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Just wanted to take a quick minute and wish everyone a Happy Easter- and if you haven’t watched it, an interesting and sometimes testy debate on the role of religion in politics on MTP this morning.

Now go eat some ham and green beans and twice-baked potatoes and and pickled eggs and other good stuff. That is an order.

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  1. 1.

    Paddy O'Shea

    Actually I prefer Beaster. Frightening tale of a young bunny who, upon being possessed by unkind spirits through the ingestion of spiritually tainted Peeps, slays the entire village of Middlevale.

    Neil Young apparently has gone into the studio and recorded a new single called “Impeach the President.” Might not be a particulalry big hit in Psycho Right precincts, but #1 @ iTunes? Easy.

    editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002344436

  2. 2.

    ppGaz

    Happy Easter to all.

    Meet the Press can be viewed in its entirety online about three hours after the broadcast.

    One panelist on the show is Sister Joan Chittister, who writes this about the children of Iraq this Easter:

    Take care of the ones who now carry within themselves the sour taste of fear that came as bombs dropped

    through the dark sky shaking their houses, destroying their streets. Take care of the children, the ones who

    went cold as stone at the loss of brothers and fathers and dead playmates.

    Take care of the ones who felt the sweat of terror when the doors of the homes in which they were sure they

    were safe broke down in the middle of the night or the lights went out or their mothers wrapped their shawls

    around their heads and cried. Take care of the ones who went into psychic paralysis at the sight of blood

    and bodies. Take care of the ones who woke up one morning to find their lives completely disrupted for no

    apparent reason.

    Take care of the ones to whom then Secretary of State Colin Powell was apparently referring when a reporter

    asked him how many Iraqis had been killed or injured at that point in the war and his answer was, “That is a

    number in which I have absolutely no interest whatsoever.”

    But maybe he and we should all rethink that answer. Because these children do not feel “liberated” by this

    war; in these children the seeds of the next war have already been planted.

    The Iraqi women were very clear: the most injured of all in this war are the children of Iraq. “The war has

    made deep wounds that have become part of our souls,” another woman said. “They can never be forgotten. The

    living conditions, the lack of security is affecting everything the children do. They cannot even deliver

    newspapers anymore.”

    Their schooling has been interrupted. Even if the school buildings still stand, there are no supplies for

    them. And there are few people in them anyway. Teachers are dead. Classmates are gone from the area —

    refugees somewhere or dead themselves. Most of all, their parents are afraid to send them out of the house

    even if the schools are undamaged.

    “Our childhood is killed in Iraq,” a woman said. “It is killed.”

    –Sister Joan Chittister

    Read Sister Chitister’s archived online writings here

  5. 5.

    CaseyL

    I am risen again the morning after having my YYth Birthday Bash. I have enough bread, cheese, wine, snack mixes, and fruit to host another one. The wine, esp. Gawd, I’ve got, like, 6 bottles.

    I also have enough art and craft supplies to run a seminar. It was supposed to be a Let’s Make Art party, but everyone was too busy yakking and eating and drinking to pay attention to the official curriculum :)

  9. 9.

    Ancient Purple

    I’m still trying to figure out the rationale of eating a pork product on a day to celebrate the resurrection of a Jewish carpenter.

  11. 11.

    chopper

    i dunno. ham is traditional around christmas based on an old german pagan tradition. easter, i’m not sure why, but i have no doubts it was appropriated from somewhere. hell, easter is named after an anglo-saxon fertility goddess, hence all the stuff about eggs and bunnies and baby chicks.

  12. 12.

    ppGaz

    A new (April) Maci photograph is my Easter gift to you, at my url. She is out visiting other relatives today and we are of course eating our livers with jealousy. So, looking at the pictures is a consolation …..

    Her parents promised to have her here later in time for dinner and the Sopranos.

  13. 13.

    InsultComicDog

    Oh, no. Our “War On Easter” hasn’t been much of a success, has it.

    Ah well. Happy Hippity Hoppity to you too.

  14. 14.

    RSA

    My family always eats lamb.

    Us: a rack of lamb, cut into chops, marinated in French mustard, red vinegar, garlic and rosemary, with a touch of olive oil. Thrown on a high-temperature grill, to get just-short-of-burned on the outside but still rare inside. Yum.

  15. 15.

    chopper

    Us: a rack of lamb, cut into chops, marinated in French mustard, red vinegar, garlic and rosemary, with a touch of olive oil. Thrown on a high-temperature grill, to get just-short-of-burned on the outside but still rare inside. Yum.

    i marinate it in lamb broth made from the bones of the last one, with some salt, oil, a lil vinegar and rosemary. then chuck it inna 200 degree oven til it’s nice and medium rare, then pull it out and let it rest while you fire the oven up to 550 or so and chuck it back in to sear the outside.

    alternately, you can do the trick i like; to sear meat to give it the nice brown edge w/o cooking it too much, or in the case of a bony roast that won’t brown all over in a pan very well, just make sure it’s got a bit of oil onnit and break out the butane torch. gets into every crevice.

