Ewwwwwwww.

Try it with a chutney squishy.

Artsmom has eaten cow head before. Slow cooked and you peel off the cheek meat. Some rancher's barbecue. Ranchers and Mexicans don't waste much, and Mexican ranchers probably don't waste anything.

Anyone for pickled hoof?

Yes, come again.

What is the meaning of your avatar, arebuntz?



And now he's a-hoppin' and a-chipperin'.

See, I told you guys davey was funny.



Come again?

A change of scene, friends, and conflicts can often do those baby birds a world of good.

Head cheese. {{{shudder}}}

Speaking of cheese, some of that, or sauced, would do yer cauliflower right tasty.

Like Jerry Seinfeld said, the man who invented head cheese was HUNGRY. Why do they call it head cheese? Because nobody would eat head meat. (but Jerry was wrong, don't know no Mexicans)

Cheese would be good, but since we cancelled tennis due to a death in my friend's family I can't afford the extra calories.

Sorry for your friend.

I always thought head cheese sounded gross -- and then when I saw, it looked even worse.

Next best thing to souse meat.

he said healthy food. not cubed, flavored fat.

Having said that I love cheeze. Pizza deserves it's own place on the food pyramid.

Did you know the yellow/orange in cheddar comes from the bark of a tree indigenous to tropical climates called the annato?

LOL

Mexican butcher shops are a house of horrors.

Mexican bakeries are (mercifully) unappetizing--sugar cookies and sugary dough blobs in various shapes. Easy to pass on those.

Thanks, I'll pass it on, his wife's father. She plays with us sometimes too. Nice people.

Clear gelatin just makes the stuff floating inside that much less appealing.

I tremble to ask ... what's souse meat?




davey, cheese is not "cubed, flavored fat." It is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful food. They eat lots of it in France, and guess what, almost nobody is fat.

I did know that about annato. I love white cheddars also.

Sunshine brand white cheddar crackers are pretty good. Had some earlier.

This is why Americans are fat and our French amies are thin.

Laffin' wiff ya, not at ya. I love white cheddar popcorn.

Ask and ye shall receive .... a recipe. Boy, those were different days, then, what? There is something so admirable about that sort of resourcefulness.

When I was in Germany, I had a sauerkraut that was cooked with some sort of meat that I was told only was "special meat" made at pig-killing time. I bet it was something like that. They dared not tell me what was in it or how it was made. It is not just the best sauerkraut I ever ate, but one of the most delicious dishes.

Course, they really know what-for about pigs in Germany. Their pork is marvelous.

Asian custom: wear white for mourning.

US sending subtle message of what with Mrs. GW Bush wearing white at the… continuation of power ceremonies?

Yes, it's traditional for first ladies to send coded international messages to certain countries. I think it was started during the James Madison era. It just took a little longer to get the message in those days.

Maybe more of an American custom...Bride...of Frankenstein.

The dead psuedo-man that decomposed into a monster.

Poor bee's mind has finally decomposed. This stuff is bordering on.. ... ... ... well maybe it's across the border.

Spam

Uh oh. Some things happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.



Files purged in treasurer's office


January 22, 2005

Employees in the city of San Diego's treasurer's office – ground zero in federal investigations of city finances – destroyed numerous records last month, prompting a warning from City Manager Lamont Ewell yesterday.

The destruction of records was revealed yesterday by City Attorney Michael Aguirre, who said he learned from an unnamed city employee Thursday night that about 20 people in the treasurer's Financing Services division dumped whole files into recycle bins and erased e-mails.

The news spurred a terse e-mail from Ewell to "all city employees," warning against the destruction of documents that might be sought by federal investigators looking into city finances and its pension system.

Terse warning


"As you have been advised earlier, because of the pending federal investigations, you are not to destroy, discard, alter, or delete any record or document, whether electronic, hard copy, or otherwise covered or potentially covered under any category of the subpoenas received from the SEC or U.S. Attorney's Office."

– From an e-mail sent by San Diego City Manager Lamont Ewell to city employees
Deputy City Manager Lisa Irvine said it is not unusual for files to be periodically purged. She said some of the records – exactly how many and what information they contained, she could not say – are backed up by computer files. She said she did not think the destroyed records had been sought by federal investigators.

