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Apr 21, 2016

Talk with Karl Rove at The Los Angeles World Affairs Council May 12 6 PM: I'm There

President George W. Bush stands with Mrs. Laura Bush and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on the South Lawn Monday, August 13, 2007, shortly after his longtime friend and senior advisor announced his resignation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Talk: Karl Rove on American Politics

The Republican political strategist Karl Rove will address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on Thursday, May 12th about the US presidential race, the campaigns of the respective candidates, and how the Republican Party convention in July might play out. Rove, a life-long devotee of US political history, has just released a new book,The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters, and will talk about the lessons that can be learned from the highly contentious election of 1896, and situate the 2016 race in a larger historical context. He will also talk about the big issues facing Americans at home and abroad and what the most important decisions will be for the new President.

Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public Liaison, and Intergovernmental Affairs and was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, coordinating the White House policy-making process. Before Karl Rove became known as “The Architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, he was president of Karl Rove + Company, an Austin-based public affairs firm that worked for Republican candidates, non-partisan causes, and non-profit groups. Today Rove writes a weekly op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, is a Fox News contributor and is the author of the newly released book, The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters, and the New York Times Bestseller, Courage and Consequence.

6:00 PM Reception, 7:00 PM Talk

Thursday, May 12, 2016

6:00pm Reception

7:00pm Talk

The InterContinental Hotel

Century City2151 Avenue of the Stars

Los Angeles CA 90067

Talk with Karl Rove

May 12, 2016 6:00 PM, Talk
The Intercontinental Hotel
2151 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles CA 90067

Ticket	Price
Member	$60.00
Guest of Member	$70.00
Non-Member	$85.00

Purchase Tickets or call (424) 258 6160

Apr 19, 2016

The Only Buttermilk Pancake Recipe You'll Ever Need: Popsugar on the ronnie re

From Anna Monette Roberts, POPSUGAR Food

Buttermilk Pancakes

INGREDIENTS

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup salted butter, melted and cooled slightly
Clarified butter or high-heat vegetable oil, for cooking

DIRECTIONS

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs. Whisk in buttermilk and melted butter. Stir flour mixture into buttermilk mixture until just combined (lumps are OK).
Heat the oven to 200°F and place an oven-safe plate or baking dish inside. Heat a large, nonstick skillet on the stove top over medium heat. Melt 1/4 teaspoon of butter on skillet. Dollop 1/2 cup batter onto skillet; depending on the size of the skillet, it may fit 2-3 pancakes. Cook pancakes until bubbles rise to the surface and pop, about 2 minutes. Carefully flip pancakes and cook another 2 minutes.
Transfer cooked pancakes to plate in the oven. Cover with foil. Repeat with more butter and remaining batter, until all pancakes are cooked.

INFORMATION

Category

Breakfast/Brunch, Pancakes/Waffles

Yield

Makes 12 pancakes

here is a link to the page in Popsugar to see more pictures and really good tips on making pancakes:

http://www.popsugar.com/food/Buttermilk-Pancake-Recipe-26947698

Apr 15, 2016

Possible Cute Quilt

Hillary Did Good Last Night

donald's dumb and unthought out comments only make Hillary better........

HILLARY DID GOOD LAST NIGHT:

Just wanted to say I really appreciated your comments about the donald last evening because as a OR nurse one cannot always opt out of a procedure and the "D and C" or TAB, therapeutic abortion, is a routine procedure done for many reasons.

The idea that we would go back to pre 1970 and not have a personal choice or the idea that a health care worker would go to jail or be punished for participating in a routine procedure is archaic. Not to mention stupid.

This is someone who by his actions wants to participate in the sexual revolution footloose and fancy free but punish the woman if an unwanted pregnancy occurs.

The man is disgusting.

I have been waiting for Hillary forever because she is a mom just like me but now I would vote for her on Planned Parenthood alone because that is not something I am never willing to negotiate.

I was voting for her anyway. I am still sad about the last election but I love President Obama, too.

We are a team, me and Hillary.....same-same.

This is why she will easily beat the Repubs also.

Well done!

Apr 11, 2016

Long Day's Journey Into Night review – Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville shine with sexual passion and rage

4/5stars

Bristol Old VicRichard Eyre rushes through Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece but gets to the heart of the tortured love of the Tyrones, played mesmerisingly by his leads

Outstanding … Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons in Long Day’s Journey into Night. Photograph: Hugo Glendinning

Michael Billington

@billicritic

257

Comments

Richard Eyre famously directed a 90-minute version of Ghosts at the Almeida. Ibsen’s play had a profound effect on Eugene O’Neill’s lengthy autobiographical masterpiece, which Eyre now steers home in three and a quarter hours. For my taste, this is too fast but there is no denying this is a distinguished event with a cast headed by Lesley Manville, who was Mrs Alving in Ghosts, and Jeremy Irons, returning to the theatre where he started to be part of its 250th anniversary.

But timing matters with O’Neill as much as it does in a Wagner opera. I suspect Eyre is seeking to contrast the brisk allegro of the play’s opening with the long adagio of its tragic end where the four members of the Tyrone family confront the appalling truth. But too often the tempo is unvaried, so that we miss the almost comic pattern of accusation and retraction that afflicts all the characters. When James Tyrone, a celebrated actor who sold out to commercial success, recites Shakespeare and his tubercular son Edmund recites Baudelaire, we should also feel them dwelling on the consolations of poetry rather than rushing through the speeches as they do here.

There are, however, many virtues to Eyre’s production. I’ve never felt so strongly before the sexual passion that Tyrone and his morphine-addicted wife, Mary, still feel for each other after 36 years. Manville is also outstanding as Mary. She mesmerisingly captures the violent mood-swings of the addict, switching in a second from girlish friskiness to mordant recrimination. She conveys Mary’s inner anxiety through a compulsive talkativeness and physical restlessness that leads her to be forever needlessly patting cushions. In Manville’s expert hands, O’Neill’s play becomes Mary’s tragedy: the story of a woman whose drug dependence was the result of her husband’s stinginess and who journeys into a past filled with religious faith and innocent hope.

Loss of faith affects all the characters: in the case of Tyrone, it is faith in his potential as a great Shakespearean actor. Irons has, of course, played Shakespeare but he remains unusual casting for the role. His forte is to suggest a refined asceticism whereas O’Neill’s character is a broad-shouldered, hard-drinking figure of Irish peasant stock. But, although cast against type and not always secure with the lines, Irons brings out strongly Tyrone’s tortured love for his wife: the moments I shall remember from his performance are those where he gazes at her with a sad-eyed mixture of guilt and longing.

The two Tyrone sons are also very good. Hadley Fraser has just the right blend of man-about-town ebullience and self-loathing as the worldly James Tyrone Jr and Billy Howle, a graduate of Bristol Old Vic theatre school, lends the consumptive Edmund a fitful romanticism and tainted hopelessness: it struck me the character is a direct parallel to Oswald in Ghosts. Jessica Regan also appears to telling effect as a caustic Irish maid who has the capacity for contradiction that blights her employers. It’s a great play filled with what the American critic Harold Clurman calls “the soulful poetry of despair and forgiveness”. And, although Eyre’s production often goes at too great a lick, it gets there in the end with the characters frozen in a deeply moving pietà in which Manville’s Mary takes on the quality of a wrecked madonna.

At Bristol Old Vic until 23 April. Box Office: 0117 987 7877

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Apr 21, 2016

Talk with Karl Rove at The Los Angeles World Affairs Council May 12 6 PM: I'm There

Apr 19, 2016

The Only Buttermilk Pancake Recipe You'll Ever Need: Popsugar on the ronnie re