beverage news

Nordic Drinks, USA plans to bring to the US a Swedish beverage called Wunder Titte, designed to enlarge the bust line.

The California legislature proposes to tax sugary soft drinks and give the money to schools for child nutrition and physical education programs.

Leading Brands, Inc. is introducing a Pez juice line. No word yet on the packaging.

The Palestinian-owned National Beverage Company (NBC), has begun production of bottled mineral water for the Palestinian and Jordanian markets. Its product is produced in the West Bank town of Jericho. NBC said the main purpose of the mineral water was to create jobs for unemployed Palestinians who lost jobs after the eruption of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. NBC has employed unconventional methods of reaching markets in Palestinian-ruled areas that are under Israeli military blockades, distributing the product by tractor to use back roads inaccessible to ordinary trucks.

anti-family Christian Right

This February, Alabama's supreme court decided 9-0 that a child is better off with a violent father than a with a kind and reliable lesbian mom. As chief justice, Roy Moore wrote the opinion that overruled a lower court that had sent the kids to their mom. Here's an except from his opinion:

The common law designates homosexuality as an inherent evil, and if a person openly engages in such a practice, that fact alone would render him or her an unfit parent. Homosexual conduct is, and has been, considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature's God.

new tool

I got a new Dutch oven. It is fifteen inches in diameter and almost seven inches deep. Twelve quarts. It is cast iron and has legs on the bottom so I can put coals under it. It only cost forty dollars, but the shipping was fourteen because it weighs thirty pounds.

Last year when we went camping, I made stew for twelve people and it filled my eight quart oven and barely fed everyone. this year, I won't have that problem. I may have to worry about gas mileage on the way there, though.