Friday, October 10, 2025

Back-Pocket Canned Salad in the Kitchen

Bonita e-mailed that she loves easy lunches that she can pack and go and that's one reason she really loves Food52's "Back-Pocket Canned Salad:"


Ingredients 
1 14- to 15-ounce can low-sodium white beans or black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained
1 14-ounce jar artichoke hearts, drained and quartered
1 14-ounce can hearts of palm, drained and cut into about ½-inch slices
4 ounce crumbled feta cheese
4 celery stalks, peeled and cut into about ½-inch pieces, plus some coarsely chopped celery leaves
3 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
1 or 2 lemons, halved
1 pinch kosher salt
1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted


Directions
Step 1
Combine the beans, artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, feta cheese, celery and leaves, oil, and lemon zest in a large serving bowl. Squeeze on lots of lemon juice to make the salad taste really bright, then sprinkle on about ½ teaspoon salt. Toss really well and season with more salt to taste. Sprinkle on the pine nuts.

That is a good recipe and it's quick and you could make it a take to work recipe and you could take the ingredients to work, in fact, and prepare it right then and there.  



Pope Leo XIV has offered praise to the media industry on Thursday, urging journalists around the world to stand against the ‘ancient art of lying” and those who “create divisions.”

In a speech to MINDS International, a group consisting of top news agencies around the world, the first American-born pontiff went to bat for reporters in various war zones who “work to ensure that information is not manipulated for ends that are contrary to truth and human dignity.”
“If today we know what is happening in Gaza, Ukraine and every other land bloodied by bombs, we largely owe it to them,” Pope Leo said, according to the Associated Press. “These extraordinary eyewitness accounts are the culmination of the daily efforts of countless people who work to ensure that information is not manipulated for ends that are contrary to truth and human dignity.”

Pope Leo stands for the truth and we need him in this era where Chump spews non-stop lies.  Pope Leo is honest and courageous and those of us in the US who are Catholics need to listen the points the pope is making.  


Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation sees the love of Christ incarnated in love for the poor, in caring for the sick, opposing slavery, defending women who experience exclusion and violence, making education available to all, accompanying migrants, charitable giving, working for equality and more.

Dilexi te (“I have loved you”, from Rev 3:9) unfolds in 121 numbered paragraphs spread throughout five chapters, and flows directly from the Gospel of the Son of God, Who in the very act of entering into our world through the Incarnation became poor for our sakes. At the same time, it reproposes the Church’s social teaching, especially that of the past 150 years, as “a veritable treasury of significant teachings” concerning the poor.



Pope Leo XIV encouraged leaders and volunteers of the Catholic Charities USA network to persevere in their work pointing out that they follow the Gospel mandate to recognise Christ in the poor, the hungry, the homeless, and all those in need.

His words of gratitude came in a message to the network is gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico or its 115th Annual Meeting.
Quoting Pope Francis’ definition of hope as “the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring,” Pope Leo underlined the importance of Catholic Charities’ work across its 168 diocesan agencies.

He described them as “agents of hope” for millions of people in the United States, especially the most vulnerable, the migrants, refugees, and those unable to rely on their own resources.

“Through providing food, shelter, medical care, legal assistance, and many other gestures of kindness,” he wrote, “Catholic Charities affiliates across the United States show what Pope Francis often referred to as God’s ‘style’ of closeness, compassion, and tenderness.”

My country is in a very dark place right now.  I could fall into the darkness.  Anyone could.  We're being encouraged to hate immigrants -- encouraged by our government -- encouraged to hate them and to see them as something other than human beings.  Fortunately, my beliefs don't match up with that hatred and my Church stands up for all especially those in need.  If you're a Catholic, it's very clear where you need to be on this issue.  

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Thursday:

Thursday, October 19,2025.  Attorney General Pam da Bimbo Bondi disgraced herself Tuesday as she repeatedly lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- lied -- intentionally lied -- she prepared her 'zingers' ahead of time, wrote them down on paper and flipped through her papers throughout the hearing to find her prepared lies.  This wasn't just lying, this was premeditated.  She was under oath.  She broke the law and did so intentionally. 



 
 

We're going to pick up with The Bimbo Bondi and her outlandish appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.  First, apologies and clarifications.  Senator Adam Schiff is an attorney.  Covering the hearing yesterday, I noted her crazed behavior but didn't go into all of her claims because she seemed to be lying.  We're going to cover some of that now. I thought I noted when she was screeching at Senator Adam Schiff that he wasn't n attorney.  It might have gotten cut for space.  But she was screeching at him and distorting the law and claiming he didn't understand the law because he was not an attorney.  

I did not realize he was an attorney.  Nancy's been my Representative in the House forever and a day.  In the primary for Senate, I was for Katie Porter.  I was fine voting for Schiff in the general election and he has exceeded my expectations so applause and praise for him; however, I did not know his story.  I'm not the only one.  Pam da Bimbo Bondi didn't know that either.  Nicole Charky-Chami's RAW STORY article entitled "Stetson grad Pam Bondi scoffs at legal knowledge of senator — who went to Harvard Law" is where I learned of it.  

