A Cheese Grits Souffle and a Fairy Tale
65Twiddle Your Thumbs!
Good morning beloved breakfastpoppers. Today is Friday, September 16, in the year of our kingdom 2011. It's time for a Fairy Tale and breakfast. Let's start with breakfast. This morn we will be preparing a Cheese Grits Souffle.
You will need 1 cup of quick cooking grits, 1/2 cup butter, 4 ounces Gruyere cheese, 1/8 teaspoon paprika, 3 eggs beaten at room temperature, 3/4 cup whole milk at room temperature and 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese.
Preheat your hearth to 375 degrees. Cook grits according to package directions. Add butter, cheese and paprika and stir until butter and cheese are melted. Let cool. Twiddle your thumbs while waiting. Combine eggs and milk and blend into grits.
Pour mixture into a buttered 1 and 1/2 quart baking dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and paprika and dot with a bit more butter. Bake uncovered for 1 hour. Twiddle your thumbs while waiting. When the souffle is ready, pack it up and head for the Forest of Endangered Bugs. Bring spray, swatters and electrocution devices. You'll understand why when you get there. I will have plenty of Bloody Marys to go around. Fear not!
Welcome, my dear friends and neighbors who are miserable and unemployed thanks to a King who has not a clue about free markets and capitalism. Let me get right to the heart of the matter. There is a project in the works that if enacted could create thousands of jobs for our kingdom. It is the Keystone XL pipeline and it is capable of transporting 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to Oklahoma and Texas. The TransCanada Keystone Pipeline Project applied for a presidential permit from the State Department in 2008. They have been waiting ever since and so have the people of our Kingdom of Dem who are badly in need of jobs.
The problem, my friends, is the American Burying Beetle, an endangered species. The Kingdom's State Department is terribly concerned about the future of this bug, far more concerned about it than about us. The State Department needs to give its okay to start this project, but they are dragging their feet. They are looking for scientific opinions about the beetle while we are looking for jobs. The beetle was once found throughout the eastern part of the kingdom but now only exists in eight states. The proposed pipeline would go through three of those states.
And so we wait. We wait because of a bug and the State Department. We wait while thousands of jobs go unfilled. We wait because this kingdom can't seem to think its way out of a paper bag. Lift your swatters on high and get your spray at the ready. Whether it''s a beetle or a bug from the State department, unleash your frustrations. Swat and spray away...POP...
The beetle climbs in
The beetle climbs out
It screws things up
We scream and shout
We are humans after all
We are hungry and afraid
Forget the bug
We need to get paid!
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Good morning taxlarry,
Now why didn't I think of that! The bugs can pack their little bags and go elsewhere. Brilliant solution. It would be great if the State Department could do the same thing! You are a genius. To the Inn, my friend where common sense reigns supreme and the lager is flowing.
Pop, looks like nobody can move with out some kinda of block, this is getting ridiculous-ouser by the day, Lets drink about it! the Inn, 50
Pop,
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. This would be funny if not so sad and vice versa. I feel taxlarry's pain!!!
All things Federal government that "bug" me now get one response from me. Hey Barrack, how much did you know about Solyndra and when did you know it!!!!!
Good morning 50,
First I want to kill a few bugs, then I'll meet you. Save me a seat.
Good morning Tom,
It would be funny if it were a movie, but the fact that we are living this insanity, well, not so funny. Now Solyndra and Obama well that is a tasty little nugget that needs to be cracked wide open. To the Inn, Tom, to the Inn.
Ohio's Columbus Zoo would be glad to breed more of these valuable bugs and other wildlife and transplant them to other states. They do it all the time, so the point is moot, State Department. Now tell me what happened to the $9,000,000,000 we sent to South America to discover NEW bugs in the 1990s - 2000s! No report.
Further, what about putting more of the promised oil wells on the Native Reservation that has enough oil for all of North America - in North Dakota. The money was approved; where are all the other wells promised? Canada already ransports lots of oil to N. Dakota as well to be refined, so send in more to Texas and Olahoma as we develop other energies.
Ohio discovered much oil in shale recently and the Governor applied for funding to process it. Will Ohio receive the money or will bugs get in the way?
That's it! - Bugs in high-up jobs shuffling denial paperwork around. It's "Starship Troopers!" hahaha
Thanks for the morning laugh and cry. Glad it's Friday and I can have more than one margarita at the inn. Thank the lord they don't have to pipe tequila through states that have endangered bugs. Save me a seat.
Pop
I got an idea let’s put American Jobs on the Endangered Species List; that away those kooks at the EPA will then have to find ways to protect jobs instead of continually erecting impediments to them!
Better yet put the whole Damned Economy on the endangered list.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaats all folks; remember Brevity is the soul of wit!
Good morning Patty,
There are so many "bugs" in our system that I think we need to call an exterminator and start over. We have energy that is being ignored, potential jobs that being ignored and an administration that deserves to be ignored. See you at the Inn. I am bringing my electrified bug killer should I see someone from the State Department.
Hi Pop! I really appreciate how you keep issues in the forefront for us. This is another shame. Let's hope common sense prevails and this project gets up and running. Looking forward to my grits! And my Bloody Mary!
Dear Tammy,
Truer words were never spoken. We must head for the Inn immediately and make sure our pipelines are full and flowing!
Good morning Dexter,
Don't do anything dangerous like hod your breath. I think it's going to be a while before this gets off the ground. It has already been a long time. Considering how desperate we are for jobs, it is insane to think that a bug can stop a terrific project like this from launching. See you at the Inn. Bring a fly swatter should we see someone from the State Department.
