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The year was 2022. The where, somewhere in WA state, proximate to Seattle, but not in Seattle, but in the woods. The year of 2023 - The where will be the same. You'll have to use your nose. I just hope I don't mess it up. But so far, nothing has been messed up in the smoker. mspart

I smoked the Turkey last year for thanksgiving, used apple chips. My wife, after tasting, declared that no turkey shall be cooked any other way from now on. It was incredible. mspart

Thank you BD for confirming my original posts here. They are not pursuing car theft, and when they do, they hold less than 50% of those caught accountable. That there really drives home to would be car thieves that the cost to car thievery is zero for them. Hence, more car thievery. mspart

Hi Ban, this is a nice try but a swing and a miss. There are no pictures of what everything looks like and what to do with them. There is no graphic language how how to do the things being done. "Adam had sex with his wife Eve" is about as explicit as it gets with no how to descriptions or illustrations. Not as graphic as the books being put into libraries for children. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-religion-arts-and-entertainment-virginia-school-boards-9eb21874bf1f8da6f27a0ea4e1f8a016 A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries, including an illustrated memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters involving children, after a parent expressed concern about them at a school board meeting. Stacy Langton, a parent in the Fairfax County school system, questioned the school board at a public meeting Thursday about the books’ availability in high school libraries. As she quoted from explicit passages in the book, a school board member interrupted her and chastised her for using explicit language. ...“Gender Queer,” an illustrated memoir, contains explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation. The novel “Lawn Boy” contains graphic descriptions of sex between men and children. Langton said the fact that school board members felt compelled to interrupt her when she read graphic passages aloud illustrates her point about the books’ inappropriate nature. There is a difference that may be subtle to you, to me it is a wide gulf of difference. mspart

https://news.wttw.com/2023/08/21/motor-vehicle-thefts-chicago-have-jumped-139-3-years-while-only-4-are-solved ... And according to CPD statistics, most thieves get away with the initial crime. Last year, the clearance rate for solving motor vehicle thefts was a paltry 4%. Sources close to CPD say the department de-emphasizes solving these types of crimes to devote more resources to more serious crimes. The last paragraph seems to answer the question that was burning before in this thread. "... CPD de-emphasizes solving these types of crimes...". So do they go after the car thieves? Apparently, police de-emphasize this effort. So rates for stolen vehicles climbs. All very predictable. mspart

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-29/chicago-tv-crew-reporting-on-robberies-gets-robbed-at-gunpoint By Isis Almeida August 29, 2023 at 10:34 AM PDT Updated on August 29, 2023 at 10:57 AM PDT A television crew reporting on a series of robberies in a Chicago neighborhood got to experience the crime wave firsthand. The team, a 28-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman who work for Spanish-language Univision Chicago, had a video camera and other personal belongings stolen on Monday by three armed men wearing ski masks in West Town, according to Luis Godinez, vice president of news at the station. The footage the team shot was in the stolen camera, so the story never aired, Godinez told the Chicago Tribune. The incident comes as Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took over about 100 days ago, has faced criticism from business leaders for being slow to deal with crime, having only recently named a new police chief for the third-largest US city. His predecessor, Lori Lightfoot, lost her job this year in part because of surging crime. She became the first Chicago mayor to fail in a reelection bid since 1983. ... The incident involving the Univision crew, first reported by the Tribune, happened on the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, about a 10-minute drive from the Loop, the city’s central business district. The suspects were driving a black SUV and a gray sedan, according to the police report shared by Univision. No injuries were reported. Earlier this month the Chicago Police Department reported a string of robberies in the area. In several instances, armed offenders wearing ski masks were driving stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles and stopping to steal victims’ belongings. Interestingly, they last paragraph listed here talks about Kia and Hyandai thefts. Interesting also, there is no word of arrests in this news item or in the many several instances of armed offenders driving stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles. I guess we will never know if Chicago is soft or hard on crime other than what I highlighted and underlined above. mspart

On that we agree. mspart

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Ha!! mspart

Wondering why you have Snyder at Silver and not Gold? Is Sadulaev scheduled to be there? If not, I would say Snyder is the odds on favorite. Just my $0.02. I think Dake is Gold, Taylor is Gold, and Snyder is Gold. Steveson could be Gold but I'm hearing he is not completely 100% training FS. But that could just be rumor. I think the rest have the potential to medal. But probably won't. mspart

But do they smoke up real nice, that's the question. mspart

That would probably become a reality show and net those two millions in cash!! mspart

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/burger-king-must-face-lawsuit-144728305.html Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is. U.S. District Judge Roy Altman in Miami said Burger King must defend against a claim that its depiction of Whoppers on in-store menu boards mislead reasonable customers, amounting to a breach of contract. Customers in the proposed class action accused Burger King of portraying burgers with ingredients that "overflow over the bun," making it appear that the burgers are 35% larger and contain more than double the meat as the chain serves. Burger King, a unit of Restaurant Brands International, countered that it wasn't required to deliver burgers that look "exactly like the picture," but the judge said it was up to jurors to "tell us what reasonable people think." In his decision made public on Friday, Altman also let the customers pursue negligence-based and unjust enrichment claims. He dismissed claims based on TV and online ads, finding none in which Burger King promised a burger "size," or patty weight, and failed to deliver it. Burger King and its lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. The plaintiffs' lawyer was not immediately available for comment. Earlier efforts to mediate a settlement proved unsuccessful... I don't care for Burger King really, hardly ever go there. But I thought this was interesting. How big should a Whopper be? I guess if it is pictured on the menu, it should be proportional to the size depicted. In this day and age, I will not be surprised if a jury hands over a yuge award to the suckers who bought a Whopper and were disappointed. Just their fries are a disappointment. mspart

