The Final Word and a Guest Poast by SemperFido

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1. You could always relocate to somewhere that doesn’t have a Shaniquasaurus that you have to deal with especially now that you have nothing tying you down to that area…

   1. Lineman’s is sage advice.

      “In order for this thing to be the vehicle I need for whatever upcoming weirdness may be coming, I need it to be ‘combat ready’. This means a Ram-Guard on the front, steel reinforcement as needed, as well as a roof-basket to hold at least 2x spare rims and tires, plus other necessities I learned in Iraq that are absolutely crucial.”
      They’re not. Those things are a liability, especially if you are alone in the truck. We’d roll that way often; frankly I always felt safer driving a POS Corolla around Iraq and Afghanistan. No armor, no jammers, no visible weapons.
      I see dudes cruising around in trucks that copy what they had in Sadr City and just laugh.

      1. Yeah, well I USED to roll in one of those Mitsubishi L200 King Cabs with NOTHING but some stolen Ay-Rab Licence plates we scrounged off of Haji Cars that’d been ‘X’d by various gates, and roll around with the windows down, no AC and blaring Haji music and our heads wrapped in the headwrap… after two or three bad encounters, and a bullet wound, I decided a Tank was more than welcome, which is where I came into an uparmored Contractor-mobile 04 Suburban… and I won’t be alone… I got a squad here and am even thinking abount building the ‘stuff’ for a fire-hole in the back… here in the States rolling heavy might be better than being completely gray if the SHTF

      2. Same deal, but the only place I’ve felt nervous about driving a Toyota Corolla? Los Angeles, and not because of the traffic.

         Around here in this rural-ish part of Florida (because you’re never more than 50 miles from some kind of city), a Florida wildlife plate is decent camo among truck owners, provided that any modifications are made to be consistent with “hunting” or trying to make it blend in among everyone else.

         That’s why one of the popular trucks here happens to be whatever that YO brand is. 🙂

         But where would BCE really go in Florida?

         Wakulla might be up BCE’s alley, and it’s just far enough out of Tallahassee which most right-thinking Floridians don’t want to spend much time in. The denizens of Leon feel much the same way since Wakulla doesn’t really do urban.

         Levy, Gilchrist, and Dixie … well, I’ve had occasion to talk with the sheriff of one of those counties on pleasant terms, and let’s just say that he has more than a few choice words to say about A Certain Group That Produces Juvenile Delinquents who come into his county to try to steal stuff from the shops, especially around his lunch time.

         Our most recent short conversation was interrupted by arresting four of the very same during his lunch time.

         And also: some of the worst roads in Florida.

         Alachua’s full of commies, Marion’s full of whatever bred with what happened to drip out of the condoms for being too slow, but you can get out of the constant expansion of Marion’s urban sprawl out toward US 98 and have few to no neighbors.

         Citrus has old legacy Florida ways of doing business taxes that are a pain in the ass if you run a business, especially one out of your primary residence, but compared to some of the bullshit in Laramie County out in Wyoming, it’s not quite as bad as having to pay the county/state taxes on the furniture and other business assets you’re moving in for use only within the office.

         By the time we get much farther down, such as Hernando, we’re already near the Pasco, Pinellas, and Hillsborough trifecta of kinda shitty Tampa metro counties.

         As for that strip down through Collier and Lee? I genuinely mourn for how fucked Lee has become, especially since the 1970s. Collier saw $$$$$ and fucked itself violently rearward for that, then when they’d screwed up their main town, they hired a bunch of Princeton architects to try to unscrew it for them. BCE left MA because of better people than these.

         Going the other way, Columbia’s OK if you don’t have to live in or near Lake City which is a North Florida Mos Eisley town. Used to hate it while driving trucks because they had a Florida inspection station right in the fucking middle of town.

         Maybe the Big Bend area like Wakulla would get BCE off the X without leaving Florida?

         Wakulla’s not even 5% urban, plus they have all of the usual Internets and phones and stuff.

         Being off the X is severely underrated as compared to trying to hack some kind of Gray Man thing anyway.

         1. Lots of area between Tallahassee and Pensacola in the NW section of Florida. Small to medium sized towns, lots of woods, lots of fresh and salt water fishing, and most mind their own fucking business.
            Pensacola itself is turning into a zulu tribe and a fagfest.

   2. This. We moved from a Texas county that is now 51.2% White, to an Ozark one that is 92.8% White. The difference is stark . . . and amazing. You have no idea what you’ve lost until you reside amongst vanishing White heritage Americans. Make the move out of 47% Florida sooner rather than later.

      1. true that. moved from the shithole Philly to the hills of PA. world of difference !
         now we go weeks without seeing “them” here. there a few in the larger town/city we shop at.
         even then, you don’t run into groups of them. just one of maybe two here and there like.
         and here, we have the best neighbors we even had too. unreal like.
         a few weeks ago, we had a wind storm here. small tree blew down and blocked the driveway.
         my neighbor Frank who lives up the road saw it and stopped to cut and clear it out of the way.
         and yes. I told him I was going to get to it the next day even. NOPE. he cut it up and moved the bits and went home. didn’t want the beer I tried to give him. and they all like him too? weird.
         BTW. check out the site “city data” before moving for a break down of who, what is in the area you thinking about before you go there. that is why I did a hard pass on the state of FLA.
         power goes out for and you will have all sorts of problems from “them”
         long term I go somewhere else than FLA.

