I shipped out the ‘wrong product’ from the supplier yesterday.   They had sent me a Return label in email, and I printed that up and took to the FedEx place.

Waiting on word that they have shipped the correct products out.   twiddle thumbs twiddle thumbs.    Probably NOT going to have them in time for the weekend; in fact, I think I can lay good money on that fact.

Wanna go kayaking instead, but to be completely honest, the sounds I am hearing from the current rear end are troubling me, and I think it will be best to  sit this weekend out.   Gotz ta has wheels through the week and don’t wanna risk another locked up diff while I am trying to rebuild the one that did. 

Heck, I may just get the wirebrushes out and scrub the livin’hell outta that Axle housing and paint the bloody thing.   May as well, its gonna be basically ‘as new’ when I am done with it.

The company had no problems issueing that return label.    I am pretty sure that somewhere in their database is a list of known weights of various products and the one I ordered will be quite a bit more than the one they shipped to me originally.  A simple scan would verify that my complaint was legit without needing picture evidence.  I did send that, just to be safe.

At least it was the correct ratio,,,,  small grin,,,,   (for the curious 41/11   3.73)

Fingers crossed that the loader gets this shit right this time’round. (and a quick check on the website shows ‘Order status, at warehouse’, expected delivery Monday with deliver on Wednesday.  Here’s hoping this “Oops” is on its way out the door and I can get busy.)

Aproximately 80 years ago.    That there are ANY still ambulant enough to even walk in a parade ALONE,,,

The Body count on both sides was staggering, the stories from those there, unbelievable but true, the amount of material literally thrown into an all or nothing gambit; Material that 4  years prior, had not existed.  Material that was on both sides of the planet from home.  

This country geared up for war and was churning out mega-tons of gear, material, ammo, weapons, ships

And of course, an entire generation of MEN. (HT to Ragin’ Dave for the Patton Speech)

Look around you.  Could this Level of Commitment be replicated today?

Even with the increase in population between now and then, I can’t see it.   Our manufacturing base has been gutted for the almighty dollar and bottom line, our People are much much lazier, more sedentary in physiology as well as psychologically.  

And we are much much more tech driven where those guys were used to hard efforts and less than perfect ‘climate controlled’ conditions such as we have grown accustomed.

Admittedly, I had a laugh reading Pattons speech, where he was dogging his ‘boys’ to ‘get this job done so we can hit the Pacific before those Marines take all the glory’,, Dumb Jarhead pride here, The Devil Dawgs kicked butt in that theater.

I knew one man from that war, My Step-dad: Dempsey Ruggles.   He passed away a few years before my mother, and did not actually fight in the war, but was a merchant Marine and had his ship torpedoed out from under him in the Atlantic somewhere between the Canary Islands and Brazil.   He spent quite a time afloat in a life boat with several others of the crew, many of whom did not make it. 

I still hold one of his souvenirs from then.

One of several items;  but the image says all about the time it’s from, no?  He told me that the captain of the ‘Kraut sub’ that torpedoed them, gave each of those on the boat, one of those five pfenny coins, and pointed them to the nearest land they could reach considering weather and current patterns.    Just doing a job, nothing personal.   Far better than surfacing and machinegunning the boats, condemning them all to Davey Jones’ locker.

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That generation is fading into history, I can only hope the legends created that day, do not: in both forms, the personal stories passed down from father to son to son, and the fact that when the call was serious, this Country STOOD UP, and DELIVERED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF EVERYTHING.

keep on livin’

Never have quite figured out how destroying all of our established institutions. Is supposed to MAGA..

in ONE word.

CORRUPTION.

Fact is, our ‘established institutions’ are not founded in our FOUNDATIONS, they are add ons as time progressed (that word again)

and as time has progressed, the laws of bureaucracy have applied, and the only ONLY function of these ‘institutions’ is now survival and growth at all costs.

much like a cancer cell that slowly kills its host.

Dead wieght that has been weaponized against the very people that make up the real country.   Why do IRS agents need guns?    Because the blinders are off and people know them for the highway robbers of old now.   Why does the FBI catch so much shit? Because they haven’t caugt ONE person from the Epstein clients list, but sure can turn a grandma saying prayers into a martyr in a jailcell.

