A Brooklyn and the PIP-POP Awards
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Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is PIP-POP Tuesday, December 6, 2011. We have a marvelous line-up of "winners" this morning so let's prepare our customary liquid breakfast and head for the theater.
This morning we will be preparing and enjoying a Brooklyn. You will need 2 ounces of New Amsterdam Gin, 5 leaves of arugula (the First Lady will be pleased), 5 raspberries, 2 ounces pear nectar, 1/2 ounce lemon juice and raspberry and arugula for garnish. Muddle raspberries with the arugula in a cocktail shaker. Add all the other ingredients. Add ice and shake. Strain into a martini glass or if you prefer over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a raspberry and an artfully placed arugula leaf. Put on your boa or your top hat and carry "breakfast" carefully to the theater. I'll be awaiting your arrival.
Welcome one and all to the 58th weekly presentation of the PIP-POP Awards. Our first "winner" has a plane to catch so let's bring Attorney General Eric Holder out immediately.
Mr. Holder, please accept this POP Award for squandering taxpayer money on a Caribbean junket. Despite Pres. Obama's so-called austerity program you have decided to head for the warm and wonderful Caribbean ostensibly to discuss ways of improving law enforcement. May I suggest that handing in your resignation would do wonders for law enforcement and it wouldn't cost a dime.
Our next POP goes to the Department of Energy for awarding a $230,000 contract to the Association of Energy Services Professionals to develop a website on energy efficient jobs. What a brilliant idea? There is one catch however. The agency has prohibited the listing of actual jobs. Another green jobs idea that serves as much of a purpose as my light bulbs that are causing me to go blind!
Our third POP of the morning bears the name of Pres. Obama. The president couldn't be here this morning because he is packing for his 17 day vacation to Hawaii. He has asked Press Secretary Jay Carney to appear on his behalf. Mr. Carney please give this award to the president for having the bad taste to bad mouth our country once more by telling Australian high school students how far we are behind in education.
Our fourth POP of the morning goes to the Occupy L.A. movement. Would the gentlemen with his jacket covering his head please come up to the podium to accept this award on behalf of your fellow occupiers. The city had to send in workers dressed in Hazmat suits to remove the 30 tons of debris you left behind. That sir, is your legacy.
Our last award of the morning is a PIP that is being presented to McDonald's. Ronald McDonald is here to accept on the company's behalf. On Dec. 1, San Francisco's ban of the Happy Meal began. As it turns out you can still buy a Happy Meal, but it no longer comes with a toy. If you want the toy it will cost an extra 10 cents which will go to the Ronald McDonad House. Here is the interesting part. Somehow this law mandates that you must buy a Happy Meal if you want a toy! McDonald's business has just expanded thanks to those that make San Francisco tick!
Our ceremony has come to an end due to time constraints rather than a lack of "winners". It is time to lift our Brooklyns on high. I thank each and every one of you for attending. Until next week. PIP-PIP HOORAY...POP GOES THE WEASELS...
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Good morning Tom,
Obama vacations like he's a travel agent! 17 days is a long time to be away when our country is in such a mess. Oh, I forgot, he's the King and it's good to be the King. See you at the Inn. I'm buying.
Great recommendation to Eric Holder...superb! Love the McDonalds Award...nothing like exposing the rationale of another California law. The Carribean would be a great permanent home for Obama...possibly Haiti. He could replace Baby Doc and continue his legacy. WB
Great awards! Holder should resign. The department of Energy should be eliminated. Obama is going to Hawaii. Is he looking for his birth certificate or to visit relatives? The Occupy movement should b e sprayed with DDT. I liked the PIP. Ssee y' all at the bar. BARTENDER................
Good morning Wayne,
If Obama wins another 4 years we may have to go to the Caribbean! See you at the Inn. I'm buying.
Good morning taxlarry,
I doubt Obama is looking for his birth certificate because it isn't there. We could solve our deficit problem by eliminating quite a few departments in Washington. The Department of Energy would be a great first step. See you at the Inn. I'm bringing a flashlight. The bulbs there don't illuminate anything.
POP: The Department of Energy proves time and time again that they are inept and should be dissolved.
