Wake the fuck up you corporate whores, we have had enough of your shit and you are going away.
I still haven't heard about the Oregon Primary but this is a vey clear message that we have had more than enough of these fucking assholes not listening.
Arlen Specter is the equivalent of Joe Lieberman and now he is gone, just like that.
Good riddance.
I have a feeling that Blanche Lincoln is seeing the writing on the wall and her opponent is going to go for the jugular.
Understand this, I am not talking partisan politics here, I am talking a very clear signal that the incumbents have to go, business as usual is over.
Halleluja, it's about time and more of this, please.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Back To Reality
I scattered my Get Home Bag all over the damn table late last week and then like the idiot I am, went for a two hour one way drive without it over the weekend.
I wasn't too worried about it, I was in cell phone distance from both ends if the truck broke down and I always have at the very least two pocket knives, a small Snap On crescent wrench and at least two ways to make fire.
If nothing else, it was an Interstate highway and the cops would have taken me somewhere just to get me off the highway.
Damn, I just rearranged that thing and it doesn't have a lick of fresh clothes in it and I bet it still weighs twenty five pounds.
I do have a couple of things in it that I have not seen mentioned, it is compartmentalized in case of a real damn emergency so that I can dump the main bag, grab a few separate items, and get down the fucking road and still be able to expect to get by for at least two days.
If I can't hitch a ride or get where I am going, take my word, I am a VERY resourceful guy. Several years in the Boy Scouts and a lifetime of hardscrabble living has taught me things that ninety percent of my contemporaries would have no fucking clue about how to survive in this particular area.
One thing I haven't seen was anyone carrying a fishing vest.
They have tons of pockets and if you get creative enough, you can stuff enough crap in one of those by it's self to get by for at least four days. Just make sure some of those pockets have some kind of food in them, dehydrated, preferably, and a way to carry water. Even a condom or a plastic bag will work.
Another item is a prepackaged , cheapie water bottle that has a space blanket, water tablets, a lighter, a poncho and several other handy little items I got from my folks for Christmas a couple years ago. Re arrange the damn thing and you can get by with one of those by it's self. Put a good knife, some tin foil, tea bags and some bullion cubes in it and you can get by for several days if ya can find some water.
Around here in the Columbia Gorge, you would have to be hurt so bad you couldn't crawl and not find water.
Either way, make damn sure every thing is water proof and that at the very least, you have an extra heavy duty , size large garbage bag, a Bic lighter and a good knife. That alone can save your skin around here.
I wasn't too worried about it, I was in cell phone distance from both ends if the truck broke down and I always have at the very least two pocket knives, a small Snap On crescent wrench and at least two ways to make fire.
If nothing else, it was an Interstate highway and the cops would have taken me somewhere just to get me off the highway.
Damn, I just rearranged that thing and it doesn't have a lick of fresh clothes in it and I bet it still weighs twenty five pounds.
I do have a couple of things in it that I have not seen mentioned, it is compartmentalized in case of a real damn emergency so that I can dump the main bag, grab a few separate items, and get down the fucking road and still be able to expect to get by for at least two days.
If I can't hitch a ride or get where I am going, take my word, I am a VERY resourceful guy. Several years in the Boy Scouts and a lifetime of hardscrabble living has taught me things that ninety percent of my contemporaries would have no fucking clue about how to survive in this particular area.
One thing I haven't seen was anyone carrying a fishing vest.
They have tons of pockets and if you get creative enough, you can stuff enough crap in one of those by it's self to get by for at least four days. Just make sure some of those pockets have some kind of food in them, dehydrated, preferably, and a way to carry water. Even a condom or a plastic bag will work.
Another item is a prepackaged , cheapie water bottle that has a space blanket, water tablets, a lighter, a poncho and several other handy little items I got from my folks for Christmas a couple years ago. Re arrange the damn thing and you can get by with one of those by it's self. Put a good knife, some tin foil, tea bags and some bullion cubes in it and you can get by for several days if ya can find some water.
Around here in the Columbia Gorge, you would have to be hurt so bad you couldn't crawl and not find water.
Either way, make damn sure every thing is water proof and that at the very least, you have an extra heavy duty , size large garbage bag, a Bic lighter and a good knife. That alone can save your skin around here.
Monday, May 17, 2010
He's BAAAAAAACK!!
And he is just as fucking stupid as ever.
Who would that be you ask?
Why my favorite idiot, Governor Bobby Jindal,(R)etarded) (LA).
I swear, this guy likes abuse.
Louisiana governor Jindal takes active role in dealing with spill.
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
LOL!
He said it, in print, so I didn't have too.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Dave.
Wait, it gets better.
Oh my fucking God, this guy never ceases to amaze me with his idiocy.
Build new islands?
Build new islands.
Oh my, here we go.
