Years ago my dad took me to a very expensive Italian restaurant and after dinner I had a very strange dessert called Nesslerode pie. It was absolutely awesome.
I also love cheese cake and Hungarian Apple shtrudel in fact just about any Hungarian pastries. There is a Hungarian dessert called Palacinta which I make on occasion which is like French crape suzettes with either a special cheese filling or a prune jam filling called Lekvar.
I'm bumping this thread in view of what happened today. These guys in Washington must be reading my posts because they just put in place a plan to help people facing foreclosure, very similar to what I suggested except instead of a 20- 30 year fixed rate they made it 40 years and instead of the prevailing rate they set the rate at 3%. Does it make you all fuzzy knowing you got a celebrity like me on this board?
And in July, when the government of India tried to push its historic nuclear pact with the United States through the parliament, it found six more votes among elected members who were serving prison sentences, and ordered them released so they could vote for the bill. (Nearly one-fourth of the 540-member parliament have criminal charges pending against them.) [Agence France-Press, 7-22-08]
Developing Democracies: Candidates for local office in Brazil can either register under their own names or make them up, and in the October election this year, three candidates chose "Barack Obama" (none won), and others registered under "Bill Clinton," "Jorge Bushi" and "Chico Bin Laden," but more than 200 offered themselves under the name of the country's popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. [Daily Telegraph (London), 10-1-08]
In your case it probably helps that you're not in the "Untouchable" caste if they in fact still use the caste system in India. Running for high government office is very expensive in any country I assume.
If she does come home PLEASE don't have her declawed but do get her spayed. A cats claws are there for a reason and it isn't necessarily to tear up expensive furniture. If you value your furniture so highly as to consider declawing a cat then maybe you should have a dog instead. I'm sorry but this issue really bothers me. BTW, did she have some kind of collar on? This would help to identify her as belonging to someone as opposed to a ferral cat which might get shot on sight or dumped at the pound for disposal.
At this point it may be a good idea to examine how far we've come in our quest to render this planet a self sustaining place to live that will still be a paradise for future generations instead of a cesspool.
In the middle ages it was common practice to deficate on the side of the road and if you had a "chamber pot" to toss its contents out a window when it needed to be emptied. People lived in the same building with livestock. In the early days of the industrial revolution absolutely no thought was given to whatever toxic smoke was being dumped into the atmosphere. They simply built smokestacks higher to get the smoke farther away from the people in the immediate area. If you happened to be downwind, tough luck. later on with the advent of indoor plumbing, builders ran raw sewage directly into rivers & streams and ultimately into the ocean (if fish could talk). As late as the mid 20th century it was common practice for cities & towns to burn all their garbage. New York City itself disposed of her garbage by loading it into gigantic barges as big as a football field and when they had 2-3 full they would tow them out into the Atlantic ocean and open up the bombay doors and let it sink into the depths. Of course not all of it sank. Much of it washed up on beaches around the world. Today NYC trucks its garbage to my state of VA and they pay us to take it. We use it to generate gas for heating and cooking. When I was a kid everything you didn't want anymore went into the garbage and we never gave it a 2nd thought. Not so today. The level of consciousness today is extremely high although there are people around who are still living in the stone age and are too ignorant or lazy to recycle. The next step is mandatory recycling.
One big problem which many people don't like to think about as if by ignoring it somehow it will just go away, is nuclear waste. The rush to "save the planet" from global warming by building nuclear power plants may prove to be a very bad choice at some time in the future if we don't solve this problem.
I'm an environmentalist 24/7 that is to say I believe in the American Indian philosophy of leave nothing behind but your footprints. I'm a recycle/reuse fanatic and at times I have been an activist when I was in a position to affect the outcome of a bad plan (usually by government officials). In the early 90's I was active in getting the Little Darby Creek declared a protected area off limits to exploitation. The city of Columbus OH wanted to dam the Big Darby river and flood the area to provide water for the city but we together with the Nature Conservancy stopped them.
