Brownie Muffins and the Observer

Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Thursday, January 5, 2012 and our friend Scotty, the Observer, is in town. In his travels this week he came across some delicious Girl Scout cookies and fell in love instantly. His personal favorites are Samoas and Thin Mints. While munching he became curious about the organization and what he discovered has spoiled his appetite for the tasty treats.

He has asked you to join him at my house so he can tell us what he discovered. He has also requested that we prepare some Brownie Muffins for breakfast. You will need a giant team of oxen and a cart to haul these ingredients to your kitchen. Gather together 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips, 1/4 cup cocoa, 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, 1/2 cup unsalted butter, 2 large lightly beaten eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and some more chocolate chips and walnuts for topping.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Set aside.

In a small sauce pan, melt butter over low heat and stir in cocoa and chocolate chips. Remove from heat as soon as the chips begin to melt. Set aside.

In another large bowl, combine the egg, sugar and vanilla extract. Add the butter chocolate mixture, the flour mixture and the chopped nuts. Stir just until blended.

In a greased muffin tin spoon in batter. Sprinkle each muffin with some chips and nuts and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean.

Wrap up the Brownie Muffins and bring them to my house. Scotty will relieve you of your muffins and I will reward you with an Irish Coffee. See you soon.

Hello, my beloved earthling family. You may be surprised to learn that we have Girl Scouts on my planet. The girls do good deeds and earn badges for their hard work. They also sell cookies and they are a huge hit throughout the universe. Things are a bit different on your planet and I thought you might want to know what the organization is up to before you sign your kids up.

The Girls Scouts have published a book called "MEdia." The publication is aimed at girls in grades six though eight and it offers them ideas about understanding the media messages that surround them on a daily basis. Considering the state of the media in your country, you might think that such a book is valuable in light of all the distortion and bias that abound.

You might think that this is a good idea until you realize that the book encourages the girls to go to Media Matters for America to clear up any misinformation they may stumble upon. As you know Media Matters is funded by George Soros, so your daughters will not be getting an objective view of the media. To the contrary, they will be caught in the grip of this unbelievable partisan site and the indoctrination will have officially begun.

I cannot stress the seriousness of this finding enough. If your kids want to play with lanyards and sell cookies, I suggest you bake the cookies yourself and make some lanyards while you eat them...NA, NU, NA, NU...SCOTTY..NU, NA, NU, NA...POP...