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The joke at the local was that TBS had left the lens for their camera in Jane Fonda’s trunk. We’re lame.

How did TBS get this series anyway? MLB oughta be ashamed that TBS is the best they can do for an LCS. I guess Versus was busy with a BMX race or a Greatest Quail Hunts Evar series.

If it’s meta-memes and meta-meta-narratives these media headlice want, so be it. I hope you will join me in expressing a simple bit of solidarity with this guy, Spartacus style. I AM JOE. I am a Wal Mart schlub in flyover country who changes my own oil and unclogs drains without a license. I smoke and drink beer and toss the football in the front yard with my kid, and I figure I can fend my way without handouts from some Magic Messiah’s candy bags. Most everyone in my family and most everyone I grew up with is another Joe, and if you screw with them, you screw with me.

– The Genius Iowahawk

I don’t remember if I mentioned this, but I found an old 1969 GMC truck on Craigslist. The pluses were, in order:

• Short bed, stepside, wooden bed
• Olive green, just like my first truck ever (it was a Chebbie, tho)
• Three on the floor
• Inline six cylinder

So I crafted a trade of my perfectly running 1989 F150 for a not-running, 20-year-older, completely beat-down rustbucket. Then things got good.

First thing I found was that someone in the past 40 years had a hot-rod jones, and they put a Clifford intake on this, and then plumbed it for dual exhaust (complete with Cherry Bombs, babies!). The big problem, though, was for some reason, said hot-rodder had stuck a crappy Rochester 2bbl on it. And, I’m guessing, blown it up. Because it wouldn’t do nothing on the motor, and it didn’t respond to a rebuild.

So a little research, and it comes out that Clifford recommends a Holley 390cfm 4bbl for their intake. A little more research, and I find a guy in La Porte, TX who does rebuilds of all manner of old carbs, and I can get that Holley for about $200 after the core exchange. What else is there to do but order one up?

It got here yesterday. I thought I’d make a little slideshow of the unboxing to make fun of the goofy Apple freaks. It should be a movie, I guess, but I’m not that motivated.

Anyway, it looks real pretty and I can’t wait to get it on the engine. Except I have to wait for the adaptor plate from Clifford. Bah. Means I gotta go do something productive today, like clean up the garage or do the laundry.

…plus some on-target thinking.

Quick Note to the Elite, Inside the Beltway Conservative Pundits: You’re not Martyrs « Stop Global Laming

If anything, the recent slide away by conservative megapundits away from McCain / Palin appears to be a rescue mission designed to salvage the credibility of conservative megapundits, not the Republican Party or the Conservative Movement. In fact, I think the deception on the behalf of these conservative pundits is a bit more duplicitous than they let on. While they claim to want a true conservative realignment of the Republican Party, they’re retooling their writing as though they expect the opposite to happen. It appears as though most of these longtime conservative pundits believe that a liberal realignment is what’s going to occur, and these conservative pundits are simply making a phased withdrawal away from their longtime readership towards a left-leaning future readership.
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Let’s make this clear: when you’re getting bombarded with angry emails from your subscribers, you know, the people who pay you money to write stuff that they want to read, you don’t have any right to call their treatment “unfair” when you’re the one being a duplicitous asshole. Just a thought.

Via Treacher…

And another apology for my potty mouth downstream — mighta had a few celebratory cool ones last night — nailed down a couple more projects that will keep me under-employed for a little while longer, heh heh. I still detest the Deathbed Media as much as it is possible to detest a bunch of over-educated typists and jaw-flappers.