DIY: Halloween Treats

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I love to see what new recipes or treats are out there for Halloween parties.  Not that I have them anymore, but I do love to eat!

Acorn Treats

This is a super simple recipe that’s adorable too!  There’s only three ingredients: miniature chocolate chips, Hershey Kisses and Nutter Butter Bites!  You need one Hershey Kiss, one Nutter Butter Cookie and one miniature chocolate chip per treat.  Simply melt chocolate chips to use as the “glue” between the pieces!

Meringue Bones

This is another simple to make recipe with minimal ingredients!  You need 2 large egg whites at room temperature, 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar and ½ cup sugar. In a small bowl, beat the egg whites with the cream of tartar on medium speed till soft peaks form.  Gradually add the sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time until stiff peaks form.  Place in a heavy-duty resealable plastic bag and cut a small hole in the corner of the bag.  On parchment lined cookies, pipe a 3-inch log. Pipe 2 balls on each end to create the bone shape. Bake at 225* for 1 ½ hours or until firm.

Brownie Spiders

These brownies are cute and so easy to make. Bake up your favorite brownies (from a mix if you like) and after they bake and cool, turn the brownies out onto a cutting board. Using a glass, “cut” circles from the brownies. (The leftover scraps are fair game to munch on!) Use pretzel pieces for legs and purchased eyes from the baking aisle.

ENJOY!

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  2. Good morning! A chilly 31 outside this morning, still dark. Furnace is still not acting right and since my timing is still way off, once again, I woke up @ 3 AM. Subconsciously, I am listening for the furnace – it’s always in the back of my mind these days and I am a worrier, always thinking about what might happen. I’ve always been this way and I’ve said for many years: why have I never had an ulcer??? LOL

    The usual with Wheezer this morning. I had another strange cat come thru the doggie door yesterday and eat from his dish after he left. The big long-haired gray tabby found the doggie door fast. The word is spreading, apparently. Now the food dish comes in immediately after he finishes his tuna.

    “Note On The Washington Post’s Non-Endorsement: The media ship be sinking.”

    Matt Taibbi, Oct 25, 2024

    “Around this time last night I read the Levitsky/Ziblatt New York Times editorial about the “Fifth Choice” for stopping Trump, which read like a clarion call to ignore coming bad election news. On the heels of weeks of other catastrophizing editorials, it came as a shock.

    Now word comes about stunning industry news of another sort. The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have declined to endorse either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, which in the case of the Bezos Post especially reads like a decision to surrender to coming bad election news. The Post has been the tip of the anti-Trump spear for years, and with the Times led the movement to openly politicize journalism via its insufferably self-congratulating “Democracy Dies in Darkness” campaign, so bowing out of the open advocacy game with publisher William Lewis promising a return to the paper’s “roots” is beyond surprising. Editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who penned last year’s million-word “Calling All Hinckleys” editorial comparing Trump to Julius Caesar, resigned in protest, presumably to spend more time snuggling with spouse Victoria Nuland.

    The 16,000 or so comments under the Lewis editorial so far reveal two things. Post readers prefer the more traditionally British double-L spelling of “cancelled.” Also, many readers noticed with chagrin the contrast with the Times piece:

    I’ve heard so many crazy things in the last weeks about behind-the-scenes maneuvering in Washington that it’s been tough to know what to believe, but it’s clear we’re headed for some kind of historic confrontation. I have trouble believing institutional America will really reverse course after eight years of dystopian lunacy, but Bezos and the Post just changed something, probably over the passionate objections of 98% of staff. Whatever’s going on, it sure isn’t boring.”

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    1. Mornin, Filly. Sun just coming through clouds here today. It has been a rip-roaring week on the home front. I don’t care about this election.
      The main players in the federal government are so busy fighting each other that they are ignoring issues that individuals deal with every day.

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      1. Well, I care – IMO, we have to care but I’m not living under any delusions either. I know how difficult it will be to right this ship, IF it can even be done.

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        1. Good for you. I no longer believe it can be done in my lifetime. The US is too big and too divergent. I tend to be a states’ rightist, like my mother was. I like Greg Albott for that reason.

