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Powerful. You don’t need two semi-automatic clips to hunt a deer.
LL, first! Unlike …. no, no ….. happy Easter!
No cocktail for you!
What are you serving tonight Mr. LL? Congrats on being Número Uno! 😀
LibLib! Yes!
Wow LL! that cocktail worked wonders!!! Congrats on First 🙂
I’m on a different one now.
HOOLA HOOP
1.5 oz. gin
1 oz OJ
1 oz pineapple juice
This one could be dangerous.
We have rules for hunting animals. None for humans.
Truth.
Haooty
LL, how do you get into first with 12 words when I can only manage second with one horrible typo?
I writes good. And it was sheer luck. I just happened to refresh at the right time.
I blame it on my computer 😉
How is everybody? What’s for dinner??
Heritage flakes cereal. With yoghurt. Seriously.
Helloooooo Magapie! LL’s cooking for us tonight, waiting for the menu (and he’s really slow producing it).
Chipsticks ~ see above, dinner is ready. 😉
Huh, it might be ready for LL, but there’s nothing on my table yet, MightyPamela. C’mon LL, get a move on.
Here in the “GREAT” SOUTHWEST……………..two chickens on the vertical, beer can roaster thingy in the grill. Spicy rub. Probably should have something with the chicken. Braised spinach!!!
What is it the young people say? Oh yeah: OMG!
More food teasing, while I settle down to my cheesy puff salad?
Magapie, may your chicken incinerate on the vertical, beer can roaster thingy in the grill, to the point where it looks like this:
No hard feelings, but I will not tolerate delicious menus being thrown in my direction without fighting back, somewhat violently.
At the risk of being even MORE pretentious, it looks like they cooked it a little too long.
Looks like my standard cooking time for chicken, Magapie – avoids the risk of rawness, I find. And the skin is really crispy.
I never knew why anyone found this scene funny, just another day at my dinner table:
CLASSIC! And the old guy: “You waaahn it. You gaaaaht it. TOYoooootah!!” With Billy Crystal!!
The thing is Magapie, I thought that turkey looked DELICIOUS!!! Cooked just right!
eating now…. yum.
And the YOGHURT…..does it??
Very powerful. The sheer volume of ammo is shocking.
Makes you a Hoola Hoop cocktail.
At 6 am???
Why the hell not ? Danke.
Cheers.
Hey! It has OJ and pineapple juice in it. Perfect drink for brunch. which is still 4 hours away for you.
Goes well with my morning cuppa.
How is Ms LL ?
SICK and TIRED of protein drinks, but soldiering on.
Good for her. How long is this dietary regime ?
Well, she can now have soft foods—egg, yogurt, cottage cheese. And she’s having baby food as well. But the drinks will be with her for a few more weeks.
What is a hoola hoop cocktail. Or should I ask?
1.5 oz gin
1 oz OJ
1 oz pineapple juice
I might just have to try that. Thanks
It’s tasty. And dangerous.
So you’re awake! Good Sunday Morning to you!
Yeah, yeah. That’s all fine. Do you have the invite or not ?
Not yet. Was hoping you’d have forgotten that part of the deal.
wimmin/smh
Of course I’m a wimmin! Nothing new here. 🙄 That why you always offer those unfair terms (like mechanics are reputed to do [or telephone computer scammers])?
mechanics who do real hard work vs on-line scammers ?
wimmin/smh
You’re right. Unfair comparison. If I have offended anyone, I apologize. I didn’t mean to.
Don’t agloplolize, VC – it is a common known fact that mechanics are generally over-charging, evil despots.
rrright. Because they have the knowledge and skill sets, they should come cheap, amirite?
You could always try dyi way.
No, no, no – don’t expect them to come cheap! Just don’t like the ones who rip people off!
It’s a myth. There may be some scumbags but then every trade has its share of them. On top of the bill from the repair shop, I individually tip the guy(s) who did a good job on my cars. I appreciate talent.
Ah, I appreciate talent too, a whole bunch of my immediate and extended family are/were engineery/mechanicy type people, I always doff my cap to their skills and knowledge. And nothing annoys them more than cowboy mechanics who rip people off – and, sadly enough, it’s a common enough occurrence ’round my way. Not saying they’re any better or worse than any other profession, just that they, also too, have their fair share of lowlives.
But they do give back some little something that is of value – a working car that gets you to work. So I’m not apologizing for implying many are dishonest, only for the comparison with those guys who took my money and pretended to provide a service.
154 rounds in less than five minutes is the definition of a massacre. Any NRA member or official who learns about this and still defends it is pretty much sanctioning murder.
