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White House in damage control mode as potential scandals pile up [W:378]

Can you get a nice crisp brown edge on your burgers?

Not yet, darn it! :lamo: Roasts, all casseroles and soups, including chili, baked chicken, and all cooked veggies are delicious! Bacon is good, but scrambled eggs are tricky. I'm still working on those. It's like a slow cooker without electricity! Of course the sun has to be shining for them to work, so I guess when it rains, no cooked food! At least for now, my gas stove in the kitchen is operable. :thumbs:

BTW, Hillary was giving solar cookers by the thousands to third world countries a while back, so they didn't have to use scarce wood for cooking fires. That was a good move!
 
Is it hard to control the temperature on one of those things? Can you get it up to 400 degrees?

400 degrees is about as high as I've gotten, which is why I'm having problems with biscuits. Pies and cakes are not a problem, though. One drawback is that as the sun moves, I need to make sure the solar cookers are repositioned. My brother is working on figuring out how to have a solar-operated mechanism turn the cookers as necessary, but he hasn't accomplished it yet. He will, though. He's stubborn. :shock: The beauty is that, like a slow cooker, you can put your meals on to cook in the morning, and forget about them till dinner time. I don't think it's possible to burn anything, as long as you have a little liquid in the cooker. Rice and noodles are superb! I haven't tried oatmeal, so maybe that will be my next experiment. :cool:
 
400 degrees is about as high as I've gotten, which is why I'm having problems with biscuits. Pies and cakes are not a problem, though. One drawback is that as the sun moves, I need to make sure the solar cookers are repositioned. My brother is working on figuring out how to have a solar-operated mechanism turn the cookers as necessary, but he hasn't accomplished it yet. He will, though. He's stubborn. :shock: The beauty is that, like a slow cooker, you can put your meals on to cook in the morning, and forget about them till dinner time. I don't think it's possible to burn anything, as long as you have a little liquid in the cooker. Rice and noodles are superb! I haven't tried oatmeal, so maybe that will be my next experiment. :cool:

Good evening, Polgara.:2wave:
Looking back at this thread, might I suggest the purchase of a home generator?:mrgreen:
 
Good evening, Polgara.:2wave:
Looking back at this thread, might I suggest the purchase of a home generator?:mrgreen:

Looking into that. :thanks.

Goo evening, Jack. :2wave:
 
YOU KNOW its bad when David Cay Johnson calls you a dictator:

“All governments leak when they want to,” Johnston says. “The actions of the administration in this case are the actions of a dictatorship. They are not the actions of a free people whose government is responsible to them.”
David Cay Johnston calls the DOJ
 
Good evening, JC! :2wave:

After that "wake-up" call, I bought two solar ovens, and I have practiced using them a lot over the years. Believe it or not, food actually tastes better, and there is little shrinkage with food cooked that way. I haven't experimented with baking biscuits yet, but bread does fine. If I have to cook everything that way, at least I know how. Maybe "early to bed, early to rise" would become the way we live? :shock:

Interesting...some of us old timers are quite adept at baking in a Dutch oven. 425-450 for GOLDEN biscuits is no problem...;)
 
Benghazi Investigation Deepens: Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved | The Weekly Standard

As the investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with thirteen top State Department officials in the coming weeks in order to learn more. Those named in the letter include a wide range of current and former State Department personnel, from senior advisers to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to mid-level career officials with responsibility for diplomatic security.

Among those officials: Jacob Sullivan, then deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning (and currently national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden); Victoria Nuland, then State Department spokesman; Raymond Maxwell, deputy assistant secretary of state for near east affairs; Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management; and Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security.

depositions will focus on questions about security at the consulate before the attack, the lack of any military response during the 8 hours of violence, and the crafting and carrying forth of the white house narrative in the days, weeks and months since

sullivan was deeply involved, emails show, in the editing of the talking points, nuland will be pressed about the political animus she so eagerly acted on

what exactly was hrc's role in the writing of the talking points, just who is ms nuland referring to when she complains on behalf of her "building leadership?"

patrick kennedy issued the stand down order to fest

who failed to convene the gsc?

why were maxwell and hicks denied access to the arb, why was hrc never questioned, why was mark thompson excluded?

pickering was subpoenaed last week

Thomas Pickering, Benghazi probe co-chair, subpoenaed by House panel - CBS News

the white house dispatched last weekend a half dozen staffers to whisper to cbs' sharyl attkisson on background (ie, off the record) that there was no coverup, just an abundance of stupidity

White House officials on Benghazi: We're the idiots - CBS News

particular points of puerility, acknowledges this abashed administration, are the precise nonperformances of fest and the gsc which evil issa is plumbing

stay tuned
 
But that's a mechanical failure. It would be easier for them to launch attacks on infrastructure rather than using an EMP. You could fund a lot of sleeper cells for the price of a single nuclear device.

