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I just make plain ol' stew. I usually use a round steak with all the fat cut off (grosses me out, have to do "surgery" before I can eat any meat), cubed, rolled in flour with Lowrey's and pepper and onion salt. Then I brown in the dutch oven or large pan (so it thickens later) in a little oil. I usually quarter some mushrooms to throw in at that stage, too. Lurve mushrooms! Then I add about half a pot of water and bring meat to a boil, then cook about an hour before I throw in BIG chunks of potatoes and carrots and onion (they help thicken it, and I cook mine so long, if I throw in small chunk

or are good tenderizers, but time is the best tenderizer. Your stew will be awesome by tomorrow.

I cook mine at least 6 hours AFTER it has come to a boil. It is a make-ahead meal. I sometimes make it the day before, cook a few hours, and put it in the fridge overnight for the meat to tenderize and the flavors to meld, then reheat it for the next day. Careful with that tenderizer, not good for you.

Hahahaha EXACTLY what I was thinking. EXACTLY.

Just tell the girl some creepy old lady was checking out her butt, thinking about it for days, and posting about it on the Internet. That would fix it. I live in a county full of nutbags.

lol juliesmom cracks me up. I wish someone would answer the plea in her siggy and show her what love is. lol

I am pretty happy and hope you are, as well.

I'm grown, so the fairness issue doesn't bother me. I don't hang out with obnoxious people in my free time IRL, so I don't see the point of doing it online. Extreme liberalism and conservatism are both turnoffs to most people. When a majority of the postings represent these two extremes, it leaves a lot of us cold. Who wants to discuss issues all the time with extremists? All of these discussions are repetitive and boring to most people who live somewhere in the middle. I pop in from time to time to see if there is anything important to my community. If there isn't, and it is all repo

If you are going to engage in discussions about time (spacetime), it would be more helpful to engage with people who know the difference between General and Special Relativity and understand particles can be in an infinite number of places at once, superposition and quantum superposition, which has been used in the fields of electrical engineering and mechanical engineering for years. Pothead philosophy is only good for chat boards and writing research grant proposals.

That was kinda my point. Let's look at this thread: 1) Someone started an innocent thread about taking down a dead Christmas tree because they are messy and take up room. 2) Someone else decided it was best to drag religion into the discussion. 3) Then the lectures started. A Christmas tree is this. No, a Christmas tree is that. 4) Then, as religious discussions go, someone brought up how other adults should behave and if it is in line with a certain religion. 5) After that the judging started. OVER A CHRISTMAS TREE. 6) Then the persecution accusation even though the poster has no ide

Wow. Now you are being persecuted? You judged another while scolding them for judging someone else. That is hypocrisy. It is a basic tenent of your religion not to judge others. It is much harder to accomplish than many pretend. The truth isn't bashing. It is just the truth. Pretending otherwise is silly and a little bit crazy.

Is this your final judgment? You don't seem to have a good grasp on hypocrisy.

Yes, civil rights refers to the rights outlined in the Civil Rights Act. If you want to know more about civil liberties, you can read a few posts up. It isn't silly to a lot of people. You weren't born yet, so you probably have a narrower view of it. Did you march? Were you afraid? Did you wonder if the police would protect you or hurt you? Did you lose any loved ones? Anybody burn a cross in your yard? All of that silly to you? Not worth arguing over? Nothing but a thing, I guess. The concerns of some members of the black community are no less valid than the concerns of some members o

Here Blue, so you don't have to make up laws: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3zgWwWHKayXMDhhZWUwNDctMDg1Zi00Yjk3LTk3YWUtZTdkYTk3MWI1MGFj&hl=en It's called the American Equality Bill. It's intention is to add Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to the Civil Rights Act because it isn't already included. Do something for real instead of acting like I am anti-gay marriage because I can read. Like I said anything about gay marriage. I didn't. You did. It was a strawman. The Civil Rights Act IS NOT interchangeable with civil liberties. Civil liberties include things citizens ha

For black Americans? Really? Yeah, whitey had it made. White lady, not as much. Red man, hit or miss. Blacks, rarely. This was before my time, so I know it was before your time. For some reason the "All people are created equal" thing didn't quite stick until we defined it a little better. I know you are trying to be funny, but I'm aghast that so many people who live smack in the middle of the Civil Rights corridor have so little understanding of it. It isn't funny to me. It's sad. I'm not going to feign ignorance to fit in on this one. I think people need to get busy or get over

