HazzardAyre One Man & A Toew Truck By Cooter

Last night was one of those nytes that sleep was as elusive as a morning dove. Had this sleep vision kinda between a nytemare and a dream. Any myle, was at the old homestead near Hazzard, and someone had cut a road through the aging poplar trees for a second ingress/egress road. Can’t imagine why anyone would cut through that all stretch of trees and ruin the beauty, but then never figured out why I was yanked from that homestead in the first place, many years ago. The final straw that got a burr under my saddle of drifting back east to places else where was the fact that the original home that was there when Mom & Dad first bought the place, back in the late 1940’s was bulldozed , so my birth spot was torn down and as such my roots were cut off and thrown into the fyre so why even be here? No family to speak of , and outside of 3 local area members of the Knytes-of-Anarchy, as well as 2 local members of the AyreWolvez, there is no real connection here so why be where I’m not wanted and where the wheels of real progress grind ever so slowly.

After all too , wasn’t that the reason the membership of both groups voted in 2008 to rework the Hazzard County Knytes into the Knytes-of-Anarchy in the first place? To take what we had built under the fyre of sweat and many tears to new horizons and heights as a reworked and progressive organization? In areas outside of the what we call the original Hazzard Idaho. Why can’t the original be made even better elsewhere, in the same area, as where I found my General Lee? The Mini Cassia area. So that’s what’s going on. Speaking of that however, due to my two sweet goof up’s, both in Wyoming as well as Gooding, my place in the club has been lowered from XO(Executive-Officer) to just XOO (Executive-Operations-Director) Meaning only suggest but not initiate any new projects. Which suits me fine as now I can spend more of my time building my own personal company back up to the level it once was.

Lets face it both LexiBelle and LiL Lexi have been needing serious attention for nearly 8 years , not to mention the General Jackson, plus me starting to make some serious green to elevate my self above the near poverty level I have been living under for the past 10 or so years. Plus I have needed a rest from the grind of the club, for some time.

Oh I’ll be online reporting the news and events of the Knytes and all, but that’s about all. Here in this column I’ll be speaking of my journey on the road of life.

What I see, where I go to toew, and fly. A week from Tomorrow Wednesday I hit the 52nd yard stick, of life, and when only one person in this valley buys me a cup of Java, and a birthday card, one knows that a change of environment is needed. While we travel this road of life, for many of us alone with only Kahless by our sides, still the road is one way. One only gets one trip on this highway of life, and I’m tyred of dying and frying and sacrificing for the good, of a an area, not just the club, but many who will never appreciate my efforts or belittle me for the effort. Not being selfish or anything, its just tyme for good old Cooter to act and enjoy Cooter, and not try to be so much for everybody, just be me for me.

I want to say thank you to our Nurse GoodBody Ellie May for the card and Java, your love and prayers and gifts of self will be my illumination in the darkest of nytes, and treasured always.

Until L8R

  

Quote of the day:
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. - Isabel Colegate

1 Corinthians 15:20-22“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Hazzard Jeopardy

It would seem that our beloved Dukes-of-Hazzard is being shelved once more from CMT’s line up. In favor of some bland offerings. Time for ya’ll to write, call and email both Viacom and CMT , and tell them , this ain’t no time to be shelving the show, the one show that raised their ratings back to a proper level.

News from club, Hazzard Nationals aka- DukesFest West is still on track for 2013 at Filer Idaho.

Inking the deal this week.

Until L8R

Quote of the day:
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei

1 Corinthians 15:20-22“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Oh Really, the Truth hurts don’t it TV LAND?

So I tuned into the TV LAND AWARDS, hoping to see a wholelot more than I did. Oh granted the reunions of the Cosby Show, Family Ties and all were good. The tribute to Welcome Back Kotter as good as it was. But to name Daryl and John Oats as ICONS, was a buy in , if anything. However I think and its showing. The little LPTV Network called Retro TV Network (RTV) has stolen TV LAND, Nick @ Nite and many of the rerun networks thunder. Consider that on RTV, not only can you watch Airwolf, BlackSheep Squadron , but every good action show, from KnightRider to The Rifleman. Add in a dose of Kojak, Marcus Welby MD, the A-Team and you have a very rounded program schedule. Think of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries that is just some of RTV’s line up. If there was a RTV Awards the damn thing would last at least 2 hours. There would be so many real Icons that TV-Land and its parent company Viacomm could not compete.

So then go to TV-LAND’s Web site to comment, nope ya’ll cain’t get in that door. My money, ad money that is , is with RTV and few if any other.

The rest of TV is scared squatless of both RTV and RFDTV, after all where else can you watch HeeHaw than on RFDTV? Maybe the rest of TV needs to look much more carefully at RTV, and take a few pages out of RTV’s book.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the day:
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams

1 Corinthians 1:18“[Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom] For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

TV REALLY NEEDS REPAIR IS THERE A FIX?

I have been told that I’m much harder on the modern era TV industry than I should be. I have been told as well , that this era’s TV, industry has been hammered both from the poor economy and thus local as well as national TV ad revenue is just not what it used to be. Yet I scratch my head, and think in an era of the technology and the shrinking viewership of modern TV to mobile devices, streaming TV and Internet TV that station and network execs would want to strengthen its presence rather than seeing a continued shrinking market. Even if you have only 1% of the market, 1% is better than none. Which ABC this past week might be cutting its own throat. ABC said they were pulling , “ All My Children” and “One Life to Live” and replacing it with a health beauty show. Don’t we have enough of those with the Doctors, and Dr. Oz. ?  NBC runs an expanded version of the Today show with one old gal who used to counter chair with Regis, and that get’s boring. How about a new idea? Run a show on daytime directed to us male corpuscles? You know, something for us guys not so much women’s topics.  Like how fickle women can be, or how territorial women can be. How about doing topics directed to us male private areas not just about a woman’s vagina? When Spike TV went on the air when it took over what was then The Nashville Network (TNN) which was the sister network of CMT that , thankfully carries our Dukes-of-Hazzard every day, which by the highway is the only reason I pay for cable, the idea of Spike was to be the first network for men. Really? The only show that hazz been retained to the core of Spike TV, is Manswers.

Sunday TV is the pits. I never thought I’d see John Stossel on FoX News Channel, as John was one of the last cornerstones of ABC. In fact TV after 22:00 hours sucks. Used to be there was two late night TV show’s, The Tonight Show with old Johnny Carson , then Jay Leno took that over, and in came David Letterman. Then the FoX channel began Arsenio Hall, and the rage was on. Shortly there after , every washed up celebrity was trying to do a late night comic/interview show. Or Late night variety show. Conan Obrien got washed out of NBC, and now is on TBS. Problem is with so many variety and talk shows, guests are becoming fewer, and interviews becoming worse. Cable TV was to be the saving grace of television. You’d think for a medium that You and I have to pay for, cable TV could give us something for our money, except, infomercials and only a few networks that have anything on that’s entertaining. I know your supposed to be asleep at that time, but damn it if basic and expanded basic is going to just give us garbage, why not offer that free, and charge only for the upper tier or digital HD channels? Let’s face it as far as TV is concerned today, such LPTV networks like RTV, are making a name for themselves by programming things worth watching , things that the whole family can wrap themselves around, and hey LPTV is free OTA ,TV. So then the gripe is not any ad revenue. Have you seen any real creative TV ad’s lately? Give me something for my money and I’d be happy to be an advertiser. Problem is and especially here in our rural area. Creative TV ads are shunned. If your in the Tragic Valley of Idaho nearly 80% of local TV ads are produced, by KMVT-11. With boring abstract infantile jingles and poorer video. Oh and don’t even try to produce a TV ad that has a female pitch girl on it. Hong Kong Phooey, the local TV stations and Cable-One here will never air it. Reasoning is, that it’ll piss off the Mormons and/or the Mormons will boycott other business’s advertising on that station and or the station itself.

I have talked to , too many business’s that are even owned by Mormons that they too would like to see more creative , even humor aimed commercials.

