Junk Yard Find

I went to a junk yard Tuesday to pick up a spare tire and wheel for The RatMoblie.
Not having a spare isn't too cool.

While I was there I saw what I thought was a pretty decent looking mid 80's El Camino they had up front for sale as a "builder".

I didn't pay a lot of attention to it because it was raining and hailing and shit. I got caught in a hail storm while I was out there and had to take shelter in the nearest junker that turned out to be full of green mold but it didn't last long.

I also saw a station wagon that had the instrument cluster I wanted but didn't have the right tools so I wound up going back later.
I took a longer look at the El Camino that turned out to be an 83 GMC Caballero.


Damn was it clean. Good paint, nice interior and completely original. It even had brand new tires on it.
Of course it only had a V6 in it.
It had a price of $1999.00 on the windshield.

After I got back home I called them up and asked about it.
The guy didn't know anything about it because it had just came in but said it ran and drove and they would sell it for $1600.

That started it.
I started telling the wife about it.
She , of course, wanted nothing to do with it.
I told her whatever was wrong with it was worth fixing because this thing was nice!

Yeah, yeah.
Being the persistent little fucker I am, I wasn't dropping it.
Yeah, we could come up with the money.
I wheedled, begged, cajoled and generally turned into a pest but she finally relented.
I went down and looked at it again to make sure everything worked.
I noticed the lid to a quart bottle of transmission fluid under the hood and that gave me a serious pause but when I started it up it went right into gear.
This thing had the original radio in it and everything.
Completely bone stock.
Somebody took good care of it.
I gambled and paid the money.


I had to go to work so I asked them to store it for me one day.
I went back with my dad to pick it up and sure as shit as the guy is trying to back it up to pull it up front I hear the engine revving and it not moving.

Fuck, the tranny is messed up.
He gets it out and I thank him. He tells me they put a little fluid in the transmission but not much.

I get it around the corner to a gas station and have Dad go to Freddy's and pick up 3 quarts and a funnel.
He comes back and I dump in 2 quarts and it goes right into gear.
I tell him to follow me and I went straight to my buddy who has a transmission shop.
The thing is trailing blue smoke the whole way and I can hear my wife bitching every inch of it.

It runs like a top though. It was so quiet I could hear the clock on the dashboard ticking when I was sitting at a light!
I get to the transmission shop and my buddy puts it on the hoist and there is fluid dripping on the floor. We thought maybe just the pan bolts were loose but no dice.
He cleans it up and runs it for a bit then picks it back up and finds a pressure switch puking. The blue smoke was from the switch puking fluid right onto the catalytic converter.
He says it is probably for the back up lights. He pulled it out, stuck a plug in it and charged me $20.
I love that guy.
Filled it back up and off I went.

While I was under it it I took a look around.
New tires, new shocks all the way around, new exhaust from from to back.
This thing looks like it's brand new underneath.
Runs like a champ, everything but the A/C works.

I have to take it to the State Police to have it inspected because it came out of a wrecking yard but I scored big time with this thing.
The guy at the wrecking yard said it was a one owner rig and had a huge stack of receipts going way back for all the maintenance and I believe him.
I even got the window sticker that has the estimated mileage on it from when it was new.

That picture up top?
That is the cover of the brochure from the dealer. I even got that with it!


It looks just like this.


Notice the price in the windshield.......
Same color and everything. I do have to put a windshield in it eventually because it has a crack in it.
BFD.

I went from driving a POS looking like this,

with no carpets, bad wiring, water oil and noisy exhaust leaks, to a cream puff like this.

Do I have an awesome wife or what?
The fact that she puts up with my ass alone should give you a pretty good idea.

Count Me In

Poor Mittster, he is already playing the victim card, as we all know just how quick these Republican fucks are in doing .

Now it's "The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy" in the media who is out to terminate his run for President like an unwanted pregnancy.

Just for shits and grins, I am going to quote the formidable Suzie Madrak and swipe her graphic on just who dominates the fucking air waves day in and day out, as if you weren't already quite aware.
In case you live in a vacuum, Driftglass is the Go To guy who eviscerates the "Mouse Circus" on a regular schedule.

