Granny Eggs and a Fairy Tale
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Good morning beloved breakfastpoppers. Today is Fairy Tale Friday, September 9th in the year of our kingdom 2011. King Teleprompter emerged from the castle last night to present his plan to get the kingdom humming again. I listened very carefully and I took notes and when it was over I was very disappointed. If you will permit me, I would like to share my thoughts with all of you. Let's prepare some Granny Eggs this morn and meet beside the construction site of a new building meant to house the Super Committee who are charged with solving all our problems.
Please go to your larder and take out 1/2 pound of hamburger meat, 4 large eggs, 1/4 cup milk, 1/4 pound shredded Cheddar cheese and salt and pepper to taste. In a large skillet that you have placed over med-high heat, brown and crumble the hamburger meat. While the meat is cooking, beat the eggs and combine with the milk, salt and pepper. Once your meat is cooked, add the egg mixture and the cheese to the skillet. Continue cooking, stirring and scrambling until the eggs are set and the cheese is melted. Butter some toast and spoon your Granny Eggs on top. Wrap them up and head for our meeting place. Wear a hard hat. I'll have Bloody Marys for one and all.
Thanks so much for meeting me here. I'll get right to the point. Last night King Teleprompter addressed the kingdom and told our Congress to pass his jobs plan right away. He repeated that phrase at least 17 times throughout his speech. Pass it right away, do it right away, right away, right away, right away! I say pass what, a bill that the King insists will be paid for? Paid for by who? Paid for how? He did imply that he would be more specific in about a week as to how this $450 billion American Jobs Act will be paid for. Why speak now, King Teleprompter, when you really don't have the specifics of your plan? In case you haven't heard, our little Kingdom is teetering on the edge of fiscal catastrophe. You proposed a great deal of spending with money we don't have.
Don't you think the people of your kingdom deserved some specifics? Aren't we important enough to hear the nitty gritty of your plan? Are you charging the Super Committee with the impossible task of making your plan come true? Oh my, so many questions and so few answers.
I hope the Congress really takes the time to analyze your plan and extract any parts of it that seem reasonable. I hope they take the time to ask hard questions of you and the Super Committee that has, in effect, usurped their role and cut us, the people, out of the process completely. Last night I got the distinct impression that the only jobs King Teleprompter was concerned about were union jobs. Can we expect anything else? After all the unions are his army. How happy the Democrats must have been to hear the King promise to end the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, you know those millionaires and billionaires earning $250,000 a year as a couple. With all due respect King Teleprompter, I think a class in basic math might be useful for you.
So it all comes down to this. Did the King's historic speech give the people of this Kingdom reason to sleep better at night, secure in the knowledge that our problems are on the road to being solved? I think not. My friends, I think we'll be tossing and turning a good deal after we crawl into our beds of straw and hope for a better tomorrow...POP...
Do you believe in magic
In a kingdom's heart
How the magic can free us
With a fresh new start
It's magic.....
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Good morning Tom,
I told you it's magic!!!! Just believe and ye shall be saved...See you at the Inn. It will be my distinct pleasure to buy this evening.
Great campaign speech! No nitty gritty, though. The king does not believe in nitty gritty or m aybe he does not know what nitty gritty is. Anyway, today he is doing what he does best. Traveling aound the ocuntry to "sell" his plan for jobs. I don't think he needed to call congress for a joint session for him to give a campaign speech. He could have had a televised address from the oval office or he could have sent his plan to congress. Oh, there is no written plan you say? That's right, he does believe in writing down his plans. This should be fun. I know a job that is shovel ready. You know, the old Giants stadium has been torn down. However, it has been said that Jimmy Hoffa Sr was buried in the concrete in the south end zone. Give Jimmy Hoffa Jr and his teamsters some shovels so they can start digging for Senior! Now that's shovel ready. While they are digging, we'll make some tea and have a party. I am off to the inn. INNKEEPER.............
Good morning taxlarry,
You are on top of your game! I love the idea of Hoffa and his army looking around for deal old Dad. As for Obama he really has to stop using Congress and the media as props for his campaign. It's tiresome and a waste of time. I'll be ate the Inn waiting for you. I'm buying.
Morning Pop...I'm reminded of the line from Shakespeare's Macbeth " "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing "...
This idiot is in his last hour and will be heard no more after November, 2012...
See you at the tavern, Pop...A flagon of wine, a chunk of faux elk jerky, and thou...What more could any red-blooded American want..?...Larry
POP: I too, held onto the King's every word, listening for something new - listening, listening, until I was awoken by a jab in my side by a knight's lance. He said there would be no sleeping during the king's speech. I told the knight that is was the same ol' thing I've heard over and over - he replied that the American people will think it is different, so I must be alert. I found out later that my jab in the side knight was none other than Knight Jarrett ( who told me that she likes dressing up as a man). I remained wide awake, and as soon as the king finished his speech, I ran like hell out of there - to the INN, of course.
Today, I'm saving seats.
Pop, I was in town and found a basket of dirty diapers, took them to the laundry, threw them in a drier, and put a quarter in pulled up a chair, got see and hear the same speech! I'm off to the bar,50
Dear maven,
Words to carry around in one's pocket until the "idiot" returns from whence he came. See you at the Inn. Save me a seat. I love it when you quote Shakespeare.....
