The news out of Japan just keeps getting worse. One reactor may have partially melted down and another has suffered a dramatic explosion at the Fukushima plant. More and more photos are becoming available showing the extent of the physical damage (click on the picture for more):
The human tragedy is still unfolding. Thousands of bodies are washing ashore, overwhelming those responsible for the rescue and recovery efforts. Thousands are stranded, waiting for assistance, delayed by infrastructure damage.
We should all offer our prayers.
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Why Are the Libertarians Silent About Radical Islam? Good question. Answers anyone? Noticeably absent from the debate is America’s libertarian movement. Cato, Reason, the Libertarian Party, the Ron Paulists, have all kept largely silent on King’s hearings. [List of bad things Islamists do and intruduce the right and left libertarian groups] (snip) Thus the silence on the subject of Radical… Read more »
Hamous;
Thanks for altering the new voting system by removing it entirely. Things on my end are running much better without them.
mharper #127; I have been quite surprised to see the number of news shots showing survivors holding small fluffy dogs. I had no idea pets had become popular in Japan. Me too. Only my curiosity wondered if the Japanese ate dogs; or was that just the Chinese and Koreans? I’m glad the pooches are doing well and I hope and… Read more »
Stossel: Did ‘Drunks and Prostitutes and Slackers’ Play as Big a Role in History as the Founding Fathers?
A very interesting take on history.
Animal lover that I am, I appreciated Drudge’s link to the story of the 2 pet dogs that survived the tsunami.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703363904576200571710073008.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLTopStories
I have been quite surprised to see the number of news shots showing survivors holding small fluffy dogs. I had no idea pets had become popular in Japan.
Night all.
Go to National Review Online and search “Happy Pi Day”. I think either Wagonburner or Shannon wrote the script.
These stories about buying food online and sending to folks recalls a rather horrible story I heard this winter when a colleague from Beijing spent 2 weeks in Houston for some training. She mentioned shopping for family as time neared for her return. When I asked what she had bought to take back, the really sad item was powdered milk… Read more »
Horse lard?
#118 Hammy
Hey, you could make a mean vegetarian chili with that!
Whoa, the up/down buttons are gone. Too many hard feelings?
Apparently this new voting format is lagging my hamous uploads. And it looks like no matter what I upload at post #111.
With all this food talk, does anyone else remember the show Alice?
Grappling/wresling would beat boxing/kicking virtually every time. The Viral Bully Body-Slam Video Every Teased Kid’s Been Waiting For UPDATE: Forgot to add the BS result. “The larger kid on the right [being bullied], is my son’s friend Casey – thankfully they don’t go to the same school. Poor Casey has been bullied his whole high school life, and this is… Read more »
Is there anything you can’t get on Amazon?
Dixie Lily grits
Bob’s Red Mill grits
And here’s something I hope we can all agree is worthy of a hanging. I got a rope.
#109 Sherman
Thanks for saying I remind you of your mother. 🙂
#106 gto42
Mainly pasta dishes: lasagna and cold pasta salads. Dishes that rewarm well or are good cold.
http://services.mercantec.com/Merchant/?m=11442&p1=111503
#113 Hamous (and eggs, with a side of grits) I too have noticed a lack of yellow grits lately. They were readily available 10 or so years ago, and I’d very much like to send some to my friend from Philly for his birthday in April. Apparently up thar, there ain’t no grits at all. If you run across a… Read more »
I haven’t seen yellow grits in any grocery store here. Whenever I go back to Florida I always pick up a few bags of Dixie Lily yellow grits to bring home. Canino’s has some good stone ground yellow corn meal. I fry my cornbread. In lard. With cracklings mixed in. Hmm. I think I’ll mix up a pan to go… Read more »
Bob’s Red Mill brand of stuff has the only real yellow grits I can find. Which is a pain because that means a trip to Harold E. Butts. I hate that place. The layout defies any sense of logic. If you can find the Red Mill display try that in cornbread. It tastes great They also have a naturally blue… Read more »
About as far as I go into chili sacrilege is mixing up a batch with Carrol Shelby’s mix on occasion during turkey hunting season. Get it out of a can??? That’d be like menudo out of a can. It just ain’t fittin’.
But cans as an only source? heathen.
It’s Okay, mharpie.
Even a chili snob like me enjoys a can of Wolf brand every once in a while.
Reminds me of Mom, who thought chili was invented by Wolf.
Ya’ll want something good to cook with beans? Feijoada’s the way to go.
You are correct, bob.
(as I grab my chest in horror)
There’s nothIng quite like pouring the batter into that pre-heated greasy skillet, knowing you’ve done all you can to insure that perfect, dry crust on the bottom and edges, watching the batter pop just as it’s pour in……ahhhhhhhh
Hope you did not take that the wrong way. Back when you did hadta, what did you like?
Yep, more indication of what a plebe I am. Downright Little Endian…
“get my chili out of a can.”
That is, without doubt, the most vile, heinous, blasphemous, comment ever posted. Are you from Jersey or some other alien land? All real food has Trappey’s jalapenos added at some point or at least the chance to do so. Can?? gadzookes.
/shudders at the horror
#99 Bones
FIFBOY 🙂
#101 gto42 Recipes… I don’t wanna, I don’t haveta, I’m (almost) retired. Get my cornbread at a grocery with a good in-house bakery. Quite content to get my chili out of a can. I’m partial to Wolf brand Texas Style Hot. My oven hasn’t been on since Christmas Day. Once upon a time, I baked my own bread (including before… Read more »
Ten recipes for cornbread. Four for chili, none with beans. There is a recipe for armadillo that uses beans. Also has the real King Ranch Casserole recipe.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_9_21?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=texas+ranger+cookbook&sprefix=texas+ranger+cookbook
hunnert!
#97 Bob:
FIFY:>)
#96 TT
You’re right. I heard myself saying “I’m a live and let live kind of gal.” 🙂
#96 I’m not sure if I should be flattered or offended. So I’ll just be me.
#95 Mharper
Better watch out. You’re starting to sound a little like Bob.
#93 Pyro
Still shaking my head. I am fine with everyone making their cornbread and chili (good combination, BTW) to their own preference.
#89 WB, if one somehow fails to save their bacon grease, butter will suffice, but it should be clarified to withstand the heat.
That’s nothing compared to the beanless chili purists and the philistines with the beans.
Some extremely good news from Japan.
Now, if you’ll excuse me for a minute, I think I have some dust in my eyes.
Sheesh, we are Big Endian and Little Endian even over the shape, composition, and utensils allowed for making cornbread.
/Sighs, shakes head
Wagon #88;
Like he gives a caca. 😈
#87 bob
or butter…
#81 hamous
hater
#79/86 pre-heated and freshly oiled with bacon grease. Nomz.
#79 Shannon
You are correct. 😉
KYODO: Power rationing to last through April…
Is it me or does anyone else see the irony in this Drudge title?
Mr. Charles, er uh, he was killed outright but Miss Baby, she was alright till me and Junior turned her head around.
Cornbread are round and made with stone ground flour. Square cornbread as served most places is cornbread cake. ugh.
That’s a bit from an old comedy album my dad had. It was either Brother Dave Gardner or Andy Griffith.