Back to Suzie, nice opening salvo, I must say;

Ah yes, the infamous left-wing conspiracy, and that librul media! I don't blame Mittens for getting upset.Think of all those damned media socialists like Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingraham, Fred Hiatt, Matt Drudge, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, William Kristol, Phyllis Schlafly, Brit Hume, S.E. Cupp, Howard Kurtz, David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Kathleen Parker, Neil Cavuto, Michael Medved, Dana Loesch, Dennis Miller, Michael Savage, Michael Reagan, the recently deceased Andrew Breitbart, Erick Erickson, Mike Allen, Tom Donahue, Ann Coulter, Paul Gigot, and John Stossel - oh, I can't go on.
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Every single time you turn on the TV or radio, it's just another damned communist hippie.

Damn, how could she forget that ever present douchebag KKKarl Rove or their maniacal sisters from different mothers Michelle Bachmann and my personal favorite, Sarah Palin?

It must be the PTSD.


Now get a load of who is backing this horde of misinformation specialists,

And all those extreme librul organizations that fund their subversive propaganda: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Koch Family foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Scaife Family foundations, the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Adolph Coors Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Heartland Institute, or the Manhattan Institute.

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Now it just gets pathetic.

Romney was making an appearance on Breitbart TV and was asked by host Larry O'Connor whether he was ready to take on "the media and these nonprofits groups that are working together."

Breitbart TV?
LMFAO!

"There will be an effort by the quote vast left wing conspiracy to work together to put out their message and to attack me," Romney said in response. "They're going to do everything they can to divert from the message people care about, which is a growing economy that creates more jobs and rising incomes. That's what people care about."

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Romney said dealing with journalists, many of whom he said were biased, was a perpetual problem for Republicans.

"Many in the media are inclined to do the president's bidding and I know that's an uphill battle we fight with the media generally," Romney said, before praising O'Connor for offering a conservative voice.

Cry me a fucking river you whiny bitch.

Jesus Christ, the Republicans have their own dedicated propaganda wing in Fox News alone.
If you think us "libruls" have anything approximating a vast Left wing conspiracy in the media, I would very much like for you to take a moment, after re reading the list of right wingers who are on television and dominate the radio airwaves every week up above, to take a long hard look at what we are up against.

Click to embiggen as my pal Gord says;

They pour millions and millions of dollars,EVERY WEEK, into trying to brainwash us.

The Left wing has nothing to counter this effectively.
Yet, we do manage to get our shots in and when we do, they tend to leave a mark.

So, like I said, count me in.
If my little spit wad shooter of a Blog happens to put one down the gullet of one of these fuckers and chokes them up for a minute, I will consider it a minor miracle but hey, every little conspirator counts in this game.

Major props to Suzie, she is one of our better players.

Fuck, Yes.Someone Gets It.

The Rude Pundit nails this bullshit kerfluffle with a white hot sledgehammer.
Get your panties in a twist over something that really matters and get off women's reproductive issues, women's tendency for voting and women's earnings compared to men.

Hell yes these are all important but they are distractions at this point. If Mitt Romney gets elected, then it will damn sure be something to worry about because those fuckers want all of us to go back to the eleventh century. When it comes to being a working mother and having to sacrifice your entire life to raise your children, I would recommend watching Helen Hunt in the flick As Good As It Gets.

I love that flick and I love her, Hubba Hubba.

When it comes to this bullshit about Ann Romney and the dust up about some obscure Democrat woman named Rosen dissing her on Twitter, The Rude one takes the words right out of my mouth,

Are we really doing this again? Are we really having some worthless fucking debate over how hard it is to be a stay-at-home parent? President Obama said, "There's no tougher job than being a mom." Really? Ask a coal miner. Ask a sweatshop worker. It's fucking stupid. Are we just back to Hillary Clinton and the motherfucking cookies? Oh, wait, Michelle Malkin's quoting that 1992 remark, so the Rude Pundit supposes that we are.

I absolutely hate the political correctness every fucking election cycle.

