Seal Team Six, Obama's speech

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Ok, Seal Team Six is riDICulously cool and amazing. Wow! T and I were super jazzed after watching a special on them - they have parachuting dogs who wear radios to get commands remotely- what?!- and were then immediately deflated by Obama's speech and Boehner's stupid, condescending response. Are we really going to go into default?

I thought Obama's speech was right on the mark re: the need, no MUST, of shared sacrifice, real change to entitlement spending and the tax code. Then, Tan Crying Man comes in to say he's tried his darndest to work with this president but he and his cronies are just not being heard. We gotta hurt the poor, take away from what remains of the middle class, screw the future but keep those tax cuts to the super-wealthy. NOW we need to trim government spending? Is that what Iraq was all about? Trimming superfluous accounted-for spending? Really?

We are an incensed pair over here and rather fearful too.

Whole grain pancakes, debt ceiling

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I've mentioned this recipe before, and really, it is so good. These are more like pansteaks due to their thickness, but the flavor is, nonetheless, excellent. I posted the recipe a while back but do want to make an extra n0te: you'll need to add more liquid than is called for. Obviously I didn't get quite there today. I'm looking forward to enjoying some of my tomatoes for lunch and Yotam's burned eggplant for our Meatless Monday dinner. I might also make his or Claudia Roden's middle eastern carrot salad with those fresh carrots I bought yesterday.

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On another subject completely, are the country's wing-nuts really not going to raise the debt ceiling? People, default would be disastrous. For peeps who keep harping on the last economic crisis and blaming the Dems for it (ridiculous- hello, Lehman, Bear, TARP were all under Bush, guys), do they really want to be held accountable for our country's credit rating plummeting?? Food for thought at 8:02am.