The Corpulent Buffoon shows how much of a jerk he is. Chris Christie was asked about the Hostess going out of business. Instead of giving his opinion, he goes on a paranoid rant. He accuses the reporter asking him about Hostess, of setting him up.
Christie may think he’s funny, but he comes across as a paranoid fool.
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Yeah. He needs both medication and therapy. I also recommend retirement from politics.
That bloviating slob needs two things…A muzzle and a diet! On second thought, maybe only the muzzle is needed!
Who is this Chrsitie in the headline ?
Y’all are gonna need to set up a separate blog to get comments on this waste of space off the main event, like DoD is for another waste of bandwidth.
Just wait untill Kris Krispycreme finds out there will be no more Twinkies.
He’ll make Cloverfield look like something from QVC
How long will it take selrahC to laud Christie’s “bold stance”?
Another type of Twinkie Defense
John Difool wrote:
I hate this guy.
@ song_and_dance_man:
I hope he overeats and just goes away.
Rodan wrote:
Now THAT sounds like someone we all know and love!
Rodan wrote:
Tolerates muzzies & hates guns.
Why do we take this fat fuck seriously?
Rodan wrote:
I think that ship has sailed.
Rodan wrote:
We should be so lucky. Seems to me the Christie of the bite-me biden school of public speech. We won’t be rid of him any time soon. I could see the demonrats supporting him, so as to have a flawed opponent. Kind of like they seemed to like McCain right up until he won the nomination.
@ Macker:
No.
For that he’d have to ban people who disagreed with him from New Jersey.
@ citizen_q:
That is why Conservatives should donate to Cory Booker. Hopefully he can defeat Christie next year and we don’t have to hear about this loser anymore.
@ Macker:
Charles loves Christie now.
John Difool wrote:
Those two reasons, especially the latter, are why I never saw the fascination with this guy. Yeah, I love the fact he stood up to the Teachers’ Unions and is fiscally responsible. But his other political stands do not put him in the came county as any kind of conservative.
@ Rodan:
Not sure that is a good strategy. Yeah, Christie is highly flawed, but he does get some things right. Best thing to do is just let New Jersey decide how it wants to proceed.
Rodan wrote:
He’ll get a television show if that happens. Mark my words.
AZfederalist wrote:
Christie is a traitor and must pay. He helped Obama get re-elected. If he gets re-elected in NJ, the GOP elites will push him for 2016. As we know, they always get their way.
And the obama administration always tells the truth////////////
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/17/white-house-denies-editing-al-qaeda-out-of-susan-rices-talking-points-points-finger-at-the-cia/
@ Bumr50:
Jersey Shore 2: what happens when you stop using steroids!
Apparently Petraues was using national security as foreplay. And his paramour was willing to spill to anyone who would listen.
Chris Christie like to use his power to control people he considers dumber than himself. Expect a soda ban soon. He doesn’t respect his own office.
@ Lily:
@ darkwords:
This is beyond farce.
darkwords wrote:
meh. I’m not giving Broadwell much benefit of the doubt these days. She’s a predator, a stalker, an embellisher.
Whatever you think of Jill Kelley -- name dropper, social climber, generally silly person -- Broadwell DID stalk her out of a far too-well developed sense of paranoia and entitlement.
@ Rodan:
Those are all valid points. However, even if he is defeated, the GOP Establishment may still try pushing him for 2016. The media will express its love for Christie and proclaim how he is the only Republican who is electable in the current crop of candidates, the establishment will get their way, the press will turn on Christie and you have 2008 and 2012 all over again.
I’m really starting to think a new party is needed. Not sure it can be in place for the 2016 presidential race, but it can certainly start with the congressional races in 2014. Unless the GOP changes its approach and standing as the stupid party, a new Constitutional party is needed. When the GOP establishment fears the Tea Party more than it fears the democrats; something is wrong.
Rodan wrote:
Talked to an obama voter there were many reasons they voted for obama. For one the media is the biggest issue. They barely knew about Benghazi (that’s like blaming Bush for 9/11 and when told the embassy had been asking for more protection and was denied many times, they refused to believe that), obama was more centrist than Romney, the Republicans propaganda was getting annoying (from what I could tell the message was that obama was a failure at the fiscal level and at the foreign policy level…they did not believe this), they want obamacare…Romney was going to do away with it,(when told Romney was going to scrap it and do something better they refused to believe this), obama is not a socialist and they were tired of hearing that he was..in fact obama has been much better as president than Bush or any other president. Apparently they bought into the lie the MSM was pushing hook, line and sinker. They also believed that global warming is a problem and obama is actually trying to do something about it. (When I said that if you actually believe in global warming, and told them I didn’t, that one country cannot control the weather…in fact man cannot control the weather…they then said that the U.S. should be an example for other countries to follow…I laughed hard here and said China and Russia and the middle east and Africa are never going to throw money away on a damn ponzi scheme called Global Warming…then they started to yell…I said for one obama has put millions and millions of dollars into green energy and all are going bust when we don’t have the money to be throwing away right now…this did not compute. When people think like this …when they believe that propaganda is the truth….and the truth is propaganda I don’t know how you reach them. You can’t. It wasn’t just one reason..it was several and the MSM is at the forefront.
