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A Formal Dinner for Eid al-Fitr This is made from an old family recipe for suckling pig. It is especially good for solemn occasions such as Christmas, Thanksgiving or Eid al-Fitr.
Special Notes: IMPORTANT -- before buying the pig check and make sure you have a pan large enough, that the oven is suitable. (I made that mistake once, it aint pretty.)
Find a farmer who raises pigs, preferably grain-fed instead of garbage fed, and who has a litter of piglets that have never eaten anything but mothers milk.
Find a butcher to butcher the pig. (He may have pigs available, or know where to get one.)
The ideal size is 10 to 18 pounds.
When you prepare the beast for the oven, be sure to situate him so his back lags are tucked beneath him and his front legs are stretched out forward.
Put a stick in his mouth so it will be open when you are ready to put an apple in it.
Preparation time: 2 Hours
Cooking Time: 4.5 to 6.0 hours
Makes: 8 to 10 servings.
Ingredients:
15 lb. sucking pig
Stuffing:
2.5 Lean Pork, ground
2.5 Lean veal, ground
5 slices of Italian bread with the crust removed
3 eggs
1 cup of fresh chopped parsley
One-half teaspoon of thyme
One-half teaspoon of allspice
2 cloves garlic, mashed
4 shallots or 2 medium onions (Shallots are preferred)
2 ounces of truffles
One-half cup sweet vermouth
Salt and pepper
Sauce:
Three pounds of mushrooms
1 Clove of garlic, mashed
2 Shallots or 1 small onion
Optional:
Include the heart and kidneys in the stuffing, or put them in a roasting pan and enjoy them while youre cooking.
Preparation:
Boil milk and pour over bread until its absorbed; then pres the bread to get the excess milk out.
Mix the stuffing ingredients together.
Stuffing the Pig:
First rub salt into the chest cavity to discourage any bacteria
Turn the pig on its back and put in a layer of stuffing about two inches thick,
Slice the liver thin and put in a layer of liver slices.
Put in another layer of stuffing and more slices of liver. Repeat this until you have finished stuffing the animal.
Sew up the carcass tightly. Tale the piglets tail and stuff it under the stitches so it wont burn.
Rub the entire animal well with a pound of butter (not margarine), and put foil over the ears so they wont burn.
Cooking the Pig:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
Put the pig in, and cook it for 20 minutes or so until it starts to brown. Then turn the heat down to 350 degrees. Cook for about a half-an-hour per pound.
When the fat begins to drip out, put 3 or 4 bay leaves in the pan and periodically baste the roast with the fat. (You may have to remove some fat to keep it from overflowing the pan)
With about 30 minutes to go in the roasting period, baste the pig with good sweet vermouth. This will darken the skin so dont do it too early.
When the pig is done, put an apple in its mouth and stick cherries in where the eyes had been.
Making the Sauce:
Take 3 pounds of mushrooms and cook slowly in butter with a clove of garlic, 2 shallots or 1 small onion, salt and pepper. Using a kitchen syringes, get some of the brown drippings from the roasting pan (NOT THE FAT), and cook it with the mushrooms. Do not thicken with flour.
Serve with a full-bodied red wine and enjoy.
Posted by: Jack Bross ||
10/14/2006 6:10 Comments ||
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Brilliant, Jack, bloody brilliant. Your attention to detail, (e.g., the interior salt rub, foiling the ears) is simply excellent. And those truffles ... laws amighty, that'll be some really fine piglet!
Thanks for all the work your doing, keeping these recipes straight, updating daily, as well as offering encouragement and instructions to help others.
Jack
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10/14/2006 14:14 Comments ||
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Our global tour is now ended with a return to The United States. Classic American cuisine is famous for its chops and steaks. Our corn-fed beef and pork rank among the world's finest. Here is an updated chop recipe that will make for a gala presentation at any party.
