Tuesday, October 20, 2026

KEVIN MCKERNAN: The amyloid based clotting cascade doesn’t stop. Once it’s set into motion it only gets worse with time.

DALTON: Coconut oil is antimicrobial against H Pylori.

Monday, October 19, 2026

SAMA HOOLE: A Melton Mowbray pork pie is pork, wrapped in pork fat, sealed with pork jelly. It was built to survive a day in the coat pocket of a man on a galloping horse.

A Melton Mowbray pork pie is pork, wrapped in pork fat, sealed with pork jelly. It was built to survive a day in the coat pocket of a man on a galloping horse.

The pastry is like no other. You boil water with a block of lard until it melts, pour it hot into the flour, and work it while it is still warm. The result can be raised by hand into a tall case that will stand up on its own. It bakes as hard as a tin.

The filling is fresh pork, chopped with a knife, with nothing added but salt and pepper. It cooks grey, the colour of a roast, and a real one is never pink.

Then comes the clever part. As the meat cooks it shrinks away from the crust and leaves a gap. So when the pie comes out of the oven, hot stock made from boiled trotters is poured in through a hole in the lid. It sets into a jelly that fills every space and shuts out the air. That is what makes the pie keep.

It was the food of the hunting field. The grooms and riders of Leicestershire needed something that would not fall apart at a fence, and from the 1830s Melton was sending them to London by stagecoach.

And the pork was there for a reason. The same countryside makes Stilton. Cheesemaking leaves gallons of whey, and whey fattens pigs. The cheese fed the pig, and the pig became the pie.

The recipe has been protected by law since 2009.

Every part of it breaks a modern rule. It is also a complete meal you can eat with one hand, that needs no fridge and no packaging, and they solved it 200 years ago with a pig.

from Scott Mechkowski,

Filed 19 Days Before an Election. Dead by January.

Two Democrats filed a bill Thursday that pays $500,000 to any citizen ICE detains. Both of them know it dies on January 3, 2027.

Leger Fernández sits on the Rules Committee. She knows exactly how a bills move, and she knows this one has no path through a Republican Judiciary Committee. Bonnie Watson Coleman leaves Congress in January. Neither of them will be around so why draft it? 

Because a bill costs nothing and a campaigning needs a villain and the hot button issue is ICE.

They picked the officers I spent 24 years working beside. It pays when someone is arrested or detained "without a warrant or without probable cause." That "or" sweeps in warrantless arrests federal law allows. 

The officer gets sued and there’s no immunity. 

If they cared about wrongly held citizens, they'd write something that could pass. They wrote something that could get quoted and excite their base 19 days before elections.

H.R. 10826 (IH)--Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act, Leger Fernández and Bonnie Watson Coleman. 

"US Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Could Get $500K Under New Bill," Billal Rahman, Newsweek, October 18, 2026.

LINUXHIPPIE: Marxism et al sits atop the Identity hierarchy. All "other" categories -religion, race, sex, etc are null from a threat analysis POV.