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Derek and Meredith head to the chapel tonight on the 100th episode of Grey's Anatomy. Something tells me it won't go smoothly.

American Idol was a let-down last night, Allison was the wrong one to send home. What's on your screen tonight? Or on your mind if you aren't watching tv?

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    The thing about Allison was that (none / 0) (#1)
    by Anne on Thu May 07, 2009 at 08:31:41 PM EST
    no matter what she sang, it sounded the same; from the moment she first opened her mouth at the beginning of the competition, I thought "Janis Joplin," and it was Janis-style every single week.

    She'll be fine - she's 17 and will sign a recording contract and be able to sing in the niche that works for her.

    Well, it's Danny Gokey Day (none / 0) (#4)
    by Cream City on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:10:02 PM EST
    in his hometown tomorrow -- leading to the interesting headline today for you lawyers:

    American Idol Interrupts Trial

    Click and find out why . . . and btw, this is one of the biggest and most long-awaited trials in years by the taxpayers who got bilked (and will continue to be for decades) and in the county that has had to go just about broke because of the corruption or incompetence, whichever, of officials.

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    Well, one must prioritize... (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by Anne on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:36:58 PM EST
    how could we possibly let a trial get in the way of the adoring masses gathered for a chance to get a glimpse of an American Idol contestant?

    I mean, really...

    /sarcasm

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    At least Alison gave a good (none / 0) (#28)
    by kenosharick on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:45:00 PM EST
    performance. Danny gave one of the worst performances, if not THE worst ("horrifying" is right)ever seen by an AI finalist.

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    Watching CSI and cruising (none / 0) (#2)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 08:55:52 PM EST
    cookbooks on Amazon.

    Went to Herb class this AM and then hit up the Botanical Garden's plant sale. Nice variety of herbs that aren't always readily available at the farmers market and a LOT less hectic, even with the 20+ busloads of little kids, lol!~  got a pot with a Mesclun green mix, Stevia, Black Peppermint, Purple sage, couple types of Thyme, Garlic Chives and even some Catnip for the kitties. Bought an even dozen. The basil didn't look that hot so I'll pick that up with a  tomato plant or 2 tomorrow at the market. Oh, and they had seeds for my favorite carrots, they're purple/magenta on the outside and deep orange on the inside. {happy dance} Everything is currently residing in the outside hall until I can put a cat proof enclosure up in the kitchen windows.

    I can't wait until the first week of CSA distribution . . . . .

    You asked me yesterday (none / 0) (#3)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:08:25 PM EST
    how it's possible to screw up eggs yesterday. I was going to mention that some people load up their scrambled eggs with too much milk and salt before cooking them. But now I have a personal example: tonight I absentmindedly overcooked hard-boiled eggs!

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    I don't consider exploding eggs (none / 0) (#5)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:17:15 PM EST
    screwing up eggs  {grin} I'm a master at putting eggs on to boil and then getting distracted (work). Scares the crap outta the kitties :)

    Too much milk and salt is a good example. I was blanking because even if you cook your egg a bit more than you want (soft ends up med), the egg it's self isn't screwed up, just more done than you prefer. This is why you have a dog  ;)

    I'll be getting a dozen farm fresh eggs every week this summer which is more than I eat. I was think of feeding some to the "kids" because they all like eggs, but after cruising artisan ice cream recipes and thinking about my fruit share, I know what I'll be doing with 6 eggs a week :)

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    Heh (none / 0) (#6)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:20:11 PM EST
    I'm from Philadelphia, so I can tell you that real ice cream does not use egg yolks!

    I do love good scrambled eggs, but I'm pretty particular about how they're made.

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    I love a good scrambled also (none / 0) (#7)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:31:08 PM EST
    I don't usually order them out.  I tend to go for other egg dishes since I have my scramble down just the way I like it :)

    No eggs in ice cream? Does that mean I don't have to share?! {evil grin} My chocolate is to die for . . . . but I'm looking forward to using the kick a** berries and stone fruits I'll be getting. A raspberry/chocolate could just put me over the edge . . . .

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    Yup, no eggs in ice cream (none / 0) (#12)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:40:09 PM EST
    That's Philadelphia style. If you use yolks, you're making French style ice cream--really a custard.

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    Yeah, I've been doing custard style (none / 0) (#15)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:50:16 PM EST
    but I hope to branch out this summer into other areas. It's pretty fun to do and the options are pretty endless. The class I took had us taste a pink pepper one. I was surprised how good it was. Would be great with pears, apples etc. Thankfully he gave us the recipe, so I can make it this summer when the pears and apples start coming in :)

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    Scrambled eggs work for any meal (none / 0) (#11)
    by easilydistracted on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:37:42 PM EST
    I'm also fussy. I only whip the eggs a couple of times in a bowl, just to break the yolks to mix with the whites slightly. No milk. I add a tablespoon of cold water. No salt prior to cooking as it seems to change the texture, in a bad way. I stir them only a couple of times in the pan,as the whites begin to set. turn a few times and out onto the plate. Sort of like an omelet. Sliced tomatoes, some sourdough toast, handful of strawberries on the side. I'm good.  

