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Harvey found a oscillating fan to replace the dying Lasko on the back porch for half-off at $10.
While it wasn't the sturdiest design, it would have served just fine.
Until I broke it trying to adjust the height.
I didn't have the collet unscrewed far enough to let the shaft slide freely and should not have forced it.
Well, we now have a $32 Lasko fan...
I would say that I don't care how much enjoyment the thief gets from my stolen property, but that's not true.
I do care.
I want them to be utterly miserable from their theft.
Far more unhappy than I am about the loss.
I want them to contract a slow moving, incurable, untreatable, painful disease that also, perversely, prolongs their life.
I want them to experience this in a poorly run prison, where their cellmate considers their affliction a kink.
For Fuck's Sake!
Where does the idea that someone who steals from you being happy about stealing being a good thing come from?
Perhaps the idiots who think this way should be treated more harshly than thieves.
The thief's depredations are far more limited in scope than the idiot depicted in the comic. That idiot will go out to vote, get laws changed and make it impossible to punish thieves.
Shitheads like this think, "property can be replaced, so it's wrong to kill thieves," and, "your property isn't worth more than their life!"
I shouldn't be surprised to find that's a close quote to something Che Gueverra said, "The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on Earth."
That's wrong-think.
The proper attitude is, "nothing here is worth getting killed over."
It's not me deciding that my property is worth more than their life, it's them deciding that their life is worth less than my property.
It's illegal for me to act morally on this.
While I enjoy a good conspiracy theory, I don't indulge in them.
I also don't much tolerate the theorists either.
I will smile politely while they spew, occasionally grunting or nodding, but mostly I'm waiting for them to run down and talk to someone else for a while.
It has been so for me since I discovered Occam's Razor.
So, using the barometer of "the simplest explanation that fits all of the known facts is likely the truth."
The holocaust happened.
Lee Harvey Oswald, working alone, shot and killed president Kennedy.
The United States, in six separate missions, landed 12 men on the moon and returned them safely to earth.
The white cloud behind an airplane at high altitude is just the water vapor from the exhaust freezing.
All helicopters are black under the paint.
Every train full of armored vehicles is on a rail line that leads to or from a depot or training center.
Not every time US and Israeli interests align means that Israel controls Washington DC.
It's almost never "The Jews." Antisemitic conspiracy theories have their own section in many lists. I've covered USS Liberty before.
Near as I can tell, enthusiasts for such theories don't read history or pay much attention to politics.
If requiring voter ID is Jim Crow 2.0, then why do Democrats oppose it?
They're the authors of OG Jim Crow, after all.
Got this message on Facebook:
This is a gun range.
No open carry.
Blink blink blink
Sooner or later, a gun range has to trust you with a loaded firearm that is not concealed.
But I am fed the fuck up with gun shops, shows and ranges who don't seem to trust anyone with a gun that's not sanctified with a badge while they simultaneously pander for your money to sell guns, ammunition and
HOLSTERS THAT ARE FOR OPEN CARRY!
For fucks sake.
Take the sights and charging handle off your M1919A4 and put a cable-pull charger on it and it becomes an M37.
Do the same to an M2HB and it becomes an M48.
At one time small changes totally changed the designation system.
Take an M240, ditch the pull-cable, add sights, pistol grip, bipod and normal charging handle; it becomes an M240G. Why not M240A1? Why does changing the bipod and flash hider and changing the muzzle device make it an M240B and not M240A2?
WHY?
Dunno.
Used to be an M4 was a 14.5", flat-top with a 3-round burst. The M4A1 was the same with full-auto.
There used to be a heavier barrel that SOCOM used in their M4A1's... But that didn't change the designation at all.
Now that heavier barrel is standard and... It's an M4A1.
Then there's M16A3. It used to be an M16A2 that exchanged the 3-round burst for full auto.
The M16A4 was an M16A2 with a flat-top.
Now the M16A3 is an M16A4 with full auto.
So the M16A3 is both an A2 carry handle version AND a flat-top version with full-auto.
Shouldn't an M16A4 with full auto be an M16A5?
I've heard that it's because the parts are interchangeable and configuration can be changed readily.
Then explain why the parts swappable M17 and M18 pistols have different designations!
They're actively not using any system for designating the guns. It will bite them someday.
There's a faction of people who are wanting others to stop discriminating against them for their "immutable characteristics," but are more than happy to condemn "cisgender white men."
You know, discriminating against straight white guy's for their immutable characteristics.
I guess the best thing about being a liberal is getting twice as many standards as everyone else.
