What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s offering is called Wacky Cake! The instructions are a little different from what I’m used to. See what you think!

Wacky Cake

Ingredients

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

¾ cup granulated sugar

⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon kosher salt

⅓ cup oil

1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup water

Wacky Cake Frosting

¼ cup chopped toasted pecans

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt into an ungreased 8- x 8-inch baking pan; spread mixture evenly in pan. Make 1 large well and 2 small wells in mixture in pan. Carefully pour oil into the large well, vinegar into 1 small well, and vanilla into remaining small well. Pour 1 cup water evenly over entire mixture in pan. Stir everything together using a fork until combined.

Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack.

Pour Wacky Cake Frosting over warm cake. Sprinkle with chopped pecans. Cool completely, about 2 hours.

Wacky Cake Frosting

Ingredients

⅓ cup butter

¼ cup whole milk

3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

2 ¾ cups powdered sugar, sifted

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Cook butter, milk, and cocoa in a small saucepan over medium-low, stirring often, until mixture comes to a simmer. Remove from heat; gradually whisk in powdered sugar and vanilla until completely smooth. Pour on your favorite cake. 

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    2. OK, I sent Todd an e-mail – just him, no-one else – asking to be assured that the entire NE GOP will stand up strongly against this and that there is a plan in place to stop it. Will let you know if I hear back from him. He is pretty busy so he may simply not have the time but at least I’ve called it to his attention.

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  7. gil00(@gil00)Online
    Coyote
    May 18, 2023 13:08

    “Biden’s non-binary nuclear official Sam Brinton is arrested as a ‘fugitive of justice’ – six months after being fired for stealing women’s clothes at multiple airports

    Brinton was picked up at home in Maryland last night and was taken to the Montgomery County Detention Center, where they remained overnight and this morning.
    They are due to go before a judge soon. The charge is in relation to an incident at an airport in Washington.
    ‘Brinton was arrested at approximately 10 p.m. last night in their home on College Parkway.
    ‘They are being held in the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit on a no-bond status as they await an extradition hearing,’ a police spokesman told DailyMail.com on Thursday. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12099661/Ex-Biden-administration-nuclear-official-Sam-Brinton-arrested-fugitive-justice.html

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  8. OK – sidetracked again! LOL – I was trying to upload some pics and my pooter locked up. It was taking forever to re-boot so I wandered outside to check on the hanging plants, which I haven’t even looked at in a week. But I got distracted by the fact that the Orioles were avoiding the other nectar feeder – the only diff between the 2 is the little yellow bee ports in the newer one and the shape. I pulled them to trim them down with just enough edge left to keep them in the hole. I pulled them and put them in my pocket, still thinking of the hanging pots, but I noticed all the HUGE dandelions in the driveway. I managed to get the entire west half of the back driveway (inside the fence) cleared of dandelions – the east end is twice the length so….not today! And I STILL haven’t looked at the hanging plants!!!

    OK, pictures….this was the east bed a couple of years ago. This entire bed will be filled with cantaloupe vines and, since I’m not doing cukes, I can let them take over the whole thing. I think I’ll cut them down to 5 vines (even that may be too much) and give away the other seedlings, whether to Lois across the street or my Sis, if she wants them – I can send them to her overnight. I’ve taken before pics of the Fuchsia and the Begonias – this summer, I’ll post before/after.

    East bed now w/my homemade miniature green houses:

    I think the Clematis will climb the entire ladder this year…hope so!

    Yellow Calla Lilly in 2 big tubs by the garage:

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    1. oh wow! ever think of selling your cantaloupes?
      and hey…I didn’t know those were greenhouses! I have 3 at home–stupid me, I use them for buckets…LOL (smart idea Filly!)
      LOVE LOVE LOVE the calla lilies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      1. Oh, I could at the Farmer’s market they have every Wednesday at the park here. But there are a lot of people there who do this for a living – they have a table every week and you have to pay for a table – and my little amount probably wouldn’t even pay for that. I’d rather give them away if I don’t eat them myself. I tried to eat a store-bought one last year and it didn’t even taste like cantaloupe – no flavor at all! These Heritage kind are much, much richer in flavor – crossing my fingers I can still eat them…..I tried some watermelon I picked up at the store but I’ve discovered that my jaws are misaligned. They are slightly higher in the back vs. the front and I can’t even close my gums completely. So, no watermelon….but I can use it in a smoothie so at least it won’t go to waste.

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          1. Oh, please don’t! I can deal….I’ll get there eventually. I’m making progress and I am content with that…for the moment. But the times is coming soon where I will once again be applying pressure….they think they’re done with me? Ha! Think again, asswipes!!! I ain’t goin’ away!!!

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      2. Oh, yeah, my “hot” houses – yeah, I poked holes in the bottom so they can get water and air. I’ll wait longer this year to remove them so the bunnies don’t eat them, hopefully.

