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they had a list of 10 best in USA ,
I had been to 4 of them.
The ones in Texas I need to go to
Blacks BBQ and one other
I got to be in the mood for BBQ but like everyone I eat it . Briskit is the hardest to find that is really good.
I judge them by that. A lot of times its not tender and I feed it to the dog.
I had been to 4 of them.
The ones in Texas I need to go to
Blacks BBQ and one other
I got to be in the mood for BBQ but like everyone I eat it . Briskit is the hardest to find that is really good.
I judge them by that. A lot of times its not tender and I feed it to the dog.
I will agree with you that the quality of a brisket is the true measure if a joint is a good one or not.
Many will want to try the pulled pork but that is such a fatty selection and when sauce is added, it?s hard to distinguish from one place to the next the quality, or even if someone just made it at home in crock pot.
Ribs are the other one many will clamor for but the issue I have is that I prefer Memphis style and rarely do places do them that way it seems. Everyone wants to slop on sauce during the cooking. I have no idea why people think caramelized bbq sauce on your meat makes it better. It?s as if someone saw their grandma putting ketchup on top of her meatloaf and thought ?hey that would work well for ribs?.
Many will want to try the pulled pork but that is such a fatty selection and when sauce is added, it?s hard to distinguish from one place to the next the quality, or even if someone just made it at home in crock pot.
Ribs are the other one many will clamor for but the issue I have is that I prefer Memphis style and rarely do places do them that way it seems. Everyone wants to slop on sauce during the cooking. I have no idea why people think caramelized bbq sauce on your meat makes it better. It?s as if someone saw their grandma putting ketchup on top of her meatloaf and thought ?hey that would work well for ribs?.
Nuclear bomb nearly exploded over NC in 1961: Paper
Nuclear bomb North Carolina: Hiroshima nuclear blast: Hiroshima nuclear blast.
A nuclear bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina, according to a declassified U.S. document published by a British newspaper.
LONDON ? A nuclear bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.
The Guardian newspaper said the document, obtained by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gave the first conclusive evidence that the United States came close to a disaster in January 1961.
The incident happened when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, N.C., after a B-52 bomber broke up in midair.
Related: Japan marks 68th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
There has been persistent speculation about how serious the incident was and the U.S. government has repeatedly denied its nuclear arsenal put Americans' lives at risk through safety flaws, the newspaper said.
But the newly published document said one of the two bombs behaved exactly in the manner of a nuclear weapon in wartime, with its parachute opening and its trigger mechanisms engaged. Only one low-voltage switch prevented a cataclysm.
Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people.
In the document, Parker Jones, a senior engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories responsible for the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons, concluded that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low-voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe."
Jones' report, titled "Goldsboro Revisited or: How I Learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb," was written eight years after the accident in which one hydrogen bomb fell into a field near Faro, N.C., and the other into a meadow.
He found that three of four safety mechanisms designed to prevent unintended detonation failed to operate properly in the Faro bomb.
When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device and it was only the final, highly vulnerable switch that averted a disaster.
"The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52," Jones concluded.
The Guardian said the document was found by Schlosser as he was researching a new book on the nuclear arms race, "Command and Control."
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damn where were yu in 61
were you living in North Carolina
that would have been a big boom and changed a lot of things in the eastern US
maybe now we would just be able to go back to North Carolina
Yellow jacks playing NC today
Nuclear bomb North Carolina: Hiroshima nuclear blast: Hiroshima nuclear blast.
A nuclear bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina, according to a declassified U.S. document published by a British newspaper.
LONDON ? A nuclear bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.
The Guardian newspaper said the document, obtained by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gave the first conclusive evidence that the United States came close to a disaster in January 1961.
The incident happened when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, N.C., after a B-52 bomber broke up in midair.
Related: Japan marks 68th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
There has been persistent speculation about how serious the incident was and the U.S. government has repeatedly denied its nuclear arsenal put Americans' lives at risk through safety flaws, the newspaper said.
