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Imam Said Shakir told the New York Times, under the headline “US Muslim Cleric Seeks Modern Middle Ground.” (A closer look at Said Shakir will show that his birth name was Ricky Mitchell and he was raised in Connecticut and Georgia.) Imam Shakir went on to say, “Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America become a Muslim Country.” Not every Muslim thinks like Shakir, I hear your bleeding heart tell me. I know that. However, it took just 19 or so of them to kill over 3,000 Americans on 911. And here’s yet another thought o...
I just read a book loaned to me by Howard about how the Islamic people will be in command of the world as we know it by the turn of the next century. Want to hear about it? If not, just turn the channel to another station. But as usual, I digress. I started out to tell you how our Millennial grandchildren will be controlled by the Islamic faith, not only here but in Europe, Canada and the rest of the Christian world according to Mark Steyn, author of America Alone, The End Of The World As We Know It. Some of you who read this will scoff and say...
Just when I didn’t think it could get any worse, here comes this story in the Washington Free Beacon about the National Institute of Health spending $400,000 texting Latino men, telling them they’re too fat and that they need to exercise more. Now, there’s money well spent indeed! However here’s some more government waste that should be stopped completely. (Ya’ listening Senator Daines and Representative Zinke?) It has to do with the Former President’s Act of 1958. It deals with giving each former president a ton of money after they are go...
I can’t give you the name of my source...yet. It would ruin the surprise, if that’s what we want to call it after the blanket is thrown back and the subject is shown. I will, however tell you it’s a magazine that celebrated its 85th anniversary last year or so. My idea is to get people to opine as to what “thing” they think has been most disruptive, or world-changing in the time the magazine has been alive. I’ll give you some of the things listed according to the editors and writers of the mag, which I will simply call MagX for now. Some o...
'Tis quite an honor to be selected for the All-State Girls Class C Eastern Division Basketball Team. It's doubly sweet to have two girls from the same team chosen for this honor. Two of the North Country Lady Mavericks were chosen this season. It came as no surprise for Whitewater's Tatum Moore to be picked. She earned it with her smothering defense and her pin-point shooting. Her forte, at 5'6”, has been to challenge the “bigs” in the paint by driving to the hoop and shooting the lay-up with either hand. Moore is a senior and plans to play...
Kudos go out to Representative Ryan Zinke for his calling out of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management about the potential “change-of-use” permit in regards to the 3.5 million acres the APR wants for their free-ranging bison If you read the article by Heather Swift in last weeks Courier (Zinke Challenges BLM, DOI on Bison 3/16/16) you will have noticed that both department heads said they didn’t know of any such proposal in the works. Yikes!! If that’s true then I would suggest firing Interior Secretary Sally Jewell...
Enough pollyticks for awhile. I have a true story in the trucking vein I thought you might enjoy. The sequence of events happened back in the day about 1972 or so. You must forgive me if some of the facts aren’t. There are two different styles of semi trucks: conventional and cab-over. The conventional (long-nose) is the most popular because they have a far smoother ride that do the COEs. (Trucking manufacturers’ jargon for “Cabin-Over-Engine,” thus “cab-over.”) Before the 1970s most of the long haul trucks were conventionals but a new trucking...
Let’s take a look back in history to Ronald Reagan’s reign as POTUS. He was a half-month short of being 70 years old when he was sworn in the first time. There were no outward signs of the loss of mental acuity in the first four years of his presidency other than the fact that he really didn’t wear the pants in the family letting Nancy pretty much control him. But that didn’t effect his running the country ... much. However he was 74 years old when he took the reins in 1985 making him 78 when he left office. He had been diagnosed with early-s...
Going into Super Tuesday, the count shows Trump leading with 82 delegates, Cruz with 17, Rubio with 16, Kasich with 6 and Carson has 4. Looks like a landslide for The Donald doesn’t it? But wait, there’s more. A lot can change when only 125 delegates out of 1,237 are declared. How will the remaining delegates vote? You already know what’s going on because you are reading this on the Wednesday or Thursday after Super Tuesday has come and gone and all the questions have been answered. I’m doing this broadcast on the Sunday preceding Super T...
In their first game of the 2016 Girls Eastern C Divisional Tournament held in Wolf Point last Thursday, the North Country Lady Mavericks caused several of the Maverick faithful to need oxygen. This game was not for the timid or faint of heart. It was a battle royale from the opening bell to the closing wheezle as are all the games between these two powerhouse teams. MonDak has lost the last four meetings between them and Hinsdale, Saco/Whitewater or a combination thereof. Tonight was no...
When Darrell Brenna retired from the barber business Glasgow lost a good hair cutter. Sixty years cutting hair with scissors and clippers with a shoulder massage tacked on for good measure. Strangers thought he looked like Kenny Rogers. As far as I know there are no "real" barbers left in Glasgow. I recall when Saco had two barber shops. The old-time shops with the red and white pole out front are rapidly disappearing across the Hi-Line being replaced by "styling salons" and "beauty shops."...
As in most of the stuff you hear on Thanks for Listening, today’s story will deal with something foreign to most of us in this sparsely populated part of the Big Sky Country. Oh sure, we’ve seen it when we make trips to Billings or Great Falls where there are more cars and trucks on the streets in three city blocks than there are in the whole town of Glasgow! I’m sure most of you listeners have had the experience of having a semi-truck crawl up your tailpipe and ride your bumper. I know I have and it makes me madder than a wet rooster. It’s...
Since 2007 at least one of the three towns that now make up the North Country Mavericks have sent one or more teams to state tournaments either in football (with Glasgow or Malta), volleyball, basketball or track. 2016 has creepily creeped up on us and here we are again looking at maybe another trip to the big dance. The Lady Mavericks of Saco/Hinsdale/Whitewater, a newly founded triad, just won the 3C girls basketball district tourney, as well as the 3C conference championship sporting a...
First off I want to tell Hillary that the word protect is not pernounced pertect in polite sirkuls. Hillary tries so very hard to use good speech. Sometimes so much so that she comes across as being phony. Hey! I’m certainly not perfect as the 16.7 readers of Thanks For Listening can tell you. I’m not running for the highest office in the world (although I probably should be) but I think those who are should have proper language skills and enunciation. Trump can be exempt because he’s not trying to be anyone but himself. I watched the Democ...
There are thousands of rules, regulations and laws that supposedly control guns in the United States. We do not need MORE laws. We simply need to enforce the ones already on the books, leaving the stupid laws and keeping the ones that actually make sense. Here’s some personal data from my life that maybe will shed some light on a couple gun laws. It will shed some new light for a few of the newer listeners of Thanks for Listening who are not privy to my past altercations with the law. I wrote some hot checks for which I paid with three years o...
Do you want to spend more quality time with your family? Are you sick to death with all those pharmaceutical commercials on TV? Do you scramble for the mute button every time a gorgeous female starts spouting the virtues of a certain bedroom enhancement pill that could cause you to have a four hour medical catastrophe requiring a doctor? Do three or five sportscasters talking at once while yucking’ it up like a bunch of southern hillbillies make your ‘hears’ close shut? If you answered yes to any or all of the above then you have a problem. If...
For those of you concerned over where I have been the past couple months I must explain. To put it very simply … I was abducted by aliens from the planet Liberal 3. It is a planet 47 billion light years from Earth and is populated almost entirely by females. They keep a few males around for amusement and to ensure controlled re-population. My return to Earth was made possible when they discovered I am at an age where I should just shed my huevos and grow new teeth. I was not appreciated for my charm, good looks and brain nor my ability to ...
Let’s see now … Is that person you sit beside at a high school basketball game a local business owner? Are you friends with that person? If you answered those questions with a yes then answer this one. Are you doing some of your shopping on the internet? Do you make the 250 mile trip to Billings, the 285 mile trip to Great Falls or the 140 mile trek to Williston to buy stuff you could get in Glasgow but don’t because the items may be a little higher in price locally? If you make the trips and buy stuff in Billings, Great Falls, Williston or Ha...
In her lame attempt to discredit me on my view on equal opportunity in hiring in America, Tess Fahlgren has missed the mark by a mile. I’m saying equal opportunity is an oxymoron. How can something be equal when it favors a certain population? In the past it was heavily in favor of the white male, I agree to that, but it has become reverse discrimination in recent years due to the EEOC. American manufacturing (what little there is of it) no longer hires on merit. They hire on skin color, sex and race. Could that be one of the reasons manufactur...
An apt description of the Equal Opportunity Employment Act would be “a policy or program providing 'advantages' for people of a minority group with the aim of creating a racially equal society through preferential access to employment, education, health care, welfare” and etc. The EOE was the birth of this thing called “proportional hiring” which mandated that 25 percent of a business’s employees must be of a minority where applicable. I really can’t see the “equalness” in the EOE. Now, here’s where the United States started changing to allow s...
This is part two about an email I have received several times over the past seven or so years. It’s been circling the Internet since 2005 and just won’t go down the drain. Until now, I have simply deleted it. This time I didn’t and this two-part story is attributed to that fact. It has its good points and bad points to be sure, but this year I simply had to point out to you the bad after having been recently chastised severely for not researching some of my columns. As the chastiser pointed out in his/her tirade, “Your readers deserve to know...
Folks, it’s that time of year again when charities from all over the world will be pulling on your heart strings to send them money. Some of these charities are legitimate and worthy of your donation. Some are not. For the past few years I have received an e-mail about this time of year with the subject “Think Before You Donate.” It’s one of those e-mails that rise up out of cyberspace now and again. No one knows who wrote the original. I’m sure you have been the recipient of some of these urban legend e-mails. This particular one lists fiv...
Imagine you are a twenty-something single male (I’ll call you Ken) with two children and a girlfriend. You make enough money to enable you to purchase a house. The American Dream, right? Well, follow along and this is where it gets real good. A feller named John Tabb came up with this formula for pursuing the New American Way Of Life. It’s been proven to work for tens of thousands, if not millions, of Americans and we are the only country on planet earth where it works. You should always use your mother’s address for your mail. You still live...
Well, maybe “maul” isn’t the politically correct word there but at times that is just what itseemed. A mauling. The North Country Mavericks, led by Jada Sudbrack and Mickayla Johnson, whupped up on the M-Ettes 25-16 in the first game of the match setting the stage for the next four games. Again, Sudbrack led the charge with Johnson, Delaney Beil, Bailey Funk, Tatum Moore, Casity Boucher and Payton Chopper filling in the gaps making super digs, great passing, monster blocks and thundering kills. This wasn’t your grannies' volleyball, folks....
Although fighting a bout with what she thought was stomach flu, North Country Mavericks sophomore Jada Sudbrack had a stellar game which started off with her hitting two KWAs, a normal point and a BWA in the first minute and a half of play. Yikes, friends, it was something to see! Of the Mavericks' 22 total kills Jada had 12 of them. She also led the team in blocked shots with two of the team’s five blocks. That first game was a good game with both sides playing very well indeed, but the Mavericks came up a bit short on the scoreboard, l...
