michellemybelle’s Neighborhood

TILES!

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the resolution:  "snark less"

butbutbutbut...  consider:

(bullet point goes here)   fusion cuisine has its points.  but Irish and Mexican?  really?
(bullet point goes here)   Irish nachos.  think about it.  Irish nachos.
(bullet point goes here)   it's Rachel Ray. 
(bullet point goes here)   EVOO

look at the yummilicious offering below:

Rachael Ray Show - Food - Irish Nachos

http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/re...

When the fries have about 10 minutes left, place a medium skillet over medium-high heat with 2 turns of the pan of EVOO, about 2 tablespoons. Add the corned beef to the skillet and sauté until light golden brown and heated through, 2-3 minutes.

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would you eat it?   
(I'd bet not)

now I'm in the mood for "nachos as big as your ass"   from Costa Rica or from any of twenty good Mexican restaurants within a three-mile radius. 

my tile guy has been hard at work...glad I got the kitchen cleared for his equipment.

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loathes:

• it's really cold. wisconsin is january is colder than your freezer. 18 degrees right now. 9 for the low.
• i'm not really going to see matt until saturday...last night he had plans, tonight i have plans, tomorrow and thursday he has plans, friday night he works, etc.
• today at work really sucked. the sales lady i work for promises too much to her clients and unfortunately, it's my job to figure out how to make it work. this morning was ridiculous. seriously.
• i think i got drugged on new years. 4 glasses of wine in 4 hours shouldn't make for an incomplete memory and the inability to stand upright. there was something weird going on there...and we were in a kind of shady part of town, so i wouldn't doubt it. i was totally embarassed about it the next day.
• i had fun on new years, but i didn't. i missed matt. if i had been with him, non of that drugged nonsense would've happened.

loves:

• matt made reservations for valentines day already
• he's stopping by work tomorrow to bring me lunch since we aren't going to see eachother all week
• i'm going out to dinner with liz, amber and liz's sister, stephanie, tonight...should be a lot of fun.
• i teach my first real yoga class tomorrow! i'm a little nervous, but excited. i keep having dreams about everything going terribly wrong...
• currently - right now - i have nothing to complain about in my life. my health, as far as i know, is good. my job is lovely - with the exception of today...and matt's been more amazing than ever. it's rare that all sides of my life are going well at the same time.

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude - feelings which increase with the years."

–Albert Einstein

From Makemymood

Crab

an occasional book review

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Hardcover)

Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet must have a debt of gratitude to Rachel Maddow.  and Rachel back to Jeff.  about the time this past summer that the John Ensign ( R. senator from Nevada - having an affair with a married woman in his staff) and Mark Sanford (R. governor from South Carolina - missing for five days in a 'hike') - it was Jeff Sharlet who in a series of appearances in the Rachel Maddow show acquainted Americans with the shadow organization known as "The Family".  "The Family" is a secretive fundamentalist organization, now famous for owning a house in C street Washington D.C. where several members of Congress (Ensign and Sanford among others) lived while Congress was in session.

Sharlet has been following "The Family" for several years now.  a few years back he spent several months in Ivanwald, one of the houses owned by "The Family" as one of a group of brothers - young men selected to be trained for future leadership positions in support and behalf of "The Family" and its principles of driven Christianity, "biblical capitalism" and  "Jesus plus nothing".

The first chapters of the book are interesting, when Sharlet writes about what was it was like to be a brother at Ivanwald and describes the weekly breakfast meetings at the C street house, attended by  several members of Congress, the Administration, lobbying groups and other powers around D.C.. Sharlet describes how while publicly supporting inclusive gatherings such as The National Prayer Breakfast, in private The Family has been closely involved with repressive regimes around the world in support of American fundamentalist supremacy.

The book lags a bit after these few chapters - Sharlet dives into a discussion of the beginnings of American fundamentalism, followed by narratives of how different persons have gained leadership within The Family, up to the current leader, Doug Coe.  several of these chapters had their beginning in Sharlet's articles in Harper's and elsewhere