Pain Perdu and a Letter

Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Monday, December 19, 2011. I woke up this morning with one overwhelming emotion. I am tired and I want to go home. Please join me for some Pain Perdu while I gather my thoughts.

You will need 3/4 cup reduced fat milk, 2 tablespoons sugar-divided, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 3 large eggs-beaten, 8 diagonal slices of day old French bread, 2 cups fresh sliced strawberries, 2 teaspoons grated orange zest, 4 teaspoons butter-divided, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar and low-fat whipped topping.

Whisk milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, salt and eggs together in a large bowl. Place bread slices in a 13 by 9 baking dish and pour egg mixture over the bread. Turn to coat on both sides. Let stand for 20 minutes and turn occasioally until the mixture is absorbed.

Combine strawberries with remaining sugar and orange zest and let stand for 20 minutes. Mix yourself several Bloody Marys while you wait. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add 4 bread slices and brown on each side. Repeat procedure with the other slices. Place slices on a plate and top with powdered sugar and strawberry mixture. Add whipped topping and enjoy. I feel a letter coming on.

To whom it may concern,

I am tired and I want to go home to a country that championed achievement and encouraged success. I am tired of listening to President Obama vilify the rich by calling them"fat cats" and evil, all the while courting them with his hand out asking for money for his campaign. I am tired of President Obama's rude dismissal of the Tea Party and his whole hearted acceptance of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. I am tired of the press lauding these people, as well, ignoring the puppeteers like George Soros who are pulling the strings.

I am so tired of the mainstream media's perversion of the intent of journalism. They shower the airwaves with half truths and propaganda and they knowingly create a nation of misinformed voters. I am tired of the organized attack on Fox News. It is a blatant attempt to stop the public from hearing both sides of an issue. I am tired of this administration's support of this effort.

I am tired of watching First Lady Michelle Obama spend tons of money on lavish trips outside of this country, all the while asking us to sacrifice. I am tired of President Obama disgracing us by insulting our allies. Returning the bust of Winston Churchill was appalling and embarrassing. I am tired of President Obama treating Israel with such disdain. Prime Minister Netanyahu deserved better than he got when he visited here. So did the Dali Lama. He was ushered into the White House by a back door passing garbage cans on his way, lest the president insult China.

I am tired of President Obama's associations with communists and socialists. According to one of his fellow students in Occidental College, the president was a fervent Marxist. We have every reason to believe that he still is. I am tired of hearing the President of the United States openly admit that free enterprise and capitalism don't work. I am tired of not hearing the uproar that should have followed such a remark. I am tired of knowing that President Obama knowingly and deliberately appointed people to his administration whose beliefs are at polar opposites to the foundations our nation was built upon.

I am tired of watching way too many people, both inside Congress and out, sleep through all of this. I am tired and I want to go home...POP...