As the years have passed many things will occur to you that are so important but previously would have gone without being noticed. Without going into a long shpeel we as Americans are getting screwed over. The power centralizing affect of capitalism without morals and communism (humanism) throughout our government really makes life difficult. Many people will come undone at the notion that capitalism as we know it and communism are basically the same. OKAY OKAY....they come from very different origins but corruption and the undeniable lack of morals in both gives us nearly the EXACT same results. It's called centralization. This is when the power of the controlling body becomes more powerful and more disconnected from its base. The controllers also become much more self fulfilling. Mix that in with the love of money, which is a basic characteristic of capitalism and communism, and you get a miserable world to live in.
The more places you have to choose from to buy the necessary materials to do your work the better off you are as an individual. The fewer places there is the more the advantage goes to the "controllers". Look what has happened over the last two or three decades. Just a few years ago a fine example happened in my home town. We had a few places to buy automotive, truck, and tractor parts. As the companies that these dealers were representing became more "efficient" it amazingly became harder for the dealers to make any money. As the town grew it became a viable market for the really bad money grubbing parts chains, such as O'Reilly's Auto Parts. It just looks like the more they sell their souls the better off they are financially. Too bad for guys like me huh??
The old smaller stores that were "less efficient", would've been okay if it weren't for the evil tactics of a self fulfilling form of "business" practiced by O'Reilly's. They came blowing into town offering all manner of advantages to the folks. You could get anything you needed and for a better price. As soon as they ran the smaller stores out of business GUESS WHAT HAPPENED! Now they almost NEVER have the parts I need and that is not a joke. Oh, I can soup up my ride with lots of shiney plastic parts and smelly after thoughts but if you need something so simple as a 12point 10mm socket you or out of luck. Never again shall anyone, who is not part of the mainstream customer base, get what they need in my hometown without driving considerable distances to get it. I guess it's all my fault. I didn't stress to my help the importance of not losing anything I might ever need.
Of course, it isn't just my home town, it's all over the place. What we are left with is the fact that in a power centralized form of society, whether it be capitalism or communism (same results), we are left out in the cold. We are not important enough to supply parts to even though what we do makes the world go 'round. We have now taken a back seat to a cross section of self fulfilling entities who were born and raised to lock step into irrelevance. Now these behemoth parts companies cater to little punks who want bling or to maintain a "blingy" dingy ride. God save us from the NWO.
Formerly Esteemed,
Now Just Steamed,
-Daniel
Showing posts with label Complaints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Complaints. Show all posts
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Just checking in again
Hey Folks,
It has been a while since I have posted. It has a lot to do with being busy with work even though we can't actually DO any work. I have had a series of break downs that have killed finances and clouded my mind. The last few weeks have been spent searching for parts and making repairs to the Caterpillar. I fixed the trans charge pump for the second time and that didn't help. I fixed the valve stack in the transmission and that worked great. A day and a half later the transfer case tore up. AHHHHHHH! I give up! I sold the old thing and took the money to find a nice engine to go in my OTHER skidder which has been down for 11 months as I waited to find a good affordable engine that will swap with mine directly. That never happened.
So, I found an engine out of a Ford Coca-Cola semi. Ford can't leave well enough alone. They made ridiculous changes to the very simple design which makes life hell for anyone who wants to save money by buying a used engine out of one of their trucks. As a result I had to have a friend cut a billet into an intake plenum for the air to air swap with my intercooler. I also had to order custom injector lines to make up for the big difference in the intakes ($400). I had to bend the lines to move around the various components. Those injector lines hold some 2500 to 4500 pounds of pressure each. It may have been the toughest part of the engine swap. Other outrageously tough things to get done include swapping exhaust manifolds, turbos oil and water lines, charge pumps and compressors, and making the different style of pump work with the old set up.....geez. It's almost done. I think by this time tomorrow we will be ready to crank the thing up assuming the Cummins diesel specialists have any idea what they are doing when clocking the turbo. I may do that myself even though I don't have the right tools.
