lummi island wine tasting Feb 27 ’26
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Friday Bread This Week
Black Pepper Walnut- Nice mix of bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat and rye. A fair amount of black pepper and toasted walnuts give this bread great flavor with just a bit of peppery bite to it. Works well with all sorts of meats and cheese- $5/loaf
Four Seed Buttermilk – Includes cracked wheat and bran in the bread flour instead of milled whole wheat berries, plus buttermilk and oil for a tender bread and a little tang, honey, sunflower, pumpkin,, sesame seeds and toasted millet – $5/loaf
Gibassiers – Delicious sweet dough of milk, butter, eggs, olive oil, orange flower water, candied orange peel, and anise seed before brushing with melted butter and sugar. – 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Juggernaut Chardonnay ’22 Sonoma $17
Barrel fermented; aromas of apple, Asian pear and lemon meringue open to rich, lingering flavors of stone fruit, honeysuckle, and yellow plum, with finishing notes of vanilla, butter cream and hints of clove.
Idilico Monastrell ’22 Washington $19
Known as Mourvèdre in France, Spanish monastrell typically has notes of dark cherry, pepper, and a bit of gaminess, bright acidity, and freshness and low alcohol levels. Fermented on the lees and aged in neutral barrels
Rocks of Bawn Cab Sauv ’20 WA $20
Blend from several WA vineyards delivers bright fruit flavors, silky tannins, nice balance and intensity.
Economics of the Heart: Strawberry Fields of ICE?
Border Patrol union leader Paul Perez learning his lines…?
Some people just rub you the wrong way. Maybe it’s a look, or an attitude, or just a feeling. Like this guy on the news last night. If you have a few minutes click here and slide to the 31 minute mark for a PBS interview with Paul Perez, the head of the National Border Patrol Council, essentially the “union” that represents Border Patrol employees. And ICE is technically not the Border Patrol. Supposedly. Yet his spin sounds exactly like Noam, like ICE, like a leaky unsecured “cabinet meeting” with Hegseth.
For some reason, as in the song, ‘with each word, his Smarminess grows increasingly unbearable, as if he/they/it had just materialized in Star Trek transporter room, some weird and deeply disturbing simultaneous channeling of Bondi, Miller, Noem, Hegseth, and the Tweetster, all talking nonsense out of the same mouth without ever changing facial expression. Seriously creepy!
Like many of you we (along with numerous Congressional Democrats) deliberately tuned out what is being touted as the longest, stupidest, lyingest, exhaustingest, and embarrassingest SOTU in the nation’s history
Additional questions about BP and ICE arise from this article from 2022, when ICE was forced out of the Government Employees Union after numerous cases of having taken bribes from unscrupulous employers of undocumented workers to kick them out of the country before they were even paid. Those capitalist wheels just never stop turning, huh?
Anyway…in stark and shining contrast to the SOTU debacle, new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger gave the blistering Democratic response to the Tweetster’s, um, performance. She sounds like a Real President ought to sound, knows what a Real President ought to know, and supports the Constitution, which every President swears to do.
We must urge our Senators and Representatives to pass legislation protecting the Constitutional rights of citizens, asylum seekers, and immigrants from the inhumane cruelty, detainment, disappearing, and sadistic treatment that looks a lot more like the American Gestapo than any kind of American “border security.”
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