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Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on March 17, 2023, 09:40 AM:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said in a tweet Monday that the Biden administration refused to commit to not bailing out Chinese companies that invested in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) with American taxpayer money.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/03/13/tom-cotton-biden-admin-refused-commit-not-bailing-chinese-svb-investors/
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 17, 2023, 01:58 PM:
I'm sure that Biden's just waiting for instructions from Peking and everything will be ok.
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on March 17, 2023, 02:03 PM:
well yes of course, because we all know how the Chi-coms have our best interest at heart.
Posted by MI VHNTR (Member # 3370) on March 17, 2023, 04:16 PM:
Don't forget 10% for the big guy.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 19, 2023, 08:29 AM:
Bog Guy= former big rig driver.
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on March 19, 2023, 09:31 AM:
Reparations to Corn Pop, he was a Bad Dude!
Hey LB, I here your Gov is wanting to give away millions per black person. Wonder how the SF population might grow now.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 19, 2023, 10:51 AM:
Yeah, Newsome is opening a shit storm in a can of worms with this 'reparations' foolishness.
Problem #1 is going to be to define 'black'. If someone is 50% black will they get 50% reparations ??
Problem #2 is going to be a massive influx of blacks looking for their share of the handout $$$. All fine upstanding citizens I'm sure.
Problem #3 is going to be when Newsome runs for President and the whole country wants their share of sugar.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 19, 2023, 02:00 PM:
In all candor, can this "Reparations" bullshit actually happen, even in Luny Tune, The People's Republik of Kalifornia?
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 19, 2023, 04:10 PM:
Of course it will happen because it's your fucked up state of Commifornia and anything totally nonsense seems to be the norm. The peoples done want it.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 19, 2023, 05:01 PM:
Just like Biden bought votes with that 'student loan forgiveness' bullshit, Newsome wants to buy votes with 'reparations'.
Yeah, it could happen.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 20, 2023, 01:02 PM:
Here's a plan worth kicking around. You guys should praise me instead of making me feel like shit fo the crime of being the only sane man left in Kalifornia. So, all of you and your friends should move back to The People's Republik and we will vote out those cocksuckers!
Otherwise, it would cause bankruptcy to dig a trench and let the whole state slide out to sea. I know, I know; it sounds like a great idea! But, you couldn't get two citizens to vote for such a bold and sensible plan, so it would never happen.
Meanwhile, just you wait and see. The whole country will pay the Kalifornia reparations initiative and black people will love us for it. And it will be just the start. Arizona will call us PIKERS and up the anti to $10 million. Then Texas will again raise it to $19 million, and Minneesota, (where they hate odd numbers), they will vote to round it off to an even $6 million.
I know. I know. It can't be helped.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 20, 2023, 03:25 PM:
Leonard, you should actually look at yourself the way a lot of us think of you.
As a prophet attempting to spread the good word and most likely to become a martyr and be revered by many as a noble and the only honest man left in California. Either way, win lose or draw, you are predestined to doom.
It somehow was written long ago on some scroll, yet to be found, in some old Indian cave somewhere in or near the Black Rock Desert.
Well....I think it sounds good anyways.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 20, 2023, 05:06 PM:
I'm trying to bring up a visual of a bearded El Bee wearing robes and sandals preaching the word to liberals.
It's just not happening, though.
Maybe after a couple more Fireball Martinis.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 21, 2023, 07:18 AM:
I could bring that off! I got all that shit, robe, JC sandals, plus my crooked Palo Verde walking stick, uh….
NO!
WAIT!
(I hate beards, got nothing to hide) so maybe I couldn’t pull it off, after all? 🤔
….what’s Plan B again?
[ March 21, 2023, 07:25 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 21, 2023, 11:34 AM:
A small atomic device sounds like a good idea to me.
Well placed one maybe say Sacramento?
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 21, 2023, 11:51 AM:
Yeah! And, did you say, "Hold my beer!"
