Keep Calm and Coup D’etat

Well it’s that time of year again: No, not for dog shaming:

And let me point out that it is NEVER appropriate to shame anyone for anything, regardless of whether they are guilty or innocent of the Trumped-up charges®.

 

Anyway, it’s time for our annual Christmas Recipe Exchange. Which is a generic term for sharing Christmas/Hanukah/Festivus recipes/traditions/stories. I’ve already shared most of my favorite things in the “feeds a yooge crowd” category – Mom’s Goulash and White Bean Chili – butt here’s one more “souper” easy one that will keep your tree trimmers and tipplers at bay:

Mom’s Souper Simple Sloppy Joes

3# hamburger

2 cans of Campbell’s Chicken Gumbo Soup

2 tbs Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp yellow mustard

1 bottle ketchup (more or less to taste)

Dash or two of Tabasco sauce or cayenne pepper (optional)

Brown hamburger and drain. Add all of the rest of the ingredients, stir well to combine and simmer for about 15 minutes. Serve on hamburger buns.

It’s one of those recipes that was probably born in a corporate kitchen sometime back in the 60’s butt remains in my power rotation because, well - quick, easy, and everybody loves them. How can you have too many recipes like that?

Then last year we switched gears to highlight cute food like snow weasels, mice and penguins:

 

 Well, you tell me: it’s your call. Just be sure to use your power wisely, perhaps by joining Trumps Army of Davids:

I see his army showed up last night at the rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

That is all troops, you may now carry on.

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The Art of the Deal With It

You might think at first its no big deal, butt trust me, this is YOOGE!

It happened at the Miss Universe pagent (formerly owned by The Donald) in Las Vegas last night. The host, Steve Harvey, screwed up and mistakenly announced that Miss Colombia had won. In fact, she was first runner up and Miss Phillipines was the real winner. Pandemonium ensued.

After the crown was finally returned to the rightful winner, Steve had to apologize and explain. Unfortunately nobody understood what was going on as there were very few English-as-a-first-language speakers on stage. That apparently included Steve Harvey as he later admitted to reading the reveal card incorrectly. In a tweeted apology following the contest he also managed to misspell both "Colombia" and "Philippines."

Later on Snapchat however, he blamed it all on the teleprompter.

And if that’s not bad enough, on the street directly outside Planet Hollywood where the pageant was going on, some moron intentionally drove her car onto the sidewalk and plowed through the crowd killing one and injuring 36 others. Police have thus far not ruled out terrorism.

I’m not pointing fingers here, butt I will say that this never happened while Donald Trump owned rights to the Miss Universe pagent.

“Even a beauty pageant, it seemed, just couldn’t run smoothly without him around.”

Leadership: it’s a real thing. Remember that in 2016.

I’m Donald Trump, and I approve this ad. Deal with it.

 

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Don't Turn Your Back To The Light

It's coming on Christmas,
They're cutting down trees.
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace,
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

No, I didn’t watch the Democrats “debate” last night. Did I miss anything? Other than Hillary being MIA again?

In a rather odd moment about halfway into the debate, moderator David Muir launched right into a question for the candidates who were on the stage and noted Clinton's absence. The camera showed her center-stage position empty as the debate rolled on. Not long after, she took her spot at the podium and acknowledged she was a little late. - USA Today

I did manage to snag you this screengrab of Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the debate sporting her new ‘do. Very creative, uplifting even: based on this alone I declare victory for the Dems in the War on Women.

Butt seriously: whoa Nelly! That unfortunate nag looks like she's been rode hard and…well, you know.  It looks like she and Hillary may have been knocking back Moscow Mules during the commercial breaks.

