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I blog original, heart-healthy recipes, and we're not talking broiled chicken breast and steamed broccoli. I create hearty, spicy, adventurous food and share it with my readers.
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- Favorite foods: Pie. Pasta. Just-picked tomatoes.
- Last bite on earth: Pulled pork in North Carolina.
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The Vegan Experience: Welcome to Year 3
Also excited about this, Kenji. I agree with the person who said a focus on vegetarian sausages could be interesting. I think seitan ones are far superior, and they definitely do not have to have a bread-like texture. There are a lot of possibilities there. Also see what you can do with heirloom beans!
Oy! Gluten-Free and Vegetarian for 10 Days. Help!
Lots of soups, stews and chilis, especially hearty ones with beans. How about Louisiana Red Beans and Rice, a Moroccan chickpea and vegetable stew, or some quinoa salads?
More things are gluten free than you might think. I recently added a gluten-free category on my blog, and was surprised to figure out that half my recipes are gluten free, and it wasn't on purpose!
Weekend Cook and Tell: Thanksgiving Pregame
My plan is to make as much as humanly possible the day before, so my T-day isn't stressful. One thing that keeps really well, and can be served at room temperature, is this wild rice dish:
Wild Rice Pilaf with Butternut Squash, Cranberries and Pecans
1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into small cubes
2 cups wild rice, rinsed
6 cups vegetable stock (or half water, half stock)
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup dried cranberries
¼ cup warm water
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
3/4 cup toasted pecans, chopped
3 tablespoons chopped Italian parsley
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Zest of 1 lemon
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom (optional but good!)
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Toss the butternut squash with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread the squash on two baking sheets. Roast until tender and starting to brown, about 20 minutes (check earlier if your pieces are very small).
Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a medium skillet. Sauté the onion and garlic for 3-4 minutes.
Place the dried cranberries in a bowl with the warm water and vinegar. Let sit for 10 minutes, then drain.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining olive oil, lemon zest, cumin, cardamom, cinnamon, orange juice, lemon juice and fresh ginger.
Place the wild rice and stock in a medium saucepan. Heat to a boil, then reduce heat, cover and simmer for 40 minutes, or until some of the grains start to split. The rice should still be quite chewy. Drain thoroughly and place in a large bowl.
Add the onions and garlic, cranberries, parsley, pecans and dressing to the wild rice and stir. Gently mix in the roasted squash. Serve warm if possible, or at room temperature.
Serves 8
Weekend Cook and Tell: Crack Open a Cold One
Soon it will be cool enough to make one of my favorite vegetable dishes: braised red cabbage with apples and beer:
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 medium red cabbage, very thinly sliced (about 6-7 cups)
2 medium apples, peeled, cored and sliced
1 medium-large yellow onion, thinly sliced into half moons
1 12-ounce bottle beer (I used an Oktoberfest–style)
¼ cup balsamic vinegar
Pinch freshly ground nutmeg
Pinch allspice
1 bay leaf
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat the oil in a large pot and sauté the onion until very soft, about 8 minutes. Add the apples and cook another 2-3 minutes. Add cabbage and cook another 2-3 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, cover and simmer until cabbage is very tender, about 50 minutes to one hour. Remove bay leaf, adjust seasoning to taste, and serve warm.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Great Grains
I'm all about freekeh right now. I'll see if I can whip something up.
Whole Baked Tomato served over Pasta...am I going crazy??
KarmaFreeCooking - I love the idea of adding bread crumbs. Using bread crumbs with pasta is a truly under-appreciated technique.
Cooking Rut...Need to get creative here!
I like poached eggs over rice. Sometimes I add spinach to the rice. Yum.
You might also try searching on gojee, which lets you enter your ingredients and it gives you recipes using those.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Picnic Provisions
My picnic favorite is quinoa salad with black beans, corn and red peppers. Jazzed up with cilantro and lime, it's so refreshing. Here's my recipe:
2 cups quinoa (recommend no-rinse variety)
1 ¾ cups water
1 red bell pepper, diced small
¼ cup thinly sliced spring red onion or scallions
5 radishes, sliced paper thin using a mandoline
1½ cups fresh corn (from about 2 ears)
½ cup chopped cilantro
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
Juice of 2 limes
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, or more to taste
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper flakes (optional but great!)
Combine the quinoa and water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for about 12 to15 minutes, until you see the little white spiral "tail" appear on each kernel. The quinoa should be just tender, but still with a little crunch. Drain off any excess liquid. Cool.
Blanch the corn kernels in boiling water for one minute. Drain.
Combine the quinoa with all ingredients. Adjust salt and lime juice to taste, and serve. Can be served chilled or at room temperature. Note: for leftovers, you might want to squeeze on some more lime juice when serving, to freshen up the flavors.
And if you want to see a photo of this dish, it's here: http://www.whatwouldcathyeat.com/2011/06/quinoa-salad-with-black-beans-and-corn/
Moroccan Chickpea and Vegetable Stew
Oh, yes I guess they did remove the link. I just wanted people to see the photo, I wasn't trying to be overly self-promotional. But now I know :)
Moroccan Chickpea and Vegetable Stew
Yeah, I didn't get it either. I thought maybe it was a joke that went over my head!
Weekend Cook and Tell: Experimenting with Indian
I'm a big fan of Suvir Saran's Indian Home Cooking. If you're just starting out cooking Indian food, it's a great one to start with.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Experimenting with Indian
I love Indian food, so when I found out I had serious cholesterol problems, I was sure I would have to give it up. However, I was thrilled to find that you can make authentic and spicy Indian dishes without ghee. My latest favorite is a flavorful spinach and chickpea curry. It's also a reminder of how simple Indian cooking can be. After you buy all the spices, it's a piece of cake!
Here's the recipe, if you want to give it a whirl: http://www.whatwouldcathyeat.com/2011/03/chickpea-and-spinach-curry-chana-saag/
Weekend Cook and Tell: Spring Frenzy!
I can't resist asparagus when I see it at the farmer's market. It seems to brighten up whatever you add it to. It transformed my sesame noodles into a light and spring-y treat, especially when combined with cucumber, cilantro and scallions. Plus, all the green stuff made the noodles way more photogenic :)
Healthy Cookies for Pilates teacher
I developed this recipe for vegan oatmeal pecan cookies, and they came out amazingly well. Here's the recipe, and you can see the photo here
Vegan Oatmeal-Pecan Cookies
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 ¼ cup rolled oats (old fashioned, not quick)
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Scant ½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped pecans (or substitute macadamias or walnuts), toasted
1 tablespoon ground flax mixed with 3 tablespoons water
½ cup brown sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 tablespoons unsulphured molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup organic canola oil
¼ cup dark chocolate chips, optional
Preheat oven to 350. Whisk together the flax and water, and heat in a microwave for 1 minute, or simmer for a minute on the stove. Combine flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and nuts in a bowl. In separate bowl, whisk together flax mixture, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, vanilla, and oil. Add to dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in the optional chocolate chips. Drop by the tablespoon on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from the cookie sheet while still warm and place on a rack or a plate to cool.
"'Cornish Pasty' Wins Protected Status from European commission"
Oh dear, I just made vegetarian pasties with carrots - and titled them Cornish Pasties – ttriple sacreligious!
Weekend Cook and Tell: A Farewell to The Minimalist Column
In honor of the Minimalist as he exits the Times' Dining section, I made one of my favorite Mark Bittman's recipes: Spicy Autumn Vegetable Burgers (from How To Cook Everything Vegetarian). This has to be the world's healthiest veggie burger – just beans, greens and sweet potatoes. I topped them with his caramelized onion chutney. Soooo good!
Weekend Cook and Tell: Resolute Menus
Because I have heart disease, I eat a pretty heart-healthy diet. But it can always be better, so this year I am vowing to eat even more vegetables. I'm no longer counting a small salad as my vegetable with dinner - I'm eating a big plate of vegetables along with whatever else I'm having. And I am also vowing to branch out in terms of whole grains – brown rice is getting boring! Farro, millet, amaranth, I'm game for it all.
