Greening Up

It is a beautiful day! People, I'm telling you, if you have never been to the west central gulf coast of Florida this time of year you don't know what you are missing. damn a bunch of Disney and Water Worlds and other tourist rip off places. Take a look at REAL Florida...take a drive through the back country or up to Cedar Key or maybe take a tour through the Homosassa Springs wildlife park..hell, its a boat ride in some of the prettiest swamp and rivers in this country! You'll see ugly but graceful two ton manatees and ugly and awkward alligators and an assortment of birds and mosquitoes and other flying varmits. Besides all that, we dumb ignorant redneck southerners need your yankee tourist dollars.

It was just too nice to stay in the house today. I have been working outside most of the day except for a brief rest and lunch...shrimp gumbo! Sweetthing held the step ladder while I drove some pipe in the ground in the pole bean bed. Later I will attach poultry wire for the beans to climb on.




Yesterday we added some more color to the live oak grove...still have a lot to add. Today I potted 18 caladium bulbs tp plant in and around these beds. And, I still have a lot of caladium yet to come up from last year as well as some elephant ears. We planted sweettthing's Christmas Poinsettia yesterday also...it will grow and be pretty here but will not last the first freeze next winter!



Everything is greening up. I reckon next week I'll put down some pesticide and fertilizer on the grass and see how much I can get to grow. The hard freezes last month may have knocked some of back so bad it will take a while to recover.

Good Morning Blog World

The NY Times still doesn't understand...the government is not the solution...the government is the fucking problem! Our economy has been like a house made of straw for decades...just waiting for the big bad wolf to blow it down. And along comes the democrats two years ago and what happens? Hot air...a lot of it and the house starts to sway and then the public elects the wolf and he blows the house down. It ain't gonna get no better as long as we have the thieves in congress and the White House. My bet is that it is going to get worse...a lot worse.

Heh. Well, what the hell...these sumbitches can't understand the language of Wall Street that is telling them they are fucking up by the numbers...why should we expect them to correctly translate a RUSSIAN word.
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I was down with a screwed up back most of yesterday...arthritis I reckon. If I could force myself to get up and move around I could work through the pain and start to get around okay. But the minute I sat down the damn pain set in. I thought I was going to have to hire a crane to help me get into bed last night. But, I woke up this morning with my normal aches and pains and stiff joints..even the one that counts was stiff...but sweetthing says even old men get a piss hard on once in a while. I reckon so.

The weather quacks allow that it is gonna be another beautiful day. I plan on taking advantage of it to get some more horticulturin' done. I still have a half dozen Silver Thorn Hedge plants in pots that need to go into the ground and need to get about fifty cherry tomato plants that we have up from seed potted and under glass. I was thinking last night...damn...if I could just get those damn dim-a-crits to bring a load of their bull shit to sweetthing's half acre I would never again have to buy fertilizer! But then it would be a lot of work spreading it...and bull shit smells as bad as the pig shit in Iowa they are fretting over.

So, I reckon all things considered life is good on sweetthing's half acre. The tree rats and doves are fat and dumb and dumplings waiting for a time to happen. The victory garden in still growing and the rest of the flora looks pretty good except for the damn grass and it will take a couple of inches of water on it to liven it up.
Yep...the lull before the storm oft times catches the unwary...and even some that are aware of what's brewing. All we can do is try to stay prepared for the worst and hope for the best and there will not be any surprises. Y'all come, heah?

More farmin'

There are now sixty okra seeds in peat moss pots under the glass door waiting to sprout and get planted. I also put the rest of the impatients in the ground or in planters. And now I am done for the day...I know now why the creator gave a wide butt...I do my best work sitting on it...

Friday Horticulturing

With the help of my cane and an extra darvocet I managed to hobble outside this morning. Must be that damn arthritis acting up in my back...the more I moved around the better I felt to the point I got most of the watering done as well as potted some impatients and hung them under the Live Oak grove. It is just too nice of weather to sit inside all day. After I have me a bit of sweet tater and ham I'm gonna go back out and see what I can find to get into...the mail man brought me some pole bean and okra seeds...that I ordered in January and expected in January...and a box of peat moss starter pots. I think I'll get some okra seed started in pots and maybe a head start on a batch of boiled okra and tomatoes.


Look close and you'll see a ripe strawberry..maybe click to enlarge the picture will help.


Bell peppers...supposed to be the sweet red variety when the mature.



Impatients...I like these flowers. They fit my idea of horticulture...low maintenance...just feed them every couple of weeks and give them a drink every day it doesn't rain and they will thrive. They could give a damn whether you talk to them or not...

Hmmm

The climate here on sweetthing's half acre was perfect yesterday afternoon. The air was at 72F and just enough breeze to make it comfortable in overalls and a T-shirt. I had been watering and feeding the flora and was sitting in my easy chair under the Live Oak trees taking a break and admiring my azalea plants when I felt this urge to talk a bit with the creator. Might have been because I had a gotdam back ache that was getting progressively worse....

"Look," I told her, "you are an enigma to the majority of the world. And, for those of us who do have a vague idea about you it doesn't help a gotdam bit. Even though we understand a bit about natures plan...you are born, you live and you die and it starts all over again...we do not have the slightest notion of why you set this circle of life up this way...what are ya trying to prove?"