I am grateful that this is the bulk of what I have to complain about in my personal life. Just don't get me started on politics. Y'all have a nice rest of the day and God Bless. I am about to go out and roast marshmallows with the kids and their guests.
It has been a while since I have posted. It has a lot to do with being busy with work even though we can't actually DO any work. I have had a series of break downs that have killed finances and clouded my mind. The last few weeks have been spent searching for parts and making repairs to the Caterpillar. I fixed the trans charge pump for the second time and that didn't help. I fixed the valve stack in the transmission and that worked great. A day and a half later the transfer case tore up. AHHHHHHH! I give up! I sold the old thing and took the money to find a nice engine to go in my OTHER skidder which has been down for 11 months as I waited to find a good affordable engine that will swap with mine directly. That never happened.
So, I found an engine out of a Ford Coca-Cola semi. Ford can't leave well enough alone. They made ridiculous changes to the very simple design which makes life hell for anyone who wants to save money by buying a used engine out of one of their trucks. As a result I had to have a friend cut a billet into an intake plenum for the air to air swap with my intercooler. I also had to order custom injector lines to make up for the big difference in the intakes ($400). I had to bend the lines to move around the various components. Those injector lines hold some 2500 to 4500 pounds of pressure each. It may have been the toughest part of the engine swap. Other outrageously tough things to get done include swapping exhaust manifolds, turbos oil and water lines, charge pumps and compressors, and making the different style of pump work with the old set up.....geez. It's almost done. I think by this time tomorrow we will be ready to crank the thing up assuming the Cummins diesel specialists have any idea what they are doing when clocking the turbo. I may do that myself even though I don't have the right tools.
I am grateful that this is the bulk of what I have to complain about in my personal life. Just don't get me started on politics. Y'all have a nice rest of the day and God Bless. I am about to go out and roast marshmallows with the kids and their guests.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Torture?
There was recently a new thread started at my school over torture and who was winning the debate. Those leftist school folks are always trying to keep people occupied with stuff like this while the leftist government goes on doing what it wills to. Here is my response.
Is there a debate over torture? I have heard an awful lot of debating over whether or not the USA should do anything or nothing to individuals who have lots of information concerning how more of my fellow countrymen and "citizens of the world" are going to die at their hands. Whatever the debate is, it's wrong.
Let's try an alternative! Freedom is the answer. Set them free. In process set me free too. It seems the leftist government we now have is more worried about protecting criminals whether they are criminals against individuals are large groups. Let the fools who wish to harm us come. Let me defend my family without fear of retribution for doing what it takes to protect the ones I love from harm, death or worst yet, fear. Even suggesting that I could feasibly do this with any amount of righteousness makes me suspect to the leftist regimes that run this country and have for a number of years.
The only reason there is any consternation happening over "torture" is that as individuals we are not free. The gov steps in and says they can protect us rather than we protect ourselves. When they fail the problem magnifies because the language has been forcefully centered on the idea that the failing government is going to fix the problem. It is weak minded, gutless, embarrassing, frankly nothing like me. I can go on for days about it. Where have all the men gone?
Is there a debate over torture? I have heard an awful lot of debating over whether or not the USA should do anything or nothing to individuals who have lots of information concerning how more of my fellow countrymen and "citizens of the world" are going to die at their hands. Whatever the debate is, it's wrong.
Let's try an alternative! Freedom is the answer. Set them free. In process set me free too. It seems the leftist government we now have is more worried about protecting criminals whether they are criminals against individuals are large groups. Let the fools who wish to harm us come. Let me defend my family without fear of retribution for doing what it takes to protect the ones I love from harm, death or worst yet, fear. Even suggesting that I could feasibly do this with any amount of righteousness makes me suspect to the leftist regimes that run this country and have for a number of years.
The only reason there is any consternation happening over "torture" is that as individuals we are not free. The gov steps in and says they can protect us rather than we protect ourselves. When they fail the problem magnifies because the language has been forcefully centered on the idea that the failing government is going to fix the problem. It is weak minded, gutless, embarrassing, frankly nothing like me. I can go on for days about it. Where have all the men gone?
