People think it is worse…and it is. But:

Not all you might think

As I thought, it is the customers that make things more difficult than they did 10 years ago.

Seems that the Police in Durham NC have found an easy way to come up with a pretext to search a home even when there is no legal justification for said search…..

Now, if the police can lie and get away with it in a case like this, (enough that the Chief of Police has issued a memo saying that it should stop immediately) then can we ever use their testimony in court? Any policeman? I mean, really, since there is no negative consequences to them, and they are, apparently not willing to clean their own house, I would take any testimony that any Durham policeman gave as a lie…..

“We have blithering idiots running the country”.

You may be right.

However, I think it is part of a plan to damage the US…more and more, like ants eating a healthy tree.

Eventually, it falls.

HT: Outrider

Went to the fun show Saturday.

Lots and lots of vendors had lots of guns.

Prices were high. Mostly overpriced.

Ammo of nearly all kinds available.

Prices were high……Cheaper online, even with shipping

All the vendors were complaining no one wanted to buy anything.

Simply go to a Lowes home improvement store.

The signs are all in Spanish and English.

I mean, I have no issue with people coming to this country (legally) and wanting a better life. I have no issues that they retain and honor the culture from which they came.

But for god’s sake, after you choose to live here, learn the native language.

I have known many immigrants, Polish, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Indonesian, Russians…….they all chose to learn english. . I worked for an Italian immigrant when I was in high school, washing dishes in his pizza restaurant. While his english wasn’t good, HE SPOKE ENGLISH.  He learned to speak the language of his native country. I do business with a guy who is a motor repairman. He is German (Very Cherman) Yet he speaks english, because HE LIVES HERE AND IT IS HIS COUNTRY.

Not so, these new people. They speak only spanish, and there are enough of them that places like the Banks and now Lowes are catering to them, with Spanish language signage and even spanish language clerks.

I foresee a day, however, when this will backfire upon these businesses. People are getting tired of the pandering to those who are invaders, not citizens. 
I predict there will come a day when those businesses who pander to these invaders will be burned and their property trashed, Where they will be afraid to show spanish language signage.And I will support such actions.

Who loses most from amnesty?

One group is African Americans. (For the folks who are slow,  that would be the ones who are darker than the brown people).

The DNC is willing to toss them under the bus, now that they don’t need their vote.

Watching the news this morning, I see that the media is still condemning Israel for targeting sites in Gaza that shoot missiles into Israel.

Oddly enough, when these missiles are shot from areas where there are civilians (which is nearly always), then the return fire damages the civilians homes.Sometimes the Israeli airstrikes hurt other people as well.

No one points out that:

 1. History shows being anywhere near the area where Hamas is shooting missiles is bad for your health…the smart person leaves home when Hamas shows up and begins setting up their missile tubes.

2. Israeli civilians are targeted by Hamas missiles.

3. Strangely, Israel doesn’t shoot or bomb into Gaza when there isn’t anyone shooting at Israel.

Instead, the reporters, generally female and with a quasi British accent, mournfully (while breathlessly narrating) show the damaged concrete boxes  apartments and injured “Palestinian” children and families….and never blame the folks that start this mess…the Hamas nissileeers.

That since the We Wanna Take Everyone’s Scary Guns Away crowd has more or less given up until the next legislative group comes in at the end of 2014, that the number of mass shootings by heavily drugged psychotic individuals has dropped to …well…..zero? No more Adam Lanzas with a long history of mental illness and drug treatment or James Holmes and Jared Laughners that had serious mental illness but somehow were unreported and allowed to purchase firearms and go on a rampage.

Odd that, isn’t it??

Now I’m not one for tinfoil helmets (shiny side out please) and I hate to think that there would be a group that wants to disarm us so bad that they would sacrifice innocent people and children  and a US Senator just to make their agenda move forward but..…Hell Yes I think that.  Since the gun control legislation went down in flames, there hasn’t been a mass shooting of any note. And those who have tried to commit such atrocities since then were, strangely, not long term users of psychotropic drugs.

Odd that, Innit?

So about 12+ years ago I purchased a GPI
fuel transfer pump. I have several diesel vehicles and I needed a pump
to transfer stored diesel to the appropriate vehicles. I generally buy
diesel from the stations when the price is down (I might buy 150 gallons
at a time if the price drops far enough) and store it for when the
price jumps or when I just need to fuel the tractor or generator or
whatever.

Now, this fuel pump has worked well for me
for several years. It replaced a hand powered pump because I just got too
lazy to pump 20 gallons or so of diesel by hand (do you know how many
strokes of a hand pump that is?) I’d bet that this pump has moved in
excess of 5 thousand gallons, both into and out of the fuel tanks.

Sadly,
earlier this year, the pump no longer moved fuel. The electric motor
would run but no movement of fuel. For a while,I was using a different
pump I had because I was too busy to take the broken pump down and open
it up to see what was wrong.

I got an exploded parts
breakdown off the website and took the time to observe the pump and
determine what parts I needed. When I called GPI to see where I could
buy the parts, the conversation went like this:

“Hi, I need to order a gear and key set for a 150S pump. “

“Ok”.

“and a gasket kit for the gear plate.”

“Ok”

“And any other parts you think I need”

“Does the pump prime?”

“No”

“then I’ll send you a poppet valve kit too….I need your address”

“123 XXXYYY City state”

“Cool, I’ll get those out today”

“How much will that be?”

“I’ll send them to you”

“Yes, I got that, how much and do you take Visa?”

“I’ll send them to you”

“yes, and what are the charges?”

‘I am sending them to you at no charge. “

“Oh, Thank you”

Didn’t
expect that, and the pump is 12+ years old. I doubt that the parts cost
them that much to make, but still, this is well beyond what I expected
as customer service. Hell, I’d have at least expected to have to pay for
postage.

Oh, and BTW… these fuel pumps are MADE IN AMERICA.