Well, I know damn well that she heard me because she didn't answer...she is like that most of the time..stuck up bitch that she is...or maybe she is just too busy giving Obama some more ideas to fuck us all with.

I sat there in that chair watching a tree rat eat an acorn and another digging around some Coleus that I had put in just yesterday...I can never figure why the treerats do that.... I threw a piece of pine bark at it but I know he will be back.
Anyway I had this strange thought come to me out of no where..."Its for me to know and you ain't never gonna find out."

"Ma Nature," I told her, "at times you be one cruel bitch of a mistress."

I think I am gonna shoot that damn treerat.

Works For me

My friend George T. e-mailed me this exercise routine that I might just have to try...looks like something that I can do and eventual work up to a real strength building routine! I bet is designed for old people such as me.


Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax. Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.

After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 25-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 50-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.

Heh

Heh, may be too little too late but at least the GOP is sticking together and listening to the voters....most of whom find that the gotdam spending bill smells worse than the pig shit in Iowa. Congress still makes me feel like puking.

Morning' Y'all

Looks like the majority of venture capitalists must have decided to take a powder and just let the economy collapse. Russell Napier, a consultant at Credit Lyonnais says:

“Ninety-nine percent of the people I talk to are pessimistic,” Mr. Napier said. “Everyone is sitting back and waiting for one more big implosion.”

Yeah, NO SHIT SHERLOCK! I reckon most are pessimistic. It just doesn't make much sense to invest money when you know that the government is raising taxes on your profits but could give a fuck about your losses.

The next step that socialists have historically taken is to try to force investments by threats to confiscate capital if it is not invested. Then that is followed by nationalization of business. Seems though that Obama is jumping over the threat to confiscate (well, maybe not..after all his ideas of taxes are in fact confiscation if not down right extortion) and proceeding directly to nationalization.

"Well, hell, GUYK," you say, "maybe nationalization is not so bad."

Yeah, right. The next time you get someone else's mail in your post office box think about this...under nationalized health care you could be getting someone else's medicine shot into you butt! The most efficient part of the government is the military and having been there I can tell you that because of government rules and regulations...the red tape and catch 22's...the military would go completely broke if it had to operate under the same conditions as a business.

Can you imagine an automobile built under the direction of a fucking government agency...training wheels and just one door for safety reasons and no doubt we will be required to wear helmets.

One of the reasons that so may businesses are closing or else going more and more off shore are government regulations and calls for more of the same to 'protect labor'. Oh, yeah, these laws sound good....and when times are good you, the consumer, don't mind paying for them. But let me explain something people, labor is a fucking commodity...yeah...you and I are commodities. When the demand for labor is high we can demand and get more money but when the demand for us is low we are just fortunate to have and hold on to our jobs. Any and every law that protects labor cost business extra money for that labor and business is in business to earn a profit on OUR labor. Consequently the government dictated cost of labor is passed on to US at the cash register.

Any law that restricts the ability for business to hire and fire as labor demand dictates adds to the cost of doing business. Odorous acts such as the requirement to give sixty days notification before shutting down a business is inane and just asking such companies to take protection under bankruptcy laws...and do you know who gets paid last by a bankruptcy court? Yeah, labor.
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Am I on a rant this morning or what! Well, fuck it. It ain't one of my better mornings even though the weather outside is some of that kind that used to bring tourists to Florida...back in the days before Obama and people were not afraid to spend a few bucks. I woke up yesterday with a damn back ache and it has gotten worse over the past hours. Darvocets make it bearable but I am not in a real good mood...which now adays I seldom am anyway. Sweetthing has had a migraine headache for the past three days and when she has the headaches I do tread lightly...but with this damn bad back I don't hardly tread at all...except to pour my own jumpstart and fumble for my pills.

I am hoping to get darvoceted up enough to work a bit outside later on this morning. I hate to waste such a nice day. But if not I reckon I can rant and rave here instead of at the treerats. Y'all come, heah. The jumpstart is strong and hot but you'll have to pour it yourself. My back hurts.

What Will It Take?

How much more of this can the nation stand? And how much more of it will the nation stand for? What will it take for the public to understand the Obama is in the process of bankrupting the country? Maybe when the food subsidies get cut and the utility company cuts off the electricity in the projects the ones who elected him will realize that they voted for an articulate black man who is all hat with no horse. GOTDAM! This sumbitch is starting to make Bill Clinton look good! Yeah, it's the economy, stupid!

WOW !!

I have an idea that most if not all of us that write a blog sometimes wonder if it is all worth the effort. Some days the idea comes and the words seem to write themselves, huh? And then other days it seems too damn much like work...especially a day or so after you put in some research and time to get a post to read just right...and not one gotdam comment.

But then along comes someone who appreciates what you are trying to do and you find that she/he has thought enough about your efforts to give you an award. No, no money, no picture in the local paper or a 15 seconds of fame on Fox News...but an award that means something...an award that tells you that someone appreciates you.

Now if it had been anyone of several blogwhores who honored me with such an award and a link I would have been skeptical...but this fantastic Mommy blogger doesn't even need a link from me to generate traffic...she gets plenty all on her own. Thanks my friend, you have made my day.

NUTZ!

