Friday, September 25, 2026

Yum! BBQ chicken feet

 Yanks eat chicken meat, mainly breasts and legs, so what do they do with the rest of it?

Well, for example, Tyson sells the chicken feet to China 

Yes, Tyson does sell chicken feet as a byproduct of processing chickens for meat. Chicken feet are often used in soups, stews, and other dishes in various cultures around the world. It is a common practice for poultry companies like Tyson to package and sell chicken feet as a way to minimize waste and provide customers with a diverse selection of products.

so how do you cook them? This is one way:


our neighbor used to grill cheap chicken feet/ chicken heads/ chicken intestine, sliced pork and hot dogs  outside her home, and sold them mainly to the tricycle drivers who drove to and from the Palenke. However for the last two years, several restaurants have popped up, so she doesn't do it anymore because of competition.

Chicken heads anyone?

he mentions the intestines. Yes they are grilled also.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

CS Lewis link

 just a link to an article about CS Lewis and his relationship with various children. 

LINK


more HERE.

links posted so I can read them later on my tablet


Rogan publicizes Blood Cobalt

 

recent report Blood Batteries.


I am aghast of how the left gets hysterical over "Children" in Gaza, i.e. teenage soldiers being killed because Hamas recruits child soldiers, even though using children/young teenagers in the military is a war crime by the way...or point out that Hamas deliberately puts weapons in civilian areas (a war crime) so that they can point to civilian and children casualties when Israel bombs the weapons (and don't forget the secondary explosions) 

 But people being pushed out of their villages by mining or dying in mining accidents or children working in these mines. Silence.

Why? Chinese influence on the left in the USA and MSM

Similarly the environmentalists don't complain about Africa's environment being destroyed by Chinese mining companies.

 Come to think of it the environmentalist left isn't complaining about China destroying the ecology of the West Philippine sea, or about Chinese factory ships overfishing and destroying the fishing areas all over the world, including South America.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Press Bias? Who wudda thot

Trumpieboy is having another fight with the MSM. 

Well duh.

 It's not just Trumpieboy criticizing biased news reporting: the naysayers about covid vaccine side effects is being exposed on the alternative media.


 It's not just about exposing the lies and manipulation behind the Covid shutdowns, that harmed individuals and the economies of entire countries who obeyed the advice from the CDC etc...

So the MSM alas too often in politics or overseas news about the Middle East distorts reporting, where you read stuff from anonymous sources or terrorist organization as the truth: 

but it is not just about the Middle East news distortions. Try being a Catholic.

Father Leo opines:

and here he discusses the covid coverup and the truth.

Monday, September 21, 2026

so the news is depressing, so let's look at history

 one of my leisure activity is looking into technical evolution in ancient times, and also examining the background of the Heian period of Japan that predates the Samurai wars.

No olive oil, very little butter (the Buddhist monks led to butter and yogurt being introduced since it was a religion from India, but with time the vegetarian practices led to dairy products stopped being used.)

So what did they use for lamps?

Rapeseed oil. A mustard like seed.

Wikipedia: has details:


Rapeseed belongs to the genus Brassica. Brassica oilseed varieties are some of the oldest plants cultivated, with documentation of its use tracing back to India 4,000 years ago, and use in China and Japan 2,000 years ago
so used for oil lamps (or a variation of it in Chinese food).

So canola oil? No: Not quite the same thing.

Rapeseed oil is green, has a lousy taste and a chemical that is a little dangerous:  

So voila, the Canadians cross bred it, and made Canola oil

Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada; the name is a portmanteau of "can" from Canada and "ola" referring to "oil"

we docs started recommending Canola oil as a way to a healthy oil, but this year it is one of those seed oils that is in the crosshairs of the health nazis.

Heck, there are dozens of videos on youtube insisting it is jet fuel or a lubricant for machinery so if you use it for your food, as if you are eating the industrial oil, not the food variety. 


Don't ask me. We use Palm oil, which was a no no a decade or more ago and was blamed for heart disease if you ate cinema popcorn which was how they used it in the USA.but now they are re examinig it and say it's okay.

WTF?

Well you gotta die from something. Sorry Bobby K Jr.


Sunday, September 20, 2026

The Great game: Look squirrel propaganda in the US MSM ignores the big picture

She starts with analyzing how Rubio is working with local governments to stop the powerful drug cartels that threaten these governments.

Number of overdose deaths are down in the USA, but then the picture moves to Canada's shennanigans that include drug labs and Chinese using US/Canada trade agreements to get their cheap shoddy goods into the USA and bypassing tariffs.

 as for Canada: how does  Canada join the EU with a single person in the EU saying it's okay? 

