The ACORN doesn't fall far from the tree

The latest news about the people our Peoples Organizer in Chef has surrounded himself with keeps getting better.

First we had the two videos of them knowing exactly what to do for our 'urban professionals' wanting advice in importing underage sex slaves and avoiding taxes.
Like I mentioned in a comment at the Cajuns place- It's like they've done it before, and more than once.

Another bit of new news is that even Rahm Emmanuel had to distance his newly politicized Census politburo from ACORNS participation in cooking the numbers providing an accurate count of Americans. Of course there are many, many branches of ACORN under many different names, which I'm sure are on someones speed dial right now.


AND lastly, speaking of self-serving politicians.
I caught this new site in passing at Jay G's that want this next election to clean House. I'm for it- the only pol up in D.C. I'd even think about sending back is maybe John Cornyn.

Making supper tonight

I preheated the oven to 400*.
Opened the Digiorno pizza box,,,,and on the plastic 'goodie protection' film was this sticker:
Look for personal size pizzas soon.'

Whoever you are in the NYC marketing division- I'm 6'2", weight around 270 and work all day in a demanding physical environment- sometimes going without lunch.

THIS is my personal size pizza, TYVM.....


With salt, red pepper flakes and parmisan cheese.

Oh, Look!

Someone got into a wreck on I-35 south.
Lets slow down to a crawl so we can get a better look...And slow down the northbound traffic for five miles behind us.

In further news form San Antonio, it's rained now for about three days.
There are people who either think that wet stuff is oil and slow down by 30MPH wherever they are. OR the others who want to drive really fast so as to get out of traffic sooner and be safe sooner.

I don't care which one you are, just don't involve me in your wreck- Mky?

It doesn't matter what he says tonight

He won't be able to bring all sides together.

The only way he could possibly make his big nationalized healthcare talk of any interest to me at all would be two phrases.
Two phrases that will *never* leave his mouth.

^Tort reform^ and ^less gov't interference^.

I guess in a roundabout way, when the .gov takes over all those incompitant DR.s in the military and VA clinics can treat the general population without worrying about malpractice insurance- since you can only sue the .gov when IT lets you.

Not that it matters what is in or isn't in the bill, it's the bill it's self that is the wedge for nationalized healthcare down the line.

Like HIMSELF said in one of his pre-Presidential campaign* talks 'it might take 20- 25 years, but we'll see government run healthcare.'


* As opposed to his post-Presidential campaign sloganeering.

Labor Day

A three day weekend.

Actually it would have been an almost four day weekend if the service guys had their chit together and I wouldn't have had to wait almost three hours for parts.

I could get used to this easily.
All I have to do is get some help some prototypes into actual products.





HEY!
Is it my server, or is anyone else having to wait a looong time for YouTube to load?

In the middle of the night

In the middle of a three day weekend.

Another member of our Neophytes pool of aquaintences has been tossed under the wheels.

Van Wilder Jones has succomed to the Right Wing Hate Machine.


On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."

Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that he thought Jones "was brought down" and that his resignation was "a loss to the country."

Kinda like Robert Bork?

Oops, no...because you said and did everything they called you on.

President Urkles Tuesday speach

I have to admit that I'm kinda surprised at the silence of the ACLU and their notorious clinging to the nonexistent 'separation of church and state' clause in the Constitution.

Remember how they got anything close to religion banned from schools and public property?

Why are they so silent about having the Messiah speak to the kids in school?

So there I was

Sitting on the couch watching 'Wild West Tech'.
I had both feet on the big one, one foot mashing his head and the other on his chest.
My left hand was mauling the black ones neck as she was sprawled on the couch, and the spaztard was in my lap, nibbling my neck.
When she asked "Are you just going to sit on that couch all day?"

I mean,,,,km'on,- I'm busy here.

Kicking it old school

That was the end of my job yesterdy.


I came in to string some temporary service for the service dept.
Being as they're not into overhead power, they didn't know what I was asking for.
I wanted triplex hangers (to replace truck stock) and a six inch band/collar to secure an insulator clevis to a light pole.
They got the hangers and kearney's fine, but the electric supplier didn't have an "insulator support band" that big.
I waited two hours to find that out. When they finally got back, I told them to go to Home depot and get a band for a fence gate pole...6 inches diameter.
They couldn't figure out why I'd want to use something like that for #4 triplex. So we settled for them getting plumbers steel tape.

I used that splice because it looks a hellofa lot better than the latest thing..two triplex hangers and three Polaris joints looking like a birds nest up there.

In a fitting tribute to Tripp Fisk

You don't bring a baseball bat to a sword fight.

Swords, they'll f*cking kill you.


AND- in items not really worth their own posts...................

Oh the irony, it burns
We have a bunch of MSM libartards worrying how much Sarah Palins resignation cost Alaska.
Their estimates say $140K. About what President Urkle spends for a nice Wagoo streak dinner at home.

I'm in luuuurv

If that's her husband at the end, he's a lucky guy.
Check out that woman in the lower right, I'm not sure where she stands, but she's in awe.

Like a bad penny

We just can't lose the coverage on Michael Jackson.
At least I was able to avoid the canonization of the Senate's worst killer by avoiding the vast majority of Lamestream news..

Now I'm off to work for hopefully a short day. Overtime is ok, and it's nice to drop a thousand dollar check at the bank for a weeks pay buy it gets old really fast. My next check shouldn't be bad either with all the lost o.t. they found.

Just wondering...

The Lockerbie bomber, when are we going to hear the Left going ballistic about 'BLOOD for OIL'?


Has anyone figured out what to do with the quart of water that cooks out of Walmart meat? I mean if you're not making stew or beef tips....






BTW, I just opened a letter from my Discover card. Thanks to DeeCee 'fixing' the credit thing- they're increasing my future purchas APR by three points.
That's the reason they gave.

Automotive PSA

If you want absolutely freezing A/C in summer, just bypass your heater core.
In humid weather you may even get icicles on your dash vents.

If 52% was a landslide

Like all those Obammatards keep saying.
What will they say about that 52% who now disapprove of his preformance?

Or the 57% who would recall the entire Congress? A tsunami?

Well, now we know how Michelle at least didn't know what was coming out of the right Reverend Wrights moputh when he was preaching. Just fast forward to 6:15 in this St. Kennedy clip. I wonder if she snores?

Oh joy

This is what I get to look forward to doing soon.

I'm glad the guy took the time to make a vid of it, but it would have been better without the rap-crap in the background.



It's a blazer, but I'm assuming an S-10 will be pretty much the same.
At least I won't have to disassemble the evaporator like on the Ram.

Bad tires and good service

Several months ago I ran over something on the way to town (San ANtonio) and by the time I realized it, I'd gone through Castroville. By the time I got turned around and got to the tire shop, my sidewall was gone. I talked to the tire guy and decided on two new tires for the front -the most important ones, and changed my two worst tires out. The left rear had a plug in the shoulder and had at least two cans of fix-a-flat (that I know). Last month the truck started pulling to the right, so I stopped at my tire shop to have him look at maybe repairing a leak.
He took one glance at the right tire and walked right over to my left one and sair 'you've got a bulge on the shoulder'. I told him I didn't feel anything in the wheel and he told me it was almost around the entire tire- making it taller, so it would pull to the right.
OK, that makes sense. He remembered selling me the tires, and after calling his supplier replaced that one for free- cool, huh?

Today I had the other one go and was lucky enough to catch him while he was still open.
He told me he still hadn't heard from his dealer on the other one, but would replace this one gratis, too- except this time, since I'd been driving them for thousands of miles, I'd pay labor and ballancing.
I think that was pretty fair.

I'm talking about the guy ijn the blue building on the west side of town, not the one across from Super-S that ripped off my wife, or those thieves at Moreno's who charged me $45 for an engine scan they never did, and then tried talking me into rebuilding an engine for a $600 truck.