Here's a list of all of my nutrition resolutions:
Weekend Cook and Tell: Beyond Tofurkey: Venerable Vegetarian Thanksgiving Options
The recipe link isn't working, and I couldn't find it by doing a search on Epicurious. Can you direct me to the recipe? Looks great! Thanks.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Beyond Tofurkey: Venerable Vegetarian Thanksgiving Options
I just submitted my vegan gravy to Photograzing, but oops....forgot to tag it for Weekend Cook and Tell! Anyway, here is the recipe if you want it. This gravy rocks!
Weekend Cook and Tell: Beyond Tofurkey: Venerable Vegetarian Thanksgiving Options
Indolent Cook, your oka yams look kind of .... obscene!
And msingram, I want your shiitake mushroom gravy recipe.
You people are making me way too hungry!
Weekend Cook and Tell: Beyond Tofurkey: Venerable Vegetarian Thanksgiving Options
I made a stuffed squash with quinoa which might be a good Thanksgiving entree (quinoa is protein, too!). And if you're a cheese eater, goat cheese would be a nice addition, as in the comment above.
Here's the dish I made:
Weekend Cook and Tell: Beyond Tofurkey: Venerable Vegetarian Thanksgiving Options
I think vegetarians deserve protein, but agree that Tofurkey sucks. The entree ideas listed in the article seem like side dishes to me - they seem like vegetables, butter bread and cheese. I am trying to think of a heart-healthy entree that has protein. Maybe something with lentils? I need ideas!
The Crisper Whisperer: Share Your Favorite Fall Produce Recipes
I make a potato and mushroom gratin that's unusual in that it has no cheese or cream. It's little more than potatoes, mushrooms, olive oil and herbs - but it's so much greater than the sum of its parts!
Here's the brazen link to my blog :)


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Cami, 8 years old, picked some cranberries. She loves the outdoors, singing and animals.
I walked in the bedroom and found my dog, Izzy, just sleeping away. She didn't even get up when I took her picture. I guess Mondays are hard for everyone.
My dog, Baby, having a nice, cool drink of water at the dog park.
This is Paisley Jo, always trying to be a big girl, yet a little mischievous! She loves playing with her big sister and brother and enjoys anything outdoors.
Noah thinks it is a hot chocolate kinda morning... warming up before heading to Applefest on Saturday.
This is our family of beanie baby squirrels. They are playing a Packers/Vikings game on our kitchen table. The 3 "adult" squirrels in the "squirrel chairs" are spectators watching the game. The adult squirrel sitting on top of the mug is the referee (with a whistle hanging from his neck).
My Granddaughter Mylee loves her Coffee.
Tara Jane playing house with her sisters at Aunt Shannon and Uncle Jason's on a lazy Saturday Morning.
Achemd is 2. He and his sisters came to us, so now they have a forever home.
Godiva and her little sister Micky are hanging out in their kitty condo while my coffee cools on the roof.
This is our Siameese, Beijing, enjoying her morning refreshment up on the bathroom counter.
Here are Alivia and Jillian celebrating their 3rd birthday at Grandma and Grandpa's house. They're sipping some yummy milk!
This is my cat Tigger holding my grandma's favorite mug on the bed. Tigger is a little wiped out from a hard days sleep.
This is Kennedi, Landen and Madisynn enjoying a mug of hot chocolate at the cabin over Labor Day weekend!
Sunrise On Richmond Bay.
There's a bay window in my apartment building and I'm always looking for different ways to decorate in it. This summer I used a 4 ft artificial Christmas tree and put silk leaves and various types and colors of silk flowers on it. I thought it really brightened up the hallway and my neighbors liked it too. I use my big mug to start the day with coffee. Keeps me going until noon.
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Insights from the Science and Public Leadership Fellows Program
At the PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellows retreat at National Geographic headquarters earlier this month, the program's faculty provided key insights to help equip the 2011 Fellows with enhanced leadership, collaboration and communication skills.
For a taste of their ideas, have a look at this wonderful graphic record produced by Peter Durand.
You'll find:
- Storytelling tips from people like Lisa Witter of Fenton, Jad Abumrad of Radiolab, Joe Palca of NPR and Jeff Nesbit of Climate Nexus;
- A view into science policy-making through the eyes of Thomas A. Kalil of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy;
- Peter Lee of Microsoft Research on how idealism and diversity drive scientific discovery;
- The ten rules of collaboration from Philip E. Bourne of UCSD; and more.
PopTech is very grateful to the faculty for generously donating their time to benefit the Fellows, and to our partners, Microsoft Research, National Geographic, the Rita Allen Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, for supporting this program.
Stay tuned for PopTech 2011, where you'll have a chance to see the Fellows in action when they present from the PopTech stage.
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The Most Hated Creature on the Planet
There are some terrifying creatures in our world. Lions and snakes and crocodiles, oh my! Sharks even get their own week of the year. But there is one little pest that is far more deadly than these that has recently been the object of a lot of fear and hate.Continue Reading ›
The Best Christmas Lyric I've Ever Heard
Oh weary soul, we live in a world that is broken. So very broken. It's disheartening. If I'm honest, sometimes it feels so overwhelming I feel paralyzed to do anything. And it's the holidays. Lights are up and my days are supposed to be merry and bright. Yet in this season of the world, what is there to be merry about?Continue Reading ›
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Three women from three vastly different countries and cultures reveal their shared fears and hopes of motherhood as well as the impact of the Child Survival Program.
Water Isn't All Africa Needs
When providing clean water to communities in Africa, the conversation can't stop there. Sanitation education is crucial to sustainable health care.
Kenyan Resiliency: Wounded but Unbowed
In the aftermath of the al-Shabab terrorist attack on Garissa University College, Kenyans have displayed powerful love in tangible ways. Standing in long lines to give blood for the wounded, comforting the grieving, providing supplies for the impacted families and contributing money. One of the most loving and brave things the Kenyans are doing is not surrendering to fear, but choosing life instead.
World Toilet Day: Well, This Is Awkward
I love awkward situations. What makes most people squirm makes me break out in a fit of laughter. I enjoy watching people react in uncomfortable situations and don't mind entering awkward situations myself. At this point, you're probably asking yourself two questions. How does this woman have any friends? Is she about to ask us something awkward?!? Both valid questions. And sure, now that you brought it up, here's a potentially awkward question: How do you feel about toilets? That's right. Toilets.
Fear, Ebola and Me
"Are you sure you want to travel there right now? Couldn't you get… Ebola?" My friend hesitantly asked me this question before my recent trip to Uganda, in Eastern Africa. I found a map and showed my well-meaning friend the actual distance from the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak to Uganda. It's about 4500 miles, which is well over the distance from California to New York.
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The Locust Effect: How Violence Plagues the Poor
The locusts of everyday violence have been allowed to swarm unabated in the developing world. And they are laying waste to the hope of the poor. – Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros
The Ripple Effect of the Toggenburg Goat
For centuries, large gatherings and special celebrations across Africa have called for goat meat. In rural Ngaamba, Kenya, this is especially true. That's why introducing a new breed of goat to this community brought about such remarkable change.
Five Fast Facts About Africa
You may have heard Africa referred to as the "Dark Continent." Did you know that name has nothing to do with skin tone, but was coined by 19th century European explorers because of the mystery this vast land held?
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Selling the Michigan basketball program to the nation's top recruits is a little easier for head coach John Beilein these days. Gone are the days of sub .500 records, outdated facilities and stagnant player development.
The Wolverines have won a Big Ten Conference title and played in a national championship game over the past two seasons. Better things could be coming soon.
Future rosters will continue to be littered with NBA talents. The class of 2014 will undoubtedly produce some professional prospects. Current commits Ricky Doyle and Austin Hatch do not exactly fit that bill, but the rest of Michigan's targets certainly do.
There is a special sales pitch the Wolverines can use on each their top five targets. Winning, proximity to home and early playing time are just some of the things Michigan has to offer.
Certain pitches will help separate the Maize and Blue from the rest of the programs on the recruiting trail, though.
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Expect to hear a lot more about the SMB segment over the next 6 months.
Because the high-end market is sucking wind. NetApp and EMC are both reporting problems in the high-end. HP and IBM don't break out as much detail but I'm sure they are feeling the chill as well.
With Hulk/Maui coming in Q2CY08, you should hold off on any 2nd tier storage purchases you can. I estimate that H/M will be about 30% per GB less than the current gear.