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    The only thing I agree with you about (none / 0) (#13)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:42:19 PM EST
    is no salt prior to cooking. It messes with the albumen in a nasty way that I don't quite understand.

    But scrambled eggs are like pizza: everyone has their own method.

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    Yep, own cooking method and toppings and (none / 0) (#14)
    by easilydistracted on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:46:33 PM EST
    sides. I probably shouldn't mention this, but I cover the finished product with my condiment of choice -- ketchup (has to be Heinz).  I know, I know..

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    Heh (none / 0) (#18)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:58:19 PM EST
    Salt and pepper for me. But my latest fixation had been making perfect eggs over medium.

    It's almost impossible to time right!

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    And they beat them too much - (none / 0) (#8)
    by Anne on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:31:54 PM EST
    another way to make some really tough scrambled eggs.

    I'm not a big egg fan, but now and again, a really perfect scrambled egg is just what I want.  I think a lot of people assume that milk or cream is what makes for "creamy" scrambled eggs, but they don't.

    I hate them when they're too dry - cooking them just to the point where they are almost done, and letting the residual heat finish them off - so that they are moist and creamy - sometimes that exact right moment is so elusive, I can still get it wrong about as often as I get it right, lol.

    For hardboiled eggs, if you start them in cold water, bring to a gradual boil, then cover and take them off the heat and let them sit, you will never overcook another hardboiled egg, I promise.

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    I like my scrambled eggs a little more done (none / 0) (#10)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:37:40 PM EST
    than the French/Brits who essentially make a custard. My thing is that I like big American curds. But you do get weepy eggs if you use lots of milk or any salt before cooking.

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    You like your scramble like I do (none / 0) (#17)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:57:48 PM EST
    with the hard boiled, I always get distracted waiting for the boil. Hyper chick that I am  ;) I go and figure I'll just do a bit of work while I wait, and then next thing ya know . . . exploding eggs!

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    dvr missed last minute of Grey (none / 0) (#16)
    by Lil on Thu May 07, 2009 at 09:56:18 PM EST
    Anything happen after the wedding kiss? Anyone know how long before ABC.com runs the new episodes?

    I hate when DVR does that! (none / 0) (#40)
    by NJDem on Fri May 08, 2009 at 12:20:56 PM EST
    After the kiss (did anyone notice that they didn't actually do the "I dos" and exchange rings and apparently didn't care that none of their family was there--I know, I know, it's a tv show...)

    Anyway, after the kiss they went back to the hospital, she was looking much worse, and her hair was falling out more.  So it ended with her having a shaved head--he was super cute about it--and her telling Danny to go and leave her with her husband.  

    Frankly, I found the whole episode depressing, indulgent and over the top--but that's just me :)

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    How could I possibly watch TV (none / 0) (#19)
    by oculus on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:12:38 PM EST
    when my local am station sports talk show guy is about to have a stroke over Manny Ramirez testing positive for female growth hormone?  

    I heard an interesting theory today... (none / 0) (#22)
    by Anne on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:29:16 PM EST
    that the underlying reason for Manny's extended contract negotiations was to delay his signing while he was clearing his system of the hormones - as a free agent he wasn't required to be tested, but once he was signed he would be.

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    lol!~ (none / 0) (#23)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:29:59 PM EST
    Manny Ramirez testing positive for female growth hormone

    still cracks me up even though I've had to bench him. One of our local news guys wasn't having a stroke, but was pretty outta joint about it. At least he'll be available in the final leg of the season, I think I'm gonna need him. He's on my team that I think has the best chance of placing.

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    HIs first game back: San Diego July 3. (none / 0) (#26)
    by oculus on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:39:09 PM EST
    How fun for you guys! (none / 0) (#31)
    by nycstray on Thu May 07, 2009 at 11:03:07 PM EST
    That's when you want outfield seats :)

    {note to self: check if Peavy is pitching}

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    A couple of Padres fans called in and (none / 0) (#25)
    by oculus on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:38:13 PM EST
    said:  we'll take him!

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    Excellent (none / 0) (#24)
    by andgarden on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:35:20 PM EST
    Thanks for the update!

    The Hawaii newspaper I just (none / 0) (#27)
    by kenosharick on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:42:25 PM EST
    read said this move (pulling it out of committee) will kill any chance of passage this year. I hope you are correct.

    Should Kobe Bryant have been (none / 0) (#29)
    by oculus on Thu May 07, 2009 at 10:49:23 PM EST
    suspended?  (Haven't seen the purported violation--listening to am sports radio.)

    Oprah...with the Edwards... (none / 0) (#30)
    by oldpro on Thu May 07, 2009 at 11:01:36 PM EST
    Elizabeth, John, the kids....

    An interview with Elizabeth...starting now....

    I really wish Elizabeth Edwards (none / 0) (#32)
    by oculus on Thu May 07, 2009 at 11:03:08 PM EST
    had kept her private life private.  Diminishes her, in my opinion.

