Hail,Ya Betcha

 Hail

Thunderstorm season and it is starting off as a bad one. A small tornado passed by Scottsbluff and the picture is from Facebook. Kids holding melon sized hail. Sisty’s insurance adjuster’s agency has nine claims in Scottsbluff and more will likely come in.

Speaking of Sisty, much like a mechanic’s Snap On tools, she has upgraded her tool kit with a new computer and monitors. Her skills are in demand.

Places around the Foothills and out on the plains received as much as 6” of rain in a few hours.

 TABOR for Roads-A Colorado Specific Topic

In 1992 Colorado taxpayers passed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights as a constitutional amendment; the only state to do so. To basic parts are, taxpayers, not the state legislature and/or other government agencies (cities, water districts, et.) must approve tax increases and taxes collected in excess of the approved budget must be refunded to the taxpayers. Since Colorado went blue, the (P)regressives have been fighting to neuter TABOR.

To feed their feckless spending they have siphoned highway funds, among others. Now on the 2006 ballot will be Initiative 175, a constitutional amendment, to insure highway funds are spent on highways. Just the thought is giving the (P)regressives vapors. 

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The three Justices on the Colorado Supreme Court were openly Democrat activists when elected. They have let the Polis Administration slide on many important legal issues including the State Constitution mandating a balanced budget. What will they do, assuming the initiative passes, and the question reaches them?

“Fix our Roads” seems close to becoming a bipartisan movement.

There may be as many as nine other Initiatives on the ballot; most push backs against (P)regressive cherished ideas.

Long reads but for those interested:

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 h/t Cory Gaines

Uranium

Growing up around the 1950’s uranium boom, friends and I ‘prospected’ for uranium with a second or third hand Geiger counter that ate batteries. The closet we came was finding Thorium within the city limits of Steamboat Springs. There was a kind of intoxication in prospecting. Likely what motivated the gold rush? Many in our extended family/clan are fanatic rock hounds.

Now Wyoming is enjoying another uranium boom.

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Hopefully lessons learned will keep mine tailings being used in concrete mixes poured for building foundations. Craig, CO comes to mind.

Colorado Sun

An online daily newspaper I read but don’t support. Despite their claims, they are a left wing econazi propaganda machine.                              

What they claim.

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Cory Gaines, who I also follow, takes them apart on just one subject.

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Being retired, I amuse myself by reading a lot of opinions, bloggers, and watching YouTube. No television for me. Blogging is another outlet, inflicting my opinions on an uncaring world.

Car Story 

Left Hanging – Not especially proud of my actions nor ashamed. Shit happens.

Management was upset when they found a salesman hanging from barbed wire. I was responsible and knew my days there were numbered.

Sunset Cars backed up to I-405 and had a 6’ chain link fence across the back of the lot. After hour troubles prompted the fence to be topped with barbed wire.

One evening a 20’s smart ass and I got into it. He was a 5’6” 120 lb ‘martial arts expert’. He came at me and got picked up and tossed against the fence. His arms got caught in the barbed wire and his feet were off the ground.  I walked away.

Others dropped the tailgate of a pickup and backed up to him then helped him get untangled after he was found by other salesmen.

So how did a 50 year old man prevail? The old man is a lifelong dirty white boy. When Mr. Martial Arts tried a head high spinning leg kick, the old man stepped into the kick, grabbed the leg, grabbed the groin, lifted and tossed. The position of the fence wasn’t part of the plan. Oh well, the fence was there.

Sunset’s structure was two sales managers with two sales crews working shifts. The young warrior was on Al’s crew and I was on Jeff’s crew. Jeff had personal problems including drinking on the job. Not too long after the hanging he was fired. I knew my time was at an end.

 My departure was cordial. My unemployment lasted four hours. Such was car sales in Washington State in the 1990’s.

Not my first, nor my last, rodeo. Physical altercations were common during my car sales days and I was in several. That said, the only customer I ever touched was the punk who pulled a gun on me.

As always, YMMV