Posts by shizaru

41) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1833854)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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OK, one more try. You are playing the chicken and the egg. Yes the egg came first.

But then the egg said: "The States are sovereign."

I'll carry on believing the US Constitution is Supreme, and from it all stems all sovereignty.


The Constitution (for now) ensures you are free to believe anything you want. But the Fed cannot take power away from the States, yet the States DO have ways of taking power over a perpetually temporary Fed.

No-one reigns Supreme. At the best of times Fed & State are equally sovereign, at the worst of times the State officials essentially call the shots.

And again, that's a good thing.
42) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1833807)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Don't see the word "state" I see the word "people." I also see the word "Colonies."


So let me see if I understand this right:

You just managed to abolish the Electoral College just to get your snarky remark fix?

You also forgot the punchline:

these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States
43) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1833805)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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You really can't tell "worker" is implied here? Seriously? Babies?
44) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1833780)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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The issue i was addressing was source of the Fed's authority, States or People, the Constitution says People.


Via the States, Bobby. Via the States.
45) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1833779)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Errrm, that's "household".
46) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1833757)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Uh, I don't know if you noticed but Hillary won the popular vote. She ain't president.

"We the people of the States" doesn't sound as catchy. It's still more true than not though.

And that's a good thing.

- - - - - - -

Maybe you should focus more on words like "constitutional amendment" and "supermajority" instead of fads-of-the-day like "post-truth".
47) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1833744)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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And in their (the politicians of both parties) obsession to game that number half of America ended making less than 30k a year.

It doesn't matter if there's ZERO unemployment.*

What matters is a teacher in San Fran can't afford to live in San Fran.


*It used to. Not anymore.
48) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1833664)
Posted 2 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Well - to be fair - all the experts DID say it was going to be a... landslide.

;)
49) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1833552)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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[quoting myself]

I'm from Steve's school of cooking so normally I'd have the Turkey slow-smoking with Apple wood-chips on the Charcoal BBQ by now (It's almost 10 o'clock in the morning over here).

But tomorrow is my Mom's 80th Birthday and it's going to be a big shindig so we are delaying Thanksgiving for... Friday night! I'll still get to fire up the BBQ but since my Mother is in charge (and has been prepping for 3 days already) she's in charge of the menu and has put me in charge of making the Thanksgiving... ribs! :D

Ribs don't exist in Greece and she wants to show them off to all her friends :)

I'll try and grab a few photos.


OK well here's the prep :)



Like I said, ribs don't really exist in Greece so this cut is almost 10 pounds of meat! And about 50cm :) I had to slightly squeeze it onto my 22" grill.
I'm guessing it's the Spare Ribs & Rib Tips sans the Baby Backs, plus no meat shaved off the bones.

Prep was just a bit of meat-trimming, some paprika, garlic granules, and Aleppo chili flakes the day before. Salt, brown sugar, milled black pepper, and a little cumin right before grilling. Here's what it looked like after ~8hrs on the Weber Kettle:

(Not photogenic and out-of-focus to boot... but it's a good thing I can't post their smell :)



Anyone else take any Thanksgiving pics?
And again, no-one brines their bird?
50) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1833546)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Anyone know if Aussie Glenn* is OK?

He didn't show up over in politics during US elections :(

*[Darth Beaver]
51) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1833292)
Posted 30 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Oh aaalright... if you insist. It's not like I want to spam this thread with photos or anything ;)





I know, I know... she's her mother's daughter.
52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1833238)
Posted 29 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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This thread lost half its mojo with Ian passing...

Marie, I don't know if you are reading this but I must say... I turned off my computer and started sobbing after I posted in the other thread. Maybe that sounds corny coming from a random person on the internet but that's the thing... I'm not a "sobber". I just had no idea he was ill and he was always so nice to me.

- - - - - - - - -

So daddy considered it his duty to start introducing his little pumpkin to some music. And I thought, "Why not get started with the best female album of all time?".