AZfederalist wrote:
I think it fears the media more than the Dems
Rodan wrote:
So do I.
Any NORMAL person who knew the slightest thing about business and the economy would have said something about the unions, the business climate, and the lost jobs. A person who knew more about business might say something more about the current state of the food manufacturing industry in the US (whether there’s overcapacity, the effects of consolidation of grocery chains, profit margins, merchandising agreements with vendors -- you name it). But noooooo…it’s all about HIM.
BTW, I don’t even eat Twinkies or whatever the hell else those people make. I have mental associations with stale wrapped-up stuff in dusty vending machines.
@ AZfederalist:
I doubt a third party is going to help when half the nation has been brain-washed.
Lily wrote:
There’s probably a psychiatric definition of ‘pathology’ but I think of it as a pattern of thought that serves a psychological need for a sense of safety.
Reality has nothing to do with it. I heard -- a few days before the election -- an interviewer punking Obama supporters.
Political positions taken by Obama were attributed to Romney (supporting the Patriot act/warrantless wire-tapping, etc.). All of which they believed. When told the truth, that it’s Obama that took those positions, they didn’t ask for proof. They just a) called the interviewer a liar or b) said it couldn’t be true because Obama is a ‘liberal’
eaglesoars wrote:
Bunch of miserable pinheaded rat-faced whores. Oh, and btw, Petraeus is no different.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep the media is the problem here. It is a huge problem.
Lily wrote:
It won’t.
Unlike some of you (no offense Rodan) Hostess closing and there being no more Twinkies doesn’t bother me. I understand what happened, I feel bad for the non union people who lost their jobs, but like I said I UNDERSTAND what most of you seem to have not gotten yet.
Hostess went Galt. Hostess was the first Major American corporation to go Galt. Funny thing about it is… John Galt was developing a new power source, one to provide unlimited and abundant power to the world. Hostess had already developed a power source, the Twinkie. Food is power for the human body. Hostess went Galt.
John Galt refused to allow the Government to take over his business. Hostess refused to allow the Unions to take over their business, and as well all know, the Government has been using Unions to take over businesses, Hostess went Galt.
Now the only real question left is… Where is Galt’s Gulch.
@ Lily:
Not sure that kind of Obama voter is even redeemable. If they buy everything the media is selling, think Obama is a good president despite the economic conditions they should be able to observe around them, and get angry when the global warming religion is ridiculed; there’s not much that can be done to salvage that situation.
MSM and education, these institutions are succeeding in their propaganda.
@ doriangrey:
It is being reported the Hostess brands will be sold. So, no need to buy some Ho Ho’s at ebay for a hundred bucks.
@ Guggi:
Won’t happen. Didn’t happen in NO. Home owners and lawyers blocked it. If I understand it now there are numerous neighborhoods just rotting, but until “home owners” default on their taxes the property is the owners and the state/feds can’t do anything with it.
I may be wrong, but if so, tell me why there are home still damaged by Katrina sitting in NO?
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Meh… I don’t care much for sweets…
doriangrey wrote:
That’s what I thought at first -- until I found out they’re $3 BILLION dollars in debt and no savior on the horizon -- and had at least 40 pension plans to manage.
That’s not Galt. That’s homicide.
Dolphin wrote:
The differences MAY be in the eminent domain laws in each state.
Just an idea, I have no knowledge.
eaglesoars wrote:
I saw that interview too…they simply will not believe what is going on. Because it is truly some bad stuff obama is doing. So their only retort is *I don’t believe that and that isn’t true*….the media is still very powerful and way too many people will not or cannot believe the real truth. All I had to say is …in a year we will see who is right. For one they don’t see that something each and everyday since obama has been re-elected the sh*t has hit the fan. And if anything bad does happen they will not blame obama…word for word here..if things do get worse it will be because of the Republicans and not obama ..because the Republicans will not work with obama….the thing is obama doesn’t work with the Republicans and even democrats..they simply cannot accept the truth.
AZfederalist wrote:
That was the plan of the 60′s U radicals. First, take over the educational institutions then send their ranks(punuendo intended) into the Chattering class to further take hold of Hollywood, the means of distributing popular media and the news agencies.
doriangrey wrote:
Not on US soil, I’ll tell you that much.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Brands that are sold aren’t necessarily made the same way afterward. Nor do the companies buying the brands necessarily keep making them for more than a limited period of time. The whole point of buying them might be to eliminate competition.
The Canadian version of the Hostess stuff was already under different ownership. You can still buy that crap across the border, or have somebody send it to you.
eaglesoars wrote:
Na, 3 Billion in debt isn’t unmanageable when you have an annual revenue of 2.8 Billion a year.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
That wasn’t the radical 60′s plan, that was the Marxist plan dating back to 1919.
doriangrey wrote:
Nor do I. I never eat candy and like only slightly sweetened anything. I prefer savory. Although liking coconut I do occasionally eat Snowballs.
@ eaglesoars:
More like unions committed suicide. Just like papermill workers’ union did here in Finland with several large paper mills. They wanted more and more for themselves without any regards to the company’s situation on the markets. Sure, management also shares blame on both cases for stupid decisions, but the unions sawed off their own branches.
doriangrey wrote:
Agreed. The 60′s radicals could be said to have sealed the deal.
