The Frozen Turd Tube Fiasco

Y'all will please excuse my recent absence, I was kinda busy.
My last post mentioned the cold weather that has descended on the area and has refused to let up, well it bit me finally.

I knew it was going to freeze around here so being the real fart smeller I am, I turned the water on to run in the bathroom so my pipes wouldn't freeze. All well and good says I.

Not.

I woke up to a half inch of standing water all over the whole trailer, basically from one end to the other, again.

I went through this little scenario a while back. So my first thoughts are that the damn pipe I fixed must have let go but I don't hear water running.
I stick my head in the bathroom and there is still a slow drip coming out of the faucet but the other thing I see is a whole bunch of standing water in the tub.

Strange.

Then it dawns on me, oh fuck, the sewer hose is frozen.
I rush outside to turn off the water and sure as shit the flexible sewer line is frozen solid.

Fuck me, that ain't good.
I go back into my soggy lair, I had a bunch of shit sitting on the floor, including a big pile of dirty clothes I had been sorting out to wash, everything was soaked.

I drug out the multiple laundry baskets I had stacked up in the corner and started filling them up. Then every towel I own and a couple of blankets got tossed on the floor to start soaking up all the water.

I opened up a cabinet and got out a bottle of water from my emergency stash, (SEE! I keep telling you!) and made a pot of coffee while I figured out just what the hell I was going to do here.

I called work and told them I wasn't coming and started in.
I drug the Propane Heater From Hell outside and fired it up, then I scrounged a sheet of plywood from the neighbor and leaned it up against the side of The Rat Hole and then some other miscellaneous boards and shit and made a little lean to so the heat wouldn't just go straight up into the air.

Then I went inside and started boiling pots of water.

Many trips back and forth later, I finally got one end of the hose undone from where it goes into the ground.
Many more trips and I got the valve thawed out for the black water tank to close. The sewer hose had a couple of holes in it and water was just pouring on the ground until this point.

One thing I was SO grateful for, I had recently dumped the holding tank and flushed it out several times so there were no human waste products involved in this whole fiasco. I was afraid of the damn thing freezing and splitting wide open, I have seen the results of that, not good. This could have been a real disaster otherwise, like throw everything away and find a place to live while decontaminating everything. All the water everywhere was Fresh water, Thank God!

Long story short, I spent all day getting the situation straightend out.

Three trips to the Hardware store, it never, ever takes less than three trips, ever.

I finally replaced the Turd Tube, mounted it up on a board and wrapped heat tape around it and plugged it in.
All set, right?

Wrong.

While I was dicking around with that, the fucking water line going into the trailer froze because I had shut it off.
It broke a plastic 'T' I had on it so I could hook up a garden hose too.
Off that came, took the hose inside and thawed it out, boiled more water and thawed out the pipe where it comes out of the ground and reinstalled the hose going to the trailer.
This time, I was ahead of the game because I had bought insulation to cover all this stuff up,on the last trip to the Hardware store.

I worked on that mess until three thirty in the afternoon. Lucky for me it was a beautiful day. Cold but no wind and not a cloud in the sky.

I took all the wet clothes and threw them in the bathtub and went and had SEVERAL cocktails.

I still have a mess to clean but the big project is fixing where all that water came from in the first place, the seal under the fucking toilet must be shot, that is where it all came from.

The first order of business is doing all that laundry.
Then I am going to mop the floor with bleach, then I am going to tackle the toilet.
No fun job that, it isn't your typical porcelain model with the nice handle on the tank. Oh no, this is a RV model with the foot controls and is plastic and very expensive and a real bitch to access the bolts holding it down because it is literally boxed in between the linen closet and the sink cabinet.

No rest for the wicked.

I am going to very busy for a couple of days.

Oh, by the way, I was not the only one this happened to, I saw several familiar faces in the plumbing section at the Hardware store, all with the same problem, frozen turd tubes.

The joys of living in a trailer. The learning curve continues.

Update:

Snow and freezing rain being predicted off and on for the next couple of days, things are going to get ugly around here.

Cold

18 degrees, two inches of snow that immediately turned into ice.
Portland is shut down.
I finally got a chance to see if the four wheel drive worked on my old bomber, built in 1967.

Yes it does, nice to find out before I really needed it.

Going to work in the morning, the wind has been howling and the Rat Hole has been Rockin' and Rollin'.

I dug out the Propane Heater from Hell, in less than two minutes it will go from forty degrees to ninety in here.

I am going to have to shut it off while I am gone but the little space heaters should be enough to keep it from freezing in here.

Yee Haw, winter is here.

Technical Difficulties

This POS computer has a virus or a Trojan program in it.
I know this without a doubt.
Unfortunately, neither my Firewall, my Anti virus program nor my Spyware program either noticed or can actually find it. Needless to say I am pissed off about this whole deal.
They have been banished back into the ether in a burst of electrons.
I have installed a new Antivirus program but it is kicking my ass trying to figure out how it works.
I just now got back here after fucking around with it for hours!

It says it wants to take about 24 hours for a system scan. I think this old laptop has been outclassed., it just doesn't have the Horsepower it needs to run this program.
Anyway, just a heads up.
There is a major cold snap headed this way, possibly overnight, down into the mid to low teens and it has been raining all day.
That will turn this whole area into a skating rink.
I am set pretty damn well to sit it out, I am going to run over a couple of blocks and get some candles and cheap lighting just in case.
Everything else is covered, I hope.


I will continue my quest for the offending code later.

Update:

It kills my processor to less than dial up speed and I had to pause the twelve hour scan just to post this but at less than 10% of the scan being completed, this new program found six damn Trojan data mining programs the old Anti Virus AND the Spyware programs I had couldn't find even though they were up to date.

Miserable sonofabitches anyway.

The assholes who design and send out this spyware shit and viruses should have their balls clapped together between two 2X4's.

Lets Cut To the Chase Here

The economy is in the toilet, unemployment is at record levels and it is going to get worse.
These are facts.

I have been telling people they need to get ready for some extremely hard times, I hear,
"What happened to you? You are all gloom and doom anymore."

I have been hungry before, it isn't remotely funny.

I have been poor before and like a lot of people, I live paycheck to paycheck.

I am not stupid either.
I saw this financial disaster start clear back in November of last year and have have watched things go downhill at a rapid pace ever since.

Right now, it is so FUBAR that NO ONE can stop it from continuing.

We are going to have to ride this out.

Get off your lazy asses and start stocking some food in your house.

I live in a Travel Trailer, there ain't a whole lot of storage space but I can guarantee you I have enough grub to last me three months.

What's your excuse?

How many of you are going to go out and blow a big wad of money on useless shit for Christmas, How many?

Screw that, give gifts of things that will help your family get through the winter, turn into your Grandmother and give gifts like stocking caps, thermal underwear and the like. It is cheaper and covers the basic needs of your family at the same time.

Remember, your kid can't eat or wear a video game.

To help you get started on a three month stockpile of food, I HIGHLY recommend the following site.

Safely Gathered In.

WTF?

I see the Republicans are doing their damndest to block the bailout of the car industry.
Funny, they did not seem to have a problem writing a blank check for the financial assholes to the tune of 700 BILLION dollars, with no fucking oversight.
Can anyone tell me where that money is and what good it is doing to the average Joe?


I thought not.

Mitch McConnell and Billy Bob Corker are having a fit that we might bail out a MANUFACTURING industry that has UNION members because they make too many dollars an hour!
Yeah, their talking point is that UAW members make seventy fucking dollars an hour.
That is Bullshit but at the same time they have no problem with lawyers and Doctors charging two hundred or more dollars an hour.Called a plumber or an electrician lately?


No need to look at the facts and say that is bullshit.
Of course these industries are not going to go tits up any time soon.

I say if they have such a problem with carmakers they should start rediscovering bicycles and donkeys, see how fast their attitude changes when they have to start walking their corpulent asses around town.

