PUTIN OBAMA JUNGLE DIPLOMAT EXPULSION DIALOGUE

General Butt Naked: "You hacked my men!"
Obama: "They were hackers!"
General B N: "Of course. So are yours here."
Obama: "I know."
General B N: "I don't hack your hackers!"
Obama: "My men found out, would hack me if I not hack them."
General B N: "I see."

Literary reference: The Leopard Men

RE NYT CHURCHMILITANT.COM ARTICLE

All this is fascinating.

 

They, ChurchMilitant.com, apparently claimed that the covenant with God was broken with the destruction of the Temple. Later Judaism was man made, they say.

 

Fair enough.

 

Then Christianity itself was largely man made too, by Paul,  before the destruction of the Temple, and then man made embellished mostly after.

Question:
Why, then, was not the mission to the Gentiles, based as it certainly was, on that same covenant, also abrogated with the destruction of the Temple?

Do not say, Paul's message was not based on the Jewish covenant.

Do not say, the destruction of the Temple confirmed the later message of a new covenant in Jesus. That was after Paul. He claimed Jesus fulfilled the covenant made with Israel.

RE HACKING THE MENU IMPERATIVE

RE PUTIN US HACK CLAIMS INDECENT SHOW HOW WE KNOW LEOPARD MAN HACKING DIALOGUE

Putin: "So they hacked our Embassy for hacking! So what?"

Lieutenant: "Don't we hack them too?"

Putin: "No. Soon Trump lets us hack all we want!"
Lieutenant: "Why?"
Putin: "He's a Leopard Man too!"

Lieutenant: "I get cooking pots!"
Putin: "We eat journalists. Too many of them: Jungle Forces."

HOLLYWOOD STRASBERG ACTOR DIALOGUE

"How do I make a cannibal loveable?'
"It's hard."

HOLLYWOOD PANTHER DIRECTOR DIALOGUE

Somewhere, Hollywood, Africa, Borneo, Calcutta, Shanghai:

"Did he out you too?!"
"Yuh."
"Serves you right, you bitch!"

RE MICHAEL LEWIS AND THE MORAL CRITIQUE OF OUR INSTITUTIONS

I want to talk about this theme at greater length tomorrow.

 

He has written books on this theme regarding Wall Street.

 

One can make similar remarks regarding our legal systems, and about systems of regulation, and lack of regulation, in various fields across the spectrum of human endeavor.

 

I discussed the topic when I published and lectured, some years ago, regarding trial practice, statutes of procedure, and rules of procedure and evidence. Terms search: Team Play.

Analogous problems exist in many fields, not just those in stock and bond market areas which he recounts, or law.

 

As he points out, especially in the 2014 Aspen talk, the insiders in such situations have an interest in not bringing problems such as these to anyone in government, or to journalists' attention, or to write books or manuals about solving the problems, but rather in taking advantage of the problems for personal and or corporate advantage.

THE MENU TANDOORI CORNISH GAME HENS

This just makes a lot of sense in so many ways.

 

You have a hen a person. You can barbecue (no one over here has a tandoori oven) them whole on a rotiserie after marinating, or bake on high and partially broil in an oven.

 

You can even do a version of Cornish Butter Chicken, call it Butter Cornish Game Hen Tandoori.

 

Butter chicken is a tandoori oven baked dish in which the cooked bird is served in a buttery masala tomato sauce, incorporating elements of the tandoori marinade itself.

Serve with basmati rice and or nan. Substitute buttered pita bread.

Use quail instead, if you can get them.

THE LAST TIME THE RUSSIANS WERE INVITED TO ENTER EUROPE WITH TROOPS

WAS BY US, IN WWII.

 

BUT ONLY THE US AGREED TO LET THEM STAY PERMANENTLY. (YOU CAN CANDY COAT IT, BUT FDR KNEW THE SCORE.) TERMS SEARCH: PATTON, MONTGOMERY, EISENHOWER, FDR, STALIN, TARGET PATTON, MORGENTHAU, THE HAUNTED WOOD

 

THE SECOND TO LAST TIME WAS BY FRANCE, AGAINST THE GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS, IN WWI.

 

THE FIRST TIME WAS BY THE BRITISH, AROUND AND BEFORE 1800, AGAINST NAPOLEON AND THE OTHER DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLICS, THEN DOTTING THE LANDSCAPE.

 

PRIOR TO THAT THERE HAD BEEN THE POLISH PARTITION, WITH AUSTRIA ESSENTIALLY CUTTING THE DEAL WITH RUSSIA.

 

PRESIDENT OBAMA PUNISHES RUSSIA AT LAST

What do you think that is likely to do?

