Handful of Habaneros

I've been preparing tons of habaneros for my various sauces and salsas over the past couple of days, and it has the whole house smelling like habaneros!

These small but wonderfully tasting chiles are very hot and to enjoy them fully you must be able to handle the heat that accompanies them. Having been a pepper lover for many years now, I am used to the intense heat that habaneros possess and am able to enjoy these precious fruits in many different dishes.



Whether it is for my great Habanero Salsa, or own of my own homemade hot sauces, these peppers pack the heat and will leave many at your party reaching for their beverage to cool their mouth off!

Be careful when handling these peppers. If the juice gets into a cut on your hand or even just your bare skin it can and will irritate the skin and cause burning sensations. Always wear gloves when handling Habanero Peppers. Regarded as the third hottest pepper in the world.

The Red Habaneros are hotter than their orange cousin, however the red are harder to find at the stores, this is why I have started growing my own Habaneros!

RIP Les Paul

I am without words, there is not much to say. One of the greatest minds to ever pick up a guitar,... hold up, scratch that... one of the greatest minds to ever BUILD and CREATE guitars.

RIP Les Paul, there is no way to even measure how many people this man has inspired through his creations and wonderful ways of teaching the rest of us what "tone" was really about.

Les Paul, the Waukesha-born genius who rose to become one of the most influential musicians in the 20th century, has died at the age of 94.

A representative of Paul made the announcement in New York.

Paul was best known as a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar and the originator of multi-track recording.

Paul, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was also a major recording artist in the 1940s and 1950s, and performed in Manhattan late in life.

With his wife Mary Ford, Paul enjoyed a series of over 25 top forty hits in the late '40s and early '50s including "Vaya Con Dios," "Hummingbird," and "How High the Moon." The couple later divorced and Mary Ford died in 1977.

Paul influenced scores of musicians in the worlds of rock and jazz. One of them was Steve Miller. Back in 1948, Miller's father struck up a friendship with Paul when the guitarist was visiting Milwaukee for a date at a local club.

"Les and Mary showed me my first chords," Miller told the Journal Sentinel. "He's such a great player, everytime I go to New York I go to the club and jam with Les. There's just this vibe around him. It's always a jam session and all the cats are always there."

Aside from making rock-and-roll possible with his creation of the electric guitar, Paul also contributed immensely to the advance of studio recording over the years with inventions like multitrack recording, reverb, and more than a dozen others.

Paul McCartney once said this of Paul: "Les was one of the greatest innovators in recording techniques," McCartney said in a statement. "The work he put into developing the guitar that was named after him made the instrument an all-time classic, and his incredible playing skills make him one of the masters of the instrument."

In 1990 Capitol honored him with a boxed set "Les Paul the Legend and the Legacy." The 4 CD box contained liner notes by Paul himself and 34 never before released tracks.

Born Lester William Polsfuss, Les Paul started performing at home when he was 10 years old, organizing his own little orchestra. He also became fascinated with electronics, building his own broadcasting set in his basement.

A Waukesha music teacher had told Paul's mother not to waste her money on lessons for the boy because he wasn't "musically inclined."

Thank you and may you rest in piece Mr Les Paul, the world will never be the same without you, just as it was changed because of you.

Carrying Guns To Town Hall Meetings

This is not an argument regarding whether or not citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons or not... however, I do find it intriguing that people have started bringing guns to Town hall meetings.

I find it even more intriguing that MSNBC has aired video of an anti-Obama protester who is carrying a non concealed gun to a public event.

From MSNBC:

Outside the event where President Obama will conduct his town hall, there is an anti-Obama protestor with a gun -- a pistol strapped to his lower leg.

The local police chief said it's legal for the man to have a registered handgun -- as long as it is not concealed. What's more, he is on private property, a church yard, which has given him permission to be there.

The loophole is, in New Hampsire, the church has given him permission to be there with his gun and he is within his rights to do so.

You would think, that in this day and age, crazed gun fanatics who are anti-Obama would not be allowed to be near the President of the united States! This is absurd!

How come these guys were not carrying guns to Bush Town Hall meetings and would they have been allowed to? Can you imagine a guy with a "Bush is a nazi" shirt being allowed to carry a gun while Bush was speaking at Town Hall event? I don't think he would be allowed to, so why are these people allowed to carry guns to public events like this?

