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.

Sorry, I'm taken-

 

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 

One of Santa's enforcer elves.

 

As usual, the big one below the fold.

This reminds me

Thinking of you Kamala :-)

Jan. 1, 2022

 

Prepping posts

 I've looked at some prepping posts about dehydrating.

The wife got a dehydrator when she saw the grocery prices expected to climb through the roof.
We've been experimenting- frozen corn, peas, caramelized onion, carrots, parsnips...

She wants to vacuum seal the jars, but the little necked ones didn't work on her vacuum sealer, so instead of going through the hassle of doing the water bath thing- I tried the microwave thing.

The only difference between wet heat and warming the contents up to get a vacuum when it cools is water- I tried it. As herself was asking skeptically if I really thought it would work, we heard the "tink" of the lids.

If you slice your tomatoes and put them under a broiler for a while, you can dehydrate fire roasted tomato slices for the added flavor boost (don't know about electric ovens YMMV)

Trying meat next. I'll bet it from a meat market so I don't have to deal with all that red water the big stores inject it with.

Wierd...

 A lot of my puzzles that show only partial boobs are blocked, but Kate Upton isn't.
She's showing the same, or more underboob than the others, but she doesn't have a weapon.

So maybe that two strikes against the others?
Or maybe I haven't tried sharing it?
Lets give it a try...
 

 

Here's the pic if they block it-

Be wrry, werry scared of them.

Komrad Dragon-d1ck and his Ack-forty seven...  

And yeah, it's a spoof.

Via Eaton Rapids Joe.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Rock on!

 

And as usual, the big one below the break-

How in da fuq

 Do these spammers bypass comment moderation in Blogger?

And words sometimes don't mean what you'd expect them to.

Merry Christmas from the UK

Your Monday Rule 5 on Tuesday

 Because Kurt got busy and forgot.

Anyway- Princess-

 

As usual, the big one below the fold.

I see I'm not alone on this BBB

Just because Manchin is a solid NO on the bill doesn't mean it won't pass. Streff over at Red State goes into more details, but just remember this- or these Quislings...

 And two in one picture-

 Who'd happily vote for more debt on top of debt.
Just to stick it to Conservatives for daring to back Trump.

Trolling antifa-gs

We had a cold front come through

 I made chili and cornbread.  You get puns.

I stumbled onto the evolution of "Karen"

I guess I should tell you some of the words are NSFW...
But if you're reading this blog, it won't bother you.
 

$300

 I sure am glad the stock market stopped being an indicator of Americas financial health back in 2009.
That's how much I lost today- so far- in my stocks.
The only stocks that aren't going south are two of the three Israeli stocks.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 She's got two guns too many.

 

And in something Rule 5-ish from U-toob.
I like this chick's attitude who put the lyrics up-


And as usual- the big one below the break.

Bull. Shit.

 So we're supposed to believe that Afghanistan has a new happy faced bunch of Islamic terrorists running it?
That the persecution of gays, females and people who watch sports is going to stop?

And please free up that $10 billion so we can use it to 'help' the people instead of using it to fund even moar terrorism :-)

I thought the adults were supposed to be back in charge

It looks more like a Jr. High snit war between popular chicks...or something- the way Joe and his ho were ignoring each other.

For some reason I can't link to the tweet video here, so you'll have to hit Twitchy for the optics.

Plus pResident Brandon had to ask Dr. Jill to move so he wouldn't get Kamala Cooties- or sumpin.

A Constitutional Convention?

 So you have a Constitutional Convention- or Convention of States....
And it doesn't actually turn into a Communistic overturn somehow.

Just HOW are you thinking you'll be able to force anyone in DeeCee to obey this new constitution?

Leftist Democrats aren't going to probably even acknowledge it
The Woke military that's been purged and only looks to Miley isn't going to do anything to enforce it.
Even if the Republicans agreed with it- they lack the balls to do anything.

The same DoJ that tried a soft coup for four years would rather lock up the people who got in on that Convention of States.

So............. do we really want it to come to this and God only knows what'll happen when the silent majority get involved.