I was surprised by how badly Romney handled the question about releasing his tax returns, and by what a good job John King did holding Romney’s feet to the fire.
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Thursday Night Recipe Exchange
(Photo from JeffreyW’s mouth watering collection)
New weekly feature — assuming y’all respond as you should. Welcome back to TaMara, Recipe Goddess of What’s 4 Dinner Solutions:
Aloha Balloon-Juicers. I’m back. I wish I could say I was back from a long trip abroad, but no, life has just been very busy. That has not changed, but after quite a few requests, I think I have figured out a way to bring recipes back to Thursday nights with the limited amount of time I can devote to it. Unfortunately, for now, I won’t be doing full menus.
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What I proposed to John and Anne Laurie was to have a recipe exchange. Each Thursday we’d have a theme (I’m a sucker for a theme) or an ingredient to focus those recipes (but by no means restrict them) and everyone could share their favorites. Each week I’ll give you the next week’s ingredient or theme so you have a whole week to think of something great to share. Anne Laurie would probably gladly accept photos, too.
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Now I expect all those people who emailed me and touched base with me in open threads wondering when I might post recipes again, to participate in this endeavor. Don’t make me come in there!
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This week we’re starting out simple with my favorite comfort food and a recipe I thought many of you would have a favorite variation they could share. Like most of my recipes, this is pretty simple and even a novice cook should be successful. Experienced cooks will tweak it beyond recognition, as all good cooks do.
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Next week our secret ingredient will be spinach. So come prepared to share a favorite recipe with spinach in it, in some shape or form. Here’s some baked macaroni and cheese to start things off. Hope you enjoy – TaMara (BHF)
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Baked Macaroni & Cheese
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Thick as a brick
Watching this, I’m struck by what an idiot Santorum is. I’m not claiming that Newt is some kind of a genius, but he can string logical sentence together. Sanotrum is just a moron.
Why would anyone want Santorum to be their nominee? I just don’t get it. I don’t want idiots coaching my football team, why do you want one as your party’s nominee or your country’s president? That’s the side of conservatism I just don’t get. Why does someone like Bobo dig this guy?
Update. “The right of our creator to life”? What the fuck?
GOP Debate Open Thread
This one’s sponsored by CNN, out of Charleston. Richard Adam’s Guardian liveblog here.
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Stolen from earlier thread, Because of Wow:
The Other Chuck – January 19, 2012 | 7:06 pm
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Newt asked Callista for an open marriage so he could FUCK ALL 300 MILLION OF US.
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From the Guardian:
8.33pm: Our correspondent Ewen MacAskill is at the debate venue here in Charleston and gives his thoughts on Newt Gingrich’s beat-up of CNN’s super-dumb questioning about his second wife:
It was a good tactic for Gingrich to shift the onus onto the media, criticising John King for starting the presidential debate with it. Media-bashing proved popular with this Republican audience and probably goes down well nationwide. It has worked for Gingrich in earlier debates.
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But maybe he made too much of it, going on just a bit too long. Many millions watching would have been unaware of the Marianne Gingrich interview: the former House speaker has just provide great advertising for the ABC interview. He has just ensured many of them will be tuning in to hear it…
Let’s hope ABC takes full advantage. Juicy details of all three marriages?
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9:06pm: Asked when the candidates should release their tax returns, Newt Gingrich quips “an hour ago” (he has just released his). Ron Paul says he hasn’t because he earns so little he’s embarrassed. And somehow Mitt Romney blames Obama for insisting on it – which is weird.
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“I want to make sure I beat President Obama and everytime we release things we get drip, drip drip … my taxes are carefully managed,” says Romney.
Next ad from President Obama’s re-election campaign: Do you think a guy who can’t take responsibility for ‘carefully managing’ his own taxes is capable of leading America in this big, messy world?
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9:53pm: We are in the final strait of this debate, and the candidates are being offered a final statement, although in a stupid way, the choice being offered is: should South Carolina vote for Mitt Romney or not?
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Who is writing your questions, CNN? An drunken intern, it would seem. Possibly a not very bright drunken intern.
To Russia With Love
Mitt Romney wants you to know he is entitled to his half a billion, and if you think there is a problem with the current concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny, tiny minority of sociopaths, well to fucking Russia with you:
Let me tell you something. America is a great nation, because we’re a united nation. And those who are trying to divide the nation, as you’re trying to do here, and as our president is doing, are hurting this country seriously. The right course for America is not to try to divide America, and try and divid us between one and another. it’s to come together as a nation.
