Knife scrapers

Yes, I am a knife snob. A good knife makes things easier, just like a good tool in the garage makes life easier. So why do all the cooks/chefs on the Food Network scrape food across the cutting board with the blade? Is it because they do not have to sharpen the knives? Is it that hard to turn the knife over?

Yup, it snowed

So it snowed in Chester County PA in February. It is supposed to snow, in PA, in February, so why is this such a big deal? Sure, it is quite a bit of snow, but this has happened before and I am going to go out on a limb and predict this will happen again.

Get over it folks, it snowed.

No Lobbyists?

Remember that pledge about no lobbyists in the most open White House ever? Well, there is a great spreadsheet at the bottom of this article that show the 40, yes that would be 40, lobbyists that have been appointed to posts in President Obama's administration.
Mr. Obama even was so bold as to repeat the silly claim in his State of the Union address last week, odd that Joe Wilson didn't jump up and call him a liar again, at least this time it was obviously a serious stretch of the truth!

House Seats

Once home to 36 congressional districts, Pennsylvania has steadily lost districts since 1930.

That sucks. We will be down to 18, which means that PA is growing slower than other states. I am going to have to research how the House became stuck at 435 instead of growing with the population, not that I disagree, 435 is pretty big, but one congressperson representing 700,000 people is pretty freaky too. I have met Mr. Gerlach, many times, but I am sure that the majority of people he represents wouldn't know him if they were to trip over him...do you know your representative in the House? I might be a bad example though, I've met and talked to the Governor and past Federal Senators as well as a host of state level elected officials. Being politically active is important, why are more people not active?

I don't care if you are left, right, or center, really I don't, but don't tell me that it doesn't matter, that your vote does not matter or that your representatives do not care. They care, and will work for you, if you take the time to talk to them.

Yup...I'm back, look out!

Am I back?

Not really sure yet if it is time to come back. I am busy and I still am tired of the insanity that is politics today. Where can one settle? I like some of so many 'movements' but then the movement goes crazy. Tea party stuff started well then went off the deep end. The republican party has gone too far right in some aspects and not far enough in others. The left? no way, too socialist. Libertarians? nope, they lose me on the drug issues. All of this is why I stopped last year, that and the lack of good things to write about, however, maybe I can start again, maybe I can try hard to keep it positive, or, at the very least, keep it local. Stop back, I might have updated...

Read the bill???

I haven't blogged much, maybe I will start again, but this one caught my eye. Mr. Conyers, you read the bill because it is your job to read the bill. Pretty simple to me...

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Now this is scary

For those of you who had no problem with North Korea getting Nukes, and still have no problem with Iran getting Nukes, check this out.

It seems that NK decided to change from "They are for defense only" to "If you offend us we will nuke you."

This is crazy, and I blame an incredibly weak United Nations for this turn of events. The UN is supposed to protect us from this sort of thing, and yet, the agencies responsible seem to always 'miss' the nuclear work being done. This isn't a right or a left thing, well, unless you are left enough to think that the brand f communism in NK is a god thing, this is a human thing. We have to do everything we can, and that includes military intervention, to stop these insane regimes from acquiring nukes.

When Iran has them, we can say good bye to Israel, that has been promised, at least Kim has only hinted at wiping out Seoul.