After blasting Sarah Palin yesterday, Princess Lisa has moved on to the next leg of her “the candidates selected and backed by the GOP Establishment are completely different animals from the kinds of candidates selected by, and supportive of, the TEA Party”- tour, this time taking aim at Jim DeMint:
“I think some of the Republicans in the Congress feel pretty strongly that he and his actions potentially cost us the majority by encouraging candidates that ended up not being electable,” Murkowski told POLITICO outside her Senate office. “And I think Delaware is a pretty good example of that, and I think there’re some folks that feel that DeMint’s actions didn’t necessarily help the Republican majority.”
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“So the real question is, what’s his desire?” she said. “Does he want to help the Republican majority, or is he on his own agenda, his own initiative?”
Asked what she believed the answer was, Murkowksi said: “I think he’s out for his own initiative.”
Murkowski, a putative Republican, decided that the will of Republican primary voters in Alaska was less important than her being returned to Washington (and kept in power). In this way, she is much like Charlie Crist and Mike Castle — other candidates backed and preferred by the establishment GOP against more constitutionally conservative / classically liberal candidates.
And yet she has the temerity to suggest that DeMint, who is advocating a return to constitutional principles — the very message that won resoundingly in this month’s elections, mind — is a problem for the GOP?
Seems to me Murkowski should review her own primary performance — and that those GOP insiders who continue to hold this ossified view of themselves as the real brains and substance of the party consider that the reason Republican candidates didn’t perform as well in the Senate races as they did everywhere else is that insiders like Murkowski and Castle and Crist, along with the Republican establishment, refused to throw their weight behind those candidates their party’s base wanted and instead worked actively against them.
You see, not everyone is locked in for six more years, Princess.
And the movement to return this country to sensible, constitutional governance didn’t end simply because you and your cronies managed to spend your way into just enough Democrat write-in votes to return you to Congress. Where, I hear, you hope Obama succeeds.
The GOP has to decide whether or not it will stand on principle or actively agitate toward a return to the status quo. Because that decision will influence whether or not many of us leave it in droves.
Remember: this is what we’re fighting against. So, as a matter of “pragmatism,” either lead, or get the fuck out of our way.
It would be amusing if the Republicans refused to admit her to their caucus. Won’t happen, but it would be amusing.
Princess Lisa appealed to the left during the race, and that’s what got her the votes she needed. I think she should be ignored by GOP senators as the Democrat she is. I certainly hope they don’t court her vote too often, because she’s the type who will want her vote bought over and over again.
I’m sorry, but now this is an example of a dangerously dumb bint. She just doesn’t get it. Too many of the pragmatists, just don’t get it.
Remind me again who refused to accept the results of the Republican primary? Projection, thy name is Governing Class.
I’ve never understood the “electability” argument. I get what the people who use it think they mean. But isn’t an electable candidate one who, you know, gets elected?
What else can the description possibly be predicated upon?
does Lisa want to help the Republican majority, or is she on her own agenda, her own initiative?
this is gonna bite her in the ass so many times you’ll be able to identify her by the pockmarks
She’s attacking a strawman in Palin, who, of course, was an indifferent governor and quit. And O’Donnell was in over her skis from Day One, but tby that light, she should go after every candidate that doesn’t win, because, well, not having that person in a seat is costing you something, no?
It’s easier to talk about this stuff than it is to look at yourself and say, “Why can’t I win my own frigging primary?”
Of course DeMint has his own agenda that is often in conflict with the GOP. It’s called Conservatism.
I’m not sure why people like Murkowski and Mike Castle don’t come out and say, “Hey, cut me a break. I’m a career politician. I have some GOP sympathies, but I am here primarily to redirect taxpayer cash back to my district/home to get re-elected. I don’t hold defined views and what ones I do hold are broadly in conflict with Conservatism. Think of me as 60/40 on your side.”
Of course they should be encouraged to see the wisdom of standing on principle, tar and feathers having almost as much power to concentrate the mind as the hangman’s noose.
(did I just say that?)
Based on what evidence, exactly? I’ve got some pretty good evidence (see Nov. 2, 2010) to the contrary.
Does the Princess of Projection realize what a magnificent fool she’s just made of herself? Would someone tell her to do the Jeffords/Spector thing and join the Party that better reflects her Big Government Ruling Class mentality.
