Cindy McCain Cleared of Cookie Copying!

Congratulations on your crack investigative journalism, Tommy. Very Bob Woodward of you.

Ya know, Carol Paul has never been accused of copying a recipe. I'm just sayin'...

Was totally in agreement with such silliness of stealing a recipe - SO WHAT ! But please sir, could you be a little more respectable with your language. No need include vulgarity toward the end of your article.
Recently was sent an email describing how a lady and her daughter were lunching at Nieman Marcus, asked for cookies for dessert, enjoyed so asked for recipe. Was told by waitress it wasn't allowed but it could be brought for two fifty so the customer said ok. Her charge receipt showed the price of $250.00 for the recipe. This lady has emailed this cookie Chocolate Chip recipe to friends,etc and suggested it be forwarded to as many as possible as revenge. As the saying goes, "Hell has no fury as a woman scorned"
Hopefully voters will be wiser than the Huffington Website and vote for the right reason.

Barack Obama reeks of old style politics. I understand he has a web site designed to stop the alleged rumors being spread about him. How does he propose to stop what is so painfully obvious; his lack of experience and judgment?

OMG..I forgot, he's got George Soros, the stooges at CNN, MSNBC, Move On, the DNC and all 10,000 “pinko” press agents covering up all his flip flops. If the Media succeeds in having Obama elected, it will be their second hostile take over of an American Presidential Election, the more recent being achieved by Fox News, the Evangelical Right and Rush Limbaugh for George W. Bush. Is there no one left in the country who doesn’t think in one extreme or another? Oooops! That would have been Hillary Clinton. Too bad, America you lost again.

Now, everyone repeat after me; say Good-bye to the Power of the People and Hello to the Opium of the Mass Media.

Funny take on this "story". LOL. Thanks for clearing this up; now I'll be able to sleep better at night. I can attest to your culinary skills (and your rub), but have to say that they ought to be remarkable after spending countless hours gazing at the (babes on the) Food Network (Next FN Star). I still rule at ethnic cuisine, seafood and baking. Hmmm....a Weiner commenting on cookie line-cutters...is Cindy a Candy or a Cookie or a tart? Just kidding; she's beautiful, classy and an awesome dresser.

Are they going to clear her of cheating on her education too? There's nothing money can't buy, leave it to McCain and his sleazy republican allies

Will the real John McCain please stand up. For people that want to meet the real john McCain, please read these two articles:
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml
Now that's the McCain, the reformer we know.

Data just released show America is behind most industrialized nations when it comes to life expectancy. That is why we need universal healthcare like Obama is advocating. Just food for thought:

- For average white American male, life expectancy is 72 years and John McCain is already 72 years old, so he might kick the bucket any time now

- For average black American male, the life expectancy is 70 years and Barack Obama is only 46 years old.

McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

Subj: FW: Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a Texas Rancher whose hand had been caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually, the topic got around to Obama and his bid for the presidency.

The old rancher said, Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle'.

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked, 'What is a post turtle'?

The old rancher said, When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.

'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he sure as heck doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there and you just wonder what kind of an idiot put him there in the first place.'

Dear Hillary Suporters,

The Democratic convention is August 23, in Denver, and the DNC will come to realize that we will "not fall in line" and we will NEVER vote for Obama. Therefore they are facing a landslide loss in November. The only candidate who can win is Hillary.

Here is a list of women senators, who suddenly had an epiphany to "do something" after they embraced Obama. Suddenly they use slogans of change, and want to create an illusion they are doing something for womens issues. This is all B.S. We must write to these women senators and :

1. Specifically ask Senator McCaskill "Why, after accepting approximately $500,000 from Emily's List did you feel no obligation to back the more qualified female candidate Hillary Clinton for President?"

2. Sen. Klobuchar accepted roughly $300,000 from Emily's List. Why didn't she endorse Hillary?

3. Sen. Boxer was silent this whole primary season. Where is that outrage about the treatment Hillary has received? Where is the investigation? Senator Boxer launched an investigation into the horrific treatment of the Dixie Chicks after one of them publicly criticized Bush. Why not investigate the media lynching of Hillary Clinton?

