Author: David

…and a ticked off neighbor

It sure wasn’t “Homeland Security” (whatever that means this week) at work… at least not the good ole American kind.

Al-Qaida Operative Nabbed Near Mexican Border

“An al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list was recently captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said on Friday… The Iraqi national “had apparently aggravated a neighbor in Mexico, who turned him in to Mexican authorities,” he explained. Mexican officials then turned him over to the U.S. officials… “

Plain dumb luck. If we had good border security, we’d not have to depend on dumb luck, though.

Report: 10 Million Illegal Aliens in U.S.

Gee. The Al-Qaeda guy woulda been better off to do his observations from the U.S. side of the border, eh? Yeh, well, there are probably plenty of ’em doing that already. “Border Patrol,” “Homeland Security”… pull the other one.

Build a sieve and call it a border.

Institute harrassment of Medal of Honor receipients, active duty military (in uniform and with orders), nursing mothers (drink that breast milk, ma’am!) and call it “air travel security”. (Do I have to link to these well-documented events?)

Hogwash.

Linked at Committees of Correspondence, Is It Just Me?, Don Surber, NIF, Robinik.net, The Political Teen, MacStansbury, Right Wing Nation, and Thanksgiving Week Open Trackbacks at Choose Life! (Note that one, folks-looks like someone may be taking aim at NIF’s attempted Mongous Trackback Post. heh), Blogin’ Outloud, The Florida Masochist

Before you read this, put down the coffee. No, swallow that last sip, don’t hold it. (Eeew. Cleaning coffee outa keyboards and offa monitors is such a pain.) NOW, CLICK HERE and read.

heh

h/t Right Wing Nation Open Trackback Saturday post (Yeh, I’m that far behind in my reading, but catching up as fast as I can-have you discovered yet just how many cool blogs these Open Posts are bringing “up front”? Cool! Dwarfs even my collection of blogrolls… )

Check out the Open Trackback info below the Featured Blog

Ipso Facto Blog has become a daily read for me, ever since Mike Wallster tracked back to me here. Mike’s talent and his eye/ear for humor are unmistakeable. He’s also very quick to respond to comments. One day, I mentioned I needed to find/work out a script to display his comic on my sidebar, so as to both point folks to his Ipso Facto Blog and to be a “quick link” for me to click on to check the full-size version at his blog. Next day? He had one ready for folks. Cool. Pick up the script by checking out this post. Or just Click on the comic below and pick the script up.

OPEN TRACKBACKS!

Today is an Open Post Day, all day. In fact, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays (Friday’s post open all weekend) are Open Trackback Post days.

Open Post info: Edit a post (or posts 🙂 of your own that you want to have featured here to include a link to this post. Trackback to my trackback URI (just right-click on “trackback” at the foot of this post and select “copy link” or “copy link location”–however your browser indicates. If your blog software can’t send trackback pings you can use Wizbang’s Standalone Trackback Pinger. If you have trouble, please leave a comment. I’ll try to help. Be sure to reference the Open Trackback Alliance blogroll and the Open Trackback Provider blogroll in my left sidebar. The more you play, the more folks will see your posts!

Update: for folks that trackbacks are new to, here’s what you need to trackback to this post:

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Linked at Committees of Correspondence, Is It Just Me?, Don Surber, Conservative Cat, NIF, Robinik.net, The Political Teen, MacStansbury, Right Wing Nation, Jo’s Cafe, Breakfast at Basil’s and Thanksgiving Week Open Trackbacks at Choose Life! (Note that one, folks-looks like someone may be taking aim at NIF’s attempted Mongous Trackback Post. heh), Blogin’ Outloud, The Florida Masochist

…the Coltillion Interview and while the questions Basil asked and the answers the ladies gave were all almost equally interesting, this one tickled my fancy:

“How do you handle writer’s block?”

The ladies’ answers were cool, but I prefer my method of dealing with writer’s block over all others:

I simply emulate James Joyce and start spewing unconnected, random words that have apparent connection without having any cohesive meaning. When something starts to stick to the screen, I know I’ve found some good $*** and start blogging.

