Joann is gone

 

27 years together.  In all that time, there were very few days that we didn't talk.

At a roundup camp in Nevada, I had to hike over a half mile up a ridge to find phone service so we only talked three or four times a week that month.  At the first hunting camp I cooked for, we were there in pickups so when I got into trouble with whatever I was trying to cook, I'd get in my truck and drive the 12 miles to where the phone would work and she'd talk me through my issue.  Same kind of thing when I was cooking at Parade Rest Ranch in West Yellowstone.  She talked me, step by step, through making a french silk pie.

When I was cooking for Audie, there just wasn't phone contact.  So, during the day, when I thought of something I'd like to tell her, I'd write it down.  When Audie had to go to town for something, I'd give him my notes to Joann.  He teased me about his having to deliver my "love letters".

First, I'd like to call your attention to a couple of things.  When you watch that slide show, in almost every picture, she's shining out her brilliant smile.  She was so happy all the time.  She smiled and it would light up a room.  

Another thing.  Our first dinner date was at Wongs in Helena.  I know that at least three people took the time to walk across the room to say hello to her and talk for a minute.  That was a continuing scene.  In Townsend and Helena I wasn't too surprised when people went out of their way to say hello.  But, Bozeman?  Billings?  Great Falls?  Pretty much anywhere we went.  

The first time I took her out, we went to Helena to "goof around".  She liked just taking a day and not having anything in particular to do.  She wanted to go to antique stores and 2nd hand stores.  I really didn't, but whatever she wanted was ok.  I'd be looking at things that interested me...for myself.  She'd be saying things like: "Tom would really like this."  "Maybe I'll get this for Mom".  Rarely a thought for herself.

We were a great team in any venture.  Working on the ranch, working at cafes, doing the Cowboy Gathering...we just clicked, almost from the beginning.  Joann was the best friend I've ever had and the love of my life.  She saved me from myself more than once.  

She did have a hard time grasping the concept of just being together.  She always kind of wanted interaction.  We should be talking or something.  I was just content to know she was in the room with me.

I remember times when we were riding and we'd ride side by side, holding hands.  How we became so close, when we were really so different, I don't know.  Don't care either.  I'm simply thankful that I had the honor, the pleasure and the blessing of being so close to such a wonderful person.

I know she babysat many of you here tonight.  She was so great with children.  I will always regret our not getting married.  It was my fault as I was so gunshy about marriage after the disaster of my first one.  But Joann should have been blessed with a passel of kids of her own.  Her nieces and nephews always figured prominently in her thoughts.  Those trips to the 2nd hand stores often resulted in toys or clothes for the kids.  

Some of the happiest times we had together was when we took care of the girls of the Six family.  Katherine, especially, as she was the first.  She would spend hours at my house or we'd take her to the park to play.  My house became filled with toys and books for those girls.  Just being around them made Joann so happy.

In my life, I've been around some really talented animal trainers.  I've known people who trained dogs and horses for many things.  I've never seen anyone who was as good with animals as Joann.  They loved her on sight and she could get them to do about anything she wanted.  Her favorite horse, ever, was Poppy.  I never got to meet Pop as she was gone by the time I came into the picture, but Joann talked about her all the time.  She could whistle and call and Poppy would come from acres away.  If Joann needed to do something quickly, she could get on Poppy, bareback and no bridle or halter and move cows or catch the other horses or anything.  

One evening, we were paging through Netflix, looking for something we could watch.  We came across Heartland.  for those who aren't familiar, Heartland is a Canadian series about a horse ranch  where the main girl, Amy, is a "horse whisperer" and people bring their troubled horses for training.  Most episodes have that scenario in them and Joann would tell me, very early in the show, what was wrong with the horse and how Amy could fix it.  Eventually, the scriptwriters would catch up with Joann and Amy'd do it Joann's way.  Heartland became something that we did together.  We never really talked about saving it for when we were together, but that was how we watched it, the first time through.  It kind of became her nightlight the last year or so, pretty much permanently playing on her phone.

