Memory Lane

While not owning a television for several years, I do enjoy offerings on YouTube.  For whatever reason, I enjoy watching tow trucks, especially off road recoveries. One channel I watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShwQHSU0S34&ab_channel=CaseyLaDelle

This one was different and involved gold dredges. That stirred a memory. In the aftermath of WWII returning veterans found scarce jobs, as much hadn’t changed from the Great Depression. My Dad found a job in Breckenridge, CO operating a gold dredge. One day while trying to put cable back on pulleys, his coworker took up slack while my Dad’s fingers and thumbs were wrapped around the cable. All his finders and thumbs were broken. The local doctor used metal splints to fix his broken fingers. My Dad had his brother bend each splint until my Dad’s hands were in a claw shape so he could still grasp the dredge controls and continue to work. His main complaint was not being able to button his Levis.

Along that same time I, at age four, fell out of the back of an old Ford sedan doing 40 mph or so on a dirt road landing on my head. The scars remain to this day. My Dad and uncle held me down on the floor while the “doctor” stitched my scalp together. The “doctor” was a former service medic/corpsman and what was available in what was then a remote Colorado mountain town.

For many years I was teased about having, “rocks in my head”.

So, WSF, is there a point to this? Yes, woke breath, generations in this country survived by doing what was necessary to survive. The solutions weren’t elegant. You survived or didn’t but nobody seemed to be appalled and nobody looked to the “government” for help or even expected help.

We have lost that expectation and are poorer as a people and  a nation, IMO. As always, YMMV.

Angst

A horrid weekend for Colorado football fans. Other than the Air Force Academy (who beat CU) all the major college teams lost; CU, CSU, and UNC. Then, tonight, the Broncos lost to Seattle.

I’m a tepid, at best, football fan. Between the woke bullshit and the tons of commercials, I pass it by.

As always, YMMV.

Paranoid

A young friend called today concerned he might be on some government list as a militant radical. They have an eight year old high functioning autistic son they pulled from public school and are  home schooling.

I advised him he was already in someone’s data base with the tattoos he has similar to these.

A terrible place we have reached in this country when productive citizens, simply living their lives as they see fit, have faceless government employees tracking them.

Outrage and Getting Old

You bloggers who can put up something worth reading every day, or even twice or more every day, have my admiration. The muse doesn’t come around and kick my ass that often. I sincerely appreciate those of you who do this, add to my knowledge of the world, and make me think!

Life with Banner is fairly mundane. He has no interest in politics which nicely balances my daily, sometimes hourly, outrage as I read politically slanted blogs, Falsebook positings, and news article. As an example:

https://nationalfile.com/joe-biden-quietly-signed-an-executive-order-seizing-control-of-cryptocurrencies-to-create-a-cashless-society/?fbclid=IwAR0tx4idZPHC-iEaXgznz6hE3tYS3bYUAOwm1KPPJr1RCSi8godKAE_wm_Q

Xiden continues to rule by decree with no enabling legislation to support his actions.  The Constitution? The (P)regressives regard it as some archaic impediment in the way of their “Build Back Better” pipe dreams. After all, they know what is best for us dirt people.

Perhaps Trump’s greatest legacy will be the number of judges he got nominated and appointed to the Federal Courts. A special shout out for keeping Garland off the Supreme Court.

Speaking again of (P)regressives and the Constitution, will they abide by the provisions of the separate but equal provisions? (Yes, I hear the laughter of a certain globetrotting Arizona resident).

One value in my life is, “Don’t bitch about something if you don’t offer a solution and are willing to implement it”.

I can’t stop bitching and am frustrated that I don’t have solutions beyond voting and resisting. I see this at a national level. So many of us “Deplorables” are fed up but are disorganized and fragmented. How does this change?

Also in the mix is the whole getting older business and awareness some mental abilities are deteriorating. The 5am bladder call followed by an hour of the uncontrolled mind going over a lifetime of errors and omissions. The obituaries of people you knew who are younger than you dying. The checklist by my door that includes keys, wallet, glasses and Zipper!

Banner provides a nice counter balance. Food, naps, walks, car rides, stays with Sisty, and the many neighbors who feed him treats and give him lots of petting is his life. He makes me laugh and smile several times a day. His biggest concern is when he gets to prewash the dish will used to microwave my breakfast bacon.

