This past Saturday in the city of Juarez, Mexico a family on their way home after a party were gunned down. The family were American citizens & the wife worked for the US Consulate. The wife was 5 months pregnant when she was riddled with bullets. Her husband was killed as well in the hail of gunfire. Miraculously their 1 year old daughter in the backseat survived. Across town that same night a Mexican father was gunned down in his car & his two young children wounded in another hail of gunfire. Drug cartel hitmen are "suspected" in the twin crimes. 2,500 people were killed last year & over 18,000 since 2006 when Mexico's President declared war on the Drug Cartel's. These were not the first Americans to be killed since this started & likely not the last. The Drug Cartels are completely out of control & slaughter innocents without a second thought. They are also known to behead victims to send a sign. I guess it's not only in just one part of the world or just one rogue element of a religion that has a monopoly on brutality & in-human behavior. Our President says that he is outraged over this. If so, actions speak louder the words. We have all heard his words...it's time to make some decisions & act. I see two options here...
1) Once the FBI working with the Mexican authorities confirms which cartel was responsible for this Obama orders a Special Ops team (SEALS, DELTA, NIGHTSTALKERS) to hunt down these monsters & kill them with extreme prejudice. Wipe out the entire cartel. Send a message "game over". No arrests, Miranda rites read, Geneva Convention adhered to...simply remove them from the planet. All of them. Just taking out one or a few will do nothing. Remove them all.
2) Send our top cop Eric Holder down to Mexico unarmed with his badge & a big bag of plastic military grade zip-tie handcuffs & start making arrests. Remember Eric, the Texas Rangers had a saying...One riot, one Ranger! Not for nothing, but what did they have on the great Eric Holder? The man who arrested Al Qaeda single-handled & by using US rule of law prosecuted them to the full extent of the law in Manhattan blocks fro where 9-11 happened just to prove his moral superiority!
So Mr. President please pick one of the options. SEALS worked well for you with the Pirates...but then again...what does a battalion of SEALS have on Holder...Eric Holder. Plus worst comes to worse & the Holder option doesn't work out...you can always send in the SEALS. Remember...they leave no man behind...so they can always bring back what's left...
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Love you long time sloppy bao/Bond...Chocolate Bond...
While at first I had no interest in the Vietnamese bao craze, I have since become a convert over the last year. I think at first the concept & the basic pork, pate, carrot, & cucumber just didn't do it for me. Now while I like authentic foreign cuisine sometimes the truth is when our cultures come together something better comes out. My newest discovery...the sloppy bao...the Vietnamese version of a Sloppy Joe that I had at Baoguette Cafe recently married ground pork with red curry, green mango, lemongrass, basil, & jalapenos...it was awesome! Another variation I had of the Sloppy Joe was at the Cafe Habana where they combined sauced pulled pork with jalapenos & black beans...another winner! If just maybe we could all come together as well as our food does when we combine our cultures we would all be better off. Our differences make us unique...but America's real strength has always come when we meld together...hey..it's called Deep Thoughts...remember...
Here's a shout out to Bond Street Chocolate Bar on Bond St in Manhattan. I like their bars(eating a milk chocolate almond & sea salt bar...any moment now a S&S* Swat team just may come crashing through my window to save me from eating 1/6 of the 3-4oz bar) but I believe they excel in their alcohol flavored bonbons...my favorites are Tequila, Elderflower Liqueur, & Absinthe. Be very careful with those though...eating them may not only bring on the S&S shock troops..but they may likely have ATF agents with them as well...
* S&S = Sugar & Salt...
Here's a shout out to Bond Street Chocolate Bar on Bond St in Manhattan. I like their bars(eating a milk chocolate almond & sea salt bar...any moment now a S&S* Swat team just may come crashing through my window to save me from eating 1/6 of the 3-4oz bar) but I believe they excel in their alcohol flavored bonbons...my favorites are Tequila, Elderflower Liqueur, & Absinthe. Be very careful with those though...eating them may not only bring on the S&S shock troops..but they may likely have ATF agents with them as well...
* S&S = Sugar & Salt...
An A-Salt on our intellect & the Evil twin brother...
