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Kudos to Jennifer for revealing a “neat” and “groovy” website, Songza. You type in the name of a song or group and you can listen to virtually any song imaginable.
I decided to give it a test drive by searching for a song from my youth. Not only was I able to listen to the song, but a link to a YouTube video of the song was provided as well.
Enjoy!
This morning when I was awakened by the high winds, I was pondering the chances that my Buffalo News might have blown away. The wind was ferocious. Luckily, I have a thoughtful and resourceful delivery person. I found my paper in the orange plastic bag with the handles around a stake marking the property for the plow service.
Thank you Mr./Ms. deliver person, you made my morning!
Click the link below and read it all.
Well, I can tell you this, the Ron Paul supporters in general will not be voting for any other candidate. Once people have had a taste of freedom and liberty, they cannot go back. Only a smattering of Ron Paul supporters would be caught dead voting for another Republican. It would be really interesting to see what would happen if he did decide to make a third party bid.
Sadly, it has become clear that without a fair shake in the media, it is really difficult to make a realistic run for the White House. On a very unscientific survey of anecdotal evidence (something that seems to be just as reliable as the polling methods these days that all but inaugurated Obama in New Hampshire) I have found that roughly 90% of the population has never heard Ron Paul’s message. However, of those that hear the whole message, and not the twisted distorted filtered garbage the main stream media puts out, 80% become supporters.
Ron Paul in for Long Haul With Martin Luther King Day Money Bomb Planned
I’ve decided that it is time to shed some pounds. I’m strongly considering signing up for the Healthy Living Diet by Ellie Krieger from the Food Network. I love great tasting food and cooking. This diet seems to fit the bill. What this plan does is simplify the planning. You pick your meals and generate weekly menus, recipes and a shopping list. A customized fitness plan and online counseling is also included. The weekly price of $5 is a bargain when you consider the convenience and time savings realized.
Below is a photo of African Peanut Stew. This dish was featured last week in Relish Magazine which made its Buffalo News debut. The recipe typifies the type of food I am looking for in a diet — great flavor and healthy! The recipe is from Cheryl Forberg, chef and nutritionist for NBC’s The Biggest Loser. I will be ordering her cookbook to augment my quest to lose weight.
The stew is easy to prepare and loaded with flavor from cilantro, curry powder, fresh ginger and garlic. The edamame gives this dish a wonderful crunch and texture. Edamame is fresh green soybeans which I found easily with the frozen Asian foods in Tops. You can view a printer-friendly version of the recipe here.
Both of my sons loved this dish. Add a glass of wine and some fresh baked whole grain bread and you will have a meal fit for company.
ABC did a fascinating series on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. You can read it here.
Thomas’s life and experiences — growing up in the Jim Crow South, integrating all-white public schools as the only black student, confronting more latent racism after he fled to what he hoped would be “utopia” in the North — clearly have influenced how he views the law and social policies like affirmative action. His brutal 1991 confirmation battle only reinforced those deeply held views. He says he believes every discussion of race in America is fundamentally dishonest.
“It’s even more dishonest than the ’60s,” he says.
He is adamantly opposed to affirmative action, but for entirely different reasons than white conservatives who drive the debate by arguing it’s unfair to white people. Thomas says affirmative action instead has hurt blacks. It not only sends them into environments in which they are doomed to struggle instead of soar, but it also perpetuates negative stereotypes that whites hold today that all blacks are inferior to them and don’t belong — just as whites in the South assumed 50 years ago.
“These ideologies that claim to be so warm toward minorities actually turn out to be quite pernicious,” Thomas says.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Kevin Everett’s doctor plans to have him stand on his own soon, and believes the Bills tight end will be walking within weeks - or sooner.
Dr. barth Green tells WBEN’s Barbara Burns; “I’d say in the next few days or weeks he’ll be standing and walking, not normally. It might take weeks or months for him to walk more normally.” Green spoke with WBEN after discussing Everett’s condition with Bills orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Cappuccino.
The prognosis is remarkable after Everett arrived at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital paralyzed from the neck down after being hurt while making a tackle in Buffalo’s season opener against Denver on Sept. 9. Doctors initially expressed fears Everett would never walk again.
You can hear Dr. Green on “Buffalo’s Early News” with John Zach and Susan Rose tomorrow morning and hear Kevin Evertt’s mom by going to wben.com.
The miraculous medical treatment Keven Everett received is the result of market forces at work. Less government involvement with health care would lead to more stories like this.
And there’s no better time to fire up the oven and make a homemade pizza.
The first thing you need to do is make some good dough. It is not hard and only takes about 10 minutes. I used this dough recipe from Emeril. It makes a nice thin, tender, to-the tooth base for your pizza with a bit of character. After I made the dough I divided it in half and let one piece rise, according to the recipe. I oiled the other piece, wrapped it in plastic wrap and saved it for tomorrow. After the dough had risen, I spread it on a lightly floured surface to the desired size. I sprayed a pizza pan with non-stick spray and dusted it with cornmeal. Place the dough on the pan and resize it as necessary. I prefer pizza pans with holes in the bottom. I’ve had good results with the dough cooking through, and the bottom browning perfectly, without having to deck the pizza directly to the oven rack. A 500 degree oven is a must!