BTW, speaking of clueless Big Government Ruling Class fools, what fucking color is the sky in John Podesta’s world?
Scooter, I sure want Obama to move forward with his agenda, just as he’s been doing the last two years. Republicans only gained 60+ seats in 2010 — think how many seats they can gain in 2012.
Is there anything more beautiful than a rhetorical question? ;-)
She’ll switch, like Specter. Especially when she realizes it’s “no pork for her” at the federal trough buffet.
She should definitely not be in a leadership position either, if only for disdaing the will of a majority of her state’s Republican voters by defying their will in the primary elections.
Forget it, Jeff. It’s Alaska.
That would be quite clarifying for the earnest Republicans who wrote her name in. Perhaps they’ll be more circumspect in future.
Bob, not until the GOP caucus reaches 51 seats, she won’t. The Democrats can’t offer her enough to make it worthwhile before then.
In the meantime, the pigs will still find a way to feed at the trough.
The biggest problem is that there’s too many putative Republicans in the senate caucus. What has me worried isn’t that Murcowski is an idiot who hasn’t a clue where the country’s at. Clearly she is. No, what has me worried is that she’s an honest idiot who knows exactly where the Senate and lobbyists and the rest of polito-governing establisment is at.
She may jump like Jeffords, but she won’t switch like Specter.
Besides, she’s already switched like Lieberman. All that’s left is the jump.
Totally OT – Since the contact form is closed; Can someone tell me why I have to use my cellphone or a proxy to access the site?
link
If the DREAM Act passes, they can buy her off with coke.
I don’t know Master Chief.
I’m viewing it through a standard cable internet connection, on regular ol’ internet explorer. Maybe it has something to do with the browser you’re using or your anti-virus/firewall settings.
If it’s the latter, maybe you can add this address to your “trusted sites” list.
She really wants to take on the Tea Party? Really?
The only explanation that makes any sense to me is that she figures we’ll be off the scene when she next comes up for re-election. Let’s just say that my vision of where we’ll be six years from now is a little different.
Bob Reed – Thanks. Tried all of that. No joy. I can still get here, it’s just a pain.
Mr. Squid, arms supplier of note, hits the right point I think, and I thank him for it. The question here, I believe is whose recognition of a trend is the more likely?
Lisa’s or ours?
That Lisa can persuade herself that her own very near and personal primary ouster does not constitute an element of a lasting trend either speaks to her strength of mind at emotional distancing and impartial analysis or to her cloudy-hooded stoopidity.
I vote the latter.
Murkowski campaigned on her ability to bring back the earmarks for Alaska, and now that she’s in, they’re going to ban earmarks. And now she’ll have to fall back on her ability to speak through her nostrils.
Loser: Alaska.
Is she in denial about the end of her family’s dynasty, or is she desperately struggling not to go down in history as the last of her line?
I suppose that’s a false dichotomy. Still, I’d love to know just what the hell she’s thinking here.
Thinking?
Thinking?
Squid, if we ever elect a Senator who thinks, the world will end before morning.
Plot, yes. Scheme, yes. Emote, damn straight. Think? Which planet did you say you were from, and what color is the sky there?
Regards,
Ric
… is how dirty socialist propaganda whore Viv Schiller’s National Soros Radio sells the news on the homepage today
Droid – mobile edition check run.
Lisa Muckowski blows goats; redux. An entire herd of ’em, and their herders.
Who in their right mind ever though the GOP would take the Senate? “If (blah blah blah blah blah) we would have run the table.” is idiocy.
Damned tiny letters.
So damned true it hurts Pablo. Which points us to the reason these carpers are carping: they too can see the handwriting on the wall — though they’ll never own to it, because doing so would be owning to their own destruction — and they are plainly scared to distraction, so must do everything they can think of to discredit the Tea Parties ( I should substitute “the people” for Tea Parties, cause that’s what it comes down to).
Icky, icky proles make GOP establishment types wince.
Based solely on the fact that the House had never flipped without the Senate also flipping, prior to this election, and that it was obvious that we were not only going to win back the House, but win it back big, I thought we would.
But I’ve never been accused of being in my right mind.
If we had the senate, the RINO squishes would be the deciding votes, and they would forever require that they be properly bribed for every vote with the GOP. I think we’re better off this way.