In the next round of Democrat finances

We have the latest iteration of "we can't throw your money away fast enough" in the latset 'a 'cash for (latest politically favored business)' program as the appliance makers payback.


Because we all know the best way to be fiscally responsible is to encourage people who may loose their jobs is to encourage them to dump what they have paid off for more monthly payments.

Cindy, Cindy, Cindy

Just to let you know, you're bothering the wrong people now.
The lapdogs at the Lame stream media are done with you until another Republican is President.

As of now your 'absolute moral authority' about running wars is taking a back seat to our head neophyte and you should just go away until they call you.


"Peace proponant"?
Wasn't she a greiving mother just, like eight months ago?
I wonder what happend to change her status?

Cross your fingers

Lets hope the parking lot lights we"ll be working on today aren't as f*cked-up as the other two sections were.
I know they will be, though- because all the joints were made up by the ex-foreman who screwed up the entire job from the beginning. I've already had to re-pull different wire into three of the same poles three times as the incoming identification tape changed.

Jeez, I'm getting tired of climbing in and out of the bucket truck.



AND I'd like to do get something non work related done this weekend.



UNRELATED, but I saw it on my home page...

'Why do Muslims fast from dawn till dusk during the month of Ramadan?'
Why should I care and when are y'all going to start doing PR for Judeo-Christian values?

More jobblogging

Sorry.

Roberta had a good post up yesterday about what her guys go through in maintaining their TV transmitters.

Our stuff isn't as high, or time consuming, and we only have about 10% of the height to work at.

Besides, we







Cheat.

How to be a d1ck

in two steps.

Step one- be a cop.

Step two- sit at a four way stop sign during morning rush hour.

That way those clueless people who usually want to wait untill the sign turns green will wait an additional three minutes to go through the intersection.

AND -I forgot my wallet this morning and had to borrow the wifes debit card.
I don't know if the S-10 has a 16 or 17 gal. tank, but I ended up putting 15.8 gallons in it.

Tam wants to get a 'movement' going

So to make it easier, just cut and paste this:

"You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant."

over here.




You young ones who don't know, might need to listen to the song first, so you know what you're getting into. If things go all pear shaped, you may even end up sitting in the "Group 'W' " bench with the mother raper and father rapers.

I thought it was done

and the lamestream media had moved on, but I was slapped with this smirking picture as soon as Yahoo opened up. Now, I guess we're in for another month of the Media's orgy of grief over his burial and retrospectives on the first outburst of overkill.

Naming names

And using the right titles.

Ok, I was a little put off when I heard Bush the 1st designating someone as a -something-Czar, and the occasional additional Czars.

Now that our version of Lennon Lenin is going back to his philosophical roots, lets get our nomenclature right.

A Czar was the inherent monarch of the Russian empire.

What we now have in D.C. are political appointees with absolute authority answerable only to the Lightbringer. Normally it would be accurate to call them the nomenklatura, but we Americans are lazy, and it's a hard word to say, so how about either apparatchiks or commissars?

Not as accurate, but the meaning comes through all the same.

Wakey, wakey! Rise and shine!

"All hands! All hands! Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho! Lash up and stow,
lash up and stow! Wakey, wakey; rise and shine, the morning's fine;
you've had your time and I've had mine! The sun's scorching your
bleedin' eyes out! Beautiful dreamer, lash up and stow! The cooks to
the galley have gone long ago! Show a leg! Show a leg! Make a move!"


I'm off to work today, but heard a snatch of music as I was turning off the alarm.
It wasn't this song, but close enough that it's now an ear worm.

Enjoy, because I'm nice like that...

What could possibly go wrong?

The worlds smartest negro is looking at Michigan to house his Gitmo guests while they cool their heels waiting for trials.

Michigan, the second largest concentration of moslims in America. Who'd ever think that there might be an invisible sign saying "Cause trouble" anywhere near the place?


Also, I'm not any kind of a lawyer, never got paid to pretend to be one, or teach the constitution- but doesn't just being IN the U.S. give them some kind of rights they wouldn't have in Gitmo?

