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IIhan Omar

Can this foul person be sent back to Somalia? My favorite YouTube lawyer steps out of his usual lane to offer real information.

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New Tax Needed to Save Us

People worldwide are weary of climate change taxation and a new “crisis” is needed. There must be a clever way to exploit this.

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Wolves

The issue gets more complicated as time goes by. Here is a very long article analyzing the current state of affairs. Well done, IMO.

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And a new player enters the argument, the Trump Administration.

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Paranoid minds wonder if some Minnesota Lite is lurking?

 Here, kitty kitty

A long Colorado Parks and Recreation report on the recent mountain lion deaths. As you can see on the map, some have been seen close to DRJIM’s backyard.

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Smartass WSF – the Early Years

Senior year of high school, a requirement in an English class was to memorize and recite aloud a poem, of our own choosing. 

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My sister was ten years behind me but several of my teachers were still there. My sister approached two of them with, “Ladies, may I speak to you?” Upon receiving an affirmation she said, “Ladies, I’m not my brother”.

I was not remembered as a scholar.

 Deleted Comments

After many years of not deleting comments, except anonymous comments, I’m tired of the off topic comments. Spam, bots, ???

Not having it anymore.

Going green, create more problems

Among the myriad rules, regulations and dictates that complicate our lives and increase costs everywhere are “water saving” low flush toilets. One is in my apartment. How much water is saved when the damn thing needs to be flushed three times?

Car Story

Glue, locks and a Dodge Viper. This is probably a repeat.

 1993 my manager at the used car lot (show us your cocks story) got fired and the omens weren’t good for me. Up I -405 in Bellevue WA I got hired at the Dodge store while the GM was on vacation. He was not pleased when he returned. His problem? He didn’t hire me and I was selling two vehicles every three to four days while not adhering to his “system”.

 The Viper had just arrived and he foolishly put up a prize; the top salesman got to drive the Viper for a day.  That month I beat his house mouse by three cars. He was beside himself when I picked up the Viper on my day off. I drove it up I-90 to the Snoqualmie Pass summit and back to the store. Dropping it off I remarked, “Just another car”. When the management started messing with my pay I moved on.

 The manager, Bart Moss, was a big water skiing fanatic. He would go to Lake Sammamish at 5 am when the water was “flat”.  The ass kissers would meet him there and they would have workplace bonding. How pleased the folks with lakefront property might feel seemly didn’t matter. I gave it six weeks then went to the parking lot and squirted glue into all the door locks of all their vehicles while they were recreating. Well yes, WSF is evil. Fuck with me and I will fuck you over.

 I didn’t tarry, needing to open a small pot lot I’d been hired to manage.

 Side note: The Viper was a blast for about an hour and a half. After that, the parts bin engineering became increasingly noticeable. Also, my courting tackle didn’t get any bigger.

 MOPAR impressions. In that era I always thought Dodge was ahead of the game in terms of design. The Intrepid, with the cab forward design, was far superior to Ford and GMC. The full sized pickup redesign was a game changer. The weakness was Chrysler went cheap on the details. I won’t go into details; ancient history now. Their one success was the Dakota. Needing a small pickup, the Dakota was a Dodge Regis cop car chassis with a pickup bed and the rest 20 year old parts bin left overs. It was a decent truck, especially compared to the Toyota T100. That disaster had Toyota giving dealers a hidden $4,000 cash bonus to help move them.

As always, YMMV

Tunnel Warfare

 

Moffat Tunnel

Under the radar, the upcoming shit storm is brewing. Colorado owns the Moffat Tunnel. When it was built, a 99 year lease, at $12,000 a year, was signed by the Denver & Salt Lake Pacific RR. That railroad was later acquired by the Denver & Rio Grande. Later the Union Pacific acquired the D&RG. The lease is up January 2025 and players everywhere are licking their chops. An example.

