Sure am glad I'm not on I-10 westbound.

That's from the HD parking lot in Seguin.

Your Dec. 26 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Santa forgot an elf~

The big one below the break-

Merry Christmas

Your Christmas Eve carol

Your day three Christmas carol countdown

Your day four of our Christmas carol coundown

Day five of the Christmas Carol countdown

Coincidentally this is one I had in the lineup before I noticed our opera singer finally discovered punk.

She seems to have lived a sheltered life...
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Here's the original without the interruptions-

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Dec. 19

And Day 7 of the Christmas Carol countdown.

As usual, the big one below the break.

Christmas countdown 8

F*ing lighen up, Francis

 Liberals have absolutely no sense of humor.

PETArds are even worse responding to a joke from James Cameron about dolphins (the mammal, not the fish).

Your Dec 12 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Cowboy action-

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As usual, the big one below the break~

Say the line again- FBI

About the Colorado nightclub shooter. 

I'm going to start referring to 0biden as

Aqualung....

So I was fabbing up some mounts for fog lamps-

 

And needed to tap some holes.

I have the taps, but not the holder- because as little as I use them, it's not worth paying for.

I couldn't find a small enough adjustable wrench to hold the tap, so I used a Vice-grips. But it kept snapping off when it started to dig in.

 

So I went to the welding box because I was sure I had that good black 8" wrench in there. Nope.

But I did see my gauge wrench that might work.

 

 

Daym Skippy!

 

I probably need to harden it before I use it again, though....

Your Monday Dec. 05 Rule 5 puzzle

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Your big one, as usual below the fold-

Our favorite opera singer is back

This time she's geeking out over the score of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

$8.80

 For a Bill Miller #7.
At another McJoint you'd pay that for a dried-up patty on a bun and they'd call it a large- instead of a normal serving.

Your 11-28 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Sorry it's late, but I was running errands all over S.Central Texas today and came home to this (because Blogger doesn't like U-toob shorts, I guess).

Anyway-

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And the big one below the break-

Black Friday

 It just occurred to me that I don't think I've heard as much hype as usual from the propaganda mills about huge crowds expected today.

Either they decided by themselves, or DeeCee put the word out to keep it on the low down this year.

Same for Cyber Monday.....

Your Rule 5 Thanksging Monday puzzle

 Happy Thankgiving!

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For your amusement, check out the results of my first search.
As usual, the big one below the fold.

So I came out to this-

 This morning.
Fucking animals.

No, seriously- it was donkeys, and I should have kept the box in the bed of the truck.

But-
Out with the old-

On with the new-

Next is a commanding horn instead of a subdued harmony.
The Dakota had a better horn that either of the more expensive trucks.

Your Monday 11-14 rule 5 puzzle

 Make you a WHAT?

 

As usual, the big one below the break.

Winter is coming

That's what NOAA and the local weather-guessers said.
Be prepared for freezing temps.

32 is freezing.

32 and calm winds is freezing.
40 and windy feels a lot colder than 32 and calm.
Modern horses evolved on the steppes of northern Europe with brutal cold winters.

Mini horses have a lot of hardy Shetland Ponies in them.
I tell the wife this, but she insists on "taking care of them"

So we get this- for a night that didn't even put a skim of ice on the water troughs....

We now live in the movie "Idiocracy"

 The only things they got wrong were:

-Flushing Lay-Z-boys
-Bar coded IDs
-A way to optimistic 500 years into the future.

I'm going to get ahead of this right now.

 A polling machine is nothing but a glorified adding machine. WHY does it need to be connected to the internet and have votes shipped somewhere besides the election headquarters?

All the way up to Y2K and the FLA kerfuffle- we knew who the winner was that night.
Now that the Dems got what they wanted in Y2K -it takes days or weeks to decide who won.

When are we going to start hearing about the bags of Democrat votes "found" in abandoned warehouses nobody's been to in years?
When are we going to be hearing about the votes "accidentally" left in rental cars returned yesterday?

Will Republicans act like anything other than the slightly more responsible side of the Uniparty?
My bet is -NO.

And I ended up having to buy a Ford, because the Z-71 Sierra had dashboard lighting problems.

Your Rule 5 11-07 Monday puzzle

 The shooter on the "grassy knoll"

I wish I could wait on firing the money canon, but the Dakota- being a Dodge decided that now was the time it wanted a $260 battery... or a battery AND alternator.
I already spent too much back in Feb. when gas was going through the roof and EVERYBODY was looking for smaller trucks.
Plus it's a Dodge, so I knew it was going to need new front end parts... Then a differential....

But....
The big puzzle below the fold

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I'm trying to talk myself out of this

 2017 Sierra 2500.

Or this F-250 ...Which won't be that hard because of what I think about Fords.

