Sour Cream Pound Cake

Gloria Moore was a good friend of my sister-in-law. I used to tease Chris pretty hard about why she wasn't as good a cook as Gloria. That was in good fun because Chris is pretty wonderful. Gloria has passed but this awesome recipe lives on.

NRA Endorsements

Brian Kemp ran commercials during the primary with him holding a shotgun while interviewing his daughter's suitor. They were intended to be amusing and they worked, Kemp beat an established Lieutenant Governor, Casey Cagle. His opponent Stacey Abrams says he was pointing the shotgun at the young man, he was not
This is a link to Kemp's campaign site.
It is little surprise that Brian Kemp has received the NRA endorsement.

Geoff Duncan is a former major league baseball player, running for Lieutenant Governor as a Republican. Frankly I do not care who is  Lieutenant Governor as long as he is not named Casey Cagle.
This is a link to Duncan's campaign website.

Chris Carr is running for the what was Brian Kemp's Attorney General position. Carr has been in the thick of Republican business, serving six years as Senator Johnny Isakson's Chief of Staff. For me his only negative is that he is a UGA guys.
A link to Chris Carr's site if you are interested

Tragedy?

Chuck Schumer was visiting a Washington D.C. Primary school and the class was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. 
The teacher asked Mr. Schumer  if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'Tragedy'.
So Mr Schumer asked the class for an example of a 'Tragedy'.
A little boy stood up and offered, 'If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy.'
'Incorrect,' said Schumer. 'That would be an accident.'
A little girl raised her hand: 'If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff, killing everybody inside, that would be a tragedy.'
‘I'm afraid not', explained Schumer, 'that's what we would refer to as a great loss'.
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Schumer searched the room. 'Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?'
Finally, at the back of the room, little Johnny raised his hand and said: 'If a plane carrying you and Mrs Pelosi and The Obamas and Mrs. Clinton was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile & blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy.
''Fantastic 'exclaimed Schumer, 'and can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?'’

'Well', said Johnny, 'it has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be a fucking accident either!'

To Kill a Mockingbird

People are getting wound up again over the seminal novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

School board in Ontario takes new approach to teaching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’:

No doubt the book, one of my favorites, touches some raw nerves with its subject matter and language.  After searching many sites looking for a reasonable discussion. I found this statement in the above linked article.

Chinese-Canadian writer Wayson Choy says he agrees that “To Kill a Mockingbird” should be taught with a more critical approach and in context, since racism is discussed differently today than it was more than 50 years ago.

This I think fair enough, not a bad point for consideration of all books being studied. Books should be broken down and taught with an eye on its relationships to current culture as well as the quality of its construction. Literature should be taught with the intent of teaching students to write well.

I have read the sequel Go Set a Watchman released shortly before Harper Lee's death, and if any person suggests that this woman was a racist, they are revealing their ignorance.
If you did not know it, Harper Lee was an childhood friend and research assistant for Truman Capote.

A Painted House

A Painted House is a novel written by John Grisham, published in 2001 by Doubleday.
While John Grisham is no William Faulkner, he does invoke some of same traits of agricultural desperation. This is thoroughly enjoyable story, narrated by the 7 year old Luke, of life in Arkansas's cotton country.
Having totally missed its existence, this book was made into a movie starring Scott Glenn, who plays Luke's grandfather.
I do recommend the book for a light read, and a change of pace from the usually lawyerly centric stories by John Grisham.
Next up The Cardinal and the Kremlin.

Mexican Police Officer Caught Smuggling 50 Pounds Of Meth Into Country

The story says that the man was released on $200,000 bond, which is a mere pittance to the value of 50 pounds of methamphetamine.

     Mexican Police Officer Caught Smuggling 50 Pounds Of Meth Into Country

One estimate of the street value of methamphetamine is $800 per ounce, 16 ounces per pound, yields a street price of $640,000. I suspect that the Mexican Feder-olly has more to fear from a cartel than a bail bondsman.

