One messed up teen, are the rest this bad?

I have resided in just about every town in both Idaho and northern Utah that there is.

I have seen community decay beyond anything I ever read in the Bible in the days of Jesus, and yet only once have I seen youth so troubled as I have here in Mini Cassia .

When I first moved here it was kids both teen, tween and near infant, gravitate towards me, because I looked kind or something, in Rupert. Two small girl kids, two older and one tween girl.

Then I moved here to Burley, on my own porch nobody bothered me but then here at the Powers it was this kid named Austin, who thinks I’m a decipel or something. Every time he needs advice about the hidden world his parents choose to keep from him, he comes to me. If he needs help fixing a bicycle, he comes to me. The list goes on, but he’s so damn clingy its creepy.

Who the hell made me the teen guru here? Why do these kids, gravitate towards a Marine aviation mechanic with a GED that does most business Hazzard County Confederate Outlaw style?

It cain’t be, because I have money, shit most months if I ain’t towing I’m really owing. If it were not for my military pension that I have to fight to maintain, and Social Security that I have to shield all the time, I’d be a broke biker with a helicopter and a tow truck.

Is it something else? Like perhaps local religious oppression? Are these teens so scared shitless of the real world out there beyond the big mountain that they need to learn things from someone whose really seen the other side?

So I tuned into this show called Totally Biased. Which did not impress me one bit. Which blends in with the topic here. TV is not giving our youth any more , role models. When I was growing up, we had everything from Major Matt Mason, to the Green Hornet. There was of course AirWolf , B.J. & The Bear, and of course the Dukes-of-Hazzard. Here was the show that changed my life. It wasn’t so much Bo & Luke Duke, it was the moral compass that Uncle Jessie Duke set every week. He gave great advice that you could really apply to life. Of course too there was my on screen person Crazy Cooter, that phenomily mirrored me and my life. Here was a guy that looked simple enough, had nothing to show off for, who ran a good old home town repair garage, and yes drove a tow truck. And amazingly looked a helluva lot like me.

Of course without the Dukes, I’d have lost it when my Mom passed away in 1983. It was not just a call or card, but the fact that most of that complete cast showed up at my Mom’ funeral in tiny Hagerman(aka Hazzard) Idaho.

Kids today don’t have these role models. TV has failed them. And music? Its all about hate. What about the soul classics? Like Shaft from Isaac Hayes? Earth Wind & Fire, Eric Clapton? No its rappers rapping about how bad their life is. Lets get back to real music. How about putting Waylon on radio? These TV networks show movies that show everything but taking off clothes and getting hinky. I have an idea , how about CMT putting on the MoonRunners, The pilot movie to the Dukes? The only show running with any morals and all is Sons of Anarchy. Which is why we in the Knytes adopted the whole package and molded that image and images into our own spectrum. Not so much about bikes and bikers, more over we are about big rig trucks and old skool trucking. There is a correlation there but that’s a subject for another time.

Friday’s edition of HazzardAyre Radio will look into the lost youth of Mini Cassia. We’ll even have a few in the studio.

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--George Bernard Shaw

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Young reporters who are female on KMVT are always pregnant

Have ya’ll ever noticed, that most if not all the gals working as intern reporters on KMVT 11 out of Twin Falls Idaho are always pregnant? Then of course there is the expertise of the reporters. Most if not all are move in’ not area Idaho residents. Now ya’ll might think why pick on poor little KMVT? Thing is, I have pitched myself at minimum of 20 times to good old Chris there the GM, that I’d gladly do the weather gig there.

Fact is, I know this valley, I have lived here for over 45 years. I know what’s up in the sky and how to read those clouds, just like all  pro aviators should. So why don’t they hire me? Simple personality conflicts to put it mildly.

Take this new gal, Amiee  on there. I try to trust the weather cast she voices and presents. Problem is I can’t trust it. So I watch one of the Boise channels now that FoX belongs to KMVT conglomerate. While its illegal to create a monopoly, still who would say anything. Most here are okay with paying only one or two sources for their TV ads. That is anyone not a member of The Knytes or , and not over the age of 60. Most of the younger crowd want what we deliver on Confederate Star and HazzardAyre.

But then too, aren’t you truly glad there is HazzardAyre?

Now if KMVT would do something about the baby factory at their station, in the news department.

Keep it here.

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A great show on tonight on HazzardAyre

A quick note:

Tonight's edition of HazzardAyre features a lecture on Southern Heritage and phone in, Q&A. If ya’ll don’t know the number by now, its 208-878-5521.

Tonight's HazzardAyre XM/Sirius 165 open road channel, and here in Idaho on the sound of the modern Confederacy, KDXB FM 105.7 Malta/Strevell Idaho.

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Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.
--William Blake

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There is so much more in life than money

The fact that so many any more do anything just for the money, or just for the pay check, is not within the ideals of the Knytes-of-Anarchy.

Sure I like getting green in my jeans for what I do, sure I’d like to scarf down steak and taters every night would be keen as well. But that’s not why I serve in the best way possible for and of The Knytes-of-Anarchy.

Why do I do this? Simply stated I was one in fact up in the top 4 of those who one day decided we could do a much better job of serving and helping ourselves and communities than the Boy Scouts, from which many of our members came from.  The fact that as the organization was created we based our cb/local trucker club on that of the original Independent Truckers Association. The seed was planted in 1974 at the Ogden Holliday Inn in Ogden Utah, my Dad, a close friend of mine Jon Muir, Correy Hansen, John Weis , and myself sat down and carved out what has became one of the most powerful organizations in Idaho, even though many do not think of us that way.

Since then the club has evolved, and reworked its name several times to more effectively make a difference. The fact our entire organization revolves around that wonderful flag of the south, not meant in hate or racism, but as a symbol of people looking for true freedom and liberty that the Yankee Union has failed to bring about. That we openly call Abraham Lincoln a liar and cheat, and think his assignation came way too late, and ponder at what this Union would be like if Jefferson Davis would have won, is really why we in the Knytes do what we do.

We do our projects albeit unorthodox but we do it because we believe in God above, and that Jesus is our Savior, and that his word, his teachings have been thrown out with the bath water.

Many members of our club got into our organization just to make a fast dollar. Again making money to eat, but taking pride in a great looking rig, or bike and being able to say I built that is part of it. Seeing the face of a child a poor or not to doing well financially family on Christmas or Thanksgiving, have a new toy or that family have a full dinner is why we do what we do.

Sure we pledge allegiance to a different flag and sing a different national anthem , but are we wrong? The so holier than though that’s out there have no compassion for anyone else but themselves. They see only what social status building for themselves can be accomplished by doing charity work, rather than the love of all , that our Father in Heaven commanded us to do for each other. If that’s wrong then God almighty strike me dead. Pour fire and brimstone on the Knytes.

There are those that proclaim in our immediate community of Burley, “but hey you look at near naked women, you lust after the flesh” To whit I say false. Our view is simply, God above made women to be admired and relished. If God makes a great creation, why not look at it and admire his fine work, just as anyone does at a grand sunset or a fantastically created mountain range, or a serene valley, not looking at women in a carnal way as a lamb ready to be taken, and consumed, but as a great creation of God.

I’ll have more on this, this afternoon, but if there are those who join or decide to join the Knytes-of-Anarchy, don’t do it because of your thought of making a paycheck, do it because you believe in our cause and what we stand for.

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There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
--David Oman McKay

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Life has curves and speed bumps, and in Idaho a lot of Dead Ends

Of all forms of communication and messages, perhaps it is music that drives ones mind to wander and ask, is there nothing more. Like many I search, yet in many ways I do not know what it is that I truly search for.

During one of my music blocks last night on HazzardAyre, I looked up a thing on the internet, about possible housing in or near Boise.

There are places in luxury complexes for less than I’m paying for this spider trap I live in , here in Burley.

Now just because I’d move does that mean greater opportunity and money generation? Some how I am not yet sure.

It has to do I think with the entire spectrum of both the club and me. For going toewing , Boise might be a hard run, although not impossible. Once upon a time I had some real serious earning potential there. Circumstances became such that a move to Pocatello was needed so that uncoupled that , but it was there.

I threw away a serious maybe for a real Dead End. Been living with it ever since.

Would that happen a third time? No one can truly predict that since I do not hold a Wizards Crystal ball, or possess skills of fortune prediction. Nor have I ever heard of lightning striking three times. Twice maybe, but not three.

While Utah holds some family strength, the fact that its just too expensive for me to live there on current income. So Boise is the next big thing.