Moscow Mule: If pressed for time, you can hold the sugar, lime juice and ginger beer

So instead of fretting about politics and the demise of America, let's kick Christmas week off with this rendition of Joni Mitchell's accidental Christmas tune, River. It was originally released in 1971 on the appropriately named album, Blue, and never really intended as a Christmas song. It's become a staple because nearly everyone of a certain age is apt to "feel a little blue around the holidays" as my Mother used to put it, in her understated way. Even if you otherwise love Christmas and all its attendant traditions the march of time and circumstance inevitably mean beloved friends and family members are missing from our gatherings. I learned from my Mother that it's quite all right to unwrap that sadness, acknowledge its place in your heart, and then wrap it back up and set it back among all the gifts you've received along the years.
With that in mind I offer Joni's River today. Take a short trip down the frozen river, discharge the negative energy, then turn around and head back up river, towards the light. Sometimes we just can't see it because we have our backs turned.

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Too Kool For Skool

When you elect a president because he has a sharp crease in his trousers, looks like a professor, and sounds smart you pretty much get what you bargained for: a president with sharp creases in his trousers.

Too Kool for Skool

Rest assured that Barry still thinks he’s the smartest man in the room at any given time; and if you don’t believe me ask Chuck Hagel. Or any of Barry’s other former Secretaries of Defense.

Because, you see, when you’re the Professor being smart means you’re right. And right is more important than being effective – at least in the classroom where everything is theoretical. Charles Krauthammer explains what he calls BHO’s  “usual professorial condescension”

What’s amazing to me is how he looks at himself in his role. He ended that little soundbite that you had by saying, Putin was wrong. I told him he was wrong. This is not going to work out well, and here we are five years later, I was right.

And he sounds really satisfied with himself, because he won an upper common room argument over another professor. The fact is that whether he was right or not, is irrelevant. He did nothing about it. Yes he was right that it would be a terrible thing if you let Assad go, unrestrained, bomb his own people, you would end up with something horrible. So, he was right. But as president, you’re supposed to do something. He was urged by everybody in the administration, the military, diplomats, everybody, his advisers, to go and to do something. He does nothing, and yet he seems to be satisfied that because he had the analysis right, and he lectured Putin on this, it’s okay. His job (is) to do something, not to offer analysis.”

Because Barry never went to leadership school before becoming president he never learned that when you are the leader sometimes being right is subservient to being effective. And apparently he still doesn’t appreciate the fact that achieving the desired result takes precedence over your ego.

Heck, even The Donald knows when to leave his ego at the door in order to close the deal. Butt not Barry, he’s always the smartest man in the room who couldn’t find his way out of a brown paper bag (trigger warning: that might be a micro-aggression, or at least an inappropriate cultural appropriation) if his life depended on it.

Even if he was popcorn in the microwaveBarry couldn’t find his way out of a brown paper bag

Of course I realize this analogy is a gross example of white privilege so white, so in the interest of making the world a little bit fairer allow me to level the playing field:

There, fixed it.

It just seems to me that if you’re so darn smart you should at least keep a fire extinguisher handy. You know - in case you inadvertently start a fire in the microwave while you’re trying to figure out where the “stop” button is. 

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The Circle Is Unbroken

Well I see I had my days mixed up; the Wons aren’t blowing out of town till today. I guess Barry wanted to hang around to celebrate his complete co-opting of the Republican party.

co-option:

1. The process by which a group subsumes or assimilates a smaller or weaker group with related interests; or, similarly, the process by which one group gains converts from another group by attempting to replicate the aspects that they find appealing without adopting the full program or ideal. 2.The capacity of intracellular parasites to use host-cell proteins to complete their vital cycle. Viruses use this mechanism, as their genome is small.

In the case of the Republican Omnibus bill (oh yeah, you guys so own it now) I believe the second definition is the most accurate.

And with that observation I leave you to finish up your Christmas shopping. How about a nice 1000 piece set of these social justice placemats for those hard-to-buy-for intransigent conservatives on your list?

There’s a blowout sale going on at Amazon now that Harvard has been forced to retract their unmitigated enthusiasm for spreading the gospel on Christmas.

College administrators distributed a “Holiday Placemat for Social Justice” instructing students on how to answer questions they might face from family and friends. The handout presents poorly written, straw man questions followed by seemingly official and definitive “responses” on topics as varied as the Syrian refugee question, the Black Lives Matter movement, the misguided decision to change the House master title, and the ongoing, overheated activism at Yale University.

