JOSEPH MORTON: Sen. Hagel doubts Palin's ready (Omaha World-Herald)
"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials. You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything. I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia.' That kind of thing is insulting to the American people. I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States."
The three main varieties of cacao beans used in chocolate are criollo, forastero and trinitario.
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
B: 3
Charlie replied:
B: 3
Sally said:
I believe that there are 3 (B) main varieties of cacao beans used to make chocolate. Because of my daily fight against high blood sugar, I try to stay as far away from any and all forms of chocolate, as I can. So, there is a good chance I could be wrong. :)
PS: B2BB, you are most probably right, I too think we (on the left side of the middle - which IS actually the right side) are gonna lose in the upcoming election, and Big Time! The Right-wing slime machine is alive and well, and doing a much better job than Obama could have ever imagined. But, Hillary knew...
PPS: Actually, I am So disillusioned, that I am taking off for the upcoming week - or two, and going up to Cape Cod to walk the now-isolated beaches - pondering the insanity of Washington, DC - propping up Wall Street, with money WE DO NOT HAVE. It's the same as my own futile hopes, trying as I may, to catch a glimpse of my new home, Greenland, from the shores on the cape - in MA.
Marian the Teacher said:
3
Vic in AK wrote:
Having just ingested some old chocolate I found in my medicine cabinet of all places I know the answer is B: 3
Actually I didnt eat any bathroom chocolate but last week I did have some of the same type of Cocoa drink the Meso-Americans drank, thick sweetened with a little agave sweetener and spiced with the Merciless Pepper of Quetzalzatenango, also known as the Guatemalan Insanity Pepper
Or it was Jalapeno.
And, Joe S ("Chocolate. Yum. It's not just for breakfast any more."
~ I said that) said:
I am a chocoholic, I know of what I speak. The answer is B: 3. I love chocolate and I love coffee so I guess I'm a cafechocoholic. Or something.
Choco Power
Heinlein *was* a right-winger - he even had his own version of the John Birch society - been too many years, I don't remember the name. - Mark
I do hear that all the time; "Old Bob Was A Republican!" Sorry, no. Bob was a moderate Democrat. See his 1948 "Take Back Your Government", a hand book for precinct politics. If yo look in his works you will find that his was the ultimate populist. In Starship Troopers Federal service wasn't just military. You might be teaching inner city kids, fighting forest fires or trying experimantal drugs. Also, in the book, Rico is Tagal. (native Phillipino)
Tom Loud )O( Yer Friendly Neighborhood Folksinger
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case', then another RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
ABC begins the night with the FRESH'Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night Of Stars', followed by the LIVE/FRESH (on the East Coast, tape-delayed & edited for the left coast) 'The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards'.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Privileged', then a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then another RERUN'Simpsons', followed by still another RERUN'Simpsons', then an hourlong RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has an old 'Raymond', followed by another old 'Raymond', then the movie 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'.
AMC offers the movie 'Clear & Present Danger', followed by the movie 'Sleeping With The Enemy', then a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 9
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 4 & 5
[3:00 PM] Star Stories - Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
[3:30 PM] Star Stories - David & Victoria Beckham
[4:00 PM] Star Stories - Madonna and Guy Richie
[4:30 PM] Star Stories - Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas
[5:00 PM] Star Stories - Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman
[5:30 PM] Star Stories - Jude Law and Sadie Frost
[6:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 6
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 7
[8:00 PM] Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Colombia
[9:00 PM] Skins - Ep 6 Maxxie and Anwar
[10:00 PM] Skins - Ep 7 Michelle
[11:00 PM] Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Colombia
[12:00 AM] Skins - Ep 6 Maxxie and Anwar
[1:00 AM] Skins - Ep 7 Michelle
[2:00 AM] Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Colombia
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 6 Maxxie and Anwar
[4:00 AM] Skins - Ep 7 Michelle
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 2
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 3 Hinton
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', followed by the movie 'Scary Movie', then 'Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles, Pt. 1'.
FX has the movie 'Grandma's Boy', followed by the movie 'The Benchwarmers'.