I really like my Silverado but it's showing it's age- and it's a damage magnet.
Of all the damage it had done to it, I only did two hickies. The rest were added by second parties, including getting rear0ebded twice,

Oak trees

 There are many different species of oaks, but they are basically divided into White Oaks and Red oaks.
Red Oaks have more varieties than White oaks.
 

Red Oak acorns need stratification, but White oaks don't.
Post Oaks are White Oaks, so I can directly plant the acorns that dropped into planters and set them out on the porch.

Oak trees are hardy and don't need special care once germinated as long as you don't damage the roots in replanting.

I am going to start acorns in foot long bags on the porch and hopefully enough will survive to be planted to make path from our island of oaks to the forest that we are separated from- about 150 yards.

Your Halloween Rule 5 puzzle

 Just so you know, if you type in Halloween gun bunnies- you get these results...

But the big one below the fold!

You want to play that game- Paypal...

 Fine.

I can use a credit card on E-bay or anywhere else that uses you.
Because when your PR nightmare -that you lied about- died down, you went ant decided you were going to censor people for wrongthink.... AGAIN!

Here's how to do it-
You can't close your account if there are limitations, unresolved issues, or a balance. Here's how to close your PayPal account:

1. Click the Settings icon next to "Log out."
2. Click Close your account under "Account options."
3. Enter your bank account number if requested.
4. Click Close Account.

Here is how to close your account via PayPal app:

1. Log into PayPal App.
2. Click on Profile icon on upper left corner. 
3. Scroll down until you locate Close your account.
4. After selecting Close your account, click on Close Account button.

Our Estonian Soldier talks about Ukrain again.

Question for anyone who knows tanks- At about 2:47, are those main guns supposed to be flopping around like that, a Russian tank thing?

The 13th Doctor- and the legacy of failure

   I First got into Dr. Who during homeports in Gulfport in the mid '80s and watched him whenever I could after that and I followed the new Who every week. and every special.

I quit watching about the time the Italian guy became the Dr.

I knew the chick was going to finish ruining Dr. Who -and The Critical Drinker takes the (modern) show to the wood shed and beats it like a red headed stepchild.

Your 10-24 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Kinda got a Jamie Lee Curtis look going on a little.

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The big one, as usual below the fold~

Area Ocho is gone

 I wonder what happened.
Is WordPress censoring now, too?

But The Intrepid Reporter found another site.

Your 10-17 Rule 5 Monday

 

The big one below the fold-

 

Our Estonian soldier tells the lastest

About the Russian conscripts surrendering in droves and an inside listen to Russians on the phone telling about the Ukrainian advances. -Lots of swearing-

Your Monday 10/10/22 Rule 5 puzzle

 

 

And the big one below the fold

We've seen this movie before

 The head of the FBI will stand up somewhere and read all they have on Hunter Biden, then say nobody would prosecute him, so they're dropping the investigation and that's the end of it.

Right James Comey?
Right Hillary! ?

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

Bigger one below the break

Throw back Tuesday

Heavy. Metal.

Your Rule Five Monday puzzle

 

 

The big one below the fold-

If I'm reporting a FB ad as a scam

 Why would FB think I wanted more information on that solar company?
Or the Shysters wanting me to sue a plant killer?
Or the scam artists who want me to sue someone because of the water at Camp LeJune?

 

 I don't know what's going on with Blogger.
Maybe this site is being targeted, but about 15% of my bloglist is unreachable and I can't access the layout page to check on -or redo links..
The blogs that show no updates go right to my downloads in my computer if you click on them.
Powerline
Big County
Weazle Zipper
PwaPaws House
Mac Thag
Irish
Nobody Asked Me
Non Original Rants
Daily Timewaster
Come and Make It

I'm even having trouble betting to my blog.
BUT the Rule 5-izm must go on...

The Hummer H3

 When you need to overcompensate, but your wallet is little too.....

Something wierd happened yesterday

 And I'm still trying to figure out. 

 I'm in the process of putting in a new panel box- with a new meter to replace the 75 year old panel box that was feeding a mixture of knob and tube wireing and ancient fabric Romex.

 It's basically a completely separate circuit except where it gets fed from the transformer. I ran a new line to the 220V well pump and put in the double pole breaker -It's a GE instead of the Square D the other one is- I accidentally put that breaker on the same phase (GE is different than Square D) and came in the house. 

 The kitchen lights and everything on that circuit didn't work- until they wanted to. I KNOW I didn't touch that breaker, and everything looks good. 

Then the wife said we didn't have water-- which is when I found out about not having the pump on two different phases. I moved it and now EVERYTHING works like it's supposed to.

