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Tuesday, July 08, 2003

(or maybe Bastille Day?) 8:01:41 PM    comment []

Blair attacks MPs' report on Iraq · PM denies he misled parliament · WMDs 'will be uncovered' · Blair 'unaware' of dossier source   How long will it be?   BBC vs. Alistair was ruled a draw, but now he’s catching it from the flank. My guess, he’s out by “Labour Day.”    His battles are all defensive now, he can’t win ‘em all. Labour will sacrifice him rather than go down with his ship. Should we start a pool? Maybe a Tony-O-Meter? 7:25:43 PM    comment []

Weasel Words land at Plymouth Rock! Skip over the "knowing all that we know now" -- that's some weaselly window-dressing, a throw-away phrase designed to suggest the Administration accidentally came to make this accusation. Maybe they'll colonize. 6:59:09 PM    comment []

15 Minutes FOREST -- Hundreds of people have driven past the First Baptist Church of Forest, wanting to get a look at its burnt out bell tower. There have been hundreds of phone calls to the church, too. And media outlets from as far away as Bogata, Columbia, and the BBC in London, England, have contacted church members. There have also been television interviews broadcast on CNN, and NBC's Today Show ran a live report from the church for its Saturday morning show. They all want to hear the story of how lightning hit the church during a revival meeting a week ago today. How the guest evangelist was citing Bible passages which liken God's voice to thunder, while he preached about repentance. How he kept asking God to speak, and then lightning hit the tower, and for a second the whole church -- and even the preacher -- looked electric blue. How no one got hurt, even though there were about 60 people in the church that night. The preacher who got Godsmacked asking for a sign has put The Courier on the map! I grew up reading that paper from Findlay, OH, back when it was called The Republican Courier. Now you can link to it from the BBC site! Even though the name of the paper has changed, it's reassuring that people there still entertain themselves the way they did when I was there - by driving by places where disasters recently occured.  A house burns, lightning strikes, one there was even a huge tornado. A day or so later, the family piles into the car and drives by, slowly and reverently. Aftershocks last for years. That crowd of 60 will grow to thousands. Other people will claim credit for this and future lightning strikes. There will be clouds spotted that resemble crucifixes. I can hardly wait until I go back to Ohio again, so I can drive by too! After they clean it up, it could be as big as The Turtles! 4:35:12 PM    comment []

Snowball! The voice said: "I appeal to you, Oh Iraqis, Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, Shia or Sunni, Christians or Sunnis, it is your duty to expel the aggressor invaders from our country. Now I'm finally getting impatient with Saddam Hussein. One day he's irrelevant, washed-up, useless, the next he's worth a $25 Million hit contract, more than Clay Aiken. Give me $25 million and I'll entertain you better than this...really, we'll put on a show, in the barn. 4:06:21 PM    comment []

I took the last of the pork barbecue to the Armadillo last night and it was gone in seconds. There were more people there than I expected, so nobody got a chance to pig out, but everyone who wanted some at least got a taste.   I am not a barbecue guy. I don’t have the inclination to dig a pit and fill it up with smoldering logs. Still, I’m an aficionado of “low and slow” cooking and that’s a key part of the process that can be done in any oven, even an electric one.   In a gas oven, you can be fairly certain the temperature will remain steady once you get the flame set correctly. Not so in an electric. The heat output from the element comes in the form of pulses and the air temperature varies a lot more than you’d think. On my oven, the temperatures in the low range (below 250F) will vary as much as 10 degrees below and 15 degrees above the number on the digital readout. The thermocouple will turn off the heating element when the desired temperature is reached, but the element is still hot and the air temperature will “coast” up. The element will not be switched on again until the temperature gets 10 degrees below where it is set.   The key to cooking a pork butt for barbecue is to keep it below the boiling point at all times, so the water in the fat stays in instead of evaporating. So, a little jaunt to 215F won’t hurt. On the bottom end, there will be no danger from bacteria as long as the air temperature stays above 180F. So set the temperature at 200F and make sure your oven is calibrated. Then, cooking is simple:   Season the pork butt – anything that sounds good to you Put a pan of water on the lower shelf of the oven, to keep the humidity high Let the roast slowly cook, 8-12 hours Let it cool Tear it apart Mix it with some Scott’s sauce and put it back it the oven to warm up again Serve it on buns 2:58:09 AM    comment []