Mountain Attachment

My ma and pa

and two brothers

have gone on before

We laid them to rest

In these mountains

Free to fly and soar

Which must explain the attachment

These mountain have for me

The single place

Where I feel most free

I'm mountain bound

I'm hammering down

I am climbing up the grade

For I am a mountain man

That is how I was made.

by Ranger Bill

The least qualified to be Secretary of Defense

His only claim to fame militarily is his service from 1964-66.

Two years in Army intelligence during President Johnson's Vietnam War.

We know how effective that proved to be.

We are engaged in a war against terror, you would think the most qualified would be placed in that critical post and politics be damned. Protect America first. Why not Sen. McCain who is amply qualifeid for that position or Sen. Leiberman.

The source of information of this CIA chief during the recent Egyptian crisis was CNN, not his own CIA operatives, just reporters. Get real and fire this incompetent idiot.

A path to citizenship

I have a perfectly fine idea for those who seek a path to citizenship.

There would be two paths to take. One has to do with an American Foreign Legion.

Those serving in the AFL would serve in overseas assignments and in a support role to military units doing the logistical things for those deployed military units.

The other path would be the American Domestic Legion. Those

who chose the route of the ADL would be similar roles but supporting Homeland Security, BLM, USFS, Border Patrol, FEMA, National Guard, Coast Guard. They could be fighting forest fires

for instance. Service in either the ADL or the AFL would be a minimum six years but would lead to citizenship for they and their immediate family. Career service could also be encouraged.

Love these paint jobs, look closely at that Pepsi truck

Photo taken by Dana. We were Northbound last summer in a Carlile truck.

This is the driver's view rounding a bend at Muncho Lake. Pucker time with road narrowing along the lake shore.

I picked up three plates similar to these. I only wish I had the Ledoux vanity plate but I do have a 1971 WYO truck plate.

Fuel prices have started up and we have two months or more till Memorial day, you can count on $5 gal gas by then. For truckers it is worse-trucking companies like the one I work for are nervous-Diesel prices have peaked in Colorado at $4 gallon.

When you have some damned big cream filled oatmeal sandwich cookies, you need a truck, not a train, but a truck to get them to market

Pottishaw, similar but drastically different than a common rickashaw.

At last a place for everything. This would have come in handy
many times..

First there was Wikileaks, I have considered a new blog

giving voice to the many memos on toilet walls-PottiLeaks

You get help when it's offered, zoom in and you will see how my UT plate is going to be added.

HI plate acquired in UT for a price. This I would have thought to be the most difficult to obtain. 49 to go

And if I like it real well, then maybe I'll get the motor home version.

My new ride, Peterbuilt 387

The one photo is Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County at the time Wyatt Earp was in Tombstone. The other photo of Sheriff Dupnik of Pima County.

What the two share in common are the incredible incompentence.

Sheriff Dipstick has been making political speeches instead of pursuing his investigation. May as well call him Barney Fife or Johnny Behan...

Some things to consider about assassins

Assassins are not members of the Tea Party, but consider this.

John Wilkes Booth-leftist nut, Southern sympathizer, certainly not a Republican

Lee Harvey Oswald-leftist extremist, communist

Hinkley-generally a nut residing in Boulder a bastion of liberalism, inspired by Jody Foster films

Sirhan Sirhan-disgruntled person of arabic descent.

James Earl Ray-another leftist nutjob

Sorry no tea party members appear on this list, no Republicans, no conservatives.