Robin blames the U.S. subprime mortgage mess, butI disagree with the term melt-down.
IBM doesn't publicly report subset numbers on individual product lines, but we are growing, albeit single-digit growth, on the high-end with our IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS6000 series products. Single digit growth is not "booming", but it is what we expected in this space, so it is not like we are"feeling the chill" as Robin stated.Obviously, if the U.S. market overall is doing poorly, then it must be from something else. IBM's success appears to be from organic growth in our Asia and Europe markets, and taking marketshare away from the top two contenders, EMC and HDS. Here are my thoughts why:
- EMC is remodeling its kitchen
Not happy with its status as #1 disk hardware specialty shop, EMC is admirably trying to redefine itself as an ["information infrastructure"] company, buying up software companies and introducing new storage services. [Byte and Switch] reports onEMC's recent acquisitions:
EMC is the latest vendor to pin its colors to the SaaS mast, revealing its plan to offer SaaS-based archiving services during its recent Innovation Day in Boston.IBM has offered[Managed Storage Services] foryears through our Global Technology Services (GTS) division. Gartner recognized IBM as the #1 leader in storageservices, with three times more revenues than EMC in this space.
EMC gave another clear indication of its SaaS intentions last month, when it spent $76 million to acquire online backup specialist Mozy.
As with a restaurant that is remodeling its kitchen, it can expect a temporary drop inrevenue. If it is done right, customers will come back to a bigger brighter restaurant. If not, the restaurant re-opens as a much smaller lesser version of itself. Recent events this year might incent EMC to get that kitchen done quickly:
- A recent [class-action lawsuit]might result in having EMC's "86 percent male" sales force goes to sexual harassment sensitivity training, takingtime away from selling high-end storage arrays in the field. Analysts consider "high-end" boxes as those costingover $300,000 US dollars. Because of the money involved, there is a lot of competition for high-end storage, so face-to-face time with prospective customers is crucial to making the sale.Anytime any vendor is mentioned in a lawsuit (andcertainly IBM has had its share in the past, as Chuck Hollis correctly points out in the comment below), priorities get shifted, and there is potential dip in revenues.
- Dell acquires EMC's rival EqualLogic. Dell resold EMC midrange storage, like CLARiiON, so this should notimpact their high-end storage sales. While Dell will be allowed to sell EMC until 2011, this new acquisition mightmean Dell leads with the EqualLogic offerings, and that could potentially reduce EMC revenues in the midrange space.
IBM went through a similar phase in the 1990's, redefining itself from an "IT Technology" company, intoa "Systems, Software and Services" company. These transitions can't be done in a quarter, or even a year, theytake several years. IBM lost business to EMC in the 1990s, but is back with a stronger portfolio in the 2000's, and so IBM's kitchen remodeling effort appears to be paying off. We will see what happens with EMC in a few years.
- HDS puts on the white lab coats
Meanwhile, HDS appears interested in taking over as #1 disk hardware specialty shop.For years, Hitachi was the stereotypical JCM (Japanese IBM-compatible manufacturer) that made well-engineered"me, too" storage arrays. They would see what innovators like IBM and EMC were doing, and copy them. Recently,however, they seemed to have changed strategy, introducing new featuresand functions on their high-end USP-V device, like[Dynamic Provisioning].
The problem is that customers don't want to feel like [Guinea pigs] in an experimental lab, especially withmission-critical data that they trust to their most-available, most-reliable high-end disk storage systems.Like IBM and EMC and the rest of the major storage vendors, Hitachi has top-notch engineers making quality products, but new features scare people, and so there is a lag in the adoption of new technologies.
In our youth, we might have preferred beer with recent born-on dates, and tequila aged less than 90 days. But as weget older, we switch to drinks like wine and whiskey, aged years, not weeks. The same is true for themarketplace. New start-ups and other "early adopters"might be willing to try fresh new features and functions on their storage systems, but more established enterprises prefer storage with more mature and stable microcode.Storage admins want to leave at the end of the day, knowing that the data will still be there the next morning. In tough financial times, many established companies want the technological equivalent to ["comfort food"], nothing spicy or exotic, but simplehearty fare that fills the belly and keeps you satisfied.
Recognizing this, IBM often introduces new features and functions on its midrange lines first, and position them accordingly. Once customers are comfortable with the concepts, IBM then can consider moving them into the high-end lines. For example, dynamic volume expansion was introduced on the DS4000 and SAN Volume Controller first, and once proven safe and effective, brought over to the DS8000 series. This strategy has served us well.
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Skip to comments.North Carolina police use stun gun on woman blocking McDonald's drive-thru
Posted on 04/21/2012 1:05:08 PM PDT by rawhide
HOPE MILLS, N.C. North Carolina authorities say they used a stun gun on a woman motorist who blocked a McDonald's drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her because she cut in line.
Authorities say 37-year-old Evangeline Lucca bypassed the order screen and line and pulled directly up to the pick-up window Friday afternoon at the restaurant in Hope Mills, about 60 miles south of Raleigh.
Cumberland County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Tanner told The Fayetteville Observer that the woman had her 3-year-old daughter in the car when she became confrontational with the workers before deputies arrived.
Tanna says Lucca was subsequently shocked by deputies and charged with second-degree trespass.
Authorities say the womans daughter was taken into protective custody
(Excerpt) Read more at bangordailynews.com ...
About two months ago, I was waiting my turn at Charlie's Car Wash in Augusta. An aggressive and loud-mouth B...., I mean, Lady, came out of nowhere and drove to the front of the line.
She got out of her Jeep to look at a vehicle that was for sale. I pulled up and put my car in front of hers to take my turn. She was outraged! I informed her that she had pulled in front of about a dozen cars and pointed at the line she went around. She said she didn't care and she was going to be next! She called me everything in the book, and then seeing that wasn't going to cut it, she said "Chivelry is Dead." I responded "I didn't even know he was sick!" I let the next two cars go ahead of me before I took my turn. She put on a heck of a show but got no sympathy from anyone.
I know someone like that.
Always pushing their self important agenda in public venues for "validation".
Get a dog.
Now that's just way out of line. I could understand if she was blocking the cops from Dunkin Dounts, but not McDonalds.
Riot prevention?
This happened months ago - why are you posting this now? You live under a rock?
This happened a few months ago same town a women went to the pick window and ordered in front of the other people in line, they refused to serve her and she was locked up.
Histrionic mood disorder or manic psychosis she must have.
"Two Iced Mochas, please" ping....
Just came of hibernation for the past 6 months. Anything new happen while I was asleep? obamma still president?
"I didn't even know he was sick!"
That's a good one.
She must have been hungry.
We had a guy here take his sack of food at the local McDonalds pickup window and start eating it right there.
Oblivious to the cars behind him, he was hungry and drunk.
Police had to run him in.
Isaw an SUV recently that had a vanity plate saying,"MEB4U".The woman driving was one of Holder's people.
The great part was the icing on the cake, letting two other cars go before to drive the point home.
I guess she didn't have it her way!
According to another source, the employees at the McDonald's claimed the woman did this often, and they finally were fed up with her and called the police.
I haven't been able to find any pix of this woman.
They should have told her she had to get her order inside, grabbed her, put her through the grinder and put her on the dollar menu.
Good decision by the LEO.... but a cattle prod might have also been appropriate for this cow..
What you encountered my friend is just your everyday average liberal.
In the aftermath of Katrina for the first few months, many bridges were out, leaving only a single lane in each direction. Lines were backed up for a couple of miles for some bridges. While sitting in line, almost everyday one of my co-workers would zoom past the line and get in at the front. I confronted her about it one day. She said "why get in line at the back when I can get in line at the front" All it took was for another one of Holder's people to let her in and she was gone. She would get home an hour before I would.
All I can say about that ol'gal is ZAP HER AGAIN!
That'd mean you knew where she parked.
Hmm ~ you know those valve cores ............ stop at any autoparts place and get a valve core remover.
She'll never get home before anybody!
exactly how wide was this woman??
