The Flat Earth Fighting Retreat Begins

New narrative: It's not the scientists who are wrong, but the alarmist environmental advocates trying to spur emission reduction who, in the process of dramatizing the dangers of the flat earth.. er, umm..global warming!, are discrediting legitimate concerns based upon scientific fact with unfounded outlandish disaster prophesies.

Attic elevator MkI/modII

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You will note the much more elegant design with two cables spooled onto the same drum. Cable separation is maintained via a guide rod assembly (the cables don't ride it, but bounce off when they try to get together). The end uprights have been grouped into sub-assemblies, and the hoist frame has been reconfigured so that it gives more even lifting, but reduced capacity with the same hoist.

Attic elevator MkI/modII

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Change You Can Believe In

Seems folk in East St. Louis figure with a half-black man in the whitehouse they shouldn't be expected to hide their desire to leave whitey out in the cold anymore. The mayor was a bit too overt in his desire to keep the blood pure within his sphere of civic influence.

"[The] defendants thereafter fired all of the candidates hired by [Frazer and Murphy] and hired several new officers and employees based on their racial and political beliefs," the suit alleges.

East St. Louis is a pest hole of crime running the gamut from a to z and I guess it is only natural, given a community policing philosophy, that drug dealers and theives should be policed by those of similar backgrounds.

10 police officers hired in June 2008, two had criminal histories — and that one of the two took the oath of office while sought on an outstanding arrest warrant for domestic battery.

I guess it's Africa here now and the white folk just haven't gotten the message. What other explanation is there?

The Flat Earth Climate Change Movement is Useful After All

It sure brings the whackos out of their hidey holes and makes them feel free to step out from behind their veils of respectability. It must be liberating for them to think it is finally acceptable to share with the world what they really believe.

Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet

People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Unique Art

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Obama Comes Out Swinging for Flat Earth

The president is pushing hard for the latest global warming power grab in the face of record cold temperatures while declaring "overwhelming scientific evidence" and that "naysayers" are being marginalized.

It makes one wonder if the earth were presently experiencing a heat wave whether Obama would declare the converse to be true, i.e. that naysayers are being affirmed in their assertion global warming is hogwash. One would almost think treaties and laws affirming GW would have the power to alter observable reality given the hysteria with which the left is pursuing their enactment. The good news here, of course, is Obama can in no way be extricated from association with the global warming suckerfest. Opponents will shortly be able to gleefully hang his "flat earth" beliefs around his neck.

On a further note: Obama has declared a "National Emergency" - It bears looking into, but one wonders if this is the same type of declaration of emergency giving the government unfettered power those right wing nutjobs have been predicting for the last twenty years. The narrative gets weirder by the day.

Bill Wins the Science Fair!

Congratulations on your camera housing, Bill. I have no doubt you are already contemplating a MarkII rendition.

Feast your eye's, y'all, and be sure to make appropriately appreciative noises at Bill's technical prowess (Meaning: I expect y'all to render input of the same type Bill dispenses).

Seriously, they look great, Bill. Well, maybe the tone is a bit off....

Welldigger in his element.

Ass deep in junky cars.

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Rednecks love trackers.

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Ready to go back in

1.5L suzuki for Welldigger's tracker.

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Jamie

Breakin the law III

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Breakin' the law II

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An Aussie: Breakin' the Law!

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High tech rednecks and The Mad Aussie

Laptops are now required equipment in the shop.

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High times in tennessee!

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What the hell has welldigger got me into.

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Latest project!

What do you think?

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Attic elevator. So MrsJAC doesn't have to lug those boxes up those crappy fold down stairs.

The casting has to be supported along it's length, hence the location of the cross bars. That's a Miller 185 MIG and the welds are good. Deep, wide, and hot. I was thinking on relocating the crossbar position but the thought of digging through those welds stopped me cold. It ain't going anywhere.

It is now exactly 12" shorter - I cut the legs long so I could get everything located correctly before finalizing. The motors still need to be wired together and the final welds are not done. Got to floor the lift carriage and maybe put some light chain on three sides to keep the load from extending past the ceiling opening.

The hoist frame will come apart into four sections so it will fit into the attic to be reassembled there. Each end section will be cross braced, and the back will have a bolt in diagonal. Overkill, but it makes me happy. The entire apparatus weighs less than 100lbs including hoists and lift carriage.


I'll tell MrsJAC 200lbs max - (You could lift a dressed 350 no problem), paint it, trim it in and call it a day.

Next!

Messages From Beyond

Don't read this, Sarah.


The Mad Aussie has taken up temporary residence in Nashville, Tennessee with my sorry assed brother and Josh. Upon waking this afternoon:

Josh

Josh

hey dude
1:59pmJac

yep

Jamie try to bugger you in your sleep?
2:00pmJosh

your brother has not killed jamie yet, so I reckon that's good

no, he didn't, as I am not a sheep
2:00pmJac

So, he buggered Nathan in his sleep.
2:01pmJosh

possible
2:01pmJac

Is he smiling?
2:01pmJosh

jamie?
2:01pmJac

either
2:02pmJosh

jamie is

nate was
2:02pmJac

then they buggered you.

check six man
2:02pmJosh

no, my ass is unpenetrated
2:03pmJac

virginal, eh? Jamie swore he was gonna "go all deliverence on you."
2:04pmJosh

he did, did he?
2:10pmJac

honest
2:13pmJac

honest injun!
2:13pmJosh

oh goody

I Found the Fount of Fat Guy Wisdom

6911 "Statements of Freedom" on the Harley-Borgison website.

A Harley Basher's Banner Bonanza!



Juan Ponce de León would not necessarily be impressed, but this is one of the most entertaining things I have stumbled upon in a long time.




My own submission for the Hairless-Borgison Statement of Freedom: