Whaddya mean you aren’t ready?

Now that I think about it, Hell, I’m not ready either but it’s already started so I guess we can try the old Rabbit and the Hare tactic.

The collapse of Western Society is well under way, believe it or don’t, that isn’t going to change the facts nor the outcome.

It’s already baked into the cake and in the oven as we sit here dawdling.

Take a look around, pay attention to the articles, pod casts, Alternative News, the signs and happenings are everywhere.

Everywhere except the supposed News outlets.

And really, it’s even in the MSM if you pay close attention. It’s there because they can no longer hide it.

I suppose you can call it Planned Demolition because it sure as hell isn’t an accident.

They are killing the Dollar, our economy with it and the Way of Life as we have known it in order to usher in their nightmare version of Total Control as they deem themselves above and beyond all of us “Useless Eaters”.

TPTB have been waging Unrestricted 5G Warfare against humanity in general but Western Societies in particular FOR GENERATIONS now.

It just got ramped up to Full Throttle here in the last few years.

Economic Collapse is coming, the signs of late have been everywhere.

The planned collapse of the Silicone Valley Bank and the resulting mad dash of bank runs in the time frame since should be a monster red flag if you are paying attention.

Duetze Bank is yet another big neon sign.

Remember, there have been HUNDREDS of “mysterious” fires and explosions at Food Warehouses, Gas Plants and Chemical plants in the last couple of years.

Not to mention Inflation running anywhere from 10 to 40% on every day items we all need just to survive.

The planned destruction of the food production is especially in your face in places like The Netherlands, where they are literally trying to force the generational farmers off their land using the bullshit scam Climate Change as an excuse.

Then we have the planned attack with the Kung Flu which was the excuse used to launch the real attack on humanity which was The Jab.

Literal millions of people lined up with their sleeves rolled up for that and the desired effect is slowly rolling across the headlines every damned day.

“Died Suddenly”.

How many times have you seen that over the last year?

I can guarantee you are going to see it until you are sick of it because that is the desired outcome of that little project and it is working as planned.

It is also the gift that keeps giving because it doesn’t kill outright most of the time, your body attacks its self and sometimes that takes a while for certain people.

It is going to take years but it will in time, at the very least, decimate the populations where it was deployed.

Even more so where the people have no real self defense capabilities and their governments forced everyone to roll up their sleeves.

Places like Britain, New Zealand and Australia are going to be wiped out eventually.

This isn’t news, this has been going on for a couple of years now.

You just need to start adding it all up together and get The Big Picture.

It takes that first stone block to build a Pyramid. Keep stacking them up and eventually you can see a long ways away from the top.

You need to climb up and take a look around once in a while.

That’s what I try to do here.

Some call it Doom Porn.

I much prefer to call it Reality.

The “Unofficial” slogan of Portland has been “Keep Portland Weird” for the last few decades.

I couldn’t even tell you when it started but I vaguely remember a Bumper sticker thing twenty five or thirty years ago

Needless to say, some people took that shit to heart and turned it into a full time job.

We had to go over there today to a cousins sixtieth birthday party at some old two story Billiards hall that I have somehow managed to not know about even thought it too, is now sixty years old.

I probably never knew about it because it was in a section of Portland on the East side of the river known as the Hollywood District that I never had much need to visit. Still don’t even more so after today.

It appears to have changed greatly since my last visit.

Some of you may remember seeing little posters stapled to telephone poles back in the day advertising little unknown bands and shit playing at local venues.

I came down out of the second floor of this place and stood on the corner to have a smoke and ran smack dab into these.

I got a pretty good clue of what to expect on the way in about six blocks from the joint when a black dude wearing a long blonde wig with Rainbow colored clothes, face paint that would make a Comanche Warrior blush and high heels crossed the street in front of the truck at a light right in front of me.

Ayep, here we fucking go went through my mind as I watched that rambling wreck shuffle across the street.

The best part?

There was a little boutique kitty corner from that telephone pole with a sign that said KIDS ONLY.

Unfortunately I wasn’t paying attention until I was walking away and didn’t get a picture of that. I was too busy constantly rotating and checking my six while Hot Boxing my cigarette.

Once again I was very vividly reminded me why I hate that fucking town anymore and refuse to go across the bridge unless I absolutely have to.

