JESUS, ALL MY HOPE IS IN YOU! YOUR NAME IS HIGHER; YOUR NAME IS GREATER . . . JESUS, JESUS, BE THOU GLORIFIED! SPARKLING DREAM: (1) BRIGHAM YOUNG STUDENTS GET THE WORD, THE BIBLE, NOT THE BOOK OF MORMON; (2) MY BLACK LEATHER BOUND COPY HAS A REVERSIBLE COVER--ON THE INSIDE OR REVERSE SIDE: (A) SPARLING PICTURE OF FORMER MORMON PROPHET, GORDON B. HINCKLEY, WITH PEOPLE AROUND HIM; (B) A SPARLING PICTURE OF SANTA CLAUS AND A CHRISTMAS TREE; (3) ME LOOKING FOR MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, THE JUDGE TO SHOW HIM MY STRANGE COPY OF THE BIBLE AND THE SPARKLING PICTURES; AND (4) NOT FINDING MY BIBLE, SEEMINGLY HIDDEN, AND NOT ABLE TO SHOW GREAT-GRANDFATHER, I LATER FIND IT AND SHOW MY FATHER, WHO TAKES THE UNIQUE BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, AND PUTS IT IN HIS SUIT POCKET . . . DEEP POCKETS! THAT IS INDICATIVE OF WHAT HAPPENED, I SHINE, TEACH, BYU STUDENTS TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, THE TRUE SAVIOR, STOP PROPHET WORSHIPPING AND TURN TO THEIR ONLY SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST! BUT MY FATHER TAKES THE PRESENT AND KEEPS IT! IT'S RIDIN' TIME AGAIN . . .

A SPARKING CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO BYU STUDENTS, IN MORMON, UTAH . . . JESUS CHRIST, THE NEW TESTAMENT!  NO OTHER NAME . . .

In this dream, that was somewhat startling, I found myself, at Brigham Young University, where I attended law school, at that J. Reuben Clark Law School, between 1990 and 1990, and after law school taught, family law, undergraduate, but didn't make it the full semester, due to spurious complaint, that went no where, but, pissed me off so much, that I quit in the middle of the semester, later taught family law at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and had a nice, 7 years stretch, until I was poisoned, and my life drastically changed, but, back to the dream, I was actually standing in the Marriot Center, the basketball arena, also where they have weekly convocations, or guest speakers, generally, Mormon Church speakers, that the students go listen to once a week, if it is still like it was back in the day.  But to my surprise, there was not a speaker, in the dream, but there where big boxes of paperback copies of the Bible, or later, it seemed to me, from the special copy that I was given, that it was the New Testament.  But, Mormons are taught that the Book of Mormon, is a second witness to Christ, and are encouraged to read the book, once a year, or on a continual basis, not the case with other scriptures, such as the New Testament.  But, I was impressed that this whole gathering of students, filled the arena, were all being given the light blue books, in paperback, that somewhat resembled the old paperback copies of the Book of Mormon . . . Mormon Church standard issue, printed by Deseret Book!  LOL!

Smiling Former Mormon Leader, Gordon B. Hinckley

I walked up to the person, handing out the books and asked for one . . . they handed me, a larger sized black leather cover to my book, with a zipper, much like the coverings of the standard works of scriptures, that Mormons all have, but this was quite small, so I assumed that it only had the New Testament, since the other students were getting copies of the Bible, or the New Testament.  I started to look at the book, and opened it and noticed that the entire cover was removable, and when I took it off, there was a picture of the prophet, who was the President of the Mormon Church, while I was in law school, Gordon B. Hinckley, who I always liked, and thought was a rational, and smart man, especially when it came to women . . . he said there are many of you women who are at home, who should be working and mothers who are working and should be at home, but that is up to you and God to decide which category you fall into.  I liked that back in the day, actually, he said that in the 80's, as the women's issues were heating up and women were torn between the traditional role of women, and the new, woman's movement.  But, I thought it was interesting that it was that President, who was on the shining and sparkly cover of my book, and he was smiling, and I think he would, and would like what I have done, not only with my children, but my career, my life, in general, and what I am doing with my blog, even though, his alleged followers, like my father, sisters, etc., who claim to be Mormons, steal and lay claim to all I do . . . yesterday, my blog broke through the 230,000 ceiling that was put on it and inched up to a million hits, still about 24,000,000 to 154,000,000 that the blog has reached in the past . . . I guess the Mo's, NSA, CIA, FBI, and others, who want to say they wrote my blog yesterday on pig wrestling, I grow it, they mow it, and stole it, put it wherever in the dark web and deep Internet, or hid it!  Whatever . . .

Learning the Atonement, Grace, and Jesus' Gift to Us . . . New To Me!

You see, overall, Mormons are taught and raised to be good Mormons, not necessarily good Christians . . . they might have to be honest, not covet, not steal or kill!  They blow off the 10 Commandments and deal in the exceptions . . . like the Book of Mormon scripture that justifies murder . . . better one man, or woman, in my case, die, than a nation in unbelief!  That flies in the face of the commandment not to kill; coveting my blog, cases, resume, legislation, children, etc., is prohibited by the 10 Commandments, and so is stealing . . . I am sure in their puny minds, they have some rational excuse, that they are saving the nation from unbelief, and this sister has had a divorce, she got an abortion, she has fornicated, and she has done whatever . . . I admit, I did the crimes and Jesus did the time!  I don't think I fully understood the atonement, Jesus' grace, the gift, being one with Christ, until, I became a non-denominational Christian, starting that process, while practicing law in St. George, Utah, which pissed off a lot of Mormons, especially in southern Utah, where there is absolutely no separation of church and state, in or outside of court, with the largest two civil rights cases in the nation, attorneys calling me from all over the country, being listed as #2 in the nation for civil rights defense, with a focus on Utah, as has been the case with other things that I have done . . . I don't do anything half assed, and it usually goes big, that is just who I am . . . the Church, especially with Mitt Romney a nominee, wanted some other representative for Utah and Mormonism, that me, and that went for my son's band, God's Revolver, also . . . not some long haired, wild ass, Red Jesus!, with a sleeve tattoo!

Come Just As You Are . . . Is Unheard of in the Mormon Church!

In the dream, the next section of the dream, takes place, in kind of a warp zone, in my life, takes me back to a Christmas Party, the only memory I have of my great-grandfather, The Judge, is what they called him, but in the dream I am an adult, but my memory takes place when I was 6 years old, and at a Christmas Party, The Judge hobbles up to me, and points his cane in my face at my eyes, and said . . . you got those eyes from me, the bluest of blue . . . that is the background for the dream, and I am back, as an adult, but with great-grandfather sitting over on a couch, and I wanted to show him the cool sparkling, shining book that I was just given . . . but I can't find it to show him!  For some time in the dream, I am sifting through closets, going from one book, one set of scriptures to another, but can't find the new copy that I was just given at the Marriot Center!

The thing that is interesting, is the apparent closeness of the spirit world, the Judge is long dead!  We may be fascinated by who close our dead loved ones really are, but the interesting thing to me, is that it is due to great-grandfather, and a scholarship at BYU law school, that probably got me into law school, the way I did. Every year, some of the family gathers at BYU law school, about 8 or so of us, and most are professors, judges, lawyers, and relatives, but I was invited to come to these interviewing process, with about 12 law students, trying to get the A. Sherman Christensen Scholarship, a small scholarship, but a very prestigious one.  I may be mixing up the names, that may be his son, who was a U.S. Federal District Court Judge, in the District of Utah, a bar that I later became a member of, but one year, all the judges, professors and other professionals that made of the very distinguished Christensen family, could not make it, and the only two to come, was me and my grandmother, Elaine Christensen!  

Grandmother's first question was, Do you like Matlock . . . yes, that would be the TV show!  I was mortified, and decided after that introduction, that the student didn't quite know how to respond, nor did they have time to watch Matlock, I took over all the interviews from that point forward!  I had been reading a two part book collection of the Great Western Thinkers . . . you know Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hume, etc., and I had underlined a bunch of passages from essays on the Republic and the Virtues, and changed them into questions, many having to do with the law.  Both law professors, who were overseeing the interviews, seeing me question many of them, without them knowing how to respond, and knowing full well, that I had no preparation for the interviews, shocked that me and Grandma were the only family members present . . . which had never been the case in the three prior years, when Sherm, or his brother another judge in the 4th District, oh, Cullen Christensen, or Phil Christensen, a former member of the FBI, or their younger sister and her husband, both, professors, Catherine Christensen ?  I always just sat back and learned!  Anyway, they both asked me, why in the hell I was not going to law school?  Uh, like four children!  Two years later, I had a dream, to go to law school, and went up and talked to one of the professors, who had asked me to consider law school, and with no LSAT, no application, no references, and not really being interested, getting up to go twice when I was told how important the LSAT, or the entrance exam to get into law school was . . . I was accepted, within two hours!  I think Jesus wanted me in law school!  I don't think he is upset . . . today after attending the Crossfire Church, I was riding home and on the back of the hat, of one of the guys who also attends, there was a "Jesus Loves . . . but a heart, U."  I surely hope so, and he takes me just as I am!  YOU TOO!