 

The biggest threat is the one we have already long pushed and enabled them into, ever since we left them, still intact in Asia as well, for the last century: ever closer ties with China.

 

Had we dismembered them in 1918, when we had the chance and the crying need, an alliance of China with the Asian East Russian Rump would make sense, and even be reasonable now.

EMPATHY RATIONALITY

"Does empathy guide or hinder moral action?"

I don't have to actually read the article....

Where do they get people willing to write pap like this?

THE SHOW MUST GO ON GLOBALIST JACOBINISM

Ever since 1800, with the Election of Jefferson, America became permanently committed to global proselytyzing against strong, or hierarchical, governments, of every kind or quality whatsoever, strong religious beliefs or discrimination of any kind, and generally against trade restrictions or preferences, anywhere in the world.

There have been periods of isolationism, strategic and security concerns, and protectionism or favoritism, for example, in trade matters, but they have been criticized above all for the above reason, regardless of whether there have been other, and better, reasons for isolation, protection, favoritism, or whatever, in every case.

RE GREED SPRINGS ETERNAL KRUGMAN

This has hardly been an aristocratic or noble or elite eternal ideal, but rather one which grew up only gradually.

 

It became pronounced with the gradual march of capitalism through the Modern period, and has become overwhelming only in the Age of the Democratic Revolution, which coincided with the Industrial Revolution, and the collapse of the Old European Order.

 

Wealth of course was always part of what made it possible for nobilities and aristocracies to endure in power over time.

 

But wealth is hardly the same as greed.

 

Being wealthy was not what being a member of an elite even meant, until a little over a century ago or so.

THE THREE GLOBALIST STOOGES

Moe, the Vital Center Stooge. Say, E J Dionne, anyone like that.

Larry, the Liberal Stooge, reports to Moe.

Curly, the Conservative Stooge, reports to Moe too.

Right now, Trump is Curly, and he is in the dog house with Moe for winning, and because he is a total idiot.

Hillary is Larry, and she is in the dog house with Moe for losing to a total idiot.

THOMAS L FRIEDMAN AT IT AGAIN BIBI MAKES TRUMP HIS CHUMP LAYERS OF STOOGES

I told you so......Breitbart, Bannon, etc.

This is NYT Jewish on Jewish intramurals: A Liberal Jew pommelling Conservative Jews' stooge President, who is also pandering to his Conservative Christian stooges... Sorry it gets so complicated, layers of stooges. Even Hannah Arendt would have had a time, sussing it out.

They picked Thomas L Friedman for this. Why not? He bends to any globalist wind.

Tiresome, really.

For Trump's Conservative Christians: "How Does It Feel" (Like A Rolling Stone), to be stooges of a stooge for conservative Jews?

RE TRUMP PUTIN'S STOOGE INFLUENCE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HERE FARCICAL

The first contested presidential election pitted against each other two candidates, each of whom was rightly accused, with some justice, to be merely a tool of a foreign power.

SOME AMERICANS ARE GOING AROUND TERRIFIED CRYING IN THEIR BEER ABOUT TRUMP

He was elected. Unless you believe the Russians threw the election.

He was elected President.

That's our system. It's not my idea of a good system, but it's ours.

GUESS WHAT AMERICA

Tweeting technology is being jammed up your ass.

Very soon the Rooskies will be as busy tweeting as Trump!

FOR ALL MY OLD PROPERTY RIGHTS COLLEAGUES THURSTON HOWELL III

How does it feel to have an ostensible property rights advocate, Donald Trump, now grasp the reins of power?

Pretty good huh?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-tramples-core-conservative-belief-in-property-rights/article/2581410

I warned you, from the podium, as Thurston Howell III, about so called property rights as a political issue, back at the beginning of the mortgage backed securities melt down, in 2006 and 2007, in Boca Raton and elsewhere:
 
"There are property rights, and then, there are BIG PROPERTY RIGHTS."

"Who do you think they will bail out, you or me?" 

All the property rights lawyers, and government lawyers too for that matter, in the room, thought I was crazy.

 

Mitt Romney got in trouble for making an analogous speech, which was publicized, to a politically similar audience, preaching to the choir, also in Boca, in 2012 I believe. He paid a heavy price, but he said where he actually stood, whereas I was playing a role, behind a mask, so to speak.

Guess what?

Now you have Thurston Howell III as your President!

"How Does It Feel?
To Be Without A Home...?"

Cold comfort: rest assured, he is not an aristocrat.

No noblesse oblige now, baby!

Michael Lewis was pissing in the wind, pardon my French, even invoking the concept, at the Princeton speech he made, bless his heart. The times, they are a changin...

The Apprentice: "You're fired, America!"

