These cookies are ADORABLE–Daisy Cookies!
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, room temperature
4 teaspoons grated orange zest
1/3 cup orange juice
1-1/2 teaspoons lemon extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
icing:
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons 2% milk
3 drops orange food coloring, optional
Directions
In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg, orange zest, orange juice and extract. Gradually beat in flour.
Divide dough in half. Shape each into a disk. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll.
Preheat oven to 375°. On a floured surface, roll each portion of dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
Bake until edges are light brown, 8-10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
In a small bowl, mix confectioners’ sugar, milk and, if desired, food coloring until smooth. Pipe or spread over cookies; let stand until set.
ENJOY!
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Tinks has gone feral
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rock climbing is not for me!!!
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Me either, especially at my age. When I was younger, I did some here and there.
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VA referendum rued unconstitutional…
Ken Cuccinelli II
@KenCuccinelli
UPDATE on referendum lawsuits: The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed
@ETI_now
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“Who Owns the Seed? The EU’s Quiet Assault on Agricultural Sovereignty”
Dr. Robert W. Malone, Apr 22, 2026
EXCERPT: “The European Union is advancing a sweeping rewrite of its seed laws under the banner of Plant Reproductive Material regulation (PRM). We are told this is about modernization, safety, and disease control. That sounds reasonable until you look at what the policy actually does and who it benefits.
What it does is shift control. What it benefits is scale. And what it tells us, if we are paying attention, is a great deal about how power now flows in the Western world.
The Heart of the Matter: Subsidiarity
There is a principle older than the European Union, older than the American republic, older even than the modern nation-state. It holds that decisions should be made as close to the individual as possible. Catholics call it subsidiarity. Americans express a similar instinct through federalism and a preference for local control, or just common sense. It rests on a simple observation. The people closest to a problem usually understand it best, live with its consequences most directly, and have the strongest reason to get it right.
Agriculture is the perfect example. A farmer in Provence knows his soil, his climate, his pests, and his market in ways no official in Brussels ever will. A gardener in Bavaria who has spent twenty years selecting a tomato variety for her specific plot knows things that cannot be captured in any database. A smallholder in Sicily adapting a wheat cultivar to drought conditions is doing real work, and doing it better than any centralized authority could direct.
For ten thousand years, people have saved, selected, traded, and improved seeds through networks of farmers, gardeners and local breeders. This is not a quaint hobby. It is the foundation of agricultural civilization. Nearly every crop we depend on came from this quiet, decentralized work. The diversity in our fields and on our plates exists because millions of ordinary people, without asking permission from anyone, did the patient work of selection and exchange.
The Plant Reproductive Material regulation turns this ancient order on its head. It presumes that seeds must be authorized from above before they can circulate below. It treats the default activity of human agriculture, the saving and sharing of seed, as something requiring a permission slip from a bureaucrat. This is not a minor tweak. It is a philosophical reversal. It moves the presumption of legitimacy from the grower to the regulator.
Conservatives understand why this matters. Power concentrated at a distance is power removed from accountability. A village that governs its own seed exchange answers to itself. A continent that governs seed exchange from Brussels answers to no one the farmer will ever meet. The regulation does not just impose costs, though it does that, and severely. It transfers authority. It takes what was local and makes it central. It takes what was free and makes it licensed. That transfer is the whole point, even when nobody says so out loud.
The Compliance Cost Trap…..
The Disease Argument Deserves a Full Burial…..
The Commission’s Pattern of Overreach…..”
https://www.malone.news/p/who-owns-the-seed
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Found Them Both Sleeping Like This In The Middle Of Summer
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Wethal
April 22, 2026 5:49 pm
BREAKING
Virginia Circuit Court rules gerrymandering initiative unconstitutional, as the legislature did not follow the prescribed procedure for amending constitution.
Art. XII, §1 requires that after first passage, a proposed amendment be “referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates.” An election must intervene between first and second passage. Here, first passage occurred during an election cycle — not before an intervening one.
Art. XII, §1 requires the amendment be submitted to voters “not sooner than ninety days after final passage by the General Assembly.” The timeline from second passage to the April 21 vote did not satisfy this requirement.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/22/court-rules-just-passed-virginia-gerrymandering-unconstitutional-n4952079
VA Supreme Court will no doubt weigh in eventually.
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Just The News: “The Trump administration reached a settlement Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide Carter Page that amounts to $1.25 million.
Page sued the FBI, Justice Department and eight people over allegations they improperly surveilled him under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant during the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in a filing to the Supreme Court that the Trump administration and Page had “agreed to settle” his claims against the federal government. But his complaints against individual defendants remained.
The filing comes after a lower court tossed the case in 2022, ruling that Page failed to prove the individual defendants actually participated in the allegedly unlawful activities. Page also argued in his case that the surveillance was unlawful because the warrant applications were false and misleading, according to CBS News.
The defendants that remain in the case include former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and ex-FBI officials Kevin Clinesmith, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.”
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Good night, Pat!
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Good Night Filly!
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