I was looking at my new edition of Popular Mechanics for April

The print version, the link will have it up next month.
They are giving us their vision of the near future (25 years, or so).

The cars look like cr*p, powered by 'widely available alternative fuels'. They didn't mention Pick-ups, but the way they're going- they'll look like a minivan with the back notched out. If you can even buy one anymore.
I mean, c'm on- when's the last time you saw a pick-up that LOOKED like a pick-up is (was) supposed (used) to look? The front glass is extending farther and farther into the hood, the cabs are getting bigger and the bed's are getting shorter. The next "new" pickup I get will be something like an old Apache, '60-'68 year model C-10, old F-100, Power waggon, or International p/up with a totaly upgraded interior, drive train, ICE F*CKING COLD a/c, C/D player, seats , , , Everything new but the body.

OHhh, back to the mag, soldiers are going to look kinda like storm troopers, with "reactive" uniforms that *harden* when hit and high tech helmets, and caseless ammunition. If those BDUs are as clumsy and hot as they look, I hope they have a lightweight cooling system in them.
The "housing" is as improbable as the rest. I guess if you spend all your time in a HUGE city, you think everyone wants to live in a ricketty box that snaps together.

Thanks P.M., I'll keep my old style country living.

And now for smething completely different

I'm not sure if this doesn't belong in the pathetic catagory, GenX/slacker catagory, or sortta sublminimally sly catagory.

There's this guy up at UW-Whitewater who's in his 11th year at school(college). When I first read it, I thought 'yep, typical lazy kid', then I read farther down.

Disregarding the fact that he's got over $30,000 of student loans, and a 'slacker fee' he's being lauded for "paying his way" by his (liberal sounding) mother who also has this to say about her Johnny:
Shelle Lechner of Pewaukee, a convenience store manager, said she likes that her son has used his college time to pursue his dreams, including a songwriting career. He has self-financed five acoustic-guitar CDs and performs widely. That means he can't sell them, right?

"He's an adult. He's paying for college himself. I don't have a right to tell him to get a job," she said. "He's doing what he wants to do, and he's happy. I couldn't ask for a better kid."


Afeter going throught the entire article, we find the main reason he's still in college:
Sophomore Jenny Zinda, 20, hangs out with Lechner and said she doesn't think of him as old. Zinda was in fourth grade when Lechner was a college freshman.

"Some girls say it's weird that he's still here, but the bottom line is they all want him," Zinda said. "Everyone knows him and there's a certain excitability about being friends with and dating Johnny Lechner." - - - yep, p*ssy!

TEST-TEST, , , Checking - one - two - three

Can you hear me?

Just wondering if Blogger's as f*cked as it has been for the last two days?

Whenever I tried to post; I got an error message telling me that "this item contains no data". Yeh, no chit- I know the blog sucks, but there's no need to editorialize on content. By a site run by Google, no less.

Humph

Or maybe the were talking about bloggers committment to service?

I didn't read what Captains Quarters or Michelle Malkin had to say

But Zippo is rounding up a crew to go up and invade Canada.

Like I said, I didn't read the links, and don't really care abooot Canada. I've been there, and if you remember the America of , , , say - the '60's (infrastructure-wise) you know what Canada's like. I know most (native)Canadians are fairly consrevative, but the rejects we sent up during 'Nam have kinda taken the reigns of leadership, and used them to over run the majority. That and the fact that aboooot a third of Canada would rather look to FRANCE as a role model, rather than the U.K.

OH, by the way, Blogger is half-assed working now- spell check still doesn't.

And in the "Chickens comming home to Roost" catagory

Bush is going to take his wife, dad, Sec. of State and Bill Clinton to say "good-by" to the Pope.
Don't know why he didn't let Jimmy Carter tag along.
The same Jimmy who's been sniping and backstabbing at anything our current President tries to accomplish. The same Jimmy Carter who vetted (or tried to vet) any fraudulent election that favored dictatorship over democracy.

Well, it looks like they're finally going to do something about our borders

Too bad it's scheduled to start in 2007, for U.S. citizens and other legal entries.
Still nothing being done about Jorge Uveydoublu's favorite constituancy.

I don't have time this morning to Fisk it all, so go take a look at how our borders are being protected.

Thank GOD we live over 180 miles inland and about 760 ft above sea level

According to this article over at the Nice Doggie site, stolen from LGF ,allah is going to swamp America with a tidal wave.

