September 16, 2019: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 84 Comments

This evening, something calming for those among us who were busy minding her own business when someone blew in needing “the table saw”.
 
THE TABLE SAW?
 
You mean my ancient 150 lb cast iron Beaver Rockwell table saw gathering rust in the shed with exposed wires hanging like threads… that table saw?
 
Long story short, I spent a good hour or two trying to level and position usable platforms around a table saw on uneven ground in the back yard. I finally chopped two divots in the lawn to get everything to line up. Because everything has line up when you’re trimming large sheets of heavy, floppy polyethylene material.
 
I may or may not share pictures tomorrow. Whatever happens, it’s going to be redneck special.
 
So here’s my calming music and yours: Heart Like A Wheel — Eric Church

84 Replies to “September 16, 2019: Reader Tips”

    2. Pure Evil! I was profoundly disturbed yesterday, by the posting of the video of the 2 men killing the baby by putting a gun in its mouth and blowing its head off. I am speaking up about this to all who will listen. If any politician comes to my door during this election cycle, I will be “blasting” their heads off and letting them that I am NOT OK with supporting the “ragheads” in the Middle East. They won’t listen of course, but I will be very loud about it.

    3. When you are faced with a virulent Disease, one must act Decisively – Islam requires MASS Irradiation .. the sooner the better.
      5-10 MTons per Major Islamic City world wide. would be a good start.

      I’d support that in a hearbeat.

      1. well steakman, in another life, *I* would be the bloke launching the missile.
        with a pristine clear conscience.
        echos of ‘rain of ruin the likes of which’ and ‘fire and fury’ more recently.

        10,000,000 degrees does have a certain sterilizing effect.

    1. He later married the woman featured in the video. She’s Paulina Porizkova and was in at least one Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition during the mid-1980s, along with models Claudia Schiffer, Elle Macpherson, and Kathy Ireland.

      1. She is a self effacing beauty who was 21 years Ocasek’ s junior. I recall the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions that you refer to. Later, she became the $6 million dollar a year woman with the Cosmetics firm Estee Lauder.

        1. I was going through some of my father’s stuff last year when I found a mint copy of a Sport Illustrated swimsuit edition (1985 or 86, I can’t remember which) that I had sent to him. She’s featured on the cover.

          That’s definitely a keeper.

    1. Yup, so whenever someone talks about LGBTQ make sure you remind them to add the P on the end for Pedophiles. Because they just want to be accepted too, (then say to them) you hater.

    1. I was thinking about that very song, which was written by Anna McGarrigle, by the way.

      I bought a copy of the Heart Like A Wheel LP in the mid-1970s and, a few years ago, I looked for it on CD. I stopped by a record shop and found it and more. It was part of a budget 2 CD sset which had all of the albums that Ronstadt made with Capitol Records.

      It had songs she recorded when she sang with the Stone Ponies 50 years ago. In addition, some of the tracks were of her singing with Don Henley and Glenn Frey…. before they joined to form the Eagles. Back then, the California folk rock community was small and everyone seemed to know everyone else. It was not uncommon for people to collaborate with each other.

      Great stuff!

      1. The album Heart Like A Wheel has a lot of great material on it and was one of the best produced during the 1970s. Her version of the Hank Williams tune I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You (with Emmylou Harris singing backup) earned her a Grammy.

        1. Yes, her music was superbly recorded. I have Heart Like a Wheel on mfsl (Mobile fidelity sound labs) vinyl.
          https://www.discogs.com/Linda-Ronstadt-Heart-Like-A-Wheel/release/11406674
          The sound is rich, deep, and lush. But the absolute BEST Linda Rondstadt lp’s I own Are on a very limited run label ‘DCC’ … which issued The Best of Linda Rondstadt Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. DCC vinyl was produced, engineered, and the lacquers cut by Steve Hoffman … who is one of the most revered name in vinyl engineering. To say these two lp’s sound sublime is a dramatic understatement. They are the absolute BEST of the BEST vinyl I own. They were mastered from the original Analogue tapes … which makes the sound so “natural” and “present”. Every musical instrument is captured and reproduced naturally. And of course … great sound … great vinyl is ALL about the female voice. If your system can capture all the nuance of the female voice (mine does) … then you have sonic bliss.
          https://www.discogs.com/Linda-Ronstadt-Greatest-Hits/release/4019825
          https://www.discogs.com/Linda-Ronstadt-Greatest-Hits-Volume-Two/release/4019861
          I “get it” … that mp3 files are “convenient” … but vinyl simply sounds best. It’s not even close. And there is a certain “zen” about listening to a whole lp side … even the songs that aren’t radio hits … that you end up loving like your best friends voice.

