Put a ban on assault weapons? Talks again are spewing. And check the definition of assault. Seems rather harsh and more like evil against another who does not know it is coming. Assaulted. What if they assault you? And you assault back? That is what guns are for. I'd rather whip you with the butt of the gun or shoot or stab with a bayonette than use my bare fists on their dirty ass teeth. lol.

Good ingredients means good health.

Teavana. www.teavana.com
You want to feel good. Drink some home brewed tea. Get yourself some tea leaves from Teavana.
I was drinking Lipton and I was happy with that. Until now. After my girlfriend's sister introduced us to Teavana.
Their tea leaves are fresh and not dried out. With life still in them.

I will have to say the white tea (Silver Yin Zhen Pearls White Tea) had me wired I think on its cleansing properties maybe. 20 minutes or so after a full cup I feel so clean and uppity up.
I would like to try the black tea too. Or like they suggest for some of the teas to combine them.

I used just one tiny little hand full of the tea pearls.. and I used them three times before they were too weak to taste any longer.
That is pretty good compared to a regular tea bag that is pretty much done after it's first infusion.
What I did because I don't have a fancy steamer or temperature controlled pot.
I just let the coffee maker perculate into the top coffee filter area but took the pot away from the hot plate so the coffee filter area where the tea and hot water is trying to drip from stops. I let the hot water build up in there for 2 minutes on a kitchen timer then I put the pot back. Let it all drip through while it is still perculating more hot water through it.
Then I pull the pot back again. Let it build up and drain again.
Once the whole perculation process is done. I then pour all the contents in the pot. ( I only make 6 cups at a time) now back into the filter where the tea is sitting.
And let it flush through again and then again one more time.
It really gets the flavor and contents out of the leaves good without too much heat so I can do it again later two more times I found I can get away with.

After visiting Teavana. And the pricey pots they are selling I came up with an Idea of a pot they need or all tea drinkers and coffee drinkers. That would use the process like I do manually now but automaticly.
They need a pot that has variable temperatures and times.
Like a digital stove top or oven has exact temp control.
Because like cooking meats and veggies or like I am sure you find in the lab with materials at different temps do different things.
And I imagine that each type of tea leaf too needs different temperatures.
I wish I was some kid that had super rich parents or parents with lawyers and patent connections. I need to find some people like this.
I always have great ideas that would help things be professional and yet cost effective. I could easily sell a pot like that for 130.00 all day and make a nice profit. The cost of a lot of things for sale today upset me. Teavana had one kettle with just a turkey roaster type thermometer. And that was 99.00. I was like wow!!! That is high. lol.
Here is a cool thermometer I found.
http://www.amazon.com/Component-Design-TT1-Digital-Thermometer/dp/B0021AEA8U

Basicly a tea pot brewer that would have this built in would be awesome!

This past weekend spent it with my love in Chicago. I have never been to the windy city before. In a moments thought walking across railroad tracks downtown Royal Oak. I thought at that moment. I would love to take the Amtrak and hit the rails.
That night I asked my baby if she would like to go somewhere else new for the weekend and bounce back.
It was on. She said "yeahh!!"
I booked the tickets online. Picked them up the next afternoon. Packed a bag. And we were outta Detroit at 5:55pm May 14th.
Only took the Amtrak train from 4th street in Royal Oak to 8 mile 3 minutes and 56 seconds.
The ride was unique with seeing the neighborhoods from a different perspective and angle.
Places you have been to are like being there again on the train seeing it from the backside.
Past the State Fair Grounds, the Ferndale Police Impound, The train yard, Russel Projects and downtown Detroit.
Boom.. we we're on our way.
5 plus hours later we arrived in Chi Town like 11pm.
Got off the train.. hit Adams St. and started heading towards the water east.
It is great to goto new places. The different air, voices, laughter, traffic and sights.
Chicago was great.

I hate how the world is against rap. Even rappers afraid to say they are rap. Calling them self hip hop when they have nothing but beats, no samples and all raps. Not even Hip Hop. I am tired of the wannabe gangsta prep. Looking so clean as if that deserved respect. Hiding and covering the style. A style of it's own in attitude, perseverance, dedication, loyalty in a lifestyle of it's own. That is life. I never get old of the old. I am what I was and till I die. Regardless what people want me to be like. Never ... never went rap to country never went country to rap. Never went metal to crip or crip to the blood. Always have mad respect. The power of the 6th sense and nation. For equality in a gangsta and non gangsta life immense emancipation. Although I cannot say I am in the gang today in my heart and in my life style it is reflected always. I am not ashamed. With no disrespect to the bloods or any other organization. This is mad representation for all in sum.

There is a new video to watch on the tube. www.youtube.com/MacNifty
SEA SHELL CITY... on a trip I took recently to the upper peninsula of Michigan. We made a stop at Sea Shell City.. check out the video. If you have never been... it is kind of like you will or have been after watching the video.

Want something different and really good, full of flavor? Gooseberries! Goto www.wienkes.com and order yourself a jar of jam. Promise you will love it.

Christines has some good food. And some really cool art pieces hanging on the wall that change out with different artists month by month. There is right now some really cool picture changing/shifting designs in there right now with bright vivid color. I want to say it is holographic but it isn't. Like a kids book you turn sideways and the image changes. Like that. However for just a 12x14 with a simple black frame and glass. $700.00. WTF? R U Serious? In Ferndale? This is the part of Ferndale that pisses me off. The fact we are on 8 mile and they pretend and charge the price of a higher class neighborhood. No no this is still the same old Dale with nice kept yards yes but what goes on in these homes and schools is no better than the other. I would pay no more than 150.00 for those art pieces. Not 700.00. And Christines menu is tasty but at the same time I feel out of place eating there with the yup yups invading the neighborhood. Pretending this area is upper class. While they have ductape holding their headlight on. Or wearing their 60s black frame glasses acting trendy or gay looking at me in my street wear like I am out of place or the wrong place. Sit down with my slurpee just got at 7 eleven sit down and order something. The girl that works there sometimes acts snotty n snobby or better at times I feel. Gives my girl a pickle with her sandwich but not mine. Or when I ask for a pound of redskin potato salad which they make with some greens it has such a light eat it up taste. She says "boy your metabolism must be high." huh? How about this is good ass food and i'm going to eat it up yum!!! haha. Meanwhile places like this pretend to be upper class I look at the cheap air conditioner and crappy central air, wall falling apart with cracks and paint chipping. A dirty glass window and a counter of stainless in nice design but when I leaned on it to pay the bill it fell over on the register. lol. 8 dollar sandwiches, 700 dollar art pieces and you can't afford to put a angle bracket for 1 dollar and 6 screws for 50 cents to hold your counter? Just makes me think of the mold that could be growing under it after I did move it. eww. Places like AppleBees, Chilis and other places with lots of color, decoration and they are a big chain. The independents I feel add some fancy drop lights, tear out the cielings bare and paint, strip the floor to the crete lay no tile, paint the walls a modern or different color. And call it fancy or classy. No. Craftsmanship makes a place classy and prestigious. Time taken into the crafts. Not a simple computer image printed selling for 700 and no one on one time personally taken into painting it. No. For what is pretended. In the end you are still working class. The breads and meats you get are no better. The plates and silverware is no better. The table is wobbly and my lemonade which is homemade :-) just spilled. I think pricing and expectation is ridiculous these days. This place is no better than 3 sisters in Rochester. A hole in the wall with great food. The great food comes with the taste of slow cooked and homemade. It is not the fancy lights. I guess the funny part is the fact this nice restaurant is in a shopping center plaza with the unemployment and employment office. Kind of ironic.