Рак or say Rak!

Close enough…

It means crawdaddy in the Louisiana buoys and it means happy Russians on a Russian train. That is where I first saw Russians eating crawdads. I watched as babushkas sold long packs full of cooked crawdads or “pak,” at the train stops as you travel across the country. It interested me at the time for in my restaurants back home, that I owned, I sold Friday-night all you can eat crawdads and it went over fantastic…

I have seen crawdads (рак) in Russia, just as easy to find as our village river. They are not abundant, but are there and pretty big in size.I am thinking about rigging up a bacon baited trap for the little devils and having boiled crayfish in the village this year…

I could invite the neighbors in the village, for I bet they have never had a “good ole boil” to munch on. Oh I can just taste those crawdads (рак,) potatoes, corn on the cob, shrimps, and mushrooms all piled on a huge table just waiting for a bunch of hungry humans to eat it all up…

Рак; Here is a Crawdad Song for the Russians…

Crawdad (рак) Song by Woody Guthrie

You get a line and I’ll get a pole, honey.
You get a line and I’ll get a pole, babe.
You get a line and I’ll get a pole
And we’ll go fishin’ at the crawdad hole,
Honey, oh babe, oh mine.
Yonder come a man with a sack on his back, honey.
Yonder come a man with a sack on his back, babe.
Yonder come a man with a sack on his back,
Packin’ all the crawdads he can pack,
Honey, oh babe, oh mine.He fell down and broke that sack, honey.
He fell down and broke that sack, babe.
He fell down and broke that sack.
‘Twas a sight to see the crawdads back to back,
Honey, oh babe, oh mine.What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, honey?
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, babe?
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry,
Sit on the bank and watch the crawdads die?
Honey, oh babe, oh mine.I heard the duck say to the drake, honey,
I heard the duck say to the drake, babe,
I heard the duck say to the drake, “There ain’t no crawdads in this lake.”

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Eat some pак today, they are delicious. From what I can tell most of the pre-cooked “packed pak” in Russia are from China, but I have seen some Russian “packed pak” here lately, for the  British “packed pak” in the recent past, but became “pak packed” back to home… 🙂

Now you know a bit more about Russians…

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About a month ago; Russia panicked the west and the west dumped her rubles and Russia bought them all up. All of them, every last one that was possible to buy as a west panicked and dumped rubles. Then two days later, the west realized having been duped and Russia had cleaned 95% of the rubles out of the west, this enables Russia to cause issues if need be in exchange of finances for oil and gas. The west does not have rubles to act with and as Russians say, “That is just right!”

War is upon us…

War is a cover…

Anyone with any form of intelligence higher than a tree frog, croaking on a summer night, has seen right through the charade that the world is in. Right now even France, for its indiscretions against the Empire, being played as a patsy, and it is for all Europe to grasp, as the trepidation takes hold and sinks into the deepest realms of the psych…

Why now today, 40 great leaders of the world are traipsing down the streets of France in solidarity to what only could be described as a pagan worship to the gods of death and hoping for appeasement from future slaughter…

This saddened pause, in advance, of a war of the ending of all wars, being used behind the scene to try to figure out what the next move will be and not anger the failing empire into lashing out time and time again as she dies…

This empire being ruled by a puppet, with way too much power, power that hurt all around her…

For the empire is striking allies and foes as equals. For all is fair in love and war…

Never let a good crises go unused…

Never allow anything to stop the sale of your product. The facts as lies and truths, always begets an opportunity to advance your agenda, be it death, baby diapers or toothbrushes…

Therefore, it is vital that you have the best law teams, puppets, writers, and liars on your staff…

In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus; Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)

Stir the caldron of war…

I look at what is happening in the world, just as I watched a witch stir her caldron of brew, as a little kid. I am in awe as I see to what extent the chaos flows in the empire of death, amazed at the amount of tolerance for terrorism by the empire in the world, the lack of ability presented in the world to squelch the death throes and keep semblance of control on the situation…