          Yes, I am a music snob. I have been since the 1980’s when my brother converted me to an audiophile. And I collect only the very best engineered vinyl, both the original pressings from the 60’s and 70’s and superbly remastered reissues. I wish I could invite you all over to hear my system and my vinyl (esp. Nancy, whose music taste runs parallel to mine) … and I could “convert” you back to black (vinyl).

          1. “I wish I could invite you all over to hear my system and my vinyl …”

            Nirvana!
            I’d bring the others, too.

            (Of course, in my new JET, when I win the LOTTERY!)

            Thanks, Kenji.

          2. – And I can tell you why. Vinyl is an analogue signal; DVD’s and what-have-you are digital. The sampling rate is so high anymore that it shouldn’t matter, but it does.

          3. well folks, I got ‘rock and roll’ hearing, so the higher frequencies from analog . . . .
            I started buying CDs because they put classical music on them.
            all my classical vinyls had the clicks and pops and sk-sk-sk-skips.

            my classical collection matches my pop/rock collection.

      3. “And it’s only love and it’s only love
        That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out”
        Grammatically correct, politically incorrect and impossible in today’s world.

      4. Heart Like a Wheel is also the name of a biopic movie about top fuel drag racing pilot Shirley Muldowney, a pioneer in female motor sports. I got her autograph when she was in Calgary with her hot pink dragster. My five year old son asked why she had a parachute on the back of her car; she said “I like to go fast but I like to slow down”. I was wearing my Don Garlits “Swamp Rat” t-shirt, and she complimented me on it.

  9. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/15/joe_biden_recalls_terrifying_1960s_public_pool_confrontation_with_razor-weilding_gangster_named_corn_pop.html

    “The Root” senior writer Michael Harriot raised new questions about former Vice President Joe Biden’s perspective on race relations in the wake of comments he made about slavery during Thursday’s presidential debate.

    Harriot recalled a story Joe Biden sometimes tells about the summer of 1962 when he was the only white lifeguard at a public pool in Wilmington, Delaware. After telling a swimmer to exercise caution on the diving board, Biden is warned that he had offended “Corn Pop,” the leader of a local gang. Corn Pop next tells Biden that he will be waiting outside with a switchblade when his shift is over. Luckily, Biden defends himself by wrapping a metal chain around his arm and eventually befriends Corn Pop.”

    Omg Corn Pop?! Smokin’ Joe Biden is the Original Gangster! He will kick dRumpf’s orange azz!!

  10. *A trick for those of you who cut polystyrene with a circular saw. I worked with vinyl siding for one project, it was a nightmare – the blade kept snagging on the material, breaking-out chunks, leaving ragged edges or even breaking-off so much that the piece was too short to be useable.

    A buddy said “Put the blade on backwards”.

    2. This sounds like it would have been a good one for a video. Actually the term “large sheets” makes me think more “skil saw” than “table saw.”

      1. Table saw is the go-to tool. You can afro-engineer 2 C-clamps and a straight board to do the same thing with a skil saw but it is a pain in the ass.

  13. I see the latest scam is going to be gas prices soaring because of an attack on a Saudi oil facility. Too bad Canada doesn’t have any oil of it’s own. I swear the people in this country lack the intelligence God gave geese. Will someone ask the politicians why the hell we can’t use our own oil. Then refuse to vote for any idiot who says they will not force pipelines from freaking coast to coast. I mean force. Tell every green freak and Indian that we will build what is in the best interest of Canada and they can go cry in their beer.

  14. At a Robert Plant concert last night and just before he and the Sensational Space Shifters came on the crowd got to watch reGreta the reTard preach on the video screen… for what its worth I booed loudly as soon as I saw her face.
    Although she got some cheers from some while she prattled on about how fantastic she and other children are and how rich people are evil, I didn’t think she was whole-heartedly received.
    Really f**king annoying. But the show was great. Ramble on.

    1. Well then…
      Add Robert Plant to the list of Entertainers/Perormers that will Never see a dime of my money. After paying $100-500 or whatever to see someone perform, the last thing I want is said someone preaching to me over some Bullshit.

      Sick of that condescending arrogant shit from some filthy rich mouthpiece that if he crashed his/her private plane in the wilderness would likely die from his own ignorance not even knowing how to start a fire. One could only hope.

