Basically if something has a proven track record and works, we can’t have that anymore.
Screw these assholes I say.
Now would be a good time to get ahead of the game and start looking around for some of these older things that still have life in them. The average price of a new car has got to be over $35 grand by now.
If you can find a decent rig from fifty odd years ago, spending half that much restoring it will get you a rig that will last for years and you will be money ahead.
Even if you have to get it from another state and have it trucked in you will be money ahead.
There won’t be a kill switch in it either.
Same goes with refrigerators and laundry machines.
There are guys out there who specialize in restoring old refrigerators and there are still plenty of outfits around that can repair old laundry equipment.
Screw these new computer controlled/ energy and water efficient pieces of shit.
They don’t work worth a damn to begin with and they have a life span measured in months, not years anyway.
I personally don’t give a damn what the Joneses next door think and never have to begin with.
Not to mention everything at some point comes back into fashion as being RETRO anyway.
This is going to cause the MotherWEFers, the Deep State, The Commies, The Captured Government and ESPECIALLY the Established Republican party to pull out all the stops between now and Election Day next year.
We should all fully expect a Full Frontal Assault to go along with their myriad Flanking attacks.
Financial collapse, fuel and energy scarcity, ANTIFA riots, Food scarcity and the riots that go with it and I wish I was joking but I’m not, Space Aliens of all things.
ANYTHING to divert attention from him.
I’m sure somewhere there is another bottle of some kind of Man Made Virus just waiting to be left open and knocked off a desk by a cat too so they can pull a Lockdown V2.0.
Because Trump is kicking the living shit out of EVERYBODY in the polls and all the Democrats have is Pedo Joe And The Ho, they are going to cheat so bad that It will be visible from the Orion Constellation with the naked eye.
Even that is going to be more difficult for the Swamp Dwellers because a bunch of states have passed a bunch of laws to put a stop to some of that horse shit.
Since the Semi Auto Gun Ban has already been passed by the House and the Demonrats also have a majority in the Senate too, it’s a foregone conclusion that this ridiculous POS thing is going to get passed and that Commie Fuck Inslee is going to sign it into law before the ink is dry on it anyway, I joined countless other Washingtonians in getting my hands on as much hardware as I could afford beforehand.
Stupid stuff like spring kits, pins and more than likely even screws that will fit any of them are set to be Verboten.
Nothing like a little over reach on their part.
So I just got back from getting two complete AR 15 Lowers all nice and legal like transferred into my name and into my grubby little mitts.
The best part is that I got both of them for just a bit over what this Gun store was asking for ONE, STRIPPED Lower.
Because Fuck You, That’s Why, You Commie Fucking Bitches.
I already got an Upper delivered yesterday and an extra spring kit along with some pins and various other items I thought might be nice to have on hand.
I’m here to tell you, the little gun store I had them shipped to was PACKED with people thinking just like I am, I waited over a half an hour to get someone to find my purchases and get the paperwork started.
They were lined up clear to the door behind me too.
Six employees in this little store going just as fast as they possibly could trying to keep up.
Of course because this Bill Soon To Become Law is Unconstitutional on it’s face, I fully expect an appeal and a request for an Instant Emergency Stay to be sitting in front of a Judge about ten seconds after Inslee and his bitch AG Ferguson start their little Happy Dance celebrating the passage of said POS Law.
Because basically, this is Lawfare 101.
Sure as hell they know this is going to eventually be overturned but in the meantime a bunch of lawyers are going to make a bunch of money and if a couple of small gun stores wind up going out of business before it’s all said and done then they will consider it a win anyway.
Also in the mean time, all the citizens of this state will be denied their Supposedly Government Guaranteed 2nd Amendment rights.
If the amount of guns already in this state even remotely echoes the amount of guns already in the hands of citizens in the rest of the country then this Gun Ban isn’t really going to amount to much in the Long Game.
It’s going to wind up being an inconvenience until they are told Bad Law, No Cookie.
Even if by some small miracle it stands after being challenged, there are already enough weapons, ammo and people here to cause these Commie Gun Grabbers to look over their shoulders and lose sleep for the rest of their miserable lives.
I have been helping his daughter and ex-wife clean out all the crap the guy had collected for the last fifty or so years.
The main focus has been on the garage and I finally got that finished last weekend.
Even after going to the dump there is still some crap in the back of his old truck I still gotta get rid of.
They wanted the garage cleaned out because the ex is going to move in with the daughter, she wants every damn thing the guy owned gone.
The very last thing I moved out of it was Chuck’s Bench Vise.
His daughter told me it was my prize for helping clean everything up.
She doesn’t know how close to the truth that statement was.
Here it is sitting next to the one I have had for at least 35 years, the red one in this picture.
They are both basically the same vise except his is bigger, heavier and not nearly as beat to shit as mine.
I find it sort of amusing to notice that over the years, these same Chinesium vises have gotten smaller and smaller.
I’m betting his is even older than mine and I know for a fact that what Horror Fright is selling now, for the same price I paid for mine all those years ago, is about 2/3’s the size of mine now.
The reason I say I can hear Chuck laughing at me is because after I got mine unbolted and sat down next to his with no problem, I bent down to grab his up and sit it on the stand I just took the other one off of and immediately threw my lower back out.
I knew I was fucked before it was an inch off the ground but I already had some momentum behind me so I very quickly decided to suck it up and finish getting it up in the stand.
That fucked me even worse because it needed to be about belly high and I had to stop and get a better grab on it before I could heave the heavy bastard up far enough to set it down.
That caused yet another wicked spasm in my lower back.
By the time I got it up enough to sit one corner down and finish sliding it the rest of the way on, my lower back was just screaming at me.
All in less than ten seconds.
I kept on going to get it situated and get some new mounting bolt holes marked out and drilled but when I had to bend down and dig out my bolt bin to find some bigger fasteners I almost fell over and had to grab ahold of my belt sander stand to even get back up.
About an hour later I finally got it mounted and cleaned up.
Trust me, I paid for that all day, all night last night and just about fifteen minutes ago I was able to grab the arms on my recliner and twist enough to pop my lower back back in.
I was popping Ibuprofen off and on all damn day yesterday.
After I got finished with that little project I went out and pulled the battery charger off the riding lawnmower, put some gas in it and fired the cantankerous old bastard up.
Much to my amazement, it actually didn’t take any other action on my part after sitting outside all Winter.
I had a tarp on it when I parked it but it was laying next to it all wadded up after some wind caught it at some point.
So then I went round and round out in the front yard scalping the grass good and proper so as to avoid having to do it again too soon.
Mission accomplished.
After all that activity I came in and collapsed back into the recliner.
Now that my back is popped back in I think I am going to go do some more Piddle Farting out in the garage.
The front seat of both trucks are still full of crap I pulled out of his garage that I didn’t want to get wet so I need to do some Triage on that.
I am going to give my old vise to my Oldest Boy as he recently bought a house and has an empty garage.
Actually, I have SEVERAL things that are going over there at some point.