         1. Weeks?
            We go years here in southern Indiana.
            Wiki says there are 14k people living in this county and 55 of them are negros but I’ve never seen one.

            Been at least 2-3 years since I have seen a negro with my bare eyes. Don’t miss em at all, in fact, like Ol’ Remus, I never even think about em.

   3. In my county, Tennessee, registration is walk into the County Clerk’s office (even with expired registration), give her the paper work and pay your $27 or $28, get your sticker and leave. A new registration runs $40 something, because you’re paying for a license plate. No Shaniquasaurus in sight. No attitudes, no problem, just “What can I do for ya Hon(ey)?
      It’s the same for my 22 year old Hyundai, my F-350 and the Buick Roadmasher (with factory LS1), MASTER, master.

      1. Roger that–here in Central Ohio–99% whiteness. You have the 1% DEI corporate hires, ’bout all.

         Waltz into the BMV, cash, check, MO, CC, get your sticker–pay and leave. NO BS since WHITE FOLKS RUN THE AGENCY.

         The state jugged and closed a few agencies, as the scuttlebutt is the employees there were exchanging Benjamins under the table to the illegal criminal invaders who work the landscape bidnesses here. No more remittances to the homeland–BOO HOO!

         Thanks to Ohio State Highway Patrol (unbuyable Elliot Ness guys) for superseding over local jurisdictions of LEO that were (ahem) asleep at the switch or “supplementing their incomes” with this scam.

         1. Sounds like ashland county

            94% white

            I been here 4 years and still aint seen one unless we go into cleveland for something

   4. Word, my brother. Here in the Gem State, we are white, polite, English-speaking, and well-armed. As always, prayers for you and your family.

      1. Depends on what part…for this job in Howe, my crew is staying in IF. Plenty of niggers, beaners, and sand people out there.

   5. We don’t have them the tag office Lake County, Its all about who the county has elected to run the office.

   6. Once again you suggest running instead of standing your ground. For fuck’s sake be a man or stop commenting. Honestly, you always say move. When do you move enough that you’re back in a corner? Michael Collin’s didn’t move. Our founding fathers didn’t say fuck it and pack up. So, get real or shut your cock hole.

      1. Oh look it’s nigger medic and our founders separated from England ya dumb fuck which is what I advocate for any sane White Person( your not) to do from this corrupt shithole Murica…And anytime you feel froggy enough to shut me up come on over bitch…

         1. You know he won’t.

2. Virginia has those nice yellow Gadsen Flag plates. Wish it was an option here in Maine. We have new Pine tree flag plates based upon the old state flag which was more or less just the old Rev War New England pine tree flag without the “An Appeal to Heaven” motto. George Washington commissioned the original squadron of warships that evolved into the Continental Navy, and that was their flag. I tend to like it because of that, though the commies like it too for some reason and the MAGA guys therefore default to not liking it. Oh well.
   They are shitcanning the chickadee plates immediately rather than phasing them out, which is strange, but it is probably designed to weed out the people driving unregistered vehicles, which is a pandemic hereabouts.
   I used to deal with registry pain in my Massachusetts youth. They improved quite a bit over the years due to massholes getting mad enough to want to shoot them, a good indicator of just how bad they used to be. Here in Maine, the town clerk can handle most registry transactions including plates for a new car. The only reason to go to the registry itself is something like a license renewal. I must say they are pretty quick and friendly about it. The Florida RMV sounds like it needs an enema.

   1. nothin like identifying yourself for the tyrant state and paying extra for the privilege ie: va dtom plates.

      1. Riverrider
         EXACTLY my thoughts about the Va dtom plates.
         I remember a few yrs ago when they came out and got excited.
         THEN, I started to use my brain and look into the future: ie a very easy way to be identified, as folks with our thinking.
         No thank you. Just plain old cheap (inexpensive) random letters and numbers, for me!

         1. Ditched my veteran plates a couple years ago for that very reason.
            I hadn’t thought about this before, but the “disabled veteran” plate vehicles would likely be a good place to find a gun or two, perhaps with minimal risk.

            1. When my pickup got broken into and a pistol stolen from it, I asked the cop who took the report if he had any idea why they would have targeted my vehicle instead of some other one. I didn’t have any firearms related stickers on it. But, I did have a Sportsman’s Warehouse sticker on the tool box and he said that is probably what drew their attention.
               I made sure the serial # was placed in the NICs database, and the pistol was eventually recovered during a traffic stop and the cop who recovered it made sure I got it back after the trial. Not sure if the guy who had it was the one who stole it, but he was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a stolen firearm.

3. Shaniquasaurus. ROFLMAO. Going to have to file that one beside sheboon and ghettopotamus.

   Will be going by the local Harbor Freight and doing the Zon when finances allow, perhaps. September. Too useful not to have, I hate to toss food because it got too old.

   Thanks guys. And fuck Cohen.

   Shooter

   1. “Ghettopotamus”!!!!
      That’s a new one for me! I LMAO for real!

      1. Well, that makes us even BC. If I was drinking I’d have spewed all over my screen. Once I quit laughing my next thought was that the petty bitch decided to play “fuck with the whytte boy”. If she’d had about 30 more IQ points she might have stopped you. Fortunately, you improvised, adapted and overcame.

         Six hours is still an insane amount of time to spend, if I’m at the tax office in Ennis for more than 30 minutes for titles, renewals or such I feel abused. My usual wait is 10 minutes.

         Well, the mission succeded and the boat is legal now. Good job.

