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Pork Carne Seca Carne Seca is an old Mexican form of storing meat for the long term. The meat is chilled so it cooperates and is then cut ninety degrees to the grain or muscle strands. It is cut as a maximum of 1/8" thick. Once it is cut salt is added at a rate of 3% by weight and mixed a lot. When I do it I make certain it isn’t folded. I even take the time to open them up and spread them on the pile before I start mixing. I put mine I the fridge overnight so the salt can equalize throughout. Some people will dry the meat by hanging it over wood dowels. Traditionally it was draped over wood slats, but those slats wouldn’t be used over and over. I wouldn’t reuse them unless I could sterilize the heck out of them. When you buy carne seca it is usually chopped up so it doesn’t take up as much room. If you store this in Mylar bags with an oxygen absorber it will last a very long time. I have fried a few pieces of this and tossed it in soups and it works quite nicely. A little later I dig up some old chili recipes that use this. This is now on my ramen noodle list. Heat some oil fry it and let the flavors of the two intermingle and put that on the bottom of the bowl.

First Permaculture Swale Installed and Planted The first swale is finally planted for the most part. I have willow, poplar, mulberry and a lot of other trees that still have to be either started or planted in here. For the most part the swales will be planted with the same pattern. Ruminating critters don’t do so well if you suddenly change their diet. This years was mostly drought that caused a lot of plants to do poorly. However it did provide an opportunity to see how much better plants did in the swale as opposed to everyplace else. I’m sold on the idea now. The swales weren’t as smoothed as I’d like them to be, but that’s okay. The entire berm is a short hugelkultur bed so as the woods rots, things will settle and can be top dressed. If you’re curious about what a hugelkultur bed is here’s a link. https://insteading.com/blog/hugelkultur/ Since this project is about farming it’s a great idea to not kill your critters. Here’s a link to goats and that’s a good start beccause you might want to start with those because they’ll eat the Chinese privet, poison ivy and wisteria for you. As a side not goats are a lot tastier than a weed wacker! https://fiascofarm.com/goats/poisonousplants.htm Here is where you can get teff seeds. Amazon link to Teff https://www.amazon.com/Yupik-Teff-Seeds-2-2-Pound/dp/B07TZX3KPQ/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Teff&qid=1656780002&rdc=1&sr=8-5 I mentioned sylvopasture, here’s a link for doing it in the south. https://etd.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/10415/1409/Karki_Uma_22.pdf?sequence=1

Biden and the Sword of Damocles In this election we must remind our leaders of something that leaders use to understand. This elections has to be a repudiation of everything we’ve seen and we must push forward no matter how painful to correct what has gone so wrong. One of the indicators I’ve noticed especially since 2020 is the inability of Congress and the rest of government to understand that if you clamp down on a populace you won’t have a clue what they’re really thinking. It’s like throwing sand in your own eyes. It is a sign of foolishness and arrogance. This is the link to the Jordan Peterson video. I recommend you watch it and share it far and wide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF5spyudTYA

Prosciutto Type Ham From Pork Loin I realized as I was doing this video that if I had pronounced it correctly I might have been able to spell it correctly the first time. This is something I’ve tried to get around to for a good while. The instructions are pretty simple. The target weight;s on these pieces of meat are a weight loss of 35% or something around 30% to 40%. There are numerous channels that deal with this general subject. The first link I put up here is to Steve Lambs channel. The next link is where you can get the mesh and twine in Amazon. After that there’s a link where you can find bacto Ferm 6000 which is where my Penicillium came from. There is a tutorial link at the bottom of this stack of links. Here is the Steve Lamb video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjiFygPCpJY Butchers twine at amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B255YVPF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 Mesh for hanging curing products this is a search link. What you need is based on how big your project is. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mesh+for+curing+meat&crid=1YXPDMU9M8CC8&sprefix=mesh+for+curing+meat%2Caps%2C166&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 Bacto Ferm 600 https://www.amazon.com/Bactosprefixld-600-Penicillium-Nalgiovense/dp/B01MY0XPUE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2XXFZ46FDS1WG&keywords=bactoferm+mold+600&qid=1666721624&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjUxIiwicXNhIjoiMC40OCIsInFzcCI6IjAuNDIifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=bacto%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1 Here is a tutorial and discussion on using Bacto Ferm 600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAodrAE8i6I&t=578s