And if you’ve got a better model — if you think China’s better, or Russia’s better, or Cuba’s better, or North Korea’s better — I’m glad to hear all about it.
But you know what? America’s right, and you’re wrong.
No one is suggesting we turn this into the former communist Russia, as Mitt is implying. All people are suggesting is that we stop lowering taxes for the very few and ending the 30 year reign of terror waged on the middle class by Mitt and his cohort. What’s even funnier is that even though Mitt is raking in millions at a tax rate lower than you, me, and virtually everyone in the country, he fails to realize that America he wants and has been working for more closely resembles the current Russian oligarchy, with a fantabulous concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people and corporations. According to wikipedia, the ratio of wealth of the top 10% to the bottom 10% and the top 20% and bottom 20% in the US and Russia negligible- (15.9 and 8.4% respectively for the US, and 12.7 and 7.6% for Russia). We are the third most unequal industrialized nation after… wait for it… Mexico and Russia.
So Mitt, you trust fund asshole, there is no reason for the bottom 99% to go to Russia, because as far as income disparity goes, they’re already there. Instead of lashing out at people who are rightfully pissed, he and his campaign should spend more time honing their message for the general electorate- for example, explaining how sheltering massive wealth in the Grand Caymans is the patriotic thing to do. Or how you think receiving millions a year from Bain and investment dividends makes you “unemployed.”
Dickhead.
Winning the 27% Primary…
A few weeks ago folks had written The Professor off as a dead man walking. And now look at him. Some polls have him pulling ahead of Mittens and Governor Oops has GTT and endorsed Newt on the way out the door.
Sure an ex-wife will be on a late night network news show to say that Newtie is a cad, a dick and a bad husband, but everybody already knows this. The interview will cause hyperventilation in the drawing rooms of Georgetown, but in South Carolina folks won’t care very much. Some will give the Professor a pass because he has found Jesus, but most will support him because he brings the crazy hate towards President Obama and fearlessly fights to win the White’s-Only-Primary of the old South. With Perry’s collapse, Newt is the last Confederate standing–and the Confederate Party is the new base of the Republican Party and the root of the 27% Crazification Factor.
Now they may be 27% of the general population, but in the Republican Party they are the tail that wags the dog. In a state like South Carolina, they are a majority of GOP Primary voters–that is why everybody is bringing the crazy to win their support. But no matter how hard Romney tries, his crazy–just like everything else he does–seems inauthentic. Santorum may say crazy shit, but like Romney he is also a Yankee and not fully trusted. Ron Paul should be a great fit with the 27% percent crowd, but his Libertarian views concerning civil liberties, drugs, war and torture have the base thinking he is a commie or something. That leaves Newt. And The Professor is a Ninja when it comes to tossing bombs and bringing the crazy–hell, he practically invented the modern era of partisan dysfunction.
The Professor is playing a weak hand extremely well. He knows crazy is gold in GOP politics and by that standard he is King Midas. Newt is showing the 27% crazy love and they are loving him back. Expect more of it tonight and don’t be surprised if a funny thing happens to Mittens on the way to his coronation.
But now I have to get ready for my drinking game and I’m afraid a hangover is in my future (I should never have committed to a shot every time Newt utters a racist dog whistle).
Cheers
Money Bomb: Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2012!
I would be remiss not to highlight today’s fundraising appeal for Warren’s campaign. From the website:
Scott Brown is celebrating the two-year anniversary of his election today — and we’re fighting back by launching a money bomb to stand up and show the power of Elizabeth’s grassroots support.
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Elizabeth’s campaign has lots of grassroots momentum — but Scott Brown still has a two-to-one cash-on-hand advantage, with millions of dollars more from Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, the Chamber of Commerce, and other Wall Street interests waiting in the wings…
Balloon Juice also has an ActBlue page for Warren, though I don’t know whether contributions there will be credited towards today’s money bomb.
Who’s up for the opposite of a drinking game for tonight’s GOP debate? Maybe hit the tip button every time Newton blows his dogwhistle, or Willard describes himself as ‘trustworthy’, ‘faithful’, or ‘happily married for 25 years’? (Even at a buck a hit, that should get us past the million-dollar mark by around 8:45pm…. )
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