Name: LUCCA, EVANGELINE MARRERO
Booking ID: 147875
Date Arrested: February 03, 2012
Charge: M: 2ND DEG TRESPASS/M: RPO
Bond: $200.00
Age: 38
Race: White
Sex: Female
Note the race.
here is the video
I've noticed that a lot of fast-food joints are adding extended concrete islands and high curbs to funnel traffic into the drive-through lane. The idea must be to thwart these line-cutting people and the confrontations they generate.
Shops with drive-up windows had been nearly unaltered since the 1950s; these alterations are all very recent - just in the last few years. It's all part of the new civility, I reckon.
Hello, savedbygrace! The you-tube video was attacked to the article in the past, but it looks like it is gone now.
Here it is:
She certainly had chutzpah to pronounce chivalry dead, because in this instance, she's the one who killed it.
SMEK!? That's classic MAD Magazine sound effect.
OK, now where's the Ronald McDonald getting blown away by Burger King vid? No Micky D thread's complete without it.
Anyway, sociopathic displays like this are going mainstream. It's like Zombie Apocalypse, one zombie at a time. Look up "Chuck E Cheez Fights" for truly appalling footage.
There sure are issues with McDonald's.
Didn't someone call 911 once, because they ran out of Chicken McNuggets?
And, if I recall correctly, somebody tried to push their way through the drive-in window?
And, it was in a McDonald's that the girl in Baltimore beat up a Trans-person dressed as a woman.
Does something about McDonald's trigger a certain rage in people???????
Or are there other reasons for the bad behavior seen at McDonald's??????
Where's the beef?
I here ya. When they started doing this on the Hale Boggs bridge, we just started a rolling blockade (mindful of any emergency vehicles).
It seems like a lifetime ago, now.
It's something that I will never forget.
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What was the best starting-5 lineup we had on the court this season???
The question above should be easy to answer after 51 games.
ok, so we're a little past mid-way, but All-Star weekend looms, and then it's the race for the playoffs, where every game counts towards the post-season run.
If the Knicks don't make a major move before trade deadline, who should be starting and coming off bench, in your opinion, at this point?
PG - Prigs / Felton / Tour'e / Beno
SG - JR / THJR / Shump
SF - Melo / Bargs
PF - STAT / MetaWP / KMart
C - Chandler / Tyler /Cole
What was the best starting-5 lineup we had on the court this season???
The question above should be easy to answer after 51 games.
Do u really want to know???
Having a 20-31 record with no chemistry, no effort, and a headcoach playing musical-chairs with the starting-5 lineup, using injuries and restriction as an excuse for the many losses, having a healthy roster to start the season with a 3-13 start.
Its difficult or impossible to decide what players are best to be our starting-5 lineup, or what 5 players are best to be in our closer lineup.
Our starting center Tyson missed 24 games.
Our starting PF Barg missed 9 games.
Our starting SF Melo missed 3 games.
Our starting SG Shump missed 2 games.
Our starting PG Felton missed 16 games.
Our 6th man JRsmith missed 7 games.
Our backup PG Prigioni missed 16 games.
Our rookie SG Tim Hardaway Jr. (aka THJ) missed 1 game, plus started 1 game (over vets Shump/JR/MWP).
"our HC should've been question for starting THJ over veterans."
Since the first game of the season rookie THJ were given crunchtime closer minutes in the 4th qtr. over all our veteran players on a consistent basis.
"our HC should've been question for playing THJ over veteran-players in the final 6 minute of the game consistently."
We Have 9 veteran players, plus 3rd season Shump, and 2nd season Prigioni, there's no way rookie THJ none experience should receive crunch time playingtime minutes consistently in the teams first 40 games of the season.
Or put in the starting lineup over veteran players.
When Barg/Amare/K-Mart/MWP were all injured throughout 2 weeks did we start rookie Jeremy Tyler? NO!
Have Jeremy Tyler receive playingtime during a crunchtime 4th qtr. game? NO!
Last season we never started JRsmith in any game, even when half of our guards were out with injuries.
By doing that last season we never resulted in having a starting-5 lineup, bc JRsmith came off the bench 3 minute after tip-off. Plus JR started the 3rd quarter of 80 games...
can we just start Tour'e Murry, THJR and Jeremy Tyler and see what happens?
how can ANYTHING be worse than the current starting 5 at this point in time?
PG Tour'e
SF Melo
PF Tyler
C Chandler
Failton -------> bench
Chumpert ----> bench
JR $hit -------> bench
wtf do we have to lose? mr potato head refuses to budge until the Knicks are mathematically eliminated, but c'mon now. give the youngbloods a chance to start and make things happen. if they f*ck up, bring in the pathetic losers the Knicks have become.


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The obligatory "here come the midterms" post
Meh. I've come to realize, given the last few wave elections, that if either of the two majority parties are in charge, little if anything will change significantly. Or said another way, for the next 2 years, we're in for the same nonsense we're suffering now and the only thing that will change is the name of the Senate majority leader.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of divided government. I like" do nothing" Congress, because divided government means fewer laws entailing government interference are likely to pass. However, that doesn't change the fact that both parties are heavily invested in interfering with our lives. They simply have different priorities in that regard.
That said, let's look at the mood of the country prior to the selection. POLITICO starts us off with a handy chart:
Too bad we don't have the "none of the above option". Me thinks the gray wedge would be significantly larger. As with most recent elections, there's a large "hold your nose and vote" segment at play here.
However, that particular part of the poll isn't the most interesting to me. These results say more about the "mood" than any:
– Terrorism: Eighty-four percent of voters say the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant poses a "serious" threat to the U.S. homeland, including 43 percent who say it poses a "very serious" threat. Just 12 percent said the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is not a serious concern.
This is an Obama made problem and he and the voters know it. And if it is an Obama-made problem, then it is also a problem for the Democrats. But more importantly, it reflects a belief is how poorly this administration has handled the terrorism problem. They didn't buy the "JV" wave-off and, it seems, are much more able than our security experts to see the type and possibility of the threat ISIS poses to the US homeland. When you have an enemy that will go to any extreme to get to you and doesn't mind if they die doing it, you have a formidable threat facing you. And while you may have more of a chance of being hit by lightning or winning the lottery than being a victim of ISIS terrorism here, please don't try to sell these people on ISIS not being a threat here. This also reflects a tremendous amount of distrust the public in general have for anything this administration puts out there.
– Health care: Most voters believe their health care costs will go up under the Affordable Care Act. Fifty-seven percent said they believe their personal costs will increase, while only 7 percent said they will decrease. A third said their costs would remain the same. (At the same time, support for repealing Obamacare has continued to drop, now down to 41 percent.)
Here's another huge trust in government issue that has been a disaster for Democrats. This is one they own lock, stock and barrel. Thus far they've been able to mostly manage the bad news to fall after elections. But that's unlikely to help them when 2106 rolls around. ObamaCare has, for the most part, failed in every way possible. We now have reports of less people availing themselves of routine health care because the deductibles are so large they can't afford the visits. If you don't think this is a part of the mid-term calculations by voters then you have to believe there's no reason to withhold the increases for insurance until after the election.
– Presidential management: Voters in the midterm battleground states are evenly split on whether President Barack Obama or George W. Bush was more effective at managing the federal government. Thirty-eighty percent named Bush, while 35 percent preferred Obama. A quarter of respondents said the two men were equally competent.
As hard as the left and Democrats worked to make Bush the poster boy for bad government, this one has to hurt. All hail the new poster boy, and the GOP hasn't had to even break a sweat selling this one. Most, if not all of Obama's failures have been via self-inflicted wounds. Will there be a portion of the voters who use the mid-terms as a referendum on the President? You bet there will. This guy is about as bad as we've ever had, and voters are going to make that point in November.
That brings us to this last issue in this particular poll which pretty well makes an important point I want made:
– Ebola: Only 22 percent of respondents said they had a lot of confidence that the government is doing everything it can to contain the contagious disease. Thirty-nine percent they had some confidence, while a third said they had little or no confidence. The poll concluded Oct. 11, before the hospitalization of the second nurse who treated an Ebola patient in Dallas.
