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Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
SCHWARZENEGGAR REFUSES TITLE OF “GOVERNOR”
Prefers “’Mr. California’ – or, better, ‘Übermenschen’“
10:24:59 PM 
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At the advice of Joe Conason (scroll to end of article), I went to npr.org to hear the O’Reilly Walks Out episode of Fresh Air, with Terry Gross. I’m an NPR junkie, often it’s on in every room of the house so I rarely miss anything as I ramble about (I’m thinking of getting a shower radio so I don’t miss anything in the morning), but tonight I watched the DVR time-shifted version of HBO’s Carnivale instead.
Later, I recorded tonight’s Fresh Air in case demand makes it impossible to stream over the next few days. No problem at NPR, but the O’Reilly site has the following warning to those who want to hear the entire broadcast:
WE APOLOGIZE BUT DUE TO HUGE DEMAND THESE STREAMS MAY EXPERIENCE DELAYS OR OUTAGES. Please be patient and try again in a few minutes
My take: The Peabody Award winning journalist and Accidental Republican is in fact a RAVING CLOSET LIBERAL, using contrived controversy to pimp the audience for Al Franken’s books and NPR broadcasts such as Fresh Air. Nothing else could explain the tantrums that draw so much attention to his “enemies” and cause their ratings to skyrocket. Well, maybe one other thing – he might just be a dumbass.
9:58:46 PM
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Hmmm...is there a pattern here? Take a cake mix, a box of instant pudding, and some booze and make a cake. Sounds a lot like the Margarita Cake I made a while back. Is this the Zeroes version of Fifties cooking where you'd mix just about anything with a can of Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Celery soup and produce a "recipe?" Might be. If so, we've made progress. This recipe was in today's Durham Herald Sun:
Black Russian Cake
Cake:
1 package dark-chocolate cake mix
1 cup vegetable oil
1 (3-ounce) package instant chocolate pudding
4 eggs
¾ cup strong coffee
½ cup crème de cacao
¼ cup Kahlua
Topping:
1 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 tablespoons strong coffee
2 tablespoons Kahlua
2 tablespoons crème de cacao
For the cake, combine the cake mix, oil, pudding mix, eggs, coffee, crème de cacao and Kahlua in a large bowl. Beat for 4 minutes until quite smooth. Pour into a greased 10-inch tube pan until three-fourths full. (Save any remaining batter for cupcakes or to simply eat on the spot.) Bake 45 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from the pan and invert onto a serving plate. Punch holes throughout the cake with a skewer or ice pick. Prepare the topping by combining the confectioners' sugar, coffee, Kahlua and crème de cacao. Mix well and spoon over the warm cake.
-- Recipe courtesy of Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge, "Intercourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook"
7:26:21 PM
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A co-worker asked me today if I remembered Demolition Man because he had a movie trivia question – Wasn’t there something about the Schwarzeneggar Presidential Library in there? I didn’t remember, but went to IMDb to check the Memorable Quotes section. Nothing there. Now John is one of those guys with a memory like the gravitational field of Jupiter, nothing ever gets away once it gets in, so I scrolled on down a little further to “Message Boards” and saw a post with the tantalizing title Foreshadowing. Here is the first entry in the thread…
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by - gargoyle637 (Sat Sep 6 10:27:20) |
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UPDATED Wed Sep 10 02:29:46 |
I think the writers had a psychic on the staff. First they mention the Schwarzenegger Presidential Files. Right now Arnie is running for Governor in my home state of California. And, some polls show that he has a good chance of winning. The second thing, I just submitted it for trivia, is a passing reference to a current murder case. During the sequence when Huxley is checking the parole hearing schedule, there is a "Peterson, Scott" both on screen and read by the computer. I wonder if he's in on two counts of MDK. |
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Then off to find out the screenwriters names. Here you go, look up their other credits if you want to know more about the future.
5:18:49 PM
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"What do we do now?"
Schwarzenegger for president?
Senator proposes eliminating restriction on foreign-born citizens
Posted: July 17, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says he did not do it for the "Terminator," but his proposed bill would allow foreign-born citizens such as actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president of the United States.
"I believe the time has come to address the antiquated provision of the constitution that requires our president to be a natural-born citizen," said Hatch, according to the Herald News of Fall River, Mass. "It has long outlived its original purpose."
Hatch's bill, introduced last week, would allow anyone who has been a citizen of the United States for 20 years to run for the highest office.
The senator said it's "most disturbing" that "scores of foreign-born men and women who have risked their lives defending the freedoms and liberties of this great nation" are ineligible for the presidency, the Herald News reported.
Article II of the Constitution says, "No Person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president."
1:23:33 AM
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