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Wolves

The stink still lingers from the 2020 election. Did Proposition 114, which mandated wolf re-introduction, actually pass?

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Remember, per the Democrats in state office, our mail in ballot election is the “Gold Standard”. I mailed in my ballot and received notification it was counted. Not received, counted.  Counted before Election Day? No chance for mischief here folks, just move on. 

P)regressive Entrepreneurs

New ways to make money off illegal immigrants and tax payers shows the far left are still hustlers.

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 Of course, it is for the children.

How Many Vote Democrat?

Cynic me, I believe many administrators don’t give a rats ass about the children. Would education improve if most took their useless degrees and entered the private sector?

Surprise!

Many of the minority owned businesses building the Obamination Library in Chicago haven’t been paid, some for years.

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United Health Care

My health insurance company causes me some sympathy for Luigi Mangione. They have recently forced a new wrinkle, a referral. Before I can have my annual checkup at the same cardiology practice responsible for my pacemaker, where I have been going since 2014, I now need a referral from my “primary health care physician”.

By good fortune, Medtronics, my   pacemaker supplier, has provided me with a remote device using the cell phone network. Every six months I hold a reader over the pacemaker. In just a few minutes my pacemaker history is transmitted. If they see anything of concern they contact the cardiologists.

Why UHC? That is who Sisty says I should have. She has been involved with a community health organization for thirty plus years and on their board for decades.

(My sister calls me “Monster”. My comeback was Norm Crosby’s,

"Once upon a time, there lived a very beautiful girl named Rindercella and her two sisty uglers")

 Next week is my annual VA checkup where I prove I’m still alive. My thought is to see if the Doc I see can do the “referral” b.s.

Car Story

Being civil costs little so why be an asshole.

One Saturday an arrogant group drove on the lot in a VW 4x4 Camper van. We had a ramp to the showroom to bring cars on display in and out. The VW driver chose to park on the ramp. While not my ‘up’, I noticed the activity.

 I was coming back into the showroom and heard these arrogant assholes running their mouths about our prices and our thievery.

This was in our showroom with other customers present. I was irritated by their behavior.

 By happenstance, there was an open box of sheet rock nails on the window sill so I placed one under each tire of the VW.

Maybe 45 minutes later, on a test drive, we went past the VW on the side of the road with three flat tires. The arrogance was gone from the group; in fact, they looked forlorn.

Is there a point to this story? Whatever you want it to be.

As always, YMMV

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

 

We are Living in Interesting Times. Are we Living in End Times?

 

Rule Britannia

Not owning a television leaves me free to cruise around YouTube and finding nuggets of information and opinions. For instance Samara Gill with opinions on Great Britain.

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With no YouTube channel I can find, an Australian, Michael Shoebridge, Director of Strategic Analysis Australia discussed Australia’s potential contribution to a Straits of Hormuz operation would be a “flagged fishing trawler”. 

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In a major surprise, Iran keeps on being Iran by messing with the Straight again.

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Lone Star Parson has posted about the doings in Ireland with farmers and truckers blocking the roads in protest of fuel taxes. Interestingly, this has spread to Northern Ireland. So far, peaceful protest excepting the Gardia.

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The Irish have an 800 year history of fighting oppressors. Alas, not a 800 year history of winning.  

“Wouldn’t be surprisin, if there be another risin”, said the man from the Daily Mail.

The farmers all across Europe are staging protests. Will the New World Order survive?

All of this is Trump’s fault. By standing tall and not backing down, he is showing the world you don’t have to take the status quo, IMO. He is an arrogant asshole, but he is our asshole, and the only president in my lifetime who does exactly what he says he will do. Oh, WSF, he hasn’t done this, or that, or finished this or that. My reply, no plan survives the first contact with the enemy, in this case the Swamp.

End Times?

True or click bait?

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Wolves 

Cracks are appearing in the econazi firewall with Polis term limited. Wolf introduction may be the most obvious.

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 2^nd Amendment is for all

We need all the allies we can get, IMO.

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Some of us need to recognize we are in this together and get over themselves.

