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Skriven 2010-03-26 05:44:00 av DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Lift that Boat
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-=> Michael Loo wrote to Dave Drum <=-
 ML> Are the weak teams fortified with better players at the
 ML> end of each season, or is the roster set for life at
 ML> the beginning of the enrollment?

 DD> Hopefully the former - under the theory that a rising tide lifts all
 DD> boats.

 ML> I'd hope the former as well, but I don't believe in the lifting
 ML> of all boats metaphor.

It's just a theory, after all. And it doesn't always work - just more often
than not.

 ML> The reason for my skepticism is that humans
 ML> are somewhat less watery than water, and there is will (as well as
 ML> won't) involved. 
 
We are a perverse lot, are we not? 
 
 ML> Money and talent don't flow downward to fill a
 ML> need - they have to be compressed by an outside force. See a
 ML> similar note to Mr. Whiskey later in this or perhaps the next packet.

As having the better players leaven the weaker teams, perhaps.

I must be obtuse ... this is the third time I have read this message and I
missed the "Mr. Whiskey" reference. Who s/he? 
 
 ML>   Of course, that's what I am hoping for the just passed health
 DD> care reform in USA. But, gummints and bureaucracies being what they are

 ML> I'm suspicious of government bureaucrats, but I loathe private
 ML> sector bureaucrats. And there is nothing more hypocritical than
 ML> a profit-motivated insurance bureaucracy, for it claims to cut
 ML> costs for the consumer while actually cutting benefits for the
 ML> consumer.

Bureaucraps is bureaucraps. They feather and make comfortable their own nests -
whether in service of a monolithic gummint or a "greedy capitalistic
enterprise". It's the bosses/owners of the profit motivated company who decree
the depredations to the consumer. The bureaucraps facilitate those and wish
heartily that the puling proles would go away and leave them to just put in
their time and draw their cheques without external bothers.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: U. S. Government Chocolate Chip Units-Official
 Categories: Cookies, Desserts, Snacks, Chocolate, Nuts
      Yield: 72 servings
 
      1 c  Brown sugar; packed
    1/2 c  Butter; softened
      2 lg Eggs
  2 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 c  Pecans; chopped
    1/2 c  Granulated sugar
    1/2 c  Shortening
  1 1/2 ts Vanilla extract
      1 ts Baking soda
     12 oz Chocolate chips
 
  Preparation Time: 0:35

  Guidance: After procurement actions, de-containerize inputs.

  Perform measurement tasks on a case-by-case basis.

  In a mixing-type bowl, impact heavily on brown sugar,
  granulated sugar, softened butter and shortening. 

  Coordinate the interface of eggs and vanilla, avoiding an
  overrun scenario to the best of your skills and abilities.
  At this point in time, leverage flour, baking soda and salt
  into a bowl and aggregate. 

  Equalize with prior mixture and develop intense and
  continuous liaison among inputs until well-coordinated.

  Associate key chocolate and nut subsystems and execute
  stirring operations.
  
  Within this time frame, take action to prepare the heating
  environment for throughput by manually setting the oven
  baking unit by hand to a temperature of 375øF (190øC). Drop
  mixture in an ongoing fashion from a teaspoon implement onto
  an ungreased cookie sheet at intervals sufficient enough
  apart to permit total and permanent separation of
  throughputs to the maximum extent practicable under
  operating conditions.

  Position cookie sheet in a bake situation and survail for 8
  to 10 minutes or until cooking action terminates. Initiate
  coordination of outputs within the cooling rack function.
  Containerize, wrap in red tape and disseminate to authorized
  staff personnel on a timely and expeditious basis.

  Output: Six dozen official government chocolate chip cookie
  units.

  Reprinted from the Washington Post--Jo Merrill
 
  Format by: Jo Merrill

  From: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

ENJOY!!!

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