Christmas Cookie Recipe

I am actually a pretty good baker and this one is a great stress reliever.

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookie Recipe

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequilla

Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer...Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar.. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK, try another cup,
just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and
chuck in the cup of dried fruit, Pick the frigging fruit off floor...Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just
pry loose with a drewscriver. Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who giveshz a sheet. Check
the Jose Cuervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl out,
finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in thedishwasher.

CHERRY MISTMAS!

Reflecting on Thanksgiving

I feel very refreshed and roaring to go after the long Thanksgiving break. Just a few reflections from this past weekend.

It was 65 degrees and sunny just about every day and the heatwave continues. Truly spectacular sunsets. Only in DC do you see a runner who checks his blackberry while waiting for the stoplight to change. I wish I had a picture to prove it but it's true. I don't know about everyone else but I go running to get away from work and email.

The movie, For Your Consideration, is a funny movie but it's not as good as Christopher Guest's others. Best in Show still rocks my world. Prairie Home Companion is a weird movie but I found it to be timely as it was one of Robert Altman's last films. Also, I must say that Lindsey Lohan's performance in the movie was outstanding. She's a solid actress but if only she can get her personal life together.

I close on my new condo on Friday. The packing has commenced and I look forward to a life of shambles leading up to my move into the Virginia suburbs on December 8th.

One last thought, I discovered my car had a flat tire on Wed. I drove the car a few blocks to get it repaired. While waiting I walked to the grocery store and then home to bake pumpkin pie. Once I move to the suburbs I will never be able to walk to the grocery store and back home again while my car is being repaired. That is one aspect of city life I will miss. However, I will not miss the gunshots that rang outside my window on Friday night around 4:30am.

Musicovery

I recently discovered a new "radio" site, Musicovery, where you can pick music based on your mood or style. It's kind of confusing but I've only played around on it for a short time. I can't find the stop or pause buttons.

CNN's Lou Dobbs on the midterms

CNN's Lou Dobbs has a great column suggesting that voters in the midterms told Washington to "shut up and listen." I couldn't agree more.

Voters chose to overturn our current one-party political structure and returned checks and balance to our government. November 7 also demonstrated that the American electorate is far more discerning and independent-minded than either political party or our elites would like to believe.

Election Day was middle-class America's declaration of independence from a Republican-led administration and Congress that for six years has been telling working men and women and their families in this country to shut up, listen up and go to hell.

Faith Hill: Please don't spin

Faith, I love you but don't try to spin this country music awards debacle as a "joke." You should have known you would be on camera at an awards show. Duh! I would hope that you would apologize to Carrie Underwood who deserved the award for her great vocal talent.

If you have a problem with that I would take it up with her.

That change will do you good

I just sent this email to a good friend who did his part in Pennsylvania to knock Rick Santorum's ass out of the park.

I am just glowing. I've never been this happy since I first got interested in politics in 2000!

Do you think Bush waited on purpose to see how the elections turned out before he did anything with Rumsfeld? If he had left a year ago, I am almost positive the democrats would not have taken the house. I wonder if he made a deal with Bush promising that he would resign if the dems took over the house?

I think the Democrats will keep Pelosi as speaker for awhile. She's the first female speaker and all. She's also a damn hard worker and a great leader. The bigger question is who will be the majority leader. I'm hoping for Rahm Emanuel or Steny Hoyer but I'm against Frank Murtha. I agree with his position on the war but he is too conservative on social issues for my taste.

Keep in mind that most of the house seats that were picked up are moderate to conservative democrats so Murtha might just be elected but I sure hope not. I think Pelosi will do a good job brokering deals and working with the right and left to get important legislation passed. I'm just so excited that the dems will have a voice again in the "people's house." They basically have been shut out of everything for the past six years. Now let's hope they can set the example of how a majority party should lead.

I'm most happy that Santorum is gone! Great job! Casey is a bump on a log but I think he'll do well in the Senate and he is a saint compared to devil Santorum.

I guess the presidential campaign kicks off today. :)

The mood is so weird in Washington today. For the first time in along time, the Republicans aren't walking around like they own the place...I'm loving every minute of it.

The Wait is Over...Vote Today

John Mayer's latest single, "Waiting on the World to Change" is a reminder to all young Democrats that we don't have to wait any longer. As he sings:

It's not that we don't care,
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

The tide is turning in this country and it begins today. Here is a link if you need to find your polling place.

Also, if you're under 25 and a member of Facebook, go to this page and let us know you voted today! Show everyone that you care about the future of this country and you exercised your right to vote.

Fun find of the day

I found this new search site available at simplr/y (simpler, yes!)

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Study shows wine is not good but GREAT for your health

Good news for all the winos out there. A new study found that an extract found in wine is better for our health than we thought.

The study by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging showed that heavy doses of red wine extract lowered the rate of diabetes, liver problems and other fat-related ill effects in obese mice.

Fat-related deaths dropped 31 percent for obese mice on the supplement, compared to untreated obese mice, and the treated mice also lived long after they should have, the study said.

I wouldn't go home and crack open that box-o-wine just yet. I see no evidence that the study's results can be applied to humans but we are on the right track.

Cheers!

Stewart and Colbert featured in Rolling Stone

Maureen Dowd writes in this week's Rolling Stone just how Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert might be the most trusted names in news.

I'm trying to upload a photo of the RS cover but Blogger is fucked up right now.