Maine today legalized same-sex marriage – joining D.C. this week in the historic act.
Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill almost immediately after its passage. He noted that the public may still reserve the decision — as they did in California.
The expanding number of states recognizing same-sex marriage may be the issue that the GOP is looking for in fighting the D.C. vote in Congress and seeking a constitutional amendment to rally its broken party.
For the full story, click here.
Good on you Maine and D.C.
Oh goody – something else for the GOP Congressional legislators to jump and shout about, something to become incensed about, something for them to inveigh against on the floor of the House and Senate, something else for them to speak out against in hate. They’ll make a huge to-do about this “threat to traditional marriage” in Congress, simply because D.C. wants to recognize marriages performed in states where they’re legal.
The GOP is so tiresome on this subject. And no one ever asks exactly how same-sex marriage “threatens” traditional marriages. Never. Of course there wouldn’t be anything but angry red-faced sputtering as an answer anyway.
Queen of Sheba,
I think it works like the Jehovah’s Witnesses. There are only 144,000 spaces in heaven for the elect (which as I heard a comedian point out, probably makes recruiting more souls counter productive.
Now everyone knows there are only so many wedding chapels and Disney weddings to go around. Do you want some lousy gay couple taking up all the Elvis chaplins in Vegas? NO! Do you want gay couples taking all the coaches at Disney? NO! Well neither do I. The Elvis chaplins, their chapels and Disney are for heterosexuals. Further, what happens, if due to global warming, there are not enough trees to print wedding invitations? Who should get that paper? A bunch of gay people? I think not. And that is how homosexual marriage harms heterosexual marriage and I’ll thank you to remember that from now on!
Thank you, Jill! I intend to commit this to memory and recite it (crediting you, of course) every time someone insists that gay marriage will harm opposite marriage. Brilliant!
Jill,
And on’t forget those d**n greedy polygamists and divorced people; how dare the scarf up all those resources when people that only want to get married once have to go without those precious invitations and licenses! What? States can’t just add extra blank line and tell people to re-use and re-cycle? Shameful, just shameful!
I am glad there are people who finally will admit just how bad the problem really is. It is so bad that supreme court justices are marrying goats now (at least that’s what I heard). I also heard (or is the herd?) it was a gay veternarian that performed the ceremony and goat cheese was served at the reception. The world is full of many dangers. At least some people are alive to them. PTL!
“It is so bad that supreme court justices are marrying goats now (at least that’s what I heard).”
And what’s worse, it was a baby goat! a baby boy goat! Ghod only knows what kind of pre-vert judge Obama’s going to appoint to the High Court this time: I just hope he appoints someone that is an actual citizen and doesn’t take the ‘High Court’ reference literally. I’m with the Republicans on this one- I will not tolerate another deviant, drug-addled, anti-opposite, communist, illegal alien appointment to the Court. Whoever he/she might be.
Patty C:
Thanks Patty for not telling us about your little side project in your home state. Now you owe me a recipe for some great almond cookies (need some medicinal alcohol and dried cherries-got tons left-in there too if possible)!! I got the urge for them after attending a wedding without them.
Queen of Sheba:
“The GOP is so tiresome on this subject. And no one ever asks exactly how same-sex marriage “threatens” traditional marriages. Never. Of course there wouldn’t be anything but angry red-faced sputtering as an answer anyway.”
If these folks were serious (instead of just parroting a new twist on an old fund raising scheme) they would be agitating to make divorce illegal. Admittedly the law enforcement impact would be extraordinary.
(old joke Q&A) “If you’re so unhappy did you ever consider a divorce.” “No. Murder, but never divorce.”
Another reason for radical Islamacists to point the finger at us as evil.
People cheering gay marriage need to read Bin Laden’s letters to America and think about what he is saying about our ways, culture, and acceptance of what their beliefs call evil never to be accommodated.
And everyone followed the recommendations of the following:
U.S.D.A. Promotes Horse & Goat Meat
link: http://www.igha.org/USDA.html
The barbque was in good taste. All of the Bushes were invited as they have a home there as well.
PTL and don’t forget to Pay The Leader.
lottakatz:
Conservatives have time and again told you how this hurts marriage.
If two men can marry, why can’t three? Why can’t three women marry? Then who is to say a daughter cannot marry her father if she is of legal age? Who is to say a mother marry her son?
