1 pound ground beef
1 small onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 (1 ounce) packet taco seasoning mix
1 (16 ounce) bag frozen Mexican-style corn
1 (12 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 (12 ounce) bag shredded Mexican cheese blend
1 (16 ounce) package frozen tater tots
1 (12 fluid ounce) can enchilada sauce
Directions:
Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Prepare a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Cook the ground beef in a skillet over medium heat until completely browned, 5 to 7 minutes.
Add the onion, garlic, taco seasoning mix, frozen Mexican-style corn, and black beans to the ground beef; cook and stir another 10 minutes.
Set aside to cool slightly.
Combine the ground beef mixture in a large bowl with about 3/4 of the Mexican cheese blend and the tater tots; stir to combine.
Pour about 1/3 of the enchilada sauce into the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
Add the tater tot mixture to the baking dish; lightly pat the mixture down into a solid, even layer. Pour the remaining enchilada sauce over the tater tot layer.
Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
Sprinkle the remaining Mexican cheese over the casserole and return to oven until the cheese is melted and bubbly, about 5 minutes more.
1 cup water
1 cup ketchup
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 tablespoon salt
2 pounds beef back ribs
Directions:
Mix water, ketchup, tomato paste, brown sugar, vinegar, mustard, and salt in a slow cooker, stirring to dissolve brown sugar and salt.
Combine the milk and vinegar in a small bowl for 10 minutes to “sour”. This is an important step and it is called “soured milk” which is much different that sour milk.
(Note: You will not taste the vinegar in the final product.)
Set aside.
Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl.
In a smaller bowl, whisk the soured milk, egg, vanilla and melted butter together. Pour into the dry ingredients and whisk until most of the lumps are gone, but do not over beat.
The batter will be thick, don’t add any more liquid.
Let the batter sit undisturbed for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, you will see bubbles in the batter, very important do not stir again.
Gently dip out (don’t pour out) 1/2 cup of batter and place it on a buttered grill or frying pan.
Cook until bubbles appear on the surface of the pancake and then flip with a spatula and brown the other side.
Seems that every election cycle has it’s fair share of issues. It’s nothing new. There’s always someone, somewhere, that’s going to take issue with whoever it might be in the White House at any given time.
Recently, President Joe Biden, speaking in front of a small crowd in Texas, said that he and the First Lady wanted to visit the state on Friday. However, his speech was quickly derailed.
Biden, trying to name off Texas congressional members and other U.S. Democrats who were helping in the Texas relief effort, completely loses his thought process and track of mind.
“What am I doing here? I’m going to lose track here.” … as the video below clearly shows.
I may not of necessarily liked Bill Clinton — The second term of George Bush was a total disaster — Barack Obama sowed his own share of hate and discontent — Trump, being all bombastic and rude. None of these could have ever prepared me, the nation, or even the world, for Joe Biden.
Even through many of these worthless past Presidents, I’ve maintained a very healthy respect for the “office” of the Presidency. This is the United States after all, and respect for our government institutions should be maintained at levels higher than the particular individuals that might happen to inhabit them.
As an American, I’m somewhat embarrassed for my nation. You can love or hate a President, but President Joe Biden is taxing the confidence of the many on a global scale.
I’ve never seen any nation laugh so hard at a United States President than I have this year. The United States is not a “laughing stock”, but President Joe Biden is hell bent on turning my nation into one and permanently destroying any good credibility we may have had along the way.
Love them or hate them, our past Presidents have all had the ability to rub at least two brain cells together — This whole business with Joe Biden is a tragedy of epic proportions. The man should be at home, enjoying his sunset years in peace.
I’m sorry for President Joe Biden, and I’m sorry for our nation.
People with a sense of oneness experience greater life satisfaction — the idea that everything in the world is connected and interdependent — appear to have greater life satisfaction than those who don’t, regardless of whether they belong to a religion or don’t, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
“The feeling of being at one with a divine principle, life, the world, other people or even activities has been discussed in various religious traditions but also in a wide variety of scientific research from different disciplines,” said Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, PhD, of the University of Mannheim and author of the study. “The results of this study reveal a significant positive effect of oneness beliefs on life satisfaction, even controlling for religious beliefs.”
The research was published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
Dr Laura Marie Edinger-Schons .. People with a sense of oneness study
Edinger-Schons conducted two surveys involving nearly 75,000 people in Germany. In the first survey, more than 7,000 participants, recruited as part of a cooperation project between the university and a company, were asked to respond to a series of statements designed to measure their belief in oneness (e.g., “I believe that everything in the world is based on a common principle” or “Everything in the world is interdependent and influenced by each other”).
They were also asked to respond to items measuring other concepts associated with oneness, such as social connectedness, connectedness to nature and empathy as well as life satisfaction.
