What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s offering looks so good and although it takes a couple of additional steps, it’s still an easy dessert!  Peanut Butter Brownies!

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

3/4 cup salted butter

3 oz. dark chocolate bar, chopped

1 1/4 cups granulated sugar

1/4 tsp. kosher salt

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

3 large eggs

1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1/3 cup peanut butter chips

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350°. Lightly grease a 9-by-9-inch square baking pan then line with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on all sides. Microwave the peanut butter for 30 seconds; stir. Repeat as necessary until peanut butter is pourable. Pour into the prepared pan. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour. Remove the peanut butter layer and transfer to a small sheet tray. Store in the freezer until ready to use. 

Sift together the flour and cocoa powder in a medium mixing bowl.

Melt the butter and chocolate in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring often. Remove from heat.

Beat the sugar, salt, vanilla, and eggs in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Slowly drizzle in the melted chocolate mixture on low speed until combined. Beat in the flour mixture on low speed until just combined. 

Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. Remove peanut butter layer from the freezer, and place on top of brownie batter. Top with the remaining half of the brownie batter, and spread to even out the top. Sprinkle the top with the chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.

Bake in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes or until puffed, dry to the touch, and set on the top (a wooden pick inserted in the center will not come out clean). Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack, about 3 hours. Cut into 16 squares.

ENJOY!

PAT’S NOTE: I think you could probably substitute a box mix for the brownie part—just make the peanut butter layer as described and top with the chocolate and peanut butter chips before baking!  Easy-Peasy!

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  3. “Pedophilia is a Left-wing Characteristic”
    CLANDESTINE
    JAN 4, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “’It’s not Left vs Right!’ I agree. It’s the people who rape kids vs the people who don’t. But it’s not my fault all the people raping kids are predominantly on the Left. It’s not my fault the Left ideologically promote sexualization of children. Who takes kids to drag shows, pride parades, and teach 2SLGBTQIA+ shit to them at school? Which side claimed widespread pedophilia was a Right-wing conspiracy theory?

    The Left-wing media are also the ones who have been running cover for this Epstein story and pizzagate for DECADES while Right-wingers, predominantly Trump supporters, have been the only “side” trying to expose it, while facing HEAVY resistance, for YEARS!

    So spare me with the “it’s both sides!”… no it’s not. One side is ideologically focused on sexualizing children, while the resistance to widespread pedophilia is coming almost exclusively from the Right. Anyone who denies this is objectively wrong. Pedophilia is a Left-wing characteristic, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.”


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  5. Who the hell is Joseph Luiz Gonzaga??? WTF?!?

    “By An Authorized Committee of a Candidate For the Office of President or Vice President
    (Summary Page, FEC FORM 3P)

    1. JOSEPH LUIZ GONZAGA III NNE
    2158 TABLE ROCK ROAD
    APT 28
    MEDFORD, Oregon 97501

    https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00840389/1733468/
    —————-
    “According to the FEC, Mr. Gonzaga has already spent more than $25 million on his 2024 presidential campaign, more than all other candidates, including President Biden and former President Trump. And despite the requirement that he report contributions by state, there is no record of any state where he spent money. In fact, according to the FEC, all these campaign expenditures flowed directly to himself personally. Finally, Mr. Gonzaga must be quite wealthy, because there is no record he received any campaign contributions.

    I’d like to meet the guy. He’s obviously a man of means and a smart operator, since he apparently bamboozled a respected federal agency. Perhaps I’ll vote for him.”

    https://thedatapoet.substack.com/p/who-is-joseph-luiz-gonzaga-iii-of

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  11. “Trump & Epstein: The Truth Emerges…It was a smear in 2016 and it’s a smear today.”
    ROGER STONE
    JAN 4, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “With a judge ordering the release of documents regarding sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein this week, we have also seen a vicious attempted assault on President Donald Trump, distorting the facts about Trump’s “connection” to Jeffrey Epstein to distract from the disgraced billionaire’s very real connection to Bill and Hillary Clinton. If anything the new revelations exonerate Trump.

