Open Thread WE 11 OCT 23 ~ Plumpkins
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Welcome to the pumpkin patch. With all the weirdness going on in the world caused by a bunch
of pumpkin heads, decided to focus instead on a seasonal squash.
The local farm stands are abounding with their splendor.
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Connecticut Field Pumpkins are one of North America’s oldest varieties. Native Americans were growing them in the New England area before Europeans arrived. They are noteworthy for their round shape and flat bottoms making them ideal for carving. Believe that Native Americans would have thought us mad upon seeing us carve a face in a pumpkin.
I prefer to get the smaller / sweeter pie pumpkins. Not to carve but rather to cook. Sometimes
will draw a face on them (when feeling creative) before prepping for the oven.
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The vitamin A contained in pumpkin is actually in the form of vitamin A precursors beta carotene and alpha carotene. Your body can turn these powerful antioxidants into vitamin A after you consume them.
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-1 small pumpkin or 1/4 large pumpkin
-2 tablespoons olive oil
-1/8 teaspoon ground clove
-1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
-1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
-2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
-2 teaspoons sea salt
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Place pumpkin slices on baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and rub on both sides of pumpkin. Season with salt, spices and brown sugar. Roast for 18-20 minutes at 400 degrees.
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Save the seeds to roast separately as a snack! Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe?
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Good morning pumpkin heads
Celebrating Stop America's Violence Everywhere Today
Also known as SAVE Today. Wonder how that works?
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial. (such a loss)
1990 Libya's Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated. That didn't work out well.
1991 Law Professor Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her. Crickets
2002 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to former US President Jimmy Carter
Anything on your radar?
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tptb only let us support Israeli's/Ukraine
yep we are free
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/supportive-waving-palestinian-fla...
No mention of the Gaza Strip having it lawn mowed. We're not a
blue or red state we're an Israeli state....UFB
https://patch.com/illinois/northbrook/northbrook-denounces-acts-horrendo...
https://patch.com/illinois/winnetka/illinois-officials-stand-israel-soli...
This is precious coming from Pritzker whose family profits handsomely
from war
While we keep hearing of massacre after massacre, no evidence has been presented to back those allegations, we only have the word of those same people/organizations that gave us Iraq/Libya/Syria/Ukraine etc.etc.etc.
So while I'm waiting to be called a self hating Jew, I
prayhope for myrelatives in Israel and all the Palestinians being mercilessly bombarded in
the Gaza Strip
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
hate is a cultured state of moral failure
most of the relatively un-brainwashed comments I have seen just call for
peace, negotiation and diplomacy in any and all of these aggressive actions.
It is one thing to understand the background which leads to violence.
Another, deeper involvement to work thru differences and establish
compromises that do not have killing as the solution.
Thanks for checking in.
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Good morning, QMS!
That photo you posted is just mesmerizing. So beautiful!
I was on my porch, having my morning coffee, chatting with the carpenter crew, and we were treated to the sight of 5 bald eagles flying to and from their perch in my pine tree. Majestic.
We will have a high of 77 today, our coolest day since early spring. It is only for today, though. Shorts and tees for the upcoming 2 or 3 weeks.
Thanks for the OT, pal.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Ain't nature great?
The temps are dropping into the 40's at night, daytimes high mid 60's.
Heavenly. Getting a drop of firewood tomorrow so have to set-up the
wood racks on the deck today.
The eagles are circling around to give the hawks something to think about.
Wild geese are beginning to flock with their honking and squeaky wings.
Hope your day has some beauty in store!
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Today's art installation
Circular Light Paintings Nestle into Craggy Grooves and Valleys in Reuben Wu’s Unearthly Photos
Reuben Wu is a multidisciplinary artist who uses technology
and the concept of time and space to help tell compelling
stories about the world we inhabit.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/reuben-wu-inner-landscape/
https://reubenwu.com/projects
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A small cup of pumpkin soup
...at the local Panera coffee shop costs about seven dollars. So Ms. So went to the local produce market, which used to be a single wide shop in a strip store nearby, bought some small squash like pumpkins, and made a couple of quarts of soup for herself. I will try some today. She said the Panera soup was too sweet. This produce store was so successful it now occupies a supermarket sized building across from one of the local Walmarts. They were underselling the local Walmarts and the chain supermarkets, they now sell meat, have a bakery, and sell dry foods as well.
(Source MBC News live 10.11.2013) Victorious democratic candidate for Kangseo dictrict manager, Jin Kyo-hoon, with wife, wearing garlands, surrounded by senior democratic party officials.
There is good news from Korea which I want to share. I just got this live frpm MBC news in South Korea. The final day of an election for the district manager of one of the districts in Seoul, Gangseo district, was run today because the office became vacant. As I understand it, the former district manager, Kim Dae-woo, lost his office because he was found guilty of
some finance law violationleaking confidential government information gained as a special corruption team investigator for the Blue House,* and disqualified from elective office. Yoon then pardoned him, and he ran again as the candidate to fill the seat caused by his own vacancy. This is the kind of judgement the Yoon administration has. The democratic party candidate was a former police official from the area, Jin Kyo-hoon.The election was styled as a proxy for the general election next spring, so there was a lot of media attention, and national political leadership from both parties participated directly in the campaign including, the leaders of the Democratic Party Lee Jae-myung, and (conservative) PPP party, Kim Gi-heon, themselves. The outcome this morning is stunning, the democratic candidate is winning by about 40 thousand votes. Although it may be too early to say, the victory margin may be in the 20 percent range (or greater?). The is a stunning defeat for the conservatives and President Yoon Seok-yeol. 80 percent of the vote is in, and the margin of the democratic victory is about 20 percent. Some of the math majors are saying that the conservative candidate Kim Te-woo cannot win, and the contest is virtually over.
