beer in the news

Wow, what a week for beer news. Turns out that beer builds your bones. Pale ales and lagers work best. It's the silicon in the beer that helps.

(photo from Bike Friendly Fort Worth)

What a dilemma. I don't like beer much, and I do have osteoporosis.

Then Thursday we had a foot of snow fall on roofs that weren't planned for that. Look what happened to the much-beloved only-game-in-town microbrewery in Fort Worth, Rahr Brewing.

There's video coverage of the damaged brewery on local NBC affiliate Channel 5's site.

Look at the photo credit. Just one of the many groups in town that Rahr has helped. They are friendly to so many groups, I am sure folks will rally to help this often-beleaguered family business.

"toilt paper set ablaze"

Yesterday's top story in my local rag (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)--Texas ranks last in health care and education.
Ya think? Uhhm, yup. See today's story:

Burleson elementary school evacuated after toilt paper set ablaze

Posted Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009 Comments (0)

BY SHIRLEY JINKINS syjinkins@star-telegram.com

Burleson’s Taylor Elementary School was briefly evacuated Wednesday morning when a toilet paper roll was set on fire in a restroom at about 8:30 a.m.

Emergency personnel responded and put out the fire, which melted the plastic housing around the toilet paper holder and created a large amount of smoke.

The school is at 400 NE Alsbury Blvd.

Campus administrators decided to relocate 13 classrooms to temporary buildings so maintenance staff could clean and air out the affected area.

$ for war, $ for health . . . high dollars

WAR.
We broke the 4-minute million. As in dollars. I clocked it twice.
About every 3:56 minutes we waste $1,000,000 on war.
At 4pm CDT today we'd squandered
$908,653,700,000 in 8 years of war
Stop the killing, start the healing!

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HEALTH.
$484,000,000,000 in estimated benefit payments for 2009 Medicare
. (from the July-Aug 2009 issue, AARP bulletin, pg 9)

Can't afford both now.
Shall we keep on killing people 8 time zones away?
Or shall we take care of the elders who took care of us, right here?

I want this

Milton Whitley displays his Twisted Yam on a Stick — a fried, spiral-cut sweet potato on a 13-inch skewer. S-T/Max Faulkner

The Texas state fair is on, and the winners of the wretched-excess-in-fried-food contest hit the paper yesterday. Yeah, it's gross. Deep Fried Butter proved a strong contender, winning 'Most Creative' but losing to top winner Fernie's Deep Fried Peaches and Cream. Read the whole story and look at the pix.

S-T/Max Faulkner

Gary Duddleston samples Fernie’s Deep Fried Peaches and Cream during judging for the Big Tex Choice Awards. S-T/Max Faulkner

I could not figure out what one of the finalist's dishes was about, only hearing the name on TV. Twisted Yam on a Stick. Then I saw Max Faulkner's photo in the Star-Telegram yesterday. Oh, Milton, you are my hero.

we got one of those panel chingalingas already in Texas

Quitter Barbie, Nanookie of the North

Ex-guvvie, bless her, she keeps harping on that death thingy.
Lord, the stuff they keep making up about health-care reform!

Here's our death panel in Huntsville.
Lie down on it, and we will make you dead. I don't think we should do this.
Everybody we put down on this panel is a child of god.
Seems wrong for humans to get in the way of god working in a person to redeem her, to redeem him. No matter what he did or she did.
When we kill people here, we interrupt god's work in them.

Before this we used a chair to deliver death.
Looks like this. Take a good long look at how we kill people. In Florida this time.
(Picture from a website where execution is explored in detail.)

Death is real. It will happen to you. Me. All of us.
Be prepared for it, make plans for your death.
Seems like a good idea to discuss it with your family, your god, your faith community, your doctor, friends, neighbors, anybody who will listen to you. As you make your choices.
Some of us don't get a choice. I watched my 55-year-old husband die of sudden cardiac arrest six days short of getting health-care coverage at his new job.
I want EVERYBODY to have HEALTH CARE.
No exceptions. Just do it.

breakfast at Ikea

...leads to Baconhenge.
You'll see in a minute. I was all ready for some serious blogging today about universal healthcare (we need it, just do it), maybe short congrats to Justice Sotomayor (yay!! she's #111 of the Supremes). But no, instead I'm compelled to share this bit of fluff. Heavy fluff.

Today, first time we got to Ikea early enough for breakfast! Good, cheap, 2 bucks.
Scoop of scrambled eggs, fried potato cubes, bacon, French toast sticks.
When I got home I went straight to a search engine.
Looked up: "french toast sticks" calories

Bad? Sure. Over 100 cal per stick; three sticks on the plate. Ate 'em all. Fat calories? Mostly. Go for amazing nutritional details here and here. If you dare.

Then I looked for "french toast sticks" images. Here's the prize pic.

Baconhenge.

It came from a user on sports blog compendium SB*NATION who goes by mcboomofdoom
and has a passion for bacon,
Click his link above, scroll down for pic and caption. Plus more bacon stuff.
I guessed right. That glop the bacon-wrapped toast-stick pillars arise from is a fritatta.
Whatta guy, whatta thing, whatta guy-thing.

Turning 180 degrees from Baconhenge back to Ikea, check these vegetarian-friendly Ikea breakfast offerings, probably from Singapore or Shanghai. Whatever the .sg domain extension means. Just guessing.

After looking at the menu.

Thursday
	Mee Siam ($1.80) Bee hoon served with hard-boiled egg and tau pok, covered in a sweet and spicy borth.

	Chicken Char Siew Sou ($1.20/2pcs) Fried pastry filled with chicken char siew and topped with sesame seeds.

*Man Tou ($0.80/2 pcs)
Deep fried flour roll that is crisp on the outside and soft on the inside.

Stop making fun of those names.
Stop snickering. I mean it.

Time to grow a thumbnail = 6 months

Finally I have cut the last piece of my squashed thumbnail off. I shut the tip of my thumb in the car door (SVT Focus) Thanksgiving week. It was purple a long time. It's also been a long time since I've done that.

Last time it was in my aunt & uncle's car--a 1949 Hudson Commodore--and I was a toddler. It looked like this, black also.
http://www.hudson-cars.com/1951-hudson-1.html