Guest guest Posted September 3, 2002 Report Share Posted September 3, 2002 What I find lacking is the personal touch. The "oh, my kids loved this," or the "even my carnivore boyfriend liked this," to the "can you believe my mom is planning to make this again on her own?" add value to the recipe and clue me in to whether or not I should invest my valuable time in making this recipe. I totally agree! I have made far too many recipes that totally bombed and it hasn't helped my vegetarian cause with family members. It is nice to know that a recipe is tried and true before taking that risk. Anne Finance - Get real-time stock quotes contact owner: -owner Mail list: Delivered-mailing list List-Un: - no flaming arguing or denigration of others allowedcontact owner with complaints regarding posting/list or anything else. Thank you.please share/comment/inform and mostly enjoy this list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2002 Report Share Posted September 5, 2002 , genie bottle <geniesflower> wrote: I have quite a number of cookbooks... and I could easily look in any of those for a recipe with no need of the internet at all. What I find lacking is the personal touch. The " oh, my kids loved this, " or the " even my carnivore boyfriend liked this, " to the " can you believe my mom is planning to make this again on her own? " add value to the recipe and clue me in to whether or not I should invest my valuable time in making this recipe. .... If the group thinks I am a nutball, then I will simply find myself a new home, one more amenable to my small town desires of the human touch. > Genie ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ I don't think you are a nutball, Genie. I fully agree. While I enjoy the plain old recipe posts, I appreciate more the ones posted with a bit of personal info included as well. I can easily find recipes by doing a websearch, but what I joined for was a list where other vegetarians give me ideas for things that work best for them; stuff that is tried and true. ~ P_T ~ The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body is different. -Hippocrates, physician (460-c.377 BCE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2002 Report Share Posted September 5, 2002 I don't think you're a nutball but I do think that in this world there are all kinds of people. Where you desire the personal touch, it doesn't matter to me about a personal touch. I love recipes, cookbooks, period. To me, its fun and relaxing. What difference does it make and why take the joy I get or someone else who likes submitting recipes. That's why I joined the group. There was no stipulation it had to be personal. My name is ladyvelvet. When you see my name you know that I will probably have 4 to maybe 10 recipes on an e-mail, Delete me. I'll never know. I read them, go over them, imagine if they will be good and think maybe someone out there may like them and want to try something new without a personal touch. That is how I get to find out a personal touch. If this is not what you want, and I respect that, then delete ladyvelvet off your box or block me and I'll never know the difference. You are taking away the joy I have to participate in one of the greatest groups I've ever found. I've been a member of this group for over a year almost 2 or maybe longer. I've put up with conversation, which at times has been informative and at other times not so. I prefer little but others like it and I respect that cause I realize that we have new people at this, like me who need to learn as much as possible. There was a topic on eggs once. I always wondered why vegetarians were against eggs. I found out that chickens are forced to lay egg after egg in cages with no freedom until they just die. Very cruel. The conversations kept going, and going, and going. Finally I did some research and got an address to write to petition against such cruelty. The conversations stopped. We all have different ideas, desires, wants and I respect that along with, I feel, others in this group. Let me enjoy and others enjoy their way and when you know or become familiar with anothers which you don't like. Delete it. I hope this is taken in the spirit it was given, with respect. Ladyvelvet Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2002 Report Share Posted September 6, 2002 , ladyvelvet <ladyvelvet2@c...> wrote: >Where you > desire the personal touch, it doesn't matter to me > about a personal touch. I love recipes, cookbooks, > period. To me, its fun and relaxing. > > What difference does it make and why take the joy I > get or someone else who likes submitting recipes. > That's why I joined the group. There was no > stipulation it had to be personal. > You are taking away the joy I have to participate in > one of the greatest groups I've ever found. I've been > a member of this group for over a year almost 2 or > maybe longer. > I hope this is taken in the spirit it was given, with > respect. Ladyvelvet ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Dear ladyvelvet, I hope you didn't think I was saying I don't appreciate the recipes you submit without personal comment... because I most certainly do. I hardly think I could " take away the joy you have " ; I am not that powerful. *lol* But I do apologise if my comments hurt your feelings or struck a nerve. I was just weighing in on another person's comments about the " conversations " here. I like all of it and enjoy this group. I like your recipes, I like the comments, and I really enjoy the recipes with added personal footnotes. That was all I was saying. Keep them all coming! Have a pleasant day. ~ P_T ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control' June 13, 2007 8:55 AM Justin Rood Reports: A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror. The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified. A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to " the entire watch list of 509,000 names, " which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. A spokesman for the interagency National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which maintains the government's list of all suspected terrorists with links to international organizations, said they had 465,000 names covering 350,000 individuals. Many names are different versions of the same identity -- " Usama bin Laden " and " Osama bin Laden " for the al Qaeda chief, for example. In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a list of U.S. persons who are believed to be domestic terrorists -- firebombing environmental extremists for example, who have no known tie to an international terrorist group. Combined, the NCTC and FBI compendia comprise the watch list used by federal security screening personnel on the lookout for terrorists. While the NCTC has made no secret of its terrorist tally, the FBI has consistently declined to tell the public how many names are on its list. Because the number is classified, an FBI spokesman told the Blotter on ABCNews.com, he was unable to comment for this story. " It grows seemingly without control or limitation, " said ACLU senior legislative counsel Tim Sparapani of the terrorism watch list. Sparapani called the 509,000 figure " stunning. " " If we have 509,000 names on that list, the watch list is virtually useless, " he told ABC News. " You'll be capturing innocent individuals with no connection to crime or terror. " U.S. lawmakers and their spouses have been detained because their names were on the watch list. Reporters who have reviewed versions of the list found it included the names of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, at the time he was alive but in custody in Iraq; imprisoned al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui; and 14 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers, all of whom perished in the attacks. " There's a reason the FBI has a '10 Most Wanted' list, right? We need to focus the government's efforts on the greatest threats. When the watch list grows to this level, it's useless as an anti-terror tool, " Sparapani said. When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever want to be that way I don't wanna grow up Seems that folks turn into things that they never want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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