 HOW did sending two of the same phase to my well pump affect one circuit on a completely different panel box- with different feed (old one is #4 triplex overhead) into it?

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 

As usual, the big one below the fold

I saw gas under $3.00 in two cities

 San Antonio and Austin.

Which means that maybe by Nov. 8 gas (not diesel) will be somewhere around where it was when 0biden took office.

Then after Nov. 8, gas will be free to go up as much as it wants because the election is done and the SFR will be almost empty.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Good time girls.

With the bigger one below the fold-

Picture this...

You reupped for PWD Rota, Spain in the mid 80's.
Herman's (The German) Schnitzel haus right on the playa.
Bennies bar, Zepplins the Sangria Shack....

You're living on the economy and Shorties(best fried rice I've had at 3AM and breakfast on leftovers at 0500) is about two blocks from your place.... 

Dependents (wives, chicks), female sailors and expats all have the run of the base... 

 Gawd, I loved Rota.

I'm sure you Army guys and AF have some base like this....

How long till this one is banned

For outraging SJWs?

Because it's somehow GBLTQ-phobic...or sumpin.

Maybe they tried, but Aerosmith told them to pound sand?

Gawd, what an expensive week

 But first, your Monday Rule 5 puzzle.

Yeah, it's a jumble, kinda like the weekend was.

Borrowed the neighbors backhoe about two weeks ago (or three?) got the trench from the new meter to the house dug and threw the conduit in and started covering it up before the sky opened up on and off for the rest of the week- when I found that forgot how shallow I buried the animal water line and electric.
Then, when I got close to the house, I found a tee from the main water from the well to the house *fuck!*

Yesterday I got everything else for the run- and 100' of 1/2" PEX to replace the bent and expose old water line.
$500 for 210" of #2 stranded and #4 ground.

So I got everything dug up (without hitting the conduit) and reburied and reconnected.
Animal water -good
Outside electric (and internet by the fence)- done and coming out of the new main box.
GVEC came in and hung a new meter box and complete 150 amp panel when I just asked for a new meter and main cut-off for $350  because we already have a house.

Then I found out we had no water. Fuck!
Looked at the pressure switch and no spark when I moved the contacts. Walk 100 yds to the shed for the Fluke and find out I have no power in... sometimes
So back to the hole that's still open for the fiber installer to see what's down there and see a break in the insulation of the underground romex. It was hot but corroded. HMMmm one reason for the bad phase leg....
Cut it and tied the two legs together and rang it out at the switch..... nothing. CRAP! Now I have to run a new power wire out to the well for domestic water.

This time it'll be in conduit and buried more than six inches deep..... Next weekend because I'm working for the rest of the week.

Anyway-
The puzzle you want is below the fold

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Showing off her new Henry steel side gate rifle.

The big one below the fold

So I got a text from the wife yesterday

*Have yo ever heard of Indianola?*
"IIRR- it was wiped out by a hurricane over 100 years ago."
"Why?"

So she comes up- she's been reading the history of Seguin, TX and I guess a lot of survivors migrated from there and apparently Indianola is a thriving tourist trap now, and she wanted to know if I'd want to visit..... or move there.

"Last time I was there (about 20 years ago) it had one badly maintained two lane road and all the sewer manholes in the entire county were towers about 5' high."
*Why so high?*
"Because that's how high tidal surges get normally. It floods a lot."

*What about going out on a boat deep sea fishing?*
"I'll pay for you to go if you want."
*Why won't you go with me?*
"I get sea sick."
*You were in the Navy....?...*
"I was a SeaBee"
*That's part of the Navy.*
"Seabees don't go on ships."
*We've been married all this time and you never said anything about that."

"I was a Dirt Sailor."
*BWAHAhahahahaha*
*I've never heard that before*

That's one reason this tat doesn't have fouled anchors or cannons and my green field jacket says Navy on the tape and a Seabee patch on the pocket.

Gwad, Liz....

 Abe Lincoln tried to save the Union by using one half to attack the other hal..................
OMG! You are like Lincoln.

Lets see if I got this right.....

 The Leftists locked the country down for almost two years for an airborne respiratory virus.
Everything and (almost) everyone.

It had the force of law and people were fined and arrested for breaking curfew.
They tried to force a questionable vaxx on the entire country with almost no exceptions- medical or religious.

Now the newest thing down the pike to pie elections id Monkeypox.
Which for some reason is RACIST!!! ....because monkeys- or sumpin.

But nobody is doing anything to stop the spread because doing so would be homophobic, and we need to let them do their thing and not be so harsh about slowing the spread.

