On September 19, 2021,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Monday, September 13th, 2021…but before we begin, a brief explanation is in order. First, some of you, our valued readers, may not know writing The Gouge isn’t our day job, but rather part labor of love, part catharsis and most importantly our personal effort to make a difference in the world by disseminating the truth in what we consider a satirically humorous manor. Like our dear departed Dad, no one find our jokes as funny as we do.
So in addition to trying to put the finishing touches on a residential development project, upon our return fr0k Africa back on August 17th, we immediately began what has become the Afghanistan debacle of home improvement projects. Without boring you with the gory details, first, the electrician working the job turned out to be awaiting an urgently needed liver transplant, so when he here, he was, understandably, not at the top of his game. And when he was fortunate enough to receive a transplant (like Balls Cotton, he’s recovering nicely!) and no longer able to work, we discovered none of the outlets for the appliances were located according to the manufacturer’s specs, the low voltage wires located anywhere and everywhere BUT 54-1/2″ off the floor, the eleven new cables run to the circuit panel were unidentified and somewhere one particular wire was broken.
So guess who just spent the last week+ playing electrician, relocating all the appliance outlets and installing all the low voltage LED cabinet and under-cabinet lighting? If not for the able assistance for one day of a friend from church identifying the various circuits, wiring the panel and finding the broken wire, we’d STILL be working the problem, people.
Then there’s the cabinets, which the fabricators evidently put together without ever consulting the shop drawings. You know, the schematics which detail helpful things to know…like DIMENSIONS?!? The pantry, which was to be 94″ INCLUDING a 4″ toe kick arrived 94″ WITHOUT the toe kick. The wall cabinets, which were to be 12-3/4″ deep, were delivered and hung with a 12″ depth. No big deal…other than the fact TLJ’s 11″ plates won’t fit in a 12″ deep inset cabinet. And the blind corner cabinets which were to provide additional storage in an otherwise useless corner weren’t blind, just cabinets. All of which requires 6 of the 14 cabinets to be totally remade…cabinets which were ordered back in mid-February.
Add to that the fact the demo guys scratched the beejeebers out of our teak flooring when they removed the fridge and freezer, the GC cut the 10″ hole for the hood duct in the wrong place, the island wasn’t built deep enough to accommodate the warming drawer and none of the drawer inserts to house the silverware, spices, etc. seem to have been ordered and you’ve got what amounts to one colossal…
…reminiscent of 46*’s disastrous departure from Afghanistan.
We should add, as we’ll be heading out late Monday afternoon for a week of golf in sunny Southern California, returning Sunday the 19th to resume our fight against the forces of Socialist tyranny and inept home improvement companies, we’ll likely not be publishing another edition before Wednesday the 22nd. So ’til then…
Now, here’s an abbreviated version of The Gouge in which we’re only going to offer videos or links to what we’ve found to be articles of interest over the last week.
(1). John Stossel and John McWhorter, who, in the words of 46*, is “an African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” (What…unlike most other Blacks?!?) explore the reality of racism in America:
(3). In a must-read commentary at the WSJ, Gerard Baker convincingly concludes, as leadership hasn’t exactly been a hallmark of his 47-year political career, Joe Biden hasn’t any core principles AT ALL!!!
(4). The New York Post reports it’s anchors away, as Biden purges Trump appointees from all three service academies. This one’s a bit personal, as one of Trump’s appointees is a Naval Academy classmate and friend, who, even if seated at a table with Einstein, Newton and Hawking might well STILL have been the smartest person in the room, a man of unimpeachable character who dutifully served under both Dimocrat and Republican Administrations, and whose bodily waste Biden isn’t fit to dispose of.
(5). Since we’re on the subject of 46*, The Washington Free Beacon records how this useless piece of political poltroonery just injected a massive dose of confusion into the COVID debate, as he once again failed to clarify precisely WHAT victory over the pandemic LOOKS LIKE!!!
(6). All of which leads NRO‘s Charlie Cooke to determine, when it comes to the Wuhan virus, Biden is stuck in a bind of his own making.
(8). Meanwhile, illegal aliens need show no proof of vaccination against the Wuhan virus whatsoever when illegally crossing our utterly unprotected southern border:
(9). Since we’re on the subject of the Wuhan virus and those who undoubtedly funded its inception, again the New York Post tells us a plethora of powerful people are going to a lot of effort to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reputation, despite mounting evidence of his role in funding dangerous research on bat coronaviruses in the Chinese laboratory believed to be the most likely source of the pandemic. It’s as Benjamin Franklin observed of a polar opposite effort, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
(10). Writing at NRO, Rich Lowry records how Texas pro-lifers ground abortion to a halt in the Lone Star State.
…and last, but certainly never least, the lovely Shannon:
The last of which stands in stark contrast with the respectful contemplation shown the burial service of a veteran they never knew by two Indiana boys who lack 46*’s 47+ years of “government service“.
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‘Nuff said.
Magoo
P.S. It’s late, we’re tired, and we didn’t thoroughly proof what we just published.
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