Is It Cheating if You Win?

 Keep the gravy train rolling

Democrats want to expand their “fair advantage” by redistricting. Colorado Constitution? Like that pesky TABOR amendment, something to bypass.

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The only clear aspect of all of this will be tons of dark money supporting it. Solidarity with the rest of the Blue states doing the same thing.

 Nikita Khrushchev famously said, “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”.

Are we allowing our tax dollars to fund the dark money groups that will enslave our grand children and great grand children?

Comments

Free speech is important to me and very few comments are deleted. That said, total off topic comments suggest this blog isn’t being read by the commentator, just used to spread their message. Not happening! The occasional Anonymous comment may be published if it has, in my opinion, some value.  If you want your comment to be taken seriously, why not have the guts to put your name to it?

Wyoming Winter

Every year on I-80 between Rawlins and Laramie; Elk Mountain. 88 miles of extreme hazard. Summer? 90 mph wind gusts. Given Wyoming’s budget, last winter they had just four snow plow drivers for the route. Wages for employees are pitifully low.

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Pro tip. Take US 30. Going east, get off at Ft Steele. Going west, get off at Laramie. The detour is twelve miles longer on a two lane road with no significant elevation change, and fourteen to twenty minutes more driving time. There are several passing lanes and the highway is well maintained.

I do this summer and winter. Very few 18 wheelers use this route. The few you encounter seem to be very professional.

Blue State Priorities

 

54	Lawsuits Colorado is involved in against the Trump administration

 

As of late 2025 data, Colorado ranks among the highest in the nation for crime, with violent crime rates placing it 8th highest and property crime rates 4th highest in the U.S.. Despite slight decreases from 2022 peaks, crime rates remain elevated, with 2024 data showing auto theft, aggravated assault, and property crimes still significantly higher than the national average

Our current Attorney General wants to be our next Governor.

Car Story

My shortest job.

My two sons had just left to spend the summer with their mother in Minnesota when a manager I respected offered me a job in the used car side of a Chevy dealership. I had two days off from the current job and decided to spend them checking out the job.

At that time the state had no control of salespeople with licenses, etc. Wild West.

First day, around 1:30 pm, a car came on the lot and parked towards the back. I went up and greeted the driver, who reeked of alcohol.

After making a pleasant greeting and extending my hand, the driver spouted off. From memory,

“I own this dealership and I don’t talk to fucking salesmen, got that?”

“Yes sir”, I replied. “Let me help you get inside before a customer sees your condition”.

 This provoked a steam of ugly words which ended when I buried my fist just under his right side short ribs. This helped him lose his liquid lunch, putting him on the path to sobriety.

From there I went over to the used car office and told them this lot wasn’t working for me, then over to my truck and departed.

On several occasions people have suggested I need anger management classes. Makes no sense, I already know how to get angry.

As always, YMMV

 

 

 

 

I'm A Bigot. Are You?

 

Yes, I am a bigot

Currently going through the hassle of fighting unauthorized charges to my credit cards from places where I’ve cancelled my account. Some have been going on for two years. All have one thing in common; the speakers have Indian, like Southeast Asia, accents. Going forward, I will no longer do business with Indians. They join Iranian car dealers and Russian mechanics on my list.

 Does that mean I’m a bigot? Do I care if I am? No more dealing with people with the ethics of a starving piranha

 Hissy Fit

What do the moves by the Trump Administration to restore some common sense to the EPA mean to staff? Short term, these holier than thou environment warriors will need to find real jobs. Good luck!

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Don’t count on NGOs to fund your cushy gigs, Trump is kneecapping them.

Emperor Polis has no clothes

President Donald Trump posted on Wednesday that two Democratic governors will not be invited to a bipartisan meeting and dinner next week. Gov. Jared Polis is one of them.

 

“The invitations were sent to ALL Governors, other than two, who I feel are not worthy of being there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to Polis and Governor Wes Moore of Maryland.

 The Blueprint, Econazi Versions

In 2011 Emperor Polis and three other wealthy individuals developed “the blueprint”, a strategy to turn Colorado politics blue. They were successful and continue to further entrench their fellow travelers in the state’s apparatus.

 This same strategy is being used, with modifications, by the radical “environmentalists”.

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 Car Story

Having fun

The way sales are negotiated piss off many people. Oh, well.

You get an offer on paper from your manager, the infamous 4 square (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MrD9CAG7vl0), and present it to the buyer.

I worked in a store where the desk man’s office was on the 2^nd floor. I was working a deal just under his office and he could hear everything being said.

My customer and her “second baseman” were twenty something Vietnamese. Our initial offer was met with, “You price is too high”.

 Show my shocked face! “No, that is a very fair price. We know we can’t make a lot of money from you Vietnamese”.  Giggles commence.