We went to Yellowstone together, over seven years ago now!  Where did that time go!?  Anyway, we

got to West about 7PM and I was all for just settling into the motel room but she said that, since we were there, why waste that time?  We went into the park.  Lots of things to see of course and lots to show her.  We got to Old Faithful about 9:30 at night and saw something I've never seen before and having grown up in West Yellowstone, I've been to Old Faithful more times than I can even imagine.  Anyway, the parking lot looked like Wally World in National Lampoon's Vacation.  Completely empty.  We were the only car there.  We walked up to the boardwalk viewing area, all alone.  It was so quiet that we could hear the other thermal features bubbling.  We could hear machinery kick on in the buildings around us.  When Old Faithful went off, in the full moon light, it was the most magical experience!  Another of those countless great memories I have of the times we spent together.

I had a tour of music shows set up.  Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Arizona.  I went to my first one fine but the transmission went out on my pickup on the way to Oregon.  I limped into Boise at 30 MPH.  The transmission place said $2500!  I offered to play pool for it, but he wouldn't.  Anyway, I was thinking I'd cancel the whole tour and limp to St. Anthony, where I have friends and family.  Joann said that I couldn't just cancel and she paid for my new transmission.  That made me the personification of the old joke: "What's a Musician without a girlfriend?  Homeless."

We set up a Cowboy Entertainer Gathering here for 11 years.  It became one of the most popular gatherings for performers.  Everybody wanted to come here and perform.  We had people from all over the country and Canada coming here.  Joann was the real leader of the whole thing.  She had gone to a few shows with me and remembered the good and bad about each and incorporated all the good into ours.  The response from those Cowboy entertainers has been overwhelming in the last few days.  Love  and condolences have come from the Western Music Association, Cowboy Poets of Idaho and the Academy of Western Artists and all those members who knew her.

She started Dialyses in December of '21.  We did Peritoneal dialyses at home, every night.  Then, in February of 22, she couldn't sit up in bed.  I went around and checked her and she had had a stroke.  She spent a month in the hospital in Billings and then a little over two weeks at rehab in Helena.  She came back to my house as it was just easier for all this stuff for her  to be in town.  But, she wanted to go home.  The first week of this month, she was really sick all night and then weak and unable to get around that morning. I called Ed and he helped me get her into the car.  She didn't want to go to this hospital so I took her to St. Petes.  She was there all day and getting more and more in trouble.  They thought she had pneumonia and needed ICU but Helena didn't have room so they wanted to take her to Missoula.  We talked about what the intubation and respirator would mean but she felt that they could fix pneumonia so she was willing to do it.  So, she got an airplane ride to Missoula.  Further testing and examinations showed that she had had a heart attack.  She was over a week in Missoula and they admitted that she really wasn't getting any better or any worse there so she might was well come home.  I brought her back Friday, the 4th.  When I got up last Tuesday, I found her nearly unresponsive.  She was able to tell me no hospital, no ambulance so I started calling the family.  We arranged for Hospice to come to her as we all gathered together.  Her family was all there for her when she quietly slipped away.

I've always been kind of a loner.  Usually most comfortable by myself.  Until I met Joann.  Then, there was one person I wanted with me.  Now, I'm learning the difference between being by myself and being alone.  Can't say I like it much.

Coffee and Covid take on Trump Indictment

 

Excerpt from 8-2-223 Coffee and Covid post: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/indicted-wednesday-august-2-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Hill ran a tiresome story yesterday headlined, “Trump indicted on Jan. 6 charges.” On Tuesday — the day after Devon Archer testified about Joe Biden’s shady connections to a bunch of sketchy oligarchs — special counsel Jack Smith issued a horrible 45-page indictment tacking yet another criminal case onto President Trump’s mounting legal docket.

This newest indictment includes four counts, for mainly two reasons: that President Trump “conspired to defraud the United States,” and that he “conspired to interfere with the certification of the election.” Here’s how the Hill explained it:


“Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power. So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” the indictment states.

