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I once had a recipe for a pepper cream sauce for pasta. This is my reconstruction from memory; it’s easy, and a great choice if you’re tired of all of the common pasta options.
4 tablespoons butter
4 red bell peppers, minced
1 onion, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 c. heavy cream
1/2 c. grated parmesan
salt and pepper
Melt the butter […]

I just missed the ice cream truck.

rather, another reason why learning them (as opposed to mindlessly punching a calculator) is a good idea: On one of those house flipping shows, this woman was told that fifty gallons would be enough, so she bought fifty five-gallon buckets — thinking she was buying fifty gallons.

Did not sleep well (or very long) last night. I think I’ll be going back to bed soon.

There are a few comments on my heretical post I want to address.
First, yes, I know the difference between keeping people in and out. It doesn’t make any difference. I have a negative gut reaction to it either way. But the really stupid thing about the fence is that it won’t do a damned thing. […]

Where have we heard this before?
Dramatic photographs have emerged, showing one of the few remaining peoples on earth thought to have had no contact with the outside world.”
Taken from a small airplane, the photos show men outside thatched communal huts, necks craned upward, pointing bows toward the air in a remote corner of the Amazonian […]

to the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, and probably the state capitol building, since I’ve never seen it. It takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes to drive, and we’ll spend several hours there, plus stop for food, so that will take up pretty much the whole day.
I’ll take the camera. Yeah, I know, […]

Hat tip to Allah for this possible bit of good news. Until just a few days ago, we got lots of speculation about the VP choice from pundits, but zippo from McCain. Then, there was the story that McCain was seeing Crist, Romney, and a slew of others. Now (if the story is accurate), Culvahouse […]

isn’t it, how Obama-supporting Democrats are suddenly discovering what conservatives have known about the Clintons since the 90s (too many examples to count), and how Hillary-supporting Democrats are suddenly discovering what conservatives have known about media bias since, well, forever.
The Great Bozo. I suspect Obama will give me many opportunities to use that one over […]

as in Firefox has crashed one time since I logged on at 6 am this morning.

Hat tip to Hube (or would that be Hube tip?) for this:
For the 77th consecutive month, FNC finished first in total day and prime time ratings during May. FNC was the sixth highest rated cable network on all of basic cable during prime time for the month (CNN and MSNBC finished 19th and 26th) and […]

If you need to induce vomiting, just read this. Hat tip — although I think a “Damn you!” is more appropriate — to Dru.
Speaking of . . .

I hurt my back Sunday. It’s now Friday. In five days, there was no improvement. None at all.
Today, there is. It’s still sore, but sore is a lot better than serious pain — and it was serious pain. It’s not really my back; the pain is right at the top of my left hip. Except […]

I’m getting pretty cynical in my old age, so there aren’t many politicians I really, really, really like. But here’s one:
Continuing his ongoing efforts to secure immediate legislative action on the School Property Tax Elimination Act (House Bill 1275), Representative Sam Rohrer (R-Berks) will host the Save Our Homes Rally at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, […]

Firefox has only crashed on me four times so far today.
Okay, twice. Two of those times I got sick of watching it take up all of my CPU and RAM while it froze, and after several minutes, shut down the process. I always have a task manager running. It’s so I can kill Firefox. So […]

Jon Henke, From Ronald Reagan to Rick Santorum (or Mike Huckabee).

#101 Being Offended:
But white people, blessed with both time and energy, are not these kind of people. In fact there are few things white people love more than being offended.
Naturally, white people do not get offended by statements directed at white people. In fact, they don’t even have a problem making offensive statements about […]

First, the context. Georgfelis said:
In the event Air Force One’s pilot is incapacitated, McCain has at least a chance of landing without plowing into something important.
Heh. But that’s not the right line. This is:
The Democrat candidates believe we should fight Al-Qaeda everywhere in the world, unless we are already there, in which case we should […]

Civil Defense sirens, duck and cover drills, fallout shelters, and Rocky and Bullwinkle, these are the things that shaped how we saw the world when we were kids. When the Soviet Union fell, I was initially relieved, but skeptical, and younger folks called me foolish for being skeptical. It should be apparent now that since […]

I just nodded off, so I’m going back to bed.