I never was real clear on the upside of team R winning the Senate
the short sighted bumbleheads just wanted their dc perks. 2012 is when real damage can be done to the 23 demonrat senators up for election
I agree w/cranky-d. The American people aren’t yet fed up enough with Bad Politicians, those of the ruling class of the two parties. Let’s allow to simmer a couple more summers.
We’ll get there.
Lisa Murkowski, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, et al. are just DIABLOs anyway.
I really hope California fails, and soon, as an example.
Fail, and burn the bridges.
I just saw this news from Mr. Instapundit
it says they’re doing it… tomorrow – I don’t really understand why they don’t wait til they have all the new peeps
Cornyn and Hutchison both need to get gone – Texas deserves better than a couple feckless assholes
Agreed, hf. They suck.
If we had the senate, the RINO squishes would be the deciding votes, and they would forever require that they be properly bribed for every vote with the GO
Like the Rhino squishes supporting that POS farm and seed bill. I’ve got a list of how much financial support Rs have received from groups that are backing that bill:
Lamar’s received $187,921
Richard Burr $317,136
Saxby Chamliss $551,694
Michael Enzi $$87,394
Judd Gregg $26,000 (just an idiot, I guess?)
Orrin Hatch $101,215
John Isakson $276,995
DAvid Vitter $179,225
It’s called “scaring the f* out of the b*ds, happy.
If they can do this before they have “all the new peeps”, think what they can do when they get the new peeps!
Regards,
Ric
I hope it passes Mr. Ric I would feel alive with New Possibility plus also Hope
at least for a little while
do you have a link for the seeds I had no idea
The Farm bill mostly benefits the big corporate farms that don’t need any help. I don’t know of any family farmers that ever received any money from the program. In my experience the argument that it helps family farms is bogus, which is orthogonal to whether or not I think it would be a good idea in any case (which I don’t).
Bush is the one who kicked farm subsidies back into gear, just like Obama kicked welfare up a notch. Oddly, Clinton signed bills that reduced both of those programs.
Ha, maybe Gregg is ashamed of himself Carin, being as he’s on his way to retirement in any event, so keeping his haul in the low 5 digits is his way of showing it? Or maybe . . . ah, nevermind.
Ernst, the numbers simply didn’t work this time around. The GOP took out a third of the Democrat Senate field and still came up short. They took Russ Feingold out and that wasn’t enough. They turned Obama’s old seat red, and that wasn’t enough. Angle and O’Donnell both could have been better candidates and won their seats and that wouldn’t have been enough. Things look better in 2012. I think the takeaway from this election is that we’ve only just begun to dump the Democrats.
As long as the takeaway for GOP types is that we’re serious about the spendings, it’s fine. If not, we’ll have even more GOP housecleaning to do in 2012.
Dino should have won if Michael Steele hadn’t been such an anemic no-money-having fuckface he probably would have
Here is the most recent story.
They’re calling is a “food safety bill.” Remember, this is the one that could make it illegal for you to grow those heirloom tomatoes?
Small farms? Screwed.
a food safety bill what doesn’t include irradiation is anti-science
More here on it, obviously from someone against the bill.
Instead of calling their bills “food safety” and “healthcare reform” if they just called every bill “state control of ______” they would be more honest. Of course, no one in their right mind would accuse them of honesty.
I was really expecting us to run the table, Pablo, WV, DE, CT, NV, WA, AK, CA.
I also thought we were going to win 83+/-2 or 3 seats in the House. The Tsunami of tea.
If this guy is right and not just dumping on Steele. We should have won 80+, in which case, the Senate would have followed.
nstead of calling their bills “food safety” and “healthcare reform” if they just called every bill “state control of ______” they would be more honest.
That’s exactly the fucking deal. Federal control, because we need daddy to watch out for us. THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW.
We’re fracked.
here is a thanksgiving picture for you Carin for so the blessings get all counted up
Well, there’s a reason why the RNC had no money, but it’s true Michael Steele had a lot to do with that reason.
See, she’s already done that. And what she came up with is “Sarah Palin fucked me over.” She needs reeducation.
That reminds me Happy. I think next year I’m going to raise a turkey or two. So I can slaughter it for Thanksgiving.
Won’t that be a warm family memory?
As long as our Federal overlords don’t find out of course.
Pls don’t turn me in. Pretend I never mentioned it.
oh noes having baracky, reid, pelosi as the face of the demonrats is fabulous for going into 2012
I believe Carin is now issuing death threats to gobbler-americans.
Why do you hate minorities, Carin?
but it is the betters that things are decentralizing as far as fund raising. cornuts picking winners don’t work
Why do you hate minorities, Carin?
I plan to treat them very well. Up until the moment I butcher them.
here is the story of the wild turkeys in Massachusetts getting all urban an shit
Still not enough to take the Senate. I would not be discouraged, but rather looking toward winning the next round just like this one. This is a long term project.
because arguing over who lost biden’s or reid’s seat or murray’s seat is so much fun
Oh, yes. And the tactics of the Murks (I suggest that as the collective term for Cornyn, et. al.) is based on relief: Well, that’s over, and those people don’t have any staying power. Back to business as usual, and next time they won’t be a factor.
Of course, if it turns out the tea parties do have staying power, they’re going to be unpleasantly surprised. I’ll be surprised myself — the Murks aren’t the only ones likely to go back to business as usual — but in my case it’ll be pleasantly.
Regards,
Ric
who lost spector’s seat?
I’m not sure I’m real clear on how the Party of Tea rolls through a presidential cycle. Will they sponsor their own debate series for the candidates? That would be neat I guess maybe.
I think there were 19 Dem held Senate seats up in the last election. Keep on keeping on at the 2010 rate of gain and with the 23 seats the Dems have to defend in 2012 election the Rep’s will pick up 8 in the next go round, assuming they can hold their own 10 (Scott Brown is in the class).
47 + 8 is a working majority of 55. Throw out any combination of Olympia, Kay Bailey, Orrin, Lugar or Kyl to replacement with a winning Tea Partyer in the go and things will be looking up.
who might be primaried on team r’s side?
Dianne Feinstein of California
Tom Carper of Delaware
Bill Nelson of Florida
Daniel Akaka of Hawaii
Ben Cardin of Maryland
Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Claire McCaskill of Missouri
Jon Tester of Montana
Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Bob Menendez of New Jersey
Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Kent Conrad of North Dakota
Sherrod Brown of Ohio
Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
Jim Webb of Virginia
Maria Cantwell of Washington
Joe Manchin of West Virginia
Herb Kohl of Wisconsin
Ol Herb’s balls are sweating now, don’tcha think?
If the tea parties decide to go uppercase, to set it up with a Tea Party with a leader and a secretary and all that and set up debates… they lose, and lose big. Democrats aren’t the only ones who’ve read Alinsky.
But if the tea parties stay a loose collection of activists who exchange emails and twitters and maybe blog comments, and keep on with the ground game, real change is possible. Infiltrate the precincts. Get on the election commission. Recruit the dogcatcher and the superintendent of the sewer works. Run for school board and town council and County Commissioner, or get to know those people and either help or target them. Mighty oaks from little acorns grow, and that’s the only way to do it — which is why the leftoid operation took that name.
Regards,
Ric
If I were one of the millions of leaders of the Tea Party (and who’s to say I’m not?) I would suggest that Tea Party contingents attend every possible presidential campaign event (D as well as R, just to keep the R’s from getting cocky) and making sure that comparisons are made between what the candidates say and what the pillars of Tea Party principle demand. And then let the people who vote in the various primaries decide.
It would be best to focus on the first caucuses and primaries as if they were the last — and then focus on the next ones as if they were the last. Never let up.
And of course they’ll need to work Congress and the state-level races simultaneously. Which, I’m thinking based on recent results that’s in their wheelhouse.
mostly I’d like to see a debate where all the candidates D and R were invited to discuss things from a Party of Tea perspective – responsible moderators would be easy to find I think
The grapevine says Herb is looking to retire.
The other thing: when “Tea Party Leaders” arise, they will immediately become targets. Democrats, their media stooges, and the Murks will ally to squash them.
Help them do it.
If I read the tea parties right, they have already adopted the strategy I advocate above. That being the case, any Leader who emerges will be an opportunist, somebody who found a parade and tries to get in front with a shiny baton. Such people need to be sent back to the curb where they belong, and Murks & Co. will do it for us.
A band that knows what it’s doing can get along fine without the drum major. The file leaders need signals for the ones following, and the drummers need to keep the beat, but the chick in the costume out front is mostly to entertain the crowds.
Regards,
Ric
I squash you up!