Doesn't that just go to show you what I've believed for quite a while?
Islam is jealous of us (Christians and Jews- the infidel) because we got the good stuff first and keep progressing.
Our religions are older than Islam, more tolerant (the Cusades were a backlash against the moslem invasion of southern Europe)generally.
Both of us(Judeo-Christians) have the Old Testement ( we have a new one, too) They have the k(QU)oran, and it's a cheap knock-off of the bible, with none of the love and humility.
Our religion has been around before the Christ- theirs was cooked up around 800 A.D. (if I remember right).
We have Adam and Eve: them - they treat women as badly as dogs.
We have Moses and Soloman- ummm they hate dogs.
We had Noah and the flood- and the Dove of Peace- They have a Tsunami 3,000 years later.

Yep, I'm sure glad that in 2007 when Allah decides to flood the U.S. by sinking the Canary Islands I'll be sitting in the hill country of Texas, SURF FISHING.

The American Thinker has a good background article on Illegals

The article Mexico on the brink gives a bit of reality in some of the motives of the massive illegal migration. It almost makes me want to ease-up a bit on immigration. BUT, I'm not a "Compassionate Conservative", so I think the laws need to be enforced for our own protection.
We need to as far as a country unified by language, social mores, and , , , well basic
common courtesy. We're falling behind there, folks. Turning the corner to a second world country, and if we can't stop the slide, we WILL be a third world country before alot realize it.

Hmmph, I got a link from Alta vista

But I don't remember posting anything about longhair blonde kiss* gallery, much less in what looks like some kind of scandinavian.

But that's what was in my referral log.

Ok, we're moved- mostly

We got most of our stuff here, and the dogs have been exploring all afternoon.
It took two trailer loads to get the big stuff out here, and my fuel milage went in the tank. I figgured I was getting about 10 MPG or so- there was a strong easterly wind, so I was fighting the wind with the loaded trailer.

My Ev-1 internet dial-up is really slow- out of Hondo, and Charter cable leaves ALOT to be desired(compared to Time-Warner). I went with Charter because the phones weren't supposed to be hooked up untill early this week- good job SBC for being ahead of the curve. I just don't know what I've got as far as expanded local phone service, or what the long distance plan is like. I did it when I had free time at work.

I'll be getting satellite TV soon, but payed for a month of cable, so there's no rush.

Exept for the "Big Guy" in Rome, it looks like a quiet nite

I'm not Catholic, so he didn't mean much to me. On the good side he did his part in the defeat of Communism.

Then were the pediphile preists- which was swept under the rug- untill the rug was too full.
And the way it seemed like he tried to buck America every time we tried to do away with brutal dicators, or tried to improve a third worlds lot in life.


Back at the home front, I'm finally getting caught up to what I should have completed last week-end. We're slowly, but shurely getting moved. First thing tomorrow, the beds are going on the trailer, and packed in- then off 10 miles west of Castroville.
We have Electricity, Water, Trash pick-up, and Tv watching ability. Right now we have Charter cable -only- we're too far out to get broadband. Now I can try to get the best deal on satellite TV.

I'll have to still come back next week-end to finish up what needs doing, not much tho, and hopefully we'll have new tennants here (so I can have electric and water).

All is settling down in casa trainwreck, wife is watching her bad sci-fi, and the girls are in their rooms.

Ok, looks like Blogger is having "issues" again

, , , And I had a prominent mention of ZiPpo and El Capitan, too.

WOW

Steve musta been "Instalaunched".
I can't log in, his bandwith is being exeeded.

Looks like the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a train~ ~~this time.

It looks like it's finally over, The seller moved out last nite, she was having about the same kind of luck as us. The movers were contracted to pack and move; they got there with no packing materials.

She said they got done packing and loading around midnite last nite. A wonderful older woman, I feel sorry it happend to her. She dropped off the key this afternoon, and we'll start the move tommorrow. We'll load the big pick-up tonite and I drive to work then unload it after. Save a special trip, anyway.

Domestic tranquility is starting to settle in rancho Trainwreck again.
We both recognized that it was the stress- mostly. I'm still not going to say anything to, or about 16 (just for safety, ya know).

And Thanks to ZiPpo, for the last comment, it helps, Thanks.

Post number , , , ummm 3 in the domestic bliss catagory

Wife reminded me to call mom. I called mom, wife hates it when I hand mom off to her for the other 90 min.
Today I took the bullet, talked to mom the whole time.

Wife is mad that I didn't hand mom off.

*Throwing up my hands* and walking off.

Like I've said, this house has been a total cluster f*ck
from the git-go.

