The Mate was a Mighty Sailin’ Man
March 25th, 2009“Professor, Can You Make me Some Botox?”
It’s amazing how the cracks in the bizarre Obama infallibility facade are beginning to appear. They’re coming one by one, from different directions. It is gradually becoming obvious that everything the critics said about this man is true. His ego is disproportionate to his abilities. He is immature and inexperienced. And he has no idea what he’s doing.
I honestly thought the Gilligan analogy was my own invention, but I just looked, and it turns out other people have seen the resemblance.
For what it’s worth:
I think I captured the botox particularly well.
When Paul Krugman manages to be honest enough to criticize a liberal President, you know things have gone south. I think he has gone after Obama twice. That is just plain bad news for Obama. It indicates a substantial scrape in the Teflon.
The market is up this week, but the simple fact is, we are trying to buy our way out of a recession, with money we don’t have, and which Obama’s policies will probably prevent the next generation from being able to repay. What Obama is doing is like buying shoes from yourself and trying to live on the commissions. I’m starting to agree with Rush. If this SEEMS to work in the short term, it could be very bad for America, because it will convince non-bright people that socialism and overwhelming debt are good ideas.
George Santayana will then have his pound of flesh.
As for me, I’m fairly sure I’m going to get a Chicom lathe. I think the dealer with the Clausing in Vermont is honest, and I am sure he’ll send me something that is a good deal. What scares me is that a good deal may be an older machine that won’t do what a new Chicom will do.
Maybe I’m wrong. Still have to think.
One nice thing about tools is that because they are not money, it will be hard for a future socialist government to take them away or destroy their value. I may be wrong, but I think it’s a lot easier for socialist thieves to go after real estate and liquid assets. And if I have good tools and a little skill, and the Obama Depression gets so bad I can’t earn a living with my writing or my education, I’ll be able to provide useful services in exchange for money. Or Soylent Green.
I have to make a shelf so I can put my old TV up in the garage. This is a must. There are too many tool videos to ignore. They could be very useful out there. Also, TV in the garage is cool. Which is weird, because TV in the house is decadent and almost trashy.
Guess I better get to it.
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March 25th, 2009 at 1:13 PM
My lovely bride has been saying Obama is …well, that last picture, but without the “o” on the end of the teeny elephant’s name …since January.
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She’s right.
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His totally out of his depth.
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On the bright side, it appears that PT Barnum has been proven correct once again.
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I would’ve added a very non-PC qualifier to that last sentence, referencing a suit in a card deck, but I don’t want any grief over using a pun …but thought it all the same.
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March 25th, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Hey! Where did the edit thingie go??? – That was so cool.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:48 PM
No, if you had captured the Botox, there would be no … and I mean NO forehead wrinkles. You’ve depicted a bad facelift and/or eyelift. Botoxed people can’t furrow or knit their brows. The look of surprise in a bad eyelift or facelift comes from excessive pulling back of the skin at the edges of the face. Actually, bad Botox can give you saggy, or no expression at all.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:00 PM
I wouldn’t worry about not being able to make a living with your education. In Obama’s Socialist Paradise, I’m sure lawyers will have plenty to do.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:07 PM
I don’t think I’d mind Gilligan in office near as much.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I’m not at all sure what Biden has is Botox. It looks more like a bad eye lift to me.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:52 PM
The problem with some of the ObaMessiah’s grand plans is that things may not go caput until enough later that it is hard to remedy.
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For example – the socialized medicine boondoogle will not show all of its deleterious effects until the private sustem has been killed and isn’t there to transition back to.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Biden looks like what mom always said would happen if you crossed your eyes and somebody smacked you hard in the back of the head.
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We run 6 Taiwanese HDPE blow molding machines and one Taiwanese PET machine. I know none of those are lathes or milling machines, but they are precision machines that have to run around the clock in using a complicated rhythm of hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanics and electronics. These machines are complicated, but really built in a logical and simple manner. Quite unlike some old German machines we started out with a few years ago.
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Just a general thought on the worthiness of machines made by free Chinese people.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Leo, my brother! We used Italian Comec machines (loved ’em) and Cincinatti-Millacrons. I remember looking at the Taiwan machines at the Plastics Show in Chicago wondering how they’d hold up. Out of plastics now, though. And I hated the German machine. Started with a K?….
March 25th, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Ed, we had a couple of old HESTA machines. Sometimes they worked. Parts were impossible to get out here. They were second hand when we got them and the hydraulic oil was like crude oil. We worked to clean it up and put them to work. I built a hydraulic filter for one of them out of a sardine can. It was a perfect fit and worked great. The guy I was trying to train as a mechanic ran the pump up, unscrewed one of the hoses and then as he looked into the end of the hose hit one of the actuators to ‘see if the hose was blocked’. Wow. Spectacular results. It took him all morning to clean up the oil.
We us Chi Chang machines now. They are much more logically constructed. Besides, there is a dealer in Costa Rica so technical help is within a days travel. Oh yeah, they use all Omron relays and standard parts so replacements are generally much easier.
Interestingly, there is a supplier here that handles Camozzi pneumatics. I buy a lot of that stuff because it is just as good as, but cheaper then Festo. Also the salesman actually knows what he is talking about.
Gee, I don’t get to talk shop much in English. ha ha