Speak your mind,something something called The First amendment, and if the wannabe electors handlers think it might hurt so and so's chances of election, you are now a pariah and are thrown to the vultures.

It's a good fucking thing I won't run for office.

When it comes to Ann Romney and her priviliged life, lucky her.
I can remember sharing a hot dog bun with my little brother with ketchup and mustard on it after my parents split and calling it pizza because that's all we had to eat.
So yeah, fuck you and your under privileged spoiled brats.

I Wasn't There, Were You?

It was an unnecessary tragedy but I have zero facts and neither do you, the Defense lawyers nor the Prosecution other than 911 tapes and witnesses after the fact don't either.
I have kept my mouth shut about the unfortunate killing of a young man for a reason.

It looks like there will be charges filed and after following this only by sensational headlines I still don't have anything to say, other than some certain so called "news sites" need a fucking ass beating for the unnecessary speculation I have had to endure when they don't have a fucking thing to say except repeating rumors across the spectrum of our public airwaves. This is why you have to filter what you see and hear on what we used to call "The News".

I have gone off about these fuckers in the past and I will again.
The news, a local blurb, a National blurb, an International blurb, a fluff piece, the sports, the weather, another fluff piece and a commercial before they tell you to "Tune In At Eleven" for the same sickening bullshit they came up with for the six O:clock news, ad nauseum.
Just today, the headlines screamed that the "alleged shooter" bailed clear the fuck out of Florida and had not been in contact with his somehow appointed lawyers since Sunday and they intimated that he had fled the vicinity and they were so outraged that they called a national press conference to declare that they were no longer aware of his whereabouts and were publicly saying they were no longer going to represent him, after he started a website asking for money while they did too, maybe, to twelve hours later,if he had turned himself in , they just might, be persuaded to come back and try and defend him.

I am not putting up one fucking link to this fucking soap opera.


Take a minute and follow the timeline to this fucked up mess on your own time, check the parents response to all this shit, the press, the fucking legal response from the government and wonder why I ignored every fucking bit of this sad story, then ask someone if they remember it in a year.
By then some other crazy fuck will be in the headlines and this kid will be rotting in his grave just like everyone of us will be eventually.
The difference is, there isn't one.
One or two years after kicking up daisy's, all you are is worm food.

I still remember my mother, forty years gone but time wounds all heels and in the end, when you are dead, you ain't coming back.

That is what is so despicable about young people dying before their time.
They don't get the opportunity to gather experiences to pass on to the next generation and the fact that one young man got gunned down and has so much publicity is sickening because it happens in this country so many fucking times every day and no one gives a fucking shit about some other young man or someones beautiful daughter getting killed because they don't live in that neighborhood or that state and By God, American Idol just came on so shut off the news anyway.

The prosecuting attorney says she isn't going to call a Grand Jury and is going to press other charges, like manslaughter, etc.
Zimmerman turned himself in and I am anxiously awaiting a pay per view movie about the whole fucking thing in six weeks.
3D next year before any results from a trial even start to become public because that's how they roll.

Gag me with the whole fucking thing.

Scott Walker Wants Women Back In The Kitchen Where They Belong

This fucking clown needs to go and the people of Wisconsin will have an opportunity to send his fucking ass packing come June.
I sincerely hope they do just that.

Jesus, calling him an asshole is an insult to assholes.

A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill.

The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was meant to deter employers from discriminating against certain groups by giving workers more avenues via which to press charges. Among other provisions, it allows individuals to plead their cases in the less costly, more accessible state circuit court system, rather than just in federal court.

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Women earn 77 cents for every dollar that men make. In Wisconsin, it's 75 cents, according to the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health (WAWH), which also estimates that families in the state "lose more than $4,000 per year due to unequal pay."

Wisconsin voters fucked up when they elected this malignant mutant but they have the chance to disinfect the governors mansion come June and I hope and pray they do.

This is what happens when people elect Republicans in this day and age, against their own best interests.
The Republican party is chock full of vicious sociopaths and if you think I am being partisan, take off your fucking blinders and look around.
Scott Walker is but one example of the motherfuckers doing their damndest to drag the entire country back to the twelfth century.

Women's health, women's rights, wages, collective bargaining, unions in particular, food safety,the environment, under age workers protections,voters rights, your Constitutional rights, all these things have been under relentless attack by these assclowns.

There is no such thing as a Moderate, Centrist Republican running for office anymore, they are all trying to prove who can be the most extremist motherfucker on the block and they are getting more dangerous by the minute.
It's all fine and dandy by them if you get strip searched for a fucking parking ticket and Corporations are people too, darn it!

I keep waiting for petty criminals to be publicly humiliated by being put in stocks down in the public square just like the good old days.

So, ladies, while you are in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, go ahead and make Mr. Walker a sammich, you know you want to.

There is Beer Running Out Of My Nose. Thank You, Local Republicans

I am serious when I say I am laughing my ass off.

The local republican delegate convention went into a self feeding frenzy.
Not only could they not come to agreement on who to designate as delegates, they couldn't come to agreement on who to designate as alternates, as in ZERO.

From the Local Rag;

What began with a sense of unity to defeat President Barack Obama dissolved, over 12 hours, into infighting Saturday at the Clark County GOP convention.

Delegates elected at party caucuses in March were unable to finish the assigned task of electing 94 delegates and 94 alternates to the state convention in Tacoma.

Instead, even after the convention was extended by two hours, they ended up with 75 delegates and no alternates.

The blame was placed on Ron Paul supporters.

“You have to applaud their organization,” said Mike Gaston, executive director of the Clark County GOP.

The 49th and 15th Legislative Districts agreed on their allotted delegates (28 and 2 of them, respectively) while the 18th Legislative District will have 30 delegates instead of 32 and the 17th Legislative District will have 15 instead of 32.

This is payday for Ron Paul, he showed up in this little suburb of Portland TWICE and Mittster fucked off Portland.
A composite of over thirty different outlying small cities wrapped into one, of over a million potential idiots.

Smooth move Mormon Dude.

Smart move Ron Paul political adviser, whatever your fucking name is.

Mittster fucked off the West Coast because he damn well knows he is going to find a thumb to the nose out here but even the local Republican base imploding is just Viagra Laced Vanilla Cinnamon icing on a German Chocolate cake with a two drink minimum.

Go ahead and write off the ENTIRE WEST COAST.

Anyone else notice how close Filthy Rich Mormon is to Filthy Rich Moron?

Blogiversaries

My, how time flies, like the foam flecked spittle that sprays from my fingertips.

Driftglass is celebrating his seventh, as is Blue Girl over at They Gave Us A Republic.

As for me, I can't hardly believe I have been hurling invectives and cuss words that hadn't been invented yet for six years now.

That is quite the mile stone in Blogging.

Way back when Stupie McFuckwit and his minions were busy doing their best to destroy this country from within and I was strangling on my rage, I found the perfect outlet and here I am still.

Oh, I haven't forgotten those rotten motherfuckers by any means and the fact that their cohorts that are in office now are still just as hell bent as ever to drag us all back to the eleventh century hasn't escaped me.

So, I guess I'll just hang around for a while and continue venting my spleen at whatever crazy shit happens to cause the bile to rise in my throat on any particular day.
There seems to be and endless supply of both.

Thank you one and all for taking the time to drop by and even more so for leaving your comments.
Also, a special thanks to all my internet pals and those kind enough to put up a link to my little rant hole over the years.

Cheers.

Another Reason Anthony Scalia Should Be Impeached And Thrown Into The Street.

After three days of testimony in the Obama Health Care debate in front of the Supreme court, who are not expected to deliver an official decision until NEXT JUNE, This quote just came out of the mouth of one of the worst Supreme Court Justices in modern history;

JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?

My emphasis.

Why yes, you fucking asshole, by June, that is exactly what I expect you to do.
It used to be called Homework,you sonofabitch.

By the way, his invoking the eighth amendment must be some kind of insider asshole Supreme Court joke;

What is the 8th Amendment?
In: US History, US Constitution [Edit categories]
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

My bold.

Funny guy this Corporate fucking whore.