Gut it down to the basics that are WRITTEN in the original wording, and nothing else,,, IF AT THAT TIME, we see a need for some agency or such, then we can do some work.   Yeah, its gonna be ‘different’ ‘rough’ and maybe a little wild at first, but it won’t be this Orwellian society that is rushing headlong into full blown Soviet styled tyranny.   I’d rather a  good businessman with bad styling, than some slicked out shyster like Gruesome or some pretty, vapid headed cut out barbie doll with an army of trolls running the show behind the scenes.  At least with our current ‘regime’ we know that the ‘cutout’ is just that, because the man can’t walk to the helo without, literally, shitting his pants. 

FFS, the man shit his pants visiting the POPE!!!!

Yeah,,, thats a great way to show your respect for a 2000 year old tradition,,,,,

but back to the original subject: CUT THE DEAD WEIGHT of agency that encumbers  us, use the budgets to support those to pay off the debts incurred, BE BRUTAL BUT NOT BIASED because every single one of those agencies is gonna have mutltidues of reasons why “it wasn’t us!!!”   AND Cut all foriegn AID indefinitely, to include to ‘Our greatest Ally EVAH!”.   Pull all of our troops home except those stationed at the Embassies, pull out Foriegn based military bases back to home,,, bring it all home where defending AMERICA would become a reality again.    (and we have plenty that needs defended right now,,, like a southern border,,,,,)  

This country can be fixed, but not by continueing to do the same ass shit we did yesteryear.  Thats insanity writ large: ‘TO keep doing the same things and expect different results” 

Is Trump the surgeon we need?  I have doubts,,,  He may be the ‘cutout’ to get the Conservative side to back down for a spell while the gears continue to grind and break up this country from the inside out.   Sure seems that I am not alone in that thought either.

Even those thing being said, I think the ‘revolution’ is well underway and the conservatives are NOT gonna let Trump Idle away the same way he did last time.   And I think he knows it.   

And either way this whole (S)election cycle pans out, I firmly believe that come next January, things WILL go Kinetic

all assuming that we don’t get our asses obliterated in a Nuclear Conflageration because some shitstains in STATE can’t get the hint that the BEAR isn’t playing games.  

All I can do is watch, and keep on livin’

and I suggest y’all do the same.  Livin’ being getting ready for when things aren’t as nice as they are now.

like me getting parts for the Buff while I can. (if the dag-blamed things would show UP)

more laters   Keep on Livin’

I was seriously hoping to share some excellent news witch’y’all,,,,

I ordered my parts for Buffalo in the wee hours of Muhnday morn, and they shipped out that day,

and kinda sorta arrived today,,,

yeah,,, a ring, and a pinion,,,,  

most certainly NOT $1300 worth of parts there, unless those two peices are made of Adamantium,,,

I started the dispute process, and the site says they will contact me in one business day,,, 

THIS image is what I should have received,,,,  quite a few missing parts there in the box that DID show up.   I’m hoping that there were two boxes and the FedEx guy screwed up, BUT, I didnt’ see ‘parcel one of two’ or anything like that on the box,,,   and the box was completely undamaged in anyway.

But I knew as soon as I picked it up that things weren’t right.

Just a touch dissappointed right now,,,   Not mad, just ‘meh!’,,,  Was sorta hoping to get a serious start on that rebuild tonight and now hanging in space/time twiddlin’ me thumbs.   Don’t want to mess with the box or parts incase I have to return them, and besides the fact: I really need the rest of those parts to even get started.

sigh,,,,     maybe this is universe telling me something,,,,

Keep on livin’

Where’s the time go???

Will have another post up today, later, with MORE pics, but completely different subject,,,  

  stay tuned

Have y’all noticed that both sides of the oppositionnuse this term?  One says it’s derangement against Trump’s very existence, the other that ‘we’ are deranged to back “that felon”  ((that they had to manipulate, and flat warp, established laws to achieve, go figure.)

It’s all kabuki theater.   Y’all might notice that I’ve stopped targeting Xi-den in particular, instead referencing the “Shaministration” .  If anyone thinks Xi-den is actually in  charge of this mess, is delusional/deranged IMO.  Demenitia ridden he may be, but that does not mirror the destruction that has been wrought on this country, even if his signitures are in account (his brain sure isn’t.).

Wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Hunter has some voice in this mess: not saying such IS,  just that I wouldn’t be surprised when/if the facts get sorted out YEARS down the road.

Back to that derangement thing.   One thing I don’t think the opposing side (pro-Xi-den) gets; that Trump is NOT the focus of our rage, he’s just the most viable tool we have, to turn this shit around.   The real issue is; we want the old skool ‘leadershit’ OUT!, and held accountable for this disaster. That old skool includes some of the younger ones that are just as deeply embedded in the graft now (Occasional Cortex for example,,,).

We want someone that will get in there and disband the DeepState machine, so that we can get things back on the founders path.   Not this Banana Republic with hostile courts weaponized for politics, just as one aspect that needs rehabbed in a big way.  

In one statement as synopsis of the rage as I SEE IT

WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!

and as far as the 80+ million are concerned, Trump is the key to that.

Now, I do have some issues with Trump, not just his persona, but some of his history as President: The bumpstock ban.   Then later down the road, his introduction of Project Warp Speed and the fact that he still seems to think this was a boon for the people and brags on it.   He might wanna dig a little deeper into that whole “SUDDEN” phenom that has been on-going,,,,, Granted, it was the Shaministration that tried to make this mandatory across the board and managed to do a shit-ton of damage, not just to peoples bodies, but exposing the Medicial Complex as broken and just as corrupt as the rest of the Oligarchy we are now saddled with.

IF he wins: the lessons learned from his prior four years, IF HE LEARNED THEM, is why the Opposition is shitting bricks and projecting on HIM directly,,, They feel that when he retakes office, that he is going to be a big sledge hammer and they are the tent stakes to be driven flat.  (and I believe that many of the 80+M are hoping for that to be the case!!!!)

Fact is, Nobody has clean hands in DC.   Hell, no one in politics in general, local County, or State has clean hands.   The only difference is whose closet has the most grime,,,,

Like the fact that NOT ONE of Epstiens Clients has been indicted or even (openly) investigated.  Lots of Grime in THOSE closets, you betcha, and I would bet that Call list for the Senate and House , looks a lot like that list.

I am at the point where whatever they are doing is meaningless to me.   I get sent videos of Xi-den extolling the virtues of the Armed forces, and yet, I see his record of activity and know, ITS ALL BULLSHIT.   The man’s record contradicts any “coming to God” his handlers may put out.  He is a cut out, expendable, and the Epitome of the REASONS people like me want to clean the slate in DC.    Worthless hacks that game the system for their own benefit and fuck the people that they supposedly represent.   Talk a good game, throw the dice and make bank; and to hell with ‘those loser dirt people’.

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Home,,,   Update on Mama-kat/babbie.   Babbie is still kickin’ and I haven’t had to resort to bottle feed.   Mama finally got her message across to me at around 3am, when she was trying to move Babbie to a new nest.   I am guessing her first choice was not to her liking, for whatever reason and the reason she had been so negligent in her duties was trying to find that alternative.    Well, that alternative is my shower, under a wicker stool (goes to the floor with a hole cut in side) on a towel.     If figure I can move them for a spell while I get my shower then put them back in place afterwards.   The towel is thick enough that even a damp tub won’t get the Babbie wet.

Fickle Mama-kat, driving Da to the point of distraction, and so little means of communication to make me understand.  Sigh.   I’ll see how long this plan holds up to reality,,,,,

Thats the thought after this day at the J.O.B.

Was able to spend the day with the son of one of the other older guys.   His son is off on vakay from college currently, and he always comes to work for us during that time.   That being said, yes, the boy has a set of brains in his head, is quite lucid in his ways, and generally speaking “NOT STOOPID”

Highly deluded maybe, seeing how he is Strongly SOCIALIST in his beliefs, and willing to defend them,

oh yeah, he is in college to become a Lawyer.

Yeah, Dio was having a good day with lots of talks about purty much everything.

The one area where we started getting a little hot (no pun intended) was CLIMATE CHANGE and I hammered home some points that he wasn’t prepared to entertain,

hence the title of this post.    Never concede the floor, even if wrong.  

Has anyone else noted that is a main tactic of the left?   Rhetorical queston, requires no answer.  

