Quick wit, Brass Balls and the most perfect zing ever

This could be considered one of those "Tipping Point" moments looked through the Chaos theory lense. Recall that at this time HRC had a commanding lead in the polls, was ever so much annointed as to be the Democratic candidate, and this articulate, clean cut, colored fellow with little or no hope could not possibly pose a threat to the mighty Clinton Machine>

This zing should be remembered forever because it was one of the most perfect zings that I have ever witnessed - timing, tone, humor, and right to the bone: looking back on it now, now that it is really just a truth, is even more pleasing.

How Important Are Cousins?

Luckily, I had lots of cousins I got to know when I was growing up. Looking back now I realize what a positive evnergy that is. Mom and dad had many siblings each, all within reasonable proximity in age, and boy oh boy did they breed.

My sister and I were the only ones of either clan that lived in Santa Barbara, all the cousins were in Sacramento (my dads side) and Modesto / Santa Cruz (my moms side). We had several get togethers a year, both sides--a couple of times combined even.

I believe the strength of our relationships (primarily male and female) are based off of these rudimentery experiences within our own families. Like chords in a wire rope, we are connected but not technically bonded to eachother.

Then there is the ease in seeing our parents together. In my family, the laughter from the grown ups could have had something to do with their "homemade cigarettes" with twisted ends and weird odors.

Whatever it was we had pure, simple, old fashioned fun. Jumping into the river together, going to the summer fairs together, playing in the neighborhoods, eating great homemade foods, playing every game imaginable--(hide and go seek I think was my all time favorite.)

I believe one of the saddest things to grow up without, is cousins. We bond to them so easily---talk about each others parents, clearly we practice relationships with them, we trust them, want to conquer the world with them. Even though I am grown up and disconnected presently -- we will always be comfortable together no matter how long the separation.

I wish my children had what I had. Not one of my two brothers, or my sister have or will ever have any children. Monica's brothers are still years away from becoming fathers. seems like my three children will be old and gray damn near before they get any cousins. For us what helps substitute this is the third cousin thing ---not nearly as fun, but its working thanks only to Monica's large pool of cousins. Problem is -- her side does not party the way my family did when I was growing up. They are what I consider---"dry toast." The contrast in style urks me because it is oh so fucking boring when they have their family reunions and I'm dragged along. Yes some beer and wine -- but no spirit, no laughing from the bottom of the stomach---all theirs is from the neck ( weak!) But the kids ---they have a lot of fun.......so that is really what its all about.

A nice story backing up this claim can be found here from an Oprah Magazine article. it's a cache link --FYI.

2 Weeks later:

I am still almost in disbelief that Barrack Hussein Obama will be the 44th Presdient of the United States. The guy I have been pushing for since the day he announced his candidacy, won, and won handily.

I love this Country because this proves the system really works. Smart people are back in charge, and already proving the intrinsic abilities WE all knew he, and his team had.

And if you haven't seen the two most recent 60 minutes interview's - then you have to. You can see it here and here

These guys just pulled off one of the greatest campaigns in United States history. This punctuates and proves that this country is Progressive - the epitomy of liberal I might add, but also Conservative ---because Obama and his supporters are both, we have to be for the balance of order. I could never dream to define one person with just one word being either Liberal, or Conservative - for we all are both. The right temperment, thought structure, truthfullness, and realness of who he is, and their abilty to get that out to the public and that they will actually get it. If you think Joe the plumber was ordinary, then you're an idiot. Barrack Obama is the most ordinary of all, loving family man, sports enthusiast, and as brave as any American there ever was. What a real American Role Model for millions of kids growing up in America today.

I just really hope he does not pick Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.--But from what I've been reading, I think he is going to. BUT - I've trusted him this far---I have to believe he knows what he's doing. But to have Bubba back near the White House??? Thats an accident waiting to happen--I predict it to become a fact.

The Best Bond Ever:

I haven't been so excited to see a movie since, well the Dark Knight ironically because I see the same sway towards adult realism in both films--and it's about time. The franchises were getting cheesy---with Pierce Brosnan, debonaire -Yes, but not the lethal killer that Ian Flemming envisioned. That is not a problem with the Daniel Craig - buffed out, killing machine that really fell in love, got hurt, and is now on a rampage that I cannot wait to see how it turns out.

So tonight I am going to see Quantum of Solace and say "be damned" with the L.A. Times review - which sucked, and I will as I normally do, find out for myself.

I'll post the review later.

The Folgers Investment Theory:

I have a friend that does not put a large majority of his money into banks. The reason is not because he fears they will fail, its because he doesn't want the paper trail---get it? His side business is cash only and even though I would consider this enterprise completely non-dangerous, I empathize his desire not to let Uncle Sam get a piece of it. Through this low key but moderatly lucrative venture the past ten years or so, his investment strategy with all of his cash has been as follows (Year To Date Figures--Calendar Year 2008):

Buy a can of Folgers coffee, consume that coffee, place hard earned tax free cash into empty can and bury strategically throughout rented property.

