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Tweety’s latest blanket

If you like handmade blankets, check out Tweety’s latest creation. It’s a nice shade of blue with a darker blue ripple and it’s 45×57 inches. Tweety’s made two of our blankets and her quality is superb.

Chocolate Rum Balls

Lime and I are going to trade personal recipes. Hers, she’s doing later this week but I’ll just do mine now, since I’m not in a mood to write something serious.

Every Christmas, I made chocolate rum candies. They’re yummy. You’ll need a double boiler to make these and three days time.

Ingredients

1 stick of butter

1 pound of powdered sugar

half-pound of walnuts

Rum or your favorite liquor

8 to 12 ounces of baking chocolate

1 stick of edible wax (paraffin wax, make sure it’s up to standards for cooking with)

Day one - break up the nuts, whip out a tupperware, and soak the nuts in rum overnight

Day two - melt the butter and combine butter with powdered sugar in a mixing bowl. Add the nut/liquor mix. Mix well. Put it in the fridge for an hour to cool it, but not too long or else it will be too cold to work with. Take it out and on a cookie sheet, roll the mixture into balls. When all the mixture are balls, put the cooking sheet into the fridge and leave it there overnight

Day Three - Take one stick of paraffin wax and melt it in a double boiler. I’m impatient so I cut the stick up or else it will take forever to melt. Add the chocolate. Stir it until it becomes a pretty, shiny chocolate mixture and it’s completely melted. They need to be blended together, no wax chunks.

When the chocolate is ready, dip the balls in the chocolate. When they’re all done, dip them for a second layer. Do at least two layers. I do three, because wasting fine chocolate is a sin against all that is good in the world.

When they cool off, they’re ready to eat.

Happy President’s Day

I’m not going to do anything today. I exercised yesterday, but today, I’m going to practice guitar all day long and I might take Mrs. Z out to a movie, or maybe just rent one.

Have a wonderful President’s Day! If you’re in another country and working today, well, don’t feel bad. Of the industrialized nations, us Americans barely get shit for holidays so we have to enjoy each one.

PETA is an organization of whackos. They live in an unreal world, far removed from reality.

I have nothing against vegetarianism. If you don’t eat meat for moral reasons, more power to you. If you don’t eat meat for health reasons, well, then I’ll tell you what. Unless I get hit by a car, I’m going to outlive you.

The skins of an animal are about the best thing you can wear. That’s why Native Americans wear skins. When they slaughter an animal, they eat the meat, keep the hides, and use the brains to tan the hides. That’s why you’ve probably heard the saying “you don’t have enough brains to tan your own hide!” That’s because most animals have just enough brains to tan their own hide, so that saying is an insult.

Fur is wonderful, especially when it’s cold. I personally love it because it’s comfortable and it’s specifically made for both comfort and warmth. That’s the real world though, not the world PETA lives in.

There are however fur factories that slaughter animals and treat them like crap, seeing them as only dollar signs with no respect for them while they’re alive. I’m not arguing that. Instead of fixing the problem, PETA wants to abolish all fur, and that’s why I hate them.

I am a hunter. When I kill something, I eat it. It’s fun, and it’s environmentally friendly. The more hunters the better because we do something that is about the most environmental thing you can do - we preserve open space. We also follow regulations how many animals we can kill so we keep the population even. We are aware of these regulations and we follow them to a T.

I love being outdoors with just me, a close friend or two, a canteen, a knife, and a rifle (and sometimes a camera and a tripod instead of a rifle). It’s great fun. PETA wants to ban this too. They’re not thinking of the environment. If they would, they wouldn’t be pushing pleather, which is about the most environmentally whacked thing ever created.

When you put pleather in a landfill, it never decomposes. It just sits there. It’s synthetic leather, made of plastics that don’t break down. That’s reality. My furs on the other hand will make wonderful soil. It’s because they’re organic. They’re fur and brains. That’s it. No plastic. No chemicals. No synthetic garbage. Fur, and brains. You can’t get more organic than that. Oh, I forgot to include water. Yes, we use water too.

PETA also are against the First Amendment. They tried to get the Green Bay Packers to change their name because Packers is offensive. I’m not joking. They really tried to do this. As you already know, the Packers are my favorite team because I’m a Mid-Westerner and I stick by my team through good and bad.

PETA also went after Judas Priest, my all-time favorite band. They tried to get them to change the name of their 1979 album Hell Bent for Leather to Hell Bent for Pleather. You gotta be kidding. Pleather sucks. Don’t buy it. It’s bad for the environment. It doesn’t decompose. It’s not even that comfortable either.

Oh, and yes, they’re right about one thing. Don’t buy leather from China. They use some horribly toxic compounds that are banned in the U.S. and treat their animals with extreme cruelty. Their leather decomposes in landfills very slowly because it’s so full of toxic chemicals. I won’t argue that point. They are right about it. But they take videos they shot in China and try to convince you that all of us who make fur are like that. That’s simply b.s.

UPDATE: I decided to upload the PETA ads so if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’d see them.  Note that both contain nudity, so if you’re at work, don’t click on the links.  I don’t find them necessarily offensive, but leave Yuppieville and actually go into the real world naked during winter and see how long you last.  This isn’t reality, folks.  It’s another guilt myth concocted by crazy people.

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Ok, folks, this pisses me off.  We have some serious matters at hand.  We’re currently in not one, but two wars.  We have huge budget problems.

We have a deficit of over $9 trillion.  With a population of 304 million people, that leaves each one of us with a greater than $30,000 share of the debt.

