Category: Political Commentary

Political Commentary and Sarcasm

They Just Don’t Understand

My family doesn’t understand me. My whole adult life I have worked in the Agriculture industry, mainly Livestock Production, and Bachelor’s degree from Kansas State University is specifically in Livestock Production Management. The long and short of it is, that piece of paper tells you that I am a “glorified ” (tongue in cheek as we way that0 cowboy in the girl kind of way. I have spent long hours working with livestock, patching barbed wire fences, calving out cattle, kidding out goats, training horses and dogs and running tractors, feed trucks, payloaders and skid steer loaders.

With my goat rental business, I camp out on the prairie with my goats at each job site, roughing the weather: hot and cold, storms and snow. People are impressed with my ability to live like I do in the summer and even in the snow. I seem to thrive living like this and truth be told, IF I could live year round camping out, I think I would prefer it to living in a house. Heck, there was a few months when I was in Oregon that I lived in a barn. I DON’T need much to be happy and a peace.

There is a freedom that few understand when it comes to living outside. I sleep better, even when it is hot. All I have to doo cool off at night is wet a sheet down and lay it on top of me. By morning, I am usually in my sleeping bag, cold from the temperature change in the evaporation of the water. But that is how the old timers used to live! What I do is nothing new!

There is more to living outside, like a cowboy. There is a sky of stars at night, the song of the prairie and those amazing sunrises and sunsets that are never the same! The sound of the animals, not only the wildlife like coyotes, it is the sound of the goats or cattle as they sleep. There is a rhythm in their breathing that lulls me to sleep.

My family doesn’t get my lifestyle, very few understand it at all. City slickers have no clue what they are missing and my readers probably can’t comprehend what I am trying to convey but that peacefulness I get living like I do, you can’t imitate it unless you actually participate.

Sleeping on the ground (I have 2 sleeping bags for cushion and one to sleep in) I sleep better than in a bed. It is hard to explain but there is a benefit called ‘grounding’ and since I started sleeping on the ground, I feel better inside. I’ve lost a lot of inflammation and my body seems to work better. It is probably all the fresh air as well.

Whatever my family thinks of me, it doesn’t matter because my life is my own and as long as I am happy, that is what truly matters. However, there is a more important aspect to living outside. I can commune with God on a level that few comprehend and that is worth more than any fancy house and big plush bed could ever be worth. Living simply as I do, I can appreciate the little things in life that truly matter. I am not missing anything, I have more than most, I get to live life and see life as it should be, simple and free.

Proposed Solar Farm Doesn’t Make Sense

I just read an article about a proposed solar farm that was presented to the Saline County Commission (Saline County, Kansas). The Company, Shasta Power is an Oregon based power company that wants to come to Kansas, to build a 1,000 acre project on county owned land that has been designated by the individual who left the land to the county to be used for agricultural purposes. I have so many red flags from this article that dare not go into them all. However, I will share my thoughts on many.

First red flag is an Oregon power company coming to Kansas with no word on who would benefit by the power generated. Am I too presumptuous to think that no Kansas homes will benefit? The second flag is that the proposed size is not known but would be between 1,050 – 1,450 acres. That equates to about 2.26 sections of land at the largest proposed area.

I think what concerns me the most is that they want all this land for 30-35 years and this project would only generate 150 megawatts that would power only about 3,800 homes! Where is the efficiency in that? Oh sure let’s take out two and a quarter sections of land to provide power to 3,800 homes! I do not see this as a good use of land when crops on that land could provide. I did a little figuring and that 1,450 acres of land can produce about 2,738,000 loaves of bread per year! Multiply that by 35 years and that is over 95 MILLION loaves of bread. How many households would those loaves feed?

The above figuring was based on an article I read from this site. My math might be a little off but not by much. https://www.commongrainalliance.org/growing-grain/acres-loaf-bread

A huge flag is that this project will only have about 300 TEMPORARY jobs. I thought renewable energy was supposed to be big in permanent jobs. But worst yet they have plans to decommission the WHOLE thing in 30-35 years! What is renewable about that?

The last flag I will comment on is that this proposal is to use land that was given to the county for agricultural use. While this project is a ‘solar farm’ it by no means grows product for consumption, which in my training in animal science means some type of food. Energy or rather energy from the sun is only a component of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle to produce either plant or animal protein. This (solar farm) is NO FARMING/AGRICULTURE!