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Lost in the noise is the Union Pacific. They own the rail right of way to and from the tunnel. In the past, they have demonstrated a willingness to shut down a line. Prime example is the line from Canyon City via Tennessee Pass to Minturn. They own enough tracks in Wyoming and Utah to move the freight now going through the tunnel. Anyone who knows the history of the UP knows every decision is bottom line based.

Circa 1953, our father was the section foreman responsible for the tunnel. Sisty, while born in Denver, lived there at the East Portal along with our parents and me. The place has a large place in my heart.

Before the tunnel, the railroad ran over Rollins Pass. In my youth I spent a lot of time on that old road and fishing the high mountain lakes around it.

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Pussyfooting about a pussy cat

The encounter does not qualify as a mountain lion attack because the man was never touched by the lion, CPW said

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The man in question might not agree.

 As always, YMMV

Wolves and Mountain Lions Need Food - Donate Your Pet (or Child)

Wolves 

Cute and adorable, right? Watch the video.

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Not so cute and adorable for ranchers.

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Now the same envirowhackos who got wolves introduced by ballot initiative were able to get an initiative banning hunting mountain lions on the fall ballot. Last year 504 lions were taken legally.

The voters for these initiatives overwhelmingly live along the Front Range. The voters against overwhelmingly live in rural areas. Ain’t democracy wonderful?

Unintended consequences? A major lion habitat is the Rocky Mountain foothills, also known as the Front Range. Domestic pets are much easier prey than wild animals.

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Nederland is about sixteen miles from Boulder up Boulder Creek Canyon.

Per a 2023 Colorado Outdoors Mag report, there have been 25 known mountain lion attacks on a human since 1990 – the last verified mountain lion-related death in Colorado took place in 1997 and involved a 10-year-old in Rocky Mountain National Park.Mar 25, 2024

Social Security Data Breach

Seems up to 2.9 billion SSN are compromised. I found a link to check mine and I am among them. Interesting that the address is over 15 years old and my d.o.b. is wrong per the site I visited. I’ve had a credit freeze with the three major credit reporting agencies for several years. In addition, I use an AVG program to keep me off data broker’s lists. I should be ok.

Forget kneecaps. Every hacker located should have their fingers and thumbs broken, one digit at a time.

Shoplifters

Added an item to the cart, and paid for it. Once home, opened the package and found it empty. Guess someone opened the package, pocketed the contents, and put the package back on the shelf. A $5 item – not worth going back to the store. Lesson learned? Shake a package before putting it in the cart. Even old dogs can learn new tricks.

Having more than enough accumulated sins to answer for, I don’t add more by shoplifting.

Travels with Banner-things we see

 Don’t blame her

The Democrat Congresswoman from my district isn’t attending the DNC. As a matter of course, the GOP operatives are attacking her.

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Maybe she finds her time and funds can better be spent doing other things since several pundits have reclassified her race from, “leans Democrat” to "toss up".

Death by a thousand cuts? Natural Gas

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Other than seeing their own energy bills go up, do any of these assholes face any serious consequences from their policy decisions? Related question? How can agencies set policy decisions without enabling legislation?

My bet some smart lawyers are already seeing how the Supreme Court Loper decision can be applied to state agencies.

How long will Colofornia remain blue?

Statewide, unaffiliated voters now number 1.8 million, or 48%. Democrats are at 1.2 million, or 27%, and Republicans at 900,000 are at 24%

As a natural course of action, the shellback Republicans continue to go out of their way to piss off Independents. Currently, they are so embroiled in internal power struggles they can’t present a united front. Rather, they seemly try to sabotage each other. The Democrats just sit back. Why interrupt your enemy when they are making mistakes?

 Why do I care? Reining in the (P)regressive whack jobs won’t be accomplished with the current infighting. I dislike the GOP positions far less than the Emperor Polis crowd.

The Coming Storm – Cell Phones

Banning cell phones in schools? I feel for the teachers and administrators in this fight.

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As always, YMMV