Open Thread – The Exxon Valdez Latte
I’m not sure how I feel about naming a latte after an environmental disaster, but they do deserve props for gallows humor and creativity!
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I’m not sure how I feel about naming a latte after an environmental disaster, but they do deserve props for gallows humor and creativity!
Having lived through the spill,I cannot feel hurt by more exploitation. Rather i see an understanding of how it all came to be what’s lacking.
What is the Tundra Tart’s official stance on abortion? She aborted her term as Guv, she aborted her bus tour a couple times. She aborted speaking engagements. Or was she exercising a woman’s right to choose?
Oh, golly, Mike! You should go into writing political ads for PACs that don’t want Sarah to win (any of them, all of them). That is hilarious! And true!
Unless it has an oil slick on top, it can’t be an Exxon Valdez.
I saw this link posted over at Gryphens and it is indeed an eye opener–Palin posted that she was in Kansas City to visit a museum, she actually gushed about her visit…but no one in Kansas City saw her and that includes all the folks at the museum:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/19/3087587/a-silent-sojourn-by-palin-puzzles.html
No way…she couldn’t have lied about such a thing…could she?
Maybe she was using the Cloak of Invisibility again.
Damn! I was wondering where that disappeared to!
Death Eaters don’t have Cloaks of Invisibility !
😆
In one sense, Joe Hazelwood tried to do the right thing. Although he did mess up by “hitting the jug” in the first place, he tried to use a designated driver, and let the 3rd mate take the tiller.
In retrospect, that too proved ill advised when 3rd Mate Gregory Cousins (and the Helmsman) steered them on to Bligh Reef. The coffee stand could have used a more subtle name such as “The 3rd Cousin” but most folks wouldn’t get it.
Bristol Palin has a tiny tattoo on her right hoof and she looks like she has a spare tire around her middle. New tv series must be good for her figure.
On fishing and regulations in Alaska:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2011/0819/Grizzly-encounters-and-other-reasons-for-federal-regulations
Years ago, my dear MIL new to the world of coffee drinks, ordered loudly a Hazelwood latte . . . In Valdez! There was a stunned second of awkward then hearty guffaws all around. Thanks for the memory (and the idea of coffee jello).
YUMMM – Hazelnut, rum and chocolate! How did they ever come up with a tasty concoction like that to commemorate a disaster like the Valdez oil spill?
Well, just to show you I can do the same, I up-graded a summer dessert my aunt used to make in the summer, and I had forgotten all about – coffee jello. I used plain gelatin and coffe and Kahlua for the liquid. So good with a dollop of whipped cream, and not too heavy in this heat we’ve been having.
Now, can anyone tell me how some congressmen are getting away with charging folks to ask them questions? Paul Ryan, $15; Ben Quayle $35 and a Rep from either WI or MN is charging $10. To quote Republicans “that’s not in the Constitution”! Seriously, is this legal? I know that probably they can whitewash it to seem as thought it’s fund raising, but I wish the press would zero in on these shysters. I’m totally flummoxed, and wondering how SP has missed out on this opportunity to add to her coffers.
It’s legal, but not ethical. I call it “La la la, can’t hear you (with fingers plugging ears)”. Why should the Rethugs be forced to listen to people in their districts who voice what the middle class, the common folk need? They’re not the ones who fill their reelection coffers, after all…
It may be legal, but it’s their JOB to listen. They’re already getting paid a very handsome sum of money to discuss issues with their people. That’s why they are in Congress in the first place, to be a representative of their constituents and the interests of those constituents. If those congresscritters can’t bother to listen to the people who gave them their job, then they need to go back to private life. I sure hope all the voters who gave Paul Ryan, Ben Qualye, and the other guy remember this come election time in just 15 months. It’ll be time for another change!
Are these Republicans Ferengi in disguise? From wikipedia:
“The Ferengi (English pronunciation: /fəˈrɛŋɡi/) are a fictitious extraterrestrial race from the Star Trek universe. . . . They and their culture are characterized by a mercantile obsession with profit and trade and their constant efforts to swindle people into bad deals. They are also known for their business acumen and for exploiting females.[1] . . .Like most of their culture, their religion is also based on the principles of capitalism: ”
I think the Star Trek writers are spot on in their tongue in cheek representation of today’s Republicans. I can’t wait for these guys to be trotted out during campaign speeches–clips of a Ferengi saying something ridiculous juxtaposed with a front runner.
People are getting pissed and it’s not just the Republicans:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/dear-fellow-american
Love it – can’t believe, as a watcher of Repubs and a devotee of Star Trek – the correlation hasn’t cropped up in my mind the last few months.
You found the perfect descriptor, Baker’s Dozen.
not hobbitses, Ferengi.
Ferengi GOP charge constituents 15 slips of gold-pressed latinum ($$) to attend town hall meetings with their representatives. cowardly. thieving. Ferengi.
Charging for access to duly elected representatives? Someone, or several someones, in the progressive media should call them out on it and loudly.Their fellow congresspeople should call them out on it.
It is UNAMERICAN!
Pay them with Monopoly game cash!!!
LOL if you can afford the game that is.
I don’t know if you were being serious or rhetorical in the first paragraph. But just in case some of the out of state mudpups aren’t up to speed on the 1989 oil spill, I will offer the following:
Hazelnut: In honor of Joe Hazelwood, the captain.
Run: In honor of Joe’s favorite pre-voyage beverage.
Chocolate: In honor of the appearance of 11 millions gallons of oil in Prince William Sound.
oops. I meant Rum of course.
probably by the time he ran aground he was calling it “run”, so no problem….but, seems to me it should be a very distasteful concoction…not something you might want a refill of….or second order…..
Were I living in Scottsdale and one of Ben Quayle’s consituents (both scenarios are bizarre and unimaginable) I would be trying to organize voters to crash the party; make our way in without paying so we could exercise our constitutional right to petition our government. But most of the people in that district are members of the wealthy, right-wing contingent that took over Arizona 20 years ago, and I’m sure they see nothing wrong with it. My representative, Gabrielle Giffords didn’t charge last time she held a public forum, and that didn’t turn out well. But I hope people in these districts start speaking (and acting) up soon.
I don’t know, I’m thinking it might be worth the money to get into one of these goofy sessions so you could ask a question. Think of the great chance of making one of these control freaks having to answer a question they don’t want asked. Maybe it would jar some of their avid followers out of the spell they are under.