Obama Meets the Queen

OBAMA REGIFTS QUEEN!

Anchor Hocking Glassware - She already had some

Buffalo Wings

Alton Wings

Original Buffalos

I've made several Alton Brown recipes, but never repeated one.  Never got a result worth all the labor most of his deals require.  His chicken wings will be an exception.  Every thing he does with these wings is counter intuitive. Steams wings for 10 minutes, In the fridge for at least an hour.  Bakes them at 425° for 40 minutes - 20 min./side.  The  wing sauce is true to the original Buffalo Wing's - 3/4 stick of  of butter plus chopped garlic, melted;  add 1/4 cup of hot sauce and toss hot wings.  The steaming removes enough fat that they won't smoke the house up when baking. The fridge time is for drying the wings, which makes them crispy.  And crispy they are, even after tossing in the sauce.  Mo Sup ate twice as many as me.  Click the pic for the recipe.  Oh - I put the wings on a rack in my fry pan and steamed them in 2 shifts.  The hell with all that other crap.

Our idiot President

Words Do Not suffice

... except for arsehole, dimwit, schmuck, teabagger, nincompoop, did I say asshole?, jerk-off, berk, wanker, pillock, slubberdegullion druggel, snot-slurper, self-aggrandizing egotistical self-centered commie blowhard of a knob gobbler and pissant scumbag.

Bear Attack

I still think he did it DNA Evidence Frees Black Man Convicted Of Bear Attack

Astounding Scope

Government Claims Power to Ban Books and Speech

Cincinnati Times Union , July 1937 This is cherry-snipped, but it's obvious where Obama and Senate Democrats are heading.  One vote is all it will take to effectively strike the First Amendment by fiat.  JFC, I can't keep up with the pace of outrages this government is inflicting.   And yet  .....  Go figure “ On Mar. 24, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Citizens United v. FEC, the latest installment in an ongoing series of challenges to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), better known as McCain-Feingold. The group Citizens United produced a documentary critical of Hillary Clinton during her failed presidential campaign. (Citizens United also made a similar film about Barack Obama, though this lawsuit focused on the Clinton movie.) But when the group sought to market the movie through Video On Demand, the FEC blocked it. The FEC cited BCRA, which makes it a federal felony to fund any TV or radio broadcast that names a candidate for federal office in the thirty days prior to a primary election or sixty days prior to a general election, called the "blackout" periods. The Obama Justice Department defended the FEC's action with a team from the department's elite Solicitor General's Office. But that team was outmatched by the lawyer representing Citizens United, renowned former Solicitor General Ted Olson. Far more important than the specific facts in this case was the enormous scope of power that the Obama Administration was claiming under BCRA, an array so broad that the justices balked at the government's answers to their questions. The Obama Administration claimed that BCRA allows the federal government to ban a 600-page book if it mentions a candidate's name only once, a 90-minute movie if it mentions a candidate's name once, or even a toy action figure of a candidate. If the organization uses a single dime of its general funds to produce, promote or distribute any such materials during the "blackout" periods, it becomes a federal crime. The key justices in this case seemed astonished at the broad powers the Obama Administration was claiming under BCRA, and seem poised to rule 5-4 in favor of Citizens United. This would continue a steady trend over the past couple years, with moderate Justice Kennedy siding with the four conservative justices on issues of political speech. This will be the third BCRA suit in as many years, and should be decided by the same split as they others. The whole deal ”

Erstwhile Liberties

Four Gays Walk Into a Bar ...

and they find a problem.  There's only one stool left. One guy says "Lets flip for it" But another says "No, Lets flip it over" But another says "No, I'm smugglin' jokes up me rectum."

I used to think that Britain's erstwhile colony lagged behind the mother country by about 15 years in the race to socialistic tyranny.  That's been adjusted downward on an ever accelerated pace, and today I've adjusted my SOC-DEFCON  (Socialism Defense Condition) to LEVEL 0. Hell, we might actually be an exporter in some areas. Any bets on how long before one of our commie nincompoops proposes the same legislation? Listen to the Brit government's explanation of why free speech can't apply in this instance. “  ...   ministers said if the “free speech” amendment was accepted it could provide a loophole for people wishing to incite hatred. ” And, no, this is sadly not an April Fools joke.

In The News

TODAY'S NEWS INDEX

“ The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.” Another early project for Cadie: making a 3D version of Google Chrome, since “81% of households had red/blue 3D glasses lying around.” There’s no gentle way of putting this, but YouTube just flails with upside down video viewing. Gmail now has AutoPilot. Google Brain Search uses CADIE technology to index your brain. Google Books is in on it too. See this monograph signed by the CADIE team for example. Google Australia introduces the gBall, which will change Australian rules football as we know it. There is also a featured YouTube video of a panda by the user ‘cadiesingularity’ with a profile stating “Cadie - the world’s first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity”. When browsing Street View in Google Maps, a panda is shown in the bottom right map instead of the yellow person usually shown. CADIE even has its own blog on Blogger. There is also a “CADIE’s recommended places for humans” link in Google Maps, which leads to the “Panda Mapplet” and includes several marked locations with “CADIE’s” commentary. Under Redmond WA a link is listed which will rick roll the viewer. Meanwhile, Identi.ca has acquired Twitter. A Twitter executive was quoted afterwards saying: “I was worried we were going to have to make a business out of that whole Twitter thing! I’m really glad it’s someone else’s problem now.” Google is apparently also building a new $100 laptop together with Alienware (Dell). It will have a built-in brain wave reading chip, with sensors that need to be applied onto the user’s skull. Scientists at CERN have found the cell that basically triggered the Big Bang. The Pirate Bay sells out to Warner Bros. There’s a new social network for your nose, a friendspace for your fragrance, a place to share your opinions on perfumes and vote for your favorite smells. They call it smellr and it’s online now. Grandson of Kenyan Mau-Mau, now an Indonesian Muslim elected U.S. President. ” Mostly purloined

Daily flossing, maybe ...

Wedgie-cide?

A splendid idea

Quick!!! While He’s Outta the Country, Let’s Change it Back to ‘America’!!!!!!!

Samarui A.G. TFV found this wonderfully  refreshing answer to all our problems.  “ The Prez has flown to England and there’s only one thing to do while he’s gone: Let’s get our country back. Okay, it’s not going to be easy, there are a lot of hurdles.  I’m pretty sure I can take Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, and that puffball press secretary Gibbs.  Multiple adversary bash-a-thon!!!   Hai-Yah!! Barney Frank I ain’t touchin’… I’m not a homophobe; I simply suffer from an irrational childhood fear of Elmer Fudd. And Nancy Pelosi?  I’m sending my friend Andrew Breitbart in to cross-check her hard into the glass.  (I know he’s been dyin’ to get the go-ahead.)  I am certain that if I confronted her, she would hit me with that death ray from those Neutronium eyeballs of hers…the same ones that hypnotize the Washington press corps into not busting up every time she opens her mouth. But seriously, folks.  I don’t know why anyone’s surprised.  Obama for two years told us what he’s all about.  Made it clear as day.  And everyone just sort of…looked the other way. ”Oh, he’s not a socialist!  He’s just saying those things to keep the far left loonies happy.  You watch, he’ll govern from the center.” Oh really?  Well, it’s been only two months and let’s take a look at what he’s done.  (Everybody follow along, and please feel free to add anything I’m missing.) -- Continued ”

Pounce

Faces of Evil Incompetence

Dodd/Blumenthal Barney Frank If you haven't yet seen Glenn Beck's confrontation with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal , it's a priceless example of a democrat being asked, probably for the very first time, to explain his feckless administration of the law for political gain.  To wit: why he hasn't gone after Chris Dodd with the same vigor as AIG bonus recipients, who broke no laws? Beck evaluates Barney Frank as a public servant, which he has been since 1972. Chilling words: "The government is now 80% owner." FWIW, Beck has a Kieth Olbermann-ish style of delivery that I find unsettling.  I guess I miss Brit Hume's sober and dignified delivery.

DIY Car Window

Why We Win

Don't need no stinkin' $400 replacement