Dear Congress

Thanks for f*cking up the economy.

I just spent about $25 more for the same amount of food than I did even six months ago.
Even the Walmart branded bread costs almost a dollar, and forget anything close to cheap meat; not to mention ANYTHING that has even a whiff of corn attached to its manufacture.

As for that gasahol ADM payback you're calling renuable fuel, I'm not buying any. I refuse to pay more for something that gives me even WORSE fuel economy.

If you really wanted to help the economy, you should have shovelled that $800+ BILLION dollars to every taxpayer in the U.S.- that may have even stopped the hemorraging of Wall St. I know I would have loaded up on stocks if I could have afforded it. I can't, though because everything you touch is costing me more and more.

Have I mentioned I'll not be voting for ANY incumbant this time around?
That includes John Cornyn and the soon-to-be-running-for-Governer Kay Bailey-Hutchinson.
My Rep is a Dem, so that's already been decided.

Who is Travis Barker?

I accidentally clicked on Yahoo images (without a search term) and got this giraffe necked dork.

I'm sorry Albert R. Gore Jr.

But we were at the home of one of those evil rich people yesterday cutting down a tree destroying a carbon offset and one of Gaea's children.

It was an Arizona Ash that was threatening the bosses lake house.
A BIG ash tree that had come to the end of it's lifespan and was threatening his roof.
So I got to stress test the newest boom truck we had.

It was almost found wanting on the first limb we tried because that chunk of tree was lifting both of the opposite side stabilizers. (It felt like the truck was going over when the limb let go.) The weight chart said that it was rated at about two tomes at a 30 degree angle and 50' out...it didn't look that heavy when we first cut it.

After a day of cutting and chipping, we're down to the final big chunks that we can't even give away, because it's not much more than pulpwood. I wonder if Selma has a burn ban in effect today?

For you in DFW

I guess you'll all be lined up to see TUT 2.0.

Right?



What? that's sacreligious?
ok, at least try to walk like one.


...ohhh those eyes...

Here's something you won't be seeing on the Legacy media

Or should I say something else that's being buried by the MSM?
David C. Kernell, the Sarah Palin e-mail hacker has been indicted on ONE count of hacking into a private e-mail account.

Yep, the electric and the dead tree media who were so concerned about the rights of terrorists being infringed upon see nothing wrong with a 20 year old adult hijacking (and then posting them online with the new access data) online for all to see.
And steal other personal information.

Gee, if it were a Republican breaking the law like that, don't you think they'd throw the book at him?
Even if his dad was a high muckety muck in the Tennessee GOP.

A coldblooded American killing machine

Returns home from 14 months in Iraq, and look how he treats his dogs!



I bet the left is having kittens about now.



H/t to Rachel

This Bill Ayres thing

And the way the Left...and the ObaMessiah himself just doesn't comprehend how flyovercountry looks at Himself and their relationship.

His quote on the Stephenoppolus show:
"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, uh, who I know, and who I have not received some official endorsement from - he's not somebody I exchange ideas from(sic) on a regular basis. The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts forty years ago when I was eight years old, ah, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George."

Ok, he was only six when it happened, and Ayres never recanted.
No blood, no foul- right? it was ages ago.


Now, what if I were running for office and I was paling around with Lt. Calley?
Do you think they'd let it go as 'Hey, I was ten years old when it happened, water under the bridge and all....get over it!"


Charles Manson did his thing about that time, too...if he were politically connected the MSM would see no problem with Barry hanging with chuck, would they...because it happened so long ago- besides they're only acquaintances.

Let see if I understand

We had the Dems forcing banks to lend money to under qualified people and others who rushed in to throw loans at illegals.

When the housing market and the ENRON style accounting that was going on up in FREDDY-MAY started to head south, everyone started to panic.

Then the same people who caused the FANNY-MAC problems in the first place decided to "fix" the problem with even *more* meddling. But that was supposed ti fix the problem.

Then came the meltdown over at Wall St. and we just had to rush a $700,000,000,000 taxpayer funded giveaway to 'save' the industry.
This $700 Billion which incidentally was just pulled from Paulsons ass with no other reason than "it was a huge number" (I read that on a forgotten blog last week).

Now we are told that this massive and pork laden bill ...which was so urgent that no one really knew what those 400 pages really said- because no one took the time to READ the thing...isn't going to do much good until the housing market regains it's inflated value.

I'm no economist, but- it seems that the market would have recovered on it's own when the housing market stopped listing so badly. You know- without an urgent $800 Billion of taxpayer money.