President Obama's austerity program only applies to us, not him or his administration.
McDonalds deserved this PIP because they were bold enough to look at the ban and come up with an alternative! Kudos to McDonalds! Shame on the City Council of San Francisco. I hope they like this slap in the face. I know I do!
I'm off to the bar. Save me a seat....
Good morning Pino,
I am so happy about McDonald's I think I'll get myself a Big Mac! In fact, I'll bring a whole bunch of them to the Inn. See you later.
Good for MacDonald's - the idiocy of CA never ceases to amaze me. And opimitically, if Obama is on vacation, hopefully that'll the damage to the country down to a minimum.
Good morning Lynn,
I think California must have something in the drinking water! You make a good point about Obama, but let's face it, he is rarely in Washington and yet he manages to screw things up. See you at the Inn. I'm bringing Big Mac's for one and all.
Oh..oh, can I play? Big POP to Bush for firing a bunch of his lawyers for telling the truth..ooh ohh a POP to Chenney and war mongers who caused thousands of deaths. Ohoh to the Bankers who put us in a deep recesion..ohoh the corporations, who fired workers, but actually made a lot of money while hard working americans lost their homes. OOoo a BIG POP to the Bush Administration that for 10 years systematically put americans in the deepest shit ever perpertrated by a government on their own people... thanks for letting me play.
Dear PJ,
You are always welcome to play and in fact why not come to the "virtual" Inn later for some fun and good conversation. We need a Democrat in the group!
I love your comments to Holder. Great reward show, each one deserving their award. I love the twist on San Francisco too.
Good morning Pamela,
I love it when you come to breakfast. See you at the Inn later. I'm bringing Big Mac's for everyone!
I forgot it was awards day. I'm not dressed properly so I can't stay long lest anyone see me. My favorite POP was to the Occupy LA protesters. 30 tons of debris...legacy, indeed!
Kudos to McDonald's in California for doing innovative things in food and economic arenas since the 1970s! DC always did so as well. I always had fun when I worked at a campus location locally and for some of the franchises.
As an Independent I'd like to add a POP to a couple of kina left-leaning social service non-profits here that received new funding, laid off workers, doubled work assignments and then took raises for management. Not different from some corporations we, some of the people, decry, is it? Occupy Decency is what we need, friends and voters.
We also need a virtual inn website or some such. A PIP for that.
See you at the Inn, Pop.
The commentary is interesting and amusing, but let's get a few things straight.
George W. Bush spent a lot of time in Crawford Texas
Hawaii is Part of the United State
John Kennedy spent a lot of time at the Kennedy Compound.
Other presidents have spent weeks at Camp David.
There is waste is Washington. The Department of Energy never did what it was suppose to to do, however, the Energy Information Administration, which is part of DOE is a valuable statistical resource.
President Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States.
I am 60 years old. We have been at War all my life--Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thiland, Iran, Iraq . . . President Kennedy almost had us at war with Russia over the Cuban Missile Crisis--Russia Blinked and warheads were removed from Cuba.
The economy is not the fault of George Bush or President Obama. It is the fault of lenders who let people buy houses with subprime mortgages that they never could afford--a get rich scheme that backed fire.
I am all for a little humor and there are plenty of things to laugh at--The Obama comment about police checking the ID of a black man who was entering his own house--leading to the "lets have a beer" meeting.
However, some things should be allow to just go away, with the Obama citizenship issue at the top of the list.
Pop, tell Perry it's the third finger from either direction and is the bird that the political folks count to When talking down to us, or speaking of hope and change.
Seems they break it off in our asses every time they move. The DOE matches the ignorance of Eric Holder and his band of firearms distribution net work, I'm headed toward the Inn, I've got 2 pounds of fresh venison and Elk jerky to go with my beer and will let all sample 'til it's gone, 50
If I wanted to utterly destroy America, I would simply study and duplicate everything Barack Obama has done so far.
His far left parents and grandparents, and his teen mentor, avowed communist Frank Marshall Davis, must be applauding Obama, along with Bill Ayers, and the blatant America hating racist, Jeremiah Wright, Obama's preacher of twenty years, where he embraced his Marxist based, Black Liberation Theology.
