No, no, no,, not kneecapping the design team (or person) that designed the carburetor/gas tank/throttle assembly abortion that was part of the power unit for the leaf vacuum….(Although just for moment, the thought of HIRING someone to do that (I know a dude..) did make me smile…) I mean, seriously, 3 different wrenches and a screwdriver just to take the assembly OFF the motor?  Plus 2 more to break the carb from the gas tank?

Nope, I’m referring to the thought that I could (and maybe should?) replace the thing…I mean, it is over 25 years old (I’ve had it for 22 and it was ancient and sorta “well used” when I acquired it at an auction…) and I have the scratch to buy a new, even more powerful one…. I mean, I thought about it really hard….

But then I came to my senses and just found some shirt cardboard and simply made the gasket that had deteriorated and replaced it instead.. I should be good for another couple of years, really.

Now, after cleaning the varnish out of the carb (hey, I was 7/8 of the way there already, so finishing the teardown wasn’t too much work, and they are fairly simple) and sealing up the air leak with the new gasket, it runs like the proverbial….ape.

I’m not sure what came over me…buying something new? Not fixing something? Jesus…
I must be getting old. …or lazy. 

All those folks in the “Migrant Caravan” that are travelling though Mexico to the US in search of “Asylum”….

Why can’t Mexico grant ’em Asylum? 

your home is not secure. It never was.

This device, however,  is quieter than a hammer or a battering ram….(If a bunch of cops in Riot Gear can be quiet, that is)…..

Kind of a nice idea, and no doubt an expensive toy for taxpayers to by for those suburban SWAT teams to have to play with on their overtime training….

At best, this makes the entry quieter for the first second or two though. Once the door begins to splinter, your stealth goes in the crapper kinda fast.
Plus this takes 2 men to operate, rather than one husky dude with a sledgehammer or a battering ram.

Like many things marketed to cops and police agencies, this is an expensive solution looking for a problem.

Seems that Stephanie Clifford, the Porn Star  known as Stormy Daniels is once again taking the fight to Trump in a (how else?) sleazy and underhanded way..Who, exactly,  is paying her bills these days? Allegedly, it is G. Soros. I can’t be sure one way or another.
And who is pay ing her attorney?

Somehow, again, she found the money to file yet another lawsuit against Trump, this time for “Defamation” because he dismissed her (unproven and unprovable) claim that some dude “Threatened her”  in 2011 to keep quiet about he (alleged) affair with TheDonald…

Remember, sex between two people is nobody business (if you are a Democrat….). 

And they don’t like it.

“”Now that our journey is ending, we demand that our rights as refugees, migrants and human beings be respected,” the group said in a statement.”

Fuck’em. They have no rights to be taken in as Refugees, nor migrants, and, until they are on our side of the border, the US has no reason to force anyone to recognize their Human Rights….

I might be sympathetic if any of the counties that they travelled through were willing to help them, or if they were willing to try to stay in, perhaps, Mexico. ……But no, they want to come to the land of Free Shit.

And they think they have the right to DEMAND anything?

Don’t let the border hit you on the ass when you turn back south. 

And I’m not jewish, despite my last name.

Via ElmTree Forge:

“Alright, so it’s 2039.  Enough Social Justice Warriors get elected and stack the Supreme Court.  The decide that the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to the Jews because… Israel.  Now American Jews have to be exterminated for justice for Palestine.  The concentration camps are being fenced in, the gas chambers are being built, and college kids are tweeting selfies of themselves standing next to containers of hydrogen cyanide with the hashtags #DeathToTheJews and #JustiveForPalestine.  What the fuck do you do.?”

Yeah, I never understood how a people, as a whole (mostly) can be so against firearms in private hands, seeing as how fairly recent history shows what happens when the people cannot fight back…

Think what could have happened if every third jewish home in Germany in 1939 had had a single rifle and 30 rounds of ammo?

Look at what happened in Warsaw….

She decked him. Smacked him right in the face.

That’s how you handle it. Don’t retreat to your safe space…don’t complain about it to your girlfriends hours later….Don’t sit in the shower and cry about the “Patriarchy”.

And don’t bottle it up for 25 years until you have a chance to use your sisterhood to destroy someone….and in doing so give him the chance to do the same to countless other women…

Deck the bastard. Shout loudly. Make it clear that you disapprove and that you have been assaulted. Stand up and make sure it stops. Be a BIG GIRL.

Kick him in the balls, if that is what it takes. Stand up for yourself.

Otherwise you are part of the problem. 

So what if I take a baby, leave him and fail to feed him and let him die…..Am I guilty of murder?

Manslaughter?

Depraved indifference?

That is, after all, what the British National Institute of Health did to Alfie Evans. 
They, after deciding he was too costly to try to keep alive, took him off of life support.

He kept breathing on his own.

So they got the courts to order that he not have food or water.

He died.

Now, from a pure dollars and cents perspective, this was the right thing.

That money could have gone to pay for many other things.

And little Alfie was’t gonna ever get better. I think we all understand that.

But the British Medical folks failed him. And the Italians offered to take him in and care for him….at no cost…

The British courts, instead said he had to die. And they made it happen. And his parents were helpless to stop it. Because the State’s servants had force, and were many, and the family had none, and were few.

Things like this are why we need our Second Amendment. The minions and servants of the State would not have prevented MY child from being moved to a place where he could have gotten care, even if it were simply supportive….if that was the future I chose for the child. Simply trying to stop the transport of a child to where he could get care would be grounds for injury or death. “Just Following Orders” doesn’t cut it. I don’t care how many folks were injured or shot in the attempt to stop me, the kid would get to where he could get care.

It is possible that letting Alfie Evans die was the most humane treatment. If so, the State should have euthanized him, not starved him to death. And, really, shouldn’t that be the decision of his parents, not some faceless Bureaucrat?