quote:Noemon, I agree -- it is indeed good to know that ElJays's atrocious speeding habit has finally caught up with her.
I'm with Sara on the pecan pie question. Let me nibble on the crust and I'm a happy man. Make me eat the whole thing and I'm liable to throw up from the nauseating sweetness.
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He told me to go talk to the Clerk of the Court and it would probaby be switched to an administrative fine instead of a moving violation, which while costing as much ($105, in this case) doesn't go on your driving record or get reported to your insurance. Since I have a completely clean record up to this point.
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If you don't like the sweetness of pecan pie, I'd highly recommend you never try Texas Sheet Cake. Consider yourselves warned. Also, if you have history of diabetes out to about the fifth generation, you probably shouldn't have any of it either.
And on an entirely unrelated matter... Hey Scott, ever had Texas Sheet Cake?
Feyd Baron, DoC
EDIT: I meant never, I swear. And to add a recipie:
TEXAS SHEET CAKE
INGREDIENTS:
- Cake 1 cup butter 1 cup water 1/4 cup cocoa 2 cups sugar 2 cups flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla Frosting, below chopped pecans
- Frosting 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup cocoa 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk 1 box (1 pound) confectioners' sugar, sifted (4 1/4 cups sifted) 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
PREPARATION:
Cake: Combine butter, water, and cocoa in saucepan over medium heat; heat until butter melts. Add sugar, flour, salt, eggs, soda, sour cream, and vanilla; mix well. Pour into a 15x10x1-inch jelly roll pan. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Spread frosting over hot cake and sprinkle with chopped pecans.
For frosting, combine butter, cocoa, and milk in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Add remaining ingredients and mix well with electric mixer. Spread over the hot sheet cake then sprinkle with chopped pecans.
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Your experience is different? Then clearly you have not tasted the One True Pecan Pie. Prepare yourself for an eternity of treacle suet pudding.
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Noemon: 43 in a 30. It's an exit ramp off the highway into downtown, and I never use my breaks, just coast my speed down to the first stoplight. But there's a homeless shelter on one side of the road, and a lot of people have been hit lately jaywalking to the park across the street so they're cracking down. That's what he told me, anyway. He was waving the next car over before I had even pulled out.
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Yeah, I thought that there was a different story, one that I wasn't familiar with.
I got busted for doing almost the exact same thing in Lawrence, KS, and I believe that it was my first ticket. Unfortunately it turned out to be the first of quite a few in a very short period--2 weeks, maybe. I'd recommend not going 95 in a 70 as an encore to this. It didn't work out so well for me.
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I hate to take this off the topic of pie, but to answer Tom on the first page - By saying God is in control means I recognize his sovereignty over everything. God is omniscient, he already knows the outcome of this election.
So if Kerry wins, it doesn't mean God prefers him, it just means it suits God's purpose that Kerry be in office for four years.
He works all things together for our good - but that doesn't mean that only good things will happen to us. I will think it's a blow for our country if Kerry wins. But, God has a purpose for everything. It may turn out for the better of our country - I may be wrong in my assessment of the man. Or, it may very well be God's plan that America go downhill fast. I can't know the mind of God.
But I accept that he's God, and he knows a heckuva lot more than I do so I just do what I think is right and leave the rest of it up to Him.
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dkw, We had a thread once where I taled about the passivity that often accompanies savior-based ideologies. I think Belle's panglossian notion of God making sure the world is alright is a good illustration of what I was talking about. She must either be defining alright or, more likely, the world differently than I do to actually believe that statement.
There are thousands of little girls in the Sudan going to sleep right now begging anyone who will listen not to be raped to death in the next couple of days. Maybe God will answer these prayers, unlike say the millions who prayed to be delivered from the Holocaust. But you know what, I don't really think he will. Maybe it's because they're the wrong color or religion or nationality or too poor or maybe he's just too busy making sure certain people win the lottery or a sports game. Maybe those little girls need to be raped for this to be the best of all possible worlds.
I don't agree. This should be stopped. If God is this omnipotent super-father figure who will always make things ok, he'll stop it. If he doesn't do it, it's up to us. Because of choices the American people have made, we aren't going to do it either.
Belle's saying that our choices don't matter, that we can be the responsibilty-free children of an all powerful father. I think these little girls and what happens to them are actually our responsibilty and that we have a duty to try to protect them. If God is a protective father, he's doing a supremely crappy job. The only way I can see to think otherwise is to maintain a lobotomy of your social consciousness. If, instead, it's true that to those whom much is given, much is expected, then what you do really does have a profound impact, for good or for evil, on the state of the world.
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Squicky, I don't believe God makes everything all right for us. I never used the word alright in my post if you go back and read it.
God never promises me or the little girls in Sudan our lives will just be hunky dory. In fact, he promises persecution for Christians.
I said the outcome of the election, either way, suits God's purposes. Not mine.
In fact, Kerry winning wouldn't surprise me one bit - because I think it's very likely we are headed in a downward spiral morally in this country, and I wouldn't at all be shocked if it just continues to get worse and worse.
Christianity teaches this world is full of evil since the fall. Little girls get raped, people get murdered, the wrong person gets elected. It's expected in a world of sin. So I am not personally all that dismayed if Kerry wins - because it's out of my hands. I have done what I can do and the rest is not up to me.
I will do my part to fight against evil wherever I see it - and I will model my life after that of Christ and do my darnedest to be salt and light, and everything I am supposed to be as a Christian in a fallen world. But I can't control the election, beyond casting my one vote - which I did.
So no, I won't sit and cry if Bush is defeated. Because I know I'm not in control - and I wouldn't want to be.
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Everybody watch Virginia... Polls close at 7 p.m. and we're planning on knocking Bush out early. Posts: 2432 | Registered: Feb 2001
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quote:Because I know I'm not in control - and I wouldn't want to be.
There is so much in that quote, it's fascinating. For me, it's not the fear of being in control that freaks me out. It's the fear of being one of 250,000,000 people with nukes. It's just enough control to put you in the game, but not enough to give you mastery.
You can talk about the violence in video games and swearing on television, but I feel much safer in this nation now than I would have in the fifties, sixties, seventies, or eighties.
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But, Belle, it doesn't have to be that way! People make things this way by repeatedly doing the same things over and over without much variation. Then they wonder why things are still so terrible and hopeless. But there has got to be something out there that can be done to stop stuff like that!!! I just can't give up the idea that maybe there is hope.
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I read a poll where 17 percent of Americans believe that the world would end in their lifetime. It's a Time/Cnn poll in 2002.
The thing is, I'm pretty sure that's the Republican base. One the say the same about the freakishness of the conspiracy theory democratic base, but those cats don't vote. People who think that the military-industrial-political complex is conspiring against them are too scared to leave their mother's basement.
King syrup or other dark corn-syrup-type sweetener (a combination of corn syrup and molasses works too, as does Alaga syrup. although the taste is not quite identical)
Brown sugar
Egg
Flour
Butter
a little baking soda
and 3/4 cup water.
That's it. Shoo-fly pie is the True Pie!
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