Completed 55 Gallon Drum Thermal Mass J-Tube Greenhouse Heater Last year I built an experimental J tube burner to heat the greenhouse using wood you find lying around etc. This year I’m finalizing the build by creating a bit more of a heat battery. It will be set on top of a concrete pad so heat will be stored in it and in the floor. The barrel was originally just filled with sand. This year it will be sand and clay. This will create a thermal flywheel that can be fired during the day while doing other things and then left overnight without any fire to worry about. Keep in mind that the thermal battery can also be heated with a solar panel instead of fire. I think it’s best to have both heating modes if possible. The fire box could have been made using plaster of Paris. While I was working on making 55 gallon drum forge I discovered that plaster of paris and sand make great fire bricks. That’s another option. The reason I created a thermal short into the ground is that it will radiate a lot of heat during the night. One thing that will need to be watched after is watering the plants in there more often. The heat will dry the soil out a lot faster than usual. This link is to the test run I did last year. https://rumble.com/vrka47-55-gallon-drum-j-tube-heater-for-greenhouse.html

Transitioning Back To Sanity One thing I hope everybody remembers about politicians in the future is that if they say they are going to do something stupid. Trust them. Especially if their handlers have to explain why they really didn’t mean they were going to cut off the domestic fuel production. That, and rolling the printing presses is what caused the inflation to get this bad. Remember when they said Trump would cause rampant inflation if he got in again? Ooops! Remember when they all said Trump would get us into WW3 if he got in again? Ooops again! Biden is a disaster, but unlike many on the left I am not surprised. Speaking of surprise did you hear Bill Maher going on about all of absurdity the left continues to push. I’ve been guilty of referring to what they’re doing as gas lighting us. I have to admit that deep down inside I understand many over there are just clueless and trapped in anything trendy over on that side of the aisle. It is the stuff of Frances reign of terror. There is a link below to the entire thing and it’s worth watching. It is a long one and I enjoyed watching Donna Brazile trying to remain relevant. Life is so hard. One thing the CCP and the leftists didn’t count on when they used the virus to create lock downs to justify election meddling, was that they made life slow down for many people. That was really stupid of them. That was the chink in their armor. Bill Maher gets it trans gay etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMBzfUj5zsg Jeremy’s Razors ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92UMJNjPIA&t=3s

How to Season a Wok While I was working in the L.A. area in 76 through 77, I kept going to Asian restaurants and began wondering how difficult it was to cook like that. I found out it was really easy and started learning. I still have the original wok from that time. My wife told me to go ahead and talk about her error with my wok. She got busy cleaning things and attacked that nasty old blackened wok only to find it’s like a cast iron skillet. Just don’t clean them like everything else. You just have to season them all over again. In this video I show how I season a wok these days. Never scrub them with anything more than a bamboo or luffa scrubber and a bit of soap and water. After that heat them up to make certain they’re nice and dry and then wipe them down with a light coat of oil. When oil gets rancid around here, I save it for seasoning pots and pans and woks.

Up your Ramen with dehydrated vegetables I noticed that when one buys Ramen noodles there isn’t very much there. This is a fact even with the expensive ones. Cvheap can run typically around 25 to 45 cents each. The expensive ones are more like $2.48 to $2.96 and there’s still not very much there. Maybe some vegatables, thicker broth and some oil. Never any protein unless it’s a bean or miso. I’m going to show you how to elevate your ramen game on all counts cheap. But first a little history on where ramen noodles came from. Here is a link to a brief history of Ramen noodles. https://www.tokyoramentours.com/post/instant-ramen-history Link to koh ga la baq (Asian dried spiced chicken) https://rumble.com/v1hqtfh-kho-ga-la-baq.html

