Mix the brandy, sherry, rum, and whiskey into a bowl.
Separate egg yolks and whites into separate mixing bowls.
Beat egg yolks until light and frothy. Gradually beat in the sugar then the booze mixture. Next beat in the milk and heavy cream until thoroughly blended.
Using a clean beater, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gently fold the egg whites into the yoly/sugar/booze/milk mixture.
Ideally you should age in the Refrigerater for 5 to 10 days. Shake the container occasionally to keep the alcohol from separating.
To serve, pour the eggnog into a punch bowl. Whisk to blend milk mixture, add the vanilla ice cream (allowing it to gradually melt into the mix), and garnish with nutmeg.
From The Culture Kitchen. Made this last Christmas with two variations. Doubled the amount of sugar and omitted the alcohol for an alcohol-free (unfortunately not calorie-free) beverage.
Uh, the former Arkansas governor and current Fox News host may have seen his 2012 presidential hopes go up in smoke today.
News: four Washington police officers were shot and killed in an ambush at a coffee shop.
Investigators identified a man with an extensive criminal past as a “person of interest” in the ambush on four police officers, who were shot to death Sunday morning at a coffee shop.
Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer told reporters that Maurice Clemmons, 37, was one of several people investigators want to talk to and that he could not be called a suspect at this point.
In a news release, the sheriff’s office said Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas, including aggravated robbery and theft. Clemmons also recently was arrested and charged in Pierce County in Washington state for third-degree assault on a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child.
The four officers were with the 100-member police department of Lakewood, which adjoins the unincorporated area of Parkland, where the shootings took place. The city identified the victims as Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards 42.
Troyer said one of those officers fought with the gunman and may have wounded him before the officer died just outside the doorway. He told reporters that investigators were asking area medical providers to report any people wounded by gunshots.
Troyer said investigators believe two of the officers were shot dead while sitting in the shop, and a third was killed after standing up. The fourth apparently struggled with the gunman out the doorway and “gave up a good fight,” getting off a few shots before he was either shot there or succumbed to earlier wounds.
“We believe there was a struggle, a commotion, a fight … that he fought the guy all the way out the door,” Troyer said.
The gunman was from Arkansas. Confederate Yankee connects the dots:
While governor of Arkansas, 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckebee paroled a violent repeat offender by that same name …
Here’s confirmation of that from a Garrick Feldman column in the Arkansas Leader which highlights the friction between prosecutors and Huckabee’s officer over the governor’s softness for felons:
Maurice Clemmons received a 35-year sentence in the early 1990s for armed robbery and theft. His sentence was commuted in May 2000, and he was let out three months later.
The following March, Clemmons committed two armed robberies and other crimes and was sentenced to 10 years. You’d think they’d keep him locked up after that, but no: He was paroled last March and is now wanted for aggravated robbery.
Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.
“This is the day I’ve been dreading for a long time,” Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas’ Pulaski County said tonight when informed that Clemmons was being sought for questioning in connection with the killings.
Clemmons’ criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed.
It should be noted that it isn’t only Huckabee that had a soft spot for Clemmons:
Clemmons had been in jail in Pierce County for the past several months on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. He was released from custody just six days ago, even though was staring at seven additional felony charges in Washington state.
Clemmons posted $15,000 with a Chehalis company called Jail Sucks Bail Bonds. The bondsman, in turn, put up $150,000, securing Clemmons’ release on the pending child-rape charge.
Whatever judge set bail that low for a careeer felon is an idiot and needs to be held accountable. Same with any prosecutor that was OK with that amount of bail. Child rape charges plus seven additional felonies and the guy gets low bail. Simply amazing.
Michelle Malkin has more here on Clemmons and has a flashback to another Huckabee Whiskey Tango Foxtrot decision, an earlier Willie Horton moment for Huckabee over Wayne Dumond, a convicted rapist paroled by Huckabee who went on to rape and murder a Missouri woman. Byron York writes more about Dumond and the aftermath here.
For the record, Huckabee was never a favorite here. He always reminded me of Mr. Haney from Green Acres and was referred to as The Huckster. The Dumond case was just one of a number of troubling cases in which Huckabee appeared to be soft on crime, claiming his Christianity as a reason, namely that the paroled felons had found Jeeeeeeeeeesus and as such deserved a second chance. Or a third chance. Or a fourth chance. Or … well, you get the drift. That plus, he was an admitted Kool-Aid drinker on global warming and a Lifestyle Nazi when it came to smoking, food and beverages.