Monday, May 11, 2009
Water World
Is it just me or is there a real disconnect between big government, big money and real solutions? I realize that there are a lot of ideas out there and each one would certainly have to be researched and justified. However, what gets me is that every time there is some “crisis” that normal people have to reconcile, through vicarious representation, the big gov., or corp. solution is nearly always worse than the original crisis. I don’t know about you but this is where I always start my thought processes when it comes to how Biggy (gov, corp) solves issues, trumped up for political or financial reasons or otherwise.
One fine example is the whole save the planet bunch in California. There is the little smelt minnow in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River deltas that is the center piece of not only environmental policy, but humanitarian policy of California’s overflowing cistern of fools. The environuts, for many years, have fought to enlist every animal they possibly can onto the endangered species list. Not only that, they have ever fought to widen the parameters on which endangered species are identified. It’s mighty convenient to have a bunch of leftist, communistic, microcosm dwelling, closed minded, money loving politicians on your side to help get over public opinion. I suppose the law enforcement arms of the left are there to ensure that no one can stand against the pure nonsense that the CA gov. is forcing not only on millions of its own citizens but also on the citizens of every other state. Frankly, it is the law that protects them from the people who end up paying for all the foolishness.
In case you were wondering what has me so twisted up about this recent blast of environmental doo doo flying in everyone’s face, it is based on the ever present consternation of the left that involves the importance of human life and activity verses the mere possibility that a certain species of minnow might become more endangered.
HERE’S THE KICKER! The river water that feeds the entire San Joaquin Valley has been shut off because some of the minnows have been caught in the turnbuckles or water diverting equipment and it is instead simply sent out to the Pacific Ocean. Okay, I realize that there has been less rain than normal and that doesn’t help anyone out there. There has also been less snow in the winters that ends up melted and in the rivers and reservoirs in the area. So here we are, after the planting season, and Biggy has decided that now is the time to turn off the water that has been supplied to the thousands of farmers and hundreds of thousands of jobs since circa 1968. Some of you cold blooded, city dwelling, environuts feel justified and perhaps like heroes for potentially making the life of a certain kind of fish easier by choking the life and livelihood out of millions, yeah, millions of hard working individuals who pay for your miserable existence. When I have to pay more for my strawberries or spinach or the times I can’t get my favorite California grown fresh fruits and veggies I will be even angrier at YOU.
The EPA and its minions are in the way of everything including green energy. The biggest reason they are so behind the green push now is that the EPA and it minions have it all under their control. If anyone thinks they don’t, try physically doing anything about issues that help the masses sustain life, let alone LIBERTY. You will have to deal with a bunch of hacks that can’t make it in the real world. They will be loaded up with devices, paper work, attitudes, sometimes long hair, and dressed in a hilarious ensemble. It looks as if your little corner of the world requires survival, or at least safari gear complete with khaki shorts, a button down short sleeve, and that safari hat! I am NOT KIDDING! Trust me; I deal with these creeps regularly. The insult to injury is that they are ALL on the dole of the government which WE finance.
I guess after all this I should at least offer an idea of just what to do for the poor folks in California who are trying to FEED AMERICA. Water is arguably the most important commodity there is. Without it, what is there? So I was thinking(don’t be scared), why don’t we treat water like oil in the way that oil is moved over thousands of miles by pipelines. I know, water IS moved in pipelines over hundreds of miles but not thousands. Move water from places where it is more abundant to places where it can be put to BETTER use. Yep, it would cost hundreds of millions. It also would have to pass the scrutiny of thousands of scum of the earth environuts and politicians too. I mean really, they do not want “problems” to be solved. Not only would it solve the water issue out in the San Joaquin Valley, but it would save 100,000 jobs, create thousands of new jobs, it would help keep our food more available, and the cost of it down. An important thing to remember is that the CA “Valley” is at a lower elevation than the northern end of the Mississippi river. I have stood on the banks of the Mississippi River in Rowher, AR watching the river flow so fast that every place where there was a point in the bank it caused whirlpools that would swallow small boats. It was close to, or over, a mile across just gushing southward. That is a LOT of water simply going out to sea. Wouldn’t taking an itsy bitsy fraction of it help the world anyways by slowing the “devastating” desalinization of the world’s oceans? The supply doesn’t have to be all the time. I have seen how our rainy season and the California rainy season are often oscillating anyways. While the Northwest has lots of water it is usually only in the winter. Besides, there is a sufficient supply of total fools up there to stifle any opportunity to help anyone else. So the best case would be an upper MS River (above Saint Louis) water line or “aqua duct” to central California. There are a few others that could fill reservoirs along the way too.
