Search
Archive Calendar
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
Archives
Categories
- A Government That Can Force You to Buy Health Insurance Can Make You Do Anything (3)
- a protein wisdom philosophy primer (3)
- academics (25)
- armadillo (8)
- Friday Fiction 100 Word Challenge (51)
- from the protein wisdom conceptual series (136)
- identity politics (33)
- If Republicans Win the Senate in 2014 (1)
- in which celebraties comment on current events (67)
- language / intentionalism (88)
- legal (6)
- My brief conversations with inanimate objects (130)
- NSA / FISA (46)
- One Term to Serve, the 2012 Revival (6)
- Overheard in a Fallujah bunker (27)
- Poems from 196x, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brauti (27)
- protein wisdom's DNC coverage (30)
- protein wisdom's RNC coverage (29)
- protein wisdom: the movie Lists (20)
- Provocateurism (16)
- real-time empirical observations (51)
- red pills found behind the sofa cushions (42)
- Scenes from my driveway (61)
- Talking back to 80s music (41)
- The Martha Stewart Chronicles (58)
- The protein wisdom interviews (10)
- The protein wisdom original poems (142)
- Uncategorized (20,046)
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, abridged (34)
Recent Comments
- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
- Danger on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
- Danger on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
- In The Mailbox: 07.18.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
lame. Our servicepeople voted overwhelmingly against Baracky and Baracky is scared and wants a cooling off period I think and also he wants a scapegoat in place for when whatever Biden was blithering about goes down. Baracky is too much a simpering whore to lead armies and stuff so he probably just doesn’t know what to do exactly. It’s a non-decision not a decision.
I thought it might be due to the O-bar awakening or something.
This is what’s really going on….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvutHx1H2p0
I know it’s a totally off topic but Sowell says his next book is going to be about intellectuals. Maybe he’ll have a chapter about their use of the ‘old “nuance”.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/25 @ 6:24 pm #
I thought it might be due to the O-bar awakening or something.
That’s awesome.
Do we like Vladimir? I think he’s senseless a little.
That video was a lot off-putting.
oh. I thought Jeff was the intellectual what used the ‘old “nuance” is what you were saying. I think I misunderstood. I’m just grumpy cause I made lame cookies and ate them except two and wish I hadn’t and Gabriel was stupid which is disappointing cause he’s usually smart and Brock was tiresome. That video was still kind of off-putting though.
Do we like Vladimir?
He seemed to dig my O-bar thing. So that could be a strike against him maybe?
Speaking of which, I was in Waterford, Michigan last week and there’s a MayBee Street. Made me sad.
grumpyfeet
catchy
I miss MayBee and now I fear buttons has forsaken us. I decided Vlad liked the O-bar so he’s okay in my book. I still don’t really get his first comment though.
nonono … grumpy is my nemesis.
You’ve got a nemesis?
I hear that takes years.
I’ve been predicting that he’ll move to the center, since it’s the center that elected. He only needed the left for the nomination.
elected HIM
Wait until he sends Bolton back to the UN.
It says it’s just for a year though gail. That doesn’t add up to committed centrist really I don’t think and he’s not a centrist so that makes it sort of not a great theory. ok. um. see my comment #7. I think my nemesis is winning the day.
Wait until he sends Bolton back to the UN.
I’m not sure Voinovich’s tear ducts could take it.
“#
Comment by alppuccino on 11/25 @ 6:46 pm #
You’ve got a nemesis?
I hear that takes years.”
Heck, no, you can order them through Amazon now.
Wait until he sends Bolton back to the UN.
In both our dreams.
And Rumsfeld back to the Pentagon, SI?
So much for hope and change.
So. To Lisa and the rest. Don’t say you weren’t warned. The Whitehouse has become city hall.
nutroot heads start exploding in…5…4…3…2…
Well, Change is done.
When does he kill Hope?
Try this. Barack Obama is a politician, and he will do what his current position dictates. At a university he was left, in a left district he was anti-war.
Or to be crass, he will use up allies to get himself to the next level. Prof. Ayers? Do not expect any love from an Obama DoJ if you do something to cross a legal line. You got him here, and you really aren’t any use to him at all now, are you?
Be sure to see Iowahawk’s news item of O bringing in Bill Clinton to be the actual president, to go along with all the recycled Clintonistas.
All these acts draw laughs from alot of people here, no disrespect but they make me cringe. You can deal with a man that operates by principles. If he acts a certain way or says something then you can (fight,act,defend,agree,disagree,cooperate,) do what you do. Against an unprincipled man you have no defense other than total defense or total offense. Regardless of that this is our President now. This lying shit has to stop at some time. I mean WTF is he going to say in Russia and not say here?
PS I agree with Happy’s first statement. I am beginning to think he will keep some Bush defense appt.’s on to blame for the war. Fuck this guy.
Happy,
If you need to measure a cup of shortening, take a 2-cup measure, put a cup of water in it. Add shortening until the water is at the 2-cup level.
Dump the water out and put the shortening into the mix.
Not complicated. Just physics.
Cheers!
Chris
Gates is an interesting character. Think: Horatio at Trafalgar. Leonidas at Thermopylae. That’s his personality type. He’s an American and a capital “P” Patriot, first. All else second. If he’s staying on, it’s only because he thinks he can do some good …or at least limit the damage in some way. He may have a few ‘strategies and tactics’ of his own that he has to finish setting in place, too.
Chris… that’s genius. That. Is. Freaking. Genius. I’m kind of excited to try again now.