There are a lot of twists and turns before we get to the 2012 presidential race. We still have the 2010 midterms and no announced candidates for 2012. We have 24 months before the Iowa caucuses — or the Hawkeye Cauci, if you like — and that’s en eternity in politics.
Lots of fun ahead, but The Huckster may have killed his chances even before the race began. These type of commercials write themselves.
The senseless and savage execution of police officers in Washington State has saddened the nation, and early reports indicate that a person of interest is a repeat offender who once lived in Arkansas and was wanted on outstanding warrants here and in Washington State. The murder of any individual is a profound tragedy, but the murder of a police officer is the worst of all murders in that it is an assault on every citizen and the laws we live within.
Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State. He was recommended for and received a commutation of his original sentence from 1990, making him parole eligible and was paroled by the parole board once they determined he met the conditions at that time. He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held him. It appears that he has continued to have a string of criminal and psychotic behavior but was not kept incarcerated by either state. This is a horrible and tragic event and if found and convicted the offender should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Our thoughts and prayers are and should be with the families of those honorable, brave, and heroic police officers.
Nice work, Huck. Not one word of accepting responsibility for your role in this POS even being on the street. “it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas …”
Who was the governor of Arkansas who let Clemmons — and Dumond for that matter — out of prison? Look in the mirror.
Two of the funniest bits in a very funny Christmas movie, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol?
Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.
A senior person at Treasury said to a small group of us that it is now official Treasury policy to extend and pretend on real estate loans. In other words, the policy statement from last week says, if you can make an analysis that says even if the current value is less than the loan, if you can do a spreadsheet that shows if you extend for 3-5 years, and if the economy gets better, and if the loan can be amortized down to where the loan is no longer more than the value, then the lender does not have to take an impairment -write down. Loans are to be modified by rate reductions, deferral of reserves, deferral of amortization or what ever.
Just NOT principal reduction. This is just like they are doing in housing.
Anyone remember the collapse of the housing market, brought to you by the likes of Bawney Fwank, Chris Dodd, The Reverend Jackson, The Reverend Al Sharpton, the Clinton administration, ACORN, etc.?
If, if, if, if … If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas. That may be the first time Don Meredith has ever been quoted on this blog.
They’re playing Fantasy Island over at the Treasury Department under the leadership of Turbo Tax Cheat Tim Geithner.
This gets worse. The e-mailer continues:
The free market seeking an equilibrium price is no longer economic policy. In short, the working of the free market is suspended. She went on to say it was administration policy that they will create new employment and by doing so they will boost the economy, and so then real estate values will return to old levels. There were 50 of the most senior and smartest real estate people in the room. They ripped her to pieces. It looked like one of the town hall meetings of August, except everyone there was a very senior, polished professional. At one point everyone was calling out or moaning at her. It was clear to all she had been given a few talking points and she was told to stick to them no matter how foolish she looked. The group told her in no uncertain terms this is terrible public policy. They said for jobs to be created you need to lower rents so the cost of occupancy was at a level to encourage more hiring. If the loan is kept at old levels and building values not reduced, then landlords can’t reduce rents to where they need to be to make taking space by tenants economically viable. Retailers costs remain higher than they should be making it harder to lower prices to induce sales. So there is a massive make believe going on. When I pressed the issue of political interference she said -what do you want us to do, bankrupt all the banks.
That is the choice.
They’re not interested in letting the free market solve the problems. The actually think their policies will create economic growth and consequently new jobs and just magically real estate prices will return to their normal levels. Of course, this will require the assistance of fairies and pixies.
There is absolutely no econonmic growth out there. None. Unemployment is at 10.2 percent, 17.5 percent if you count the people no longer looking for work. There’s no sign things are improving, no matter how much lipstick the sycophants in the state-run media want to put on this pig. It’s still a pig.
And the looming prospect of a $6 trillion government takeover of the health care system, the “cap-and-tax” carbon tax and the planned European-style Value-Added Tax, or VAT, isn’t doing anything to stimulate the creation of real jobs, as opposed to the phony jobs in the porkulus bill, many of which were in nonexistent congressional districts. Whatever jobs were “saved” or “created” were government jobs, not real jobs, some of which amounted to no more than a pay raise to a bureaucrat. Government can’t hire everyone. Besides, government jobs aren’t created; they are legislated into existence by lawmakers.
Here’s the e-mailer’s analysis:
What does this tell you?
A. The problem is going to take much longer to solve than it should,
B. The banks are still very weak, so lending will not return anytime soon,
C. A massive refi problem is getting deferred to 2013-2015.
D. The administration is playing politics with the economy to a degree that is dangerous. There has to be a massive value reset for real estate. We are deferring the inevitable.
