I did manage to find some time, so (update: had to modify something)

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Oh, such ethical people

in their upset about Trump allowing some South African farmers in and overlooking the sin of being white.

Divemedic has a piece from one of these bastards: basically "Well, white people did bad things before, and they inherited a lot of land from them, so they shouldn't be allowed to come here just because they claim their lives are in danger!"   

I like the 'claim'; government officials and Party members sing songs about 'Kill the Boer', talk about killing all white people in the country, the reports of torture and murder are frequent and horrible, but  "These people owe it to stay there and pay the price for the sins of the fathers.  Kids and all."

People who constantly demand more immigrants suddenly hit the brakes here, because "But they're WHITE!"  Because people trying to keep their family alive is different somehow depending on your skin color...

Few years ago I picked up a smoker

Small one, it'll hold a good-size brisket or a couple of chickens, you won't be putting a pig in it.  And it does a great job.

Part of learning this was adjusting the air intake on the firebox and the cover on the smokestack.  Which wound up being downright strange:
One day I'd gotten a good fire going, it was ready to put the meat on except it was running about a hundred degrees hot.  Aha, says I, and fiddled with those adjustments, which had no results.  More fiddling, and with the intake closed and the smokestack with just a little sliver open, it got to a perfect 225 degrees(assuming that gauge is correct) and sat there.  The charcoal burned longer, lots of tasty smoke produced, and the brisket... oh, it was good.

I think there's enough air leakage around the intake and the doors that it takes that much restriction to get the temp I wanted, which is find now that I knew it.

One more thing: guy I used to know had grown up in a restaurant family and done a lot of cooking, one day mentioned that with most meat 1-2 hours of smoking will give you all the smoke flavor you'll generally get; after that you can cover it tightly in a pan and finish it in the oven.  Which seems to work nicely.

One last thing: I don't care for briquets, they leave a huge amount of ash, so some years ago I bought a bag of raw charcoal and never wen't back.  Check around to find it, the best price I've had locally is at a big restaurant supply store, 40 pounds of mesquite for about $20 last time I bought(I'll probably be shocked next time, it's been a while).

Couple of days ago, I actually made it to the range

to try some loads.  Windy and gusting, but I went, and enjoyed it.

I don't do that enough.

We've got far too many public officials who want to follow the Stasi line on speech from Germany,

not being suitably punished for it, and too many people committing perjury who aren't being charged for it.

And that's too bad.


Speaking of people playing Speech Police, you may have heard of WorldCon, BIG science fiction convention, who has a interesting way to choose program participants:

We received more than 1,300 panelist applicants for Seattle Worldcon 2025. Building on the work of previous Worldcons, we chose to vet program participants before inviting them to be on our program.

And by “vetting” program participants, they mean “barring anyone that doesn’t toe the far left social justice warrior line”:

Several individuals have asked to see the ChatGPT query that was used in the vetting process. In the interest of transparency, this was our prompt:
REQUEST

Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.

Wonderful, isn't it?


This isn't connected, but I want to get it down before I lose track of it.
LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
...
While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.

However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.

Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Not comforting, is it?

First, we have a whole bunch of journalists, who spent years covering for Biden

and the Democrats, now telling us either "The staff lied to us!" or "We never saw anything!"; these being fancy ways of saying either 
"We're claiming incompetence, we never investigated!"
or
"Hey, we've been sold-out for years, we didn't rock the boat!"

Now we have a bunch of people, because some South African farmers are being allowed to come here, telling us just what kind of racist assholes they are.
It's amazing how this makes a bunch of them admit "We want more immigration, but  not THOSE people, they're WHITE!"

Yes, the Stupid Party, at the hands of the Democrat Lites, are screwing us again

on the 2nd.  Because that's what the bastards do.

For Biden they yelled "Those are deep fakes! Cheap fakes!" when they showed

things they didn't want people to see.  Now?
"That bodycam video was manufactured!"

Just because they don't like the optics of Dem politicians assaulting ICE agents.

Amazing, isn't it?