Of more importance than trial dates is Biden sending email under alias names while being VPOTUS. Why would he do this? Why would he lie about his having no knowledge of Hunters international business dealings? Usually when a person lies it is because they are hiding some truth they don't want discovered. The truth he does not want discovered appears to be his participation in Hunter's business that might shed bad light or send criminal charges his way. I doubt he is concerned about criminal charges but he is concerned about optics. And the optics are not good or conducive to a re-election campaign. mspart

He wouldn't have played HS football in most districts in WA. Must have 2.0 GPA to do sports. mspart

The wikipedia says: Oher's initial low grades were a barrier to his acceptance to an NCAA program. He raised his 0.76 grade point average (GPA) to a 2.52 GPA by the end of his senior year so he could attend a Division I school, by enrolling in some 10-day online courses from Brigham Young University. Taking and passing the online courses allowed him to replace Ds and Fs earned in earlier school classes, such as English, with As earned via the Internet.[8] This finally raised his graduating GPA above the required minimum. So inferring from this that the Tooeees probably helped him get in touch with the BYU program and helped motivate him to do the courses so he could get into college. Is there reason to suspect this was not the case? mspart

You mean they are actually going after car thieves. Where did you get that idea? mspart

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The VOAnews states: new orleans — U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will run for reelection in 2024 has left voters in his own Democratic party divided and generated far less immediate enthusiasm from the party faithful than bids by other recent presidents seeking a second term. If you read further you will get interviews with various folks and polling data to show that D's are not behind Biden in this. But go on and not read. The NYT is a link to the Ezra Klein show: A recent AP-NORC poll found that just a quarter of voters, including only around half of Democrats, want to see Joe Biden run for president again. Many voters are concerned about his age in particular. That’s a problem for Biden, but it’s not as unusual as it might seem. In 1982, only 37 percent of voters wanted Ronald Reagan, another older president, to run again; he then won the 1984 election in a landslide. And Biden also has a lot going for him: a better-than-expected midterm performance, an impressive record of legislative achievement and a track record of defeating Donald Trump. What are Biden’s chances in 2024? How does he stack up against Republicans like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis? What has his campaign focused on so far, and what should they focus on over the next few years? Jon Favreau served as Barack Obama’s head speechwriter from 2005 to 2013, played a key role in both of Obama’s presidential campaigns and currently co-hosts the podcast “Pod Save America.” So I asked him on the show to talk through the cases for and against Biden in 2024. We cover the concerns over Biden’s age, the strength of Vice President Kamala Harris, the key takeaways from the 2022 midterms, the surprising effectiveness of Biden’s lay-low media strategy, why voters tend to trust Donald Trump’s management of the economy more than Biden’s, how Biden’s bipartisan credentials could help him in 2024 and much more. We all know both Jon and Ezra are Biden deniers and hate his guts and can't stand D's in general. So not much here admittedly but you might catch some interesting things you haven't considered obviously. Now that PBS right wing rag is a different story. WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. ... “I, honestly, think that he would be too old,” said Sarah Overman, 37, a Democrat who works in education in Raleigh, North Carolina. “We could use someone younger in the office.” AGain more interviews and polling data. But don't believe PBS because they are biased you know. Please read to find more info you might be dismissing. And finally TheHill, your favorite rag when you were alive, has the following about polling data. A majority of Americans said in a new CNBC All-America Economic Survey that they don’t want President Biden to run for a second term in 2024. The survey, published on Friday, found that 70 percent of those polled said they don’t want Biden to run, largely citing his age. Nineteen percent of respondents said they would support a Biden reelection bid. Now just for you Bob, I will teach you how to read between the lines a little. Consider it a post mortem gift. Those polled are of all stripes and stuff. So roughly 33% are D, 33% are Rs, and 33% are I's. So 70 percent said they don't want Biden to run, you can bet 33% of R's said so, and half the I's said so maybe, so that is roughly total 49%, and then some unknown about of D's. But wait, 19% of respondents support Biden. So that would be made up of the D's and I's. But 19% is not 33% it is less than 33%, so that means that there are a lot of Ds that don't want Biden to run. Now if we assume that some I's want him to run, that means even less D's want him to run for that number to be true. See how this works. There's a little lesson for you to practice your deductive and inductive reasoning abilities. There, I spelled it out for you and you will next say, thank you now you don't need to read the articles. Figured as much. Just proves you are not really wanting to learn here, just misdirect so you can change the focus. Great tactic. mspart

But if I do will you? Not holding my breath or I'll end up like you. mspart

Bob you're type of reasoning is the leading cause of not reading between the lines, picking up social clues, and understand one's surroundings I can think of. You display it above very well. If you have a point other than to badger me, please feel free to make it. But if this is just a mission to badger me, it is a shallow endeavor and equally a waste of people's time. mspart

Not many who say things like this count themselves as one of the 30 percernters. It kind of goes with the territory. mspart

Not being a real smoker dude, I ran out of mesquite and had to use the apple. I'm rectifying that later tonight. mspart

You might read them and learn something from them buddy. But no, that would take too much effort and might dissuade you from your current thought process. Don't want to go challenging yourself too much these days, being dead and all. mspart

I'm glad you are amazed. There's hope for you yet. mspart