Mushroom Stuffed Chops Main Course
Preparation Time: 1 Hour
Serves: 4 People
Ingredients:
4 Large Boneless Pork or Veal Loin Chops (2-3 Lbs)
½ Pound White Button Mushrooms
3-4 Shallots
1-2 Cloves Garlic
1-2 Cups Fresh Bread Crumbs (8-10 slices fresh white bread)
1-2 Eggs
1 Stick Butter
½ Cup White Flour
¼ Cup White Wine
¼ TSP Fresh Chopped Rosemary (or sage)
Cracked Pepper
Salt to taste
Dash of white sugar
Optional:
For the dredging mix:
½ TSP Onion Powder
¼ TSP Garlic Powder
¼ TSP White Sugar
¼ TSP Sweet Paprika
Lemon Wedges
Preparation:
Bring meat to room temperature. Using a bird's beak or paring knife, pocket each of the chops by making a small one-inch incision into its side. Work the blade inside of the pocket being careful not to cut entirely through the chop. Open up a cavity the size of a large walnut or slightly bigger depending on the cuts of meat.
Dice the mushrooms and sauté them in less than half of the butter until they lose any of the liquid that has been released. They should be lightly browned before adding the chopped shallots. Once the shallots are translucent add the minced or crushed garlic and the chopped rosemary. Sauté for another three minutes but DO NOT brown the garlic.
While the mushrooms sauté, mix the flour with some salt and pepper plus a pinch of sugar. Dredge both sides of the pocketed chops in the flour mixture and place them on waxed paper to rest. Remove all crusts from the white bread (two slices per serving) and use a food processor to shred into them into medium size crumbs. Pulse the food processor to avoid disintegrating the breadcrumbs into meal. Place the breadcrumbs ready in their own pie tin or shallow plate. Dredge chops in the flour mixture for a second time.
Add the wine to the mushroom sauté and cook on high for a few more minutes until there is very little liquid left in the pan. Turn off heat and empty contents into a bowl. Stir in half to three-quarters of a cup of the breadcrumbs into the sautéed mushrooms and shallots. Add some cracked pepper with a pinch of salt and mix well.
Stuff the pocketed chops with spoonfuls of the mushroom and shallot mixture. Avoid packing them too tightly but make sure all their corners are filled. Close the pockets with a toothpick when you are through. Dredge the chops in the flour a third time making sure to coat the edges and allow them to continue resting on the waxed paper. A hint of onion and garlic powder with a pinch of paprika plus some salt and sugar will liven up the dredging mix.
Crack the eggs into a shallow dish and beat them with a few spoonfuls of water until they are creamy. Take each dredged chop and drag it through the egg wash before coating it with the breadcrumbs. Lay the egg-washed chop in the pie pan of breadcrumbs and scatter more of the crumbs across the upturned face. Gently press them into the flour and egg paste. Build up a substantial layer of the breadcrumbs on each chop. Lay each coated portion aside on the wax paper and allow them to rest for at least ten to fifteen minutes. This is critical in order to let the coating adhere properly so it does not break up while frying.
Warm a large skillet over medium-low heat and add half the remaining butter. When the butter begins to foam, turn the pan to high. This will prevent the skillet from cooling too much when the meat is added. Place the chops in the pan and continue until all of them are frying. Gently move each one slightly back and forth as you place them in the pan to assure that they do not stick down. Decrease the heat to medium-low. Watch closely to avoid scorching the meat. Turn each chop only once as soon as it is a golden brown underneath. Add more butter as needed. Finish frying off the meat until all juices run clear and place it on a platter lined with paper towels to drain. Let them rest for three minutes before serving. Remove the toothpicks before carving or plating.
For an elegant presentation, use a very sharp knife to cut medallions of the boneless chops exposing the stuffed interior. Avoid breaking the crust when doing this. Sometimes a very sharp serrated knife will work better for this task.
Shingle the medallions on each plate and surround with the side dishes. A light wine or brandy laced reduction of veal or beef stock will enhance the flavor of this dish.
Notes: Fresh breadcrumbs are the secret to a light and crunchy crust. Unlike regular dried crumbs, they will not absorb as much grease and tend to yield a much lighter crust.
Appropriate side dishes are mixed long grain and wild rice or roasted creamer potatoes plus steamed asparagus or artichokes.
Serve with a chilled rosé, Grenache or blanc de noir sparkling wine.