Theme music: Like A Rolling Stone

Terms search: Thurston, Kanner, Kelo, Brigham, property rights

RE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRATIC ELITE

The topic of elites, any elites really, throughout American history, is a can of worms.

 

It seemed necessary, to me, to go back to the beginning, and before the beginning, and to try to understand how the concept of classes, if any, developed here, in comparison and contrast with, as well as in tandem with and in isolation from, Europe, in the first place.

 

I don't know if one can get a clear sense of this history by reading say Tocqueville.

 

I have been reading Palmer, and before that several other authors, Doyle for example, as background. There are of course countless books on these topics. Bailyn, Ideological Origins, as well as his shorter work on American Politics, is a good introduction to this as well, more political than social or class history. Palmer has a very helpful chapter, "Democracy Native and Imported", which contains some very useful insights on these matters regarding the founders, party origins, and class notions.

SELFIE BAD HAIR DAY

RE KRUGMAN TARIFFS A BAD IDEA

Just a short history lesson shows you how misguided this view still is.

 

The US would never have even been allowed to develop an industrial base here, were it not for tariff and import restriction protection.

 

Of course, economists don't even agree with that, arguing that it was not really necessary for us to ever develop industries in the first place here when, without them, we could get manufactured goods cheaper shipped in from abroad.

That's about as far as Jefferson got, too, although he did think a cottage industry, like using his slaves, on his plantation, to manufacture nails, was a great idea.

RE NYT PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY AROUND THE WORLD SECURITY ISSUE

This type of policy will lead precisely to less security here.

THE MENU PRIMATES OF PARK AVENUE LUNCHEON IMPROV SANDWICH

This is a great sandwich. It is not the usual.

Sliced ham, either baked or smoked, sliced baked or broiled sea scallops. If ham is prohibido, use smoked turkey breast, or just provolone. Scallops too? Skip them and use sliced broiled cod. 

Sliced sweet onion. You don't even have to cook any of this, just buy it at the deli. Send out for it.

I would say use a mild white bread, not toasted, and mayonnaise or butter only, mustard is too strong.

This would go well with potato chips, or European French fries with mayonnaise on the side.

Dry white wine, or dry martini.

You could skip the sandwich, and just have the potato chips and a martini.

COMMERCIAL FRAGMENTATION ECONOMISTS' CHIMERA

Why would any country, or civilization, in its right mind, aggressively promote a long term political policy of widespread global capital, communications, product, and process industrial and commercial sourcing dispersion and fragmentation,  including strategic technology, products, and processes,  across national and civilizational boundaries, if it had either national or intra civilizational alternatives?

I know the reasons you might give.

WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT WHO WAS PIKETTY'S TARGET AUDIENCE?

Take a guess?

Was it the captains of industry or banking who are only supposed, now, suddenly, to be surprised to find that their profits have been good, and rising, since 1800? What do you think?

Was it the poor people of the West, or even of the world, few of whom are literate, and fewer still who read French, who would be alarmed to learn that they are only digging themselves deeper, the harder they work?

No, it was another group.

AND THE TRADE WAR CAME POPULISM, REAL AND PHONY

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/and-the-trade-war-came.html?emc=edit_th_20161226&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=37771084&_r=0

This is just the kind of article that has made economists like Krugman whipping boys on my blog.

It contains almost all of the ingredients I most detest about that profession, gathered into one tidy place. The one exception is his insight re Smoot-Hawley not have caused the Great Depression, but rather having been a consequence of it. This Smoot-Hawley causation theory has been an article of faith among American thinkers, think tanks, and economists ever since, a total chimera.

Who is his target audience?

Even you can find it, if you look closely.

I will spill the beans: Corporate America. (This term, itself, is an artificial economists' choir boy, since as a result of economists' globalization ideology there are not really really big corporate America players which are not really, under the skin, mainly global entities in their goals and allegiance.) 

It's that global readership that he accuses, tips his hand there really, is in denial. It is not average, or poor Americans, or even upper middle class ones. He refers to them. They don't know yet that they're being betrayed. He tells them, but he knows it doesn't matter. He hasn't thought of the Kennedy Fallacy yet; it is not in the economists' lexicon. It is really the big management boys he is speaking to here, not so called big labor; the Kennedy Fallacy is not up for discussion. 

It is Global Corporatism that is his real audience, but he can't say that; he is still behind a mask.

Remember his recent post, Populism, real and phony?

Do you think he cared about the lower levels of society there, when he wrote it, that that was his audience there?

Do you think he cares about them here? An open question.

No, his target audience was the same one as here, but you must understand that it is global populism.  He cares as little about the average, or below average, American as Putin or Trump do.

Krugman shines a light on one of the most enormous flaws in our constitutional system of government: the problem of too much authority over trade lodged in the Executive (amid not enough authority for the whole system in general.) Thank you Paul Krugman.

