-friendly policies w/ Big Fish – but it’s all ok, ’cause she and Franklin Graham eventually brought them home made cookies, repleat w/ bible verses

Ah, ha! So that’s want that is. I have one of those. Thanks.
A couple of Thanksgivings ago, we went camping and my husband baked corn bread in that pan on the fire. It worked well.

My first wife was of German descent and from State College Pennsylvania. She learned to make what she called ” oven pancakes ” from her mother. I recall from her recipe that she did not even mix it well, let alone use a blender. She made it in a large cast iron skillet, gave a couple good stirs with a fork and placed it in a cold oven that was then turned on to 400. It would rise up the sides of the skillet and was so wonderful to eat. I never could remember the recipe. Thanks so much for making it possible for me to recreate this dish. I don’t misss her but I sure miss the oven pancakes.

I need one of PW’s pans

Ah. I get it now! :-)

Conservatives rarely get negative press and when they do, they cry like babies!

Let’s lighten it up a bit! Here’s the The Funny Hillbilly Maine Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7tg9Glle0

LMAO! Those of you who like the Maine accent will especially love it. ;-)

He is; he went nuts during the Gore-Florida contest..he was irrational. Do ya’ think he likes how it all turned out? Like the torture crowd.