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06 February 2013

Whale: It's What's for Dinner

Posted by Suki at 2/06/2013 10:45:00 PM

Update: CSI Las Vegas added some whale sushi to an episode! In Vino Veritas
The story below was originally posted 3/13/2010.

Hump This, Santa Monica, CA Sushi Restaurant Accused of serving Whale Meat

Heal the Bay president Mark Gold spoke in public comment at the Santa Monica City Council meeting last night about the whale meat issue at The Hump, pointing out that federal laws may have been broken and that the restaurant sits on city-owned land. He has asked that the city attorney’s office look into revoking their business permit. Santa Monica City Attorney, Marsha Moutrie responded that the standard lease clause allows the city to terminate a lease in the event that the owners commit a crime. Also, the city can revoke a business license for illegal activity. Moutrie promised to come back to the city council with the results of the city attorney's office investigation by the next city council meeting in two weeks. The other odd twist is that Mark’s brother, Jonathan, is the Pultizer Prize winning food critic who, to Mark’s dismay, often writes about eating endangered species. He also weighed in on the matter in Mark’s blog.

·Sei It Ain't So [Spouting Off]

·The Hump Caught Serving Illegal, Endangered Whale [~ELA~]

More from Mark Gold's 'blog:

In a humorous dig at my family, Councilman McKeown also opined that “We need to do something before Mark’s brother (L.A. Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold) goes there and gives the joint a favorable review.”

As a point of fact, my bro likes exotic food but he actually hates the Hump because it is “gimmicky and weird.”

“Restaurants resort to gimmicks generally because their chefs just aren’t very good,” he tells me.

Perhaps they moved on from humping sea turtles? That's so three years ago.

"It was served in its very large shell (polished up and flipped to make a beautiful bowl in the center of a round table) and there was very little sashimi. I don't speak Japanese so one of the waitresses did the translation between myself and the businessmen. If I remember correctly, most of the turtle was being used to make other dishes but the sashimi came from the legs. It was meaty like a thick cut beef tenderloin (cut 1/4" thick), but the grain was distinctly in one direction. It wasn't "melt in your mouth" but it tore very easily. Flavour was distinct, firmness was of dry aged beef, did have some salt (the Himalayan pink salt they are partial to there), no fishy scent at all. I guess the closest thing it tasted to was alligator (which, I guess, makes sense) but it wasn't quite that either because 'gator is more gamey. The meat was very lean (no marbling.) I'd probably have it again except now I know of conservation efforts. It's a bit like my obsession to one day have ortolan."

The New York Times covers the Undercover Oscar Winner angle.

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14 January 2013

Al Sharpton: Is Obama Ready for Mt. Rushmore?

Posted by John Tagliaferro at 1/14/2013 07:25:00 AM

Seriously, Al?

OT: Latest book update - Got some inspiration from Jeffrey Tucker, Sheldon Richman, and Robert X. Cringely. Working on the libertarian portion of Super Duper Socialism and moved the new stuff to the front. New section is titled Freedom is Freedom and Nothing Else.

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02 January 2013

Odd Mall Behavior

Posted by John Tagliaferro at 1/02/2013 10:29:00 PM

For some reason, I find mall behavior puzzling. In the video we have some hefty fellow who cannot be content with the empty sidewalk, save for others in his party, so he decides to stand in the street. He is not standing just anyplace in the street, he is standing in the crosswalk for the pleasure of oncoming cars.

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Evidence of Global Warming

Posted by John Tagliaferro at 1/02/2013 05:32:00 PM

Below you see evidence of global warming. The large bodies of water, also known as the Great Lakes, are a result of glaciers melting and receding. I wish I could find a "before" picture, but this is how they have looked since before photography was invented.

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24 December 2012

Drone Strike Shoots Down Santa

Posted by Suki at 12/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Suki News Service) — A U.S. drone strike has killed a Christianist commander in Pakistan's northwest, the second member of the Christian militant network killed passing through the area in less than a week, Pakistani intelligence officials and a Baptist militant said Monday.

Santa and his sleigh.

An official spokesman for the Obama administration confirmed the attack, but wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation for celebrating Christmas.

Chris Kringle died Tuesday when drone-launched missiles hit a sleigh above Tabbi village in the North Waziristan tribal area, the main sanctuary for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in the country, the officials and militant said. "We were making real inroads there, delivering presents to the kids who only knew of Jesus through the Koran."

Kringle's close aide, senior Northern Polar Alliance leader Rudolph, who was killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on Thursday, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. It is believed the Thursday strike took down Rudolph during a polar training exercise.

Covert CIA drone strikes have killed a series of senior al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in Pakistan's tribal region over the past few years. The attacks are controversial because the secret nature of the program makes it difficult to determine how many civilians are being killed. This strike is believed to be the first time an outside insurgent force was neutralized before arrival to the area.

Pakistani officials often criticize such strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty, which has helped make them extremely unpopular in the country. But senior Pakistani officials are known to have cooperated with strikes in the past, and many people believe they still do. In this case, since the insurgents were Christian there has been no widespread unrest.

There were conflicting accounts of who died in the strike Sunday along with Kringle.

The intelligence officials said his wife and an elf were also killed, while the militant said two Punjabi Taliban fighters died with him after impact. The Taliban militant spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by the government for cavorting with Christians untaxed.

Al-Qaida's central leadership in Pakistan has been dealt a series of heavy blows in the past few years, including the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad last year. A significant number of senior al-Qaida leaders have also been killed in U.S. drone attacks in the country.

Also Monday, in an unrelated incident, Taliban militants armed with a rocket, hand grenades and automatic weapons attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan, killing six people, police said.

The attack occurred in the city of Bannu, which serves as a gateway to the North Waziristan tribal area and which has been hit by repeated attacks over the years.

The militants began the attack by firing a rocket at the gate of the police station and tossing hand grenades, triggering a battle with police that last lasted over an hour, said senior police officer Wagar Ahmed.

Three policemen and three civilians were killed in the attack, said Ahmed. The civilians were coming out of a nearby mosque when they were shot by the militants. Eight people were wounded, including three policemen and five civilians.

Three militants were killed during the attack and one escaped.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location.

Elsewhere in the country, gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by paramilitary forces on the outskirts of the southern city of Karachi, killing two soldiers, said police officer Azhar Iqbal. Two policemen were wounded in the attack, he said.

In the eastern city of Lahore, an elderly Swedish woman who was shot and critically wounded a week ago by an unknown assailant was flown home for medical treatment, said police officer Zahoorul Haq Qureshi. The woman, Bargeeta Almby, is in her 70s and was a volunteer at a church in Lahore. She was flown home in an aircraft sent by the Swedish government, Qureshi added.