But the newly published document said one of the two bombs behaved exactly in the manner of a nuclear weapon in wartime, with its parachute opening and its trigger mechanisms engaged. Only one low-voltage switch prevented a cataclysm.
Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people.
In the document, Parker Jones, a senior engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories responsible for the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons, concluded that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low-voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe."
Jones' report, titled "Goldsboro Revisited or: How I Learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb," was written eight years after the accident in which one hydrogen bomb fell into a field near Faro, N.C., and the other into a meadow.
He found that three of four safety mechanisms designed to prevent unintended detonation failed to operate properly in the Faro bomb.
When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device and it was only the final, highly vulnerable switch that averted a disaster.
"The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52," Jones concluded.
The Guardian said the document was found by Schlosser as he was researching a new book on the nuclear arms race, "Command and Control."
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damn where were yu in 61
were you living in North Carolina
that would have been a big boom and changed a lot of things in the eastern US
maybe now we would just be able to go back to North Carolina
Yellow jacks playing NC today
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama tore into Republicans on Friday for risking a government shutdown -- and a possible debt default -- in their latest efforts to sink Obamacare.
During a campaign-style speech in Liberty, Mo., the president took aim at House Republicans for, hours earlier, passing legislation that would keep the government funded past Oct. 1 but would also defund the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans are also planning another vote next week on legislation that would tie a one-year delay in Obama's signature health care law to raising the debt ceiling.
"The debate that's going on in Congress is not meeting the test of helping middle-class families," Obama said. "They're focused on politics. They're focused on trying to mess with me. They're not focused on you."
A government shutdown is "not abstract," he continued. Hundreds of thousands of people won't be allowed to go to work, he said, paychecks won't go out on time to people -- including those in the military overseas -- and small businesses won't get their loans processed. Meanwhile, if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling, that means the nation will default on its debt obligations to other countries, which could trigger another financial crisis, he said.
"Basically, America becomes a deadbeat," he said, wondering aloud why it seems like Republicans pick a fight "every six months" when it comes time to fund the government or raise the debt ceiling. While some Republicans may not like the Affordable Care Act, Obama noted it has been in law for three years, passed both chambers of Congress and was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court.
"You don't have to threaten to blow the whole thing up just because you don't get your way," he said to cheers.
Obama pinned blame on "a faction on the far right of the Republican Party" for risking a government shutdown over another attempt at doing away with Obamacare. He noted that some Republicans have said what a bad idea it is to mess with a possible shutdown or a debt default.
"One Republican senator called shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act 'the dumbest idea I've ever heard,'" said the president, referring to recent comments by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). Another top Republican has also warned in the past about risking a debt default.
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neo cons are so obvious and they make it so easy to hate them.
they will lose big time in 2014 with such stupid antics
and then we get Hillary in 2016
During a campaign-style speech in Liberty, Mo., the president took aim at House Republicans for, hours earlier, passing legislation that would keep the government funded past Oct. 1 but would also defund the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans are also planning another vote next week on legislation that would tie a one-year delay in Obama's signature health care law to raising the debt ceiling.
"The debate that's going on in Congress is not meeting the test of helping middle-class families," Obama said. "They're focused on politics. They're focused on trying to mess with me. They're not focused on you."
A government shutdown is "not abstract," he continued. Hundreds of thousands of people won't be allowed to go to work, he said, paychecks won't go out on time to people -- including those in the military overseas -- and small businesses won't get their loans processed. Meanwhile, if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling, that means the nation will default on its debt obligations to other countries, which could trigger another financial crisis, he said.
"Basically, America becomes a deadbeat," he said, wondering aloud why it seems like Republicans pick a fight "every six months" when it comes time to fund the government or raise the debt ceiling. While some Republicans may not like the Affordable Care Act, Obama noted it has been in law for three years, passed both chambers of Congress and was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court.