“These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false,” it continues. “But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway—to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.”

The Hill, quoting bug-eyed reptilian Congressman Adam Schiff, all but admitted that the so-called House January 6th Committee was always intended to produce this singular result: charging Trump with J6-related crimes. The odious Schiff couldn’t wait to take the credit:


Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Tuesday credited the investigation, saying the indictment was “based in large part on evidence we uncovered through our work.”

Although the indictment didn’t explicitly name them or indict them (yet), it claimed Trump worked with six co-conspirators: “The Defendant enlisted co-conspirators to assist him in his criminal efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election and retain power.” Based on comments from the indictment, people are guessing the co-conspirators include five of Trump’s attorneys: Rudi Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Cheseboro, and John Eastman, plus an unidentified political consultant.

In a long series of poorly-considered Trump cases, this is one of the dumbest yet.

First, nearly all the conduct described in the four counts is speech, and not just speech, but political speech. Political speech is the most protected kind of speech under the Constitution’s First Amendment. That probably won’t stop the Obama-appointed judge from letting the case survive an inevitable motion to dismiss, but my initial take is the counts can’t survive without rewriting the Constitution.

The situation is slightly more complicated because the DOJ framed the counts as “fraud,” which is a type of speech that isn’t protectable, but that raises its own problems. Even if Trump did lie, which is debatable, lying isn’t illegal, not without something more, like being under oath, or harming someone who relied on the lie.

So the DOJ must first prove Trump lied, and then it must marry the lies to something else that can except them from First Amendment protection.

Which brings us to the DOJ’s next big problem, which is an interesting twist. A central material issue in this shiny new indictment is the truth or falsity of whether significant 2020 election fraud occurred or not. After all, the DOJ is claiming that Trump “lied” about election fraud, thereby — ironically — committing a fraud of his own.

In other words, they’re saying Trump committed fraud by alleging fraud. You can’t make this stuff up.

Now cast your mind back two years. Remember that none of Trump’s 2020 lawsuits ever got a chance to present evidence, since they were all dismissed on technical or procedural grounds. None of them got to take discovery, either.

But this time, now that he and his lawyers are defendants in a criminal case, President Trump can not only put on evidence of election fraud, but he must. And before that, he will have the right to conduct discovery under the demanding federal rules. And they’re not going to like it.

And, while I’m sure the giddy prosecutors are currently planning to just sit back and make Trump’s lawyers prove there was election fraud, the prosecutors will soon confront another unpleasant surprise related to what they must prove.

Right now, the prosecutors think proving their case will be easy and they won’t have to do much. But, as Trump’s lawyers begin to assemble evidence of election fraud — much of which was already pulled together in 2020 (but never considered by a court) — the DOJ prosecutors will start to realize at some point that they can’t just remain silent. They don’t see it yet, but they will eventually have to prove the negative; they will have to prove that election fraud didn’t happen.

They can’t just rely on “everybody knows” there wasn’t voter fraud. They can’t just wave their hands at the dismissed 2020 cases. They’ll almost certainly have to prove the absence of fraud.

And that, they cannot prove. Not only because proving a negative is incredibly difficult, but because it’s already very clear there was significant fraud, as demonstrated by sources like 2,000 mules. Plus, the more they look into whether fraud happened, the more it will hurt the government case.

Finally, of course, bringing this case two and a half years after January 6th during the middle of a presidential election campaign — against a candidate — is a total Banana Republic move. I’m expecting to see Joe Biden pop up wearing a medal-covered jacket covered any day now.

They are Murderers!!

Many of you have expressed dismay over my continued posting of Covid information. You have asked; "Why am I so engaged in this?"

Because They are and have been lying! They used this virus to get more and better control of the general population, not only here in the U.S. but throughout the world.

When I began to understand that basic fact, I began reading more and more about this Most Deadly Virus Ever and the hysterical response to it. What They were telling us did NOT make good common sense, nor did it correlate with actual events and numbers.

