Italian Egg Bake and the Minority Speaker

Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Wednesday, November 2, 2011. School is open and the class today is being taught by an individual who thinks the government has gone too far. I'd love to see you all attend, so let's prepare an Italian Egg Bake and head for class.

For 6 servings you will need 1 pound bulk sausage, 4 cups frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed, 1 cup frozen cut leaf spinach, thawed and drained, 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup sliced marinated sun-dried tomatoes, 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, 4 eggs, 3/4 cup milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper and 2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese.

Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8 inch square baking dish. In a large non-stick skillet, cook sausage over med-high heat until browned. Drain.

In a medium bowl, combine potatoes and Cheddar cheese. In baking dish layer half the potato mixture, all of the sausage, spinach and tomatoes, remaining potato mixture and all of the mozzarella cheese.

In yet another bowl, beat eggs slightly. Add milk, salt and pepper and beat well. Pour over potato mixture. Cover with foil.

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Uncover and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake uncovered for an additional 15 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand for about 5 minutes. Cut into squares. Wrap up the squares and fill your thermos with a Bloody Mary. School is in session.

Good morning class. I am of the belief that government should keep their sticky, meddlesome hands out of our business. If you didn't sign up for this course, please feel free to leave now. Fascism 101 is in the next classroom.

A perfect example of what I am talking about exhibits itself quite nicely in an interview House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi had with CNBC last week. Speaker Pelosi was asked if an agency such as the National Labor Relations Board should have the authority to shut down a private sector plant, such as Boeing, for not being unionized. Ms. Pelosi hesitated not a second and her answer was a resounding "yes".

Just the other day, President Obama gave Ms. Pelosi a giant pat on the back. The president believes that she was the greatest Speaker of the House to ever serve this nation. The greatest Speaker that ever served this country said that Boeing should either unionize its production facilities in South Carolina or shut them down. There was not a moment of hesitation in her reply. Perhaps the Speaker should have been reminded that government should have no say whatsoever in whether a plant is unionized or not. Perhaps she should have been reminded that the workers in this plant voted overwhelmingly to decertify their union two years ago. Perhaps she should have been reminded that these workers have every right to determine whether or not they want union representation. Perhaps she should have been reminded that government should have no authority over these people. Lastly, just for the fun of it, perhaps Ms. Pelosi should have been asked why she has no union employees in any of her businesses.

Last of all Madame Speaker should have been reminded that this is the United States of America and that, we the people, will not sit idly by and watch our freedoms being eroded by arrogant agencies like the NLRB. CLASS DISMISSED...POP...