Ingredients
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup raw sugar
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 1/3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup finely chopped walnuts (or roughly chopped peanuts or any nut of your preference)
Instructions:
Beat
butter, egg, and vanilla together until smooth. Add sugars and flour to
egg mixture, mix thoroughly. Stir in nuts. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls
on greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes. Cool on
baking sheet. Makes about 30 cookies.
With a
consistency like very thin peanut brittle and a taste like toffee, these
cookies are delicate coasters of caramelized sweetness. And because
they contain so little flour, they are a crisp and light dessert
alternative to something dense and gooey. Keep in mind, they don’t
travel well because of their fragile nature, so these treats are best
enjoyed at home with friends and family and a late afternoon pot of tea
just like Kate would’ve have done.
I like that recipe, by the way. You can pretty much make that spur of the moment as long as you stay well stocked.
Bill
feels that
Stan doesn't like Katharine Hepburn. I told Stan I was
going to address it here and if I misunderstood something on his end for
him to please correct me.
Stan
likes Katharine Hepburn as an actress and feels she did solid work in
the 30s, 40s and 50s as well as Long Day's Journey Into Night in the
sixties. After that, her acting is pretty awful. I happen to agree
with him. She's an embarrassment frequently and she's also worse than
that. I don't know why Jane Fonda hired her for On Golden Pond.
Hepburn basically ruins the film. And what's sad is that's apparently
Jane Fonda's idea of a grandmother as well -- or was. Hopefully having
grandchildren changed that up. But Georgia Rules? That's an
embarrassing performance for me. Jane's as non-maternal as Hepburn in
that film. Both women come off like p.e. teachers, not grandmothers.
Bill
feels that Hepburn is getting called out by Stan for being a lesbian.
No, she's not. First off,
Stan's cousin that he loves (we all love her)
is Marcia and she is a lesbian. Second of all, when Stan writes about
Hepburn's sexuality with regards to acting, he always notes someone like
Barbara Stanwyck who was also a lesbian. Stanwyck could have played a
grandmother and been believable. It's not that Hepburn was a lesbian
that prevents her from convincingly playing a grandmother.
His
problem with her being a lesbian has to do with her embarrassment as
she gets older that leads her to do things like pretend John Wayne --
who Hepburn did not like as a person and did not like his politics --
was sexy. When she made On Golden Pond, she tried to make it seem -- to
the public -- like she and Henry were soul mates. She did the same in
the 70s with John Wayne.
It
was embarrassing. I'm quite a bit older than Stan. And in the 70s we
pretty much all knew Hepburn was a lesbian. While Spencer Tracy was
alive (he was gay, by the way), she never pretended to be anything but
friends. And that's what they were. They might have had an affair
early on for a few months. But they were just friends. She had women,
he had men (including Bo Derek's first husband John Derek who was a
rent-boy/hustler). After he died, you could watch her lie a little and
then, getting no pushback, lie some more. By the time she was done
lying, they'd had a never ending affair up to the point that he died.
Really, when he was living on George Cukor's estate and partaking of
Cukor's pool boys, Kate and Spencer were having sex?
Her
desire to hide who she was existed throughout her lifetime. But after
Spencer Tracy died, she really went to town with her lies.
From
her first film (A Bill Of Divorcement, 1932) through 1962's A Long
Day's Journey Into Night, she was a strong actress. Possibly entering
the period of her life where she was desperate to be seen as Spencer
Tracy's spiritual widow, she couldn't act that fake role and also act on
screen so her screen acting suffered.
Her
being a lesbian was not a problem for Stan. The lengths she went to in
the 70s and 80s to conceal it were a problem to Stan.
He
doesn't hate Kate Hepburn but he's not in the mood for liars who want
to embrace a fairy tale about the great lovers Hepburn and Tracy.
I've known Stan for many years and I hope I summed that up well. If I didn't, he'll correct me at his site.
This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Tuesday:
Tuesday, October 14, 2025. Protests this Saturday across the country,
CBS gets into bed with Bari Weiss let's hope they deloused her first,
Barack Obama points to warning signs, and much more.
Millions of people will take to the streets again this
Saturday to protest the autocratic regime of President Donald Trump, his
government shutdown, and his demolition of Medicare, Medicaid, and
other public programs in service of tax cuts for billionaires. The
protests, under the brand No Kings, have the potential to be the largest
ever in the United States.
