I know people in Kintucky who make a good bit of $$$ from corn... ;-)

Sorry in advance for messing up your otherwise, serious discussion...

Tater, here's why this groups (or any real Christian group) prayers are answered:

James 5:16

KJV   Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on February 24, 2017, 07:34:49 AM

Q: how to you know when Don is bored?
A: he starts to poke around in SqD

Menses, What's the over under/over on it being done in 2017?


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How bout the over/under he gets back to it this year?
He's been busy at the farm and all...

It's the "and all" that has really kept me busy...

Closing all that off yielded a robust housing that will be glued and screwed to the backside of the collector after I cut an access hole through the back panel

Cutting the hole out allowed the fan to fit directly into the elbow structure that will divert the ambient air into the collector to be heated and shoved out the top

The marine application bilge fans came in today

First up, I repaired the Shur-Flo 55psi water pump installing a new plastic housing which replaces the damaged fittings

The new one was slightly smaller, much thinner and lighter and makes for a neater installation

Had to work on C-Max some today. Yet another Chinaman headlamp bulb burned out. These 50,000 hour bulbs are lasting about 6-8 months and they burn out. Maybe they were supposed to mean to say 50,000 seconds lifespan??

I think I am done with monkeying with that engine. I'll shift gears, get some brakes and some other things reattached and have it taken to s 12 valve specialist to sort it all out

There's a bunch of mechanical noise from this tractor motor!

So here is the idle now, after setting it up a wee bit

After snugging up the fuel lines I went all over it checking various things for proper installation. I found the boost gage was not hooked up, so I took care of that

Today I was cleaning out the garage a little. There was this huge pile of dust. When I started to remove it, I discovered a really cool old Dodge truck beneath it, in somewhat like a preserved condition.
We have been messing with this truck, what now, 4-5 years?

Well, I'm back on it with today's emphasis on trying to get it idling better and working off the immense punch out list.

First I checked all the fuel lines, putting a wrench on each fitting. Everything was tight, but it started with some difficulty and idled roughly. Afterward I had a garage all filled up with the white smoke again and the unburned fuel was doing it's final burning in my Mark-1 eyeballs

That is a fantastic deal

I paid $529 with my military discount for a 5500 watt Generec a few years ago. Mine would easily run the frig's you describe. That one will use some gas, but well, well worth the money

Keep it and use it

But, really...Do use it about once every month or two or you will have gas quality issues and run problems

Add some gas life extender what ever you call it stuff to the crappy gas (Gas purchased in America) to prevent issues if you forget to run the thing and regularly replenish a portion of the fuel in the tank.

Good buy!

Quote from: EL TATE on February 20, 2017, 05:49:34 PM

if you think about it, THIS right here is a form of "church" for many of us. we talk, share lessons, edify and support one another, contribute to worthy causes, and hopefully all take away something of worth to share with our friends and family and improve our lives and the lives of those around us, all while fellowshipping.

I think this is really accurate. We tend to think of a church as the building itself, but what happens when the building burns down or is somehow damaged? The people meet in the parking lot or in some small commercial space and guess what....the same praying and Christian behavior occurs....the "church" is the shared discussions, prayers and beliefs of the people. And for that, with threads like this one, or any of the threads we have here, make this no less a church in my mind. It's a wonderful thing imo.

Concur. I like it too and for those reasons

This would be a little along the lines of Medi-share.  Its a Christian based shared account for members who need expensive medical treatment.  Ever heard of it?  Heard about it recently on one of my conservative talk XM radio stations.

Good Idea by the way, count me in.

My sister participates in the medi-share program

Good deal for believers

Yea, I know...

Tate, you need anything from us?

You can contact me privately if you need to

Dat's four!

^^ cj7ox gets that...

Sorry for the puppy.

I hate it when these dogs of ours get injured or are in pain.

That's Intelligence Summary for all you scum suckin' Civies! (Of which I am one as well!! ;-) 


THIS IS A POWERFUL AND WELL PRESENTED DISCUSSION  ON WHAT USA WORLD POLICIES SHOULD BE, AND WHAT AMERICAN LEADERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND ACT ON IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AND WAS WRITTEN BY Dr. Jack Wheeler who was an adviser to President Reagan, including the policy leading to the winning of the "cold war".

