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re: Crawfish Étouffée with...beef broth???

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 1/7/26 at 9:14 pm to Degas

There is a Thai dish called Lahd Na that is beef gravy based. It is exceptional with chicken. White meat chicken.

Try it before you knock it. Layered flavors can be profound.

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re: Making an 8,600 dollar Roth IRA contribution Friday.

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 1/3/26 at 11:59 am to Bestbank Tiger

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SPX/SPY is always safe.

33% of SPY is the MAG 7.

Do you believe in bubbles?

If the OP has a long enough timeline, it probably won't matter. If he's thinking ten years or less, could be a real issue.

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re: It’s no coincidence - MN Fraud & Johnson/Graham lawsuits

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 1/2/26 at 9:51 am to loogaroo

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There is no way in hell the GOP didn't know about this.

Yep. It's probably why they didn't support DOGE and Musk.

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re: Is Whataburger worth visting?

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 1/1/26 at 8:42 pm to braves21

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re: The new mayor of New York wants free child care for all....

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/30/25 at 9:53 am to Louisianalabguy

He's a commie. Commies always want to get to the kids as early as they can. That "free" daycare will become "mandatory" day care where the commie and his minions can make sure there's new generations of commies coming soon.

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re: For many cultures Fraud is an alien concept.

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/28/25 at 3:19 pm to The Baker

Which is why we shouldn't be letting people from places like that into this country to begin with.

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re: Best sauce to compliment a steak

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/23/25 at 2:03 pm to GeauxTigahs92

Horseradish sauce is pretty good.

I like variations of Meuniere sauce, but that is supposed to be for fish, but if you use Worcestershire in it, it goes well with steak.

You might also consider a mushroom sauce if they will eat that.

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re: Trump has approved two new battleships to be built

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/23/25 at 1:43 pm to DavidTheGnome

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Such a huge waste of money wtf. We found out battleships were obsolete almost 100 years ago.

Everything we used 100 years ago is obsolete today, thought the B-52 may actually be in service for 100 years if continues to be useful. The destroyers we use today are 5-10 times the size of the ones we used in WW2, they are actually larger than most cruisers we used in WW2, but their armament is totally different except that they do still use a 5" gun.

They are referring to this ship as a guided missile Battleship, the designation would be BBG, the old battleships were BB, the last one being BB-64 or 65 depending on if the USS Kentucky, which was never finished, got a number.

This idea has been around since the 1990's. Back then, it was the Arsenal Ship that was a large platform for cruise missiles that could pack massive firepower with a relatively small crew. That was cancelled by Clinton.

The Battleship faded away because it was no longer strategic. The seas were ruled by Aircraft Carriers, and today, submarines.

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re: Would cutting Social Security?

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/22/25 at 8:59 am to dcbl

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But the retirement age MUST be raised

Before we cut benefits or raise the retirement age, we need to continue the work DOGE was doing and root out every bit of waste, fraud, and abuse in SS and other programs.

Also another way to solve a potential shortfall is to issue a non-refundable tax credit that people who do have assets could use to maybe avoid taxes on their withdrawals from IRA/401K, etc, or to avoid taxes on a Roth conversion. Make the cumulative, like a loss carry forward. Give the people some new tools to manage their assets.

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re: 401k advice when swapping jobs ???

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/17/25 at 9:38 pm to H2A2

Then put it in the place that gives you the most opportunity to grow it, but keep in mind as you get older that you might just realize that work sucks by the time you are 55.

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re: 401k advice when swapping jobs ???

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/16/25 at 8:58 pm to H2A2

How old are you? If age 55 is on the horizon, you might want to google "Rule of 55 401K" and read up. If you leave a job during or after the year you turn 55, you can immediately access your 401K without penalty. You can only access the 401K from the job you left, not an old one, and you can't do this with an IRA, only a 401K. It is worth considering when deciding whether to roll over to an IRA or a new employer's 401K, but you can always rollover from a rollover IRA to a 401K if that IRA only contains rollover assets from previous 401K's.

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re: Republicans move to force Obamacare vote as warnings mount about the midterms

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/10/25 at 8:07 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer

It has been a while since I have had to buy temporary health insurance, but it used to be cheap. Those kinds of plans are still available, and they are much cheaper then the "comprehensive" ACA plans. The problem is, they must lapse for 1 day a year.

Why not just change the rules and allow anyone who wants to to buy a "temporary plan" but not require it to lapse?

How much of Obamacare is law, and how much is regulation? Regs can be changed. The Demoncrats do it all the time.

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re: The Democrats new push - online sports forums

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/5/25 at 9:09 am to blueboy

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No 'strategy' is going to save them. They have a losing argument and whether it's 5 liberals or 500 liberals on this page, they'll still lose.

In other words, it doesn't matter how many meat puppets you have spouting your bullshite, it's still provable bullshite.

They don't want to win an argument. They want to restrict this form of communication.

One trick is they join the board and keep posting copyrighted material which gives the board owners legal headaches and expenses.

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re: Evidently Karoline Leavitt's beach attire (and hot female body) has Democrats in a tizzy

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 12/2/25 at 8:39 pm to L.A.

That "Show More" button doesn't work...

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re: What's the Coaching Staff going to be?

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 11/30/25 at 2:56 pm to FlyDownTheField

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Durkin would be great to retain. Could we get Pete Golding from Ole Miss if he doesnt follow Kiffin?

His defenses made some really stupid penalties this year, penalties that could have been the difference in several games. Before Bama's go ahead TD on 4th down, we had all three time outs. He should have called one when their offense stayed on the field, and got our defense set.

If he wants to stay and feels like he can play nice with the other children, and the new HC is all in, I am not against it, but I'm not convinced he will be an elite SEC DC.

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re: Trump normalizing this Mamdami turd is nauseating

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 11/21/25 at 3:22 pm to Covingtontiger77

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This guy is a legit commie frick and should not be in the Oval holding court.

He has shown his stripes.

Trump is legitimizing this guy

Trump supported Obama. Did you notice?

Seriously, you didn't expect this? Trump reaches out to people like that because he knows he can get a moment in front of the media where he will seem like a strong, confident, and benevolent leader.

This is Town Hall Trump.

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re: Healthcare- the next great debate

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 11/19/25 at 11:28 am to SlidellCajun

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I am a capitalist. I struggle though when it comes to profit motive for healthcare. I’ve had some experience that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe some of you have as well. I also think there’s room for a profit in the system. Comes down to need vs want.

Regulated utilities take everyone regardless of credit and still maintain high quality, high availability, and a reasonable return for their shareholders. There are programs for people who can't pay. It has pretty much worked for close to 100 years.

Why does something like that work, but health care is horrible?

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re: The CA-1 robotic kitchen in Germany preps 120 meals per hr without human interaction

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 11/14/25 at 11:27 am to hawgfaninc

I didn't see any actual cooking going on, just mixing of prepared ingredients. It didn't even look like any heat was involved until the dish was pushed into the other chamber.

No thanks.

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