This morning I started off by feeding the cat and brewing coffee. That’s always how the routine starts. With the coffee in progress things flow toward cleaning up the kitchen. Nothing fancy, just doing whatever dirty dishes nobody else bothered to clean.
These are all small tasks. The don’t take much time at all. There isn’t any drama associated with doing them or completing them. Nobody is winning any awards for them.
And yet doing these small tasks is what seems to be what keeps me whole. These small wins give me a start of the day that feels like I’ve already accomplished something. I don’t even build from there. Small win after small win and so goes my day.
It would be nice if I could get big wins. Oh I get a few medium size ones here and there. But I realize that I can’t stop the war. Nothing I can do about poverty or fascism or eliminating COVID or cancer. Believe me, if there was something I could do about the big things I would devote my entire existence to it. But I know it doesn’t work that way.
I’m learning to just be me. That’s will be a medium size win. I’m finding that it starts with developing a habit of accomplishing the small stuff. Don’t sweat the small stuff? Sure. But get it done.
Do not use shredded cheese that you buy in bags at the store for these. That contains wood pulp which will cause the recipe to fail. Maybe you don’t believe me so you’ll try it. If you do please don’t give up, go back and do it with real cheese that you shred yourself and see what I mean.
Get this stuff handy for making the dough:
8 oz sharp cheddar cheese
1 Cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 Tablespoons butter, cold, cut into 6 pieces
2 Tablespoons cold water (or 1 Tablespoon water and 1 Tablespoon Tabasco)
Making The Dough
1) Shred the cheddar cheese.
2) Put the shredded cheese into a food processor along with the flour, cornstarch, and salt. You may also choose to add additional dry seasonings at this point such as paprika, cayanne, onion powder, garlic powder, etc.
3) Process this mixture for about 30 seconds to combine everything.
4) Add the butter and continue to process until the mixture resembles wet sand, about 20 seconds or so.
5) Add water and/or Tobasco. Pulse the food processor until a dough begins to form, about 10 pulses.
6) Transfer to a lightly floured work surface. Divide the dough in half and pat each half into a square of about 6 inches or so. Just use your hands, no need for a rolling pin or other tools.
7) Wrap each square in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least an hour. Longer is better, up to two days.
Baking Crackers
1) Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
2) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
3) Unwrap each dough square and work them on a lightly floured surface with a rolling pin until each square is about 9 inches. They don’t have to be perfect.
4) Use a pizza cutter to cut the squares into 1 inch strips then cut those strips into 1 inch crackers.
5) Lightly salt the crackers then use a skewer or sharpened chopstick to poke a small hole into the center of each cracker. In that same motion you can transfer the cracker to the baking sheet.
6) Bake for about 20 minutes in the ceter of the oven. Bake them until they are a nice orange color but are just starting to darken. Remove from the oven and let cool on the baking sheet. You may wish to add more salt at this point, or not. Cool completely.
7) These can be left out at room temperature for up to a week. If you put them in a tightly sealed container they will lose their crunch, so don’t do that.
Most places in the US use 25 KHz channels on the 70cm band. I’m told that there are some places that use 20 KHz channels. There is good information on this at the Ham Radio School website.
Here is a chart of the channels that I’ve come up with. We could just as easily use channels below 446.000, but I should hope this is plenty.
70cm Simplex Channel List
This is a partial list of 70cm simplex channels to be used in my local region.Channel # | Frequency | Tone | Use |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 446.000 | CSQ | National Simplex Calling Frequency |
1 | 446.025 | CSQ | |
1a | 446.025 | 100.0 | STARnet Node 27006 in Spokane Valley, WA |
2 | 446.050 | CSQ | |
2a | 446.050 | 100.0 | |
3 | 446.075 | CSQ | |
4 | 446.100 | 100.0 | |
5 | 446.125 | CSQ | |
6 | 446.150 | CSQ | N7JCT Pi-Star in Spokane Valley, WA |
7 | 446.175 | CSQ | |
8 | 446.200 | CSQ | |
9 | 446.225 | CSQ | |
10 | 446.250 | CSQ | |
11 | 446.275 | CSQ | |
12 | 446.300 | CSQ | |
13 | 446.325 | CSQ |
A link is provided below that will ensure everyone has the latest information from Idaho Department of Corrections regarding this human filth. If you should ever notice that it is no longer under the protective custody of the State of Idaho please do the right thing and let everyone know.
https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search/details/140157
BILL A BLUMENAUER
IDOC #: 140157
Status: In custody
Age: 48
Mailing Address
IDAHO STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION UNIT 13
P.O. Box 14
Boise, Idaho 83707
Phone number
208-336-0740
IDOC Sentence Information
Data current as of: 4:15 am, Friday, July 22, 2022
The sentence information shown is for active sentences under the jurisdiction, custody and/or supervision of the Idaho Department of Correction only.
