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  1. I have this hope that whoever we send to DC as senator actually represents ALL Texans, not just one group or another.  Represent all, regardless of wealth, race, age, gender, religious leanings, sexual orientation or any other measures of difference people want to use.

    I want a statesman, one who is doing his or her best for the people.   One who makes sacrifices for the greater good.  Who would gamble a political future to stand up against those who would sell us out to line their own pockets.

    I don't know if Beto can do that, but I sure as hell know Cruz has no interest in that.  He is all about power and money. 

    Beto might not win.  But he's doing the right thing in my opinion.  If he loses, he will still have his integrity, something Rafael lost long ago. 

    In this Texas heat I am working on the blueberry Beto snowcones instead of Koolaid. 

  2. 12 minutes ago, Nivek said:


    He fucks his sister and all of their children are now dead as a result of their intrigue and general shittyness. Oh and he killed the Mad King - he was the equivalent of the head of the secret service.

    Well shit.  And I was gonna start binging on GoT next week. 

  3. A good article on Big Pharma and what could be done.   My brother was a sales rep and my SIL is a pharmacist.  They always throw out the "but research costs need to be covered" argument when discussing pricing on meds.  This says the opposite.  But since BP has been indoctrinating  us with their story for decades, it is hard to get out any other viewpoint. 

    https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/only-a-healthy-democracy-will-save-us-from-big-pharma/article_cccf0305-b72a-59ad-a3ae-fabe7f88d369.html

    A quote from the article:

    " Drug development and manufacturing used to be considered part of the American “common good.” Two key developers of insulin — Frederick Banting and John Macleod — refused to put their names on the original insulin patent. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, also rejected patenting for his breakthrough; it was just too important for public health to belong to any one person or company.

    As a nation, we have always invested heavily in medical research, because we believe that breakthroughs should benefit everyone. In fact, the underlying research behind almost all of today’s medicines was conducted by academic or government researchers with taxpayer-funded grants. But thanks to an obscure provision of the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, publicly funded researchers can patent their discoveries and sell them to private drug firms, who can then — as my patients know too well — set whatever price they like. Congress could easily change this law so that tax-funded breakthroughs actually benefit the American people, not just corporate bottom lines.

    By failing to invest in the public good of pharmaceutical research, we’ve let drug companies set the research agenda. Instead of solving major health problems like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, private firms often just make minor tweaks to existing formulas to extend the patents — and profitability — of their products. In fact, 90 percent of newly approved drugs offer few or no new health benefits, but still win the patents and market exclusivity that keep prices sky-high. "

    The author is part of Physicians for a National Health Program:

    http://www.pnhp.org/pharma

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  4. 8 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:

    I'd rather they nab Kush and Jr.  Trump is too old for any punishment to matter. Knowing Jr is looking at 40 years would be worse for Sr than throwing Sr in there for the rest of his life. Plus, the Trump and Kush organizations need to be entirely dissolved and their assets resold. Fuck having these crooked assholes still doing dirty deals and handing that legacy onto their kids like their daddies did to them. 

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  5. 3 hours ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Meh I'd tear it up... Brisket looked like it may have been a little dry, not sure what kinda chicken that is but it doesn't look grilled and idk when fajita became part of a BBQ but I would've got down on it. All in all a pretty good spread tho. 

    I don't think fajitas are on the menu.  No tortillas or fixing.   I would say sausage, some sort of honey bbq chicken, brisket and pork loin. 

  6. My brother is a died in the wool trumpkin.   It seems the further this goes, the more crotchety he gets.  He yelling at a lot more clouds, usually mexican restaurant staff. 

     

    Unfortunately, most of the people of my age and location are just like him.   Lots of pride there to swallow to admit they were duped and brainwashed.

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  7. 17 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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    What is the difference in using information gained through phone taps or using info gained through Cambridge Analytic?  The second just seems more technologically advanced. 

    Of course he calls out Obama for the former, but no one for the latter. 

    And that line about "very sacred election process.  This is Nixon/Watergate"  How very projection-isty. 

  8. I liked the stay frosty reference in the school too.  Can't find a clip of it on youtube though.

    The fact they can put together such a good show with fairly unknown actors is too often overlooked.   

