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WHO IS THIS BAYWATCH LIFEGUARD BABE????

It is 6:40 am and 67.1 degrees out. Patrick is wandering around and Junior is asleep downstairs.

Patrick decided he wanted to contribute to the blog this morning. Hit it, Dog!

What's all this about this African-Polynesian guy running for President? Osama Obama? He has the same name as our No. 1 ememy ! We can't have that! And do you think a professional golfer is qualified to be president? I like to watch him play on TV, but I don't want a President everybody calls "Tiger"--he'll spend more time on the course than Ike did! And another thing--

OK,OK, that's enuff, dog-boy. Tiger Woods and Osama Bin Obama-rama are NOT the same person...

Nevermind.

On a more serious note, as part of our ongoing struggle to replace EVERY SINGLE DAMNED piece of crap (NPI) hundred-year-old plumbing in this house, now the TOILET tank started leaking. OK, total rehab--new bolts, washers, rubber seal, flush valve etc.

So great- a 30 minute job becomes a THREE HOUR JOB, because why? The nuts on the bolts are rusted/cemented on. The bolts have a SLOTTED SCREWDRIVER HEAD. This is nuts! (NPI). The heads are constantly under water. They are brass, but limestone encrusted.

Finally had to hack saw thru the nut, washer and bolt. Carefully--don't crack the porcelin!

You can't get any torq with a screwdriver. Maybe this works for people who run distilled water thru their plumbing, but we don't. The engineers who designed this bolt, then went on the GM to screw things up in the metal fastener to plastic parts department.

So what REALLY happened? Nobody in their right mind would use this bolt--just use one with a hex!!!!

So with six hours of internet research, here's the true story:

This bolt was designed in 1906 and has not been changed since. New-Guy, young engineers at toilet factorys have decried its stoopidity, to no avail. But the Brass (NPI) won't hear of it. Why, you ask!

Beacause they possess a never-ending supply of these damned things! They get them FREE!! There is huge underground government warehouse in Idaho with TONS AND TONS AND TONS of these damned useless things! It's so damned embarassing to the government that it's a closely guarded secret, like Area 51! Even Bush doesn't know about it! (I think it's the same warehouse that has the Arc of the Covenant...)

It seems during WWI the Army was casting about for a quick existing supply of carriage bolts for caissons. They hit up this Chicago Tiolet manufacturer with a HUGE open-ended contract. That company kept the screw machines going until 1937 day and night, thru a complicated scheme of mis-ques, gangster stuff and fraud... Anyway, so now we got all these damned things
and the government melted some of them to make collar insignias during WWII-- but the brass is of a type too soft for ammo, so we still have them.

But not to worry. Current projections put the supply at running out in 2072...

Michelle Malkin:

Ever since John Kerry sat in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and accused American soldiers of wantonly razing villages "in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan," the Left has embraced a small cadre of self-loathing soldiers and soldier wannabes willing to sell their deadened souls for the anti-war cause. Think Jimmy Massey, the unhinged Marine who falsely accused his unit of engaging in mass genocide against Iraqis. Think Jesse MacBeth and Micah Wright, anti-war Army Rangers who weren't Army Rangers.

Winter Soldier Syndrome will only be cured when the costs of slandering the troops outweigh the benefits. Exposing Scott Thomas Beauchamp and his brethren matters because the truth matters. The honor of the military matters. The credibility of the media matters. Think it doesn't make a difference? Imagine where Sen. John Kerry would be now if the Internet had been around in 1971.

(Beauchamp is the latest exposed and confessed war-atrocities liar--altho the leftist media still repeats his lies...--Rick)

GO GATORS!