I ask you my friends..and hell, even you that stumble on to this bit of shit and wit, do YOU rally think that the American Health Care system is a threat to our economy? I think that you and I know who and what is the biggest threat to our economy...The Emperor Obama and his socialist minions who are dead set breaking the producers and redistributing income until we all are equally poor and living in government housing.

Government controlled health care may sound good to you..but consider this...when the government pays the government can choose who, when, and where you will be treated. Do you smoke? The government could decide that since you smoke that your health problems are your fault and put you at the bottom of the priority list for health care. Overweight? Same thing. White Angelo Saxon Male? You might be in deep shit! All the problems of this earth are being blamed on us...and I say us..hell, I am part Choctaw! You did it to me white man.

I may be wrong but I kinda figure the big corporations, especially those who are damn near controlled by the unions, are pushing for government run health care. If the health care burden was spread to ALL the taxpayers it would save the big corporations a bundle, huh? But let me tell you something that PISSES off the left wing...the majority of those who do not have health coverage could have it if they were willing to pay for it!

Yeah, these people have decided that a new SUV or a bigger home than they really need has priority over health insurance..and what the hell...they know that if they REALLY get sick they can go to the emergency room for treatment.

You want to solve the problem? Maybe some tough love...stop treating those in the emergency room unless they have insurance or can pay up front....at least pay a part up front. Cold heart? Maybe...but life is not fair..never was meant to be fair and those who can afford health care but choose to buy that new car or home instead of health insurance are gambling that soft headed taxpayers will take care of them...I say if they gamble with their health they should accept the consequences..live or die with the results of their decision.

Good Morning Blog World

WTF? Let me see if I have this right. Joe Blow tries to keep up with the Jones and buys a house he can just barely afford to make payments on. He figures that the economy will continue to be all roses and gold and he will get pay raises that will more than cover the short fall. If he can get this place and just hang on to it all will be well in a few years right? What the hell...it worked for many over the years so why not do it? I have no problem with that decision. It means taking a chance and damn near everything we do is taking a chance. But, if one loses then one is supposed to accept the responsibility for taking that chance!

Yeah, I do have sympathy for some that didn't really take a chance...they bought a home they could well afford with a conventional mortgage and 20 percent down. Now they are out of a job and their home is about to belong to the bank sure enough. But, is it the government's duty to bail these people out? I don't think so.

Where does it end? Will the government decide that a gambler who loses a fortune at the Vegas crap tables should be bailed out of debt by the taxpayers? No? Why not? People, all business transactions are a gamble and buying a house is a business transaction. The lender is gambling that you will pay as promised and the buyer is gambling that he/she will be able to pay as promised. 90 percent of the time it is a safe bet. But, as the old bumper sticker read: SHIT HAPPENS! And when government becomes involved more shit happens and it stinks!

On a personal note...sweetthing's half acre appreciated by some 40 percent in just three years after I bought it. Two years ago I took the equity out of it and refinanced it for thirty years...at payments I can well afford. I figured that the equity was not making me a thin dime...and I was right. I am now one of those people who owe about thirty percent more on my home than what it is worth. But here's the deal...I could not lease it from someone else for what I am paying on it and we have to have a place to live somewhere. And in the meantime I have that equity in cash. And as the old adage goes...cash talks and bullshit walks. I have no regrets about doing it! If this economy goes completely bust no one will be able to make house payments anyway and my dollar conversion from green to lead will be seen as a smart move.

Oh, and I ain't asking the Feds for a gotdam thing except to keep sending me my retirement checks. I'll break even on socialable security in just four more years and the USAF retirement check I figure I earned..hell maybe by having it saved a nickle an ass chewing and a dime for every hair I lost off my head.
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GM may take bankruptcy! About gotdam time. They should have done this before they took billions of taxpayer dollars. A bandage will not stop the bleeding...it takes pressure on the wound to get the blood to congeal. And that is what GM has to do to stop the bleeding...put pressure on the UAW and the best way to put pressure on the UAW is to BUST it. Seeking protection under Chapter 11 might just do this. hell, if they survive I might consider buying a new GM pickup...but if they continue to roll over for the UAW I will buy a rice burner.
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I am an overt supporter of Israel. And I have made no secret of the fact that I think Hilary Clinton is a two faced witch who was in over her head as a senator and that I think that as a Secretary of State she more resembles Monica...she is on her knees to the damn ragheads...and she SUCKS!

Hillary acts like she is surprised about Iran supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and pushing the ragheads to attack Israel. Heh, where the fuck has she been for the past thirty years? And I will tell you something else...it ain't got a gotdam thing to do with Israel or the ragheads...Iran will support whoever they think the USA is against. My bet is that if America pulled its support for Israel and threw it to the ragheads the fucking Iranians would be offering Israel money and bombs.

The big question now is whether or not Israel will allow the mad mullahs in Iran to develop the nukes. The mad mullahs are just that...mad..not angry mad but fucking crazy mad. Or maybe rabid mad...and when I see a mad dawg I kill it. And that might be the best solution for Iran...just kill the sumbitches while we can.

Hillary is a gotdam hypocrit..for example she bemoans that Israel is tearing down raghead houses in East Jerusalem...houses that were built illegally. I betcha she would be advocating tearing down illegally built homes in the USA! See, that is what the socialists do...they want control over who builds what, when, where, and what kind...unless of course it is a fucking raghead doing the building in Israel and then it is all different...fuck her...no wait. I wouldn't fuck her with your tool...and I am too proud of mine to take a chance.
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I don't have a dawg in this fight. No longer have a blue water boat so I don't fish for red snapper. But I will say this...I reckon that the majority of such fishing regulations have more to do with satisfying politicians than they do with conserving the fisheries. And, the left wing now in power does cater to the enviro-nuts. By the way, did you hear about the blond who went fishing with these two guys? They didn't catch anything but she came back with a red snapper....
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Supposed to be a another beautiful day here on sweetthing's half acre. Sweetthing says she has a list so I reckon we will be going into the village after while. I need to pick up another thirty of those 2 cubic foot bags of dirt while I am out as well as some fertilizer, strong herbicide, and fire ant poison. The damn fireants are back and will be taking over if I don't get an early start on them.

Still have a lot of horticulturing to do...at least a couple of days worth of work..which means maybe three hours for you youngin's...

Y'all come, heah?

WTF

Is blogroller dead and gone? My blog roll has disappeared. Damn. I am still using the old style template and it is a real bitch to do a blog roll manually.

The Joke Is On Us

My friend Pat M. e-mailed me this...and it is something to thing about. I don't know about you but I ain't laughing...



Read this slowly.

Absolutely the funniest joke ever......ON US !!!
Let it sink in.
Quietly we go like Sheep to slaughter.

Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given
for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... During the Carter Administration?

Anybody?

Anything?

No?

Didn't think so !

Bottom line. We've spent several hundred billion
dollars in support of an agency...The reason for
which not one person who reads this can remember.

Ready???????

It was very simple... And at the time everybody
thought it very appropriate...


The Department of Energy was instituted on 8-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????

AND NOW IT' S 2009,
32 YEARS LATER ... AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS
NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR
THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND
APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE!


THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY
' WHAT WAS I THINKING?'

Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy.

And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System
& the Auto Industry over to them?

God Help Us !!!

Yeah, or maybe my favorite expletive:

GOOD GAWD GIRTY WHAT A GASH!

Horticulturing

Sweetthing and I have been horticulturing this morning. We took the cover off the veggies and I had to give them a good soaking. Everything appears to have survived the freeze. In fact some of he stuff grew under cover yesterday! I have a good stand of corn and pole beans and most of the potato eyes I planted have poked through the mulch. We took the screen off of everything but the carrots...they still have another couple of inches before they will be poking through the screen and I'll take it off then. Maybe they will be big enough to withstand tree rat assault...

This area of Florida is kinda tough to grow vegetables with a lot of success...we have to get them in the ground in February or early March and up and producing by May because by June the heat burns up most crops...especially beans and potatoes. Corn will grow in the summer but it doesn't do well without a hell of a lot of irrigation and fertilizer. The best summer crop is okra and black eyed peas and I'll have every bed full of same!









We will have to put a wire trellis up for the beans in a couple of weeks...I hope to start harvesting pole beans about the first of May and if I keep them fertilized, pesticided, watered, and picked I will have bean until the June heat burns them up. I am going to try something different this year for pesticide..I am buying a pint of June Bugs..supposedly they will eat the damn aphids that bean plants attract here.










I potted 60 of these Florida Beef Steak Tomato plants this morning...I kept fifty and gave my neighbor 10...the small planter in the box has about 100 cherry tomato plants that I will probably pot next week. I'll give away most of these..I want to keep a dozen of each which will grow me more tomatoes than I can eat or can. I also potted a dozen or so green bell pepper plants and put under glass. The glass doors work well for a mini-hot house.






I didn't have the azaleas covered but they will take a light freeze with no problems. I sure love to see there pretty things on a winter day when everything else is kinda gray and dreary looking.

Good Morning Blog World

"Is that right, Hillary?"

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first visit to the West Bank since taking office, pledged support Wednesday for the Palestinian Authority as “the only legitimate government of the Palestinian people.”

Look you two faced witch, I ain't got no use for Hamas...but I do recall that Hamas was elected by the ragheads and in fact if one believes in representative government Hamas is in fact the ONLY legitimate government that the Palestinian assholes have elected. And since they are the elected government of the Palestinian ragheads they are the ones to hold responsible for the continued attacks on Israel.

If you are really serious about some peace in your time in the Palestine you would be backing Israel with everything we have to back them with against the ragheads instead of rolling over for the sumbitches. The Palestinians do not want peace...they want Israel. They have broken every peace pact they have ever signed...usually by the next fucking day! Why do you, Hillary, think what you are doing will make it any different? The ragheads understand only one thing...POWER! Attempts to negotiate are seen by them as a sign of weakness to be exploited. You should be able to understand and relate to that...I figure that is all you understand also.

I'm telling you people, Israel has enough problems without Hilary Clinton coming in and stirring up shit.
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Remember the last BAD recession? Well, maybe most of you do not...it was way back in the late 1970s early 1980s. Unemployment was pushing the 10 percent range and we were suffering an economic condition know as stagflation...spiraling inflation coupled with double digit interest rates. And as now back then the places that were hurting the least were in middle America...actually, the oil patch. See, oil had went from $2.20 per barrel to over forty in just a few short years and the oil boom was on...people from all over the USA crowded into Oklahoma and Texas looking for work and most found it if they in fact wanted to work...but working in the oil patch is WORK...and not many stayed long. And, by 1983 the boom had busted and most of those who had stayed went elsewhere looking for work.

