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    It should be "have" because the subject is "We[;]" "a people," is a direct object. So I guess it's a compounds sentence. We are "a people" (it actually should be just "people," but I guess she thinks it sounds folksy) and we have experienced something epic. You wouldn't say, "We has." Also, since we're talking about grammar, "whether or not" is redundant. You can just say "whether."
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    I did my first longish cook on a pork shoulder yesterday. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
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    It says "with Pulp." I like the one that says, "some pulp."
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    From New Braunfels on my way to Wurstfest! Kämpfen!
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    Texas BBQ

    dcbc replied to Washpark's topic in Food and Travel

    I drove down to New Braunfels today to go to Wurstfest with my son and his roommate tonight. Since I was driving through Taylor, I decided to try Louie Mueller. The beef rib lived up to the hype. Outstanding. The beef sausage was really good. The brisket, however, was really disappointing. No bark at all. I'm not sure how they make a beef rib that is so good and serve up a barkless, albeit perfectly tender, slice of brisket. Anywhere, here's a shot of the beef rib. You can see the sad little barkless brisket peaking out from under the paper.
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    Cross post. Threw on a perfect album tonight.
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    Vinyl

    dcbc replied to CooterBrown's topic in Music

    Threw on a perfect album very late tonight.
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    RIP, Ben. I lost a golden to cancer in 2001. It still hurts.
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    For anyone shopping wire, be sure to dig into the description to make sure you're getting copper if you're paying for copper. Lots of copper-clad aluminum speaker wire out there. There's nothing wrong with it apart from its being 60% less efficient than copper wire. This is why you see "lamp cord" recommended. But if you end up with CCA, you're basically getting a gauge higher than you're paying for if it was regular copper wire.
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    This is the part where I confess that I used 14 gauge speaker wire for a few different runs (preamp to amp, and amp to speakers), the longest of which was approximately 6.5 feet. It terminates in these gold-plated, spade-fork, banana-plug adapters for Mcintosh. But the truth of why I bought the adapters is more for ease of connection than anything else. I just didn't want the nut-connectors loosening and didn't like the idea of the wires themselves being crimped down. Just a matter of neatness in the setup.
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    Texas BBQ

    dcbc replied to Washpark's topic in Food and Travel

    I feel like I need to try whichever Rudy's you're using as the basis of this comparison. Because that Rudy's sounds like it slaps for very little money. And I say that as someone whose most recent trip to Terry Black's in Waco was pretty lackluster compared to my previous two visits to the Dallas location, which were pretty decent. But the last time I got sliced brisket at our local Rudy's, I swore I never would order anything but a chopped sandwich or baked potato there again.
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    We all had you pegged as such. But for 10 feet @ 8 ohms, we're talking 12x overkill for 12 gauge versus 8x overkill for 14gauge and almost 5x overkill for 16 gauge. It's all overkill and I'd wager that nobody can tell the difference between 12, 14, and 16 gauge. Your point about price is well-taken. But if, for example, someone has a roll of 16 gauge speaker wire already lying around, I'd just use it and not worry about it.
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    Damn it! Quick draw!
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    But that's infrastructure week?
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    I was at this show and thought the same thing (well, I considered it later; at that point in the show, I was concentrating on not getting sucked into the wormhole. In a previous Sphere show, they had all the Pollack artwork covering the Sphere.
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    That's awesome. I also like that Trey has gone back to the Mesa Mkiii/Languedoc Cab Rig.
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    Lamp cord for the win. For less than 10 feet, 14 ga is plenty overkill. 16 ga is perfectly fine. And you wouldn't be able to tell the difference among any of them.
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    Yeah. Inciting treason on one side of the scale isn't close to being balanced out by any subsequent, plausible policy decisions in a second term. I didn't cast my vote based on what necessarily was beneficial to my bottom line. I cast my vote for what I felt was best for the country as a whole.
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    I culled that herd eight years ago on my social media. When I checked FB today, I didn't see much about Trump except from the sane, stunned people. I don't need an echo chamber, but I'm not wasting the few minutes each day I spend on social media (non Surly Social Media) listening to bunch of trumptards gloat.
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    I suspect a percentage of that percentage are themselves misogynists. Not only is it, sadly, a common trait it seems, it's not one unique to men.
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    I'll be surprised if anything like that ends up in our court, and more surprised if we don't do anything but follow the law. But I assure you, my retirement has fully vested, and my passport soon will be renewed. I will not facilitate evil.
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    You want to hear it? I gave that POS Cannon the benefit of the doubt early on. I was wrong. There were delays in his other prosecutions too, some of which were run of the mill and others---like delaying the onset of prosecution on the Federal level---which were inexcusable. That happens, but it doesn't mean that I, then or now, wish it had not happened that way. But this country (minus some of the good people of Surly) elected a 34-time convicted felon last night. I'm pretty confident it would have done so whether he'd been sentenced and was sitting in jail or had a pending appeal. That's how broken and fucked this all is. So now that we have that out of the way, you can stop @-ing me on judical delay topics, and I owe you a beer at some point as penance for my prior incorrectitude . . . fuck face.
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    No words. My whole immediate family turned out for Harris. Pretty raw this morning. Thanks for the solidarity fuck face. I hope you feel better.
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    Soon
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