Maggie's Farm

Green bell peppers are just unripe red bell peppers.

 American Dependence: The Rise of Single Parenthood. There’s a strong circumstantial case that welfare benefits increased single parenthood to some extent, but to what extent is difficult to nail down using scientifically rigorous methods.

 ADMINISTRATORS — NOT JUST DEI ADMINISTRATORS — ARE THE BIGGEST THREAT TO FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS

 What Do College Administrators Do?

Why can't Americans make chips? 

 Biden finally admits border isn’t secure, believes ‘massive changes’ needed: ‘I’m ready to act’

 Journalist Uncovers "Shadowy Network" Of NGOs Facilitating US Border Invasion

 Infamous ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Tries To Election-Meddle Again — This Time With Federal Tax Dollars

 Heritage Foundation President Dishes Truth to Davos Elites

 'Someone Is Going To Die Today': Did Daniel Penny Act in Self-Defense?

  Cuba's communists blame tiny private sector for their economic mismanagement, hike their taxes 20%

The 25th is Robbie Burns' Birthday - "Burns Day"

Address to a Haggis 

 Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang ‘s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whissle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.

Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

It's basically an Americanized version of Fettucine Alfredo.

People make a meal of it, with salad, but it's also a darn good side with roast beef.

A little truffle oil makes for an upscale Mac and Cheese. I had that once in a very fancy restaurant, baked in individual pottery ramekin/mugs with shaved truffle on top. Quite effete and entirely edible.

 Adding impact to exercise can keep aging bones strong, research indicates

Duh 

California's attempt at forcing gig workers to become traditional employees backfired by driving many of those workers out of their jobs.

 A professor, vice president, and Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine created a list of groups she claimed are “privileged.”

 "Food Deserts" Rise In Democrat Run Cities As Grocers Leave In Droves

"People are saying it feels like we’re sleepwalking off a cliff... The left is kind of despairing and divided and exhausted...."

 TGIF: TimHouthi Chalamet - Trump sweeps Iowa. Americans riot over a cup. Milei is the talk of Davos. Plus: A lost city, flying cars, and much more.

 VDH: The Hysterical Style In American Politics

... the progressive movement cannot enact its unpopular agendas. So it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.

 A Conservative Executive Bought the Baltimore Sun Newspaper and the Left is Freaking Out

 Delusional in Davos

 Why the Davos Smart Set Sounds Dumb

 Davos Man had the honor of hearing Jamie Dimon, the CEO of America’s major bank, tell them to cut out the trash talk about Donald Trump.

 Javier Milei Tells World Leaders: 'The State Is Not the Solution'. Speaking at the Davos conference, the Argentine president said the key to prosperity lies in free market ideals and capitalism.

 Israel Destroys Hamas’s Main Weapons Manufacturing Site, Uncovers New Vast Tunnel Network. The IDF: Destroyed Hamas weapons factories were “connected to a tunnel route hundreds of kilometers long.”

 Netanyahu In Blistering Rebuke Of US Post-War Plans: "Israel Will Control Entire Area From The River To The Sea"

An Italian peasant dish, fully functional for any small game the hunter - the cacciatore - brings home in his bag - fowl, rabbit, squirrel. I made it with pheasant a few nights ago and the family loved it.

My Mom never heard of it, but I had a friend whose Mom cooked it. Adventurous for a New England Yankee Mom.

We serve it on rice, egg noodles, or pappardelle. 

Like all such things, it's better the second day.

Regarding this pretty-good recipe - Chicken Cacciatore - I can report that it is darn good with the capers. An alternative to the capers would be wild mushrooms, but not both. Definitely add some hot pepper flakes. Don't simmer for 1/2 hr - simmer for 60 minutes to fully mix the flavors while you give the baby a bath.

I sometimes cheat by sauteeing the chopped vegatables, then adding them to marinara sauce from the supermarket. It works darn well with the rest of the ingedients.