Edinger-Schons found a significant correlation between scores on her oneness scale and the concepts associated with oneness, suggesting that it was a valid measure of the concept. More important, she also found that people with higher oneness scores reported significantly greater life satisfaction.
To determine whether oneness scores were variable over time or a more fixed construct, the same survey was administered to the same group of people six weeks later. While a little more than 3,000 of them responded, Edinger-Schons still found that oneness beliefs had not changed significantly and therefore might be stable over time.
“Obviously, oneness beliefs are more than a situation-specific feeling or mood,” she said. “They rather seem to represent a general attitude toward life.”
Once again, she also found a significant correlation between oneness beliefs and life satisfaction. While being satisfied with life as a whole should be rewarding in itself, research does suggest that people with higher life satisfaction experience some additional benefits, such as increased academic performance in younger people and better health in old age, according to Edinger-Schons.
In a second survey, involving more than 67,000 people, Edinger-Schons looked at whether oneness beliefs could explain individuals’ life satisfaction over and above the effect of religion. Much research has been done on the association between religion and life satisfaction, but she wondered if there might not be something else at work. Specifically, her hypothesis was that oneness beliefs might explain peoples’ satisfaction with life even better than religion.
“I recognized that in various philosophical and religious texts, a central idea is the idea of oneness,” said Edinger-Schons. “In my free time, I enjoy surfing, Capoeira, meditation and yoga, and all of these have been said to lead to experiences that can be described as being at one with life or nature or just experiencing a state of flow through being immersed in the activity. I was wondering whether the larger belief in oneness is something that is independent of religious beliefs and how it affects satisfaction with life.”
Religious Beliefs and Symbols – People with a sense of oneness
Participants came from a variety of religious backgrounds, including Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. More than a quarter of those who identified their beliefs said they were atheist.
People with a sense of oneness scores did vary by religion (Muslims had the highest median score while atheists had the lowest), they were much better predictors of life satisfaction than religious beliefs.
“I did not find it surprising that atheists have the lowest levels of oneness beliefs in the sample, but what surprised me was that oneness beliefs were actually very different across various religious affiliations, with Muslims having the highest levels,” she said. “Also, when oneness beliefs were taken into account, many of the positive effects of religious affiliation on life satisfaction disappeared.”
Many people today practice yoga, meditation, action sports and other activities that aim at achieving a state of oneness or flow. Strengthening the more general belief in the oneness of everything has the potential to enhance peoples’ lives and might even be more effective than traditional religious beliefs and practices at improving life satisfaction, Edinger-Schons said.
As all the participants (for People with a sense of oneness) were from Germany, she noted that it is unclear if this effect would translate to residents of other countries and suggested more research would need to be done.
Journal Reference for People with a sense of oneness:
Laura Marie Edinger-Schons. Oneness beliefs and their effect on life satisfaction.. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2019; DOI: 10.1037/rel0000259
Biden Speech Derails “What am I Doing here?”
Seems that every election cycle has it’s fair share of issues. It’s nothing new. There’s always someone, somewhere, that’s going to take issue with whoever it might be in the White House at any given time.
Recently, President Joe Biden, speaking in front of a small crowd in Texas, said that he and the First Lady wanted to visit the state on Friday. However, his speech was quickly derailed.
Biden, trying to name off Texas congressional members and other U.S. Democrats who were helping in the Texas relief effort, completely loses his thought process and track of mind.
“What am I doing here? I’m going to lose track here.” … as the video below clearly shows.
Sometimes we all lose track of what we are saying — We draw a blank. It happens every day — to all of us at some point.
What makes this particular instance somewhat alarming, is that President Joe Biden has the tendency to lose his train of thought extremely frequently.
Here is an example of what Rita Panahi at Sky News Australia had to say:
I may not of necessarily liked Bill Clinton — The second term of George Bush was a total disaster — Barack Obama sowed his own share of hate and discontent — Trump, being all bombastic and rude. None of these could have ever prepared me, the nation, or even the world, for Joe Biden.
Even through many of these worthless past Presidents, I’ve maintained a very healthy respect for the “office” of the Presidency. This is the United States after all, and respect for our government institutions should be maintained at levels higher than the particular individuals that might happen to inhabit them.
As an American, I’m somewhat embarrassed for my nation. You can love or hate a President, but President Joe Biden is taxing the confidence of the many on a global scale.
I’ve never seen any nation laugh so hard at a United States President than I have this year. The United States is not a “laughing stock”, but President Joe Biden is hell bent on turning my nation into one and permanently destroying any good credibility we may have had along the way.
Love them or hate them, our past Presidents have all had the ability to rub at least two brain cells together — This whole business with Joe Biden is a tragedy of epic proportions. The man should be at home, enjoying his sunset years in peace.
I’m sorry for President Joe Biden, and I’m sorry for our nation.