What Shall We Bake Today?

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These Strawberry Pretzel Dessert Jars are perfect for picnics!

Ingredients

2 cups crushed pretzels (about 8 ounces)

3/4 cup butter, melted

3 tablespoons sugar

FILLING:

2 cups whipped topping

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened

1 cup sugar

TOPPING:

2 packages (3 ounces each) strawberry gelatin

2 cups boiling water

2 packages (16 ounces each) frozen sweetened sliced strawberries, thawed

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine pretzels, butter and sugar; spread onto a baking sheet. Bake until crisp and lightly browned, 12-15 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack; break into small pieces.

For filling, in a small bowl, beat whipped topping, cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Refrigerate until chilled.

For topping, in a large bowl, dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Stir in sweetened strawberries; chill until partially set, about 1 hour. Carefully layer pretzel mixture, filling and topping into 4-oz. glass jars. Chill until firm, at least 2 hours. If desired, serve with additional whipped topping and pretzels.

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  1. federal judge gets it…
    FTA
    In court, the Biden administration attorneys vigorously defended this race-based agency, claiming that this type of race discrimination was justified because it was remedying “the effects of past inequities stemming from racial prejudice.” According to this narrative, Biden’s attorneys said that redlining, Jim Crow, and a “denial of benefits from the G.I. Bill,” give modern-day policymakers a blank check to discriminate against Whites and other nonpreferred racial groups.

    If this sounds familiar, it should. This is the theory of systemic racism, a modern-day progressive religion, which declares that all present-day racial disparities are caused by past race discrimination, despite clear evidence to the contrary (documented aptly by academics like Thomas Sowell).

    snip

    According to systemic racism theory, salvation comes through “equity,” which is nothing more than reverse discrimination, promising to make sure “we all end up at the same place,” as Kamala Harris famously tweeted in 2020.

    Judge Pittman was not persuaded. In ruling against the Biden administration, he explained that the Constitution forbids race discrimination, and that the government cannot justify a racial preference merely by pointing to statistical disparities. Allowing this type of justification for a race-based program would give “governments license to create a patchwork of racial preferences based on statistical generalizations about any particular field of endeavor.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/federal-court-delivers-major-blow-bidens-radical-equity-agenda

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    1. I tried to listen to some of that BS earlier – after the first 30 seconds of the first dem, I muted them from then on….ridiculous!

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  4. Jonathan Turley
    @JonathanTurley
    Schiff is actually trying to revive the Trump Tower meeting as a “secret meeting” with Russians — a matter long rejected as having any criminal components. Schiff just said it was illegal to conspire to get dirt from the Russians. It is a highly ironic moment since the Clinton campaign went to Russians to get dirt on Trump and was accused of being a conduit for Russian intelligence.

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  5. i believe this is one of the TOP reasons Garland is going after Trump. he decimated Garland’s shot at SCOTUS

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  7. “Titanic rescue: OceanGate CEO didn’t want ex-military ’50-year-old White guys’ on the books as they aren’t ‘inspirational’ — A fired director of marine operations had raised “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns”
    June 21, 2023
    editor: REMIX STAFF author: THOMAS BROOKE

    FILE – Submersible pilot Randy Holt, right, communicates with the support boat as he and Stockton Rush, left, CEO and Co-Founder of OceanGate, dive in the company’s submersible, “Antipodes,” about three miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the company operating the missing Titanic tourist submersible, admitted to avoiding hiring experienced “50-year-old White guys” because they aren’t “inspirational.” He instead chose to employ younger, inexperienced staff who could be trained up on the job.

    Rush is among five passengers on board Titan, the submersible craft that lost contact with the outside world less than two hours into a dive operation to the Titanic shipwreck located 12,500 feet below sea level on Sunday. The Titanic ruins are approximately 560 kilometers off the Canadian coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean. A colossal rescue operation is underway to locate the five-person craft, which is understood to have a 96-hour oxygen supply due to expire on Thursday evening at the latest.

    In an interview analyzed by U.S. submarine veteran Aaron Amick for Sub Brief, the OceanGate CEO explained how he preferred to employ college graduates who could be trained up over ex-military submarine experts he referred to as “50-year-old White guys.”

    “When I started the business, one thing you will find is that there are other sub operators out there but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old White guys,” Stockton said. “I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational. I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old who is a sub pilot or a platform operator or whatever can be inspirational. So we’ve really tried to get very intelligent, motivated, younger individuals involved because we’re doing things that are completely new.

    “We’re taking approaches that are used largely in the aerospace industry, as related to safety and some of the preponderance of checklists, things we do for risk assessments, and things like that that are more aviation related than ocean related. And we can train people to do that. We can train someone to pilot the sub. We use a game controller, so anybody can drive the sub.,” Rush added.

    With the rescue operation making global headlines, a number of concerns have come to light regarding OceanGate’s business model and its novel approach to deep-sea tourism. The company fired one of its “50-year-old White guys,” David Lochridge, back in 2018 after the former director of marine operations raised “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns” in an inspection report ignored by the company’s directors.

    In the consequent lawsuit following his dismissal, Lochridge claimed to have been let go after insisting that the submersible undergo more thorough safety inspections to “prove its integrity.” In his inspection report, he had identified several areas of concern, including “the lack of non-destructive testing performed on the hull of the Titan,” something he said was “critical to detect potentially existing flaws in order to ensure a solid and safe product for the safety of the passengers and crew.”

    He was reportedly told this would not take place, and that “paying passengers would not be aware, and would not be informed, of this experimental design, the lack of non-destructive testing of the hull, or that hazardous flammable materials were being used within the submersible.”

    Another man who had safety concerns over the submersible was Chris Brown, a friend of passenger Hamish Harding, who initially put down a deposit for the doomed voyage before pulling out because he believed OceanGate was “cutting too many corners.” In an interview with The Sun newspaper, Brown took issue with the fact the submersible’s controls were “based on computer game-style controllers” and that the company had used “old scaffolding poles for the sub’s ballast.”

    “Eventually I emailed them and said, ‘I’m no longer able to go on this thing’. I asked for a refund after being less than convinced,” Brown added.”

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  8. Talk about flipping a switch….cloudy, breezy, damp and a hi of 81! Still no rain, tho…possibly more in the next few days, they say…

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  9. kerry hit with ethics complaint for blatantly exaggerating climate deaths
    FTA
    John Kerry was hit with an ethics complaint Tuesday alleging he “disregarded” scientific evidence on climate issues.

    Protect the Public’s Trust filed the complaint against the Biden administration’s special presidential envoy for climate, detailing a May 10 speech in which Kerry claimed 15 million people perish every year due to greenhouse gas emissions.

    “This claim is both tremendously consequential and entirely unsupported by scientific evidence,” the letter to State Department and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy officials states.

    PPT is calling for an investigation into Kerry’s comments for violating the Biden administration’s scientific integrity policies and are asking the government to “adequately correct the public record and deter similar hysterical claims in the future.”

    “[Fifteen] million people are dying every single year around this planet as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, in the air which travels around and drops in the form of pollution and is warming the ocean at record rates, changing the chemistry of the ocean itself,” Kerry, a former secretary of state, said at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit. “Without action, millions of lives and the livelihood of the planet is at risk.”

    In addition to Kerry’s 15 million air deaths, he also said another 10 million people die annually from extreme heat.

    “There are few more perilous breaches of scientific integrity than for public officials to convey inaccurate data to the public knowingly or recklessly, especially when it is done to justify politically motivated decisions or agendas,” PPT Director Michael Chamberlain told the Washington Examiner. “Simply put, hysteria, hyperbole, and misrepresentation of data have no place in our government’s official pronouncements.”

    PPT’s letter countered Kerry’s claims with data with some of the most far-reaching death toll predictions in scientific literature, which claim the globe could see 3.4 million deaths per year by 2100, which is both significantly less than Kerry’s prediction and also 77 years from now. Many of the deaths are attributed to wildfires and mosquito-borne illnesses.

    “Despite the enormity of Mr. Kerry’s claim, he did not cite any scientific evidence for its basis,” the letter states. “Nor is there any apparent scientific research that supports a claim that there are currently 15 million people dying yearly due to greenhouse gas emissions – or any other single cause of death that is tracked.”

    According to PPT, Kerry violated several of the Biden administration’s scientific integrity policies, including a February 2021 memorandum called “Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking,” OSTP’s “Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice,” and the State Department’s scientific integrity policy.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fenergy-environment%2Fjohn-kerry-ethics-complaint-climate-death-toll-claims

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  10. “Judge Finds Hunter Biden Guilty Of Being ‘A Lovable Little Rascal With A Heart Of Gold'”
    U.S. · Jun 21, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “WILMINGTON, DE — The five-year criminal investigation of Hunter Biden came to a close this morning, with the presiding judge finding Hunter guilty of “being a lovable rascal with a heart of gold.”

    “I find the defendant, Hunter Biden, guilty — of being an adorable mischief-maker,” said Judge Haley Reinwald. “Now come over here and let me tousle your hair, you charming little scamp!”

    The verdict ended a lengthy investigation by the Department of Justice, which discovered that Hunter Biden had dealt cocaine, lied about his drug use to obtain a firearm, and hid millions of dollars from the IRS to evade taxes. “Such a sweet rapscallion, that Hunter Biden,” said U.S. District Attorney David Weiss. “He gets into such hilarious capers sometimes! We are grateful that justice has at last been done. After years of work, the court has finally recognized what a beautiful soul is inside that delightful scoundrel.”

    The White House issued a statement shortly after the Department of Justice made the announcement. “We are grateful the judiciary has seen these drug, firearm, and tax charges for what they are – harmless pranks by an endearing little tyke. Hunter is such a good boy, and we are proud of all of his funny antics. We look forward to the House investigation of Hunter turning up more wonderfully naughty anecdotes about our dear son.”

    At publishing time, Hunter had reportedly offered to share his cocaine with the judge as thanks for helping him beat the felony charges.”

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        1. still…images of him make me puke.
          his frickin privilege is out there for all the world to see. he thinks he’s hot shit and it’s sickening

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  11. oh! i didn’t know this—hope it’s TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    from a tweet about the censuring vote going forward…
    Omba
    @therealomba
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    24m
    If US Congress officially votes to censure on grounds that Schiff peddled false and defamatory statements, Trump can sue him in civil court, backed up by plenty evidence from Durham

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  13. the tweet shows the messages between “the lovers” strzok and page where she says he’s not going to be president, right? and strzok replies, no we’ll stop it

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    1. SD used this exact exchange in an article about 2+ yrs ago while he was laying out these criminals for any and all to see.
      Remarkable how long it takes for our Reps to discover the truth. Almost makes one think it’s not being looked for w due diligence.

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  18. 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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