Well Seasoned Fool: March 2025

Thursday, March 27, 2025

More Unfocused Rambling

Wolves

Still on the wolf kick, WSF?

Emperor Polis’ husband isn’t pleased.

51^st State

Steve Forbes outlines why making Canada part of the USA is a bad idea.

Act Blue

How the money is raised, in part.

Where the money goes.

It gets crazy. One pissant Congressional seat.

Environazi – Colorado Energy Sector

Death by hundreds of rules and regulations plus lawfare.

Wyoming Story

Always seems to be Casper. Some scientists think the “super volcano” lies under Casper and Yellowstone is merely a vent. Could that influence human behavior?

Past Useful Service Life

A tendon in my left shoulder recently detached. X-rays reveal the tendon has become too small, because of age, to be reattached. The alternative is a ‘reverse shoulder replacement’. Hell no!

Perhaps doing dumb stuff most of my life is to blame.

Example: Bored car salesmen are dangerous. Years ago the dealership employing me had a spot at the Western Washington Fair. I loathed these goat ropes. The best you could hope for were some leads. Never did I, or anyone I knew, sell are car there.

Nearby, the carnival had a bungee jump that was maybe 100’ high. One salesman, who hated my guts, said I was too afraid to do the bungee jump. After informing him if he would pay for it, I would do it. He rounded up the cash, and I made the jump. I was sore for a few days. That was dumb.

Oh well, don’t mean shit, 2-3 acetaminophen and drive on.

Overkill?

Doing a spring inventory of the car (jumper cables, fluids, survival clothing, etc.) I found six flashlights and two unopened bulk packs of batteries.

Is that too much?

As always, YMMV

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Rambling and Unfocused

Wyoming Farm Kids

Farms kids everywhere are driving at an early age. I’ve had a license since age 14 and was driving far earlier than that.

Starting age 11, I worked hay fields in North Park every summer. When school started, my parents 22 acres were waiting for me to buck the bales into the barn. We had a flatbed pickup that I would put in granny gear, step out, and buck bales on the bed as it idled along.

When Sisty got bigger, she would “drive”. About the time she was nine, by sitting on the very edge of the seat, she could reach the gas pedal. Ever so slowly she would push. I would go from a slow walk, to a fast walk, to a trot and, “God damn it, Colleen!” Back to an idle then rinse and repeat.

Solyent Green News

Ever notice thr grocery store spaces devoted to plant based food are seldom empty?

Emissions

The new broom at the EPA and the slap down of California’s CAFÉ’s standards may improve our economy in ways that may not be apparent. Cars and pickups have become less reliable over the years, in part, because of engineering compromises to gain fuel economy and/or reduce emissions. It appears DEF for diesels may go away. Ending rerouting exhaust back through turbochargers will eliminate many problems. 6.7 Power Stroke operators will rejoice.

YouTube is buzzing; everyone is an expert! Clarity will come in time.

What is not clear is how this will affect other state programs. The Californication of Colorado has a large swath of the Front Range requiring near California standards.

What may not be immediately apparent is the impact on West Coast ports. Getting shipping containers moving again, for example, should improve. The trucks used to move them, just in the terminal areas, are highly regulated. If that goes away, shipping costs will go down.

Many truckers will not make California runs. If that changes, costs will go down.

Prior to moving from Seattle in 1997, I knew several independent operators using old trucks, no longer reliable for long hauls, to move containers around the Seattle area. They were wiped out by the environazis with impossible to meet regulations.

Coal

A deep water coal terminal will be a financial boon for this country. Hello, Puget Sound. Of course, all the environazis will get their panties in a bunch.

Keystone Pipeline

Too many people don’t realize building this will almost start at ground zero. The Biden goons have made that a priority. For one thing, the piping may have gone elsewhere. In November 2024 a company agreed to purchase 180 miles of the steel pipeline.

Big Winds

While a mere zephyr compared to the tornadoes ripping the Midwest from the huge winds this past week, one property owner had a shed (one of six) fly away.

