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Stuffed Squash

It wasn’t until recently that I discovered winter squash.  For me, squash was yellow or green and you ate it during the summer.  End of story.  Like white shoes, there was no squash after Labor Day.

And then I began my kitchen adventures and was rewarded with butternut and acorn and spaghetti squash.  Roasting is my go-to method of preparing butternut.  I know there are other ways to fix it but, call me stubborn, I like it how I like it.  Spaghetti squash and I haven’t become friends yet.  We met once and didn’t get off on the best foot.  I’m sure we’ll run into each other again.  Maybe then we can put the past behind us and start fresh.

That leaves acorn squash.  I clearly remember thinking stuffed acorn squash would be a great alternative to turkey for Thanksgiving a few years ago.  So I made a lovely mushroom stuffing, filled my squash halves, and eagerly anticipated the meal to come.  You know where this is going, right?  It was dreadful.

The squash took so long to cook that the stuffing, which had been lovely and moist when it went in the oven, was dried out and tired when it finally arrived on our plates.  Considering how hungry we were after waiting so long, we would have eaten just about anything.  Thanksgiving is always an adventure at our house.

But thanks to Savory Sweet Life, the next time I get a hankering for stuffed acorn squash, I will not be disappointed.  And neither will you.  This recipe will give you tender cooked squash in no time flat.  How you finish it off is up to you.  Not only did I throw it under the broiler with some brown sugar and butter but then I filled it with quinoa. Those red bits in the picture?  They are diced red chile pepper.  The sweet also packed some real heat.

Acorn Squash with Brown Sugar Butter Sauce

Savory Sweet Life

BAH Note:  To get the squash to lay flat in the baking dish, carefully slice a bit off of the sides of the squash.  Depending on the size of your squash, start checking for doneness after 10 or 12 minutes.  After 15 minutes mine was  starting to get a little mushy in places.

  • 1 acorn squash, cut in half with seeds removed
  • 1/2 cup water
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 4 to 6 tablespoons brown sugar

Pour the water into a microwave safe casserole dish large enough to hold the squash.  Place the squash halves flesh side down in the dish and microwave for 15 minutes.  Carefully remove the hot dish from the microwave.

Heat your broiler to High.

Transfer the (hot) squash halves, flesh side up, to a baking sheet covered in foil.  Place 1 tablespoon butter in each half and carefully rub it over the entire fleshy surface (I used a silicone brush for this and it worked great).  Let the butter melt down into the middle of the squash.  Sprinkle each half with a small pinch of salt and half of the brown sugar.  Make sure some of the sugar lands in the pool of butter at the center of the squash.

Broil for 5 minutes.  The edges of the squash should start to brown and caramelize.  If not, broil for an additional 3 minutes.

Enjoy this as is for a side dish or stuff with something savory for a main course.

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8 Responses to Squashed

  1. liz2024 says:

    Yeah I love any baked vegetable. And baked squash is so satisfying to a hungry stomach! I’ve had acorn squash with a mustard, butter and brown sugar glaze and it was awesome!

  2. Roasting does amazing things to squash. I think you should stuff your acorn again with the mushroom stuffing. Cook both on their own. Stuff. Drizzle some olive oil, coat with a nice dusting of cheese and broil. Heaven.

  3. I’m squash-phobic. But you managed to make it sound pretty good, here 🙂

    • Wendi says:

      Kitchen Witch – could you really say no to something with butter and brown sugar that is so ridiculously easy to fix? BTW, mango, shrimp, avocado wraps rocked. The salmon with lemon butter sauce was good too but it made the whole house smell like pan fried fish….ewww.

  4. yum squash. we had a moroccan butternut squash and chickpea curry last night and it was fantastic. but i’m actually super psyched for the leftovers for today’s dinner too–since the flavor of cooked squash (for me) matures with age.

    • Wendi says:

      Beth, I agree that most things taste better the next day. And to go off topic for a sec, I think I’m going to make my maiden voyage to Atwater’s this week. The Catonsville shop is open and I think some fresh soup would taste great with our grilled cheese sammys tomorrow night.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

I've linked several times to posts over at the blog Dispatches from TJICistan.  TJIC is an outspoken (some might say extremely so) advocate of smaller government.  He's also a firearms owner in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.  While he owns guns, it appears that he's no longer allowed to possess any:
ARLINGTON (CBS) – A blog threatening members of Congress in the wake of the Tucson, Arizona shooting has prompted Arlington police to temporarily suspend the firearms license of an Arlington man.
It was the headline “1 down and 534 to go” that caught the attention. “One” refers to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in the rampage, while 534 refers to the other members of the U.S. House and Senate.

Police are investigating the “suitability” of 39-year-old Travis Corcoran to have a firearms license
Let's ignore for the moment how many people were investigated for making similar comments about George W. Bush.  Let's look at the "logic" being exercised by the Arlington Po-Po, shall we?

They claim that Corcoran is so dangerous that, while he has done nothing more than put up a blog post, he must be restrained from possessing firearms.  However, it appears that it's not worth it for the police to follow him, or stake out his place, or arrest him.

Look, guys, if you think that his speech rises to the level of an actual threat of specific harm to specific persons, he should be in jail.  If you're not sure, then do the leg work to establish whether it is or not.

So, what do we know about the Arlington Police Department?  We know that they're lazy - nobody assigned to watch over this "dangerous" suspect.  We know that they're biased - Arlington is a hotbed of George W. Bush hatred, and the last decade would offer a wealth of examples of similar or worse speech, none of which was investigated.

And we know that they're idiots.  It's not like there isn't a ton of case law on how the First Amendment applies to threats of political violence.  Arlington will lose this, if it ever gets to trial.  Post Heller and McDonald, they'll lose even worse.  Idiots.

But this is, as JayG points out, an attack not only on the First Amendment, but on the Second as well.  An attack of this sort - groundless in logic, and arguably mendacious in nature - is an attack on all.  And so I have to stand with TJIC.

I am TJIC.  So are you.  If you blog, you are hereby authorized to use this image (created by your humble host, using The Gimp, not that it took any skill).  Please link back to this post.

It would be one thing if the law were applied equally to all.  It's not, and it will be applied disproportionately to us, because we hold views considered by some in power to be Double Plus Ungood.  Lefties in particular, this is your moment.  You say that you stand for good governance.  Prove it.

It was not a famous Massachusetts citizen who said We must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately.  Benjamin Franklin was more circumspect than the men from Massachusetts, such as Sam Adams, who said this:
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Eliminationist rhetoric right there.  Clearly, the Arlington Police would have seized his firearms.  What a sad, degraded state for a once proud Commonwealth.  It seems that I got out just in the nick of time.

UPDATE 21 January 2011 8:40: Boy, this is getting some attention.

To CNN, I have absolutely no idea what you mean by saying I'm an "affiliate" of TJIC.  Other than a shared love of freedom and dislike of tyranny,  there's no connection.  I guess that Irony 101 is no longer a required course in Journalism School, but thanks for all the traffic!

To everyone who thinks the whole situation stinks, here's something that you can do to help (cut and pasted from my post here for your convenience):

-------------- Begin ---------------
We've all seen what happens when you combine crazy gun laws with possibly politically motivated government.  A bunch of folks took this kind of personally.  People have been asking what they can do.

TJIC himself has been pretty gracious about the whole thing, saying that he's in good shape (so far) and recommending that people toss another sawbuck in the plate on Sunday if they want to help the world out.  Fine advice for all of us.

But +5 Insightful to Top Of The Chain, who brings a wicked smaht idea:

So last night after I buycotted a graphic novel from Heavy Ink, TJIC commented on the previous post with this.

Btw, if comic books aren't your thing, I own and run a second business:

Sign up for Combat Pistol University

... or Gunsmithing University:

...or one of the others:
So instead of entertaining yourself with the latest Spiderman, Batman, etc., you can get yourself some practical knowledge from a variety of subjects.
The idea isn't a boycott, it's a buycott - support business that you like.  I look and see all sorts of shooty goodness there, including this:
oday the M1 is enjoying a resurgence as a long range match rifle through the DCM program and the recent availability of imported surplus rifles. If you own a M1 Garand or it's magazine fed brother the M1A you'll want this course so that you can truly understand how your rifle functions, be able to totally strip it and reassemble it down to the last part and perform basic repairs. You will even understand how that mysterious clip feed system works and how to adjust it. Improving accuracy is also discussed. The differences and similarities internally between the M1 and the M1A are shown in detail.

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Customers who rented this DVD also rented

So take a moment to browse over to SmartFlix.  There may just be something there for you - if so, order it.  Post it on your site.

And to the point of this post - let's drive so much business his way that Governor Patrick will want to break ground at the new SmartFlix World Headquarters. --------------- End ----------------

Phillip said...

I've asked JayG, and I'll ask you... Why would anyone want to live in MA? I'm just not hearing anything good from it from anyone.

bluesun said...

