The Irascible Chef

Durbin cashed out during big stock collapse

WASHINGTON | Asset sales came after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs

As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

“Durbin was doing what a lot of other people were doing, taking a look at their savings” and seeing it “start to tank and trying to preserve some level of wealth by getting out of the market,” said his spokesman, Joe Shoemaker.

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And the excuse:

Shoemaker said Durbin didn’t capitalize on anything Paulson and Bernanke told congressional leaders at the Sept. 18 meeting.

Whatever information Paulson gave lawmakers wasn’t secret or classified and was disclosed publicly the next day, Shoemaker said.

The Commentary:

And they get away with it everythime! I heard someone say the other day that when you get elected to Congress you should have to put all investments in a blind trust for the durtion of you stay in Congress—to avoid the temptations of greed that seem to be part of the reason people run for office. Don’t let that bit about wanting what’s best for the country crap get in your head.

I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or Republican or Purple—yes, they all do it and WE COULD stand up and prevent it if we all stood up as ONE! The technology of the day makes it easier than ever before!

Technorati Tags: Congress, greed, hypocrisy, News, Politics as usual

Space.

These are the voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise.

Full Disclosure:

I’m a fan of Star Trek, the original series from the late 60’s. I used to watch the reruns on channel 11 WPIX when I got home from long nights of work and the inability to go to sleep from the dinner rush when I got home. I can do the Vulcan peace sign and raise either eyebrow to signal a myriad of different emotions, questions, or expressions. I own the original series on VHS tape that I recorded with and without commercials. I believe the creator of the series, Gene Roddenberry, is a genius for his vision, his predictions of the future, and dealing with ground breaking (at the time to deal with) subject matter: interracial relations, political opinion, space travel and meddling in other cultures and civilizations, etc.

I’m an original Trekkie, not a costumed fanatic, but a fan who knows and cares a lot about the original series. I couldn’t wait for the Next Generation to come out when it was on the horizon and as I affectionately refer to it as The Degeneration, you know how I feel. I couldn’t have been more disappointed by an old man (french no less) Captain Jean Luc Picard, replacing the coolest, baddest, green girl getting—Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner.

Lets talk about JJ Abrams and his Star Trek. Lets just say JJ has issues with time and space. Okay I already hate his use of time and space in LOST (and when I say “hate,” I mean I hate it so much I can’t wait for each and every episode to come on so I can try to figure SOMETHING out!) Dude—you have issues with the past, present, and the future!

Things I liked: the characters—they did the original cast proud! James T. Kirk scruffy scrapper with balls of titanium, Spock nicely done and he gets a smoken hot Lieutenant Uhura, Scotty by Simon Peg a surprise to me and I liked it, surprise of surprises was Bones—excellent job with dialog, mannerisms, and swagger. I also liked the more-than-just-a-cameo by Leonard Nimoy. Honorable mention goes to Chekov!

Things I didn’t care for: The story line. What’s with fucking with the original story? This was supposed to be the backstory, not the revised story! Not to mention a very much a convoluted revised story. Overall, I enjoyed the movie for it’s concept, characters, and future potential.

Things I look forward to: the future of the new (old) Star Trek movies series with the (new) original crew. I liked the characters so much and potential future of story lines.

I enjoyed the movie and recommend it!

brazen |?br?z?n|
adjective
1 bold and without shame : he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance | a brazen hussy! See note at bold .
2 chiefly poetic/literary made of brass.
• harsh in sound : the music’s brazen chords.

Just like the attacks on the twin towers years before 9/11. Just like the US Cole bombing. Just like countless embassy attacks. Etcetera and so on…

Here we go again!

Recruiting Center Gunman Targeted U.S. Military

LITTLE ROCK, Ark —  A man with “political and religious motives” killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

A police report based on an interview with the suspect says Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, told police he observed two soldiers in uniform, drove up to the recruiting center in Little Rock and started shooting.

“He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them,” Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. “That’s what he said.”

Muhammad had converted to Islam at some point in his life and interviews with police show he “probably had political and religious motives for the attack,” Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.

