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Ramadan Pork Tenderloin with Chokecherry Glaze Any jelly or sweet sauce will create a crunchy glaze on a roast or on poultry. While Chokecherry is usually served with biscuits or bread, its also a perfect glaze for pork tenderloin, sealing in the juices and crisping the skin.
Preparation time: .5 hour
Cooking Time: < 1hour
Makes: 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
4 medium garlic cloves minced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 (2pound) pork tenderloins, butterflied
1 cup seasoned flour (see Note)
2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
1 cup Chokecherry Jelly
3 Tbsp white or red wine
2 cups beef broth
2 Tbsp flour
Special Notes:
To make seasoned flour, combine I cup flour with 1 tsp each garlic salt, dried oregano, dried thyme, dried basil and freshly ground black pepper.
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, make a paste out of 2 Tbsp olive oil and the parsley, garlic, salt and pepper.
3. Unroll the pork loins and spread the insides with the garlic sauce.
4. Roll up the loins and tie with twine. Dredge with the seasoned flour.
5. Heat the remaining 2 Tbsp olive oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add the loins and sear on all sides. Transfer to a roasting pan and add the quartered onions.
6. Brush the loins with the jelly. Roast, basting with pan juices a few times, until a thermometer, inserted into the thickest part registers 155 degrees. (30 to 45 minutes)
7. Remove the loins and place on warm plate.
8. To make gravy, add the wine and broth to the pan, scraping any browned bits from the bottom. Sprinkle with flour, scraping and whisking until the gravy is the consistency of tomato juice. Strain the gravy through a fine mesh sieve.
9. To serve, slice the loin into one-half inch-thick diagonal pieces, discarding the twine. Transfer to dinner plates and add a few pieces of onion and some gravy to each serving.
Posted by: Jack Bross ||
10/13/2006 14:36 Comments ||
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Pears poached in red wine would make a lovely dessert for this, continuing one of the flavour notes -- does anyone have a good recipe? ;-)
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Thank you for the wonderful recipe, Jack Bross. Your write-up is excellent and the ingredients promise to deliver a superb dish. For those of you who cannot obtain chokecherry jelly, consider substituting a black cherry preserve of some sort.
For any of you who are less experienced or uncertain about the process, here are some simple instructions on how to butterfly a loin cut:
For best results, use a freshly sharpened knife with a blade close to or equal in length to the meat being prepared. A chefs knife or slicing blade will deliver superior performance. Avoid using a serrated or combination type blade as they tend to shred the meat.
Lay the cut of meat lengthwise on a cutting board, pointing away from you.
Make a one-quarter to half-inch deep incision down the loins entire length.
Change direction and start cutting parallel with the pieces outside surface in order to begin creating a continuous sheet of meat that is about half an inch thick.
Continue opening up the cut of meat until is lays flat like an open page. If needed, two smaller pieces can be spiraled together to create one large roast.
For especially tender results, the butterflied cut can be lightly hammered with a tenderizing mallet. This method can also be used to equalize the shape of a cut that tapers too drastically. Use the mallets smooth face or side to smear the meat into the desired rectangular shape. Covering the cut in cling wrap can help avoid any tearing while reshaping the loin. The loins tailpiece can also be folded over to help adjust the thickness at that end. When using the mallets tenderizing face, be careful not to tear or perforate the meat. For best presentation, work the cut only on its inside face.
To assist in rolling back up the butterflied piece, lay out the prepared cut or cuts on a sheet of waxed paper or cling wrap. Grasp the sheets leading edge and use it to curl the meat inward around the stuffing while peeling away the wrapper as it is exposed. Avoid covering the final few inches of the butterflied cut with any stuffing. This will allow for a clean closure and neat seam on the final product.
Once the meat has been stuffed and rolled back up, use cooking twine to truss the cut. This prevents it from unraveling due to expansion during the cooking process. Encircle the meat with twine every two inches to achieve a regular shape after cooking. Avoid cinching the twine too tightly as the meat will expand slightly during roasting. If twine is not available, use small metal skewers or toothpicks to close the butterflied cut.
INGREDIENTS:
4 pears
3/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 cups dry red wine
1 Tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For garnish: fresh mint sprigs
PREPARATION:
1. Combine the sugar, wine, lemon juice and pinch of salt in a saucepan and bring just to the boiling point, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Lower heat, let simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Peel the pears cut them into quarters and remove the cores.