Confidence in government and the competence of this administration are at rock bottom. I welcome that. Ebola just happens to be the latest issue to demonstrate both executive and bureaucratic fumbling and incompetence. The only consistent thing this administration has done is demonstrate that. The guy whose goal it was to make "government cool" again, has failed miserably. I welcome that as well. I'd like to see the point understood by more. Instead of success, we've seen an increasingly intrusive but ossified bureaucracy fail time after time when tasked to do their job. They may not know it, but that's one of the reasons, perhaps the main reason, that 64% of Americans believe "things in the U.S. feel like they are out of control right now." We've seen how politics has subverted our public servants into servants of the party in power. And we've also seen various government agencies hold themselves to be above the law in certain instances. How changing parties at midterm will change any of that remains a mystery.
Usually at this point before an election, analysts have decided who will decide the election. You remember "Soccer Moms" etc. Well, this year it's simply "women". Women will decide this. And the implication is that women have always been more of a Democratic constituency than a Republican one … for various reasons. Well, that may not pan out for the Dems this year and of all people, Tina Brown explains why:
But, you know, the fact is that Obama's down with everybody, let's face it, there's a reason," Brown said. "And I think that particularly for women. I don't think it makes them feel safe. I think they're feeling unsafe. Economically, they're feeling unsafe. With regard to ISIS, they're feeling unsafe. They feel unsafe about Ebola. What they're feeling unsafe about is the government response to different crises. And I think they're beginning to feel a bit that Obama's like that guy in the corner office, you know, who's too cool for school, calls a meeting, says this has to change, doesn't put anything in place to make sure it does change, then it goes wrong and he's blaming everybody. So there's a slight sense of that."
If you're not feeling unsafe with this clown in office, then you have no fear. Security – safety – is one of the key reasons women consider a vote for a candidate (or so the experts tell us). If that's the case and we go with the "women will decide the vote" meme, then Dems are in even worse shape than I thought.
And I welcome that as well.
Meanwhile in Africa
Ebola continues to ravage the western part of the continent:
Yet another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was released Tuesday, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling.
In the worst-case scenario, Liberia and Sierra Leone could have 21,000 cases of Ebola by Sept. 30 and 1.4 million cases by Jan. 20 if the disease keeps spreading without effective methods to contain it. These figures take into account the fact that many cases go undetected, and estimate that there are actually 2.5 times as many as reported.
If that's the case, then containment would seem all but impossible.
However, if it is able to be contained and everything goes to plan, there is a "best case" scenario:
In the best-case model — which assumes that the dead are buried safely and that 70 percent of patients are treated in settings that reduce the risk of transmission — the epidemic in both countries would be "almost ended" by Jan. 20, the report said. It showed the proportion of patients now in such settings as about 18 percent in Liberia and 40 percent in Sierra Leone.
Unfortunately, best case scenarios rarely if ever come to pass. They assume too much goes well with "the plan", communication, cooperation, behavior and many other human activities, and rule out people acting on misinformation and self-interest contrary to the "best case" scenario's plan. That's not to say epidemic can't eventually be contained … or burn itself out. It's to say betting on the "best case" scenario puts you at odds with human nature.
There's another reason not to expect the "best case" scenario. The agencies who are spouting all the stats really don't know the actual extent of the outbreak:
The World Health Organization acknowledged weeks ago that despite its efforts to tally the thousands of cases in the region, the official statistics probably "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak."
The report does not include figures for Guinea because case counts there have gone up and down in ways that cannot be reliably modeled.
The point? We're going to hear a lot of happy talk about how the world's effort is going to contain this outbreak and, at least for a while, they're going to point toward the best case scenario as their goal. And it is a worthy goal. But you have to remember that as with many government or quasi-government bureaucracies, their worth is measured in how successful they are – or report they are. It's how they receive funds. So the propensity is to "happy talk" and favorable stats. And, as we've all learned with "climate change", models can be monkeyed with.
As an example of why the best case scenario is unlikely, the plan for containment relies on "effective methods" to contain it – such as treatment centers where patients go and allow the problem to be isolated. But in reality, there aren't enough beds to do that:
At least one aid group working in Liberia is already shifting its focus to teaching people about home care and providing materials to help. Ken Isaacs, a vice president of the aid group Samaritan's Purse, said, "I believe inevitably this is going to move into people's houses, and the notion of home-based care has to play a more prominent role." He said there could be 100,000 or more cases by the end of 2014.
"Where are they going to go?" Mr. Isaacs asked. "It's too late. Nobody's going to build 100,000 beds."
He's right. And so isolation, a key portion of "the plan", is put in severe jeopardy.
Key take away? Beware of all the happy talk. This isn't a time for propaganda and misleading stats. But we are dealing with bureaucracies, spokespersons and the like. This is a time for honest, above-board information so the public can stay informed about something that could threaten their lives.
Let's see what we actually get.
The bureaucratic state
While the enemies of freedom certainly are made up of politicians who would limit or take away your freedom, probably the most insidious of those enemies is the bureaucrat. As we've seen for decades, politicians come and go, but bureaucracies run the day to day machine of government. And as we're seeing right now with the IRS, they're both unelected and unaccountable, despite the volume of the outrage.
But remember, on the political side of this, one of the goals of the current administration was to help us believe that "big government" was a good thing … much better for many things than the private markets out there. One of the goals of ObamaCare was to take a giant step toward fully government run, single payer health care. But we've been feeding you stories for years about how badly the UK's NHS performs and we've also pointed out that theirs isn't an "exception" to the rule. If there is a rule, it is the rule of bureaucracies which says they exist to expand and protect themselves and really don't much care about the original mission, in terms of performance. However, they'll do just about anything to protect themselves. As I pointed out yesterday, the IRS director has committed himself to one of the most improbable stories about the fate of Lois Lerner's emails since Bill Clinton uttered his infamous "I didn't have sex with that woman …". Everyone in the room knew he had. Everyone. And everyone in the Congressional hearing, including the witness, knew that his excuse for the loss of those emails was bogus.
Back to the point about "big government" being the best way to go and the liberal wet dream of government run health care (single payer) becoming reality. If, in fact, we want the American version of the NHS, we simply need to look at the only government run health care system in the America – VA (yes, I realize the military also runs a "single payer" system, but it isn't set up for long care, etc – it's a necessity that goes with the job). And what do we find in VA? Well check this out and tell me it doesn't remind you of some of the horror stories you've seen from NHS. As you'll see, it could very well be the NHS. As you'll also see, the fault lies where? With the uncaring bureaucracy that has grown up around this system and its abuses are now coming to light:
Two psychiatric patients at a veterans facility in Brockton received no regular evaluations of their condition for years, part of a "troubling pattern of deficient patient care" that federal investigators say they have confirmed at veterans health care facilities nationwide.
One of the neglected patients at the Brockton Community Living Center who had been admitted for "significant and chronic mental health issues" was living in the 106-bed facility for eight years before he received his first psychiatric evaluation, investigators reported.
The other unidentified patient, although he was classified as 100 percent mentally disabled due to his military service, had only a single "psychiatric note" placed in his medical file between 2005 and 2013.
Let me make a prediction – as they get more and more into this, they'll find this is just the proverbial "tip of the iceberg". Of course, making such a prediction is certainly no high-risk venture. Just look around you and take a gander at how well Leviathan is doing on almost any front. Let's just say "poorly" would be a compliment. Justice? Trashed. Political influence of agencies? See IRS. See the misnamed Justice Department. Bureaucratic overreach – see EPA and others. Criminal incompetence? See VA. Etc.
Americans are going to have to make a choice and they're going to have to make it quickly. The bureaucratic state or the state of freedom. Some would argue that we're at the tipping point. Some argue we're beyond it. That we're looking at our future and the future is all down hill as the bureaucratic state transitions from servant to master. Unelected, unaccountable and, frankly, uncaring – except to further its existence.
ObamaCare application 15 pages long
I have to agree with Thomas Sowell who opined early on, and I'm paraphrasing here, "who would believe that adding a layer of government bureaucracy to healthcare would somehow make it less costly?"
Exactly. Or easier to get, for that matter?
Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes.
The government's draft application is now on the Internet.
It runs 15 pages for a three-person family. The online version has 21 steps, some with added questions.
At least three major federal agencies, including the IRS, will scrutinize your application.
That's just the first part of the process, which lets you know if you qualify for financial help.
You'd still have to pick a health plan.
Wonderful stuff, no? And nice to know the IRS is in on it from the beginning … because, you know, they have a lot to do with health care.