A copper mine

We were at the new stadium yesterday working on the parking lot lights when my leadman called me over to do a pull for the scoreboard.
It was about 400 feet long with four #4 stranded and a #6 ground in a 1" conduit. Then they added another circuit of #12s, so I was now supposed to pull seven wires through a 1" hole, 400 feet long.

So I get set up with my boom extended to all of it's 55 feet to get above the framework of the target megatron screen and drop the winch line. As I'm on the phone, I tell them they need either a rope or a triple mule tape pull because of both the distance and I *know* how some of that conduit was bent (ovalled) when it was run.

They said they couldn't use a rope because they couldn't fit a made-up head inside the pipe, so I pulled two tapes through and told them we were going to have problems because I was feeling lots of tension on the truck just pulling that head.

I don't know how many 90's I pulled that wire through ( ths code calls for a max of 4 in a single run) but I know I had to idle down and let that wire decide by its self when it wanted to come through some spots- or I'd for sure lose it.

I finally got to the last 90 going up the base of the scoreboard when I hit a something that didn't want to give. I tried everything I could to coax it through the problem and it seemed to be working as my boom started regaining the foot it got sucked down (think of a 55' fishing rod) and I took up slack again and popped both those mule tapes. The guy at my end caught the tape and we retied, and after gaining about a foot snapped that, too and lost it in the conduit.


Today, they tried pulling it back for another try, but no matter what they did, it was unmovable, so there is about 500 pounds of abandoned copper under a brand new stadium in San Antonio.
Of course it's under the press box, parking lot and the astro turf field it's self, but if you want to try for it......

So I get to the yard this morning

I'm all laid out as to what my plans are for the day- when one of the service guys asks if I'm the one taking the boom truck up to Belton?

Um,,,,never heard about it, where is it?
Up by Tyler.

Oh, it's not (a local high end car dealer)- better call my boss.

As I'm dumping my tools into the first truck- his boss is calling mine.
As I drive my POV past them, my phone rings...Oh. look it's (bossman)!

You need to take the boom truck and yellow trailer with those light poles up to Belton and help service swap them out. You'll be up there several days.

OK.

To their boss- ok I'm yours, of course it would be nice to bring some clean stuff with me...
**You don't have anything?
Nope, this is the first I heard about it.
**Ok, go home and get your stuff, we'll get the truck sorted out.

I took a two and a half hour round trip to do a quick grab of what I'd need up there, including the internet unready laptop and took the most time looking for the birthday present Karen only watched one episode of.

Then back to work to drag the trailer from work to the HEB in Belton, Tx.

So,,, 2 1/2 hours later we pull in and drop the trailer so we can move poles when....
Those bases don't look right, they look too small.
-So out comes the tape and they're an inch and a quarter too short...so the phone calls start.

We end up pulling a pole, making a template of the bottom and resetting the pole. Then resecuring the new poles and hooking up the trailer for the ride back to the yard.

I ended up with 11 hours today- 75% driving nowhere.

Ice road truckers in the back ground

I thought Hugh Roland was supposed to be some kind of super trucker?

L:ast week he got hit on his logs, and now he just found out his Jake brake isn't working---on a downslope, being pushed by 55K pounds of drill pipe.

I'm no super trucker, but I kept my jake brake on just for GP where I'd find big hills.
That way I'd know it was working when I needed to use the #3 position when I was going down big hills. Not just turning it on when I'm going too fast already....Hugh.


But then, I never wanted to be called a super trucker.
If anything, I'd rather be a steady trucker like Alex.

Cash for clunkers- do over

So this *NEW and IMPROVED* just got another $2 Billion to go for another four weeks huh?


How long did the FIRST Billion last?

And out of curiosity, we know that about 60% of approved apps (when they weren't crashing the site filling out the book like forms) went to foreign firms, then Ford and lastly the Peoples Auto factories. How much did each application cost us our great grand kids?