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Saturday Night Comfort, Aid & Pleasure Krewe

Posted: January 12, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: open thread | Tags: , |20 Comments

So, it’s been an endlessly gloomy week.  I honesty can’t say when I last saw the sun.   It’s been a week of rain, grey clouds, and dense fog.  Here’s a few of my favorite things.  Please share yours!!

Cool Jazz and Hot Sax!!

Red Wine!! 

(Especially when they are good and under $20.)

1) 2010 Evodia Old Vines Garnacha – Simply Superb!
This $8 wine from Calatayud, Spain is no stranger to our Top 10 lists! Consistently good vintage to vintage this savory wine features juiAltovinum Calatayud Evodia Old Vines Garnacha 2010 - A Simply Superb Bulk Buy!cy blackberry, blueberry and raspberry along with a fantastically smooth mouthfeel. It’s hard to get much better than this for under 10 bucks. 100% Garnacha.

Good News!!!

Record number of women in Senate

January 3, 2013 4:16 PM

Of the 13 new senators who took the oath, five of them were women, bringing the ranks of women senators to 20 – a full one-fifth of the legislative body.

My Girls!!!the whittaker girls

(That’s me, Doctor Daughter, Baby Daughter, and my Sister at Doctor Daughter’s Wedding in Colorado.)

  and of course 

My Dear, Sweet Friends at Sky Dancing!!!!

Oh, did I forget chocolate?

106202-chocolate-chocolate-cupcake

20 Comments on “Saturday Night Comfort, Aid & Pleasure Krewe”

  1. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    January 12, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, preferably made with Claussen dill pickle slices.

  2. Beata's avatar Beata says:
    January 12, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    The Beatles.

  3. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    January 12, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    I just finished watching one of my favorite movies, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

    Saw another favorite last night…It’s a mad mad mad mad world.

    And…get to see another favorite, The Little Foxes later on. Happy Happy, Joy Joy!

    and this remake: Baby Jane…in drag:

    • minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
      January 12, 2013 at 10:12 pm

      Okay, so those are parodies…jokes.

      This is not a joke: Patriotic Group To Build Armed ‘Defensible’ Neighborhood Fortress | CNS News

      A group of like-minded patriots, bound together by pride in American exceptionalism, plan on building an armed community to protect their liberty.

      The group, named Citadel, intends to purchase 2,000 to 3,000 acres for the project in western Idaho. The community will comprise of 3,500 to 7,000 families of patriotic Americans who “voluntarily choose to live together in accordance with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal of Rightful Liberty.”

      According to the Citadel website, Rightful Liberty means that “neighbors keep their noses out of other neighbors’ business, that neighbors live and let live.”

      Citadel explains that residents in the community will be bound by the following:

      Patriotism
      Pride in American Exceptionalism
      Our proud history of Liberty as defined by our Founding Fathers, and
      Physical preparedness to survive and prevail in the face of natural catastrophes –such as Hurricanes Sandy or Katrina — or man-made catastrophes such as a power grid failure or economic collapse.

      Residents should also agree that being “prepared for the emergencies of life and being proficient with the American icon of Liberty — the Rifle — are prudent measures.”

      Some of the benefits of the Citadel community include a safe, well-prepared, patriotic community where children will be educated in school, not indoctrinated.

      Oh boy…that is a relief.

      The community will be protected by a perimeter wall that will be inaccessible to “tourists.” Each neighborhood within the community will have lower walls, dividing the town into defensible sections.

      The website has a link to applications where prospective residents can sign up. According to Citadel, more than 200 families have completed applications, even before any land has been purchased.

      While Citadel may sound wonderful to many who are reading this, the community has posted a warning on their home page:

      “Marxists, Socialists, Liberals and Establishment Republicans will likely find that life in our community is incompatible with their existing ideology and preferred lifestyles.”

      Citadel says that every patriot selected to live within the community “will voluntarily agree to follow the footsteps of our Founding Fathers by swearing to one another our lives, our fortunes and our Sacred Honor to defend one another and Liberty against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

      This is the CNSnews “article” currently making headlines on drudge…feeding the obvious crazies out there.

      Wow.

      • List of X's avatar List of X says:
        January 12, 2013 at 11:09 pm

        I’m going to guess the Fox take on this: “Obama administration is putting American patriots in concentration camps!”

      • NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
        January 13, 2013 at 12:27 am

        Yeah, I linked to a article on that sometime back when commenting a few weeks ago. That part of Idaho is full of paranoid rightwingnuttery. I recall one of the requirements for residency was gun-owning. Maybe we can hope they’ll all blow each other up, squabbling about keeping noses out of neighbors’ business but making sure everyone wears the right kind of underwear.

  4. NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
    January 13, 2013 at 12:29 am

    Dak, that photo of your family is lovely!

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