Thursday, August 22, 2024
WALK IN MY SHOES
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Thank Yous & Gratitude
Thank Yous & Gratitude
by Roni Bell July 2014
For the first time in the 110 year history of this old house, it has AIR CONDITIONING!!! YEA! YEA! YEA! Thank you, Scott Johnson, for spending your Saturday getting us "cool!"Zoe Hunt - Thank you for your thank you. It made us smile.
Jeffrey Hare - Thank you for always giving of yourself to help Weld County Colorado Americans!
Benjamin Barr - Thank you for being one of few attorneys who honors our constitution and understands "statutes!"
Chuck Sylvester - Thank you for continuing to "take a clear stand," on the side of justice. You are the consummate "Good Neighbor." When you could spend your hard-earned money on playtime/stuff, you use it instead to defend your neighbors property.
Philip E Hutcheson - Thank you for building such a gorgeous fence around our flood ravaged corral. And thank you for digging all the weeds around our home. You and Beth Hutcheson are always giving unexpected pleasures. :-)
John McArthur - Thank you for being a "general contractor extraordinaire!" Your attention to detail is greatly enjoyed and appreciated.
Ron Morris - Thank you for spearheading the donations to help us rebuild. My gosh, we'll never be able to thank you - and all the contributors enough.
Brett Abernathy, Jeffrey Hare, Steve Moreno, Steven Reams, Jim Rohn and more, thank you for standing by us during my 2 1/2 month research/run for governor. Ron Arnold asked for my summary report (story).
Joe Bast and the Heartland Institute, thank you for putting on the best convention Chuck & I have ever attended!
John Coleman, Joe Bastardi, Craig Rucker, Dr. Tim Ball, Dr. Fred Singer, Dr. Jay Lehr, Jeffrey King, Dr. Patrick Michaels, Dr. Bob Carter, Dr. Patrick Moore, Dr. Roy W. Spencer, it was great to meet and listen to each of you!
Dr. Jane M Orient - need to visit with you!
Thank you Gene Koprowski, for researching "what it'd take to do a weekly newspaper." You're an appreciated friend!
Corey Ciocchetti - Thank you for giving us something to smile about each and every day. Love your Sophia posts!
Jody Bagley - you have no idea how much your "day in the life of a cowboy" shots are enjoyed! Never stop!
Shawn Mitchell - Thank you for keeping the bad guys on their toes. Especially the ones who aren't ballerinas. :-)
Meaghan Croghan - you're a blessing. Comforting to know there are young people in this day, who are cheerfully thoughtful, honest, helpful and FUN!
Michelle Balch Lyng - Thank YOU for staying on top of the energy business. You're getting the facts out there, and I appreciate that!
Ric Frost - let's just say you're the best damn investigator/researcher out there!
Dr. Angus McIntosh - Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge on policy.
Thank you, John Mueller, for fixing our lawn sprinkler. Nice to have an expert sprinkler guy who's conscientious!
Lois Herbst - Thank YOU, for being our inspirational mentor!
There are so many good people, I could keep a thank'n for hours. If I left you out, please know it's not intentional...I'm forgetful.
"Thank you, good people! You are special joy deliverers!"
Friday, March 8, 2024
DENVER & WATER
Monday, March 4, 2024
ALL WARS ARE FOUGHT OVER LAND AND WATER
Takings without Just Compensation
A book titled White Rural Rage by Paul Waldman & Tom Schaller is just another full armor attack against our Fuel and Food Providers (FFP), aka "Rural." Why? Rural folks have the Land and Water evil entities want. All wars are fought over Land and Water. Borrowers from such as China and Federal Reserve use all kinds of weapons including wolves, 's climate, illegals invasion, water theft, conservation easements and monument designations to seize rural Private Property on both deeded and Federal Land. Why? To provide unencumbered collateral for their loans. If, for example, any FFP hater - like , , , , , , or , had to take equal the time off as do FFP to defend their property from Takings without Just Compensation, they wouldn't have time to politic, entertain, write books, dehumanize FFP and you-get-the-gist.Tuesday, February 27, 2024
STEALING PROPERTY IS NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT
Governor Jared Polis, NRDC, Great Old Broads, National Parks
Conservation Association, Western Colorado Alliance, Colorado Wildlands
Project, Conservation Colorado, Wilderness Workshop, High Country Conservation,
San Juan Citizens Alliance, Wild Connections, Rocky Mountain Wild, The
Wilderness Society, Western Slope Conservation Center, League of Oil and Gas
and Impacted Citizens, you ran a full page ad bragging about President Biden's
crushing blows against America’s Domestic Resource Providers and Property
Owners.
