Getting hot now, and after the last couple of days

I don't want to push it.  Therefore, I will sit here a bit and stir dissension 'mongst the populace.

Like pointing out that actually saying or doing anything here would've offended the third-world shithole of Sudan.  Therefore, better these people suffer than President Lightbringer speak up.


As son & wife were driving down the road the other day, saw this and got a picture

It had Oklahoma Highway Patrol stickers on it; I guess they decided the Tac Teams needed a super-tactical vehicle to carry all their tactical gear.


The DC Police at work: "Let's talk people into committing a crime so we can arrest them!"  Seems there are easier and more ethical ways to work, like arresting journalists and politicians who break gun laws.


I wish the story had the name or picture of this fine federal agent; they we could give him the fame he truly deserves.


What 'herd immunity' actually means.  And why we're in such trouble.


Yeah, a Carrington Event-level storm hitting would be bad.  Very.


How screwed-up was the response to the Navy Yard shooting?  This screwed-up.


Progressives and 'feminists' make up shit, and Huffpo prints it.  Gets called on it.


For a serving general officer to come out and say this... let's say he must have REALLY strong feelings on the matter.

I'm going to be in the garage and yard

getting some stuff done before it heats up.  Go play somewhere else for a while.

Hey, Deputy Cline? KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE DAMN TRIGGER

I get the situation.  Got the guy pulled over, and he's non-responsive.  In any way.  Had to break a window to get in, got it.  But damn,...
The Reserve Deputy Troy Cline, whom KCCI said is a volunteer with the sheriff’s department, is then seen accidentally firing his weapon into the passenger side door as he was reholstering it. No one was injured, the station reported.

Cline’s action was “completely unintentional” and “definitely wasn’t something he meant to do,” Abens said.
I bet.  Also bet he damn near wet his pants when it went off.

Remember Lawdog's solution to the UN infestation?

Since I like to copper my bets, I'd draw an advance on my first months paycheck, buy a truckload of dynamite and order the Commandant of the Marine Corp to de-infestate the UN building.

While the Marines are chucking UN politicos off the pier, I'd be personally setting charges in the UN basement.

At lunchtime, I'd have a cheeseburger and fries and watch the UN building go up like a Roman candle.
Sounds more and more like the right way to deal with it.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman decreed in a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that not only were rockets found in UNRWA schools in Gaza, but also that UNRWA then turned them over to Hamas, rather than to Israel.

UNRWA admitted itself on two different occasions since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge began 16 days ago that they discovered rockets in their facilities.
...
Hints of the radicalism that pertained in the camps were provided by 1997, if not sooner, with reports such as that of the Washington Jewish Week. vii This included photographs of UNRWA schools decorated with Hamas and PFLP graffiti, and a map of “Palestine” that ran from the Jordan to the Mediterranean and was covered with pictures of machine guns. It is doubtful that anyone was paying attention back then.

Broad scale exposure came in the spring of 2002. In response to the terrorism emanating from UNRWA refugee camps in Judea and Samaria as part of the “Second Intifada,” Israel launched “Operation Defensive Shield.” At that time, the IDF went into the camps and laid bare the facts regarding the refugees’ connection to terrorism.

Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, was in Jenin in April 2002 as a consultant to the IDF and himself witnessed presence of shahid (martyr) posters on the walls in the homes of UNRWA workers. “It was clear,” he said “that UNRWA workers were doubling as Hamas operatives.’”


In other news, son & daughter-in-law are on their way back.  As their wedding present I'd wanted to make them a couple of good kitchen knives, and did get the chef's knife finished so they could take it back.  The smaller ones, still working on.  Taking some pictures of the process, and I'll post them when it's all done.

In this case, it's pure stock-removal, also known as 'grinding and sawing'.  As in "Use a hacksaw to rough the shape, then grind the rest of the way."  Definitely works, but I miss forging.

Former vegan notes that meat and such has good points;

usual suspects pissed off.  General run of comments: "You're full of crap, and you weren't a REAL vegan or you'd still be one!"


"You teabaggers can't fight the government(Oh dear Lenin, look how many guns they have!)!"


If this idiot had almost any other family name, he'd be looked on as the idiot he is.


Maybe when he said 'Most transparent administration EVER!', Obama meant "Your private life is the most transparent to us"?


Standard leftist bullshit: "We must have fairness in the numbers of kids admitted to these schools(no matter how many get screwed by our idea of 'fairness')!"


