A little Sunday morning on a Friday evening
I love oldtime black gospel; when I’m in the house alone, I’ll put on a couple of CDs and crank it loud and lose myself in the power and the glory. Gospel provided the foundation of soul music, jazz, blues, R&B and rock ‘n’ roll, but none of those genres ever outshines the original form.
Some of the best of the archival material was collected and made available by the Smithsonian, such as this piece. Those of you who know your Dylan will recognize it immediately.
But here’s a song more apropos of this rainy Friday, by the inimitable Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Didn’t it rain, didn’t it rain. If this don’t get your spirit and your feet moving, call the coroner cuz you dead.
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Marsh
October 30th, 2009
9:46 pm
Shooter Told FBI He Had No Idea Who Leaked Plame ID
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jhWbGDvP0BrC4wbU3TZofFlT57LwD9BLLQP80
The only time Shooter lied is when his lips were moving.
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
10:04 pm
wet wiccan–enjoyed the Elvira video. And a tad sacrilegious with “Get Jesus on the Line”, no?
Reporter–Always something powerful about African choirs.
A “spiritual” song from the world of rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRNP0-nRw_w
Jackie
October 30th, 2009
10:05 pm
The whole Cheyney family has issues. His daughter Lynn stated the President only went to Dover because it was for a photo opportunity, even though the family that gave him permission to film was the only casket he appeared with.
They are all lower than whale-gravy!!!!!
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
10:20 pm
I notice a few selections from Genesis. Here’s one for any “old” Genesis fans, keeping with the spiritual theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8EkU3Ta5Ys
RW-(the original)
October 30th, 2009
10:29 pm
Bruno,
I took a gander at the two games you mentioned and it would seem Ga Tech and Florida State would be the picks if you’re not having to deal with a point spread.
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
10:29 pm
josef–Total rocker with the Jerry Lee Lewis number. You’re on fire tonight with the picks.
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
10:32 pm
“I took a gander at the two games you mentioned and it would seem Ga Tech and Florida State would be the picks if you’re not having to deal with a point spread.”
I’m dealing with a spread alright, -11 for GT and -10 for Fl State. I also went with favorites Wisconsin (-7) and Miss (-4 1/2).
RW-(the original)
October 30th, 2009
10:46 pm
Bruno,
I don’t play spreads but I have a theory if you’re interested. More people are wrong than are ever right about these things and both those lines have been moving. Tech started at -13.5 and FSU started at -7.5. If there aren’t any serious personal problems causing the shifts my untested point spread theory would say to go with Tech and NC State.
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
10:56 pm
Actually, the FL State line started out at -10, moved down to 9, then back up to 10. The GT line did fall as you reported.
I don’t know of any stats to back up your theory about going with the falling line. Often it simply reflects too low of a line to begin with. This week, for example, Ohio State started off at -39 1/2 favorite over New Mexico State. The line today was -45 1/2. Crazy stuff if you ask me.
Any opinions about Florida-Georgia? I’m thinking Florida in a romp. That line is -15.
RW-(the original)
October 30th, 2009
11:03 pm
Any opinions about Florida-Georgia?
After you just called me a moron about the opening line and then trashed my untested theory that you also misrepresented??? Nevah
/The line really did open at 7.5 then almost immediately went to 9 then gradually eased up. Perhaps my websites go further offshore than yours.
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
11:05 pm
“Perhaps my websites go further offshore than yours.”
What, are you with some kind of South American cartel??
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
11:10 pm
Looks like the music died out early tonight. Here’s a last selection from the Doobie Bros.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XAiuK2XjA8
Tank
October 30th, 2009
11:15 pm
You have to love the AJC trumpeting Atlanta rated by Forbes as the 23rd safest large city in the US.
Read the fine print. There were 40 cities ranked. That puts us in the bottom 50%.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
wet wiccan
October 30th, 2009
11:15 pm
Bruno – a tad sacrilegious with “Get Jesus on the Line”, no?
It’s just a screen name, ya know? (although I am fond of Elmer Fudd)
RW-(the original)
October 30th, 2009
11:16 pm
What, are you with some kind of South American cartel??
Sea of Mare dot com
The Professor
October 30th, 2009
11:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODmHMKfD_iY&feature=fvw
Taxpayer
October 30th, 2009
11:20 pm
A little classic Gabriel.
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
11:21 pm
“Sea of Mare dot com”
What the hell is that??
wet wiccan–here’s my dedication to the earth spirits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4lXZ2dv14
Bruno
October 30th, 2009
11:42 pm
From the beginning……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1OJ0LAgt4
TnGelding
October 31st, 2009
1:52 am
Sing it Elvis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-joMV316b8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFfrN1Wg5dc&feature=related
Happy Halloween!
Mrs. Godzilla
October 31st, 2009
6:54 am
Boo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Dz5yui0Rc
Time to put fresh spider webs on the door and mix a cauldron of Bloody Mary’s (using fresh Mary of course).