I deleted yesterdays post due to personal things that didn't need to be aired. The appropriate party will get the e-mailed responses. look at central Texas for the fireball when she reads the responses.

As to the ongoing fubar in Castroville. Medina Electric Co-op told me they wouldn;t do cr*p without a meter number. OK, I took off an hour early, drove to the new place and got the serial number.

OK, everybody who thinks that's the right number raise your hand.
Ok, I see about 85% with their hands up. I thought so, too. I drove to the west side of Hondo, thru 2 school zones, got there and the woman buerocrat told me not the right number, it's shorter.

I'm really sorry, I've been in Natural gas operations for over 7 years, and when someone asks for a meter number, I give them the SERIAL number. Not in Medina E.C. they have a DIFFERENT number.

I drove BACK to talk to Miss Judy and got her acct #, METER #, Address, last read, and all i could print. Drove BACK thru HONDO ( and 2 school zones) to the Co-op, got there at about 4:30 (half an hout before closing), got the thing done, and now I need to get my powwer co. to send a credit letter to Medina- or it'll cost me $250 deposit.

On the way home I stopped at Lowes to get 5 gal of white paint for the addition.
Got home about 6:45/7 and got one wall painted. Noticed the back yard was mowed.

Wife told me to call my mom about the move, I did. I mentioned her angels (the 16yr-old specifically) and it's right back like last night.
Hummm, I hope it's not going to end up like this:
Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush?

You didn't leave a bar of soap when you left me.
You didn't even leave a towel so I could dry my face.
You didn't even leave a plate for me to eat on.
But you left all my empty beercans all over the place.

You didn't leave my precious black and white TV set.
You took the Jimi Hendrix poster that was on my door.
You left with my very best friend - our dog Smokey.
But I found all the unpaid bills on the kitchen floor.

And where in the hell did you go with my toothbrush?
And where in the hell did you happen to spend last night?
You didn't leave a bar of soap when you left me.
And you didn't even tell me they was turning out the lights.

-- Guitar solo --

You didn't leave my little five dollar alarm clock.
You didn't even leave a note; I guess it's all been said.
You didn't even leave the cushions for the sofa.
And now that I'm used to the couch, you left the bed.

And where in the hell did you go with my toothbrush?
And where in the hell have you been for the last three days?
You didn't leave a bar of soap when you left me.
And you didn't stick around to see the teardrops on my face.

_The Rev. Horton Heat

--->Deleted because my good sense kicked in<----

Happy Easter !

And in that spirit:

Here comes Peter Cottontail,
Hoppin' down the bunny trail,
Hippity, hoppity,
Easter's on its way.

Bringin' every girl and boy Baskets full of Easter joy,
Things to make your Easter bright and gay.
He's got jelly beans for Tommy,
Colored eggs for sister Sue,
There's an orchid for your Mommy
And an Easter bonnet, too.


For the traditionalist in my audience:


1
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
2
So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him."
3
So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
4
They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first;
5
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
6
When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
7
and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
8
Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.
9
For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

John 20: 1-9

I'm culling my blogroll

I said it before, and now I'm getting rid of the "All T.S.-all the time" blogs.

I'm tired of it, and I'm not naming names. I'm too small, and some are part of the nicedoggie network.

I just can't imagine what Mexico has on Uve-doble

the American Thinker has a wonderful article on previous incarnations of the Minute Man Project over in Arizona.

Douglas Hanson's article gives a bit more realistic description of these citizens than GW's dismissive "vigilante" comment.
In it he revisits the various time that the military has been on the border in almost the same role as the MMP (reporting illegals to the proper authorities) are doing now.

He ends the article by expanding on what I've felt for a while:
"President Bush has been viewed as a leader who places the national security of our country as the number one priority. His national security team and the DoD have correctly gone on the offense in the Global War on Terror and taken the fight to the enemy. Unfortunately, the lack of will in securing our border, and his criticisms of our citizens acting in good faith to protect their loved ones and property, only reinforce the perception that GW is returning to business as usual in the domestic political arena. Pandering to the oddball coalition of open-border Democrats and cheap-labor Republicans may have some economic benefit that I don’t understand, but this is certainly no way to secure our country."

I kinda knew he was like this, but I marked the arrow more in opposition to Kerry than in enthusiastic support of GWB.
Maybe I need to start getting behind Congressman Tancredo in '08. If I were a single issue voter I'd do that now, but I don't know what else he stands for.