Ot sort of, but also goes to the “ruling class” knowing better than the proles. Terrorist found not guilty of all but conspiracy. Heckuva job Barry!
mr. levin tonight said that a constitutional amendment to limit the fed gov’t to 15% of gdp is needed. i think it should be 10 but he’s right in using the amendment process to tie these idiots down
Hey, I figured out how to change my name back. Yeah, I set the bar pretty low on excitement. Now if I could do something about the avatar.
EXTREMIST!
Debates are a waste of time.
This may not have always been true, although reading stuff like Lincoln vs. Douglas gives me to doubt, but in an Alinskyized political system they’re useless excrescences that serve only to provide the identifiers and isolators with gaffes and quotes out of context for the snarkoverse to feed on. Nothing of any significance is ever said in a political debate, and the “handlers” make as sure of that as possible.
Debates, teevee appearances, major speeches, and the like are attempts to do One Big Thing instead of concentrating on the grinding, exhausting, boring necessities: meet&greets in small groups, impromptu visits to grocery stores and Starbucks, and above all shoe leather a/k/a “canvassing” — the candidate or workers for the candidate visiting every house, every apartment on every block in the district, offering introductions and campaign literature and asking for that person’s vote. As an amorphous group of like-minded people, the tea parties are ideally situated to do that if they don’t get hypnotized by the teevee lights and decide to throw one big rally, yeah, that’ll do it… it won’t.
The other thing is: A lot of people who could do a job look like shit on teevee, but you could meet them on the street and not see anything objectionable about them. Washington may be Hollywood for ugly people, but if ugly people present themselves on teevee ads they aren’t going to get elected in this day and age without a lot of spin and bling. Doing on the ground they might.
Regards,
Ric
mr. rick it is sometimes good to assemble peaceably for the cameras to show that the talk from the left is the stupid. after that go back to the roots thing
– Essentially you’re correct Ric.
– But Beck forced the Left’s hand and exposed them to a National audience for the special interest groups (Unions) pandering bastards they are.
– I think that was useful.
I didn’t say they weren’t useful at all; they just aren’t useful for winning elections.
What rallies and the like are useful for is the “you are not alone” factor. How many times have we seen commenters, here and elsewhere, say “O dear me I’m the only conservative in a deep blue state and all my neighbors are moonbats”? Such a person is afraid to engage with others in public for fear of ridicule and ostracism — sometimes with good reason, but often enough not. Did you ask, guy? Of course not. But if there’s a march or a rally, and it’s well attended, people can look at it and think, “well, maybe I’m not so alone after all.” That’s good. It builds support — but it doesn’t grab votes, and if done wrong it can easily backfire, especially in a hostile media environment.
Ooops! Time to be off to visit Bobbe. L8ter, h8ters.
OUTLAW VIOLENCE!
Regards,
Ric
the intertubes are changing the “media” mr. ric
Sorta OT but an interesting juxtaposition to ol’ Murky.
– That makes for encouraging reading bh, but honestly, at the risk of sounding like a downer, the magnitude of the problem makes 100 billion seem like chump change.
– But I suppose you have to start somewhere and hope the thing snowballs.
– Baby steps!
“Squid, if we ever elect a Senator who thinks, the world will end before morning.
Ric,
You forgot teh FRED Mister! Oh and Coburn has been known to fire a synapse or two;^)
– Maybe some day soon we can all enjoy a Wendy’s triple with a Large fry, and zero guilt.
#91 newrouter — one can hope. But —
As I said last night, I am once again employed. As a celebration, I treated myself to a relatively expensive lunch. While I was there an older gentleman came in, a person I know by sight and small acquaintance but not by name; he’s a minor Democratic Party functionary, used to be Chair of the local committee. He ordered, sat down, and commenced to carefully peruse his copy of the New York Times.
That’s what we’re working against. Something like two-fifths of Americans now have Internet access, perhaps more — but, of those, probably three-quarters look at dirty pictures and swap asinine comments on Facebook, and if they want information (which they usually don’t) they automatically click on CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and the like; the real sophisticates call up the NYT’s online version. Even then, if they’re interested in anything beyond the antics of the current set of celebrities it’s on national politics-as-spectator-sport. The State legislator who gets to gerrymander Congressional districts next time is on the radar only as a random spot, to be eliminated by the [CLUTTER REJECT] switch. Election commissioner? Not even that.
The Internet is an invaluable resource for debate and coordination among people who have got the message, whichever message that might be. It’s also useful for a certain amount of fundraising. As a means for advocacy and electing candidates? Nah.
Regards,
Ric
The Wendy’s food is mostly excellent but the fries have been teh suck to where if they sold McDonald’s fries it would be fast food nirvana. There is hope. OK, it still wouldn’t be In-N-Out, but what is?
– NYT readers are a dying breed Ric, not that that fact means whatever replaces the legacy print media will be favorable in general to the Republic.
– But the chances are at least even as the old die off, both hard ass Lefties, and hard headed Journ-o-lists, and that leveled playing field would be an improvement in any moderates book.
– So true Pablo – In’N’Out rawks.
– Animal style everything!
– OUTLAW FOOD!
An NYT reader in Texas, has he read the bylaws?
“There is hope”
Pablo
Replace that sea-salt with Lowreys seasoned salt and Wendy’s gets a lifeline.
Why did McDonalds’ french fries used to taste so good? Was it the oil they used or something? (Nostalgia for my youth?)
Ric’s thoughts match with my observations, btw. Knock on a few doors and you’ll realize how freakishly over-informed on the minute day-to-day details you are comparatively. Which means there is still no substitute for canvassing and that we might do well to pull a quasi-bait-and-switch where conservative organizations offered fantasy football leagues, celebrity news, and funny photoshops.
– Maybe some armadillo pron as well.
The guy who reverse engineered McDonald’s fries is why the internet exists. Him and pr0n, that is.
D100 Danger — The NYT has a printing plant in Dallas. Dear Rachel and all the rest, including the NY-centric brassiere ads, electronically transmitted over the Interwebthingy, then ground out on dead trees by roaring monsters and delivered to your door hot off the press. Very popular in the Park Cities and certain zones of Houston.
Bylaws are for the little people.
Regards,
Ric
Ah-ha! Thanks, Pablo.
This means we cans haz good fries at home. Only gots to render the beeveses fats and we’re good to go.
This says it happened in 1990. Stupid hippies.
– The other thing McD’s does is twice cook it’s fries.
2,000,000 lbs a day is a lot of pounds. I boggles, preferring to think man with potato and knife sorts of pounds.
Typo yields new word right on time: Cientists! Just the ticket for thems that ain’t.
I wonder how lard would work. What do I care, I’d eat all of two serving a year anyway.
Apparently goose fat works quite well but I don’t think I’ve ever had that on hand.
Lard should work right along the same lines, though with a flavor difference of course. I’ve roasted domestic goose before and it seemed like there was no end of rendered fat coming out of that sucker. Do up a couple of ’em and you’d be in the ballpark volume wise.
Hmmm, I wonder how people would react to finding out the Thanksgiving goose tradition got started because ol’ bh wanted to try some novel french fries.
I am adding this to my list of culinary escapades. I am going to start curing meats after Thanksgiving.
You’re a fucking legend. I mean that.
– Junior just burned the sliced, herb dusted squash slices to a crisp.
– The travails of chefing.
Since there is no way to render squash edible, that seems as good a method as any, BBH.
Regards,
Ric
Bh – I have an appointment scheduled with a butcher to select the proper cuts, and I vote the hooks hung in the basement this weekend. Better Half asked if there was anything I thought she needed to know, and I said no.
i used squashes when I made Joe’s soup this weekend! they disappeared after a few hours
everybody loved the soup it was very tasty – I had a sugar pumpkin and I learned that if you have cheap-ass walmart knives you have to bake it at 350 for like 30 minutes so you can peel and chunk it.
That about tripled my pumpkin cooking knowledge.
From two years ago: have a Sarah Palin Thanksgiving.
Butternut squash can be made edible. The key is the ratio of squash to not-squash ingredients. The s:ns ratio must hav the no-squash percentage be greater than 51%, of which a portion must be bacon.
I can’t wait til next year I’m gonna steal the pumpkin from work again and make some more
Pumpkins make your toenails very brittle.
(Well, maybe they do. Just haven’t said anything freaky about your food choices lately.)
Have I told my squash story in this venue?
Regards,
Ric
they have many vitamin As … I read a can at Ralph’s
plus fibers!
Not that I remember, Ric.
… and I do tend to remember both squash and car crash stories.
