Open Tummler 03/29/16
There weren't a lot of Christians in Pakistan anyway. But now there are fewer. Since some needed to be blown up in a children's park in Lahore on Sunday.
"The target were Christians," said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. "Our bombers will continue these attacks."
The explosion took place in a parking lot of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park—one of the largest public places in Lahore—especially popular with families.
Eyewitnesses said the 67-acre park was unguarded and they saw body parts scattered across it. "We took the injured to hospitals in rickshaws," a man said.
Of course, not all the victims were Christians. Not even most of them. "Of the 58, 14 were identified as Christian citizens and the remaining as Muslims." Because when you go to Thanatos, you fuck up. Always.
Like the yeehaw nimrod who decided to go on a Jew hunt, killed three people, then said to the arresting officers: "I am an anti-Semite, I hate goddamned Jews. How many did I get?"
Well, none. All the people this nutbag killed, they were not Jewish.
During cross examination, Miller said he was "devastated" when he found out none of his victims were actually Jewish, but said the murders of Corporon and LaMano were justified because they were "Jewish sympathizers."
Miller said he felt bad about killing teenager Underwood, who he "thought was older" but admitted he would have felt better if the boy had been a Jew.
Pakistan is a dysfunctional country created by white people. Two white people, actually. Louis Mountbatten, and Christopher Beaumont. And, over lunch. They knew their partition of India and Pakistan, it would result in the deaths of thousands of people. But they didn't care. The people were, after all, just "wogs." And, to these men—as to The Hairball—wogs, they just don't count. Not really people.
Mountbatten was later blown up on his boat by the IRA. In another typical Thanatos fuck-up. As an 83-year-old woman and two young boys were killed as well.
The Mountbatten bombing hardened the heart of British Prime Minister Maggot Thatcher, who then gave the back of her hand to the Irish hunger strikers. Which resulted in the Ten Men Dead. Which was seen at the time as a victory for Maggot and her people. But which was not. In truth, the British government was broken. Leading directly to the (relative) tranquility, in the six northern counties, of today.
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While the body parts were flying in Lahore, in Islamabad the army was in the streets grappling with people who believe more Pakistanis should be killed for the "crime" of blasphemy.
The street-people were out in honor of Mumtaz Qadri, a former Pakistani policeman who was hanged in February for assassinating Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, who had questioned the nation's blasphemy laws. Qadri was a Taseer bodyguard; he shot the body he was assigned to guard some 28 times.
More than 300 Pakistani lawyers, they then offered their services to Qadri, pro bono. The people in the streets, they want Qadri declared a hero, and the death penalty imposed on any and all blasphemers.
Sometimes such people don't wait for the law; they just go out and kill blasphemers themselves. And so it was last week.
Unidentified men killed a mentally challenged person in Shabqadar town of Charsadda district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) for allegedly committing blasphemy.
Police and residence told The Express Tribune that the 50-year-old man was sitting at his shop in the Katozai Malik Abad area Monday evening, when two men riding a motorcycle pulled up and one of them opened fire on him.
According to the victim's neighbours, the man had been admitted in a mental hospital for a long time. They said the victim used to babble words and thoughts which sounded blasphemous.
Residents said some unidentified men had warned that the victim would be declared an apostate and on Monday evening he was killed.
So it goes.
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Lahore and Islamabad were not the only places in the world unsane Sunday.
In Brussels a band of dingleberries bulled their way into a memorial for the recent dead there to Sieg some Heils and otherwise act like they'd grunted, knuckles dragging, out of a time portal from 1935.
In Connecticut, toddlers were trampled when an Easter egg hunt was "bum-rushed" by greedy adults who wanted all the goodies for themselves. They "rushed the field and took everything," one witness said, "kind of like locusts."
"Somebody pushed me over and take my eggs," Vincent Welch, 4, told NBC Connecticut after the event, "and it's very rude of them and they broke my bucket."
Up in Salmon Creek, Washington, a sudden burst of crazed screaming disturbed another Easter egg hunt, leading to some cop people rushing to the scene to arrest some drug people.