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          1. Oh, I agree with States’ rights all the way – there are only 4 areas in which the Federal government is supposed to be involved and they have gone waaaay past that a long time ago! 10th Amendment supporter all the way! But this is why I do agree with you – it won’t happen in our lifetime but maybe if we plant the seeds…..

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            1. That’s why I enjoy hashing things out with people like y’all. But I’m having to read your responses in vertical lines now, on my cell phone, So I’ll say TaTa, for now. Together, people like us can right this sinking ship before it sinks.

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              1. NP – take care and have a good day! We definitely enjoy intelligent “conversation.” Yeah, that is one of the reasons I refuse to get a smart phone. It strains my skill to send a long text on my flip-phone! LOL – and as much time as I spend on the internet all day, every day, I certainly don’t need to take it with me when I do leave the house!

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  3. Just The News: “Israel began launching retaliatory attacks against Iran on Friday night, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed, which is in direct response to Iran’s assault on Israel earlier this month.

    The attack is an escalation of the tensions in the Middle East, which have been heightened since Hamas attacked Israel last year. The attack comes after Iran launched 180 missiles towards Israel on Oct. 1, that were mostly intercepted with the help of the United States.

    Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant previously vowed to deliver a “precise and deadly” response to the attack, per Fox News. Israel has launched two waves of missiles over a period of two hours. The attacks hit military targets in Iran, along with Iran’s capital city of Tehran, which was hit in both rounds. It did not target nuclear sites, the Associated Press reported.

    “In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel—right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” the IDF posted to X. “The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7th—on seven fronts—including direct attacks from Iranian soil.

    “Like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and the duty to respond,” it continued. “Our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. We will do whatever necessary to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.”

    Iran is expected to respond militarily, but Israeli and United States officials reportedly hope it will be a limited response, according to Axios. The United States said that it is not participating in the strike. “We would refer you to the Israeli government for more information on their operation,” said Sean Savett, White House National Security Council spokesperson told CNN.

    President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have all been briefed on the Israeli attacks. Austin has also spoken with Gallant.

    Syrian Air Defenses said it has also confronted “hostile targets” near Damascus on Friday night, per state media. Iraq, and Iran have closed their airspace due to security concerns.”

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  4. Just The News: “When it comes to politicians in America, a recent study has shown that they are wildly out of touch with average, everyday American people on political language and different terms frequently thrown around in the political sphere. A poll conducted earlier this month by prominent pollster Scott Rasmussen showed that average American voters are not as fluent in common political terms such as “Christian Nationalism,” “continuing resolution” and “DEI.” 

    “Politicians and pollsters routinely throw around words and terms that every day Americans do not understand… CRT, ESG, Green New Deal, and more,” Rasmussen wrote on the social media platform, X. “This represents a massive failure of leadership for failing to communicate clearly,” he continued. 

    According to the poll, only a small percentage of voters could correctly identify the term “CRT,” which stands for critical race theory. The poll shows that 8% of GOP voters could identify what CRT stood for, only 10% of Democrat voters could correctly identify the term and 11% of post graduate voters knew what it meant. When it comes to the term “DEI” which stands for “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” it was correctly identified by 38% of voters. 

    The term “ESG” which is short for “Environmental, Social and Governance” was known by 11% of GOP voters, 8% of Democratic voters and 17% of post graduate voters. 

    Terms that are more fluent in everyday American language such as “woke,” “transgender” and “Electoral College” were more well known among voters. Seventy-five percent of voters could correctly identify what transgender meant, 45% of voters properly understood what the electoral college was and its purpose, and 50% of voters knew what “woke” meant. 

    Earlier this month, Rasmussen conducted a study about the elite one percent and how their views differed from everyday Americans. He found in his study that 47% of the elite one percent think that Americans have “too much freedom.” “The Elite 1% wield a tremendous amount of institutional power but are wildly out of touch with the nation they want to rule,” Rasmussen said.

