Mike's Sweet Thai Garlic Firecracker Shrimp

15 minutes to sweet & spicy Thai seafood deliciousness! Excellent!

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Ingredients

4 servings

1. ● For The Seafood
2. 2 Pounds LG Presteamed Plump Shrimp [deveined - shelled]
3. ● For The Sweet & Spicy Sauce [vegetables & herbs fine chopped]
4. 18 oz Sweet Thai Chilli Sauce
5. 2 tbsp Garlic Chilli Sauce [+ reserves for service]
6. 10 Cloves Fresh Garlic
7. 1 tsp Dried Crushed Thai Chillies
8. 3 tbsp Fresh Thai Basil [or 1 tbsp dried]
9. 1 tbsp Fresh Ginger
10. 1 tsp Lemon Zest
11. 1 Pinch Saffron
12. 3 LG Jalapeno Peppers [deseeded]
13. 2 tbsp Habenero Peppers
14. 1/2 Cup Cilantro Leaves
15. 1/4 Cup Green Bell Peppers [deseeded]
16. 1/4 Cup Red Bell Peppers [deseeded]
17. 1/4 Cup Orange Bell Peppers [deseeded]
18. 1/4 Cup Yellow Bell Peppers [deseeded]
19. 1/4 Cup Viadalia Onions
20. 1/4 Cup Red Onions
21. 1 tbsp Soy Sauce [+ reserves]
22. ● For The Sides [as needed]
23. Soy Sauce
24. Siricha Chilli Sauce
25. Jasmine Or White Rice

Steps

15 Minutes

1. Mince your herbs and vegetables.

   
   

   

   
   

   
   
2. Add everything - except for shrimp - to a pan and saute for 10 minutes.

   
   

   

   
   

   
   
3. Use an instant Jasmine or white rice and microwave as per manufactures directions for extra ease.

   
   

   

   
   

   
   
4. Add your shrimp and saute untill warmed. Serve over fresh Jasmine rice. Enjoy!

   
   

   

   

Democrats Have Fallen Into An Impeachment Trap That Will Only Hurt Them

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Opinion: Democrats have fallen into an impeachment trap that will only hurt them

By Eric Posner

Published: Oct 2, 2019 9:03 am ET

Once Trump is acquitted by the Senate, Democrats will be seen as poor losers

A sign at a rally on Capital Hill on Sept. 26.

CHICAGO (Project Syndicate) — Democrats have made a serious mistake by launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. They are replaying the Republican impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, a futile exercise that damaged Republicans, enhanced Clinton’s power, and caused institutional damage as well.

Now read this: Here’s what’s happening next in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump

The common factor of the two impeachments is that it was clear from the start that the U.S. Senate would never convict, which requires a two-thirds majority. The 45 Senate Democrats were not happy that Clinton perjured himself before a grand jury, obstructed justice, and conducted an extramarital sexual affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.

Democrats have made a serious mistake by launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. They are replaying the Republican impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, a futile exercise that damaged Republicans, enhanced Clinton’s power, and caused institutional damage as well.

But they did not believe that this behavior was grounds for removal from office. The behavior was not sufficiently egregious to overcome their political loyalty to a president who remained popular with voters.

Hoped to pick up seats in Senate

Republicans leading the impeachment knew that few if any Senate Democrats would vote to convict (in fact, none did). But Republicans hoped to embarrass the Democrats and damage Clinton, believing that they would pick up some seats in the November 1998 election by launching impeachment proceedings before then.

They were wrong. Clinton’s popularity rose after the impeachment proceedings ended. Most Americans believed that impeachment was a mistake.

Many people worried that the Clinton impeachment would damage the presidency, but its main impact on presidential power was the opposite. Republicans eventually agreed with Democrats that responsibility for the debacle lay with Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel whose investigations of Clinton’s real-estate dealings years earlier eventually led him to Lewinsky. The two parties allowed the independent counsel statute to lapse, freeing the presidency from a powerful form of oversight, much to Trump’s benefit a generation later.

Today, Senate Republicans may well be privately concerned about Trump’s behavior. But there is no indication that even one would vote in favor of removal. While Trump is nowhere near as popular as Clinton was, he retains the loyalty of his base, who dominate the Republican primaries, and, unlike Clinton, he enjoys majority support in the Senate.

