Dumpster Diving…Errr…Recycling

This is a repost from last year. I brought it back up because a couple of days ago, I picked up a nice “ceramic” tennis racket, some golf clubs and a nice tool box.

 

Yeah I’ll say it; I’m a “dumpster diver”. But not in the literal sense, what I mean to say is I don’t actually go into a dumpster after something.Well…

…Except for that one time when She Who Must Be Obeyed had just paid about 85 bucks for some damn dog medicine and she lost the package in my truck. I had just thrown a bunch of garbage on top of other people’s garbage, a transmission, plus used tranny fluid and what have you, when Dear Wife tells me she lost the medicine.

It must have fallen out of your shirt pocket into the dumpster, , she says. blaming it on me.  I never touched the darn stuff, I says back. Y’all know where this is going right? Yep, I had to go through every bit of that garbage and a transmission and used fluid, stinky diapers,ect., but alas, I couldn’t find any dog medicine. You must have left it on the counter at the Vet’s, says I. Almost a knock down drag out over some #$^&@@! dog medicine, when she throws her hands up, hits her sun visor and the package falls into her lap.Imagine that, says I. Needless to say, I was pretty steamed.

But that wasn’t what I came to tell you. Near where I work, the  local dump recycling center has a little building they call the “Swap Shop”. That’s where you put stuff that’s too good to go in the trash. I make it a habit to stop by there even when I don’t have any garbage to drop off. Today, I scored a Yamaha Double Cassette Deck and the cables to go with it. At other times I’ve picked up a Kenwood A/V Stereo Receiver, a pair of Bose 2000 speakers, a Technics 5 disc CD changer, plus a Realist dual cassette recorder. I took the Realistic tape deck back up to the “Swap Shop” after getting the Yamaha for someone else to use.

I have found all kinds of stuff at the “Swap Shop”. Antique furniture, books,( I hate to see books get thrown away.), and other stuff. I’ve made money on some of it, still have some of it and stored some of the stuff for a couple of years and hauled it back to the “Swap Shop”.

Anyone else have interesting “dumpster diving” stories to tell?

Bear Made Me ” Squeal Like A Little Girl’

From the Bangor Daily News, some folks I probably know.

The Boys From Luker Branch have done themselves proud;

Paul “Pudge” Lyndon McFalls, 39, of North Carolina, rested Thursday afternoon at Down East Community Hospital in Machias after he was bitten in the leg by a bear that he had shot and wounded earlier in the day at Marion Township. McFalls is expected to be hospitalized for several days with bites, gashes and scratches. The bear attacked McFalls and bit him as McFalls loaded his last bullet in his gun. &quotHe was shaking my leg like a dog with a bone,” McFalls said. &quotI used that last bullet to put him down. Then I started squealing like a little girl.”

Don’t us Southrons have just the coolest nicknames? ( Mine was “Smoke Daddy.”)

Some Good Ole Boys from my old neighborhood were Bear hunting up in Machias, Maine this week. Those Luker Boys are a tough bunch. I wouldn’t have been the least surprised to hear that he had killed the Bear with a stick and a knife. Here’s the story;

MACHIAS, Maine — A 39-year-old man from Tuckasegee, N.C., was recovering Thursday at Down East Community Hospital after he was bitten earlier in the day by a bear while hunting in Marion Township.

Paul “Pudge” Lyndon McFalls said the entire experience felt like it flashed by in seconds and he knew he was lucky to be only minimally injured.

McFalls and his family have hunted for bear Down East for seven years and drove here last week, bringing their hunting dogs with them. When the hunting party of four brothers and four nephews entered the woods at 6 a.m. Thursday, McFalls was hoping to bag the fourth bear of his lifetime. But he never expected to be relating the day’s events from a hospital bed by noon.

McFalls’ uncle, Leonard “Doc” Luker, said he saw the bear first, just before 8 a.m. “But I couldn’t get a shot,’’ he said. That’s when the bear headed toward McFalls’ position.

In a thick Southern accent, McFalls recalled that his dogs “turned on a big bear,” which he pronounced “bar.” The bear kept circling around and around, trying to shake the group’s hunting dogs, which included Plott hounds, redbone coon hounds, and Walker coon hounds.

I wonder if after he was injured, he built a “far” to take the chill off ? ( Hey, I can poke fun, I’m from “thar.”  )

“The bear headed into the swamp to get away,” McFalls said. “Then he turned by me, about 20 feet away from me. I shot him and it knocked him down. He rolled over and I could see he was moving his legs. I wanted to protect the dogs, who were swarming all around him, so I stepped closer.”