The switch from lard to vegetable oil came about because of the government scientists what told everyone that fat was bad m’kay? But vegetable oil doesn’t get as hot as lard, so it leaves your french fries greasy and limp (insert democrat penis joke here). Through the miracles of science we discovered that you could turn vegetable oil into a lard substitute through the power of hydrogen* (don’t ask me how it works, I’m a historian, not a chemist Jim!). But now the same scientists what told everyone that fat was bad are now saying that hydrogenated oils are worse (see Bloomberg, Nanny) than fat, m’kay? As a consequence of pressure from
scientifically backedpolitically motivated lifestyle pressure groups, Wendy’s stopped frying with hydrogenated veggie oil, which is why their once golden crispy sticks of fluffy potato goodness are now the suck.Fortunately, I have the solution, if any franchise owner out there has the balls to actually go for it:
MacDougall’s proudly uses 100% pure all natural beef tallow!
*Crisco obviously predates the switch from lard to vegetable grease, but McDonald’s was responding to the same gov’t and consumer pressures that convinced Wendy to ruin her french fries –stoopid bitch.
People that take the fun out of food suck.
“Better Half asked if there was anything I thought she needed to know, and I said no.”
Good thinkin JD,
If she knew she might not remain the better half (she might even become the only half;^)
Hey bh,
A few weeks back you were lamenting your cell phone internet performance. What kind is it? and which one would you get if you could replace it?
I’m suddenly very annoyed that MacDougall’s doesn’t currently exist.
So there’s at least one valid
victimaudience member. Good enough…My father was not a farmer; he was forced into it by circumstance, and wanted all the help he could get. Sometime in the early Fifties he went to the local agricultural extension agent and asked what to plant.
The answer was: little yellow crook-neck squash.
So he bought seed and brought it home, and he and the tenants went out and planted little yellow crook-neck squash in every corner of the farm.
And it all came up.
And it all “made”.
It was a bonanza. A bumper harvest.
So Dad went downtown to the box factory and got vegetable crates, and he and the tenants picked little yellow crook-neck squash and loaded it all on my great-uncle’s 1939 Dodge pickup and took it to the market town.
At the market they discovered that agricultural extension agents all across our part of east Texas had recommended planting little yellow crook-neck squash.
And everybody had.
And it all came up.
And it all “made”.
It was a bumper harvest. What “bumper harvest” means to a farmer is that there’s so much of the stuff that you practically can’t give it away. Counting seed, fertilizer, tenant labor, boxes, and gas for the ’39 Dodge, IIRC he ended up with a profit of about $2.
So we ATE little yellow crook-neck squash.
We had little yellow crook-neck squash fried, boiled, baked, and fricaseed.
We had little yellow crook-neck squash in soups, stews, and casseroles.
We had slices of little yellow crook-neck squash as a garnish to every meal, in addition to its being a part of the meal itself.
Then one evening Dad took a bite, stared into space for a moment, and bolted for the back yard, where he offered the yard cats a helping of used little yellow crook-neck squash. The cats, being sensible creatures, refused to even cover it up. He had to go get the shovel.
No squash of any type appeared in our cuisine after that, including after Dad died and Mother, living alone, could cook anything she liked — and this was a woman who ate sandwiches of raw onion with mustard on toast. My youngest brother, who wasn’t born when the incident occurred, eats squash. None of the rest of us ever did, again. I can tolerate a slice or two of zucchini in a salad, but I have been served every type of squash in existence, and it all tastes like little yellow crook-neck squash to me, and yes, that includes pumpkin pie. Squash makes a pretty table decoration, rather like the gourds it resembles, but it is not a foodstuff.
Regards,
Ric
Danger – sprint evo 4g. Simply the best.
what I learned from going to in n out is if they put the potatoes in the potato french fry squisher squasher sideways, the french fries come our real short… but if they sorta stand the potatoes up tall the french fries come out pretty long… I like the long ones better
come *out* real short I mean
I’m considering that one JD but the keyboard on the EPIC 4G might be helpful keeping you rascals in line;)
Oh, I remember that, that was my cheapo, pre-paid phone that I keep around in case I lose my work phone, Danger. My work phone is a Samsung of some sort. To be honest, I’m pretty terrible on the phone knowledge overall.
I bet others here would give you better recommendations.
I remember that squash story now.
The yellow kind are good for vegetable lasagna.
