Friday, August 10, 2012
50 Shades of Crap
It's kind of a slow blogging cycle at least for me, nothing I could latch onto of late. I mean yeah Sandra Fluke introduced Obama at some political function, he still seems to be milking that one and I was reading in my Catholic New York that he and Romney are gonna speak at the annual Al Smith Dinner in NY and...but hey wait a minute didn't his HHS Dept. and Sebelius just cause endless grief for the RC Church and other religious institutions? yeah a few lame jokes will smooth that over. Maybe he'll even tell a birth-control joke or two, who knows? Then I see the guy I'm actually gonna vote for, Romney, is actually a murderer according to some Super-PAC and this is just the longest hottest most horrible miserable summer for me in a while. Getting attacked by mosquitoes practically on a daily basis even in my sleep and then there's the Fishbowl of Work to deal with. Look folks are bored at work, I get it and maybe you have a temporary health issue or whatever and it makes for fodder and no it's not your paranoid vibe at work again, they really are talking about you and everybody else for that matter. If I were in charge I'd make sure everybody has enough work to do. New manager has a habit of sometimes leaving old food in the showcase like pulled pork so I talked about it with a co-worker and his attitude was give the guy a chance (the fruit of liberalism?), didn't seem to get my point like I was being a meanie. Now I'm all for giving people chances, God knows I wouldn't be perfect in that role either and I'm not a prick but at what point is giving somebody a chance a lowering of standards, defining deviancy down? I see Costco won't carry Joan Rivers' new book so she chained herself to a shopping cart and bellowed into a bullhorn. Kristen Stewart/Rob Pattinson...you see the material I got to work with? but I'll be honest I kinda follow this stuff and I'm definitely on his side. There was a new massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, they're not Muslims but they look like them and their faith system is very googleable. I checked my e-mail just now and see I got like a hundred fresh comments, dunno what everyone is talkin' about I gotta go see. Time for a fresh post, carry it on over here if you like. I'll put the coffee on and get the crullers rockin'. Had a couple of Jamaican beef patties last night, they're good and all but left a kind of slight aftereffect. It's definitely time to plan the next vacation:)
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Pretty good wrap-up of the non-political stuff going on, except I am surprised no commentary on the Olympics. It seems to be on here 24/7 and I can honestly only take so much of it. The water polo guys, their head gear with the big bow under their chin, just makes me chuckle a little, can't help it. The comment explosion on the post below is going nowhere fast, unless you like hearing over and over talking points and non-issues. Why don't we get to see members of Congress' tax returns I wonder.
ReplyDeleteWhen they run for President, you do. Unless they're Mitt Romney.
ReplyDeleteThe Olympics:
ReplyDeletehow come you can get a gold medal
in pingpong, while the gold in the marathon is so much harder?
how come they don't have synchronised pole vault?
what's with beach volleyball?
why stop with a decathalon-how about a tetracontakaihexagonathon-
you know, the athlete competes in 46 consecutive things, maybe some
pingpong, weight-lifting, javalin,
synchronized stuff, 100 yard one-legged race? ..and the horses, like Ann Romney's-a REAL horse is
for calf-roping, ya know?
I went to a great Steak house last Saturday night, Called the Strip House ranked as one of the Top 5 steakhouses in NYC., on 5th Ave & University Place in Manhattan. Great food and service and a very unusual atmosphere, with the look of an old time bordello. When you walk in, you're taken back several decades to the burlesque era. The room is very dark-lit, with deep red velvet walls plastered with photos of old celebrities, red cushioned seats, white table-clothed tables and dark tables. It kind of borders on tacky. yet classy once you get into the mood of things. It's private and cozy enough to bring your wife or a date, or to spend an evening out with some friends if they are willing to splurge on some wonderful cuts of beef.
ReplyDeleteTo start, we were provided with 3 pieces of varying complimentary bread which were all equally good. A salty like bread stick, raisin bread, and another firmer bread roll.