Everything is being kicked out to 2013. Why? Take a guess.
That’s right. The 2012 election, in which the Little Black Man-Child hopes He will have won His second term and as such cannot be held accountable for the devastation He is deliberately trying to bring onto America.
The banks all go bankrupt anyway, and the economy has been further trashed by the destruction leveled on employment as a consequence of this policy.
What’s even worse is that this jackass Treasury Representative, assuming the conversation reported really happened, told a bunch of professionals that if all of those “ifs” don’t pan out the banks are all going to blow up.
What do you think those professionals will be doing when, not if, it becomes apparent that they’re right – that the economy is not recovering at a reasonable pace and that the “extend and pretend” game is not only not working but is inhibiting recovery?
Well, since it will be after the 2012 elections, there won’t be much they can do except say “See? We told you so.”
More and more is falling into line supporting the theory that the Marxists in the Obama administration, including the Chocolate Jesus Himself, are operating under the theory of Cloward-Piven, the deliberate destruction of the U.S. economy in order to institute Marxism. The overloading of the current system combined with the creation of one crisis after another that will eventually cause the current economic system to collapse.
Denninger concludes:
There is only thing worse than being stupid – it is admitting that you’re stupid by putting a bankrupt and unworkable “policy” in front of a bunch of professionals who have the acumen to analyze what you’re up to, tell you that you’re nuts, and then act on it to profit while grinding the banks and indeed all of America into dust - but you stick to it as “policy”, even though those who are smarter than you are have told you point-blank that it won’t and in fact can’t work.
Thank you Barack and Turbo Timmy – you own it, this is your policy, this is your legacy…….
……and this will be your political obituary.
By the way, The Market Ticker provides us with this graphic demonstration of just what the employment picture looks like starting in January 2007 through September 2009. Notice how dark this map gets:
The darker it gets, the worse it gets. Oops, it’s probably raaaaacist! to say that, isn’t it?
They’re way off. Not around here. Not even the Republican opponents are close to what this monstrosity will cost taxpayers.
Try … over $6 trillion.
The Cato Institute’s Michael F. Cannon started correcting for all the gimmicky budget tricks that are in the ObamaCare bill that’s about to be rammed down our throat through a parliamentary trick and found lots of costs the Democrats don’t want you to know about.
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) corrected for one budget gimmick and came up with $2.5 trillion in hidden expenditures. Cannon corrected for the projected cost of the mandates being forced on businesses and taxpayers, something which amounts to a massive tax increase: another $2.5 trillion in expenditures hidden from the public.
When we correct for both gimmicks, counting both on- and off-budget costs over the first 10 years of implementation, the total cost of ObamaCare reaches — I’m so sorry about this — $6.25 trillion. That’s not a precise estimate. It’s just far closer to the truth than President Obama and congressional Democrats want the debate to be.
No wonder the Democrats want absolutely no debate and to ram these bills through both houses and through conference within the next two weeks so Our Lord and Savior can sign it before Christmas.
Prediction: it will get done and by the slimmest of margins. Don’t forget: they have cap-and-tax and the VAT to ram through next year before they’re tossed out of office by angry voters in November 2010.
In a city which bans ownership of handguns, the mayor and members of the City Council are taking advantage of an 1872 law designating elected officials as peace officers and thus exempt from the gun ban.
Under a state law dating back to 1872, mayors and aldermen are designated peace officers. And, conveniently, peace officers are permitted to not only own but carry handguns.
That makes aldermen a special class in Illinois, one of only two states with an almost complete ban on the carrying of concealed handguns. In most places, an adult with no criminal record or history of psychiatric commitment can get a concealed-carry license after taking a training class.
But here, we have a unique system. You want to be able to pack a weapon in public for your safety? Fine. All you have to do is 1) run for the City Council and 2) win.
But if you’re just an ordinary citizen, your Second Amendment rights are denied to you.
And law-abiding? Chapman reminds us:
“Law-abiding” is not the very first word that comes to mind when you think of the City Council. Since 1972, 27 of its members have been convicted on charges involving malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, disfeasance and anti-feasance with mopery aforethought.
It would be hard to come up with a group of people that has proven itself less deserving of blanket trust.
Once again, it’s the political class reserving rights for itself that it’s all too willing to deny to the people they are supposed to serve.
And you really think government-run health care will be any different? Why else do you think members of Congress exempted themselves from the mandates they’re ready to impose on the rest of us?
Snopes has verified this as true. Lou Pritchett, former vice president of Procter & Gamble wrote the following letter to Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama:
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett
If I were Lou Pritchett, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a reply from the Little Black Man-Child.