So for months now we've been feeling the earth move under our feet, that it's too late baby it's too late, that we have to get up every morning with a smile on our face and show the world all the love in our heart, that we are as beautiful as we feel, that winter-spring-summer-or-fall all we have to do is call, that we will still love each-other tomorrow, and best of all:

That we feel like natural women!

We also seem to really like Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence LP and Bob Marley's Exodus. But a couple of days ago Maria and I started singing & dancing in front of her and she loved it! So daddy thought we'd try out something a bit more fun on the record player - I Wanna Be Sedated by the Ramones. I've never seen her so ecstatic!

Daphne is a punk rocker! :D
53) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1833064)
Posted 28 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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... and today in our series of "More good news for the UK, more bad news for the EZ" we have two whoppers for ya!

Experts get it wrong for the "umpteenth time" (sorry Snark, pun intended)*. Humanity considers falling back on prediction makers with a better track record. Astrology is the clear favorite for now, though some in the UK are convinced tea-leaves are in for a comeback!

Very serious people get UK predictions wrong. Again.
IMF and the OECD in talks of merger. New megacorp referred to as Chicken Little internally.

"Osborne’s belief that voters would be swayed by fears of recession meant Lagarde and Gurría popped up regularly during the campaign. In the event, the plan did not work. Those who voted to leave the EU appeared sceptical about the forecasts produced by the IMF and the OECD – and those from the Treasury and the Bank of England, for that matter."

Very serious people get EZ predictions wrong. Again.
The European elite have developed a death wish

"So Fillon v Le Pen is not “good news for Europe”. Neither is Juncker’s promise to double down on all the mistakes that led us here; nor the IMF’s insistence that Greece should destroy its democracy some more; nor Renzi’s decision to play shit or bust with the Italian banking system."


*WK, where art thou?
54) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1832926)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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quoting myself:
Wow. Big change. OK.

Normally I'm severely allergic to "upgrades" like these but I gotta admit... this is rather nice :)


Ha! No wonder I'm OK with this new color scheme!

I've been using it for years and didn't even notice 'till now.

It's the "Planets" theme from Gmail :)
55) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1832852)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Thank you Major K, you knocked that one out of the park! :)

17 days ago when I said:

Fun fact of the day: Apparently Vermont is the MOST gun-friendly state in the US. Which makes perfect sense but MajorKong would do a faaar better job at giving you THAT history lesson, than I ever could :)


Your previous post was pretty much the history lesson I was referring to :)
56) Message boards : Politics : Since Bob has locked the Trump thread I will post this. (Message 1832809)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Alright then my answer is:

Stop feeling insecure, forgo the humble pie act and - most importantly - quit being so damn lazy.

Answer these very easy questions:
Do you really think this guy is smarter than 97.13% to 99.43% of the population?
Where is his wiki page?
Where is his Amazon page?
Do his other CNBC articles show hints of any sort of "background understanding" regarding trade deals?
Who owns CNBC?
And what is Comcast's lobbying budget?

Last but most certainly not least:

Exactly how many think tanks did he reference in this "article"?
57) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1832784)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Is that the 17" Galaxy S7?

;)
58) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead (Message 1832782)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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Well the Obama of Italy, Matteo "I-sold-Unions-down-the-river" Renzi is about to have his a** handed to him next Sunday...

That'll be a win for the leprechauns :)

But it looks like the UK will have to wait. May is no Thatcher and Corbyn is no Bernie.
Lose/lose for the UK unfortunately.

For now.
59) Message boards : Politics : Since Bob has locked the Trump thread I will post this. (Message 1832779)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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My answer depends on why you ask:

a) Because Obama thinks it's a good idea?
b) Because Libertarians think it is a good idea?
c) Because we couldn't possibly be smarter than someone writing for CNBC?
d) Other?
60) Message boards : Politics : Since Bob has locked the Trump thread I will post this. (Message 1832727)
Posted 26 Nov 2016 by Profile shizaru
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How long before he realises that cancelling TPP will actually help China and be bad for the US, China's gain? The collapse of the TPP could be bad for everyone


How long before you figure out you often parrot stuff thought up by a corporate "think tank"? Meanwhile, please explain to me why VW customers in the UK don't deserve a refund.


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