Christmas At Wirecutters Place

We don't need no stinking tinsel.

I Can't Argue With This Logic

Sent to me via Email,

Some will argue this is bad logic... but you are allowed to have your own opinion in Texas.







Now the news media will spend days trying to determine why these men did what they did in Boston. They will want to know what America did to make these brothers so angry with us. They will want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something unlawful. The media will be in a tissy about the new era of home grown radicals and about how they could live among us and still hate us.



Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill rattlesnakes because a rattlesnake will bite me and inflict me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me. It will bite me because it is a rattlesnake and that is what rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake…I just kill it. I don’t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so that I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me…I just kill them. I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are because (a) it won’t tell me (b) I already know that they live on my place…I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one. I don’t look for ways that I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake. I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion I kill a rat snake, because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know that for every rattlesnake that I kill, two more lurk out there. In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No! Do I respect what they can do to me? Yes! And because of that respect I give them their fair justice….I kill them.







Maybe as a country we should give more credit to the terrorist just being a rattlesnake!

The only thing I would add to this is that if you want to be a terrorist asshole, foreign or domestic, you look like a rattle snake to me.

Lucky Bastards

A Wisconsin family says they knew they had a fallout shelter on their property but just now decided to uncover the entrance and open it up to see what was in it.

They said there was five feet of water in it and a bunch of metal boxes floating around. They pumped it out and opened the boxes to find perfectly preserved provisions!

Here is a link to the story and it has a slide show of what was in some of the metal boxes.
I was amazed and you will be too, to see what fifty year old goodies look like.
Those metal boxes must have been sealed tight, even the toilet paper looked like it was just put in yesterday!

I wonder what took them so long to find it and open it up?

I think I would clean the thing up and restock it!

H/T FARK, again, for the link.

I check that place several times a day, it is a news aggregator with a sense of humor.

"Oh Shit!"

That is probably exactly what the pilot said too.

"In the video, the plane ascends before veering off course. Eventually the fuselage becomes nearly perpendicular to the ground and quickly plummets into the airfield. The crash claimed the lives of seven crew members, according to a spokesperson for the plane's carrier, National Air Cargo. It remains unclear how, exactly, the plane crashed. According to an updated press release on the carrier's website, the plane was transporting several vehicles to Dubai, United Arab Emirates":

"We still don't know much about the seven people who died when a cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, but dashboard camera footage surfaced Tuesday morning on the website LiveLeak" .

H/T FARK for the link.

The Bottomless Magazine

Every gun grabbers nightmare.
Bonus, it's an eeeevil black rifle!




Interesting to watch.

Monday Again

After have been working six days a week for so long I can't remember, I finally took two days in a row off.
I did absolutely nothing except sit in my recliner, play with my computer and relax. I seriously needed to recharge my batteries as the weather is finally starting to turn better and I have a long list of things I want to get done in the near future.


Here in about a half hour it is back to the salt mines.

Is That An Alien In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?

I thought I had seen all the Men In Black movies but I certainly think I would have remembered this.

Fucking The Fed Right Back

One would have to be pretty much obscenely rich not to have felt the effects of the economy since it crashed in late 2007.
One would also have to be deaf dumb and blind not to see that the crooked banksters and their financial institutions have been putting people all over the world into the poorhouse.

To add insult to injury, even though they have been exposed repeatedly in their thievery, not a single one of the motherfuckers has done one hour of jail time. They simply electronically transfer a portion of their illegal gains into another account with some government agencies name on it and go right back to their thievery like nothing happened.

The unemployment rate here and abroad has been tenaciously stubborn in coming below 8% in this country and is at 25% in Spain as I type this.


Yet contrary to every economic indicator dictating that the economy should be drowning in the toilet, personal consumption in this country is at or above pre recession levels.

How can that possibly be, you ask?

The Underground Economy.

Measuring an unreported economy is obviously tricky. But look closely and you can see the traces of a booming informal economy everywhere. As Feige said to me, “The best footprint left in the sand by this economy that doesn’t want to be observed is the use of cash.” His studies show that, while economists talk about the advent of a cashless society, Americans still hold an enormous amount of cold, hard cash—as much as seven hundred and fifty billion dollars. The percentage of Americans who don’t use banks is surprisingly high, and on the rise. Off-the-books activity also helps explain a mystery about the current economy: even though the percentage of Americans officially working has dropped dramatically, and even though household income is still well below what it was in 2007, personal consumption is higher than it was before the recession, and retail sales have been growing briskly (despite a dip in March). Bernard Baumohl, an economist at the Economic Outlook Group, estimates that, based on historical patterns, current retail sales are actually what you’d expect if the unemployment rate were around five or six per cent, rather than the 7.6 per cent we’re stuck with. The difference, he argues, probably reflects workers migrating into the shadow economy. “It’s typical that during recessions people work on the side while collecting unemployment,” Baumohl told me. “But the severity of the recession and the profound weakness of this recovery may mean that a lot more people have entered the underground economy, and have had to stay there longer.”

