Author Archives: Al Cooper
He is sixty eight years old.
She is sixty seven years old.
After more than forty five years of paying into Social Security and Medicare with each and every paycheck they received; they retired.
Sometimes that payment meant that they did not eat for a day or two. Continue reading
I once thought I could run twenty miles an hour.
I was fast. I could outrun my mongrel dog; he was about fifteen pounds and fifteen inches high.
I thought I was something.
What I really was was twelve years old. Continue reading
When an entrepreneur wants to create a product to sell at a profit (why else?) what are some of the things they consider?
Let us try some logical thinking.
To make a profit you have to sell your product for more than it takes to manufacture that product. Continue reading
Pushing ethanol is either ignorance or intentional damage to the health and wellbeing of the people of the world. It will reduce food supplies and raise the price of transportation and those food supplies.
I have heard you should not attribute to malice what simple stupidity or incompetence can explain.
I no longer accept that. Continue reading
“TANSTAAFL”
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
The first place I read that was in one of Robert Heinlein’s novels.
Nothing is free. Continue reading
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”.
Over the past fifty years, I have noticed that every time it appears that congress, or the president, is about to do something good or useful for the country; a major diversion suddenly appears.
(This is especially true when the subject is taxes)
“Oh look! A Loon!” or “I saw big foot once” or “uncontrolled meltdown at major national candy factory”. Continue reading
The most important thing in the world to you is the survival of you and your family.
You need to be secure enough in your own home to sleep at night without fear; to have enough food for however many meals you and your family need each day.
To be protected from the weather. Continue reading
What Skookum does with horses could be called “Mind over Horse”.
I have done much the same with wolves; I bred some about twenty years ago.
I even had success with cats and a couple of birds.
The wolves were easy; they are very smart and know what is going on around them. The alpha male of this pack became the best non human buddy I ever had. In all the years he was with me, I only heard him bark once. Continue reading
Oklahoma is having wildfires, from Kansas to Texas, mostly east of Interstate 35.
Seems strange to me, there are no storms; there has not been any lightning.
Cigarettes? In that large an area?
Conspiracy?
Do not ask me. Continue reading