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Espresso, check. Cashews, meh, good in some Asian dishes as a final, finishing touch (Almonds, Brazil nuts and Pistachios please..............also, a good old fashioned salted peanut). Cranberry, don't get it, as a juice sure, but it's usually cut with grape juice or apple juice, a bottle of pure cranberry juice takes like 47 million cranberries to make.......and costs like $13.00 CDN ($4.25 USD). True story, my older sister used to guide bicycle tours in India for tourists who had way too much money and were running out of ideas on how to spend it, mainly British and Americans. They would bike through various parts of the country in a very controlled environment and then retire to their 5 star hotel for the night. So one night, my sister heads into the hallway of the hotel they were at in Mumbai and discovers a women on the floor unable to get up because she had badly hurt her ankle, she goes to her aid and helps the woman up and gets her back to her room where they can call for a Doctor. The grateful woman turns out to be the owner of the Pom (Wonderful) company, rumour has it she has a few bucks. Free Pom for life.
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Sorry to hear that Mike, but that's what you get for cooking with vegetables.
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I think in many cases the conditions which lead people to senseless acts of violence and terrorism can have similarities. I think both can stem from a sense of isolation and desperation. The roots are similar, not the end goal necessarily. Are the victims themselves directly responsible? Are you and I directly responsible? I wouldn't go that far, but we are part of the broader system that doesn't seem to be doing enough to enact change in these type of things. It's hard to know how to do that though, I think conversations like these play a part, and who we choose as our elected officials and the mandate we provide them.
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It's also even more wilfully ignorant that we deny or in most cases refuse to acknowledge, we're responsible for creating many of those conditions that foster terror.
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Twins Announce 2016 Home Schedule
twinsnorth49 replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Cleveland please. -
Twins Announce 2016 Home Schedule
twinsnorth49 replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I don't know about you but I go to Minneapolis to see the Twins play. -
Crunchy................AINEC. Also, Cottage cheese is gross.
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I think it's about both, always have. The conversation has just dealt with various aspects of it imo.
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God help me Is tomorrow National Go to the Gym day by any chance?
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I'm not an American but I've been following this thread regularly. The bolded sentence pretty much sums up my thoughts on everything……….. not just guns.
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Yeah, those uppity Kurds, what do they have to complain about anyway? Might be a case of better to dance with the Devil you know however.
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But they're not convening in the name of anti terror, remember? That's the smoke screen. ISIS and the pathetic amount of territory they occupy and the imminent threat they pose to the US should be the least of our worries right now. That and immediate retribution. Let the Peshmergas handle IS right now and focus on coming to an agreement on what to do with Assad.
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And vice versa.
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Tell your friend it's one of my favourite threads as well, and that his question isn't tacky.
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Oh, you're all helpful now, but ask a bisque question and you get all uppity on me .
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Well, Mike has a valid question in response to your query. My take is that they think we won't notice, that goes for a lot of things up here, and has some validity. I don't really get it, conspiracy is probably closer to the truth, isn't it always? You can keep the simulated vanilla products btw..............blech! Real vanilla good, not real vanilla , bad.
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Cream Soda slurpees are my all time favourite!
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It's like a hurricane up here today, except with snow.
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I have a weakness for Cherry Coke, I can't get it here so I often bring a few cases back from my trips Stateside , it's like I want it because I can't have it. Cherry Dr. Pepper just isn't the same.
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The Front Office and Settling For Mediocrity
twinsnorth49 replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I wasn't asking you to defend it. -
I don't think it's 90% moot and I linked an article because I believe opinions from actual scholars on Islam have merit, that's the point of including the link. I've posted many times in other forums about US and Russian relations and the power play in Syria and how it's led to much of the problem, you should have taken part in it. I also posted much earlier in this thread that the West's arrival in Afghanistan and Iraq were major mistakes that were very much what Osama Bin Laden was hoping for, it was the main catalyst for much of the chaos we see today. And yes, we are going down that road again in Syria and ISIS is striving to maintain the chaos. This thread has discussed many of the issues involved in the overall problem, because there are many issues. If you want to discuss the one you feel is most relevant, just do that. If you feel it simply boils down to one particular aspect, you're going to find some disagreement, sorry that frustrates you. I don't think back handed swipes at people not having adult conversations is all that productive either.
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Because I think it plays a larger role in the greater issue at hand, the same way you feel the failure of French and Western European Immigration policy does. I think you're wrong, that's about it. And nobody has even touched the finer points of Islamic theology.
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No, I disagree with that, the point is, just because ISIS is pulling beliefs and practices right out of the Qur'an, does not make them "fundamentally Islamic". That's the myth, and it's the one they perpetrate because they know that the vast majority of the people they recruit are completely ignorant to scripture and what it actually means. There is such a thing as right and wrong interpretation, they rely on people not knowing the difference.
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ISIS ia a theocracy, or at least it's what it hopes to be. Theocracies work better through ignorance than education.
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The Front Office and Settling For Mediocrity
twinsnorth49 replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I wonder if this thread had originally been titled "The Front Office and being too conservative", how things might have turned out differently..............for the better.
