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Jeffress Who? (Or, Today’s Sports ‘n Stuff Open Thread, Pt Deux)

By: aesthete (Diary)  |  October 8th, 2011 at 06:30 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As promised, the highly-anticipated sequel to last week’s incredibly successful open thread is finally upon us!! If you would rather not relive the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Second Great Awakening, this is the place for you!

As with the “Palin Who?” open thread, the rules are simple:

1) Do not post anything having to do with Jeffress or religion in the context of politics, or acat, myself, or a forum regular will assail you with a delicious recipe. (Feel free to post other stories on religion, though.)

2) Post whatever you think would be interesting or useful to the RS community — last time we mostly talked about sports, but as Cole Porter put it, anything goes.

I’ll kick us off by congratulating MI for a job well done in sports and politics lately: between the Tigers beating the Yankees, the Lions’ great season so far, and Gov Rick Snyder’s attempts to make MI business-friendly once more, things are looking up for Detroit in a way that hasn’t been true for years. Requisite article link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576617280722057142.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

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  • runner12

    an epic beatdown to Kansas, poor souls. They are great in b. ball, but pitiful in football. Final score was 70-28, starters pulled towards the end of the second quarter. 35 point scored in the first quarter.

    Oh yeah, OU beat Texas :)

    • rightwingmom52

      . . .

  • Doc Holliday

    protesters treating John Lewis poorly, I think I heard this one before. While watching this, I thought to myself, what if these people Meade’s Council of War on the third day at Gettysburg. I probably am alone in thinking that way, but it made me laugh.

    If you make it past three minutes I will be amazed.

    • JSobieski

      The verbatim repeating of everything the speaker says . . . THIS IS A CULT!

      • rightwingmom52

        I’m guessing that like most people, I grew up saying the Pledge like this…

        I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

        [pause]

        and to the republic

        [pause]

        for which it stands

        [pause]

        one nation

        [pause]

        under God

        [pause]

        indivisible

        [pause]

        with liberty and justice for all.

        At a recent meeting of our local GOP, a tea party member led the pledge. She pointed out beforehand that there should be no break in “one nation under God.” Now we say it without the break at our GOP meetings and our tea party meetings.

        • gekster

          Play this if you can, for your members.
          I think they will understand more of what it means.

  • Doc Holliday

    he didn’t have to speak to these nuts. It would probably be hard to give a rousing, America bashing speech to a bunch of freaks who are not allowed to clap or talk out of turn, and keep making spider hands at you.

    • aesthete

      Yes, that’s probably the case.

  • lineholder

    NFL Political Donations Shows the League Leans Right

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/44820878

    ROFL, if the NFL isn’t careful, they’ll be deemed raaacciiiisstts! BTW, I didn’t know ESPN took Hank’s “Are You Ready To Rumble” intro out of circulation.

  • Tbone

    kicked out of here. LOL.

  • aesthete

    Interesting article.

  • Kyle-MI

    It sounded interesting until they mentioned that the vast majority of political donations from the Texans was due to the owner. I now wonder how much of the other political donations just reflect the owners’ views. It would be interesting to see a breakdown by players, owners, and coaches.

  • acat

    Ingredients:
    One thick-cut T-bone steak.
    2 cloves of garlic
    1/4 c grapeseed* oil
    1 tsp oregano
    1/4 tsp onion powder
    1/4 tsp salt
    1/4 tsp black pepper

    Preparation:

    Crush the garlic with a heavy knife, then mince.
    Mix the garlic, oil, and spices.
    Coat the steak with the oil-and-spice mixture.
    Place the steak in a ziploc bag in the refrigerator overnight.

    Cooking:

    Turn the grill all the way up. Let it get good and hot. Keep it closed!
    Place the steak on the grill. Close the grill!
    Wait 3-5 minutes. Turn the steak. Close the grill!
    Wait 3-5 minutes. (longer for medium or well done **)
    Remove from grill.
    Serve with sauteed mushroom caps and veggies.