    In June of 2024, a Pew Research Center study said only about 22% of Americans trust the federal government. “Trust in government began eroding during the 1960s, amid the escalation of the Vietnam War, and the decline continued in the 1970s with the Watergate scandal and worsening economic struggles,” the report stated. “As of April 2024, 22% of Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (2%) or “most of the time (21%) , the report said.

    Rasmussen posits that many of the elites are unaware of the thought gap between them and everyday American people.” 

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  5. Sigh…..and here we go again!

    Just The News: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his investment firm.

    They made the request in a letter Thursday to Garland stating there is evidence Kushner has “acted as an unregistered foreign agent of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” and violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. 

    “By his own admission, Mr. Kushner is actively advising former President Trump’s campaign while being paid at least $80 million by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments since June 2021,” read the letter. 

    “There is also evidence that Mr. Kushner is secretly advising the Saudi government on U.S. foreign policy in a manner that undermines the official objectives of the U.S. government.”

    They also argued that Justice Department precedent supports the appointment of a special counsel for investigations of high-profile U.S. government officials or senior political figures. They said Kushner’s “proximity to President Trump and the potential for political interference warrants the appointment” of a special counsel.”

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    1. You are reporting on the very activities that discourage me from believing the US of A is united FOR anything. The Washington crowd, and its sidekick, the media, now seem obsessed with Isreal’s fight with Iran and the Arab world. Why is the Disunited States even involved?

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      1. Damned good question, katharine! We need to stay OUT of other countries’ business!!! And keep THEM out of ours!!! I have long been an isolationist in that regard and I’ve never once had any desire to visit any other country. Except Egypt…..but only because of my experiences with the Egyptians and my interest in Classic Egyptian Arabian horses.

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  7. Thanks for the clips and transcripts….

    One thing PDJT said in the Rogan interview that really struck me – he said he had two main jobs/efforts while he was President – to run the country and to survive – to deal with all the opposition/attacks – the fake impeachments, etc.

    After leaving the White House – he’s had nothing but political lawfare – hundreds of Democrap lawsuits and the DOJ constantly working against him. The left are a disgrace.

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  10. ROFL – Trump interviewed Rogan!!!

    “Weekly Round-Up: Comments open.”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Oct 26, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Something new is coming your way with this Substack each Saturday. The week’s news, headlines, analysis, essays, and memes that Jill and I find interesting will be highlighted.

    What may surprise many is that the comments section will be open to all subscribers – free or paid. This is a bit of an experiment, as we are opening ourselves and our regular commenters to trolls, criticisms and new ideas. So be prepared – things may get rough and tumble. For those that are conflict adverse, you may not wish to participate. For others, debate and discussion are the lifeblood of political dialogue. But control yourself – Vulgar language, ad hominems, and personal attacks will be deleted. And good chance- if your comment is over-the-top obnoxious, your ability to engage in the discussions will be deleted.

    But lets have fun with this – lets open up the dialogue beyond the usual community and see what happens!

    The start of the week seems far, far away. The planned takedown of Trump with the ad hominems – may have begun with James Carville. Carville the Atlantic article. The strategy was clearly planned and executed with the most exacting detail. This tactic is the act of a desperate campaign – we are winning folks.

    To whit:

    Real Clear politics ran with the story of an interview of James Carville, hauled back from the dregs of the Clinton Administration. Yep, they dragged him out of the closet yet again for the Harris race.

    James Carville: Trump Is Telling You He’s a Fascist, “We’re Not Making This Up

    Real Clear politics, Oct 13, 2024

    He cites his “evidence” of Trump being a fascist and a Nazi. Here it is:

    Just think of what we’ve learned in the last 48 hours. We had General Flynn say, “The gates of hell are going to rain on Trump’s enemies when he wins.” We had General Milley say that Trump is “fascist to his core.” We heard Trump on FOX this morning say he was going to use the military to round up his political enemies.

    Trump has announced that he will be giving a speech at Madison Square Garden on October 27th. Please, Google “Madison Square Garden February 10th, 1939” and see what happened there. They are telling you exactly what they’re going to do. They are telling you, “We are going to institute a fascist regime,” and the press and all the Alan Dershowitz wannabes out there are out here, saying, “She sold have gone to the Al Smith dinner, she doesn’t do enough long-form interviews.” I am so sick of these people. The entire Constitution is in jeopardy. The Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas have totally greenlighted the idea that you could use the military to round up your political enemies.