A disturbance during an Easter egg hunt Saturday evening in Salmon Creek, north of Vancouver, led to the discovery of a large-scale unlicensed pot operation, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Office.
At about 6 p.m., police were dispatched to a report that the neighborhood Easter egg hunt had been interrupted by a man screaming that his roommates were going to shoot him, according to a story published in the Vaancouver Columbian.
Police arrived in the area and learned that the disturbance was related to a marijuana distribution operation headquartered in a nearby home, police said.
In Mexico, Easter celebrants set effigies of The Hairball ablaze. It is traditional there to burn Judas; this year, Judas was replaced by The Hairball.
"Since he started his campaign and began talking about immigrants, Mexico, and Mexicans, I said 'I've got to get this guy,'" said Felipe Linares, the artisan who crafted Trump and whose family has been making Judases for more than 50 years.
No one in Mexico likes The Hairball. No one anywhere in the world, outside the United States, likes The Hairball. Because The Hairball, to people outside the US, is the walking, talking incarnation of all that is worst about that nation: Baby Huey, with a machine gun.
I take it back. There is one non-US person who likes The Hairball. Jean-Marie Le Pen. Convicted Holocaust-denier, and a man who has personally tortured people. Le Pen, surely, he is the pure quintessence, of The Hairball apologist.
There is a petition out there calling for folks attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio this July to be permitted to openly carry firearms, as they wander the halls, making the president.
The petition notes that Ohio is an open-carry state, but that the website for the Quicken Loans Arena—the site of the convention in Cleveland—says the venue forbids "firearms and other weapons of any kind."
"This is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and puts all attendees at risk," the petition reads. "As the National Rifle Association has made clear, 'gun-free zones' such as the Quicken Loans Arena are 'the worst and most dangerous of all lies.'"
The Hairball—by far the stupidest person to ever wang-dang his micro-doodle in national politics—soberly intoned upon the television that he is "a very, very strong person for the Second Amendment," and will first "read the fine print," before bestowing upon the petition his royal blessing.
Yesterday a partypooping Secret Service spokesunit decreed that the Service didn't care what The Hairball, or anyone else, might say, because "[i]ndividuals determined to be carrying firearms will not be allowed past a predetermined outer perimeter checkpoint, regardless of whether they possess a ticket to the event."
But hey, who is the Secret Service, to trample upon the people's freedoms? I personally believe a wild crazed shootout, among foaming shrieking drunken Thanatos-happy Hairballians, there upon the convention floor, to be the only natural and True culmination, of the Hairball campaign. It will be like the penultimate scene of The Wild Bunch, and it will on live television, and in all the tubes. The people in charge of the convention music, they can deafeningly sound throughout the hall, Ian Hunter—"Cleveland Rocks"—as, down on the floor, the Hairballians, they begin their Thanatos beguine. It will be America, writ large.
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A bimbo has erupted, claiming The Clenis used to snort cocaine off her coffee table.
Big deal. John Kennedy would snort coke off Marilyn Monroe's pubic mound, down by the White House swimming pool.
The bimbo also says The Clenis would wear her black nightie, while blowing the sax.
So What. Jedgar Hoover, over decades, would don women's undergarments, while blowing Clyde Tolson.
There is one claim The Clenis can make, that is unique to him. And that is that his penis was impeached, and then put on trial before the US Senate.
The US Senate is not much inclined to confirm Merrick Garland as an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court.
This is because, as explained by San Francisco political scientist Brian Copeland, a majority of the senators are "originalists," who hew to the original meaning of the Constitution. And that Constitution originally classified a black person as 3/5th of a human being. The current president, The Kenyan, he is black; therefore, to these senators, he is but 3/5th of a president. And so, quite simply, his time has run out. He is no longer the president at all. No one is. There is just a big black hole, there in the Oval Office. Since The Kenyan, he is no longer the president, he has no business appointing anyone to the Supreme Court.
In any event, a horrific scandal has emerged in re Mr. Garland, one that seems certain to derail his nomination.
