birdog1960

couldn't find duck leg as the recipe called for. she minced $6 worth of duck breast and deep fried it. put it in the soup near the end of its cooking (which she reports was stringy at first and had to be sieved before adding the duck) . don't know much more than that but it was delicious. might be a jamie oliver recipe as she's a big fan. ok, here's the scoop from the cook. winter duck ragout in artichoke soup from gordon ramsey's maze. sorry. i'm a philistine. but i make a mean steak diane.

i'd highly recommend trying the deep fried artichokes. we had them at a restaurant and my wife successfully reproduced them...with canned hearts and they were fantastic and it didn't look too difficult to do. steak diane is a dish whose fall from favor i can't explain. i just used sirloin pounded down to 1/4" (cue the pounding meat jokes that were said sunday). 1/2 hour total to prepare.

unfortunately it's not ironic that you miss so many important points here. we don't have a shortage of labor. we have a shortage of jobs. and it will get worse as was so aptly pointed out in the "economist" article that gg recently linked. for all your sides whining about the bad parenting done by the poor, might having one parent at home caring for the kids be preferable to both parents away working to pay for health insurance. i know plenty of folks who work for nothing other than health insurance ( i personally used to employ several). wouldn't it be helpful to the unemployment rate to free up those jobs to heads of households that need the income more than the insurance?

except that it isn't: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/obamacare-remakes-the-economy--and-it-s-not-all-that-bad-202655235.html. it's a recurring theme: things are almost nerver as simple as you all make them out to be.

we were also celebrating a best friend's birthday so went all out: artichoke hearts stuffed with gorganzola covered with panko and deep fried, sausage filled phyllo pastry, asparagus soup augmented with duck breast confit (there's almost surely a more technical name but i don't know it), steak diane (the only thing that i made), roasted baby potatoes, steamed asparagus with drawn butter, key lime pie and taramasu, coffee, port. beer and wine during the game. best ever for us. luckily her birthday comes the same time every year!

after the rapture, can i have your car? evolution is just a theory (like gravity) democrats think the glass is half full, republicans think the glass is theirs want less gov't? move to somalia. all taken from cafe press in a search for the many great ones i frequently see on an old subaru at the farmers market.

the reign of tea party power was ridicule in response to oc's assertions of how influential the tea party has become. next time i'll try to be more clear.

he lost by nearly 4%. i'm not getting your arithmetic. there are only so many angry, white men voters. you can define moderate and independent however you like. it's the actual voter demographics that matter and romney's were pretty white bread. besides, it's the electoral votes that matter and they weren't even remotely close. and i'm more confused than ever about where "mainstream" republicans stand. is ann coulter agreeing with you or me on this issue? http://www.thedailyb...servatives.html

it's moved republican discourse to the right. and republicans can't even consider a moderate stance in most primaries. i contend romney would have had a better chance if he was allowed to wear his own true face which is moderate. yup, the tea party was largely responsible for his chameleon act. he appeared dishonest in his tea party costume. in this reign of tea party power, dems passed the aca, likely the most ambitious new progressive initiative since civil rights. the early effects of the changes to that will cause dems in upcoming elections to tone it more moderate, no doubt. but don't conclude that's a consequence of the tea party. single payer wasn't getting through the establishment repugs either. this was the level of reform that was feasible. it was a huge risk and many now question it's wisdom. but there is still plenty of time before the next election. we'll see...

follow the money. it's what any prudent investigator does.

well,no. who exactly might have planned a better ground game than the guy who turned around the olympics? sarah palin? really, who is the republican messiah? brooks picked ryan today as the likely nominee as of today but then stated he'd win a few very important districts in mississippi. i tend to agree. what percentage of america identifies them self with the tea party even with the legitimate complaints re the aca so far?

laugh some more. it's a losing strategy for the right. the places the tea party can win in general elections are already cemented by republicans. the rest are a net loss.

here's what i've seen the tea party accomplish: scaring the shite out or reasonable republicans by threat of primary challenges bankrolled by the koch's and their ilk. and they often win the primaries...but don't stand a chance in hell of winning the general election except in places where a progessive campaign dollar would have always been better being burned than spent on the election. bravo!!! the only downside is that reasonable republicans are forced into untenable and nonnegotiable positions slowing or stopping any chance at compromise and progress that would benefit the country as a whole.

