JSM'S BEGGING FOR BANNING THREAD #2

[Northern Rose]

Fanny - how was the bread the other night?

How was the zucchini?

The bread and the Zuchinni were both wonderful!! We even liked zuchinni fried, and we ate all of it. I don't grow it, but friends give it to us all the time.

I do have a breadcrumb problem. I toasted some french bread, and have tried to make breadcrumbs with it. I have three different size food processors, and have tried them all. I end up with breadcrumb in the bottom, but bigger pieces on the top. I even tried the rolling pin method. How do you do it?? Do you use a blender. I have a blender, but we use it for making frozen drinks as it has a spigot on the bottom. I haven't tried to use that yet for the crumbs. But I will, if I have to. Suggestions?

I have a Braun handheld mixer/chopper.  It looks like a small boat motor.  It has a attachment that is a small plastic container and has a blade and I do it in that. 

[Northern Rose]

 SANTA ANA, Calif., Jul. 22, 2009
Man Claims He Found Condom In French Onion Soup
Calif. Man Claims He Found A Condom In French Onion Soup He Ordered At A Restaurant

(AP)  A man has sued a local Claim Jumper restaurant claiming he ordered French onion soup and bit into a condom instead of melted cheese. Zdenek Philip Hodousek filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court seeking unspecified damages over fears he may have contracted a disease.

Hodousek's attorney Eric Traut said his client wants to have restaurant employees' DNA tested to find a match to the condom.

A public relations firm representing Claim Jumper said no one can prove the so-called "foreign object" Hodousek took from the restaurant is the item that was submitted to a lab for testing.

The firm said an internal probe revealed no employee wrongdoing.

[Northern Rose]

NAPLES, Fla., Jul. 22, 2009
Police: Fla. Woman Practiced Dentistry In Garage
Florida Woman Arrested For Setting Up Dentistry Practice In Her Garage, Police Say

(AP)  Florida officials have arrested a woman for allegedly practicing dentistry in a garage she converted into an office with a drill set and black reclining chair. Rosa Maria Toledo, 56, was arrested Tuesday. In her garage deputies found a cabinet containing dental castings, molds, dental crown glues, partial dentures and bridges.

They said she had a ledger containing information for hundreds of patients. Deputies said they had information she had practiced as a dentist in Mexico before moving to the U.S.

Toledo was charged with practicing dental hygiene without an active license and being a non-licensed person leasing or operating dental equipment.

[Northern Rose]

Obama Administration Takes Aim At Gun-Rights Revolt

The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states' rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid.

In the last few months, a grass-roots, federalist revolt against Washington, D.C. has begun to spread through states that are home to politically active gun owners. Montana and Tennessee have enacted state laws saying that federal rules do not apply to firearms manufactured entirely within the state, and similar bills are pending in Texas, Alaska, Minnesota, and South Carolina.

Yet the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Explosives now claims that that not only is such a state law invalid, but "because the act conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulations, federal law supersedes the act."

Tennessee's law already has taken effect. The BATF's letter on July 16 to firearms manufacturers and dealers in the state says "federal law requires a license to engage in the business of manufacturing firearms or ammunition, or to deal in firearms, even if the firearms or ammunition remain within the same state."

A similar letter was sent to manufacturers and dealers in Montana, where the made-in-the-state law takes effect on October 1, 2009. Neither law permits certain large caliber weapons or machine guns, and both would bypass federal regulations including background checks for buyers and record-keeping requirements for sellers.

While this federalism-inspired revolt has coalesced around gun rights, the broader goal is to dust off a section of the Bill of Rights that most Americans probably have paid scant attention to: the Tenth Amendment. It says that "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Read literally, the Tenth Amendment seems to suggest that the federal government's powers are limited only to what it has been "delegated," and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1918 confirmed that the amendment "carefully reserved" some authority "to the states." That view is echoed by statements made at the time the Constitution was adopted; New Hampshire explicitly said that states kept "all powers not expressly and particularly delegated" to the federal government.

More recently, federal courts have interpreted the Tenth Amendment narrowly, in a way that justifies almost any law on grounds that it intends to regulate interstate commerce. In the 2005 case of Gonzales v. Raich, for instance, the Supreme Court ruled that a person growing marijuana for her own medicinal use could have a "substantial effect on interstate commerce."

