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O.k., it’s a hard “g” and not much different from what French cooks call beurre clarifié (clarified butter), but where’s the fun in that?

I’ve learned a lot in my foray into Indian cooking.  Besides some incredibly tasty dishes, I’ve learned some of the tricks Indian cooks employ to make their fussy recipes less complicated.  Chief thus far has been that incredible stuff, garlic paste (1), plus pastes of ginger and turmeric.  I never thought ghee was such a big deal.  Isn’t it just what Julia would call clarified butter (2)?   Then I started to make my own and use it, and oh my!  It’s a beautiful cooking fat, stable at room temperature with a smoke point of 482⁰F!  This is well above that of most cooking oils and certainly way beyond what you can expect from butter (350⁰F)(3).   Ghee is prepared at lower temperature than clarified butter, which is brought to a boil in its preparation (4).  This preserves more nutrients.  Indeed, the stuff is a nutritional powerhouse (5).  Much of the lipid (fat) is in the form of medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), which are absorbed far more easily that regular lipids, used medically to supplement patients with GI disorders impairing fat absorption.  While ghee is a milk product, it contains no lactose, good for those intolerants out there.  It’s high in vitamin A, omega-3 fatty acids, butyric acid (which boosts T-cells), and vitamin K2 (good for bones).

The person who taught me about ghee, Madhur Jaffrey, says it’s not widely used by Indian cooks, as dairy products are a luxury in India (at least in the 70s when Madhur write her books) (6).  The stuff was saved for special occasions and religious rituals.  Wikipedia contains a nice delineation of the many rituals for which it is used (7).

But as a white culturally appropriating colonialist, I can use the stuff for whatever I want, right?!  For me, that’s mainly as a cooking fat.  It’s a little too thin to spread on anything.  It congeals a bit at room temperature, but never gets thicker than tomato paste.

But how do you make it?  It’s pretty simple.

Start with a pound of regular butter in a small saucepan on low heat.

The butter will melt to a liquid.  If you have a clear pan like I have, you can see the milk solids settle out.

Then you’ll see some foam forming on the top.  Different butters make different amounts of foam.  The “Challenge” I used last week put up lots of foam, whereas the fancy imported Irish butter I used yesterday – Kerrygold – made almost none.  Meijer had it on sale to where it was about the same price as “regular” butter.  Why not splurge?  Mom swore by Kerrygold.

Once you see big bubbles “blooping” up, you’re done.  Skim off the foam with a spoon and set aside.  The skim isn’t ghee but it’s tasty and you’ll surely find something to dip into it or spread.

Then it’s time to pour the ghee into a jar, through a strainer and some cheesecloth.  Just the clear stuff please, leaving the solids behind in the pan.  

Save the solids, too, as these are especially tasty (my wife’s favorite product of ghee making).  The yield is surprisingly inefficient, as a pound of butter makes about 11 oz of ghee. (my last batch yielded 11.2 oz ghee and 3.9 oz solids and foam).  The yield isn’t unexpected considering most butter sold is 80% or more butterfat (8). The rest is proteinaceous solids (mostly casein) and water. So what you’ve got left is gold.

Here in the tail end of green bean season, we like to blanch our catch, iced down of course, then warm ‘em up in 2-3 T of ghee in the wok.  I don’t think it would go as smoothly with plain butter.  You don’t need an Indian recipe to use the stuff. We go through most of ours with eggs and vegetables.  Go ahead and try it then and try to think how you got by without that jar of yellow stuff on your counter.

For you slackers, you can just visit your local Indian grocery. Here’s the rack at Bombay Grocery, my favorite local Indian place. You can get 800 gm ready prepared ghee for about 12 bucks. I got about 320 gm out of a pound of butter I bought for about 5 bucks. So making ghee at home is more a labor of love than an effort to achieve great savings. But you get to eat the solids!

