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Proving once again that California is the land of fruits and nuts, porn producers who want to film in Los Angeles had better bring condoms to the set since the City Council made their use mandatory. 

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Better buy quick before the government takes away all your rights and freedoms.

Join Wikipedia and Google and others in our attempt to stop the passage of two bills in Congress SOPA and PIPA.

There are several things, okay more than several things on the internet that I do not agree with, and there are many things that I do not want to see or read about as well.

However for the American Congress to pass a law dictating what is and is not acceptable on the internet is censorship and whether you like it or not censorship is never a good thing.

If these laws are passed and go into effect everyone will suffer the consequences,  not just the pirates and hate mongers, who will figure a way around these laws, but the honest business people, the humorists, and the political dissidents nationwide.
This isn’t as much about stopping piracy as the government would like you to believe, this is more about controlling what you can and cannot say on your website, or blog, or in an email.

This is about more government control in the lives of Americans and have you ever seen the government relinquish control once it has gained it. These laws strike out at not only at the First Amendment but in the rights of Americans everywhere to speak their minds and to read and see what they want to read and see. 

We have a two-party system here in this country, a corrupt two-party system, that works basically this way, when democrats are in control they try to increase the size of the government, when republicans are in control they try to maintain the size of the government, neither party has ever done anything to try to decrease the size of the government or to return rights back to the people once those rights have been taken.

It’s time for Americans to wake up and ask themselves, if the people they have elected are doing the job they were elected to do.

If these laws pass, look for more government intervention in your life, look for more taxes to pay the people that will be patrolling the internet, look for wider government regulations, and look for your life and lifestyle to become part of a database kept in Washington D.C. for discretionary use by whomever is placed in charge of that department.

When you control a mans words, you also control his mind. 

Read more about these bills here.

And here.

Follow Sopa in Congress here.

Follow Pipa in Congress here.

If you hunt, you need a good rifle scope, here’s some nice ones

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If you’re like me you need all the help you can get when trying to catch Crappie or any other type of fish.
 Since crappie season will soon be upon us,  I thought I would pass along a few tips and tricks and then I found this.
This guy seems to have it all figured out.  

Click Here!

So much so that he wrote a book about catching crappie, now I haven’t tried all of these techniques yet but some of them I already know and have used in the past.

 Here are a few of the secrets you’ll discover inside:
How to fire up the crappie bite any time it dies down with 2 awesome strike stimulators that piss off crappie… and force them to attack!

2 secret black crappie baits that trigger instant attacks! (There’s a simple scientific reason black crappie have different tendencies than white crappie… which is why these little-known baits work so well.)

How to make a “sure-fire strike indicator” using a guitar string and a piece of duct tape, so you can instantly detect even the smallest nibble… and catch him! 

3 simple steps for finding the perfect “PH level” that big crappie love in your body of water… so you quickly hunt them down while other guys are wandering around aimlessly. (Most fishermen don’t even know about using water PH levels to find the big ones… and now you’ll have a huge inside edge!)

There are many more for you to read about and use but you have to 3 simple steps for finding the perfect “PH level” that big crappie love in your body of water… so you quickly hunt them down while other guys are wandering around aimlessly. (Most fishermen don’t even know about using water PH levels to find the big ones… and now you’ll have a huge inside edge!)
 
However before you can learn more about catching crappie you have to click here  and check out the book.

The Nobel Prize.
Seriously when someone gets the Nobel Prize for something they haven’t done and when  a person wins the Heisman Trophy because voters  left a player off their ballots, not because he was unworthy but because they felt they were making a statement about the National Championship Game.

 Now before some of you get your panties in a bunch, Robert Griffin III deserved to be in third place, no higher than that.
He was a decent quarter back playing in a conference of weak to very weak defenses.
It’s easy to get big numbers and have gawky stats when you play against poor defenses, but to have gawky stats like Trent Richardson had against good defenses is another ball game.

But some anal retentive voters left Richardson off their ballot because they wanted to protest the BCS selection for the National Championship game.
The BCS’ job is to get the two best teams in the championship, that’s the bottom line. They did that.

But you want to hear the irony of the LSU / Alabama rematch. It wouldn’t have happened if the Big Twelve Commissioner and a few of the others had not voted down two rules that Mike Slive wanted put in.

Seriously the guy that is benefiting the most was the guy that would have originally blocked a rematch for the National Championship.
Mike Slive, the commissioner of the SEC, wanted a rule in place that prevented two teams from the same conference playing for the championship.  It was voted down almost unanimously.

When Slive proposed that no one be allowed into the championship game without winning their conference, that rule also was voted down.
Now voters who really don’t have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot, sit back and howl and whine about LSU and Bama playing again are  making their statement by leaving Trent Richardson off their ballot, not because he’s not worthy, but because they are pissed off that a system they helped put in place put two teams in the championship game. 

…..and Barack Obama has really earned that Nobel Prize.

So I was sitting here reading about all the crap that occurred on Black Friday, and it makes you wonder what the hell has happened to people.
Robbing folks outside stores. Pepper spraying folks inside stores. Stabbing folks over parking spaces. Standing in line waiting for a store to open, then acting like a bunch of idiots, trampling people.

For what?

For some useless piece of junk that you think is going to make you feel better about yourself?

For 10% off a useless piece of junk? 

Does it make you feel good knowing that you stood in line like a fool and bought something that you don’t need and really didn’t want?