As of last Friday, 2,500 events were planned across every state,
Europe, and Canada, No Kings organizers said. They expect that number to
grow. Multiple cities will host anchor events, including Bozeman,
Montana, a college town that rarely makes national news. Other No Kings
anchor protests will be in Atlanta, Boston, Kansas City, New Orleans,
San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The latter two have been
burdened by a persistent federal law enforcement presence over the past
several weeks.
“If you are cynical, you might not understand the utility of simply
standing together and showing the massive agreement in this moment
around our disdain for a president who believes he is a king,” said Lisa
Gilbert, co-president of the nonprofit Public Citizen and one of the
rally’s organizers.
Greg Sargent: This is the Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
It
has become very clear that President Donald Trump is really, really
worried about the No Kings protests that are scheduled for October 18.
Suddenly, multiple Republicans are all using the same disgusting talking point about the protests, referring to them as agitators and terrorists. It sure looks coordinated. They’re all using the same vile language. This
really displays extraordinary contempt for our whole political system.
Yet we think it’ll backfire. It’ll only prompt the protests to get larger,
and there’s nothing Trump hates more than seeing big crowds arrayed
against him. Today we’re talking about all this with writer Jill
Lawrence, who has a new piece for The Bulwark on Trump’s hatred of our system and of democratic voters. Jill, thanks for coming on.
Jill Lawrence: Thanks for having me, Greg.
Sargent:
So the No Kings protests are set for next Saturday. Let’s listen to
what House speaker Mike Johnson had to say about this.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (voiceover): This
Hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18th. The
Antifa crowd and the Pro-Hamas crowd and the Marxist, they’re all gonna
gather on the mall. We got some House Democrats selling t-shirts for
this event. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes.
Sargent: So there you heard Johnson talk about Antifa, pro-Hamas,
Marxists, Jill. These are American citizens, millions of them
exercising their right to peacefully protest. Your response to what you
heard there from Johnson?
Lawrence: Well,
I’m not surprised. And this is traditional, this is constitutional,
this is a right, and they’re trying to turn it into something really
evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know that it
turns public opinion.
The problem here is that people like
Johnson and the Republicans in Congress aren’t doing their jobs. They’re
not putting any checks and balances on the president, and they’re not
upholding American values or even American constitutional rights.
So this is where we are. The people have to protest, and I don’t really see this working out the way they hope.
Sargent: Well, they clearly hope for some sort of
violence, which either will allow them to respond with violence of their
own—state violence—or to demonize the protests as terrorism and
extremism. You know, the funny thing about this is, as you alluded to,
the more people show up, the more other people feel supported, and it
really is a sort of snowballing effect that can take place in these
situations. And I think that’s what really worries them.
Lawrence: I
think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular.
And people who may support them generally on issues like crime and
immigration are seeing how they carry out these policies. And he’s down
on his best issues in polls, and the midterms—if they go ahead fairly
and freely—will put a check on Trump, at least through the House. So
that’s the problem. And the more momentum they gather, and the more
peaceful they are, and the more it’s obvious that there are troops
hanging around with nothing to do except maybe provoke people, then, you
know, the worse it’s gonna get for them.
Last night on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow explained that a huge turnout is expected at the protests.
The
protests matter. They put us on record that we do not consent to the
destruction of democracy, we do not join Chump in his efforts to burn
the Constitution, we say the US stands for something and we will not let
Chump degrade and destroy our country.
Speaking with Marc Maron, former President Barack Obama about the state of dismay.
Former
President Barack Obama has weighed in on President Donald Trump’s
latest escalation — sharply condemning the president’s call to jail
Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’ governor for opposing his deployment of
National Guard troops to the city.
Speaking
on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast released Monday, Obama accused Trump of
“politicizing the military” and warned that the deployment of troops to
U.S. cities is “inherently corrupting” when used against civilians.
He
called Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops “a deliberate
end run around” of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prevents the
use of the nation’s military for domestic law enforcement.
The
law says “don’t use our military on domestic soil unless there is an
extraordinary emergency of some sort,” Obama said. “When you see an
administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection,
or—”
“A terrorist act,” Maron added.
“A terrorist act,” Obama replied. “That is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy.”
He suggested that if he had sent troops to Republican strongholds,
“Man,
it’s almost too easy of a thought experiment,” Obama said. “If I had
just sent the National Guard into Texas, and just said, You know what?
