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Riders in Taos by Billy Schenk

I spent three magical weeks in Taos, New Mexico with one of the loves of my life.  It was 1970, I was eighteen and we were lucky we didn’t get killed in those mountains.  Fortunately, I had an obvious 12 gauge shotgun in the gun rack of the pickup and it probably saved our lives more than once.

We spent a night at Dennis Hopper’s ranch in Taos and I saw a minor version of Jeffrey Epstein’s operation right there in the fabulous Sangre de Cristo Mountains.  Hopper bought the place with his winnings from Easy Rider.  It’s a true Hollywood story for another time.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ve never been to New Mexico, but I’m going one day. My wife and daughter went a few years ago and the pictures were something else. They went to Ruidoso with the obligatory stop-off in Roswell. They also went to White Sands and daughter described the sand as more like talcum powder, soft and cool to the touch, compared to white beach sand. I’ve been wanting to go to Carlsbad since I was about 5, and saw it in National Geographic. One day, we’ll go see daughter and make a trip over there.

  3. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #2 – SD – NM is gorgeous country!

    I had a maternal Aunt & Uncle in Artesia many moons ago in my Yute.

    I got to see the horse races at Ruidoso, Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands I believe when I was only 11.

    MUCH later as a heavy equipment operator I worked on I-40 in Gallup, the United Nuclear uranium tailings dam up Chaco Canyon above Thoreau, US380 in Santa Rosa, and the I40 port of entry by pass in San Jon.

  4. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  I’ve got a computer project underway, and I’m pretty rusty it seems.  My little buddy needs a computer for high school (starting 9th grade).  I have a laptop sitting around with an expired battery but which works perfectly fine when plugged in.  I had been using it as a back-up storage device as much as anything, so I decided to prep it for him so that he would have a computer.  So, I started going through wiping items off the thing, forgetting that my Bookmarks (Favorites to some of you) were all synced to follow suit, so basically, when I wiped them off the laptop, they also got wiped off everything else.  That’s going to be a fun restoration project.  Anyway, I finally gave up on that idea and just wiped the entire HD on the laptop and reinstalled Linux Mint from my boot thumb drive, and then set him up with email, personalized the computer for him, and  loaded about 20gb of old pictures from when he was born.  (Father is now dead, mother is homeless somewhere roaming around downtown Houston).  Anyway, I think his laptop is about ready to go to the little brown delivery truck, and then I can spend the next few days fooling around trying to get my machine back up and running.  Anyway, I hope that you all have a great day, and I’ll keep you posted as more develops.

  5. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Southern New Mexico is pretty much like Texas between Junction and El Paso (in fact its that way all the way to the Arizona/California border). As far as I’m concerned, the only reason to go to southern NM is to stop at La Fonda restaurant in Deming and get a plate of stacked enchiladas.

    Northern NM, particularly the “Three Corners” area is gorgeous.

  6. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Looks like Hubby’s been listening to my interest in Van Life. He’s actually talking about buying van and how we’re going to use it for trips ‘n such. It would be a good backup for when we go work on out of town properties, for example, or as a backup for general use if my car breaks down.

    Not right away. And the conversion will take a while. But it gives me time to watch more videos and get ideas.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you don’t stop trying to kill yourself, we’re going to have to kill you !!!

    “May police officers shoot an uncooperative individual when he presents an immediate risk to himself but not to others? No, case law makes clear.” So says the Sixth Circuit, affirming a denial of qualified immunity for Shelby County, Tenn. officers who shot and killed a suicidal man who was holding a knife to his own throat.

    In a world gone mad.

    From the Institute for Justice newsletter.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Cops:  Well, if there was no domestic abuse happening here, we’ll just inflict some of our own !

    Man and woman are horsing around at a pool; a bystander interprets this as domestic violence and calls police. When the woman (rather belligerently) attempts to tell the cops what happened, a Wymore, Neb. officer throws her to the ground, fracturing her collarbone. Eighth Circuit (en banc): When a 5-foot-tall woman wearing only a bathing suit is neither fleeing, nor resisting arrest, nor ignoring commands, it is clearly established that—just kidding! Qualified immunity. A dissent: Can we at least find a constitutional violation so the bone-breaking will be prohibited next time ?