Costs: One can of Folgers per month @ $12.89 per = $141.79
One Spade Point Shovel @ $34.00
Total Costs Year To Date = $ 175.79

Savings: Not needing coffee at Starbucks
(2 Venti per day X 5days per week @ $2.15 per)
Coffee Consumption savings year To Date = $946

Percent Difference (Folgers Costs and Savings) = 438%

So by not investing into the DOW Industrial (-37% YTD) he has created, a conservatively estimated by the way, positive 475% Rate of return Year To Date.

This of course is a minimum rate of return this year because it does not include added brokerage fees, vigs, hidden fees, front loads, back loads, and the mere fact that more folks than not lost a higher percentage than that of the DOW year to date (Such as my veteranarian friend who has lost 48% of his portfolio YTD, the one which he has steadily been building since 1988.) And by renting the property he lives in -he has not lost %30 percent of his home value this year either.

Guess which friend is ready to put $100k down on a house right now? Guess which friend is college educated? The smart one is the welder---realistically ahead over 500% YTD. And I think he's ready to write a book called : Folgers is cheaper than a brand new mattress-- how to be a super cheapskate tax evader and come out on top!

Missing him already!

My Veterans Day Off

So I had the day off thanks to the Holliday we call Veterans Day. How did I use it? I slept in, played video games with my kids, went golfing, ate at McDonalds, and watched a movie at home with my wife, then went to bed.

Do we ever pause to think why we are calling a day of the year "Veterans Day?" I think I did, and I can honestly say that in the back of my mind, subconsciously, the knowledge of the greatest of sacrafices peruses through my awareness but reality of the REAl Deal that goes on in war, that Real Veterans faced, lived and died -- that can never be fully appreciated unless you were in yourself.

So maybe this is the day that the veterans whom each personally withhold this kind of Real Knowledge of what the hoopla is all about from the rest of us, can kick back, go down to the Bar and have a few laughs, or go the Golf Course, or the Memorials and look each other in the eyes and accept this Holliday as their own--and be forever proud, because if not for them - I would never be able to sleep in, play video games with my kids, go golfing, eat at McDonalds, and watch a movie with my wife every 2nd Tuesday of November.

Thank You Veterans.

I think Trey Parker and Matt Stone are cool. Thats not gay is it?

Similarities: See the argument he was up against?

When Joe Pesci looks at Danny Glover and says "You Are...He is" I about pissed myself laughing.

Thats what makes it so sadly funny, but for us, the ones that get the joke, this victory makes me feel as happy as they were in the car laughing at that asshole from South Africa.

For the first time in my life....

I am really, really, super-duper, Proud Of My Country.

Now do you understand the context of what Michelle Obama was conveying when after the victory in Iowa, she saw that this country could actually be as open minded truly as Dr. King envisioned, and that this particular year -maybe Iowans are truly reflective of the country's desire with this candidacy?

This is the most patriotic moment in my adult life that I have yet, or possibly will ever experience. The kind that we now know, a majority of us have been waiting for.

But it could only come from the perfect confluence of the Right Stuff. These kind of people--the ones willing to sacrafice everything selflissly for the betterment of mankind takes (A.) a ton of hubris, but (B.) Perfect personal awarenesss. That he actaully convinced himself that he is the only person right now best fit for this job. You know, the easy job of being President of the United States of America.
Obviously convincing the rest of the country was much more difficult a task to be decided.

Gary Larsen Moment

Remember that Gary Larson cartoon, a ship is sinking stern first, a couple of life rafts with the captain and the crew are rowing away from the ship? On the bow of the ship is a man wearing a chef's hat thinking to himself "I wonder if that's really true...The cook always goes down with the ship?"

Can't you see John McCain, Cindy McCain, Rudy Gulianni, Mitt Romney in the row boat, but as the boat is sinking it is not a man wearing the chefs hat, but a woman......that would be Sarah Palin, and her sous chef is Mr. Steve Schmidt.

Ain't that the truth~

I love metaphors

Mel Blanc can see the future:

Cast:

Barrack Obama as "The Roadrunner"

John McCain as "Wile E. Coyote (Genius)"

Sarah Palin as the "Acme Rocket"

Why Do Republicans Divorce More Often Than Democrats?

con⋅serv⋅a⋅tive
   /kənˈsɜrvətɪv/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv] Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness: conservative suit.


lib⋅er⋅al
   /ˈlɪbərəl, ˈlɪbrəl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [lib-er-uhl, lib-ruhl] Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective

1. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.


Meaning, these folks --being the most famous of recent democrats are "not traditional" in marriage unlike the more "traditional" conservatives.

I would be curious to see a comparison list of " ideological famous" solid marriages and contrasting divorcee's.

My hunch is that registered Conservative Republicans do indeed divorce at a higher rate------But I really can't back that theory up.

Anyone willing to help find out?

Oh Yeah--- Happy Anniversary My Love: 12 years and still strong!

