Whoever said English fare is unpalatable hadn't seen this photo.
Posted on 09/09/2007 5:07:37 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
p>The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 8th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Townsend; Michael DuHaime, Rudy Giuliani's campaign manager.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones; Charles Ramsey, former Washington, D.C., police chief; Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and John Kerry, D-Mass.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House homeland security adviser Frances Frago Townsend; presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; retired Army Gen. George Joulwan.
Blah blah blah. The FBI is not going to go after a Clinton. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if the cry arising because of this is for more general campaign finance reform. Just like last time. Paging Senator McCain.
And don't expect the Republicans will make an issue of this. They're more likely to react to this scandal the way they always do -- by assuming the fetal position.
Exactly. he's not going to get positive media attention because he's not a big-eared black liberal Democrat.
Whoever said English fare is unpalatable hadn't seen this photo.
Ooooh lookin’ good snugs!
Even though I say it myself that leg of lamb was beautiful it just fell off the bone. :0)
Looks wonderful. I hope you used lot’s of your Mum’s rosemary on that lamb, Snugs.
What are those large muffin things next to it? You always seem to make those muffins. Or is that what us Yanks call Yorkshire pudding?
Was there this much coverage two years after the 1992 Hurricane Andrew disaster?
That was one of my first missions when I got to Ft. Stewart. Utter distruction.
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Having lost my home and surviving in the horrors of the long and frightening aftermath of Andrew, I can tell you there was NO coverage and NO help at all, until Katie Hale from Dade County put out the plea for the cavalry... 3 days after Andrew hit.
10 years ago, her angry plea got hurricane aid moving
Then, the skies eventually started to be black with supply choppers and other aircraft on the goodwill and humanitarian mission. They were desperately needed .. and gratefully received.
Where I was, evacuated to friends out in the country way out west, we were essentially on our own the whole time. My home was literally at ground zero of the storm.
NOTHING in the way of supplies, help, water, basic essentials came to us. A friend thankfully brought us a generator a few days afterward so we could run the well for a shower a day, coffee, dinner, and I would go to my destroyed home area and various soup kitchens, supply and donation centers around town myself every day for sustenance and supplies for us.
While I didn't get to see the TV coverage afterward, as I didn't have access to electricity for months, I imagine there was a fair amount of national coverage .. especially of the looting, which was rampant.
I would love to have been able to see the tv coverage afterward .. and if anyone has a link, please let me know.
I don't think there was Katrina-like coverage at all, except locally, at the two-year mark and subsequent anniversaries .. but otherwise, mostly local coverage.
But then I have to say in retrospect, the catastrophic damage to the Gulf Coast ... due to the location and topography, condition of the levies, larger physical storm, and therefore much larger size area of destruction, the human loss, and heartrending stories and *images*, it does rank as a bigger disaster.
The sad and awful images from Katrina are what's burned in our brains, which amplifies the scope of the disaster. I just don't think there was that much national media or photographic coverage for Andrew .. and especially (although I may be wrong) the thousands of real human tragedies, with images.
The media coverage made a big difference.
If Andrew had hit Miami directly, we'd be talking a whole different scenario, but the South Dade area was much less densely developed in contrast.
At the 15-yr mark of Hurricane Andrew, the Homestead area has probably been in what folks would call a fairly "normal" state for the last 7 yrs or so, though 30% of the population vanished right after the storm. The population demographics have changed, and now they're in a huge development and commercial building boom, due to all the vacant farmland that was sold.
I don't expect New Orleans specifically, due to the catastrophic destruction and inherent political corruption, will ever come back to what it was. Maybe at the 15-yr. mark, the cleanup of some physical and political storm debris will eventually produce a relatively new, completely different place that may be livable .. but it will never be the same.
The land for the townhome development I was in is just *now* (after 13 or so years of legal and county bureacratic wrangling) being built and marketed as a new development .. .. on the scraped up, demolished remains of the old community.
My sweet old home
This is an anomaly, but it happened.
Yes I did use mum’s rosemary with the lamb both on the joint and in the gravy.
Yes that is Yorkshire Pudding with lamb, I believe you ‘yanks’ refer to them as popovers :o).
My goodness how awful the poor woman
She had a huge mountain of struggle. How’s your day, snugs?
OK. My family is a very old American family of English descent. My Grammy always called them Yorkshire puddings. I always wondered about that, as there never was any pudding in them, just nice, fluffy bread. Don’t get me wrong, they were great. I just was always looking for the chocolate, vanilla, or banana pudding that wasn’t ever there.
I was around 6 YO when Grammy passed (around 1964) and I haven’t tasted anything like them since. Do you have a recipe for me?
LOL ... thanks, rod ... I seem to have this built-in reservoir of Polish perseverance and stubborness .... ;) Lord knows, I’ve needed it in my life.
I had to leave FL after 30 yrs ... due to the ‘04 hurricanes on the west coast. Had a total nervous breakdown. My peaceful, country life in 3/2 homes has dramatically changed to a little 1 bed apt in a highrise in Chicago .. so, you want to talk about culture and political shock? It’s galactic... LOL .. and no car for the first time in my life. Trains, buses, cabs, and my feet. I just wish I was 28.
Where did you grow up? Those pics are Naranja Lakes, where I lived at the time of Andrew. But I had lived in homes in Leisure City and the Redlands prior to that home.
"Their" chair of his defense fund--does this mean Snake participated? Stunning if so!
Sometimes I try to put myself mentally into a character's shoes to understand how they could possibly do what they do for good or ill. I'm imagining how I could possibly remain friends with someone who lied in order to destroy another one of my friends. And someone who gleefully continues to pile fuel on that same fire. It would make me physically sick to be in the perp's company and keep my mouth shut about it. Actually that's kind of what Mary looked like.
LOL. I'd jump off a cliff.
I can come up with two things good to say about him. 1. Though he uses it in the service of evil, he's intelligent. 2. I sense that he is truly devoted to his family and so he must experience love.
OTOH how he can serve the evil causes as he does when he knows that those two little kids will have to grow up in the dirty, corrupt world he helps to build and sustain just blows me away.
That is my observation also. I have known numerous Mormons and found MOST to be forthright, honest, upstanding and beyond reproach in their lives as far as I could tell. Even those “Jack Mormons” who do dabble in tobacco, drink, etc. seem to be above average.
Just my experience in over 45 years of dealing with them on a daily basis.
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