The time for pitter patting around is over and the world needs to sit the child down…

This brings us to the reality, of a war child…

America is naught but a teenager and it seems that when the hormonal issues crop up as they are now in the world, teenagers have a tendency to cause issues. Therefore, since America has become too big for her teen britches, she needs spanked…

America shows all the signs of an empire or child in her case, spoiled too long. The monster (brat) created is possibly the end of our earth, unless a whole bunch of older and wiser countries step in…

America is just a child in the stages of country hood and those stages, accelerated and abused, will hurt. The world is at fault, for they allowed the child to run amok and no one disciplined when needed…

Now the child is a teenager and thinks they know everything, as so many teens do…

America; instead of a flower child as in the 60’s, we have a war child…

Let’s hope we survive puberty…

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Mass Destruction…

Book bags, steam pots, casserole dishes, pointing fingers, plastic bags, and toy guns; what do they have in common?

They are weapons of mass destruction and we live in a world of mass destruction, driven by all these normal items of everyday life. Then add thousands of other terrible destructive issues, morals, and actions and you have a world that has gone sour as a persimmon before the first frost…

My God is better than your God!

Sounds very much like, “My dad is tougher than your dad!”

Seems to me that God is the same basically as you travel the world and if you grab a piece of that God, that God and another piece of what that God says and does; you have the same thing all rolled up, like, in a nice wrap from McDonald’s and most likely tastes and is much healthier for you, than McDonald’s…

Kick Them While They Are Down!

This comes back to bite later in the ass and is something avoided at all costs. Therefore you would think that people and countries would not do such a thing?

Never crosses their minds as they are kicking the poor sucker, who lies on the ground, wishing to die, as kicked around the room or street. To the delight of many who do and watch…

Go ahead and kick and kick and kick, one day you may receive the same, and oh, on top of it all, do your best to block their ability to have a good life also. It will make you feel better as you glower over your minions and serfs…

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I liked that; Coffee Stirring: let’s do it again in a few days…

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2015 looks a mess and to prove that point it has jumped up and exploded in the first week. Nothing sacred and nothing is safe. It is copious and free for all, with a layer of exceptionalism on top. Just like an icing on a cake…

2014 ended with copious numbers that would shame a cheating accountant and now 2015, to cover those numbers, we are laying down the smite and trying to crush the concede under a belly of pickled herrings…

Copious Peace is not affable to the west and sticking the knife into the back of western states that wobble, such as France, is the new normality of society to belong. 5th Column’s set up in all countries by America, whether allies or foe and used in times of coercion to guide the sheep into the death bin…

This is a must as the masses are swaying in the wind and even our president backed against the wall and trying to call other names, as he finds fingers pointing his way in earnest. These fingers are upsetting the balance that the wealthy have created, but they are the ones who upset that equilibrium. That poor benign president, will pay with his necrosis, exponentially, if he loses the interest of the sheep. Scared is an understatement, for who would want in his shoes at this moment? 

A copious 2015 is a benignant example of the SHTF syndrome, called “Made In America!”

We make so little anymore and the decision to spread our, “Best Foot Forward,” made by the neocons who have infiltrated a once balanced government. This first sign should have been when the only sane voice of passion was a lone man named Ron Paul, why even his son, bought and paid for by the very hate mongers dancing in the streets of life…

Therefore, I am microwaving popcorn, that salty stuff, that satisfies even the most adjure craving for salt and I am going to see the mayhem at a front row seat. It is hard not to secure a front row seat, for death, destruction, lies, deceit, immorality, backstabbing, corruption, and or lack of simple rules and regulations devoid of compassion, has reached a point of being slathered across all aspects of humanity…

But popcorn is copious and damn good, if you ask me…

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Dependency in America is in a Catch 22; a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions…

There is a thousand faucets to that Catch 22, but I am going to talk about what I see as the most important part and or the most potential violence part in the future…