It's anticipated that the PPP Yoon faction will charge that there was interference in the election from China or North Korea, something along those lines to distract from their stunning defeat.
Update- Sources over at TK's chat say the final results show a 17.25 percent lead for Jin Kyo--hoon. Still a landslide by any measure.
*Edit- Kim Tae-hoon's leaks took place after he left the Blue House inspection team and entered the prosecutors office. The Supreme Court found his allegations regarding the material leaks to be unfounded, politically motivated, and that his actions unduly interfered with national government functions. He made no use of available government channels to disclose his allegations of Blue House corruption. Therefore, his acts were politically motivated rather than protected under whistleblower provisions.
語必忠信 行必正直
Yeah, your spouse has it right
pumpkin soup, muffins or pie.
Can't go wrong there. It's all good!
Still gobsmacked by the congressional
testimony by the gal you shared yesterday.
Skipping by the rest of the stuffed shirts
left her comments wondrous.
Thanks!
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Ms. Town
I liked the way she emphasized we are not dealing with the North Korea of 2006 and that time marches on whether one realizes the situation has changed significantly or not. Also we have to go with step by step reciprocal measures that build some sort of trust for diplomatic dialogue to proceed, and lead to immediate reduction of tension. You can't do that with a carrier strike group in Pusan, or huge joint military exercises on land and sea in and around Korea. We need a permanent envoy to North Korea, and his job shouldn't be restraining South Korean initiatives (not that the current administration there would make any).
Thanks for the OT QMS.
語必忠信 行必正直
That was also the biggest take away with me
suggesting ways to negotiate in the present
leading to a dialogue aside from nuclear concerns.
State department should take notice?
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Pumpkin head?
Hi all, Hey Captain!
Pumpkin heads you say???
Me, I am Just Another Onionhead
Proof is I have this album/vinyl.![Smile](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/smile.gif)
Above you mentioned when the last crank phones in Maine were phased out.
Just in case anyone has never heard it... as a public service, I offer the old Maine telephone joke.
The phones went down in Maine. No one could figure it out. They called the original old retired phone man... Sparky I think it was. Told him the problem, and said he was the only one that knew the old switching system well enough to fix it. He said fine, $10,000, and I'll be right there. They said OK, we gotta have phones.
The old guy goes down to the building opens the door, walks around inside, and selects a few places and hits the wall hard with his fist. On the third one, BAM! all the lights come back on, everything is buzzing, HE FIXED IT!
He sends the bill which itemizes his services.
Miscellaneous tapping: $2.
Knowing where to tap: $9998.
And so goes so much in life...
This has been a public service message. You may now return to your scheduled schedule.
Have great days all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
any round vegetable will do today
Experience pays!
Thanks
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There are a horde of Rush Limbaugh jokes waiting in the wings,
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
GM all, busy day, re Rossini :
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Great piece EL!
Early in the 60's Roy Clark said he and Glenn made a deal, Glenn wouldn't play no Malaguena and Roy wouldn't play William Tell Overture. They kept their word on it. Glenn could really play, he was on a bunch of singles of others as part of the Wrecking Crew.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
A distraction from the competition
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thanks, the Romeros are always a good listen.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Yeah, he was a big part of The Wrecking Crew before
he decided to go solo.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A few spots of fresh info on middle east conflict
THE SILENCE OF THE BEARS – RUSSIA IS REORIENTING TOWARDS THE ARABS Dance with the Bears by John Helmer October 10, 2023
Tony Shaffer expects a ground force invasion into Gaza late Thursday afternoon or Friday. He continually infers Iran's involvement. When asked about evidence, states he has seen none.
Israel bigfoots Ukraine w/Tony Shaffer fmr DoD (2:04 min)
Scheduled for 12:pm EST
Origins of Hamas/Israeli Conflict w/ Scott Ritter
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Thanks for posting Helmer
I’ve seen other articles about Putin telling both Iran and Syria not to get involved and how Putin’s relationship with Bibi is keeping Syria from using the Russian S-300 which lets Israel bomb inside Syria at will. However Helmer has been living in Russia for a long time so I think he has a better view on Putin. Dunno though. So much disinformation flying.
This site has lots of updates on the conflict.
Erdogan cannot be any clearer:
It also reports that Kirby said that America is working with both Israel and Egypt on getting supplies to Gaza, but it’s slow and hard work to get it done. BS. Tell Israel to stop bombing the crossing and not allowing any supplies or the money and the weapons they are expecting won’t be delivered.
Israel has blocked medical supplies for years so can you imagine what it’s like in the hospitals there where there are limited supplies for pain relief or for supplies for surgeries, ect? Gawd that’s enough to warrant crimes against humanity, but the list of the crimes is very long. If Israel has the right to defend itself then don’t the Palestinians have the same right? I’m not excusing Hamas for its brutality.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Insecure Israel are the bad guys here
if they want to imprison and destroy the Palestines, the IOS will not come out of
this without a heap of blame.
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Disinformation is rampant with regards to Israel vs Palestine.
Upon further assessment we get this.
Putin seems to understand what is happening.
Lebanon trusts the defenses enough to only allow
counter strikes. Which these are. IOF stuck first. This is in response. MSM won't
tell you that. The picture show presents Israel defending 2 borders from scary
neighbors. That is what we are supposed to know. The depth of coverage will
not be found on MSM.
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Despite his recent sheepdog roll Bernie issues a statement that
reminds me of days past.
A quick Google search gets the following results showing how little attention it received.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Senator+Bernie+Sanders:+Israel+siege+of+...
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 20 already displayed.
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sure sounds like a controlling message
only the stuff allowable is passed thru the filters
AI logjams are our friends!
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