References

1. Ike B.  garlic* paste.  WordPress 2/14/21.  https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/02/14/garlic-paste/

2. Child J.  The Way to Cook.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, B139. https://www.amazon.com/Way-Cook-Julia-Child/dp/0394532643/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18G40OJ4N595L&keywords=the+way+to+cook+julia+child&qid=1699301362&sprefix=th+wat+to+cook%2Caps%2C215&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc

3. Achitoff-Gray N.  What’s a Smoke Point and Why Does it Matter?  Serious Eats 4/24/23.  https://www.seriouseats.com/cooking-fats-101-whats-a-smoke-point-and-why-does-it-matter

4. Gritzer D.  Clarified Butter Recipe.  Serious Eats9/16/22. https://www.seriouseats.com/clarified-butter-recipe

5. Top Ten Interesting Facts About Ghee.  Milky Mist.  https://www.milkymist.com/post/top-ten-interesting-facts-about-ghee#:~:text=Ghee%20is%20a%20clarified%20butter,leaving%20only%20the%20milk%20solids

6. Jaffrey M.  An Invitation to Indian Cooking.  New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1973, 25-6.  https://www.amazon.com/Madhur-Jaffrey-Invitation-1975-05-27-Paperback/dp/B019EWPSMO/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1MLGIR285KZQ2&keywords=Madhur+Jaffrey.+Invitation+to+Indian+cooking&qid=1699301495&sprefix=madhur+jaffrey.+invitation+to+indian+cooking%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-4

7. Ghee.  Wikepedia.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

8. Butter. MMPA. https://www.mimilk.com/products/products-offerings/butter/

Delbert McClinton is a Lubbock Texas boy who made records and enthralled audiences for 50 years before retiring last year.  He’ll turn 83 on November 4^th.  I got to know him when he was a regular on Don Imus’ morning TV show in the 90s, which had grown out of his radio show that stretched to back to the 70s (1).

MSNBC dropped the show in 2007 after Don’s remarks about the “nappy-headed hoes” of the Rutger’s women’s basketball team. He picked up back in radio shortly thereafter and continued on, unchanged. Don died in 2019, a year after Cumulus Media decided to stop paying him the year pervious.  God, how I miss that old bastard.

But this is about Delbert, not Don.  He started as a side man in 1962 and has led his own bands since 1972.  His first album  – ”Victim of Life’s Circumstances” – came out in 1975. He’s put out 20 since, and many more singles, EPs and compilations (4).  No, I don’t have them all.  He’s won 6 Grammys (Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, 1992; Country collaboration with vocals,1993; Contemporary Blues Album, 2002; Contemporary Blues Album, 2006; Male Country Vocal Performance, 2006; Traditional Blues Album, 2020).  He writes most of his stuff and his songs are soulful, sweet, wise, and humorous, always backed by excellent Texas blues and swing.  Delbert plays harp and a little guitar, but relies on his excellent sidemen to set the groove.  And lots of very good people want to play with Delbert.

As I write all this, so many songs come to mind I want to recommend, but let me stick with the album I put on this afternoon that got me to want to post this blog.  This is one I look on as a community service for those who don’t know who Delbert is and/or have never heard his music.  Your life is less than it could be if that’s the case.

“One of the Fortunate Few” is Delbert’s 13^th album, coming out in 1997.  I’m sure he pushed it on Imus.  Curiously, the title is the same as a great song of his which does not happen to be on the album! (5).   It would have to wait 8 years till it showed up as the first track on “Cost of Living”.  The song is a rollicking Cajun number describing challenging girlfriends of the sort I had in St. Louis before I left for Ann Arbor.  Kathy wasn’t near so difficult.

But every song on this album is a gem

Old weakness (coming on strong) (6).  The older we get, the more old girlfriends we have out there.  Sometimes this pops up, one way or another	2:55
Leap Of Faith (7). Sometimes ya gotta go out and just do	3:37
Somebody To Love You (8) Delbert spells out what you need for a good life.  A lover is right up there with jumper cables	4:31
Sending me Angels (9) My treasured song about the heavenly intervention that gave me my Kathy	3:45
Too Much Stuff (10) An anthem for decluttering boomers.  Check out the guest vocalists!	4:14
Monkey Around (11) A man to a woman set to become the simian she’s turned him into	3:09
Lie No Better (12) A retort to a woman who should discard her lies in favor of the truth	4:27
You Were Never Mine (13) A sad song to the partner in a one-sided affair	4:02
Better Off With The Blues (14) A dumped guy wonders if he might be better off now “I still love you baby, but I don’t want you back”.	4:05
Best Of Me (15) He warns a new mate what’s comin’	3:15

I can’t resist recommending a few of Delbert’s other performances

I’m with you (16).  Best song to sing to your girlfriend ever.

