VRWC Briefing, 03/05/2008.
By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | Bad Satire | Spring of Pain — Comments (73) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Transmitted 03/03/2008.
Good job on Ohio, everyone! We're still calibrating the Texas results to ensure the maximum amount of confusion and heartbreak all around, but the centerpiece of last night went off without a hitch, and we should all take this moment to compliment our Freemason division for making sure that Ohio's results reflected our collective Will. We should also note the less less-flashy (but no less valuable) machinations of our Opus Dei division in securing Rhode Island; you guys always come through for us when we need you, and you don't get enough praise for that. Great work.
And let us again offer our sympathies for everybody who argued so passionately for flipping Vermont. Now that it's over, we can say this: we really wanted to, guys. We were pretty sure that we'd get at least three pundit aneurysms on national TV out of it. But we had to go with not being too obvious in our scheming. We're genuinely sorry, and we've decided to make it up to all of you by offering a lottery this election cycle: you folks vote on which state will be the Election Night Surprise, and we'll incorporate the winner somehow. Just don't make it California or Texas, OK? - Just kidding; pick whichever one you like.
Moving on, please review your outline of the Democratic nomination process. As planned, we will be now switching our focus to ensure that Senator Obama "wins" the Wyoming and Mississippi races; this should revive his supporters' hopes sufficiently to maximize Democratic primary voter disillusionment over Senator Clinton's "win" of Pennsylvania. This is the tricky part of the campaign, but we're certain that all of you will rise up to the challenge, even if we hadn't implanted explosive devices in your cerebral cortexes.
Cortexi?
At any rate, good job last night, but we've got more work ahead of us. Remember: every voter that we drive away now is one less vote that the Diebold machines have to change.
Five tons of flax,
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
PS: BINGO NIGHT IS RETURNING! Hey, if we had known that canceling it would have resulted in so many emails, calls, assassination attempts, and hijackings of the Orbital Mind Control Lasers, we'd have never have touched it in the first place.
Although I think that the online store is a bit tacky.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Some of the smarter Democrats had finally figured it out: The absence of any evidence whatsoever of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy was proof of just how powerful the conspiracy was.
Moe had to put out some evidence of our existence, in order to maintain some plausible deniability that we exist.
I thought the skullduggary of it all in the shadows was the most fun....it kept Hillary up at night waiting for that 03:00am call. If she becomes the candidate can we go back to the "shadows"?
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
from a Mossad HQ bunker in an undisguised location. You're not supposed to answer. The encrypted message is deciphered, transcribed and sent out via pdf to all policy makers in the US government, with a validation message & motivational video from Dick Cheney.
Must we of the VRWC explain EVERYTHING? God, even W understands this!
by trying to help the weaker candidate win. Nothing so humane from the VRWC, which is implementing a scorch and burn policy that focuses on the entire Democrat party losing.
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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
I can't think of a better revenge than to help her stay in the race.
Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.
I (was) with Fred!
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Is it really possible that 100,000 Republicans crossed over to vote for her? I didn't think so until this morning when I heard widespread reports (albeit anecdotal) of this phenomenon.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
Republicans in the dem primary was about 10%. If there were 2 million votes counted, 100,000 for her would only be 5%. So, I guess it is possible that Republicans may have given her the night. Who knows?
Through personal observation over 12 hours at a certain polling place, I overheard people saying they were voting Dem for the first time and then cited various reasons such as voting 'against' someone, voting to ensure someone else's victory, etc. I estimate that of the few hundred voters I saw, no less than 5% and perhaps as high as 15% in the Dem line were Rs crossing over for a single purpose.
So yes, it is not only possible, it is likely.
Congratulations, Agent Moe. You have ably taken up the challenge and even surpassed the greatest collective effort of our recent past, Operation CBS Freedom Zone.
Of course, now that your status as a double agent has been disclosed through an act of your own irresponsible grandstanding and public boastfulness, your nanosuit exoskeleton has been programmed to vaporize at the time of our choosing. We thank you for your years of faithful service. Goodbye!
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When is spaghetti night coming back?
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
Something about Leviticus 11:10-12.
They explained, at length, that they had no problem with people eating shellfish in the privacy of their own homes, but they fought tooth and nail to keep the leadership from condoning the act in public where The Children could see it.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
I suppose this would be a bad time to discuss a shrimp cook off at our annual leadership meeting in the Bohemian Grove?