What purpose does bringing a gun to a Town Hall meeting serve? Why would anyone need a gun at a Town Hall meeting?

It is intimidation, nothing more. No citizen needs firearms at public Town Hall meetings. The people encouraging this sort of violent intimidation are the people who want guns to be allowed to be carried by students in schools, in churches, and parks, everywhere.

It is hard to find reasoning behind this sort of thing, yet somehow it continues... America is just a word, but I use it.

I am not here to debate whether or not carrying a gun is legal, it most certainly is... however, you'd think when it comes to the safety of the president of the United States, there would be some kind of law on the books to stop people like this from getting within firing range.

What's next? More people carrying guns because cops cannot disarm them?

More and more people will bring guns to Town Hall meetings.

Crazy place that America....

Online Gun Seller Sold Weapons To Multiple Killers

Could this guy be any more delusional?

His company has sold guns online to more than one person who then used them to kill innocent people, and his reply? We need to sell more guns online. LOL

MADISON, Wis. — An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.

Eric Thompson, whose company TGSCOM Inc. last year sold an empty Glock 9 mm magazine and magazine loading apparatus to George Sodini, the man who shot up a Collier Township, Pa., health club on Tuesday, said the sale was legal and his company did nothing wrong.

Selling weapons online must make some quite rich from the looks of things. In fact, real gun stores are said to be losing millions to "online gun dealers." So you know they are selling a lot of guns!

Thompson's company, which is based in Green Bay and employs about 40 people, also sold a gun or accessories to the shooters in the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University attacks.

Seung-Hui Cho used a .22-caliber handgun bought from TGSCOM in his attack at Virginia Tech in April 2007, in which 32 people were killed. Stephen Kazmierczak, who killed five people in an NIU classroom before killing himself in February 2008, bought two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster through a TGSCOM site.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms doesn't keep statistics on online gun sales, but Thompson said online sales are taking business away from stores. Thompson declined to say how much the company made in sales last year, but said it was "in the millions of dollars."

He also sold the Virginia tech killer his gun! Seems this is the hot spot for killers to buy their weapons online!

It is clear this guy just wants to sell more guns and in fact, tries to get guns to be allowed in school! I don't want people walking around a college campus with concealed guns, do you? These gun freaks will stop at nothing to sell weapons and have them in our schools. He sold the killer the guns and then wants to play the victim's friend and sell more guns to them!

Thompson visited the Virginia Tech campus after the attack to support a local chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. And after the NIU attack, he said the Web site Kazmierczak visited saw a spike in traffic.

These guys use loopholes and the internet to sell guns...

Federal law prevents the public from purchasing a handgun in any state but their own. People can purchase long guns, such as rifles, in border states. Firearms dealers, however, can transfer weapons to one another across state lines.

And his desire to sell weapons seems to be at the front of his defense instead of any kind of social responsibility for arming killers.

Thompson said attacks like Tuesday's underscore the need for people to protect themselves because police can't respond in time to crises, he said.

Denial at it's best.

John Hughes is Dead

Awww man, not that he made anything good in the last decade but John Hughes is now dead, age 59, from a heart attack.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prolific film writer and director John Hughes, whose credits include the '80s teen films "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died of a heart attack while walking in Manhattan on Thursday, his spokesman said. He was 59.

Hughes also made Macaulay Culkin a star, writing and producing the three "Home Alone" movies. His spokesman said Hughes was visiting friends in New York when he died.

In the last decade, Hughes had largely turned his back on Hollywood to run a farm in northern Illinois. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy, two sons and four grandchildren.

While I was not a fan of the Home Alone movies, what child of the eighties can say they didn't enjoy one of the first movies we saw to show being a"bad" kid, got you the girl? I loved The Breakfast Club movie and still own the DVD!

Mom Was Drunk Driving, Not Just On The Phone

Okay, so previously in my entry, Get Off The Phone and Drive, I mentioned one of the latest SUV-filled auto accidents. While the rant was definitely about people on the phone, and all reports indicate she was indeed on the phone while driving at different points before this accident.

Diane Schuler was drunk and high when she drove straight into oncoming traffic on a New York highway, swerving for nearly two miles to narrowly avoid crashes until she slammed head on into an SUV and took eight lives, including four children, investigators said today.

from article: Wrong-Way Highway Driver Who Killed 8 Was Drunk, High

It has now come out she was in fact, intoxicated, and was drunk driving. She drove the wrong way on a highway and ended up killing more than just herself and kids, she killed others.