I'm in.

Jay G said...

I'm in MA because my wife - the mother of my two lovely children - does not want to move.

No. Other. Reason.

If she came up to me tomorrow and said "it's time", there would be a for-sale sign on my front lawn before the end of the day.

We could relocate to NH and my commute wouldn't change.

Unless and until she wants to move, though, I remain... Stuck in Massachusetts.

Gonna link that, BP. Thanks.

Link P said...

Linked and spread into the wilds. I am TJIC!

Phssthpok said...

18 USC, sections 241 and 242.

Apply liberally as needed.

(wv: reeljoy)

TCA said...

I am TJIC. Added it to my FB.

Graybeard said...

I'm in. Heard about this today, and had been wondering why his site was down last night.

It could be any one of us.

og said...

I'm in.

Rick C said...

TJIC's site is still down.

I noticed this morning that the CBS story had been linked by Drudge, although it doesn't have any direct links back to Travis' website, but there probably are enough people who can figure it out to be able to crash the site.

Anonymous said...

Why is this gentleman just going to turn over his firearms???

Where are the Patriots that live close to this gentleman and why have they not drawn a line in the sand?????

Everytime a situation like this arises and Patriots back down it only becomes more apparent that our side is a paper tiger.

Newark, Ohio

Anonymous said...

"Don't bother with your First Amendment rights"

Our 1st Amendment rights are not absolute. For example, you cannot yell fire in a crowded movie theater nor can you threaten to shoot someone with your gun.

TJIC didn't threaten to shoot someone, he threatened to shhot ever other memeber of Congress except Gabrielle Goffords.

When Tea Party members bring their guns to political rallies, it reminds me of jihadists who use lethal force and terror for political purposes.

Borepatch said...

Point of order, Anonymous (8:47): you said:

TJIC didn't threaten to shoot someone, he threatened to shhot ever other memeber of Congress except Gabrielle Goffords.

He did no such thing. His comments were along the lines of the old lawyer joke: What do you call a ship full of lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A good start.

To say that is a threat to lawyers is laughable on its face. Same as with TJIC's comment. Inflammatory? Perhaps. Boorish? Maybe.

But the First Amendment seems to me to apply especially to speech that people are likely to see as boorish.

And your comment comparing people who peacefully exercise their Second (and First) Amendment rights at Tea Party rallies - even if they happen to be armed - with those who cut off the heads of their enemies, or blow up school buses filled with their enemy's children is not just hysterical, but idiotic.

Come back with a complaint when a Tea Partier actually opens fire - as opposed to a lefty psycho that the idiotic media has tried to pain as a Tea Partier - and we'll talk. Until then, you are complaining about political statements, not violence.

I really don't see why this is so hard to understand.

Borepatch said...

Doug, the cartridge box is the last of the four boxes (soap box, ballot box, etc). Most of us simply don't think it's time for that particular box.

Especially because we're winning. Not just Heller and McDonald, but the number of states embracing "shall issue" and considering open carry. We have them on the run.

DaddyBear said...

What a disgrace. Graphic and post about it are up on my site.

ASM826 said...

Looks like he took the blog down. I'd like to read what he's had to say, not just the one post, but the general tone.

Anonymous said...

He said: "1 down, 535 to go."

Gabrielle Giffords down (by gunshot) 535 (Congressmen) to go.

Borepatch said...

Anonymous, he didn't say that he would take them down.

There was a film produced about assassinating George Bush. You can watch part of hit on Youtube.

Which rights should the producers lose? (answer: NONE)

Fred said...

Posted and linked.

Midwest Chick said...

Borepatch--well said. What he said was boorish and in bad taste, but no threats were made and actually what he said was tame compared to what folks on the other side of the ideological fence have come up with.

I don't have to agree with the words to support the right to say them.

Hopefully this will wash out on the side of the First Amendment since the action taken is completely unconscionable and as Mr. B said in his post, a slippery slope that we cannot let pass unnoticed.

Guy S said...

Thanks for the heads up on this. I have linked and posted about same. (also tried to trackback, if id didn't work let me know and I will try again).

This whole thing is reprehensible. But considering Levin and most of the other major talk show hosts who consistently get the current admins knickers in a knot, would also -in Levins case personally- have their lawyers eat the DOJ for lunch, and probably have SCOTUS rule in their favor, it is no wonder why it was a small blogger they went after. Perhaps it is time to remind them about the power of numbers (again).

I too am TJIC!!

Kevin said...

Posted and linked. Came here by way of DirtCrasher's blog. That's some scary stuff.

GuardDuck said...

This is the kind of activity that makes people say the kind of things that TJIC said.

It's a self balancing mechanism. They stop doing bad government things, people stop talking bad about government. They keep doing bad government things......

Joshkie said...

Sorry, I can't get to excited about this; as, until people living in MA band together or the NRA gets of it's lazy ass and starts a legal defense fund, specificly for this case, that I can donate to I can't do anything her in TX.
I kind of getting tired of poeple whining in MA ( or other places) about their crapy gun laws and I haven't seen any cases going to the Supreme Court, except in DC and Chicago. We need more.
Instead of us just whining about it on our blogs let's have a call to actionn.

If you want thing to change your going to need to fight for it.

sofa said...

posted and linked. I am TJIC.

Anonymous said...

"1 down, 535 to go."

Borepatch: "he didn't say that he would take them down."

He proposed that the rest of Congress be taken down as Giffords was.

What do you think he was saying?

chinasyndrome said...

Borepatch it seems preemptive justice is with us now.arrest people for thoughts and speech!I am linking.

TJIC said...

@Joshkie said..
> Sorry, I can't get to excited about this; as, until people living in MA band together...If you want thing to change your going to need to fight for it.

Over the last decade I've given generously to pro-2A groups - I'm a lifetime member of the NRA, of GOAL, of JPFO, and the FCSA. I blog about gun issues.

...and now I'm paying through the nose for a high priced attorney, to fight this nonsense.

I ** am ** defending gun rights here in the People's Republic of MA.

@Phillip said...
> I've asked JayG, and I'll ask you... Why would anyone want to live in MA?

This is my home. This is where my godkids are, where my friends are, and where my house is.

I don't believe in running away from a fight.

The "X, love it or leave it" rhetoric is nonsensical. People are entitled both to live in their homes AND to have the preexisting rights which were recognized by the Constitution.

Blue said...

Iowa passed "Shall Issue" lgeislation which went into effect on 1 JAN 11. We thought it wa a good thing and that we'd finally won a small victory.

Now, 3 weeks later, the towns, cities, and counties are passing resolutions banning firearms on town, city, and county property. The Sheriff of my county says he won't enforce the new resolutions on county roads. Malls and businesses are posting "No Firearms Allowed" signs on their doors. So much for the victory.

ZerCool said...

aczarnowski said...

[seething] I'm so very, very sick of being boiled slowly.

I was wondering what happened but chalked it up to blog software updates. Thanks for the rundown Borepatch.

Find a way to let us know how ($) we can help TJIC. Give 'em hell!

Joshkie said...

TJIC - The point is talk to your lawyour start a defense fund a web site and ask for donations people like me will help as much as they can don't just ask us to whine about it. Gives us a way to help; get us involved.

SpeakerTweaker said...

I am TJIC. I will be linking up right away.

Joel said...

Linked and spread. I blogged about the incident yesterday, but somehow missed the fact that it was our Travis. That has now been corrected.

Come back soon, TJIC.

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

Linked and blogged. (Blogger doesn't seem to like Wordpress's trackbacks.)

Good luck, TJIC. Let us know if/when there's a legal defense fund set up and I'll link to that, too.

bob r said...

It was not a famous Massachusetts citizen who said "We must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin was more circumspect than the men from Massachusetts, ...

Minor quibble: Ben Franklin was from Massachusetts:

He left Boston for Philadelphia at age 17.

Another minor quibble: TJIC may have used 534 but the "correct" number would to 545. And before anybody gets their knickers in a knot: I'm not threatening nor advocating anything. I just wouldn't shed any tears if the lot of them were to end up "at the bottom of the sea".

Arctic Patriot said...

Posted at my site.

First they came for TJIC...

If TJIC were a lefty, there would be a rowdy crowd in his town already.

And we wonder why we're on the losing end of this thing.

DC Handgun Info said...

I'm linking with an image and a link to you.

To Blue: Iowa's situation sounds FUBAR, and so was Virginia's, once, with liberal, "nanny" cities making LOCAL laws banning concealed carry. It worked (badly) only to have law-abiding arrested, and did nothing to cut crime. It took a lawsuit to say, "Hey, state law is supreme over any town, county, or other subdivision law." In Fairfax County, VA, public libraries tried to post No Guns signs. A lawsuit stopped that, too. Join your state-level gun rights organization. Try one of these; I can't vouch for any of them:

Fight. Never say "surrender"! Stay safe and stay legal. (Read my blog)

MAgunowner said...

