Easter Weekend Open Thread

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Let the mutherfuker burn!

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Happy Easter to all!

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  2. Let the mutherfuker burn!'s avatar
    Troll McWingnut or George, whichever, on March 30, 2013 at 8:58 am said:

    Really interesting article on the Atlanta Schools cheating scandal.

    Sonny Perdue is really self-serving though. Why the need to dramatize with bullshit an already significant achievement I’ll never understand. For example, I do not believe this for a second, “Good friends broke with me over this.”

    Still, interesting that he had the balls to tackle it.

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    lmsinca, on March 30, 2013 at 9:29 am said:

    Happy Easter everyone. We’re having a quiet one but I am going to my favorite spot for sunrise in the morning. Walter bought me a pound of See’s Candies (don’t know what he was thinking), so I’ll probably wake up with diabetes on Monday.

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    jnc4p, on March 30, 2013 at 10:19 am said:

    I read about your family issues on PL lmsinca. Hope everything works out.

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    lmsinca, on March 30, 2013 at 10:35 am said:

    Thanks jnc. The kids are home with their parents again and I’m sure all will be well. Our son has put his foot down regarding Grandpa finally, who is now on a very short leash.

    Enjoy your weekend.

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    lmsinca, on March 30, 2013 at 4:24 pm said:

    Most of you know when it comes to food I’m primarily a grazer. As such I keep forgetting to share this idea with you for a really nutritious and great tasting brown rice. We pulled the rest of our winter garden out last weekend and planed the spring one and have been enjoying the greens and beets all week but this recipe is especially good with swiss chard.

    Clean and cut stems out of swiss chard and chop into large chunks (about 3″ square or so). Start a pot of brown rice and while that’s cooking put about a TBS of peanut oil in a large pan or wok. Once the oil heats add the chard and saute over low heat until soft but not over done stirring constantly so it doesn’t stick. It takes about 20 minutes or so. When the chard is done add two tsp to a TBS of sesame oil and at least a TBS or more of soy sauce, we use tamari. Once the rice is done add it to the chard and stir altogether. Yummy.

    For Easter, we’re just eating at home and I’m only making a big fruit salad, a potato salad and a small bbq’d free range chicken, for Wally. Since it’s just the two of us this year. Deviled eggs for an appetizer and apple cobbler for desert. We’ll probably sit outside if the weather is nice, but we’re watching the sun come up from Mt. Rubidoux in the morning.

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    lmsinca, on March 30, 2013 at 6:04 pm said:

    Sorry for all the punctuation errors above……………I guess I was in a hurry……….or something.

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      markinaustin, on March 30, 2013 at 8:56 pm said:

      Happy Easter to all of you.

      We waited to have our seder until tonight to accommodate daughter #3 who drove up from Houston.

      We have finally decked over the area where the swimming pool used to be and I may have it stained by Memorial Day. Maybe.

      I have not been able to keep up with the news for more than a week but I know that Kansas lost on a peculiar decision to kick the ball out for a long three when the tying layup seemed open.

      Gotta have priorities, right?

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    jnc4p, on March 31, 2013 at 9:07 am said:

    “where the swimming pool used to be”

    This is such a sad sentence to read.

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    jnc4p, on March 31, 2013 at 9:09 am said:

    Nothing like some good David Stockman invective to start off the Sunday with:

    “State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

    By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
    Published: March 30, 2013
    …

    As the federal government and its central-bank sidekick, the Fed, have groped for one goal after another — smoothing out the business cycle, minimizing inflation and unemployment at the same time, rolling out a giant social insurance blanket, promoting homeownership, subsidizing medical care, propping up old industries (agriculture, automobiles) and fostering new ones (“clean” energy, biotechnology) and, above all, bailing out Wall Street — they have now succumbed to overload, overreach and outside capture by powerful interests. The modern Keynesian state is broke, paralyzed and mired in empty ritual incantations about stimulating “demand,” even as it fosters a mutant crony capitalism that periodically lavishes the top 1 percent with speculative windfalls. ”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/sundown-in-america.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

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      ScottC, on April 1, 2013 at 5:11 am said:

      jnc (from Stockman):

      …and, above all, bailing out Wall Street

      Why “above all”? What makes this any worse than the rest?

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    lmsinca, on March 31, 2013 at 10:18 am said:

    “where the swimming pool used to be”

    This is such a sad sentence to read.

    Hahaha, I thought the same thing. We were supposed to have sprinkles today but after such a nice day yesterday we decided not to believe it. We went out on a limb with a wicked expense and heated the pool overnight. We haven’t used our pool this early in the year in a long time……………………..yay. We might even make margaritas and play some old hippie music.

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    Michigoose, on March 31, 2013 at 10:59 am said:

    Happy Easter/Passover to all!

    Mark, my friends who usually host their own seder and invite me (she can’t make matzoh ball soup and I’ve got a genuine Old Jewish Grandmother recipe for it) have been in New York for the holiday and I realized last night that I’m missing the soup. So while I’m going to Easter dinner tonight at some friends’ house, I’ve made my matzoh balls and they’re resting right now so that I can have my own mini-seder tomorrow night. I haven’t made challah since that perfect loaf (I’ve been trying to perfect Italian country bread) so I’m thinking about making a loaf of that, also.

    It’s clear blue skies and sunny here again today, with an expected high of 62, so I’m headed out to the back patio again to spend the day reading and soaking in the sunshine.

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    Michigoose, on March 31, 2013 at 4:44 pm said:

    Michigan absolutely slaughtered Florida (it was almost as if there wasn’t another team on the court), so at least the Big Ten got one team into the final four.

    Tom Izzo and I are going to have to talk. . .

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      ScottC, on April 1, 2013 at 5:13 am said:

      Orange v Michigan…can’t wait.

      BTW, who else saw the gruesome injury to Kevin Ware yesterday? Worse than the Theismann broken leg, I think. It was horrific.

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        markinaustin, on April 1, 2013 at 7:45 am said:

        Worth a read, I think:

        http://tinyurl.com/cksz97p

        Tayekh warns of weaknesses in the west’s negotiating strategy with Iran.

        Tayekh is NOT a neoconservative, I hasten to add. He does not view Iran as an apocalyptic nightmare.
        …
        Neoconservatives having cried wolf cause us to discount their messages, especially about the Middle East. But reacting to each neocon FP warning by dismissing it out of hand would be risky. The problem for us is to find other knowledgeable sources. During the run up to Iraq, Bob Graham stood out as the alternative voice who actually had enough information at hand that his colleagues in the Senate should have listened. Many others opposed the war but among those who had access to information, most voices were for it, yet Graham singularly was not.

        So I recommend Tayekh as one who is knowledgeable on the negotiations and their history, who would prefer not to go to war, as one alternative voice to the neoconservatives. The fact that he gives neocons some grist for their mill seems to me not something that should call his suggestions into question as motivated either by the desire to spread American hegemony, or loyalty to Likud, or to impose Wilsonian democracy by forceful liberation, or any other suspect ideology.

        The nuances of serious negotiations are always tricky, but this guy has been there.

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