AZfederalist wrote:
Oh but this person would have voted for Jindal. Look this person isn’t stupid nor a Republican or a Democrat. The problem is the media is brain-washing too many people..for one they aren’t reporting a lot crap obama has been doing. This isn’t a college student or someone in their 30′s….nor was it a person who wanted *free stuff*. To actually acknowledge the fact obama is so bad for this country does not compute. Just doesn’t. And trust me they believed it was the Republicans who ran a very negative campaign …so for the GOP to even get nastier in their campaigning isn’t going to work. Just isn’t. It’s the media and it’s a huge problem.
doriangrey wrote:
Look for other companies and individuals to do the same. As I read somewhere people with money (Investors) many of whom don’t need to have income will pull out of the investment side and live well on their principle. Sure, they’d like to make money as do we all, but they don’t have too. Going Galt made very well become fashionable for the so called rich!
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Don’t get me wrong here, I am addicted to sweat tea, drink it by the gallon literally. But pies and cakes and candy…Meh…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Yup, that they did. Indoctrinated in their colleges by old school Marxist progressive professors they bought the lies and propaganda lock stock and barrel.
1389AD wrote:
Like Fiat sending the manufacturing of Jeep to China.
@ doriangrey:
I love pastries…they don’t love me back though.
/the horrors sweet tea???? No sugar in my tea…
darkwords wrote:
This was reported BEFORE her speech by Fox News.
Tanker wrote:
It isn’t even so much that they would like to make money, as it is, that quiet honestly, their not ready to move into the old folks homes and sit passively by watching the world go by. Yes, I know several of those very wealthy types. They made their money making things. They thrive on the challenges of making things.
My good friend Carter Penely is like that. He invented the concept of the carbon-fiber composite tube, invented the Carbon-fiber/graphite golf shaft. Manufactured the very best golf shaft on earth until he sold his company for 8 figures. Got bored to death in retirement and is now attempting to start over again manufacturing carbon-fiber/graphite golf shafts. The State of California is apparently doing pretty much everything they can to make it impossible for his to manufacture carbon-fiber/graphite golf shafts again.
doriangrey wrote:
That’s revenue. What was the annual liability? I bet when this story is fully vetted it was ChairCare that gave them no choice but to fold. But the story will go away as others are faced with the same internals, and we will then hear about the latest big failure.
Purre wrote:
Oh yeah. It’s been going on here for years. The unions are in large part responsible for the decline in auto industry, steel (altho China had a part), textiles -- there used to be a lot of textiles manufacturing in the Carolinas -- most of it gone now.
You’d think they’d learn. “We double down on stupid” should be their motto.
Lily wrote:
If I am ever tempted to eat a donut I first put it in my back pocket just to see what it will look like after I eat it.
1389AD wrote:
No, they are not. In my post #60 I refer to my friend Carter Penely, who sold Penely Sport’s to Sports Arena Manufacturing. They did not make their shafts according to Carter’s specifications and did serious damage to Carter’s reputation.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I believe it was $1.4 bil.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Oh I wouldn’t gain weight from them. Not at all. They don’t settle well with the tummy and I will actually lose weight.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I’d have to see the internals, but I would bet that 60 percent or more of that 3 Billion in debt was Amortizable recurring overhead. I.e. machinery and facilities.
doriangrey wrote:
No offense, dorian, but has it ocurred to your friend to leave California for friendlier environs?
A 2009 Pravda article going the email rounds
American capitalism gone with a whimper
eaglesoars wrote:
It has, but he is in love with California. (NOT California’s politics) You really have to live here for awhile to understand why we put up with all this bullshit. It really is insanely beautiful here and the weather, well it may not be perfect, but it’s so damned close to it it’s almost scary.
Lily wrote:
I’m that way with the canned chili that my husband likes to eat. It takes a much quicker and more painful path through my system than it does through other people’s. Dunno why.
eaglesoars wrote:
I haven’t been to SoCal in 7 years, and before that going back maybe 20 years, they had a good hold on the garment industry. I wonder if those jobs have also been exported to China.
doriangrey wrote:
good summary
doriangrey wrote:
You’re not the first person to say that. Also, as VDH pointed out, if your family has been there for generations and has history w/the land………………..
Gov Moonbeam land
Lily wrote:
If my metabolism was that way I’d be eating raw sugar.
@ eaglesoars:
Me either, but would you, as a home owner (that has been in your family for 50-100 years) turn it over to the government? And for what?
Gotta do the Darrell Issa eminent domain style!
doriangrey wrote:
I’m not that interested in the story other than the fact 18k people are going to be laid off.
Dolphin wrote:
Oh HELL NO!!
I wasn’t passing judgement, just thinking out loud…………….
SoCal is a great place to live, just as long as you don’t have to live there. And I have no regrets leaving it after 40+ years.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
ROTFLMAO… SoCal would be a paradise if the damned liberals would just all go lemming…
Tanker wrote:
The unsustainable profit v. liability will cause many others to fold.
@ Lily:
Lucky you! That is the grease the are fried in.
Just checking in. Cooked all day for tomorrows games and prepping for Thanksgiving. Watching the OR vs. Stans game.
GO DUCKS!!!