My Father Takes the Book From Me And Puts It In His Pocket

Let me first explain, what I think that sequence with the Judge and the lost book means . . . I literally, believe, that the law school, was bought, bribed, lied, and covered up the fact that I ever went there!  I believe that the Mormon Church, my two staunch Mormon clients, Henry S. Brock and Jay Rice, both Republicans, in a chance for Mitt to be Prez., my family, with members close to Mitt Romney, sister with a husband who was a bishop in Mitt's stake in Massechusette, the Mormon Governor and Attorney General, who were both named defendants, the Mormon judge on the case, once it came back to Utah . . . the steal came after I kicked the government attorneys' asses, and they knew I won, so they bribed, and then brought in the doubles, the chicks who would take over my identify, not only for the case, but for my entire life, switching at birth!  This is the shit that FBI and CIA do all the time!  With 70% or higher of the guys and gals being Mormon . . . their one big chance to get a Mo in the White House, just one little female attorney they needed to ditch and bring in the show gals, for the image of the Mormon Church!  This conspiracy, cover up, corruption, goes to the top of D.C., the Mormon Church current president, who I have never, ever liked, and fucking hate his granddaughter, who stole my Cheek et al v. Garrett et al case!

Just two days ago, I wrote about the murder of Marion resident, Mary Todd's, son, Shane Todd, who was murdered in China or Singapore . . . somewhere over there . . . and wrote about my story, and I would say, the two stories are connected in a bizarre way!  I had this dream, the night, I wrote the blog on Mary's presentation to the Republican Pachyderm Meeting, on Friday!  At that meeting, one of the main guys was handing out, lists of what it is to be a Republican and inferred that there are some of us, who are not true Republicans and that is evident or will come out, one way or another!  Hell, yeah, I am not a Republican!  That was never a condition for joining the Pachyderm Club . . . I am not clearly a Democrat either . . . but this group along with others, key to covering up who I am, have also participated with the Utah groups, to say that one or another of the company gals are ME!  The last sparkling book, is symbolic of me, and I have been lost, and great-grandfather, was denied seeing what his scholarship brought to the nation!  Maybe one nation, including Mormons, under God!

My Net Worth Should Be Around a Billion Dollars . . . That is What Brock Got!

I am one law student, that BYU, the Church and my family should not be ashamed of!  I am going to list, what this little law student did and has done for this nation, that would have been a far different place than it is now, had I not gone to law school!  Coveting, envy, jealousy, thinking I hogged the stage or limelight . . . I like what famous football coach, Newt Rockny said, after coaching the Green Bay Packers, to many successful seasons . . . it ain't really bragging if you did it!  The facts are the facts, women, mothers, you can have it all, but there is a time a season for everything . . . I didn't start practicing law, until I was 40 years old and raised my children, as basically, an at home housewife!  Great-grandfather, you did the world good, by bringing me to the attention of the law school professors, who might lie to this day about which Southwick girl was in law school, or was the one who took over the interviewing process for the scholarship and it was not, Shelley, Kay, Rachel, Sue, Marcie, Tiffany, Kelly, Rebecca, Hope . . . none of the show gals they are all frauds, stole my life, cases, and everything.

Just like the dream, my father took the sparkling one and buried her, just like he took the special book and put it in his pocket . . . he always wanted to be a lawyer, he never did, he hated me for doing it, and not only did I do it, but saved his profession, of CPAs and financial planners . . . the daughter he hated most, the one who competed in her father's world, in securities defense, not only could compete by way of brain to brain, but saved his ass too!  Shelley took the deal, and got to do the steal, but it was this daughter, JoAnn, who took on the state's SEC or Division of Securities and man handled them into submission . . . that is when the show girls took over, and even after I was arrested, and jailed, Brock the fuck, and Rice, all realized that I have filed one more brief, after the government deals were cut, and they didn't have an attorney who could finish the case in a win, although the government attorneys defaulted, unsuspecting of the brief, that could be filed 180 days, and was filed on the 180th day!  LOL!  They didn't know what to do, so they defaulted, with Judge Clark Waddoups, coming to the Mormon rescue . . . his colleague, U.S. Federal District Judge, A. Sherman Christensen, would turn over in his grave, seeing what Waddoups had done to his grand-niece, and a great case!  

Sherm used to sneak into the administration at BYU, and check on my grades . . . Ray Jay Davis told me that, one of the three law professors who I was both teaching assistant and research assistant for!  No slouch in law school either!  I was asked by my Constitutional law professor, Wilkins to be his research assistant, same with my family law professor, Waddel, I think!  My grades were not that good, but I was one hell of a researcher and teaching assistant, for two years, not one, for one of the most notable professors at the law school, one of the nations experts in water law, and weather modification . . . I even proved him wrong on a law review article he wrote . . . I told him, case law does not support the way you have written this article!  Six months later, the law review committee said the same thing!  So, there President Obama!  LOL!  From the second I got out of law school, I shined, sparkled, and did my jobs, five statewide, to the top degree and same with my cases, attorneys called me nationwide for help, and many paid a fortune to the Federal District Court to read my briefs the second I e-filed them!  Not too bad for my first fucking case . . . $357 million, securities case . . . you needed to know Constitutional, criminal, civil, administrative and securities law to do that case . . . I am one in a million attorneys!  

Bad Ass Chick Moms Can Be Bad Ass Con Law Chicks Too!

Fuck You Dad, Bet on Wrong Daughter!  Your a Close Second Mom!  Who are my mother and father . . . he who doeth the will of my Father in Heaven!

PIG WRESTLING--GET READY FOR SWINE HALLOW! LOL! MAMA'S, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS! (VW CAR AD) YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR MISSING! LADIES, CHECK OUT THE MEN ON THE NORTHWESTERN FLATHEAD COUNTY FAIR GROUND HOME PAGE! OH, YEAH! RODEO STUDS . . . COME HAVE A SHIT KICKIN' GOOD TIME! TARGET EMPLOYEE MOM, NATALIE . . . KATY JUST GOT HER LAMB TO RAISE FOR THE FAIR AUCTION, WRITE ABOUT THE FFA, FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA! FFA MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF STUDENTS BY DEVELOPING THEIR POTENTIAL FOR PREMIER LEADERSHIP, PERSONAL GROWTH AND CAREER SUCCESS THROUGH AGRICULTURE EDUCATION. MOTHERS GET YOUR KIDS OUT IN THE COUNTRY, OFF THE DAMNED COMPUTERS, CELL PHONES AND IPODS, AND LET THEM GET DIRTY, PET AN ANIMAL, RUN THROUGH A FIELD WITH SHEEP CHASING THEM . . . BULL IS A BIT SCARY! LOL! SERIOUSLY, DO YOU WANT THREE CONTROLLED LITTLE BOYS? NATALIE JUST REMINDED ME, THAT LAST WEEK, KATY, HER DAUGHTER, HAD TO PUT ON GLOVES UP TO HER ELBOWS AND STICK HER ARM INSIDE A COW TO CHECK TO SEE IF SHE WAS PREGNANT! FFA DIRECTOR TOLD HER, SHE WAS GOING TO LIGHT UP IF SHE FELT THE CALF! SEE WHY I LOVE MONTANA MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN! I KNOW, I KNOW, MANY STATES HAVE FARMERS, COWBOYS, RANCHERS (LIKE KANSAS, JAMES KENNEDY!)

Of Course A German Car Manufacturer, Would Trash Cowboys . . . And Push For Techno Geeks In the Back of Mom's Car!  Quiet, Controlled, and Obedient!  LOL!  That's Not America!

Come on Moms, really, don't you want real boys?  I mean, the kids that get dirty, kick it up, can be distinguished from girls?  I sure as fucking hell do!  When my boys were young, being the feminist, that I was and am, I decided to see if boys come a certain way, and after having two daughters, decided to get my boys dolls, like baby dolls, they were young, one year for Christmas, as a sideline to their Hot Wheels and Tonka Trucks.  As I recall, some 30 years later, they never once touched the dolls, not at all!  They were however, taking their Tonka trucks and throwing them in the air, to see how high they could go, before they broke them . . . they must have heard that Tonka trucks were indestructible on some ad for the toys!  I guess the Volkswagen ad, plus Natalie, and Mother's Day, inspired this blog, and my love for the country, cowboys and cowgirls, Montana, the county fairs, and a shit kickin' good time!

My boys are somewhere in the middle, of the city and country, with a father who is a city planner, getting the culture, the music, the books, art, and an attorney mother, who is a wild ass, kick it up, type chick, who loved fish hatcheries, the mountains, county fairs, taking them to Chicago, while on a legal internship with Americans United for Life, but also, hanging out with country boys, rather than the attorneys, doctors, and professors, she worked with, result, girls in the military, boy in band, God's Revolver, epic western story in music, and a son, who it a great father, regardless of the way he treated dolls, and a loving father, who does actually work for a nationwide computer company, watching 300 newspapers, magazines, professional newsletters, making files for movie stars, politicians, and companies . . . and shares an interest, my passion for politics, he hates it, but is a thinker, and keeps his thoughts and intentions a secret, until it comes to fruition . . . can't wait to see what this son, does, of course, I think he will be president of the United States!

Pig Wrestling . . . Never Heard of That One!  Sounds Fun!

