Happy N.Culinary Arts Month! Rainbow Salad with ABC Sweet Soy Dressing – Tanooki Homemade Cafe

Rainbow Salad with Sweet Soy, Wasabi Dressing

Rainbow Salad

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  • ½ small head purple cabbage – shredded
  • ¼ small head napa cabbage – shredded
  • 2 medium carrots – shredded
  • 1 corn of the cob – trimmed
  • Red and yellow petit tomatoes – sliced
  • 1 hand edamame – boiled and trimmed
  • 2 hands salad spinach – shredded
  • 1 stalk green onion – shredded
  • Optional – bow pasta for decoration

Sweet Soy, Wasabi dressing

  • 1 tablespoon sweet soy
  • ½ small onion – grated
  • 1 thumb size ginger – grated
  • 1 lime for juice
  • Some salt to taste
  • Some drops of sesame oil
  • ¼-½ inch tubed wasabi

Source: Happy N.Culinary Arts Month! Rainbow Salad with ABC Sweet Soy Dressing – Tanooki Homemade Cafe

Florida: Textbook Authors Told to Delete References to Climate Change | Diane Ravitch’s blog

…Textbook authors were told last month that some references to “climate change” must be removed from science books before they could be accepted for use in Florida’s public schools, according to two of those authors.

a 90-page section on climate change was removed from its high school chemistry textbook and the phrase was removed from middle school science books, he said.

The other author said he was told Florida wanted publishers to remove “extraneous information” not listed in state standards. “They asked to take out phrases such as climate change,” he added.

Source: Florida: Textbook Authors Told to Delete References to Climate Change | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Robert Hubbell: Joe Biden Is Running to Protect Democracy Against Tyranny | Diane Ravitch’s blog

…The 2024 election is not merely a choice between Biden and Trump. It is a choice between democracy and tyranny, liberty and subjugation, dignity and debasement, safety and mayhem, global stability and chaos, climate crisis mitigation or acceleration, retirement security and insecurity, justice and vengeance, science and ignorance, decency and depravity. If we cannot convince voters that the choice comes down to those polar opposites, it does not matter who the candidate is.

I support Joe Biden because he is a great president, a good and decent man, and a skilled politician who achieved great things with bare majorities in the House and Senate. His performance in the debate does not define him. I believe Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat Trump. If he is forced out by a media-driven frenzy and a cabal of unnamed insiders and pundits, it will be the greatest miscalculation and tragedy in American politics in a century.

I am not giving up and I won’t be pressured into apologizing for Joe Biden’s imperfections in a world where every politician is imperfect. Shadowboxing with unnamed party insiders and pundits is a waste of time. We have real work to do. Let’s get to it!

Source: Robert Hubbell: Joe Biden Is Running to Protect Democracy Against Tyranny | Diane Ravitch’s blog

White House announces more than $244 million for apprenticeships – UPI.com

The White House Thursday announced a $244 million investment in the Registered Apprenticeship system and new commitments to train and hire Philadelphia residents to work on major infrastructure projects.

White House domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su will travel to Williamsport, Pa., to announce the investment in 52 grantees throughout 32 states.

Source: White House announces more than $244 million for apprenticeships – UPI.com

Statement from President Joe Biden on the June Consumer Price Index | The White House

Today’s report shows that we are making significant progress fighting inflation. Overall prices fell last month, after staying flat in May, and core inflation is the lowest in more than three years. Prices are falling for cars, appliances, and airfares, and grocery prices have fallen since the beginning of the year. Thanks to my economic plan, wages are rising faster than prices, we’ve created 15.7 million jobs, and communities that were left behind by my predecessor are making “a remarkable comeback.”

Prices are still too high. Big corporations making record profits need to do more to lower prices. I’m fighting to give families more breathing room by taking on Big Pharma to cap insulin at $35 per month, taking on Big Oil to lower prices at the pump, and taking on Wall Street to make the wealthy pay their fair share. Republicans are only looking after themselves. They want to cut taxes for billionaires and raise costs for the middle class by $2,500, which Nobel economists and business leaders agree will “reignite” inflation. While Republicans side with special interests, I’ll do everything I can for the working people that built our economy.