  17. 17.

    Richard Bottoms

    Two bombs killed at least 12 people in Iraq, authorities said today, as the speaker of Iraq’s parliament postponed the next meeting of lawmakers, which had been scheduled for Monday. Meanwhile, the U.S. military reported the deaths of four Marines in Anbar province.

    cnn

    Happy Easter to all you Bush supporters. Especially the ones who are safe at home having never served their country.

    Sleep well.

  18. 18.

    Ancient Purple

    Mom’s doing the cooking today, so we are having Roasted Capon, Standing Rib Roast, Glazed Carrots, Mashed Potatoes, Gorgonzola Mac & Cheese, Green Beans Almondine, Buttermilk Biscuits, Relish Tray, Caesar Salad and, for dessert, Coconut Cream Pie or Strawberry Shortcake.

    All homemade because Mom is a southern gal who is a wizard in the kitchen.

  19. 19.

    anonymous

    God put man on the earth. This was an error. Man was damned. God sends son to save. Son dies. God resurrects him again. Man now has an after life called heaven or hell, but realising its another existence man is damned again. So, the answer is we have to live the life out, but can pass on the rest. Fair enough considering God made a mistake.

  20. 20.

    demimondian

    Oh, no. Our “War On Easter” hasn’t been much of a success, has it.

    I have received a communiqué from Brother Scalpel of the Ineffible Inquisition, speaking on behalf of the Committee for Limited and Not-entirely Indirect Action of the True Unitarian Jihad:

    “In the name of the Intervening Facet of the Unity which is, or at least might be, God, we take responsibility for the acts we have performed on behalf of our brothers and sisters among the sensate organisms in our continued struggle against brightly colored relics of the infidel. (Let the record show that Sister Solipsist, High Unique Entity, maintains that the acts did not happen, as she alone exists. The Chair also entertains the request, expressed by Brother Pantheist of the Universal Priesthood, that Sister Solipsist explain exactly who she expects to read the minutes. That question has been deferred to the next meeting.)

    Dog willing, the whining laptops of the infidel media shall come to know the iniquity of the scandal of the Brightly-Colored Eggs, and the Tail of the Dog shall Wag. (46% of the Committee feels that the Brightly-Colored Eggs are a scandal. 56%, however, believe that Bill and Monica were far more important, as well as more titillating.) In token of which, we have acted to prevent the St. Joseph’s “Easter-egg hunt” by replacing the Brightly-Colored Ovoids with Naturally-Colorede Ovoids, thus to promote the organic growth of our youth.”

  21. 21.

    ppGaz

    Since Richard has opened the door to a good serving of Easter Bile, in honor of the lying bonesmokers in your government, this from Thinkprogress via DKos:

    Yesterday on PBS’ Newshour, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said no administration official made any predictions about the length or cost of the war in Iraq:
    I was very careful. I never predicted any number of deaths or the cost or the length because I’ve looked at a lot of wars, and anyone who tries to do that is going to find themselves wrong, flat wrong…I don’t know anybody who had any reasonable expectations about the number or the length of the war or the cost of the war. I just don’t — no one I know went out and said these are how those three metrics ought to be considered. And you can take it to the bank.
    The truth is, Rumsfeld and other top administration officials made predictions on all three metrics. You can take that to the bank – Length:
    Rumsfeld, 2/7/03: “It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.” Cheney, 3/16/03: “I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months”
    Cost:
    Daniels, 12/30/02: “The administration’s top budget [Mitch Daniels] official estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion … Mr. Daniels declined to explain how budget officials had reached the $50 billion to $60 billion range for war costs…” [New York Times, 12/31/02]
    Casualties:
    Q: If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties? Cheney: Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. [Meet the Press, 3/16/03]

    And they wonder why we call these people liars?

    Happy Bullshit Easter from your friends in the Pentagon.

  22. 22.

    Easyliving

    Your arguments are so tired. You act as you’ve got some smoking-gun, can’t-possibly-be-answered-without-total-capitulation-and-worsip-at-my-feat certainty that just isn’t there, not even close.

    You fail to fundamentally understand what you write about. Your sloppy narritive is the pancake from the bathroom floor of writing. Just plain bad. And dumb too.

    I AM EASYLIVING

  23. 23.

    Krista

    Mom’s doing the cooking today, so we are having Roasted Capon, Standing Rib Roast, Glazed Carrots, Mashed Potatoes, Gorgonzola Mac & Cheese, Green Beans Almondine, Buttermilk Biscuits, Relish Tray, Caesar Salad and, for dessert, Coconut Cream Pie or Strawberry Shortcake.

    All homemade because Mom is a southern gal who is a wizard in the kitchen.

    I’ll be right over.

