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It has something to do with drawing the moisture out, which is what happens in the fridge, more so than simply leaving it out uncovered, I believe.

Basmati has a different texture from our normal "white rice" because of the length of the grain, and for a lot of people, texture is an important element in enjoying their food. But the main virtue of Basmati is the Indian cuisine that accompanies it, which is really where I was headed with the...

Yeah, you can't just reheat rice, it turns into little pellets. However, I have found that rice that is refrigerated overnight is best for making fried rice, so try using it for that instead of throwing it away!

You've never eaten rice before? In that case, I highly recommend acquainting yourself with Basmati rice (Indian) and Risotto (Italian). They can be difficult to make (especially Risotto), so order them when you go out in order to taste them first. And I'm not sure what your diet consists of...

That's the stupidest definition of Non-Christian ever. Once again, you make no sense. It's clear that you have been conditioned to respond with certain nonsense platitudes whenever you're confronted with, you know, actual thinking human beings. You might as well be reciting this **** in Arabic...

No, only controversial, mostly because a lot of people don't read an entire thread to see what the actual topic of discussion is, and there are so many ignorant people and trolls that a thread is bound to go off the deep end pretty quickly when the subject is religion. People don't even know...

Not likely. Religion is in our DNA. Okay, not literally in our DNA, but it is part of us. Even if Christianity were to disappear from the Earth, there are billions of adherents to other religions: monotheistic, polytheistic, pantheistic, henotheistic and all manner of other theisms. What...

Different Christian denominations handle this differently. For Calvinists (and the whacko's of the Fred Phelps church in Topeka), for example, salvation is pre-destined. An elite few (the Elect) are chosen by God for salvation before birth, and not much can screw up God's plan, on this view...

^ This is the version as ****** by Congress before sending to the States for ratification. The version circulated to the States and ratified by them for final passage of the Bill of Rights - and the version certified by then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson - read: "A well regulated...

What a load of crap. Your motives are so transparent. You're not trying to preach against the evils of disarming a society. If that were your argument, there would at least be something to be said on behalf of that position. No, you're trying to scare people into thinking they'll be victims so...

You have a lot of nerve demonizing someone for maintaining a principled position on an issue, when the only thing you believe in is propagating your rhetoric of **** for your own twisted pleasure.

I haven't posted in this thread before and I'm not familiar with the etiquette for answering questions in the midst of the game that's being played, but I wanted to chime in on Miss Mandy's last two questions. I think you've been considering the **** thing for several weeks now, have you not...

You're rather enamored of 'The Miss', aren't you Mandy? I'm fairly certain I've see you directing fawning and adulation in her direction several times before. Have you ever worked together? Forgive me for not simply researching this on my own, but I enjoy nteracting with you.

Okay, now we're making some progress. I want to thank you, Rey, for continuing to engage on the issues, and I think we're going to agree on many things. I'm going to resist the temptation to respond to several of your specific rejoinders because that kind of back-and-forth will become...

Very good. Reminds me of the Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook that circulated the net circa 1995, and the Redneck's guide to changing your own oil from almost as long ago. Man I'm old.

Then why don't you teach me, Oh Wise One? Start talking instead of posting will the sole intention of saying nothing at all. I'm trying very hard not to let this become some kind of personal grudge match where two people can't talk to one another because they can't even find the decency to be...

So far, yes. I've always been frustrated by the left's tendency to focus on the guns, but if you'll notice, I focused on something else (namely certain bedrock principles of risk vs. reward) and the conversation devolved into a Guns 101 lesson on the meaning of "assault" weapon. Not that it...

Merry Christmas to you as well. I hope you find some cheer and actually want to propose some ideas instead of constantly claiming that you don't need to offer any. And you'll notice I didn't side-step anything, as I replied to Rey in detail and he and I are still engaging in a dialogue, or at...

You may continue telling me that I'm the one avoiding all the issues here, but as your posts get shorter and shorter and offer less and less substance (to say nothing of the specific recommendations you promised) it's increasingly clear that you're the one avoiding the conversation. Maybe that's...

I haven't proposed a single solution - yet. I'm still trying to find a point of agreement on the notion that sensible restrictions on purchasing firearms reduce public risk without ********* the rights of law-abiding *** owners. If we can't agree on this point, we'll never get to the...

Okay, I'll add to this statement and say "without ********* the rights of law-abiding citizens." The point is to keep guns out of the hands of criminals without ********* the rights of law-abiding citizens. Don't you agree? There is no double talk here, and I'm not provoking anyone. The...

I don't understand what you don't get about starting some place. A starting point. A point of agreement. Something we can both look at and say, "Yeah, that's true." This is how dialogue works. Actually, I never even brought up the question of assault weapons. The whole thing was an aside I...