No, they are out to break a Union, because by God we just can't have that.
No mention that The Republicans want to bust the wages AND benefits of the UAW down to what the non union people in the South working at a fucking Toyota plant make.
That would be a Right To Work state.
Also, no mention that Mitch McConnell seems to bypass the fact that GM workers build the Corvette in Bowling Green Kentucky, where he happens to be representing.
What a nice thing he is trying to do for his constituents!

No. it is all about the benefits the UAW workers get and they make more than his housekeepers.
No mention of the fact that the old queen will never have to make a decision whether or not he is going to spend a hard earned paycheck on paying rent, buying food or paying the electric bill, let alone prescriptions or doctor bills.

He has it made!
Fuck you working stiffs.

He has a guaranteed pension. a zero deductible health care plan that is the envy of the world and has the [power to crash the economy of an entire nation just because his corporate masters don't like unions.

Do me a favor, if you are a die hard Republican, go get sterilized.
Then vote for these same assholes until the day you die.

There is a reason they are in the minority and this is a perfect example.

They are perfectly willing to crash the whole economy because they see the opportunity to kill off one union.

That would make the rest of us Collateral Damage and we already see how that works.

First, Get Ya Some Band Aids

This is something I used to really do well and now I have to relearn . Somehow I lost, "The Touch".
A sharp knife is a good knife, learn how to sharpen your own knives.

Get a couple of quality whetstones, they are cheap. Learn how to use them.
A dull knife makes an ugly scar and isn't useful except as something to take up space in the drawer.
You have some, I know you do. I do.

Here are some Youtubes that show you how to sharpen your own knives. Beware, this guy at the end has turned it into an art form but I am putting it up to show that all of it is technique.



The angle of the edge is very important!



Here is a good link for a text version,with illustrations. a real good primer.

There are literally thousands of methods and thousands of gimmickey little gizmo's.
Figure out how to do it as cheaply and quickly as you can,
A razor edge on a knife is not always a good thing, think of axes and chisels, sometimes you just want to cut something that is stubborn.

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Breaking News

The local morning news just reported that Illinois Governor Blagojevich has been arrested for impropriety in the selection process to replace Barack Obama's seat.

Nothing on any major news sites at this time, I will update this as I get more info later.

Update;

I saw this right before I headed out the door to go to work this morning and was busy all day.
If you don't know what this is about by now, Google the dickheads name.
This guy is going to jail and from what I am seeing this evening, his wife might be right behind him.
Fuckers have kids, too.

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There it is.

I am now officially a part of American History.

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Ornery Bastard

Nice to see they weren't referred from the Vice Presidents office anyway.

Crap, Now I'm a Fourteen Year Old Girl?

Don't ask me, for some damn reason this tune is stuck in my head.
Damn you radio people!

Catch this version while you can, apparently these guys have been nominated for three Grammy's and have disabled embedding the original off of YouTube. I found this one, they will too.

The Kings Of Leon,
Your Sex Is On Fire.

I Ain't Socially Acceptable

At least not in Po-lite company.

I am completely aware of this.

I am a complete West Coast librul and a crazy freaking bastard to go along with it.

A real Rebel Without A Clue.

The weird thing is, I was raised quite a bit by my Grandparents, on both sides and they were Conservatives to the end of their days, I still have one Granny left and she is 94.

My Mothers side all came from the South, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,Arkansas, I are a Redneck and I will not apologize for being enamored of the Southern style.

It is a part of me, a big part.

I don't agree with their politics but there are a lot of other traits that I just love and miss.
I talked to some young lady on the phone briefly that was in Georgia.
When she told me to "Howed On", I about had a runaway.
I miss the food, the manners that were beaten into me and a great deal of the culture.

On the other hand, my Fathers side are also fairly conservative, except the immediate branches of his Mother AND Father..
Apparently I have a lot in common with that side of the family also.
I do believe I can point to both my Grandmother and My Grandfather especially for my being a wild little Irish Bastard, the Southern influence is just gravy.
HOO! The stories I have heard!
The rest of both of those clans were fine, upstanding citizens, My Granny and Grandfather were the perfect storm and I got lucky.

You have to realize, even my Grandmother only pissed off both sets of parents by marrying my crazy assed Grandfather, although in her defense, she has ALWAYS been a very conservative, God fearing women since the day I got to meet her. Dammit.

She is a saint.

Both second generation Irish, because of different religions, there was a lot of hard feelings.
Heh, heh, heh.
I saw a picture of my Granny when she was young and I must now congratulate my Grandfather for being so lucky that they lived in a little Podunk town in Nebraska back in the Thirties.
Yowza.

Anyway, just a little background.
I am a Progressive Liberal Democrat and I will be Damned if I apologize to ANYONE for that.

I am also the Black Sheep of my current generation, the rest of them are also fine, upstanding citizens.

I just got lucky.

Dude, That's My Lunch

Some older gentleman flying in to Dulles from the Central African Republic, freaked out the TSA when they discovered a pound of dried deer meat and the charred carcasses of three freakin' monkeys in his bag.

"The meat, inadmissible under U.S. law, was confiscated and is being inspected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The man was allowed to enter the country without penalty.

Foreign visitors often attempt to carry unusual food products into the country that are part of their native cuisine, especially around the holidays, but this was an atypical discovery, Sapp said.


"It's a rather unique thing," Sapp said. "We've seen all types of food and plants coming in through the airports. . . . but this is a first for many of us."

Sapp described the man as elderly but did not know his exact age and said he is visiting his son in the District. The man's name was not released because he was not arrested, Sapp said."

It's a good thing the guy didn't have any Horseradish on him......

5 Blackwater Security Guards Charged In 2007 Shooting Spree

17 Iraqis were killed when Blackwater tried to block off an intersection in Baghdad's Nisoor Square back in 2007.
Now five of the guards have been charged with multiple counts of manslaughter.
A sixth has already plead guilty in a plea deal and is awaiting sentencing.

That doesn't bode well for the other 5, I can tell ya.

This was a real mess, conflicting reports have conflicting views of what actually went down that day but 34 people were either wounded or killed outright, and all of those were unarmed civilians, women and children included.


It is going to be interesting to see what transpires in this case.

I'm Juvenile

That works for me.
Mr. Taylor , from the article below was made aware of my little late night rant and relayed his opinion to someone who shall remain nameless at this time.

I will have to agree it is not refined in anyway and it does actually make his point, I DO get a visceral reaction to having my rights and liberties trampled in an unconstitutional power grab by what I consider to be a criminal administration. He does have that point correct.

I am certainly capable of expressing my thoughts without resorting to expletives and personal attacks, I just was not in the mood to do so, now I am.

Going back to his original quote, I will refresh that here;

"[T]he prospect of anyone in the U.S. being inappropriately wiretapped, surveilled, or data-mined seems to stir the viscera of many Bush critics more than the prospect of thousands of people being murdered by terrorists. This despite the paucity of evidence that any innocent person anywhere has been seriously harmed in recent decades by governmental abuse of wiretapping, surveillance, or data mining.

On these and similar issues, Obama will have a choice: He can give the Left what it wants and weaken our defenses. Or he can follow the advice of his more prudent advisers, recognize that Congress, the courts, and officials including Attorney General Michael Mukasey have already moved to end the worst Bush administration abuses — and kick the hard Left gently in the teeth. I’m betting that Obama is smart and tough enough to do the latter".

Let me start at the beginning and point out what I consider to be the faults with this comment.

First we have this statement,

"[T]he prospect of anyone in the U.S. being inappropriately wiretapped, surveilled, or data-mined seems to stir the viscera of many Bush critics more than the prospect of thousands of people being murdered by terrorists."

I am reminded of the famous quote by Benjamin Franklin,


"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

There were already guidelines in place concerning the use of wiretaps and President Bush and his advisors unilaterally decided that they were too restrictive and went ahead and started wiretapping everybody without the oversite of the FISA court, which by the way, had only ever turned down five requests for wiretaps in twenty five years .
The government, under FISA, could actually wiretap anyone they wanted for Seventy two hours before they had to purge that information or get a warrant.