3. Add the pears to the hot syrup, cover and cook gently 20-25 minutes or until the pears are tender. Do not allow to boil.
4. Stir in the vanilla extract. Cool the pears in the syrup, then chill them in the refrigerator.
To serve:
Serve them very well chilled. Garnish with mint sprigs if desired.
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2. Ruby Port Baked Bosc Pears
Makes 6 servings.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup ruby-port
3/4 cups honey
1 whole star anise
1-1/2 cinnamon sticks
1/2 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1/2 vanilla bean, cut in half lengthwise
1/4 cup raisins
6 bosc pears
PREPARATION:
Heat oven to 300 degrees
1. In a large roasting pan, combine all ingredients, EXCEPT pears.
2. Slice 1/4 inch off the bottom of each pear so that they will stand upright. Place upright in roasting pan.
3. Bake the pears, basting every 15 minutes, for about 2-1/2 hours.
4. The skins will be wrinkled and the pears should be golden brown and tender.
5. Remove from oven and place pears on wire rack.
6. Strain syrup through a fine sieve, discard solids.
To Serve:
Place pears on plates. Pour syrup over and serve.
Hope you like them.
Posted by: Jack Bross ||
10/13/2006 19:16 Comments ||
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OMG... now I'm REALLY hungry.
Posted by: Dave D. ||
10/13/2006 19:47 Comments ||
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Truly well posted, Jack Bross. I look forward to testing both recipes to see which one is more delicious. Thanks much! :-)
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British Mixed Grill English Main Course
Preparation Time: 45 Minutes
Serves: 2 People
Ingredients:
2-4 Lamb Chops (depending upon size)
2 Smoked Pork Chops
2-4 Banger Sausages (depending upon size)
1-2 Tomatoes
4-6 Mushroom Caps
Dash of white flour
Dash of sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Butter (for cooking)
Oil (for cooking)
Parsley or watercress for garnish
Preparation:
Bring all meats to room temperature. Boil one quart of unsalted water in a medium sized pot over high heat. Preheat the broiler for five minutes and melt two or three pats of butter in a small frying pan. Remove stems from mushrooms and brush caps clean. Try to avoid washing the mushrooms, as this tends to make them wilt. Cut the tomatoes in half through their equator, brush the cut sides with oil and then sprinkle them with a little salt and cracked pepper.
Once the water has begun to boil, add the sausages and immediately turn off the heat. Begin sautéing the mushrooms in the melted butter over low heat. Dust the lamb chops with a mixture of the flour, salt, cracked pepper and a generous pinch of white sugar. Put the lamb chops on a wire rack, set it on a cookie sheet or flat pan and place under the broiler or use an ovenproof, ridged frying pan. Place the seasoned tomatoes, cut side up, along with the lamb chops in the broiler.
Turn the mushroom caps over and continue to sauté. Add the warmed sausages to the pan and gently brown their exteriors without allowing them to burst. After three minutes add the smoked pork chops to the broiler pan and begin warming them through. The smoked pork chops are already cooked and do not need a lengthy amount of heating time. Wait another two or three minutes and the turn all of the chops.
Continue cooking the chops and tomatoes for another five to ten minutes, check for light browning and remove from the broiler. Allow them to rest for a few minutes before serving.
Place a lamb chop, smoked pork chop and a banger sausage on each plate. Separate each serving of meat with the roasted tomato and sautéed mushrooms. Garnish appropriately and serve with strong mustard and some horseradish sauce. For authentic British flavor, serve with a picalilli and Colmans Original English Mustard .
Note: Avoid using chops that are cut too thin as they will tend to curl while being cooked. Adjust time in broiler depending upon how thick they are. Add the smoked pork chops a few minutes before turning the lamb chops for their first time. The banger sausages may also be broiled instead of fried.
