Random Musings of a Ramblin' Fool IV

Bakersfield Show This Weekend

This weekend at the Kern County Fairgrounds will be the other Bakersfield gem and mineral show.
It will be an entirely indoor show.
I will be there as a dealer/vendor and hope to see as many of my readers there as possible.
My business partner and buddy Mike Lyons will be there with me.
We haven't made up our minds if we will camp like we did a few weeks ago at the Rendevous show or will get a room at Motel 6.
We'll have to eyeball the situation when we get there to see if camping will work or not.

Black Ministers Rallying Around Dr. Wright

Tonight I read reports that black ministers are rallying around Dr. Jeremiah Wright even as their sheep increasingly are not which puzzles me for a couple of reasons.
First off, I'm surprised to see the sheep showing so better judgement than their foolish shepherds.
Secondly, I'm perplexed that so many black ministers are praising such a pernicious and petulant man.
Some ministers have gone so far as to refer to him as a prophetic.
Whah???
Did he foresee the trouble he would cause Barack Obama?
Did he foresee what an ass he would make of himself in front of the world and in the process disgrace the name of Christ?
He's nothing other than a false prophet and false teacher who misled his wicked sheep who seemed to have had an appetite for his carnality for years and have replaced him with a young fool even more wicked than he.
This entire episode seems to clearly demonstrate the sorry state of the Black Wing of God's Church which clearly appears as screwed up as the White Wing.

Fire Is Ironic

Last Wednesday CALTRANS was mowing the grass along Highway 166 in the border area of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties just west of Rockfront Ranch.
This was done as a fire mitigation measure.
At some point a rock was struck by a blade from the mower generating a spark which caught the grass on fire which quickly ran up into the adjacent hills scorching 55 acres. This sort of thing happens in this area every year without exception.

Speaking of Fire

This past weekend the Santa Anite Fire broke out in the hills above my old stomping grounds in the Sierra Madre area along the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Northern San Gabriel Valley in the LA Basin.
Not only was it weird to hear of this going on at all but in April?
That ominously portends what this fire season will bring to California.

Lot's 'O' Quakes of Late

Anybody notice how many quakes have rattled California/Nevada of late?
There was the Verdi/Mogul, Nevada, stuff recently and the Reno area has been strangely active since February and then we had a moderate quake near Hayfork, CA, and M4's in the Borrego Springs, CA, area as well as in the Mojave Desert east of Barstow and in Lake Isabella area. Here in Atascadero we had a M3.9 that sure felt like a M4+ quake which quake I even heard, not just felt.

Clear Creek Rockhounding Area Closure

The BLM has closed the Clear Creek Management Area ostensibly to protect the public from asbestos exposure.
This is hogwash as the area is a hotbed of off-road vehicle activity and bad apples in that community have made a lot of trouble up there and now they have found an EPA report as a fig leaf to cover their pusch to keep the taxpayer out of there.
Rockhounds once again get hurt by wayward off-roaders.
I had planned to go hunting for benitoite in that area this Summer which plan is now in jeopardy.
Ack!
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