From what I hear from relatives in the Oklahoma patch the big boom now is not crude oil but natural gas. The demand for natural gas is high and it well should be...and according to some there is enough natural gas to provide us with our energy needs for a couple of centuries...plenty of time to develop the green energy programs that the left wing wants done NOW. Natural gas is cleaner and more efficient than coal, cheaper to transport, and plentiful...provided the enviro-nuts will back off and allow the drilling to commence and the pipelines stretched across the nation. I suspect that the gas boom has a lot to do with the employment figures in middle America...that's where the gas is at...other that the gassy bastards in Washington DC.
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Speaking of gassy bastards in Washington DC...

The senate voted 63 to 32 to keep the pork in the current spending bill...and it remains to be seen just how much pork they will add to it.

We gotta change this shit people, one way or another we gotta change it. The republic is going to be bankrupt and the sumbitches and bitches in Washington don't seem to give a flying fuck as long as they are still the ones in control. They are depending on their emperor working miracles and the public having a short memory and when November of next year rolls around they figure to be reelected. I hope we surprise their porking butts.
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According to the weather quacks it is supposed to be back to normal west central Florida coastal weather for a while...and I hope a long while. &0F plus today and warming to 80F by the weekend. Good. Sweetthing and I are going to take the covers off the veggies planters later this morning. Damn. We used every spare sheet and blanket we had to try to save the plants. I hope they appreciate it..the stuff is not grown up enough to talk yet..but you can bet I was talking to them when we were trying to cover them in a forty mile per hour 40 degree wind. I suspect my conversation was enough to warm them up.

Maybe tomorrow we will start putting out some annuals and I have about 100 tomato plants up from seed that I gotta pot or plant as well as fifty bell pepper plants. I have okra seed in a mini greenhouse box and hope it sprouts and will be ready to plant in a couple of weeks. I would like to get a head start on some Okra...but it takes at least 70F soil and then some warm weather for okra to make.

So, I reckon I should stop this nonsense and get started on something constructive...like another mug of jumpstart and a darvocet to get wired to think about work...and maybe even do some later. Y'all come back now, heah?

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Yeah,this all we need, huh? A British socialist addressing our socialist congress.... a socialist whose economic sense is questionable at best.

Gordon Brown is the guy who disposed of 60 percent of the Brit's gold reserves back when it was selling for only $275 an ounce. He is a tax and spend left winger..the kind that has taken Britain from a world power to just another third world socialist has been nation. I just can't imagine a gotdam thing that he has to say that I want to listen to...

WTF?

GOOD GAWD GIRTY WHAT A GASH!

President Obama's budget is so ambitious, with vast new spending on health care, energy independence, education and services for veterans, that experts say he probably will need to hire tens of thousands of new federal government workers to realize his goals.

TENS OF THOUSANDS? Just what is 'tens of thousands'...100,000? A million? GOTDAM! The problem now is that we have more government than we can pay for...at every level from village to the feds.
Sure, adding more to the payroll will create jobs...but who is gonna foot the bill?

The Cave

When we set up this redneck double wide on sweetthing's half acre I claimed a room for myself...I wanted a place where I could make an office kinda sorta and keep and service my fishing stuff. Well, it is now full. I reckon I am gonna have to start sorting and deciding what to keep and what to get rid of...problem is I don't wanna get rid of a damn thing!

Last night I put the last coat of linseed oil on this knotty pine shelf I built the other day. It came out pretty good but I should have use a piece of a/c ply wood for the back instead of that piece of scrap paneling...would have looked better.







I have the wood to build another couple of shelves that I want to mount over that safe I keep my hand guns in...something to keep my cleaning equipment on and maybe a couple of boxers of ammo...some that I can keep in easy reach instead of having to pull a few rounds out of a ammo storage box.

Good Morning Blog World

I suppose that THIS is the way the Emperor is gonna balance the budget, huh?
Did you ever hear that adage about 'birds of a feather flock together'? Obama is a socialist and socialist are thieves...and he just keeps appointing tax thieves to help his administration rip off the public. And the hell of it is that this thief will get confirmed...why? because he is black...no other reason other than he is a black man. Congressional republicans don't have the balls to vote against him...they are afraid of the heat from the PC crowd. And that my friends is just one more reason that I am no longer supporting the GOP.

I kinda got a kick out of this... my weird sense of humor I reckon. See, the dim-a-crits used to figure it is okay to raise taxes. Hell, as you have seen with the Emperor's appointments the democrats don't pay their taxers anyway. But when it comes to cutting out those tax deducts...the ones that it is kinda easy to lie about because everyone claims them...the dim-a-crits are crawdeading away from their cult leader!

One of the most odorous of Obama's attempts to control every gotdam facet of your life is his request to do away with deducting donations to charities. Says it is justified because the government will use tax money to fund the charities....and of course if the charity ain't exactly PC then they won't get the money. The majority of religious groups depend on tax deductable donations to fund their various charities. The dim-a-crits have been dead set against faith based charitable organizations in the past and have raised hell when ever government attempted to direct government funds to them...why will they be any different now?

