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Friday, July 3, 2009

Wild times in the neighborhood-July 2009

My better boy tomatoesMs. Bunny eating her clover.. :) in the front yard



Tom cat,, prowling for birds, bunnies,,lol, chipmonks and mice (Left)
Tom chilling after eating his Friskies. (Right)



Ok, I am not into celebrating this year for a lot of reasons,, which why the link is Teaparty for the July 4th, also heard that if you traveling in Virginia,, bring your own potty and extra bladder because they have closed half and barricaded the rest centers..I suppose under the guise of security.. give me a break! Pity Grandpa and Grandma and kids trying to see family to celebrate the July 4th! Of course if real fiscal responsibility reigned in this state.. the rest center would be open later,, all restrooms clean and available to pay for the constant VDOT construction in the state to bolter tourism.. won't get into that right now.. but realistically,, closing the rest centers along the interstate does not say much for the state of Virginia.. ok enough ranting check this out..










Wednesday, June 17, 2009

BlueBerry Crisp from Martha Stewart's Living Mag

Someone put me on the Martha Steward mag mailing list,, and half heartedly read the colorfully decorated Magazine covered with Spring things and to my surprise I found one the simplest best recipes for Blueberry Crisp I have ever seen--I don't talk much about it on my blog but I still love to cook and secondly bake:
Serves 6: This crisp has a loose and juicy filling. If you would prefer thicker filling add an extra teaspoon of cornstarch.
Filling: 6 cups (3 pints) blueberries; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 tble cornstarch; 1 tsp fresh lemon juice;
1/4 tsp coarse salt.
Topping: 3/4 cup all purpose flour; 1/2 cup rolled oats (or chopped nuts--your choice);
1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp coarse salt; 3 oz (6 Tble) unsalted butter, softened; and 1/2 cup sugar.
Preheat oven to 375, Make filling. Mix blueberries etc as listed in a bowl. Transfer to square bakcing dish. Cream butter and sugar and salt in mixer until pale and fluffy. Stir the dry ingredients (flour, oats or nuts) into butter with hands or hand whisk.
Sprinkle the topping evenly over the filling. Bake until bubbling in center and brown on top-
about an hour. Cool for 30 minutes before serving.
WOW! I will try this with fresh peaches too.. bet it is just as good.. dieters .. instead of Breyer's Vanilla try Cool Whip, non fat ..happy Spring.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day Tribute to my Father

Photo to left, Dad in Germany relaxing with some of his Army buddies drinking a beer,, The Great Musto :) look at the mustache !!
Photo to the right,, not sure where or when taken,, he was in the Battle of Normandy, France, Italy but I suspect it was taken in Korea in the early 60s since he had no mustache then-- and appears older about the time he went to Korea in 1961. I didn't know it snowed there like that! So anyway, perhaps I can figure it out, I have very few photos of him,, he hated to have his picture taken.. and didn't say much about his military life. What I know, I found in his papers long after he died.



Photos of my James F. Musto, WWII, Korea, Four Bronze Stars, Retired USA, MasterSargeant
Born: Pittston, PA, 1913
Died: Alexandria, VA 1982





1950, Dad holding me! Look at that cigarette behind his ear,, looking at his new baby girl, somewhere in Germany.



Saturday, May 9, 2009

Mother's Day Tribute to all my friends and Mom, Grandmom

My sons and me,, :)
"--women are the supreme realists of the race--.H. L Menkin
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.- Aristotle
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
Mom, I miss your beautiful dark blue eyes :)-- Isabella

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

FBI and Obama admin spied on Tea party goers




FBI spied on TEA Party Americans
Exclusive to the Northeast Intelligence Network & Canada Free Press
Douglas J. Hagmann, Director & Judi McLeod, Founding Editor, Canada Free Press
19 April 2009: Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them. In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.
If you one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something that has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America. According to this agent - the same agent who provided the Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) exclusively the unreleased photographs of the 11 missing Egyptian students who were the subject of a FBI BOLO in August 2006–placed his concerns for true patriots of the U.S. over his own career when he confided that covert surveillance was “planned and performed” at each of the TEA parties that took place last Tuesday.
“Listen to what I am saying,” stated the source during an interview with Doug Hagmann, founder (NEIN). “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”
According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the TEA parties “political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled. “Not all agents were privy to this correspondence,” stated the source, who compared the dissemination to an older “Do Not File” classification.
In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each “demonstration,” each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any. The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.
The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about April 6, 2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”
Although the level of detail collected from each operation is unclear, the information was reportedly submitted to Washington, where, “at the level of the National Security Branch (NSB), this information was to “include the office of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), and integrated with a restricted access database, one that reportedly is accessible to only two agencies” [of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community, according to the source.
“The implications to the citizens of the U.S. are ominous. It seems that there is a hostile political agenda coming from Washington that characterizes the supporters of our constitutional freedoms as threats to our domestic security, which is totally absurd. The redirection, the refocusing of domestic threats from al Qaeda cells to ‘flag waving right-wingers’ is something that has gone from a murmur a few years ago to a roar today.”
Training government-issued cameras on ordinary citizens, many of whom brought their children to an estimated 600 Tax Day TEA Parties is a page torn out of George Orwell’s 1984 and makes the term “God Bless America” more meaningful than ever.
The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.
Doug Hagmann on The Q-Files Radio show Monday
Doug Hagmann will be a guest with Steve Quayle on The Q Files Radio show on Monday, 20