I'm A Bigot. Are You?

 

Yes, I am a bigot

Currently going through the hassle of fighting unauthorized charges to my credit cards from places where I’ve cancelled my account. Some have been going on for two years. All have one thing in common; the speakers have Indian, like Southeast Asia, accents. Going forward, I will no longer do business with Indians. They join Iranian car dealers and Russian mechanics on my list.

 Does that mean I’m a bigot? Do I care if I am? No more dealing with people with the ethics of a starving piranha

 Hissy Fit

What do the moves by the Trump Administration to restore some common sense to the EPA mean to staff? Short term, these holier than thou environment warriors will need to find real jobs. Good luck!

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Don’t count on NGOs to fund your cushy gigs, Trump is kneecapping them.

Emperor Polis has no clothes

President Donald Trump posted on Wednesday that two Democratic governors will not be invited to a bipartisan meeting and dinner next week. Gov. Jared Polis is one of them.

 

“The invitations were sent to ALL Governors, other than two, who I feel are not worthy of being there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to Polis and Governor Wes Moore of Maryland.

 The Blueprint, Econazi Versions

In 2011 Emperor Polis and three other wealthy individuals developed “the blueprint”, a strategy to turn Colorado politics blue. They were successful and continue to further entrench their fellow travelers in the state’s apparatus.

 This same strategy is being used, with modifications, by the radical “environmentalists”.

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 Car Story

Having fun

The way sales are negotiated piss off many people. Oh, well.

You get an offer on paper from your manager, the infamous 4 square (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MrD9CAG7vl0), and present it to the buyer.

I worked in a store where the desk man’s office was on the 2^nd floor. I was working a deal just under his office and he could hear everything being said.

My customer and her “second baseman” were twenty something Vietnamese. Our initial offer was met with, “You price is too high”.

 Show my shocked face! “No, that is a very fair price. We know we can’t make a lot of money from you Vietnamese”.  Giggles commence.

Now comes the drop. You scratch out the price and write in a slight lower price. Each one that is rejected leads to another lower price. Then I started adding and made the price higher.

“No, no, you go wrong way!”

Do it two more times. Suddenly, she grabs the pen and writes down a figure. Now comes the three step.

“You want to buy this car for that price?”, said in incredulous tone.

Giggles

“When I bring this offer to my boss he will probably fire me”

Giggles

“Okay, I will take him the offer but his office is right up there. Stay alert; he may throw me over the railing”.

More giggles

At the desk Dan is laughing. Two visiting wholesalers there are also laughing. He then chews me out loud enough for the customer to hear down below.

 Going back down, I have an offer with a “courtesy bump”, probably some uneven number like $4162.76, and make the deal.

 So everybody is laughing but me because I’m terribly worried about getting fired and must stay in character.

 Rudy Russo was my idol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqVUXqL_8zo

note : minutes 48 - :52. He went out with the cash in hand.

About car sales. I was usually tops in monthly sales. That wasn’t my goal. My goal was to be tops in gross profit. People would ask me my “secret”.  “No, if I tell you it won’t be a secret”. What made me successful were two things.

1.    Attitude. People come to a car lot to buy a car. Let them!

2.    I can make almost anyone like me for 45 minutes.

As always, YMMV

 

Orange Man Bad, ad nauseam

 

Blue State Warfare

Colorado’s Attorney General has filed his 41st lawsuit against the Trump Administration. Priorities? Crime in Colorado? Maybe not so much.

 He plans to replace Emperor Polis as Governor.

Keep on Trucking

The ongoing brouhaha about big rig drivers who don’t understand English is, IMO, about safety. When a driver who has been in the country four ten years and has been driving a truck for eight years cries about losing his livelihood because he doesn’t understand English, my response is, “Fuck you, you arrogant asshole”.

 Recently in Cheyenne two drivers were busted.  Both illegals. In one case, the truck company’s permit had been revoked. No mention of the second driver’s employer. That said, an overweight dump truck will likely prompt law enforcement attention to every vehicle on the road owned by that company.