It would take a lot of sleeper cells to take the Northeast and parts of the Midwest off line. A flawed bit of software in an alarm system in one location did just that in 2003. 45 million saw their communities go dark.

The blackout's primary cause was a software bug in the alarm system at a control room of the FirstEnergy Corporation in Ohio. Operators were unaware of the need to re-distribute power after overloaded transmission lines hit unpruned foliage. What would have been a manageable local blackout cascaded into widespread distress on the electric grid.


Hard to ignore. Dozens of people keeping cover over extended periods of time, or one small group, and the right tool in the right place. Not rooting for one or the other, but the threat is real.
 
#1. Romney was derailed by his own stupidity.

I agree, only in the aspect of not recognizing the dishonesty, and underhandedness of the corrupt, criminal progressives he was up against.

The GOP will continue to lose presidential elections until it changes course and finds someone who can attract broad national support.

More of the old saw from the left that continues to say that conservatives must give up their principles to win...I don't buy it.

#2. My head is not in the sand.

uh huh....

#3. Europe is in no danger of collapse.

Refer to quote, and response #2

#4. I am enjoying my life.

So what.....?

Have a nice day.

You too.
 
So you have surveyed everyone outside of Fox News? You make a wild claim and cannot back it up. You obviously have no understanding of what socialism is but certainly have a loyalty to a politician who does. No American politician would ever tell the American people, other than Bernie Sanders, that he is a socialist but his actions reek of socialism. I suggest you look at what he has proposed and tell me what isn't socialistic about those programs, everything revolves around the large central govt.
The bias which makes you choose that screen name has blinded you to reality. Obama is about as socialist as Lloyd freaking Blankfein. You're either extremely biased or not very astute.

Why It's Dumb to Call Obama a Socialist - BusinessWeek
Two years later, the economy is growing again, albeit slowly and fitfully. In an election campaign supposed to be a referendum on Barack Obama’s first term, it would be useful to debate the efficacy of his actions to stop the crisis and heal the economy. But that’s not the debate that’s taking place out on the trail, at least not in any rational sense. Calling the president a socialist may, regrettably, yield some benefit in the GOP primary. But it’s impossible to claim that Obama is both a socialist and also a pawn of Wall Street — and by opting for the former, Republicans have probably chosen the weaker line of attack.
 
It would take a lot of sleeper cells to take the Northeast and parts of the Midwest off line. A flawed bit of software in an alarm system in one location did just that in 2003. 45 million saw their communities go dark.

The blackout's primary cause was a software bug in the alarm system at a control room of the FirstEnergy Corporation in Ohio. Operators were unaware of the need to re-distribute power after overloaded transmission lines hit unpruned foliage. What would have been a manageable local blackout cascaded into widespread distress on the electric grid.


Hard to ignore. Dozens of people keeping cover over extended periods of time, or one small group, and the right tool in the right place. Not rooting for one or the other, but the threat is real.

Good morning, ocean. :2wave:

Shortly after that outage in 2003, the electric utilities began an aggressive tree pruning program in our area. The homeowner had no say if the limbs and foliage of their trees were anywhere near the lines. In most cases, the pruning did look good, but in others it looked as if they just started at some arbitrary point on the tree and chainsawed top to bottom, no exceptions. It looked like the trees had been given the equivalent of a military haircut, but only on the part of the tree facing the street. Ghastly looking! Maybe the crews were running behind time, and had to do something quickly, and I don't know what the utilities had to pay to settle lawsuits, but people were outraged, because a lot of the trees died :shock:
 
400 degrees is about as high as I've gotten, which is why I'm having
problems with biscuits. Pies and cakes are not a problem, though. One drawback is that as the sun moves, I need to make sure the solar cookers are repositioned. My brother is working on figuring out how to have a solar-operated mechanism turn the cookers as necessary, but he hasn't accomplished it yet. He will, though. He's stubborn. :shock: The beauty is that, like a slow cooker, you can put your meals on to cook in the morning, and forget about them till dinner time. I don't think it's possible to burn anything, as long as you have a little liquid in the cooker. Rice and noodles are superb! I haven't tried oatmeal, so maybe that will be my next experiment. :cool:

Hi Pol

Sounds like he needs to mount the oven on a articulating pedestal that would rotate the oven based on the oven's temperature setpoint.

