This video is long (it’s actually a compilation of foraging videos), but I happened upon it while over at Gab.ai. I’ve always been interested in foraging, and have actually harvested dandelion greens for a salad. I’ve never made dandelion coffee, but maybe I will, now that I’ve seen how to do it.
I’d heard about cattails, which are very edible. I’ve seen plaintain in my back yard, but never knew it was so good for me. Of course I’ve made mint tea.
This is good to know, in case the SHTF.
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We got our very own Euell Gibbons! I think I’m too lazy, or maybe it comes from my rejection of all things hippie, but I don’t get things like dandelion coffee. “It tastes just like coffee!” Yeah, but I have real coffee and I don’t have to go dig it up, scrub mud off it, chop it up, roast it, grind it, and fret about using electricity. I just pop some already roasted real coffee beans into my coffee maker and it does the rest.
If it doesn’t have as much caffeine as my Arabica beans from Colombia, then I’m not drinking it.
In Unfit for Command, John O’Neill recalls the experience of one his band of brothers, Bill Lupetti, a Navy corpsman who had treated injured Swift Boat soldiers. Lupetti was stationed at An Thoi, where both O’Neill and Kerry had served. For Memorial Day 2004, Lupetti returned to Vietnam, painfully visiting Ho Chi Minh City, wandering through the streets earnestly looking to find out whether certain Vietnamese friends had survived the merciless communist takeover enabled by the American withdrawal.
Lupetti happened upon the War Remnants Museum. Inside, he came to an exhibit dedicated to “heroes” who had helped the communists win the war. A wall plaque at the head of the exhibit stated: “We would like to thank the communist parties and working class countries of the world.” This included the “wholehearted support” of various “progressive human beings.”
Among those progressives represented in pictures, Lupetti glimpsed American campus radicals from the 1960s. (In fact, Jane Fonda’s smiling face was captured in a photo in a separate Women’s Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, standing aside Madame Binh.) And there, Lupetti was staggered by the sight of a photo of John Kerry — the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee that year. There he was, John Kerry, in a special exhibit honoring those whose “heroic” contributions had helped the Viet Cong defeat the United States.
Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa about John Kerry’s lies to Congress:
To me, this assertion sounds exactly like the disinformation line that the Soviets were sowing worldwide throughout the Vietnam era. KGB priority number one at that time was to damage American power, judgment, and credibility. One of its favorite tools was the fabrication of such evidence as photographs and “news reports” about invented American war atrocities. These tales were purveyed in KGB-operated magazines that would then flack them to reputable news organizations. Often enough, they would be picked up. News organizations are notoriously sloppy about verifying their sources. All in all, it was amazingly easy for Soviet-bloc spy organizations to fake many such reports and spread them around the free world.
As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe.
Morning. If summer is not here yet, it’ll be here soon. High pressure skies with not even a wisp of a cloud, but the wind has subsided for today. I’m planning to drag out the pressure washer this morning and work on the paint drippings that hit the sidewalk and the patio. Not much at all, but they all need a good scrubbing anyway. My next project is to install new exterior doors. So much to decide on – wood or metal, designs ad infinitum, and so on. And the dad gum hedges keep growing no matter how often I trim them. I don’t mind the trimming, but the picking up afterwards is a pain. You all have a good day now, and I’ll report on the important stuff as it comes up.
First off, I generally agree with Sen. John McCain on foreign policy, even the aspects thereof that have fallen out of favor. That said, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much respect and restraint is due John McCain in his dying days and in the days immediately following his death. Here’s what I’ve concluded: not much. This post is not about denigrating him. It’s about declaring a debt paid. It’s about the right’s freedom from any further obligation to a Senator who has been justly compensated over a lifetime. Please tell me if we can stipulate the following assertions…
Sound too good to be true? That’s because it is, according to a new report published by the Manhattan Institute. Dr. Jonathan Lesser, the author of “Short Circuit: The High Cost of Electric Vehicles,” argues that critics of the internal combustion engine fail to consider just how clean and efficient new cars are.
Using a recent forecast prepared by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Lesser’s analysis shows that, over the period 2018 – 2050, the electric generating plants that will charge new EVs will emit more air pollution than the same number of new internal combustion engines, even accounting for air pollution from oil refineries that manufacture gasoline.
Anthony has all the links from our friends at the Manhattan Institute.
