Or Happy Hanukah
Or Solstice
Or whatever your midwinter holiday is in your family and culture.
Enjoy the season and the day with friends or family.
Raise a glass to those standing watch in lands far away……away from their family and friends. And those standing guard here at home…Cops, Firemen and EMT’s who aren’t with their families today to protect you and yours.
And, above all, remember the Reason for the Season.
Read this.…Especially if you are a democrat.
And there is a lesson here is you are a republican too.
In fact, if you are an east or wet coast politician, then you should pay attention. Understand why both sets of folks in “Flyover Country” don’t like your candidates.
I gotta go buy a 9/16 impact socket.
On the day before Christmas.
I’d sooner gouge my nads off with a spoon.
I hate crowds of people. Pushing, shoving rude Christmas shoppers are an order of magnitude worse.
So the fiberglass rope gasket on my woodstove came free last night from where I had glued it to the door. This is a really really Bad Thing, as without the gasket there is no way to control the air going to the fire….with the predictable results.
Yes, the house gets too hot and the stove glows like a crucible fresh out of kiln.
So I go to the auto parts store today for a tube of hi-temp silicone as a temporary fix. (the real fix entails peeling the rest of the gasket off, possibly damaging it and then chiseling.grinding the remaining cement off and then redoing the gasket and waiting 3 days for the cement to dry.) and ask ’em where the hi temp Permatex is?
“We got 3 kinds of hi temp silicone, what do you need it for?” dude says, trying to be helpful.
(I need the copper Permatex, as that is good for like 700F)
“Got a high speed muffler bearing that’s leaking.” I reply. The girl behind the counter is looking at me with wide eyes…
“Leaking from the front or the back?” he deadpanned
She looks suspicious, but as he replied so quickly, she’s not sure if this is bullshit or not…..
“Leaking from both ends, but more the front than the back” I answer…
She blinks hard and looks at him, eyes wider yet.
“Use the black Permatex” he says.
Then I smiled and asked for the Copper stuff.
I explained that I was fixing a seal on a woodstove and I needed the highest temp possible.
Young lady looks much more relaxed as she realizes that the back and forth was the bullshit that she thought it was, but wasn’t sure until now….
Via Wirecutter:
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Maybe now that we have an Alpha Male in the big seat again…..
If you made this movie today, there’d be about 200 groups of people that would scream because they were “offended”.
You fat bastard?
I mean, c’mon, alGore, it is supposed to be -12 F tonight. Normal low is like, 24F…..Plus 24 F, that is.
Luckily I am burning wood in a non-catalytic woodstove and the indoor temp is +73F.
I just hope the outdoor cat, Harold, is OK. He won’t come into the garage to be safe. But he’s like that. He’ll likely show up tomorrow afternoon looking for food.
and:
So Facebook is gonna crack down on “Fake News”
(No, this isn’t “Fake News” Seriously. )
Using, among others, Snopes and ABC News and AP as sources to verify and/or vet the suspect stories.
‘Cause we know the Media always get things right…
Right?
(and notice that the overreaction was….extreme)….3 cop cars? “Hustle the child from the room”? .
Now go “Hug your puppy”.
An Oceanside couple expecting a United Parcel Service delivery of a toy plane instead got a surprise — a package containing an assault rifle.
Joel Berman said he opened the keyboard-sized case Wednesday night in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, wondering how it could be the Kohl’s toy, meant for the son of a friend.
An Oceanside couple expecting a United Parcel Service delivery of a toy plane instead got a surprise — a package containing an assault rifle.
Joel Berman said he opened the keyboard-sized case Wednesday night in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, wondering how it could be the Kohl’s toy, meant for the son of a friend.
“Her mouth popped open,” said Berman, 66. “It definitely was not a toy gun. . . . We had to explain to her Santa delivered the wrong thing.”
Cradled in foam was a semi-automatic rifle with a sophisticated scope, a stand, an ammo clip and a copy of an Arizona man’s driver’s license and his concealed-weapons permit, Berman said.
The UPS label, which had Kohl’s in Ohio as the sender, had been pasted over another UPS label from the Arizona resident to a gunsmith in upstate Woodbourne.
“I have a receipt from the UPS driver showing . . . 3.4 pounds as the weight of the package, but it was 51 pounds,” Joel Berman, a trade-magazine publisher, said. “It’s funny, but at the same time, it’s sad.
“This could have been delivered to a home that had either someone with ill intentions who would have loved to have something like this. Or it could have been delivered to a home with kids.”
They shuffled their granddaughter to another room and she immediately hugged her new puppy, Berman said.
The couple called 911 — the operator told him “Oh my God” — and three patrol cars arrived within minutes.
Nassau police said they will get the rifle to the upstate gunsmith.
Read the rest at the link.
Note: I don’t think this was what people think of when we say an “Assault Rifle”…. more likely a “Sniper Rifle”…..looks like a Barrett to me.
I’d a just kept my mouth shut and waited to see if anyone asked…..