No one can honestly argue that Harold Ford Jr. has carried on a family tradition of wrongdoing.  It hasn't been proven, so it's just a nasty smear.

With W, however, it's been proven over and over so many times, that showing he's a failure for life is easier than shooting fish in a barrel.  Only the up-equals-down apologists deny it.

Why are you changing the subject?

... because I am too tired to paraphrase

Throughout the 90's our foreign policy was all about being nice, even obsequious to our enemies. Yasser Arafat was the most frequent visitor to the Clinton White House, and America bestowed $100 million dollars a year to his despotic thugocracy, while we goaded Israel to give up what little land they have and stop contributing to the "cycle of violence." We responded to the '93 attempted destruction of the Twin Towers with lawsuits. We turned down an offer to hand Bin Laden over to us because that might have upset the Arab street. We intervened in a civil war in Kosovo, carpet-bombing Serbian population centers on behalf of Muslims, and because of our efforts, most churches in Kosovo have now been destroyed and replaced with mosques. (Of course no one can fight back as there is a U.N. 'peacekeeping force' there.) We fought Somalian warlords in an attempt to feed starving Muslim children. We went to the dead tyrant Assad's funeral, and lent our diplomatic prestige to that Asian Hitler Kim Jong, who was happy to show off his military toys before our fawning Secretary of State. To show how magnanimous we were, we gave him hundreds of millions of dollars to construct an underground nuclear reactor, taking him at his word it would only be used for peaceful purposes. We lent no moral support to the youth in Iran who are desperate to throw off their chains, we lent no moral support to Taiwan which is faced with extinction or enslavement, we lent no moral support to Christians in China who are being herded into prison camps. And we lent no moral support to the Iraqis wallowing under dictatorship and sanctions, and instead consigned them to a decade of torture chambers and rape rooms and acid baths while the U.N. made billions off 'Oil for Food'.

In sum, we did everything the Left would like for us to do. And in return, we got September 11.

From the Manifesto of the Protest Warrior
- we will never keep our supreme values of liberty and justice without the will to fight for them.

Now I believe Bush started down the right road ... taking the fight to the Islamofascists, standing up to them and making it plain as day we are not going to sit here and take any of their shit. But along the way, the way was lost. They fail to understand exactly what we are up against, that the threat of death to them is nothing. How do you fight an enemy that welcomes death? I have no answers for that ... but I do know that it is not "cut and run" when the going gets tough. That's what we did in Somalia, and that did nothing but embolden Bin Laden and make him more determined to strike against America. He believed that we were nothing more than a paper tiger.

Bin Laden is irrelevant now. Dead, alive ... doesn't matter. Even 5 years ago, killing him would have been nothing more than revenge. Cheap justice. As we have seen, he has deputies by the dozen, ready and willing to step in and lead the merry bands of murderous thugs. So we keep chopping away at the head of the snake, as well as striking blows to its body. And we must stay at it ... we let up, and what happened? The Taliban have already started to regroup. So we strike and strike and strike again. Same thing in Iraq, we keep fighting the terrorists.

The minute we show weakness, the minute they believe we are ready to give up, is the minute we start to lose this war.

So, the question is ... do we want America to win this, or not?

A friend from Quebec sent me this one; it's pretty good.

Galette des rois

Réalisation
         
Ingrédients Détail

    * Préchauffer le four th. 7.
    * Travailler le beurre mou avec le sucre jusqu'à ce que le mélange soit homogène et mousseux. Ajouter les amandes en poudre, les 2 oeufs et le rhum. Bien mélanger.
    * Dérouler la pâte sur la plaque du four en conservant la feuille de cuisson. Garnir le centre avec la frangipane et l'étaler jusqu'à 2 cm. du bord. Glisser la fève.
    * Humecter avec de l'eau le bord de la pâte non garnie.
    * Recouvrir avec la deuxième pâte feuilletée. Souder les 2 parties en pressant le tour

    * 125 grammes d'amande en poudre
    * 100 grammes de sucre
    * 125 grammes de beurre
    * 2 oeufs
    * 1 jaune d'oeuf
    * 1 cuiller à soupe de rhum

"This recipe for pecan pie is from my mother's uncle whose family owned Tujague's restaurant in New Orleans for more than 70 years."

Oh, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. Tujague's.

For the uninitiated, that place serves a seven course meal. You choose the entree, but other than that, it's prix fixe. It's on Decatur St. right in the Quarter. Elegant service, casual dining. They're attentive without being hovering.

The choices of entree, last time I went were stuffed cornish hen, filet mignon, and some kind of Gulf jackfish.

The filet was memorable enough. But that pie... oooh, that pie. Course 7.

(Armagnac, huh? I would have sworn it was bourbon.)

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