Are you ready?  Haveya thought it out? War Gamed it? Do you have a  plan?

No matter where you live, it can, and might well ,happen. Having a plan, is better than not having a plan. While no plan ever is perfect, and conditions change that you cannot plan for, having a plan helps.

This is a good place to start that planning.

That, while the Press has continued to push the “Zika Virus is a threat”   meme…(which it may be, but will likely fizzle like West Nile did a few years ago) they have, at least for now, finally stopped pushing the “And it will make your Baby be born with a Tiny Head” meme?

Could it be because Zika, as such, won’t? (as long as you don’t use growth inhibitors in the drinking water to combat the mosquitoes, that is)?

I guess that the fearmongering to get funding failed, Huh?

That the memorials are turning black and getting covered by a black slime because of the evil that has infested the Capital of our country for so long?

I mean, think about it….Barry and William J Clinton were bad enough….GWB was, at best, neutral (definitely not a good)…Add in all those corrupt and evil senators and congresscritters from BOTH parties…..

Is it any wonder that the evil is seeping out of the stones?

We found out just how much we can trust our government.

The US Marshals Service, using information from the ATF (which had screwed up the case against Randy Weaver terribly, showing why they are referred to as ‘”F Troop” by other agencies) shot and killed the Weavers son….Starting a chain of events that led to the death of, not only his son(Sammy), but his wife, Vickie.

No one went to jail, at least not on the Government side, although many should have.

FBI shooter Lon Horiuchi, who killed Vickie was tried but not convicted of Murder. No other government official was ever charged, although many agents should be in jail today….and would be, were it not for the Federal whitewash conducted later…..

This is why I fail to trust my government (and add in Waco, TX and the Branch Davidians). Unaccountability, management from afar rather than by someone who is on the scene, and agents sworn to uphold the Consitution blindly following orders from people with an agenda and who are more concerned with managing a media than seeing Justice done.

I met Randy Weaver once, many years ago…..He was exonerated, and got a settlement from the Federal Government (which means the US taxpayers)…but no amount of money will ever fix him. He is a broken man, damaged beyond any hope of healing.

All because he got caught up in the ATF machinations to convict some Aryan Nations folks….In this case, his wife and son were collateral damage.

Never trust a Fed, or a policeman to do Justice first. They will follow orders, no matter what.

Consider this:

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Danny Coulson wrote a memo:


OPR 004477
Something to Consider
1. Charge against Weaver is Bull Shit.
2. No one saw Weaver do any shooting.
3. Vicki has no charges against her.
4. Weaver’s defense. He ran down the hill to see what dog was
barking at. Some guys in camys shot his dog.
Started shooting at him. Killed his son. Harris did the
shooting [of Degan]. He [Weaver] is in pretty strong legal position.

But the agents went ahead and did their thing anyway…..

Wanna learn more? Start HERE.

And this happened under a REPUBLICAN president……Waco, which happened under a Democrat president, was far worse…But it was the bureaucracy which killed those folks…..

Damned fundamentalist crazy folk clinging to their guns and religions…..

Don’t forget this…..The people who were killed by the Feds…who were just trying to live their lives as they wished to under the rules of the Constitution, deserve better than that.

So the German Government is PLANNING on a terrorist attack.

Planning. On. An. Attack.

And they say that the Citizens of Germany should plan for it too. Plan for a catastrophe that might require that they have 10 days (at a minimum) of food and water.

I’m thinking Chemical or Dirty Bomb sort of attack. ?.?

Yeah, bring some more un-vetted, un-sponsored, un-assimilated refugees to this country. We need more of that kind of threat here too….

Yeah, so the engine in the woodsplitter finally crapped out.

Not like it is a surprise, mind you….My brother and I bought the thing something like 19 years ago at an auction, and it had a bad motor then….at the same auction, there was a mower with the same Briggs and Stratton vertical shaft motor that was purported to run….So we bought the woodsplitter for a song and the mower (which had, IIRC, a broken axle) for even less.

Now, this woodsplitter was a project that someone had built….likely using parts and scraps from industry….maybe even from the steel mills in Gary (which wasn’t unusual for the time and place that it must have been built)..Massive construction, much bigger than what is needed…huge forgings cut down to make ’em fit, etc. Interesting “engineering” in some places….Like a 5″ diameter hydraulic cylinder. (This thing will split oak SIDEWAYS…against the grain)….Yet the wedge guide is 3/64″ X 1″ angle….odd.