I’ve got dreams to remember (17).  A somber reminiscence of a man lost in his past.  A change of pace from his usual upbeat stuff.

Sandy beaches (18).  Delbert’s foray into Jimmy Buffett territory.  The name of this song became the tag for a Caribbean cruise Delbert would run with some of his friend s every year (19).  Aren’t you sorry you’re not gonna be on the boat?  I sure am.

Read me my rights (20). Faced with a breakup, he goes legalistic, soulfully..

Have a little faith in me (21). Many have sung this John Hiatt song, but Delbert’s is especially moving.  Sometimes a man must say this to those around him, and I did.  I still hold it in reserve should I see faith flagging.

When Rita leaves (22). A hard breakup song with automotive desecration

References

1. Imus in the Morning.  Wikepedia.org.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imus_in_the_Morning
2. Ike B. The Kinkster.  WordPress 7/31/21.  https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/07/31/the-kinkster/
3. Hoffman J.  Don Imus, Controversial Radio Host, Dies at 79.  Vanity Fair 12/28/19.  https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/12/12/don-imus-controversial-radio-host-dies-at-79

4. Delbert Ross McClinton.  Discogs. https://www.discogs.com/artist/439406-Delbert-McClinton

5. Delbert McClinton. Once of the fortunate Few.  YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF_cQ3coetc

6. Delbert McClinton.  Old Weakness (Coming on Strong). YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=775qJBB9Lcs

7. Delbert McClinton.  Leap of Faith. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB3Vh8UdIPo

8. Delbert McClinton.  Somebody to love you. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGjreCncFgs

9. DelberMcClinton.  Sending me Angels.  YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcf6Uh0MHMk

10. Delbert McClinton.  Too Much Stuff.  YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PLjbuTI48

11. Delbert McClinton.  Monkey Around.  YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leN0fUPQLlc

12. Delbert McClinton.   Lie No Better. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCEC6hTF6Q

13. Delbert McClinton.  You Were Never Mine. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5oQocGP8CA

14. Delbert McClinton.  Better off with the Blues. YouTube.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_TQQNTG9I

15. Delbert McClinton.  Best of Me. YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/resultssearch_query=best+of+me+Delbert+McClinton

16. Delbert McClinton.  I’m with you.  YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TDznwlkLLY

17. Delbert McClinton.  I’ve Got Dreams to Remember. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnASRB6uIkA.

18. Delbert McClinton.  Sandy Beaches.  YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG_T6LHTPhs

19. (Delbert McClintn & Friends Sandy Beaches Cruise. https://sandybeachescruises.com

20. Delbert McClinton.  Read Me My Rights. YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGz5Ufust5w

21. Delbert McClinton.  Have a Little Faith in Me. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0660W04CA0k

22. Delbert McClinton.  When Rita Leaves. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFQCO0Av8c

Medicine at Michigan is the glossy quarterly published by the U highlighting happenings at “Michigan Medicine”, the latest marketing term trotted out to “brand” all the things that happen at the MECCA (sure don’t call it that anymore!). Last week, someone there sent out an e-mail to everyone with some conceivable tie to the med school or medical center, past or present:

“Hi med school alums!

We know you’re doing extraordinary things. We also know you have exciting hobbies, new family members, fun adventures, great stories about meeting up with other alums, experiences at Michigan football games, and more. Please share your story with us so we can share it with your classmates. Photos welcome!.”

I thought, what the heck, and sent out a little blurb at what’s been the surprising highlight of my retirement.