I'm sure you know I haven't been following the MSM lately

But Val over at Babalu Blog has a story thay I'd bet that no-one north of Miami has heard.
The longing for freedom isn't just a, , , an American "puppet" kinda thing.
These people prove that.
That's the kind of "illegal" immigration ol' Jorge Uve-duble needs to encourage, not the Mexican thing.

I came into this blog with my laptop

It's using Explorer, and I saw my blinks weren't blinking. Must be something to do with Explorer, looks good in Firefox.

More "scientific" commentery on GLOBAL WARMING

I've got a couple uninformed questions about this NASA arcticle about 'Arctic Soot'.

Ok, haven't we been cleaning up the air with cleaner burning fuels since J.P. Getty got a cheap source of fuel to industry back in the 1800's? You remember changing to inexpensive, readily available, cleaner (realitvly) fuel oil, from sooty coal fired plants.

Here's what Dorothy Koch of Columbia University, New York, and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York, and James Hansen of NASA GISS ( co-authors of the study that appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research). have to say:

"This research offers additional evidence black carbon, generated through the process of incomplete combustion, may have a significant warming impact on the Arctic," Koch said. "Further, it means there may be immediate consequences for Arctic ecosystems, and potentially long-term implications on climate patterns for much of the globe," she added.

The Arctic is especially susceptible to the impact of human-generated particles and other pollution. In recent years the Arctic has significantly warmed, and sea-ice cover and glacial snow have diminished. Likely causes for these trends include changing weather patterns and the effects of pollution. Black carbon has been implicated as playing a role in melting ice and snow. When soot falls on ice, it darkens the surface and accelerates melting by increasing absorbed sunlight. Airborne soot also warms the air and affects weather patterns and clouds.

Ok, so it's only starting now? All the sooty coal fired plants polluting from all over the devloped 19th century world is only now making it up there?
Or are our modern day scrubbers not working right?

OH!
Koch and Hansen used GISS' General Circulation Model (GCM) to investigate the origins of Arctic soot by isolating various source regions and types. The GCM employs a lot of different data gathered by NASA and other U.S. satellites to study many environmental factors such as ice cover and temperature.

The research found in the atmosphere over the Arctic, about one-third of the soot comes from South Asia, one-third from burning biomass or vegetation around the world, and the remainder from Russia, Europe and North America.

South Asia is estimated to have the largest industrial soot emissions in the world, and the meteorology in that region readily lofts pollution into the upper atmosphere where it is transported to the North Pole. Meanwhile, the pollution from Europe and Russia travels closer to the surface.

But aren't China, and the other Third World countries EXEMPT from the Kyoto scam?

Well I guess my TERRI SCHIAVO relief was premature.

I made the mistake of looking at Drudge this morning, and was met with TERRI SCHIAVO, TERRI SCHAIVO, TERRI SCHIAVO, and TERRI SCHAIVO!

Guess I'll have to crawl back into my hole and pull a rock over it again. I'm definetly going to install a CD player in the Dodge- at least I won't have to have the radio off all the time.

Oh, Matt had 16 other stories that didn't merit topflight billing, probably because he couldn't mention TERRI SCHIAVO in them.

And you thought gas prices were high now?

Just wait untill the real effects of this hit the gas pumps.

The enviro weinies won't let us build refineries any more. Add all the special "anti-pollution" blends in, and watch your fuel prices skyrocket.

You heard it hear first.

I can just about garrantee the cost filling your gas tank will at least double.

Ok, she's dead
I think, , , it seems like she is from what I'm reading. I wouldn't know from NOT listening to the radio, or watching hardly any TV.

The blogs I'm reading (skimming actually) seem to point that way.
I sure hope it's over, and I won't have to start drastically culling my blogrollfor the blogs full of T.S.

No posts tonite- been a long and unproductive day.

We went to change out a big padmount transformer, and after blowing 3 High Voltage underground splices found out that the NEW (rebuilt) transformer was shorted out inside.

So we worked thru lunch and reinstalled the old one. On the other hand you could say we replaced two transformers, so the glass could be half full.

As long as I'm linking my blogroll,

Diggers Realm is having a "poll Party"
go take a poll!

Lets help The Jawa get LGF into Google news.

Jawa wants you to try to get Little Green Footballs onto Google.

Click this Google link and add LGF.

My message was:
"Can you ad this site to your news, just to give yourself some balance? You are so unevenly loaded, that you keep falling over onto your left side. a little balance would keep you at least off your lefthand door."

I personally don't care, I don't use Google. I'm looking for something less hostile to my views.

On a Lighter note, Who are you?

If you listen to this, you may know WHO you are.

Thanks to Deans World for the background on this haunting tune.