recipes of the righteous!
so, it's another entirely crappy, wet, cold day outside in the nation's capital. looking out the window right now, i was inspired to get home early and make some hot chocolate with a bit o the alcohol tonight, instead of going out to the pinback/mates of state show at the black cat (first i have no one to go with, second, i feel the itchy beginnings of a cold, and i MUST NOT GET SICK before the marathon).
but i didn't want to make just any hot chocolate. so i searched around on the internet for some super special hot chocolate recipes. and lo and behold, the very first hot chocolate recipe that pops up on google is a whitehouse.gov recipe for hot chocolate by laura bush.
i actually think laura bush is a lovely woman, and her recipe doesn't sound bad (though not as decadent as i was hoping for; where's the real chocolate and heavy cream?). but i was intrigued by the idea of white house-sanctioned recipes, so i searched the web site for some more. here's what i found:
Smoked Shrimp with Mango Salsa
Carrot Muffins
Baked Potato Soup
Guacamole
Vegetable Soup
Cowboy Cookies
all offered by mrs. bush, and all good-sounding, though kind of bland and boring.
but the best page BY FAR was the page containing recipes from various administration officials for their favorite 4th of july foods. the page suggest that "As you celebrate Independence Day, try one of these tasty recipes or have a Bush Administration holiday party and have your guests each bring one of these dishes" (gawd, doesn't a bush administration holiday party sound like an awful lot of fun.) we have, in no particular order:
Secretary Ashcroft's "Simply BBQ"
Secretary Thompson's "Bratwurst of Liberty"
Secretary Snow's "Land of the Free Cole Slaw"
President and Laura Bush's Deviled Eggs Recipe
Secretary Evans' "Enchiladas Verde de 1776"
President and Laura Bush's Guacamole Recipe
Greg Mankiw's "Fourth of July Coq Au Vin"
Dale Haney's Yankee Doodle Dandy Ambrosia Salad
okay. the fuck? bratwurst of liberty? enchiladas verde de 1776? second, the recipes are all terrible. they include such directions as "place meat on grill and cook for a while" or "mush this together and serve with mustard, it's real good!"
and i know these terrible recipes with their terrible names aren't the faults of these particular administration officials. the idea that our public servants need to offer up some sort of recipes or proof that they know how to cook is an abomination long-held for whatever reasons, and only propogated further by the the fascists over at family circle magazine. (of course, laura bush won this stupidest of contests with 67% of the vote.)
but honestly, i don't want my high-ranking administration officials telling me what's good to cook and how to cook it. i'd rather they, you know, do their job. so next time, instead of having a recipe page from whitehouse.gov, let's see a little hard work, eh guys? like protecting caches of weapons so the terrorists don't get them?
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Well, I'd like to think that our elected officials can keep us both safe and well-fed. But I can't figure out these recipes. Looking over the titles I see a lot of good, all-American sounding recipes. But what's up with the First Family's clear lack of forced patriotism? C'mon Mr. President! Why do you hate America so much? If your recipe doesn't require red and blue food coloring, the islamofascists have already won.
Also, I hear that every time you buy the ingredients for Ashcroft's BBQ recipe your name gets put in a federal database.
I can't imagine guacamole without just a little bit of cumin seed in it. Don't they have cumin in Texas?
And my goodness...can't you have one....post....up today without mentioning the weapons cache in there somewhere? :-)
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can't you have one post that does?
:-)
i think its pretty funny that liberals are seriously bringing up that these "weapons" are gone. first of all the weapons have been gone for some time, but the media has decided to bring it up now. coincidence? don't think so. this takes me back to our long conversation about how liberal the media is. they are bound and determined to pull out all the stops in the last two weeks. not only have those weapons been missing for quite sometime, it is thought that the weapons were removed before we even entered iraq to beging this war. so, the only way we could have done anythign about it was to start the war earlier - i'm sure you would have all been on board for that one. secondly, aren't you the same people that keep screaming that saddam didn't have WMD??? now you are saying he did and that we didn't protect them well enough??? get your story straight...he either had them or he didn't, you can't have it both ways.
jillyn, if you read a bunch of stuff on talkingpointsmemo.com, you can see that the nbc report that drudge linked to has in fact been shot down by nbc's own reporters.
also, these were weapons that were tagged and protected by the IAEA for years and years, so saddam didn't have access to them.
also, the story came up recently because of a letter that was sent only two weeks ago from the iraqi govt to the IAEA, noting that these weapons were missing.
Catherine, tagged and protected? There were no cameras at the facility. There were no permanent IAEA presence at the facility. In fact, Hussein told IAEA that he moved some of it for civilian use...and the last IAEA inspection did not actual VIEW the weapons we're discussing.
The letter that was recently sent was politically motivated, since they knew all along that these weapons were not there.
By the way, I did post on this story, since you scolded me for not posting about at my site. It's up and waiting for you to fisk.--s
The letter that was recently sent was politically motivated, since they knew all along that these weapons were not there.
one thing though: didn't the iraqi government send the letter? or am i mistaken? why would they send a politically motivated letter that would lead to bad news for bush?
jillyn, not to be crass, but at least know your shit before you start spouting off about it.
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