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"A mentally-handicapped person costs the public 4 Reichsmark per day, a cripple 5.50 Reichsmark and a convicted criminal 3 Reichsmark. Cautious estimates state that within the boundaries of the German Reich 300,000 persons are being cared for in public mental institutions. How many marriage loans at 1,000 Reichsmark per couple could annually be financed from the funds allocated to institutions?" (A. Dorner, ed., Mathematik im Dienst der nationalpolitischen Erziehung, Frankfurt 1936)
(Koch 174)

http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2009/12/italian-cake-for-me.html

http://kleinletters.com/Blog/?p=7194

Here are two recipes we always make for Christmas morning breakfast, but they’re great any time you have guests staying overnight and don’t want to spend a lot of time cooking for them in the morning. New Year’s Day, for instance. Both recipes are made the day before and refrigerated, then popped in a preheated oven for 40 minutes, or until done. Easy! The Baked Apple French Toast recipe comes from the Churchtown Inn Bed and Breakfast, where we stayed many years ago. We had it there, loved it, bought their cookbook, and have been making it every year since. We usually prepare two dishes like this, so there are some leftovers for the next day. The Breakfast Omelette is a recipe of Ann’s, not sure where it came from originally.

BAKED APPLE FRENCH TOAST
9 by 13 inch non-stick or glass baking dish
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 tablespoons corn syrup
3 Granny Smith apples, sliced thin
5 eggs
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
French or italian bread, sliced 3/4 inch thick, enough to fill pan in one layer. Cut large slices, if any, in half.
Cinnamon as garnish

In a medium saucepan cook sugar, butter and syrup until it forms a thick liquid. Pour into greased baking dish, spreading out with the back of a large spoon before it cools. Spread apple slices in a tight single layer over this. Place bread slices over apples in a tight layer to fill pan.

Whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla and pour evenly over bread. Add cinnamon sprinkles as garnish. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Bake uncovered in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Allow to cool a few minutes, then separate around each bread slice with a spatula and serve with real maple syrup as topping.

BREAKFAST OMELETTE
9 by 13 inch non-stick or glass baking dish
1 pound bacon (optional)
French or Italian bread, sliced 3/4 inches thick, or broken into small pieces, enough to tightly fill pan
18 eggs
1 cup milk
sliced or grated cheddar cheese, enough to spread over bread, or to taste
Salt and pepper to taste

Fill bottom of greased baking dish with a tight layer of bread. Fry, drain and crumble bacon, if using, spreading that in a layer over bread. Place cheese in a layer over that.

In a large bowl, whisk eggs and milk together. Season to taste. Pour evenly over dish. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, or until egg at center is set and cooked. Allow to cool a few minutes, then separate portions with a spatula and serve.

cherylmmorgan

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

No, the idiot failed to blow himself up, and consequently didn’t blow anything else up either, but aside from that the latest terrorist attack can be counted a magnificent success because it has produced the desired result: mindless panic and the imposition of a welter of new random, ineffectual restrictions on travelers.

I’d give the TSA a few points for thinking that maybe restricting passengers to one carry-on might give them more time to check that bag more thoroughly, if I wasn’t a regular traveler and only too well aware that the only result of this will be that people will get bigger bags and pack them more tightly, thereby probably making it even harder to see what is in them. Not to mention causing yet more chaos with regard to overcrowded overhead bins.

As for the restrictions on leaving your seat and having anything in your lap, how on earth this that going to stop a determined terrorist on a flight longer than a couple of hours? The only way you can make aircraft totally “safe” from passengers is if they are stripped naked, gagged and bound in their seats for the duration of the flight, and forced to listen to government propaganda about how safe they should be feeling. Oddly no one at the TSA has yet suggested that. Probably it is only a matter of time.

And, as Tom Abba noted on Twitter, I’m looking forward to the TSA requiring people to remove their underpants at the security check points. After all, that’s what they did with shoes. Maybe the terrorists should try hiding explosives in a bra next. The TSA folks will be falling over themselves to implement new checks as a result of that.

As indeed some of them will doubtless now pay extra close attention to all young black men, because as we all know you can tell a terrorist by how different he looks from you.

No, the real questions we ought to be asking here is how someone who had already been identified as a risk was able to board a flight without any extra checks carrying an explosive that had been used by terrorists before, and a syringe, which I’m sure is more obvious and more dangerous than a nail file or a lipstick. Those questions deserve answering. But they are awkward questions, so what we get instead is new regulations that ban people from reading books for substantial parts of the flight because, you know, those intellectuals are a dangerous lot. Furthermore a lot of the regulations are things that the cabin crews will have to enforce. That’s going to lead to a lot more air rage, I suspect. (And what’s the betting that enforcement won’t be nearly as strict in Business and First.)

If I hadn’t made commitments to go to various conventions next year, and didn’t have to fly in order to get to see Kevin, I would be seriously considering giving up air travel altogether, because I think that’s the only way we can stop this nonsense. Get the airline companies lobbying Congress and then perhaps something will be done.