“154 rounds in less than five minutes is the definition of a massacre.”
That’s the absolute truth, UT! With all the billions of dollars we spend on the military, we don’t need lunatic people possessing weapons of war. These people are not defending the country by massacring children and innocent people. Any one who is passionate about defending freedom should immediately volunteer to serve in our military. All the others defending the right of civilians to own deadly assault weapons and high capacity magazines are defending cowardly murderers of innocent Americans, including our precious children. Enough is Enough! The notion that private citizens, owning assault weapons, will be able to defend our freedom from a tyrannical governments is utter BS!
I sent a email to one Republican Congressman that I have written before and all I said to him was “The shooter in Newtown Ct. shot 154 rounds in 5 minutes as he blew those little kids body to pieces. I said it is shameful that politicians value being in the hip pocket of the NRA more then they value our children.
Thanks for sending that e-mail, anniebella! These Republican politicians (and yes some Democratic politicians too) should be ashamed of themselves. Making it easy for deranged and hateful people to kill innocent people, but especially innocent children, has absolutely nothing to do with defending freedom and the 2nd Amendment. If advocates of the unlimited, and regulated, gun ownership by individual citizens are all about defending freedom, then the government has no business spending billions of dollars on the military. Let’s let each citizen own a gun so that every citizen will participate in defending freedom just in case the country is attacked by a foreign nation. After all, at the time the founders enacted the 2nd Amendment, the country had no regular standing military. Defending the country usually required the President to mobilize State militias.
Very brave Mr. DeWitt of you to tell the truth!
This has been running nationally for a week now on primetime (ABC,CBS,NBC) newscasts and CNN throughout the day
Thanks DF for posting on the last thread.
This was the opening to one of Rachel Maddow’s segments last night, about a private gun buy-back program in the NYC area.
Very compelling, and needs more than just “viral” attention.
Here’s the link to Rachel’s intro last night:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#51377491
thank YOU, Arapaho for keeping this in the current conversation…. 🙂
Since Chips is so insistent, here’s tonight’s dinner:
Homemade lentil soup
crusty french sourdough bread
High in protein, nutritious, and easy to make.
LL, did you see the tweet I posted about this time yesterday?
“Here’s a clever idea: Piggyback the installation of connected, smart utility meters with free Wi-Fi service for outdoor use. That’s exactly what the City of Santa Clara is do.”
This is the kind of infrastructure building this country could really use. And if done in conjunction of scheduled meter upgrades, would not be an additional cost.
http://gigaom.com/2013/03/27/santa-clara-launches-free-outdoor-wi-fi-on-backs-of-smart-meters/
I did, and thought it was absolutely cool. It irks me that average download speeds in S. Korea are 50 Mbps. You can get the same here, but in Korea it’s at a fraction of the price. Broadband is not a luxury in today’s world. My patrons at the library depend on us having a relatively fast broadband connection.
Ever thought of giving up the library and becoming a chef, LL?? : ))) Guten Appetit!
Oh, in between careers the missus said I should go to culinary school rather than library school. But restaurants are way too stressful.
Private catering service for the moneyed and the mindless ? You could make a killing by making it an “exclusive service”.
I put myself through university by working in catering. It is HARD work.
Aha! No wonder you are so brilliant in the kitchen!!
LL – My son is a self-taught gourmet chef. I can barely boil water, without forgetting I’m boiling water. It’s been kinda like his own piece of paradise at home, since he’s been a trucker by trade (I call him my Renaissance Man, for more than that one reason). Good for all of you who can cook well (skipped a generation in my family a couple of times over!).
You come here teasing me with “crusty french sourdough bread” and expect me to turn the other cheek?????
Huh.
You started it, buster.
As my Man U-loving friend said: “Yeah, Man U is on top, but it’s only the best of a sad lot in the Prem.”
Listen buster, if it’s a rubbish Premier League and Chelsea are 22 points behind United, then your boys are as tasty as my main course tonight:
Ew.
Snob.
AND he said “Of course they left Rio off the England squad! He can barely run!”
But Chips, I’m confused. Did YOU ask for it?
“LL’s cooking for us tonight, waiting for the menu (and he’s really slow producing it).”
So why are you not turning the other cheek?
Because he’s now feeding himself, VC, and not me. He’s a sharp cookie with computers, I have no doubt he could Doctor Who-ish that food to me if he really wanted. But, oh no – he just teases with menus.
Oh (says VC, still a bit puzzled).
Why are the gunners in the list ?