Now Cali and about 14 other Liberal states are letting their candymen in DC know that they'll be wanting a reward for fucking up their states financial operations.
...And Congress will be more than happy to throw another $50-or-so Billion down the crapper.

For those lookg for the SAXET gun show

It's in San Antonio now at the AT&T center.
Parking is $3 and admission is $10 (I think)

That's good to know, anyway

Your result for The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test...

The Resistance

Achtung! You are 38% brainwashworthy, 32% antitolerant, and 43% blindly patriotic

Welcome to the Resistance (Der Widerstand)! You believe in freedom, justice, equality, and your country, and you can't be converted to the the dark side.



Breakdown: your Blind Patriotism levels are borderline unhealthy, but you show such a love of people from everywhere and a natural resistance to brainwashing, you would probably focus your energy to fight the Fuehrer with furor, so to speak.



Conclusion: born and raised in Germany in the early 1930's, you would have taken up ARMS against the oppressors. Or even your friends' oppressors. Congratulations!



Less than 5% of all test takers earn a spot in the Resistance!








The Would You Have Been A Nazi? Test

- it rules -

Take The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test at HelloQuizzy

I really doubt that those appologists for the DC crowd would be anywhere near that result.

That blonde on the right is kinda cute, isn't she?

Thanks Congress

You just proved to every American that can rub two brain cells together that we have effecivly surrendered any shred of self control we ever had.

In this Socialistic vein I give you the new standard of American politics:


Assholes!

I will never vote for anyone that's been an incumbant in ANY political office this time around.
And Vincent Harris....that means your boy, too- in spite of that B.S. e-mail I got "explaining" why John Cornyn voted for that pork filled bail-out bill.

keep on doing this to the Free World!

Why not just vote Obama and get it over with quickly?
Why even try top act like anyone cares about what's BEST for America when socialization is they way everyone is going.

Ok, I just lost what little faith I had

In ANYONE up in DC doing what's (supposedly) right for America, instead of gratuitously throwing tax money awy for political expedience.

Both of the Texas Senators voted for this porkbarrel-disguised-as-a-bailout-bill they concocted yesterday. Instead of saying, 'Whoa, that $700,000,000,000 is kida pricy for the taxpayer, lets see if we REALLY need it"; our *betters* decided to load it down with an additional BILLION or so in unrelated pork.

Because that's how things get done up in DC. It's not real moey, ya know- we can always print more.

Hell, none of them are worth representing us anymore, and since the election is only a month away, lets see if we can vote them ALL out and start over with an entierly new slate. We've seen what "experience" in DC politics get us- lets try common sense now.

As an addendum to this "MUST-PASS-OR AMERICA WILL IMPLODE" meme from DC, I heard lots of people on Rush today- and a bank loan officer telling that there is plenty of money available for those with good credit.
I'm also still waiting for the complete implosion of all things financial,,,I guess Wall St. didn't get the meme that they were supposed to crater two weeks ago when the first massive porkladen bailout bill didn't pass.

I wish I had the money to load up on discounted stocks right now.


Anyway, lets see if we can get something going to VOTE THEM ALL OUT!.
I rtefuse to vote for any incumbant this time around.
No matter what their party is- they just proved they're not representing ME.

They say

That the dog that yelps is the one that got hit.

Why has Barney Frank become the spokesflack for this taxpayer financed giveaway bailout scam?
What's in it for him? I haven't really heard about him making out like Barak Obama or Chris Dodd in the payola-by-.gov-companies...and his chief financial advisers- the ones who used the ENRON school of accounting.

I know he was instrumental in poo-pooing the findings on both Fanny May and Freddy Mac back in the day, but is that all he's covering for?

We'll never know, will we? Because there will never be any hearings or criminal investigations because the vast majority of this mess has Democrat roots, and their fingerprints are all over the shovels used to bury it.

Note to self

A .22lr is *really* loud at night, be sure to reload with .22 shorts in dealing with the next feral cat problem.

Not a bad shot though, right behind the shoulder blade at about 35 YDs under a security light.
Now maybe I can stop electrifying my garbage cans.

According to the BEEB

The UN and it's assorted supporters from Bono to Bill Gates want to "do SOMETHING!!!" about malaria, and so they have ponied up $3 billion to eradicate malaria.

Boy, that's a lot of mosquito netting. Too bad it's only useful if you're not out and about living your daily life.