 Climate change anxiety: A hidden contributor to prenatal distress in expectant mothers

 Largest Ape Ever Went Extinct Because of... Climate Change?

 The Most Ridiculous 75 Seconds Of Bullshit From Davos Yet On "Ecocide"

 Elections Will Soon Be a Quaint Relic of the Past, Says Globalist Klaus Schwab

 What Books Are Really Getting Banned?

 Doctors protest proposed DEI emphasis in Canadian medical school training

 The Most Florida Man Story Ever

DEI’s Attack Dog - The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting the Biden administration’s sham campaign against “domestic terrorism.”

 Build the Wall - an Interview

 EU President Says Number One Challenge for Global Control Systems in Next Two Years is to Control Information and Speech

 John Kerry Goes Full Davos Totalitarian: No Politician Can Reverse Climate Change Policy

 WEF creeps descend on Davos to ‘rebuild trust’... and subsequently book all the local prostitutes

 A Canadian court ruled against Jordan Peterson on mandated re-education classes 

Federal gummint gets a snow day 

 Courts, The New Campaign Trail

 Why Trump bewilders psychiatrists

 What’s really working for Trump

 Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC would not be covering Trump’s victory speech, and CNN cut away after just a few minutes of it. Why was that?

 Dems Spend on Pregnant Boys and Worldwide LGBTism

America Works. DEI Doesn’t.

 The Supreme Court could put an end to urban squalor

 JPMorgan CEO and Dem Donor Jamie Dimon Defends Trump and MAGA — Calls Out Democrats for Demonizing Millions of Americans: ‘Democrats Need to Grow Up’

 Will the Supreme Court Finish Trump’s War Against Regulation? The former president made little headway while in office against the administrative state, but the Roberts court is ready to step in.

" Technocrats have long told us what we can and can’t do, what we’re allowed to own, what our kids must learn in school, and so on. For the most part, we never voted for any of that, yet we have gone along docilely, not noticing or not caring or, at best, unwilling to make waves."

Like most topics that come up here, many will find some boring as hell - but others will find them useful and informative. If you don't like our fitness info, just leave it alone. I just hope that our fitness info has been useful, if not inspiring, to some readers.

Squats and Deads are crucial to building or maintaining physical sturdiness and functionality for any gender, any age (above childhood). When you decide to take them on as a component of your strength routines, you will naturally want continuous improvement. We all want to see results, but strength results come slowly especially after age 35-40. 

Either that, or decide that you want to maintain yourself where you are now. That's ok too as long as it is not easy because workouts are meant to be "work," ie difficult and unpleasant. A walk in the park is no "exercise" for healthy people.

Deads are called "The King of Strength Exercises" because they are a functional, total body exertion. Squats are entirely functional. Because exercise time is limited for working people, a 5X5 of barbell squats and another day with 5X5 deads is a decent lower body foundation. Go heavy.

For today,  Deadlift vs. Squat Muscles

 Ultra-Large Structure Discovered in Distant Space Defies Our Current Understanding of the Universe

 Leonard Bernstein Deserved Better Than ‘Maestro’

Doctor Does Actual Biology, Gets Suspended

 Why Gen Z Is Ditching The Girlboss For The Tradwife

 UMich now has more than 500 jobs dedicated to DEI, payroll costs exceed $30 million

 Basically, the average European suffers from high taxes, high prices, tiny homes and cars, and, increasingly, less freedom. But tourists sipping tea in London or shopping in Paris rarely, if ever, see this, or understand it if they do.

 Free Press Investigations Get Results. DEI in retreat. A captured imam is freed. An anti-Israel map is taken down. Plus, Carole Hooven on leaving Harvard, a hostage speaks, and more.

 Trump Triggering the Lefties Never Ceases to Amuse and Entertain

 What Really Happened to George Floyd?

 World Power Politics

 Seventeen-year-old Agam Goldstein-Almog saw Hamas murder her father and sister before her eyes. Then she was taken to Gaza.