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
Of course, the Libertarians were cool with pretty much everything that anyone brought up. Even the stuff that people said "What could we come up with that we could get them to say 'absolutely not!'?"
The worst answer they got was a hedge that said "well, while I may not participate, if that's what you want to do and nobody is getting hurt, it's none of my business."
The one main exception was during an aside in the meeting where someone pointed out that coffee was low and someone should pick up more and some poor sod said that he could pick up some Maxwell House on the way home and the Libertarians started screaming about how "evil" Maxwell House was and if you just wanted to drink swill why would you force that on everybody else and even Chock Full Of Nuts was better than that and why couldn't we just take up a collection for even some of the "grind it yourself" stuff from the so-called "gourmet coffee aisle" at the Piggly Wiggly and everyone just sat there in stunned silence until the rant ended.
This is the main theory behind why the Libertarians stopped being told where the meetings were.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.Let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."-Barry Goldwater
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.
Very nice people - my wife's one, in fact - but God help you if you mess with their coffee.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
If you spend enough time saying "that's not a matter of morality, that's a matter of taste" for pretty much everything, you eventually find yourself with a matter of taste that means enough to you that you're willing to blow your cool defending it.
Though, honestly, life is too short to drink bad anything.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
The greatest single cause of Atheism today is Christians who profess Jesus with their lips & then go and deny him by their lifestyle. That's what an unbelieving world simply finds..unbelievable -Brennan Manning
Raised on Maxwell House from age 7. Grandmother beamed when I had my first cup (she was an addict). Folgers too in my 20s and 30s. Moved to Atlanta and discovered Starbucks and Dunkin donuts and the whole chic impress people crap.
For a year, my sig line here advised on how dangerous to one's family jewels are the venti cups. Venti? please, and the coffee is not great and is an acquired taste.
Back to Maxwell House
also like that choc full o nuts
more later
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
But if you aren't going to school in Hoboken in a cup is a good substitute.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
called Louisianne or something like that? It was coffee and chicory like the stuff popular in New Orleans. My family swore by that vile stuff. I swear, I don't think old time Southerners ever got over the coffee scarcity during the Civil War and all the stuff they drank as a substitute. Same with thin cornbread hocakes originally made by cooking your cornmeal ration on half of a liberated Yankee tin canteen. Actually, I like those, but my wife, albeit a good cook, can't make them to save her life. I've tried my hand at making them soldier style on a canteen half at reenactments - it ain't easy!
In Vino Veritas
DuMond in 'Nawlins
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
drink it at Cafe du Monde; spent some nice hours there watching the visions of lovliness stroll by. I think that may be where the phrase "You gotta love God for making something like that" was coined. Either there or that little park down near Five Points in Atlanta at lunchtime on a fine spring day.
In Vino Veritas
Maxwell House is just fine, as is Folgers. Fancy-dan brands are overrated, as a rule.
The keys to good coffee are 1) keep it sealed in the freezer 2) don't make it too strong, or worse, too weak 3) filtered or otherwise unchlorinated water
Grinding your own beans is actually not as important as choice of brand/bean and keeping it frozen. Strength is the most important part. While I sometimes like it strong enough to eat with a fork, most of the time the flavor gets ruined by being too strong, like Starbucks' burnt crap, or too weak, as my dear wife likes.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
I've become very fond of Costco's Kirkland brand Columbian, good stout coffee. And I like it strong enough to stand the spoon up in too. Just got a Cuisinart drip machine that has little replaceable charcoal filters in the water system to take the chlorine out - like that.
In Vino Veritas
And the type of bean.
If you really enjoy coffee and can part with coin Kona is the best coffee you will have. Preferably less than two weeks from the roaster and fresh ground. Jamaica blue mountain is good but overrated and way overpriced.
If your addiction love to coffee doesn't reach those levels you can still do very well by picking a mountain grown coffee from good bean lines. Summatran is a personal favorite, Kenyan is also exceptional in a dark roast.
The other big thing that is important is how you take your beans to glorious nectar. A drip brewer is surprisingly effective, but for sheer strength of flavor a good espresso machine can't be beat, Cuban coffee is a special treat if you haven't had it. I'd recommend staying away from an Ibrik it takes too much time and produces a product that needs much sugar.
If you're interested in coffee type drinks you can try cold process coffee. This process produces a coffee extract that can be used to make a quick cup or add flavor in cooking. (I used it to make a coffee beer). High end beens aren't advised as the flavor notes get muted.
