lookeyloo

I like most yogurts except the ones with sugar. Even some greek ones have added sugar, especially vanilla, and also some of them have extra ingredients I don't want. Maybe harmless, like guar gum, but still don't want. I got Daisy sour cream today. Its ingredient is Milk. I read some of the other brands and there is a list of ingredients. Why? If Daisy can do it, so can they.

I was listening to The Briefing with Steve Scully on Sirius. Rep Lisa McClain from Michigan was waxing poetic about "President you know who" and how she expects Sen. Slotkin to respond with "gloom and doom" and also when Steve asked her about the federal employees losing their jobs she went on about all the "fraud, waste and abuse" and that the american citizens don't want their money spent on that. And he didn't ask or remind her that those folks who lost their jobs are also taxpaying American citizens, or at least taxpayers. She was very dismissive. And even though I am not from Michigan but I did hear her on a global network, I wrote a message through her website telling her that. She also said a lot of other things that indicated to me that she thinks all of this is just grand and may I have another sir. I wonder what strength KoolAid she was drinking.

I posted upthread a while back that the silence had more to it than being primaried. Then I heard a democratic lawmaker hint that his republican friends were saying something like this behind closed doors - as in intimidation, threats, etc. And now we have this headline. I wish all of them being threatened would stand up with a sign tonight. It would be harder to accomplish when it is all out in the open. Of course there are risks to that too.

Well my mother wasn't a yenta yet when I was a child. She had me when she was 21. My grandma from the shtetl never served me bananas and cream. Go figure.

I did listen to my parents talk about the depression and my father was on the front lines in Italy during WW2 so there was that. The depression stories affected them and our daily lives more than the war did although I think my father had PTSD before it was renamed from shell shock.

That makes a lot of sense. We are that.

I am 81. We are the silent generation.

And just maybe he was strong-armed into this position because he seemed weak and easy to control. Might have said "we will primary you, audit you, we know where your kids go to school".

He is ...is "brave" the word? for going against orange and why don't more dems join him publicly? Are they at least doing behind the scenes things? I think it isn't just the fear of being primaried, it is the intimidation and coercion that goes on for the Republic party members who go along with all this that they know isn't good. Just looking at Little Marco in the Oval Office. He knows this isn't good. What else is he afraid of?

When I was a kid back in the way back days, we used to push the marrow out of lamb chop bones when we got that cut. We never got the loin because they weren't sold at the kosher butcher so it was a shoulder cut I think. Some had a few rib bones at the end and some had a marrow bone. I think lamb tasted different back then or my taste buds have changed. Also, my mother, not a great cook, tried to get us to eat "bananas and cream" which was sliced bananas mixed with sour cream. As kids we had to use a lot of sugar. Too sour for us. I like sour cream now. I use the Daisy brand because it has no additives.

Well quite the difference from the oversized ratty looking things she wears on The View

For a minute I thought let's take the posters who think it is "so easy" and put them in the situation of struggling folks, both financially, time wise, emotionally, etc. and see how they do. In theory a lot of things are easy. In practical life with all that it deals, it is Not Easy. When the first Mr lookeyloo left me I had two small children and no future. I had to make one. I was lucky in that he paid child support and alimony much to the chagrin of his new wife. He was a doctor and could well afford it and the alimony had an end date. But, I had to manage my misery of him leaving, two children who were in the middle, going to school so I could support myself when no more alimony. I am lucky. I also STRUGGLED on so many fronts and have so much compassion for others. I decided to become a social worker. Boy howdy, one doesn't have to look far to see how hard it is for others. Compassion folks!!!!

Very faint I fear. The repubs are spouting their praise for orange.

Oh gosh, I enjoy Joy but that is really not good. Monica has a podcast now and she has had a hard go of it. I used to think in my naive younger days, well she was an adult. But, the human brain doesn't even finish growing until mid 20s. And there is the power differential. Monica has tried very hard to live a fulfilling life and it hasn't been easy. I think the life she lives now is not the one she envisioned for herself.

Funny enough, Mr lookeyloo and I always say "I never met a tax I wouldn't vote for". Probably just mostly true, but, we think in terms of the common good and maybe some of the $$ is "wasted" but mostly goes where it should to help people. Sometimes even us.

Your post is beautiful! I don't have time right now to concentrate on it but my initial thoughts are that people now have access to different ingredients, there are more ways to find new recipes, cookbooks and cooking have evolved since the food revolution, food isn't nearly the same as it was back in the day and that is probably the most important thing. The chickens my grandma used were killed on the spot for her. Produce was local a lot of the time depending on time of year (I grew up in NJ, the Garden State, which back then meant something). My mother went to a kosher butcher, a small supermarket, a bakery, and there were a lot of roadside stands involved. My mother and grandmother didn't have a cookbook at all. I used to read the women's magazines and be interested in a recipe but, I was a kid and there was no buy in. I got married the first time in 1965 and bought myself a cookbook!!!! Very interesting discussion. PS we were in Rome a few years ago and found a place to eat that was attached to a house and my chicken took a long time and when it came out I said "this looks like a chicken from when I was a kid". It was so good. And we speculated they killed the chicken when I ordered it. But, just speculation. Food in Europe is generally better all around.

We got the source from that one meeting. I'm interested in the rest of them you refer to? Can you post those sources please?

I wonder if Jana and Stephen did do more than they showed on the short video. I have maintained throughout all these scripted reality shows is that we get to see what they want us to see. The only way it would be different is if they wore a "go-pro" camera and didn't edit anything. And maybe they are not like your kids and they do like to sit still a lot and are sit on the beach people. I am just observing that because any of us "we" like to do things doesn't mean any other "we" or "they" like to do the same things. And why not? We all don't have to be the same. Lordy knows JB tried to make his kids all think and believe the same.

Totally agree. And most jobs require on line applications. "Go to the library" is another useless suggestion. Many of these people don't have transportation and there is no library on the corner. Around here transportation options are sadly lacking. Who is going to walk 5 miles to catch a bus and walk another bunch of miles.

Agree with comments and also support Food Banks. Some folks don't have anything to cook on, as in stove, pots, etc. This is in addition to foods that need some extra ingredients to prepare. I read Viola Davis's memoir and since I am a social worker it didn't surprise me but it did horrify me all over again. We (we in general, not us who are aware) who have a roof over our heads and food we can at least heat up and add a thing or two sometimes just can't relate to the abject poverty that is all around us. Our community has a homeless population. So much talk of "get rid of them". they are human beings and most of them would love a job and a place to live. When it is suggested "will you hire them?" Oh no, not me. Someone else. Very complicated.

Awful. We got to see the US Marine Band here in Atlanta several years ago. Fabulous. It was a beautifully diverse group.

I am supposed to benefit from the new Social Security Fairness Act because I have a state pension and also all my quarters for social security so I am under the Government Pension Offset. We are supposed to get $$ back to January 2024 I think. Anyway, I dreamed my back amount was $23. If it turns out that way I'll report back.

"Sir..." 🤮

I am not a fan of mayo but the Japanese mayo Kewpie is sort of okay. In moderation

I got an iron recently from Japan. With Japanese instructions. I used google translate and apparently I am supposed to wipe it with a chicken wipe!!!!