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Inglonias posted:I don't like kettle corn. I can eat it, but it's one of those foods that shouldn't be sweet and still is, alongside bread and butter pickles, and BBQ sauce in large quantities. Solution: stop buying lovely BBQ sauce.
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Joementum posted:Wrap it up, Gohmertailures! The AP has called the OH-08 Republican primary for John Boehner, defeating the guy who got fired from his job over a raunchy campaign ad and a distant relative of George Washington. I didn't realize he lost his job over that ad. I hope he is able to find something soon.
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The AP has called the NC Republican Senate primary for Tillis, who looks to get about 45% and thus break the 40% cutoff that would have triggered a runoff with the Rand Paul endorsed conspiracy nut. So politics is basically no fun  If there are any silver linings for the Paul camp, Walter Jones looks like he will narrowly hang on in NC-03.
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Joementum posted:If there are any silver linings for the Paul camp, Walter Jones looks like he will narrowly hang on in NC-03. You sure? N&O's interactive map shows Jones losing at this point. Are the unaccounted areas just heavily Jonesing?
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sweart gliwere posted:You sure? N&O's interactive map shows Jones losing at this point. Are the unaccounted areas just heavily Jonesing? Onslow and Pitt counties haven't reported yet, which is where people in his district actually live.
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The AP just called it for Jones. He's up by 3,000 with 71% in. For those who don't know Jones, he was the Congressman who came up with "Freedom Fries", but turned hard against the Iraq War after having to write too many grievance letters to families in his district and was a close ally of Ron Paul in the House.
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Also two more precincts left and Clay Aiken is just past the 40% runoff threshold.Joementum posted:For those who don't know Jones, he was the Congressman who came up with "Freedom Fries", but turned hard against the Iraq War after having to write too many grievance letters to families in his district and was a close ally of Ron Paul in the House. And Bill Kristol's Emergency Committee For Israel dumped a cool million on ads against him for being too cozy with Iran.
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Joementum posted:
Well, that's certainly a turnaround. Good on him.
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Joementum posted:For those who don't know Jones, he was the Congressman who came up with "Freedom Fries", but turned hard against the Iraq War after having to write too many grievance letters to families in his district and was a close ally of Ron Paul in the House. Last time I went to the Blue Marlin Tournament in Morehead, I was actually able to buy freedom fries from a food truck. If memory serves, it was after 2010. And tonight, we are all Claymates who've been Aiken for this moment 
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Blindeye posted:Just world fallacy. I would give my left foot for a society that never mistook bad fortune for poor life choices, or that punished poor life choices with the false assumption that everyone has good judgment, omniscient information about the world, and perfect mental health. The worst part is that the Just World fallacy has been around for ages. It's been around so long Voltaire ripped it a new rear end in a top hat in Candide over 250 years ago. The continued insistence by large swathes of humanity that people in terrible situations somehow deserve it only convinces me that most people are assholes. I call it the Just Assholes Theory.
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sweart gliwere posted:
Also this guy won the libertarian primary for senate against the purestrain rear end in a top hat Tim D'annunzio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0iw4ewgAMo
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The worst part is that the Just World fallacy has been around for ages. It's been around so long Voltaire ripped it a new rear end in a top hat in Candide over 250 years ago. The continued insistence by large swathes of humanity that people in terrible situations somehow deserve it only convinces me that most people are assholes. I call it the Just Assholes Theory. It's been around so long the Bible rails against at least twice (The Book of Job and Jesus healing the blind man).
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I appreciate his showboating of NC beer in the video, but that doesn't look like he's stocking Covington vodka, or Carriage House apple brandy, or bros Vilgalys Krupnika, or Topo whiskey, or Cardinal gin. Got himself a nasty case of out-of-state liquor. Bastard. vvv e: i legit hope this is foreshadowing for him pulling a Perry or Priebus during whatever debates he gets sweart gliwere fucked around with this message at 03:41 on May 7, 2014 |
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All candidates should do ads while visibly buzzed.
