Their actions after the burning were not of remorse and sadness over the taking of lives, it was victory dance, bravado and bloodlust. You want to see pure sociopaths, look to whom are hired and trained to follow the elites perverse plan of subjugation. We are not FREE when you have government agencies that completely ignore the clear writings and mandates of the Constitution and our Bill of Rights, those two documents are the pure American Citizens, not those that are hellbent on destroying what we are. We have the Power, it needs to be realized and directed.
And I’m paying for it like a sonofabitch right now. I expect tomorrow is going to be even worse.
So what praytell did I do?
Here’s a clue.
What is that you ask?
That is the rotten driver’s side floor board of a 1964 Austin Healey Sprite where the seat mounts, complete with Cherry tree blossom petals.
This is a long story so settle in.
I saw this was going to be an issue years ago. I have already cut out and replaced the floor in the foot wells on both sides of this little bastard. Last Summer I cleaned up and primered the entire passenger side floor board and ordered up a replacement for the driver’s side, which I saw was going to be too far gone to just clean up and paint. That piece has been sitting in the box it came in out in the garage just waiting.
I saw the weather was going to be decent for a few days last week and called the almost last friend I have to see if he could come over and give me a hand with this.
I say almost last friend because I didn’t have many to begin with and my oldest friend that I had since I moved into this state 34 years ago passed away in his sleep last week after suffering several strokes over the last year. RIP Steve.
So I called my buddy Bill, who I worked with for 9 years and we have remained good friends.
He builds things in his spare time and one of the things we used to have to do was make cardboard templates for wrapping heat treat furnaces with Molybdeum sheeting.
I asked him if he could come over and make me a cardboard template for this floor board section I need to replace. he said he could come over today as he took a day off. he had other things to do also but he swung by and helped me out. Well when he told me he could come over, I started getting things ready and I opened up the box that had the entire floor pan patch kit in it only to find that they BIGGER THAN SHIT, shipped me the wong fucking side.
I TRIPLE checked that i was ordering the correct side as the fucker cost me $200 So anyways, After a short session of cussing, I took a closer look at exactly what I needed to do this job and figured that there was just enough material there to do what I needed to do with some creative trimming. So Bill came over this morning after I drug out of bed and started in taking measurement. I had plenty of cardboard from the box the patch came in and threw a hunk of plywood across a couple of plastic sawhorses to make a work bench out of.
It took him a good hour and a half to get the cardboard trimmed up but when he was done it was a great fit.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention while I was waiting on him, I fired up the riding mower and mowed the lawn. I also forgot to mention the very first thing we did was to back my truck up into the driveway across the street between the garage and a storage shed that has one of those PVC and a tarp carport things in it. There was a fiberglass bed cover for the Big Red Dodge that has been hanging up by ropes under it for the last 2 years since I bought the truck that the lady finally asked me to get out. It took a half hour but we got that on the truck and strapped down, It’s going to the dump. I ain’t even messing with that fucking thing. They look nice, it’s painted the same color as the truck, but they are a giant pain in the ass if you actually need to haul anything in the truck that sticks up over the top of the side rails. So there is that.
Anyways, Bill got my template made for me after all that and then he took off to finish his projects. That left me to to start cutting the sheet metal.
It may look rectangular but there are bends, cut outs and and nothing is truly square. Which is exactly why I wanted Bill to do it. I would still be playing with the 4th hunk of cardboard if it was up to me to do it.
So after he split I started in with the angle grinder and this funky cut off wheel I bought just for this job.
It’s called The Indestructable Disc and they are supposed to cut anything. Steel, wood, brick, concrete, you name it.
I think I paid $25 for 3 of them. I gave 2 to Bill, one for him and one for his dad.
It didn’t cut real fast but that picture was taken at the end of the day after cutting non stop for 2 hours.
I would have gone through a half a dozen regulat cut off wheels doing the same job easily.
So this is what I did in pictures, first I cut the sheet in half because I didn’t need the front section. No, I didn’t throw it away either.
It took me about 4 hours of cutting, test fitting, grinding, test fitting, grinding some more, test fitting, over and over and over again, to finally get the patch piece to fit in where it needs to go.
This, is just the beginning of this adventure.
Now I need to cut out the bad part of the floor and there are things in the way, there is a rail welded to it underneath I am going to have to cut, then drill holes every inch and a half all the way around my patch piece, clean up to bare metal the lip I am going to leave around the hole and then spray everything with weldable primer. Do a final test fit and then weld the chunk of rail back in and then spot weld all the way around the patch. This is going to be a very long project and just what I did today is kicking my narrow, flat, ass.
I am obviously not 100% healed up yet anyway but it never fails I gotta overdo shit.
Then I am going to have to spread Seam Sealer all the way around top and bottom.
After that, I am going to have to clean up the entire driver’s side of the floor from the pedals to the Roll Bar behind the seat, spray it with Primer and clean out the passenger side, make sure it’s still covered in primer and the spray paint the entire tub of this miserable little bitch of a car. Then I have to find some junk yard seats I can throw in it. I have a brand new carpet kit in a box I have had for at least 7 years also.
Then the outside starts. sand and paint the motherfucker, IF, I live long enough.
Then there is the matter of interior panels etc..
Like I said, IF, I live that long. I’ve had this thing since 1988 and I would love to be done with it.
Probably will never happen but it does keep me out of the taverns.
The federal government will facilitate and pay for the self-deportation of those who have entered the country illegally, while operations will continue to target gang members and violent criminals, President Donald Trump told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy in an interview filmed at the White House that aired on April 15. The president said government-provided stipends, including plane tickets and money, could help incentivize illegal aliens to leave the country and pursue legal status. “We’re going to make it comfortable for people, and we’re going to work with those people to come back into our country legally,” Trump said during the interview. “And then … if they’re good, if we want them back in, we’re going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can.” So they will get paid to leave, then they turn right around and get an expedited “legal” return flight back to America. This is a policy known in some circles as “touchback amnesty,” and it infuriates border hawks like William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). Gheen says this amounts to smoke and mirrors being used to hide what is really a policy of amnesty. That word dreaded by all MAGA patriots, AMNESTY, is now the official policy of the Trump administration. ALIPAC issued an email alert Tuesday that sounded alarm bells and suggested that maybe the man they championed for the White House really isn’t who they thought he was. The alert used not only the dreaded “A” word (amnesty) but the “G” word (globalist) as well. Using the A word and the G word in the same sentence to decribe a Trump policy is no small thing. It’s quite astonishing and signals Trump making a major break with his base. Here’s a passage from the ALIPAC release: “Americans For Legal Immigration PAC is launching a pressure campaign to oppose President Trump’s globalist plan to bring illegals that self-deport back into America through a Touchback Amnesty plan that was defeated in 2007 when Mike Huckabee proposed the same plan, dubbed Shamnesty by illegal immigration opponents.”
The alert goes on to warn the Trump administration that “a touch-back Amnesty will anger Trump’s base voters, weaken his second Presidency, encourage illegals, and undermine efforts to secure borders and conduct mass deportations. ”ALIPAC ended its email alert with this stern reminder from Gheen: “Nobody voted for Trump to give illegals Touchback Amnesty and play a Shamnesty trick where illegals leave and come right back into America ‘legally.’ Current law requires illegals to leave America and be prohibited from returning for ten years and for the employers of illegals to be fined, not given Amnesty. We’ve seen and defeated this kind of Amnesty attempt before in 2007.” ALIPAC said it opposes Amnesty for both illegals and employers that hire them and calls on the Trump administration to impose fines on businesses that employ illegal workers instead of accommodating them. President Trump did not provide further details about how much money illegal immigrants could receive for flights or how to apply for such benefits. The president also announced a plan to work with some industries, including hospitality and agriculture, to help business owners offset the impacts of mass deportations. He said: “We’re making it so that if a farmer can give recommendations to people, we’re going to be very soothing. They’re sort of responsible, and we’re going to have the farmer take responsibility. But you know, ultimately, at some point, we want the people to go out, come back as legal.”