Dependency: I Call It A Catch 22…

One huge deference between Russia and America is the dependency reason. Now do not get me wrong and think that Russia does not have any form of welfare! They do and it is important to a few people, these people 99.9% are women who have lost a husband or never married and have children, get some help to feed the children. Rare, but it does happen and is important in the cases that get such help…

Family takes care of family and the government does not interfere in Russia. Then when the family does not do the job, the neighbors take care of the situation and no one, but no one tells and whines on others against them. Cherished is the term for children in Russia and all people try their best to take care of the children…

Therefore, the Russian people do not ever look at the government for help. They do not expect help and they do not want help. They expect to stand on their own two feet and if you have to loan a foot, for someone to stand on those feet, then so be it. They are not dependency orientated and least of all expecting governmental handouts…

Not even a one percent of Russia population has dependency in my eyes. They may need help, but they stand on their feet and fight like hell to prove you wrong. Just look at the babushkas in Russia and you will see the prevailing winds that blow across the country…

Meanwhile In America…

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/08/15/165-million-americans-are-dependents-of-the-state-is-tyranny-next/

New research from Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reveals that this reality may already be here, with more than 107 million Americans on some form of means-tested government welfare.

Add to that 46 million seniors collecting Medicare (subtracting out about 10 million on Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other senior-eligible programs already included in Sessions’ means-tested chart) and 22 million government employees at the federal, state, and local level — and suddenly, over 165 million people, a clear majority of the 308 million Americans counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010, are at least partly dependents of the state.

Half the populace and over (50% plus,) are on the take and it is growing daily…

This info above in the block-quote is here because it is western press, western made, western induced and you know it is worse than reported. You believe nothing but your own medicine/media and I am giving it in your dosage. This also is 2010 and 2012 information and it only gets worse as time goes by…

Now that is a time bomb (dependency) waiting for the right catalyst to set it off…

Dependency is a society deficit and will bring any empire to its knees, much less to focus on the moral, financial, and implications of corruption upon a failing, faltering, and degrading “Empire of Exceptionalism…” (~Sarc~)

I will suggest America; we need to fix the broken wheels and gears inside our country, before we go and break all the rest of the world, out of spite. That should keep us busy for about a hundred years or so, for we are one broke, broken, and psychotic country that needs much work done…

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Time to read…

PDF on Greer_on_collapse – a good read about what is going to happen and actually happening now.

The collapse of complex human societies, while a subject of perennial
scholarly and popular fascination, remains poorly understood. Tainter (1988),
surveying previous attempts to account for the demise of civilizations, noted that
most proposed explanations of collapse failed to adequately describe causative
mechanisms, and relied either on ad-hoc hypotheses based on details of specific cases
or, by contrast, essentially mystical claims (e.g., that civilizations have lifespans like
those of individual biological organisms). In another recent survey of collapses in
history (Yoffee and Cowgill 1988), contributors proposed widely divergent
explanatory models to account for broadly similar processes of decline and
breakdown.

Time to read…

WtR

In Moscow, village, and or even Siberia, you pass old women selling anything and everything. You see old women on the Metro stairs, they are on the buses and they are walking every street. They are all grandmas, but they all sell things to survive the harsh world we live in. If you love a particular sauerkraut, then that grandma will be there 7 days a week and you may buy it at anytime. Russia has a name for these women, Babushka!

In the big village near our little village; there is a babushka that meets the trains everyday. She sells something, anything and all things. She carries buckets of potatoes and tried to sell them to the train passengers. She carries buckets of radishes to sell to the train passengers. She is a typical babushka and even though she has to leave her home two hours before the train comes, just to carry that bucket, she is always there…

The Babushka is by no means the same as an elderly woman in the Americas today. These women will take on a 6’3″, 300 pound American Bear like me and not even blink. They grew up in hard times and give no inch to any one! I respect them for that and be polite or stay out of their way. I have at times gotten a bit peeved and Sveta has explained to me about the Babushka’s. The Babushka’s work very hard and seem at times to have boundless energy!

