Speeding Along

 

Speed Trap

Town of Kersey got me for $40. Seems in just weeks the town has generated around 1/3 $Million in revenue. Most certainly, other towns around the area are taking note.

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 In the small city where I live, there is now a dedicated radar van that moves around. A Facebook page has been created to track the locations.

 I’m not against enforcing speed limits, within reason. Drivers going 15-20 mph in built up areas endanger all of us.

 The section of road Kersey monitors has no side streets and one farm driveway. I don’t buy “safety” for the way speed limits are set on that section of WCR 49. Perhaps those speed limits were set back when it was two lanes and should be reviewed.

Weed Business

Competing with the “black market” is tough. I’m not a customer. That said, my understanding the street price is lower, the potency adequate, and the sellers aren’t required to fund Emperor Polis’ and associates blue dreams.  Mexican cartels may be another story.

Grand Western Tradition

Wyoming, Colorado, and other western states have a history of schemes involving mining to fleece investors. They also share a history of fabulous wealth generated by mining. Which is happening now with rare earths?

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Me, just a bemused sideline viewer.

Consequents

The DOT, Federal and some States, crackdown on unlicensed and unqualified truck drivers, I applaud. There are repercussions. My local grocery store has a lot of empty shelves. Upon my inquiry, I was told they are having trouble getting their deliveries.

 Safer roads vs being inconvenienced? I’ll take option one, thank you.

 As always, YMMV

Mess Call

 

VFW/American Legion

Our small group usually has Sunday breakfast at one of the local posts. A nice social event for us, and some direct support for local vets, makes for a nice end/start of the week. Their breakfast is a lot like the picture. Should bring back memories for many vets.

Wolves

Colorado’s woke administration continues to spend on what will likely be a failed program. Just as environazis have always found ways to thwart programs they oppose, they now find the same ways being used to thwart them. Oh, the horror!

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Working as a Colorado Parks and Wildlife employee can’t be a lot of fun.

Trust Fund Snot Blues

My disdain for those with inherited wealth infesting Colorado and pushing out locals is familiar to any reader of this blog. Now comes a reckoning. The following is a twenty six minute explanation. While I personally find the narrator irritating, I listened because his facts are solid.

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The political impact as these entrenched blue hot spots collapse will likely reshape Colorado politics for years to come.

 Has WSF mellowed?

No, just haven’t come across much to provoke me into writing something. The government shut down, the Epstein Files, Jan 6, ICE, etc. are being covered, much better, by others.

 As always, YMMV

Living Large

 Party hard and piss people off

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R) CO 4^th always offends the grievance crowd just by living. The latest grievance? Halloween costume. Horror! Insensitive!

No links to the aggrieved parties-call it grievance fatigue.

 State Taxes

(P)regressives and bad tax policy, a perfect match. A Democrat has been Colorado Governor since 2011 (the Bartender and the Emperor). During that time the Democrats have held a majority, sometimes super majority, in both the House and Senate.

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Depending on the source, Colorado seems to be treading water overall. What is clear, no mega investments have been made by businesses moving to Colorado and the downtown Denver office space rental is flat lined. Denver, as a city, is in the Democrat controlled downward spiral. Crime, “un-housed”, drugs, and police defunding are clear reasons.

 Without TABOR we would be California 2.0.

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Can’t Fix Stupid

Colorado did achieve a #1 rating in the USA. Alas, EV punchases.

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 Emperor Polis and cronies continue to subsidies EV purchases with tax credits; taxes not collected so we, all residents, get to help virtue posers pose.

Winter is coming and with that, limited range in cold temperatures. Fun times, should you decide to drive to the ski areas. Fun, fun, fun sitting in one of these jams while watching your range dropping.

 This should be a good season for tow truck drivers and roadside assistance operators.

 In other news, Colorado is #2 in the nation for car insurance premiums. Cause and effect?

 Statewide, law enforcement is stepping up enforcement of expired license plates/tabs, fake plates, temporary plates, and uninsured motorists. Some estimates are 1/3 of vehicles on Colorado roads are uninsured. This emphasis is recent.

No data has been released as to how many uninsured motorists are "undocumented".

 Xcel

Continuing last blog Xcel Smart Meter post, this little snippet is from a new email.

 “as we work toward our vision of providing 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050”.

 Thrilling! I get to continue funding social warrior’s wet dreams. Will I live long enough to see carbon-free electricity? If I live to be 105, then yes.

 A further question is who will pay for all the increased demand AI centers will require?

One answer the environazis will hate is coal.

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As always, YMMV

Orange Man Bad, ad nauseam

 

Blue State Warfare

Colorado’s Attorney General has filed his 41st lawsuit against the Trump Administration. Priorities? Crime in Colorado? Maybe not so much.

 He plans to replace Emperor Polis as Governor.

Keep on Trucking

The ongoing brouhaha about big rig drivers who don’t understand English is, IMO, about safety. When a driver who has been in the country four ten years and has been driving a truck for eight years cries about losing his livelihood because he doesn’t understand English, my response is, “Fuck you, you arrogant asshole”.

 Recently in Cheyenne two drivers were busted.  Both illegals. In one case, the truck company’s permit had been revoked. No mention of the second driver’s employer. That said, an overweight dump truck will likely prompt law enforcement attention to every vehicle on the road owned by that company.

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 A part of the long article.

