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    Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money

    Just Another Sticky Night Of Abject Stupidity

    Dear Barry: We Agree, Please Just Start Smoking Again (Just Not Menthols)
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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Ted Kaufman is actually a wonderful guy - he's no wimp, he won't be in anyone's pocket. He's always been in the background, but operating on a high level, for a long time.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Ah, Megan, you've made me feel much better about not liking my food to mix either.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Ahem. The real purpose of Thanksgiving, as all true Americans know, is the chance to use copious amounts of butter, albeit in hidden places. On the turkey, in the veggies,on the potatoes, in the gravy, on my hands, on my legs, oh sorry.
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    Image of SisterMaryMartha SisterMaryMartha
    11/25/08

    @badmutha: Who needs extra butter? Gravy covers all. Gravy is master.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    There is no purpose to Thanksgiving if there is no gravy.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    11/25/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: In a world where stocks are in crisis, the only stock I trust is turkey stock.


    I intentionally have like, buckets of it, so I can make QUARTS of gravy. I cannot be without gravy. Oh god, gravy.

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    Image of SisterMaryMartha SisterMaryMartha
    11/25/08

    @tscheese: GRAVY.
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    11/25/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: GRAVY IS ALWAYS AN OCCASION FOR CAPS.


    Actually, I should email the editors and see if we can have another Thanksgiving-related recipe-share-type food-ogling thread in which caps are permitted. So as not to derail this fine Crappy Hour.

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    11/25/08

    @tscheese: Psst. I am working on a recipe for mashed potatoes with sour cream and cream cheese. I am thinking chives would be an appropriate accent.


    To tie this into Crappy Hour- I will use Philadelphia Cream Cheese- there is nothing more AMERICAN than Philadelphia Cream Cheese that is not now and never has been made in Philadelphia- it was made in New York - like where Charlie Rangel is from.


    ^^^^
    see what I did there?
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Okay, I got as far as the gravy vs. potatoes vs. turkey thing in a FULL-ON FATTENING FOOD SLAPFEST, and I have to put in my two cents:


    Gravy. Gallons of it. Everywhere.

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    11/25/08

    @tscheese: You mean "full-on frantic fattening food fisticuffs", I'm sure.


    Fffff, for short.

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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Political dynasties are one thing. Literally giving your kid, spouse, or cousin your senate seat is something else entirely.


    Also, the seat-filler is going to totally be in Joe Biden's pocket the whole administration. Even as a Democrat I have serious problems with that. I think Obama did the ethical thing in letting the governor of his state decide who to hire without any input (as far as I know). I mean, Ted Kaufman didn't even have a wikipedia page a couple of weeks ago, and now he's a senator.

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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    also if I hear anyone call anybody the new again I'm gonna barf. Good-naturedly, of course. But barf nonetheless.
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    11/25/08

    @PilgrimSoul: Seconded. Neither the Obamas nor the Bidens are "the new Kennedys," and whoever said orange was the new pink is seriously disturbed.
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    11/25/08

    @PilgrimSoul: Barfing is the new "gag me with a spoon"?
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    I'm just saying, if I could slather myself in taters and gravy and stuffing, I would be DELICIOUS.


    Instead, I'll smother my Tofurkey with all of the above :)

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    11/25/08

    @hellodarling!: I also just realized my comment was much funnier in my head. Ignore me for 30 minutes or so, the caffeine hasn't kicked in.
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    11/25/08

    @hellodarling!: if I could slather myself in taters and gravy


    Let's just get gay-married already.

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    Image of rosasparks rosasparks
    11/25/08

    @hellodarling!: I'd rather smother you in gravy than Tofurkeyness.


    Also - I guess my coffee hasn't worked yet either. I'm laughing and my travel mug is pipping hot! Must.Drink.More.Java.


    ps I spilled my first travel mug, all over myself, this morning, dropping off minisparks at school. She walked up to her teacher & said, "mama spilled her coffee all over herself. She said a bad word. But she smells really good."


    I do, my skirt smells like hazelnuts.

