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Markowitz palacsintas recipe. (pronounced pah-lah-CHIN-tuhz). Makes 4 or 5. beat well 2 eggsAdd a pinch of saltfrac12 teaspoon sugarbeat/mix in blender until has a loose consistency. Add frac12 cup water and some flour while mixing, until ... read more

When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad and that is my religion. -- Abraham LincolnWe now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy free ... read more

I posted it in lots of FB forums and didn't get automatic rejectionOn Monday, May 20, 2024 at 05:01:05 PM PDT:It's being frantically censored. See if you can guess why. Watch the entire ... read more

Nice list: Putting Words in Mark Twain's MouthI wonder if an ... read more

Tara, Elizabeth and I just returned from a trip to California. We went for my nephew Thomas's wedding (to bride Heather at Lake Tahoe), but it was also a convenient excuse to let everyone on my side of the family, especially her Grandma an ... read more

Help her come up with names starting with the letter B by leaving comments below! comments closed ... read more

I'm just writing this post to get something new on the blog other than that free ad for Windows 7. :)We drove up to be with my wife's side of the family today for Father's Day. An extra special treat upon returning home was to discover ... read more

I lost a couple of uncles this year. Here are their obituaries: ... read more

I went ahead and paid for the 24-hour internet connection from the room. It wasn't even double the cost of one hour. I also swapped out the flaky cable and that seems to have fixed the connection problem. Wrong. I had to call the techs ... read more

I'm wondering about internet access now that we've tentatively planned to stay in a weekly apartment in Astrakhan instead of the hotel the entire time. We'll probably want/need that internet access for the sake of something to do. Normall ... read more

Terrific interview with one of the co-authors of a new book that explains how the immense potential of Bitcoin has been stolen and has become a Ponzi scheme to some degree. The potential is still there but it's a dangerous mine field. C ... read more

Apparently, those bastions of capitalism are in fact socialists, at least when it works for them. As a result of substantial enhancements we have made to our Subsidy Tracker database, it is possible for the first time to estimate the share ... read more

... contrary to intuition, over 90% of lost weight leaves the body as carbon dioxide exhaled from the lungs, disappearing into thin air. The remainder is excreted in urine, sweat, and other bodily fluids. ... read more

Because GoFundMe will delete campaigns they disagree with (see here, ... read more

Your most sane thoughts, anyway. Those of us who have been educated in Western Culture today have been taught to believe that the center of a persons consciousness and thoughts is our brain. Like a computer that contains a microprocessor t ... read more

The Belching Frog Vol. 4, No. 7, September 16, 1992Thomas should like this name. Doug returns again O ... read more

WORLD NEWS Award-Winning JournalismVol. 2, No. 9, June 14, 1990 Dad kills rattler! Special to the NewsBack from a week in the wilds of Arizona, Dad and Eleanor told of battles with man-eating coyotes and vicious attack- ... read more

The Holmes Family Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1, 1989 Largest Tri-Weekly Newsletter Circulation in the West! tri-weekly (tri-week'lee) 1. we TRY to get it out weekly) Editor's Note: This will probably be the last issue. See article ... read more

Billy ClubNews That Hits You Over The HeadVol. 2, No. 4, February 26, 1990Coyote has puppies!Lucy's dog, Coyote ... read more

news from La-La Land HAPPY NEW YEAR!!Vol. 3, No. 1, January 4, 1991Newsletter editor murdered!The editor of this newsletter was apparently murdered some time over the weekend according to police. We think it was ... read more

The Wandering Eye Vol. 7 No. 1, March 19, 1995We're back! Sorry it took so long between issues, but the entire staff was frozen solid in a block of ice the past three months. We just now thawed out. You know how it is. We should have k ... read more