(In an impassioned dissent at the time, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote: "If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything -- and the federal government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.")

Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, said in an interview with CBSNews.com on Monday that he expects to be facing off against the Obama administration in court soon. "We will find the right test cases to get us in court," he said.

Marbut believes that the letters were't that meaningful because they were addressed to gun manufacturers and dealers who already are licensed by the federal government. "Those people already are under the thumb of the Feds," he said. "We've assumed they wouldn't want to put their circumstances at risk in dabbling in the state-made guns business. The people who the letters are addressed to are pretty irrelevant to the whole discussion."

Translation: If you're a gunsmith talented enough to build a made-in-Montana gun under the state's forthcoming law, give Marbut a ring. Just don't be surprised if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Explosives is not entirely pleased.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/21/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5176453.shtml?tag=pop

[CasuallyCool]

Too cute, TRIMM! 

uuummmm, chocolate!!!

[no rose colored glasses]

Wally 

[Northern Rose]

I am off to get the garage sale started. Humidity is at 62% and it is going up to 29 (84)today.  Not going to be fun.  Have a good day everyone.

[CasuallyCool]

Wally 

Is that you, Lumpy?

[no rose colored glasses]

Wally 

Is that you, Lumpy?

June, and I'm busy cleaning and cooking in my new dress and pearls 

[no rose colored glasses]

Have a good day Northern Rose 

[Fanny Mae]

Fanny - how was the bread the other night?

How was the zucchini?

The bread and the Zuchinni were both wonderful!! We even liked zuchinni fried, and we ate all of it. I don't grow it, but friends give it to us all the time.

I do have a breadcrumb problem. I toasted some french bread, and have tried to make breadcrumbs with it. I have three different size food processors, and have tried them all. I end up with breadcrumb in the bottom, but bigger pieces on the top. I even tried the rolling pin method. How do you do it?? Do you use a blender. I have a blender, but we use it for making frozen drinks as it has a spigot on the bottom. I haven't tried to use that yet for the crumbs. But I will, if I have to. Suggestions?

I have a Braun handheld mixer/chopper.  It looks like a small boat motor.  It has a attachment that is a small plastic container and has a blade and I do it in that. 

I don't have one, so I will try the blender. Thanks. 

[CasuallyCool]

Wally 

Is that you, Lumpy?

June, and I'm busy cleaning and cooking in my new dress and pearls 

... and don't you look lovely today Mrs. Cleaver.

[joesamas mama]

Too cute, TRIMM! 

uuummmm, chocolate!!!

CC I love your avatar! 

[CasuallyCool]

Too cute, TRIMM! 

uuummmm, chocolate!!!

CC I love your avatar! 

Why thank you, Mrs. Rutherford.

[no rose colored glasses]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/knife-hand-schwarzenegger-tweets-budget/?test=latestnews           We are screwed here in California 

[Fanny Mae]

Every Day Hero 1st Sgt Gabe

Military Dog Retires

http://assolutatranquillita.blogspot.com/2009/07/every-day-hero-1st-sgt-gabe.html

What a story!! 

God Bless our Troops! All of them! 

[Fanny Mae]

Obama Administration Takes Aim At Gun-Rights Revolt

The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states' rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid.



State's rights! Whatever happened to them? Is this not what the country was founded on?? That each state would govern itself and would not have a monarchy ruling them? That each state could make their own laws and would abide by them? That is what George Wallace was talking about during the segragation era. State's rights! I am not saying that I agreed with the segregation stand he made, but what he was really saying was the FEDERAL government was coming into his state, and making laws for them. He was talking about STATES RIGHTS!! They have gone downhill from there. JMO

[joesamas mama]

Too cute, TRIMM! 

uuummmm, chocolate!!!

CC I love your avatar! 

Why thank you, Mrs. Rutherford.

  Are you calling me Lumpy's mom? 

[CasuallyCool]

Too cute, TRIMM! 

uuummmm, chocolate!!!

CC I love your avatar! 

Why thank you, Mrs. Rutherford.

  Are you calling me Lumpy's mom? 

Sorry to hear about you having to get that restraining order on your husband Fred.

[no rose colored glasses]

Well I'm glad I have no mother in law that comes by and does a white glove test to check for dust    I'm cleaning the shelves in the laundry area, and I'm ashamed of myself, there goes the June Cleaver award