Neanderpundit

So i don’t do it often, but sometimes I actually open and read my spam.

Yeah. I know.

Still, if you never look, you sometimes miss gems like this:

“Chicago’s infamous Mayor Daley, who endangered the city by changing it from a controlled airspace to an uncontrolled one, by the midnight vandalisim performed on Chicago’s miegs Field, is about to unveil another one of his atrocities.

In the new millenium Park, there is a sculpture named “Cloud Gate” by Anish Kapoor. it looks sort of like a polished tinfoil bike helmet. It will be unveiled on Mayor Daley on the 16th, and hundreds of people will be showing up with tinfoil hats to join in the festivities.
Help make it thousands. Put on a white t-shirt and a tinfoil hat of your own construction, and show up in the new millenium Park on July 16th, 5:00PM Mayor Daley has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on this park alone,(aside from private donations!!!) let alone all the other projects, while city cops waited months for a contract. “Cloud Gate”, a huge polished stainless “mother ship” is just another indication of the wastfulness of this man. Use a black magic marker to write “couldn’t the mother ship have landed at miegs?” or anything else you want on your shirt, and show up at 5:00. We hope to see you there! pass this along to anyone you know who hates the wastefulness and let’s show this idiot what we think of him (peacefully). ”
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Today, the flag goes back to the top of the mast.

Today, I stop mourning the loss of perhaps our greatest president ever.

Today, because my reach exceeds my grasp, because I am a parent and because the world in which my child lives is important to me, I’ve had enough. I will get off my halfmoons and spend some time doing something to change my world. I will not let the “Nation of Nannies” ratchet back the freedoms so dearly won by the fathers of this, the greatest nation on earth. I may not be capable of very much. I may not succeed. I WILL try.

I am opposed to doing anything twice that can be done right once, and never done again. The expression I learned form my uncle Calvin, who learned it in thearmy, (I think) is NORA. Do it Now, do it Once, do it Right, do it All.

I belive this about my stuff, too. I share Kim du Toit’s love of old firearms, but I also have a love of old stuff of all types, that was built right to begin with.

Here is my tractor, for instance.

it’s 40 years old, just a few years younger than me. I love it because it hasn’t needed anything other than normal maintenance for all that time. Dad and I remodeled a guys house, and in turn, he gave us this tractor. The previous owner was the dealer, and he loved this tractor, was loathe to be rid of it, but his contract required he replace it with a new one. Dad used it to plow snow in the winter, and I mowed with it in the summer. I’ve been mowing an acre plus every summer weekend with that tractor for thirty years, boy and man. Ok, it’s a little dirty, but it starts and runs on the first pull every season. I use the electric start when I’m tired, but I love starting it with the rope, just because. It has a rope type starter, wrap the rope around the front pulley of the engine, yank with all your might.

I have a lot of equipment like this; old stuff that performs well after years of service. I’ll post more as I think of it.