Marry Poppins aint got shit on this

You be the judges.....how cool is this?.

Real(?)Sidewalk art by Julian Beever

My take = to good to be real---photoshop?

The Birth Certificate

The latest conspiracy is that the real birth certificate was "forged" and that he was born out of country, like Kenya. It never ends.

But Big_Red_Dog detectives have found it, and HERE IT IS.

One Heatbeat Away--!

The future next president (Oh My God!)

courtesy Mr. Sullivan

The horseshit Iacocca Email -

GOP_ers are now spreading around this trash email:

Dave CastilloAsterisk26814 Vista TerraceLake Forest, Ca. 92630t: 949.609.0089 x 102f: 949.609.0088www.asterisk.com

You gotta read this. Lee really sums up all that's hosed in America. Where's the Leadership in this country?

Subject: Lee Iacocca: he's back and he is mad The two party system????

Remember Lee Iacocca, the VP at Ford credited with the birth of the Mustang, the man who rescued Chrysler, Corporation from their death throes, and the owner of the famous quote 'Lead, follow, or get out of the way'? Well, he's back! He has a new book, and here are some excerpts.

Lee Iacocca writes:

'Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happen ing? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course'

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned 'Titanic' I'll give you a sound bite: 'Throw all the bums out!'

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.

The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the ' America ' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?

I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.

The Biggest 'C' is Crisis !

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down. George Bush, Dick Chaney and who is this Bozo coming up next? One of the most Liberal Idiots in the U. S. Senate and he is talking about disarming America . I can't believe the American people are seeing what he is about to do to this country. May God have mercy on us all. (bold is mine)

On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A Hell of a Mess. So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great Companies are all moving offshore. We're getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are the worst in the world. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed ! every which way. These are times that cry o ut for leadership an d we are getting ready to put the most Liberal Senator in the U. S. Senate in as our next President because we want to be fair and elect someone just because of his race. We don't have time t o be fair, we need a strong leader. (bold is mine)

But when you look around, you've got to ask: 'Where have all the leaders gone?' Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I hope you get the point.

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo ? We've spent billion s of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm. Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Well guess what people? We are having more floods right now. What are we doing to help these people out. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time. Why are we allowing people to build in flood plains anyway? If you build in a flood area, expect to be flooded and deal with it. Don't expect the Government to bail you out.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. All they seem to be thinking now-days is getting themselves bigger salaries and bonuses. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when 'The Big Three' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this ! happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it? likely nothing!

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the gang in Congress and the Senate. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Gi ve me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change? I honestly don't think any of you have one!

Had Enough?

Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope; I believe in America ... In my lifetime I've had the privilege of living through some of America's greatest moments I've also experienced some of our worst crises: the 'Great Depression', 'World War II', the 'Korean War', the 'Kennedy Assassination', the 'Vietnam War', the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I've learned one thing, it's this:

'You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a call to 'Action' for people who, like me, believe in America . It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the crap and go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had 'enough.'

Make a 'real contribution' by sending this to everyone you know and care about......our future is at stake!"



My email to Andrew Sullivan about this


My response to an email sent by a local staunch Republican. We have pleasant discourse, good debate---thanks to your blog I can easily hold my own and actually dominate in several areas. He ivented a knee brace patent and is very, very successful.

--- On Sun, 10/26/08, clifford replogle wrote:

From: clifford replogle
Subject: Re: Fwd: Lee Iacocca: he's back and he is mad!!!
To: carbonjc@aol.com
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 12:19 PM

Jim---you have to start verifying the true sources of this trash email crap you take as fact. Something was weird about this email the minute I read it just because of the font, the style and the look of it.

99% of it reads as verifiable from other sources such as;

this one .

And here ..

and >here ..

but the part where he says "George Bush, Dick Chaney and who is this Bozo coming up next? One of the most Liberal Idiots in the U. S. Senate and he is talking about disarming America . I can't believe the American people are seeing what he is about to do to this country. May God have mercy on us all."

and this part ...

"The middle class is being squeezed ! every which way. These are times that cry o ut for leadership an d we are getting ready to put the most Liberal Senator in the U. S. Senate in as our next President because we want to be fair and elect someone just because of his race. We don't have time t o be fair, we need a strong leader.

is not verifiable that he truly said this anywhere that I can find on the internet right now.

Show me the book, journal, mag, newspaper or whatever source this came from then I'll be lieve he said ALL of this. But the part that is verifiable---he is really right about. But this email is embarassing.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???

Face of the day

Obama's grandfather.

Nerdy Bloggers

I learned something today, as Stan would say to Kyle on South Park:

My friend Brian who is greatly delusional - but kind of smart -almost taught me how to write in hyperlink---which up to this point is something I usually just copied.

Here we go, test....1....2

Brian has a way that is funny...whatever

LOL!..

A Real American Hero

He was fourteen when 9/11 happened. He waited 4 years so he could serve our country.

He died serving our country.

