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  • Easy to Grow Herbs for the Novice Kitchen Gardener

    Try growing these versatile herbs that can be used in many common dishes.

    • Chives – South sunny window or close fluorescent lights are best.  Water only when the top of the soil is dry.
    • Sage – Great for poultry dishes.  Sages needs lots of sun.
    • Basil – One of the easier herbs to grow indoors.  pH needs to be around 6.0 to 7.5.  Lots of natural light, but not necessarily full sunlight. May require repotting every few months.
    • Rosemary – Must have  lots of direct sunlight. Probably best for an outdoor patio.  Only water when the top of the soil is dry. Needs air movement to prevent powdery mildew.

  • Watch Movies and TV for FREE

    Multi-mediaPluto.tv – Pluto TV is an Internet-based TV platform operated by Pluto Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.Pluto TV runs as an app on 14 platforms, including Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Roku, and PlayStation consoles. The company currently has more than 75 content partners, over 100 free channels, and reaches over 6 million monthly active users. Pluto TV generates revenue from video advertisements between programming, with plans to remain a free television provider. Pluto TV’s licenses its content directly from providers.[1]

    Kanopy – Use your access to a local library to view this streaming service. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for public libraries and educational institutions that provides library patrons, students and faculty access to a large collection of films.[2]

    Sony Crackle –

    Tubi TV –

    Vudu – Walmart’s online video site with both free and paid content.

    Xumo –

    References:

    1. Wikipedia, Pluto TV
    2. Wikipedia, Kanopy

     

  • Bob Woodward’s New Book – Fear: Trump in the White House

    The Inside Story on President Trump, as Only Bob Woodward Can Tell it

    Fear - Trump in the White House. Available from Amazon.com
    Fear – Trump in the White House. Available from Amazon.com

    With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. [1]  Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

    Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.

    References:

    1. The Washington Post, July 30, 2018, Manuel Roig-Franzia – In a new book, Bob Woodward plans to reveal the ‘harrowing life’ inside Donald Trump’s White House




  • Trump Sucks Up To Putin

     

    Madeleine Albright
    Madeleine Albright

    Madeleine Albright [1] …

    I’m not easily shocked…

    But I’ve never seen a U.S. President suck up to a dictator as Trump did with Putin.

    I’ve never seen a U.S. President portray our country as a hapless victim on the world stage.

    Frankly, I’ve never seen a U.S. President attack the building blocks of democracy as Donald Trump has done. He is fulfilling Vladimir Putin’s plan to weaken America, by dividing us from our allies and by turning Americans against one another. To Putin, Trump is a gift that keeps on giving.

    So I say this to you without hesitation: Donald Trump is the most undemocratic President in modern history.

    Electing a Democratic Congress to put him in check has become a matter of national urgency.

    References:

    1. Wikipedia, Madeleine Albright

  • Carole King – Trump Doing Unspeakable Harm to our Country

    Carole King
    Angela George [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons
    Carole King [1], one of the most popular composer and singer-songwriter during the last half of the 20th century, give her opinion of our President.

    Donald Trump’s behavior over these last few months has gone far beyond what I thought possible for an ordinary citizen to get away with, let alone the President of the United States!

    Trump and his cohorts are doing unspeakable harm to our country, to our national security, and to our friends and neighbors in America and around the world.

    And what are Republicans in Congress doing to stop him? NOTHING!

    Continuing…

    We must restore honor, decency, and dignity to our politics, and put the heart, body, and brainpower of the U.S. House of Representatives to the task of protecting ALL Americans, even those who didn’t vote for them.

    References:

    1. Wikipedia, Carole King