    We had our Easter dinner yesterday — just a small celebration with the bf, his grandfather, and our dog. We all ate much more ham than was good for us. My chocolate bunny is now missing his ears. It’s been a good weekend, albeit with crappy weather.

  24. 24.

    Pb

    That damnable MSN Video crap (that Meet The Press is using) is quite annoying, at least for us Linux users. Google Video is much friendlier, even though it also (thinks that it) requires Flash.

  26. 26.

    demimondian

    That damnable MSN Video crap (that Meet The Press is using) is quite annoying, at least for us Linux users.

    Yeah, well, happy Easter to you, too, Pb. :-)

    Did you happen to notice what file format it’s in?

  27. 27.

    BIRDZILLA

    Our easter weather has been strange it was partly cloudy and sunny this morning then it was all snowy then it turned sunny again then its snowy then sunny. I suppose the wackos at GREENPEAC and the liberal wussies at TIME and NEWSWEEK will blame this on global warming knowing how rediclous they can get

  28. 28.

    Ancient Purple

    I suppose the wackos at GREENPEAC and the liberal wussies at TIME and NEWSWEEK will blame this on global warming knowing how rediclous they can get

    Or at least blame them for the rash of people who can’t spell “ridiculous.”

  29. 29.

    Bob In Pacifica

    This is supposed to be the last day of our two months of constant rainfall here in Northern California. From now on it’s supposed to be sunny.

    All of this rain has been caused by global warming. It’s a fact. Absolutely.

  31. 31.

    demimondian

    GREENPEAC

    Yo, Bird! What kind of whacked-out moonbat acronym is that?

    Happy Easter, all — the demifolk are off to braised lamb with a reduction sauce, starch vegetable, and cooked green things served with a warm lemon-scented colloidal sauce based on undercooked egg yolks.

  33. 33.

    Pb

    demimondian,

    Probably some divx/mpeg4 variant. I managed to load it up using wine, but that’s about as far as I got.

  34. 34.

    Pb

    Yep, looks like WMV 9 DMO… just after posting that, I found the mms url for it in my cache, go figure. Looks like I can download/play it with mplayer!

  35. 35.

    demimondian

    Yeah, mplayer supports WMV 9 if DRM isn’t enabled (which I assume would be the case for a video like a staging of MTP.)

  36. 36.

    Paddy O'Shea

    Poll fans will be delighted to note that today’s Rasmussen Poll shows Georgie falling below the 40% mark for the first time ever. The 60% disapproval number that goes along with it is also a record buster for Georgie.

    No major poll now shows Bush with an approval rating above the 30s.

    Don’t suspect we’ll see many Freepers citing this Razz finding any time soon.

    rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm

  37. 37.

    ppGaz

    Poll fans will be delighted to note that today’s Rasmussen Poll shows Georgie falling below the 40% mark for the first time ever. The 60% disapproval number that goes along with it is also a record buster for Georgie.

    Yeah, and that’s just in the Bush family.

  39. 39.

    srv

    I’m in Dublin today, and over here, the War on Easter has a long way to go. All the stores are closed, but you can still get a pint of Guinness. So the baby Jesus is doing just fine over here, thankyou.

    This is supposed to be the last day of our two months of constant rainfall here in Northern California. From now on it’s supposed to be sunny.

    Damn well better be, I get back tonight and expect to start working on my tan tomorrow. I’m still sopping wet from the Kerry Way.

  40. 40.

    kevin lyda

    I’m in Galway and was thinking about the hundreds of thousands of familes in America yesterday celebrating Easter without their soldier son/daughter/wife/husband/brother/sister.

    All for lies.

    I hope you enjoyed your dinner Mr. Cole. Hope you’re enjoying your war.

  41. 41.

    Richard Bottoms

    I hope you enjoyed your dinner Mr. Cole. Hope you’re enjoying your war.

    Now, now. He’s washed his hands of the Republican party.

    Wait, haven’t I’ve heard that reference before???

    Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name.

  42. 42.

    jg

    Anyone else find it odd that Good Friday is a national holiday in India but not in the USA which is a Christian country?

    BTW I disobeyed an order. I ate turkey.

  43. 43.

    Krista

    Anyone else find it odd that Good Friday is a national holiday in India but not in the USA which is a Christian country?

    That IS weird. It’s a holiday here. And Monday is a government holiday (schools, banks, government offices are closed).

  44. 44.

    Bob In Pacifica

    What has happened to Balloon Juice?

    Remember, before John Cole had a bout of the flu, when there was three or four posts a day about cutting-edge topics? Remember his feisty, reactionary outlook? His bile? Remember pictures of buses under water? Everyday John Cole would roll out of the wrong side of the bed, being cranky and making nasty remarks to anyone who would listen.

    Now, barely a sick whimper. Sad.

    What’s happened? If we didn’t have beer blogs we’d have nothing here. Nothing.

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