Yes, when Mr. Garland, he was 10 years old, he may have cheated in a relay race at summer camp.
No. I am not making this up. I just read, and then report, these things. And then I lie down. And quietly weep.
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Good morning, hecate,
and everyone. It is a quiet 3AM here. Just saying hello. Eventually will go back to bed. Hope all is well with everyone in c99p-land.
Morning Hecate, thanks for the morning news round-up. Have
a great day today. Best wishes,
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Morning Hecatate
Here is what we woke up to this Tuesday...
And then there is an Egyptian man, upset by his ex-wife, who decided it was a good idea to highjack a plane...he let a bunch of people go but is still holding at least 7 people hostage in Cyprus.
Ha ha ha ....it's always the woman's fault, don'tcha know...
here.... I'll share...
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the
Capitol man, he is suffering from a religious disability, like a number of the people in the OT.
The airplane man, he seems to have a heart affliction. I don't know that I recall an earlier incident of someone hijacking an airplane for reasons of heart pain.
Yeah. Women. They're always shoving their coffee tables out there, luring you to pour cocaine upon them.
; )
Can't sleep.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with reading this morning's Open Tummler.
Went out on the front porch for awhile. Looks like a quarter moon hiding behind fog and clouds. The foot of snow that fell last Wednesday night is melting faster than expected. It's 40 degrees F, with an expected high of 56. One of 4 solar path lights is still giving off a nice light at 4:30AM. Rather enjoying this peaceful, quiet time.
Saw one of Bernie's web ads this morning. Cracks me up - at the bottom it says:
Paid for by Bernie 2016
(Not the Billionaires)
the moon
is waning, and it looks from here like some of the cheese is coming out.
There is a solar gnome out there who is still faithfully pumping out all the light.
Targeted rage seems to beckon wanton destruction
Too much acceptable collateral damage these days. Ancient art works destroyed again. Mr Garland may have also pocketed some mislaid $5 bill at some time in his life. It probably was not caught on a cell phone camera.
Me? I brood. Try to feel better sitting outside, looking at re-awakening woods, but it's hanging near freezing all day, alas.
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garland,
also once a bug flew into his mouth, and he swallowed it. That means he has to go to the Jain prison.
Where do you live that it will be freezing all day? Irkutsk? Antarctica? Icepick?
Ithaca, NY
which for today has joined the Great White North, except for the White part. At least it's a liberal bastion for the moment.
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home of
Cornell. That is where they make the laws!
And also some of the De-regulations!
Funny place. No fluoridation of water due to Communism. Before my time. Heck, I'm on a well.
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Home also
of Richie Stearns:
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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Good Morning, hecate and 99%'ers
I am sitting here drinking a cup of tea and listening to a male towhee singing. The male towhee's call sounds like he is saying "drink your tea." There sure is a lot of tea drinking going on both inside my house and outside my window.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
i had a
flicker come by yesterday afternoon. They are fun: big woodpeckers, that, besides the trees, also like to spend a lot of time on the ground. They hunt ants. Then they use ant juice to preen. Animals, they are smart.
Have you rubbed yourself with ant juice?
With all that formic acid, it might be a good exfoliant. Plus, it kills mites. Never tried it, myself except maybe singular ant juice.
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i myself
have never been an ant juicer. But I had a cat who loved to roll in them. Now I know why. He was preening.
There be robins here in southern
Ontario... big fat ones... but the big local news is this guy....photos being shared, but his location is being kept a secrete.
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what kind of bird is that? (n/t)
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Leucistic robin
Pales of many creatures. Maybe they wanna be white??
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Did #Berniemadethatbirdwhite?
Just having a bit of fun, this morning.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Oh!!! YES!!!
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Unfortunately for Sanders, there just aren't enough
elitist uncolorful male birds for him to win. What a classic example of his tone deafness, putting that pale yellow bird up on the lectern. That was a serious slap in the face to all birds of color. If he's going to win Wisconsin, he's going to need to make inroads with midwestern birds of color, such as the cardinals and blue jays.