He is a real hero---and he was a Muslim

The story of the photo of Khan's mother that so moved Powell can be seen here.

Them Damn Millennials --- A call to arms.

GenX vs. Millenials.

The power is still in the hands of the Boomers and it is well documented on how much they hate us GenXers. For some reason they are absolutely smitten with this young generation. I believe it is their intent to hold power as long as possible so as to give us one final smackdown, and pick up that little multi tasking twerp for the promotion instead of us?

Well........ I got something to say;

We were a generation completely on our own while our parents were snorting blow, fucking all the neighbors, shopping at the Galleria, then getting divorced at a rate unseen in American History.

Ever see 'Breakfast Club -- John Bender's Fuck YOU DAD bit?'----We are the Mount Fucking Everest of contempt, and we earned the power we pried from those cold Boomer hands.

"Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk. You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful. Shut up bitch. Go fix me a turkey pot pie. No dad, what about you? Fuck you. No dad, what about you? Fuck you. Dad, what about you? Fuck you!"

Are you starting to get the point my little millennial twerps (Nice Wand!)-"Don't yell at me's" ? Do you all really think you can circumvent us with your smug single serving platitude's and so called technological superiority? Don't forget who put the world on the doorstep to every single living being on earth and who made the term "distance" irrelevant. Will that be something our work was given in vain for? Do not underestimate us. We are exactly as Robert writes about in this article --------We are just the opposite of how the Boomers perceive us, we are Anti-Slackers, if anything out of sheer spite:

We are the well honed brazen survivors of things much worse than a burst of a "dot com bubble."

(think Reagan, Cold War, HIV, Apartheid, Glam Rock)

Our machetes have cleared a path to Paradise City - you think we will let you in without paying the tax?? NOT! Oh My God! AS IF?? GAG ME!

Check out the article. It is a masterpiece - and a wake up call.

A 'Star' , a 'Fraud' and a 'P.O.S.'

We now find out he's No ordinary Joe.

This is how well McCain vetted Palin too.

This just ain't right-----Saran needs a good home---please Help.

removed

This is just SICK

The latest flier from the Virginia GOP.

How anyone can be proud to be a Republican with this bile mentality is beyond me.

Notice the "Not Flinch" tie in to Palins response to Charlie Gibsons question on her decision to accept the offer by McCain ( her first of only two interviews allowed?)

Told You So -- MEET JOE!

Holy Shit! Joe is Real!

Joe The Plumber: Obama Tax Plan 'Infuriates Me'...

He fits my mental picture almost to perfection. Big, Bald, and I would assume very intimidating when wearing the wife beater with greasy spaghetti stains, holding a Schlitz malt liquor complaining about them damn immigrants that work for his competitor forcing him to only make 20% profit on bid jobs instead of 30%.

This is possibly JOE THE PLUMBER'S ELECTION.... I hope not.

P.S> By the way, when you read the fine print on these stories --He's already made enough money to be able to buy a plumbing business that supposedly makes OVER $250 K, and Obama's plan which will increase those taxes a mear 3% is the reason why he won't buy into the business??? COME ON! I smell a JOE! 3% on $250 k is $7,500.00 WOW!~ Looks like Joe is going to have switch from Schlitz to Keystone then!

Joe the Plumber will be a STAR! MARK MY WORDS!

If anything out of tonight's debate will become fodder for tomorrows news cycle it has to be the mysterious fellow we learned of tonight named "Joe The Plumber." We all know that guy right? I think of the traditional guy - wife beater on, beer gut, white ass crack apparent and in view. I know "Wade" and "Jack" each plumbers but not working the same on name connection---Joe just sounds fat I'd say.

In all truth, what the hell is this except another weak ass attempt by politicians to try and relate to us here on that other place referred as "Main Street" which is so fucking IRONIC because I actually live on Main Street!--------586 to be exact, Los Alamos, CA!

You've heard the lines say for the bailout----Not Just To Help Wall Street, but Main Street Too! So when the bailout occured last Saturday--- on Monday I ran out to see if help had arrived yet, nope- Tuesday? -- Nope, to my dismay it still hasn't arrived. But it will - because "they" said it will (sic.)

The question becomes --- who is the least full of shit? And the answer undoubtedly becomes clear , coupled with a moderate attempt to learn about and perhaps "Google" the lives of each candidate then to discover that one was raised by a single female parent and grandparents - who bounced around a bit - who put himself through school and achieved everything by himself without the aid of family, or connection, or name --UNLIKE -the other that is best summarized by this much-talked-about Tim Dickinson piece in Rolling Stone.

My post http://bigxredxdog.blogspot.com/2008/10/hes-spoiled-brat.html reflects a sample of this brattish shit as well.

This stuff matters --- its about our kids, and their kids and so on and so on. We have to get the keys back to this country, and we have to get this one right this time!-----Old People and STUPID PEOPLE Are FUCKING UP our Country!

In the words of the immortal Van Halen this has to be done --- RIGHT FUCKING NOW.!