The Black Rock Desert! Seven Troughs! It's kinda amazing the number of Bobcat I took out of that area, over the years. Best, or highest concentration of cats I ever ran across; and they are nice Lynx Cats! Seemed like every little hill had a cat in residence, at least one, because I once killed 3 on a stand, one night. They are so curious! And another surprising little nugget is you will stumble across a lion once in a while, even out on the flats.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 22, 2023, 11:28 AM:
Sitting here with a beer in my hand and reminiscing about the Black Rock and Smoke Creek deserts And went wow, your right I have seen over the years cats, dogs, antelope, deer and sheep out on the playa and of course coyotes but not a big cat. They mostly stayed up higher where the sheep liked to stay and the big ol bucks. Very fond memories,,thanks Leonard. I love that country up there.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 23, 2023, 10:39 AM:
Me too! From Rosebud Canyon up to Sawtooth and north to Denio, and do not forget Bishop Canyon! The locals have that access camouflaged, but stay with it! And Paradise, good hunting! I skinned a real nice cat right next to the blacktop one time and left a damned good knife just laying on the shoulder for somebody on foot. I love that part of the state, but that "Burning Man bullshit can't help anything. One night a saw a pickup totally creamed by a range cow close to Pyramid Lake. You would think he ran into a friggin' 18 wheeler!
Good hunting. El Bee
[ March 23, 2023, 11:33 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 23, 2023, 02:18 PM:
Believe me when I tell you that most of the ranchers up there did not care for or like Burning Man.
That does happen rather close to Gerlach but the idiots go cruising about and do fuck things up.
I have a friend that USED to support that crap a long time ago and the Burning Man committee or whatever just tried to bilk him of a lot of money.
He finally said screw you and became an anti Burning Man person of means.
But that country up there has to be seen. No jets above, no other people for days and days at a time.
And it is a LONG ways between ranches where you can't get help if you break down.
The hot springs are absolutely wonderful and the late wife and I had the proverbial ALL over tan.
That country from Winnemucca, remember the hiway sign that said "English Spoken Here". That got tore down a long time ago. Had a good coyote hunting and shooting buddy from Paradise Valley and they had the 4R Ranch. On and on. Leonard , thank you for making me remember those days of yore. Nothing to go out and call a bunch of coyotes and be with the wife and Mother Earth as friends was priceless
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 23, 2023, 04:40 PM:
Here's the unvarnished truth about northern Nevada. It pleases me that you can fire a shot and nobody hears it! That is solitude, Amigo! Crossing the Pony Express Trail is just another questionable dirt road. It's timeless when you can mark a turnoff with a muffler and tailpipe stuck in the ground taking you to Cow Creek. It seems like every road heading uphill dead ends at a mine of some sort. I never used to know what the hell those pads were for; until watching all those gold digging videos. I should have saved one or 2 of those Log Cabin tins shaped like a Log Cabin! Miners don't toss their trash too far down the gully. The land is barren to the untrained eye, but it's still part of the charm. Yes, an all over tan is certainly possible up at Kyle Hot Springs. The site has been vandalized over the years but those cabins used to be quite serviceable, it's a damned shame that people have no respect....must be those piss ant Californians?
And, some people nod their head when you talk about a Nevada Rifle. You do have to reach out there on occasion, kept dialed in for 4 hundred yards, I don't like to shoot anything further than that because spotting them in endless sagebrush flats can be difficult at night. And, all night gas is a valuable knowledge, you can drive a whole tank full in the dirt, and you had better have a plan B.
Good times, for sure!
Good hunting. El Bee
PS hey, anybody know that tree along the loneliest highway in America with 50 sets of tennis shoes hanging from the branches?
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 24, 2023, 04:07 AM:
The "Shoe Tree" by Middlegate between Fallon and Austin was chopped down a few years before I moved to TN..It was in the newspapers and really pissed off a LOT of people.
People are so destructive, I and the wife used to go throughout the state to the many hot springs and they all seemed to always end up trashed by dumbshits. And the old lineshacks would get torn down or torched, much to the dismay of just a few ranchers. And this is progress???
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 24, 2023, 10:56 AM:
That's very sad information, Walt! Who in the hell would bother to chop down that friggin' tree? And, WHY, for god sake? Again, must be some asshole from California.
