Subdeacon Joe
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I thought it was something that I just hadn't noticed before
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I think that the click is my thumbnail tapping the screen
Voice in the background is the television
I don't know why you can't see anything.
I just uploaded to YouTube
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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Navy doesn't do well with guns that have a smaller than 3" bore....and a crew of three or more.
In WWII the Navy seems to have done well with 20mm and 40mm guns.
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SWMBO asked, "Do you ever wonder why something so big is called 'grapefruit'?" Which sent me to the computer to Google, "Why is grapefruit called grapefruit?" The basic answer is, "No one really knows, but here are a couple of theories." Someone said it tastes like unripe grapes, someone else said that it was because it grew in clusters like grapes, or, oddly that it tasted like grapes (I'm assuming ripe grapes here, which makes no sense), or that it tastes like something common in the Caribbean called a "sea grape" which grows in clusters and is sour and bitter.
Atlasobscura has an informative and humorous article about it's history, name, etc. A few choice bits from it:
QuoteThat food was grapefruit, a seemingly ordinary fruit that is, in truth, anything but ordinary. Right from the moment of its discovery, the grapefruit has been a true oddball. Its journey started in a place where it didn’t belong, and ended up in a lab in a place where it doesn’t grow. Hell, even the name doesn’t make any sense.
QuoteThis is largely guesswork, almost all of it, because citrus is a delightfully chaotic category of fruit. It hybridizes so easily that there are undoubtedly thousands, maybe more, separate varieties of citrus in the wild and in cultivation. Some of these, like the grapefruit, clementine, or Meyer lemon, catch on and become popular. But trying to figure out exactly where they came from, especially if they weren’t created recently in a fruit-breeding lab, is incredibly difficult.
QuoteBy the time of the Civil War, Florida’s population was the lowest of any Southern state, and even that was clustered in its northern reaches. It was the citrus groves down there that enticed anyone to even bother with the broiling, humid, swampy, hurricane-ridden, malarial region.
QuoteGrapefruit has a high volume of compounds called furanocoumarins, which are designed to protect the fruit from fungal infections. When you ingest grapefruit, those furanocoumarins take your cytochrome P450 enzymes offline. There’s no coming back. Grapefruit is powerful, and those cytochromes are donezo. So the body, when it encounters grapefruit, basically sighs, throws up its hands, and starts producing entirely new sets of cytochrome P450s. This can take over 12 hours.
This rather suddenly takes away one of the body’s main defense mechanisms. If you have a drug with 10 percent bioavailability, for example, the drugmakers, assuming you have intact cytochrome P450s, will prescribe you 10 times the amount of the drug you actually need, because so little will actually make it to your bloodstream. But in the presence of grapefruit, without those cytochrome P450s, you’re not getting 10 percent of that drug. You’re getting 100 percent. You’re overdosing.
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It was fun watching it figure it out.
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An aerial view of NAS Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, CA, taken #OTD in 1944. The largest hangar was originally constructed for the rigid airships USS Akron (ZRS 4) and USS Macon (ZRS 5).
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It became a classic film on WW2.
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MUSEUM MONDAY - ARTIFACT HIGHLIGHT - QUILTED GRAPESHOTDuring the Revolutionary War, Army cannoneers used a devastating type of ammunition, called grapeshot, to cut through lines of advancing infantry. It was made of a wooden base, called a sabot, a wooden rod, and a canvas bag filled with iron balls fixed around these wooden parts.Twine was tied around the outside to help the projectile keep its shape. It was coated with red oxide paint to prevent the shot from rusting. The finished product loosely resembled a bunch of grapes covered by a quilt, giving the projectile its name.When fired from a cannon, the bag and wooden parts would be blown apart and exit the cannon with the iron balls in a cone of destruction much like the blast of an oversized shotgun.The effective range of grapeshot was around 300 yards.
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Instant Pot Pinto Beans (No Soaking)
Ingredients
3 slices bacon (optional) If not using bacon add 2 tsp Vegetable Oil
4 cups chicken broth
1 pound dried pinto beans, rinsed
1 ½ cups water
½ cup chopped onions, or to taste (Optional)
2 green chili peppers
1 ¼ teaspoons garlic powder
1 ¼ teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon chili powder
½ teaspoon ground cumin
½ teaspoon paprika
Directions
Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot) and select Sauté function. Add bacon and cook, turning once, 4 to 6 minutes. Add chicken broth, pinto beans, water, onions, chile peppers, garlic powder, salt, chili powder, cumin, and paprika. Close and lock the lid.
