craigdailypress.com

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

Here's hoping that we will rediscover the meaning of good neighbors in the coming year. I've been blessed by good neighbors ever since I moved to Maybell, 25 years ago. Thanks to everyone and God bless you all.

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

I did like the song “Earl”. regardless of their lack of respect for the United States of America, and the Presidency of GW Bush. My son had bought their CD after seeing them at the community concerts here in Craig. Unfortunately, it got stepped on during the teenage response to their dissing our country.They have freedom of speech. So do we all. As long as you have the guts to speak out, we will retain it.

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

When I was medivaced to the rear in Vietnam I adopted a dog. I let him run around for most of the week, but on Friday afternoons anyone who wanted to keep their pets had to keep them indoors, because the MP's would ride around ChuLai in their jeeps with 12 guage shotguns and would shoot any animal the saw running at large. That way they controlled the feral population of possibly rabid animals, that constituted a public health threat, and everone who had a pet that they loved, got to keep their animal and not risk it being shot by accident.

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

Oh come on Marvin. Give these the PD a break! It takes a brave man to walk up to a suspected high explosive device, which might not only be rigged to explode at a specific time, but explode when or if it is tampered with.
You would have had a lot to say if the “lunchbox” had been ignored and exploded when your kid touched it. Let's not forget that there ARE people who would love to terrorize the citizens of this country. There is a “religion” out there that calls it's faithful to world domination through the use of force, through the use of bombs, murder and jihad, or have you forgotten?

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

A disproportionate amount of our state tax dollars never get returned to our community. The reason why Denver has more services is because the state government collects sales taxes from the entire state, and then puts everything in their budget out to bid. Only businesses in Denver can compete in that process due to the nature of how products are imported into Colorado. Less shipping costs enable the businesses in Denver to get the bid, then the state absorbs the cost of moving those items to the outlying state agencies. Businesses in the outlying areas have to include the transportation costs of those goods in their bids because they have to get the goods from Denver too. The results are that businesses in Denver are supported with profits from the state which are funded by everyone else outside Denver.
Local governments outside of Denver operate at a disadvantage because the businesses in these outlying areas don't get stimulated with the reinvestment that government would give them if purchasing were done at a local level. These businesses would then generate more income and more taxes for our local governments. The local governments in the communities in and around Denver generate more revenues because the state awards their businesses with the contracts for goods that the state purchases. There are many hidden costs which the bidding process does not address. It might save state government money, but it penalizes local governments to do so, and communities outside of Denver.
Until true parity comes to state government expenditures, we will languish in the underfunded outback of Colorado. And people in similar circumstances will continue to be set up for failure due to a lack of government funding for services to truly help them overcome the temptations that come when a society fails it's citizens. Sometimes I think that the rising crime rate in the US is simply due to individual acts of revolution, because our 'system' has failed to provide a means for another individual to take care of himself or his family without resorting to breaking the rules in one way or another.
Our society is on the verge of a financial collapse that will test the true nature of us all. May God be with us. Well spoke Len. Your sermons are why my family and I come to your church.

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

I just received the following alert from the Gun Owners of America and thought I would post it here to get the conversation started. We, too, have some RINOs that need to be dealt with. Moffat County Republicans are not served by these liberals in conservative clothing.
***Edited for length***
Some Republicans still don't understand why mainstream America is so upset with their Party.
Now that Sen. Arlen Specter has defected to the Democrat Party, many prominent Republicans are openly recruiting liberal Republicans to run against Specter.

And at the top of their list is Tom Ridge. Ridge is the turncoat Republican whose vote was crucial in passing the semi-auto ban in 1994, 216 to 214. Later, as Governor of Pennsylvania, Ridge signed one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the State's history - which registered and taxed long gun buyers and placed other restrictions on Pennsylvania gun owners.

As the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge opposed arming pilots. He asked, sarcastically, if pilots carry guns, then should we also arm railroad engineers and bus drivers?
Guess who else opposed the armed pilots program? Pennsylvania's “Benedict” Arlen Specter, who was one of only two Republican Senators to vote against the bill.
The last thing we need is another elitist in Congress who does not trust law-abiding citizens with firearms. There is a better option. His name is Pat Toomey, a Gun Owners of America “A” rated pro-gunner who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms, before honoring a self-imposed term limit and retiring in 2004.
Those who are pushing anti-gunner Tom Ridge claim that Pat Toomey is unelectable because he's “too conservative” for Pennsylvania. That's what they said before he accrued a gigantic lead in the polls over a sitting Senator this year, forcing Specter to jump parties.
It was Pat Toomey who forced Specter to jump to the Democrat Party. Toomey was leading Specter in polls by an overwhelming margin.

Bottom line: We need to put these squishy politicians on alert. Their internal party politics is their business. But when party leaders start pushing noted gun banners — using the money contributed by millions of gun owners around the country — we're not going to remain silent.
Texas Senator John Cornyn is the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Michael Steele heads the Republican National Committee. The decision to support an anti-gunner over a defender of the Second Amendment rests largely in their hands.
action: Please urge Senator John Cornyn and Chairman Michael Steele not to interfere in Pennsylvania's primary. There is already a pro-gun, electable conservative running in the primary who deserves their support.

You can contact NRSC's Sen. Cornyn at info@nrsc.org or by phone at (202)675-6000.
You can contact RNC Chairman Michael Steele at chairman@gop.com or by phone at (202) 863-8700.

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

Too bad the CFO didn't apply for the building loan through Fanney Mae or Freddy Mac before they went belly up. Personally, I think hard times are a comin'.

LarrySpalding (Anonymous) says…

What with all of the flat landers coming up here for hunting season, climbing mountains, hills and dales (that's arroyos for all of us), and then dropping from a heart attack, we all need to brush up on our CPR skills.

Being an avid reloader, I looked up the ingredients for smokeless gunpowder. I knew that black powder was made from sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate, but I didn't know what smokeless powder is made from. Guess what? It's made from Nitroglycerin! So I wondered, in an emergency, out away from everyone, if I were to suffer a heart attack, could I possibly increase my chances of survival if I were to pull the bullet out of a cartridge and swallow the smokeless gunpowder, or are there other chemicals in it that would kill me just the same? Imagine how many people might possibly be saved by a little back woods .308 prescription of 44 grains of Varget?

Anybody ever hear of somebody doing anything like that? I'm sure that the liability of recommending it would make a lawyer green with anticipation, but if you are dead anyway, who cares, and if you save yourself, why would you sue?

Being an outside the box thinker, I called a gunpowder company and am awaiting a call back. I'll let you know what I find out.
Here are the three main ingredients:
Nitroglycerin
diphenylamine
ethyl centralite