Very shortly we are going to be seeing all these challenges and then what. Do we say no and if we do – what do we base a NO on, since we just corrupted the institution of Marriage.
Barone: ‘We have just seen an episode of ‘Gangster Government’
White House puts UAW ahead of property rights
By: Michael Barone
New York Times
Senior Political Analyst
05/05/09 7:11 PM
Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company’s headquarters on Interstate 75 in Auburn Hills, Mich.
As I glanced at the pentagram logo I felt myself tearing up a little bit. Anyone who grew up in the Detroit area, as I did, can’t help but be sad to see a once great company fail.
But my sadness turned to anger later when I heard what bankruptcy lawyer Tom Lauria said on a WJR talk show that morning. “One of my clients,” Lauria told host Frank Beckmann, “was directly threatened by the White House and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight.”
Lauria represented one of the bondholder firms, Perella Weinberg, which initially rejected the Obama deal that would give the bondholders about 33 cents on the dollar for their secured debts while giving the United Auto Workers retirees about 50 cents on the dollar for their unsecured debts.
This of course is a violation of one of the basic principles of bankruptcy law, which is that secured creditors — those who lended money only on the contractual promise that if the debt was unpaid they’d get specific property back — get paid off in full before unsecured creditors get anything. Perella Weinberg withdrew its objection to the settlement, but other bondholders did not, which triggered the bankruptcy filing.
After that came a denunciation of the objecting bondholders as “speculators” by Barack Obama in his news conference last Thursday. And then death threats to bondholders from parties unknown.
The White House denied that it strong-armed Perella Weinberg. The firm issued a statement saying it decided to accept the settlement, but it pointedly did not deny that it had been threatened by the White House. Which is to say, the threat worked.
The same goes for big banks that have received billions in government Troubled Asset Relief Program money. Many of them want to give back the money, but the government won’t let them. They also voted to accept the Chrysler settlement. Nice little bank ya got there, wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.
Left-wing bloggers have been saying that the White House’s denial of making threats should be taken at face value and that Lauria’s statement is not evidence to the contrary. But that’s ridiculous. Lauria is a reputable lawyer and a contributor to Democratic candidates. He has no motive to lie. The White House does.
Think carefully about what’s happening here. The White House, presumably car czar Steven Rattner and deputy Ron Bloom, is seeking to transfer the property of one group of people to another group that is politically favored. In the process, it is setting aside basic property rights in favor of rewarding the United Auto Workers for the support the union has given the Democratic Party. The only possible limit on the White House’s power is the bankruptcy judge, who might not go along.
Michigan politicians of both parties joined Obama in denouncing the holdout bondholders. They point to the sad plight of UAW retirees not getting full payment of the health care benefits the union negotiated with Chrysler. But the plight of the beneficiaries of the pension funds represented by the bondholders is sad too. Ordinarily you would expect these claims to be weighed and determined by the rule of law. But not apparently in this administration.
Obama’s attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants “someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,” he said, but someone who has “empathy.” In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.
The Chrysler negotiations will not be the last occasion for this administration to engage in bailout favoritism and crony capitalism. There’s a May 31 deadline to come up with a settlement for General Motors. And there will be others. In the meantime, who is going to buy bonds from unionized companies if the government is going to take their money away and give it to the union? We have just seen an episode of Gangster Government. It is likely to be part of a continuing series.
Charges Unlikely for Memos
Backing CIA Interrogations
Source tells AP Justice Department does not recommend criminal charges against Bush administration lawyers who wrote ‘torture memos’.
Sounds to me like the message from the CIA “screw with our intelligence gathering & Americans will get killed” is getting through to at least a couple of the momentarily half sane bunch Obama has on staff.
Hey, how about Obama lecturing American on our duty to pay taxes for the betterment of America and not to pay attention to the small minority that cheat, WHILE TIM GEITNER stood at his side!
Even CNN had a field day with that one! Haven’t seen Gay boy Olbermann talk about it yet, though.
Can’t resist, Former Dem,
Why are you opposed to Gay Marriage? Then at least you would stand a chance of having a date. But then again most Gay men have more class than you exhibit, so you’d still be alone.
“Source tells AP Justice Department does not recommend criminal charges against Bush administration lawyers who wrote ‘torture memos’.”