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Other Voices:

Breaking: Soldier murdered in Arkansas; Update: Shooter a Muslim convert, opponent of military; Update: “Studied” in Yemen? by Ed Morrissey

Technorati Tags: Global War on Terror, Terrorism

How we all love to chew on a juicy conspiracy! Especially when they are about our heroes and villains. (You can decide who is which and which is who…)

The cast of characters:

President Barack Obama

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer

Act One

President Barack Obama: Rahm, what was I thinking by letting that fool on the hill redesign the Porkulous package. I campaigned on the promise to go line by line removing fat and she makes me a fat sandwich I have no choice but to eat! —Forcing the shit sandwich down the throats of Americans for generations!

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Calm down, Big O. I realize that every time Nan opens her mouth our agenda gets put on hold and we must not be stopped! I have a plan to squash Madam Speaker’s balls in a vice!

President Barack Obama: I’m listening…

(Meanwhile, somewhere in Washington, DC in front of a mirror)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Mirror, Mirror, on the wall! Who beat out that bitch Hillary for the highest ranking woman of them all?

Mirror: You did, my Stretchness, oh and Barack…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: I said WOMAN! Speaking of a woman where is my House Bitch Steny Hoyer? He’s not returning my calls!

Mirror: Right…

Back at the Whitehouse:

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Listen, it’s quite devious! First we declassify some CIA documents that will show the reason not to keep written records in the first place and be able to kick the previous administration in the balls AGAIN! It will show how many times they splashed water in the terrorists face.

President Barack Obama: Rahmbo! Come on now, TORTURED, how many times we tortured those poor people in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong administration in place…

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Right tortured, *Jesus Christmas Barack you’re Chicago Politics, we do worse things in the Senate* We show how many times they were tortured.

President Barack Obama: but won’t the American people see how effective it was when we show them the results of the torture? And then demand torture on demand?

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: OB1 You don’t know how lucky you are to have me by your side. We don’t release all the classified documents only selected pieces. You can count on that imbecile Cheney to scream for the documents, but his rating are through the floor, nobody will care. But the questions about who knew what and when will come up. We will put that shitstain Hoyer on it! Nancy Pelosi knew about the waterboarding from the beginning.

President Barack Obama: Rahm, I smell what you’re cooking… and it stinks, but we need to tape her mouth shut! What puppet will replace her?

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Madam Speakers digs

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: Madam Speaker, uh, we need to uh, look like we care about misleading the public and out-right-lies against other agencies of our government, so it looks like we’re going to have to start an investigation. I’m sure it will be harmless…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: I admit nothing, deny everything, and I will make counter accusations like “the CIA lied to us!” and “what difference would it make if I said anything against what I’m saying I knew nothing about because they wouldn’t do anything anyway!”

Act Two

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: When we release the amount of waterboarding amounts we will make the wording such that confuses the issue… We’ll use the New York Times to run this story: Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects

Unfortunately, Fox News will run a more legitimate story: Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times.

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Other Voices:

Dance, Nancy, dance By Michelle Malkin

Watch and learn with easy 6 step Video!

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TheAnchoress: Fun Game, Oratory Page & other stuff

Tracking the stimulus: oh, you didn’t really buy that transparency thing, did you? Because you know, if you bought that you were just dumb.

Stimulate this!

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Democrats pretty excited about errors found in CIA list on waterboarding briefings May 20, 2009 9:14 PM by Allahpundit

How much more pathetic and embarrassing can this story get? This much.

Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Chief of Staff, Conspiracy Theory, Fox News, Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Obama, Pelosi, President, Rahm Emanuel, Speaker, Steny Hoyer

Le BlehBleBleh—it’s french!

Le Boulanger—The Baker is know for it’s breads. They make some pastry, breads of many varieties, sandwiches, soups, salads, pizzas, and blah blah blah. It’s higher on the scales than fast food, but it’s really just a different kind of fast food. I think about going for lunch, but they also serve breakfast and coffee. The Monu.

Not cheap for what it is though, today I ordered a half sandwich and cup of soup and water and it was over $10. Should have went with the gut choice—McDonald’s… Never go wrong there!

The clam chowder they serve everyday was of the thick variety I don’t care for personally. (tells me they rely on too much flour to thicken what I believe shouldn’t be) Also flavored with too much thyme for my liking.