So if she had any integrity -- we know she doesn't -- she would apologize immediately.  But she doesn't care.  She just lies.  And she came prepared with her little book of lies that she could not speak without consulting.  She lied.  She lied repeatedly.  


Need another example, Alexander Willis (RAW STORY) reports on this exchange

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) put Attorney General Pam Bondi on notice Tuesday after she made the misleading claim that the senator “stormed” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a news conference in June, a stunning incident captured on video where Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed.

[. . .]

“You know, you want order in here now, yet you stormed the director of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem!” Bondi said. “You sure didn't have order that day, did you, Senator?”

“Attorney general, you are under oath!” Padilla fired back. “I did not storm the secretary.”


That's the thing about dirty little whores.  They lie and they mean to.


I should have known that Adam's an attorney since he's one of my two US senators.  But it's not like I accused him of not being one.  Bimbo came to the hearing with her attacks prepared ahead of time, which is why she was flipping furiously through that huge book/binder in front of her throughout.  She planned every attack ahead of time.  So she should have known her facts.


But she doesn't care about facts.  


She lied bout Adam and she lied about Alex.


She deliberately lied while refusing to answer questions.  Grasp that. She wasn't going to talk about Homan, she wasn't going to talk about this or that.  But she made time to talk about when federal goons attacked Alex?  And she lied about what happened.

She's an Attorney General who lied about the physical attack on a US senator -- that's what she did.  She's not fit to be an attorney general and we damn well don't need any lectures from her bout how to speak in public when all she does is lie.

She's a damn liar.  An elderly woman with nothing to point to.  She's sixty next month.  No kids.  Two failed marriages that combined almost lasted six years.  Career wise?  She's taken actions that can land her in prison and should; however, right now we can just term her a professional disgrace.


Guess she's nothing but the lonely spinster when it comes to work, in love with the boss, pining for him and going home to her empty and barren life each night.


Steven Benen (MADDOW BLOG, MSNBC) notes:


As Schiff documented, Bondi refused to respond to all kinds of legitimate lines of inquiry, including:


whether the attorney general consulted with career ethics lawyers before approving a $400 million gift from the Qatar (a country she was a paid lobbyist for);

what role she played in asking that Trump’s name be flagged in the Jeffrey Epstein files;

whether White House border czar Tom Homan took the $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in the runup to the 2024 election;

whether career prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge former FBI Director James Comey;

whether Bondi discussed the Comey indictment with Trump;

how the administration concluded that military strikes against civilians in international waters are legal;

whether Bondi approved the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett Packard merger;

whether she supported a fund for violent insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6;

whether the Justice Department had fired career professionals because they worked on Jan. 6 cases;

and whether DOJ employees should have to abide by court orders.

In effectively all of these instances, the attorney general could’ve offered substantive answers. She instead attacked senators for asking good questions she didn’t like.



Pam made many charges and they also seemed baseless so we weren't exact in her claims.  I noted I had a cold -- that's why Ava and I aren't worrying about a piece at THIRD this week.  And I talked about menthol on my resonators.  Shirley said a ton of e-mails asked what resonators are.  Hum.  When you did that just now the vibrations went to a space -- where depends on if you were humming a low note or a high note.  They're basically cavities, like the chest, the nose the areas above or right on the eyebrow, etc.  They're what give our voices color and they're what tend to fill up with snot when we have a cold.    She attacked Senator Sheldon Whitehouse over someone she claimed he had donated to his campaigns.  Alexander Bolton's "Senate Democrat: Bondi campaign contribution accusation ‘simply isn’t true’" (THE HILL) notes that Whitehouse has his staff research his claim and, no, he had not accepted donations from the man she claimed (Reid Hoffman).  

She came in and she knowingly and repeatedly lied.  Senator Alex Padilla reminded her she was under oath but she kept lying.  James Comey is being targeted by Pams and Chump and he didn't lie.  But Pam went and deliberately lied and did so over and over.

 

 

 


Maybe if she'd stop lying and do her actual job of protecting the American people, ICE wouldn't be harming people? 


 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

She needs to face charges.

 

 


For over four hours, Trump’s former personal lawyer hit Democrats with what sounded like cheap opposition research. She called Sen. Adam Schiff of California “a liar” and “a failed lawyer” and asked him to “​​apologize” to the president for his work as an impeachment manager during Trump’s first term.

Bondi also baselessly claimed that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island took money from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s “closest confidants,” and she accused Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut of lying about his military record.

I served in the Senate and participated in many oversight hearings during my time there, and I’ve never seen anything like what we witnessed during Bondi’s testimony on Tuesday. I’ve never seen that kind of behavior from any witness, much less the sitting attorney general of the United States.

It was a shocking, ugly and frankly embarrassing display, but it wasn’t Bondi’s behavior that really stunned me. What truly shocked me is that no Republican on the committee, not even Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, spoke up when the attorney general of the United States spent the entirety of her questioning period with Democratic senators screaming, refusing to answer, and targeting them with ad hominem attacks.

 Claire is 100% correct.  

 

 


Bondi committed crimes in her testimony -- lying under oath is a crime.  These were lies.  She wrote them down ahead of time.  She read them from the page in front of her.  She intended to lie, premediated before the hearing came to order.