Some fear that consumers will be overwhelmed and give up.
Ya think?
Administration officials say the application form is being refined.
Of course it is. And it will be forever. Success? Reducing it to 10 pages I'm sure.
Still, the idea that picking a health insurance plan could be as simple as shopping on the Internet is starting to look like wishful thinking.
Heh … only an absolute dope would have believed that in the first place, with government involved.
But we told you all of this before the law was passed, didn't we?
ObamaCare: It just gets better and better
And, of course, I say that facetiously. As it stands now, it has fostered more government regulation, more bureaucrats and more intrusion in epic proportion:
"There's already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they're not even done yet," Rehberg said.
"It's a delegation of extensive authority from Congress to the Department of Health and Human Services and a lot of boards and commissions and bureaus throughout the bureaucracy," Matt Spalding of the Heritage Foundation said. "We counted about 180 or so."
So, minimally (we all know they're not nearly done) 13,000 new pages of regulation, 180+ boards, commissions and bureaus and, of course, scads of bureaucrats to fill them.
Then there are the new broad powers granted HHS and the IRS.
Yes, friends, that's right, this is how you make health care less expensive and better, not to mention making government less intrusive.
Probably the funniest thing, in a sad and ironic way, is the fact that there are still millions of people out there who believe the propaganda that sold this crap sandwich to the public. Someone among them I'm sure will someday be able to explain how adding costly regulations and layers upon layers of bureaucracy somehow helps reduce the cost of health care delivery.
According to James Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, federal powers will include designing insurance plans, telling people where they can go for coverage and how much insurers are allowed to charge.
"Really, how doctors and hospitals are supposed to practice medicine," he said.
Wait, wasn't one of the primary problems with the old system, per the Democrats, a problem of insurance companies telling doctors how to practice medicine?
See, solved by government, right?
In fact, one master has been replaced by another one, the newest master being the most inept, inefficient and corrupt of the two. And, of course, no one has yet explained how all of this is going to ensure people have better access to a doctor. Why? Because, quite simply, having insurance doesn't guarantee care. And with the disincentives provided by massive increases in regulation (and the increase that will cost for compliance) and oversight via these board, commissions and bureaus, my guess is there will be fewer doctors in the future.
So prepare to enjoy the dawning of the age of ObamaCare and the attendant disappointment, shock and anger it will eventually engender among the public. There are some things that one shouldn't mess with, and people's health care is one of them.
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Is access to the internet a "civil right"?
Well, of course anything can be declared a "civil right". All it takes is using the force of government via law or bureaucratic fiat (FCC imposes new rules on internet) to make something into that. But any basic understanding of the word "right" does not include something which depends on the labor, money, services or assets of a 2nd party for its fulfillment. Health care is not a "right", civil or otherwise, because in order to fulfill it, one must coerce a 2nd party provider to give the services necessary whether they want to or not.
So is the internet a "civil right"? Depends on who you ask – for the entitlement crowd, the answer is "yes":
"Broadband is becoming a basic necessity," civil-rights activist Benjamin Hooks added. And earlier this month, fellow FCC panelist Mignon Clyburn, daughter of Congressional Black Caucus leader and No. 3 House Democrat James Clyburn of South Carolina, declared that free (read: taxpayer-subsidized) access to the Internet is not only a civil right for every "nappy-headed child" in America, but is essential to their self-esteem. Every minority child, she said, "deserves to be not only connected, but to be proud of who he or she is."
Heck, the same argument could be made for any number of things – a cell phone, for instance. Any number of people I'm sure would argue that a cell phone and unlimited access to a cellular phone network has become a "basic necessity". Of course we're sliding down that slippery slope at an amazing rate of speed.
And if internet access is a "basic need", a "civil right", what about the tools necessary to access it? An account with an internet provider and a computer? Software? Michelle Malkin remarks:
Face it: A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. Once again, Democrats are using children as human shields to provide useful cover for not so noble political goals.
And, of course that "not so noble political goal" is more government control which, of course, translates into more power accrued and more control of every aspect of your life. Malkin again:
For progressives who cloak their ambitions in the mantle of "fairness," it's all about control. It's always about control.
Precisely – and they'll use any trick in the book to enlarge it. And cloaking it in the guise of a "civil right" simply points out, again, how blatantly transparent they've gotten in their quest. This isn't about "rights" – this is about power and intrusion.
Prepare for the new ObamaCare messaging
Ben Smith at POLITICO reports that Democrats are switching their messaging strategy when it comes to the ObamaCare legislation (and I'd guess one of the strategies is not to call it "ObamaCare"). Seems they've conceded the argument that it will lower the deficit and cost less. Facts are stubborn things and few have bought into the claims given the justification for them given by Democratic leaders.
So now they'll go more nebulous instead. Call it the medical care "hope and change" approach. Now instead of lower deficits and less cost, they're going to tout the law as a way to "improve" health care.
As one slide in the presentation – available here – says, "Many don't believe health care reform will help the economy." That's absolutely correct. And, unlike Washington DC, most in flyover country passed their "Common Sense 101" course years ago while holding a job or running a business, raising a family and managing a household. Most of them can spot a scam fairly easily and this was always in that category given the machinations necessary to make it "bend the cost curve down". Immediate taxes and delayed benefits were the first sign some game was afoot. "Doc fixes" and half a trillion Medicare cuts that would never happen plus some double counting used to claim deficit reduction were the second. And a new and extensive bureaucracy promised health care would be much more complicated and expensive. Of course everyone loved the new individual mandate as well, not to mention the billions of dollars in mandates shifted to the states.
So this is the pig they're trying to sell as "improved" as in "this law improves health care".
One slide says, "Tap into individual responsibility to blunt opposition to the mandate to have individual insurance." It then says, "Those who choose not to have insurance and use the emergency room for routine care are increasing the cost for the rest of us who have insurance."
Interesting slide for the group most singularly responsible for attempting to make more and more people dependent on government throughout it's history. Suddenly it's about "individual responsibility" while defending one of the biggest government takeovers of an industry in our history.
Oh, and, as pointed out with MassCare – ObamaCare's little brother – the use of emergency room facilities went up with their mandated insurance law:
When the Bay State passed its health-reform law in 2006, 9 percent of non-elderly adults lacked insurance; that's now down to 5 percent. The law didn't reduce expensive emergency-room use as predicted. Instead, emergency-room visits have climbed by 9 percent, or about 3 million visits, from 2004 to 2008.
And, of course, so have costs with health care now consuming 35% of the state's budget as compared to 22% before the law's passage. All predicted (back to Common Sense 101) and all coming true as expected.
Last, but certainly not least, Democrats will use a little class warfare to "please" voters, one assumes:
Obviously anyone with the cognitive ability to open a box of crayons knows that the rich can't pay for all of this by any stretch. Another in a long line of lies about "paying for" this monstrosity. The second part of the slide is just a flat out lie. Remember, ObamaCare is based on the primary care physician. And that's a medical care area that has a shortage now and that shortage is going to get worse:
The number of U.S. medical school students going into primary care has dropped 51.8% since 1997, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
That's right, dropped 51.8% since 1997. So tell me again about that "unprecedented number of new healthcare providers" being trained? Because I don't know who they are, but they aren't the supposed foundational specialty on which ObamaCare is based according to the AAFP.
And those doctors who are in primary care are cutting their hours. Why?
Payment issues may have played more of a role. The overall decrease in hours coincided with a 25% decline in pay for doctors' services, adjusted for inflation. And when the researchers looked closely at U.S. cities with the lowest and highest doctor fees, they found doctors working shorter hours in the low-fee cities and longer hours in the high-fee cities.
Yup, no pending crisis at all – aided and abetted by a government that has decided it will "lower costs" even though it is no longer going to emphasize that point to the proles.
And what about nurses?
In the July/August 2009 Health Affairs, Dr. Peter Buerhaus and coauthors found that despite the current easing of the nursing shortage due to the recession, the U.S. nursing shortage is projected to grow to 260,000 registered nurses by 2025. A shortage of this magnitude would be twice as large as any nursing shortage experienced in this country since the mid-1960s.
Amazing what they try to put past you, isn't it? Which brings us to the irony of the day:
Yup – keep those claims "small and credible" like the lies about more health care providers – and for heaven sake "don't over promise or 'spin' what the law delivers' – like lower cost, the ability to keep your plan and your doctor and, of course, control over your own health care.