The USA has countless burger joints, not including the big chains. God knows how many burgers I have had.

Louis' Lunch in New Haven claims to be the first burger joint - the hamburger sandwich, still on white toast because it started before burger buns in 1895. 

Mrs. BD did a raod trip with her pal a year or two ago, and both swear that the best burger they have had in life were at Ed's in Hattiesburg. They swear it's worth a trip.

I like thinner burgers that you can fit in your mouth. Smashed and crispy. That means it's hard to cook them med. rare, but whatever. Gotta be a skillet, not a barbie.

Hamburger America looks like a good place on McDougall St in NYC.  They offer 2 types. The owner says "Grease is a condiment." I agree - and butter. A burger needs a pat of butter.

Besides grease, ketchup and onion is my preference. Yes, I know American "Cheese" is called for, but I love Blue Cheese on a burger.  Or on anything. 

Funny how condiment preferences vary across the US. Some like mustard, pickles, pickle relish, tomato, lettuce, jalapenos, etc.

How do our readers like their burgers? 

“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

 Martin Luther King Jr.

 Martin Luther King Jr.: The best of America

 How Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”

 Where Now for Nuclear Power? Despite some major setbacks, the technology remains vital to the nation’s energy future—but the U.S. needs to enact major regulatory and permitting reforms.

 Updates On The March To The Great Green Energy Future

 Massachusetts Officials Pleading with Private Homeowners to Take in Illegal Aliens

 Democrat Jerry Nadler Slammed After Claiming ‘Many Illegal Immigrants’ Needed To Pick Vegetables

 Biden: “If My Republican Colleagues Don’t Fund Ukraine, They’re Gonna Have an Awful Lot to Pay For”

 Lawfare Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas. Prosecutors are discovering that the more they seek to rush to judgment before the election and gag Trump from speaking publicly about these proceedings, the more he rises in the polls.

 Is ‘Trump is Hitler’ the best Biden’s got? Three years into his presidency, Joe Biden has nothing to offer voters apart from anti-Trump hysteria.

 Porch Pirates Are a Big Security Problem in Canada, so the Police Are Acting Swiftly… To Protect the Privacy of the Thieves!

 Taiwan’s political future is uncertain. Voters can’t escape the psychodrama between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China

Taiwan will be China one day

Nathan:  How could I not tell you about Be'eri's buried?

 Finnish Politician Räsänen Again Facing Demands For Prosecution Over Quoting Bible

Stuart quotes a bunch from Bret Stephens, a seemingly "moderate" who dislikes Donald Trump.  Lots of people dislike Trump's adolescent, hyperbolic blowhard side. At the same time, he did a darn good job.

Ad hominem sets in when policy discussions fail to persuade. I am old enuf to remember Nixon/Hitler, Reagan/Hitler, and Bush/Hitler.

One quote:

 Public services paid by taxes exist for people who live here, not just anyone who makes his way into the country by violating its laws. A job market is structured by rules and regulations, not just an endless supply of desperate laborers prepared to work longer for less. A national culture is sustained by common memories, ideals, laws and a language — which newcomers should honor, adopt and learn as a requirement of entry. It isn’t just a giant arrival gate for anyone and everyone who wants to take advantage of American abundance and generosity.

 It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense.

Fun to make if you have the time. I need it for a big beef (boeuf?) Bourguignon tonite. Mrs. BD does not approve of watery supermarket beef broth.

I start with a bunch of bones (oxtail and whatever else cheap they have with bones in, esp bones with marrow, and a little meat on them too) from the supermarket, and roast them until pleasantly browned. Venison fine too if you have the bones. Roasted bones are what make a good broth but they have to be cut or cracked.

Throw them into a big pot with about a bucket of water, a quartered unpeeled onion, a quartered unpeeled carrot, a couple of garlic cloves, some parsley and thyme, maybe one stick of celery, a bunch of pepper and salt, and simmer on low around 4 or more hours. A French chef friend recommends 8 hrs but come on.

