I got an MRI on my elbow yesterday

Not that I'm going to say much about it, but I kind of used it for a lead-in.

I was driving in to town, and almost got rear-ended three times by the same d1ckhead in the TOYOTA Tundra. He may have thought he's just saving brakes, or something- BUT when you come up on me at speed and decide to hit your brakes 10 feet from me- I tend to get pissed. Especially when you do it at every stop light in Castroville.

Then when I was transitioning from HWY 90 to 410, some beAtch driving behind the wheel of a maroon TOYOTA sedan decided to try taking my front bumper off- because she was tired of yielding the right of way.

And lastly, right before I was going to exit- the @sshole in a gray TOYOTA Forerunner decided he needed to jump right in front of me and hit the brakes.

While I was filling out the forms, I was listening to MSNBC who were all hyped about something happening in S. Africa. They were talking about it on the radio on the way home, too. I got home to a message from Thing 1 all exited because England made a goal- I left it for the only other person remotely interested when she got in from work. When she reminded me that America has a team there too, I told her the ONLY people here who are really interested are Mexicans and Liberals.

Sing it with me...

TROJAN MAN, TROJAN MAAN...

Looks like USC really overstepped their rulebreaking this time and got their football and basketball teams sanctioned.

Minorities and millionaires hit hardest.

If Felipe Calderon really wants to protect his people

Maybe he should keep them on his side of the border.

AND tell them to stop harrasing the Border patrol for doing their jobs.

Then maybe you could do something about the corruption that makes it so easy for drug gangs to flourish.

Hey, maybe you could even let your own citizens own guns to defend themselves against those drug gangs. I hear America has lots going across the border, so they should be pretty cheap.

Somethings missing here

......OH!



Content.
Sorry, after 13 hours of trying to make 12" X14" junction boxes fit into 12" X13" openings in pole bases, my elbow is killing me.

So enjoy a Zoot suit riot:

Maybe I was wrong

And change is really happening.

I mean it used to be that no matter what a Lib said, all they had to do was mouth some non apology apology and they were off the hook, and it was forgotten the next day.

Or, maybe Helen got hung on the petard she used back in Sparta- when it was a super power.

There's a saying in Texas

That beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone.


















...And I always thought she had more than a touch of King Davids blood.

Your daily dose of quasi-science

The air we breath is composed of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and about 0.038% of that deadly greenhouse gas-Carbon Dioxide.

The deadly CO2 is basically produced by respiration and natural causes (geo-thermal eruptions). The deadly CO2 is a natural product that increases with the larger population of living beings...because of breathing air. Which usually occurs AFTER significant global warming.

But what I wanted to post about today is that 78% Nitrogen in air.

I was filling up at a Shell station the other day and saw their newish reason to buy their gas.
It has NITROGEN in it! It's advertised as Nitrogen enriched gas.
My question is, without the O that goes with Nitrous oxide, isn't it just a filler of inert micro-bubbles?

And that billboard in New Braunfels that advertises the $5/tire nitrogen fill, I'll stick to free air since I don't make a habit of heating my tires to NASCAR temperatures.

To the perky twenty-something

Who was driving the white Bimmer SUV with Aggie plates yesterday.

I don't know if you realize that the ONLY reason I let you in while you were still pacing me AFTER your access lane ran out was that I remembered that I had my companie's name and phone number on the door.
Otherwise I'd have let you stay on the shoulder until it ran out.

Different outlooks of different services

I heard this a long time ago, and will try to make it work.

The Navy goes to 'Nam and builds the airstrip, control tower, taxi-ways, fuel dumps and revetments. THEN asks for additional funds for barracks, mess hall and a club.

The Air Force builds the club, the commissary, private room barracks and an Enlisted Dining facility and a stress reduction lounge- then asks for more money to build the airfield infrastructure.

What about their parents Mr Shabazz

It's not like this illegal immigration flap hasn't been going on before some of those kids "hitching themselves to the 60's civil rights movement" were even born.

You know, deep down Mr. Shabazz, that being an illegal today isn't like being black in the segregated south. It's not like there are Democrats having lynching parties by torchlight. It's not like they're being run down with dogs. It's not like they, or their parents can't change things by just going home.

They are illegal immigrants who STILL have all their rights, and if you want to target any states- I suggest having a look at the new Mass. Immigration law that's so much more onerous than Arizona's.

Oh, nevermind- it didn't pass.
..."Rick Gorka, a Baker spokesman, pointed out that the measure seeking to block illegal immigrants from state benefits failed by an unexpectedly close 75-82 vote in the Democratically controlled House.

“Fifty-nine Democrats in the House agree with Charlie Baker that the state should not be giving services to illegal immigrants except in emergency situations and those involving a child,’’ Gorka said in a statement. “Whether it’s in-state tuition breaks or driver’s licenses, Deval Patrick continues to show he’s clueless when it comes to protecting the taxpayer."