A babushka is a proud title and to call a woman a babushka is respect in Russia. These women have outlived a husband many times and they do not lay down and roll over when their husband is gone. They grab life by the rails and keep on going. They are and is the mainstay pillar of many families, for the dedushka (grandpa,) does not live as long as the babushka and therefore, she is the monarchy of the family…

The babushka does not ask for handouts and the babushka will make her own way. I understand this by the way Sveta and her mother interact over Sveta trying to give money to her mom. Sveta hides it in new books or old books that she buys her mom, or books that her mom is reading at the time. It is a way for the daughter to help and the mother to not refuse the help. A babushka is a proud woman, who has lived through more downfalls than most people on earth…

They remind me of my grandma (means babushka,) for she was from the era of Americans that had to fight for what they got in life (the depression). They fear no one…

The Babushka are a part of life in the villages as well as the large cities. They are a part of Russian life that tells of its history and future. The young women in Russia should learn from them and use the Babushka as a guide to helping themselves through life…

For one day they will be Babushka also!!

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PS: Softness is the downfall of a society…

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Weather measured in harshness or softness in Russia. I hear the Russians talk about -25 below zero as soft weather and sometimes -15 below zero is harsh weather. It confused me at first, then over the years, I have gathered what I need to understand what Russians mean about harsh weather and soft weather…

After years, I discovered that humidity is the difference. It is -5, humid and harsh. It is -30, dry and soft. It is windy and harsh at -10, or -10 is soft with no breeze what so ever…

Weather matter not…

I also discovered that it is a mental issue also. A Russia will stand outside and talk at -30 below and never one time act like it is cold. They just chat away, smoke cigarettes, drink a beer and act like it is a summer day. Granted, there are many more frozen days than warm days in Moscow, Russia, but still…

Today it is -19 below and it is soft weather. Yesterday was -19 below and it was harsh weather. Today the wind changed direction and it will warm up tonight to -10 below. That is what makes it soft. and I joke about being Bahama like outside. Yesterday was terrible and while still -19 below, it was windy and harsh. The wind sliced like a razor knife and the cold froze tears dripping from your eyes. It just plain sucked. I am starting to understand the “feels like” temperature that the news portrays. That is the important number to watch for, when dressing to go outside…

This is different from where I grew up in America, for it seems that no matter how bad the weather, it was still soft most of the time. Now I realize that Canada and other northern countries are the same as Russia, but I never lived in Canada, this far North…

I like soft more than harsh… 🙂

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Since there is a million recipes on this type of cookie and most know it as just plain Rock Cookies. I will not elaborate and just say, “This is an easy recipe, so make them, please and your family will eat them all up…”

Good for a long winter day, use whatever you have as ingredients and the young and old will be watching from the kitchen doorway as you bake them. Then after you pull them from the oven, watch as they disappear one by one and they run away from the sheet pan you baked them on…

Lets make a Rock Cookie called Russian Rocks…

RUSSIAN ROCKS:
1 1/2 c. brown sugar
2 3/4 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cloves
1 lb. pecans
1 c. butter
2 tbsp real heavy cream
3 eggs
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 lb. raisins
1 tsp. real vanilla or fake!

Put real cream, real butter and real sugar in a mixing bowl. Add beaten eggs and mixed dry ingredients alternately. Please sift the flour and then after mixing thoroughly add real vanilla…

Finish mixing again and what you should have is a very heavy thick dough, that is lumpy…

Then drop from spoon on to a greased cookie sheet and or wax paper sheet on a sheet pan. Some people do not like ugly cookies and they flatten the cookie and make pretty shapes or circles. Believe you me, they all go down the same and an ugly cookie is just as good as a beautiful cookie…

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 100 cookies…

Explanation for best Russian Rocks Cookie and what you make; In Russia we do not use fake anything. Vanilla is real vanilla extract and not imitation like in the US. Real cream and not powdered or imitation. Real butter, not margarine and so on and so on…

The difference in Russian Rocks Cookie is astounding and try to use real ingredients to enhance the recipe…

Enjoy…

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