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for hot sauce am gonna admit we near always start with frank's, and then add flavours, fat and heat. frank's is aged cayenne peppers, distilled vinegar, water, salt and garlic powder. that is the complete ingredient list for frank's. is nothing we do not recognize or cannot pronounce in frank's and is how we would start any cayenne based hot sauce anyways. am finding frank's is a great foundation and we need only add lime or lemon, paprika or rosemary or whatever to get where we want it. got a couple o' tri-tip we effective brined and already roasted and need only finish off on the grill as am using reverse sear. reverse sear approach means we were able to cook yesterday and need only grill for a brief time for the guests. will also grill corn 'cause these folks have literal the best corn we has ever purchased... anywhere. also am making one pan fried chicken... chicken has been sitting in our seasoned buttermilk since first thing this am as we like a six-hour plus brine. got potato salad (meh), baked beans, mac n' cheese, and cole slaw all prepared in advance save the mac n' cheese. mac n' cheese will come outta the oven right before guests arrive. also have watermelon, lotta local fresh strawberries and watermelon gazpacho, although the local watermelon ain't being harvested yet so is probable from a far distant land. we bought an apple pie. *shrug* is a culinary character flaw, but we don't like making pie. HA! Good Fun! ps we do have enough ground beef (is short rib we put in the food processor) for those who wish burgers, but we prefer to cook the perfect burger in a cast iron pan in the oven so we get that ideal crusty coating only possible with a pan. nevertheless, if somebody really wants grilled, we will oblige. pps a couple days past we made a big pot o' our good red beans, so while is not as if we prepared for the 4th, we will offer to guests.

the new ohio abortion ban which went into effect on wednesday does not have a rape exception. when the ohio bill were being debated, the hypothetical thirteen-year-old (admitted not ten, but would that make a difference?) victim o' rape were specific addressed and supporters o' the bill observed how the unborn child in such a case were innocent and deserved protection. the people o' ohio and mississippi and indiana and more states every day all has decided your ten-year-old's suffering is tragic, but that the murder o' an unborn child is a sin too great and as such the life o' the unborn outweighs the pain o' the ten year-old rape victim. people reached that conclusion. people passed jim crow laws in the south. people passed the espionage act in the early 1900s and the patriot act in the early 2000s. one o' these days gd is gonna have an epiphany... or not. is weird 'cause am certain gd has seen first hand just how terrible people will be to each other if they believe they have a reason for their actions or if they is frightened or if... whatever. heck, in spite o' statistics which show unequivocable that carry a firearm endangers others around him as well as himself, gd nevertheless carries a concealed gun with him everywhere, and it ain't 'cause he needs protection from politicians he may meet at the local feed store. he recent spoke to a divorce lawyer who shared horror stories of people doing evil to each other for the most petty o' reasons. people. were no mystery the kinda pre roe nightmares pregnant women faced and we all knew what were coming if the Court overturned, 'cause the Court didn't make abortions illegal, but it did leave the problems up to the states and their individual representative democracies to come up with solutions. we all knew what were coming but somehow now gd is enraged? freaking muslim ban all over again. people are petty and selfish and violent. not all people is monstrous, at least not all of the time, but if they were even bad only 1% o' the time you would need recognize and take efforts to minimize the evil men do, yes? the founders recognized such and took efforts to put limits on the predictable excesses and transgressions o' the people. we got the Constitution to preserve representative democracy and simultaneous to place systemic and explicit checks on a majority which inevitable abandons wisdom in favour o' greed, fear, and intolerance. the tyranny o' the majority is what leads to ohio's new abortion law. unfortunate, not enough people cared 'bout your pre-teen rape victim in spite o' fact we knew her and others like her were gonna suffer. ohio didn't do anything sneaky. the people o' ohio broadcast what they were doing and americans sat torpid and waited for the Court to fix or break. stoopid people. ordinary and predictably stoopid people.

had a discussion earlier 'bout cookware. the following link represents a fantastic deal: https://www.costco.com/tramontina-4-quart-covered-enameled-cast-iron-braiser.product.100805469.html is a functional porcelain coated cast iron skillet with a tight fit lid. near vertical sides provide more cooking area relative to volume and this particular cookware is gonna compare extreme favorable to le creuset. HA! Good Fun!