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sweart gliwere posted:I appreciate his showboating of NC beer in the video, but that doesn't look like he's stocking Covington vodka, or Carriage House apple brandy, or bros Vilgalys Krupnika, or Topo whiskey, or Cardinal gin. Got himself a nasty case of out-of-state liquor. Bastard. Eh he's drinking Sisters of the Moon, which is good enough.
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SedanChair posted:All candidates should do ads while visibly buzzed. I wish a candidate during the 3rd republican debate could be as drunk as Ric Flair.
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That's because Cardinal Gin tastes like pencil shavings 
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Don't get me wrong, I prefer London Dry style gin. Cardinal's heavy on the spearmint and no favorite of mine, but Our State uber alles.
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I thought real Americans only drank whiskey and/or bourbon. <>
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In mixed news for the LGBT community despite Clay Aiken's narrow victory former Miss Gay America promoter Steve Wiles aka Mona Sinclair came in third in his race for state senate.
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Well he should at least get some of the Junior Johnson moonshine, that's NC. It even comes in a mason jar.nutranurse posted:I thought real Americans only drank whiskey and/or bourbon. <
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nutranurse posted:I thought real Americans only drank whiskey and/or bourbon. < Sweet potato vodka (derived, not flavored) is the nectar of the gods. Rye and scotch are fine, bourbon's too sweet.
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CannonFodder posted:Well he should at least get some of the Junior Johnson moonshine, that's NC. It even comes in a mason jar. If there's one thing I kick myself for not bringing on the move out west, it was as much Appalachian moonshine as I could get my hands on. Hoping to rectify this over the summer.
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SedanChair posted:All candidates should do ads while visibly buzzed. Wasn't there a representative government or something in the past 500 years where they would debate bills and proposals in week long sessions that alternated between sober/hammered so that both the public and the representatives could see which proposals stood up and which ones fell apart because they were just smoke screen put up by a grinning face who didn't believe a word he was saying?
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Kalman posted:Is technically M&Ms.
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May's drink of the month is Casa Noble's Reposado Tequila. It is a blue agave tequila aged in a white oak barrel for between 3 months and 1 year. This gives it a smooth, slightly sweet taste akin to cognac, rather than the usual hard bite tequila has. It's for savoring, not shots or mixing. Runs $45-$60 a bottle. I was going to make it Casa Noble's Anejo but that runs $60-$110 a bottle (same stuff but aged between 1 to 3 years in the barrel and even smoother) and I wanted to aim for the same price range. Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 04:22 on May 7, 2014 |
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Roumba posted:Wasn't there a representative government or something in the past 500 years where they would debate bills and proposals in week long sessions that alternated between sober/hammered so that both the public and the representatives could see which proposals stood up and which ones fell apart because they were just smoke screen put up by a grinning face who didn't believe a word he was saying?
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Fried Chicken posted:May's drink of the month is Casa Noble's Reposado Tequila. It is a blue agave tequila aged in a white oak barrel for between 3 months and 1 year. This gives it a smooth, slightly sweet taste akin to cognac, rather than the usual hard bite tequila has. Runs $45-$60 a bottle. How could you recommend to us a $60-$110 bottle of booze in good faith knowing that the discussion that would take place in the thread would be how poor we are and how much poorer we're going to become???
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fade5 posted:What kills me is is that the Air Force respond to the F-35 being a shitheap in a very simple way: service extensions for the F-16s that the F-35 was supposed to replace. Maybe if it and the A-10 wanted to remain in use they'd be deviously setup so that pretty much every state is involved in their production so that it'd be politically untenable to kill them off.  Dr Pepper posted:It should be noted that people in Utah crunched the numbers and discovered that the cheapest method of solving homelessness, that is literally the method that ends the problem while costing the least amount possible, is to just buy the homeless people an apartment with a social worker to help them (And they keep the apartment no matter what). Building bigass apartment buildings with units of even 500 square feet and a basic bed (like the cheap lovely things in most dorms), kitchen, and bathroom would help tremendously. Have a handful of staff that work to help them get jobs and/or better education so they can get a job. Let them move out once they're on their feet, or stay if they'd prefer to remain in the recovery unit or w/e you'd call it. Hell, take a handful of the tenants and train them in various maintenance duties and employ them directly at the complex to help with the upkeep. Give them a home and a path that can help them out and I doubt many would turn it down. Those that would likely need help the most.