Nothing could possibly change minds

Indeed, the extraordinary enthusiasm of Trump’s supporters — their indifference to his many other scandals — almost guarantees that any additional information that might materialize during the impeachment hearings will not influence Republican senators.

Some supporters of impeachment argue that the gravity of the accusations against Trump — that he enlisted a foreign country to harass a political opponent — will ensure his conviction. But we have been through this before. Democrats who abhor sexual harassment and perjury supported Clinton because they saw the alternative as worse. Republicans will make the same calculation.

Perhaps the story would be different if Trump had persuaded the Ukrainians to arrest Joe Biden while sightseeing in Kiev. The president’s behavior, as odious as it is, is a far cry from Richard Nixon’s involvement in espionage against the Democratic Party — the single historical example of impeachment proceedings leading to the removal (in Nixon’s case, resignation) of the president.

Others argue that even if Trump is not removed, impeachment in the House — which the Democratic majority virtually guarantees — will send a strong signal that the president’s behavior violates American values.

Democrats seen as losers

But impeachment has its own narrative logic: once the Democrats initiate it, they either win or lose. If they lose, they will be seen as losers who wasted public resources for a futile goal.

Still others believe that impeachment hearings will reveal that Trump has committed crimes or betrayed the country in as yet undisclosed ways, or that the hearings will enable Democrats to convey the seriousness of all the president’s wrongdoing in a way that will galvanize the public.

But the leaky Trump administration has kept few secrets so far, and much of his behavior has been normalized, at least for his Republican supporters.

Impeachment proceedings, unlike judicial proceedings, are a cumbersome mechanism for developing evidence. Nothing new was learned about Clinton after the Starr Report was issued, and nothing new will be learned about Trump.

Indeed, Trump’s character flaws and misbehavior are already so well known that the impeachment proceedings will most likely blow back and cause more harm to Democratic politicians than Republicans.

Lessons from Clinton

Again, the Clinton impeachment offers lessons. Everyone knew, or suspected, that Clinton was a womanizer (or what today might be called a sexual predator) and a serial liar. People were not quite as aware that Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich had also conducted an extramarital affair, as did his successor, Bob Livingston. Both resigned; Clinton remained in office.

Trump’s greatest skill is in turning his prosecutors into the accused. Expect this to happen again, with Trump using his Twitter account to shine a spotlight on whichever Democrats have the greatest political vulnerabilities.

None of this is rocket science. So, why would a canny politician like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi yield to other members’ pressure for impeachment (though she is clearly temporizing — for example, by refusing to hold a vote in the House to authorize the impeachment proceedings)? The answer stems from the basic logic of Congress in a polarized era.

Congress is a collective body. Its members are beholden to voters in specific districts or states rather than the country as a whole. House Democrats from more liberal districts fear that they will be defeated in primaries by more forcefully anti-Trump challengers. The only way to counter such challenges is by supporting impeachment.

As more Democrats jump on the bandwagon, more moderate Democrats join in to avoid looking like defenders of Trump’s misconduct.

Mark Twain supposedly joked that “history does not repeat itself but it often rhymes.” But in this case, repetition seems to be the right word. The political logic that trapped the Republicans in 1998 will operate the same way on the Democrats in 2019. 

Eric Posner is professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. His most recent book is “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society.”

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Is running for president now a corrupt Democrat's 'get out of jail free' card?

Based on today's standards, promoted in Congress and the press, Democratic Party candidates, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, can greatly enrich their families with massive amounts of money from foreign parties, and a Republican president and his Justice Department are not even allowed to bring up their names, let alone research their obvious corruption.  Most of the media and other Democrats are now calling President Trump's bid to get to the bottom of the ongoing corruption we see "impeachable," and they couldn't care less about corruption as they preach that no one is above the law.