What’s most telling about the limited edition Harvard Winter Holiday Social Justice placemat® is the assumption that every student on campus shares the Administration’s suicidal belief system.

Rhetorical question:“Do you think the response would be the same if it was a white person being pulled over?”

Rhetorical answer: “No, Cops only shoot unarmed black 12 year olds running around with pellet guns.

Remember the wars in Central America? Of course you don’t, you weren’t born yet. So trust your SJW professors on this: the Nicaraguan refugees were just like the Islamo-fascists who want to kill you and end your way of life.

So thanks, Harvard, for demonstrating just how narrow minded and bigoted The Donald’s supporters are.

Trigger warning: Social Justice Warriors ahead: and many of them are Republicans.

And thank you, Congressional Republicans, for closing that circle. It’s always best to know where we stand.

UPDATE AND HOUSEKEEPING NOTES:

1.Good insider baseball news for Windows Live Writer bloggers everywhere: it’s back! Sort of. Microsoft quit supporting the LW platform 3 years ago and it was simply a matter of time before it became unusable. That occured about a week or so ago. Concurrently a group of Microsoft engineers rode to the rescue with the release of an open-source version called, appropriately enough, Open Live Writer. Unfortunately they still had a few too many bugs in it and it too was unusable – until today. They’ve fixed the worst of the bugs and their new platform is now available and working. It’s downloadable for free.

So yay! Posting has become simpler again. If you or anyone you know is a Live Writer junkie, pass it on so they too can thank the Microsoft volunteers for repairing our favorite blogging tool ever. Good work boys (and girls; I don’t want to be guilty of a micro-aggression).

2. Cuba, our Russian visitor of the cyrilic alphabet links from yesterday who I banned incorrectly has been reinstated without prejudice as of this morning. Steven however remains in solitary confinement in the first ring of blogging hell.

3. Christmas/Hannukah/New Year recipes wiil be welcome any time they strike your fancy for the duration of the holidays. Tuesday and Wednesday will be set aside for all-day recipes and remembrances, so plan ahead!

That is all.

Real Estate 101

FLOTUS, POTUS, the Wee Wons and the usual entourage depart today for their well deserved 17 day vacation in Hawaii.
Butt before you start complaining let me point out that Big Guy has ordered a detour en route in order to demonstrate appropriate empathy and compassion for the San Bernardino workplace survivors of gun violence.
First draft of his remarks blame the attack on a video that somebody made for the culturally insensitive Christmas party that was being held by the department.
And if you don’t think this drive-by is a major sacrifice let me assure you, it is; it means Barry will miss his first scheduled round of golf on the island. Bummer, dude.

Also, while not yet confirmed, there are rumors that Barry will deliver an “important” speech on global climate change in Waikiki warning residents that their island will be under water in 10 years unless we impose a carbon tax on all Americans.
I don’t think I’ll be accompanying the First Family to the island this year. Because we go native – dress-wise – in Hawaii so I don’t think Lady M will be needing my services.

Eeuuuu! What is this? Fruit?

Then again, the situation is fluid so I won't be drawing a red line in the sand.

Because there's nothing like a beach reflection

And after 8 years of the same old boring vacation I heard that Barry is interested in visiting another exotic island: Cuba.
What a great idea! Maybe the next POTUS can give him some investment pointers on how to take a small amount of the money he’s been able to set aside while living on the public dime and invest it in some nice Cuban properties.

The Donald's recommended Winter Holiday reading for Barry

After all, thanks to BHO, Cuba is going to be a great emerging market and the demand for clubs, casinos and golf courses will be yooge!

"Your picture here" - Wynning!

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The Tribe Has Spoken

I was distracted from the get-go by the size of Wolf Blitzer’s head. I simply couldn’t get over how it seems to have grown too big for his scrawny little neck. If you’re going to grow a big head you need a big neck to carry it off.

And maybe a “fluff” of sugar-spun hair to balance things out.