Dear Pino,
Your tale resonates with me as well. I too was jolted awake but in quite a different way. I felt beady eyes boring into me as I dozed and when I dared to lift my lids I was horrified to see Nancy Pelosi staring at me. Her eyes didn't move, her cheeks didn't move, nothing moved. I too ran from the room vowing to keep my distance from the castle. See you at the Inn.
Dear 50,
I wish I had known. I definitely would have preferred to watch those diapers spin around. It was painful listening to the King spin his tale. See you at the Inn.
great hub.....i appreciate the vision.
POP - I was one of the few lucky Americans still working so I couldn't watch, guess that makes me double lu7cky since by all recollections my blood pressure would have been off the charts.
Still it IS a good reason to head to the Inn and double up on the Cuervo Gold in my Beer. See ya'll when you get here Pino I've already got your seat saved.
Dear moneycop,
Thank you and I appreciate your presence at the breakfast table.
Dear Hmr,
You missed nothing but, as you point out, a chance to scream at the television! See you at the Inn.
It was interesting to note that even the lame stream, Obama drooling, leftist media was lukewarm over Obama's latest campaign speech.
Obama has been exposed as an empty suit.
I read in an AP article today that was scathing. The article said that this promise that Obama's plan would be totally paid for isn't bassed on fact. It's based on maybes. IF a commettee that Obama has no control over agrees to certain things, IF the U.S. wins the lottery etc. etc. What a load of poo. HONESTLY. He truly has NO CLUE what to do and then he tries to lie and as you pointed out - lies without even attempting to give details of his plan. He'll give the details later? Why later?! What a stupid thing to say HONESTLY!
Thank you Pop for sitting through his nonsense, I couldn't do it, I had to read the news reports, I just can't listen to him any longer. Why waste my time? He's saying nothing anyway - at least, nothing of substance. Just empty words. Have a great weekend Pop. You ROCK!
love, carol
I don't bother watching or listening to Hopey Changey much, so I appreciate the summary of his speech.
Obama said a long while back that he wanted to remake America, so with everything he suggests we have to be aware that this agenda is somehow in the forefront of his 'thinking'. Granted, he's also trying to position himself for a second term, which means he'll throw the occasional bone to conservatives so he looks better.
That said, I'll look at this current plan (details of which are forthcoming)in light of his agenda to remake America. Based upon that alone, my guess is that I'll have nothing but disdain for Hopey Changey's latest offering.
The revulsion most of you feel at what Obama says is the way I felt watching a good 25 minutes of the GOP debate a couple of nights ago. The sewer systems at the Ronald Reagan Library had less poo than what was coming out of the candidates' mouths. It was particularly sad that the mention that over 200 people had been killed on Perry's watch, most likely some of them innocent, got the greatest applause. Sickening.
Good afternoon WillStarr,
Let's hope the truth keeps on spreading. As we speak he is running around telling audiences that things will turn around right away if Congress passes his bill. I am so sick of this circus with Obama being the ring master. See you at the Inn.
Dear Carol,
It was very difficult to listen to his speech and harder to look at him and hear all that phony applause. He said nothing and if questions were allowed he could have been challenged on every point. What nonsense. What a huge waste of time. Right now he is telling audiences about his wonderful plan and they are applauding. I need to take a nap before I head to the Inn.
Dear Hxprof,
His latest plan which is not committed to paper is based upon thin air. Obama is wedded to ideology and not to real problem solving. Nothing has a chance of improving as long as he is in power. See you at the Inn.
Dear Little Sister With Giant Brain,
Well, I'm back from the midwest, and I'm trying to figure out to write a hub about the trip without hurting innocent people. I'm not sure I can.
You are right on target here as usual Patti. In my opinion this speech wasn't written to do anything more than to bring an ever increasingly cloudy liberal logic back into focus to the liberal party. aka campaign speech.
I tell you this my friend. I came back from Iowa with more focus, clearer thinking,and more determination than I ever had. However, I haven't had a good breakfast in over two weeks, and I woofed this down so hard I've got food in my ears. Yummy! :)
jim
Dear livelonger,
Keep in mind that Perry didn't say any of these people on death row were innocent. He said that the system in Texas is very careful and thorough. As far as the debates were concerned, I think there were some very good ideas presented, ideas that have a very good chance of working. Repeating plans that have a documented history of failing is bad policy and just plain crazy. In any case, welcome to the breakfast table and thanks for sharing your views.
Dear Big Bro With Big Brain and Bigger Heart,
Welcome home. I want to hear all about your trip and how you thought things went. As for Obama, I want to hear less and less from him. It's always the same old rhetoric and the same old tired ideas. See you at the Inn. I'm buying.
Pop, I didn't watch it. I didn't miss much it seems. Looks like it is more of the same - just another campaign speech. What makes it amazing is that he did without the usual finger-pointing. I'll give him credit for that.
I can't wait to find out how everything in the bill will be paid for. It just sounds too good to be true.
Dear caltex,
You can't understand how everything will be paid for because it can't be paid for!!! See you at the Inn.