  9. 7 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

    Is there a huge difference in the models? I did a little looking earlier and Instant Pot duo 60 has good reviews and is 100 bucks on Amazon. Can I get a cheaper one that will still be alright?

    I don't know for sure Zepol, but I think a big part of price is size.   I bought the segura and it works fine, but most of the recipes seem to be for the Instant Pot, which has different controls.   So you have to translate.   The segura was a little less at the time, but now it's in line with the others.

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, Texas73 said:

    I'm not making fun of anyone either.

    Here is the deal: Trump got 52.2% and Clinton got 43.2%, so yes Trump won Texas by 9%. Using those numbers for O'Rourke vs Cruz, O'Rourke would need to pic up 4.6% statewide, resulting in O'Rourke: 43.2% + 4.6% = 47.8% and Cruz: 52.2% - 4.6% = 47.6%.  All this is assuming over 4% goes to others.

    When you lose by 9% you don't need to swing 10% your way to win but rather > 4.5%.

    I'm done.

    73 teaches math, remember?

  11. I made some great butter chicken with it mine the other night. 

    https://recipes.instantpot.com/recipe/now-and-later-butter-chicken/

     

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    I doubled the recipe.  Could have tripled it and had room.

    I used thighs and cut each one into about 3 strips.  Also used salted butter and the coconut milk.   It was great and I have enough sauce left to simmer some more chicken later. 

    BUT there is no way this recipe as is serves 4.  Not decently.  Maybe 2. 

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  12. Yesterday I stopped at a dollar general store to grab some Motrin.  I got to the register and there were 3 black ladies and 2 kids in line ahead of me.  They got pretty testy when they thought they had been overcharged for a disposable lighter.  Eventually the female clerk (hispanic) had to leave to find someone in the management chain to negotiate a settlement.  It was done, and the charges were changed from 1.50 to 1.35.  So basically I had spent 10 minutes of my life over a 15 cent discrepancy. 

    Thing is, I was at first shaking my head, all this over 15 cents.  But on the other hand, I saw it as a principle thing on the part of the ladies.  That store had mis-priced something and they were not backing down on their mistake, or at least the original clerk felt uncomfortable with doing so. 

    I have been there before, been overcharged.   I understood.  I got treated just like her in a similar instance where i had been overcharged, or they had attempted a bait and switch on me.  And I reacted angrily too.  But for a while yesterday, while I was being inconvenienced by this lady's attempt to make sure she wasn't screwed, I forgot those times I had been where she was.  I think maybe it is because I am older, white and male and I am used to clerks being deferential to me.  I don't imagine on the whole they are as deferential to that lady.   In the end, the  lady apologized to me, as well as the two employees.  She said she had rights to be charged fairly.  I agree.

    I think it was just the way she did it that initially set me against her.  It was just not just how i would have done it.  But then she came from a different upbringing than I did.  Maybe in her case she learned early on the squeaky wheel gets the grease, not that you you get more flies with honey than vinegar. 

    We are all different in how we perceive and approach things.  We need more tolerance.  Employees out there have to take an incredible amount of rude, ignorant shit.  And I am not saying race isn't playing a part in how we treat each other.  What I am saying is we are going so fast we seldom stop to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and maybe look at things from a different standpoint.  

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  13. 7 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Whatever Mueller provides to Congressional oversight will most definitely be leaked to the public immediately so I wouldn’t worry too much.

    Oh, I agree.  I was just looking for a legitimate way (not leaked) to get this out in the open.   Though I imagine it would take the leaking of at least parts of it to force the whole impeachment issue.  Otherwise, other than leaks, how can the public know the full report?   Otherwise it seems that we could be lost in a sea or cherry picking bits and pieces of it for years. 

  14. Plus there is a whole lot more than free tuition when it comes to college education.  Books, lodging, food, and transportation come to mind.  I really have no idea how big a percentage tuition plays anymore in the whole pie. 

     

    I like this discussion.  It is actual discussion and not working off of sound bites and tweets.  From here could come actual plans and actions, heaven forbid.

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