A couple bits of news from last night’s debate: The Donald will absolutely, positively NOT run as a third party candidate. Unless he changes his mind. Again.
And Ted Cruz stated definitively that he never supported legalization, and does not intend to support legalization.Other than that, the boxing matches were pretty bloodless and the musical acts were pretty well choreographed.

Rubio, as always, delivered his well crafted prose poems with such aplomb- "we cannot continue to outsource foreign policy" – that it's beginning to sound like he's making videos for his future Presidential library.

Jeb pretended to be animated, The Donald smirked and grimaced at his opponents’ comments,

and blustered his way through a question on nuclear triads, which he apparently still knows nothing about. 

Cruz cruised, Christie fumed, and Carson calmed us with his best monotone crooning style.

The Vodka Pundit summed the Vegas debate up best:

Just give us Carson's patience and wisdom, with Cruz's constitutional smarts, Trump's go-to-hell spirit, Rubio's delivery, Christie's tirelessness, and Fiorina's fight.

As is often the case in politics, among 9 options we could cobble together one very good candidate. Hey, that might make a great motto:

The Vodka Pundit has a solution for that dilemma too:

We need a real-life political Dr. Frankenstein and a lab somewhere in Germany

Who knows; that composite girl friend worked out for Obama pretty well.

One other note: Kasich, Paul, and Bush bring nothing to Frankenstein operating table. Time they get voted off the island.

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Chipotle: It May Be An Allegory

The title of the article is “Chipotle: The Long Defeat Of Doing Nothing Well.”

Chipotle, closed for business due to multiple pathogens in the supply chain

If you change just one word, we have a perfect analogy: Obama: The Long Defeat Of Doing Nothing Well.

From Forbes:

The company found it could pass off a fast-food menu stacked with high-calorie, sodium-rich options as higher quality and more nutritious because the meals were made with locally grown, genetic engineering-free ingredients. And to set the tone for the kind of New Age-y image the company wanted, Chipotle adopted slogans like, “We source from farms rather than factories” and, “With every burrito we roll or bowl we fill, we’re working to cultivate a better world.”

Because everybody knows that slogans provide better nutrition than “farm factories.”

Outbreaks of food poisoning have become something of a Chipotle trademark; the recent ones are the fourth and fifth this year, one of which was not disclosed to the public. A particularly worrisome aspect of the company’s serial deficiencies is that there have been at least three unrelated pathogens in the outbreaks–Salmonella and E. coli bacteria and norovirus. In other words, there has been more than a single glitch; suppliers and employees have found a variety of ways to contaminate what Chipotle cavalierly sells (at premium prices) to its customers.

Yep, there’s more than one way for lethal pathogens to slip into the supply chain.

Let’s be clear: The source of the company’s woes is a marketing-driven propensity to exploit current food fads, even if it diverts the corporate focus away from what should always be “job one”—safety.

Because safety is so overrated, and political correctness is so, uh, underrated. Then there’s this:

Chipotle rejects modern synthetic fertilizers in favor of suppliers who use manure on their crops. This approach may be “all natural” and “organic” and make some customers feel warm and fuzzy, but it should not come as a surprise that applying stool, feces and excrement to growing fruits and vegetables significantly raises the risk of spreading disease.

I think we can all agree, we’ve spread a lot of manure in the past 7 years.

Chipotle isn’t only subjecting its customers to very serious health risks, it’s also actively spreading the pernicious superstitions of food faddism and mythology–for example, using innuendo to suggest that genetically modified food is somehow “unnatural” or dangerous in spite of mountains of research evidence and real-world experience to the contrary.

And because Obamacare isn’t enough to take care of Amerika on its own, we’re also supporting open borders and “common sense gun safety”  to finish the job.

These episodes reveal several things. First and foremost, Chipotle is a company so out of control and negligent that it repeatedly endangers the public.

Indeed; and in more ways than one. It’s hard to say at this point exactly what the greatest threat to America is: food poisoning, ISIS, political correctness, “gun control”  of a feckless leader.

I’ll go with feckless leader.

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