History has the FRESH'Forbidden City Revealed', 'Ice Road Truckers', 'MonsterQuest', and a FRESH'Sandhogs'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] Rabbit-Proof Fence
[8:00 AM] Au Revoir, Les Enfants
[9:50 AM] La Lecon de Danse
[10:00 AM] Les Enfants du Paradis
[1:15 PM] Rabbit-Proof Fence
[2:50 PM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[3:45 PM] Au Revoir, Les Enfants
[5:35 PM] The Delicate Art of the Rifle
[7:15 PM] Death and the Maiden
[9:00 PM] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[11:00 PM] Z Rock
[11:30 PM] Z Rock
[12:00 AM] Spider
[12:15 AM] Party Monster
[2:00 AM] Z Rock
[2:30 AM] Z Rock
[3:00 AM] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[5:10 AM] The Delicate Art of the Rifle (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Anaconda 3: The Offspring', followed by the movie 'Vipers'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] Sleeping Dogs Lie
[06:00 AM] Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
[07:15 AM] The Flower of My Secret (1995) | Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
[09:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Rascal Flatts, Kate Nash & Herbie Hancock
[10:00 AM] Terminal City: Episode 9
[11:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Robert Redford on Paul Newman
[12:00 PM] The Muse
[02:00 PM] The Drug Years: Teenage Wasteland
[03:00 PM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 8
[03:35 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
[04:45 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Live
[05:15 PM] Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
[06:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 5
[07:00 PM] Long Distance
[08:35 PM] The Danish Poet
[09:00 PM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 3
[09:30 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 3
[10:00 PM] Safe Men
[11:30 PM] The Waldo Cumberbund Story
[12:00 AM] Nowhere to Hide
[01:40 AM] Young Yakuza
[03:00 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 3
[03:30 AM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 3
[04:00 AM] Seeing Other People
[05:35 AM] The Flower of My Secret (1995) (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Sandra Oh arrives at the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees for Outstanding Performance reception in Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Actress Mia Farrow is in Haiti to draw attention to thousands of children left homeless and hungry after four storms struck the impoverished country in a month.
Farrow visited a mud-filled cathedral on Saturday in Gonaives, where hundreds of storm victims have been living since early September.
Farrow, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, will also visit sites in Port-au-Prince and the hard-hit town of Cabaret during a five-day tour.
The United Nations has distributed food and water to some 240,000 people, but raised only 2 percent of its US$108 million aid goal.
It sounds like Harry Potter will vote for the Labour Party when the boy wizard is old enough to cast a ballot.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made a rare foray into Britain's bruising political battles Saturday, donating $1.8 million to the struggling Labour Party and accusing the rival Conservatives of discriminating against poor parents trying to work their way out of poverty.
In a statement that referred back to the days when she was struggling to feed and cloth her family, Rowling said Prime Minister Gordon Brown has worked hard to reduce child poverty while Conservative chief David Cameron has proposed tax changes that would hurt working single parents.
"I believe that poor and vulnerable families will fare much better under the Labour Party than they would under a Cameron-led Conservative Party," said Rowling, who has become one of the world's richest and most successful authors with the unprecedented appetite for Harry Potter stories.
Paul McCartney's ex-wife is donating $1 million worth of soy hamburgers, soy hot dogs and soy chicken cutlets to one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Bronx.
Heather Mills is set to announce the donation just before the Hunts Point Back to School Fair kicks off Saturday afternoon. The vegan animal rights campaigner is an honorary chairwoman of the nonprofit that organizes the event.
She tells the New York Post that she wants to make sure children in the neighborhood "have as many nutritional advantages as anyone else."
Actor Don Rickles arrives at the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees for Outstanding Performance reception in Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder has released a song for the Chicago baseball team at the request of Cubs great Ernie Banks. It's called "All the Way."
Vedder made the song available on Pearl Jam's Web site this week. It's been buzzing on radios in Chicago and in bars near Wrigley Field.