Considering how antisemitic the left is, I kinda wonder if the whole thing about Sidney Sweeny and jeans is because Levi Strauss was Jewish.
They've been more retarded about less, so it's actually possible.
I was in a rage.
I'd been driven away from having fun at a local brewery by a family that doesn't manage basic hygiene or do much of anything to keep the three kids from running wild while they drink.
Two days in a row.
So I did what any idiot would do and vented to Facebook. Smart people don't do this.
One of the owners thought I was referring to them and not the family.
So I deleted the post and sent a PM apologizing.
Then I unfriended everyone I'd ever met through that business.
You know, like any idiot would. Again, smart people don't do this.
To my shock (because idiot), this did not make anything better.
I am accustomed to people never noticing that I've unfriended them on Facebook. There's people from 2009 who still have not said anything.
I've gotten it, mostly, sorted out with the owners. Her and her husband are even refriended.
One of the beeristas, though, went off at length to a mutual friend and...
Well, I'm embarrassed by the situation I've made and not quite brave enough to actively apologize. I made a weak attempt that Marv didn't even notice (and that I think got a cold shoulder). All he saw was me trying to be small so as to not rub her nose in having to serve a prick like me.
So I'm going to try avoiding that employee until she says to a third party that she's done being actively angry or the heat death of the universe.
On the plus side, I'm gonna save money not going out for beer much any more.
There's a level of education and skills called a, "registered nurse," or RN.
There are jobs that require that level of education and skill.
There are also jobs that require that level of education, but not that level of skill. These jobs can be performed by people with much lower levels of education, but have been banned from this job by the license and credential requirements.
Thus, a CNA trained person was able to perform a RN required job successfully enough to earn a promotion because the skills needed for the job were obtained through the education and training a CNA gets. This was illegal because you need an RN to get the job and they lied about their qualifications.
Do you fuckwits understand now?
I know what an RN does.
I know there's lots of jobs in medicine that don't require an RN to DO the job, but do require an RN to GET the job.
If you think that license requirement means that lower levels of education cannot do the job you're the ignorant fools, not I. To listen to some of you, no lives have ever been saved by an uncredentialed bystander who knew how to do first aid.
It's not a difficult concept.
Citing jobs and tasks that actually require the full set of RN skills does not refute my point at all.
They way you're citing it, though, convinces me more and more that the medical profession is not particularly well educated and is primarily concerned with gatekeeping rather than treating patients.
Plus your comments have been refuted by people I know in meatspace who are definitely credentialed as RN's, vs your imaginary existence and claims in the comments on a blog.
And with this, the Aesop Flying Monkey Entertainment Network is signing off.
Regular programming will resume.
The captain of the boat was arrested for boating under the influence.
HOW GORRAM'D DRUNK YOU GOTTA BE TO HIT A PARKED AIRCRAFT CARRIER?
Especially one that doesn't leave it's parking place.
Mark Barden, the father of a victim of the Sandy Hook massacre, keeps trying to convince me that my guns had something to do with the murder of his child.
But I didn't.
I was nowhere near the shooting.
You can probably tell because I think I would have been moved to assault the school and shoot the rat fuck who was murdering children.
UNLIKE THE WORTHLESS POLICE.
But, Mark, let's go through this again.
With the lack of police response, you need to change to a Civil War muzzle loader before you can't maintain the rate of fire to account for all the shots fired.
The cops gave him 20 minutes to do his deed, but it's ME, 1,300 miles away, who's responsible because I own a gun (or two) that look like the gun the murderer used.
No, Mark.
No.
The more you interrupt what I'm trying to watch on YouTube the less I care about your loss.
I'm to the point of saying, "GOOD!" when I stab the "skip" button when it appears right as you say, "My son Daniel was murdered..."
You're not going to irritate me into supporting your position.
This is almost getting to be an annual post.
I posted that list of things I needed to do to get the evaporator out of The Beast to a Facebook group dedicated to the car, let me say that again A GROUP THAT'S SOLE PURPOSE IS TO TALK ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR MAKE AND MODEL CAR!
The only two comments were, "what was I talking about?" and after I explained that, "What book are you referring to?"
The comment here, "Why do you need to take off the windshield wipers?"
The comment on the blog, where nobody is expected to be a car person or know fuck all about the Holden WM Caprice is a more intelligent question than people on a dedicated car group!
For. Fuck's. Sake.
I am really expecting someone to ask, "When I remove this nut, what direction do I turn it?"
The utility of the specialized groups is almost non-existent any more.
Primarily it's people selling stuff. I'm about the only person trying to document what I'm doing with my car.
