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Posted on: 08-Jul-2010, 10:11 AM |
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My personal message (PM) buffer is showing as being full; I had it reading as about 75% full this morning. I have deleted the whole second page of stored messages. It is still reading as full, so I can't receive or send anything.
What's up? |
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Forum: Technical Support · Post Preview: #298190 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 08-Jul-2010, 10:00 AM |
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QUOTE (Patch @ 08-Jul-2010, 11:28 AM) | My source uses it interchangably so your opinion does not really concern me. |
Show your source, or be judged full of yourself, and still wrong. I say you cannot truthfully show such a source.
Here is a typical example of the use of "malitia". It should warm your heart -- it is an American reference document of legal discussion from the 19th century, purportedly in consonance with the founding documents:
"Malitia est acida, est mali animi affectus." Malice is sour, it is the quality of a bad mind. 2 Buls. 49.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856. |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #298188 |
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Posted on: 08-Jul-2010, 09:25 AM |
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QUOTE (Antwn @ 08-Jul-2010, 11:12 AM) | QUOTE (stoirmeil @ 08-Jul-2010, 09:43 AM) | What stumps me is why someone who spends so much time looking things up to fling around as evidence of the apocalypse can keep missing what such an important word in his own vocabulary simply LOOKS like.
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Maybe its the same reason why he doesn't change his spelling even after being corrected (see his last post this thread). Must not care. Often one is not considered an elitist because they know what's correct, they're considered one because they care about it.
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Not caring is maybe on the order of a misdemeanor. Not being able to accept or admit being simply and concretely wrong is on the felony level. |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #298182 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 08-Jul-2010, 08:43 AM |
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QUOTE (Shadows @ 07-Jul-2010, 11:33 AM) | It is spelled with an "i" as in Military....not an "a"...
About time! |
Careful there, Shadows -- when I make observations like this I get labeled an "elitist". Except that even the word "elitist" tends to be spelled wrong. . . But since I have a nominally decent education and I'm going to be tarred with the elitist (and liberal) brush unless I get a damned lobotomy, here it is. "Malitia" is in fact a word that is used in English -- a rather obscure word, but a word. The word "malice" comes from it. That is why the context-insensitive and uncritical spell checker lets it pass. But it is not a variant of or substitute for "militia," and it does not derive from the same root; it's just a misspelling based on hearing rather than seeing the word. What stumps me is why someone who spends so much time looking things up to fling around as evidence of the apocalypse can keep missing what such an important word in his own vocabulary simply LOOKS like. Latin Etymology of "malitia": Noun: From malus (“‘bad, evil’”). malitia (genitive malitiae); f, first declension 1. a bad quality; badness, wickedness 2. spite, malice; an act of malice 3. cunning, artfulness with intent to deceive Pointing this out and not addressing the rest of the ridiculous premises in this thread does not, for the record, indicate that I endorse or agree with the rest of said content in any way whatsoever, including by omission: "I find it spelled both ways and CR spellcheck accepted it. If you have nothing more than that to offer, I am glad you appear to agree with the malitia's action! I extend my thanks" That's about as lame a defense of being wrong, being proved wrong, and insisting on remaining wrong as I have ever heard. |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #298179 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 07-Jul-2010, 09:00 PM |
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Updates are on the Caring Bridge site -- there seems to be some improvement and some careful optimism there, and I am glad to see it. Hang in there, Mike. Take care of yourself. |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #298160 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 07-Jul-2010, 08:45 PM |
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QUOTE (Antwn @ 07-Jul-2010, 10:27 PM) | QUOTE (TheCarolinaScotsman @ 07-Jul-2010, 08:30 PM) | I would simply say hate is what got us here, it will not get us out. And yes, sterotyping an entire group from the actions of a fraction is prejudice, bigotry and hatred. If one doesn't like that label, I'm sorry, but it doesn't change what you are.
I stopped in for a moment to see what was happening; I see it is still the same old hate filled diatribe, so I'll take another break and ease my blood pressure. |
Thank you Sir, I agree. For the same reason I have not been a part of this forum for a while. Sometimes I just have to chime in because there never is an alternate viewpoint and true discussion has become all but impossible in any practical sense, so I'm not going to bother. The forum has become someone's blog. Yes, it hasn't changed at all.
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What these guys said. |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #298158 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 05-Jul-2010, 09:26 AM |
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Nice that your sister set up the Caring Bridge site too. I think your mom will really enjoy and appreciate the messages and wishes -- there's more to treating these things than just the medical procedures, and it sounds like she has a lot of support and concern from family and friends.