Now the biggest question I have is: WHY ARE OTHER COUNTIES IN KANSAS NOT ALLOWING SOLAR FARMS IN THEIR COUNTIES? There is a reason and you should QUESTION EVERYTHING!

https://salinapost.com/posts/e74744c0-255e-453b-83b9-51557137da81

Kansas Cowboy Poetry

June 9, 2023 was the finals for the State of Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest that was held at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, Kansas. There were two division of poetry; Serious and Humorous. There were 17 cowboy and cowgirl poets from three states who were set to battle it out with spinning of yarns that rhymed. First place in the Serious division was Kye Rieff from Missouri and First place in the Humorous division was Mary Powell, that’s right, little ole me! I also got 3rd place in the Serious division with my Prairie Song poem. Best yet was that the winners got two free tickets to the Symphony on the Flint Hills, on June 10th and the opportunity to perform after the Symphony at the story circle, which was right beside the path that people took to head back across the prairie to their vehicles. We had a captive audience. I also had a photo opportunity with cowboy musician Jeff Davidson, Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Mike Beam and Ron Wilson, Kansas Poet Lariat (not laureate) .

So what is so big about cowboy poetry? Well it is a far cry from the poetry that sophisticated people listen to in the coffee houses that drum up ideas of the 1070’s flower child poetry about injustice, hate and love. Cowboy poetry is story put to rhyme that is either serious in nature or humorous. Mainly it is about life and those of us who perform cowboy poetry have lots of stories to tell about life, cowboy work, farming, and an occasional political comment. The fun is in the rhyme and presentation…that’s right it is performance poetry. Storyteller are really what the poets are but add the rhyme and the poetry fun begins. Great cowboy poets like the late Baxter Black, made cowboy poetry a thing when he and Waddie Mitchell performed on Johnny Carson.

Cowboy poetry can have you gasping for air when you are laughing so hard your ribs hurt or it can bring tears to your eyes or twinge your heart. It is a small genre of poetry that has a long history of cowboys in the 1800’s who turned many of the poems into songs we know as cowboy music, after all, that is what a song is, poetry put to music.

There are Cowboy Poetry Gatherings that occur across the country and the biggest is at Elko, Nevada. Several are in the Pacific Northwest, Southwest, Texas and Oklahoma. Kansas used to have a National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo but the rights were sold a few years back and it moved out west. I am trying to organize a Gathering for September 29-30th, 2023 at Fredonia, Kansas that is in conjunction with the Wilson County Old Iron Days Celebration that is September 27-30th. We want to have a contest and hand out belt buckles for the poets but we also want to invite Cowboy Musicians, Artists and chuckwagons to come as well. I am also looking for sponsors of buckles and to help fund the chuckwagon feed. If you would like to help, send me an email at ducessoftheprairie@yahoo.com.

So, what was my winning and third place poems about? My first place original poem was called FULL MOON AT NOON.

Full Moon at Noon

We chased the cattle along the river and up into the timber,

At least that is what I remember.

The cattle were wild, they had long ears and long horns,

We had to keep some distance, or our cowponies would get gored.

Slim to the high side and Sue took the low,

She whispered back to me that she had to go.

I pushed the cattle onward, to give her some time,

She needed some privacy and a good place to hide.

The guys were all ahead and all was all clear,

Until Suzie’s horse spooked an old buck deer.

I didn’t hear the screams for help that she needed,

The damage was done, all the cowboys had seen it.

Her horse had lunged, and the saddle horn caught her belt buckle,

The sight we all seen, made us all chuckle.

Upside down on the side of the horse she exposed,

Her bare backside this runaway rode.

I imagined her shame in all of her glory,

I rode hard to catch her runaway pony.

She was upside down nearly touching the ground when I stopped the escape,

She rode with me blushing back to the gate.

“I’ll never live it down,” she sobbed all ashamed,

I reassured her everything would be okay.

I glared at the men, and no one said a word back at the pens,

But the boss man sure had a great big grin.

I waited for it, I knew it was coming,

A bare backside in the timber, a snide remark would be humming.

But no one spoke of Suzie’s accident then,

And no one spoke of it, when to dinner we headed in.

Her face was scarlet all through the meal,

I tried to reassure her it was really no big deal.

BUT, when we finished out meal, the boss sang us a tune,

“I never believed I ever see a full moon at noon!”

My Third Place Poem

Prairie Song

Come to the Prairie, where the Tallgrass grows,

Marvel as it dances, when the Southwind blows.

Watch a prairie sunrise, rainbow color hues,

Shines a picture perfect, good morning to you.

Hear the quail and meadowlark sing their morning song,

Melodies of nature, as you ride along.

See the cattle grazing where bison once roamed?

One of the many reasons I call the Kansas Prairie home.