For those new to this joint, I tore Jindal a new asshole last year when he did the rebuttal to the then new Presidents speech. In that rebuttal, he was whining about the money spent for monitoring volcano's. I won't go into it much, you can read my ass blistering comments on that here.
I do have to say it was one of my best posts.
Anyway, in that, I was ranting about all of the ash from the eruption of Mt.Saint Helens in 1980 that is still all over the fucking place, miles and miles of it, complete. artificial. islands of it. miles long..
That should give ya an idea of how much raw material I am talking about, 230 square miles.
So, here's the deal ya little moron.
You want new islands?They can get pretty spendy.
I will GIVE you new islands, just send a couple THOUSAND barges and the equipment and crews and you can have as many as ya want.
Really.
It will only take , oh, maybe ten years but hey, they are free!
My God, the stupid, it hurts to get down to that level of ignorance for more than a few seconds.
Where the fuck does he think he is just going to "get" some islands, Ebay?
You poor fuckers in Louisiana voted this cretin into office, you deal with his stupid ass while I slam another shot of whiskey and laugh my guts out.
What a maroon.
Update,
Bonus, today is the thirtieth anniversary of that sucker blowing it's top.
What a koinky dink.
Who would that be you ask?
Why my favorite idiot, Governor Bobby Jindal,(R)etarded) (LA).
I swear, this guy likes abuse.
Louisiana governor Jindal takes active role in dealing with spill.
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Strapped into a National Guard Black Hawk, peering down at green water mottled with oil sheen, the most serious man in Louisiana is starting to sound ridiculous.
LOL!
He said it, in print, so I didn't have too.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Dave.
Wait, it gets better.
Over the helicopter's intercom, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is explaining to the mayor of New Orleans two of the state's efforts to keep back the oil slick. One is named for a Mexican entree. The other is named for a Cajun sausage.
The "burrito levee" and the "boudin bag" are part of a vast effort, overseen by Jindal, to hold back a slick that is already spitting tar balls onto the state's coast. He also has a plan to create more Louisiana, building new barrier islands in the oil's path.
"It makes so much sense. It's so obvious. We gotta do it," Jindal said into his headphones. His call for a major government response stands in apparent contrast to his previous calls for small government.
Oh my fucking God, this guy never ceases to amaze me with his idiocy.
Build new islands?
Build new islands.
Oh my, here we go.
For those new to this joint, I tore Jindal a new asshole last year when he did the rebuttal to the then new Presidents speech. In that rebuttal, he was whining about the money spent for monitoring volcano's. I won't go into it much, you can read my ass blistering comments on that here.
I do have to say it was one of my best posts.
Anyway, in that, I was ranting about all of the ash from the eruption of Mt.Saint Helens in 1980 that is still all over the fucking place, miles and miles of it, complete. artificial. islands of it. miles long..
That should give ya an idea of how much raw material I am talking about, 230 square miles.
So, here's the deal ya little moron.
You want new islands?They can get pretty spendy.
I will GIVE you new islands, just send a couple THOUSAND barges and the equipment and crews and you can have as many as ya want.
Really.
It will only take , oh, maybe ten years but hey, they are free!
My God, the stupid, it hurts to get down to that level of ignorance for more than a few seconds.
Where the fuck does he think he is just going to "get" some islands, Ebay?
You poor fuckers in Louisiana voted this cretin into office, you deal with his stupid ass while I slam another shot of whiskey and laugh my guts out.
What a maroon.
Update,
Bonus, today is the thirtieth anniversary of that sucker blowing it's top.
What a koinky dink.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
The Song Remains The Same
With zero apologies to Led Zeppelin, who pretty much ripped off every damned song they ever played from some old blues musician or another. Shit, the other day I read where even the guitar from Stairway was stolen. And to think how many hours I wasted on them in high school...quite literally.
What? It was the 70s. Get off me.
Anyway, this is about solar sail technology which I think is awesome in a retro kind of way. Given the fact that our planet is about 70% ocean and a lot of it was explored with sailing ships. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to just sail off over the horizon not knowing where you're going or what you'll find or how you'll kill the people who already live there so you can steal their gold.
So, here we are...starting to explore space and what are we using? Sailing ships.
I think that fucking rocks because it reminds us that for all our technological advancement there is still a whole hell of a lot we don't know. We want to go someplace over the horizon so we're falling back on the tried and true to get us started.
No doubt the technology will advance someday and sails in space will become playthings or historical curiosities, like the boats with sails that most of us know, but that's where we are right now, today. Hell, we ain't even there yet. We're still trying to figure out if hanging up a big ass piece of something that can catch the (solar) wind will even work.
We're gonna need to get off this planet someday so why not? We sure as hell ain't gonna row there.
Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta get back to wonderin' if that pic OB posted is really his girlfriend. She's hot enough, for damn sure...and the kitchen is small enough...but could a place known as The Weasel Den really be that tidy?
spongebobcrackwhore
Saturday, May 15, 2010
I'm A Lucky Sonofabitch Sometimes
Damn, you should have seen my girlfiend at the store today.
Even the chicks were checking her out.
What a fuckin' hottie! Short black dress, killer stilleto's,tits all over the damn place.
Shit, she bent over looking at some hamburger and I had to stand behind her.
If there is anything better than a hot chick in a short skirt bending over right in front of ya, God kept it for himself.
If ya don't hear from me for a bit, you can figure that shit out, can't ya?
Bye.
Even the chicks were checking her out.
What a fuckin' hottie! Short black dress, killer stilleto's,tits all over the damn place.
Shit, she bent over looking at some hamburger and I had to stand behind her.
If there is anything better than a hot chick in a short skirt bending over right in front of ya, God kept it for himself.
If ya don't hear from me for a bit, you can figure that shit out, can't ya?
Bye.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Constitution Toilet Paper
Our politicians are nothing but thieving lying bastards. Every fucking one of 'em.
Somebody wanna tell me why there's a provision in Obama's Heath Care Reform that says an elderly or disabled person can't buy a powered scooter or wheelchair until they've rented one for 13 months? What the fuck is that? This is America for Christ sake and you're not allowed to BUY something?
That, right there, is the corruption of the system at work. You know damn good and well that some lobby or another got to enough politicians with enough bribe money...oh, sorry...it's called "campaign contributions" nowadays...to get that bullshit included.
Somebody else wanna tell me why there's a cap on what oil companies have to pay to clean up spills? No, I'll tell you...because the fucking oil lobby bought it into law. Fuck the environment and let the tax payers foot the bill.
Anybody ever heard of that pledge that Congressmen and Senators were asked to sign saying they wouldn't become lobbyists after they left office? Yeah, that went over like a TSA agent with a small dick walking through a full body scanner. I don't think anybody ever signed the damned thing. Once the bastards get elected and learn the system they bail off to some half-million dollar a year job to do some serious country-raping.
I wanna fucking bitch-slap somebody when I hear a politician use the word "change". What the fuck ever changes besides not a god-damned thing? Dick Cheney wiped his ass with the Constitution and that stupid fucking bitch Obama nominated to the Supreme Court will do the exact same thing.
Have you read some of the bullshit that comes out of that woman? She says the fucking First Amendment somehow doesn't apply! She says the government can censor speech "when it's motives and intentions are good". That's almost as fucking ridiculous as Cheney claiming to be free from Congressional Subpoena because the Office of The Vice President isn't part of the fucking Executive Branch!
Have these brain-dead assholes never even READ the paper they've sworn to uphold? I've read it hundreds of times just trying to figure out what in the hell they're thinking in Washington DC. The Patriot Act alone violates the 4th Amendment in more ways than I can count.
When my brother was in the army they passed out a questionnaire to the 82nd Airborne and one of the questions was how would they feel about going house to house IN AMERICA confiscating guns. It got leaked and the Pentagon backtracked pronto, saying the question was "designed to ascertain willingness to obey an unlawful order". I call bullshit. Governments prefer unarmed peasants and they intend to have 'em someday.
Go read the Bill Of Rights and ask yourself how many things have been crossed off the list by the fucking government. I see the 4th gone. I see the 1st and 2nd in very serious danger. I see the 5th violated daily. The 6th and 8th have been ignored for years. The 10th passed completely away 100 years before I was born on the battlefields of the Civil War. The 9th is so ambiguous as to be practically meaningless these days.
That leaves us with the 7th and 3rd. Woohoo! We can get a trial by jury in civil matters and don't have to quarter troops! Sweet.
I could power the fucking universe if I could use Thomas Jefferson and the boys as generators. They're spinning in their graves fast enough.
I've never been to Washington DC but if I ever do go I wanna get a couple of cases of toilet paper with the Constitution printed on the sheets so I can hand 'em out free to Congressmen and Senators. Holy fucking shit...I'd do it, too...if I didn't already know for a certain fact that I'd be arrested for some damn thing or another.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just getting too old. Maybe I'm senile and I just don't get it anymore. I thought America was about personal freedom. Maybe I'm the one who lost the plot...but I'll tell you one thing...this country is really startin' to suck. Bad.
spongebobcrackwhore
Somebody wanna tell me why there's a provision in Obama's Heath Care Reform that says an elderly or disabled person can't buy a powered scooter or wheelchair until they've rented one for 13 months? What the fuck is that? This is America for Christ sake and you're not allowed to BUY something?
That, right there, is the corruption of the system at work. You know damn good and well that some lobby or another got to enough politicians with enough bribe money...oh, sorry...it's called "campaign contributions" nowadays...to get that bullshit included.