    Mew

    * Grapeseed oil, unlike olive oil, doesn’t break down under high heat. Unlike other cooking oils, notably canola, I’ve not run into anyone who won’t eat it.

    ** No accounting for taste. Some people like broccoli, some like shoe-leather steaks.

  • Doc Holliday

    I don’t feed Canada haters, they will get canola and like it!

  • Tbone

    http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/labs/anatomy_&_physiology/a&p201/cat_skinning/cat_skinning.htm

  • westcoastpatriette

    due to the tight budget. Instead–and don’t laugh–we are having gourmet fishsticks with the chef’s version of mac and cheese. But it’ll do when you’re hungry.

  • acat

    a gourmet fish stick?

    Mew

  • runner12

    I am not a big fan of fried foods, but I do like a good basket of fish and chips every once in a blue moon.

    Yummy!

  • lineholder

    I can do that. Any of y’all live in the south? Ever had turtle stew?

  • westcoastpatriette

    and the chef’s mac and cheese comes in special box. Don’t you have fishsticks in Chicago?

  • Kyle-MI

    I was a beer battered salmon at a brew pub, although the place never used the word “gourmet” on the menu.

  • aesthete

    The Gourmet fishsticks, that is.

  • acat

    Gourmet, though, makes it sound better than the usual cod or halibut or whatever. Orange roughy or ranbow trout fish sticks would, for instance, possibly qualify as “gourmet”.

    Mew

  • acat

    but I don’t know Who would get the reference….

    Mew

  • westcoastpatriette

    because I’m teasing. They’re not really gourmet and I think they are cod. Can’t imagine ruining orange roughy in a fish stick.

  • Doc Holliday

    about two bucks.

    I will be here all week.

    So no one got my Canola joke, well, I do tend to go for the obscure, Dennis Miller type stuff.

  • Menlo

    There are a whole bunch of recipes from past and present members of Congress if you need any ideas.

    I recall several years ago, some people got a chuckle from former senator Larry Craig’s contribution. I’m more interested in trying Barbara Boxer’s blueberry muffin recipe.

  • Menlo

    This has happened many times before. I’m not sure what’s wrong with the comment forms here.

  • Doc Holliday

    I am not getting much traction here lol, I might have to go join the Holy War :)

    Good one with the Larry Craig recipe, it speaks for itself. And I actually had heard of that book.

  • westcoastpatriette

    .

  • acat

    I just hadn’t replied yet. Here ya go.

    Still, they’ve got Tim Horton’s…. that’s gotta count for somethin’

    Mew

  • aesthete

    …

  • runner12

    NT

  • Doc Holliday

    did you really get my joke? I thought it was clever.

    see, this is how the joke works.

    1) you mentioned some people won’t consume canola oil.
    2) I assumed you were referring to it not being “natural”, having been created in a lab.
    3) I took the obscure fact that Canola was invented by Canadians, to pretend the objection was to Canadian provenance.
    4) then I threw in that line from Judge Smales.

    see, it is funny right? Ok maybe not, you try making jokes about recipes :)

  • westcoastpatriette

    Never heard of Tim Hortons and what is a zamboni?

  • acat

    I am not familiar with the justice in question so clearly missed that part.

    Yes, the objection I hear most often to canola is that it’s derived from the rapeseed plant, a member of the mustard family.

    Mew

  • Doc Holliday

    much beloved I hear. A zamboni is used to smooth ice at the hockey rink. I think the main problem here is this is a slow news day lol.

  • westcoastpatriette

    I live in So. Cal.–too far from Canada to know about their donuts and I am not into ice hockey so I wouldn’t know about the zamboni, either.

