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Cleaning out the freezer. Having wished everyone a Happy and contemplative Easter, I’m contemplating which wine will go with the 6 lbs. of mesquite smoked brisket that's been on almost 3 hours now. Given the way it smells, the dogs are contemplating too. Not sure what the wife and I are going to do with 6 lbs. of it but I am sure we'll figure out something. For cross-thread points, the red stuff is a generous application of Dillo Dust on a 2/3rds Dijon, 1/3rd honey mustard base.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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