Yeah dude, I DO expect you or one of your Paralegals to read, parse and interpret EVERY SINGLE FUCKING WORD of those 2700 pages of bullshit those fuckers in Congress voted on,after adding bullshit amendments to it, then sending it to The Presidents desk to be passed into law, IT IS YOUR FUCKING JOB!!

After all, now that corporations are people too, according to you and campaign money is unlimited, you should have plenty of leisure time to sit on your fat fucking ass and do a little recreational reading so you can, you know, make an informed decision on medical care that is going to affect every fucking American Citizen for the rest of their lives.

You arrogant fucking pig.

Do us all a favor and choke to death on a fucking meat ball.

Check One in The Win Box

Finally, finally, I got the fucking wipers working in my POS El Camino, thank Google.
The fucking bastards use the wiper switch as a variable ground.
No wonder putting power to the fucker didn't work.
I finally found an El Camino site that has a chat room and someone had the same problem and Lo and Behold, some guy laid it out nice and neat.

Thank you, car guy.

The evil fuckers use one, damn near impossible to find bolt, as the ground at the wiper motor it's self and I dropped two of them down the fucking inside of the fender/ firewall and it took me an hour to try using a telescoping magnet, take the fucking inner fender off,laying on the floor, to find a cute little sheet metal pocket at the bottom of the firewall made exclusively just to catch the fucking bolts you drop trying to replace the wiper motor.

I have often wished for a painful death for certain automotive engineers but this one just went to the head of the line.

Fucking ignorant, stupid fucking asshole sonofabitch dickhead motherfuckers, why in the world could you not use the bolt at the very top , where you can actually see it, to use as a fucking ground?

Kill death murder.


Anyway, one down.
Back to the tranny leak, the fucked up flywheel and oh, yeah, the dirty sonofabitch heater motor, which is brand new, that doesn't work.
More electrical trouble shooting.

By the way, you have been paying attention and know that it fucking snowed here a couple of days ago, then we were so lucky as to have freezing fog the next morning.

Did I forget to mention that the new wiper motor did not include the wiper washer motor?
That's another seventy five bucks and ya gotta take the fucking motor back out to install it.

That shit ain't gonna happen, I am going to NAPA and buying an aftermarket reservoir with a pump in it and mount it under the hood .


Next on the list is putting the instrument cluster back together and digging a big hole in the back yard just in case I ever run into the fucking assholes who went home one night over thirty years ago and bragged to their wife what a great idea they had that day.

Ask Me My Facebook password at an Employment interview, I fucking Dare ya .

Ballsy mother fuckers, get a fucking clue.
All I have to say to you,the truth.

I don't have a Facebook account.

If you want to ask me about my internet habits, it's another Fuck you, I don't have any.
Y'all are crossing the line by asking and I will be Goddamed if I am going to give you a fucking thing.
Not my Email address, not the name of my Blog, it doesn't exist and if I know how to use a computer, yes, I do.

None of your fucking business what I do.
It still pisses me off to no end that I have to be subjected to random drug testing thanks to Saint Ronny and his fucked up Supreme court telling me I can expect to have limited expectations of freedom because I work in an industry that has to do with public transportation.

This horseshit of asking to go around and demand to peruse your social life on the internet is a direct violation of my fourth amendment and sixth amendment rights.

The fucking cocksuckers who think they can do this because it is a private business can find the business end of my dick at the business end of where they swallow.

If I can perform the duties required to accomplish the needs of your business at the required time, on time, put up with the usual bullshit of inter office politics and do it safely and still not choke the living shit out of the inevitable corporate suck up should be enough for you.

I keep seeing people say they have to because they need the work to feed their family.

Feeding your family is paramount, handing over your soul to do it is beyond the pale.

These fucking people should be excoriated publicly at every opportunity and humiliated for thinking that they own the impunity to have the ability to hire and fire someone for their personal thoughts that have absolutely nothing to do with job performance.

I see Facebook just went after said assholes, like Facebook means shit to me but good for them.
I kept getting Emails about some fucking Farmville thing too.

