lummi island wine tasting mar 28 ‘ 25
Wine Tasting Friday Mar 28 4-6 pm
Molly’s spring garden next to the ferry dock…
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
French Country Bread – A levain bread made with bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat and and a bit of toasted wheat germ in a sourdough culture with a long cool overnight ferment for a rustic loaf that you would find in the countryside. – $5/loaf
Multi Grain English Muffin Loaf – English muffin dough made into a loaf, with nice mix of bread flour, spelt, whole wheat and oatmeal for a lot of flavor, plus buttermilk and butter and get a nice light, tender crumb. Delicious for toast or sandwiches! – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Bear Claws! – Made with a danish pastry dough rich in cream, eggs, sugar and butter. The dough is rolled out and spread with a filing made with almond paste, powdered sugar, egg whites and just a bit of cinnamon to round out the flavor. Then, because bears love honey, topped with a honey glaze after baking. –2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week’s bread offering to the mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday (and not already claimed!) will be available for pickup at the wine shop each Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Contact us at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list .
This week’s $10 Wine Tasting
Marchetti Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico ’22 Italy $14
Verdicchio/Malvasia blend using only free-run juice; pale straw color with green overtones; intense bouquet of citrus, lemon zest, and floral notes,with complex fruity character, and crisp, well-balanced palate.
Marietta Old Vine Red ’22 California
Zinfandel-based red blend from Geyserville shows lovely bright plum fruit with dark, focused notes of briar and black tea, with medium body, mouth of sweet spice, and velvety tannins to pair with almost any meal or occasion.
Torbreck Woodcutters Shiraz ’21 Australia $26
Succulent, rich aromas of dark berries and black plum with notes of sandalwood, rosemary and thyme;
soft tannins and structured, voluptuous mouthfeel adds the poise and piquancy expected from this winery.
Economics of the Heart: AGs, IGs, & US
Norman Rockwell Museum Store – MAD Exhibition Alfred E. Neuman …
Project 2025 demands that all Cabinet Secretaries swear allegiance to the Tweetster, not to our country or its Constitution. It was shocking to watch the fawning obsequiousness and astonishing lack of relevant education and experience of many Cabinet candidates at their Senate hearings. Even more alarming, despite the fact that most nominees were vastly unqualified by lack of relevant training, experience, and temperament for these key leadership roles in our government, most Republican Senators voted for most of of them anyway after a few softball questions. Each nominee now controls a substantial portion of essential federal operations and finance across the breadth of US global interests. Historically of course, Cabinet nominees have been picked for their expertise and experience. But these nominees were selected because they all agreed to defer to the Tweetster/ Project 2025, not the Constitution.
Since the Carter administration in the late 70’s, every government agency has been overseen by an independent, watchdog Inspector General’s Office. These IG offices were specifically created to root out corruption, fraud, abuse, waste, and mismanagement from federal agencies, and have done those jobs very well. These professionally staffed IG offices had long provided ongoing audit trails and accountability for every expenditure. So why did Project 2025 call for all of them to be closed? Most likely succumbing to the lure of “No audit trails => no guard rails=> no accountability,” the P2025 Maggits are now free to drive caravans of trucks to Fort Knox and and drive away with the nation’s gold, both literally and figuratively. The word “looting” seems to fit the facts here pretty well.
Similarly, since for some 50 years the IG Offices have been effectively and professionally rooting out fraud, waste, and corruption in our government, there is no conceivable case that can be made for replacing the IG’s with Musk’s supposed DOGE band of 20-yr-olds barging into federal offices with their laptops and accessing banks of confidential information on individual citizens, taxpayers, employers, retirees, businesses. They are there to help Musk, and he has no loyalty to anyone but himself. Just like the Tweetster.
This week, of course, the news is buzzing about this Cabinet-of-amateurs major national security blunder of discussing a secret military operation on an unsecured chat app that had inadvertently invited the editor of The Atlantic to sit in. None of the new Cabinet has shown any particular concern about the broad implications of this security lapse, shrugging it off as insignificant. Their casual attitude toward classified information mimics the Tweetster’s Mar a Lago document scandal, for which he should have gone to jail and been barred from future office. Instead, every one of them could be on the cover of a new Mad Magazine with a stupid smile saying, What–Me Worry?
As we saw in the various nomination hearings, though few of these candidates even came close to the “highly qualified” bar that their positions require, they were passed almost unanimously by Republican Senators. Despite the candidates’ limited qualifications for the positions, Senators’ questions were soft-balls, their comments inconsequential, and many approvals seemed to be given reluctantly. So one has to wonder: what sword of Damocles is hanging over the heads of Republican Senators? Threats of harm to them or their families? Worse? How else can we explain the incongruity of so many unacceptable Cabinet nominations garnering approval?
Meanwhile, permeating the air like a resurgent plague, the current Tweetster has become almost child-like on screen these days (downers?), ad-libbing a repetitive inchoate stream of internal dialogue that somehow passes for “interview.” If he ever had the abilities to listen, assess, learn, reason, or conclude, those days are obviously over, and his Act remains onstage only to serve Heritage’s apparent goal of turning our country into a white, fundamentalist, mean-spirited place that would have had the historical Jesus chasing them out of the temple with a stick.
The P2025 agenda is being challenged by the ACLU, and many lawsuits have been filed in federal courts around the country by a united group of 22 state attorneys general that was formed over a year ago, largely due to the efforts of our own then-AG and now Governor Bob Ferguson. Project 2025 is breaking a lot of laws.
to be continued
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