One of the things about undergound utilities

Is that you can't see 1/4" through dirt.

So to know where things are, so you don't put holes in things that are down there, we call for line locates.

The utilities involved -who don't want their lines broken and have to fix them- come out and throw colored paint on the ground where the lines are:
Orange for COMM.
Red for ELECTRIC
Blue for WATER
Green for SEWER
Yellow for GAS
The way you're supposed to find them is to pothole where the paint is, to be sure the operator knows where they are.

That being said, the guys doing the potholing are supposed to stop when the FIND the utility they're looking for. That doesn't happen when you have three guys who give less than a f*ck.

You notice the pothole stops 6" away from that 1 1/2" gas line?
I was told "Ya boss- that gas line is alor deeper than were digging."
Except that I know how deep gas lines are on this part of the base.

This one that stopped about 14" down- I was told "Ya boss that phone line is in concrete, we found the edge right there."
Except that I know the phone lines aren't encased in 'crete here, either.
We came on the orange sand about 2 feet below where they stopped.
Then we uncovered a second phone line that wasn't marked and called base comm guy -who didn't know it was there either.

These two are the before and after pictures of the last gas line we found.
Notice the way the pothole trench is going parallel with the marks instead of the more useful across the marking hole? If you go across where the line is supposed to be, you won't miss the gas line by 4" like we see in the last picture.


My spotter/co-operator asked why I didn't make them redo them. I told him I just wanted the stupid f*cks out of my way.
Their foreman didn't like it much when I called him out on it with the Super standing right on top of the most obvious miss (the top pic).

Yesterday a bunch of Liberals held a refief concert

For another bunch of Liberals who were impacted by hurricane Sandy.
It was dubbed the 12-12-12 concert for Sandy victims- or something.

I don't know *why* they need help, they just voted Superman back in to make everything right with a twitch of his nose.

BUT- more to the point: How much do you think all those Liberals made by preforming compared to what is going to Sandy "relief"?

Thursday thick girls

Because not being anorexic doesn't mean fat.

Extra points for who is #4?

Long day

14 hours+.
But we got the pipe in and everything is cleaned-up and ready for the Proud Parents to see their kids run tomorrow and then join the pep rally afterwards.

See anybody you know?

On this latish news story about 0bamas business friends?

Business Forward, an association formed in 2009 to advance President Barack Obama’s economic agenda, has spent plenty of time with White House officials during the fiscal cliff imbroglio.

Thursday the group is holding the last of seven briefings with top Obama administration officials about budget issues, The Hill reports.

~Snip~

 Business Forward’s members include AT&T, Facebook, Lockheed Martin, McDonald’s, Verizon, and Wal-Mart.

“When you’re an ally of the president, you can often bring in as many people into the White House as you want,” Jade West, senior vice president of government relations for the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, told The Hill.

“Business Forward is a political organization founded to support the Obama administration. So the fact they can bring people in to see the president and his people is neither a surprise nor terribly impressive.”

I need to see about getting a new cell phone provider.

A diamond in the coal mine

In Yahoo! Answers:

And thanks to Navy One for letting me rifle through his stash.

A girl and her gun- blog had a good run this week

In her answer to an "expert" telling how to foil potential attackers.
Gave me the Rule Five Thursday idea of Gunny girls (who aren't married to TSM):

I just feel a need to critique these pics,,,,ok?
Sure, it's my blog and i hope that my visitors will feel the same.

#1- Yep- She's an operator. Make her happy -or you won't be.

#2- In a heartbeat. Like a screen door.

#3- Muffin-top, even when you have to force it!

#4- If you cropped everything out of that pic except the smile, you'd know she was an American.

#5- Raquel Welch... even I'd probably be speechless at her........................ power...

Who in the Wide, wide world of sports could have seen this coming?

I mean, who would have thought that giving arms to Libyan rebels would end up in the hands of terrorists?

Certainly not the brain trust that is the 0bama administration.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.

BUT! There is good news in this- gotta spin it for your team any way you can, right NYT?

 No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to the attack that killed four Americans at the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in September.

And we're stuck with these hapless f*cks until at least 2016.




**********Extra points for whoever can identify who used the title phrase.

More and more of this sh1t

It's not a purge- yet, but it sure is starting a pattern.

It's like someone is sending a message saying you're not safe no matter where you command.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan -- The commanding officer of a Navy Seabee battalion was fired Monday for mismanagement, the Navy announced this week.
Capt. Sean McDonell, who commanded the Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 in Jacksonville, Fla., was also relieved for unspecified “major program deficiencies,” according to a Navy statement.

HMMmmmmmmmmm.........

 McDonell is at least the 25th Navy commanding officer to be relieved of duty in 2012. There were 22 commanders relieved in 2011.

An answer to the Toole- Bob Costas

E-mails-

You can't unsend them:

That reminds me

I need to put sugar on the shopping list.


FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Their ranks thinned by a 16-month lockout, American Crystal Sugar Co. workers on Saturday rejected a contract for the fourth time.
Contract opponents say the sugar beet processor's five-year contract offer would cut health care benefits and weaken job security and seniority protections. The company says the offer would raise worker pay by 17 percent over five years when a $2,000 signing bonus is taken into account.
Leaders of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International union said in a news release that the workers voted 55 percent to reject management's contract offer.