  15. Trudeau’s Unifor media is waiting in eager anticipation of what Gerald Butt’s sleaze squad will come up with this week. Justin groupie Rosemary Barton was doing her part yesterday. She had her panel discuss how evil Hitler Scheer is, and that there is no place in Trudeau’s Canada for social conservatives. Meanwhile Groper was asked about the gang violence in progressive Toronto. He went into a rant about Scheer and then went on stage in Mississauga, to prance and make the tennis star celebration about him.

    1. I notice the main steam media has not said anything about the pending capital gains tax on a personal residence if Trudeau is re-elected
      I guess that 600 million dollar bribe is working

    2. The deep state seems worried. If so, count on lots more slime and if necessary, outright fabrications.
      The DeMarxist nonsense is coming to us for the same reasons; a fear of losing power and privilege and access to our money.

  16. Oh my God! Gerald Butts will have to make a phone call to the Globe and Mail. The paper actually has a story written by the Rebel’s Ezra Levant. The Globe is putting their bribe money at risk. Also a story on how a former Liberal cabinet minister under two Liberal premiers, has now spoken out against the Hong Kong protesters and supports democracy loving China.

  17. Leaders’ Debates Commission
    @debates_can

    Yesterday was #WorldDayofDemocracy, and what better way to celebrate Canada’s thriving democracy by making a Debates Date?

    With so many ways to watch, there’s no day like today to make plans with friends for #cdndebates2019
    @RUEngageX
    #cdnvote2019 #cdnpoli #elxn43 #whydebatesmatter

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEgddrdXYAEf4cD?format=jpg&name=medium

    https://mobile.twitter.com/debates_can/status/1173220101253935109

  19. Trudeau’s CBC is upset that Hitler Scheer is proposing tax cuts. They explain that anybody making around forty thousand dollars a year is wealthy. And the Toronto Star explains that the peasants will just spend the money on an extra day of holidays. Meanwhile Groper is in Ontario today where he will be meeting with persecuted teachers discussing class room sizes and Doug Ford’s education cuts. Because the federal government now apparently runs education in the provinces. National Post reports that Groper is getting a warm reception in Ontario. He has promised us in the province lots of free stuff. Oil workers in Alberta will just have to work harder to pay for what people in Toronto want. The Unifor media is a little upset that Groper won’t hold question and answer sessions the past few days. Don’t they realize that the press is just there to make Great Leader look good in front of the peasants?

  20. Kate – Your Story reminded me of my freshman (HS) woodshop teacher … who happened to be a 6’-6” 275lb ex NFL defensive lineman … who barked at us with a scowl on the first day of class, growling that … “machines are NOT your friends”. Followed by the cheerful … “I HATE Freshman”. He was actually a genuinely nice man who would give his left arm for you (as he cautioned you how to keep yours intact). He also was my varsity football coach, and mentor.

    Multiple times throughout the year, when he saw kids doing something stupid, his voice would bellow out of noisy machinery … “machines are NOT your friends!”. Shouted, as we learned, as his way of keeping the kids he loved safe and sound.

    I hope your steel and cast iron relic was treated as though it was NOT your friend. We would all suffer if you were to lose a finger along with your scraps of acrylic cut offs.

    1. Multiple times throughout the year, when he saw kids doing something stupid, his voice would bellow out of noisy machinery … “machines are NOT your friends!”. Shouted, as we learned, as his way of keeping the kids he loved safe and sound.

      Nowadays someone like him would be fired for “abuse”. Teaching, after all, is a “people business”, or so the last dean I had to answered to barked at me. (No, the dean didn’t like me and he gladly accepted my resignation.)

      1. Trust me … he wouldn’t last a week teaching today’s snowflakes with litigious parents. And it would be their loss … and societies loss as more weaklings go marching into adulthood, err … suspended childhood.

  21. From Max

    More evidence that our immigration system is out of control.

    Foreigners can get fake jobs in a fraud scheme to get permanent residence. Too few immigration officials to stop it.

    Our immigration system doesn’t work in Canada’s interests anymore. It must be reformed.

    For $170,000, a Toronto immigration company offered a job to an undercover CBC journalist posing as a Chinese national seeking permanent residence in Canada.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1173250243347046400

    1. Next thing you know the Liberals will mandate the United Canadian Nationista ‘unitard’ uniform. (think of Star Trek)

      The issue will be in sizes Tiny, Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large. (The latter size will be available minimumly, pending a Government mandated B.M.I. examination)

      The unitard will be manufactured in Montreal because of the abundance of existing shuttered factories that operate on the green hydro-electric grid.