I just watched the video of the lying SOB South Carolina president of the NAACP that was posted last night. What a lying bag of gleet that POS is; he intentionally attempts to fan the fires of racism, blatantly lies, sullies Christianity via his supposed title of “reverend,” and he attempted to sow strife in the community.
He should be shunned by all.
Morning everyone! Hey, if we need to eat wild edibles, we presumably won’t have any power to our laptops, so guess we better print out these methods and recipes NOW — while we still can!
Lately I’ve found grocery shopping to be pretty tedious.
Beats the hell out of eating dandelions and grubs. Every time.
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I for one shall feel pleased and relieved on the day I hear that Juan McCain is dead. May it be soon!
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And let’s get that stupid corn ethanol out of our gasoline tanks!
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No chance of that. Big Corn owns Congress.
I had a class over in Building 20 this morning, so I biked down there,I didn’t really need go through the mall area but it’s such a nice morning I made the detour, (both ways). By noon it’ll be steamy but right now it is nice.
Yup, life is good.
The places with the most solar and wind generation have soaring electricity pricing even as conventional gas and coal generation remains steady.
Why would that be if wind and solar installations supposedly keep getting cheaper ?
Electricity in Illinois is 42 percent cheaper than electricity in California while electricity in France is 45 percent cheaper than electricity in Germany.
But this hypothesis is undermined by the fact that the price of the main replacement fuels, natural gas and coal, remained low, despite increased demand for those two fuels in California and Germany.
That leaves us with solar and wind as the key suspects behind higher electricity prices. But why would cheapersolar panels and wind turbines make electricity moreexpensive?
The main reason appears to have been predicted by a young German economist in 2013.
In a paper for Energy Policy, Leon Hirth estimated that the economic value of wind and solar would decline significantly as they become a larger part of electricity supply.
The reason? Their fundamentally unreliable nature. Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don’t need it, and not enough when they do.
Burning corn for fuel is alcohol abuse! It is not renewable as it takes about 2 gallons of diesel fuel to put one gallon of ethanol in the tank in Houston. The mandate needs to go away and we should flood the world market with US made corn likker, speed aged using the process Texpat linked to a couple of days ago.
The car was doing 60 mph when it smashed into the rear of a firetruck stopped at a red light. The millennial driver/passenger/idiot was reading on her phone at the time.
The driver of a Tesla electric car had the vehicle’s semi-autonomous Autopilot mode engaged when she slammed into the back of a Utah fire truck over the weekend, in the latest crash involving a car with self-driving features.
The 28-year-old driver of the car told police in suburban Salt Lake City that the system was switched on and that she had been looking at her phone before the Friday evening crash.
Tesla’s Autopilot system uses radar, cameras with 360-degree visibility and sensors to detect nearby cars and objects. It’s built so cars can automatically change lanes, steer, park and brake to help avoid collisions.
When it rains, it pours, or in the case of Tesla, it bursts in flames.
In the same week in which a Tesla Model S erupted in flames after a “horrific” crash in Ft. Lauderdale, fatally trapping the two teenagers who died inside, while a second Model S rammed a stopped Salt Lake City firetruck at 60mph, mercifully without any fatalities, the Swiss tio.ch reports that yet another Tesla burst into flames after crashing on the A2 highway near the town of Bellinzona, killing a 48-year-old German driver who was trapped inside.
WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel Twitter thread on the ludicrous “Hurricane Crossfire” story in the NYT today trying to provide cover for the manure soon to hit the fan from the DOJ inspector general.
1. So a few important points on that new NYT “Hurricane Crossfire” piece. A story that, BTW, all of us following this knew had to be coming. This is DOJ/FBI leakers’ attempt to get in front of the facts Nunes is forcing out, to make it not sound so bad. Don’t buy it. It’s bad.
2. Biggest takeaway: Govt “sources” admit that, indeed, the Obama DOJ and FBI spied on the Trump campaign. Spied. (Tho NYT kindly calls spy an “informant.”) NYT slips in confirmation far down in story, and makes it out like it isn’t a big deal. It is a very big deal.
3. In self-serving desire to get a sympathetic story about its actions, DOJ/FBI leakers are willing to provide yet more details about that “top secret” source (namely, that spying was aimed at Page/Papadopoulos)–making all more likely/certain source will be outed. That’s on them
4. DOJ/FBI (and its leakers) have shredded what little credibility they have in claiming they cannot comply with subpoena. They are willing to provide details to friendly media, but not Congress? Willing to risk very source they claim to need to protect?
