Life Happens

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Phil Kadath

When you least expect it to. Unsurprisingly.

I was rolling some rather stout pieces of Marine Channel across one of the fitting tables at work in the process of flame cutting some copes into the flanges on Monday morning.

In one of my less than stellar moments, I guess that I tried to catch the largest piece after it slipped out of my hand. I was able to catch it, if by “catch it” you mean stop it from landing flat on the upturned flange of another piece of channel table with a huge crash by not getting the middle finger of my left hand out of the way fast enough.

Physics being what it is, this caused the bone in the tip of my finger to snap and split the tip of my finger open like a cherry tomato. The gory mess that followed is to horrific to post and caused me to spend three hours in the E.R. where I got six stitches and a splint. I get to keep my fingernail though, so I got that going for me.

I’ll be back to work today after spending part of yesterday finding gloves I can use while bandaged and splinted. I go back for a followup on Friday when I should learn just how long this crap will take to heal. I’ve got a little more than three weeks until Boomershoot, so I have a goal, at least.

On the plus side, because every thing needs a plus side, my “Flipping the Bird While Driving” game just went up like 300%. I swear you can see this thing from one side of the interstate to the other.

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Eaten by the monster of

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Phil Kadath

The Bookface.

I joined a local prepper meetup group a few months back, but last month the manager of the group decided he’d rather not deal with the meetup BS and let us all know he was switching the group’s public facade to the Bookface. Not wanting to drop out, I broke down and joined the Bookface, and this past week has shown me why I stayed away.

Mofos coming out of the woodwork, plus info overload, and it is all so easy because it comes to me. It makes regular blogging seem like work.

I didn’t even use my real name and people from years ago when I was locally infamous and had no intention of speaking to ever again pop up and ask “Hey, are the same Phil from (insert reference here)?” And even when I tell them no, it’s like they’ve alerted a couple other people it might be me and I get more messages.

I know that I’m the product in this scenario, which is why I put up a whole lot of music in the hopes that more people will hear it and like it and maybe get some extra funds going to the artists. So, to the people I’ve friended, that is what that is about. If you’re on the Bookface and I’ve not found/friended you yet and you wish to make that happen, you can find me at my name plus Kadath.

In the meantime, I’ll try to get back into the game here.

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If you want to get debt

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Phil Kadath

Because this is how you get debt.

The nation of Finland is on the verge of a very significant governmental experiment. The world will be watching closely and, if it works, it will surely spread widely to other countries.

Finland is planning to give every Finnish citizen and legal resident a monthly income of €800 (about $900). It would go to the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich alike. To fund it, all welfare programs will be abolished, as will the vast bureaucracies that run them. (It is possible that a few, such as those that deal with the severely physically and mentally handicapped, might be retained.)

There will be no restrictions on the use of the money; no social workers dropping in to make sure recipients are behaving themselves. People can spend the money on food and clothing or on vodka and video games. The money will be taxable, like any other income, but those on the lower end of the socio-economic scale would keep all the money, as they pay no income tax, while those at the top would have much of it taxed away. (The Finnish income tax rate is currently 51.6 percent)

And when those agencies that are supposedly going away start to return, because giving people who are bad with money “free money” isn’t going to make them any wiser, the income tax rate will be up to 71.6%.

Speaking of people who can’t say no to giving away other people’s money

Although its 2014-15 budget was balanced, California’s state government ended the fiscal year $175.1 billion in the red, thanks largely to state retirement obligations that had to be included in its balance sheet for the first time.

Under new rules by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, state and local governments must list unfunded pension liabilities as debts alongside the more traditional bonds and other forms of debt.

Counties and other local governments have been rolling out their annual financial reports this year, some showing multibillion-dollar deficits for pension obligations, so the state’s report was not unexpected.

A new rule?

Why does there have to be a specific rule when it comes to budgeting that you should list ALL of your obligations for the year AND balance the budget?

Ohhh, politics. Sorry I forgot about that.

I’m going to prognosticate a doubling of property taxes that will chase the remaining sane peoples out of the state.

And even that won’t be enough to stop the flow of red ink in the offices of the GASB.

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Somebody’s Delusional

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Phil Kadath

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I’d say that, at a very minimum, the author of this panel.

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In the dictionary

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Phil Kadath

Under the definition of quisling, is a picture of a guy named Mike Weisser (aka: Mike the Gun Guy). He posts at the HuffPo on a semi-regular basis and says stupid shit.

His latest installment is titled “How the 2nd Amendment Differs from the Rest of the Bill of Rights”. In this latest piece, he says the 2nd Amendment is different because it only covers people who own firearms, unlike the 1st Amendment which covers everybody (except those who chose to not say things that inflame or challenge the mainstream, or those who chose to not practice a religion, or those who chose to not assemble). Or the 4th Amendment (except or those who aren’t currently in danger of being illegally searched). Or the 5th Amendment (except for those who aren’t currently being prosecuted by the state).