Oh! And it's spread through bodily fluids and open sores, so be sure to wear a mask.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for today

 

As usual -the big one below the break

So I got a call

 Actually it was a text from the wife telling me she ran over a mattress and it was wrapped around her wheel.

"A what?"
*A mattress I ran over and it's wrapped around my wheel*

"Send me a pic, which side?"
*Passenger side- wait, DPS just showed up..."

-I get a call that Roadside help (state funded) is on the way, but I'll need to come up and see what I can do, or get it towed back-

"Where are you?"
*At mile marker 449*
"On 35?"
*No, 130 toll road*
"You took that toll road to Phlugerville😦?"
*I was following Siri....*
"Let me grab some cutting utensils and I'll be on the way."

~Later~
Call
*Okay, the roadside guy took the tire off and the metal is wrapped all around the axle and he can't really do anything*
"I'm on my way, about an hour/45 minutes from you now."

~~I get there and see basically...this~

So I get the sawzall, which isn't doing shit because I loaned it to someone and I think he used it for a hammer because you have to hold the battery in with one hand while trying to cut .... springs... with the other.

I went to the cutoff wheel on the grinder and made some progress- until I couldn't go any more because of  the freed springs.
So here I go with the Lineman's pliers for a good 45 minutes just to clear up enough to go to work with the grinder again.

Oh........ did I mention we were on a bridge?
The cement shook and the truck wobbled whenever a steering wheel holder in a semi in the granny lane went past.

So I get enough  cut that it would clear the brake line and hooked a strap to whatever I could reach that looked like it wouldn't just unravel- and put the lose tire under the cab step because I was positive that I'd pull the truck off the jack.

The second time I reattached it, down the truck went, but we kept pulling.

Third time - JACKPOT!

So nothing got accomplished yesterday at all.

Who said Brandon was too senile to read a TelePrompter

 I wish I knew how to embed this:

https://www.tiktok.com/@therealcoachjosiah/video/7130652840309165354

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Sailor Jerry

 

As usual, the big on below the fold.

Black and white jigsaw puzzles

 Are a lot harder than colored ones.

Take this example-

Move it to here and give it a try,
It took almost half an hour to do 130 pieces.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 The predators stare.

The big one below the fold.

Bummer

Not that I really give a shit about the Tour De France.
It's just fun to see these assholes crash and burn.

I got a month suspension on FB  for mentioning that the Twenty Second German Panzer Corps won the first Tour De France in 1940....

I'd trust him

 I saw this in Austin yesterday.
I guess it's one of Brandon's industrious guests that do things Americans won't....
Or sumpin'
It's supposed to say car instead of cat- I guess.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Don't know who she is, but you've seen her before.

As usual, the big one below the fold- 

So this is the "new" plandemic they're trying to get going?

 SRSLY?

I was wondering about this Monkeypox plague we're supposed to worry about and I finally went looking, and found it on probably one of the more biased .GOV sites you could find....

"Monkeypox is a rare, viral infection that does not usually cause serious illness. However, it can result in hospitalization or death. That's why health officials in New York, the U.S., and around the world are monitoring cases of monkeypox in areas that do not usually report monkeypox infections, including in New York State.

While New Yorkers should not be alarmed, everyone should stay informed about monkeypox. This means understanding the symptoms, how it spreads, and what to do if you are exposed."

So THIS is the new way to pie the 2022 election?😕

How contagious IS it?

"Monkeypox spreads through close, physical contact between people. This means anyone can get monkeypox. However, based on the current outbreak, certain populations are being affected by monkeypox more than others, including men who have sex with men (MSM).

Based on previous outbreaks of monkeypox around the world, some groups may also be at heightened risk for severe outcomes if they contract monkeypox. This includes people with weakened immune systems, elderly New Yorkers, young children under 8 years of age, and pregnant people."

You mean like the tens of THOUSANDS of expensive old people that Cuomo sentenced to death with his order to place infected COVID patients in nursing homes???

A homemade sodastream

I did this home made carbonator and it works. 

10lb CO2 tank from marketplace CO2 regulator from Ebay

 The Kegorator ball lock and caps from an online brew supply shop

All together it probably cost less than $75

 Get extra caps to keep them pressured up.

 The colder the liquid, the better 

 A refill for that 10 lb tank that'll probably last almost a year is about $20 at a welding shop.
I added a ball valve by the bottle, just because- you can pick it and two hose barbs (1/4") plus braided line for the pressure hose and two hose clamps at a DYI store.

Better than sliced bread?

 SRSLY?

Just how lazy are you?
AND you're paying more than double for even less.

Your Rule 5 puzzle for this Monday

 I thought she was a differnt Bunny.

But she works anyway....

