Opening Day for Major League Baseball. Here’s one of my favorite Rays to watch — Kevin Kiermaier:
The handsome center fielder is known for his acrobatic catches. Anyone else watching baseball?
Open thread!
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Opening Day for Major League Baseball. Here’s one of my favorite Rays to watch — Kevin Kiermaier:
The handsome center fielder is known for his acrobatic catches. Anyone else watching baseball?
Open thread!
by Betty Cracker| 248 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Television, Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment
The Trump era continues to be comedy gold for Saturday Night Live. Last night’s opening segment totally nails one of the more amusing Trump apologists, Scottie Nell Hughes, and mocks Trump’s leering comments about his own daughter:
Meanwhile, over at the NYT, Maureen Dowd manages to get Trump to admit it was a mistake to retweet the Heidi Cruz photo and perhaps allow that his campaign manager should have apologized to the Brietbart reporter he yanked around.
Dowd is way more fair to Trump than she is to Hillary Clinton. That shouldn’t surprise anyone who is familiar with Dowd’s oeuvre.
Anyhoo, discuss whatever!
This post is in: Garden Chats
From loyal morning correspondent & photographer Ozark Hillbilly:
… of an Ozark Spring. Got my first tick of the year yesterday so it’s time I sent you this.
And no Ozark Spring is complete without Redbuds [top pic] and Dogwoods [last pic].
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Darned few dogwoods left in this part of New England, unfortunately — anthracnose blight killed most of our landcape specimens. We planted a multigraft cherry tree to replace the dying front-yard dogwood when we bought this place twenty years ago, and the Spousal Unit (who grew up in the Cherry Capital) loves it, but it won’t flower for several weeks yet…
What’s going on in your garden (planning) this week?
The good…
The bad…
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This post is in: Movies, Open Threads, Popular Culture
When you forgot where you parked at the mall. pic.twitter.com/Xc2yJZTRZl
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) April 2, 2016
From this still, Benedict Cumberbatch is almost too good a Dr. Strange — he’s so close to the 1960s comic that my first thought involved recent leaps in 3D printing technology. But then I’m one of the few who feel that Mr. Cumberbatch is a native of the Uncanny Valley, and what more appropriate aura for the Master of the Uncanny?
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Apart from pop culture, or concerning it, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Friend from the army sent me a picture of me in 1990 Germany rocking the latest in Army headgear:
I have no idea what the hell was going on other than probably me being a jackass and entertaining people with my stupidity. Some things don’t change. Not sure where we are, but those are field billets because we are on cots.
New SNL with Peter Dinklage tonight.
Sorry about the delay, its been a crazy couple of days. Nothing bad, just really busy. Tonight we’re going to just do a couple of quick breakfast/brunch items. I honestly don’t remember where I got these two recipes, but we’ve got pancakes from scratch and strawberry bread. TaMara should be back on recipe patrol next week!
Pancakes
(makes 8 servings)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (Or gluten free if you need)
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Directions:
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
—–Update—–
I now know where I got the strawberry bread recipe: right here! Over three years ago TaMara posted it. I emailed her a while back and asked: “Please tell me this isn’t your’s?” She emailed back and it is. So even when she’s taking a week off, she’s still somehow posting recipes.
Strawberry Bread
Ingredients:
1 ½ cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda
2 eggs
½ cup butter
12 oz frozen strawberries, thawed & chopped (can also use pureed fresh strawberries, but bake for an extra five minutes)
½ cup chopped pecans
loaf pan, greased
Directions:
Combine dry ingredients. Add eggs, butter, strawberries and pecans. Stir just until all ingredients are moistened. Spoon batter into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes then run knife around edges & remove to cool on wire rack.
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Obama rescues industry in Elkhart, Indiana, they still don’t like him and think Trump is the bee’s knees:
Seven years ago President Obama came to this northern Indiana city, where unemployment was heading past 20 percent, for his first trip as president. Ed Neufeldt, the jobless man picked to introduce him, afterward donned three green rubber bracelets, each to be removed in turn as joblessness fell to 5 percent in the county, the state and the nation.
It took years — in 2012, Mr. Neufeldt lamented to a local reporter that he might wear his wristbands “to my casket” — but by last year they had all come off. Elkhart’s unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, is among the country’s lowest, so low that employers here in the self-described R.V. capital of the world are advertising elsewhere for workers, offering sign-up bonuses, even hiring from a local homeless shelter.
Mr. Obama, whose four trips here during 2008 and 2009 tracked the area’s decline, is expected to return for the first time in coming weeks, both to showcase its recovery and to warn against going back to Republican economic policies. Yet where is Mr. Neufeldt leaning in this presidential election year? He may keep a photograph of himself and Mr. Obama on a desk at the medical office he cleans nightly, but he is considering Donald J. Trump.
“I like the way he just won’t take nothing off of nobody,” Mr. Neufeldt said, though days later he allowed: “He scares me sometimes.”
Republicans destroy shit, Democrats fix it, voters elect more Republicans. The NYT, as always, buries the lede:
Brian A. Howey, publisher of the Howey Politics Indiana newsletter and once a reporter in Elkhart, sounded stumped, even allowing for the state’s conservatism: “I’m a lifelong Hoosier. I’m just amazed that not only do people not appreciate what happened in ’09, but there’s a lot of hostility toward Obama. I think part of it is racial and a lot of it is political.”
You think?
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