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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited January 2011

    It might be important to note that the decision against Mr. Boisson was overturned.  Justice at work perhaps?

    I just finished my delicious dinner which included steamed brussel sprouts served with a seasoning of black pepper and turmeric.  Mmmmm. 

  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2011

    I am simmering vegetable/beef soup to have with crusty French bread.  Mmmmm.

  • Maya2
    Maya2 Member Posts: 468
    edited January 2011
    I wake up, check in and oh my, it's brussel sprouts again. I wouldn't have thought of turmeric. That might do it. Or not. I'm trying to like those sprouts, but it's an up hill thing. Smile
  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2011

    I gave up long ago.  Just not for me.

  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2011

    OH, PBS has a special on The Doors tonight--timely.

  • worldwatcher
    worldwatcher Member Posts: 205
    edited January 2011

    Kick-off of Campaign 2012....Rahm Emanuel..."You never want to let a serious crisis to go to waste".

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow

  • floralgal
    floralgal Member Posts: 69
    edited February 2011
  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited January 2011
     I don't know about the councilman but here is part of the article.While Canada’s criminal code forbids inciting violence against identifiable groups, the Queen’s Bench court ruled that the talk of war in the letter was metaphorical. Here’s an excerpt from the ruling:That the language of [Stephen Boisson's letter] may be jarring, offensive, bewildering, puerile, nonsensical and insulting may be of little doubt, but the language does not go so far as to fall within the prohibited status of “hate” or “contempt.”Boisson’s letter may not criminal, but that does not mean the public has to treat it as acceptable. There was a violent gay bashing in Boisson’s town just days after his letter was published, and—while I doubt his letter was the sole cause—it certainly supported an atmosphere where violence against gays can flourish.There is a difference between the right to do something and the right thing to do. There are consequences for hateful speech, and it is up to the public to challenge anyone not big enough to accept responsibility for those consequences. Hate speech is worthless and leaves the world worse off for it; use your own free speech to make the world better, and confront hate wherever it is found.Edited to add link  http://www.slapupsidethehead.com/tag/stephen-boisson/
  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited January 2011

    Peas!  A joy from summer -- shelling peas straight off the vine and eating them all.  Hey, I like lima beans too!  Think it some weird lefty thing Rocky?  Wink

  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited January 2011

    I LOVE lima beans!

  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited January 2011

    Thanks for finding this PiP!  It's good to know the whole story.

  • Alpal
    Alpal Member Posts: 1,785
    edited January 2011

    Well, I hate to admit it but I despise lima beans. Aren't we a diverse group?

  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited January 2011

    That's what makes the world so interesting!  Vegetable preferences!

  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited January 2011

    I'm breaking my silence to jump in to talk about . . . lima beans and okra.  Please, please, no more hate speech about lima beans and okra, OK?  Especially okra.  Let me count the ways I love okra: deep fried southern style, thrown into gumbo, masala, seared in olive oil with a little lemon squeezed on it . . . oh my god.  And the plants are beautiful, too, with big purple flowers.

    Lima beans are harder to rhapsodize about, but you know, they still deserve civility.  Even though they taste like mud.

    Linda

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited January 2011

    Lima beans?  Smother them with butter....yum!

  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited January 2011

    The trouble with okra isn't the okra but the way it is often overcooked - it's awesome quickly deep fried too (just don't admit you eat it to a doctor).  As for lima beans I love them when they are the small tender ones although I must admit when I was a child I thought they had a texture just like the hated liver.

  • Alpal
    Alpal Member Posts: 1,785
    edited January 2011

    MUD! That's it - I never could describe what they tasted like. I did remember since my post about detesting them that I have a marvelous recipe for sweet and sour baked beans. It has several different kinds of beans in it, including lima beans. I guess all the brown sugar makes them more palatable.

  • sunny210
    sunny210 Member Posts: 292
    edited January 2011

    Okra! No hate speech, but can I say there is no love there either. Do you know what the slimy bits are called? Mucilage. Really. TMI, perhaps? 

    Why are you being silent? 

    Sandy 

  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited January 2011

    Blue- I have always felt quite safe in Canada. I remember being in Toronto years ago (living outside of Detroit at the time) and walking back to downtown hotel late at night from a club. A police officer walked up and asked if we were tourists to which we replied yes. He insisted on walking us as back to hotel after sternly warning us that "there had been an attempted mugging three weeks previously and he was concerned for our safety!" OMG! See Detroit reference please:) Fast forward thirty years, I am back in michigan for hs reunion decide to shoot over to windsor to at least inhale some canadian air...poor guy at customs was FREAKING out I was by myself driving off into Detroit by myself. On another note, I have found canadians (friends, relatives and coworkers) to all be among the most outspoken folks I have ever known. Never afraid to say what is on their minds...far from it. Maybe that is part of the reason why I am so attracted to them. Ah, that and the salt n vinegar chips and macintosh toffee before I could them (the chips) here in the states! Although, it was kinda sad to hear the folks I talked to in Windsor so alarmed about all the crime that had drifted over from DETROIT>>>>>ack!

    On another note, first it was brussel sprouts, now it lima beans. Do you people have no mercy? What is next, waterboarding for watercress? I note that this polific hate crosses all country, religious and socia-economic lines. Stop the killing. The sound of the bean being dropped in the boiling water brings tears to my eyes....

  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited January 2011

    LOL!!!!  Not the watercress!!!

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited January 2011

    No mercy.  The horror!

    Since we're talking beans and all things gassy, Pasta Fazool with romano beans is such comfort food. 

  • Ang7
    Ang7 Member Posts: 1,261
    edited January 2011

    Ummm...

    I love brussel sprouts and lima beans.

    Ate all my veggies as a kid except the dreaded SWEET POTATO.

    Still cannot stand to eat them.

  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited January 2011

    man blue, your little tagline is TRUE

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited January 2011

    I think I'd rather have a snickers bar than all those beans.

    Did anyone watch the memorial service tonight?  I did .. and I was in tears.  I thought Obama gave a wonderful talk and eulogy for the victims.  The Indidan blessing at the beginning was pretty cool too.

    Time to turn in ..

    Bren

  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited January 2011

    Garlic butter on the lima beans; garlic butter makes everything taste good.

  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited January 2011

    Save the sweet potatoes!

  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited January 2011

    Annette, you are too funny.  And a former Detroiter!  Your Detroit-Windsor crossing stories reminded me of all the contraband kinder-eggs and aero bars my daughter and I used to bring back to the U.S. whenever we ducked over to Windsor.  (Can I say that here?  I don't know what the statute of limitations on kinder egg smuggling is.)

    Sandy, I took a break after my post was deleted (the most recent in a series of deletions).  It left a bad feeling, and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to stick around.  But it's been restored, and I do miss the back and forth about vegetables and whatever, so here I am.

    L

  • revkat
    revkat Member Posts: 763
    edited January 2011

    MacIntosh toffee!!!!!! I haven't had that in ages. I was in Vancouver one summer after college and it was one of the special treats of that summer.

  • sunny210
    sunny210 Member Posts: 292
    edited January 2011

    lewing - 

    I'm glad you're back. I always like your posts.

    It would be nice to discover the identity of the devious deleters. It seems like such a sneaky way to behave.

    Sandy 

  • kellyj
    kellyj Member Posts: 75
    edited January 2011

    The memorial service felt odd to me.  A little like a campaign with the hollering and cheering.  People taking pictures of Obama after the service.  ???? I must have missed the point.   I guess their funerals will be more about them.

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