Above all else HAVE GOOD COFFEE
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
One of the great joys of my life is that first cup or two of early morning coffee when we're out on the boat. The Admiral doesn't do morning well, so I'm usually up by myself for quite a while.
Between May and September we try to spend as much time as we can out and about in Southeast Alaska. We just anchor where ever we find ourselves and spend what passes for night here in summer just swinging on the hook. The generator would wake the Admiral - you don't want to do that - so I just fire up the alcohol stove and boil some water. Sometimes I have the Breakfast Blend made by a local roaster, usually I have the aforementioned Kirkland Columbian. I use a coffee press to make it and make it stronger 'n Hell. Pour a cup, go sit out back on the gunwale and watch the morning; it don't get much better.
In Vino Veritas
MY Admiral is putting together a trip to Alaska for next year.
When traveling we put together our own itinerary (we don't do groups very well) as the 'Net facilitates this.
Right now she has a Bluegrass musician's camp/workshop under consideration and has some ideas about hiking trails.
The dollar exchange rate is a killer overseas, so it makes sense to travel in the US.
there in June. Did a few days at Denali and a weekend at Seward. Hung out with friends in ANC in between.
Save your pennies though. It is quite expensive, though not nearly as bad as Europe.
a few times and enjoyed it a lot.
After reading some of your recent posts, I'm guessing your AO to be Italy?
Yes, we are pretty good about saving for trips. But, we also don't mind backpacking w/tent and using public transportation.
In Alaska we will most likely have to rent transportation. Don't know yet.
Italy is a wonderful place, especially the Alps. The standard of living there is not nearly as high as Germany though.
IMO, in some ways the further south you go in Italy, the more third world-ish it becomes.
We are heading there (Genoa)the first week of April to embark on a western Med. cruise. After the dreary winter we have had, I am ready for blinding sunshine. :>)
like the Italian Alps.
My wife's sister is married to a German who hang glides for a hobby. We have traveled with them to Italy twice in their caravan. They know all of the out of the way places in Austria and Italy.
Our first trip through the Alps took us through Grosglockner Pass - a neat place.
One of our favorite places (been there twice)in N. Italy is a place called Bassano del Grappa. You are correct about how Italy changes as you travel south. The furthest south I have traveled is to Lago Bolsena - about 50 miles from Rome.
give us a call; we're not hard to find. If we don't answer the phone or email, Chances Are on the VHF will probably get us.
In Vino Veritas
We just might take you up on it.
If you don't mind, as next year gets closer and we have more solid plans, I'll contact you with some questions about your state.
go camping in Denali. What an incredible place. We did it via RV just outside the park but can not wait to go back and stay in the park. You have to reserve pretty far out though, so keep that in mind.
Seward is also worth seeing.
And if we ever find ourselves living on the left coast again, I am going to take the ferry from Seattle to Ketchikan. I have been told it is an incredible journey.
Just flip me an email through this site and we can go from there. If money is an object, come early or late; late April through May or late-August through September. April - May can be cold by some people's standards, but are usually drier than Aug-Sep. Understand, Alaska is only sometimes like those pictures; it rains a LOT in coastal Alaska. You might catch a couple of days or a couple of weeks of beautiful blue skies and temps in the seventies and eighties or you might not see the sun for weeks. 55 degrees and raining - hard - is not an uncommon summer day anywhere on the coast.
In summer, Alaska is crowded and expensive except where it empty and exhorbitant. The true "wilderness experience" that you hear so much about is reserved to State and federal employees and the very well off. I've been from Ketchikan to Barrow and from the Canadian Border to the Bering Sea and most places in between, but I did most of it on a GTR. There are NO roads in Southeast Alaska - Ketchikan to Haines - Skagway, so all travel is by air, ferry, or cruise ship. Only about a quarter of the State is at all accessible by road - roughly a rectangle bounded on the north by the Alaska Highway from the border to Fairbanks, on the west by the Parks Highway from Fairbanks to Anchorage, the Seward Highway to the south and east to the coast at Seward and on the east by the Glenn and Richardson Highways from Valdez back north to the Alaska Highway. Now that is an area larger than most states, but most of western and Arctic Alaska is accessible only by air - and money. Last time I went, a flight from Juneau to Barrow was about $1500.
