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From Your Lips to God's Ear

Trump Sings Landslide

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Apple Pie

 Not really a recipe, just some helpful hints:

1. Apples: Choose large fresh crisp apples.  Good apples make good pies and large apples require less effort than small apples.

2. My wife makes crust portions ahead of time and puts them in the fridge.  So, step one is to take out enough crust for one pie.  It will be too hard to roll out if you try to do this right out of the fridge.

3.  Peel and cut up apples into pieces similar in size to what you are used to seeing when you eat apple pie.

4.  Add granulated white sugar to the apples in a large bowl--The amount is to taste, but as a general guide, I put 1/2 cup for a pie which would serve 8-10 portions.  This is also where you would add cinnamon, if you like cinnamon.  A teaspoon or so, to taste.  I mix by tossing the bowl to mix the sugar into the apples.  The sugar will draw moisture out of the apples and become wet, this is good and why you add the sugar now and the flour later.

5. Roll out the crust portions:  Put one into the baking dish, save one for the top crust.

6. Now add the flour to the filling.  For the same size pie as above, I use about 1/3 cup of flour.  Dump it on top of the filling and toss the bowl to mix.  At the end you may use your hands.  Keep using them to fill the pie dish.

7. Attach the top crust, trim excess, crimp the top and bottom crusts together and pierce the top decoratively.

8. If you are freezing the pie for later, just put it into a plastic bag and put it into the freezer.  Otherwise garnish the pie with a sprinkle of sugar and bake at 375 F for about an hour or till the top looks lightly brown and you can see good bubbling from under the crust.

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ICBM Silo

 On our peregrinations in Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado, we stopped by a Minuteman silo near Wall, SD.  

Things I learned:  The fenced-in area of the silo is pretty small.  My estimate, 1/4 acre.  The silos are unmanned, the control area, where each of the officers have a key and need to turn them at the same time, etc. is remote and controls 10 silos.

After seeing the layout, I spotted 3 silos on the way between Hot Springs SD and Denver.  We took a back way through Nebraska, which we theorize, was the mapping app avoiding traffic.  Even though I knew the route we took, it was still pretty hard to find one of these three on Google maps.  Here's the aerial view.

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Wearing A Pink XX Wristband

 A related case:

it “is well-established that the government may not retaliate against individuals for exercising their rights under the First Amendment. See, e.g., Dorsett v. Cty. of Nassau, 732 F.3d 157, 160 (2d Cir. 2013); Blue v. Koren, 72 F.3d 1075, 1082 (2d Cir. 1995). That is especially true when the government singles out a speaker for disfavored treatment based on the views he or she has expressed. ‘It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the government may not punish or suppress speech based on disapproval of the ideas or perspectives the speech conveys. Such discrimination based on viewpoint is an egregious [*8] form of content discrimination, which is presumptively unconstitutional.’ Ragbir v. Homan, 923 F.3d 53, 70 (2d Cir. 2019).

And

“Moreover, in the specific context of retaliation by a school official restricting access to athletic events, we have said that where, as here, a public school invites parents and other spectators to attend sporting events held in its gymnasium, the gymnasium operates as ‘a limited public forum’ and the school may restrict access to a limited public forum only when (1) ‘its restrictions are reasonable and viewpoint-neutral,’ or (2) ‘there is a clear and present danger of disruptions such as disorder, riot, obstruction of the event, or immediate threat to public safety.’ Perry, 859 F.3d at 175. 

Link to the above two quotes.

Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, pointed to Tinker v. Des Moines, the 1969 Supreme Court decision holding that a school district’s ban on students wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War was unconstitutional.

“Um, the Supreme Court said this was a First Amendment violation over 50 years ago in the context of black armbands/Vietnam,” said Mr. Shapiro on X.

Link 

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Try To Shame

 

Fail!

Run and hide!

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Husbands and Wives Yelling

 According to Google:

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