Couple entries, couple errands, beer, bed
You guys and gals remember how productive I used to be, bashing away at night and so on. Well, I can’t get to my site from the work ‘puters any more, so that slowed me down, and by the time I get home I’m normally too trashed to look at the things I’ve sent home to write about. Or at least much, anyway. I must have dumped 350-400 items out of my supply that I just didn’t get to!
These were too good not to hit this morning before I go to the bank though.
This one is about O’Bullshit and how he/it plans to complete his/it’s destruction of the economy once he/it gets re-elected. I’m telling you, boys and girls, we have got to clean the House and get control of the Senate. There may be enough dead voters to cover O’Dipshit, but there can’t be enough to beat us in all of the precincts.
This one is an article about his/it’s STATED intent to continue to behave in whatever unConstitutional fashion it desires, as “laws are for the little people”.
This video only directly links to a part of the written article.
This is something that I would almost say goes completely away from the O concern. It is fun, practical, and the reason I said almost is because it is extremely economical, and that may be a deep concern. Sorry to have to place that little identifying thought there.
A few hours later we were eating risotto di rodentia — eastern gray squirrel braised in Lopez Island white wine with mushrooms and Italian-style rice. It did not taste like chicken.
As you might guess, Vorass is serious about eating locally. She teaches urban foraging. She raises goats, chickens, bees and worms at her Green Lake house. And she believes she’s the only person in Seattle harvesting squirrels for protein.
“I know how out there it sounds,” says Vorass, a former state environmental analyst. “But the alternative is to close your eyes and eat what comes on a Styrofoam tray.”
In a city that savors local food initiatives, allowing up to eight chickens and three goats in every back yard, Vorass is exploring new frontiers.
Now, where and when I’m from squirrel, and rabbit, and various other wild creatures, and wild fruits and vegetables such as dandelion greens and so on, that was matter of fact scheduled fare! But, this IS Seattle I suppose. My how far we’ve left our roots behind. Roots! Kudzu, the plant that ate North Carolina, instantly comes to mind as a food source you can’t bloody stop!
Back tonight, have a pleasant day of whatever you do during the daylight hours! Do give thought to a collection of books on foraging, and getting some practice at it. I’ve seen people starving to death in the midst of plenty because their brain just couldn’t connect. I’ve tasted wild things that were so far superior to the stuff you buy in the store, you just had to be willing to go get them. I’ve seen people that should have been extinct doing quite well, thank you, because they knew this was good, that would kill you, and so on. And there are books about it, with pictures and everything!
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Kudzu is STILL eating North Carolina.
I have my squirrel killin’ gun at the ready if needed, but I won’t eat possum. Too many deer around for that.
I wonder if I can get Kudzu to grow out here in NM? And you are correct about possum vs venison! If that’s what’s there at the time I’ll eat it, but I’d rather not if I can get some bunnies or some bushy tailed tree rat.
From the Washington Times link via the Floyd’s Report link
Uh yeah. This has been a a bone of contention and resentment for petulantly willful chief executives since at least Andrew Jackson however there is no legitimate constitutional objection to it.
What is the “it”?
The IT is the congressional power to appropriate funds i.e the power of the purse. From the the beginning it is congress that has had the authority to fund the constitutional prerogatives of the federal government and is the primary check that congress holds over executive power. But I guess the constitutional scholar in chief missed class that day.
What Mr Obama in his petulant , puerile, hissy fit has said to congress is he and the Justice Department are conspiring to breach a duly authorized and constitutionally permissible exercise of congressional power. It is all well and good for the executive branch to protect it’s prerogatives but it is clear that they mean to do so by brazen dishonesty in this matter. They do not have even a toe to stand on. If congress voted to defund every thing but the President’s salary it self they are perfectly within their authority to do so. The only thing they really can’t do is abolish the Office of the President itself. The only thing that limits the power of the purse is prudence and she’s one tough bitch.
Congress has been given a clear indication of the lawlessness Obama intends to engage in. It is time for Boehner and the republicans to grow a set and oppose this. They need to push back the “frontiers of ignorance”(thanks Dr Walter E Williams) and try and change the terms of debate. They need to make the effort to educate and inform and openly challenge the propagandists who engage in the propagation of this deceit
The only unconstitutional exercise is mentioned in the second video where the NRA guy says that the President is not only going to ignore congresses authority to limit funds but is going to misappropriate them in order to advocate for the limitation of a constitutional right.
To all you RINO’s in congress…How much lawlessness are you going to turn a blind eye to with this brigand. If you sit and do nothing you are cowards and do not deserve our support and make the likelihood of violence that much more a reality.
Perhaps they should read the document so they’ll know what they’re defending? If they ever did, back in Jr High, many seem to have forgotten what it said.
I had some “young” fried squirrel just the other day. I don’t get out and hunt much anymore, but live in the country and a young squirrel just happened to cross my sites in the back yard and I decided to take him with a low speed 22cal. As for possums—my grandmother would always tell me to catch one when I would go rabbit hunting years ago—don’t kill him “she said” just bring him home alive and I’ll fatten him in the cage. I’ll tell you one thing—possums are the most stinking things you’ll even clean.
Fact! And I seemed to forget the armadillo when speaking of wild critters. It’s been a long ass time since I ate any of that, but I remember it not being too bad.