http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/24058789.html

They are finally seeing what they have wrought!

Here is the tag line.

“Environmentalists, to their surprise, found that timber and mining were easier on the countryside,” reports Karl Vick of the Post.

Imagine that.

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=707

If you don’t, goblins will come in the night and get you!

Went to Del and Geo’s today and Ranch Roped. Hopefully these pictures will show up and not be cut off too bad. Click on the photo’s to make them bigger.

Sourdough hits another one out of the park!

http://mukluk.wordpress.com/

Go check it out.

Go over here   http://curmudgeonisms.blogspot.com/  and check it out. Pretty much sums it up.

Unlike many people who live in this country, I have a piece of paper that proves I am an American. Seeing as I was born in Switzerland and came to this country at the tender age of 11 months, my parents had me naturalized. So yes, I have a paper that says I am an American citizen. It’s one of my most prized possessions. Many people in the world wish they were so lucky!

Isn’t it wonderful to be in the great country in the world? May God continue to bless us all!

Goin’ on around here. We went and got Gabe the other day so I been stickin’ pretty close to the house. Maybe after his nap today we will go out and do some stuff.

Had one of my yearling guys and his father come and look at their cattle yesterday. Seemed to think we had plenty of feed for them. That’s a good thing, Martha.

Reason for melting ice in the north pole?

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=299718849952830

What is it that makes us call someone friend? 

Does it have anything to do with the length of time we have known them or how often we are around them? Or is more of a kindred spirit kind of thing?

Terry Brown was a friend. He ordered a saddle from me several years ago and we have stayed in touch ever since. I invited him to join a board where a bunch of cowboys, buckaroo’s and those who like them, choose to visit via the internet. He joined and always added much to any discussion, whether serious or just poking fun at each other and at our selves. 

From what Terry wrote on there, I got to know him well. And we talked on the phone at least every couple months. He was a very patriotic American and strong in his views and beliefs. We tried to make a deal for him to bring some cattle up here and sell them as the prices weren’t as good in Texas where he lived as they were up north in South Dakota. It never happened as prices for his cattle rose down south and fuel kept going up. We both regretted not getting the chance to shake hands and get to visit face to fazce. But we were still friends. 

His sister in law called me this morning to tell me he had been killed in an auto accident on Saturday. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

I am amazed at the feelings of sadness over this loss of a person who I knew, yet had never met face to face. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I do know this is a sharp reminder to see and visit with my other friends and loved ones.

Life is short. Say what needs to be said and see those who will one day be gone and you will curse because they left a hole in your life.

 

So long Terry. Hope your ridin’ a good horse in tall grass with your beloved Longhorn cattle around you. Hopefully I will see you down the trail someday. You were truly a man!

Or any of the rest of you who want to laugh.

 

http://curmudgeonisms.blogspot.com/

 

Check it out. I would caution you, he uses some words some of you might find offensive.

http://www.aws.vcn.com/env.html

Go check this out.

http://powell.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx

They are buddies!

Got up early the last couple days. Went and helped a guy brand yesterday and went and moved some cattle in the breaks today

For some reason this site has changed the way I put pictures in. Sure, just about the time I get things figured out, they change them!

George W.’s War

No one likes war. War is a horrific affair, bloody and expensive. Sending our men and women into battle to perhaps die or be maimed is an unconscionable thought.

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Yet some wars need to be waged, and someone needs to lead. The citizenry and Congress are often ambivalent or largely opposed to any given war. It’s up to our leader to convince them. That’s why we call the leader “Commander in Chief.”

 

George W.’s war was no different. There was lots of resistance to it. Many in Congress were vehemently against the idea. The Commander in Chief had to lobby for legislative approval.

Along with supporters, George W. used the force of his convictions, the power of his title and every ounce of moral suasion he could muster to rally support. He had to assure Congress and the public that the war was morally justified, winnable and affordable. Congress eventually came around and voted overwhelmingly to wage war.

George W. then lobbied foreign governments for support. But in the end, only one European nation helped us. The rest of the world sat on its hands and watched.

After a few quick victories, things started to go bad. There were many dark days when all the news was discouraging. Casualties began to mount. It became obvious that our forces were too small. Congress began to drag its feet about funding the effort.

Many who had voted to support the war just a few years earlier were beginning to speak against it and accuse the Commander in Chief of misleading them. Many critics began to call him incompetent, an idiot and even a liar. Journalists joined the negative chorus with a vengeance.

As the war entered its fourth year, the public began to grow weary of the conflict and the casualties. George W.’s popularity plummeted. Yet through it all, he stood firm, supporting the troops and endorsing the struggle.

Without his unwavering support, the war would have surely ended, then and there, in overwhelming and total defeat.

At this darkest of times, he began to make some changes. More troops were added and trained. Some advisers were shuffled, and new generals installed.

Then, unexpectedly and gradually, things began to improve. Now it was the enemy that appeared to be growing weary of the lengthy conflict and losing support. Victories began to come, and hope returned.

