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