She was a joke and she looked as crazed and idiotic as Elisabeth Hasselbeck back when THE VIEW allowed Elizabeth's crazy to run free. 

 

 



That's fine but I was actually talking about that after the hearing with an Epstein survivor.  Bondi is a pedophile protector.  She enables it.  So, in the eyes of the law, that makes her a pedophile. There's nothing passive about her actions.  Pam Bondi has worked to bury the Epstein documents and she's watched -- if not enabled -- as Chump rewarded convicted pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum security prison that a pedophile belongs in to "Camp Fed" in Bryan Texas.  So I think we can all her a pedophile.  I don't think it's stretching.  She's helping with the crime, she's covering up and that makes her an accomplice to the crime.

She repeatedly refused to answer questions about Tom Homan and the $50,000 dollars -- as though the public has no interest in nor right to know when a US official is taking bribes?  


This issue is not going away.  Lisandra Gomez-Tate (2PARAGRAPHS) reports:


Ryan Crosswell, a former attorney in the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, where he investigated public officials accused of abusing their power, appeared on CNN (below) and wrote: “I spent years prosecuting bribery cases at the DOJ. When a bag of cash changes hands, it's a solid case. But under Trump's DOJ, friends like Tom Homan get protection, opponents get prosecution.”
According to Crosswell, he resigned from the DOJ in March after he was “pressured to drop a case against a politician charged with corruption because he was a political ally of Donald Trump.”

(That politician was New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted in September 2024 on charges of bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. In February 2025, the charges were dismissed by the U.S. Justice Department. Note: Adams dropped out of the 2025 mayoral race in September.)
Crosswell told Erin Burnett on CNN: “The most galling part about it is Pam Bondi has the audacity to say nobody is above the law. But we know that’s not true. Eric Adams is above the law. Tom Homan is above the law. And apparently anyone contained in the Epstein Files is above the law.”



Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are escalating their investigation into the Trump administration's handling of bribery allegations against White House border czar Tom Homan, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Democrats have seized on the allegations, which Homan and the White House have denied, as part of their anti-corruption message against President Trump and his team.
Senate Democrats grilled Attorney General Pam Bondi on the topic at a hearing Tuesday.
She said the Justice Department found no evidence of wrongdoing but did not say if Homan returned the purported $50,000 bribe, Axios' April Rubin reported.
Homan said in a Fox News interview last month he "did nothing illegal" and told NewsNation the reports were "bullsh*t," with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Homan "never took the $50,000."
Driving the news: In a letter to Associate Attorney General Edmund Woodward, a group of House Democrats led by Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote that Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel "failed to answer" their initial letter on Homan last month.

"We write now to follow up and demand that you answer fundamental questions," they continued.
"Who knew about the Homan cash bribery scandal, when did they know it, and why was Mr. Homan appointed 'Border Czar' even in the face of such damning evidence of his taking bribes for government contracts?"
Zoom in: The lawmakers noted that Woodward led the vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs as part of Trump's 2024 transition team.


 

 

She didn't want to talk Epstein either.  Unless it was a Republican senator asking the question. Isaac Schorr (MEDIAITE) notes this exchange:


KENNEDY:  I’ve got to ask you about this, general. Secretary Howard Lutnick on October 1 gave an interview to The New York Post about Mr. Epstein. And he described Mr. Eppstein as, quote, “the greatest blackmailer ever,” close quote. Have you reviewed that transcript of that interview?

BONDI: I have not reviewed the transcript, but I saw the clip of it.

KENNEDY: Okay. It appears that Secretary Lutnick was Mr. Epstein’s next door neighbor. In fact, their townhomes shared a wall. And the reporter that was talking to Mr. Lutnick, she asked how other prominent men could have been associated with Epstein when Mr. Lutnick could immediately sense that he was a quote “pervert.” And then Secretary Lutnick said, or rather the reporter said, “Did they see it and ignore it?” Do you remember that from the interview?

BONDI: I do.

KENNEDY: And Commerce Secretary Lutnick said, “No, they participated.” And then Commerce Secretary Lutnick goes on to say, quote, “That’s what his MO was. You know, get a massage, get amassage. And what happened in that massage room, I assume was a video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever, blackmail people, that’s how he had money,” end quote. Is that true?

BONDI: Senator, as our July memo said, we did not uncover

evidence. This case has gone through three administrations, as well as former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta-

KENNEDY: I know, I know, I know that, Pam! But have you interview Secretary Lutnick?

BONDI: No, Senator.

KENNEDY: Do you plan to?

BONDI: If he wants to talk to the FBI or the FBI wants to talk to him, that is more than on-

KENNEDY: Don’t you think you ought to talk to him after this interview?

BONDI: Senator, if Howard Lutnick wants to speak to the FBI, and if Director Patel wants to speak to Howard Lutnick, absolutely.

KENNEDY: Okay. Maybe we ought to get Mr. Lutnick in here too, Mr. Chairman.

 


Chump causes the shutdown and continues it in part to cover up for his involvement with pedophiles Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.



 

 

 


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