spaghetti sauce

Do you remember when spaghetti sauce was not salsa, but a smooth, creamy sauce? Back before jarred sauce, when it came in a can. Those were the days.
It's sauce, not salsa. Don't make it chunky.
What's the deal, spaghetti sauce companies?

Old Man Fred's first post

[Old Man Fred is jeffrey's bitingly mean and irreverent 300 year old alter-ego, and everything irritates him, watch out!]

First off, lemme thank the young punk named jeffrey fer lettin me write on this hear online jurnal thing, and fer settin me up with one of them there computer machines, he got me a fancy steam powered one, an it burns a heap O' coal.

I want you to know that I 'rowed up round 'Ora, Texas, wear folk hear abouts still have sense reckoned to be common, but I reckon its not so common everwear. I also want you to know that I could spit in yer eye as list'n to what you have to say, seein as I'm nigh on 300 hundred years young, and have 40 young-uns. So list to what I haf to say.

Theres a few things hear I wants to say, so I'm just say em and hope they come out alrite.

I watch the radio quite a bit, my favorite is Th' price is rite, but I also like to watch the Newspaper shows, like that whipper-snapper Lary King, but he don't know what hes talkin 'bout nohow.
But Ive done heard some talk bout some play things for young-uns, th' ones made in Cathay, or China, as I heard it called nowadays. There's talk that some of this Chicom junk has lead on it. Now first of all, I'm a thinking a heap of these new fangled play things make young-uns stupid, they don't do no good, or teach nothin worth larnin'. A figure of a man in garb like a spider? I just don't see no use for it. They also got all that garbage that 'sposed to learn young-uns thing like readin ritin, and cipherin. 'Pears to me that young-uns is gittin stupider and stupider, and thems play toys aint helpin none, theys just a hurtin, if you ask me.

My brothers and me.
I kilt the 2 on the left arm wrastlin.

When I was a young-un, bout 2 or 3, my pap gived me my first gun and knife, a 5 ft smoothbore musket-gun, and a 15 inch bowie knife. My brothers and me would git up on that hill yonder and play 'injun (when we wasn't blacksmithing rail road ties with our bare hands), I was alwaysed th' sheriff, and they was alwaysed the pesky redskins. We'd shoot one 'nuther with light loads of bout 120 grains of black powder, and stab at each other real gentle like, not cuttin too deep, If you take my meanin. I only kilt bout 8 of my brothers, but that wasn't nuthin nohow, seein as I had 60 more sibling to spare, so it was just a few less mouths to feed. But I'm goin on a varmit trail, so I'll say what I mean.
It makes me mad as a bear in cayote trap to think on the worthless pansies worryin and a-fussin over dab-blasted lead on them there molly coddle playthins', that don't do nothin but make boys into little girls, which a lot of stupid folks these days says OK. A boy actin like a girl, who ever heard of sich a thing. Its as wrong as all git out. And some of th' boys git older and take to courtin other boys. Why, if I'd a done sich a thing - and I never would of done it - the folks round my place would have strung me up the tallest pine in the woods, and I don't blame em, none!
Really all I got's to say about lead toys is keep the toys out of your young-uns mouths, you no-brained parents. Or even better, quit buyin those stupid playthins' and get johnny a knife and a dead cat, and susie a tea set and skip rope. And stop buyin from the dab-blasted Chinamen, They want to kill you nohow.

There aint nothin wrong with lead, CFC's, or asbestos, matter o' fact, we'd be better off If we replaced those brainless tree-huggers and PETA folk with aerosol cans full of CFC's.

'Bout the zoo known as Warshington, lemme but it this a-way, Will Rogers was nice to them idiots, compared to what I think of 'em. There all rats, all them conrgressers, and they literally make me sick, and my arthritis flares up when e'er I think on em. There all nothin but a bunch of empty suits, who should be held for treason, cept for that there congressmen an that makes em special, for some reason. They don't speak for me nohow.I heard a neighbor onced tell me he thinks we should send every govmnt person there to californy, and sink the whole God-forsaken state, an then elect us some real Men to speak fer us.