No need to go into details about it, his logic was solid even if upon vaporous foundations that have been proven to be faked.  And I had to point to several articles showing that the hockey stick curve was intentionally created, that most of the hardcore Climatologists are employed by groups like Net-zero or Soros backed groups.    He refused to budge.   He kept saying ‘its hotter now than it was last year!’ ,  at which point I pulled him out to the street, pointed into the sky and said, “You see that big glowing thing up there?   If it weren’t there, it would be cold right now,,,  THAT has more to do with how hot or cold it is than ANYTHING we little Terran-lice can do to this big blue marble.”

Nope,,, Sol has nothing to do with this thing we call “WEATHER” and doesn’t matter how many ice cores  you pull out of the polar regions to prove that massive atmospheric ratio shifts do NOT show related Climatic shifts.   Doesn’t matter that you can pull up solar cycles that DO match climatic shifts,,,,    NOPENOPENOPEnope,,, not gonna hear it , we evil Hooomans are destroying our planet,,,,  (and it doesn’t matter that you can show what happens in less than a hundred years, to civilizations that failed, in the Amazon rain forest,,, Mama-natures reclaims her territory FAST!!)

Facts mean nothing,,,   Even in our arguments, I coudn’t sway him that Socialism is a doomed prospect from the get-go.   He kept arguing that SOCIALIZED MEDICINE is leaps and bounds above Free Market based such.    I had to agree that we do NOT have such at this time,  but I couldn’t get it through his head that the one instance he experianced such, was NOT THE NORM.   I tried to point out the travesty that is on our northern border; how the peoples that can, are fleeing it, to come here to have work done: not sit on some list, hoping against hope the people in line before them die off before they do.   Or the mess that the healthcare system in Cuba is, or Venenzuala.

“Give me the children for the first seven school years,,,,” (paraphrased)

Indoctrination runs DEEP.   I know it as i was as well.   Until my break up, I would have been likely to side with him on many things.  Not all as I had been waking up for some time, but when 2007 came around (the break up) and I started asking HARD QUESTIONS.   Then 2008 Collapse and I started seeing the cracks in the gilded scenery flats,,,,   Yeah,,, its been a long strange trip, well worth it, and once on that road, there really is no re-glazing of the lenses you see through.   (you can get black-pilled, but you STILL SEE THE TRUTH.)

I can only hope that some of the things I said today found hooks to grab in his mind, and later, much like those things my reading teacher dumped in my mind: little timebombs of info that  EXPLODE and blast away the dogma of the left.

The only other way I have seen that works: The world has to rape him of his delusions.   He hasn’t been fucked over enough yet.  

OR,

Things have to collapse back to base reset mode (no economy, nothing to support our technological lifestyle; Think late iron age pre-industrial state.)   That last isn’t a guarantee either,,,  At least the first way is centered on one person, not the world at large with lots of pain and suffering for all, including those awake.

That all being said, it was almost cathartic, being able to hold a conversation where both sides KNEW something, and were able to RATIONALLY hold their own, without resorting to “Lalalalalala!!!” while shoving thier fingers in their ears.   The other person on the crew (Burnout) actually kept his peace and occasionally asked stuff, like, “what does that word mean?”  So he was listening, and not interjecting in emotional responses: in other words, he was learning something,,,, Maybe,,, Talkin’ bout Burnout here, so,,,,,,

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Update on the home front, NO CHANGE.   Mama still has one kitten in her charge, though I am having a hella time getting her to give a damn about the poor little thing.   I think she is rejecting it and can’t figure why, but then, pea-brained kat full of instincts and hormones, no logic to speak of,,,,  She may sense a problem in the baby that I can’t see: Figure evolutionary instincts ‘let the child die, that the species grows stronger’ (though she wouldn’t be able to formulate that thought as we do.)  and there may be that Premature birth thing,,,  I can’t say they were premature, but they seemed much smaller than usual TO ME,,,   empirical observation, take with grain of salt,,,   I’m playing on that: give it a week more, and the baby will have developed enough that she seems normal to Mama and Mama takes to her.   Right now, its a fight and if I have to bottle feed the baby for a week first, By Dawg, thats what Dio is gonna do.   Been enough loss of life in this household the past week.

keep on livin’

(I stand corrected and in my defense,  I’m near deaf.  The gentleman in question above was discussing CHOMSKY. Huge difference ))