Now you may not like this but your country has been on my S__Tlist for many years for the way Brazil is deciminating the rain forests in So America. With funding from the World Bank one of your past presidents decided to clean out the poor people from your cities by cutting roads deep into the rain forest and burning down the trees by the millions to make grazing land for cattle. This is not aimed at you personally but at your government for being so short sighted and stupid.
That reporter obviously didn't know you should never approach a dog with palm down, it's a sign of aggression in canine body language. Always palm up and let the dog come to you.
Many lawyers will give you a free first consultation. Some limit it to a phone call, others will have a sit down chat with you in their office. This is usefull to learn what your options or rights are and if you have a case worth bothering with.
Don't hesitate to take advantage of this service. Look in the phone book for lawyers who specialize in real estate issues.
Give it a little time. He has a social life and you can't expect him to drop everything and give his undivided attention to you right off the bat. If you crowd him he will bolt. Take the time to become friends and if things develope your friendship may grow into something more but if you start tightening the reigns too soon you'll be sending the signal that you're too controlling.
Dude, the thing I really hoped for almost as much as an Obama victory was that he would win my state of Virginia which he did. That was as big a victory as winning Ohio, maybe even bigger. 2 days ago I went to Washington DC on a delivery to a hospital and there were Obama/Biden signs EVERYWHERE there must have been 1,000's of them. I stole one to put on my lawn.
The looooooong George W Bush nightmare is almost over. Just a couple of more months and we can begin the process of restoring the image of America that he tarnished with his fachist idealogy. I'm totally convinced the great Republican party is just as glad to see his tenure end because he has done more damage to his party than any one man has ever done. The thing that baffles me is how so many people re-elected him for a second term. I guess Americans really are easily scared into making very bad decisions and have no sales resistance to con men.
Just look at some of the rights we've lost under George Bush.
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY: emails and phone calls can be tapped without a court order.
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigations.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records questions.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
One by one, these rights must be restored and under president Obama I'm hopefull they WILL be restored.
Guantonamo must be closed down and every one of the "enemy combatants" must be given a fair trial starting with American citizens. Special perks for "faith based" schools must be eliminated restoring separation of church & state. The occupation of Iraq must be turned over to the Iraqi government. We must go back into Afganistan and deal with Al Quieda and the Taliban the way we should have the first time and this includes the tribal areas of pakistan and bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. We must eradicate the poppy fields in Afganistan which is the source of the world supply of heroin and bankrolling the Taliban and Al Quieda and turning the youth of the world into useless zombies. This is only a partial list of goals president Obama must try to achieve. I could go on all night.
For starters you have to understand what hiccups are. Hiccups are one of the ways the body reacts to food stuck in the tube that goes from your mouth to your stomach. It employs what scientists refer to as inertia of rest, that is, a body tends to remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. The food is the "body" in this case. By lurching upward the esophagus utilizes the static inirtia of the food to induce it to move in a downward direction into the stomach. If all goes well, once the obstruction is cleared the hiccuping stops, however sometimes the signal to stop hiccuping gets lost or scrambled or the esophagus continues to send a signal to the brain to hiccup possibly due to soreness in the esophagus. I'm not sure how it works but the application of citric acid on the tongue (lemon or orange juice) will send the required signal to stop the hiccuping. I've seen this work countless times and the result is usually immediate.
Expanding on your point, for decades the flag had 48 stars and I'm sure there are 1,000's of 48 star flags around which technically is no longer the "approved" flag, under this ridiculous amendment would it be legal to destroy a 48 star flag?
The irony of all this is that probably 99% of all the american flags sold in this country were probably made in China by child labor or at best deplorable working conditions.
Is that what they mean by a new direction? It's a start!
BTW I added 1 vote to the Obama column, but my biggest enjoyment came by voting AGAINST Eric Cantor, he's the congressman who sponsored the flag desecration amendment to the Constitution. Imagine some goddamn politician trying to tell me what I can and can't do with a piece of cloth or paper that I bought and paid for with money I earned, just because it has some pretty stars and stripes on it.
