Donating a vehicle to charity is only good if you need the deduction, and in most cases, you can only get credit for part of the deduction. It didn't used to be that way, but they changed the tax code a few years back. Donating a vehicle doesn't get you much anymore.

The charities I talked to weren't really that excited to take a vehicle that has little to no value as dismantled parts, and I can't use the deduction anyway. Lucky for me, the Swedish Death Machine has a window in the exhaust manifold and the valves are hurt, so it's smoking and failing on smog, so the state might squeeze it for me for free just to ensure it never pollutes the precious air here again.

This sounds like a racist comment. Instead try this................In celebration of the removal of unhealthy cigars from the premise by the gallant and courageous hound of color, a party commences in his honor.

That's because you overcooked it a little... but although "overcooked" sounds like you messed up, you can see for yourself that you didn't. It depends on what you want to do with the finished product - and if you're cooking it for you, or for a competition. If you wanted to shred it... it came out perfect. Now if you'd pulled it at 160 like you originally planned it would have been tough.

I cook for me, because I love BBQ. I have, on occasion, purposely overcooked brisket to shred it for "pulled beef" sammiches... and it's damn good. Purists would say I ruined it, but I and the people I cooked for loved it.

My wife prefers brisket sliced, but she doesn't like it smoked. I cook it in the oven for her.

http://www.amazon.com/Meatrake-Perfect-Brisket-Effortless-Shredding/dp/B004P5B81Q 

A good set of insulated BBQ gloves is also a good idea.

No, I'd say you ruined the brisket because you didn't make pastrami out of it. **** goyim...

Never used the meatrakes, but I have something exactly like these and they work quite well.

http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-CMC-262-Pulling-Shredding-Claws/dp/B00O0GX6BU/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1452129745&sr=8-10&keywords=shredding+claws 

Honestly, I bought them because they were like $3 at home depot on clearance. Had meat rakes been the $3 clearance at the time, I probably would have bought them.

I've been though 4 different sets of gloves over the years, these are spendy but they are the best I've found hands down:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K1L9SAG? 

I ate an unhealthy amount of meat today.

Got the head unit installed in my truck. Steering wheel controls integrated, and even control my phone running spotify via bluetooth to the head unit.

Have to pull the dash apart again in a few days because I didn't buy a GM radio antenna adapter. Thought they'd have adopted the standard motorola antenna plug that everyone else in the world uses by now rather than keeping their proprietary connector. But it also gave me an excuse to expand the system already. Bought two amps and a sub.

Sound quality improvement is incredible with just the better head unit. Gotta pull the doors apart for speaker upgrades, but not much energy left after all that pork.

definitely not the way it was a few years back. and now you might get small chunks of deductible amounts as the car is stripped over time. certainly not like when one could take a "book" value all at once.

I guess people were donating worthless dead vehicles but estimating value based on the same car if it actually worked.

Oy! That killed me.

Yeah, well... 🍺

I found it humorous as well... even though I had to look up goyim. 🤦

Morning dan & all the gang. [frypan] 😰 [frypan]

Trapped a feral cat last night... we goin' for a ride to the lake. That's where all the coyotes live.

Poor kitty cat... [sarcasm]

Poor Kitty....

didnt know that was possible

a bacon (slab) a day keeps the doctor away 🙏

Pork n eggs this morning.

"After weeks at sea, Captain Fetherstonhaugh and his hardy crew had at last crossed the halfway point, and he mused that the closest dry land now lay in the Americas, assuming of course that it was not raining there." — David Laatsch, Baton Rouge, LA