I can take the heat, especially from people who have no idea what they are talking about. It wasn't MY opinion, I was just raising awareness. Some people can't handle that. They feel the any other truth but their own is a personal attack. If one is going to defend a position, at least have some familiarity with the position. I figure if people really honestly cared, they would have read up on the actual Civil Rights Act and would automatically know it doesn't have a thing to do with the DADT repeal bill. The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964, the first National Defense Authorization Act

I honestly don't care one way or another, but at least learn the laws in this country. How many people don't realize we are talking about two totally different pieces of legislation? A LOT. That is sad for adults. Instead you are trying to act like I am gay bashing when that is NOT what I said. I think every opinion and feeling is just as valid as another. Some of you try to discount the feelings of millions of people because it doesn't match yours. It is a form of discrimination, only some of the crusaders here don't see that because they feel justified defending their own beliefs and be

If you are referring to me but afraid to call me out, don't be. Eight million google hits proves it is an issue. Do the search youself. I don't know all 8 million authors/bloggers, so your logic doesn't work. I have read most of the Civil Rights act. The only sex it mentions is in regards to gender. Sexual preference isn't written in the law anywhere I can find it. Misguided is when you change the intent of original legislation because you want to, then assume you have made the law in your head. The only legislation dealing with this is Pub.L. 103-160 -10 U.S.C. § 654. THAT is the le

I don't have a dog in this fight and whatever they decide is OK with me. I entered this thread (which should be in the Political Forum, don't even know why it is left here, well I kinda know) to show that the extremist left is just as self-serving as the extremist right. Both groups will offend whomever is in the middle and not a part of their own group because they really don't care about anyone besides themselves and people who share their views. If you become what you say you are fighting against, are you any better? Have you won anything? Do you cause more people to turn away from you

OMG. The reason the gay community were not included was because civil rights was about RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. Google returned over 8 million hits regarding how black people feel about gays using the term "civil rights" for their cause. Some are very, very offended because that IS NOT the original intent. An example (again, not my opinion, I think people should be free to do or be whatever they want on their own time): http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/why-do-gays-hijack-the-black-civil-rights-struggle/blog-279623/ Call it "human rights" or "civil liberties" or "gay rights." All of

I'm not black. I'm not gay. I don't have an agenda. I don't care what people do in their own bedrooms or what color they are. I don't have my head so far up my arse that I don't understand how this offends people who died for the right to be equal only to have women, gays, and other groups latch on to their specific act, that THEY EARNED. It isn't MY opinion, it was something that was shared with me because I'm not such a jerk that I would argue back with a person of color about the freaking CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. You are not as open minded as you pretend. I was sharing something a few fr

Read a history book. Sometimes history is a little different than your personal opinion. For people who live in the Civil Rights Corridor, you know very little about the movement. It was a movement started by AFRICAN AMERICANS to gain equality in America. Women, gays, and religion were not a part of this movement. That others have added themselves to this legislation is very offensive to some and against the original intent of the movement. WTH did Christian have to do with this? Nothing. You just threw that in there. Some of members of this community will understand what I a

I'll be sure to mention that next time someone discusses the issue with me. I'll make sure to tell the person how they should feel and how they don't have a right to be offended. Better yet, you tell them. I wouldn't shove my belief down anybodies throat and tell them how to think. I figure they earned the right, by fire, to that opinion. Give yourself a break and try to understand another point of view, whether it fits your agenda or not. I don't care what you think. I presented another side so people who are polite can be aware and not inadvertently offend another person. If that doe

Yes it was. Read the original legislation. It was about racial discrimination ONLY when the movement and legislation was conceived. You people confuse civil rights with civil liberties. The right to marry (or choose your domestic partner in a military situation) is a civil liberty. You can believe whatever you want. Just be aware that there is a segment of the population that fought for the civil rights movement, many who are still alive today, who are often offended when everybody else uses the term "civil rights" to describe their situation. You can pretend they shouldn't be offende

Did you miss the part about using the term "civil rights" for other issues than it was intended? That is the issue. I'm not the spokesman for offended black folks, just making people aware that a term they bandy about is very offensive to another group of people. Why is "gay rights" a lesser term? Why not use that term? It would be more appropriate here. As someone else pointed out, being black (or Native American, or Hispanic) isn't something you can choose to share or not. The DADT doesn't bother me either way. I'm not in the military. Unless someone is actually serving, their opinion