Governor Sarah Palin or Tina Fey

Who is this lady Governor from Alaska? Are these two people the same? Maybe they are related; twins, sisters, or just the same person. One minute this person is the Governor of the farthest north western state in the USA and then she is an writer/actor in the north eastern part of the USA. There are many questions that need answers. Who is she really?

VERY CHEESY MAC 'N' CHEESE

Here is one of my favorite recipes for macaroni and cheese, I know everyone will like. The secret to bonding the cheese with the macaroni is using mozzarella cheese in place of an egg. Eggs have a tendency to take away from the flavor of the cheese and changes it entirely. Mozzarella cheese not only bonds but compliments all of the cheese used. So here is my tasty recipe for very cheesy Mac 'N' cheese.


3 quarts of rapidly boiling water
1 tablespoon of salt
1lb of macaroni

1lb of cheddar cheese
2 cups of milk
1 lb of American cheese
1lb of Monterey Jack cheese
1/2 lb of sour cream
1/2 lb of mozzarella cheese
1/2 lb of velveeta
1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
1/4 teaspoon of white pepper
1/8 teaspoon of salt
4 teaspoons of butter

In a 4 quart sauce pan boil the water. When the water starts to boil rapidly add the salt and macaroni. After the macaroni is cooked drain the water from the macaroni. Place the macaroni in a greased baking dish. Grate the cheddar, American, and Monterey Jack cheese and add half of it to the macaroni.

While the macaroni is boiling start making your cheese sauce. In a sauce pan simmer the milk. Slowly stir in the butter, sour cream, the Velveeta, the other half of the cheddar, American, and Monterey Jack cheese. Add the salt, pepper, and onion powder. Stir until all of the cheese is melted. Pour the sauce over the macaroni in the baking dish. Blend the sauce with the cheese that is already there. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese over the top of the macaroni and gently blend it in with the sauce and the other cheeses.

Preheat oven and bake at 350° for about 1/2 hour or until the Mac 'N' Cheese is golden brown.

Yum! Yum!

Democratic Party

Democratic Party

Facts are facts. Talk radio is entertainment.

GOP GETTING WHAT/WHO THEY DESERVE

One tends, or at least should, to align themselves,politically, with the party that best matches their own ideology and perceptions of the collective policy by which the government should be run. Recognizing certain "truths" and patterns of the Democrat Party (NOT "Democrat'IC' Party), I changed over to the Republican Party. Reasons are yet another Blog. I was comfortable with my adjustment until about 3 years ago. I don't see much of a difference between the two anymore. "Politics" and the intrusion has corrupted the GOP from a party that once had ideas and was rooted in conservatism. Not anymore. In a capsule...

During the Primaries, they waited with bated breath for Fred Thompson to emerge as the "voice of conservatism". It didn't happen. All the while they kicked McCain, Huckabee,Romney and the rest to the curb(even though Ron Paul won every GOP debate). When Thompson didn't resonate, they looked around and John McCain was still standing there. Now for years he has been the "darling" of the media because he was "The Maverick"! Stood up against the Republicans and "WALKED across the aisle to "work" with Democrats. The media endorced him in the Primaries and he has become the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party. While they didn't like anybody else, they got stuck with "The Maverick". The one guy that has gone against "party lines" since he's been a Senator from Arizona.

"Rutt Ro, 'Reorge! What we do now, Kemosabie?"

The media has turned and painted McCain as, "4 more years of Bush!" Maybe rightfully so. He endorses the occupation errrr "War in Iraq" and the Tax Cuts to be made permenent (not a bad idea,but I would digress going further). Other than those issues there isn't "that" much of a difference between him and Barak Obama. I'll give you a visual.

About 2 weeks ago on Meet The Press, there was John Kerry,Democrat for Obama and Joe Liebermann, Independent, kicked to the curb by the Democrats but ran as an Independent and won anyway, and SITS with the Democrats in the Senate, for McCain. He is even under consideration for the VP candidacy with McCain. Hmmmmm. What is wrong with that picture?

I listen to "Conservative Talk Radio" and I'm tickled to death at the hosts trying to "dog out Obama", his wife, his minister,his family, his background, he's an elitist (pot calling the kettle Black...no pun intended),throwing the perverbial "Kitchen Sink". Their problem is, they can't sink Obama deep enough to "raise McCain"(sorry...couldn't resist). They can't say anything positive about "The Maverick"! During the Primaries, they dogged him out and NOW...they're stuck with him. I think it's hysterical!!!! Only Rush Limbaugh has had the guts to admit that he is at a loss trying to promote McCain. He does his "thing" against Obama,but he admitts to be hard pressed say anything on behalf of McCain outside of his stance on the "war". He has been a Democrat with an "R" next to his name for too long.

The GOP has forsaken what brought them to the dance, Conservatism and a mission statement rooted in The Constitution ("W" opened the door to that). They "went ugly early" and for them they are stuck with that "2 at 10" and can't "drink enough" for McCain to become a "10 at 2".

IMneverO...we're hosed regardless.....but I will smile.