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nutranurse posted:How could you recommend to us a $60-$110 bottle of booze in good faith knowing that the discussion that would take place in the thread would be how poor we are and how much poorer we're going to become??? Lagavulin 16. Near the top of your range. Finest scotch, if you aren't being ridiculous and buying stuff older than yourself.
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nutranurse posted:How could you recommend to us a $60-$110 bottle of booze in good faith knowing that the discussion that would take place in the thread would be how poor we are and how much poorer we're going to become??? exactly why I dialed it back to the $45 bottle I should take suggestions for the rest of the months. I'm thinking blueberry vodka and lemonade for june, as it is a nice outdoors, relaxing from the heat drink, July demands bourbon, and November should probably be a "drown our sorrows" or a "triumphant victory" type depending on how the polling looks and your politics. Not sure the rest. Plus that makes it more a thread thing and less a my tastes thing EDIT: anyone have some good rum suggestions? Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 04:31 on May 7, 2014 |
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Nessus posted:This is said to have been a pre-Islamic Persian tradition, I believe. According to Herodotus, at least. Herodotus: Book 1, Chpt 133 posted:And of all days their wont is to honour most that on which they were born, each one: on this they think it right to set out a feast more liberal than on other days; and in this feast the wealthier of them set upon the table an ox or a horse or a camel or an rear end, roasted whole in an oven, and the poor among them set out small animals in the same way. They have few solid dishes, but many served up after as dessert, and these not in a single course; and for this reason the Persians say that the Hellenes leave off dinner hungry, because after dinner they have nothing worth mentioning served up as dessert, whereas if any good dessert were served up they would not stop eating so soon. To wine-drinking they are very much given, and it is not permitted for a man to vomit or to make water in presence of another. thus do they provide against these things; and they are wont to deliberate when drinking hard about the most important of their affairs, and whatsoever conclusion has pleased them in their deliberation, this on the next day, when they are sober, the master of the house in which they happen to be when they deliberate lays before them for discussion: and if it pleases them when they are sober also, they adopt it, but if it does not please them, they let it go: and that on which they have had the first deliberation when they are sober, they consider again when they are drinking. I've used this concept effectively to discuss campus issues at the collegiate level. If only Boehner or Priebus would embrace it. Tacitus cites the Germanic peoples he encountered doing something similar. Brute Squad fucked around with this message at 04:30 on May 7, 2014 |
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I propose night train served a la paper bag for all months.
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A pint of Guinness a day keeps the doctor away.
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Install Windows posted:I propose night train served a la paper bag for all months. Mad Dog 20/20 is 18% AbV to Night Train's 17.5%
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Screw drinking. Just get a sandwich bag, some airplane glue, and go to town.
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Sorry to interrupt boozechat by bringing a up a Mormon, but someone said earlier that Jon Huntsman was a far-right nutjob in sane clothing. Was he further to the right on anything than his competition? (I acknowledge the depressing fact that most Republicans would be far-right in the rest of the developed world.)
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comes along bort posted:Screw drinking. Just get a sandwich bag, some airplane glue, and go to town. Looks like I chose the wrong week to quit drinking/sniffing glue
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Fried Chicken posted:Mad Dog 20/20 is 18% AbV to Night Train's 17.5% Only red grape mad dog is 18%. Wild Irish rose is 18% too and comes in the 50oz jug, so might be good for Christmas when the money is tight.
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