Select high pressure according to manufacturer's instructions; set timer for 45 minutes. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for pressure to build.
Release pressure using the natural-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, 10 to 40 minutes. Unlock and remove the lid.
Remove bacon and chile peppers; chop to desired consistency and return to the pot. Mash beans with a potato masher until they reach desired consistency.
(Lenten version – omit bacon. 2 pounds Pinto Beans, rinsed; 1 cup chopped Onions; 2 large Garlic cloves, grated; 1 TBS Chili Powder; 1 TBS Taco Seasoning, ½ tsp each Cumin & Paprika; 2 Guajillo Peppers, stemmed and seeded; ½ cup Vegetable or Vegan Chicken Bouillon Powder, 2 tsp Kosher Salt; 10 cups Water. Sauté Onions, Garlic, and peppers. Add rest of ingredients, Stir, Close and cook as above.) Remove Peppers before serving.
As usual, play seasonings to suit your own tastes. I think after Pascha I'll make this with a ham hock instead of bacon.-
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5 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said:
It is surprising there are not more dancers in chairs or using canes.
Scroll a couple videos below that,
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5bWcM1ryju/
The video I see when I click on that is a young woman taking a few steps, doing a frontwards hand spring, and landing in a splits.
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21 hours ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:
Yeah - you gotta hate people and groups exercising that pesky First Admendment freedom...
Let's destroy their property and silence their free speech because we don't agree with it.
And then we should get highly indignant when they attempt to do the exact same thing to us.
Freedom is not solely for speech and behaviors you agree with.
Freedom is ugly - it is rife with offensive images, words and behaviors.
Freedom is covered with sharp, jagged edges that can cut and tear in both directions.
It is not obligated to nor limited by your feelings; and while some may choose "in polite society" to curtail their own freedoms - there is no reasonable expectation that everyone will be sanitized for your protection.
Freedom is either freedom "for all" or it doesn't exist.
Hmmm.....I'm assuming that you aren't talking about the illegal removal of statues and monuments by violent mobs over the past few years, you only object to the removal of statues you happen to like.
Vandalism isn't "free speech." Even that sanctioned by leftist government agencies. You have noticed that, haven't you? Burning an American flag in protests is "free speech" but burning a Mexican flag, a "pride" flag, or some other special group flag is a "hate crime." As you say, it should be "for all." But it isn't. Deface private or public property with BLM or Pride symbols, slogans, or propaganda and a certain party praises you. Remove or deface that vandalism and, according to that party, it's a hate crime, and will often result in riots, more vandalism, and other violence.
Personally, I think that revolver is a great comment on the uselessness of the UN.
Creeker also wrote: "I prefer not to be a hypocrite.
Justifying abhorrent behavior by stating "but they did it first" is juvenile."
It's called playing by the same rules. If you go into a fight using Olympic boxing rules against someone using MMA rules you get your clock cleaned. Have you noticed how, when right wingers drop the gloves and play by the other sides rules suddenly the rioters think it's unfair? Just like on a smaller scale the videos of a group of street toughs trying to beat up one person, and cheering their two or three people on, but as soon as their victim starts fighting back and getting the upper hand all those watching start shouting "STOP! THAT'S UNCALLED FOR! THAT'S GOING TOO FAR! YOU DON'T NEED TO HIT HIM SO HARD!" as if it's unfair for the victim to fight back using the same rules and methods.
The "moral high ground" as you said in that post, is to win, not to play nice. It's not trying to justify it, it's saying, "They want to play by these rules, fine, we will honor their own wishes and play by their rules."
You, sir, seem to object to a level field.
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I guess the Allied bombing of Germany was "juvenile" because it was a response to Germany bombing civilian targets in England.-
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The Shipwrecks of Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary
QuoteThe sanctuary boasts a diverse collection of historic shipwrecks dating back to the Revolutionary War, but is most renowned for the remains of over 100 wooden steamships known as the Ghost Fleet. The ships were built for the U.S. Emergency Fleet between 1917-1919 as part of America’s engagement in World War I. Their construction at more than 40 shipyards in 17 states reflected a massive wartime effort that drove the expansion and economic development of communities and related maritime services. Although nearly 300 ships were built, the war ended before the fleet was complete. Some of them carried cargo to Hawai‘i and elsewhere, but none made it to the theater of war.
Merchant Mariners
Image courtesy of Library of Congress
Ship building during World War I brought about the formalization of merchant mariners. Although merchant mariners already existed in the United States, the building, operation, and maintenance of hundreds of new vessels meant that significantly more skilled mariners were needed.
After the War
Image courtesy of National Archives
The war ended before the ships could be used and many of them were scuttled to the Potomac River for the purpose of salvaging scrap metal such as engines, steam boilers, and propellers. The Ghost Fleet was partially dismantled through three separate shipbreaking and metal salvage periods from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Western Marine and Salvage Corporation bought most of the ships and kept them in the Potomac River near Mallows Bay. They would take a few at a time to Alexandria to break them down for scrap metal. Those remaining in the Potomac would occasionally catch fire, break loose, and become hazards to navigation, so the company was ordered to corral them and they burnt a large number of them to the waterline before floating them into Mallows Bay. Western Marine and Salvage Company went bankrupt during the Depression era, which opened the door for local communities on both sides of the river to salvage the ship remains and derive needed income.
At the start of World War II, Baltimore’s Bethlehem Steel initiated the third and final shipbreaking period, lasting only two years. About 100 of the ships remain in the sanctuary today.
Ships as Valuable Habitats
Photo: David J. Ruck/NOAA
Nearly a century of natural processes have gradually transformed these ships into ecologically valuable habitats. The overgrown wrecks now form a series of distinctive islands, intertidal habitat, and underwater structure critical to fish, beavers, and birds such as ospreys, blue herons, and bald eagles. Although the sanctuary does not manage or regulate these natural resources, the unique blending of history and ecology attracts and captivates visitors.
https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/mallows-bay-ghost-fleet-charles-county-maryland/
QuoteOnce on the water, I unfolded the map and cruised out to the first of 16 naval attractions, the Accomac, a massive World War II ship later repurposed as a ferry and the only Mallows vessel that rises high enough above the water to still look like a boat. I paddled around it easily, but as I followed the route to other points on the map—sunken ships known as the Mallows Bay Ghost Fleet—I quickly understood why the ranger had warned me about getting too close.
The Accomac, a former naval vessel, now a safe haven for nesting ospreys (Photo courtesy of Maryland Department of Natural Resources)
Weathered wooden planks and twisted metal rods poked out of the water at peculiar angles, sometimes dripping with vegetation or sprouting trees—steampunk-like creations rising from the depths. As I skirted the edges of these ships, my imagination ran wild about what might loom underwater. Each time my paddleboard fin tapped a hard object, the bump threw me off balance and I teetered on my board. I pictured myself toppling into an abyss of jagged, rusty metal remnants and wondered if I was up to date on my tetanus shot.
https://savingplaces.org/places/ghost-fleet
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A different dance.
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7 hours ago, Tennessee williams said:
Widder and @Krazy Kajun has peed me off. I'm turning the lights off today with my hoodoo. Y'all have that dup to thank for it.
Dont let NASA make you think this was gonna happen anyway, cause if Ihadnt spit under that red rock and skinned that chicken with the jawbone of a coyote under the light of last months fool moon, it wouldn't happen.
He's a WITCH!!! Burn him!
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This isn't a routine, but it set the stage for the relationship of Festus with Matt, and introduced the nature of Festus
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1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Great minds or complete coincidence?
Two great minds running in the same gutter!
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Another spoof wasted. (sigh)
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News has just been released that Edinburgh Castle has been built with no planning permission. The city cooncil building control have searched the records but can find no trace of any application, a cooncil spokesperson has said that the Castle is closed with immediate effect, a demolition order will be issued and a contract will be signed with Daltons to remove the offending structure. The man from the cooncil said "whether it is a garden hut in Pilton, a bungalow in Craigmillar or a major city centre tourist attraction, rules are rules, we cannot just allow people to build castles wherever they decide".
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Reba Calls It
in SASS Wire Saloon
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