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• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you RG for your fabulous pictures. Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Daily Miscellany

Thoughts and flashes of brilliance that enter my head from nowhere.

Enjoy. Or abhor, depending on the effect of my "wisdom".
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Cuba

I listen to the events going on in Cuba and I remember so many details. I grew into adulthood all during the Cuban events of the early sixties, to include the horrific Bay of Pigs. This is when JFK went back on America's promise to help the Cubans who banded together to get that island rid of the awful Fidel Castro.

There was the huge boat load of refugees, sent by Castro himself, most of them Cuban criminals and refugees. America had to take them or sit and watch them die.

Castro, and his love for the Soviet Union, the country that made best buddies with Cuba because of its close proximity to America. Then Khrushchev sets up missiles aimed at America. How I remember hiding under my desk in my Catholic elementary school from warning of a possible attack. JFK did tell the Soviet Union to move the missiles or they will be attacked.

With Castro dead, I wonder why a new government was not installed. Castro's brother kind of took over but believe, there were plans made to deal with the death of Fidel that the Cuban peasants do not get takeover of their lives in their heads.

Now the Cubans want freedom and to remove their country from the hold that Castro's buddies and relatives have had after so many years.

All the while the Democrats are telling America what a wonderful guy Castro is, or was.

The Fly on the Wall has more on this story.

Why can't the Cubans be free for God's sake?

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Alton Brown, Gordon Ramsey,TV Chefs

I do very much like to watch cooking shows. This would include Alton Brown though I have some thoughts on the matter.

First off, I live by myself. I have spent a lifetime of preparing meals for child, step kids, various husbands. I also worked a full time, very busy job. I like to cook, and liked it then. But time was at a premium and such as meat and potatoes usually pleased everyone.

Now that I am widowed I am learning to prepare items that I've never cooked before; food cooked to please only me. And maybe the dog.

However, I am retired and time is not at such a cherished premium. Still, my goal in life with cooking now is the senior years of my life is to prepare tasty foods but not spend a lot of time in preparation

So I watch the Food Network Cooks to learn of different menu delicacies that I either didn't know of or how to cook. If I see a recipe or concoction that I like, I cook once as given, then begin adjustments for my taste. At times I will consider the cooking time versus the taste.

This brings me to Alton Brown.

First, he is kind of fun to watch and very good at teaching non-cooks like me. He goes over the best utensils to use for the cook task at hand. He will show how to store things for later use or other uses for meal preparation items.

But dear Lord that man spends so much times cooking menu items I don't care how delicious what he's making turns out, if it takes me over an hour to feed my solitary self, then I'm out.

My rule of thumb is that I will eat anything that Alton Brown cooks but I myself will prepare few of those same items.

Then there's Bobby Flay, a guy who is not such a good cook to watch and is rather nasty.

Speaking of nasty, Gordon Ramsey is star of quite a few food shows......Master Chef, Hells Kitchen for a few But this guy loves to yell. It's his modus operandi.

He does cook items that look tasty and appear to be whipped up rather quickly. Oh, he loves to cook polenta.

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Papa John's just introduced its Chicago style pizza.

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THE FLY ON THE WALL

Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.

The Meeting About Cuba

"You people have been praising Fidel Castro for years!", a male human shouted out in great anger. Then the same man turned toward another male at the meeting, think his name was Vernie Senders.

"He gave us lots of money," Vernie said. "And YOU got a lot of that money that helped you get elected."

I am not sure who was the other guy was and I am not sure how to spell that Senders guy. But he was deep into the yelling and screaming at this meeting all about Cuba. I think all the attendees were Democraps but not entirely so sure. I just saw a meeting happening and decided to seek crumbs.

We have flies in Cuba. There isn't a whole bunch of food in Cuba where the flies speak Spanish. But there are plenty of crumbs, sad for the humans.

"Yeah, but you overdo it Vernie," the debate screamer said. "All you ever need to do is to mention the way Castro educated the Cuban children with that ship load of books we sent over. Or something along those lines. Instead you and your buddies kept telling us how well Castro fed the people, how good his health care plan was....all lies and you knew it."

Vernie stood up and began to clasp and unclasp his fists. He was breathing heavy. "Look," he said breathlessly, "The Democrat party got lots of money from Castro, and the Soviet Union at the time. And I remind we owed Castro for the Bay of Pigs disaster. Which was JFK's mess. We praised Castro for the good of the party."

"Well from now on," the guy arguing with Vernie said to everyone in the room, "just don't talk much about Castro. Surely do not praise him all over the place. The Cubans are fighting to be free and we're working with Biden to put an end to it."

The room became very quiet. I decided I would send word to Cuban flies to get out of Cuba, quick.

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