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Concealed Carry Reform Becomes Law in Wyoming!

On Thursday, March 4, Governor Dave Freudenthal (D) signed Senate File 26 into law. The bill is effective immediately.

Sponsored by State Senator Cale Case (R-25) and State Senator Eli Bebout (R-26), SF 26 will reform Wyoming’s concealed weapons permit laws regarding eligibility, reciprocity, and issuance of permits. This bill will limit the Attorney General’s ability to determine reciprocity by taking away his/her power to determine if that state has similar laws authorizing permits.

Please join us in thanking the sponsors of this bill, Senator Case and Senator Bebout, for all of their hard work and support. Also please contact Governor Freudenthal to thank him for signing such important legislation into law. Contact information for the Governor can be found here.

Senator Cale Case (R-25)

ccase@wyoming.com

Senator Eli Bebout (R-26)

senbebout@wyoming.com

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One of the fundamental issues that I have with today’s Republican Party is that we allow ourselves to be defined by liberals and the liberal press rather than defining ourselves. As a former county party chairman, I had to live with county and state by-laws that forbade party officials from endorsing candidates in the primaries. It never happened in my county, but the fact that I might have one day been forced to officially support a liberal candidate always festered in the back of my mind.

The problem is that the National Republican Party, together with state and local parties, spend more time, money and effort trying to include everyone in the “big tent” than they do standing by the core conservative values that should be guiding them. I can understand how easy it is to fall into the trap of believing the goal is to elect people with R’s at the end of their names. Obviously, without enough R’s the party loses majority control of government, but this ignores the reality that control by Republicans isn’t the real goal. The real goal is holding our nation true to the conservative principles by which it was created.

Talk Radio personality Andrew Wilkow likes to say, “Individual Patriot first. Conservative second. Republican third.” What he means is that it is our first duty to be individuals who support our country, that we can do that best by living and promoting our conservative principles, and that the Republican Party is the currently the best tool that we have to do it with. If the Republican Party ceases to be the best tool for that job, then we are left with a couple choices. We can throw out the tool and get a new one, or we can refurbish our current tool and make it work how it’s supposed to.

Throwing out the tool would mean abandoning the Republican Party altogether and forming or joining a third party. This is a difficult course to follow, but it isn’t unheard of. There have been several ruling political parties throughout our history including Democrat-Republicans (one party, not the same as todays), Federalists, Whigs, Democrats, Republicans and dozens of smaller parties that exist in smaller numbers around the nation. It might be rare in our national history for a new party to come out of obscurity and take power at the federal level, and it is a difficult proposition, but it’s not impossible.

Refurbishing the current tool is the more likely scenario and would mean bringing the Republican Party back into line with its historical conservative principles. In order to forward those principles, we need to elect conservative Republicans. Not liberal Republicans. Not moderate Republicans. Conservative Republicans. Conservatives must retake control of the Party at all levels — from local precincts, to the statewide parties, to the National Republican Party. To succeed, we will have to make a stand against mediocrity, and so called moderates, and refuse to vote for or fund candidates that don’t truly represent us, regardless of whether or not they registered as Republicans. The first battle we face is to get conservative candidates nominated in the primaries, and only then can we carry those candidates through to victory in the general elections. We have to make our voices be heard loud and clear, and not allow the biased liberal press agencies decide which candidates are going to win our support.

I think that conservatives will benefit most by using third parties to force change in the Republican Party. By selectively abandoning the Republican Party, conservatives can bring about enough pressure on party leaders to force them to rethink which candidates they will endorse and support in the future. By supporting independent and third party candidates that more accurately represent our conservative values and principles, as the people of New York’s 23rd Congressional district have done, we can send the GOP a message about what kind of candidates we will accept. Give us a real conservative candidate to support, and we will. Send us a wishy-washy liberal like Dede Scozzafava? We’re gone. If we do it consistently, each and every time, the Republican Party will figure out that they should only send us candidates that share our values. Anything else will be a waste of our time, their money, and an erosion of their power base.

By regaining control of our party, and only supporting candidates that we want to support, we can define the Republican Party ourselves instead of letting the liberals and the liberal press define it for us. If the Republican Party continues to allow the likes of Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe to carry our endorsement, then there is no reason for us to continue to be Republicans. We can throw our support behind a third party like New York’s State Conservative Party, or start a new one. If the Republican Party can retool, however, and show us that they can send us honest-to-goodness, conservative candidates, then we can continue to be part of the Grand Old Party. If we lose a few races in order to cement that position, then so be it. I would rather have a Democrat in office that we can challenge straight up in the next election than a sponge like Arlen Specter who sucks the party coffers dry, while voting with the Democrats anyway, and keeping the party from endorsing a real conservative candidate.