Surprisingly, Arlington is one of the best towns in metro Boston to be a gun owner. The chief there routinely issues "unrestricted" licenses to carry, allowing for CCW.

Boston, and most other towns in the area, puts "Restrictions: Sport and Target, No Concealed" on most licenses.

There have been some high-profile cases of chiefs revoking licenses for reasons of suitability. In Lowell, a man's collection of 40 guns was stolen from a basement vault, so he lost his LTC. A Boston police officer had hers revoked because she resigned from the force.

We have some lawsuits in the works that will seek to remove discretionary licensing in MA.

Harry Steele said...

Actually Mr Anonymous..... You CAN yell fire in a crowded theater....

It is, in my opinion, PAST time to start shooting the bastards.......

Did I just say I was going to shoot, or tell anyone else to do so? NO, You F***ING govt workers reading this.... I did not.

Tam said...

Deprivation of rights under color of law, plain and simple.

Anonymous said...

"Tam said...

Deprivation of rights under color of law, plain and simple."

That can be found at Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 242 of the United States Code for those who don't know. How about you get on it you deliberately myopic federal bastards. Might I point out that Sec. 241 would also arguably apply.

Ed said...

For what it's worth, I'm in.

Anonymous said...

We are, all of us, TJIC.

Even those like Anon, who are just too blind to see.

The irony is not lost, and Tam has said it best, that we are speaking here of "the cradle and the grave of liberty"...leave Mass behind? I would, but I am not the man that Mr. Adams was or Mr. Corcoran is.

But I *am* TJIC!

Sir, please find a way to solicit and accept contributions from us all for what is unquestionably the defense of us all.

Stephen said...

I am TJIC.

Ian Argent said...

A little of me imitating Voltaire - The Lair: In which I join defend a man I don’t agree with

Dan F. said...

I wonder if all the 'anonymous' posters here would defend those who burned Bush in effigy, etc.

This shoe looks pretty good on the other foot.

Anonymous said...

Do you want these comments shared with 1st graders? I hear he is a cub scout leader...

Ian Argent said...

I don't know about you, but I say plenty of things I wouldn't want to have cub scouts to hear. Ever cracked a naughty joke? Or linked to Oleg Volk?

Good grief.

Ian Argent said...

And, you know, what does his fitness for being a cub scout leader have to do with his fitness to own and possess the means of effective self-defense?

TJIC said...

@Anonymous said...
> Do you want these comments shared with 1st graders? I hear he is a cub scout leader...

Yes, @Anonymous, it's true - I was a scout myself, I was an assistant scoutmaster to a troop of boy scouts in Ithaca, NY, and I'm a Den Leader to a group of cub scouts here in Arlington. I like giving back to my community.

Borepatch, can you check the IP address of the anonymous coward ? I want to see if it matches the IP address I have for the guy who seems to have filed the false police reports against me - an old political foe here in town.

K. Erickson said...

I'm not sure I did the linking properly, but I posted a piece in support.

Ian Argent said...

@TJIC: A political enemy filing a police report on you for that, that's reprehensible on both their part and the police's part. Hope there's a way you can take them to the legal cleaners as well.

Thnk said...

The investigation is ongoing as of now. And his Twitter exchange unequivocally and repeatedly advocates and attempts to justify political assassination as a "legitimate tool" for citizens who take issue with the Federal government. Combining that with his blog posts ("1 down, 534 to go"), if this doesn't represent a "credible threat" (Arlington police), I don't know what does.

Ian Argent said...

And if/when he is charged they can get a judge to restrict his rights via due process of law. For that matter, the local cops aren't investigating (officially) the threats, but his "suitability".

Borepatch said...

Thnk, my first reaction was "glad you're quoting an unbiased source", but that is as unworthy as all the ThinkProgress commenters who are dismissing anything from Breitbart. So let's address your comment:

1. We just came out of 8 years of the most astonishingly violent rhetoric from the left, directed at George W Bush. I have a comment higher up that links to a Youtube video clip from the film "The assassination of George W. Bush". Nobody that I've heard of was ever prosecuted (or had their property seized) after making those sorts of statements.

2. TJIC made several posts on this subject, including one where he explicitly said that he did *not* advocate assassination of politicians. The one I found most thoughtful was the one where he applied Catholic "Just War" doctrine to the question, and said that political assassination fell far short of what might justify it, per JWD. I follow TJIC pretty regularly, and his site is down (and Google seems to have scrubbed the cache), so you'll have to take my word on this, although he says he'll put everything back once this is resolved.

3. What rankles is the arbitrariness (see point #1). I posted earlier this week about how the Left should be invested in good governance; this is a poster child for despotism: arbitrary exercise of authority based on the expression of what is unpopular to one side, while equal statements from the other side are given a pass. Since the Left is the crowd that wants to grow governmental authority, it's really telling that we're hearing nothing but silence from that side.

And so back to my opening statement about ThinkProgress. It's plausible that the crowd there are happy to see speech they don't like suppressed. I've had more than one (private) exchange with Massachusetts gun owners who are quite explicit that they feel intimidated by this, that opening their mouths (or posting comments) will be used against them.

If you think I'm being unfair to think that this is an outcome that would be welcomed over at ThinkProgress, I invite you to comment there on this intimidation aspect. I expect you'll see a lot of people heartily agreeing with my indictment of them. If not, point out their condemnation (or even their silence) and I shall apologize handsomely.

Mike said...

Posted. This is not good.

Old NFO said...

Well said BP, well said...

bs footprint said...

Man, this is seriously messed up. I just discovered TJIC last week, and now I find out that is down, and his rights have been trampled. Sigh.

I must say: I am TJIC, and so are you.

K said...

Please, those of us who don't blog are in need of bumper stickers.

I am TJIC.

Timmeehh said...

If you don't stand up to your government NOW, then this is what you can expect in the near future :

Captainonymous said...

I had Dispatches from TJICistan bookmarked a while ago but that computer is in storage while I am in transition during a loooong move process. And then I read an article a bit ago about how a 'blogger' and 'comic book store owner' had his guns seized and a (carry permit?) (nullified?) because of what to me was a tongue-in-cheek remark, but definitely did not rise to the level of 'this is a threat and we need to act.'

And I didn't make the connection until I just saw it on Balko's and saw exactly WHO it was. TJIC, this sucks, and if I had any money I would definitely buycott my way into proclaiming I support our shared right to be flip and idly discuss and joke about the violent, gruesome, and oh-so-moist deaths of seated Senators and Congressmen.

And while we're at it, LEOs in Arlington. So if anyone wants to take potshots at LEOs in Arlington, be aware of your surroundings and be aware of what is behind your target, please!

Also I do not advise taking potshots at LEOs in Arlington. The preceeding is some combination of satire, absurdity, and a great big middle finger to the Arlington Police Department.

Also, dear Arlington Police Department: !@#$ off you jackbooted thugs.

Borepatch said...

Katia, if you want to make a bumper sticker with this at CafePress, go ahead. I expect that most people won't know what you're talking about, but that probably applies to 70% of all the bumper stickers available today. ;-)

Timmeehh, that is extra sucky. Canada's screwed - it's turning into the UK which is REALLY screwed. The problem for us South Of The Border is that once you're well and truly screwed, you'll export your screwedness to us. :-(

@Captainonymous, I'm glad you qualified your post. Let's keep this from over heating. Some people think we're not going to vote ourselves out of this, but I'm not sure about that. At the extreme, there's the example I just set, where I voted with my feet. One less Blue State resident; one more Red Stater. We're not ready yet for the cartridge box.

Campfire Mike said...

I've linked to this over at

We are all TJIC.

Anonymous said...

Of course, CNN and USA Today must be affiliates of the Democrat Party. Their connections are much more numerous than yours to TJIC.

Anonymous said...

Let the locals know what you think:

JohnMXL said...

Add me to the list...

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Anonymous said...

Left...right...whatever you call it they're all politicians. If you want real "Hope" or change you have to take the career out of thier service and remove the self serving benefits so they begin to represent the people. vote term limits on ALL politicians and make them all return to society and live with the laws and votes they make. If not, they will maintaiin the elitist mentality and continue to save you from yourself because you aren't smart enough to take care of yourself. They will continue to invest with insider information because they have the access and ability to make decisions and vote to their benefits. If you make their positions as "Public Servants" short and pay them only for their time in "service" then politicians would have to serve and live with the decisions they made after they leave service. To include getting a job where they pay their bills like the rest of the taxpayers. ..

nooneofanyimport said...

I'm in as well. Please add me to the list.

PS on what authority has his website been blocked? Or did the blog server decide to do it on their own?

spiro said...