5. Back in Dec., NYT assured us it was the Papadopoulos-Downer convo that inspired FBI to launch official counterintelligence operation on July 31, 2016. Which was convenient, since it diminished the role of the dossier. However . . .
6. Now NYT tells us FBI didn’t debrief downer until August 2nd. And Nunes says no “official intelligence” from allies was delivered to FBI about that convo prior to July 31. So how did FBI get Downer details? (Political actors?) And what really did inspire the CI investigation?
7. As for whether to believe line that FBI operated soberly/carefully/judiciously in 2016, a main source for this judgment is, um . . .uh . . . Sally Yates. Who was in middle of it all. A bit like asking Putin to reassure that Russia didn’t meddle in our election.
8. On that, if u r wondering who narrated this story, note paragraphs that assure everybody that hardly anybody in DOJ knew about probe. Oh, and Comey also was given few details. Nobody knew nothin’! (Cuz when u require whole story saying u behaved, it means u know you didn’t.)
Ramadan started yesterday. At least it isn’t in July and August when the days are much longer.
Just watch out for the haj Muslim driver passing out from fasting about 6 or 7 in the evening.
When I was doing business in the Middle East, by about the end of the third week of Ramadan, the office workers there would start getting incoherent on the phone or sending the wrong documents over the fax. It was worse when Ramadan occurred in the long summer months – May through September.
Longest day of the year is June 21.
Length of daylight now is same as that on July 26 or so. Difference being that days are getting longer now. They would be getting shorter then.
The rate of daylight lengthening is lower the nearer the date is to June 21. The reverse is true in December.
WB
That’s true, but when you’re fasting in 118 degree heat, the effects are vastly compounded.
#21 – How can you tell the difference when they are not fasting?
The HouChron has this expose of heart transplant problems at a Houston hospital. The problems all seem to trace to the hiring of a hot-shot doctor from Detroit to run the program. The hiring committee was impressed by the young guy’s publications. But he wasn’t so impressive when he had a patient opened up in front of him in the OR.
#21 – #23 – Ohhhhhhhhhhh YES the effects of Ramadan are easily noticeable!
(after 4 years in Libya I’ve seen same live and in person)
Let’s analyze this heart transplant thing. OK, to me it boils down to who are you going to believe – the Houston Chronicle or St. Lukes. Think I’ll put my money on St. Lukes. Not to say that there may not be problems, but I do trust the physicians to identify any problems and clean them up more than I do the Chron. Jus’ sayin’.
Now, it looks to me like that big island of Hawaii is getting bigger. That volcanic ash will chew up your airplane engine just like sandpaper.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3656004/posts
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How do you explain the transplant surgeons that have left St Lukes and gone elsewhere?
Capitalism.
Without having the entire history of each patient studied, statistics do not mean all that much. Maybe Methodist turns down a patient as too high risk while St. Lukes will take them on. And then there is the history on the donor to consider as well. Who knows. Heart transplants are generally a high risk procedure to begin with I would expect. I saw nothing in the article where the authors discussed the story with medical professionals who were willing to go on the record. Why doesn’t the complainant contact a lawyer and sue rather than write a letter to the newspaper if she thinks she has a valid case? ( I suspect that she has already tried and exhausted that route). The population size is important in any study, yet there is no data provided. Only an 85% success rate – I would think that is pretty good overall although the article says it’s below the national average – well half the hospitals that perform this procedure are below the national average. I could be convinced, but it would take a lot more data and study to form any serious conclusion, so I’m left to decide based on my experience and the credibility of the source.
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That’s some good reporting. I didn’t know the Chron had anyone capable.
It was probably the ProPublica guy.
Back to the subject of the day – edible plans – I should remind you all once again that I have an abundant supply of prickly pear cactus available for one and all. You can get your outdoor exercise harvesting plants, burning the thorns off, picking the spines out of your feet and hands, and coming up with innovative ideas for preparation. I think you can even make jelly out of the stuff. Anyway, no need to call ahead, just show up and take all you want. No tipping required either. Enjoy.
I wouldn’t go to a CHI owned facility. They bought our local hospital.
You may recall I nearly came to fisticuffs with the ambulance guys to convince them I would not approve taking Fay there. I knew she would have ultimately been funneled to their facility in Bryan….which is where critical people die. A lot.
There is no question in my mind that she wouldnt be here if she hadn’t gone to Hermann in Katy and subsequently to BenTaub.
