merry christmas (eve that is)!!!

NO video, but click the link for a VERY good christmas song: with special commentary

our christmas menu

everything homemade (unless i note otherwise)

lasagna (i didn't make the noodles this year. i do NOT have the time)
meatballs (separate from the lasagna i have a vegetarian niece)
applesauce
cranberry sauce
vegan lasagna with added vegetables; mushrooms, butternut squash, eggplant, and whatever else i find in the fridge
mushroom tarts (some vegan some with cheese)
glazed carrots
cauliflower cheese tart (and something cauliflower vegan for me)
creamed corn (big bub won't eat any other kind of vegetable)
yukon gold spuds (i don't know how or what i'm going to do to them yet)
sweet potatoes (i don't know how or what i'm going to do to THEM yet either)
green bean casserole with HOMEMADE mushroom sauce and HOMEMADE fried onions
pickles - store bought
olives - store bought
italian bread-store bought

then my sister brings a GIANT salad and a roasted beast and some other kind of meat. she also brings a ton of desserts. one of my neice's husbands brings a big ol' ham. my OTHER (non cooking) sister makes ice. oh, and she bought an ice cream cake too.

ummmmmmmmmmmmm

i'm not even sure i have ANYTHING to say here except yeah, that's bambino and yeah, that's a bottle of mad dog 20 20 and yeah, it's a connecticut story

Woman Arrested for Demanding Three-Way Sex With Couple - Anna Bambino

this is what we woke up to this morning in connecticut

oh my goddess, this is WONDERFUL!!!

from move on via dependable renegade

i may pack my bags and move to mn

this is NSFW (language)

and i HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE (the) rap music with a passion (as if you couldn't tell)

BUT i think this wicked christmas song is wicked funny



via

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first of all you GIANT asswipe

STFU. if you're NOT from connecticut you don't get to yell at us. I AM from here so I CAN yell at us (and so can rose delauro)

i didn't effing vote for him. i voted for ned lamont. WE, the good (and obviously sometimes not too very bright) citizens of connecticut ARE responsible for da liebs but we're NOT responsible for your big fat mouth (i have one too so that's why i'm saying it about YOU). so once again michael MOORE we don't want you we don't need you. fine. see what your boycott does. no rich peeps from parts unknown invading our towns for summer, winter, fall and spring vacations? believe me i can live with that. does that include YOU? do YOU have a home here? hope not. i don't like you in the least. oh sure, our sentiments are similar but mine are genuine. you spew all of this kumbaya stuff yet you live like DA MAN. you're NOT fooling me. where do you live? where does your child (or is it children, i really don't know) go to school? (hint, i bet it doesn't have a p.s. in front of it). do you fly coach? do you stay in holiday inns? hmmmmmmmmmmm


you're a GROWN man michael moore. stop using 2 for two, to or too and stop using u for you. you're not prince or sinead o'connor

i have an idea! why don't we, the good (if not somewhat stupid) citizens of connecticut boycott michael moore! let's BAN his ass from our state as well. not even flying OVER it will be allowed. jodi, what say you?


Michael Moore ‘holds Connecticut responsible’ for public option failure

By Daniel Tencer
Progressive filmmaker has called for a boycott of the state of Connecticut if voters there don't start an effort to unseat Sen. Joe Lieberman.

"People of Connecticut: What have u done 2 this country?" Moore asked in a Tweet Wednesday afternoon. "We hold u responsible. Start recall of Lieberman 2day or we'll boycott your state."

Lieberman has been the focus of progressive anger since he announced late last week that he would vote against the Senate health care reform bill if the bill included a Medicare buy-in provision that would allow some people aged 55 to 64 to buy into the government-run seniors' health care program............

and you big bag o' wind get this...............

................."Memo to Michael Moore and any other frustrated lefties out there: There is no such thing as a congressional recall. So until 2012, we're all stuck with Joe," writes Eric Kleefeld at TalkingPointsMemo..................

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i am seething with anger

black and blue square has ruined the town of west hartford for ME. i no longer go anywhere near the center (with the exception of every once in a while that whole foods if i can't get to the one at bishops corner). the area is now full of scenesters (you know who i'm talking about). i just described them as having designer suvs, designer dogs, designer kids and designer friends. anyone know what the rents of the center stores and/or black and blue square are? i'm sure they're NOT pretty.

plus where am i gonna park my new designer suv any damn way?

i am not a fan of malls either by the way. but westfarms never should have settled.

Westfarms' Owners Agree To $34 Million Settlement With Blue Back

By BILL LEUKHARDT The Harford Courant
WEST HARTFORD — - The owners of Blue Back Square are getting $34 million in compensation for lost revenue, increased financing costs and other losses as a result of the yearlong construction delay caused by a blizzard of 11 anti-Blue Back lawsuits bankrolled by a retail competitor.

Taubman Centers Inc., the corporate parent of Westfarms mall and the mall's majority owner, agreed in an out-of-court settlement last week to pay its $26.8 million share of the money by today.