McFalls said when he was about four feet from the bear, it suddenly got up on all four feet. “It was growling and it looked enormous. I shot it two more times and then it charged me and got me by my leg,” he said. McFalls said at that point he also suddenly realized that he had an empty gun.

“It grabbed my leg with its front paws and mouth and pinned me against a tree. It felt like it was pulling my leg off. I fell backwards and it began shaking my leg like a dog with a bone.”

Somehow, McFalls was able to get a bullet into his .30-06 rifle and shoot one last time. The bear fell dead.

“I looked down at my leg and saw the blood and got on the radio. ‘He got me,’ I yelled. ‘I need help.’”

The bear had bitten through McFalls’ leather boot in at least two places. It also bit him higher up, near the calf.

McFalls’ fellow hunters and two guides from Puckerbrush Guide Services out of East Machias — Wayne Gatcomb and Bill Dereszewski — came to his aid.

“I was screaming like a little girl,” McFalls admitted with a laugh.

Luker said those minutes trying to get to his nephew were terrifying. He said the undergrowth is so thick in the area they were hunting that he literally had to part the trees with his hands to slip through.

“We could hear him hollering and we weren’t sure what we’d find when we got to him,” Luker said.

“I had such a sense of disbelief,” McFalls said. “I just couldn’t believe he had a hold of me.”

While awaiting the ambulance, McFalls showed a sense of humor. “I could tell that Wayne was shook up so to make him at ease, I got on the radio and told him I expected this bear to be mounted for free,” McFalls said.

McFalls was taken by ambulance to Down East Community Hospital.

His leg was not broken, he said. Doctors did not stitch up several deep gashes and teeth puncture wounds because a bear’s mouth is considered very dirty and can cause serious infections.

“But I hope to be out of here by Saturday,” he said. “I can’t hunt because I’ve already tagged my bear, but I can be with the boys.”

Gatcomb said the male bear officially weighed 450 pounds and Game Warden Alan Curtis estimated it to be 10 to 12 years old. Gatcomb said the bear involved was one he had seen two weeks ago while hunting with dogs and a party from Pennsylvania.

“But they were not aggressive enough and the bear got away,” Gatcomb said. He added that bears “are not aggressive unless they are cornered.”

“They are not dangerous,” McFalls said. “The only reason he came at me is because he was wounded.” Curtis agreed. “None of the hunters did anything wrong here. This just happened.”

The last report of a hunter being bitten by a bear was a year ago, in September 2010, at Township 5 Range 7 in northern Penobscot County, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Ryan Shepard, 37, of Shin Pond was hunting with three friends and dogs when he was bitten in the arm and leg by a 300-pound bear that he had shot and mortally wounded.

McFalls and Luker said the family members always stay at a camp on Hadley Lake and that they will definitely be back next year. “We have probably more bears in North Carolina than you do, but the woods are too full of hunters there,” Luker said. “When you hear the dogs, you aren’t even sure if they are yours or not.”

“We love it here,” McFalls said. “It’s remote. We don’t see a lot of other hunters. It’s just us. Oh, we see deer, moose.”

And bear, he was reminded. “Oh yes, that bear’s going on my wall.”

Feds Hit Gibson Up For More Wood…Is Obama Building Some New Furniture?

An update to an earlier story I did on Gibson Guitar, from WSMV Nashville, the feds have hit Gibson Guitar up for more exotic wood used in the making of their famous guitars;

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -Federal authorities want Gibson Guitar to hand over more wood they claim was illegally imported.

A complaint was filed Wednesday in Tennessee’s U.S. District Court asking that Gibson hand over 25 bundles of Indian ebony wood that were to be used to make its famous instruments.

This all goes back to the recent raids that were held at the company’s Nashville and Memphis factories.

According to an affidavit, U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents say Gibson knowingly imported unfinished wood, which is illegal under the Lacey Act.

Gibson has denied any wrongdoing.

Obviously the feds have to do something to take everyone’s mind off the Fast and Furious gun running scandal, so they decide to punish Gibson Guitar while ignoring the same business practices by their Democratic supporting competition, Martin Guitar.