         Shooter

      2. back in Philly, we used to call them Canadians. even when they where right there.
         they never had a clue what we where talking about. about a ride. back in Philly, you wanted something dirty. something that didn’t stand out. something like a POS ride.
         back when I still lived there, I was driving a old 1989 4runner. dirty grey. I didn’t wash it.
         and yes, it had a ARB bull bar with a winch. upgraded rear springs. extra 17 gallon gas tank even
         and some armor inside the door panels- sheet stainless steel I got from somewhere ?
         so damn hard to cut I used a plasma cutter to do it (?) anyway.
         now the engine had a bit of work done to it. bored 040 over and forged pistons, lower end was balanced. crankshaft and rods. block was dipped and cleaned, then decked and square up.
         slightly bigger injectors and ported manifold going to a bigger exhaust system, upgrade clutch. and brakes. headlights where also upgraded.
         100/150 watt beams. plus extra ones added (2). didn’t put a roof rack on due to the fiberglass top.
         all in all, it was a beast. a ugly sleeper . MPG was maybe 15 or so and that was on a good day
         but the 22r engine is about the best gas engine Toyota ever made. and it could ride the ‘rails” even
         YUP. take the tires down to 15 PSI or so it was easy to stay on them. ride off and pump them back up. I had planned on riding the “rails” if I ever had to “bug out” of there. and unless you put your foot into it. it was quiet. not EV quiet but you could creep by if you had too.
         never should have sold it. but the shifting was killing my leg and hip.

      3. How about “Bluegumbian”

   2. Ghettopotumus!!! lmao

4. You can get rechargable mason jar sealers off the Zon for about the same as the bleeder itself.

   1. Yes but my experience is 200-300 jars and they pack it in. Fast and mostly quit but i’m on my 3rd one.

      1. The bleeder I use I bought in 2015

         1. Thanks for your guest article. It’s very useful!

5. One thing that might help (only read about this haven’t done it).
   Have puncture resistant/industrial tubes put in the tires, and good quality tires that are a bit off-road rated. Won’t have the high speed cruising abilities – I’m told that it knocks the speed rating down a notch – but it might be worth it

6. Useful info. Thanks semperfido.

7. This is not the norm for FL DMV, even here in commie Alachua County.

   What BC experienced is due to being in a heavy-black victim-mode area, even though his subdivision isn’t taken over by Dontakeresponsibilities and Shaniquas.

   At one time throughout FL the DMV was a bit of a nightmare but that was due to Florida doing all the ‘RealID’ stuff, which California still hasn’t done. Lines to get DLs renewed usually did require an appointment because the DMV ladies had to actually handle a shite-ton of paperwork proving the applicant was the applicant (again, not like in Cali…)

   Most of the functions of the DMV can be handled online, like renewing tags or DLs. It’s just the pain-in-the-ass initial registration from a private sale that is a pain. (Dealers in Florida can handle transfer of titles and registration online also, which saves you from having to go to the DMV when buying a car and trading in an old one.)

   BC got jammed up because he be white and male and the Afric-anus hates that.

   1. This ^^^

   2. I too live in the People’s Republic of Alachua County.

      The DMV here is the worst due to the place full of Shaniquas with a bad attitude as well as full of “undocumented immigrants” who no habla.

      It’s worth the drive to go to a neighboring county’s DMV. I go the the Williston one in downtown Williston in Levy county. Country folk and you can be in and out of there in an hour.

8. Shaniquasauruses are the most insufferable, loathsome parasites aside from the small hats and pajeets.

9. Good info on canning for food storage from Semper Fido. Appreciate him (and you) passing it along.

10. On the vehicle, look for 10ply tires they hold up to punctures better than the 4 or 6 ply vehicles have as standard. The ride a bit rougher, a bit pricey but worth it.

    1. I’m on my second set of BF Goodrich KO2 all terrain tires on my Xterra in 10 years. As long as you keep them rotated, inflated, and your alignment straight, they last quite a while. I’m running the 10 ply load range E. They aren’t that loud on the road, either. Never had a flat on my first set and I do some heavy desert and mountain offroading. None of those tires are cheap, though. I did go with BigO Bigfoot all terrains first, but they didn’t last very long. Don’t believe them when they try to tell you they are just as good and are made by whatever famous maker they have a contract with that year.

11. another good tip for those without the $$$ for a freeze drier is to cook and dehydrate cooked ground beef, check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhTqUQQtUuE I used this method a few years back to store several hondo pounds of said beef. A audible call I used is to add a small amount of bleach (didnt affect the taste) when the cooked beef was soaking with boiling water ( a key step, just hot water wont cut it). I ate it every day for @ 3 years before my stash was gone, and it held up just fine in ziploc bags in my kitchen, now in Florida with hotter, humid weather YMMV. A nice side benefit is you can save the tallow from meat when it cooks as well. I would do @ 25lbs at a time, the stove would cook @ 5lb at a time and the oven would dehydrate it all on two metal oven liners.

12. You haven’t mentioned being sick in quite awhile. In the before time, you were ailing with something every week. Makes one wonder.

    1. I want to comment but BCE has said it is verbotten to discuss certain people.

       Maybe BCE is cooking for himself now and is using fresher and better ingredients ?
       Maybe he washes his hands regularly so he doesn’t get cross contamination from raw meat or fish ?
       Maybe certain seasonings aren’t being used to flavor his food anymore ? -)

       1. Certain seasonings…….like arsenic and antifreeze? 😆😆

       2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptomatic_carrier

          [American radio PSA announcer voice] “Learn to spot the signs.”

    2. We do a fair bit of canning, the Mrs Toxic and I, ever since we were first dating.
       We used to do a lot more, but we stopped eating so much of the peaches and apricots we used to do. So we’ve emptied out the jars of the old (10+ years) stuff to reuse the jars and rings.
       BUT!!… every year, we can 4-5-6 boxes of tomatoes, Mrs Toxic uses those a lot. Add salt and lemon juice to each jar, blanch the tomatoes, slip the skins, quarter and can.
       We use a steamer (I have two) instead of a hot water bath, works just as well, with a lot less heat and steam.
       I also have a MacIntosh apple tree that I make apple butter from (an old mid 50s recipe), from as many apples as I can rescue from the heat (Macs like it cooler), bugs, and birds.
       SemperFi, thx for the recommends, I’ll have to look and see what I can use that for. I try to follow “better to have and not need, then to need and not have”.

13. My local DMV office had an incident a while back. Seems one of the employees was selling “real” fake IDs. LEO rolled him up. Further info on the story vanished quite quickly. While you had the door panels off the boat, you could have lined them with some old panels from soft armor vests scrounged up from wherever. Keep moving forward.

14. For canning, jars are a little on the expensive side. Might be money ahead to go ahead and get a vacuum sealer and use bags. Quart bags on the zon usually run about 10 cents and jars around here are a 1.25 or more for pints and about 1.75 for quarts. A little more money up front but savings down the road make it will worth it. And they take up a lot less room.

    1. I often see boxes of mason jars at the thrift places. Some times free at yard sales. Wash and check the rim and you’re good to go.

    2. All true. But we have the jars already because we do pressure canning. And I have a slight bit of paranoia about society staying together. Plastic bags are a one use item. Will they always be available?
       The jars last almost forever and when dry vacuum canning you can reuse the lids.
       We save the lids when we open a pressure canned item, say green beans and reuse the lids for dry vacuum canning.
       The jars do take up more room. But that is what the pantry under the stairs is for.

15. If ya want to really step up your vacuum sealing, I built a fucking UNIT a few years ago with a pressure canner and a vacuum pump like they use on vehicle A/C systems…..

    https://bustednuckles.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-homemade-vacuum-canner-actually_20.html

    1. Hope you are doing well Brother and we all need to meet up again, You, Dweez, Wes, and whoever else wants to meet up…

16. Hey guys my spin on the caning. Back when I gave a true shit about the world and its evil shenanigans I was a canning mo-fo, seriously. The dry canning for me was the fun stuff. Me and the house 6 (H6) maintained/had several gardens, she had three green thumbs. Any way If I told you have the stuff we did you’d call bullshit so I will keep it short. Enter the dry canning. We dehydrated a lot of produce, to the point that I researched a solar dehydrator and made one of them to try out. Normally we used Excalibur’s line of electric units, very efficient. Then we used the canning vacuum lids as shown by our guest writer, but my twist was this, I used a HV/AC vacuum pump. I would let that pump run for a few minutes even after you heard the disc lid pop. The pump, yeah it was an zon find. The solar dehydrator that was a carpentry project. Hit me up if you want photos and the link to this unit.
    Side note the last one I built was for friends, (well what I thought were friends, turned out I was not THEIR kind of Christian) here in Idaho. The super sunlight plus the low humidity really let this solar dehydrator shine.
    Really if I told you all the preps I used to do, all the canning, all the gardening, the set up, the stuff I gave away after the divorce from the last H6, you’d call bullshit. Ask me about the semi load of concertina wire I was getting from a DRMO!!! Alas all in the past now.

    Thanks BCE
    Saber 7, out

    1. You are the Tfat of the West then or like the guy who died here in my AO earlier who had stuff stacked to the ceilings and barely room to walk in his 6000 square foot house and when he died his kids sold everything for pennies on the dollar…Sad That…

17. Wife and I have been using the vac u pack mason jars for years. So handy for things you might not think about. I like saltines with my chili, thing is I only eat chili and saltines in the winter so they would go stale over the summer. Nothing like making a batch of chili and sitting down with a cold brew and a bowl heading for lunch delight only to find your crackers have turned to shit. Found that vac u packing them in a mason jar they will last at least a year, fresh as can be, and finally able to finish a whole box of them without throwing any away! Also found that since I like oily things like Triscuits that won’t keep real long vac u packed as the oil goes rancid on the shelf, keep a long time vac u packed and thrown in the freezer.

18. Still no shame for the grown misspelling man to shut his gap about the charity mobile. Grown self proclaimed doer of army deeds in legLand. Further filling your blog about nonsensical everyday issues. But hey, it’s your blog, you embarrass yourself all you want. There’s always a squid that finds self Immolation interesting. Mirror my man, look in a mirror. Find the grownup.

    1. And who are you? Another talentless troll? Buh Bye Felicia

       1. A certain someone is going to run out of cash from hiring all these trolls to try and start shit.

          1. Depends on what their being paid with…

             1. ewwww

             2. Hoh man, now that got a good belly laugh outta me.

             3. *they’re.
                Voice to tex

       2. I’ll bet these trolls are all using VPNs and are the same group of assholes.
          You can tell by the grammar and they all basically say the same thing.

          I strongly suspect it is the same group of assholes who popped up a few years ago on Divemedic’s, Ernie’s and Art’s blogs talking shit about BCE.

