Monday, April 10, 2023
Sunday, April 09, 2023
Joe Rogan, best line of his life!!!
"Meanwhile the guy is President right now can't form a fucking sentence."
Friday, April 07, 2023
Snow Geese
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Who doesn't love the sound of a few thousand snow geese overhead? If you have never been under a flock of say, 10,000 birds you should attempt to find a way. You just simply will never forget the thrill and sound! This spring I was able to see the single largest number of snow geese ever within my vision field! Incredible was an understatement. It was like the Snow Goose God's were in alignment on a magical spring day in Nebraska!
Different strokes for different folks
Chased these birds across South Dakota and Nebraska during track season in high school. Awesome for the lungs and legs in the Pine Ridge country. It's been years since I killed one and probably never will again. Hunting them today reminds me of ground swatting a Canadian goose.
About Dean Thomas Parisian
Growing up, his father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the family lived on many Indian reservations across the Great Plains. From the hills of the Sisseton-Wahpeton tribe on west to the Big Horn Mountains on the Crow Reservation were considered home. It was near Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota that Dean Parisian spent his high school years. Only 80 years before, the Hotckiss guns were carefully trained on a group of terrified and disarmed Sioux in the hills northeast of Pine Ridge. It wasn’t a battlefield at Wounded Knee, like historians suggest, it was an assassination; as were America’s first freedom fighters; Sitting Bull, Dull Knife and Geronimo. The carnage continues today as the Indian Affairs Trust Office still can not account for billions of dollars of Native American fund transfers.
Dean Parisian founded CHIPPEWA PARTNERS, Native American Advisors, Inc. a Registered Investment Advisor, in 1995 and closed in 2019.The firm was a manager to an exclusive clientele and was closed to new clients for many years. As a Registered Investment Advisor, their expertise developed over 35 years balanced experience, integrity and tremendous work ethic.
Mr. Parisian founded the company to manage serious wealth for Native American tribes and tribal members who understand that casino gaming alone is not the answer to viable long-term economic success.
Dean T. Parisian attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, the University of Minnesota and Hamline University School of Law. His undergraduate degrees were in Education and Economics and he began his investment career in 1982. He trained on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody and Co. and joined Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. in LaJolla, California in 1984. Prior to the formation of Native American Advisors, Inc./Chippewa Partners in 1995 he was a Trust Officer at First Union Bank (now Wachovia) in Atlanta and managed his personal holdings with significant success prior to founding the firm in 1995. For over a decade Dean was a member of the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts. He was the first Native American mutual fund advisor licensed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.
He is a member at the White Earth Reservation of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. You are encouraged to visit www.deanparisian.com to learn about Dean Parisian's commitment to encourage a culture of philanthropy which is vital for the growth of human capital in Native America and to help break the cycle of poverty, addiction, moral courage and the suffocating absence of fathers and opportunity in Native communities.
Mr. Parisian, for over a decade was an arbitrator for the New York Stock Exchange and the NASD (now FINRA). He is a member of the Presidents Club at the University of Minnesota, the Georgia Ornithological Society and has been recognized in many financial publications such as Barrons, Investment Advisor magazine , Financial Planning magazine and the Atlanta Business Journal His greatest accomplishments include raising two sons and 32 years of marriage.
His philanthropic interest is in Native American education he has endowed a significant scholarship for Native Americans as the benefactor of the Dean T. Parisian Native American Student Scholarship at the University of Minnesota.
The Parisian family enjoys outdoor pursuits at Pamelot, their farm in Tennessee, at the Ghost Ranch, their retreat on the Yellowstone River in Montana and at Casa Tule, their winter home in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.
Top Five BREAKFAST Joints in America
I have a new addition to my Top 5.
If you are traveling across the American heartland on Interstate 80 in Nebraska you have to stop. Hungry or not, do yourself a favor and STOP!