He seems to forget that an individual’s perpetual civil rights coverage under the Bill of Rights does not mean that they have to be using them to be covered.

Not a thinker, that one.

The Bill of Rights is kind of like having a concealed pistol: You hope you don’t ever have to use them, but you are very glad that they are they in case you ever need them.

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I’ve been asked

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Phil Kadath

Why I don’t have one of those “I *heart* Guns & Coffee” stickers on my vehicles.

It’s because I don’t like coffee.

This guy didn’t like either of them, apparently

A  customer with a concealed carry permit shot and killed a masked man wielding a hatchet inside a convenience store Sunday morning, according to investigators.

The King County Sheriff’s Office was called to a 7-Eleven on 8th Avenue South, near White Center, at 5:45 a.m.

The store clerk says the masked man entered the store and immediately started swinging a hatchet toward a customer — then he turned his sights on the clerk.

Witnesses told deputies the attacker remained silent during the entire ordeal.

The clerk suffered minor injuries to his stomach, but before more damage could be done, the customer fired his pistol and hit the suspect.

Medics arrived shortly after and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The King County Sheriff’s investigators say the customer who shot the man appears to have done nothing wrong, and they are happy he was there to intervene.

Clean up on Aisle 1.

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This is true

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Phil Kadath

In their world of lies.

According to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), members of the U.S. Navy SEALs have privately told him that they are short on combat arms.

Yep, the U.S. Navy is supposedly short on M4s. Just not enough of them to go around and they’ll be sending these guys out with pointed sticks by next week or something.

I’d suggest that they ask the USMC for a loan since they get to ride on all the boats free of charge and all.

But then again, I’m not sure that I believe these anecdotes, and if they are even remotely true, I’m a practical, solutions based thinker.

I know where people who aren’t either of those things hang out, so I went looking around there and found exactly what I was looking for:

Problem: there’s not enough M-4 carbines to go around.

Solution: Sweaty Sally’s Gun Show and City Center Outdoor Firing Range.

Y’all, I think it’s finally happened. There are more combat weapons on the damn street than in the military.

Alternative Solution: people who already own combat weapons get drafted into the military immediately.

Because Juanita Jean of the hyper-leftist Crooks and Liars blog lives in a fact-free world, she honestly believes that anyone can go to a gun show or a rifle range and find military grade M4s for sale.

The idea that you should only own a firearm if you work for the government doesn’t even phase me anymore from these types. And the idea that there is a “weapon” not made for combat shows just how dumb you have to be to think like her.

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Introductions are in order

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Phil Kadath

Buster was a very good boy. Well mannered, gentle and kind to all those he met. He was also very protective of his family and home. He could sense trouble before it made it to the porch. More than once, we had a neighbor tell us they saw him out of the corner of their eye sitting in the front window with his head on the sill watching them walk by and got the willies.

He will be dearly missed.

I would like to have you all meet the newest member of the family who will be assuming his responsibilities.

Please say hello to Leeloo Dallas

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She is the queen of mutts and happy with it. At approximately 6yrs old, she is mature and house trained, with just the right energy level for our household. She gets along with our other canine family members, and even the feline one.

We adopted her from the rescue agency we got Buster from 4 years ago. They remembered him, and us, and after letting them know about his passing and our current household members, they said that they had someone rather like Buster that we should meet.

And so we did. And it went very well, as should be obvious by this point in the post.

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We haven’t had a large dog who wasn’t a male in so long, the wife has had a hard time remembering to call her a “her”.

The next door neighbor saw her bounding about the back yard and said he just about shit himself thinking we had brought home some sort of large cat.

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I don’t know why he would think that.

Anyway, feel free to leave your greetings in the comments. I’ll be sure to pass them along. She does love to be talked at.

If you or someone else you know are looking to help out a hard-luck pet (cats or dogs, large or small), please do contact me. The wife and I help out a couple of very deserving local shelters/rescues with some even more deserving animals in search of their forever homes.

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Hoo Dat?

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Phil Kadath

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Well, that’s little miss totes adorbs, Gigi the Snuggle Monster, on the right, but who is that girl with the pretty eyes on the left?

Answer tomorrow (with more pics).

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It’s A Conspiracy

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Phil Kadath

Of course…..

There is a Kansas University Jayhawks basketball game on the same day as the Kansas Presidential Caucus. ESPN will be there because Jayhawks basketball is very popular. ESPN and KU agreed on the game’s scheduled start time a couple weeks ago.

It starts at 1500, local time.

Because of the weird way in which the Democratic Party in Kansas runs their caucus, their caucusing begins at 1500 as well.

So, of course, this is a conspiracy to prevent people who love them some Jayhawks basketball to have to choose between the two.

If you’re an idiot. Like these folks.

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