Dang I miss that crusty old bastard.

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.

He even knows about a couple of them….

Heh Heh Heh.

Because I know damn good and well that he saw this over at Non Original Rants, saved it and has plans to razz me with it later.

I can even tell you what the title would have been.

Phil, The Later Years

I’m on to ya buddy.

So it begins.

Again.

The gentle hum of battery chargers floating through the air.

So these unhinged assholes are going to press their luck and arrest Donald Trump.

Trump himself announced this and it’s all over the internet.

Trump is calling for people to protest over this.

I have some bad news for ya Donny, ain’t happening on my part.

Nope, this is just more Kabuki Theater and The Democrats would just LOVE to have another reason to arrest and prosecute anyone who would dare get out in the streets and make a giant target of themselves.

Trump can afford the best lawyers on the planet, I can’t.

They are going to arrest him, he is going to post Bond and he will be out again.

It’s all symbolic on their part so they can say WE FINALLY GOT HIM!

Protests aren’t going to accomplish a damn thing.

Don’t get me wrong, there is a fight coming and it’s going to be pretty freaking epic when it comes but this here?

This is just bait for stupid people.

See it for what it is and keep your powder dry for the real dance.

I can remember one about fifteen years ago, well most of one, where I got hammered drunk TWICE, before 10 A.M.!

I woke up half drunk to begin with at about 6, like I did every day back then, had a couple of straight shots of bourbon right out of the bottle sitting next to the bed while still laying in the bed, got up, pounded half a beer for a chaser to finish getting woke up, got out of bed and started sucking off the bottle some more, and got drunk enough to pass out by 7:15.

I came to again about 9:30, reached over and had another shot, staggered out of bed and opened another beer and then a buddy came pounding on the trailer door.

A half hour later I was smashed again.

It didn’t take too much longer and I was down again , slept 4 or 5 hours that time and when I finally woke up, I went and got something to eat, went to the bar after that and started partying some more.

Yeah, Thank God I finally gave that shit up.

With any luck I’ll be able to celebrate 11years of no drinky here come June 2.

I can very easily tell you that I don’t miss that kind of crap.

With that, please allow me to wish you all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

If you do decide to go out and celebrate, please be careful.

There are lot’s of rookies and people like I used to be out there.

Swiped from here,

https://dont-sir-me.blogspot.com/

First we had some complete moron trying to claim that White People driving cars in LA is racist because it pollutes the air Blacks breathe.

I dunno, apparently White people breathe different air.

Now I find that having a Pantry in your house is racist also!

I don’t know who these people are, but they are reaching so far that absurdity flew past like a lightning bolt and entirely escaped their attention on the way by.

I’m going to tell you something here.

I work with a colored guy.

59 years old and he is a BIG DUDE.

Nicest freaking guy you would ever want to meet and I love this guy.

He grew up over in Portland and we have had many, many conversations over the last year.

Neither one of us is afraid to talk about things that most people would avoid like an invitation for a complimentary IRS audit.

So when I saw this OUTRAGEOUS article claiming that having a clean and organized pantry was a sign of racism, I asked him a question.

I knew his Grandmother was from the South so I asked him, did your Mom or Grandmother have a pantry when you were growing up?

He said of course, BOTH of them did.

So I read him the headline to that article and his reaction was priceless.

His jaw dropped open, his eyes rolled and he said very loudly, YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!

Nope I says and I flipped my phone around and showed him.

So then he tells me that he actually had a pantry put in next to the kitchen he just had redone last year.

Then we compared stories of our Grandparents doing that whole CAN EVERYTHING and store it in the pantry because they grew up during the Great Depression thing for another ten minutes.

So here we have on one hand, some race baiting asshole pulling the most ridiculous argument out of his ass that I have ever heard of, besides the Whites polluting the air only Blacks breathe down in California insanity and a guy who should technically be agreeing with this nonsense according to the author, saying that they are freaking RETARDED. (His words).

At this juncture, I would have to agree with him on all points.

Absurdity doesn’t even scratch the surface.

Intentional Race Baiting and Division Mongering is more like it.

When the very people you are trying to divide come to mutual agreement that you are an idiot and both agree that your tactics are blatantly obvious and ridiculous, you need to hang it up.

You have already lost.

Which means in true LEFTARD fashion, they are going to double down on it with some even more ridiculous horse shit, next week.

Because there are no limits on their capacity for insanity.

I recommend the read,

THE GREAT BANK RUN PSYOP OF 2023

OPERATION BANK CLOSURE:
You had better know what you don’t know

Submitted by The Armchair Financial Analyst

These are the 3 primary reasons why the Khazarian Cabal is forcing the closure of specific banking institutions before all banks are taken over by Big Government.

People are totally missing the point(s) regarding these engineered bank runs and targeted bank closures.  The true and dire reasons are as follows:

Go read the whole thing and get back to me…

The time is short, it’s guaranteed that this will pass the Wa Senate, it has already passed the House and that Commie Fuck Jay Inslee is drooling in his lap waiting to pass it.