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The big one below the break.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Is this kink, or the newest design in MOPP gear (or whatever they're calling it now)?

And the big one below the break-

'Murica!

 The mud room

 

Find the "weapon of war" 🙄

Maybe I should have hidden it better because I expect all right answers....

Your Independence Day Rule 5 puzzle

 

As usual, the big one below the fold- 

This aged well

 Didn't it?

Now do this year Brandon's DepAg.....

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Fly
Fight
Win

The big one below the fold

Our opera singer is getting down with Zeppelin's "Kashmir"

She's REALLY getting into it.

Proving that we don't need a Ministry of Truth

 Or whatever the Democrats want to call it.

Because we have MSN and the alphabet "news" networks deleting stories that they don't like themselves.

Just like Glowball Climate changers are deleting historical weather reports....
MSN deleted a story that shows unvaxxed have less severe reactions to the 'Rona than fully vaxxed.

Color me shocked.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Yes, I did that!

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Big one below the fold.

Happy Juneteenth

 To all of you who were never slaves......

From us who never owned any.

Our opera singer and voice coach reacts to "Tom Sawyer" by Rush

I like watching her reactions.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 It looks like she stopped by Diogene's Middle Finger to get her Jill Biden makeup on...

The big one below the fold- 

Three hundred and twenty one Dollars

 For less than half a tank of propane.

Go fuck yourself Biden!

Something new about Locomotive Breath

A voice coach (and opera singer) reacts to Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath.

TDLR- she likes it.

Hot in Texas

 It was so hot in Eagle Pass that it broke the truck thermometer.

It was the first time I got to make deliveries out west since 0biden lied about supporting the Constitution...
Things I noticed.

The Border Patrol is no longer doing tire drags to keep a vegetation free area along fence lines.
I guess when 0biden or Mayorkas is going to tell you to let them go, why waste gas pulling a tractor tire along fence lines.

The BP checkpoint is basically waving people through- because why bother asking questions if it doesn't matter.

The only diesel prices I saw over $5/gal was at Pilot. Everything else was $4.99 -$4.45 -almost equal to gasoline.

Doo, Doo, Doo

 Looking out my back door...

Actually it was my kitchen window.
I could have probably hit her with a pistol if I was a poacher.

This place is turning into a regular Noah's ark.
This was about two hours after the deer video,

There were about 10-15 of them working their way up towards the water trough before the neighbor girls scared them off when they started to work their horses.

I was just heading in to get a rifle, too.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 

The big one below the fold-

It was the dark of the moon

On the sixth of June-

 In a Kenworth pulling logs.

 Cab-over Pete with a reefer on and a Jimmy hauling hogs...............

It was the 3rd of June

 Another sleepy, dusty Delta day....

What was I doing?
What was my brother doing?

Your Rule 5 puzzle for Monday

 

As usual, the big one below the break-- 

Saw an old '94-96 Bronco

Those full sized Broncos still look good today.
Better than the fugly-assed '97 F-150 that put me off of owning a Ford to this day.

Your Rule 5 puzzle for Monday

 Looks like our shield maiden is in for some serious chaffing if she moves a lot.

And the bigger on below the fold as usual.

For the fuk-sake TXDOT

 

Can't you finish one section of I-10 before making another three mile stretch a work zone?

 

They extended tho work zone east another three miles almost to the race track by Marion.
That's 4.5 miles from where I get on to go to work in San Antonio (I clocked it last night)

By next winter, the entire stretch from Seguin to 410 in San Antonio is going to be Jersey walls and slow traffic- with the occasional pop-up lane closures until I retire in about five years.

Your Rule 5 puzzle for Monday

 Truth in advertising.

And the big one below the fold-

Actually, the Navy calls it comshaw...

The Fat Electrician Reviews: The Great Seabee Train Robbery

'Normal' FBI agents are troubled at the direction it's headed

 It's been headed that way for years, even before Orangemanbad.
These same 'troubled' agents will keep working to further however far the Leftist apparatchik leaders want to take it.

Unlike Socialist bureaucrats who would work to put sand in the gears of anything they disapprove of.

Everyone's talking about R.v.W-

 The Left is losing their shit and the right is talking about what the left is screeching about.

What I haven't heard either side mention is the free birth control 0bamaKare forced insurance companies to supply.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 The dreaded assault floatie.

The big one below the fold.

Another ukrainian update

From our Estonian reporter  and his comments as a ground pounder.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 

The big one below the fold

Apparently I've been doing it wrong

 I was trying to fire roast (in a gas oven- broiler) fresh red peppers and tomatoes.

I guess I need to dry them, then roast them.

It seems to work here for them.

I had to make deliveries in Corpus Christi last night

 If you've never been there, you really don't need to make plans to go.