So, anyway, 19 years (more or less) ago I put a used engine of unknown hours on this woodsplitter. And it worked for all that time….and worked well…. until about 5 years ago. Then it began “clanking” when cold…but I’d just let it warm up a bit longer and run it. Warm, it ran fine…It never ran well, but it always ran and it split wood very nicely…..

In preparation for the day it finally died, I did buy a 12 hp vertical shaft Briggs & Stratton engine about 4 years ago from a guy I knew who was parting out an old Cub Cadet lawn mower….Same engine “family” so I figured it would bolt right up when the time came….

Every year, I’d debate “Should I put the “new” motor on this winter, or will the old motor last another year….?

For 4+ years, the old motor “clanked”, each year getting a bit worse…. but it ran. Since it wasn’t broke enough, I never fixed it….

This last Monday, it fired up in the usual way, being obstinate and cantankerous, but finally starting. It ran for about 30 seconds…then it went “clank!” and ceased to turn.
At all.
Not even a little bit.
Tight.
 Locked up tighter than Ahmed’s virgin goats on Payday in Syria….

So, I towed it to the shop, scraped 19 years of oily dirt off of the thing, and began the disassembly process.

Wasn’t difficult, really. While it hadn’t been disassembled in nearly 20 years, neither had it been uncovered and out in the rain. Not much rust, and most of the bolts were covered with a slight sheen of oil from the gently leaking Briggs motor. (It never leaked much, but it always leaked…Like a half a pint a year or less).

So I pulled the wiring and the linkages and fuel lines and such and then lay down under the frame and put a deepwell socket and ratchet on the bolts holding the motor to the frame with a box wrench on the top and began to turn….Now, the first two are easy, as they are easy to reach. The third one less easy, as the ergonomics make reaching bolt above and below the frame …interesting. But I was able to get my hands in the right place and break that bolt loose as well.

The fourth one required a bit of interesting positioning…One cannot see either the bolt or the nut, and must do both the top side and underneath by feel…… and I cursed the microcephalic, motherless, inbred, hermaphroditic, slimy redneck asshole who, instead of using a 5/16 bolt (1/2 inch wrench) had used an 8 mm bolt (12 MM wrench.) I tried and tried and tried and TRIED to get that half inch wrench to fit….. it wouldn’t hold, kept slipping off. Same underneath…..The socket just wouldn’t quite fit properly….. I finally figured it out and planned my revenge (think baseball bats and dark alleys and suchlike) on whichever asshole who had set such a trap…..Only to realize that the engine had been set in place by ME and hadn’t ever been off of the frame since then…..at least as far as I know, anyway. Perhaps gremlins. Yeah, that must be it….

(I usually am not afraid to cobble something together when needed, but I (generally) go back and do it right if it is gonna be kept in use and not just temporary…..I honestly don’t remember using a metric bolt when assembling the splitter….But I must have?).

I did, however, punish myself….I mashed the shit out of my hand when picking the motor up off the frame, so I got my own revenge upon myself…..

The reassembly went fast, as the motors were the same “family” and used the same mounting holes, same shaft size, same carb, same wiring, etc.  (I did go buy 4 new bolts all the same size….I will likely never have to pull the motor again, but some poor dude may). New fuel lines and everything else hooked up fine.

It runs like a champ. Smoother, and with 2 HP more. I split 2 ricks in about an hour.

Taylor Swift donates 1 million dollars to flood relief for the folks in Baton Rouge. 

The general area is, of course, about 50% black….

So ONE white entertainer has donated some cash. I think that is good….It’d be nice to see more…

But where are all the black entertainers? The folks that, you know, make money off of black people…..

And, again, where is Black Lives Matter? If 10% of the folks who can march in support of a criminal who gets shot by a police officer would decide to donate his or her time to help clean up after the flood, that’d be a decent example, now wouldn’t it.

But they won’t, and the Entertainers won’t either…..Few white ones and I will bet ZERO black ones. At least they haven’t yet..

Unless, of course you were Secretary of State..friends with the Prezident and likely have significant dirt on him and his wife…And apparently the Attorney General…

Then you can, of course, skate on failing to properly handle classified material.

Of course, if you are a sailor, and a relative Nobody…then you get prosecuted and sentenced.  He did get significantly less than he could have gotten, but still…… Hillary did worse, and more, and more often. And she skated with no punishment.

One wonders exactly what leverage she has and on whom she has it?

Move along now, folks.

RCMP part of probe into crash involving plane stolen from Toronto-area airport.

Muslim kid steals a plane….doesn’t know how to fly…crashes it trying to land it.

Nah, nothing to see here…