Springtime on the prairie brings fire to burn the land,

Leaving the ashes, to warm the ground, new life is at hand.

Over yonder are the wheat fields a waving sea of green,

By mid-summer they are a golden harvest to be seen.

Listen to the thunder as it echoes across the hills,

Bringing rain and thunderstorms for your senses to thrill.

Feel history on the prairie, of pioneers who broke the sod,

They lived by their hopes and the Grace of God.

Fat cattle are gathered and shipped to feedlot pens,

A sure sign when the grazing season ends.

Walk on the prairie as fall begins to bloom,

The land reassures us colder days are coming soon.

Shiver as the cold wind from northern lands do blow,

Black clouds and cold frosts bring the winter snow.

Hear the night song gently whisper the horizons to turn to gray,

Sending forth the order of the ending of the day,

Watch as the nighttime brings stars to fill the sky,

Gives you time to wonder at the day and all the reasons why.

Night owls tell their stories and startle you when they hoot,

Next comes the scavengers snooping around to find some loot.

Hear the coyotes yipping, calling for their mate.

See the moon? She’s rising as the night gets late.

And so, it is the Prairie, as it sings its song every day,

Come live on it and learn its many ways.

Now my song is over my secrets I have told,

I love this prairie more & more as each year I grow old.

Have a great day!

Walmart’s Assault on Senior Citizens

This past Wednesday, my mother and I were at Walmart in Independence, Kansas. When we went to checkout, there were TWO checkers with several people in line, waiting. Of course almost all the folks in the line were senior citizens and some didn’t look like they could stand very long without becoming exhausted. The comments in the lines were as follows:

“I won’t use self-checkout. I don’t work here and they won’t give us a discount for checking ourselves out.”

“I don’t know how to use them.” said another.

“I don’t use a debit or credit card.” said another, unaware she could use cash.

“I don’t even have a smart phone, how could I ever figure out doing my own checkout?”

As a person who used to work in customer service, I found the long lines unacceptable and I yelled out, “We need some more checkers!” Everyone who had made comments smiled at me. We waited about five minutes and then my mother yelled out the same as I did. Pretty soon the intercom was alive with “Associates are needed at checkout.” When no one came, I waited a few minutes then called the store for the manager. When the operator asked what the call pertained to, I told her about the checker issue. She replied she had made two requests for help but no one came. I insisted on speaking with the manager.

One of the managers took my call and I told her the situation and tried to pander to me. I wasn’t having it. I told her there was no excuse. She said they didn’t have enough help, yet I had seen associates standing around chatting about nothing. I’ve even overheard comments from associates calling customers “lazy” for not using self-checkout. Wake up Walmart! Customers do not come to shop and checkout our own purchases! I’ve got fresh produce that doesn’t have a bar code!

I’ve visited with associates from other Walmarts and they have had to shut down self-checkouts after 10PM to cut down on theft as their highest thefts were occurring at night through self-check. HMMM Maybe that should open the eyes of Walmart but it doesn’t as they push to make all Walmarts self-checkout. If they won’t give a 10% discount for checking my own purchases out. When I have used self-check (which is rare), I always ask the associate where the 10% discount button is so I can credit myself for checking my own purchases.

For those who live with credit and debit cards and want to get out faster, self-check is the way to go but for those of us who grew up with grocery shopping as a social outing, the lack of communication during check out is impersonal and demeaning. We Seniors aren’t lazy, many of us just don’t want to get in trouble for messing up a machine or some of us may have trouble sacking our items in the bags. Some of us have trouble understanding what the computer is asking. IN other words, it is humiliating to try to figure out machines with others waiting their turn to check out. Besides that, what ever happened to customer service?

Several folks in those long lines over heard me telling my mom that we needed to start going to the grocery store instead of using Walmart any more. I told her we could order our dog food through Chewy.com since Walmart doesn’t always have the dog food we need. Others chimed in and agreed and they said they were shopping more and more with the local grocery store and just pop into Walmart for certain things the grocery store doesn’t have.

Walmart has pushed out the local grocery stores in many communities. They’ve also pushed out many small mom and pop shops that provided personalized services in their hardware, sewing, plumbing, and other specialty stores. It is sad that Walmart is now disenfranchising the Senior Citizens of this country by refusing them a no hassle checkout.

I see a time when Walmart loses when the People have had enough of lack of product on the shelf and limited purchases because of the New World Order game they are following. Local producers will be the winners and as people get tired of the Walmart Way of treating their customers poorly. I have already limited my needs from Walmart, now if I could just get Mom to agree. We can find another way to interact with People instead of going to Walmart. As soon as Walmart goes complete self-checkout, I see a huge drop in their sales, mainly from Senior Citizens.

