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Hot Spam Recipe!

SPAM IMPERIAL TORTILLA SANDWICHES


Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories :
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cn SPAM Luncheon Meat (12 oz)
1 pk Cream cheese, softened (8oz)
1/3 c Chopped green onion
2 tb Chopped fresh dill
3 Flour tortillas (8")
1 md Cucumber, peeled and thinly
-sliced
1/4 c Sunflower seeds
1/2 c Alfalfa sprouts

In bowl, combine SPAM and cream cheese. Stir in green onion and dill.
Spread 1/3 of SPAM mixture evenly over each tortilla. Top with 1/3
each cucumber, sunflower seeds, and alfalfa sprouts. Roll up tortilla
jelly roll fashion and wrap in plastic wrap. Repeat with remaining
tortillas. Refrigerate 2 hours. to serve, cut each roll in half.

McCain Advisor Blames Patients for Health Care Costs

From Huffpo:

Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."

Hubbard, former assistant to the president for economic policy, spoke at a Thursday event at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He blamed patients for driving up health care costs because insurance insulated them from the real costs of treatment.

He suggested that American consumers would run similarly amok in a world where employers provided "food insurance" instead of health insurance. "Pretty soon you would start buying caviar, the most expensive steak, and you would start buying more than you needed," he said.

Our Karl Rove: Obama's Energy Plan Lacking Energy

excerpt:

I fear that you are really missing a key opportunity to not just catapult your candidacy into a double-digit lead, but to show America that Democrats embody the brand of economic, ecological and foreign-policy leadership.

Click here for the entire posting.

We Came in Peace: July 20, 1969

ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama

excerpt:

ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. The next day, the Post ran an article headlined "Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions," which did not mention Obama's 8-point lead over McCain. Later that day, ABC News and the Post issued a second release with additional poll results that stated: "Obama continues to hold most of the advantages in the presidential race."

More here.

Pelosi Nails Bush on Golf Comment

From HuffPo:

News that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supports Barack Obama's troop withdrawal plan was hailed by Congress' top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, as evidence of deep flaws and inconsistencies in President Bush and John McCain's policies for Iraq.

"[Bush], McCain, and others have always talked about respecting the will of this sovereign government in Iraq," said the Speaker. "They have said that when it is secure on the ground we can leave, and they claim it is [secure]. So I think that with all the indications in terms of the will of the government and the security that they are claiming on the ground, it would follow that the time has come for us to go. It is long overdue."

In a wide-ranging interview with the Huffington Post, Pelosi threw sharp jabs at both the outgoing president and the presumptive Republican nominee. Asked whether Maliki's remarks - in which he explicitly favored Obama's approach to US-Iraq relations - had removed the philosophical basis for McCain's war policy, she responded: "I have never seen any basis for a policy to go into Iraq."

"It doesn't make any sense," she continued. "'Why aren't you happy that we have a secure situation on the ground,' they say. And yet we can't go home."

Pelosi also offered harsh words for the president's personal conduct. Asked for her reaction to Bush's declaration that he had given up golf out of respect for U.S. soldiers, the Speaker proclaimed herself at a loss for words.

"What can I say that hasn't been said? The very idea that the president would say that he has given up golf as associating himself with the efforts of our troops in Iraq, speaks so eloquently as to how in denial he is about their sacrifice," she said. "We have been in Iraq more than two years longer than when we were in WWII, So when the president says he is giving up golf, it is as frivolous a statement as his other statements about this war: we are going to be greeted with rose petals, it was rocket propelled grenades; the Iraqis are going to pay for this war or do so soon, and we are still paying the tab to the tune of trillions of dollars."

"Porno" Phil Gramm "Resigns" From McSame Campaign

Porno Phil is politely ushered out the door. Wonder if he did any whining?--Editor

excerpted from HuffPo:

Phil Gramm, a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is resigning from the role as campaign co-chairman after his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" who constantly complain about the state of the economy.

The former U.S. senator from Texas and past presidential candidate made the remarks earlier this month. McCain immediately distanced himself from the comments, but they have been criticized constantly as McCain tries to show he can help steer the country past its current financial troubles.

Gramm had also suggested that the country was facing a "mental recession" instead of real economic problems. Gramm said in a statement late Friday that he is stepping down as a co-chair of the campaign to "end this distraction."