The Main Event…#SarahPalin Vs #HermanCain

Stacy McCain has the latest on the recent attempt by the  MSM to start some shit between GOP candidates. Herman Cain and Sarah Palin are at the center of the latest kerfuffle. Again, it’s the MSM with selective editing and/or outright lies. Stacy Has the video at the link;

Somebody told me that Herman Cain was asked about this on CBS News and said Governor Palin was “wrong,” evidently based on media reports. But let’s go to the transcript, shall we?

VAN SUSTEREN: How does, though, a politician, though, connect with the people and get it across so it doesn’t just sound like more like, Blah, blah, blah? When the politician gets up on the air, probably many of us can sort of mouth the answers for the politician because we know these people for better, for worse, so well, and that they’re going to say. It’s quite predictable.
But how does a politician actually connect with someone in the heartland, for instance?
PALIN: That’s a great question. I think what helps is for that politician is to have a foundation of having come from the real people of America, the working class, those who make up the majority of Americans who are so extremely concerned about the direction of our country.
Take Herman Cain. Look at why he’s doing so well right now. He’s, I guess you could say, with all due respect, the flavor of the week because Herman Cain is the one up there who doesn’t look like he’s part of that permanent political class. Herman Cain — he came from a working class family. He’s had to make it on his own all these years. We respect that.
That has an automatic connection with the electorate, where we say, We can relate to him, he knows the issues, the problems that we face every day, and he’s determined to do something about it. He’s not elite. He doesn’t seem to allow us to be disenchanted with what it is that he’s proposing because what he proposes in terms of solutions, Greta, for our economy, are based on time-tested truths and common sense and true economic principles that will work.
So Herman Cain is a good example of a connection with the voters and why his message, good messenger, he’s resonating with the people.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, it’s sort of interesting about — you know, in watching the straw poll votes in Florida that you were talking about, Herman Cain winning by — he trounced, basically, Governor Perry and Governor Romney, the two supposed front-runners — is that the media was so shocked, that they seemed so surprised. And I’m sort of curious as to what extent, you know, the media doesn’t really go out and talk to the American people. And you know, I wonder if people — if the people watching it from the heartland, if they were surprised that he won in Florida.
PALIN: We are not surprised that he, as a messenger of common-sense conservative pro-U.S. Constitution principles, is doing well. Many of the elites in the media were shocked.
And you know, I think it’s kind of humorous to see the way that the media is covering these candidates. Let me give you an example of this. Earlier today, Greta, on Fox News, you had a host who said Sarah Palin in the polls, she’s way, way down there in the polls. And I’m kind of scratching my head, going, Wait a minute. On another network, on CNN just the other day, they showed a poll where I was, like, within 5 points of President Obama. I was doing well, much better than many of the other candidates.
And I’m thinking all this misinformation and contradictory information, contradicting information from even hosts here on this network itself, it adds to, I guess, the disconnect even — not just the permanent political class, but many in the media also because sometimes, they don’t do their homework. And many times, a host or a reporter, they have their own agenda and they interject their agenda in the information they’re providing their viewers and readers.
So didn’t surprise me or many of us that Herman Cain was doing well, but certainly surprised many in the media because sometimes they don’t do their homework and they do perpetuate misinformation.

Well, Politico tried to “perpetuate misinformation” and between Slate’s Dave Weigel and Hot Air’s Tina Korbe, this gets turned into a kerfuffle. Read the freakin’ transcript: While Palin did say Cain was “flavor of the week” — that is to say, from the media perspective he’s the Next New Thing – she followed that with effusive praise for him as representing “the real people of America,” with whom he has an “automatic connection.”

Why don’t reporters report the news instead of their biased opinions. If I want someone’s friggin’ opinion, I’ll ask for it.

Red State Jumps On #HermanCain Bandwagon…Or Not

Erick Erickson appears to be climbing on the Herman Cain bandwagon;

I said yesterday that Herman Cain is now the center of gravity for the GOP’s 2012 candidates. Today, Fox News shows a meteoric rise for Herman Cain. And it is pretty much all at Rick Perry’s expense.

Perry is down 10 points to 19%. Herman Cain has skyrocketed to 17%. They are in statistical tie with Mitt Romney who is at 23%. Last month, Romney was at 22%.

This is telling in a number of ways.

First, Perry really has had as bad a week as many of us have been saying and he could not apologize fast enough for that “heartless” remark. He finally did today.

Second, on the national scene these debates seem to matter.

Third, Herman’s message is really resonating.