    Online Trump haters are exhuming a phony line of attack, misstating the history between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. It should be no surprise that such a narrative was previously used by Hillary Clinton and her flunkies to distract from the Clinton’s extensive and financially beneficial relationship with rapist and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

    That Trump knew and was at social gatherings with Jeffrey Epstein is accurate. Since 2021 it has been publicly known that Trump was only on Epstein’s plane once and that was with his wife Marla Maples and their daughter Tiffany. Trump never visited Epstein’s island, nor Epstein’s New York residence. Having reviewed all of the FAA records on Epstein’s plane when I wrote my book ‘The Clinton’s War on Women,’ I know that the Trumps were on Epstein plan only once.

    The Epstein story is a twisted one. Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter insisted that he gave the state’s attorney enough evidence from a six-month undercover investigation to charge Epstein with 35 incidents of child sex trafficking and multiple counts of rape of a minor. Chief Reiter was shocked when the state’s attorney filed the sweetheart plea deal that Epstein’s high-priced lawyers (including Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Alan Dershowitz, and former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr) secured.

    The State’s Attorney who gave Epstein a slap on the wrist immediately resigned and formed a private law firm which began immediately providing legal services to several of Epstein’s accomplices.

    Trump broke with Epstein prior to Epstein’s prosecution in Florida. Epstein should have gone down for sex-trafficking. Instead, Epstein was allowed to plead to one count of solicitation—a shocking plea deal that required him to serve his 15 month sentence in the air-conditioned Palm Beach County jail, where he only had to stay in jail from 10 P.M. until 6 A.M, and where he often had his gourmet meals brought in.

    The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office operated more like Epstein’s personal security detail as they transported him during his daytime business activities or on his leisure time at his Palm Beach mansion.

    When Palm Beach Police Chief Reiter took his concerns about the State’s Attorney’s soft plea deal with Epstein to the U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, Acosta rubber stamped the state plea deal and sealed the record. After many years of litigation, The Palm Beach Post ultimately obtained the documents that proved that the Bush Justice Department instructed Acosta to give Epstein a pass. In preparation for his confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate when he was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Donald Trump, Acosta told U.S. Senate staffers that if asked about his disposition of the Epstein case as U.S. Attorney, he would say that the DOJ told him that Epstein worked for the CIA and that the matter needed to be closed and the file legally sealed.

    After serving his state sentence, Epstein essentially returned to the management of his blackmail and sex-trafficking operations—but for the dogged reporting of Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald, whose exposure of the facts about Epstein caused his subsequent indictment and his questionable suicide.

    Virginia Giuffre ( Roberts) is among the victims who sued Epstein for his sexual abuse. In her lawsuit deposition, she said she met billionaire Donald Trump once at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion and that Trump was a “complete gentleman” who she never saw acting inappropriately. Through her attorneys, Giuffre also said that Trump was the only significant public figure within Epstein’s orbit who was helpful to her attorneys.

    Brad Edwards, Giuffre’s attorney, had this to say about Trump:

    “He (President Trump) is the only person, who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas, on a lot of people – to some pretty connected people and I wanted to talk to them – He is the only person who picked up the phone and said ‘Let’s just talk, I’ll give you as much time as you want, tell you wha you need to know.’ He was very helpful in the information that he gave, and gave no information whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever – But had good information – That checked out – And that helped us and we didn’t even have to take a deposition from him.”

    Trump turned down numerous invitations to Epstein’s hedonistic private island and his Palm Beach home. There is no evidence Trump did anything improper. Norma Foerderer, Trump’s longtime personal assistant, told me that Trump thought Epstein was “creepy.”

    “The one time I visited his Palm Beach home, the swimming pool was full of beautiful young girls,” Trump told a member of his Club, Mar-a-Lago. “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’” According to his personal security guard, Trump left Epstein’s home within 15 minutes of arrival, feeling uncomfortable with the strange ratio of men to much younger women.