Governor Polis, you made erroneous
claims that have been debunked for decades.
Here are some debunked claims:
a) "Public" lands;
there are no "public" lands that we know of in the United States.
There are instead, "Federal" – or Split Estate lands.
b) Climate actions; Farmers,
Ranchers, Roustabouts, Fishermen, Loggers + know the climate's been changing
ever since there's been climate. They just "deal with it!"
c) Your BIG whopper was, "Now
that we have a President that believes in science."
Correction Governor Jared Polis. You, Joe Biden and those who paid for the ad do NOT believe in
science! You believe in Al Gore's AGW religion. An extremely dangerous religion.
We know you're making dictates based on
Al's religion - instead of science. How's that? Because you REFUSE to debate
scientists whose findings differ with Al's religion.
Why? Because you KNOW "real"
scientists would whoop Al's butt in a split-second and expose his global
climate change scam.
Growing government and shrinking
Domestic Resource Production is a huge mistake!
Government employees do NOT produce
products. They are dependent on those who do.
With that as a given, my claim is that
you're fast tracking your war against producers to lockdown Americans into a
jailed dependency on China for food and fuel. I mean, after all. Isn't that
part of the deals Joe and Hunter allegedly made with China?
We know you're not after us because
you hate us (OK. Maybe some of your underlings do.), but because you've been
ordered to steal America's land, water, gas, oil and minerals to
collateralize loans (Maybe even some personal loans Joe?) from China and
Federal Reserve (aka Central Banks).
BTW - where'd ya'll get the bucks to
run that full page ad? Got a mega rich sugar daddy financing your evil war
against us?
Your Hostile Takeover 101 is actually an insidious form of STEALING PROPERTY! Your moves are deliberate ways to decapitalize us until we're so exhausted mentally,
physically and financially we have no choice but to give up!
Unlike you, we don't have mega rich
sugar daddies, like George Soros, financing us.
Sans the executions, your damn deal is
eviler than anything Poroshenko, Kim Jong UN, Putin, Duvalier could dream up.
As you go about giggling, making
money, bragging on Biden, running ads, and having fun at our expense, you're
giving your loved ones a future empty of fuel and food.
And I don't find that funny, or
anything to brag about. At all.
Why do you?
Saturday, February 24, 2024
DUKE ELLINGTON
DUKE
ELLINGTON
By Roni Bell
Watching
a terrific documentary on Duke Ellington, I couldn't help but reflect back to
1964 when I met the gentleman.
My
then husband, a jazz keyboard player, was close friends of Omaha orchestra
leader Lee Williams and his wife Laura Beth LeCox.
They
invited us to a tiny private party they held for Mr. Ellington at their home.
My
vivid memory is taking turns with Mr. Ellington listening to music through
those newfangled fluffy headsets.
He'd
sit in their big chair, put on the headset, listen, wink at me, then get up and
say, "your turn."
I'd
sit down, he'd help me adjust the headset and I'd listen.
We took turns playing with that headset for quite a while. After all, they were a novelty back then.
I didn't know Duke Ellington was famous.
All I
knew was, "Gosh he's classy! Nice. Handsome and TALL!"
HUBBY WHO HAPPENS TO LIKE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Hubby who happens to like Trump
By Roni Bell February 23, 2016
I admire how skillfully Chuck weaves juggling hay sales, diesel fuel stock for hired men, being sued by Sorin (just because he's a "volunteer" board member who followed the by-laws), hand writing every penny spent in 2015 in an old Ranch Ledger (Tax prep.), pays bills "on time, all the time," sets more hotwire, losing a son, 2 best friends, nephew and both sisters within 3 months, getting pastures ready to move horses, airing up tires on tractors, meeting with darn near everyone on water, water, water, 4 farms and 2 ranches, working damn hard - and honest - in everything he does and funds individuals so they can learn essential information from great teachers like speaking coach Lea Marlene and property rights expert Dr. Angus McIntosh.
I’m trying hard to picture Chuck as a damn stupid asshole. OK. I can’t.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
PRESIDENT TRUMP HATERS!
To: Haters of President Donald J. Trump
Please
study this list of accomplishments. Pick the ones you hate and cite your
reasons.
