After starting to haul diesel for the Webastos, I finally got fed up with the EPA-compliant fuel cans found at most outlets these days. I’ve modified a few of those plastic junk can spouts and vents over the years, but decided those were going to be the last. They can sit out back in the shed after the Armageddon Vehicle got an upgrade – real NATO-spec jerry cans.
The hold-down bracket folds up out of the way lashed to the headache rack for hauling dirt and gravel. Padding where it hits the handles puts a little tension down to hold the cans firmly in place. At an average 20MPG, the old Dodge now has around 1,700 miles range with a full load of fuel: 30 gallons in the stock tank under the bed, 40 under the toolbox and another 15 in the cans.
Today’s Toon in had another spot-on swipe at the GOP. This one struck a real chord with me, because it crosses not just political, but many other socio-demographic lines where dishonest people scream about one thing, hoping to distract attention from another. In this case, the distraction is away from nothing. Apart from the ill-defined boogeymen, they got nuthin’.
I guess when you got nuthin’ you just gotta make shyt up.
I met quite a few Molehill Men during my working life. Whenever somebody got too riled up about something or someone, just waiting to see what the real problem might be before doing too much investigation usually saved alot of time. It’s called a red herring in the dishonest political leader intellectual conversation game. Those Molehill Men have alot of low-info bitchin’ sailors ready to vote in this country.
There are only two questions remaining to be answered with regard to Putin’s war of aggression on Ukraine: How will the remainder unfold, and what will be left of Russia when it is over?
Gonna need alot more bruises and contusions on this first.
Maybe my inputs at the demand rate meeting a few years ago were received. They couldn’t see how to easily solve the high peak demand issue with batteries for some reason. A nice chunk of Tesla equipment was installed over on the frontage road recently, but it’s just a start. I thought things were headed in the right direction. Now we see these fuckwits building out the country on a fossil fuel foundation continuing to perpetrate the ongoing screwup:
These assholes need to stop being dragged kicking and screaming into the future. If they can’t get it through their heads, we’ll just pull a Texas grid failure one of these winters for a little wake-up call here, if necessary.
I thought he was a pretty cool dude and a great actor. Not anymore. This grandstanding jackass needs to go suck a fat one. It’s not like his wife’s medical issues haven’t been the known topic of conversation, comedic or otherwise, for years. But when you’re three inches taller than the target in an auditorium full of famous people, why not go ahead show off for the camera? Maybe the antidepressant effect is waning, but there’s no excuse. Go ahead strutting around like you own the place, being a total asshole.
Your acting career is over as far as I am concerned, fuckwit.
Then they let the fuckass walk up onstage and accept an award ten minutes later. I’ve been pretty much done with Hollyweird for quite some time. Now it’s official.
Dis-misinformation. propaganda, lies, deceit and related human foibles have been around forever. The concept seems to support the rise of religion as a means of social control. We’ve repeatedly seen tragic outcomes over the years when truly sinister fuckwits get to doing it politically on a mass scale, outside the church’s confines. But things are different these days.
Politics has always been fertile ground for opportunistic liars plying disinformation supporting their elections in various ways. Whether it’s mudslinging against opponents or tugging single-issue voter heart strings, the talking points are always peppered with less than truth and more like total lies in many cases. The trick has always been getting the word out. Whoever commanded the newspapers were last century’s societal Chief Information Control Officers.
There used to be a premium on truth back in the day, when electronic information traveled across telegraph wires, waiting to be transcribed to paper by hand and later read by voice to crowds gathered in a town square. The price paid for truth in today’s Internet-charged infotainment ecosystem is reflected in a serious oversupply of dubious information with a resultant big drop in demand. Today’s truth is probably lucky to be worth about a penny on 1860’s dollar, when and if you can find it in politics.
Free speech becomes a whole different animal combined with ubiquitous data and broadcast communications. It should be obvious to anyone paying attentions who knows the history, that people did not think this whole Internet thing all the way through. Obfuscated and false sources make critical listening, reading and thinking more important than ever. So when the Chumpenführer and gang became the first to learn there were enough idiots with cellphones and TVs who would believe whatever they were told, it was game over in the political info-war. Simply propagandizing those right-wing groups focused on religion, white supremacy and corporate money into a voting base was trivial.
Nazis and Qanons don’t need books, newspapers, soapboxes or even much word of mouth with a cellphone in every pocket and purse.
It took nine years from groundbreaking, to get it right, after Francie said we needed a pond. As a pro in the industry, my friend Joe will attest to the challenging aspects of stone masonry, but that was not the most difficult part of creating this little hole-in-the-ground ecosystem. Keeping the water inside of it was always the biggest problem forming a uniquely shaped liner like this. Search “pond” for all the details from years past if you’re interested. The final word is a product called “Pond Armor™,” It’s a 2-part epoxy paint, designed specifically for this purpose.
