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Can’t be much of a party, if you are ordering 1 pizza.
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Order Mexican.
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God that was painful, a 10 minute lead in to a 5 minute story.
Anyway, let’s not leave out Greek pizza.
“That’s 97,000 people …” that the conservatives don’t care if they live or die - just as long as they do their living or dying outside of the US … no… actually in many of the most strident conservatives there is a desire for retribution for having had the audacity to have come to the US, so they would prefer the “Die” path
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I question the underlying analogy. It seems that there’s a sizable part of Congress that doesn’t want pizza at all, and wants to prevent other people from eating pizza.
The Senate was able to ignore this group, because the overwhelming consensus wants pizza (and the anti-pizza crowd is largely unaffected by ordering the pizza).
House Speaker John Boehner, however, is scared of losing the anti-pizza crowd. He refuses to pick up the phone and place the order that is supported by the overwhelming majority of people.
The solution is to find a new House Speaker, not to find a new pizza place. There is no pizza place that will placate the anti-pizza crowd.
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No, Dude , if you’re going to have anchovies you should just have anchovies. On an anchovy pizza you don’t put any other ingredient. Why? An anchovy on its own is a taste sensation, when mixed with other flavors, the anchovy overpowers everything else so your green peppers taste like anchovy-green peppers! Which is a lousey taste. See? Get it?
Only anchovies. and nothing else!
Or Hawaiian. What kind of freak puts pinapple on pizza?
"Obama is delaying his deportation changes so as to not squelch negotiations with a counterparty that isn’t negotiating in any real sense. "
That was all that was needed…rest of article is word-fluff.
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Way back in the stone age (1970’s) in my pizza making past, I was taught that anchovies and onions with no cheese was the gold standard of anchovy pizza. Never really got into the no-cheese thing myself…but I’ll have to admit that onions make a really good accompaniment to the little fishies.
To continue the analogy, even if you agreed to the bucket of anchovies, they up their demand to saying the anchovies need to be freshly caught. Since their real motive is to make you look bad by blaming you for everyone being hungry, nothing you offer will be acceptable.
Republicans will be continue being intransigent for as long as they continue to be rewarded for it by their base.
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Great idea to change the speaker - but sometimes and very likely in this case the evil you know is better than the one you dont (yet).
The people angling to take over Boehner’s speakership are a lot worse and evil than Boehner - Cantor, Hensarling, etc. At least they are talking about it now and doing nothing. under the latter 2, nothing would happen at all.
Best solution is to wipe out the rethugs’ leadership and give the house to the Democrats, hoping the Dems also keep the senate.
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Correct. Anchovie pizza use to be my pizza of choice but the wife and kids found them repulsive. I can even eat them cold out of the fridge. Kids would actually leave the kitchen rather than watch me eat one.
No, this is completely backwards. Anchovies on their own are just a salty-fishy taste, which is worthless. But both the fishiness and the salt act as flavor enhancers for everything else, just like fish sauce in Thai cooking (which, not coincidentally, is made from anchovies).
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You left out the part where the anchovy faction says, “You say you want the pizza to be half-and-half, and we want a bucket of anchovies, so let’s compromise with a full anchovy pizza and only half a bucket of anchovies.” And when that falls through, the neighbors come stand by the door to gawk and say, “See? No wonder they can’t get a pizza. Neither side will compromise!”
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What is needed is a fact finding trip to the States Employment Offices. Ask Americans whose benefits have ceased, who are desperately seeking employment of any kind just how they feel about immigration reform.
Analogies are always suspect.
with anchovies.
This entire anecdote is a slur against anchovy lovers. We are the ones who have to bargain and compromise for anchovys to be included. Some antichovians refuse to allow them anywhere on the pizza, because their smell “contaminates everything.”
It’s always the same, old “blame the victims” ploy by those used to getting their own way.
“…“We have to anchovies,” I say…”,
Another TPM article ruined by the failure to properly proofread before publishing. If you’re not going to take the time and show enough pride in your work to make sure it’s right before you post it, why should I bother taking the time to read it?
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