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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 In one case, the truck company’s permit had been revoked.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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“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

Politics and Weather; Neither Can be Avoided

 Tis’ a Privilege

Living in Colorado. Despite Californication, traffic, and miles of ugly two story houses on postage sized lots, the vistas remain. While hanging paper the other day, the air was crystal clear, the Front Range snow covered, the sun was shining, and just a few high cirrus clouds were over the mountains. Just looking at the mountains lifted my spirits.

A few days earlier an assignment took me 130 miles east in the high plains. There is much to see if you know to look and the land stretches seemingly forever.

 Perhaps these are, “stop and smell the roses”, moments?

 B.S. from our English Cousins

Once again, a study that pleases the ones funding it.

MORE EV Crap

 Immigration War

 Activism” meets reality when President Trump’s Executive Orders turns of the ‘free’ Federal money.

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Emperor Polis demonstrates his grasp of important issues.

Presidential Material

 TABOR

Colorado specific.

If you file taxes in Colorado, you must opt in to get your TABOR refund. Another sneaky (P)regressive money grabbing tactic.

 Along that line, Polis and fellow thieves are forecasting a budget shortfall while several agencies are sitting on previously allocated funds that have not been spent.

WSF gets racist

Big rig truck driving is a tough job. Truck companies have a tough time hiring drivers. Increasingly long haul truck drivers are immigrants with limited, or no, English. Articles like this one ignore that factor.

Reality

The only hint is one line.

Bowes noted that it’s only a half-joke that some of the drivers who don’t know the right procedures for mounting chains are seen on roadsides and chain stations in shorts and sandals in winter weather.

Also mentioned are understaffed State Patrol officers.

The same situation exists along I-80 in Wyoming compounded by low wages for snow plow drivers resulting in not enough snow plows.

OK, WSF, are you saying immigrants can’t drive trucks? No, immigrants aren’t trained, or prepared, for the loads and highways they are expected to traverse.

 I watch several YouTube channels involving tow companies working wrecks. Time after time the drivers have limited English.

 Disclaimer: Anyone who hired WSF to drive anything bigger than a one ton flatbed was foolish. One employer banned me from pulling trailers. A man should know his limitations. Sisty can fill you in on a box truck and low bridge in Casper.

Medical Care Rant

I’ve no major complaints about the medical care I’ve received. What I do complain about is just getting a @#$# appointment. For the patience impaired, such as myself, the endless, “Please listen to all the options………..”. Finally here the option I want and press the number. Now I hear again, “You have reached the …..Department. Please listen to the………… Aarg!

I begin to question whether I need the medical attention. Too often I just take two acetaminophen and say, “F**k it”.

Trust Fund Snots Keep on Keeping on

Colorado Politics

Disappointed?

What kind of blog post would you expect from a grumpy old man?

Consider the fate of the dog, Banner, who must endure living with me

 As always, YMMV

New Invasion

India's newest export to the USA, the Mahindra Truck. Spotted this today undergoing high altitude emissions testing (not by my employer). Diesel powered. UGLY!!!! Priced right, good warranty, will be a good seller.

Mahindra got their start after WWII reworking military surplus vehicles. They became a licensee for Willys and made Jeeps. For may years they have exported their line of small agricultural tractors to the USA.

Don't sneer! Remember the Suzuki Somersault, er, Samurai?

Sorry for the picture quality. Cell Phone snap at 6:15 a.m.