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David Letterman had a great Top 10 last night slamming George “Waaaaa!” Bush
here’s another from the past
here’s another from the past
Top Ten Surprises In President Bush’s Address To The United Nations
- Admitted taking longer than expected to mismanage the rebuilding of Iraq
- President Bush wearing “Kucinich in 2004” campaign button
- Kept referring to the United Nations as the International House of Pancakes
- He formally surrendered to North Korea
- After a few remarks, turned it over to Dr. Phil who discussed weight loss
- Labeling Jim Belushi as a member of the “Axis of Evil”
- Usual smug smirk even smugger and smirkier
- His opening act: Beyonce, with very special guest Jay-Z
- “Speech” was nothing more than recipe for Laura’s Quick ‘N’ Easy Chicken-Fried Steak
- The part where he screamed, “Save us, Schwarzenegger!”
–from September 23, 2003
In case you were wondering, here is the transcript for Shrub’s speech/blather that day
I’ll post the one from last night as soon as it’s up on Letterman’s page
I’ll see you all in the morning, make sure you check out Operation Yellow Feather and help us send a strong message to the Chicken Hawks that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Ramen!
See what you’ve got me started on! ;^D
Huevos and Horchata for breakfast…
Horchata
1 cup long grain white rice
2 cups almonds, skins removed
2-inch piece of cinnamon bark
7 cups of water
3/4 cups of sugar
1 vanilla bean
Grind the rice into a fine powder (a coffee grinder works perfectly). Remove the skins of the almonds by blanching them in boiling water: Drop the almonds in boiling water, scoop them out after about 30 seconds, and after they have cooled, the almonds should squirt right out of their skins when pressed between thumb and forefinger. Combine the ground rice, blanched almonds, cinnamon, and the seeds that have been scraped out of one vanilla bean, with 3 1/2 cups of water and let sit overnight, covered.
The next day, pour the mixture into a blender and puree until smooth, adding the sugar and an additional 2 1/2 cups of water. Strain the Horchata using a strainer and cheesecloth. There will be a lot of solids. Press them against the cheesecloth-lined strainer to get out all of the liquid, but don’t stop there. Pick up the cheesecloth to form a pouch and squeeze out every last drop with your hands. The final step is to add additional water to thin out the drink. The original recipe called for 2 cups, but I added only one. I liked the concentrated flavor, and I didn’t want it to be too diluted.
BEFORE AND AFTER Rice, almonds, and cinnamon (above) combine with vanilla and sugar to make refreshing horchata (below).
I slept so deep last night, dreaming of a strong wind that brought Yellow Feathers across the land. They attached themselves like magic to the Chicken Hawks in power, shutting down all the spindoctors in the White House.
ahhhhh, hopefully it was a good sign of things to come.
Good morning and thanks for the horchata! My favorite. mmmm
The tension in the household seems to have diminished dramatically; knowing that once the vacation is over that the spouse will be returning to his regular work schedule and that we will be returning to what passes for normalcy in this crazy household has helped dramatically. (For those who missed the earlier announcement, the spouse finally got the “all clear” on the blood pressure front from our doctor, so he can go to his employer’s doctor and get the paperwork filled out so he can get his medical certification from DMV and get back to real bus driving!)
Oh, speaking of Bush’s “door jam”, they even featured it on ESPN today! A show called “Pardon the Interruption” does a feature at the end called “the happys” — a “happy birthday” wish for some notable sports figure, “happy anniversary” for a sports event, and “happy trails” for an injury or retirement. The “happy trails” was for George W. Bush, and they showed Bush trying to find the exit. Wish I could remember the exact line…it was great. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great evening…
you caught me in the corner with a beer and a smoke. I worked a triple-shift today! I’m glad to hear of the diminished tension, you deserve the reprieve. It seems the ‘Bush Door Jam’ made the rounds, I also saw it on our local newscast. heh, what a buffoon (no offense to the buffoon species)
Alright, have a fantastic Left Coast night. I’m off to my cozy bed. zzzzzzzz
That is great that the spouse is cleared! Time for you to rest a little….enjoy the rest of the vacation!
BTW how did your appointment go? Wasn’t that Monday?
Will be leaving here in about 45 minutes or so — not sure I’m quite up to “assuming the position” if you catch my drift. 😉 At least I’ll have my iPod, so I can listen to Rachel Maddow while I’m in the stirrups…
Dinner is underway; bean and sausage soup in the slow-cooker. Getting hungry just thinking about it, and when we get home from the clinic and erranding, I know the apartment is going to smell sooooo good… 🙂
Recipe, recipe!!
I’m going to try this again today because it worked so well yesterday.