Ewell's office said he was out of town and unavailable for comment. He did not return a message left on his cell phone.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible securities fraud related to the city's bond disclosures. The treasurer's Financing Services division oversees the issuance of city bonds and is responsible for ensuring the city's compliance with federal securities laws.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office are also probing the city's financial practices, and the FBI is conducting a separate investigation of possible public corruption at City Hall.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/2...n22pension.html

New Chairman for House Ethics Panel


By CARL HULSE

Published: February 3, 2005

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 - House Republicans on Wednesday replaced the ethics committee chairman who presided over cases that led last year to admonishments of Representative Tom DeLay, the majority leader, selecting a Washington State lawmaker with ties to the leadership as the new head of the panel.


The new chairman, Representative Doc Hastings, was approved by the House Republican membership after he was picked for the post by Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. He will take over for Representative Joel Hefley, Republican of Colorado, who drew the ire of some fellow Republicans after a series of findings against Mr. DeLay.

"I didn't seek this appointment," Mr. Hastings said in a statement, "but I'm honored by it and will do my best to carry out my duties fairly, with utmost respect for this institution - and without regard to friendship, favor or political party."



Shove it up your arse jerk, we know why you were appointed. So no Republicans are ever bothered with questions about ethics again. Go screw yourself. Screw your $$$$ driven values and morals, and screw your crooked bought and paid for party. This is the final nail in the Contract for America.

God damned corporate whores make me want to wretch..


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/politics...html?oref=login

Here's the real Republican faith-based values for you. They have faith they can get away with criminal behavior at will. Whores.




House GOP Leaders Name Loyalist to Replace Ethics Chief

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page A01

House Republican leaders tightened their control over the ethics committee yesterday by ousting its independent-minded chairman, appointing a replacement who is close to them and adding two new members who donated to the legal defense fund of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.).

Republican officials have spent months taking steps to ensure DeLay's political survival in case he is indicted by a Texas grand jury investigating political fundraising, and House leadership aides said they needed to have the ethics committee controlled by lawmakers they can trust.




Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), who clashed with DeLay so often that they barely spoke and was considered wayward by other leaders, was replaced yesterday with Rep. Richard Hastings (R-Wash.). Hastings has carried out other sensitive leadership assignments and is known as a favorite of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who made the decision.

Hefley said in an interview yesterday that he believes he was removed because he was too independent. He said there is "a bad perception out there that there was a purge in the committee and that people were put in that would protect our side of the aisle better than I did."

"Nobody should be there to protect anybody," he said. "They should be there to protect the integrity of the institution."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...4-2005Feb2.html

So basically, Republicans can take their little ink stained fingers and shove them.

How about some REAL democracy in our own country, you lying jerks?

From what I can see from quoted posts, davis, who used to be a notch above miz, has now suddenly dropped a notch, maybe two below miz. That's quite an accomplishment in my book.

What morals? What values? Criminals covering for other criminals is called conspiracy to obstruct justice.


Donors to DeLay fund put on ethics panel




WASHINGTON - Two donors to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s defense fund were named Wednesday to the House ethics committee, which twice last year admonished the Texas Republican.


In a shake-up of the bipartisan panel that critics called part of a purge and a “shutdown” of ethics enforcement, Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, also replaced the ethics chairman, Joel Hefley, a Colorado Republican, with Washington state Republican Doc Hastings, who was already on the panel.

Hefley’s term as chairman was up. Though it could have been extended, Hastert decided to replace him for the 109th Congress, which began last month.

Hastert appointed to the panel Republican Reps. Lamar Smith of Texas and Tom Cole of Oklahoma. Both have donated to a defense fund DeLay created in 2000 after Democrats filed a civil racketeering suit — later dismissed with the agreement of both sides — over his fund-raising network.

Smith donated $10,000 and Cole donated $5,000, according to the government-watchdog group Public Citizen.

The ethics committee last year admonished DeLay in two separate reports, on a total of three matters: a 2002 fund-raiser that it said gave the appearance of donors getting special access; enlisting the help of a federal agency in a Texas political spat, and offering a political favor to a member in an effort to win passage of the Medicare drug bill.

Three of DeLay’s associates were indicted by a Texas grand jury in September in connection with illegal fund raising. The prosecutor has said the investigation is not finished. DeLay has said he is confident he will not be indicted.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6903462/

Where was their precious god when they decided to become whores?

Ethics? We don’t need no steenking ethics!

Muchas Gracias!

The party of Toricelli and Traficant speaks.

Ya wouldn't mean me would ya? Don't even try to tie me to those weasels. I have been consistent since day one. Rostenkowski? POS. Clinton pardoning him? Disgusting as the Republican ethics rules change.

The Democrats declared an ethics "truce" so to speak because their greedy, grubby little paws were in everyone's pocket.

