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[ChickenCanoe]

No offense intended, I was just being cynical. But that's the reality.

 

[vehve]

Oh, I don't get offended, don't worry about that. I just put out my view of things.

When is the verdict coming in?

 

[bamadude]

Good to hear. How did you season them?

Nothing like a grilled bird cooked to perfection. Except maybe crow.

i used a seasoning made by Weber called kickin chicken. I just put the quail on my infrared gas grill over medium/high heat for about 5 mins per side

 

[superchemicalgirl]

No turning back, we are supposed to get a couple inches Saturday night, and Sunday and Monday etc. Of course they keep boosting the total with every weather report. Time to hib

bernate now till July. That should do it.

You'll probably be safe in June, and running out of food stores by then. Better set the clock for June. We got 2 inches so far overnight, and projected to stop in the next couple hours or so. Just a few inches of snow is, happily, fairly insignificant. Will likely need to shovel it because it doesn't look like it's going to melt with the temps projected in the next few days. I made the mistake last year of thinking the first storm would melt, so I didn't shovel. I paid for that all winter.

Wow that's a tiny window.

I had typed something up here about the short window in homo sapiens, as well, but then I realized that was a taboo topic.

TGIF!

 

[bamadude]

Toes go in first

 

[ozexpat]

Agree completely. If it didn't make financial sense, they wouldn't do it.

It's all about the money, and the people slaving in the sweat shop don't deserve any.

Well, I wouldn't say that, but it's a consumer driven industry. Smaller companies that go by a more fair philosophy don't usually manage to become large companies. I think it's the same as with the food industry. As long as Bob and Sandy aren't willing to pay a bit more for their chicken at the store, the chickens will be produced as cheaply as possible. If consumers start demanding better treatment, and are willing to pay for it, things can change. But I don't hear too many people complaining that their sneakers or milk carton costs too little.

Shoes are made in Indonesia and Malaysia - thats where the rubber grows and labor is cheap.

As soon as salaries climb above a given threshold, Nike, Reebok et al will move on to the next country.

Average pay in Asia almost doubled between 2000 and 2011, compared with a 5 percent increase in developed countries.

U.S. shoemakers increasingly are moving production out of China to countries such as Vietnam as raw material and labor costs rise. Indonesia now has a Jakarta Minimum wage of $224 a month, matching Thailand and the Phillipines for their factory workers - well close enough.(an agricultural day laborer in our province gets $4.50 and a non-ag gets $5.50 per day)

Vietnam and Cambodia are getting more exports because of it.

 

[hennible]

Well, I wouldn't say that, but it's a consumer driven industry. Smaller companies that go by a more fair philosophy don't usually manage to become large companies. I think it's the same as with the food industry. As long as Bob and Sandy aren't willing to pay a bit more for their chicken at the store, the chickens will be produced as cheaply as possible. If consumers start demanding better treatment, and are willing to pay for it, things can change. But I don't hear too many people complaining that their sneakers or milk carton costs too little.

Our dollars are votes, when we put them towards fair food and fair products we vote for a fairer world

You'll probably be safe in June, and running out of food stores by then. Better set the clock for June. We got 2 inches so far overnight, and projected to stop in the next couple hours or so. Just a few inches of snow is, happily, fairly insignificant. Will likely need to shovel it because it doesn't look like it's going to melt with the temps projected in the next few days. I made the mistake last year of thinking the first storm would melt, so I didn't shovel. I paid for that all winter.


I had typed something up here about the short window in homo sapiens, as well, but then I realized that was a taboo topic.





TGIF!

I was going to say something about it to....

Toes go in first

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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When is the verdict coming in?

No one knows but with the posturing, it seems imminent.
Yesterday they heard testimony from the doctor who performed one of the 3 autopsies. No one knows if there are any more testimonies to be heard.
It will be interesting to see how they choose to release results from a timing perspective. It could come as early as this weekend but I don't know if they would want to do that when more people are free to march.

i used a seasoning made by Weber called kickin chicken. I just put the quail on my infrared gas grill over medium/high heat for about 5 mins per side

Sounds perfect.

Our dollars are votes, when we put them towards fair food and fair products we vote for a fairer world
...

Well said.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Listening to NPR's Morning Edition this morning, I heard an interview with a woman who is giving lessons on protesting. It opened with her telling her class, "OK, when I give the word, I want you all to move from this side of the room to that side as quickly as you can, without bumping into anyone . . . " And I thought, "really? Lessons in protesting? Don't any of these people have lives?"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I saw video of that a couple times. I wasn't listening to the audio and wondered why they were bouncing around so much. Now I know, thanks.

ETA
School districts have asked to be notified 3 hours before the grand jury makes its announcement so they can send kids home.
If there's no indictment, protesters are planning on shutting down Clayton, the county seat and a big business center.


And for vehve, it's another of the 93 cities in the county.