Because we wouldn't want to see this new and "improved" law repealed or neutered, would we?
Bureaucracy and bureaucratese – no sign of common sense
This story out of Ann Arbor, MI is a perfect example of bureaucratic inertia and the use of bureaucratic language to evade a common sense solution to a changed situation:
The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.
That's how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture that would go in front of the new police and courts building right by the City Hall.
The city has the money to do it because in 2007, it agreed to set aside for public art 1 percent of money that went into capital improvement projects that were $100,000 or larger. Most capital projects involve streets, sewers and water.
Anyone – what has changes since 2007? Perhaps the economic climate? So if a city can agree to "set aside" money for public art – a luxury for economically flush time – why can't it now agree to change that previous agreement? Why can't it now spend the money set aside on critical jobs jeopardized by the economic downturn?
Well here's the city administrators answer, I guess:
City Administrator Roger Fraser wrote in an e-mail that the solid waste coordinator position was eliminated as a cost-cutting measure because the solid waste millage had decreased. Fraser wrote that the art coordinator position would be paid for by the public art fund.
Fraser noted that the public art dollars did not come from the city's general fund, which is used to pay salaries and benefits, and that less than $6,000 of the art money came from the general fund.
The art projects also must have a "thematic connection" to the source of funding, Fraser wrote. The $850,000 art project is water-themed, because the money came from storm water funds.
So there. If that isn't a pant load of, well you know what it is. As one resident noted, when it wants too the city has always found ways to shuffle money from one fund to another. But if it did that, it couldn't scare the hell out of the citizenry claiming it was going to have to lay off critical public safety types and therefore justify increasing taxes, etc.
"Administrators cry poverty while lavishing money on the beautiful people," LaFaive said. "The threat to dismiss firefighters often comes while officials protect golf courses, wave pools and art. No city can cry poverty while it defends recreation and aesthetics such as art."
Have you ever noticed that? Layer upon layer of bureaucrats and non-essential workers stay on staff, but police and fire protection are the first on the block. Meanwhile almost a million bucks is slated for "water art". And it is all defended by bureaucratic nonsense – bureaucratese. When they want to do something, the rules mean nada. When they don't want to for whatever reason, the rules constrain them.
And Ann Arbor isn't unique here – the same song and dance is going on at the state and local level.
This is your government at work. The politicians are only the part-time help. Bureaucrats are who really run it all. And the the result?
Well, look around you.
Top down bureaucratic rule may mean big bottom up problems
Despite the many problems cited with turning cereal grains into ethanol (price spikes, shortages, etc.) and a new study saying ethanol damages engines, the EPA is going ahead with plans to raise the amount of ethanol mandated in fuel mixes:
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule in the next few weeks that would permit oil companies to increase the percentage of ethanol in automotive fuel to 15 percent, up from the current level of 10 percent, so they can meet E.P.A. quotas for renewable fuels.
Like a true bureaucracy, the quota is much more important than the fact that increasing ethanol percentages could cause more pollution and damage car engines according to a new study:
But now the industry says it has conducted tests that confirm the higher-ethanol blend will cause problems in many cars.
Half of the engines tested so far have had some problems, said C. Coleman Jones, the biofuel implementation manager at General Motors, who spoke on behalf of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
More ethanol will confuse exhaust control systems and make engines run too hot, destroying catalytic converters, automakers say. It can also damage engine cylinders, they say.
For some car owners, "you will be walking, eventually," Mr. Jones said. The industry is urging the E.P.A. to delay any changes to the fuel mix until after 2011, when more complete testing will be done.
The EPA's answer?
An E.P.A. spokeswoman declined to discuss the E.P.A.'s specific plans beyond its November letter, in which the agency said it planned to make a decision by midyear. The agency said at that time that it was leaning toward allowing the change.
Bureaucratic inertia has set the ball in motion and facts simply don't matter. And I loved this:
While the change is intended to apply only to cars of the 2001 model year and newer, it's unclear how it would be enforced at the pump.
Heh … yeah, are we going to have 2000 and below model gas pumps now?
The heavily subsidized ethanol industry says it's just the oil companies trying to keep their share of the market:
The ethanol industry argues that the proposed rule is essential for reducing reliance on imported oil. Ethanol makers say that most cars will run just fine on 15 percent ethanol and oil companies are standing in the way only because they want to hold on to market share.
Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, said enough test data was available to approve the new blend. "You just see all this hand-wringing," he said.
But it isn't the oil industry objecting – it's the auto industry saying such an increase will ruin engines. In fact, it's Government Motors. And they have no particular skin in the game here – what is is.
I don't know about you, but I've sunk a good bit on money in a new car recently. If this goes through and I end up walking because of it, who do I go see to recover damages?
First they took the salt …
Interesting how the Washington Post chooses to begin this article:
The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.
Anyone care to guess why the FDA hadn't planned an "unprecedented effort" before?
Because until a month or so ago, we could all claim it was none of the government's business couldn't we? But now that they've invested themselves with the power to save healthcare in this country by cutting costs – and doing so with "preventive medicine" – where do you suppose this "unprecedented effort" is founded?
If you don't believe me, read the article.
But for the past 30 years, health officials have grown increasingly alarmed as salt intake has increased with the explosion in processed foods and restaurant meals. Most adults consume about twice the government's daily recommended limit, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Until now, the government has pushed the food industry to voluntarily reduce salt and tried to educate consumers about the dangers of excessive sodium. But in a study to be released Wednesday, an expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine concludes that those measures have failed. The panel will recommend that the government take action, according to sources familiar with the findings.
Wow … for you that have been paying attention I sarcastically ask, "are you surprised?" Is this not the next logical step in taking over every aspect of your life.
You see, a panel of experts have determined that too much sodium is bad for you. They have tried to play this freedom game with you and have you voluntarily cut your consumption, but you didn't. So to hell with the charade – since you don't know what's good for you and won't do what is necessary to comply with the experts, they'll just recommend you be forced to do so.
Are salt rationing cards far behind?
Ironically (and unsurprisingly) much like AGW, the science is not at all settled concerning the harm salt does.
High-salt diets may not increase the risk of death, contrary to long-held medical beliefs, according to investigators from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
They reached their conclusion after examining dietary intake among a nationally representative sample of adults in the U.S. The Einstein researchers actually observed a significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with lower sodium diets.
Not that the FDA will pause and consider that. In fact, when it says unprecedented, it means unprecedented concerning the level of intrusion it now plans:
The government intends to work with the food industry and health experts to reduce sodium gradually over a period of years to adjust the American palate to a less salty diet, according to FDA sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the initiative had not been formally announced.
Officials have not determined the salt limits. In a complicated undertaking, the FDA would analyze the salt in spaghetti sauces, breads and thousands of other products that make up the $600 billion food and beverage market, sources said. Working with food manufacturers, the government would set limits for salt in these categories, designed to gradually ratchet down sodium consumption. The changes would be calibrated so that consumers barely notice the modification.
Yes free people, the government will now decide how much salt can be in a receipe and, they promise, they'll reduce it so gradually you won't even notice. Why?
"We can't just rely on the individual to do something," said Cheryl Anderson, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who served on the Institute of Medicine committee. "Food manufacturers have to reduce the amount of sodium in foods."
You people just aren't reliable enough to do what the experts expect you to do so … so they'll just take the choice away.
How do you like them apples, boys and girls? Now, be a good little prole and shuffle along. Nothing to see here, nothing to see …


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Rhapsody has come out with an updated version of their App for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
The application is free to download onto your device but you must have a subscription to use it. With this new version you can listen to the Rhapsody playlist that you have created while being connected to the Internet and also download songs to local storage.
This means that you can listen to your music while being in such places as an elevator or subway that has no Internet access. This is a first for Apple to allow a third-party music subscription to allow songs to be downloaded in the U.S. They have a music selection of over 9 million songs from you to choose from.
Microsoft's Zune MarketPlace has a comparable service except that you must pay for each song that you download. Lame!
Rhapsody allows customers to choose from two different services. One is called Rhapsody Premier and the other is Rhapsody Premier Plus. The original price was $10 each month and included access on one cellular device while the other one was prices at $14.99 each month and allowed access on three different cellular devices.