FREE THIS MAN

Levi Johnston who is Bristol Palin’s baby daddy has some pictures that leaked.Levi Johnston is 17 years of age and loves to play hockey at the Burchell High School in Wasilla, Alaska.Levi Johnston is set to marry the Republican VP pick’s daughter, although his MySpace page says an entirely different story.His page read -- (before the McCain Campaign took the page down.)

“I’m a fuckin’ redneck who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes. But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some shit and just fuckin’ chillin’ I guess. Ya fuck with me I’ll kick ass.”

Levi Johnston-Bristol Palin wedding may not happen,because Levi says this of himself:

“in a relationship.”"I don’t want kids.” wants to use MySpace “for networking or for dating.” “Love kids, but not for me.”

LET THE MAN LIVE!

The Trojan Rabbit Strikes Again! -

A John Cleese masterpiece! From the great 'Sir Lancelot' on one of the greatest buffoons in America today:


Ode to Sean Hannity
________________
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

The War On ----MAYO??

This is a source of HUGE fights between Monica and I when cooking together in the restaurant. I was never against mayo growing up but definitely not the advocate that I am for it today.

Because I have such a curious mind about food nowadays I had no idea how simple and awesome this concoction is so I have hence become a loyal Pro Mayo convert. It's been about four years now that I've been a member of the PM party from an independent.

Monica remains the Anti-Mayo loyalist based only out of what she calls "yuckiness." Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? - that's all she can say in its defence -- is that it's ....errr "yucky?" She's obviously been taught to hate this - mayo racists come typically from white American, blue collar families smeared throughout the United States. I think she's been a member of the AM party all of her life.

Now when you look at the recipe posted below -- Please tell me how this wonderful french created sauce is yucky? The ingredients to make it are far from foreign to almost any ones diet? It moistens the bread with savory subtle flavor, it provides as an instant dipping sauce for artichokes, blanched vegetables and is the base rudiment to lots of other sauces and dressings (Chipotle Mayo, Ranch, 1000 island Dressing, tartar, etc, etc.)

Maybe Monica should read my blog?

So why do people fervently abhor MAYO? If the only reason is calories, then I don't know what to tell you except maybe exercise more instead. FREE YOUR MIND!

We've damn near divorced over this---I'm serious

__________________________________________________________________

Here’s the recipe adapted from Charcuterie.

1 large organic egg yolk

1/2 teaspoon/5 grams salt

1 teaspoon/5 milliliters water

1 teaspoon/5 milliliters lemon juice (or 2 for a lemony mayo)

1 cup/250 milliliters vegetable oil

Combine yolks salt, water and lemon juice in a 2.5 quart bowl. Fold a hand towel into a ring on the counter and set the bowl in this ring to hold it steady while you whisk. Using a sauce or balloon whip (whisk), stir the ingredients together.

Add the oil slowly while whisking vigorously. It helps to measure out your oil into a cup that pours well in a wire-this stream; alternately you can start your emulsion by drizzling the oil off a spoon, then pouring the oil after the emulsion has begun.

Add a few drops of oil as you begin to whisk; when the emulsion becomes creamy, you may increase the speed with which you add the oil to a thin stream.

From the beginning the mixture should be thick enough to hold its shape and look luxuriously creamy. Add the oil too quickly and it will break, that is, it will turn soupy. When all the oil is incorporated add remaining lemon juice to taste. If the mayonnaise is too thick, it can be thinned by whisking in a little water.

If it breaks, put a teaspoon of water in a clean bowl and start the process over by dribbling in the broken mayonnaise while whisking.

____________________________________________________________________

Bon Appetite! Please let me know what party you fall under, or if independent + undecided.

Clifford

He's a spoiled brat

Read the article linked below, then tell me how is John McCain defined as a War Hero when as a POW he admits to providing military information in trade for medical treatment, made radio broadcasts for the communists, met with communist foreign delegations - North Vietnamese and Cubans, and when other American Soldiers who did much less were charged with Treason, penalty by death, by the U.S. Government?

Luck of the Admiral perhaps? Must Reading for those who want to know.



http://www.usvetdsp.com/smith_mc.htm



Real War heros are difficult to interview -- You Know Why?



Because they are DEAD/

"Say it to my face"- Quote For The Day.

"All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on YouTube … John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him ... In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him." - Joe Biden.

'Those People' are getting rich.

These videos (at the end of this post), to me, are extremely disturbing for a couple of reasons.

1.) The tone - its angry, negative, unproductive akin to hateful.
2.) I notice that the source of the ignorance is strongly ahold of the host body, I sense Saramans hold over King Theoden of Rohan in Lord of The Rings, or like a Sith Lord would do. It reeks of mind control.