The lyrics pay homage to a team that hasn't won a World Series for 100 years. The Cubs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday to clinch the NL Central title.
Though Vedder became synonymous with the Seattle grunge sound in the '90s, he was born in the Chicago area and is a longtime Cubs fan.
A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick 'Go Fuck Yourself' Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act.
The Bush administration's legal position "heightens the court's concern" that some records may not be preserved, said the judge.
A private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is suing Cheney and the Executive Office of the President in an effort to ensure that no presidential records are destroyed or handled in a way that makes them unavailable to the public.
The world's largest atom smasher - which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month - has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.
Experts have gone into 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its Sept. 10 startup, said James Gillies, spokesman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
"It's too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out," Gillies told The Associated Press.
Gillies said the sector that was damaged will have to be warmed up well above the absolute zero temperature used for operations so that repairs can be made - a time-consuming process.
The stooped man in the yarmulke fights his way through this chaotic city, the weight of generations heavy upon his shoulders.
He squeezes past tea stalls and sidewalk electricians, past idle rickshaws and honking cars. He edges through rows of vendors selling sparkly hair clips and, finally, pushes open a rusty gate hidden from the street.
Today is the Sabbath, and Shalom Israel, one of the last Jews of Calcutta, has reached a cobwebbed synagogue, a once-grand building with imposing doors that nearly always stay shuttered, and spires that soar up toward the monsoon clouds.
Israel comes every Friday to light a candle, say a prayer, and check on the three synagogues still standing, however precariously, as relics of a passed era of plenty. Most weeks, he is the only visitor.
There were once 5,000 Jews living in this teeming port city, but today, as the Jewish New Year approaches, there are fewer than 35. Israel, 38 with a thin beard, is the youngest by nearly 25 years.
Actor and comedian Shelley Berman, nominee for his role in "Curb Your Enthusiasm", poses at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees for Outstanding Performance reception in Los Angeles, California September 19, 2008. The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented in Los Angeles September 21.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Lancaster city officials said this week that they're paving over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt grooved to play the William Tell Overture when auto tires speed over it.
The road was completed this month as part of an ad campaign for Honda. It's engineered to play the overture - also known as the theme to "The Lone Ranger" - at perfect pitch for motorists driving Honda Civics at 55 mph.
But neighbors aren't amused. One says the road music sounds like a high-pitched drone. Another says it keeps him and his wife up at night.
Lancaster officials plan to pave over the grooves Tuesday.
This year's Pumpkin Hurl in Washington state now has more than a half-mile of space after a squash was tossed 1,866 feet last year.
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center has moved the event from Burlington to a Snohomish County farm with a 3,000-foot gourd firing range.
The sky will rain pumpkins Oct. 4. The center says at least seven teams from the West Coast and Canada will compete this year for prizes and bragging rights.
The pumpkin hurler is a war machine from the Middle Ages known as a trebuchet - a combination catapult and sling.
Earl Palmer, the session drummer whose pioneering backbeats were recorded on such classics as Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," has died. He was 84.
Born in New Orleans in 1924 and later moving to Los Angeles, Palmer worked extensively in both cities, recording with some of the music world's all-time greats on thousands of tracks.
His beats form the backdrop on Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High," Fats Domino's "The Fat Man" and "I Hear You Knockin'" by Smiley Lewis.
From his Los Angeles home, Palmer drummed for music producer Phil Spector and Motown, and his session credits include artists as diverse as the Monkees, Neil Young and Frank Sinatra.
Palmer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. According to the institution's Web site, Little Richard wrote in his autobiography that Palmer "is probably the greatest session drummer of all time."
Palmer married four times and is survived by his seven children.
Pohls Sea Urchins found off Lizard Island in far north Queensland, is seen in this undated photo obtained September 18, 2008. Australian scientists have discovered hundreds of new coral and marine species on the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef which they say will improve monitoring reef biodiversity and the impact of climate change. Three expeditions to the reefs over four years to collect the first inventory of soft corals, found 300 soft corals of which 130 were new species, said a report released on Friday.
Photo by Gary Cranitch
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