Many critics in Congress and the press said the improvements were just George W.’s good luck. The progress, they said, would be temporary. He knew, however, that in warfare good fortune counts.

Then, in the unlikeliest of circumstances and perhaps the most historic example of military luck, the enemy blundered and was resoundingly defeated. After six long years of war, the Commander in Chief basked in a most hard-fought victory.

So on that historic day, Oct. 19, 1781, in a place called Yorktown, a satisfied George Washington sat upon his beautiful white horse and accepted the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.

 

And I found this interesting also.

Your Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:

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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democrat controlled House and Senate.

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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democrat Party.

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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democrat Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US.

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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:

A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democrat Party.
immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

Anyone surprised? I’m not.

Look at all the roses now!

And look at this pretty little flower that grows wild in the pasture. Spiderwort bracken or something like that I believe.

And then these also.

Jim and family are going to be here on the afternoon/evening of the 29th of June. Anyone who would like to meet him and said family, come over. We will set around a fire and play guitars and maybe burn some beef and drink some adult refreshments. Oh, Jim is the brains behind Yield and Overcome which is on the left side of the screen on my blogroll. Hopefully Hubba, of Hubba’s House fame, will join us also with his guitar and maybe some of his family. We will sure have fun!

These were growing up next to where grampa and gramma’s house was. They were dying out from all the livestock around them, I guess, plus they were getting pretty old. I scooped out a hole with the loader bucket and then scooped them up and brought them down here. I filled it all with old rotted manure. This was about 3 years ago. They have really took ahold and are starting to spread out. I keep throwing rocks around them. Hope they keep it up.

What is everyone doing?

Tyler is at Eagle Butte I guess and the other boys are doing some work and will do something with their family this afternoon. Wish Tate and Kass weren’t as far away as they are. Hope and Chance and the boys have been coming out so I’vb seen them quite a bit this spring, but not so much with Tate, Kass and them boys.

I think I will run into town and meet up with Cindy when she gets off work and then head up to Deadwood for supper.

If I thought there was anywhere to catch a fish, I’d go early and take my fly fishing pole.

Princess

Jam and her baby. Jelly? LOL

Peaches and her filly.

Proud papa! He walks the fence fretting about the mares that he’s terrible skinny and when you feed him, he lets the girls share. What a gentleman!

 

She’s really whacking them out of the ball park!

 

Go read this, think then contact your congress people!

 

http://halfbakedsourdough.blogspot.com/

I just received it in an email from one of my sons. Read it and let me know what you think, please.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878

I got this from Sourdough’s site. Interesting, don’t you think?

 

 

the following is not my work, but it has been placed in open access to give it as much exposure as possible.

Worth printing out and taping to gas pumps…..

$140 a barrel petroleum, and its headed further up. Adding to the cost of food, possible inflation and driving the dollar down in international trade. And we are at the mercy of Venezula, Iran and other bad actors, as well as Nigeria and other unstable places, due to our huge need for imported oil.

So what has congress done?

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed

Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed

(And the Democrats do this as Cuba and China drill for Cuba barely 50 miles off our shores in South Florida)

Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed

SUMMARY

91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of American-made oil and gas.

86% of House Democrats have historically voted against increasing the production of American-made oil and gas.

Over the past 30 years:

Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of petroleum.
Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast.
Democrats have blocked building oil refineries.
Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy production.
Democrats have blocked clean coal production.

Democrats believe taxing and suing oil companies will somehow bring down gas prices.

The Democrats have sold out to radical environmentalists, and in doing so have set in place the conditions that can bring ruin to this nation.

Wonder why your groceries cost more? Why you are paying $4 and soon $5 a gallon for gasoline? Wonder why your power bill is going up?

*Put the blame where it belongs: the Democrats*

When will the American People wake up?

It costs the Saudis about $2.00 / barrel to get their oil out of the ground and into a tank.

The Saudis (wahabbis) hate the USA and Israel, and we’re paying them (a world market, actually) about $140.00 / barrel.

About 30 years ago, the USA imported approx 25% of its oil, and OPEC nearly ruined our economy with their embargo. Congress talked tough and decided to reduce our dependancy on foreign oil.

Today, the USA imports approx 70% of our oil and refined oil products.

http://halfbakedsourdough.blogspot.com/

 

and read the last couple posts, if you haven’t already.

Tyler said his first homily at church and then we had a get together at the hall afterwards and then the hardcore bunch came to the house and we sat and drank and played guitars! Not only Matt from Hubba’s House but also longtime reader Debra from Plainview!

Wow!

 

What a day!

We haven’t had this much water in these pastures and water holes and dams since 1997. Chance and I are enjoying it while it’s here!

We celebrated Tylers Ordination as a Deacon last night.

We are all very proud of him and look forward to next spring at this time when he will be ordained a priest.

You named her Pixie. Now come out and feed her.  LOL

And for you bigger girls, I snapped this last night. Mom planted this years back. It grows next to some poppies. I am not sure what it is, but it is kind a pretty.

 

Heres the latest addition to the horse herd. Another dang filly! What shall we call it Pixie? Her mothers name is Suzy.