Repetiton is the key, one of Obummy's advisors must have said, which is why we heard, "Pass this Job Plan Now!!!" at least a gazillion times in his speech. As well as "this plan is paid for."
Just two questions: What specifically is this remarkable plan? And how has it been paid for?
Sorry, I forgot. Ours not to question why. Ours simply to comply. :(
Your hub spelled out the ridiculousness of Obama's speech. His campaign speech was just what I expected - a bunch of half truths, spending massive amounts of money making rosy promises which will ultimately make the Republicans look bad for not "passing it right away."
Great Hub....i loved your parting poem
I do Believe in Magic Breakfastpops... and so in 2012, I will Vote for the Republican Ticket and Obama will simply Disappear! As for his speech that's all it was...there is No Bill written down that Congress can act upon...it's like the Health Care Bill...You will have to read it (eventually) after it's been passed to see what's in it! Good Hub Breakfastpops and Have a Good Weekend!
My lovely friend, POP. I am glad to see you again. Thanks for writing and share with us. Your recipes always tasty. Have a nice weekend!
Prasetio
A great hub ,another to vote up and here's to many more to share on here.
Take care
Eiddwen.
Good morning drbj,
Yes, we are not permitted to question the King. Even Congress, as a whole, is not permitted to question him. They are charged with standing and applauding. We are charged with trying not to gag and change the channel.
Good morning Pamela,
I thought Obama sounded utterly ridiculous the 17 times he said pass the plan!! I got the distinct impression that he was advised not to blame anybody exactly but to imply that if his plan was not passed right away we could look to Congress and particularly the Republicans for our nation's problems. The speech was lame and the plan empty. Enjoy the weekend!
Dear francine,
Thank you and enjoy the weekend.
Good morning b.Malin,
I get it now. The bill is invisible! Congress will have to believe in the magic that is Obama and wave their wands and pass the bill. I wonder, is a rabbit involved at all?
Good morning dear Prasetio,
Thanks for coming to breakfast and enjoy the weekend.
Good morning Eiddwen,
Thanks so much for the pleasure of your company at breakfast. Enjoy the weekend.
Pop- Its like the president is saying, "this is all a bit technical",(like in the Batman movie) I'll explain what I'm doing later, preferably after the bill is passed.- Sounds like I've heard this before but where, hummm..., oh yes, Obama-care! Regards-WBA
Good morning wba,
It's deja vu all over again!
The King's plan for a socialist America continues to progress as he has deemed it. His taxation of the wealthy will be a final blow to small business America which will really tear up the jobs numbers as more and more of these businesses which are just hanging on now go under due to lack of consumer confidence and poor cash flow. America needs jobs. They also need to see the price of gasoline come down so they can get to their work economically and afford their food at the grocery store. Americans are learning what business has understood for years...life is about cash flow and it is absolutely necessary for continued existence. As long as small business America remains stifled so does the banking system of the country which will also eventually lead to their demise as they have little or no way to make money without making loans...which they are not doing at the present. This administration is destroying America from the inside out by taking down its infrastructure little by little. If Obama leaves after his first term, we will be decades repairing the damage this one four year term has done to this country. If he stays for a second term...well, you can forget any America you once knew. WB
Dear Wayne,
Obama is wedded to an ideology that is so anti American that I am finding it hard to believe that his own party doesn't want him impeached. When I watched those idiots in Congress standing and applauding like seals I felt ill. You're right Wayne, four more years of this and we will never recover.
Larry, what on Earth is "faux elk jerky"? Beef labeled "slow elk?" Enquiring minds want to know!
Of course, we do have a jerky faux President. Could that be related?
Good news: Boehner and his bunch are learning how to beat Obama at his own game. Slow start, admittedly, but it's how you finish that counts.
In this (faux jobs) case, it seems likely Obama figured he couldn't lose, he-win he-win either way. If the Republicans said "NO!" to his B.S., he could finger-point and snarkify: "See how BAD those people are! They don't want you to have JOBS!" Or if the Republicans said "YES", he got more "free money" for his spendy fingers.
But the counter by Boehner was beautiful. He said, "Maybe...maybe..and then again maybe."
How ya like THEM apples, O' Emperor with no clothes on?
Dear Ghost,
Faux elk jerky is just exactly what it sounds like and yes it is exactly like faux jerky President. I don't care for either one. See you at the Inn. I am so tired of all these political games. our country is drowning and our president is content to play games. See you at the Inn. I'll bring some Faux elk jerky. Trust me you won't like it anymore than you like what is going on in Washington.
Tom Whitworth Level 5 Commenter 8 months ago
Pop,
The King seems to be only half as bad as he was 2 years ago. Back then he convinced the Kingdom to allow him to waste 900 billion pieces of silver on Porkulus I and now he only wants to waste 450 billion pieces of silver on Son of Porkulus.
I noticed, as you did, the King's exortation to "Pass the plan!" Imagine my surprise when listening to former Prince Newt this morning. He talked to the current Speaker and Lo and Behold there is no written legislative plan to vote on much less pass!!!!
Sign a blank check for the King!!!!!!!!!!!!!