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    Oh, I think she (none / 0) (#33)
    by gyrfalcon on Thu May 07, 2009 at 11:26:36 PM EST
    really, really needed to come out of the closet about this for the sake of her own self-respect.  I don't blame her at all.  It's very uncomfortable, but if doing this helps her to cope, I have no problem with it.

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    Also, if she didn't get this (none / 0) (#34)
    by gyrfalcon on Thu May 07, 2009 at 11:28:31 PM EST
    out of the way on her own terms now, she'd never be able to have any kind of public presence at all because every appearance or interview, she would have been probed on it.  So she had no way of escaping it unless she hid from the public, and she doesn't want to do that.  And I don't want her to do that.

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    I'm finding this very difficult (none / 0) (#35)
    by oldpro on Fri May 08, 2009 at 12:23:57 AM EST
    to watch.  She is nervous, stammering, talking too fast...too much...

    She's written a book...probably a good idea to get it down and get it out for her own mental health...and for her children as she may not have much time now...a few years.  Maybe.

    Very awkward few moments with John.

    I hope this is the last we see of them for a very long time...if ever again...in the public eye.

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    In Thurs. NYT, a letter to the (none / 0) (#36)
    by oculus on Fri May 08, 2009 at 12:36:00 AM EST
    editor praises Elizabeth Edwards for discussing in public her husband's affair. Likens Elizabeth Edwards' courage in doing so to Betty Ford's discussing her alcoholism in public.

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    Not. Even. Close. (5.00 / 2) (#37)
    by oldpro on Fri May 08, 2009 at 12:41:35 AM EST
    Apples.  Oranges.

    Betty never played the victim.

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    Scrambled, Sunny side up, or French omelet soufflé (none / 0) (#39)
    by joze46 on Fri May 08, 2009 at 11:36:03 AM EST
    Scrambled, Sunny side up, or French omelet soufflé

    This banking stuff has me going to find out what is happening although the history appears to be scrambled like a good Texas Omelet;

    Mmm, finely chopped, green peppers, onions, with bit of ham, bacon, or with out ham are scrumptious, with just a light mix of jalapeños peppers celery salt, if not a little sprinkle of tobacco sauce with a Bloody Marry on the side. Almost crispy on the out side. Yum...

    or did those cowboys take a label from the French? Chuckle.  

    History is funny and not well taught, as one can move through huge links in the Internet today we see a boat load of bias and truisms left from earlier generations. Those in the know just out right lied for quite a while, kept a lid on a whole of stuff. As exampled. One can think of ranch style barbeque, how it has an affinity towards the southern classics.

    My mind fly's open to those times when America loyalist, it is written, after the revolution were deported, likely because their believes, mostly those from the south, were in contrast to Americas independence, still loyal to King George. I didn't know that...One wonders now as listening to that hard southern draw that make a claim to secede from the Union especially by the Texas Govenor. It is clearer as to where these generations came from. Needless to say those left over are biased and driven by the fat cats of our time.  

    So as we celebrate our jumbo gumbo with a frosty mint julep makes me think back when there was no American Idol television type, or was their? Of course there was, only the mass media of the news print and short stories sensationalized heroes and heroines. Like Bill Bonnie perhaps one of the first of the bank irregular regulars. For me, those long time news papers going out of business have always been connected to the politicals. Now with the open Internet most know they are caught in lies and suppressions for highly biased reasons. Please ladies and gentlemen these so called rages would rather go out of business then to tell the truth.  

    Stories like Billy the Kid remind me of the ironies of idolatry after having won the revolutionary war introduced the money problem; Americans eventually went back to an even more direct system of allowing the private banks to print money from nothing and the state borrowing it at interest.

    Some of the biggest shareholders in these banks which operate as a private consortium now called the Federal Reserve are based in the City of London. For me, I don't know if that is true but if it is there is, we have a huge amount oppressed history, along with the Jekyll Island secret scheme that appear to a middle class funded Ponzi banking law operating for almost a century.

    One can make a conclusion is that London bankers caused the American War of Independence, and our dumb cattle mentality run with the heard.

    One of the Rothschild's say: "I don't mind who makes the laws as long as I print the money". Some very striking truths surface reveals that

    Apart from the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve, the same people in 1982 in about five London banking houses controlled CBS, the Washington Post, Allied Chemical, Wells Fargo Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman, Lazard Frères, Allied Chemical, the New York Times (Morgan Guaranty Trust), American Express, First Boston Corporation and others....

    The Federal Reserve Rockefeller's piggy bank

    The World Bank and the IMF. Our Federal Reserve extensions.

    So, whats my point, these issues along with the torture issue currently at hand must be made transparent, the Federal Reserve must be opened up to the public as the torture issue must be condemned, if not we never really exercised the true value of the constitution.

    Man, those things are everywhere... (none / 0) (#41)
    by desertswine on Fri May 08, 2009 at 12:25:11 PM EST
    Found written on a blackboard at the local university.

    Matthew -

    We thought maybe the zombies wouldn't be able to chase us up the stairs. They're smarter than we thought. If you find this, we're headed for Atlanta. Send the kids our love. Our prayers are with you.

    Love,

    Becca

    Gee I hope they made it.