Ok, here goes. I have 1.25 lbs of ground chuck thawed and ready to cook.
What’s for dinner everyone? I don’t mind cooking, it’s the decision-making process that I’m sick to death of.
Check your email for the best burger recipe ever…
(in case anyone else is interested in making dinner)
1 pound ground round
1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
1/4 cup chopped green onions
1 teaspoon grated peeled fresh ginger
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 garlic clove, minced
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Divide beef mixture into 4 equal portions, shaping each into a 1/2-inch-thick patty.
Prepare grill.
Place patties on grill rack; grill 4 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness.
That’s a keeper. I actually have fresh ginger in the house because I’ve been making ginger tea with lime and honey.
if soup actually turns out okay…took a bean soup recipe from one of my cookbooks and modified it slightly…
The folks beyond the 100th meridian are asleep. The eastern side is just stirring and I have the cafe all to myself.
Would be cool if it weren’t so freaking quiet.
Guess I’ll just put some flowers out for the next folks and come back later.
Good morning Andi! I decided not to hop right out of bed with the alarm this morning. I didn’t really sleep-in, so much as nice doze-in.
I saw your note about finishing Radiant Heart. I’m still pacing my self. I think I’ll finish this weekend (which for me starts tomorrow!)
I’ve been programming like crazy both at work and at home. (In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been around so much) Hopefully I’ll have quite the portfolio to show for it all by the first of the year.
And I’d like to recommend diary: General Motors: Too Big to Fail?
This will probably be a mostly lurking day again — But, my times my own for 5 days after tonight, so I’ll be back!
If you haven’t read the diary Loving Parents Show Their Support …, check it out.
BTW, tomorrow’s my official first guest hosting day, so I hope you’ll be around to hold my hand (just whinging for effect — I’ve got my diary all set, even have a second one ready in case I need it).
I will be here. I’ve already got my costume laid out!
do you re-enact scenes from The Addams Family Values?
Good morning Andi. I wanted to say what an amazing photo that is, but it seems that word is off limits today. I’ll just say those flowers are an inspiration! Blooming in a dry and dying land – could we do as well?
Thanks. I really do love that picture.
What have I missed about saying “amazing”?
delurking to say — I love this photograph!!
that you first comment in the thread was actually typed with your eyes closed.
Oh for heaven’s sake, you expect me to look at the messages I’m replying to?
Will your demands never end?
Wonderful photo, AndiF.
Just wanted to say Good Morning and I’ll see you later. I’m off to work-work. It’s Friday for me. I’m off the rest of the week.
Later ‘gators,
Wonderful photo, Andi. “Bloom where you are.”
A little insomnia and up at 4….geez this stuff is nuts….
After yesterday’s running the final springs with BostonJoe and Manee I crashed – but not totally. Super Cheers to Boston Joe – at 5:30 am pst Operation Yellow Feather is still on the Rec list at dKos. Big time exposure!
So…to top that off a little pre-diary whoring here…later today I’ll be posting Blue Christmas II I’m proud to say that Buyblue.org has released it’s 2nd Blue Christmas – almost a year since it started…and we are around for year 2!
Details later!
SallyCat
aka Treasurer
aka Board Member
Buy Blue
how much I like the charts that show the labor, environment, corporate responsibility, etc. — those things are just as important (if not, more so) to me as the dollars contributed the political parties.
Thanks for all your hard and very good work.
Thanks Andi!
That’s our favorite part and our toughest…we have some amazing volunteers that read news articles to find out what is going on…
p.s. any BooTribbers want to be volunteers???
It’s been a hectic year but we are so excited about Blue Christmas II!
Do you supply the articles or do people have to find them? I’ve got time to do the reading and reporting but not to do the hunting.
Let me email our research director…she coordinates all the good stuff…I just pay bills and stuff!
Yup, what Andi said. Great work and thanks for doing it.
Good morning to all! Possible snow here in the east on Thanksgiving! Ughh! Isn’t August yet?
Snow?!? We’re still in the 70’s here, I want to have a real autumn/winter like you! [pouting]
Look at you, talking like you’re not only a half-day’s drive from Flag. Come on up next time we get some precip, dude, I’ll buy you snowy beers downtown. 🙂
Did someone say beer? You should be careful, I’ve never met a pint I didn’t like (except for that one time that Nimbus was off it’s game)
😀
I think I may be delirious still from yesterday’s madness. It was fun though!
I’ll gladly trade!