That ain’t even the bad part of town.

“I wonder if we can pet him?

Amazingly enough Sport, the answer is NO.

Swiped from a comment in reply to a great post over at The Feral Irishman,

This is The Way, it was drilled into countless generations of men all the way around the world up until recently and it will be drilled into countless generations of men again just as soon as the current crop of Would Be Masters finally get run to ground and exterminated like the poisonous entities to society they are.

This should be required viewing for every Man Child over the age of 10 years old and a couple of generations of full grown adult males right now.

Spoken like a man in a message to other men, if you can’t handle the language then you need to re-asses your priorities.

As of yesterday Bud Light had lost 6 Billion dollars due to their sucking up to the Woke faction of society.

Sticking their hand in a bucket of ice water and then slapping their customer base right in the mouth turned out to be not such a good idea.

Who’d a thunk it?

When even Joe Bob The Welder starts making videos with his girlfriend mocking your dumb ass, you have a serious problem.

This event should be educational to all sides.

For Anheuser Busch and corporations everywhere, the lesson here should be pretty obvious.

Don’t intentionally piss off your customers by pandering to their antithesis.

For the rest of us, the lesson is that we are like bees.

Piss enough of us off and it’s going to leave a mark you won’t ever forget.

Losing 6 Billion dollars in two weeks did just that for some folks at Budweiser.

I don’t care who you are, that is serious money.

You can guarantee that every CEO in the world just watched what happened here.

Here’s something else to file away.

All us Peons are already pissed off by the shenanigans being pulled all over the world.

Because while this has all been non violent and a great opportunity to wage a little economic war right back, plus unleash the contempt, sarcasm and ridicule that has been so richly deserved in this instance, all of that is like the gift wrapping on a present of furious hatred that has been simmering for decades.

A very thin veneer if you will.

There are some things in this world you just don’t fuck with.

The French Revolution started because the people had no bread to eat.

It would be the epitome of American style to see one start here over Beer.

You should be over at Irish’s Place for Friday Femme Fatale Ferragamo.

I’m tellin’ ya, the guy freakin’ outdid himself this week.

Patriotic dude that he is, this week’s collection is something else.

I try to keep a couple in the fridge for when my kids come over. I think I’ll order some of this.

BFYTW, Budweiser.

Ayep.

In case you missed the first part of this little drama, you can find it here.

So after I finished fuming about them changing the opposite side U Joint from the one I asked them to do, I calmed down a bit and figured I would stop and talk to them after work the next day.

They had already admitted that they had screwed up and had offered to do the one I asked for in the first place for free. They charged me $594 for the first one.

The one they did change was COMPLETELY SHOT.

Zero grease left, caps full of powdered rust and no needle bearings left in two of them.

I figured it would be bad but I was hoping to have them change the one that was clunking at slow speed and maybe I could baby the thing until the weather got nicer and I could pick a nice sunny weekend and do that one at my leisure.

I guess they took care of that for me.

So after I thought about this whole deal and weighed in a few factors I came to a decision.

I stopped after work and had a chat.

I have been a mechanic of some sort or another for over forty years myself and I have quite a few ROYAL FUCK UP’S with my name all over them too.

Shit Happens sometimes.

Since the left one was completely shot, they had changed it already and I know the right one is shot too, I decided to step up to the plate myself.

I went in and asked them if they would be OK with me splitting the difference instead of them eating it all.

I am not expecting to get something for nothing here, they are a small family owned business that obviously stands behind their work and they are good people.

They were VERY HAPPY to hear my offer.

I told them that the side that was clunking was getting worse so they offered to come in two hours early, work my truck into their crammed schedule and get it done two days earlier than the appointment we had made already.

Ya can’t beat that kind of service.

So I dropped it off this morning at 6 A.M, handed them the keys and thanked them for going out of their way.

I got a ride back to the shop after work from my buddy and it was done.

Unbeknownst to me, I was in for a surprise.

When they got it up on the hoist they didn’t find any slop in that U Joint.

I would have bet serious money that U Joint was bad because I kept getting a double clunk out of that side, especially at slow speeds.

They decided to replace it anyway and when they took the grease cap off the end of the hub to start tearing into it, a Snap Ring fell out on the ground.

It has automatic hubs, that snap ring holds the end of the axle in the inner hub and keeps it from walking back and forth.