Okay, so, somehow, Natalie, who works the food counter, at Target, were I crash their Internet, at times, and visit, talking politics, shop talk and kids, out of the blue, brought up the topic of pig wrestling . . . what?  I may have told her that I wrote about the county fair, and she said, make sure that you write about the pig wrestling, they held for the first time at the fair, last year!  I have seen the muttin' bustin' and a slew of kids, being let loose on chickens, trying to catch them, in some big ass field, but pig wrestling?  I have not witnessed the event, but she said, that teams of 6 or 7 people, kids, adults, register to enter the event, paying a small fee, and they dress up in cartoon, like characters, leggin's, matching t-shirts, tie dye, and whatever distinguishes their team from another team.  They enter a circle pig pen, and a greased pig is turned loose . . . the goal is to grab the greasy swine, and put it in a pit in the center of the pen!  People in the audience, can bet on the teams, and I think the money goes to charity or the winner?  She was not sure which, but it sounds like a great time, and a ton of fun.  Although, one lady who over heard our conversation this morning, piped up and said, that she fully intended on going to the pig wrestling, but it was held in the middle of the afternoon, in August!  She said, and she was older, but I am a wimp too, that it was 103 degrees that day . . . yeah it gets hot in Montana too.  So, if the schedule is not set in stone, put the pig wrestling, that is done out in the open, without cover, either early or later in the day . . . 3:00 p.m., open sun, cowboys and cowgirls may be used to it, but the elderly, the young, and me, need either some shade or a cooler time of the day, please!

My, My, How We Ladies Change

Back when I was in college, I had blown through BYU, in Provo, Utah as a freshman, and decided to venture up north to Utah State University, where I thought they would treat college students, more maturely, and trust us to start being adults, without supervision from others, and it was true, the first night I was up at USU, they held a all night school sponsored party, 4 bands, and I couldn't believe that I didn't have to be in the dorm by 12:00 midnight, when the devil, allegedly came out . . . hey, he can come out anytime!  LOL! But, I worked at Sunset Sporting Goods Shop, while going to school, and had a best friend I met there, Donna, I think was her name.  Now, I knew that USU mascot was a bull or something, and they were called the Aggies, and I even knew that had something to do with agriculture, but for some reason, I did put two and two together, that maybe some of the people up there in Cache Valley, Utah, might be farmers, ranchers, cowboys and cowgirls . . . I had no idea, being from Bountiful, that Donna, might be a cowgirl, and I don't think she dared to say she was, after the comments I made, one night, after going to the Hyrum Bar, to dance, meeting a few cowboys, my first exposure, really, on a personal level.

I love to dance, and there were no college dances going on, so we had not other option, but to go to the bar to dance, which, while not a drinker, just happened to be where the good bands were playing, so . . . several cowboys, totally stereotypical, according to my book, as inexperienced as I was, probably relying on movie caricatures, picked us up, danced with us, and asked us to go with them to Lagoon, an amusement park, down near Salt Lake City.  They showed up in a Cadillac, with steer horns on the front!  What the hell, I made fun of them, called them shit kickers, but we had a great time; although, I would have never, at that time, even considered dating a cowboy, never . . . and I let my friend, Donna, know that!  Years later, I was up in Logan for a basketball game or concert, and ran into Donna, at the events arena, and she, to my shock, had married one of the COWBOYS we went to Lagoon with!  Are you fucking kidding . . . I didn't swear in those days, but, I was totally taken back by that; however, she was still married and I was not!

I remember going to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas about 4 years ago, and seeing all the big outfitters, rigs, cattle and horse hauling outfits, being introduced to a whole new world, that of cowboys and cowgirls, holy shit, 4 big ass conference centers, all for a Cowboy Christmas!  2000 pair of colored cowgirl boots, the coolest costume made furniture, and shit . . . what the hell, how come I didn't know about this side of life?  My client, and friend, semi-famous cowboy photo artist, Kay Lynn Reilly, took me the next step from my second and third husbands, who were both country boys in a way, and introduced me to the Toby Keith Bar, bling Levi jackets and flip flops, with bling, that I wore to court with pride!  Other attorneys, males, would say, anyone else would get in trouble wearing and doing what you do in court!  LOL!  It pays to be smarter than the judges, who were all prosecutors in their lives prior to being judges . . . back 20 years ago, I trained these guys, when I was staff attorney for the Utah Prosecution Council, Criminal Enforcement Division!  Now, I am living the life in Montana, have met a few cowboys, but don't know if I can handle them, but I would like a chance!  LOL!  Working on that . . . 

The VW Ad Reminds Me of a Case . . . The Guthrie Case . . . Montana Style Parents vs. Helicopter Parents, With Me In the Middle!

I got caught being the attorney, in the middle of an ideological battle between parenting styles in Iron County Utah.  On the one hand, you had my clients, the Guthries, who had four darling children, who were taken by the state or Division of Child & Family Services, before I got the case, actually got it the day, it happened, they knew of my reputation for taking on government agencies, and having formerly worked for the government.  The Guthries were raising their children on the land so to say, had 20 acres of land, and were building a farm or ranch, as they could afford it . . . the smart way, and during the summer or warm months, they lived in a set of 5th wheels and trailers, out on the land, letting their children have goats, chickens, other small farm animals, dogs and cats . . . too many cats, that I will agree with the state on.  And during the winter, and this was late fall, September, they had arranged to get into an apartment, so when it got cold, the kids had nice warm beds and showers . . . before that, while on the ranch, they showered at the TA a truck stop, with showers.  But the school complained that the children were coming to school dirty.  Really, is that the most important factor in getting an education?

But to make a long story short, the school aid was taking two of the children in, taking their shirts off each morning, and washing the children, to clean them up for school.  The little girl, told her parents she felt uncomfortable with the school aid, taking them in the principle or faculty bathrooms and washing them off, without shirts.  Finally, my clients, told the school, that he felt very uncomfortable with those actions and if they did it again, he was going to pull is children out of school, and home school them!  The next day, the cops were called in and the children, were questioned without their parents consent or permission . . . later that day they were removed from the parents care!  As we battled in court for the kids and to return them to the parents, it became apparent, that, this was really about an ideological battle between parenting styles that of the attorneys, teachers, social workers, and my clients, with the guardian ad litem, stating that the children were exposed to a filthy petting zoo! referring to the family pets, the parents got to teach their children how to take responsibility of the animals, and as lessons in life.  I refer to these people as helicopter parents, who hover over their children, giving them no breathing room, nor freedom.

This is where the car commercial comes in . . . you have a mother with three wild ass boys, that are I guess to be seen as cowboys.  The mother is stopped to get gas, and the boys go into the store and drink soda out of the soda machine, they are having a shaken pop fight in the isles, and the horrified, store clerk just looks on as one of the boys, growls at the clerk, who is twice is age, and the clerk acts like he doesn't know what to do!  Really?  And the mother is yelling, boys, boys?  The next thing you see is a mother, in a VW car of some model, and she is calm, cool and collected, with three boys, all being entertained by electronic devices! And the song being played on the radio, is, Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys . . . let them be doctors, lawyers, and such!  I thought, who in the hell wants, such placid kids?

GIVE ME THE COWBOYS . . . COWBOY WANTED, DEAD or ALIVE!

I Wanna Know What I Am Missing?  LOL!  Have a Great Weekend!

INVESTIGATIVE DISCOVERY OR I.D. NETWORK, MURDER FOR HIRE . . . ODDS & ENDS: THE COVER UP IS ALWAYS WORSE THAN THE CRIME . . . WHITE WOMAN, STOLE STORY OF BLACK WOMAN IN 9/11 BOMBINGS? HARD DRIVE: A FAMILY'S FIGHT AGAINST THREE COUNTRIES, AFTER SON'S MURDER IN CHINA . . . AMERICA BETTER WAKE UP, DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT FOREIGN COUNTRIES DESTROYING THE COUNTRY, WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE ENEMIES FROM WITHIN! I WOULD ECHO THAT, WITH A SKELETON SKETCH OF MY OWN STORY . . . 25 MURDERS, HEIST OF A BILLION DOLLARS, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND THOSE IN CHARGE OF SOLVING, EITHER INVOLVED OR SIMPLY DON'T CARE OR THEY ARE FRIENDS OF THE THEIVES! AMAZING THE LACK OF ETHICS, INTEGRITY, HONESTY, WILLINGNESS TO DO THEIR JOBS, AND WHATEVER THE HELL IS GOING ON . . . SELLING OUT TO CHINA?

I.D. Network . . . White Woman Swapped For Black Woman Who Worked in the World Trade Center and Her Fiance' Who Died in the Plane Crashes on 9/11

Back when I only had a theory, that someone had stolen my identity, I turned on the T.V. one night, not being much of a T.V. watcher, and saw my first I.D. Network or Investigative Discovery.  At that time, I had not worked, having been told, back in 2000 that I had a terminal brain disease, with no cure, and would be dead by 2002 . . . by this time, it was about 2007, so I had outlived my diagnosis, and was not dead, but really was not quite alive either, having just waited to die, for the last 7 years.  But, this program came on, and showed, who this white woman, who had never been involved in the 9/11 crisis at all, had somehow, stolen the story of this black woman, who not only worked in the towers and was present the day they went down, but she was also engaged, and her fiance' had been killed in the crash, or the aftermath of the world trade tower incident.  This other white woman, had become so known for this tragic story of the black lady, that she had become, literally a spokesperson for all the victims of the tragedy.  The white chick, had been introduced to President Bush, she hung out with Mayor Giuliani, and had become a well known speaker and person, who attended many of the ceremonies, fund raisers, and funerals of the other victims, all the while faking, that it was she, who had suffered from the incident, and that it was her who lost the fiance' and so forth.  