Conservatives are going to regain control of this country’s future and hold our country true to its conservative roots, regardless of the tools we use. The Republican Party just needs to decide whether it’s going to be the best tool for that job, or just a tool.

Primary school in open air. Teacher (priest) with class from the outskirts of Bucharest, around 1842.

Before we do anything, we as parents must step back and take stock of the fact that it is our individual responsibility to provide a quality education to our children, not the responsibility of the government. School districts were formed as tools to allow communities to pool their resources in order to assist parents in meeting that responsibility. The current system, which is governed by federal regulations and union contracts, has perverted that original purpose and replaced it with a behemoth of a machine whose goals have more to do with societization than education. The very school systems that we created to assist us have now usurped us, and dictate to us how our children should be taught instead of the other way around. The education of our children is our own individual responsibility. It easy to ignore that fact, but until we face it again as a people our education system is doomed.

What do we do about it? Simple. We take it back.

First of all, the U.S. Department of Education as it exists today needs to be abandoned. The federal government has no place in our public education system, and the very existence of this bloated, rotting bureaucracy is a slap in the face of every student, parent, teacher, administrator and locally elected school board member in America. Our school boards are elected by us to manage a school system that is owned by us, and they need to act that way. When the federal government decides that they are in charge, the elected members of our school boards have to stand resolute and do what they were elected to do. Represent us. If they won’t, they must be replaced. The U.S. Department of Education won’t go away on its own, but if communities across the nation turn their backs on them, and ignore them, they will become functionally impotent, with no more hold on our schools.

Part of the reason the U.S. Department of Education has gained such a stranglehold on our failing school system is that we became lazy. It’s too easy to sit at home, complaining that the system is a mess, and wondering when the government is going to fix it. As parents we have to hold our schools accountable again, and not to some federal agency, to us. We entrust our children to the school system because we believe that the specially trained teachers employed there are better able to teach our children, but how do we know? What do these people actually teach our kids? Reading? Writing? Math? Arguable considering the trending test results. Volunteerism? Activism? Socialism? Those seem to be common themes, but again, how do we know?

It is time that we demand an accurate accounting of everything that our educators are teaching our children. Every teacher must be required to inform every parent of what they intend to teach our children in their classrooms. Their syllabuses and talking points should be posted publicly, and be subject to parental review. If a teacher plans to spend their hour teaching my child how to solve simple algebraic equations, then the pre-class report will be nice and simple. A copy of the worksheet can be posted online on that class’s web page. If a teacher plans to explain to my child why a single payer health care system is preferable to a free market system, then they can post those talking points to the website as well. If the teacher plans to spend their hour teaching the proper construction of a functional irrigation system and instead the conversation turns to the effects of federal endangered species regulations on the local economy, that can be posted to the online class notes, too. These online class notes can be preserved year to year and be a tool for parents to decide what kind of a person they want teaching their kids. If we read them and find that a particular teacher manages to turn daily discussions of Shakespearean literature into daily discussions about the benefits of strong labor unions, we will be able to make educated decisions as parents as to whether or not this is the kind of person we want educating our children.

I know…you teachers out there are reading this and are up-in-arms right now screaming at me that we have no right to hold your occupation under a microscope. Too bad. You chose a profession where your actions will have a profound effect on the direction of the lives of our children. My children. And I want a say in how that education is provided. If putting your occupation under a microscope is the only way to do that, then so be it.

These are simple but important things that we can do to return our education system to its greater glory. Take back control of our childrens’ education from the federal government. Require adequate representation from the school board members that we elect to steward our schools. Demand accountability and transparency from our teachers. Not so tough, right?

Remember, your child’s education is your responsibility, and the school system is nothing more than a tool to help you provide your child the best education that you can. We can sharpen that tool, we can throw the tool out and get a new one, or we can throw the tool out for good and teach our kids at home. In the end, it’s our call. Either way, arbitrarily lengthening school days and school years on a national basis is just face makeup and yet another ploy to keep the power out of our hands and keep it in the hands of government.  That’s what got us into this educational conundrum in the first place.

Day two went a little better. Coming from the North side of the mountains you get to Turkey Flats by going through the Colorado National Monument and through Glade Park. From the Glade Park Store you head South on 16 1/2 Road for 10 miles to the trailhead, which is really pretty easy to find if you start out on the right side of the mountain.