The sandwich was basic turkey (poor quality sodium filled) on dutch crunch (very good bread) with avocado (lumped in one place,) lettuce (ragged outside leaf,) two small tomato slices so close to the end—no seeds and remnants of the hard white stem area.) I rearranged all the pieces removing the awful lettuce, shoddy tomatoes, spreading the avocado and turkey over the entire bread length. It was tasty, but dissappointing to say the least.

Bummer!

Technorati Tags: bread, food, french, Le Boulanger, sandwich shop

Soooo Good!

“It all depends what the definition of legal is… After all, what is legal, changes from President to President…”

Pelosi: I Was Told Interrogation Methods Were Lawful

The House speaker’s statement came after CIA records showed Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on the interrogation methods and appeared to contradict her claim last month that she was never told that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques were being used.

Video: ComedyCentral

It all depends on what the definition of “not” is…

It all depends on what the definition of “flat-out” means…

Nancy says she’s always been for a truth commission—who would be in charge of that?

Can you count how many times Nancy points her finger—DRINK!

Technorati Tags: Caught in web of lies, Culture of corruption, Liar, Nancy Pelosi

Point their finger in your face when they lie!

—courtesy of Nice Deb! Thanks Deb!

Technorati Tags: Liars, Nancy Pelosi

Update: Video by NiceDeb The Truth Comes Out: Nancy Pelosi Knew about The Waterboarding

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Ahahahahahaha!

You know, it just keeps getting tougher all the time, to get away with a lie!

This picture is so classic.

CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’

By Paul Kane
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

A stark contrast when Madam Speaker is with others liars. Then it’s a laughs and high fives!

You know why this isn’t funny at all? Because they put their own power before the safety of the people of America. They blah, blah, blah and the sheeple Baaah, baaah, baaah…

Will they admit it? What, call one of their own out—not a chance! What was the expression again? Culture of…

Oh, yeah—CORRUPTION!

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What Nan knew By Michelle Malkin

2002 DNI report: Shameless liar Pelosi was briefed on Zubaydah’s waterboarding by AllahPundit

Up-Update:

Technorati Tags: Charlie Rangel, Hypocrite, interrogation, Liars, Nancy Pelosi, pants on fire, waterboarding

I’m going on a tour of our beginnings!

First stop Historic Jamestown!

Williamsburg next, and finally DC. I have one week to find any clues of how we got here. If anyone has any questions or hypothesis I can check out let me know.

As a sidenote I think Thomas Jefferson wasn’t as tall as he or history says!

I’ll be back!

Technorati Tags: DC, Jamestown, Op/Ed, Thomas Jefferson, Williamsburg

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

— Saul Alinsky

I guess it’s a little bigger than being UN-REPORTED by the So-Called news: CNN, MSNBC, and Janeane Garafalo reporting. *Laugh Out Loud*

I thought this was the Take it to the Streets administration. You know grassroots, community organizing, Rules for Radicals—old school! Not when someone is using it against you—it seems…

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Talk about misdirection: “this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people…” —David Axelrod Is he talking about the $13 a week? Economic stimulus package on track for final votes

Officials estimated it would mean about $13 a week more in people’s paychecks this year when withholding tables are adjusted in late spring. Next year, the measure could yield workers about $8 a week. Critics say that’s unlikely to do much to boost consumption. “The most highly touted tax cut in the original proposal now translates into $7.70 a week for middle-class workers,” said Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Obama’s Tax Cut for 95 Percent of Workers: $13 a Week

**** Axelrod: Tea Party Anger is Misdirected. Obama senior adviser says frustration over spending and taxes is “unhealthy.”

WASHINGTON — Damn the tea bags. A top adviser to President Barack Obama takes a dim view of last week’s anti-tax “tea parties,” promoted by organizers in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party. “The thing that bewilders me is this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere because he certainly understands the burden that people face,” David Axelrod said Sunday.

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The Million Taxpayer March By Michelle Malkin

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Media Hacks Sandbag the Teabaggers by Stephen Green

How the mainstream press takes its marching orders from radical rabble-rouser Saul Alinsky. (Also see Bill Whittle: “What Media Bias Really Costs the Republic.”)

Technorati Tags: Axelrod, discontent, Face the Nation, News, Obama, Obama's Tax Cut for 95 Percent of Workers: $13 a Week, Op / Ed, Politics, Tea party, Tea Party Anger, Teabags