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(3) Recipe for Lutefisk: Place fish on board, drain liquid; cover with bread, butter and spices. Throw out fish, eat board on bread.
Happy Heritage Day!
-- Sally Haney
Cary, Illinois
(Cary is right next to Fox River Grove, home of the Norge
ski-jump!)
Lawrence Henry replies:
Most Norwegians and proto-Norwegians agree about lutefisk. They
agree about it; they don't eat it. And when I suggested herring to
Bud, I said, "We'll put out a dish of it, nobody will eat it, and
then Daddy will take it home and eat it all." He would have none of
it, and in the event, spent two hours helping me cook lefse, which
turned out great. Probably just as well we didn't bring the
herring. Bud's friend at the next over desk was celebrating
Hungary, and had brought Hungarian sauerkraut. You can imagine how
many takers that had at 10:30 in the morning.
OPEN SOROS
Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder's The Sorry
Tale of George Soros:
Great article about Soros. I would, however, change the very
last word to jackass.
-- unsigned
All the money piled on Geo Soros' back makes him a dangerous,
meddling donkey. Well done, guys.
-- Gene Hauber
Meshoppen, Pennsylvania
FOX WARS
Re: Paul Beston's Garbage
Time:
I completely agree with the article about Fox News and other news networks being unwilling to discuss our fallen heroes. I noticed in Italy there was a large public mourning for that country's lost soldiers. Why can't the United States do anything like that? And why hasn't President Bush gone to any of the funerals? Maybe it is security issues, but it must be very hurtful to these military families. It seems doubly crass that they spend all their time covering Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. Frankly, at our house, it got so disgusting that we have not been watching it at all for weeks. It is just too depressing.
Thank you for the excellent article. It gave voice to what our
family was feeling.
-- Karen Barker
FINALLY, someone who writes with heart and integrity, and is not
afraid to call it as he sees it. Let's hear more from this
writer.
-- unsigned
While perusing one of my favorite website haunts (buzzflash.com) I came
across the article by Paul Beston about the garbage at Fox "news"
and have to comment on it. I find it quite amusing when one group
of right-wing fanatics picks on another bunch of right wing
fanatics. Beston's first mistake is the notion that FAUX is
actually a legitimate news organization, which is proven false by
simply watching it. Of course the biggest crime is not the daily
coverage of such things as Jackson, Peterson, Blake or other trendy
"real crimes." The most real crime, the one that Beston and FAUX
don't have the balls to cover, or even mention, is the crime that
Bush, the unelected frat boy fraud, election thief, liar, and
destroyer of this nation's economy committed against this nation,
by sending our troops to Iraq to die in the first place. Therein
lies the real crime against humanity, notwithstanding whether Scott
Peterson actually killed his wife or not. As for the "buffoonery"
or "verbal flatulence" of Sean Hannity, Beston doesn't go far
enough by failing to mention the fact that this is what talk radio
consists of today, and Hannity is a major practitioner of the art.
As for Beston, I presume that we must be constantly grieving for
the loss of over 2,500 soldiers, and I do grieve for the families
that have lost their brave sons and daughters so needlessly in
Bushwar. However, instead of the endless pompom and flag waving
that Beston wants, why not use the energy to get our troops out of
Iraq, so Beston will not need to be awake at night pondering how
they died in the first place, and focus the energy of who send them
there to die. At least Beston got one thing right: The media's
obsession with Jessica Lynch, who by her own accounts is no hero,
but sadly another victim of Bushwar ,and the PR machine of Rummy's
Pentagon, who desperately needed to put a human face on the
quagmire in Iraq.
-- Bill Sartori
Concord, New Hampshire
Mr. Beston might handle the disgrace of watching the "fiddling
while Rome burns" programming of Fox News (sic) as I do -- by
never, ever watching it. And by the way, someone may want to point
out to Mr. Beston that WOMEN and men are dying in Iraq.
-- Barbara Van Auken
Peoria, Illinois
Interesting article -- even more interesting is your assertion that
Jessica Lynch's story is one that no one can agree on. What about
Jessica's own version -- shouldn't that be the story?
-- Sandra Diesel
Albuquerque, New Mexico
GOING FOR BROOKS
Re: George Neumayr's Babbling
Brooks and Reader Mail's Why
Knot?:
Republicans should thank David Brooks for what he has done.
Tease the morally vacuous secularists with big tent allusions while
splitting the Democrat party into as many pieces as possible. The
"non-same-sex marriage" spit out by one of the Democrat
presidential candidates when referring to what has been
traditionally called marriage was I am sure extremely popular in
parts of Springfield, Missouri, but demonstrated the utter
foolishness of those who take money from homosexual lobbies while
pretending to be church goers to the general public. Maybe Dave
would write his next bit on the wonders of race reparations. This
would create even bigger mischief.
-- Clif Briner