this is one o' those situation where the law is a gibbering moron and everybody pretends otherwise. authors don't need sell on amazon, so if they don't like the return policy they may remove their works from being sold by amazon. if you got a publisher, then as an author is possible to negotiate a deal which avoids the stoopid returns policy hack, 'cause it makes more sense for big publishers to pressure amazon for change than for nobody authors, yes? oh, and is not as if the authors being cheated o' royalties can't sue fraudulent returners. 'course am suggesting perfect world solutions for an imperfect world. in 2022, many authors is functional stuck with the amazon model and is no way they may bring 'bout change. the fraud described is accepted as a cost o' doing business 'cause such don't impact amazon's bottom line as yet and clear the big publishing companies have not risen from their torpor to take up the fight 'gainst the dastardly nogoodniks exploiting the amazon return policy. and serious, what author has the resources to bring a civil case 'gainst every possible fraudulent returner? and so the law sits in the corner, drooling like an idiot, 'cause the system is working as designed. far too many o' us expect the law to fix wrongs. that ain't what the law does. HA! Good Fun!

they don't really matter though, do they? the fact christian kids from another school chose to join a post game prayer don't remove the possibility many o' his own players, high school kids facing an unavoidable power disparity with their coach, felt compelled to do so if they were to get playing time. now admitted, 'cause am suspecting many folks is unaware, a large % o' high school teams is gonna have a prayer before the game. coach, player and maybe even a local religious figure is invited to lead a prayer in the locker room while all the players hold hands... as a team. if we were told such happened at a majority o' schools in texas, utah and south carolina, to name a few states, we would hardly be surprised. happens all across america every friday eve in the fall. am suspecting almost nobody complains 'cause has been the way things has happened since before any o' the players involved were born. coach kennedy likely got himself in trouble for the simple fact he were doing so open and notorious and not 'cause what he were doing were different. that said, particular 'cause is high school kids and recognizing the disparate influence a coach has over impressionable minors, a coach using his influence to spread his particular brand o' faith through religious charged motivational speeches and to have team prayers which even a few students feel is coercive woulda' up 'til last week been enough to make Courts choose in favour o' protecting kids. "The people know that their value judgments are quite as good as those taught in any law school--maybe better. If, indeed, the "liberties" protected by the Constitution are, as the Court says, undefined and unbounded, then the people should demonstrate, to protest that we do not implement their values instead of ours. Not only that, but confirmation hearings for new Justices should deteriorate into question and answer sessions in which Senators go through a list of their constituents' most favored and most disfavored alleged constitutional rights, and seek the nominee's commitment to support or oppose them. Value judgments, after all, should be voted on, not dictated; and if our Constitution has somehow accidently committed them to the Supreme Court, at least we can have a sort of plebiscite each time a new nominee to that body is put forward." --J. Scalia, planned parenthood v. casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) if comes down to nothing more than a balancing 'tween coach kennedy's religious freedoms and the potential for his actions to be intentional or unwitting coercive, then why have a Court decide at all? is no longer a legal argument but one o' social and community values. but again, the Court were extreme selective with the facts, which should makes gd suspicious. HA! Good Fun! ps keep in mind we observed already how as the Court presented the facts, it were utter not shocking the Gorsuch and the majority sided with the coach. if you describe relevant facts as a handful o' post game prayers which is complete voluntarily for players to join, then a coach win were no surprise. the problem is even gd seems to admit there were more going on than just the post game prayers and for lower Courts to ignore those other circumstances and for SCOTUS to pretend such didn't exist is curious. Court coulda' remanded and ordered lower courts to decide using their new rules but with a full accounting o' relevant facts. chose not to do so. why?

am admitted less interested in the list than the welcome news you didn't die o' covid, gang violence, a lightning strike, etc. HA! Good Fun!

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if you can't explain why the mere knowledge that source material is wake or trailbreaker is significant, then perhaps it isn't. go ahead and tell us you like pie or perhaps prefer cake. relevance to paper girls show? no less than the predate observation. however, if there is something you know 'bout paper girls which you believe removes it from clone, then such has meaning. but mere fact of predate o' the source material? immaterial. converse, if you has recent enjoyed very much similar fare provided in much similar format is less likely you will have synapses fire in those novel ways which result in a sensation o' pleasure and appreciation. HA! Good Fun!

well that has value. double-edged sword though, eh? the more it is faithful to comic, the less it is original and so you get nothing new. hews too much from source and then what value were there is using the comic save to convince a handful o' folks it ain't a knockoff 'causes it predates what it is attempting to replicate? imagine somebody does a beowulf tv show which is extreme popular. next thing you know, there is a bunch o' knockoffs... is a siegfried, arthur, hercules and a gilgamesh tv show and a half dozen other similar offerings. source material predating or post dating beowulf would not convince you the other shows is any less knockoffs. no doubt you will convince self there is a difference. isn't. what makes the difference is you like the source material in the case o' paper girls (time travel? *groan*) and is looking forward to what is a clear attempt to glomp onto and generate similar appeal as stranger things. is a knockoff... which don't preclude your anticipation. doesn't even prevent paper girls from being better than stranger things. HA! Good Fun!