I'm not sure what scares me more sometimes...the mind-numbing stupid ideas that come out of our elected officials or the fact that we elect these morons! In an effort to make sure we stay healthy the geniuses in our legislature in NY have come up with the ingenious idea of banning ALL salt from the "cooking process" in ALL restaurants. Yes you read that right...banning salt to prepare food. Don't worry it gets better...salt can still be provided on the table so diners can add salt at their discretion. So in other words...we are all too stupid to moderate salt on our own so to help prevent heat disease, high blood pressure etc...salt will be banned from the kitchen but allowed on the table. Do these morons (yes you know who you are in Brooklyn...that's right elected official in Brooklyn) Do these idiots not know how to cook or the cooking process at all? Do they only expect others to cook for them or just expense all their meals on our tax dollars? Do they not know the importance of using salt in the process of cooking to bring out the flavors of the food? That using kosher &/or sea salt is healthier & better? That even most good restaurants put out the crap over-processed salt that is worst for you & the least flavorful? Do you not get that using salt in the cooking process...but at the restaurants discretion not putting out salt would make more sense? That putting out small amounts of sea-salt would best? I'm guessing some genius figured out that this would be an easy way to tax restaurants (which will end up getting picked by by us by increased prices). Maybe if the morons in charge that we elected didn't blow their budgets on $177.00 bagels(look it up...true story) they wouldn't have to save us from ourselves.
The other Einstein like idea is to jack up taxes on soda to promote good health via stopping salt's evil twin sugar from assaulting our bodies. Like that's going to work! Why don't you just come out & say that "we know this will discourage no one from drinking less soda...so it's another easy way to collect more tax money...plus we want to keep you fat, stupid, & complacent"! How about in the schools & via the media we teach people proper nutrition & how to eat & cook. How about some personal responsibility! How about if you take care of yourself you get a tax credit? If you decide to abuse yourself & get fat & all the wonderful problems that come with it..it's on you...not me!
Is it really a wonder that the current health care debate is such a disaster? Look at the brain trusts trying to put this together. People with no concept of nutrition but an understanding on how to tax us...remember we voted these idiots in...
The other Einstein like idea is to jack up taxes on soda to promote good health via stopping salt's evil twin sugar from assaulting our bodies. Like that's going to work! Why don't you just come out & say that "we know this will discourage no one from drinking less soda...so it's another easy way to collect more tax money...plus we want to keep you fat, stupid, & complacent"! How about in the schools & via the media we teach people proper nutrition & how to eat & cook. How about some personal responsibility! How about if you take care of yourself you get a tax credit? If you decide to abuse yourself & get fat & all the wonderful problems that come with it..it's on you...not me!
Is it really a wonder that the current health care debate is such a disaster? Look at the brain trusts trying to put this together. People with no concept of nutrition but an understanding on how to tax us...remember we voted these idiots in...
Monday, March 8, 2010
Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk*? Go Ask Alice...
Let me start this spoiler free review by stating that I am somewhat biased here due to me being a huge Tim Burton fan...the man quite simply is incredibly gifted & is a genius( if you have not done so...go see his show at MOMA) & I've always been a big fan of the Alice in Wonderland story...which I found out recently is actually not one...but 2 books...
Off with their heads!!! Here I'm referring to most Movie Critics...I'm not sure what is wrong with these English Lit majors from Liberal Arts schools who clearly hate themselves, their families, friends life...etc...or how else do you explain how they love unwatchable crap & tear enjoyable works to pieces with little used multi-syllable words to try & show off the depth & breath of their vocabulary since they have nothing else in their fried brains...
Now that I'm done with that little rant & rave...the movie was great...at least I, my friends & the packed IMAX theater seemed to think so...Now this isn't a pure retelling of the story. Mr. Burton does take elements from both of Carroll's books, a poem of Lewis's(hint Monty Python used it)elements of fantasy & throws it in the blender of his minds eye to come up with a highly original & enjoyable story. Depp as usual gives a great performance (actually based his characters insanity on info he & Burton dug up on how the dyes Hatters used were loaded with toxins that had a bit of an effect on masters of this trade) as does Bonham Carter as the Red Queen ...Crispen Glover as the Knave oh so creepy...& of course kudo's to Mia Wasikowska as Alice(looks like a young Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame...just not quite as buff). Anne Hathaway as the White Queen was fine...did have one very good scene...I absolutely loved the Cheshire Cat, the March Hare was hysterical & the Blue Caterpillar was a trip as well. This is a stunning visually stimulating movie with great acting and a great story that re-imagines a classic while paying homage to it by taking advantage of what we can do technically today. This is one of Burton's best & if you are a fan ignore the Liberal Arts geeks...Off with their heads!!! & go see Alice...when she's ten feet tall...
Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk? I didn't get it...but the answers I uncovered are below...
Carroll said that there was no answer...but did say that raven spelled backwards is nevar...thus never...but I found another answer... Poe...he wrote on both...not sure if that was Carroll's answer but someone came up with it & it does work..
