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
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8 comments:
Novelist Stephen Becker (an unappreciated asset in my opinion) once wrote that nobody was required to remember the names of lieutenants after the armistice was signed. However, I do recall one from Kentucky, who if he called me today and said, SGT WWW, we've been called up to go invade Mongolia, saddle up, my only response would be, "Your car or mine, Sir?"
About that pipeline terminating in Gurnsey. Not much in Gurnsey besides the big tank farm, the nasty guard base and a rock quarry. Gurnsey got to be near two hours from Cheyenne, crews gonna spend half the day on the road just getting there and back, never mind building the pipeline itself cross country. The logistics will be interesting. Then what they gonna do with the oil when it gets there? Is a refinery coming too, or connecting to existing pipeline, and if so, is the existing one big enough for the added flow? Need more popcorn to watch this show.
Guernsey? Both the UP and BNSP have a big yard for sorting coal trains. Not too much more needed to support shipping oil via train. The refineries set up to refine the Canadian crude are on the Gulf. Likewise, the bitumen from the Unita Basin which has been a subject in several blogs.
Scottsbluff will be impacted being closer to Guernsey than Cheyenne. The pipeline path as proposed will parallel the Western Nebraska state line.
I served under several competent officers. Lt Curtis was the exception. Too many of them were draftees wearing bars. Likely they would have rose to the challenge. None of them personally inspired me. My shortcoming; too cynical
Duh! I cannot believe I forgot about that rail line! Especially as many times as I've driven that stretch of US 30 along the Platte. Much of it double tracked and a lot less train traffic now that The War on Coal has been so successful (spit). Used to be UP would run two coal trains one right behind the other and then another pair a couple or three hours later and that went on every day. Now, not nearly so much, so yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Nobody knew. None of us saw it coming. Even though I am one ot Trump’s biggest supporters, maybe a handful suspected it. Many of us expected the economic renewal of the US to happen. Many of us foresaw a significant roll back of Saint Barrack’s, followed by Joe Biden’s horrid,and destructive agenda. A lot of us hoped for a major push back from the left. All of which we have gotten. None of us, no one I have read, no one I know, expected Donald Trump to be a Giant in Foreign Policy. No one expected him to reshape the world. Yet Donald Trump, in a short time, is doing so. That was supposed to be one of the reasons to vote against him. He had no foreign policy experience.
As this has become the biggest economic revival following an economic downturn by the Biden administration , characterized by a sustained period of improving business activity, rising Gross Domestic Product, and making our Military become the best, and strongest in the entire world.
W.W.W.
The CB&Q (Burlington Route) operated in Wyoming as early as 1900. Their tracks run parallel to the UP in many places. Add "track rights" and it hard to tell which railroad owns what. Confession, I don't understand track rights. My first exposure was seeing a BNSF coal train in Glenwood Canyon. The term seems self explanatory.
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That is truly sad. Colorado was once a great state... The coffee story...sigh, what I waste of good coffee!!!
That batch of coffee was done for the morning. Mike didn't want it to go to waste. Colorado. We are lab mice in a laboratory for rich people to experiment with. Emperor Polis, term limited, is trying to re-brand himself as some kind of libertarian looking towards 2028. He just pardoned Tina Peters. The GOP is in their comfortable circular firing squad formation.
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