This has been one of my favorite themes here for years, trading American interests, Opening America's Market, etc. Thank you for confirming what I have been telling the few weird individuals who may nave read this for years.

"When it comes to trade, America is not that much of a superpower."  PK

Whom do we have to thank for that?

 

Game over, smell the coffee.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE

I follow thinkers like William Doyle, who see it originally as the anti clericalism of the Reformation, later gradually becoming more entrenched in European aristocratic circles, then gradually in the bourgeosie. That seems to be the most accurate account, at least of its origins and of its end results.

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT ADRIENNE KOCH

Professor Kaiser talks about the Enlightenment.

I have a different view.

It seems, furthermore, that no two views of the Enlightenment agree.

Guthrie has a brilliant discussion of the Fifth Century Enlightenment.

See Caroline Winterer's lecture on this myth.

The American Rebellion was, in a sense,  a product of the Enlightenment: it represented its end.

RE W K C GUTHRIE

I got rid of my set, in a cleaning out process, 10 or 15 years ago.

The only thing I deeply regret, and have regretted countless time since, was getting rid of Volume 3...this was one of the great books in the history of ideas by 20th Century authors.

I cannot talk about the Volume on Aristotle, as I only had had the first 5.

Now the public library has volume 3, and I have checked it out.

Maybe I will take a look at his Aristotle.

THE VITAL CENTER THE LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER CALL THEM SIMPLY

POP BOP HOP

HOP BON POP

re POPULISM, REAL AND PHONY KRUGMAN ROCK AND ROLL POLITICS

He had an editorial which dovetails with my comment on DK site yesterday. Trump's Kennedy Fallacy unfolding.

Nice contrast between Europe and here.

Krugman is a whipping boy for me. I praise him sometimes, and abuse him as just another economist most other times.

I should mention that a Clinton Administration would also have betrayed her constituencies just as shamelessly, it just would not have been so glaring, and she would not think of going after disappointed constituents criminally. Trump may actually do that.

So, call it, say, America's Rock and Roll Politics.

Since the 50s it has not gotten the working class here anywhere, and then also began to eat into the middle class heavily.

 

Why not also whip Krugman, while I am on the subject he raises?

Why are Europe and the US now, for so long, decades, endlessly really, in the prosperity doldrums he bemoans in his article yesterday, and which European rightists are only trying desperately, and better than here, to somewhat alleviate?

 

They are there largely because of the advice of their economists, especially since Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations frankly still remains the bible for them. There has been nothing better than globalization for economic theories, since the beginning of the 19th Century.

England went over to free trade early in the 19th Century. It ended up paying the price, especially when combined with liberalism, which went along with free trade as a corollary.

IS BURNS TURKISH SOLDIERS ALIVE VIDEO

Very intramural, in my judgment.

At least, we're not talking ' the menu '!

CICERO FBI ATTORNEY GENERAL CLINTON EMAILS TRUMP CLINTON WORLD

"The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails. Here’s why she didn’t." Washington Post editorial

 

"Both sides, in my opinion bear a lot of responsibility for the political collapse that has led to the election of Donald Trump.  Like my fellow historians Luigi Albertini, Fritz Fischer, and Thucydides, I have always been the kind of patriot who believes in being hardest on his own country--and the kind of partisan who believes in being harder on his own side.  Our crisis demands no less." DK

 

"In the recent seminar of campaign managers from both sides at Harvard's Institute of Politics, one of the Clinton campaign managers said she would rather have lost the election than have made the kinds of appeals the Trump camp made.  I do not think that Clinton should have taken any of Trump's provisions, but I do think Democratic politicians have to realize that there is nothing noble or beneficial about losing on behalf of intellectual elite values that too many voters in swing states do not share." DK

 

Ciceronian virtue does not exist in a social vacuum.

Put another, perhaps misleading, way, as an ideal, it fails in a fallen world.

Brutus and Cassius were hardly, themselves, disinterested republicans.

Marc Anthony, on the other side, the same.

Further, the Augustan Age that followed was hardly as bad as the Ciceronians had feared.

Our own age, however, will hardly be an Augustan one. Our Augustan Age died, either in 1760, or in 1914, depending on how you think.

THE MENU SOMETHING MORE MY THING WESTERN CIV IMPROV

My grandmother used to make greens a certain way, and then doctor them a certain way as well. Why not describe it.

 

The best, at that time, were turnip greens. You cooked them with a two or three inch cube of fat back. For a long time. I personally, now, would use bacon fat. Eat the bacon separately.

 

She ate them with diced raw sweet onion, and a kind of pickle relish which as I recall they made there at home, and a piece of corn bread as a pusher.