Not winning the lottery means I should keep working. This inflation is devastating to those who only have social security. Many of my neighbors in this 96 unit Senior apartment building rely on the food bank. Today we have a community cookout that may be the only big meal some will have all week. Sad state of affairs.

To end on an upbeat personal note, my health is good with no crippling ailments and, thanks to a CPAP and pacemaker, I’m still able to do much of what I want. Probably won’t try climbing Longs Peak this year, not that I ever did or even want to, but can do short hikes and make minor vehicle repairs.

As always, YMMV.

ADDENDUM; This is a serious news article? More like floating a balloon propaganda. Maybe the Big Guys 10% has been cut off.

https://www.greeleytribune.com/2022/09/04/biden-weighing-actions-to-curb-us-investment-in-china-technology/?utm_email=2324337475602411D46EA5DA6A&g2i_eui=Lx4rIdmvnRa7A%2bqYE6zWoV9Xr2DQfA63&g2i_source=newsletter&lctg=%c2%a02324337475602411D46EA5DA6A&active=yesD&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.greeleytribune.com%2f2022%2f09%2f04%2fbiden-weighing-actions-to-curb-us-investment-in-china-technology%2f&utm_campaign=pmp-greeley-tribune-headlines&utm_content=curated

15 Minutes That Will Make you Think

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtEuAWBLfOE&ab_channel=CarWizard

Election Integrity

As LL (Virtual Mirage) recently pointed out, Joe Xiden received 81 million votes but doubts 81 million people voted for him.

Carly Koppes, Weld County Clerk and Recorder, has added a new tool to allow anyone interested in election integrity to do their own check. Every ballot is now available for review.

 https://www.weldgov.com/Government/Departments/Clerk-and-Recorder/Elections-Department

Colorado is a vote by mail state with the option of voting in person. The ballot return envelope is checked to insure the sender is registered then, after opened, fed into a scanner in a way that insures anonymity. Now, every anonymous ballot can be seen by anyone interested. Some will have votes for every race or issue. Others might have just two or three marks.

Bravo, Ms. Koppes.

My applause for her doesn’t lessen my enthusiasm for Weld County, Wyoming. Would Wyoming, with a population of 580,000 want to add a twenty fourth county with a population of 315,000?

Trust Fund Snots in Action

One of Colorado’s nests of trust fund snots is a circle including Aspen, Vail and Eagle, CO. The Eagle Regional Airport accommodates any size private jet for those too timid to use Aspen. Needless to say, but I will say it anyway; they are “greenies” with no financial skin in the game.

Two hundred or so miles to the West is the Unita Basin, one of the poorest areas in the Intermountain West, that is home to vast mineral resources. The only transportation is trucks on two lane highways.

For decades people have been trying to build a railroad into the region and finally overcome most legal and government obstacles.

https://uintabasinrailway.com/

https://www.railwayage.com/regulatory/report-stb-approval-of-uinta-basin-railway-challenged/?fbclid=IwAR3ErYfr9Z0ozuwy9dAJQLLy68Y2OHs4RUv6oAMJU6_d3kr1nQZ3Pylafak

This will tie into the existing Union Pacific (former Denver and Rio Grande) mainline from Grand Junction, CO over Soldiers Summit and on to Salt Lake City.

Of course, the enviornazis are suing. That is not surprising. What is surprising is Eagle County, CO is part of the lawsuit. I bet the non environment nuts (You know, the ones who staff the stores, plow the roads, etc. and surviving ranchers) must be thrilled their tax money is paying part of the cost of a legal action where they have no dog in the fight.

Why would the county commissioners take such action? Judge for yourself.

https://www.eaglecounty.us/countycommissioners/meetthecommissioners

Tsk, tsk, WSF, there you go tilting windmills again.

ADDENDUM: The Union Pacific acquired the Denver & Rio Grande three decades ago and operate the mainline that passes a few miles away from Eagle. The UP abandoned the Tennessee Pass route that does pass Eagle to Minturn and then over the pass to Leadville and on to Pueblo. Several parties want to open the Tennessee Pass route and that gets the “greenies” foaming at the mouth.

As my father said in 1970, an environmentalist is someone who bought his five acres last year.