The trail route that we took started at the Turkey Flats trail head and followed varied single track for about 3 miles where it intersected a fire road. Most of this is a steady climb, with a few spring crossings, and some rocks and roots. The only real bad part of this section of trail is where it is worn down 8-10 inches below grade with only a 8-12 inch wide path which made pedaling all but impossible. At about 1 1/2 miles, the trail forks in Haypress Meadow. We stayed left here, and returned on the right hand spur. At about three miles we intersected with the fire road. A right turn and a mile of climbing on the fire road took us to a reservoir that is currently being rebuilt and the Glory trail head. This is where this trail gets nasty. Can you say hike-a-bike? These next couple of miles were basically a grueling hike up the side of a mountain.

Climb. Climb. Then more climbing for two miles. I have to give Teresa credit — she never cussed at me one time, and she didn’t call me one nasty name. One time, she came around a bend and saw yet another climb and said, “You have got to be kidding me,” but she never resorted to violence. At the top (finally) the trail intersected with an ATV road that meandered for about a mile before intersecting with the Haypress trail head. From here it is 1 1/2 miles of screaming downhill to the Turkey flats fork in Haypress meadow, and then another 1 1/2 miles of downhill back along the Turkey Flats trail to the trail head for a total ride of about 10 miles.

Overall this was a fun trail, but it is a long grueling climb for the short payoff. Technically, I would call this an intermediate level trail, but you better be in pretty good shape if you want to enjoy it, because this is anything but a leisurely ride through the woods. Also keep in mind that you will be in the wilderness, and far from civilization. Supply yourself accordingly. I’d recommend a flashlight, a two-way radio, a hand held GPS and a space blanket, because you don’t want to be caught out here unprepared.

On the upside, this place is absolutely beautiful. The trail took us through miles of aspen groves in full fall color, along with gorgeous meadows and dark pine forests. While we didn’t see much wildlife on the trail, we did see deer, wild turkey, and big horn sheep in the surrounding area, and the drive in and out through the Monument is also enjoyable.

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Turkey Flats Trail These pics are from Turkey Flats Trail and the surrounding area.

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Volunteer Bike Park Builder Weekend- Hilride is coming back to town to offer a second bike park builder training. Volunteers are needed! Download the flyer for all the details and spread the word!!

Download the Volunteer Builder Waiver and bring it with you.

Please come prepared with sturdy shoes (boots preferred) and gloves.

Materials and supplies are still needed. Visit the Donations Page for the complete list.

The plan is for it to have a wide range of terrain for all skill levels. There will be a loop trail, a pump track, a drop zone, dirt jumps, elevated trails, and jump trails designed by Hilride Progression Development Group. The 3 1/2 acre project was spearheaded by the Sweetwater County Mountain Bike Association in partnership with the City of Green River Parks and Recreation Department, and built using resources and employees of the City of Green River along with many local volunteers.

The park won’t be finished this weekend, but a good start will be made. So far the elevated trail is off the hook. There is a rock garden and then a section of ladder bridges from boulder to boulder, with a couple foot drop off, around more ladder bridges with more boulders, then to a log riding section. I can’t wait to put two wheels to it! The pump track is looking fun, but the jump track is going to be outrageous. I feel bones breaking just thinking about it, but I am excited since a park like this is exactly what I need to build on my riding skills.

Nat and Rachael from Hilride were great to work with. Nat is a machine who runs from place to place keeping all the projects and all of the volunteers moving forward. The mad man with the plan, as it were. The rest of the volunteers and the city employees were also great to work with. I learned a lot working on this project and I hope I can apply it to developing local trails in the future.

Green River Bike Park Construction of the new Green River Bike Park

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National Park Service 9-11 Statue of Liberty and WTC Fire

Today marks the 7th anniversary of a day our country will never forget. I don’t have to explain it to you. If I needed to, you would never understand anyway.

On that morning, I was scheduled to work the morning shift at one of our family businesses, and I was on my way to work at about 5:15am (Mountain Time) listening to the morning news when the newscaster mentioned something about a prominent leader and promoter of democracy in Afghanistan having been assassinated that morning. I didn’t give it much thought until later that morning.

A while later, during a break in customers, I caught the first report that some type of plane had crashed into one of the towers. Wow, I thought, that’s horrible. I wasn’t very good at taking care of my customers for the rest of that morning. Sure, I went through the motions, rang up their stuff, and took their money, but my ears and attention were on the radio that I had turned up to full blast. I listened intently as they reported the second plane had crashed into the second tower. Oh, God! I, along with every commentater, was sure now that this was a terrorist attack. I wondered at the time if it was related to the assassination report that I had heard that morning, but any further news of that was lost in the chaos that was unfolding in New York City.

