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Original title: Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan because neighbour claimed 'smell of frying bacon offends Muslims' A hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan - because the smell of her frying bacon 'offends' Muslims. Planning bosses acted against Beverley Akciecek, 49, after being told her next-door neighbour's Muslim friends had felt 'physically sick' due to the 'foul odour'. Councillors at Stockport Council in Greater Manchester say the smell from the fan is 'unacceptable on the grounds of residential amenity'. The fan has been in Beverley's Snack Shack takeaway in the Shaw Heath area...

Bumble Bee Ham is opening a processing plant and deli in New York just two blocks away from Ground Zero next to a new mosque. The new location will process ham to be shipped out to Bumble Bee Hams across the country and launch a new high end deli on the ground level called “Bacon.” The feature item is a bacon burger made from ground bacon, topped with bacon served open faced on a bacon croissant with bacon ranch and a side of bacon sticks. This has set off a firestorm between many Americans and Muslims against so-called “bacon extremists.”

"The world's most expensive ham" has gone on sale in London, according to retailer Selfridges. The leg of Iberico ham, which costs £1,800, went on sale at the food hall in the retailer's flagship store in Oxford Street, central London. The 7kg (15lb) ham leg comes with its own DNA certificate as proof of authenticity. Pig farmer and ham expert Manuel Maldonado selected 50 pigs that were reared in Extremadura in western Spain. The pigs were fed on a diet of acorns and roots to give the ham a distinctive flavour. 'Gourmet luxury' After being slaughtered their ham was salted...

Alright, here's the deal. Since Thanksgiving was just four weeks ago and since Turkey generally tastes like cardboard covered with gravy and since American's aren't real big on a Christmas Goose, I'm thinkin' you're thinkin' ham for Christmas. Now if there's one thing a true Southern Cook knows it's how to make a good possum stew...if there's two things a true Southern Cook knows it's how to make a tasty ham. Here's the secret. It's really easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDRSkBOuuc

A SYDNEY couple has withdrawn their two children from a public primary school, claiming their 11-year-old son was bullied by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan. Andrew Grigoriou said yesterday he complained to the school and to police after his son Antonios was chased and later assaulted by Muslim students after a confrontation over the contents of his lunch, The Daily Telegraph reports. Antonios, a Year 5 student of Greek-Australian background at Punchbowl Public School in Sydney's southwest, said he and a friend had to be locked inside the library for an hour after being chased...

No matter what conclusions one gravitates towards regarding climate change and potential solar impacts, the data is irrefutable: the sun is slowly becoming more active. The 10.7cm radio flux spiked in late September with its highest reading in 18 months; now, and this is very significant compared to the pattern since March 2008, it has spiked again, exceeding the late September number and reaching a Cycle 24 maximum of 76.9. This is still a very low value compared to the solar maximum flux numbers, which routinely exceed 200. However, it is an upward move from the “basement” numbers of the...

Ingredients: 6 medium potatoes - peeled and thinly sliced 2 large onions - peeled and thinly sliced 4 hard boiled eggs - chopped 1/2 cup of grated cheddar cheese

I was talking to my daughter at lunch today and she asked me if she had told me about what she had discovered about the Spanish fondness for cured ham. She said she had traveled all over Europe and did not see the cured hams that hang from the ceilings in the delicatessens as is common in Spain. Usually, in the smaller delicatessens they have about fifty to one hundred, "severed legs," as she calls them, hanging from the ceiling, each with a little paper cup hanging below to catch any grease that leeches out of the ham. Here is...

Here is video of Bill O'Reilly last night giving his talking points, where he discussed President Obama's horrible week last week, and then talked with Juan Williams and Mary Katherine Ham about President Obama's "missteps," particularly his remarks on the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Williams found it hard to believe that Obama would comment on something he said himself, "I don't have all the facts." Williams also said Obama never should have tried to tie the case to "racial profiling," because no profiling was involved. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Yesterday we noted that among the "stimulus" projects funded by the Democrats in their stimulus porkapalooza was $16.7 million for canned pork processed by Lakeside Foods at Lakeside's Minnesota plant. The Lakeside Foods award was one of several literal pork projects flagged by Drudge yesterday. Following a script originally written by George Orwell, the Obama administration has sent the pork products down the memory hole. The Obama administration Web site enumerating stimulus projects has changed the description of the work/service performed from "canned pork" and ham to "meat, poultry and fish."

See Drudge Headlines:SPENDING SCARED: WHITE HOUSE PUTS OFF RELEASE OF BUDGET UPDATE... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $16,784,272 FOR 'CANNED PORK'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,444,100 FOR 'REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $541,119 FOR 'INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNAL'... Agriculture Sec. Vilsack: 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'... FOOD LION: $.79...

Promoted from the diaries. We’d assume that this was some sort of data entry error, but then again, we have no reason to believe that at all. It is, after all, government ham. I give up. I freaking give up. I tried to sit on the fence, reserve judgement. I tried to be a lefty among right wingers, a righty among left wingers. I told myself, hey, RedState is just as crazy as the Daily Kos, two sides of the same coin. I told myself that I’d give Obama a year before I made any judgment. But ham is now...

[H]am radio operators will test their emergency communications capabilities with amateur radio clubs across the nation this weekend. The field day, the culmination of National Amateur Radio Week, known as the Nationwide Emergency Communications Drill, is intended to give the public a glimpse of the services amateur radio operators provide and a chance to meet the operators themselves. "In a disaster, when phone lines, cellphones and the Internet are all down, ham radio operators will be on the job," said Jon Clark, president of the Antelope Valley Amateur Radio Club. The club will set up at the north end of...

Some chit-chat at lunch today about something called the "Home Affordable Modification Program". Any FReeper mortgage brokers/Realtors know anything about this and care to weigh in?

Townhall.com's Mary Katharine Ham learns how to save the Earth and all the animals, lefty-activist-style. (Video at the source link)

Scientists say they have proof that the best cure for a hangover really is a bacon butty. Bacon sandwich /PA Elin Roberts, science development manager at the Centre for Life in Newcastle, says: "Food doesn't soak up the alcohol, but it does increase your metabolism - helping you to deal with the after-effects of over-indulgence. "So food will often help you feel better. Bread is high in carbohydrates and bacon is full of protein, which breaks down into amino acids. "Your body needs these amino acids, so eating them will make you feel good. Bingeing on alcohol depletes neurotransmitters too,...

<p>We need to learn of local ham/amateur radio operators and us ham operators need to have a pre-established network with designated frequencies to get our message out and around.</p> <p>Don't wait for the day that either due to martial law or other catastrophic events, our communication paths are severed or greatly blocked.</p>

So why bother with shortwave? It's easy and cheap -- and fun. You can hear and learn things that you would never find even if you work your search engine like a mule. From Swaziland to Paris to Havana, shortwave broadcasters can surprise an adventurous listener more than any MP3 playlist. "You tune carefully, twist the radio from side to side, and there's still a bit of a 'Hey, I made this happen!' sort of thing," said Harold Cones, retired chairman of the biology and chemistry department at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. It's also magic. Shortwave radio...

In December, men gritted their teeth and were nice to their in-laws. They held purses while their women tried on 20 dresses. And they donned a tie for New Year's Eve. And now they are rebelling: It's Manuary. In January, as part of the Manuary movement, men across the country will bypass the razor and grow their beards with abandon. (No trimming allowed!) The truly devoted will boost their red meat and whiskey intake. Chicago resident Bill Housewright, 31, a filmmaker-turned-science teacher, claims he created Manuary in 2005 to get in touch with his "redneck, ex-country past." He grew up...