 

I have now found that what are called sweet cherry peppers approximate to the pickle relish she used. Of course it is not technically sweet, but not hot. It is mild and pickled. That is what sweet means there.

I would sprinkle Italian pecorino romano over this, but hey.

Maybe this is considered soul food, too. I don't know.
You could leave out the pork, substitute chicken slop, and call it Kosher Soul Food.

 

 

BAILYN IN VOYAGERS CITES TO ABBOT EMERSON SMITH COLONISTS IN BONDAGE

It was his doctoral dissertation at Harvard.

Interestingly, Smith went on, after being a Rhodes Scholar..., to work for the CIA. I found a tribute to him, declassified only in 2014...I don't go around looking for CIA stuff, not my thing, really.... This just popped, out when I typed his name.

AUDIENCE TODAY SNAPSHOT UAE IS HUGE PORTUGAL THE THRILL IS GONE

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THE WEST HOLIDAY SEASON LECTURE

My view is that it would be better for people of the West, all of them, to reflect on the best Western cultural traditions, rather than on doctrinal or sectarian conflicts within the West or against other cultural traditions.

ACA FOIBLES DIALOGUE

"Here for the shot of the day."
"Does it matter what?"
"No, just whatever."
"OK tatanus booster!"

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT FOIBLES DIALOGUE

"Hi. I'm here for the procedure of the week."
"Does it matter which one?"
"No. Surprise me.

THE MENU CHICKEN GIZZARD PATE IMPROV

This is not something you ever ran across, perhaps.

The taste for chicken gizzards seems now to be a lost Epicurean preference.

I don't know why.

Anyway, these little rascals are really great.

They have a gristle along the back side. Never mind. I used to simply chew the fronts off.

To make pate, saute or even broil these little babies brown. Do the same for hearts, if they are there.

Then carve  or scrape, the gizzard fronts off, and discard the gristle backs. Don't just throw them in a food processor whole, or you will have a gristly pate, and no one wants that.

Some ignorant people say "throw chicken hearts away", if they were bought packaged together. That is truly idiotic. You very finely dice the cooked hearts and use them in the pate too.

Then make pate as you would, or perhaps only as I would, with chicken livers...

You can then use this in a variety of ways, just like any other pate.

Say, even, "Beef Wellington Chicken Gizzards..."

Regarding Beef Wellington, I suggest using only the fat end of the ribeye, sometimes still called a ' Delmonico ', rather than the filet mignon.  Just a thought.....

Call it " Delmonico Gizzard Wellington".

If you could catch a buzzard, you might do "Gizzard Pate Stuffed Roast Buzzard."
That might be a hit, out West.

This post is dedicated to Randy.

CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS MULTICULTURALIST FOIBLES DIALOGUE

"Can't we ship most of them to America?"
"Sure! They'll take anything with a pulse! It's in their Constitution!"

RE ENGLAND 1790s

"It is a question whether England had, as a class, any such people as intellectuals...." Palmer

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR DIALOGUE III

Millicent: "That sounds terrible!"
Rupert: "They don't care if yur gay ur straight. They eat yu either way."
Millicent: "Liberal!"

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR DIALOGUE II

"We had a good time in India!"
"Can't afford it anymore."
"At least it's only gang rape risk there! Extras turn on ya."

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR DUSTY CONVERSATION THE MENU NOT CHINA THE MAKER'S DIET THE PALEO PRIMATE DIET

"Where ya shootin?"
"Afirka."
"Aint cannibals there tu?!"
"We put on more extrs."
"U pay em?"
"Jes grub: rodents, tubers, manioc, grubs.
Fully Raw Christina wuz out here, last month. Raw fruit hunting! Leopard Men got er."

Terms search: Obst.

TURKEY RUSSIA CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

Of course, the Turks, or rather the Ottomans, have been at war with the Russians on and off for many centuries. The Ottomans owned a goodly chunk of Southern Russia for a long time.

More recently, they prevented Russia from leaving the Black Sea. They fought several wars against each other, even in the 19th Century, I forget how many.

The Crimean War was a biggie, pitting Western Christians in an unholy alliance with the Sultan against Christian Russia.

HONEY THE MENU

I don't know if I can face another year, forced to watch her crunch off another bunny's head. She intercepts them, poor things!

Anyway, it's the thought that counts.

TURKEY THIS IS WHAT AN AMBASSADOR IS FOR NOWADAYS

Trump needs to only choose highly expendable ones, I suspect. Especially for places like Turkey.

These used to be plums for political favors.....

Turkey could become a killing field for ambassadors of all stripes.

