Year: 2012

New Recipe

by

Just invented this for dinner tonight…it was good.
Easy Meal for 2
Ingredients:
1 cup  baby carrots
⅔  cup each of finely diced
onion (sweet white or red)
bell peppers (red, yellow and orange baby peppers)
celery hearts with leaves on (use the small stalks from the heart)
white mushrooms
½ cup sweet red wine
2 tbs of very low fat buttery spread (5 grams fat per tbs)
3 tbs of extra virgin olive oil
3 tbs Worcestershire sauce
½ tsp curry powder
½ tsp sugar or 1 tsp brown sugar or 1 tsp honey
½

Hacked

by

My websites all got hacked.  This is now day 3 of cleaning up and recovering.  One site (Saintly Sins) is still down.  The nerds at DreamHost.com responded very fast. I sent them an email Saturday night … had a response Sunday morning. They had scanned and repaired all that they could, gave me a list of all files on all   sites repaired, a list of all files on all sites still infected, a list of all files on all sites in danger of being hacked, and detailed instructions on what and how to get it all cleaned up.

1940 U.S. Federal Census

by

From Ancestry.com
The National Archives and Records Administration will open the 1940 U.S. Federal Census on April 2, 2012—the first time this collection will be made available to the public. Ancestry.com will begin uploading census images to  so the public can browse them. Initially, this collection will be  a browse-only collection. This means a person can scroll through the pages of the census districts much like you would look at a microfilm or a book.

The Bill of Rights

by

James Madison’s draft of the Bill of Rights was prepared and introduced shortly after the First Congress convened in 1789.
Quoted from:
 http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/index_no_flash.php
“The Preamble to The Bill of Rights
Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending

The 1st amendment

by

All these people who keep yelling about the Constitution and how it’s being violated by the government and keep insisting that “This is a Christian country.” and  claiming the government is carrying on a “War on religion” need to read it.
Here’s a link to the constitution.
http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/constitution.pdf
And here’s what the 1st amendment actually says:
¨Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

A BIG BANG

by

Took a break from the Republican melee and watched Big Bang.  SERENDIPITY!  It dawned on me that Romney is the political incarnation of Sheldon … out of touch with reality;

Doing too much good.

by

The Mars Candy decision to reduce the size of their candy bars is a farce!  The First Lady’s desire to improve the health of the nations children is laudable but this is ridiculous.  Does Mars expect to sell less product? NO!  They expect you continue to buy the same or even more!  Instead of 1 large Mars bar they expect you will buy 3 or more small Mars bars!  Do they expect to decrease their profit? NO!

Freedom of Religion

by

I checked the preamble to the Constitution and guess what? It starts with the words “We the people.” It does not begin with we the hospitals, schools, day care centers, soup kitchens, or any other institution … not even churches!  The first amendment guarantees freedom of religion to “We the people” it does not guarantee freedom of religion to hospitals, schools, day care centers, soup kitchens, or any other institution … not even churches!