Now, under Bush, they were not only retaining this information but they had other programs data mining everyday people in the United States of America.
All cell phone conversations, e-mails and other electronic information was now being swept up surreptitiously and sent through a computer system trying to glean information just for general purposes.

As I recall, the Fourth amendment of the Constitution directly states that we the people, are to remain secure in our homes and papers and there must be a warrant issued with probable cause for there to be any action by the government.

This is the very thing that causes me distress with the thought process of our Mr. Taylor.

Where is the probable cause for the government to listen in on the phone call of your Aunt Millie?
There isn't one and he knows it.
But it is for our safety he points out.
I refer back to the Franklin quote.
This WAS a free country.
We dealt with threats in a timely and legal manner.


As for Obama kicking the Far left gently in the teeth, I would remind Mr. Taylor that a great deal of Mr. Obamas supporters are actually progressives and Liberals, that would be the Far left he is talking about.
That would put Mr. Taylor on the far Right. That would be the party that just got massively repudiated after eight years of disasterous policy.

Mr. Taylor seems to think that he is still somehow in the majority and that President elect Obama should actually pay attention to what he is saying.

I find this to be hubristic in the extreme.

As for his last attempt to justify his position, he claims that if President elect Obama does not continue the failed policy of the Bush administration, it will somehow weaken our defense.

I still do not see what Aunt Millie's conversations have to do with protecting our interests here and abroad.

Finally, this next bit causes me to wonder what Mr. Taylor sees that I don't,

"Or he can follow the advice of his more prudent advisers, recognize that Congress, the courts, and officials including Attorney General Michael Mukasey have already moved to end the worst Bush administration abuses..."

He seems to be counter pointing his opening statement.

If President Bush has been abusing his Executive powers, how is it that it is necessary for us to continue them?

No, I will stick with my opinion that Mr. Taylor is catapulting the propaganda as it were and restate my extreme antipathy for his message.
President Bush and his illegal wiretap programs are just that, illegal.
He has not stopped them, he has just modified them.

I do not feel safer because of these programs and if you want to keep bringing up how we have not been attacked here in the Continental United States since September Eleventh, Two Thousand and One,I will continue to point out that we should not have been attacked even then if President Bush had taken the warnings he was given beforehand, under the old systems, seriously.
The Decider is ultimately to blame for that, he had plenty of warning and ignored it.

"Kick the hard Left gently in the teeth. ’"

That is an actual quote from some fucking twat named Stuart Taylor at the National Journal.
I am not linking to any jizz bucket outfit that puts this kind of effluence into the national discourse.

Dude, you are fucking oblivious to the excoriation the Left has gone through in the last eight years and I am here to tell you we ain't taking that shit anymore.

You have no fucking idea what it feels like to be kicked in the teeth but I am here to tell you it ain't fun.
Let me give you the full quote before I blow a gasket on this mealy mouthed motherfucker,

"[T]he prospect of anyone in the U.S. being inappropriately wiretapped, surveilled, or data-mined seems to stir the viscera of many Bush critics more than the prospect of thousands of people being murdered by terrorists. This despite the paucity of evidence that any innocent person anywhere has been seriously harmed in recent decades by governmental abuse of wiretapping, surveillance, or data mining.

On these and similar issues, Obama will have a choice: He can give the Left what it wants and weaken our defenses. Or he can follow the advice of his more prudent advisers, recognize that Congress, the courts, and officials including Attorney General Michael Mukasey have already moved to end the worst Bush administration abuses — and kick the hard Left gently in the teeth. I’m betting that Obama is smart and tough enough to do the latter".

Where do I start with this piece of fucking shit?

Hey, ASSHOLE.
What part of ILLEGAL WIRETAPS do you not understand?


Illegal surveillance?
DATA MINING?!!!

You ignorant cocksucker!!

What's a matter, yer Mommy cut you off the tit too soon?
You seem to have some serious security issues there, Poindexter.

Let me put this into a different point of view and see how many of you emotionally retarded tough talkers like this;

On these and similar issues, Obama will have a choice: He can give the Left what it wants and weaken our defenses. Or he can follow the advice of his more prudent advisers, recognize that Congress, the courts, and officials including Attorney General Michael Mukasey have already moved to end the worst Bush administration abuses — and kick the hard Right gently in the throat, to permanently shut them the fuck up so we don't have to listen to these Nanny fucking idiots , ever, again. I’m betting that Obama is smart and tough enough to do the latter.

Gee, you know what?
I bet a lot of people would have their panties in a twist if that actually got published in a nationally available newspaper.


I can't believe you are smart enough to stand up while you take a piss.

The Bush administration has been proven to have committed treason by deliberately and premeditatedly outing Valerie Plame, a covert CIA operative, for political payback because her husband, Joseph Wilson, excuse me, AMBASSADOR, Joseph Wilson, called them out in an editorial in the New York Times for lying their asses off trying to sell their reasons for wanting to go invade a sovereign country that had not attacked us and subsequently illegally arrested and tortured United States citizens, along with a few hundred Non citizens, flew them halfway around the world to be tortured by OTHER nations and thought that was OK because of some hold over Nixon era imperialists.

Mr. Taylor, you need to Shut Your PieHole and figure out that some serious crimes have been committed by the Bush Administration and quit talking, even metaphorically about kicking peoples teeth in.

I am going to type this very slowly , so you can understand;

You are not any kind of part of the majority in this country, you are publicly endorsing violence towards a certain political group of citizens and you are a fucking pantywaist pissboy.

Grow the fuck up.

By the way, I have had several teeth knocked out and it is not a pleasant experience, asshole.

There's No Way Out Of Here

The Shit continues to hit the fan seemingly daily anymore.
Keep preparing for hard times because they are here now.

After the first of the year I really expect for things to go sour owl shit.




Been kinda busy and there is no end in sight for a while. Take my word for it, I'll be back and just as rude and crude as ever.
In the mean time, take a minute and enjoy this old David Gilmour tune.




That is some good stuff.

Let It Roll

Some great guitar work here, I loved this band back in the day.
Real Rock and Roll.

UFO.

Unemployment At 34 Year High

Over a half a million jobs lost in the last month alone.
The official unemployment rate stands at 6.7 percent.
The highest since 1974.

You can double that and get a truer picture.

A Bad Moon Rising

Smell the smoke yet?


This is Kabuki writ large lately.

The Moron in Chief has been trying to polish the turd that is his legacy and the president elect is turning out the dead zombies of a former administration while straddling the Third rail of politics and dodging the left and the right, trying to please everyone and no one at the same time.
Bush and his bunch of professional criminals are busy as a cat burying shit on a hot tin roof trying to ram through the rest of his twelfth century vision for America and has been writing extra special Presidential Decrees like they are going out of style.
Oh, and the MSM is giving him the hand job of a lifetime.


Unions bad, Bankers Good.

Environment bad, Cheney good.

It is mind boggling to see what Bush is trying to rush through at the end of his monarchy.

Rome is burning as I type and he could give a Rats Ass .


While his buddies rape and pillage what is left of the Mad Money stashed away for a rainy day, the Idjits in Congress are playing Chicken with the livelyhoods of about five million Blue Collar workers and eating Quail Wings while they are doing it.

I have to tell you that Bad Shit is coming and while he only has a month and a half left, he is as busy as a fucking beaver trying to fulfill the dreams that the Neocons and Conservatives have been drooling about for a hundred years.
Notice you don't see much about him on the TV lately.

Our United States of America is imploding because of his policies and Congress has been holding his balls in their warm little hands as they fellate him like a starving whore.


People, he is busy turning the clock back on modern society as fast as he can.

Take my word for it, there are going to be some real surprises come out with his signature on it right up until the day he has to be escorted out of the highest office in the land.
I would venture a guess that as we get closer to the end of his term, the more shocking it will be.

