Shannon Bream with Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions has stirred to life on two issues. First, he is challenging California on their new laws flaunting their status as sanctuary state. Second he is responding to Trey Gowdy's and Bob Goodlatte's demand for Special Counsel to examine FISA abuses.

First Sessions said the DOJ auditor will do. Then Gowdy and Goodlatte want somebody with authority to examine people beyond DOJ. Sessions said he already has someone from the judiciary who used to be DOJ. But now he is "thinking about" an independent investigator to satisfy Gowdy and Goodlatte.

The post at the Treehouse is about Jeff Sessions mentioning he already has someone outside of Washington looking into the FISA abuses. 

Comments over there are lengthy, as usual. Over half of them don't trust anymore. They're trying to parse Session's precise wording and extrapolate what all this means to the big picture. They're trying to mesh what they think that they know about Session's history. Others believe Sessions is building a gigantic case to spring all at once when the timing is right and his ducks all neatly lined up. Some believe all that we see is actually coordinated to appear spontaneous.  

I don't know what to think.

The corruption is so pervasive it actually characterizes Washington and our media. I doubt Sessions is building a a case that can come anywhere near genuine justice. That would mean the destruction of Washington and annihilation of Obama's legacy. I don't think he's up to that kind of creative destruction.

So, I'll wait and see what happens and what doesn't. Mostly, what doesn't. 

Then commenter Hopper Creek said,

This is the 11th hour before the hammer drops…..Trump is wielding the SWORD of Justice…  

God is separating the wheat from the chaff..Phew wheeee….

They're religious over there. And Alister responded, 

THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small;

Though with patience he stands waiting, With exactness grinds he all.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  

In separating the wheat from the chaff, often God works things together for His good, in His time, not ours. Timing is important, I trust the key leaders working with our POTUS and AG all know this. And in case some swamp creatures slither out and the hand of justice does not bring them to account, keep in mind that ultimately, a just God sits on the throne of heaven. NO one ever gets away from His terrible justice. 

Mills, wheat, chaff. I can deal with that. That's closer to me, and apolitical and non-speculative. It means civilization itself.

What a splendid segue to things that I actually care about.

Check out this guy who harvests his wheat patch with scissors, breaks down the wheat heads with a Cuisinart, and separates chaff from seeds with a blower. It's a lot more interesting than speculating about Sessions.

If you've ever made bread from 100% whole wheat, you probably ended up with a brick. And that's a shame because the flavor is outstanding. You can cut very thin slices and be blown away by its excellent taste. It's profound. But if you made that with wheat that you just milled yourself then that outstanding flavor is intensified. The reason for that is because whole wheat has oil inside it that oxidizes rapidly when milled to such tiny particles. Flavor begins to escape the moment grains are milled. The air touches it, boom, the flavor evaporates.

My hands hurt. 

I've been milling tiny amounts of corn kernels using a mill designed for coffee beans. It's adjustable so it can be opened to accept corn kernels and crack them. Then the ceramic burrs adjusted to leave a smaller space and the cracked particles re-milled to corn powder. 

It takes about 500 turns to reduce 1/4 cup of popcorn kernels to cracked pieces, then 500 more turns to  reduce cracked particles to corn flour. 

I did this twice with popcorn and with dried posole. 

When cooked, the posole was absolutely delicious. Much better than standard grits from prepared white cornmeal (treated with an alanine to get rid of the corn kernel husk) 

I had soaked posole for two days to soften them, imagining they'd mill more easily, but they don't even move through the mill. However, they do process much more easily by way of standard processor blades, or by electric bladed coffee mill. 

I broke my 3rd electric coffee mill by processing hard popcorn. 

This time, half the blade broke right off and the other half of the blade still attached chewed up the broken half into tiny metal bits mixed with the milled popcorn. 

It was only 1/4 cup of popcorn. Jeeze. 

But that most recent coffee bean mill lasted three years. That's actually pretty good considering the abuse I've given it. 

This manual mill will not work for this. It's too difficult and it takes way too long. Therefore I bought a 4th electric coffee bean mill. And it will receive the same abuse until it too fails. 

But now I learned I can soften the kernels by soaking before milling so maybe that will help. If I don't need them milled immediately. Until now everything was controlled by impulse. 

The thing is, I have a proper flour mill and it handles popcorn very well. But that is large and heavy and a drag to pull out, and an even worse drag to clean. Best for large batches, not individual meals. 

It handles everything. Wheat, beans, corn kernels. So far, everything. And after cranking the manual thing thousands of times today, dragging this out and then cleaning it doesn't seem so bad. 

And that cranking is really hard. It's why my hands hurt so badly. You don't just twirl it around. It's very tough to grind, gets stuck all the time, and that tells me what this electric one is doing, and it tells me just how much abuse I've been putting the small electric coffee mills through. I had no idea those kernels are so hard to crack. It makes me appreciate all of them more.