Umberto Bombana, Chef de Cuisine at Hong Kong’s Ritz Carlton hotel, prepares ‘Lobster in Savoy Cabbage, Anchovy and sweet Garlic Sauce, Porcini Mushroom Emulsion’, with the 1.2 kg Alba white truffle at the hotel in Hong Kong November 18, 2005. The rare fungus was bought by a consortium of Hong Kong bidders during a satellite-linked charity auction in the Castle of Grinzane Cavour near Alba, Italy on November 13, 2005 for 95,000 euro ($111,477). The truffle was served at a private dinner in Hong Kong on Friday

Get away with murder, then bitch about it. 

I’m off to bed, wondering if I’m going to wake up to this news.

Iran has purged its entire financial structure down to local bank managers [to facilitate buying black market items] and has today bought nuke plans on the black market. [Frants wets itself and runs in circles; as per usual]

Iran has sufficient material to make at least 6 nuke bombs so even the hope of Israel bombing a facility is, now, useless.  Not to mention that Iran is harboring the entire senior leadership of alQ.

“Anybody who worries about [how/why we started in Iraq] doesn’t understand America!  We are a forward thinking nation who gets the job done!” [that from a fella named ‘Mansoor’… Listen sharp, McKinney.]

Not to mention that their leader boy Whassisname is stone nutz.  oy.

Info via Mansoor Ijaz - FNC news analyst Euro

...then the deck of cards!

OK peeps....I was remiss on the Clubs (the Milbloggers) but we’re still on time for the SPADES!

Go vote:
Resistance is Futile (our Gullyborg!)

FIREDFIREDFIREDFIREDSHOTFIREDFIRED

....Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) was recognized at 5:20 p.m. Schmidt won a special election in August, defeating Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett, and is so new to Congress that some colleagues do not know her name.

She told colleagues that “a few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp,” an Ohio legislator and Marine Corps Reserve officer. “He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.”

Dozens of Democrats erupted at once, pointing angrily at Schmidt and shouting repeatedly, “Take her words down”—the House term for retracting a statement. For a moment Schmidt tried to keep speaking, but the uproar continued and several GOP colleagues surrounded her as she sat down, looking slightly dazed. Presiding officer Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) gaveled in vain for order as Democrats continued shouting for Schmidt to take back her words. Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) yelled “You guys are pathetic!” from the far end of the Democratic section to the Republican side.

Just as matters seemed to calm a bit, Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) suddenly charged across the aisle to the GOP seats, jabbing his finger furiously at a small group of GOP members and shouting, “Say Murtha’s name!” Rep. David R. Obey (D-Wis.), who had led the chants for striking Schmidt’s comments, gently guided Ford by the arm back to the minority party’s side.

At 5:31, when order was finally restored, Schmidt rose again and said softly, “My words were not directed at any member of the House.” She asked that they “be withdrawn” from the record.

...Those voting yes on the resolution were Democrats Jose E. Serrano (N.Y.), Robert Wexler (Fla.) and Cynthia McKinney (Ga.). Six other Democrats—none of them from Maryland or Virginia—voted “present.”

*gah*

LACK of UPDATE:  Looking but sleepy—who are those Spineless Six?!?

Joe Wilson is the luckiest s… guy on earth.  Two years ago he was totally washed up.. could only get some *eye roll* tour to Nigeria—and that only because of his wife—and today....  *head shake*

Charles Krauthammer on FOX the ’F channel’

1 of 4.. but by far the most significant.

BTW, the last time I posted this
the moonbats swooped in screeching and using very bad language toward me.
I think I askared ‘em:)

Update! Thanks to Ben for the Einstein thing.

Dear Mr. Extremely Gay Guy Sitting More Than Fifteen Feet Away From Us At The Sushi Bar,

We REALLY, REALLY, REALLY do NOT need to hear all of the wonderful details about the barium enema you gave yourself today. I understand that the person to whom you are speaking on your cell phone will find it terribly exciting and important. However, I don’t even care to hear if my wife has had a good enema. Does the word, “BLECH!” mean anything to you? I am not in any way impugning your choice of lifestyle, I just have an unshakable belief that any topic which approaches rectum maintenance should be avoided in restaurant type situations. Seriously. Even the guy making the Sushi nearly immolated himself.

RECTUM MAINTENANCE, IT’S PERSONAL. PLEASE KEEP IT THAT WAY!

On the upside, dinner was pretty yummy…

The “Aye” votes on the withdrawal amendment

Oh, and to head off TOaD and Bruiser:  I am not racist because I only presented McKinney in a humiliating, photoshopped image, I simply could not find any of Wexler and Serrano.

Now, if Sondra want to make one up of them, then go ahead…

Found this gem earlier today.  It appears that ol’ Al was WAY ahead of his time.

Make your own and post them here, or just pretend to caption it…

(It’s been FOREVER since I posted...)

Hollywood star JOHNNY DEPP is so shocked by the riots raging through France, he’s considering abandoning his home in the country.

The FINDING NEVERLAND heart-throb moved to Europe when life in Los Angeles became too violent.

He has since divided time between the two continents - but he fears France will be scarred permanently by the current troubles.

He says, “It’s insane, that setting cars on fire is the new strike.

”I went there (to France) to live because it seemed so simple.
“Now it’s anything but. I don’t know how they’ll recover from this.”