Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Bob Dylan

"You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right"

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

BBQ Bacon-Wrapped Meatloaf

I made this last night, it was the best meatloaf I've ever made!
BBQ Bacon-Wrapped Meatloaf
1 package bacon
1 pound lean ground beef
1 pound ground pork
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2/3 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1 large egg, slightly beaten
1/3 cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon Cajun seasonings
1 heaping tablespoon spicy brown mustard
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/3 cup whole milk
3/4 cup cup barbecue sauce (reserve half)
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a sheet pan with foil and fold up edges making a dam to catch the drippings/fat.

In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients but with only half of BBQ sauce

With your super duper clean hands, mix until combined and then form into a 9x5 loaf.

Top with remaining BBQ sauce and then wrap with the bacon

Tent for with foil and cook for 20 - 30 minutes (to prevent the bacon from burning). Remove and cook for the remaining 30 - 40 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest at least 10 minutes, Slice and enjoy

Friday, August 2, 2013

*sigh*

It's amazing how one unexpected fat-shaming comment can transport me back to my teenage years, completely insecure and thinking everyone is making fun of me as I walk down the street

It's Fuck This Shit O'Clock!

Pass the bottle!

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Gregg Marsili helped cover up my friend's rape

He makes me sick!

The incident in question involved a woman named Panayiota Bertzikis, who enlisted in the Coast Guard in 2005. Ms. Bertzikis was serving at the Coast Guard station in Burlington, Vt., in 2006, when she alleged she was raped by a fellow Coast Guard member. According to Ms. Bertzikis, her claim was never investigated by her commanding officer, Mr. Marsili, and no charges were ever filed against her alleged attacker. Instead, Ms. Bertzikis said she was “revictimized” by Mr. Marsili’s inaction. Her experience lead her to create the Military Rape Crisis Center, for which she serves as executive director. As recently as 2011, Ms. Bertzikis was one of 17 plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, for the Pentagon’s handling of reported rapes and sexual abuse.

Loved this quote from Mad Men

“I'd tell you to go to hell but I never want to see you again.”

....

Sometimes it feels like no one knows me at all.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

DON'T Free Jahar

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev makes his first court appearance today. Read the criminal indictment against him here.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Barry Goldwater on abortion

He's consider the father of the modern conservative movement.
Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. It’s not a conservative issue at all.”

If only my uterus could shoot bullets....

...then it wouldn't need regulation.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks take out full-page Globe ad to thank Bruins, City of Boston

WOW
In a full-page ad appearing in Friday's edition of The Boston Globe, the Chicago Blackhawks shared an open letter to the people of Boston and the Boston Bruins - the team they defeated to win the Stanley Cup. The letter, signed by Rocky Wirtz, chairman of the Wirtz Corporation, and John McDonough, president and CEO of the Blackhawks, thanked Boston for what happened on and off the ice during the recent Stanley Cup Final. In particular the letter thanked the citizens of Boston for the respect and good sportsmanship they showed to visitors from Chicago during the series.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Base Boston: It’s where many victims of sexual assault in the service get sent.


This is about a friend of mine.
After decades of being all but ignored, the issue of sexual violence in the military has been the focus of a firestorm of attention in recent months. The Oscar-nominated documentary The Invisible War has done its part to give a face and a voice to the crisis, while Congress is working to address the issue with fervor, implementing several new laws to protect members of the armed forces, and holding a flurry of hearings in the past few months to discuss further legislation. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has called sexual assault within the ranks “unacceptable,” and President Barack Obama has said that the perpetrators of violence are “betraying the uniform.” Meanwhile, the number of reported sexual assaults jumped 34.5 percent in the past year, to 26,300.

Pic of me at my brother's wedding - August 2012

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