It’s a good day, even if it is all cold and rainy. I thought I was going to be all alone this holiday week, but tonight I’m going to my county democratic committee meeting; and tomorrow night, I’m going to see the Harry Potter movie with a friend. People are coming over to my house to play board games on Friday, and I’m going to meet up with a good buddy I haven’t seen in ages on Saturday. I’ve only got to line something up for Thursday, but I could always go and see more movies by myself if it comes to it.
There’s this feeling of contentment that being surrounded by friends brings. It’s like when you wake up on a cold day under a mound of blankets and your nose is cold but the rest of you is toasty warm.
Your week sounds totally fun! We saw HP last night on IMAX…it was great!
What other good movies are you thinking about seeing? I want ot see Good Night and Good Luck.
Good Night and Good Luck is definitely on my list. Also Rent, which comes out tomorrow. I saw the show live in London some years ago and fell in love with it.
You’re living in America
At the end of the millenium
You’re living in America
Where it’s like the Twilight Zone
And when you’re living in America
At the end of the millennium
You’re what you own
If you are anywhere near Raleigh, NC consider yourself invited for dinner! I’m about ready to kidnap people off the street and force them to eat with us to make Thanksgiving as crowded as it always used to be. Being away from my big, boisterous family sucks.
I live in Northern Virginia, near DC. Maybe if I look cute and hungry at the committee meeting, someone will invite me to their house. 🙂
I could send over who could kill your desire ever to have any guests at your house for the next decade.
And if I could get the ghost of my Aunt Neoma to visit …
But seriously, there are often students at universities who can’t afford to go home for Thanksgiving who would love to be invited over — probably too late to do anything now but you might want to check into it for next year.
I have to verify awards and things on some people’s CVs. We have a few ex-military folks who list medals and honorable discharges and such. Does anyone know who I can contact to verify this stuff?
I’m back! 🙂 Found an apt for 6 mos so we can take our time and check out neighborhoods and such before we buy, nice schools for kids and excellent area!!!! Really love Hillsboro/Beaverton. Saw Powells bookstore, it’s like 10 mins down the road and thought of ALL you crazy peeps! 🙂 I love you guys!
Came home to pack and not sure if it was dust or clothing or what but I’m covered in what looks and feels like Poison Oak. Face (big red raised patches), hands (really bad), feet (ankles) anywhere I’ve touched, scalp. Never had this before. Going to head to the pharmacy and let him give it a looksee. ACK. Wayne says to go to the doctor but as the White Rabbit says, “no time not time!”
I do not have time for itching crap or being sick. Ok, I’m turning into a major whiner… LOL. This shit is Les Miz! Ok enough pouting from me.
Missed you guys like mad. (Not as mad as this freaking scratching, burning stuff)
Andi – Marmotdude got a bit carsick coming home but he really enjoyed PF Changs. He’s all yours now 🙂 Boy can he party! xoxo
This Zanfel stuff is the best. It’s expensive, but has nearly immediate results.
It’s changed things dramatically for the people in my family who get poison ivy.
Thank you!!!! Running down after DanDan gets off to school.
I’m so glad everything’s coming together for you guys, but so sorry about the creeping crud rash! Sounds like there’s never a dull moment around your place, DJ. Hope you feel better soonest.
Thank you guys. Wayne’s talked me into trying to get an appt. The shit is all over me now – even places I don’t think I touched…. ahem… lately.
There are “dull” moments – I just don’t really write about em 🙂 Crap skin is tight – kinda sucks to smile
I’m outtie here for nowwie.
Bath and creams…local drug stores usually carry them – Longs, RiteAid, Walgreens in your area should all have them
Don’t use Calamine Lotion…it dries you out and makes you itch more!
BTW – welcome back!!! Ohmigawd – 10 minutes from Powells – I know where I’m driving through on vacation in June next year! I’ll have the big pick-up truck….tee hee hee hee
We missed you during the Operation Yellow Feather BooSwarm and C&J Swarm….recommended list for 12+ hours on the orange site…
(((Sally))) Yup, I’m just minutes away from EVERYTHING! 🙂 Beautiful area. Lots of shopping and opportunities to do.
trip was good. Made it there in 10 hours. Wes is still upset. Danni LOVES the area.
Hey, I totally spaced Baldwiny’s package. So going to get it mailed today. For the C&J shottle bag.
I’ve got to read up on BostonJoe’s Feather.. OMG! 🙂 You guys rock so much!
Big red patches now… I need to go … yell and scream and pretend I’m not itching. Maybe I’ll just ask the pharm dude what he thinks and THEN if it’s not poison oak then go to the doc. GUH!!!! I was packing clothes and sorting clothes that were old and dusty to give away. Maybe something was on them(?)
Ivy Dry has always worked well for Jim who is very susceptible to poison ivy and oak.
