Curried SPAM and Mango Salad

Well, I bought the SPAM and chose the turkey breast. My brother has a dog.


So .... serves 8 (with leftovers)

1 can turkey SPAM (cubed)

1/2 c. Madras curry paste
1+1/2 t. Light Mayo .....oh wait ...... that's the wrong way around.



It should read 1/2 c. light mayo
1+1/2 t. Madras curry paste

1 ripe mango peeled and chopped
1/2 sweet red pepper, chopped
1/4 c. finely sliced red onion
1/3 c. toasted chopped pecans
1/4 t. each salt and freshly ground black pepper
8 leaves romaine or single leaves of endive with a tsp. in each ... like for a snack



chopped flat leaf parsley
lime wedges



One of my Mum's friends told me that ... in the olden days ... they used to glaze it and roast it like a ham.

I didn't add any Survival Spice. It would have been a sin.

Actually, it was briefly edible ... thank God for curry.

I had to wash the underbelly of the armadillo.

They look good in genes ...

“We think you’re too dumb to be allowed to go to the store by yourself”

“That’s why we brazenly lie to you during elections.”

John Robson

Caption .....

this.

I just know I'm going to sleep well tonight ....

Dream world a strange, scary place for liberals [subscription required]

Meanwhile, conservatives dream of mundane events and monogamous sex, writes Chris Lackner.

If you've recently dreamed about sex with a stranger, flying or the dead coming back to life, chances are you're probably a liberal instead of a conservative.

A dream researcher from John F. Kennedy University in California has discovered fundamental differences between the dream worlds of people on the ideological left and the ideological right.

Among his findings, Kelly Bulkeley discovered that liberals are more restless sleepers and have a higher number of bizarre, surreal dreams -- including fantasy settings and a wide variety of sexual encounters. Conservatives' dreams were, on average, far more mundane and focused on realistic people, situations and settings.

"Conservatives seem to have more of a focus on the here and now and the material world whereas liberals, in contrast, seem to have a much wider sphere of imaginative activity," he said.

"They don't just dream about what is, but what could be or what they wish could be," Mr. Bulkeley said.

His research is being published in an upcoming issue of Dreams, a journal published by the American Psychological Association.

Out of the 134 liberals who participated in the study, 91 per cent said they recently dreamed about sex; only 76 per cent of 100 conservative subjects admitted the same.

But Mr. Bulkeley said the two political stripes showed very different tastes in dream partners.

Liberals were far more likely to have sexual dreams about strangers and a variety of partners, while liberal women showed a greater tendency towards same-sex fantasies than their conservative counterparts (24 versus four per cent).

"Especially for liberal women, there was a far greater variety in sexual partners and incidents of homosexuality," Mr. Bulkeley said. "Liberals tended to show a greater willingness to experiment with different things."

Conservatives, by comparison, were far more likely to report having sexual dreams about their spouse or current partner.

While left-wingers might be more adventurous in the subconscious bedroom, they're also more likely to wake up in a cold sweat.

Liberals showed slightly higher levels of nightmares than conservatives -- a statistic at odds with a similar dream study Mr. Bulkeley conducted in the late 1990s.

He said the ideology of the United States' governing party may affect the dream patterns of Republicans and Democrats.

While conservatives deplored former president Bill Clinton's reign in the 1990s, liberals are currently both furious and fearful of the Bush administration, he said.

"With the change from the Clinton to the Bush administrations, there are waking world reasons for liberals to be more concerned and stressed, and conservatives to be less concerned," Mr. Bulkeley said.

"Dreams are like political cartoons of the mind -- mental op-ed columns. Sometimes dreams reflect internal commentaries on the state of things."

The study includes some of the dreams recounted by liberals, such as the following nightmare: "I was at a presidential rally where George W. Bush was speaking. There was so much red, white and blue. Bush speaks: 'There are those who say that we are giving up our civil liberties. But I say, we should be proud to sacrifice our freedoms for America!' The crowd went wild, clapping, cheering and waving flags. I awoke in a cold sweat."

