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Thug Kitchen

Last
minute holiday shopping? FUCK ALL THAT NOISE. Why don’t you stay home
and celebrate in style with some of these spicy sweet bastards? The
sugar will keep you awake in case some son of a bitch tries sliding down
your chimney in the middle of the night to pilfer your baked goods. NOT
THIS YEAR, MOTHERFUCKER.


FROSTED GINGERBREAD BITES

1 ½ cups flour (unbleached white, whole wheat, or a blend will work)

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

¼ teaspoon ground allspice

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ cup brown sugar

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup canned coconut milk

½ cup blackstrap molasses


FROSTING DRIZZLE (optional)

1 tablespoon coconut milk

¾ teaspoon lemon juice

1/3 cup powder sugar, sifted


Warm the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an 8 x 8 baking pan and
put a square of parchment paper at the bottom so this motherfucker won’t
stick. Grab a medium bowl and dump in the flour, spices, baking powder,
baking soda, sugar, and salt. Whisk all that shit around to get out any
brown sugar clumps.

In a small saucepan mix together the
coconut milk and the molasses. Put it over a medium low heat until the
mixture just starts to bubble on the edges. Slowly whisk the coconut
milk mixture into the dry ingredients until there aren’t any more dry
spots. The batter is going to be thick like a brownie batter but a
little spongy. Calm the fuck down before you email me and just trust
that shit is correct. Pour the batter into the baking pan and gently
move it around so that it is mostly even. Bake for 25-30 minutes. An
easy way to check if it’s done is to poke the middle of that
motherfucker with a toothpick and if it comes out clean, it’s done.


Once you see that shit is done, pull it out of the oven and let it cool
for 10 minutes. Be sure to turn the oven off. Go check that shit right
now, since we’re talking about it. Now you should be able to gently
slide the cake out of the pan and let it finish cooling on a wire rack
or plate or whateverthefuck you got. When it’s cool enough, cut it up
into two-inch squares. If you want to frost that shit, I recommend doing
it the day you serve the bites.

FROSTING:
Grab a small
saucepan and gently warm the coconut milk at a low-medium heat for just
about 15-30 seconds. You don’t want that shit boiling, just hot. Turn
off the heat and whisk in the powdered sugar and lemon juice. If the
frosting looks too thin, add a little more powdered sugar. Before it
starts to harden, take a spoon and drizzle it over the cake. Crisscross
the drizzle and make it look all fancy or just pour that shit on if you
don’t give a fuck.

Makes 16 cake bites

Sunny, my comments were preemptive on my part because...well just because!

Why Do Conservatives Hate Pope Francis So Much? Just Read These 20 Quotes

Here are 20 Pope Francis quotes that conservatives hate.

1. “In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his
tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of
every sign: rigid. And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the
ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he
is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said
to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of
Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge,
because these close the door with many requirements. The faith becomes
ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people,
distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the
people. But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It
is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”

~Pope Francis, taking aim at ideologically obsessed Christians, October 2013

2. “We don’t want this globalised economic system which does
us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic
system) as God wants, not money… The world has become an idolator of
this god called money… To defend this economic culture, a throwaway
culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw
away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a
just system that helps everyone.”

~Pope Francis, criticizing “savage capitalism,” September 2013

3.
“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and
the use of contraceptive methods … It is not necessary to talk about
these issues all the time. The dogmatic and moral teachings of the
church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be
obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to
be imposed insistently.”

~Pope Francis, criticizing obsessed focus on abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception, September 2013

4. “We have become used to the suffering of others. Has any
one of us wept for these persons who were on the boat? For the young
mothers carrying their babies? For these men who were looking for a
means of supporting their families? We are a society which has forgotten
how to weep, how to experience compassion… the church is with you in
the search for a more dignified life for you and your families.”

~Pope Francis, taking up the plight of immigrants and the poor, July 2013

5. “A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from
the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the
affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from
the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and
respect for every human being.”

~Pope Francis, calling for social justice, Address to the Food and Agricultural Organization, June 2013

6. “The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all
we see this in mankind … Man is not in charge today, money is in
charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for
the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task!
Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and
consumption: it is the ‘culture of waste.’”

~Pope Francis, standing up for the poor and the environment, June 2013

7. “We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also
the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us
so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification
of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a
species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a
swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and
those of future generations.”

~Pope Francis, calling for protecting the environment, Evangelii Gaudium, November 2013

8. “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically
resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial
speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no
solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to
any problems. I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are
genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of
the poor! It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take
heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens
have dignified work, education and healthcare.”

~Pope Francis, blasting “unfettered capitalism,” November 2013

9. “Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories
which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will
inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness
in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts,
expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding
economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic
system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a
lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that
selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost
without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling
compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain,
and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s
responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we
are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in
the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere
spectacle; they fail to move us.”