Peaches and the new filly. Just for you Pixie! Now tell mommy she has to bring you out to see the ponies!

And for you big people, check this out, baby boomers! And everyone else also. Old hippies are ruining our country!

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297030413282480

An Amish farmer walking, notices a man drinking from his pond, with his hand. 

 The Amish man shouts: “Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen.” Which means: “Don’t drink the water, the cows have pooped in it.” 
 The man shouts back: “I’m from Chicago and just down here campaigning for Obama, I can’t understand you. Please speak in English.” 
 The Amish man says: “Use two hands, you’ll get more.”

 

And another pony for Pixie. This is Jam and her filly Pinky.

 

“And, this is the point: The Left is not just un-American. It HATES America.This truth is finally out in the open for all to see. They hate her freedoms. They hate her flag. They hate her military. They hate all she stands for. They despise us, the “trailerpark” crowd out here in flyover country, as rubes, hicks, and ignoramuses, “bitterly clinging to our guns and our God.” They condescend to us, they contemplate us with disdain. We are so far beneath their dignity we are not worth their sweat (except at election time, when they pander to us, drag hundred-dollar-bills through our trailer parks, and make all sorts of undignified advances to us in attempts to purchase our votes).
Why deliberately, with eyes wide open, go down the path of certain ruin of this country? What is there about America’s freedom that galls them so? Why does the Constitution become toilet paper in their hands? More than likely, it’s because these people are the same ignorant college kids of the Sixties, worshipping Che, marching around with fists upraised, and being led down the Socialist primrose path by a string of tenured college professors who never held honest jobs in their lives. Those traitors should be old enough to know better, but, at least now, we know where they went. They became the Leftist politicians, the political pundits, and the newspeople of today. They have undermined America in many ways, over a long period of time: Opinions, eductation–both primary and upper grades–through activist judges, and and political positions. They now wish only to turn the last free nation over to the failed experimention of the Marxist Utopianists.”

 

For the whole rant, go to  http://halfbakedsourdough.blogspot.com/

 

I just love this straight talking gramma!

This is Crackerjack.

These pictures got cut down. Dammit! Stupid blog that won’t put bigger pictures on!

Rode in to town with Kay yesterday. Left my Dodge at Cenex to get oil changed and have them put the chip in. Kay works same place as Cindy, on the next shift, so her husband and I trade rides with each others wives quite a lot. Pretty handy.

We went to Spearfish and picked up a part for the stove and I got my new guitar. Morgan Monroe. Got the electricity in it so I can plug in at gigs instead of using a mic or putting the snap-in in. Plays nice and sounds good, for not a lot of money. It’s a cut away so maybe I’ll get good and learn to play way down the neck like Chance does!

Yeah, right!

All the creeks and the river were running bank full. This is sure a wet ol’ country this spring. I love it! Praise the Lord for the rain!

Go read the first three posts here

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Editorial.aspx

Matter of fact, save that sight to your favorites and check it out everyday.

IOr come here and get it off my blogroll.

This made me think about Mom this wet morning.

http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/

My mother was born in 1914 to a large family. Her father was a Baptist preacher who went around and built churches. Literally.There are pictures of him and some of mom’s brothers building the old baptist church that sets at Union Center now. It was built at Chalk Butte.

He died when mom was 7. Her older brothers moved home to help care for their mother and two smaller boys and three young girls. They built the road between Sturgis and Deadwood. With teams of horses and slips and fresno’s.

Mom talked of stirring potato’s to feed the men in a pan so large she couldn’t move it, but she could stand on a chair and stir them. Washing white shirts and boiling them so her brothers had a clean white shirt to wear everyday.

Later when she was a young teenager, she cleaned houses for the officers at Ft Meade

When I told her she should write her history down she always said, “Why, I never did anything special!”

Nope, not to some people I suppose. Just lived thru some of the toughest times in history in this country.

I still miss her.

Mom would have been 94 today.

Another wild and windy one. Been doing a lot of this lately.

Went to a  branding today. 84 or 85 year old feller and he roped and drug some of the calves out himself. Hope I can do that at that age if I am still around! Went up close to Sturgis yesterday and helped a feller sort pairs and ship them to summer grass. Rode enough to make my butt sore!

We are supposed to brand on Monday. Pictures to be posted at a later date.

If you live in this country I guess you shouldn’t cuss the wind cuz it blows a lot, but it seems to be on overtime this spring and in high gear too!  Cindy and I drove the pickup to Rapid to do some business and then pick her up a couple of fruit trees to plant. We dropped her lawn mower off at Cenex to get the oil changed and make it run (I am not mechanicly inclined. I can’t even spell mechanic!) I got a chip from my Cummins. Now I need to find some smart guy to hook it up for me. Hope it improves the mileage. I got 30 days to find out I guess.

 

Go help a feller sort pairs tomorrow and a branding the next day. Then maybe I can fix some fence and move some yearlings around here. We will brand a week from today. Oh joy! I like everybody’s branding but mine. Too much to think about.

