This totally merits mentioning.

My younger sister has always been a genius with Hollandaise sauce, which is nice on asparagus and eggs and well, my fingers. Anyway, she has formulated from her kitchen laboratory, healthy Hollandaise, pretty much. And easy.


Easy Hollandaise Sauce

Whisk in microwave safe bowl:
1 egg yolk
largish dollop of Smart Balance Buttery Spread
then, whisk in
juice of 1 fresh squeezed lemon, no seeds.

Microwave mixture for 5 seconds then whisk.

Repeat this no more than twice. Mixture will turn into good Hollandaise Sauce.Yum.

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/

Funniest damn cat pictures ever.

Triumph, Terry Gross and NPR bend Bill the Shill O'Reilly over and give him the bone. If you don't know Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, he is one of the most offensive puppets out there, and among the funniest.


http://freshair.npr.org

It's even funnier when you listen to it...linked above.

Terry: Do you feel like you've been sexist or condescending in your treatment of female dogs?

Triumph: Holy Christ! Listen to this! Let me ask you something? I feel like I'm being bombarded here.

I know what's happening here! I know what's happening here! Did you ask the same questions to Kermit the Frog? Did you do this?

Terry: Kermit didn't do our show.

Triumph: All right, well Ok, how about when Beethoven did your show? Did you challenge him the way you're challenging me?

Terry: It was a different kind of interview. It was a different kind of interview. Beethoven was funny.

Triumph: Oh, is that right? It's satire what Beethoven does! I'm just... you know I can't believe the government is paying for this interview. That's what I can't believe , you know.

My money that that could go be going to Pekinese hookers is instead going to this, you know, public radio show that is obviously more slanted than my BEEP after I BEEP a Saint Bernard. That's what we're talking about.

Terry: Triumph, I don't think you're being fair I think if you gave public radio a chance you wouldn't feel this way. I think public radio has always been fair to the dog world.

Triumph: I'm trying to give it a chance, but you keep bombarding me. You keep bombarding me. I'm evaluating this interview very closely. That's what I'm doing.

You know, this is 10 minutes of defamations; 70 minutes in dog-years!

You think it's fair Terri? You need to go into another business! That's right!

No, good, this is going to be fodder for Harpers Magazine, for Dog Fancy magazine which I know is liberally... its, the liberal publishers of Dog Fancy.. I mean, that thing is like gay porn anyway.

Terry: Well, Triumph I really don't think you're being fair, I'm going to change the subject.

Triumph: Good because I'm not going to walk out of this interview.

Terry: No, good...

Triumph: No, I'm not going to do that, I'm better than that. But I'm going to take a poop right now. I'm going to poop in this studio right now.

Terry: I think that's fair, I think you should control yourself.

Triumph: Well it's already happening. It's already happening.

Mmm. My house smells like fresh baking wheat bread. Delish. Bread machines are the greatest.

The Vietnam II Preflight Check


By: Author Unknown (but if you know or are the original author please come forward and take a bow! )

1. Cabal of oldsters who won't listen to outside advice? Check.
2. No understanding of ethnicity's of the many locals? Check.
3. National boundaries drawn in Europe, not by the locals? Check.
4. Unshakable faith in our superior technology? Check.
5. France secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.
6. Russia secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.
7. China secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.
8. Enemy supply lines unknown? Check.
9. Sec of Def pushing a conflict the Joint Chiefs never wanted? Check.
10. Fear we'll look bad if we back down now? Check.
11. Corrupt corporate Texan in the White House? Check.
12. Land war in Asia? Check.
13. Right-wing unhappy with outcome of previous war? Check.
14. Enemy easily moves in/out of neighboring countries? Check.
15. Soldiers about to be exposed to our own chemicals? Check.
16. Daily guerrilla attacks that cannot be stopped? Check.
17. Anti-Americanism up sharply in Europe? Check.
18. B-52 bombers? Check.
19. Helicopters that clog up on the local dust? Check.
20. Infighting among the branches of the military? Check.
21. Locals that cheer us by day, hate us by night? Check.
22. Local experts ignored? Check.
23. Local politicians ignored? Check.
24. Local conflicts since before the USA has been a country? Check.
25. Much confusion over who and where the enemy is? Check.
26. Against advice, Prez won't use taxes to pay for war? Check.
27. Blue water navy ships operating in brown water? Check.
28. Use of nukes hinted at if things don't go our way? Check.
29. War unpopular at home? Check.
30. No plan in place to end involvement? Check.

