Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The revolution will be supervised.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The words do not have to be perfect.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Let’s finish the job.

This fight is for everything.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    I believe you have that backwards. It should read: “Let’s go Bolts!”

  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    Making King Ranch Chicken tomorrow to celebrate our Mother’s Day event. Life got in the way.

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    Corner Stone

    Does anyone else wonder what kind of mindfuck parents of those Chopped Junior kids did on their children to get them to this point? How horrible.

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    Corner Stone

    @Adam L Silverman: On Food Network they have Chopped. That’s different adults, usually pro chefs, competing. You know the format, right?
    Chopped Junior has kids as young as 8 or 9, but usually 11-13, competing in the same three meal format. Appetizer, entree, dessert.
    It’s pretty intense and the kids are usually full on shit talkers. Telling the camera about how they were cooking at 3 years old and they are going to win it all.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Corner Stone: Okay. Never seen either show, but I understand the format. So basically we’ve got the cooking version of beauty pageant/pro pee wee sport kids. And I’m sure similar parents too.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @LAO: Yes, yes it was! Considering a broken stick for one of the penalty killers, they done good!

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    Mike J

    @Steeplejack (phone): If Food Network is going to insist on making every show a competition, I wish the show was about making the best food, not the best use of gummy bears and marmite in a pastry. Fewer stunts, more food.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @LAO: @Tinare: I’m spitballing here based on movement, and having these things happen to me playing in goal (in soccer), but he either tore a cruciate ligament or he tore a hamstring.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Richard Mayhew: given the movement in response, more likely mediate. That’s what I did.

    ETA: I was playing in goal (soccer) as a favor to a friend for the grad student/post doc team of foreign students at UF in the grad student/post-doc intramural league. They needed a goalie. I was moving almost the exact same way: going from right side of the goal towards the left. As I planted my left foot to begin the pivot, I felt something pop as I caught the ball, and then went down and stayed down. That was the last time I ever played soccer. Which was the first time I hadn’t played it since I was five.

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    Schlemazel Khan

    @Corner Stone:
    all “reality” shows screw with people’s minds, it becomes particularly abusive when it is kids. The producers should all be shot and the viewers sent to reeducation camps, sorry

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    LAO

    I don’t even care who wins. I just “yell” goal, whenever a team scores. It’s pretty ridiculous.

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    geg6

    @Helen:

    Have you ever watched the Gordon Rsmsey one with kids? Master Chef Junior? Those kids are amazing! And they’re from all over the US. Not all of them are stockbrokers’ kids. They make me ashamed of my own cooking skills and I think I’m a pretty damn good cook.

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    LAO

    Lol. It won’t let me post Goal! Because it’s perceived to be a duplicate comment. I find that funny.

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    Helen

    @geg6: Haven’t seen it. But really, anyone (except Rachael Ray) makes me ashamed of my cooking skills. It’s not that I can’t cook. I do not cook.

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    Pogonip

    I’d like views on the basketball season, most of which I missed due to one family medical crisis after another.

  36. 36.

    geg6

    @Helen:
    I love to cook! I can’t wait until I retire and can cook elaborate meals more often! It’s my therapy. That and ironing.

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    Prescott Cactus

    @geg6:

    “. . cook elaborate meals . . . and ironing.”

    You’ve had my wife’s grilled cheese.

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    Adam L Silverman

    I don’t know who came up with these World Cup of Hockey advertisements, but that person needs to be taken out back behind the chemical sheds and shot!

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Its a line from the V for Vendetta movie that always stuck with me. They main female character is threatened with being taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot if she doesn’t cooperate with the secret police. I recommend the movie over the graphic novel. Largely because there are several sections were Alan Moore’s serious drug intake was seriously impacting his writing.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: Aha. I saw the movie, of course, but it isn’t something that stuck with me. I am not a big fan of Fawkes (trivia note: Fawkes’ signature frequently used Guido rather than Guy) and that prejudice, I think, affected my view of the movie. Never read the graphic novel.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: I thought they did a great job with the movie. They caught the essence of the graphic novel, updated it to make it relevant for the mid 00s, and avoided the drug induced wackiness that tended to creep into some of Moore’s work if he was really hitting the stuff.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: From what you’ve related about your lack of relationship to the source material for a lot of these things, that doesn’t surprise me.