 

Hope the wind don’t blow too hard tomorrow. Cows don’t sort worth a damn in the wind.

Obama Whiffs

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Appeasement: In slamming President Bush and John McCain, Barack Obama seemed to follow political consultant Jim Carville’s rule: “You’ve got to be willing to fight.” But what Obama is defending is indefensible.

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When the first President Bush charged in 1992 that the only way rival Bill Clinton could keep his big-spending campaign promises was by raising taxes on families earning $36,000 and up, Clinton hit back hard.

“It is a disgrace to the American people that the president of the United States would make a claim that is so baseless, so without foundation, so shameless, in an attempt to get votes under false pretenses,” he charged.

Of course, Clinton proceeded to raise taxes on families making way below $36,000. But his attack worked. Carville, the man who ran that historically successful campaign, believed in the art of counterpunch. One of his “Ten Rules for Progressives to Live By” is: “Sometimes you’ve got to be willing to fight. Period.”

Now, in a fashion nearly identical to Clinton, Sen. Obama has hit back hard at his accusers, President Bush and Sen. McCain. In this case, however, the counterpunch may end up being a wild haymaker that only makes its thrower look foolish.

In South Dakota on Friday, Obama complained that Bush, in a speech the day before to Israel’s Knesset, “accused me and other Democrats of wanting to negotiate with terrorists and said we were appeasers no different from people who appeased Adolf Hitler.” Then he said McCain “has repeated this notion that I’m prepared to negotiate with terrorists. I have never said that.”

But Obama’s Web site says he will negotiate with terrorists. “Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions,” it states.

In Friday’s speech, Obama’s proposed weapons against Iran were “deeper isolation and steeper sanctions.” Would such tactics have changed Hitler’s behavior in the 1930s? Why would it change that of another madman like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

Iran may be blowing up U.S. troops in Iraq and sponsoring terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, but what Obama worries about is that “Osama bin Laden is still at large sending out videotapes with impunity.” Since 9/11, how many al-Qaida videotapes have crashed into crowded buildings on U.S. soil?

That was only one of Obama’s gaffes. He also blamed the Bush administration for Hamas’ control of Gaza because the U.S. “insisted that we should have democratic elections in the Palestinian Authority.” Is Obama against freedom for Mideast Muslims?

Obama also gave the New York Times a look into his thinking on Iran. “We can encourage actors to think in practical and not ideological terms,” he said in an interview.

But practicality is ideology for Iran — whose president calls Israel a “stinking corpse” — just as the practical and the ideological merged in Hitler’s Germany.

However hard Obama fights the label of appeaser, his inability to recognize evil disqualifies him from the presidency in wartime

Went to a neighbors and branded today and will go to another tomorrow. The wind gusted up to 40 and was a pain. Rope whacking me and my horses in the face isn’t fun. I’m tired.

May 13th. MY fathers birthday. Wonder if I will ever think of this date any other way?

Another branding today. Here’s some pictures from a branding the other day on the fifth.

Me on Beaver, holding a cow’s feet so they could trim her.

Here we are sorting the cows from the calves. Only horses used.

I think this is the date of the latest blizzard we have ever had in this country. Don’t look like we will get one today.

 

Yearling got here yesterday. They sure are enjoying that green grass, even if it’s short.

 

Headed to another branding today and tomorrow. I love vacation time!

Happy Mothers day to all you wonderful mothers. If you aren’t a mother, then get in touch with yours. I can’t anymore. Wish I could.

 

Found a new blog this morning and it’s got some great stuff on it if you aren’t a liar, or liberal. Check it out.  

http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com/

 

Going to the neighbors to brand in a bit. We have the rest of the yearlings coming in today also. We got over .70 hundreds of rain and some snow yesterday, but the roads seem pretty dry. I think we are having a wet spring. Woo hoo!

Heres what it looks like this morning at about 10 am.

Fun, fun, fun!

 

Pairs are handling it fine. The new set of yearlings that came in the other day, think it really sucks!

 

6:30 pm update! Snow is all gone.

Reason’s behind global warming alarm?

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295139326448571

Just how stupid are these people……

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295139502258630

Go read this   http://thinking-right.com/    and then send a letter. It’s such a small thing for us to do for those who serve!

I got this from  http://www.blondesagacity.com/. You might want to check it out.

The U.K.’s Daily Mail did a piece on the biggest Hollywood Eco-hypocrites. 
Topping the list were Sting & wife Trudy. Apparently once she had her chef fly 100 miles to make her youngest a bowl of pasta…then there are all the mansions and Sting’s 750 person entourage.

Chris Martin (Coldplay lead singer and Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband): flies at least 100,000 miles in his private jet each year. I have to admit, that I loved seeing this pompous ass on the list… He brags about the mango trees he’s planted and flies home between shows to write songs…

Leonardo DiCaprio (Apparently known as ‘Leonardo the Lear Jet Liberal’) has yet to take up a request to make a pledge to swear off private jets–even though he has an “Environmental Documentary” coming out next month.