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
6:55 am
24,681 jobs in state credited to stimulus. Most are government or public school posts.-Urinal
Great. And the unemployment rate in Georgia is?
Nationwide, 640,329 jobs have been created or saved with about $158.7 billion in federal taxpayer funds awarded to the states. Of those jobs, about 325,000 are in education and more than 80,000 are in construction, according to the White House.-Urinal
Remember now, teacher’s and other government positions, nothing permanent is being built here, it is just a job like Josef’s, blogging all day and polluting our children’s minds with al-Gore movies to keep them out of his hair.
$158,000,000,000,000 divided by 640,329 equals $246,748.00
And the libs brag on this?
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
6:58 am
Why would libs brag about the failure of trickle down, Whiner.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
7:48 am
Remember all of the monumental whining the libs carried out, accusing Bush of “meddling” in the affairs of other countries?
The power-sharing agreement reached late Thursday calls for Congress to decide whether to reinstate the leftist Zelaya. While the legislature backed his June 28 ouster, congressional leaders have since said they won’t stand in the way of an agreement that ends Honduras’ diplomatic isolation and legitimizes presidential elections planned for Nov. 29.
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said Friday that the two sides finally made concessions after realizing the international community wouldn’t recognize the elections or restore aid without a compromise.
“There was no more space for them to dither,” he said.-Urinal
No space to “dither,” eh?
The United States of America is fighting tooth and nail against the will of the Honduran people to install the kook who attempted to overthrow the constitutional government.
How many ballots has ACORN sent down there already?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
7:50 am
Taking a giant crap on the children of our future generations, at the expense of your political power mongering no less, is right up your alley, Taxxie.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
7:52 am
Not only that, if you take into account how much Obozo lies, they probably only created and/or saved ten jobs.
That would $157,000,000,000 a job.
Sounds about right.
Normal
October 31st, 2009
8:11 am
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
@@
October 31st, 2009
8:13 am
Bobby’s “In My Time of Dyin’”.
Very good, jay.
Thanks.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
8:18 am
Couple accused of defrauding NASA-Urinal
Ah, yes, James Hanson and his wife finally got busted.
Oh wait-
A grand jury has indicted Samim Anghaie and his wife Sousan on multiple wire fraud and money laundering counts, receiving some $3.7 million in bogus contracts from NASA and other government agencies.
Never mind.
Normal
October 31st, 2009
8:19 am
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOMR NOW!
Normal
October 31st, 2009
8:20 am
Mr. President, I meant HOME now!!
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
8:22 am
I know crap when I see it, Whiner. I’m just glad my olfactories are nowhere near you.
Hey, whiner, how much has that globe hanging in your back yard cooled off this year. hehehe
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
8:25 am
Electric car perfect for Atlanta man, yay!
The Wheego Whip sells for $19,995 to $22,000. Until the end of the year, a $7,500 federal tax credit will be available for buyers; after that, the credit will become 10 percent of the purchase price.
The car can travel 40 miles without a charge. Recharging takes about eight hours on most outlets-Urinal
Wow, an awesome 40 miles and then 8 hours plugged into the wall, granted that there is a wall at the end of your 40 mile journey.
Anybody ever owned a battery? Notice how it get’s weaker and weaker as it ages and holds less of a charge?
Pisses ya off when you have to replace your car battery, don’t it? Now imagine replacing 40 of them at one time.
And dear liberals, just asking, but where do you think the energy from the wall outlet comes from?
geez
@@
October 31st, 2009
9:04 am
Peggy Noonan has a great column out today. I’ve been saying the very same thing for a long time.
We’re Governed by Callous Children
I talked with an executive this week with what we still call “the insurance companies” and will no doubt soon be calling Big Insura. (Take it away, Democratic National Committee.) He was thoughtful, reflective about the big picture. He talked about all the new proposed regulations on the industry. Rep. Barney Frank had just said on some cable show that the Democrats of the White House and Congress “are trying on every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area.” The executive said of Washington: “They don’t understand that people can just stop, get out. I have friends and colleagues who’ve said to me ‘I’m done.’ ” He spoke of his own increasing tax burden and said, “They don’t understand that if they start to tax me so that I’m paying 60%, 55%, I’ll stop.”
He felt government doesn’t understand that business in America is run by people, by human beings. Mr. Frank must believe America is populated by high-achieving robots who will obey whatever command he and his friends issue. But of course they’re human, and they can become disheartened. They can pack it in, go elsewhere, quit what used to be called the rat race and might as well be called that again since the government seems to think they’re all rats. (That would be you, Chamber of Commerce.)
They think America is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why not? She laid it in their laps. She laid it in grandpa’s lap.