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    11/25/08

    @tscheese: Boston's not far, and I have a Zipcar membership... *waggles eyebrows lecherously*


    @rosasparks: I think Minisparks needs to be the official Jezebel mini-mascot, because she sounds awesome. And I bet you smell yummy! I love hazelnut coffee!

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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/25/08

    @tscheese: @hellodarling!: Ladies, I say this with all due respect: CUT IT OUT!! You're making me simultaneously excited and hungry, and I think I may go into shock!
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    11/25/08

    @hellodarling!: I guess I smothered myself in coffee. Also invited for some, I presume.


    minisparks IS a jezebel. Just a mini-version. Anyone who's 5 & is versed in same sex marriage laws must be.


    Last - I may be strange for thinking this, but I realized that Ann Coulter may cease to exist, as she is already pin thin & if her jaw is wired shut, she'll parish!

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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Well, as long as Robert Rubin acolytes are running this economy, we have nothing to worry about! Just look at how well they did with Citibank!


    (Oh.)

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    Image of SinisterRouge SinisterRouge
    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Oh Charlie Rangel...how disappointed I am in you.
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    Image of LaFemme LaFemme
    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    I also hope that the restaurant I am going to for Thanksgiving doesn't slather everything in mashed potatoes and gravy. Or even better, has a la carte so I can avoid those things all together and get a piece of fish or something.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    Sarah Palin has become the Tina Fey impersonation of herself.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/25/08

    @Lymed: Maybe Lorne should offer her a sopt on Saturday Night Live; it couldn't possibly hurt.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    I have to stop being turned on by political figures.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/25/08

    @r.n. spy hearts robert downey, jr.: Why? Isn't it about time we filled Congress and the White House with more palatable people, maybe people who were not 8 million years old and so out of touch they think disco is that new-fangled music kids are listening to?
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    11/25/08

    @NefariousNewt: I like your reasoning, kid.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    And ditto on the food segregation.
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    11/25/08

    In reply to Beau Biden Gets His Seat-Filler And The Financial Sector Gets Your Money
    So the Bidens are the New Kennedys?
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    Image of southernbitch southernbitch
    11/25/08

    @amoureuse is a second class citizen: there are so, so many political dynasties in our country it is ridiculous. a couple months ago i was toying with the idea of trying to create a whole database of who's in the congress and senate and where their family is politically (because tons of national politicians come from locally powerful families who have held governerships, state seats, etc), but i have a full time job and thought it might just depress and anger me, so i never attempted it.
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    Image of RocktheDebit RocktheDebit
    11/25/08

    @southernbitch: What about a wiki?
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    Image of ShanaElmsford ShanaElmsford
    11/25/08

    @RocktheDebit: I really like the Bidens, so I'm inclined to give them a pass on the nepotism. But yeah, it still stinks.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/25/08

    @ShanaElmsford: Well, it's one of those cases where it's an appointment by the Governor, and it can be literally anybody. Of course to keep the seat, he'll have to get reelected, and that will depend a lot on how the Obama Administration does in the next couple of years.
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    11/25/08

    @RocktheDebit: haha, that would be awesome! the whole reason why i got the idea in the first place is because i'm living in louisiana now, and we have sen. mary landrieu, whose family is all sorts of redunklous when it comes to political connection. her bro is the lieutenant governor, her father was the mayor of new orleans. and i'm sure that's typical of a LOT of national politicians. i just got very disillusioned with the idea of true representation awhile ago.
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    11/25/08

    @southernbitch: The Bidens, The Bushes, the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, there are tons. But so what? I don't think it is that bad. They still have to get elected, don't they?
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    11/25/08

    @badmutha: well, yes. but my issue is truly about campaign financing. these families have money and connections and relationships, and once you start concentrating power among these families, i see it as a less democratic system. personally, i would really prefer our entire system to move more towards government financed campaigns, with the primary mode of communication between candidates and constituencies being public access television, public radio, and local papers. no ads. but that's just me.
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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    11/25/08

    @amoureuse is a second class citizen: As a Delawarean I would be thrilled if that were true, actually. (As long as that no-good Hunter doesn't get a job.)


    They are very Kennedy-esque, except without the money. Like...any of it.

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