Sunday Funnies

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Phil Kadath

Slim pickings this week again. Filler provided.

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National Geographic: The Primitives

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Alaska

It’s a new reality series announced for this fall. Let’s just say I have a personal connection.

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THE PRIMITIVES (National Geographic Television) (Global)
Across America’s backyard, communities have walked away from our society of drone deliveries and Keurigs. These individuals and families are turning back the clock a few hundred years and living the old-fashioned way, taking life step by step and using only the land to battle the elements.

It should be pretty good, as these things go. Watch for it.

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I consider this good news

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Scott

A Colt M-16 rifle that has been unaccounted for since January has cost Melbourne a tactical police vehicle, and potentially jeopardized the city’s participation in a federal surplus property program.

What scares me isn’t that an M-16 is on the loose in Southern Florida. It is probably safely in the gun safe of one of the officer’s homes anyway. What scares me is that there is a federal surplus property program where small town police departments can woo the government into giving them playthings such as M-16s and “tactical police vehicles.” The militarization of our local police departments needs to stop!

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The Doc sez

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Phil Kadath

I need more exercise. Apparently, losing three inches of waist and gaining an inch of chest during the eight months of this welding course so far isn’t good enough for her.

So I’m totes building one of these

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I’d like to think I could build a Monovelo, but probably not quite yet.

And no, I don’t plan on “drifting” on my trike. This looks like five pounds of stupid-deadly in a ten pound bag.

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Human Economics, Part 2

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Alaska

An economic boom’s a-comin’!

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What government does

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Phil Kadath

Government makes you build a car you don’t want to make to sell to people who you don’t want to buy it.

The CEO of the newly combined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is urging people not to buy his company’s electric car.

It’s a strange request from a world in which automotive CEOs are usually doing everything they can to hype their product lines, lure customers to showrooms and as they say in the trade, “put butts in seats.”

But Reuters reportedthat Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne told a Washington, D.C., conference this week that he would prefer no one buy the $32,650 Fiat 500e, a beautifully done, practical electric car.

“I hope you don’t buy it because every time I sell one it costs me $14,000,” he is quoted as having said.

 

Luckily for Fiat, very few are even asking them to make it.

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Human Economics

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Phil Kadath

Just one of the many Laws of Human Nature that progressives cannot repeal no matter how many unicorn farts they inhale.

Surprise! Leftist minimum wage policy backfires in Seattle suburb

While Seatac is technically a suburb of Seattle, 95+% of commercial passenger airline traffic to the PacNW travels through it. Which is why the “$15 Hour” crowd chose it for their experiment. They thought it would serve them well to choose a 24-7 functioning sphere of capitalism to test their theory in.

Sadly, no.

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Getting to Work

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Phil Kadath

Having spent the first third of the Spring Quarter building my Heavy Metal Shooting Bench so that I had something to shoot off of at this year’s Boomershoot, I had to switch gears and start making tools for the “business on the side” that I hope will make welding profitable for me in the future.

You can’t build anything if you don’t have a platform to work on.

Boom!

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(all pics are click to enlarge, as usual)

One welding table, served.

It is a smallish mobile welding table with an 18″x36″ cutting area and a 34″x40″ welding area. The cutting rack is made from 3/8″x2″ bar stock and the surface is 3/8″ plate. The rest is an amalgam of angle and sheet with locking wheels attached.

Since you can’t have a newly built welding table and a welding machine and NOT weld, I did.

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I manufactured a step for my hitch receiver so that I no longer have to crawl onto the tailgate to get into the bed. I had all the pieces laying around and after two quick cuts, whipped it out in under 15 minutes. That was nice.

Except for the glowing orb in the sky making things moderately uncomfortable, even without my heavy welding jacket on. My next task was to appropriate the Boomeragio shell for my convenience.

Boom.

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One outdoor work area, ready for service.

I’ll be spending next weekend getting materials ready for the building of my Parts Tables. I need to sell 10-12 of these so that I can pay my savings account back for the purchase of my welding machine. You know how to get in touch with me if you’re interested. And you should be interested. Custom orders taken, including any parts or pieces you wish me to include.

Keep the phrase Kadath Heavy Industries in your minds. It’ll be significant in the future.

Also, I have a surprise in store here in the next couple weeks that will directly relate to both my Fabrication class and Boomershoot. It does not involve anything you’ve seen yet in the way of building stuff, yet will still be rather interesting.

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Sunday Funnies

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Phil Kadath

Had to go through the archives since there wasn’t anything really on topic for this week’s news that was all that good, except the last one. And color me surprised that the media didn’t report it as such.

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No Show Trials, No Mass Graves

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Alaska

This hadn’t occurred to me before, the part I bolded below, I mean:

I was always struck by Alexis de Tocqueville’s comment that Americans were on the way to being a democratic people long before establishing a democratic government. We served on colonial juries where we listened to both sides before we rendered judgment on our fellow citizens. We had professional, civic, and social institutions that taught us how to work together. We fought the Revolutionary War against the British Crown, a war in which perhaps a third of our citizens were on the British side and yet after the war there were no show trials, no recriminations, no mass graves. To do it the other way around—to begin with a democratic government and hope for a people with a democratic outlook and habits to grow as a result—is more often than not a fool’s errand…. Don’t all people yearn for freedom?” we have asked. And we assume the answer is yes. But the answer is no. Some people, perhaps most people, prefer other goods. Indeed, some people would rather be holy than free, or safe than free, or be instructed in how they should lead their lives rather than be free. Many prefer the comfort of strong answers already given rather than the openness and hazards of freedom. There are those who would never dream of substituting their will for the imam’s or pushing their desires over the customs and traditions of their families. Some men kiss their chains.

—John Agresto, writing in Commentary

I wonder how rare that is in the history of revolutions?

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