Barack Obama's 86-year-old grandmother died today, the presidential front-runner said.
Mr Obama suspended his campaign for two days last month so he could travel to Hawaii to spend time with Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him, after her health deteriorated "to the point where her situation is very serious".
She died one day before he could become the first black president of the United States.
Mrs Dunham died peacefully after a battle with cancer, Mr Obama said in a joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng.
"She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility," the Democratic presidential candidate said. "She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances."
In a campaign advert earlier this year, Mr Obama described his grandmother as the daughter of a Midwest oil company clerk who "taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland".
He said this included things like "accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbour as you'd like to be treated".
Mrs Dunham was also the "white grandmother" he referred to in a high-profile speech on race as he called for a "more perfect union" in the US.
The 47-year-old Illinois senator learned of her death on Monday morning while he was campaigning in Jacksonville, Florida.
I think the stimulus package was a big mistake. Like putting a bandaid on a bullet wound.
As to the mortgage crisis it was caused by far too many people who hadn't a clue on how to manage money getting sucked into over extending themselves thinking they had a "Right" to the "American Dream" of home ownership by unscroupulous banks & mortgage companies. It really was little more than a ponzi scheme and like all ponzi schemes it had to come crashing down eventually. The solution to the mortgage problem is extremely simple.
Anyone facing foreclosure should have their mortgages converted to a 20-30 year fixed at the prevailing rate. Lending institutions will take a small hit due to the low initial payments made by the borrower but they caused the problem in the first place. At least people wouldn't be forced out on the street and the situation will begin to heal itself immediately. Having 100's of boarded up vacant houses in every town does nobody any good. All it does is further depress home values. Next: Lending institutions need to have regulations re-applied because it's obvious they can't regulate themselves.
Next: Margin buying of stocks should be temporarily halted especially by hedge funds until the market calms down and only then can it be implemented very slowly. Borrowing money to buy stock is the reason for the crash of 1929 and it is the primary reason Wall Street is tanking now. The main differences between then & now is, back then "Joe the Plumber" could buy stocks for as little as 10 cents on the dollar, I think it's about 80 cents today. And now, hedge funds are the big margin buyers with Billions borrowed to finance their far flung portfolios.
You may have a new virus. MSANSSPC.DLL You can search your registry and if it shows up you can "Modify" the entry by highlighting it and deleting it or backspace through it. This thing will add all sorts of programs to your pc and you won't be able to do anything because all your resources will be tied up. After getting rid of it run Spybot, adaware, and any other spyware program you have. Good luck. You'll need it.
I think most of you are missing the irony of this event. Sarah Palin is trying to create an image for herself as just a hockey mom who likes to hunt and raise a family and hang out with the down home folks. At one of her rallies recently she related a story which was probably created by a script writer and never really happened, that went something like this.
"The other day somebody called me a redneck, I said, [long pause] Thank you"
Now I know a lot of rednecks and you can take this to the bank, They don't shop at Nieman Marcus.
I think she would have greater success at portraying herself as just another downhome middle class hockey mom if she DID shop at Walmart.
I spent a week on Grand Bahama Island. I worked for a company that had the contract for doing the yearly cleaning of all the kitchen exhaust systems at the Grand Bahama hotel. We had to work at night when the kitchens were not in use so we had all day to swim & snorkle and fish the reefs.
Voting for an independant is the same as not voting in this election. Just look at the numbers. That was the same logic which cost Al Gore the election in 2000 and Kerry in 04. Look at where we are today thanks to people who wasted their vote on Ralph Nader or people who didn't vote out of protest.
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RE: Favourite cake or dessert!
Years ago my dad took me to a very expensive Italian restaurant and after dinner I had a very strange dessert called Nesslerode pie. It was absolutely awesome.I also love cheese cake and Hungarian Apple shtrudel in fact just about any Hungarian pastries.
There is a Hungarian dessert called Palacinta which I make on occasion which is like French crape suzettes with either a special cheese filling or a prune jam filling called Lekvar.