I am sure he's a nice guy, but I'm fucking over him.
When he accused all us American veterans of being brainwashed all y'all said, "well, he's Russian..." as if that actually explained something.
Well, I've been reading his thoughts on Facebook about economics and I can definitively say that he's an excellent photographer.
But, hey! He's Russian! I guess it's fine they're not only economically illiterate, but repeating stuff that's just not true because it makes a good TDS soundbite.
PS: He's been here long enough that he'd better stop being Russian and start being American. Just sayin'.
PPS: If you say that he IS an American, then you cannot use the "but he's Russian" as a defense of his slandering anyone. A uneducated foreigner gets some slack, but he should know better by now. It's not that hard to say, "I'm sorry," but all y'all defended him so he didn't have to either apologize or learn.
I've given up on another webcomic.
The author just couldn't not keep their political opinion to themselves.
I'm willing to read stuff by authors I disagree with, but this time they bloviated on how happy they were that they changed a character to no longer be a cop.
The reason for the thrill was that they wouldn't have to show in their comic that not all cops are bastards.
That would have been unthinkable!
You see cops are the symbol of a government that oppresses us all. Minorities the most.
I don't think this fuck would know oppression if it threw him off a rooftop. He moved to Canada for Christ's sake!
Realizing that I had not yet purchased the annual eggnog and we didn't have Christmas morning simmanin rolls, I trekked to the store.
I stopped and got gas at the station across the street from the grocery and got to listen to the preacher on a speaker on the corner.
Santa.
Is.
A.
Lie!
Great message for the impending day of your God's big day.
But Santa is part of Christian mythology. He's derived from St Nicholas. He's the embodiment of Christian charity.
But he's a lie.
The preacher also told me that when presented a choice between right and wrong, I always choose the wrong.
Setting up my rifle and popping his, insulting and offensive, loud mouth in the forehead is wrong.
I chose to do the right thing! I "shall not killed" my ass off today!
Who's wrong now, Bitch!
PS: I probably shouldn't be associating these loud mouths with normal Christians, there's prolly only a tangential relationship to mainstream Christian theology.
The stickers on the packages of meat are amusing, but...
That steak did not come from a cow named "Bella".
If that steer had a name at all, it was the number on their ear-tag.
But even that's irrelevant!
There are certainly steaks out there from cows with names.
My sister's 4H project was such a beast. That bovine had a name, though I cannot recall it, and its destiny was to be processed into tasty hunks.
Whether she got a prize was based on the auction price of the steer and the quality of the meat from the slaughtering shortly following the auction.
There was no misconception about the destiny of the animal.
The same for the turkey I raised.
Ogie had a date with the Thanksgiving dinner table and my giving him a name didn't change that.
These critters are NOT pets!
I don't see a lot of PETA people with farm animals as pets, to be honest.
That cow was sold at auction, why didn't you go save Bella? They don't care what you do with it after you buy it. They assume you're going to be making beef, but you could have yourself a 1,500 lb. lap cow.
I watched this so you don't have to.
He shows you the "reverse Hi-Power" method of taking a 1911 apart, but never once explains why you should deviate from the Holy text of John Moses Browning (PBUH).
The proper, or GI, method of taking one apart relieves the recoil spring so you're not fighting it all the time.
The why, that he never mentions, is belled muzzles and extra tight barrel bushings. He thinks he explained it by showing how tight his was, but he didn't explain.
In my mind fighting the spring once is the way to go and moving the slide slightly to the rear to disengage the bushing and barrel from their fitted positions and then rotating the bushing is better.
Wait until you lock up the barrel link in the dust cover trying to put it back together his way and you'll see what I mean. Assuming you could get the gun back apart to try again.
I went looking for GURPS 5e rumors and encountered several links to this from just before election day.
Steve.
Remember when you got raided by the Secret Service? I recall you being displeased by that.
What you are advocating for is a more powerful Secret Service and a weaker court to extricate you from your alleged criminal activities.
Yes you are.
I'm posting his tirade below in case he decides to memory hole it:
The sharp eyed might notice that I changed the font at the top of the page and the post titles.
I'm whimsical that way.
Every time I make a font choice I am reminded of a couple of acquaintances who were VERY judgemental about fonts.
Papyrus and Comic Sans drove them absolutely insane for no reason that I could ever discern. But I think those people were hipsters and secretly wanted to use them, but they were popular and therefore beyond the pale.
Can't do anything that everyone else does... unless it's toe the liberal line in a college town.
Ever notice that about hipsters? They're joiners, but they're hypocrites about it.