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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breasts Easy Poultry Main Course
Preparation Time: 45 Minutes
Serves: 4 People
Ingredients:
4 Boneless and Skinless Chicken Breasts (turkey loin also works)
1 Package Sliced Bacon (12-16 ounces)
2-4 TBS Vegetable or Olive oil
1 TSP White Flour
¼ Tsp Ground White Pepper
¼ Tsp Sea Salt
¼ Tsp Onion Powder
¼ Tsp Garlic Powder
¼ Tsp Ground Thyme
Preparation:
Mix white flour with all of the dried spices and herbs. Rub the chicken breasts with oil. Sprinkle the spice mixture all over the chicken. Carefully wrap 3-4 slices of bacon around each chicken breast until they are completely covered. On a sheet of waxed paper, lay out the strips of bacon side by side with their long edges touching. Place the chicken breast top side down, centered on the bacon. Then bring up each of the bacon strips to cover the breast entirely. Tuck alternate ends under each other to secure them. Grill on top shelf of barbecue or roast on a rack in a 340°F oven for 30-40 minutes. During the cooking process, very carefully turn them over once. Remove when the bacon is crisp and juices run clear. Let the chicken rest for five minutes before serving.
Notes: This is one of the most simple recipes I have ever invented. I made this dish without any of the spices and it was still very tasty. Peppered or applewood smoked bacon adds a fabulous dimension of extra flavor to this preparation. For fewer calories, thin sliced pancetta may be used instead of bacon.
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Interesting how this looney toon got an education in reality during his time in Oakland. I think he just discovered there are evil people walking the earth, sometimes all around you. Now he's going to have us believe he's a law-and-order proponent. Who knows, maybe he is now after his time in purgatory. I still don't think even the wacky Dummocrats will support him, let alone the remainder of the voting public.
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Sadly, Brown will win the AG race walking away. This race is so locked there is no chance that Poochigian (as in sad puppy) can get enouogh name recognition to offer an alternative. Lockyear already took away over 300 Special Agent positions in the CA DOJ and converted them into civil litigation attorneys to work liberal lawsuit issues like medical marijuana and environmental enforcement, leaving narcotics enforcement stunningly under manned. I expect Brown to do much more of the same, God only knows why.
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unfortunately Brown has Police chiefs and Sheriffs supporting him - God knows why. Must be a union payoff. You can kiss the death penalty (which has actually been enforced over 9th circus objections) to die
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/14/2006 19:09 Comments ||
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A short history of nonproliferation failure.
North Korea's apparent test of a nuclear weapon has once more put the international arms control system in the hot seat. This week the U.N. Security Council did muster 13 votes condemning the test, whatever that means, and today it is expected to vote on new nonmilitary sanctions against Pyongyang.
This is better than nothing, though how much better depends on the fine print and the political will to enforce it. China and Russia objected at first to the sternest punishment, especially to inspections of North Korean cargo ships and tough financial sanctions. But according to reports yesterday, the U.N. resolution will allow at least some of these searches.
The good news here is that at long last the U.N. is attempting to enforce its own nonproliferation regime. Before the multilateralists get too pleased, however, it's worth recalling that it took an actual nuclear blast following a long-range missile test this summer to motivate the Security Council to take even these modest actions. Years of North Korean cheating on its treaty commitments hadn't been enough.
We mention this because the cases of North Korea and Iran are revealing the limits of arms control treaties in restraining rogue states bent on gaining nuclear weapons and other WMD. In the wake of Korea's nuclear test, we are hearing renewed calls for "direct" talks between the U.S. and North Korea akin to those that took place in the 1990s. The idea is to get North Korea to sign another agreement promising to give up its nukes. But one reason we're at the current pass is because Kim Jong Il violated the many commitments he made to the Clinton Administration.
Even as it allowed inspectors at its Yongban nuclear facility, Pyongyang was pursuing a separate and secret bomb-building effort. When the world objected once that effort was exposed, North Korea responded by shutting off the U.N. cameras at Yongban, expelling the inspectors and withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Meanwhile, because the 1994 Agreed Framework had allowed North Korea to keep its plutonium under U.N. "safeguards," Pyongyang was then free to make a bomb with that nuclear fuel. Now it apparently has done so, unless this too turns out to be another lie.
The case of Iran has followed a similar arc of deception and U.N. failure. Tehran also signed the NPT, only to pursue its own secret bomb-building effort. The U.N. inspectors working inside Iran didn't discover any of this until they were tipped off by an Iranian opposition group that clearly had better intelligence than the U.N. The International Atomic Energy Agency has since produced report after report documenting Iran's violation and deception, and, under the explicit terms of the NPT, Tehran should have been referred immediately to the Security Council.