      The newly established Green Jobs Department will hire 10,000 Green Police who will issue Green Uniform fines for those breaking this important new Green law.
      (CLIMATE Barbie & the Ukerainien Sausage Girl are exempt, the latter, we’ll because some like her tight clothes)

      Come to United Canadian Nationisa folks, there will be Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, folks. We can sell to the whole World.
      (“THINK BIG” à la Presto Manno, you know who I mean, Albertans)

      Remember what the prophetic Liberal Leader, Stephane Dion once said about the Green movement:
      “We gonna make money wid it.” / s

      YEAH RIGHT!

      These people are dangerous.

  23. Let me know if Alberta or Saskatchewan ever has the chance to pick someone who stands up and says

    “if Quebec has a veto on pipelines, the Saskatchewan/Alberta has a veto on rail traffic.”

    1. Problem is, Kevin, that a lot of what Saskalberta produces goes by rail and is exported. Think grain, potash, and even oil. We could get cranky, of course, and insist on stopping the trains at – say – Field for a thorough inspection to ensure no rats aboard.

  24. Groper stood up to evil Doug Ford today. While speaking to teachers he announced that taxpayers will pay to babysit kids before and after school.

  25. “he announced that taxpayers will pay to babysit kids before and after school.”

    Yeah, no. Those kiddies going to school? They’ll be paying for their own babysitters + interest ’cause Zoolander’s regime is still deficit spending and he has to borrow the money at interest for not only the existing government programs, but any new ones his regime implements.

    This would be new spending, if not a new program. Might even need a new Ministry to administer it. Who would not apply for it?
    That “after school” part? Mommy and /or Daddy could go out and party after work as long as they want on the government(taxpayer) dime.

    Yeah but split the vote by voting Bernier. Shoot the Moon, eh? Principles and all that guff.

  26. Leaders’ Debates Commission invites leader of the People’s Party of Canada to join debates on October 7, 10

    Conclusion
    Overall, when considered as a whole, the factors set out above weigh in favour of including the PPC in the leaders’ debates. I have examined whether the PPC has a legitimate chance of electing more than one candidate in the upcoming election and have concluded that the PPC does have more than one candidate endorsed by the party with a legitimate chance to be elected. Therefore, it is my view that the PPC meets criterion (iii)(b) of the OIC and as such, an invitation will be extended to its leader for the Commission’s 2019 leaders’ debates.

    David Johnston
    Debates Commissioner
    September 16, 2019

    https://debates-debats.ca/en/leaders-debates-commission-invites-leader-peoples-party-canada-join-debates-october-7-10/

    https://debates-debats.ca/en/interpretation-participation-criteria-leaders-debates/letter-peoples-party-canada/decision-participation-leader-peoples-party-canada-in-the-2019-leaders-debates/

  27. Building the border wall reminds me that one of the few reasons for the Constitution given in the Preamble was to establish common defense. The entire preamble:
    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
    Common defense against whom? Why people NOT of the United States of course. If it is necessary to build a border wall for the common defense, then a border wall should be built.
    Promote the general welfare, not provide for the general welfare. Promote the general welfare means to provide for an ambience wherein the general welfare naturally increases. Just like the Declaration of Independence only talks about the pursuit of happiness. No one can insure happiness.
    Insure domestic tranquility and secure the blessings of liberty. Domestic tranquility, which means as little intrusion by the government in the lives of the people as possible, so that they can lead a tranquil life, to pursuit whatever endeavors with the blessings of liberty. Even despotic China had a four word saying to that effect: tranquil (in) domicile, pleasure (in pursuit of) endeavor. 安居樂業
    So few words, so much wisdom. If only the woke progs bother to read the Constitution. Even just the 52 words of the preamble.

    1. But … but … but … America HAS so much. And the average Nicaraguan has so little. We should be FORCED to … sharrrrrrrre. We OWE everyone else on the planet … OUR … tranquility.

      Behold the “wisdom” of Americans today

      1. Behold the “wisdom” of Americans today

        Not just today. I heard the same baloney in Sunday sermons 40 years ago. Oddly enough, it was people like me who had to do all the sharing. The well-to-do virtue-signallers were exempt as they apparently needed to keep their money because of their important work of reminding me to share my “wealth”.

  28. ” If only the woke progs bother to read the Constitution.”

    This is a presumption of good faith not in evidence. The Progs are bad faith actors.

    1. It’s a severe climate EMERGENCY in Canada…and should be considered a crime. If only one can prove it and the criminals be caught red handed setting it. Such damage, what a horror. Thought my lungs would burst in the summer of 2018. The smoke stench was unbearable. This year has been too wet, so not an issue. Thanks to the Lord.