Downtime in the off-season over the past four years involved re-coating the liner with numerous layers of truck bed liner to build a sufficiently stable base for supporting the final Pond Armor top coat. I tried the stuff at one point five years ago before it was ready, and failed miserably. The epoxy forms a hard plastic-like surface. But it cracked and leaked badly that first time because the base was not solid enough yet. Time will tell if we have it right for the long term. It hasn’t leaked much the past couple years, as the liner improved. It’s looking really water-tight prior to this year’s fill-up.
The biggest Pond Armor issue is the difficulty in working with it. I spent the entire day yesterday making quite the mess, resting in-between mixing six separate batches to apply in the 20-30 minutes it takes to start setting. It’s thick and difficult to brush on. $350 for enough to do a proper double-coat on this particular project is a not insignificant expense, to me. After coming this far over the years, I may do it again next spring, just for insurance.
No news to me. I’m with the ~⅓ of patients in that study who gave up opiates completely. That’s what got me started with various drugs – inflammation and related pain. I’ve been through the orthopedic surgeries and all the medications that go along with it – before, during and after. The doctors will never say, because of course you’re just getting older. But I am inclined to believe all the metal in my midsection suggests the arthritis is more towards the severe end of the scale, and it’s not even my biggest health issue these days.
I’ll save my take on how it does with nerve damage for another study on that topic. The only thing I can say for sure about the weed, in my case at least is: I cannot use enough. The only two problematic issues I seem to have with Cannabis are: Can’t use enough, and waiting to start up again after a break when hyperemesis sets in.
After the repugs found no fault with judge Jackson, they proceeded to fabricate it from whole cloth. Throwing livid tantrums to demonstrate their dissatisfaction based on the nittiest of picks, they pointed to a small subset of Jackson’s prior case sentencing, perfectly aligning with the exact same thing 70% of all other federal judges were doing at the time.
I suppose with plenty of pedophile priests and perverted pulpit holders, it is an issue for that demographic. But at the end of the day it’s really just all about airing white grievance. Nothing new here.
Most highly qualified Supreme Court candidate ever.
She broke more than glass schooling the repugs in respect and demeanor.
Aren’t we used to all the new mission creep stuff yet? No reason it shouldn’t include some SEAD, among other necessary support activities. Perfectly legitimate humanitarian mission. Mariupol is waiting…
Sidewinders over Azov sounds like the title for a great new Air Combat novel.
Make the announcement. Outcomes await those brave Russian aviators.
I’ve heard more than a few pejorative descriptions for Lindsey Graham, but Trea Crowder’s characterization couldn’t have been more currently apt. Openly calling for Putin’s assassination was one thing, but his little tirade at the confirmation hearing yesterday was telling. Not that the slime-bag ever cared about human life before, but so quickly forgetting who freed the Taliban from Bagram only weeks before the final evacuation is probably just another indication of demetia creeping in.
I can think of a few people I wouldn’t mind seeing die in prison, myself.
Teddy’s lame attempt at reading children’s books to attack judge Jackson at her confirmation hearing perfectly demonstrates exactly how stupid this vapid mutherfucker really is. I lost count how many times the idiot baited his questions with the term critical race theory. These raging imbeciles just cannot stand the idea that they are not a superior race. And if their children must suffer for it, all the better. This SOB is just such a waste of human flesh.
Race is critical for understanding the nazi’s deceitful political plans.Last 3 taken together can’t hold a candle to Judge Jackson’s background and qualifications.
Repuglican fuckwits in America spent a year stalling Merrick Garland’s legitimate appointment. Then at the first opportunity, swooped in to seat a drunken misogynist and a free-fucking baby-maker, right under the wire. So when it comes time to appoint a liberal judge, we get cock-sucking nazi mutherfuckers like Jerk-off Josh here, asking questions only a bona-fide nazi moron could dream up.
Regardless of any truth to his disdain for sex offenders, jack-hole Josh thought those sentencing guidelines and policies applicable to all judges might be a good topic to attack judge Jackson on. Fist-pumping nazi pricks like this need barred from ever holding public office in this country ever again.
Josh Hawley is a Napoleon Bonespurs dick-sucking nazi.
Foolius Ceasar fealty makes these political theater performative artists discard any semblance of self respect. There should be an annual contest to crown the champion slimy cocksucking liar, by tabulating the most blatantly false utterances in various categories: Personal Finance, Sexual Pastimes, Dictator Preferences, etc.
If only Trump’s Big Lie was his biggest legal problem.
I suppose that happened unwittingly when he decided to start banging underage girls. This Epstein wanna-be is gonna get to experience Federal lockup, with pedophile background. The mutherfucker will get some extra special asshole stretching with that street cred going for him.
