Code Neon Blue!

This magazine art from 1958 says yep! Imagine if people had decided to pursue that way back then!

Might as well make my collection complete!

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from the recent run in “Tank McNamara” about dumb things sports announcers said in 2007:

Since the contest was only for sports announcers’ remarks, statements like “Impeachment is off the table” couldn’t be entered. Luckily for some people, eh?

At the risk of giving these people undeserved blogxygen, I’m quoting part of what they had to say HERE in regards to the Army’s proposed annexation of land around Pinon Canyon. (To be followed in time by grabbing as much of the rest of SE Colorado as they can get their grubbies on.)

“The next photo that we want to examine is the Pinon Canyon photo that appears about 17 seconds into the video. That photo was taken right at sun up. The orange is the color given to the land as the sun’s rays go through the thickest part of the atmosphere. The shadows caused by the hills make the areas in shadow look more lush than they are.

No one seems to have thought of this when the photo was used, but anyone who uses the full screen mode on YouTube will see how unproductive and barren this land is. If more land is needed for maneuver training by the Army, it is hard to justify protecting this kind of land from that use.”

Yeah, it’s hard for THEM to justify. They haven’t lived on that land for generations. And they don’t even mention the ancient archaeological sites and dinosaur footprint fossils. If these wise guys can’t see any value there, how can there BE any?

For a few answers to that question, visit http://pinoncanyon.com/

For more on Mark Udall and what he believes, go here:
http://www.markudall.com/

This was passed on to me and I am putting it here to share the info, in case it reaches anyone who is interested. – S (tNN)

BLM News Release
For Immediate Release Denise Adamic 303-239-3671
December 14, 2007 Jim Sample 303-239-3861

BLM February 14 Oil & Gas Lease Sale Information Available

DENVER - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado today announced that information on its February 14, 2008, quarterly oil and gas lease sale is now available. In response to public requests that oil and gas lease sale information be made available as soon as possible, the BLM is posting the sale notice for 60 days, rather than the 45 days required by law.

The BLM’s February lease sale includes 45 parcels covering 33,987 acres, including 30 parcels involving split-estate lands, where a private entity owns the surface rights and the federal government owns the subsurface mineral rights.

The lease sale will offer parcels in 11 counties (several parcels
overlap county lines) including:

* Archuleta, 2
* Baca, 2
* Delta, 3
* Dolores, 11
* Garfield, 3
* Gunnison, 2
* Montezuma, 12
* Montrose, 5
* Rio Blanco, 2
* San Miguel, 6
* Yuma, 1

National BLM policy requires that all protests filed on nominated parcels must include the specific serial number of the parcel being protested and must be received by the BLM either by mail, hand delivery, or fax by 4:00 p.m. by January 30, 2008. If a protest is filed by fax, it must be sent to 303-239-3799. This policy allows the Bureau to review protests in advance of the sale, make an appropriate announcement of protests at the sale, and meet the statutory deadline for issuing leases. While protested parcels may still be offered, bidders are notified that no lease will be issued until protests are resolved.

The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the 1987 Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act authorize leasing of federal oil and gas resources. The 1987 law, which amended the Mineral Leasing Act, requires each BLM state office to conduct oil and gas lease sales on at least a quarterly basis where there is interest to do so.

“Of the total acreage managed by the BLM, less than one percent experiences surface disturbance from oil and gas activity,” said Acting BLM Colorado Deputy State Director () Duane Spencer. “To minimize impacts to the land, the Bureau analyzes the potential environmental effects from exploration and development before offering any leases for sale.”

All leases come with stipulations (general requirements) on oil and gas activities to protect the environment; leases can also include specific restrictions, such as limits on seasons when drilling can occur and restrictions on surface occupancy by oil and gas operators. BLM Colorado holds oil and gas lease sales on the second Thursday of February, May, August, and November. Lease sale information can be obtained online at:

http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Programs/oilandgas/leasing.html

at each of the Bureau’s field offices, and the Public Room at the Colorado State Office in Lakewood.

Parties interested in receiving regular notification of oil and gas lease sales are encouraged to contact the State Office Public Room at 303-239-3600. Notice documents may also be obtained by calling the Public Room up to 60 days before the sale and requesting a copy of the sale notice be sent to you. There is a $5 charge for the sale notice. Sale results can be requested approximately one week after the sale for an additional $5.

The BLM manages over 8.3 million acres of public lands in Colorado. These lands are managed for a multitude of uses including recreation, mining, wildlife habitat and livestock grazing. The BLM oversees more than 27 million subsurface acres for mineral development in the state.

