I’m guessing they didn’t have enough money to put up the usual bribe so the natives tossed them in the “lesson for future victims” basket.
This is a great little con game for the barbarians of New Zealand – (1) See a new building under construction. (2) Send the boys from the tribe in to plant “historical remains” at night. (3) Bribe a construction worker to “discover” them the next morning. (4) Work is halted until the check from the construction company clears the bank. (5) If no bribe is forthcoming, order the construction company to build a “Heritage Building” and charge the tourists to see the “historic discovery.”
Naturally, the white owned construction company and the NZ government must do everything for free so the tribe can profit 100%…
BTW, have the barbarians of New Zealand built casinos yet on their “native” lands?
It’s the big thing here in the States where an Indian tribe “discovers” tribal land near a big city, takes control of it and builds a casino – The profits naturally going to the Chief and his lackeys.
An excellent theory, and one I don’t doubt is beneath them.
Milo:
‘It’s interesting that female trolls are almost entirely ignored by the media. When, at the end of July 2013, Labour MP Stella Creasy and the campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez “were subjected to a torrent of violent abuse on Twitter,” it was only the male trolls who initially got the spotlight. The woman who went to jail — for longer than the bloke, because she had form — was ignored until her plea and sentencing.
A Google News search query shows that no media outlets reported on the woman’s arrest, despite heavily featuring the simultaneous arrests of men. They only reported on her conviction. 318 articles cover the male arrests; none cover hers…’ http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/17/someone-just-accused-me-of-plotting-an-assassination-attempt/
I’ve only recently discovered Milo, but I have to say, the guy does have a way with words. He sticks it to the sisterhood with great style (which is awesome, since (a) he isn’t of a type who “sticks it” to the sisters at all, and (b) being one of those types, he can get away with sticking it good and deep!
The email he sent to Con-merchan St Liar telling her he wants a public retraction and apology is a fantastic fire-with-fire move.
He and Ben Shapiro had the most hilarious flame play-fight on Twitter last week. It was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Anything of his has become a “must read”.
If the British parliament bans Trump – the U.S. Congress will ban the Brits.
MARK MY WORDS!
America is in no mood these days to be fucked with – even by our First Cousins.
The thinking these days by many Western people is irrational, emotional and suicidal.
On a more positive note gasoline is falling to less than a dollar a gallon in many states…1960s style gas wars where stations on the same intersection LOWER their prices to attract customers.
We’re still paying close to $7 a gallon for premium grade, Ronbo.
YES! I punted a B61 from Adelaide to northern W.A. in my youth. The B61 “Thermodyne” looked a little different to that, but the gearchange was the same. Fond memories….
Kind of a long story,but my old buddy Pete’s first job after returning home from a stint in the Army in Vietnam was driving a B model Mack for an earthmoving company.
He was pulling a lowboy with a TD 24 International dozer(not a small machine) and a Sheepsfoot packer on it.They were working a job not far from here widening a two lane road into a four lane divided highway.Most of the heavy dirt work had been done,so the dozer was being moved to the next job,the last remaining section of two lane was a bottle neck at the bottom of a hill crossing an old wooden pile bridge. He knew the brakes on the truck and trailer were going to be maxed out,so no stopping and going slow down the hill on the slick clay was a must.
He waited until there was no one coming and started down,about two thirds way there in 2ND Low he said the tires on the drive axles started losing grip,so he quick clutched, shifted up and decided to let her go.He was committed at that point,he glanced down at his air gauge and tach and about the time he looked up,all the sudden there was a loaded school bus headed down the opposite side and about to share the bridge with him at a rapid clip.
Normally this would not have been a big deal,except the dozer blade was a good two feet past the edge of the trailer so not enough room and no stopping now.He did the only thing he could and put the truck in the ditch just before the bridge.Truck went off the edge,steering axle tore loose from the mounts and shoved back under the cab and the whole rig slid off into the creek and laid over on it’s side,dropping the dozer off the trailer and into the drink.
Soon as he came to a stop,he climbed out the wreck and ran up the embankment to see if the bus had made it through okay.To his relief the bus was fine,and stopped just over the bridge where he had been a few seconds before.He said as he and the bus were passing each other all he remembered seeing were the faces of the three kids sitting on his side of the bus.
He used the bus radio to call the sheriff and then his boss.There was nothing he could say except,”sorry sir,but I just wrecked your truck and dozer”his boss,the owner of the company said he would be right over with a winch truck and crew to pull the mess out of the creek.
Pete said he waited probably an hour helping the sheriff flag traffic around the wreck all the time thinking he was fired or worse.The owner of the company finally arrived,Pete helped get the wreck out of the creek and loaded up on a couple other trucks and trailers,meanwhile his boss was talking over what happened with the Sheriff when the buss driver returned from dropping the rest of the kids off at their homes and joined them in the conversation.A few minutes later the three went their separate ways and his boss walked over towards him.