Dolphin wrote:
I’ve never had duck for thanksgiving. Nor cheered for them. But what the heck…Go TURKEYS///
@ doriangrey:
Delta smelt are higher on the food chain than you
The best Maggie Thatcher ever did was to cut the throat of the unions.
http://www.akdart.com/esa.html
1389AD wrote:
I am with you. Cannot stand canned chili.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Sticks out tongue and does a raspberry. LOL!
Guggi wrote:
well this could get bloody…http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/11/16/thousands-of-lax-workers-set-for-walkout-on-thanksgiving-eve/
doriangrey wrote:
Based on what I’ve read or heard the lemming is in full gear.
doriangrey wrote:
I hear from reliable sources that the climate in some parts of Chile is pretty much the same.
Except the scenery is more beautiful.
Just sayin’.
waldensianspirit wrote:
It’s not the preponderance of evidence that matters, it’s the seriousness of the charge.
/tin foil propeller beanie off
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Canned chili is an abomination unto the Lord.
It isn’t THAT hard to make actual chili on a stove, with or without beans. No, it isn’t cheating to use canned tomatoes in it. But it IS cheating to put in meat that you haven’t browned first in a pan.
brookly red wrote:
…and no iron lady in sight
1389AD wrote:
Including the earthquakes
Guggi wrote:
1,000 union thugs vs 1.8 MILLION stranded travelers? It could get interesting…
brookly red wrote:
Advice for the rest of us, regardless of the immediate outcome:
Quarantine California. Starve out their state grabbermint. Don’t visit it. Don’t do any taxable business with anybody located there. Disown any relatives who live there until such time as they LEAVE.
We need to make that hell hole SECEDE from the rest of the US. It’s a giant sucking fiscal wound that we cannot recover from. That goes double for California academia, and triple for the entertainment industry.
eaglesoars wrote:
That risk I can take. There are dangers everywhere.
It’s the PEOPLE (a/k/a pervs, leaches, Muslims, eco-freaks, and commies) that make those other risks NOT worth taking.
1389AD wrote:
Never been there, but I do know some that spent years there. Chile to me, looking at a map, is like CA. Except skinnier.
1389AD wrote:
I admire your spirit but I think we need to get some return on our investment…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
but the speak a different dialogue of Spanish…
Four Islamists on Chris “Twinkie” Christie’s Muslim Outreach Committee
brookly red wrote:
That’s true. There are books out there on the different dialects and idioms that are used in various parts of Latin America.
1389AD wrote:
Amen. NM has an obsession with chili for the fact that most consider the chili grown here is rated tops world wide. And I agree. You can get green or red on many national franchised fast food that cannot be gotten in any other area. 1389AD wrote:
Yep. I avoid all canned meat with the exception of tuna.
Green chili stew is a staple here and there is nothing better than pan roasting those Hatch chili’s and putting them together with pan roasted meat(beef or pork) and sending them into the pot to do what they were grown to do.
That’s it. I’m making a big batch tomorrow.
Now the red is another matter, and much more involved. My mouth is watering.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Of course, that has little or nothing in common with the brown stuff they serve in the rest of the country, canned or otherwise.
@ lobo91:
And speaking of an abomination, that crap they make in Cincinnati should be outlawed.
Cinammon is not a proper ingredient in chili.
brookly red wrote:
I have good friend from Chile who lives in Madrid with his wife-- she’s originally from Columbia. They told me the dialectic is completely different all over South America.
lobo91 wrote:
now you know how I feel about pineapple on pizza…a crime against God and nature.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
yes I was originally snarking that Californians could not relocate to Chile
@ brookly red:
yes I was originally snarking that Californians could not relocate to Chile
They wouldn’t want them anyway. Allende is dead. Californians should take note.
brookly red wrote:
It sure is!
Sweetened stuff and/or fruit DOES NOT BELONG ON PIZZA!!!!!
lobo91 wrote:
You got THAT right.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
It’s different EVERYWHERE. British English isn’t the same as American English. And don’t study Spanish for a trip to Spain using materials meant for Mexican Spanish.
Parisian French sounds very different from what you hear in Marsailles.
Does.
Not.
Work.
Rodan wrote:
I just went back to the original on YouTube and it sure looks to me as though Gov Christie and/or his henchmen posted the video themselves! Yes, everything has to be about HIM!
lobo91 wrote:
There are plenty of dives in SoCal and elsewhere that make chili the old fashioned way. Finding them is another matter that takes testing or the help of a friend.
lobo91 wrote:
I’ll say.
Altho’ I like cumin in mine.
@ eaglesoars:
That’s because most of the people in Marseilles speak Arabic, not French.
1389AD wrote:
we need a top ten list of un-Godly foods… so far I got pineapple on pizza, cinnamon in chili, cream cheese in sushi, and sweet-n-low on grits…
lobo91 wrote:
No it is not. Cumin or oregano
eaglesoars wrote:
Just keep the cilantro away.
lobo91 wrote:
Now that you mention it, Paris may not be far behind…………
brookly red wrote:
You made that up.
YES YOU DID!!!
lobo91 wrote:
A lot of people have a viscerally negative response to cilantro. I happen to love it but I’ve never put it in chili
@ song_and_dance_man:
I’ll stick with my green chili stew.
Ground pork, potatoes, garlic, diced tomatoes, white hominy, and green chili.
I usually bring a bunch of frozen Bueno Autumn Roast back with me when I drive down to NM.
brookly red wrote:
Beets on a Greek salad (Detroit).
eaglesoars wrote:
no… I took a French girl to an oyster fest in VA once. Not something I am proud of.
brookly red wrote:
Although the mix is abominable that pizza should not have, it does have a certain je ne sais quoi that tastes OK. A bit sweet, but what the heck? It’s a seller.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
INFADEL!
brookly red wrote:
Confirms what I suspect -- the French palate for cuisine is overrated. Went to dinner where the French hostess made vichysoise.
Cold milk w/chives.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
But then, I can’t STAND it when people (or packaged food companies) put vinegar in spaghetti sauce -- then add SUGAR to cut the excessive sourness.
How ’bout you just use the natural acidity of the tomatoes, leave it at that?
Another thing that’s disgusting:
Putting a ton of ketchup on meat loaf after it’s already cooked, before serving it.
Putting ketchup on meat loaf BEFORE it’s cooked lets the flavor mellow.
Adding it afterward is gross, and if people wanna do that, let ‘em pour the ketchup over the meat loaf on their OWN plate, not in the serving dish.
brookly red wrote:
My cousin put ketchup and pickle juice in his pinto beans. I think this qualifies.
I used to go to the Dairy Queen and order fries and a vanilla cone and dip the fries into the ice ceram. That may also qualify.
1389AD wrote:
Ketchup is not a food it is an art form.
lobo91 wrote:
Put some black beans in there and shazaam.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
maybe… if you were over 18 it is a felony.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
you were stoned I presume?
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I could have you deported from New Mexico for suggesting that.
Unless you live in Santa Fe.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Are these one-offs -- a culinary quirk of just one person or family -- or do they reflect more widespread culinary wrongdoing (as with the pineapple pizza)?
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s best used as a condiment and palate cleaner. It does work in certain salsa’s to take the edge off. But who wants that? I want the kick.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Some people think cilantro tastes soapy.
brookly red wrote:
It is also a Kerry profit if you buy the Heinz brand.
brookly red wrote:
I discovered the extraordinary taste at about 12 or 13. Result? Culinary misdemeanor.
So what was your childhood discovery of weird taste. No dirt, stamp or envelope tasting testimony please.
/this one may be too young to remember the smell of a mimeograph school sheet.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I usually get the local “artisan” type with chipolte (sp?)
lobo91 wrote:
Ya can’t make Salsa without cilantro… Just sayin…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I make a seven chili pepper salsa that uses cilantro that has all the kick you can handle and probably more.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
when I was a kid I would put the yogurt sauce from a gryo on fries along with gravy…
ok, does anyone else put salt on fresh watermelon?
eaglesoars wrote:
Not me, but mom does… And she put’s it on freshly sliced apples.
eaglesoars wrote:
/Charles Manson…
lobo91 wrote:
Green chile stew has moved on from the basics. There is a fine amateur cook at work (and brings it for pot luck weekend)that adds two types of squash to his rendition. And it is outstanding.
doriangrey wrote:
yeppers! Is Mom from the northeast perchance?
eaglesoars wrote:
salt is a controlled substance here…
brookly red wrote:
my sincere condolences
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope, Seattle Washington.
eaglesoars wrote:
Bloomberg…
@ song_and_dance_man:
I’m calling the National Guard.
lobo91 wrote:
To hell with the National Guard… Send in the SEIU…
@ Lily:
The media is the 800 pound gorilla.
Rodan wrote:
On crack…
@ doriangrey:
FIFY!
brookly red wrote:
There is a supermarket nearby called John Brooks. They are like a huge Trader Joes. They have stuff like that. They regularly stock Mahi Mahi and small shop foods you will not find at Smiths, Albertsons or any of the other big food marts. Pricey? yeah, but worth the shopping.
I just had a jar of salsa with roasted garlic and two varieties of olives.
It was good, but a bit mild for me.
doriangrey wrote:
I add cilantro to salsa occasionally. But sparingly
eaglesoars wrote:
We did that when we were kids. It gives the same kind of odd yet yummy taste that I described dipping salted fries into ice cream.
/keep watch…i think brookly is still posting ^^
lobo91 wrote:
I’ll give you my chile when you pry it from my cold, dead hands
/
song_and_dance_man wrote:
you get what you pay for. well except for government, but yeah in general.
I’ve been listening to the mighty Zep’s Physical Grafitti in the background. haven’t listened to this recording in a long time. Grooving.
@ song_and_dance_man:
That’s one of my faves at work.
I make the younguns listen to whole albums -- it’s like a foreign concept for them.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
hmmm Dead Man’s Chile has a nice marketing ring to it… kinda like Tombstone Pizza.
brookly red wrote:
Many, many years ago I was in on the fledgling and ground level of local ad sales of cable tv drumming up local businesses to glob onto this new market. One of my first clients was a local biz called the Italian Kitchen. I started working with this marketer/producer that had an idea for a competing business that wanted to produce a commercial. My boss shut down the idea. It was great. The spot would have a car throw off a dead body in front of the Italian Kitchen with a voice over that said, ‘we’re better than the Italian Kitchen’.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
some people have no sense of humor…
@ song_and_dance_man:
“Keep perpetyooatin’ stereotypes and you’ll sleep with the fishes!!”
