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I am starting to scare myself.

3 years ago when Michael Buble said that Vancouver Canucks were Vancouver’s team and not Canada’s team, I cursed them.

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That’s right. Me. A scientific individual resorted to the three pronged curse invoking some pretty powerful stuff!!! Right in the heart of the finals against Boston in 2011. To rehash from my 2012 blogpost:

I gave this the good old triple curse.
First you take your index finger and touch the lid of one closed eye (with the other open) and you say “ACK ACK ACK”. This is the Malochia or Evil Eye. Then you give the Devil’s curse and say “SIX SIX SIX, number of the beast.”
This is all followed by the ultimate sports curse from the movie Caddyshack. This is simple in that you just say “Noonan!!”
Put it all together and you have a very powerful curse. In this case, the Curse of Michael Buble!!!.
“ACK ACK ACK!! SIX SIX SIX! Number of the Beast! NOONAN!!”

And what has happened so far?

2011 – They lost in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
2012 – They were a one seed and lost in 5 games to the lowly 8th seeded Los Angeles Kings.
2013 – They were a 3 seed and lost in 4 straight to the 6th seeded San Jose Sharks.

I am going to anxiously wait by the phone for Mr. Buble’s phone call telling me Vancouver’s bandwagon (if they ever make the finals) is big enough for all of Canada….Provided they are not playing another Canadian team that is.

For those long time followers of this site, you know that I have had my ons and offs with low carb diets having very good success with them for controlling blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels and dropping a few lbs when needed.  Well I miss bread.  So I have done some digging and have come up with what I call a very passable recipe for buns that have:

• No sugary carbs
• No cholesterol
• No gluten
• No fuss.

The recipe is a mixture of three others that I found online, and I have tried to come up with a configuration that works well and here is a pretty good pass at it.  (I may tweek this if adjustments work better than this configuration)

Ingredients: (makes approx. eight (2 to 3 inch) dinner rolls)

1 cup ground almond flour (blanched)
2 TBSP ground Psyllium Husk flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
3 egg whites
2/3 cup boiling water

1)  Preheat oven to 350F.  Start your kettle of water to boil.  Grease a cookie sheet.

2) Mix almond flour, psyllium husk flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl with a mixer. (I use plastic hollow paddles and not the usual metal crosses)

3) Make sure your water is at a boil before starting this step as it will be needed quickly.  Mix the egg whites and vinegar in with the dry goods and keep mixing.  It will start to solidify but it will be clumpy at this point.

4) Pour in the boiling water while you continue to mix.  Within 10 or 15 seconds of mixing, it will become a very sticky dough mixture.  For me it slides off the paddles quite easily but will stick to your hands quite a bit.

5)  break into small clumps of about 1/2 inch high and 1.5 or 2 inch diameter and place onto cookie sheet spread out.

6) Immediately put into oven on the bottom rack for 55 or 60 minutes.

I took them out, broke one open with my thumbs and picture is below.  Some soft butter and a knife were close at hand for a pleasurable snack.  The rest I am keeping for Easter dinner and a few to bring to work tomorrow.

NOTE:  I tried making a bigger loaf of this but the inside simply does not cook as well as the smaller versions.

Pictures and nutritional information are below based on plugging the ingredients into a Fitday.com calculator.

Buns On Tray (click to enlarge)

Cracked Open Bun. Beautiful Air Pockets (click to enlarge)

Nutritional Info (click to enlarge)

More Nutritional Info (click to enlarge)

Watching March Madness with another tasty little treat.  This porter from Great Lakes Brewing Company is nice, dark, coffee and toffee overtones.  Reminds me a bit of Young’s Double Chocolate Stout.  I bought it for the name.  I will buy it again because it’s good.  And how good you ask??  Well after 1463 ratings at ratebeer.com it has a score of 99/100 overall and 100/100 in style.  Yowza.  There are not many that can beat this puppy!!!!

Hot Damn I love Wednesday’s. As the family schedule goes, I have the place to myself. Tonight a quick stop at the grocery store and I had me some grilled asparagus, sauteed mushrooms and a nice rib steak for which I uncovered the BBQ for the first time of the season. Along with that I opened another gem from NY, an Ithaca Beer Company IPA called, yeah boys, you guessed it….Flower Power. RateBeer.com gives it a 97 rating and a 97 on style out of 100. Very nice and hoppy.

We all have heard some environazi site cow farts as a major cause of methane gas and by extension global warming/climate change.

Well the answer is not to decrease the amount of livestock out there, but to increase it and rotate it. This speech on the TED network is awe inspiring and could be part of the biggest change in the greening of our planet (and by extension) create carbon sinks that keep the left happy, create lush green pastures and forests that make gun owning hunters happy, and reverse the desertification of the planet.

I am no friend to the environmental movement, but I am all for more beef cattle roaming the planet. Just watch this 20 minute video. You will be amazed at the change that can be made by livestock mimicking nature.

So what’s the answer? Eat meat and save the planet.

Chris Brown is a cheapskate.. The guy is a celebrity and heaven knows he isn’t hurting for the cash.

Singer Chris Brown isn’t exactly Hollywood’s most lovable character. And he certainly didn’t do himself any favors when he flipped out on a valet at a Los Angeles bowling alley over a $10 parking fee.

However, that $10 was apparently enough to send the 23-year-old millionaire over the edge.

“F**k ten dollars,” Brown said to the valet attendant before threatening him. “Give me my keys or we’re going to turn this whole spot up.”

I can safely (and proudly) say, I have never bought a Chris Brown record, CD, MP3, video. And if he came on the radio while I was driving, I wouldn’t even know it was him.

Not only is Chris Brown a cheapskate, but in my book he’s a doofus.

Seriously?? This has got to be a joke.

On Friday March 8, Michelle Obama will join John Kerry at a special ceremony at the State Department to present ten women the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.

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The only problem is that one of the women to be recognized is an anti-Semite and supports the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

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Samira Ibrahim, as the State Department’s profile describes her, “was among seven women subjected by the Egyptian military to forced virginity tests in March 2011.” The press release further notes that Samira “was arrested while in high school for writing a paper that criticized Arab leaders’ insincere support to the Palestinian cause.” Apparently, the State Department is unaware of her other convictions.

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On Twitter, Ibrahim is quite blunt regarding her views. On July 18 of last year, after five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed a suicide bombing attack, Ibrahim jubilantly tweeted: “An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.”

It only goes downhill from there.

Shame on Michelle O’Bama and John Kerry.

I am stunned that someone actually felt the terms B.C. and A.D. need to be changed because they refer to Christianity. But in this article, the reversal of this decision is discussed.

The museum, like many institutions that study history, some time ago dropped BC (for “before Christ”) and AD (for “anno Domini,” the Latin phrase for “in the year of the Lord”) in describing dates. Instead, it has used CE (for “common era”) and BCE (before the common era). But no more.

How screwed up is that?

The Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa went with the new terms but are reversing the decision for interactions with the public and only maintaining the BCE and CE terms for academic purposes.  Why even bother?

The best quote to describe this was made by Kelly McParland, who said:

It’s my opinion that the museum is playing with fire. Maybe that’s why they’re changing their own name from Canadian Museum of Civilization to the Canadian Museum of History. Which is presumably being done to avoid offending the uncivilized.

Not much more needs to be said other than the U.N. is crapping on Canada stating that we are a nation with too much child hunger and as such can’t preach about human rights in other nations.

The U.N. can kiss my lily white ass.  Go find a third world country to bitch about you hypocrites.

Just because it’s well done and talks about being “screwed” this one gets on the site.