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“Stock markets shot back to 14,000 and the Iraqi resistance surrendered today on
news that America’s Sweetheart, Jenna Bush, is marrying that guy she used to date
before she split for South America.Henry Hager is the son of former Virginia
lieutenant governor and state GOP chief and tobacco exec John H. Hager. Even better,
young Henry worked directly for Karl Rove in the White House, so there’s a good
chance Jenna’s new husband will be forced to testify at her dad’s war-crimes trial.”
–Ken Layne,

Bart says: A Tobacco-Republican-Rove-protege?
The only thing missing is he wasn’t a torture guard at Abu Graib.

Just had the best key lime pie ever tasted. Made it ourselves from
freshly squeezed key limes.  Ripe fruit is now falling off the key lime
trees down here in Florida. You can help ripe key limes fall by
shaking a branch, but beware of the thorns!  If key limes are not
gathered and juiced now (freeze some of the juice for later) they will
likely just rot on the ground. Key limes   are much more tart than the
Persian limes you get in the store, so even the raccoons aren’t all
that interested. Also, they’re yellow, have more seeds and are about
half the size.  Key lime pie is THE  “Old Florida” dessert, and it
contains only three ingredients: 1) key lime juice and zest,
2) egg yolks, and 3) sweetened, condensed milk. It originated in
Key West during the late 1800, before refrigerated fresh milk, when
Carnation started canning and shipping condensed milk.
The wild chickens on Key West are legendary, so there are plenty
of eggs lying around, and key lime trees are also abundant. 

Here’s the recipe: 1/2 cup key lime juice (approximately 6-10 limes)
1 1/4 ounce can of sweetened, condensed milk ($1.89) 4 large or
extra large egg yolks (50¢) a 9-inch Graham cracker pie crust with
foil pan ($1.27)  Simply blend the first three ingredients and pour
into the pie crust.   Without even baking, the acidity thickens the
eggs and milk. For safety, however, bake 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees.
Do not bake too long or it will become rubbery in texture.
Cool on wire rack, then keep refrigerated. 
You can also use the left-over egg whites to make a meringue.
In that case, baking time may increase up to 20 minutes. If it
hasn’t browned in 20 minutes, use the broiler. Or simply top,
instead, with whipped cream and strawberries or other fresh fruit. 

 Carl

by Bryan Zepp Jamison

http://www.mytown.ca/zepp
8/19/07

The New York Times, former cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq and a
failing newspaper still gamely committed to supporting a failed
occupation, ran a piece on its editorial page today that was written by
seven non-coms who just got back from a 15 month tour of duty in Iraq
with the 82nd Airborne Division. The piece, entitled “The War As We Saw
It” is authored by Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck,
Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray and Jeremy A. Murphy. Most of
them are sergeants or staff sergeants.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907A.shtml

Given that all seven are still on active duty, and presumably aren’t
interested in being court-martialed for what they wrote, they had to
step carefully, and not offend the administration. This made them a
perfect match for the New York Times, which also likes to step carefully
and not offend the administration.
 

Link 

Wired News’ John Borland had quite a fun story yesterday about a new tool to track down folks who are anonymously editing articles in Wikipedia.

A CalTech grad student named Virgil Griffith developed the tool, called Wikipedia Scanner, after hearing about congressional aides who were fixing their bosses’ WP entries. The service is a database of all anonymous edits to Wikipedia organized according to the Internet addresses of well-known groups: Want to know what people with Democratic National Committee IP addresses were doing on Wikipedia? Go here. (Among other things, such folks were calling Rush Limbaugh a “racist” and a “jerkoff.”) Or check out the Republican Party’s record, including this alteration of the U.S. “occupying” Iraq to our “liberating” it. [Note: Direct links to Wikipedia Scanner don't seem to be working right now; that's likely because everyone online is checking it out.]

Among the many other organizations whose edits you can track are Diebold, the faulty voting-machine company; Wal-Mart; ExxonMobil; Fox News; The New York Times; and Al Jazeera.

Karl Back in Texas? Rove can now spend 24/7 hours between now and elections  in 08
destroying the Democratic Opposition without having to worry about any  other
distractions.

Mark my word, there will be more dirty tricks coming out of lawless Texas
in the next months from the good old boy Karl Rove.
  Little Owl
 

Why in hell would any GOP candidate want to be like Ronald RayGun? Reagan was a senile old fool who couldn't get through a nap without a teleprompter.

Passed off old movie scripts to a VFW gathering as if it were a real life event. Honored SS troops (the fucking SS mind you. The fuckers that rounded up jews and exterminated them) at a cemetary in Bitburg.

Had to have "mommy" whisper responses during press conferences. And while he just happened to be President when the Soviet Union fell is just coincidence. The Soviet Union went broke. It wasn't Ronald McDonald's great leadership or cowboy diplomacy. Reagan just happened to be at the cashier station when the one millioneth customer was announced.