19. I got a bunch of hand warmers (thingys you put in your mitts while ice fishing) and put one in a 1 qt mason jar, filled it with home made jerky and then put the lid on, an hour later the lid popped down and the bottle was cold sealed. The heater pack sucks out all the O2 while getting warm (Creates a vacuum), but in a sealed jar the reaction stops. Can be used over and over. My jerky was still fine 5 years later.

20. Thanks Fido, never heard of it. Send more posts.
    Hey Bigs, well done by not taking the bait. “Gleefully”? Really?
    You just reminded me of a “Shaniquasaurus” TSA Manager, that tried, oh so hard to catch me. A real verbal dress down right in front of everybody for the most minor accidental error, which I had already immediately corrected. Man, she kept going for quite a while till I finally said “people like you treating travelers like cattle are what gives the TSA a bad reputation”, followed by “please stop talking to me.“ The whole time those were the only words I uttered. Military experience surrrrre helps in these times, eh?? I was in a really bad mood, and I always get quiet when mad (fortunately it’s rare). My body language probably told her to to cast a baited hook at me. No way was I gonna take the bait at least.
    Ahhhhhhhhh the immensity of her power!!!! People tremble in fear of her amazingish badge, and… and…. stuff.

    1. Oh yeah, and Fido… The ICU RN experience also helped me keep from getting caught by her hook.
       Every Single Day we got blamed for causing people’s medical problems, and verbally humiliated, sometimes physically attacked, actually pretty often. Often threatened. Generally, our accusers are the ones who have caused their own medical conditions, and yet we get the blame. No responsibility, complete lack of accountability, and extreme entitlement. Same people over and over. So, yeah, that helped too.

       1. Yep.
          I’m retired and I don’t miss the drug seekers, delusional family members, detoxing drunks, out of touch management, bullshit compliances, verbal and physical assaults and patients who expect us to solve their years of poor health choices in a weekend.
          I am just done with it all.

          1. Oh and in case someone doesn’t believe that Nurses get assaulted, my nose was broken by a patient.
             Fourth time it was fractured, hurt like hell. Blood rolling down my face. I stopped myself before I hit him back. Barely.

             1. Also, my liver specialist was discussing various liver treatments with me a few months

                ago including transplants and a liver vein bypass, forget the name of that one. I went

                with the tunneled drain as the least problematic option after researching all of them.

                The Interwebz are a wonderful learning tool. Took me a few months to convince him to

                authorize it, some people abuse one and it can kill you if used wrong. I told him to

                give the transplant to someone deserving and he said 95% of people cause their own liver

                disease. Half or more from overweight diabetes. I had too high of a MELD score anyway

                and would have waited years.
                I’m active in my medical treatments, have gently steered doctors towards better

                solutions by researching them and presenting logical reasons to do it my way. I can

                understand about 90% of my CBC when they do one. I know what a BUN score means for

                example.

                So all those fatass sheboons, shaniquasauruses and ghettopotumuses can look forward to

                what I’m sure their entitled asses will feel is hell.

                I just look at it as life changed some and thank God for waking up above the dirt still.

                I wrench on my truck as much as my strength allows, do home projects, wreck out stuff

                with my sawzall etc. An old (high 80s) Nam artillery major told me 20 years ago that if

                you stop moving and learning you are going to die soon after that. Good advice. So I

                stay busy. Changed my Ranger hood release recently, installed a cheap backup camera and

                some cheap LED driving lights on the bumper. Life is good if you keep a positive

                outlook.

                Shooter

          2. I’m amazed by some people’s attitudes towards the medical staff trying to make sure they wake up above the ground. I developed liver disease in June of ’24 from being a dumbass that liked cheap whisky too much. Since then there were about six months of weekly peritonitis, I have bad ascitis unfortunately. I freely told all of the doctors and medical technicians that it was completely my fault and was always as nice to them as possible. Some of my treatments fell on the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and I made sure to put some junk silver in my pocket to hand out to those that worked to show my appreciation. I got stuck so many times I felt like a junkie. Still get stuck some, have albumin every two weeks and a blood test those days.

             The lab folks are the best needle artists in the place but the very best stick I ever had came from an ER nurse who was filling in. I asked him if he needed my arm in a particular position and he said no, that he could get my IV going no matter what position I was in, shot, stabbed, burned, 450 pounds, didn’t matter.

             I salute you ER guys, definitely unsung heros. Those ingrates that fucked up their life and want you to make it all better need to go play in traffic. On a busy highway.

             Shooter

             P.S. Got a home drain installed now surgically. It cut my hospital trips way down even though the dressing itches and is somewhat of a pain.

             1. Also, my liver specialist was discussing various liver treatments with me a few months ago including transplants and a liver vein bypass, forget the name of that one. I went with the tunneled drain as the least problematic option after researching all of them. The Interwebz are a wonderful learning tool. Took me a few months to convince him to authorize it, some people abuse one and it can kill you if used wrong. I told him to give the transplant to someone deserving and he said 95% of people cause their own liver disease. Half or more from overweight diabetes. I had too high of a MELD score anyway and would have waited years.
                I’m active in my medical treatments, have gently steered doctors towards better solutions by researching them and presenting logical reasons to do it my way. I can understand about 90% of my CBC when they do one. I know what a BUN score means for example.

                So all those fatass sheboons, shaniquasauruses and ghettopotumuses can look forward to what I’m sure their entitled asses will feel is hell.

