So the government made your Gas Can less than useful.....Updated at bottom

We all know that EPA regulations that went into effect in 2009 made gas cans harder to use. Easier to spill, and generally a pain in the ass. We all know that the intent was to reduce evaporation, but in reality it make the cans harder to use and promoted spills.


Strike back.

You have an alternative to buying older gas cans at garage sales to have some containers that are actually useful:

Buy this: EzPour Spout replacement kit.

This thing rocks. Fits nearly any gas can. No more waiting for the "vent"  in the nozzle to let air into the can, gurgling all the way...No more cursing the EPA as you wait for that 5 gallons of gas to slowly trickle out of the new style nozzle. No more sudden spills as your mower's tank fills up and you try to remove the spout before the tank overflows....resulting in even more spillage and subsequent evaporation.

Now, regulations would, of course, prevent you from retrofitting any gas can made after January of 2009. I would never, ever suggest that all you need to install the vent is a small drill and a half inch spade bit (fluted bits will make holes that aren't round in the plastic can)  to make the included vent replacement fit into a new can. YOU SHOULD NEVER DO THAT.  Never retrofit a vent onto a new can.

This is to replace your old spout and vent on your old can...Remember that. Not for use on newer cans. One wouldn't want to run afoul of the EPA you know.

You can find them via mail order HERE, or find your nearest retail outlet HERE.

Remember, you can't use these on newer gas cans even to make them less prone to spillage or to make them easier to use. While I am no attorney, I believe that that would be illegal. So don't. Srsly. That would be bad.




[no liberals (or Gaia worshipping hippies)were harmed in the writing of this post]

Update: I finally received a reply from the company (Ez-Pour) and their products are made is China. Likely no plastics molding company in the US wanted to possibly run afoul of the EPA....

So about that resignation::

Seems that he was leaving the IRS anyway....

Seems that Steve Miller's acting appointment was limited and was up in June anyway..

'It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,' Miller wrote. 

So really, he's just leaving a few weeks early. 

Nicely done, Mr. Obama, you almost had me fooled there for a minute. 

Nuttin' to see here, move along....

Seems that some folks from the mideast were found trespassing AFTER MIDNIGHT in a restricted area around a reservoir.

But it's ok, they were just students on a sightseeing trip.....

Nothing suspicious.

Yeah, right

Shakin' the bushes here, boss

I'm like, jugglin' cats here.

more later

IRS scandal

SO the administration is claiming that the IRS targeting conservative groups (and, apparently, jews) is over, and steps have been taken to correct this oversight by management at the IRS.

Perhaps they are correct....

But until I see people fired for their actions, managers terminated for incompetence, people barred from government employment ever again for their complicity in this, and possibly jail time for these actions  and "oversights", I won't believe it.

Until we start coming down HARD on these sorts of actions, there will be more of them.
Until people go to jail and lose their comfy (and generous) government bennies and retirement, then there is no real reason for them not to do such things.

But you can bet that this will happen again....likely this was done at the behest of high government officials. Nothing was written down, I am sure, but you and I and most of the rest of the country believe that. 

I can't wait for the abuses ObamaCare will make possible.

Yes!

Now if they'll only put cheese and chili in the buns, life will be perfect.

One might ask:

If you were as cynical about your government (not the government itself, mind you, just the people who operate and run it) as I am, then you might begin to wonder....

Wonder about the timing of the whole apology from the IRS regarding poor treatment of any group affiliated in any way with anyone vaguely right wing (or at least perceived as right wing by the leftists at the IRS) when applying for 501-c status.

You might wonder if the whole IRS apology is an attempt to divert us from the whole Benghazi "investigation" that is currently playing out in the halls of congress. Where the lying, prevaricating and dissembling is major league levels of professionalism in a politician. Where the man who smiles has figured out who he can pin the blame on. Where the cover up is king.

How much of the IRS revelation is an attempt to make the media (and therefore the majority of left wing voters and a significant number of their brethren on the right) just plain forget about the whole mess somewhere "over there in one of them darkies countries" that was Benghazi. The failure in leadership that many of us have known about, but that the press (and now some of, but not all, of the "low information voters") are becoming aware of. The massive coverup by blaming a poorly known and distributed film that mocked Islam (sorta) all just before an election?

So ask yourself: Will we let them get away with it again? 

Depends on culture, and who raised them

But some are good, some less so, and some, sadly, are not good at all.

You'll find, here is the US, that the more rural, the nicer....the southerners are moreso than the northerners, and that east coasters and west coasters are less so than Misdwesterners.

But that isn't always the whole story.

Apparently, in Russia, it is the same.

Hint:

If you are in a service industry......:


Show the customer that you value his business....do what you promise to do.