Russia:
Putin is an ersatz macho-man, all hat and no karovi.  Russia's navy is made of rust.  Russia's ill-trained army of drunkards couldn't conquer Romania.  Russian male life expectancy is lower than that of Bangladesh.  Russia is a mafiacracy with a doomed economy dependent on oil & gas exports that fracking in Europe & the US will make uncompetitive.  Dos vidanya.

China:

No wives, no water, no banks - and a hyper-dangerous military.  Much of China is uninhabited - deserts, mountains, and wastelands.  Habitable China is about the size of the US east of the Mississippi, with over a billion people squeezed into it.  These people live compacted along 7 major rivers making them vulnerable to water-borne pathogens.  Northern China is turning into a waterless dust bowl.  Scores of millions of Chinese men will never get married due to the Chicom's idiotic one-child policy and resultant mass female infanticide.

100 million bachelors are explosively dangerous.  Chinese state banks are insolvent after going on a post-2008 loan binge with debt and credit in China now (according to the IMF) above 200% of GDP.  A sharp economic contraction (increasingly likely) plus all those angry unmarried men equals war, the history-honored scapegoat diversion of tyrants.

The obvious Chicom choice for war would be Taiwan.  But the Formosa Strait is 100 miles wide and China has no amphibious capacity.  Taiwan is on the northern rim of the South China Sea, rapidly becoming one of the most jeopardous flash points in the world.  Bordered by Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and China, over 50% by value of the worlds shipping traverses it – and China claims all of it, the entire South China Sea, as its own territorial waters.

This cannot stand.  China must be publicly informed by the next president that the South China Sea is international waters, period, there will be no discussion or negotiation.  What is to be negotiated is the cooperative exploitation of what resources, such as oil, it may contain.  No amount of Chicom bullying and saber rattling will do any good.  Every other country on the sea will join the US in this - and so will India and Japan.

Further, the Chicoms need to grasp that any aggression of theirs in the South China Sea will be naval only, and thus does nothing to occupy all their angry young bachelors.  They need to go some place, a place with lots of water and lots of room for them, a place where the women prefer them to the local men who are drunks and beat up their wives, ideally a place once belonging to China but stolen by a foreign aggressor - so to get it back would give them a mission.  Maybe even a wife.

There is such a place.  It's called Siberia - specifically what China called its Maritime Provinces and Russia, after it seized them in 1860, calls the Russian Far East.  The longest border to defend in the world is that between China and Russia!

It's only a matter of time, at most a decade or two, before Beijing converts most all of eastern Siberia into Chinese Siberia.  There is simply no way a dying Russia can hold on to it.  Might as well divert the Chicoms toward it and away from Taiwan and the South China Sea.

North Korea:

The Norks have no nukes.  The half-kiloton yield in their tests means they failed to make weapons-grade plutonium.  So they are no threat to us.  They are a threat to South Korea with 11,000 artillery tubes aimed at the 17 million people of Greater Seoul.  There is no need for American soldiers to be hostages to this.  South Korea is a rich country with a powerful military capable of taking care of itself.  We do not need to be there any longer.

India:

The world's largest democracy is prickly, but the only country in Asia capable of standing up to China.  The Chicoms are building naval bases in India's Indian Ocean neighbors such as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Burma, which they call their "String of Pearls" around India's neck.  India is countering with a growing alliance with China's ancient neighbor enemy, Vietnam.

The next president should build on President Bush's initiative for military and economic ties between the US and India.  That could include a joint India-US naval base in Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam on the South China Sea.  The Vietnamese would welcome us.  Among nations, there are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

The Great Game of the 19th century was between the Russian and British Empires colliding in Asia.  The 21st century players of this game are China and India.  It's in our interests to be on India's side.

Pakistan/Afghanistan :

Both are make-believe countries with no legitimate rationale for sovereignty.  The key problem in both is Pakistan's "government within a government" spy agency, the ISI - Inter-Services Intelligence.  It is radical hate-America jihadi Islamist.  It created and is in the heroin business with the Taliban.  The first necessary condition towards any solution in this region is its dismantlement.

The other key problem is our State Department's anaphylactic allergy to regime and border changes.  The best solution for Afghanistan would be for it to cease to exist as presently constituted.  Actually, it is the same for Pakistan.