CONTROL! Yes people, it is about control of your life...all of it..even the charities that you support! The emperor wants to change the USA from a republic to a socialist democracy...and I suspect from a democracy to a socialist dictatorship with him running the show. Everything he has done thus far points in that direction. The BIG question is..."WILL WE ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN?"
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It is colder than an Alaska well digger's butt on sweetthing's half acre this morning. The air is about 32F but the 15mph wind makes it seem a lot colder than that. I looked outside this morning and saw Tommy Treerat and his buddies huddled up under the clothes dryer vent...Tommy hollered up "Tell sweetthing to put them damn overalls of yores in the dryer. We are freezing our fuzzy tails off out here!" I think he was hinting that I invite them in to warm up. Fuck 'em. Treerats are like democrats...come to see ya for thirty minutes and stay forever.

Besides, I just had enough jumpstart made for me...and it sure tasted good on this cold morning. Looks like another one of those days for a good book and maybe a pot of shrimp gumbo. Y'all come, heah?

Heh.

Just so happens I concur with Rush. It is people like Steele and the rest of his RINOs that lost the election to the Emperor. As far as I am concerned the GOP is finished..done..gone..insignificant bunch of democrat lights. My vote and financial support is going to anyone running for office that is neither a democrat or republican and appears to be a fiscal conservative with some basic idea of how business operates. Damn the two party system...it is what has got us into this mess.

DAMN

Down, down it goes and where it stops nobody knows. But the emperor doesn't appear to care...he figures to just tax the ones making a profit...if there are any left.

That underground economy is gonna get to be very popular before this mess is sorted out. Ya know, hey dude...wanta trade me a bushel of those apples for a couple of rounds of .45acp?

GOOD READ!

I found this in my e-mail this morning..my friend Pat M. sent it to me and I am posting it here without any editing direct from the e-mail. It is well worth the read and says what damn sure needs saying...we all should be screaming at the top of our lungs!



Oh this is priceless! He put it into words perfectly!
He has put down on paper, thoughts and conversations that most
all of us have had.
This is a long read, but please read it and then send on.



I checked with
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/knox.asp
and it is true that Mr. Knox admits writing this in the heat of the moment and
never expected it to be shared so widely. He says that if he had known that, he
would have done a better job of the letter. I don't see how.
The article is excellent. I just hope someone listens.
Interesting. The first email below was sent out by GM to all suppliers.
The email that follows is a response from one such supplier.