They don’t feel anxious, because they never had anything to be anxious about. They grew up in an America surrounded by phrases — “strongest nation in the world,” “indispensable nation,” “unipolar power,” “highest standard of living” — and are not bright enough, or serious enough, to imagine that they can damage that, hurt it, even fatally.
We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they’re not optimists — they’re unimaginative. They don’t have faith, they’ve just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don’t mind it when people become disheartened. They don’t even notice.
And when they’re gone? My fear is that our future?…our success?…our very survival? will depend on those here who are all to eager to hand it over to the government.
@@
October 31st, 2009
9:10 am
Oh…and here’s Bobby’s version
This guy’s isn’t bad either. Nice voice. Kinda looks like The Zimmer Man.
stands for decibels
October 31st, 2009
9:12 am
BRING OUR TROOPS HOMR
I am so smart!
stands for decibels
October 31st, 2009
9:26 am
Rude boy calls the right wing’s last ditch efforts on healthcare reform…
the way that these anti-choice conservatives see it, even if no federal tax dollars are ever used for abortion, the simple fact that any of the plans in the exchange cover abortion means that federal funds would be used for, say, colds and cancer and paper clips, thus evilly freeing up other money to be used for abortions.
…
Even though tax money can’t be used for abortions, the right is gonna say it’s being used indirectly for abortions, thus it’s being used for abortions. It’s like saying that if you and your buddy go to a strip club and he decides to get a lap dance, his girlfriend says it’s your fault he came home with sticky pants.
In the next week, this is where the battle is gonna be. Sure, a lot is gonna be made about the price tag, but that’ll fade, as will the stupidity over the actual, physical size of the bill. But, you know, we’re an idiotic nation that has a juvenile discomfort with women’s bodies and the rights that we can’t seem to understand are settled law.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
9:28 am
Here’s a novel idea (actually, it’s more navel than novel but this is sarcasm), let’s buy oil from Saudi Arabia and burn it to produce electricity. Wouldn’t that just be the greatest thing. I know. I know. This is a really good one. Let’s build a bunch of nuclear power plants out west and use that power to extract fuel from shale and then transport that fuel and burn it in the power plants all over the country to generate electricity to charge batteries.
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
9:32 am
Duhng & ASSociates, Your Global Cooling Scientists since 1547.
http://tinyurl.com/9fd8
That Dylan piece is interesting. Just when you think you like/don’t like RZ, a song like that just messes ya up. Thanks, @@…
Peggy Noonan? Is she the one that was in that was out that is back in again?
The amazing aspect of this is how the utter discouragement and dismay of many Americans is only being seen by these talking heads as something that magically arrived on January 21, 2009.
WTF is that?
Decades long corporate crime waves that rolled over countless Americans, crushing their futures, and this newly outraged talking head moans for Big Pharma?
Decades of faux leadership and representatives that don’t represent or PROTECT us anymore?
Decades of cultural illiteracy and the systemic dumbing down of America?
I’ll keep reminding them – since 1973 the productivity of the American worker has doubled, yet 80% of Americans now earn less in adjusted inflation dollars than they did in 1973.
What an “accident”, huh?
Yet somehow these “people in the know” seemed to miss it all…
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
9:44 am
If the 19 percenters were smart enough to see the abortion card for what it really is, they’d be what, 10 percenters? Tali-baptists? Makes me want to go out and buy an old Beatles album and burn it, for old-time’s sake.
josef nix
October 31st, 2009
9:54 am
Whiner–
WHINER…
Well, a cheery good a.m. to you, too! And there I was, actually had a good feeling or two for you from last night’s music you posted and then, wham! Oh, well, it WAS some good music you shared.
Blogging all day you say–I get home sometime around 5, usually, and relax here on the blog while doing the ton of paperwork that follows me home every night, It’s how I unwind and work at the same time. Same on Saturday—it’s spent doing much the same thing. So, no, I don’t sit around blogging all day.
My kids haven’t been required to watch Al Gore..we have studied tectonic plates and seismic activity, atmospheric conditions and weather patterns, natural and man-made disasters…that’s in science. In math we’ve studied addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions and decimals and fraction-decimal/decimal-fraction conversion. In social studies, we have studied the Indian Removals, the War with Mexico, and the crises leading up to the Civ*l W*r. In language arts, we have learned to identify the parts of speech, diagram a sentence, and how to form vocabulary from the Germanic, Romance and Hellenic roots of our language as well as the phonetic transcriptions which go with each. In composition we have learned to develop an essay, narrative and informative, and to distinguish whether or not the essay topic is in answer to the processorial “how” or the rational, opining “why” and which style is used for what. In reading we have explored fantasy versus realism, fact versus fiction. I try to get these concepts across to the children whose English is still imperfect in their native languages while moving them academically into the mainstream, English-only classroom environment.
