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 Food and Drink Board
 | re: Restaurants fear tough drunk-driving law will be buzzkill for light drinkers - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 4:21 pm
I say if you're going to drop it to .05 then the penalty needs to be a slap on the wrist with no jail time
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Food and Drink Board
| re: Has anybody ever made homemade Bananas Foster before? - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 4:13 pm
[quote]I sautee bananas in unsalted butter with cinnamon and sugar[/quote]
brown sugar for this cracker...
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Food and Drink Board
| re: Has anybody ever made homemade Bananas Foster before? - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 4:09 pm
Several times. It's really easy. Just be safe if you're going to ignite it over a gas stove. Don't pour out of the bottle directly over the burner....
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Food and Drink Board
| re: Making Ice Cream TIPS / Recipes - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 3:57 pm
I saw a really tasty looking recipe a while back. Trying to google it now. It was a bulleit bourbon ice cream....
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Food and Drink Board
| re: Kenner Lunch Spots - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 3:49 pm
[quote]Zea is the best restaurant in Kenner
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I would have to say that Ristorante de Piero is the best if you like Italian.
Zea's is solid as far as the Kenner landscape goes though
Mr. Ed's was one of my favorite lunch spots. Good variety there....
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Political Talk
| re: Tired of this Liberal argument - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 3:46 pm
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Look--all of those were messes, but I NEVER heard one conservative say during the Iraq War in defense of Bush, "Well, at least it's not as bad as that Vietnam thing Kennedy and Johnson got us into."
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Right. Most conservatives didn't even acknowledge that it was a mess and many s...
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Food and Drink Board
| re: Kenner Lunch Spots - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 12:48 pm
Little Chinatown
Kenner Seafood
Thanh Trúc Bistro
Fiesta Latina
Mi Pueblito
Pollo Campero (fast food)
Louisiana Purchase Kitchen (buffet)
Taqueria Sanchez
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Money Talk
| re: Good time to invest in a nikkei ETF? - Powerman on 5/18/13 at 12:44 pm
[quote]Maybe not in the short term, but long-term there is absolutely a correlation. [/quote]
I disagree
Your graph seems to be talking about individual stocks
This investment is a fund that is comprised of multiple stocks. The risk is already mitigated to a great degree via diversification....
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Food and Drink Board
| re: Sushi Yama tonight... - Powerman on 5/17/13 at 11:24 am
[quote]Those rolls look great.
But when I want raw fish, I just want raw fish.
No sauces, funky garnishes, rice paper wraps or anything else that over complicates the pure taste of the fish.
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It isn't supposed to complicate the taste of the fish
It's supposed to ENHANCE the taste...
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Food and Drink Board
| re: I Believe I Can Fry (NY Times on fried chicken) - Powerman on 5/15/13 at 6:44 pm
I have no desire to do it because it sounds like a big mess and I don't like frying anything at home
And Popeye's is good enough for me...
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Political Talk
| re: Fast Food Worker Strike: The Mentality is Unreal - Powerman on 5/15/13 at 1:19 pm
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When you have six children, work at a fast food restaurant, and say:
"There's no way I should be struggling to make ends meet."
It sure sounds like looking for someone to blame.
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Sure but not every fast food worker meets that profile
And it's not particularly easy wo...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/15/13 at 8:36 am
[quote]It would have been a good start 3 years ago. Running a >$600 Trillion deficit at this point is not a good start.
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If a 400 billion dollar deficit reduction isn't good, then what would be good in your eyes?...
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Political Talk
| re: IRS: Give us names of High School & College Students - Powerman on 5/15/13 at 8:30 am
Obviously they're going to use this information to kill all of the students...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/15/13 at 7:59 am
[quote]Against $1.something trillion, sure. Against $16 trillion, it's not, especially when we've been adding a trillion a year since Bush's last two years and every year of Obama.
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You have to look long term though. You can't reasonably expect to run some 3 trillion dollar budget surplus...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/15/13 at 6:59 am
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You see a drop going into a bucket and applaud the drop while ignoring the bucket.
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400 billion is more than just a drop...
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Political Talk
| re: slippery slope - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:36 pm
[quote]ole man
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I'm shocked...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:34 pm
[quote]The $203 billion, or 24 percent, reduction to the estimated deficit does not comes from the $85 billion in mandatory cuts known as sequestration, or the package of tax increases that Congress passed this winter to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. The office had already incorporated those pol...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:30 pm
[quote] and even longer to make adjustments to their work schedule if they feel that new taxes make the number of hours they work no longer beneficial[/quote]
Well not everyone makes their own hours...are you suggesting that people are just going to start quitting their jobs in droves because they ...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:28 pm
[quote]You're on here shouting good news from the mountaintops under the auspices of a national debt that will only grow by $645 BILLION this year?!
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So you're saying that a deficit reduction of several hundred billion dollars or roughly 40% in one year ISN'T a good thing?...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:18 pm
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Show me the budget surplus or you're going to look like a fricking moron.
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I said the DEFICIT was reduced
You must be drunk...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:16 pm
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Your just trying to be a contrarian. Sure it's good he's under a trillion for the first time in his presidency, but the deficit still grows. Stop acting like the cynicism is unwarranted.
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So the deficit still grows when it is reduced by 400 billion and change?
Please explain th...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:15 pm
[quote]I'm not aware of any argument claiming that tax increases necessarily result in immediate reductions in tax receipts. Who said that? Someone here?
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The vast majority of conservatives here claimed that the higher tax rates would create lower tax receipts.
Let's not pretend like we...
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Political Talk
| re: Rights & Liberties that Americans have lost under Bush & Obama - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:14 pm
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That's not the loss of a right. That's an inconvenience.
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An inconvenience that is forced upon the traveling public by the state...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 5:12 pm
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certainly not the next year you dolt.[/quote]
Well what is the time frame?...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 4:46 pm
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Time will tell. [/quote]
Right. Time will tell that you're all incredibly stupid....
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 4:45 pm
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nobody with a brain argued that tax revenue would take an immediate hit downward.
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When does the dip begin? :lol:...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 4:41 pm
The deficit gets reduced by over 400 billion year over year and people are actually asking if that's a good thing?
:rotflmao:...
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Political Talk
| re: NTSB: Lower drunk driving threshold to 0.05% - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 4:40 pm
[quote]Probably due to cars being safer[/quote]
Right
Cars are much safer now than they were 40 years ago
Cars back then were pieces of shit...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 4:37 pm
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A $645 BILLION dollar deficit is good news?
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When it was 1 trillion the year before? Yeah. Pretty fricking obvious that that is good news.
And what happened to all of you dip shits that claimed that the higher tax rates would drive revenue down? You look like a bunch of mor...
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Political Talk
| re: Good news for all who care about fiscal matters - Powerman on 5/14/13 at 4:10 pm
[quote]Also, by my calculations, a $650b/yr deficit means we'll pay off our ~$16T debt in approximately... just carry the one here... never years.
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The idea is that the deficit will continue to decrease over the years...not that we have arrived at some fricking ultimate deficit number that...
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