Pictures: Blue Back Square

The negotiated settlement — Blue Back lawyers were seeking more than $40 million — resolves Blue Back's 2007 lawsuit seeking damages. There is no admission of liability or fault in the settlement by Taubman, which owns 79 percent of the mall, or its four Westfarms partners, who own 21 percent.

The settlement money is being split by the private developers of Blue Back: Raymond Road Associates, BBS Development LLC and Blue Back Square LLC.

The lawsuits postponed Blue Back construction, resulting in a 2007 opening, just as the national economy began to shrivel.
.........

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a heads up

do NOT 'cook' chestnuts in a microwave

NO i didn't attempt it. i bought some chestnuts for my pops the other day and left them. he's always scored the X in them and roasted them IN THE OVEN

today when i stopped at his house i could SMELL the burnt OUTSIDE. dang


pic from: kyotofoodie.com/donabe-yakiguri-gohan/

da liebs. can't stand 'em. don't want 'em

am embarrassed by 'em. he's NOT my senator. i did NOT elect him. is he thinking of his constituents OR is he being a vindictive steamin' pile? well i know what i think

Joe Lieberman the man who personally killed Health Care Reform

Posted by Rack Jite in Politics


Just when we all thought there was a watered down health care compromise that would work - tossing out the public option in lieu of allowing 55 year olds' and up to buy into Medicare - Senator Joe "Droppy Dog" Lieberman on Sunday said NO WAY. This after months of bragging he would personally filibuster any public option in a health care bill.

Lieberman may very well go down in history as the man who killed health care reform out of spite. He is a vindictive little shit of a man who needs to be RECALLED, today.

This being the end of the year it is time for me to decide who gets the Shithead of 2009 award. Not much doubt on who will win, but it is also time for the Shithead of the Decade award. I think he is going to get it. Sure there's Cheney, Rove, W, Beck, Limbaugh, Dobbs to choose from, but I have say all of them were following their ideology.............

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i was out an about yesterday

it was raw out and it definitely was rainy. at first it TRIED to snow but it couldn't so it just rained and rained. the windshields were not freezing and i saw cars moving easily up and down the street (from the safe and cozy inside of the half door. when i did go outside for a butt, i saw what appeared to be some kind of accident on the sidewalk. a bicyclist was prone on the sidewalk and not able to get up. the fire department and an ambulance (eventually) arrived to assist. the sidewalks WERE a sheet of ice. i saw a lot of people who were walking about the neighborhood slipping and sliding. i guess some of the roads must have been packed with black ice too. i proceeded home with much caution..........



Mangled Mess in Shelton after 50 Car Pileup

By MIKE SPRINGER and BEN SOSENKO

A 50 car accident closed Route 110 between Wheeler Street and Leavenworth Road in Shelton for over five hours Sunday.

Police say about 50 vehicles were involved in an accident along Route 110 near Indian Wells Road just before 12:30 p.m.

Steve Arena of Shelton's wife was driving one of those vehicles. She told him that she was driving 20 mph when she lost control of her car on the ice and slammed into the car in front of her. She was able to get out of her car, and watched the next car slam into her. Arena arrived moments later.

"As I got around the turn to approach, I thought I was seeing things in a movie," said Arena. "Just cars every which way, mangeled. I mean I've never seen anything quite like this."

Sixty-two people reported minor injuries and six of those people were transported to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, said police. ..............

Photo courtesy of Joseph Martinka of the White Hose Fire Co #5 in Shelton.

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the flock

st joseph's college. taken a couple of weeks ago.

noms............

if y'all are in the hood today (hartford), stop by the half door for their banging brunch. today it's cashew and berry stuffed toast of france. thick sliced white bread with a filling of homemade chunky style cashew butter, egg battered and griddled served with a three berry coulis and fresh strawberries, blueberries a...nd rasberries. erin will be your lovely bartender, brian will be your lovely manager, matt, maria, martin and louis will be your lovely cooks/chefs and the grrrrls, molly - amy - jess will be your lovely servers. (sorry for the crappy pic. but it looked WONDERFUL. unfortunately i couldn't eat it being vegan and all)

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to the family and friends of cpl. Xhacob LaTorre

my thoughts and prayers are with you. i am so very sorry for your loss. i thank cpl latorre and everyone else who is serving their country. their service is much appreciated



Waterbury Marine Dies Four Months After Bomb Blast

By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY

On Monday, in his Texas hospital room, the gravely ill Cpl. Xhacob LaTorre of Waterbury received a Purple Heart for the wounds he suffered in August from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

On Tuesday, he died of his injuries.

The Marine leaves behind his wife, Frances, and a 1½-year-old son, Javier. A 2005 graduate of Crosby High School in Waterbury, LaTorre was in the ROTC program. He would have turned 21 Saturday.

LaTorre's legs were severely injured when an improvised, explosive device detonated in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on Aug. 10. The bomb instantly killed a fellow Marine who had been on foot patrol with LaTorre, said his aunt, Carmen LaSalle.

His legs had to be amputated, LaSalle said. LaTorre had made progress, though, and was talking and eating at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio within weeks of his injury, she said.