“My UofM ties began as a undergrad ’70-‘4 with a 1-year MS tacked on, and my time as a “Michigan Medicine” (we didn’t use that term then) trainee was brief, as a post-doc ’83-5.  Fortunately, that included a job offer which led to 34 years on faculty, from which I retired 4 Junes ago.  Not having to see all those patients left time for other things.  An invitation from a “predatory” journal to write about arthroscopy, a procedure I helped pioneer for the rheumatologist, got me writing about some of the unique things I used to do, generating 20 peer-reviewed publications, a book chapter, and 2 instructional videos, so far.  Deciding to share other parts of my life, I started a blog (theviewfromharbal.com) and have posted 385 items thus far.  The there’s those 7 books (with more to come).   My dad always said I should be a writer.  Maybe it took 41 years of seasoning at UofM (and 8 at some other institutions) for me to realize that.

Go Blue!”

Reference

1. Medicine at Michigan. Michigan Medicine. University of Michigan https://www.michiganmedicine.org/medicine-at-michigan

I’m breaking my self imposed proscription on writing about COVID. Dr. Robert Malone invented (and patented), with colleagues at the Salk Institute, the molecular techniques that led to the use of injected mRNA as a means to make a susceptible host make components of a virus that would induce an immune response. Uh, huh, the very same strategy employed by Pfizer and Moderna to make the vaxx that was supposed to save the world from COVID. Had the Nobel committee at the Karolinska not been so influenced by politics and Pfizer’s huge contributions to that institution, Dr. Malone would have shared that Medicine and Physiology Prize with Drs. Karikó and Weissman (1). But the miracle of that vaxx didn’t happen as the vaxxed still got sick, more than the unvaxxed, and transmitted the virus. In addition, recipients continue to get sick from having in them little factories making spike protein, promoting clotting and heart inflammation, among other things. The original SARS-COV-2 Wuhan product has mutated into a mere cold virus, just as it was before all those manipulations. Anyone with a basic grad school knowledge of virology (like mine) could tell you that was what was going to happen.

Dr. Malone has remained a beacon of truth before, during, and after the pandemic. His latest post included this 12 minute video of nonsense we should never forget.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/nobody-is-safe-until-everybody-is?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-0d1d5d10-e0b6-462f-9084-f9bb23cacd33

So, just remember, as this “fight” against a COVID that no longer exists and poses little real risk, the words of a great lady

Good health to you all.

Reference

1. The Nobel Prize. Press Release.10/2/23. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

Did your wife ever go on a diet and make you stop eating things you liked?  That happened here starting last February when the missus signed on to the “PhD nutritional program” (1).   I’ve not gotten deep into their weeds, but it seems their main focus is avoiding foods with a high glycemic index (potential to raise your blood sugar).  She’s enjoyed tremendous results, losing over 40# and getting down to the shape of the babe who caught my eye in ’82.  Hubba hubba!  But at the price of no potatoes, no bread, no rice.  But when the Lord closes a door, he opens a little window (2).  That for us was cauliflower rice.  Just buzz cauliflower in your Cuisinart till all you have left looks like rice.  There’s all sorts of things you can do with that stuff, like most any rice dish, realizing the c.rice won’t take as long to cook.

We indulge ourselves at breakfast.  “Most important meal of the day” dontcha know.  One of our favorite treats is loaded cauliflower rice with poached eggs.  What’s “loaded” is whatever is in the vegetable drawer.  Today’s combo was particularly good, so that’s what I’m including in the recipe.  Of course, there’s a lot of chop, chop, chopping. But it’s a pretty picture once you’re done and ready.

They remain pretty in the wok

Even adding the c. rice doesn’t dampen them much.

But they’re begging for poached eggs, requiring no more than a pot of almost boiling water, a little vinegar, and an apparatus to retrieve the egg (3).  Well worth the effort.

Should you wish to try:

As always, bon apétit!

