Business as usual :(

Well after more than 20 years of being a prick, 2 actual wars, a quarter of a million people dead, and a couple of trillion dollars wasted Osama got his. I was going to let things go too. I know I can be a bummer, taking a dump in the punch bowl every now and then, but this time I was just going to let everyone savior the moment. Too bad for business as usual.

... and then we marched into...?

• First off I'm glad the dude is toast, but one skinny diabetic crazy dude pretty much screwed around with the entire world (see first paragraph) for 25 years. Glad he's gone? Yep! Proud about what it took to do it? Not so much.
• In honor of the enormity of the event the Republicans were almost gracious for close to a day until yesterday afternoon when Sarah Palin thanked Bush and the Troops for getting the job done. No one else Sarah? no one?
• Of coarse talk radio didn't wait even that long... "Of coarse Bush deserved the credit and oh by the way, torture ( they didn't even use the term water-board which is apparently something other than torture in conservative land) works!"
• All the pundits immediately gave the 2012 election to Obama having learned nothing from Sr.'s rousing success in the first gulf war, or Jr's mission accomplished photo op.( I know Jr won a second term, but space people will be laughing at the picture of that buffoon in his organ grinder monkey suit long after our sun finally blows out.)
• As I already said I'm glad the dudes gone, and I have no problem if he died in a wild fire fight, and I'm glad they didn't just carpet bomb the neighborhood,  but if they just capped the guy in his living-room after he was captured it kind of bothers me. Chalk it up to too many western television shows when I was a kid where the good guy would just shoot the gun out of the bad guys hand. You youngsters wouldn't understand.
• Everybody is saying "The world is a safer place." Duh, no it is not.
• They named the operation "Operation Geronimo" why does a black president not get that a name like that might not be racially sensitive? Why can't native Americans just let it go? Finally why are people getting offended that Native Americans are offended? I love when we hit the trifecta.
• Obama can get Osama, but apparently it is impossible to get any of the bankers that recklessly crashed out economy. I'm just saying.
• Anybody that does fret about the violence of Osama's end I would remind you that he was a big boy and redirect you to the first paragraph.
• Finally they are not going to release the photo's of the body. (I guess it is somehow more disrespectful showing the pictures than shooting the guy in the face to start with) Is Obama giving the Birthers something new to freak out about just to tweak them?

My head hurts. What I need is a holiday that encourages debauchery, too bad St Paddy's day is past and thank god for Cinco de Mayo. Like so many holidays Americans celebrate that they know nothing about Cinco de Mayo commemorates a battle the Mexican army won against a superior French force in 1862. They want on to be completely crushed less than a year later which may be why Cinco de Mayo isn't really a big holiday in Mexico. Still, any reason to party right? and you can't party without salsa. Mmm salsa!

We are going to make 3 different kinds of salsa today starting with the old reliable tomato based kind. There are no fresh tomatoes in New England in May so I like to use canned whole San Marrano Tomatoes.

1. Drain the tomatoes in a colander. Save the juice for cooking.
2. Remove the seeds, give the tomatoes a good chop (I like my salsa chunky, if you want it smoother pulse it a couple of times in a food processor).
3. Add some chopped red onion.
4. Dice up a couple of halapeno peppers. You can cut the heat back by removing the white pithy ribs and the seeds.
5. Herb, my first choice is some chopped fresh cilantro. Use parsley if you are one of those people that think cilantro tastes like soap.
6. Salt, pepper, cumin. Your call, your amounts.
7. You need an acid to brighten the flavor. Vinegar would work. Easy... not too much, or you could use citrus.

For salsa #2 we are going to ditch the tomatoes for black beans. Canned are fine but wash off all that goo that comes in the can. Keep everything else the same but add some corn kernels to the pot. If you are serving both salsas together change up on your acid so they taste different. White wine vinegar in #1 and lime in #2.

For #3 replace the black beans with mango. You can buy cleaned and sliced ones in the produce section.
Mince them up fine otherwise the result is too much like desert. Use an habanero pepper instead of the halapeno and definitely leave in the heat. Mangos are candy sweet so you are looking for contrast. Skip the corn. If you are putting all three on the same table use lemon as your acid in this one.

Pass the chips and the Corona's (fake beer is fine for a fake holiday). Let's hope that everybody smartens up  and I stop being cranky. That'll be the day!