I personally would not put anything past him, he is not afraid of anything because he has not had any real checks or balances to make him stop and look at anything he has done since the day the sonofabitch put his hand on a Bible and lied through his fucking teeth about upholding the Constitution.
Read between the lines and you will be awake at night trying to figure out how you are going to make ends meet in the Post Bush Era.

Pay attention boys and girls, there is a Bad Moon Rising.

Uses for 12 volts

If you didn't already know, I live in a 26 foot foot travel trailer.
These things have a built in converter that turns 110 volts into 12 volts to run all the lights.
It originally had a refrigerator that would run on 110 volts, 12 volts or propane. Not unusual for one this vintage, it was belly up.
There is a propane furnace that runs off 12 volts, it is belly up too. I have torn it out twice,( no small feat) to try and fix it and finally threw in the towel when it blew the sight glass for the pilot light off one time too many when it backfired and it shattered on the wall clear across the trailer,mere inches from my face as I knelt down to observe what the hell was going on with it. Right now I just use little space heaters but I have the Grand daddy of propane heaters out in the shed, I have to vent it to the outside yet. About two minutes and you have to shut it off, it will go from 35 degrees to ninety that fast.
I don't mess around when it comes to being cold. I have already built a stove of sorts that it will fit inside, I just have to plumb the exhaust.
Anyway, twelve volt systems can do a lot of things that your normal 110 volt systems can.
Think of the fanciest car you possibly can, Heated seats, power windows, mirrors, seats, killer stereo, GPS system, DVD players with video monitors for the passengers to watch,digital programmable dual heating, just think about all the fancy things that cars have these days and remember one thing, they all run on 12 volts.
The kid in this video is obviously a Geek but he can show you a thing or two.
I was playing with 12 volt toys before I knew what a volt was.
Back in the day, little toy train sets and slot car sets all had 110 to 12 volt transformers.

Support Our Troops!

Send them more Permanent Markers and Asswipe!

I wonder what they really think.....

SERIOUSLY,


Get our people out of that fucking sandstorm nightmare.

Here is an absolutely awesome way to help the Service person who really has a good reason for you to help get home to family because they can't afford to.

There is this guy named Ernie,( NSFW) HAHA!
He has a program that has helped many, many of our troops get home for the holidays when they had no other hope. Ernie is kinda like me, he is an Ornery Bastard too, but he has a huge heart also.
I have been cruising by his site for years and he has a way for anyone who can to donate to a fund that buys airline tickets for our men and women who can't afford to get home for the holidays, LBEH.

My hat is off to this guy.

Because the economy is in the shitter, the donations for this wonderful program are way off.
If you or anyone you know can throw five fucking dollars at this, one of our sons or daughters has a much better chance of being home for the holidays.
This fundraiser has worked miracles, I shit you not.

If you can, spread the word, I recently got reaquainted with a twenty year old communications specialist that has been dodging rockets in the Green Zone and it makes me think that five or ten bucks is a small price to pay for such an honor.
She is a niece I haven't seen since she was less than a year old.


Think of Ernie as the guy with a beer in one hand and a bell in the other. Kudos dude.


H/T to Ernie and someone who shall remain Anonymous.

I'm Whupped

Dang, back to back transmission jobs. Identical 95 Ford half ton pickups.The shifter mechanism broke in my work truck last week and I finally got it back together Thursday.I had to take it out and take the top off and send the shift lever mechanism out and have it overhauled by my buddy.
No sooner did I get that done and then the old man that fetches parts for me had his clutch quit working Friday. The slave cylinder went bad and the dang thing is inside the bell housing so ya gotta pull the transmission to get to it. Ford is a four letter word.
I worked for Ford for ten years at a Lincoln Mercury dealership and now I remember why I hate working on cars.

At least the shop at the dealer had hoists, you could pick up a car or a truck, I even worked on limo's, and stand up while you were working.
This place? Oh hell no.


It's all about floor jacks and jack stands and rolling around on creepers when ya can, sliding around on a concrete floor on yer back when ya can't.

Both times I had to roll the transmission off the tranny jack onto the floor and drag it out because I couldn't get the truck off the ground high enough.

Then it took three of us to get it back on the jack when it was under the truck again and then fight the dirty bastard to get it stuck back into place.

I will be 49 years old at the end of next month and I have been wrenching for thirty years.
This shit is getting real old.
I am supposed to be a supervisor but I am ridiculously under manned.

It's nice to be able to point at something and tell someone that "You need to fix that", but in the mean time here I am.

Oh, I forgot to mention that generally,I am lucky to be able to work on anything for more than five or ten minutes at a time.
I am either being paged to answer the damn phone, my boss is telling me the next ten things he wants done before tomorrow , I am ordering parts or I am dealing with a moron who just broke a hundred thousand dollar truck out on the road somewhere, sometimes several states away.

I can't tell you how many times I have had to slide out from underneath a Big Rig and go take care of something and then come back and try to remember where the hell I was at trying to fix something, that ain't a good thing when you are dealing with vehicles that weigh a hundred thousand pounds fully loaded.

I love my job.

I actually consider myself fortunate I have one and this is a pretty good outfit to work for, I just need some competent help that they don't steal to do other jobs three out of five days a week.

I am tired.

I'll see if I can't find something more interesting to bitch about tomorrow.

Bottoms up.

What A Surprise

I knew this was coming but it sure was sweet to see someone with the huevos to actually press charges on these two.

Cheney, Gonzales indictments dropped
RAW STORY
Published: Monday December 1, 2008

A judge in Raymondville, Texas has dropped indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Judge Manuel Banales, after surviving a motion to have him removed from the case, threw out eight of the indictments brought by Willacy County District Attorney Juan Guerra, including those against two special prosecutors, two district judges, and a district clerk.

Judge Banales ruled the grand jury returned the indictments against Cheney and Gonzales unlawfully. Banales also tossed an indictment for corruption against State Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., a Democrat.

The Dow Drops 680 Today

The National Bureau of Economic Research finally declared what quite a few of us already knew, that the U.S. has been in a recession for a year now.


The sheeple watching Fox news all bleated pitifully and then went back to grazing.
The rest of us have been way ahead of these guys.
It's going to get worse and it is going to last a long time.


The National Bureau of Economic Research said in a statement that it "determined that the decline in economic activity in 2008 met the standard for a recession."

Nice work there Sparky, Captain Obvious salutes you.

Of course the Bush administration has known this all along but they ain't fessin' up to the bad news.
They are too busy shoveling Billions of dollars to their buddies in the banking industry and could give a rats ass about the average American.

Happy Holidays everyone.

It's Official, The National Guard Is Broken.

This bit of news from the Washington Post is just damn near enough to make me stand in the street and scream.

While I am not exactly at a loss for words, the ones that come to mind are very, very bad ones.

Bush and some lackies in Congress are using FEMA money to put our own troops on the ground inside the Continental United States with the excuse of using them to "Bolster National Security".

Not two thousand, not five not ten but TWENTY THOUSAND ARMED TROOPS.

Of course it's because no one is safe and it's for your own good and don't you dare say a fucking word about it because Nanny Congress thinks it's a good idea and JUST WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THE NATIONAL GUARD FOR?!

Oh yeah, Bush had to pillage and plunder the National Guard for his little pet war in Iraq.

I especially loved this little gem.

"Gates gave commanders 25 days to propose changes and cost estimates. He cited the work of a congressionally chartered commission, which concluded in January that the Guard and reserve forces are not ready and that they lack equipment and training. "

No shit?
Is that maybe because all their fucking equipment and personnel are over in the Big Motherfucking Sandbox in the Middle East?

Who the fuck could have foreseen that the National Guard really isn't up to the task of their primary objective?
I dunno, maybe every fucking Governor of every fucking state in the nation?
I'll pass on the urge to single out Caribou Barbie, that shit is just too easy.

The Governors have been complaining about this very situation for SEVERAL years now.

Oh and about that Posse Comitatus Act?