I ordered the 20 oz. Bone-In Rib Eye ($46), well aged. It was cooked to perfection, which is my preferred Medium-Rare. The steak was seared so that there was a very thick and deceptively looking burnt/charcoal crust on the outside of the steak. But it was far from burnt. The steak was tender, juicy, and just slightly fatty, but rich with flavor. Needless to say it was out of this world, it was seasoned enough to really accentuate the flavor of the beef. Neither did it have that thick greasy feeling that steak sometimes has. Every bite was delicious and I realized I wouldn't have my steak any other way..
My wife had the 14 oz. Bone-In Filet Mignon ($52) dry-aged for 28 days, an off-the-menu special, cooked medium, was also a treat. I was surprised that the filet mignon was still very tender and juicy, even when cooked at that temperature. It had that same nice salty crust on the outside, making for a very enjoyable steak.
For our sides, we had the Crisp Goose-Fat Potatoes ($12) which was sort of like a mashed potato smooth puree contained inside a hard crispy shell. It was good, but I could have easily gone without it. We also tried the Black Truffle Creamed Spinach ($12) which was thick and creamy. The creamed spinach was definitely a step above the Goose-Fat Potatoes. It was tasty, though nothing out of this world, as I didn't really notice the pungent aroma or distinctive flavor from the black truffle.
The service here was impeccable. Our waiter was very courteous, taking the time to explain the different cuts of meat, how they are aged (dry vs. wet), and their daily specials. Our glasses of water would be constantly refilled by the busboy who always seemed to be on close watch as well. We also had a great glasses of Piedmont Barbaresco 2$25.00 a glass.
We were somewhat full after eating a sizable piece of steak, so we decided to skip dessert.. Everything was very smooth and attentive, and I can’t wait til we return there again..
If you have any doubt of going to a pricey steakhouse especially the lesser known Strip House, I highly recommend checking it out. It is true that you can easily spend $250 + tax and. But it is worth every penny.
What's the point behind off-the-menu items? Seriously.
ReplyDeletePaul Ryan is Romney VP choice!
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama must be Crapping Bricks in his shorts just about now. As for Joe Biden, we have an Incoherent Imbecile who supported the the Occupy Wallbaggers who crapped on Police cars.
As far as I can see the point of an 'off menu item' is to give people a supercilious sense of privelege. If they make something that's that good, they should put it on the menu. But instead they leave it off, so people who 'know' can feel like they're somehow more sophisticated than everyone else, and create a sense of elitism.
ReplyDeleteJust because I have to sink to your level to reply to your blog posts doesn't mean I don't live far above it.
OK Saty, I’m sorry that you didn’t understand my “Off the menu special” comment. I almost forgot that I'm talking to someone of the Karl Marx society.
ReplyDeleteBut, I'll sink to your level and explain Let me try to explain...
“Off the Menu” simply means that it’s a special of the day that is not on the menu. Or it might be the way it’s prepared on that day. Or it can often mean, dishes that only regulars know about. There are times, that I may go to a restaurant a lot, and I'll order something I know they make but don't advertise it on the menu. Sometimes items get taken off the menu and replaced by another item, but you still may want the older item that is “Off the Menu” Get it?.
By the way, here is a link to the restaurant I spoke of. The Strip House.
http://www.striphouse.com/gallery.
Hope it didn't make your combat Boots explode.
I continue to stand by my opinion.
ReplyDeleteWho'd a thunk?
ReplyDeleteSatyavati devi dasi said...
ReplyDeleteI continue to stand by my opinion.
And that's news?
I thought of doing a post on the games in London Beth but don't watch it consistently enough being a heavy channel-surfer. Like BB not into the beach volleyball, don't care to watch women box (a new Olympic sport), don't understand cycling indoors around a track. More into the diving/swimming and track and field. Oscar Pistorius, now there's a story!
ReplyDeleteDD sounds delicious but ouch my wallet hurts! Saty I agree with you (uh-oh) that Romney should release those tax returns but if we're talking about the same IRS I think if Romney hid anything or was somehow less than honest in filing his returns those old bloodhounds would have found out about it. Paul Ryan as VP, makes sense but at first I kinda thought he'd go with Condi. I don't think she's that right-wing though at least on some issues and that he needed to counterbalance his less than conservative image.