I found it both satisfying, and disturbing at the same time, that going to the shop this evening that all of OJ’s power tools had been taken home, maybe that chapter of this book is closing. The releasing of a repair job, car yesterday, cost the company money, of a diagnostic fee, but outside of that we did not loose much. No parts were bought, no labor put forth so no whoop.

The soap opera I lived through there over the last few weeks is enough to have been to where any, and I mean ANY other boss would have sent the entire bunch packing. Do the work or take a hike.

Shit, most things I had to do myself, so oh well, don’t go away mad , just go away.

Hey they came to me, I did not , seek them out. And as they say life goes on. But it was a reality check that simply says, Mini Cassia Idaho is just not for me, and its again time to put my shop together with Tommy’ up there and get going, both building hot Harley’ and towing.

I went to Facebook, took out all those involved in the fiasco and kept one, who most likely I’ll unplug later today.

At least Charlie paid me and after all, that’s who along with Ricky, I depend on.

So what about KDXB ? Move the tower and all to American Falls, install a new station in or near Boise, where resources are more plentiful.

All I can say is , this was one helluva ride.

L8R Ya’ll

 

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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves
--Brendan Behan--Quoted by Gyles Brandreth in *Theatrical Disasters*

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So it looks like its once again all me by myself

Well it looks like good ole AyreWolf here is prowling and running solo again. The crew I thought I had decided to flee the coop, rather than hang in until PAY day. Oh well. But since we lost the ability to pay for another shop, had to turn loose an impound to cover the rent on the other shop.

So what else is new?

For nearly 39 years I have been towing and building some to the most wicked hot rods and bikes in both Idaho and Utah. Few dedicated to our hobby would argue that. More over even fewer would argue that the Hazzard County Knytes wrote the book on what a hot rod club coupled with a Dukes-of-Hazzard fan club should be. We wrote other chapters in the evolving escalation of our favorite pass time, from how to really put on a bash of a hot rod show, to how to get things done. Thing is, much I have done nearly myself. In the shop its all been by myself.

Some people are cut out to be a Knyte, some are not. If one can’t even have patience for a paycheck then maybe they need to work elsewhere.

If one is not dedicated to life as we know it in the club, and will not contribute to the benefit of the club, dollars wise, then maybe they don’t need to be hangarounds or prospects.

But at least another rebuild for what got took off of LexiBelle and rebuild of the company can begin. Not so much to get running again, but to get things in line to blow this chicken shit town and head for where the action gets some traction.

It has to do allot with maturity, and dedication, many just don’t have that.

Not my loss.

Big day today, filing the theft reports on the car later today, then over to Twin to see what I can find as far as living quarters.

L8R Ya’ll

  

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--Dave Barry

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out of anarchy comes order-AyreWolf

If it smells like dog shit on your shoes, its probably dog shit on your shoes

I must be the most patient if not the most understanding guy on planet earth or at least in Mini Cassia.

Had a 2007 Caviler I was going to do a replacement on a water pump, but the Mexican who owned it came and got it, without paying a diagnostic fee, let alone shop time. Let the beaner get it fixed for less or better elsewhere. Most shops would charge this guy at minimum $2,500.00 for the job.

Granted old skool water pump R&R is no big deal. And not that much time. But these new little Chevy’ are harder. You have to remove virtually the entire top of the engine to get to it. Plus raise the engine after loosening the motor mount, 6 hours just shop time, at $30.00 an hour, My $40.00 an hour labor, my price just over $500.00 . The time book says more. All we requested was half in advance of customers we do not know. He didn’t, so grand theft auto charges will be filed in the morning.

My people had no business releasing the car before I could resolve the situation, which I couldn’t since I had to go to Salt Lake City running scrap metal Wednesday.

Charlie and Ricky will hit the wall on this, but since its my shop, the entire cost will be taken out of my hide. Such is life in no go Idaho. From now on, if it ain’t a Harley or old skool hot rod, it ain’t going in the shop. Only toewing.

Then there’s my neighbor, been putting me off on payment for fixing his kids pedal bike. Okay fine, with me and the Knytes we don’t get mad we just get even.

The lights of Boise are getting brighter all the time.

Stay Tuned , be back after HazzardAyre Radio.

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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Luke 12:6-7“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.