I’m going to take a note of your blog and keep checking
for new details about once per week. I opted in for your Feed
too.

“Two days before the countdown to midnight celebrating 2015, the Michigan Historical Commission, a branch of the state’s Department of Natural Resources, announced it would be placing an official historical marker, which in essence honors unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) for giving an unwitting world the “Port Huron Statement”.

“The document was written by Thomas Hayden — a 1960s counterculture radical and former husband of Jane Fonda — as well as other SDS members like Ayers, who later founded the Weather Underground before turning to academia to become an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.(EAGNews.org, Dec. 31, 2014)

happy new year!!

see: Bob Avakian / redcom.us

or you may miss the Change and lose Hope…

but dont forget the newest most important cause women are fighting – and its not mochi!!!!

Why farting is a feminist issue
To exhibit any kind of bodily function in public — whether it’s pissing against a wall, spitting in the street, picking and flicking earwax while one waits in a queue — is still seen as a male thing to do.
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2014/12/why-bodily-functions-are-feminist-issue

The members stand in a circle around a large mortar, armed with mallets. Each member in turn takes a shot at the rice in the mortar with his or her mallet at the rate of about seventy hits a minute. Pretty exciting. The mochi turns out pretty well, too.

They are among my favorite foods – I especially love the ones that I used to get with finely chopped peanuts inside and coated on the outside with a fine peanut powder.

And, sadly, it does not surprise me that some elderly folks choke on them – they are big blobs and biting off more than one can chew could be a choking hazard; or worse sticking the whole thing in one’s mouth without biting any of it off is very much a choking hazard for the very young or very old.

I understand that Agnew’s speechwriter was actually Pat Buchanan, who isn’t dead…The alliteration is similar, and the politics…well, I guess not.

I believe that the alliterative phrases for which Agnew was famous, such as “nattering nabobs of negativism,” came from William Safire’s pen.

At least a search engine query of safire “nattering nabobs” turned up a Wiki article on William Safire.
Pat Buchanan wrote speeches for both Nixon and Agnew, and according to Wiki, came up with “silent majority.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan

I did see a news report on the making of mochi at Christmas as a family exercise. They showed two men beating the rice in a bowl of a stump with two long-handled mallets.

I’m surprised you liked these certain types of food.

Like most desserts and other foods, I can only tolerate them for so long in a row, before a break (of several weeks/months) is taken.

The center stuff is sweet enough to qualify as a dessert.

The Japanese also have natto, fermented beans, or a kind of cucumber like vegetable, layered over with a kind of oil or soy sauce.

For me, my tongue automatically changes the taste of various things when my limit has been maxed out on them. Including sweet things.