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 A part of the long article.

“It might be 10 years ago now, maybe even longer, but I-70 coming into Denver out of the mountains, and there was a traffic backup, and signs warned of that ahead of time, saying, ‘traffic back up ahead,’” he said. “A driver who did not speak English drove into that and killed five, eight people, because he came in at 60, 70 mph out of the mountains, lost his brakes because he couldn't read that there were runaway truck ramps.”

Locals’ call that stretch Floyd Hill. Eastbound, at the top, is a huge sign warning of steep grade with instructions to truckers to use lower gears. A second sign is about one mile further. A prominent sign for a runaway truck ramp at the bottom in addition to message signs along the way.

Fatal Flaw?

Our local electricity provider, Xcel, has installed these new “smart meters”. We now get billed at a higher rate for using electricity in what Xcel has decided are peak times. They can remotely turn the meter off. Paranoid me wonders how many of our enemies have hacked the Xcel system and, when the time is right for them, turn off big swaths of the electricity grid?

 Xcel is very woke and brave new world green. They take it upon themselves to educate/indoctrinate  their customers.

The Knees Know

This past Tuesday had a viscosupplemention treatment where   hyaluronic acid is injected in the knee joint. It is a gel that cushions the joint that has lost cartilage. While not a ‘miracle’, it gives me some relief for three to six months.

No more Paper Hanging

11/1/2025 will be my last day delivering mortgage dun letters. Winter will soon be upon us and “fall back” is Sunday. My night vision is not what it once was and trying to read house numbers on residential streets while the GPS announces, “You have arrived” is getting harder. More to the point, icy sidewalks and stairs will soon be a hazard. At my age, one bad fall might mean Assisted Living. This past summer I tripped and found I no longer can do a PLF.

Now I’m not meeting the public for business, should I grow a beard?

 That was forty six years ago when I had a full head of hair.

 Combat Engineers 12B/12C

Good to see things haven’t changed from sixty years ago. A fellow Ditch Digger cousin vet agrees. As my Jarhead friend Mike likes to say, “Go spit shine your shovel”.

Climate Change

Always with the alarms. Always with “studies show”. Tiresome.

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The danger in all this is the “Chicken Little” effect, IMO.

 Did They Get Jump Wings?

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As always, YMMV

May Their Mouths Overload Their Asses

 

Grumpy Old Man Rant

You may want to skip this Colorado specific bloviating.

 The rejection of the (P)regressive agenda that swept the nation and put PDJT back into the Oval Office barely touched Colofornia. The past Legislative session saw the gaggle of Front Range Karens and mountain town trust fund snots push the full gender bending agenda, curtailing parental control, odious unconstitutional gun control, eroding free speech, and more environment fallacies.

While “helping” the underdogs (which I support) they perpetuate dependency while creating well paid jobs for their chosen few to ‘administer’ the programs.

In Colorado, tax increases from the state level to a water district, by our constitution, require voter approval. So, let’s just label them “fees”. No problem with the courts as our state Supreme Court judges are 100% (P)regressives.

Fix our roads? No, it is more important to take $4,000,000 from that budget and create a war chest for Emperor Polis to fight Trump.

 One glimmer of hope lies in the Democrats abject failure to elect county commissioners in the rural counties and pickup any federal Congressional seats.

Hurrah!

Sorry, wrong picture

The environazis lose again. Outside of the Front Range sprawl, EVs are of limited use in Colorado. To forcible shove them down rural Coloradoan throats is an abuse of power. Said abuse has never deterred the environazis. Their feelings will always overrule mere facts and/or what harms ‘lesser’ citizens.

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Wolves 

They are getting closer to Aspen.  Maybe they will develop a taste for trust fund snots.

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Wolves will be wolves, much to the disappointment of their advocates.

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The same wolf advocates are pushing to re-introduce grizzles to Colorado.

