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Bat Guano

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  1. I think you've cracked the case on the water boiling notice.
  2. Better apocryphal than apocalyptic.
  3. In all fairness, it's probably at least as good as whatever system anybody else on this thread is using.
  4. I'm an idealist.
  5. What are you people basing these forecasts on? The polling, which seems to be all over the place? Has anyone gone through and analyzed each competitive race and come to any conclusions informed by, you know, actual data? Or are you just guessing? If I were to hazard a prediction, it would be no better than a guess based on what I've seen of the polls, which don't seem to be very predictive in most cases.
  6. I've smoked lamb shanks. Basically followed the same procedure as a brisket - in fact I did them at the same time because I had some space on the smoker. They were good. Not better than the traditional braise, but just as good, in a different way. Less moist, but still nowhere near dried out - plenty of connective tissue to melt.
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opinion/fascism.html?action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
  8. No Beto? You know if he wins he'll be running for POTUS immediately. Maybe if he loses, too. How detestable is he to you?
  9. Well, I'm certainly not going to buy one. So what other option do I have?
  10. I think an argument can be made that burning a MAGA hat is political speech, same as burning a flag, and thus protected.
  11. Get off my lawn.
  12. I came along during the last dying rumblings of the Boom – too late to really get the best parts of the Boomer experience. Of course that means the sex - by the time I came of age the AIDS scare was under way. I was still too young to appreciate the peak 60s experience, which I consider to be 1968, for both the highs and lows; it kinda went over my head at the time. The music was, and still is, great - but it led directly into disco, so 'nuff said about that. Graduated college to a deep recession and missed a lot of the economic boom years in my early career that those a few years older enjoyed. But I never really identified with the coddled, spoiled Gen Xers either; there really was a change in outlook over those few years. I think there should be a separate intergenerational Boomer-X hybrid designation, for those born 1960 – 65 or so, for those of us who don’t really feel like a part of either generation. Wait a minute – self-absorbed, resentful, greedy, a bit of an asshole; holy shit, maybe I am a Boomer after all.
  13. Agree with OP. Getting the money out of politics so our representatives actually represent us instead of moneyed interests is crucial. Put that first, second, and third. Tied for second and third are education - that is one area where it actually would work to just throw money at the problem - and health care: no reason for anybody to die from treatable causes in the richest nation in the history of the world.
  14. So I was going to put this in the Shit I heard in a bar thread, but it fits here too. Two guys were sitting next to each other at my regular watering hole the other night. After a while, one guy looks at the other and says, “I can’t help but think, from listening to you, that you’re from Ireland.” The other guy responds proudly, “Yes, that I am!” The first guy says, “So am I! And where abouts in Ireland might you be?” The other guy answers, “I’m from Dublin, I am.” The first guy responds, “Sure and begora, and so am I! And what street did you live on in Dublin?” The other guy says, “A lovely little area it was, I lived on McCleary Street in the old central part of town.” The first guy says, “Faith and it’s a small world, so did I! And to what school would you have been going?” The other guy answers, “Well now, I went to St. Mary’s of course.” The first guy gets really excited, and says, “And so did I. Tell me, what year did you graduate?” The other guy answers, “Well, now, I graduated in 1984.” The first guy exclaims, “The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same bar tonight. Can you believe it, I graduated from St. Mary’s in 1984 my own self.” About this time, another guy walks into the bar, sits down, and orders a beer. The bartender walks over shaking his head and mutters, “It’s going to be a long night tonight, the Murphy twins are drunk again.”
  15. Texas 210 Baylor 0 My earlier predictions of this score against better opponents were somewhat aspirational. This is a real prediction.
  16. Solid PR move. Hope the kid makes some coin.
  17. Brisket's nailing it in this thread. There is one historically tried and true way to reduce birth rates, and that is to raise living standards. Western Europe, Japan, a few other places are textbook examples. Parts of Europe are worried about having enough working age people, and are bringing in immigrants to make up for negative population growth. Rich peoples' problems.
  18. Not sure what your point is. Is San Fran trying different approaches to see what works best? Are you saying it's a national problem, not a local one? That's obviously true. Maybe we could try different approaches in different areas and find an optimum solution. Or have you just decided that nothing we do is going to work, so we might as well give up?
  19. This would appear to be the right way to go - figure out what works to solve the problem. It appears that often the folks who bring up the "they'll just buy drugs with the money" argument are just using it as an excuse to do what they want to do anyway: that is, nothing. If not, a try-it-and-see approach would seem to be the best response; this country used to be known for finding solutions to problems, after all.
  20. CSB. Dueling anecdotes: One time many years ago I was walking down the drag and happened on a pizza place (I don't remember which one) giving out free pizza to the homeless. I wasn't homeless but as a broke graduate student I was hungry, so I had a couple of slices and chatted with the homeless folk for a while. So it comes down to corporate policy; if giving away food was prohibited by the city or whoever, the pizza place didn't give a fuck and did it anyway. According to the people there, it was a daily thing. Tiff's treats seems greedy and soulless by comparison. I'm more willing to patronize places that do good things than greedy soulless places.
  21. Good post. I think if you set out to create the most wasteful and expensive jobs program possible, it would look a lot like the military budget.
  22. Nothing irrational about that. Happens all the time. ALL THE TIME.
  23. OK. What does that have to do with the truth or falsity of Dr. Ford's statements? Edit: Granted that the Ds used Dr. Ford for their own purposes, to their own perceived partisan advantage; that is what political parties do, and I agree that both major parties are about as corrupt as it is possible for them to be. What I don't see is how this impacts the basic facts of the case: either she is telling the truth or she is lying. The peripherals about how her lawyers and the Ds on the Judiciary handled things subsequently are just that, peripheral.
  24. There's a simpler explanation than this convoluted conspiracy theory: she's telling the truth. Use the razor.
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