Schuler, 36, was killed in the July 26 accident on New York's Taconic State Parkway along with her 2-year-old daughter and three nieces who were riding in her van as well as three men who were in the SUV in the July 26 wreck. Her 5-year-old son was the lone survivor of the crash.

Schuler had a blood alcohol content of .19, more than double the legal limit and was also "impaired by marijuana," according to a statement released by state attorney Janet Difiore citing a toxicology report by the Westchestery County medical examiner.

They have classified this as "murder" now. However, was this a murder suicide? Perhaps she got drunk to kill herself and kids, and needed to be drunk to do so.

The crash was ruled a homicide last week before the toxicology report was completed, Westchester medical examiner Dr. Millard Hyland told ABCNews.com.

"It was ruled a homicide in terms of people being killed because she was driving in the wrong direction," Hyland said, and did not take toxicology into account.

The full report was completed Monday, Hyland said.

Roseann Guzzo, daughter of Michael Bastardi and Guy Bastardi, both crash victims, told New York's The Journal News that while the report explains the once mysterious accident, it does not justify it.

"This wasn't an act of God. This was her choice. She made the wrong choice," Guzzo said. "This isn't an accident. This is murder."

Murder suicide?

You Know Your Daughters Attractive When...

You hit on her at her own mother's (and your wife's) funeral!

Did that sound sick to you? Well, thats just what sleazebag Ryan O'neal has been bragging about.

Ryan O’Neal hit on his own daughter at partner Farrah Fawcett’s funeral in June.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the actor says he didn’t recognize the “beautiful blond woman” – who happened to be his daughter Tatum O’Neal – who embraced him at Fawcett’s funeral.

Aside from the incestuous accusations, let's just say he must have not been that upset to hit on a woman as the hearse is driving away... read this:

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me … I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said ‘Daddy, it’s me – Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

This guy has to be the bottom of the barrel when it comes to sleaze. The hearse hasn't even made it out of his view and he is already asking a blonde out for a drink! Not to mention, he must have a very close relationship with his daughter that he didn't even recognize her, and instead jumped right into propositioning her for drinks!

“That’s our relationship in a nutshell," she told Vanity Fair. "You make of it what you will.

What a dad!

Man Found Guilty For Praying Instead Of Taking Daughter to Doctor

While any citizen of the United States has the right to refuse medical treatment, and can choose to "pray" instead, you cannot refuse care for your child and pray instead! This is the absolute center of religious wackoness! Anyone who would pray over a sick child instead of seeking medical treatment should be jailed.

Wis. jury finds father guilty of killing daughter by praying, not seeking medical care

from this article: Wis. Jury: Father Guilty in Prayer Death Case

This man neglected his child so long, she died, right on the floor of her home with religious wackos standing over her and praying.

A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.

Doctors say she could have easily been cured had she been brought to a doctor.

Doctors testified that Madeline would have had a good chance of survival if she had received medical care, including insulin and fluids, before she stopped breathing.

Nothing fails quite like a prayer, does it?

Dale Neumann, 47, was convicted in the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn't walk, talk, eat or drink. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family's rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.

Why call this guy a wacko? Let me get to that...

Neumann, who once studied to be a Pentecostal minister, testified Thursday that he believed God would heal his daughter and he never expected her to die. God promises in the Bible to heal, he said.

So should we get rid of our hostpitals and doctors in America because the bible says God will heal us? Absurd!

"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," Neumann testified. "I am not believing what he said he would do."

This man wilfully neglected his daughter and it resulted in her death. He tried to say he thought she had the flu, but when you read his disregard for doctors you know that is only being said to weasel his way out of responsibility for his own daughters death and casting it off on God.

Neumann knew he should have taken his daughter to a doctor and minimized her illness when speaking with investigators, Jacobson said, calling Neumann no different than a drunken driver who remarks he only had a couple of beers.

People like this who use the bible as a means to neglect and kill should be locked away from the population. In 2009, it is time to put down the bible and pick up the book of reason and logic which tells us medicine works and prayer does not.

Everyone who prayed in that room should be on trial and/or in jail for neglectful and willful manslaughter.