monkeylizard

  I think you're thinking of the deuce and a half truck. (two and a half ton)   Ma deuce is the Browning M2 .50 cal machine gun.   Being mowed down by either will make you drop a deuce.

Yep. Need something like this. Ma Deuce not included.

I wonder if I could fit that monster on my natural gas grill and if it could get it hot enough. It's way too heavy for my glass cooktop.

  You can call me jealous. That's a hoss! 

Botulism. The critters die at boiling temps, but not their spores. You have to kill them with higher than boiling temps (i.e. pressure canner) or with a low pH level (high acidity). Below 4.6 pH is considered safe for water bath.

Ball's Bluebook of Canning is the magazine-sized softcover book I was thinking of. Wal-Mart has them. As stated above, pressure vs water bath depends on the acidity. High acid foods (most fruits and pickled veggies, but not all tomatoes) can be done safely in a water bath, but can also be done in a pressure canner. Low-acid foods (most unpickled vegetables, meats, stews, etc) MUST be done in a pressure canner. Since you have no equipment, you may as well start with the pressure canner and use it for everything. The exception would be if you'll ONLY be doing fruits and jams and pickled veggies, then you can get by with water bath canning and its lower expense. As Dennis said, the FDA revises their guidelines every so often and it's ALWAYS towards more pressure canning and less water bath canning. You can use the pressure canner pot for water bath canning. You can also pressure can most fruits that only require a water bath. Too much pressure will make your fruits mushy, so follow the guides if you pressure can fruits instead of a water bath. I think strawberries are always to be water bath processed. As for the vacuum adapter, I've never seen a food sealer that came with the jar adapter. You have to buy that seperately. I've never found one in stores. Amazon seemed to have the best prices. I got a regular and a wide-mouth adapter for my FoodSaver brand sealer. You only need the adapter sized for the jars you'll be using. I bought both so I can use whichever mouthed jar I happen to have available. You have to have a sealer with a vacuum hose or they won't work. If yours just does bags, you're out of luck. Regular vs wide-mouth is exactly what it says. The jar on the left is regular. The one on the right is wide-mouth. You can get both mouths in most sizes until you get down into the little jelly jars. I've only seen those in wide-mouth. They're so small I guess it's hard to get a tapered top. You'll need rings and lids to match your jars. Regular ones look nicer, but wide-mouth are easier to fill. Regulars also take fewer bumps to the ring/lid in storage than widemouth. If you bump 2 regulars against each other, the glass sides touch, not the rings. Widemouths will bump rings, potentially disturbing a weak seal. Just something to consider.

Start looking for jars at garage sales and estate sales. That's where you'll usually find the best prices. If the rings have any rust, toss em out and get fresh ones. Use fresh lids every time. You can re-use them if you're sealing dry goods with a vacuum pump, but if used for true canning, they're single-use.   As far as retail for the jars, my mom says Fred's has the best prices, but always keep an eye out for clearance racks at any retailers that sell them (Kroger, Publix, Wal-Mart, Target, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc.). Sometimes you'll get lucky and they'll be moving old stock at a good price. Be careful though as most are priced high enough that even on sale they're still higher than Fred's.   Mason, Ball, Kerr, and Golden Harvest are all good. GH is the generic line made by Ball-Mason. If you see a great price on jars other than these, there may be a reason they're so cheap. Off-brand jars would probably be fine in water-bath canning for fruits and jams, but I personally wouldn't pressure can them.   If you have or get a FoodSaver with a vacuum hose, you can get an adapter for vacuum sealing dry goods in your jars. You'll need either a standard or a wide-mouth adapter depending on what jars you're using. It's a great way to buy in bulk and divide it up into smaller portions that will keep a loooooong time, or to just keep dry stuff fresh that you don't use often. We don't go through a lot of chocolate chips. I can seal them up so they last a lot longer than just a twist-tie on the bag.   Check Wal-Mart for the Ball (or Mason?) Canning book. It's a soft cover book about the size of a magazine. It will help you with guides for different needs for different foods. You'll need either a pressure canner or a water bath canner depending on what you're canning. Pressure canner for chili for sure. You need a jar lifter and a tool to lift the lids out of their sterilizing boiling water without getting your bacteria-laden hands on them. I like the kind with a little magnet on the end. Anything else are nice to have tools, but not necessary. A funnel, for example. It makes filling the jars a LOT easier, but you can live without one.   Pressure canners can run a wide range from $50'ish to north of $600. I'd suggest starting with a simple one and seeing if you're going to stick with it. You'll want one with a pressure gauge, not just a wobbly pressure valve, if you plan to can low-acid foods and or meats. I personally won't can anything with meat. I know some do and have no problems, but it's a riskier move for home canning than fruits and veggies. All-American makes some of the best rated canners, but you pay for them. AFAIK, they're all still made in the USA. there are both electric and stove-top models. Some stove-top models are not to be used on glass cooktops, so check into that before purchasing. It will vary by model.

The mags have writting on the side with a version number. This example is version "B" as noted by the last of the printed number. I'm pretty sure the "A" version had no letter as they weren't planning on making later variants of course. If there's an "A" or no letter at all, that's likely part of the issue, though it may not be all of it. The "A" magazine was a cause of many of its early problems. I have a "B" magazine and have had no issues, but I know there is at least a "C" and maybe a "D" revision. Mine has been flawless with CCI mini mags, both HP and round nose, but I can't hit the broad side of a barn with it. It's me, not the pistol. I've seen someone else have respectable accuracy using my pistol. Maybe it's the sights, but I don't shoot it well. I keep it because it's a good pistol with which to start a new shooter. +1 to keeping it well lubed.

    FIFY!

  ducks are cute.

Did your dog have tags with your contact info (or a microchip) when he was picked up? If so, wouldn't that be theft and possession of stolen property since he agreed it's your dog and admitted to taking him from near your home? Turning over the dog in exchange for you not pressing charges might seem like a pretty fair deal to him.   If you don't keep tags on him, then it would be a reasonable assumption on his part that your dog was a stray. He very well could be a dog lover who didn't want to see the poor guy out on his own. On the plus side, you haven't had to buy dog food for 6 months, so maybe that could factor in to the "re-homing fee"?

I'm not saying we shouldn't ban or at least curtail air traffic. I'm just saying that it wojn't prevent Ebola from spreading. It would delay it, and maybe that's enough for the right people to make the right decisions to get ahead of it.   I said "that wouldn't help." I should have said "that wouldn't stop it."

  I'm not going to Dolomite's place because I read Post # 187  :surrender:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/82215-welpit-is-now-here-folksebola/?p=1198047

  Because that wouldn't help. People leave West Africa and fly to Europe before coming here.   Let's assume we can convince the Eurozone to ban travel to Europe too. Fine....people will fly from West Africa to other parts of Africa or the Middle East. Then fly to Europe, then to the US.   Stop all flights in and out of the affected areas? OK....they'll travel over land or sea to a previously unaffetced area and fly from there.   It may delay the spread, but it wouldn't stop it.

Quarantine them at Club Gitmo on the return trip. That way, if there's an infection, it takes care of another problem at the same time.

I saw an interview with him several years ago. He said he didn't consider it dangerous because it's so big under those spans with plenty of room to fly through.

You could try the phone number in the OP on the other thread. If it's still good, I suspect they could answer all of your questions.

I'm good at telling them apart. Except Hyundai. They copy other designs so much that they look like a Mercedes or a Toyota from a distance. They're getting better about making their own deisgns, but they still look like copies to me.

From the article, it looks like he was a patron.

Yes to the first and the second.   We do....they don't.

  Thanks. Aside from the side-bar in there about pro vs anti, it pretty much confirmed what I thought.

Here's what we'll be seeing on our November ballot:   It reads to me like it's giving carte blanche to the legislature to permit or restrict as it sees fit, so long as it doesn't run afoul of any SCOTUS decisions. Given our current legislature, that would seem a boon to the pro-life camp and a big setback for the pro-choice camp. If I'm reading it right, this seems short-sighted by the pro-life camp. The (R) party (presumably one which would enact pro-life legislation) has a very solid hold on both houses today. But it wasn't that long ago that the (D) party (presumably one which would enact pro-choice legislation) was in charge. But I also understand strike while the iron is hot. They may not get a better chance to enact sweeping legislation under a blue legislature for a  long time once this current climate changes.   It also feels a bit like playing dirty-pool because of the vagueness of the wording. Specifically the last part about the circumstances. It says they can enact legislation, not that they will  or must. I suspect it was phrased this way intentionally to get the undecided/moderates to vote for it, e.g. "It says right there that rape, incest, and the life of the mother will still be protected, so I'll vote yes."   What I'm looking for is some input on what the proposed amendment would actually do. I'd prefer not to beat the dead horse of pro/anti abortion, but I have a suspicion it will come up. I'm looking for more of the philosphical approach to government and what this amendment does to that. If the legislature is made through free and fair elections, then they should be representative of the will of the majority of the people. If the laws (or any issue, though in this case specifically abortion) swing one way or the other over time, then that is indicative of the will of the people changing. On the flip side, this amendment appears to give more power to the government than it currently has to regulate the people. If we were to  replace "abortion" in the amendment with "hand-load ammunition for personal use", does that change how we view this amendment?  Should it? Is this truly a single-issue item, or is it indicative of a larger move by the legislature to assume more power? Changing the constitution is a pretty big deal to me. Once it's in there, it could be hard to get it out if we voters find out we didn't get what we thought we were getting.   Thoughts?     Again, please try to leave the pro/anti abortion out of it as much as possible. I'm really looking for some conversation on the legal language of the proposal and what it could actually mean long-term.

  I think Caster's point was that a genny is a poor choice for a true TEOTWAWKI event. It's not a viable long-term solution. A genny is a good solution for short-term power outages of a few days or maybe a couple of weeks. They have a lot of good things going for them  like portability, low cost, and simplicity. In the event of a true SHTF scenario, you'd need a more comprehensive energy strategy, such as solar panels and deep-cycle batteries. If you had a properly-sized setup like that before a SHTF you'd be in good shape. The normal power outages probably wouldn't matter either. You may not even notice them as your power may never go down, depending on the solar/battery setup. Most homes use very little electricity apart from a handful of major appliances and HVAC. Except for people who do laundry and roast a turkey at 2:00am, the batteries would be sufficient in most cases.

  You know what they say.....     Pics, or it didn't happen.

Those definitely aren't Jewish peppers.