 By baregrass, on February 8th, 2010
Since January 28th we have gotten around 20 inches of snow and since we have been in a real drought for the last few years it is quite welcome. We got around 6 inches last night and the weather man says that we might have more on Wednesday and again during the weekend.
The only thing I have to complain about is that our driveway, which is an eighth of a mile long, is getting in pretty ragged shape. One of my tasks when it dries up good is to get out the tractor and blade, shape it up pretty good and get a bunch of base course hauled in to spread on it. The ruts are so deep now that the pickup is the only way in and out.
I did have to get up on the roof with a push broom and push a bunch of snow off the roof today after I heard the rafters groan a little bit. Having a flat roof has its disabilities and getting too much heavy snow on it is one of them.
By baregrass, on January 23rd, 2010
Now the latest mantra coming out of the administration and the far left Democrats is that the big banks must be punished for their misdeeds. What a laugh! Obama and the left wing Democrats take on Wall Street and the big investment banks??? I doubt it when Goldman Sachs and the rest were his big contributors.
Rest easy folks, this is all a rhetorical shell game charade that is meant to go nowhere. I bet the word has already gone out to the bankers “don’t worry, we have to make you look like villains for a while to cover up for our screw ups but keep the campaign contributions coming in and we will take good care of you”.
When are we Americans going to realize that when politicians target an industry or a segment of society all they are doing is trolling for cash? Call me cynical if you want.
By baregrass, on January 21st, 2010
All I can say is congratulations Scott Brown and thank you Massachusetts!
By baregrass, on December 31st, 2009
This is my last post for 2009. In a little less than 3 hours it will be history and thank God! What a year. My wish for all is that 2010 will be much better. I also hope that all the members of the US House of Representatives get voted out. Don’t really care who replaces them. A message must be sent that the nation’s problems must be their first business and not their own personal aggrandizement. The corruption at too many levels of politics is stunning. I also hope that the corruption going on at the state level here in New Mexico be exposed and successfully prosecuted. Maybe I’m asking too much.
Finally, two more wishes. I wish that the voting public would rediscover that God and his precepts are the foundations of liberty. Too many are off worshiping at the altars of statism, greed, political hatred and other man-made religions. The Creator of all things has set certain rules in place and we depart from them at our peril. My final wish, for today anyway!, is that we get enough snow and rain for agriculture to flourish here in New Mexico. It has been a long dry spell over most of the state.
By baregrass, on December 24th, 2009
And yes, it is a white Christmas in Quay County!
By baregrass, on December 23rd, 2009
 Merry Christmas to one and all. Looks like it will be very cold here but not much snow if at all although it is snowing lightly right now. Well, have fun and do something nice for someone else!
By baregrass, on December 9th, 2009
Finally! Looks like there might be a resolution to the lawsuit filed so many years ago by Elouise Cobell of the Blackfeet tribe against the US Department of the Interior. The lawsuit claimed that the federal government mismanaged individual Indians’ trust accounts and had been doing so for around a hundred years. For more and better details go to the plaintiff’s press release here.
For all my criticisms of the Obama administration they have made an effort here to clear up one of the festering wounds in the relations between the Native Americans and the federal government. I just wish the amount settled on was much closer to the real damage done to the tribes. We can send billions overseas but we can’t do right by the poorest and most under represented population in this country. Now Congress has to do the right thing and clear this settlement out fast.
Congratulations to Ms. Cobell and God bless you.
By baregrass, on December 7th, 2009
Most of us know about the attack on Pearl Harbor and it is rightly remembered by the nation but something else happened on December 7th that is hardly ever remembered. The Japanese also attacked the Philippines on that day as well. Because the American troops there were ill equipped, outnumbered and unable to be resupplied and starving they had to surrender after 3 months. The result was horrific. Around a quarter of the American and Philipino soldiers died or were killed on the way to the prison camps. Maybe half of the survivors died or were killed in the prison camps in the succeeding years. They were finally liberated in early 1945.
The 200th Coast Artillery, a National guard unit from New Mexico, was sent to the Philippines in 1941 and whose members experienced the full horrors of the battles, the death March and the camps. They have never been properly recognized for their suffering. There are probably only about 30 left alive here in New Mexico. They were and are heroes.
By baregrass, on December 4th, 2009
Seems like it. 9 degrees this morning with our second snowfall in 2 weeks. It is supposed to warm up later today and we might get up to 35 by this afternoon. Never got above 25 yesterday. Maybe we can have a white Christmas this year!
Oh, and looks like we might have Christmas cards out early this year as well. We have come close to not sending out cards in recent years but I finally realized that in this fragmented world it is one of the few ways to keep a little contact with friends and relatives. I just wish it was easier to find decent cards with the true message of Christ’s Birthday on them, that being that He is the Son of God. I hate all this “holiday stuff”. It isn’t a “holiday”. It’s the remembrance of the coming into the world of the Messiah. And He will return when the appointed time arrives.
By baregrass, on November 17th, 2009
John Stephenson wrote an excellent article on Pajamas Media and the role of the ACLU in getting Eric Holder to hold Khalid Mohammed’s terrorist trial in a civilian court in New York instead of trying him in a military tribunal and here is what I feel is the most important thing he said, “with an $8.5 million budget to defend terrorists currently held at Guantanamo.”
Since “follow the money” is the first rule of politics, that $8.5 million might be important especially in the light of the millions more to come and all of it from taxpayers’ pockets. How much of that will ultimately end back up as campaign contributions to Democrat PAC’s from the ACLU and its members? Foolish question?
The ACLU and fellow travelers get to push their socialist agenda, Democrat politicians get campaign contributions they don’t have to stump for and all of it on the taxpayers’ dime. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too!
Oh, one more silly little question, “who gets to pay for the added security for the trial and, just in case the worst happens, who gets to pay for the damage from another Islamic terrorist attack connected with the trial”? Oh silly me, I should have known! It’s the taxpayers again!
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