But most significantly for me is just how stagnant Mitt Romney is. Even more so, when asked who the voters have most in common with, Rick Perry leads the rest of the field with 17% and Herman is in second place at 14%. Mitt Romney? Only 12% of the voters think they have something in common with him.

This again suggests that primary voters are trying desperately to find an alternative to Mitt Romney and Perry’s performance over the past few weeks, culminating in that debate, has given folks cold feet.

And Erick has some advise for Rick Perry.

Perry needs to get out now with his jobs plan and get back on the jobs message.

All I know is we need a better choice than Mitt Romney.

 

The Conspiracy To Take Over The World By Boring Children To Death

Our friend, a very important blogger is reading a book on my recommendation…(I hope we’re still friends), “None Dare Call It Treason” by John A. Stormer. Even though the book was written in 1964, it’s even more relevant today. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to find out how we got to where we are today.

Wyoming – Colorado…Potato – Taters…What’s The Difference

Gator Doug is mad as hell and doesn’t care who knows it!

Four days until I go to Colorado for two weeks, hiking, relaxing, and enjoying the splendor of Rocky Mountain National Park. Four days and damn if Team Obama has not up and moved  Colorado! According to Michelle Malkin, her home state is now Wyoming! Another day, as Michelle points out, another Gaffetastical moment!

Now that we Coloradans have been relocated by Team Obama to Wyoming, Californication of the Rockies can continue apace.

The next Obama economic meme: States saved or created.

Backyard Conservative dubs it “a Chicago gerrymander too far.”

On a related matter, David Bossie ask: “Will President Obama lose Colorado?”

Looks like they already did.

Colorado. Wyoming.

Corps. Corpse.

2008. 2011.

Transcontinental. Intercontinental.

Breathalyzer. Inhalator. Inhaler.

Jews. Janitors.

And on. And on. And on. And on.

But you know, we’re the stupid ones…

What’s that famous quotation from Forrest Gump…Stupid is as stupid does?

On a side note, Doug, if you get a chance, take a trip across Monarch Pass in the western part of Colorado. Probably won’t be as much snow as there was when Brother and I went across at the end of Feb. 2010.

NC Governor Bev Perdue says…Lets Suspend Congressional elections For A Few Years.

Via Memeorandum;

From the Daily Caller;

North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue really stuck her foot in her mouth today. Here’s the quote;

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, N.C., according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. “You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things,” Perdue said.

Way to go Governor. Now you sound just like a Marxist.

Update;  Over at Pirate’s Cove, William Teach has some more derisive words for Governor Perdue;

Democrats would love to suspend the Congressional elections: they know they are going to lose the Senate, and may well lose even more House seats.

Sister Toldjah is willing to give Bev the benefit of the doubt that Bev’s an idiot….OK, everything after “doubt” was me

Bryan Preston notices that the local Raleigh media is spinning for Bev.

Ace: How can you have a revolution against the (moronic) wishes of the people if god-damned elections keep getting in the way?

Update II; Now Insty has his teeth in the story. From Bryan Preston at the PJ Tatler;

Not likely. I mean, Peter Orszag and most Progressives probably secretly agree to some extent, but few of them are insane enough to say it aloud. They really do think an appointed elite would do better running the country without input from us pesky voters — you see that attitude most clearly in the elites’ smears of the Tea Party. That this is coming up in North Carolina, given the recent disclosures involving unaccountable government and its abuses there, just adds a nice layer of irony on top of the whole thing.

Progressives never actually seem to progress beyond their own horrible ideas.

More: It just so happens that Perdue is up for election next year.

Update: On facebook, Gov. Perdue’s desperate staff claim she was engaging in hyperbole. And just in case we’re all too stupid to get that, they define it for us.

Hyperbole (n): an exaggeration to create emphasis or effect

by Bev Perdue on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 1:54pm

There has been a little hubbub today about some comments the governor made at lunch today.

Here’s a statement from Press Secretary Chris Mackey:

“Come on…Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what’s best for the people they serve.”

One, thanks for condescending (y’all might want to look that word up). Two, musing about canceling elections when you’re up for one next year isn’t funny. Three, it really isn’t funny. Now, go lose next year.

 

 

An Unhappy Camper…Archie Bunker Pans Obama

Shamelessly stolen from Bob at TCOTS.

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The Sexual Revolution Continues…Cheap Sex And No Consequences

Stacy McCain links two Instapundit articles that relate to each other thanks to a tip from one of his readers.

