Tourist Tossing Season
Will we ever run out of damn fools bothering wild animals
(yes, a rhetorical question).
Yellowstone
I subscribe to the mountain man wisdom, “Don’t go
bothering something that ain’t bothering you.
Coal
An article about coal mining in Colorado. The source, The
Colorado Sun, leans left, way left, IMO. In the middle of the article the
environazis take victory laps. Wyoming
coal is easier to mine. There are proven coal deposits in Colorado 5,000’ deep.
I grew up in coal country, knew many coal miners, and my Dad was a control room
operator at the Hayden plant in his later years.
Coal
Puking (P)regressives
Is there any low, sleazy tactic they won’t use? Is there
any Democrat running for office that won’t accept their tainted contributions?
SCUM
Elk
The hills around Steamboat Springs, CO are covered with
scrub oak. From spring into summer cow elk congregate there to raise their
young. Good forage for them and good protection for their newborn.
Recreational mountain bikers disturb them. There are
existing trails but, as usual, the riders want more areas.
More
My interest? I attended high school in that town. Then it
had a population of around 2,000. Now, 8,000+ transplants and trust fund snots.
Promising Technology – Iron
Smelting
This can be good news.
More
The problem, as I see it, is environazis and the NIMBY
crowd. Where will the raw ore come from? Colorado has iron ore. From the
internet:
Colorado has historically had various iron ore deposits,
particularly hematite, limonite, and magnetite, found in locations like
the Calumet Mine, the Orient Mine, and the Iron Mountain/Grape Creek
deposit. Additionally, deposits are associated with precious metal mining
in areas like Leadville. The Iron Hill carbonatite complex near Powderhorn
is also notable for its iron ore potential.
The howls from the residents around these areas will be
monumental, IMO.
Wolf News
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Still More
Legal Immigrant
My past caught up with me again. While having my tires
rotated, another customer starting petting Banner, then said he recognized me!
A legal immigrant from Kenya, we sold him a Kia in 2002. He is now a
naturalized citizen, speaks better English than me, and has been on his job now
going on ten years.
That is the way events should unfold.
Telling it like it is – Crime and
(P)regressives
The Pueblo, CO, Police Chief released a long, detailed
press release that, IMO, is one of the better dissections of what
(P)regressives have caused in Colorado. Filled with facts, he lays it out.
Crime
Trucking News – English Proficiency
A long article detailing the current state, and prior
history, of the requirement commercial drivers are proficient in English.
Trucking
As has been forever, who decides what is “proficient”?
The cost of illegal aliens –
personal
Sometimes there will be six levels of separation, but
always there is a connection. This is a very personal account of that
connection. Long, I’m putting it here for people associated with me to read who
might otherwise not want to hear it from me. If others find it of interest, so
much the better.
Illegal aliens indirectly led to my youngest son’s death.
A high school forced (1) dropout, he worked his way to being
a master plumber by the time he was twenty.
With two children, he married a woman with two children and
they lived in the Albuquerque, NM area where he was gainfully employed. A
change in building codes allowed anyone to work as a plumber, and lack of
enforcement allowed builders to hire illegal’s, pay them cash, and quickly
force legitimate contractors out of business. My son, seeing the writing on the
wall, joined the Army and became a Medic.
In Basic, he slipped on an obstacle course and badly
sprained his left ankle. No quitter, he sucked it up and kept on. By the end of
his tour in Kandahar, he was wearing a support boot. Eventually the Army gave
him an 80% disability, later increased to 100%, discharge. As a civilian he
worked as an EMT until he was physically unable to continue.
The ankle developed sepsis and he knew the answer was
amputation. The Charleston, SC Veterans Administration doctors kept stalling.
He was managing the pain with morphine. With a wife and now five children, he
needed to continue working. One St Patrick’s Day, he and his wife were out with
friends and he had a few alcohol beverages. Once home, he passed away during
the early morning hours. Likely cause?
The combination of morphine and alcohol.
Let me be clear. He used morphine to maintain, not to get
high. He did enjoy adult beverages.
Back to the top, he likely would never have joined the
military had his plumbing career not been destroyed by the economics of illegal
aliens.
Let us address compassion. Aliens are people, yes. Why are
they coming here? To make a better life, for them, is their motivation. Do they
care about the country they are coming to? I doubt it. They don’t assimilate,
they keep their national identity, and they have contempt for our laws and
values. Driver license, car insurance? Why?
Are they escaping a bad place? Probably. Sucks to be them.
Why don’t they pay the cost to fix their home countries?
We can’t fix the world.
(1)He
got crosswise with the black student packs infesting his high school. The
administration failed to address the problem. Travis, not a racists, by the by,
feared for his life. As a 16 year old Freshman, he took his GEDs. His lowest
score was 82%.
Legacy
His son recently posted a picture on Facebook with his
girlfriend. Do you see the resemblance?
As always, YMMV