Somebody else wanna tell me why there's a cap on what oil companies have to pay to clean up spills? No, I'll tell you...because the fucking oil lobby bought it into law. Fuck the environment and let the tax payers foot the bill.
Anybody ever heard of that pledge that Congressmen and Senators were asked to sign saying they wouldn't become lobbyists after they left office? Yeah, that went over like a TSA agent with a small dick walking through a full body scanner. I don't think anybody ever signed the damned thing. Once the bastards get elected and learn the system they bail off to some half-million dollar a year job to do some serious country-raping.
I wanna fucking bitch-slap somebody when I hear a politician use the word "change". What the fuck ever changes besides not a god-damned thing? Dick Cheney wiped his ass with the Constitution and that stupid fucking bitch Obama nominated to the Supreme Court will do the exact same thing.
Have you read some of the bullshit that comes out of that woman? She says the fucking First Amendment somehow doesn't apply! She says the government can censor speech "when it's motives and intentions are good". That's almost as fucking ridiculous as Cheney claiming to be free from Congressional Subpoena because the Office of The Vice President isn't part of the fucking Executive Branch!
Have these brain-dead assholes never even READ the paper they've sworn to uphold? I've read it hundreds of times just trying to figure out what in the hell they're thinking in Washington DC. The Patriot Act alone violates the 4th Amendment in more ways than I can count.
When my brother was in the army they passed out a questionnaire to the 82nd Airborne and one of the questions was how would they feel about going house to house IN AMERICA confiscating guns. It got leaked and the Pentagon backtracked pronto, saying the question was "designed to ascertain willingness to obey an unlawful order". I call bullshit. Governments prefer unarmed peasants and they intend to have 'em someday.
Go read the Bill Of Rights and ask yourself how many things have been crossed off the list by the fucking government. I see the 4th gone. I see the 1st and 2nd in very serious danger. I see the 5th violated daily. The 6th and 8th have been ignored for years. The 10th passed completely away 100 years before I was born on the battlefields of the Civil War. The 9th is so ambiguous as to be practically meaningless these days.
That leaves us with the 7th and 3rd. Woohoo! We can get a trial by jury in civil matters and don't have to quarter troops! Sweet.
I could power the fucking universe if I could use Thomas Jefferson and the boys as generators. They're spinning in their graves fast enough.
I've never been to Washington DC but if I ever do go I wanna get a couple of cases of toilet paper with the Constitution printed on the sheets so I can hand 'em out free to Congressmen and Senators. Holy fucking shit...I'd do it, too...if I didn't already know for a certain fact that I'd be arrested for some damn thing or another.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just getting too old. Maybe I'm senile and I just don't get it anymore. I thought America was about personal freedom. Maybe I'm the one who lost the plot...but I'll tell you one thing...this country is really startin' to suck. Bad.
spongebobcrackwhore
We Shall See
I did something out of the ordinary last night and actually got something accomplished.
I cut up some paper towel rolls and got out the peat moss and some seeds and started twenty five little peat pots.
I have WAY more seeds than garden space but that is a good thing.
They are sitting next to a window and will stay warm and get plenty of light.
I also tore into my get home bag, what a disaster that thing was.
It is going to take several more hours to put it back together the way I want it but it was way the hell overdue.
Little by little, I am trying to get my shit back together, I have seriously been slacking.
Now that the weather is starting to get decent, I find myself getting more active. I am one of those unfortunate souls who gets all fucked up in the winter, the short days and miserable weather just shuts me down.
Now I have more to do than I can shake a stick at but I am chipping away at the stone.
I am going to busier than a half fucked fox in a firestorm here shortly.
I cut up some paper towel rolls and got out the peat moss and some seeds and started twenty five little peat pots.
I have WAY more seeds than garden space but that is a good thing.
They are sitting next to a window and will stay warm and get plenty of light.
I also tore into my get home bag, what a disaster that thing was.
It is going to take several more hours to put it back together the way I want it but it was way the hell overdue.
Little by little, I am trying to get my shit back together, I have seriously been slacking.
Now that the weather is starting to get decent, I find myself getting more active. I am one of those unfortunate souls who gets all fucked up in the winter, the short days and miserable weather just shuts me down.
Now I have more to do than I can shake a stick at but I am chipping away at the stone.
I am going to busier than a half fucked fox in a firestorm here shortly.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The Blame Game Redux (Warning: Different Perspective Ahead)
Actually corporations are people...in the form of millions of small investors who own stock (whether they know it or not - via 401K's and such) AND in the form of a handful of greedy, immoral bastards who get insanely rich by raping the planet just because we let 'em get away with it. The system, which rewards said greed with massive CEO salaries and bonuses, is DRIVEN by the greed of said tiny investors who expect a dividend at the end of the day. Gotta pump up that retirement fund, don't cha know. So what if it takes a few disasters? I got mine.
