#TBT - 2-24-2022

Remember the days when pickup trucks were spartan utility vehicles, not loaded luxury vehicles? This is what we did before built-in cup holders.

Cup holders were never necessary with large flat dashboards.

 

Commuter coffee mugs once had large bottoms with non-skid material to keep them in place on the dashboard. Unless you were in a serious accident, they did not move. Driving like a normal human being, even this cup stays put with no spillage.

I was behind the wheel of a former CTNG 1984 Chevrolet "CUCV - Cargo Shelter Carrier M1028" this morning. Vinyl seats, floor mats, radio delete plate, no A/C. It's super-duper options were power steering, power brakes, and an automatic transmission. In the 1980's the military decided that some vehicles could be COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) which for vehicles translated to CUCV (commercial utility cargo vehicle), instead of expensive specially built vehicles. Of course, the military still modified them for their purposes. 24 VDC electrical system, blackout lights, etc. The M1028 was meant to carry a slide-in communications enclosure... a radio shack if you will. I only operated out of one once in my time with the Army Signal Corps. My unit motor pool had the Dodge version of these, designated M880. There were many other variations set up to carry or tow other types of equipment. Below is a photo of its data plate.

Tell Me Again....

What POTUS is Putin's stooge? 

Sorry LIBTURDS and "Never-Trumpers," guess again. (Hint: it never was Donald J. Trump)

It is current (p)Resident Dopey Gropey Joe Xiden. HE IS THE "FECKLESS CUNT" (h/t to TBS' Samantha Bee for that description she used for Ivana Trump on her TV show) for displaying weakness not seen from a world leader since before WWII.

But don't worry. Later today Jen "Little Red Lyin' Hood" Psaki will tell us (p)Resident Dopey Gropey Joe Xiden's weak foreign policy had NOTHING TO DO with any of this. They'll blame it all on Chi-Com Xi Flu, like they did with high fuel and transportation costs, the broken supply chain, as well as the ongoing violent crime wave.

A Small Window For A Ride

Between the wet roads and murky skies this morning, and the front coming through now at sunset with dropping temperatures was an opportunity to get some ass time in the saddle of "The Beast."

I had errands to do and left late morning. I took my male poodle with me because he loves road trips with Daddy. First to Kohl's to exchange some jeans my wife got me for Christmas that I did not like. Next to the Toyota dealer practically next door to get oil filters and drain plug gaskets for the wife's RAV-4. I had gotten a $100 gift card to Cabela's from my daughter for Christmas so I figured I'd go see what they had. Poodle boy got to go in the store and he behaved himself as expected. Ammo is coming back, but nothing for me. I bought another 50 round rifle cartidge case for my 7.62x54r ammo. A whopping $4.24 off the gift card. I then took a ride down to Hoffman's Gun Center to see what they had for ammo. I was looking for one 50 round box of Federal .357 Magnum. Nope. The only 30 caliber ammo they had was some 350 Legend and the new 30 Carry. They also had shitloads of the new CCI Velocitor hyper speed hunting ammo. They had a lot of 9mm, 40, 45ACP,  5.56, and shotshells. They used to carry a large and varied selection of paper targets, but had squat. I left to head home with my Christmas VISA gift cards intact, but stopped at Wendy's first for a quick lunch.

By the time I got home and ready to ride, it was closing on 4 PM. It was still warm and sunny. My first stop was the firehouse to taunt my usual shift partner and fellow biker that had to work today. I circled around in front of the Day Room window honking my horn. He saw me. Now before you think I am just a mean prick, a couple of Saturday's ago it was warm and sunny. I had to work while he cruised the shoreline with his friends on bikes. I got a constant stream of picture text messages from him, so today was a little payback. I did a loop of about 46 miles through Windham County and a long straight stretch on US 6 where I wound it up to about 85 MPH. When I got to Hampton, I stopped at the Shell station convenience store for a snack of a Hostess cherry fruit pie (just what a fatty like me needs). I cruised through Mansfield Hollow State Park and was surprised how much ice was gone leaving open water. I stopped back in at the firehouse for a few minutes to chat with the boys. The sun was going down and with it the temperatures when I pulled into my garage. That ride should hold me for a while.

