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Post by HiTemp on Jun 11, 2015 17:07:01 GMT -7
Before the last election when I was saying that I don't see any point in voting any more, my main reason was that there is essentially no difference in the government we get. Oh, to be sure the R's have a totally different picture of how they should steer the country from the course postulated by the D's, but what difference does that make if either direction favors special interest to the detriment of what is left of a working class? And what difference if either course takes us over the edge of the cliff?
Today one of the snakes showed his true colors. Ryan is reported to have said that this secret trade bill would "be declassified once it's passed." Gee, how nice of them. I don't even understand HOW they can classify this information in the first place, because it doesn't meet any classification criteria that I've ever dealt with. Is it a matter of national security? If so, how is a trade bill lumped in with that? Is it a matter of not revealing embarrassing information that would bring discredit upon the US? How? Are there troop movements or strategic force repositionings involved here? If so, what troops or forces move at the behest of a trade bill?
The kicker that makes this totally ridiculous is the whole idea that, once passed into law, it's no longer necessary to conceal the details. Well I might have been born at night but it wasn't last night. The only conceivable reason for that kind of secrecy is to pass legislation without having to put up with any kind of serious opposition or viewpoint.
So, welcome to the Amerikan Soviet!!! A place where the blanket of illusion government is spread across everything. Where no one is responsible nor accountable for anything they do as elected officials. Where our data is collected, collated, stored, and stolen without so much as a peep to those who took it and left their fingerprints at the scene.
Vote for us and we'll put a stop to Obama and his secret deals that Americans can't read before it is voted on.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Sure, Mr. Ryan. Sure.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 12, 2015 5:59:19 GMT -7
They already shown their true colors, just weeks after winning the house and before sworn in they passed the spending bill without so much a blink of an eye, my senator called me after a particularly frank email I sent. he told they won't really do anything that causes a govt shut down, because they get blamed for it in the press. It seems that has carried over to doing anything at all to counter this president or federal power at all. They think they can use the same tactic of doing nothing, blaming the president and the win the whitehouse by default, and then do nothing anyway because they will have to protect their majority by doing what the minority wants. Apparently thats what people want because the same jerkoffs keep getting elected.
AS to the trade bill, if Obama wants it, its bad for working Americans, nothing he has done or wants to do benefits us in any way, why would this be the one exception.
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 12, 2015 11:25:28 GMT -7
It's a sad day in America when we have to be saved by Nancy Pelosi, of all people, from a bill no one outside of congress (and many inside congress) haven't even read.
Defeated in the House, but for how long? It must have really ticked off the unions because otherwise they'd all be jumping on the bandwagon for the secret bill. I suppose they'll make new concessions this week and resurrect it for a vote inside a couple weeks.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 13, 2015 5:34:12 GMT -7
Probably, but I have to give credit to our Rep, Cynthia Lummis. She said with all the abuse of power this president has shown, she won't give one more to him, which is pretty much what I said when I wrote her. Our WY gun owners ass. had put up a facebook post about how she had sold us out and voted for gun free zones in 2012, but for the most part she has been a pretty solid roadblock for big govt and anti gun agenda, I wish I could say the same about our senators who apparently been assimilated by the DC Borg.
Paul Ryan is a disgrace, The whole idea we can't read a law before its passed should have those bastards hanging from bridges, and they keep it up, that's what going to happen.
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 13, 2015 6:47:02 GMT -7
Well it was a simple matter of laws being passed (taxation) without representation that was the cause of the former government being replaced. And like that government, the feeling that a strong military presence and stripping the people of rights and powers will be enough to keep them from ever revolting. Turned out that didn't work out so well, did it?
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 14, 2015 6:52:37 GMT -7
Radical and extremists, I'm sure Jefferson and Hancock etc would be as demonized as any on the right are today. But to hear revisionist statists talk about them, they were channeling Karl Marx. They truly are piling more and more straw on the camels back, the WOTUS rules, where the EPA and therefore the fed has assumed control and regulation of all water in the US is another, and a pretty big straw for those of use who have land and water rights. If they think we are going to sit and do nothing while they californicate the whole country, they may be in for nore rude surprises like the Bundy thing.
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 14, 2015 10:20:04 GMT -7
I can't see them messing with you folks in WY. After all, you've got Longmire.  |
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 15, 2015 5:30:52 GMT -7
Well, on cable anyway.  |
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 15, 2015 5:42:21 GMT -7
Think it was Netflix that bought another season of it after the cable network dropped it. I happened to see it on Netflix and watched a few shows of the first season, then bookmarked it to watch some more when I get time. Pretty good show IMO. Has the drama of Gunsmoke, the time-release elements of the plot like Columbo, and the ongoing episode personal interactions of Hill St. Blues. I think they play a little too heavy on the "screwing Indians" theme, but then again a lot of Native Americans I know feel that way whether they are personally justified or not, so in that respect I suppose it's realistic.
Something tells me that would make for a good episode... the EPA swoops in to exert federal control over a puddle at Longmire's place. While his deputies have a tryst at a motel, Longmire solves the suicide by drowning case of EPA guy found face down in the puddle.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 15, 2015 6:26:47 GMT -7
Heheh, I like the show. The problem is, it would be like watching a drama about navel nuke techs for you, and you would be picking it apart like I do. That whole episode of "wildcat rogue" rodeos held by headlights had me use half a roll of duct tape on my head. |
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 15, 2015 15:47:26 GMT -7
Only show like that so far has been the old '60s series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. They only had one "nuke" in the engine room, that was Kawalski. Course he also operated all the diving controls and fired a torpedo now and then, so we couldn't know just what he was. I always loved it when they had to move the control rods.. they'd send the Capt. in the reactor compartment with a pipe wrench. LOL Yeah, that show's been picked apart.
