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Friday, February 15, 2008

The Morning News

posted by on February 15 at 9:50 AM

Pleading “Not Guilty”: Accused Central District shooter.

$695,000: The total Obama has given to superdelegates to help them with campaigns. (Clinton gave a total of $195,000).

Resigning?: McCain thinks about it.

Interest Rates: May get cut further, due to “sluggish” economy, Bernanke says.

In Chad: A state of emergency after recent coup attempts.

Suspended: Students who wore “Safe Sex or No Sex” shirts to school.

In New Mexico: Clinton wins caucus.

Six Dead: Shot by gunman at Northern Illinois University.

Four Percent: The percentage of the world’s oceans undamaged by human activity.

Just Blow it Up: US will shoot down spy satellite\ on course to crash into Earth.

Unprecedented: Dead zones off the Oregon coast.

Recipe of the Day: Beanie Wienies for Grown-Ups (recipe and photo via Homesick Texan)

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Ingredients:
1 pound of pinto beans
1 onion, diced
4 cloves of garlic
1/4 pound of salt pork, diced
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/2 cup molasses
3 T chile powder (I used a mix of ancho and chipotle chile powders)
1 teaspoon pequin or cayenne
2 teaspoon mustard powder
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup of black coffee
Pinch of baking soda
8 good-quality hot dogs, sliced into ˝ inch thick slices

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
2. Soak the beans in a pot filled with 8 cups of water overnight, or do a quick soak by boiling the beans in 8 cups of water and then covering the pot with a lid for one hour.
3. Heat the canola oil in a large pot on medium, and sauté onions until translucent, about 10 minutes.
4. Add the garlic and cook for a couple of minutes.
5. Stir in the molasses, chile powder, cayenne, mustard powder and brown sugar.
Add the soaked beans, and stir in coffee, baking soda and diced salt pork.
6. Add enough water to cover beans with two inches of water.
7. Cover the pot, and place in the oven. Leave alone for 2 hours.
8. After two hours, stir beans, add more water if needed, cover and then leave in the oven for 30 minutes to an hour, depending on beans tenderness.
9. Take pot out of the oven, and taste beans. Make taste adjustments with mustard powder, chile powder, and molasses if necessary. The beans should be tender at this point. If they’re not, cook covered a while longer until they are.
10. Turn up heat to 400 degrees, uncover pot, and add hot dogs and cook for 30 more minutes or until sauce is thick.

RSS icon Comments

1

What happened with the Senate vote about the White House subpoenas yesterday afternoon? I can't find a follow-up on that...

Posted by It's Mark Mitchell | February 15, 2008 9:53 AM
2

If we miss that satellite, we're gonna look even dumber than we look today.

Posted by Mahtli69 | February 15, 2008 9:55 AM
3

That picture is making me ill. Yuck.

Posted by Aislinn | February 15, 2008 9:56 AM
4

Procrastinating on the surveillance society: House Leaves Surveillance Law to Expire.

Posted by elenchos | February 15, 2008 9:59 AM
5

What about the three new ferries? From the PI.

Posted by Katelyn | February 15, 2008 10:05 AM
6

How much total money did Obama and Clinton give in campaign contributions to anyone? Is the money given to superdelegates a significant percentage of that? Is that percentage significantly different than what a random sampling of Senators gave to superdelegates?

These are the questions to be asking, instead of taking circumstantial evidence of corruption as gospel.

Posted by w7ngman | February 15, 2008 10:23 AM
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Posted by hippie | February 15, 2008 10:52 AM
8

They censured the two White House officials yesterday, @1, and in protest that law-hating GOP walked out.

But they're now officially felons, and no word on fines, jail time, if armed Capitol Hill police will go into the White House to drag them out of their offices kicking and screaming and lock them in the jail cells they have in the Dome, or what.

Last time this happened was 1984.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 15, 2008 10:54 AM
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@7 Check Line Out.

Posted by Katelyn | February 15, 2008 10:56 AM
10

I hate bernanke

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 15, 2008 11:02 AM
11

I would love to have McCain leave the Senate to campaign for President, and then lose to Obama while a Democrat wins his seat.

Too much to hope for, I guess.

Posted by Cascadian | February 15, 2008 11:04 AM
12

Well, since all Democratic members of Congress and the Senate are Superdelegates, somehow ECB is trying to paint Obama's gifts (to dems in tough races) as a bad thing, and Clinton's relative stinginess a good thing.

Nice spin there! Wanna cookie?

Posted by Willis | February 15, 2008 11:05 AM
13

I have a soft spot for L'il Smokies in BBQ sauce

Posted by Behind | February 15, 2008 11:20 AM
14

Poll: Obama takes lead in Texas
http://americanresearchgroup.com/

Posted by Banna | February 15, 2008 11:20 AM
15

@Will in Seattle -- thanks.

Posted by It's Mark Mitchell | February 15, 2008 11:27 AM
16

In other news: Today is NapoleonXIV Day!

Woo-hoo!

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 15, 2008 12:08 PM
17

Oh, and they told Bush he can take his no-warrant wiretaps and stick them where the sun don't shine.

It's a good day in America.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 15, 2008 12:19 PM

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