A Gathering of Democrat Party True Believers

Hint: Cargo Cult

Car Story

 Safety Rims

Sales Managers like their little sales training games. One favorite is the, “Six Position Sale”.  Usually done early Saturday morning, each salesperson walks around the car pointing out features to mythical customers in front of the other salespeople. Some prize is given to the “winner” for the best presentation.

 Lori Saine, aka Sister Kink, is furiously competitive. She went from car sales to be a State Representative and a County Commissioner. I was her only competition at the Six Position competition. While I really didn’t give a shit about winning, I took delight in seeing Sister Kink’s reaction when I beat her.

Building value is a three step process, feature, benefit, and acceptance.  What it is, why it is a benefit, and the customer agreeing it matters.

The one I used that irritated Lori I used at the driver side front and went like this.

 “Folks, did you know this car has safety rims?”

 The customer indicates they don’t.

 “What safety rims will do is keep the tire on the rim if you get a flat. Say you hit some junk on the highway while you are doing 70 mph and the junk tears your tire open. That tire cannot come off the rim and jam up you steering. You will be able to safely pull off the road. Kind of important, don’t you agree?”

 Lori would seethe. I would give her a grin.

 In all the years I sold cars, no customer said they knew safety rims were required, by law, starting in 1932, on every vehicle sold in the United States.

 As always, YMMV

Election Fraud? What Election Fraud? Nothing to see here folks, just move along

 

Colorado Voter Purge

337,000 out of 4.3 million voters recently were “purged”. A big victory is being claimed by various folks. Bullshit! The names of 337,000 inactive (haven’t voted in several past elections) voters have been removed. We still have more registered voters than what census figures indicate we should have. Fraudulent registered voters haven’t been removed. With radical Democrats entrenched at all levels of government nothing will change, IMO.

 Some of Colorado’s 64 counties have cleaned up their registrations, notable El Paso (Colorado Springs). None of the solid blue counties have.

 Doubling Down Democrats

Every month it is the same irritant, a mail piece from the Democrat Party with a “ballot” asking me to vote on issues. Oh, soliciting donations.  I’ve replied with a polite, yes doubters, polite note, asking to be removed from their mailing list.

Their response? Today I received the same two mailings. One had my first and last name. The second had my first, middle, and last name.

In Colorado when you apply for a driver license, you are automatically registered to vote. You are asked if you wish to declare a party affiliation. Voting in Colorado is by mail. So, send out propaganda to each and all; much, like the way Jena Griswold runs election voting.

With a list of registered voters, sending mail is easy. For example, this AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal), one of five or more candidates qualified for the primary ballot for CO-8.

Are more “male” Democrats growing facial air to show they are “tough”?

Back to driver licenses.

Yes, a citizenship question is asked, but it is not a requirement for obtaining a license. Under the Colorado Road and Community Safety Act (SB-251), Colorado issues driver’s licenses to residents regardless of immigration status or citizenship. The application determines if the applicant is a citizen or a non-citizen to issue the appropriate, distinct type of license.

Cynical me wonders how diligent clerks are with this question? The applicant marked the question. Do the clerks ever ask or just accept the application?

 Charlie Kirk Bullet Controversy

Portions of the internet and You Tube are talking about alleged discrepancies between the recovered fatal bullet and the recovered firearm. Mass conspiracy theories are out for public consumption.

So what to believe? I find the opinion of these two attorneys who defend people where firearms are involved interesting.

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My takeaway? Tain’t settled science.

Wolves

The saga continues.

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Has it ever occurred to the wolf advocates that taking a animal from the place it has survived and putting it into a completely new place might constitute animal cruelty?

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 War Story 

“The drinks are on the house, the change is from you last visit”, said the restaurant proprietor as he placed two large margaritas and money on our table. My wife and I had returned to our favorite Mexican restaurant after a few weeks avoiding the place.

Renton, WA late 1980’s had a small Mexican Restaurant, Rodriguez’s, on 3^rd Avenue that shared space with a bar. For those who know Renton, parking on 3^rd is scarce but there was ample parking towards 2^nd.  The bar entrance faced 2^nd Avenue near Wells Avenue, where we parked.

 My wife enjoyed margaritas. We would start our meal with margaritas and then order. One evening after finishing our meal, we left through the bar and passed a table with three drunks, one who reached out and grabbed my wife’s breast, saying, “Are those real?”