THE MENU AFRICA EAT IT OR BEAT IT CALL IT THE REST BACK STORY LYRICS

                                  THE REST: SIDE STORY

They told you don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear

 

The fire's in their eyes and their words are real clear
So beat it, just beat it beat it beat it

Or eat it eat it eat it.

 

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

 

Just beat it, but you want to be bad

So eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it
No one wants to be defeated.

 

The fire's in their eyes and their words are real clear
So beat it, or eat it

 

You have to show them that you're really not scared
You're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare

 

They'll kick you, then eat you,
But they'll tell you it's fair

 

It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it.

eat it eat it eat it eat it
or beat it beat it beat it 

beat it, beat it beat it

 

They're out to get you, better leave while you can
Don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man
You wanna stay alive, better do what you can
So beat it, just beat it

 

No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just eat it eat it eat it eat it.

eat it eat it eat it eat it
or beat it beat it beat it 

beat it beat it beat it.

                                    CANNIBAL ROCK

 

 

 

 

POLITICAL FOIBLES TWO DEMOCRATS RUNNING SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA PARTY SOLIDARITY TRUMP MEN CLOSE BEHIND

"Why ya runin?"
"Dey jes Bush us, bak dare. Dey werin horns!"
"Wha nao?"
"Don wana ge hackd r Gore d agin!"
"Im wi ya!"

THE MENU RISOTTO LEFTOVERS IMPROV

Why not use a few offbeat things, like, say, chicken gizzards?

 

You can combine these with, say, shrimp, or Venetian crawfish, escargot, and some kind of spicy but mild Mediterranean sausage, even say Genoa salami, or just bacon fat, and have a kind of crude, rustic, paella.

You could use leftover roast chicken slop as a base for the risotto or paella. You could think ahead, not very improvisational...., and cook gizzards along with a roast chicken, up front.

This might go with say, Oscar Peterson? Bonfa, A Day In The Life Of A Fool? Maybe something more like that...
Perhaps a little later Paul Desmond...

I would pair this with my Faux Caesar. Oh, I haven't described that yet!

Manzanilla, champagne, or chardonnay

BBC AFRICA TOP STORIES

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Deadly attack on Burkina Faso army base near Mali border

Whistleblowing blogger charged in Tanzania

Kenya girls hiding from parents tell BBC of their FGM fears

PIERS LADY GAGA DIALOGUE

Piers: "We're here with L G.... Welcome!"

LG: "Thank you."

Piers: "Let's talk about LGBT...
Oh, I mean LGSD...
No, I actually have dyslexia, don't you see.
That's why they call me Piers Moron! 
It's P T S D!"

LG: "Ok."

Piers: "It seems everyone has it.
Who knew? 
Madonna, you, half the women stars, casting couch tell alls!
For child stars, it was the casting crib! 
Where will it end?!"

LG: "It's real."

Piers: "Fine.
Now it's footballers, by the thousands, jumping on the band wagon! Buggered by their coaches! Fine! I don't doubt it!
So what? Everyone almost, now has PTSD!
I think it's a lot of publicity hype!
Pardon my French.
I was an Anglican choir boy meself!
I admit, I was a very naughty boy and all!
The old blighter ordered me to bend over the alter.
I thought he was giving me a spanking!
Well, that wasn't the last time!
But I don't go around now, 40 years later, crying PMSD, or whatever!
It was done to half us Anglican choir boys, for Chrissake, not just Catholic boys that the media harps on all year every year. I suppose they all have it, too! PT whatever.
Now the footballers are piling on!"

LG: "It's not as bad for boys as for girls!'

Piers: "Oh, perhaps you mean life at The Madames of the Sacred Heart Convent, where you spent all your formative years!? I'm sure the old queer mothers superior there were a barrel of fun for young girls!"

LG: "It was not like that."

Piers: "Now, you want to air some flashy rape on a roof! You're just a Madonna copycat!"

LG: "That is so unkind Piers."

FOOD PROHIBITIONS CITATION NEEDED

Humans

Main article: Cannibalism

 

Of all the taboo meat, human flesh ranks as the most heavily proscribed. In recent times humans have consumed the flesh of fellow humans in rituals and out of insanity, hatred, or overriding hunger – never as a common part of their diet, but it is thought that the practice was once widespread among all humans.^[65] The consumption of human flesh is forbidden by Hinduism.^[66] Judaism and Islam also forbid cannibalism.^{[citation needed]}
Catholics, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians do not view themselves as engaging in cannibalism when taking communion, as it is believed that although the bread and wine become of the same substance as the body and blood of Christ before being consumed, they remain bread and wine in all ways to the senses.^[67] Catholics refer to this as transubstantiation; the Orthodox believe the change occurs, but hesitate to attempt a description of the mechanism, believing it to be a sacred mystery. Most Protestants and other Christian denominations do not believe that transubstantiation (or any actual physical presence of Jesus in any form) occurs at all.^[68]
Cannibalism used to be required in certain tribes; the Fore people of Papua New Guinea were particularly well-studied in their eating of the dead, because it led to kuru, a disease believed to be transmitted by prions. In the book Daily life in China, on the eve of the Mongol invasion, 1250-1276 Jacques Gernet refers to restaurants that specialized in human flesh. From the context, it does not appear that this was a freak event associated with famine.