So the doctor called back, and called in a prescription for me. It turned out to be one of those things that works because it knocks you out. I’m still pretty hung over from it (no, it’s not particularly nice, but I don’t like being, uh, bombed). I feel like lying down, but that’s ridiculous, […]

I think I’m going to try to see a doctor. Bizarrely, State College has no walk-in clinic, so I’ll go to Geisinger down the road and see what they recommend.

Remakes annoy me, and I wasn’t too inclined to watch A&E’s Andromeda Strain, but this comment made me set it to record tonight:
Short version - the remake is so bad that it’s good. If you like to say “I can’t believe they just did that” then you have to watch this.
And it’s got the […]

Sunday while putting the grill back on the porch I pulled something in my lower back. Ouch.
Memorial Day, my back was just stiff. Until, that is, I started walking all over Boalsburg. Ouch.
I reclined on the couch after we got back. The idea was that not walking around would help.
Early this morning, I woke to […]

Yesterday while moving the grill back up onto the porch, I pulled something in my lower back. It hurt like hell yesterday, but this morning, it was just stiff, so we went.
Bad idea. Walking around didn’t help, so here we are, and I’m going to lie down here in a minute. Pictures tomorrow, I promise. […]

or maybe not: City cleans up ‘Kids’ anti-fascist poop, in California:
The campers that fearlessly took on global fascism from a small settlement north of Trail 4 in the Arcata Community Forest have moved on.
Now, the City has begun to clean up the mounds of anti-fascist litter, feces and trampled vegetation plus the hillside erosion they […]

More nonsense from the MSM, via the Mad Pigeon:
Americans are about to fire up their barbecues for the start of the summer cookout season, and one thing has become painfully apparent: It’s going to cost a lot more than it did last year to roast a burger, or just about any other barbecue favorite, on […]

“Your car can’t run on Congress’ hot air.” Mark Steyn, of course. Who else could come up with a headline that good? Thanks to EvolutionRight for the link.
I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137, and […]

In addition, of course, to the big Boalsburg festival. See here (you’ll have to copy and paste links, some of which wrap to the next line).
Julian is a small burg (pop. 152) over on the other side of Skytop in Bald Eagle Valley. There’s a small cemetery on the side of a hill there, until […]

Darryl Worley, Have You Forgotten:

Tim McGraw, If You’re Reading This

I haven’t had this since we left Indiana, so I’ve got one in the oven. No, it ain’t custard pie. Richer. Not eggy. There is some debate whether this is an Amish or a Shaker recipe — I suspect the latter, because there is nothing like this here in Pennsylvania. You can buy these frozen […]

Get green! Spots endangered!
Jupiter is undergoing major climate change and could lose many of its large spots over the next seven years
If they’d signed Kyoto and stopped drivin SUVs, this would never have happened! But what about the polar bears?

when the grill is out of storage and on the back porch.

to live in the country instead of the suburbs or the city: Gas rights.

The Second Amendment Blog Bash channel (hat tip: Bitter).

Trace Adkins sings the national anthem.

Blackfive: Fallen, but not forgotten

and Firefox crashed. Ka-boom.
Firefox: The new Netscape, unstable, bloated, and slow as hell.

republished, “10 signs that you’re a moral idiot.“

This is what I would call an unhappy Democrat (there are 566 comments, so you probably won’t want to read them all, but cruise through some of them to see how unhinged some of these people are).

Since the weather’s so nice (it’s 63 and sunny) and plans to be that way all week, I’m thinking we may drive down to Harrisburg to tour the National Civil War Museum. Harrisburg is a hole, but that could be interesting. Course, we could run down to Hershey Park on the same trip, but maybe […]