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Only if you fry it.

Thats so unhealthy though. If you lightly bread it (using non-fat yogurt not eggs) and bake it then its just as good but so much better for you.
 

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Many mass shootings = Don't punish all of us for one bad guy misusing a gun.
One faked passport found on a terrorist in France= ALL REFUGEES ARE BAD, BAN THEM

Additionally, when black people or Muslims are involved in a shooting or crime, we hear that "community" needs to do more to speak up against it or to stop it from happening. But when a mass shooting occurs, we don't say that gun owners are not policing themselves well enough. A person with a characteristic - owns guns, is black, is poor, loves sundaes, is white, renters, women, etc - whether a born or behavioral quality is not responsible for all other people that share that characteristic, much less should be treated differently based upon it. Let's be honest, it's basically just xenophobia and prejudice/racism.

We Americans and Canadians live in countries absurdly safe from foreign threats. I have to give the intelligence community credit. In the wake of 9/11 I honestly expected we would see more attacks (even if smaller scale ones). Kind of amazed it's been 14 years now and only a few minor incidents overall that may have involved mental illness as much as religious zealotry.

In the years since 9/11, we've already taken in tens of thousands of Muslim refugees. Each year, a limit is set by the President. It has typically been in the 50,000-80,000 range in recent years, which is frankly pretty small in comparison to much geographically smaller and lower population countries. (for comparison, Germany took in almost a million to deal with their labor shortage due to an aging population problem) And we took in nearly 25,000 refugees (more than a third of all refugees) from Near East nations like Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan in FY2015. So this isn't a new thing. It's just people reacting to the emotional rather than the rational.
 

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Additionally, when black people or Muslims are involved in a shooting or crime, we hear that "community" needs to do more to speak up against it or to stop it from happening. But when a mass shooting occurs, we don't say that gun owners are not policing themselves well enough. A person with a characteristic - owns guns, is black, is poor, loves sundaes, is white, renters, women, etc - whether a born or behavioral quality is not responsible for all other people that share that characteristic, much less should be treated differently based upon it. Let's be honest, it's basically just xenophobia and prejudice/racism.
We might not say gun owners aren't policing themselves well enough, but that might be because we've given the hell up on trying to get them to do so and are now trying instead to enforce stricter gun control. We're trying to bypass the community and head straight for the legislative option.
 

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religious zealotry is a mental illness. It's a severely altered mental state.

"Here's the thing about crazy people. They don't know they're crazy. That's what makes them crazy"
- Jim Jeffries
 

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"Here's the thing about crazy people. They don't know they're crazy. That's what makes them crazy"
- Jim Jeffries

More from Jeffries:

"People come up to me after one of my shows and say 'You can not change the second amendment'. I am like yes you can. It is called an amendment. If you can't change something called an amendment...See, many of you need a thesaurus. If you don't know what a thesaurus is, get a dictionary and work your way forward. Don't think your constitution is set in stone. You have changed things before. You used to have prohibition in there. Right? Then people were like hey who likes getting fucked up. I like getting fucked up too. Let's get that one out. You used to have this other thing in America called slavery."
 

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More from Jeffries:

"People come up to me after one of my shows and say 'You can not change the second amendment'. I am like yes you can. It is called an amendment. If you can't change something called an amendment...See, many of you need a thesaurus. If you don't know what a thesaurus is, get a dictionary and work your way forward. Don't think your constitution is set in stone. You have changed things before. You used to have prohibition in there. Right? Then people were like hey who likes getting fucked up. I like getting fucked up too. Let's get that one out. You used to have this other thing in America called slavery."

Give me a call the next time someone going off about "changing" the second amendment suggests actually using the proper procedure to do it. Hopefully my great great great grandchildren will be able to get the message to me in my urn somehow, if they haven't already spilled me.
 

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We might not say gun owners aren't policing themselves well enough, but that might be because we've given the hell up on trying to get them to do so and are now trying instead to enforce stricter gun control. We're trying to bypass the community and head straight for the legislative option.

No, I don't mean that. I mean the idea of what "community" means is really absurd and misused by people. Being of a certain race doesn't mean you belong to a community of people of that race. I certainly don't think of myself as belonging to a "white community" or think that even exists. So why is there this national "black community" that people talk about surrounding these issues. My dad is a gun enthusiast and avid shooter, but he abhors the NRA and has rejected a possible "community" to be engaged with about guns.

Communities are built around local geography and common interests. And even when a localized community does exist along those lines, it doesn't mean that people within it have the same participation level or value structure as the community as a whole.
 

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I'm really interested in knowing where these people are going to live. Toronto has an affordable housing backlog of thousands of people, existing TCHC facilities are falling apart, the suburbs aren't doing much better...

If 10,000 are coming to Ontario, and assuming at least 8,000 are located to the Toronto area, are we dropping tenements from the sky? Are the people who have been waiting years on affordable housing lists just going to get bumped in favour of refugees? That is a massive number of new residents in an instant and I'm seriously starting to doubt they have even a tenth of this well thought out.
 
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