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Slow news day, so let’s catch up on details of our annual White House Seder dinner, held Tuesday, the second night of Passover.

Woops! Big Guy forgot his beanie!

For starters, we had to bring in extra help to cook everything:

But this year, a secret culinary detail was called in – not celebrity chefs, but Washington caterer Vered Guttman, who writes the Modern Manna blog for Haaretz.com, and filmmaker Susan Barocas, a food aficionado who helped launch the Jewish Food Experience in 2012.

As is our custom, each guest was provided with their own copy of the Maxwell House Haggadah to follow along, as the meal progresses, in the traditional service which recalls the Jews flight from Egypt and slavery.

Menu:

• Gefilte Fish
• Haroset
• Chicken Soup with Matzoh Balls
• Salad of quinoa cooked in coconut milk with Tuscan kale and roasted yams (trendy!)
• Wilted Spinach
• Carrot Soufflé
• Passover Noodle Kugel
• Roasted potatoes with garlic and onion
• Roasted sweet potatoes (from Lady M’s Organic Garden of Good and Evil)
• Seared Salmon with Roasted Artichokes
• Chicken with preserved lemons and green olives
• Braised Beef Brisket
• Raspberry Ganache Marjolaine
• Passover Brownies
• Passover Mandel Bread

Except that we’re missing the 8 varieties of pie, the number of dishes on the Seder buffet rivaled our annual Thanksgiving spread.

Even so, after looking over the menu I don’t know why we had to bring in extra cooks. I mean, how hard can it be?

Naturally everything was Kosher since many of our guests were Jewish, and even Jewish people who don’t observe Jewish dietary restrictions the rest of the year go Kosher for the Passover Seder. Additionally, they observing the restriction against eating leavened products during the eight days of Passover. So you know what that means; we had to wait till after the company left to enjoy our giant sticky buns

with a side of bacon

and a nice glass of cold milk.

Here’s who came to break unleavened bread the Wons this year:

Guest list:

• Valerie Jarrett
• Lisa Kohnke (former White House staffer)
• Jen Psaki (State Department spokeswoman)
• Arun Chaudhary (former White House videographer) and Laura Moser
• Reggie Love (former Big Guy “body man”)
• Cookie Offerman and Kelly Schaefer (friends)
• Sam Tubman (White House Deputy Social Secretary)
• Melissa Winter (senior adviser to the first lady)
• Herbie Ziskend (chief of staff of the Huffington Post)
• Joan Mass (Chicago friend)
• Susan Sher (Chicago friend and former first lady chief of staff) and Judge Neil Cohen (Chicago friend)
• Ben Rhodes (deputy national security adviser for strategic communications) and Ann Norris
• Eric Lesser (former White House staffer) and Alison Silber
• Eric Whitaker (Chicago friend)
• David Axelrod (Chicago friend)
• Matt Nosanchuk (White House Jewish liaison)

As you see, it was a totally diverse and politically correct Seder dinner guest list: at least one Muslim, several secular (Democrat) Jews, several Chicago friends – Jews (secular) and gentiles - and Reggie, for a little extra color.

After dinner Lady M passed out Easter Spring Spheres eggs as a practice run for our annual Spring Sphere Roll next Monday.

I said, get in line.

Don’t worry, they were Kosher.

If you’re more concerned with the actual symbolism of the Seder dinner I would refer you to last year’s Seder post, where I detailed our updated interpretation:

Most of you are familiar with the traditional Passover Seder, so I’m just going to touch on a few of the transformative elements of Big Guy’s interpretation.

Traditionally, an extra place is set for Elijah the Prophet. It is said the Elijah will bring the Messiah so a place is reserved to make Elijah welcome hoping that he will bring the Messiah. I think you can see the problem: the new “messiah” is already here. So, to emphasize this fact, Big Guy, in the role of Lincoln, leads the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before allowing the Prophet Elijah to join in the fun. Do you see how slickly this transmogrifies the central meaning of Passover to the American shame of black people still in shackles? Now that’s transformational! And historic!

Never Won to be upstaged in the trend setting, transformation department, Lady M added her own twist on Big Guy’s Seder toast. While Big Guy and guests raised glasses of Manny (his affectionate term for Manischewitz, fortified Kosher wine), Lady M hoisted a Mazel Tov Cocktail (3 ounces Manischewitz, 1 1/2  6 ounces Gin, twist of lime). How cool is that?

Mazel Tov!

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Stand up Boston, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about?

 

 

Surely You Jest: A heartbeat away?

“My God you have survived and you have soared. It was worth it, I mean it sincerely, just to hear you speak.”  - Joey Biden, Biddening his own remarks  at the Boston Marathon Memorial.

We really need to get someone to follow Joey B around with a mop and bucket to clean up the pieces of his brain that he leaves scattered in his path. On second thought, a tea cup might be sufficient.

I don’t remember falling down this rabbit hole!