Horseradish Sauce Meat Condiment
Preparation Time: 5 Minutes
Makes: ¼ Cup
Ingredients:
2-3 TBS Hellmans Mayonnaise (used to be Best Foods)
2-3 TBS Sour Cream
1-2 TBS Prepared Horseradish (DO NOT use Cream Style Horseradish)
Preparation:
Place the sour cream in a small bowl with deep sides. Slowly temper the sour cream with the Mayonnaise. Begin by adding less than half a teaspoon of Mayonnaise to the sour cream. Mix completely using a fork or small balloon whisk to stir with. Add another small amount of Mayonnaise and continue to stir vigorously. Slowly increase the amount of Mayonnaise added each time until all of it is incorporated without any lumps forming. Stir in a tablespoon of the prepared horseradish and taste for strength. If desired, add more horseradish until the desired octane is achieved. Chill or serve at room temperature.
Notes: This horseradish sauce is also excellent over roast beef or London broil. Avoid using Cream Style Horseradish preparations as they have been sweetened with glycol and this can make for a disagreeable flavor combination. The Tulelake, Beaver or Land O' Lakes brands, in order, are very good.
The writer correctly lionizes Anna Politkovskaya as a genuine, fearless heroine of the press, the kind of person we need more of. He then throws away everything she's worked before with his hand-wringing over what to do about Putin, Russia and injustice (and those three words just seem to go together, don't they?). I think he knows the core problem -- Putin is a thug -- but can't bring himself to say it. Too bad.
Thomas de Waal
The murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya leaves a terrible silence in Russia and an information void about a dark realm that we need to know more about. No one else reported as she did on the Russian north Caucasus and the abuse of human rights there. Her reports made for difficult reading - and Politkovskaya only got where she did by being one of life's difficult people.
Since 1999 she had made dozens of trips to Chechnya and the surrounding regions, reporting on the bombings, torture camps, abductions and corruption in Moscow's second campaign in Chechnya. With the rest of the Russian media toeing the official line and western journalists as good as banned from the warzone, it felt at times that our news from Chechnya came from a remarkable one-woman reporting operation. It was scant consolation to her that she received a shelf full of western journalism prizes. Politkovskaya seemed mainly interested in the award ceremonies as a forum for reminding westerners to do something about Chechnya - she was generally disappointed.
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I would characterize any defender of the Chechen terrorists, as a moonbat. However, the Russians should find discreditation a better way of dealing with apologists.
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Oops, I left out the final comment of the Galliawatch blog owner :
Is it safe to say that the French government, in need of money, is being sustained by the Arab countries, in exchange for the French patrimony? In short, has France sold her soul to the devil? This is, indeed, Eurabia in action.
#2
It's the work of a bunch of dead old white men. There's really nothing to be proud of in that musty ol' attic anyways. Surely France has grown beyond the mandate of their colonialist and oppressive past. Let bygones be bygones, man. Look to the future! Soon it will be 1968 all over again...or better yet, 668.
#3
This is probably a good thing. Hate for all of those wonderful artifacts to burn in one place.
5089 - hope you are keeping your exit plan up to date. No time like the present to get started. Passport up to date, some cash in another country, and a plan on where to go.
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I would think art would not be very safe in an Arab country that thinks "everything" but suffering and banging your head against the ground is haram. Islam seems to find grevious fault with anything not closely associated with drudgery and nihilism.
#5
The French State, for financial and diplomatic reasons, is prepared to prostitute definitively our national patrimony, to compromise our collections and to deprive the French and the tourists of what was patiently assembled by past generations.
How nice to see France finally aligning its cultural and governmental policies.
With the typical Islamic ban on all dipictions of human or animal forms, this sort of limits a lot of what can be displayed. Rodin will be most definitely haram. How about Picasso? Will they even be able to recognize the human forms in his work? Will they actually qualify as deliberate representations? I can just hear the fatwah engines revving up over this as I type these words.
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Atlanta, Denver, Milwaukee, Taiwan... understandable. Dubai? Insane. If it will come to pass re Dubai, much will be later lost. Sure, even more will be lost if the art remains in France.
There was only a handfull of people that could have predicted this, 10 years ago. It does not give me any pleasure to see them being right.
The mid-term elections are 24 days away. I've been out of touch with the "people" due to the responsibilities I have for our cats and for the lovely wife.
You, dear reader, know that I'll be voting Republican this Fall. It won't matter, since both Louise Slaughter and Hillary Clinton are overwhelmingly favored to win, as is the Democratic candidate for Governor. As are my local officials.