If ye wanna deal with them illegals, all you have to do is get a bunch of us refined mountainers lined up on th' border and tetch of them mexicans and terrorists as they dare to cross the line, an after a good while, ye've got a border wall. Simpl as that.

That's my Rulin', and don't worry - ye'll here from me agin, but it time fer me to git to town so I kin play dominoes with my War of Northern Aggresion pals.


-Fred

Music Sharing

   Can I share with you my thoughts on a subject that chaps my aortic artery?
Illegal Music sharing, I really have quite a disdain for it.

Picture This:
   So, You're listening to your favorite Radio station, and you hear a new song by your favorite artist, so you hop on Kazza or Limewire and you're thrilled to find out The Talking Azaleas From a Planet Beyond Neptune, your favorite band, Just released their newest album, Try to Keep the Weed-Be-Gone off of Me. With a click of a computer pointer (that's what it's called now, you know, as the Mus Musculus – or true Mouse, really doesn't appreciate being equated with a piece of bacteria covered computer hardware), you've now got a copy of the song, to sync with your Walkman, or maybe record out to a tape to use with your portable cassette player.

   Maybe you don't use a sharing program like Limewire, but your friends burn you CD's and you import them to iTunes, or you give your friends burnt CD's. Whether you do it over the internet, or with old fashioned compact disks, it's the same thing, and 99% of the time, it's not legal. I realize that most record companies have become quite slack on prosecuting music sharers, but just because you don't get caught doesn't mean it's not wrong.

   It blows my mind how many people have absolutely no problem with it. Maybe it's because it's an audio file and is somewhat abstract - doesn't seem material, maybe cause it's so easy, I don't know, but for some reason people don't see it as theft. Most Christians, Christians have no problem with it. Taking something that doesn't belong to you, without compensation for the product, is an elementary definition of theft. Giving your friend a burned CD for them to upload to their computer is like stealing a car and giving it away. You don't have the right to copy or give away music, It's not your property.


   I'm just sayin'... If you're going to steal something, steal something, rob a bank at gunpoint, steal a vial of tritium from a laboratory for a buddy's science experiment, pick-pocket the Prince of Saudi Arabia. But music sharing? Man, come on, don't be a coward.
I don't get it.

A fact?

One of the most annoying things about evolution is how they call it fact, it’s not, (actually, it makes a bad fairy tale!)
Read this [deadlink] story from the Lufkin daily news.

I was looking at some science books at the library and every one taught evolution, and a few called it a fact as provable as the law of gravity. (that was actually said in one!)

Evolutionist avoid creation like the plague, offer no decisive evidence and declare the that evolution is as unquestionable as the fact that the earth revolves around the sun.

Evolutionists also use the discoveries of Christian scientist as evidence, and those same scientist would laugh at the idea [of evolution].

“La génération spontanée est une chimère” (”Spontaneous generation is a dream”) (Louis Pasteur)

It is also very assumptuous;

“In order to believe in evolution, one must make seven basic assumptions:

1. Non-living things gave rise to living material
2. Spontaneous generation could occur only once
3. Viruses, bacteria, plants, and animals are all interrelated
4. Protozoa gave rise to multi-cellular organisms
5. Invertebrates are interrelated
6. Invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates
7. All vertebrates are related “

-From The Implications of Evolution by G.A. Kerkut (British physiologist, also an evolutionist, BTW)

I can’t stand how most textbooks and ’science’ books teach evolution as unquestionable fact!

Evolution, summed up;

“Unknown chemicals in the primordial past…through…
unknown processes which no longer exsist…produced…
unknown life forms which are not to be found but through…
unknown reproduction methods spawn new life…in an…
unknown atmosphereic composition…in an..
unknow oceanic soup complex…at an…
unknown time and place.”
-Dr. Henry Morris, founder ICR