Big Time.

No jury of her peers would convict her.

I couldn’t help myself.

I should have known better than to be cruising Craig’s List at 2:00 AM on a Saturday night.

But it was an offer I couldn’t resist.

New they are running anywhere from $2500 to $3500 depending on where you look.

For just the machine.

I got that, with an upgrade to a brand new 12V motor and controller system that is adjustable for speed, a machinist’s vise plus several milling attachments and a couple of add on lights, for $900.

Easily a $1,000 worth of extras.

The thing is in excellent condition too.

The Wifely Unit is furious.

Mainly because I sprang it on her at the last minute but just for General Purposes because I am spending money too.

It took quite a while and the help of a good friend to get it out of the back of the truck, onto a big metal work table and then back into the garage but it’s in there just waiting.

It has the R8 collet system and I even have a set of those out there already.

The guy was an engineer apparently and had passed away, his nephew is a lawyer and came up from Oakland CA to clean up his estate and said flat out that he knew it was probably worth a lot more than what he was asking for it but he had no use for it and it needed to go away.

So now it’s out in my garage and I can’t hardly get to it to use it.

I gotta get rid of some stuff man.

Clever design, for being over 100 years old.

This is the first time I have seen or heard of such a thing.

Yeah about that last part.

I couldn’t tell ya how many times I have run across that one.

There could be fifteen bolts holding something together in a big circle and one of those sonofabitches would be different for no apparent reason.

I really like it when they use a completely different style of fastener too.

Like throw in a Torx bit bolt when all the rest are Allen head bolts and make sure the thing is where you can’t see it.

Hidden upside down in a recess so you have to do it by Braille.

It also never fails that the one odd ball is made out of butter so it strips out or rounds off.

This post was inspired by me remembering that I gotta take the Big Red Dodge back in Monday.

I ain’t even going to tell the Wife about it until it’s done because I don’t wanna hear her bitch about it.

There is something binding up and chattering in the ass end of it after I drive it and get it good and warmed up at highway speed and then pull into a parking lot and have to either back up or make very slow sharp turns,

I’m thinking it’s the chain in the transfer case but it could be in the rear differential.

I ain’t even going to mess with it.

I’m going to drop it off and tell them to call me when it’s fixed.

My days of wrenching on cars are pretty much over at this point.

“Enjoy Your Cats!”

Found this on Citizen Free Press and it took me HERE.

You should have seen the Before Coffee picture.

No need to break it out for stuff this obvious.

So the FBI just confirmed to Congress that Arkancide is real.

Arkancide is a nod to the 57 or so Clinton associates who have turned up dead over the years.

And yeah, the Biden Protection Racket would off a snitch in a heart beat.

You think this is something?

I had a Ford Aerostar Mini Van come in one time with a charging system problem complaint.

No joke, I could smell something so fucking rank I was gagging before I even got the hood opened up on the damn thing when they pulled it in.

Because it was a a van and inside a shop I had to get a drop light underneath the hood to see any damn thing.

What I found made me gag even harder.

About 3 lbs of dry dog food that some fucking varmint like a squirrel had been piling up on top of the engine and then as it got driven it baked that shit, then it putrified and then it got baked again and again.

Half the guys in the shop were gagging as I used a shop vac to try and get it all off the top of the engine just so I could see what the hell was under it all.

Lemme tell ya, that was a very expensive alternator job before I got done.

Don’t even try to deny this isn’t the absolute truth.

Raise your hand if this actually surprises you.

A militant wearing the insignia of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) was filmed in the state of Tamaulipas carrying a US-made anti-tank missile launcher. Milenio TV identified the weapon as a Javelin, thousands of which were sent to Ukraine by the Pentagon.

Footage filmed in Matamoros on Monday and aired on Tuesday evening by the news channel Milenio TV showed a man with CDG patches armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and a missile they said was the Raytheon-made FGM-148.

Over 10,000 Javelins from Pentagon stockpiles have been sent to Ukraine since last February, to the point where the US military has begun to run out of the missiles itself.

Milenio presenter Azucena Uresti noted on Twitter that the estimated value of a Javelin launcher on the black market was anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000, while the average cost of a missile was about $30,000.

Keen-eyed military experts believe the weapon in the Milenio footage may actually be the AT-4, a Swedish-made disposable anti-tank launcher, which is also in use by the US military and likewise supplied to Ukraine by the thousands. 

Russia has repeatedly warned the US and its allies not to “stuff” Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, both because this risked a direct confrontation and since nonexistent controls would result in the weapons ending up in the criminal underworld. 

A RT investigation in July 2022 found a variety of Western-supplied weapons, including anti-tank rockets, for sale on the “dark web.” Several months later, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that $1 billion a month worth of Western weapons was ending up in the hands of “terrorists, extremists and criminal groups in the Middle East, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.”

Kiev has denounced this as “propaganda” and insisted all were accounted for.

Sure, I totally believe that outright bald faced lie from some Ukrainian media flunky.

Let us not forget that Biden left $85 BILLON dollars worth of American military equipment in Afghanistan for the Taliban to sell off or use as they saw fit also.

I would venture to guess that there is Black Market U.S. Military war fighting equipment all over the entire globe at this point.

The immediate implications of the Mexican drug cartels having a bunch of it ought to cause some ass puckering by the local police and border patrol agents along the wide open Southern border of this country.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see some of this stuff turn up further inland either.

The Cartels have running operations from Mexico to Canada already as it is, you just don’t hear about them from the MSM.

This.

Courtesy of Uncle Clif.