As an interpreter, I have to be available at a moment’s notice to facilitate communication between the teacher and the student on whatever the issue, the teacher and the home/the home and the teacher on whatever the issue, the administraion and the home, the home and the administration on whatever the issue, which means I have to be familiar with the curriculum objectives of grades k-5 as mandated by both the state and the system as well as the techniques of the various instructional styles of the individual teachers and the special needs programs. I have to be able to communicate between the social worker and school nurse and the home in a language the parent can understand, and distinguish between when the parent is uneducated or a highly skilled professional in the home language as well as when the “problem” is based in cultural nuances. That’s at school.
After school, I work with tutorials of children in need of a little extra attention or push. I conduct workshops for parents in how to help their children. I speak to civic groups on what they can do to help. I sit down for cup of coffee at home with my children’s parents and talk about the goings on in their daily lives. I answer the door and the phone when parents come by with a question.
I spend hours in mandated meetings to hear the latest series of directives on the latest mandates, attend “training sessions,” staff meetings, workshops and take or teach a course here and there to keep up with “professional development.”
That only scratches the surface in a knee-jerk response to “a job like josef’s.”
Scattered throughout it all, though, is the drying of a tear, the wiping of a snotty nose, the holding a little head during an upchuk, a smile, a hug, and a thank you. There’s the sweet drawing “for you,” there’s the break-loose from Mama or Daddy and a run to speak to me at the grocery store or in MacDonald’s. And…there’s the “I know where you live” in response to tonight being Halowe’en. and between posts here today, I’ll be putting together 150 or so little baggies of treats to hand out from the verandah as they come by “to see you.”
And, yes, I do still have time to do some other things along the way far removed from this “job” and which open doors of respect on three continents…not to mention time with my own grandkids, the Unmentionable, old friends, the neighbors, Mustafa the al Qaaida Terrorist cat, and you,,,
@@
October 31st, 2009
9:54 am
AmVet:
I think that Peggy had hopes. Too much of a good thing often ends up being a bad thing.
Like I’ve said…the government (for now anyway) can’t take hostages. Were Obama and his administration to do that, they’d be adopting Putin and Hugo’s tactics.
You ready for ^^^ that?
@@
October 31st, 2009
9:57 am
Where would government be without business?
Where would business be without the American people?
Where would the American people be without business?
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:01 am
So, if we get rid of all taxes, who is going to pay the DoD? What will become of the F-22? Who will protect the upper crust and their amassed wealth from the terrorists? Will it become every upper crust for themselves. And, once the upper crust are free to accumulate more wealth through the elimination of taxes, will they really finally reach a point where they say “I’ve got mine” and then start trickling down on the 19 percenters below them. So many questions that the 19 percenters cannot answer. Perhaps all the 19 percenters can become Hessians for the upper crust. How apropos. When Boehner is asked about the GOP plans, for whatever, he just replies with a blank expression. We’re still waiting for a sign of life from between those two ears. I think he tilted personally.
@@
October 31st, 2009
10:05 am
Taxpayer:
The government has overstepped the boundaries our founding father’s set before them.
@@
October 31st, 2009
10:06 am
no ‘
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
10:06 am
@@, I’ve posted these numbers before:
90% of Americans think thisnation is in decline.
75% think corporations have too much control over our lives.
Nearly 70% think the two major political parties are failing us.
As you well know, I (correctly and rightfully I believe) excoriated the Bush administration for a series of deadly blunders. At home and abroad.
But you also know that I have written on this very blog that this current sorry situation we’re in was one that preceded him as well. He merely made a bunch of really bad decisions on how to deal with the problems he inherited.
Much the same can be said of the current administration.
Personally I wouldn’t fret over us turning into a Cuba or Venezuela or Russia or whatever. in spite of what the talking heads would like to convince the paranoid in order to garner even greater Nielsen ratings.
They’ve been correct about so precious few things, I’d believe more that a cataclysmic asteroid impact will happen tomorrow.
As Charlie Daniels noted back in 1970, this lady might have stumbled, but she ain’t never fell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB7OR161-U
Nothing Is Free
October 31st, 2009
10:11 am
Taxpayer
**And, once the upper crust are free to accumulate more wealth through the elimination of taxes,**
Oh Jeeze. What a big steaming pile of crap.
So it’s got to be: tax us to death, spend money on pork, pass a 1.25 trillion dollar health bill to insure 5 million people and declare war on anyone who would not “play along” like CNN and CNBC, or no taxes at all. Who EVER said ANYTHING about no taxes?
Think!!!
Think!!!!
Think!!
And stop quoting those same tired talking points. They make you look like a damned puppet.
Nothing Is Free
October 31st, 2009
10:14 am
Taxpayer
**Tali-baptists?**
So now the Baptist are making the women wear burrkas and preventing women from attending school.
Well, if that what you need to believe in order to support liberals cause, have at it. It adds Sooooooo much credibility to what you say.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:15 am
@@,
And, what great wall would that be.
@@
October 31st, 2009
10:21 am
AmVet:
I am not opposed to the third party principle, but for now, the risk of voting for one, lies in the reality that the party who promotes individual weakness (democrats) will win.
This has been a very scary time for WE, the people and “conservative” leaders. My hope is that they (the conservatives) have learned their lesson well.
I appreciate your confidence in America. I appreciate your sacrifice for America. While I may enjoy musical talent, I do not find solace in their artistic ditty’s.
HECK! I like Sting…I also like Bono, but they’re dreamers. They should simply make music and cast their votes in private.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:22 am
NIF,
I must have finally said something that you deem worthy of debate, eh! Otherwise… chirp, chirp. Of course, that would surely be a result of MY use of a civil tongue. Got any mirrors in that abode.
Kamchak
October 31st, 2009
10:23 am
This is what happens when statisticians analyze raw data.
@@
October 31st, 2009
10:25 am
Taxpayer:
Let me just say this before I go…
were Ron Paul not a racist and an isolationist, I’da voted for the guy.
Nothing Is Free
October 31st, 2009
10:25 am
stands for decibels
**the way that these anti-choice conservatives see it,**
Do you mean anti-abortion people. Why are you people so afraid to call it what it is? It is an unborn baby. And it is an abortion. Get it?
We all know that we need to kill off a good sized portion of our population because of the failure of the American family structure. We get that. So we passed the laws that say that infanticide is A-OK. We’re heading toward the 40 million number that has been killed since Roe-V-Wade, so you must be really celebrating. We are right at six times the Jewish Holocaust and still going strong, so you won and we get to kill unborn babies. But have a little courage. Call it what it is. A “Choice” is to turn left or right at a stop light, not end a human life.
**we’re an idiotic nation that has a juvenile discomfort with women’s bodies and the rights that we can’t seem to understand are settled law.**
Yep. Everybody but liberals are idiots and even though the majority ARE women, we are all uncomfortable with a woman’s body. And oh yes, All women are pro-abortiojn and it is only white, old men that are against abortions.
Nothing Is Free
October 31st, 2009
10:28 am
Taxpayer
So you want to debate that our two choices are “Tax to death” or No taxes at all?”
I think it would be great if we could debate, but the basic dishonesty in the liberal rhetoric prevents most civil debate.
Teli-baptist? In some circles, that might be considered bigotry.
josef nix
October 31st, 2009
10:29 am
NIF
The use of such terms as tali-baptist is not liberal. It’s derogatory, ill-mannered, and unfriendly. Those throwing around the term need be reminded that it was through the efforts of the Baptists among the founding fathers that we got our most precious gift..the separation of church and state. Lumping them all together in such a fashion I find distastasteful in the same fashion I would “Christ Killers…”
Nothing Is Free
October 31st, 2009
10:35 am
Morning josef
Sorry about the branding of all liberals. You are right. Not everyone thinks the same. My bad. And coming here where many of the lefties would stand behind Obama, no matter what he did is definitely a very bad example that most liberals should not be branded with.
Normal
October 31st, 2009
10:39 am
Jackie, this is for you as you requested.
WHITE CHILI
1 1/2 cups shredded Monterey jack cheese
2 cups half-and-half
1/2 cup sour cream
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
5 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cooked and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3/4 cup chicken broth
1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce, or to taste
Fresh cilantro and salsa for garnish
1 large onion, chopped
Two 4-ounce cans peeled whole green chiles, drained and chopped
1 cup dried navy beans, picked over and rinsed (Or two cans of ‘em)
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
Directions:
(If you use canned beans, skip this part…)
In a medium pot, soak the beans overnight in enough cold water to cover the beans by 2 inches. Drain the beans in a colander and return to the pot with fresh cold water, covering the beans by 2 inches. Cook the beans at a bare simmer on very low heat until tender, about an hour, and drain in a colander.
In a medium skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat and cook the onion until softened. In a large, heavy pot, melt the remaining 6 tablespoons butter over medium-low heat and whisk in the flour to make a roux. Cook the roux, whisking constantly, for 3 minutes.
Stir in the onion and gradually add the broth and half-and-half, whisking constantly. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until thickened.
Stir in the Tabasco, chili powder, cumin, salt and white pepper. Add the beans, chiles, chicken, and cheese. Increase the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring frequently, for 20 minutes. Stir in the sour cream. Garnish with the cilantro and salsa.
Normal
October 31st, 2009
10:40 am
Mornin’ y’all…lovely day ain’t it?
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:40 am
I was almost tempted. Nah. I think I’ll stick to looking for a Beatles album to burn instead. Later, I was thinking about getting out and pushing for legislation to make it illegal for women to have control over their own bodies. It’s the Christian thing to do to. Strike that, here in the south, it is primarily a tali-baptist thing to do.
