Thursday, January 26, 2017

Today's recipies

Bob’s Cinnamon Walnut Scones

1 cup rolled quick oats
4 cups flour
2 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup Splenda
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 cup melted light butter (or Canola oil)
2 tablespoons vanilla
1.5 cups skim milk
1 cup egg beaters or four eggs
1.5 cups chopped walnuts

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

In a large bowl, sift, then whisk together the flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon and Splenda. butter and mix. Gradually stir in milk and eggs until dough pulls away from the side of the bowl.

Turn out onto a floured surface, sprinkle with flour if too sticky (very likely) and knead 15 to 20 times. Pat or roll dough out to 1/2 inch thick
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Cut biscuits with a large cutter or juice glass dipped in flour. Repeat until all dough is used.

Brush off the excess flour, and place biscuits on a greased baking sheet.


Bake for 18-20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges brown.

Bob's Crock Pot Potato Soup

I made this from scratch, making up the recipe as I went along. It came out very good, so I thought I'd try to write it down.

Ingredients

2-3 cups of meat. I used leftover frozen turkey pieces from Christmas, but chicken, brats, sausage etc,. would work I think.

1 cup chopped onions.

8-12 Yukon Gold Potatoes

1 Tablespoon dried chives

1 Tablespoon dried parsley

1 Tablespoon powdered garlic

2 teaspoons Italian Seasoning

1 teaspoon black pepper

2 cups cold milk

4 Tablespoons powders chicken gravy mix

2 cups chicken broth.

Directions

Put the meat and onions in the crock pot. Cut any bad spots out of the potatoes, and cut into chucks. Add potatoes to the crock pot until full.

Add the spices.

Dissolve the gravy mix (I think flour would work okay) in the cold milk and pour over potatoes. Then add the chicken broth.

Cook on high 4 hours or until the potatoes are done but not mushy.

Add salt to taste to individual servings.

  

Trump

The Yin and Yang of Trump. By jim Geraghty
Excerpt: So far, the new president has given us better policies and worse behavior. It’s hard to judge a presidency on its first few days, but so far President Donald Trump looks, sounds, acts, and behaves an awful lot like candidate Donald Trump. For conservatives, this state of affairs has its upsides.

Liar


Peaceful Prayers?

Imam at Trump’s prayer service recited Qur’anic condemnation of Jews and Christians

Sex Ed

Who's "Islamophobic" now? Teacher who repeatedly sexted students then performed sex acts on them blames her strict religious Muslim upbringing for making her too repressed

Education


The Men's March Against Fascism didn't have nearly as many signs.


Lip Reading?

This Bad Lip Reading of Trump’s Inauguration is Your Laugh Break For the Day

Poverty

Worth Reading: Proof that life is getting better for humanity, in 5 charts. By Max Roser

Deport Cuomo

It All Begins With Andrew Cuomo. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
New York governor Andrew Cuomo: “If there is a move to deport immigrants, I say then start with me. Because I am the son of Mario Cuomo, the son of Andrei Cuomo, a poor Italian immigrant who came to this country without a job, without money, without resources!” Okay, so we’re all agreed on a plan, then? See, I knew we could find a bipartisan deal! Are we sure Andrew Cuomo knows what an immigrant is? He was born in Queens, New York, in 1957.
Secondly, the United States deports immigrants all the time. The United States deported more than 400,000 immigrants in 2012. What the Trump administration is proposing is a change in scale, not a change in the law.

Germany

German girl jailed for IS attack in Hanover

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The anti-science left

Post-Truth Science
Excerpt: Attempts to discredit genetically modified crops and the herbicide glyphosate have no scientific basis. ‘Post-truth” is much in the news these days — both the word itself and the phenomenon it describes, in which (according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which chose “post-truth” as its Word of the Year) “objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Consider, for example, the way emotionally charged reporting turned the scientific consensus on biotechnology — in particular, genetically modified (GM) foods and the herbicide glyphosate — into a circus of public confusion that reached even our nation’s highest office. Humans have been tinkering with plant genetics far longer than they have understood the mechanisms that allow their actions.

Drug prices

To Modulate Drug Prices, We Need Less Regulation and More Competition
Excerpt: Another example was the sordid saga of a drug called pirfenidone, used to treat a pulmonary disorder called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), which killed tens of thousands of Americans annually. The cause of the disease is unknown, and there were no drug treatments approved for it in the United States until October 2014, although pirfenidone had already been marketed in Europe (since 2011), Japan (2008), Canada (2012), and China. Pirfenidone was approved in the EU on the basis of three randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, one conducted in Japan and the other two in Europe and the United States. In spite of a recommendation for approval by an FDA advisory committee (consisting of outside experts) in 2010, agency officials opted not to approve the drug and demanded another major clinical study. The results, published in May 2014, were impressive, and the FDA finally approved the drug without fanfare in October 2014; but between 2010 and the approval, IPF killed more than 150,000 patients in the United States.

Trump's pick?

Potential nominee profile: Neil Gorsuch

Peace

The number of people killed in al-Shabab bombing and armed siege of hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, jumps to 28, emergency workers say.

Peace


Organ Transplant

Pakistan’s Constitutional Body Decrees Organ Transplant ‘Un-Islamic’
So i'm un-Islamic? Who knew? ~Bob

Pure evil

Nigeria: Muslims use babies in jihad suicide bombings
Excerpt: Where are the women’s rights marchers to protest unspeakable abuses to women and children inflicted by jihadists. As much as the article states that “the use of babies could signal a ‘dangerous’ trend”, jihadists will do any and everything to advance their religious cause. The Islamic State blew up a baby during an explosives training exercise; Hamas uses children as human shields.

Degraded women?


Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Rape

Horror as gang rapes woman in Sweden and broadcasts it on FACEBOOK LIVE
Probably immigrants....Bob