I’m still pissed they wouldn’t let me go for the helicopter ride. 🙂
Fay worked her last eighteen months under CHI through her boss…who sold his practice to them.
Any outfit that big is run by lawyers and accountants. Patient Care falls somewhere farther down the list, behind endless meetings involving corporate psychobabble.
BREAKING: IG Horowitz has found “reasonable grounds” for believing there has been a violation of federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ’s handling of the Clinton investigations and has referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution.
(CitizenFreePress)
30 Shannon
That’s some good reporting. I didn’t know the Chron had anyone capable. It was probably the ProPublica guy.
ProPublica does do some good reporting, but I’m always wary of their perspective given their staff is uniformly leftist. They got started with a huge donation from Herb Sandler and Marion Sandler, king and queen of the junk bond underwater mortgage racket. The Sandlers should have, and probably would have, gone to prison for their sleazy business practices, but they were shrewd enough to give tons of money to every major left wing cause and non-profit in the country. They bought protection wholesale.
The supporter list for ProPublica includes all the slimy leftist, socialist, non-profit money pits like Soros’ Open Society, Joyce Foundation, Ford Foundation, Sandler Foundation, Pritzker Family, etc.
The grown son of a dear old friend had heart transplant in 2013 at Mem/H in the Med Center. His mom says his heart surgeon had left St Lukes.
While I agree with EG to the extent that the HouChron story does have a muck-raking feel to it, the surgical errors the hot-shot doc made are simply horrifying.
Yeah, I knew ProPublica was a lefty outfit.
When I heard the Chronicle was going to have an ongoing relationship with ProPublica I just rolled my eyes.
The Tribune also has an ongoing relationship with them.
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Yes. Sewing shut a major cardiac artery during a transplant is probably an unacceptable error for the chief of one of the premier cardiac transplant units in the world.
Or used to be.
Good afternoon Hamsters. Busy this morning enough to miss logging in and much of the afternoon was taken up with a leisurely lunch with dear friends. Late to the party as a result.
#37 mharper42, #40 Shannon
Agree with Shannon and mharper42 on the St. Luke’s cardiac transplant article. Shameful to say the least. Negligent to put a finer point on it. While it did not include detailed clinical notes, which it couldn’t under patient privacy law, the whopper surgical mistakes described are sufficient to rate it a must read.
On this matter, Chron, keep on digging.
No alligators today.
It’s bees bees bees.
We’re all gonna die – KHOU.
Headline you should never read in Texas:
Warthog attack leaves at least 2 injured at NW Harris County
#43 – Clickbait. Fake news. I was wanting to watch an A-10 doing its thing, and turns out it’s just a couple of stupid women trying to pet a wild animal.
It’s real news, just not what you were expecting.
There shouldn’t be warthogs in Texas. That’s why we have 20 ft pythons in the Everglades.
No alligators today.
It’s bees bees bees.
And warthogs.
Always spay and neuter your warthogs.
Or hook him up with Pressed Rat.
39 Shannon
Both Sharyl Attkisson and Sara Carter have admitted ProPublica occasionally does some very good work. You just have to pick the pearls from the muck.
Yeah just sitting here thinking. The warthog left to procreate on its own in the wild would become just as bad a problem or probly worse than the aisle hog problem.
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No doubt. And they’re probably not even edible.
Wonder what will show up in the Chron tomorrow that has a whiff of real news in it wrapped with fake stuff to make it seem ho-hum rather than bombshell. Rush said today the liberal media are now doing just that to try to mute the effect of the real bombshells about to fly with the IG report from Justice. His view was this will not work as intended.
Although….aisle hogs haven’t really been too much of an issue…except in hipster Kroger 😉
That one up there in the House in DC can be a real pain. Especially if she decides to start talking or wants to get on an airplane.
You should see her in our little neighborhood 4th of July parade. Scare me!
Of course she only shows up every other year.
Dang. That’s this year.
So sorry.
Paper bag?
Whether it’s you or her wearing it, you still win.
I dont ever see her. I have two godsons who live in my neighborhood. Ever since they were old enough to reason they look forward to going to our parade so they can watch me turn my back as SJL drives by.
One of those kids was at my college graduation, albeit in his momma’s belly. This Saturday I’ll be at his graduation from SMU.
Dang. Time flies.
Good point just made on Fox. Remember when Trump said he was wiretapped and they all laughed?
try again
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