Say It Often Enough, Someone Will Believe It

A couple of weeks ago, Barack Obama answered an audience member's question, "What can I do to help save energy?" Obama said among other things, keeping tires well-inflated can make a difference. The opposition party took that comment and just ran with it, trying to portray it as Obama's energy policy. During the course of the week, Obama debunked the notion; pointing out that the Republicans were playing a political game and that tire-inflation was not his energy policy. This week, the Republican governor of Louisiana resurrects the tire-inflation lie, although, carefully saying that it was not an energy policy. However, the inference was that that was all Obama is bringing to the table in the form of an energy plan. The question I pose is whether a news organization, knowing full well that this not only was old news but debunked news had a responsibility to not make it seem fresh, a week later? The Republic party is good for that old adage, (I believe our president once said it too) if you say the same thing over and over and over again, eventually, someone is going to believe you. In this case, in my opinion, the media that ran the Governor's statement is complicit in the deception of the public.

The Race Card; The Fairy Tale

I have always been very suspicious of people who are outraged over the suggestion of the possibility that some bias based on ethnicity continues to exist in this country in the year 2008. Now, we have a mixed-race presidential candidate who has gone out of his way to steer attention away from his mixed-raceness to keep that from clouding campaign issues. The possibility that that effort has been a frustration to his former prime Democratic opponent during the Primary season and now to his elder-statesman Republican opponent during this General-election campaign is not too far fetched, in my opinion. During the Primary season, we saw the preemptive accusation that the Obama campaign was injecting race into the campaign. And now the McCain campaign is doing the same thing, saying Obama is playing the so-called "Race Card." (By the way, that's an odious term that came out of the OJ-trial era. It was picked up by the local L-A media and now it is used adnauseum to distill reaction to racial injustice to a simple game of cards. I'm insulted everytime the term is used. It minimizes hundreds of years of racial injustice.) Insidiously, by accusing Obama of injecting race into the campaign, that accusation in itself injects race into the campaign. It's hard to believe that the McCain campaign and the former operatives of Karl Rove that now work for it have not considered the possibility that people will use skin color as a criteria after entering the voting booth. Maybe, they're counting on it. Maybe, that's what former PresidenClinton was refering to after the South Carolina primary when he made reference to "a fairy tale." Was that some innate understanding and maybe frustration that no matter how qualified Barack Obama is, not enough of the American majority will vote for him to allow him to win office? One thing is certain, we will have the answer to all questions after Election day.

POLITICS: THE REAL ENEMY

We all, at one time or another, have thrown in the phrase, ”Oh, that’s just ‘Politics’.”, or “He (or she) got where he (or she) is through ‘Politics’.” It has become the default explanation to all things that “fly South” in a person’s life, particularly when it comes to their job, their Church (yet another commentary), local government etc. Politics is one of the side affects of being “fallen people” by nature. Just about every Deadly Sin can be executed or exercised through Politics.

Every entity has a mechanic, if you will, that makes it “run” consistent with its own propositions and objectives. Standing alone, and permitted to “run” will provide its own success or failure within its own parameters. Government with a Constitution such as these United States has a frame of laws and process to alter those laws built into it. It, of itself, part of the construct, will, by its “nature”, provide fairness to the Greater Good of all who are under it. Will “ALL” be satisfied? Of course not, but in the end the “Greater Good” will be served. “Politics” and its intrusion on the basic mechanics of government and that Constitution disrupts and corrupts those mechanics built into the proposition.

The structure of “this” government has 3 branches, Executive, Legislative and Judicial, each with their “order” in this Republic (we are NOT a Democracy. We “are” a Republic, governed by laws that use a democratic process within those laws. A “Democracy”, on it’s own could be a “Lynch Mob”). The intrusion of “Politics”, for one example, afforded the Judicial Branch of California to overturn the “will of the people”, based on a duly sanctioned voting process, to permit “same sex marriage”. Now I’m not arguing whether “same sex marriage” is right or wrong, but I am saying that the intrusion of a “Political will” dismantled a Legal process, sanctioned under the Law, nullifying “the will of the people” following the legitimate procedure and process.

Presently, we are dealing with an issue with Energy. There are practical and Common Sense considerations on both sides of this issue. “To Drill or Not To Drill”. Well, with the outcry for “Foreign Oil Independence”, the “common sense” action ‘would’ be to drill domestically especially with the knowledge that China, on the other side of the hemisphere ‘will’ in this hemisphere. Intruding on the “debate”, and I use the term loosely, because our Congress refuses to debate the issue, is the “Political agenda” of those who would benefit greatly by dismissing fossil fuels as an energy source. Most people have no problem with a more diversified approach to powering the country, but to dismiss fossil fuels that are attainable “here”, and have been for decades, is tantamount to “throwing out the baby with the bathwater”. The intrusion of Politics in this debate has produced claims of global warming and greenhouse gases that have not been proven to any conclusion. In fact, those who were originally part of the study were summarily dismissed when they uncovered contradictions to the agenda.

“Politics”, by nature, is intended to serve the desires of a select few. It is a, by nature, selfish, greedy, lustful, gluttonous entity rooted in envy (5 out of 7…hmmmmm). Worst of all, it has no kinship to truth or justice in its fabric and that lacking only takes us further away from God.
Just a thought………….