I took a mental health day today and completely enjoyed it! Slept till 10, made myself some lunch, worked in the garden and got it mostly cleaned up and read for winter. Ran some errands and stopped at the grocery for some stuff to make dinner.
I had a craving for Beef Bourguignon because the weather has been so dreary and cold but wouldn't you know, today warmed up and was lovely! I made it any way and it was fantastic! I start with thick cut, applewood smoked bacon that I saute until just done. Then add good beef, usually sirloin or ribeye that I cut in chunks. Cover in a big pot with a full bottle of very good Cabernet and simmer for an hour. Then I add fresh herbs, garlic, pearl onions, mushrooms, carrots and about 3 cups of beef or veal stock, cover and cook another 2 hours or so until its thick and the meat is fork tender. Served over rice tonight with crusty french bread and a GREAT red: Mas du Goudareau Cotes du Rhone 2005 
Disgusting
Here's what the vermin running the government are doing to our troops in Afghanistan:
They aren't over there to win; they aren't given the resources they need or even allowed to attack the enemy. Their job is to get killed for awhile, until it suits Chairman Zero's political purposes to run up the white flag and bring them home.
Voters hold firm on Obamacare
Democratic leaders think they have been making progress on the health care front, in the wake of the CBO's relatively benign assessment of the Baucus version of their proposal (which is not, of course, the one that Congress will eventually vote on). But Scott Rasmussen finds a remarkable stability in voters' opinions about health care reform. If anything, the anti-"reform" consensus seems to be hardening:
Now that the Senate Finance Committee has passed its version of health care reform, 42% of voters nationwide favor the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's down two points from a week ago and down four from the week before.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% are opposed to the plan.
What I dont understand is why NO ONE IS LISTENING in Washington???
This chart tells the story:
Thanks toPowerline
Great news!!
How great is this? Fifteen hundred pages, but that is only two of the 5 bills that have to be merged. Lets calculate how long that will take us to read....
Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages, according to a Senate Republican leadership source.
The massive, 1,500 page bill is expected to serve as the backbone for Democratic reform efforts going forward and five senators expressed concerns about one of its main provisions, a 40 percent tax on high-end insurance plans.
The tax is designed to pay for reform and lower costs by making the so-called Cadillac plans less attractive for insurers to offer. Under the bill, a plan that costs an individual more than $8,000 and a family more than $21,000 annually would be subject to the tax.
But Democratic Sens. John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Robert Menendez, Debbie Stabenow and Jay Rockefeller are concerned that the threshold that defines a Cadillac plan is too low and will whack middle-class people.
“We remain concerned that the thresholds are too low and will impact plans that are not overly generous and that in 2019 far too many plans will be impacted by the excise tax. We plan to continue to work with Chairman Baucus on this issue to ensure that provision bends the cost curve, but not at the expense of middle-income Americans,” the senators wrote in a one-page “additional views” document that was released with the bill.
And.. before I log off... because its MY BLOG AND ... (yeah, you know the drill...)
Sometimes, skinny jeans are ... just... TOO SKINNY.