Not surprisingly, Republicans had much more benign dreams about their commander-in-chief: "I was friends with George W. Bush and we were working together on his ranch. I was happy to be there."

Mr. Bulkeley said that the most surprising result in his study is that conservatives showed a higher tendency for lucid dreaming -- being aware they were asleep. Conservatives largely reported using their "dream awareness" to wake themselves up from uncomfortable situations and nightmares, he said.

Overall, conservative males appear to sleep the most soundly and remember the fewest dreams, while liberal women are the most restless sleepers and fantastical dreamers.

"While some of my colleagues think my research reinforces the stereotype of repressed, uptight conservatives, it also shows that many liberals may he hanging on the edge of mental well-being," Mr. Bulkeley said. "There may be a lot of hidden distress and unpleasantness in the liberal mind."

I dream of showers of melted chocolate. But, that's just me.

Ok ... you win ...

Isn't she lovely ....

Photo by: Yousuf Karsh

I miss her.

It was RED FRIDAY ... and it was a classic ...

... They were applauding a man who'd stepped from a limousine. He waved at them, and they waved back. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. He, with one of our soldiers, laid a wreath at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier.

At Albert and Metcalfe streets, another event had just taken place. People in red were gathered around a small, agitated woman in a red beret. "She nailed the big bastard," said an older man.

"He was shouting our troops were war mongers," said the woman. She said her name was Gail Latourelle, 20 years old. "I dared him to say it to my face.

"He did, so I punched him in the mouth. I actually decked him. I won't have anyone talking about Canadians that way. His mouth was bleeding. He jumped up and ran. The coward just took off."

"Probably Jack Layton in disguise," said a voice. Guffaws and laughter. True Canadian hearts.

via smalldeadanimals

"Canada's Nuttiest Professors" or ... the "Baked Dozen"

or ... "WARD CHURCHILL IS A PUSSY"

from the Western Standard's Sept. 25th '06 issue ... [free registration required]

• Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa ...
  
  "As overseer of the anti-US, anti-globalization website GlobalResearch [he] has manufactured a long list of eyebrow raising accusations that often read more like wild-eyed conspiracy theories ..... B'Nai Brith Canada has complained to the University of Ottawa about anti-Semitic postings on [his] site."

Check out the feature writers at the site.

• Sunera Thobani, Assistant Professor, Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, University of B.C. ...
  
  "Thobani was among the first outside of Gaza to revel in the murder of thousands of Americans at the hands of al Queda's killers on Sept. 11, 2001. Scant weeks afterward, she told an Ottawa feminist conference that Americans were the real terrorists .... Though Thobani hails from Tanzania - where sharia law is still practiced - she's said that we're the real misogynists, stating: "there will be no emancipation for women anywhere on this planet until the western domination of this planet is ended." "

Oh ... the irony.

• Shannon Bell, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, York University
  
  "Political science has never been this risque. But Bell doesn't exactly cover filibusters and Senate reform; try post-contemporary theory, fast feminism, sexual politics, cyberpolitics, identity politics and violent philosophy. The self-described "performance artist' holds workshops teaching the art of "female ejaculation" (also available on video for those off-campus). In 1998 she made news testifying in defence of a sado-masochist prostitute, saying such deviant behaviour was "therapeutic" and that she was an experienced dominatrix herself. In 2000, she was found by police in an illegal lesbian bathhouse. In class, Bell says she dresses provocatively to get a rise out of her students. Early in the term, for example, she usually dons over-the-top feminine outfits. "Then, around the end of October, things are getting intense in terms of their assignments.", she said. "And I move into solid leather for about a month" "

Need I say more?