Uinta Basin Railroad wins, Environazis lose 

Previous posts have mentioned the effort to move heavy crude from one of the poorest places in the country to refineries that can process it. A win for Northeast Utah and a loss to Venezuela is always worth cheering, IMO. For the trust fund snots infesting Eagle County, their NIMBY asses can kick rocks.

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Once again, the Supreme Court has put unelected bureaucrats on notice their overreach won’t fly anymore. An 8-0 decision? I’m amazed.

Hunting with Lone Star Parson

Apologies to VM

Damn it, this is wrong

Zip tying children is, to me, abhorrent. Their parents, yes. I recognize ICE is doing their job; one that I support.

All these immigrants didn’t get here without help. When will those who aided this mass lawbreaking be held accountable? (not holding my breath)

As always, YMMV

Stand Your Ground, but, Don't be Stupid

 

Self Defense or Overkill?

Ten .45 rounds fired, man down and very dead. The lawyers will have a job on this one. To me it appears to have started as self defense then spiraled out of control.

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Labor Day Party

Resident in our building have holiday gathering. I’m not a great fan. The people organizing them I like so I show up. Banner goes to visit Sisty. He hates being alone in our apartment. The idea of an 80 lb friendly eating machine among people and food is not to be contemplated.

Here Comes de Hook

Only when your vehicle is on the hook do most people even notice a tow truck.

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In some neighborhoods and apartment complexes you can hear, “Here come de hook” or,

    “aquí viene el camión de recompra”

 Colofornia News

“Wealthy” conservative backers of ballot initiatives keep blocking the benign, and for our benefit, (P)regressive plans. Horrors!

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The same Democrats complaining never seem to have a problem with wealthy dark money groups interfering when it coincides with their ideology.

At least seven initiatives will be on the ballot this election. Some were funded by dark money (P)regressive money. Can you spell hypocrisy?

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 Unicorn Farts Meets Reality

Confession. I have little understand of “carbon capture” and little interest in learning more. Seems to this Latter Day Luddite like some Ponzi scheme. What is apparent it takes a lot of electricity. Other than climate change hustlers, does anyone else even see a need?

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Venezuela Gangs Colorado Tren de Aragua 

My, my, cow pies being kicked all over the place.

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and MORE

This situation is now an international story and mixed into national politics. Not a bad thing; sunlight is a great disinfectant.

Mike Coffman is the Aurora Mayor (term limited) and is nobody's patsy. Aurora has always been a pimple on Denver's ass (years past we owned two homes there). It is divided by two counties (Adams on the North, Arapahoe on the South) that results in different tax and bond systems. Denver's main jail sits on the North side.  The city is home to more immigrants, legal and illegal, than any other place in Colorado. There is a significant perpetually pissed off black population and a mobile "unhoused" population. Squeezed continually are 'native' Mexican descendants. The city council is always split between (P)regressives and conservatives. At the moment the conservatives have a slim majority. The Chief of Police office has been a revolving door forever. Some officers would have been at home in the LAPD Rampart division circa Rodney King.

Perhaps Aurora's biggest problem is the Califorication of Colorado with the suburban Liberals keeping their neighbors nice while pushing problems into Aurora and surrounding locales.

Boulder Mentality

Emperor Polis’ husband is a Boulder native and boulder to his bones. He isn’t the most savvy p.r. person. Perhaps he doesn’t feel a need?

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As always, YMMV

We Lack National Will

 

As a society we have gone from bold innovators to nay saying sheep, IMO. Prove me wrong, please!

Save the planet, end petroleum powered transportation.

One solution was proposed sixty seven years ago.

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Imagine where we would be today if this type of technology were developed?

LL, Virtual Mirage has written about small modular nuclear reactors. Another beneficial technology not being developed due to lack of national will.

Shocking!

We aren’t going to all burn up. We are going to freeze.  A new climate change paper.

Surprise

Amazing, coming from the University of Washington. Are they at war with the Oregon State University (one of the louder Chicken Littles)?