Lot of problems in Dallas. Lot of crime there. I don’t care what
[Governor Greg Abbott] thinks. I’m gonna kind of take over law
enforcement
“It is mind boggling to me how Fox News would have responded,” he said.
Obama
said that instead of caving to the administration, universities should
say, “This will hurt if we lose some grant money in the federal
government, but that’s what endowments are for. Let’s see if we can ride
this out, because what we’re not going to do is compromise our basic
academic independence.”
Firms
should also take a stand against the administration’s pressure campaign
to turn away from hiring minorities and women, Obama said.
“We
think it’s important, because of what this country is, to hire people
from different backgrounds,” Obama said of what businesses should stand
for during the second Trump administration.
Universities,
law firms and other businesses have all reached agreements with the
White House and changed policies to end investigations or avoid being
targeted.
As I noted last week, people like Chump can't learn.
They can't alter course. It's the ego and the stupidity combined.
Republicans try to help him out and he blows them off because he's not a
Republican. That is reality. He's distorted what that party was
about. His cult gets smaller each day and, in about a decade, you'll
find that the Republican Party tries to foist him off on us, tries to
say he was a Democrat. And he was a member of the Democratic Party once
upon a time. But he's no Democrat. He's nothing but a fascist. I'll
be glad when Republicans wipe their hands of him but not so glad that
I'll let them lie that, while in office, he was a Democrat. Karl Rove
becomes the latest GOP insider to try to offer him advice that we all
know Chump will blow off.
Frank Yemi (INQUISITR) reports:
Karl
Rove has a warning for President Donald Trump, troops on American
streets may juice a few tough-on-crime headlines, but it is likely to
backfire where it counts, with voters. On Fox News’ Journal Editorial
Report, the GOP strategist walked through fresh polling and concluded
that President Donald Trump’s push to deploy National Guard units into
Democratic-led cities, even over governors’ objections, is “going to end
up being a loser.”
A new
Reuters/Ipsos survey finds 58 percent of U.S. adults say the president
should deploy troops only in response to external threats, not to police
domestic unrest. That posture commands 72 percent support among
Democrats and a narrow majority among Republicans, 51 percent. Just 37
percent of respondents say presidents should be able to send troops into
a state “even if its governor objects,” a view driven largely by
Republicans, while independents lean against it. In other words, the
bigger the standoff with blue-state leaders, the worse the politics get
with the middle.
“If a governor objects,
though, the partisanship starts to be felt,” Rove said, noting that
independents tend to side with Democrats on the question. He allowed
that some crime-concerned voters might credit Trump for “taking action,”
but still judged the overall play as negative. “This ultimately, I
think, will tend to be a loser,” he said, sketching out the same risk
Republicans faced in 2020 when federal force became the story rather
than the solution.
Judges in multiple jurisdictions
have slowed or stalled deployments, and in the Chicago area, the legal
fight collided with optics when several Texas Guardsmen were quietly
sent home and replaced after a viral backlash over fitness standards.
The administration insists the Guard is there to protect federal
facilities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, but the
courtroom calendar, not the cable-chyrons, now dictates the tempo.
Axios’
roundup of public surveys mirrors the Reuters/Ipsos findings, with
broad discomfort over domestic military missions and a strong consensus
that the armed forces should remain politically neutral. Task &
Purpose, summarizing the same poll, underscores that sentiment, noting
overwhelming support, 83 percent, for keeping the military out of
politics. That neutral-ground instinct is exactly what Rove is tapping,
the idea that voters may tolerate a “surge” for a true emergency, but
will punish a president who makes troop deployments feel routine.
Rove
is standing in the middle of the road, waiving his hands desperately at
Chump who is blindly barreling down the road ignoring all the signs
alerting everyone to the construction up ahead. Chump doesn't know how
to hit the brakes, how to save himself.
Rove's warning about how conservatives will see the fascistic move Chump is making comes as
James Bickerton (NEWSWEEK) notes four quicksand traps for Chump in the latest polling, "On
immigration, Trump has a net rating of -4.7 percentage points, for the
economy it was -15.3, for trade it was -16 and -27.7 was recorded for
inflation." People are tired of it -- all of it. They're especially
tired of inflation and Chump's non-stop lies about inflation.
Christopher Rugaber (LOS ANGELES TIMES) explains:
Inflation
has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than
it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala
Harris' presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn't know it from listening
to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the
Federal Reserve.