Also happyfeet, these look good for measuring stuff like crisco and other gloppy (or not so gloppy too) ingredients. It works sort of like a hypodermic, fill it up to you mark and then squeeze the stuff out, pretty much gets it all.
bookmarked. That looks very smart. I’ll at least have another go at the persimmon ones later in the week. Go from there. It’ll eventually bug me not to use up all the crisco. I probably didn’t need the enormous tub thinger and I think the stick ones are measured out to what I needed, so that was a dumb mistake right there. And it’s fun to maybe actually learn something totally new. You guys helped probably more than you know. It’s hard to find people as kitchen clueless as I am.
*waves*
hah. I was fascinated by the crisco by the way. That’s very odd stuff. Not natural I don’t think. It’s weird to have been eating that for years and years basically and bam there it is with that weird alien textureyness and if it’s that hard to wash off your hands what does it do inside you?
oh. also I learned today you’re supposed to refrigerate the dough for awhile so you can make little balls easier so your cookies don’t look like mine did. The dough was tastier than the cookies is the sad part.
Legacy blame if something goes terribly wrong in Iraq or Afghanistan.
I got some leaf-lard for pies. I’m going to use part euro-butter, part rendered leaf lard for some pie crust.
IF it tastes like meat I’m screwed, but maybe everyone will still have turkey-mouth and not notice.
Hey cook’s magazine had a good tip for short-cutting the cookie-dough aging thing…if you have one of those electric food vacuums, you can just suck out the air and refrigerate just until the dough is chilled, instead of overnight, but it makes the dough as good as if you had waited the old fashioned way.
They explained that the vacuum accelerated hydration of the dough.
I think I might just buy some mashed potatoes tomorrow. And a back-up pie. And some fancy-pants vegetables which I am too lazy to make.
I think THOR calls this Obama just knowin more better than Bush, Shewwwww, thank gawd Obama is around to re-affirm all this MONKEY business.
“I was fascinated by the crisco by the way.”
feets – You can do some fun stuff with crisco, but not to be discussed on a polite blog.
Uh, this is proteinwisdom — what’s stopping you?
‘feets — the plunger measuring things are sweet. Mine are the o-feeshal Alton Brown style, but the linked ones are nicer.
I never but the tubs of Crisco anymore since they came out with the sticks. Even using the water-in-a-measuring-cup method, you still get stuff on the sides and it’s so greasy to clean.
Tonight, I’m trying a new pumpkin pie recipe. I’m a tad nervous, ’cause these things never go as planned. Plus, I’m not the best pie-crust maker, so that’s always an iffy bit.
You can deal with a man that operates by principles. If he acts a certain way or says something then you can (fight,act,defend,agree,disagree,cooperate,) do what you do. Against an unprincipled man you have no defense other than total defense or total offense. Regardless of that this is our President now. This lying shit has to stop at some time. I mean WTF is he going to say in Russia and not say here?
I disagree, Pink. How did we deal with Clinton? The downside for triangulators is that they become wedded to their triangle. Clinton’s wiggle to the right on fiscal policy cost him, but it was a position that, once taken, he could not abandon. His attempt to play Camp David with the PLO likewise became a policy NASCAR track: expensive, flashy, circular, and cosmically pointless.
Now, I don’t think for a minute that Obama is as oily as Bill Clinton, nor as hokey, nor as personally flawed. But I do think that he’s walking down a road that will make neither him nor his followers happy.
The first man that tried this was Jack Kennedy. Kennedy ran to the right of the GOP on foreign policy, with promises of leftiness in other areas, without ever once coming through on either promise. His Thousand Days was an anxious wiggle of reaction to various phenomena: to Cuba and Kruschev and Ho, to MLK, to everything. In the end, the real work was done by his successor.
Jimmy Carter was an out-and-out liberal. Captain Malaise. Again, largely reactive. Tried to find a new course and discovered that the Cold War was still on, the world still a dangerous place. Responded to it by boycotting the Olympics.
Clinton may have been the Democratic Eisenhower: the manager of a slow shift to the right. When he started, he was the New Politics, but cold Reality forced him to play softball. Always talked about how he wanted some great challenge to respond to. He got Newt Gingrich. By the end of his second term, Wall Street was his best friend.
So Obama is JFK 4.0: he can’t really do what the Left wants, because the consequences would jettison him from office under a Carteresque cloud. He doesn’t want to really do what the Right wants, because he thinks they’re bad policies that have been repudiated. He is forced to tack into the wind. Now if he’s smart, and makes a great show of Pragmatic Fixing, he can maybe string the nutroots along for a second term promising the REALLY BIG CHANGES (health care and such). You’ll recall George Bush held out Social Security and Tax reform to we wingnuts back in ’04. If he pulls it off, he can then be more radical. But this strategy also allows his opposition time to regroup.
Fear not, Pink, the unprincipled man will stand up for nothing, and thus fall down for anything.
Andrew,
I pray you are correct. My fear is that with the Congress firmly in Democrat control they will do everything they can in the first days to cement their control in place for a long, long time. Pelosi and Reid do not want to have a 1994 repeat. Freedom will be attacked from many directions is my view.
Worse than pointless Andrew, Clinton was warned (well before he undertook it) that his pushing on Arafat wouldn’t work, that Arafat couldn’t deliver his people, the policy/reconciliation would therefore fail and, most important of all, would result in violence and death, which in the event, it did. But then, the dying would be done by Israelis and Palestinians, the resultant mayhem suffered by their societies, so Clinton figured the attempt to “achieve” peace was worth it.
The dough was tastier than the cookies is the sad part.
Clearly a 2008 election metaphor.
I’m rather happy that Secretary Gates is staying for a while. I guess that warmongering fascist in the White House managed to pick him some Hope! in the DoD, since there is no change.
Sam’s Club sells 5 pound tubs of chocolate chip cookie dough. It is good.