Saturday, May 9, 2026

Grumpy Old Man Rants

Fuck Global Economy

The petroleum that truck is delivering was refined within 300 miles of this station from crude pumped from within 300 miles of the refinery. Somebody is making a $1 a gallon more than last month.

Television

I haven’t owned one for years as the amount of commercials piss me off. This last road trip reinforced that opinion. The large screen in the motel room offered a beautiful clear picture but the content didn’t. I ended up watching the last quarter of a UFL game and then a hockey playoff game. All I know about hockey I learned watching Slap Shot.

 After less than an hour the TV was off and I was re-reading Showdown on the River, Old NFO’s western novel.

I have been told there are ways to get around TV commercials but I’ve never investigated them. I believe it involves reading  instructions.

Colofornia, The Liberal’s favorite lab animal

Outside money via “non profits” has been shaping Colorado’s laws and political structure for years. What the majority of residents want isn’t important to them and their well compensated lackeys. Here is another in a long list of outside interference efforts.

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How this matches up with the recent SCOTUS ruling on gerrymandering smarter people than me will opine.

Another, “California hold my beer” (P)regressive scheme - fast rail

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Econazi Wet Dream on Life Support – Wolves

A bad idea hasn’t gotten better over time.

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If Colorado is a good fit for wolves they will make their own way here. There are natural solutions as happening with pythons in the Everglades. Their numbers are rapidly dwindling.  Otters have learned how to work in packs to eat the eggs as the females are nesting. Bobcats and coyotes have learned to attack when the pythons are molting and are vulnerable.

Wolverine “re-introduction” is still part of the econazi wet dream. The proposed introduction area won’t provide enough food for them in the dead of winter. Will that stop the dreamers? Nah, don’t confuse them with real information.

Show Me Gobsmacked

Deep Blue Boulder County is the place where the longest prison sustenance I’ve ever heard of was imposed.

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 Well deserved IMO.

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Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting – Wyoming edition

Wyoming is on a fast track to the premier data center in the country.

The appeal is jobs, the scarcest resource in Wyoming. The boom comes with a price. Water, power, housing and schools will be needed. The state has around 560,000 residents, a number that has been stable for years, and now is facing adding as much as 100,000 more.

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Does it matter, all those data centers next to the headquarters of this country’s strategic missile silos? WSF, always the ray of sunshine, aren’t you? No, Murphy’s first cousin.

Car Story

Blast from the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbH2guwhD8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6BksCzTKs

As always, YMMV

 

6 comments:

The Colonel said...

For years, we’ve been told the central divide in this country is Republicans versus Democrats. Red versus blue. America versus communism. Conservative versus liberal. That framework is comfortable, familiar—and increasingly obsolete.

Because what’s actually unfolding doesn’t fit neatly into party lines anymore. This isn’t about marginal tax rates or infrastructure bills. It’s about something deeper: whether the core principles that built the United States individual liberty, free speech, private property, and limited government are still going to define the country at all. It’s actually Ideology versus Freedom. Illegal migration tearing America apart!
There has become a growing strain of thought in America that views those founding principles not as strengths, but as obstacles. It prioritizes centralized control over individual choice, group identity over personal responsibility, and enforced equality of outcomes over equality of opportunity.
And the problem is not limited to Minnesota’s fraud, there are bat-shit crazy Democrats all across the country in most of our big Cities.
Call it what you want, but the pattern is familiar. History has seen versions of this before. It starts with language, redefining words, reshaping narratives, and labeling dissent as dangerous. Then it moves into institutions education, media, corporate governance—where conformity is rewarded and questioning is punished. Eventually, it creeps into policy, where power concentrates, and accountability fades, where name calling becomes a real problem between political parties. That’s not a partisan difference . That’s a problem that often leads to violence, and the violence often leads to problems that can not be controlled. The only hope is that although the Democrats ship has been sinking for more than a year now, and they just keep bailing water. But hopefully one day they might have a more sensible leader who can see the light who thinks of the good of our Country rather then of his Party!.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Not on topic but well said so the comment stays.

Mega Maga Man said...

It seems to me these boards are divided on those who support Republicans/Trump and those on the Dem side who hate Trump.
Democrats/Liberals only talk about hating Trump and opposing everything he does.
Rather than litigate that, I ask you, who is it from the Democratic party that you feel could/would do a better job in 2028 then either a JD Vance or Marco Rubio ?
Here are the top two Dem candidates...

Gavin Newsome - He who has destroyed California, is trying to pass a law so people won't expose the billions in fraud going on in the state,
lost billions of dollars of taxpayer money on the homeless and 126 billion of taxpayer money on a high speed train --Is THAT who you want to see run the country ?

Kamala Harris ---was the "border czar", let in 15 million unvetted illegal aliens, during campaign could not answer a single tough question without a word salad coming out...basically has done nothing in politics. She campaigned in 2019 to support taxpayer-funded trans surgeries for inmates.
As an atty she kept evidence out of cases that would have freed innocent people from serving time to boost her prosecution record. Look up James Trulove and Kevin Cooper.
Is THAT who you want to run our country ?

Those are your options, pick one and tell me why other than "they are not Trump", he same Donald Trump who has been the Greatest American President in the last 10 Administrations! At least, The very same Donald Trump that had the courage to do what he just did to IRAN, the Worlds biggest Terrorist. Who has Murdered thousans of his own people, and who has Murdered thousands of Americans in the Past 47 years.

YEAH, That Trump!.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Reak person or bot?

Old NFO said...

Thanks for the comment! Hope you enjoyed it! And that guy was trying to copy Cal Worthington and his dog Spot!!! LOL

Well Seasoned Fool said...

I enjoyed the book the second time around.