Day: January 12, 2006

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Pathfinder’s False Alarm Venison Chili

For this Carnival of the Recipes potluck offering, I’m “stealing” a recipe from my brother. He makes this several times a year, often to share with hunting buddies. I’ve had some of this chili several times over the years, and it’s always very, very good. Not at all like mine, which is just fine by me. Then again, I don’t often have my hands on good venison.

Pathfinder’s False Alarm Venison Chili

3 lbs. ground venison
1 qt. of water
6 Tbsp. chili powder
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. Paprika
3 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper(freshly ground)
1/4 tsp. red pepper (cayene)
1/2 to 1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 to 1 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 to 1 tsp. oregano (ground)
1 15 oz. can tomato sauce
8 to 12 oz. picante sauce (Pace – medium)
Optional: 3 cans of drained chili beans to add volume.

Brown the venison (P.S. – I never have the butcher add beef lard to my ground venison – why degrade my meat?) I rarely have to drain any fat.

Mix all ingredients together. Simmer down to the desired thickness. 30 – 45 minutes minimum to let the spices blend. This chili is even better when reheated or cooked in a crock pot over night.

Note: To make this chili hotter add any or all of the following ingredients. Use ‘hot’ Pace Picante sauce, add an additional 1/4 tsp of cayane, and or an additional 1/2 tsp. of freshly ground black pepper.

Additional Note: When choosing your spices, name brands are best.

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What’s for lunch?

Serving up…

Symantec:

Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers.

The anti-virus vendor acknowledged that it was deliberately hiding a directory from Windows APIs as a feature to stop customers from accidentally deleting files but, prompted by warnings from security experts, the company shipped a SystemWorks update to eliminate the risk.

Although I used to use Symantec security software quite extensively, I’ve disliked Symantec security programs for several years now. Part of that is due to the fact that almost ALL of the systems I get calls on to resurrect from malware attacks are “protected” by Norton/Symantec security products. YMMV.

Update your AV products. Oh, and if you use the Microsoft Anti-spyware “beta” do note that you need to jump through the validation hoops again for another six months’ license.

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Interesting. Needs garlic.

Found at Jerry Pournelle’s, the “Implicit Association Test”.

Sadly, not unlike the MMPI and other such tests, the Racial Preference test could not categorize my responses… any of the three times I took it. Not a “no preference shown” but “could not determine”.

I think the idea’s not bad, but it needs garlic. heh.

Other tests include the

Gender-Career IAT: Gender – Career. This IAT often reveals a relative link between family and females and between career and males.

Age IAT: Age (‘Young – Old’ IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish old from young faces. This test often indicates that Americans have automatic preference for young over old.

And the
Asian IAT: Asian American (‘Asian – European American’ IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize White and Asian-American faces, and images of places that are either American or Foreign in origin.

Are these more accurate than Blogthing-type quizes? Maybe. But then again, p-sych as a “science” has serious limitations.

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Not a petty annoyance

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Found via The English Guy,

“Create an e-annoyance, go to jail”

Yep. Anonymous, otherwise unaccountable trolls may face federal jail time and fines. But, really, who needs the feds in the middle of this? After all, kicking trolls can be fun (if sometimes boring). And cyberstalking–which the law referenced is aimed at–is more than just being annoying… but the law singles out “annoying” behavior as a federal crime, now, punushable by fines and jail time. To be sure, it also strengthens actual anti-stalking provisions, but even there, is that really a federal issue?

Oh, well. It’s law now. *sigh* Might as well start using it as a club for playing Troll Golf.

FORE!

Semi-anonymously graffiti-sprayed at Basil’s and The Conservative Cat.

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Guard the Borders–What is LULAC?

Another abbreviated (as well as late) blogburst post, but not one to skip. Freedom Folks is carrying the load for Euphoric Reality this week, and it’s not a post to miss. FF notes some troubling inconsistencies in LULAC, a group protesting control of our borders, and develops a rich post from them:

Well, which is it, folks? Are you all about the rights of Hispanic Americans, i.e., CITIZENS, or the Hispanic population, which includes those who have ILLEGALLY entered the country, and continue to stay and work here ILLEGALLY?

See the rest at What Is LULAC?

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Stop the ACLU–a shot across the ACLU’s bow…

From John Stephenson, this:

It is happening all across the nation. The ACLU sue city counsel after city counsel over praying in Jesus name. They don’t sue to stop all prayer, but in every case the target has been Christian prayer. They even fought for the right of a Wiccan to pray at a counsel meeting. Many times it doesn’t even take a lawsuit. They just type up a threatening letter and that does the trick. This was the case in Fredericksburg. But one man isn’t taking things lying down.

Fredericksburg City Councilman Hashmel Turner has filed suit against his fellow council members, saying the council’s newly adopted prayer policy violates his constitutional rights.

Turner is being represented by the Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression issues.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, asks the court to rule that the city’s prayer policy is unconstitutional, and to order that Turner be allowed back into the council’s prayer rotation.

The council voted 5-1 in November to adopt a policy of offering non-denominational prayers devoid of any Christian or other specific religious references.

Turner abstained from that vote, and Councilman Matt Kelly voted against the policy.

The vote came after Turner had been excluded from the council prayer rotation for more than a year. The council got a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union in July 2004 saying that the civil liberties group would file suit if Turner continued to invoke the name of Jesus Christ in his prayers…

Read the rest at Fredericksburg City Councilman Fights for Right to Pray in Jesus’ Name And see more information about what the ACLU is really about at Stop the ACLU

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