Changes, changes

I stopped at a 7-11 to pay my tax on people bad at math (loto). The person behind the counter was 6’ 200 lbs. Baritone voice, makeup, hair style feminine, wearing some sort of mesh bonnet and black colored clothing not traditional (lots of lace).

 My order was promptly and correctly processed. My change was correct. The cashier was polite and pleasant.

 Upon reflection, decided to file the encounter under life’s little surprises.

Karma

Until 1995 when I started using a CPAP, I was a horrible snorer. Once at Ft Leonard Wood I woke up outside. The other soldiers picked up my bunk with me in it, still asleep, and carried it outside, dead of winter.

 What Karma you ask? I have a dog that snores, loudly.

Wolves killing livestock. Tone deaf politicians respond.

Expected different?

A wolf encounter in Montana with a positive outcome.

Right response

Let’s not jump to conclusions.

The surge in “newcomers” plus those housing challenged doesn’t tie in with the surge of syphilis in Colorado, does it? 

Clap

Vaccine skeptic

Rather than kill you with a series of booster shots, science is developing a way to kill you with just one shot.

Viruses

 Sorry, Scientist Hai, I have my suspicions. No shots for me.

Think I worked there back in the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvwwDnrQL8&ab_channel=skunkman62

“An old dog teaching an old dog new tricks”.

A nieces’s comment on this Facebook post.

Spoiled rotten Treat hound.

A neighbor puts a special treat for Banner in the bicycle thing-a-ma-jig. I'm trying to limit treats and ignored one this morning. Banner had spotted it. For about an hour he kept bothering me until I gave up and got the &*^%$ treat for him. He is doing a good job of training me.

High cost of unreliable electric power

An interesting analysis of the economic costs of a recent, short term, interruption of electricity.

Blackouts

Granted this was in response to high winds whipping power lines and not a direct result of “green energy”. It is a foretaste of green energy unreliability.

The picture? I freeze a cup 2/3 full of water. One frozen, I place a quarter on top. If power is out for an extended period during my absence, the quarter sinks and alerts me my food is probably spoiled even if refrozen.

Hats and eating.

Law Dog has a post up regarding wearing a hat while eating. 

Hats

I don’t eat while wearing a hat. I’m simply not comfortable. Guess growing up I had proper fetching.

Surprise, surprise!

“Plant based meats” aren’t very nutritious compared to the real deal. If you care to know more it is here. 

Solyent Green

As always, YMMV

Rantings from a Wannabe Domestic Terrorist

 

Pity the Rich

The horror! Standing in line like dirt people.

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Freedom of Choice – Evs

Does it occur to the buyers that their options for recharging their vehicles are very limited? Internal combustion engine users have tens of thousands of places to refill their tanks.

Take that jab? Hell no!

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F**K You, Feds III

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Wyoming isn’t alone. Moab, UT is hard hit. 

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Arizona isn’t  immune.

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The new leadership in the House of Representative weighed in.

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RINO out

Rep. Ken Buck, CO 4 th, has announced he will not run for a 5^th term. He has made big bucks being the “loyal opposition” and has recently appeared often on the ‘liberal’ news channels (lip service to fair and balanced). Best bet is he joins CNN (lipstick on a pig).

 Alas, there is no I f**ked up Olympics. Gold Medal Winner here.

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No Thanks

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3,000 mile trip with no problems? I call bullshit.

Addendum: A 2016 Tesla was listed for sale. Poster bragged about taking a 3.000 mile trip with no problems and free charging.

Facts vs Feelings Logging Truck Edition

This man knows what he is talking about – arrest him!

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Awesome

Seems to be the generational phrase of those under thirty. Doesn’t offend me, just makes me feel old. Whatever happened to “groovy”?

F-35

Not being able to find much information on Al Gore’s invention, I’m wondering how well the F-35 is performing in the Gaza campaign. Does anyone have creditable information?

It isn’t free market driven, EV lover

A small start up company making solar powered charging stations is expanding. Should you read the whole article; the last two paragraphs have the gruesome details. Spoiler – taxpayer funded subsidies.

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 Thus ends this rant. As always, YMMV