Now Republicans have taken their place and multiplied it a thousandfold. On top of that, they disable the very mechanism they used to gain power and bring down that other crook, Jim Wright.

Pulled the ladder up after them didn't they?

Yep, all in or all out.

yeah, yeah, I know. You're with us or against us. Choose one or the other. Conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, the chosen or the heathen, the patriotic or the traitors.

The DeLays or the Rostenkowskis. Defend one or the other to the death, but choose?


Forget it. Crooks is crooks.

they cant grasp that concept dave.

Don't blame me, You gotta play by your own rules.

You're worse than davis with the mindless one sided rants. If anyone can't grasp the concept you're the king. Davis at least pays lip service to the concept once on a while.

Hey arti let me prove to you that you are the one that is one sided and full of poopy.

Take a look at this link

http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo1/bil...apons&year=2005

and the bills that the f___kin DEMOCRATS are proposing in my state. In particular read the specifics of SB5475, which if passed will mean that I and my AR15 ASSAULT WEAPON will either have to report to the sherrif once a year or he will come to my house to inspect it.


I just went through and found the websites for all of these chickenshits so I can let them know how I feel.

Anyway. What were you saying?

It pays to actually be an American arti, rather than some party first piece of sh_t.

You maybe ought to try it some time.

SOS Blah blah blah

Like dogs....returning to their own vomit.

Its only a REAL democracy when the liberal candidate wins.............Anything else is considered oppression.................

Yeah thats what I thought you dodging chickenshit.

More yada yada yada blah blah blah. Repuslican this reich that.

Your earlier posts did send me off to nappy time right though.

I guess this belongs here.

Just call me a spammer.

"What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?--dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must."
-- Mark Twain-1871

Come on!! How many fake reporters, planted stories and outright propaganda do we have to take before these rightwing jerks are acknowleged to be the liars they really are?


Online Reporter Quits After Liberals' Expose

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 10, 2005; Page C04

The conservative reporter who asked President Bush a loaded question at a news conference last month resigned yesterday after liberal bloggers uncovered his real name and raised questions about his background.

Jeff Gannon, who had been writing for the Web sites Talon News and GOPUSA, is actually James Dale Guckert, 47, and has been linked to online domain addresses with sexually provocative names.


He has been under scrutiny since asking Bush how he could work with Senate Democratic leaders "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality." The information about Gannon was posted on the liberal sites Daily Kos, Atrios and World o' Crap.

Under the headline "A Voice of the New Media: The Voice Goes Silent," Gannon wrote on his personal Web page that because of the attention "I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News" and that he is quitting "in consideration of the welfare of me and my family." Gannon added in a brief interview that "my family has been victimized" and that he wanted to "put some separation between Talon News and the White House."

Gannon's resignation highlights the no-holds-barred atmosphere of the Web, which both enabled him to function as a reporter -- his stories appeared on a site founded by Texas Republican activist Bobby Eberle -- and produced a swarm of critics determined to expose him.

Among the domain names registered by Gannon's company several years ago, but never launched, were Hotmilitarystud.com, Militaryescorts.com and Militaryescortsm4m.com, along with Exposejessejackson.com. The bloggers also have linked to a since-withdrawn America Online photo of a man who appears to be Gannon, posing in his underwear, with a screen name bearing the initials "JDG."

Markos Moulitsas, a San Francisco liberal who writes the popular Kos site, said of Gannon: "He has been extremely anti-gay in his writings. He's been a shill for the Christian right. So there's a certain level of hypocrisy there that I thought was fair game and needed to be called out."

Asked if digging into someone's personal and business activities was proper retaliation, Moulitsas said: "If that's what it took to really bring attention to him, it's one of those unfortunate facts of reality in the way we operate today. It's sex that really draws attention to these things."

Gannon, whose past postings have been removed from his site and by Talon and GOPUSA, denied taking positions against gays. "I have not written any anti-gay articles," he said. "I have written stories on the White House position on the gay marriage amendment."

In 2003, when Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told the Associated Press that legalizing gay sex could lead to judicial approval of "man on dog" activities, Gannon wrote a Talon article headlined "Santorum Won't Apologize; AP Reporter Has Kerry Ties." Gannon quoted gay activists offering what he said were "predictable responses," then questioned the role of the AP reporter, who was married to John Kerry's then-campaign manager.

In a story last year, Gannon wrote that Kerry "might someday be known as 'the first gay president.' . . . The Massachusetts liberal has enjoyed a 100% rating from the homosexual advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), since 1995 in recognition of his support for the pro-gay agenda."