Yet the IAEA declined to do so for years. And only this summer, after Iran repeatedly rejected European entreaties to stop enriching uranium, did the Security Council finally agree to cite Iran for its arms-control violations. That resolution set an August 31 deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium, promising dire consequences. But Iran keeps enriching, and so far the U.N. keeps begging it to cooperate. If neither Tehran nor Pyongyang takes these U.N. warnings seriously, this is why.
The latest U.N. excuse for doing little is fear that Iran will withdraw from the NPT, as North Korea did--and then where would we be?But at least then Iran would have been forced to brand itself an international rogue, instead of using the NPT as a fig leaf to buy more time to fulfill its obvious nuclear ambitions.
If arms control won't stop rogue bomb makers, what can? Well, regime change for one. Saddam Hussein is no longer a potential nuclear threat to anyone because he no longer runs Iraq. But short of deposing a regime, the most successful policy has been the Bush Administration's Proliferation Security Initiative.
Operated out of the Pentagon on a "coalition of the willing" basis, PSI helped blow the whistle on Libya's clandestine nuclear program, rolled up A.Q. Khan's nuclear black market and has interdicted North Korean weapons shipments. The difference between this and the NPT is that the PSI doesn't give the feckless or evil a veto over what it does. It is a coalition of countries with a shared sense of purpose, and above all the willingness to act.
The world will need more such cooperation and creative thinking to contain a proliferation threat that is only going to grow. But the beginning of wisdom is to realize that the threat hasn't ended merely because a rogue regime signs an arms-control treaty.
I'm just curious, have any Rantburgers heard about this movie? It seems to be causing quite a stir lately. I'm wondering what folks here think about it.
Charles Lewis, the founder and executive director of the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity is one of the experts featured in the film. His team created the massive online resource Windfalls of War: U.S. Contractors in Afghanistan & Iraq.
Here's what he had to say about war profiteering:
Regardless of the war, the administration, or the various sophistries for expending human lives as a matter of government policy, profiteering from it universally offends all citizens, whether they are Republicans, Democrats, Independents, other parties or no shows. Most Americans, regardless of party or ideology, want to believe that any government of the people, by the people and for the people, as once put forth by Abraham Lincoln, necessarily must dispense the peoples business and money in a fair, honest and accessible way. As a developed democracy, for decades we have established extensive, government procurement processes to ostensibly ensure such full and open bidding for contracts.
But of course the street reality is much worse. And unfortunately, despite political rhetoric and platitudes about competitive bidding, the indisputable fact is that in Iraq and Afghanistan and the entire, massive Defense budget, those companies winning the largest, most lucrative government contracts have been consistently among the most politically influential in Washington. They have expended millions of dollars to hire former Pentagon officials, to finance federal campaigns, to lobby the legislative processes. We are supposed to believe it is merely coincidental that the recidivist recipients of U.S. contracts, some of whom have committed fraud, price fixing or other abuses in the documented past, also just happen to be those who have most greased the skids in our nations capital.
The Center for Public Integrity in Washington is the largest nonprofit investigative reporting organization in the world, publisher of 15 books and roughly 300 investigative reports since 1990, its work receiving three dozen national journalism awards. The Center won the George Polk Award for its October, 2003 online report, Windfalls of War (updated several times since), which posted all Defense and State Department contracts awarded for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, first revealing that Halliburton had received the most lucrative contracts of any company. The Centers 2004 report, Outsourcing the Pentagon, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award and profiled the 737 companies receiving at least $100 million in Defense contracts over a five-year period. No-bid contracts have accounted for more than 40 percent of Pentagon contracting since 1998, which amounts to some $362 billion in taxpayer money to companies without competitive bidding.
This insider game will continue for the favored few as long as the public allows it, as long as Congress doesnt investigate it, as long as the national news media doesnt expose it. Only by discourse and illumination will the nation become engaged and enraged and awaken our various official or self-appointed watchdogs.
Charles Lewis
Founder, and for its first 15 years, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity
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Shouldn't this sport a Master of the Obvious graphic?
Gosh... whoda thunk it? Corporations that lobby the most in washington get the most lucrative contracts.
first revealing that Halliburton had received the most lucrative contracts of any company
I'm shocked! Shocked! I tell you to see a non-partisan company coming out right before an election to point out that Americans don't like war profiteering and that it names ONLY the boogy man Halliburton (controlled by the neocons and Cheney and pulls the puppet strings on Bush).
Non-partisan means that you don't push partisan buttons to make a point where there is plenty of blame to go around.