                I just look at it as life changed some and thank God for waking up above the dirt still. I wrench on my truck as much as my strength allows, do home projects, wreck out stuff with my sawzall etc. An old (high 80s) Nam artillery major told me 20 years ago that if you stop moving and learning you are going to die soon after that. Good advice. So I stay busy. Changed my Ranger hood release recently, installed a cheap backup camera and some cheap LED driving lights on the bumper. Life is good if you keep a positive outlook.

                Shooter

             2. Yeah, Texas, those drains are good. Keep it clean. Maybe a different dressing won’t itch so much?
                Fido, my coworker was fired due to our “zero tolerance for violence” policy. Big dude had just punched him so hard his glasses were across the room, and he (RN) pushed the pt back down to the chair to prevent a fall, and was fired. Zero tolerance only applies to staff. He was an excellent RN. Dude, man, we just did the best we could. It sucked (desk job now) and can’t imagine going back.
                Plus, big pharma’s successful capture of the government regulatory apparatus (ie FDA) caused the opiate epidemic which stunk bad cheese. I know I was complicit in killing countless people, which ate a hole in my soul. Once I heard “ pain is what the patient says it is” I knew the system was rigged. Drug seeking behavior doesn’t exist? Yeeeeeaaaashhhhh.
                And all these stupid shots (like COVID shots), no way I can inject someone.
                And tying down the elderly, and tormenting them with medical treatments for their last days ‘cuz their son Jimmy said “do whatever to save mom” while not coming to see her? Yeah, never again. The public has ZERO idea.

                Ok, ‘nuff said and rant done (for the third time probably, sorry, LOL).

             3. God Bless you Shooter

             4. Should’ve walked out the door with him a long with everyone else and that shit would of stopped in its tracks…But with the every man for himself attitude that White Men have we continue to be shit upon by those who are lower than whale shit…Never understood the mentality either of training your replacement but White Guys do it all the time for crumbs when they could have the whole thing if they would stick together…Weak sauce…

             5. Lineman, you’re spot on about White man’s stupidity, a term used, not to imply low IQ, but to highlight conscious self-destructive behavior, extreme individualism, skewed morality, lack of in-group loyalty, lack of will to survive, let alone will to power.

                In his book “The Culture of Critique” Professor Kevin MacDonald says that Jewish infiltration, subversion, and destruction of White societies has been so effective over recent decades because their moral code is based on only one question – “what is good for Jews” – while Whites, having evolved over time in high-trust societies, now suffer from “pathological altruism” to the point that half of our women exhibit higher “other-group” sympathy than “in-group loyalty.”

                Also, in his quintet of futuristic novels about the formation of a White homeland in the Pacific Northwest, the late Harold Covington illustrates the curious trait among, not all, but far too many White men who possess superior physical courage and ability, but are dangerously reluctant to engage in physical violence without first having “permission.”

             6. @Homeless Mack
                Yea it’s a serious flaw in White Folk that if not remedied will be the death of us and all we hold dear…
                White Men would rather fight each other and those who want to save our race than fight against those trying to destroy us…You see it all the time in the comment sections of this one and others…Sad That…

       2. Tried to post this twice earlier, I tried replying to myself, might have ticked off the board software. If duplicates show up I’d appreciate if they could be removed by the mod (BC perhaps?). Still getting the hang of how the board works.

          Also, my liver specialist was discussing various liver treatments with me a few months

          ago including transplants and a liver vein bypass, forget the name of that one. I went

          with the tunneled drain as the least problematic option after researching all of them.

          The Interwebz are a wonderful learning tool. Took me a few months to convince him to

          authorize it, some people abuse one and it can kill you if used wrong. I told him to

          give the transplant to someone deserving and he said 95% of people cause their own liver

          disease. Half or more from overweight diabetes. I had too high of a MELD score anyway

          and would have waited years.
          I’m active in my medical treatments, have gently steered doctors towards better

          solutions by researching them and presenting logical reasons to do it my way. I can

          understand about 90% of my CBC when they do one. I know what a BUN score means for

          example.

          So all those fatass sheboons, shaniquasauruses and ghettopotumuses can look forward to

          what I’m sure their entitled asses will feel is hell.

          I just look at it as life changed some and thank God for waking up above the dirt still.

          I wrench on my truck as much as my strength allows, do home projects, wreck out stuff

          with my sawzall etc. An old (high 80s) Nam artillery major told me 20 years ago that if

          you stop moving and learning you are going to die soon after that. Good advice. So I

          stay busy. Changed my Ranger hood release recently, installed a cheap backup camera and

          some cheap LED driving lights on the bumper. Life is good if you keep a positive

          outlook.

          Hey Pickler. Sorry to hear Fido ran afoul of the leftist insanity. And yeah, Big Pharma has infected some of my specialists with “pill pusher” mentality. Especially water pills and statins. I’ve told more than one doc where they could put their statins and that if they prescribed it, I’d refuse to pick it up. Got water pills in the cabinet right now, haven’t taken one in months, I output about 2.5 liters a day so the time I was on them seems to have had a permenant effect. Have to go every couple of hours now too, dammit.

          Opiods. A nasty subject I unfortunately have to deal with. I do NOT have an addictive personality. When I was a teen I did pretty much everything I could get my hands on. Never like downers much with the exception of Quaaludes. Speed of any sort or phsycedelics? Gimme! Quit all of them by 21, was just smart enough to know some would kill me fast. Never touched opiods, they scared me, still do to a degree. Oh, quit pot and coffee also. Nicotine is the only thing I’ve never quit completelly, have cut way back though.