Then infection set in, and his condition worsened, LaSalle said. When he was conscious, he screamed in pain, she said..................

as always the courant has a link to the war dead from connecticut

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coyote on fern street in west hartford

on my way to work yesterday about 2:30 or 3:00 am, i saw a coyote on FERN STREET RIGHT NEAR MORLEY SCHOOL. really. so if you have a cat, i'd NOT let it stay outdoors overnight. REALLY

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i WAS gonna post this but forgot

until i just saw it in boing boing

plus this is WAY WAY WAY better than that woman who found a stupid arse egg with a 'cross' on it (it was just a wonky misshapen egg). this is a COW with a cross!!! (no, i don't think it's a divine symbol my peeps. i think it's a darn cute calf)


Calf with a cross on its head

David Pescovitz

Praise be, this holy calf was born a week ago on a Sterling, Connecticut farm owned by Brad Davis. From WFSB:

Davis said, "Well, I think it's maybe a message from up above. I'm not sure. We're still trying to figure that out."

Megan Johnson of Sterling said, "Well I wasn't surprised. I wasn't surprised at all because the dairy industry has needed a miracle for a long time and this is it. I think it's divine intervention, personally. I'm in the breeding business and I know about reproduction and genetics and I don't think this could happen again in a million cows."

"Cow Born With Divine Symbol" (via Fortean Times)

here's the wfsb link

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look at me, look at me, look at me

no one was paying attention to me for the last five minutes so i had to open my big ugly trap and start spewing garbage again

i never forgave da liebs for his running as an independent and stealing the vote (from a bunch of either stupid connecticuters or ignorant ones or just plain uninformed ones).

da liebs HAS to go. no forgiveness, boot his ass to the curb. he's playing with y'all right now BUT when you take his toys away, he's going to start crying like that baby he always turns into

Health Care: Lieberman Puts Himself In The Spotlight, Again
By LOIS ROMANO and ALEC MacGILLIS Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., has once again inserted himself into the middle of an inflamed partisan debate, raising questions about his motives, his ego and his fickle allegiance to the Democratic Party, which forgave him after he supported Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for president.

Lieberman says he is feeling "relevant" as he threatens to withhold his vote — potentially the decisive 60th — on health care reform legislation if it includes a government-run insurance plan. And it is hard to dispute Lieberman's assertion as Capitol Hill moves farther from the "public option," to the consternation of liberals.

"There is no question he's taken pleasure in this role," said Jacob Hacker, a Yale University political scientist who helped write the initial public option proposal..............

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if you're free 10 am thursday morning

or near a pc/laptop (it looks like it is going to stream live as well) why don't you listen to

Binnie Klein's WPKN Radio Show To Preview CT Young Writers Event

WPKN Newsletter December 7, 2009


89.5 FM Bridgeport,
New Haven — 88.7 FM Montauk,
Westerly, New London
— wpkn.org online

Arts, Culture & Entertainment

Binnie Klein hosts a special show on boxing and writing. Guests include Andy Thibault, author, blogger, and teacher, John "Iceman" Scully, boxer, trainer, and ESPN commentator, Felicity Sheehy, student and prize-winning poet, Bruce Coffin, her teacher at Westover School, and Gaby Calvocoressi, acclaimed poet. We'll be discussing the upcoming CT Young Writers Triple Knockout Event: Prose, Poetry And Pugilism, Hartford Club, January 15 to benefit young writers.

Show Airs Thursday, December 10 at 10:00 AM.

Host Profile: Binnie Klein

WPKN Home Page

Prospect Magazine Features Poet Gaby Calvocoressi, CT Young Writers Triple Knockout Event Jan. 15, 2010 & Hartford Boxers Past & Present

the above from the cool justice report

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the bridge in west hartford

has been around forever (since 1969). if you CAN, help them out this holiday season (of course, you don't have to WAIT for the holidays to help them out you know)

they're quite a worthy AND more importantly TRUSTWORTHY organization

Bridge Family Center In West Hartford Seeks Aid

Needs Coats, Basketballs, Other Gifts For Youth

By KATE FARRISH Special To The Courant

WEST HARTFORD — - Because The Bridge Family Center in West Hartford serves 10,000 children, youth and families a year, it's understandable that its holiday wish list includes items that kids and teens love.

Executive director Margaret Hann says gift cards lead the list of donations that the agency is seeking this holiday season.

"Gift cards, those are huge," she said.

The list includes cards for Marshalls, Walmart, Kohl's, BJ's Wholesale Club, Best Buy, Bob's Stores, Target, Old Navy, A.J. Wright, TJ Maxx, Burlington Coat Factory, CVS, Showcase Cinemas, Bow-Tie Cinemas, nail salons, supermarkets and restaurants such as Chili's Grill & Bar, Ruby Tuesday, Olive Garden and Friendly's.

The agency is also seeking phone cards; new official-sized basketballs; new winter coats for teenagers; new raincoats for children aged 3 to 6; Sony PlayStation games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band; picture books for children from birth to age 8; stamps and stationery..........


the bridge family center

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