    Stupid judges.  This is a very bad ruling that only serves to make the public more hostile to police.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #8 TP:. I think that making the public more hostile to the police is a feature, not a bug in this ruling.
    How else can you bring about a complete breakdown of society other than making those in authority the enemy. This is furthered by never busting bad cops for bad behavior. I am reminded of the guy on his hands and knees in a hotel in Vegas, cops screaming conflicting orders and the guy winds up getting shot in the back. No penalty for the cop.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Spec’s and their fellow independents are trying like hell to keep Walmart, Costco and other mega-chains from selling hard liquor.  They are listed here as defendants (Texas Package Stores Association) in the federal suit filed by Walmart.

    Texas’ ban on public corporations owning liquor stores was written by a lobbyist for Texas liquor retailers who wanted to keep competitors out of the state. Does that mean the ban was intended to discriminate against interstate commerce ? You might think so, but the Fifth Circuit isn’t so sure and asks the district court to take a second look.

  11. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, y’all. You may have noticed the top billing that Drudge gave to the story about gruberment recommending 78 degrees as the max cool you should set your thermostat for.  Well, that happens to be my preferred setting. I have a genetic defect that causes me to get an allergic reaction to cold skin on my feet, neck or upper arms. The allergic reaction is indistinguishable from coming down with a cold, although it clears up in about 2 days. Most of my young life, I thought I got a lot of colds, although once I understood what the actual problem was, about 25 years ago, I may have had only a few of those real, 5-7 day colds. If I get a chill, all I have to do is put on socks, a scarf, or a sweater, and then all the sniffles and runny nose symptoms clear up instantly.

    So, 78 degrees is the room temp at which I can wear summer clothing and not get a chill. Hubs also doesn’t like to be cold, and he keeps the upstairs at Chez Harp at 77. But I think he usually has the same night-time temp, while I raise mine to 80, a point at which the AC never comes on at night. The house is well insulated and does not warm up overnight. Also, some of the cooler air from upstairs is surely finding its way down the staircase.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    9 BC

    It’s okay as an LEO to murder an unarmed man in Arizona by shooting him in the back.  Qualified immunity protects you, but if you deprive inmates awaiting trial of water for days you will rightfully lose that immunity.

    Maybe the Illinois jailers would have retained immunity if they just shot all the inmates in the back ?

    The downside of one of the more nauseating decisions this week? The Seventh Circuit had to explain that “the stench … was compounded as insects became drawn to the standing feces and urine.” The upside? No qualified immunity for Lake County, Ill. jail officials who allegedly spent three days depriving pretrial detainees of enough water to drink, bathe, and flush the toilets.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    11 mharper42

    Don’t ever go to Shannon’s house.

  14. phil Avatar
    phil

    Is Arkansoooeeecide Inc out to get him?

    I can see the headline now.

    Mr Potato Head reports a Mysterious weight lifting accident….

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-20/epsteins-former-cellmate-begs-judge-transfer-another-jail

  15. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #11 – MH…..78 degrees is my setting also (more because I refuse to PAY for any cooler!)

    And TexPat aint kidding – you can hang meat at Sha-Na-Na’s walk-in-cooler er home 🙂

  16. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    11 mh42

    On top of running air conditioning, Energy Star also recommends opening windows to fill the house with cool air at night and then shutting all windows and blinds in the morning to trap the cool air inside.

    Right. I’ll give that a try since it’s ever so cool and crisp at night here.

  17. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    My underground reports that the next high profile inmate to be suicided is Julian Assage.  He apparently knows too much.

    And like so many other things, I don’t need the government to tell me where to set my thermostat, although with those new smart electric meters, they can shut it down with a push of the button from anywhere. Next thing you know, government will be trying to tell you how to wash clothes, heat your water, flush your toilet, build your house, ….. Oh wait…….

  18. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    That rascal Trump.  How dare he insult the royal blue bloods of Denmark, or any other European leader. Just awful, just awful  (he, he, he, he,hahaha, hehe…)  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3773383/posts

  19. phil Avatar
    phil

    A little Danish Fynbo perhaps?

    Czechoslovakian sheep’s milk cheese?

    Venezuelan Beaver cheese?

    Not today sir.

  20. phil Avatar
    phil

    Differing opinion?

    Different theory?

    Don’t toe the propagandist line?

    Well then…

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Screw Energy Star.

    I, too, have a weird condition.
    My core runs almost 100 degrees.
    AC stays on 74-75 in summer.
    Truck AC vents directed straight onto my core.

