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.

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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.

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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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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