They somehow see fit to completely ignore that trifling inconvenience.

This is directly attributable to George Bush and those weasels in Congress who can't see our hands in front of their faces because they are too busy doing any damn thing except taking their responsibilities seriously.
But ya gotta have those Congressional hearings into steroid use in Baseball, now don't ya. Or maybe you need to change the official name of some Goddamn Post office in Podunk Oklahoma, they are all over that shit.

I know there is a lot of important stuff that needs to get fixed but the National Guard people have done their duty in spades and we should be rebuilding their inventory and getting them the hell out of Iraq would go a long ways towards being able to fund them properly.

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I sure as hell don't see a need for ground troops to be used for the exact same reason the National Guard exists for in the first place.

The justifications and the excuses given do not pass the smell test.

Now I Have Seen It All

I like cats and normally there is nothing in life that is funnier to me than seeing a cat swim because everyone knows how much cats hate getting wet.

Get a load of this,



I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.

Andouille Sausage, Food Of The Gods!

My my my.

I'm telling ya, if you have never tried this stuff, you are missing out!
It is traditionally made out of pork, I have to mention that, although it can be made with chicken too.

Keerist this is good stuff!

I found a semi local butcher on Fourth Plain Blvd that carries it and I think there is going to be some stuff come out of the freezer to make room for more!

I like spicy food and this is Cajun baby.

I heat it up and quarter a nice onion and go to town!
It is great in soups, Gumbo and Jumbalaya, Split Pea, just about any soup.


Get ya some and try it, it is great for breakfast or BBQ too.

Whatta Ya Mean You Got The Day Off?

Me, Oh Hell No!

The Boss man said we could go home at Noon if we wanted to, sans pay.
Yay, I don't know about anyone else but I have bills to pay.

I am however, working on my own rig.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA.

Dammet, he came back from lunch.
Oh well, I am still getting some much needed maintenance done on The Beast.

What Fixer Said

What happened to the people of this country?

Fixer tells it like it is, change yer shorts and go read it.

This Brings A Tear To My Eye

If this story and the implications of this little girl doing her homework on the same desk that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on doesn't touch you, there is something very, very wrong with you.

CHICAGO—President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, said their young daughters will still have to do chores in the White House and won't get out of doing homework just because they're the president's children. In an interview with Barbara Walters, the Obamas said Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, will have lives as normal as possible. That means helping out around the house.

"That was the first thing I said to some of the staff when I did my visit," Michelle Obama said. "I said, 'You know, we're going to have to set up some boundaries,' because they're going to need to be able to make their beds, and clean up."

The girls, who will be attending the prestigious Sidwell Friends School, also will be expected to do their homework as usual. Although, the president-elect said, Malia has her eye on a special spot to write important papers.

snip

Obama, who is known to be an avid reader of Lincoln history, said his daughter told him "I'm going to sit at that desk, because I'm thinking that will inspire big thoughts."

During the interview, Obama described the desk as being the spot where Lincoln signed the Gettysburg Address. While there is a copy of the address on display in that room, it actually was the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves that Lincoln signed there.

How fucking awesome is that?


H/T to Fark for spreading the word.

The original story is at Boston.com.

Happy Turkey Day

From me to you.

There is much to be thankful for in these trying times, all you have to do is look a little for it.

Got Change For a Twenty? (Updated)

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I Agree With This Message

Paraphrasing Jay Leno on the proposed bail out of the car industry;

The Blue Collar guys and the White Collar guys should work together on this, the Blue Collar guys should keep building cars and the White Collar guys should make the license plates.

Word.

How To Blow a Hundred At the Dollar Store

It's not as hard as you would think.

I love the Dollar store, I get all kinds of stuff there.
Things like trash bags, tin foil,( Need a new hat once in a while, ya know)
Baggies, paper towels, John Wayne toilet paper, (80 grit), you name it.

They beat the local Safeway like a rented mule when it comes to being cheap on prices.
So the other day I went in there and just had a complete runaway.

Canned corn, 2 fer a buck.Green beans the same deal
Campbells chicken noodle soup. 16 0z can, a buck.
32 oz Cran Raspberry juice, a buck.
Armour Treat, mystery meat, a buck.
Three liter bottles of Pop, a buck.

Canned peaches and pears, well you get it.
Hell, it's worth me going to just to buy Laundry and Dish soap!

Two shopping carts full, and I do mean full, 95 bucks and change, including tax.

The problem now is where to put it all.
I live in The Rat Hole, a Twenty Six foot box on wheels that is notorious for not having much storage space.

I am a pretty creative guy when it comes to stuff like this though.
I just might lift off the top of the bed and start stacking it around the fresh water tank. That ought to be interesting.

It would be too much trouble to , you know, re arrange the stuff I already have and throw out a bunch of junk stereo equipment I have laying around.
Besides, them two varmint cats have to have somewhere to hide when I come home and find cat puke on the floor.

Gee, Ya Think?

I have seen a few sites grumbling about this widget guessing the gender of the author wrong.
Now granted, you don't see much of anyone calling a woman a bastard, there is another (Ahem) term used a lot more often.
Even though, I was still pleasantly surprised that there didn't seem to much ambivalence when analyzing my blog for gender .

Results

We think http://ornerybastard.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (83%).

Check it out, see if ya are what ya think ya are.

Curing What Ails Ya, Naturally

Yeah, I still feel kinda crappy but Patricia was kind enough to hook me up with a link in the comments to an all natural ingredients website for home remedies for a TON of various illnesses and afflictions.
That was awful nice of her to do.

She knows that of which she speaks, also.

She and her husband Michael are doing their best to not only get by their ownselves but also try and inform and educate folks how to stock up on goods and be more self sufficient, they practice what they preach too!
I read Staying Alive, Every. Single. Day.

A unique voice amongst the noise of the day.

Michael affectionately refers to Patricia as The Handmaiden.
That is so dang cute I can hardly stand it.

I highly suggest you visit all of these sites , if for no other reason, to broaden your horizons and maybe learn a few things!

The Handmaiden's site is here, Michaels "Staying Alive" site is here and the Home Remedy site is here.

By the way, I am trying one of the recipes for colds that uses Apple Cider Vinegar and Lemon juice and I'll be danged if my head congestion isn't clearing up!
It better be, that stuff is just NASTY!!
YUK!


Just wait until I can get to the Tomato tea with Cayenne pepper!
WHOOT!

Bleargh

I am still fighting this cold.

It hasn't gotten real, real bad yet. I slept quite a bit yesterday and then spent all afternoon and evening doing laundry, and I'm still not done!
Of course, now my sleep schedule is completely fucked up.

Drank some whiskey late last night so I could go back to sleep after drinking coffee all afternoon.

I am awake early this morning after being up past one o'clock in the morning. I see a nap coming my way. like, right now.

Over and out.

It's Going To Be A Long Weekend

My fuckin' buddy at work has been sick all week with a fucking headcold.
Guess who just came down with the fucker?
About an hour ago I felt it coming and as I type it is coming on with a vengeance.
Great.
Not only that, now I have to work late, on a Friday.

Grumpy? Me?
You bet yer ass I'm grumpy, wait 'till tomorrow.

Pissed Off A Winger Lately?

I have.
Absolutely Fucking Amazing.
The first fucking thing out of their mouth is "Clinton Did....".

Have a nice day, Moran...

Shooting fish in a barrel.

Oh, in case you think I am not going to repeat this little drama fest over and over and over again,

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

Two Months

Sixty excrutiatingly long days and Bush is (Bad) History.
Fuck Christmas, January Twentieth is the day I am looking forward to. I want him gone more than mere words can express.

In the mean time, the count down continues.

Hell, everyone can't wait for his sorry ass to be gone.

Sarah Palin, MILF.

Bill Maher redefines that for us;
Moron I'd Like To Forget,

I generally don't think the guy is that fuckin' funny but that was.

Mommy, I'm Hungry....