No sh!t, lady

Anyone who has the least bit of knowledge concerning evolution should understand this.

Pain is a survival trait. All animals have it, and some plants have a survival reflex, too.
Pain teaches you "Don't do that again" after you touched that skillet your mom kept warning you about.

I don't fish. It's not that I don't like to see a fish "desperately gasping for water" or anything like that. If I catch them, I have to clean them.

When your only tool is a hammer

Yeah, so BP has to try something different because top kill didn't work.

I'm not an oil patch expert, but I'm wondering why they don't try inserting a one-way expandable plug into the hole. You know, something that would catch against the casing wall as it was forced in, and then expanded like a plumbers test plug when it was where they needed it.
Or- when the cut the pipe flush, secure a flexible pipe or hose to it, that way once it's secure they can squeeze it off. That's what we'd do in our natural gas department.
After it's squeezed shut, put a valve on it and pump the oil to the surface.

But like I said, I'm no expert.

What I'm not is a member of the Obama administration who is overly represented by a buttload of lawyers who's ONLY response to anything they don't like is to sue.
"That top kill didn't work- Rham send some lawyers down their to see if any of our millions of conflicting environmental laws were broken."

A good day to you all

Now that Memorial day is over, I can say this.
I had to bite my tongue- figuratively when I saw this at Linoge's place last night.


It really says something when a Brit has more love and appreciation for America than our President.

Watching the Clint Eastwood marathon

And 'Heartbreak ridge' -the Hollywood version of the Granada invasion.

A couple things I noticed in this scripted version of events from my (jeez, that long?) 20 years of post Sea Bee civilian life.

I always admired how the Marines could fold their sleeves up on their old cammi BDUs so it looked like they were factory made. Today's Marines don't look any different than Air Force slobs.

I also didn't hear all this modern B.S. OORAH crap every time someone moves. Americas First Sgt. has more to say on the subject.

Something familiar to the early 80's battalion life was the lax way military readiness was shown in that movie- from my Sea Bee point of view, where our construction jobs held first priority over our military readiness jobs.

Sorry Gunny Mulligan.

Today, my Sea Bees are just as involved in combat as my foreBEErs were in WWII, Korea and 'Nam.

I see that Darwin is visiting Seattle

So tell me something,

How does a handgun just 'go off'?

And speaking of fail: NIKE, if your ad is covering the page I want to read and I can't get rid of it, you just lost a customer or two.

In the words of Markos Moulitsas Zuniga

Otherwise known by his anti-American blog- the Daily Koz---"f*ck them!"

Except he wasn't talking about some pro-palistinian terror enablers that Israel's commandos had to kill when they were attacked. There are conflicting stories, but I'm sure that when it clears out the two things wlii happen:

1- It'll show the anti-Semites instigated the attack....
Turkey's NTV showed activists beating one Israeli soldier with sticks as he rappelled from a helicopter onto one of the boats.

2- It won't matter who started it- Israel will take the hit just like always and the moslem terrorists will get a pass.

The only good thing to come out of this is that Netanyahu canceled his meeting with President Urkle. That way he won't have to sit through another arrogant lecture and a "time out" until he sees things the Won's way.

That wasn't so hard

Except for those @ssholes at Brake Check rounding the head of one bolt holding the caliper assy. to the axle hub- which I broke my only 15mm hex socket on.
Thanks to the original multi-tool, I was able to work it out.

On a happy note, I found that the inner and outer bearings are the same- or close enough that I used the good inner bearing to replace the bad outer bearing and the inner with a new one.
It should last until the truck's paid off and I can afford to replace everything.

Steam punk and you

After clicking a link over at Robertas place, I got a little sucked into some side links.

Which got me thinking... our boy leader is trying to make fuel cost $8/gal by the time he's done in 2012, how can I get around that?

STEAM!


Steam would work, because once I get to speed, it's 95% highway driving at 65-80 MPH- If I could get a quick, efficient plant it could work when the engine goes in one of the trucks. BUT- I don't want to wait while the steam builds, how can I do it fast and with enough go to make it work?
Guess I need to start googling...........Daym, that's alot of information overload at one time.

What else?
Deisel-electric hybreds! Subs use them, trains use them- ships use them!
I wonder how efficient they are?
A 3-5 fold increase in mileage over my V-6 as a start.
I just wonder how small of an A/C motor I could get away with if I used a CVT drive
connected to the input drive of my original auto tranny?


Well, that's something to think about while I do a brake and bearing job on the truck-that-cost-$2500-for-a-tuneup-and-timing-belt because it's a Mitzu.

I'm going to make an assumtion here- that it was a "gun free zone"

Because the off duty cop that played the terrorist in a Nevada hospital wasn't shot.

...An off-duty cop pretending to be a terrorist stormed into a hospital intensive care unit brandishing a handgun, which he pointed at nurses while herding them down a corridor and into a room.

There, after harrowing moments, he explained that the whole caper was a training exercise.

AND -I think this would take it for the best understatement of the day:

Hospital employees would have been justified in fearing for their lives.

So,,,,When did the Won leave DeeCee?

He what, gave his press conference and then dashed off to Mordor for a night?

Then Mr. Conservation took off for a three hour photo op to the Gulf- and then BACK to Chi-town?

I may be mistaken, but that's what it looks like form his His official itinerary.


Note^^^^^ it's kind of odd, don't you think that if you try looking for "Bill Clinton" D-Day beach cross- that somewhere in the 25 pages I saw, I might find that bogus pic of him looking like obam,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,NO! Google CAN'T be manipulating what they're putting out on searches...they're LIBERALS! Only conservatives censor what the public gets.


I just need to pinpoint my image search of Bill Clinton making a cross of rocks on Normandy beach a little more narrow.

I'm sure Google wants us to compare Barry and Bill on the beach.

Your Man Card

When is the last time you updated it, and how many of these rules have you broken?


1. Thou shall not rent the movie “Chocolat”

2. Under no circumstances may 2 men share an umbrella.
Why would any guy NEED an umbrella?

3. Any man who brings a camera to a bachelor party may be legally killed and eaten by his fellow party-goers.

4. When you are queried by a buddy’s wife, girlfriend, mother, father, priest, shrink, dentist, accountant, or dog walker, you need not and should not provide any useful information whatsoever as to his whereabouts. You are permitted to deny his very existence.

5. Unless he murdered someone in your immediate family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 12 hours.

6. You may exaggerate any anecdote told in a bar by 50 percent without recrimination; beyond that, anyone within earshot is allowed to call BULLSHIT. (Exception: When trying to pick up a girl, the allowable exaggeration rate rises to 400 percent)

7. If you’ve known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off-limits forever.
I want to throw a flag on this one- just for clarification- discus in comments.

8. The minimum amount of time you have to wait for another guy who’s running late is 5 minutes. For a girl, you are required to wait 10 minutes for every point of hotness she scores on the classic 1-10 babe scale.

9. Complaining about the brand of free beer in a buddies refrigerator is
forbidden. You may gripe if the temperature is unsuitable.

10. No man is ever required to buy a birthday present for another man. In fact, even remembering a friends birthday is strictly optional and slightly gay.

11. Agreeing to distract the ugly friend of a hot babe that your buddy is trying to hook up with is your legal duty. Should you get carried away with your good deed and end up having sex with the beast, your pal is forbidden to speak of it, even at your bachelor party.

12. Before dating a buddy’s “ex”, you are required to ask his permission and he in return is required to grant it.

13. Women who claim they “love to watch sports” must be treated as spies until they demonstrate knowledge of the game and the ability to pick a buffalo wing clean.

14. If a man’s zipper is down, that’s his problem, you didn’t see nothin’.

15. The universal compensation for buddies who help you move is beer.

16. A man must never own a cat or like his girlfriend’s cat.

17. When stumbling upon other guys watching a sports event, you may always ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask who’s playing.

18. When your girlfriend/wife expresses a desire to fix her whiny friend up with your pal, you may give her the go-ahead only if you’ll be able to warn your buddy and give him time to prepare excuses about joining the priesthood.

19. It is permissible to consume a fruity chick drink only when you’re sunning on a tropical beach… and it’s delivered by a topless supermodel… and it’s free.

20. Unless you’re in prison, never fight naked.

21. A man in the company of a hot, suggestively dressed woman must remain sober enough to fight.

22. If a buddy is outnumbered, out manned, or too drunk to fight, you must jump into the fight. Exception: If within the last 24 hours his actions have caused you to think, “What this guy needs is a good ass-whoopin”, then you may sit back and enjoy.

23. Phrases that may NOT be uttered to another man while weight lifting: “Yeah, baby, push it!” “C’mon, give me one more! “Harder!” “Another set and we can hit the showers.” “Nice ass, are you a Sagittarius?”

24. Never hesitate to reach for the last beer or the last slice of pizza, but not both. That’s just plain mean.

25. If you compliment a guy on his six-pack, you better be referring to his beer.

26. Never join your girlfriend/wife in dissing a buddy, except when she’s withholding sex pending your response.

27. Never talk to a man in the bathroom unless you’re on equal footing: either both urinating or both waiting in line. In all other situations, a nod is all the conversation you need.