The Baluchis of southern Afghanistan and southwest Pakistan want their own Baluchistan (they have a marvelous harbor and the biggest gold deposits in the world according to BHP Biliton).  They'd be joined by the Baluchis of southeast Iran and most likely by the Sindhis of adjoining Sind in southern Pakistan with the big city of Karachi.

The Tajiks of northern Afghanistan do not want their lives run by Pushtuns.  They'd much rather secede and join Tajikistan - which wants our help to stabilize and protect it from Russia.  The Pushtuns straddle the Af-Pak border.  They dream of being united in a separate Pushtunistan.  Pakistan's ruling group, the Punjabis, would retain the Punjab.

But basically, as with the Koreas, this no longer should be our problem to solve.  Af-Pak should be India's problems to solve – Pak nukes, after all, are aimed at India, not us.  There is no real nation to build in Afghanistan, and our troops have no purpose dying for it.  Terrorist threats are the business of the CIA and spec-ops teams, not the Marines or Army.  Again, we need to ally with India and assist them in what is their problem, not ours, to solve.

Iran:

This week we learned that Iran's government planned an act of war against us in our own capital.  It is hard to overestimate the number of problems in the world that would be solved with this government gone.  And that's the solution: regime change.  Apply a straightforward Reagan Doctrine strategy to overthrow Iran's mullah regime by sponsoring - with money and weapons - insurrections throughout the country.

Of Iran's 78 million, over 20 million are ethnic Azeri - almost three times the number of Azeris in Azerbaijan next door, whom they would love to join in a Greater Azerbaijan.  There are at least eight million Kurds, who would fight tooth and nail against their Tehran oppressors if we gave them support.  There are three million Ahwazi Arabs who populate Iran's oil patch, Kuhzestan, across the border from southern Iraq.

And of course there are the Persians themselves, some 33 million, whose mass street protests have been so brutally suppressed (and which the current president did not lift a finger or say a word to support).

A president determined to effect regime change in Iran would succeed quickly.  The world's main state sponsor of Islamic terrorism would be no more.  Iraq would be free to flourish, Syria would be quickly liberated, the threat to the Saudi and Gulf oil fields would be removed, and of course, Iran's nuclear program would be destroyed in the process (Israeli spec-ops would see to that).

It's a long list of positives and few if any negatives.  All it needs is a president with the courage of Ronald Reagan.

Israel:

The pre-1967 demarcations our current president demands Israel return to were not borders - they were cease-fire lines where Israel was able to stop the Arab invasions after declaring its independence in 1948.  The Six-Day War recaptured Israel's legitimate territory, and that territory, including Golan and Judea-Samaria (the so-called "West Bank") should remain so.

The Palestinians need to be told to STFU, that they no longer will be coddled and treated like spoiled children.  They will recognize the state of Israel as legitimate and Jewish, or they can move to the Sinai, where Egypt will give them a Palestinian State since the Egyptians love Palestinians so much (the dirty secret is that the rest of the Arab world despises Palestinians and calls them rafida, Arabic for the N-word).

Arabs and Euroweenies who object can shove their Nazi Anti-Semitism up their noses.

That's the way a pro-American pro-Israel president would deal with Israel and the Arabs.

Turkey:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (air-doh-wan) is an Islamist megalomaniac fantasizing about recreating the Ottoman Caliphate.  He is constantly threatening Israel, pretending his high school navy is a match for Israel's NFL navy.  Yet he has gutted the Turkish officer corps and filled it with incompetent stooges.

Erdogan needs a US president to explain to him that any duke-out between Turkey and Israel will result in his total humiliation, causing his overthrow and Turkey's expulsion from NATO.

Islam:

In addition to the above re: Israel and Iran, the next president should make a clear and public distinction between Islam the religion and Islamism the political ideology masquerading as a religion.  That Islamism will no longer be accorded the respect due an actual religion but treated with the contempt due any fascist ideology such as Communism or Nazism.

The next president should draw a distinct line between all variants of Islamism, such as Wahhabis, Deobandis, Khomeini Shias, and other forms of Jihadi and Sharia Islam, with peaceful and tolerant forms of Islam such as practiced by Sufis and Ismailis.  It is with the latter that the future of Islam lies.

And for any Moslem in the US who agitates for Sharia law, he is welcome to do so - in a country that practices it, not in America.  As for Islamic terrorism, its practitioners should receive a drone strike -a policy of the current president that should be continued.

