Cooking Without Consequences

During the holidays you may have experienced (or may soon) a phenomenon that I've come to call "Cooking Without Consequences." This occurs when someone in your household, in a flight of holiday fancy, imagines they've been transformed into a Food Channel superstar, or Julia Child. In this fanciful state of mind, a new breed of cooking takes place in your otherwise modest kitchen. Small glass bowls with appropriately pre-measured ingredients are set out in preparation. Large bowls, small implements, and motorized assistants appear for brief appearances in the dance of cooking.

You may experience a soundtrack as well to cover the festive tinkling of glass and metal...which will add to the abandon the cook experiences as they create sugar plums and other delights. But after the gingerbread or apple or pecan wafts away...the curtain will fall, the dessert consumed, and the chef is spent. The camera cuts away for the evening and the spotlights fade...another episode to air another day. Some time passes. More time passes. Perhaps a day even. And when you ask the star about the state of the stage, you'll hear that they cooked! and cannot be expected to clear as well. And then you can take it fully in. The measure of baking creation...every particle of spilled sugar and flour...every single use bowl...every batter-beating paddle and sticky implement. For you see, there is no aftermath for the cook...only for the one who must clean it up.

It distills upon me that this life lesson is a metaphor for how our current liberal government currently runs the kitchen. There are no ingredient budgets, or planning, or recipes beyond the most vague generalities *DELICIOUS FOOD* And they are happy to invite their friends to the demonstration...because they secretly have the finished product in the oven already...this is all for show the sweat of your brow and the flour under your fingernails (looks like French tips!) And when they've had their fill of cake, demolished the kitchen and used up all the tools and implements...they're off to party elsewhere...while the responsible folks are going to be left with a big, big mess. Hold government accountable...and put them on a paper plate & macaroni diet.

How Minorities Rule America

How can 30 states have Republican governors while Democrats seem to be running the circus and the sideshows?

One of the successful strategies of the Left has been to build up a loud super-minority in places that the GOP has given up on...like California. The Left Coast has become a nasty brew pot of some of the most liberal flakes on the planet...and they will tell you that democracy is the best government...power to the people, right? But when they bring an obvious 'right' up for a vote, in home-turf California, and it doesn't get the approval of the majority, is that the end of it? The people have spoken, right? Wrong...especially if you can call the majority bigots or homophobes or racists or whatnot or white or rich or .... Take Prop 8 success in old CA? The majority spoke out and said the definition of marriage is one man & one woman. But the super-minority in the case see this is a simple nuisance, because they believe they deserve to take this right...this privilege away from the Have's. Because now they can march and get in the face of the Have's...and it's WAR. Where we have a real problem though is that this minority can then appeal their case to the left-leaning Supreme Court of the United States beyond their state. Now it seems to me that jurisdiction for a state proposition should die in the state if it cannot pass. SCOTUS should be in the picture only in the case of a dispute between states, or a dispute between the other two branches, or if a state law has been raised as unConstitutional by a suit. But this pack of penguins who failed to strangle ObamaCare in its cradle will be more than happy to weigh in on any other excuse to drive liberalism down our throats. And if they strike down Prop 8 as unConsitutional, they create a precedent. Now there was a time when that precedent meant jurists should consider how cases like this were decided...but now we live in Amerika. The Federal Government has told states that any Federal law trumps. So what is the point of having state law anyway? or local law? The federal government has taken on the role of kingdom...with SCOTUS its vizier. So, a liberal minority in California, or anywhere, can use the court system...take as long as necessary...spend as much as needed...and appeal decisions up the chain until they get the answer they want or a consolation prize... a federal law is established that all states, the majorities, the People must swallow. That's not democracy...that's not a republic. Perhaps we should take a page out of this book and note that sometimes you need to play the long game. The people of California didn't want gay marriage, but they're going to get it anyway...it would have been better to give away the inch before they took the mile. I fear for States' Rights. Our red Governors who refuse to implement the ObamaCare exchanges may bring the whole thing down by failing to fund it (finding out what's in it Nancy.) And oddly enough the passage of "pot's okay" laws by the states challenge the Federal government in a way that Lib overlords don't like...so expect them to move to a national policy in reaction to 'what the People want.' In the meantime, I'll hang out here in Malebolgia and work on strengthening local strictures to keep my area strong. Good luck out there. cross-posted at RedState.com http://www.redstate.com/butteredbiscuit/2012/11/17/how-minorities-rule-america/