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