Finlandia

Just because.

Wait for it….1:30 in….. Finland Awakes…..*sigh*

Finland, behold, thy daylight now is dawning,
the threat of night has now been driven away.
The skylark calls across the light of morning,
the blue of heaven lets it have its way,
and now the day the powers of night is scorning:
thy daylight dawns, O Finland of ours!

Finland, arise, and raise towards the highest
thy head now crowned with mighty memory.
Finland, arise, for to the world thou criest
that thou hast thrown off thy slavery,
beneath oppression´s yoke thou never liest.
Thy morning´s come, O Finland of ours!

Performed by The Cantores Minores, the Helsinki Cathedral Boys’ Choir.

Recipe Bleg

This is cross-posted at Little Miss Attila’s blog, as she has generously volunteered to lead this effort:

Several bloggers associated with The Cotillion (or “Tiara Media”) have begun a cookbook project. This promises to be the biggest and most luxurious bloggers’ food guide ever, notwithstanding our emphasis on speed, convenience, and how to get epicurean results when you can barely pry yourself away from your keyboard.

But we need your help. We’ll need other bloggers, frequent commenters, website designers, SAH/working parents, writers, and others who are pressed for time to tell us:

• your favorite recipes; and/or
• your favorite season of the year to cook, and why; and/or
• your favorite ingredient, and why; and/or
• your favorite songs to pay on your laptop or iPod while you’re cooking; and/or
• your favorite libation/mixed drink; and/or
• your favorite piece of kitchen equipment–what is the one tool they can pry from your cold, dead hands? AND
• your URL.

Also, please give us your real name, and SPECIFY IF WE CAN USE THIS IN THE BOOK, or whether we need to stick with your screen name.

Please send all your submissions to me; I’ll distribute them to the editors and recipe testers who are working on this book. We’ll need your material (the recipes especially!) by the end of the first week in June, as the book proposal goes out that same month–and the nature of the project will be shaped by your contributions!

Naturally, your blog will get a plug in the book, and you will be linked in the website we’ll be developing in late summer/early fall.

Don’t miss out!

All best,

Joy McCann
Little Miss Attila
http://attila.mu.nu

Additional note from Deb:

I’d like to see a strong moron presence in this recipe book, so please get in on this, morons.  And try to contribute recipes with an emphasis on speed and convenience.

Thanks

Gop Meanies Gonna ‘Swiftboat’ Obama

Some Democrat emo-brainiac is all worried that Obama may possibly get ‘Swiftboated’ by the Republicans because of his connections with The Weather Underground, and other lefties:

Rick Sloan says he doesn’t want to see the Democrats get “Swift Boated” again this time. So the communications director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has sent a couple of dozen friends — union leaders and Democratic activists, mainly — an urgent plea to pay attention to Sen. Barack Obama’s connections with the 1960s anti-war group, the Weather Underground, and other leftist thinkers.

Democrats “can’t be an ostrich on this” with their heads buried in the sand, Sloan said in an interview.

Gee, fella….ya think???

Since Swiftboat” means roughly, “Telling the truth about a Democrat”, it’s greatly feared and reviled by the left. And they’re not going to take it sitting down, either.

They’ve already got some hardcore, war room ninjas on the job of counter-swiftboating operations, and so far have come up with this devastating revelation about the McCain campaign…*GASP* (Make sure you’re sitting down for this!): RECIPEGATE!!11!

When will these McCarthyist tactics cease?

UPDATE:

More swiftboating:

Apparently McCain’s also got a temper…..ooooh-wee! That one’s gonna leave a mark.

Kelly Clarkson Sings Ave Maria For Pope Benedict XVI

Your Sunday Special:

She performed for the Pope, and the 25,000 young Catholics who flocked to Yonkers, NY to see him.

Awesome!

The first all dwarf soccer team in the world:

You can also see them in action, here.

As many of you know, one of my children is a dwarf. So this warms the cockles of my heart.

