Senin, 28 November 2011

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The Delivery Presents – The Perfect Post-Thanksgiving Repast

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 06:20 AM PST

The Republican candidates for President got together last week for the 13th in a series of what seems like 143, 964 debates before next year’s election. This debate dealt mostly with foreign policy matters. I’ll spare you the details, mostly because I don’t know the details. I didn’t actually watch the debate because, for reasons that must involve thwarting my efforts to build a podcast audience, it was on Tuesday night. Again. I was busy doing show prep for Episode 122.

As it happens, much of the prep I was doing was on foreign policy and its intersection with economic and energy policies, so take that GOP Presidential field! I have spent a little time thinking about how what we do with our own natural resources and how we rebuild our economy can be put to double service to achieve our foreign policy aims. I think there’s plenty of room for us to use our considerable economic power to make changes in how we deal with other countries and how they deal with us. I cover that all in the first half.

The second half I devote to one of my favorite subjects: food. Specifically, I talk Thanksgiving Day meals and the delicious things you can do with leftovers. I’m sure by now you’ve run through most of the options, but there is one — turkey soup — that you still have time to make before whatever you have left goes bad. So hurry up and listen, then hit the kitchen!

The Delivery - Episode 122

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A Horrible Day in the Blogosphere

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 05:10 AM PST

I’ve been around the blogosphere for coming up on eight years and I’ve gotten to know quite a few people in that time. One of the first people with whom I corresponded was James Joyner, who runs the Outside the Beltway blog. He is, like me, one of the old-timers — OtB started a bit more than a year before I started The Shack — and has given me some good advice and a few much-needed links when they were very hard to come by back in the day. I finally met him at CPAC three years ago and each year we renew our acquaintance. I do not know him well but I know that he is a hard-working and skilled writer and editor and a good man besides.

Yesterday morning, James’ wife Kimberly passed away in her sleep, from unknown causes. She was 41 years old. She was the mother of two lovely little girls (one 3 years old and the other 5 months old) and the darling of James’ heart. Please, when you say your prayers today, and for many days to come, remember James and his two little girls. I can not even begin to imagine how heavy the load on him must be right now but your prayers and good wishes would certainly be most welcome.

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