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  1. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    The thing I don't get about the current round of pearl clutching over guns is that it's being framed as "everyone can 3D print a plastic AR15 and shoot up a bunch of children". And on top of that, the 3D printed "liberator" pistol is a single shot design that can only shoot low pressure rounds like the .380 or .22 AND it still has metal in it because it needs a hard material (a steel nail in this case) for a firing pin.

    Nevermind that you could replicate that sort of functionality for cheaper with a trip to the hardware store. You can make a slam-fire 12GA shotgun with a pipe, a cap, and a nail pretty easily.

    Honest question. Assuming your correct that there’s less harm than some suggest, what is the potential benefit?  And which of those standards best apply here?  I generally fall in the camp of not restricting harmless activity.   But this strikes me a something that should be restricted in part because I’m not seeing the potential benefit. 

  2. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

     

    This point may have already been made but....

    Being angry, having ulterior motives and being wrong aren't the same thing.  My kids do something almost daily that makes me angry and I address that because they need to do better and because I want what's best for them. Imagine escaping accountability because what you've done made someone angry.  Utter nonsense.  

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  3. On 7/25/2018 at 12:36 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    I’m concerned about overpowering oak tasting notes, any suggestions? 

    Just taste it every few days (assume the barrel has a spout).  When I was using my small barrel I'd just save the empty bottles, taste as it aged and refill the bottles once it hit the preferred flavor.  Also, after aging a few barrels, I switched from aging whiskey to aging cocktails (mainly Manhattans) and then switched back to aging whiskey. But in the second round it was more about a seasoned barrel than the charred oak (think high west YKY from vermouth aged barrels).  Just a way to get a bit more mileage out of the barrel.  

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  4. 23 hours ago, huge said:

    The one I had at Kevin Rathbun in Atlanta was disappointing but I want to agree.  Where in Houston do they sell that cut?

    My experience there was disappointing too.  But it was April 2015 and my dad and I were headed to Augusta to watch Speith dominate at the Masters so it didn't bother us much. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Horn21 said:

    I've had a good run this summer.  I've scored GTS, THH (2), and WLW all for $87/ea.

    Without divulging sources and methods, any insights you can share on how to pull off such a feat?  Thx 

  6. 9 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    "intellectual elite" means "smart people" and trumpkins don't like smart people

    Or they are jealous of anyone that's labeled elite.  I bet someone could sway some of their support by calling them elite and slapping a word in front they don't understand.  The gullibility elite or the upwardly stagnant elite may do the trick. 

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  7. Also read somewhere that distillers pick barrels that closely match a consistent profile for a given bourbon.  And that store picks / private barrels are available from the ones that may be somewhat distinctive from that profile. So in addition to them being single barrels (which have natural variability) the store picks are also one more step removed from the profile.  

    Which doesn’t necessarily mean better or worse but just more likely to be different  

     

  8. 8 hours ago, Woodrow Call said:

    Trump says Montenegro’s ‘Aggressive People’ Could Start World War III.

    Yes, I lie awake at night worrying about Montenegro. I realize 99% of Americans can't pinpoint Montenegro on a map (including Trump), but we shouldn't underestimate a nation that's roughly the size of Minnesota and that has a total GDP that ranks 78th in the world.

    Odds Trumpkins think people from Montenegro are, you know,  negros.  

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  9. 9 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Rand Paul has been obvious for a while now.

    People just don’t like to hear it because Rand is on their team.

    McCain called Rand out on the floor of the Senate over a year ago;

    “Sen. John McCain on Wednesday accused fellow Sen. Rand Paul of doing Russian President Vladimir Putin's bidding after Paul blocked an attempt to vote on a treaty for NATO membership for Montenegro.

    "The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin," McCain bluntly said of Paul on the Senate floor following the dust-up.”

    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mccain-rand-paul-is-now-working-for-vladimir-putin-236106

    I grew up in Lake Jackson and graduated a year or two behind his youngest sister.  I was once proud for the success of someone from the hometown.  I'm now much happier that Kentucky has to claim him.  

  10. 13 hours ago, Tuco said:

    Apparently she felt up an undercover female officer and stuck her tits in her face. Nice.

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    Should've just grabbed her by the pussy.  Pretty sure that's allowed these days.  

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  11. 1 hour ago, AustinMT said:

    So you smoke at the end?  I use a low-temp smoke on the Traeger first, then sear and cook from there.  Is there a benefit to smoking at the end?

    Not sure. But my thought was it is essentially a continuation of cooking to the right internal temp albeit at a lower temp so it may ease into the resting process as well.  And that finishing with smoke was more likely to retain that flavor that smoking at the beginning.  

  12. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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    Before reading the post I thought the pic was either from "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" or "who wants to be a millionaire". Either is oddly appropriate. 

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