Pete told his boss as he walked up-“well I guess I’m fired huh?” The Boss smiled as he walked by and said “nope” which kinda shocked Pete,at which point he turned in the same direction as the boss caught his shoulder and told him-“the bus driver and sheriff told me what happened,I don’t give a damn about the truck and dozer,somewhere there are new ones being built as we speak,but those kids are irreplaceable,go home and sleep well you done good”.
Fond memories indeed….
Makes a 18sp RR look easy. The only 2 stick I drove was a Cat DW15 motor scraper. 5 and 2. Split shifting every gear going up meant hands off the wheel and both on the levers.
Guess the guy in the video was behaving for the camera but doing a fine job anyway.
Cut me teeth on TD24 and 25 dozers
Good stuff!
That’s the kind of boss you brush off a hangover for and come in at 4am because some other guy called in sick.
Too right!
Only 5&2 I ever drove was a 30 ton Lorain Speeder Truck crane.It was to say the least exciting to drive,tandem steer axles made the turning radius weird and it didn’t help there was 40′ of stick out front with the hook and ball swinging out over traffic.
It was fun running that hook out over a car parked at a stop light just to see the drivers reaction to seeing this massive hook appear out of nowhere
Fascinating stuff:
‘Scientists find cancer growth follows same mathematical law that predicts earthquakes.’
Liberal news rag,not the USMC,makes me wonder if Sgt Hess even exists.
‘Blow up the administrative state
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to amend the Constitution. His proposed changes: Prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one state. Require Congress to balance its budget. Prohibit administrative agencies — and the un-elected bureaucrats that staff them — from creating federal law. Prohibit administrative agencies — and the un-elected bureaucrats that staff them — from preempting state law. Allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law…’
The project is gathering steam. I suspect a 10 minute conversation with Mark Levin would alleviate Professor Reynolds’ fears about a Convention of States.
Any Republican politician NOT advocating a Convention should face a strong primary; it really is that simple.
The Constitution has already been dicked so hard for so long why does anyone think making terms like “shall not be infringed” (somehow) less ambiguous will solve the problem?
The problem is not the Constitution. The problem is the comfort of the people entrusted to defend it. The American people.
Worse than useless, it’s a dangerous move that could see the Constitution radically shifted leftward, destroying any semblance of a moral high ground to rally to.
Absolutely. That’s why the amendments Levin proposed in his book The Liberty Amendments would specifically limit the government. There are (I think) 11 proposed amendments, including term limits for both Congresscritters AND Supreme Court Justices, strict limits on spending, limits on what the bureaucracy can do (and how the States can respond). You should read it, it gives hope that the Republic can be saved.
Sorry for the late reply.
These amendments would instantly place the US in a state of financial default.
They make great sense for when you’re sifting through the rubble trying not to make the same mistakes again, but they seem to fail to take into account the astronomical national debt currently in play.
But there again,with the amendments, financial default is a possibility,but if we continue on the path we are on it is a certainty.
Sorry mate, you lost me there. How would they place the US in financial default?
I guess the best way to felony assault cops in New Zealand is to do it drunk and tell the judge, “This was out of character for me! When I’m sober I simply love the police and would never give them a disease.”
JEEZ!
hmmm. Assaulted a police officer. Breaching bail conditions. Both of which exhibit a complete lack of respect for both the police and the Judge. But no worries, off you go. She must be a member of a certain protected class.
Recently started a pharmaceutical career. I wonder what she’ll be cooking up?
Gantt: In my experience Judges have no idea how to deal with intoxication.(Other than driving offences.) The general trend is to regard being under the influence of alcohol as a mitigating factor when laws are broken. I have difficulty with this notion. If somebody voluntarily imbibes then that is a decision for which they must be accountable. Ipso-facto, they ought be accountable for all of their conduct while under the influence. In past decades intoxication was dealt with as a form of temporary insanity, hence today’s Judges see it as mitigating, while I suggest it is aggravating.
Can’t think of what to add, except … Hell, yeah!
Ole Remus has some words for you on the latest Woodpile Report:
From the link:
‘..Trump is not tapping into anger. He’s tapping into the sensibility of the great majority. The people look up and see an endless parade of frivolous parasites who defend nothing but their own prerogatives at the expense of everyone else. What’s the point of voting for one party or the other when both sides are colluding against your interests? Why do we have these parties?..’
Why do we have these [political] parties?..
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Like the conservative Jewish-Russian man said in “Fiddler On The Roof” – “and you ask me why do we wear beards, have a prayer shawl underneath our coats, and wear a hat inside the house? I’ll tell you true, stranger, I DON’T KNOW! It’s a TRADITION!”
This is my concern with Cruz. Once you’re part of that system for long enough then everything is viewed through that prism.
The republic starts as the NFL. Over the centuries it ends up as badminton and we wonder why the professional badminton players can’t toss a 50 yard pass or punch through a row of linebackers.
I don’t have the cheap bandwidth suitable for watching the videos but the small amount of text was well worth the visit.