I guess that’s not helpful probably.
hey though what do you get when you eat all the potatoes?
You’re a few rhymes away from a country song, Ric.
The only downside to the 4G phones previously mentioned is that Sprint charges a $10 “premium data” fee for them and I am not in an area that has 4G coverage.
Remember: this is what we’re fighting against. So, as a matter of “pragmatism,” either lead, or get the fuck out of our way.
That is threatening language.
– The “Squash” I’m referring too is actually the zucchini variety. Thin sliced, and broiled properly with the proper herbal/spice dusting. They make the perfect add-on to a good sirloin, broiled to perfection, and smothered in sauteed mushrooms and onions, and sided with wedge steak fries. I usually toss in some baby carrots, and small broccoli florets, pre-blanched to maintain color and freshness, along with the zucchini slices.
what do you get when you eat all the potatoes?
An overwhelming urge to quaff copious amounts of Bushmill’s and Jameson’s and punch everyone you meet in the face?
Grilled yellow squash and zuchini is good a couple times a year.
You are not now, but you will be, Danger. And in some towns, and airports, you can be. The Evo has the internal MyFi, which is so cool beyond words that I will not even begin to describe how fucking great and awesome and great and did I mention awesome it is.
When I was 15 my sister made zucchini lasagna, where the zucchini takes the place of the noodles. I did not like vegetables. I did not like zucchini. I liked it even less afterwards.
I have never let her forget about that.
I do not work for Sprint nor will I get a commission from Sprint should any of you clowns take my advise and get the Sprint Evo 4g’ simply the greatest fucking phone ever made.
Goodnight, racists.
It’s even better no times a year.
I’m pretty ambivalent about squash, but I’ve been making this basic recipe for 10-15 years since I first had it at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill in NYC. Really easy to make and very tasty.
Careful there, Hunny McKaiser. Everyone knows that we either simply die or travel to America to vote Democrat for three or four generations when that happens.
– I doubt I’d care for any dish that emphasized foods such as zucchini, rather than using it in a very careful way as an offset to the meat and potatoes of the normal entre’.
– There are a number of foods like that, that I suspect turn people off because of that mistaken approach.
Careful there, Hunny McKaiser. Everyone knows that we either simply die or travel to America to vote Democrat for three or four generations when that happens.
I have been wondering if you’re avatar looked like it was getting ready to flip me the bird or punch me in the groin.
I doubt I’d care for any dish that emphasized foods such as zucchini, rather than using it in a very careful way as an offset to the meat and potatoes of the normal entre’.
quite so.
“…or punch me in the groin.”
Don’t touch my junk bh!
– Careful there Ernst. Ric provided you with an alibi, but Whitehall is still looking into that Jack the ripper bit of nasty business.
g’night all
…Don’t fondle me bro!
Rippin’ ‘ores would interfere wit’ me scotch an’ cigar recreatin’ you might say guvnor.
– Not to mention the time consuming need to maintain a razor like edge on all those surgical instruments.
– Oh bother….carry on old top.
– OT – It will be interesting to see how political pundits will be able to explain the mechanism’s of just how a person who loses by a wide margin in a primary is able to come back and win so decisively in a write-in campaign. Something that hadn’t been done in the last 50 years or so.
– ‘Tis a puzzle.
I say we give Danger and JD ONE more day to get an avatard.
From #87: Nothing of any significance is ever said in a political debate, and the “handlers” make as sure of that as possible.
A blunt talker in the mold of a Chris Christie could make for some epic debates, though. I can’t help but smile when I imagine a national debate where one participant makes his rebuttal with “Are you really that stupid, or are you just assuming that everyone in the audience is?”
Sure, it would require kicking the handler in the balls just before the lights came up, but a guy can dream, can’t he?
“I say we give Danger and JD ONE more day to get an avatard.”
Carin,
I tried to sign up at gravatar but it did not recognize my wordpress account so I tried to establish a new gravatar account and they said that danger (apparently you can’t use capital letters) was already in use.
I sent their support an e-mail.
Anyone else have this happen and find a solution?
Create a new wordpress account via Gravatar, Danger. The registration here is just for PW. Just make sure that the email address you use is the same one as here. Whatever new name you use when registering will be what shows up when you comment at other sites, but you’ll be able to keep Danger when commenting here.
Thanks Abe,
I’ll give it a try 8^)
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