When I noticed Travis' blog was down, I assumed HE shut it down to avoid the trouble of crazies trolling, the idea that the thought police came in a shut him down never crossed my mind. After all, I live in America, where this shit doesn't happen, right? right?
That only happens in Orwell novels, or regimes run by guys named Stalin, Mao, or Castro, right?

Maybe Glenn Beck's apocalyptic warnings about this country aren't so far out there.....

Diogenes said...

Graphic and link back up. Small commentary from me as well.

Phssthpok said...

I was up late last night. Sometime after midnight Eastern time I visited Atomic Nerds and noticed they had joined in.

As of 7AM Eastern their (blog?) account is suspended:

Another victim of unpopular speech? Seems a little too coincidental to me but then...wait a tinfoil keeps slipping...

ctd said...

"Deprivation of rights under color of law, plain and simple."

For which US Code prescribes punishment which is rather ... severe.

The logical conclusion for which Travis pontificates is, in fact, encoded in law.
May all tread carefully.

OrphanWilde said...

Not to trivialize what TJIC is going through, but I do wonder whether this gives him legal standing to challenge MA's gun laws on a broader basis, or whether he'd have to lose out in the investigation for that to be the case.

Considering how many ways this breaches constitutional law I would think he'd have a slam-dunk case, especially if they find against him.

CB said...

I am TJIC. Added it to my FB.

wheelchairs said...

I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I’ll love to read your next post too.

Patrick said...

I've been sick and not posting very much so... better late than never..

I am TJIC.

Just Jess said...

I found a new iPhone GunLaw app that's pretty cool.

Another Ed said...

Glad to see the good work of a few Cub Scout leaders.

I particularly enjoyed teaching Cub Scouts basic safety and marksmanship with both BB rifles and archery during Cub Scouts Day Camps for several summers.

Start the good habits and healthy attitudes when they are young.

When the boys are old enough for Boy Scouts and summer camp they can earn merit badges in black powder rifle, .22 LR rifle, shotgun and archery.


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Coleman Sharp, but Cubs Fall to Sox in Extras

The Cubs jumped out to a 3-0 lead and Casey Coleman made that stand while he was in the game for three strong innings.  However, Andy Sonnanstine had another rough outing which let the Sox right back in the game, and gave them a brief 5-3 lead.  The Cubs were able to fight back and tie it late, but left runners on the corners in the 8th inning.  Jordan Danks belted a 2-run homer in the 10th inning to give the White Sox a two run lead, and eventually the victory.

W:  Castro (1-1)   L:  Mateo (0-2)   SV:  Heath (1)
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At the Plate:

The cubs had a productive day at the plate, they sprayed the ball all over the field in scoring five runs on ten hits.  Campana, Vitters, and Castro all had two hits on the day, both Castro and Vitters had doubles.  Vitters also drove in one, had a walk, and scored two runs.  Amezaga had a two-run double to tie the game in the eighth inning.  Baker, Jackson, and Rizzo all had hits on the day as well.

On the Mound:

Some good, some bad for the Cubs in the pitching department on Sunday afternoon.  Casey Coleman got the start, and went three strong, scoreless innings.  Kerry Wood, and Carlos Marmol both followed with scoreless innings as well.  Marmol has now had two scoreless appearances since he sat down with Sveum and had “the talk.”  Andy Sonnanstine got beat up again, he gave up five runs on six hits, and two walks over 2 innings of work.  Mateo was tagged with the loss, after working two innings and giving up 2 runs (1 earned) on three hits over two innings.

On Deck:

Travis Wood takes the ball on Monday afternoon against the Mariners.  This is a big start for Wood if he want’s to be apart of not only the Cubs rotation this season, but the team.  Wood has been knocked around so far this spring, especially his last outing giving up six runs on three hits, with two walks over 1/3rd of an inning.  Spots and chances are becoming limited as Samardzija and Volstad have been lights out so far.  The game will be broadcast live and FREE on at 3:05 PM Central.

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Magazine Covers: Tameka “Tiny” Harris Talks Keeping Things Wild With T.I. In The Bedroom And How She Responds When Haters Compare Her To Ms.Piggy

- By Bossip Staff

You may not like Tiny but you will respect her.

Tiny Talks Marriage With T.I. And Criticism

Tiny is currently covering the latest issue of Rolling Out Magazine, and inside, she dishes on how she is able to handle constant criticism, as well as how she manages to stay positive in a world full of negativity. She also dishes how her and hubby T.I keep things spicy in the bedroom.

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On how she manages to maintain her cool despite the constant criticism

I do it with confidence. I believe that confidence is everything for a woman. You just have to be comfortable with who you are and what you bring to the table. I’m at the point in my life where I pretty much don’t give a s— what people think … but if I see something that I don’t like on Twitter and I feel like I want to say something back, I will, because that’s just me. I’m not really quick with my temper, though, and I stay positive and surround myself with positive people. At the end of the day, positivity is the thing that you need the most … that and confidence.

Again, it’s all about positivity. You’ve got to know that today is just a bad day, and you just have to take it in and keep moving because tomorrow can be a better day. I never let things keep me down, so if it’s a bad moment right now, I will deal with it keep it moving. And if I’m feeling like I’m not looking right, I just don’t take any pictures.

On how she felt when T.I called her his wife for the first time

I was kind of like ”damn, that’s me.” I felt like a lucky lady and I love it every time I hear it. It just does something to me … it sends a signal to my body and tells me to jump all over him whenever possible [laughs].

Her advice to those who want to spice up their relationships

You have to try new things and be open and talk about things that you’re interested in. You also have to talk about things that he’s interested in and see if you guys can come to a happy medium, and just get wild … that brings a little something extra to the bedroom.

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Swirl Problems: Kimmy Cakes Mad At Kanye For Going Public With Photo Of Baby North?

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They’re fighting over the baby already.

Kanye And Kim Battling Over Baby And Public Lives

Kim and Kanye are probably arguing over naming their baby North.

According to Radar Online

Kanye West may have proudly debuted the first photo of North West on her grandmother’s talk show, but in doing so RadarOnline.com has learned that he and Kim Kardashian are in an intense power struggle over their daughter and the public lives.

“Kim is getting really upset that Kanye has been taking over and making all of the public announcements about baby North,” a source close to the reality star told RadarOnline.com.

“She hasn’t been able to do anything. She didn’t announce that she was pregnant. She didn’t get to show off the baby first. Kanye is doing everything and it’s cause a huge power struggle between the two of them.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Kanye is trying to control Kim now that they have a child together.

“Kanye wants to make sure that every single aspect of Kim’s life is now handled the way he wants it to be,” the source said.

This is especially distressing for Kim because she craves the spotlight and being shut away from the photographers and fans that she loves is difficult for her.

“Kim likes having her picture taken and she knows that she has to do that in order to stay relevant and so she still keeps in touch with paps who can take her picture,” the source said.

“It is never a surprise when a photographer gets a picture of Kim, and so the two times that she’s been with the baby, at the doctor’s appointment and at Kanye’s grandfather’s funeral, and been photographed are most likely because she has been tipping them off and this is infuriating her baby daddy.”

The source said it’s a tough time for Kim and Kanye as they try and handle their personal and professional lives.

“Kim wants to be in charge and so does Kanye and they’re constantly butting heads. She is a really strong woman and just because she had a baby with Kanye doesn’t mean she doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life and her daughter’s life.”

Kim has been absent from the spotlight lately and we all know she craves attention. Kim should just go with the flow…we’ve all seen how Kanye gets when he’s angry.

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Think Talking to Your Therapist Online Is A Fad?….Think Again

image-1It is now roughly 10 years since I saw my first client online. I remember it as clear as day. Sitting in my office waiting for my two o’clock appointment, sipping on the tea I had made in the 15 minutes between appointments, I received a panicked call regarding the state of the client’s car. It had broken down and she would need to reschedule. Anxious to calm the lady’s nerves, I jumped in and said “Ok, fire up Skype, we will do it like that”. At the end of the session, she  commented “Do you know how comfortable that was? I can sit here with my dogs, my coffee and you know the trip to your office is a pain!” (I lived in a rather remote location at that time). I agreed that we would continue our little experiment and an idea was born. It took me a few more years to really do things seriously but it started the journey I am still enthusiastically on.

It has come a long way from those early days. Skype is not a suitable method for delivering sessions and I have gone on to highly encrypted video and audio systems, online payment and high end fibre-optic internet speeds. All of which are needed to run the business properly. Unfortunately, there are still people who are offering therapy on such platforms as Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp and on chat programs. Something I am not prepared to even consider. In my opinion, online therapy needs to be as similar as it possibly can be to sitting in a therapist’s office and that means video with phone as a back up so you can see and hear who you are talking to, you can question and see what circumstances they are delivering a session in. That said, the trend in the industry is towards ever more mobile provision and apps and devices will be developed to do this. It is where I see the next level for my business.

