riverdiver

Mix a stick of butter, salt, garlic powder (or fresh garlic) and onion powder.
There’s your Papa John’s garlic sauce, without the added chemicals and preservatives.
Want spicy? Add cayenne or red pepper flakes.

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I feel like they couldn’t be more full of it and have no idea how moving material really works. It takes 3 work days of nonstop running scooping 20 yards at a time to move 20,000 yards of beautiful silty loam soil. 20,000 yards is a pittance. And that’s not even moving it very far. Now, consider that the absolute biggest bucket you can put on a 95 ton excavator is 8 yards- and a 95 ton machine is no joke- most of what you see on jobsites globally are 20 ton machines. And it’s rock. And we bombed this stuff solid for what, 2 months? And we are to believe that these clowns can move all this material in a couple weeks? My arse.

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Unless they had other access points to get into the tunnels and other areas hidden inside mountains.

It would make sense to have one or two primary entry points, and knowing they’ll get hit have secondary access points they normally don’t use.

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quote: Everyone is aware. Everyone has known what causes HIV for 40 years. Well obviously not everyone---

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Unless they grew up marooned on a tropical island, they know how they can contract AIDS.

Problem is due to lack of impulse control they don’t care.

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French, 47, was sentenced to 16+ years in prison and ordered to pay $110,753,619 in restitution after a years-long scheme to bilk Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) out of nearly $200 million. He also forfeited approximately $17 million that the government seized from bank accounts and other assets

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He should’ve identified as Somalian, they would’ve cut him loose, and wouldn’t make him pay restitution.

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With what a lot of tickets were bringing on the secondary market he is right. He just has no leg to stand on because his shitty company is fricking everyone with all the fees. For most shows of interest the secondary market has proven that tickets are underpriced. If that weren't true there wouldn't be scalpers lining up for every popular event and people willing to pay them on the secondary market. Maybe we've reached a breaking point in that regard

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I’ve tried getting online tickets for some popular concerts, and couldn’t because they immediately sold out.
Jimmy Buffet as an example, tried for tickets at two different shows a year or so apart, each one sold out in less than two minutes.

But you could then go on Ticketmaster and buy grossly inflated tickets. I passed.

Some people will shell out the money, more won’t. That CEO is just as clueless as the Starbucks CEO defending $9 coffee as being “worth it for the experience”.

Why is the wildebeest even on the field?

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Isn’t the only thing not locked up sunscreen?

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Work boots, work clothes…

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I believe Rodney started opening his own restaurants after he won the Beard Award and it appears that he got in bed with the wrong financial backer and, as you said, spread himself too thin.

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First mistake was giving him a Beard Award, whoever voted for him to get that did him a great disservice.

Reminds me of the article I saw a couple of days ago, a smashburger joint in San Francisco closed after pics hit social media of rolls of ground meat and a big jar of mayonnaise sitting on the pavement outside the door. No one (including the “Executive Chef” was there to take delivery.

First issue, a burger joint doesn’t need an “Executive Chef”.

Second, the pic of the owner (who, like Rodney, decided to open multiple restaurants) showcased 3 different Michelin Star awards on the wall.

For a place that serves smash burgers. Smash burger places don’t deserve Michelin Stars, the process has turned into a DEI festival.

I like Rodney, heck of a nice guy. I’ve had his food catered a couple of times for big groups, everything was excellent, better than his restaurant served, every detail covered. His type of food can’t be rushed, it takes a lot of attention to detail. There were people who tried talking him out of expanding, but that Beard award went to his head, and some backers who thought the sky was the limit played into his thought process.

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Palmira for sides. Lewis for meats. Palmira's piccodillo empanadas are amazing. Hometeam if you within walking distance and don't have transportation.

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I can see your points. Only things I’d change, the beef cheeks at Palmira were outstanding the couple of times I’ve been there.

HomeTeam to me is so so, except for their wings, they’ve had very good wings for years.

Funny how tastes are different, I know people who argue the merits/issues with those places (like any restaurants), some love them, some hate them.

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an $11 million Medicaid fraud


investigators did not understand that people within the Minneapolis Somali community often transfer funds to each other in ways that don't produce paper trails,

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Someone was dumb enough to believe that?

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A close ally of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been charged

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Wake me up when she gets convicted, sentenced, and is in prison.

Minnesota proved even when a jury agrees someone is guilty the judge can still let them go,