 A nearby chair broke over his head. His two companions quickly jumped up. The chair was still mostly intact so they each received a whack or two.

 After walked over to the bar and leaving money for the damages, we exited out to the car. Wife, of course, played the pissed off card. Secretly she was pleased. Good material to entertain her friends with, no doubt.

The Rodriguez family went on to build a big business with a large stand alone building in Renton and branches in the Seattle area.

 The drunks? Never heard a peep from Renton P.D., or saw the drunks around town.

As always, YMMV

Truck Around, Find Out

 

 Truck Around, Find Out

Sheriff Brian Kozak keeps the heat on.

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Think you can just jump over the state line? The adjacent Nebraska and Colorado County Sheriffs have decade long cooperation agreements.

Colorado Crazy

Shortly after my last blog posting, Jon Caldera explained the situation for better than my attempt.

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Love Wyoming

You can now take your animals to McDonalds.

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How soon will we see a picture of yoked oxen?

Wolves

We now have a new Parks and Wildlife Director. Time will tell if her statements hold water or the same politician word salad.

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 I’m, for one, am not holding my breath.

 What a Surprise!

Not that Jena Griswold, Secretary of State and Attorney General candidate lies. No surprise there. The surprise is a Denver TV station called her out.

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Her first term and ½ of her second has been so vile even American Media Maggots (h/t BZ) gag.

I think I qualify

Car Story

An arrogant customer came on the lot, coinciding with my turn for an “up” . Such joy. For whatever reason, the dealership owner had bought a 1995 Range Rover, for cheap, from a wholesaler. Originally it had a salvage title that the wholesaler had sheep dipped in Idaho (pre Carfax) and got a “clean” Idaho title.

 Eric Anderson was on the desk and the arrogant prick worked us over. We let him win. The only problem was he insisted on an inspection from the local Land Rover dealer. Eric was sweating as we were sitting on a $5,000 gross profit deal with a check in hand for full payment.

 I don’t know who this arrogant prick had pissed off at the Land Rover dealership. They gave it a clean bill of health. From there, I delivered the Range Rover to the arrogant prick at his art gallery on one of Seattle’s tourist piers. He signed off on the “We Owe” (as is) form.

I walked over to a restaurant and had lunch while Eric sent someone to pick me up.

Back at the dealership, Eric wanted to know how I pulled it off. In fact, I did nothing beyond being polite at the Land Rover service department. I just looked at Eric, smiled as I shook my head, adding to the Tank’s mystique.

As always, YMMV

This is What I Voted For. Hoping for More to Come

 

Wonderful News

On Thursday, the Trump administration finalized rules repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding — that dubious 2009 determination claiming six greenhouse gases threaten human health under the Clean Air Act. “We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding,” Trump announced, calling the policy exactly what it was: “disastrous.”

The EPA has become a millstone on our economy. Now many of these stultifying regulations can go away. The lingering question is, will they? I foresee judges blocking every effort as the leaches cling to their positions, income, and pensions.

 Kill Them, One and All

Cancer is a hot button for me. Over 60% of extended family, both paternal and maternal, has suffered with this plague.

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 My fervent hope is any cancer fraudster roasts in hell for eternity. 

Wolves

This econazie wet dream is falling apart. It isn’t just the pissing away of taxpayer dollars, it is tough toenails for the wolves.

Will the proposed introduction of wolverines fare better?

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Low Humor

If you are attackted to both men and women,  but no men or women are attackted to you, does that make you bi-yourself?

Car Story

Diesel

1983-1988 saw a number of small cars and trucks offered with diesel engines.

 One day a PFC stationed at Fort Lewis wandered onto our lot. After some conversation involving money, of which he had little, he landed on a 1983 Ford Escort 5 speed with a diesel engine. We did the test drive thing and went inside to do the paperwork.

As he was ready to leave, he said he planned to get a tune up kit and get rid of the rough idle!

 While not a complete soulless car peddler, I bit my tongue. Points.

 As you sat behind the steering wheel, the fuel gauge said, “Diesel Only”.

