lummi island wine tasting june 13 ’25
Hours Weekend Friday only, 4-6 pm
(due to the Saturday “No Kings” Demonstration in town which many islander will be attending)
Ulee has such a deal for you…
Friday Bread 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 set gris -the grey salt from the region that brings more mineral flavors to this bread. – $5/loaf
Spelt Levain – Spelt is an ancient grain that is a wheat. It has a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and has gluten but it isn’t as strong as the gluten in modern wheat. This bread is made with a culture that is used to create a levain before the final dough is mixed with traditional bread flour, spelt flour, fresh milled whole spelt and fresh milled whole rye. It is a great all around bread – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Traditional Croissants – Made with a levain as well as “old dough” where a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast is fermented overnight. The final dough is made with more flour, butter, milk and sugar, & laminated with more butter before being cut and shaped into traditional French croissants. Quantities are definitely limited so if you want croissants this week be sure and get your order in early! 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday Janice emails the week’s bread offering to her mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday 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.
This week’s wine tasting
Tre Donne Roero Arneis ’23 Italy $21
Pale golden yellow; soft aromas of orange blossom, honeysuckle, nectarine, and lemon verbena; flavors of pear, peach, quince, and green apple; enduring minerality and balanced acidity.
La Atalaya del Camino ’20 Spain $15
Intense aromas, fruit, and elegance on the nose with a distinct spiciness and a touch of floral notes. Rich and meaty structure, with rich dark fruits and hints of spice. Smooth and pleasant long finish.
St. Martin de la Garrigue Bronzinelle ’19 France $21
Syrah, Carignan, Mourvedre blend; deep color; rich aromas of red fruits, garrigue, hints of oak; satisfying texture and plush mouth of dark fruit and balanced palate with good body and texture.
Economics of the Heart: America the Beautiful
Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith took down Sen Joe McCarthy with a famous speech
This week has been a momentous one in American History, as Project 2025 has taken off the gloves to give us a taste of the next step in their plan to replace 250 years of American democracy with a totalitarian dictatorship. As Paul Krugman has recently pointed out, the calling out of Federal troops to quell nonexistent political riots in LA is a beacon of its willingness to start a shooting war in our streets to take complete authoritarian control of our country.
Parenthetically, this seems as good a time as any to point out the sobering reality that this Maggot cabal has gotten as far as they have despite what one would imagine to be the enormous handicap of being a despicable cabal of mean-spirited morons who all apparently time-share the same deeply diseased brain…probably why they are all so angry so often.
Clearly, a large majority of their supporters take large doses of their daily brainwashing from Fox News, social media, rural religious radio, and their friends. On the other hand, there is no reason to play into their hands. As Krugman points out, these AmericaNazis are following Hitler’s playbook from the 1930’s by making examples of anyone who resists their authority by locking them up and/or ‘beating them up as necessary.”
THIS JUST IN : Btw, just now as I write, Senator Alex Padilla of California, while trying to speak in a public room where “Cabinet Member” Kristi Noem (aka “the puppy murderer”) was addressing a group, was grabbed roughly by a small army of security guards, manhandled to another room, thrown to the floor, held down, bound, and handcuffed. (video)
Together with the sh#t show just staged in LA with the Tweetster’s callout of the California Nat’l Guard and some 200 active duty Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton, we see clearly that the Coup has entered the next phase of militancy. It would therefore be prudent to suppose that going forward any pro-democracy protests will be met with armed force, and that even completely peaceful protests will be made to seem violent by the intrusion of armed Maggite loyalists.
It is crystal clear from the LA gambit that the Maggite game plan is shifting to provocation of public resistance and demonstrations with outrageous stunts like sending in not just police, but fully armed military units and shadow units which will deliberately initiate violence and blame demonstrators for it. This is all right out of Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny, and we should beware falling for it.
In a way we are back in Joe McCarthy’s 1950 Communist witch hunt, for which the antidote was his outspoken putdown by Maine’s Senator Margaret Chase Smith.
We must peacefully, creatively, and collectively resist this ongoing takeover for as long as it takes to save our nation, our economy, and the ordinary daily lives of millions of Americans.
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