Nuke Fear In Clown World video regarding radiation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArXD0_hjZ0 Cresson Kearny’s Book Nuclear war survival skills https://oism.org/nwss/ The Biden Administration ordered a bunch of the drugs in the link below. I suspect it was to terrify everybody. These are more for the younger members of your circle. Amazon search link for Potassium Iodide tablets https://www.amazon.com/s?k=potassium+iodide+tablets+for+radiation+exposure&crid=2WPKNTHA7TCYG&sprefix=potassium+Iodide%2Caps%2C179&ref=nb_sb_ss_deep-retrain-10-ops-acceptance_5_16 Learn how to do food storage Video links to some of what I’ve done regarding the basics. These are some of earlier videos and they’re pretty basic. Anytime you see the cutting board and “Load your Larder” it’s about this basic subject. Currently I’m working on a ramen noodles series about how to take that to a new level. Food Storage Why! https://rumble.com/vfj5nz-food-storage-why.html Canning butter and waterglassing eggs https://rumble.com/vfilcl-canning-butter-and-waterglassing-eggs.html Dehydrating Potatoes Cooked Beans etc. https://rumble.com/vfko4f-dehydrating-potatoes-cooked-beans-etc..html Process tomatoes for shelf stable storage no canning https://rumble.com/vfjyd9-process-tomatoes-for-shelf-stable-storage-no-canning.html Dehydrating Fresh and Frozen Vegetables https://rumble.com/vfj3dr-dehydrating-fresh-and-frozen-vegetables.html Dehydrating Meat and Portable Soup https://rumble.com/vfit9l-dehydrating-meat-and-portable-soup.html Survive the ship of fools with ships biscuits. https://rumble.com/ve5ufd-survive-the-ship-of-fools-with-ships-biscuits..html David the good survival gardening https://www.youtube.com/c/davidthegood Geoff Lawton This guy is all about permaculture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbE4HEnSkC0&t=43s Regarding the impeachment #1 I did this video my opinion in writing is towards the end. https://rumble.com/vdprb1-strike-1-the-first-impeachment.html After the second Impeachment certain people came out and lectured us from the House of Representatives It was meant to scare us as they sat behind razor wire barricades. I wasn’t impressed. They had no desire to be uniters and I noticed. https://rumble.com/vdizmh-fear-and-loathing-in-d.c..html

I get the feeling that the SCOTUS has come to understand that they are not another arm of either party. Leading up to the 2020 election numerous laws were changed illegally. SCOTUS in my opinion failed because like many they were caught up in the mass formation psychosis like so many others. But that’s gone now and it’s back to Constitution time. Like everyone else they are waking to what has actually transpired. We will see how much they’ve really learned as time passes. We will also learn how much we have learned over time. The insanity that erupted from every corner of our undrained sewers rattled all of us even the ones who were sleeping as Trump was plotted against at every turn reminds me of something from Macbeth. It is how life has felt for far too long because of them. https://gellerreport.com/2022/10/supreme-court-backs-republican-in-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots-case.html/ Survival gardening https://www.youtube.com/c/davidthegood Geoff Lawton This guy is all about permaculture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbE4HEnSkC0&t=43s

All is not lost. The flying dragon orange sprouting from roots of the tree you murdered! The three lobed leaf of this tree is a common sight at the base of some citrus grafts. It is used because it can take some seriously cold weather which is a good thing. Citrus trifoliata and poncirus trifoliata are other names for it. I have a few of them on my property. They are a rather nasty tasting orange with many uses. The important thing to remember is that the tree that died because you forgot to cover it isn’t a complete waste. Wait to see if some of it actually survived above the graft. If it did, just cut the dead part off and wait. You’ll be back to normal in a year or two. The only price you have to pay in that case is relentless guilt and shame. You’re the reason it now has hostile thorns. They’re a reminder to take care of it in the future. Seriously there are some big thorns on them. That is one reason birds make nests in them and they can also be used as animal control hedges. Here is a link to The Green Deane’s webpage that deals with this particular fruit, it’s history and uses. https://www.eattheweeds.com/tag/flying-dragon/ If you want to know if a plant is useful or edible this is the guy for the most part. When I do some budding on these plants I’ll post a link below this line. Nope! Not yet!