However, the fate of the nation as a whole hangs in the balance, according to pundits across the political spectrum. I have some advice for those who read pundits.
Politics are local. The elections for Congress will have much more to do with local conditions and issues than with Masturgate or Harry "Gimme" Reid.
Get out the vote efforts are crucial. People just don't automaticly get up and go vote.
You can lose an election by one vote.
Polls are fickle. The only one that counts is the one on Election Day.
Voters do notice negative campaigning. You may win with it, or you may lose.
Losing sucks.
All sides in an election will committ voter fraud. Some folks will be caught at it. On average, it will not matter.
You can be too stupid to vote. On average, the stupid voters can influence the results of an election. See Florida 2000.
News media do not influence most elections. They think they do.
You can run a dead body in most elelctions and stand a great chance of winning. That suggests that most voters see their elected officials in a different light than those officials do.
Feet on the ground will always beat fingers on the keyboard. Internet campaigns are gravey, not meat.
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True, but not relevant. No amount of get-out-the-vote efforts will get Republicans who think that their party needs some time out of power to get up and pull the lever for the GOP candidate. Noting that Democrats = impeachment hearings and retreat doesn't seem to persuade the ones who think that GOP leaders need to be taught a lesson. I'm afraid we're going to have to put up with at least 2 years of real chaos and failure before these voters realize that we don't have room for sending messages anymore.
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Maybe they should think about the seething lunacy that has characterized the Dems when they were out of power and then think what, once in power, the Dems will do to prevent ever being removed from power again. I wouldn't trust the Dems as far as I could throw Ted Kennedy.
#3
Regardless of what happens elex-wise this fall, the GOP-Conservative agenda is NOT in danger. The Amer people will continue to overwhelmingly support fighting the enemy "over there" than over here, i.e. to NOT "Cut-and-Run". Remember, the WOT for OWG-, Commie-, and SOcialist-leaning DemoLefties > KIND/TYPE OF CONSERVATIVE AGENDA, NOT ALTERNATIST, LIBERAL/LIBERTARIANIST, ETAL. As per usual, the chicken-little Waffle-cratic Lefties are working generally for the Conservative agenda while simul working to NOT GET BLAMED FOR IT. LEFTIES > ARE FOR ALL SIDES AND NO SIDES EXCEPT THEIR POWER.
#4
I agree with #3. I could vote republican (Insurance companies & Pharmaceuticals) or Democrat (Lawyers & Pharmaceuticals). In either case my national vote goes to a candidate that represents nothing I care about. Voting is still a meaningless activity. The Electorial COllege will pick your next president as it has picked the last 2 terms of the boarderline retard in charge now that more than half of the country didn't vote for. The only thing keeping this moron alive is the fact that the next one in charge is evil and cunning. It is the opposite of his dad's term.
#6
The Central Committee would shape up these fat Americans. Who cares if 3 million more stupid Americans voted for criminal Bush than Comrade Kerry. As Fearless Stalin said, It's not who votes that count, but who counts the votes. Long Live the Revolution!
You think politics is filthy? You don't know the half of it if you haven't heard of "The List," which you probably haven't because this recent saga of scum isn't apparently worthy of widespread media notice and editorial outrage.
The List is a roster of gay Republican congressional staffers that has circulated around Washington, D.C., since former Rep. Mark Foley's exit. It includes chiefs of staff, press secretaries and communications directors who work for GOP lawmakers such as Bill Frist, George Allen, Mitch McConnell, Rick Santorum and Henry Hyde. List recipients include the social-conservative arm of the vast right-wing conspiracy: the Christian Coalition, the Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family and so on.
But, lo, members of the religious right are not the ones outing gay GOP staffers or poking into the private lives of people working for Republicans. If they were, The List would be a major issue right now.
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Posted by: Fred ||
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The real bigots are these fools who think that Christans aren't sinners and aren't forgivers. The only damage they cause is to themselves and, possibly, the donks like Corn.