What Assholes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got bagged with a late shift ambulance call today. For routine calls we respond to the scene with no lights or sirens and the flow of traffic. The transport to the hospital is the same. If it is a critical emergency or one that involves a paramedic response then it is lights and sirens to the scene, and then with the patient to the paramedic intercept point. Once the paramedic has done their on board evaluation, they determine whether they stay on board or downgrade the call to BLS (Basic Life Support). If they ride in with us ALS (Advanced Life Support) they make the call for lights and sirens or flow of traffic.

Today's call required lights and sirens to the scene. Kommiecticut state law is very clear when it comes to when and how to yield to emergency vehicles. We actually have the same power as a school bus driver. If we get your plate number for failing to pull over and stop, you WILL get a ticket on my say so... no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

I pulled the ambulance out of the bay onto the ramp and hit the lights and sirens, and started proceeding down the ramp to the road. There was no traffic from my right, but a couple of cars approaching from the left. The lead car did not yield to the lights and siren, but obviously romped on the accelerator to get by the firehouse and the ambulance. The cars behind him stopped to let us out. A short distance up the road, I caught up to that jackass because he got stuck behind someone doing the speed limit with no place to pass. Both cars pulled over and stopped as well as a pickup truck coming the other way. As I went by I glanced in my mirror to see the idiot pull out and go around that lead car while it had not yet started moving again, Here he comes up my six.

About a half mile up the road was the address we were going to. Oncoming traffic, seeing my lights stopped well up the road out of the way to wait. The guy coming up behind me was not up my ass. Since the house was on the left and I needed to back into the driveway, I pulled over to the left to swing my nose out across the road to line up on the driveway. That impatient fucknut, ignoring my brilliant emergency lights operating, did not stop and almost took the nose of the ambulance off as he made sure he got by. Unfortunately he got away with it. But it didn't stop there.

After we picked up the paramedics we transported to the hospital ALS non-emergency. As I was passing the entrance to the shopping mall, a white Ford Explorer wanted to execute a right turn on red to come out in front of me... without the legally required stop first. They jammed on their brakes at the last second when they saw I was coming and not slowing down so they could squeak out. At that point the road is 2 lanes in both directions but just past where we turn right to go to the hospital, it is left turn only to get on the highway. As usual, an impatient ass-clown passes me on the left, then cuts across in front of me to turn right ahead of me. At least today, the driver had room and time to do this without the usual having to slam on the brakes on the ambulance. Patients and techs in the back LOVE THAT sudden stop!

Three traffic lights later, I was at a busy intersection that includes a highway exit ramp. That intersection gives simultaneous green lights to crossing traffic in both directions, but then gives a solitary green to the exit ramp, and then to the frontage road I was on. While the light was green for the exit ramp, red for me and crossing traffic, this idiot coming from my right simply ran the light in his piece of shit beater car. He slowed slightly and then stepped on it to get through. The traffic coming down the ramp had to stop to let this dickhead go. Luckily, traffic was light. The rest of the transport was uneventful.

I don't know who was there and why, but there was just about every hospital security guard and two local cops in the ER outside a closed room. There was a lot of loud talking and yelling going on in there. Usually the nut jobs end up in a padded room down "Crazy Corridor" so it was probably a criminal.

Leaving the hospital is a four-way stop sign at the entrance/exit. In Kommiecticut, the law says whoever gets there first has the right of way. In the case of a tie, the person to the right has the right of way. There were other cars going through the intersection and then I pulled up to my stop sign the same time as a woman in a sedan on my right. A lot of times people wave us through, `cause hey... we're the boo-boo bus. I looked at her for several seconds to see if she would go or give me the wave. Nothing, she just sat there, so I start to go... then she starts to go. I stop. She stops. Since I am much larger so I just go through and never even look at her. Fuckin' dummy.