“The republic starts as the NFL”
@ Bo – maybe the republic is dead. Maybe we are in a 21st Century version of “I, Claudius” where everyone in Rome – including the Emperor Claudius – wants the republic restored….and maybe like the book and BBC mini series – it ain’t gonna happen.
Maybe we have departed the good republic and entered the evil empire of the Caesars?
Aristotle said political science boiled down to a cycle – and maybe the cycle has returned to the tyranny stage.
Everything that is required to run a functioning civilisation will still be there the day after the traitors are hung.
I hold to the belief that a change is in the wind. Nobody in modern society, no matter how comfortable, is keen to live their lives wondering whether the next guy that gets on the bus is going to shout Allah Akhbar and kill them.
Via Breitbart – Farage unloads on the EU. As is usual from Farage a bollocking!
Shortly after six Canadians were killed by Islamist terrorists Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a moment of silence for the deceased at a Peterborough mosque.
HUH?
Headline in The Australian:
‘Turnbull contacts Clinton, Rubio
Malcolm Turnbull prepares for rise of new US president by speaking to major contenders on both sides in Washington.’
One is being investigated by the FBI and may face criminal charges, the other is a crypto-leftist in favour of massive muslim immigration! (He’s not even the first or second front-runner)
I heard today that Palin has endorsed Trump. Any thoughts on the affects stemming form her endorsement?
Much as I like Palin, Cad, I think her endorsement could be a negative thanks to the relentless campaign waged against her by the media.
Yep, agreed. I also think it diminishes the previously-untouchable Palin. News out this afternoon she endorsed the Chamber of Crony Capitalism’s Iowa governor.
I would say the EU chambers would be a great place for a terrorist attack,but I don’t think the muslims would do it out of professional courtesy,similar objectives and what not.
Quite…
Ignorant, vicious Brit bitch tries political commentary:
‘In Sarah Palin, Donald Trump has finally found someone crazier than he is’
Read it, and be amazed that a supposedly “respectable” newspaper would carry this demented cow’s sewage on the front page. Or at all.
Ms Hartley-Brewer does what she herself accuses Palin of doing.
Sorry in advance, Gantt.
From Steyn. “…but Cruz’s wife Heidi co-authored a report on the “North American Union” for the Council on Foreign Relations…”
For those that don’t know, the North American Union is a project to strip all relevant governing authority away from Mexico, Canada and the USA in favour of something like the European Union, only in America.
Cruz claims his wife joined as a dissenting voice. Considering the final recommendations (a collectivist wet-dream) I fail to see how she could allow her name to remain on it. It would be like co-authoring “Mein Kampf” as a dissenting voice and, receiving no concessions to the final product, allowing your name to be put on it anyway.
If that’s the case, I agree it’s cause for considerable concern and she should have insisted on her name being removed (although to counter, I’d point out that Christoper Monckton appears in the list of reviewers (or was it authors? Can’t recall) of the IPCC reports on climate change).
But then I simply can’t get past:
20-plus years as a Liberal Democrat
donating to Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio (among many, many other Democrats)
massive donations to the Clinton Money Laundering Foundation
taking loans from GEORGE SOROS
blatant pandering in Iowa on the ethanol subsidies
bragging about how he’ll be able to work with the Establishment and GOP Leadership when the vast majority of the GOP base want those pandering suck-holes kicked to the curb
the absolutely ludicrous birther attacks, followed up with the “he’s nasty because he can’t work with Mitch McConnell, he called McConnell a liar and that wasn’t nice” when Cruz is, in fact, one of the top two most popular politicians in Texas (the other being Greg Abbott).
There is no perfect candidate. But without any shade of a doubt, Cruz is the most Conservative candidate in the race and will stick most faithfully to the Constitution. If we’re at the “fuck it, let’s burn the house down” stage, then by all means, give Trump a gas can and zippo. Better yet, let Bernie at it.
The last two sentences, absolutely.
The establishment Republicans have had two years to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and instead they sat around checking their stock options and inventing excuses for their failure.
Nothing about Cruz screams to me that he has the force of personality to take the reins and change the course. Trump might be an outside bet, but if you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.
That, and every one of the political class has been against him from day one, so it’s either the largest most elaborate reverse psychology psyop in history or a good indication that the insiders consider him a threat.
Or just maybe he really is a Dem plant (having been a Dem his entire adult life), and the GOP really are that stupid?
Either way, it makes little difference. Either Trump or Cruz will be a million times better than Biden (anyone who still thinks it will be Hillary has their head stuck up their ass).
I’d still like to think (per Darin) that it’s all theatre and we can look forward to 2 terms of Trump/Cruz followed by 2 terms of Cruz/?
I’ll drink to that (port on ice).