Trump told the
United Nations General Assembly late last month: “Grocery prices are
down, mortgage rates are down, and inflation has been defeated.”
And
at a high-profile speech in August, just before the Fed cut its key
interest rate for the first time this year, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome
Powell said: “Inflation, though still somewhat elevated, has come down a
great deal from its post-pandemic highs. Upside risks to inflation have
diminished.”
Yet dismissing or even
downplaying inflation while it is still above the Fed's target of 2%
poses big risks for the White House and the Federal Reserve. For the
Trump administration, it could find itself on the wrong side of a potent
issue: Surveys show that many Americans still see high prices as a
major burden on their finances.
As
you read through Rugaber's report you see bad news over and over -- one
example? Artificial trees are expected to rise in cost by 10% since
Christmas season last year. And it doesn't help Chump's image that the
"American-Firster" actually puts America last over and over.
Steve H. Hanke (FORBES) reports:
The
world’s biggest deadbeat has passed the begging bowl again. This time,
Argentina is asking for $20 billion. That’s the size of the swap line
that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promised to pony up in
order to bail out Argentina and its floundering president, Javier Milei.
Where
will that kind of money come from? Secretary Bessent will dip into the
seldom-used Exchange Stabilization Fund at the U.S. Treasury. He will do
so without Congressional approval. Why? Because President Trump has bet
on President Milei. Trump sees Milei as Uncle Sam’s man in Latin
America—the man who will lead the charge against the “pink tide” of
leftist Latin American governments and counter the commercial and
geopolitical inroads made by China in the region.
But
maybe President Trump has bet on a dead horse. After all, Argentina has
never been a good bet. Since independence, it has faced one economic
crisis after another. In the last two generations alone, there have been
one hyperinflation (1989–90); six banking crises (1980, 1982, 1995,
2001, 2008, and 2019); five balance-of-payments crises (1958, 1962,
1981–82, 1989, and 2018–19); four external debt defaults (1982, 1989,
2001, and 2020); three local public debt defaults (1989, 2007–09, and
2019); numerous currency devaluations; and a near-constant, punishing
inflation.
Families
and educators across the country were plunged into a state of
uncertainty over the weekend after the federal Education Department laid
off practically every staffer in the government's special education
division.
Nearly the entire Office of Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services, including the Office of Special
Education Programs, was let go, according to agency workers and their
union.
Employees in the Education Department's
Office for Civil Rights, many of whom work to protect students with
disabilities from discrimination, were also laid off, the union said.
The impacted divisions included offices in the District of Columbia,
Seattle and Atlanta.
He's
got serious problems, problems of his own making. No one to blame but
himself. Did someone say Epstein and Maxwell? Yes, the two pedophiles
continue to cause problems for their former pal Chump -- even with
Jeffrey Epstein dead and gone and even with Ghislaine Maxwell locked
away in prison, they continue to cause problems for Chump.
The
decision to move disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to a
minimum-security female prison has been irritating her fellow inmates -
who are angry at the move.
Reports from the US
said the prisoners were even once placed on lockdown so her visitors
could be properly accommodated. Maxwell, 63, was transferred to the
Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas in August after three and a half
years in a federal prison after her conviction for aiding Jeffrey
Epstein in his abuse of under-age girls.
Some prisoners claimed they had been told the lockdown had been necessary because of the importance of her visitors.
It
was not known whom Maxwell met with in the chapel that day, though some
of her fellow inmates heard rumors that the lockdown was meant to
accommodate important visitors, according to the report.
Later
that day, one inmate said they saw Maxwell return to her dormitory with
a smile on her face. When asked about her mysterious meeting, Maxwell
said it went well, but didn’t share any other information, according to
the report.
Meanwhile, less than a week later,
the Department of Justice released a transcript of an interview Maxwell
had had with senior official Todd Blanche weeks earlier in July.
During
the interview with Blanche, Maxwell said she had never seen President
Donald Trump doing anything inappropriate or illegal with Epstein when
they were friends. Soon after, she was transferred to Federal Prison
Camp Bryan.
