Posted on 06/16/2004 7:20:18 AM PDT by Timeout
It's been raining for 5 days straight here on the Gulf Coast. 6 inches Monday and another 6 on Tuesday. Computer blipping off and on. Lighting r-r-r-r-r-rips the sky. Constant thunder renders kitty to a helpless blob, head "hiding" in her armpit for hours at a time.
Nothing discourages the young cardinal couple with their nest in the azalea at the end of the drive. Heedless of the downpour, they show up on schedule for their morning ration of bread crumbs. The bread turns to instant mush, but somehow they fill their beaks and return to the nest.
I've loved thunderstorms all my life. As children, we spent those rainy days with toys never touched when the sun was shining...Sugarland, Scrabble, paper dolls, usually played in a "fort" made with blankets thrown over the dining room table. And cooking. When rain kept us indoors for days on end, my mother started cooking...and cooking...and cooking. Casseroles, cookies, pies, shelling peas, soups...you name it, we cooked it. To this day, when it pours, I cook. Soggy therapy, I guess.
In California, a thunderstorm was a rare event. We rarely saw lightning or woke to the rumble of thunder. For me it was like an amputation, going through summer with no flashbang. In later years, my job required me to drive across the Mojave Desert frequently. There was always a thunderstorm in the late afternoon. Now THAT was a lightning show!
Joe Biden? Noted plagiarist whose only accomplishment as a senator has been ... what? He's criticizing Rummy and Cheney? What a laugh. You're right, the hair plugs have turned on him and are wrapping themselves around the cerebral cortex. It's not pretty.
It's summer squash...yellow crookneck kind.
BILL Clinton's memoir, "My Life," may be setting sales records, but he's coming under fire from some quarters. Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994, has challenged the ex-prez to a public debate.
"You know, this man — something's wrong with him, I'm telling you," Jones told radio host Sean Hannity this week. "If we could just have a public forum somewhere, I would just like to meet him face-to-face on national TV." Jones says she'd "love" to debate him. Although Clinton settled out of court with Jones, "He still thinks that was not an admission of guilt," she says. "He was guilty — he knows he was."
Meanwhile, Clinton's claim in "My Life" that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, was named after Mount Everest climber Sir Edmund Hillary is being called ridiculous. Sir Edmund did not climb Everest until 1953, seven years after the other Hillary was born. At the time of her birth, he was an unheralded New Zealand beekeeper. (page six)
PRESIDENTIAL hopeful John Kerry's kids are downplaying rumors of potentially em barrassing romances. Daughter Alexandra Kerry, who's about to go on the campaign trail for her dad, insists she's not dating Brit producer Simon Monjack, a wheeler-dealer who was seen chatting her up at the Cannes Film Festival. Her career is taking off, however — she has a new publicist at PMK and is about to sign with a big talent agency. In addition, design ers including Giorgio Armani are vying to design her campaign wardrobe.
Meanwhile, Kerry's brother-in-law Chris Heinz, who once dated Gwyneth Paltrow, is rumored to be cozying up to married "Troy" star Diane Kruger. However, Kruger's rep insists they're just friends and says she's happily coupled with French actor Guillaume Canet. (page six)
In that case, I'd go with your recipe - it looks delicious. Normally, I simply saute summer squash with a little garlic and basil, and make stuffed baked zucchini - with peppers, onion, basil, garlic, parmesan cheese and bread crumbs - with that variety.
You have freep mail.
A libber just said to Hannity (referring to GWB):
"I think Americans have a right to expect their president to tell the truth."
LOL!
You can't make stuff up that's this good!
I think she should have invited us, don't you?
You all would volunteer to test my fourth try ever to cook squash? Brave souls indeed. :-)
Btw, I have perfected the Pulled Pork sandwich meat, recipe as follows:
3 -3 1/2 lbs. pork
Half cup of onion
Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce (honey or original) 2 bottles
Saute onion. Place onion and pork in pressure cooker with half a bottle of sauce (more if you like) and 30 shakes of Tabasco (if you like it hot). 1 to 1 1/2 cups water. Cook at high pressure for 90 minutes. Drain most of the water and break up meat, then add more BBQ sauce.
FIL flips for this one.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., gestures while boarding his plane at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, June 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., throws a baseball during a game of catch at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, June 24, 2004.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., left, speaks with singer Barbra Streisand center, and actor/director Rob Reiner, right, at a fundraiser dinner at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 24, 2004. (
Clinton tried to peddle that old Sir Edmund Hillary lie in his book?! Holy cow, that's colossally pathetic. They possibly could have saved a tree had the editor actually read the manuscript. You know it had to take at least one page to bloviate the Hillary embellishment. One tree = one page of 2 million books (guesstimate).
Damn those tree haters!
Check out Babs-what a profile, lol.
Did Babs give the dems her political expertise? We need Babs and her buds to be out there, front and center, reminding Americans what a bunch of whack-jobs her and the dems are these days. Although Teresa is doing a good job on her own....
Teresa says Effin' would make a great nursery school teacher.
He likes people, in spite of whatever people might think. He'd make the best nursery school teacher in the world, bar none.
Heinz Kerry also called her husband, "magical with children," adding, "That's a new revelation to me." Link
Bless her heart, Teresa's been reduced to pleading her hubby's like-ability.
Those baseball pictures...man, whatta girly-guy!
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BWB, here's the recipe. Easy and yummy.