“It might be 10 years ago now, maybe even longer, but I-70 coming into Denver out of the mountains, and there was a traffic backup, and signs warned of that ahead of time, saying, ‘traffic back up ahead,’” he said. “A driver who did not speak English drove into that and killed five, eight people, because he came in at 60, 70 mph out of the mountains, lost his brakes because he couldn't read that there were runaway truck ramps.”

Locals’ call that stretch Floyd Hill. Eastbound, at the top, is a huge sign warning of steep grade with instructions to truckers to use lower gears. A second sign is about one mile further. A prominent sign for a runaway truck ramp at the bottom in addition to message signs along the way.

Fatal Flaw?

Our local electricity provider, Xcel, has installed these new “smart meters”. We now get billed at a higher rate for using electricity in what Xcel has decided are peak times. They can remotely turn the meter off. Paranoid me wonders how many of our enemies have hacked the Xcel system and, when the time is right for them, turn off big swaths of the electricity grid?

 Xcel is very woke and brave new world green. They take it upon themselves to educate/indoctrinate  their customers.

The Knees Know

This past Tuesday had a viscosupplemention treatment where   hyaluronic acid is injected in the knee joint. It is a gel that cushions the joint that has lost cartilage. While not a ‘miracle’, it gives me some relief for three to six months.

No more Paper Hanging

11/1/2025 will be my last day delivering mortgage dun letters. Winter will soon be upon us and “fall back” is Sunday. My night vision is not what it once was and trying to read house numbers on residential streets while the GPS announces, “You have arrived” is getting harder. More to the point, icy sidewalks and stairs will soon be a hazard. At my age, one bad fall might mean Assisted Living. This past summer I tripped and found I no longer can do a PLF.

Now I’m not meeting the public for business, should I grow a beard?

 That was forty six years ago when I had a full head of hair.

 Combat Engineers 12B/12C

Good to see things haven’t changed from sixty years ago. A fellow Ditch Digger cousin vet agrees. As my Jarhead friend Mike likes to say, “Go spit shine your shovel”.

Climate Change

Always with the alarms. Always with “studies show”. Tiresome.

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The danger in all this is the “Chicken Little” effect, IMO.

 Did They Get Jump Wings?

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As always, YMMV

Big, beautiful blank

 Had a nice blog started. The computer swallowed it and I can't recover it. Back to work, standby.

The Colorado Way

 

The Colorado Way

 Locals Apposed – Don’t know what is best for them

Colorado must triple its wind generation and quintuple its solar capacity to meet 2040 clean energy targets and that will call for a lot of land — land developers say it is hard to come by in some counties.

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The article, in the “nonpartisan” The Colorado Sun, doesn’t  mention those clean energy targets were imposed by the Front Range liberals and mountain trust fund snots (some overlap) against the interests of rural Colorado.

A fine example of OUR DEMOCRACY majority fucking over minorities, IMO

Car Sales

BTDT

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 Having spent many years retailing cars, truck, and utility trailers I like to watch YouTube videos. This guy has 43 years in the business, he says, and gives you great advice. He also has a business you can click on.

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The cynical old car dog in me thinks he has found a way to make money without the bother of a car lot or meeting the great unwashed in person. YMMV

Apathy

A mayoral candidate and a city council candidate held a well publicized,  “meet and great” in our 96 unit apartment building community room. Just three of our residents bothered to attend.

 My neighbors who didn’t attend will be the first to piss and moan about how the city isn’t doing this or that.

Is it surprising elected officials care more about their donors and less about “the people”?

 As always, YMMV

 

Wolf at Your Door?

Cowboy Up

Recently a Sundance range rider was hit by a stray bullet. Entered his neck, went through his lungs, and is still lodged in his chest cavity. He didn’t realize what happened and continued to work. After awhile others realized he was hurt and he ended up in a Rapid City, SD hospital for a few days. Discharge instructions.

He’s supposed to “take it easy” for the next two weeks, after which he can ride a horse - if it’s a broke horse - he recalled from talks with his doctor.

Never ending econazi efforts

Southeast Colorado is the location for the Comanche Grasslands administered by the USFS. The econazis infesting the USFS, aided by their allies, want to “fence it in” from most public use. There is a long, detailed report in the Fence Post. For those not familiar, the Fence Post is a weekly newspaper focusing on agriculture.

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We can take it as a given the Governor and deep blue Democrats won’t lift a finger to support the citizens living in the area.

Wolves

Why yes, WSF is still talking about wolves.

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 Related

Like many states, Colorado is mainly rural and most residents dislike being dictated to be their Front Range self appointed betters. Having done a lot of business over the years in that county, I know they are not to be messed with.

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Local Politics

Home city elected positions are officially non partisan. I strive to be an informed voter and need to decide which one gets my vote. Mayor. One, male, has been in politics forever and has been a city councilman and county commissioner. He is what I call a country club republican. That is not all that bad because he has many contacts and years of involvement in local issues. My problem is that I don’t like country club republicans in general.

 His opponent, female, checks all the boxes for a leftist suburban democrat. She, and another woman running for city council, will have a meet and great here in our community room.  I plan to attend with an open mind.

 I’ve posted before about the “blueprint” created years ago by four wealthy leftist to turn Colorado blue by, among other tactics, fund campaigns for the politically correct candidates running for local offices. The “blueprint” has been successful.

 There are four candidates for the council seat that represents my district. I know nothing about them and have some research ahead.

Inflation

Today was a good day, bad day news day. Bad: Rent is going up $100 a month next year. My lease is based on 80% of the going market rate for my area. Good: Filled the car today for $2.3099 a gallon.

Way Off Topic Comments

I’ve started deleting them.

As always, YMMV