Corpus is like your trashy aunt and no matter where she goes or what she wears, trash will always show through.

AND I had to spend an extra half hour there in the port area because they're completely redoing the highway and surface roads for the new bridge over the Laguna Madre because of detours and closed ramps.

This tells you everything you need to know about Corpus in one sign.....

And that wasn't even in a bad part of town.

Democrats are just embracing Orwell

 We have communist race theory where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Now Mayorkas has decided to form their version of the Ministry of Truth.

His top Bureaucrat in that position- Nina Jankowicz -is a BIG Never-Trumper who was out flogging both the laughably fake Steele dossier and the 'Hunters emails are Russian hoax' lies.

Even the lefties at MSN noticed.

Why would anyone with options want to be a cop in Chicago?

 Or any other Liberal city that wants them gone?

Now Chi-town is trying to con Marines who are getting out to make that mistake.
Between the defunding, scapegoating, and just anti-cop attitude- why would anyone want that?The youngest asked me once what a self fulfilling prophesy was and I never thought it would be the PD.

You have the Left going after cops money and the DA's and City Board members attacking cops for everything they do.
The press jumps on anything and lies about how bad the cops are and what kind of lawless thugs they are.....
So the good ones find a new department in a Red city where they don't have to put up with the shit and the bad ones- racists, sadists, bullies, abusers..... All stay because they either like doing it or can't find something else. Then the city can't find good cops and the bad ones keep doing what they can get away with, the pols and press keep dumping on them and the only new cops they can hire are as bad- or worse than the bad cops they already have.

The left

 Liberals and regular Democrats are all freaking out because an actual African American bought Tweeter...........

Think about the racism involved there :-D

Your Rule five Monday puzzles

 Schofields

 

Big one below the fold

So I went to order a Henry

 I went to three different merchants of death.

The Henry site has three dealers in the Seguin area, two of them are closed for good.
Of the two that weren't affiliates- both said Henry's are hard to lay hands on, no matter what model and caliber.

I went to the other affiliate halfway to New Braunfels and asked. They had me fill out a request form and told me it could be as long as a year before I saw mine.

So I went to gunbroker and bid on this one with the same MSRP as one on their site.
Of course I'll probably have to spend close to another $100 for shipping and transfer fees.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

Ready to ride.

The big one below the fold as always.

So I have an old Win '94 30-30

 I went looking for ammo a while ago so I could finish sighting it in.

I bought it cheap-ish with a ghost ring site and started sighting it in, then something came up and it sat in the corner of the mud room for about three years.

After I decided to finally get it sighted in, I went looking for cheap (okay- less expensive) ammo.

JEZUS KEERIST!

Okay, we'll look at plan B- see what I can get for it ......
$200- $250......
I was bitching about it on a local FB page and started getting offers on it, but I had to start my 4- 14 hr shift the next day.

FB pulled it about three days in for selling fire arms. At least I didn't go to the restricted barracks this time.

SO......
I guess I could sell for $200 and use that to defray the cost of a Henry steel Big Boy in .357- which I have plenty of because of the two revolvers in that caliber plus the wife and her .38+P.

The only thing I don't like about Henry's (and it's probably a million to one chance I'd ever encounter this problem) is that after it gets pulled from the mag- it's free floating until it's shoved into the chamber.

If it ever comes to that, I'll be using the one the .GOV doesn't know I have.

Chambered in a completely different round.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Did the gun bunny trip?
That looks like real dirt.

 

 The big one below the fold as usual.

Russia, Russia, russia

This guy Artur Rehl, is/was an Estonian soldier still in Estonia telling how he sees what the Russians are going to do next and how they've acted so far. 

Who's the Goth chick

 From Trace Adkins "Ladies love country boys" video?

Ca-CHING!

 Another Biden making money off his position....

This time his little sister who's writing a best seller that nobody will read.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Rock on!

 

The big one below the fold.

Words of wisdom

Found on a crapper door in a Walberg, TX truck stop.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Steam punk Plainsman pistol

 

Because the early ones didn't get a big puzzle added to them

Big one below the fold.

Is this a hate crime?

 

So there I was making deliveries up in Killeen.

It was on the warm side, so I had my sleeves rolled up.

Out of McDonalds came this kid and his battle bud.

 

He saw my Seabee tat on my forearm and said Navy?!?

 

I said yes and his battle pinned my elbows behind my back.

This guy took off my cover and poured Rip-IT over my head, threw a handful of Motrin at me and yelled...

"This is Army country!"

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 You will sit down.
You will explain your actions.

As usual, the big one below the fold.

This is another reason why

 I don't believe anything coming out of Ukraine.
From either side, or even the propaganda pushers that speak English here.

