Friday, June 02, 2006
good stuff!
Finally got around to go do some grocery shopping Wednesday. Last medium/end-of-season pass was April 21. Transition season. There's a method, not madness to my purchases of eatable organics. Comes from looong experience. Has a lot to do with living down in the swamp for many decades at the very end of a long power line. In the Fall, the freezer will get a fair poundage of gobbets of dead animal flesh. Good stuff. Shootin' /butchering season. Greenhouse veges come January and cool weather home-grown greens plus canned goods left over from last year. There's a circle coming up.
Come June, the freezer should be down to a one month supply of the bleeding pieces of murdered animals. Purchases reflect that with a large upswing in the acquisition of canned stuff. FYI, commercially canned goods are far superior to naught, most keep w/o starting to taste like mud or metal for about a year.
Fresh meat butchered in season, fresh veges harvested in season with the disparity tended by the various storage methods. Turns out that pretty much fits with the storm/reliable electricity season. If you have enough dinero to afford a well maintained MG set (maintainance #1, miserable things) and unsullied fuel for same, you won't end up donating that kilobuck freezer load to the local charity after the roads are clear enough for them to send a van to haul it off.
However there is a minor problem with this circle. What's left in the freezer this time of the year is usually the "really good deals" that the dawg(s) will probably get and the canned goods that homeless shelters would reject. I've always been curious about the annual canned goods pickup the USPS does this time of the year. Pantry cleaning time for those 2 cases of no-name canned green beans?!
Been eating good for the last couple of days. Steaks au poivre with twice baked red skinned taters and fresh asparagus Wednesday night, Steak and eggs with fresh homemade whole wheat bread for b'fast. A lamb chop pan fried in olive oil that had much garlic and fresh portobello mushrooms sauteed' in it with fresh carrots (good ones for a change. Didn't taste like turnips soaked in diesel oil) and peas. Belch! Don't quite know what's on the menu tonight but it'll probably be chicken a la king as I've a bag of brutally slaughtered and dismembered bird thighs defrosting and the leftovers will make a good base for a couple of pot pies.
Q: What do you call 6,000 disarmed National Guardsmen with no power of arrest or detention at the Mexican border?
A: Greeters
Might as well issue them clipboards. "Hernandez, party of 753?" "Si! We will need 750 highchairs senor."
...from a skit by a Honduran-born Mexican who lives in East LA heard last Friday on the radio.
* * * * * *
Emilio T. Gonzalez is head of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
We have as Attorney General, Alberto R. Gonzales.
Seems we also have Vicente Fox for President.
* * * * * *
Maxed Out Mama's "Guest Workers" Are Destroying The US post is probably one of the most insightful essays I've read on immigration in quite a while.
John Derbyshire has a interesting take with Path to What?
And good ol' Uncle Al takes another chomp with What remains of physical reality after empirical reality is deleted?
Thomas Sowell speaketh. Good stuffeth.
The Senate's 'Tough' Immigration Bill
Does William K. Shearer really need to ask?
In The Battle Against Illegal Immigration, Whose Side is The Government Really On?
Sen. Jim DeMint isn't trying to be funny. Letterman rarely is.
Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Amnesty Bill
".. doing jobs Americans won't do.." Actually it should read "doing jobs the multi-gen welfare class won't do". Generations served so well by the gummit "outcome based" (huh?) school system and the "we feel so sorry for you cause you are sooo second-class" entitlement programs have been raised with a retarded work ethic. It's called living down to expectations and after so long, it's doubtful it could be turned around in less time than it took to generate. Maxed Out Mama's post linked above kinda gets it. Practically, what will happen will be the enfranchisement of tens of millions of new voters who will discover they can vote themselves unearned wonderfulness from the producers' larder.
Viva la revolución El Jefe Jorge Bush.
Come June, the freezer should be down to a one month supply of the bleeding pieces of murdered animals. Purchases reflect that with a large upswing in the acquisition of canned stuff. FYI, commercially canned goods are far superior to naught, most keep w/o starting to taste like mud or metal for about a year.
Fresh meat butchered in season, fresh veges harvested in season with the disparity tended by the various storage methods. Turns out that pretty much fits with the storm/reliable electricity season. If you have enough dinero to afford a well maintained MG set (maintainance #1, miserable things) and unsullied fuel for same, you won't end up donating that kilobuck freezer load to the local charity after the roads are clear enough for them to send a van to haul it off.
However there is a minor problem with this circle. What's left in the freezer this time of the year is usually the "really good deals" that the dawg(s) will probably get and the canned goods that homeless shelters would reject. I've always been curious about the annual canned goods pickup the USPS does this time of the year. Pantry cleaning time for those 2 cases of no-name canned green beans?!
Been eating good for the last couple of days. Steaks au poivre with twice baked red skinned taters and fresh asparagus Wednesday night, Steak and eggs with fresh homemade whole wheat bread for b'fast. A lamb chop pan fried in olive oil that had much garlic and fresh portobello mushrooms sauteed' in it with fresh carrots (good ones for a change. Didn't taste like turnips soaked in diesel oil) and peas. Belch! Don't quite know what's on the menu tonight but it'll probably be chicken a la king as I've a bag of brutally slaughtered and dismembered bird thighs defrosting and the leftovers will make a good base for a couple of pot pies.
Q: What do you call 6,000 disarmed National Guardsmen with no power of arrest or detention at the Mexican border?
A: Greeters
Might as well issue them clipboards. "Hernandez, party of 753?" "Si! We will need 750 highchairs senor."
...from a skit by a Honduran-born Mexican who lives in East LA heard last Friday on the radio.
* * * * * *
Emilio T. Gonzalez is head of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
We have as Attorney General, Alberto R. Gonzales.
Seems we also have Vicente Fox for President.
* * * * * *
Maxed Out Mama's "Guest Workers" Are Destroying The US post is probably one of the most insightful essays I've read on immigration in quite a while.
John Derbyshire has a interesting take with Path to What?
And good ol' Uncle Al takes another chomp with What remains of physical reality after empirical reality is deleted?
Thomas Sowell speaketh. Good stuffeth.
The Senate's 'Tough' Immigration Bill
Does William K. Shearer really need to ask?
In The Battle Against Illegal Immigration, Whose Side is The Government Really On?
Sen. Jim DeMint isn't trying to be funny. Letterman rarely is.
Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Amnesty Bill
".. doing jobs Americans won't do.." Actually it should read "doing jobs the multi-gen welfare class won't do". Generations served so well by the gummit "outcome based" (huh?) school system and the "we feel so sorry for you cause you are sooo second-class" entitlement programs have been raised with a retarded work ethic. It's called living down to expectations and after so long, it's doubtful it could be turned around in less time than it took to generate. Maxed Out Mama's post linked above kinda gets it. Practically, what will happen will be the enfranchisement of tens of millions of new voters who will discover they can vote themselves unearned wonderfulness from the producers' larder.
Viva la revolución El Jefe Jorge Bush.
