Life in The Country

A programmer from Microsoft is fed up with his job, his life, so he quits and moves up to the Montana. Two weeks go by and while thinking how happy he is with his new life, there is a knock at the door. He answers the door to find a huge rancher who extends his hand and says “I’m your neighbor Butch. I live about a mile north across the stream. I am having a party tonight and I would like to invite you.”

The guy says, “Hi Butch, my name is Bill, nice to meet you. I would love to come to your party tonight.”

Butch: “Great, but I have to warn you, there is going to be some drinking. And there is going to be some sex. And there may be some fighting.”

Bill: “That’s great Butch. I like my beer.” I’ve been up here two weeks so the sex sounds good. And I get along great with everyone.”

Butch: “Great then. I’ll see you tonight.”

As Butch begins to walk away Bill yells, “Hey Butch, what should I wear?”

Butch replies, “Don’t matter, just gonna be me and you.”

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You just got to “love” the goverment.

So you think you “own” some farmland. If you would like to keep it, you need to know a few things.

Never let it flood. If the land floods around where I live, even if it is just for a month or two out of the year. The county will try and take the land from you. They will call it a wetland and it will no longer really be yours (other than paying taxes on it). Every flat piece of ground is a “natural” wetland in western Washington, if you do not keep it drained.

If you let it go and find you have a marsh or pond forming (also called a puddle). Holidays are the best time to to fix that problem by creating “natural” drainage. Government workers are a rather predictable and lazy lot. They do use aerial photography where I live, so it is best to do the work during the rainy season. Things get grown over fast when it rains. And yes it is best not to let an eagle nest on your property. Eagles traditionally are another reason for the government to tell you that some of your land is really not yours at all. If you see a nest being started, destroy it, do it now. For a protected animal Bald Eagles are thick around here. There is nothing rare about them. They are beautiful animals, it’s a shame you can’t let them nest on your land. But only a fool would allow it.

There was this old couple’s place, not far from where I live. They stopped using their land as pasture, but still lived in the house. They were going to sell it off in a few years, when they retired. A farm next to them unintentionally pushed up a small ridge against their land. The water level went up during the winter. Not too badly, it was not worth doing anything about it. The ducks liked it during the winter and spring, and it was dry before any mosquitoes hatched . The county came by and called their back 10 acres an endangered wetland. They had to put a fence around it and are not even allowed to walk in their own back yard. Yes they had their land stolen from them. And no they were not paid for it. I just got to just love those noble folks with their progressive politics. No I don’t love them, I don’t even respect them.They are just thieves being paid by the hour, out of the taxes being paid by the people they are stealing from.

So remember to kill a beaver on sight, use weed killer on anything that looks like wetland vegetation. And drain it fast, even if you like ducks. And never ever get a permit, unless you want the land stolen from you. Beware of Seattle people (or the big city closest to you) buying the land next to you and making a little hobby farm out of it. They will turn you in every time they think something you are doing is bad. And those people think everything is an environmental crime. So make certain you point your French drains toward their land. Yes they tend to be too stupid to understand these things and end up with a fence around part of their land. Yes a part of their property, where they are not even allowed to walk. Sometimes there is justice in this world.

It means anything I say it does.

They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water,
it will leap out right away to escape the danger.

But, if you put a frog in a kettle that is filled with water that is cool and pleasant,and then you gradually heat the kettle until it starts boiling, the frog will not become aware of the threat until it is too late.

In the USA, alcoholism was once an epidemic. The problem was much worse than it is now. The US Government felt they needed to do something about it. It was truly a national emergency. But the Constitution did not include a single word about alcohol consumption. It would need to be amended before the central government would have the authority to outlaw alcohol. On 16 January 1919, the 18th Amendment was ratified by the states.

That did not work out so well in the long run, but it was certainly legal.

I wonder when we quit worrying about our laws being legal? Where in the US constitution does it grant the federal goverment the right to control marijuana? It doesn’t, the federal goverment just said screw the constitution.

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.” –George Washington

What the hell does he know, he only helped to write it.

I’m looking for places were the constitution say its ok to confiscate 90% of a an unfavored individuals income without a crime being committed and without trial?

I still can’t find where the Government can control of your right of free speech during political campaigns .

I am told that somewhere in this Constitution is the right of the state police, to confiscate without trial, anything and everything you own.  . . .Still looking I can’t find it. Well I see places where it says the government can’t do that. But I guess some people in black robes said “never mind I don’t like that law”.

At least I can still sit in my little house, on a lot of land, and ignore these things. That is unless someone in my city council decides that they would like to take it from me and give it to a friend of theirs.


It could be worse, I could be an old Russian serf. Do you know that they were given land to live and work on, but they never really owned it. And they had 25% of everything they produced taken from them. History calls this a great evil. Assuming the bank doest really own your land. If the goverment can take our land at will, and tell us what we can and can not do with it. Is that land really ours? And I am sorry to tell you this, but assuming you’re not being given money by the government, due to your own poverty. We all have far more than 25% of all we make, being taken from us right now.