Dog Preparations
Easy prepping for Banner. Neighbors keep stopping by with
dog treats. Blasted dog now has at least a two month supply. Last week, bringing
a 40 lb bag of dog food past several neighbors gathered in the lobby, I had to
stop and answer questions. Finally put an end to the interrogations by saving, “Banner
can’t live by treats alone”.
Boondoggle Green Wet Dreams
5280: You’ve studied rail, in all its forms, for most of
your adult life. Do you see benefits of high-speed rail in a place like
Colorado?
Randal
O’Toole: None, really. The benefit is to political egos.
That’s it. These are ego projects
Long article Colorado Front
Range specific.
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Right now Metro Denver light rail is losing money. The
only passenger train that breaks even is the weekend Denver-Winter Park Ski
Train. The only year around long term financial success is the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad.
Stirring the pot – a favorite
pastime
We of the anti (P)regressive political spectrum are
derided by the (P)regressives for our resistance to their agenda. The Supreme
Court’s Bruen 2
nd Amendment decision has the (P)regressives
feverishly passing firearm laws that even a non lawyer can see are
unconstitutional, all in defiance of the Supreme Court, all the while
screaming, “We won’t comply”.
Am I alone in seeing the irony?
Why yes, I’ve always been a
malcontent
The A.I.T. Engineer Company we survived circa 1963 had a
permanent party SP 4 who enjoyed messing with us trainees. He was among his
other duties the Mail Clerk. Towards the end of the cycle we received our
orders for our next destination. Said clerk, at Revile, made a speech about how
we were to inform all our contacts of our new address. He emphasized he didn’t
want to be forwarding our mail; his time was too important!
In the classified ads in some tattered magazine being
passed around was an advertisement. For $2.00, they would get your name on
10,000 mailing lists. Two years later I was still getting junk mail forwarded
from Ft Leonard Wood. Did I share my idea with others in my platoon? Does a
bear………..
Another memory of that time were trainees designated
acting NCOs. They wore a blue arm band with chevrons and had to be treated by
the rest of us like they were real NCOs. Some let their egos get out of hand, forgetting once the cycle was over they went back to being privates. That was
payback time. Were the permanent personnel going to take issue? Hell no! Just
ship the malcontents out and let their next duty station deal with them. Army
tradition.
In my time in the Green Machine, the only branch to
approach engineers in mean, nasty, fuck you behavior were the cannon cockers.
Colorado Wolves
Long article in the Steamboat Springs, CO newspaper
reporting a leap year day meeting.
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What caught my attention was Patrick Stanko’s name
mentioned several times. That was no surprise. He comes from a long line of
community leaders. His parents are some of my oldest friends.
“I have heard it all 100 times,” said Jackson County rancher Dave
Gittleson after the meeting.
I doubt many minds were changed at that meeting! I was
impressed by what I found to be a news article with no apparent agenda other
than reporting the facts.
Related, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife have an ongoing
and growing problem with mountain lions. Trust fund snot’s values vs reality
when Fluffy disappears from their backyard. Long article here.
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$20 Happy Meal soon?
Jon Caldera examines the restaurant business in Denver. Soon,
Colofornia will share more wallet pa
MOREProduct Endorsement
A friend gave me this to try out. While not a miracle or
a cure, it does ease my joint pains. One complaint. Getting the cap off was a
bitch.
President Election
Nailed it.
As always, YMMV
ADDENDUM
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