It’s been Monday all day, and then some.

I pretty much lost all control of my personal space in time when I took my son in for a new patient visit at his new doc’s. (Good old Dr. Benton, who has provided Mike’s care literally from birth, is retiring.)

“So,” says the new doc after his initial exam. “How long has that eraser been in his ear?”

(If you have a morbid curiosity about ears, there’s a pic on my non not-so-political blog HERE.)

So about 1/4 of my usual waking, working day went walkies. And Mike is still self-inflictedly hearing impaired. Hopefully tomorrow we can get this all straightened out….

I got a snail-mail from Marilyn Musgrave this weekend, a reply to one of the many emails I have signed and sent to her through various online groups.

This one was about SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. She was explaining why she voted against it. Except she only had whoever wrote the letter for her explain it with a lot of kool-aid based numbers — she didn’t give her REAL reason, which is that if her boy Bushie is against something, so is she.

Their basic argument? It’s too expensive. Man, they would have to raise taxes or something!

So…spending a million dollars a second on Iraq? OK.

Wasting taxpayer money by franking paper mail to respond to free email? OK.

I’d be willing to bet a year’s mortgage payments that MM is all for the proposed Colorado amendment to grant legal personhood to all fertilized eggs.

But make sure those “people” get check-ups and immunizations and antibiotics and such when they get here?

According to Bush and MM…NOT OK!

You’ll laugh until you cry…or maybe laugh so you won’t cry. Either way, enjoy a glimpse of what the world might have been like if Dubya had never been born!

It’s A Blunderful Life

A satirical look at the Huckabee message:

…if I get to the end of the day and don’t have any braincells left to write a post with, you might get a picture instead.

This is one of those days.

I stopped to get the mail on my way into town. Even though it was only 4:30 it was weirdly dark. We’ve had about every kind of precip there is in the past 24 hours. This was part of the hoarfrost stage.

My family and I went into town Friday night for Lamar’s Parade of Lights, and we wound up in front of Randa’s law office. She was there with HER family, and of course we got to talking a little shop.

Saturday was the State Central & Executive Committee Meetings up in Denver. Our Vice Chair was luckily already up there, but Randa was going to have to drive, and she wasn’t looking forward to it, since a freezing drizzle was already starting.

I was happy when she called on Saturday to say she had tried to go, but turned back when she got a good look at the highway conditions. Some things are worth dying for, but committee meetings, even important ones, don’t fall into that category!

I wish *I* did!

It’s selling for over $2K at the moment on eBay!

February 5 seems like a long ways away, but it’s really not. As you no doubt know, Colorado joined in with the many other states who will be doing their primary voting that day. I’ve seen two suggestions for the name upgrade for “Super Tuesday". I’m not in love with “Tsunami Tuesday", but I have to admit “Super-Duper Tuesday” is just TOO wildly enthusiastic. And coming from me, that’s saying something.

I was pleased to see that the Lamar Ledger editor DID find room in the Friday paper for my little article about the last day to register a party affiliation. It was nice of her to take the extra trouble.

Today I got to check another thing off my to-do list. I had been calling around last week in search of a location to hold the precinct caucuses. The Lamar Community Building is pretty central, and has good sized rooms and convenient parking, BUT there’s a big basketball game already scheduled for the same night. So the Community Building was out. Since Lamar Middle School and Washington Elementary are located almost beside it, sometimes the overflow parking washes up against their shores. So they were out too.

The largest school location is the high school. They have a nice big parking lot (which my freshman son has big dreams of getting to personally use someday, but that’s a whole nother issue, and not one with political overtones, so we won’t be doing the follow-up here). There is a small downside — folks might be leaving from the JV basketball game being held there at about the same time as all the Dems are showing up. But even considering that, the high school is still the best choice overall, so today I went to fill out an application to reserve it.

So now we cross our fingers until it gets approved. Then we only have to settle things for the county’s other towns (Granada and Holly), and we’ll be all ready for Whatever You Want To Call It Tuesday!

RootsCamp2007 was the most fun I have had in a long, long time, and I learned a bunch of stuff, too, plus got some great new ideas! (I just hope I will be able to read my notes later.)

I wanted to blog from up there in Denver, but my laptop got wonky on me. And I was really too busy taking info IN to put much OUT, plus I was kinda tired from lots of walking and not much sleeping…and uh…the sun was in my eyes…and…my dog died a few years ago…and, and, and.

To be a little serious for a minute, I have actually been bustling like mad here at home trying to get caught back up, or at least as caught up as I ever get. But I am finally pretty much up to speed. So more soon! Really!