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There are occasions when one person stands up and articulates a watershed moment in history, and last night it was Keith Olbermann on his NBC show Countdown:

For those who prefer to read it, the full transcript appears at the bottom of this page.

I could not have said it better myself. This Administration has inexorably eroded the trust placed in them by the American people, and their continued conniving has lost them their right to any moral authority in matters foreign or domestic.

Olbermann refers several times to the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration. There were at least two positive aspects to the outcome of the Watergate scandal. First, the American public and the media set aside their blind faith in the office of the President and has since subjected the office to

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Where to begin with the Michael Vick/dogfighting tragedy? My first reaction upon hearing the allegations was “Yeah, that sounds about right”. Michael Vick has always struck me as an egostitical, idiot loser, so adding sadistic torturer to the list wasn’t that big of a leap. I won’t cover the allegations in detail here, but suffice it to say that, if true, Mr. Vick has not only engaged in dog fighting, with all the associated cruelty and barbarity that entails – he also seemed to revel in the creative and sadistic elimination of dogs that didn’t perform up to his pathetic standards.

I’m hearing two things consistently from Vick that confirm just how despicable he is. First, he’s playing the race card and stating that he’s being targeted because he’s black. Listen, dogfighting is so monstrous that ANY person of ANY color in ANY public role would be being subjected to this

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CNN Headline News has managed to pinpoint the difficulty we are facing in Iraq:

I mean, really, what are our troops supposed to do against an imp like that? Shooting him would seem like an overreaction, but then he just won’t listen to logic or even to threats to take away his Wi’i. Maybe the release of the new Harry Potter book will keep him occupied so that we get at least a couple of days of relief.

Note: the above image is an unretouched capture from CNN Headline News yesterday morning (7/24/2007). It was a simple mistake where the caption from the previous story stayed on the screen over the video for the following story.

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Now here you are with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice
You have no scars on your face
And you cannot handle Pressure
Pressure, by Billy Joel

Funny how my memory skips
While looking over manuscripts
of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime
Hazy Shade of Winter, by Simon and Garfunkel

I have my books
and my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room
Safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island
…and a rock feels no pain
…and an island never cries
I am a Rock, by Simon and Garfunkel

I mean… I mean… I’m sitting here on the Group W bench, and you wanna know if I’m moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages… after being a litterbug?
Alice’s Restaurant, by Arlo Guthrie

You call her home
And you want to move in
But a house is not a home
And a home is not a house
When

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I’m an old hand at “juking” up recipes on the fly — sometimes the results are good, sometimes the results are.. well, edible. In rare cases, I come up with something that tastes REALLY good. This, I humbly submit, is one of those.
Bourbon Chicken and Dumplings
Ingredients

Organic Chicken Broth
Organic Beef Broth (optional)
Chicken breasts, boneless
Chicken thighs, boneless
Fresh thyme, parsley and sage
Fresh carrots
Fresh celery
Bourbon (I used Maker’s Mark)
Half-and-half or cream or milk
Bisquick
Milk
Paprika
Salt (I used a Garlic Sea Salt Grinder… yum)

Directions
In a big pot combine:

chicken broth (and beef broth if you want — I didn’t have enough chicken so I used beef as well)
the chicken breasts and thighs
carrots (I use whole carrots, skins and all, cut into 4″ lengths)
celery (I use stalks about 4″ long and leave the leaves on 1-2 stalks)
fresh thyme, parsley, and sage (don’t chop any of it up)
many splashes of bourbon

Let cook on med-low for a while until the chicken

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