And more importantly, why are the blues within their kissing distance ?
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Heard Jose is thinking of going back to the blues. True ?
Well, truth is the Premier League is so completely rubbish this season, even Arsenal with 967 defeats are still up there-ish.
Word has it, Jose wants nothing more in life than the United job, but doesn’t look like Sir Fergie is going anywhere just yet. So, he might go back to Chelsea just to pass the time until the ace job comes along.
Well, at least messi continues to mesmerize us with his records. Scores in 19 continuous games and goals against every single team in the league in one season?
Eat that ronaldo.
Sir Alex will be manager of United from beyond the grave. They’ll have his head in a “Futurama” device a la Richard Nixon coaching them for eternity.
😆 I hope so, LL! He’s almost restored my faith this season ….. well, apart from that hiccup against Madrid.
Guess what suddenly dawned on me reading the above? 😯 😯 The Chipadees are all soccer/football fanatics!!! Does anybody else know what they are carrying on about other than having a basic understanding of the words on the screen? Lord help us!
😆 Is it all double Dutch for ya VC?! We’ll make ta a footie obsessive yet!!
Well I used to like football (much better than cricket) because it was generally fast paced and even the dimmest bulb could tell when a goal was scored, but I have never followed any of these teams and wouldn’t recognize one of them if he passed me in the grocery store.
If I’m not mistaken, LovelyPlains is not a football head. But, yes, Chips, me, amk, and UT are all fanatics. First us, then the whole U.S.!!
‘First us, then the whole U.S.!!’
/voice filled with wonder/ And he isn’t even aiming small. Forget about TOD village, let’s aim for the ‘whole U.S.’ /smh/
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Lovely P isn’t even now being (or has already been) indoctrinated! Probably it’s actually in the fine print of his blog resume. What a slick operation!
Scalia and the conservatives on the SCOTUS took these cases only b/c they were afraid of losing 6 months from now….Shady S.O.B.’s
Then during oral arguments complained about having to rule on the same cases they brought up and attacked PBO………bunch of B.S.
The elephant ears of the gop are not equipped with ear drums!
Wow, what an Honest testimony. This is what We need, people like this gentleman. I thank him.
Today is the 32nd anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s assassination attempt by Hinckley(sp). Mr. Brady, his press secretary was permanently wounded and in a wheel chair today. SService men where there, the Good guys, yet, Hinckley was able to cause so much harm.
Little bit of trivia.
Just before the attempt on Reagan’s life, ABC had debuted the show “The Greatest American Hero”, about a schlubby high school teacher who finds an alien supersuit which grants him super powers when he wears it. His name was originally Hinkley. Well, after the events of that fall, his name was changed to Hanley.
And there you have your piece of Gen X ephemera.
Wow. I didn’t know that. Thanks.
And also from last night, about the city of Lancaster CA (Mojave high-desert), near where the space shuttle made spectacular landings when the weather in Florida was too stormy or overcast.
“On Tuesday, the City Council of Lancaster, California approved a mandate that most new homes must produce solar energy. This is the first such mandate in the nation.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/28/1788461/republican-mayor-leads-city-to-first-ever-solar-energy-mandate/
Arapahoe, you SURE this guy is a Re-thug? This sounds might scientifically socialist to me…
There are some “Rethugs” in California who are still relatively sane. I am sure the Koch brothers are steaming mad about the mayor’s actions. He may get a tea bag challenger next time he is up for re-election.
Don’t know anything about the mayor myself, but the area is DEFINITELY the GOP part of the state (anywhere 30 or more miles inland).
This article about Mt Shasta (gorgeous area, not anywhere close to Lancaster) gives you and idea of what non-coastal CA looks like from a gun safety perspective.
The Shasta area is definitely a conservative stronghold. It is obviously not as as densely populated so it does not have as much impact on statewide offices. To tell you the truth, Arapaho, there are sizable parts of San Diego County that as right wing as Texas and Oklahoma. Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr’s Congressional district is as right wing as it comes. Then there is Darrell Issa’s district, which represents parts of San Diego County and parts of Orange County. Yes, we do have our share of nasty people, and some are heavily armed
I saw that too. We rock in this state!
😎 Right?
This my task for Chips, so that she can have a mini-me who will make her meals:
oooh, that means Dick “the Devil” Cheney is included in that number…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_incident
What an idjit!
Amk! I’m going to have flippin’ nightmares.
I read the top bubble and went: “Awwwwwww.”
And then read the lower one and went: “Aggghhhhh.”
cats are two-faced unlike dumb dogs.
