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makes sense. couldn't tell if he meant all time and was then mistaking who knows wha waaa waaaaaa

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 01:28 AM) I guess that would be 1 AL player since 2000 or only 1 over 70. Only 69 times has a player stolen at least 40: #1 is Pierre with 8, #2 is Crawford with 6 #3 Podsednik, Rollins and Figgins with 4. Of course only 8 times as a player been caught stealing 20+ times since 2000 and Pierre leads the way with 3 (he's also #1 with 24 CS in '04, tied with Alex Sanchez) no other player has done it multiple times. only 69 times since 2000?

i think that faxing nooses, vandalizing and making death threats is the definition of crazy ass...but not to kap.

i have a feeling with grassleys long-running shtick and scott browns shtick soon everyone in the senate is going to buy a beat up truck and say "HEY I'M JUST LIKE YOU"

we are surrounding beckham with pierre and mark kotsay. that's sandwiching a steak with two cow pies.

Yeah, her vegan red velvet cupcakes were boss.

GENT•LE•MEN Here's a nice vegan dessert recipe to cool off with. (OR HEAT UP WITH, BUT THEN COOL OFF WITH THE ICE CREAM) Vegan Caramel-Apple Pie The Crust Best part. I need to re-work the recipe to make just a wee bit more dough so I can attempt a real, non-meddled with basketweave next time with a little more dough. I have also heard to chill as many of the ingredients and utensils used in making a pie as possible beforehand. The bowl, the fork, everything...next pie, I will try this and see if it improves the crust at all. Taste-wise, the crust was delicious, and the recipe a keeper. First, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Then sift 1.5 C flour, 1/2 C. brown sugar, 1 t. ginger, 1 t. cinnamon, 1/4 t. allspice, 1/2 t. salt and 1 t. baking powder. Add 1/2 C. softened margarine, 1 tablespoon at a time, cutting it in with a knife. Then drizzle in 1 T. molasses and 2 T. cold water and mix the ingredients with your fingers just till the dough clings into a ball. Set aside 1/2 a cup of dough and kneaded the pieces into balls. Press the larger bit into a pie pan and bake in the over for 10 minutes. The Filling I have found a lot of conflicting ways to cut the apples to put in the pie. Some recipes want you to slice thin pieces, others want you to cube the apples or cut them in thicker slices. Which way do any of you out there prefer your apple pie filling? For this recipe I cut slightly thick slices, which I would make thinner next time. All taste testers agreed the apples could be a little mushier. Take 4 granny smith apples and cut them into slices. Sautee the slices in 2 T. margarine for five minutes. Remove them from the heat and toss the slices with 1 T. flour and 1/4 C. sugar. Set aside. Now, since the apples end up getting caramel sauce poured on them, I debated whether or not I should omit the 1/4 sugar. I think I ended up tossing the apples in roughly half that. The Caramel Sauce Worst part of the recipe for me. I winged it a little, which was in hindsight a bad idea. I also wasted a lot of sugar and margarine in the process. For some reason I always think that cornstarch is a suitable equivalent for arrowroot, and sometimes it is. But when making something as tricky as vegan caramel sauce -- I should have just dragged my ass to Whole Foods and sucked it up. But instead I thought, as I have thought at least several times before in my pie-making past, 'No no, cornstarch is like practically the same thing. No need to make an extra trip when you can be lazy!'. Disaster, always. The sauce ended up not gelling properly, and was a soupy mess. I still put some in the pie, however, and it tasted fine. I was afraid it might soak the pie crust, but it didn't. Next time if I can succeed in making it a little gooier, it will be an amazing sauce...I just need to play around with recipes and find a good balance. Combine 1/4 C. soy milk and 2 T. cornstarch; whisk and set aside. Melt 1/2 C. margarine in saucepan and stir in 2 C. brown sugar. Add 1/2 C. soy milk. Boil for four minutes, stirring. Add milk/arrowroot mixture after taking the saucepan off of the heat. The Assembly Pour apples and caramel sauce into pie crust. Top pie with the remaining ball of pie dough and cover with tin foil. Bake 35-40 minutes. Remove tin foil and bake for another 10 minutes. Serve with vegan ice cream. Delicious. Overall a pie worth experimenting with. Expect the caramel-apple pie with gingerbread crust saga to continue... from a friend's vegan cooking blog.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) Why, did they go completely disco dancing or something? I havent heard any of it. more like a really boring early seventies bowie impression. the single was the best song on it, but even so, compared to time to pretend/electric feel/kids it's an album lots of bands could make.

There's a reason why wyden-bennet also wanted to blow up employer provided insurance. It was unsustainable. You either fix the problem now or you wait for it all to implode.

guess what guys, many research says that the dropping was going to happen anyways - beginning in this decade, accelerating in the next, it's one of the reasons a lot of steps were created to help the individual market. Employer given health insurance was getting sicker.

the new mgmt, while not a complete waste of time, was in my opinion, a waste of my time.

then the individual market will become a lot more affordable, in no short part to this bill.

Acorn should change their name to the n-word so when it's shouted out we all know what they mean.

i thought they were pissed about medicaid. Either way, they won't win. Unless they can convince the courts that 200 years of judicial precedent has not happened, and it's just post marbury v. madison.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 07:50 PM) Is that Hickenlooper? He was a fantastic mayor. Or is the more recent mayor running? ah. s***. I have no idea. I have no idea what's going on anymore.

I guess I need convictions and illegal activities to show that an organization was illegal. The most illegal thing was the homeless people taking a check and not doing their jobs. No, mickey mouse was in fact, not voting. So all these "ACORN WAS DELIVERING THE ELECTION FOR OBAMA" was not based in any sort of fact. They are just a target in the same way the census is, the more minority voters that are whipped together to vote, the more democratic votes there tends to be.

animal collective is taking a break. hint at permanent break.

I don't know what you mean by wrong doing. Were homeless people just taking a paycheck without doing their job? Yes. Was the organization ever convicted of illegal activities despite a whole political scandal in the US attorneys office to try and push taking down ACORN? No. They were under a heavy microscope and never got taken down until a highly manipulated video, and in the investigation afterward, they said it was a highly manipulated video and no illegal activities were done. But some showed poor judgment. SO no.

I do too. I don't like Landreiu, Bayh, Nelsonx2, Lieberman, etc. At all. On the other hand, the alternatives would be even more obstructive than these 5, imo. So not much i can do.

well, they weren't convicted of any wrongdoing. Their money was stripped before any investigations were done in the immediate aftermath.

you did because it provided cover for a lot of the 55-60 dem. sen votes. If those were in, those 5 sens. wouldn't have voted for it, and it couldn't have passed. Political realities.

this is why i'm avoiding this thread. but i will just add this. O'Keefe was NOT dressed up like a pimp during the videos with employees. Should I really post the examples of these heavy edited tactics showing responses to questions that weren't asked?

Y2HH, again, we are dealing with political realities. It's hard enough to take on the insurance industry. Now take on big pharm at the same time. As I've stated numerous times and it hasn't stuck. Early on the bill contained provider level cost controls. And republicans huffed and puffed about how it hurts doctors and would be the end of the world. At the end of the bill, it's THERES NO PROVIDER COST CONTROLS. ANd while the argument before was "oh great now you are going to ruin any advancement in drugs since no technician will go into pharmaceuticals to cure stuff because they won't make any money if you let generics take over earlier" and now it's "Oh now they get a sweet heart deal!"

props to the stevie wonder title.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 05:55 PM) Campaigning on "you should lose your insurance" is probably not going to be a winning issue. I will say this as a caveat...since it is before 2014, i would guess not a substantial amount have gained insurance by then.