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Blueberry Peach Crisp
Ingredients:
• Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
• 1 (21 oz.) can peach pie filling
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup Hungry Jack® Blueberry Wheat Complete Pancake Mix
• 1 cup quick rolled oats
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans
• Whipped cream (optional)
Preparation Directions:
1. HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat 9x9-inch baking pan lightly with no-stick cooking spray. Spread peach pie filling in prepared pan.
2. STIR together melted butter and pancake mix in medium bowl until blended. Stir in oats, brown sugar and cinnamon until evenly moistened and crumbs form. Layer over peach filling. Sprinkle pecans on top.
3. BAKE 30 to 35 minutes or until top is golden brown. Cool at least 10 minutes before serving. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.
Yield: 9 Servings
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 35 min

Urizen |

A friend of mine posted this from his FB page:
SAY NO TO SOCALISM
"This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right."

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A foreign view of the healthcare debate: Link

Bitter Thorn |

A friend of mine posted this from his FB page:
SAY NO TO SOCALISM
"This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the...
Cute. Insipid but cute.
Should I even make the effort to refute the basis of these vacant assumption in a point by point manner, or is that just a waste of energy?

Urizen |

Cute. Insipid but cute.
Should I even make the effort to refute the basis of these vacant assumption in a point by point manner, or is that just a waste of energy?
That depends. What type of energy are we talking about? And whether it is efficient?
I'd rather talk about Ronnie James Dio recovering from cancer and keeping what's left of his hair.
But on a semi-serious note, I was purposely intending to be cute, but ironic. Never said everything we have in the public sector is necessarily efficient if you want to draw comparisons to those driven by the private market, but sometimes we take cost and resources what we do have to use on a daily basis for granted and forget where they all hail from.
I appreciate capitalism based from hard work, but not at the cost of cunning others into further misfortune regardless of caveat emptor and the disregard of moral ethics (relative or not).
Let's just see what happens next once everyone gets past the political grandstanding and psuedo-dialectics and actually implement something tangible.
Unless anyone plans on being Raptured in the next five years? If so, will me all your gaming stuff. :P

NPC Dave |
A friend of mine posted this from his FB page:
SAY NO TO SOCALISM
....
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
I recommend buying a high quality chlorine filter for your shower if you use hot water. As soaking all that chlorine into your lungs and skin every morning may cause long-term health problems.

DoveArrow |

I recommend buying a high quality chlorine filter for your shower if you use hot water. As soaking all that chlorine into your lungs and skin every morning may cause long-term health problems.
You know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

Mairkurion {tm} |

Oh good, this thread finally turned around and made serious, concrete progress. The partisan rancor, as usual, was getting us nowhere. Heathy's absence after his initial outburst is a major concern. Is he in denial?
AZ: the other, original thread, was inaccessible to everyone for two days. When pleas to fix it went unheard, I just made a new one. Then the old one suddenly worked. Go figure.

Conspiracy Buff |

AZ: the other, original thread, was inaccessible to everyone for two days. When pleas to fix it went unheard, I just made a new one. Then the old one suddenly worked. Go figure.
BEWARE!!! It's all part of a master plan by the Starfish Women of Io to take over all of our fast food chains.