*eye roll* so? does it get made now w/o the success o' stranger things? is it meant to appeal to a different audience or the same? compare the audience anticipated audience o' comic paper girls v. tv stranger things. coincidence? think not. if Gromnir wants to make a knockoff o' _________, is not gonna be hard to find some ip with similar characteristics which nevertheless avoids copyright problems. predates, particular from a different media, is not exorcising the knockoff label in any meaningful way. sure, the paper girls comic weren't a knockoff, but the show most certain is. HA! Good Fun!

has been a couple months since we mentioned how much we loathe time travel as a plot device. do for laughs? ok. otherwise? is a few instances in which we overcame our dislike o' time travel, but am dubious a stranger things knockoff is gonna make us reassess. HA! Good Fun!

trigger warning: more than a few o' the folks who were wrong 'bout the possibility o' russia invading ain't giving themselves enough credit. not only were some o' overt and explicit wrong 'bout the invasion, but it seems a few is selective forgetting the criticism they directed at the sources which observed the threat o' a russian invasion were not only real but increasing likely. and yeah, there was many unknowns in early 2022, so predict wrong is hardly an unforgivable sin, but more than a few folks weren't just wrong 'bout the actual invasion. were wrong 'bout the threat and were wrong 'bout the history and they is same folks who habitual indulging deflection, whataboutism and gaslighting. so yeah, is hardly surprising to now see reflexive efforts to gaslight. trying to convince folks that being wrong 'bout the russina threat in early 2022 is actual a kinda misunderstood perspicacity and insightfulness? is it any wonder we continue to largely avoid this thread? so it goes. HA! Good Fun!

have this backwards. democracy is what the conservatives is defending and that is precise the problem. the minority position is getting the fuzzy end o' the lollipop. 'course the foundational problem is that gun-toting and democracy loving americans don't understand what democracy is. democracy is goodness and liberty and equality, right? nope. the bill of rights and many o' the subsequent amendments is offering limits on democracy. the state shall not... Congress shall make no law... no person shall be held... local and state governments, through democratic voting and democratic elected representatives, create laws and schemes which favour the majority and handicap minorities. those disparate outcomes is predictable and normal in democracy. unfair is the ordinary outcome o' democracy and is precise why we got a Constitution to put limits on democracy. we got SCOTUS, a collection o' non democratic selected personages who sit on the bench for life, supposed insulated from the mob and acting as defenders o' the Constitution. so not democracy from an athenian pov. am not taking a dump on democracy, 'cause is better than the alternatives just so long as you got an educated public, but Americans got a horribly misguided notion o' democracy and the fact this Court is rolling over and playing dead for democracy when they should be defending against it is the problem. HA! Good Fun!

@alanschuafter the 2020 election we mentioned (over and over and over again) how the people cheering the Courts for killing trump campaign frivolous cases would need face the harsh reality that those same "brave" and "heroic" judges and Justices would be antagonistic to liberal notions o' free, fair and open elections. we predicted future voting rights cases were gonna skew heavily in favour o' a state's capacity to place onerous limits on an individual's right to vote. nevertheless, future Court decisions is gonna shock and enrage even so. yet another chapter in our ongoing cassandra play. oh, and for @Guard Dog please be aware that you is trying to have both ways, which is actual ordinary and common. the praying coach J. Gorsuch and conservative media did an excellent job o' selective presenting the fact o' the case. the Court's decision were focusing on the very limited facts involving a small number o' voluntary post-game prayers. the reality o' the coach's behaviour were a bit more complex and is the reason why the libs were concerned-- not just over-protective democrats trying to suppress religious and personal liberties. this Court is promoting a position which has state and local governments needing to not only recognize personal religious freedom but to defer. am personal an ardent defender o' personal liberties, but am nevertheless surprised what courts and SCOTUS is doing to radical change the law o' the land. when brown v. board of education were announced, one o' the Justices literal got off his death bed, left the hospital against doctor strenuous advice and made himself present so a 9-0 decision could be delivered to the nation. Jackson would return to the hospital and die a short time thereafter. the current Court is making similar extreme changes by the slimmest o' majorities and they is doing so with not but a hand wave to the textualism and judicial restraint they advocated for decades. HA! Good Fun!