I just think cats are sensible, they don’t trust us human types – whereas dogs generally do.
I adore my Stewie, but, no, dogs aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. Neither are cats, but they’ll cut ya.
Case rested.
Freakin’ hilarious!!!!!!! 😆 😆
This should erase those nightmares hopefully….Everyday this kitty waits for her buddy on the roof, then they go for a stroll
aaww. the middle pic at the bottom is so cute.
I tried to find out where these pics were taken w/ no luck…they look like friends for life
There was a vid on this a few years back. Don’t know if I can find it but I’ll try.
I’m going to cry!!!! Cutest, sweetest, loveliest thing I’ve ever seen!!!!
Ahhhhhh…see happy thoughts, we should have an AMK filter(content blocked due to graphic images)
Oooooooh, an Amk-filter-content thingie – can I buy one LP? I’d pay anything.
I say you just put all his comments in the black hole known as *pending* and conveniently get busy until a new thread starts….release them then!!!
Hmmm………
Dream on, bt.
Aw, that kitty looks like our dearly departed sainted, well, Kitty. (Don’t blame me for the name. She was with the missus before we met.)
And if CarolMae is still hanging out here, a picture of snowy Wyoming.
I’ve never seen any Cheney anywhere near the slopes; I usually catch up eventually with TOD. 😉
Soup is bubbling, drink is in my hand, life is good.
Bet your soup won’t be half as delicious as mine:
😎
There’s a Korean restaurant that we adore. One night, we decided to be adventurous and try one of their soups. Good.God. Good thing we had also ordered our usual barbecued meats and kimche pancake. (Mmmmmm, kimche.)
Removed from must-try list: Korean soup. Thanks for the heads-up, LL!
OMG Chips!!!!! 🙂
Admit it COS, you’re hungry now – and you just wish that I was doing the cooking. 😎
What the hell?!? I finally start breathing again, now I’m queasy. You’re really doing it today, Chips.
Hold it a minute, Eve. Are you suggesting the pic of my soup is less attractive than some of the PBO pics today?? Are you SERIOUS????
Jeebus, chips. You made me skip my brunch.
Sheesh. 🙄 Although ……. is that a hand in my soup??
May you be born as a tyrant in your next avatar… oh, wait….
Well, at least it wasn’t a head.
Where is the whole pig over the BBQ?
😆 Does Amk still stand for ‘A Muslin Kenyan’?
This does NOT gross me out. I LOVE chicken feet in soup. It’s delish 🙂 Though, if you’re watching your health (esp. cholesterol, etc.) stay away from chicken feet.
Hopefruit?! 😯
Like these:
Nooooooooooo!
Now THAT grosses me out….
Jerry DeWitt’s statement is indeed very powerful! Thanks, Chipsticks, for sharing it on the front page. It’s going to take more and more people like him, who are long-time gun owners, to come out and voice their support for the President’s common sense solutions to the out of control gun violence, which is taking the lives of too many innocent people; and especially too many children.
So, since I posted “Matchmaker” to the thread, I’ve been singing it on and off ever since. Missus just said “Too fucking late, we have shared debts.” Ah, romance.
Ohio State just lost. This has been one crazy NCAA tournament.
Exciting one though. I’m fine just as long as Duke doesn’t win it.
damn
More “Fiddler on the Roof”. The cycle of life.
I wonder if the First Family will be going to Easter service tomorrow.
A man went into a pharmacy and asked to talk to a male pharmacist. The woman he was talking to said that she was the pharmacist and that she and her sister owned the store, so there were no males employed there. She asked if there was something which she could help the gentleman with.
The man said that it was something that he would be much more comfortable discussing with a male pharmacist.
The female pharmacist assured him that she was completely professional and whatever it was that he needed to discuss, he could be confident that she would treat him with the highest level of professionalism.
The man agreed and began by saying, “This is tough for me to discuss, but I have a permanent …. ummm, how do I put it ?… I am permanently excited. Yes, that’s it. … It causes me a lot of problems and severe embarrassment. So I was wondering what you could give me for it?”
The pharmacist said, “Just a minute, I’ll go talk to my sister.”
When she returned, she said, “We discussed it at length and the absolute best we can do is, 1/3 ownership in the store, a company car, and $3000 a month living expenses.
And I am outta here.
Happy brunch!!
PrettyFoot and anyone close to Pennsylvania…
This is what I meant to post about “One Term TOM” Gov. “Cut it” Corbett
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/30/chat-away-speechwriter-edition/
More videos, since my neighbors are having a bbq and playing some SLAMMING music.