Back In Los Angeles...for a couple of weeks

I'm back from my cruise to Santa Rosa visiting a friend of 40 years and roommate for the year I was working pipeline construction in Richmond. I stopped here at the Coalinga off ramp to scratch my butt! I had to miss rain both coming and going so being back in sunny SoCal is fine.
I just got the Cherokee back from the trans shop-I don't do those. The painter should be by in a couple of days so that work can start...I'm not going to want to drive it, it'll be so new!!

Dateline Soggy Sonoma County, CA

Hanging out with the "sticks and twigs' granola crowd after 4 days of rain and 6 more to go gives me time to dwell on larger issues such as 'the rule of law'.

• A Calif. candidate for Governor is not prosecuting a proven felon immigrant housekeeper.
• The U.S. Attorney general is not prosecuting voter intimidation by Black Panthers.
• Homeland security is allowing multiple cases of manslaughter by illegal aliens including a nun to continue.
• There is no prosecution of the felonies of 'robo-signing' of mortgages which are overt lies to the courts.

Now what am I supposed to think, That all these are above the law. That our Chief Executive and Law Enforcement Officer is unable or unwilling to do his job. And I am supposed to vote for ANY incumbent. With the magnitude of collective myopic stupidity throughout this nation, the best I can do is to NOT PARTICIPATE!

Supremely Stupid Economics-Ben again

Helicopter Ben Bernanke is going to do another QE flood of money out of the presses. How can we buy our own Treasury Notes when we're in debt???

The most important "restriction on investment spending" today is that all the customers are up to their freaking eyeballs in debt, staggering under the crushing weight of debt from two insane decades of the loathsome Alan Greenspan at the demonic Federal Reserve constantly creating more and more money to finance bubble economies in raw, naked consumption, insane speculative bubbles in stocks, bonds, houses, derivatives and the cancer-like growth of a treacherous, corrupt system of governments, from local to state to federal, as trillions and trillions of dollars were deficit-spent to add to the orgiastic deluge of tax revenues already pouring in, and then going right back out again as new spending, from the aforementioned bubble economies in stocks, bonds, houses and derivatives spawned by, at the root, the Federal Reserve creating the money necessary!

Back From Aleta's and Continuing the Jeep Rebuild

Now that I've returned to LA I can continue my Jeep project. I have completed the transfer case reseal and installation. The damn thing is HEAVY to stuff back in on my back. I appreciate Cole's help. Now I have the drive shaft out and it's getting all new u-joints. The license and insurance is all ready to go. Maybe I can haul all of Aleta's remaining 'stuff' to her on the 'maiden voyage' ha ha. I am now waiting for the drawings for a new pipeline project. The project may start as soon as Thanksgiving??? Work aarrggh!