We have an energy problem.  Sure, maybe not right this minute, but it will be.  I know energy is about the most unsexy issue out there, but it’s something we’ll need to discuss.

We have a problem with illegal immigration.  Bush claims there are terrorists who want to kill us.  That’s nice.  Ever consider all they’d have to do is jump over the Mexican border? If terrorism was really a problem, why does Bush leave our borders wide open?

Several counties in Georgia have little to no water.  There are still Americans displaced because of Hurricane Katrina.

So why is Congress talking about baseball?

Undead or Alive 2007. Directed by Glasgow Phillips. Starring Chris Kattan, James Denton, Navi Rawat

Undead or Alive is a “zomedy,” a zombie comedy filmed with a Wild West theme. Navi Rawat plays Geronimo’s niece, and before Geronimo was driven off a cliff, he cursed the white man with the dreaded zombie disease. Of course those who know American history know that Geronimo wasn’t driven off a cliff and died an old man and his autobiography is freely accessable (and well-written I should add).

Chris Kattan takes his usual unfunny self and stinks up the movie, along with James Denton playing the other main cowboy role. All the characters offer nothing but bad dialog and even worse acting. The movie also fails to follow any of the zombie movie rules, like a shot to the head doesn’t kill a zombie, only a decapitation.If you want to see a funny zombie movie, rent Shaun of the Dead. Skip this one at all costs. One dead zombie for at least Navi Rawat being cute. Yes, it was that bad.

Firelight 1997. Directed by William Nicholson. Starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane.

It’s the 1830s. Sophie Marceau plays Elisabeth, a struggling woman who agrees to bear a child and give it away to a Gentleman in return for a large sum of money. After losing her child, Elisabeth keeps a journal complete with watercolors imagining how her daughter Louisa is growing up.

She decides to search for her daughter and that’s when it really picks up.

I won’t give too much else away, but this may be the best period piece I’ve seen in years. The acting was nearly flawless and the sets and costumes did their jobs splendidly. It’s in fact so well done that it will move you in many directions.Every main character has a struggle to overcome. Several characters are developed, not just Elisabeth. And Marceau can act. She’ll play your heartstrings in ways you haven’t felt in years. I’m actually going to buy this one, it was that good.

9 dead zombies. It’s a shame Nicholson only did this piece, for he definitely has talent.

World War Z, a novel by Max Brooks. 2006

A follow up to the most important book ever written, The Zombie Survival Guide, WWZ (as it’s abbreviated) is a look into the future, after the zombies have been defeated and the world is in a recovery stage. It takes place in the next decade, and is basically a collection of interviews from survivors of the great zombie wars, from all over the world.

Brooks is a master at geopolitics, showing how each nation counters the zombie plague. You’ll see that some were more effective than others. Brooks obviously put a lot of research into this, and it shows in the writing.

The book’s flaw is its lack of flow. It had some humor, but not as much as his first work. I didn’t even read it in one night like I do with most books, for it failed to keep my attention.It’s still a good read, but if you haven’t read his first one, pick that one up first.7 dead zombies

Ozzy Osbourne - Randy Rhoads Tribute by Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads. Transcribed by Wolf Marshall. 1987

This one is really for musicians. It’s a note-for-note transcription of the Ozzy Osbourne live album Randy Rhoads Tribute. Marshall not only gives you every note played on the album for guitarists and vocalists, he gives you a good biographical summary of the late, great guitarist. Includes some good black and white pictures as well.

If you don’t know who Randy Rhoads is, he was Ozzy’s first guitarist after Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath. Rhoads unfortunately died prematurely in a plane crash in 1982 and we only have two studio Ozzy Osbourne albums, one live album, one E.P., and two poorly recorded Quiet Riot albums featuring his playing. It really is a shame, not just because a life was cut short, but also because of the amazing talent he possessed. If you’re a guitarist, pick this up. You’d be surprised just how much of an influence Rhoads was on modern electric guitarists.

10 dead zombies . I haven’t been this glad to buy a book in years.

Celebrity prediction - I’m predicting the next celebrity to end up in a loonie bin is one of the Olson Twins. The big question is, which one?

I’m really getting sick of political correctness. This is straight up Newspeak. Has anyone bothered to read Orwell?

Now there’s a new politically correct word for illegal immigrants. It’s “undocumented workers.” What a load of bullshit!

Illegal immigrants are here illegally. People who hire them should be fined heavily. They do illegal work, they undercut working men and women, and employers don’t have to pay benefits nor follow safety standards when hiring illegal immigrants. This is a deliberate attack on the working class by the rich to undercut American workers. To add insult to injury, the rich media elite will call anyone who questions illegal immigration “racist.”

And for the love of God, can we please stop saying “this is a nation of immigrants?” I’m getting so sick of hearing that. You know why? Because (besides Iceland) EVERY nation is a nation of immigrants. You think in the world’s history, people didn’t move around?

I guess nobody has ever changed their country, EVER, except those who came to the United States of America. There are no people of Chinese descent in France. There are no people of Dutch decent in South Africa. There are no white people at all in Australia. There are no Germans in Brazil. There are no Italians in Argentina. There are no Jews in Russia. There are no Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia. There are no Nigerians in England. And there are no Burmese in Thailand. No. None. Nobody ever changed their nationality except in America.

Lastly, don’t lump illegal immigrants with legal immigrants. I’m so sick of hearing them lumped together. I have utmost respect for legal immigrants. They go through loops and hurdles to become American, and are often more patriotic and vote more than even native born Americans. Most importantly, they do their best to assimilate. That’s something illegals refuse to do.