"You don't have to threaten to blow the whole thing up just because you don't get your way," he said to cheers.
Obama pinned blame on "a faction on the far right of the Republican Party" for risking a government shutdown over another attempt at doing away with Obamacare. He noted that some Republicans have said what a bad idea it is to mess with a possible shutdown or a debt default.
"One Republican senator called shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act 'the dumbest idea I've ever heard,'" said the president, referring to recent comments by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). Another top Republican has also warned in the past about risking a debt default.
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neo cons are so obvious and they make it so easy to hate them.
they will lose big time in 2014 with such stupid antics
and then we get Hillary in 2016
My name is Jason. I turned 35 less than a week ago. My first job was maintenance work at a public pool when I was 17. I worked 40-hours a week while I was in college. I've never gone longer than six months without employment in my life and I just spent the last three years in the military, one of which consisted of a combat tour of Afghanistan.
Oh, and I'm now on food stamps. Since June, as a matter of fact.
Why am I on food stamps?
The same reason everyone on food stamps is on food stamps: because I would very much enjoy not starving.
I mean, if that's okay with you:
?Mr. or Mrs. Republican congressman.
?Mr. or Mrs. Conservative commentator.
?Mr. or Mrs. "welfare queen" letter-to-the-editor author.
?Mr. or Mrs. "fiscal conservative, reason-based" libertarian.
I do apologize for burdening you on the checkout line with real-life images of American-style poverty. I know you probably believe the only true starving people in the world have flies buzzing around their eyes while they wallow away, near-lifeless in gutters.
Hate to burst the bubble, but those people don't live in this country.
I do. And millions like me. Millions of people in poverty who fall into three categories.
Let's call them the "lucky" category, since conservatives seem to think people on welfare have hit some sort of jackpot:
Those living paycheck to paycheck? They're a little lucky.
Those living unemployment check to unemployment check? They're a little luckier.
Those living 2nd of the month to 2nd of the month? Ding! We've hit the jackpot!
The 2nd of the month being the time when funds gets electronically deposited onto the EBT card, [at least in NY] for those who've never been fortunate enough to hit that $175/month Powerball.
I fall into the latter two categories. But I've known people recently -- soldiers in the Army -- who were in the first and third. They were off fighting in Afghanistan while their wives were at home, buying food at the on-post commissary with food stamps.
And nobody bats an eye there, because it's not uncommon in the military.
It's not uncommon -- nor is it shameful. It might be shameful how little service-members are paid, but that's a separate issue.
The fact remains anyone at a certain income level can find it difficult from time to time to pay for everything. And when you're poor you learn to make sacrifices. Food shouldn't be one of them.
The whole concept is un-American. People living here, in the greatest country on Earth, with the most abundant resources, should be forced to go hungry because of the intellectual notion of fiscal conservatism and the ideological notion of self-reliance.
Are you fucking kidding me?
I didn't risk my life in Afghanistan so I could come back and watch people go hungry in America. I certainly didn't risk it so I could come back and go hungry.
Anyone who genuinely supports cutting food stamps is not an intellectual or an ideologue -- they're a bully.
And nobody likes a bully. Except other bullies.
It's time for regular Americans to stand up to these bullies. Not cower in the corner, ashamed of needing help. Because if there's one thing life has taught me, it's that you never know when you'll be the one in need
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Food stamp ppl get 1 dollar a day for eating assistance.
Congress and Senators get 127.00 per day to eat on taxpayers money.
wtf
how fucked up is that
and their salarys are 176,000 a yr
it makes me sick as a American hurting the ppl that really need help
Oh, and I'm now on food stamps. Since June, as a matter of fact.
Why am I on food stamps?
The same reason everyone on food stamps is on food stamps: because I would very much enjoy not starving.
I mean, if that's okay with you:
?Mr. or Mrs. Republican congressman.
?Mr. or Mrs. Conservative commentator.