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You know the Left - among other Waffle-ist premises, America = Amerika + America = Amerikan Socialism must rule the world and future OWG, ergo America = Amerika is the only one that has to give up its sovereignty, freedoms, and economy, NESSARILY = VOLUNTARILY/UNILATER = FORCIBLY. The Ultra/Far/Radical Left + Anarchists-Socialists-Governmentists will protect Amer's Alternatists-Hedonists, etc. THE WAY STALIN-MAO DID [NOT]. Apparently when Der Waffen ReichSoviet WeldStaatFrauCommintern HILLARY said that the Gummermint will give things to the people before taking same away from the people, the Gays-Lesbians + Hollywierd, etal. thought it didn't apply to them.
#3
Its only a LIMITED ATTACK(S) IN A LIMITED WAR(S) -the Commies and aligned promise, D **** IT, they won't attack NORAM-CONUS iff only Hated Despicable Fascist = Well-meaning But Errorful Limited Communist America = Amerika would merely withdraw unto itself and get out of the Pacific-Atlantic, North Pole + South Pole + ........
..................,Greenwich- and International Date Lines, @etal.
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Can't decide whether this a circular firing squad or a circle jerk.
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10/13/2006 11:52 Comments ||
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But I don't care, and the news that consenting adults are consenting to different things than I in the privacy of their own bedroom isn't going to change my vote... except that I'm determined to vote against the kind of people that feel the need to reveal embarrassing but legal personal secrets. What asses these List-ers are!
#14
Can't decide whether this a circular firing squad or a circle jerk. ed - lol!!
I don't care what consenting adults decide to do in the privacy of their homes. What's making me really sick of (activist) gay people is their constant need to tell us what their sexual preferences are and demand that we say, "yeah, thanks for sharing, you're great, you're really special, more sensitive, more knowing and just an all around better person than me because you do that".
#16
Militant homosexuals probably do more damage to their own cause than any other internal faction. Sort of like Pat Robertson for the republicans, except wearing assless chaps.
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We await, perhaps in vain, the media feeding frenzy over this affair, which seems to conflict with Democrats' claim they're the antidote to a GOP "culture of corruption" represented by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, with whom Reid has also had dealings.
Don't hold your breath.
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Gosh, this is utterly, completely OT, but this title brings out the hapless geek in me, the Alan Moofre's Swamp thing run really was what re-awakebned my interest in comics, circa 1989, when I bought a whole lot of his comics at 50 cents a piece.
The persecution of Ahwazi Arabs and the takeover of their land has led to accusations of 'ethnic cleansing'
NEVER AGAIN is, I fear, a phrase that we may hear again all too soon but too late to warn people, let alone save lives. Under the cover of secrecy the fundamentalist regime in Tehran is waging a sustained, bloody campaign of intimidation and persecution against its Arab minority. These Arabs believe that they are victims of ethnic cleansing by Irans Persian majority.
Sixteen Arab rights activists have been sentenced to death, according to reports in the Iranian media. They were found guilty of insurgency in secret trials before revolutionary courts. But most of the defendants were convicted solely on the basis of confessions extracted under torture. Ten are expected to be hanged in a couple of weeks, after the end of Ramadan. Amnesty International says that two of those sentenced to die, Abdolreza Nawaseri and Nazem Bureihi, were in prison when they were alleged to have been involved in bomb attacks. Three others Hamza Sawa- eri, Jafar Sawari and Reisan Sawari say that they were nowhere near the Zergan oilfield the day it was bombed.
The death sentences seem designed to silence protests by Irans persecuted ethnic Arabs. They comprise 70 per cent of the population of the south-west province of Khuzestan, known locally as Ahwaz. Many Ahwazis believe that the 16 were framed and that their real crime was campaigning against Tehrans repression and exploitation of their oil-rich homeland.
...A dear lady in San Francisco sent this letter to the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Thank you, Fleet Week. My preschool-aged daughter, having heard your airplanes overhead all week, is now completely traumatized and afraid to go outside. She just heard a commercial airliner in the sky and ran inside shrieking, shaking, and trying to close all the windows and doors. We tried to have a fun family weekend enjoying free music in our park, but it was ruined by the thundering sound of those hateful airplanes overhead, forcing her (and most of the other children I saw) to throw her hands over her face and cower.
If there is ever an opportunity for me to vote on any proposition keeping this ridiculous event and huge waste of resources from marring the skies of my city again, you can bet I'll be the first in line to get it voted in.