Me neither!

Oh well, it’s not as if Joey was hired for his brains.

It Ain’t Over Till the Little Banty Rooster Stops Crowing

Remember kids, it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Or in this case, until the Little Banty Rooster’s Little Banty Hen crows:

Reid tells News4's Samantha Boatman his take on the so-called cattle battle in southern Las Vegas. "Well, it's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it's not over," Reid said.

Wait, what?  We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it?

They may not walk, butt they sure can run.

I presume he was not talking about the ruling class, because if you’re a Congressman you may be publically shamed (censured) butt you’ll still be free to walk away  - and even get re-elected for another term. Because members of the ruling class have superpowers, or at least they believe they do.

“I believe I can fly.”

Nor, I assume, was Harry speaking of illegal aliens, because if you count illegal aliens as “Americans” – and I know Joey B does:

“You know, 11 million people live in the shadows. I believe they’re already American citizens,” Mr. Biden said during a Thursday address to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, The Hill reported. “These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans, in my view.”

there sure are a lot of them who “violate the law and then just walk away.”

All with the assistance of Ricky’s Justice Department - previously required to enforce laws, not ignore them. And when they are allowed to “just walk away” they often commit more crimes. 

Of course a lot of the illegality involved with illegal aliens “dreamers” is due to the fact that Harry also wasn’t talking about the Supreme Leader of the ruling class: Big Guy is also exempt from the contention that “we can’t have Americans that violate the law and then just walk away.” Otherwise Barry would have to heed the Constitution's stipulation (Article II, section 3) that a president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed...." And that would mean that he’d be “violating the law” if he didn’t protect the borders and deport illegal aliens, especially, I would think, the ones who have already committed a felony.

Butt I guess all bets are off if you elect a President and then give him a magic pen. That gives him special superpowers to “violate the law and then just walk away.” For instance, with his special pen

he can:

• illegally order the NSA to conduct warrantless wire tapping and spying on U.S. citizens
• illegally order the IRS to harass and silence conservative groups
• illegally and unilaterally change “the law of the land” by granting multiple waivers, changes and extensions to Obamacare.

Yes, it is good to be king.

“With my pen and my phone, I will smite mine enemies.”

Where is that fat lady when we need her?

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Between Art and Illusion, We’ve Got It All...

What’s up with all the brew-ha-ha over Mr. and Mrs.Claire Shipman’s commie kitchen icons anyhow?

Flipping: it’s the first step in learning how to spin

There’s nothing odd about the commie posters in the kitchen. In case you didn’t know, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Shipman met and fell in love in Russia. So these are simply sentimental tchotchkes from those happy days.

And as for the odd Photoshop in their home library:

In my *ahem* line-of-work I really shouldn’t say very much about transimaging. Besides, everything in politics is photoshopped today. It’s a “huge” industry. if you get my drift.

For example, there was the infamous birth certificate that was “allegedly” ‘shopped by amateurs.

“In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated.”  -Reed Hayes, certified document analyst

Big Guy himself even kidded about it just last week while chastising Republicans for suppressing the vote.

President Barack Obama reminisced about the conspiracy theories surrounding his birth certificate during a speech at the National Action Network convention in New York City Friday afternoon. Obama referenced the doubts about his citizenship that led him to release a copy of his birth certificate in 2011, while criticizing voter I.D. laws that require people to present documentation like passports and birth certificates to vote.

"Just to be clear, I know where my birth certificate is," he added. 

Obama then began to laugh.

Of course the BC was only the first of many frauds situations that have been professionally ‘shopped during BHO’s reign term. Here’s a brief recap:

Fast and Furious: The original purpose of Gunrunner was ‘shopped in order to provide a new mandate for implementing new gun controls. And besides, Bush started it.

Benghazi: ‘Shopped to appear to be the result of a bad YouTube movie and a bunch of thugs: “Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”

Obamacare: The rollout was ‘shopped to appear as if the huge amount of traffic demanding Obamacare crashed the system, not the underlying inadequacy of basic programming. And then ‘shopped again on the backend to make it appear like a “huge” success.

NSA: The warrantless spying on individuals ordered by Eric Holder was ‘shopped to appear to be nothing more than a “meta-data” collection that threatened no one’s privacy and therefore did no harm. And Bush started it.

IRS: The illegal targeting of conservative groups for scrutiny was ‘shopped to add in a few liberal groups so it would appear fair and balanced. And Nixon started it.

Note that each of these phony scandals have often been attributed to deep,dark,nefarious political purpose or agency. However, I ask you to consider the Occam’s razor explanation:

Occam's razor or Ockham's razor (ŏk′əmz)

A rule in science and philosophy stating that entities should not be multiplied needlessly. This rule is interpreted to mean that the simplest of two or more competing theories is preferable and that an explanation for unknown phenomena should first be attempted in terms of what is already known. Occam's razor is named after the deviser of the rule, English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham (1285?-1349?).