 

and then she discusses the Greenland treaty.

Remember the MSM ridiculing Trump saying he was worrying about Greenland and might have to take it over?

Backstory: This is about the air defense of the USA, keeping the sea lanes in the Arctic open, and keeping China from grabbing their ports and rare minerals via Chinese companies (like was done to the Panama canal and in central Africa). No one believes the companies are just companies, but proxies for the Chinese government policies.

so expect the MSM to pretend this is just the ssame as the old treaty, while ignoring that tthis defense treaty includes provisions that are new, and will stop China's economic takeover and let the US defend a weak Denmark/Greenland from Russia.

now one hopes someone in the USA MSM will notice that China is increasing aggression against the Philippines. inside the Philippines economic zone.

The reason China was allowed to dig up the seabed to make artificial islands in the West Philippine sea is because Obama pressured PNoy not to interfere, but to rely on the UN court. So the Philippines won, but China ignored the courts.

And China is pushing against the Philippines to try to get the Philippines to back down and not try to stop them from taking over Taiwan, which would allow them to block shipping from West  Philippine sea to the Pacific ocean via the Luzon strait.




and of course no one in the US MSM seems to be aware of how China and Russia  are part of the great game in Iran...

If the Democrats win thanks to Islamicist and socialist propaganda, then the real winner will be China, who not only will again have access to Iranian oil, but will be emboldened to push more aggression against the Philippines figuring the US is too weak to stop them.

Monday, September 14, 2026

 

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it says a lot when the video starts with an apology that it is an independent story, and don't attack them for posting it. The conspiracy theorists have distorted the story so much that people no longer believe what they saw with their eyes.

Sunday, September 13, 2026

family news

Kuya is leaving later this week to check on his mom, who wants to move to the Phiippines instead of staying at a care center. The problem? She might need dialysis and Medicaid does not cover treatment in the Philippines. Oh well.

In other news, my main watchdog, Barry, died. He has been ailing for the last year and slowly getting thinner. when the vet checked him he was anemic but I didn't do more tests because he is getting old, although I did get him treatment two years ago for a medical problem. He was a good dog. Sigh.

Saturday, September 12, 2026

the future of eldercare?

Japan also has been pushing robots for nursing their growing elderly population, 


and China is putting out videos of dancing robots etc and getting breathless reports by the US MSM who push the story without any scepticism.


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and yes Ray Bradbury fortold this years ago. Twilight zone even had a program based on his short story:

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Tuesday, September 08, 2026

give peace a chance

YUM! Fish head stew

We have this dish a couple times a month.

More HERE:

You might be wondering, how did salmon, a fish commonly found in the icy waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, make its way to the Philippines? Salmon is not native to tropical waters, which makes it a relatively recent addition to Filipino cuisine. Historically, it wasn’t something you would find in local wet markets. However, as global trade increased, imported salmon became more accessible to the average Filipino. Interestingly, countries that export salmon typically prioritize the fillets, leaving the heads as by-products. Luckily for us, these heads are often sold at a fraction of the cost of fillets, making them an affordable option for creating this flavorful dish.

Post modernism and mental problems

mainly posted for later listening.

The cult like beliefs of the left are obvious, and the left mainly points to the cult like Trumpieboy followers.

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another podcast for later consideration:



Saturday, September 05, 2026

Happy Holiday weekend


 

Thursday, September 03, 2026

the more things change the more they stay the same

Since taking on my shoulders the burden of pastoral care, I have been unable to keep steadily recollected because my mind is distracted by many responsibilities. I am forced to consider questions affecting churches and monasteries and often I must judge the lives and actions of individuals; at one moment I am forced to take part in certain civil affairs, next I must worry over the incursions of barbarians and fear the wolves who menace the flock entrusted to my care; now I must accept political responsibility in order to give support to those who preserve the rule of law; now I must bear patiently the villainies of brigands, and then I must confront them, yet in all charity.

Pope Gregory the Great recognized he had to preserve the rule of law because of barbarians and wolves who would menace ordinary folk.

He didn't have to bow to political correctness.

background here.and HERE:

Rome, his birthplace, was sacked by barbarians when he was only six years old, and barbarian raids around the Italian countryside brought throngs of dirt-poor refugees flooding into Rome, carrying with them a plague that wiped out a third of the region’s ..population.....
It was Gregory who first conceived of a global plan of spreading the Gospel to the empire’s barbarian conquerors, sending St. Augustine of Canterbury, the prior of his former monastery, to England as the head of a mission team.
He organized the first universal system of relief for the poor in Rome, harvesting produce from the Church’s lands and sending teams patrolling the streets to distribute prepared food to the indigent refugees
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