Now comes the drop. You scratch out the price and write in a slight lower price. Each one that is rejected leads to another lower price. Then I started adding and made the price higher.

“No, no, you go wrong way!”

Do it two more times. Suddenly, she grabs the pen and writes down a figure. Now comes the three step.

“You want to buy this car for that price?”, said in incredulous tone.

Giggles

“When I bring this offer to my boss he will probably fire me”

Giggles

“Okay, I will take him the offer but his office is right up there. Stay alert; he may throw me over the railing”.

More giggles

At the desk Dan is laughing. Two visiting wholesalers there are also laughing. He then chews me out loud enough for the customer to hear down below.

 Going back down, I have an offer with a “courtesy bump”, probably some uneven number like $4162.76, and make the deal.

 So everybody is laughing but me because I’m terribly worried about getting fired and must stay in character.

 Rudy Russo was my idol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqVUXqL_8zo

note : minutes 48 - :52. He went out with the cash in hand.

About car sales. I was usually tops in monthly sales. That wasn’t my goal. My goal was to be tops in gross profit. People would ask me my “secret”.  “No, if I tell you it won’t be a secret”. What made me successful were two things.

1.    Attitude. People come to a car lot to buy a car. Let them!

2.    I can make almost anyone like me for 45 minutes.

As always, YMMV

 

This is What I Voted For. Hoping for More to Come

 

Wonderful News

On Thursday, the Trump administration finalized rules repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding — that dubious 2009 determination claiming six greenhouse gases threaten human health under the Clean Air Act. “We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding,” Trump announced, calling the policy exactly what it was: “disastrous.”

The EPA has become a millstone on our economy. Now many of these stultifying regulations can go away. The lingering question is, will they? I foresee judges blocking every effort as the leaches cling to their positions, income, and pensions.

 Kill Them, One and All

Cancer is a hot button for me. Over 60% of extended family, both paternal and maternal, has suffered with this plague.

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 My fervent hope is any cancer fraudster roasts in hell for eternity. 

Wolves

This econazie wet dream is falling apart. It isn’t just the pissing away of taxpayer dollars, it is tough toenails for the wolves.

Will the proposed introduction of wolverines fare better?

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Low Humor

If you are attackted to both men and women,  but no men or women are attackted to you, does that make you bi-yourself?

Car Story

Diesel

1983-1988 saw a number of small cars and trucks offered with diesel engines.

 One day a PFC stationed at Fort Lewis wandered onto our lot. After some conversation involving money, of which he had little, he landed on a 1983 Ford Escort 5 speed with a diesel engine. We did the test drive thing and went inside to do the paperwork.

As he was ready to leave, he said he planned to get a tune up kit and get rid of the rough idle!

 While not a complete soulless car peddler, I bit my tongue. Points.

 As you sat behind the steering wheel, the fuel gauge said, “Diesel Only”.

On both front fenders was a diesel emblem.

On the rear hatch was a diesel emblem.

 Partner, if you are so dumb you don’t know what “diesel” means you are beyond hope. 

 
As always, YMMV

Guns, Guns, Guns!

 Colorado Needs More Gun Laws

The usual suspects are leading the charge.

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To further avoid major budget problem decisions,  the (P)regressives, “Look! We are doing something important”, they are pearl clutching about ghost guns to distract voters from their abysmal problem solving solutions.

Lipstick on a Pig

Consider the source, Colorado Public Radio, this article deftly avoids one large reason Colorado is losing population.

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People are leaving to escape socialism and Californication. These are the people who drive the economic engine in every state, small business owners. Several relatives relocated to Texas. Small business owners (construction, independent truckers, restaurateur) who took many of their extended families with them.

 Some estimates place the number of illegal aliens in Colorado at around 200,000. That number, IMO, is low. How many now will be self deporting?

Minnesota Lite

Colorado lags behind in graft and corruption, at least on the surface.

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Old Fashion Local Brawl

For once, no woke issues, just developers vs NIMBY with a side of, “Not my Tax Dollars”.

West of Greeley alongside US 34, developers want to develop a sports, entertainment, and shopping complex. They want money from taxpayers for part of the costs (bonds, guarantees, whatever) and residents raised hell. Now the issue will go to a special election. Tricky bastards, they rigged the ballot headings so that a NO vote approves the plan and a YES vote turns it down.

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The only thing I understand is the already inadequate US 34 will become even more of a parking lot.

Singing in the yah-but choir.

Deporting illegal immigrants is fine by me. Doing it in ways that lay the ground work for future abuses makes me queasy. Rather than me trying to pontificate, I found a good analysis to share.

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 More likely many social media postings nationwide are of this nature.

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 It may be wise for the Trump team to reconsider Dreamers and long term illegal resident who have not committed crimes and are productive residents.

Making Chicken Salad out of Chicken Shit

Turning oil field wastes into a profitable commodity makes too much sense. Would it have happened under a Harris Administration?

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Wamsutter is one of the bleakest places in existence, IMO. If I end up in hell, the Devil will make me work in an outbound call center located in Wamsutter. Housing will be a 50 year old single wide mobile home and it will be winter year around.

Spin, spin, spin

(P)regressive “non partisan” Colorado Sun does a hit job article gearing up for the mid-term  election in Colorado Congressional 8.

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 Last election over $20 million was spent. The incumbent has about $2 M on hand. Five Democrats have filed for the seat.

Car Story

Herding cats.

Driving a motor home with a slide out extended shouldn’t happen. My herd of cats, aka sales crew said, “Hold my beer”.

 We used a 26’ motor home with the rear kitchen and bath removed for a mobile office. At the end of a sale, the crew that hadn’t brought their own vehicles would ride along to the next week’s location while I would drive to Longmont with all the deal jackets, drop them at the office, then go to my home in Brighton.

 0430 my cell phone went off. The call was from the Eagle County Sheriffs Department. Local dispatch had received several calls about a motor home eastbound on I-70 with the slide out extended. An officer found the motor home in the Eagle rest area. None of the occupants would confess to being the driver. The officer took the keys, left the drunks there to sober up, and took the keys to the sheriff’s office.

 With a solid two hours sleep, I took off for the 2 ½ hour drive to Eagle.

 After retrieving the keys and driving five minutes to the rest stop, the sales manager and I conversed.

 Good things about the situation. Little Hitler, aka the dealer, didn’t learn about it until long after we quit off sites sales. Our diligent work in maintain good relations with all law enforcement paid off. The motor home wasn’t impounded and the bunch of drunks weren’t arrested.

As always, YMMV

 

Death of a Pet

 

Banner

Some long term readers may be familiar with my dog, Banner, a Lab mix. He went over the Rainbow Bridge this afternoon, lying in a favorite place, and without pain.

He was about 14 and a semi-rescue. I had him for six+ years.

 He collapsed early afternoon and was gone is less than three hours.

I will miss him. I’m grateful we didn’t need to put him down and that he died a peaceful painless death in a place he was loved.

When you adopt a senior dog, you know this day will come too soon. I have no regrets. He brought me joy and was a “good boy”.

Road Closed? Don't Think So

 

Scofflaw

Mt Bross, NNW of Alma, CO has a road that goes to the top. ¾ of the way there is an old collapsed mine with a surviving building. Use of the road is strictly forbidden. Some 20 years ago I drove up to the mine in my all time favorite vehicle, a 1984 Turbocharged Diesel Powered 4x4 Mitsubishi Mighty Max. At about 270,000 miles, the truck started losing compression and spitting oil. I sold it, and have regretted it since.

Bigot

Recently a 2^nd cousin called me a bigot on Facebook. This is Gemini’s definition.

big·ot

/ˈbiɡəta person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

What set him off was a satirical cartoon I put on Facebook under my frequent, “Stirring the Pot”.

After I responded to his first accusation, “Your opinion may be important but not to me”, he became very upset.

 His parents have my admiration and I enjoy his siblings. This highly educated (attended university classes in Taiwan) young man has chugged the Kool-Aide, IMO.

Am I conservative or liberal? Probably neither.  My bigotry is aimed at parasites. People who are drawing nice salary and benefits that don’t do anything productive.

A comment lifted from a blog: at what point do people wrest control of their government back from those bent on our demise while feathering their own nests on our backs?

What gets my blood boiling is stealing under the color of law. The situation in Minnesota with the Somali is the most blatant. What is less obvious is the practice of passing legislation to help those in need and then diverting the funds via NGOs, by bloated bureaucracy, and consultants.  Those in need are still in need and still not helped in any measurable way.

Over the course of my life, my family has been among the ones needing help. I’ve hit bottom and worked my way back via my Dad’s “Belly Flapping Principal” (If you are hungry enough you will do anything).  

In contrast to the parasites, I admire my sister and my niece.

Colorado has a community health organization now over fifty years old. It was started to help migrant farm workers get basic health care. Now it serves several Colorado communities. My sister has devoted over thirty years of her time to the organization. She receives no compensation other than occasional expenses, nor does she seek monetary compensation. She does it out of love.

My niece has spent her adult life in public health care. She usually works a second job as her primary employment isn’t lucrative. She is out on the mean streets of Reno helping those who have nothing, danger be damned, while raising two remarkable children.

These two women believe in helping underdogs and walk the walk.