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          1. oh believe me when i say disney is evil and should be shut down…but a billion in tax revenue and those 20,000 jobs will be his next opponent’s striking points, you watch…

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              1. it does.
                I am wondering what the next governor/challenger will make of it is my point.
                like it not, disney still is big thing in fla…
                losing 20,000 jobs is a big deal plus the billion in tax revenue
                not saying anything good about disney…

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    1. Exactly! Which is why Durham SHOULD have, at a minimum (if that’s all he can do legally) make a recommendation for charges!!! But he didn’t even do that, for fuck’s sake!!!!

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      2. well in the current climate at the doj, nothing would be done though. if we had an apolitical doj maybe something would be followed thru on, but not the current regime.
        perhaps passing this thru to the oversight committees is the best that could be accomplished right now

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  13. “The Midas Touch–Everything Trump Touches, Turns To Gold”

    JOE LANGE
    MAY 18, 2023
    EXCERPT: “Who controls the assets? Whoever controls the assets will control the coming global reset. There is a real war waging, and it’s being waged on multiple fronts. None more important than the war being waged for control of the global financial system. A “Great Reset” is coming financially.

    One side or the other will win this war. I’ve been making the case in my articles that we are not only winning the war, but are going to ultimately be victorious. Trump’s Great Reset will give the power back to the people. It’s a war over assets and who controls them. The World Economic Forum, in an advertising video on one of their predictions for the future, laid down a marker for what their “Great Reset” would look like.

    According to The Independent: “Within 13 years the culture of ownership will have changed dramatically and people will simply not buy stuff the way they do today. That’s the conclusion of a contributor to the World Economic Forum, who has predicted that by 2030 we will no longer own “stuff” but rather rent it.”

    They are pushing for an economy, where instead of people owning things, they rent them. They try their best to make it sound good by using the term “shared economy.” That’s an economy where we are no longer focused on consumerism, but instead rent things when we need them. What’s the problem with this “shared economy”? What aren’t they mentioning? You won’t be able to afford to buy anything, so you’ll be forced to rent what you need. They will own all the assets, while our money will have lost all of its value. What is value?

    Value, noun: (1) relative worth, merit, or importance; (2) monetary or material worth, as in commerce or trade; (3) the worth of something in terms of the amount of other things for which it can be exchanged or in terms of some medium of exchange; (4) equivalent worth or return in money, material, services, etc.

    The value of something all depends on what it is worth. The more it’s worth, the more valuable it is. Have you heard of the term “store of value?” According to CorporateFinanceInstitute.com:

    “What is a Store of Value? A store of value is an asset, currency, or commodity that maintains its value over a long period. An item would be considered a store of value if its value is either stable or increases over time but doesn’t depreciate.

    If an item can be held and converted into money in the future without a decrease in value, it is considered a good store of value. Various commodities are considered stores of value by virtue of their divisibility, durability, and portability.

    Gold is regarded as the ultimate safe-haven asset since its store of value does not deteriorate in an economic crisis, is always in demand and is easily convertible.”

    The cabal has always known what the one true store of value is.

    Trump also knows what the one true store of value is.

    More: https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-midas-touch?

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    2. Whoa! This is WELL worth the read!!!

      “Many countries have repatriated their gold reserves back home, and it accelerated while Trump was president. They have gotten their gold back from the New York Federal Reserve, London and Paris, where a large number of countries held their gold reserves for both safe keeping and in order to use those gold reserves for currency exchange, leasing and collateral.

      Which countries have repatriated gold? Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, Austria, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Venezuela, Romania, Iran, Serbia, Slovakia and Belgium.”

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  14. “Normalizing Sex as Entertainment – Hypothesis: Bored elites’ novelty seeking behavior is driving normalization of pedophilia and other sexual taboos”

    ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
    MAY 18, 2023

    EXCERPT: “Jill’s recent essay concerning the pornographic “art” exhibit at the European Parliament continues to nag at the back of my mind. Yet another example of the apparent global campaign to normalize a wide range of what were previously generally considered to be sexual taboos. To generate outrage over the various policy positions which are being pushed down into elementary and pre-schools, and enforced by the likes of Blackrock/State Street/Vanguard, WEF et al. via policies known by the acronyms “ESG” and “DEI” is possible because examples, such as the trans-porn hanging in the EU Parliament, are so in your face against all principles of normal decency.

    Easy to generate outrage. Hard to discern why and how these policies are being promoted and deployed/implemented globally.
    —————
    But it is really hard for me to see how pushing these efforts to overthrow traditional sexual taboos makes sense as a way to advance money/power agendas. In some cases (for example hospitals, clinics, physicians and other medical care providers), it is easy to understand the profit motive associated with medical/surgical “transitioning” of those diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” (ergo “gender transition care”). But is this profit opportunity sufficient to explain the harmonized and synchronized global campaigns?