Kho Ga La Baq This is a chicken jerky and it will be part of my ramen noodle project. I ran into this recently at a Vietnamese grocery. I’m hooked. Ingredients for bottom of steaming pot 5 Lbs of chicken breasts several stalks of crushed lemon grass One head of garlic cut in half Three onions Fresh herbs such as basil ginger slices celery seeds celery stalks Ingredients for the chicken shreds Turmeric powder cumin Kaffir Lime Leaves* Tom Yum Goong Paste* Worcestershire sauce Fish sauce* Black Soy sauce* Cinnamon powder Allspice powder A couple tablespoons of Sambal Oelik Chili paste Cook the broth down from when the chicken breasts were steamed. Once it’s down to about 3/4 of a cup set it aside and mix in the above ingredients. After that mix everything by hand and continue drying it. At the end there’s a tip about how to be certain the excess moisture is gone before you seal it up.

Blue States Like Cattle Have A Brand Eric Adams lectured the rest of the country on how special NY is. He pointed out that New York has a brand. I noticed it looks a lot like many blue state's brands. A Konnech CEO arrested on suspicion of stealing and storing ID and election data on voters in China. It’s serious when wapo has to say something isn’t it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ceo-of-election-software-firm-held-on-id-info-theft-charges/2022/10/04/335512f0-444b-11ed-be17-89cbe6b8c0a5_story.html Before everyone gets too excited over Ukraine’s massive win you might want to read this article. https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/maneuver-warfare

Tom Yum Goong Spaghetti This flavor combination became an instant favorite for me. I’ve introduced as many people to it as I can. Ingredients 3 Tbs. Tom Yum Goong paste * 2 Kaffir Lime leaves* 4 Tomato balls * ½ Red Onion Diced Sliced mushrooms to taste 1 Stalk of Lemon Grass Olive oil not EVO Shrimp to taste this was 1/2 Lb Black Soy Sauce* Fish Sauce* Parmesan Cheese Finish write up later

Consumers Versus Creators We are at an amazing point in our world's history. Sometimes the weight of a moment becomes so huge it overwhelms one's ability to see it clearly. I sat down to watch something I remembered Monica Crowley had done with Tucker Carlson. It was about when she worked for Nixon right out of college. There is a common thread between two employers of hers Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. A Democrat congressman named Moynahan was working with Nixon who had just been voted in with the biggest landslide election ever. Both Nixon and Moynahan knew that the power structures in deep state had been corrupted and needed to be cleaned out. The problem with all power structures is that they eventually become corrupt. That is the reason that corporations get switched out in contracts from time to time. It prevents them from becoming entrenched. Power will always move to protect itself and, and it will be supported by a slew of mindless justifications. Nixon and Trump were about to root out the deep corruption and had to be stopped. Note that it was at the end of Trumps first term the real disaster happened just like Nixon’s. Trump was cheated out of office just like Nixon was forced out after an epic win. The same forces were involved in both cases. Even Hillary was there. She was part of the legal team attacking Nixon. What we and Trump faced was better entrenched by an additional forty years. Biden used a phrase “Semi Fascist” The Guardian used a variant to describe Giorgi Meloni “Fascist adjacent”. This is right out of Animal Farm. The pigs in our ‘Animal Farm’ world are the ruling elite and with this unwarranted power they change to rules daily as they try to manipulate the masses. These language experiments are the weaker animals trying to please their masters with something that sticks when they throw it at a wall or individual. To these animals the simple question from animal farm “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?” will draw nothing but a blank stare. They’re intellectual slaves seeking the reward of approval. (Ribbons as signs of approval) Changing language and meanings is one of their weapons of subversion. Carefully worded responses can provide a shield for their minions allowing them to operate with mindless impunity. Here is an example. “20 agents launched an armed assault on the home of Aurther Lipschitze.” The official statement released however says: “This is not how that is done. It would have been one or two agents knocking on the door and politely inviting him to take a road trip with them. ” This is the upper echelon elite minion version of “Ego Te Absolvo. Or further translated: “I absolve you. Go forth bearing this shield of absolution and smash our enemies with the hammer of Cretin.” What did she mean when she spoke of consumers versus creators? Creators add a diversity that is organic and provides a different perspective. The kind of perspective shift that can break a cycle of mass formation psychosis. It works even when a power structure creates mayhem below to aid their subversion and then adds mayhem above as is currently occurring. Rioting in the streets combined with a plandemic and an election steal followed by the potential of global war. I will add here that China has played a major role in all of it. Bill Clinton was called their man in the White House for a reason. Consumers do not create art they do paint by numbers. They would never create the Flying pig in Pink Floyds concerts growling, “One of these days, I’ll smash all of you to pieces.” They couldn’t imagine making Dave Chappelle’s observation that a certain group, the Trans group was causing the ride towards acceptance to take a lot longer than it should. Creators build things art, music and objects. Consumers take. Mass formation psychosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ZuJn8la-M&t=2s