I listened with horror as they described the collapse of the first tower, and was numb with the realization that possibly thousands of people were dying at that very moment. I had made a few calls home and to other family members throughout the morning, but I felt the need right then to talk to my wife again, so I ignored the customers that were in the store and called home. I don’t remember what we said to each other, but it was enough to comfort one another and keep us moving through the morning.

When the second tower fell, so did my heart. I listened as they described the loss of the firefighters who had entered the towers to save strangers, and the sadness compounded. I was glued to the radio or the television for the rest of the day.

For some reason, I had to be out of town that night, and my whole family spent it in a hotel a couple hundred miles from home. We had all been numb all day. We tried to explain to our three children, who were between 6 and 11 at the time, what had happened. They were too young to truly understand, thankfully, but I know that we were all struggling with what was happening. Later that night, probably after midnight, my wife and children were all asleep in the room, but I was still glued to the television, enthralled by what was happening to those people 2000 miles away, but so close to my heart.

At one point during the coverage, journalists were interviewing people from around the world and recording their reactions to the tragedy that had just befallen the people of New York. Most made the obvious and expected statements — that it was horrible, that their hearts go out, etc. But one person was different. She said something that will stick with me until the day I die. She was a middle aged French woman on the streets of Paris, and when the reporter asked her thoughts on what had happened that day, she said, “Today, we all suffer together. Today, we all cry together. Today, we are all Americans.”

That is when I cried. With my wife and children sleeping quietly all around me, I cried.

Additionally, there’s an app for tracking my mountain bike rides and another one with the US Constitution on it, and a Skype app. And, of course, it plays music, and therefore audiobooks, effortlessly.

So, what’s all this mean? It means I’m going to have break down and get an iPhone.

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Book 2)

The Final Empire (Mistborn, Book 1)

Everyone always said that the color of the water in the Caribbean is amazing, and they were right. Wow. And there is nothing quite like watching a sunset from the bow of a ship without anything in site but the sea and the sky. Watching the Cuban coastline slowly pass by was a bit saddening, but neat at the same time. Maybe someday soon things will change and we will be able to visit there.

Our time on the ship was great. The service staff was wonderful, the food was plentiful and tasty, and there was lots of beer. Great shows, and of course, comedy acts. Of course I ended up being the stooge in the ventriloquist act, but that’s okay, I have thick skin and the guy was hilarious. And no, I haven’t been to prison and no I’m not the Island from Rock Springs who bought the sheep. That was a different Island from Rock Springs.

Jamaica? What can I say about Jamaica? It’s a beautiful place. Wouldn’t want to live there. Our tour guide in Ocho Rios, Phil Lafayette, was great. He was fun and interesting, and was a treasure box of information. He gave us a taste of real Jamaican food at a local eatery rather than a tourist hot spot, and showed and taught us a little bit about the local culture, fauna, and history. The place is full of grifters and scammers though, and constantly being on your guard makes it kind of hard to enjoy yourself. When we booked Phil, he warned us not to talk to anyone but him when we got into port, and now we know why. If you go to Ocho Rios either stay at a resort or call Phil. Trust me. Oh yeah, I also broke my finger climbing up Dunn’s River Falls. Fun. And painful. I also ripped the backside out of my Shorts. Good thing I had board shorts with me or it could have been an embarrassing trip back to the ship.

Crand Cayman was much more inviting. It’s also a beautiful place. It had amazing white sand beaches, and beautiful Italian women in thong bikinis. We did a little snorkeling and the kids rented kayaks and paddled around the bay, and we did a little shopping. We really needed more time to spend there, and I hope we can go back for a resort stay some time in the future. It’s a neat place to visit, but again, I wouldn’t want to live there. It’s the complete opposite of Jamaica in the sense that there is no crime and no creepiness, but they are also a very controlled society. A little too controlled if you get my meaning. I’ll keep my second amendment, thank you. Did I mention the beautiful Italian women in thong bikinis?

Overall, we had a great time and got to see some beautiful places. We got to take a quick peek at two cultures that were very different from ours and be around a lot of neat people. Since next winter will be Teresa and my 20th anniversary, maybe we’ll pick an island and head back. You never know.

Family Vacation – Caribbean – 2009

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Robert Jordan, whose real name was Oliver Rigby, wrote the eleven novels that made up the series, “The Wheel of Time”(and a prequel) but tragically passed away two years ago before he was able to finish the 12th and final installment of the series. I spent literally hundreds of hours of my life reading and following his characters through this amazing story, and it was devastating when Rigby passed away without completing it. After his passing, Rigby’s wife asked writer Brandon Sanderson to take up the daunting challenge of taking Oliver Rigby’s extensive story notes and turning them into that final novel. Tor Books has announced that the novel will be published in three installments, with the first being published November 3. As a long time reader of Rigby/Jordan’s work, and a new reader of Sanderson’s work, I can’t tell you how excited I am that this story is continuing.