Rey - There's nothing wrong with my logic. Yours is a well thought-out and extremely informative post, but in the midst of all the acronyms and specific capacities, you're not seeing the point, which is that people need common ground in any conversation. One always starts with the simplest and...

I really liked Rogue. I first saw her in some handjob videos she did (under the name Rachel) with Veronika Raquel on Handjobs With a Twist

That's a new one for me. I'd never heard of ambubang before.

Okay, let me put it another way, and then I'll shut up for a while: I can use a chainsaw to cut butter, but why would I? The butter ***** works just fine, and the chances of hurting myself with a butter ***** are as close to zero as they could possibly be. There is, however, a possibility that...

If I'm the one who's dead, I don't think I care about much of anything. But for those of us still living, knowing that crime is linked to poverty is worth caring about as a means to preventing future violent crime.

Yes, it is a slippery slope argument. I recognize that it is. I'm saying I find the argument invalid, and I have given reasons for that conclusion. The implementing of severe *** restrictions in the UK does not support your conclusion because ***-related homicides have gone down, yet people in...

I may only have been here a short time, but it's clear to me that no one here believes you're a hero. No one believes you have one iota of courage. No one believes you even have convictions, only a desire to propagate hatred, intolerance and lies. And no one, absolutely no one, is afraid of you.

Well said, but I don't agree that a discussion about whether to ban assault weapons is a straw man argument. They may be used less to commit violent crimes, they may even be used substantially less, but they still can be so used, and it doesn't change the fact that many of these weapons have no...

I really wasn't asking a question. I was arguing that the slippery slope argument is invalid, or in any case isn't used to counter efforts at curtailing assault weapons, but rather to resist any kind of regulation whatsoever. There's a reason slippery slope arguments are considered logical...

There is not a single fact present in this list. Those that appear to resemble facts are actually self-evident observations that are tautologically true, and the conclusions drawn from them are therefore half-truths at best, and are both unsubstantiated and unquantified. For example, the first...

Oh, so now you have "statistics" to back up your claims, not just gross generalizations based on carefully selected isolated instances? Let's assume these statistics are correct. As several people here have pointed out, crime is linked to poverty. The racial and ethnic groups highlighted in...

No, it isn't.

Your corroborating evidence is a single theft by a single African American? By this logic, I should conclude that all white people are ****'s based on a single encounter with a Skinhead. Which makes you a ****.

Also not a statistically significant sampling (one person's experience and only generalizations at that).

This is hardly a statistically significant sampling of any demographic or percentage of the population.

What reason do you have to doubt him? You know, impugning someone's character is a pretty sure sign you just aren't willing to engage on the issues. Not to mention the fact that, for all the ruckus created by law abiding *** rights supporters who protest (and reasonably so) being lumped in...

I don't buy the slippery slope argument, but it's worth pointing out that the UK's rate of *** homicides is substantially lower than that of the U.S. This is why I don't buy the slippery slope argument. Handguns are used to commit most *******, but *** rights supporters cite the 2nd Amendment...

Now who's profiling?

Consider the countries of Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These are fairly industrialized nations with liberal democratic institutions, a mostly Christian heritage, free markets and their combined...

She looks a little chubby in the cheeks in that set, doesn't she? Not fat or anything, but her cheeks look a little more plump than I recall seeing before.

I think he meant that she has been in front of a studio crew in the past (before she was independent) and even ran around topless in front of a studio audience when she did Springer. But these days she and her husband seem to shoot all the content. Btw, I thought the Jerry Springer show...

Re: Jessi/Jesse/Jessie Summers This "story" has been around for a while. We'll never know if it's true. I hope it isn't, but it really isn't very far-fetched.

Her lips are now bigger than her whole face.

I must be a little off today. About a minute after I posted a response to this photo I realized what the actual message of it is. The *** in the photo is a toy. It's a novelty item. The point of putting the message on an old toy is to say "Guns are harmless, they're just like your **** toys...

No, but we hold people who drive ***** responsible, and if we didn't, there would be more automobile crashes resulting in property damage, injury and death. We also require people to learn how to drive and pass an exam before issuing them a driver's license, and we take driving privileges away...

Your suggestion (albeit someone else's, really) that the dead ******** are somehow better off in God's hands is offensive to them and their families, and is abhorrent on every level.

You could have just provided the link, instead of pasting someone else's article into a post and offering no contribution of your own.

There are laws against ***** driving, and we license people to drive. If there were no consequences for people who drive *****, and if we didn't make people learn how to drive and pass a test before giving them a driver's license, there would be far more automobile crashes resulting in property...