ReplyDeleteWhy does Salty alway disagree? oh I forgot, she's a Obama freakszoid. And that explains it all
ReplyDeleteIgnoring the ad hominem, the part that everyone seems to miss is that no one's said Romney has done anything ILLEGAL. There are a million ways to work the system that can knock your tax rate down to nubbles and never actually break the law. Which would explain why the IRS isn't battering down his door.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, it's entirely possible that he HAS paid like pennies in taxes over the last ten years. And it would show the average American that Romney has no concept of what an 'average American' is.
His own supporters want him to release those returns.
Bacon: you've been in that hickory smoke too long. You're showing signs of oxygen deprivation.
The question is whether enough Americans understand what’s at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Will these democrats have the good sense and the guts to cross party lines? Or are they willing to risk another Obama term? And while America will certainly survive, it will do so in spike of Barack Hussain Obama.
ReplyDeleteAnd those of us who disagreed with Obama’s socialist agenda and especially ObamaCare think about this. We need to elect the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan ticket and the House and the Senate that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions.
Yall will just never let go of that 'socialist' word, will you?
ReplyDeletePlease, it's so ignorant to use that word in any kind of connection with the President.
He's no more a Socialist than I am a Republican, and I ought to know.
PLEASE. I'm trying to keep you from looking like an idiot. There is NOTHING Socialist about the current administration. Please stop using the word as simply a smear. It makes you look so uneducated to do that.
Oh yeah right and the moon is made out of cheese
ReplyDeleteSatyavati devi dasi = Partisan zombie.
ReplyDeleteNothing like calling people names when you have no valid argument.
ReplyDeleteSatyavati devi dasi said...
ReplyDeleteNothing like calling people names when you have no valid argument.
"Bacon: you've been in that hickory smoke too long. You're showing signs of oxygen deprivation."
Which would have come AFTER this:
ReplyDeleteWhy does Salty alway disagree? oh I forgot, she's a Obama freakszoid. And that explains it all
Self defense.
In typical leftist fashion, you're a name caller only after you've been called names?
ReplyDeleteShow of hands, who is sick and tired of Obama and the rest of the leftist's? And I don't want to see anyone put up ONE finger.
Wait a moment here....let me see what you're actually saying here.
ReplyDeleteIn typical leftist fashion, you're a name caller only after you've been called names?
Yes.. in typical leftist fashion, I choose not to initiate violence and I choose not to initiate the disparagement of others.
I do choose to defend myself once violence or disparagement has been done to me.
Thank you for pointing this out in such a convenient manner.
I'm thinking that Satyavati devi dasi has a bit too much time on her hands.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that you could really, REALLY use a dictionary.
ReplyDeletePlease listen to what this Priest states immediately after his opening prayer.
ReplyDeleteThen you will know why this is being shared and hope is that you will share with your friends.
Stick with this thru the first few comments……you will be PLEASANTLY surprised... (some of you will anyway!).
http://www.stthomasmore.org/parish-clergy/video/invocation
Why President Obama will win, and why Romney will not.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama took a big risk a year ago when he authorized the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. It paid off, accomplishing the mission central to American foreign policy since Sept. 11, 2001. He repeatedly pointed to that achievement in marking its anniversary early this month while reminding Americans that Romney, campaigning four years ago, said "it's not worth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." President Obama has also succeeded in ending the Iraq war and getting relations back on track with a broad swath of countries that considered the American invasion unjustified. And he has set a timetable for getting the U.S. out of what has become a quagmire in Afghanistan.
As far as the national unemployment rate being at 8.1or 8.2 percent, it's really ONLY slightly below what it was in February 2009 after Obama's first full month in office and considerably below the 10 percent peak it reached in October 2009. People are spending more. American automakers are posting big profits. The market for new homes is finally showing signs of life. And stock prices are back just about where they were before the recession began. There's still a long way to go, but most economists give Obama's stimulus spending a share of the credit for turning the corner, and the Federal Reserve is projecting joblessness will fall below 8 percent by year's end — still historically high, but moving in the right direction.
I will vote for Obama everyday of the week to avoid one of those other rightwing/big business nut-jobs from getting the White House.