On another topic, American Conservative University recently posted a podcast of Dinesh D’Souza reading the first chapter of his book ‘Stealing America’. It’s a gripping listen, and if you can get through to the end without conjuring images of the Soviet show-trials, I’ll buy you a beer. This man was targeted, prosecuted, persecuted, imprisoned and (in spectacular Orwellian-Soviet style) branded mentally unwell for the act of opposing the Obama imperial putsch.
That’s an excellent article. And it sure rings true.
Very telling. When two party left-right politics becomes lose/lose then it falls to someone to come along and scoop up the middle.
Want a cheap hobby you can do from the comfort of your home?
Here’s an idea. Buy a second hand smartphone and set up a fake twitter or facebook account for your local asshole bureaucrat. Same name but no picture. Cut and paste boring vanilla updates. “Just got a haircut.” “Car broke down today.” Etc. Make all posts private. Several months later wait for an immigrant to get up to their typical hijinks and then change the profile pics to ones of the bureaucrat and make all posts(past and present) public. Fly into a vitriolic bigoted hatefest.
Then, report your fake account to the press as a “concerned citizen” as well as to the Minister for “Whatever”. In the infancy of the angry backlash use an anonymous account to say “I found this guy’s home address” and post it.
Pop open the deck chair, grab some popcorn and enjoy the spectacle.
Throw in some “inappropriate adult entertainment” and some “sexist” tweets regarding women and it’s off to the races
Add a reference to alcohol consumption to infer that the true feelings of the individual in question are slipping free.
The Gantt Guy says,
“There is no perfect candidate. But without any shade of a doubt, Cruz is the most Conservative candidate in the race and will stick most faithfully to the Constitution. If we’re at the “fuck it, let’s burn the house down” stage, then by all means, give Trump a gas can and zippo. Better yet, let Bernie at it.”
First of all, Bernie The Commie ain’t gonna be the Democrat pick for The Nod – It’s Hillary Clinton EVEN IF INDICTED (which I doubt) – But let’s play the “what if” game and ole Bernie The Commie gets the Democrat nomination. He won’t get elected in America: NO HOW, NO WAY! Americans will vote for socialists, but only if they say they’re really, really, REALLY not the color Red, as Obama proved in 2008 and 2012.
On the other hand, the Country Class – The Serfs – The Peons – The Proles – The Tea Party – or whatever we revolutionists are calling ourselves this week will vote for an authoritarian nationalist CEO like Trump who likely will continue with the Imperial Presidency Model of dictatorial style rule – just as long as he gives us the illusion of living in a free country where our voices actually matter.
…and, yes, we will hand him a can of gasoline and a zippo to burn the Ruling Class and the Capitol Building down!
You’re right, Ronbo in the sense it ain’t gonna be Bernie. But it won’t be Hillary either. The Dem ticket will be either Biden/Fauxcahontas or Biden/Mooch.
Hillary simply can’t survive. There are 150 agents, plus the Director, who will walk if she isn’t indicted. Obama despises her and will be happy to instruct his servant the AG to get the indictment done, but not until the appropriate moment (maybe even after the Convention). Once indicted, she will be persuaded to stand down lest the other skeletons come tumbling out of her closet of 40-years of fraud, corruption and murder. If she doesn’t, well … maybe that problem in her brain gets a lot worse and she suffers an aneurysm. If it’s after the Convention the DNC will have to make up rules to decide what to do (my guess is “give it to the runner-up” won’t be their first choice). Ultimately, the nominee will be decided by the DNC, whose members will all suddenly have abandoned the Clinton faction in favour of the newly-supreme Obama faction.
“whose members will all suddenly have abandoned the Clinton faction in favour of the newly-supreme Obama faction.”
Whose handlers will continue to rule by proxy, ja?
Some really good news for a change
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/12104774/Miraculous-results-from-new-MS-treatment.html
Great stuff!
I’m guessing they didn’t have enough money to put up the usual bribe so the natives tossed them in the “lesson for future victims” basket.
This is a great little con game for the barbarians of New Zealand – (1) See a new building under construction. (2) Send the boys from the tribe in to plant “historical remains” at night. (3) Bribe a construction worker to “discover” them the next morning. (4) Work is halted until the check from the construction company clears the bank. (5) If no bribe is forthcoming, order the construction company to build a “Heritage Building” and charge the tourists to see the “historic discovery.”
Naturally, the white owned construction company and the NZ government must do everything for free so the tribe can profit 100%…
BTW, have the barbarians of New Zealand built casinos yet on their “native” lands?
It’s the big thing here in the States where an Indian tribe “discovers” tribal land near a big city, takes control of it and builds a casino – The profits naturally going to the Chief and his lackeys.
An excellent theory, and one I don’t doubt is beneath them.
Bungling Brits and banning Trump
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/18/uk-mps-debating-whether-to-ban-donald-trump-shows-how-weak-british-democracy-is/
Well, that’d slightly improve the tone of the event.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/01/17/jada-pinkett-smith-suggests-boycotting-oscars-over-all-white-nominations/
Milo:
‘It’s interesting that female trolls are almost entirely ignored by the media. When, at the end of July 2013, Labour MP Stella Creasy and the campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez “were subjected to a torrent of violent abuse on Twitter,” it was only the male trolls who initially got the spotlight. The woman who went to jail — for longer than the bloke, because she had form — was ignored until her plea and sentencing.