Rogue rodeos with car headlights. Now there's an interesting concept. I haven't seen that one yet. The only reference to a rodeo so far was some dude who was losing sponsors and ended up using a hot-shot device to shock the horses so as to improve his score. Around here, we have the occasional idiot fighting his dogs, and once in a longer while they bag some cockfighting rednecks up along the northern state line. If they got the idea of impromptu rodeos using car headlights there's no telling what evil they'd be able to come up with. Bass fighting rodeo, no doubt.
Another redeeming quality of Longmire is the photography and scenery. The one thing I miss about living out west is the ability to see for miles. I used to be able to see Mt. Rainier out my front door, clear as a bell and 80 miles away. I used to take the wife and the dog (no chirren back then) up on this turnout from a logging road on Green Mountain, and from there you could see all the way across the Hood River valley to the sub base in Bangor, WA. Bigfoot hunter's paradise, it was like you could see forever.
Here in Florida you can see maybe 150ft average to an oak or a magnolia tree, pines if you're on the west side of town. Fl is flat as a pancake so it isn't like there's a mountain off in the distance to see. We get so used to seeing things relatively close up it takes a few minutes when I get on the 300-500yd rifle range for my eyes to adjust trying to see that far. Never had that problem til I lived here.
Oh yeah, so far Longmire gets a personal kudo for using his lever action without the hollywood-mandated lever operation first and four or five times during an action sequence while no casings or rounds eject. Longmire at least keeps his shootin' iron ready for bidnez! Show I watched he just snatched it up out of the truck and nailed an evading driver a couple hundred yards away. Then walked casually up to the bad guy who was pointing and firing a Sharps .50. Damn.
I'll have to watch a couple more tonight so I can catch up.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 15, 2015 16:45:26 GMT -7
Thats one of the things that irked me, it was filmed in NM. But if you want to see real wide open WY check out the pics. We moved cattle and my wife snapped some pics of green sping pastures. And my cousin bought one of those fancy drones we were talking about, and was showing off taking video while I flew, or whatever it was I was doing anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-K8smoTPD4 |
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 15, 2015 18:34:15 GMT -7
I wasn't able to see the pics. Got a "content not available OR you may not have permission" kind of message. Nice video, though!! I couldn't see you at first as my eyes were trying to follow the airplane. Then I realized there was a cowboy hat sitting on the ground for no apparent reason... then I saw the radio. LOL I measured you at 3mm in the video; somehow I'd imagined you were much taller than that.  Beautiful spot to do some flying, and the kind of wide-open spaces I like. The video from the drone is pretty good, really good when he dropped it down lower. The vid was nice and stable throughout. I'm impressed. Could be prairie dog surveillance just ramped up a notch. |
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 15, 2015 19:17:19 GMT -7
fine, take that Facebook and your permission crap. I was trying to link the album   Yeah, that's not the best it can do, thats just what it comes out like in youtube, the raw video is pretty sharp and clear, the new cameras on them lack the fisheye as well. Still don't know if its worth it, but I guess he does. |
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 16, 2015 5:50:08 GMT -7
Beautiful! Could be FL with all the trees cut down except there are some mountains visible in the distance and that magnificent sky full of cirrus clouds. About the only time we see those here are in the winter and after a hurricane. Rest of the time it's these fat, puffy thunder cells that can be black as coal on the bottom.
If it just wasn't so blasted cold in the winter that would be a place I'd love to live. Nah, I'd love to live there anyway, sub-zeros, wind, and all.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Jun 16, 2015 7:18:09 GMT -7
Heh, well its as green in this whole region as I have seen it here in all of my 50 years that I remember, so its makes great selling point right now. 4 or 5 years ago, there was no grass above ankle high and everything was brown by July. All that open lets the wind crank up, we get days that look like pics of Iraq in sandstorms. But right now its pretty nice anyway. We get plenty of the rain loaded thunderstorms too, but a lot of time like this one they start here and rain on Nebraska later.  This one made a pretty sunset, but got us pretty wet after dark.  |
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Post by HiTemp on Jun 16, 2015 13:57:41 GMT -7
Beautiful pics. Except for the hills in the background those could be pictures of the area of FL right near the bend, around Plant City to north of Gainsville or west nearly to Tallahassee. That's a big ranching and farming area and is probably the best part of the state IMO. They dodge most of the hurricanes and it is all small towns, nothing built up like the Megacities (Orlando, Miami, Tampa, etc.). You know you're in the right country when a prominent part of town is a huge feed store.
Usually if we're driving down to central Florida we'll stop and do some horseback riding near the Plant City area on some pretty trails that go through big stands of oak as well as through cypress swamps. The air feels about 15 degrees cooler there than when you get out of the car. I've seen plenty of deer out there, wild hogs, foxes, and a slew of different birds we don't see over here in the western tip of the state. Those stables are the best I've ever seen. Place is immaculate and the animals are treated top notch, and that's not a very common thing with riding stables in FL, at least some of the ones I've been to. Some of them you get the feeling if you walked back to the stable they'd be fine with it so long as you brought back the saddle and bridle, the horse could be gator bait for all they seem to care. As a former horse owner that disturbs me greatly. More than once I've been shoosed back into the car by the boss when I was about to convey my opinion of people who can't take even the basic care of their horses. It's not that hard. Probably only keeping them around to make a buck or two off folks who wander in looking to ride.
Great photos, though. Looks like a mighty nice place to live.
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