This fabricated lie, and who's instigation, continued for about 5 years, until, one day the black lady heard this white woman telling her story, and took it to authorities, who later, arrested the woman, and brought her to justice for the lies . . . this is much the same as has happened to me, but I have known, all along, or had a suspicion, that they was happening, starting with an older neighbor of my sister's, who just kept calling me, Shelley, and Shelley, me!  I thought that was strange, since, Shelley and this woman had been neighbors for some time.  Next, Shelley, tried to have me arrested, or did have me arrested, for going to the restroom at the local elementary school, even with approval of the secretary, who had given permission to use the public school restrooms, on at least 5 other occasions.  Shelley seemed to be tight and in cahoots with the cops, who would always call her, if they stopped me on the street, or they seemed to be doing her bidding, and at this time, they arrested me and took me to jail, in Cache County, if I remember, for allegedly trespassing at the school, going to the restroom.  Shelley, due to my pending death, had access to my bank account, and would not pay the bail, saying, along with my parents, that they were going to leave me in jail for life!  I was like, ah, that is impossible, this is going to the bathroom with permission . . . that didn't seem to matter.  Finally some guy Shelley was dating, John Schuster, bailed me out, shocked at what was going on, and Shelley went ape shit!

This was just the beginning.  And readers who have followed this story, know, that next was a identity theft of my son's band, God's Revolver, Hard Rock Band of 2008, and as I got back into the practice of law, realizing that I was not dying, and got my license reactivated October 1, 2009, taking my first case, Brock et al vs. Herbert et al, up to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeal, the deal, and then the steal, at the U.S. Supreme Court, about 20 other high profile cases were also stolen, to my work on the medical marijuana, the water compact, testifying at the legislature, to speaking at the statewide, Federation of Republican Women, and on to my blog.  I am here to tell you, that no matter who I tell, who reads this blog, and what authorities are contacted or made aware of this fraud, on all accounts, with a blog of over 200,000 pages, of not only my story, but on Constitutional issues, news, current events, and politics, these fuckers are allowed to steal, rob, fraud, lie, and kill, in at least 25 cases, and nothing is being done about it . . . this is the preface for the story, I first heard about, 2 years ago, and at the Republican Pachyderm Meeting today, was able to here the mother of the young man who was murdered in Singapore . . . I think.  We are being destroyed from the inside out . . . something needs to be done, or we will lose who we are as Americans, these are not real stories that should be happening to American citizens, and people in authority, need to help!

Hard Drive

Several years ago, while I was fighting to literally, be me, taking 24/7 effort, to pull that off, after a ten year hiatus due to being told I was going to die, now, looking back, that was true, but not for the reasons, that I was told, not for a terminal, genetically contacted, brain disease, but due to a government plot, to take me out of commission, worried that I would run for attorney general, and be the boss over all the cops in the state, as the top law enforcement agent in the state, if elected, thus poisoning me, with a man-made substance, that mirrored or resembled, or I was just told, was Pick's Disease, or the deterioration of the frontal lobes of the brain . . . all bull shit!  But, at the time I first came up to Kalispell, again, not knowing that I was being shadowed and followed, with a double, mainly sisters, and another attorney, jumping in wherever I showed up, with them working in concert with cops, to run me out of the jurisdiction, having post traumatic stress disorder, having first been poisoned, then having my life being threatened on several occasions, being falsely incarcerated, and chased, since the day I got sworn into the United State Supreme Court, well aware, that going back to be sworn in was a race between me and the double, standing in for me, without cause, reason, or legal standing to represent me and totally against my will, but in 2012, I believe that is when I heard about Mary Todd, and her son, Shane, who was found hanging on the back of the bathroom door, in his apartment in Singapore, while working for a high tech company, and being scared that he was involved in some type of security breach, and being pressured to give technology secrets to the Chinese!

I remember the authorities stating that this was a suicide and that Shane was depressed, and thinking, oh, hell, no, he was murdered!  I had too much experience with the government, with secrets, with agents being brought into my small Utah town, to conspire with local cops, prosecutors and judges, to take me down, and stop all my cases from going forward!  I had to get to this woman and tell her of my experiences, believing full well, that at some point, in this new state, that I would be able to convince, the powers that be, that I was the one and only, JoAnn S. Secrist, J.D., and that there were doubles, impostors, and that they had stolen my identity . . . I found, not only was that harder than I thought to prove, but the locals were participants in the fraud, cover up, and bull shit, promoting sisters, other attorney, in stuff they knew full well, that I had done, not the double!  Due to politics, differences, or that they just like her, or their hair better, or their dress better, or they thought she was nicer, or was more Republican or a better Democrat, with me being on neither side of the isle, but about where an educated analysis of the Constitution would fall, they chose to be part of the cover-up!

A Family's Fight Against Three Countries . . . NO SHIT!

This is not surprising to me at all . . . as Mary filled in many of the details of her son's murder, defensive wounds, evidence of two other people's DNA on the noose that he allegedly hung himself on, signs of moving, after quiting his job, boxes, packing, etc., telling his mother that he believe that there were big security breaches that could hurt America and aid the Chinese in stealing our technology secrets, telling her that he was coming home and even warned her that he was worried for his life, even after all this, the authorities, did little to help.  She did say that our Congressional delegation, in particularly, Senator Baucus, who, just up and low and behold, got made Ambassador to CHINA, was very helpful, until he got his new appointment, then due to a conflict of interest he couldn't help any more!  Any connections, to a guy who said his only qualification for this position, was his game of Chinese Checkers!  And an even more curious connection for me, is the fact that before that, it was former governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman . . . I have my suspicions, why these secrets were being given to China.

China as the New World Leader . . . President Connections, Selling Navy Bases, Spending up the National Debt, Putting it in China's Hands, the Chinese Olympics, Ambassadors, Mormon's, Mitt Romney, Etc.

This is coming from within America!  President George HW Bush, had particularly close ties with China, not sure what they were, but I have read or seen videos of the fact that he is connected . . . Yale,  Skull & Bones shit?  Then you have President Clinton, selling an old Navy port or base to the Chinese, and who in their right mind, would let, China of all countries, not even an ally, with more people in their military, about 400 million, with our entire population, about 330 million, hold our debt in their hands . . . does this make sense?  And then, came the Chinese Olympics . . . we all know the Romney connection to the Olympic Committee, allegedly cleaning up the Olympics and putting them on the straight and narrow path . . . Romney spend or was given, 7X the money of the previous Olympics.  Then you have the Mormon connection with former Governor Jon Huntsman, being made Ambassador to China, a former missionary who spoke Mandarin, so at least he was more qualified than Baucus, but the connections are to spurious, for my liking. Then we have the UK, PBS, special, a documentary that was to aired, the day after, my Brock case was terminated, just up and poof, gone, nada, and the money went to Mitt and the Mormons!  

I remember, Henry S. Brock, in a meeting, before the case was finished, and his business plan, called MUTUAL BENEFITS . . . and him mentioning that he had dreams of having the BROCK name, hanging on a building in Shanghai or Singapore!  Big dreams of going over to Asia, and at who's determent?  What deals had been cut, what back door cover-ups, what FBI and CIA, Mormon China connections, sons who served Mormon missions there?  What in the hell is going on with China, and is America getting sold down the tubes, and the next world, super power, is going to be China.  The Yen, or it was said at one time that Brazil, India and China, were the new growing economies . . . then you had Bush, W, and the economic melt down, and the selling of Lehman Brothers to London, home of the world bankers, and also, the dollar was no longer to be the common world currency . . . on and on!  Is it any wonder, that these All American boys . . . Mary told us today of another Ph.D, and son of a woman in California, who ended up allegedly dying of natural causes, just 2 weeks after he got to China!  

Those Who Bleed, Red, White & Blue Will Not Live!

WAKE UP AMERICA! 

NSA CYCLOPES, ONE EYED GIANT WITH A FOUL DISPOSITION, BLINDED IN THE EYE, BY U.S. FEDERAL COURT, PATRIOT ACT DOES NOT ALLOW METADATA GATHERING, WITHOUT AN INVESTIGATION AND WHAT THE NSA, FBI OR CIA ARE SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR . . . CAN'T JUST SUBPEONA ALL PHONE COMPANY ACCOUNTS, FROM PROVIDERS, WITHOUT CAUSE! THEY DID NOT GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THAT THE NSA ACTIVITIES ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, WHICH THEY ARE, BUT DID ALLUDE TO THE FACT, THAT THERE HAD TO BE PROBABLE CAUSE, TO SEARCH AND SEIZE PHONE RECORDS, OR TO STORE THEM! YAHOO! THE GADFLY: THE PERSISTENT MYTH OF THE MAD GENIUS--TIPS ABOUT GENIUS . . . THERE IS NO SHORT CUT TO SUCCESS OR GENIUS! FYI OR FOR YOUR INFORMATION!

Analogous Comparisons To Greek and Roman, Mythical One-Eyed Monster and the Modern National Security Agency, PRISIM Program of Meta-Data Gathering!

Cyclopes were mythical characters, giants in form, with a single eye in the center of their forehead, with a foul disposition, synonymous with brute strength and power, and their name was invoked in connection with massive masonry.  This breed of gigantic monsters, with one eye, were guarded by a female, named Campe, and they were known to have fashioned the thunderbolt for Zeus to be used as a weapon.  Now, what in the hell do cyclopes have to do with the National Security Agency?  Well the second, I heard that a U.S. federal court had ruled or held that the Patriot Act, does not allow for the large meta-data, gathering that the NSA has been doing, forcing, literally, with many providers, trying to protect account holders, and even some providers opting out of the business, rather than to allow the NSA access to their clients or account holders information, my mind for some bizarre reason, connected that with the mythical monster, the cyclopes of ancient Roman and Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey, of Homer, in size an magnitude of what the court just did, literally slaying the monster, in my mind, and putting out its big ass singe eye in the middle of its forehead! 