Brangelina: Brad Pitt drives a Prius (like Leonardo), but they used as much as 11,000 gallons of fuel in ONE DAY with their use of private planes.

Also included are John Travolta, Madonna, Babs, and Prince Charles.

The article says that the “make yourself feel better about your huge carbon footprint” charity of planting mango trees through ‘Future forests’ is a scan. most of the trees planted thus far have died and experts agree that carbon offsetting a celebrity lifestyle by planting a few trees is a huge scam.

 

And this. I’d read it before but it might be time to come around and have a little look at it again.

President Bush’s Resignation Speech;

“Normally, I start these things out by saying “My Fellow Americans”, not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution, let me assure you: There’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people. I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before, but it doesn’t sink in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security. We face real threats in the world.

Don’t give me this “blood for oil” crap. If I were trading blood for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq ’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied; People Died’ crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.

Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Clinton established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.

That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor.’

Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet; it just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a Cat 5 hurricane approaching. 

I could say more about your idiotic belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So, I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream of) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. 

That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it - you can have her. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that’s it. 

God bless what’s left of America . Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you - kiss my ass!”

It’s wet out there this morning! And I love it!

 

Check this out. Too bad they can’t get anything right. what amazes me is that people still listen to them and think they know what they are talking about…

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294959230563446

And this….

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294880707561262

Got the first of the yearlings in today. Mostly heifers to breed, but one load of steers also. I went to CRS and got some salt and iodine as they have been fighting the eyes on some of them I guess. Fixed some fence this afternoon. I am supposed to go to a branding tomorrow, but it is raining now and maybe it will rain us out tomorrow. I hope so! We need more rain and we got lots of time to brand calves.

Went to a branding today. Frankie hogged with me this morning and I got him rode. Wasn’t too big of a deal, but made an old fat man feel good to not fall off!

The new foal is a filly. I am going to call her Pinky!

Another branding tomorrow.

 

Oh and go check out this, for more about the ANWAR debate. 

http://halfbakedsourdough.blogspot.com/

That dang stud was busy last spring when he got out! Found this cute little rascal this morning.

Snow melted quit a little today. Cattle are enjoying the open ground with the green grass!

This is the best part of this deal, all the water!

 

Spring! Gotta love it!

2.5 inches in the rain gauge and you know a lot of the snow didn’t get in there. Great moisture. Praise the Lord!

 

And for those wondering about the cost and price of gas and diesel check this out.

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/04/30/ten-simple-truths-about-oil/

Ain’t had one of these for a long time. Over an inch of rain and at least 10 inches of wet, wet snow. Good for this dry ol’ country. Somewhat of a pain to take care of the animals in tho’. Blew the motor in my tractor. Good thing I have a 4 wheel drive and my team!

This will sure make the grass grow!

Looking out the front door on the east of the house. Looking to the north east.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294446195351209

 

If we all would send a copy of this to out Representatives in Washington and to the three who are running for President, telling them we agree, we might get something done.

Sweety had her colt. He’s a crackerjack ain’t he?

Everybody wants to see the baby!

Mama isn’t real impressed with the father! Typical new mother.

 

Here’s the forecast for this place, the next few days.

Tonight: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then showers likely. Low around 39. Breezy, with a north wind between 26 and 28 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Thursday: Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. High near 40. Breezy, with a north wind between 25 and 28 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Thursday Night: Snow and areas of blowing snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 29. Windy, with a north wind between 28 and 30 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Friday: Snow and areas of blowing snow, mainly before noon. High near 31. Windy, with a north wind between 26 and 32 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Blustery, with a northwest wind between 14 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Going to a neighbors to brand this morning. Will ghet everything in close and under cover as besat I can when I get home.

Seems we in this country always have to get a calf killer of a storm to get enough moisture to get us thru’ the spring/summer. Oh well, if we didn’t like it I guess we could move. At least I have a forewarning about this stuff. My Grampa had to guess at it!

Up west where Great Grampa homesteaded, looking south.

This is straight north of my house, looking back to the southwest. That is what is left of a big pile of hay that sat there last fall. I sure spoiled them cows, feeding them all that hay!

One of Chances cows with her calf getting some breakfast.

18 year old cow and her calf. I will pull this calf off in a week or so and raise it on a bottle and let her fatten up to be butchered this fall. Her head will get mounted to hang on the wall. Don’t give me hell, it will be an easy and peaceful end for her. She has been on this ranch since she was one year old. She has always had a good life and I raise cows so I and others will have beef to eat. That’s the way it works. When I die they will probably bury me and the worms get to eat. So the cycle continues.

 

A momma and pretty baby!

 

Can’t seem to get any more on here so may just have to make new posts.

 

Cold windy bitch! Oh well that’s why we love this country we live in and the life we lead. Was a little tricky ropin’ two hind feet in the wind tho!

 

Gonna have to start carrying my camera and posting pictures of baby calves and such.

http://halfbakedsourdough.blogspot.com/

 

Go read the second one down, if no others. Called “Playing God”.