    Yeh right…However, the American public is done with the “Never Trumper movement.” People now snigger at those with TDS. Something fundamental has changed in this election and how most Americans view Donald Trump. This article below sums it up:

    The Wall Street Journal says the quiet bit aloud. That is what everyone without blinders on can see (the article is behind a paywall on the WSJ):

    Is Sen. Bob Casey a closet fan of Adolf Hitler? How about Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin? We ask because both Senate Democrats are running ads as part of their re-election campaigns that associate themselves with Donald Trump. And they’re doing this even as fellow Democrats and the press corps are suggesting that Mr. Trump admires Hitler and has similar dictatorial ambitions.

    No doubt both Senators despise the German mass murderer. But if Mr. Trump is so horrific, how can they have any kind of political association with him? Their ads cite issues on which they agree with Mr. Trump in an attempt to burnish their bipartisan image. But surely they don’t want to do anything to promote the election of a “semi-fascist” (President Biden’s description), or a “fascist” (Kamala Harris), or a wannabe Führer of an American Reich.

    Then again, maybe Democrats don’t really believe what they’re saying about Mr. Trump. If they did, they might not have worked so hard to help him win the GOP nomination by indicting him so he could get the sympathy of partisans. “They’re not after me, they are after you,” Mr. Trump liked to say during the Republican primaries, to good political effect.

    There are many reasons to worry about how Mr. Trump might wield power in a second term—not least that he wouldn’t be able to govern successfully and would thus set up the progressive left for huge gains in 2026 and 2028.

    But the climb up the rhetorical dictator chain in the final stages of this election looks like a last-ditch Democratic strategy to save Ms. Harris from defeat. Her momentum in the polls has stalled as voters have seen more of her. She refuses to say what she might do differently than President Biden or to identify anything the Administration has done wrong. At Wednesday’s CNN town hall, undecided voters all but begged her to mention one thing. Her only response was her different biography.

    Democrats seem to have decided that their only play left is to claim it’s springtime for Hitler. Appeal to undecided independents, or Nikki Haley Republicans, by demonizing Mr. Trump as too risky to be President again. Perhaps they think this worked in 2020, and that it will work again. But it failed in 2016, and at least then Senate Democrats weren’t claiming to be Mr. Trump’s policy allies.

    Below are screenshots of a few of the comments on the above article:

    Fast forward to yesterday, when Trump interviewed Joe Rogan. Any thoughts that Trump is “too old” to run the country were dissipated when listening to Trump’s answers….”

    https://www.malone.news/p/weekly-round-up

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      1. I like her but she’s one to be wary of, IMO, especially when it comes to this garbage so-called “climate change” BS! And I still want to know why she hasn’t spoken out forcefully about the land being taken from people in Lahaina, HI.

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        2. A new day . . . I woke up thinking about the fact that the US Pentagon sits on land that was part of Robert E. Lee’s plantation. My brother-in-law, Slade, who knows everything before I do, said, “And Arlington Cemetary is there, too.”
          After Lincoln was shot, we got Andrew Johnson, then Grant for two terms. The feds held on to Lee’s property until WWIi was brewing, then FDR’s administration designed and built the Pentagon in record time, working around traffic patterns that had developed in the interim.

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              1. Actually, you know much more than I do – I just happened to have seen something recently about it on one of the documentaries that I watch. IDK about Arlington.

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              2. We are learning together. My information comes from Wiki and Slade. When I wake up wondering about something, I like to check Wiki for facts and dates. Slade has a lot of knowledge about lots of stuff, but he sometimes has his own spin on it.

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              3. You have far more book learning than I do, having quit HS at the beginning of my senior year, and I’ve never been to college.