I don't know when you watched the movie, Enemy of the State, with Will Smith, produced back in 1998, nonetheless, but I recently viewed it and was shocked that it was about the NSA and legislation connected to it.  Now, I knew of the thousands of people a day, added to the NSA to watch list, and about the spying on America, even on generals serving their country, to the point of listening in on their pillow talk with their wives, or mistresses, but for some reason, I guess I just didn't put all this together, two and two, and what the hell was and is going on.  I knew that I had long been a target of the NSA, and with no doubt a member of their to watch list; however, I don't think, even with Edward Snowden, that I fully comprehended the extent and the nature of the NSA activities, separate and aside from the constitutional violations that were glaringly apparent to me, if not to the federal court! 

Back Door Man 

I always have this suspicion, with the passage of blatantly unconstitutional legislation, like Montana's water compact, or standing in U.S. federal district court, arguing the 4th amendment, and having a federal judge, say to me, Ms. Secrist, you are not winning any arguments with me, using that line of reasoning or argument . . . my response, then, your honor, you have just thrown the U.S. Constitution out of your courtroom! As my clients, watched with fear and trepidation, as the judge didn't seem amused . . . nor was I at his lack of acknowledgement, to an argument, that two months earlier, while being sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, the Supremes actually, in my mind, having filed my brief, with the same arguments the Court used in U.S.A. v. Jones, taking them from the brief I filed almost a year earlier in the Brock securities case!, that there isn't some covert effort, by government, law enforcement, Congress, the courts, and whomever, to get rid of this pesky document we call the Supreme Law of the Land or the Constitution! 

While knowing damn well, they are not going to get away with a full on frontal attack of the U.S. Constitution, they are just refusing to acknowledge it, vote against or for legislation that requires that they do one or the other to preserve, defend and protect the document, that has withstood, 240 years of legal scrutiny!  I am frankly shocked, and the aberrant behavior of people sworn to uphold, protect, defend, preserve, obey, and whatever, who are so callous and thoughtless as to just blow the grand old document our their unreal asses!  It is almost like an in your face type attitude, that regardless of what they took an oath to do, they are not going to do it, or are pledging allegiance to a foreign flag, or set of standards and mores, that are not part and parcel of the Constitution, but something other than what we are expecting. 

Terrorism Was the Goal of the Patriot Act, Responding to 9/11 . . . Somehow that Morphed, Like Kafka's Metamorphosis, Into Some Giant Cockroach, Being Turned and Used Against American Citizens

What should have been a creature created with two eyes, one distinguishing and addressing terrorists, and the other, being filtered through Constitutional glasses, lenses or contacts, and making that difference, not only felt but seen, one eye in dealing with terrorists, who don't have Constitutional rights, protections, and privacy, and the other, clearly recognizing, that if there is cause for concern, that citizens, have all the rights, protections and freedoms, afforded and provided under the U.S. Constitution; however, those two eyes have morphed into one monstrosity of an eye, focusing the same on both terrorist and citizens!  The cyclopes were connected with massive masonry . . . brings me to the thought of the masonic order . . . once when talking to a friend and clients, father, who was very connected with Homeland Security, FEMA, Search and Rescue, told me, when I inquired, how these guys could have taken the same oath of office I did, and we could be enemies, and he said, they took what they felt was a higher oath, and that was to the masonic order!  Get the fuck out of our country, that is not our system, nor where your allegiances should be!

Zeus could be looked at as symbolic of the President, and the cyclopes are fashioning thunderbolts to be used as weapons for Zeus . . . again, is there a comparison?  My blog for instance, has been dinged, from 155,000,000 hit/results per 54 seconds, back last February, with intervals of 95,000,000, 65,000,000 and so on, to the point, that Google, was putting a limit or cap on my blog, at roughly 1,500,000 per 54 seconds, then that bumped into bing, which started up where around 25,000,000 per roughly a minute, and that was then cut in half, then topped off at about 220,000 per the same time frame, so I started to go onto Yahoo, and hit, 30,000,000 per about 35 seconds, and mentioned that my numbers, for my first amendment rights are back up and happy about that, next thing I know, they are capped off at, again on all search engines, about 230,000 hits or results . . . hell, my hits or results, my pay for writing, they already take the money, I just dig knowing the readership . . . were at 13,000,000 per 60 seconds, the 3rd week I was writing back in 2013!  

The one-eyed cyclopes of the NSA, used lightening bolts, to slam my blog!  The government was created by men, not the other way around, the PEOPLE were not created for the government.  The primary role of the government is to protect the rights of the people!  It is my first amendment right to freedom of speech to redress grievances with the government!  I am free to say what I want.  Regardless of how high my numbers go, worldwide, it is not in the power of the government to thunderbolt my blog!  I think they decided they would provide me with my first amendment rights to free speech, by giving my blog lip service . . . oh, we are not totally taking you off the Internet, which they have done on several occasions, we are going to let you write, but we are going to not only steal your work, your money, at a penny per hit, pretty handsome sums, regardless of me swearing off the money, in exchange for your trust!, they are going to deny me the satisfaction of seeing the numbers of readers that my blog is bringing in! That is taking away my 14th amendment, liberty right, and my ninth amendment, right to privacy to know what my numbers are!  WE THE PEOPLE are entitled to all our constitutional rights, not just the ones you think we are entitled to or the ones you feel like giving us!

U.S. Attorney General, Lynch . . . Patriot Act 215 is Vital to Fighting Terrorism and Keeping the Homeland Safe . . . We Can Make It Work Within the Confines of the U.S. Constitution!

This morning on the news, AG, Loretta Lynch, yeah, took the stand in I believe, Senate hearings on spending for the Patriot Act, which is fine to be used against terrorist, who don't have constitutionally protected rights, but the portion of the law, 215, the notoriously controversial section of the Patriot Act, has been misused and abused, being found, down right illegal by the federal court yesterday!  Congress needs to take a look at the Act, and at that section . . . we do not need to throw the baby out with the bath water, but we do need to fix the law, making sure that the Constitution is followed, and that the NSA and other spy agencies, do not treat citizens, like terrorists!  At one time, President Obama, extended to world citizens the protections of the United States . . . I would say that is a little if not a lot, out of his jurisdiction, duties and responsibilities as President, as outlined in Article II, of the United States Constitution!  We are sovereign nation, and we intend to stay that way . . . hang the one world order . . . we don't want it!

I think the Bush plan was to lower the United States to a third world status, breaking it economically, trashing the Constitution, that has worked, treating it as merely a damned piece of paper, and do what is the government's forte', to break it, then remake it, in the image they wanted, a one world order!  The two things that stand in the way of the one world order, are the Constitution and Christianity . . . and there has been a war on both!  I am glad that the Congress has to re look at the Patriot Act, which has a due date of June 30, 2015, and make the necessary changes in the program, or get rid of the whole fuckin' thing! I heard a few cops, from very high up on the cop food chain, speaking after the Baltimore, Freddie Grey thing, with 6 cops getting indicted on up to murder charges, and they said, what happened with the Patriot Act is that it gave the cops a way to cut corners!  Warrantless searches, writing their own warrants, letting cops go in people's houses while they are not home, not reading Miranda, letting cops lie on the witness stand, letting actors and actresses take the place of witnesses in FBI cases!

Look where the short cuts got us . . . cops feeling they have and had the right to gun down citizens, merely for looking at them!  We had unarmed black men getting gunned down for cigars, tail lights, selling already taxed cigarettes on the streets, etc., blah, blah, blah!  Just like in the world of professions, THERE IS NOT SHORT CUT TO SUCCESS!  Congress, you need to get with your legislative counsel, your Attorney General, and make this work, to protect the homeland, yet protect the rights of the citizens, we are not the enemy!  Go after ISIS . . . if you have some hopped up cop, send him on special missions to take down ISIS!  Good God, we don't want that here, we are not terrorist, a constitutional law attorney, does not belong on the NSA to watch list!

To Reiterate or Substantiate The Persistent Myth of the Mad Genius . . . Here are Some Quotes From Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 20 No 1.

• psychological studies have shown again and again that, however much we want to romanticize [genius], it is typified by qualities that are disappointingly opposite of psychotic: self-discipline, tenacity, organization, calmness, and strong self-image.
• Genius, unlike cream, does not inevitably rise to the top; success depends more on drive and determination.
• Only one characteristic was present in all creative people: motivation.  They want to be creative, and are willing to put consistent effort into that goal.
• By definition, they want to do things differently.  They often don't get along with their conformist colleagues.  They are perfectionists, which annoy their "it's good enough" colleagues.  They are social rebels, and as social psychologists have amply demonstrated, Americans may praise rebels but are uncomfortable with them.
• At the heart of genius lies motivation, hard work, and persistence.
• No wonder that many people welcome the myth of the mad genius.  It gets them off the hook of the sheer hard work that artistry and genius require: patience, learning, coming back from failures along the way.
• We may not share that spark of genius, we might feel twinges of envy or resentment toward geniuses and the "unfair" advantage their talent confers on them, but look at their miserable lives.  At least we are not crazy.

Fix the Patriot Act or Get Rid of It!  Turn the Giant Cyclopes Back into a Two Eyed Creature, Separating Citizens from Terrorists . . . And Know, That Anyone Who is a True Genius, Is Motivated, Works Hard, Is Persistent, Learns and Comes Back After Failure . . . There is No Short Cut in Cop Work, Nor in Becoming a Genius!

