Big Changes Coming, Like it or Not, to the Equality State

 

Growth Problems – Cheyenne Edition

If you want to see the “old West” do it now because in two years it will be gone.

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 Weld County, CO will be impacted. The proposed camp is eight miles from the state line on Highway 85. Small Colorado towns like Nunn, Pierce, and Carr will see growth from people looking for housing. Along with growth comes crime.

The grassroots are not pleased. There will always be NIMBY sentiment. A cousin lives near where all this will happen and their quiet country life will be forever changed.

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Slated to open in April 2027, a huge casino is under construction at the Terry Bison Ranch, sitting just over the Colorado border on I-25.

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 Nuclear plants in Kemmerer, casinos in Evanston, rare earth extraction, reopening uranium mining and an oil pipe line from Alberta terminating in Guernsey are all underway. Will the impact be beneficial? Me, I vote for jobs, the scarcest thing in Wyoming.

Hard Pass

Three of the four Democrats running in the primary will attend a public forum fifteen minutes from my apartment. I won’t be attending. I would rather French kiss Maxine Waters than vote for any of them.

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Last year the outpour of money made this one of the most expensive races in the last election. Once again we Colorado residents were lab mice for outside interests to manipulate.

 Sharon Bird (D) AWFUL seems to be in the lead raising money. She has a mail piece out nearly every week.

 Blue State Reality

This happens when ideologists get elected. No cash bail, sanctuary cities, and the hidden cost of companies, sick of the rot, leaving. We have an Attorney General who is involved in fifty lawsuits against Trump, while his office has a backlog of appeals not being processed. His staff  turnover is around 19% which he attributes to low pay. His solution? Classic Democrat; more money.

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He is now running for Governor. His primary opponent is our senior Senator, who hasn’t given up his senate seat, and will still keep it if/when he loses. Recently they debated. Most observers report they took turns trying to prove who hates Trump more.

Beef Prices

They should take a temporary dip because ranchers are selling off cattle in record numbers. The wide spread drought leaves them little choice. Soon prices will soar. As a side note, ranchers will be more interested in leasing their land for wind and solar so as to have enough income for debt service and taxes.

 “War” Story

“Soldier, dump that coffee immediately”, ordered the outraged Lieutenant.

 “Yes sir”, said Pfc Mike Mihaulski as two gallons of hot coffee hit the ground splattering both the officer and Mike.

 Juvat was writing about coffee among the military branches which brought up this memory.

 We were bridging the Rhine River near Leeheim at the site Patton’s Third Army crossed in WWII (most historians use Oppenheim). Mike, one of our company cooks was clearing up after breakfast. Rather than just tossing the remaining hot coffee he was washing his socks in it when LT Curtis, came upon Mike washing his socks.

“Is that coffee for the men”, demanded LT Curtis?

“Yes sir”, said Mike which led to the dumping, neglecting to mention "the men" had already had their coffee.

 LT Curtis was the most incompetent officer I ever encountered. He could fuck up a two car funeral.

 The draft brought in many different people from barely literate to people with advanced degrees. Many college graduates declined going the officer route including Mike, who had a Masters in Mathematics from Michigan State.  After deliberately failing radio school, he was sent to cook school.

Polack jokes were common at the time and Mike fit the bill. Low forehead, lantern jaw, 6’3” with long arms; he enjoyed playing the dumb Polack. We were good friends with mutual interests centered on alcohol, loose women, and frequent participants in our First Sergeant’s, “Voluntary after duty work detail”. Volunteer or see the CO for an Article 15.

Mike was a four year starting offensive lineman at Michigan State and the strongest man I served with. We didn’t seek trouble; trouble found us. A good man to be with when folks were fussing.

Back to the coffee incident. Mike would have emptied and cleaned the pot before using it again. The opportunity to play dumb Polack was too much for him to pass up.

 “You gave me an order and I obeyed”, he responded to LT Curtis’ tirade.

 Why LT Curtis was even in the bivouac area at that time of day was puzzling. Perhaps the CO gave him some meaningless task to keep him from the bridgehead where useful work was in progress.

 Army field coffee. Bring water to boil in a extra large pot. Dump in two #10 cans of ground coffee. Reduce heat to simmer. Carefully pour in one quart of cold water to settle the grounds.

 Don’t like coffee grounds? Strain through your teeth.

 

As always, YMMV