What am I thinking? With all the money hog politicians and envirofools, it’ll never work. What do you folks think?
I will post soon on how to solve the GM, Chrysler issue in America too. Yeah I got the answers!
One fine example is the whole save the planet bunch in California. There is the little smelt minnow in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River deltas that is the center piece of not only environmental policy, but humanitarian policy of California’s overflowing cistern of fools. The environuts, for many years, have fought to enlist every animal they possibly can onto the endangered species list. Not only that, they have ever fought to widen the parameters on which endangered species are identified. It’s mighty convenient to have a bunch of leftist, communistic, microcosm dwelling, closed minded, money loving politicians on your side to help get over public opinion. I suppose the law enforcement arms of the left are there to ensure that no one can stand against the pure nonsense that the CA gov. is forcing not only on millions of its own citizens but also on the citizens of every other state. Frankly, it is the law that protects them from the people who end up paying for all the foolishness.
In case you were wondering what has me so twisted up about this recent blast of environmental doo doo flying in everyone’s face, it is based on the ever present consternation of the left that involves the importance of human life and activity verses the mere possibility that a certain species of minnow might become more endangered.
HERE’S THE KICKER! The river water that feeds the entire San Joaquin Valley has been shut off because some of the minnows have been caught in the turnbuckles or water diverting equipment and it is instead simply sent out to the Pacific Ocean. Okay, I realize that there has been less rain than normal and that doesn’t help anyone out there. There has also been less snow in the winters that ends up melted and in the rivers and reservoirs in the area. So here we are, after the planting season, and Biggy has decided that now is the time to turn off the water that has been supplied to the thousands of farmers and hundreds of thousands of jobs since circa 1968. Some of you cold blooded, city dwelling, environuts feel justified and perhaps like heroes for potentially making the life of a certain kind of fish easier by choking the life and livelihood out of millions, yeah, millions of hard working individuals who pay for your miserable existence. When I have to pay more for my strawberries or spinach or the times I can’t get my favorite California grown fresh fruits and veggies I will be even angrier at YOU.
The EPA and its minions are in the way of everything including green energy. The biggest reason they are so behind the green push now is that the EPA and it minions have it all under their control. If anyone thinks they don’t, try physically doing anything about issues that help the masses sustain life, let alone LIBERTY. You will have to deal with a bunch of hacks that can’t make it in the real world. They will be loaded up with devices, paper work, attitudes, sometimes long hair, and dressed in a hilarious ensemble. It looks as if your little corner of the world requires survival, or at least safari gear complete with khaki shorts, a button down short sleeve, and that safari hat! I am NOT KIDDING! Trust me; I deal with these creeps regularly. The insult to injury is that they are ALL on the dole of the government which WE finance.