          My liver disease makes me completely unable to use NSAIDS, they all metabolize in the liver. A large medical dose of Tylenol can actually flat out kill me in ten minutes. I’m allergic to it anyway, makes me have severe nausea. The only thing that’s left is opiods and I can’t even use most of those. The only two are Tramadol and believe it or not, Fentanyl. Saying Fentanyl around doctors makes them flinch nowadays, schedule 2 drug. Dea is really down on it. Tramadol is schedule 4, they frown a lot less about it. Fentanyl leaves zero liver metabolites, Tramadol leaves 20 percent. Crap like Oxy or Neomorphone etc. metabolizes almost completely in the liver.

          So my liver doc has me on the lightest Tramadol dose possible, lets me sleep. I hope like hell I never need a heavier dose. I skip a dose or two some days just to be sure it isn’t getting it’s hooks in me. I’ve actually forgotten to take it sometimes. I remember later when I’m hurting and just grin and bear it.

          The Soldier drug. Also known as PCP or angel dust. The most dangerous drug in the world if your opponent has taken some. A gift to the world from WWII Germany. It worked great for what they wanted. It disconnects all empathy and basically makes you a flesh golem. You can still think. About the only emotion you can feel is anger. When using it, you could plow your truck through a crowd of 5 year olds and would feel… nothing. I hope to God you never ran into anyone in the ER using it. Stuff turns the dead man’s ten seconds into the dead man’s when will he bleed out. I recommend multiple head shots with a large caliber handgun, massive CNS hits is the only thing that works. He will kill you while he’s dying.

          And now that I’ve given everyone nightmares, assuming they got to the bottom of this book, I’m gonna see if it posts and try to get some more of that sleep, it’s 4am here.

          Nighty night and don’t let the sandman bite.

          1. Tramadol isn’t an opioid. I have never understood why they changed it’s status to a scheduled med.
             Good on you for refusing statins. That shit is poison. My Doc tried it and when he wanted to know why I refused I replied, “It is supposed to drop your cholesterol. What is your brain made out of?”

             1. Never mind that a study reported in JAMA stated that there was NO noted benefit from statin use regarding cardiac risk.

             2. Thanks for the info Semper Fi, I’ve apparently gotten some crap info from websites I trusted, I check multiple sites to try to find the consensus. I’m relieved, I really don’t like opiods. And yeah, docs have been trying to put my brother on statins for years, every time they try a new one it makes him ill, sometimes for a week.

                And Pickler, a radiology doc told me in passing that everyone with a drain gets infected. I’m going to prove him wrong. I use ridiculous amounts of 91% rubbing alcohol for anything involving my drain or dressing. I’ve only issued two fatwahs in my life. It’s jihad against flies cause they eat shit and bug people and against germs because they want to infect me.

                Thank you to both of you guys, your well wishes mean a lot to me. Stay safe and God bless.

                Shooter

             3. I see on the internet where a lot of sites say it is an opioid. That is lazy science. It affects the opioid receptors but chemically is a man made opioid agonist. The schedule status is used for potential of abuse and risk of addiction.
                Both of which is as low with Tramadol as in the same range as Tylenol. Less than Darvocet which was mostly Tylenol itself.
                I also feel that it is silly to have Ativan on the schedule. You can’t abuse it. You take too much you fall asleep. You don’t get high.
                And Lomotil. You would have to eat so much of it to get high that you would never shit again. If someone is that desperate then I say that they deserve the colostomy.
                Which is why I stick with Bourbon. Reliable, dependable and repeatable.

21. Just a thought on the new “boat” might want to check if it has had any manufacturer recalls done on it. Always good to check, you might be entitled to some.free.maintenance.

    Worth a shot.

    https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls

22. Opioids – yeah, just put a friend in the ground. He was up to 4-6/5mg oxy-con per day for pain. Took him into emergency room one night; next day they did emrg surg on him and found a perforated ulcer with a side of peritonitis. The hosp worked on him for about a week and then he decided he’d had enough. Good people worked on him, but I got a look as his charts and knew where this was going.

    And give Marion county a break darn it. Local DMV/tax office here is very good at what they do, never takes me more the 10-15 min for whatever it is I’m doing there. And as long as you treat the local rednecks like people every thing goes smooth. White(and black) trash is another story. But that’s pretty much true anywhere.

    Oh yeah, BCE, HuntersLodge.com has DP Enfields for $75. And the barrels/receivers aren’t drilled.
    So go have fun. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    1. OMFG! I remember them from Shotgun News. I bought my Mauser from them. I didn’t know that they were still around.

       1. That was Ye Olde Hunters Lodge back then probably. Still have one of their catalogs from the early ’60’s. All kinds of dewat machine guns for $50 -$100, Lugers/Broomhandles for $39.95, Solothurn 20mm cannons for $189.95. Good times. Problem I had (at 16) was I couldn’t figure out how to smuggle a 7 foot coffin with a 20mm Lahti($99.95 complete) into the garage without the Old Man spotting it, damn.

