Neanderpundit

prompted, no doubt, by the blogpost yesterday, he opens my eyes to something… very interesting.

Solomon- he says- is a liberal. Possibly the first and most important one.

Look at the most famous Solomon story: Two women dispute over a child. One is the mother, one is a theif.

Solomon asked The Lord to be given wisdom, and he got it. It was not balanced by anything else- later in his life he did a lot of really stupid things, because knowing what is right doesn’t mean doing it.

Anyway, Solomon uses his wisdom early on to determine who is the real mother of the child. Very clever, right? Indeed.

What happens to the other woman?

She walks away, so far as we know.

She should have been executed, because she was willing to use the power of the State to murder a child.

When Pascal said this it hit me like a bullet. How appropriate, how perfect. And this has been the gold standard for liberalism since; consequence free nastiness for people who act out.

It certainly does explain the progression of a lot of things.

Yesterdays drama with the truck and online and finding out that an old friend is enduring some measure of grief, and god knows how many other things, was stressfull enough, but I sit here in my dressing gown waiting to get ready for Mass and BRRRRAPPP!

No, I did not shit myself, a noise like a Vickers right outside the window made me feel like I ought to. After the third time I look and find that a woodpecker has been checking to see if there are any tasty grubs in the cedar siding.

C’mon, you crazy little fucker. Let me get a coffee in me first before you startle the crap out of me.

As I have some extra long day trips coming up, I wanted to take today to fix the rumbling sound in the truck.

I presumed it was a bearing, I am fairly used to the sound. So, since I have a spare, I swapped it. That was about noon.

it’s sort of pathetic that I can do the whole job in under an hour. A testament to how often I’ve done it, no doubt.

Same noise.

I have free lifetime rotation and balance on the truck tires so I had that done, the tires were a bit out of balance, same noise.

I change the brakes. Same noise
I changed the bearing BACK. Same noise. I changed the bearing on the OTHER SIDE, same noise. I topped off the fluid in the differential. Same noise.

I’m, laying under the front of the truck with my flashlight, looking for anything that could be making the noise. I notice a weird wear line on the iner sidewall of the left front. They only rotate radials front to back, so this had to have come off the back. So i get on my tortured knees and crawl around to the back, and the bracket holding the Ebrake cable in place has come loose and it’s rubbing against the tire. I wrap some wire ties around it, and the noise is gone.

Damn. An all day goatrroping I could have fixed in five minutes with a piece of string. Sonofabitch. Well, live and learn.