We now have bacon

 Pork shoulder/Buckboard bacon on the left and Pork Loin/Canadian bacon on the right.

I couldn't get a constant cool enough heat in the grill I was going to use as the smoker, so I added liquid smoke for a day and a half and backed them at 200 for about 3 1/2 hours.

Next time, I'm going to add brown sugar to the cure because the pork shoulder that I didn't use sugar on is kinds...meh.
The Canadian bacon really works, though.

Will do again. And it's a lot cheaper than store-bought bacon.
Next time I'll try some beef bacon.

More true now than when he first sang it

So, when will we ever see an Arc light strike?

 Probably never.

Because #theadultsarebackincharge are afraid to make terrorists hate us even more.
So we'll just keep and waste million Dollar missile on $10,000 drones and keep "retaliating" with little pin pricks on empty tents and small arms stockpiles.

And gas went up .10 in less than 12 hours yesterday.
I don't like Trump, but he put the fear of God in a lot of countries and I can live with that.

Larry Correia puts it much better than I can.

And these three comments reiterate the whole Trumpkin mindset.
I don't like him, but I'll vote for him.
What are you Trumpkins going to do in 2028?

 

About diehard Trump supporters and I'm wondering if you'd even think about supporting the only electable Conservative in 2028 after your hero got you to be all hating on Desantis.

In its entirety:

Seriously, Trumpkins, listen. Regular boring conservatives like me have already said we’ll vote for Trump in the general now that we’re stuck with him because of your hubris. It doesn’t help for you to keep barking at me about how I should deny reality and blow smoke up peoples’ asses about how awesome your guy was and will be. 

Sorry, I’m not a revisionist history ass kisser with memory issues like you guys. It doesn’t do you any good to yell at people who actually paid attention to this shit while it was happening. Besides, I think they’re our employees, not our fucking monarchs, so all this one way loyalty shit you keep going off about makes me want to barf. 

But people like me ain’t your problem. Every R in America could go full Trump Train and we’re still gonna get fucking trounced in the general unless you somehow convince purple swing state Americans in the suburbs that Trump is all that great stuff MAGA believes about him. Which the last few elections have demonstrated they clearly don’t, they kinda hate his guts, and that’s even before he’s a convicted felon, so good luck with that. 

Meanwhile, the rest of us who actually believe in archaic shit like “principles” have been getting mooed at all day to UNITE by a bunch of fucking herd animals, because apparently now we’re all supposed to shut off our fucking brains off and piss away our dignity and buy in on Laura Loomer’s latest batshit fucking crazy conspiracy theory about the Atlantic using numerology to call for assassinations or the Cobra Weather Dominator or some shit, or we are traitors who hate America. 

Anyways good luck convincing those swing state soccer moms! I’m just gonna be over here stockpiling more canned food and ammo awaiting the apocalypse. Then in November I’ll vote for Trump, and when we get fucking rolled because we were dumb enough to walk into the democrat’s obvious trap, I’ll try to resist the urge to say I told you so. 

I’d love to be wrong, and in the off chance Trump wins, I’ll congratulate you for your prescient wisdom, and look forward to four years of Trump hiring more incompetent swampy ass kissers, while keeping my fingers crossed for more decent SCOTUS appointments. 

So you get off my fucking back now. 🙂

Anyone who was old enough to remember the environmental scares of the '79s and '80's

 

 HAS to remember some of these environmental alarms.

-The Ozone Hole (bekuzz hair spray)

-Acid Rain (Bekuzz air pollution)

- Water shortages (bekauzz....reasons) and how we HAVE to act now to preserve drinking water!

 

And now the same scientists are actually working on destroying water on it's atomic level.

.....But now I guess it's okay because we have low flow faucets and water saving toilets and SCIENCE and sh1t.

After a week of curing

 I really expected a lot more liquid.
The pork loin/Canadian bacon has some.

On #1 I cut the seal and added liquid Hickory smoke- because that's what I had. It kinda glugged in there, so I think it's going to be on the strong side.

The but/shoulder is dry.
I don't know if that's because I had it out and ready then resealed it in a vacuum bag because I needed a two digit read on the scale and couldn't use the one in the kitchen

I mean it's dry. 

The colors aren't as far apart as the camera makes it look, but I'll be hot smoking it then refrigerating part and freezing part, so I doubt there's that much wrong with it besides maybe taste.

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So it begins

 Making bacon.

 After I finally got a digital scale that goes to two digits for the Prague #1 powder.
The first one is a Butt/shoulder  that hopefully will result in Buckboard bacon after I smoke it.

The other attempt is two pork loins of about four pounds each to hopefully get Canadian bacon out of it.

I had to wait for the scales because you don't want to use too much Prague powder/pink cure or whatever else you want to call it. luckily there's a  page for that.

On the second one I put in for 14 days- I'm going to try adding some liquid smoke and seal it back up, then finish it in the oven to see if there's any real difference between real smoke and liquid.

Your Monday Jan. 8 Rule 5 puzzle

 

And yes I noticed the trigger discipline.

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So SecDef Lloyed Austin was in the ICU for four days

 Before the Pentagon decided to let the White House know.

So we have Miley (who's probably still trying to find 'white rage') telling his ChiCom buddies that he'll give them a heads-up if his CiC decides to do something he disagrees with.

Now the Secretary of Defense was in the ICU for four days -and still in the hospital- before the Pentagon decided to let anyone in the White House know about it.

Maybe the danger to our Republick isn't Trump, MAGA, J-6ers or patriots- maybe it's a rouge DoD that thinks their chain of command only works when they want it to.

Your I forgot today was Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 

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Weather fo New Years Ev.

 Is NOAA being unintentionally ironic?
Or do they know fireworks will be going off around then?

For a little background

 The wife's a Brit who's lived in Texas for a good 20 years.

I've been fighting some intestinal thing for the past couple of days- and not eating.

We had to fill two 10 gallon propane tanks at Tractor Supply.  After loading them and securing them in the truck (and waiting for some dickhead who had up parked in) we were on the way home.

I told the wife that I'm sweating like a whore in church.
"A What????"

A whore in church, you've never heard that before?

She's also never heard 

• Telling how the cow ate the cabbage.
• Loose as a boiled onion. He's as slippery as a baked onion.
  
• All hat and no cattle
• Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
• Crooked as a dogs hind leg
• Better throw some slop to them dogs

Your Christmas Monday Rule 5 puzzles

Since you've been good boys and girls this year, you get two.

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Have a Merry salty Christmas

Mr, Garabaldi- As far as "Die hard" being a Christmas movie. So would be Lord of the Rings trilogy.because it has elves in them.

Blogger wouldn't let me sign in on your site, so it's here.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Dec.18

 

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Your Rule 5 puzzle for Monday Dec.11

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Your Rule 5 puzzle for Monday Dec . 4

No gun today, but there is a hot range.

 

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Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Nov. 27

 

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Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for thanksgiving

Gobble, gobble. 

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Just a reminder IDF

 If you get your hostages back...

Propane is heavier than air, if you can't find all the tunnels.
The right concentration is 2.1- 10.1 gas in air.

Das Boot (Original Version)

Full movie.
It has a bunch of BS ads in the first part and a lot in the middle, but the last half is ad free.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Nov. 13

 

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In another installment of "Guess the Race"

We have a brand spanking new TopGolf in Memphis that's not even a month old getting the love from ..teens.

Your Monday Nov. 6 Monday Rule 5 puzzle.

 

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Guy Fawks Day

  Remember, remember!
    The fifth of November,
    The Gunpowder treason and plot;

    I know of no reason
    Why the Gunpowder treason
    Should ever be forgot!

    Guy Fawkes and his companions
    Did the scheme contrive,
    To blow the King and Parliament
    All up alive.

    Threescore barrels, laid below,
    To prove old England’s overthrow.
    But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
    With a dark lantern, lighting a match!

    A stick and a stake
    For King James’s sake!
    If you won’t give me one,
    I’ll take two,
    The better for me,
    And the worse for you.

    A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
    A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
    A pint of beer to wash it down,
    And a jolly good fire to burn him.
    Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
    Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
    Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

It finally realized...WHY

After reading this twat from Gretchen Carlson about the eeeevil AR platform.

They don't give a shit about the AK, but freak out about an AR.
Because- the M-16 was the freedom weapon of the cold war, fighting the Communist forces.

The AR IS an M-16 without the fun switch. They can't stand the symbolism of Good verses their mindset.

Prove me wrong.

Your Tuesday Rule 5 puzzle for Oct. 30

It's late because the computer forgot how to use the WIFI and I couldn't even use a HotSpot to get through. I said it was connected, but the only thing it could find was g00gle maps. So I had to do almost a factory reset and got Win11 and the headaches it caused when I downloaded FireFox and it wouldn't remember logins or recolor used links.

AND any searches I did opened in the same tab.

Anyway-

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And now for something completely different

It's.................

 

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Oct. 23

 Yoinks!
Velma and Daffney like you always imagined.

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