Gov. Howler is a very corrupt bastard:
...It was barely two months old when its investigators, hunting for violations of campaign-finance laws, issued a subpoena to a media-buying firm that had placed millions of dollars’ worth of advertisements for the New York State Democratic Party.

The investigators did not realize that the firm, Buying Time, also counted Mr. Cuomo among its clients, having bought the airtime for his campaign when he ran for governor in 2010. ...

Word that the subpoena had been served quickly reached Mr. Cuomo’s most senior aide, Lawrence S. Schwartz. He called one of the commission’s three co-chairs, William J. Fitzpatrick, the district attorney in Syracuse. “This is wrong,” Mr. Schwartz said, according to Mr. Fitzpatrick, whose account was corroborated by three other people told about the call at the time. He said the firm worked for the governor, and issued a simple directive: “Pull it back.” The subpoena was swiftly withdrawn. The panel’s chief investigator explained why in an email to the two other co-chairs later that afternoon. “They apparently produced ads for the governor,” she wrote.

Speaking of windmills,
A surprinsingly large number of wind turbines are involved in accidents around the world. Most of them are blades falling off, turbines collapsing, or nacelles burning down to a skeleton (400 - 800 litres of burning oil are not easy to extinguish, especially as firemen rarely have ladders long enough for these >100-meter long contraptions). Some human deaths have been reported.

A record is being kept at Caithness Windfarm Information Forum.
 
Some bush and forest fires have been caused by wind turbines, but such news have never surfaced, or have rapidly disappeared from the radar screen.


And last, it's nice when the communists admit what they are.  Watermelons, indeed.

Why do they hate the planet so much?

Windmill pushers, that is.
Wind turbines may catch on fire ten times more often than is publicly reported, putting nearby properties at risk and casting doubt on their green credentials, researchers have warned.
...
It points out that the wind industry body, Renewable UK, has admitted there were 1,500 wind farm accidents and incidents in the UK alone between 2006 and 2010 - while just 142 individual accidents in the UK were documented in CWIF’s database over the same period.

This implies that less than 10pc of incidents are publicly reported.

Dr Guillermo Rein, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial, said: “Fires are a problem for the industry, impacting on energy production, economic output and emitting toxic fumes. This could cast a shadow over the industry's green credentials. Worryingly our report shows that fire may be a bigger problem than what is currently reported.”

Yeah, the leftists don't like talking about this part of history

Or anyone else talking about it.  Doesn't fit the Preferred Narrative™, y'know.
Chinn was a black man in Canton, Mississippi, who in the 1960s owned a farm, a rhythm and blues nightclub, a bootlegging operation, and a large collection of pistols, rifles, and shotguns with which he threatened local Klansmen and police when they attempted to encroach on his businesses or intimidate civil rights activists working to desegregate Canton and register black residents to vote. After one confrontation, in which a pistol-packing Chinn forced the notoriously racist and brutal local sheriff to stand down inside the county courthouse during a hearing for a civil rights worker, the lawman admitted, "There are only two bad sons of bitches in this county: me and that nigger C.O. Chinn."

Although the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were formally committed to nonviolence, when their volunteers showed up in Canton they happily received protection from Chinn and the militia of armed black men he managed. "Every white man in that town knew you didn't fuck with C.O. Chinn," remembered a CORE activist. "He'd kick your natural ass." Consequently, Chinn's Club Desire offered a safe haven for black performers such as B.B. King, James Brown, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, and the Platters; illegal liquor flowed freely in the county; and, unlike their comrades in much of Mississippi, CORE and SNCC activists in Canton were able to register thousands of black voters with virtual impunity from segregationist violence.

Ah, People's Repubic of Maryland, how many jobs

and how much tax revenue have you run out of the state with your anti-rights bullshit?
“During the legislative session in Maryland that resulted in passage of the Firearm Safety Act of 2013, the version of the statute that passed the Maryland Senate would have prohibited Beretta U.S.A. from being able to manufacture, store or even import into the State products that we sell to customers throughout the United States and around the world.  While we were able in the Maryland House of Delegates to reverse some of those obstructive provisions, the possibility that such restrictions might be reinstated in the future leaves us very worried about the wisdom of maintaining a firearm manufacturing factory in the State,” stated Jeff Cooper, General Manager for Beretta U.S.A. Corp.

