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Peanut butter is a common ingredient in some Thai recipes. It just sounds weird to people who have only used peanut butter for PB&J sandwiches.

Dont forget to snort the spice packet!

When i get to the end of a rotisserie chicken, or I've made pulled pork, i create a broth of meat, mushrooms, chopped spinach, celery, soy sauce, lime juice, and a bunch of spices like garlic, ginger, parsley, chives, salt, pepper, and crushed red pepper.

Then i add the real star of the show - Korean Gochujang paste, which is fermented red pepper paste. It is spicy, but not too hot, with a really delicious flavor.

Then I add the ramen, and serve. Absolutely delicious, one of my favorite foods in the world. I just cooked up a crock pot of pulled pork, and I'll be making a big pot of soup today to dip into for the weekend. I also saved the pork broth, which will make an amazing base for it.

Dont use gochujang in a bottle, get the real stuff in the tub. It runs about $7-10 on Amazon. I've used Roland because it is all exactly the same, and Roland is among the cheapest. Publix just started carrying the tubs, but a different brand, so now i dont have to mail away for it. The new brand is exactly the same as Roland. It obviously all comes from the same factory, just different labels.

I also sometimes sautee up the same ingredients in a pan, toss in rice noodles, or drained ramen noodles, then add guochujang, thinned with a bit of oil and soy sauce, to coat it all. Also amazing.

"Primitive Technology." My favorite YouTube channel. This guy invented an entirely new video genre that has been heavily copied, but he is still the best by far. I could spend all day just watching him start fires by rolling a stick between his palms.

Making music, and building guitars. That's all.

I deliberately didn't watch that interview because i knew that I didnt have enough liquor in the house to get through it. The more I read about it, the more i know i made the right choice. I would have been SCREAMING at the TV.

We have to do something about this psychopath, and his henchmen. We are literally repeating Nazi Germany.

Sounds like we're going back to the "four humors:"

The "four humors" are a classical theory, developed by ancient Greek physicians like Hippocrates, that suggests human personality and health are determined by the balance of four bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. An excess or deficiency of these humors was believed to influence both temperament and susceptibility to illness. 

This theory was influential in ancient and medieval medicine, influencing how people understood and treated illness and even personality. While no longer considered a scientifically valid theory of human health, it's a significant part of the history of medicine and offers a glimpse into ancient philosophical and medical thinking.

Except now we are actually using a contemporary version of it to rule our health care system.

Oh, okay, that's much better.

You keep saying that, but their actual actions contradict that.

Its like saying HitlerPig isn't supposed to rule with Executive Actions, he needs to legislate through Congress, as Constitutionally-mandated, and yet here he is, doing it.

It doesn't matter what the law says, if the result is the same. They framed the "War on Drugs" as political rhetoric to provide plausible deniability for enablers like you, when in reality, it was absolutely used as a justification to greatly militarize law enforcement, deny citizens (mostly minorities) their Constituional and Civil Rights, increase prison sentences, embrace civil forfeiture, etc. You accepted it as strong language to fight the drug scourge, but they used it as cover to supress our rights, in the name of drugs.

It worked so well, they used the same strategy again. In the 2000s, they used the threat of Terrorism to declare a War on Terror, and establish Homeland Security, and reduce our rights even more.

Thank you for the opening, I have a very true story to tell about that very subject.

I met my wife on vacation in the 90's, and after a few long distance months, she decided to move to where I lived. As a trained, experienced secretary from NYC, she used her own tried-and-true method of getting a job - she signed up with a good temp agency, and worked a series of temp jobs until she found a job where she fit in, hoping they would want to keep her.

She went through a series of bad employers, until she ended up working a temp job with the state's biggest healthcare company. She sat outside the office of a corporate lawyer whose sole job was to look through the files of people with the most expensive treatments, and find some excuse, any excuse, to cancel them, no matter how flimsy. Usually it was some pre-existing condition, like allergies. For example, if someone was getting expensive cancer treatments, this lawyer would find some evidence that they knew they had allergies when they got their insurance, and the lawyer would cancel their insurance based on that small unrelated issue. People who had paid premiums for years, were cancelled at the very moment they needed their insurance the most. They also didn't refund the thousands of dollars they'd paid in premiums, they kept it all, despite refusing to provid the service that had been paid for. Her refusal of treatment DEFINITELY led to the deaths of people, and this lawyer was nothing short of a Corporate Serial Killer.

My wife worked the job for three months, becoming increasingly uncomfortable and unhappy as she realized what she was assisting this Corporate Serial Killer in doing (and so did I), and was planning on having the temp agency find a a new position for her.

Before she was able to do that, she came home and told me "They offered me the job." It was a good opportunity, with better pay and good benefits. Normally, it would be time to celebrate, but she was clearly heavily conflicted. I asked what wanted to do, and she reluctantly said she was going to take the job, because we needed the money.

I told her we didn't need the money that bad, that it wasn't worth destroying her soul over (we aren't religious, I meant it in a more metaphorical way). I had already been concerned about the psychological toll the job had been taking, so I also told her that she was never going back there, and to call the temp agency tomorrow for a new position. Let them tell the company that she was never going back. We'd get by for a while longer, until something better came along.

I still remember her look of relief when I told her that I didn't expect her to work that soul-sucking job any lomger. She got a new temp job that developed into a permanent position that she held for years.

Years later, when Sarah Palin started talking about "death panels" associated with Obabacare, my wife said "Death Panels already exist at healh care companies, I personally worked for that company's one-woman death panel."

I know personally how psychopathic these health care companies are, and they should be run out of business for their fraudulent practices. They are Serial Killer Corporations, murdering people for profit. We need to put health care in the hands of an entity without a profit motive, and the only thing like that is the government. I was already thinking along the lines of Universal Health Care before my wife's experience cemented my firm belief in it.

My wife's experience is why I support Luigi 100%, even though he is totally innocent of all charges.

Youre argument makes no sense, and is contradicted in each sentence.

The Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Iraq wars, none of those were declared as actual war by congress.

And yet, they were still wars, with lots of deaths of Americans. Clearly, those that are committed to fighting wars, don't feel like they require the distinction of being legally declared wars by Congress.

The war on drugs is just political rhetoric and has no actual legal bearing.

And yet many people have died, been imprisoned, and died as a result. Just try to tell people who are serving years or decades in prison that their sentences were just "political rhetoric," and had "no actual legal bearing."

This is great news, with an enormous silver lining.

At some point, we will have to take our nation back from the MAGA Nazis, and it will probably be extremely ugly, and probably very violent. The people in this room are the people who will be directing the defense of MAGA, and they clearly cowardly, craven, loyalist servants of HitlerPig. He will will be the person who will be directing the defense personally, and we are all extremely familiar with his virtuosic incompetence.

OTOH, these people replaced knowledgable, experienced, intelligent, and COMPETENT public servants, who took great pride in the directing the American goverment on behalf of the American people. These people had top security clearances, and know exactly how deep in Putin's pocket the MAGA Nazis are, even if we only know the surface details. They know better than anyone, how treasonous and corrupt HitlerPig is.

Since their removal, we have heard almost nothing from any of them. Are all those true patriotic American leaders just relaxing on chaise longes on their lanais, sipping drinks and watching the sunset before watching Wheel of Fortune, as the MAGA Nazis destroy the nation that these people took an oath to protect?

Or are they all in contact with each other, discussing strategies to take back the country, and secure the nuclear arsenal? That would explain the near universal silence from all of them.

If HitlerPig tries to declare Martial Law and suspend elections, I suspect we will start to see some real response from these people. If it comes down to a Civil War between our leaders and their leaders, my money is on our side.