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first revealing that Halliburton had received the most lucrative contracts of any company
It's easy to fisk this stuff. Lucrative means to make large profits. Public companies do not publish their profit or loss on individual contracts for the very good reason they do not want their competitors to know. Therefore, the writer does not whether any given contract is lucrative or not (assuming it's not a cost plus contract, which almost by definition can't be lucrative, becuase the profit margin is fixed).
Since the writer can not know whether any or all contracts are lucrative or not, to assert there is war profiteering is without foundation and ignoring he makes the claim without saying what consitutes excessive (profiteering means to make excessive profits).
Haliburton's overall profitability and return on assets are both 12%. I can't be bothered to Google norms for comparable businesses but I doubt Haliburton is too far from the average. 12% is about right for a fee for service business.
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typical public works contracts assume 10% minimum profits for contractors, otherwise they won't bid your projects - too many bureaucratic headaches in reporting, EEO, etc.... This whiner's agenda is overriding his data
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/14/2006 19:17 Comments ||
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in addition: in a war zone, I would expect that the 10% (domestic) rule of thumb doesn't apply - too many risks - 20-30% would seem more in order
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Senior military officials who spoke with The Jerusalem Post this week were adamant: Defense Minister Amir Peretz was "mistaken" when he stated that an effective defense against Katyusha rockets could be deployed in two years. "Nothing will be ready in two years," one of the officials told our reporter, Yaakov Katz.
Two weeks ago, Peretz said in an interview, "Both Kassams and Katyushas are tactical weapons that have become strategic threats because we have yet to find an answer to them." Israel will obtain a "significant system that can [defend against these missiles] and this will happen in no more than two years," the defense minister said.
Peretz is right about the significance of even primitive, short-range missiles if Israel has no way to defend against them. It is disturbing, however, that he seems to be misinformed about where the technology to do so stands, and is unwittingly misleading the public as a consequence. As we report elsewhere on these pages, Israel is looking at both an American system called Skyguard and at developing its own system for shooting down short-range rockets. The American system, produced by Northrop Grumman, has shown success in tests but seems to be more than two years away from operational capability, and may prove too expensive to deploy against thousands of extremely cheap rockets. An Israeli company is developing another, laser-based, system, but it is also a number of years away from possible deployment.
In the minds of our enemies, the recent war in the north and the Kassam offensive from Gaza against towns in the South have demonstrated that the missile has largely replaced the suicide bomber as the terror weapon of choice. It took years for Israel to decide to build a security fence against suicide bombers - indeed, that fence has yet to be completed. We have been similarly slow to build equivalent defenses against short-range missiles.
In both cases, there were valid reasons for hesitation. With limited funds for national defense, we have preferred to invest in our capability to fight and deter terrorism rather than to erect barriers against it. Successful deterrence is the best defense, since it prevents attacks from being launched in the first place.
What must be realized, however, is that defenses, not only offensive capabilities, are critical components of deterrence. It is a myth that a defense must be 100 percent effective or else it is worthless. There would be a huge difference in an attacker's calculation when faced with zero defenses against short-range missiles, compared to a situation in which Israel could reliably shoot down 80% or more of missiles launched against it.
The importance of missile defense only grows with respect to medium- and long-range missiles. The Arrow system that Israel has already deployed against such missiles is a good start, but more should be done, and not just by Israel.
The US, for example, is currently defended by just 11 test interceptors in Alaska and California. These are inadequate to defend against the long-range missile threat, recently accentuated by North Korea's missile test in July and its purported nuclear test this week. Europe has no such defenses, and the US is not defended at all against medium- or short-range missiles that could be fired from ships.
It makes no sense for the West to forfeit its vast technological advantages and leave itself almost completely exposed to missile attack. In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration reversed previous US antipathy to missile defenses, withdrew from the 1972 ABM Treaty that all but banned them, and committed to deploying a multi-layered defense of both US territory and US forces abroad. Yet actual defenses are not being developed and deployed as quickly as they should.
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1. Republicans are opposed to Gay mariage because they hate homosexuals. Democrats are opposed to Gay marriage because they want more votes and don't want to alienate religious voters.
2. The United States armed Saddam Hussein even though all of his planes, tanks, missiles, boats, guns and APCs came from the Soviet Union and France.