“While we had originally planned to use the Tennessee facility for new equipment and for production of new product lines only, we have decided that it is more prudent from the point of view of our future welfare to move the Maryland production lines in their entirety to the new Tennessee facility,” Cooper added.
I'm sure the governor and his little socialist friends will dismiss this as 'no big deal'.  Except. of course, for the people losing jobs, and the paychecks and tax money going to another state.

Make a business unhappy, threaten their future, and they'll go somewhere else; wonderful thing, isn't it?

The Californicated Highway Patrol; WONDERFUL bunch of professionals,

aren't they?
After the unnamed officer's fists were finished ensuring her safety, the CHP sent the woman to a mental health facility and refused to allow her family to see her. The video surfaced shortly thereafter, forcing the CHP to make further statements about how "physically combative" the woman was, as well as expressing its utmost desire to find a way out of this to see justice done.

"We're looking at every possibility, every fact, every circumstance that have contributed to this situation, and we're going to try to come to a just conclusion," Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference on Friday.

"Just," in this context, seems to actually mean "exonerating." The investigation continues, apparently, albeit in unexpected (and terrible) directions.

California Highway Patrol investigators have seized the medical records of a woman seen on video being repeatedly punched by one of its officers on the side of a Los Angeles freeway.

Chris Arevalo, executive administrator for psychiatric services at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, confirmed that the CHP served the search warrant Tuesday for Marlene Pinnock's records.

A couple of their clowns with badges beat the crap out of an older lady in NO, now this one does this, and they cover-up/defend both.  And pull these games. 

Wankers.

Miguel did a post on DDT

Which led to upset and butthurt.  Which led to this:

Wonderful people, aren't they?  "If you're worried about malaria, pack up and move.  Whether you can or not.  If you can't move, better you die than we use the eeevillle DDT to save you and your kids."

"Credibility? What's that?"

The IRS just took any it had left, wiped its ass with it, and flushed it.

IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.
The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner’s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens.

I wonder if they actually expect anyone to believe this bullshit, or if they figure Holder will cover for them no matter what, so it doesn't matter what they throw out?


Some more on the VA system that we were told was proof of how wonderful government-controlled healthcare is.
A female Navy veteran, a victim of sexual assault in the military, was locked in a two-point restraint — her right arm and left leg were strapped to the bedposts. She also had a belt tied around her waist to restrict her movement.
She had been restrained that morning because she was “disruptive and agitated.”
Makes you want to show the doctor what disruptive and agitated really is, doesn't it?
I learned from my nursing staff that the same female veteran was readmitted in February and was kept in restraints for 49 consecutive hours over Presidents Day weekend. They said the doctors didn’t want to come in to evaluate the patient, as required, if she was released and had to be put back on restraints.
Screw the tar and feathers.  Flogging.  With a flagrum, the Roman type with the bronze studs.

Speaking of using your integrity for toilet paper, Rep. Elijah Cummings

is a prime example.  Did everything he could to shield Holder and the ATF clowns in the Gunwalker hearings- including calling people racists- and now says that demanding the head of the IRS show up to answer questions is 'public harassment'.

Of course Cummings would rather have hearings about Target and credit cards; that doesn't involve another Obama weenie lying under oath and stonewalling.


Really, anybody surprised?  The UN has made it plain it's on the side of the Palisimians, so of course it 'returned' the rockets to them.


"What?  you wanted us to ask for permission?  Silly serf, we're the State!"

This goes under "Can't stop the signal":

Build your own Mac-11

As Uncle notes, Why gun control is silly

Speaking of the border,

U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.

"When the shooting stopped, about 40 to 50 people came out on the U.S. side and turned themselves in. So clearly the rounds were being fired to suppress every effort to stop anybody intervening with anyone or anything coming across," Gohmert added. "We have no idea what or how many or whom came across with the other illegal immigrants."
Saw this linked at Insty, and he asked So why didn’t they return the fire?  Answer is, because AG Eric Holder would hang them if they did.  He'd rather see them dead than someone hurt on the other side.  And if you think that's wrong, he'll call you a racist and a domestic terrorist.

Also on the subject,
“One in ten of every adult male crosser[s] in this day and age more than likely already has a violent criminal record here in the United States, has been removed, and is returning. Another one in ten, making it one in five, is bringing with him or her their violent criminal tendencies and records from their own countries of which we don't know yet” Coburn said.
And if you want to stop them, you're a racist.