The online experience is a very convenient but also brings challenges to the client and the therapist. From a therapist’s view (my own), it usually means long hours working early mornings and late nights as you “travel” across time zones. Hours spent in front of a computer screen (self-care is important) and then a realisation that even though sessions are finished, there are mails to answer.  It also means to have an internet and social media presence. That means time taken to write articles, produce podcasts and videos, post on social media on top of all the normal admin associated with client notes. It also means being available between sessions to answer emails and enquiries from prospective and existing clients. Something that was not such a feature myimage office setting before. It is also to be an information source and I get many emails from people who just want to ask a question. This is all part of the online experience for the client and one that an online therapist must be willing to perform. This is why not every therapist is suitable to transfer their practice online.

For the client, it is the ultimate in convenience. Sessions can be taken from anywhere, the home office, on trips even in the car (yes…that happens). There is no traveling, parking, taking time off work and sessions can be done at any time. I get clients who say to me that they chose to work with me online for that very reason and more. They can see me before or after work. I can be reached by just sending a mail and they feel supported through crisis at the click of a mouse. Clients rarely cancel due to illness or the weather and always seem to be able to find the right place to have a session. How much better can it get than sitting at your kitchen table with coffee in hand?

In the last ten years, I have seen many changes in the way therapy is being delivered and those changes won’t stop. As with everything technological, it will advance quickly and I have seen that in my industry too. There are companies developing specialist software products and the general mood towards online therapy is easing when it comes to insurance companies and managed care systems. It has to because it is my firm opinion that we will reach a point somewhere in the future where there are more patients online than sitting in a therapist’s office and that time is not too far away.

So what can we expect the future to hold in this exciting industry? As stated earlier, the trend will be towards ever more mobile provision as is the trend in computing generally. Apps will be developed and software systems become more complicated. Even now, you could theoretically run a session on your smart watch! Provision will become smarter and leaner. What the industry needs is regulation.Not regulation that will stifle entrepreneurial spirit but regulation that will guarantee that those providing telehealth are qualified to do so. That, I suppose will be the next and most difficult stage. However, at the moment, there are many clients enjoying the ease and convenience of meeting their therapist online and that in the end is the most important thing. If you have a question about Online Therapy, please feel free to contact me using the form below.

Dr. Nicholas Jenner is a counseling psychologist in private practice working with individuals, couples, groups and companies with a speciality in CBT techniques. Apart from seeing clients face-to-face, Dr. Jenner also runs a thriving online therapy business bringing help to those who find taking therapy online as convenient and tailored for their needs. More Details HERE

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Nicole Crawford is a certified personal trainer and women's fitness specialist (NASM) and a pre- and post-natal fitness specialist (AFPA). Nicole thinks all moms should have the opportunity and support they need to stay fit. She volunteers at crisis pregnancy centers and is completing DONA International's requirements to become a certified birth doula. Connect with Nicole: Nicole@BreakingMuscle.com

 How to maintain your fitness, and sanity, while trying to get pregnant.

During the third 28-day phase of the Fertility Cycle, we’ll increase the frequency of your workouts without a steep increase in intensity. Starting with the first day of menstruation, I will take you through a day-by-day approach to exercise, with a daily schedule provided for your entire 28-day cycle. There is one rest day noted, but take a second day of your choice off for active or complete rest.

This cycle of workouts is intended for women who do intense exercise for five or more hours per week. It is based on my own research and experience. I used this approach to regain my own fertility after the birth of my second child, with great success.

You might find it challenging to cut back on the time you spend in the gym, but doing so will help your body establish regularity. It’s understood that you want to continue being active while trying to become pregnant. The plan includes at least one sport or activity day per week, depending on where you are in your cycle, so you can continue the activities you enjoy while increasing your fertility.

Of course, not all women have the same cycle length, so repeat or skip days as needed. I recommend keeping a log of other markers such as energy levels, sex drive, and vaginal discharge to help you track where you are in your cycle.

Day 22

Rest day

Day 23

Short Bodyweight Workout:
5 Rounds:

  • Jump rope 2 minutes
  • Push ups x 10
  • Australian pull up x 10
  • Side plank x 30 seconds R/L
  • Pistols x 5 R/L

30 minutes skill work

Day 24

Sport day - play your sport for 1 hour

Day 25

Skill work - 30 minutes.
Practice an exercise you are working on – pull ups, push ups, pistols, or weight lifting movements with moderate weight (no more than 70% max) for 20 minutes.

Day 26

Active rest day - 1 hour walk or 30 minute easy run

Day 27

Easy sport day

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Ask Me About the Squirrel

My mom drives me crazy. I somehow believe that my grandmother had more sense.

For instance, me, my daughter and my mom were sitting on our patio, enjoying the day. A squirrel hopped along our fence. I’m not a big fan of squirrels, I actually find them rather annoying, but that’s about it. My mom freaked out that the squirrel would somehow hurt my kid who was sleeping peacefully in her super-safe car seat.

“She (the squirrel – ed) was hopping atop the fence, but then she stopped and stared at the baby!”

I tried to talk some sense into my mom: “She stares at me too, she’s a dumb animal. But there is no known specie of carnivorous squirrels.”

My mom probably felt cornered because she said: “What if she missteps and falls into the car seat?”

If you think that my mom is crazy, consider her brother. He was ones driving down the freeway with his daughter and her kids following a minute or two behind. He saw an eagle sitting on the tree by the freeway. I guess that eagle was particularly sinister looking because he found it necessary to call my cousin and warn her about the eagle.

My uncle gives out a false aura of rationality in everyday life… On the other hand, he’s not completely lost because he now realizes that he must had irritated my cousin tremendously.

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Tickles and Sounds

My daughter is growing and becoming more and more complex every day.

Every morning I come to her bassinette and wonder at how much larger she seems. I had to teach myself to recalculate my every move because her body is bigger and heavier each time I pick her up, and if I don’t recalculate every move, I might hurt her.

When she was born, my mother marveled at her very feminine sigh – practically the only sound she produced when she wasn’t screaming her lungs off. No worry, in a weak or two she discovered a new sound, and dropped her little sigh. That sound was an old man’s grunt. She stuck with that one for a while. Her repertoire is much larger now, and she no longer does neither the sight nor the grunt.  Her favorite is a pirate’s ARRRRR!

She talks to us with her many sounds.  I’m sure she’s full of bright ideas.  She’ll be so much fun ones she starts talking!

She’s becoming a social being, which consists of her wanting to hang out and resisting sleep. She gets herself overtired, and she exhausts her mom who now has to carry her around constantly and tickle her silly. Putting her to bed for some well-deserved sleep is not an option.

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Diaper Review

According to Consumer Reports all diapers are now good. That couldn’t possibly be true, and it’s not. The one brand I found the best is Pampers. I tried out several different kinds.

  1. Long’s Drugstore – they have a name for their diapers that I can’t recall. They are pretty good absorbency-wise, but very stiff and leave red marks in tender little skin.
  2. Huggies –absorbent and softer then Long’s, but still leave marks;
  3. Cabbage Leave – Actually they are called 7th Generation. Those are the diapers that you buy in Whole Paycheck. At the first glance they are not overpriced, though, same price per diaper as Pampers. However, they are the least absorbent of all brands I tried. Because I had to change the diaper much more often, they, in fact, are more expensive then competitors. They claim superiority over other diaper brands via eliminating chlorine. According to them chlorine causes diaper rash. All other sources I consulted site excrement as a source of diaper rash. In any case, my daughter doesn’t get the rash ever since I started using Petroleum Jelly on her buttocks. I suppose an absence of a chemical can’t hurt, but I don’t want to be a chump either. Cabbage Leave has another advantage: When other diapers feature cartoon characters widely recognizable to a person who grew up in this country, but unknown to this particular mom, Cabbage Leave is tasteful beige. Really, diaper fashion is more important to mommy then to newborn. Not to mention that your everage newborn doesn’t watch Sesame Street. At least I hope she doesn’t. Since Cabbage Leave doesn’t feature any corporate characters, the company doesn’t pay licensing fees. Unfortunately they are too cool to pass the savings to the consumer.

4. Pampers – the most annoying in appearance, but the softest and the most absorbent.

July 5, 2007. Breedosaurus, Random thoughts. Leave a comment.

Never Leave Your Bags Unattended, Esp. in Tel-Aviv Airport

Shortly before I had my daughter, I posted about a late pregnancy nightmare of mine.

I suppose I was too pregnant to really make anything of the dream.

This dream is set in three locations: Israel, a hipster hangout, UC Berkeley. They appear in reverse chronological order of what was important to me. In other words, I’m going back in time.