  • lineholder

    The FBI is preparing to launch a nationwide facial recognition service. The Institute for Energy Research estimates that we will lose 28GW of power-producing capacity due to EPA regulations. The Institute of Medicine has released it?s recommendations to DHHS for government-defined health benefit packages. The current administration is facing not one but two separate scandals, Fast and Furious and Solyndra. Our national debt is over $14 trillion dollars and climbing with each day that passes. More than 50 million people are on Medicaid, and a recent CMS ruling will ensure that 17 million more people can be enrolled nationwide. Close to 10 million people are receiving extended unemployment benefits. More than 40 million people are on food stamps. We have 22.5 million government employees. Unemployment is steady at 9.1 % of our population (14 million people). 44.6% of these individuals have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. Unemployment projection forecasts indicate that this rate will be increasing during the next few months, with the potential to reach 10.3% by April of 2012. Presidential job approval is at an average of 42.1 %. Congressional job approval is at an average of 13%. The number of people who believe that our country is heading in the right direction is at an average of 20.8% 70% of people polled say our country is currently in a recession. Just 6% of people polled believe most politicians keep their campaign promises. Only 4% of Americans say that they have a great deal of trust in politicians. What?s even worse, the same poll shows that the level of confidence American?s have in themselves is lower now than it has been since prior to 1974!

    If you read all of that, it’s part of a diary I’ve been working on this evening while waiting for news about one of my sons…hospital….high fever….kidney infection. That’s why I wasn’t here to get to talk about food.

    But as you can see, we have plenty going on. Just a matter of making a choice of topic!

  • westcoastpatriette

    I live in So. Cal. which isn’t really the south but more like the west. So, please tell us what is in turtle stew?

  • Doc Holliday

    I said it was a slow news day, meaning not much new. That the news is bad, isn’t new imho, and it is quite bad.

  • rightwingmom52

    Keep me posted.

  • lineholder

    But all that stuff above is just the lead-in to the good news. That was the point of the diary. No, I’m not going to tell you. Call it a “teaser”.

  • acat

    Been to NYC, Toronto, Atlanta, San Fran & Berkeley, Seattle, Dallas…

    I remember Canadians being quite attached to Tim Horton’s, and am pretty sure Cali has the Mighty Ducks NHL (National Hockey League) team in Anaheim… haven’t made it there yet.

    Goals for this decade .. before gas gets *completely* insane, drive Routes 66 and 101 from end to end.

    Mew

  • lineholder

    is made from a great big water turtle. Not endangered species, in case anyone asks. After removing the meat from the turtle, it’s roasted over an pit. Then it’s stewed for hours on end with onions, potatoes, tomatoes. If you’ve ever had venizon stew, it’s a bit like that.

  • Doc Holliday

    if that link doesn’t work, I am going be irrate at Chrome. btw, Judge Smailes was from Caddyshack, you had to have seen it.

    and I knew you got the joke, I was making fun of myself. I know how sharp you are.

    btw, I didn’t know about the mustard thing. Americans sure do find a lot of things to be allergic too.

  • lineholder

    Learn something new every day. Do you have a natural interest in this particular topic (would it be included in horticulture?) or was this a fact that you picked up somewhere and it just lodged in your mind to be pulled out for special occasions?

  • Doc Holliday

    Judge Smails = character by Ted Knight “Caddyshack”

  • Doc Holliday

    I think we need some good news.

  • lineholder

    ^

  • acat

    And yes, Americans have managed to deeply mess up our immune systems – allergies are in part an immune response – thanks in part to over a decade of antibacterial soaps killing off the useful little wrigglies in our lives.

    Mew

  • Doc Holliday

    can do that with lots of subjects, big brain on that one. You never know when vegetable oil knowledge will come in handy :)

  • acat

    is that I’m a filter-feeder of data. I read quite a lot and remember obscure stuff.

    Mew

  • westcoastpatriette

    How do you remove the meat from the turtle?

  • aesthete

    I’ve had venison before, but not venison stew.

  • lineholder

    I’ve seen you, acat, JSob and a few others do it many, many times over.

  • lineholder

    Seriously, my grandparents lived for most of their lives in a small mill village in SC. They have a lot of ways…hunting, fishing, unusual uses for all sorts of items.

    My parents, on the other hand, preferred a bit larger metropolis with more opportunities.

  • Doc Holliday

    if it can’t make me any money, i learn it lol.

  • westcoastpatriette

    …

  • aesthete

    Some of the stuff that stuck has made or saved me money, though I can’t say that most of my knowledge of history falls under that category, heh.