WTF? I know what it is but forty and fifty year old friends sending me emails for that shit was kind of creepy.
Naked wimmins I can deal with but I could give a shit if your imaginary turnip farm needs me to send you a truck load of imaginary cow shit.

Really?

I'm telling ya, this country has gone socially retarded at light speed in the last ten years.
Then, we can talk politics...
Invasive vaginal radiation pictures being mandatory if a lady wants to terminate a pregnancy by some indeterminate fucking physician who probably has more patients with more medically pressing needs and who is trying to deal with the already outrageous demands of the insane clown posse of the Republican parties blitzkrieg Medical kamikaze progrom on Medicaid.
I'm telling ya, their are several republicans, who were elected by a majority of ignorant motherfuckers who need a serious elbow to the jaw.

Beyond ridiculous some of the shit I see every day.

Your Rights Can Be Terminated

Look for yourself, The Man says so!

I hope they sue these cock suckers and the entire Chicago police department into bankruptcy.

Watch it twice, it gets a little confusing with so many people arguing.

I have one thing and one thing only to say, the fucking asshole is right, they can and will terminate every right you were born with, at will, and try to buy their way out of it when they have been found guilty of depriving you of your rights, day, after day, after day.
Your fucking taxes just go up to let these fucking assholes get away with this shit until someone does, finally sue their fucking asses off and wins, it happens all the time, in every city.
Tell me Officer Ward just stepped on his dick.

"Your First Amendment rights can be terminated if you create a scene, or whatever, your First Amendment rights have limitations."

Velcome to Amerika, peon,You, can thank the Supreme court during Ronny Raygun for that decision.

This asshole just got punked and he did it to himself.

Notice both got released after ten minutes with no charges filed.

View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com.

Then notice some other dick told them to get out of the median after being directed there by the first said dick head.

You have no fucking rights, be very aware of that, this is proof.

1984 Rules the World

Forget thought crime, this shit is getting serious, welcome to the future.
It's not bad enough the State can cruise through a parking lot and scan every license plate at fifteen miles an hour, or fifty, for that matter.

It's not bad enough that there are traffic camera's every where you turn, Arizona has them every half fucking mile in the middle of the fucking desert, Britain has them in bars where it is now Verbotten to wear a fucking hat or sun glasses because they demand to positively identify you sipping a motherfucking beer,they went so far as to outlaw real glass beer containers and real metal knives and forks two years ago in bars.
Now, George Orwell should be spinning about two thousand RPM in his grave, they took that concept and ran hard.

Now get this.

I can see prohibition Moonshiners circa two thousand fucking thirteen making a mint in Jolly Old England next year.

Really.

If you try to put gasoline in your car, at say, eight fucking dollars a gallon and the pump is connected to Big Brother, if you don't have car insurance, they will shut the pump off remotely.

I suppose some burly dudes in a big box van with machine guns won't be far behind to throw you on the ground to help you separate your shoulder with a knee in your neck and your elbow somewhere between you and the moon.

No fuel for you, ya piece of shit that is trying to get to work,a hospital,or God Forbid, an appointment with the motherfucking government.

Look for this to come to a fucking gas station near you soon.

When I was a kid, they gave you laundry soap, dishes, glasses or Green Stamps for doing business with them and checked your oil, cleaned your windshield and checked the air pressure in your tires just for doing business with them instead of the guy down the street. Now they are going to call the STASI on ya without lifting a finger.

Papers, Citizen?

It All Makes Sense Now

Someone has gone all out psycho for the last three nights in a row.
Apparently waiting for Super Tuesday.

Sleeping all day with delusions of Grandeur,

Love me now, cuddle me, play with me until I kick you to the curb or my tongue hangs out because you paid attention to me, give me everything you have.
In the mean time, you forcibly took me to a doctor against my will to have hypodermic needles stuck in my tender places and had my reproductive organs surgically removed,without my permission, I can never have children of multi ethnic heritage, especially ones that could possibly be black, brown, Calico or that really strange tabby thing from around the block either.
I Love You!


Good Lord, My cat is a fucking Republican.

