Josie was diagnosed with diabetes last year. I noted the CDC's Tasty Recipes For People With Diabetes and Their Families at some point after she was diagnosed. Because it's a booklet of recipes made free by the CDC, she printed it. But she didn't have time to look at it until last week, the day after Thanksgiving. She recommends the entire book but said she's made Caribbean Red Snapper three times already and loves it:
Ingredients
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
½ cup red pepper,chopped
½ cup carrots, cut into strips
1 clove garlic, minced
½ cup dry white wine
¾ pound red snapper fillet
1 large tomato, chopped
2 Tbsp. pitted ripe olives, chopped
2 Tbsp. crumbled low-fat feta or low-fat ricotta
cheese
Directions
In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion, red pepper,
carrots, and garlic.
Sauté mixture for 10
minutes.
Add wine and bring to boil.
Push vegetables to one side of the pan.
Arrange fillets in a single layer in
center of skillet.
Cover and cook for 5
minutes.
Add tomato and olives.
Top with
cheese.
Cover and cook for 3 minutes
or until fish is firm but moist.
Transfer fish to serving platter.
Garnish
with vegetables and pan juices.
Serving Suggestion: Serve with whole grain
rice.
News? Dan De Luce (NBC News) reports:
In the spring of 2018, congressional staffers were anxious ahead of the House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting.
A Syrian defector who had risked his life to expose atrocities committed by the Assad regime was due to appear behind closed doors at a private briefing for lawmakers.
No cameras would be present, but congressional aides worried about one committee member, Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who had repeatedly defended the Syrian regime and even met its leader, Bashar al-Assad, in an unannounced trip in 2017.
The aides were concerned Gabbard might leak the name of the defector, who had hidden his identity out of fear of reprisals from the Assad regime. Some worried that she might even reveal his identity to someone associated with the Syrian government, which at that point had killed hundreds of thousands of its own citizens, according to human rights groups.
Both Democratic and Republican aides told the Syrians accompanying the defector, known as “Caesar,” to ensure that he covered his face before Gabbard entered the room — just in case.
“It was Democratic and Republican staffers on the committee coordinating with me to figure out how do we make sure that Tulsi doesn’t take a photograph of Caesar, or learn his real name, or record his voice,” said Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force who helped organize Caesar’s appearance and translated for the session.
Trashy Garbage is not fit to serve. She's a member of a cult, she's a hot head, she leaks to Russia and Syria and apparently WikiLeaks, so why the hell should be the Director of National Intelligence.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Friday:
Friday, December 6, 2024. Implosions for MORNING JOE and THE YOUNG TURKS -- and why we need to not just expect better from the media but to actually demand better from the media.
The progressive Independent senator took to X on Tuesday where he addressed the idea after it was first reported by Fox News.
'Trump has suggested that Canada become the 51st state in our union,' Sanders wrote.
'Does that mean that we can adopt the Canadian health care system and guarantee health care to all, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and spend 50% less per capita on health care?' he went on.
'I'm all for it,' he concluded.
A Commonwealth realm is one of a group of sovereign states within the Commonwealth of Nations that have the same person, currently Charles III, as their monarch and head of state. All the realms are independent of each other, although one person, resident in the United Kingdom, acts as monarch of each.[1][2][3] Except for the UK, in each of the realms the monarch is represented by a governor-general. The phrase Commonwealth realm is an informal description not used in any law.
As of 2024, there are 15 Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom. While the Commonwealth of Nations has 56 independent member states, only these 15 have Charles III as head of state. He is also Head of the Commonwealth, a non-constitutional role.
The notion of these states sharing the same person as their monarch traces back to 1867 when Canada became the first dominion, a self-governing nation of the British Empire; others, such as Australia (1901) and New Zealand (1907), followed. With the growing independence of the dominions in the 1920s, the Balfour Declaration of 1926 established the Commonwealth of Nations and that the nations were considered "equal in status ... though united by a common allegiance to the Crown".[1] The Statute of Westminster 1931 further set the relationship between the realms and the Crown, including a convention that any alteration to the line of succession in any one country must be voluntarily approved by all the others. The modern Commonwealth of Nations was then formally constituted by the London Declaration in 1949 when India wanted to become a republic without leaving the Commonwealth; this left seven independent nations sharing the Crown: Australia, Canada, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Since then, new realms have been created through the independence of former colonies and dependencies; Saint Kitts and Nevis is the youngest extant realm, becoming one in 1983. Some realms became republics; Barbados changed from being a realm to a republic in 2021.[4]
And now you're taking Trump's stupidity and amplifying it. You're the worst second banana in the world, sitting on the couch next to the 'comedian' host and yucking it up over his one liners.
It's not a good look. Not for a man over 80 and certainly not for someone serving in Congress.
These are serious times and we don't need yucks and jokes from our members of Congress. Especially the ones way too old to be funny.
It's disgusting but, hey, SECULAR TALK's Kyle has enthused "my two presidents!" over another bad Bernie moment where he spoke with Jon Stewart this week.
Really?
Neither Bernie nor Jon is President of the United States, has been President or will be President.
Their interview was an embarrassment.
Hero worship is not going to save the left.
Let's all try to be a little damn smarter.
Right now is where I would normally go off on THE VANGUARD. Instead, we're noting two videos that they did yesterday.
Good for Zac and Gavin. They've actually risen to the occasion.
This is an awful time.
A very close election.
Kamala Harris: 74,938,474 votes (48.4%)
Donald Trump: 77,236,275 votes (49.9%)
That's the official AP count as of this morning. There was no landslide, Satan has no mandate.
But close didn't deliver the presidency and the Dems lost the Senate -- but increased their numbers in the House. Republicans control it but as it stands right now there are 220 Republicans in the House and 215 Democrats.
Satan is both an idiot and a terrorist.
These are not joyful times.
And we need to be concerned.
But too many idiots who think they need to lead us or that we need to watch them or listen to them or read them are the worst of the worst. They're doing nothing.
They're yammering away as though they're Cokie Roberts going on ABC's THIS WEEK to offer a bunch of nonsense -- that's what everyone else is saying already. Conventional wisdom? It may be conventional but it's never been wisdom.
And it's appalling to watch just how little we've learned on the left.
THE VANGUARD gets plenty of criticism from me but applause to them for a real topic that's tremendously needed. We need to be holding people accountable. THE YOUNG TURKS were never our friend. Cenk and Ana need to be called out. That's a real topic.
Our media especially betrayed us this year. Especially this year. And if we seriously do want to think about how to make things better, we need to be demanding much more of the media supposedly serving us. If you're supposedly left and you're writing a column that could easily run in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, you're wasting our time and money's being wasted paying you.
The Supreme Court is probably going to deliver a severe attack on trans rights. They heard the case this week. We've noted many videos here about it -- and no one laid it out better than Danielle Moodie -- that's why we included her video in yesterday's snapshot.
I haven't written about this case here (but did two pieces for community newsletters) and the reason is, I just can't. I don't know if it's a scene from a film I'm recalling or something from news footage that's blurred in my mind long ago. But it's black and white when I dream and it's a child and they identify as female so some hateful thugs -- adults, not peers -- shaves her hair and beats her up. And it was popping up in dreams and I've not been able to sleep and now carry it over to waking moments. This isn't a topic I can address right now myself.
And there are topics that you might not be able to address immediately on your YOUTUBE program or at your website or on your radio program or in your magazine. But that doesn't mean you address nothing. And yet that's what far too many 'left' 'journalists' are doing.
That's not: You can't have fun!!!
Obviously you can. Everyone needs to blow off steam. And Ava and I cover TV for THIRD and while everything since June has been about politics, we will return to just covering entertainment TV at some point.
But we can't afford junk news anymore than we can afford junk science.
That's reality.
And if you're appalled by Ana and Cenk -- and you should be -- or by Mika and Joe -- and you should be -- you should grasp that they got away with it.
It didn't start yesterday or last week. Ana's been trashing transpeople forever.
But more to the point, they've both been doing junk news. It's probably more obvious with Ana because her lies are always very clear. Someone she knows said this, some doctor called her a name, some friend got this . . .
This is nothing but junk. She invents situations and characters to attack people because she can't do the actual work required. So it's a coffee talk with Ana and Cenk that they try to pass off as news.
It's not news.
It is news that Joe and Mika can't stop yelling at whomever is still watching their sorry ass program.
When your audience has tanked in less than a month, you don't scream at whomever's left watching.
And MSNBC bosses don't think that was a good look.
Mika and Joe bowed to Satan and kissed his ring -- finger and anal -- only to be shocked that this kowtowing resulted in a backlash.
Now they're screaming at viewers for calling them out?
Even worse, they compare themselves to THE WASHINGTON POST and THE NEW YORK TIMES.
No.
No.
No.
They are talk show hosts. Joe was a crappy politician before he became a right-wing, crappy TV personality and Mika was never more than a nepo baby. MORNING JOE does not break news. MORNING JOE is not a news program. It's a talk show. On it's best day, it might qualify as a public affairs program but it is not and has never been a news program.