    Many of the Epstein-based smears against Trump that are now being recycled by Trump critics originated with the Clinton campaign. Epstein provided millions in seed funding for the Clinton Global Initiative, was a heavy donor to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s island on at least 17 occasions, as well as being identified by FAA records as having been on Epstein’s plane on at least 26 occasions.

    The Clinton Foundation provided one hundred percent of the funding for TerraMar, a nonprofit controlled by Epstein pimp Ghislaine Maxwell, which was utilized to hire young female interns to allegedly work on environmental projects while actually constituting a grooming pool of Epstein’s future victims.

    Unlike the Clintons, Trump cut Epstein off after he heard about an inappropriate advance by Epstein toward a young woman who worked at the Spa at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump told security that Epstein was barred from the property. The Clintons continued to socialize and fundraise with Jeffrey Epstein after his state conviction. The Clinton Foundation actually took a donation from Epstein after he had a probable cause affidavit filed on him by Palm Beach Police in May of 2006. Trump cut Epstein off well before state charges were brought against the sex-trafficker.

    The Clintons were desperate to distract from their own relationship with Epstein by trying to throw shade on Trump. Now, Trump’s political opponents are recycling the same trash. It was a smear in 2016 and it’s a smear today.”

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  14. “Biden’s Valley Forge Theater and the Unraveling of Jan 6: On the three-year anniversary of the Capitol protest, Joe Biden will portray himself as a modern-day George Washington saving “democracy” from evil. But the public is buying his schtick less and less.”
    JULIE KELLY
    JAN 4, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Joe Biden plans to commemorate the third anniversary of the events of January 6 by giving a speech Friday morning near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the historic site where General George Washington regrouped the Continental Army despite all odds in 1777-78.

    After years of comparing Jan 6 to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Oklahoma City bombing, Biden will again desecrate hallowed ground and the graves of the victims—roughly 2,000 soldiers died over a six-month period at the Valley Forge encampment—to prioritize the largely peaceful protest at the Capitol as a pivotal event in American history. Fighting Trump and his supporters, the stunt apparently is supposed to demonstrate, is just like living in subhuman conditions fighting starvation, hypothermia, and deadly diseases to prevail over the British crown. (Ironically, Biden moved up the speech from Saturday to Friday amid bad weather forecasts.)

    “The president will make the case directly that democracy and freedom—two powerful ideas that united the 13 colonies and that generations throughout our nation’s history have fought and died for—remains (sic) central to the fight we’re in today,” said Quentin Fulks, Biden’s deputy campaign manager.

    What Biden and his history-illiterate team don’t realize in their latest attempt to ratchet up comparisons between America’s most fraught moments and a four-hour disturbance on public property during a Wednesday afternoon where the only people killed were Trump supporters is that Biden is King George III, not Washington or the rebels: an intemperate and entitled ruler clinging to power by intentionally provoking his subjects while using whatever force necessary to crush the opposition.

    Biden’s Valley Forge performance also underscores the Democratic Party’s desperation to sustain the January 6 “insurrection” narrative throughout the 2024 presidential campaign; his first campaign ad released Thursday includes several familiar scenes of the Capitol protest. Bearing a dismal record across the board resulting in mass unpopularity even among his own voters, Biden is pinning his re-election hopes on the notion he is General Washington leading the charge to save “democracy” from the imaginary threat of Trump and MAGA extremists.

    Dysentery, where are you when we need you most?

