Politics and Tea

So I came across this recipe this morning from GreenStyleMom and was very skeptical. All previous experiments with whole grain, or even just homemade pancakes have been pretty dismal failures. Inedible, typically. But these pancakes were an amazing exception. Lucy ate 3 of them. Moses ate a couple with glee. Healthy, with vegetable and whole grain and my kids are eating them? Yes. Of course, it helps that there was syrup on top, but I'm sure next time when I top them with just applesauce, they will still get eaten. Considering we are facing a summer where, if last summer is any indication, we will have more zucchini than I could possibly know what to do with. Good thing I have a deep freezer, and of course the zucchini I used to make these pancakes was frozen shredded that is still lingering in the freezer from our abundant harvest last year. Whole Grain Zucchini Pancakes 1/2 cup rolled oats 1 tbsp of wheat germ 1 tbsp ground flax seed 1 tbsp brown sugar 1/2 cup whole wheat flour ...

100 years ago, in response to a financial crisis only a few years before, the powerful banking elite and powerful political elite met in secret in a remote location to draft a piece of legislation that would "reform" the banking industry and prevent future crises. In supreme irony, in response to a crisis actually caused by the very reforms that legislation 100 years ago implemented, we see again the powerful banking elite and the powerful political players collaborating to impart their vast wisdom on the rest of us and "prevent" future crises with a "financial reform" bill. Same players. Same scenario. Different century. But what is our excuse this time? Simply that the lessons of central banking have not yet been learned. Faced with a mountain of evidence indicting central banking itself for the current financial woes, so-called small government "conservatives" as well as the so-called anti-corporate "liberals" have decided to ignore...