Because those National Guard troops are safe in America.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

A day late......
 

And the big one below the jump-

The humble Jerry can

And some of it's ingenious features.
Commander Zero is a big fan of the ones built right.  

Includes an ad right in the middle.... So.

Prices and parts availability

 It works for firearms too.

If anyone's been looking for 30-30 ammo, you'll know it's like gold- not profuse and expensive.
I bought three boxes for something like $1.50/RD plus tax and shipping.
Which the prices on gunbroker reflect.

The .357 Mag ammo I have in abundance (plus the .38spl +p) are a lot less for the ammo, but the prices for the rifles show the ammo is available and affordable.

So then I found out about two weeks after I bought those 30-30 boxes- that Seguin is having a gun show tomorrow.

So I guess I'll see what the have in .357 lever action flavor or Mini-14 which is about equal to what they want for a lever action.
And what I can get for a 30-30 Win and about four boxes of hunting ammo....

Prices for .223 are much more reasonable especially if you want to wear out your cartridge extractor a lot faster. 

What's in the stable now

 If I would have pulled the trigger two months ago, that Dakota would have been a 3/4 ton diesel.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Someone's missing her weapon.

As usual, the big one below the break.

From over the transom

 Oh look!  

We have our pillows strapped to our left side.

News you can trust

 From trustworthy Ukrainian sources.

Biden Bingo

 Call in sick to work now and avoid the rush.

Take a shot every time he hits a square.

Thank Gawd #theadultsarebackincharge

 Because Kamala Harris (who's veep theme is here) explains what's going on in Ukraine.....

-Read this in the voice of a slow seven year old explaining to a five year old-
“So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that’s wrong.”

From here with the actual soundbite.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

Rehashing some puzzles because when I first started these, I only did the one size.
So now you have a chance to do the big one also. 

>>Bottom puzzle fixed. Thanks Bar Lee.<<

As usual, the big one below the fold

You're going to read this in Tom Petty's voice.

 Because you can't help it.

SRSLY.

 

AOC showing her support

 

Poland understands what's happening in Ukraine

 They know what happens when countries guarantee to help defend them from invasions- but bag on that promise because it's inconvenient.............. Looking at you France and UK.

It's the same thing they're watching now when the US and UK don't step up and uphold their 1994 agreement to help defend Ukraine when they gave up their nukes.

Now  they're having a go at Germany for being so conforming to Russia and running interference on supplies to Ukraine.

I just voted in the Texas primary.

 

The list of wannabe Governors was as long as my arm.

The reason I remembered to vote was another attack ad from Don Huffines that sounds just like a Democrat attack ad.
The scary sounding announcers voice blaming Abbot for things he has no control over like instate tuition for illegals...right Rick Perry?(who also want to be Governor again)

Abbot lost me when his tough talk didn't match the (non) action, so I went with Col. West, and I'll vote for whoever's on the Republican ticket- probably.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle on Tuesday

 Because Kurt went to Houston to look at a Dakota he decided not to buy, then on Monday went to get an alignment on the Silverado and ended up sitting for two hours because it needed lower ball joints.....

Anyway- we all know she didn't pull that ring with her teeth.

As usual, the big one below the fold.

Some of you have been there.

 And survived.

How about those Canadians?

 They went from Hoser to fascist faster than the Hanson brothers could sucker punch an opposing player.

Now they're threatening truckers pets.....

But... scratch a Liberal, find a dictatorial asshole.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle on Tuesday

 Because Kurt got occupied with something else and lost a day.

Lets see if Jigsaw planet gets all censoreeee about this one...

The bigger one below the fold....

So we paid off pur Wells-Fargo mortgage a week ago.

It finally went through with about a thousand Dollars extra of fees and other graft.

Yesterday they charged me a service fee of $15.
............and paid me  .08 of interest.

Now I have to decide whether to go with NFCU (which is on the west side of San Antonio -a good hour drive away)
Or to the local branch of RBFCU. I'm sure the interest is about the same for a checking account.
But NFCU is a Navy credit union and Randolph-Brooks is Air Force.
Not that it really matters because a Cloud Lice can do my finances as well as a Squid.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 

The big one, as usual blow the jump.

Jeezuz Krist- FedFx

 That package of (fucking expensive) 30-30 came from San Antonio.
All you had to do was deliver it 45 miles EAST.

Now, because you fucked up with a bar code reader- it's on it's way to Coranado, California.

Four hundred and two Dollars

 Is what it cost me to fill 150 propane tank today.
The driver said I was lucky I ordered it last week because they raised the price .20/gal Tuesday.

Last year about this time it was $1.87/gal.
Today I paid 2.86/gal.

