Dinner

For a wife, housewife, mother to come up with a daily menu is one of the most difficult things in the world. In our house we are three of us and each one likes different things. If my wife makes something I really like it is pretty definite that at least one member of the household will not like it. 

Hungarian cuisine.

It got to the point that I don't suggest any longer. She puts it front of me and I eat it. I also learned throughout the years that it is not worth criticizing. Years ago, I was told you ctiticize it, you will wear it! Keeping this in mind I just eat it. Occasionally my wife what would I like to eat, but this does not happen very frequently.

Abigail is not a great fan of Hungarian cooking. There is a long list of things she does not like. Weirdly, she likes Japanese, Thai, Spanish and Chinese foods a lot. I don't know where she picked up this custom. I could easily live on Hungarian cooking.

Yesterday Abigail said she would like to have Hungarian fish soup for dinner. The expression fish soup doesn't give justice to this meal. In Hungarian it is called halaszle. This is a soup with chunks of good fish in it. It is costumary to spice it up with hot paprika. The home of this meal is Szeged but there are many variations to it. Probably as many as many housewives are making it. 

Last night's fish soup turned out fantastic. We had two kinds of fish in it and I can't wait for tonight when we will have the leftovers. This is the kind of food that tastes better and better as time goes by, like goulash soup, stuffed cabbage and solet (cholent).

Vive la Hungarian cuisine!

Biden, again

Biden again showed his dislike of Israel. His State Department is in the process of opening a consular office in East Jerusalem dealing with the Palestinians. Israel against it, the world is against it, but good old Biden doesn't listen to anybody. During the Trump presidency it was accepted that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. Not part of Jerusalem but the entire city. Now how can this senile old man go and do this against the best ally this country has in that region.

During his campaign he swore that he would not meet with the Saudi prince, the heir to the throne. Today he sat next to him in Ryadh. He went there, hat in hand sucking up for oil. The man is a laughingstock of the world. How can he be trusted with his promises? The funny thing is that when prompted he keeps saying that he would run for another term. Who in his right mind would vote to somebody like him? Even his party is embarrassed about some of the things he is doing.

I love watching him doddering here and there when he is at a public event. And that is the leader of the free world! Good country America land of equal opportunity!

Senate

The United States Senate needs to confirm 1,200 presidential appointees. This needs background investigation (wetting), personal interviews with the senators, then submitted to the Senate for vote. In these days, 17 months after Biden took office the main business is still voting for the candidates. I love these proceedings because it is so political it is ridiculous. 

The individual senators come into the main chamber and vote. Before they do their votes, I can already tell which way it will go. The Democratic senators will always vote yes while the Republicans will always be against the nominee. Since there is a slim Democratic majority, their candidates will invariably win. But they still waste their time doing this jockeying.

It does not matter how talented, good the person is for the position his or her allegiance counts. Very democratic. This process will be stretched out so long that by the time the last nominee is voted on, Biden's presidential term had come to an end. Ha, ha!

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Biden yesterday visited Yad Vashem in Israel. When he came out, he signed a visitor's book. In my opinion he looked like clown. The yarmulke he was wearing was very large and made him look like a clown. Everybody around him wore distinguished sized yarmulkes but they gave him one that was circus size. I think they did this purposely and him being himself had no idea what was going on around him. Being in office for 17 months this was the first time he visited Israel. Good friend!

Election

We have a sorry sight for a president. Other heads of states are distinguished looking, attention commanding people. The only attention ours commands is help from other people who would watch him not to trip and fall.

This morning they showed Biden arriving in Israel. He was a sorry sight. I am not even sure he knew where he was. He had that senile grin on his face, was not sure what he was supposed to do and whom he was supposed to talk to. At least he knew how to read the prepared speech. I am sure the world is no longer takes him seriously.

I don't understand the reason behind his Israeli visit. That country right now has a caretaker government, with elections coming up. As far as I know caretaker governments usually don't have state visitors since they have not much authority to engage in international affairs. If that is the case, why did he go there? Because he likes to travel? 

He is playing the I am the president game. He likes to be surrounded and made believe that he is important. While he is sucking up to the Saudis for more oil, at home everything is going to the dogs. Inflation is over 9%, prices are going up, and there are shortages everywhere. But he is preoccupied giving more money to Ukraine. And blaming the Ukraine affair for our shortfalls. It is good politics blaming others for our mistakes!

I can't wait for the 2024 elections when his ass will be kicked out of the White House.

Dubai

It is good to have a lot of money. The problem that comes with it is what to do with a huge wealth. Thinking as an ordinary person money can create headaches. There is an old Hungarian saying that one can not sit on two horses with one arse. What is the point having 25 cars when one can only drive one at a time? Why have several houses or homes when one can only sleep in one bed at a time? At this list can go on and on. But we are human and love to show off.

Now when a country has more money, wealth that they know what do with that is a different story. Extravagance takes on a different meaning. Case in point is Dubai. Thanks to oil their wealth is beyond one's imagination. Poverty is not known in that country, but splurging is. Dubai is in the Arad Desert where temperatures range up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. It is a hot desert country. So what did they not have? Snow skiing. But they do now.

In 2005 they opened Ski Dubai. Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22,500 square meters of indoor ski area. The park maintains a temperature of -1 degree to 2 degrees Celsius throughout the year. It is a part of the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping malls in the world, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This indoor resort features an 85-metre-high indoor mountain (equivalent to a 25-story building).

A day ticket costs around $80 which doesn't sound too unreasonable. I was watching their webcams and noticed that the place was fairly busy. That means it is popular. Snow skiing in the middle of the Arabian Desert must be popular.

This article just wants to show that there are no limits as what man can do if the funds and technology are available.

If I were younger and have more money, I might just go off in August to Dubai for a ski vacation. But as it is now...

 

The Torys

Today I was watching a news program on the American BBC station. Their main subject was the prospective new leaders of the British government. Boris Johnson resigned, and his party will designate a new leader, thus the prime minister. It is interesting to see how little or none at all the authority the Queen has. She is nothing more than a ceremonial figurehead with absolutely no power at all. Stays out of politics, has no comment and her speeches are written by the current government. A job with no responsibility but with a huge income potential. 

They showed 14 aspiring conservative candidates who all want to be prime ministers. It was a very interesting list It looked like a Bombay, sorry Mumbai telephone directory. Whatever happened to the good old English names? Looking at those names it looks like a systematic takeover by second generation non-brits.

I don't know how the English feel about this but if I were one of them, I certainly wouldn't like it. Is this what their Conservative Party became? Sad, very sad!

Sunday

 Sunday!