DEMETRA DELÍA
San Francisco"
..The WSJ's Opinion Journal published this reply from another reader:
"In August 2001, I moved my wife, two daughters and infant son to Alexandria, Va., where I attended seminary. On September 11 my wife, like me a former New Yorker, came to campus to tell me that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. As we considered the possibilities, someone passing by told us that a second plane had hit the other tower, and we realized the awful truth. We began to pray for the dead and dying as our children played in the sun. While we were praying, the ground shook and we heard the explosion of what we later learned was the third aircraft hitting the Pentagon.
From that moment on, my 5-year-old daughter had real and very justified fears of passing aircraft. At bedtime she had questions for us, the most poignant being, "Were there children on the planes?" and "What does it feel like to be on fire?" During the days she would find cover or rush inside whenever a plane or helicopter passed by--which was quite often, as we lived near Reagan National and on the flight path from Fort Belvoir to the Pentagon. I was able to assure her that she was safe, precisely because the military aircraft that we saw daily were there to protect her. Indeed, the pilots of those aircraft were engaging in acts of mercy and of love, interposing themselves between her and the horrors of war.
So I say three cheers for jet engines. May the delightful roar of Pratt & Whitney and General Electric be heard over the homes of all peaceful people, to protect them and their children. And may they be heard over the strongholds of those who would seek to kill and destroy without justification or discrimination, to restrain them by force, when all other means fail."
I am going to have that last paragraph printed up and hung on my wall.
Mike
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On 9/11 I am pretty sure that flight 175 went right over my head.
All the airliners turn over my house on their way to the three big airports ( Newark JFK., LaGuardia) and I still look at them
with some suspicion.
I try not to pass this feeling on to my child.
But the shear ignorance of not being able to tell your child, "Those are ours baby, They protect us." is beyond me.
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Dear Demetra, And what the hell kind of a name is that?
Tell your pussy-assed daughter not to worry about the sound of airplanes overhead as long as she can look up and see they're ours.
But do tell her that, the day she looks up at airplanes overhead and realizes they're not ours, at your personal request ours won't be coming along to save your sorry moonbat ass. Or hers either.
Happy now?
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More pointers to CW II. Not really interested in becoming Mexico el Norte.
Will the USA become the Brazil of North America, with massive Third World ghettos, urban violence and a few rich, gated communities in between? Or will the country simply fall apart?
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From my earlier post at Gates of Vienna:
Are the American elites really as clueless as they seem? There is another, and more disturbing possibility: The US political establishment are in no hurry to stop illegal immigration because they have already de facto decided that the United States as a nation state should be dismantled in favor of a union of North America, perhaps later of all of the Americas. They just forgot to inform their own citizens about this. Does this sound like a crazy conspiracy theory? Well, this is in fact what happened in Europe.
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Does this sound like a crazy conspiracy theory?
Uh, yeah, it does.
Posted by: Mike ||
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It is a crazy conspiracy theory, but it is also what is going to happen in SoCal and the Bay Area over the next couple of decades. Having barbell communities of lots (relatively) of really, really rich, the vast, preponderant majority potentially permanently poor with few middle class is not typical of what has made the country successful. That is why Ahnuld failed in his effort to reduce public union control of Caliphornia. The populace there is now majority victim. It will become a bigger issue as these rapidly growing and populous areas of California become more and more different from the rest of America. I would not be surprised to see Caliphornia move to seceed in a couple of decades.
#5
On the plus side, slowly migrating our way to a loose confederacy might have some benefits. Here are some points:
1) Unlike the rest of central and South America, Mexico's birthrate has dropped to about 2.1, which means we won't be facing a huge immigration problem much longer.
2) Unless Mexico improves, and radically, it faces a terrible and protracted civil war which would overflow in all sorts of ways into the US.
3) However, if Mexico does improve, it not only provides a lot of labor to our industry, but also a huge market for our products.
4) The US would utterly dominate both Canada and Mexico, both of whom would be little more than semi-autonomous US States.
5) Ironically, the US would probably get along better with Mexico than with French Canada, which might opt out of any confederacy.
6) While Spanish is generally the language of Mexico, more and more of the country is reverting to indigenous languages. For the purposes of business, however, English will in the course of decades, overwhelm them all as the common language.
Strategically, a North American bloc would dominate the EU, and would finally give the US an open door to the resources of South America.