MOTHER'S DAY, MONTANA STYLE: SNAPPY'S OFFERING CONCEALED WEAPONS PERMIT AND FLY FISHING CLASSES, SERVED WITH DINNER! GOTTA LOVE THIS MONTANA RIDE, DIG THE CHICKS . . . DUDES OKAY TOO! LOL! YESTERDAY, WAS THE NATIONAL DAY OF REASON . . . WHY? BECAUSE REASON WORKS! LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE RATIONALISTS, FLATHEAD SECULARISTS, CELEBRATED THE DAY OF REASON . . . WHILE A SPIRITUAL PERSON, I AM A HUMAN SECULARIST, AND SO WERE THE FOUNDING FATHERS! THE UNITED STATES IS A SECULAR COUNTRY . . . IT WORKS! NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 1952, MCCARTHY ERA, ANSWERED BY THE NATIONAL DAY OF REASON, 2003 . . . UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO HAVE A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER! RATIONALLY, I BEG TO DIFFER, PRAYER IS NOT THE ESTABLISHEMENT OF RELIGION . . . TO ME, IT IS AN ACT OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD! RELIGIONS DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!

Montana Mothers Are Heat Packing, Fly Fishing Gals!

I dig the fact that the women, me, not one of them, are just as likely to have a gun, as their husbands.  With an average of 27 guns per household in Montana, mom, is just as adept at shooting, hunting, and generally fishing as her man.  The first year, I was in Montana, a grandmother, a couple of her daughters, and several kids, cousins, nieces and nephews, all garbed out in Cabala's hunting gear, told me one of the youngsters had just shot their first deer, and everyone but the niece, had their deer for the season, and they would continue to take her out, until she got her deer!  We were all sitting at Subway Sandwich Shop, in Walmart, and I kept looking around for their husbands . . . oh, we are not with our husbands, we just take the kids out on our own, the husbands had to work and they, the females could take the kids out, and catch some fall afternoon sunshine, before the sun went down.  Right on!  They offered their services, and said they would be glad to teach me to hunt, if I would like.  They seemed like a lively, fun group of gals, with a few teens in tow.  This is Montana!

I loved it this morning, when riding on the bus, to hear the advertisement for the concealed weapons permit and fly fishing classes, that came in a package along with dinner and door prizes, and night out for mom and her friends . . . holy shit, I love this place!  I was not raised this way, but I dig the hell out of it, and love the fact that the females are so independent.  The bus driver, Sam, informed me, proudly, that his wife, is a far better shot than he is, some tiny, little wife, who goes target shooting with him and enters in competitions. Other guys I have met, have wives that are champion sharp shooters, and they are as proud as they can be. I love the culture, and the freedom, that these frontier women have . . . I say that, with all sincerity, because, so much of Montana is wild, open, rural, and deserted, being the 4th largest state, with only barely 1 million people, it is not very populated!  So, much like in the early days, of homesteading and pioneering, these women have to be able to protect themselves, and their children, from intruders, both of a human kind and of an animal nature, with bear, mountain lions, moose, and whatever, that might come through their front door.

In fact, in the mornings, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I take a water aerobics class, at the Kalispell Athletic Club . . . room to grow here too!, and one of the exercises, is called, circle the wagons, in which we have our arms up in the air, like we have a lasso, in our hands, and we are trying to rope a cow or something.  When the teacher heard I was from Utah, I think she got a bit self-conscious, and said, that I guess that is a funny name, but I couldn't think of another one, to describe what we do, and it used to be called, ride a cowboy! until her mother came to visit the class, and told her to change the name . . . but, that would fit the Montana cowgirls, save a horse, ride a cowboy!  LOL!  I did get a kick out of the exercise, and thought the name, was one that you would only find in Montana!  Gotta love this Montana ride!

Happy Mother's Day to All Mothers!

Day of Reason . . . Reason to Celebrate!

This will appear to be an oxymoron, but, the glory of God, is intelligence, even though, many of the members of this group, do not believe in God, or reserve the right not to believe in Him/Her, and are big time into the secular approach to life, society, and national rule of law, and they are right, we are a secularist country, and the founding fathers set their individual religions at the door, to do what was best for all of society, America, if you will, regardless of religion, and whether or not you practiced any religion at all! Under the first amendment, you are free to practice religion and free from the practice of religion if you don't want to practice or believe, that is all up to you.  Some of the things the local Rationalists or Flathead Secularists have done, it to fight to get the statue of Jesus taken off the grounds up at the ski resort in Whitefish, that case is up on appeal, because the district court, if I remember, said that it was put there by the Knights of Columbus, and at the time it was private property, and it had been grandfathered in, and therefore, it was not subject to first amendment challenges.

They, Flathead Secularist or Rationalists, recently were involved up at the Montana legislature, stopping the bill that proposed that creationism be taught as part of the public school curriculum, and they also, got an injunction against the local high schools, a few Christmases ago, from being required to perform during the Holidays at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the Mormons, Christmas celebrations and nativity displays, making it mandatory for the students to attend the concerts, making their grades, dependent on the participation in the Christmas pageant . . . they, the schools were also using school property, buses, and teacher time, to get the students to perform in the religious concerts.  It would have been okay, had the Mormon church, invited students, to join in a concert, on their own, so that members could, and non-members didn't have to perform, having no consequences on their grades!  By forcing the students to perform, and only for one religious denomination in the Valley, it smells of establishment of religion!  Can't do that, so good work, Secularists!

Celebration Was Held at the School History Museum, Kalispell, MT.

Quest Speaker, Renowned Scientist . . . Science: (1) Meaning; (2) Purpose; and (3) Value

Within the context of reason, we all think that we have the ability to reason, which is a problem solving activity, to avoid risk, injury, protect others, and to do the right thing.  There are two types of reasoning: (1) justificatory reasoning . . . justifying our beliefs or the reasons we feel and think the way we do, and; (2) explanatory reasoning . . . used to explain what we observe, like B is the causal link to A.  Science is explanatory reasoning, and applies things we observe trying to explain what we observe through a theory, supported by facts that have been observed, like the melting of glaciers up at Glacier National Park, taking the observation that of the 125 previous glaciers, there are only 27 glaciers left . . . scientists seek to explain that observation, with theories, that make sense and can be verified by any scientist who cares to join in their experiments or agrees with their theory, like that of global warming.

Science is the most advanced method of acquiring knowledge, and it can be done through both inductive and deductive reasoning, based on assumptions with real underlying objectives: (1) existence based understanding; (2) through writing; (3) community science; and (4) research . . . primarily addressing reason and observation, as a way of understanding facts, evidence consistent with theory or claims that are made, but science doesn't prove anything.  These elements of scientific experimentation need to be present: (1) observation and measurement; (2) a theory; (3) developing a model of the theory; (4) experimentation on the theory; and last but not least, (5) repeatability . . . others who can take the same theory and model and get the same results.  All empirical knowledge is tentative. 

Scientific Methodology

It is unprejudiced, conclusions must be held, irrespective of state of mind, religious persuasion, state of consciousness, or ideology.  Science can't answer, values, emotions, morality, and the supernatural.  The importance to society, comes by way of reliance on science as the major driver of technology, and the public should invest in science and the sciences.  Japan is one of the best countries, in investing in the sciences, or they watch what America's scientist are doing, and watch as many of them are either not funded, or underfunded, and they take the results back to their country and create technology based on the scientific experimentation and theories, like dealing with batteries, and they go back home and develop the new batteries using new scientific methods!

Note:  This coming Friday, Flathead County Republican Pachyderm meeting, has invited to speak, local mother, Mary Todd, mother of a young man, working with a large technology company in China, was found dead, after telling his mother that he was experiencing trouble on the job, and that he was not suicidal, and if he ended up dead, it was because he would not give technology secrets to the Chinese!  Mary Todd will be speaking; she has written a book about her son's strange death, and it should go right along the lines of this presentation to the Rationalist . . . it is free, public is invited, Red Lion, noon, can order lunch, see you there . . . lunch is $12.

Scientific Skepticism

Be skeptical on all theories until you see the evidence . . . rational, structural evidence, playing by the Rules of Science, is where to get your information, not through some dishonest tactics.  Indiscriminate skepticism or denial, is not science at all, only a fad science would dismiss, based on the evidence or lack thereof, replacing science, theory, facts, evidence, with their own personal beliefs. We need to remember, in science, as it is in the law, the facts are the facts, evidence is evidence, and the rules of science are the rules of science, as well as the law is the law, is the law!  I was thinking as the speaker talked, who analogous, science is with the law.  Generally, attorneys, on either side of the case, will create or come up with a theory of the case, based on the facts, the evidence, and the witnesses.  Then the theory is presented to the jury, who then, based on all the evidence and facts, within the theory, either of one side or the other, or the prosecution or the defense, decides which factual presentation or theory, best fits the evidence and witnesses.  Anyway, just a thought to help you understand, both science and the law . . . all based on facts, evidence and witness accounts.

Be Smart, Be Rational, Be Skeptical, Rely on Facts, Evidence, and Witnesses, or Expert Opinion!  At Least Have a Rational Basis for Your Positions, Thoughts and Even Politics!

P.S., for any lost rationalists or secularists, who are lost out there in the Flathead, you can find more information about the group, at FlatheadSecular.com, with meetings once a month, and informal get togethers at the Kalispell Pub, I think, and Sunday breakfasts.  Check out the site, I am not the one to ask, but you might meet me there!  I am a human secularist!