Bumr50 wrote:
Heh heh heh,kind of like… Confess that Islam is the religion of peace or we’ll kill you…
Bumr50 wrote:
J has learned to appreciate the old and new. I slyfully introduced him to play guitar and now he is adept at it. And I was careful to slowly introduce him to many musical forms.
If you are a musician, whether trained or not, the modes are something that are clearly heard. Most don’t know exactly what they hear, but the underlying ‘color’ is sometimes apparent even to the uninitiated. I can recall playing classical music for my son at a very early age, and if the mode was ‘dark’, he heard it and said, Papa, I don’t like this, it’s scary.
Nowadays he knows many of the classics from Bach to Dubstep.
brookly red wrote:
RightyO. I thought it was genius. But that was in the day when competitors were not allowed, or rather sanctioned against, naming their nemesis. The ad would have worked. I would have lost a client but gained a better client. It was a new outfit called Double Pizza (?). Their angle was two for the price of one. Or something like that.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
And how long do you think they would have stayed in business w/that pricing? Long enough to put Italian Kitchen out of business?
Unranked Baylor just beat No. 1 Kansas State 52-24. First time Baylor has ever beaten a top ranked team. Yay Bears!
And No. 13 Stanford just beat No. 2 Oregon 17-14. Kinda shakes up the BCS.
@ huckfunn:
Hmmmm… Quite possibly wasted on this crowd.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
huckfunn wrote:
Crowd? There’s a crowd? I thought it was just the two of us……….
That is funny. And I am still laughing at the handle Kris Krispykreme!
eaglesoars wrote:
Dont’ know. When I left Victorville Double Deal Pizza (I remembered the name) and the Italian Kitchen were still in business.
huckfunn wrote:
That’s huge.
Well, all this talk about food and I went exploring. Found via Russia Today their food/recipe site (some of them look quite good)
Wanna know how to make vodka?
@ eaglesoars:
I’m not going to try!
Rodan wrote:
Well, apparently, some of my hillbilly ancestors were serious moonshine people -- and I can feel the temptation. Unfortunately, I’m not living in the foothills of Appalachia where one has a dignified privacy from the law -
@ eaglesoars:
Some of my Galician-Spanish ancestors grew wine. But It wasn’t me so I’m not even going to try!
Good night all and see you on the flip side.
@ Rodan:
me too
‘cept now I’m hungry
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I remember at maybe five years of age playing a 45 rpm single of “April in Portugal” and being frightened by the minor bridge section each time I played it.
@ huckfunn:
It might be an Irish year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PST0AuVUwyU&feature=fvwrel
Rodan wrote:
Ah, ze French Revolution…where Communism was in vogue before it was even known as Communism!
This is outrageous.
@ Guggi:
The fish rots from the head down.
Culinary notes:
My parents were from MA, and they salted watermelon. Us kids grew out of it.
The tomatillo-based salsa I make (powered by Serrano peppers) has cilantro in it. Wouldn’t be much without it.
A real salsa Mexicana (pico de gaillo in Gringo-speak) has to have cilantro in it, or at least Mexicans think it does.
Either of the salsas mentioned above, properly made, should be parked on a freshly-made topo (corn chip.) None of those crap thing you get in a bag at the grocery store, unless you have a store that sells fresh made (that day) ones -- none of that in this area.
A proper, fresh topo is simplicity itself to make. Cut up corn tortillas (regular works better than white corn) and fry in hot corn oil -- about the only thing I even use corn oil for any more. It’s a messy and smelly process, best conducted outside if you can. If you have a gas grill with a side burner, that’s perfect. Do it indoors and the whole house smells like corn oil for a week.
…and most of them do a poor job as well with the budgets as with the protections of lives of thousends ot young women and men (mismanagment, corruption, false investments, ROE -- to name only a few)
Apparently more interested in good life than in winning wars.
Yep, it’s absolute necessary to meet with business leaders for a top general./////
The defense that they work 16 to 18 hours/day on 6/7 days/week is a bad joke. This must include all the partying, the dinners they have with slick characters like Jill Kelley and IF a commander of the ISAF and US-troops in Afghanistan can write thousands of thousands emails to Mrs. Kelley alone and a supportive letter in behalf of the twin-sister to the judge, then they have to much time at their hands.
Some of you may know a typical Austrian dish: Wiener Schnitzel (traditionally served with Petersilerdäpfel and salad)
to please the Germans they now serve it with lingonberries and french fries. Disgusting. (Germans in Germany often serve this dish with brown gravy. This is ultimate gross)
I ate that traditional Schnitzel in Salzberg -- that is some serious good eating there. And those little herbed potatos are to die for.
@ Mike C.:
Addendum -- But I had some serious good eats in Germany as well. I always tell people that, of my limited travels in the EU, Germany/Austria are THE places when it comes to eating. You can eat a great meal in a train station, much less a fancy restaraunt. And they assume you are seriously hungry as is reflected in the portions. All to be washed down with the best beer in the known universe (Eff off, Belgium.)
