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Number one: There are no mysteries, just simple physics.  But as we in the Gun Community know, most accidental discharges are negligent ones and the same applies to cooking with pressure. Almost all my experience is with old school Presto pressure cookers and I am not addressing any other brand

The designers of pressure cookers are not that dumb. They have designed the pot with several safeties and it is only when you don’t do the basic maintenance that people get hurt.

This is going to be lunch today. A simple Cocido Gallego” which is chickpeas with a Spanish chorizo and other goodies later to be added.

Almost all the safety features will be in the cover of the cooker. Those with artillery backgrounds should immediately notice the cover and the pot itself are like a breach to hold the pressure inside and that is safety measure one.

Now, the cover:

Rule #1 of safely using a pressure cooker is to KEEP THE VENT PIPE CLEAN!  Just like you would to a safety check on a firearm to see if there is a round in chamber every time you pick it up. If you are Colonel Cooper-religious about this, you are pretty much safe. Keep it clean and make sure before cooking that steam has a way to get out. If you don’t have a brush small enough, a length of solid copper wire can be used to clean the inside.  Blow on it but remember it is not a straw but a precisely designed tool to release a specific amount of pressure that will be controlled by the pressure regulator (AKA bell or maraca), something like this:

You may have noticed a black nipple looking thing near the vent pipe. That would be the overpressure plug and it is designed to save the lives and the kitchen of the idiots who did not check the vent pipe for obstructions and cooked anyway. Its mission is to fail first and dramatically, releasing the inside pressure. It will leave a mess behind, but liquid can be cleaned while shrapnel is a bit more long-lasting and very harmful.

This is the result of a working overpressure plug looks like and no, it is not a pressure cooking exploding like the title says but what a safety device looks when it does its job. Mop beats tourniquet.

It is a different make and model, but the principle is the same.

And last but not least, specially after seeing the first video, is the cover lock. It is also pressure activated and it locks the cover against the pot so morons do not go on and try to unlock the cooker while it is still under pressure.  It is the equivalent of pin that holds the grenade’s spoon. Also always make sure it moves freely and that it locks in position when pressure starts to build.

I promised a post with my recipe for black beans and since I will have to use the pressure cooker, I will make a video or two on a couple of other things so you can remove most of the fear that comes with pressure cookers or at least the irrational ones. I know people freak out at the constant noise of the steam being released and it is why they don’t cook with a pressure cooker, but you need to treat pressure cookers like a toddler: If you don’t hear a thing, trouble is about to happen.

From one of the Democrat’s favorite countries.

Iran has executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, a former exile in France whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.

The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported on December 12 that Tehran’s Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office announced Zam’s execution by hanging, causing a chorus of international outrage.

The execution comes days after Iran’s judiciary announced the Supreme Court had more than a month ago upheld a death sentence against the 47-year-old journalist.

Iran Executes Opposition Journalist Ruhollah Zam In ‘Barbaric’ Act

But if you believe our so-called Press, propagandist Jim Acosta is a martyr who should be pitied and admired because of Trump’s calling him Fake News.

Old school cartoons were weird and had great music.

Unborn Babies Disguise Selves As Death Row Inmates So Liberals Will Defend Their Right To Live | The Babylon Bee

Reader MarkCe left me a message about Facebook cancelling one of his post because of an “offending photo.” I posted the same pic and almost immediately got “spanked.”

So, what’s a innocent guy like me to do? Test their real standards, risk a trip to Facebook Jail and see if photos of other mass killers and dangerous individuals are removed for the sake of the FB populace:

And guess what? Facebook had no problem with these mass killers and overall dangerous individuals.
I told MarkCe my findings and he replied with a very insightful comment:

There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

UPDATE: Facebook now accepts all mass murderers.

I read Miguel’s post: Why Modern Racial Outrage is a bad joke.

One thing came to mind.

It takes on average 15 years for a person to go from conviction to execution.

During that time, every death row convict is entitled to an appeal.  In some states, the appeal is mandatory.

It’s during this process that groups like The Innocence Project can bring new evidence and seek to overturn the conviction and save an innocent man from death.  These appeals overwhelmingly help black convicts prove their innocence.

The internet is mad that Brandon Bernard was executed but Dylann Roof was not.

Bernard was convicted in 2000 and executed in 2020, lasting five years longer than the average.

Roof was convicted in 2017.  He is currently going through the appeal that he is legally entitled to.

So…

If the internet wants Roof, convicted in 2017 to be executed now, that means eliminating the appeals process that occasionally overturns a death row conviction, which disproportionately benefits black convicts.

Or they accept that Roof is going to be executed sometime between 2025 and 2035 because he’s entitled to the same long and laborious appeals process that all death penalty convect are entitled to, which (again) disproportionately benefits black convicts.

(Shorter)

Long death row wait with appeals means better justice and more wrongfully convicted (predominately black) people are let get before execution.

Short death row without appeals means more wrongfully convicted (predominately black) people are executed.

As someone who is a fan of the death penalty, I’d rather Roof get his needle ten years from now if it means that there is a better chance of an innocent man having his conviction overturned because of the process.

Call that the death penalty version of Blackstone’s corollary.

Although, what I suspect that these people really want is for black death row inmates to have infinite appeals and white death row inmates to be put down the next day, because to these people everything is about race.  But that is racist, immoral, and unconstitutional.

So I put it up to them.

If they want time for The Innocence Project to overturn the convictions of wrongfully convicted black men, they have to accept that Roof is going to be alive for another decade or so going through his appeals as well.

Posts like this have been popping up and down the Usual Social Media Platforms: the alleged White Privilege of Dylan Roof over Brandon Bernard because he has not been executed. And the False Narrative that Bernard did not kill anybody.

Dylan Roof was sentenced to die just 3 years or so ago and those with a little knowledge of how executions go, know that it will take at least a decade before any serious trip to the gurney will be taken. Brandon Bernard was found guilty in 2000. And as far the “Killed, 0” remark, I once again post the DOJ’s remarks:

The abductors eventually parked on the Fort Hood military reservation, where Bernard and another accomplice doused the car with lighter fluid as the couple, still locked in the trunk, sang and prayed.  After Stacie said, “Jesus loves you,” and “Jesus, take care of us,” one of the accomplices shot both Todd and Stacie in the head—killing Todd and knocking Stacie unconscious.  Bernard then lit the car on fire, killing Stacie through smoke inhalation.

Executions Scheduled for Two Federal Inmates Convicted of Heinous Murders

So when I get a young pneumatic thing, waving a cyber-fist at me and trying to “educated me” with falsehoods on a murder that happened even before she was born, I have to laugh and consider the whole BLM a tragic (but funny) joke that will come back to bite them hard in the ass and other anatomical locations.

And we will get to tell them “I told you so!”