I recommend a good cup of hot cocoa and a listen to some CelticMoon, for you.
Keep your chin up, good buddy -- we're all thinking of you. |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #298040 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 02-Jul-2010, 06:04 PM |
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We have you and your mom close in our thoughts, Mike -- many things are possible now medically that weren't even a few years ago. And yes, remember to take care of yourself too. |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #297921 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 27-Jun-2010, 04:44 PM |
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QUOTE (Antwn @ 27-Jun-2010, 05:20 PM) | When I was a kid my mother used to make gulash. I don't know how authentic it was but it was easy and cheap. She'd take hamburger in a frying pan, add quartered tomatoes and onions and cook that until done, then add cooked elbow macaroni. It was very good, easy to make and cheap. Spice it as you like it. |
Up in the Providence/Boston area we used to call this American Chop Suey. We had it very very often, at home and at school. Other regions call it Goulash, or American Goulash. If you put it on long spaghetti instead of elbows, the British call it spaghetti bolognaise. Some people use tomato paste or sauce from a jar, some just use the fresh or canned tomatoes. It doesn't matter -- you can't get sick of it, it keeps well after being cooked and reheats fine, it feeds multitudes, and it doesn't break the bank. If you threw in a little ground squirrel or skunk to stretch the beef and upped the onion some, nobody would be any wiser. |
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297726 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 23-Jun-2010, 02:43 PM |
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Wild Game
by Richard Newman
When my great grandma Lizzie moved to town, her husband promptly sent her to finishing school— for none of the dainty china or fancy jewels, house full of servants or elaborate evening gowns smoothed her backwoods edges or prettied her mouth, its vocabulary rich in profanity. She circled higher circles, flattered their vanity, but kept the dishes that made her famous in the south:
raccoon in barberry sauce, Grand Pacific Game Pie (with woodcock or snipe), herb-roasted otter, Spanish fricasseed rabbit garnished with roses. It wasn't that her wildness was tamed— Lizzie used the finishing they taught her to sneak the savagery in under their noses.
Roast haunch of venison, roast possum with cranberry sauce, hare pie, quail on toast points, merckle turtle stew, and the most famous dish of all: cherry blossom gravy, dumplings, and beer-battered squirrel. But even when she cooked domesticated fare, she made it game. Neighbors hated to watch her grab a backyard hen, twirl
it over her head, and with a snap of the wrist launch the headless bird into the air— to land veering like a top too tightly wound and raining a trail of blood on the dry ground. And though its comb went limp, the eyes would stare accusingly from Lizzie's bloodied fist. |
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297547 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 21-Jun-2010, 06:59 PM |
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Not feline at all -- and not rodents, either. They are loosely related to martens, badgers, otters and ferrets, but distantly enough that they are classified separately.
I think, since skunks are omnivores, they would be palatable in the proportion that they were not meat eaters -- the more meat they ate, the worse they would taste, as a result of the urea and other protein breakdown products that linger in the tissues from meat in the diet. (I have also heard this said of humans: a vegetarian would taste much better to a cannibal. ) So if you fed the animals a grain and vegetable based diet and kept the animal protein in their menu to a minimum, they would probably be pretty good.
Some use of the fur too, I would imagine. It's very pretty and lux-y looking. Make an unusual sporran, eh lads? Already thinking in the direction of skunk farming . . .
The main problem is that they are cute and sociable after removal of the glands, if raised from kits among humans, and when your kid gets attached to his future dinner, there will be trouble. |
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297456 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 21-Jun-2010, 06:00 PM |
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Whenever I log on, or nearly. I just don't always post something.
Ummmm . . . why did you include "Never" as a voting option? a person who never comes in here is not so likely to vote. |
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297454 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 21-Jun-2010, 05:39 PM |
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Well -- the short answer is yes. I just wonder about hunting the critter and keeping an appetite . . . Or would it be raising them for food and de-scenting them young?
FRENCH FRIED SKUNK Ingredients
* 2 skunks, skinned and cleaned * 1 tablespoon salt * water, to cover * 2 cups bear fat or lard * 2 egg yolks, beaten * 3 cups milk or cream * 1 1/2 cups flour * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 2 tablespoons baking powder
Directions:
Clean and wash the skunks, making sure that the scent glands are removed. Cut up into small serving pieces. Put a soup kettle on the stove and add the meat. Cover with cold water and bring to a boil over high heat. Lower the heat and boil until the meat is tender, about 40 minutes. Remove all the scum that rises to the surface. Make a batter by mixing together the egg yolks, milk, flour, salt and baking powder. Mix real good until the batter is about like cake batter. Heat the bear fat or lard in a deep fryer to about 360 degrees. Dip the pieces of skunk in the batter and then fry them in the deep fryer until golden brown. Drain well and serve.