Now lets look at the facts.
1. Obama is the incumbent and the incumbent always has the advantage..
2. The economy is improving and this will help Obama
3. Americans like Obama and they don't like Romney.
4. Romney was very unpopular as the Governor of Mass..
5. Romney is so unpopular that a right wing third party could split the vote
6. Foreign policy won't help the Republicans
7. Foreign policy will help Obama
8. Obama is presidential
9. The Republican Party is unpopular
10. The Republican Party is unpopular and it
looks like four more years of President Obama. Get used to it!
President Obama will win re-election and it probably will not be as close as many people believe. The GOP is about who they hate, who they can demonize, about what social programs they can defund, this party resembles more a death cult than a major political party. The only question that I have is will Clinton leave her job as Secretary in Obama;s 2nd term to run for president in 2016.
Gary Freid looks like Sting.
ReplyDeleteSaty: "Please, it's so ignorant to use that word (socialist) in any kind of connection with the President."
I've heard this since we started criticizing Obama, that it's somehow in poor taste to call him a socialist. WHY is it a bad word?
EzzZee not every economic expert believes the stimulus helped the economy, quite the opposite. Re OBL where's the body??? in the Sea so we really have no way of knowing. Your other points, that's your perspective.
ReplyDeleteIt's not 'poor taste', it's untrue and ignorant. It reflects an absolute ignorance of Socialist thought and policy. It would be like calling me a right-wing, pro-life, Christian Dominionist. That would be equally untrue and ignorant and would reflect an absolute ignorance of the meaning of any of those terms. (I would also say it's in poor taste, but that's more of a subjective thing.)
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing about 'Socialism' and 'Communism' being bad words is a generational thing going back to the McCarthyite Cold War era. Despite the fact that Socialist activists were at the forefront of integration and labor issues, and made major achievements for the working populace (that you can thank them for to this day), under McCarthy Socialism and Communism became pseudonyms for evil. And the ignorance has been perpetuated generationally, so today, just like a little kid knows that to yell F**K in the middle of a restaurant is VERY VERY WRONG (even though he doesn't actually know what the word means), people somehow "know" that Socialism and Communism are VERY VERY WRONG, even though they don't know what the words mean or stand for, and probably don't realize that virtually all of our closest political allies have a government that is at least partially Socialistic in nature.
So I wouldn't say it's in 'poor taste'. I would say 'it reflects an absolute lack of knowledge about the actual meaning of the word'.
Is that clearer?
No it's not clearer, I don't think that YOU get it, you see here in the Good Ole US of A, communism, and socialism, IS a BAD word!
ReplyDeleteDoes that make it clearer?
Saty when folks object to Obama being called a socialist I think they think we're also calling him a communist. Well some of us are but they're not the same thing. I think what I'm getting at is in his heart Obama IS a socialist (certainly his biographical influences point in that direction). He'd vastly rather have single-payer universal health insurance rather than the individual mandate but politically you could say he's not a socialist in the full sense of the word because in the world of practical political reality he always stops short. That's only because it ain't practical yet, it'd be like a RTLer becoming president and never actually getting around to banning abortion. Is that clearer?
ReplyDeleteHe's not a Socialist in any sense of the word, especially politically.
ReplyDeleteHe's a centrist and in my opinion he runs slightly to the right of center.
That's the assessment of an actual Socialist.
Satyavati devi dasi, with all due respect, your apparent failure to deduce my meaning of the term from the context of what I've written astonishes me.
ReplyDeleteWhat could possibly be clearer?
I've never denied your intelligence, and recognize you have knowledge and expertise in “some”areas most likely in Science or Mathematics -- where I do not, appreciate your capacity and draw inferences and understand how parallels from parables, fables, allegory, folklore, mythology, fairy tales, poetry, and especially in the knowledge of Socialism as it may apply to "real life" seems to be a bit lacking.
Haven't you noticed how Cultural Marxists ask the same questions over and over again, but NEVER LISTEN to the answers anyone provides?
Frankly your repeatedly asking me what someone means, as you have been wont to do, when the meaning is abundantly clear to most from context, is, itself, an example of Critical Theory at work, though you are probably unaware of it, so conditioned must you have you been by background, upbringing and education as to have absorbed this by osmosis, and think it, therefore, perfectly natural.