Let's quit chasing the dog here, this country is starting the long slow slide into your worst nightmare.


Congress has currently tied themselves in knots trying to figure out just who gets a slice of Mr. Paulsons SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR bail out.

Let me tell you in no uncertain terms,
YOU are not going to see one thin dime of that ridiculously huge amount of money. Not one cent.

None.

In the mean time , there is a lot of air time and ink being spread around whether or not General Motors is going to get a little slice of the pie to keep them solvent enough so they can honor the retirement benefits of several thousand former workers who busted their backsides keeping that conglomerate in the black for so many years.
No real mention of Ford and Chrysler is a given to go with any bailout of GM.


Chrysler is currently owned by Daimler,of Germany if I am not mistaken, who also bought Freightliner Trucks, which has just announced some major cutbacks, including the ones at the corporate headquarters on Swan Island, in Portland Oregon.

Oh, by the way, Chrysler has already been bailed out once by the government, it was huge in case you don't remember.I don't see anything about that in the MSM, what a surprise.

The bottom line for the everyday family is that there is no Bail Out for you.

You get to pay for whatever amount of money these people decide it is going to take to keep their business buddies above water, too bad your children are starving.

That is some change that needs to happen.

Someone needs to look a few hungry children in the eye and ask themselves what is more important here.

Of course, that has never stopped any corporation in its quest for profits that I have ever seen, in my lifetime. Why have the children of American citizens in a place called Appalachia been starving for over fifty years?

Nobody seems to give a damn ?

I have some bad news for you,

Hunger is not just a "foreign" problem and never has been, it has been an ongoing problem in this country since its inception, the media just doesn't want to acknowledge that out loud but, the numbers are not going to lie here shortly. Hunger has been ignored, to our shame. Now it is going to be a daily problem for a great deal of the citizens of the greatest country on the face of the earth.

Such as it is.

Yay Team.

Someday,

I hope to be able to have a drink with this guy,we seem to have a few things in common.

The Rude One, go read it, I agree wholeheartedly that the Dems best watch their fucking step.


Note that when I say have a drink with, I actually mean get falling down drunk and doing coke off a pretty hookers ass.

It's been years .

Digital Television Coming In February

I just happen to have had the little piece of shit TV I have turned on a few minutes ago while watching the local news.

They have been harping about this signal change coming in February since, I don't know, last fucking April.

Every time I turn it on they are all breathless, worrying that they might lose every rednecked motherfucker within two states if these same idjits don't step up to the plate and buy a newer television or get this stupid fucking box to plug into it to change the signal from analog to digital.
Every little old lady over seventy has been on heightened alert and changing their Depends thrice daily since then.

Lucky for me, they just did a LIVE TEST!!! Eleventy Eleven !!!

I will be throwing out my television in late January, hopefully on my fucking Birthday.


See ya.

I ain't going to miss the fourteen different COP shows, CSI, or any other Authoritarian sledgehammer show they are so fond of running 24/7.
Oh, and Celeb TV is even worse.
Fuck Brittany.

Cheney, Gonzales Indicted In Texas

It's short and Oh My God Is It Sweet!!

Taken from Think Progress En Toto;

Vice President Cheney and former Attorney General Gonzales indicted.»

A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers:

The indictment accuses Cheney and Gonzales of engaging in organized criminal activity. It criticizes Cheney’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees by working through the prison companies.

Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at the federal detention centers.

Finally, someone with the fucking balls to go after these thug bastards.
My hat is off to you.

So far, nothing at the NYT, LAT or WAPO, they must be saving it for a back story tomorrow.

Seriously Pissed Off Right Now

So, Harry Reid tells us that Joe Lieberman is a Democrat and he is part of the caucus.
After Lieberman has openly campaigned AGAINST Democrats FOR Republicans, bad mouthed Obama, who he mentored and went so far as to say that a Super majority by Democrats would be "scary" and then made a fucking speech at the Republican National Convention.

Right, try to follow that logic.

If I had a fucking dog that acted like Lieberman there would already be a hole dug in the back yard.

Just to be fair, the Republicans don't seem to be able to find their balls either, they couldn't find enough guts to toss Convicted Felon Stevens out either.

What a completely useless group of individuals we ALL have representing us in government.
Key word, representing.

None of these motherfuckers are representing my views on accountability in government, none.
So, even if you are a Republican, you can be ashamed of your representatives today for not having the fucking guts to kill a tick.

Something To Go With Yer Coffee

It's kind of amazing that this tune is way the hell over forty years old but it never fails to jazz me up.
The Kinks, You Really Got Me.

I don't wanna hear any shit about this one either, I LIKE Foghat and this is a fucking cool tune.

Terraplane Blues,

That Was Fun

For the third time in a month I had to go to work and load up the car trailer and bring it home to haul some piece of shit down there.
I laid around most of the day recuperating from my late night last nite, I think I got home about a quarter to three this morning.
I keep forgetting about the time change and at three this afternoon finally headed to work to get the car trailer because the transmission in my little work truck took a shit the other day and is stuck in second gear and won't come out.

That means a forty mile round trip, twice.
Of course it got dark before I got back and I had to dick around and load the sonofabitch and chain it down in the dark.
I just got back and I am going to kick back and get ready to go to work in the morning, I still didn't get any laundry done, I have just enough left for tomorrow and then I am going to spend my evening at the laundromat. I can't wait.

Caturday

Some asshole called the city and complained about the dumpster stinking because some OTHER asshole threw a bunch of fish guts in it to sit and rot for most of the week.
This prompted my landlord to have a fit and I came home about a week ago to a nastygram on my door with all kinds of rules and regulations and spleen venting, saying that the code enforcement dickheads were going to be all over the fucking place and now we are going to go all fucking Nazi on yer asses until this shit blows over.

One of these new rule enforcements included the decree that cats are HOUSE PETS!! DAMMIT!!, and they need to be kept indoors 24/7 and NO FUCKING CAT FOOD OUTSIDE!! and blah dee fucking blah.

Kiss my ass.

So , I had a cat litter box in the Rat Hole, but the little varmints never used it because if they had to do their business, they just went to the door and got my attention and I let 'em out.
I really liked that system.
Oh no, soo now I get to fight the little fuckers every morning to keep them from skeedaddling out the fucking door when I go to work.
I have a couple of useless neighbors who are apparently on the dole from the government who have decided they need to be the unofficial Home Owners Association, in a fucking trailer park, no less, and are constantly giving me a hard time about my lack of enthusiasm over things like mowing the ten square feet of grass in my back yard and generally keeping things ship shape.
I could really give a fuck. They got all day to fuck around and make the place cutesy, I work.
When I ain't working, I'm drinking. Fuck them.
But no, now they are watching for my cats being outside.
These same cocksuckers have two dogs, a fucking Pit Bull and some sort of terrier, Rat dog.
So they put up chain link fences and gates and holy fucking hell knows what to keep these little asshole dogs from running all over, like they used to.
So my cats are not the happy little campers they used to be, laying around in the sun, licking their asses all day, running amok whenever they felt like it.
This is also affecting my sunny outlook on life as I am now trapped in a tin can with two fucking cats that want to lay all over me constantly.


Of course, if you have been reading my stuff for any length of time and just happen to recall the name of this blog, you can pretty much see what my reaction to all this bullshit is going to be.....

Fuck that.

Out the fucking door you little bastards go, a big Fuck You to the neighbors and Shut Yer Fucking Pie Hole to boot.

I pretty much keep the furballs imprisoned while I am at work but the minute I get home it is GET THE FUCK OUT and have a nice day kitties.

One nice thing about this little crack down, I keep the food dish inside now and am just fucking amazed at how much cat food I am not going through anymore.
I must have been feeding half the fucking cats in this place.

Update;

My buddy just called me and said he would give me one of those new fangled digital camera thingies.

If I can get it to work with this antique fucking laptop I will see about maybe putting up mug shots of the varmints.
We'll see.

Where Is My Fucking Hammer?