Reagan couldn't defeat a pretzel in a fair fight. We already have a Reganesque president.

And just like Ronny, Bush is just a stupid and twice as clumsy.  SB

Hi Bart, Cayobo here….

Living in Key West, Florida, I track all the Storms
that build in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf.
It’s a drill I have to go through every year.

If you (or your readers) would like to follow along, I’m collecting
the graphics, Satellite and personal impact images here:
http://flickr.com/photos/cayobo/sets/72157601428659325/

Dean is currently a Cat. 4 Hurricane with waves in the eye reaching 30+ feet.

You may post the above URL if you like.
Many blogs and forums follow my tracking posts.
This is my favorite image of Dean so far:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1152/1159262888_bffeed5b3e.jpg

May Koresh help us all.
 Cayobo in the Keys
–
Cayobo
http://cayobo.tripod.com

Dude,

You still don’t use a Mac because…

You need frequent vacations from the Internet?
You have too much money and you’re trying to prop up
the local economy in Knuckle-drag?
There’s a hot babe at the PC repair shop?
Your IQ really is 60?

Here are some Hai Ku’s for PC’s that you may chant…

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located,
but Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
“My Novel” not found.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-
until You bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Your radical pal,
Ernest a.k.a. Mac Daddy

Bart replies: If I get that Mac and it crashes constantly, then what? 

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3339

Joe Trippi — the preeminent name in Internet electioneering — is back from the desert he occupied when Howard Dean fired him as campaign manager. The New York Whore Times reports that Trippi has slowly moved into center circle of John Edwards’ campaign, displacing traditional advisors Edwards relied on in 2004 and earlier this year.

By the Times’ account, it is Elizabeth Edwards, more so than John, who has smoothed the way for Trippi’s resurgence and the near-total commitment to an Internet campaign.

Here are three sample paragraphs from an article about the business practices of the Communist Chinese:

Furthermore, China persistently attempts to import the same goods that have already been refused entry. Rick Weiss, reporting for The Washington Post stated: “for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught – many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry.”

The list of horror stories concerning Chinese goods could continue ad infinitum. This is particularly concerning since half the garlic, 45% of the apple juice, 20% of the honey and 16% of all seafood imported into the United States originates in China.

Furthermore, China is currently trying to muscle its way into America’s poultry market. Thankfully, some government officials are fighting to stop this, since Chinese farmers commonly flood their crops with illegal pesticides and fertilize them with human feces. The livestock they raise is then shot full of banned antibiotics and antifungal agents to keep them alive.

Here’s the link for the complete article:

http://www.tfp.org/TFPForum/TFPCommentary/trouble_brewing_in_china.html

 
Norway’s Princess Maertha Louise

A school newly created by Norway‘s Princess Maertha Louise for students who wish to “get in contact with their angels” was due to open on Thursday at an undisclosed location because of the clamour it has caused.

The project has been criticised in the Scandinavian country where some have called for the 35-year-old princess, a devotee of alternative therapies, to renounce her official title or even get medical help. 

Maertha Louise, who claims she is clairvoyant, says the Astarte school will offer students the chance to get in contact with their angels, described as “forces that surround us and who are a resource and help in all the aspects of our lives.”

Bart wonders: How much is a Norwegian handjob?

The tuition fees amount to 2,100 dollars per semester and the programme, which involves alternative therapies such as hands-on treatment and healing, lasts for three years.

Bart, you wrote:

“John, Rove never had the Democrats’ number. He just cheated and the 
Democrats were too meek to call him on it.”

Rove obviously had the Dems’ number. He knew the Dems were too weak/
meek/wimpy, especially after watching for 20 years.

Dick P
Justice, then Peace

Bart says: If you give the bully your lunch money each day, he comes to expect it.
If they had broken Karl Rove’s nose in back in 2001, they wouldn’t have had to
put up with his bullying ass all these years.

Hi, Bart

I’ve been following the coal mine story and the total number of miners killed over the
last several years.  What is wrong with us that we allow this to continue?  I’d rather
sit in the dark for 2 hours every night than to take the lives of so many hard-working men
and women so that I can have cheap electricity.

Mary in Texas

Bart says: Mary, like GM’s exploding pickup trucks, it’s cheaper to pay the families of a few victims than make the mines safe. How hard would it be to sink a 6-foot tall steel pipe
into each mine that would allow the men to walk out after a collapse?

How hard would it be to run a one inch steel pipe with phone wires and cameras into each
mine so they could communicate after a collapse?

Men go into mines that aren’t safe because their parents did - and that’s crazy.

Joe Strummer: “You must not act the way you were brought up.”

Bottom line: Mine owners and crooked Bush don’t care how many men die.