Last night's dinner was... awesome!
First... I took a loaf of pepperoni & cheese (baked in!) bread and split it.
Next... chopped up and sprinkled broccoli over the halves... dribbled a bit of extra virgin olive oil on... some "shake-shake" cheese...
Next.. some sliced tomato...
Next... a layer of sliced mozzarella...
Next... a layer of salami...
Next... a layer of pastrami...
Next... a layer of Swiss cheese...
Next... a layer of turkey...
Next... a layer of extra sharp cheddar cheese...
Next... a layer of roast beef...
Finally... another layer of mozzarella... followed by "sandwiching" the concoction.
Baked (350-degrees) on a buttered cookie sheet sheet for 7.5 minutes on one side - flipped - then baked an additional 7.5 minutes. (Just enough to "seal" the innards and toast the bread.)
I then let it cool... wrapped it in tinfoil... and refridgerated.
Hit the gym for my 8:00 p.m. Zumba class... (I am friggin' AMAZING...!!!)
In the meantime... Mary had her prep instructions:
At 8:30 p.m. she put the TINFOIL WRAPPED concoction in the oven (pre-heated to 425-degrees) for a half-hour to "heat and jell." At 9:00 p.m. she turned the oven off and just left the concoction in the oven till I walked in the door at 9:20 p.m.
Unwrapped the sub... (the concoction)... and... ATE IT!
Folks... let's be clear: I... AM... A... KITCHEN... GOD...!!!
Should Jesus return to us while I'm still alive... no doubt He will show up at my door asking me to make Him a breakfast... lunch... or dinner.
OH...! NOW ON TO NEWSBITES!
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* FOUR-PARTER... (Part 1 of 4)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN_FUNNY_MONEY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-11-08-29-24
Folks...! This is from the friggin' AP!
* * *
There's a lot of money in climate financing.
* "CLIMATE FINANCING...?!?!"
* SERIOUSLY...?!?!
Six years ago, rich nations pledged that by 2020 they would provide $100 billion a year in aid, loans and private money to help poorer nations cope with climate change and wean themselves off fossil fuels.
* IF ONLY IT WASN'T ILLEGAL TO CALL FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT...
(*SMIRK*)
* SERIOUSLY... FOLKS... ALL OF THIS $HIT IS HAPPENING IN PLAN SIGHT AND WE HAVEN'T DECENDED IN MASS ON WASHINGTON? AMAZING...
This week in Paris, they're pledging even more, and discussing whether developing nations like China need to pony up, too.
But what exactly are they paying for? In the wild west of climate finance, the funding includes things like a "love movie festival," research on elephant sounds and even new coal plants.
When it comes to climate money, expert after expert says, don't believe most figures.
* FOLKS... THIS IS THE FRIGGIN' ASSOCIATED PRESS! YOU DON'T GET MORE "MAINSTREAM" THAN THAT!
No one is saying money is being misspent...
* THEY'RE NOT...?!?! (I DO BELIEVE THEY ARE!)
...but they are saying it is being misreported, making it sound bigger than it really is.
"Developed countries inflate the figure; they count everything they can find," said Romain Weikmans, a researcher at Brown University's Climate and Development Lab. "It's really a process of lying the more you can."
At a 2009 climate summit, rich nations pledged to ramp up funding for poor ones to $100 billion a year by 2020 to fund a trillion-dollar transition to clean energy.
* ANYONE THINK "ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT" IS SIMPLY FAR-RIGHT BABBLE? IT'S NOT! WTF DO YOU THINK ALL THIS IS ULTIMATELY ABOUT...?!?!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 4)
In a high-stakes game of poker in the weeks and months running up to this year's summit in Paris, developed nations have upped the ante to help get closer to that 2020 goal.
In the past year alone, pledges rose by at least $10 billion, according to a review of United Nations data by The Associated Press. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a big splash Wednesday when he announced a doubling of U.S. aid for poor countries to adapt to global warming, now at $860 million a year.
* FOLKS. READ THE F--KING CONSTITUTION! ONLY CONGRESS CAN SPEND MONEY! ONLY CONGRESS CAN RAISE MONEY! ONLY CONGRESS CAN BORROW MONEY!
But University of Zurich's Axel Michaelowa, who studies climate aid grants, found "there was a huge misrepresentation. Governments were actually really not able to report properly" on aid that was supposed to help countries reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
* CARBON DIOXIDE IS A KEY BUILDING BLOCK OF LIFE...!!!