References

1. PHD WEIGHT LOSS.  https://myphdweightloss.com/

2. Kinky Friedman When God Closes A Door (He Open A Little Window) 1975.  YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thm3LdIkb0o

3. Zauberman K and Goode G.  How to Poach an Egg.  The Pioneer Women 8/17/23.  https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a33279168/how-to-poach-eggs/

The abundance on display at the farmers’ market these days can be so great as to be overwhelming.    Especially the fruit.  All those beautiful berries of many colors, and of course, the pretty peaches!  There’s even apricots and plums if you like that sort of thing. Apples and pears around the corner.  But you can’t just take ‘em home and eat ‘em, except in small amounts for a limited span of time, which I still heartily recommend and practice.  But remember, those pretty red fall red raspberries will be mush and mold in 2 days if you don’t get at ‘em.  So, the challenge is to preserve the bloom of youth for enjoyment in the future.  And we boomers know all about that!  Fortunately, technology shows us the way (at least for the fruit).

My peck of Red Haven seconds had a different fate than my last batch.  This time, most of it was going to peach ice cream, recipe below.  The leftovers when into a sauce.  My post recently on peach clothing preferences garnered many responses preferring peaches clothed (1), some citing how the skins, however fuzzy, imparted more flavor to the peaches.  I still blanched and stripped mine, but saved the skins and pits to be doused in vodka for what I called my “peach grappa”.  I had some this morning after 5 days of stewing and must say, it’s pretty nice.  “Peach grappa, not just for breakfast anymore!”.

But oh, the berries!  We had a plan from the git go.   Julia Child has a simple recipe for a sauce made from raspberries or strawberries, but adaptable to other berries and combinations (2).  We’ve made it several times before, and it’s always been wonderful.  But there’s a lot of sugar in it, and Kathy’s averse to sugar on her low glycemic index nutritional program these days.  She discovered in strawberry shortcake season two summers ago that you could substitute balsamic wine vinegar for most of the sugar in fruit sauces, and I’m here to say it worked (3).    So, we gathered up red raspberries (God they’re expensive!), blackberries, and blueberries while thawing out a quart of strawberries we’d put up a month ago.   After a turn in the Cuisinart, and dump into the Vacu-Seal, we can “taste a little of the summer” preserved.  Did the same treatment with some of the peaches.  I’ll grant that the product isn’t nearly as pretty as the intact fruits, but we love those babies for more than their looks, and this process preserves that inner beauty.

Not quite like Greg Brown’s grandma’s (4) (or mine), as they were canners.   Never took it up, and as an old microbiologist, I’m worried what might be growing in those jars.  Not so with those Vacu-Seals, so we’re good as long as the power holds put.  Sweet dreams.

Recipes:

Peach Ice Cream

quad berry sauce

References

1. Ike B.  “pretty as a peach”.  WordPress 8/21/23. https://theviewfromharbal.com/2023/08/21/pretty-as-a-peach/

2. Child J.  The Way to Cook.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.  p419.  https://www.amazon.com/Way-Cook-Julia-Child/dp/0394532643/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21XBKN6CFWGTO&keywords=the+way+to+cook+julia+child&qid=1693751635&sprefix=the+way+to+cook%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc

3. Ike B.  it’s the berries.   WordPress 6/19/21.  https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/06/19/its-the-berries/

4. Canned Goods by Greg Brown.  YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb-0ZCqga48

My high school classmate Walt, a lifelong Vicksburger, sent me this video about Ann Arbor (1), asking me if this was False or Russian disinformation.  I reviewed the 11-minute video, which I mostly liked.  Always interesting to get an outsider’s perspective on your hometown. 

My response: Thanks Walt.  I really enjoyed watching that.  Guess the $125K I plunked down for my little brick ranch high atop the Defiance moraine in 1985 was a pretty good investment.

Mr. Wolfert does puff things up a bit.  We do have a lot of restaurants, but they are mostly mediocre.  A few ethnic spots are pretty good.  Availability of good food to take home and cook – from the twice weekly farmers’ market in season, independent small grocers like the co-op and Argus, direct purchases from local farmers, really good big but small grocers like Plum Market and Busch’s (across the street from each other in my neighborhood), and many, many little ethnic groceries – is ample.  And if you can’t rustle up an appetite, there’s a pot shop on every corner.  Two within 4 blocks of my house.  He said nothing about the excellent bus service, provided both by the University and by Ann Arbor Transportation Association.  He seemed to say biking was fun and available. Hardly.  Drivers are out to kill cyclists and succeed a couple times a year.  The insane city designers of bike lanes seemed determined to maximize those chances.

