Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Supporting your local businesses
I'm running a bit late today after a couple of hectic days. I hope all is well in your neck of the woods.
~♥~
One of the reasons we decided to settle in the area we live in is for the sheer beauty of this place. We are about a 15 minute drive from the coast and at the base of a mountain range called the Blackall Ranges. On the rolling green hills there are a few cottages, farms and towns in
Coffee and Provocation
Coffee - I've Been Doing It Wrong:
Apparently, it's time for me to go "Mr. Wizard" with the magic beans. Corrie Doctrow, over at Boing Boing says I need to go to cold brew and he details how to make it, complete with portable breast milk bags if I want to make a roadshow of it (not sure I do). Corrie writes: "I fucking love cold-brew coffee. Sorry, but strong sentiments demand strong language. Cold-brew coffee is extracted at room temperature or below, and is substantially less acidic than even the best hot coffee. The low-temperature extraction preserves the very volatile aromatic acids, and cold-brew coffee has a lot of chocolaty, caramel notes that are scrummy. Cold-brew tastes very strong, but without any bitterness, and is ferociously caffeinated. A couple glasses of cold-brew turn me into an ALL-CAPS TWEETING HYPERACTIVE SUPERHERO." Yep, that's the medicated effect I am after. And apparently, making cold brew is as simple as dirt too.Tae Bo With Jack Russell:
And it's even worse with Zumba.
Please Move the Deer Crossings:
Listen to this one. And yes, they are allowing this lady to vote in the next election, same as you.Gratitude:
Get some. Nothing is sexier than gratitude.
Muffin Pan Omelettes:
A quick way to get your daily dosage of soul-satisfying cholesterol even when you are on the go and running late. Nice.The Great Badger Battle:
Over at Scientific American, they note: "Here are the facts. For more than a decade, bovine TB has been on the rise in Britain. To control the disease, which can spread to humans through contaminated milk, cattle are routinely screened and infected animals are destroyed. And, uncomfortable as it is for animal-lovers, killing large numbers of badgers does help to reduce levels of bovine TB."
The Most Interesting Man in the World Was a Red Shirt:
Jonathan Goldsmith, the fellow behind the Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World ad, once played a Red Shirt in the Star Trek episode The Corbomite Maneuver. And guess what? He didn't die! Of course he didn't. He is the Most Interesting Man in the World. Dying as a Red Shirt has been done!Selling New Zealand:
Thomas Edison for the 21st Century:
He's American, he's alive, and he's interesting.
Sanctions in Iran are Working:
Steve Hanke estimates that Iran’s monthly inflation rate has reached 70%. Monthly. In short, they are f*rked. Obama has already wiped them up. They're dead and just don't know it yet.Black Mamba Venom Is the New Pain Medication:
Supposedly, no side effects. They said that about Vioxx too. Whoops!Send This One to Three People Today:
A true history and a great video from animator Lucas Gray who helps make The Family Guy and The Simpsons. Watch it, Facebook it, send it to a friendSoothing My Soul
Time for coffee by candlelight once more.
A morning ritual that helps me set the day's tone,
and bypass troubles for a wee bit.
In the past you would find witches and goblins
galore scattered throughout the downstairs, but
they are all bewitching someone else-somewhere else,
since the "last great purges".
I now prefer a simple palette with a
whisper of fall here and there.
I found brown bottle brush wreaths
which will carry over onto the brown porch
Holiday design where the brown paper tree resides.
Isn't it wonderful that we can find the
vintage look now without the $$$
I am no snob.
If it looks the way I like, then good enough,
and it'll be vintage when my kids get it.
My only nod to the 31st.
We made these in a class I taught many
full moons ago and I just love the little bugger.
It is wee.
So it stays
I tend to doodle while phone chatting...
I also do laundry, dishes, sweep, pay bills etc.
Z is nothing if not a multi-tasker.
So last week on a long chat to Annie,
I doodled this, and yes it does look like a third
grader did it.
I also doodled over here, and hung my fall calendar.
A nod to our sweet Libbey, the two felt cockers
that are homage to Justice and Howie,
two precious notes from my kids,
my favorite fortune cookie fortune
and of course...
"Don't Make Me Get My Flying Monkeys"
SO I guess there is still a witch around.....
or a _itch around, cause this gal needs sleep.
and yes the coffee is half caff
Check out Hannah's progress up there right hand corner.
We're so proud of her.
"Please Proceed, Governor"
Got Game?
A visual depiction of the debate last night, with Mitt Romney as groundhog. Yes, that's blood on the dog, but no it's not the dog's blood.
As Chris Rock put it:
President Obama just combined the epicness of the ending of Braveheart, Gladiator, and Shawshank Redemption into one act. Obama didn't even need to hold up Bin Laden's head.".
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Let's Not Talk About the Economy Says Romney
"Unemployment is at Reagan-era levels, General Motors is the most successful car company in the world, the stock market is at record levels, interest rates are down, housing starts are up, health insurance companies are mailing us checks, and we are getting out of wars not into them."
Do you know how you can tell that the U.S. economy is roaring back to life?
Do you know how you can tell that Al Qaeda is almost gone and that Medicare and Social Security are both in pretty fine shape?
Simple: the Republicans don't want to talk about any of that.
Instead, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney want to talk about an attack on a consulate in a city no one can find on a map or even spell.
Economic problems? Not so much.
The simple truth is that unemployment is at Reagan-era levels, General Motors is the most successful car company in the world, the stock market is at record levels, interest rates are down, housing starts are up, health insurance companies are mailing us checks, and we are getting out of wars not into them.
And so an attack on a consulate in a second-tier city in a God-forsaken country, where we have never had any relations at all, is all that Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan want to talk about.
They cannot talk about the 47% of Americans that they told their
They cannot talk about their push to turn Medicare into a voucher program that will give you less and cost you more.
They cannot talk about privatizing Social Security or what they would have done to our seniors during the last stock market crash.
They cannot talk about how Mitt Romney has STILL now shown us his tax records, and neither has Paul Ryan.
They cannot talk about Mitt Romney's track record of making jobs in Massachusetts or the state of the budget when he left -- none and bankrupt are the stories there.
They cannot talk about sending American jobs to China when Romney was at Bain.
They cannot talk about taxes since Romney banks in the Caymans and avoids taxes with accounts in Switzerland.
They cannot talk about religion, since Romney Jesus lives on planet Kolob.
They cannot talk about family history since Romney's is riddled with polygamy.
They cannot talk about war, since Romney was a war-monger draft-dodger during the Vietnam era.
They cannot talk about Romney's disastrous trips overseas where he insulted, the British, the Poles, the Arabs, and the Jews.
They cannot talk about guns since Romney is a gun-grabber.
They cannot talk about dogs strapped to roofs or or dancing horses given $73,000 tax breaks.
They cannot talk about cars since Mitt Romney said he wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, even as he was building elevators in his house for his foreign car collection.
They cannot talk about the stimulus bill, since Paul Ryan sent letters to Joe Biden begging for money to be sent to his district in order to create jobs, nor can they talk about the bank bail out since that actually returned more money to the U.S. Government than was spent.
They cannot even talk about Ronald Reagan. After all, Reagan's economic track record during his first four years in officer was no better than Obama's on almost any level.
Under Barack Obama, unemployment in the U.S. topped out at 10.1, and it has been declining pretty much steadily since.
But shhhh... We can't talk about that!
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