Dream starts in Israel, the homeland, where I am visiting with immediate female relatives. I am dreaming about my roots, feminine nature and continuation of our bloodline. Key event in this part of the dream is my family loosing our largest suitcase. At this point our largest suitcase is my uterus – at least if we are to believe Dr. Freud. There are many places where leaving your luggage unattended is not recommended. Any airport would do. Any place in Israel would do. One of my mom’s girlfriends, now an Israeli, told us of her adventures rushing to retrieve her purse in a park before police would get to it and destroy it. An Israeli airport is doubly precarious. Anyhow, equally significant is the fact that I was chasing our largest suitcase down the escalator. Down the birth canal? Giving birth is dangerous both for myself and everyone around me, and it has to be stopped.

Curiously, much of the action in this dream is taking place on the stairs, escalators and elevators. Again, the birth canal. The second act is near Mama’s Royal Café. It’s a popular breakfast place, but I found the food gross, and never frequented there. If it popped up in my dream, it’s because you know – royal mama. I’m seating at the bottom of the steps and breastfeeding. I.e. I gave birth and am now a mother. It’s working out. I’m bonding with the baby; I am in public, although near the café not inside of it. Still the baby doesn’t seem to intrude on my lifestyle too much.

But wait! I have a class, and I go even further back in time (and further away from my current home). I listen to a typical Berkeley lecture, and Berkeley is not a place where the faculty is likely to tell girls importance of motherhood in woman’s life. The class, by the way, is an undergraduate lecture. I found my undergraduate experience meaningful.

I leave after class oblivious about leaving my large bag behind. I’m relived that I don’t need to carry anything, i.e. there is no pregnancy, no burden. BTW in Russian pregnancy literally means “burdened”.

After leaving the building I remember about my baby. I left it upstairs, i.e. it never leaves the uterus, and I have to take the elevator (up the birth canal) to retrieve it. Curiously negotiation might have been in issue in my baby’s death. As I stood between floors and waiting for elevator talking to a person who always finds the middle ground my baby lied in her plastic bag suffocating. In other words, time is coming for me to give birth; if I don’t the baby will suffocate in the uterus.

Equally interesting is the later dream I mentioned in the beginning of my post. That one wasn’t a nightmare. Ségolène Royal, a mother of four, won French elections with a healthy margin. Remember Mama’s Royal Café? In other words, motherhood wins.

June 30, 2007. Breedosaurus. 1 comment.

Wiggly Little Thing

In addition to daughter-themed poetry, I came up with daughter-themed song parodies. This creation, to be sung to the tune of “Yellow Submarine” is to be sung when changing the diaper:

In the town where I reside

Lives the girl who squirts her poop.

And she tells us of her life

In the land of milky boob.

You’re a very wiggly little thing!

Wiggly little thing!

Wiggly little thing!

Wiggly little thing!

…Perhaps I should stop blogging about my daughter’s bowl movement. Despite the anonymity offered by the Internet, and despite my limited readership, stories about her precious defecation patterns can cause much embracement a couple of years down the road.

June 26, 2007. Breedosaurus. Leave a comment.

Poop! Poop! Poop!

My milk was slow to come, and, towards the end of my baby’s first week there was much talk about augmenting. I kept hoping that it was unnecessary, but my daughter wasn’t gaining weight, and although she was peeing quite a bit, she wasn’t pooping.

We made multiple visits to doctors and lactation consultants. Finally, one lactation consultant, an earthy Jamaican lady, said that it looks like the milk will be sufficient and the baby will poop sometime soon.

“Prepare yourself. I have a feeling that it will be a big poop!”

Sure enough my daughter pooped that very evening. I thought to myself, if that’s a lot of poop, I can deal.

My husband produced the last remaining bottle from our wedding to toast the occasion. Yet the next day was poop-deprived again, and I began to worry. That evening my daughter was sleeping in her car seat while her exhausted new parents stared at the TV screen. All of a sudden her face turned red and she produced the special two-step cry she favored the first month and a half of her life. Curiously she was still sound asleep.

“I bet you if anything, she pooped again,” – I said.

We brought her upstairs to her changing table, took of her diaper – and there it was, the megapoop we were warned about!

Since then she was pooping with ease. Her favorite place to poop is her changing table. We raise her legs to clean her tender behind, so, naturally, any leftover poop storms out. Sometimes there is quite a bit left because she projectile poops on the table, the wall and even the dresser across the room. She’s quite wiggly, and she manages to stick her feet into her soiled diaper despite our best efforts to restrain her.

Lately she began to display some grace, though. While we agonize about stopping her poop midair she gives us her very special big toothless changing-table grin.

June 26, 2007. Breedosaurus. Leave a comment.

Good Things Come to Those Who Don’t Try

My daughter Luuuuuuvs my dad.  She follows him with her eyes across the room, and when he comes up to her, starts vocalizing.  She is visibly disappointed when he moves away.

Due to arthritis complication my dad is not allowed to hold the baby.  Was he allowed, he wouldn’t do much of it anyways.  He loves her dearly.  He looks at her picture all day long when he’s at home, but he’s not very helpful when he’s around, and he doesn’t know how to play with her.  We had to prop him up, to tell him to talk to her about things like how his day went.  He usually produces something like “I woke up, had a cup of coffee. Then I went to a sore and bought a book.  Then I had another cup of coffee.” I plea with him to tell her about the book, but he refuses: She doesn’t understand this yet.  He didn’t play with baby me much either.  Yet somehow my mom reports that he was involved in bathtime help when I was little.  His old training kicked in when yesterday he went into the bathroom when we were washing her.  I made him hold the towels.

Why or why does she like him so much?  I have three working theories.

  1. Because he’s not involved in baby care he doesn’t upset her.  She’s never frustrated with him for not sticking her tit into her mouth fast enough.  Or for the above-mentioned water torture known as bathing.
  2. Scent.  I hear that there was another baby girl, my mother’s girlfriend’s daughter who was into him.  Perhaps he smells good to babies.
  3. He’s a bib baby himself.  Perhaps they sense a related soul.

June 26, 2007. Breedosaurus. Leave a comment.

Daytime TV Aficionado in Making?

Parenthood does strange things to women. I remember visiting a new mommy friend last December and listening to her acknowledge that she’s not that into dressing up anymore. She fought her fashion inertia, however, coming up with creative outfits that are still not too involved. I was pregnant at the time and obsessed with pregnancy fashion. I was a pretty hot pregnant mommy, looking back at it…

But today I find fashion silly. And my daughter being naturally gorgeous won’t need much accessorizing!

In the past I found daytime TV profoundly boring, and I still do. I don’t watch Oprah or The View or any of that crap, but I keep my TV on news channels, and daytime news falls significantly below my standards. Nighttime news is also below my standards, but it’s not quite as bad. I find TV an easy breastfeeding diversion. I prom myself up with pillows, place my daughter on top, and turn it on. On a good day I get my fill of Anna Nicole, Paris and Diana. On a bad day it’s a rescue worker falling into a ditch – on every channel.

And yet I’m getting to be the daytime news demographic. I can’t get a news story about vegan parents who starved their baby to death via vegan diet out of my mind.

The baby was the same age mine is now when it succumbed. I fantasize about what should be done to the parents. Should we just “shoot them” or commit then to lifetime of starving baby videos? In any event vegans should be preventively fixed. I feel so passionate about it, I would call TV station if the subject comes up! Am I becoming one of them, a dreaded boring housewife? The baby was the same age mine is now when it succumbed. I fantasize about what should be done to the parents. Should we just “shoot them” or commit then to lifetime of starving baby videos? I feel so passionate about it, I would call TV station and demand to fix vegans!  Am I becoming one of them, a dreaded boring housewife?

June 26, 2007. Breedosaurus, Random thoughts. Leave a comment.

Experience Speaking

New mothers often ask me for advise… ehr, no.  Lets pretend they do.

My advice is this: Steal hospital swaddling blankets.  Receiving blankets you buy in stores are no good.  They are too small even at birth.  Fancy blankets are too slippery.  IKEA has some good baby blankets, but they are too warm for summer nights, let alone summer days.  Then they are the blankets designed specifically for swaddling, but they are tailored to infants of certain size, so they only fit well for a couple of days.

Why can’t anyone produce proper size blankets for sale is beyond me.  I assume there is market for something like that. Then again, maybe there is not.  A good deal of baby products are designed for baby showers, i.e. they supposed to elicit baby sounds from grown women. If I had to single out the single most useless baby product I proudly own, I’d have to say its diaper duck.  A diaper duck is a ducky that looks like a ducky you get for your baby in hope that it would calm down for a second when you are washing it.  A diaper duck, on the other hand, is something that goes into mommy’s diaper bag.  Its staffed with small blue plastic bags in which parent can put a soiled diaper before disposal.  I wonder if they even bother to manufacture refills.

I guess people like buying bay staff, especially baby girl staff.  I am now in receipt of the most inexplicably frilly pink onesies; most of them unsolicited.  Unfortunately I have to thank every gift-giver profusely, which gives them ideas.

June 25, 2007. Breedosaurus, Random thoughts. Leave a comment.