A Google News search query shows that no media outlets reported on the woman’s arrest, despite heavily featuring the simultaneous arrests of men. They only reported on her conviction. 318 articles cover the male arrests; none cover hers…’
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/17/someone-just-accused-me-of-plotting-an-assassination-attempt/
I’ve only recently discovered Milo, but I have to say, the guy does have a way with words. He sticks it to the sisterhood with great style (which is awesome, since (a) he isn’t of a type who “sticks it” to the sisters at all, and (b) being one of those types, he can get away with sticking it good and deep!
The email he sent to Con-merchan St Liar telling her he wants a public retraction and apology is a fantastic fire-with-fire move.
He and Ben Shapiro had the most hilarious flame play-fight on Twitter last week. It was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Anything of his has become a “must read”.
If the British parliament bans Trump – the U.S. Congress will ban the Brits.
MARK MY WORDS!
America is in no mood these days to be fucked with – even by our First Cousins.
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2016/01/if-british-parliament-bans-trump-from.html
The Congress won’t do Jack Shit, ronbo. They’ve proven the past 7 years that they love tyranny. They despise Trump. Why would they act?
‘The younger generation’s new wave of political correctness is a danger to society’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/the-younger-generations-new-wave-of-political-correctness-is-a-d/
The thinking these days by many Western people is irrational, emotional and suicidal.
On a more positive note gasoline is falling to less than a dollar a gallon in many states…1960s style gas wars where stations on the same intersection LOWER their prices to attract customers.
We’re still paying close to $7 a gallon for premium grade, Ronbo.
Outback dentistry?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3404043/Watch-bush-dentist-remove-two-rotten-teeth-man-using-pair-pliers-wooden-bat-cardboard.html
….and I have to go to the dentist tomorrow!
Gee, thanks Darin, ole buddy!
Mack B61 two stick and Fruehauf trailer
https://youtu.be/SZy61CxNBBY
YES! I punted a B61 from Adelaide to northern W.A. in my youth. The B61 “Thermodyne” looked a little different to that, but the gearchange was the same.
Fond memories….
Kind of a long story,but my old buddy Pete’s first job after returning home from a stint in the Army in Vietnam was driving a B model Mack for an earthmoving company.
He was pulling a lowboy with a TD 24 International dozer(not a small machine) and a Sheepsfoot packer on it.They were working a job not far from here widening a two lane road into a four lane divided highway.Most of the heavy dirt work had been done,so the dozer was being moved to the next job,the last remaining section of two lane was a bottle neck at the bottom of a hill crossing an old wooden pile bridge. He knew the brakes on the truck and trailer were going to be maxed out,so no stopping and going slow down the hill on the slick clay was a must.
He waited until there was no one coming and started down,about two thirds way there in 2ND Low he said the tires on the drive axles started losing grip,so he quick clutched, shifted up and decided to let her go.He was committed at that point,he glanced down at his air gauge and tach and about the time he looked up,all the sudden there was a loaded school bus headed down the opposite side and about to share the bridge with him at a rapid clip.
Normally this would not have been a big deal,except the dozer blade was a good two feet past the edge of the trailer so not enough room and no stopping now.He did the only thing he could and put the truck in the ditch just before the bridge.Truck went off the edge,steering axle tore loose from the mounts and shoved back under the cab and the whole rig slid off into the creek and laid over on it’s side,dropping the dozer off the trailer and into the drink.
Soon as he came to a stop,he climbed out the wreck and ran up the embankment to see if the bus had made it through okay.To his relief the bus was fine,and stopped just over the bridge where he had been a few seconds before.He said as he and the bus were passing each other all he remembered seeing were the faces of the three kids sitting on his side of the bus.
He used the bus radio to call the sheriff and then his boss.There was nothing he could say except,”sorry sir,but I just wrecked your truck and dozer”his boss,the owner of the company said he would be right over with a winch truck and crew to pull the mess out of the creek.
Pete said he waited probably an hour helping the sheriff flag traffic around the wreck all the time thinking he was fired or worse.The owner of the company finally arrived,Pete helped get the wreck out of the creek and loaded up on a couple other trucks and trailers,meanwhile his boss was talking over what happened with the Sheriff when the buss driver returned from dropping the rest of the kids off at their homes and joined them in the conversation.A few minutes later the three went their separate ways and his boss walked over towards him.
Pete told his boss as he walked up-“well I guess I’m fired huh?” The Boss smiled as he walked by and said “nope” which kinda shocked Pete,at which point he turned in the same direction as the boss caught his shoulder and told him-“the bus driver and sheriff told me what happened,I don’t give a damn about the truck and dozer,somewhere there are new ones being built as we speak,but those kids are irreplaceable,go home and sleep well you done good”.