Y'know, these idiots are going to push this to the point that calling someone racist is going to be ruled justification for challenge to a duel.


Of course it's a local problem; because if it wasn't
it would mean The Lightbringer screwed up(again), and that's not allowable.


In said Lightbringers' hometown,
An 11-year-girl was shot and killed during a slumber party as violence struck Chicago over the weekend, local media outlets reported on Sunday.

At least 40 people were shot, and four killed, in weekend violence in the third-largest U.S. city, the NBC affiliate in Chicago reported.


I can see wanting to make a trip like that, but through Mexico?  Now?


“The way feminists treat the women who disagree with them proves feminism is not as ‘pro-women’ as they would like to believe,” she says. “For as long as I have been active on social media, feminist have dominated it with their whining, constantly attacking me for my conservative, non feminist views. I was delighted to see the movement expand, knowing that I am not the only one who felt this way.”
You'll notice that the article had two people saying how bad this movement is, and only one speaking for it, and the two got a lot more space; bias much?

"Don't give me that, it takes modern machinery and materials to make a gun!"

Try telling them that.

Put people in a situation where they need a means of defense for themselves/their family/their business, they'll get it.  Whether it's legal or not.
With the big guns out of reach, many Egyptians, particularly those in exceptionally poor communities where crime rates are often higher, tend to opt for cheaper weapons known as fards, hand-crafted handguns that shoot 16mm and 12mm shotgun cartridges. These are made locally by blacksmiths using scrap steel originating from discarded water pipes and vehicle spare parts.

Before the revolution, these improvised guns sold for LE300 to LE500. “These are regular blacksmiths, who are very skilled. They make the guns under the table for more money. A kilo of scrap metal worth LE3 can be made into these guns and sold for LE1000,” Ibrahim said.

Behold the Project Bike!

I'd been looking for a small bike to mess with, and thanks to son now possess this: mid-80's Honda XL125.

I wanted something not falling apart, that could be worked on/fixed/repaired and used, and this fit the bill perfectly: the engine actually runs, it definitely needs work but it's all stuff I can do, and it was cheap.

The engine is a single-cylinder overhead-cam four-stroke

which, as noted, runs.  But it do need work.  From the sound the cam chain tensioner and guide are probably shot, which means a good chance the chain needs replacing as well.  Otherwise, in pretty good shape.

No, I'm not missing that piece of case that's not there over the drive sprocket; it doesn't involve a seal or gasket, so not really worried about that; can always fabricate a piece to fit over and screw or weld it in place.

I got started on this before thinking "You know, I should take pictures and blog this!"  Rundown as follows:
The gearshift lever was bent(common); a little time with a torch, vise, big crescent wrench and hammer reshaped it nicely.  Yes, I took it off first.
It originally was street-legal, but most of the lights were gone.  Since I want this for trails and such, I removed
the rear turn signal bases and bracket,
front turn signals(non-working),
headlight case(thing was covered with electrical tape, because what was still there was badly cracked),
and most of the wires for the above(more to go as I trace them out).
The battery was there, but dry and dead.  It went, and the battery box, fairly sound but rusty.  Without lights it'll run without the battery, so there went that weight.
See that yucky stuff on top of the crankcase?  There was a little crack in the fuel line; that's been replaced.
Took the front wheel off to inspect the brakes; about half their life left, and working normally.

The rear brake was a different matter

Drum brake, shoes inside the hub.  And it was stuck; wouldn't engage at all.  So removed the wheel(no, I'm not taking it back off for pictures) to inspect things.  The shoes were fine, the problem was the shaft.  See the lever with the hollow arrow pointing to it?  When you step on the brake pedal, it pulls on that, the shaft(solid arrow) rotates and forces the shoes apart and into contact with the hub*.  Except when it won't rotate.  That sucker was stuck.  Had to put some penetrating oil on both sides where it enters the side plate, then put the lever back on and start working it.  Which required clamping the plate in a vise.  Once had it moving fairly well was able to get it out.  Looked like last time it was ridden some muddy water got in there, and since the thing had been sitting for a long time had dried; a little rust, but mostly seems to be dirt.  Cleaned that off the shaft and out of the hole, lubed, reassembled and it works as it should.

The chain was in pretty good shape, once cleaned and lubed.