Yes, but at least they can get married in Maine now. Thank goodness!
P.S.,
The arguments about 2 and 3 men, women, goats etc. getting married are just as “valid” coming from a starting point of heterosexual marriage. It’s starts with the heterosexuals and ends with the goats!
FORMER DEM, stop trolling.
anonymously yours:
You mean class like Perez Hilton? One helluva classy guy, eh….
My opinion of most gay men is that they are very reserved because they are not comfortable with themselves.
But there is s group that go to the extreme in an attempt to “prove” to whomever is bored enough to listen or watch that they are more happy with whom they are than anyone else, you know, like the Folsom Street parade group. Now that parade is classy – NOT.
Former Dem doth protest too much.
Former Dem,
My opinion of most gay men is that they are very reserved because they are not comfortable with themselves.
But there is s group that go to the extreme in an attempt to “prove” to whomever is bored enough to listen or watch that they are more happy with whom they are than anyone else, you know, like the Folsom Street parade group. Now that parade is classy – NOT.
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The first statement is a fallacy. Look up that, but I am impressed you thought.
The second statement is or may be true, I am not aware that that is why they do that. I am interested that you know about the Folsom Street Parade. I had to google it to see what it was about.
Are you a member of some gay pride movement and you speak from experience?
If I remember in your post on here earlier you stated that you were driving by the Chrysler plant.
You have a problem with people working?
Last June Former Dem I lost over 400 thousand dollars in bank stock. But I am sure you are for the banks to be bailed out as this is what your charging order detail.
Are you a Fascist want to be?
Buddha,
I had that covered. He set himself up for this. lol
I think Former Dem should move to Maine and do some research on the gay marriage issue and report back to us in about 30 years.
Oh man, the party of tolerance tries to throw insults at me by – intimating I am GAY!
LOL!
Former Dem,
No I am just asking if you are sexually repressed and you acting out your fantasies.
I was going to say suppressed but I figured you’d get too excited thinking it was a gay sexual position.
Trolls are nature’s way of telling you the authorities are scared about war crimes!
John Demjanjuk is not going to get tortured says Eric Holder, our AG:
“John Demjanjuk is 89 years old. He is accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, Ivan the Terrible. He’s been charged with being at Sobibor, Treblinka, a couple places.
He has been requested to be extradited by Germany, to be tried in Germany for the same crime. Demjanjuk’s lawyers are saying to the Justice Department, (paraphrasing) “You cannot extradite John Demjanjuk to Germany, you cannot do it because he will be tortured.”
Eric Holder and the Justice Department have said to Germany and Demjanjuk, “Demjanjuk, you’re wrong, because Germany is going to use the same techniques on you that were proposed by Bybee and Yoo and Bradbury to interrogate Al-Qaeda terrorists.” In other words, the Justice Department is denying Demjanjuk’s requests to not be extradited because he will not be tortured, while saying that he will not be tortured, they are advocating that these three Bush lawyers be disbarred because they engaged in torture.
Demjanjuk’s argument is he shouldn’t be extradited because he’s going to be tortured. Our Justice Department says, no, it’s not torture what they’re going to do to you. They’re going to follow the same guidelines written by Bush lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.”
Despicable hypocrisy wouldn’t you say, Mr. TUUUURRRLLLEEEYYY?
Al-Marri’s sweetheart deal
May 6, 2009
NYT Editorial
Al-Marri, the terrorist sent to the United States by al-Qaeda to carry out a second wave of mass-murder attacks, was permitted by the Justice Department to plead guilty to a single count of material support to terrorism, maximum sentence 15 years’ imprisonment with the possibility that al-Marri may simply be given credit for time served and released.
The Obama administration has already outright released, with no trial, Binyam Mohammed, an al-Qaeda operative who, like al-Marri, was assigned by KSM to carry out mass-murder attacks in the United States after 9/11. Now, al-Marri has been given a plea agreement that grossly undersells the grave seriousness of his war crimes.
If Holder’s objective was to demonstrate that George W. Bush was wrong to detain al-Marri as an enemy combatant and that the criminal-justice system “works,” this sweetheart deal suggests the opposite.
Jihadists were not impressed by our strategy of fighting them in the courtroom through the 1990s.
Wonder what they’re thinking now.
Former Dem,
You need sensitivity training. Maybe Depends too.