3. Full trade with Castro's Cuba, a tyranny that imprisons people for writing dissident poetry and for just being homosexual, should be resumed even though Democrats care about the rights of Gays, but banning trade with Aparthied South Africa, a long-time ally of the United States, was an act of moral policy.
4. The only hope for peace is through the United Nations, an organization where the United States is routinely publicly insulted and condemned as imperialist by every tyrant and fat demogogue on Earth.
5. The best way to improve the morale of American troops is to tell them they are dying for nothing, deny them the chance to win, call them war criminals and attempt to cut funding for their new weapons. And then express shock when 80 percent of them vote Republican.
6. The theory of Evolution should be taught in every school without exception, but Intelligent Design should be banned from the classroom as a heresy and that is academic freedom.
7. Parents are too stupid to be provided with education vounchers for their children, because they are unable to appreciate the outstanding job that public schools and public school teachers are doing.
8. There should be no limit on the amount of money awarded in class action law suits against corporations, but corporations that take their jobs overseas are economic traitors.
9. There should be no limit on the amount of money awarded in medical malpractice law suits against doctors and hospitals, but it is an outrage that medical expenses are so much lower in Canada, Australia and Europe.
10. Common people are too stupid to be allowed to invest a portion of their Social Security "contributions." Government needs to control all of it and force everyone to be part of the greatest pyramid fraud in the history of mankind.
11. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is a fuzzy, misunderstood fan of American movies and Swedish blondes who would be more than happy to shut down his A-Bomb production line if we would just give him everything that he wants and promise on our hands and knees never to use military force against him.
12. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a rational leader who appears to hate Jews, Israel, the United States and non-believers because George W. Bush makes him do it. Just ask Mike Wallace.
13. The world would be a better place today if Saddam Hussein still held the reigns of power in Iraq and possessed 15 to 20 percent of the world's known oil reserves with every intention and capability to produce every kind of WMD under the sun.
14. The greatest danger facing America today is not terrorism, Iran, North Korea or the rising power of China, but the proliferation of Walmart stores with their insidious cut-rate prices and non-union employees.
15. Totalitarian regimes that control all human decisions are justified and morally superior to the United States as long as they provide universal health care and sign the Kyoto Treaty.
16. Global Warning is a fact and it is being caused entirely by the United States, which should bear full responsibility for reducing greenhouse gases.
17. The government should take care of all health care needs from the cradle to the grave with no deductables, but the Republicans are entirely responsible for the Federal deficit.
18. The Constitution as written by James Madison guarantees a right to Gay marriage, abortion and pornography, but does not guarantee the right to privately fund ads against a political candidate 60 days before an election, the right to own and carry a firearm and the right to leave all of your hard-earned and already taxed wealth to whomever you choose. hmmmmm....... Mr. Madison, what do you say?
19. A President lying in front of a Grand Jury to protect himself from more charges of immoral conduct is a misdemeanor, but an honorable President who takes America into a war against a tyrant who has lied time and again about weapons of mass destruction is lying to the American people and deserves impeachment.
20. The driving record and Vietnam-era military record of George Bush are legitimate issues, but the fact that John Kerry won three Purple Hearts without spending one night in a hospital to get transferred out of Swift Boats is dirty politics.
21. Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are intolerant, hate-filled demogogues who have no respect for the views of others, but Howard Dean, Michael Moore and Al Franken are passionate advocates of the Democartic Party who have all the reason in the world to hate George W. Bush and the Republican Party.
22. Financial gain in the stock market and through investment and risk taking is unearned and unethical income, unless it is made by Hillary Clinton in a fixed deal as a reward for her husband's political favors to Tyson Foods and other corporate interests.
23. We will all be much safer if the civil and privacy rights of terrorists, Al Qaeda detainees and others committed to our destruction are protected and the Guantanamo detention center is closed down and all the detainees are given their year in court.
24. The borders of the United States should be open to all the people of the world, especially our neighbor to the south, because immigration is an asset to America. And we should welcome the fact that by 2050 we will all be part of racial, religious and ethnic minorities and that will bring us together in one big, happy gang....... I mean family.
25. The best way to help the young generation become responsible and moral citizens is to ban the Bible and all religion from public schools, never teach any American history that shows America's past in a positive light, make sure public school students all understand that the future is hopeless, pass out condoms to all the students and then express shock when they suffer depression and attempt suicide.