P.S. II, the evidence is in . . . from 30,000,000 hits per minute or 54 seconds, down to roughly 250,000 . . . seriously, stolen my blog, science can prove, numbers can prove, and where is the Mormon NSA?  The CIA and FBI, over financial crimes, Internet crimes?  What the fuck?  Add two and two together . . . the 30,000 cyber spies in Utah, are not only allowing access and hacking, but theft and ill gotten gains!  If you are not part of the solution, you ARE THE PROBLEM!

PULL UP YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES AND DEAL WITH IT! . . . NOTHIN' BUT LOVIN', DIP DUNK DELICIOUS . . . JUST HAD A BLUEBERRY POMEGRANATE SMOOTIE, STOLE THOSE LINES OF MCDONALD'S PROMO STATEMENTS, NOTHIN' BUT LOVIN'! JUST TO BE CLOSE TO YOU GIRL, JUST FOR AN HOUR, JUST FOR A MINUTE . . . OH, YEAH, THE COMMODORES! I'M IN A SEXY MOOD, THAT IS INCONSISTANT WITH WRITING MUCH ABOUT, HEARING CONGRESSMAN RYAN ZINKE (R. MT) LAST NIGHT--ALTHOUGH, HE DID GIVE ME A HUG, THAT KIND OF FITS MY MOOD . . . CLOSER AND CLOSER GIRL; GIRL YOU GOT ME YEARNING FOR YOUR LOVE . . . NOT THE CONGRESSMAN, HE DOESN'T KNOW ME! LOL! JUST A FEW COMMENTS ON THE CONSTITUTION . . . NONE OF THIS, IF THE PREZ. DOES IT, IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BUT IF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS DOES IT, IT IS PERFECTLY FINE TO VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION . . . LIKE VOTING FOR THE SALISH-KOOTENAI WATER COMPACT, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS HELL, SO WHERE IN THE HELL WERE THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARDIANS? CERTIANLY NOT THE GOVERNOR, NOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, NOR THE DEMOCRATS AND THE REPUBLICANS WHO JOINED THEM, PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES, RULE CHANGING TO MAKE IT LAW, UNCONSTITUTIONALLY, WITHOUT THE 2/3RDS VOTE IN BOTH HOUSE, THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE IT LAW . . . NOW, CONGRESSMAN, ROB BISHOP, (R. UT.) IS GREASING THE WHEELS OF THE NATURAL RESOURCE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE, TO PASS THE WATER COMPACT . . . REPRESENTATIVE ZINKE, I AM HOLDING YOU TO WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION, NOT SOMETHING YOU ARE WILLING TO COMPROMES ON . . . TOTALLY VIOLATES THE COMPACT CLAUSE, OF ARTICLE I, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, WHAT BELONGS IN CONGRESS, WHAT THE STATES ARE DENIED DOING . . . MAKING COMPACTS WITH OTHER NATIONS . . . INDIAN NATION IS A SEPARATE NATION! MONTANA CAN'T CONSTITUTIONALLY MAKE THAT COMPACT!

Unconstitutional Actions Are Unconstitutional By Presidents, By A Republican Controlled House and Senate, By States and Their Legislatures, By Governors and Attorney Generals!

There is not one person, among whom I have just addressed who is not a sworn official, taking the oath of office to uphold, preserve, defend, and protect the United States Constitution and the state constitutions of the one they live in!  This is not dependent on whether you fucked your wife or husband last night and you are in a good mood, or that nobody peed in your cereal, or you got up on the right fucking side of the bed, it is every day, every decision, every vote, and every law, keeping in mind the two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases, and this goes for the Supreme Court too, stating, basically, that any law, compact, agreement, treaty, alliance, that is repugnant to the Constitution is void!  And any law, compact, agreement, treaty, alliance, that is consistent with the Constitution, it constitutional!  This is the first point of contact, and decision making . . . now that saying, you have to have at least a copy of the plain language of the document at hour disposal, and let me recommend one version of a pocket sized copy, that is a very useful tool, with more than just the document itself in it, but with many aids and guides to help you decipher, what it is you are trying to do, and making sure that it is within your responsibilities, duties, powers, and control.  You don't just vote for the water compact, because you have done it before, or because you have spent so much time on it, or to avoid litigation, because that can and is cutting both ways!

Congressman Zinke, went to great lengths, to kind of trash President Obama, Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, and Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewel, stating either that they have violated the Constitution, or that he doesn't trust them . . . I would surmise it to say, that with the little understanding of most people with regards to the Constitution, that many times, it takes an 8 level analysis to get to the right point, to determine, whether or not something is constitutional or not constitutional.  It is not easy, and that is where, attorneys, for Congress, legislative counsel, or the Attorney Generals Office comes in . . . you just don't say, or decide that they are going to do something that is politically expedient just because they are a Democrat, or in the converse of that, a Republican.  The Constitution was a compromise broad enough to bring under its penumbra, both abortion and right to bear arms!    The Constitution was intended to make a more perfect union, taking into account the great variety of opinions, special interests, religious backgrounds, races, parties . . . hell, there were something like 12 political parties at the time of the drafting of the document, even more convoluted than it is now!  So, if 12 political parties could come to a compromise and make this thing work, surely two or three parties, and some other varieties can, meet somewhere in the political spectrum of what is constitutional and stay out of the unconstitutional parts, especially, when the plain language of the document, clearly, states what can and can't be done by states, or Congress or the President, or the Supreme Court!

The Constitution Paints a Broad Brush, Taking In Both Conservative and Liberal Views . . . Anything Outside That Area, Can Be Considered, Anarchy or Terrorist Ideologies, Treasonous in Nature!

You Might Be Surprised If You Read the Document, What You Can Find, What is Permitted and What is Not!

DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

Would To God You Were All Constitutional Scholars!

Congressman Zinke, said, that the United States is going to make it . . . we are fine.  The first step to making sure it stays okay, and keeps going with the success it has for the last 240 years, is to follow the Supreme Law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution, and preserving the rights, freedoms, liberties and protections, it provides, and use the guide posts, dictating who does what, when, how, and where!

P.S., my blog hit, 30,000,000 hits/results again on Google, and the fucking theives, have stolen it again.  The second I mention that one of the sites is back up, and they steal all the money and the hits!  I just care that you get the education and information, so hopefully they are not making you pay for anything, because that is not my blog, nor my writing, eventhough they are copying parts of it, taking out the plain and precious things, like this blog!  They hate the Constitution, that is why they hate me, and they are gold diggers, who can't write for themselves, so they are allowed to steal my intellectual property!

MUTTIN' BUSTIN' . . . GRANDMA, THE DIRT HIT MY HEAD! DEMOLITION DERBY . . . COUNTY FAIRS, FUN, FUN, FUN! A PLUG FOR YOUR LOCAL FAIRS . . . CELEBRATE YOUR HERITAGE, FARMERS, RANCHERS, PIONEERS, HOMESTEADERS, COWBOYS & COWGIRLS--I LIKE THEM SO MUCH, ONE YEAR I HAD A CAST ON MY LEG AND TOOK A BUS, ALONE, BECAUSE I COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO GO WITH ME . . . AND I RELIED ON THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS TO GET ME HERE AND THERE . . . QUITE THE TRIP TO MY FAIR FAVORITES, THE MASSIVE BULLS, AND A SECOND, THE HUGE ASS PIGS! AND THEIR LITTLE PIGLETS! SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL 4H, MANY OF THESE ANIMALS, I THINK, COME FROM KIDS LEARNING HOW TO TAKE CARE OF FARM ANIMALS . . . SIS TIFFANY & KIDS RAISED PIGS, SHEEP, CHICKENS, AND WHO KNOWS ALL WHAT! GOOD EXPERIENCE, GET THOSE CITY SLICKER KIDS, OFF THEIR ELECTRONIC MEDICATION, COMPUTERS, IPODS, CELL PHONES AND GET THEM OUT TO THE COUNTY FAIR! AND ABOVE ALL CONNECT WITH PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITIES, RECONNECT WITH YOUR ROOTS!

Muttin' Bustin' For You City Folk . . . Kids Riding Sheep, That Sometimes Bust the Kids!  LOL!

Kael was my first grandson to brave entering the muttin' bustin' contest, and he did a great job, just hung onto the sheep's wool, closing his eyes, and wrapping his legs around the belly of the ewe, the technical name for sheep, for those not raised in the country . . . my husband, used to get pissed at me that I didn't know the difference between hay, barley, and alfalfa!  Yeah, like you know the difference between a will, a living will, powers of attorney, and durable power of attorney!  I wasn't raised on a farm, so how in the hell would I know, what the difference between things, that look similar to me, are growing out in the fields!  LOL!  I used to love to read a book to may kids, called City Mouse and Country Mouse, cousins and what they learned by visiting each other, that was me and my husband.  But it was fun as hell getting to know country music, to see that horses had their own personalities, and loved to see me gather barley out of my husband's hands, as he mowed the weeds down on our 23 acre farm, that his family had for generations, that we also loved.

