Important Stuff -- Or Not: Update on Me

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Update on Me

As foretold, I spent my New Year's day sleeping. I also made the best ham I've ever had. No glaze, no seasoning, just ham. The bone is in the crock pot now with some navy beans. With temps dipping into the teens, I just couldn't wait to make soup. I was at PetSmart today to get some cat food and wandered into areas I shouldn't have -- the cat adoption and bird cages. There was a sun conure there that was the cutest little thing. He tried to hop on my finger through the glass. I would have bought him on the spot except for this. There was a sign on the cage saying there wouldn't be any bird sales until late January. I just have to keep telling myself. Birds are messy. Birds are loud. I have cats. Sun conures live 30 years. I won't. Tonight is the Iowa caucus. I might flip over to Fox from time to time. It would be truly funny if Hillary comes in third. I wouldn't want to be on her team. She would be homicidal. She really thinks she is ordained to be president. Time to snack on some ham.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'll be making some navy bean & ham soup next week, or Saturday, depending on how cold it gets with the rainstorms lined up off the coast.

After reading the description of sun conures, you would have to have more than one. Wouldn't the girls love that??

Actually, that's what cages are for. My sister had parakeets and a cockatiel with a cat in the house--no problem. The cockatiel also served as a burglar alarm. :); 12:26 AM
Lone Ranger said...: I've had birds before. A quaker, three cockatiels, a lovebird, a parakeet. The lovebird was the leader of the gang. I like to give them playgrounds atop their cages, where they can play with toys and each other. The different species should be caged separately to avoid conflicts.

The bean soup was PERFECT. I lucked out and got the roux the perfect consistency. So, it didn't turn into wallpaper paste. My next soup is going to be a seafood chowder. I put in crab, squid, clam, etc, with potatoes, cream and dill. Got that from my sister and tweaked it a bit.; 6:18 AM
Anonymous said...: You made a roux first? You must give me your directions, pretty please? I've never done it that way, but then I've only, in the last couple of years, discovered the joy of making a roux for some of my ol' standby dishes.

The lovebird wasn't so loving? Maybe because it (sounds like it) didn't have somebody to love? Hmm, that reminds me of a song... :); 4:31 PM
Lone Ranger said...: Lovebirds have a false reputation. They can be quite quarrelsome. And they have a scream that goes right through my head like an ice pick.

I made the roux last. In a crockpot, I combined a pound of dry beans with a carrot, stalk of celery and half an onion, chopped fine, two cups of water, four cups of chicken broth and a bay leaf. I don't soak my beans because I like to infuse them with flavor rather than water. I made the roux with butter and flour and stirred it in just before serving. Too much roux can turn it into concrete. I just made the whole thing up off the top of my head, and it turned out well. I don't know if it's just my family, but I like to add a teaspoon to a tablespoon of white vinegar to the bowl.; 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks for the instructions. I'm going to put on my lab coat soon and give it a try. :); 11:29 PM
Lone Ranger said...: If that works out, I have a cream of tomato soup that puts Campbell's to shame.; 12:02 AM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.