594

It could be the title of an action movie, but it is not.
Breitbart lists in calender order 594 acts of harassment and violence against President Trump supporters.
With a record like this, maybe the left can get their name changed to "The Religion of Peace", see the story....
     
             Rap Sheet

I do qualify that many of these are verbal assaults or incitements to violence, which of course, are not as bad a the real thing.

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ACLU's Opposition to Kavanaugh Sounds Its Death Knell

Alan Dershowitz, ably pointing out what the conservatives have known for a long time.
ACLU's Opposition to Kavanaugh Sounds Its Death Knell:
So why did the American Civil Liberties Union oppose a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court and argue for a presumption of guilt regarding sexual allegations directed against that judicial nominee?
When the ACLU sent me mail requesting funds for fighting the election campaign of George W. Bush, they made clear that they were not interested in the free give and take of political speech, they were picking sides and choosing to represent the words and objectives of only liberals.
The ACLU is interested only in the free speech of people with their own preferences.
The author's point on the ACLU's silence on the FBI raiding the office of one of the President's lawyers is spot on.

The ACLU has lost touch with its guiding principle of protecting civil liberties.

They are a pack of disrupting hypocrites.

Indigenous People's Day

The wonders of automation are helping me learn.
Today, in the United States, is commonly known Columbus Day holiday.
To be certain of the meaning, looked up the word indigenous and found...

indigenous, adjective, produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment

The coincidence of the day seems to be no accident, so with barely any effort at all found, at Wikipedia, that this coincidence was intentional.

The holiday began in 1989 in South Dakota, where Lynn Hart and Governor Mickelson backed a resolution to celebrate Native American day on the second Monday of October, marking the beginning of the year of reconciliation in 1990^. It was instituted in Berkley, California, in 1992, coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. It spread two years later to Santa Cruz, California, and in the 2010s to various other cities and states.

This was a plot line in a Soprano's episode.

This describes, in a crude way, a feeling that many feel strongly about. On one side the Italians are proud of Christopher Columbus. On another side, there are Indians with an hatchet to grind. On the sideline are liberals who do anything that destabilizes the status quo.
I think its all an amusing pile of crap.

Migrant Flasher Punches 90-Year-Old Woman

How does an man on the continent of Africa, supposedly so poor that he is classified as a migrant, afford to cross the ocean to North American and then cross the United States. Maybe the other direction around the world is shorter.
African ‘Migrant’ Flasher, Punched 90-Year-Old Woman On Oregon Street
Imagine this, he did not show up for court after having been released because the jail did not have enough beds. Portland jail space is short because the city is out of funds.
Portland also has a continuing problems with its Mayor's relationship with ICE and its handling of a burgeoning homeless cluster.
At the bottom of the Statue of Liberty there is an inscription that reads.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

'Migrant' Filbert Gacinya has brought the wretched refuse here and dropped it with his pants.
Why does anyone defend this crap?

Beetlebug Loses His Burger

It took it.

Flakey

Not long ago I found the wife watching a reality show and realized the man trying to get off a deserted island was Senator Flake.
Not Exactly Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
If Flake succeeds in bringing Kavanaugh down, the GOP deserves to go down with him.
Senator Flake is happy to be unencumbered by the promises and allegiances he made to become elected. It is fair to say when he made it clear that he considered himself to be the better Republican option for Presidential candidacy in 2020, he had lost all touch with the red wave that put Trump into office. These statements make clear his revulsion to the Democratic portrayal of Republican voters.
This is a perfect example of why passage of the 17th amendment was a travesty of justice, removing the ability of state governments to remove and replace standing Senators. With six years terms Senators have become immune to their state's political goals and left free to raise campaign money on a national level making them more answerable to groups like the national Chamber of Commerce and for that matter national political parties.
These days Senators have disdain for the people they claim to represent.
The Davis Cup is reserved for special assholes, like the soon to be private citizen Jeff Flake.