Is there a fix? Yes, but such fixes are still at the drawing board. Such innovative TV networks like Confederate STar Tv , plus I’d like to see RTV (Retro TV) get on cable. Then there are satellite TV channels that should be on cable but are not. Like RFDTV to name one. Nope, according to Cable-One’s execs, the Return on Investment is not there. Excuse me? RFDTV as well as RTV would be welcomed even locally supported if it was on the local cable system. Even Mormons would support both those networks, because they are family and rurally oriented. And yet the local idiots will not budge. Yet Cable-One is so against local competition, they will hammer even a smidge of another cable system. The war between the mini Cassia’s local network and Cable-One is starting to get serious. Even though Rupert’s cable system offers many of the channels, in the basic and expanded basic tier that Cable-One offers in their upper tier. FOR MORE MONEY!!!

Now as I close. A few weeks ago my tiny laptop computer swallered a virus. So I took it to this outfit in Twin Falls , called Microchips. They got out the virus okay but most of my computers drivers and such are hammered. If I repair a car or truck, and I make a goof, I own up to it and usually will refund my labor charges. And allow my customer if he or she wants to, to take it elsewhere. Not Microchips. I tried to get Microchips to refund part of the $130.00 I paid them, to no avail. In an era of tight budgets, and all , retaining customers ought to be worth doing the right thing. I wish the outfit that was once in Mountain Home although I dislike that town terribly. But there used to be an outfit there, across from where the local Sprint Cell Phone dealer is now. I took a old desktop to them in 2000 for repair due to a virus issue. Not only did they tune up the computer, but installed a bigger fan to keep the processor cooler, but a aux power supply, and a new processor. From AMD. The computer was better than when I took it in, And it only cost me the same $130.00 . I wont be going back there again, and if you respect your wallet, you shouldn’t either.

Until L8R Ya’ll Have a great week.

Quote of the day:
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. - Robert Pirsig

1 Corinthians 1:18“[Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom] For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Relax and restore , and wuzz up with the PowerBlock?

It’s a b e a U tiful Sunday. Although I’m suffering from too much of a good tyme last night. Just as I told many of you last night at the meeting, I’m getting too old for this stuff. I love wearing the colors, I also enjoy doing the duty, sometimes, but week after next I hit the 52nd yard stick of the highway of life. Brain may say go for it, but the body sezz, I ain’t going there anymore. The stress levels , the sacrifices and the going without. Bullsbreath. It’s time the rest of the club steps up to the starting lanes, not just ye ole Wolf. From the media werx to being this groups voice and mouthpiece, I need rest. This old body needs to relax and restore. I’m moving to Burley, I have a shop there, and my aim is to redoux my own rigs, get going toewing and past that just kick back. Many people my age retire at this point of life. While retirement is not yet on my HUD, still I’m not going to break my butt as much as I used too. My body , nor my brain just can’t stand the strain. As far as the radio station and all, I look at it this way; if God above had meant for me to be on radio, it’d been the radio station from Gooding that’d he’d saved, not LexiBelle. Since he saved LexiBelle, that sezz to me, Kahless wants me toewing.

Just like I told my sidekick this morning. The demise of the PowerBlock on Spike TV. Every Saturday and Sunday. Several of their programs have soured. Not too mention Courtney Hansen, she is too much of a honey trying still to build a career, in being a program host. We all know why she is there, and oh yes she looks good, but she was better on Overhaulin , the gal they had on PowerBlock b4 Courtney was much better and believable. Likewise, Jessie Combs when she was on Xtreme 4X4, she made that show. Ian ain’t really came to point yet. Too much of a kid. As far as the rest of PowerBlock, Horsepower TV has fallen seriously. HorsePower TV used to be called Hot Rod TV. Until the publishers of Hot Rod TV , took their name back and put it on SpeedTV. Same thing for My Classic Car. ShadeTree Mechanic became two guy’s and a garage, and so on. The good stuff moved from the basic cable tier to SpeedTV. Trouble is the PowerBlock is not fyring on all 8. And RTM Productions ain’t doing much to fix it.