Where you say? Right here in Paxton, Nebraska!
https://olesbiggame.com/
https://olesbiggame.com/our-story/
https://olesbiggame.com/photos/
Rounding out my TOP 5 Breakfast venues across the American landscape are in no particular order:
Harry's: http://harryscoffeeshop.com/
LaJolla, California
Melstone Cafe: https://www.facebook.com/people/Melstone-Bar-Cafe/100063553780793/
Melstone, Montana
Pappy's Cafe: https://www.pappysmn.com/menu. Was at Pappy's this year. Disappointed as the original owner, Bill Eck has passed away and quality has been marginalized. It is now officially removed from my TOP list and been replaced by:
THE EGG SHOP: https://www.eggshopnyc.com/
Brooklyn, New York
Westwood Cafe: https://www.westwoodcafe.com/
Spicer, Minnesota
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
Ask yourself….
What crime did Trump not do that others did with either impunity or without being arrested?
Here is a sample of 20.
1) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by destroying federally subpoenaed emails and devices in order to hide evidence.
2) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by sending classified government communications on her own, through an unsecured home-brewed server.
3) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiring—through three paywalls—a foreign national, who is prohibited from working on presidential campaigns, to compile a dossier to smear her presidential opponent.
4) Trump did not violate federal campaign laws, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiding her payments (as “legal services”) to Christopher Steele through bookkeeping deceptions.
5) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, use a crony to search out a high-paying New York job for a paramour in order to influence her testimony before a special counsel.
6) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, receive a $500,000 “honorarium” for speaking in Moscow while his wife, our secretary of state, approved a longstanding and lucrative desire of the Kremlin for North American uranium to be sold to a Russian consortium.
7) Trump did not, as did Barack Obama, promise Vladimir Putin that he would be “flexible” on “missile defense” if during his own reelection bid Putin in return would give him “space”. That quid pro quo arrangement led to the U.S. abandonment of key joint missile defense systems with Poland and the Czech Republic, and, reciprocally, less than two years later a Russia invasion, mostly unopposed by the United States, of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea.
8) Trump did not boast publicly, as did Joe Biden, that he used U.S. foreign aid monies as leverage to have the Ukrainian government fire a prosecutor who may have been looking into the Biden family’s efforts to sell influence to corrupt Ukrainian interests.
9) Trump did not, as the Bidens did, set up a family consortium to leverage monies from Ukraine, Russia, and China, on their shared expectations that he might soon run for and be elected president and become compromised. Trump is not mentioned, as is Joe Biden, in family business communications as a recipient of a 10 percent commission on such payoffs.
10) Trump did not, unlike Joe Biden, remove presidential papers—without any authority to declassify them—and leave them scattered and unsecured in a garage and various residences and offices.
11) Trump did not, as did the FBI, wipe clean subpoenaed mobile phone records.
12) Trump did not, as did interim FBI head Andrew McCabe, admittedly lie under oath on four occasions to federal investigators.
13) Trump did not, as did CIA Director John Brennan, admittedly lie on two occasions while under oath to the U.S. Congress.
14) Trump did not, as did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, admittedly lie on one occasion to the U.S. Congress.
15) Trump did not, as did James Comey, claim amnesia or ignorance 245 times while under oath before the U.S. Congress.
16) Trump did not, as did FBI Director James Comey, summarize a confidential private conversation with a president and then deliberately leak that classified memo to the media for his own agenda of appointing a special counsel to investigate the president—which turned out to be his friend Robert Mueller.
17) Trump did not, as did Robert Mueller, claim ignorance while under oath when asked about the Steele dossier and Fusion GPS, the catalysts for Mueller’s own investigation.
18) Trump did not, as did private citizen and former secretary of state John Kerry, meet clandestinely while out of office with Iranian officials to help them resist current U.S. policy toward Iran—or what the Boston Globe characterized as “unusual shadow diplomacy” to “apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.”
19) Trump did not, as did the FBI and CIA, pay clandestine money to Twitter to monitor and smother news stories deemed unhelpful to their agendas.
20) Trump did not, as did then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whip up a mob at the doors of the Supreme Court by threatening two sitting justices by name to intimidate them concerning an impending judicial ruling: “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.” In subsequent months, mobs of protestors swarmed the private homes of these two named justices to influence their decisions, a federal crime that was ignored by Attorney General Merrick Garland, but not by a self-confessed, potential assassin of Justice Brett Kavanaugh who later turned up in the neighborhood.