I didn't see anything about actually eradicating the root of the problem since all those Libs have glommed onto a book full of lies about DDT and the effects of other useful chemicals. We'd rather spend billions on developing a vaccine that is only useful against one disease instead of cutting off the vector of an assortment human and animal illnesses.

But, then again, it's not the results Libs look for- it's the feeling of "doing SOMETHING"- no matter how it really turns out.

A quick question on this bailout

Of this gov't takeover of the financial industry is soooo good, why don't the Dems just ram it through Congress?
They have a big enough majority in both houses to do it.
Could it be that it's not really that good, and they want Republicans signed on too so they can take the blame when it craters, too?

And speaking of blame,,,,why haven't SanFran Nan and Harry Reid called for another Republican witch hunt on this fiasco? Maybe because it's mostly a Democrat led plundering?

In your daily dose of politics

Every time I hear the Dems and especially the top three money takers talking about this S&L lending fiasco they created and how they're going to fix it, I can't help but hear this:



And all the seriousness it brings forth.

And this goes to show that great minds think alike.

The internal combustion engine

Usually when people hear that, they think of a four stroke gasoline engine.

Intake
Compression
Power
Exhaust

The gasoline engine depends on an external source of ignition, so it would actually look more like this:

Intake
Compression
Spark/Power
Exhaust
So it can run in only one direction.


The basic diesel engine only sees the first four.
If your a bored non-rate with a Deuce-and-a-half that knows the above facts, you can make a six-by with one forward speed and five reverse gears.


Just thought you might need to know that if getting over-run by zombies, or something...

An electical tip

For all of you in hurricane land...and maybe blizzardland, too.
I just got done writing my sis in Conroe about her (and moms) power outages. They just got back on the grid.


She bought a gas generator, which was good,,,but had trouble keeping it running because of the gasoline supply problems.

Here's something to think about. Add a natural gas conversion kit to your generator.
Then add a tee and valve somewhere on your side of the gas meter with a coupling for a flex hose to feed your generator.

the reason you want to do that is because unless there is a huge leak, or a major malfunction, the gas utility will try to keep it's lines pressurized. During a hurricane, they might reduce the pressure, but won't shut the gas off for the simple fact that they don't want flooded lines(and the headaches that would cause). For you people up north, if you have gas the ice won't knock out your gas lines.
If you don't have gas, the local utility will be glad to get you onto an account that you can leave inactive until you need it. All the gas guy needs to do is unlock your meter and you have gas powered electricity while your neighbours are freezing in the dark.


Just another helpful hint from MEEeeeee!!!!!

John! Stop while you're ahead.

Really.
Just because Sarah caused a huge increase in your poll numbers, she can't carry you when you're actively trying (again) to piss off conservatives.

First it's your pandering -in spanish- to the illegal community, and just this week-end he's blaming Bush for the Dems financial mess.

John, just shaddup and ride.
You keep opening your mouth with your usual Liberal cap and you'll loose anything you gained.

Of course!!!

Why didn't I think of that earlier?

Board and batten siding!

Now I can use OSB and protect the edges from both moisture and delaminating.
At $7/ sheet it's 2/3 the cost of using plywood siding.

Now I can even make my own 12' roof joists with laminated OSB too.

All I need to come up with next is about 160' of #4 triplex, a short pole and a weather head and I'm in tall cotton!

Revolver mods

I got off early today...we're going through the 'no more O.T.' thing, so I got off around noon, chased my check and got the rest of my 2 x4's to finish the shop addition.

Then I stopped at the range so I could actually do 'sumthing' with the colts sights.
The Navy .44 really shoots high and to the left. I think.
I forgot to clean it the last time I was shooting and got run off by annoying gnats.'
Now it was so powder fouled that the hammer was dragging and not consistently popping caps. I don't know if that was the whole problem, but the last cylinder I shot felt weak,,,may have been the wind blowing half the powder away as I was loading. I even had one ball not even go 3/4 of the way through the 3/4" plywood target.

The Colt open top was a different story.
I was shooting high and to the left there, too. I thought it was just the guns design.
I was going to use Karen's jewelers file to work on the back sight, but decided to do the baby step thing first.
The front sight is a polished silver(ish) blade that reflects the light, so I filed a notch at the top and blackened it with my sharpie.
That made a difference, now I'm shooting level, but still to the left...when I noticed something.