Pork Agrodolce Recipe This is some very serious comfort food. Oh yeah! 1 1/2 pounds boston butt pork, cut into bite sized pieces 1 tomato paste ball* 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar 2 tsp cider vinegar 1 tablespoon honey 1 inch squeeze of anchovy paste 1 clove minced garlic 1 green onion for garnish 1 tsp minced fresh rosemary 1 tsp smoked salt, plus more to taste 1 tsp chipotle powder black pepper to taste Mix all of the above ingredients together in a cooking dish and mix by hand. Cook in oven at 325 degrees F for about two hours. Cook until tender and make certain it doesn’t dry out. Serve over mashed potatoes and spoon the delicious sauce on top. Toss the green onions on and chow down. This is a sweet and sour recipe that also pairs well with sweet potatoes. If you use sweet potatoes make them savory.

I noticed this in July and just remembered it, so I thought I'd put it up here.

Homemade Skeeter Repellent This is a plant that is often used to make tasteless jelly. I don’t get it. There really isn’t much flavor going on there. The leaves however are a great mosquito repellent. This is a plant that grows in zone 7 through 11. I gather a good stack of leaves and then soak it in rubbing alcohol. After that I filter it with coffee filters. If I hadn’t chewed it up with the stick blender it wouldn’t stain. I was in a hurry and out here I don’t care if I get stains on my work clothes. I got a lot worse than that working out there. I’d be inclined to soak it in the alcohol for at least a week. Just taking a leaf and rubbing it on one of my arms made the mosquitos stay away from the right half of me. This works nicely and it lasts. It is a way to cut out some of the wokerista corporations and while I’m on that topic. Don’t embrace the suck. Get out and vote these lefty louses out of office. Remember there are a lot of blood suckers that don’t fly. They just get to make the rules. https://superfoodly.com/beautyberry/ This link discusses some varieties that are more cold hardy zones 5 through 8. https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/beautyberry/

