Ingredients
- 5 pounds beef short ribs
- 1 14 ounce can beef broth
- 1 12 ounce can dark beer
- 1 medium onion, cut into thin wedges
- ¼ cup molasses
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
- 1 teaspoon bottled hot pepper sauce
- ½ teaspoon saltMashed potatoes:4 red potatoes peeled & diced
¼ cup half-and-half
2 ounces unsalted butter
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 egg yolk
Directions
Place
ribs in a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Add broth, beer, onion,
molasses, vinegar, thyme, hot pepper sauce, and salt.
Cover
and cook on low-heat setting for 11 to 12 hours or on high-heat
setting for 5-1/2 to 6 hours.
Peel
and dice the potatoes. Cover with cold water. Set over high heat,
cover and bring to a boil.
Once
boiling, uncover, lower the temp so that you just maintain the
simmer. cook 10 to 15 minutes.
Heat
the butter and ½ & ½ in microwave till melted about 25 sec.
Drain
the potatoes and mash, add the half and half, butter, salt and pepper
as you mash until you get the right texture. Remember if at first
it seems like its too runny, keep mashing and it will firm up.
When
you are happy with it, stir
in the yolk until it is well mixed in.
Using
a slotted spoon, transfer ribs to platter; cover to keep warm. Skim
fat from cooking liquid. Then remove about 1½ cups of the liquid.
Mix
in 2 tbs of cornstarch and heat over medium heat while stirring
consistently until a nice thick sauce is produced.
Slave
fixed fresh green beans to roast to go along with this meal.
Makes
4 to 6 servings.
I
know that you will enjoy this great way to cook beef short ribs in a
crock pot!
Slave
continues to dedicate these dishes to heroes of the LGBT history.
Today slave honors Dr. Frank Kameny!
Dr. Frank Kameny
Born
in
1925,
he
served throughout World War II in Europe. After leaving the Army, he
returned to
school eventually earning
a
doctorate
in astronomy from
Harvard in 1956.
While
on a cross-country trip, he was arrested in San Francisco in
a typical, for the day, entrapment.
A
stranger
approached and groped him at the bus terminal. Then
plain clothes police arrested
the victim. He
was assured
that if he served three years' probation, his criminal record would
be expunged. That is IF: he did
not fight
the charges (also a typical legal lie of the day).
Now
in Washington, D.C., Kameny taught for a year and was hired in 1957
by the United States Army Map Service. Upon
learning
of his San Francisco arrest, Kameny was
brought in for questioning by the
Civil
Service Commission. He
refused to answer
anything about his
sexual orientation. Kameny was fired soon afterward. In January 1958,
he was barred from future employment by the federal government. To
show how powerful that was, he was never again able to hold a paying
job and he lived to 2011!
This
was all typical of the day. However the “powers that be” had no
idea that they had messed with the wrong “astronomy geek”!
Kameny's reaction and fighting spirit changed the course of history!
He
took his case to the Supreme Court, which turned down his petition
for “certiori”. Dr.
Kameny argued that the federal policy against homosexuality was "no
less odious than discrimination based upon religious or racial
grounds."
Dr.
Kameny argument is
one of the most brilliant cases for gay civil rights ever written. It
the first time a civil rights case based on sexual orientation was
presented before a U.S. court.
His
appeal is an uncompromising assertion of his rights and normality. It
set his direction and work for the next 50 years!
Kameny
not only led a frontal attack on previously unquestioned persecution
of homosexual's by divisions of the federal government but
revolutionized the homosexual movement
itself, It would no
longer be seeking assimilation and apologies
for homosexuality. It
would instead become a demand of being
recognized as normal and an uncompromising
campaign for full citizenship
rights. Here are just a couple of paragraphs
from this historic document:
In World War II, petitioner did not hesitate to fight the Germans, with bullets, in order to help preserve his rights and freedoms and liberties, and those of others. In 1960, it is ironically necessary that he fight the Americans, with words, in order to preserve, against a tyrannical government, some of those same rights, freedoms and liberties, for himself and others.
Petitioner asserts, flatly, unequivocally, and absolutely uncompromisingly, that homosexuality, whether by mere inclination or by overt act, is not only not immoral, but that for those choosing voluntarily to engage in homosexual acts, such acts are moral in a real and positive sense, and are good, right, and desirable, socially and personally.
It
is hard for us today to imagine the courage it took to make those
assertions in 1961. Remember at that time a comon defence for
murdering a “faggot” was “gay panic”. A legal assursion that
while regretable, the death of a homosexual was a right and proper
response to the shocking revulsion the exposure to a homosexual would naturally bring.
That
year Dr. Kameny founded the Mattachine Society of Washington. Then
for the next ten years, he helped mold and redefine gay activism. He
fought for:
- Ending denial of security clearances to homosexuals, and their removal from the military.
- Ending denial of employment by the federal Civil Service Commission.
- De-criminalization of homosexuality and homosexual practices.
- Fought to eliminate all entrapments and harassments by police and other civil authorities.
Perhaps
most importantly Dr. Kameny succeed in getting homosexuality removed
as a psychiatric disorder from the American
Psychiatric Association's DSM2!
He
changed the tactics of gay civil rights movement to an unapologetic
direct assertion of civil rights,
using public forums, picketing, and civil disobedience to draw
attention to the assertion that homosexuals
are normal American citizens
fully entitled to all
the rights of
the nation's citizenry.
in
a speech
from 1964,
he
stated:
"We
cannot ask for our rights as a minority group ... we cannot ask for
our rights from a position of inferiority or from a position, shall I
say, as less than whole human beings."
"...
we are dealing with an opposition which manifests itself - not
always, but not infrequently - as a ruthless, unscrupulous foe who
will give no quarter and to whom any standards of fair play are
meaningless. Let us respond realistically. We are not playing a
gentlemanly game of tiddly-winks or croquet or chess."
Now
his papers and even his protest signs from 1965 are part of the
Smithsonian's Collection of Important Civil Rights Artifacts.
Along
with his papers is a letter dated 1966
from the head of the U.S. Civil Service Commission under President
Lyndon B. Johnson, justifying the firing based on the "revulsion
of other employees."
In
2009, Kameny received a formal apology for the "shameful action"
of being fired solely based on his sexual orientation from the
successor to the Civil Service Commission, the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management.
"So
in a sense, it took 50 years, but I won my case," Kameny said.
Dr.
Kameny suffered from heart disease but never gave up his fight. He
gave his last speech to a LGBT group in Washington DC on September
30, 2011. He was
found dead in his home less
than two weeks latter.
Out
of his unjust arrest and dismissal, Dr. Frank Kameny became one of
the most important leaders of the LGBT Civil-rights Movement.
Today
as marriage equality arrives, state by state, yet another hurdle in
our path falls before us. Lets take time this month to rejoice that
everyday people became great so that we might live as true citizens.
Slave
hopes you enjoy these diversions into history. It tries to include
these as yet another way to serve its Master Indy.
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
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