• John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph
  
  "McMurtry is one of only a few Canadian academics with full membership in an organization called Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of conspiracy theorists who believe the George W. Bush administration staged the 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext to implement repressive, war-oriented policies. Not that he had much use for the traders and brokers who populated the World Trade Centre to begin with; McMurtry's strong distaste for capitalism is exhibited in prolific writings ..."

He also writes at Chossudovsky's GlobalResearch.

• Shadia Drury, Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, University of Regina
  
  "Drury insists that a cabal of extreme conservatives, linked by an allegiance to the teachings of the late University of Chicago political scientist Leo Strauss, controls the White House. Parliament too, since she counts Prime Minister Stephen Harper among the neo-con clique. She's acknowledged Karl Marx as her hero because he "inspired the great reforms of the western industrialized world". ..."

She's not too impressed with Christians, either.

• Michael Keefer, Assoc. Professor of English, University of Guelph
  
  "Like his colleague McMurtry, Keefer's a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and contributing editor to Chussodovsky's GlobalResearch website. He's also a member of a left-wing network, CampusActivism that aims to empower campus radicals and "spark a powerful student movement that will fight for justice everywhere". ... [he] publicly predicted the US would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in March 2006 (we're still waiting). The outstanding defender of Venezuela's Marxist president Hugo Chavez, says the US military is guilty of "terrorist bombings" in Iraq."

This is getting boring ... they're all clones of each other. The rest are:

• Leo Panitch, Professor of Political Science, York University ... probably left of Chomsky
• Taiaiake Alfred, Indigenous Peoples Research Chair and Professor of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria ... in favour of "de-colonization" and probably requires a high-colonic.
• Kathleen Mahoney, Professor of Law, University of Calgary ... "an activist lawyer, academic and feminist ... a staunch opponent of free speech"
• Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto ... quoted as saying " "We face an ever-greater risk of synchronous failure of our social, economic and biophysical systems arising from simultaneous, interacting stresses acting powerfully at multiple levels of these global systems." Whatever that means, it sounds scary."
• Sophie Quigley, Professor of Computer Science, Ryerson University ... just a tad confused about her role.
• Joel Bakan, Professor of Law, University of B.C. ... and wannabe filmmaker ... look out Michael Moore!

It's an excellent article and the first time I've ever seen the words "left-wing hegemony" all in a row.

I'll come back to update the link once they publish on Monday.

Cross-posted

I want one ...

DUCK !!!

They're having a field day.

Breastses ....

Lots and lots and lots of breastses.

Please instruct your children ...

that standing on the grave markers of your ancestors and relatives to save pretty little shoes from sinking into the mud is, well ... at the very least ... bad manners. IT'S NOT A WELCOME MAT!

and THEY'RE NOT FRIGGIN' STEPPING STONES! YOU CAN'T PLAY HOPSCOTCH ... even if it is a McBean.

We remember Edmund Glazer ...

March 21, 1960 - September 11, 2001
American Airlines Flight 11, passenger
beloved son, brother, husband and father
survived by his loving wife Candy and treasured son, Nathan

Survived by we who will never forget.

"mommy my heart is hurting now but I'll be fine". Nathan Glazer

A resident of Chatsworth, California, he was Chief Financial Officer and vice president of finance and administration for MRV Communications. EdmundGlazer was a native of Zambia, born of South African parents. When he was seventeen, he emigrated to the United States.

It was the day the eagle cried. It became the day that the eagle soared.

Project 2996

My own darling mother passed away September 7th, 2006. Among her private papers was a note to her children:

Help each other - my love stays with you all. One of the nicest thoughts I've read is "Love does not die - people do. So, when all that is left of me is love - give it away to others".

It's time for ...

the Carnivale.

Did I miss anything this week?

Useless, failed, corrupt, inept and weak, and downright evil.

MMMmmmmmmmm.......

It's "Camelicious" !!

So you want to be a good little Mommy ...

Help is on the way for those pesky wee foeti.

... also at the BBC

"The prime minister last week said the government needed to intervene before children were even born to stop them turning into troublemakers later."