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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Obviously
a Hawaiian Robin.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Albino Robin... n/t
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Enjoying my cuppa tea at work, gg!
Our birds are really coming on! The finches were always here, but we have three pairs of Says Phoebe, a curved bill thrasher pair, and a mockingbird pair. Just getting started this spring! Oh - the meadowlarks are singing like crazy, too! Enjoyed them all this weekend. I leave too early (before daybreak) to enjoy them during weekday mornings.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Press Release from Bernie's Campaign
Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Lawton Endorses Sanders for President
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This is very interesting.
Lawton endorsed HRC in 2008.
As lieutenant governor, Lawton was also the Democratic nominee-presumptive for the 2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial race.
The problem was, she had become lt governor in defiance of the party hacks and Governor Doyle, having run an insurgent primary campaign against the person Doyle and the hackery preferred -- she was outspent 5 to 1, I think. (In Wisconsin, the Gov and Lt. Gov run as a combined ticket, but they are nominated independently.)
Supporting HRC in 2008 seems to have been the kiss of death for her, because it put her at odds with the Obama faction, while the mighty Clinton machine left her swinging in the wind. Which is hardly surprising, given that her last name is not Clinton. Sometime in late summer 2009, she officially announced she would not be running. The problem was that Doyle, the DNC, and apparently Team Obama made it clear they would cut her off from the party's fundraising and electoral apparatus.
Lawton would have been a terrific candidate against Walker, in contrast to the lifeless if well-meaning fellow the party elite foisted on us. (In fact, had she not been undercut by the party elites, she would have been a great alternative to HRC this year, or at the very least a great VP candidate on a Sanders ticket.)
She's now working in DC with a group dedicated to getting the money out of politics.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
w00t! As a 25-year Packers fan, I salute Barbara Lawton. t/y.
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First-Time Voters in NY Registered in Record-Breaking Numbers
From "The Bern Report"
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Good morning.
No classes today, but a long horrible meeting this afternoon. I wanted to sleep in today, but my walking, barking, living, breathing canine alarm clock wouldn't have it.
when
I was a boy, I liked the true-life documentary film, Goodbye My Lady, about the swamp dog, that didn't bark, but laughed. Then I got older, and Walter Brennan made me scared.
New WI poll will come out tomorrow
Charles Franklin of Marquette University will release his poll's latest numbers tomorrow.
Generally speaking the MU poll is the best of the WI polls.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Good Morning, hecate
And it is always a good morning when you write. Unfortunately, this morning, the subject matter is pretty depressing. I can't find anything I want to respond to...I just want it all to go away. Brilliant observation on the "originalists", though. I was pretty sure that was the basis for many of Scalia's beliefs. But I can't get too worked up about it...I wish the office really was empty. It's long past time for Obama to leave, even as a whole person.
As for Thanatos, have you met his sisters, the Keres?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
what about
the man who took the airplane because he needed to talk to his estranged wife? Is this a first? Or are the airplanes commonly diverted for heartache reasons?
It was Brian Copeland whom I heard, on the radio, set forth the notion that Turtle Scotrum and his henchman have always considered The Kenyan to be but 3/5th of a president.
There was another Egyptian
who crashed an airplane full of passengers...murder-suicide. I think it was heartache related. I really don't understand that.
I did some research, and no real motive for the crash (Egyptair flight 990) was ever determined. Lots of speculation, and some crazy conspiracy theories. So, you may be right...the first airplane takeover for heartache.
I would speculate that, at most, Turtle Man is barely 3/5 mammalian.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Not me, but my liberal father
taught Modern European History to Turtleman. And T-man passed the course, but forgot, like I forgot two semesters of calculus.
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turtle scrotum
did not travel north for his college education, did he? For I imagine that would have disqualified him for the post he currently holds: de facto head of the Confederate States of America.
University of Louiville
He stayed south of the Mason-Dixon line. He also later endowed a whole building for more Southern patriot lawyers at the Law School.
OTOH, KY stayed uncommitted during the Great War, as did a few boyfriends, TG. And I was born Hoosier, a very confusing place.