    In winter, heater stays at 65-68.

  22. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Good news, at least for me.  Seems Firefox automatically backs up bookmarks for you, so in order to restore them, all you have to do is to figure out how they do the backup and then reverse the process.  Long story short, when plowing through all that stuff, there is a button that says “restore,” and if you click that button, it gives you several options of just what dates you wish to restore to.  So, I clicked on the button, selected yesterday, and it restore my bookmarks as if nothing had happened.  How about that – something on the computer actually worked as advertised.  So now all my bookmarks are safely restored and I can go about my business of distributing my hate filled misogynistic messages all across the internet.  As the guy from San Saba said the first time he saw a giraffe – “my gosh, what’ll they come up with next?”

  23. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    It’s getting more and more difficult every day to discern reality from satire.  This seems entirely plausible to me.  https://babylonbee.com/news/portland-police-wish-there-were-some-kind-of-organized-armed-force-that-could-fight-back-against-antifa

  24. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #16 – where is AND WHAT is this “cool air at night” you speak of?  🙂

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Rush is regaling us with the sharp wit of The Donald in handling his rearrangement of the press conference from the standard auditorium scene where the TV cameras can focus on the press and stroke their egos while the Pres speaks from a podium on a stage.  He’s doing it walking from the WH to the waiting helicopter and answers questions from newsies he points to, so he chooses them, and he motions to them when he is done speaking to them.  He runs the show, they don’t; they don’t get face time to feed their egos; he is the maestro directing the orchestra.  Rush calls it the Romper Room press corps.  Love it.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    21 Shannon

    The hot-blooded Johnson brothers.

    I’m not constantly overheated like Shannon, but I do keep the house around 72 in the summer.  I was born with a fever (102-103) and it didn’t go away until after I turned three.  The doctors tested me for everything from polio to meningitis.  They gave me every diagnostic procedure they had, including a spinal tap, down at St. Joseph’s in downtown Houston.

    The fever finally receded and they never did figure out what was wrong with me.

     

     

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yeah, neither did we.

    /ducking and running

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Temp is 74 or so during the day when we aren’t there. Goes down to 72 when we get home and 71 for bedtime upstairs. The temp goes back to 74 down when we turn in for the night.

  29. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    It’s gettin kinda cold in Ruidoso

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #16 Pyro

    Now that part was just silly, no one with a functioning brain cell wants the humid nighttime Houston air in their house.

     

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My thermostat is over twenty years old. Who knows what it is really set at.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If Fay has a blanket and I’m running around in my underwear, it’s just about right.

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #23 Portland

    Yeah, I don’t see any hint of satire. That’s just how they roll in Portlandia.

     

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #28: Temp downstairs goes to 74.

  35. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #24

    I’m sure there are parts of the USA that are hot on summer days, then cool off on summer nights. Heck, West Texas may have been like that, but that’s so long ago I don’t remember. But high humidity was never a problem in Midland. The air coolers we used 50 years ago were swamp coolers, that added humidity to the hot dry summer air.

     

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    First fondlers responders don’t read or understand the Constitution.

    Maryland Appelate Court:

    Shawna Lynn Faith v. State of Maryland, No. 1040, Sept. Term 2018. Opinion filed on August 2, 2019, by Berger, J.

    CRIMINAL LAW – CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – FOURTH AMENDMENT –
    REASONABLENESS OF INTIMATE ROADSIDE SEARCH
    The non-exigent visual inspection of the genital area of a person suspected of concealing controlled dangerous substances, in daylight, while the person stood between two police cruisers with emergency lights flashing, along the shoulder of an interstate highway, as moderate to heavy traffic passed and the searchee’s companion and young child watched, violated the searchee’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches.

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Federal energy program suggests keeping thermostat set at 78 degrees — 82 while you sleep

    I guess if I were super literal minded i.e. a moron, I would switch to the heater at bedtime tonight and set it for 82. 🙂

    I really don’t like any air blowing on me while I sleep, so in winter I set the thermostat so low that only an overnight blizzard would be likely to cause the heater to come on.

