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This week, the finer points of cast iron skillets, Yorkshire pudding, and oh, yes, the burgeoning French revolution, courtesy of Claire Berlinski in Paris, the state of Brexit with Toby Young in London, and the demise of the Weekly Standard in Washington D.C. with our hosts, who have been reading it from day one.
Music from this week’s podcast: Murder By Numbers by The Police
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Sorry, but even allowing for some headline writers’ license, “the world” isn’t in flames. A small portion of one city is.
Look at comment #23
The Guardian is a leftist publication, so expect a good deal of equivocation in the article as a whole; but here is a useful extract:
“France is the only country in Europe where Jews are periodically murdered for being Jewish. No fewer than 12 Jews have been killed in France in six separate incidents since 2003: Sébastien Selam, Ilan Halimi, Jonathan Sandler, Gabriel Sandler, Aryeh Sandler, Myriam Monsonégo, Yohan Cohen, Philippe Braham, François-Michel Saada, Yoav Hattab, Lucie Attal and Mireille Knoll.
“In each of these cases, at least one of the perpetrators was from what the French call minorités visibles, or ‘visible minorities’, which typically refers to those of north African or west African descent; in most cases, the perpetrators have been linked with some form of extremist Islam. In nearly every case, the victims have been either identifiably Jewish or personal acquaintances of the perpetrator.”
Maybe I missed something, but didn’t she relocate to Europe in the past few years? If that’s the case she had plenty of time to learn all too much about Hillary, and to have known better than to vote for Hillary for ANY office. Not even Dog Catcher. Maybe Dog VOMIT Catcher.
She lived in Turkey for many years before moving to Paris.
That raises another interesting point. If someone can’t be bothered to live here, for maybe 20 years or more, and so doesn’t really know what’s going on, maybe they give up voting rights until they return. It’s not the same as military people for example, being stationed overseas, maybe for a couple years or even several years. But ex-pats who voluntarily live elsewhere for decades, how can they possibly know enough about what’s going on for their votes to be informed? Lord knows there are plenty of people who LIVE HERE who were foolish enough to vote for Hillary. Why add the willfully ignorant too, those who voluntarily removed themselves from any exposure to and hence direct knowledge of the Loony Left here?
I doubt that there’s any constitutional right to absentee voting for decades from other parts of the world. Those issues seem to be handled by state legislatures. And don’t voters even just for federal puposes have to be residents of A State to vote anyway? What State does Claire Berlinski claim residency in, after being out of the country for years/decades?
Why should Claire Berlinski get voting rights from foreign countries, that residents of DC don’t have?
Would you feel the same way if she voted for Trump?
Actually, yes.
Agreed. It’s a big planet.
Everyone calm down: it was a play on the skillets part of the hed.
Ah. You were being subtle. Sorry I didn’t pick up on it, BY; I don’t do subtle well.
Plus Rob did say, early on, “The world is burning.”
So it’s actually Rob’s fault.
P.S. Michael Cohen didn’t “go to the big house” for 3 years. He isn’t scheduled to actually report until March 6. And things could happen before then.
Great to hear that song, @blueyeti . Sting, Summers, and Copeland are all delivering excellence here.
But there’s also the version Mr. Sting did with Frank Zappa, incorporating Oliver Nelson’s Stolen Moments:
The urge to disenfranchise is strong in this one!
In this age of instant global communications, it is not clear to me how a voter living in Oregon or Hawaii is any better able to know what’s going on in DC than a voter living in Paris. Besides, not everyone is as interested in national politics (and typos) as you are. It can be argued, and there is plenty of behavioral evidence, that it is irrational to spend too much time considering the fine details of all the many political issues. One doesn’t have to completely understand climate science and economics to have a position on energy taxes.
As for residency, the Supreme Court has struck down one-year residency requirements to vote (while supporting more reasonable requirements, such as 30 days residency) because they violate the equal protection clause.
Remember that while the government may require us to maintain a residence for voting, taxes, and other purposes, they can’t actually make us live there. Most local governments are fine with that as long as they get to claim one more resident, maybe squeeze some taxes out of him, and use him to generate some periodic revenue at the DMV.
THANK YOU for down-to-earthing cooking with cast iron. From many pieces of cast iron in the kitchen, Dutch Ovens for outdoor cooking, to cast iron’s best cousin the carbon steel pan, it’s simple and amazing and gets more simple and more amazing as time goes on.
Why people insist on making this complex or filled with pan seasoning mystiques has always escaped me. Buy them and start cooking with them and sit back and watch your grandkids fight over them.
My argument would be that people who don’t actually live in the US, have disenfranchised themselves, voluntarily. (Other than military stationed overseas, whose families would still likely have a US residence, etc.)
Is there any evidence that Claire Berlinski has ever lived in the US for 30 days before any election that she voted in?
Okay, but where is Claire Berlinski’s US residence that she hasn’t actually lived at for decades? My guess is that she hasn’t “contributed” any funding to any US DMV in years either.
I wonder if any voter-roll confirmation postcard was ever sent to her supposed US residence, and if it was returned undeliverable. That’s the kind of thing that stands out as an indication of voter fraud. Undeliverable confirmations, non-existent addresses, residence addresses that turn out to be factories or condemned buildings…
For Yorkshire puddings with the right amount of ‘sink and bounce’, spoon off the fat from the skillet and pour it into a 12-hole muffin tin. You can top up with bits of beef fat from the roast, ghee, duck fat or peanut oil if not enough fat has come off the roast into the skillet. Use a pastry brush or a tissue to smear the base and sides of each hole and put the tin into the oven (turn it up high) to heat up for a couple of minutes.
The batter can then be poured in to each muffin hole and baked at a high temperature for 10 – 15 minutes (keep an eye on them to ensure that they do not burn – but don’t open the oven door until they are ready or they will deflate).
Add half a bottle of wine (or 1/4 bottle port) and the same again of beef stock to the remaining meat juices (and any caramelised onion) in the skillet and boil on the stove until syrupy for the perfect gravy to accompany the roast meat. This has the added advantage of deglazing the skillet, making it easier to clean.