Found via Instapundit

They’re Both Laughingstocks

On the one hand you’ve got Obama, a guy who’s attended an egregious race-baiting church for nearly 20 years, lead by his “spiritual mentor”, the hateful and ridiculous Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He compares his white grandmother’s fear of black (Panhandling?) men on the street with his spiritual guide’s hateful, racist demagoguery, which infects thousands every Sunday. He has many known associations with Marxists and radicals. How far to the left is he? Let the Astute Bloggers draw a picture for you. Yet somehow, he tries to paint himself as a post racial uniter.

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On the other hand we’ve got Hillary, someone who couldn’t tell the truth to save her life. It’s getting to the point where if Hillary is telling a story from her past, we should all safely assume she’s bullshitting. Here’s Dick Morris’s list of Hillary’s lies. It’s pretty extensive. If she can’t be trusted to tell the truth on trivial matters, how can she be trusted to tell the truth on the really important ones; matters of national security, for instance?

They’re both far left libs, of course…which isn’t funny. But a humorous by-product of what Rush Limbaugh calls the “How can I fool them today” mentality of liberals, is the fact that more and more…because of the alternative media, or (in Hillary’s case) MSM bias in favor of one candidate over another, they get caught in their lies, and deceits. Which is making for a verrrry entertaining Democrat primary season.

The consequences of the embarrassing revelations, and increasing acrimony between the candidates are showing up in many polls. For instance, according to Rasmussen, 22% of Democrats want Clinton to withdraw from the race. An equal number want Obama to withdraw. Gallup reports that significant numbers from both camps would defect and vote for McCain if their candidate loses the primary.

I know it’s still early, but none of this bodes well for the Democrats’ White House aspirations.

What to do? What to do?

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UPDATE:

Gateway Pundit has Hillary’s plan to steal the nomination at the Democratic Convention, as revealed on On The Record With Greta Van Susteren:

HILLARY: But, Michigan is the clearest example of getting right up to the brink of doing the right thing and having Senator Obama say no I won’t do it.

GRETA: And, if he says, “No I won’t do it,” that leaves Michigan and Florida out and does that leave you out?

HILLARY: No, not at all. We’re going to make those votes count one way or another.

(That part gave me chills)!

GRETA: How?

HILLARY: Well, you know, you can always go to the (DNC) convention… That’s what credential fights are for. Let’s… Let’s have the Democratic party go on record against seating the Michigan and Florida delegations three months before the general election? I don’t think that will happen. I think they will be seated. So that’s where we’re heading if we don’t get this worked out.”

Rich Lowry, in speaking of Hillary’s latest whopper, nails the fix Democrats are in:

This method (of constantly lying) served the Clintons well during eight years in the White House, when Democrats exalted them for winning by any means fair or foul. But now that the Clintons’ dark arts of spin and remorseless ambition are being turned on their fellow partisans, Democrats seem stunned - like the tiger handler who can’t believe his big cat turned on him.

Dante couldn’t have devised a more appropriate ring of hell as punishment for the party than spending a few more months with the Clintons in a dispiriting slog of a nomination battle.

Muahahahaha.

Beautiful.

ONE MORE: 

Ann Coulter on Hillary’s “Swiftboating”. Only she’s not really being swiftboated because she’s the de facto Republican in this race, so she’s what the media considers, “guilty”.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all my fake internet friends. I hope everyone enjoys their holiday. I will be busy eating all the chocolate I can get my hands on. (making up for the last 40 days of deprivation).

Holy Saturday is the day we color eggs, bake cookies, and make our big Easter Bunny cake for tomorrow.

And tonight is the big three hour Easter Vigil mass. YEE HAW!

UPDATE:

Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO has noticed….and now that she mentions it, so do I…that Google doesn’t do Easter.

Pissants.

A Sunday Morning Video

The Blessing

Lisa Kelly of Celtic Women with David Downes on piano.

Guess Who’s Expecting?

And due in May, no less!”

Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband are expecting their fifth child in May, she announced Wednesday.

Palin, 44, who just three months ago was modeling for the fashion magazine Vogue, doesn’t look seven months pregnant.

“I will be delivering an addition to the first family,” Palin told a stunned group of reporters.