Read this.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=293758110252962

And you want to keep everyone happy? Good luck.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=293758110252962

Wonder why the winter was colder in the middle of all this “Global Warming”?

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=293843193434228

Dug a post hole, tamped post and rehung a gate, then took down another gate, and put a new one in that spot to replace it. I had to do some welding on the gate. Then I cleaned some old hay and manure out of one of the corrals. Then saddled up Frankie and rode up and looked at the cows. Two new calves today. Doesn’t seem like a lot. I must have forgot something. Sure seems like I should habve done more. I am tired!

 

Found a new web comic. Kind of a conservative Doonsberry or however you spell it. 

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2002/11/01/

 

Check it out.

Found this while reading blogs this morning. Interesting reading.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120882720657033391.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

 

And also this one

 

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13089

 

And I found this blog the other day. I’d advise you to check it out as it is most excellent!

 

http://www.neanderpundit.com/

 

 

Gramma and I got a wild hair and drove down to Custer yesterday afternoon to see them grandkids we ain’t seen for awhile. Picked up Hope and the kids on the way. We all ate pizza and laughed. Good times, good times.

Trip went well other than there were dang few stops! Some people just don’t have to stop to pee as often as us old people evidently! Sure is some pretty country from about Broadus on west. Rained, snowed and sunshined on us off and on all day and into the night. Got home about 11 pm. I was stiff and tired.

 

 

 

 

Sunny the last couple days. Kids came out last night, for the weekend. Gus is just chattering away and going hells a poppin’! Sam is getting bigger. Tate and Kass had to help a friend move so we don’t get to see Gabe and Lige this weekend. Dammit!

 

 

We been getting a calf a day. Bulls must have been tired last summer.

 

Chance and I rode a couple of these young horses up west and north this afternoon.

 

 

 

Taking a 2 year old in to meet a guy from Iowa. Chink. He’s got a new home. I’d like to see him grow up, but I got lots of these horses. And I can sure always use the money.

Still windy also. We got another calf out there this morning. Heading out with a young neighbor who has to make a rush trip to Billings to get some horses. I’ll let you know how the trip went, unless it went badly!

Our guy who takes care of the horses teeth was at the neighbors today so I took Mijo and Dean up to him. He did quite a bit to both so it was a good thing I got them there. Cindy made me take her to the big city (population 20 or so) for dinner. Got up in the upper 70’s today and a lot of wind out of the south southwest. Still blowing tonight but it’s switched around out of the northwest. We got a couple calves in the last couple days. I rode Frankie up and checked just before dark tonight. He was real good so I must need to get my colt home from Eric to ride. He’s supposed to call me tonight. Maybe I can got get him tomorrow. Oh and I rode Beaver down and checked the tank fore the mares and young horses.

 

 

 

 

 

I got to work on the saddle a little today between all the rest.

Chan and Hope came out yesterday afternoon. They said it was a miserable day in Rapid. Windy sleet. Thgey were glad to get out here where the sun was shining, and it was just windy. I got Sam to smile for me! Gus just gets bigger and walks better ever time we see him. Chan and I worked on a set of carpenter bags for him. If they work I’ll probably build quite a few for guys he works with. Should make him help me on the tractor today and try and see why it’s making a funny noise. I hate to mechanic!

 

 

 

 

UPDATE: All we had to do to the tractor was tighten a bolt down on an injector! And I was even the one who figured it out! Cool. Who say’s I got no mechanic skills? LOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ve had several little snow storms blow thru’ today and then melt right off. Kind of weird. Oh well, we are in  South Dakota!

 

 

 

 

 

We got over an inch of moisture with snow and rain it looks like! Let it soak in and send some more!

http://www.nationalcenter.org/PolarBear.html

Environmental hysterics

By David Deming
April 6, 2008

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley recently warned that failure to take action on global warming could mean the extinction of the human race. Over the last few years, we’ve been repeatedly warned we are in the midst of a climate crisis that threatens our survival. Al Gore calls it a “planetary emergency.”
We might take this concern more seriously if the doom-mongering wing of the environmental movement weren’t burdened by a long history of false prophecies.
In the mid- to late-1960s, the leading environmental concern was overpopulation. The 1967 book “Famine 1975!” warned “by 1975 a disaster of unprecedented magnitude will face the world … famines will ravage the undeveloped nations … this is the greatest problem facing mankind.” A sober review of the book in the scholarly journal Science characterized the prediction of mass starvation as “self-evident,” argued that technological solutions were “unrealistic,” and concluded that catastrophe was unavoidable. The reviewer concluded “all responsible investigators agree that the tragedy will occur.”
More widely read was Paul Ehrlich’s shrill screed, “The Population Bomb” (1968). Mr. Ehrlich began with the infamous words “the battle to feed all of humanity is over,” and claimed that “in the 1970s … hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” “We must have population control,” Mr. Ehrlich argued, because it is the “only answer.”
Mr. Ehrlich followed “The Population Bomb” in 1969 with publication of the essay, “Eco-Catastrophe,” in which he predicted the Green Revolution would fail and that the “ignorance” of the Cornucopian economists would be exposed. By 1980, environmental degradation would wipe out all “important animal life” in the world’s oceans, people would choke to death from air pollution by the hundreds of thousands, and life expectancy in the United States would fall to 42 years. “Western society,” Mr. Ehrlich proclaimed, “is in the process of completing the rape and murder of the planet for economic gain.”
In 1975, the news media informed us that a new Ice Age was imminent. An article in the Chicago Tribune titled “B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon?” noted “It’s getting colder.” The Tribune interpreted a number of ordinary weather events “as evidence that a significant shift in climate is taking place — a shift that could be the forerunner of an Ice Age.” The New York Times chimed in, warning their readers that “a major cooling may be ahead.” Famed science reporter Walter Sullivan announced “the world’s climate is changing … a new ice age is on the way.”
Within 10 years, the imminent calamity of global cooling was replaced by global warming. And the mass famines predicted by Paul Ehrlich and others never happened.
From 1970 through 2000, the world’s population grew from 3.7 billion to 6.1 billion. But the food supply grew faster. Between 1970 and 2000, per capita food increased by 15 percent. The problem today is not of famine but of too much food. Obesity is even becoming a problem in the developing world.

