This Weeks' "Oh MY".

Raw Story

Bush says he likes to keep people around with low expectations

John Byrne
Published: Saturday February 3, 2007


U.S. President George Bush told the NHL champion Carolina Hurricanes Friday he likes to be "around people that keep expectations low," according to a UPI report Friday.

"Bush congratulated the 2005-06 Stanley Cup winners at the White House, noting the team was ranked 28 out of 30 at the beginning of last season," UPI said.

"I like to be around people that keep expectations low," Bush said.

Good thing huh?

Pickle Festival Pickle Ice Cream

Top your pumpkin pie with a scoop of this unique ice cream. It’s one of the favorite ice creams served at the ice cream tent of the St. Joe Pickle Festival. All the ice cream is made by the Lion’s Club members.

Ingredients
1 4-ounce package vanilla ice cream mix (we used Junket)
2 cups half-and-half
3 tablespoons finely shredded Sechler’s Sweet Orange Strip or Sweet Lemon Strip Pickles or Sweet Gerkins, drained
1 tablespoon juice from the Sechler’s pickles
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Several drops green food coloring (if you like)

Directions
Stir together the ice cream mix according to package directions (it’s a dry mix), using half-and-half as the liquid. Stir until mix is dissolved. Stir in the shredded pickle, pickle juice and lemon extract. Add green food coloring, if you want green ice cream. Using a 1- to 2-quart ice cream freezer, prepare ice cream according to manufacturer’s directions. Makes about 1 quart pickle ice cream.

We used the dry junket mix for this version, but you can make your favorite ice cream. Just add the shredded pickles, pickle juice and lemon extract in the amount proportional to the amount of ice cream the recipe makes. For example, a 2-quart recipe would use double the amound of pickles, pickle juice and lemon extract.

Shining A Green Tinged Light On The News.....

Russia probes smelly orange snow



Russia has flown a team of chemical experts to a Siberian region to find out why smelly, coloured snow has been falling over several towns.
Oily yellow and orange snowflakes fell over an area of more than 1,500sq km (570sq miles) in the Omsk region on Wednesday, Russian officials said.

Chemical tests were under way to determine the cause, they said.

Residents have been advised not to use the snow for household tasks or let animals graze on it.

"So far we cannot explain the snow, which is oily to the touch and has a pronounced rotten smell," said Omsk environmental prosecutor Anton German, quoted by the Russian news agency Itar-Tass on Thursday.


The origin of the orange effect is still a mystery (pic: Russian TV)
"We are waiting for the results of a thorough test on samples."

Gore ex-campaign chief wishes on her star. 'Wait till Oscar night,' Donna Brazile says of a possible 2008 run.

By Daryl Nerl Of The Morning Call
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are the hot early front-runners, while 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry has already bowed out.

But could former Vice President Al Gore be waiting to make a dramatic entrance into the 2008 presidential race, especially if he wins an Oscar next month?

His former campaign manager, Donna Brazile, strongly implied that possibility while speaking at Moravian College in Bethlehem Tuesday night.

''Wait till Oscar night,'' Brazile told an audience of about 100 people at Haupert Student Union. ''I tell people: 'I'm dating. I haven't fallen in love yet.' On Oscar night, if Al Gore has slimmed down 25 or 30 pounds, Lord knows.''
(snip)
Before making her Oscar night comment, she said she was ''so proud'' of Gore's work to bring attention to global warming.

''I believe [Gore] is ready for this moment,'' Brazile said in an interview after her speech. ''He is a good leader. I think he can be one of the few leaders who can bring this country together.''

She acknowledged it will be a tough decision for Gore, noting Kerry's announcement last week to bow out of the race. Gore believes he is now doing his life's work, Brazile said. However, she conceded that Gore might be able to do more about global climate change from inside the Oval Office. He has already made an impact by forcing President Bush to talk about the issue, she said.

NYT: Pentagon altered casualty figures on website

RAW STORY
Published: Friday February 2, 2007

The New York Times reported today that the Pentagon has altered how nonfatal casualties are tallied on its website, thus resulting in lower casualty totals.

According to Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, deputy director of force health protection and readiness at the Defense Department, "the previous method of tallying casualties was misleading and might have made injuries and combat wounds seem worse and more numerous than they really were," the Times reports.

"....The best plan is to have this plan succeed."

<---------Paddy

'Cause I Got Nothing Today

Must be the weather, I've been dizzy on and off.... so here are some funnies for my fan..... singular... and yeah, I'm talking about you Fernando....

An Unique Voice Gone..... Molly Ivins, God Rest.

Selected Molly Ivins Quotations

• The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging.

• What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

• Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

• I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

• You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

• It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

• What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

And my favorite.....

• It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

They Speak For Themselves

better than any of us could....

Answer: Gingrich, Starr and Limbaugh*.

