I was running behind the gun this week due to the long weekend. I’m tired after three days at the Fort, and all the packing and all the work while there. So I’m going to just toss some news spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks.
Fort stuff – I went on Friday, and stayed until Monday afternoon. While there, I lit up the bake oven once, on Saturday, and turned out two *perfect* loaves of bread. I didn’t rush myself for patrons, for a change, and the result was that there was no burn on the bread at all, and the crumb was divine. By Monday morning, all that was left of those two loaves were some crumbs at the bottom of the bowl I’d had it sitting in. I decided to make egg noodles on Saturday, as well, and that turned out very well. I made a second batch on Sunday, because I wanted to try and get the dough a bit thinner. I succeeded, and the end result was a very consistent, 1/8″ thick dough that turned into quite lovely flat noodles similar to a pappardelle. They’re still a bit too thick for my taste, but these cooked up quite nicely.
We had a decent turn out at the Fort over the long weekend. We had a slow but steady stream of patrons come through, all with fantastic questions. I wasn’t rushed for time, so I spent a lot of my “free” time going from place to place and giving tours. I definitely got my steps in, and ended up walking about 17 miles over the course of the weekend! After hours, I had two nice dinners with the volunteers (Saturday night and Sunday night), which included great conversation, friendship, and a bottle of wine to share. It was definitely a fantastic weekend.
Harris stuff – I’m having a really hard time watching what Harris is putting out on media. Some of it I know is actual lies, because I have been paying attention. Some of it is just bizarre. Her documentary (because that was NOT an interview) was ridiculous, full of contradictory stuff. The fact that she’s repeating the same EXACT speech in city after city is getting a bit old, and the odd fake accents are incredibly grating. Her inability to give a straight answer is painful.
That said, there are people putting false stuff out about her, and I dislike that, too. There’s plenty of fodder that’s real; we don’t need to make anything up. So no, she was not involved in a hit and run accident in 2011. Yes, Harris was born in America (in California, which explains a lot, but is still a US state). No, Harris did not make a campaign ad that disses herself (for heavens’ sake, why would she? she’s stupid, but she’s not dumb). And no, the Eagles did not endorse Harris. At this point, there’s so much misinformation out there that it’s almost impossible to tell what’s real and what isn’t. There’s a big question as to whether someone on the far Right is doing some of this, or if Leftists are messing with it in order to get caught and blame the Right. It’s crazy.
Trump stuff – I’m stressing over some of the vaccine noise he’s making. I don’t think we need to mandate COVID and Flu shots, but I heartily stand behind MMR, IPV, and DTaP. Those three shots alone have saved literally millions of children from debilitating diseases, and I don’t want to see them making a comeback. We’re seeing rising numbers of measles and mumps, and that’s just ridiculous. At one time we had almost wiped these out. Trump isn’t differentiating between long-standing, well researched vaccines like our childhood ones, and newer ones. I like Penn and Teller’s explanation of vaccination.
When it comes to all the other stuff Trump is saying, well… he’s not the best orator, but he’s consistent, and he doesn’t need a teleprompter to keep him from going rogue. He takes pretty much every interview he’s offered, and he at least attempts to answer the hard questions. He does fun stuff, too, like go on Jimmy Fallon and have some lighthearted jokes made about him. But the Left has this odd viewpoint where they say everything he’s saying is wrong. NPR has a “fact checking” article that shows how they’re thinking, and it’s enlightening. I read through it and was confused, because I agreed with Trump on most of what he said, and yes it was true, and the “fact checking” that was done was just plain wrong.
General political stuff – I’m still struggling a lot, but I’m wrapping my head around things from a more Right perspective. On the Left, there’s this group think that you all have mentioned before. For the most part, I wasn’t fully engulfed in that because of my interest in prepping and my 2A stance, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t affect me. There’s a reason I don’t talk politics with people outside of a very few trusted folk. Most of my friends would draw and quarter me for moving Right. They believe, with every ounce of their beings, that Trump is going to “take away their freedoms” in some way.
What I’ve discovered is that, where I don’t agree with people on the Right, I can have discussions and sometimes good quality arguments. I can disagree, and keep my own opinions, and maybe we don’t talk about That Topic when we’re together… but no one on the Right seems to be tossing me out of the tent for having beliefs outside the norm. It’s much easier to stand among the people here on the Right, and say hey, I don’t want to see safe, infrequent abortions taken away, and I want IVF, and top notch care for mothers who suffer from fetal abnormalities and death. It’s much more effective than standing on the Left and yelling that y’all are taking away rights. I can talk with people and say unequivocally that the 10 Commandments don’t belong in classrooms, and know that at least a few of you believe the opposite… but we can still talk here, because that’s a discussion we can have.
I think I’m done rambling for now. I’m curious what y’all think of the recipe of the week and the prepping article of the week. Are these good additions to the site?
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