Time To Break The Wheel I hope you’re enjoying the low gas prices. Don’t worry Joey’s got this. He’s really breaking some ground as the oldest President we’ve ever had. He has accomplished what our worst enemies have never been able to accomplish. In order to make his clueless acolytes relax he’s draining our strategic oil reserves to lower prices. Who cares right? He’s living the life fantastic he’s on top of his world like a randy monkey on a coconut. That sandy beach will never be the same again. He even sold some of the reserves to the Chinese. It’s like watching Woody Allen help that guy park in ‘Bananas’. We have a clueless loony tune at the wheel. The only thing that makes me smile lately is watching the people in his administration have to retract or reshape everything that comes out of him. Polish that thing. Maybe faster would help. I’ve heard it called cleanup on aisle 7 and various other numbers, but it should be, “Cleanup up on aisle 666.” Back to those lowered gas prices. It’s like watching a crack head selling the furniture for their next fix. There’s no plan at all. He’s run his whole life that way. He opened his mouth and that opened the floodgate of illegal immigrants. Clinton did that with Haitians. Joe topped him, but stupid isn’t a contest and this is his handlers not him. A political party should be known for it’s choices. The best should rise to the top. This clueless meat puppet was their choice. Both the libs of Martha’s Vineyard and Kamala ended up with a load of illegals and failed to properly virtue signal. There’s nothing surprising to us the deplorables. It is an expected response. The primary problem with the radical left is they have certain fantasies and expect us to pay for them. Sending their wanted illegals to them is perfect. When we toss the leftists out, we need to have some serious trials. It has been discovered that the census data is tainted as well. We need to redo that census and make damn sure the “Are you a US citizen?” question is on the census this time. The last time it was removed because money etc. has to be distributed based on need and not all of the people there are citizens. Everyone has to be taken care of. That’s an old argument by the way. The Southern States where the KKK was eventually formed with the requirement that you had to be a democrat to join had a little trick they played with their slaves. They got extra representation based on the number of people that were slaves it was a fraction of course, but that fraction didn’t get to vote. I can hear them singing that ole song now! They’ll have to find a different version since this isn’t politically correct these days. Do you have it in Spanish or Farsi? This is a familiar pattern of deceit. The old slaves fled the vote plantation, so they’ve found new slaves and let them in. It’s despicable and it’s time to set things straight. As Mark Twain said, "History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.” People who voted number is lower than the number of ballots by 4 million. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/evidence-2020-election-trickery-people-voted-reported-2020-census-data/ There are numerous articles from the left perspective where census workers lied. Of course, they’re blaming Trump not the government workers who pressured them to do it. People forget that you can create all of the laws you want, but it’s still the remaining bureaucrats that are left to implement it. Time to correct that too.

Leather Beans Shelf Stable Green Beans What I did here with Leather beans can also be done with okra. I only use the tiny okra that way, however. Packaged the way these are, if kept at a stable relatively low temperature, they’ll keep for a very long time. I use bacon for this always. When I was packing for the boat, I had a way to make a bacon confit that keeps for about the same amount of time as pemmican because all moisture and oxygen is removed. The link below is the link to where I prepare some of these beans. https://rumble.com/vvejnt-leather-beans.html

Krampus Cretins of the DNC Confucius said: He is happiest that gains wisdom from a flower. In our modern world indoor plumbing and politics teach us: Not all that floats is cream. Challenging elections is nothing new. The left claims it has never happened because they think everyone is stupid. They’ve challenged numerous elections in my lifetime. I have a question are they liars or idiots. Sadly, the answer is yes! This is the link to my first Impeachment video. At the end of the video if you’re in a hurry I list what they were guilty of and what the results were globally for us. They were undermining us. https://rumble.com/vdprb1-strike-1-the-first-impeachment.html This is the second video for the second impeachment. https://rumble.com/vdx1sh-trump-impeachment-part-doh.html This was my response to the racist garbage that came out of the House of Reps regarding the ‘Insurrection’. It was a Reichstag fire not an insurrection. It was a mean video. LOL https://rumble.com/vdizmh-fear-and-loathing-in-d.c..html

Fermented Limes Storing fruits and vegetables with fermentation is ancient and it still works. You can create many flavors and blends once you get the hang of it. Fermented limes like vegetables are great in soups and they’re shelf stable. As I mentioned in the video I’ve salted them and now prefer this method. I’ll be covering ferments a little later I have a bunch of them that I like to do. When washing your fruit or vegetables for fermenting do not use chlorinated water or you will kill the lactobacillus that creates the preservative. 5 cups of filtered water and 3 ½ tablespoons of plain salt is the starter for this lacto ferment unless you have some fluid leftover from another ferment. Here is a link for a .4 gallon Ejen fermentation container https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Korean-Cooking-Sauerkraut-Fermentation/dp/B00LU7G0EM/ref=sr_1_8?crid=24N7E7RQS2X3N&keywords=ejen+fermentation+container&qid=1658029497&sprefix=ejen%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-8