Wearing down the opposition by pretending not to understand, but repeatedly asking for definitions and explanations already given, and by refusal to accept or recognize any sense or merit in ideas and arguments presented by the opposition is the quintessence of Critical Theory. It has nothing to do with legitimate literary criticism. It is simply a technique used in the attempt to harass, bully, shame, humiliate, discredit, and if possible destroy opposition by a ruthlessly determined application of intellectual brute force.
Most of the time you sound personally outraged, indignant, affronted, irked, annoyed, infuriated, and approach discussion as though you, personally, -- or something or someone you love very much -- had been unfairly attacked.
That may not be true, but that is the way it sounds to me.
Briefly: "Cultural Marxism" is a term used to describe a methodology devised by The Frankfurt School inspired by the bitter, angry, virulently divisive anti-Christian, anti-Middle Class, anti-Capitalist denunciatory writings of the Italian Antonio Gramsci.
Marxist intellectuals in Europe -- most of them disaffected atheist Jews, it must be said, -- realized that the kind of Marxism that led to the brutal Bolshevism that destroyed Czarist Russia was unappealing to Europeans, so they set about devising ways to make it seductive primarily to youth.
By encouraging outright rejection of and active rebellion against cherished customs, traditional forms of authority vested in Church, School, and the Home through increasingly outrageous, belligerent, aggressive, anti-social behaviors and by giving the green light to rampant sexual libertinism, experiments with sexual perversion, "recreational" drug use and a sort of mindless embrace of anything and everything bound to insult, appall, distress and weaken the grip parents, teachers and the clergy had had for centuries, Cultural Marxism has made tremendous inroads in the past one-hundred years, and has been so successful that you, apparently, have no clue that the direction of your existence has been subsumed within its grotesque, sadly illegitimate purview.
That you are apt to define and dismiss this observation as mere "paranoia" on my part is proof of how hideously successful the insidious advance of Cultural Marxism has been. So successful you seem completely unaware of its hulking presence.
HELL, of course, is the place where one is forced to listen to Cultural Marxists carp, cavil, complain, castigate, counsel, and condemn without ceasing.
I think it was C.S. Lewis who said: "The Devil's greatest accomplishment to date has been to convince the world that he doesn't exist."
Wow, you posted the same comment on this thread too, and I still can't figure out the antecedent of it.
ReplyDeleteBut that's a whole lot of real nice rhetoric. I like the way you strung all those verbs and adjectives together. And I really, really like all that alliteration.
I still think you probably meant to send this to someone else, since this is the first time you've shown up in this thread (and in the other one), so it couldn't POSSIBLY be something that happened in this thread...
...either way I feel real special and shit, so aren't you all that for thinkin of me.
It looks as if he knows you pretty darn well.
ReplyDeleteTheres an old saying that goes like this.
"You can't fix socialism and keep it working because there isn't enough of other people's money for it to run on."
Bottom line..the people who support 0bama are either in favor of socialism and Marxism, are totally ignorant or are voting based solely on race. Or they are totally corrupt and bought off. For all the other honest, capitalist, taxpaying citizens 0bama is a total failure.
No further commenting is necessary.
Wow, another comment directed to me from someone I've never heard of before.
ReplyDeleteI feel so special.
I don't know you either, if your read my comment I said
ReplyDelete"It looks as if HE knows you pretty darn well"
How would you know whether he knows me well or not if you don't know me?
ReplyDeleteThere's a lack of logic there.
I mean, I'm not surprised by it, but there it is.
There's a lack of logic in everything you say and post.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't know if he know you or not, but he gives that impression.
ReplyDeletePS I wouldn't want to know you either....
For some reason I'm reminded of the show Nikita.
ReplyDeleteI think the picture looks like Mal.
ReplyDeleteMakes me think, should I do a blog on Pussy Riot?
ReplyDeleteYou think the picture looks like Putin?
ReplyDeleteNo but it's the whole Russian ambience thing going on here at the moment. Sobieski:)
ReplyDelete