lummi island wine tasting Jan 26 ’24
Friday, Jan 26, 4-6pm: Open for wine tasting, sales, AND bread pickup
top of pole at end of pier…two bald eagles schmoozing about their day…
This week’s wine tasting:
Borealis White ’22 Oregon $13
Aromas of orange blossom, honeydew, guava and kiwi; sumptuous flavors of stone fruit, Meyer lemon and juicy pear drizzled with caramel.
Rubino Oltreme Susamaniello ’19 Italy $15
Fresh, fragrant notes of cherries, pomegranate, raspberries and ripe plum; fruity, round and minerally, with soft tannins and rich flavors; a versatile pairing with richer dishes.
Marques de Caceres Rioja Red Blend Organica ’21 Spain $18
75% Tempranillo, 25% Graciano; whole cluster fermentation delivers complex aromas of red fruits, anise and spices; rich and well-rounded palate with a fresh, youthful, lingering finish.
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Breton – Incorporates the flavors of the french Brittany region. Bread flour and fresh milled buckwheat and rye make for interesting flavor and the salt is sel gris -the local grey salt that brings regional mineral flavors to this bread. Great with meats and cheeses! – $5/loaf
Spelt Levain – Spelt is an ancient wheat with a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and lower gluten than modern wheat. This bread starts with a levain preferment before the final dough is mixed with traditional bread flour, spelt flour, fresh milled whole spelt and fresh milled whole rye. – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Muffins! Two each of:
Chocolate Muffins – Rich and delicious…great chocolate flavor and beautifully moist. Made with flour, brown sugar, sour cream and eggs; and plenty of chocolate chips stirred in and sprinkled on top.
Cinnamon Streusel Muffins – Sometimes you want a cinnamon roll, but don’t want to wait so this muffins fits the bill. Made with all the traditional muffin ingredients: flour, sugar, eggs and butter with a brown sugar, butter, pecan and cinnamon filling that is swirled through the batter and then topped with a streusel made with more butter, brown sugar and pecans and as if that isn’t enough topped with a cream cheese glaze. Yum! Feed your cinnamon roll fix! Four/$5
Island Bakery has developed a lengthy rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday Janice emails the week’s bread offering to her mailing list. Orders received before Wednesday will be available for pickup at the wine shop each Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Go to Contact us to get on the bread email list.
Economics of the Heart: Heritage Foundation Goes Full Dark Side
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Woven into many or even most conversations about federal government policy since the early seventies have been vague references to the Heritage Foundation, usually referred to as a “conservative think tank.” Founded in the early 70’s, it came to prominence and considerable influence over federal policy as it helped Reagan win the presidency in 1980 and hire hundreds of HF staffers to write its dream legislation for him.
Its first, very extensive Mandate for Leadership (more of a manifesto, really), issued in 1981 for Reagan’s Inauguration, was 3000 pages long and “contained more than 2000 individual recommendations to move the federal government in a ‘conservative’ direction.” Subsequent volumes (and their countless recommendations) followed in 1984 (1500p) and 1988 (1300p). Additional volumes followed over several election cycles, including the 1996 focus on Congress (essentially creating Newt’s ‘in-your-face’ Republicanism).
By 2005, so many of HF’s goals had been implemented by the Reagan and Bush Administrations there were only 150 recommendations, because most of HF’s goals had already been met by its extensive lobbying efforts and symbiotic relationship with the Republican Party. But in 2016 the Mandate grew again to three volumes aimed at rolling back all the accomplishments of the Obama years (who, you will recall, stepped into office just as the massive 2009 recession caused by the Bush Administration’s rigid application of the earlier HF recommendations hit the credit market, and lots of our friends lost their homes)
The big Takeaway here is that Heritage has been a major driver of “conservative” policy for many decades, and it has forcefully promoted its own political agenda.The Big News right now is that that agenda has changed suddenly and radically in just the past two years, aligning its new “conservatism” toward an explicitly fascist/authoritarian State to serve the whims and interests of a few ultra-wealthy white Christian men.
This Project 2025 version of the HF Mandate has already been widely distributed and discussed, and represents a jagged swing from Right to Ultra-Right. It is explicitly tied to a second Donald Trump term in the White House in 2025. The HF calls for doing away with civil service, slashing DOJ funding, dismantling the FBI and Dept of Homeland Security, eliminating the Departments of Education and Commerce, and immediately invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement, and using the DOJ to pursue Trump adversaries.
These new HF policies make it exactly one of the “domestic enemies” referred to in the oaths of office taken by every federal employee, elected official, and service member in the United States. Most of us still take those oaths very seriously even many years later.
It should be of profound concern to all Americans and to all our allies around the world that this new Heritage Foundation is 100% all in with Trump, completely willing to tear up the Constitution, back away from our alliances around the world, do away with civil service, the IRS, welfare programs, women’s rights, climate change…the list is bottomless and its Christo-Fascist intentions plain, and it comes amid the growing national rebellion against the Extreme Right’s war on women’s rights to control of their own bodies, children’s rights to a fact-based education, immigrants’ rights to safe haven, and all of our rights to vote and have our votes counted.
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