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  1. 6 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    I plan on making gumbo with duck for Super Bowl Sunday, and using rendered duck fat for the roux.  I've always used canola oil for my roux.  Anything particularly different I should do when using the duck fat?

    save some for popcorn.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Think about this: there is a major political party in the US, currently in power at the highest levels that, internally, says this about itself: "If eligible voters are actually allowed to vote, we will lose."  That's how fucking bankrupt the party is -- it's central electoral strategy is NOT to have winning ideas, but to insure that people are not allowed to vote against its shitty ideas.

    JFC.

    who are the underwriters on that one?

  3. 4 hours ago, deadshank said:

    Have seen a few coyotes in Briargrove Park.  Mostly around Buffalo Bayou on the north end and on the street that backs up to Rivercrest.  I once saw 2 coyotes in the right  side rough along the 15th hole at  Memorial Park GC.  

    i used to live at the apartments on memorial drive at detering (the traffic light at the west end of memorial drive's express street portion west of downtown).  behind the apartment, buffalo bayou loops around a bit and there's a large area that is basically a private park for the apartment (it's low and floods a lot).  much of it is mowed but where the bank gets steep its wooded.  walking the dogs (a shih tzu and a bichon friese) late one night i saw a shadow moving just along the wooded area.  i thought maybe it was a deer, but then it came into a lit part and it was a coyote.  kinda looked in mine and the dogs' direction and kept on moving.  only other time i've seen one in the middle of houston was one crossing memorial drive in the park at about 3:30 am. 

    that park area behind the apartment had a pond and from time to time a gator would be swept into it after a flood, only to be swept out by the next flood. 

    while biking out in george bush park i came around a bend to a bobcat standing in the middle of the path.  there's also a ton of coyotes out there.  sitting in my parents' backyard you'd hear the yelping building as they were counting off. 

    /cool stories

  4. I know is $5 and I’m overthinking this, but the harness is completely asymmetrical and would tip over to the left if the wearer shifts weight too much. You obviously need another beer koozie and dip basket to keep things balanced and for those who are amphibious eaters.
    Frog legs would be a good addition
  5. On 1/24/2019 at 6:20 PM, David Dennison said:

    The highest federal income tax bracket of 37% only applies to every dollar earned over $500,000.

    The income tax is not preventing people from accumulating wealth.

     

    add FICA on top of that.  and realize that, whatever the accounting of it, the economic burden is borne mostly by employees (in particular by employees who are price takers).  that 20 or 25% jumps to 35-40% of a person's economic income on a marginal basis. 

  6. 4 hours ago, Llano Estacado said:

    This.

    Can’t buy a car on Sunday or a Tesla online from Tesla.com in this state. Can’t carry packaged and sealed beer off the premises of most of the breweries in this state. But, I’m sure the liquor distributors and store owner lobby will fight hard for the citizens and we’ll have liquor in grocery stores on Sundays by 2119ish.

    walmart's suit on this is up at the 5th circuit right now, but we'll almost certainly have the supreme court's decision in https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/tennessee-wine-spirits-retailers-association-v-blair/ beforehand.  that will give some guidance as to what will happen with walmart. 

  7. 38 minutes ago, YChang said:

     

    My concern is if the stick is the only tactic then it'll just become a never ending whack a mole deal with China. OK US you win, we'll fix some of our practices (wink wink) once you lift those tariffs.

    it wouldn't shock me to find that most of trump's business dealings have been whack-a-mole.  nothing is ever closed and agreed upon. 

  8. 3 hours ago, scottsins said:

    I accidentally negged you instead of liked your post.  All out of rep (used it on the troll since there are about 200 posts today all responding to the troll).

    reps aren't permanent on this board - just click the little x on the rep logo and it undoes it. 

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  9. 48 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    costco sells 24hr 2 year memberships for about $400.  

    the cheap costco one only gets you into half of the 24 hr fitnesses.  the more expensive one works out to about $30 a month anyway. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Digdogger said:

    We spent a day in a half in Athens in May, it was basically enough to see the main sights.

    I personally was very underwhelmed with Santorini.  There are beautiful parts, but its also kind of dumpy and a humongous tourist trap.  Some cool hotels, but the island itself is desolate and barren, though there are some cool beaches.

    We went to Heraklion in Crete (the overnight ferry from Athens was nicer than I expected).  Its a dense city, but seems fairly clean and not too bad to get around in.  I thought Knossos was kind of lame.  The actual ruins were ok, but they had recreated a lot of them with concrete and weird red paint, so it looked kind of like a parking garage.

    I liked the mainland much better.  Delphi and the area around it is awesome, its up in the mountains with gorgeous scenery.  There's a little village just before you get there that's pretty cool.  A bit of a tourist trap, but it was pretty quiet in May.  Olympia was good,.  The town was another shocking tourist trap.  We stayed a few nights in Tolo, near Nafplion, which was pretty nice.  Again, we were before the busy season, so it was pretty quiet.  Mycenae was pretty cool.  Nafplion was alright, the Palamidi Fortress was pretty neat.  The Epidavros theatre was impressive.  Corinth was good.  We got to Acrocorinth and they had closed early, but it looked awesome from the outside (similar to Palamidi).

    it's as if you went to a country whose only competitive advantage in anything is tourism. 

  11. 5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The ability to inherit was relatively new and unfettered in 18th Century England

    assize of northampton says hi

     

    6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Confiscatory estate taxes were not a thing here until the 20th Century.  This opposition to generational wealth, as opposed to monarchical or feudal wealth, is a new thing. 

    what was new was polity-warping financial wealth. 

     

    20 minutes ago, Cajun said:

    Lulz.

    Care to quote us some numbers on HRC donations?

    she's a total left winger that's why she and progressives saw things 100% eye to eye and she didn't have any big challenges from a guy like bernie sanders. 

  12. 2 hours ago, PilotsError said:

    Before I tighten or loosen something I still have to say 'Lefty loosey Righty tighty' in my head.

    i make like i'm unscrewing a jar.  actually do the hand motion.  then remember to reverse it when you're trying to get to a bolt on the back side of something. 

    fuck changing a tire on the side of a major highway though. 

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