I mentioned that it runs, but didn't run very well.  Big problem there was the air cleaner.  On lots of bikes the air filter is a piece of foam that fits over a metal mesh support; you oil the foam, so the stuff the foam itself doesn't catch is trapped by the oil**.  Thing is, it's supposed to be lightly oiled, not 'squeeze the foam and it drips' oiled.  Cleaned the foam, cleaned the mesh(which was also oily as hell), let them dry and then lightly oiled the foam.  Between that and fresh gas, it runs a lot better.

Big thing is going to be finding the cam chain parts, pulling the engine and replacing them.  During which I'll also clean the carburetor thoroughly, and hope I can get everything back together correctly.  Then, over time, clean and repaint the frame and tank, and whatever else needs doing.

We'll see how it goes.





*If you're not familiar with these, the inside end of the shaft is flat.  The brake shoes fit on a pin at the bottom, and the top ends go on each side of the flat.  Shaft rotates and forces them apart.    Put just a dab of grease on the flats(making damn sure not to get any on the braking surfaces) and it'll help smooth things out.

**They make special oil just for the purpose; spray it on, let it soak in, and when the carrier evaporates it gets really sticky.  You can use motor oil in a pinch, which is what I did for now.

Tab clearing

A sticker to really piss off all the right people.


NYPD once again playing "Screw the law, we do what we want."


A car ad about Ted Kennedy that REALLY set things off.


Hilda Solis, another Obama bigshot who broke the law.


Scientist wrote a book.  Sourced, footnoted, the whole works.  Subject offended the correct-thinking people, so they tried to destroy him.

They're still at it.


Chicago still leading the way.  In homicides and violence.


Rainier has a bigger magma reservoir than they'd thought.


They're finally attacking the IRS problem in a way that'll get their attention: cutting their budget.


Yeah, all those worries about islamists were just racism  and paranoia, right?



I think it was Glenn Reynolds who first remarked that a rerun of Carter might be a best-case scenario for the Obama presidency, and it appears he has understated the depth of the problem. This is what happens when you have a president who decides the U.S. can simply check out of world leadership. The Rand Pauls of the world have a point that the U.S. is overextended in the world, and a rethinking of our commitments and grand strategy is certainly a valid undertaking. I noted here two years ago, after John argued that we should withdraw from Afghanistan, that Winston Churchill might well have agreed.

But Obama is not giving us a thoughtful reconsideration of American grand strategy. He’s just bugging out.


This is friggin' disgusting.  The prosecutor and everyone on that grand jury should be punished for this.

We're supposed to trust these people why, again?

The Inspector General of the Justice Department has just released a report detailing the FBI's foot-dragging response to crime lab issues first uncovered in 1996. This is the third report to follow up on the DOJ "task force" and its efforts to right the wrongs caused by "serious irregularities" in its lab. 
 ...
 The problems ultimately lead back to 13 examiners. But those problems were multitudinous. In total, these 13 took part in nearly 8,000 cases, 2,900 of which resulted in convictions. This discovery led to the appointment of a DOJ task force, which then led to... not much.

The new report said the Justice Department "failed to ensure that prosecutors made appropriate and timely disclosures to affected defendants" and that the department "failed to staff the Task Force with sufficient personnel to implement a case review of the magnitude it undertook." The work took far too long, investigators said.

How did this lack of activity on law enforcement's end add up for some of those affected?

[T]hree other defendants, Donald E. Gates, Santae A. Tribble, and Kirk L. Odom, had served sentences in excess of 21 years based in part on FBI hair analyses and testimony that DNA analysis subsequently proved erroneous.

So the EffingBI was more interested in protecting their reputation than the lives damaged and cases screwed, and the DoJ, instead of kicking ass, played the game.  Wonderful, isn't it?
There's a lot more bad news in the report, but nothing really tops the FBI contributing to the death of at least one innocent person. This isn't something that was uncovered after the execution. This information came to light in 1996, but no one involved made any attempt to prioritize affected convictions. Innocent people died or were locked away for years and yet, the DOJ portrays itself as the injured party.

"Decades ago, the FBI corrected the deficiencies that led to the creation of the Task Force," the department noted in its official response, adding that the Task Force's work was "unprecedented both in its magnitude and its complexity."

Really?

The science hour has arrived,

and a fresh set is here

I have to say, my first thought is "You stopped too soon,

he's still breathing.

If some idiot prosecutor does charge him with something, I hope there's a fund for his defense to contribute to.