That is exactly what it was doing. He took a video with his camera and showed me that he could push and pull on the axle stub and it would move 3/8’s of an inch back and forth.

What I was feeling was the splines on the axle binding up as it slid in and out of the hub.

It would have basically been a Free Fix to just reinstall the snap ring and pop the grease cap back on.

But as I said, he decided to change the U Joint anyway, especially since this had turned into a bit of a shit show.

In reality, it was due anyway. It was basically dry with no grease left in it at all and it would have been just a short while before it shit the bed too anyway.

It’s a 40 year old truck, Chuck got his money’s worth out of them.

We took it out for a test drive together and no more clunk so I am happy.

He is happy that I can go away and he can get back to fixing cars and making money and his wife is happy that they didn’t have to eat the whole repair.

Win, Win, Win.

Nice people, they stand behind their work and I now have a close by mechanic outfit that I can trust.

More Win.

Now I wait until the 18th and send the Wifely Unit’s Hoopty in for a timing belt and water pump, to start with. I’m figuring she will be lucky to get out of there for under a Grand.

Twin Cam engines are a wee bit pricier to do that on than just a straight up 4 Banger and I have a feeling they are going to find some hoses that need replacing at the very least.

At least I don’t have to dig in my ass pocket for that one.

She pays for her own repairs which is good, she has more money than I do anyway.

It runs on Wood Gas.

With video goodness below the article.

This guy is Wayyyy ahead of the curve.

Called the “El Kamina,” it is a wood-powered 1987 Chevrolet El Camino, the last year Chevy made the sedan/pickups. It’s the brainchild of Finnish politician Juha Sipila. Kamiina in Finnish means “stove.” Get it?

Power comes from a wood gas generator. While it sounds high-tech, these were actually used in Great Britain during WWII. Today’s wood gas generators, such as the one in Silila’s El Camino, can utilize 75% of wood’s energy when burned. They’re one of the most environmental energy technologies using renewable energy methods. 

He throws a heap of wood pellets into the tank and achieves around 125 miles of range. A full tank of pellets weighs about 175 lbs. But with the generous bed incorporated into all El Caminos, he can actually carry enough wood pellets for 800 miles of range. And the small block Chevy engine it still retains can be used with a combination of wood gas and gasoline.

We should point out that this is a clean alternative to gasoline combustion engines. It’s not like that burning wood in your fireplace. The burning of wood burned this way, called “gasification,” is one of the cleanest forms of combustion. Gasification turns the wood into a gaseous fuel source. A gasifier like that in the El Kamina is 90% cleaner than burning wood in a stove. 

Inside the gasifier, all of the wood, and almost all of the resultant smoke and gasses are recirculated for additional power. So the combustion aftermath burns up rather than expelled into the atmosphere. And there are other advantages. 

First, wood is a renewable resource. And because wood is almost everywhere, it comes in quite handy when there is a fuel shortage. And for some living in open areas, it is also easy to get, at no cost other than cutting the trees down and making the wood pellets. 

Because several byproducts of burning the gas could end up in the atmosphere, filters help to clean things up. Dust, biomass ash, fly ash, and gas emissions are just some of the things that need to be contained. 

The top speed for the wood-powered El Kamina is around 87 miles ( Edit, an hour I am assuming), so it’s no race car. But most daily drivers aren’t. According to diseno-art, there are a few downside

One is that it takes 20 minutes to get everything hot enough to create the gas. That’s similar to steam-powered cars. They take time to heat the water into steam. Another problem is they tend to need regular maintenance in the form of cleaning them. It’s a dirty job.

Though the boilers inside the wood gas generators have self-cleaning features, heat exchangers must be cleaned on a regular basis. If not, the efficiency of the generator goes down quickly. There are also ash bins to empty regularly. 

So there you go. What looked like a goof, that of burning wood to run a car turns out to be very environmental-friendly.

I’m impressed.

It’s kind of huge but it works. I suppose if you needed to actually haul something, you just drag a trailer behind it.

Along with a bunch of kindling.

I find this hard to digest.

I made an appointment two weeks ago to have the RIGHT FRONT, drive axle U joint replaced in this Dodge 4 wheel drive. It was the quickest appointment I could get.

I can feel it clunking at parking lot speeds, especially while turning.