He gave short shrift to the cost side.  He mentioned the booming housing market, but neglected what that means in cost of housing and ridiculous rents.  Most of the students these days come from rich families, who either buy their kids a condo or just fork over the high rents, driving up the costs still further.  And the property taxes, oh my!  There’s a reason many U employees live just across the border in Saline or Dexter, or go slumming in Ypsilanti.

He didn’t touch on politics.  City gov’t is composed of hard lefties, reflecting the electorate. Mask wearers abound.  There are way more BLM and rainbow flags flying than Old Glory, which flies at my house.

There are still some real Ann Arborites – who call themselves Townies – who don’t much like all these monied out of towners coming in and driving up the cost of everything.  The litmus test for identifying a Townie is the elementary school they went to.  So, alas, even though I identify as a Townie, having lived here for all but 8 of the last 53 years come September, my first AA school was the U, making me forever an outsider.  So, while I have my issues with Tree Town, Kathy and I pretty much love it here and will be here for the duration.  Fortunately, we both love winter and are satisfied with our week or two in Florida each year.

And as always, we get to say Go Blue!

Reference

1. Paul Wolfert.  Why EVERYONE LOVES Living in Ann Arbor Michigan.  YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUrouhq-kgU

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It’s high season for peaches here in the mitten.  Joy!  And better yet, the freestones are here, with Bellaires leading the way.  The beauties in the peck I bought at the farmers’ market yesterday morning are already stripped, sliced, and put up.  A ritual I thoroughly enjoy.  But every time I gaze on a bowl of peaches I’ve just peeled – pretty in their own right – I wonder if I’ve deprived the fruit of some of its beauty just to save eaters of my bounty from having to fight through fuzz.  After all, isn’t it that skin that makes them “pretty as a peach”?  So I ask the readers of this blog to help me decide: do you prefer your peaches clothed or naked?

Yes, we’ve moved on.  Masks are off (except for a few Hiroo Onadas (1)) and we’re dancing cheek-to-cheek.  I’d sworn off writing about Mr. Corona, but I just saw this 13 minute video which encapsulates so well my frustrations with how things went (2).  There’s talk we should have an “amnesty” about those times, and we should all just forgive and forget.  I totally disagree.  What happened to us all as Americans, to me as a doctor, and to my wife as academic, was so heinous and horrible as to seem satanic.  It may not have been the Holocaust, but “Never Forget” is for sure the appropriate response.

Kathy and I survived, even thrived.  We never got vaxxed, getting exemptions from it shortly after then-President Schlissel decreed in August ’21 that all the faculty shall be vaxxed.  Despite doing penance with our weekly spit tests, Kathy was still ostracized by her peers.  Shunned by neighbors, some others we thought friends, and even family, we still had an active life, traveling all over the country while getting out daily in the sunshine and fresh air when home.  I bought a bottle of veterinary ivermectin from Amazon, and we took it pretty regularly. Hard to stay on track as dosing is weekly.  We were especially faithful when embarking on a trip.  We never got sick except for November ’21 when the whole campus was swept with the flu.  Watching the ever-mounting toll of vaccine injuries, we are very thankful to Ana, our New Mexico lawyer friend who defends victims of vaxx tyranny, who convinced us not to go ahead with it when I was ready to “just get it over with”. Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, and Pierre Kory have become my heroes.  They figure prominently in this video (2)

Reference

1. Memmott M. Japanese Soldier Who Fought on for 29 Years After WWII Dies. The TwoWay. NPR. WBEZ Chicago 1/17/14. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/17/263350879/japanese-soldier-who-fought-on-for-29-years-after-wwii-dies

2. Kory P. Ivermectin Truth Bomb. The Vigilant Fox 8/17/23. https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/can-you-overdose-on-ivermectin-dr?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play