POP: The WH cannot allow this to go through when they are promoting green energy, hense the bugs. We'll have to wait another year and when the Republicans take over the WH and implement this program, we can hear all about how the Reps are all big oilmen, and life will be good!
I'm off to the Inn. Someone, please save me a seat...
Morning Pop...That pipeline project has been shovel-ready since 2008...Words mean NOTHING, action means everything...I am totally disgusted with the constant cover-ups, excuse-making, and blame gaming that assaults us every day through the WH presser, MSM obstrufication, whining politicians, and a president that spews more BS than a Kansas City feedlot...
Progressives thrive on crisis, and the creation of crisis is their modus operandi...Everything must be done now or the world as we know it will end, is their throaty cry...Damn the beetle, the snail darter, and the spotted owl...All of which has caused tremendous dislocation, lost jobs by the hundreds of thousands, thriving and healthy towns desolated and dependent on govt welfare, increased crime and drug use...All in the name of radical environmentalism...
This is no fairy tale, Pop, this is grim reality to thousands of families that are suffering from the effects of unemployment: Alcohol abuse, spousal abuse, loss of self-respect, and children doomed to a life of serfdom without hope, without a chance...
The first rule of socialism is to destroy the middle classes, making the masses dependent of government largess...Larry
Good morning Pino,
I am so "bugged" by this idiotic waste of time, money, oil and jobs. See you at the Inn. Bring a fly swatter should you run into someone from the State Department.
Good morning maven,
Correct, it's no fairy tale but instead a harsh and insane reality that is costing us jobs and oil and so much more. You should expand upon your comments in a hub because it's important and you write so well. The crisis I am looking forward to is the one that throws a bright light on Obama and Solyandra. See you at the inn.
wow. I love your writing. So uplifting and fun to read. I voted up and awesome :) keep on keeping on!
Not much for grits, but I'm thinking this grits souffle recipe may change my mind
Regardless, I'm feelin' a bit infested...
@ Dex -dang, a Bloody Mary does sound good! Make mine spicy!
Dear Rswilliams,
Thanks so much for coming to the breakfast table.
Dear missolive,
If the grits don't do it for you, the Bloody Mary will. Don't scratch too much and thanks for coming to breakfast.
The situation really bugs me is it's so typical of the way this administration handles everything. When I see a bug I step on it and there are few people in Washington I would like to step on. I know there have been numerous protesters in front of the White House for the last couple of weeks against this pipeline so it seems the minority once again will rule the majority. Off to the inn!
The "Beetle" probably has More BRAINS than the State Dept...which probably needs to be buried underground...This is a No Brainer...or so it would seems...I'm sure the Bug will survive, it's got 7 other States to do so In... What Next Breakfastpops...what Next!
This entre scenario, bp, is so ludicrous it is hard to believe. What fools these mortals be in the State Dept. If there are 5 other states fortunate enough to have these bugs, what's the problem with the 3 states in question? Tis a puzzlement!
Darn right! They got this one right Patti. This bug is cool. Really cool. If something were to happen to this bug God forbid, we'd be in a real fix! This bug must be saved at all costs! It pulls certain carbons out of the air thus slowing down global warming. Without this bug we're doomed!
jim
Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Deedle
Came across a Burying Beetle
Whacked it with a heavy spade
Extinction sadly still delayed
Turns out a whacking helps it breed
And now the thing is strong indeed
Forty trillion Beetles strong
There will be fifty before long
Now a people comes to rule
Stringy hair and iron-fist rule
Squash the bugs into a paste
Every one so there's no waste
Tamp 'em down below the ground
Grind and crush and really pound
Another bunch of years and then
An oil petroleum geology man
Finds the bugs down in the sand
They are liquid by this time
But up the pipeline pipe they climb
They get refined and then they are
Fuel for the Jetsons' space-age car
Voted Up and Across. You may not see the humor (most won't), but to me, there's a certain dark comedy in a race of humans being so worried about a bug.
Good morning b.Malin,
With this administration what's next is a pretty scary question. I put nothing past them. If a beetle can stop a project that will help our economy then we have an administration that really doesn't give a damn about jobs.
Good morning drbj,
The reason you can't see the problem is because you have common sense and realize that there really isn't a problem at all. There are those in our nation who don't want to see this pipeline built and they will stop at nothing to stop it. If the president gave a damn about jobs he would jump all over this one. I don't hear him, do you?
Good morning Big Bro,
Why didn't I realize this on my own? Here I was thinking about job creation and oil and the people of this nation when I should have been focused on the bug. Will I ever learn?
Good morning Ghost,
Of course I see the humor. You rock! I think the best way to discuss this unbelievable subject is to try to laugh at it. Otherwise we cry.
As usual, your recipe sounds delicious, breakfastpop. You've also given me another very interesting topic to research - the pipeline versus the beetle! It certainly seems that there's been long enough since 2008 to reach a decision about building the pipeline.
Good morning Alicia,
It's been three years, so is this really about the beetle or the pipeline? I say pipeline and the beetle is just a convenient pawn.
TAXLARRY 8 months ago
Bugs? Bugs? A sure way to get people employed is not implemented because of bugs? If these bugs (and I hate bugs) are in 8 states and the pipeline goes through 3 of those states, THAT MEANS THERE ARE 5 STATEs THAT WILL NOT BE DISTURBED!!! ANY BUGS FROM THE 3 STATES CAN GO TO THOSE 5 STATES! THIS IS A NO BRAINER. And why is the State Department holding this up? More government bulls---! Let's meet at the inn to discuss. INNKEEPER.....