Motherhood as a Humbling Experience

My daughter looks nothing like me. Cleaning up projectile poop of an individual who while being very cute, small and female strangely resembles your own husband is not a very flattering experience. And yet I persevere.

All of a sudden there is a whole range of issues about which I have no opinion.  For instance, do I change her diaper now, or do I wait and let her poop her heart out?  How do I get her to feed on a schedule?  Why is her top-rated baby carrier so hard to use?  Are we bonding or what?

Actually judging by how selflessly I get up in early am scrab off her butt, I must have bonded all right. She on the other hand, is she bonding with me? Sure she likes to fall asleep curiously close to my tit. But what is she furring her brow like that for? And why is she so happy to see the dad when he comes home from work if I spent my whole day tending to her every emerging need? To tell you the truth I’m relived to see her expressed so much interest in dad. I can relax at last.

Not only I have little or no opinion about what to do with my precious one, everyone else does! What’s frustrating is that they all seem to say something different. My doula warned me about it. Like she said, it all started in the recovery room in the hospital where every RN had her own uniquely crafted suggestion. At the time I followed the ones I liked. For instance, I told one RN that the baby cried more on the second day then the first night. “Oh, so she already switched day and night”, — she replied. Yeh right! Nevertheless from then on I followed every advice she gave.

Sometimes contradictory advices come from the same person or the same book. Better yet, from a single page of a critically acclaimed book. Marc Weissbluth’s Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child is a case in point. First he brings up all the research that shows that the amount of sleep children get does not vary crossculturally. Then he gives suggestions how to influence sleep. But if there are no crosscultural variations then sleeping habits are not learned, and why am I reading his book?

In other words, I’m confused. If I am to trust the books I read, confused parent is a bad parent because a good parent doesn’t vacillate. Perhaps I need to stop reading.

June 22, 2007. Breedosaurus, Random thoughts. Leave a comment.

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It is never right not to vote. The vote has been hard fought for and should be respected.

On Thursday we are being invited to vote in the ridiculous Police and Crime Commissioner elections in Sussex. Many people have said that they are not going to vote. I would urge everybody to cast a ballot. You may not like these elections and the party you support might not be fielding a candidate. Nevertheless, you have a democratic duty to vote.

At worst, spoil your ballot. Write a message of protest. Better still, write the name of someone not standing at the bottom of the ballot paper. If you are sad and really desperate, vote for the Brighton Politics Blogger!

Alternatively, and this is what I shall be doing, is to vote for the independent candidate, Ian Chisnall. Ian is standing on a platform that includes opposing the party political nature of these elections. I think he is absolutely right.

Everyone has assumed that Katy Bourne, the Conservative Party candidate, will comfortably win this election. I think that is a correct assumption and, given that there will be a PCC, she will make a perfectly competent Commissioner. I’m pleased that it is likely to be the only woman on the ballot paper who will be elected.

But as Alan Clark used to say, ACHAB (“anything can happen at backgammon”. I don’t understand why he said it, it just makes me sound well read!). But I think that there is a very slim chance, very slim indeed, that people around the country might vote in sufficient numbers for independent candidates in these elections.

Therefore, if you don’t like the whole idea of these Commissioners, or if you don’t want to cast a vote for a party political candidate for such a position, or if you are just mischievous, please vote for Ian Chisnall.

Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner – the protest vote should go to the Independent candidate, Ian Chisnall

With the Procession to Victory, also known as the East Brighton By-Election, fresh in our minds, we turn to the next Procession to Victory, the election to become Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner.

There are five candidates in this election:
• Tony Armstrong (UKIP)
• Katy Bourne (Conservative)
• Ian Chisnall (Independent)
• Godfrey Daniel (Labour)
• David Rogers (Liberal Democrat)

Katy Bourne (aka The Winner) has two advantages in this election: she is the only woman in the field of five and she is a Conservative. I’m not saying that the overwhelming popularity of the Conservatives at this time will be a particular advantage, but the Sussex-wide constituency should guarantee a Conservative victory.

In any election Katy would be a formidable candidate, cut as she is from the same blue cloth as my own personal favourite Conservative, Chuck Vere. But it is a shame that this election offers so little by way of a true contest.

I have previously posted my view that this election should not be contested on a party political basis. I am pleased that the Greens have decided not to field a candidate (although I imagine that that is due to pure pragmatic reasons such as the cost of running such a campaign).

I think that the only way that a Conservative candidate could have been properly challenged would have been if the other major party, Labour, and the two obscure fringe parties, the Lib Dems and UKIP, had not stood and put their support behind an independent candidate.

I am very pleased that Ian Chisnall has put himself forward as an Independent. I hope that people will vote for him if for no other reason than to make a statement that this role should not be a party political one.

So good luck to Ian Chisnall in this election and best wishes to Katy Bourne who will be elected on November 15 to represent the 1.6 million population of Sussex as the Police and Crime Commissioner. I am sure she will do a fine job.

Brighton at its best: united against fascism, against the ‘March for England’, and against the English Defence League

Today the centre Brighton came to a standstill as thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators gave the few hundred on the so-called “March for England” a really hard time. Most people know that the March for England is nothing but a front for the English Defence League (EDL).

From reports on Twitter, it sounds as though there were street fights in Church Road and police horse charges in Queens Road. From reports from those on the counter-demonstration it seems as though the police may have lost control for a short while and were heavy-handed, resorting to baton charges and the use of pepper spray. All this on a glorious spring Sunday afternoon in Brighton!

Brighton has a proud record of opposing all attempts by extreme right-wing groups from marching and meeting here. A new book by the veteran anti-Nazi campaigner, Tony Greenstein, catalogues this opposition.

I understand that both the Green Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas, and the Green Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, Bill Randall, were on the counter-demonstration. I understand that this was probably the first time in Brighton’s history that both the leader of the council and one of the local MPs have been on such a demonstration. After the appalling massacre in Norway, all anti-fascists, on the left and right, should have been on this demonstration. I’m sure that there were other councillors there and I would have hoped that both Conservative MPs would have realised the importance of taking a stand by being there in order to protect Brighton and Hove’s reputation as a cosmopolitan, inclusive City.

Perhaps readers could let me know which other leading politicians were there today. They, Unite Against Fascism, and the several thousand of other counter-demonstrators deserve our thanks.

The case for an Independent Police Commissioner

There is an investing article in this week’s Latest 7, an odd little magazine but with a great writer in Frank le Duc. This week he features the only (currently) independent candidate for the Sussex Police Commissioner, Ian Chisnall. Click here for Ian’s website.

Around the country, elections for Commissioners will take place in November. According to Frank le Duc “Two Conservatives have declared their hand – East Sussex County Council leader Peter Jones and Arun District Council member Paul Dendle, who also has a county-wide role with the party. The current police authority chairman Steve Waight may also throw his hat into the ring for the Tories.”

The Greens and Lib Dems are not expected to field candidates in the Sussex Police Commissioner election.

Labour’s Paul Richards has declared his hand although a formal selection has yet to take place. Labour originally opposed the creation of Police Commissioners, but have now decided to contest these elections.

Let’s face it, the official Conservative candidate is going to be elected. All electoral mathematics points to a substantial majority. That means that it will be Conservative Party members who will, in reality, choose the Police Commissioner. This can’t be a healthy state of affairs. It means that the successful candidate has to appeal to the narrow perspective of Tory members in deepest Sussex.

The ethical challenge for Conservative Party is whether it will organise an open selection, allowing anyone in Sussex to cast a vote in order to ensure that the elected Commissioner has wider credibility.

If not, I would suggest that the Labour Party should join with the Greens and Lib Dems by not fielding a candidate, and all supporting and campaigning for an independent candidate. Labour has nothing to lose and everything to gain – the outside possibility of not having a Party political, specifically a Conservative, Commissioner.


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Rascals: Time Will Tell

Often, a band will pass its public prime, but still be creating magnificent music. One example of this is The Rascals. Originally known as The Young Rascals, their biggest hit was one of their first, “Good Lovin’“:

By 1970, two of the four original members, Eddie Brigati and Ottawa-born Gene Cornish, had departed, leaving lead singer and principal composer Felix Cavaliere and drummer Dino Danelli to carry on with others. They changed labels, from Atlantic to Columbia, and released two albums, Peaceful World (1971) and The Island of Real (1972). Some people seem to see The Island of Real as I do, being an exceptional album meriting much greater success at the time and much greater popularity now. Somebody has uploaded three songs from the album, including the laidbackjazz “Lament” and a very funky “Time Will Tell”. “Time Will Tell” should have been a hit then, and could still be a hit today, in its original version. Background vocals by Molly Holt and Annie Sutton, the latter of whom continues to perform.

“Time Will Tell” starts at the 5 minute mark of this three song upload, followed by another song, “Lament”, that could have/should have become a jazz standard:

Postscript, August 6, 2011: Molly Holt also continues to perform, as I recently found out. She is primarily a jazz singer now. She is Marlene Holt, performing as Marlena, as may be reviewed here.

