How's That Trump Working Out For You?

Rancher Ed Davis, 75, is proud to have voted for Trump in an attempt to get The Government out of Montana.

How is this Trump era working out for you?

Ed: Well, he's just getting started. I wanted the EPA and the BLM out of Montana completely. We wanted them to do whatever thing they are still doing by computer, and keep them computers out of the state. But really, we don't need either of them. Just give the federal land to Montana, we will deal with it.

But Glacier National park, you are not going to do much ranching there.

Ed: We could. We just need global warming to get rid of the glaciers.

You don't really believe in global warming? You libertarians have a sense of humor?

Ed: You got me.

I see. And the EPA?

Ed: You want to deal with cow poop? It's natural. We don't use any chemicals so the EPA can just get out of here.

And the waterways? Is the federal government allowed to deal with rivers and water supply?

Ed: Certainly not.

And the FDA? You will need to export your beef out of state to make a living.

Ed: The FDA can inspect it all they like, as soon as the product is out of Montana.

Well, good talking to you Ed, clears up completely why you voted for Trump.

Tree Hugger finds plant DNA in his Ancestry profile

Tree hugger Dan Kowalski, 35, was overjoyed to find some special DNA that links him to plants. He had to pay a double fee for his DNA test, but it was worth it.

"I had them look at the junk DNA too, but only very corrupt genes were there for Photosystem I and II of modern plants. The bits there looked more like cyanobacteria, and they were short."

So why the excitement?

"My Krebs cycle enzymes, you know the ones that help oxidize carbohydrates and convert that energy to basically ATP, are closer to plant enzymes than those of 90% of other people."

That's something, then?

"Yeah, it's a big deal for me."

But you still need to eat plants for food?

"I could eat animal fats if I wanted to."

Old Time Birder Keeps Talking About Structure

Utah-- Young birder Scott McPherson, 23, has been going to local birding outings regularly for a year and has collected quite a bird list for Utah and a few in other states. Recently he went with the local Audubon group to see shore bird, proud of his newish spotting scope. he bought it used on eBay but bought the tripod at a sports store.

On that outing, area expert Hal was not along, but his words about "structure" were on Scott's mind that day. Scott had taken some pictures through his scope with an iPhone attachment and had claimed one was a Western Sandpiper. Hal said no, "structure wrong."

Hal is not a talkative guy but his bird ID skills are 100% correct. If he does not know what the bird is, he says nothing. He does not say "it's either this or that." On the outing with the wrong ID, there had also been some dowithchers. Another Audubon member had taken the pictures. He was explaining to Scott the two dowitchers and that one of them has the structure "like it had swallowed a baseball." It also seems to tip over with its weight. From all this Scott has gathered that structure is overall shape, wing length, head or neck shape or the bill shape. The bill has to be compared to the head shape and any blunt or sharp shape noted, or "drooping", which refers to some slight bend down. A few birds may have a bending up as well.

Trump and staff busy perusing 6 copies of Comey book

Washington -- Sitting behind his desk this morning, Trump assigned staff members to read a chapter each in the Comey book.

each one of the ten staff members is to summarize the chapter in a half page note, as well as to xerox the important pages and staple that to the summary. Five books were passed out and each staff member gets three hours for the book. An overnight job will pay some extra, if any one staff member is willing to read the entire book. That staff member gets 500 dollars cash, under the table tomorrow.

Trump then left the desk

and spent the next two hours in the toilet closest to the Oval Office, with book and yellow highlighter in hand. He had one Diet Coke delivered there. Then he seems to have taken the book to his private quarters in a zippered leather portfolio containing a note pad, a pen and the same yellow highlighter.

The second team of readers were to report to him at 5PM before going home. All reports are to be in the special tray on his desk at that time.

Kari buys CD set for old Honda Accord

Kari was looking for 10 dollars more to get free shipping from Amazon. We caught him after the 4-disc set from Sony titled Pure Psychedelic Rock arrived.
Staff: How was it?

Kari: One disc was almost a keeper.  You know my car just has a CD player, right?
Staff: Yes we know. And your iPod is cracked anyway.
Kari: So the first disc was really good. I could just toss the other three instead of hauling it to Half Price and getting 50c.
Staff: And?
Kari: Well, I might be caught in traffic and not be alert and I might play Track 15 accidentally.
Staff: Track 15?
Kari: See for yourself.

Staff: We are not familiar with Melanie. Can you help us out?
Kari: Well, just go to Youtube and play Brand New Key, you will  understand. This is in that same voice but you know, a good song when the Stones do it.
Staff: OK. So what's with the other three CDs?
Kari: Oh, some good bits. But the whole set is in the bin now, to go to Half Price.

Scott Pruitt making An Example Generating CO2

Embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt says he was trying to make an example for his staff.

"As we all know, carbon dioxide is the gas of life. Plants need it to make food for us and for animals. Growth is promoted by carbon dioxide!"

Pruitt said he had to fly to Morocco and then Paris to generate as much CO2 as possible by his jet travel. The fake science of NASA and others says we made the levels of CO2 go up, but Pruitt knows that "CO2 follows warming, does not cause it."

A private jet would burn even more fuel. Pruitt is in talks with Netjet to lease one.