FJB.

Maybe when the Republicans take back the House (if they don't drop the ball on the one yard line) they can impeach both the pretenders in the Withe House.
-Or at least put some kind of limit on Executive Orders.

I sure am buying a lot more cat food

 I wonder what kind of extenders they're putting in.
A 30 pound bag used to last for almost two months, but here lately- maybe it's the weather- it seems like every time I turn around I'm trying to find some.

Who can relate?

Mondays Rule 5 puzzle

 Advance like you own it.

The big one below the fold-

So, we finally signed on the Hondo house today

 The thing's been a PITA for years.

And since I won't be buying another new vehicle- because of prices and all the BS 'safety' features to put up with.

I'm looking at 3/4 ton diesel Chevy's and Dodges no newer than 2005 so I have options in fuel. Or an F-250 built before 1998 when Ford could still build good trucks.

 

The only thing gas is going to do is go up. On top of the 0biden war on fossil fuels and the oncoming shortage of fertilizer for food- That 10% ethanol is going to cost even more to put in your tank.

You know for sure that NOBODY in DeeCee is going to even think about putting the brakes on that mandate.

In case you were wondering

No, it doesn't.

Mondays Rule 5 puzzle

 That is one severe looking B......umm-road

 

As usual, the big one below the jump.

RIP Meatloaf

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Unique way to carry a brace of pistols

As usual, the big one below the fold.

Forty years ago-

 I was a little non-rate CECN and my Battalion was either just getting back from Guam or getting ready to deploy to Rota, Spain.
I'd been in for a little over a year- boot camp, BEEPs school, CE A-school meeting the battalion....

One of the two main reasons I enlisted was because the economy was so bad that I couldn't find a good job. Even trade unions weren't taking apprentices.

Fast forward to now and the 0biden-Harris regime is putting America back there again with Carters Stagflation on steroids and inflation  about the same.
We lost the cold war and are living in what looks more and more like a Central American republic. Graft, favoritism, schools and financial systems steered by political juntas and the fact of the day.

I have about 20-25 years left to endure, but I really feel bad for my kids and grandkids for whom this is the new soviet normal.

So the Democrats answer to Donald Trump

 Doesn't like how he was treated for three months he spent in jail.
Michael Avenatti is suing the Bureau of Prisons for $94 million.

If he didn't like how he was treated there for disrespecting Trump... or something- he should be glad he wasn't taking a walk close to Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 last year.
He's hate it even worse in the DeeCee Gulag.

Tales from the shop

...Or the loafing shed since it was originally an animal shelter.

Finally got the band saw working without it throwing the blade (and rolling 50 yards). Had to get longer axle bolts and nylon locknuts.

Now I need to get real steel bearings for the back part of the blade because it's already eating at the Chinesium plastic rollers. H/D has what I can use in stock- finally.

It's moving faster than the wheels make it look.

And when you warp the threads on a nut from welding to a bolt, and don't have a thread chaser- you use abrasives.

So THAT's where 'Snipe' comes from

Thanks Ryan

 

In case you haven't been able to find Phil yet-

 He's online over here.
At his other- other blog.

Not the -other- blog that says "we're working on it"....

Your Rule 5 Monday jigsaw

And the big one below the jump.

Two years of Hte 'Rona condensed

Via: Diogenes Middle Finger.

And Rumble if I (probably did) not get the HTML right above

Jeezus- DR! Jill 0biden has her own theme music now

 It's about as bad as you'd expect.
Because every 1st woman needs a theme song...or something.
It's embedded in this article on the bottom if you want to hear it.

What it reminded me of is the gravitas of the opening to "black Adder".

More meme's

 

Pressure canning

 Since Slow Joe decided he's going to get Big Government to "do something" about the price of meat that "Big Meat" is costing the consumer...
I'm looking at a cheap, fatty roll of e-coli burger to cost $10/LB  when he's done.

So we decided to stock up now when meat is only fucking expensive and to preserve it.
I'd rather go the drying rout, but research says that drying without freezing only lasts about a year.

So the other potions are brining, salting or canning.

I tried pressure canning about 5 pounds of meat today- I'm still out on WC for my knee- why not? It's too cold to work on the band saw.

SO-
With prep time and the half hour it takes to just get the steam rolling out the vent (before waiting the 10 minutes to actually start cooking/canning. and the 90 minutes it takes to actually cook the jars at 11PSI (12 was steadier and I doubt more heat is a problem) we're looking at a good 2 1/2 hours before you can start waiting to for the canner to depressurize on it's own......
Which I'm doing now and don't know how long it'll take--- we're looking at an all day job of babysitting a glorified quick cooker.

But-
At least humans have the supermarket.