The current president has, however, utterly failed to champion the rights and religious freedom of Christians in the Moslem world.  A truly American foreign policy would do so.

Europe:

It's Old Europe, now known as the Eurozone, serving as an object lesson of the scam of the welfare state versus New Europe, the liberated former colonies of the Soviet Union who learned the hard way the evils of socialism and the virtues of capitalism.

A new president would focus attention on the Baltics, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, and Slovenia.  And he would politely educate the lands of Old Europe on welfare state socialism as a religion of envy.  Ireland is already figuring this out and is recovering thereby.

Mexico:

As Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty significantly helped bring freedom to Soviet Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the next president could institute a Radio Free Mexico (including satellite television and web sites) teaching free market and small business economics to Mexicans.

Mexico is the land of crony corrupt corporate fascist capitalism.  As a result, most Mexicans live in medieval poverty while the richest man in the world is a Mexican - Carlos Slim - whose wealth was gained with state-protected monopolies.  A true free market economy would enable Mexicans to become prosperous in their own country.

The only real solution to the US illegal alien problem is for those aliens to want to stay in or go back to their own country where they are free to prosper.

In the meantime, the next president can use the National Guard, seriously armed, to secure our borders.  And if drone strikes are so good at killing terrorists, they should be equally good at killing leaders of the Mexican drug cartels.

America and the World:  The next president's foreign policy should be based on the opposite of the current president.  The current president is embarrassed to be an American.  The next president should be bursting with pride to be an American.  The current president has a compulsion to apologize for America, a compulsion to appease those who envy America and her historically unparalleled success.  The next president should feel America has nothing whatever to apologize for, and could not care less about those who envy her.

The next president, as opposed to the current one, should have no qualms in laughing at the lunacy of Warmism, the theory of human CO2 production causing global doom.  Warmism is the Fascist Left's replacement for Marxism as a rationale for their seizure of power over our lives.

CO2 is a trace greenhouse gas (95% of the world's atmospheric greenhouse gases is water vapor), and our human production is a trace of that.  One tenth of one percent of greenhouse gases is made by man.  Humans do not cause global warming, period.

Explaining and rejecting this removes the obstacles to the world's most game-changing technology today - hydraulic fracturing or fracking of shale gas and shale oil deposits.  Once the political shackles on this technology are removed, America will not only be fully energy independent, but a major energy exporter to the world.  The crony capitalist scam of "renewable energy" will be dead -no more Solyndras, wind farm boondoggles, and ethanol subsidies.

Oh, Russia's energy stranglehold on Europe will disappear and Israel will be an energy exporter.  Exposing the Fascist Left's hoax of Warmism and fully utilizing fracking technology will enable America and much of the world to live in an era of cheap and abundant energy - providing the material foundation for an ever-growing widespread prosperity.

Lastly, the next president needs to explain that America really does need to be the world's policeman.  As America apologizes and retreats from the world, the wolves emerge from the forest, from China to Iran.  Only America can keep the world's wolves at bay.

We do not need to nation-build.  We do not need our soldiers in Afghanistan.  We do not need our soldiers in South Korea.  We do not need our soldiers in Europe - Russian tanks (however many can still run) are not going to charge through the Fulda Gap.  Once we effect regime change in Iran, we will not need our soldiers in Iraq.

We do need a strong, well-equipped and trained military, an army, an air force, and coast guard.  But what we need most of all is an immensely strong navy, along with special forces - Marines, Rangers, SEALs, Delta, et al.  Without that, the world's wolf packs run wild and unchecked.

Not much mystery with me, just a semi-educated red neck that made it thru the third grade.  I try to never forget how far we have come with technology and always try to learn from the failures.

  Someday I might have to go back to pulling a plow with a horse, but I need to remember/know how to make the iron/steel/bronze to make the plow. 

  As a society we can regress real fast and so much basic knowledge is not taught now, I’m not one of the doom and gloom people but I try  to be prepared.

Definition of wisdom^^^^^

That's two for the idea, well three with me

Let me see how much of a response the idea gets.

I am always good for $100 if needed, my cigarette and whiskey money!
(Well actually not...More like my spare cashola I was saving to fix something else that was going to break down on the farm)

Quote from: wyorunner on February 20, 2017, 02:10:03 PM

Phew! And thanks.


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I was feeling magnanimous this morning.   

Rephrase...

Not in the grunt dictionary!