So in addition to looking at it as an internationalist bureaucratic threat, possibly see it as an extrapolation to Manifest Destiny. This casts it in a different light.
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5) Ironically, the US would probably get along better with Mexico than with French Canada, which might opt out of any confederacy.
That's as may be, but French Canada won't opt out of anything, despite making very loud noises at frequent intervals. French Canada already demands massive inflows of money from the rest of the country because it isn't self supporting; I'm not aware that good restaurants and quaint Olde Worlde tourist attractions, however lovely, are the basis for healthy exports or a healthy home economy.
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Does this sound like a crazy conspiracy theory?
#2 "Uh, yeah, it does."
No. Not really. If there exists an ideology that a LOT of people subscribe to, and that ideology has as its stated goal the destruction of a competing belief system, are the folks that are working towards that goal engaged in a conspiracy?
Is it crazy? No more crazy than thinking a bunch of Arabs would fly planes into buildings and kill 3,000 people one Autumn morning.
BTW, the ideologies I was referring to are Communism/Socialism versus Capitalism. I don't think anyone here would dispute the fact that the left has been waging war against the West, and that our society has been seriously undermined by their activities.
We can all see the effects on our country as well. So, does it come as surprise that there might be a plan to bring about an America's super state? Is it beyond the pale? I don't think so. Powerful forces have been at work for a long time, grinding away at the fabric of our society, and I'd say they've made significant progress.
#8
This is well on the way to happening. Both Ford and GM, if they survive, plan all their new factories in Mexico. Two huge super ports, which will surpass and possibly replace to a large extent the Long Beach port, are well along in construction in Baja. The privatized highway corridor being set up to flow from Texas north is being organized. Out of reach of US gov't. Essentailly, the large bankers and corporations are going to undermine jobs, pensions, and social security by replicating what the steel industry did. Leave the US. I'm stooopid, but the only thing I can't figure out is who do they think they'll sell to, once they've gutted the US ?
#11
I'm for swallowing Canada. That would save a lot of good men from socialism. And give us a kick ass olympic hockey team.
But, the people have to vote on such expansions. None of this freakin new world order bullsheet.
#12
I think they realized long ago that it would be impossible to defeat America militarily. You think that the problems in wazoo land are bad? Can you imagine if someone decided to invade the US? First, they'd have to get their troops here, then stage their equipment and then invade. It would be a non-stop blood-bath. For all of the talk of liberal moonbats - there aren't enough of them to float Air America. Libs like Hollywood stars and spoiled rich who are percieved as aiding our enemies would find themselves facing an angry populace and needing to flee from angry mobs. This is a very, very, big country and we are all heavily armed. You can nuke a city, but you then there would be retaliation. It would be next to impossible for any foreign country to conquer or hold the United States.
While they may be able to start a civil war here by an influx of immigrants hostile to our citizens - it would be impossible to get these immigrants on one page. Mexican loyalists joining with Islamists? Don't think so. Gangs would be completely unreliable as to which side they would fight. It's our turf, we have the home team advantage.
So their plan is to get control of the government and destroy it from within. We should all be concerned as to how close they have come to succeeding. Instead of fighting, they have used our own system against us and simply bought votes, politicians, judges, the MSM and more.
Should there be a fight, our liberal loonies will be the first to cower behind the working males with guns.
The idea that another culture could conquer America (in our lifetime) is as crazy as thinking that we could conquer China. The best they can hope for is a brutal, bloody war with body counts in the millions and a country that would be impossible for a conquering government to hold. It's just a fact jack.
The only question is are we going to take back our government through the ballot box, or let things degenerate into a bloody war. Get out and vote. And no matter how much you dislike the Republicans - vote for them now. Have you seen who is going to hold the congress and Senate if the Dems win. It's downright scary. We can start the heavy lifting after the election to impose term limits and defeating corrupt Repubs in the next election cycle.
#13
I am thinking that perhaps it is time to think about Manifest Destiny part two.
In other words it is our destiny to unite the entire continent under our flag. Annex all the lands down to and including Panama and build the wall there. Once they are properly Americanized, give them statehood. There is plenty of room on our flag for more stars. ;-)
That would be the rub. Annex after they demonstrate they are Americanizing.
