How to Grow Avocado, Avocado Growing- California Avocado Commission:
Don’t throw out that seed! You can grow a beautiful houseplant or even your own tree following these simple steps.
This link is New Years resolution #1
Tonight, I dine on avocado.
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Categories: Food and Drink · Nerd Stuff · Nerdy Stuff
Romney’s tall tale about MLK:
Romney: …”And I’m not going to distance myself in any way from my faith. But you can see what I believed and what my family believed by looking at, at our lives. My dad marched with Martin Luther King“.
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My dad, who had a penchant for tall tales, marched with King. He said he was booted* from his Fraternity for doing it. Nobody really questioned my dad’s statements–mostly because he painted a vivid picture of the crowd’s response to King’s march. Specifically, he would discuss the size and the color of the bricks that were thrown at him. Also, my dad never played the “I marched with King Card” in regards to his civil rights record.
I did. Once. I was 18. My buddy Tim called me on it and said, “That was your father. What have you done?”
Mr. Romney, not only have you fabricated the entire story regarding marching with King, I have to ask the same question: “What have you done for civil rights?”
*Actually, they beat the shit out of him and broke his pledge paddle. I still have the paddle.
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The Following recipe is extremely tasty and it is all Chucks. However, if this is how he cooks, how could he possibly compete in the bake off?
Freelance Genius: AND NOW FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF BELLIGERENT COOKING WITH YOUR HOST, THE GENIUS:
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
AND NOW FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF BELLIGERENT COOKING WITH YOUR HOST, THE GENIUS
RIGHT! Today we are making hummus. I know I said we would be making London broil, but if you can’t be flexible, you are a dumb moron and should kill yourself now to save us all the trouble of poisoning your food.
You will need:
Two(2) large can of chick peas (garbanzos, not females)
One(1) jar of virgin or extra virgin olive oil (your preference)
One(1) lemon (or two or none if you don’t want lemons in your hummus)
Two(2) garlic sections (the bits not the entire bulb)
OR
Two(2) teaspoons of shredded garlic (or less if you don’t want too much garlic, really minimum should be one(1) clove or one(1) teaspoon)
One(1) jar of tahini (sesame butter in the same way that peanut butter is from peanuts but NOT good with jelly)
One(1) tin of cumin
Array your ingredients on your hopefully clean counter. Admire your dedication to a recipe from a really odd friend who tends to invent shit on the fly in the kitchen. Put 911 on speeddial. Put phone on floor in case you fall down. Get out your food processor. Blenders suck for this. You want a serious cuisanart. Speaking of which, cuisanarts are awesome for all kinds of food. Even meat. I would wake up and make myself a spam milkshake every morning, if spam didn’t suck. Maybe a bacon and bisquik milkshake would work. Get out your pyrex measuring cup. No, put that fucking piece of plastic shit back in the cupboard. Go sit in the corner and think about what you did. Jesus. Fucking insulting. Oh, hey, I’m sorry, ok? Come back here and I promise I won’t disparage your obviously deficient kitchen implements again. Now, don’t be like that. I mean well. Open the cans of chick peas. Pour the water from the cans into your PYREX measuring utensil, you’ll need it later. Keep all the water. Put chick peas into your cuisanart. Yes, I do get a dollar every time I say that. Cheeky bitch. No no no, you have to assemble it first. Ok, is it plugged in? Good job. See? You aren’t completely hopeless. Pour in the chick peas sans water. That means without, moron. Blend all the chick peas until they are stuck to the walls of cuisanart or aren’t getting any smaller. Add 1/4 (one quarter) cup of the olive oil, 1/4 (one quarter) cup of tahini, 1/4 (one quarter) of the chick pea water. Take out your silicon scraper and- are you fucking serious? How can you not have a goddamn silicon scraper? What an assbag. Do you just order ever fucking meal you eat? Fine, take out a knife or something and scrape the chick peas of the walls of the cuisanart so they will mix in with the oil, water and tahini. No, it is TAHINI. TAHITI is an island, jackass. I fucking swear. Blend all this together. While that is blending, get out your garlic press. You have got to be shitting me. Fine, use the damn shredded garlic. Add the garlic while the blender is still whirling away. Oh jesus. No no no. If you take off the top the cuisanart will shut off. Use the top access. I swear, it’s like you’ve never been in a kitchen before. Don’t even give me that ‘I’m only 9 years old’ crap either. Your mother should be ashamed of herself. And you. Now cut the lemon in half and let’s try to leave all of our fingers attached to our hands. Great job, loser. Now get out your juice press/strainer. What? I am going to have a goddamn coronary. Ok, ok, ok. Go get me that bottle of wine over there. And the bottle opener, yes. Open the wine. Give me the bottle. I’ll be back in a minute or two. Turn off the cuisanart.
Ok! Hey, are you ready to finish up? Good for you, nitwit! Open the cuisanart. Go get a spoon or something. Hmm, yeah, let’s go ahead and add some lemon juice. Squeeze out the juice into the cuisanart but try to avoid dropping the seeds into the proto-hummus. Fuck. I said TRY TO AVOID DROPPING THE SEEDS INTO THE HUMMUS! I could smack you if it weren’t illegal. Alright now that the lemons and the garlic have been added, we should add some cumin. Sprinkle the cumin on USING THE SPRINKLE OPENING until the surface of the proto-hummus is lightly dusted with cumin. Well, you actually managed not to fuck that up too much. Cover the proto-hummus and set it blending again. I am going back the porch to look for that wine. DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL I COME BACK. Yes, fine, go bandage your hand. I should make you squeeze more lemon juice on it to teach you a lesson about knives.
Hey, great! How’s the hummus look? WONDERFUL! Let’s open it up and have another taste. Not bad, not bad at all. The consistency is a little thick and may annoy some store bought cobag’s senshibilities but fuck him. Oh. Well, you little fucktard, if you don’t want it break your pissant little sacriledgious tortilla chip, then add equal amounts of chick pea water and olive oil. HEY! HEY! HEY! I said be careful! Add another 1/4 cup of each. Hmm, you might want to add some tahini but if you do, I would recommend you also add some some some CUMIN. Yeah. No, the wine is fine. Fine wine. Fine. Wine. heh.
Anyway, some people put pepper and sundried tomatoes or other shit like that in their hummus, but then they don’t really want hummush as it is done in Lebanon, they want some bastardized shit that goes well with the fish and a light glaze or some other bullshit. IF you want, IF YOU WANT, you can just use the chick peas, tahini, oil, cumin and water. Anything other than that is just frill. How many people does this recipe serve? Fuck if I know. I am going to go back to my office and eat this shit myself.
Categories: Cat Vacuuming
yup. we got a tree.
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Read the op-ed
Join Wexler’s Call for Cheney Hearings :
By Representatives and Members of the Judiciary Committee:
Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
On November 7, the House of Representatives voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee. As Members of the House Judiciary Committee, we strongly believe these important hearings should begin.
The issues at hand are too serious to ignore, including credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors under our constitution. The charges against Vice President Cheney relate to his deceptive actions leading up to the Iraq war, the revelation of the identity of a covert agent for political retaliation, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens.
Now that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has indicated that the Vice President and his staff purposefully gave him false information about the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert agent to report to the American people, it is even more important for Congress to investigate what may have been an intentional obstruction of justice. Congress should call Mr. McClellan to testify about what he described as being asked to “unknowingly [pass] along false information.” In addition, recent revelations have shown that the Administration including Vice President Cheney may have again manipulated and exaggerated evidence about weapons of mass destruction — this time about Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Some of us were in Congress during the impeachment hearings of President Clinton. We spent a year and a half listening to testimony about President Clinton’s personal relations. This must not be the model for impeachment inquires. A Democratic Congress can show that it takes its constitutional authority seriously and hold a sober investigation, which will stand in stark contrast to the kangaroo court convened by Republicans for President Clinton. In fact, the worst legacy of the Clinton impeachment – where the GOP pursued trumped up and insignificant allegations - would be that it discourages future Congresses from examining credible and significant allegations of a constitutional nature when they arise.
The charges against Vice President Cheney are not personal. They go to the core of the actions of this Administration, and deserve consideration in a way the Clinton scandal never did. The American people understand this, and a majority support hearings according to a November 13 poll by the American Research Group. In fact, 70% of voters say that Vice President Cheney has abused his powers and 43% say that he should be removed from office right now. The American people understand the magnitude of what has been done and what is at stake if we fail to act. It is time for Congress to catch up.