Granted there are some things that you have to buy, certain clothes, groceries, stuff like that, but for the most part anything else is just garbage.

Every year we hear of this, Black Friday deals and then Black Friday problems, crimes, murders, and other crap associated with it.

Nothing like Christmas to bring out the worst in people. You would think it’s the one time when we set a side a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, that people would try to use the values that Christ taught. You know, love thy neighbor,  help each other, be kind, that sort of stuff. 
But no, people want to live the MTV Cribs lifestyles (not that you can from shopping at Wal-Mart). The more they get the more they want and what is worse, no one wants to earn it anymore, they expect people to give them everything and if they don’t get it then they want to scream out about how oppressed they are.

The problem is people have put a price tag on everything, including their family and friends. 

Truth be told if you’re going to do any shopping for Christmas the best way to do it is over the internet, you can search around and find good deals, and get the items delivered right to your home. No lines, no traffic, no pepper spray (unless you order it), none of the crap that is associated with standing in line, hunting a parking space, being trampled or robbed or assaulted after your done shopping.

 Here are some shops that I use frequently that you can check out.

This year instead of buying a bunch of junk, that no one will ever use and that no one really wants, I intend to build some things.
Of course if you have no talent then I guess you need to buy stuff for the folks in your life, but luckily for me, my family values family above price tags. 
See we are actually just as happy if no one buys anything. Granted the small children might not be, but the adults in my family still remember the spirit of Christmas. 

By the way, if you value some store bought trinket over your family, then maybe you should re-evaluate your life.

Teach the corporations and the government a lesson this year, make those gifts yourself. 
You can do it. 
Think about it if everyone started doing that, prices on junk would fall, people would quit wasting so much money on gas that we would be putting the big corporations and gas companies at our mercies instead of the other way around.

If you really want to give away money then do it for something decent like St Jude’s or cancer research, make a donation in someones name to help others.

With time being what it is I probably won’t be back on here for a while so if not to everyone that read this have a wonderful and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Now not the old classic Regals but, no wait a minute, I hate the old classic Buick Regals also, the old Rivieras I liked but those freaking Regals, hate them.

My hate for them has really increased since they went to front wheel drive with those freaking sideways v-6 engines.
What kind of sick son of a bitch come up with that shit?

Today I had to put a water pump on my old lady’s Buick Regal. It’s a 1998 model with the 3800 Series II engine.
It sucks.
There is not enough room in the engine compartment to work on the thing, but after about twenty minutes with a cutting torch I was able to get started replacing that water pump.
Just kidding.
So if you want to replace the water pump on a 1998 Buick Regal, okay let me clarify that if you want to replace it you are a sick individual, however if you find yourself having to replace the water pump here are some directions.
Step one get lots of beer or anything else that helps to settle your nerves because you will need it.

You will need an 8mm, 10mm,  and 13mm socket and a small ratchet 1/4 inch is what I used, and a small extension.
You will also need a large ratchet or breaker bar and a 15 mm socket.

Step 1. is to open the hood.

Step 2. Drink a beer and think about it a while.

Step 3.   Using the large ratchet and 15mm socket release the tension on the idler pulley by pulling it toward the rear of the engine compartment and downward. 

While holding the ratchet, remove the belt (you will probably have to put your beer down for this or you will spill it like I did).
Once the belt is out of the way go to step 4.

Step 4.  Using the 8mm socket and small ratchet (you will not be able to use the extension on these unless you actually do remove the fender well) remove the four bolts from the water pump pulley and slide the pulley off.

Step 5. Using the 10mm socket you can now remove the four smaller bolts around the water pump.

Step 6. Drink a beer and gripe a few minutes about ripping the hide off your knuckles because there is no freaking room for anyone with actual hands to get them in between the engine and fender well.

Step 7. This is where the fun starts. There are four long 13mm bolts that you have to remove as well. The first three are easy but the last one is right behind the power steering pump pulley. So remove the first three and then go to step 8.

Step 8. Drink a beer and cuss, at this point profanity is no longer an option but a mandate.

Step 9. Using the small ratchet, and small extension you can wiggle a 13mm socket onto the two bolts that hold the power steering pump onto the engine block.
These bolts are right behind the pulley and you have to go through the holes in the power steering pulley to get to them, it is a tight fit and a pain in the butt as well as hands and arms, but it is possible.
The way I did it is I removed the top bolt completely and loosened the bottom bolt up enough that I could slide the power steering pump away from the block about 1/2 of an inch and push it down enough to get to the last bolt in the water pump.

Step 10. Remove the last water pump bolt.

You may have to bump the water pump to get it to come away from the engine.

Step 11. Clean all the old gasket material off the engine.

Step 12. I used a little bit of gasket sealant and applied the gasket to the pump then put a little bit of sealant on the engine side of the gasket as well then stuck it on the motor.

To finish the install just go from step 10 back to step 1.

Step 13. Fill radiator with proper amount of Antifreeze and water, down here a 70-30 water to antifreeze mix is enough (although I use a 50-50 mix) Cooler climates will require more antifreeze.

Step 14. Drink a beer, smoke a joint, jump up and down, or crap your pants cause you’re so freaking happy to be done with that mess.

Step 15. Trade the 1998 Buick Regal for a 1972 Ford Maverick, you will get a better car that is easier to work on. Not to mention parts are not nearly as high.
 

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