With all things Obama, it may be best to accept the simplest explanation, which is usually:

1. “We didn’t botch it, somebody else did that.” Or,
2. “We didn’t do it for any hidden, underhanded purpose, it’s just that the people responsible were stoopid.”

So help us out here. What have you noticed that on first blush might be considered a nefarious political ploy, butt in reality is just another example of Progressive stoopidity?

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And as far as art and illusion are concerned, just note that in the 21st century nothing is as it appears to be. And it is best never to forget that.

 

With CGI, we can do anything: make the oceans recede, heal the planet…

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Beyond Clive Bundy: The Real Range War and Why We’re Losing

Hopefully your Saturday night and Palm Sunday morning activities have given you enough perspective to join me for a brief recap of the attempted federal land grab at the Bundy Ranch and the showdown at the NV Corral. You’ve undoubtedly heard the story by now of how the Bureau of Land Management attempted to evict Clive Bundy and his cows from the family’s centennial ranch (two second argument: tortoise trumps cows; because we said so). And now they’ve backed down, with an agreement that results in the slaughter of Bundy’s cows, for which he will receive half the proceeds. That’s, at least theoretically, a win for the good guys.

Now, here’s the rest of the story: (h/t Infowars and Dana Loesch)

1. The Bureau of Land Management, whose director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency wants Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations, or turtles. Or something. (more additional info here) “Back in 2012, the New American reported that Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, was the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada.”
2. Some people claim that what Harry really wants are the water rights, to divert to all his friends in Vegas, baby!
3. The stated reason for the land grab by the BLM was to protect the desert tortoise - that is now so populous that the government is euthanizing them.
4. Although widely reported that Clive Bundy has not paid fees for use of his land, that isn’t quite accurate. He just hasn’t paid what the BLM thinks he should.

Last week hundreds of supporters (deemed the “militia” by the MSM, “armed anarchists” by others) showed up on the disputed land. Fevers were running high and anything might have happened.  That is, before the news of Harry Reid’s possible connections began to leak. Then, suddenly the Sherriff was able to work out a resolution with Clive, allowing the BLM armored division to back off.

BLM snipers on BLM helicopter

I’m guessing the hostage negotiations were amicably settled for one of several reasons:

1. Barry didn’t want to be the second black President with blood on his hands.
2. Ricky didn’t want to be the first black Attorney General with blood on his hands.
3. Harry told them to back down, as the subsequent investigation would result in a midterm  bloodbath.

Ricky, Bo, Mo, Joe, Val and Ahmad. A Good Time Was Had.

On Thursday, an out-of-sorts and whiny Ricky appeared at The Rev’s National Action Network to play the race card in the third person.

Attorney General for the most transparent administration in history

On Friday the lecturer-in-chief himself showed up:

In a fiery speech, Obama said that Republicans are threatening the right to vote. Meanwhile, Obama’s appearance represented a presidential seal of approval of Sharpton’s role as a civil rights activist, amid the new revelations about how Sharpton used a wire to record mobsters for the feds in the 1980s.

Channeling Joey “they want to put you back in chains” Biden’s civil rights bravado, BO fanned the flames of racial animosity by complaining about the Republicans’

 “well organized and well funded efforts to undo these gains,”  “The stark simple truth is this: The right to vote is threatened today,”

While throwing a little class envy into the equation for good measure:

“Just because you don’t have the money to travel abroad doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to vote here at home.”

That’s right! If you can’t afford to go home to vote, vote here instead.

Don’t Go There, Buddy!

“The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

What Eric Holder actually said: (bold added)

“And since the day I became Attorney General in 2009, I have been proud to stand alongside you in supporting efforts to advance the cause of justice that has always been at the center of this Administration’s work.

I’m pleased to note that the last five years have been defined by significant strides and lasting reforms – even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted ugly and divisive adversity. And if you don’t believe that, you look at the way …forget about me… forget about me , you look at the way the Attorney General of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee. Had nothing to do with me what Attorney General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What President has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment. Last summer, after a narrowly split but divided Supreme Court struck down a key part of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, my colleagues and I took action – by challenging specific laws, in North Carolina and Texas, that could disproportionately restrict access to the ballot box among some populations.”

And now, direct from the most transparent administration ever…(drum roll)

Michelle’s Exciting New Exercise Program: Ladies, Get Your Guns!

Yes, I know the Wons rushed off to a couple of Texas fundraisers after the Fort Hood memorial ceremony. What did you expect? BO is the fundraiser-in-chief.

And being constantly out there, raising money on the backs of the rich, Democratic 99 percenters, is precisely why Big Guy needs an outlet for all the stress that sort of hypocrisy generates.

I’m sure you all remember when Big Guy got hooked on last year’s exercise craze, “Prancersizing.” 

h/t Looking Spoon