Vietnam II, you are cleared to taxi.

George W. Bush resume

Unsure whether these facts are true? Look them up on your own. They are
factual!


Past Work Experience

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.

I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; the company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

With my father's help and name, I was elected Governor of Texas.


Accomplishments as Governor

I changed pollution laws in favor of the power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America.

I cut taxes and bankrupted Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history.

I became U.S. President after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes with the help of major Enron money and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.


Accomplishments as President

I attacked and overtook two countries.

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.

My record for environmental issues is the least of my concerns.

I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.

After taking-off the entire month of August, I then presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD.

I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of Saddam's procurement of Yellow Cake Nuke WMD components, then blaming the lie on our British friends.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.

In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S. history.

I set the record for least number of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use national reserves as past presidents have done.

I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.

I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history.

My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.

I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" (detainees) and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.

I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in World history.

I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

I am the first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

I am the first U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.

I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at t he U.S. Capitol Building. Even after 18 months I have no leads and no credible suspects.

In the past 18 months following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any president in U.S. history.

In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided since the Civil War.

I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years.


Records and References:

I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available.

I was AWOL from the National Guard.

I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm

Gorgeous views of worlds beyond ours. The Hubble is my favorite gadget of all time.

Creating irresistable demand for a global atmosphere upgrade. -- Bruce Sterling, the Viridian Movement.

The concept is to design green gear and green devices to be commercially appealing and slinky. To make green behavior and therefore it's acoutrements hep and desirable. I think it's working. Sterling is a brilliant science fiction writer and a nice guy.


http://www.viridiandesign.org/

http://www.stkfoundation.org/Home/

The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation is a private non-profit organization that promotes strengthening and supporting communities and draws upon the values and spirituality of the founders. The Foundation has a special interest in organizations and people who have less recourse to usual channels of resources, focusing on community-based initiatives, especially in the State of Maine.


http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Tabitha_King.htm

Tabitha is a lovely person, and a good friend of Democracy.

Now THIS is a good blog; Orcinus.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_11_16_dneiwert_archive.html#106917957369064571

Do all blogs suck at first? I mean, this IS sort of an exercise in vanity.

Heh. Not that I don't have my exhibitionist tendencies. Ask me about that later.

http://bushflash.com/ma.html

This flash bit is so sad, so effective. You MUST check it out. I watch it and think, wouldn't it have been a swell party, all those people together? Not in Iraq, but in a backyard, with barbecue and beer and pie and music.

To the victims of Bush's oil war... I am so sorry I didn't protest harder and more violently back in the winter of 2000.

http://www.bravozulu.com/cat/

Cat Bowling. Good for hours of evil amusement.

HAHAH check out this site. It's an energy producer's discussion website. A harrowing trip into the energy merchant's brain.

http://pub38.ezboard.com/fdownstreamventurespetroleummarkets


Appropo of nothing, there used to be a ride at Six Flags over Texas called Spelunker's Cavern. You traveled in cars afloat on nastily opaque turquoise waters, through a maze of dayglo rock formations populated by these creepy alien hybrid looking entities. Very thrilling to the teenager of the 70s. I doubt that ride is still in operation... it would be a large yawner to the jaded kids of today.

I don't know what calls those Six Flags mutants to mind. I guess they were invoked by my passing speculation as to the interior of the mind of a gooper. I hope those freaky little pink bastards have been serving Rush Limbaugh his naked lunch. heh. THAT would make me happy.

About a year ago today, my life changed for the better. You know who you are, you crazy lieberal catalyst, you. Thank you, thank you. I will always love you.

Inspiration. There's precious little of that in government these days. You gotta recognize the good sources of inspiration when you see them.

I'm wading into the blogpool directly as a result of Scoobie Davis' example, http://www.scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/ and that of Take Back the Media's Stranger and Symbolman. http://www.takebackthemedia.com/radio.shtml They managed by their ongoing efforts, to trip that switch in my head, the switch that starts an action.

If nothing else is said here at this site, I will urge any reader of these words to jump in there, and do whatever it is you love to do, to further the goals that you long for. You only really fail when you don't try at all.

In my particular instance, I dig politics and love to bitch. Heh. We shall see where this leads us.

And what I want is my America back. We are occupied by mercenaries and thugs and our Constitution is usurped by the dictates of lunatic Reconstructionist dogma. I want it out of my face, and out of our lives.