In May, 2021, I posted the following blog article: http://cowboyentertainer.blogspot.com/2020/12/covid19-is-just-another-virus-and-we.html in which I detailed much of this. Over the past couple of years, I have learned more and written more about all of it.

Even your State Sponsored Media is slowly beginning to allow similar articles to be printed. Those of us who have been shouting the warnings are beginning to be vindicated.

Today, Dr. Robert Malone posted a blog article with information from a DARPA fellow; a Major in the U.S. Marines, who has detailed how and where this Most Deadly Virus originated. Spoiler alert: The NIAID (read; Dr. Fauci) financed the development of this Virus in the WIV lab in Wuhan as well as in other labs around the world. WE paid to make it!
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/sars-cov-wiv?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=106229677&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Part of how I've kept up with this kind of thing is that I'm willing, even eager, to read these somewhat dry and often hard to understand reports. This report, published by Dr. Malone, is something that even the non-readers among us should take the time to work through.

We financed the Gain of Function experimentation that made the Sars-Cov-WIV virus more contagious and more virulent among people.

We knew, before The Virus was released (Got away?) that Hydroxichloroquin, Ivermectin and other currently available and inexpensive medications were effective treatments, even CURES. So, all those who censored the information about these treatments were complicit in the deaths of thousands of people.

Bottom line? THAT's why I've been so engaged with this and will continue so to be. Evil people DELIBERATELY created The Virus and Deliberately concealed the easy, common, inexpensive and very effective treatments for it. In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, They are murderers who, so far, have gotten away with it.

Another "Coffee and Covid" quote

I have been receiving daily e-mails from the www.coffeeandcovid.com blog for a couple of years now.  I look forward to my C&C e-mail every day.  They are very informative and quite entertaining.

I strongly recommend that you subscribe.

This is an excerpt from https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-mirage-of-justice-friday-january

"Right at the very beginning, I remember being tempted to panic. It was the early videos of ordinary-looking Chinese people suddenly going rigid and keeling over in the street, then being swarmed by scurrying officials in space suits. It looked JUST LIKE on of the pandemic movies. I agonized about where I could send Michelle and the kids to keep them safe.

But the more I watched those video clips, the more I began to doubt. I couldn’t shake a growing conviction that the ‘victims’ looked a whole lot like they were jamming their hands out, right at the last second, to break their fall. That’s when I got skeptical, and then when corporate media started its death counters and relentless apocalypse narrative I couldn’t stand it anymore and started writing on Facebook.

(Later, I got even more skeptical when, after having no vaccine at all for cancer after 100 years of research, no vaccine for HIV after 40 years of intense study, and no vaccine or anything for the common cold, then after a “novel” virus mysteriously appears, suddenly FOUR different pharmaceutical companies dramatically ‘invent’ a 100% safe and effective vaccine, all within twelve months? I smelled a rat. A rat in a business suit that worked for a government agency.)

All I ever wanted from the blog was to offer a few folks a different way to look at the pandemic, maybe a better way. I didn’t mean to cause trouble. I knew it was risky. Right from post number one, some people didn’t like me “downplaying the pandemic.”

Some people didn’t like it a LOT.

One thing has always been crystal clear to me. Our enemies — whoever they are — want us to be in a permanent, sustained state of anxiety and depression, if not outright terror. It is a core part of their strategy. And one funny coincidence — among a lengthy list of ‘coincidences’ — was that for the last six years I’d been teaching a bible study class and one of my favorite topics was the dual sins of worry and fear.

That’s right. The Bible teaches that worrying and being fearful are sinful."

What Happens When The Truth Is Undeniable?

A post I made a couple of days ago bears repeating as a beginning to this rant.

"If I don’t take the vaccine,
I’m at risk from Covid.

If I do take the vaccine,
I’m still at risk from Covid.
PLUS the side effects from having the jab.

Therefore I am reducing my risks by not taking the vaccine".