• Feels, smells and looks like spring out there.
• I went out this morning and ran the geldings and team in seeing as how some smart aleck figured out how to untie the gate. I caugfht and harnessed the team and went up west to feed a bale to the cows. I walked the first half mile or so in my overboots and the mud and little snow that is left. I got on the wagon, drove up to the farthest hay corral and fed a bale. No new calves.
• I then drove home and walked while driving the team the last half mile home. I feel a lot better about all that ice cream I ate the other night now!
• When Chance and I fed hay the other day we had a slight wreck with a bale and some hay dropped in the gate I use all the time so when I got back to the barn I hooked on to the little wagon and drove back to it and pitched it on, pulled into the pasture and pitched it off. 
• When I turned the team out I caught up a couple saddle horse so I can go check on the mares and young horses.
• I have leather mellowing to carve on later.
• What have you been up to this morning?
• Ain’t a glorious day out there?

Just saw this and thought I would pass it along.

 

 

 

 

 

Recently, the inset email has been circulating. Humor me for a moment, if you will, and peruse it. Now, this really got me to thinking. What a great idea! This kind of thing could end the current equine industry crisis created by the closing of horse slaughter facilities in the United States.

The following is a sample letter that will be distributed:

Dear Anita Getaclue,

Thank you for your fervent support of the recent laws that were passed in Illinois and the taco state that effectively ended the closely regulated slaughter of horses in the United States. Thank you for pushing the practice past our borders and out of control of the USDA’s standards for humane treatment of food animals. We also appreciate your lobbying to pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act currently in Congress, which will end the transport of unwanted horses to foreign slaughterhouses and keep each and every one of them within the borders of our beautiful nation—alive and well!

You’ll be pleased to learn that the “alive and well” part is where you come in! A new organization has been created through the cooperative effort of the numerous horse industry organizations and the USDA, called “Save Horses In Trouble—Help End Abandonment & Death,” or SHITHEAD for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, and to alleviate the pressure on existing rescue facilities to take in the thousands of unwanted horses, we have decided to place one unwanted horse under the personal care of each and every person that supported banning horse slaughter in the United States.

As you may know, since the slaughter facilities have closed, not only have rescue facilities and shelters been inundated to the point that they have to close their doors to new arrivals, but many horses have also been neglected, starved to death, or abandoned because of the record high hay prices. Therefore, your participation in this program is mandatory. 

We understand that it is your feeling that horses are pets, not livestock, and since most people in the United States do not choose to eat them, therefore no one should, and all horses should live out their lives in an idyllic pastoral setting. We also understand that while your relatively large 40’ X 40’ suburban backyard isn’t exactly Yellowstone, it will just have to do. We are certain you will make the necessary adjustments.

Your unwanted horse is of unknown origin, but is roughly 6 years old (although we can’t get close enough to him to tell for sure), weighs approximately 1500 pounds and has a mean streak a mile wide, and has been known to randomly bite, strike, or kick, especially at small children, elderly people, and house pets. We have decided to call him “Satan.” 

While Satan is capable of physical aggression, unfortunately he is not able to be ridden because of his crooked front legs. He is capable, however, of reproducing, as he is a stallion. This is of special import to you, as your neighbors and fellow members of the “Horses Are Humans With Hooves” group will also be provided with horses through our program, some of which might be mares. 

For your information, the $20 you donate annually to the Humane Society of the United States can instead buy you approximately two bales of high-quality hay at the current market rate. Assuming that the bales weigh 100 pounds, and you feed 20 pounds to said beast per day, this will be enough to feed him for ten days. You will be happy to know that the lifespan of a horse averages about 25 years, and therefore Satan can bring you approximately 9,125 days of enjoyment. That is, of course, only if you provide him with the best care possible, which we are absolutely certain that you will. To ensure that Satan is receiving proper care, an inspector will visit your home on a weekly basis.