For sides, maybe the stuff you get at Popeyes -- red beans and rice, sweet corn, mashed spuds and gravy, and a nice fresh cole slaw. MMMMMMM!!
And here is a site with recipes for feeding your skunks royally while you are raising them to a juicy fat maturity -- apparently some of these are also fit for humans: http://www.skunk-info.org/recipes/recipes.htm
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297453 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 21-Jun-2010, 05:31 PM |
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This is from the 1962 (gad! WE were alive then!!!) "Joy of Cooking":
"OPOSSUM If possible, trap possum and feed it on milk and cereal for ten days before killing. Clean, but do not skin. Treat as for pig by immersing the unskinned animal in water just below the boiling point. Test frequently by plucking at the hair. When it slips out readily, remove the possum from the water and scrape. While scraping repeatedly, pour cool water over the surface of the animal. Remove small red glands in small of back and under each foreleg between the shoulder and rib. Parboil, page 134, one hour. Roast as for pork, page 421. Serve with turnip greens."
And I guess you could use the kinds of seasonings you often find with pork to offset the fattiness, like thyme, or to help digest the fat, like fennel seed or caraway. It's interesting too about the milk and grain diet (ten days! what a life . . . ) which I suppose makes it milder (and maybe more tender, like milk fed veal?)
Here's another lovely simple one -- I am so fond of sweet red peppers in my cooking, I can actually imagine eating this: OPOSSUM WITH SWEET POTATOES (Encyclopedia of American Cookbook) 1 opossum, cleaned & dressed 3 green peppers, chopped 3 red peppers, chopped 4 large sweet potatoes, peeled & sliced salt to taste
Combine salt, green and red peppers and 4 cups of water in saucepan; simmer until liquid is reduced by half. Combine opossum with pan liquid and sweet potatoes in baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 1 hour or until opossum is tender, basting occasionally.
Most of the raccoon and possum recipes I just looked at emphasize removing the little musk glands. Maybe not doing so is why some people have had a bad experience with this meat.
Now -- does anyone eat skunk? |
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297452 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 20-Jun-2010, 07:37 PM |
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I've never had possum -- does it resemble anything for taste, like maybe rabbit?
I notice that this recipe still seems to need a fattened domesticated meat source as an addition to keep the possum moist -- the bacon slices. Lean little fellers, are they? Still, using the pig meat only as a garnish instead of the main protein is an improvement, resource wise. You could also get some chopped or ground nuts in the dressing to moisten the lean meat from inside. |
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Forum: From Your Kitchen to My Plate · Post Preview: #297421 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 09-Jun-2010, 03:48 PM |
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Oh, it marches on, doesn't it, man . . . first the Gerty-baby, and now this.
She is radiant, and while you may have given her away, I have no doubt who that lovely look in her eyes is for in the picture. Many blessings to her and her man, and to you and all of yours. |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #297118 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 22-May-2010, 06:45 AM |
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You could just keep them on that Frito diet -- they might all die of heart attacks. Life expectancy of a mouse is not that great even when they are healthy. |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #296755 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 03-May-2010, 06:17 PM |
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QUOTE (Patch @ 30-Apr-2010, 09:59 PM) | In the University polls they rarely reach conservatives thus they are are not as accurate. |
Goodness, why not? Something about universities that repels conservatives? |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #296336 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 03-May-2010, 06:08 PM |
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Woohoo! what a thrill! Perfect size -- are they both doing all right, besides both being tired and sleeping? You're going to be such a mythic grandda, what a lucky kid!
Why Gerty? |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #296334 |
stoirmeil |
Posted on: 03-May-2010, 07:31 AM |
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Or just maybe Patch had the compulsion to report another piece of bad news that is all over the wires anyway, without any additional information or productive commentary, but still decorated with an exclamation point or three, and God is taking the fall for it. Neither hypothesis is particularly easy to support, but one of them seems to have a bit more concrete data associated with it. |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #296322 |
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Posted on: 02-May-2010, 09:03 PM |
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Thanks. I look forward to reading all of them. It moves me to reflect that this set of decisions represents approximately the span of my own lifetime. Still a ways to go . . . |
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