A small DC stepper motor that takes in a 4-20 Milli-amp or 2-10 vdc input from a small programable controller with a open source code so adjustments could be made would do the trick.

A thermostat or thermistor would be the input into the controller with the 4-20 milli-amp out put signal controlling the dc stepper motor.

Sounds like fun actually.

It also sounds technical but it's just a basic control loop and allot of the electronic parts outlets carry small controllers, motors and parts needed for little inventions like that.

If he's even moderately inclined tecnically he could figure it out.

Vellemen makes some small open source controllers and the rest of the parts can be purchased at a hobby shop or electronics parts store.
 
Rich Lowry asks the $1,000,000 question: If where the Commander in Chief was on the night of the Benghazi attacks is "irrelevant", as Dan Pfeifer claims, then why are they keeping it secret?

The Mystery Night
 
Rich Lowry asks the $1,000,000 question: If where the Commander in Chief was on the night of the Benghazi attacks is "irrelevant", as Dan Pfeifer claims, then why are they keeping it secret?

The Mystery Night
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Hillary was taking the call.
 
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Hillary was taking the call.

I would love to play Obama one on one.

His basketball prowess has been highly over-rated.

Look how high his dribble is. He wouldn't have that Basketball for long if he dribbled up to his shoulders standing straight up playing aganist me.
 
same place as yours during the Bush administration
 
is that because you're really short and you'd knock the ball away with your head?
 
just think where they would be if Bush had served a third term or if Mittens had won (they rejected Mittens for a reason) ... it's all relative my friend ... and, sure, the Dems have cornered the market on corruption ... LOL ... they're all pretty much the same, it's just that the Dems aren't waging wars against women, gays, blacks, Latinos, immigrants, the poor, the 47% ...
 
at least it ain't Iran-Contra or making up stuff to go into Iraq (and the hundreds of thousands of lives that that cost) ... I don't recall much outrage from the right for either ... enough with the hypocrisy kids ... this will get sorted out eventually, and my guess is that it will be a tempest in a teapot ... but if it's more and someone broke the law, they should be prosecuted (but more vigorously than Issa was for stealing cars and his gun possession violation) ...
 
at least it ain't Iran-Contra or making
up stuff to go into Iraq (and the hundreds of thousands of lives that that cost) ... I don't recall much outrage from the right for either ... enough with the hypocrisy kids ... this will get sorted out eventually, and my guess is that it will be a tempest in a teapot ... but if it's more and someone broke the law, they should be prosecuted (but more vigorously than Issa was for stealing cars and his gun possession violation) ...

Bull sh**, do I need to post the multiple Democrat quotes from 1998 that prove they knew Saddam Hassain had WMD 's ? Look, the " Bush lied people died " naraative has been thoroughly debunked here at DP .


And Iran-Contra ? LOL !!! Are you serious ?

WTF do you think Benghazzi was truely about ? Arming the Rebels of Syria.

You know those guys right ? The guy that butchered the British soldier was handing out pamplets urging support for the Syrian Rebels a day or two before he slaughtered a innocent man.

Obama shares his concern over those rebels.

As far as the IRS's criminal activity NOTHING from any other President has come close. The violation of American Civil Rights and the suppressing of a counter ideology using the IRS is right up the alley of the crooks you folks elected, and the investigations aren't going anywhere.
 
just think where they would be if
Bush had served a third term or if Mittens had won (they rejected Mittens for a reason) ... it's all relative my friend ... and, sure, the Dems have cornered the market on corruption ... LOL ... they're all pretty much the same, it's just that the Dems aren't waging wars against women, gays, blacks, Latinos, immigrants, the poor, the 47% ...

The IRS targeted Latino Conservative groups and unemoyment for blackd and Latinos under Obama has skyrocketed.

Try again.
 
is that because you're really short and you'd knock the ball away with
your head?

Who are you talking too ?

Don't te me your so limited you can't even figure out how to quote someone on a internet forum.
 
Who are you talking too ?

Don't te me your so limited you can't even figure out how to quote someone on a internet forum.

Actually, it's an intelligence test ... see if the person can figure it out ... you passed ...
 
Who are you talking too ?

Don't te me your so limited you can't even figure out how to quote someone on a internet forum.

this is two times in a row that I did it .. impressed? thank you very much ..
 
The IRS targeted Latino Conservative groups and unemoyment for blackd and Latinos under Obama has skyrocketed.

Try again.


don't need to ... my guy won in November ... I believe it's you who has to try again ...
 
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