23. Yeah, Fido, statins are a great example of Pharma’s capture of the FDA, etc. I’d guesstimate 99% of the people on them shouldn’t be. Oh man, could I go on a rant about this…
    The public is clueless, but how can they know any better? Juuuust like the Covid shots, and the lockdowns. Great Barrington Declaration anyone? Does anyone listen to the experts who vehemently disagree with Sir Science of Fauci? How can the layman know anything if the dissenting experts are censored and slandered? Yet not one has been charged, let alone hanged for their crimes against their countrymen. The Covid shots still have not been banned, and now the mRNA platform is assumed safe, when the opposite is true, so now other types of mRNA shots are approved.
    Wait, I wasn’t gonna rant LOL.
    Oh yeah, and go ahead and judge me all you want, since it’s not in the least alien to me. You know not of what you speak. I’ve spent decades being judged by those who know not of what they speak.
    On that note, enjoy your Sunday. I got a good book (remember that thing called paper?), and a decent chair outside.

24. I have difficulty believing that even a Shaniquasaurus would say “y’all” to one person. They’re terribly fucking dumb, but that would be not-remembering-how-to-breathe stupid.

    1. “Y’all” is perfectly standard Texan for situationally variable first/second/third person singular/plural in which you may or may not be in-grouping with those around you but you want to make it seem as if you could.

       You might be a Texan if you can refer to yourself as “y’all”. 🙂

25. I like the idea of reducing airflow over stored food to zero or as near zero as you can get, and so that brake line bleeder looks like something to do in the future for what’s being used in the near-term.

    But what we did instead of glass jars was that we wrapped items in multiple layers of plastic bags that we’d run through a vacuum bag sealer. That stops most of the airflow and isn’t as good as doing this with glass jars with seals you can crank down with a tight vacuum, but it has one significant advantage.

    We can store these in plastic bins with foam seals in the lids, reducing airflow over them, and be able to move them around without having to be extra careful about glass jars.

    It’s a compromise position: stuff doesn’t last as long, such as dry cereals that seem to need to be run through the oven at 250 F to freshen them up after a few years, but it’s easier to stack this stuff in open wire racks with the plastic bin storage.

    As for the bins, Sterilite storage bins with the clamps on the ends and with foam seals are OK but can suffer damage if you stack too much weight on them. We lost too many to damage during the move back to Florida.

    Iris makes some that are better but they’re typically only sold at “storage solution” shops, so they’re $$$$$ but hold up really nicely. I think we’ve lost maybe a dozen of these over ten years, which isn’t too bad when you’re starting above three hundred.

    So if you have to move a pantry, you might be better off moving vacuum sealed bags into bulk moving containers and stacking the bins with seals so they won’t get beaten up while on the truck.

    We’ve seen some Amazon stuff show up with some kind of vacuum sealed puffy wrappers around the items, such as jars of spices, and if that’s available in bulk yet isn’t a pain to use, that would be a workaround for having to move the glass jars.

    My guess is that this requires use of a temperature controlled heat gun so you don’t crack the glass, and while we have some of those, the manufacturer’s idea of “temperature controlled” isn’t really all that reliable given that these things aren’t much more than glorified hair dryers with extra buttons.

    Anyway, thanks for the glass jar vacuum sealer ideas.

26. Learned at an early age to scout out any gov premises for its ambiance. Sometimes it’s only a short drive to a different environment. DMV, voter registration, gun permits there’s usually a place that works coherently if only by mistake. Life is tough enough without dealing with salaried shitbags. You’ve got enough on your plate.

27. Im a third gen Floridian living behind the lines in South Florida The Florida DMV has to the most fucked up state organization to ever exist. Wait times are in days with people camping / sleeping outside DMV offices to renew their drivers licenses. And with the Federal ID system incorporated into the drivers licenses one must prove their residency by producing water or electric bills or proof of home ownership. My wifey wanted to start WW3 because of how she was treated on her drivers license renewal. DEI aint dead in Desantis’s government. Low IQ is the requirement to work for the DMV

    I buy costly freeze dried food for the SHTF days as I dont have the time to prepare and pre pack foods. In place of vacuum packing one can use Nitrogen gas to displace the 02. The cost of the cylinder and regulator is high, but N2 gas is cheap. Mylar bags that are heat sealed are ideal. For vacuum jars one can use a cheap vacuum pump sold for air conditioning evacuation thar can achieve a higher vacuum over the brake bleeder kit.

28. I was born and raised in central Mass, just far enough away from Boston that I have a New England accent vs a Boston or (shudder) Worcester accent.
    Joke I heard about the DMV up there was that they “ hired them for slow and sullen and paid them by the pound”.

29. DMV in E. Texas was pretty quick last month. Waited an hour past my appointment time and was done. Nice little Mayberry community called Quitman.

    E. TX is where people go to be left the fuck alone.

    1. “E. TX is where people go to be left the fuck alone.”
       Could it be because there’s a swamp just over the line into Louisiana where people that annoy you can be made to disappear?
       It helps if you have friends that can assist with the DEI excess baggage weight.

30. Moving to the country near Athens, Tx. by the end of the year. Lots of lonely piney woods and the sand is really easy to dig holes in… And yes, lots of armed redneck white boys that want to be left the hell alone. I think I’ll like living there.

    On a “I’m truly blessed” note, my S&W Equalizer showed up. Traded in two EZ 9s for it and got some cash too. Also stumbled across a Cimerron Wyatt Earp 10″ replica. Traded my Uberti 1873 SSA in on it, should have the rest paid off for a nice Christmas present.

    Shooter

31. Recently made the move to middle Georgia from St. Aug.
    House on 4 acres and a 20 acre lot not too far away for future use.
    Only see people when I want.
    ~3.5 hours to the kids in Gainesville.

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