Fond memories indeed….
Makes a 18sp RR look easy. The only 2 stick I drove was a Cat DW15 motor scraper. 5 and 2. Split shifting every gear going up meant hands off the wheel and both on the levers.
Guess the guy in the video was behaving for the camera but doing a fine job anyway.
Cut me teeth on TD24 and 25 dozers
That’s the kind of boss you brush off a hangover for and come in at 4am because some other guy called in sick.
Too right!
Only 5&2 I ever drove was a 30 ton Lorain Speeder Truck crane.It was to say the least exciting to drive,tandem steer axles made the turning radius weird and it didn’t help there was 40′ of stick out front with the hook and ball swinging out over traffic.
It was fun running that hook out over a car parked at a stop light just to see the drivers reaction to seeing this massive hook appear out of nowhere
Fascinating stuff:
‘Scientists find cancer growth follows same mathematical law that predicts earthquakes.’
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11576076
WTF!
‘Marine Corps Times Urges Vets to Support Gun Control’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/18/marine-corps-time-urges-veterans-to-support-gun-control/
Liberal news rag,not the USMC,makes me wonder if Sgt Hess even exists.
‘Blow up the administrative state
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to amend the Constitution. His proposed changes: Prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one state. Require Congress to balance its budget. Prohibit administrative agencies — and the un-elected bureaucrats that staff them — from creating federal law. Prohibit administrative agencies — and the un-elected bureaucrats that staff them — from preempting state law. Allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law…’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/18/glenn-reynolds-constitution-amendments-convention-greg-abbott-column/78933518/
The project is gathering steam. I suspect a 10 minute conversation with Mark Levin would alleviate Professor Reynolds’ fears about a Convention of States.
Any Republican politician NOT advocating a Convention should face a strong primary; it really is that simple.
http://www.conventionofstates.com/
Personally I think it’s a waste of time.
The Constitution has already been dicked so hard for so long why does anyone think making terms like “shall not be infringed” (somehow) less ambiguous will solve the problem?
The problem is not the Constitution. The problem is the comfort of the people entrusted to defend it. The American people.
Worse than useless, it’s a dangerous move that could see the Constitution radically shifted leftward, destroying any semblance of a moral high ground to rally to.
Absolutely. That’s why the amendments Levin proposed in his book The Liberty Amendments would specifically limit the government. There are (I think) 11 proposed amendments, including term limits for both Congresscritters AND Supreme Court Justices, strict limits on spending, limits on what the bureaucracy can do (and how the States can respond). You should read it, it gives hope that the Republic can be saved.
Sorry for the late reply.
These amendments would instantly place the US in a state of financial default.
They make great sense for when you’re sifting through the rubble trying not to make the same mistakes again, but they seem to fail to take into account the astronomical national debt currently in play.
But there again,with the amendments, financial default is a possibility,but if we continue on the path we are on it is a certainty.
Sorry mate, you lost me there. How would they place the US in financial default?
Unreal!
‘Spits in cop’s eye, no conviction
“I’ve got herpes, I hope you like it,” said woman after being ejected from Hamilton bar…’
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/76038050/woman-spits-in-cops-eye-after-valentines-day-celebrations-go-wrong
I guess the best way to felony assault cops in New Zealand is to do it drunk and tell the judge, “This was out of character for me! When I’m sober I simply love the police and would never give them a disease.”
JEEZ!
hmmm. Assaulted a police officer. Breaching bail conditions. Both of which exhibit a complete lack of respect for both the police and the Judge. But no worries, off you go. She must be a member of a certain protected class.
Recently started a pharmaceutical career. I wonder what she’ll be cooking up?
Gantt: In my experience Judges have no idea how to deal with intoxication.(Other than driving offences.) The general trend is to regard being under the influence of alcohol as a mitigating factor when laws are broken. I have difficulty with this notion. If somebody voluntarily imbibes then that is a decision for which they must be accountable. Ipso-facto, they ought be accountable for all of their conduct while under the influence. In past decades intoxication was dealt with as a form of temporary insanity, hence today’s Judges see it as mitigating, while I suggest it is aggravating.
Can’t think of what to add, except … Hell, yeah!
Ole Remus has some words for you on the latest Woodpile Report:
http://www.woodpilereport.com/
Anger Fantasies
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=6236
Via Ol’ Remus.
Trigger warnings: Trump
From the link:
‘..Trump is not tapping into anger. He’s tapping into the sensibility of the great majority. The people look up and see an endless parade of frivolous parasites who defend nothing but their own prerogatives at the expense of everyone else. What’s the point of voting for one party or the other when both sides are colluding against your interests? Why do we have these parties?..’
Why do we have these [political] parties?..
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Like the conservative Jewish-Russian man said in “Fiddler On The Roof” – “and you ask me why do we wear beards, have a prayer shawl underneath our coats, and wear a hat inside the house? I’ll tell you true, stranger, I DON’T KNOW! It’s a TRADITION!”
