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Judy was an olympic skater, quite an athlete, very tall too; a gracious lady as well. Did you know she drove a garbage truck most of her life? She and her husband/family have long been in that business in butte. From driving a garbage truck to running Montana’s government, what’s the difference? Marc shied away from Bush’s Interior Secretary appointment because one of his daughters-in-law had a bastard child, the driveby media would have KILLED him over it. (family values INDEED, you hypocrite)

But I did shake his hand once as our next Interior Secretary, he said...Aw Shucks or something like that. Still though he did yeoman’s work for GWB in FL and served the RNC well as chairman. A truly nice guy. Someone said that if we montanans could elect a KING, Marc would be Roscoe the First.

I’ll try to locate Rick for you. I sort of think he’ll decline for health reasons though. Being a senator is HARD WORK. Of all the times I’ve met with Conrad he’s constantly on the GOGOGO, his handlers/schedulers hardly gave him a moments peace. So could Rick Hill withstand the PHYSICAL punishment of being a senator for the next 7.5 years? Good question.

Incidently, Conrad’s personal secretary was Myron Nordquist, my HS drinking buddy. We both went out for navy ROTC(full ride scholarship), I was in the Natl Guard and thus not a “virgin”, he BSed his way in. Eventually becoming chief legal council for sec of navy as well as sec of AF. Best BSer I’ve ever known. But it wasn’t quite enough to overcome the abramoff scandal. Remember that general that bitched out clinton and HAD to be fired? “My” was the one who actually signed the papers firing him.

Anyway, Montana has some 935,000 people now, and everybody knows who their pols are. Denny has the largest constituency of anyone in the house. I’ve met his dad, Jack, and son AJ, and mom. Jack Rehberg is Mr MASON in Montana, hardly a post he hasn’t held in Montana Masonry. Did you know it was MASONS that hung sheriff Henry Plumber and his gang in Virginia City? And the 3-7-77 the highway patrol uses as a “code” refers to that event.

My dad passed away in 1995 but was a rock ribbed Rush Limbaugh fan all the way. My first hero was Barry Goldwater, over which I tangled ********, fighting the liberals in missoula. Shaving cream on my goldwater stickers, dumped barrels of water on my cloths...typical liberal behavior.

Anyway, I’ll try to locate Rick for you. I once told him something that sort of shocked him : THANK YOU for all the good work you do for us Montanans, just that : THANKS. He probably hadn’t heard that but 5 times in his life. Too bad we don’t think to say that to our GOOD people in government : Thanks, just that, THANKS.

Forget Bob Brown running for any “charisma” office. He’s a technocrat and just about the most boring speaker you’ll ever hear. He lost to BS just because of that : zero charisma. What REALLY ticked me off was BS cutting Judy off when she was saying goodbye to all the staff/state employees. There was NO CALL for such a rude act like that. If there is a god in heaven and his GOLDEN RULE, BS will get the bum’s rush just as he did to our beloved JUDY.

COAL is big news in MT. BS has tried to horn in on it by making deals with out-of-state/foreign companies, but syn-crude is OLDE technology, and coal people have NOT forgotten that it was another dem governor, Ted Swindon, that laid a 30% severance tax on coal going out of state; thinking that he could solve all his tax problems w/it.

Instead it drove the coal companies out of MT and into WY, the MT coal industry DIED on the vine. So here you have another dem governor...and they know full well that once they are committed he’ll WHACK them with higher taxes/regulations. Why have no new oil refineries been built in the last 30 years? Hmmm?

But there’s another way : MHD(MagnetoHydroDynamics). It is from 60% to 90% as efficient vs a standard coal fired plant at 45%. The PROBLEM is that coal slag/crud builds up on the chamber walls, quickly gumming up the process. This MHD process has long been studied in butte.

So sitting on waikiki beach 5 years ago I thought of a solution(one can take only so much prancing female flesh) : 4 film-belts that slide thru on the walls(endless loops), suggested by the japanese with their cameras, beach sand, suntan lotion. The film surface takes the radiation/heat abuse/coal crud as it slides thru(doesn’t affect the EM fields)and is then sand blasted off/recoated outside in a continuous process.

Last year I gave the idea to Phyllis(Conrad’s wife)in the hope that it might help his campaign, his staffer sent it to the DOE where it got the one-soldier-at-attenion-finger-salute, as I knew it would. The inside the beltway crowd had been planning Conrad’s demise for many years = anything to hurt him.

So I asked Conrad about it at his october campaign stop here in kalispell. He said that instead they are shooting the plasma thru the throat at mach 2 to get around the coal crud problem. Ah well, it didn’t add up to 1729 votes anyway. Instead Montana got a senator with his lips permanently sewn to schmer’s ***.

And so it goes in the BIG SKY COUNTRY ...