Update On My Bridge Rant

I was so pissed off the other day about the complete incompetence of some local bridge designers who screwed the pooch, I sent a letter to the editor and lo and behold, it got published in the local fish wrapper!

I was pretty hot under the collar about it but didn't curse yet still got my point across that I was furious.



Good on me.

They edited it slightly to save space but I don't mind, I still got my point across rather well.

Another Battle Won.

HA! dirty motherfucker.

I want to hunt down and strangle the idiot cock sucker who had this fucking car before me.
Gotta, and I do mean gotta, be a fucking Crack head.

I have been fighting a severe oil leak since I got the damn thing.
Severe as in puddles under the front of the car, in my parents garage.

That shit don't fly.

I took it to my friends transmission repair shop to have a new starter put in it, that I fucked up and to chase down two leaks, one was transmission fluid and the other one was that nasty fucking oil leak.

He put it on the hoist and cleaned everything up, then had to use a crows foot socket wrench to get the transmission cooler lines off to remove the starter.
he also changed a little seal on the side of tranny where the shift linkage hooks up.

Starter in, good, fucked up ring gear, bad.

Dude only charged me forty bucks and wouldn't take the extra twenty I wanted to give him.

There will be some drinks bought later.

It works and sometime down the road, I will have him yank the transmission, this guy is GOOD he can haul that thing out in a half hour, have him throw another flex plate at it and call it good.

In the mean time, he fired it up after climbing a ladder because it was on the hoist and leak hunting we went.

I know it is at the front of the motor somewhere.
Got the flashlight out and started watching.
After about a minute, I see smoke coming out of the left front of the engine!!

Looking a little closer and being mindful of the fan spinning at a high rate of speed real near to where I am looking and I see smoke coming out of a empty bolt hole.
An empty bolt hole?
Sure as shit.
There is a bolt that is supposed to go in that hole hole on Chevy 350's that when changing the fuel pump, which is operated by a large push rod off the cam, that you can remove and thread in a two inch long bolt to hold that push rod in place so it doesn't fall out on the fucking floor, which they are prone to do. I learned this the hard way after pushing a 66 Chevy pick up across two lanes of traffic and half way up a driveway by myself in a hundred and four degree weather, by myself, at a whopping one hundred twenty five pounds.

That bolt was missing and oil was flowing out of it like an Arabian Princes dream.
One new starter, one used bolt and some skookem' putty to make double sure the motherfucker doesn't leak any more and life is good.
Two down, several more issues to deal with but I AM kicking this things ass, finally.
Stay tuned and,

Thanks fer stopping by.

Swingin'

Moving to Swingshift on Monday
I really don't have a problem with that. I get to sleep in.

I keep hearing things from the boss who I can't fucking understand, he is British with a thick accent, about going to rotating shifts.

Uhh, no.

It fucks up your Circadian Rhythm to the point you don't know if you are awake or asleep, punched or bored.060 over.

There ought to be a law against that shit.

Preach to me about Safety after I just woke up after being on three different shifts in three weeks.
You will be lucky I showed up without taking out your front fender trying to park the fucking rig after I am already dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder.
I will get to sleep in and have some quality time with the wife because the kid will be at school.

Going to the Parts house and then...

I'm coming home, to work on my truck, which I see needs a new timing chain.
I'm gonna cheat as long as I can and keep turning the distributor as far left as I can and hope the weather warms up real soon. I ain't as young as I used to be and Uncle Arther[itis }just kicks my ass anymore.
 Replacing the timing chain on a truck you have to have a step ladder to see the engine in ain't gonna be no fucking fun and will probably take two days to do because of my lack of enthusiasm.

Still gotta fix that fucking Chevy too.

Like I said, total lack of enthusiasm.
I'm just plain getting old and tired, just like my rides.

I can has nap now?

Who Is The Fucking Moron Who Changed The Word Verification at Google??

Find that sonofabitch and slap the taste out of their mouth.

A Republicans Wet Dream.

Gag, Choke, Retch

Like the Electoral map doesn't smell like shit already.

Nothing like a frothy mix of fecal matter and Anal lube to make that more attractive.