(P)regressive Mindset

Blue State Colorado has a big budget problem brought about by reckless and unnecessary spending.  What follows is an apt analysis of the root cause, IMO

Just as a person with bad spending habits does not suddenly fix all their problems by winning the lottery, a $3.6 billion tax increase from a progressive tax structure would not suddenly fix the legislature’s addiction to overspending, and if anything will only make the problem worse.  

 We don’t have a Minnesota sized problem but we have the same problems. Parasites.

Stupid, not bad, to the bone

Career drunk driver.

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What we have here, is a failure to communicate. I hope that driver gets a chance to learn communication. (cue Cool Hand Luke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUyZXhLHMk

 Got Ice

Local (P)regressives are clutching their pearls over plans to open a closed prison as an ICE facility. In all the years the place was open few people even knew it was there.

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Car Story

Impressive display

A customer was interesting in buying a ½ ton pickup and wanted the see underneath. We had an elevated display ramp. After removing the vehicle on display, I drove the pickup, check, attempted to drive the pickup and tipped it on the passenger side when I miscalculated. The pickup landed at a 45° angle bending the outside mirror.

 With the assistance of employees the manager managed to back the truck off the ramps.

 We made the sale, with a discount for the broken mirror. The customer enjoyed saying,” I wanted to see underneath and I sure was able to do that”.

 Dirty Al was upset because he wanted to take a customer on a test drive and the pickup was blocking access to the car he wanted to show,

 A lot of teasing over the years has come my way for that oops.

As always, YMMV

Wyoming Winter Winds

Devils Tower, Wyoming

I’m not sure the above photograph isn’t AI generated. Either way, an amazing sight.

 How Elections are bought

 Rhys Williams works at Whole Foods in Fort Collins. He is 24 years old. Federal Election Commission records show he donated $73,752 through ActBlue in 2025—113 separate transactions to Democratic campaigns and committees. A Whole Foods employee in Colorado earns $15 to $21 per hour. That translates to $31,200 to $43,680 gross annual income. After taxes: $24,336 to $34,070 take-home pay. Williams donated 216% of his likely net income. Colorado Secretary of State records confirm Williams exists. He registered as a Democrat on December 6, 2023. His address matches the FEC filings. The donations are real. The math is not.”

He is one of thousands, maybe tens of thousands across the country.

Bureaucrats

Trivial complaint.

Please note the potential “gotcha” police can use if they need something to inconvenience you. I wonder how many staff hours were spent coming up with that regulation.

Colorado Prisons

When we were doing offsite sales around Colorado, I became acquaintances of several correctional officers who bought our cars. After hearing some of their problems, I have been more aware of the sorry state of our prisons and the near total indifference of (P)regressives . While Colorado has no death penalty, twelve prisoners have died in traffic accidents while riding in poorly maintained and unsafe prison transport vehicles. The situation only gets worse.

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While not sympathetic to criminals in general (you did the crime, do the time) the prisons, along with highways and law enforcement, are a primary state responsibility, and on a lesser level, counties and cities. These don’t seem to concern our blue state aficionados.

Partial Return to Sanity

The environazi EPA overreach is being cut back. The idea “good ideas” can force engineering solutions is being recognized as not working.

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 It is a start.

Steve Inman

A daily watch.

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Car Story  

Harsh

Half deals or split commissions are common in the car biz. A customer comes in and ask for you by name but you are not available The salesperson makes a sale. You are on ½ of the commission.

 More common is a turn. The salesperson isn’t making progress and goes to the desk (manager) who sends another salesperson to talk to the customer. A sale is made.

 Conflicts arise when the salesperson “lot drops” a customer without going to a manager first. Another sales person sees this. They approach the customer and end up making a sale. The lot dropper is not entitled to anything but a serious counseling session with the manager.

 This leads us to Mr. Artie Pruitt. He snaked me out of a deal and I found out. After a robust private meeting with me in the bullpen he decided to take his aching ribs to Down the Road Motors.

 One day at a Ford dealership in Kirkland, WA he suffered an aneurism on the showroom floor while talking to a couple. While all the drama of 911, EMTs, etc. another salesman took the couple to another area and ended up with a sale. Artie was d.o.a at the hospital.

This brings us to the question, is Artie entitled to ½ the commission?

He didn’t make a proper turn with a manager, he lot dropped the customer. and he no longer works here.

Political Correctness

Background: My middle son is high on the Asbergers Scale and has little use for social graces. When he decides to speak, he is clear and concise. Growing up he was a huge fan of professional wrestling and wrestled in middle school.

During the Presidential election, he called the Democrat candidate come’allah, offending several people who corrected his pronunciation. He replied, “Surely you remember the wrestler, Kamala the Cannibal?”

As Always, YMMV