How in the world did such a disastrous, dangerous man ever gain the White House? Where was the main stream media? Where were the investigations?
We knew almost nothing about the man who is now sitting in the White House, apologizing for America’s greatness, and attacking us for our successes. We absolutely have to rid ourselves of Obama in 2012. Our continued existence as a nation depends on it.
Dear pcoach,
How wonderful it is to see you at the breakfast table. I hope the "breakfast" made the 30 tons of debris easier to tolerate. See you at the Inn!
Dear Patty,
How about Occupy Common Sense and Integrity? See you at the Inn. I'm bringing Big Macs for everyone!
Dear Average Guy,
Welcome to breakfastpop. If you can't laugh you cry, hence the attempt at some humor. Needless to say I am not an Obama fan. I can't think of anything he has accomplished to help our nation. As for George Bush, well., he's not president anymore. I agree, the lenders behaved irresponsibly, but it was Clinton who more or less forced them to do so. There is enough blame to go around, but it is time for some solutions. Join me at our "virtual" Inn. I'm bringing Big Macs!
Dear 50,
It's so great to see you at the breakfast table. I was about to get on a plane and find you in Arizona! The DOE should be disbanded and Holder should be let go. I'm not sure about the venison, but I'll try. See you later.
Dear Will,
Needless to say I agree with you. It's funny but I still can't accept the fact that so many people voted for this guy despite all we knew about his friends and despite all we didn't know about him. See you at the Inn. 50 is bringing venison and I'm bringing Big Macs.
Hi Pop,
Obama was elected because:
1) The Republicans nominated McCain, someone no one liked very much, and who promptly declared that he was a spineless 'nice guy' who would not go after his opponent.
2) Women were swooning and fainting in the aisles at Obama rallies...never a good sign.
3) The dependent class actually believed that if Obama was elected, they would all get a free ride.
4) The media adored Obama like doting parents, and therefore, like doting parents, refused to see who he really was.
Now, we all know better, but that doesn't help very much.
Looking above me at my friend WillStarr's comments I couldn't agree more. Now I'll also add my two cents...
We have always been the Land of Opportunity, Growth and Prosperity. We must continue to be that to the other Nations around the world. The awards you have given out today Breakfastpops, shows we are failing under this President and his Men. In order to survive, we must have a new Republican President in 2012 that will work for all of us...and NOT take so many vacations on the Tax Payers!
Dear Will,
Actually, WE all know what he is but there are still way too many people who are still in "love". Frankly, when you think about it, most people really don't vote with their brains. What a shame.
Dear b. Malin,
I agree, never have the stakes been so high. If Obama gets another 4 years, we will never survive it. I have never felt this way before. See you and Lover Man at the Inn.
Yes, bp, Obama has to go. America cannot afford another four years of his inept and posturing leader(?)ship. But where is the candidate who will lead the country again to profitability and greatness? I do not see that person among the present Republican hopefuls.
Get Obama out of office, the EPA under control and America will largely straighten up on its own provided that we can maintain gridlock in Congress! WB
Dear drbj,
I agree but I will not vote for Obama under any circumstances. I just can't believe that the Republicans can't come up with someone of excellence. I believe we are in deep trouble. I'm at the Inn. Where are you? I have a Big Mac with your name on it.
Dear Wayne,
Good suggestions but I think we should replace Congress along with the president, of course. Get to the Inn, your Big Mac is getting cold.
I agree that we need to replace Obama and I will absolutely not vote for the man. So, who does that leave to run the country? I haven't seen anyone yet in the Republican Party to get excited about. No Big Mac for this lady...I'm a vegetarian. ")
30 tons of debris? I'm IMPRESSED!
Dear vocalcoach,
I have the same problem, a lack of enthusiasm for the Republican candidates. Having said that I will vote for whoever gets the nomination. I'll bring you a veggie burger tonight at the Inn.
Dear Ghost,
Well everybody has to be good at something!
Tom Whitworth Level 5 Commenter 5 months ago
Pop,
So many deserving Pop "winners" and so little time. I wonder if the POTUS will be slipping off from Hawaii to visit his real birth place............a manger in Kenya!!!!
I see Holder is visiting his.