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In the last few days I’ve been seeing in the news that scientist have possibly found the cause for the mysterious disappearance of the honey bees. They now think it is a virus. Do you remember that in the spring time they taught it was cell phones! This goes to show you that the international news services are not to be taken seriously. They publish theories that have no bases in reality.

I used to be a news junkie until a few years ago when I realised that most news broadcasts, and what you read in the paper, are just as fictional as dime store novel and anything shown on prime time television. They rush to unsubstantiated conclusions and when they are wrong, which is most of the time, they do not own up to it. News services use to have integrity, now they’ll publish or broadcast anything as long as they money out of it. I hope you all realise that. They will also decide what we, the public, must believe. They mostly only show one side of the story.

I was going to bash Microsoft at this point in this posting but decided against it because everything the do, according to them, is perfect and everything that Linux or Apple or Sun etc does infringes on Microsoft’s patents. I think that just the fact that I have written about them today infringes 23 of their patents. I’ll stop now since I have just received an email from Microsoft threatening legal action against me. A legal action is now patented by Microsoft.

I guess I have ranted long enough for today.

Spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does, does it swing from a web, no it doesn’t cause it’s a pig…

On Sunday I cooked my famous barbecue pork loin roast and I also cooked some ribs as a side dish. What was the occasion? you are asking yourself. Well in Canada Labour day weekend is the official ending of summer, so we must celebrate this by spending the whole day doing yard work and finishing summer projects that were put aside because of the “it’s way too nice out to work” excuse.

I am going to share with you the pig recipe. Please keep it a secret because this recipe has been past down through the ages and only a few people know of it’s existence and we don’t want all the pigs in the world to be slaughtered and barbecued because that is what will happen if this gets out.

The ingredients are:

1 pork loin roast 4 to 6 pounds

For the dry rub:

3 Tbs black pepper

3 Tbs brown sugar packed

3 Tbs paprika

2 Tbs coarse salt

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

For the mop:

1 cup cooking wine or red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar

1/4 cup red wine vinegar (only if you are using cooking wine; use water if using vinegar)

1 can of light beer (preferably Moose Light)

4 Tbs Worcestershire sauce

2 Tbs black pepper

2 Tbs coarse salt

4 Tbs vegetable oil

2 Tbs lemon juice

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 Tbs chopped garlic

Mix all the dry rub ingredients together. Place pig meat on baking dish, Coat the pork with dry rub press the dry rub into roast. The entire roast (top, bottom and sides) must be covered by the dry rub. Cover with plastic film and refrigerate the roast at least 2 hours and up to 12 hours. Just before you are ready to cook mix all the mop ingredients.

Heat barbecue to 225F, place the roast fat side down at first. turn the roast every 30 minutes and brush with mop. Keep the barbecue’s temperature between 225F and 250F. cook the roast 1 hour per pound or until the internal temperature of the roast reaches 170F. Remove from heat put on cutting board cover with tin foil wait ten minutes before cutting. Cut into thin slices serve with potatoes, salad, corn, string beans, asparagus whatever you feel like.

I did the same thing with pork ribs and damn they were good. Good food, good wine and good company, how can you beat that? You can’t.

p.s. for those of you not in the know, spider pig is sung by Homer in The Simpson Movie