Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Medjugorje Message - May 2
"Dear children. Open your hearts and try to feel how much I love you and how much I desire for you to love my Son. I desire for you to come to know Him all the better, because it is impossible to know Him and not to love Him - because He is love. I, my children, know you. I know your pain and suffering because I lived through them. I laugh with you in your joy and I cry with you in your pain. I will never leave you. I will always speak to you with motherly tenderness. And I, as a mother, need your open hearts to spread the love of my Son with wisdom and simplicity. I need you to be open and sensitive to the good and mercy. I need you to be united with my Son, because I desire for you to be happy and to help me to bring happiness to all of my children. My apostles, I need you to show everyone the truth of God, so that my heart, which suffered and today suffers so much pain, can win in love. Pray for the holiness of your shepherds, so that in the name of my Son they could work miracles, because holiness works miracles. Thank you."
Monday, May 4, 2015
End the damn debt!
A must-watch:
That's not taught in official history today, or official economics.
It's obscene.
It's beyond obscene.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
That is golden.
"Look what we did as a nation between 1938 and 1974 - less than forty years. We became one of the leading nations; one of the healthiest nations in terms of education and infrastructure because of the Bank of Canada mechanism. No two ways about it."
That's not taught in official history today, or official economics.
It's obscene.
It's beyond obscene.
"Will you tell me why a government with power to create money, should give that power away to a private monopoly, and then borrow that which parliament can create itself, back at interest, to the point of national bankruptcy?" --Gerry McGeer
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
That is golden.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
End the debt!
107 years ------- 18 billion dollars in debt.
3 years ------- 588 billion dollars in debt.
But you see, we can't have the government issue money debt free because that will cause inflation.
LOL!!!
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Misc.
One way of knowing you made a good cup of coffee: it is as drinkable and enjoyable after it has gone cold as when it was hot.
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I now understand why the ancients tended not to write formulaic recipes as we understand them today with delineated amounts, temperatures and cooking times etc. If you read any modern recipe, even baking recipes, there is typically only one or two components in the process that make that particular dish what it is. More often than a particular ingredient, it is a particular combination at a particular time - and not so much even a particular combination of ingredients, as a combination of two different cookings, like, for instance, de-glazing, which is basically dry fry meeting wet simmer.
In relation to what is being cooked and for what result and for how long, there is only low temperature, medium temperature and high temperature. All this business about 350 and 475 and 235 and what have you is really a bunch of nonsense. Same goes for cooking times. Higher temperatures generally mean shorter cooking time; lower temperatures mean longer.
When you understand what the acid of vinegar does, or the saltiness of salt and the sweetness of sugar, and how far each goes in relation to any other amount of other ingredients, it is not so much that you don't need to know what amounts are required anymore, but that you have enough understanding to proceed were you not given the amounts. What you do need to know is that this is a "fat and acid" or a "sweet and sour" or a more complex combination and so forth.
Dry ingredients tend towards concentrated flavour; wet ingredients towards their dispersal, and thus towards dissipation and quick alteration. Bringing the two together is very often a key thing, an essential part of a recipe. That is one example.
Go ahead and look at any recipe. Look for that one essential thing or two that makes that recipe what it is. For that is the recipe. Learn how to rip that out and integrate it into your own arsenal. When you read a recipe that you really want to try but it lists faraway gourmet ingredients, do not say, "Oh, I can't make that!" Strip recipes down mercilessly. Be like the ancients. Be traditional. Don't be a slave.
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When you have to forcefully tell the credit card pushers, "No, I don't want that credit card" three times before they relent; when the credit card pushers send you credit cards without you asking for one; when credit card pushers tell you you are "pre-approved"; when credit card pushers are lying in wait for you at the entrance of the bank, then you know that "credit ratings" mean precisely nothing.
Your so-called "good credit rating" is like the government announcing they balanced the budget. It is utterly meaningless.
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I wonder why the legalization of marijuana issue is always framed as "people being allowed to smoke pot." In my view that is a tiny fraction of the large picture, which is basically people having the right to grow marijuana for fresh consumption, for fibre and all its many other uses, with an emphasis on the right to grow it. Even official organs of the government recognize the powerful medicinal properties of this plant. The stories of people being healed of this and that by consuming fresh marijuana (one can consume as much as one wants in its fresh state; but when it is heated by burning or drying, that is when it becomes psychoactive) are many.