FUGLY CRACKPOT FREAK BARI WEISS IS SAID TO BE TRYING TO SQUEEZE INTO THE ROLE OF OMBUDSPERSON AT CBS NEWS
-- IF SHE CAN LOSE FORTY OR FIFTY POUNDS AND SOMEONE CAN CUT THE POOP
OUT OF HER ASS HAIR. THE WALKING DISASTER HAS NEVER PLAYED WELL WITH
OTHERS AND IS KNOWN TO BITE ANY CANINE WHO COMES NEAR HER BOWL OF
PURINA PRO PLAN SENIOR DOG FOOD.
BUT
WHEN THESE REPORTERS MET WITH HER FOR A SCHEDULED Q.&A., WEISS WAS
SURPRSINGLY CHIPPER HAVING JUST TAKEN A DUMP ON A NEWSPAPER BESIDE HER
DESK.
Q: DONALD CHUMP BASICALLY CREATED THIS JOB FOR YOU -- DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE ON WELFARE?
BW:
I'M A HAPPY CAMPER BECAUSE, DESPITE MY FACE, I MAY GET ON TV. I'VE
ALWAYS WANTED TO DO TV BUT NEVER HAD ENOUGH MONEY FOR PLASTIC SURGERY.
THE RISE OF CHUMP MEANS ALL THE UGLY PEOPLE FINALLY GET A SHOT AT HIGH
PROFILE MEDIOCRITY.
Q: AND WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO CBS?
BW: DIVERSITY. DIVERSITY'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
Q: BUT CHUMP GOT CBS TO AGREE TO KILL ALL DIVERSITY INITIATIVES.
BW:
NO, NO AND NO. WHAT WE DON'T WANT IS EQUALITY. DIVERSITY -- AS WE
DEFINE IT -- MEANS DIVERSITY OF OPINION. FOR TOO LONG, MAINSTREAM MEDIA
HAS STRESSED CONFORMITY WITH NO REAL DIVERSITY. THANKS TO ME, CBS WILL
NOW BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE TRUE DIVERSITY. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE ARE A LOT
OF MURDERS IN THIS COUNTRY. MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVERAGE ALWAYS TREATS
THIS AS A BAD THING. DIVERSITY OF OPINION MEANS I CAN GO ON TV AND TALK
ABOUT THE MANY GOOD PARTS OF MURDER. OR ELDERLY ABUSE! I WON'T BE
PART OF THE ECHO CHAMBER CONDEMING IT. I'LL POINT OUT THAT SOME ELDERLY
PEOPLE DON'T HAVE MUCH TO DO AND ELDERLY ABUSE ACTUALLY BRINGS SOME
EXCITEMENT INTO THEIR LIVES. IT'S ABOUT PRETENDING YOU HAVE A BRAIN AND
PRETENDING YOU'RE USING IT. I'VE DONE THAT FOR MANY YEARS NOW. LIKE
WHO SAYS RACISM IS WRONG? I NEVER HAVE! DIVERSITY OF OPINION IS SO
VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. UNLESS WE'RE TALKING HIRING PEOPLE OF COLOR.
THEN YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT DIVERSITY. DIVERSITY IS MY RIGHT TO ARGUE
THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT WITHOUT BEING CANCELLED! YES, I KNOW WHAT IT
MEANS TO BE CANCELLED! YES, I DO!
In an early taste of CBS News’s editorial direction under its newly
anointed editor in chief, the anti-woke pundit Bari Weiss, the storied
outlet elevated a hit piece on Zohran Mamdani, the progressive New York
City Democratic mayoral nominee.
CBS
News on Friday published a segment featuring Olivia Reingold—a reporter
for the Weiss-founded Free Press, which is now owned by the same parent
company as CBS. Reingold, whose previous work for Weiss includes a much-criticized
August story that attempted to downplay the Israel-induced famine in
Gaza, shared her reporting on Mamdani on a CBS morning program.
“Some NYPD officers worry about Mamdani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports,” reads the title of the segment posted on CBSNews.com. (Until Monday, “Mamdani” had been misspelled “Mandani.”)
Reingold reported
that officers in the New York Police Department are worried about
Mamdani, with some “considering retiring.” The evidence? In total, her
Free Press article contains quotes from four of the at least 33,000
uniformed officers serving in the NYPD. None of them are named.
Shoddy
reporting which is no surprise. Weiss is not a reporter. She was a
(bad) opinion writer as John Oliver explained on Sunday.
Let's
wind down with Lawrence O'Donnell last night on MSNBC analyzing how
Miss Sassy JD Vance lied over and over on Sunday trying to pretend Tom
Homan didn't take a $50,000 bribe.
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