 

Source: Statement from President Joe Biden on the June Consumer Price Index | The White House

मन के प्रतिबिंब / Reflections of the Mind ‹ Kaushal Kishore ‹ Reader — WordPress.com

 

जब भी हम कुछ

किसी के बारे में बोलते हैं…

तो उसके बारे में कम 

अपने बारे में ज्यादा खोलते हैं…

🪞 🪞 🪞 🪞 🪞 🪞

When we talk about others, it’s easy to find,

We unveil our own thoughts and what’s in our mind…

It’s our feelings and views that come into play,

More than the things we about others convey…

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–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: मन के प्रतिबिंब / Reflections of the Mind ‹ Kaushal Kishore ‹ Reader — WordPress.com

♫ Wouldn’t It Be Nice ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

I find it interesting that while this song charted at in Australia, in Canada, and in the U.S., it only reached #58 in the UK … BUT the single sold some 400,000 copies in the UK and the album, Pet Sounds, charted at in the UK, far better than in the U.S. where it only reached .

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

The Beach Boys

Source: ♫ Wouldn’t It Be Nice ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

It Sounded Nicer In My Head – Belladonna’s Flashlight

So what had happened was…..

The other day, I took my girls to see Despicable Me, and the little couple next to me would not shut up!

They were talking so damn loud and disrupting my experience. I couldn’t hear the dialogue, I missed some crucial plot points, and worst of all, I couldn’t fully immerse myself in the movie’s world.

It’s just my luck that I sit right beside the bubble head talkers. If they were talking about the movie, I may have been okay with that, but they weren’t. They were giggling and talking about friends and who said what to whom, completely oblivious to the disruption they were causing.

This went on for 30 minutes.. 30 minutes!!!!!

I’m so shocked that I was able to keep my cool. I said a little prayer for them to shut up and for God to give me patience.

As soon as I ended my prayer, these fools took out their phone and decided that right now was the perfect time to take selfies. The guy giggled and said, “Oh shit, my hair looks a mess,” and then proceeded to fluff it. It didn’t help because he still looked like a hot mess. I couldn’t believe what was happening.

She convinced him that he looked gorgeous( she lied), and they took several pictures.

I snapped a little

In my head, I rehearsed a polite and firm request for them to be quiet, imagining it coming across as assertive but respectful. However, when I actually turned to my right and told them to be quiet, it came out much more harshly than I intended. The words that sounded so reasonable in my head suddenly seemed so aggressive. It was a stark realization of how differently things can sound in our heads compared to when they’re actually spoken aloud.

But I’m okay with that!

After I told them to shut up, the love birds fell asleep and missed the last 60-plus minutes of the movie.

Good night you chatty little minions!

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose mine, and I’m honored!

Source: It Sounded Nicer In My Head – Belladonna’s Flashlight

New York Times editorial board declares Trump ‘unfit to lead’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian

The editorial board of the New York Times has declared that “Donald Trump is unfit to lead” in an urgently worded article published just ahead of the Republican convention, where Trump will once again be formally named the party’s choice for president.

Noting that the former president and convicted felon has now become the Republican nominee three times in eight years, the board said: “A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great.”

It called the selection of Trump “a chilling choice against this national moment”.

…Trump was convicted on 34 criminal charges concerning hush-money payments to a porn star that a jury agreed were designed to interfere with the 2016 election. He was originally slated to be sentenced today, with the possibility of jail time, but after the supreme court ruled that presidents have some immunity from prosecution the judge has delayed the sentencing until September to review the case.

Trump faces 54 other criminal charges, concerning election subversion and retention of classified documents, and in civil cases has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for business fraud and millions more in a defamation suit arising from a rape allegation a judge called “substantially true”.

His attempts to overturn the 2020 election culminated in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Nine deaths, around 1,300 arrests and hundreds of convictions are linked to the riot. Trump was impeached a second time for inciting an insurrection but Republican senators acquitted him, leaving him free to run for office. Trump has promised to pardon rioters.

The Times editorial board said these events and other indicators – which it categorised as moral fitness, principled leadership, character, a president’s words and the rule of law – indicated that Trump had “shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency.

“He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the constitution, the rule of law and the American people. Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him.

“He is, quite simply, unfit to lead…”

Source: New York Times editorial board declares Trump ‘unfit to lead’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian