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: Stoled from Jenn
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29th April 200910th April 200913th March 200912th March 2009
: From Neese's Website
From http://www.neesesausage.com/products/def  This is the original recipe from Mr. Thede's wife, Annie Smith Neese. It hasn't changed in 100 years, and it's still delivered fresh every day and contains no preservatives or additives. For those who like a little zestier taste we made Neese's Hot Sausage. Just like all our sausage, it's fresh, never frozen and totally without preservatives. This is our original recipe with a smooth taste and just enough sage added to please sage lovers A fully cooked southern favorite with our special spices. It's 96% fat free and, believe it or not, a favorite of kids who love it on a sandwich or warmed in the pan for breakfast. By the way, it doesn't taste like pudding and it doesn't look like liver. This is a regional variation on Liver Pudding and it has a different recipe, including spices and seasonings. For some folks in western North Carolina there is no substitute.  Lots of folks think this is a northeastern product, but in fact it's amazing how much Neese's Scrapple people in the South buy. It's also rewarding to hear people from the North tell us how good our Scrapple is. There are lots of folks who don't know what C-Loaf is, but if you grew up on the farm you know it and love it. Try some even if you live in town.  This old-time favorite has a flavor some swear you can't find anywhere else in the world. But you can find it in your favorite supermarket.
14th February 200911th February 2009
: A Science Fiction Tale
In the year 2024, a slower-than-light arkship sets off with a cargo of 14,000 Chinese, 9,500 Native Americans, and 12,005 Russians. They set forth on a 103 year journey to an Earth-like planet just past Alpha Centauri. By the time they arrived, they had all become Irish. 21st January 2009
: Uh . . . huh . . .
My roommate just informed me that "Your Dr Pepper cannot save you now!" He's been saying stuff like this all night! Man. I think when he took a nap, earlier, some great force, ancient and stupid, moved into his mind. 17th January 2009
: Today I learned the following:
Commenting on a Livejournal post expressing disagreement is trolling. No attack needs to be made, nor does any implication of the post being 'dumb' need to occur. Simply disagreeing and explaining why will suffice. If I am white, and I express any sort of opinion at all, I am "jizzing" my "privilege" all over the place. One must be currently oppressed, or have been oppressed in the recent past, to have a valid opinion. It is not racist for someone to read something I wrote, then dismiss it entirely while making sure to mention that I'm white, as that fact obviously negates any possible validity my post may have had. In fact, by calling me white, the person is simply stating the well known fact that all white people are ethnocentric racist bigots, and as such, anything any of us write, say, or believe is apparently invalid because of this fact. (I assume that's the implication, at least, otherwise why throw in the word "white" into a list of insults about my post?) From this, I can assume that hating white people (or at least dismissing any sort of primarily white Western culture as entirely offensive) is the minimum that a person can do and still live a conscionable life. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! WHITE PEOPLE ONLY READ PAST THIS POINT! This is urgent information for all the white people I know. Pass it on to your white friends, as soon as possible. The colored folk saw through our facade of tolerance! They know how racist we really are! They realized that all our "progressiveness" was a trick to distract them, while we systematically appropriated and destroyed their culture! Quick! We have to ruin their history and beliefs faster! We have to steal their culture and force our own, superior culture onto them, to remove their sense of identity! What they want doesn't matter, we have all the control, here. They and their culture will be assimilated and destroyed! We've got them convinced, for the moment, that they're lower than we are, more base than us white people, less worthy than the mighty Caucasian race. If they'll start thinking they're our equals, we'll be in danger of losing our White way of life! Our privilege must be protected at all costs! Remember, fellow white people: When you see someone who is not white (this includes Irish, they're only fake-white), steal their culture immediately. It can be tricky, but if you do it right, they'll instantly collapse to the ground, drooling and babbling incoherently. Within a few days they should die from exposure. We'll defeat the non-white threat yet! Current Mood:
 completely fucking insane8th January 2009
: And I'm awake.
It's 4 AM. I have officially been attempting to fall asleep for three hours, now. I've had similar problems all week. It's annoying. And it's tending to mess up my plans for the day, when I don't wake up until noon or later. I could wake up earlier, but with no specific plans for the day, it seems like I'd be hard pressed to keep myself from taking a nap come afternoon. And that would just further kick my sleep schedule in the teeth. And here I promised a pretty girl I'd actually sleep tonight. Stupid brain. Sleep now, please. ::knocks self in the head with anvil:: Edit: 5:40 AM Edit: 7:50 AM 6th January 200930th December 2008
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I've got a bluetooth headset. I love it. It's insanely useful, and I use it all the time at work, at home, or where ever.