Better check your own...if you got one...before you read on
.
In other words, we're fucking ourselves. BP, Trans Ocean and Halliburton wouldn't be in it if there wasn't a consumer and investor demand for it. Let us not forget that even the liberal iconic god-like Michael Moore has owned stock in Halliburton.
Now, I don't dispute at all that this is an epic disaster. Personally, I'd call World War II the biggest man-made catastrophe in history but that's another debate. I'll see your decimated fisheries and raise all-in, with the number of humans who died. The planet has recovered from far worse than the biggest oil-spill. After we kill ourselves off something else will replace us...I'd bet large on the cockroaches but I won't be around to collect so what's the point?
No doubt that there are people who should hang high for this. And I get fucking pissed off beyond belief that these massive enterprises like BP and GM pay almost no tax while families struggle to pay the bills.
Meh...but demonizing corporations does no good in the end because they're going to keep on doing whatever they can get away with, aren't they?
"Of course fucking of course! I wasn't asking, I was telling."
(sorry...had to sneak in one of my favorite lines from the movie Snatch)
Who allows the corporations to get away with this bullshit?
The government does.
Who elects the government?
We do.
At the end of the day the only conclusion that I can come to is that we just don't give a fuck until something bad happens. We, the people, have totally and utterly FAILED to do preventative maintenance and make sure that our government operates the way it ought to. No fucking different from the engines and pumps and shit that OB busts his knuckles on every day.
"People get the government they deserve, whether by action or inaction". Thomas Jefferson said that, I believe...or something along those lines...I don't mind being corrected if I'm wrong in either the quote or the source.
The wrong way to change things is by violence, you'll never hear me advocate that...the right way is by ceasing to be complacent and by making voices heard in the vote. The problem with that scenario is, once again, that we just don't give a fuck. I'm so disillusioned by the political process in this country that I don't. I've pretty much washed my hands of it because stupidity is my biggest pet peeve and stupidity is rampant on both sides. My one single vote ain't gonna make a damned bit of difference one way or the other because too many other people are fucking idiots. Republicans in charge, Democrats in charge...it doesn't fucking matter because the only changes these days are wild swings to either the left or right.
We're spinning our wheels and going nowhere fast. If I was allowed 5 minutes in charge of America and could pass one law in that time which could never be repealed I would make it this...the outlawing, totally and completely, of lobbying by special interest groups. I would make it a capital offense. No more bought-and-paid-for politicians. No more pork barrel bullshit.
The language of the bill would basically say (in legalistic terms, since government thrives on THAT), "Look, you've been elected to do what's right for the people who gave you that power so what's the problem? Shut the fuck up and do it or you're out of here".
I don't dispute anything OB said...I agree with it all. I just think that we, the people, as a body, need to stop pointing fingers unless we're looking in a fucking mirror.
spongebobcrackwhore
Better check your own...if you got one...before you read on
.
In other words, we're fucking ourselves. BP, Trans Ocean and Halliburton wouldn't be in it if there wasn't a consumer and investor demand for it. Let us not forget that even the liberal iconic god-like Michael Moore has owned stock in Halliburton.
Now, I don't dispute at all that this is an epic disaster. Personally, I'd call World War II the biggest man-made catastrophe in history but that's another debate. I'll see your decimated fisheries and raise all-in, with the number of humans who died. The planet has recovered from far worse than the biggest oil-spill. After we kill ourselves off something else will replace us...I'd bet large on the cockroaches but I won't be around to collect so what's the point?
No doubt that there are people who should hang high for this. And I get fucking pissed off beyond belief that these massive enterprises like BP and GM pay almost no tax while families struggle to pay the bills.
Meh...but demonizing corporations does no good in the end because they're going to keep on doing whatever they can get away with, aren't they?
"Of course fucking of course! I wasn't asking, I was telling."
(sorry...had to sneak in one of my favorite lines from the movie Snatch)
Who allows the corporations to get away with this bullshit?
The government does.
Who elects the government?
We do.
At the end of the day the only conclusion that I can come to is that we just don't give a fuck until something bad happens. We, the people, have totally and utterly FAILED to do preventative maintenance and make sure that our government operates the way it ought to. No fucking different from the engines and pumps and shit that OB busts his knuckles on every day.
"People get the government they deserve, whether by action or inaction". Thomas Jefferson said that, I believe...or something along those lines...I don't mind being corrected if I'm wrong in either the quote or the source.
The wrong way to change things is by violence, you'll never hear me advocate that...the right way is by ceasing to be complacent and by making voices heard in the vote. The problem with that scenario is, once again, that we just don't give a fuck. I'm so disillusioned by the political process in this country that I don't. I've pretty much washed my hands of it because stupidity is my biggest pet peeve and stupidity is rampant on both sides. My one single vote ain't gonna make a damned bit of difference one way or the other because too many other people are fucking idiots. Republicans in charge, Democrats in charge...it doesn't fucking matter because the only changes these days are wild swings to either the left or right.
We're spinning our wheels and going nowhere fast. If I was allowed 5 minutes in charge of America and could pass one law in that time which could never be repealed I would make it this...the outlawing, totally and completely, of lobbying by special interest groups. I would make it a capital offense. No more bought-and-paid-for politicians. No more pork barrel bullshit.
The language of the bill would basically say (in legalistic terms, since government thrives on THAT), "Look, you've been elected to do what's right for the people who gave you that power so what's the problem? Shut the fuck up and do it or you're out of here".
I don't dispute anything OB said...I agree with it all. I just think that we, the people, as a body, need to stop pointing fingers unless we're looking in a fucking mirror.
spongebobcrackwhore
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
All's Quiet At The Weasel Den
My roomie moved out the other day, he is house sitting for a buddy of his who goes fishing in Alaska during the summer. Good for him, I am going to miss his drunk ass though, hell of a cook and he did dishes too.
The place is a disaster now though.
I had enough room to get past the fridge and found a tote full of cookware I got from my Grandmother a year ago.
I have shit scattered all over now, trying to sort stuff out. I did three sink loads of dishes, gave my neighbor enough different kinds of knives to open a store, along with all the coffee cups he could carry and a George Foreman grill and other crap.
Time to downsize again.
I want to keep as much of Grannies stuff as possible, that's when they made stuff to last. Some of these things are sixty five years old, at least.
I knew damn good and well I had a casserole dish with a lid, found that.Bigger than this one too.
Antique cheese grater, check, antique flour fluffer with the screen at the bottom, check, more shit than I can shake a stick at, check.
Now I have to get rid of the Made In China crap to make room for the Made In America stuff that I loved since I was a child.
I even have her old Singer sewing machine, in the cabinet.
A lot of this stuff I am holding on to because they were going to throw it away and I figure by the time I am near death, the nieces, nephews and cousins are going to wish they had a little bit of something from Great Granny.If they don't , it's their loss.
In the mean time, I am going to use the shit out of it because it is Old School, high quality stuff.
As the saying goes, they don't make it like that anymore.
That and I just love antique shit for the same damn reason.
The place is a disaster now though.
I had enough room to get past the fridge and found a tote full of cookware I got from my Grandmother a year ago.
I have shit scattered all over now, trying to sort stuff out. I did three sink loads of dishes, gave my neighbor enough different kinds of knives to open a store, along with all the coffee cups he could carry and a George Foreman grill and other crap.
Time to downsize again.
I want to keep as much of Grannies stuff as possible, that's when they made stuff to last. Some of these things are sixty five years old, at least.
I knew damn good and well I had a casserole dish with a lid, found that.Bigger than this one too.
Antique cheese grater, check, antique flour fluffer with the screen at the bottom, check, more shit than I can shake a stick at, check.
Now I have to get rid of the Made In China crap to make room for the Made In America stuff that I loved since I was a child.
I even have her old Singer sewing machine, in the cabinet.
A lot of this stuff I am holding on to because they were going to throw it away and I figure by the time I am near death, the nieces, nephews and cousins are going to wish they had a little bit of something from Great Granny.If they don't , it's their loss.
In the mean time, I am going to use the shit out of it because it is Old School, high quality stuff.
As the saying goes, they don't make it like that anymore.
That and I just love antique shit for the same damn reason.
Antique Hunter Of God-Like Proportions
And the winner of the "Name That Antique" contest is...Demeur, who correctly identified it as a Georgian Traveling Apothecary Cabinet made of mahogany.
So correctly, in fact, that I found this apparently identical one for sale on Ebay and got overall dimensions along with some excellent pictures that show me a lot of construction details. That fucking rocks! The only thing better would be having the original plans.
I ain't going for an exact reproduction so I'll skip hand cut dovetails and shit like the spring loaded lockout on the doors when you lift the top. My sister wants it a little different anyway since she won't be using the square glass jars and such, not being a traveling apothecary herself and all.
Should be able to make it without too much trouble. I'll model it on the computer so I get all the details worked out and can figure out how much wood I'll need. And yes, I always buy a little bit more just in case. Like I have a choice most times. The place I get my exotics won't cut a board for ya anyway. Gotta buy the whole damn thing. Last time I was there I had to buy almost twice as much bubinga as I needed because any one board they had fell just short so I had to buy two. Still sitting on the drop. Good thing somebody else paid for it.
Not this time. I'm footin' the bill for my sister so I'll probably mock it up first in MDF before I go cuttin' any mahogany, which ain't exactly cheap. Hell, she'd probably be happy with pine but I might as well stick with the original material just 'cause it'll be cool to do that for her.