How about this, Walt? Maybe you noticed that Victor, another honorable HM member moved to Florida. And, recently, he moved back to his roots, southern Arizona.
I have heard you say, well, not actually "heard" but you have written that you are quite happy in Tennessee. I'm sure you are but I detect a small bit of nostalgia for the wide open sagebrush and the mustangs of central and northern Nevada. Perhaps you will come back to Eastgate or Middlegate or even Fallon for a relaxing weekend....or two. Hard to get that country out of your system, ain't it?
Just a trip down memory lane!
Good hunting. El Bee ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 24, 2023, 12:05 PM:
Somewhere in Northern Nev. long long ago. Possibly out of Winnemucca near some railroad tracks;
Found a 'cabin'.
This thing was a bit odd. About three feet above ground level and about five feet below. Built with railroad ties. Had a kitchen and a couple of bunk rooms. Woodstove was gone, bedframes / springs still there but the mattresses long gone into rat nests.
Kind of a neat ground level view out where the window would be. Probably a bit more consistent winter / summer temps inside being mostly below ground.
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on March 24, 2023, 02:04 PM:
NVWalt,
Are you down by the "Tail of the Dragon"? I love riding over there on our bikes, especially the Parkway. We usually stay at Pigeon Forge, or now Maggie Valley.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 24, 2023, 02:07 PM:
Yes, and I know exactly where that thing is! And, railroad ties happens to be a rather common construction material all over the place, up there. I've found at least a half a dozen just north of I-80 which follows RR tracks and I suppose some are like discarded, used and unserviceable so they are not necessarily stolen. But, you have to agree, they are damned near bomb proof.
You know, there is a lean to, horse corral and hot springs just south of the border in Denio. You had better not stick your hand in that nice clear water! It is scalding HOT. My buddy sort of absentmindedly reached to the bottom to get a slick coyote's skull and came back rather abruptly; without the skull! He scalded the hell out of his whole arm and hand. I mean, it was the dead of winter and cold as hell and that spring was bubbling and actually boiling bubbles coming up. Maybe somebody planned to come back for his skull but Richard decided to leave it alone after thinking about it. He should have thought about it before , but I bet he won't ever forget it.
Good hunting. El Bee
[ March 24, 2023, 02:10 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on March 24, 2023, 02:12 PM:
I love riding in the Smokies
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 24, 2023, 03:23 PM:
Yes I do miss Nevada but I had my heart replumbed and where I happened to live the winter is VERY long and it just became miserable for me to spend anytime out in the snow as I always was shivering and couldn't get warm. I do believe it was the blood thinners that did it to me. When you are 6-8000 ft in winter there it is cold. That's one reason there are not many people out there.
I couldn't not move to TN. because of family commitments, but believe me I really do miss the isolation and wide open spaces.
Dan, I live close enough to the Tail of the Dragon I am in Tellico Plains and just off 68. We have the Dragons lesser tail and we are the gateway to the Smokies which are pretty to look at from the house here.
Maybe before I die I will get a chance to go back and at least visit friends and family I still have there in Nevada. One thing I noticed right off here was the amount of churches, the Bible Belt for real reminds me of Mormon country with a church on every corner only these are mainly Baptist and Methodist. We do have a Mennonite farm compound(?) 1 mile from my door that has the best produce I ever ate.I say that because I love to cook and having GOOD produce sure makes a differance.
So much for the ramblings of an old fart.
South of Denio is also Soldier Meadows and some truely beautiful hot springs.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 24, 2023, 03:36 PM:
Well, it's like this. I have lived my whole life in Minnesota, and California except for 2 years in west Germany. But, I'd be ok with being planted somewhere up in northern Nevada because the attitude agrees with me.
However, the last time I was in Elko, I could not believe how that town has grown! So, I'll take Battle Mountain or Lovelock or maybe Winnemucca?
However #2, not sure about that because my wife is waiting for me at the beautiful National Cemetery in Riverside, CA. Yup, lots to think about.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: PS Walt. Exactly how far did you live from Austin and the Continental Divide? You probably could have thrown a rock at US50 from your porch?
