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HUMBUG FANCY FOOD
Personal secret: I’m a purist when it comes to food. Simple basic food, unlike the horror I saw recently where someone wanted to dress up avocado with a coating. For god's sake, people, avocado needs nothing but salt!
Take green beans. People go to a lot of trouble to serve green beans—green bean casserole, stir-fry green beans, battered and fried green beans. Well, what’s wrong with just plain green beans? A little salt, cook them tender, voila! Yum.
Then there’s the simple chicken breast. Recipes abound for chicken breast stuffed with cheese, or sausage, or ...
JANUARY EVENTS
JANUARY 2018 EVENTS
Thursday, January 4….Women 4 Women
Hidden Figures……
Marathon County Democratic Office
833 South Third Ave, Wausau
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Hidden Figures tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson—brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and racial lines and inspired generations...
ENOUGH
In this busy season, when do we have enough? Do we have enough decorations on the tree? Have we sent out enough cards? Have we included enough people in our holiday parties? Have we bought enough gifts? When have we done enough?
For a good perspective on this question, I would like to share Robin Wall Kimmerer’s experience as a teacher. Dr. Kimmerer was telling the Native American story about The Corn Spirit. The people always had enough corn to eat through the year. Then they got complacent and took it easy, neglecting care of the seeds and soil. That resulted in ...
Banning Assault Rifles WORKS!
Horrific mass shootings do not have to happen. They are not inevitable. We know how to reduce the number of mass shootings and the number of people killed in these attacks. We know this because it has been successfully done in other countries.
Australia is a good example because of their success and their similarity to our country. Like us Australians have a wild west, rugged individual mentality, and a tradition of gun ownership. Guns and hunting are popular. They have similar macho attitudes about manliness. They drink a lot of beer. The Aussies love rugby which, like ...
MOLLY IVINS QUOTES
Molly Ivins (1946-2007) was a political commentator with a sharp wit—a take-no-prisoners critic of what she considered silly, outrageous, or unfair. Molly Ivins was based in Texas, and both loved and made fun of her state and its culture and politicians.
Here are some of her quotations:
“The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.”
“What you need is sustained outrage….there’s far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”
“The best thing about democracy is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain ...
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a ...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
A special part of the holidays is being home, being in a safe place with loved ones. We have the choice as to where we will spend our holidays.
But what about the 22.5 million refugees across the globe? They have no choice. Millions of people are leaving their homes because of war, armed conflict, violence and other factors that force them to leave. They cannot safely return to their homes and they are not safe on their journey to find safety.
Ninety percent of the world’s refugees are being hosted by only 10 countries, and many of these countries do not have ...
EVENTS FOR DECEMBER
SATURDAY DEC. 2
5th Annual Hunger and Homeless Summit sponsored by Rep. Duffy. Open to the public 9-12:30 at the Expo Center in Cedar Creek.
Register at Duffy.house.gov for a seat.
MONDAY, DEC. 4
History Speaks. Professor Jeff Leigh of UWMC will speak on “Putin and Russia”
7 p.m.
Edgar High School, 203 E. Birch, Edgar
Free and open to the public.
TUESDAY, DEC. 5
Drinking Liberally It is our third anniversary.
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Malarkey’s Pub 408 Third Street, Wausau
Phone 715-819-3663
THURSDAY, DEC. 7
Women for Women
6:...
WORDS OF GRATITUDE
In this season, it is time to stop and give thanks. I would like to share the Thanksgiving Address as presented by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her beautiful book Braiding Sweetgrass (Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants).
Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now let us bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People. Now our minds are ...
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR HEARING ON PROPOSED CITIZENS UNITED RESOLUTION
The Assembly Committee on Constitution and Ethics held its first meeting of the 2017-18 legislative session. Representative Lisa Subeck (D-Madison) and Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) requested that Committee Chairperson, Rep Scott Allen (R-Waukesha), include Assembly Joint Resolution 53 [2] on today's public hearing agenda.
AJR 53 would place a statewide advisory referendum question on the ballot asking voters whether they support a constitutional amendment overturning the United States Supreme Court's decision in _Citizens United v. FEC_. AJR 53 was referred to the ...