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
10:41 am
@@, right back at ya…
Third party candidates help the Democrats. Damn! Tell that to the imperious, utterly crooked, entrenched, self-serving, self-proclaimed defenders of downtrodden Americans, the Demaloons, that still say Nader cost Gore the election in 2000. To his credit Gore said of course Ralph didn’t.
Fortunately this is a nation of laws and not men. (Though Tricky Dick, Ronnie, Slick Willy and King George IV, at times seemed to conveniently forget that basic precept.)
And abortion is NOT murder. It is NOT infanticide. It is not a crime. (Excepting a few special conditions.)
And the rub is we are not going back to the days when it was coat-hanger dangerous and sometimes fatal.
I personally find abortion abhorrent. I also find the Republican cure worse that the disease…
Kamchak
October 31st, 2009
10:42 am
Those throwing around the term need be reminded that it was through the efforts of the Baptists among the founding fathers that we got our most precious gift..
No josef, two separate entities.
The word Southern in Southern Baptist Convention stems from its having been founded and rooted in the Southern United States. The SBC became a separate denomination in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, following a regional split with northern Baptists over the issues of slavery and missions.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:45 am
@@,
I voted for Ron Paul in the primary because he was by far the best on the Republican ticket. I wouldn’t vote for him for president though.
josef nix
October 31st, 2009
10:45 am
NIF–
Not to worry. It’s something we all fall prey to from time to time…it goes with the knee-jerk nature of a blog.
Hey, Normal–ain’t it just a lovely one! Seen outside? Rain done come, washed down some more of G-d’s leaves on your yard and has undone the work of the infidel!
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
10:46 am
ABC: $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That ‘Calculator Abuse’…
Does the Obama administration consider “calculator abuse” as a “hate crime”? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
10:47 am
WIRE: ‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy…
mmm mmmm mmmmm Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmmm mmmmm…..
josef nix
October 31st, 2009
10:49 am
K’chak–
And the split is really a 20th Century one…this is another reason, though, that I oppose the throwing around so freely of the term…like liberals and conservatives, just which Baptists are you talking about?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 31st, 2009
10:49 am
NEW YORK (A Pee) — A devout Muslim woman told police she slashed her husband’s neck with a kitchen knife as he slept because he forced her to eat pork, wear short skirts and drink alcohol in violation of her religious beliefs. – Urinal
That’s nice, now check out the headline-
Wife: Religious friction led to spouse slashing
1) Something tells me that if the Urinal published every single solitary news account of Islamic domestic abuse/ torture/ murder that it wouldn’t be a pitiful, million dollar a week money losing, 4 section rag the size of a napkin anymore.
We’re talking Sears catalogue proportions.
But for some reason, they found one they can go with.
2) Perhaps it was an opportunity on their part to put up a little chicken s%$# headline that made it to appear, to those who just scan headlines, as though Christianity was once again up to no good.
But would they do that because they are absolutely spineless, sniveling little cowards in the face of real evil or because they are wormy as hell and like to man up and fight harmless people? You know, puff your scrawny chest up on some old lady sitting in the church pew.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
3) Oh, and of course, “wife” and “slashing” being part of the same cowardly headline leads one to believe that the man was responsible for the violence, which closely follows the faux liberal orthodoxy, unless of course you are a sexual deviant and thought that maybe the “wife” was married to another “wife.”
I guess the basic presumption we should arrive at- Is the AJC incapable of delivery the news without twisting it to fit their perverted views?
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
10:49 am
Biden: Job Stats ‘Not 100 Percent Accurate’…
They’re about as accurate as him trying to spell the word “job”. Don’t forget, Dan Quayle fans, Biden spelled it “j o b s”.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:49 am
NIF,
I simply cannot debate someone who chooses to behave in such an uncivil manner, you silly goose. All of your name calling is just so dis-tasteful and unbecoming and just so unnecessary. Do let me know when you are ready to behave in a civil manner. hehehe
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
10:49 am
CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion…
‘Death Panel’ Measure Survives…
Big Present to Trial Lawyers…
Ah yes, nothing to fear with socialized medicine, right?
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
10:51 am
Transparent administration? Riiiiiiiiight.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
10:51 am
AmVet, have you heard. Abortion is not even funded by the Fed. Yet, to hear the tali-baptists talk… .
@@
October 31st, 2009
10:52 am
Taxpayer:
…and, as you may well know, I voted for Hillary in the primary because she was the best candidate on the Democratic ticket.
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
10:55 am
JC, I still don’t know why you guys aren’t in love with the Republican-lite mulatto…
For gawdssakes boys wake up. In many ways, he’s GWB’s swarthy nephew…
Washington (CNN) — The Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege on Friday in a lawsuit pertaining to government eavesdropping intended to intercept terrorist communications, and one privacy advocacy group called the decision “incredibly disappointing.”
Attorney General Eric Holder issued a statement saying the government was making the move “to protect against a disclosure of highly sensitive, classified information that would irrevocably harm the national security of this country.”