Definitely the passenger side, which is the Right Side.

For those who aren’t Mechanically Declined, there is an INDUSTRY WIDE UNDERSTANDING, that when someone speaks of the left or right side of a vehicle, IT IS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SITTING IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT.

MMkay?

So I am literally talking to the owner of this repair shop explaining that I need this U joint replaced and that it it is on the right side, the side with the stub axle.

In case you weren’t aware of this also, the front differentials always sit off center compared to the rear differential.

The short side is the stub axle for obvious reasons.

I even went so far as to go down and buy the U joint and the seals, which turned out to be wrong because Dodge put two different front and rear differentials in these things.

A Dana 44 and a Dana 60. The 60 being preferred.

So they call me and tell me it’s done. I dropped it off this morning and got a ride into and back from work with a buddy that I work with that doesn’t live too far from me.

The total was $594 and change, $50 more than the estimate.

I’m not squealing, apparently the original style U Joint had a beveled edge around the top of the cap and are very hard to locate so they had to add bevels.

Great.

I am just tickled it’s done. So I pay, leave, head just down the street to return the wrong parts .

As I back out of the parking spot while turning the wheel, I swear I feel a clunking again in the right front.

I kept going and pulled into a Quickie Mart just down a block or so to snag something to drink. When I come back out, I bend over and start looking at the lug nuts and the threads on the studs.

I am not seeing any evidence of the ones on the passenger side having been taken off and put back on but when I go to get in, the drivers side have some shine on the threads.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Of course it’s raining so I get in the fucker and drive the mile or so back to the house, pull up in front and then drive the right front tire up onto the curb. I turned the wheel all the way to the right, get out and walk around the front and crawl under the bumper to take a look. The U Joint is right there and bigger than shit, it hasn’t been changed. Skinny over to the drivers side and bigger than shit there is a brand new U joint.

FUCK!

So I calls these people and tell them they changed the wrong one.

I SPECIFICALLY told you to do the RIGHT SIDE, the Work Order says the RIGHT SIDE and so does the bill, except it is split down the middle with a dotted line and right at the upper left they charged me for a LEFT SIDE. Run your finger directly across the page past the middle and it plainly states, change the RIGHT SIDE.

First thing I hear is that, well, that one was really bad too.

No matter, it’s not the one I specifically asked to be replaced and by the way, you have my phone number, you should have called me.

So they are going to eat this one.

I have to drop it off Friday, if the clunky one lasts that long.

Pissed off?

What do you think?!

In the mean time, The Wifely Unit’s Hoopty shit the bed, the water pump pulley is wobbling around like a drunk stripper, so she’s driving my old Chevy and we have an appointment for THAT at the same outfit on the 18th to do the Timing Belt and the water pump at the same time.

It’s got a Twin Cam engine, I did that water pump in the driveway four years ago IN JANUARY and I ain’t doing it again.

FULL STOP, DEAD SERIOUS, OH HELL NO.

I have to say that this little Fuck Up has not filled me with confidence but at least they are standing behind their work and fixing their Fuck Up at their own expence.

The real kicker is that if they had caught their screw up before they put it all back together and called me, I would have told them to just do them both and be done with it.

As it is, now I can cross this off my list of SHIT I GOTTA DO WHEN THE WEATHER FINALLY CLEARS UP.

Like late June, early July.

I need to go air up some tires on the Dodge because it sat unused for a couple of years.

He is a good man and a good friend.

Some day we will be able to embarrass ourselves properly at some serious function.

Meme swiped from Non Original Rants.

I’m tellin’ ya, there is always an impressive collection posted over there.

I’m still going through boxes and boxes of Ol’ Chuck’s crap that he had stashed in his garage.

It’s amazing some of the things I am finding and here is a small sample.

I haven’t bothered to clean them up, at this point all I have done was soak them in Panther Piss so I could get them opened up.

They were all buried in the bottom of a box full of crap.

Not discarded, just retired.

3 of them saw so much use and had been sharpened so many times that the tip of the blade won’t close enough to keep them guarded anymore.

1 of them even has 2 of the blades snapped clear off.

I think this one is my favorite out of the bunch and it still has some life left in it.

The stories they could tell, right?

And I have a lot of experience.

H/T to Uncle Cliff for the image.