philoshop

It sounds to me like you have a dead animal somewhere in your house. Or maybe some standing water that's gotten stinky in your basement? When there's a problem with an electrical service panel it's generally a fire. Thank God you're not there, but the seepage thing is probably caused by poorly protected or poorly insulated service entrance wires. There's a very good reason why I don't use the cheap stuff. Half the price, and twice the headaches.

I stopped firing up the woodstove about a week ago. At some point you just have to say "no" to winter.

How fast does it go, and can it pull 5 skiers outta the water at one time? I can fish off a log in the creek. Just kidding. Nice boat Grampy. Enjoy!!

Happy birthday friend!

Part of my architecture education was a course in surveying. Part of the course involved the difference between accuracy and precision, something I was already well aware of given my shooting background. That would be a different story. What I'll never forget is the day we went into the field with a theodolite, a very precise and expensive range measuring instrument used in land surveying. There were targets set up at various distances. The professor asked us how far away the targets were and the answers were all over the map. When he asked me, I asked him, "How big is that target?". I then told him it was 230 yards away -- it turned out to be 238 yards away. We did this for almost two hours at ranges from 25 yards to 500 yards and I was never far off. I spent a lot of time shooting woodchucks when I was younger and you can't hit them if you don't know the range.

"Selective outrage" means never having to say you're sorry.

Have you officially lost your mind, or are you just pretending, and maybe trolling? The Onion is entirely a satire website, buddy.

If it were actually about fairness, the U.S. would not have been asked to essentially pay for the majority of it while other countries were given our money. The U.S. has done plenty to reduce our 'pollution' footprint, likely more than most any other nation, because it makes economic sense in a Capitalist society. What seems to be forgotten is that the ideas for alternatives to fossil fuels, and the hard work and 'smarts' involved were largely either started in the U.S., or started in other countries by people educated in the U.S. Personally, I don't believe that's something the U.S. taxpayers should be economically punished for. We invent and develop it, China steals it, and China is able to produce and sell it because our domestic regulations prevent us from moving forward with the implementation of it. That's not a good plan. That may have been the previous plan, but it's not a good plan for the country.

The projected cost to U.S. taxpayers over the next 15 years is something close to 3 trillion dollars, and our domestic job loss is only a part of that. I find it astounding that you would consider that 'chump change' as implied by your previous post. I do my homework on issues I write and comment about. I stake my positions on the facts gathered therein. You're asking me to do the homework I've already done, and asking me to dismiss that homework because you happen to disagree with it. I've been following this for almost forty years and my conclusion is that Anthropogenic Global Warming/Cooling is a hoax. I've spoken with computer specialists and programmers from the IPCC who were told directly that they needed to produce code that would give the results they were looking for. It's an economic scam from start to finish.

The chainsaw thing is a little sensitive for me. You'd be amazed at how many fall off of work trucks. Sometimes it's poor loading of the truck, sometimes it's actually intentionally poor loading by an employee looking to have a buddy pick the saw up down the road. It happens way more often than you might think. The chainsaw website I belong to has a whole section devoted to 'lost and found' and many owners have been reunited with their gear. It's one thing when you're talking about a careless homeowner who loses a $120 Poulan 'Wildthing', but it's completely different when it comes to a $1000+ pro-grade saw that someone depends on for a living. If I ever found one I'd do my best to get it back to the owner. Most folks engrave their gear in some way, and a simple Craigslist post might just get it back to them, once the right questions are asked. Sermon over.

Wishing you the best Birthday ever! Well, at least do something fun and enjoy your day!

To quote Katie Hopkins, (so think of a Brit accent), "She's mad as a box of frogs!" She hasn't said if that's a dig on the French. ;-]

Trump has the stones to call out the 'curtain-twitchers' on this issue, and many others. The world is not going to end because the U.S. refuses to subsidize the economic rise of China and the institutional poverty of Burundi. We have our own issues that need to be addressed.

The first year that I had my woodworking shop (1992) probably 95% of the lumber I used was salvaged from old furniture on the side of the road for trash pickup. I even had a few customers who would bring me stuff they didn't want any longer and ask me to build something they did want. Example: A nice maple bunk-bed that was no longer needed was turned into a pair of end tables. The kids had grown up and moved on, but the sentimental value kept the couple from selling or trashing the bunk-bed. The sentimental value was transferred to something that was useful in their lives.

So, who peed in your Cheerios this morning?

She actually did say something to that effect a few years ago. And she was entirely serious about it. It was about the same time that another Democrat genius proclaimed that an island in the Pacific was going to tip over because of over-population on one side. Ahhh, the best and the brightest.

I moved a small Painted Turtle off the 5 & 20 highway today. The little dude was movin' right along but he honestly didn't stand a chance. I got out and stopped traffic so I could scoop him up and get him to the other side. I was certainly in more danger than he was at that point. I have no idea why I do stupid stuff like that. I certainly don't want my obituary to read, "Geneva man killed by NYC trash truck while saving turtle." That would be wrong.

Bow to? Interesting reference and terminology. Please continue.

Have fun with your trip, Pygmy. Best of luck!

Doesn't matter. It's still funny. And I actually recall her making a similar statement at one point.

Belo, I think of it this way. Extremely wealthy people like Al Gore started a big international club which would make them a lot of money. The only part of that club with responsibility for actually paying dues was the U.S. taxpayer and a small handful of unlucky folks in Europe. Trump said no thanks, it's a bad deal. I'm sorry that your job is likely at risk, but our entire country is at risk when these schemes are allowed to be implemented. I mean the very foundation of our country is in jeopardy. There is nothing "climate" about the Paris accord, just as there was nothing "climate" about the Kyoto accord. They were both wealth redistribution schemes, and my politics really don't have any bearing on that assessment. The arguments on both sides are partisan in many ways, and have been for the last forty years. But the reality is that a political position is not a determining factor when the U.S. and it's citizen taxpayers are so obviously being intentionally screwed for profit.

I've got a 20 year old tractor and a bunch of 30+ year old chainsaws and woodworking tools. And some socks and a pair of jeans from the early 1980's. I'm like a walking museum on a job site. ;-)

I had a 1972 El Camino that would scratch the tires when punched at 65 mph. Not a 'classic' yet in 1977. Trapping money during high school. 350 small block with a Rochester Quadrajet carb, and a case case of long-neck Rolling Rock in the back. Life was good. ;-]

Pertinent anecdote: In Junior High School the class bully wanted some verification of his prowess in martial arts and picked on a friend of mine, a kid known to be a tough SOB, to instigate a fight. The date and time were set and a hundred people showed up, When the bully turned his back on me I hit him in the head with a tree branch I was carrying. The bully wasn't happy, my friend wasn't happy, and the spectators weren't happy, but it sent a clear message that you don't f***k with people who have friends. The North Koreans currently have no friends. That's the point.

Watching our president constantly throw fuel into the forge of liberal emotional melt-down. It's a big part of what's fun about winning elections and watching politics.. However serious those on the left attempt to appear in their pleas, I really just chuckle at their inane reactions. Watching leftist news programs is kind of like watching 1970's SNL. You remember, back when it was funny.