Poor Alberto...

Ever since I first referenced "Pepino" in a post, I've been getting snarks about racism. Let me explain:

In the sixties there was a network show called "The Real McCoys", starring Walter Brennan as "Granpappy Amos". The story was about a family from Appalachia that had moved out from the great depression to California for a fresh start. They had a small farm and "employed" a migrant worker named "Pepino".

Whenever "Granpappy" had a dirty job to do, he started yelling for "Pepino"- "Pepino! Where is that gull-darn, lazy, good for nothin'- PEPINO!" And little "Pepino" would show up saying "Si, Senor Granpappy", and then do whatever "Granpappy" ordered him to do.

The only reason that I reference Gonzales as "Pepino" is that Tio Tomas is mixing the metaphor.

With all the hype surrounding Gonzales' appointment, first SA as AG, the poster boy for bootstraps theory, is that with his appointment came a different set of loyalties.

Gonzales no longer was the jefe to the patron. His new master should have been the Constitution, and he should have had the cojones to step up. Sadly, whenever "Granpappy George" or "Granpappy Karl" barked at him to come up with some specious legal argument so they could electro-shock the nuts off prisoners, he happily obliged. Si Senor Granpappy......

If Gonzales goes, shouldn't the ones who gave the orders go also?

 Alphonse ( Al ) Kada
Iranians are fighting the Americans in Iraq so they don't have to fight them on the streets of Tehran

Gonzales will go.

Bush should go, but won't.

I'm thinking he'll finish his term with an approval rating somewhere around 25%.

And then, somehow, the Democrats will fail to win the White House.

Rabbi Assaulted Near Auschwitz

Didn't hear 'bout this one, did you?

See, assaulted Rabbis are only newsworthy when they're not anti-Zionists, and when the people who assault them are not Israelis.

We're working on the second (and final)loaf of Polish Rye bread I made yesterday.

I always thought of him as principled but weird. A couple of notes from Wikipedia:

In October 2005, Bork came out against the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. When asked by Tucker Carlson about her nomination, he replied, "I think it's a disaster on every level." Bork called her nomination a "slap in the face to the conservatives who've been building up a conservative legal movement for the last 20 years."

In December 2005, Bork wrote an article in the periodical National Review calling for government censorship of popular culture, including television, film and music. Bork claimed that "[l]iberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality".

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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" [George Santayana]

And then, somehow, the Democrats will fail to win the White House.

It's a matter of incompetent execution: if we can be just like Bush, only better, we cannot fail to get the support of at least 38% of the electorate.

I guess you're off Atkins this week?

Hats off for the bread-making. I've only gone as far as pizza dough. One of these days, there's a loaf in my future...

Dissent Protects Democracy.

It's the whole waiting for the rise thing... 

Dissent Protects Democracy.

Such frivolity is frowned upon by the serious minds here at the Cafe.

:-) 

Dissent Protects Democracy.

We never eat bread because it has yeast, And one little bit makes a man like a beast. Oh, can you imagine a sadder disgrace, Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face?

chorus
Away, away, with rum, by gum,
With rum, by gum, with rum, by gum,
Away, away, with rum, by gum,
The song of the Temperance Union.

"Somewhere, a village is missing its idiot."

Ha! So the yeast in bread was considered akin to alcohol? 

I may have gotten drunk at dinner (more than once), but it had nothing to do with the bread. 

Dissent Protects Democracy.

I'm actually searching for very low carb bread recipes. Unfortunately, the standard ADA diabetic diet does not work for me, as I'm extremely sensitive to complex carbs. So, I'm hunting things based on buckwheat, soy, gluten, etc.

When I did do regular rye, I found one cross-cultural thing to be amazingly helpful. Rather than use conventional caraway, there's something called "black caraway", or kalonji in Indian groceries. Much, much better flavor than ordinary caraway -- which I doubt is botanically related.

My experimenting these days is with the art of yogurt, and perhaps some cheesemaking.

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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" [George Santayana]

Great flour, I agree. I'll have to check again to see if they have more low-carb; they didn't the last time I spoke to the hotline.

King Arthur is also good on equipment, as is a place called kitchenkrafts.com (note 2nd k). The latter is especially good for gadgets you didn't know you needed until you saw them. :-( Also very good for food preserving.
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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" [George Santayana]

Ah, those were the days, Howard! M.J. Rosenberg recently brought up the spate of Israeli gov't officials who were shamed into resigning through corruption/incompetence and asked if this signified that democracy was finished in Israel. My response was, hell no! We should be so lucky here! It's been decades since US gov't officials took responsibility for their failings by resigning. Now they just mouth the words, "I accept full responsibility" and go on in their jobs as if nothing had happened.

Andrew: I wasn't really certain whether I should post this here, or start a new post under Cafe Management, but I seem to be having some problems with the site. The Rich Text Editor, over several days now, has been working only intermittantly, although I have it turned on by default. I've been trying to do HTML coding, not a pretty sight with my limited knowledge of it. For this post the editor seems to be working. I guess it's like those noises that suddenly disappear when the car is taken to the mechanic.

I also appear to be having problems with PMs. Two PMs that I sent today don't show up in my "Sent Items." (One was a PM to you, to advise you about a thread that had been flooded with spam.) Curiously, about a month ago, when I sent PMs, people were getting two copies and two copies showed up in my "Sent Items" as well.

Have there been other reports of problems? Any thoughts for me on how to resolve these issues?

Know your enemy well, for in the end that is who you become. ~~Old Chinese Proverb

nascardaughter: Well, I've sent two other PMs to Andrew, one that he responded to and one that he didn't. But both show up in my "Sent Items." Even if for some reason the ones to Andrew are no longer supposed to show up (I can think of no reason why that should be), the other one I sent today, to a regular TPM Cafe member, doesn't show up either, so apparently there is a real problem.

Whoops! Now that I take another look, the second PM that I sent previously to Andrew, the one that I thought he had just not responded to, doesn't show up in my "Sent Items" either! How odd.

Know your enemy well, for in the end that is who you become. ~~Old Chinese Proverb

Bork's theoretical efforts exemplify the Godelian proof that all logical systems are incomplete and prey to paradox.

A different way of looking at Bork is that he is at root an authoritarian, and simply rationalizes a preference for a certain kind of society. I for one am glad he is mostly just talk, and not in any public office.

True. Sometimes very interesting and challenging, and sometimes definitely less so than a pair of doxies.

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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" [George Santayana]

Hey all, I'll check into this, I don't think I've recieved anything. I've sent this over to Adam our tech support though.

Note, please feel free to email me rather than use the internal system.

Perhaps Republican wine? "yeah, but Clinton did xxx..."

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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" [George Santayana]