Sorry, Not Sorry Walmart. Your customer service SUCKS!

The Cowpuncher Economic Plan

I’ve been reading a few articles about the economy that suggests what needs to be done according to the economists. While I agree with some, I have a plan that definitely get the economy jumpstarted. Whilst it might be more Trump-like, I am sure it will work as anything is a thousand percent better than the current plan, which is to drive the country into third-world levels, kill off the population, force smart cities, cars and socialism. Bear with me as I explain the steps we must take to turn the economy around.

  1. Get rid of all politicians who have more than 20 years in office. We must also enforce term limits to all politicians of no more than 12 years in office of any level. This includes local, state and federal levels.
  2. Get rid of all bureaucrats who have worked more than 12 years and limit any one working in any bureaucracy.
  3. Eliminate: Department of Education, Department of Interior, IRS, Homeland Security, Dept of Health and Human Services.
  4. Move all legislation to the States for anything except infrastructure and national security matters.
  5. Close the borders.
  6. Get rid of all of Bidien’s Executive Orders from his first day to the present.
  7. Hold any and all politicians accountable for any under the table deals made with any foreign countries.
  8. DRILL BABY DRILL!!!
  9. Institute the FairTax plan and get rid of the thousands of pages of Tax Law.
  10. Let the States deal with Land issues, social issues, etc.
  11. Impeach Biden fore his Biden Family -China connections and illegal activities.

The Party of Old White Guys Who are Out of Touch

Guess which party is not the party of Old White Guys who are out of touch with the People? The DemocRAT Party of Socialists/Communists. That’s right. It wasn’t long ago that this very party was claiming the Republican party was nothing but old white guys but look who we have on the Republican Party now and yes Trump is an older person BUT he is IN TOUCH with the People. The Republican party has lots of women and ‘women of color’.

One of Biden’s first supporters w hen he announced he is running for president again was Bernie Sanders. Talk about an old fart! (I won’t use the word goat as that is slanderous to the beautiful animals). Chuckie Schummer wants to silence the Truth and get rid of the First Amendment by censoring news media he is another old fart that needs to blow away! Talk about out of touch and worthless!

Does this look like a man you believe knows what is going on? NOPE! Oh, let’s get ice cream!

Wake Up People!!!

Why is everyone in shock at what the Biden Administration and the Federal Government is doing to this country? Why are you all in shock? We have been warned constantly since the beginning of the United States of America that this could happen. The tyranny, the takeover of sovereignty, total control of life. We were warned by the Founding Fathers, by Abraham Lincoln, by George Orwell and many other writers and of course, we were warned by the Bible what will happen in the end days.

Humans are stupid creatures, in spite of all their knowledge, they cannot believe that history repeats itself, that just because we get rid of one evil person that there won’t be another pop up that is even worse or more sneaky about what they are doing. This current evil is pushed by the Communists in Washington DC and around the world. Joe ‘pedophile’ Biden is a puppet of China and everyone knows it but why is no one doing a thing in Washington DC to stop his tyranny? Mainly because they have all sold their souls to China in some shape or form. Everyone sees what is going on, they see the writing on the wall but all they do is wring their hands and those champions of Freedom are silenced or forced out of their platforms to help the People fight back.

After Tucker Carlson was force out at FOX News, Chuck Schummer made a comment that sounded as if the government should control the media. Umm, excuse me, that is a direct violation of the First Amendment. Yet no one is calling Chuckie out. Why? All I see is an evil ugly hearted man who is like that hateful uncle who feels he was cheated out of his inheritance and has to push his thoughts on everyone. Well, I say, SCREW YOU Chuckie and the Communist manifesto you flew in on!

Then we have the mentally ill trans agenda that pushes their sick ideologies. Sterilization of children in the name of mental illness. One of the first tenants of any species surviving is reproduction, to ensure the species survives. Yet people changing their phenological (physical) sex changes nothing for these people. They are still unhappy and many after years, realize they haven’t changed a thing except ruined their bodies and their own health. Why are we being held hostage by sick people?

Then the climate change ideology makes claims humans are destroying the world. Hmm. Really? I have yet to see results from global cooling or warming. All I see is cyclic changes that have always been a part of this world. Loads of scientists are coming forward and admitting the climate change ideology is just a way to control the population. It all goes back to people with lots of money wanting to control the world, making sure that they always have more and everyone else has less. These people are nothing less than the disciples of Satan and sold their souls to the Devil.

