@Steve-Miller said in I bought myself a Christmas present:
A box of Jiffy cornbread mix costs very little and is very easy to mix up. Turns out decent as well.
I second this recommendation!
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Fed Chair Powell’s statementThe Pauline conversions are taking way longer than I'd like, but I welcome these defectors with open arms. We need them.
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Fed Chair Powell’s statementJerome calls it like it is.
Video and transcript:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm
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Vote by mail, stayin' aliveThe Trump administration cannot dictate how Washington and Oregon conduct their elections, a federal judge in Seattle has ruled.
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Next up, Cuba?Presidente Little Marco…
While the Trump administration has not stated clear plans for Cuba, the US president has previously said that a military intervention was unnecessary because the country was "ready to fall".
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated last week that Cuba's leaders should be worried, saying that he would be "concerned" if he were in the Cuban government and that "they're in a lot of trouble".
On Sunday, Trump also re-posted on social media a message suggesting that Rubio - a Cuban-American former Florida senator and the son of Cuban exiles - could become president of Cuba.
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America and the world orderFareed Zakaria's op ed this week strikes a similar note.
WaPo gift link.
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America and the world orderFrom Mitch McConnell regarding Greenland:
“Arctic security matters. So does the strength of our alliances. These interests are not in conflict. They are inseparably linked.
“Close security cooperation between Americans, Danes, and Greenlanders is a tradition older than NATO, the most successful military alliance in human history. Through the Cold War and still today, cooperation with Arctic allies from Canada to the Nordics already grants the United States sweeping access to positions of strategic importance.
“Threats and intimidation by U.S. officials over American ownership of Greenland are as unseemly as they are counterproductive. And the use of force to seize the sovereign democratic territory of one of America’s most loyal and capable allies would be an especially catastrophic act of strategic self-harm to America and its global influence.
“The northernmost reaches of the globe may well shape our strategic competition with major adversaries like Russia and China for decades to come. But if America behaves as though winning that competition requires trampling the sovereignty, respect, and trust of our allies, we will surely lose it.”
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Building community in IdahoSaw a wonderful segment on Ask This Old House. ATOH traveled to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to do a project with a resident who hosts what he calls the Monday Night Dinner. He started it when he was new to the town and wanted to meet his new neighbors.
Jenn Nawada heads to Idaho to transform a backyard that hosts massive potluck dinner parties, accommodating 100-200 guests in a space not designed for crowds.
Episode here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/e10-idaho-backyard-makeover-ask-this-old-house-8WBhG0/
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Geoffrey Baer's Chicago WorksGreat episode about various Chicago workers. Bridge tenders, prop and costume people at the Lyric Opera, city rat control workers...lots more.
I loved this segment on gilders who paint signs. It was almost a lost art.
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-chicagoans-reviving-gold-leaf-sign-painting-g0jbd6/
If you can catch the show on Passport, check it out!