Breakding:
Obama Administration Considering Turning Over 100 Yemeni Gitmo Detainees to Saudi Arabia
Good Lord, this is the “terrorist rehabilitation program” where they sit in classrooms for a few months and then are released if they swear an oath not to become a terrorist again – which most promptly ignore.
If a SINGLE United States Soldier is killed by one of these terrorists Obama is intent on releasing – it will be IMPEACHMENT TIME FOR OBAMA!
John Demjanjuk is not going to get tortured says Eric Holder, our AG:
“John Demjanjuk is 89 years old. He is accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, Ivan the Terrible. He’s been charged with being at Sobibor, Treblinka, a couple places.
He has been requested to be extradited by Germany, to be tried in Germany for the same crime. Demjanjuk’s lawyers are saying to the Justice Department, (paraphrasing) “You cannot extradite John Demjanjuk to Germany, you cannot do it because he will be tortured.”
Eric Holder and the Justice Department have said to Germany and Demjanjuk, “Demjanjuk, you’re wrong, because Germany is going to use the same techniques on you that were proposed by Bybee and Yoo and Bradbury to interrogate Al-Qaeda terrorists.” In other words, the Justice Department is denying Demjanjuk’s requests to not be extradited because he will not be tortured, while saying that he will not be tortured, they are advocating that these three Bush lawyers be disbarred because they engaged in torture.
Demjanjuk’s argument is he shouldn’t be extradited because he’s going to be tortured. Our Justice Department says, no, it’s not torture what they’re going to do to you. They’re going to follow the same guidelines written by Bush lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.”
Despicable hypocrisy wouldn’t you say, Mr. TUUUURRRLLLEEEYYY?
Al-Marri’s sweetheart deal
May 6, 2009
NYT Editorial
Al-Marri, the terrorist sent to the United States by al-Qaeda to carry out a second wave of mass-murder attacks, was permitted by the Justice Department to plead guilty to a single count of material support to terrorism, maximum sentence 15 years’ imprisonment with the possibility that al-Marri may simply be given credit for time served and released.
The Obama administration has already outright released, with no trial, Binyam Mohammed, an al-Qaeda operative who, like al-Marri, was assigned by KSM to carry out mass-murder attacks in the United States after 9/11. Now, al-Marri has been given a plea agreement that grossly undersells the grave seriousness of his war crimes.
If Holder’s objective was to demonstrate that George W. Bush was wrong to detain al-Marri as an enemy combatant and that the criminal-justice system “works,” this sweetheart deal suggests the opposite.
Jihadists were not impressed by our strategy of fighting them in the courtroom through the 1990s.
Wonder what they’re thinking now.
Former Dem,
Demjanjuk’s argument is he shouldn’t be extradited because he’s going to be tortured. Our Justice Department says, no, it’s not torture what they’re going to do to you.
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Sorry sir different war if you did not know. Hate to break the news to you. He is supposed to have been known as Ivan. He is supposed to have assisted in a number of Jewish deaths. He was or is thought to have entered this country under a false Id, claiming he was just a guard.
The Simon Wiesentham Center has fairly concrete evidence or he would not be going back to stand trial for his role Torturing the Jews. This has been going on for sometime now. Learn your history boy.
When I am wrong I will admit it can you?
The Bushies are worried that this will happen to them. Figure out when WWII ended and the Nuremberg Trial ended and you should see poor Deer Eyes in the Bushites.
Gay people are already getting married in every state, including Vegas. It’s been 13 years since the most popular TV sitcom had a lesbian wedding.
Up here in Canada it’s been about 6 years since the court decision that it was unconstitutional to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples, and since then, well nothing really has happened. None of the bad effects that our right wing were predicting came to pass. No church has been sued because they didn’t want to marry someone. No one has tried to marry a goat. No backlast from people demanding their politicians “do something” — in 2006 62% of people considered it a settled matter.
In a few years the people who are fighting against gay marriage will be looked on the same as the people who opposed Loving v Virginia.
AY,
Don’t let me get in the way then. Carry on.
Stimulus oversight left up to taxpayers; Most Democrats on House Stimulus Bill Oversight Committee are no shows at first hearing.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/06/stimulus-oversight-left-up-to-taxpayers/
Obama’s Claim of “tracking every dime” of stimulus delayed to 2010
WASHINGTON — Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won’t have details on contracts and grants and may not be complete until next spring — halfway through the program, administration officials said.
Recovery.gov now lists programs being funded by the stimulus money, but provides no details on who received the grants and contracts.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-05-06-stimulus_N.htm
Alex, you are incorrect. In Canada, lawsuits have been filed against:
- Photographers
- Printers
- Florists
- Musicians
- Caterers
- Owners of halls or churches (individual, organization or denomination)
- Officiator at ceremonies (whether civil or clergy)
All of these people are facing litigation if they refuse for religious reasons to accommodate gay & lesbian weddings.
Former Dem,
Do we even have an accounting from Haliburton? KBR? Blackwater? Where is the Billion dollars the soldiers found?
So your point is that 2010 we will know where the money is that is actually helping people? Hum.
Cheney reminds me of Nero when he burnt the town down just so he could rebuild it. Damn the people living and sleeping.
Former Dem, it alleged that Nero’s lover was his mother. do you and Cheney have something in common?
Former Dem,
Back up that with some facts. I am interested, I have my minnow bucket ready. I’ll reel you in fast for a fool.
“The arguments about 2 and 3 men, women, goats etc. getting married are just as “valid” coming from a starting point of heterosexual marriage. It’s starts with the heterosexuals and ends with the goats!”
LOLOL. You beat me to it! It not only ends with the goats and group marriage but probably started there.
I saw an episode on one of the talk shows about polygamy about a year ago. The only insight I took away from it was that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. The extended segment dealt with the family dynamics of a man that had 4 wives. I had no pity for him. He was too foolish to have pity on. The vignettes with each of his wives was inter cut with his interview. His story was this in paraphrase:
‘I had one wife and a good job and was doing well and thought I was ready to expand my family as God and the tradition of my church would want of me. I took a second wife and even though my first wife said she had no objection they were jealous of each other and bickered all the time. I talked with other husbands and searched my soul and decided the best thing to do was take a third wife, one that was older and could provide guidance to the younger wives.
That didn’t work. It became a 2 against 1 situation and I couldn’t let that continue because I didn’t want to see any of my wives unhappy. I decided to take a fourth wife so at least the wife that was being picked on would have a friend and maybe with that many wives it would be a happier home.
Now it’s 2 against 2 and it’s just like a battlefield. I just don’t know what to do. My wives hate each other, I work all the time to support the family, the kids (and there were about 7 at that time) are unhappy….’
Srsly, I was laughing until I hyperventilated.
Two person (of any sexual combination) model for marriage (even if people practice serial marriage) has a lot going for it and makes legal responsibility when the marriage dissolves as easy as it can be to dissolve any property sharing relationship. Most people adhere to it more or less because the benefit outweighs the liability. I don’t mind the possibility of expanding the number, I just don’t think group dynamics makes it workable to have more than one spouse at a time. If people want to be foolish it’s ok with me, just don’t expect me to stop laughing when the hole is so deep you need a ladder to get out. Maybe the only thing the law should say about marriage is ‘no animals’ and people seeking license to marry should be old enough to give informed consent, maybe 28.
Professor of Cooking! Hahahahahaha! Coulter is a genius.
‘Islam Day’ Declared in Hawaii
Hawaii’s Democratic controlled State Senate approves bill to honor Islam.
“Christianity Day’ missing in Hawaii BUT ‘Islam Day’ Declared in Hawaii. Hawaii’s Democratic controlled State Senate approves bill to honor Islam.
Reuters
May 6, 2009
Oil jumps to $56 per barrel, new high for year, as Obama administration blocks new drilling and exploration.
Experts predict new round of spot shortages and dwindling supplies.
Gas prices rise fastest in 8 months to $2.34 per gallon national average.
Concerns rise for 2010; what will gas cost? How much will Americans complain as they pay and will it matter?
FD,
Can you even REMOTELY stay on a topic or is the RNC paying you by the word?
When you’re not copy and pasting, I’d say you just plain suck but that gives sucking a bad name.
Pick up your game. It’s fun for a newcomer like AY to smack you around, but you’re a tedious bore even for a troll.