Here is TRUTH beyond belief. God is still in charge and if they People as in the history of time, turn back to Him, things will get better. And if the PEOPLE who are Christians will open their eyes and hearts to realize that it doesn’t matter what they do to us, we win! If they tyrannical government kills us, we win and go to Heaven, they’ve made us martyrs and people will want to know why. If they jail us, people will see the TRUTH, if they let us live, People will see that they fear us because we have God on our side! There are more of us than them! That is why they fear us, and that is why they try to shut us down. But they can’t shut God down and the delusion that they can is as mentally messed up as the people who think they can change their biology by cutting off body parts! Wake up People! God is STILL IN CHARGE!

They are After Him Because of US

Donald Trump put himself forward to protect the PEOPLE of the United States of America. He surprisingly won the 2016 elections which sent the left into convulsions and they have been convulsing ever since. Why? Because he is for the PEOPLE, not the agenda. He threw their plans into chaos and now the Biden Administration is on steroids trying to undo what he did to make this country see what we can be if we get the Deep State out of DC.

No other President in our history has done so much and shown the PEOPLE how terrible our government has gotten. NO one has shown how dangerous things have gotten either. Our government is exactly what the Founding Fathers feared when they set up this great nation: a tyrannical government that is overstepping its authority and infringing on freedom.

The People are upset and yet we stand still, not knowing what to do. It is time to start DEMANDING of our leaders that this stop. Voting isn’t the only way to replace the problematic officials. A vote of no confidence at all levels is enough to start things rolling. The government is AFRAID of the people because we are armed and we practice our Second Amendment Rights. But do we really? That Second Amendment was put in place to protect ourselves from the tyranny of government. Trump was our leader and they are after him because of us. Don’t we owe him something? I think we do. Folks, we are in a civil war and it is only going to get worse if we don’t stand together!

50 By 40 The Next Attack on Agriculture

It seems that every time we turn around there is another group of people who want to get rid of animal agriculture. If it isn’t the group wanting us to eat crickets it is the UN pushing the climate change agenda to get rid of 50% of animal agriculture by 2040! That’s right! As an Animal Agriculturalist for over 38 years, I find this new agenda even more threatening and as ignorant as some of the other ideologies that have been pushed forward. But, with the help of the United Nations, this might actually get some leverage. Of course we need an Executive Order from the President BUT this is part of the New Green Deal that hasn’t been sprung on us as of yet.

The Core Principles of 50 by 40 is to “decrease the production and consumption of animal protein while addressing the food crises in areas where people are plagued with hunger and nutritional deficiencies.” Do they understand that goat meat is a cheap source of protein as goats can live off of scrub plants? Do they know or understand that 80% of the world’s population eats goat meat and drinks the milk of goats? These are probably the cheapest sources of protein anyone can get, other than chickens and eggs. They value ‘social justice and believe in equity and want to control financial flows and induce behavioral changes to transform the food systems in the world.

One of the diagrams in their 2021 yearly report has a vison of changing norms and behaviors and balancing power by using development public and human health and climate change. They also want to change the corporate landscape. They keep mentioning a “JUST LIVESTOCK TRANSITION”. Can I ask what is just about pushing livestock producers out of business when we feed the world?

The 50By40 network is a list of who’s who in climate change and animal rights activism, including the HSUS (Humane Society of the US), which has had so many issues with their lies about where their money goes and a former head of the group being in trouble with the law. Greenpeace is a notoriously dangerous group of people who put others in danger to push their agenda.

I have yet to find a real doctor of nutrition in their sources. A psychologist perhaps but what do they know about nutrition? I took livestock nutrition classes for my Animal Science degree. Even I know that we need a certain amount of good cholesterol and animal protein in our human diets to have PROPER brain function. These people want us eating all plants and BUGS! Forgive me but humans have been eating animals since the beginning of time, so I don’t think animal agriculture is the issue, it is who will and won’t eat but they will tell us it is fair to all. That is EQUITY folks! There is no logic there is control and that is what this is ALL ABOUT! Population control. Do you think the really wealthy are going to give up meat? HELL NO! and I won’t either! If you want to be part of the 50% to give up animal protein, I suggest you volunteer cause this meat eating dinosaur is going to eat meat until her dying day! (Which may be sooner than later if the communists take over).

If you don’t believe me, here is 2 links that might wake you up. The first is the 50×40 website: https://50by40.org/

The second is the latest in the 30×30 attack on land owners and agriculture, the new Executive order 3410 that is part of the New Green Deal tied to 30×30. They want to repopulate buffalo and get rid of cattle! https://doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/elips/documents/so-3410.pdf