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              8. Today, I woke up thnking about Lollipop, the stray cat I feed. Slade and Carol brought new food for him yesterday, but it was too dark and rainy to look for him. I went this AM, after it got light, and he showed up, out of nowhere. I’m living in the middle of the long, narrow property, in what used to be a guest house, and Mama’s Dream House, and my Nightmare House, sits on the edge of the marsh
                It’s sliding into the river, has flooded underneath with storm surges from Matthew, and a tree fell on during last year’s windstorm. And Georgia keeps raising taxes and adding flood insurance and fire insurance. Carol doesn’t want it. I don’t blame her.

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  11. LOL – typical! “Let’s build some condos!”

    EXCERPT: “On another topic, Rogan asked Trump about referring to Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man.” 

    “I said, ‘Little Rocket Man, you’re going to burn in hell.’ And it was rough,” Trump said. “I got to know him better than anybody, anybody. And I said, ‘Do you ever do anything else? Why don’t you go take it easy and relax? Go to the beach?’ You know, kiddingly, I said, ‘You’re always building nuclear. Just relax. You don’t have to do it. Let’s build some condos.’”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-praises-rfk-jr-joe-rogan-podcast-says-big-pharma-wasnt

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  12. “Vaccine Injury Awareness: It’s Not Over

    Join Dr. Paul Marik for a critical conversation on vaccine injury with React19.org co-founders Dr. Joel Wallskog and Brianne Dressen.”

    FLCCC Alliance, Oct 26, 2024

    Full Video

    EXCERPT: ““The V-safe data shows that at least 18 million have suffered from vaccine injury. So although people want to brush this under the carpet and blame the patient, this is a really serious disorder which is exceedingly common. And it’s about time that our politicians, our lawmakers, our administrators woke up to this humanitarian disaster.”—Dr. Paul Marik

    With millions across the nation affected by COVID-19 injections, the issue of vaccine injury can no longer be ignored. Discussions about these injuries are emerging in more spaces, including platforms like YouTube—where, until recently, even a mention of adverse events could result in a channel being shut down.

    This makes Vaccine Injury Awareness Month in October all the more essential—a time to acknowledge and support those who have suffered serious reactions to vaccines. While immunization is widely regarded as a key public health measure, the reality is that many individuals have experienced severe vaccine injuries, testing the prevailing narrative around vaccine safety….”

    https://flccc.substack.com/p/vaccine-injury-awareness-its-not

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  16. “You Paid ~1B$ for this COVID PsyWar Campaign: We Can Do This: An Assessment of the Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Public Health Campaign”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Oct 26, 2024

    EXCERPT: “To the surprise of no one, the recently released House Energy and Commerce report on the approximately one billion dollar “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity” (IDIQ) federal contract awarded by the Biden/Harris Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the “Beltway Bandit” Fors Marsh Group (FMG) has received approximately no coverage by corporate media – and hardly on social media, for that matter. The notable exception being the New York Post.

    The report documents that what Fors Marsh Group delivered to HHS for the 991M $ in taxpayer dollars it received was to deploy a massive Psychological Warfare campaign on American Citizens, one which employed a wide range of proven disinformation. Disinformation as defined by spreading falsehoods for political purposes. Those following along closely will recall that the Mayorkas Department of Homeland Security defined the spreading of disinformation during the COVIDcrisis as domestic terrorism.

    As previously discussed in an April 18, 2023 essay on this substack titled “Fifth Gen Warfare, Part 3”, this directly relates to the case of the separate “CDC Foundation”-funded “Public Goods Projects” “Shots Heard Round the World”/”Team Halo” gangstalking program that targeted physicians and scientists who contradicted the COVID propaganda and false narratives being spread by HHS agencies and contractor Fors Marsh; illegal for citizens to spread mis- dis- and malinformation or to internet stalk others, but apparently not for government contractors.

    The recent Energy and Commerce report does not investigate these activities sponsored by the CDC Foundation, which is functionally a congressionally-authorized CDC slush fund capitalized by Pharma and a variety of non-governmental organizations such as the Gates Foundation. Gang and crowdstalking is a federal crime and is also a crime in most if not all states….”

    https://www.malone.news/p/you-paid-1b-for-this-covid-psywar

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