Friday night dinner out

Dinner at The Copa room- voted best Italian in KC for 2009. Tucked away in a little strip shopping center it appears to have once been two store fronts. Divided into two large sections, one with bar dining and the other a larger area with tables and booths. The decor was pleasant enough considering its in a shopping center but it was clear that people came for the food and the place was packed.

We started with "Nani's garlic cheese bread" that was crisp fresh house made bread rubbed with garlic and topped with the most wonderful gooey mozzarella. House salads with a fresh balsamic vinaigrette that was sweet but also spicy and left our tongues burning. Then we ordered a combo platter that consisted of penne pasta in the most amazing, rich alfredo sauce, chicken "spiedini" which was perfectly grilled and topped with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese, then doused with a fresh garlic, basil and herb sauce, and lasagna which was stuffed with rich cheeses and topped with the house made red sauce. Red sauce may have been the best Ive ever eaten, smooth and rich with lots of garlic! D ordered the lasagna with meatballs and once we got past the monumental portion size, we dug in!

I highly recommend the place if you live in KC but recommend calling for a reservation!
Wine was an Italian white, didnt write down the name but it was delicious!

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Pride


Its good to know that Chairman Zero is still not proud of his country.

October, 2007-  Barack Obama moved beyond rejecting flag pins. Here he is enduring our National Anthem:



2009- Apparently, the guy supposedly qualified by his skin color and the mere mass of his ego to be President of the United States still doesn't know what every seven-year-old at a ball game knows: you show respect for this country when the National Anthem is playing. Here's our contemptuous Ditherer in Chief on Memorial Day 2009:

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War Crimes



Elections have consequences. One consequence of voters' appalling lapse of judgment last November is that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind
behind the Muslim atrocities of 9/11, may soon be free to plot future terror attacks at his leisure.

Mohammed and the four others — Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh,
Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali — are accused of orchestrating the attacks that killed 2,973 people on Sept. 11, 2001, and will now be tried in a courtroom down the street from the World Trade Center.

We all know they're guilty. But in a civilian circus of a trial, information gathered through means of which our liberal rulers disapprove — e.g., waterboarding — will be inadmissible. If O.J. could walk, so could K.S.M.
Maybe that's what it will take for people to understand just how insane and disgusting it was to put a leftist punk in charge of our country.

Lawmakers and victims' families expressed outrage Friday that
President Obama has approved a recommendation to try self-proclaimed Sept. 11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court.

"These terrorists planned and executed the mass murder of thousands of innocent Americans. Treating them like common criminals is unconscionable," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement.
"This, I think, will go down as one of the worst decisions any president has ever made," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
"The only thing they are going to do is give them a stage to mock us … and this makes me sick to my stomach," said Tim Brown, a former New York City firefighter and founder of Thebravest.com, a group that is petitioning the administration not to bring terrorists to civilian courts.
If Khalid Sheikh Mohammad's next masterpiece involves a mushroom cloud, there may come a day when people are torn apart by angry mobs on mere suspicion of having supported the traitors who are doing this to our country.

Even more interesting to me is this video where PBO himself says that Mohammed should have a full military trial, not a civil one.  But wait.. that was back when he was running a campaign, not a country.

Story from Moonbattery.com

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We have been hearing a lot about Afghanistan of late, most of it bad.
Finally, a story that will lift your spirits, a tall "tail" that is true. This one is
about Sabi, who has been MIA in Afghanistan. She is MIA no longer as this article details, "Digger Dog Found After Afghan Adventure":
An Australian Special Forces explosives detection dog has been found alive and well almost 14 months after going missing in action (MIA) in Afghanistan.
Sabi was found by a US soldier at an isolated patrol base in north-eastern Uruzgan last week.

The black Labrador was declared MIA in September 2008 during the same battle with the Taliban in which SAS Trooper Mark Donaldson won his Victoria Cross.

Sabi was present with her handler when their combined Australian, US and Afghan National Army convoy was ambushed by an insurgent force.

Nine Australian soldiers, including Sabi's handler, were wounded during the engagement.
Sabi spent more than a year in the desolate south of Afghanistan and repeated attempts were made by the Special Operations Task Group to find her.






Read the rest here

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For the recently unemployed

(myself included...)

Earn BIG money and have BIG fun!!

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Ditherer in Chief

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Funnies




"I knew when I saw the rolling pin that something bad was going to go down..."
Indeed.

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And with that, we are headed for a long Winter's nap. Going out tonight with some friends to celebrate a birthday.

Cheers!