Anyway, many thanks to all who answered and a metric assload of thanks to Demeur. Having those other pictures I found helps me more than I can tell you. Screw the golf clap...you get a standing ovation.
spongebobcrackwhore
Another Fucking Monday
Damn, I need a vacation in the worst way.
Five more days of hell are on the line up.
My fucking back is out right between my shoulder blades again and I can barely move my head. Guess what I get to do today?
Pull a crank shaft out of a pump that has six inch main bearing journals and three inch rod journals. Thankfully it is only about three feet long. It still weighs over a hundred and fifty pounds.
I will put a sling on one end and use an engine hoist to carry most of the weight until I can get it clear of the pump housing.
Yay, I can't wait.
See ya's later.
Five more days of hell are on the line up.
My fucking back is out right between my shoulder blades again and I can barely move my head. Guess what I get to do today?
Pull a crank shaft out of a pump that has six inch main bearing journals and three inch rod journals. Thankfully it is only about three feet long. It still weighs over a hundred and fifty pounds.
I will put a sling on one end and use an engine hoist to carry most of the weight until I can get it clear of the pump housing.
Yay, I can't wait.
See ya's later.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Anybody got too much time on their hands?
It's been a few days since I've gone on a drunken rant so sit down, shut up and...oh, wait...forget that since I'm about to beg for help. Sorry about that.
My sister wants me to make her a reproduction of this thing. She seen it in some antique store, I guess. She calls it an apothocary cabinet but it ain't...I don't know what the hell it is. I'm thinking maybe a dentist or doctor's cabinet of some kind but I can't find pics or plans that even remotely resemble it.
My Google-Fu is weak. Got any antique hunters out there?
I can get a sense of scale from the picture and make it up if I have to but I'd really rather not go to all that trouble. Can't really tell what the wood is but I'll most likely use oak since it looks to be from a time when most things were made of it.
Anybody (who I haven't pissed off yet) know what this is? I'd be
spongebobcrackwhore
Yeah, Yeah, I'm Slackin'
Life gets in the way sometimes and the beer is nice and cold.
I'll get back to ya in a bit
I'll get back to ya in a bit
Thursday, May 06, 2010
I Couldn't Begin To Imagine This
One British sniper, sixteen HUNDRED meters, five kills in 28 seconds.
It took him nine shots to get the range and kill the first motherfucker, then it was game on, using a big gun that was ranged for a thousand meters.
This fucking guy is amazing.
Davy Crockett has a fucking hard on.
He saved a British foot patrol from being ambushed in Afghanistan,, single handedly.*
I can't see ten feet anymore.
I'll drink to giant brass balls and superior optics, backed up with a die motherfucker
team attitude, combined with some serious assed talent.
It takes a bullet two and a half seconds to travel that far.
* Kudos to his spotter too! Of course, no mention of that guy.
It took him nine shots to get the range and kill the first motherfucker, then it was game on, using a big gun that was ranged for a thousand meters.
This fucking guy is amazing.
Davy Crockett has a fucking hard on.
He saved a British foot patrol from being ambushed in Afghanistan,, single handedly.*
I can't see ten feet anymore.
I'll drink to giant brass balls and superior optics, backed up with a
team attitude, combined with some serious assed talent.
It takes a bullet two and a half seconds to travel that far.
* Kudos to his spotter too! Of course, no mention of that guy.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
I Am Sorry To Inform You,
All those checks you are looking forward to from Nigeria just might have a waiting period from Hell.
I hope yours didn't close before theirs did.
If you happen to be that fucking stupid, my contact info is available.
Look forward to a brief interlude while they put this asshole in the ground.
Fed EX and UPS may not be able to deliver the millions you were promised and Ed McMahon is still dead.
What the fuck, it's about the same damn thing.
Don't worry, Namibia will be glad to take up the slack, right after your fucking Congressman mails you a gimme money, I am up for Re-Election mass mailer.
If, by chance, you are reading this from the state of Connecticut, tell that bastard Lieberman, he owes you money, seriously.
Tell him he can just donate it to whoever the fuck is going to run against him.
Fucking assholes.
I hope yours didn't close before theirs did.
If you happen to be that fucking stupid, my contact info is available.
Look forward to a brief interlude while they put this asshole in the ground.
Fed EX and UPS may not be able to deliver the millions you were promised and Ed McMahon is still dead.
What the fuck, it's about the same damn thing.
Don't worry, Namibia will be glad to take up the slack, right after your fucking Congressman mails you a gimme money, I am up for Re-Election mass mailer.
If, by chance, you are reading this from the state of Connecticut, tell that bastard Lieberman, he owes you money, seriously.
Tell him he can just donate it to whoever the fuck is going to run against him.