[ March 24, 2023, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 25, 2023, 02:43 AM:
I was aways past Austin and east of Eureka about 35 miles AND the "OLD Lincoln Hwy" went through the place. After traveling over that old dirt stretch of the road and having encountered many remains of old time cars there I always wondered at how they really did it as there are stretches of it that are for us really 4 wheel drive areas. Amazing what they did back then.
I was talking to an old girl many years ago that lived at the Mormon ranch, not affiliated to the Mormon Church, when she was a little girl her mom would gather her and her siblings and get them in the house when one of those horrid automobiles would come by making all that racket. The road was right in front of the ranch house. And that wasn't very often.
Maybe I'll go back before I die and visit my late wifes ashes that are up in the northern end of the Black Rock on the Jackson Ranch. Great coyote and cat calling and lots of old Indian places up there. Seems like a plan for to take the present wife up there to see what I always loved about that country. And do a little butt naked hot springing!!!
Once again I am rambling on like the old fart I am and yes I could launch a golf ball out of my mortar and hit present day Hwy 50 from my porch.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 25, 2023, 07:17 AM:
Hmm? I'm a bit hazy on that particular section, I seem to recall junk cars and an Indian reservation, but I stopped hunting over on the east side later because there were too many weekend hunters with Utah plates waving a spotlight around, road hunting, and scaring everything but especially the coyotes.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on March 26, 2023, 03:51 AM:
You know that basically north of HWY 50 there is no night hunting and south of 50 is ok. I lived by Ely in a little dump of a town named Ruth. It's a small, maybe 200 people, mine town with the old Kennecott Copper mine as its main source if income. There is a n Indian Res just south of Ely. A Shoshone and Paiute reservation. And another res north and east of Ely more near the Utah border.
I have encountered Utah callers but most come from Lost Wages because they believe we were over run by coyotes and would play their FoxPros like a marching band and call in a few youngsters but the 2 year old and older ones were familiar with that tune and played accordingly. One thing for sure was that every little town in Nevada seemed to host a contest there for awhile with monthly contests in like Austin and Elko etc. But like most contests anywhere there was not quite kosher practices going on because besides money there were usually an AR or two as prizes. That was just a few, as in a long few, years ago. I don't think the sport has held on that much anymore as when I left Nevada to move to TN. I never did run into anyone out coyote hunting other than the government trapper cleaning out a valley or section of it before the sheep got moved into them. The ranchers I did meet were always glad to see me because I targeted coyotes only and left everything else a free pass. Sometimes I would check my sights on a sage rat that climbed to the top of a sage bush with the 17. The trappers where I was were only interested in the bobcats which we did have a healthy population of. I have called a lot of bobcats up there but always out of season and I hadn't purchased a hunting license in Nevada for a good many years because I didn't need one for coyotes. I did go into Utah many,many times for the same reason, no need for a license.
Wow I just read this rather lengthy dribble and that's about it for now anyways. Fun times.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 27, 2023, 09:07 AM:
Thank you, filled in the blanks. I do know Ruth, been through there a few times.
You know, one thing I remember about Ruth is that it's the only place I ever saw an ermine. My partner shot it while I held the light. We were only sure that it wasn't a dog or domestic cat or anything else we shouldn't shoot, but the damned thing lit up a lot bigger so we thought that maybe it was a badger poking his head out of a hole. In the way that a badger is famous for. I remember it was somewhere close to Ruth just because it's the only one we ever saw....kinda like a rare sighting of a Ringtail, of which I can count on one hand how many I've seen in like 50 years of night hunting.
Actually, now that I mention it. A hell of a shot, at night, & well over 100 yards. Anyway, that was the only reason why the town of Ruth ever stuck in my mind, and besides that, we seldom hunted around there because of the light restrictions, (I think) in White Pine or Lincoln county, forget which? You sure picked an out of the way place to live. Oh, there are others, but it's going to be a long time before Ruth gets it's own Walmart. lol
Good hunting. El Bee
Other than that, I don't know why I associated you with Austin? Beats me?
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