At your request, we can provide you with contact information for veterinarians, farriers, trainers, equine dental practitioners, whisperers, and tranquilizer gun dealers in your area, as well as the necessary contacts you will need for euthanasia and disposal of Satan’s earthly vessel when he crosses over. We foresee that Satan’s death will be especially traumatic for you, being the enlightened individual that you are, and counselors are already available at 1-900-NO-SENSE. ($3.99 for the first minute, $1.99 for each additional minute).

Unfortunately, there is no government financial assistance for care and maintenance costs of SHITHEAD horses, as all of the funds allocated for such things are dedicated to the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse program. 

Sincerely,

Gene E. Us

Program Director

If you look off to the side you will see the blog roll. This entry comes from the wonderful Matthew J Trask. He had this on his site and gave me permission to use it here. Check his site out some time. Just don’t let him  come to your house to eat!

 

The Unfortunate Fred Ziffle

My dad is one of those people who has to tell cautionary tales to children and the inexperienced, to warn them of various pitfalls.

The fictional individual my dad employed for this purpose was a man named Fred Ziffle.  Poor Mr. Ziffle couldn’t pour water out of a boot with instructions written on the heel, and he was dismembered almost weekly in one of Dad’s illustrations.

For example, if we were working around a PTO shaft, and someone in the group was wearing loose fitting clothing, particularly drawstrings on a sweatshirt, Mr. Ziffle, still covered in dirt from last week’s burial, would be hastily shoved to the front of our imaginations.

“You don’t ever wanna do that,” Dad would begin.  “Let’s say me and Fred Ziffle are working around the PTO shaft (poor Fred at this point grimacing and saying “oh sonofabitch not again!”) and Fred’s got those drawstrings hanging down and he bends over to look at something. ‘Mr. Trask, I think I’- and POW (he was always in the midst of addressing Dad when the calamity befell him) he’s all wrapped up in the PTO shaft, he’s dead, there’s blood all over…”

But the best part, the part that really drove it home, was yet to come.

“And then I got to go to the house and call Mrs. Ziffle (ah yes, the long suffering Mrs. Ziffle, who understandably lived in terror for the well-being of her son) and say, ‘Mrs. Ziffle, I’m sorry, but your boy was working on the PTO shaft and he, uh, well, I’m sorry, I tried to tell him, but he’s dead, you’re going to have to come out here and get him, I’m sorry.”

Such a shame.  He was recovering so nicely from that wire stretcher accident he had last week…

Here’s what it looked like from the front door this morning. this afternoon as I type this, the sun is shining and we still have some wind, but it looks pretty good out there. I don’t think this will stick around very long. Good moisture. Just as soon as this melts off, send more!

 

• “The problem being is that the same derelict sons-of-bitches that think mustangs running around is good and horse slaughter is evil are the same jack asses that think grizzlies are wonderful noble creatures and wolves won’t kill anything but sick and diseased wild game and they never kill for sport. They don’t have to live or work where these animals are. They don’t have an f-ing clue what goes on in the real world. They think Bambi and Thumper are out there just happy as pigs in shit running around playing with butterflies and singing damn coombaya or what the hell ever. These people are happy in their ignorance and think that the rest of us are ignorant for not thinking the way they think. The problem with stupid people is you can’t talk any sense into them. Bunch of damn Forrest Gump wannabes. And it aint going to get any better boys. Ignorance is self perpetuating. The smarter these ignorant environmentalist, save the (insert animal here), tree huggin bastards think they are, the dumber they get.”
• A lady sent this to me in an email. Sounds like a great idea!
• “Horse Slaughter Proposal From A Rancher:
   
  I would like to propose a back-at-you reply to the US government and their horse slaughter ban.  I propose that on Independence Day, July 4, everybody should take their old used-up horses to the nearest national park or monument and donate them to the US government.  By actually handing the reins over to a park official and telling them you are making a donation they cannot charge you with abandonment.   They will become responsible for that animal from that moment on.   What a pretty picture to see hundreds of horses drinking at the reflecting pool at the Washington mall.   Or hundreds of horses tied up on the avenue of flags at Mount Rushmore.   If there is not a national park or monument nearby, donate your horse to the local PETA officials or your congressmen that voted for the ban.   You might even be able to claim a charitable gift tax deduction next year on your tax return.”

Took Gramma to town yesterday and we got a new sofa. It’s got built in recliners in each end. I wanted a love seat like that but Cindy wanted this. Guess who won?

We moved Tate, Kass and the boys into a rental in Custer. It will make it a lot nicer for them, but me and Gramma will miss having them grandbabies around all the time. I bet we make a trip down there pretty often now!

• We got a regular spring blizzard going on! Wind out of the east with real wet snow. Good stuff! Had an insurance man here yesterday. Cindy wants more insurance on me. Kind of scary!
• And on the global warming front, http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=291423153272209

Worked in the shop most of the afternoon and into the evening. Had a young man come over to work on his chaps. Supposed to be another one coming tonight, but I am about ready to give up on him. Why is it they want to work all day and then want me to work at night?