  31. Ha! Warren Kinsella is retweeting a tweet from Faith Goldy where she states that only one federal leader has ever bought her a drink, and that’s Groper. I wonder if Trudeau’s wife knows that. Nice picture at Kinsella’s website of Groper groping the tennis star at the Mississauga celebration.

    1. Trudeau’s wife knows he’s an adulterer. So do the press and so do his bodyguards and so does everyone in the PMO.

  32. Somebody gave me a Beaver 3200, and I’m unsure of its vintage. It seems to cut OK though so far I’ve pretty much only been ripping with it as I have a chop saw for other things.

  33. I did it.

    for the first time ever, in 50 years of voting, I did it.

    took the critters for a walk around midnite, saw a ‘team tureau’ election sign.

    I couldnt help it, honest.

    I crumpled it up and shoved it into a large shrub nearby.

    go&&%^$$^mn I hate LIEberals.

    2. I forgive you too.
      Where I live, Airdrie Alberta, there are literally no signs at all in the whole city except for BLAKE RICHARDS CPC.
      Sounds like bull, yes? There aren’t even very many Blake Richards signs. If I didn’t know any better, I wouldn’t even know there was an important election coming. I have never seen anything like this in my 42 years of voting.(I’m 60, my wife is 62)
      Personally, I couldn’t do what you did even if it was a PPC sign.(biggest actual threat to CPC) Because of Free speech blah blah blah.
      –I am a huge believer in free speech, it’ll be the death of me some day-

      1. There is a good reason. No one is now allowed to display conservative thoughts, verbally or via supportive clothing or signs, without risks of being social-media smeared, accosted or getting a rock through the window. Very aware of this in BC. The populace is being censored and shamed.

        1. Well, L. As I said above I have only seen CPC signs and very few of them. No other party signs anywhere. It’s weird.
          My take is the other parties are leaving their candidates for this riding to twist in the wind. No support, because it’s a waste.

    1. I thought David Johnston was a traitor in his new role, but this was a wise decision, albeit, tardy. I thought he was a Liberal, but impartial and a good GG overall.

  35. Breaking news from Trudeau’s CBC. The network reports that Chinese and Indian agents are entering the country posing as diplomats and interfering with the election. This may explain the Globe story of a former Liberal cabinet minister coming out in support of China. And India is worried about Sikh extremists in political parties. Meanwhile at the Ford Hate Fest in Ontario, Groper was asked what he is going to do if the price of gas goes up because of the situation in Saudi Arabia. He answered that everyone should buy electric cars.

    1. That means subsidies for the wealthy in urban areas paid for by the middle/lower class and anyone outside a metro area. Bonus for hydro companies, so they are all good with that too.

  36. Waffen S.S. heiress Freeland is honouring her grandfather’s Nazi past. The National Post website reports that the Canadian government attended a memorial in the Ukraine honouring Ukrainians who fought for the Nazis. Maybe Ralphie “The Nazi Hunter” Goodale should investigate Groper’s cabinet.

  37. RE: Table saw. I love the term Rockwell Beaver. Goes well with a 98 Oldsmobile, Zenith TV and International Harvester deep freeze.

  40. POTUS Trump in New Mexico right now. Said one protester went home to his mommy early. Great line, even the kids laughed.

    He just said, regarding securing the border, that no other president was able to do that, working with Mexico for example.

    I couldn’t help thinking isn’t it also true previous presidents didn’t want to do that?

    How deep is the Trump nebula, how dense is its core, the elitist supernova. Only he could have stopped that; on that he is right.

    The rest are somewhere between Robespierre and Machiavelli, with some, like Kamala and AOC, reeking of malevolence.

    Now he’s telling everyone how he beats geniuses, like his staff (and his opponents). Imagine working for a guy like that.

  41. Back in the day, there was supposedly an IA teacher who had a student do something stupid and lose the tip of a finger. This being before the days when a tip could be re-attached, the teacher promptly nipped along to the biology lab room and obtained a bottle of formaldehyde. In went the severed tip. In the following years, the safety talk always included a showing of the bottle and contents with the comment, “This is J…..’s finger; don’t add yours to my collection.” No kid ever did.

    BTW, the new phrase for parents of snowflakes is “snowplough parents”.

    1. Have I got a story that trumps that one. In the 1990s(I doubt it’s still there) some long haired dude enrolled in SAIT’s carpentry program.
      He got his long locks caught in the drill press and it literally scalped him.
      The hair and attached scalp were still hanging on the wall in the main shop in 1990 as a warning to future apprentices.

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