?Mr. or Mrs. "welfare queen" letter-to-the-editor author.
?Mr. or Mrs. "fiscal conservative, reason-based" libertarian.
I do apologize for burdening you on the checkout line with real-life images of American-style poverty. I know you probably believe the only true starving people in the world have flies buzzing around their eyes while they wallow away, near-lifeless in gutters.
Hate to burst the bubble, but those people don't live in this country.
I do. And millions like me. Millions of people in poverty who fall into three categories.
Let's call them the "lucky" category, since conservatives seem to think people on welfare have hit some sort of jackpot:
Those living paycheck to paycheck? They're a little lucky.
Those living unemployment check to unemployment check? They're a little luckier.
Those living 2nd of the month to 2nd of the month? Ding! We've hit the jackpot!
The 2nd of the month being the time when funds gets electronically deposited onto the EBT card, [at least in NY] for those who've never been fortunate enough to hit that $175/month Powerball.
I fall into the latter two categories. But I've known people recently -- soldiers in the Army -- who were in the first and third. They were off fighting in Afghanistan while their wives were at home, buying food at the on-post commissary with food stamps.
And nobody bats an eye there, because it's not uncommon in the military.
It's not uncommon -- nor is it shameful. It might be shameful how little service-members are paid, but that's a separate issue.
The fact remains anyone at a certain income level can find it difficult from time to time to pay for everything. And when you're poor you learn to make sacrifices. Food shouldn't be one of them.
The whole concept is un-American. People living here, in the greatest country on Earth, with the most abundant resources, should be forced to go hungry because of the intellectual notion of fiscal conservatism and the ideological notion of self-reliance.
Are you fucking kidding me?
I didn't risk my life in Afghanistan so I could come back and watch people go hungry in America. I certainly didn't risk it so I could come back and go hungry.
Anyone who genuinely supports cutting food stamps is not an intellectual or an ideologue -- they're a bully.
And nobody likes a bully. Except other bullies.
It's time for regular Americans to stand up to these bullies. Not cower in the corner, ashamed of needing help. Because if there's one thing life has taught me, it's that you never know when you'll be the one in need
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Food stamp ppl get 1 dollar a day for eating assistance.
Congress and Senators get 127.00 per day to eat on taxpayers money.
wtf
how fucked up is that
and their salarys are 176,000 a yr
it makes me sick as a American hurting the ppl that really need help
President Barack Obama and Iran's new president Hasan Rouhani are heading to New York next week for the U.N.'s annual meeting of the General Assembly.
TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's President Hasan Rouhani, speaking Sunday on the eve of a trip to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly, declared his country is ready for talks with the West on its disputed nuclear problem.
Rouhani, who was elected in June promising a new willingness to engage diplomatically with the world, has said the trip may be a chance to start a new round of nuclear negotiations.
Rouhani and President Barack Obama are both scheduled to attend the General Assembly's annual meeting in the week ahead, setting up the possibility of the first exchange between American and Iranian leaders in more than three decades.
"The Iranian nation is ready for negotiation and talks with the West," Rouhani said.
Related: In latest overture, Rouhani urges world leaders to engage with Iran
The president has promised to abandon the bombastic approach favored by his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but continues to assert Tehran's position that it has the right to conduct nuclear activities that the West fears could be a step toward weapons development, especially the enrichment of uranium. Iran says its program is peaceful, intended for purposes including research and cancer treatment, and enrichment is necessary for purposes including the fueling of reactors.
"If (Western countries) yield before Iran's rights, the Iranian nation backs cooperation, logic, peace and friendship," Rouhani said. "Then we will be able to resolve regional, even global problems."
Iran and the United States are also at odds over the civil war in Syria. Tehran backs President Bashar Assad, while Washington supports rebels trying to oust him.
Rouhani also insisted that the U.S. foreswear a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, a possibility that Washington has left open. "No nation will accept war and diplomacy on (the same) table," he said.
He reiterated Iran's position that it does not intend to build nuclear weapons.
The speech at a military parade for the 33th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, which set off a ruinous eight-year war. The speech was carried live by state TV.
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these fuckers are very close to having a nuke
yeh its only for peaceful purposes and to keep Israel and others from ever bothering them again.
this world is just pathetic
now every other crazy muslim country will do the same\
TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's President Hasan Rouhani, speaking Sunday on the eve of a trip to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly, declared his country is ready for talks with the West on its disputed nuclear problem.
Rouhani, who was elected in June promising a new willingness to engage diplomatically with the world, has said the trip may be a chance to start a new round of nuclear negotiations.
Rouhani and President Barack Obama are both scheduled to attend the General Assembly's annual meeting in the week ahead, setting up the possibility of the first exchange between American and Iranian leaders in more than three decades.
"The Iranian nation is ready for negotiation and talks with the West," Rouhani said.
Related: In latest overture, Rouhani urges world leaders to engage with Iran
The president has promised to abandon the bombastic approach favored by his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but continues to assert Tehran's position that it has the right to conduct nuclear activities that the West fears could be a step toward weapons development, especially the enrichment of uranium. Iran says its program is peaceful, intended for purposes including research and cancer treatment, and enrichment is necessary for purposes including the fueling of reactors.
"If (Western countries) yield before Iran's rights, the Iranian nation backs cooperation, logic, peace and friendship," Rouhani said. "Then we will be able to resolve regional, even global problems."
Iran and the United States are also at odds over the civil war in Syria. Tehran backs President Bashar Assad, while Washington supports rebels trying to oust him.
Rouhani also insisted that the U.S. foreswear a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, a possibility that Washington has left open. "No nation will accept war and diplomacy on (the same) table," he said.
He reiterated Iran's position that it does not intend to build nuclear weapons.
The speech at a military parade for the 33th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, which set off a ruinous eight-year war. The speech was carried live by state TV.
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these fuckers are very close to having a nuke
yeh its only for peaceful purposes and to keep Israel and others from ever bothering them again.
this world is just pathetic
now every other crazy muslim country will do the same\
best of both worlds for you huh
ND headed for a few beat downs though
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start right back in , its your style
on a lighter side
Tommy Reis Notre Dame :142smilie
you should have called the coach and told them not to get stuffed in the run game so much
Sat, Oct 5 vs
Arizona St*
7:30 PM ET NBC :facepalm:
Sat, Oct 19 vs
USC
7:30 PM ET NBC :facepalm:
Sat, Oct 26 @
Air Force
5:00 PM ET CBS Sports Network
Sat, Nov 2 vs
Navy
3:30 PM ET NBC
Sat, Nov 9 @
Pittsburgh
TBD
Sat, Nov 23 vs
BYU
3:30 PM ET NBC :facepalm:
Sat, Nov 30 @
#5 Stanford:facepalm:
TBD
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looks like Notre Dame wont see another championship game for another 20 yrs
nice play on ND :0008
on a lighter side
Tommy Reis Notre Dame :142smilie
you should have called the coach and told them not to get stuffed in the run game so much
Sat, Oct 5 vs
Arizona St*
7:30 PM ET NBC :facepalm:
Sat, Oct 19 vs
USC
7:30 PM ET NBC :facepalm:
Sat, Oct 26 @
Air Force
5:00 PM ET CBS Sports Network
Sat, Nov 2 vs
Navy
3:30 PM ET NBC
Sat, Nov 9 @
Pittsburgh
TBD
Sat, Nov 23 vs
BYU
3:30 PM ET NBC :facepalm:
Sat, Nov 30 @
#5 Stanford:facepalm:
TBD
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looks like Notre Dame wont see another championship game for another 20 yrs
nice play on ND :0008
. . . but then you'd be 0 and 4 and probably wouldn't post again, so in the grand scheme of things, I'm fine with it.