Postscript, January 26, 2013: When linking a post from Youtube, one never know how long it might last, since postings come and go, due to copyright claims and otherwise. The original link to the song no longer works, though someone has gone on to post the entire album on Youtube. “Time Will Tell” is at the 34:48 mark. For how long…?

Postscript, February 15, 2016: With so much acrimony in this band, including the cancellation of its fiftieth anniversary tour, the claims and counterclaims seem to result in much YouTube up and down. Here it comes again, at 34:48:

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A beer journey, from the beginning until its empty!

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A beer journey, from the beginning until its empty!

If there is one thing that I learned since being here, it would be the general observation, that beer is not a static thing. So far, all beers I have brewed were filtrated. Just out of convenience, quality reasons and the belief in the superior quality of filtrated beers. Back in Germany amongst small pub breweries it has always been a feature worth promoting => unfiltrated beers, as natural and as far from big brewery products as possible. But I always found them to taste similar. Is it the style, similar hops, comparable malt profiles, brewing beers to serve customers most common denominator or just the fact, that they are generally not filtrated? Who knows exactly? Anyway, I have been a firm believer in filtrated beers. Only by filtrating you can sharpen the flavors, bring out malt and hop aromas (but also take them out when overdoing it for the sake of shelf life). That still counts to a certain extent.

…But…things are different now

Our setup here at Bryggeri is pretty straightforward and linear. Brewing, fermentation/maturation and selling. The sales tanks also work as optional maturation tanks. The batch sizes are comparably big; therefore it also takes a bit longer to sell a lot of beer. Ok, in summer time the situation is a bit different, but generally speaking, it would take about 2 months to sell a big batch of beer. Sometimes shorter, sometimes longer, always depending, if we have any special beers or more than 4-5 brands on tap. That leaves the beer quite some time to develop. It only works that way, because we use horizontal tanks with inliner bags, that are cooled with glycol below freezing point. If those temperatures are appropriate for serving different beer styles, is a completely different topic. It just works that way and maintains beer quality and a constant CO2-content over a long period of time.

Not that we are the only ones using those setup. Those tanks are used in pretty much all of the pub breweries I know and lot of beer bars (with bulk beers). So nothing really new under the sun.

Let’s come back to the main topic, flavor development.

As a general rule I would say, that during an extended period of time hop aromas will always fade out. You can dry hop as much as you want, but after let’s say 4 weeks most of your hop aromas will be vanished. Flavors are a different thing. For example  “Syysmyrsky”, the competition brew of Ilkka Helenius. I have never used that much hops during any brew and for dry hopping. Right after transferring it into the sales tanks, I could get a first taste of it. It was a juicy, oily, thick, really hoppy, citrusy and slightly piney brew with some definite hints of onion and garlic (hop derived). But now after almost 4 weeks, its overall appearance changed. It still has its oily, malty and hoppy base, but the easily detectable vegetal notes have almost completely faded out and you end up with a complex and rich beer with a distinctive citrusy flavor. Not solely in the nose, but more while sipping it as part of the beers flavor

Same goes for all our beers. Everything that could settle down and will do so, hops fade, rest stays, but will be more pronounced. Especially the malt base will be more prominent. Beers just sweeten up.

I was about to mention another “but”, but actually there isn’t any.

For me, having a beer in the tank, means to continue a journey of unknown ending (a little pathetic,…hah). A constant transformation…but that is another topic.

Wheat beer:

hazy in the beginning, yeast flavor present (even slightly dusty), fairly acidic, hop flavor/bitterness present in the background. Over time, it will remain its freshness, but the maltiness will be more pronounced and its appearance resembles more that of a Kristall Weizen. Getting fresher here!

hop aromas and flavors have a strong presence, slightly grainy flavor and aroma. Hop bitterness can be on the scratchy side. Malt flavors not really upfront. After a couple of weeks, hop bitterness is still present, but the beer usually smoothens out, becomes a more balanced, hoppy and malty brew. The longer you wait, the maltier it gets and the hops flavors will play more of a supportive role. And it will smoothen out!!

Summer Ale:

an interesting development. First dry, acidic, with punchy hoppiness and light, fruity and grassy hop aromas. Later on, sweetness of the caramel malt will come up, raw hoppiness subsides and the overall  hop profile becomes sweeter and nectar like.

I really didn’t want to talk about all the aromas and flavors. Too many and too subjective!  It was supposed to be more of a general observation.

That’s it

Cheers to all of you!!


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Buy, borrow, trade

Some people like to be surrounded by books, and keep everything they’ve ever read. Others don’t like the clutter, and keep them long enough to read them. Most people seem to be somewhere in the middle…

  1. Do you buy the books you read, or do you borrow them from the library or from friends or from somewhere else?
  2. Do you prefer new or used books?
  3. If you buy them, do you keep them?
  4. If you don’t keep them, how long do you hold on to them before letting them go? What do you do with them?

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  1. Mine is up at LJ.

  2. I’ve posted mine at

    I may get around to doing the genre one later this weekend… three day weekend this weekend yay!
    (Only for those in Western Australia – it’s foundation day there.)
    Thanks for reminding me you are doing this!

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Launch of New Specialised Housing Fund

The Department of Health has launched funding of £160 million to support the development of specialist housing for older people and adults with disabilities outside of London.

Administered by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), the Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund will help support and accelerate the development of the specialised housing market by:

  • Improving the appeal of specialised housing options available to individuals by increasing the variety, quality and number of housing units available, particularly for sale or shared ownership.
  • Supporting the supply of well-designed, affordable schemes including a specialist element.
  • Supporting new and innovative types of supported housing schemes that are designed to help deliver appropriate levels of care for local communities.
  • Supporting supply of specialist housing across the wider market.
  • Private market housing.
  • Improving joined-up working at a local level between local authorities, housing developers (private and affordable), health professionals, social services and local planners. This will result in a legacy of good practice and local analysis and assessment of need that can inform and sustain the development of specialised housing.

The Fund will be split into two phases:

  • Phase One – focussing on affordable housing.
  • Phase Two – focussing on the private market.

Over five years from 2013/14, £160 million capital funding will be made available. This funding may be supplemented by a further up to £80 million capital funding available in the first two years of the programme.

Funding is available to all organisations who are, or intend to become, qualified as HCA Investment Partners. This includes:

  • Housing associations.
  • Local authorities.
  • Private sector developers.
  • Community groups.

Organisations that are not already qualified as Investment Partners with the HCA will need to submit an application for qualification.

The deadline for applications to phase one of the fund must be submitted by 18 January 2013 (noon). Expressions of interest for phase two must be submitted by 14 March 2013 (5pm).

For more information, visit the HCA website (opens new window).

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Buddypress Home 2 Column Theme

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    I’ve played around with making the Buddypress theme 2-column (and not as wide on the page) but it goes screwy in IE. Can anyone suggest a few creative edits in the style.css file that will trim the width of the theme to accommodate just two columns (2 columns of widgets versus 3).

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    There are 2 things you need to change, 1 in custom.css, 1 in home.php in the buddypress-home theme folder (and /css folder)

    remove lines 14 to 25 (or comment out) of home.php

    `

    <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)

    || !dynamic_sidebar(‘center-column’) ) : ?>

    Please log in and /wp-admin/widgets.php?s=&show=&sidebar=sidebar-2″>add widgets to this column.

    <?php endif; ?>

    This will remove the center column from the layout.

    Next you need to adjust the css right margin of #left-column

    #left-column {

    margin-right: 280px;

    Also you could adjust the body width, with this addition to your custom.css

    body {

    max-width: 1100px;

    Hope That Helps,

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    This is pretty much what I’d tried, although I’d forgotten about the custom.css file idea. I may have figured it out.

    I had also made mine a two column theme… extending the left column stretching across to the right one. Getting rid of the middle one. Got a few issues in IE with the top margin, should be an easy fix…but i’ll let you know.

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    I made the above changes and the center column is gone. It has left an empty space, however, the right column did not take up that empty space. Since the above recommendation is a bit dated, are there any additional changes to be made if running RC-1? Thanks. Maybe a future BP version will allow the admin to choose between two or three columns.

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    Andy Peatling

    The home theme is just a theme, you’re free to do anything you want with it.

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    I did the same concerning the columns, but this is not what brings the ie Problem, its some kind of a problem with margin: 0 auto; in body.

    If you open buddypress demo and you have a big screen you will see (on making ie browser smaller) that elements like avatars and some other content are getting weird.

    I think this is some kind of a serious bug, which needs to be fixed in next versions.. I was centering/scaling down buddypress (because now it looks much better (; ) and got confronted with this problem.. Maybe a Javascript could fix that..

    Usually/ sometimes/ possibly IE problems are caused by uncleared floats.

    try adding something like:

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