Joe Levi presents Greener Living through Technology

Last week, Barack Obama’s message to the world was: “the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.”

Just because the majority of the attacks against “western-style” people are being committed by people with Islamic ties doesn’t mean Islam is to blame. Using the same logic, just because some criminals use firearms during the commission of their crimes, doesn’t means the guns are to blame. Okay, fair enough.

So really, we’re at war against the people committing these crimes, right? So how does the Federal Government identify these people?

Lucky for you they have a confidential report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), the non-confidential summary of which has been leaked to the innerwebs.

Are you a terrorist?

According to two government reports:

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Gluten is a vegetarian alternative to meat. When prepared and seasoned correctly it can be almost indistinguishable from hamburger, ribs, chicken strips or chicken nuggets, or sausage.

My buddy recently wrote an article on how to make wheat gluten at home.

My wife had just ground some hard white wheat earlier in the day, and I decided to see what I could do and report my results.

I followed my buddy’s directions up to the “seitan process” that he mentions in his post.

The day after mixing the wheat and water we “washed” the starches out of the ball, spread, and cut into strips, we then marinated (soaked) the strips in water with some liquid smoke, Worcester sauce, and some homemade “beef flavoring” spice mix.

The next day we fried the strips in olive oil, top dressing them with various spices to experiment with flavoring (garlic powder, black pepper, beef flavoring spice mix, and steak rub). We left a few “plain” as a control.

The kids ate them! My wife loved them, she enjoyed them more than chicken strips or nuggets (with a little shaping we could easily turn these into chicken nuggets).

We determined that the spices applied during cooking didn’t really matter (although the black pepper made that strip “spicier” than the others).

The next day I coiled some of the strips into patties and ate them like I would a hamburger.

Mmmm…

Do you have any gluten recipes or suggestions?

I’m glad this administration is all about change…

Apparently that “change” doesn’t include spending money to get an F-16 escort of the Presidential Plane (also known as Air Force 1 when the President is aboard, which he was not at the time) doing “low altitude fly-by’s” of Lower Manhattan.

Why were the planes flying so low? According to the article, to get pictures of the presidential plane with Lady Liberty in the background. It came with an unfortunate side-effect: “the photo shoot created a scene with striking similarities to 9/11, as the jet swooped over Ground Zero, far too close to New York City buildings for workers who had no idea about the plan. Thousands poured into the streets, unsure of what was happening.”

The President says he didn’t know anything about it, and that it won’t happen again…

Well, not until next week, when the same type of low-altitude fly-by is scheduled for Washington, D.C., so they can get pictures of the plane with various monuments and the Capital building as the backdrop.

Just out of curiosity, wouldn’t a few royalty-free stock photos and a license to Photoshop cost less than all this?