Just to give you an idea of how big Alaska is: by B737, it is about two hours from Seattle to Ketchikan, an hour from KTN to Juneau, an hour and a half from JNU to Anchorage, an hour from ANC to Fairbanks, and almost two hours from FAI to Barrow. Bethel the hub of Southwest Alaska is about an hour from ANC. Nome or Kotzebue the major towns in Northwest Alaska are about an hour and a half from ANC. That's about it for anyplace you can get to by jet, anyplace else is by small plane except for a few southeast and coastal towns in southeast or on the Gulf of Alaska coast that are on the main SEA to ANC route and get jet service. The major lower 48 airlines only serve ANC and sometimes FAI, anything else is served only by Alaska Airlines and their fares reflect that fact.
Get a copy of the Alaska Milepost (Amazon will have it) and decide where you want to go. As an independent traveler, you pretty much have to choose between Southeast Alaska or the road system area of Southcentral Alaska; it takes a lot of time and money to do both, though some cruises will take you through SE to ANC and then give you some independent time in Southcentral.
In Vino Veritas
I just ordered a 2008 copy of Alaska Milepost from Amazon.
We usually do our traveling in late August or September to take advantage of off season rates, etc. So thanks for that tip.
Thanks for the weather tips also, as weather is always a primary consideration.
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
You're saying that to someone who, moments ago, said "Maxwell House is just fine, as is Folgers."
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I'm far too much of a cheapskate to blow $20 on a bag of roasted beans.
Ever try Folger's beans? If not, get your nose out of the air before your neck gets stuck that way.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Good Coffee is like WD40 for the Brain.
The greatest single cause of Atheism today is Christians who profess Jesus with their lips & then go and deny him by their lifestyle. That's what an unbelieving world simply finds..unbelievable -Brennan Manning
Our little skull of mush VRWC operative used to roll out of bed and ask for a cup of coffee and a graham cracker. Now she's 11 and just to the right of Genghis Khan. Homeschooling is a beautiful thing.
"Be intolerant. Because some things are just stupid"
- Ryan Dobson
Do I take it we hope to deviously arrange for British Lefties to assist again in by writing those condescending letters that backfired so well?
We should also note the less less-flashy (but no less valuable) machinations of our Opus Dei division in securing Rhode Island; you guys always come through for us when we need you, and you don't get enough praise for that.
It's good to get some appreciation up here. And let me assure you, we did stay busy in Vermont suppressing Ron Paul's votes. As in every primary, he actually received 80% of the vote, so it took a lot of ballot burning to get him down to 7%.
No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life - John McCain
For the record, I'd like to complain about getting stuck with burning the plastic cards, AGAIN.
Why is it that I can't burn the PAPER votes for Ron Paul.
My entire closet smells like burnt plastic.
... here in California we just dragged them out to the Mojave, pilled them up, and called in an air strike. Then we told the media it was a live-fire exercise.
"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!
Don't forget the monthly check to Special Agent Bill. And the stogies. He gets mad when you forget the stogies. He remains one of our most valuable assets. I'd hate to have his cover blown like what happened to Agent Joe up in Connecticut.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
So that's what they call it now. It is hard to keep up with the changes sometimes.The greatest single cause of Atheism today is Christians who profess Jesus with their lips & then go and deny him by their lifestyle. That's what an unbelieving world simply finds..unbelievable -Brennan Manning
Dammit Moe, this happens every time you're passing out kudos. The Trilateral Commission never gets any credit, this time for fabricating the the NAFTA wink-wink scandal.
Maybe you figured you had it covered when you mentioned the Freemasons, since a lot of the Trilateral leadership is Freemasons. But we're too diverse a group at the Trilateral Commission to paint with a broad brush. NONE of our guys who busted their butts creating the Canadian memos in the Document Forgery Department are Freemasons, and they really felt slighted that you didn't think we were worth mentioning.
Not trying to make a big deal about this, just keep us in mind next time. And I can't really get mad at you after hearing Bingo Night is coming back.
...but make sure that all your people are wearing something nice at this year's Lammas Night spaghetti supper, OK?
Can't say anything more, really.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
... but I see I need to put out the word, do some shopping in preparation for unnamed contingencies.
I'm sorry to be so late. Lucianne said we were meeting at Free Republic this month. My bad.
So, have we decided who's gonna replace the Big Guy (code name: Blackford Oakes)?
He left instructions for us for the next 250 years. Don't you subscribe? How else can we begin work toward his return?
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
The idea of conducting the conspiracy in the open this year is brilliant.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777