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Sounds good, Antipatros. Personally I'd skip the sauce in favor of morels fried in butter . .

Salmon Tacos . . about as easy and as healthy as it gets: Enough wild salmon for however many . . a quarter pound at most per person; Skin salmon, debone, and cut into 1/2" strips; roll in whole wheat flour seasoned with your favorite seasoning (dill, cajun, Old Bay, etc.); fry lightly in smal...

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50, moved to the Alaskan wilderness and for the next 32 years lived an adventure few can imagine: DickProennekeCabin.jpg To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed... to choose an idyllic site, cut tree...

Maybe someone did. What gives?........;>....... Beats the whoopee out of me . . why that forum, supposedly a place to exchange intelligent discussion around David's writings, continues to allow such offensive, narcissistic, diarrheic drool is beyond me . . :? Whoever he/she is, they must have somet...

Somebody needs to go over to Spengler's and invite Hockey Dad to these fora . . he needs it: by Hockey Dad » Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:41 pm Hello again Waxwing, evidently you had NO LUCK in finding something relevant to this new thread. Some people who constantly display signs of deficit of attention, onl...

AzariLoveIran wrote:this is why western movies now empty ..

Well said, ALI, and exactly why we use Netflix.

Typhoon wrote:. . it is irrelevant as to who becomes the next POTUS.

Bingo!

Just finished Philip Roth's American Pastoral. . pretty good . . "lavender happens" . . .

Hmm, interesting. So Typhoon has banned . . more people than I ever did. Didn't you ban ~? If you didn't, you should have. I kinda wonder whether Odin was indeed ~ . . can't be two guys that nuts out there, can there? Same enigmatic, wacko crap, same purposeful agitation, same condescension, same c...

Antipatros wrote:

. . The salmon fisheries of the peninsula, of which I had heard marvellous accounts, also somewhat influenced our decision to visit that country; . .

Fishing in Alaska still retains the possibility of high adventure:

Things we never say up here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpL6C0YZUYc

Nonc Hilaire wrote:The problem with that is today Congress IS private enterprise.

Bingo! Or maybe better said CORPORATE enterprise.

With a run up that fast a correction was predictable. If gold closes above 1705 tomorrow that would break the downtrend. The sad thing is you don't actually have more value when gold goes up. It really just that fiat is worth less. That signals the potential of inflation? That'd be my guess . . as ...

Views on women In Schopenhauer's 1851[35] essay "Of Women" ("Über die Weiber", full text), he expressed his opposition to what he called "Teutonico-Christian stupidity" on female affairs. He claimed that "woman is by nature meant to obey", and opposed Schille...

Sheep abattoirs are the worst. They cry like babies. That's what .22 long rifle shells are for. Here's one from about 40 years ago when we used to raise and butcher a couple hogs every year. The guy holding the head was a friend, the kid is our son . . taken in Michigan's upper peninsula on our 30-...

Well, it's not Loki he'll be missed . . .

Clever . . still waiting . . For a positive definition of evil based on the absence of the good? I hope you packed a lunch... No, still waiting for you to say anything at all of substance. So far all I've gleaned from your various posts on these fora are abuse, insults, and discord. Or am I missing...

Odin! wrote:That's sorta the thing here where Nonc demands I engage in the same sort of fol-der-ol I noted big logical problems with earlier... Who says I will? Who says I haven't already?
Besides, Augustine agreed with Isiah anyway. I believe Marcus already quoted Isiah for us.

Clever . . still waiting . .

Would you please recommend some links to watch gold and especially silver prices........ Here are current prices, mg, cruise the site for more information. I sold these folks some dime rolls last spring, and they paid what they said they would and when. Satisfied customer . . http://www.silverandgo...

Temples and churches, . . testify to man's need for metaphysics, a need strong and ineradicable, . . Loaded with presuppositions as I read it. Could just as easily have read ". . testify to man's acknowledgement/recognition of metaphysics . . " To say "need" grounds any metaphys...

So I suppose the ALLCAPS demand here is for me to . . You know what's being asked, just do it if you can and quit fooling around. Tell you what, I don't know or care who you are. If you have a position, [stop dancing] around the mulberry bush and don't ask [manipulative] questions. You got somethin...

Well, gold and silver took a pretty good jump today . . and away we go? Options close today. If the price closes above 1685 there is a good chance the downtrend has broken, but is should prove to be a wild day. I'll be watching. If memory serves, last year at this time silver was about $44/ounce. I...

Well, gold and silver took a pretty good jump today . . and away we go?

“Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in ...

What is Odin!'s definition of good and evil? Lewis makes several references to ancient Norse morality in his summation of Natural Law : 'In Nastrond (= Hell) I saw... murderers.' (Old Norse. Volospá 38, 39) 'Brothers shall fight and be each others' bane.' (Old Norse. Account of the Evil Age before ...