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they have arrested
Corey Lewandowski, The Hairball's campaign manager, for assaulting a reporter. The Hairball's own surveillance cameras, they ratted him out.
I hope our house survives
we have a crew behind us, taking out a tree. Will it destroy our fence? It's exciting! They seem to know what they're doing, unlike the dope who's power washing our shared driveway. The neighbors hired this guy and he's back for a second day, god knows why. Yesterday he made a horrible mess, splashing all kinds of mud on our house and I had to run out and tell him not to wash it off with the power setting, otherwise the paint would come off....you dope! Shaz thinks he might be...wait, can I say "retarded"? If not then she thinks he might be mentally handicapped. Wait...can I say "handicapped"?
tell the
power-washer that your side of the driveway is mined, and the power-washing machine will set off the mines, and then he will be in a bad way.
I don't know when this power-washing nonsense started, but it needs to be stopped. They even have power-washers for your face.
Tree-cutters are generally fairly skilled at what they do, except for the drunk ones. Of course, there's always the wind.
I'm not sure about the current state of the words, in re "retarded" and "handicapped" and whatnot. I think maybe they are supposed to be "developmentally disabled." With folks like your power-washer, I tend to go for "yeehaw" or "yahoo" or "knuckle-dragger" or "mutant" or "numbskull" or "neuron-deficient" or just "Trump voter."
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Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
I say, Let 'em have it.
Don't follow leaders.
Watch the parking meters.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
the best expression
of that, is this:
Thanks, that's nicely done
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Couldn't sleep last night.
Thank God I had Cold Pizza for the kids for breakfast. (Yes, Single Dads can be horrible sometimes. We admit it. The kids ASKED for it by name, so I feel much better. Was going to cook Sausage and egg sandwiches when they made the request.)
Got em on the bus and went BACK TO BED.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Quick hot breakfast for Single Dads
(and other parents in a hurry), with minimal cleanup.
Ingredients:
Whatever you put in a basic omelette (e.g., eggs, milk, salt, pepper, onion powder).
butter
Sliced lunch meat (I usually use turkey breast from the deli counter)
Shredded cheese
"flour" tortillas (i.e., not corn, though i suppose those would work).
Equipment:
Teflon omelette pan approximately the same size as the tortillas
Bowl and whisk.
1.
Use whisk to mix basic omelette ingredients in a bowl.
Heat teflon omelette pan.
2.
Add butter to grease pan.
Pour some of omelette mix into pan (enough to make a THIN omelette) and cover.
3.
When omelette is cooked:
Lightly sprinkle with shredded cheese
Lay meat slices over cheese
Sprinkle more cheese.
Place tortilla on top of omelette.
4.
The tricky part (assumes right-handedness)
Pick up omelette pan with right hand.
Place left hand on top of the tortilla
Flip the whole thing, so pan is upside down over your left hand, which is supporting the tortilla and everything else.
Remind children that this is an insane thing to do and that if you ever see them doing it there'll be hell to pay.
Make sure rim of the pan doesn't touch your left wrist.
Lift pan off of omelette, and place pan back on the stove.
Slide the tortilla off of your hand back into pan.
Cover and cook long enough to heat the meat and melt the cheese.
Slide onto a plate and roll the whole thing up like a wrap.
5. Repeat 2-4 as long as you've got ingredients and hungry kids.
6. Rinse the bowl, the whisk, and the omelette pan and put them in the dishwasher
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Usually I make a 1 egg omelette.
Slice of Cheese, and a bit of sausage on sourdough toast. Served with half an apple and milk.
But today... Well, a fun treat once in a while ain't gonna kill em.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
I learned cold pizza as a proper breakfast
in graduate school, and it is still acceptable. As is apple pie, pumpkin pie and thrown-together scrambled egg concoction.
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TEFLON
Every human tested has traces of it in his body. Known carcinogen.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Radon. I drink it.
Marcellus shale. My house vents 1/3 of the time. Life is cool, but my house air exceeds limits and I cannot afford buying air on Amazon or at Costco.