rewatch the kagan video we earlier linked. 1:29. or read the following: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6793&context=lawreview is not that Gromnir is prescient. what the Court is doing with its subversion o' textualism is not subtle. there is policy and social concerns the conservative majority wishes to advance and if they need twist or ignore textualism to achieve such goals, then so be it. brave new world. HA! Good Fun!

kinda innocuous, right? read the responses. HA! Good Fun!

is it possible to surreptitiously get the entire student body burned as witches? if so, we might give it a whirl. HA! Good Fun!

was thinking specific in terms o' your pressure problem. in spite of being large environmental controlled buildings, hospitals need keep airborne pathogens from circulating or escaping. pressure changes need be controlled in specific rooms and areas o' a hospital. your problem is related to the normalization o' pressure whenever a doorway is utilized, which is exact the problem hospitals need address albeit not 'cause o' concerns 'bout radio. HA! Good Fun!

Turkey drops opposition to Finland, Sweden joining NATO HA! Good Fun!

unfortunately you would remain mistaken. courts and legislatures were still referencing prisoners as "slaves of the state" in multiple jurisdictions decades following the 13th amendment. the slavery/involuntary servitude distinction is a bit more fuzzy than you might believe, but regardless, weren't 'til the 20th century when SCOTUS closed the slavery loophole specific (kinda tangential related to 1930s tariff act as a matter o' fact) and the involuntary servitude bit remains. so guns didn't actual end the practice but were the Court which final eliminated the remaining vestiges o' a national sin... or perhaps senators wyden and brown as well as the obama administration by a surprising not unanimous vote to codify in 2015(?). not absolute positive o' the year. and yeah, involuntary servitudes for prisoners remain in most/many (not certain of numbers actually) states as o' 2022, and the courts has made clear there is little to distinguish the two practices in any meaningful sense. at least a few state courts still use the terms interchangeable in spite o' the 1930s SCOTUS case we reference 'bove. HA! Good Fun!

might be worth checking hospitals to see how they deal with a similar if unrelated problem. due to construction or the recent pandemic, rooms or sections o' the hospital needs have functional decompression chambers added to the existing structure. scale is gonna be different 'cause in a hospital is typical an isolated floor pressure as 'posed to an entire building. you need a permanent solution and there will be aesthetic considerations, but am s'posing is worth looking into hospital solutions. HA! Good Fun!

is possible the interviewer did in fact understand the metaphor and were giving amentep the chance to choose some other explanation, any other explanation, for why he would choose albatross as his answer. HA! Good Fun!

admitted for a job we knew we had no chance o' getting hired, we answered as follows: tardigrade. we pointed out to the interviewer that we were likely the toughest sob she had ever met or would ever likely meet... evar. spent a couple minutes explaining why we were toughness personified. weren't complete serious; thought we were just kinda being an arse, but were fun as we had nothing to lose anyways. ... we got a job offer. go figure. however, we were later informed our tardigrade response were most certain not the correct response. offered in spite o' our answer. HA! Good Fun!

Alito is selective with his history analysis. is the legal history and traditions o' common law and US at and previous to 1789 and 1868 which matter for dobbs v. jackson, but to allow a giant cross on public land, community history and traditions o' the last few decades is dipositive, 'cause the legal traditions woulda' made clear the cross were verboten. when Alito's draft o' dobbs were leaked, historians pounced on the Justice's bad analysis, chastising Alito for misrepresenting individuals and events. nevertheless, when the full and final opinion were released, Alito made no effort to correct his history missteps. the problem we got with the current approach advocated most dramatic by thomas and Alito is that history and traditions is being used as an excuse for reaching predetermined conclusions as 'posed to a guide for arriving at decisions. admitted, such a criticism has always dogged the textualists, but were only a couple years ago when Scalia's analytical scheme were lauded even by those who disagreed with him. HA! Good Fun! ps these kinda theatrics tend to leave us flaccid, but am gonna admit our curiosity is peaked. edit: Former Meadows aide to testify in surprise Jan. 6 committee hearing hmm. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* we knew a local dean and were asked to give advice to soon-to-be graduates o' a local law school every year for 'bout a decade. we invariably pointed out one o' the most common stoopid interview questions were, "if you were a tree/animal/whatever, what sort of tree/animal/whatever would you be?" HA! Good Fun!