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Chaos in AmeriKKKa

From the Thursday Morning Brief from the New York Times (not to be confused with right wing pseudo news): What political analysts are saying: “America right now has: deadly pandemic, massive unemployment and recession, schools unable to open, protests over racial injustice, a killer hurricane bearing down on the South… And I am watching Mike Pence talk about how bad things would be in Joe Biden’s America,”  The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser  wrote. Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review : “The most consistent message of tonight is that Trump is warm and caring, despite what you may think. I can see his aides looking at the polls and saying, We’ve got to improve his numbers on this.” The only people that don’t think times are dire are the Pollyanna types that inhabit Trump’s pseudoscience, fact-free universe. Those people are truly delusional and should be sedated so as not to harm themselves or others. And deranged people certainly should not be allowed to vo...

Solo Guitars DIY Build-Part 2

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I got a reply from Solo partially answering my questions. Yes, you do just hook up the corresponding leads. What I’m supposed to do with the black lead with no connector is a mystery still unsolved. I wrote back to Solo and haven’t heard back from them. You can see the extra black lead in the picture below:

No Politics Lately

Sorry, no political rants lately, I’ve been busy with reading my computer related texts and haven’t been using my time to read most of my mail and browsing Twitter to fuel my outrage. Politics is a huge time waster, since, as a libertarian, I’m never going to see any politician that adheres to my political views.

Solo Guitars DIY Build-Part 1

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Well I ordered a Solo Guitar on the web and it came today. I got the TCK-10-SD, which is a tele style guitar with a maple burl top and single binding on the top. Some dark wood fingerboard. Here’s a picture of the body: So far so good, but there’s no documentation in the box and they tell you the paperwork is online. There is this in the box Go to the website and voila, no documents for my model, which has solderless connections. All the connectors are labeled except for a connectorless black wire. So i opened up a support ticket on the Solo website. Now I wait.

A Quote for the Bootlickers

Here’s a quote from Sam Adams made in a speech on August 1, 1776: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude, than the animating contest of freedom - go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." It a quote for all those bootlickers out there, on the left and on the right.