Fudge

For years my wife talked of her days teaching middle school, at Christmas time her and a friend would go on a fudge patrol. There was this one fudge she raved about, giving it the name of the mother who made it every year.
Thirty years later we are in church and I realized that our church is in the same neighborhood as the school and a parishioner has that name. So after some haranguing, I asked her and sure enough this was the same lady. I asked her for the fudge recipe and she happily made me a batch and offered up the keys to the formula.
As a non-fudge eater, it's too sweet for me, this is pretty darned good.
So far I've been able to fight the bride off from eating it all.

Ingredients

• 5 cups sugar
• 14 ounces can evaporated milk
• 3 ounces unsweet baking chocolate – chopped
• 1 ½ - 12 ounce bags semi sweet chocolate
• 1 stick (4 ounces) butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

• Put sugar in large pan (mine was 2 ½ – 3 quarts)
• Pour evaporated milk and water onto sugar – covering the edges where sugar meets the pan.
• Heat to boiling – bubbling to center of pot – stirring gently – keep the sugar covered.
• Boil for 10 minutes. Lower heat as it boils or it will overflow!
• Add
• 3 ounces unsweet baking chocolate – chopped
• 1 ½ - 12 ounce bags semi sweet chocolate
• 1 stick (4 ounces) butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• Stir and stir mixing well and stir until it is not glossy.
• Pour into a greased jelly roll pan. (cookie sheet with sides) my pan is 11 ½ “ x 17 ½” x 1/2”
• Cool completely before cutting and wrapping.
• I think it makes about 5 pounds
  

France: Smoke Grass, Kill a Jew, Skip the Trial, Go Free

Police hesitation to act fails to prevent a murder, judicial willful obstruction and killer is free to do it again.

France: Smoke Grass, Kill a Jew, Skip the Trial, Go Free:

'In France, perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks claim insanity to elude justice. The mental illness defense has become more prevalent when it comes to hate crimes in France. And it seems to be working.'

Who stands for the poor woman thrown from her window?

Do You Think Media Has Lost It's Mind

Many do, including me.



It has been difficult to hold an open minded opinion of the press in the last two years. For the most part I've bit on my tongue because I have friends that are fully hooked, and I have no desire to offend them. On Facebook my process is to ignore what offends me, maybe turn some folks off for a time and never post provacative political comments.
I've seen posts that describe Soleimani as a general of a sovereign nation, murdered in another sovereign nation.  True enough I guess, but in it's context suggesting the man was innocent, which was hardly true
Others in the world have different opinions, read this post titled A Death Well Spent; Soleimani dies for confrontation.
Why was Senator Mike Lee angry about the briefing yesterday?

Policeman Insulted by a Barista

This holiday weekend my son an I were talking about where we purchase coffee. I've been a lifelong Dunkin Donuts man while my son, a young professional living in Chicago says that Starbucks is his frequent go-to coffee shop.

A police officer in Oklahoma was given a cup with the word PIG on it.

That DD was on my path to work was true enough, but there is a Starbucks on my way as well.

Truth is, I've always felt out of place in a Starbucks, sort of like Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos.

This story affirms my feeling, and it is not the first situation of this ilk for Starbucks.

I know, and the officer knows, that this is not a Starbucks corporate policy, it is only the action of impolite child.

The suspension might not be enough, this would be a firing offense in my business.

Applying a stiff punishment for improper behavior sets the correct tone for remaining employee moral and treatment of customers.

You would never see this behavior from an employee at Chick Fil A.

Huskies, Stop Barking

Found this over at Gatestone, catching my interest as having been a school I almost attended.
Alan M. Dershowitz doing more positive work, attempting to assuage the Simpson and Epstein defenses.

Connecticut: Where Ridicule is a Crime

In northeast Connecticut, two students are charged with ridiculing African Americans by using the N-word as part of a game. The game was recorded and posted on the internet, causing righteously angry responses.  A local news report can be seen within the following link.
The students were not directing the comments at any particular person, in fact were walking in an empty parking lot. The students have been arrested and face a courts hearing based on an old Connecticut law that says.

Section 53-37

Ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.

Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.

This law is in conflict with the 1st Amendment of the Constitution is a giant way. Almost surely, the state will argue that the two dopes were creating an imminent threat. The hearing has already been pushed back once, to 13-November.

By the way, the full effect of the potential punishment is under $100.

Thank God for the Deep State

Former CIA Director John McLaughlin suggesting that the intelligence community is last bastion of objectivity and the truth.

The irony is deep and the laughter hurts.

David Cutcliffe and the Duke Band

My brother Les is a huge Alabama fan, loves to travel and watch the games, has the means to do so. To kick off this year's season he came to Atlanta and was kind enough to share a ticket. Alabama was playing the Duke Blue Devils.
The Blue Devils are led by Peyton Manning's mentor  David Cutcliffe, a man that I consider to be an arrogant jerk-off, good coach but a real prick. For the past few years he has enjoyed making fun the Georgia Tech triple option offense, comparing it to a high school offense. There really is no great science in any football offense, only a heard mentality of coaches that intimidated by what they cannot control. Admittedly Coach Cutcliffe has backed up his mouth and had good success against my alma mater.
Circling back to the game, after about a quarter, Alabama got is act together and started beating the feathers out of Duke. In the second half, in an attempt to eat up clock and slow the game down, he started running triple option plays, and fairly often. Duke even got penalized for some cut blocks.
I enjoy the triple option offense, run well it is more exciting than and pass happy spread scheme.

The last point I want to make is that the band for Duke has taken on the persona of their head coach in their arrogance. Pictured above the Duke band taunting Alabama fans before the game. Both are assholes and deserve the David Cup.

God and the Doctor

My grandfather was a doctor who spent his career as a psychiatrist working in state hospitals all over the south. He started in the late 20's and retired middle 60's. As a little boy I remember him having a framed picture which included the poem that follows......

God and the Doctor we alike adore

But only when in danger, not before;  

The danger o'er, both are alike requited,  

God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

This poem was penned by an interesting man named Robert Owen,  a social activist to whom many quotations are attributed.
Interestingly enough, the framed picture, now at my parent house, the poem is incorrectly attributed to another poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Wilcox's best known quote is…….

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.

F*** the Chinese Government

Adam Silver has had much success as the NBA Commissioner. Under his leadership the league has promoted a star-centric promotional policy and in general given the players the upper hand in determining how rosters are composed. The balance of power in the league has shifted from the owners to the players. This fan does not appreciate the selfish players-first mentality, but I guess that it has been there all along just under the veneer of the now absent good taste.

South Park Puts NBA to Shame, Says ‘F*** the Chinese Government’

I had understood that Adam Silver was gay, but after reading his bio at Wikipedia must admit to being mistaken. After seeing the NBA cancel games and expel fans who held up mildly worded posters decrying the actions of the Chinese in Hong Kong, I am convinced that Adam Silver is simply a capitalist posing as woke.

A Tale of Two Coups

I could not agree more. The similarities between resistance to the Brexit and Trump votes are obvious. Men who expected to continue as is, willfully ignoring the measures, by votes, the desires of the people.

          A Tale of Two Coups

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