Powell’s just down the road — say no more, say no more.
And marmotdude tells me the service at the restaurant was outstanding.
PF Changs is GREAT 🙂 about 10 bucks more than the crappy ass Chevy’s service but very much worth it.
They have a Cold Stones ice cream place there too 🙂 Wes remembered it from when DamnitRyan took us to it after Blue Man Group in Boston.
Marmotdude had to use a fork instead of the chopsticks. He loved the veggie wraps 🙂 I think he had the munchies HARD! 🙂
in her hat?
two weeks ago, but this actually his mischevious twin marmotdude who has a strong affinity toward hookahs.
Omg! What would I do without you guys with better eyes to catch the visual jokes I’d miss without you? Andi, you are too much!
The frog is getting jealous.
I know — I was so disappointed that you didn’t notice when I did this the other I just had to post it again.
I mean, if Bush thinks running the country is hard, he ought try getting a marmot in a flowered hat.
If a bon mot falls in the forest and there’s nobody to hear it, is it still funny?
This is such good work. I am ashamed to have missed it the first time. Could you maybe put, like, a tiny blue dot on your marmot tricks, to alert me to look closer?
Marmot ideas: Take ManE’s pile of frogs and turn them into marmots. Put a marmot on the Froggy Bottom coffee cup logo.
In your spare time. From this marmot on.
I think they’re both accessible by MAX, so the spouse and I will definitely have to make a trek up there; spouse is now talking about a 2-day or so stopover in Portland before we head up to Seattle during the June Big Trip. Not just you — I have a niece and great-niece up there so we can do the family bit too.
The itching crap — could be a stress reaction, combined with maybe hitting something you’re allergic to. Once you folks get settled up there, you might want to get a good workup; there might be stuff up there you were never exposed to. (I had allergies hit for the first time this year just from moving a few miles down the road; different greenery around here.)
Try to relax…the only chickens I want running around with their heads cut off are the chickenhawks in this damn misAdministration! 🙂
Cali!!!! The max train is just a mere minutes walk from the apts we got. 🙂 Shows, winterhawk games, protests – all just a short ride away!!!Thank you so much for the Powells gift card!!!!!! Saw that store and almost cried thinking of you and your kind email.
It is so so so beautiful there!!! I’m not materialistic.. but there are so many shopping centers. Lovely, uppity ones, too. Just within jogging distance. One is really fancy schmancy but didn’t see that $$$. The Mr will no longer have the Kmart versus Wal-Mart excuse LOL. “Honey, I was going to get you smething nice but… couldn’t get out of Lake County” LOL
Saw the pharmdude and they said poison oak, bad bad bad on my face. So need to go to the doctors 11ish. Said i might need shots and stuff. ACK!
Be back later. xoxox
I feel so sorry for you! Been there, scratched that.
Urg, now I’m worried about you. Please post a little note later if you can to let
us all know you didn’t go into anaphylactic shock or anything, okay?
Ditto that!
A steroid step-down pack and she’ll be as good as new. And hopefully no hair will grow on her chest.
As your pharmacist, I recommend some Tecnu (INCREDIBLE poison ivy wash) and Calagel to speed up the healing process…in addition to whatever you wind up with steroid-wise.
Kudos to BostonJoe and all who pulled off that amazing Feather Feat…well done! Should give the chickenhawks’s something to think about during their 2 wk break…here’s hoping.
Gearing up for a loooonnng car trip…heading home for T-Day after a long hiatus. I’ll be looking at about 1200 mi of this in the next few days:
No computer where I’m headed so…Have a great Holiday! I’ll catch ya later.
Peace
Stay safe, have a great holiday, please take lots of pictures because you are good at it. 🙂
I LOVE THAT PHOTO! Is here any chance I can get a larger one so I can make it my wallpaper???
Uhh….maybe not….
Don’t have that worry. Since we live so far removed from family on either side. Now that we are moving though – I doubt my mom’s side of the family will have anything to do with me or my brother, DamnitRyan.
We done did protest against Dear Leader – we be going to hell and should have been shot in public…
DOn’t need family anyways – not when we have so many dear friends to be thankful for 😉
Happy T-Day WryTwinger
Holidays are a time to get together with family…and listen to the racist, homophobic, sexist, intolerant comments fly! It’s as American as apple pie in my family!
When I saw the pictures I assumed we were related, but now I’m sure of it.
My family does the same thing, which is half the reason why I’ve not been to a family holiday of any sort in over a decade. My “problem”, apparently, is that I refuse to STFU and listen to it. I constantly challenge it and thus make everyone else just as irate as they’re making me, which mostly just winds up contributing to a banner sales weekend at the local liquor store and an exercise in making sure 911 still works to bring a shitload of cops to the house real quick…
Every single day I am profoundly thankful for liberal and feminist blogs.