Around the little speaker, there was a rubber ring attached that I assume was there for comfort. About two months ago, the rubber broke in one place, and began to hang down a little. It became more and more annoying, as I tried to bend it back up to where it belonged. Everytime I wore it, I had to push the little hanging piece of rubber back to where it should be. About three weeks ago, it became so loose that the loose rubber would push it slightly off my ear fairly easily. I was constantly adjusting the headset, trying to keep it where it belonged, constantly pushing the rubber back up to its rightful place. If I was lucky, I could wedge it between the headset and my ear, and it would stay for ten or fifteen minutes before falling back down. Yesterday, I finally gave up, and tore the rubber off completely. It's completely comfortable to wear, again. It feels just fine, and it no longer tries to fling itself from my ear. I've had no problems, since then.
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So I'm watching The 700 Club for some reason. And wow, everyone on this show speaks at the exact same, slightly slowly than usual speed, and with the same incredibly even cadence, and in the same almost half-whisper.
And they keep telling me to pray things that I don't think are very healthy to pray! But whoa, this speaking . . . After writing this post, the woman who was speaking moved from "talking about Jesus" into "trying to sell me something." Her voice sped up to at least twice as fast, and she began speaking in (what I would consider) a human tone of voice. It's almost so relieving that I want to buy the thing just to reward her for speaking normally! 28th December 2008
: Cornbread!
I got a nice cast iron skillet for Christmas, and, as the only possible righteous thing to do with it first, I made cornbread! Excuse the poor picture quality, I took them with my phone.  Right out of the skillet.  Cut. I love the color contrast. It's just beautiful! :D  A slice of it with the chili I made, to go along with the cornbread. The chili was also very tasty! I made it out of a very bizarre combination of foods: a pound of ground beef cooked with a quarter of a white onion and a few cloves of garlic, a can of Manwich, a can of Bush's "Chili Starter" beans, a can of pork and beans, a LOT of pepper, some kosher salt, a lot of garlic powder, a lot of chili powder, some fresh cilantro, and some hot sauce I found in the fridge. Cooked for 20 minutes, then sprinkled with monterey jack cheese. It wasn't nearly spicy enough, but it was insanely good. The next time I made it, I'll have to remember to pick up some cayenne pepper! :D
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"He who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law." Romans 13:8
"God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." 1 John 4:16 These are simple truths. And yet there are pages upon pages on the internet, claiming that people who read these phrases as they are written are sinning. That the phrase "deifies love, instead of holiness." That thinking that God loves everyone is just a happy, white-light, positive, namby-pamby cop-out. That the real God hates some people, that God's love is discriminating. My favorite is the assumption that since we don't know what divine love is, we have to assume that the "love" in those sentences doesn't mean what we think it means. That since the Bible both says that God is love, and the Bible has places that make God seem VERY unloving, then we have to redefine our word "love." That's insane. These are our words, we use them to communicate concepts to each other. The idea that our word "love" is wrong doesn't even make sense. We invented the word "love" to describe what the concept we wanted to describe. If there was supposed to be another word, there in those verses, instead of "love," then there were MANY WORDS TO CHOOSE FROM. But no, the word used is "love." People will go all over the place yelling at me for trying to 'interpret' the Bible. But then they'll look at those two simple phrases and somehow try to claim that they don't mean what they say. Literally. That God is love. And that if you love your neighbor, you have fulfilled the law. If you claim that means something different, then you are 'interpreting' those phrases to mean something else, so another part of the Bible works literally. I choose to 'interpret' those parts of the Bible, so that this part is meant literally. Because the concept embodied in "God is love' is greater than any concept thought up that requires the literal interpretation of a contradictory, violent, spiteful, confusing God that regularly destroys entire nations to make a point. The concept is greater because I can feel it. Because my heart knows it. Because God has given me the ability to do that. He's given you the ability too. I can see it in you. All of you. God, I wish I could help you. I do love you, you know. 25th December 2008
: Merry Christmas, everyone.
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