2075

"Married?"
"Never got the app."

GHETTO DIALOGUE

"Why u lukin me?"
"No reazin. Whi?"
"No reesin."

WHITE HOUSE TRANSITION CONVERSATION THE MENU NO REASON FOREIGN POLICY

Bannon: "They're eating each other over there now."
Gingrich: "So what?"
Bannon: "No reason."
Gingrich? "Where?"
Bannon: "Does it matter?"
Gingrich: "No."
Bannon: "Why not?"
Gingrich: "No reason, so long as they're Democrats!"

THE MENU LIBERAL AFRICAN DEMOCRACY MOVEMENTS NOW

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/magazine/the-most-unconventional-weapon.html

You don't want to be a UN peacekeeper in the Congo.

You end up on the menu.

WITH TRUMP PUTIN SO CLOSE

Maybe Putin can now get books like The Haunted Wood withdrawn from circulation here. Any excuse will do, as almost no one here had read them anyway.

ZIMBABWE CLASSIC BRITISH LIBERAL ANTI COLONIAL BLUNDERING

Mugabe running.....

RE VENEZUELAN BANK NOTES FIAT DEBT CURRENCY ANYWAY GOVERNMENT CAN WITHDRAW THEM

Smell the coffee, going forward.

India, now Venezuela, why not anywhere else, anytime at all?

They are ostensibly unsecured government debt obligations, just like the greenback, but not really debt in any meaningful sense. Although the system is handled by, and benefits, private banks, the notes themselves are you know what.

The government, any government, can unilaterally decide to withdraw them at any time, and nothing can happen to the government.

Guess why?  Sovereign immunity.

VANDERBUILT

THE NEGATIVE SUM GAME OF LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION

"They see our society as a zero-sum game, whose only real problem is that straight white males have too much and everyone else has too little." DK, excerpt

 

Not only has liberal globalization not been a zero sum game for the West, it has been a negative sum game, as I have pointed out here before, even in basic economic terms which even a slightly retarded follower of Lester Thurow could follow, and which a casual perusal of Piketty discloses as a fault in his analysis.

 

The more the West (and by the West I don't mean just white male imperialist elites but rather every Western Civilization person of whatever class or gender) liberally globalized after 1760, catering to and encouraging most every democratic inclination, and most colonial demands for independence or assistance, of whatever kind or type, technology transfer especially, the more it has paid the price as a Civilization in decline.

Terms search: negative sum game

THE MENU PROVENCAL

Why not, say, cuttlefish and chicken livers, sauteed, Provencal style? Fino reduction sauce.

What ever is wrong with something like that?

Nothing.

RE DUSTY ILLUSTRATIONS

a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com

ISBN: 978-0-615-21499-3

SELFIE FOR THE DAY

RE DK POST RE AN ELITE

This is one of the most vexed topics I can think of ,for citizens of the West.

 

So many European states dispensed with their elites during the Democratic Revolution; and although many of them returned, that status within society was not fully reestablished after the Napoleonic Wars, that it is difficult to describe, except only as vague remarks regarding the situation that emerged there.

 

Over here, we jetissoned any vestige of aristocracy or nobility in 1776, almost none of which had ever set foot over here in the first place, although a few of them owned substantial tracts, and they all were governed by the Crown, certain nobles, or trading or religious organizations companies under charters.

WHY HAVE SAY PAUL REILLY FOR COMMERCE YOU CAN HAVE LBO KING ROSS

Go with the gold.

The unions, such as they still are, Carrier etc., disorganized labor, even the remnants of the mob maybe, must be going ape shit, shitting their pants with rage.

So, one more little question is:

He has now queered Commerce,
Who did he pick for Labor!?

Oh yeah, Puzder!

What a populist team!

That's what he will call Team Play!

I call it The Kennedy Fallacy

BANNON POWER DIALOGUE MIDDLE EAST WITHOUT SHAME

Bannon: "They don't allow bi racial marriage."
Power: "Bomb them."
Bannon: "They discriminate against women."
Power: "Bomb their men."
Bannon: "They don't allow certain books to be defaced."
Power: "First amendment violation. Bomb."
Bannon: "They believe in Sharia."
Power: "Separation of church and state violation. Bomb."
Bannon: "What about Israel? They discriminate every way. They also are without shame."
Power: "Take a guess."