I guess after all this I should at least offer an idea of just what to do for the poor folks in California who are trying to FEED AMERICA. Water is arguably the most important commodity there is. Without it, what is there? So I was thinking(don’t be scared), why don’t we treat water like oil in the way that oil is moved over thousands of miles by pipelines. I know, water IS moved in pipelines over hundreds of miles but not thousands. Move water from places where it is more abundant to places where it can be put to BETTER use. Yep, it would cost hundreds of millions. It also would have to pass the scrutiny of thousands of scum of the earth environuts and politicians too. I mean really, they do not want “problems” to be solved. Not only would it solve the water issue out in the San Joaquin Valley, but it would save 100,000 jobs, create thousands of new jobs, it would help keep our food more available, and the cost of it down. An important thing to remember is that the CA “Valley” is at a lower elevation than the northern end of the Mississippi river. I have stood on the banks of the Mississippi River in Rowher, AR watching the river flow so fast that every place where there was a point in the bank it caused whirlpools that would swallow small boats. It was close to, or over, a mile across just gushing southward. That is a LOT of water simply going out to sea. Wouldn’t taking an itsy bitsy fraction of it help the world anyways by slowing the “devastating” desalinization of the world’s oceans? The supply doesn’t have to be all the time. I have seen how our rainy season and the California rainy season are often oscillating anyways. While the Northwest has lots of water it is usually only in the winter. Besides, there is a sufficient supply of total fools up there to stifle any opportunity to help anyone else. So the best case would be an upper MS River (above Saint Louis) water line or “aqua duct” to central California. There are a few others that could fill reservoirs along the way too.
What am I thinking? With all the money hog politicians and envirofools, it’ll never work. What do you folks think?
I will post soon on how to solve the GM, Chrysler issue in America too. Yeah I got the answers!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Crazy Weather Crazier People
All those pics I posted of the snow that fell on March 1st are viewed a good bit. I hope to post some pics I took later that day of some of the same shots. By 1pm the snow was GONE. The following Monday the temps reached 81F....27C for those who love alternative metrics.
For the last nearly 20 years I have been complaining and carrying on about the insanity that is a bonding agent between leftists and political power. It really boils down to "self", but look at all the ways one can glorify his or her own existence. The primary catalyst for the last 20 or so years is all about the environment. Even in pretending that you are really helping others it really is all about you looking good and feeling good about how you look...good. The only problem is that, to folks like me, you look like a witless moron.
If I could be a judge for a day and I could be given the opportunity to resolve issues about the environmentalists I think most folks would, I dunno, invest. Imagine sitting in court and hearing a case involving an environmental group and a group of foresters. In every case the environuts seek to shut down such operations as it "is proven" to cause X amount of environmental damage. It somehow is worse than a forest fire? Anyways I would set up a standard that got all environmental groups past and present that wish to stop the flow of forest products from our plentiful woods together for one simple rule. Sure, we can stop all logging of public lands that equal up to what represents their consumptive capacity as the environuts that they are. In trade, all those who signed the petition or voted to stop forest operations will now have to live without ANY forest products in their lives, forever.
Is that a deal?
Can you imagine how your life would change? (supposing you were one of them) Can't have a vehicle because, if nothing else, much of the rubber used comes from rubber trees. Many of the parts, including the electronics, use resins straight from the woods. There is a lot of food ya can't have either. Might be because the food is from a tree that is monocultured, some of the food itself is derived from the tree, and last but not least, the packaging is almost 100% from the forest. Even what you thought was plastic might be cellophane or "super paper". Cotton is a type of tree. Look out ladies and gents....no comfy clothes. Did you know there is an ever growing percentage of electricity that is now generated with biomass? In some places that is all that is used. And your house? Lumber, linoleum,furniture, that fancy cutting board has to go. Okay...so you could be one of those folks that never bathes and never shaves... It is your right to be ugly and smelly, but it is my right to threaten you for stinking up the air I breath and messing up my view. You should also remember that staying warm is not an option. Even that broken up, dried out piece of wood that taunts you in the winter is, was, or will be food and or shelter for some precious creature, but not you, because you aren't precious at all. Gosh, not much left of you now. Your poor kids! They are going to be dumber than rocks. The paper, pencils, desks, and many of the teaching tools will no longer be allowed in your life. Maybe you don't mind going back to cuneiform written with chisels.
If you did all these things and thought you had the upper hand just wait until someone brings up the fact that basically all the east and much of the west was covered in timber. Even steel and many other products including the food in your life come from ground that had to be stripped for you to have the life you do. So, just do us all a favor! Move to the Sahara and carve out a living over there. It'll be a perfect fit. You and your children will be illiterate, ugly, smelly, probably starving, and you will have to use your hand to clean your backside. Hope you like your new life. I know I will be enjoying your absence too!
