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Every day is Independence Day when it comes to our troops throughout the US and around the world, especially in places of danger.

One fellow blogger’s husband was just called up for his second deployment, location to be determined.

We write about recipes and other things and have never met, but I feel for this family. I think too many of us get into the politics of it and whether we should be in Iraq or Afghanistan, but when you look at it we are sending young people to do battle there for their lives, plus around a billion tax dollars a day.

When can we say enough is enough? The powers that be didn’t plan it correctly and the politicians outright lied as to the reason, so why do we have to stay there? To save face? The powers that be have already lost that. Just ask the European community.

In the meantime we’ll share recipes and worry about her husband. It’s all one can do.

A fellow blogger has run afoul of a myopic mini-dynasty by modifying a recipe on her blog. I’m sure she would agree that when each of us reads a recipe we see things a kid doesn’t like so substitute, and make other changes. I do try to a do a new recipe as written, taste the results and make changes according to my tastes.

Food bloggers are being hampered by huge publishing firms from printing any of their recipes (denying permission and not allowing any modifications to their recipes because they are “perfect.”)

No-one was looking for the 18 year-old nut recipe I gave you yesterday but they still wouldn’t allow me to print it with appropriate credit to the sources. Don’t you think if I credit the magazine, article, author and publisher that it would help magazine sales rather than hurt them?

OK, I’m not a Michelin-starred chef (if I was one why would I be asking for a recipe) but they’d give it to me. But serious cooking bloggers are out there and are being threatened by huge corporations because we’re raising interest in their products via a mechanism that their lawyers don’t understand.

It’s too bad because cooking is a creative enterprise and if we bloggers find a new twist or change things about you’ll sue us. That’s the bad side of patent law. The good side is our side and we will make that known in due time.

It looks as if the magazine industry is going the same way as movies fighting television. The new technology (witness iPods et al) is going to win out and your ways are going to have to change to deal with it. Bloggers are here to stay, at least for the next XX years. Dee

Dear Censors: You’re so brave to come down hard on those who formally ask to reprint recipes legally. We’re now in your gunsights and all those who reprint your recipes willy-nilly are safe. It’s the good guys who ask permission who are surveilled. Sounds like TSA and homeland security. Give me your bra, ma’am. It appears to have underwire in it.

Dear Readers: I’m very new at blogging and whenever I ask to reprint a recipe with appropriate credit (the last one was published in 1990 so people are not knocking down the door to get it) my request was summarily denied by Conde Nasty.

Other bloggers are having the same problem dealing with copyrights. I believe that publishers and bloggers, since they are destined to co-exist, should come to some sort of truce.

I know that if you want a recipe you want the recipe and not a link to a recipe and certainly not something I’ve amended to meet my family’s needs that was inspired by a published recipe that is copyrighted and I can be sued for sharing with you.

So I must tell you that recipe-wise, I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall until I can sort this out. Please let me know what you’d like to see on this site. Just register and post. Don’t use your real name and just let me know what you think. You can be bestgreekcook or whatever! I don’t ever find out who you are.

I’ll keep writing and hope you enjoy and respond to my posts. Enjoy your day!