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Wayback

If you recognize this name, you are officially old now.

And it might be old, but it is still good shit!

Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush--Maxoom- Blues.

Where The Hell Are My Nipple Clamps?

I think I am going to bust a nut!

I am so loving this lady I can't hardly contain myself!

Thank you Lord, for Rachel Maddow.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Rush Limbaugh must be shitting bricks right now.

Oh, and my special comment to the ignorant fuckheads who have a perpetual hard on against gay people?
This girl is smarter than the last ten generations of your family combined.

I Haz A Date Saturday

With disaster.
Shoot me now.

Why I torture myself like this is beyond me.

Tagged

Dyre42 from Dyre Portents tagged me.

The Rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Six random things about me

1. I started smoking when I was ten years old.

2. I also started drinking straight whiskey when I was ten years old.

Not regularly but several times that year.

3. I went through twenty nine cars in a ten year period once.
Wrecked most of them. I was a crazy motherfucker in my day.I have long since lost count of how many wrecks I have had, including motorcycles, well over sixty, I'm sure.

4. I had my lower back fused at the age of twenty six after living in agony for five years. I saw over fifteen doctors before they figured out what was wrong.It is still fucked up.

5.I am actually a very nice guy.Just don't piss me off, I never forget.

6. My mother taught me to read before I ever started school.
Once when I decided to quit drinking for a while, I read 37 paperback books in one month, some of them over 700 pages long.

There ya go, six fun facts about Bustednuckles.

I am the guy your mother warned you about.


I am not going to tag anyone else, this thing went viral, I have seen it all over the place.

I Am Grateful

It is raining cats and dogs, has been for two days.
I am talking flooding out the roads and ruining what little hairdo I have left clear through my Baseball cap.
Ya know what? I do not have any leaks in my roof and don't have to put buckets and bowls under a constant drip, drip, drip, like I used to.

I am very thankful that I have a roof over my head.
It ain't much, but it is mine. I am very serious.

I guess the folks at AIG would have a fit if the high dollar roof they have been partying under actually leaked a drop of water into the glass of champagne in their hand.

I don't know about anyone else but I think maybe after crying to the government about being broke and getting a few billion dollars to bail yer asses out and then being busted AGAIN for partying their asses off on the public dollar,maybe some arrogant fucking bastards need to have a little sit down chat with the criminal fraud division.

I have seen too much arrogant behavior the last eight years but this shit is over the top.

These motherfuckers need to wind up not ever having to worry about having a leaky roof over their heads.
Or anything else for that matter.
Three hots and a cot for the rest of their life.
Oh, and free T shirts too.

The Second Amendment Is Irrelevant

I have been getting the biggest kick out of people freaking out about the election of President Elect Obama and the reaction from the folks who are panicked about his supposed eagerness to grab the guns right out of the hands of every American and the panic happening as I type going on with people buying every damn bullet and firearm accessory available.

News flash, you are several years too late.

There are a lot of very happy firearms dealers who are going to have a profitable Christmas and a lot of panicked people who can't spend money fast enough on extended capacity magazines and high dollar shooting irons capable of throwing incredible amounts of lead down stream at rates of fire that would render the ratifiers of the Second amendment speechless.

Before anyone starts firing up the keyboard to light into my ass as a weak kneed liberal pussy who hates guns, I have another news flash for you, I love guns and I am a huge proponent of the Second Amendment that guarantees my right to own firearms . I have several.
The Right to bear arms has been seen to be a crucial incentive in keeping our very own government in check with the threat of deadly force, just to remind our elected officials that to go too far towards tyranny invites an armed response, and dead tyrants do not get the added benefits of breathing or reproducing.

Now,
Let me show you why the officials in the government are laughing their asses off at the quaint notion of Rednecked Rambo's with shoulder mounted pea shooters.

I am sure you have heard of the remote controlled and guided missile armed Predator aircraft ,they like to call these Drones, because there is no pilot to train or worry about if some harm comes to it and it crashes.
Recall there are some very dead terrorists accredited to these birds. Take your time and watch the videos at these links so this readily available information can sink in.
Now the Predator has a Big Brother, the Global Hawk.
Notice how this video shows the destructive force available for High Explosives.
That means it can deliver unconventional payloads, Bio, Nuclear,and multiple versions of Anti Personnel weapons,Napalm, Cluster Bombs,Air to Sea, Air to Surface, just let your imagination run wild for a minute.


Now then, take into consideration Google Earth has been opened to the public and shows one hundredth of the capabilities of the Spy Satellites that President Bush just turned inwards to our own country.

Traffic cameras are another example, your Government has the capability of reading the license plate on your car going seventy miles an hour, in the rain.
Then there is the abuse of FISA .
Every bit of the electronic activity you or I do is being monitored and stored.
EMail, Google Search, Cell Phone tracking, I hope by now you are starting to see the Big Picture.

This is not Tin Foil Hat time, these are proven technologies.

George Bush has been stacking the deck and we have been paying for it,literally.


I did not even mention the B2 Bomber or the F-117 or F22 Stealth Fighters.

How about your Local news Helicopter having Infra Red FLIR capabilities?
I know at least one local television news helicopter has this, think the US.Gov doesn't?

The fact of the matter is, if the Government of the United States of America wants you dead, you and anyone within a hundred yards will be and you will never know what happened.

Just ask a survivor from several wedding ceremonies in the Middle East recently.

I am completely aware that the government is outnumbered when it comes to individuals who are armed compared to what they have for "Boots On The Ground".

I am also aware that if you piss them off to the point someone high enough in the "Powers That Be' takes a personal interest in your termination, I would not like the odds of survival, AR15 or not.

The Republican Southern Strategy Is Dead

Bury that motherfucker deep too.

The Republicans turned out their base all right, it just wasn't as big as they thought it was and it is getting smaller every year.


Racism is alive and well down South but it has become a very localized tradition.

Southern counties that voted more heavily Republican this year than in 2004 tended to be poorer, less educated and whiter, a statistical analysis by The New York Times shows. Mr. Obama won in only 44 counties in the Appalachian belt, a stretch of 410 counties that runs from New York to Mississippi. Many of those counties, rural and isolated, have been less exposed to the diversity, educational achievement and economic progress experienced by more prosperous areas.

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Less than a third of Southern whites voted for Mr. Obama, compared with 43 percent of whites nationally. By leaving the mainstream so decisively, the Deep South and Appalachia will no longer be able to dictate that winning Democrats have Southern accents or adhere to conservative policies on issues like welfare and tax policy, experts say.

That could spell the end of the so-called Southern strategy, the doctrine that took shape under President Richard M. Nixon in which national elections were won by co-opting Southern whites on racial issues. And the Southernization of American politics — which reached its apogee in the 1990s when many Congressional leaders and President Bill Clinton were from the South — appears to have ended.

“I think that’s absolutely over,” said Thomas Schaller, a political scientist who argued prophetically that the Democrats could win national elections without the South.

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My bold
Read the rest of this NYT article here.

Y'all just go ahead and stay ignorant, ya hear?

HeckOfAJob, Stupie

Talk about swirling the bowl.

WASHINGTON (CNN) --

On the day that President-elect Barack Obama visited the White House, a new national poll illustrates the daunting challenges he faces when it becomes his home next year.
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Only 16 percent of those questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday say things are going well in the country today. That's an all-time low. Eighty-three percent say things are going badly, which is an all-time high.

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Worst. President. Ever.

Executive Authority, Reversing Bush Policy

Oh, the irony. In a direct slap to the face, It is being reported that Barack Obama's transition team has already identified several Bush policies that were implemented by going around Congress by using that pesky Unitary Executive Authority that can be immediately reversed using the same trick.

CHICAGO: President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President George W. Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is reviewing limits on stem cell research and the expansion of oil and gas drilling, among other issues, members of the team said Sunday.