One cannot argue that it would take too much to monitor farmers to make sure they aren't growing it for the drug trade. The dairy industry is monitored - or inspected, whatever term you want to use. And anyways, the stuff that's grown for the drug trade is a special hybrid, if I understand correctly, and it's only really worthwhile grown inside, hydroponically; for outside here in northern North America you could get a harvest of good bud, but not nearly as much as you can continually get growing it inside. Thus farmers growing it in their fields wouldn't even want to be bothered with that when it would be far more profitable for them to grow it for all the many other uses that people are very, very willing to pay for.
If marijuana can heal a person of his or her cancer and there are farmers wanting to grow the stuff for those people, then what the hell business is it of the government to say no? They don't own marijuana. They don't have a patent on it. It is not evil. It is God's creation. It is not a contradiction at all for the government to allow people to grow it while still fighting the drug trade.
What potential there is in growing marijuana! It was grown commercially not too long ago, only it was called hemp. Stop it with this stupid prohibitionist holdover from the very recent past. And stop framing the issue in a stupid way, you idiotic pot heads and prohibitionists.
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I now understand why the ancients tended not to write formulaic recipes as we understand them today with delineated amounts, temperatures and cooking times etc. If you read any modern recipe, even baking recipes, there is typically only one or two components in the process that make that particular dish what it is. More often than a particular ingredient, it is a particular combination at a particular time - and not so much even a particular combination of ingredients, as a combination of two different cookings, like, for instance, de-glazing, which is basically dry fry meeting wet simmer.
In relation to what is being cooked and for what result and for how long, there is only low temperature, medium temperature and high temperature. All this business about 350 and 475 and 235 and what have you is really a bunch of nonsense. Same goes for cooking times. Higher temperatures generally mean shorter cooking time; lower temperatures mean longer.
When you understand what the acid of vinegar does, or the saltiness of salt and the sweetness of sugar, and how far each goes in relation to any other amount of other ingredients, it is not so much that you don't need to know what amounts are required anymore, but that you have enough understanding to proceed were you not given the amounts. What you do need to know is that this is a "fat and acid" or a "sweet and sour" or a more complex combination and so forth.
Dry ingredients tend towards concentrated flavour; wet ingredients towards their dispersal, and thus towards dissipation and quick alteration. Bringing the two together is very often a key thing, an essential part of a recipe. That is one example.
Go ahead and look at any recipe. Look for that one essential thing or two that makes that recipe what it is. For that is the recipe. Learn how to rip that out and integrate it into your own arsenal. When you read a recipe that you really want to try but it lists faraway gourmet ingredients, do not say, "Oh, I can't make that!" Strip recipes down mercilessly. Be like the ancients. Be traditional. Don't be a slave.
*
When you have to forcefully tell the credit card pushers, "No, I don't want that credit card" three times before they relent; when the credit card pushers send you credit cards without you asking for one; when credit card pushers tell you you are "pre-approved"; when credit card pushers are lying in wait for you at the entrance of the bank, then you know that "credit ratings" mean precisely nothing.
Your so-called "good credit rating" is like the government announcing they balanced the budget. It is utterly meaningless.
*
I wonder why the legalization of marijuana issue is always framed as "people being allowed to smoke pot." In my view that is a tiny fraction of the large picture, which is basically people having the right to grow marijuana for fresh consumption, for fibre and all its many other uses, with an emphasis on the right to grow it. Even official organs of the government recognize the powerful medicinal properties of this plant. The stories of people being healed of this and that by consuming fresh marijuana (one can consume as much as one wants in its fresh state; but when it is heated by burning or drying, that is when it becomes psychoactive) are many.
One cannot argue that it would take too much to monitor farmers to make sure they aren't growing it for the drug trade. The dairy industry is monitored - or inspected, whatever term you want to use. And anyways, the stuff that's grown for the drug trade is a special hybrid, if I understand correctly, and it's only really worthwhile grown inside, hydroponically; for outside here in northern North America you could get a harvest of good bud, but not nearly as much as you can continually get growing it inside. Thus farmers growing it in their fields wouldn't even want to be bothered with that when it would be far more profitable for them to grow it for all the many other uses that people are very, very willing to pay for.
If marijuana can heal a person of his or her cancer and there are farmers wanting to grow the stuff for those people, then what the hell business is it of the government to say no? They don't own marijuana. They don't have a patent on it. It is not evil. It is God's creation. It is not a contradiction at all for the government to allow people to grow it while still fighting the drug trade.
What potential there is in growing marijuana! It was grown commercially not too long ago, only it was called hemp. Stop it with this stupid prohibitionist holdover from the very recent past. And stop framing the issue in a stupid way, you idiotic pot heads and prohibitionists.
Monday, April 27, 2015
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Consider
The consonance between the words "spectator" and "spectre" is intriguing. The range of words beginning with "spec" have all to do with the gaze, with looking, with the eye, or the light that makes seeing possible, or, in the case of "spec" itself, not seeing possible.
But consider how spectre fits into that range - the notion that the defining principle of a ghost or wraith, if we are to run with this line of thought, is one who looks, or one who only looks: a perpetual spectator. The pure spectator is a spectre. It sounds like spectator truncated.
And then start thinking about how much in our culture is set towards being the spectator in some form, and how because of it, we are becoming less able to interact with each other in a real tangible way because we are becoming like ghosts to one another.
But consider how spectre fits into that range - the notion that the defining principle of a ghost or wraith, if we are to run with this line of thought, is one who looks, or one who only looks: a perpetual spectator. The pure spectator is a spectre. It sounds like spectator truncated.
And then start thinking about how much in our culture is set towards being the spectator in some form, and how because of it, we are becoming less able to interact with each other in a real tangible way because we are becoming like ghosts to one another.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Old school method of making char:
You can go to youtube to watch all the parts of the process. I just glanced over most of it. What I found really funny was all the enlightened commenters getting into a big snobbish outrage because the man is making charcoal the old school way as opposed to using a retort kiln, which is clean burning and overall a much simpler process. They're the kind of people who think the salvation of the world depends on the knowledge they received from watching TedTalks. Perhaps they have never heard of volcanoes erupting and naturally occurring forest fires? And a good deal of that smoke pumping out is actually steam, which makes it look very voluminous. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for choosing the cleaner and more efficient (and simpler) method, but making a bunch of smoke in your backyard? What about campfires? It's not a sin. Unfortunately things are going back to paganism, only worse than before. In terms of general assent (which is formed in the absence of moral consensus) a good portion of the population believes it is alright to kill a baby in the womb or in the birth canal or outside the womb and that it's alright to give Grandpa and Grandma their happy sleepy pills from which they will never wake again to their suffering; but may you be stricken a thousand times by lightning if you neglect to compost your veggie scraps or if you make charcoal through low temp burning methods or if you throw a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.
I like that man's method, by the way. It's really cool. Anyhow, that's all for today. Chow chow for now and happy earth day!
You can go to youtube to watch all the parts of the process. I just glanced over most of it. What I found really funny was all the enlightened commenters getting into a big snobbish outrage because the man is making charcoal the old school way as opposed to using a retort kiln, which is clean burning and overall a much simpler process. They're the kind of people who think the salvation of the world depends on the knowledge they received from watching TedTalks. Perhaps they have never heard of volcanoes erupting and naturally occurring forest fires? And a good deal of that smoke pumping out is actually steam, which makes it look very voluminous. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for choosing the cleaner and more efficient (and simpler) method, but making a bunch of smoke in your backyard? What about campfires? It's not a sin. Unfortunately things are going back to paganism, only worse than before. In terms of general assent (which is formed in the absence of moral consensus) a good portion of the population believes it is alright to kill a baby in the womb or in the birth canal or outside the womb and that it's alright to give Grandpa and Grandma their happy sleepy pills from which they will never wake again to their suffering; but may you be stricken a thousand times by lightning if you neglect to compost your veggie scraps or if you make charcoal through low temp burning methods or if you throw a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.
I like that man's method, by the way. It's really cool. Anyhow, that's all for today. Chow chow for now and happy earth day!
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