The first one deals with the decreasing “cost of sex.” We’re not talking about the twenty bucks for ten minutes in the back seat of a car kind of sex either. For you single guys, it’s a “buyer’s Market” to coin a phrase from the Real Estate biz.

NOT SURE THIS APPLIES IF YOU’RE MARRIED: How the ‘price’ of sex has dropped to record lows.“Women are jumping into the sack faster and with fewer expectations about long-term commitments than ever, effectively discounting the ‘price’ of sex to a record low, according to social psychologists.”

It shouldn’t apply at all if you’re married, man or woman, but then, that’s just me.

More than 25% of young women report giving it up within the first week of dating. While researchers don’t have a baseline to compare it to, interviews they have conducted lead them to believe this is higher than before, which increases the pressure on other women and changes the expectations of men.

“The price of sex is about how much one party has to do in order to entice the other into being sexual,” said Kathleen Vohs, of the University of Minnesota, who has authored several papers on “sexual economics.” “It might mean buying her a drink or an engagement ring. These behaviors vary in how costly they are to the man, and that is how we quantify the price of sex.”

By boiling dating down to an economic model, researchers have found that men are literally getting lots of bang for their buck. Women, meanwhile, are getting very little tat for their . . . well, you get the idea.

Sex is so cheap that researchers found a full 30% of young men’s sexual relationships involve no romance at all — no wooing, dating, goofy text messaging. Nothing. Just sex.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/cheap_dates_EnfcHi7NwBAkD3RYMUWv6I#ixzz1Z6lXasbo

The next link deals with the consequences of item one and that is the exploding growth in population…of old people.

The United Nations’ most recent “mid-range” projectioncalls for an increase to 8 billion people by 2025 and to 10.1 billion by century’s end.Until quite recently, such population growth always came primarily from increases in the numbers of young people. Between 1950 and 1990, for example, increases in the number of people under 30 accounted for more than half of the growth of the world’s population, while only 12 percent came from increases in the ranks of those over 60.

But in the future it will be the exact opposite. The U.N. now projects that over the next 40 years, more than half (58 percent) of the world’s population growth will come from increases in the number of people over 60, while only 6 percent will come from people under 30. Indeed, the U.N. projects that by 2025, the population of children under 5, already in steep decline in most developed countries, will be falling globally — and that’s even after assuming a substantial rebound in birth rates in the developing world. A gray tsunami will be sweeping the planet.

Stacy is doing his part to change this new demographic  having six kids. If grand kids count, I’m doing my part too with six and a half grand kids.

But if you read a little further in the article, Stacy analyzes how these two articles relate to each other;

What I see here, as a pro-life father of six children, is how the economics of sex and reproduction have been distorted by the Contraceptive Culture.Perhaps you see something else in this Rorshach inkblot test.

ADDENDUM: To explain what I mean by “the economics of sex and reproduction,” this phrase doesn’t refer strictly to monetary values, but rather expresses an understanding of the processes of sexual behavior from a market perspective.

The old saying that a man will not “buy a cow if he’s getting the milk for free” – i.e., that promiscuous women undermine their marital prospects — expresses this supply-and-demand concept of sex. But the truth of this adage an individual basis can also be extrapolated to the larger society: When women are generally promiscuous, men will be generally reluctant to marry.

This explains why, in every culture, sluts are stigmatized. The rational basis of what feminists derogate as misogynistic “slut-shaming” is seldom articulated, but it is this: Promiscuous women make it more difficult for all women — including chaste women — to get and keep a husband.

As female promiscuity flourishes, the incentives for men to enter into and remain in monogamous relationships are diminished. Furthermore, the men for whom monogamy is most discouraged by widespread female promiscuity are the men most desireable as husbands. Affluent, confident, attractive men — Alpha males — are those whom women commonly dream of marrying, but in a society that tolerates (or even encourages) female promiscuity, such men are also magnets for tramps, floozies and bimbos.

Because these Alpha males never lack opportunities for low-investment sex in a promiscuous society, more chaste women find themselves under pressure to “put out” if they wish to attract the interest of a successful man. And even if a woman can manage to land a real “catch” of a husband in such a society, his fidelity is always jeopardized by the floozies, who don’t give a damn whether their one-night-stand is married or not.

This unfortunate situation is an inexorable consequence of the Contraceptive Culture, which hurts women far more than it hurts men, although ironically it is feminists who most zealously defend the Contraceptive Culture. Oh, it gets better>