The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Lincoln County War(1878-1881) - Mar. 10th, 2005

Wild West Magazine | December 2004 | Mike Tower

[w_over_w]

We don't have t-shirts yet, at least none with our store on it.

Good thing I'm not a "left-coast" wacko or I'd suit for false advertising. ;^)

We only have ones with squirrel themes, jokes for those folks who are bothered by squirrels at the bird feeder.

Nah . . . that's not me. I'm a "Wild Bird Center" Logo kind of guy.

I'll remember though and as soon as we have some of our own made up I'll holler.

Hurry! Summer's coming and you could get free advertising with a T-shirt on my Schwartzeneger upper body. Bravo Sierra!

[Valin]

Used to watch that show and had many fun times playing "Seahunt" in the bathtub and wading pool with my plastic frogmen


BOY ARE YOU OLD! :-)

[PhilDragoo]

After more than 120 years of media attention, interest in the Kid remains so high that
the current governor of New Mexico has been considering giving Billy a posthumous pardon.

The current governor is too busy running radio and television commercials touting "GRIP: Governor Richardson's Investment Program" in which the governor of New Mexico actually takes highway funds and spends them on highways.

Bankrolled by his rich Mexican mother, he became the first congressman in New Mexico's newly created Third District in 1982.

In fifteen years he made it number one in heroin overdose deaths nationwide.

Going to the UN in 1997, the special election brought in a "radical right-wing preacher" who voted for all four articles of impeachment, calling me December 1998 on the eve of Clinton's cruise missile Hail Mary to report the House would not delay another day.

Richardson went on to Energy, where the Albright agenda of helping China become a superpower was already in high gear thanks to Hazel O'Leary's putting classified documents in the hallways, giving U.S. News & World Report the two-page color graphic of the W-87, and removing the degrading color-coding of security badges to avoid reducing the ChiCom's self esteem.

Richardson returned after popular Republican Gary "Veto" Johnson was termlimited out to sweep into the Governor's Mansion my old boss described as a ramshackle attempt at territorial with byzantine plumbing.

Richardson never misses an opportunity to badmouth any move of the current administration, while airily papering over his own compadres' "successes", viz. the "agreed framework".

The New Mexico Legislature has followed the precedent set by the city councils of the capital city Santa Fe, and the largest city Albuquerque resolving to in no way cooperate with the INS/CIS.

Our friend who has had dealings with our illustrious governor reports there is a curious intertwining of Richardson's political rise and that of another governor of a third-world state, one who is in hospital hiding from Paula Jones, while the pants in the family clinks champagne with Kim Jong Il.

The Crisco Kid came in after the 1980 Penitentiary riot which killed 33 inmates, and during his term, Ricky Abeyta killed seven in the village of Chimayo.

Having in turn shot his wife, his wife's girlfriend and the girlfriend's boyfriend, that couple's six-month-old baby daughter, the girlfriend's brother, a Santa Fe County Sheriff's deputy, a New Mexico State policeman, Ricky Abeyta now gets three squares on the taxpayer's dime--

But the soup nazi Greer says no soup for Terri.

The Crisco Kid is headed for the POTUS Coral 2008, and his posse, including Bonnie Rodham, will backshoot anybody who gets in their way.

And they don't need no stinking pardon.

[w_over_w]

Damn Phil . . . that's intense.

[snippy_about_it]

Schwartzeneger upper body

LOL. Are you saying that wasn't you in those pictures you sent enjoying those new feeders?

[Mudboy Slim]

Only if yer hiring ILLEGAL immigrants...MUD

[snippy_about_it]

Hitlery and the Crisco Kid. Geez, what a pair.

[SAMWolf]

Will Do.

[SAMWolf]

Almost as old as dirt. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

It burns me to no end when I hear commentators talking about how "good" Richardson is.

[SAMWolf]

Never gonna happen, we don't speak espanol in our store.

[Iris7]

Is it transferable or a post sample? If the former, you can get upwards of a hundred grand for it. Maybe $500,000. Machine gun freaks don't have much money, but they would be willing to sell the house and family farm for a machine like that!! Some would happily part with the wife and children, too!! Whatever!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[SAMWolf]

I'd only get one if I could mount it on my SUV. It'd help make driving through rush hour easier. ;-)

[Mudboy Slim]

"Never gonna happen..."

If all business owners were as ethical as you, there would be no ILLEGAL Immigration crisis.

FReegards...MUD

[colorado tanker]

I was watching Chuck Norris in "Delta Force" while surfing late at night a while back. He was chasing Muslim terrorists around the Middle East, whose calling in life seemed to be to kill as many Jews and Americans as they could get their hands on.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks - we've been at war for 30 years but just didn't realize it until 9-11.

[colorado tanker]

Great post. Almost everything I've seen on the Lincoln County War takes one side or the other. It's nice to see a more neutral overview.

Reading between the lines it sounds like the Dolan faction was aligned with Catron's Santa Fe Ring, since the Army commander was a buddy of Catron's. If so, McSween was REALLY fighting uphill.

As I recall, and I haven't gone back to check this, Governor Lew Wallace was so fed up with the lawlessness in New Mexico that he quit before his term was up and went back East. His time in Santa Fe couldn't have been too stressful, however, as he found time to write Ben Hur. :)

[SAMWolf]

we've been at war for 30 years but just didn't realize it until 9-11.

Yep. Sort of sad to think about that, a lot of people still won't admit it.

[SAMWolf]

At least they wouldn't have jobs, the Libs would still give them "free" everything else. :-(

[Mudboy Slim]

LOL...Hunnerd!!

FReegards...MUD