This is my concern with Cruz. Once you’re part of that system for long enough then everything is viewed through that prism.
The republic starts as the NFL. Over the centuries it ends up as badminton and we wonder why the professional badminton players can’t toss a 50 yard pass or punch through a row of linebackers.
Also via Remus.
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/2016/01/11/ready-aim-truth-how-prepared-good-guys-protect-themselves-and-others-part-1/78655818/
I don’t have the cheap bandwidth suitable for watching the videos but the small amount of text was well worth the visit.
“The republic starts as the NFL”
@ Bo – maybe the republic is dead. Maybe we are in a 21st Century version of “I, Claudius” where everyone in Rome – including the Emperor Claudius – wants the republic restored….and maybe like the book and BBC mini series – it ain’t gonna happen.
Maybe we have departed the good republic and entered the evil empire of the Caesars?
Aristotle said political science boiled down to a cycle – and maybe the cycle has returned to the tyranny stage.
Everything that is required to run a functioning civilisation will still be there the day after the traitors are hung.
I hold to the belief that a change is in the wind. Nobody in modern society, no matter how comfortable, is keen to live their lives wondering whether the next guy that gets on the bus is going to shout Allah Akhbar and kill them.
Via Breitbart – Farage unloads on the EU. As is usual from Farage a bollocking!
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/19/watch-farage-unloads-on-eu-elite-over-cologne-silence/
What a fucking idiot!
Shortly after six Canadians were killed by Islamist terrorists Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a moment of silence for the deceased at a Peterborough mosque.
http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/01/18/trudeaus-mosque-visit-raises-questions
He’s a muslim,simple.
Today’s NZ Herald nannying anti-alcohol bullshit:
‘This mother drank while pregnant. Here’s what her daughter’s like at 43’
What about the millions of women who drink while pregnant and go on to have perfectly healthy, normal children? Muslims have more defective children due to intermarriage. Will we see the Herald take up that subject?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11576541
HUH?
Headline in The Australian:
‘Turnbull contacts Clinton, Rubio
Malcolm Turnbull prepares for rise of new US president by speaking to major contenders on both sides in Washington.’
One is being investigated by the FBI and may face criminal charges, the other is a crypto-leftist in favour of massive muslim immigration! (He’s not even the first or second front-runner)
I heard today that Palin has endorsed Trump. Any thoughts on the affects stemming form her endorsement?
Much as I like Palin, Cad, I think her endorsement could be a negative thanks to the relentless campaign waged against her by the media.
Yep, agreed. I also think it diminishes the previously-untouchable Palin. News out this afternoon she endorsed the Chamber of Crony Capitalism’s Iowa governor.
That could be a disastrous move.
EU wants to force men to do more HOUSEWORK
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/636236/European-Union-EU-Brussels-force-men-housework-equality-Labour-MEPs
I would say the EU chambers would be a great place for a terrorist attack,but I don’t think the muslims would do it out of professional courtesy,similar objectives and what not.
Ignorant, vicious Brit bitch tries political commentary:
‘In Sarah Palin, Donald Trump has finally found someone crazier than he is’
‘Julia Hartley-Brewer:The bizarrely-coiffed tycoon has teamed up with the famously tongue-tied former Alaskan governor. But will she be an asset or a liability?’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/12110017/In-Sarah-Palin-Donald-Trump-has-finally-found-someone-crazier-than-he-is.html
Read it, and be amazed that a supposedly “respectable” newspaper would carry this demented cow’s sewage on the front page. Or at all.
Ms Hartley-Brewer does what she herself accuses Palin of doing.
Sorry in advance, Gantt.
From Steyn. “…but Cruz’s wife Heidi co-authored a report on the “North American Union” for the Council on Foreign Relations…”
For those that don’t know, the North American Union is a project to strip all relevant governing authority away from Mexico, Canada and the USA in favour of something like the European Union, only in America.
Here’s the link: http://www.cfr.org/competitiveness/task-force-urges-measures-strengthen-north-american-competitiveness-expand-trade-ensure-border-security/p8104
Cruz claims his wife joined as a dissenting voice. Considering the final recommendations (a collectivist wet-dream) I fail to see how she could allow her name to remain on it. It would be like co-authoring “Mein Kampf” as a dissenting voice and, receiving no concessions to the final product, allowing your name to be put on it anyway.
If that’s the case, I agree it’s cause for considerable concern and she should have insisted on her name being removed (although to counter, I’d point out that Christoper Monckton appears in the list of reviewers (or was it authors? Can’t recall) of the IPCC reports on climate change).
But then I simply can’t get past:
There is no perfect candidate. But without any shade of a doubt, Cruz is the most Conservative candidate in the race and will stick most faithfully to the Constitution. If we’re at the “fuck it, let’s burn the house down” stage, then by all means, give Trump a gas can and zippo. Better yet, let Bernie at it.
The last two sentences, absolutely.