The design on both guns make you want to put your trigger finger in to the first knuckle. It feels natural.
After changing my grip, I used the fingertip pull thing.
Boy was I impressed. I was almost on the aim point for all six.
I put about four cylinders to the test and my pattern tightened up to about a hand span at 25 YDS.
I guess I'm doing it right now because the trigger guard is rapping my middle finger, and I'm rolling my index finger into the trigger.
I also noticed the longer I shot, the more I'd anticipate the shot; so I called it a day after about two hours shooting offhand.

Pics later, if I remember.

I thought Democrats hated capitalism

Well, I guess they do and you could look at all these government takeovers, buyouts, rescues...whatever as some kind of backdoor nationalization- right?
The way Communist countries do it.

The had control of Freddy Mac and Fanny may, while getting a certain Presidential candidate VERY well heeled. Government bribing the same .gov- who much do you think we'd have heard if there was any kind of involvement with any -R's-?

Now we're on the hook for some $100 Billion because of Bill Clinton and his pals forcing lenders to loan to those who can't pay, the .gov taking over AIG and now we're fixing to get stuck with some kind of 'poison assets'...which doesn't sound good.

I guess instead of Bush=Hitler we should be equating the Democrats with him because his NAZIs took over the economy without any public input, too.


Hey, BARRY- Are you *EVER* going to condem those who broke into a private mail and posted the contents?
What about your "Leave the families out of this" speach you gave?

The Left stoops to yet another new low

I was going to say something about those Obama supporters hacking a private e-mail account and publishing the details; but I'm too disgusted with that entire selfishly self absorbed immature mindset that could\would even think something like that was acceptable.

I hold the Obama campaign and the Democrat *anything goes if they're not in lockstep*mode responsible for giving the scent of legitimacy to this criminal harassment. They handed out Private e-mails and a SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD'S cell phone number to unhinged lunatics who would love nothing less than violence against her...because her mom happens to be on the wrong side of the ideological divide.

Ok, MR. Leave-the-families-out-of-it...you sent your goons to dig dirt, your cur-dogs did the cyber equivalent of Watergate,,,what are YOU going to do about it?


I hope the FBI and Secret Service hang the b@stards, AND the Dems get booted from office for ten years, since they're the ones condoning this behaviour.

If they would work

They'd probably be less poverty stricken and less despised.

Those Gypsies broke into my apartment in Rota and stole about $500 and my favorite Buck knife. I couldn't sleep at nite because of the constant clomping on my rooftop as they did their illegal chit.

Yep, the EU is trying to figure out what to do with the permanent under status of the Roma.
And surprisingly, it involves money and more government.

On this day in history

Handel finishes his them for the Obama candidacy


And a one term, one year Governor who was Veep became president when the sitting president died from an assassination attempt. He was a Republican rabbelrouser, too.

Lastly, in 1940 the Democrat President FDR signed into law the first peactime draft in American history, which was sent forward by a Democrat Senate.

Anybody else having intrawebz trouble?

I'm having a hard time loading new sites and I think IKE might have kinda flooded the intratubes when he hit Houston and DFW. Where there are major communications points.
And routers and servers.

I've been trying all day to call my younger sister in Sugarland, just south of Houston, but kep getting a busy signal. I guess it's better than all the lines are down,,,,but.

I heard the long way around that my mom and older sis and her family are ok up in Conroe. Still haven't been able to contact them diectly either.

Oh well, AlGore will have to invent another internet that's environmentally friendler this time, maybe he can get a matching Nobel prize for it and put it up on nis "I love me" wall.

Speaking of flooding, I hear N'awlins took on water. Where do you think the MSm is going to be dashing Bush about FEMA -again?

I guess you've all heard the newest Dem talking point

About Jesus being a community organizer and Pilate being a Governor.

First of all, what do those anti Christian Liberals know about Jesus?
Secondly, What did he do to "organize" them?
AND why are they always trotting him out when they think it will benefit them?

Now about this Jesus=Obama thing....Does that mean that Sarah is fixing to crucify him?

Who would have thought

That a rock band would have the backgound narative for this election?

Playing hard is one thing digging up lies and innuendo is quite another
Heres to you Obaminator opposition researchers up there in Wasilla:


Picking on the girl.....
Isn't McCain at the top of the ticket?

Oh, yeah- can't forget Joe, can we?

Looks like we're still here

And if you're reading this, that CERN ginormous atom smasher didn't create any earth sized black holes.

I didn't think it would, just more alarmists going off on hypotheticals.
When we tested the first atom bomb in New Mexico, the earths atmosphere was supposed to catch fire, too.
So now all you Tx gulf coast evacuees have one less (or more) thing to worry about.