I don't care how people vote in this election -- I know my candidate is going to win :) ----what I do care about is the divisive way we are being culled towards one team, or another i.e. Republicans vs. Democrats...or Liberals vs. Conservatives. Really, what all of this represents is that Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and all of THOSE people on television, print, and radio are the first ones to sing the talking points (derived from who knows where----Party Headquarters I guess) and then amusingly watch to have it played back to anyone on the other side (just like on these videos) over, and over, and over, and they believe it without actually knowing what the hell they are saying. They look and sound like morons. And guess what?- A shit pot of money is being made by those that control their minds and that is why they are doing it! They are stirring our emotions, are hopes, and fears nuanced with some glamour and fiction not for our own damn good, but theirs. Kind of like the way radical Islamists convince young men and women to believe in their cause.

These videos make me believe this mind control schtick evermore so. Notice none of these people have anything intelligent, thoughtful, or half way factual to say? Its all regurgitated trash they here from T.V., Radio, Klan meetings, or Reich stag cocktail parties.

Americans should be better than this, but even Lady Liberty will always have protection for folk like them. And maybe that's a good thing and overall -actually OK?

But this is just almost comical; in a tragic kind of way.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/hes-got-the-blo.html

This one is even more amazing, and sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us

"Commie Faggots,"" terrorists," "its in the blood lines" - real thoughtful ---A bunch of Carp they are.

Eddie! Eddie!, EDDIE!

Prior to just a few months ago, for McCain - I've never really succumbed to buying into the "too old" bit ----------until;

1.) He lost track of the number of his humble abodes.

2.) He picked Betty Boob as his running mate.

3.) He went before the camera tonight- and I could only think, "What an Old Coot?"

We've all seen the famous before and after pics of how the years being the President of the United States wears on your outer appearence. McCain four, or more hoorific, 8 years from now yuck!!

I remember that hideous heavy metal mascot "Eddie" from Iron Maiden and I just can't get the connection out of my head!

Bill Clinton looked like Paul Newman at first, then came out looking like Carl Malden. George Dub significant change into an Old Alfred E. Newman. Believe me - McCain I am convinced will turn into Eddie right before our eyes!.

A hero is a myth - O.J. Simpson is not a myth.

O.J. was a childhood hero to me. I read the childrens book about how he overcame a weak bone structure in his legs, overcame poverty, went to San Francisco state the same year my dad did - and to become one of the greatest running backs of all time.

I wore his number proudly, and I played football believing I could run like O.J. Delusional as I was it gave me confidence - sure, but he was really special. I never understood race tension which is probably why I don't see it with our next president. I came from a home and an area and an age that didn't ever really hold on to that crap. O.J. Simpson was the real deal, and inspiration for untold numbers of young kids, adults, whites, blacks, greens---whatever!

Can you imagine screwing up your life any worse than the way this supposed Hero did?

Can you imagine how much weight is pressing in his mind?

Why he hasn't fallen on his own sword by now is a testament to the kind of man he really is. No sense of what real honor is. I am ashamed - but now that I'm older - I am so not surprised.

Know Hope!

Joes Garage is in my neighborhood.

What makes me laugh at Dennis Miller for supporting Sarah Palin is that he respects her for being such an ordinary person---you know that normal person, the Joe Sixpack person, the person he thinks of as "down home." Is he reading a fucking fiction novel or something? Do you think he can really relate to that person himself? I am not sure how that can be likely since I kinda know where he lives and I may go out on a limb with this, but his callers from Kentucky, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois don't know that this guy is far removed from the daily life struggles you and I are succumbed to -that his words of empathy can hold no value.

Actually, I am absolutely sick of all of these elite dicks like Limbaugh, Peggy Noonan, Charles Brooks, and especially ----ooohhh the name alone makes my skin crawl---Sean Hannity (RAAAALLLPHHHH!)- WHOM are even allowed to talk and write about the "connection" Sarah Palin has with the constituents she intends to represent. All of these fuckers live in exclusive homes in the most exclusive neighborhoods and they write and talk to us in some kind of "understanding" of this magical reason for the respect and love for a person like Palin and McCain? ----ehrrr Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???.

You see I know the neighborhood that Millers crib lies and it is some of the most exclusive real estate in the world----get that, ...........this entire fucking planet. A small sample of the "down home" folk that reside in Montecito, CA - just to name a few:

Oprah Winfrey
Jeff Bridges
Carol Burnett
Andrew Davis
Kirk Douglass
Danny Elfman
Tab Hunter
Christopher Lloyd
Rob Lowe
Carl Malden
Steve Martin
Ivan Reitman
Alan Thicke
Haskell Wexler
Johnathan Winters
Robert Zemeckis
T.C. Boyle
Julia Childs (R.I.P)
Ann Francis
Brad Hall
John Cleese
Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Kenny Loggins
Sander Vanocur

And you know what? ---This is also the list of the Sunday morning menudo club down at Litos on Haley street, you know, just regular down home folk like in the books that some people read and hear about. For people like Miller, and Noonan as they attempt to know Sarah Palin what they're saying is, - to know people like me and my neighbors, but in reality this is like for them trying to know Huckleberry Finn. They may have once been here on "my street" - I don't really know their whole stories from the beginning, but now, they are so far removed from reality and what really goes on here on "my street" it is impossible for them to connect to my life what so ever, I imagine its the same for my neighboor who just stuck in his bitchen little "McCain / Palin" yard sign.

