I.Hate.Ponchos!

This is actually true; I can’t stand to have a tiny blanket that barely covers anything and if I don’t sneeze from it, it’s itchy from allergies. But hey, that’s not my style. What I can’t stand for is for the government to hand over ponchos paid with taxpayers’ money hand them down to people that protest those that worked their butts off to make them and profit from their hard work!

“For the last five nights, we’ve been flip-flopping back and forth,” said protester Clark Davis. “We were told that if we slept on the sidewalks at night we’d be arrested…we were then told that we could sleep on the sidewalks and that we could not sleep in the parks.”

The group now believes they may be able to stay on the lawn permanently and that sentiment in City Hall for their platform could be growing.

At least one official is expressing support for the movement: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is holding a jobs town hall meeting on Thursday, reportedly has been distributing ponchos to the protesters to stay dry during the recent rain storm.

“We, quite likely, could have the support of the city in this movement,” said Davis.

Next: Free coupons to eat at McDonald’s or Burger King to satisfy their appetite for the “have-nots.”

Support Israel In NYC And In LA On Wednesday

Via Atlas Shrugs:

PROTEST AGAINST PLO UNILATERAL CALL FOR PALESTINE STATEHOOD AT THE UN

Hammarskjold Plaza @ 833 1^st Avenue & E.47^th Street

Wednesday, Sept. 21, 12:00 PM

Scheduled Speakers:

MK Danny Danon – Member of the Israeli Knesset, a key promoter in Israel’s recently passed anti-BDS and other anti-democratic legislation

MK Gilad Erdan – Israel’s Minister of Environmental Protection (pending security details)

Mr. Simon Deng – Sudanese human rights activist living in US, who was a victim of child slavery

Dr. Robert Stearns – Founder and Director of Eagles’ Wings, a global movement of churches, ministries and religious leaders, and the protest organizers

Rev. Matt Sorger – He has over 19 years in the ministry and is outspoken in his stand with Israel

President Obama will be speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21.

This will most certainly account for heavy traffic during this time.

Please come with flags or your own hand made signs.

Tell President Obama that you want him to veto the Palestinian call for statehood.

Thousands of Americans will be arriving via buses, trains, and planes, but most will not be Jewish Americans. It seems that the Jewish Organizations have failed to act even in the face of Israeli leaders calling upon everyone to rally in front of the UN in support of Israel (www.durban3nyc.com/).

Pamela Geller will attend the LA event, check it out here.

Related articles

• Perry to Host Pro-Israel Rally in NYC Tomorrow (timesunion.com)
• Israel Says Palestinian Statehood Bid at UN Will Fail (jhaines6.wordpress.com)
• Israel under pressure to limit scale of retaliation to Palestinian statehood bid (telegraph.co.uk)
• Joe Walsh To Palestinians: Stop Statehood Bid Or Israel Will Annex West Bank (huffingtonpost.com)

Since Liberals Love Hearts, Here’s A Recipe

USELESS FACT: Cow has four stomachs.

I thought it was appropriate to share a recipe for heart (this is for COW), and usually with whole chicken and turkey, we get a heart, and I love to use it and other parts that come with the chicken, for stuffing with ground beef and raisins.

I took a pic of the heart on my hand before cooking; I am still debating if it would look proper with the recipe…not that I care. One cow heart is approx. 1.5 lbs to 2 lbs.  I have another heart in  my freezer (we bought 1/3 of an organic cow, pre-cut) and it’s really from this family who make sure their cows are healthy, without any artificial foods ingested. 

I added the image above for those who don’t know where their cuts come from.

Beef Heart Braised in Wine
Makes 6 to 8 servings

Beef heart has a strong flavor and is not for the faint of heart. But
for those that love its robust flavor this recipe shines through.

Ingredients

4 pounds beef heart
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
salt and pepper to taste
3 tablespoons butter
1 onion, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
2 potatoes, chopped
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 cup beef broth
1/2 cup red wine

Directions

1. Wash the heart and remove any fat and arteries. Slice the heart in
half, then slice it into 1/2 inch thick slices.
2. Dredge heart in flour and season with salt and pepper.
3. Heat the butter in large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the
heart slices and cook for 30 to 45 seconds per side.
4. Stir in the onion, carrots, potatoes, thyme, water and wine.
Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 1 hour. Serve.

Civil War Re-Enactment In Pennsylvania

It was a thrill I will not forget for a long time.  It is not the same to purchase a ton of books on the Civil War, get comic books, watch documentaries on the History Channel.  The one thing that is absolute perfection is Gettysburg, where it all happened.  This time, my family and I witnessed a Civil War re-enactment in Girard, PA. I filmed a lot, and took a few pictures.  The purpose:  To grasp the true meaning of sacrifice, war and lives lost where we could see it, right in our faces.

Even on a fake way, out of sheer patriotism and respect for the classic uniforms – Confederates Vs. Union – the bravery of these men that took a bullet for what they believed in, and the countless women who had to drop their usual customs to saw the fingers, arms and legs off of these men is mind boggling and out of this world.  When I took a candlelight tour a few months ago, I could not believe the amount of limbs that were cut off -nor the heroic attempt to match each part with each soldier so it could be buried together.  Yes, read that again.  That happened in Gettysburg.

It was very loud.  The cannon that was fired to my right by the Confederates (the general public watched it from that end) hammered all throughout my body, right to my heart.  We learned the signal by the second time, since it was a bit hard and I was watching everything: The re-enactment, the publics’ reactions, and of course hunt down my family visually; the roar of the cannon and the muskets fired.  I stuck with my son as much as I could, since he’s the Civil War fanatic.

It was a pleasure and an honor to see these regular folks, who dress up, make their tents, the ladies dress up from head to toe, long sleeves, bonnets in 80 degrees being as nice and casual as can be.

The plan for the weekend for these citizens of Girard, PA, is to camp overnight in these tents, brought out all their blankets, mugs, campfires and the basics.  Then another re-enactment the next day.  Of course, for We The People, there’s tours of homes, candlelight tours, and plenty of knick knacks to purchase, most of it handmade, or that re-created that important but tragic place in history.

We had also the honor of meeting a soldier who came back from Iraq, which was a great coincidence that we shared the same dog breed.  So we chatted very informally, and I thanked God and the lucky stars for bringing back this young man intact, happy and with his family.  He left before the re-enactment began, which I don’t blame him at all-it was gonna be too much for the dog, and I bet for him-all that noise and explosion around him must have been very familiar and haunting indeed.

I thanked him, of course, and we enjoyed quite an afternoon with the paradigm and contradiction of observing a “war” in front of us, while being surrounded by parents, kids, Nikons and Blackberrys.  Of course the video was taken by me, very raw, but puts in perspective the message that I attempt to bring to you this Saturday:  Learn your history and appreciate it; without it, regardless of where you came from, you’ll lose it.  Especially when freedom from slavery was at stake.

Thanks for reading!