Cock-a-doodle-doo
Chicken definitely is not one of my favorite foods, and I've made no secret that I dislike finding it so often on the daily menu of Meals on Wheels.
Yet I think maybe I understand the practical reason why there's so much of it there. Realistically, the Meals budget wouldn't stretch to lamb chops and beefsteak.
And I also have to admit that the folks at Meals on Wheels will go to almost any length to try to make chicken, which is basically tasteless, tasty.
During the three summer months of 2010, for instance. daily menus included: honey BBQ chicken, chicken a la king, oriental pepper chicken, white chili with chicken, honey curry chicken, chicken cacciatore, roast chicken, oven fried chicken (twice), chicken chow mein, peachy coconut chicken, mediterranean chicken with olives, BBQ chicken on a bun, smothered chicken, minnesota chicken and wild rice casserole, teriyaki chicken and roast chicken with broth.
You can't say they don't try. And what they do is much appreciated.
Cluck. cluck.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
birth
The so-called "birthers" are at it again, claiming Barack Obama isn't a native-born U.S. citizen, but is an alien -- perhaps illegal -- from Kenya.
It does no good to produce documents showing clearly that he was born in 1961 in Hawaii, which has been a state since 1959 and was a U.S. territory for 60 years before that.
So it's amusing to me, looking back, to wonder where the racist birthers were when Sen. John McCain was Obama's Republican opponent in 2008.
See, John Sidney McCain III wasn't born in any of the 50 states. It's a fact.
John McCain was born Aug. 29, 1936, in a U.S. Navy hospital at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in a 10-mile-wide, U.S.-occupied strip of the Panama canal zone.
That strip, which no longer exists, was considered a U.S. territory at the time. But McCain wasn't, in fact, born in any of the 50 states, and I didn't hear as much as a peep about that from birther crazies of the political right.
Imagine the fuss they could have made!
So is McCain a citizen? Of course he is, no doubt about it, and he also is a genuine war hero with a distinguished record in public life.
But skin color still makes a difference in politics, doesn't it?
Just thought I'd mention it.
It does no good to produce documents showing clearly that he was born in 1961 in Hawaii, which has been a state since 1959 and was a U.S. territory for 60 years before that.
So it's amusing to me, looking back, to wonder where the racist birthers were when Sen. John McCain was Obama's Republican opponent in 2008.
See, John Sidney McCain III wasn't born in any of the 50 states. It's a fact.
John McCain was born Aug. 29, 1936, in a U.S. Navy hospital at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in a 10-mile-wide, U.S.-occupied strip of the Panama canal zone.
That strip, which no longer exists, was considered a U.S. territory at the time. But McCain wasn't, in fact, born in any of the 50 states, and I didn't hear as much as a peep about that from birther crazies of the political right.
Imagine the fuss they could have made!
So is McCain a citizen? Of course he is, no doubt about it, and he also is a genuine war hero with a distinguished record in public life.
But skin color still makes a difference in politics, doesn't it?
Just thought I'd mention it.
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