4. NOT ONE OF THEM "called out" the media for the unprecedented sexism and vile abuse against a woman, a respectable Senator, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They have never treated any presidential candidate in such an abusive manner.

IMPORTANT

Please tell them if they really care about the concerns of women they should stand up and endorse Hillary Clinton at the Denver convention in August.

If they care about equal rights and equal treatment that they should stand up against sexism in the Democratic party and demand an investigation.

If they care about women's rights they should investigate the treatment of Hillary Clinton by the media and charge them with human rights violations.

If they care about reforming healthcare, they should help Hillary Clinton get into the White House.

If they care about keeping jobs in America, they should not be endorsing Obama who has flip-flopped on NAFTA and retracted all his campaign promises.


Here is a video Link to the "sell out" of women senators, who will not stand up for us but pander to the DNC boys and media:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/womens-checklist-for-change/1547201665


1. Senator Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)
Toll Free1-888-224-9043
Online email: http://klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm


2. Senator Claire McCaskill,St. Louis (Missouri)
Phone:314-367-1364
Online email: http://mccaskill.senate.gov/contact/

3. Senator Debbie Stabenow (Michigan)
Phone: (517) 203-1760
e-mail: senator@stabenow.senate.gov
online email: http://stabenow.senate.gov/email.cfm

4. Senator Barbara Mikulski (Maryland)
Phone (410) 962 - 4510
e-mail: scheduler@mikulski.senate.gov

5. Senator Mary Landrieu (Louisiana)
Voice: (202)224-5824
Online Email: http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

6. Senator Barbara Boxer (California)
(213) 894-5000
(202) 224-3553
Online email: https://boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm

The Cookie Monster will sleep better at night.
I'll admit, stupid story.

Call to ACTION,
Because they knew hillary is not worth supporting.
I will take the time to thank them. Thanks for the addresses.

"TC is a cookie MONSTER."--Samantha Power

Dear Hillary supporters:

over 65% of the smart hillary suporters are flocking to obama...and the other 17% or less are you guys...its over and hillary disagrees with all of you and all of those website's are pretty much pointless and shows the pettyness of a small group of anti obama pro hillary supporters. Do the math!

John:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_iKcZ3qcCmyo/R_y2UoHUGcI/AAAAAAAAGq0/eb1fZGHoWxs/s1600-h/post+turtle.jpg

Call to ACTION: I already called and emailed them all. ;)

THIS SHOULDENT EVEN QUALIFY AS NEWS! WHAT A JOKE WHO CARE ABOUT THIS MADNESS

OBAMA IS A BIG FAT LYING HYPOCRITE... The problem is he doesn't even follow his own BS he doles out in his feelie-good sermons.

The only change we can believe in with Obama is changing his mind when it's time to his put his own words to action.

20-MILLION DEMS -4- MCCAIN '08
America Needs A REAL President, Not BS Sermons About Change

Thanks, T.C., I was really concerned that she stole my recipe.

Now, would you please check out spritz cookies and tell us how many similar recipes you find there. I always make them at Christmas and I'm concerned that I might be missing a recipe or two.

John McCain married Cindy the heiress ONE month after divorcing the first Mrs. !!!

damn Peggy, you stole my line LOL LOL LOL

cookie recipes, with all the flooding, in the midwest,so many Katrina victims, still suffering in aome way or another. all the tornado victims, etc. etc. and the best we have is worrying about stealing cookie recipes.

gee just think if half the effort had been put into vetting Obama, as has been on this issue. he never would have gotten this far.

there is still time, but seems journalist are too busy worrying whose going to make the cookies...than whose the best qualified.

too bad to, cause I make great cookies., even have my own recipe, funny thing, remember "Phoebe" from "Friends" her grandmother had the same recipe.

can anyone say "Nestle Tollhouse" LOL LOL LOL

John McCain screwed around on his disabled first wife with the then Cindy Hensley.

In 1994 Cindy McCain, after being investigated by the DEA, admitted that she had solicited prescriptions for painkillers from physicians who worked for an international charity that she founded (AVMT) She then filled the prescriptions in the names of her staff.

Both Cindy and John McCain seem devoid of both ethics and morals. What a couple.