Off with their heads!!! Here I'm referring to most Movie Critics...I'm not sure what is wrong with these English Lit majors from Liberal Arts schools who clearly hate themselves, their families, friends life...etc...or how else do you explain how they love unwatchable crap & tear enjoyable works to pieces with little used multi-syllable words to try & show off the depth & breath of their vocabulary since they have nothing else in their fried brains...
Now that I'm done with that little rant & rave...the movie was great...at least I, my friends & the packed IMAX theater seemed to think so...Now this isn't a pure retelling of the story. Mr. Burton does take elements from both of Carroll's books, a poem of Lewis's(hint Monty Python used it)elements of fantasy & throws it in the blender of his minds eye to come up with a highly original & enjoyable story. Depp as usual gives a great performance (actually based his characters insanity on info he & Burton dug up on how the dyes Hatters used were loaded with toxins that had a bit of an effect on masters of this trade) as does Bonham Carter as the Red Queen ...Crispen Glover as the Knave oh so creepy...& of course kudo's to Mia Wasikowska as Alice(looks like a young Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame...just not quite as buff). Anne Hathaway as the White Queen was fine...did have one very good scene...I absolutely loved the Cheshire Cat, the March Hare was hysterical & the Blue Caterpillar was a trip as well. This is a stunning visually stimulating movie with great acting and a great story that re-imagines a classic while paying homage to it by taking advantage of what we can do technically today. This is one of Burton's best & if you are a fan ignore the Liberal Arts geeks...Off with their heads!!! & go see Alice...when she's ten feet tall...
Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk? I didn't get it...but the answers I uncovered are below...
Carroll said that there was no answer...but did say that raven spelled backwards is nevar...thus never...but I found another answer... Poe...he wrote on both...not sure if that was Carroll's answer but someone came up with it & it does work..
Dave...do the right thing...
Now Dave I don't expect you to do the right thing & resign for the right reasons...you are clearly not capable of it. Your own party wants nothing to do with you from our President on down. I don't know if it's because you are the spoiled rotten brat of a powerful connected man(not that I agree with much of your Fathers politics...but if a Patterson should be sitting on the Governors seat it should have been him), because you are quite simply a pathological liar who is incapable of making a moral decision since you lack any moral compass or you are just insane. Considering the fact the you may end up facing jail time when this is over & you are making Spitzer & Blago look good...that might be likely.
So...I'm going to ask you to step down for the only reason that you do anything...short term benefit for yourself! Now how is stepping down as Governor of the state of New York going to benefit David (I should be President) Patterson...well just look what it did for Sarah Palin(didn't agree with her doing it...it clearly paid off short term...but long term...remains to be seen) instead of governing a big chunk of ice covered with Moose & Mosquito's she is now touring the country...got a gig on Fox...wrote a book & recently did some comedy on Leno! Do you really want to continue to waste your time in Albany(Silver runs it anyhow) when a man of your talent & incredible gifts could be on the world stage! Palin wrote a book...are you telling me you can't(i'm thinking of a coloring book done in braile...yes that is horribly tasteless...but it is so you!)?!? Is Sarah funnier then you...are you not the life of the party or what?? Do you not want to tour the country & spread the Patterson around?!? CNN or John Stewart would kill for you! Do you want to host SNL...(with Beyonce as the guest singer...& steal her from Jay Z...what does he have on you!?!) or do you to be a lame gag on SNL because they temporarily ran out of Palin jokes?!?
Follow your destiny...take the world stage...win the Presidency...& show Obama how it' really done! Be all you can be Dave...a mere Governorship is beneath you...grab the world by it's cojones...swing'em over your head while pouring a bottle of Cuervo down you gullet & do the right thing...(for yourself!!!)
So...I'm going to ask you to step down for the only reason that you do anything...short term benefit for yourself! Now how is stepping down as Governor of the state of New York going to benefit David (I should be President) Patterson...well just look what it did for Sarah Palin(didn't agree with her doing it...it clearly paid off short term...but long term...remains to be seen) instead of governing a big chunk of ice covered with Moose & Mosquito's she is now touring the country...got a gig on Fox...wrote a book & recently did some comedy on Leno! Do you really want to continue to waste your time in Albany(Silver runs it anyhow) when a man of your talent & incredible gifts could be on the world stage! Palin wrote a book...are you telling me you can't(i'm thinking of a coloring book done in braile...yes that is horribly tasteless...but it is so you!)?!? Is Sarah funnier then you...are you not the life of the party or what?? Do you not want to tour the country & spread the Patterson around?!? CNN or John Stewart would kill for you! Do you want to host SNL...(with Beyonce as the guest singer...& steal her from Jay Z...what does he have on you!?!) or do you to be a lame gag on SNL because they temporarily ran out of Palin jokes?!?