#1 little feat with lowell george, doc watson #2: the beatles, johnny cash, janis joplin, the doors with jim morrison.

it's a good piece. no doubt one of the the root causes of so much unemployment is technology. i also agree that action needs to be taken before the masses rise up. we just disagree on which actions . gov't subsidies of low minimum wage jobs seems to unfairly benefit low wage industries at the expense of middle class and above tax payers. have we seen countries or states with higher minimum (or average) wages having proportionally and consistently higher unemployment as he predicts (as a result of implementation of job losing automation)? i don't think so. i also agree that state education is part of the solution. finally, i fully agree with his statement "that it's up to the gov't to spread them" regarding the unequal distribution of the benefits of technological advancement. he rules out "punitive taxation" due to high earner mobility but has that largely been the case in his native UK? wealthy people want to live in nice places and many of those places have high taxes. there are many wealthy people in london and new york, for example. so maybe there's a happy medium between what he defines as punitive and what allows the winners to pay more and spread the benefits.

so you're dropping the whole compensation/wage obfiscation plan? great.

the fact that a sizable percentage of most ceo's compensation is provided through low tax burden payments only adds fuel to the argument against exhorbitant ceo pay. many base salaries of top ceo's already surpass the proposed ratio. in those cases, the need to take into account compensation above and beyond the base is moot to the argument. if you want to discuss outlier compensation packages, then the distinction might be necessary but why further complicate the argument? (that's rhetorical. it's clear why you would desire that.) drucker talked about the negative effect that exceeding the ratio had on "the fabric of society". that seems pretty intimately related to what i'm saying. and for the second time, i've not proposed any specific remedy, including legislation, to reach the desired state.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/folk-singer-activist-pete-seeger-dies-ny

that's clever

if paul krugman were posting here do you think any of the financial wizards here would ever agree with him. not quite the equivalent analogy to golden showers that you made but you get the idea... the costco ceo is getting lauded for taking a bsae of 2.5 mil or so for being frugal. even at that were above 50x avg wages. your point is not material to the argument. so what's new?

perhaps you have knowledge of many things in a cliff clavin sort of way. but you have a very small mind.

ceo compensation isn't within the scope of the study of management and business or of a man credited with contributing to the foundation of the modern business corporation. that's the entirety of your argument against appealling to his authority. and it's incredibly weak and silly on its face. do you contend that ceo compensation is never a subject of study in the finest business schools in the world from which many of the very ceo's we are discussing graduated? how bout you appeal to a similarly distinguished authority or "scientific" citation that supports your contention that his opinion is incorrect? that would seem the more convincing counter argument. i didn't say what mechanism should be invoked in order to produce the desired state. the "fringe" group garnered 40% of the vote on the issue if i recall correctly. and the fact that it's not fringe thinking but rather a mainstream opinion is an integral part of the argument. there are hundreds of references to the search "drucker wage ratio". more than a few folks have placed some value in his opinion on the matter even if only to refute it. the fact that some find it necessary to do so speaks to its relevance. that you choose not to concede those points yet refuse to disprove them is clear evidence of the weakness of your argument.

well, you might rightly not recognize drucker as an expert in economics sinnce his field of expertise would more accurately be described as management. from wiki "peter drucker was an austrian born american management consultant, educator and author, whose writing contributed to the philisophical and practical foundation of the modern business corporation." i hesitate to provide this link http://hbr.org/authors/drucker since linking him to harvard in any way might lower his prestige in your estimation, but that's kinda the point isn't it? that most of the rest of the world considers him an authority is somehow irrelevant. you deem it appropriate to compare golden dawn to him as an authority on anything. is that really the best you've got?

maybe you should be applying for a job? i would think the chief editor at bloomberg does pretty well. so the neofacists are recognized experts in what exactly. are you appealing to their authority?

the difference being that no serious publication concerned with gender or race and no currently recognized expert in the field would propose such ridiculous arguments....but you apparently would, presumably in desperation.I don't take wawy "pretty arbitrary" form what drucker said about the concept. he flet it was true for a very long time. he seemed pretty convinced.