The two are talk show hosts and nothing more.
And what they sell -- as hosts -- is that you can believe them and you can trust them. Then, days after they've called out Satan, they're sneaking off to his lair to bow and scrape before him.
Again, we need to demand better media. (And, again, MSNBC bosses are not pleased with the stunt of Mika and Joe screaming at viewers on air.)
On any given day, there is more than can be covered. On any given day, there are too many people spouting talking points -- and I'm talking on YOUTUBE -- and not doing any actual work.
I know Rahm Emanuel. I've known him for many years.
I have not endorsed him to run the DNC. I don't plan to endorse anyone.
But I don't get the group think there.
Kyle and his club meet up with Krystal and others and determine who we're going to be supporting.
Oh, they did such a great job with Tim Walz, right?
All I wanted was anyone but Josh Shapiro.
Didn't expect we'd get someone who would deliver the worst performance in a vice presidential debate ever.
Rahm is to the right of me. Far to the right.
But the conversation has been nonsense on the left regarding this.
The next head of the DNC, whomever it is, is not going to be shaping policy. They're going to be allocating resources for candidates, they're going to be working on messaging, etc.
Rahm can be an asshole -- I think he'd admit that himself.
But is that a quality we might need in that position? Does he know about races and campaigns?
These are the issues that matter for that position.
If whomever gets it agrees with me on every issue, that's excellent, yea!
But that's not really what the post is.
And we can't have an intelligent discussion about that. Again, I'm not endorsing Rahm, I'm not endorsing anyone. And don't come up at me with Iraq because I will bury you with the actual facts. Rahm was pro-war, yes, but he was also the most effective communicator when Dem leadership became more vocal against the war. That includes a disaster press conference on the topic where Nancy Pelosi couldn't string together a coherent thought and Steny Hoyer seemed asleep. Rahm's the one who jumped in and made the anti-war argument and saved Pelosi and Hoyer a lot of embarrassment. I can provide more examples but, again, I'm not endorsing him or anyone else.
Yesterday, we noted Melanie Campbell from a roundtable that we'll be noting below in a moment. But let's quote her again on the issue of who should head the DNC:
One of the things that's disturbing for me is that you don't see -- right now, we're talking about four people who they're talking about who are up for the position to be the head of the Democratic Party. Why don't we see a woman? Why is there not a Black woman? If we voted 92% for the [presidential] candidate, why are we not even seeing one Black woman in the running or in the discussion? So that's one of the things that I see that we have to address. And that's how we deal with our money and make demands because we do write checks, right? And the other has to do with how we find ways to fund our politics. Until we do that, I think we'll always be in that position.
That's a good observation and a good criticism.
But some of the other puff that's being offered -- especially by those backing one man -- is awful and embarrassing and it dumbs us all down.
It has nothing to do with qualifications. They just happen to like the person -- or to like the image the person has.
How is that any different than what Satan's doing with his Cabinet dreams?
Tulsi's not qualified, Junior's not qualified, Pete's not qualified, go down the list.
But then take a moment to look at how the discussion of who should chair the DNC is going.
I don't really care what they think about this or that. They're not going to be making policy. They are going to be steering the party with regards to races.
Can they do that?
Many thought Howard Dean was going to do a great job.
And he was lousy. It should have been obvious that he would be. What was his experience? A failed run for the presidential nomination and a governor Vermont. How did that spell big vision? How did that spell out experience in leadership?
I don't care who they choose. But I do care about the quality of the conversation. And this shouldn't be -- as Krystal Ball tried to make the 2024 DNC presidential nomination -- about who attended your wedding. This should be about actual experience and qualifications.
Can you deliver in the job?
Do you have experience in government or politics or philanthropy of working well with others?
I don't need to hear "She built a brand on her own!"
Okay, so that person can work well by themselves. Doesn't mean that they have leadership skills.
We need better conversations and we need smarter media.
Zac and Gavin made a few mistakes -- and they know it, they corrected themselves. I'm not bothered by mistakes when people are trying. I am bothered by it when it's coming from people phoning it in.
There is so much at stake over the next four years. We can't be phoning it in. We need to have serious conversations and address actual issues. There's no time for fan boying. Stop worshiping politicians, especially those who have failed to deliver.
Bernie may be the King of Talk but he's the accomplisher of nothing. Letting him jaw bone on camera may save some nursing home patients from having to endure it over breakfast and across the table but he's got nothing to offer as he has demonstrated in all of his years in Congress.
The roundtable.
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