God Bless!
Daniel
For the last nearly 20 years I have been complaining and carrying on about the insanity that is a bonding agent between leftists and political power. It really boils down to "self", but look at all the ways one can glorify his or her own existence. The primary catalyst for the last 20 or so years is all about the environment. Even in pretending that you are really helping others it really is all about you looking good and feeling good about how you look...good. The only problem is that, to folks like me, you look like a witless moron.
If I could be a judge for a day and I could be given the opportunity to resolve issues about the environmentalists I think most folks would, I dunno, invest. Imagine sitting in court and hearing a case involving an environmental group and a group of foresters. In every case the environuts seek to shut down such operations as it "is proven" to cause X amount of environmental damage. It somehow is worse than a forest fire? Anyways I would set up a standard that got all environmental groups past and present that wish to stop the flow of forest products from our plentiful woods together for one simple rule. Sure, we can stop all logging of public lands that equal up to what represents their consumptive capacity as the environuts that they are. In trade, all those who signed the petition or voted to stop forest operations will now have to live without ANY forest products in their lives, forever.
Is that a deal?
Can you imagine how your life would change? (supposing you were one of them) Can't have a vehicle because, if nothing else, much of the rubber used comes from rubber trees. Many of the parts, including the electronics, use resins straight from the woods. There is a lot of food ya can't have either. Might be because the food is from a tree that is monocultured, some of the food itself is derived from the tree, and last but not least, the packaging is almost 100% from the forest. Even what you thought was plastic might be cellophane or "super paper". Cotton is a type of tree. Look out ladies and gents....no comfy clothes. Did you know there is an ever growing percentage of electricity that is now generated with biomass? In some places that is all that is used. And your house? Lumber, linoleum,furniture, that fancy cutting board has to go. Okay...so you could be one of those folks that never bathes and never shaves... It is your right to be ugly and smelly, but it is my right to threaten you for stinking up the air I breath and messing up my view. You should also remember that staying warm is not an option. Even that broken up, dried out piece of wood that taunts you in the winter is, was, or will be food and or shelter for some precious creature, but not you, because you aren't precious at all. Gosh, not much left of you now. Your poor kids! They are going to be dumber than rocks. The paper, pencils, desks, and many of the teaching tools will no longer be allowed in your life. Maybe you don't mind going back to cuneiform written with chisels.
If you did all these things and thought you had the upper hand just wait until someone brings up the fact that basically all the east and much of the west was covered in timber. Even steel and many other products including the food in your life come from ground that had to be stripped for you to have the life you do. So, just do us all a favor! Move to the Sahara and carve out a living over there. It'll be a perfect fit. You and your children will be illiterate, ugly, smelly, probably starving, and you will have to use your hand to clean your backside. Hope you like your new life. I know I will be enjoying your absence too!
God Bless!
Daniel
Friday, February 20, 2009
Meet Nonman
All my life I have been followed around by this character. He shows up in many different capacities. Sometimes he's in a uniform enjoying gravy. Sometimes he turns out to be one of those creeps that works for big brother and spends all his time figuring out what everyone is doing wrong. Yet other times this Nonman simply exists in an amazing tapestry of life not knowing where he comes from or how his existence is even possible. We feed him and clothe him. We entrust him with our destiny every two years, but every four if he is even less of a man. Most times he owns no land and has little to lose because he has no idea what true wealth is. He may have a small lot with a huge house. He may have an expensive four wheel drive vehicle with outrageous capacity to get things done but, he does nothing, really. Then again he may have nothing at all. In any case, this character, Nonman, are many, and is like a dark cloud over this country and especially in my life. They come from all walks, creeds, and colors. Every once in a while I will share stories about Nonman. Many of you will be able to relate. Hopefully you will relate as one who knows but not one who is. God help us all. We must change this.
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