Simple question of "Risk vs. Reward"

What is the "Reward" for participating in the Genetic Experiment?

The "Vaccines" do NOT:

Protect you from getting Covid 19
Keep you from spreading it to others
Mitigate the effects of The Virus

What are the RISKS of joining the experiment?

Myocarditis/Pericarditis
Guillain-Barre
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
Transverse Myelitis
Encephalitis
Narcolepsy, Cataplexy
Anaphylaxis
Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)
Acute Demyelinating Diseases
Thrombocytopenia
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Venous Thromboembolism
Arthritis and Arthralgia/Joint Pain
Kawasaki Disease
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download

And, a new term, near and dear to my heart: "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome"

VAERS = Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
There are, currently, more reported Adverse Effects to the Covid "vaccines", in the past Two years, than All Other Vaccines COMBINED for the past Thirty Years!
https://vaersanalysis.info/2023/01/06/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-12-30-2022/

These are simple, verifiable FACTS. The only response from the CDC/FDA/Big Pharma is that, in Their narrative, these effects are "rare".

So is death by Covid 19. .6% of all people who catch Covid19 die from it.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html

A friend of mine and thousands like her, has been denied life saving and life changing surgery because, for whatever reason, they chose to NOT be included in the Genetic Experiment.

Because she took the time to research the possible consequences of being injected with an experimental substance. Because she decided that the risks involved in going along with what appeared, at the time, to be lies and propaganda, my friend was removed from the kidney transplant list.

Her decision was made almost two years ago, when we had to dig pretty deeply to find any real information about the jabs. Back before Freedom of information Act requests brought to light the truth of the initial testing of the "drugs". Back before the FDA admitted some of the deadly consequences of joining in.

I can tell you that there are thousands of others in the same kind of situation as, despite all the current information; all the evidence and all the terrible results we are seeing, the medical "powers that be" continue to act as if there is nothing wrong. Their "vaccines" are safe and effective. If you don't believe me, just take a little bit of time to look into VAERS reports, current statistics and warnings from thousands of now vilified and censured Doctors and Scientists, who have refused to be silenced.

So, what will the kidney transplant Doctors say to people like her when They HAVE to Admit the truth? "Oops. Sorry about that."?

One World Government Is Already In Charge!!

The following is an excerpt from today's www.coffeeandcovid.com substack e-mail. It's very long but it's very thought provoking. I can't find a single thing in it with which to argue.

If you haven't subscribed to this site, I strongly suggest that you do. I read more truth in his blogs each morning than the Corporate Media prints in a year! I look forward to my coffeandcovid e-mail each day.

"I do believe the 2020 covid-19 pandemic revealed a provable global conspiracy. Most folks think the conspiracy was intended to engineer a one-world government. But I wonder if we’re way beyond that. I think the pandemic may provide irrefutable evidence that WE ALREADY HAVE A ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT. A secretive, hidden, elusive one-world government.

But just for a moment there, the mask slipped, and its grotesque countenance was fully revealed.

The evidence appears obvious in hindsight. Basically, over about a three-week period in March, 2020, every single government in the entire world implemented the exact same draconian, totally anti-constitutional lockdowns and rabidly unpopular mitigation measures — without a peep of meaningful protest, debate, or question from their elected officials.

In other words, it looks a lot like somebody just made a phone call.

Human governments never agree on much of ANYTHING, much less something like napalming their own economies. The Chinese agreed with the Japanese. The Venezuelans agreed with the Grand Bahamians, who agreed with the Cubans. The Indians agreed with the Pakistanis. The Italians agreed with the French, who agreed with the British. The Iranians agreed with the Israelis. The Greeks agreed with everybody, and so did EVERYBODY. Even the Canadians.

Give me a flipping break.

All that agreement — also known as “coordination” — is plain evidence that something bigger was unfolding behind the scenes, something above them that could govern and coordinate all the governments. The law says that absent a sufficient alternative explanation, coordinated action alone is prima-facie evidence of a conspiracy. Just ask any anti-trust lawyer about coordinated pricing in a particular market, or ask an employment lawyer how to prove discriminatory hiring practices.