I hope that you’ll write the screenplay because I’d love to see that movie. Sounds like a cross between Christmas Vacation and Postcards from the Edge.
When asked in the past to describe my mother, I have done so thusly: Think of a combination of Farrah Fawcett, Patsy & Edina from Absolutely Fabulous, and Joan Crawford. She passed away in 2002, though, and she was the only family I had on her side, so the family I usually complain about here is my dad’s side.
And they’re hard to categorize. They’re (almost) all very smart and geeky and science-people, but at the same time, they’re really religious people who mostly avoid church (Catholic but not a mainstream flavor if you catch my drift). They’re all alcoholics, and half of them struggle with other addictions, and they’re much more materialistic and militaristic than me, so as we all get older, having any kind of meaningful conversation is increasingly more difficult.
Maybe someday I can get you or AndiF to adopt me into some currently available role in one of your families. I come with a modest savings account, some cooking skills, and lots of snark. 😉
Hey, hold on! I want to put in a bid for you! My family is really tiny, but you can count on us to snicker appreciatively, when we’re not guffawing out loud, at all of your snark.
Unfortunately it looks as if we’ll have to have a snark-off (Ooh, that just sounds bad)to see who gets to keep Indy. She had me at cooking skills, nevermind her sparkling wit.
Maybe we can pass her around? (Talk about sounding bad.) Maybe you could get her for this TD, Andi gets her for Chrismaka, then can I have her for next TD?
I think Andi is jewish. Does that mean she gets her for 8 days and nights? I don’t think that’s fair.
Well if anybody was going to find a way to game the system, you know it was going to be the Omniscient Blue Dot.
That’s why I called it Chrismaka. Clearly, you don’t watch “The O.C.,” a fact which speaks altogether too highly of you.
You’re right, I don’t watch The O.C. But I did marry a man who watches Buffy and Charmed. That should knock me (and him) right off that pedestal.
How wide can we make this thread?
Your man is da man! Buffy! I keep trying to love Charmed, but can’t quite manage it. But it says something about me that I want to. No need to speak out loud the exact thing it says.
Aren’t you proud of me for not saying something really dirty in response to that? ::pats self on back::
You’re no fun anymore.
I know! I’ll just couch-surf around and be related to all the frogs. You guys are just the best consolation prize ever. 😉
Aw, thanks Kansas. You crack me up, too. I’d be honored to be a part of your small snickering family. Which reminds me of my favorite movie quote, from Lilo & Stitch:
and miss a great thread.
Keep the money and the cooking — my family take you for the snark alone — we live and breathe snark.
Really, though, once you get to Dayton, I planning on us getting together.
I planning on it, too. 😉
Meanwhile, I’ll be missing all the rest of the great threads today because I need to take advantage of the two ounces of energy I just located and do some grocery shopping. See all you groovy peaches later.
After numerous rounds of “We don’t even know if Osama bin Laden is still alive,” Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of coded message:
370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then the NSA, and finally even to NASA.
With no clue as to its meaning, they eventually asked Israel’s MOSAD for help. Within a minute MOSAD cabled the White House with this reply “Tell the President, he’s holding the message upside down.”
That’s funny, and even I got it! Course, for the first half I thought you were serious.
I deleted the military officer’s name who wrote it up and sent it and it wasn’t my husband, and he is active duty probably sitting at his desk at his assigned Army Post this very minute as I type this. The guy even signed it and sent it out with his own honest to goodness personal signature along with his rank and regiment and the whole nine yards. Oh Yeah, the military is 100% behind Bush and Cheney….totally, completely!
U.S. President to ever hide in Mongolia……I mean visit Mongolia!
and step slowly away from the computer. Between this quote from Washington Monthly
[A] spokeswoman for the colonel, Danny R. Bubp, said Ms. Schmidt had misconstrued their conversation.
While Mr. Bubp, a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, opposes a quick withdrawal for forces, “he did not mention Congressman Murtha by name nor did he mean to disparage Congressman Murtha,” said Karen Tabor, his spokeswoman. “He feels as though the words that Congresswoman Schmidt chose did not represent their conversation.”
And me wondering how many yellow feathers he got yesterday and today and how much he never wants to talk to Ms. Schmidt ever again as long as he lives…………..ANDDD this whole Abramoff, Scanlon, DeLay, and everybody and their dog thing my brain is going to explode. TIME OUT
Please take your glasses of horchata and head on over to the new thread! Thank ewe kindly!