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Your Tax Dollars Went… Where?

| June 28, 2020 | 26 Comments
Your Tax Dollars Went… Where?

This is going to be rather detailed, so pop some popcorn, fetch a cold one, and settle in for an informative (I hope) bit of your time. Greg Hunter of USA Watchdog interviews Mark Skidmore of the University of Michigan regarding missing money and why we are carrying a debt load of $90 trillion. I […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking :)

| June 25, 2020 | 6 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking :)

  Slow Cooker BBQ Beans w/Kielbasa or Smoked Sausage Ingredients: 2 15 oz black beans canned, drained and rinsed 2 15.8 oz Great Northern beans canned, drained and rinsed 1 1.25 oz can kidney beans canned, drained and rinsed 1 onion diced ½ cup barbecue sauce ¾ cup ketchup 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tbsp mustard 1 tsp […]

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The 18th Century Art of Breadmaking

| June 21, 2020 | 14 Comments
The 18th Century Art of Breadmaking

These are two of Townsends’ videos on how 18th century people prepared food that we take for granted – get it at the grocery store, for example – are really interesting. I think he makes it clear, without saying anything specific, that we are over dependent on “other” to fill our needs for food and […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking

| June 18, 2020 | 10 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking

Biscuits Supreme from the Good Old Days In this case, it’s a 1953 recipe titled “Biscuits Supreme” from Better Homes & Gardens. My dad used to make these, and pecan rolls, and they are really good on a cold winter weekend morning. When you split them open in the winter, the steam rising out of […]

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Simple Sunday Dinner From the Hillbilly Kitchen

| June 14, 2020 | 9 Comments
Simple Sunday Dinner From the Hillbilly Kitchen

Here we have a group of videos from a young lady (and Mama) who calls her type of cooking ‘hillbilly cooking’.  After watching all those episodes of the 90+ lady who showed us how her family survived the Great Depression, I’m glad that we have someone who can follow in her footsteps with simple, inexpensive […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking!

| June 11, 2020 | 22 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking!

Today is a two-fer: one main course, and one soup or stew that is quick and easy to fix. And you might want to consider fixing a cast-iron skillet of cornbread while you’re putting this together, too. If it’s chilly where you are, this recipe is good any time, but particularly on a chilly Autumn […]

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Reality Check

| June 10, 2020 | 11 Comments
Reality Check

AOC’s brilliant plan to eliminate fossil fuels is not getting a good reception in the working classes. However, Biden appears to be floating over in that direction while voters are slowly oozing away from him, in the opposite direction.  In fact, people who would normally vote Democrat appear to be moving to the right-hand side […]

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Opinions on Where Things Are Heading

| June 9, 2020 | 37 Comments
Opinions on Where Things Are Heading

Youtube video interview below is by Stuart Varney with Steve Forbes (Forbes magazine) discussing future probabilities if the Democrays win the next election. Remember, Biden is the candidate now, and from what I’ve seen of him, so close to the edge of vacuity that he was “chosen” because he’s dumb enough to do whatever he’s […]

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