28. If a buddy is already singing along to a song in the car, you may not, unless you are gay.

You kind of have to give Obama creds

I mean, really if you look at it he is staying true to his core beliefs.

I guess it's easy if you have so few,,,

But in his not showing up at Arlington this week end, he's really just doing what his core beliefs tell him to do. He's not going to go there and fake respect for the troops (or the flag for that matter) like other Dems have done in spite of their loathing of the military.

Yes, Obama is not even letting a public display compromise his dislike of any pro-American group of bitter clingers dilute HIS core values.

Yeah, Barry....rigght

“The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile under water and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry. Extraction is more expensive and it is going to be inherently more risky. And so that’s part of the reason you never heard me say, ‘Drill, baby, drill!’”

That's true, you never said that- because you don't want us to use our own oil.

What you ---and the rest of your Lefty Greenbats don't realize is that it's your policies that caused this spill anyway.

See Barry, I'll type this s-l-o-w-l-y- so maybe you might understand this.

If you or any Dems in DeeCee actually decide you want to read anything you're commenting on...or voting on -even.

It's your anti-oil policies that stopped the oil companies from drilling on land.

THEN you and your greenies forced those oil companies farther offshore into ever deeper water.

Yeah it sucks that they had a blowout and all the preventative measures failed- that's life. Shite happens in life that can't be controlled by your SEIU union thugs.

It was worse than the EXXON VALDEZ, but not as bad as the blowout from the PEMEX Itoc(that's a Mexican .gov oil company) that was blowing crude into the Gulf for nine months about 30 years ago.

BUT- ya know- if that had happened on dry land---- where you and the other envirowackos have decided it's 'too dangerous' to drill, it would have been closed less than a week later, rather than have to try closing it a mile straight down.

...because that's where you forced the oil companies to go.


HEY! Nice idea to protect the Gulf, though- stopping ALL American drilling.
Too bad it doesn't apply to all the rest of the countries drilling in the gulf. What are you going to do when one of those countries blows out a well and it infringes on American waters?

Well, well, well....

Looks like I was right again in foretelling the actions of the Unicorn rider.

Remember, way back at the beginning of the month when I said they'd point to this and ban future drilling?

Except that, I was wrong. They didn't just ban future drilling, they BANNED ALL drilling- and exploration in ANY U.S. body of water.
I guess this administration is gleefully looking at $6-8/gal gas by Independence Day.

To all of you Call Center people

(The ones that sit in a boiler room, not the ones receiving calls.)

Just to let you know that you'll NEVER talk to anyone in this house if you can't leave a message on the voicemail.
This includes you NRA and also Caller: UNKNOWN/Number:UNKNOWN.

Just saying,,,

Poor Sarah

She made an offer for access to her Ex-husband, Prince Andrew for about $750,000.
It's not illegal, or maybe even unheard of for access to be gained that way in those hoity-toidy societies.
But she got caught, and there are many unhappy royals involved.

Part of the fallout may be that she and her princesses may loose their home.

As an American who has British blood in my house now, I feel a bit of kindness to the troubled Fergie.
So as a small attempt to make up for the snubs The Won keeps throwing out- I gallantly offer Sarah, Duchess of York a place to stay in America.



Of course, since the house would be on the full side, she'd ummm....need to stay in my bedroom.

"Watch for cyclists"

"Bicyclists are everywhere".

"I brake for cyclists".

I was reminded of those bumper stickers plastered all over an SUV who was riding my tailgate, cutting people off and then turned left from the right lane in Castroville yesterday.

I was surprised that this guy actually stopped at the stop sign until I saw that he HAD to stop because of the cross traffic.
If you're a responsible cyclist who obeys the rules and has consideration for drivers, fine here's a patch for you:



The rest of you, stop for stop signs and get on the shoulder where you belong!

Who invited the @ssclown?

I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck against Rham Emmanuels that the cadets didn't get much of a say in who would be giving their commencement address.

Because you know they wouldn't want to hear someone arrogantly droning meaningless platitudes to them, especially since he hates the very idea of their existance.

To condense what the fanbois at FoxNews chose to cover in its entirety yesterday.
The Won said 'I pissed off our allies, and it's your job to make them work with us. Now go win the Afghan war without killing anyone.'

Because baning guns works so well

We see from Rob, that a teenager can make an (almost)exact working replica of an M-1911 pistol.




Ok, you say it's cool- but it's only paper mache.
Yeah, and he wasn't trying to make an actual FIRING weapon.
Give him some time and a milling machine and he could probably put something out that would put a major manufacturer (or two) on notice that they need to tighten up on their QC.

The question from the BBC:

Will Wall Street reforms work?

Because Congress didn't touch on the whole base problem, because they don't understand that the whole base problem is....CONGRESS and their 'fixes'.