As for Palin, little Ms. mansion on the lake with all kinds of play toys, and state per diems paying for everything -- that's not very connected either, and Mr. McCain with that humble military upbringing as a son to a second generation Admiral -- that's not very connected either. When I see Obama and Biden I see humility -- when I see McCain and Palin I see Officers Club Only.

I get so sick of people in positions of persuasion -- that feed the dumb goldfish of this country with all this "I can relate to you" ---"I'm just like you too" crap and for them to actually buy into it - and don't even get me started on the carp that feed in Hannity's sewer pond - makes me so fucking angry at the magnitude of the number of the fish that are taking the bait --still, in 2008---in this age of information, they are still believing the shit they are being told.

Wake the fuck up America---do what Neo did and swallow the red pill. If only Frank Zappa were still alive-------I would love to hear the treasure trove of lyrical humored sickness he could create with this material. If anyone could point out this lame shtick the best it would be the author of "The Slime. " If God exists-- God Bless Frank Zappa, and God Bless Joe's Garage.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+zappa/im+the+slime_20057165.html

An Ode to Old Days

Goodbye Old Days. I will miss you. I will miss the drunken ranting I instilled upon my passed out and exhausted party pooping friend Mr. Greg Shalhoob, whom can no longer run with me the big dog like he used to, and whom I caught sneak eating a pack of doughnuts at a late hour of night.

Goodbye and farewell until 26 fortnight pass we shall fiesta again--and that will come soon enough for time does indeed keep slippin-slippin - slippin into the future.

Merry days, social order- lots of food, kids, dance and drink. Life is SOOOOO GOOOOD :)

Old Fart vs. Old Fuck

Facts: 14 of 43 Vice Presidents have gone on to be president. That's 33 % ---- 1 out of 3. Also -- from a study of people age 71 conducted by this medical article -

http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/summary/148/6/427?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=prevalence+of+cognitive+impairment&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

Of both samples (1700 for one, and 856 for another) they each concluded that 22% were shown to have cognitive impairment without dementia. Repeat it again -- Cognitive Impairment

Cognitive: the mental process or faculty of knowing (fundamentals of the economy are strong,) including aspects such as awareness ( how many houses he owns,) perception (offering a gas tax Holiday,) reasoning (Keating,) and judgement (Sarah Palin???)

Impair(ment): To cause to diminish, as in strength or quality (such as bowel control.)

So in conclusion we have by itself a 1 in 3 chance that Sarah Palin will become the next president of the United States of America - not including the added almost 1 in 4 chance that McCain at his current age is unknowingly besieged by cognitive impairment without dementia, plus the really unknown chance of the melanoma coming back to life ---- I would really want to know how a Vegas Handicapper (no pun intended) would lay the odds on Palin becoming POTUS within the first four years of a McCain term. My rough calcs come up to a 1 in 2 chance.

Another great Carlin Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMcR2OoO4o

Freedom Fighters?

A great point---

http://www.theagitator.com/2008/09/28/mccains-revealing-debate-mistake/

Does McCain want to expalin what he would have done different when the Soviets left Afghanastan -- be more elaborate with "the mistake correction."

Latenight Watch

Its late....watching Colbert Report. I liked it tonight , at least the first fifteen minutes...... It was extra crisp-really funny.

Thumbin through---not much else, gave Fox News a try - channel 360 on the Direct TV. Sean Hannity is such a dildo---and Allan Comes - (is that right? doesn't look right---Allan Cums--icky). Thumbed over to MSNBC---looks like they gave the little dike a show - not that there's anything wrong with that=====Her name is Rachael Maddow, and you know what? Its really good----watched her torpedo talking point mumbo jumbo outta the water -- basically she pointed out that for 3 days last week, drama queen McClame and his lead surogates were spewing how leaderly like he was for dumping his campaign for a day (allegedly) to get the "Crisis Resolved." What a bunch of maroons as Bugs would say. Look what happened today-- what a disaster this McCain campaign is, and what a disaster ALL of congress is.

--Oh watched Pittsburgh win earlier---Good Game.

4-0 in fantasy football this year: Kurt Warner'z da man!

Dennis Millers Head-- A bit thin, still.

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

The Good Times -

In our little town called Los Alamos, California population 1,400- the last weekend in September, for the past 62 years, we celebrate our community and call it simply "Old Days." There is nothing more American than a weekend like this, putting together in one weekend the most mirrored representation of who we are. Los Alamos, in the heart of Santa Barbara County, is primarily an agriculture and ranching based economy, the wine industry is huge, but over the past 20 years it has evolved into a bedroom community with the larger cities of Santa Barbara and Santa Maria providing the bulk of the jobs making for longer commutes---in other words, we don't see each other all that often. Weekends like this make up for that lost time, and we have a a lot of fun. It's a nweekend to unplug, to not talk politics, to watch the kids run amok, and to dance, drink and laugh after a years worth of hard work. Towns across America have festivals like this, and this commonality, if anything, brings us Americans closer together than ever.