BANNON POWER ASIA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE

Power re Japan: "They discriminate, human rights violation. Bomb them."
Bannon: "The're our ally."
Power: "Bomb."
Bannon: "China does too."
Power: "Bomb."
Bannon: "But China makes everything."
Power: "Bomb."
Bannon: Korea?"
Power: "Bomb."
Bannon: "Singapore?"
Power: "Bomb."
Bannon: "What if Israel tries to stop us?"
Power: "Bomb."
Bannon: "No way!"

KOREANS IN JAPAN WIKIPEDIA AMERICANS NEED TO SMELL THE END OF LIBERALISM COFFEE

INDIA FALSE MONEY FAKE NEWS SPREADING WESTERN IT PHENOMENOLOGICAL SCHAMANISM

WWW IT

 

The West has made all this powerful, dangerous, and politically destabilizing, nonsense, possible, now, for everyone, everywhere, at the same time.

 

As W reiterated, could just as well have been dittoed by Democrats, "these principles are right for all people everywhere!"

MY MOTHER

CLASSIC POST TRAGIC TRUMP REPUBLICAN CANNIBAL ZEFFIRELLI CHRISSIE

AMERICAN HEALTHCARE CARTOON FOIBLES

"I'm here for the shot of the day."
"This is enema day."
"I only have private health insurance."
"Doesn't matter."
"I'll take two."

CLASSIC POST 2010

"PRICE" WARS

ETHICS DIALOGUE

"You're cannibals!"
"No, that's Republicans. We bomb human rights violators."

RE PUTIN US HACK CLAIMS INDECENT SHOW HOW WE KNOW LEOPARD MAN HACKING DIALOGUE

Cannibal Politics:

General Butt Naked (A Leopard Man): "How you know we hacked you?"

Ogunda, (A Crocodile Man): "We hacked two men, they confessed."

General: "I cannot tell this here; tribe will hack me."

Ogunda: "Nor I; I will hack my men who hacked your men."

General: "More meat!"

Ogunda: "More meat!"

This post dedicated to Newt Gingrich

BBC THREE PERSON BABIES APPROVED

The thin wedge of other things yet to come, as I have pointed out.

Why, then, not three person marriages? Liberalism, after all, has no boundaries.

Say divorce three way custody decision: Coin toss! Several rounds.

Merely LGBT is really already becoming passe in the West.

TODAY RUSSIA BIG PORTUGAL SMALL WONDER WHY? PICKY READERS

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Russia	15
France	4
Germany	2
Argentina	1
South Korea	1
Philippines	1
Portugal	1
Singapore	1
Thailand	1

bLOGGER MAP SEE HOW BIG RUSSIA IS? SEE WHERE IT EXTENDS? SMELL THE COFFEE

THE MENU RE TEXT I TRY NOT TO TEXT PERHAPS THIS NOTE WAS THE SUBJECT

re Steak at La Table d'Hotes de Hugo Desnoyer

I have never been there, but it certainly sounded great.

MICHAEL BOLTON SINGER

His career shows how far one can go, in pop, without a singing voice.

Springsteen falls into this category, too, but he was not nearly as bad as Bolton.

Rod Stewart, needle scratching a record, mostly in tune.

UAE IS A HOTBED OF INTEREST TODAY

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United States	13
Netherlands	12
France	10
Portugal	5
India	2
Russia	2
Belgium	1
Poland	1
Turkey	1

RE ARE YOU TRULY WITHOUT SHAME? THE BEST SOLUTION WOULD BE TO HAVE NEVER RELINQUISHED COLONIAL RULE IN THE FIRST PLACE

In the Syrian environment, moving as it is toward Hobbes' state of nature, shame is one of the lesser emotions, on all sides.

There is also little time, or room, over there, at least, for feelings of regret. Some of us have those feelings, here.

The West, and especially the US, abandoned the colonial order.

At least the colonial order was order, and the West was in control of it.

Palestine was always a kaleidoscopic football motley of vassal states, throughout its entire long, pathetic, history.

Even the so called Kingdom of David has turned out, itself, to be a biblical author's historical chimera.

What is going on there, all over the region, really, is not particularly new.

 

I will quote Sir Michael Howard, again, so that Ambassador Power can see where I believe the fault really lies. Call it my version of ' Speaking Truth To Power ' 

 

Perhaps she also can one day share my feelings of regret, or perhaps disappointment is a better word:

 

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the  European  Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt.  And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....." Michael Howard

It is rather pathetic, really, for the West, a hundred years on, to now be discussing this, across a table, at a ' UN ', with a Russian UN Ambassador at all.