So that's today's driving adventure. I am off tomorrow and if the rain ends early enough and the roads dry up enough, tomorrow afternoon I plan on taking a ride on "The Beast." I haven't been out since before Thanksgiving, and it is supposed to be almost 70 degrees before turning cold again.

Gonna Engage In Some Domestic Terrorism Here

And this is how, by LOUDLY criticizing what passes for our current government. 

Oh, what fucking idiots in Washington dwell.... the incompetence is at absolutely incomprehensible levels. Let's just list those in the administration, shall we?

(p)Resident and drooling meat puppet, Dopey Gropey Joe Xiden. Always on the wrong side of history and foreign policy. He has NEVER accomplished a thing in life except for creating one totally fucked up family and great family wealth by shall we say, "questionable" means.

Vice (p)Resident Heels Up Harris. Never accomplished a single thing without a powerful man's dick in her mouth or in her nasty snatch. Her horrific cackle is eclipsed only by Killary's.

Sec. of State Anthony "Winken, Blinken, & Nod" In a sucession of failed demon-crap SecState appointments over the decades, here is a cuck beta-male diplomat. All talk, no action. Its all about the processes, not results.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. This little old fat turd makes our economy a little worse every day by simply waking up and still having the ability to speak because she didn't stroke out in her sleep the night before.

Sec. of Defense Lloyd Austin. First name on the list that should be standing on a trapdoor wearing a hemp necktie for his actions. Blew the exit from Iraq giving us those peace loving ISIS guys. Then blew the exit from the rockpile, killing service members and leaving $85B in top notch US military equipment for our sworn enemy the Taliban. Now he is on the precipice of starting WWIII with the Russkies, which can only end with global nuclear winter.

Attorney General Merrick Garland. Name #2 for the gallows, standing next to the previously named big doofus. Between perpetuating lies about Donald Trump, declaring defiant parents at school board meetings "domestic terrorists", along with veterans and other assorted Patriots, and treating the J6 protesters as political prisoners locked in his gulag with no constitutionally protected due process. I would debate whether we are better off with him as AG instead of 1/9 on SCOTUS.

Sec. of Labor Marty Walsh. Former mayor of Boston, knows how to keep the labor unions happy-happy. How you doin'? Wink-wink-nod-nod.

Sec. of HHS Javier Becerra. Overseer of the cluster fuck on the medical side that is the Chi-Com Xi Flu. Has his share of the blood of dead Americans on his hands.

Sec. of Transportation Pete "Buttplug" Buttigeig. Another former mayor, this one from South Bend, Indiana. More concerned with his personal life and playing the homo card. Doesn't have a clue how to solve the supply chain issues or the racist crumbling infrastructure. Yes, Mr. Lily White fag boy actually said infrastructure is racist.

Sec. of Energy Jennifer Granholm. This stupid cunt actually laughed at the idea on national television that the excutive actions taken on 1-20-21 (and since) by the demented drooling meat puppet had any effect on transportation and fuel costs. I guess when dotgov provides all your personal transportation at taxpayer expense you can laugh at such foolishness.

Sec. of Education Miguel Cardona. I apologize to America because this douche was imported to federal government from my own state of Kommiecticut, where he was the LIBTURD in charge of state education. A total stooge of the teacher's unions. A doctorate in education just like Dr. Jill, and that's how they demand to be addressed. Usually when you ask them what kind of doctor they are and they tell you, the normal response is, "Uh.... oh." 

Sec. of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. #3 man on the gallows for his abject failure to protect our borders, sovereignty, and enforcing immigration policy. 

Press Secretary Jen "Little Red Lyin' Hood" Psaki. A closet commie (she loves her pink fur hat with the red star on it). She'll circle back to you on that. Oh wait, she answered you, do you have another question? She actually NEVER answers questions. How do you know when she's lying? Her lips are moving.

The rest of the cabinet and administration toils away as good little unremarkable bureaucrats in the swamp. Certainly doing damage but maintaining a low profile.