Former Dem,
You do realize that this is only the 5th month of the year and when you say(alleged quote) gas rose fastest in 8 months, that is still just over half of the high price during the bush regime. You really ought to stick to the subject matter of the thread. I know that is a tough thing to ask of a troll, but give it a shot. Who knows, you might actually cure your case of trollitis.
raff -
I believe that several times oil hit over $140 per barrel during the bush regime. So, technically we’re not even half as high as it got under the oil-lords …
But who’s counting (besides FD?)
Former Dem,
The first post i read of yours insinuated that we as americans should consider that terrorists wouldn’t like it if we as a nation allowed gays to marry. I’m wondering if you could clarify something for me.
1) Are you saying that terrorists are right and you agree with them?
2) Are you trying to sell us on the idea that terrorists will kill us if gay marriage is recognized?
3) Do you routinely bow to terrorist demands out of fear for your own life?
What is it you are getting at? What did you mean? Surely what you meant wasn’t that we should placate terrorists by trashing our own ideals. So, really, what did you mean?
Shortly following that fearmongering nugget, you speculate that gay marriage would lead to polygamy, beasialitty,, and even lawful incest. How? The law is clear about those issues now and could presumably be so while being inclusive of gay and lesbian marriages. So what are you talking about?
FORMER DEM is copying and pasting from the rush limbaugh website. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_050609/content/01125107.guest.html
I’ve called him on that before. He’s a serial plagiarist. Thanks for the link.
From AP: Maines first wedding couple are two men from Ireland.
Michael Fitz Patrick and Patrick Fitz Michael. They plan to celebrate by going to Hershey PA. a trip down the old Hershey Highway. Michael and Patrick say they would like to settle in Australia but Patrick is so used to going down under that it just wouldn’t feel right so they’ve agreed to just stay at home and decorate their new home after one of thier favorite places in Tie-Land, Bang-Cock.
People cheering gay marriage need to read Bin Laden’s letters to America and think about what he is saying about our ways, culture, and acceptance of what their beliefs call evil never to be accommodated? You know your a tool right FORMER DEM?
If we don’t legalize full marriage rights for gay in every state in this country the terrorists win!
Anon:
“Do we even have an accounting from Haliburton? KBR? Blackwater? Where is the Billion dollars the soldiers found?”
my brother was over in Iraq at about that time and I alway wondered why he bought me a new house and the children cars. What a cheap p…k.
Patty C:
Thanks Patty for not telling us about your little side project in your home state. Now you owe me a recipe for some great almond cookies (need some medicinal alcohol and dried cherries-got tons
left-in there too if possible)!! I got the urge for them after
attending a wedding without them.
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‘Go Big or Go Home’, I always say!
And I would have gotten it done sooner, except I’ve been a little distracted trying to get these darn torture hearings set up,
besides…
Here’s your cookie recipe.
As for any missing medicinal element, I’d just pick up a bottle of Vin Santo for dipping or maybe a grappa for sipping.
But you have inspired me, once again, because I make biscotti frquently where the dough is flavored with liqeurs like amaretto or kahluah.
In the name of science, I will now embark on adding mascerated dried fruits. The only problem might be that I like my biscotti to be very crisp and hard…
Thanks, mespo. If you need biscotti recipes, I got ‘em here.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Italian-Almond-Cookies-236733
Italian Almond Cookies
Epicurious | December 2006
yield: Makes about 3 dozen cookies
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Ingredients
* 2 1/4 cups blanched whole almonds (about 12 ounces), plus
15 for garnishing
* 2/3 cup sugar
* 2 large egg whites, at room temperature
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
* 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* 15 glacéed cherries
Preparation
Arrange racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat to 350°F. Lightly oil 2 large baking sheets, then line with parchment paper.
In food processor, combine 2 1/4 cups almonds and 1/3 cup sugar. Process until finely ground, scraping down sides once or twice. Set aside.
In electric mixer fitted with whisk attachment, beat egg whites and salt at high speed until soft peaks form. Reduce speed to medium and gradually sprinkle in remaining 1/3 cup sugar. Return speed to high and beat mixture until stiff, shiny peaks form. Gently fold in ground almond mixture and almond and vanilla extracts.
Roll mixture into 1-inch balls, place 2 inches apart on baking sheets, and flatten slightly. Top each with glacéed cherry or almond. Bake until cookies are golden, switching positions of pans halfway through, about 25 minutes. Cool on sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely.
Cookies keep, wrapped, several days, or frozen, several weeks. Recrisp in warm oven.