Often, I’m wrong of course, and it’s not good $*** at all, but really bad $*** and ought to be a candidate for a “worst of the blogosphere” award. So? It still keeps the voices in my head mollified…

😉

Maybeso. Not confirmed. Keep an open mind on this, but cautious optimism seems warranted since even Reuters notes the possibility. heh

If true, it won’t end the terrorist attacks on civilians in Iraq, but it will put a dent in them-again, if this proves out.

UPDATE (Monday): Nope. New news says probably NOT. More as things unfold, but this was just a lil premature, looks like.

OTOH, maybe for Christmas Santa will put a Zarqawi in America’s stocking. heh. (I’d rather he deliver some spine and stones to Republican’t Congresscritters, but bagging Zarqawi looks to be more possible… )

Is my blog looking kinda wonky? CLICK here for an explanation.

And a well deserved “2X4 upside the head” delivered to “racist and sexist… misogynistic moonbats with Asian whore fixations…”

Just read Michelle Malkin’s perfect 600 score. (Hint: 400 is a perfect score for women in match point shooting. A score of 600 is perfect for men. She can shoot this way in any competition!).

[N.B. edited 11-21-05]

…then you need a heart and soul transplant.

Just CLICK HERE or on the pic below

If you can watch the linked Flash presentation and not be moved deeply, just go away. I don’t want to know you.

Linked at The Uncooperative Blogger, Don Surber, Peakah’s Productions, Stop the ACLU, Soldier’s Angel, Common Sense Runs Wild, MVRWC, Outside the Beltway, MacStansbury, Right Wing Nation, Where are my socks?, TMH’s Bacon Bits, NIF (where TJ continues to “blog by trackback-proxy”), Basil’s Sunday Brunch, and Mensa Barbie.

[BTW, click here for an explanation of an obscure term used in the background music.]

Crossposted to Cathouse Chat

Found at Committees of Correspondence (thanks, Dan!), via a link in yesterday’s Open Post. See? People do read those thing!

🙂

Regular Ole Black Beans and Rice

Ingredients

• 2 cups dry black beans
• olive oil
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 1/2 teaspoons garlic
• 1 jalapeño pepper, diced
• 1 cup tomatoes, diced
• OR, instead of the jalapeño and tomatoes, a can of Rotel chiles and tomatoes
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (or Chinese Five Spice)
• 2 cups beef stock
• OR water only and one package of dry onion soup mix
• salt and pepper to taste
• Rice, any old way you wanna cook it.

Preparation

Start this one the night before. (You can move that to morning and do step 4 all day) Black beans just take more prep than pintos. Go ahead and don’t do it this way. You can always load your 00 shells with the resultant rocks.

1. Wash and sort the beans. I usually do this with a large pot and a sieve. Beans in sieve, water in pot. Running water over beans. You can work out the mechanics.
2. Put the 2C beans in at least 4C water and bring to a boil.
3. Remove from heat, cover and let sit for at least one hour.
4. After soaking in the hot water for an hour, pour off the water and add more, fresh water to cover the beans (about 2″-3″ over the beans).
5. NOW let ’em soak overnight. The next day, they’re ready to cook. NO SALT WHILE THEY’RE COOKING at first. Save that for the LAST step.
6. Pour off the water again, add the beef stock and enough water to cover (again, by about 2″3″. Then, bring the beans to a boil and back the heat off to simmer. Cover. Let ’em simmer about an hour or until you can remove a bean and make the skin curl off by blowing on it or it just tastes/feels done to you. Meanwhile, while the beans are simmering, assemblle the rest. Dice the onions, garlic and jalapeño, then lightly saute them in the olive oil. Chop the tomatoes, etc.
7. Now that the beans are done, add all the other stuff and let it come together at a simmer for at least 20 minutes… while your rice is finishing up.

Serve scoops of the beans over rice.