While I’d like to say that Confederate Star TV will be doing an upgraded version of the PowerBlock, this old confederate gearhead isn’t all that  fyred up to be going hungry or without in favor of building a broadcasting operation for gearheads any more. Not saying I wouldn’t but it’ll be if somebody shows up with the money , then fine. Otherwise I sleep, eat, turn wrenches go toew and enjoy.

But somebody ought to redoux PowerBlock, on Spike if its ever going to survive.

I’m recovering from much celebration last night so I’m outta here.

L8R

    

Quote of the day:
God help those who do not help themselves. - Wilson Mizner

1 Corinthians 1:18“[Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom] For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Remember Fort Sumter

So there I wuzz, finally sound asleep dreaming of a hot tyme at Hazzard Lake , an womp womp on my door. So I crawl out to answer the damn door. The whoever ain’t there. So to those who don’t know, if you beat on the door of ye ole Wolf, ya’ll better be there. Let that be a warning and let that be that on that.

Something that will not be on your TV News today or even in the local newspaper, today is the 150th anniversary of the fall by Union troops of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1861 04.

Even then the filthy Union Yankees were lying to America, lyin Lincoln said that he was going  to halt supplying Union troops to help peace efforts. Yet we saw what happened.

It was best said by President Davis, when he set forth principles that forbade the Feds from stepping on States rights. In the past few months the problems of Obamabeenlyin with Obama-Care and forcing the Obama Doctrine , the CNP is hollering the loudest. A few Yankees ought to be paying attention to our noise.

More tonight.

L8r Ya’ll

Quote of the day:
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein

Romans 13:6-7“This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

One Person SMB’s styll important, Nyte-Prowl Edition

There are too many people especially suppliers and vendors that are ready and willing to disregard if not completely ignore sole proprietor smb business’s. If your not running a crew of at least 5 employees or 12 toew trucks, or a combination thereof.

America was born out of one person enterprizes, From small family farms even one person homesteaders that built the west, heck even the predominant religion of the Mountain West , the LDS Church , was created, from what is believed as a vision to just one person.

Yet try to convince some vendors and or suppliers that your just as good as the super shops and mega dollar mega truck toew services that your every bit as important as that mega outfit and you’d do better painting a fence. They just do not listen.

So at tymez one needs to do a bit of shuck & jive to get the attention of those that could or should be your best supplier or vendor. Or even such things as promo things. Such as TV or other advertizing. Everything , starts out small or as Alan Jackson said it in a song of his , itty bitty.

Example; The Hazzard County Knytes-aka-Knytes-of-Anarchy started out as 10 rural kountry bumpkin gear heads, at a malt shop in Hagerman in 1982. We soon got the attention of the production company of the Dukes – of – Hazzard , and in three following , years we became the organization of some 50,000 member strong gear head and hot rod clubs in the Nation as well as Canada.

What started as the then Hazzard County Garage, in Hagerman – aka – Hazzard , Idaho , converted to 5 shops in both Utah , Wyoming , as well as Idaho, running under the banner of CooTer’s Kustmz, which was named by one Knytes member Tommy Pistone of Utah. Not only CooTer’s Kustmz , but the Dixie Diesel Shop, of Wyoming and Arizona, Dixie-Eagle Diesel Service & Toewing of Utah, as well as my one person styll shop, the Hazzard Garage of Burley. But it all started as a small idea, by just a few dedicated individuals who believed in restoring tired Detroit iron under the images and portrayal that we saw as and in The Dukes-of-Hazzard.

One Person SMB’s become bigger enterprizes that remember their roots and who was there in the beginning as well as ignore those who ignored us in the beginning.

Maybe its tyme for our nation to quit being paranoid and break a sweat getting this nation back to not only what it was, but what it could be in the future. Such a path is the United Confederate States –of- America and the Confederate National Party.

Its really tyme for the UCSA and the CNP.

Until dawn ya’ll sleep tight.

 

Quote of the day:
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? - Philip G. Hamerton

Romans 13:6-7“This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.