Follow your destiny...take the world stage...win the Presidency...& show Obama how it' really done! Be all you can be Dave...a mere Governorship is beneath you...grab the world by it's cojones...swing'em over your head while pouring a bottle of Cuervo down you gullet & do the right thing...(for yourself!!!)
The Ways Be The Means...
As I'm sure many of you are already aware one of the Lions of American politics Charles Rangel a model of virtue has magnanimously temporarily stepped down as Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee due mere unsubstantiated allegations of not paying his taxes or reporting income(feel free to take the aforementioned words as sarcasm or sagacious words of those who are quite simply morally superior & highly intelligent & don't need facts or empirical data when emotion & gospel will do) http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Default.aspx(just the group that write our taxes)
The Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest committee of the United States Congress, and is the chief tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives. The Committee derives a large share of its jurisdiction from Article I, Section VII of the U.S. Constitution which declares, "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.
Just keep in mind regardless of your political affiliation or feelings on this...if you or I did what Charles did...we would at least be heavily fined & audited...but quite possibly might face prosecution & jail time...instead of going into the various allegations...I will leave you with a sight rewrite of a tune to give you something to think about...enjoy
Taxman 2010
Let me tell you how Obama's going to make it be...
He needs all your money for Cap'N'Trade, HealthCare & programs yet to be...
'Cause he's Obama & he's gonna tax all you have...man!
Yeah,Obama's the taxman...
Should 75% cent appear too small,
Be thankful he doesn't take it all...
'Cause Obama's the taxman,
Yeah, Obama is gonna tax you ...man!
If you work on Wall Street & go out for a steak dinner he'll quadruple tax your meat...
If you work on Main Street & want to go "Green" & walk to work he'll tax your feet...
If it gets cold due to "climate change Obama will tax your heat...
If it gets hot due to "climate change" he'll tax that too...
Obama's the Taxman!
'Cause Obama;s the taxman,
Yeah, Obama is so gonna tax you..man!
Don't ask me what Obama wants it all for (Nancy...wanna field this one?)
If you don't want to pay evens more. (ah-ah, mister heathcare)
'Cause Obama's the taxman,
Yeah, Obama's gonna tax you...man!
Now words of warning for those who die, (taxman)
Obama will tax you where you lie (taxman)
'Cause Obama'st he taxman,
Yeah, Obama's gonna tax you...man.!
And oh yeah...he's gonna tax you so hard you'll be working for no one but he...
Obama is just soooo gonna tax you...man!
The Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest committee of the United States Congress, and is the chief tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives. The Committee derives a large share of its jurisdiction from Article I, Section VII of the U.S. Constitution which declares, "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.
Just keep in mind regardless of your political affiliation or feelings on this...if you or I did what Charles did...we would at least be heavily fined & audited...but quite possibly might face prosecution & jail time...instead of going into the various allegations...I will leave you with a sight rewrite of a tune to give you something to think about...enjoy
Taxman 2010
Let me tell you how Obama's going to make it be...
He needs all your money for Cap'N'Trade, HealthCare & programs yet to be...
'Cause he's Obama & he's gonna tax all you have...man!
Yeah,Obama's the taxman...
Should 75% cent appear too small,
Be thankful he doesn't take it all...
'Cause Obama's the taxman,
Yeah, Obama is gonna tax you ...man!
If you work on Wall Street & go out for a steak dinner he'll quadruple tax your meat...
If you work on Main Street & want to go "Green" & walk to work he'll tax your feet...
If it gets cold due to "climate change Obama will tax your heat...
If it gets hot due to "climate change" he'll tax that too...
Obama's the Taxman!
'Cause Obama;s the taxman,
Yeah, Obama is so gonna tax you..man!
Don't ask me what Obama wants it all for (Nancy...wanna field this one?)
If you don't want to pay evens more. (ah-ah, mister heathcare)
'Cause Obama's the taxman,
Yeah, Obama's gonna tax you...man!
Now words of warning for those who die, (taxman)
Obama will tax you where you lie (taxman)
'Cause Obama'st he taxman,
Yeah, Obama's gonna tax you...man.!
And oh yeah...he's gonna tax you so hard you'll be working for no one but he...
Obama is just soooo gonna tax you...man!
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