Dear Employees & Suppliers,
Congress and the current Administration will soon determine whether to
provide immediate support to the domestic auto industry to help it through one
of the most difficult economic times in our nation's history. Your elected
officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is critical to our
continuing the progress we began prior to the global financial
crisis.....................As an employee or supplier, you have a lot at stake
and continue to be one of our most effective and passionate voices. I know GM
can count on you to have your voice heard.
Thank you for your urgent action and ongoing support.
Troy Clarke
President General Motors North America
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Response from:
Gregory Knox, Pres.
Knox Machinery Company
Franklin, Ohio
Gentlemen:
In response to your request to contact legislators and ask for a bailout
for the Big Three automakers please consider the following, and please pass my
thoughts on to Troy Clark, President of General Motors North America.
Politicians and Management of the Big 3 are both infected with the same
entitlement mentality that has spread like cancerous germs in UAW halls for the
last countless decades, and whose plague is now sweeping this nation, awaiting
our new "messiah", Pres-elect Obama, to wave his magic wand and make
all our problems go away, while at the same time allowing our once great nation
to keep "living the dream"... Believe me folks, The dream is over!
This dream where we can ignore the consumer for years while management
myopically focuses on its personal rewards packages at the same time that our
factories have been filled with the worlds most overpaid, arrogant, ignorant and
laziest entitlement minded "laborers" without paying the price for
these atrocities...this dream where you still think the masses will line up to
buy our products for ever and ever.
Don't even think about telling me I'm wrong. Don't accuse me
of not knowing of what I speak. I have called on Ford, GM, Chrysler, TRW,
Delphi, Kelsey Hayes, American Axle and countless other automotive OEM's
throughout the Midwest during the past 30 years and what I've seen over
those years in these union shops can only be described as disgusting.
Troy Clarke, President of General Motors North America, states:
"There is widespread sentiment throughout this country, and our government,
and especially via the news media, that the current crisis is completely the
result of bad management which it certainly is not."
You're right Mr. Clarke, it's not JUST management...how about
the electricians who walk around the plants like lords in feudal times, making
people wait on them for countless hours while they drag ass....so they can come
in on the weekend and make double and triple time....for a job they easily could
have done within their normal 40 hour work week.
How about the line workers who threaten newbies with all kinds of scare
tactics...for putting out too many parts on a shift...and for being too
productive (We certainly must not expose those lazy bums who have been getting
overpaid for decades for their horrific underproduction, must we?!?)
Do you folks really not know about this stuff?!? How about this great
sentiment abridged from Mr. Clarke's sad plea: "over the last few
years ...we have closed the quality and efficiency gaps with our
competitors."
What the hell has Detroit been doing for the last 40 years?!? Did we
really JUST wake up to the gaps in quality and efficiency between us and them?
The K car vs. the Accord? The Pinto vs. the Civic?!? Do I need to go on?
What a joke!
We are living through the inevitable outcome of the actions of the United
States auto industry for decades. It's time to pay for your sins, Detroit .
I attended an economic summit last week where brilliant economist, Alan
Beaulieu, from the Institute of Trend Research , surprised the crowd when he
said he would not have given the banks a penny of "bailout money".
"Yes, he said, this would cause short term problems," but despite what
people like politicians and corporate magnates would have us believe, the sun
would in fact rise the next day... and the following very important thing would
happen...where there had been greedy and sloppy banks, new efficient ones would
pop up...that is how a free market system works....it does work...if we would
only let it work..."
But for some nondescript reason we are now deciding that the rest of the
world is right and that capitalism doesn't work - that we need the
government to step in and "save us"...Save us my ass, Hell - we're
nationalizing...and unfortunately too many of our once fine nation's
citizens don't even have a clue that this is what is really
happening....But, they sure can tell you the stats on their favorite sports
teams...yeah - THAT'S really important, isn't it...
Does it ever occur to ANYONE that the "competition" has been
producing vehicles, EXTREMELY PROFITABLY, for decades in this country?.... How
can that be??? Let's see... Fuel efficient... Listening to customers...
Investing in the proper tooling and automation for the long haul... Not being
too complacent or arrogant to listen to Dr. W.. Edwards Deming four decades ago
when he taught that by adopting appropriate principles of management,
organizations could increase quality and simultaneously reduce costs. Ever
increased productivity through quality and intelligent planning.. Treating
vendors like strategic partners, rather than like "the enemy"...
Efficient front and back offices... Non union environment...
Again, I could go on and on, but I really wouldn't be telling anyone
anything they really don't already know down deep in their hearts.
I have six children, so I am not unfamiliar with the concept of wanting
someone to bail you out of a mess that you have gotten yourself into - my
children do this on a weekly, if not daily basis, as I did when I was their age.
I do for them what my parents did for me (one of their greatest gifts, by the
way) - I make them stand on their own two feet and accept the consequences of
their actions and work through it.
Radical concept, huh... Am I there for them in the wings? Of course - but
only until such time as they need to be fully on their own as adults..
I don't want to oversimplify a complex situation, but there certainly
are unmistakable parallels here between the proper role of parenting and
government. Detroit and the United States need to pay for their sins.
Bad news people - it's coming whether we like it or not. The newly
elected Messiah really doesn't have a magic wand big enough to "make it
all go away." I laughed as I heard Obama "reeling it back in"
almost immediately after the final vote count was tallied..."we really
might not do it in a year..or in four...." Where the Hell was that kind of
talk when he was RUNNING for office.
Stop trying to put off the inevitable folks ... That house in Florida
really isn't worth $750,000... People who jump across a border really
don't deserve free health care benefits.... That job driving that forklift
for the Big 3 really isn't worth $85,000 a year... We really shouldn't
allow Wal-Mart to stock their shelves with products acquired from a country that
unfairly manipulates their currency and has the most atrocious human rights
infractions on the face of the globe...
That couple whose combined income is less than $50,000 really
shouldn't be living in that $485,000 home... Let the market correct itself
folks - it will. Yes it will be painful, but it's gonna' be painful
either way, and the bright side of my proposal is that on the other side of it
all, is a nation that appreciates what it has...and doesn't live beyond its
means...and gets back to basics...and redevelops the patriotic work ethic that
made it the greatest nation in the history of the world...and probably turns
back to God.
Sorry - don't cut my head off, I'm just the messenger sharing
with you the "bad news". I hope you take it to heart.
Gregory J. Knox, President
Knox Machinery, Inc.
Franklin, Ohio 45005

Good Morning Blog World

You just gotta like the way this Iraqi judge thinks..

"An Iraqi judge has given death sentences to three former officials in Saddam Hussein's regime for slayings and abuses against Shiites a decade ago."