I am certainly no stranger to the workings of this unofficial economy and I personally know someone who supported not only himself but his family for years without ever having a "job".

I'm talking nice house with a mortgage and nice cars in the driveway.

His wife worked for the county and made good money but he always had something going on and made decent money himself.

Without ever paying one red cent in taxes.

It helps if you have a skill set that is in popular demand.

Craigslist is one of the great enablers of this recordless cash flow as is Ebay.

Word of mouth cannot be emphasised enough if you have skills and services that people want.
I know this for a fact.

For many years, I was a certified automotive technician with a steady job at a medium sized dealership that sold and serviced upper end vehicles for one of the Big Three.

After work and on weekends I would take on vehicle repairs for friends and family occasionally.

Well"occasionally" turned into damn near a full time job by itsself.
I would charge less than half of what most shops were charging, have the customer pay up front for the parts and then use my discount to get them cheaper than list price and pocket the difference for my time and effort for that part.

By word of mouth, I got so busy, after working my full time job at the dealership, that one time after work I stopped in at the tavern kitty corner from my house to have a beer and there was seven people lined up wanting me to either look at their car or make an appointment.

It took me forty five minutes to look at a bunch of cars and talk to folks before I had a chance to even take a sip of beer.

I seriously considered starting my own business and probably should have because I could have retired by now.

It basically got to the point I was spending more money at one certain parts place near where I worked "officially", that I spent more there in one month on parts than the actual dealer did!

Eventually it just got out of hand. I was so overworked that it was killing me and I had no free time.

So I quit doing side jobs, even for relatives. I was flat burned out.

This is just one example of how the underground economy can flourish.

People collecting unemployment often work under the table to supplement their income.

The same thing for retireees on Social Security.

This has gone on since money and taxes were invented.

Candlemakers, brewers, plumbers, seamstresses,chicken farmers, you name it.
If you have a skill that can be traded you can make money and take the governments hand right the hell out of your ass pocket doing it.

Right this minute there is a TWO TRILLION dollar a year underground economy in this country.

I suggest you take a serious look at just how you can participate in it and send a big Fuck You to the thieving sonsabitches robbing the planet blind while doing it.

It's Toe Tappin' Time

Take a few minutes and relax, this isn't any Heavy Metal crap, this is nice and Bluesy.
I dare ya not to like this and I bet about half way through you will suddenly notice you are tapping your toes.

I just love me some Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule.

Be Vewy Vewy Quiet

I 'bout coughed up a lung laughing when I saw this over at my favorite Rock Hound's place.

Thanks Lockwood.

Go check out Outside The Interzone. Some very interesting geology stuff, especially if you are from the Oregon area, combined with a wicked sense of humor. You never know what you will run across there.

Absolutely Priceless.

Holy shit, I just had hot cofee come out my nose. I really, really wanted to swipe this image but in a show of remarkeable self restraint, I will just give you the link so you can go to the original site. Trust me, when I say you won't regret it.

It's Because I'm Beautiful, Isn't It?

Pretty Accurate Story Line

I found this on Live Leak by some guy named Steve Cutts. Pretty cool.

Beacause It's Real Rock And Roll

Have some fucking Lemmy. Turn that shit up too.

U.S. Claims It Has Evidence Syrian Forces Used Poison Gas, Finally

I don't know what the fuck took them so long.

(CNN) -- The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. But numerous questions remain about the origins of the chemical and what impact its apparent use could have on the ongoing Syrian civil war and international involvement in it. When asked if the intelligence community's conclusion pushed the situation across President Barack Obama's "red line" that could potentially trigger more U.S. involvement in the war, Hagel said it's too soon to say. "We need all the facts. We need all the information," he said. "What I've just given you is what our intelligence community has said they know. As I also said, they are still assessing and they are still looking at what happened, who was responsible and the other specifics that we'll need."

The problem I have with this is that it is old news. Clear back in December Al Jazeera reported several people near Homs were killed in an attack using " something similar to Sarin gas".

Way to be on the ball there fella's. This is just one more example of why I go out of country to get real news.