Fucking assholes.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Same Shit, Different Day.
The Gulf of Mexico is still a catastrophe of Biblical proportions and so is our fucking government.
Hit the Blogroll.
Hit the Blogroll.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Fucking Pussies
That would be those right wing chicken hearted fuckers on the Supreme Court.
They are going to make everyone go through the servants entrance to get inside now.
What a load of crap.
The Supreme Court is closing its iconic front entrance beneath the words "Equal Justice Under Law."
My emphasis.
Believe that shit?
Fucking Pussies?
OH HELL YES.
Hey, if ya can't take the heat, don't take the fucking job, it ain't like you are irreplaceable.
As a matter of fact, I think several of the bastards need to be replaced immediately.
Corporations are people, spit, if that's the case then make the dirty motherfuckers pay taxes like the rest of us.
If, as they say in the article above, they spent a hundred and twenty two million fucking dollars on an upgrade, can someone not design it around some thirteen fucking foot tall bronze doors that are in front?
Why make everyone go under the fucking steps?
Hello? McFly?
Jesus, this country has turned into a giant bunch of fucking pansies.
It's beyond ridiculous.
This is supposed to be the most powerful country on the whole goddamned planet but ya can't walk up the steps to the front doors of the highest court in the land.
That is infuriatingly pathetic.
They are going to make everyone go through the servants entrance to get inside now.
What a load of crap.
The Supreme Court is closing its iconic front entrance beneath the words "Equal Justice Under Law."
Beginning Tuesday, visitors no longer will ascend the wide marble steps to enter the 75-year-old building. Instead, they will be directed to a central screening facility to the side of and beneath the central steps that was built to improve the court's security as part of a $122 million renovation.
Two justices, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, called the change unfortunate and unjustified.
Breyer said no other high court in the world, not even Israel's, has closed its front entrance over security concerns.
He said the main entrance and front steps "are not only a means to, but also a metaphor for, access to the court itself."
My emphasis.
Believe that shit?
Fucking Pussies?
OH HELL YES.
Hey, if ya can't take the heat, don't take the fucking job, it ain't like you are irreplaceable.
As a matter of fact, I think several of the bastards need to be replaced immediately.
Corporations are people, spit, if that's the case then make the dirty motherfuckers pay taxes like the rest of us.
If, as they say in the article above, they spent a hundred and twenty two million fucking dollars on an upgrade, can someone not design it around some thirteen fucking foot tall bronze doors that are in front?
Why make everyone go under the fucking steps?
Hello? McFly?
Jesus, this country has turned into a giant bunch of fucking pansies.
It's beyond ridiculous.
This is supposed to be the most powerful country on the whole goddamned planet but ya can't walk up the steps to the front doors of the highest court in the land.
That is infuriatingly pathetic.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
How 'bout some good news for a change?
This is from Portland, Oregon. It ain't much of an article so I'll just post the whole thing (horribly bad writing and all).
Two jail inmates who gave first aid to a stricken Oregon sheriff's deputy are being credited with help saving his life.
The Multnomah County sheriff's office said the deputy and an inmate work crew were helping a stranded motorist in the Portland area when the deputy needed medical assistance Friday afternoon.
James Parker and Michael Smith began cardiopulmonary resuscitation with assistance from a 911 dispatcher and a doctor who stopped to assist until emergency crews arrived.
The sheriff's office said the deputy is a 25-year veteran but asked that his name not be immediately released while he recovers.
Officials say quick thinking and immediate action by the inmates helped save his life.
You gotta like that....them guys could have bailed and taken their chances or just stood back and watched but instead they stayed and saved the life of the cop who was guarding them. I dunno what they were in for but if it wasn't serious (which it probably wasn't since they were on a work crew) I'd say they just paid their debt to society in one fell swoop.
Good on ya, James Parker and Michael Smith.
spongebobcrackwhore
Two jail inmates who gave first aid to a stricken Oregon sheriff's deputy are being credited with help saving his life.
The Multnomah County sheriff's office said the deputy and an inmate work crew were helping a stranded motorist in the Portland area when the deputy needed medical assistance Friday afternoon.
James Parker and Michael Smith began cardiopulmonary resuscitation with assistance from a 911 dispatcher and a doctor who stopped to assist until emergency crews arrived.
The sheriff's office said the deputy is a 25-year veteran but asked that his name not be immediately released while he recovers.
Officials say quick thinking and immediate action by the inmates helped save his life.
You gotta like that....them guys could have bailed and taken their chances or just stood back and watched but instead they stayed and saved the life of the cop who was guarding them. I dunno what they were in for but if it wasn't serious (which it probably wasn't since they were on a work crew) I'd say they just paid their debt to society in one fell swoop.
Good on ya, James Parker and Michael Smith.
spongebobcrackwhore
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