Look at SoCal. Are the Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal Americanizing themselves or Mexifying CoCal? I think the jury is still out.
Look at Puerto Rico. They are not going to Americanize enough, especially with all the tax breaks we have given them. They have no incentive to Americanize.
Too many too fast means they don't Americanize. Too few too slow means we can't expand. It's a balancing act.
#15
If the supply of importable oil drops by a certain amount, the US will probably fall apart due to economic crisis. All the guns & grit in the world will not keep the lights on and the diesel trucks running. Of many dangers the country faces, massive invasion ain't one of them (ignore for the moment the massive invasion currently taking place across the southern border). Our political establishment no longer considers themselves to be US citizens.
#16
Look, this has nothing to do with how well armed we are. I suspect most of us here could stand their ground on their own patch for a while. But, while we're standing around sucking our thumbs, this is being perpetrated behind our backs. Do you hear any public discussion of this ? Noooo. But, the infrastructure is being put in place right now. When the public finds out,it will be waaay too late. Why, in the name of logic, is defending the border being rejected by Bush and the money men ? Because they've already cut the deal. Why ? Going to move work to low wage, no benefit areas, ie. Mexico. Do we get anything ? Nothing beneficial from my viewpoint. But, do the money men get anything ? You betcha. Access to proven Pemex fields. Access to Canadian oil shale. The ability to move in and develop Mexico. As I said, I'm simple, I still don't get it.
#17
look - our congress and senate is completely corrupt. They see themselves princes and no longer feel the need to be responsible to the people. Let's just get through this next election. The Democrats if given power will sell us out to foreign interests and give important positions to those who hate America and who would love nothing more than to break down and piss on everything that once made our society good. If the Dems take control, the damage will give the advantage to our enemies for at least four years.
At least the Republicans will be business as usual, only selling us out to lobbyists and corporations.
Once the election is over, we will have to clean house. Term limits, and a thorough scrubbing. These guys need to remember who is in charge.
#18
Who is in charge? I am quite frustrated with our imperial government. We need constitutional term limits. The Founders never envisioned a permanent ruling class.
#19
Besides North America + South America, the only LT rationale for "super-ports" would be, OOOOPPPSIES, the establishment of a trans-continental direct trade route over the ARTIC/NORTH POLE into RUSSIA = EURASIA. DECADENT AMERIKANSKI WARMONGERING IMPERIALIST CAPITALIST FASCIST MALE BRUTES TO NORTH POLE > "MELT, D *** YOU, MELT"!?
Why do Americans on the left think only they have the right to dissent?
. . . It is not only about rage and resentment, and how some have come to see them as virtues, as an emblem of rightness. I feel so much, therefore my views are correct and must prevail. It is about something so obvious it is almost embarrassing to state. Free speech means hearing things you like and agree with, and it means allowing others to speak whose views you do not like or agree with. This--listening to the other person with respect and forbearance, and with an acceptance of human diversity--is the price we pay for living in a great democracy. And it is a really low price for such a great thing.
We all know this, at least in the abstract. Why are so many forgetting it in the particular?
Let us be more pointed. Students, stars, media movers, academics: They are always saying they want debate, but they don't. They want their vision imposed. They want to win. And if the win doesn't come quickly, they'll rush the stage, curse you out, attempt to intimidate.
And they don't always recognize themselves to be bullying. So full of their righteousness are they that they have lost the ability to judge themselves and their manner.
And all this continues to come more from the left than the right in America.
Which is, at least in terms of timing, strange. The left in America--Democrats, liberals, Bush haters, skeptics of many sorts--seems to be poised for a significant electoral victory. Do they understand that if it comes it will be not because of Columbia, Streisand, O'Donnell, et al., but in spite of them?
What is most missing from the left in America is an element of grace--of civic grace, democratic grace, the kind that assumes disagreements are part of the fabric, but we can make the fabric hold together. The Democratic Party hasn't had enough of this kind of thing since Bobby Kennedy died. What also seems missing is the courage to ask a question. Conservatives these days are asking themselves very many questions, but I wonder if the left could tolerate asking itself even a few. Such as: Why are we producing so many adherents who defy the old liberal virtues of free and open inquiry, free and open speech? Why are we producing so many bullies? And dim dullard ones, at that.
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