Offense | Sentencing County | Case No. | Sentence Satisfaction Date |
---|---|---|---|
LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS CONDUCT W/MINOR UNDER 16 | BOUNDARY | 11-21-0031 | Life |
LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS CONDUCT W/MINOR UNDER 16 | BOUNDARY | 11-21-0031A | Life |
LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS CONDUCT W/MINOR UNDER 16 | BOUNDARY | 11-21-0031B | Life |
LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS CONDUCT W/MINOR UNDER 16 | BOUNDARY | 11-21-0031C | Life |
LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS CONDUCT W/MINOR UNDER 16 | BOUNDARY | 11-21-0031D | Life |
Parole Eligibility Date | 12/09/2053 | ||
NOTE: Initial parole hearings are typically scheduled 6-9 months before the Parole Eligibility Date (PED). |
Human garbage is a thing that cannot be redeemed. There is no value to it. It can not be recycled, repurposed, or reformed.
To be imprisoned for life, when done properly, can be viewed as a form of torture or punishment. Those in favor of the death penalty prefer to end the life of the human garbage in some effort to reduce the suffering of some presumed party. Or perhaps they wish to reduce the cost to the people. In this case, it seems that incarceration for life, if done properly, would be preferred by many of us.
https://bonnersferryherald.com/news/2021/jan/14/4-charges-lewd-conduct-minor-filed-against-cub-sco/
https://bonnersferryherald.com/news/2021/jul/22/blumenauer-sentenced-35-years/
https://bonnersferryherald.com/news/2021/apr/29/blumenauer-accepts-plea-deal-psychosexual-evaluati/
Yesterday in Coeur d’ Alene, ID the human garbage listed below was collected. These are people who favor fascism and decided to demonstrate that in North Idaho. Although the majority of them are not from Idaho they went there because many people with that kind of thinking believe that the state is favorable to their views.
Fortunately for the people listed below, the local enforcers were able to intercept the U-Haul van they were in before it arrived at the intended destination. Had they arrived, opened the vans rollup door, and come out of that van with all the theatrics they had planned, apparently they would likely have been met with a reception they didn’t expect. It would have been something worthy of an epic Hollywood movie scene.
That is because it is quite possible they would have been immediately gunned down by a superior force. Not just better armed, it appears there may be a group that had better intelligence and exerted much better control of themselves. If true it is a sign that this group controlled the situation and, at least to some extent, has controlled the narrative after the fact.
The news tells us that a “concerned citizen” tipped off enforcers about this van full of fascists. One of the enforcers is quoted as saying that the “concerned citizen” was an informant of that fascist group. The police chief has since contradicted this statement. Regardless, that statement has no doubt planted a seed of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) in the minds of the fascist group,
It is far more likely that the other group, the group prepared to eliminate the fascists, notified the enforcers themselves. This would have been done to give local enforcers every chance to do the right thing and be the heros of the day, without bloodshed. That’s how it turned out, thankfully.
And so, you’ll not be reading about 31 people being slaughtered like fish in a barrel as they attempted to exit a U-Haul van in Idaho yesterday. Didn’t happen. Could have. Maybe you’ll wonder how close it came to that reality.
If this were true there is a pack of human garbage that should be thankful today that they are still alive. What a twist that the thanks they owe would be to the very people they despise.
Here is a list of human garbage collected by enforcers during the Pride celebration in Coeur d’ Alene, ID on June 11, 2022:
- Kerry Lamont Arnold
- Jared Michael Boyce
- Nathan David Brenner
- Colton Michael Brown
- Josiah Daniel Buster
- Devin Wayne Center
- Dylan Carter Corio
- Winston North Durham
- Joseph Garret Garland
- Branden Mitchel Haney
- Richard Jacob Jessop
- James Michael Johnson
- James Julius Johnson
- Connor Patrick Moran
- Kieran Padraig Morris
- Lawrence Alexander Norman
- Justin Michael Oleary
- Cameron Kathan Pruitt
- Forrest Clark Rankin
- Thomas Ryan Rousseau
- Conor James Ryan
- Spencer Thomas Simpson
- Derek Joseph Smith
- Alexander Nicholai Sisenstein
- Dakota Ray Tabler
- Steven Derrick Tucker
- Wesley Evan Van Horn
- Mitchell Frederick Wagner
- Nathaniel Taylor Whitfield
- Robert Benjamin Whitted
- Graham Jones Whitsom