Don't tell him after he has cancelled the contract due to non performance. Show him before he leaves.

Afterwards, don't apologize and tell him how much you value his business and want to make it up to him. Don't make promises to do better. He won't believe you.

Do better first, before you lose that customer. At least do your job.

When he calls you and tells you why he is unhappy, don't blow it off. Don't ignore him until he leaves, address his concerns before you get notice of cancellation of contract.


It is a LOT harder to fix things you should have dealt with after the customer gets mad and leaves.

And especially don't ask how you could have done better. He told you BEFORE he left.

Yes, I am pissed.  (Cintas)

Sometimes it's good news

Cat lost after Sandy evacuation returns 6 months later.

Cool. Happy endings and all that.

Whargh

life is getting in the way o blogging...

The alligators are rising faster than I can deal with them, and something has to give.

Maybe later.

To those who are Moms:

Happy Mother's day.

We may not always express ourselves very well, but we appreciate you.

More than you know.

The Swiss have it right

Integration over Religion.

If the parents don't want to conform to the local culture, then they should move to a place where their culture is the norm.

So says the Swiss Supreme Court.

Now if only our courts could take lessons from the Swiss.

What else is hidden in there?

Seems that there is a hidden thorn in all of those 800 or so pages of the immigration bill.

Facial recognition/biometric database containing all your biometric data....A HUGE database of all US citizens.

The excuse is, of course, to help find undocumented workers and keep them out of the workforce.

Can you think of ways that it will be abused? Especially when it becomes linked with the Obamacare database?

I can.

The modern version of "Papiere, bitte." 

Coming soon to your neighborhood.

Remember, the original intent of the Social Security number was to track your benefits.....now it is a part of your ID. You need it to find a (legitimate) job and as a ID to pay taxes...to open a bank account, to buy health insurance.Without it you can't be tracked cannot function in our society.

H/T

Today

Colonel Jeff Cooper

Born today, 93 years ago.

Rushing things:

Had a new member (and new shooter) at the range a week ago ask me to take a look at his newly purchased Ruger MkIII.

He couldn't seem to get decent groups with it. So, being the helpful sort that I am, I loaded up some of his  .22 LR and stepped up to the the firing line (who doesn't like to shoot someone else's gun with their ammo?????).

I shot poorly with his new firearm too....like 6 inch groups at 50 feet. (I normally shoot 2 inch or so groups).

This brand new firearm had the most atrocious trigger I have ever seen in a Ruger firearm. Creep, slack, and enough grit to seem like it had been dropped on a beach....several times....like dragging a brick over gravel.  A trigger that broke like warm oatmeal...Now, I own several Ruger products and they, like most production guns, can often use a bit of work in the trigger department, but I have never seen one that was so bad that the gun was all but unshootable out of the box.

Detail stripping showed that this was not the most well finished firearm that Ruger has ever produced. Tool marks galore on the inside of the frame, the bolt needed polishing to function smoothly, the trigger group stampings were only marginally (if at all) polished, the pivot pins and their respective holes were...less than what one might expect from Ruger. Likely there will be an aftermarket trigger in this gun's future, as the trigger group was so bad that it is likely that polishing the mating faces enough to make a good break will result in an unsafe trigger. Basically, this gun is a piece of crap.

While it is possible that this is a one off gun, made on a Friday afternoon and passed by QC on a hungover Monday morning, I think that it is indicative of the fact that Ruger is pushing their wares out the factory door as quickly as possible...even to the detriment of quality.

I do find it sad that they are selling substandard products. I think that it will, eventually, hurt them. Cosmetics are one thing, functionality is another.

Why yes, I am a vegetarian (mostly)....

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My favorite meat animals eat nothing but plants.

yep.

Stolen from the Chief

Interesting

Unverified, but interesting.

Read.

If true, it explains a LOT about our money issues.

Where do you fall?

I am. apparently, "Neutral Good"....on this test.

Funny, I thought I was more evil than that.


Guess I am getting mellow as I age.

How is your alignment?

via

Someone's gonna haveta explain....

Seems that one of the cops shot in the "exchange of gunfire" the night that the 'splodey Tsarnevs got cornered and "Suspect #2" drove over "Suspect #1" (the elder brother), was likely shot by one of his brother officers.

Now, this is NOT an indictment of the police at the scene. Things got really, really sideways really fast, and they followed their training. Sadly, one of their fellow officers got hit by friendly fire. Luckily, he survived, but barely.

High energy, armed BOMB trowing suspects...in the dark.

Just shows how quickly things can go wrong.

Bacon,

The elixir or life....

If true, I should live to 217 yeas old.....