….This holiday dish is….raw ground beef….on a bread….with sliced onions and a dash of salt and pepper…..the health people are saying….eating raw meat is never recommended because of the bacteria it can contain……there have been eight raw meat related outbreaks in Wisconsin since 1986…..including a salmonella outbreak affecting more than 150 people in December 1994…..it’s a breakfast dish in Germany…..and in that region of America….there are a lot of German historical roots….traditional immigration roots….from way back….over here it’s called “Mettbrötchen”…..I’ve seen it….never tried it….because I would’ve told them to slap it on a grill….flip it over and throw a piece of cheese on it….Nicole isn’t really into it….the French cuisine offers you….beefsteak tatar….with a raw egg…..Italy offers Carne Cruda…..egg also comes with it….Ethiopia has Kitfo if you’re hungry….and Beef Larb is available in Thailand….all the dishes are served with raw ground beef…….and people have been eating it since I don’t know when…..maybe Wisconsin needs to check the quality of their meat.

ASTRONOMERS DETECT POSSIBLE RADIO EMISSION FROM EXOPLANET…..A team, led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of the Observatoire de Paris—Paris Sciences et Lettres University…..and Jean-Mathias Griessmeier of the Université d’Orléans published their findings in the forthcoming research section of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, on Dec. 16….. “We present one of the first hints of detecting an exoplanet in the radio realm,” Turner said….. “The signal is from the Tau Boötes system, which contains a binary star and an exoplanet…..we make the case for an emission by the planet itself…..from the strength and polarization of the radio signal and the planet’s magnetic field, it is compatible with theoretical predictions.”….. Turner’s postdoctoral advisor Ray Jayawardhana….the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, and a professor of astronomy…..said,….. “If confirmed through follow-up observations,” Jayawardhana said,….. “This radio detection opens up a new window on exoplanets, giving us a novel way to examine alien worlds that are tens of light-years away.”…..ah, ok….I didn’t understand any of this….but, ok.

THANKS FOR THIS ONE GLENYS…….An anthropologist proposed a game to children of an African tribe…..he put a basket of fruit near a tree….and told the kids that the first one to reach the fruit would win them all…..when he told them to run…..they all took each other’s hands and ran together….then sat together enjoying the fruits…..when he asked why they ran like that when one child could’ve taken all the fruit for oneself….they said; “Ubuntu,…..how can one of us be happy if all the others are sad?”…… “UBUNTU”….is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as…. “I am because we are.”

SO, LET’S SEE HOW COVID IS TREATING THE WORLD TODAY….South Africa has over one million cases……California has over 2 million….. India has 10 million….Sweden’s King says the country failed on dealing with the virus….the Chinese journalist who documented the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak was given 4-years in prison….hundreds of British tourists enjoying a night-time exodus from the COVID-19 virus are quarantined at a Swiss ski resort and over two hundred tourists decided to leave the quarantine during the night…..12 people decided to stay….. funeral costs are driving families hit by COVID to choose desperate measures when it comes to burials…..members in Congress are sending mixed messages about receiving the vaccine….New York State probes fraudulently obtained COVID vaccines and a criminal investigation has opened….Pfizer delays COVID-19 vaccine deliveries due to temperature control issues……Europe is launching an unprecedented vaccine campaign…..eight German care workers were accidentally given vaccine overdoses after receiving five times the recommended dose…….450 million people in Europe are afraid about the new coronavirus variant….Chinese vaccines will help fill the gap in some parts of the world, but people are wondering whether it will work….South Korea’s cases are rising again…..there’s talk about people needing a vaccine passport if they want to travel next year…..Spain is going to keep a register of those who refuse to take the vaccine…..violence against women is surging during this COVID crisis and Senate Republicans blocked the anti-domestic violence law…..health officials fear that the COVID pandemic is related to a spike in suicides among Indigenous youth…..U.S. COVID hospitalizations hit a new record and health care workers are raising alarms because the vaccine distribution has been unfair and a chaotic free-for-all…….global COVID cases top 80 million…Russia admits to having the world’s third worst COVID-19 death toll…..researchers say the new strain of COVID spreading in the UK is likely in America already…..as COVID-19 spreads through the U.S. shootings and killings are up…..…..with over 270,000 infections and 1,700 deaths, COVID has devastated the U.S. prison population….fueled by a history of mistreatment, black Americans distrust the new COVID-19 vaccines…..as for “STUPID” taking care of Americans and making the country great during this crisis…..well, let’s just say….Nero played the fiddle…..and “STUPID” played golf.

HERE’S YOUR SMILE FOR THE DAY…..THANKS MYRA…..

BOY AGE 4: Dad, I’ve decided to get married.

DAD: Wonderful; do you have a girl in mind?

BOY: Yes…..grandma! She said she loves me, I love her, too….and she’s the best cook & storyteller in the world!

DAD: That’s nice, but we have a small problem there.

BOY: What?

DAD: She happens to be my mother. How can you marry my mother?

BOY: Why not? You married mine!!!!

VENEZUELAN WOMEN LOSE ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION AND CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES…..Venezuela is coming up on its eight year of an economic crisis….and millions of women are no longer able to find or afford birth control….and this is pushing many women into unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have……around the capital city….Caracas….a pack of condoms cost $4.40….three times Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage of…..$1.50….birth control costs more than twice as much….$11 dollars a month….an IUD can cost more than $40 dollars….that’s more than 25 times the minimum wage…..and that doesn’t include the doctor’s fee to insert one.