But there was something else, something that confirms the conspiracy hypothesis. It was something that was MISSING from the 2020 coordinated world action, the absence of something that SHOULD have been there, and its absence constitutes evidence. In 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explained the simple concept via his famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, who noticed the significance of the dog that DIDN’T bark:

    Scotland Yard detective Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw         my attention?”

    Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
    Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
    Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”

What was missing in 2020? What dog did not bark?

What was missing was any POLITICAL DEBATE about HOW to respond to the virus. When the first lockdowns rolled in, where were all the legislators, the parliaments, the ministers, and the delegates? How could such a monumental, universal, economy-wrecking, border-mangling decision be lawfully made, world over, without ONE SINGLE GOVERNMENT VOTING ON ANYTHING?

Don’t tell me it happened too fast. They can call emergency sessions.

“Fear” is usually offered next as a sufficient explanation, but instantaneous, 100% uniform, worldwide fear that bypassed every single democratic institution and every skeptical government is even less believable than a conspiracy.

No nation of any significance said, you know what, we don’t trust the Americans. We’ll wait a couple months and see what happens. The North Koreans didn’t thumb their noses and go their own way. The lockdowns were a single mitigation that dropped right into place just like the last puzzle piece. And everything that happened for the next twelve months happened without any meaningful public democratic debate. (A couple rogue African nations briefly resisted until their executives were visited by the Clintons.)

As evidence that SOME nation should have done something differently, just look at the U.S. states, which operated somewhat independently. What do we find? Not all of them locked down. Look at the counties: even fewer followed the uniform action.

Why didn’t ANY nation follow the same mixed pattern that we can see in U.S. states and counties?

The alleged mechanism of coordination was “executive action.” In every single country. Executive action appears, for all intents and purposes, to be universally all-powerful, that is, when it is REALLY necessary, it does whatever it wants. Conveniently, every single nation out of 175 countries apparently had laws allowing unilateral executive action instantaneously bypassing every democratic safeguard.

And, bizarrely, every executive agreed with the same plan. Apparently. Or, ‘someone’ bypassed or overruled them all. It proved that our legislators, parliamentarians, delegates and ministers are merely window-dressing, when push comes to shove. They’re just actors, whether they know it or not.

Someone made a call.

It’s fair to wonder: who is this ‘someone’ who can make a call and every world executive gets right into line and the entire world locks down? But on the other hand, who cares? What difference does it make to name the person? It’s probably someone we never heard of anyway. The more important and much more pressing fact is that THERE IS SUCH A PERSON.

It’s not Klaus Schwab. Don’t make me laugh. He is a joke, a living caricature, a pathetic, disposable, cartoon front-man who never accomplished anything. He’s the German version of Sam Bankman-Fried.

And I doubt it was a group. It happened too fast. You can speculate all you want about the Illuminati, the freemasons, the Rothschilds, the Bilderbergers, and the Jesuits. Like all human institutions, even those, if they exist, are hierarchical organizations. Meaning there’s someone — one person — at the top. And that person has no reason to come out of the shadows.

So I ask you, based on the plain pandemic evidence, are there REALLY any more sovereign nations? Or have we now become aware that the nations are mere distractions, a puppet show, only providing a distracting illusion of democratic self-government?

The existence of military conflict does not disprove the hypothesis. I’m sure you could think of a dozen reasons why the Ukraine proxy war might be a useful distraction just now, not to mention a handy way to shift a LOT of money and resources around quickly.

And if you look around, you’ll find plenty more evidence to support my global-government theory.

I’m just a lawyer. I’m not an élite global conspirator. But I think we may need to face facts, that ‘Agenda 2030’ itself might just be another distraction, a useful distraction from the fact that the battle for sovereignty has already been lost, and the one-world government everyone fears is already here, installed, and to some significant extent, in charge."