    Public Support of J6 Narrative Declining —

    Timing comes as the public’s investment in J6 propaganda continues to slide. According to a new Washington Post poll, only a slim majority of Americans believe January 6 was “an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten,” a figure inflated by 89 percent of Biden voters who agree. Only half of respondents think January 6 was “mostly violent” including just 18 percent of Republicans, down from 26 percent in 2021; less than half agree that Trump should be disqualified from office over the events of January 6….”
    —————-
    ”House GOP Feels the Heat —

    At the same time J6 cases, including Trump’s, make their way through the court system, some House Republicans are indicating a vigorous interest in investigating the Capitol protest and the misconduct of the January 6 Select Committee. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of a subcommittee of the House Administration Committee examining all things J6, said in a recent interview he will accelerate aspects of his current investigation; Loudermilk is releasing security footage of the Capitol and surrounding grounds on a rolling basis.

    During an interview with podcast host Alan Sanders last month, Loudermilk hinted that former staffers of the now defunct January 6 Select Committee have expressed concerns over the committee’s investigation. “Some…are coming forward and telling us things because they don’t like the injustice they’re seeing being done. But now, when you get separation of time and away from the emotions and you start looking more objectively, you’re like, ‘wow, this was a setup, the investigation was a setup.’ That’s what we’re seeing.”

    Loudermilk already has identified missing materials produced by the January 6 Select Committee. Democrats reportedly destroyed or withheld video recordings of witness interviews; many written transcripts also remain missing.

    Loudermilk said his staff is preparing a full account of January 6 including the involvement of paid agitators, law enforcement and intelligence failures, and the construction of the so-called “gallows” that produced so many chilling optics from that day. “You’ve got the gallows, the famous gallows, that were erected on the west front of the Capitol that they love to portray in all of their committee hearings. As it turns out, those gallows were erected…at like 5:30 or 6 o’clock before the sun ever came up. Why were those gallows allowed to stay up all day?’

    We, of course, know why: so Democrats and the media can pretend that white supremacists, summoning the days of slavery, planned to hang people that afternoon. In fact, Biden used a clip of the January 6 gallows in his new campaign ad as proof of an “extremist movement” in America.

    Almost like the day was intended to fuel the “extremist” narrative well into the 2024 election…”

    Loudermilk Interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KXn3PxRAQFl3buzEGm1jy?si=ZvoU_0JCQbCGg5evjJoR5A&nd=1&dlsi=a240b87c9c4948ea

    https://www.declassified.live/p/bidens-valley-forge-theater-and-the

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  15. “‘Mary Poppins’ Star, Glynis Johns, Dies at 100”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ whatsuptoday: “Glynis Johns, the British actress best known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in “Mary Poppins,” has died of natural causes, her publicist said. She was 100. Johns starred alongside Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in the 1964 Academy Award-winning Disney film as the suffragette mother Mrs. Banks. She appeared in over 60 films, including, “While You Were Sleeping” and “The Sundowners,” which earned her an Oscar nomination.

    In an eight-decade career spanning the stage and screen, Johns was also the recipient of a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award and received nominations for a Golden Globe and a Laurence Olivier Award. The actress also appeared in several television shows including “Cheers,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Love Boat.”

    Born on Oct. 5, 1923, in Pretoria, South Africa, Johns got her start as a performer at an early age. When she was 15, she made her screen debut in “South Riding,” a British drama film by director Victor Saville. Following “South Riding,” she went on to star in films including “49th Parallel,” “Vacation from Marriage” and more, as well as the television series “The Frank Sinatra Show,” “Naked City” and a show called “Glynis,” a show where she played a mystery writer.

    Before taking on the role of Winifred Banks in “Mary Poppins,” she starred in the 1953 Disney film, “The Sword and the Rose,” as Princess Mary Tudor. Following “Mary Poppins,” Johns starred in the Stephen Sondheim musical “A Little Night Music” on Broadway. Johns portrayed Desiree Armfeldt, and sang the song, “Send In the Clowns,” in the musical. Her performance earned her a Tony for best performance by a leading actress in a musical.

    “I got applause for that,” Johns told KABC’s George Pennachio during an interview celebrating her 100th birthday. “I loved doing it. I felt it.”

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      1. I never watched Cheers and it’s been a REALLY long time since I’ve seen that movie so I don’t remember much about it.

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  16. 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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