26. When a Conservative talk show host is addicted to pain killers for chronic back pain, he is a drug addict, but when a member of the Kennedy family is arrested for drug or alcohol abuse, he just needs help and support and a few weeks at the Betty Ford to be back at his job.
27. The best way to fight terrorism is to find out why they hate us so much and to correct our faults and limit our greed so that they will love us.
28. In any international crisis with another nation, the United States is always in the wrong because we are chauvinistic, imperialists who want everyone to be like us....... nonaggressive, free, tolerant and opposed to the triumph of totalitarians and fanatics. America is a nation founded on slavery, repression of women and the theft of land from native peoples and Latinos, who deserve to have all their lands restored once the United States has been dissolved to the benefit of all mankind.
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"5. The best way to improve the morale of American troops is to tell them they are dying for nothing, deny them the chance to win, call them war criminals and attempt to cut funding for their new weapons. And then express shock when 80 percent of them vote Republican."
And don't forget: come Election Day, make damn sure you send an army of lawyers out to disqualify every military absentee ballot you can get your filthy hands on. That'll really boost their morale.
Bastards.
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One also has to have absolute contempt for fundamentalists Christians and absolute respect for fundamentalists Muslims. Fundamentalists Christians, after all, don't think that homosexuals should be allowed to marry. The fact that Muslim fundis think they should be stoned to death, however, is part of their anti-hegemonic culture, and thus must be respected.
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RULES FOR BEING A GOOD DEMOCRAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
1) You have to believe that criticizing Thomas Jefferson for his failings is 'enlightened' but criticizing Martin Luther King for his is racist.
2) You have to believe that freedom of any and all sexual activity is a basic right that should be promoted but freedom of religion is a kind of bigotry that should be banned.
3) You have to believe that a society generates wealth through taxes.
4) You claim to be about individual freedom yet the only freedoms you support are those of sexuality and art all other aspects of human existence should be regulated by the government to the point of micromanagement.
5) You claim that 'it takes a village' yet you don't take the time to get to know your neighbors, and your idea of helping 'the needy' in your community is to raise taxes on other people so that the government will spend their money and society's problems will 'go away' without your actually having to have contact with those less fortunate than yourself, or spend your own wealth helping them.
6) You believe that the FBI's tactics against the civil rights groups of the 1960's were wrong but think it was really cool the way the government killed those Christians at Waco and those gun nuts at Ruby Ridge.
7) You believe that it's more important to make sure that nobody owns guns so that you can never be hurt by someone wielding one than it is to have private gun ownership and a check on the power of government.
8) You believe that women are at the same time equal to men and yet possess certain qualities that are superior to men.
9) You believe that there have been problems with the government so the solution to this is more government.
9) You believe that monopolies of businessmen are wrong but monopolies of laborers (unions) are OK.
10) The fact that NOW pushed Bob Packwood out of office for offenses that were lesser than those committed by Bill Clinton (whom they gave a pass) based purely on politics is morally consistent and acceptable to you.
11) You claim that all nonliberals are people who hate anybody who isn't just like themselves, then you embrace political correctness and speech codes which marginalize and attack anyone who doesn't think, act or speak like yourself.
12) You think it's acceptable to try and describe a link between conservatives and Nazis every chance you get (though there is none) but if someone points out the numerous factual fundamental ideological similarities between communism and American liberal thought, they're guilty of something called 'redbaiting'.
13) You believe that if someone is a movie star and a liberal this automatically makes them an expert on the homeless or climate or the rainforest.
14) You believe that all the problems of humanity were created by straight white Christian non Marxist males of European descent, and that if such persons didn't exist, every minority and woman would be a wealthy CEO or a brain surgeon.
15) You believe affirmative action is OK for the police department but not for the NBA.
16) You say you care about 'the children' but you unswervingly support teachers unions which care more about their own paycheck than our kids.
17) You believe that the reason socialism has never worked well anywhere is not because it is fundamentally incorrect, immoral, and unworkable, but rather that the 'right people' were just never in charge.
18) You believe that Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in history but at the same time had no idea her husband was a philanderer.
19) You claim to be the party of the 'working guy' but all of your social policies have contempt for him and his lifestyle and avocations.
20) You oppose school vouchers on the grounds that you believe it will encourage a takeover of education by 'Right Wing Christian Extremists' while ignoring the fact that Canada has had vouchers for decades and this hasn't happened.
And the one for the road........