Some people argue that the Judiciary Committee can not proceed with impeachment hearings because it would distract Congress from passing important legislative initiatives. We disagree. First, hearings need not tie up Congress for a year and shut down the nation. Second, hearings will not prevent Congress from completing its other business. These hearings involve the possible impeachment of the Vice President – not our commander in chief – and the resulting impact on the nation’s business and attention would be significantly less than the Clinton Presidential impeachment hearings. Also, despite the fact that President Bush has thwarted moderate Democratic policies that are supported by a vast majority of Americans — including children’s health care, stem cell research, and bringing our troops home from Iraq — the Democratic Congress has already managed to deliver a minimum wage hike, an energy bill to address the climate crisis and bring us closer to energy independence, assistance for college tuition, and other legislative successes. We can continue to deliver on more of our agenda in the coming year while simultaneously fulfilling our constitutional duty by investigating and publicly revealing whether or not Vice President Cheney has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
Holding hearings would put the evidence on the table, and the evidence – not politics – should determine the outcome. Even if the hearings do not lead to removal from office, putting these grievous abuses on the record is important for the sake of history. For an Administration that has consistently skirted the constitution and asserted that it is above the law, it is imperative for Congress to make clear that we do not accept this dangerous precedent. Our Founding Fathers provided Congress the power of impeachment for just this reason, and we must now at least consider using it.
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Categories: Politics
Conservative MP John Redwood, a person I never heard of before, has a blog. It came to my attention because of a post I got by way of the Guardian UK’s RSS feed. The author, Marcel Berlins, accuses Mr. Redwood of trying to set the clock back 20 years in regards to sexual assault laws in the UK.
I just had to check this out. So I read his blog and I am quoting from it directly. For context the “They” he is using is the Labour Party:
A better class of criminal?
“They decided to set date rape alongside stranger rape. Again, none of us want men to rape women, but there is a difference between a man using unreasonable force to assault a woman on the street, and a disagreement between two lovers over whether there was consent on one particular occasion when the two were spending an evening or night together. Labour’s doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man’s word against the woman’s and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together. Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say “No”, having it respected.”
I don’t typically see, or hear the words, “unreasonable force” when discussing sexual assault (I want to know what he means by that, but I digress), but over all I hear this kinda of argument on a regular basis. By regular, I mean between 4-5 pm Monday-Thursday when I run sex offender group. Its a fairy common thought among the kids I work with. In his comments, Mr. Redwood explicits tells the readers to, “Read the entry, I state that all women have the right to say no.” I don’t expect Mr. Redwood to care about my thoughts on the matter, however, that has never stopped me in the past.
Here are the facts regarding sexual assault. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, 38% of all female victims of rape in the US are assaulted by an acquaintance. According the UK’s Home Office (warning PDF link) acquaintances make up 22% of all perpetrators of sexual assault (partners make up 32%). These numbers make it rather clear that in the US and the UK, victims of rape know their offender.
At best, Mr. Redwood (and by extension, most people who think his way) do not understand the nature of sexual assault. It is not committed by the stranger, lying in wait behind the bushes. It is committed by men who use their familiarity to take what they want. Sexual assault is not a disagreement between two lovers: It is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, even when it is committed by a partner. This is the starting point for understanding sexual assault–an absolute assertion that all forms of sexual assault are inexcusable acts–not the idea that the majority of sexual assaults are disagreements between “lovers.”
Neither Labour’s doctrine of Equivalence nor Illinois redefined Criminal Code have not contributed to jurors’ skepticism of rape claims. A culture that has treated sex as taboo AND punishes victims for being raped has contributed to skepticism of rape claims. A culture that doesn’t bother to teach its children about sex, sexuality and how to treat each other creates skepticism of rape. Attitudes that dismiss the majority of rapes as being “misunderstandings” like Mr. Redwood’s, creates skepticism.
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The following video was from my consiglieri. If you can’t watch it (Morning Shannon!) it is a video trailer for George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. It is an incredible fan made trailer. It is well worth watching.Wow.
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Categories: Nerd Stuff
From: Jesus’ General–Mitt Wept:
I feel like I must comment on Mitt’s confession that he wept when he heard that Blacks had finally been given the priesthood, an honor that had been given to every 12 year old white boy since the Church came into being. I’m sure Mitt hopes that we’ll all believe he cried because he was happy that an injustice had been righted, and I think many people will be fooled. But the truth is Mitt, as a true believer, would not have thought it was an injustice.
The General does not typically do these posts. Usually, he is fighting Frenchmen, Atheists and other AmericaHaters. Honestly, I think the General would hate me. However, given this extremely unusual post, I am compelled to repost it. The General has the credibility to point out Mitt’s hypocrisy in ways I can only dream about.
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Categories: Politics
Deathclock says i am going to die 4/25/2049. If I am a pessimist, I die 25 years earlier. That begs the question: do I fucking care?
Categories: Cat Vacuuming
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