Strain it out, and there you go. When it's cooled, it is gelatinous. Even a dumb guy can do it. Sure, you can freeze any extra. It is a base for all sorts of good things.

Another American adaptation/bastardization of an Italian recipe. CHICKEN OR TURKEY TETRAZZINE

My Mom used to make this when we were young. She'd never had any real Italian food in her life at that point except spaghetti and meatballs (not Italian either); she thought Tetrazzine was an Italian dish.

Who was Luisa Tetrazzini? A soprano 

This pasta thing tastes just fine, especially if you are hungry.

Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago?

A few simple tips: Look both ways, assume drivers are distracted or drunk, and quit crossing a road at night wearing black. 

Florida Man fun 

 Social Distancing ‘Sort of Just Appeared’

 The Orwellian Assault On The Past Continues

 Among the most shocking aspects of the current political scene is the fact that the American and the British left has been exposed as misogynistic, anti-Semitic and homophobic. 

 One of the few remaining Sears stores is closing

 This Is San Francisco

 Democrats: We Need Illegals to Do Menial Tasks

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 How Democrats Sold Out The Working Class - The Democratic Party is being gentrified into oblivion

Fanigate Goes Full Jerry Springer

A pal of mine cooks a big dinner of venison Stroganoff for friends each late winter because it is such a good use of his venison scraps, shoulder, etc. He probably makes a gallon of it, then served on pappardelle. The thin strips are tender. 

Quick and easy: Beef Stroganoff

When I was a kid, we viewed this as an exotic treat. Best with lots of black pepper in the mix.

The Root Cause Of Academic Groupthink

 Former Stanford President Retracts "Ground-Breaking" Alzheimer's Paper

 Why DEI Regime Cries Victim in Harvard-Claudine Gay Scandal

" It looks to me as though colleges are doing a lot to discourage young people from learning. The mission of lifelong learning is a higher mission than social justice activism. Colleges took a wrong turn when they focused on social justice activism."

 National Public Radio is a sandbox for the Left. The "news" there is manufactured by leftists, for leftists

 Dr. Anthony Fauci Cannot ‘Recall’ Much About COVID Origins, Pandemic Responses. Fauci, who can’t remember the origins of the “6 feet” rule of social distancing, now says the lab leak origin is credible.

 TGIF: This Means War - The pope comes out against surrogacy. Harvard dismisses its own extension school. Florida cuts the dictionary. Palestine activists object to your morning commute. Plus: Iraq!

  16K Chinese Migrants Apprehended by Border Patrol Since October

 "Futile Waste Of Human Resources & Money" - EU PM Says West Got Ukraine All Wrong

Canada: Who is Paul Poilievre? 

Watch his quick interview while he munches an apple

" English-speaking readers around the world were meant to understand that Zionists were genocidal and racist settler-colonialists who deployed Nazi methods in the service of global imperialism, while suppressing the anti-colonial national-liberation struggle of the Palestinian people." 

Moms show their love for their families by cooking, especially those gooey, bland, rib-sticking comfort foods in the winter. They make everybody feel loved, and they're all in Fanny Farmer's cookbook if you have one around.

Mommys of America winter foods are cheap and easy to make. Cheaper than McDonald's, but probably less "healthy" than McDonald's. Whatever "healthy" means.

Here's a classic Mommys of America dish, Creamed Chicken with Peas, best (I think) on top of white rice but it works on toast, mashed taters, and egg noodles. Lots of ground pepper on top.

For one extra Mom point, serve it on Basmati rice. For two extra points, on a brioche. For three extra Mom points, use the pheasant Dad shot instead of chicken because she deserves it for marrying a guy who goes out and shoots the family's food.

Got any favorite Mommys of America dishes? This is first of a sentimental, anti-gourmet, re-posted series.

I'm not Bossy. I'm the Boss.

Some womens' t-shirt, sold online. Funny.