Mo' Ham, Maude

Seeing as how Saint Padraig's Day has just passed, it being time for a celebration of sorts, tomorrow is the much delayed Ground Hog Party around here. As a good descendent of Celts (just not the Irish kind -- our ancestors probably painted their naked bodies some other color than blue when they went to battle -- oops, sorry, mixed up the Irish with the Picts, sorry...) any day is a good day to party.

So I went to Sam's and got the fixin's. Pork shoulders at $1.18/lb, bone in. Deboned them, weighed the bones, and figured that the deboned meat cost about $1.27/lb. Good deal. Sliced it up, ground it (grinding in 1-1/2 heads of stink-lily [česnak] as I went), added 1/4 cup of salt, a cup of water, a half cup of paprika, and mixed it thoroughly. Behold.I then taste-tested it by frying up a patty for a sandwich... notice that it was ready just in time for lunch.

Of course, there is other stuff to be done. I need to get the plastic cover on the greenhouse and get the tomatoe and pepper seeds started. [That was deliberate, to prove I am not an illiterate MainStream Media Talking Head who thinks that tomatoe has to be spelled tomato. I have a REAL AMERICAN dictionary, one that admits to traditional AMERICAN spellings.]

We pruned the grapes, and I decided to get some cuttings started for all my wee ones to begin their own vinyards...

Ah, Spring is sproinging. Tomorrow's plans are to murder trees at Joonyah's house. Breakfast at 7:30, sez he, and he has been rounding up the ropes and chainsaws and machetes and axes. Then, AFTERWARDS we roast the ground hog.

No Wonder BO Was Elected

   Americans (US Americans, that is) are truly stupid when it comes to analyzing what is going on in the world, but it is not entirely their fault.

   They go to schools where only politically correct history is taught. They go to work in businesses where only politically correct decisions can be made. They come home, and turn on the news, and they get the politically correct version.

   The Official Truth Squads of the government, and their minions in the Mainstream Media, howl that the supposedly "Fair and Balanced" Fox News is actually biased in favor of conservative thinking. And then we get, from Fox, the following :

Bulldozer Goes on Rampage in Israel, Driver Killed

   Drivel. Worse than drivel. Outright disinformation.

"JERUSALEM — A Palestinian driver rammed a construction vehicle into a bus and police car on a highway Thursday, wounding two officers before he was shot dead, police said, the latest in a string of attacks by militants using heavy machinery against Israeli targets.

Witnesses described a harrowing sight of a towering yellow front loader speeding along Jerusalem's Begin Highway, dragging the police car, flipping it into the air and trying to crush it with its front shovel."
..."Deputy police chief Nisso Shachar said the attacker was first spotted by a traffic police car. "The officer saw the bulldozer lift up a police squad car with its shovel after trying to squash it," he said. "It is without a doubt a terror attack."

Schachar said the man was killed and an open copy of the Koran, Islam's holy book, was found in the vehicle. He said the presence of the book indicated the attacker was affiliated with or influenced by Islamic radicals. Police said the two wounded officers were lightly hurt.

It was the third bulldozer attack in Jerusalem in the past eight months."

   Rupert Murdoch should fire the idiot who came up with that headline, but he will not, because it is a politically correct headline. Geert Wilders could not have called the shot better; the MSM cowers under its bed in fear that Mohammedans will react badly to any exposé of their true character.

   I think somebody should call the Trial Lawyers' Association so that a suit can be filed against the bulldozer manufacturer, the salespeople who promoted that bulldozer, and the company that bought the bulldozer. Obviously, all of them were negligent in allowing a deranged bulldozer out in public.

   Let me rephrase that earlier sentiment. It is the fault of the American people that they do not bother to go beyond headlines, and hold the terror-stricken publishers accountable. It is simply poor parenting that allows a child to grow up without a healthy dose of skepticism toward outside 'authorities'. And it is criminal negligence for teachers and 'authorities' to present only one side of a picture to those who look at them for guidance, whether it concern history, economics, science, or philosophy.

   My opinion. Choke on it if you don't like it.

Progress

Things are looking up. The bleeding that started on Sunday was stopped by Monday night (but, by my reckoning, I still lost nearly 2 pints of red ink). I am no longer collapsing when I stand up and move about -- in fact, today I have been up and down the steps from the basement to the second floor several times. BP is still quite low, however, at 82/54 this morning.

Time to finish that appraisal report that I was working on before this minor interruption hit.

Mike & Suzi over for supper last night. The pizza smelled SO good, but would not have been quite the same going through the blender. Rotisserie chicken from Wally-World went through the blender real well, though, and with mashed potatoes, was super. Seasoning was just right. The grease from the bottom of the chicken container makes the blended chicken juicier. I figure that chicken + onions + mayo --->blender = would be great chicken salad sandwich material.

Thank You

Jakob : I think the health is a good bit better than 25% now.

Ilona : You are a terrific writer. Your Daddy should let you write some of his blog posts.

Jesslyn : Thank you for the curly hairs. I was never able to grow those myself. I think Grandma needs to make a cherry pie so I can look for my teeth.

Tony : "Grandpa, what did you put on your face?"

Amelia : You really don't have to be afraid of me. I'm still the same inside (well, except for those three teeth).