The California lawsuit challenges the warrantless wiretapping program begun by the Bush administration after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The current administration is asking the court to dismiss the case.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/31/state.secrets/index.html
RW-(the original)
October 31st, 2009
10:58 am
Apparently Dede Scozzafava has dropped out of the NY23 race. So much for the Democrats riding in on a split vote.
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
10:59 am
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
10:55 am
You quoted: Attorney General Eric Holder issued a statement saying the government was making the move “to protect against a disclosure of highly sensitive, classified information that would irrevocably harm the national security of this country.”
Interesting. Too bad he wasn’t equally concerned about national security when he decided to go after the CIA. I tell you, nothing can flip-flop faster, and more artistically, than a democrat.
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
11:02 am
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records
Did you notice that Williams Ayers and Jeremiah Wright have been guests at the White House. Nothing like “distancing” yourself from someone, right?
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:02 am
@@,
You liberal! I’m shocked. Did you vote for here because you supported her univeral healthcare. That was it, wasn’t it.
Dusty
October 31st, 2009
11:05 am
Well, good morning to one and all. I was going to ask about the weather from those far afield but there are more interesting things here today.
@@..I am forever pleased with your strong views about the goodness, greatness and opportunities of this country. It is encouraging.
AmVet on the other hand is a wave of discouragement and disillusion in every post. I usually skip through his depression even though his intelligence comes through in saddest laments.
Taxpayer, in his usual envy of the rich, complains and accuses. Maybe he should read Obama’s visitor list at the White House. . On that list was Bill Gates of MicroSoft. Here’s a super rich man who gives over 200 MILLION dollars a year in educational grants. Yeah, those greedy rich who just store their money away. Those are the kind of people Obama should understand. They GIVE. He seems to listen more to those who only want to receive.
Ah JOSEF, “let the little children come unto me”. You and @@ give and give with generous hearts. I am amazed that one person could fill your schedule. What a day!! Are you sure there are not twin josef’s handling all this? I don’t believe I was exposed to such a variety of knowledge in the fifth grade. (That seems a long way back!) Just one more thing. I hope you have had your H1N1 shot, what with the sniffling and upchucking.and all.
Now, back to the weather in Atlanta. “The day is cold and dark and dreary. It rains and the wind is never weary. The vine still clings to the mouldering wall. But at every gust, the dead leave fall. And the day is dark and dreary.” Thank you, Longfellow. He wasn’t from Atlanta, was he?
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
11:05 am
JC, and here I thought it was Dickhead Cheney who “went after the CIA”!
The deadly and inept con-artist doing his best Ollie North imitation:
Washington (CNN) — Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents.
Cheney was questioned as part of an investigation on how journalists came to know the identity of Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was a critic of the Iraq war.
In the interview, Cheney responded to many questions with “I do not recall.”
However, he took a few stabs at the CIA in its handling of White House allegations that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium from Niger to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Cheney’s reaction to the article was that it was “amateur hour” at the CIA, according to the FBI documents…
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
11:09 am
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
11:05 am
Going back to 2004? Lame
Check your history books, Cheney was not the leak. I’m sure, though, that you will spin the story to where Cheney was involved in a web of deceit. Hell, if Cheney told you the sun rose in the east you’d disagree.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:10 am
Dusty, did you hear. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don’t have a problem with paying even more taxes. They’re my kind of upper crust. I’m so glad to hear that you approve of them too.
Dusty
October 31st, 2009
11:11 am
Jimmy Carter @ 11:02
As to the visitor list at the White House, you did not read close enough. The visitors such as AYERS & WRIGHT only had the same names as the more notorious ones. They were just people who sounded the same, kinda like you as Jimmy Carter and the real Jimmy Carter. I don’t believe that you are one and the same Carter.. (You don’t have a Southern accent!)
Kamchak
October 31st, 2009
11:12 am
josef
When people use the term “Baptist” I feel that they are referring to the ones that are most front and center–the Southern Baptist Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention underwent it’s own schism in the early 1980’s with the election of Charles Stanley at it’s head in a fraudulent election–more votes were cast for Stanley than the actual number of “messengers” (the only ones qualified to vote) in attendance. A number of “moderate” SBC members resigned in disgust, while those moderates that remained active in the organization and the seminaries were routinely “outed” over the next two decades by a series of newsletters, the most prominent from an activist in Lovejoy Georgia.
Since the 80’s the SBC has become extreme in it’s activism in electoral politics, and has seen it’s “fortunes” rise and fall in direct proportion to the Republican party.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:12 am
Cheney said that he did not know who leaked as he walked away with evidence of trickle down still showing. Ewww.
RW-(the original)
October 31st, 2009
11:13 am
Before anyone else follows “Jimmy Carter” down that rabbit hole at 10:51 it isn’t true.
