The Irascible Chef

and regular working class people (besides the bucket…) is:

Aug 13, 2009 8:59 am US/Eastern (CBS news)

NJ Teacher To Pay $22K Fine For Phone Call

Asbury Park Teacher To Pay Large Fine For 4-Minute Call Made During Class

Her lawyer says a New Jersey teacher won’t appeal a $22,000 fine for making a four-minute personal call in class.

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Court records show the Asbury Park High School performing arts teacher was covering for another teacher in 2008 when she called suspended superintendent Antonio Lewis.

A student recorded two students dancing while Getty was on the phone and posted it on YouTube.
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The district prohibits teachers from making personal calls while performing assigned duties.

Asbury Park High School is a comprehensive, four-year community public high school headquartered in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It serves prekindergarten through twelfth grade.

Were do we go to impose rules on the people that work for us?
The VOTING BOOTH!

Technorati Tags: Congress, proletariat, Sheila Jackson Lee, teacher fined for being on the phone, voting booth, working class

Elitist Representative Sheila Jackson Lee—Gotta love her!

Who does she think she is? She thinks she’s omnipotent, someone that gets elected over and over again and answers to know one—that’s who!

From Drudge:

VIDEO: Dem House Member Takes Call During Middle Of Health Care Townhall Question...

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From Ed Morrissey:

Technorati Tags: cell phone, Congress doesn't get it, Elitist, Rude, Sheila Jackson Lee, US citizens, video

Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow

Everywhere that Mary went,
Mary went, Mary went,
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go…

It followed her to school one day
School one day, school one day
It followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.

Stop right there! That’s when the Lamb stepped out of line and is in the oven right now as we speak… OH, it’s going to be delicious, don’t you worry!

Not to worry, the whole lamb isn’t in the oven, only its little rib cage (only one side actually) Soaked in a light brine for 15 minutes and encrusted with Dijon herbed breadcrumbs.

Here’s all the ingredients if you want to make it yourself:

Rack of lamb trimmed, salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, Dijon mustard, olive oil, butter, plain breadcrumbs, love of food and life… 425 degree oven until done. That’s it! Wash it down with a nice Pinot Noir—I chose Castle Rock 2007.

Not complicated at all… Good luck with that!

Good Appetite!

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I’m confused… Which side of the argument is the President on?

It’s the US Postal Service having the problems all the time…

—President Barak Obama

Isn’t the President making the point for the people hollering in town halls all over the country?

Like Allahpundit says on HotAir—the only thing that could have been better is if President Obama would have used the DMV or Medicare as a failed or failing government program to make the right’s argument that government doesn’ do well running things. (Speaking of which listen to how they talk about the failed public school sytem in this country sometime. And they want to run Healthcare?—Ha!)

NiceDeb is exposing more mis-dis-information…

Technorati Tags: Healthcare, ObamaCare, shouting, town hall meetings, us postal service, video

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