Full Disclosure -- I have never been to Italy, so I can’t judge them.
Mike C. wrote:
Obersalzberg ? The place of Hitler’s residence ?
@ Guggi:
Mozart’s hangout. Not far from the Eagle’s Nest. Very pretty.
The mentality of the military brass is the same as of the people who voted for “free stuff” only on a much higher level. So it doesn’t make you wonder why they are more and more leaning to the left.
Mike C. wrote:
Oh, where I live in Salzburg
Ah well, I didn’t check the spelling, and it was a long time ago. Nice place to visit, but I don’t see how anybody could afford to live there.
Mike C. wrote:
Salzburg is the most expensive regional capital in Austria. But go to Kitzbühel or Lech and Zürs/Arlberg and other famous wintersport villages and you’ll find Salzburg a cheap place.
Every nice place I’ve been to in Europe was outrageously expensive by American standards. Somebody has to pay for the EU verion of the Free Shit Army, I guess. Unfortunately coming to a country near me right the hell now. And there’s no place left to run…
Guggi wrote:
Gutentag! Schönen Gegend. Ich habe für 10 Jahre einen kleinen Skiurlaub da gemacht. Die Preisen sind besser in Österreich dann den Schweiz.
@ Mike C.:
All to be washed down with the best beer in the known universe (Eff off, Belgium.)
Sorry Mike. That would Czech beer. Their selection is even expanding in Germany due to increased consumption by Germans.
Mike C. wrote:
That’s correct and my fear. No place left to run beside some places you won’t live.
One of the common currency outcomes in the EU was that the prices in countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal or Italy rose dramatically (so they beefed up the sallaries) while the prices in other countries like Germany/Austria/France also rose but especially in Germany and Austria they didn’t rose the sallaries. Not only employees but retirees also lost about one third of their income. And now they have to pay for Greece, Portugal etc. while the EU slides into a recession again.
The implemantation of the Euro was a crime. First the economies of the different memebers of the EU has to be adapted (like they did in Germany with the “Zollverein” from 1834 to 1871) then you can implement a common currency. Not the other way round. It doesn’t work.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
That’s correct. Switzerland is extremly expensive not only for vacation but also the daily life. That’s why people from Switzerland run their errands in Austria or Germany if they live near the borders.
Austria has better beer than Germany
more alcohol and also the “Reinheitsgebot”.
@ Guggi:
Austria has better beer than Germany more alcohol and also the “Reinheitsgebot”.
Been awhile. I like the drier Pils, Jever, Pilsner Urquelle, etc..
What would you recommend from Austria?
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
There are still a lot of traditional small breweries here with very good beer.
Germans love this place in my city
or this one
or this one
Well, you guys obviously know a lot more about this than I do. My time in the Germanic area was limited to about 3 weeks in Hanover and a bit over a week in the Munich/Salzburg area. I don’t usually get to hang out in nice places.
Thanks Gugi. Next time I am through I will look for them.
Hanover-- oy, sorry. Münich is nice. My wife lived there a few years and said it really is a quiet place despite the tourists. Good luck finding a place to buy there-- property prices are high.
Mike, where are you now?
Gotta go. A couple of errands to run. Have a good Sunday!
Mike C. wrote:
So, you have chosen the most expensive cities of each country.
@ Guggi:
city
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I’m back at the house, having arrived home very early yesterday morning. Not spending Thanksgiving in Bolivia, you know. I want a full-blown turkey dinner, and I will cook that 14 pounder Wednesday.
I thought Hanover was pretty cool. Pity it got bombed flat during the war, but the few bits that are still standing are nice. The remainder is architecturally unfortunate, like a lot of London. Anyway, the food was good, and I got along fine with the folks in the old Prakla-Seismos office there. I was there for work, but roamed around a bit when not at the office. Decent temperate zone climate, too (Have I mentioned I hate the very sight of palm trees? God’s way of telling you it’s too damned hot.)
Guggi wrote:
That was a vacation, and we wanted to see the sights.
We require 3 things for a vacation these days. Old shit to look at, different food places to eat in, and some shopping for the wife. The last one was to Montreal for a few days. In March, yet. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t mind tromping around in cold weather. You miss all the crowds then. We froze our asses off on the Great Wall and in The Forbidden City, but it was still really neat, and a lot less crowded than in the warm months.
Guggi wrote:
Well, it may be outrageous but it’s been that way for at least 50 yrs. My aunt/uncle had servants in Germany, Philiapines, France, Florida etc. After years of this, she had forgotten how to do laundry -- but damn, she could make a mean martini!
So, this may be news to a lot of people, but it’s not new.
uh oh. Fox is saying something about Twinkies being taken over by Mexico.
*sigh*
eaglesoars wrote:
tequila filled twinkies
Storagemanager wrote:
That’s right up there with sweet-n-lo covered grits
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t blame the current government and I’m very well aware that this had been around for decades. But times have changed. Generals should be paid properly but those benefits have to stop. Most of them have never fought in combat, have never put their lives at risk and their education was mostly paid by the tax payers while civilians have to pay for their eduction half their adult life. Additional they have put the life of their troops at risk (ROE) while following a stupid “counterterrorism” concept mainly brought up by a lefty “think tank” (there isn’t much “think” on that “tank”)
The military has to reform and touch down to the 21st century.
