Well Seasoned Fool: May 2025

Sunday, May 25, 2025

To Flee, or Not To Flee?

Surprise!

Illegal Alien criminal skips court appearance. Seems the judge isn’t that good at judging.

Wamsutter, WY

My favorite Wyoming town to bash is Wamsutter. Example: Hell will be working in an outbound call center and living in Wamsutter.

Seems it does have something to offer besides petrol dispensers.

Latter Day Luddite

My 2^nd computer wouldn’t connect to the internet. Paranoid, I assumed Microsoft, with their shitty Windows 11, was trying to force me to use shit like Edge and Co-pilot. After much cursing and increasing paranoia, I checked all the cable connections. Suddenly, everything started working.

That matches my cursing the new coffee pot. After much consternation, I added water. Miracle! Coffee!

Truly, there is no fool like an old fool. At least the little head no longer thinks for the big head (much).

Local Hypocrisy

With much publicity the Greeley Police Department is introducing “photo radar” and will issue tickets. Recently, while driving 40 mph on a posted 35 mph four lane street, a Greeley patrol SUV passed me going much faster. No lights or sirens. Lead by example?

(P)regressive Virtue Signaling – Gun Law Addition

Emperor Polis signed into law HB 25-1171. If you are convicted of vehicle theft, you cannot use or posses a firearm in Colorado. Somehow the idea someone stealing cars isn’t likely to care about another law must escape these people. The senator representing my district, Andrew Bosenecker was a sponsor.

As an aside, he wasn’t elected. He was a State Representative. When a Democrat Senator, newly elected, then decided to ‘retire’, the party picked him to fill the vacancy. That is the way (P)regressives roll in Colorado.

Doggone

Some readers are interested in Banner, the smelly treat hound that shares my home. Age 13, he seemed to be declining. Then, he developed bad diarrhea. Off to the vet where fecal examination revealed three different parasites in his gut. After a few days on meds, he is alert and energetic.

I took pictures of the 20’ of poop across the apartment to show to the vet. Nobody I offered to share the pictures with accepted the offer. Should you want to see them, ask in comments.

The blasted beast is a glutton who will eat almost anything. He is especially fond of grass which may be contaminated with bird droppings. He gets high quality food along with chlorophyll drops but still grazes.

As always, YMMV

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Tyranny by What Definition

Tyranny

Amazing, how the intellectual left can demonize President Trump for doing his job.

Nearly every point this smug intellectual makes applies to the Democrats, to Biden, and to the Lightbringer.

The Founders recognized the large population areas will dominate any democratic process to the detriment of rural populations. We are not a “Democratic Constitutional Republic”. We are a Constitutional Republic designed to protect minorities from the tyranny of majorities.

Do you need a current example of why this is necessary? Look no further than Alberta.

IMO, we have been increasingly under tyranny from the woke left and their fellow travelers. Now, thankfully, they are losing all the ground they illicitly gained, and they are having a hissy fit.

My sympathy is for those people, many I know, that are collateral damage. People who were simply finding work where they could. Now their jobs are being flushed.

Wolves

Is technology the answer?

How long until scofflaws weaponizes the drones? Asking for a friend, of course. Possible consulting gig for LL?

(P)regressive meets karma

Democrat legislator is assaulted by third world immigrant.

Let me be clear, I never want to see any female sexually assaulted. However, when a supporter of sanctuary bullshit finds herself in a situation far to many people experience, brought on by the policies she has supported, I cannot help but smile.

I cannot find any verification the alleged perpetrator is here lawfully.

Eggs

Six weeks ago the egg section at Safeway was nearly empty. Now, some are reaching their pull date and are ½ price. Trump effect?

He is bragging gas is under $2.00 a gallon in some places. Not here. Perhaps we are saddled by the (P)regressive’s requirement for “summer formula”. Maybe not, Wyoming prices are about the same as ours.

As always, YMMV

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

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.

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.

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

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