~snip~

Company officials said in a statement Saturday after learning about the workers' vote that the package is "solid and generous" and "similar to what we are offering our current employees."
"We're finding the pay and benefits included in it are attracting high quality area workers who are now creating a productive and successful new workforce for our Company," the statement said. "The Company continues to move forward and focus on running our business, processing beets and delivering sugar to our customers."


H/T Angus

No post

Just a filler to get that hateful, soulless bitch off my front page.





UPDATE:
I got 125 hits for this post?
SRSLY? Why?

I am always reminded of this quote

Whenever I see Valerie Jarrett:
"And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screaming..." Quint- Jaws

And the android looking skin on her face,,,, that just somehow looks unnatural.

Just not feeling it today

So lets get to Rule-5 Thursday

Fill 'er up! edition:

Giving credit where credit is due

So I opened the gate this morning on the way to work and noticed my right headlight was out. (that's an advantage of having to manually open and close gates- you can see what's not working every day)

So I drove to work with the brites on- hey with these modern illumination systems, who's going to care- right?

Anyway, we got sent home early because theSuper didn't show up and I got home about 7:15. I got around to hitting town about 1:30 and got the replacement (or what the owners manual said was the number- a choice of 3) for $10. I was thinking about getting a pair, because the next one is on the way- right?

So I got home and was expecting to at least pull the battery to get to the back of the light housing, when the book said something like "Pull the two black plastic tabs up and remove the housing from the front". Oh??? *Angels singing and harp music*
O-K! So I did- and it came right out- WOW! GM did something that I didn't need a $50 Genuine GM part for!

I got the old lamp out and tried to plug the new on in, but ti didn't fit. ???!!!???
I looked at the lamp socket and saw two ridges that didn't fit the trucks plug....BUT it worked everywhere else. NOW here is where it's nice that I keep my tools with me- including a utility knife (sorry MSM- box blade) and took care of those two ridges.

Poof- it's back in and the two black plastic strips are holding the fixture just like brand new!

Now, if we could only get the rest of our money from them, we'd almost be set.
---Or a tee shirt that says "$56 Billion and all I got was this shirt!"

Sorry girls- not in Germany

Because they banned it.



Muslims preparing to riot about the racism involved.

90 years ago

and three days- Howard Carter found the tomb of King Tut.

This discovery then cause arguably the most intense media blitz ...for quite a while and enabled me, hour humble host to enable you to marvel at the Boy King (the original, not the poseur in DC)

AMC, are you serious?

The mid season finale?

WTF does that mean? Now we have to wait another 10 months to get the next FIVE episodes?

I quit watching Dr. Who because the BEEB kept making the seasons shorter and shorter- now AMC is doing it?

HEY as long as you're going to be down, how about feeding the women this time?

Good by Major Nelson

And JR is gone too.

Oh well this looks like a good Jeanie themed Rule five day!

So Barry-

How's that "Smart Diplomacy" working for ya?

Seems to me that it's working as well for you as it did for the last Dem president who tried it-
But, HEY! his wife is in charge of it now.....
So anything we hear will be filtered through rose colored glasses and virgin panties...as usual.

Thanksgiving- the next day

All the dogs in the house got some leftovers:

Rule 5 thursday - on Friday

A day late because this blonde bimbo is so out of it, she thinks she's a Republican.

And because she fits the chubby thang so well- or more...

The Rodney Dangerfield of world leaders

Getting the same greeting as a servant.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Since everything is a racial codeword- or dogwhistle

Let me try talking about this election without using any, and see if we have any Democrat complaints.

The election on November 6th was a                                    then we                       and           because                                but,                          !          might have                                then              ,              ,            and          , so                             Ohio                           ballot                                        .   If                      not                         because                                  .  Romney                                    Bane Capital                               disenfranchised                            home.      Since                                    Olympics                             .                reelection        SCoaMF              booing                      couch cover                   .



If we                 , then                     because                 - BUT-                                       .
Now that                                              FUBAR                    BOHICA                        then                 just like           .

Ropeyarn Sunday will now commence

And be in effect until Monday.

That is all.

Now- in News that's Not

This message is coming from a guy who never even heard of thanksgiving until he spent a year in America.

Another Liberal telling you how to live.

Here's a message to the Republican party

Their pollsters and other assorted ne'er-do-wells.

We keep hearing thar it wasn't Romney, it was the message...or something.
The same thing we hear when the Democrats are losing.

We hear that turnout this time was lower than even McCain got. Probably.
Because the ONLY reason I bothered to go to the polls in `08 was because of Sarah Palin and the hope that she could do something to help the Republicans.
I bet a lot of others that stayed home this time were Palin voters, too.

Then You threw her under the bus to try covering for that horrible campaign of McCain and your pros.
THEN you gave us Romeny.

Give us someone we can vote FOR this time, or I guarantee you that the results will be even worse next time-
Because we won't "have" to vote against the Democrat and for the smaller evil
Because this time it won't be THEMOSTIMPORTANTELECTION EVAR in your entire LIFE!!!!eleventy!!!! 


Yeah, you lost that one when you decided that Romney was the most electable one you liked.

S.E. Cupp

Rocking that sexy-smart schoolgirl uniform look

But not so much the Fudd Duds...