This looks like is it going to be the next step for purchasing music from online stores.
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Fruity simnel squares
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal576
- fat25g
- saturates10g
- carbs79g
- sugars65g
- fibre3g
- protein9g
- salt0.5g
- 250g mixed dried fruit
- 100g dried apricot, chopped
- 85g glacé cherry, chopped
- zest 2 oranges, juice 1 orange (use the second in the topping)
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- 200g butter, softened, plus extra for the tin
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 200g light muscovado sugar
- 4 large egg
- 200g self-raising flour
- 50g ground almond
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 500g marzipan, 200g/7oz cut into 2cm chunks, the rest for the topping
One of mankind's oldest sources of sweet pleasure, marzipan needs to contain only ground…
For the topping
Soak all the dried fruit in the orange juice for 2 hrs, or overnight.
Butter and line a 20 x 30cm tin with baking parchment. Heat oven to 160C/ 140C fan/gas 3. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time; mix well between each addition.
Sift the flour into the bowl and mix in the ground almonds and spices. Add the marzipan chunks, zest and dried fruit with any remaining juice, and give everything a good stir to combine.
Tip the cake mix into the prepared tin, level the surface, and bake for 45 mins – the cake may still be a little gooey in the centre at this point. Remove from the oven and increase the heat to 200C/ 180C fan/gas 6.
Make the topping. Rub the butter, sugar and flour together with your fingers to a crumbly breadcrumb texture. Grate in 200g reserved marzipan, add the flaked almonds and golden syrup. Mix everything with a fork, making sure it stays crumbly and doesn't clump. Sprinkle over the cake and return to the oven for 12-15 mins. Meanwhile, divide the rest of the marzipan into 11 and roll into balls.
Remove the cake from the oven once cooked through, arrange the marzipan balls on top and allow to cool in the tin. Mix the icing sugar with enough orange juice to give a runny icing, drizzle it all over the cake, then let it set a little before slicing it.
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Not sure about this one. As others have said, it's extremely sweet, and that was without the icing and golden syrup. The crumble topping was also not what I was hoping - the marzipan got very chewy and almost burnt, and when it was cooked the topping just fell off. Not sure it can really qualify as simnel cake, and I don't think I'll be making this again.
I made this for Easter and used a 28cm x 28cm roasting tin which was the perfect size. It was enjoyed by all the family but I personally thought the addition of the marzipan to the cake mix made it a bit sweet. I would definitely try the suggestion about adding the golden syrup after spreading the topping on the cake as it was difficult stop it from clumping, or omit it altogether, if I made it again. A special occasion cake as it is quite expensive to make and a bit time consuming.
Just made this and it was very yummy and easy to do. I made it in a 28X18cm tin and that was fine. I also added some grand marnier to the mixture (1 tsp) as I forgot to soak the raisins and I thought it would give it something extra.
I reduced the sugar to 175g in the cake but kept the amounts the same for the topping, although I didn't add the golden syrup.
I didn't have any dried apricots so I just added more raisins and that worked well too.
Definitely worth a go but it's very rich. Definitely for special occasions!
I am a little confused about the method for the topping. If you add any type of liquid, in this case golden syrup, to a crumble mix it will clump together. I have made it using just 1 tbls of syrup as it seemed to be a lot of sweetness. Still clumped but looks good. Not eaten yet. That's for tomorrow!
Made this gorgeous interpretation of a simnel cake for the family. Absolutely delicious! It is quite time-consuming with all the soaking, mixing, baking, topping, baking again and icing stages (kitchen smells wonderful!) but it is amazingly irresistible and I will make it again, possibly experimenting with a slightly larger tin to make a greater number of shallower tray bakes which might go down better with the weight watchers!! Yum!
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We all wish for things at one time or another.
Lisa Goudy
Typical answers might include money, fame, or getting that one thing we really want. These are all reasonable wishes. What wouldn't we do if only we could have that one thing we always dreamed of? Wouldn't our lives be so much simpler?
But our wishes for fame and fortune seem silly when we think about all of the people who are sick who just want to be with their loved ones again. People who just want another day to live or people who would do anything for a smile on their face.
There are many great charities out there that do a lot of great work. Without our support they couldn't provide that assistance.
One such charity is the Children's Wish Foundation. On Thursday, I sat down with Gay Oldhaver, the chapter director of the Saskatchewan Children's Wish Foundation, about the Wishes & Dreams Tour, promoting the million Dollar Lottery. Proceeds from the lottery allow the foundation to grant wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses.
Talk about putting a new perspective on things. I know our wishes to be rich and famous would be great, but the likelihood of that happening for most of us is next to nothing.
While we might not be able to get that one thing we've always wanted, we can help sick kids feel better emotionally and provide an escape from their grim reality. For that child, in that one instance, being able to smile and be happy is one of the best gifts we can give.
Stories about someone doing something special for a stranger always catch my eye. We hear a lot of bad things happening. Sometimes it seems like too much bad and not enough good.
The truth is we need to know about the bad and the good, as there will always be both in the world. I think, more often than not, we need to hang onto the good, especially when there's so much death and darkness around us.
Take what J.K. Rowling recently did as a prime example. Cassidy Stay, a 15-year-old from Texas, survived an attack on July 9 when a gunman murdered her mother, father, two younger sisters and two younger brothers. She survived by playing dead.
Days afterward, at a memorial, she quoted fictional headmaster Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter. She had said, "In The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Dumbledore says, 'Happiness can be found even in the darkest times if one only remembers to turn on the light.'"
After an online campaign, Rowling wrote a letter to Stay in the voice of Dumbledore and it was accompanied by a wand, a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry acceptance letter, a list of school supplies and a signed book.
I think this is a truly remarkable and heartfelt gesture. I can't possibly fathom what it's like to go through what Stay did; none of us can unless we've been there.
What Rowling did was like granting a wish, of sorts. Especially after what Stay went through, the wish couldn't have been better.
We might not ever become someone rich and famous. We certainly can't change the world on our own. We can, however, make a difference in someone else's life.
Lisa Goudy can be reached at 306-691-1289 or follow her on Twitter @lisagoudy


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A Movie That Needs No Introduction
Really. The Passion of the Christ does not open with credits, titles, or any of that stuff. Just goes right into the Garden of Olives. We learn early on what Jesus may have meant when he said to Peter, James, and John: "Pray that you do not be put to the test." We see Jesus, not being comforted by an angel, but tormented by some androgynous Marilyn Manson-wannabe with a snake under his cloak. The scourging scene is the hardest part to watch. That, and the nailing to the cross. The rest truly captures the madness to which Jerusalem had fallen on that dark Friday.
The role of the Blessed Virgin Mary is played out as never before on film. Accompanied by Mary of Magdela and John, she suffers along with her Son, to the point of wishing out loud to die with him. What mother could not see herself in that way?
There is so much more to say, and others have already said it. But I can only say, that after seeing The Passion of the Christ, no other production on the life of Our Lord, be it Cecil DeMille or Franco Zefferelli, will ever look quite the same again.
After it was over, "Sally" and I went quietly to my parish, where the Blessed Sacrament was exposed throughout the night in the Adoration Chapel. There, we prayed Psalm 91, read a reflection by Adrianne von Speyr (sp?), and then sat quietly, each with our own thoughts and prayers.


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I have been trying to install hackintosh in my Sony Vaio for the past 5 days without any success. Tried iAtkos S3 v2, Hazard 10.6.1-10.6.2, Hazard 10.6.6i, all failed.
I was able to boot to the DVD and reach till the customization screen. But I am not sure about the options to be selected in the customization. I am doing a fresh install, and the installation reaches till end.
But when I try to boot to the installed mac I had never reached the desktop.
If someone have installed mac successfull in vaio or those who can give me a step by step process I will be really thankful.
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PlayStation Move gamers have gotten the short end of the stick lately, what with all the Kinect enabled titles coming out, but all that's about to change. In our latest PS Move gameplay preview, Blair Herter checks out three innovative titles making their way to the Move, including the Harry Potter-esque Sorcery, music-making simulator PixelJunk 4am, and the unique forest game Datura. Check it out below.
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