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maybe a
radon teflon omelette, with a light carbon monoxide fry.
that stuff'll kill ya, man.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
You might be able to pull this same trick using a
well-greased anodized aluminum pan. Haven't ever tried.
Teflon is everywhere. And it's going to continue to be for a very, very long time, given its general non-reactivity. In a couple of million years, cockroach geologists may be scratching their antennae trying to figure out where these molecules in the sediments came from.
Teflon itself is not known to be carcinogenic, but if you burn it, it emits at least one chemical that the EPA has labeled a carcinogen. Rule #1 of cooking with teflon is: don't preheat the pan above medium-low heat. Rule #2 should maybe be, if your Teflon pan ever gets really hot (e.g., you've left it on a burner above medium heat and the liquid has boiled away), open the windows and clear the air in the kitchen.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
teflon
isn't here. Here, cast iron and copper.
You may be mistaken.
Those little teflon molecules get blown around all over the place. Same is true for the original ScotchGard, which was taken off the market in response to concerns about the ubiquity of one of its ingredients. What wasn't/isn't clear to me is where they think those ingredient molecules (PFOA and PFOS) in the environment came from -- were they released as direct source pollution, or are they degassing from the manufactured product?
Either way, the ingredient molecules (PFOA and PFOS) as well as the products (Teflon and Scotchgard) persist just about anywhere that anybody has ever looked for them.
PS: I have one anodized aluminum pan, and it rocks. Indeed, it literally rocks because I have an electric stove (blech) and the bottom of the pan has warped a bit.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
maybe the people
who wrapped their houses in duct tape and plastic sheeting, back in the days of the Great Fear, they thereby protected themselves from the teflon and the scotchgard.
I remember that!
What were we supposed to be worried about? Anthrax? Suitcase bombs? Memory fails.
Our nuclear waste repository had a leak a few years back. I had people on the Internets offering to evict me. It was a little weird. The story was they were using clay cat litter to pack the barrels and they switched to some kind of cat litter made out of cellulose and it caught fire or something. There were other stories. Meanwhile there were nuclear waste barrels just sitting around above ground with no place to go, over in Texas. I kept thinking, why am I supposed to worry so much about this nuclear waste, as opposed to other people worrying about their nuclear waste, or radon, or whatever they've got going? What is the point of worrying about it if nobody much is serious about ending its production?
But I digress.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Be Aware that Vermiculite (that cool layer-ly thing)
was later given the Big Frownie because Asbestos. Living my day job in a lab I had to wear a radiation badge daily. [Come to think of that, those readings were read and recorded for posterity and my libelous children/grandchildren somewhere...]. I just get donned in Pb apron things every time, even though I have useless ovaries now and would appreciate that protection more if it wasn't like TSA.
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Vermiculite dealers
Know about that. You can get vermiculite that's certified asbestos-free. I know it from gardening use, though I lean towards more low-tech these days.
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I stopped using teflon years ago
I am sad to hear it is everywhere, but these synthetics tend to be that way. And yes, you never want to overheat it, if you do use it.
I use cast iron and Revere Ware. Revere Ware is stainless with copper bottoms. Expensive but solid. You can buy earlier ones with heavier bottoms second hand, which says something about how well made they are.
A popular fast breakfast down here near Mexico is a breakfast burrito. This is a flour tortilla with scrambled eggs, hot green chile, cheddar cheese and bacon.
I often go with yet another variant, which involves sauteeing a little diced onion and some sweet peppers or chile, maybe mushrooms, and then drizzling a few beaten eggs over it, and as the eggs set, a chopped avocado, and then finally grated cheddar and flip it. This also works with a chopped and sliced boiled red potato, but if you add too much stuff it won't flip as well, and becomes more of a country scramble.
Season with a little vinegar, maybe some French tarragon, but I don't use tarragon with chile.
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Nom to avocados. Always.
My mother, in her dotage now {I have never used that word in writing before}, used to (1940's-late) work for General Motors. When exiting that job she was given a set of Revere Ware. I suspect corporate connection in that product placement. She remains an innocent.
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