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Thursday, November 30
Your comments are broke, please fix them!
CARPENTER'S - LORD OF THE TECHS is a blog where the comments are broken. I fill in the comment, username, password and URL, and then I get a page that tells me to login!
There probably is a reason why Carpenter doesn't have any comments!
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Tuesday, November 28
What American accent do I have?
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. |
| The Inland North | |
| The South | |
| The West | |
| North Central | |
| The Northeast | |
| Philadelphia | |
| Boston | |
What American accent do you have?
Take More Quizzes |
OK, somebody that grew up in Central Ohio with a helluva lot of West Virginians thrown in (although I've pretty much lost that accent, even if it has become music to my ears), living near a large Florida city (Jacksonville).
And yes, I probably do have the right accent for a job on TV/radio.
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Sunday, November 19
Roasted garlic and fresh rosemary cloverleaf rolls
Roasted Garlic and Fresh Rosemary Cloverleaf Rolls(Adapted from CL)
1 whole garlic head
2 1/4 teaspoons dry yeast
1 cup warm milk
3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour, divided
2 tablespoons butter, softened
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350
Gently remove the white papery skin from garlic head (do not peel or separate the cloves). Wrap head in foil. Bake at 350° for 1 hour; cool slightly. Separate cloves; squeeze to extract garlic pulp. Discard skins.
Dissolve yeast in milk in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Add garlic pulp. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Add 1 cup flour, 2 tablespoons butter, sugar, salt, egg, and rosemary; beat with a mixer at medium speed until combined. Add 2 cups flour, and beat until smooth. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead for about 8 minutes until smooth and elastic; add enough of remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands.
Place the dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Punch dough down. Divide dough into 12 equal portions. Divide each portion into 3 pieces, and shape each piece into a ball. Coat 12 muffin cups with cooking spray; place 3 dough balls in each muffin cup. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes or until doubled in size.
Preheat oven to 400
Uncover dough, and brush tops with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Bake at 400 for 12 minutes or until browned.
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Thursday, November 9
What's your expression number?
| Your Expression Number is 7 |
Very intelligent, you are usually thinking, introspecting, or analyzing.
You have a good mind, and you are especially good at finding out the truth.
Very little ever escapes your observation and deep understanding.
You tend to obsess over wisdom and hidden truths.
You are likely to become a authority on any subject you undertake.
Operating on a different wavelength, most people don't know you that well.
Very logical and rational, at times you tend to lack emotion.
So much so, that you often have times coping with emotional situations.
You are not very adaptable - you may tend to be overly critical at times. |
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Wednesday, November 8
Testing, testing - you can safely ignore.
Test blog entry from blogmailr.com
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Tuesday, November 7
Yet another Page Rank checker
I had one of these in my sidebar, and then the site got crushed by the traffic, and went under. We'll see how this works.
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Terrorism! It's the single issue for voting! NOT!
One Hand ClappingDonald Sensing wrote:
I was talking on the phone a few weeks ago with a friend who said that the only issue that mattered to him this November is the war on terror. "If we don't get the war right," he said, "the Medicare prescription plan won't matter, Social Security won't matter, nothing else will matter."
I don't think so.
Hence, The SF Examiner wonders whether Americans are sleepwalking into a gathering storm, much as the British did in the 1930s.This is indeed another time for choosing. Embattled Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said it well in a recent speech. "The war is at our doorsteps and it is fueled, figuratively and literally, by Islamic fascism nurtured and bred in Iran," Santorum warned. "… Many Americans are sleepwalking, just as they did before the world wars of the last century. They pretend it is not happening, that it all has to do with the errors of a single American administration, even of a single American president. … It's time to wake up."
OK! Let's bring in the Nazis!
Goodwin's Law. Game over! Well, not for them obviously. And this isn't even in the comment section, but the main blog entry.
Gee, the war on terrorism has gone from Iraq to Iran. Yep, that's exactly what he said.
Is the war in Iraq like Vietnam, as its opponents declare and its supporters deride? Hollywood screenwriter Dan Gordon says that after the Vietnam war, "No Viet Cong Followed Us Home." He's willing to grant any negative argument about the Bush administration that anyone wants to make.
And you don't like the war. You were lied to. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Bush and the neocons made it all up. They duped us. They duped you. They duped me. They duped Hillary and Kerry. They duped us all. Dupe, dupe, dupe, dupe, dupe. Done deal. Not only did they dupe us, but they dicked it up, made every mistake in the book.
Pick whatever argument you like. They should have had more troops. They should have had less troops. They should have listened to Chalabi. They shouldn't have listened to Chalibi. Bremer was right. Bremer was wrong. Rumsfeld's a bozo. Bozo could have done a better job. I'll sign on to any part of it you like. They said this is a part of the war on terror, and of course that's a lie too.
Ooops.
What do you mean, oops?
Well, what I mean is that part is actually true.
What part?
The part about Iraq being a part of the war on terror.
You've got to be kidding. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11! There was no connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda!
Maybe not, but there is now.
Well, who's fault is that?