But I'm telling you... if the sumbitch comes back for the second execution I sure wouldn't want to piss him off and do the third! But I figure a long drop on a short rope will take care of all three death sentences at once.
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The only silver lining in this dark economic cloud is cheaper crude oil. I like being able to fill up the Red Ram for fifty bucks instead of having to use most of a hundred dollar bill. But, if the Obama kool ade drinkers get there way the price of crude could fall to $20 per barrel and we will still be paying five bucks a gallon or more for gasoline because of his taxes and fees. Hell, it was high crude prices that contributed to this economic mess...along with the community investment act by congress, some very optomistic people buying houses that they couldn't afford, and of course a lot of greedy sumbitches at both ends of the economic scale.
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Have you took a look at the Emperor's plans to rape the country fix the economy? It is not only the taxes I worry about...I just can't see how these "permits to emit carbon-dioxide gases above a fixed limit" are gonna do a damn thing other then cost business more money which means more business will either shut down or move off shore. And, the ones who do roll over for the emperor will be forced to just add the cost of doing business on to the end product which means YOU will be paying for it just as YOU pay all business taxes. But then the left wing doesn't give a flying fuck about YOU nor business...it is all about making everyone equally poor with them in control. LOCK AND LOAD MY FRIENDS...if you plan on keeping what you have accumulated. The emperor is dead set on taking it away from you.
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Believe me people when I say I take no pleasure in saying "I TOLD YA SO!" Many of us saw this coming years back...too much government debt, a dollar that will only buy what 18 cents bought fifty years ago, and an economy based on services instead of producing something of value should have been enough to warn congress. Hell, you can bet that the savvy business people did not get hurt...they got there companies AND money off shore. They may not make much and in fact will no doubt lose a lot in the next years until we get this mess straightened out. But they will be able to start over where they left off....if we EVER get a free market economy again. And if we don't the republic is finished. Maybe after the revolution whoever takes power will be a free market advocate...
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SNOW IN JOISEY? DAMN! Heh, I have an idea they will figure out how to tax it! But with all this cold he ain't gotta worry...alligators hibernate when it snows.
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We got the southern edge of that damn storm I reckon. It is not freezing but the wind blew and shit flew all day yesterday and last night. Fifty mph sustained winds can do some damage. I have a yard full of tree debris to pick up and I saw yesterday that some folks had some roof damage. The weather quacks allow we will get damn close to freeing tomorrow morning just before day light...prediction is 32F for an hour or so before it starts warming up. Sure has been an unusually cold winter. I think every freeze is the last one...and the next freeze is what I get for thinking. I probably should just act like a gotdam democrat and not think at all.
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I don't know what I'll do today...maybe work in the cabin...well, work on cleaning out the cabin. I swear if I had a B-52 aircraft hanger for a shop and storage I would have it so full I couldn't walk in it within a year or so. Maybe I should have a big ass yard sale. But I have had my jumpstart and cackleberry and sucked the horse piss shit out of that gotdam nebulizer and took enough fucking pills to choke a goat that was used to sucking a raghead dick. I reckon I am ready to face the day. Y'all come, heah?

45 ACP !!

Sweetthing had a list for the local ( not the super) Wally World this morning so I took her into the village. While she was filling that list I wandered back to sporting goods like I always do and saw a line...damn if they didn't have some .45acp in stock for a change. I managed to get the last three boxes of Blazer Brass...if I had got there a few minutes earlier I could have score more...the man in front of me bought twenty and I think the only reason he didn't get the rest was because he kinda felt guilty knowing I wanted some also. The poor bastards in line behind me will just have to wait until next time...and hell no! I don't feel guilty...just kinda pissed that I didn't walk faster from the parking lot. The price was right too....$47.61 for 150 rounds...and it is reloadable brass instead of that pewter looking stuff.

Hmmm

Well, kiss my heart my ass is cracked and I'll never smile again! All this time I though my hair turned gray because of old age... not because of hydrogen peroxide. Hmmm, hydrogen peroxide...ain't that a disinfectant that kills germs and such? Maybe that is why I have never had any lice problems in my beard...but then come to think about it I didn't have any lice problems back when my beard was a two toned red and black.

I wonder how big of a government grant these scientists got to tell me this information that I could have lived without...just sayin'

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Did any of you watch or listen to Rush's 'First National Address to the Nation' yesterday? He was addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference who had gathered together to argue about who was the biggest dick...Bush or Obama and I think it came out a tie.

I did agree with ole Rush on most of what he said..most especially that I also want Obama to FAIL! The alternative is a socialist shit hole of a country with government dictating my life. Well, no...not mine...I'll die a free man rather than live under a socialist tyranny.

One thing people that we need to keep in mind...republican and fiscal conservative are not synonyms! From where I set both the democrats AND the republican party are enemies of this country. Neither have shown any fiscal responsibility and the fact is that the Emperor and his kool ade drinking cult were joined by republicans when they passed the biggest pork bill in history. And that ain't all! The spending bill that is now going to the senate has over 8000 pork ear marks added by the house...some forty percent of them by house republicans. THIS SHIT HAS TO COME TO A HALT!

The idea of political parties is that once a politician joins that party he/she is expected to stay somewhat within the party line. It looks to me like the republicans are following the dim-a-crit party line. I say damn both parties. It is time for us to support a party that understands that we cannot spend our way to prosperity, Toward that end I call on both fiscal conservative members of the republican party....and the democrat party (yeah there are five or six) to reject their parties and join together to form a new party...call it what they want as long as the primary goal is to bring government spending under control. They know...or at least should know...that this country in damn near in revolt. When MSM starts reporting...as they are...that some of the citizens are openly talking about a Boston Tea Party the politicians best take heed. Obama promised some change...and if he keeps on the way he is going change he is gonna get...change of residence and a change of government.
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The promised rain has hit! Looks like an inch or more and more on the way. But when it blows past...and it is blowing past some kinda fast we are gonna get hit with some 50 mph wind and then tonight a possibility of a freeze. DAMN Al Gore and his fucking global warming.

Sweetthing and I went out into the rain and brought in all of out potted plants...not worried about the cold yet but a 50 mph wind might just blow them up by the roots because I know they are not established in those pots yet.

Late this afternoon we will cover the garden beds with sheets and such to protect the new stuff from a freeze. I sure hope this is the last of the cold weather. This is the first of March people and it ain't supposed to freeze on sweetthing's half acre in March!

But anyway, looks like one of those kinda days for an extra pot of jumpstart, a big bowl of hot chili, and a good book. And I got 'em all! Y'all come back, heah?