  38. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    74-75 degrees in the daytime, 72 at night. I’m not sure why, but my oversized, (I thought) A/C runs enough in the daytime to keep the humidity real low, almost like the Gumby Dammit, high efficiency, 23 S.E.E.R, unit I had in Houston. I just walked in from a quick trip in the truck, so I wasn’t hot and it felt real cold in the house, Thermostat reading, 74. BTW; When I walk in from working outside, it feels like it’s freezing in the house, but then you could wring a cup or two of water out of my shirt. 😉

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m tarred, I took down a couple of fairly tall/big pines this morning along with several smaller hardwoods and I’m getting to old to drag off all the limbs and trunks. Do you know how much a 10′, 12″ diameter, pine log weighs? Well, I don’t too, but it is a lot, so I opted for the chain saw again. That said, the south 45, trail is coming along quite nicely, got about 400 yards complete. I could have went further if I’d have headed straight across the draw, that is coming out of the pasture next door, but I just didn’t like the steep angle of attack, so I detoured 90 degrees and will do that again to line up with the second terrace. The crossing will be much shallower and better in the rainy season.

  40. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    So you’re chillin’ in Colorado, partaking in what Coloradans do, and there in front of you …

  41. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #40 – Once or twice a year – lotsa folks from Wyoming & Colorado go visit Nebraska & Kansas……………..to reclaim their patio furniture, garbage cans, and small dogs!

  42. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    My thermostat is over twenty years old. Who knows what it is really set at.

    Probably what ever you think it is set at plus OR minus about 3 degrees.

    If Fay has a blanket and I’m running around in my underwear, it’s just about right.

    Sounds like a man with a solution to a terrible problem. The problem being the eternal struggle between men and women over the temperature in the house.

    Because of the vaulted ceilings I have to have three degrees differential between up & down set points. 77F up and 74F down. I have fancy programmable thermostats, however, the house is only vacant for about 7 hours during the day so it really would not save any power to have the temps go up 6 or 7 degrees for that duration. I just have the temps holding at the above mentioned set points and all is good.

    With those two new units, my summer bills are still about 30% cheaper than last summer.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    41
    Always wondered what Kansas was for.

  44. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Texpat those appellate court rulings made for good lunch time reading today.

    I know Texas law requires any calls regarding domestic violence to end in an arrest if both parties are still present when the cops arrive.

    That incident at the pool seems way overblown and the cops should have never been called in the first place.

    The suicide by cop was terrible. You would think the cops could have used mace, pepper balls, or  even a taser before using lethal force. Now I have seen those training videos that show a knife wielding man covering 7 yards in about 2 seconds. I’m sure that is on the cop’s mind, but if the perps manages to cut his carotid artery the cops are safe and other citizens are safe. It would be the same if the cops showed up and shot a guy threatening to jump off a bridge or building.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Poor Hammie.

    https://youtu.be/wg5lIpQkoOg

  46. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We have a back covered porch! Finally some cover from the sun when we’re outside. I’m so ashamed, had it done. But I’m helping a guy out of work for the time being….so ya, I’m helping a fellow neighbor….that’s it!

    We love it! Saving for a fancier front porch now, we getting there a bit at a time.

  47. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Another day with a chance for rain that did not produce a drop.  Sprinkler system still on pending some more real rain falling, as last Sunday’s shower soaked in immediately.

    We planted six miniature rose bushes in a small bed next to the front pasture fence at the road end of the long driveway, and that side does not have the sprinkler system on it. The front yard across the driveway has the sprinkler system that takes care of itself.  The new roses have a lawn sprinkler at the end of a really long hose connected to a faucet on the pasture side of the driveway that has to be manually turned on and off.  Spouse got a timer for it that turns itself off, saving remembering to check on the rose bed watering once it’s turned on.  It’s easy to turn on in the morning on the way to fetch the Chron at the road and not have to check on it after I’ve fed the mares shortly after 6 am.

    Mariposa kitty and mares Contessa and Ruby get fed before we have breakfast. We have our priorities straight here.  🙂

     

  48. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

     

    Texpat says:
    AUGUST 21, 2019 AT 12:54 PM

    21 Shannon

    The hot-blooded Johnson brothers.

     

     

  49. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey, that was a nice blast from the past. Old SNL skits, so old they were still a bit funny. (I still say Buh Bye.)

     

     

  50. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills

  51. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #50 – Nice choice Squawkster!

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    50 Squawk

    I bought that album…in 1968 when it came out.  I was a big Mike Bloomfield fan.  And Paul Butterfield, too.  Amazingly talented guys from Chicago.  It was 51 years ago – can you believe it ?

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sarge
    🙂

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