Old Days are here again

What a day! Old Days festival here in our little quaint town of Los Alamos. Lots of pictures to upload, and stories to tell. ......I'm predicting a hangover tomorrow :)

Dennis Millers Head - a little thin.

Part 1:

Sarah Palin is not fit to be president of the United States, Dennis Miller is adamantly supporting the notion that she is. I asked him on his radio program today to look me in the eye (pretend please!!), to not blink, and say that she is fit to president of the United States of America. He did it and he got offended. I am not calling to be smug, mocking, or condescending. I am a recently registered Democrat, truly I consider myself as a Reagan disciple. I am an independent really-- voted Bush in 00 (okay?). He quickly regurged some boilerplate Repub talking points that sounded so old---so stale, yet spoken in vigor, I realized this struck a manic chord. The argument I have is that I am getting a sense of Partisanitice out of Dennis, begging the extreme--if you take all arguments to one, that, If Jack the Ripper were running under the Elephant banner, I get the impression that Miller would be persuaded to pull the lever - provided a twisted "smart argument" called for it, and he was still a person employed in the Entertainment Business.

I am not sorry to not have quickly belted out canned talking point snippets rebutting the conversation, I wanted to avoid diatribe, and I believe I did. I do know she is out of her league, he doesn't - fair enough. I would have liked to have mentioned that she should have never said yes to this, and that McCain is an absolute Jackass with his goliath sized blunders, this choice being the largest- in my "one voice - one person" judgment, and the evidence behind this judgment is easily presented, collected, and regurgitated by way of a modern day tool known as Google. Oh -- and Mr. Miller, in all due respect - I thank you for the opportunity to be on your program and have the chance to talk to you. If, in the future we "fence" again - I will bring a more combative game--- I didn't realize that you wanted your contention a bit more fistacuffish?

Just fucking do it ALREADY!

You know the feeling---the feeling is heavy, stomach twisting, vortexish, and lonely. The moment before a major financial decision---Jupiters gravity of sorts - knowing "once I sign this....I'm on the hook" under it's terms that I think I understand, ......I'm pretty sure I understand, but wait..."whats an impound account again"...and "what's this thing called PMI??" How come the fees seem so much?----Then you sign. Fuck it---its done......I own a house now, thats what I want, thats what I got.

My advice to Congress-----Just sign the goddamn thing. Don't try to be so smart by half? Fuck Newt and his Doctorate in Political Science. If Newts so goddamn smart why is he known as the "former" congressman?? Bill whooped his ass, and he can't get over it. Sign onto the plan, get it over with------I trust Michael Bloomberg for some goddamn reason--so should you.

Hypocrisy is everywhere!

A recent blurtation from our local Republican hack a.m. radio host - Andy Caldwell at 1440 KUHL am radio located in San Manure, California....er - Santa Maria, California- had a senile persnickity old codger on that you can tell Andy loves to sit round the fire with and be told nightime stories, his name I recall being Richard Somethingorother, who had the gall to be upset with last weeks Saturday Night Live Skit that basically claimed that Todd Palin is the GrandpaUncle Daddy to all the alin kids.

Mock outrage is as obvious as Jess Ownes at the Nazi Olymics. Was it not just a few short months ago that the cover of the New Yorker painted a rather radical slant to the perception of the stupid people? Is satire truly dead in this world of correctness? Fuck No it isn't!! This stuff is funny, period, bottom line. I do not care if you think its not--I do, and thats what matters. Some people still think jokes that have the N- word in them are funny. You can count me out of that group----I don't like the word, never did, never will - doesn't mean other people should never use it---it is just a word afterall, but the ferocity of its enunciation is too much for my taste.

Anyways -and in all seriousness - we heard Mount Limbaugh repeatedly giggle and laugh at the hoopla surrounding those all to fake outrage soundbites when the New Yorker first came out with it, and you know what? He is right ---If you are stupid enough to believe that a flag burning in the fireplace, with homage to the portrait of Osama Bin on the wall, with a militant fro'd Knuckle Jammin BIATCH at his side is who we are really electing, and not see it as a salient capture of ridiculous - then I just don't know how you can be cured of the plague I call Partisanitice, that has swept through our country over the past 25 years, basically since Mt. Limbaugh rose from the sea floor with all of his abhorrent algae infused barnacles, and the second and third heads popping out of his back in the likeness of What a ham Hannity, and I hate myself Ann Coulter.

The Sarah Palin story is a joke in itself, but the point of the skit- and a lesson of hard nosed politics is say anything you want and let the sons of bitches prove it wrong. Well----I can safely conclude that I really do not believe that Todd Palin is the father of his soon to be grandchild -- But I cant be 100% sure about that Now Can I?