~Pope Francis, attacking trickle-down economics, Evangelii Gaudium, November 2013

10. “While the earnings of a minority are growing
exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the
prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of
ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and
financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states,
charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of
control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which
unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and
the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to
realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from
enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread
corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide
dimensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In
this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of
increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is
defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the
only rule.”

~Pope Francis, attacking tax evasion by the wealthy, raw
capitalism, and the interests of the rich over the environment,
Evangelii Gaudium, November 2013

11. “The Church acknowledges the indispensable contribution
which women make to society through the sensitivity, intuition and other
distinctive skill sets which they, more than men, tend to possess. I
think, for example, of the special concern which women show to others,
which finds a particular, even if not exclusive, expression in
motherhood. I readily acknowledge that many women share pastoral
responsibilities with priests, helping to guide people, families and
groups and offering new contributions to theological reflection. But we
need to create still broader opportunities for a more incisive female
presence in the Church. Because the feminine genius is needed in all
expressions in the life of society, the presence of women must also be
guaranteed in the workplace and in the various other settings where
important decisions are made, both in the Church and in social
structures. Demands that the legitimate rights of women be respected,
based on the firm conviction that men and women are equal in dignity,
present the Church with profound and challenging questions which cannot
be lightly evaded.”

~Pope Francis, speaking on women’s rights and women’s role in the workplace, Evangelii Gaudium, November 2013

12. “We Christians should embrace with affection and respect
Muslim immigrants to our countries in the same way that we hope and ask
to be received and respected in countries of Islamic tradition. I ask
and I humbly entreat those countries to grant Christians freedom to
worship and to practice their faith, in light of the freedom which
followers of Islam enjoy in Western countries! Faced with disconcerting
episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of
Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic
Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of
violence.”

~Pope Francis, telling Christians to stop hating Muslims, Evangelii Gaudium, November 2013

13. “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the
Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the
atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!”.. We must meet one another
doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good:
we will meet one another there.”

~Pope Francis, reaching out to atheists, May 2013

14. “… We have done little to adequately accompany women in
very difficult situations, where abortion appears as a quick solution to
their profound anguish, especially when the life developing within them
is the result of rape or a situation of extreme poverty. Who can remain
unmoved before such painful situations?”

~Pope Francis, calling for having sympathy and compassion for
women who choose abortion because of extreme poverty and rape, Evangelii
Gaudium, November 2013

15. “When we talk about the environment, about creation, my
thoughts turn to the first pages of the Bible, the Book of Genesis,
which states that God placed man and woman on earth to cultivate and
care for it. And the question comes to my mind: What does cultivating
and caring for the earth mean? Are we truly cultivating and caring for
creation? Or are we exploiting and neglecting it?”

~Pope Francis, advocating for taking care of the environment, June 2013

16. “Fighting poverty, both material and spiritual, building
peace and constructing bridges: these, as it were, are the reference
points for a journey that I want to invite each of the countries here
represented to take up. But it is a difficult journey, if we do not
learn to grow in love for this world of ours. Here too, it helps me to
think of the name of Francis, who teaches us profound respect for the
whole of creation and the protection of our environment, which all too
often, instead of using for the good, we exploit greedily, to one
another’s detriment.”

~Pope Francis, on poverty and the environment, Address, March 2013

17. “A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I
approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me:
when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this
person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always
consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being.
In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting
from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy. When
that happens, the Holy Spirit inspires the priest to say the right
thing.”

~Pope Francis, saying we should love people even if they are gay,

18. “This is happening today. If investments in banks fall,
it is a tragedy and people say ‘what are we going to do?’ but if people
die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s
nothing. This is our crisis today. A Church that is poor and for the
poor has to fight this mentality.”

~Pope Francis, condemning hunger, inaccessible health care, and poverty,

19. “The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world
and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world
where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is
unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so
many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today
is a cry.”

~Pope Francis, decrying poverty and hunger at a time of great world wealth during a meeting with students of Jesuit Schools, June 2013

20. “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who
am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this
very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this
(orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem
is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.”

~Pope Francis, putting the brakes on hating gay people, July 2013

Pope Francis is everything that conservatives hate.

Pope Francis is a different pontiff than his predecessors, and that’s
a good thing that the world has badly been in need of. While not an
absolute liberal, Pope Francis does hold many views in opposition to
many conservative policies. Conservatives are largely prejudice,
anti-poor, anti-women, anti-education, anti-healthcare, anti-peace,
anti-gay, anti-immigrant, and against other religious beliefs. Pope
Francis is none of these things. And that’s why conservatives hate him.
He doesn’t fit the extreme mold that the right-wing demands. In other
words, he’s not a cold-hearted lunatic. He’s the compassionate and
inclusive pontiff that a majority of the people have been waiting for.