The Republican governor, now in her second year as Alaska’s chief executive, said she does not believe the pregnancy will affect her ability to run the state. Palin has been mentioned as a potential running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

Wow, she’s gonna catch up with me, if she’s not careful!

Elephantman at Draft Sarah Palin For Vice President says:

What this means for our movement: Gov. Palin is due in May, meaning that the littlest Palin will like be two months old by the time Sen. McCain makes VP choice (traditionally these things are done in around July, especially considering the Democrats’ drawn-out primary). Obviously we will be watching this situation very closely, but as of now there are no plans to change our operations in any way.

Previously: Alaska’s Governor, Sarah Palin On McCain’s V.P. List

Hat tip: Lucianne

Diaper Clad Toddler Sings “Hey Jude”

Incredible! This kid isn’t even diaper trained, but he can sing two full verses of Hey Jude. Watch til the end when he does his little guitar solo. Too cute!

Thanks to Crime Scene KC

Your Saturday Morning Read

A liberal Hollywood writer using the pseudonym, David Kahane shares his buyer’s remorse over at NRO:

I’m beginning to get a bad feeling about this.Call it buyer’s remorse, or fear of the unknown, or simply Pinch Sulzbergeritis, but doesn’t it feel like our nice secure liberal world just left its orbit this week? As Hillary waddled off the stage in defeat Thursday night after the debate, with Barack Obama grinning from ear to ear to ear to ear, I could the sense the Old Guard passing, the end of an era, the moment when old First Ladies never die, they just — aw, let’s just cut to the chase: We’re gonna lose. And we’re gonna lose bad.

I mean, what the hell was the New York Times thinking, running that half-sourced farrago of a Barbra Streisand hit job on John McCain that snarked and sneered and amounted to… what? That eight years ago a sitting senator spent some time with a lobbyist who bore an uncanny resemblance to his wife… and you just know, deep down, that there was some canoodling going on, don’t you? Come on, admit it. Even though we can’t really prove it.

Every wing nut in America’s been saying for weeks that the Times’s endorsement of John McCain in the New York primary was just a ruse, that the minute he had the nomination secured they’d drop the pose of Best Friend and turn out to be Worst Enemy. Problem is, we’ve all seen that movie a hundred times: For crying out loud, it’s the plot of Phantom Lady, and that movie came out in 1944! Not to mention the Peanuts comic strip, where Lucy yanks the football away from that helpless schlimazel, Charlie Brown, and he lands flat on his tush.

It’s all good…read the whole thing.

P.S. Hey, the guy agrees with you, bmac.

P.S.S. He can’t really be liberal to be saying these things, can he?

UPDATE:

Ooookay, here’s another really good article written by David Kahane for NRO in March of last year about the movie, 300. No way is this guy a liberal. No way.

Hat tip to Lucianne, again

“Sorry, Man!”

That’s what a 14 year old Mesa, AZ boy said, after he whacked a burglar, who was ransacking his house, with a baseball bat.

Michael Six hid in his bedroom closet and called 911 after seeing a man using a screwdriver to break into a sliding-glass door.

The Kino Junior High ninth-grader talked in a low voice as he described the burglar’s whereabouts.

Then, Michael, clutching an aluminum baseball bat, heard his locked bedroom door rattle as the man used the screwdriver to bust in.

“You need to get out of the window,” the 911 operator told Michael.

“I can’t,” he answered with a hint of anxiety in his voice.

“I didn’t know what to do,” Michael said Wednesday. “I didn’t think I could pop (the window) open. My adrenaline was running. I was scared.”

The man was still clutching the screwdriver as he rummaged through the boy’s backpack. Then, Michael, a 5-foot-10-inch, 150-pound former baseball player, stepped out and swung.

The burglar cursed as Michael nailed him on the lower back and on the left shoulder.

“Sorry, man!” Michael yelled amid the chaos. Michael said the man, described as “big,” then “turned around and took (the bat) from me.”

The burglar ran out the back as Michael, uninjured, busted through a window and met police.

The man, Thomas Gonzales Garza, is now in police custody, probably with a very sore back.

Hat tip: Crime Scene KC

UPDATE: Video at Ed Gruberman’s.

Away In A Manger

Good People All…