As Obama prepared to make his first post-election visit to the White House on Monday, his advisers were compiling a list of policies that could be reversed by the executive powers of the new president. The assessment is under way, aides said, but a full list of policies to be overturned will not be announced by Obama until he confers with new members of his cabinet.

"There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," John Podesta, a top transition leader, said Sunday. "He feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."

Snippet of an article from the International Herald Tribune.

This just cracks me up. Take that, ya bastards.

What Jill Said

Brilliant at Breakfast is one of the many Blogs I try to catch every day.
Jill has a post up that I find myself being in complete agreement with.

Do yerself a favor and go read the whole thing and see if you don't agree.
We have a long ways to go but our job as the governed is to be eternally vigilant and President elect Barack Obama is not going to get a free pass.

That is the only good thing to have come out of the Bush administration, thousands of Government observers, with their representatives on speed dial.

Looks Like I'm Shit Outta Luck

They don't have the Biggest Asshole award.

Oh well.



So go vote for your favorites.
There are some awesome blogs out there.

That's OK though, I am still holding out some small bit of hope for a Golden Monkeyfist Award.

Hint hint.

Caturday

I just threw the little monsters out, in the rain.

Now all three of us are happy.

The daughter is coming over so I can look at her car, it keeps dying at stoplights. Then I'll be out in the rain with the little fuckers.

These goofy fucking cats are trying to set opposing schedules. One wants out first thing in the morning and the other one wants in.

Whatever, as long as the cat box gets cleaned and they have food and water, they can do whatever the hell they want.

Change I Can Believe In.

Right.

Different Party....





Different Thug.





Fuck Me Runnin'.

Here we go.

Help Support Our Allies!

If you have been around the Lefty Blogs for any amount of time I would have to think you have run into some of the work of a friend of ours.
If you recognize the work of DarkBlack, you know what I am talking about.

Our friend is having some uncertain times and I do believe that a little dose of love from his friends on the Internets might have a huge effect for the good in his life. If ya happen to have an extra couple of bucks, I think it would be a beautiful thing if you could send them through the tubes and do a wonderful thing for our long time friend.
It would damn well be money well spent.

By the way, this needs to go viral.

An Attorney General With Fangs

That's what I want to see.

Fuck this BiPartisan Bullshit, you cocksuckers ran wild over our Constitution and our civil rights.

You called us traitors for even QUESTIONING the abuses you piled up.
An illegal war?
Check.
Torture?
Check.
Illegal wire tapping?
Check.
The Politicalization of the Justice Department?
Check.
The disclosure of the identity of an under cover CIA operative for political payback?
Check.
The Billions of Cash Dollars that disappeared in Iraq?
Check.
No bid government contracts awarded to the company the Vice President of the United States still gets dividends from?
Check.

Willingly staying on vacation while an entire United States city drowns and not doing a mother fucking thing to alleviate the suffering of thousands of US citizens?
Check.

Guantanamo?
Check.

The Department of Homeland Security?
Check.

Presidential signing statements?
Check.

Gutting Habeus Corpus?
Check.

Disregarding Posse Comitatus?
Check.


Authorizing the kidnapping of United States citizens and their transfer to non NATO countries to be tortured into confessing crimes they did not commit?
Check.

Increasing the National debt to the tune of Trillions of dollars by begging money from countries not allied with our national interests?
Check.

Deregulating every possible business to help maximize profits and minimize safe guards?
Check.

The list is endless and it is so fucking shameful it should be a prime subject for investigation.
If you want a partial list of all of the transgressions of the Bush regime, let me point you to Hugh's List.

There are currently over Three Hundred and Eighty documented scandals that implicate the Bush administration.

Some of those include treason by it's definition.

I am sure that Mr. Obama is going to want to deal with the immediate problems at hand, which are legion.
I only hope that there are some who would try to not forget the recent past and decide that some rocks need to be turned over and some evil motherfuckers trying to hide under them would make great fishing bait.

"Age Hurt McCain More Than Race Hurt Obama"

I heard that three times tonight out of the mouth of Brian Williams.He went out of his way and repeated the question twice.
Two fucking hours and the race factor is out there on N fucking BC.
Fucking assholes.

You motherfuckers never give up, do ya?

Update, Tim Russell is still dead.

His fucking kid has already been anointed as the next upcoming Partisan MSM garbage transfer specialist who is guaranteed a fat Right wing welfare check because his father ain't here to see the price of his house go in the fucking toilet and his Dad was the face of the MSM right wing cheerleader squad.
When Tom Brokaw just got all teary eyed about Tim not being here and getting all nostalgic about some autographed mug he got from PunkinHead,and was going to go have a beer in and Brian Williams telling him to call a cab, I threw up in my mouth.

I am desperately hoping the media gets a double dose of Syrup of Ipecac.

Look it up and remember, I am an Ornery Bastard.

Relax Tony

Sorry, youse guys in da Supreme Court don't gotta have to get up this time.

Barack Obama is the President elect of the United States of America.
It wasn't even close.

They called it ONE MINUTE after the polls closed on the West Coast.

We Shall See

Well, I just voted, man was that tough.

Fill out the card, put it in the envelope and drop it in the box.

Ya gotta love the mail in ballot system.
I didn't mail it though, they have a special box right downtown next to the Elections office, ya just drive up and toss it in, done.
None of this waiting in line for fucking hours bullshit.


This is the way to go.

Oh, I almost forgot,

FUCK DIEBOLD!

Is He Ready To Lead?

For those who have constantly thrown that question out there as a gotcha question?
Fuck You.
There it is. The mans Grandmother died today, one fucking day before the election of a generation, an election that will either show him to be the President elect or the Also Ran.

He knew it was coming and that is why he took the time to quit campaigning and go to her side.

My sincerest condolences.

I can empathize with the man, seriously.
My Grandmothers were a huge part of my life.

Today, he stayed out on the campaign trail.
Do you have any idea what he is going through?
Any idea how badly he would have loved to talk to her tomorrow?

If anyone thinks he does not have what it takes to work under pressure, there is your proof.
If he actually wins the nomination tomorrow, one of his first official duties will be presiding over the funeral one his closest lifetime advisers, his Grandmother.

He still has to find time and a way to grieve while he concludes his campaign, one way or another.
That has to be the toughest job he will ever undertake.

Because No One Could Have Forseen....

After eight years of the lawless Bush administration, everything from torture to shredding the Constitution to the current economic meltdown, on top of how many of us felt the last election was stolen, you would think that election officials just might have anticipated a very large turnout of voters this year.
You would be mistaken;

Millions of voters will encounter an unfamiliar low-tech landscape at the polls on Tuesday. About half of all voters will vote in a way that is different from what they did in the last presidential election, and most will use paper ballots rather than the touch-screen machines that have caused concern among voting experts.




But the change does not guarantee a smooth election day, as the nation’s voting system remains untested for what is expected to be an unprecedented turnout. Six years after the largest federal overhaul in how elections are run, voting experts are still predicting machine and ballot shortages in several swing states and late tallies on election night.

snipped from the NYT times article here.

We have already seen votes getting flipped, purges of voter rolls and every other dirty trick the Republicans can think of to skew the results of this election in their favor.

This shit needs to stop.
Voting is the duty of every American citizen and when you have unreliable voting machines and political parties bent on denying the basic right to vote to the citizens of this country, then the problem needs to be addressed through the courts and ultimately through Congress.

Whenever illegal activities are discovered in this area there should be severe penalties and lengthy jail terms handed out to send the message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated.

I don't have the answers but it is serious enough that it should be thoroughly investigated and permanent fixes applied so that the right to register and vote becomes sacrosanct, again, like it should be.

Then the voting process needs to be Nationalized to ensure conformity.
No more willy nilly ,every county picks a method of voting, one system that is tamper proof for everyone.

Darth Cheney Endorses Grumpy McPlanecrasher

Three days before the election and DICK Cheney comes out and endorses McCain.

Stick a fork in the motherfucker, he's done.

What Candy?

Halloween is over.


Pesky kids anyway.