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Turbot-lover!

Tax(he wasn't talking about the Aristocratic Mexicans)Wonk

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Where do people think farmed salmon is a good idea? It's bad eating. Maybe a couple of rec halls in Maine where the fishermen put out of business by the expansionist canucks have been able to land jobs tossing pelletized algae into the holding pens?

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Off my corner, you greasy skanky ho!

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Fish fondue is a joke in itself.

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I suspect the fish farmers and some in the distribution chain think it's a good idea. I've actually had good farmed salmon (before I decided never to buy it). Bland compared to wild, but still good. I think most Japanese restuarants use farmed for sushi. I guess that's one exception to my no-farmed-salmon rule.

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Now that was a post. None of this soft peddaling B.S.

Ty and Balt - do you see this post? Learn from it. You are both getting soft. Time to get tough.

My response to this is that I think for departments a lot of how logic behind organizing them and naming thewm is getting money out of Congress. I think this Cure idea would be easier to get appropriations for in Congress. If someone voted for a decrease, or not for a decrese they could get pummled by their opponent.

So the name is important.

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I would argue with you but I know absolutely nothing about farmed fish. On the other hand, I do prefer farm animals to game. In other words I prefer beef to venison.

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I left this board for good 2 weeks ago. I just came back for a quick visit and read this. Question: did you guys work out some new language rule, like pig latin, so only your in group can understand what you post?

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No, Hank. Spanky has always posted like that.

You just weren't such a critical audience when you were on the same team.

S_A_M

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WTTW, only pathetic losers post on weekends.

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saying what for you!!!! resnet that I. cOuld say taht you how? pOst my awlays and distinct claer.

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Tell me about it.

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The Supreme Court is now going to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Texas redistricting. Regardless of the outcome, it seems clear to me that this redistricting was a political hack job, engaged in for purely partisan purposes. It also strikes me that the manner in which redistricting occurs is inevitably highly partisan, and is a way in which parties have perpetuated themselves from the beginning and in a way I do not believe was envisioned or planned for by the founders.

Why not, in this age of technological progress, have all redistricting done by computer programs under the supervision of a clearly non-partisan commission (perhaps even one appointed by the judiciary instead of by politicians)?

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Is this a long weekend?

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Because the parties in power know that they'd lose that power if such a system were to be created. The Republicans were probably right about the 1991 maps drawn by the Democrats. They did give dems a disproportionate amount of seats in Texas given the political demographics in the state in 1991. And the dems were able to hold on to the legislature for about 15 years beyond the switch of the state from predominately Democratic to predominantly Republican. The maps that the Repubicans drew in 2003 are designed to hold on to Republican power past the demographics switching in Texas to majority Hispanic (I think that's projected to happen around 2015 or so).