A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few “false positives” – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else. In September, requests were submitted for the names of some famous or controversial figures (for example Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Kelly (”R. Kelly”), and Malik Shabazz). The well-known individuals with those names never actually came to the White House. Nevertheless, we were asked for those names and so we have included records for those individuals who were here and share the same names.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/10/30/transparency-you%E2%80%99ve-never-seen-0
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
11:13 am
Dusty, don’t let it bring you down…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSa8M0Gpruc
Off to be a good little capitalist.
Hang tough America. We still love ya and always will…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE
RW-(the original)
October 31st, 2009
11:14 am
Make that 10:51 and 11:02
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:16 am
Hell, if
CheneyObama told you the sun rose in the east you’d disagree.I fixed that for you. No need to thank me.
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:18 am
That 11:11 is not our irregular Dusty.
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
11:19 am
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:12 am
Taxpayer, you and AmVet need to accept these three truths:
1. OJ did it.
2. The world is not flat.
3. Cheney was not the second shooter on the grassy knoll.
Some of you amaze me. Cheney is the root of all evil. 9/11, Katrina, Mount St. Helens, it’s all Cheney’s fault in your world. Scary are you.
Jimmy Carter
October 31st, 2009
11:20 am
Taxpayer
October 31st, 2009
11:16 am
Nah. Didn’t need your help. I learned that as a young child. I’m one of those individuals you don’t understand – I don’t need the govt to tell me what to think.
Kamchak
October 31st, 2009
11:21 am
Hey Normal, if you’re still around I wanna share this with you:
http://www.loganturnpikemill.com/products/default.asp?cid=3
It’s seems that I received the “cornbread gene” in my family, and I found Logan Turnpike Mill products to be exceptional. Their products are available online, or retail at the DeKalb Farmer’s market.
Jackie
October 31st, 2009
11:22 am
@Normal
Sounds wonderful.
Going to give that a spin today.
SALUTE!
AmVet
October 31st, 2009
11:23 am
JC, you give that cretin more more than his due.
Here’s a truth for you from your apparently favorite inveterate liar:
WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney says that his boss, President George W. Bush, has no need to apologize to the American people for not doing more to head off the financial calamity, saying no one saw the crisis coming.
During an interview Thursday with The Associated Press in his West Wing office, Cheney defended the administration’s performance on an economy that is growing weaker daily and which recently collapsed in spectacular fashion. Cheney said that “nobody anywhere was smart enough to figure it out.”
No one, huh?
And you conned swallowed ALL of it hook, line and sinker…
Nothing Is Free
October 31st, 2009
11:23 am
Taxpayer
“Control over your own body.” Man, talk about an overused bit of semantic propaganda.
Nobody cares about what you do to your own body. It’s that baby that is growing IN your body that is the concern.
I know. It’s not fair that women and men have sex and the women is often stuck with being pregnant and then spending the next 18 years raising an often unwanted child. As I said: i understand. We HAVE to do it. We do not have the cultural ingredient that has been used for 100,000 years to hold down the number of women getting pregnant. You know: Morality. Yes, I know. Horrible word.
But when young people were told that it is better to wait until you are married before having sex: THIS IS WHY. If you are married and you have sex and the woman gets pregnant, then the child will have a family to be born into.
I know. All this is just crazy talk. And I am certainly not the person that set any sort of example about waiting until I was married. But the problem I have is the excuses and the semantics that the left goes through in order to rationalize abortions.
We are stuck. In our grandparent’s day, it was very hip to be chaste. Being pregnant and unmarried was frowned upon, not as a religious thing but as a cultural thing. Now, it is very hip for 13 year olds to know all about sex. We can’t take that back. Now if a kid doesn’t have sex by the time they are 14, they are made fun of.
I’ve said this before: we have to have abortions. We simply do not have a strong enough family structure here in the US to not have abortions. My two problems are the dishonesty of the rhetoric of the left about the “Pro-Choice” crap. It’s an abortion. Have some courage. Call it what it is. Maybe with a little more honesty, we might just bring the number of abortions down. And the other thing is simply about Karma. We are killing a million US Citizens and family members a year. That can not be good for our collective Karma.
josef nix
October 31st, 2009
11:24 am
K’chak–
But Talisouthernbaptist just doesn’t have the same ring, does it? Besides, it takes too many keystrokes for some of my fellow reactionaries!
Dusty–
And a good a.m. to you…rain, rain and more rain in these parts…been checking in on the weather channel hoping it lets up before the little ones go about their special day…as for the comment on how I do it, the Unmentionable says, “well, he is a gemini, twins, and both of them are schizophrenic…!” But credit where credit is due, I get an awful lot of support from my co-workers, the community, the administration and, yes, believe it or not, the system…
Dusty
October 31st, 2009
11:25 am
NORMAL
I just read your white chili recipe. Cheese, sourcream and butter!! Have you ever heard of CHOLESTEROL!!
You better add a little Drano to keep all “pipes” clear.