Once you have the dough stretched and placed on the pan, use your imagination for toppings. I mixed some ricotta cheese with a bit of extra-virgin olive oil and spread it on the dough. Next, I placed some thinly sliced fresh mozzarella on it. Then, I grated some good parmesan cheese, using the large side holes on a stand-up, 4 sided grater and added that to the pizza. Do not used pre-grated cheese, that is just laziness. A generous grinding of pepper was added next.
I purchases some roasted tomatoes and roasted mildly hot red peppers with garlic from the olive bar in Wegmans and added them to the pizza. I shaved 2 cloves of the garlic very thin before adding to the pizza. I plucked about 12 leaves from my basil plant, rolled them up and made a chiffonade to top off the pizza. The last step before baking is to drizze some extra-virgin olive on the pizza.
Pop it into a 500 degree oven and bake for about 12 minutes. Rotate the pizza occasionally to ensure even cooking and check the bottom when the top looks nearly done. If the bottom doesn’t look nearly golden brown, slide the pizza off the pan and let it finish directly on the oven rack. I use the rack on the second notch from the bottom. Be careful not to overcook the pizza dough.
While the pizza is baking, uncork a nice red wine and let it breathe a bit. I washed the pizza down with a full-bodied Napa Valley Cabernet, a 2005 Rooftop Red from C&T Cellars, purchased from wine.woot.com. Woot has a different wine deal each week featuring good quality, moderately priced wines.
ENJOY! (click any pic for a large version)
Follow the link at the end for a great article.
What distinguishes the libertarian (liberal) spirit from its alternative is the conviction that free individuals who respect one another’s sovereignty will generate and sustain a benevolent prosperous social order without direction from a central bureaucratic authority. Atomistic individualism never had anything to do with genuine liberalism, which is a social philosophy that looks to the cooperation inherent in the division of labor and free exchange to deliver its material and nonmaterial benefits. “The market” — the realm of consent, contract, and mutual accommodation — always was thought to include nonpecuniary relationships.
This week I am going to Cedar Point for 2 days. I was checking out their website for hours, events, etc., and stumbled across a special day on their events calendar.
HOME SCHOOL DAY
Homeschool families will have their own special savings day on August 24, 2007. Regular tickets will be priced at $29, and Junior and Senior tickets will be available for $11.95. No minimum purchase is required. Advance reservations are required. For additional information call Group Sales at 1-800-448-2428.
Whether or not we are in the midst of global warming, you can’t argue with the fact that we are currently enjoying an unbelievably gorgeous stretch of weather.
This morning I met some friends for a morning cruise on the Miss Buffalo. Buffalo Tours, in conjunction with the Landmark Society, the Preservation Coalition and Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, presented a Buffalo Waterfront & Black Rock Canal Tour. The tour guides provided an interesting and educational commentary as the tour progressed.
The weather was perfect and, of course, it was a prime photo-op. Here’s a few shots that you can click for larger versions.
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. . .And I feel just a little bit older today. Pictured below are my youngest son, Matthew, and his girlfriend, Katie. They are going to the Amherst High School prom tonight at the Marriott. Click the photos for a larger version.
Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for President, virtually ignored by the mainstream media and his own party, fared very well in last night’s debate. Here are some wrapups and figures from around the web.
In summary, Ron Paul posted the biggest gain of any Republican candidate in the May 3 debate. He did it the old fashioned way, no BS, no political rhetoric, no waffling for votes . . . just straight talk, consistent views and a record to back up what he says.
The voters in American need to ask themselves one question to decide who should be the next President — Are they happy with the current state of politics and government? If the answer is NO, then Ron Paul is the clear choice to lead our country back to greatness.
Jim Ostrowski’s guest tomorrow on Free America Radio will be Thomas Dilorenzo. Dilorenzo is author of the critically acclaimed book Lincoln Unmasked. Tune in at 1 pm on WNYM Radio.
Ron Paul is not your typical politician. He is essentially a libertarian running for the Republican nomination for President. His positions reflect the best of liberal and conservative views. I say the best because his positions reflect the concepts of equal opportunity, individual freedom, individual rights and limited government. Special interests are resolutely rejected because pandering to them weakens the country at the expense of others.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul sounds like a liberal when he bemoans the growth of the military-industrial complex. And he sounds like a conservative when he puts down bureaucrats and big government.
Wearing black sneakers for his meeting with the Register editorial board, Paul walks a different philosophic path than the other candidates in the presidential race. He was the1988 presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, but is running this time for the Republican nomination. The strong Libertarian streak remains, though. He champions individual rights, limited government and low taxes.
His beliefs may tread the edge of mainstream thought, but he doesn’t harangue. Indeed, almost everything about him appears understated: dark-gray suit, gray-patterned tie and his hands folded in front of him for most of the meeting. A slight man, he gets a twinkle in his eyes and the pitch of his voice rises with incredulity as he recounts government excesses.
The federal No Child Left Behind law, pushed by President Bush, “essentially doubles the size of the Department of Education,” he said. “Do you think that’s going to help the students? No, it entrenches the bureaucrats.”
He’s dismayed by the notion that fighting terrorism demands erosion of civil liberties.
Read it all: DesMoinesRegister.com