Stop it Charles
eaglesoars wrote:
Addendum: the number ot generals has improved to now near 1,000. I doubt the military had ever so many generals with all the entitelements.
To use enlisted women/men to serve a general at his home is 19th century life style not 2012.
Guggi wrote:
I doubt that they will. Maybe the most egregious will go underground until peoples’ attention goes elsewhere
Guggi wrote:
Generally, that’s most of the wait staff for their parties.
eaglesoars wrote:
From my WaPo link above:
Btw.: the same goes for the O.’s, Pelosis and all the other thugs on tax payers money.
@ Guggi:
There is tremendous waste in the Federal budget. Ho wmuch, nobody knows. The government has successfully resisted all attempts to quantify it. I count these people as part of the parasite class as well. They are just higher paid parasites than the typical welfare suck. I am not just speaking of generals or even primarily about generals (if you want to see an exrtravagant General, read the history of J.E.B. Stewart), but about Federal employees more generally.
How noble of the striking bakers.
Talking points straight from Dickie’s mouth to your ears.
@ Bumr50:
I hope the Union workers never find a job again. They’ve destroyed all those people’s livelyhoods. I hope they reap what they’ve sown.
Iron Fist wrote:
That’s my argument.
Iron Fist wrote:
the wonder bread plant in Cincinnati was going to close
strike or no stike
@ mawskrat:
OK.
ONE bakery.
I’m sorry, but I’ve come to loathe organized labor. Absolutely loathe it.
People here in Pittsburgh, some who aren’t even IN a union, will go to the mat defending them and their tactics, and I’ve had it.
eaglesoars wrote:
A lot longer than 50 years. It’s one of America’s few aristocracy holdovers from before we became a republic. Something we basically learned from a German aristocrat/General that trained George Washington’s troops during the Revolutionary War.
@ Bumr50:
yep…I read some of the union rules, they were really
over the top
@ Bumr50:
I put some of the blame on management who keep signing these labor
contracts year after year knowing it can’t afford them
@ mawskrat:
Oh, it definitely falls on both sides in the long run. But you know as well as I that in semi-post-industrial, rust belt cities like yours and mine it’s all the more difficult to take a hard line against the union. It’s bad PR.
In the end, it’s up to the workers to either accept that they’ve overreached and concede ground or bring the whole thing to a crashing halt, IMHO.
@ mawskrat:
Also state and federal labor oversight boards that are stocked with ex-union chiefs, ex-union lawyers, and ex-union workers, along with progressive judges, give massively disproportionate leverage to organized labor.
Businesses KNOW that they’re going to lose if it gets that far, and so they bite the bullet and take the moronically huge labor hit in order to keep generating positive numbers for the company and their shareholders.
I don’t begrudge anyone from collectively bargaining, with the exception of the public sector.
I begrudge states that pretty much force the employer to hire union in the first place. I live in one.
AND I miss professional hockey.
(Jaded this morning)
@ Bumr50:
I agree 100%
the only hope the Hostess workers have is to de-certify
the union and hope for the best
I hate unions with a passion. If I owned a company or were about to start one, it would be in a right to work state. If any damn union got in, I’d do my best to move the company and if that were thwarted, I’d let the damn thing die. Go Galt!
My geezer democrat uncle is visiting. The old fool thinks education and health care should be free. But not accounting or tax return prep. Guess what his business was. Fool doesn’t have any problem TAKING the fruits of your labor, but leave his alone. THAT is what is wrong with this damn world.
@ Kirly:
That is the thinking of the parasite class as a whole. They don’t want to contribute, but they want to take as much as they can. They arn’t even really good Communists. Communism first takes from you according to your measure, then “gives” to you according to your needs. You don’t need that much. The people in public housing are having far more than their basic needs met.
eaglesoars wrote:
Like I said on the Hostess thread… Get ready for Bimbo Ho-Hos
@ Kirly:
My grandfather, God bless him, is the exact same way.
What bothers me is the fact that he’s been alive for 86 years and has held the same “us vs. them, labor vs. management” mentality for his entire life.
I believe that the massive post-WWII industrial boom is almost completely responsible. Companies had more money than they knew what to do with, golden pensions were the norm, and rather than confront the problem companies simply capitulated.
He’s stuck there.
In that regard, management WAS indeed to blame for not having the forethought to conceive that this MAY be a problem in the relatively near future.
It’s true ignorance of how business works, in his case, and the locals all get together and reinforce their sheltered little view of “how things work” in social halls everywhere.
@ Bumr50:
Yep. What annoys me so much is that we can see examples of the failures of that idiocy around the world but they cling to it and insist that it just hadn’t been done right yet. Idiocy!
Good morning. Watching the Sunday morning shows the Dem
strategy is clear, the dastardly Republicans are just smearing
the sainted Susan Rice.
“let;s just move on, there is nothing to investigate.”
The Osprey wrote:
It’s not uncommon to see large trucks on the Texas highways with “BIMBO” emblazoned on the sides. Mrs. Baird’s Bread was a Texas bakery that had been around since the 20′s or 30′s. Bimbo bought them out about 10 years ago.
New Thread.
eaglesoars wrote:
Better than China!