In the next heat of muttin' busters, or kids, who are brave enough to get on a sheep's back and go for the ride of their lives, to that point.  Tristan, a beefy kid, much of the physical build of his father, who was a Navy SEAL, until he blew his knees out two years into the program, and he got unlucky enough to get a huge sheep, that wasn't putting up with any of this stuff, letting kids, ride on his/her back!  Tristan last about one second on the sheep, went straight up in the air, and landed, right on his head, with his body, straight up! He got up, dazed and confused, not knowing which way to get off the arena dirt, that he had just landed on!  LOL!  He staggered, walked, looked a bit confused, and finally made it over to me and his parents, where we were sitting in the stands . . . fighting back tears, Tristan said, Grandma, the dirt hit me on the head!  I am sure, that as short as he sat on the sheep, and being quickly thrown upside down, and going straight down, hitting the ground, it would have seemed that the dirt hit him on the head, because the last time he had any cognition, he was going up, not down!  LOL!  Thaddeus was too young, but he got the jest of the event . . . a little girl, hardly as big as a button, with long hair, walked away the winner of the heat, having hung on to the sheep, being on the side of the sheep, clinging on for her life!  LOL!  But she made it across the arena, and cowboy dad, couldn't have been prouder!

Family Favorite & Yearly Event, The Demolition Derby!

Fun, fun, fun, for anyone who has not been to a demolition derby, is really missing out.  People get these old cars, many of them back before the days of fiberglass cars, the most sturdy they could find, many had been in a derby the day before, but got knocked out early and still had life in them, even though they look like shit. But there are several cars, or more, that start the derby, and they smash, crash, thrash, and pummel, the other cars, until they are all rendered inoperable, or are out of commission, and there is one car left standing, usually, doing a victory lap, around the dirt arena, the same one they have the rodeos on, generally playing to a full house!  My daughter, Greta, always wanted to be in the powder puff derby, or the girls, part of the night's events.  Many of the cars, were pink, gussied up, like the gals would like them, but the drivers, tough as nails, with many of their daddies in the audience, egging their baby girls on . . . like father, like daughters. But about the time, I got out of law school, and working to have the means to have money to invest in a junker car, Greta, up and joined the Navy, before the county fair came, leaving us without the joy of seeing her compete in the derby . . . guess she wanted to compete in a bigger arena, the NAVY, and she ended up, coming out of boot camp, Navy Hall of Fame, for being in the first co-ed division of the naval graduates, with only 69 divisions to get that distinct award, out of the 9 divisions, that graduate weekly, in the 85 years of the Navy history!

Rodeos Are Always Fun . . . Even Get Exciting When a Bull Gets Loose!

I remember going to a rodeo, in it seems, Lehi, Utah, and one of the bulls got loose in the streets, making several of the cowboys, having to leave their posts watching the rodeo, and track down the bull, before it hurt someone or got hit by a car.  The livestock used for the rodeos, are worth a fortune, with a bull like that, or a champion, that doesn't let too many cowboys ride them, with wild ass names, that terrorize the crowds, and leave the cowboys praying for life, clowns, watching the bulls every move, but they are bred for rodeos, and trained to buck, throw, play with the clowns, and make their owners a shit load of money, some of the bulls going upwards to a half a million dollars . . . why do you think I wanted to breed bulls, when I won my big cases, when I thought, winners got the money, not government inter pleaders, who pretended to be me, and took the money and ran!  But, the bucking horses, the bulls, are amazing and shock the rodeo goers, and some are almost impossible to ride, seeing cowboy after cowboy, hitting the dirt, much in the same way my grandson did.  And by the way, the World Bucking Bronce Home, is somewhere near, Ukalaka, don't know how to spell it, but out in south, eastern, Montana, some guy, just decided to breed horses, and has had some 6,000 famous bucking horses, come from his breed!

My Personal Favorites At the Fair . . . Always Go to See, The BULLS!

One year, about 10 years ago, while I was waiting to die, I broke my left leg, in about 5 places, shattering both ankles, and many of the bones in my foot, and all boxed up in a case, with crutches . . . but, that was not going to stop me from going to the county fair, to see my bulls!  I asked everyone I could, to see if they didn't want to go to the fair--many people in Cache County, were raised on farms, ranches, and they were not as impressed with farm life, since they were raised that way and many went to college to get off the farm and stop having to get up early to milk the cows at 5:00 a.m., completing the duties and chores before school.  I should have been born the farmer's daughter!  I love that lifestyle, but I was not raised on a farm and may feel differently if I had been . . . my father was a CPA, Certified Public Accountant, and my mother was a school teacher, but we did as a family go to rodeos and county fairs, often, as I also did with my children, when they were young.

But, come hell or high water, that year, while convalescing from my broken leg, I was bound and determined that I was going to the county fair, regardless of how I had to get there!  I called the bus, told them that I was on crutches, and would need help to get to the fair, with the bus making special trips to the fair, hauling patrons, and participants . . . they were more than helpful, much like Eagle Transit, who shuttles people to and from county events, and they made sure the driver knew he would have to put down the ramp and get me to the fair, and he did.  Once to the fair, there were wheel chairs, that I could use, and I don't recall, having to pay for them, but that was a while ago, and each fair will differ, but I left my crutches with the place that gave them out.  The next challenge was to make it around the what 168 acres of the fair grounds in a wheel chair, not ever having used one.  But, I found that people, who noticed my challenge, rose to the occasion, and helped me get everywhere I need to go, even down to the bulls, which seemed to be down in the lower 40!  The asphalt, was uneven and hard to navigate, but, nothing could stop this determined, bull lover, from getting to see them, like I had most years of my life . . . fun day, great people, random acts of kindness got me where I wanted to go, and I made my yearly pilgrimage to the fair!

Pickles, Pumpkins, Pies, Quilts, Even Goldfish!  And Coveted Blue, Red, and White Ribbons!

I got a big kick out of the Coalville, Utah, fun parade and county fair . . . I couldn't believe what animals were entered into the fair, cats, dogs, and goldfish!  LOL!  It is fun to walk through all the exhibitions, checking out the rabbits, the chickens, and other farm animals and what not.  The homespun, flavor of the fair, reminds you have past days gone by, remembering that grandmother, her garden, grandpa and his chickens.  My second husband, and I lived up in Midway, Utah, and it took him it seemed 12 years to get a housing unit, that protected his free ranging chickens, during the day, but locked in Fort Knox at night, to save then from the dogs, the wolverines, the fox, snakes, coyotes, and other predators, that lurk and hunt during the night, and even in the day.  One beautiful spring day, Jerry and I, sat out in his new chicken pen, connected to the already cool chicken coop, barn, with its nesting and moulting stalls, and while we let a dozen or so, baby chicks, replacements for the ones who had just been slaughtered and eaten in part, run round, while we were sitting out on the hay, all of the sudden, between the bails of hay, a snake came, chomped down on one of the baby chicks, peeping and crying, as the snake darted back between the hay, as Jerry grabbed a shovel and tried to hit the snake, killing it and saving the chick, but to no avail.

I used to bottle fruit and vegetables, so it is fun to go see the award winning bottling.  I have even bottled and dilled pickles, that I don't think, before that, ever connected, pickles to cucumbers!  LOL!  A farm girl in progress . . . gardens are wonderful.  My mother used to grow tomatoes every year, but not much more. When my first husband, was going to the University of Arizona for his master's degree, we lived in a little Quonset hut village, part of the universities, student housing, paid $43 per month, including electricty!  But, our neighbors, next door, happened to have a garden spot between our two huts, and so we jointly grew the first garden I had ever grown . . . I loved it, just seeing the green plant shoots, come up through the black dirt, was amazing!  I used to read my daughter a book, called, Frog & Toad Grow a Garden, they were so excited to see something grow, that they stayed up all night, played music, and finally gave up, and about 10 days later, the plants started to grow!  Gardens are amazing things, and produce can be spotlighted at the county fairs, the best, the biggest, and the brightest!  You can pick up ideas for what types of seeds, tomatoes, award winners, to grow, the next year in your own gardens!  And there is a great feeling of self sufficiency growing your own food.  I wanted to paint a picture of the first fruit that I bottled, I was so proud, and it was beautiful on my shelves, up in my second kitchen, at my home on Eccles Avenue, in Ogden, Utah!

County Fairs--People Connecting With People!

One of the great things, is that people get busy with their individual lives, taking kids here and their, working our jobs, going to church, being involved in politics and community, but the county fair, is a place, that in one week, many of the people throughout the community, go, and connect, either in booths, at events, or checking out the produce and animals, giving people the chance to do what many used to do over the backyard fence, just sit and chew the fat, talking shop, catching up with old friends, maybe seeing people coming back to spend time with mom and dad . . . but a great time to connect, reconnect, and get acquainted for the first time.  Last year, I worked a booth, dealing with the closure of roads by the Forest Service, promoting educational information, and taking tickets for a raffle of really great prizes.  The guys, or actually, the wife of one of the guys, who happened to pick me up, coming down from East Glacier, hijacked me and inducted me to work the booth with her husband and I had a ball.  They loved it, her husband, and Gerry O'Neil, a state senator, representing the Flathead . . . actually, this was two falls ago, the day, I started this blog, being tracked by Indian trackers and blood hounds, an a ton of feds, stopping me from getting on the train, and I was just returning a key to Swiftcurrent Lodge where I was going to work that summer!  After walking out of the Park at 4:00 a.m., to Firewater Point, some guy picked me up on his BMW motorcycle and dropped me off at A & W, Root beer, in Columbia Falls, and that is where the woman, who picked me up and hijacked me to work the fair . . . it was fun, educational, and I met people, connected with political allies, to some extent.

Get Your Tickets Now . . . Flathead County Fair, Has Had the Same Priced Tickets for 9 Years, But After July 16, 2015, the Prices Will Go UP!

SHOW OFF YOUR COUNTIES!  BE PROUD OF YOUR FARM, RANCH, HOMESTEADING HERITAGE!