Joe Pitts & C Street Boys | Recipe for Peach Rosemary Spritzers

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The Spittin’ Sister in Philadelphia has a major headache this morning. I was reading about Joe Pitts and The Family until the wee hours of the morning. Today I tackle “C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy”.

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fundamentalist-American-Democracy-Readers/dp/0316091065/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1330648959&sr=8-4

I never thought that four decades after the women’s movement in America, I would be lying awake at 2am, trying to justify to voters of PA’s 16th district that the rights of a highly-decorated, grown woman, MBA-educated veteran with two children and an adoring husband — a pro-choice woman like Aryanna Strader — exceed those of a fertilized egg.

Rep. Joe Pitts believes that Aryanna Strader’s life is no more important than a zygote’s. They are equal in his mind — and I admit struggling with this idea on its most fundamental level.

Pitts is a co-sponsor of Duncan Hunter’s ‘Life at Conception Act’, introduced into the House Bills of Congress on Jan. 20, 2011.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112%3AH.R.374:

The list of Republicans in Congress who support personhood for zygotes and are ready to vote so under the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment is appalling — so much so that I went looking for a peach spritzer to calm my nerves.

As Shutterbean wrote one summer:

“OK my brain is mush. The point is…this spritzer is SUPER good. The best part is eating the syrupy rosemary peaches when you finish your glass! The rosemary does a nice job of cutting the sweetness of the drink. It’s also super good without the wine too! I sampled a little bit of the drink I made my pregnant friend. Tasty business. Make some!”

Peach & Rosemary Spritzers

(recipe Martha Stewart Magazine)

3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups water
4 large ripe peaches (about 1 3/4 pounds), halved, pitted, and cut into 1-inch slices
4 sprigs rosemary, plus more for garnish
Ice, for serving
4 cups cold white or rose wine
1 liter cold club soda

Bring sugar and water to a boil in a medium saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add peaches and rosemary, and bring to a simmer. Remove from heat. Cover, and let cool. Discard rosemary. Peel peach slices if desired. Transfer peaches with syrup to a container; cover, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or overnight.
Place 2 peach slices and about 1/4 cup syrup in 8 ice-filled glasses. Add 1/2 cup wine to each; top with club soda. Garnish each with a rosemary sprig, and serve immediately.

http://www.shutterbean.com/2010/peach-rosemary-spritzers/