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A MEMORY OF LIGHT to be released in 3 volumes. + Release date
Posted by Jason on March 30th, 2009 in the A Memory of Light, Brandon Sanderson, JordanCon category

Tor Books announced today that A MEMORY OF LIGHT, the 12th and final novel of The Wheel of Time series, will be initially released as three separate volumes. The first volume will be entitled THE GATHERING STORM and will go on sale November 3, 2009.

Here’s the press release:

Tor announces The Gathering Storm, Book Twelve of Robert Jordan’s legendary Wheel of Time® fantasy series

Tor Books is proud to announce the November 3rd, 2009 on-sale date for The Gathering Storm, Book Twelve of The Wheel of Time and the first of three volumes that will make up A Memory of Light, the stunning conclusion to Robert Jordan’s beloved and bestselling fantasy series. A Memory of Light, partially written by Jordan and completed by Brandon Sanderson, will be released over a two-year period.

Robert Jordan, one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th and early 21st centuries, passed away in 2007 after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis. Brandon Sanderson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor—his wife, Harriet McDougal—to complete the final book.

The Wheel of Time series has sold over 14 million copies in North America and over 30 million copies worldwide with translations into 28 languages. The last four books in the series were all #1 New York Times bestsellers, and for over a decade readers have been eagerly awaiting the conclusion to the epic story.

Harriet McDougal said on the process behind A Memory of Light: “The scope and size of the novel was such that it could not be contained in a single volume, It was a piece of marvellous good fortune that Brandon Sanderson undertook the work. He is a great pleasure to work with, as well as a wonderful writer.”

President and Publisher of Tor Books, Tom Doherty, also expressed his happiness with A Memory of Light, saying: “It is a magnificent closure to a great American epic fantasy whose journey began almost twenty years ago. There is no way Robert Jordan would have squeezed it to a single volume, and somehow it seems fitting that what began as a trilogy will also end as one.”

The first ever JordanCon will take place this April 17th – 19th, 2009 in Alpharetta, GA. Harriet McDougal, Tom Doherty, Brandon Sanderson, and other members of “Team Jordan” will attend as featured guests and speak personally on The Wheel of Time and The Gathering Storm and the stories behind the rich literary legacy of Robert Jordan. JordanCon will also include a special preview of The Gathering Storm.

This year will also see major publications of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time comic books and graphic novels with the launch of The Eye of the World comics in May and the New Spring graphic novel with bonus material in November. The Dabel Brothers will be releasing the comic book series, which will then be collected and published as graphic novels by Tor Books.

Universal Pictures acquired the movie rights to The Wheel of Time in August 2008, and currently plan to adapt The Eye of the World as the first movie.

So there you have it, folks. A Memory of Light will be divided into three volumes. According to Brandon Sanderson, the titles of volumes 2 and 3 are tenatively “Shifting Winds“, and “Tarmon’Gaidon“. The release dates of the second and third novels are not known at this time. (See the note below abour Brandon’s blog post for more information about these items)

In past interviews Brandon Sanderson has said that if A Memory of Light was split, it would still be a treated as a single novel. He has also said on his blog and in interviews that he will push to have an “omnibus” edition published after the third volume is out. In this way, if you prefer to read the complete novel in one piece, the omnibus will provide that opportunity.

Also, neither Brandon or Harriet or Tor has any intention of inflating the size of these books. We’ve known for a long time that this book was going to be huge, and the possibility existed that it would be split up.

To go along with this news, we did an interview with Harriet where she was kind enough to give us some more answers.

Be sure to check out our updated page for A MEMORY OF LIGHT. It will give you a nice summary of everything we know so far about the book, as well as links to various interviews and announcements.

NOTE: Brandon Sanderson has posted an article about this news on his blog. He addresses directly the concerns of various upset fans. If you are frustrated by this news, please read his article.

About false rumors: There have been rumors floating around which supposedly contain the cover artwork for the book. While the artwork might actually be a mock-up for the cover, it has NOT been approved by Brandon, Harriet, or even Tor. It was probably an in-progress image that somehow found its way out of the Tor offices. We’ll be one of the first to show you the actual book cover once its ready.

What do you think of this news? Share your thoughts in the comments section below, or on our community forums.

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