    I think there were several timely bits in the movie, that as fiction, speak to larger issues we’re dealing with as a state and society. The whole “there is something wrong with our country” speech is, I think, the best and most important of them.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: The “there is something wrong with our country” speech was well said given the time frame. OTOH, there is a reason I supported Clinton over Sanders. I don’t want to blow up our institutions; I think we need to reform many of them. But I think they are capable of reformation.

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    schrodinger's cat

    I was at the library to meet with my writing group and happened to see New York Magazine. It had a long piece about Trump by Andrew Sullivan. When did he unretire? What a pretentious ass he is.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodinger’s cat: You want the beef, chicken, lamb, and/or turkey recipes for the marinade?

    There is even a pork variant developed by a Lebanese family that moved to Mexico. They brought the upright rotisserie method (al pastor) with them from Lebanon, adapted it for Mexican cuisine, and opened a restaurant appropriately named Al Pastor.

    The key to this type of grilling is to slice the meat, pregrilling, thinly, then marinade it, then layer it on the spit from bottom to top. And then rotisserie grilling the upright spitted meat.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    What a pretentious ass he is.

    Always has been. I never understood the fondness that many of my fellow liberals had for him. He is a Thatcherite who happens to be gay.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodinger’s cat: Here’s the beef one:
    http://www.mamaslebanesekitche…..ExfCQ.dpbs

    Ingredients

    Meat
    2 lbs of fatty beef cuts (roast cut/steak cuts/butter steak…)
    Marinade Ingredients
    5 cloves of garlic
    ½ cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice
    ¼ cup of apple cider vinegar
    ¼ cup of olive oil
    1 teaspoon cloves
    1 teaspoon salt
    ½ teaspoon cumin
    ½ teaspoon caraway
    ½ teaspoon cardamon
    ½ teaspoon of oregano or thyme
    ½ teaspoon cinnamon
    ½ teaspoon nutmeg
    ½ teaspoon crushed peppercorn
    ¼ teaspoon of cayenne pepper
    ¼ teaspoon ground ginger

    Tahini Sauce Ingredients
    2 teaspoons of Tahini paste
    1 cup of freshly squeezed Lemon Juice
    3 gloves of garlic, crushed
    a dash of Salt

    Sandwich Ingredients
    ½ cup of finely cut Italian parsley
    Grilled tomatoes
    French fries
    Pita bread

    Instructions

    Shawarma Marinade
    Mix the spices along with the lemon juice and apple cider vinegar in a blender for a couple of minutes. Don’t mix in the olive oil yet.
    Cut the beef into chunks of 4 inches long by no more than ⅔ inch in thickness.
    In a bowl, rub the meat with the marinade, sprinkle a bit of olive oil then rub again, cover and let marinate overnight in the fridge.

    Grilling Shawarma Method 1: Panini Grill
    Lay the marinated shawarma chunks on a panini or George Foreman grill and cook for 10-15 minutes on medium-high heat.
    Once cooked, shred the meat on a cutting board and serve hot.

    Grilling Shawarma Method 2: Oven Roasting
    Lay the shawarma chunks in a Pyrex tray with a bit of marinade, cover the trap tightly with aluminum foil, then gently bake at 270-300F for 2 hours.
    Once cooked, shred the meat on a cutting board and serve hot. This roasting method will make the meat very tender and juicy and will almost fall apart.

    Preparing the Tahini Sauce
    In a small bowl, whisk the the Tahini paste, crushed garlic, lemon juice and salt until you turn the paste into a sauce.

    Serving the Shawarma
    Place about 4-6 ounces (to taste) of shredded shawarma in a pita bread along the diameter, sprinkle some Tahini sauce, add freshly grilled tomatoes, french fries, a garnish of Italian parsley.
    Roll and enjoy

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    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodinger’s cat: this recipe calls for fatty cuts, but that’s not too helpful. I’d go with fattier steak cuts, but if you’ve got a good butcher near you, if you explain what you’re looking to do, they should be able to help. I would not go with chuck type cuts or brisket, even though they’re fatty cuts. I’d also avoid flank or hanger or skirt steaks because they’re not fatty enough. The cut is going to be wrong. I’d think strip or ribeye with good marbling and good fat around the outside of the steak. Don’t trim the fat off! You’ll want it to help marinade the meat as you’re grilling/roasting it.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @PaulWartenberg2016: The good news is that Cooper, in his post game press conference, announced that there is no structural damage to Bishop. Given how injuries are purposefully misdescribed, there is no way to know whether he’s telling the truth, but its a good sign.

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