Whoever is in favor of the $700 billion dollar bailout should watch this 60 minutes interview with David Walker about the national debt. We’re just delaying the inevitable.

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In playing the game of regret these past several weeks, we’ve achieved new heights of regret. The Group Vote We were playing the game a couple of weeks ago, and the cap was at 250. JohnW ended up winning the game, but in a stunning reversal, the other players voted to extended the cap to [...]

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Slow cookers today cook at a higher temperature than older generation slow cookers. So, cooking for 10-12 hours will make the meat fall-off-the-bone tender, but it’ll also be very dry. Use a fatty cut of meat like a chuck roast. Don’t buy packaged stew meat, because that’s usually trimmings from various cuts, and it’ll be [...]

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Chicken Drumsticks The skin tends to burn quickly. Reducing the grill time per side from 10 minutes to 9 minutes helped. The first side tends to burn the quickest even with ample oil. Try reducing the time to 7 minutes. So, for next time, try grilling for a total of 34 minutes: 7, 9, 9, [...]

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