CHICKEN & BROCCOLI CASSEROLE
3-4 boneless chicken breasts
5 C. broccoli, incl. some stems, steamed in micro for 3 min. (not too done)
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 C. mayo
1 1/2 Tbsp. chicken boullion granules
1 Tbsp. lemon jc
1 Tbsp. curry powder
1 cup broth from cooking chicken
1/2 cup milk
2-3 cups cheddar cheese
sliced almonds
Cook breasts in pot with water to cover chicken. After boil, reduce to rolling simmer, cook 25-30 min.
Combine sauce ingredients--soup through milk. Sauce should be "pourable"...use more milk if needed. (I make the sauce thinner if I'm going to serve this over rice, thicker if served alone.)
Cover bottom of casserole dish with broccoli. Slice cooked chicken into bite sized pieces, spread over broccoli. Cover with sauce. Use a fork to move the ingredients around a little, allowing the sauce to sink in.
Top with cheese. Cook 30 minutes, until bubbling.
Spread almonds on cookie sheet, spray very lightly with Pam or butter spray. Toast almonds in oven with casserole (about 6 minutes, stirring once if you want to toast both sides). Sprinkle almonds on each individual serving of casserole.
Serves 6. Very good served on rice to make it go farther. I've also added water chestnuts or artichoke hearts, both very good.
I'm flying to Minnesota tomorrow. Remind me to take a ball and glove to the airport, just in case there's an impromptu game of catch on the tarmac.
From Page Six:
BILL Clinton's former flame Gennifer Flowers says she might sue the ex-president for lying about her in his new book. Flowers says she hasn't read Clinton's best-selling memoir, "My Life," but declares: "I have learned that Bill Clinton has repeated his lies about me and I am sickened by his continued disregard for the truth. [He] pretends to be contrite but he continues to bear false witness against his neighbor. He is a national disgrace."
Clinton admits in the book that he had a relationship with Flowers "that I should not have had," but denies her claims of a 12-year affair, stating, "The fact is there was no 12-year affair."
Flowers issued her statement through Judicial Watch, a Washington-based conservative watchdog group that has represented her interests. "Our antennae go up when we see an ex-president of the United States essentially calling our client a liar in a new book," Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tells PAGE SIX.
"We're obviously taking a look at that very carefully. If there's a claim worth pursuing that would stand up in court, we and Gennifer would want that to move forward."
Fitton is not just making idle threats. For the past few years, Judicial Watch has been pursuing a defamation suit on Flowers' behalf, charging that Sen. Hillary Clinton conspired with former Clinton aides George Stephanopoulos and James Carville to defame her after news of her affair with Clinton broke during the 1992 presidential campaign. The case is currently on appeal.
In 1992, Bill and Hillary staunchly denied there was any affair with Flowers. Six years later, he admitted the relationship.
"By every indication Clinton continues to dig himself into a legal hole every time he opens his mouth," Fitton scoffs. "[Gennifer] is tired of him lying about her."
Reps for Clinton declined to comment.
As we reported yesterday, another skeleton in Clinton's sex closet, Paula Jones, has said she wants to debate the ex-prez over his continued denials of her harassment claims.
Meanwhile, Clinton has come under fire for many of the assertions in his book, including a seemingly tall tale about the origins of his wife's name and his repetition of the infamous "I didn't inhale" claim.
A Clinton book reviewer, Jerry Schwartz of the Associated Press, makes a very interesting observation.
Virtually the entire book is in mind-numbing chronological order, beginning with the night he was born, slogging month by dreary month up to the present day.
But the chronology is broken in only two instances: "Clinton tells about his indiscretions with [Gennifer] Flowers and Monica Lewinsky" only at the time they're exposed, not in the chronological order they happened. Clinton discusses the government shutdown battle of November 15, 1995 on page 683. But he doesn't mention that his affair with Monica started at that time. He doesn't mention Lewinsky until page 773, where he's discussing events in August, 1998.
A clue to the man's mind. Like the tree falling in the woods, Clinton's coda is "If I don't get caught---with irrefutable proof--it didn't happen".
Mmmmm. The pulled pork sounds mouth-watering! I don't have a pressure cooker, but I just bought a Nesco 18-qt roaster and can't wait to use it. That pulled pork may be my first effort.
BTW, did FIL get squashed?
IN 1992, AL GORE ATTACKED PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH FOR IGNORING IRAQ'S TIES TO TERRORISM.Brit Hume had video on last night's program. Funny, I haven't seen it anywhere else.SEN. AL GORE: “When George Bush took office, he should have reevaluated what our relationship was with Iraq ...”
CNN’S LARRY KING: “Well ...”
GORE: “Let me finish, just briefly. Instead, he stepped up the foreign aid to Iraq, and he looked the other way when there were repeated incidents of terrorism in which Iraq had a part, terrorists operating openly in Baghdad, and repeated warnings from our national security people telling the Bush administration that Saddam was on a crash program to develop nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction. And he overruled a lot of his advisers and extended another billion dollars of foreign aid, and the U.S. taxpayers are right now having to bail out Saddam Hussein for almost $2 billion. Just like the savings and loan bailout, now it’s the Saddam Hussein bailout, and it shouldn’t have taken place.”
(CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 10/5/92)
And another great cook is heard from. Wouldn't it be fun to have a Guild get together and the awesome cooks could strut their stuff? I could buy ingredients and help with clean up as my part of the contribution.
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