On both front fenders was a diesel emblem.

On the rear hatch was a diesel emblem.

 Partner, if you are so dumb you don’t know what “diesel” means you are beyond hope. 

 
As always, YMMV

Ain't Happening

 

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

Tales, Usual Subjects, and Racism

 

Favorite Repo Story

As requested by a reader. A few years ago a dealer I once worked for called me wanting some help in hooking a car. The buyer lived in a high end gated community and parked in a secured garage in downtown Denver. The dealer had a set of keys and an offer of $1,000 if I could get the car.

 My helper, Judy, a tough as nails older biker chic, and I drove out to the gated community. First stop, the police station. My 1996 green Escort wagon would attract police attention in that neighborhood.

Next step was to find the entrance without a security guard. The plan was to wait for a vehicle to exit and zip in before the gate closed.

 We barely settled in our discrete parking spot when the very vehicle we needed to hook drove out!  We followed to an upscale shopping center where the customers parked in a public garage and disappeared into a mall entrance.

 Shortly, I was driving away in the collateral while Judy waited a few minutes to see if the customers came right back. She then followed me to the dealership. The repo went into the bull pen, the keys into the night drop and we went off to a nice dinner.

Two days later when I picked up my check, the dealer wanted details. “Trade secrets, was my reply”.

The customers, both attorneys, made many threats and demands. The dealer took great pleasure in telling them to fuck themselves.

Environazis Rule!

Their takeover of various commissions, aided by Emperor Polis, includes the Public Utilities Commission. Now, no more natural gas heating or power generation allowed. 100% renewable energy only will be allowed.

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How all of this will work in conjunction to the rush to build Artificial Intelligence facilities is, it appears, “we will see”. Not answered, yet, is how will the water for these AI operations be supplied without draconian water rationing, for the soon to be unwashed, masses?

 You have questions? Here are some pre-packaged answers.

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A favorite read is Jon Caldera and the Independence Institute. He has an annual, Californian of the Year (limited to Colorado residents).

A portion of one of the nominees’ bio sums up perfectly the Boulder think.

With the charm of a tenured professor who’s never had a private-sector job (or a utility bill), Toor assures us he’s “saving the planet,” while ordinary people wonder if they can afford to boil water for spaghetti without blowing their monthly budget.

Meanwhile, our Northern neighbor has more good news.

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Can you say LPG exports?

Honest Elections

Not in Colorado, per our whack job Secretary of State.

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PDJT has less than kind words about Emperor Polis.

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Tina Peters used her position as a County Clerk and Recorder to try and uncover voter fraud. Did she do it the correct way? She must not, because the entrenched elite made an example of her.

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She is, IMO, a political prisoner.

The Colorado Sun

Readers may note many of my links go to the Colorado Sun. While proclaiming itself to be non-partisan, and wrapping itself in a pristine journalism blanket, it is, in fact, a progressive advocacy effort.

 Why do I read it, diligently? To see what the assholes are up to.

Wolves

Don’t feed them, is sound advice, as reports of wolves coming into Front Range communities raises concerns. Who will heed the advice among the animal lovers who voted for wolf introduction?  Worrisome, to me, are reports of wolves traveling east of Interstate 25.

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Why not? The High Prairies were once part of their range.

Racism

My late father served in the China-India-Burma Theater in WWII.  Originally trained in chemical warfare, in India he did many different jobs and become fluent in the dialect of the Assam region. He always maintained, “The only thing an Asian understands is a boot on his neck”. Was he a racist? By liberal definition, he was. In his daily life, interacting with all kinds of people, he wasn’t.

 Is there a point to this WSF? Well yes there is.

 Far too many immigrants come to this country with no regard to our ways, our customs, our social structures, and our laws. They don’t want to assimilate. They see themselves as superior and us as weak and inferior. They are here for what they can get, not what they can contribute.

An example; is an interview of a Sikh who lost his CDL and livelihood at a Weight Station crackdown.  Via an interpreter, he explained he has been here ten years and a long haul trucker for eight years. Well, fuck me running! Ten years, and you never bothered to learn even rudimentary English? That folks is blatant racism, his!

 Point: It is a two way street.

 As always, YMMV