AutoPen Uproar

A concise discourse by a favorite YouTube lawyer.

Twice deported Alien with enough ammo for an infantry company load out

Rare Earth news from left field

Despite all of the woke bullshit distractions, some universities do produce valuable work, in spite of themselves.

DOGE casualties

A government program is created. People are hired to manage the program. They are good, even great, managers. Now they are getting hammered. Fair? Hardly, but here we are. This is personal, affecting extended family members.

It brings to mind company commanders carrying out orders issued by generals.

AS always, YMMV

Monday, March 10, 2025

Clickbait or Content?

Well Shucky Darn

In my last post I bitched about clickbait.

Then I posted the blog title,“If You Have Some Time, You Might Find Something of Interest Here”

Must be clickbait as I’ve more than doubled my normal hits.

Alarm!!!!!!!!!

Is it possible, after careful review for waste, positions can be restored? Example, forest fire fighters have already been rehired. What should not be restored is the three to four levels of “management” we have been suffocating under for decades.

Ferrets

Coal isn’t dead

Innovation = progress.

Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting

New reason for drinking/fighting?

Data Center

Uranium

A big step towards freedom from relying on foreign sources.

Secure

Another MAGA strike

This time the Small Business Administration. Elections have consequences.

FAFO

After the OKC bombing, I noticed a positive change, at all levels, in government employees attitude and conduct towards the public. Over time, they slid back into their old ways. Will President Trump’s election and actions prompt a change in their behavior, at least at the federal level?

Tyrants Never Stop Trying – Free Speech

Wouldn’t things just be swimmingly if we all just shut up? It is in their and our best interest when we don’t distract them from their important work.

Sarcasm

As Always, YMMV

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

If You Have Some Time, You Might Find Something of Interest Here

Economic Indicator?

Nearby is Earthroamer, a builder of very expensive, no compromise RVs. While they don’t appeal to me (even if I could afford one); too much wretched excess IMO, I keep an eye on the operation. I know folks associated with what they do. They have a section on their web page, Preroamed, which typically have five or six units. Now they have twenty four ranging in price from $395,000 to $1,600,000. Not sure what that indicates exactly. Your thoughts?

More Wretched Blue Bullshit

Gun show edition.

I haven’t attended a gun show in years, having other things I want to spend disposable income on.

You Go, Sister Kink!

Lori Saine, who has appeared in this blog many times, wants to be the new Colorado Republican Party Chair.

Yawn.

Sisty’s reaction?

“Aw, lardy”

Changes, more changes, local interest

Kenny’ Steak House is closed and a wing place will be moving in. So what, WSF? The Kenny in Kenny’s is Ken Monfort, owner of the Colorado Rockies among many other things. For over thirty years that was the place Republican movers and shakers gathered.

The Monfort family sold their packing plant to JBS.

In the years the Monfort’s owned the packing plant, the left lane of the Interstate Highways was known as the Monfort lane. They used a two team driver system, four hours on and four hours off. This allowed them to run non-stop to New York City.

If you happen to attend a Denver Bronco football game you will see one of their horses, “Thunder”, an Arabian.

Side note: In years past, Sisty and her late husband were often involved with Thunder, being neighbors to Monfort’s ranch.

Trona

Near Rock Springs, WY is a huge deposit of Trona. Mining it has given the region a stable financial base. Now there is a new owner.

Nearby is Kemmer, WY where Bill Gates is involved in building small scale nuclear reactors.

Circa 1970’s that area was part of my sales territory. When that fuckwad Jimmy Carter imposed the 55 mph speed limit, it hit my income. Fewer calls, less earnings.

Rant, Clickbait

What pisses me off is to click on a headline that interests, me only to read (or listen) to long winded verbiage. Get to the fucking point! Or, as the military instructs, bottom line first! I very rarely finish whatever caught my attention. Info advertisements are the worst offenders.

So, WSF, are you certain you are not merely jealous? You have great difficulty trying to come up with a blog title.

Fuck off!