List
the individuals who've provided President Trump with data and assistance on
each accomplishment. Then tell us which ones you've dismissed as "not
credible," and on what grounds.
Be
SPECIFIC!
____________________________
Here's what PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished even as weighted down by evil
people:
1.
Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation
to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native
language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell
Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
2.
Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
3.
Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal
abusers face tougher consequences.
4.
Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the
2 years before he was elected.
5.
Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
6.
Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint,
Michigan.
7.
Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to
become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
8.
Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them
from sharing money-saving information.
9.
Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act”
(FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which
both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
10.
Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding
Moms.
11.
The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019,
which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.
12.
Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations
that are increasing entry-level pay.
13.
Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a
decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
14.
Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean
tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
15.
He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that
prescription prices would go down.
16.
Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers
to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop
and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.
17.
When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for
medical services they never agreed to in advance.
18. Hospitals
will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include
the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
19.
In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug
prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have
seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop
as of the most recent month.
20.
He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it
with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
21.
VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than
4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
22.
Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland
Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans
access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian
life.
23.
Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal
employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise
in more than 10 years.
24.
Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of
federal workers.
25.
Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000
uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
26.
All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
27.
Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying
insurance to get a better price
28.
President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding
for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal
complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the
higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
29.
In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal
justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help
former inmates successfully return to society.
30.
The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that
disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that
created unfair outcomes.
31.
The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent
crimes.
32.
Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the
First Step Act are Black Americans.
33.
The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them
successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
34.
Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) by more than 14%.
35.
Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened
HBCUs.
36.
New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one
year ago.
37.
Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the
White House Initiative on HBCUs.
38.
Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for
his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
39.
The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration
as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
40.
Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their
lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
41.
President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands
several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently
reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
42.
Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
43.
Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all-time high.
44.
More than 7 million jobs created since election.
45.
More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
46.
More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
47.
Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.
48.
Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a
global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
49.
Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal
law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and
increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
50.
In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was
the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting
in sex trafficking.
51.
Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement
officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
52.
Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations
arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
53.
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the
National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims
the help they need.
54.
The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
55.
Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking
victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
56.
The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance
specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
57.
President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so
that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
58.
The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased
funding for school choice by $42 million.
59.
The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by
allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary
education.
60.
Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely
dismantled.
61.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
62.
Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than
$1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education
programs.
63.
Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and
workers.
64.
Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from
discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
65.
Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from
college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat
anti-Semitism.
66.
President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international
organizations that fund or perform abortions.
67.
Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their
citizens.
68.
Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
69.
Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
70.
Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.
71.
Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion
in Vietnam.
72.
Okay’ d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade
retaliation.
73.
Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get
freed.
74.
Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law
in decades.
75.
Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern
border.
76.
The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former
inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful
employment.
77.
Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative”
to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
78.
President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone
Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.
79.
8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.
80.
Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private
capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
81.
Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
82.
Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
83.
Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
84.
Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of
the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
85.
Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
86.
Stock Market has reached record highs.
87.
Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
88.
African-American unemployment is at an all-time low.(was until Covid bullshit)
89.
Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
90.
Asian-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
91.
Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.
92.
Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
93.
We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
94.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train
more than 4 million Americans.
95.
95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest
ever.
96.
As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest
top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
97.
Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
98.
Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to
work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
99.
Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in
history.
100.
Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income
seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.
101.
Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try
experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.
102.
Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
103.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth
services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
104.
U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on
oil from the Middle East.
105.
The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
106.
NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
107.
Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017
and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction
in Carbon emissions.
108.
Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new
administration.
109.
Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
110.
Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
111.
Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs
here and $$$ coming in.
112.
Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
113.
Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer,
intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has
agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
114.
Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
115.
Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which
will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
116.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount
of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so
more people could claim it.
117.
It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
118.
In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for
the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to
States to fund child care for low-income families.
119.
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump
provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child
& $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set
aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
120.
In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability,
Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8
billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum
disorder and to help their families.
121.
In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly
$19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs,
as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.
122.
Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be
signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act
(Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it’s the
law, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch &
punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also
requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are
legitimate before they reach your phone.
123.
US stock market continually hits all-time record highs.
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Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed in one
place, here it is. No links provided to remove bias — as Google search is easy.
Print this out for family, friends, neighbors, etc. I encourage you to drop
this list off to voters before the 2020 election, too!
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Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment charges.