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On the menu today for my son's birthday: 3 racks of baby back ribs, using the BRITU recipe, saucing most at the end of the cook, but leaving some in just the dry rub. Both variations were great. Once the Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker was stabilized, it held temperature unattended for 3 straight hours. As an appetizer, I smoked a rack full of black bean quesadillas (I'd smoked a pan of the bean/green pepper/green onion/jalepeno mix before using it as the filling, with lots of shredded cheese to hold the quesadillas together). I served it all with cornbread baked in Grandma's hundred-year-old cast iron skillet, and the annual birthday toast with an Irish single-malt, distilled 25 years ago, when my son was born. I was gifted the bottle of 18-year-old Tyrconnell, coincidentally when he turned 18, and now the bottle comes out just once a year, on his birthday.

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The Weinermobile was at the Garden State Games opening ceremony at Rutgers Stadium, at least once. Uncle Floyd was the pre-opening entertainment. How long ago was it? Back when there was a Garden State Games, and being the state Olympic festival, it included Olympic shooting events. I think funding for it stopped under Florio. Kinda ironic now that I and others were given shooting medals by the state of NJ.

The video of her with the rifle is great...and on a CBS affiliate, no less! Alabama grandmother holds car theft suspect for deputies

Yes to the first point, maybe to the second. I think the 'D' next to his name on the ballot was sufficient to get him elected. Considering the politics of NJ, if Murphy got the D nomination, and then never left his villa in Italy, never made a campaign appearance, never gave an interview, never appeared in a TV spot, would he have still won? I think he would have. I think NJ has enough voters who can't see past the D on the ballot.

The Han Solo blaster was built from the venerable 1896 Broomhandle Mauser. I love that the props department came up with that!

More accurately, any ass hat BILLIONAIRE democrat can in this state. There were good reasons that Murphy was dubbed Corzine II.

Maybe, but I suspect it more likely that he is just using them as bargaining chips. Once he can trade them to Gov Gopher for something he wants, I suspect they'll be brought up for a vote.

They do tend to over-react. I had one go absolutely apoplectic because my wife had packed her small bottles of shampoo and conditioner in a 1-gallon clear ziplock bag, instead of the specified 1-quart clear ziplock bag. He was holding up her bag along with a quart bag and loudly lecturing her and anyone within earshot about the obvious, critical difference between them, and how she'd better learn how to tell them apart and make the right choices next time and airline safety isn't a joke and.... I was going to intervene, when I noticed that he'd let my forgotten 1-liter water bottle, in an obvious, external mesh pocket of my backpack, go right through his screening. So I just stepped in really close, pretending to listen to his lecture, while I opened the bottle and began to drink, not 18" from his face. He never noticed... Yeah, those idiots make me feel a lot safer.

And must it lie flat in the crock pot, or can you ball it up and boil it?

Grinders come in three flavors: die, side and bench.

They only take 3 hours on the smoker Jus sayen

It’ll all come down to who Sweeney hates more, Murphy or us.

It's a flawed list. One shouldn't have that many nice handguns without a couple of 1911's in the mix.

That's an important point. I always try to take 6 first-timers to the range every year. It's not much, it's not enough, but I like to think I'm flipping a few votes over to our side. And they always have a great time. The first two this year were college students from England (ok, no NJ votes flipped there), both studying at TCNJ for the semester, and both determined to get out shooting before they returned home, where they would have no access to firearms due to England's draconian gun laws. Range time in the US was a bucket-list item for them, and they found me right after finals, and just a few days before their flights home. We worked through a variety of .22 and centerfire rifles and pistols, and I've never seen such happy young people--they were absolutely giddy to have the chance to go shooting.

I'm a big proponent of starting with a .22, maybe a Ruger Mk IV, Browning Buckmark, or S&W Victory. Try before you buy if at all possible, but at least handle them. Nothing teaches the basics of marksmanship like a .22. Then plan to follow it up with a centerfire purchase, and there are some good recommendations for those in the thread above.

You see them as gangs, he sees them as his constituents.

Here’s another proud moment for Virginia democrats: VA Democrat convicted of sex with an underage employee wins state senate primary He was convicted in 2015, but continued to serve in the state legislature while in prison.

I was a member for about that long before venturing into the first amendment lounge. The content I cared about was in the moderated areas of the forum, and the signal-to-noise ratio is better

Sometimes a successful outcome at an auction means letting the item go. You kept your head and stuck to your price point, so you did good!

All the time. I like to dust them with chili powder and a squeeze of fresh lime juice, but I’m always looking for new variations, and didn’t know the ballpark cook time on a smoker

How do you prep the corn? I’ll throw on baking potatoes for 3+ hours, and they are wonderful, but I’ve not smoked corn on the cob before

I’ve got the same digital thermometer (different branding, but clearly the same unit). How is it holding up to the heat when clipped to the smoker? I’ve always left the sending unit for mine on the ground a foot or so away; less convenient, but cooler.

If They only devoted 5% as much effort to combating opioid abuse or drunk driving or out-of-control property taxes...

The burden of proof is on you. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence the smokerverse and the millions of fans of authentic BBQ believe the science is settled.