Question??

Which 'evil men' was she talking about?

BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
DAVENPORT, Iowa -- What was she thinking? "You guys keep telling me, 'lighten up, be funny,'" said Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"You know, I get a little funny, and now I am being psychoanalyzed!"

Of course she is.

I'm thinking that it's you Ms Sweet and your grade school fart joke cronies that need to get psychoanalyed.

Hillary Clintons' husband Bill? He had an affair. He lied about it.
He embarassed her and her family in a way most people will never understand. BUT IT WAS A BLOODY AFFAIR!!!

Not....

Systematic hounding, vilifing, heckling, debasing, slandering and threatening....

Not to mention calling her daughter a "dog". Claiming she is a lesbian.
Accusing her of adultery, legal finnagling, and F'NG MURDER!

(Did you know if you google Lies About Hillary Clinton, you get pages and pages of.... LIES ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON.)

I'm not on the Hillary bandwagon, I don't know who I like yet. But this bullshit has got to stop. Literally, if you try and google something to defend Hillary, all that comes up are right wing smears that go the opposite way. Google "Slurs against Hillary Clinton", and you get accusations of Hillary Clinton making slurs.

She's married to him, she stayed with him. Get the f**k over it. It's not my damn business, and even if she were a girlfriend, I'd stay the hell out of it.

The "Evil Men" that she has learned from the past twenty odd years are the Pundits & Politicians that smile while lunging for her back. Or sometimes don't smile. Sounds like she might have a chance dealing with a straight up threat like Osama.


* Hannity, Savage, Gallagher, Snow, Beck ad nauseum........

Must See New Site "The Real McCain"

Wonderful new site started by Robert Greenwald & Cliff Schecter.
Check out the "Double Talk Express"!!!!

South Bend Tribune LTE Writer Makes Funny On Mitch

I can't find it on the website (I always have problems with their site- it sucks),
but take my word for it, this was in todays' paper.

A Comparison

Having "My Man Mitch" as your governor is like having a really bad boyfriend:
First, he sells off all of your stuff without asking,
then he starts nagging you all the time to lose weight.

Jeff Reed
South Bend

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!

This Day in History

1802: John Beckley becomes the first Librarian of Congress, appointed by President Thomas Jefferson. He reportedly was paid two dollars per day.

1891: Liliuokalani became Queen of Hawaii following the death of her brother King Kalakaua. She was the last monarch in Hawaiian history.

1936: Baseball greats Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson are the first players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The hall opens its doors to the public in 1939.

1958: Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward marry.

1990: Exxon Valdez oil tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial for his involvement in the worst oil spill in the history of the United States.

1995: The San Francisco 49ers make NFL history by winning their fifth Super Bowl.

Aquarius is symbolized by the water bearer. Aquarians are curious and independent. They are more concerned with intellectual pursuits than with physical matters. Intuitive, Aquarians can easily grasp abstract concepts.

Born on This Day

W. C. Fields, actor (1880)

Thomas Paine, political philosopher (1737)

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1843)

Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host (1954)

Leiberman Has To GO!!!

Faux News Sunday

WALLACE: As soon as he did, Senate Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi said nope, there's a bipartisan structure, it's called the committee system.

LIEBERMAN: Yes. Well, I was really disappointed with the reaction of Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to the president's offer or invitation to have essentially a bipartisan war council, and it's a war on terror council.

(snip)

WALLACE: Joe Lieberman grew up in John Bailey's Connecticut, Democratic vice presidential nominee. You're saying you might vote Republican in 2008.

LIEBERMAN: I am

Stunningly Simple Move From Senator Tester

Just an incredibly smart and d'oh-why-didn't-they-think of it move....
CNN

Tester aims for Senate transparency online



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Whether it's a visit to the gym, a meeting with the founder of the Montana Meth Project, or an interview with Wolf Blitzer, staff for freshman Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, post his entire schedule online each workday -- a Senate first.

A spokesman says Tester pledged to do this early in his 2006 campaign out of a "desire for transparency." The Senator's schedule reflects meetings with visiting Montanans, committee colleagues, as well as the occasional lobbyist. The information "gives people an opportunity to see with whom [Tester] is meeting, and if they represent the opposite point of view, they can also request a meeting," said the spokesman.

The Sunlight Foundation -- a group working for greater government transparency -- has been pushing for more online disclosures of this kind.

You can see it here.

I wonder how many of our elected officials will be following suit?

****crickets*****

All Day Saturday Removing 62 (!!) Viruses From My Computer

Yep, 62. I use SpyBot for malware, and a friends' reco got Avast. Things seem to be working much better so far, but it freaks me out!! Where are these things coming from??(not to protest, but I really don't go to any sites that would download this stuff, or open iffy attachments)
After 8 hours yesterday tweaking the computer, I'm pretty sick of it.