A Democrat president can violate the Constitution with DACA; be flexible with Russia; give kickbacks to Iran tyrants; stop an investigation into drug-running by terrorists to appease Iran; violate bankruptcy laws; have slush funds at Justice, the CFPB, and the EPA to reward political supporters; illegally unmask names of people surrounding Trump; leave Americans to die in Libya while concocting a lie; spy illegally on thousands of Americans; imprison reporters; look the other way as his secretary of state violates security laws and takes kickbacks; and look the other way as Obama administration officials such as Eric Holder, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others commit perjury, withhold documents from Congress for years on Fast and Furious, prosecute whistleblowers for violation of the espionage act, and cage and separate children at the border...and all his conversations with foreign leaders will remain private.

Democrats can seek trash on their Republican opponents from foreign nationals and not only do most journalists and other Democrats not care, but they can use a fake dossier full of opposition research as grist for an FBI investigation in their bid to take out Trump.  Then, if Trump brings up Biden's name to a foreign leader, they call that illegal and impeachable.

A Democrat, her staff, and many at the State Department and other agencies can continually violate the nation's security laws (as Clinton did), and the Justice Department inexplicably lets her off.  Most journalists and other Democrats support her and call it partisan to look at the clear violations of the law as they lecture everyone that no one is above the law.

A Democrat and her spouse can physically and mentally abuse women (again, the Clinton pair) and seek to destroy anyone who gets in their way as they amass power.  Most journalists and other Democrats don't give a damn about any of the abused women with credible claims against Bill or Hillary Clinton even as they say how pro-women they are.

A Democrat commits fraud throughout her adult life by lying about her heritage to move up the economic ladder (Elizabeth Warren), and most journalists and other Democrats will support her.  In fact, they've made her the frontrunner in the current Democratic nomination for president polls.

Democrat candidates can seek to destroy and impeach Judge Brett Kavanaugh based on articles the media have published with no evidence to support the stories.  And the media pretend their stories are based on facts.  How can they expect the public to believe them when they ran years of stories on Russian collusion when there was never any evidence?

Democrat candidates continually lie about what Trump said in Charlottesville and lie about Ferguson, Missouri to gin up racial hate and violence, and they are supported wholeheartedly by the complicit media as they pretend they are the party of unity and the truthful party.

Democrat bureaucrats in the Obama administration, at Justice, CIA, other intelligence agencies, and the State Department, continually lie to justify spying to take out Trump while they protect Hillary from prosecution.  But if the Trump administration looks at the origins of the fake Russian collusion narrative, that is impeachable and partisan.  The compliant media don't give a darn about the clear violations of the law and abuse of power while they continually say no one is above the law.

A Democrat president can violate the Constitution with DACA; be flexible with Russia; give kickbacks to Iran tyrants; stop an investigation into drug-running by terrorists to appease Iran; violate bankruptcy laws; have slush funds at Justice, the CFPB, and the EPA to reward political supporters; illegally unmask names of people surrounding Trump; leave Americans to die in Libya while concocting a lie; spy illegally on thousands of Americans; imprison reporters; look the other way as his secretary of state violates security laws and takes kickbacks; and look the other way as Obama administration officials such as Eric Holder, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others commit perjury, withhold documents from Congress for years on Fast and Furious, prosecute whistleblowers for violation of the espionage act, and cage and separate children at the border...and all his conversations with foreign leaders will remain private.

As the media watched all this clear corruption unfold throughout eight years of Obama, almost all journalists and other Democrats supported him, called him brilliant and to this date pretend the Obama administration was scandal-free as they tell the public that no one is above the law.

Known serial liars Clapper, Brennan, and Holder, plus creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti, are treated as reliable sources by almost all media outlets as they trash Trump.

Meanwhile, whatever Trump does is impeachable, even if it is only bringing up Biden's name to investigate clear corruption.  According to the media, as they collude with other Democrats, it appears that every one of Trump's phone calls should be made public.

And any disgruntled Democrat bureaucrat who leaks information, whether or not he had firsthand knowledge, should be treated as a protected whistleblower instead of a leaker.

Republicans are welcome as reliable sources in the media, like Senators Mitt Romney, John McCain or Jeff Flake, as long as they are trashing Trump. Otherwise they are not welcome.

It is so hard to spot the bias as the media trashes Trump and his supporters, daily, with every name in the book and lecture the public that no one is above the law and how the Democrat party is the party of unity.

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