Friday morning musings/or the world according to Vonda

I stumbled into the downstairs 'kitchen' in my studio area and started heating water for my cherished cup of morning coffee. I don't use tap water. Too many chemicals to murder the taste of the coffee. As the water was heating to the optimum temp of 190 degrees I rinsed out my French Press. The French Press coffee maker is a wonderful tool. I can make 2 cups of coffee any time I want and extremely quickly. It is a tall glass cylinder with a plunger in the top. Attached to the plunger is a fine mesh wire filter. The water is hot and it is time! I put one scoop of coffee into the cylinder and then here is the big goof!! I noticed that I had also put in my required sugar and coffeemate! Into the cyclinder! ACK!! Then I thought 'Oh what the heck!' So I poured the hot water on top of the mixture and placed the top on it and PRESSED the filtered plunger down and it actually made a decent cup of coffee. I won't do it that way again but it's drinkable.

The advantage of using the French Press is I only make coffee when I want it and only make it a cup at a time so I don't waste coffee and I don't feel guilty about having it sitting there on the warmer and then I am compelled to drink all ten cups and spend the rest of the day in a caffine induced whirlwind! The other advantage is it seems to create coffee at its finest. No bitterness, I can actually taste the essence of the coffee bean, and its just an elegant way to make a fine cup of coffee.

Now onto my next morning musing......I ask you who gives a flying rip about Brittany Spears and her PAR***TAY ways? Is she acting like a Mom of 2 very small children? Nope. Is the dad, that fabulously leechy moocher KFED or FED-EX as the loser should be called, any better. Oh nooo! After all remember he was running with the Britster while his girl friend was pregnant with his second child by her. So he is really in the running for Father of Year in my book. Brittany is acting like some of these young and stooooopid moms I have seen. What the heck is wrong with the younger generation! (Did I just say that!?) It's still the 'IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT' mentality of the free sex ideas of the late 60's and 70's. We are losing our morals people. Wake up and don't just smell the coffee. Drink the bitter dregs of our permissiveness. The very moral fiber of our country is at stake. Pictures are taken of the so called self-important cele-'brats' out partying their little naked skinny butts off and splashed across the national papers and magazines. Used to in the not so far ago past, those kinds of pictures were called PORN! Now its just an Oops she did again. If I want to see a naked picture I'll peep at myself in the mirror when I get out of the shower. That is sobering enough!
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I am disturbed to read that a newly elected politician from some other state is requesting to be sworn into office using the Koran instead of the Bible. This country was founded on the principles in the Bible and not in the Koran. He is a Muslim and he has the freedom to practice his religion in the USA just like all the other religions. I don't care if someone is Jewish (that is a race of people as well as a religious belief; they are after all God's original chosen ones), Muslim (anyone can be a Muslim, not just the Arabic people), Baptist, Anabaptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Catholic, Lutheran, Pentacostal, Latter Day Saints, etc. They all have the right to practice their religious beliefs. But displacing the Bible as the book to be sworn in on is not part of the deal. That is part of the weft and wuff of the fabric of founding of this country. I have already fired off the letters to Senators Lott and Cochran and Representative Wicker. Both email and land mail. Wake up folks before our country as we know it changes! WE can no longer be an ostrich. Things are happening out there, up there, around us that will not be so easy to change back. There are people and nations that are very very jealous of the freedoms that we have. They are intent on destroying us. Some are already sitting back and waiting for the world to change as we know it. The wheels are turning but that doesn't mean that the destruction of our land can't be stopped.
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I'll rant more on that at a later date. My coffee is calling to me and I have to go and help out a friend that is in dire need at the moment. So enjoy your morning cup of coffee and be sure to read between the lines all the news that you see on the tv and in the papers and magazines. Pull your head up out of the security of your insulated life and see what is happening in the world before it is too late. Write to our elected officials on a regular basis and let them KNOW what you really think!