21) When someone asks you, "Just how big and expensive should the government be allowed to get?", you don't answer, and just smile.
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as good as the original article - no more uro.
These are for being a good democrat - but to be a good liberal there is only one requirement. All you have to do is hate the "correct" people.
Moderator's privilege: I think the wearing of the Confederate battle flag is wrong and shouldn't be allowed in a school. It's disruptive and it's generally meant to stick it in someone's eye. I know the arguments about 'heritage' and 'cultural pride'. I also was raised for a time in Virginia, and I know about some of the cultures. When you wear a Confederate battle flag in a mixed-race environment, you can count on some black citizens being upset -- they see the flag as one of oppression and supportive of slavery. I understand why.
Schools are places for education. Anything -- anything -- that disrupts education shouldn't be permitted. The Confederate battle flag is one of those things. School is difficult enough these days, we don't need to make it more difficult.
And before anyone sounds off, yes, I had family on both sides in the Civil War.
The banning of the Confederate flag on clothing at Flat Rock Middle School has opened a racial chasm at the school and is setting the stage for perhaps a bitter battle over upcoming new school boundary lines.
On Oct. 4, a group of students at the north Fayette middle school wore clothing from Dixie Outfitters depicting the Confederate flag. According to a letter sent to parents by Principal Oatha Mann, the clothing caused a disruption of the learning environment.
Due to this incident, we are not allowing the wearing of clothing that depicts the Confederate flag. The decision was not made lightly and is a response to the situation that disrupted the learning process. Any clothing that incites disruption will also be addressed as necessary, Mann wrote.
The Citizens Web site has been abuzz with posters commenting on the issue, with many of them complaining about their perceptions that the school administration treats black students with slogan T-shirts more leniently than white students.
School spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach said school officials were not taking calls about the incident, and said tensions have cooled down this week. She said the incident was not widespread, and only a few students were involved. She dismissed a report from several posters who said that armed members of the SWAT unit from the Fayette County Sheriffs Department patrolled the schools hallways in the aftermath of the flap.
I can't help noticing how much this fits with Fonte's description of transnational progressivism, and to William Goldnadel (french advocate, and conservative jewish thinker) 's martyrocracy... society as a collection of groups, democracy as a rule of special interest victim groups, and the White Male Order having to attone for all its sins.
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One girl wore a confederate shirt with 6 african slaves picking cotton on it. the black kids at the school freaked out and had a BIG problem with it. i happen to know this girl very well and she is and has been a southern activist. 100%!"
I think a shirt showing the depiction of slaves picking cotton is very innappropriate.
And will someone tell me what a 'southern activist' is?
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I think the wearing of the Confederate battle flag is wrong and shouldn't be allowed in a school.
I think a shirt showing the depiction of slaves picking cotton is very innappropriate.
How about that First Amendment thing? Awfully damned inconvenient isn't it? Next thing we know, people will be saying it is innappropriate to wear the American Flag, or show it in any way. Because we just don't want to offend anyone.
There's nothing like skinless people in a sandpaper world.
Bad times are coming, you can believe it and get prepared, or stick your head back in the sand and most likely get dead. If anyone here thinks that it won't be a free-for-all along ethnic divides, you're dreaming. You will only be able to count on your own kind, and even then it will be iffy.
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Bingo 5089. Seems to me that the younger generation is getting fed up with the double standard. It seems the choice of the confederate flag was more of a "let's see how you like it" than a statement of "white superiority".
Personally, I'm getting really sick of people who have never suffered a day of discrimination in their life, leaching off the suffering of their ancestors to give themselves an excuse to discriminate against others.
The double standards of the administrators are the issue here - not race or symbols.
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It's disruptive and it's generally meant to stick it in someone's eye.
But when the "Malcolm X was worn it's ignored?
This whole thing started with those Malcolm X tee shirts, and we southerners started wearing shirts with the slogan "Your "X" (malcolm)
Our "X" (Confederate Battle Flag)on the same shirt.
Try a little fair play, "Black" shirts are no more acceptable, (and no less)than the Confederate Flag Tee shirt.
Ban both or shut up.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Senior military officials who spoke with The Jerusalem Post this week were adamant: Defense Minister Amir Peretz was "mistaken" when he stated that an effective defense against Katyusha rockets could be deployed in two years. "Nothing will be ready in two years," one of the officials told our reporter, Yaakov Katz. 