Doesn't matter.
What do you mean it doesn't matter?
I mean, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how we got there. It doesn't matter how you think you were lied to. It doesn't matter if you think there was a connection between Sadam and Al-Qaeda. The only thing that matters now is that both Al-Qaeda and Iran and the terrorist groups they back and inspire believe that Iraq is their decisive battle. They have chosen it as the place where they will defeat America, and unlike the Viet Cong, they will not stay put. They will follow us home.
OK, let me get this straight. Dan Gordon says that Iraq probably had nothing to do with the war on terror, but there is definitely a situation there now. And it doesn't matter who's fault it is?
Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Yes, it matters. It would be nice to be able to say, "It's your mess, clean it up!" But they aren't the ones that are cleaning it up. They are depending on our young soldiers to clean it up. And yes, I have two particular soldiers in mind, but they shouldn't be a factor. The ring leaders for this whole mess, — Bush, Cheney and Rove —, have seen zero action. Their asses should be over there as well. And quite frankly, so should all of the Congresscritters.
Besides, do I really believe that people that got us into this mess are actually going to get us out of it? I really don't think so.
Arguing that Terrorism (with a capital T) is the number one issue for voting today is absolute bullshit. Are we living in terror like Israel? Nope, not even close. Are we living in terror that our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeing? Nope, again, not even close.
No, I voted the entire Democrat ticket here in Florida, because I wanted to send a big message to the current Administration. Your behavior is atrocious, and I am willing to do everything in my power to trip you up, slow you down, and make you actually think about what the hell you are doing. If that is possible, and I really have my doubts that will happen regardless.
Do I want our troops pulled out post-haste? No, and I think the ones that are calling for that are in the minority. We're in this mess, and we are going to have get out of this mess carefully. I think the objective of getting our kids home is a good one. The time line is what needs to be figured out.
The Republicans are only offering more of the same. More of no planning for what happens next? I don't think so.
Should we be worried about terrorism? Hell yes! And the terrorism that I'm afraid of won't be coming from Muslim Islamofacists. The ones that I will be afraid of are the white Americans (of what bent, I can't even begin to predict) that will be the precursor to the 2
nd American Civil War. This world isn't heading in a good direction, and neither is this nation.
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Monday, November 6
Rumsfeld must go!
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Time for Rumsfeld to go. - US Army Times EditorialEditorial
Time for Rumsfeld to go
“So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth.”
That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
But until recently, the “hard bruising” truth about the Iraq war has been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington.
One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “mission accomplished,” the insurgency is “in its last throes,” and “back off,” we know what we’re doing, are a few choice examples.
Military leaders generally toed the line, although a few retired generals eventually spoke out from the safety of the sidelines, inciting criticism equally from anti-war types, who thought they should have spoken out while still in uniform, and pro-war foes, who thought the generals should have kept their critiques behind closed doors.
Now, however, a new chorus of criticism is beginning to resonate. Active-duty military leaders are starting to voice misgivings about the war’s planning, execution and dimming prospects for success.
Army Gen. John Abizaid, chief of U.S. Central Command, told a Senate Armed Services Committee in September: “I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I’ve seen it ... and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil war.”
Last week, someone leaked to The New York Times a Central Command briefing slide showing an assessment that the civil conflict in Iraq now borders on “critical” and has been sliding toward “chaos” for most of the past year. The strategy in Iraq has been to train an Iraqi army and police force that could gradually take over for U.S. troops in providing for the security of their new government and their nation.
But despite the best efforts of American trainers, the problem of molding a viciously sectarian population into anything resembling a force for national unity has become a losing proposition.
For two years, American sergeants, captains and majors training the Iraqis have told their bosses that Iraqi troops have no sense of national identity, are only in it for the money, don’t show up for duty and cannot sustain themselves.
Meanwhile, colonels and generals have asked their bosses for more troops. Service chiefs have asked for more money.
And all along, Rumsfeld has assured us that things are well in hand.
Now, the president says he’ll stick with Rumsfeld for the balance of his term in the White House.
This is a mistake. It is one thing for the majority of Americans to think Rumsfeld has failed. But when the nation’s current military leaders start to break publicly with their defense secretary, then it is clear that he is losing control of the institution he ostensibly leads.
These officers have been loyal public promoters of a war policy many privately feared would fail. They have kept their counsel private, adhering to more than two centuries of American tradition of subordination of the military to civilian authority.
And although that tradition, and the officers’ deep sense of honor, prevent them from saying this publicly, more and more of them believe it.
Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.
This is not about the midterm elections. Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth:
Donald Rumsfeld must go.
This is the Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Times and Airforce Times editorial, right before the election.
Surely Rumsfeld knew he was toast when he didn't plan for anything after the war was won, or at least when that little nugget came out. We'll see what happens after the election. It should be quite interesting.
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Wednesday, November 1
Abstinence message goes beyond teens - USATODAY.com
Sharon Jayson:
The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.
Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.
I can't believe that the Federal government is trying to do this. This is wrong in so many ways, I just don't want to go there.
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