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God’s Will: McCain endorses Palin’s view that God wants the US to win the war in Iraq.
All in the Family: Palin fired aide who dated wife of Todd Palin’s close friend.
Shifting Tactics: US increases use of Predator drone planes in search for bin Laden in western Pakistan.
“Greatly Exaggerated”: Reports of Steve Jobs’ death, according to Jobs.
“Uppity”: Black MSNBC reporter, according to Georgia Republican candidate.
Deja Vu: City, county and state seek residents’ input on Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement options.
Neat: Scientists attempt to replicate Big Bang.
Broken Record: Arctic ice loss in August likely to smash previous record.
Buyers’ Market: Seattle home prices drop 14.5 percent, to a median of $428,500.
Blame Brad Owen: Lieutenant governor ruled in favor of initiative requiring legislative supermajority to raise taxes, an issue Senate Democrats are now arguing before the state supreme court.
Recipe of the Day: Tomato Jam (recipe via New York Times; photo via Spin Spin on Flickr)
Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds good ripe tomatoes, cored and coarsely chopped
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
1 tablespoon fresh grated or minced ginger
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon salt
1 jalapeņo or other pepper, stemmed, seeded and minced, or red pepper flakes or cayenne to taste.
1. Combine all ingredients in a heavy medium saucepan, Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring often.
2. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until mixture has consistency of thick jam, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning, then cool and refrigerate until ready to use; this will keep at least a week.
Comments (15)
Hmm. Hate to say this, but hopefully they don't find bin Laden before the election. That could be unfortunate timing.
Posted by Julie in Chicago | September 10, 2008 8:27 AMI can't think of anything nastier than Tomato Jam. Maybe Vegemite? No. Not even that.
Posted by Mr. Poe | September 10, 2008 8:27 AMAh, so McCain believes Palin is a prophet of God. THAT's not dangerous at all.
Posted by Carollani | September 10, 2008 8:34 AMA special announcement from the Republican Party -- The following words and phrases, when written or uttered to, about or in the general vicinity of Gov. Sarah Palin, shall henceforth be considered sexist:
1. lipstick;
2. pig;
3. pit bull;
4. dog;
5. husky;
6. Iditarod;
7. bridge;
8. nowhere;
9. library;
10. books;
11. hockey;
12. mom;
13. hockey mom;
14. baby;
15. foreign policy;
16. evangelical;
17. church;
18. Jesus.
This list is subject to amendment without notice.
Posted by LDP in Cincinnati | September 10, 2008 8:35 AMI hate Sarah Palin as much as the next person, but can we agree that cuckolding your boss's family friend is a bad idea? Especially when your boss is an evangelical whack job?
Posted by Big Sven | September 10, 2008 8:41 AMstrangely enough, Al Qaeda ALSO thinks Yahweh/God/Allah wants them to defeat America in Afganistan & Iraq. perhaps God should appear & settle the dispute.
God? I'm waiting...
Posted by max solomon | September 10, 2008 8:49 AMOh, Mr. Poe. Vegemite is lovely stuff. Marmite too. I'm having a little smear now.
Posted by Fnarf | September 10, 2008 9:21 AMParaphrase quibbles:
is not the same as
which itself misrepresents as a factual claim what was actually a wish:
Can we please stick to legitimate lines of attack? Really, there's no shortage of material to choose from.
Posted by lostboy | September 10, 2008 9:28 AMChildren, play nice now. You know not to bother Abba when he's reading the paper.
Posted by God | September 10, 2008 9:30 AMHey Fnarf, so is Obama!
(NOTE: I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS)
Posted by leek | September 10, 2008 9:34 AMHere's the news I really want to know, does anybody else think somebody was manipulating the stock market the last few days? On Monday it was way up because of the Fannie/Freddie takeover. On Tuesday it plunged because of Lehman news. I know manipulation goes on all the time, but the timing of the Lehman news seemed deliberate to me. Of course I could be descending into crazy whacko conspiracy theory nutjob here...
Posted by PopTart | September 10, 2008 9:40 AMHow/where/why would someone use tomato jam??
Posted by Explorer | September 10, 2008 10:05 AMNo, I was wondering about the whole stock market thing myself. A friend was thinking of selling some microsoft shares, but stock had gone down down significantly- with no reason. I tried to goggle a reason to no avail. Yes, I love the irony:)
Posted by Kat | September 10, 2008 10:20 AM@12,
I bet it's just fancy ketchup.
Posted by keshmeshi | September 10, 2008 12:13 PMNot that anyone is still reading here, but I feel the need to go further with my stock market manipulation assertions and point out the robots vs. UAL story:
http://gawker.com/5047763/how-robots-destroyed-united-airlines
Posted by PopTart | September 10, 2008 12:30 PMComments Closed
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