His study, conducted on specific climate grants four years ago, showed a list of "projects without any conceivable climate change connotation," such as Belgium funding for a "love movie festival" in the early 2000s in Africa, a U.S.-funded study on Savannah elephant sounds, and uniforms for park guardians in Central America with aid from Spain.
* IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL FOR ME TO CALL FOR VIOLENCE...
(*CLENCHING MY JAW*)
* YES, FOLKS, I GET THE "GREATER POINT" THAT THE AP IS MAKING.
(*ROLLING MY EYES*)
* BUT MY FOCUS IS ON THE "SMALLER POINTS" THEY'RE USING TO MAKE THEIR LARGER POINT. THIS IS THE CRAP WE BORROW MONEY FROM CHINA TO FUND! AND THE DEBT GOES ON OUR SHOULDERS!
For their website Adaptation Watch, Weikmans and Brown University environmental studies professor Timmons Roberts studied 5,201 projects mentioned by developed nations and found that 3,444 of them "did not explicitly link project activities to addressing climate vulnerability," Weikmans said.
* "CLIMATE VULNERABILITY..."
(*MASSIVE MIGRAINE HEADACHE*)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
CONTINUING... (Part 3 of 4)(Actually... this might be it... this might be the conclusion; let me see...)
"Climate finance accounting is the wild west," Roberts said. Two other experts used the same "wild west" phrase, which some developed nations' representatives object to.
Weikmans used Belgium as an example. While praising efforts by the Belgian government to account for spending in a transparent way, Weikmans said a few years ago a 33 million euro pledge suddenly doubled on the books "thanks only to methodological changes in accounting."
Simon Buckle of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), wrote a report, tallying how much of the $100 billion-a-year target has been pledged. It's about $62 billion a year as of 2014, his report said.
India, however, looked at the same report said the real number was probably less than $1 billion a year. It issued a report of its own calling the OECD document full of "inflated numbers."
In an interview with the AP, Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar dismissed the OECD report as "a double-counting exercise." He said actual climate finance flowing to developing countries was much smaller.
"It's absolutely dismal," he said. "There is no finance on the table."
* I ONLY WISH THAT WERE THE CASE! WE'RE PISSING AWAY REAL MONEY ON A NON-EXISTENT PROBLEM! THE CLIMATE... IS THE CLIMATE! IT CHANGES! THE EARTH WARMS... THE EARTH COOLS... MOST OF IT IS SOLAR RELATED. (NOT "SOLAR ENERGY!" SOLAR AS IN... THE SUN!)
Buckle told The Associated Press: "I'll stand by it to the death."
* THEN, PLEASE... DIE, ALREADY!
Others are standing at his side. In an email sent to some negotiators in the climate talks when the report was released in October, U.S. chief climate negotiator Todd Stern hailed the report as "rigorous, transparent and conservative" and said it supersedes all other documents. He said it showed that the developed nations have made "significant progress" toward the $100 billion goal.
So... is it $62 billion or less than $1 billion?
* I WISH IT WERE ZERO...!!!
"You couldn't get further apart than that," said Roberts, the environmental studies professor. "Unfortunately the truth is probably somewhat in between." (He estimated somewhere in the range of $20 to $30 billion.)
Michaelowa, of the University of Zurich, said: "If I could give my personal guess I would say $40 to $50 billion."
Much of the question centers on what should you count. A lot of the money comes in the form of loans. While it seems OK to count loans that are given at a discount rate or zero interest because that helps the nation, many of the loans are given at market rate, meaning they aren't really aid, said Tim Gore of Oxfam International.
* I... DON'T... WANT... ANY... AID!
* I... DON'T... WANT... ANY... LOANS!
* NOT ONLY IS THIS "VOODU ECONONOMICS;" IT'S ALSO VOODU SCIENCE! IT'S ALL BULL$HIT!
Many say those market-rate loans, often called non-concessional, shouldn't be counted because they have to be paid back with interest. When the money is paid back, does the loan no longer count or is it negative aid?
Magdy MartÃnez-Soliman, the United Nations Development Program's assistant administrator, said some countries - or even sub-national governments like Mexican states - wouldn't be able to get loans, so even market-rate loans help because they let these governments do something valuable, like build infrastructure.
Another issue is that some loans categorized as being primarily or significantly about climate aid aren't at all, and many don't even mention the word climate, Gore and others said.
* GORE...??? WHERE THE HELL DID GORE COME FROM...?!?! HOW'D HE GET INTO THIS STORY...?!?!
(*SNORT*)
* FOLKS... THERE'S MORE TO THE ARTICLE... BUT IF YOU'RE LIKE ME... YOU'RE READ ALL YOU NEED TO.
* YEP! CONCLUDED!
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