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Was going to recommend the thousand nights, too, but I'm not 100% sure how well it'd jive with the forum ToS, now that I think about it. It's a classic work but it gets kinda' raunchy in places, iirc. Is on gutenberg, though, at least burton's translation.

Gutenberg has a buncha' other stuff, though, including old sci-fi and whatnot, buncha' old philosophy works, plays... Gutenberg's pretty great. It gets a fair amount of attention but it probably deserves more.

Anyone know if any of the translations of Romance of the Three Kingdoms has gone public domain? I know there's two or three that are online, but I'm not entirely sure how legal they are >_>

At least, that's my take on it.

Take can be your take, but it's still more or less an insult to the place you're visiting, particularly when you're using it as a photo-op. Comfort or not, the message being broadcast is that you don't care enough about the place your visiting to partake of their food. That you'd rather give overt attention to some chain restaurant (i.e. big business, et al) instead of anything that feeds primarily/entirely back into the community. S'not going to make people happy with you.

Honestly, red tribe would catch even more shit about this than blue tribe in any of the red tribe areas. Conservative localities do not fuck around about food, and a politician that won't even eat with you is pretty much the epitome of disconnected muckity-muck. If this had happened in alabama they might have lynched the blighter, and I'm only mostly joking.

Compared to Trump, she is pratically saintly. I guess most of the 'liar, liar, pants (dress?) on fire' towards Clinton has been over her statements on Benghazi and the whole email server thing. That and the republicans hammering her for decades.

Compared to apparently close to any politician, according to that article. At the very least by politifact's measure. Consistent top ten out of a few thousand's a neat hat trick.

Course, the obvious response is that it's not the quantity but the quality. Or mumbling about half-truths and whatnot. Still makes folks that support trump while hammering on dishonesty about clinton hypocritical as all hell but *shrugs* Most folks seem to be at least self aware enough to acknowledge trump lies out his ass pretty regularly. Or some, at least.

Or stuff like R's point, sure. Think I've said something similar before, but I'm pretty sure if the Christian God came down and told the world that from that day forth, Clinton would speak only honesty, people would still be trying to justify interpreting a great deal of what she said after as a lie.

Chinese hoax and threaten them into giving better prices respectively, apparently. E: Seems to have later claimed the Chinese part was a joke. On record quite a lot calling it a hoax, though.

More than two, s'just two land borders.

It's fairly easy to get ballpark numbers, though. Varies by drug; cocaine's in the 60s coming from south of the border (though that doesn't mean all of that is coming through the land border -- fair amount comes by air or sea), pot's mostly from that direction, ecstasy is largely coming out of europe, meth has a substantial domestic production, opium's been coming from ME and south-east asia quite a bit over the last decade or two, etc., etc., etc.

Thanks substantially to american drug laws, though, we're talking a market that's somewhere in the range of a hundred billion a year. Cut supply to half (or whatever) of that and it's just going to start coming from some other direction. Maybe you'd be able to stop that from happening if you do what some countries do and just start basically executing everyone that traffics or somethin', but, uh. That's not very compatible with the US legal system. Or its constitution. Or ethics.

No, no. I could see it for some kind of middle eastern (or wherever it was that vibrato is basically verboten, if my memory's failing me) expat country band. There's some singing styles that are pretty decent but more or less monotone. You could work with it.

Never. Absolutely never. Does manually deboned chicken actually manage to keep bone-bits out of whatever meal it's used in.

Other cooking person in the house regularly forgets I keep a stock of (usually frozen, due to costs) boneless chicken around. Goes out, gets boned chicken. Cooks with it. I end up hurting my teeth or biting into one of those bloody disgusting basically-rubber bits. Inevitably. Every time. In the last two goddamn decades, at the least, I have not had a meal of this chicken where it doesn't happen. Hate. It.

And it's depressing. I see food I normally love. And I know. Know. That at some point it's going to happen, and it's either going to hurt or my appetite is going to plummet partway through. And it does. It always does.

Today was chicken and rice. Actually was even more careful about what I put in my bowl than usual, because I really didn't want to deal with this shit right now. Plucked out four or five of those rubber bits. Didn't see any bone bits. Went to eat, mildly more optimistic than usual.

It took three spoonfuls.

It's pretty petty, but it legitimately makes me want to cry. I still eat it, because I dislike wasting food quite a bit, but it's disheartening as hell.

... folks, the scenario being discussed was a candidate openly physically attacking another on live TV. More'n half of both parties would be calling for their arrest if something like that happened.

There wouldn't be some kind of singular person risking their career or whatev'. There'd be a campaign ending within 24 hours.