The establishment Republicans have had two years to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and instead they sat around checking their stock options and inventing excuses for their failure.
Nothing about Cruz screams to me that he has the force of personality to take the reins and change the course. Trump might be an outside bet, but if you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.
That, and every one of the political class has been against him from day one, so it’s either the largest most elaborate reverse psychology psyop in history or a good indication that the insiders consider him a threat.
Or just maybe he really is a Dem plant (having been a Dem his entire adult life), and the GOP really are that stupid?
Either way, it makes little difference. Either Trump or Cruz will be a million times better than Biden (anyone who still thinks it will be Hillary has their head stuck up their ass).
I’d still like to think (per Darin) that it’s all theatre and we can look forward to 2 terms of Trump/Cruz followed by 2 terms of Cruz/?
I’ll drink to that (port on ice).
On another topic, American Conservative University recently posted a podcast of Dinesh D’Souza reading the first chapter of his book ‘Stealing America’. It’s a gripping listen, and if you can get through to the end without conjuring images of the Soviet show-trials, I’ll buy you a beer. This man was targeted, prosecuted, persecuted, imprisoned and (in spectacular Orwellian-Soviet style) branded mentally unwell for the act of opposing the Obama imperial putsch.
http://acu.libsyn.com/show-audiobook-stealing-america-what-my-experience-with-criminal-gangs-taught-me-about-obama-hillary-and-the-democratic-party-by-dinesh-dsouza
It’s a bloody frightening story, that’s for sure.
A few things people not familiar with the South,and for that matter Blue Collar anywhere America need to understand-
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429853/donald-trump-voters-conservatism
That’s an excellent article. And it sure rings true.
Very telling. When two party left-right politics becomes lose/lose then it falls to someone to come along and scoop up the middle.
Want a cheap hobby you can do from the comfort of your home?
Here’s an idea. Buy a second hand smartphone and set up a fake twitter or facebook account for your local asshole bureaucrat. Same name but no picture. Cut and paste boring vanilla updates. “Just got a haircut.” “Car broke down today.” Etc. Make all posts private. Several months later wait for an immigrant to get up to their typical hijinks and then change the profile pics to ones of the bureaucrat and make all posts(past and present) public. Fly into a vitriolic bigoted hatefest.
Then, report your fake account to the press as a “concerned citizen” as well as to the Minister for “Whatever”. In the infancy of the angry backlash use an anonymous account to say “I found this guy’s home address” and post it.
Pop open the deck chair, grab some popcorn and enjoy the spectacle.
Throw in some “inappropriate adult entertainment” and some “sexist” tweets regarding women and it’s off to the races
Add a reference to alcohol consumption to infer that the true feelings of the individual in question are slipping free.
The Gantt Guy says,
“There is no perfect candidate. But without any shade of a doubt, Cruz is the most Conservative candidate in the race and will stick most faithfully to the Constitution. If we’re at the “fuck it, let’s burn the house down” stage, then by all means, give Trump a gas can and zippo. Better yet, let Bernie at it.”
First of all, Bernie The Commie ain’t gonna be the Democrat pick for The Nod – It’s Hillary Clinton EVEN IF INDICTED (which I doubt) – But let’s play the “what if” game and ole Bernie The Commie gets the Democrat nomination. He won’t get elected in America: NO HOW, NO WAY! Americans will vote for socialists, but only if they say they’re really, really, REALLY not the color Red, as Obama proved in 2008 and 2012.
On the other hand, the Country Class – The Serfs – The Peons – The Proles – The Tea Party – or whatever we revolutionists are calling ourselves this week will vote for an authoritarian nationalist CEO like Trump who likely will continue with the Imperial Presidency Model of dictatorial style rule – just as long as he gives us the illusion of living in a free country where our voices actually matter.
…and, yes, we will hand him a can of gasoline and a zippo to burn the Ruling Class and the Capitol Building down!
You’re right, Ronbo in the sense it ain’t gonna be Bernie. But it won’t be Hillary either. The Dem ticket will be either Biden/Fauxcahontas or Biden/Mooch.
Hillary simply can’t survive. There are 150 agents, plus the Director, who will walk if she isn’t indicted. Obama despises her and will be happy to instruct his servant the AG to get the indictment done, but not until the appropriate moment (maybe even after the Convention). Once indicted, she will be persuaded to stand down lest the other skeletons come tumbling out of her closet of 40-years of fraud, corruption and murder. If she doesn’t, well … maybe that problem in her brain gets a lot worse and she suffers an aneurysm. If it’s after the Convention the DNC will have to make up rules to decide what to do (my guess is “give it to the runner-up” won’t be their first choice). Ultimately, the nominee will be decided by the DNC, whose members will all suddenly have abandoned the Clinton faction in favour of the newly-supreme Obama faction.
“whose members will all suddenly have abandoned the Clinton faction in favour of the newly-supreme Obama faction.”
Whose handlers will continue to rule by proxy, ja?