They have already banned magazines that hold more than 10 rounds but this new ban is going to ban damn near anything that isn’t a bolt action gun, including the ability to buy parts for the guns you already own that will be Grandfathered in.

This state has long ago gone Full Commie but they have taken the reigns in their teeth at this point and are running unchecked.

The likelyhood that this crap is eventually ruled to be Unconstitutional is actually very high but as part of their scheming, they don’t even care about that. It will still throw a giant monkey wrench into the ability to buy or maintain semi automatic guns and will most certainly devastate the local gun industry.

BFYTW is my personal motto, I am waiting on two lowers and an upper that I dug deep to purchase before these cretins can actually get this passed.

I got them from Palmetto State Armory and they have a written policy right now to prioritize shipments to Washington State before anywhere else.

The parts however, is something I have overlooked and need to rectify immediately.

Stupid stuff like spring and pin kits will soon be unavailable to purchase in this state because of this.

Watch this video for some clarification.

Then dig deep and hurry the hell up if you live in this state and have even remotely been considering purchasing ANYTHING.

Time is running out FAST.

We have all heard about the bank failures over the past few days.

There is no way you haven’t unless you have been out in the boonies without an internet connection.

So they are going to bail these fuckers out again except this time they are trying to hide it by saying the other banks are going to cover it using this special fund they have to donate to using money from fees etc.

Gee, I wonder who pays those fees anyways?……

Spit.

Since we have all been here before, (Cough cough 2008-present) we can all pretty much tell that not only is this new crisis not over, it has more than likely, just begun.

Especially when pResident StumbleFuck comes out and says this crap,

“Thanks to the quick action of my administration over the past few days, Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” Biden said. “Your deposits will be there when you need them.”

I don’t know about you, but I would be inclined to believe THIS ASSCLOWN before I would Mr. Congenital Liar In Chief.

(Mr. Do The Exact Opposite Of What I Am Shilling Today)

Cramer’s batting average is deep into negative territory, to say the least.

Biden’s is even worse.

So when Biden says everything is Hunky Dory, I start watching for falling anvils.

Let me put it this way, the day before Biden is trying to blow smoke up our asses by saying it’s going to be OK, Trump came out and said THIS,

So who would I believe between the two?

Um, yeah. No contest.

And it’s not like I haven’t been saying its coming for the last, oh I don’t know, maybe TEN YEARS or so.

I have had a bad gut feeling for at least that long, if not longer.

Lately however, it has been screaming at me.

I can pretty much tell you that The Shit Has Hit The Fan and it’s flying everywhere now.

So what else do we have to look forward to?

I’m glad you asked.

For the last six months at least, I have been telling anyone that asks that I feel that Late Summer/Early Fall is when it’s going to get ugly, really ugly.

Things are starting to point to that time frame in a big way.

Now I know that some of you aren’t big fans of Ol’ Uncle Clif but I would HIGHLY recommend that you put your distaste away for a half an hour and PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to his latest video.

I believe that the timeline he works through and the events he is predicting will happen will be invaluable information to have, BEFORE it takes place.

There is Bad Shit coming but there is light at the end of the tunnel and this time it’s not a speeding freight train.

Get ahead of the curve here and inform yourself.

Update, I’m hearing the video isn’t showing up for some folks. It could depend on what browser you are using because it works for me and after CederQ switched from Brave to Pale Moon, it works for him.

I put a link to it in the comments.

Breaking news from the LA Times.

All Silicon Valley Bank customers’ funds guaranteed, U.S. government says

BY KEN SWEET, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, CHRIS MEGERIAN AND CATHY BUSSEWITZ

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARCH 12, 2023 UPDATED 4:45 PM PT

The U.S. government took extraordinary steps Sunday to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, assuring depositors at the failed financial institution that they would be able to access all of their money quickly.

The announcement came hours before trading began in Asia and amid fears that the factors behind the Santa Clara lender’s collapse could spread. Regulators had worked all weekend to come up with a buyer, and those efforts appeared to have failed as of Sunday.

BUSINESS

Column: The Silicon Valley Bank collapse is Silicon Valley’s problem, not yours

March 10, 2023

In a sign of how quickly the financial bleeding was occurring, regulators announced that New York-based Signature Bank had failed and was being seized on Sunday. At more than $110 billion in assets, Signature Bank is the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history.

The Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and FDIC said Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank clients will be protected and have access to their funds and announced steps designed to protect the bank’s customers and prevent more bank runs.

“This step will ensure that the U.S. banking system continues to perform its vital roles of protecting deposits and providing access to credit to households and businesses in a manner that promotes strong and sustainable economic growth,” the agencies said in a joint statement.

Regulators had to rush to close Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets, on Friday when it experienced a traditional run on the bank where depositors rushed to withdraw their funds all at once. It is the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual.