We’re heading out to Colorado tomorrow for a business vacation, including meetings about the project in the Denver area. We’ll be staying in Vegas tomorrow night, where rumor has it they’ll have fireworks (as they probably will in more abundance on Saturday, the actual 4th). The plan is to be back in LA by the twelfth.
It’s actually the first driving vacation we’ll have been on in the west (not counting California only) in years. I’ll take a laptop, and I’ll probably be checking in, but we’ll be spending a lot of time in the car, so blogging will be sporadic.
Having been in the same situation recently, drive safe, and we’ll deal with light blogging!
~Jon
Assume you are heading through the Virgin River Canyon and Glenwood Canyon. With all that to look at, who needs fireworks?
Good trip!
I’m back from a weekend travelling across Texas. I come home and decide to check the news, and according to newspapers written in the Acela Corridor, the residents of the State of Texas are concerned about Jade Helm 15. Which is interesting, because I have met no one in Texas that even knows anything about it, and if they do, its because they have family in the military and realize the “15” doesn’t mean the 15th Jade Helm, but this year’s particular exercise. In short, no one is worried.
I’ve seen nonsense about Republicans whipping this up. They quoted some guy in Bastrop, which is probably pissed that after their local dam over topping, FEMA declared Oklahoma national disaster area, and waited 2 more weeks to declare that area of Texas a national disaster area. Otherwise, the quotes are all paraphrased to the point that I doubt he said anything close to what the article stated.
I’m also aware that Gov. Abbott requested that they Texas State Guard observe, which is probably the best training that organization will receive. It’s being spun as TSG is defending Texas, which is its mission, but not against friends and family serving in the US military.
I’m writing this because the scary part is how much the national media in the northeast is making of this, when nobody here cares about it. People should question those motives. This doesn’t seem like the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, but a generated news story. Bastrop is just outside Travis County, the most liberal county in Texas. Still, I checked out the Austin American Statesman website, which covers Bastrop, and not one word of Jade Helm was mentioned. It’s a non story in Texas. Why is it a story in the Washington Post?
Probably someone saw it being mentioned in Alex Jones’ show or something like that and thought what he was blabbing was actually relevant in Texas without even bothering to check the local news first.
^^ nailed it.
Alex Jones must be paying through the nose to get links on Drudge. And while Drudge is looked down upon by the mainstream, it is very influential, even with the leftist media.
Alex Jones was a hero of the left when he was on his 9/11 was an inside job kick and when he was infiltrating the Bohemian Grove.