Method to their madness. Just say No! The book I refer to was written by Mattias Desmet. Unlike the experts who are apparently trained in PC culture this man has a few real degrees. His father told him not to go to college because truth is murdered there. He like Victor Davis Hanson grabbed the teaching and chucked the indoctrination and came out better for the fight. In the book he describes where we are and what we need to do to fight this war. It is a war! Don’t run you’ll only die tired. In the interview with Tucker Carlson Mattias spoke the words in this quote. “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” ― Theodore Dalrymple This is the link to his book. https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet/dp/1645021726/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35R8NYD4569AM&keywords=the+psychology+of+totalitarianism&qid=1662612951&sprefix=the+psychology%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1

Thai Black Chili Paste This is a recipe I ran across many years ago. It comes from a book called Thailand The Beautiful Cookbook. I grabbed the book because having a sailboat s the time it actually explained how to dry and store fish while at sea. I now only have the book. This paste is a primary ingredient for Thom Yam Goong. If you’ve never had it before all I can say is I feel sorry for you. This recipe is a first step in that direction however. I made some of this at the marina one weekend when they were doing that pot luck thing they did occasionally and it was a hit. It is very balanced nutritionally and the flavors are through the roof. I’ll get around to that recipe eventually and even include a shortcut in here so you can just buy the paste and give it a shot. Ingredients 1 cup of oil for deep frying 4 oz. Dried green jalapenos 1 cup chopped shallots 1 cup chopped garlic 8 oz, dried shrimp 2 Tbsp shrimp paste 1/3 cup fish sauce 1/4 sugar Fry the dried jalapenos, garlic and shallots until dark brown. Mix this with all other ingredients I used a stick blender and then fry for five minutes. Allow to cool and then store in an air tight jar. No shelf life to worry about. Here is an Amazon link to old copies of the book. https://www.amazon.com/Thailand-Beautiful-Cookbook-Panurat-Poladitmontr/dp/0002550296/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TPHJTTXM8DCH&keywords=thailand+the+beautiful+cookbook&qid=1660423781&sprefix=thailand+the+beautiful+cookbook%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-1 Here is an amazon search link to Tom yum goong paste. Aroy D Tom Yum I’ve used before. But I’m pretty sure the rest will also be good. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tom+yum+goong+paste&crid=89R4SZ0Z204G&sprefix=tom+yam+goong%2Caps%2C143&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_3_13

Biden the illiterate misreads the room Like the comedian that opens a NAACP meeting with a racist joke Biden attempts to calm the political temperature by calling anyone who ‘fails’ to agree with him an enemy of the state. It was a Biden speech like any other. It fell short or as Ann Coulter once said of Al Gore’s timing, “He jumped into the mosh pit just as the crowd parted.” Posebic made a rather interesting observation about Biden recently when he said he’s starting to suspect Corn Pop was probably maligned and actually the good guy. Maybe he saw that perverted life guard as a threat to the children. Actually, what it is with this speech as always, is that a Marxist will always accuse the victim of doing what they are in fact doing themselves. It is a way for the Marxist practitioner to signal to his mouthpieces what they’re supposed to say next. He spoke about the rights and ability for vote theft being taken away not mentioning that laws that were illegally changed were being put right again. Recently 26,000 or so deceased people were removed from voter rolls in Michigan. It was the only way to stop grandma and grandpa from turning democrat the moment they die. It’s common in blue states and cities. The leftist fought that ruling tooth and nail. He talked about the violence on the right and never gave us any examples, so I used the box for the person signing to put in Goebbels and images of left-wing state approved violence. I usually sign off with have a good one and it came out have a gun. Accident, but it works. When Biden made the comment that to take on the state you have to have an F-15 or something he reminded everyone why we have the 2nd amendment. The memes in response to that all had Taliban pics with the people laughing at him. Keep it real and hang in there, freedom is on the march. That’s why he had to threaten us just like Obama used to do. Keep in mind that Obama’s people are all supposedly working for Biden now. Yeah right. Sure, they are. There’s a reason someone wrote a book and it’s coming out now about how much Obama couldn’t stand Biden. Will Obama run his wife for president, or will Bubba’s wife try again?