    As Jill and I discussed current hypotheses, an alternative explanation emerged.

    The core of this involves the rise of a new international caste of large numbers of hyper wealthy nouveau riche or “new wealth”. Many members of this new transnational caste have more in common with each other than with the rest of humanity. I have occasionally had contact with members of this caste, and my impression has been that many of these truly live in a separate reality, one that (as a former carpenter and farm hand) it is hard for me to fathom. These people live in a world where any and every whim that they may have can be realized on almost a moments notice. And many become novelty addicts, constantly seeking new experiences.

    There is a long and rich history of idle elites entertaining themselves by seeking increasingly aberrant sexual pleasure and stimulation, speaking in terms of norms concerning the underlying cultures within which they exist. History is replete with stories of Kings, Princes, Queens and Princesses who succumb to a quest for ever escalating novel sexual experiences. But now we have a newly created large global elite who have the idle time and resources once reserved only for royalty.

    So here is the hypothesis-…..”

    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/normalizing-sex-as-entertainment

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    1. “their” money is spent on them instead of doing good with it–ie building something, creating something, discovering something.
      that they’re so bored with regular life is vulgar enough…

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  15. BTW, I heard back from Todd: “Judy,

    We are dead set on getting Voter ID right. Watch for the white paper coming out Saturday. I’m in real time discussions today. We want to Constitutional amendment as written.

    Todd

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  16. about gold…admittedly i know little about buying commodities, metals, etc.
    but didn’t the us gov’t force everyone to turn in their gold at one time? they “paid” them for it iirc…but still. are there any laws in place (not that they would care) that would prohibit the gov’t from doing this again? just curious

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    2. OK – quicker to just do a search…

      ENTIRE ARTICLE: “On June 5, 1933, the United States went off the gold standard, a monetary system in which currency is backed by gold, when Congress enacted a joint resolution nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. The United States had been on a gold standard since 1879, except for an embargo on gold exports during World War I, but bank failures during the Great Depression of the 1930s frightened the public into hoarding gold, making the policy untenable.

      Soon after taking office in March 1933, President Roosevelt declared a nationwide bank moratorium in order to prevent a run on the banks by consumers lacking confidence in the economy. He also forbade banks to pay out gold or to export it. According to Keynesian economic theory, one of the best ways to fight off an economic downturn is to inflate the money supply. And increasing the amount of gold held by the Federal Reserve would in turn increase its power to inflate the money supply. Facing similar pressures, Britain had dropped the gold standard in 1931, and Roosevelt had taken note.

      On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt ordered all gold coins and gold certificates in denominations of more than $100 turned in for other money. It required all persons to deliver all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve by May 1 for the set price of $20.67 per ounce. By May 10, the government had taken in $300 million of gold coin and $470 million of gold certificates. Two months later, a joint resolution of Congress abrogated the gold clauses in many public and private obligations that required the debtor to repay the creditor in gold dollars of the same weight and fineness as those borrowed. In 1934, the government price of gold was increased to $35 per ounce, effectively increasing the gold on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheets by 69 percent. This increase in assets allowed the Federal Reserve to further inflate the money supply.

      The government held the $35 per ounce price until August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. In 1974, President Gerald Ford signed legislation that permitted Americans again to own gold bullion.”

      https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-takes-united-states-off-gold-standard

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              2. Well, believe me – YOU are much more well-versed in this math stuff than I will ever be! You went to college and took things like “statistics.” I never learned ANY of that stuff.

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  18. wasserman is a maroooon
    Daily Caller
    @DailyCaller
    🚨BREAKING🚨

    Rep. Wasserman Schultz spars with Chairman @Jim_Jordan
    – claims the witnesses are not ‘whistleblowers’ under the law

    WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: “They’ve been determined by the agency that they are not whistleblowers.

    Interesting…The agency that they are testifying against is claiming they are not whistleblowers.

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  19. EXACTLY!

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    1. FTA

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      “It’s a terrible error. People are upset. People are angry. There is a lot of confusion,” GOP County Executive Bruce Blakeman seethed at a Tuesday press conference.

      Democrats make up about 40 percent of the county’s 972,000 voters, according to state Board of Election records from February.

      Blakeman ruled out partisanship as a likely cause of the mistake but said the county is investigating what did happen.

      This week’s flub by the Rochester-based Phoenix Graphics comes two years after the company messed up absentee ballots for 100,000 Brooklynites shortly before the 2020 election, prompting outrage from voters concerned about whether their votes would count. The mistake extended into Nassau County as well, where nearly 800 people also received botched ballots.

      Phoenix will now pay the roughly $300,000 needed to resend a correct registration card to every Nassau voter, Democratic County Election Commissioner Jim Scheuerman told The Post.

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  25. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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