I guess that's where the expression Old Boys Network comes from.
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In 1958 Hiland Dairy cooperative opened in Springfield Missouri.
You had to build a Grade A dairy barn, and my father did, on a 20 year loan from the dad blasted gubbermint.
You had to have 24 milking cows and so Daddy kept 25, a hind cow as a spare, usually a Jersey to keep up the butterfat count.
And if you’d do that, and were willing to work that hard, and keep the rules, twice a month Hiland Dairy would send you a check from about $800 to $1,200
Your gross was a new car a month.
It’s all gone now, dead forever, the Grade A milk barns all abandoned.
Mega farms milk thousands of cows using all immigrant labor.
But when they were, KWTO provided the music that calmed the cows and we all sang along with every hit song.
Lefty was the king of honky tonk.
And this song, probably started it.
And it peaked with Saginaw Michigan.
And it was almost over my I Never Go Around Mirrors
It was the white boy’s blues, only we were happy as clams most all the time.
Thanks for your love of Lefty! Not the original post theme, but far better in my opinion. Well done for switching it up!
It’s been well said that every good “acid country” male artist is a Lefty Frizzell imitator and every good pretty girl singer is a Kitty Wells imitator.
You know you were raised up country, if you practiced the opening
Aaawwwhulllwahehahesss Laayte
Until you nailed it like Lefty
And the music was just everywhere. It played on every juke box in every cafe. Every gas station and hardware store and even grocery store and car radio and truck radio and kitchen radio was welded to KWTO.
Every 2 1/2 minute song story had to be appropriate for a mother with a toddler to listen and explain. It was good and new and righteous or it didn’t spin once.
KWTO is still on the air, a talk radio channel.
It plays hatred of wind turbines and electric cars and everything and anything good and new and righteous, twenty four hours a day.
Let’s see how much brand new grid capacity is wind, solar, and gas. None is new coal or nuclear and likely never will be again.
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Wind energy accounted for the bulk of new power-generating capacity in the United States last year, according to a trio of new reports from the Department of Energy. In total, wind supplied 42 percent of new U.S. capacity in 2020, while solar supplied 38 percent and natural gas the remaining 20 percent.
The nearly 17,000 megawatts of land-based wind power installed in 2020 represent $24.6 billion in investments, according to the Energy Department. Iowa, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Illinois, and Missouri each installed more than 1,000 megawatts of capacity, while Texas added more than 4,000 megawatts.
Wind energy now supplies more than 10 percent of in-state power generation in 16 states, including more than 30 percent in Kansas, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota, and 57 percent in Iowa.
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I’d have thought Nat gas plants would be more than 20%
I’m surprised to see solar almost equaling wind energy.
There’s not one bit of romance in a homeowner putting on solar panels or solar shingles.
But when my Daddy drove across Kansas each summer when we’d go vacation in Colorado he’d see those little oil derrick booms pumping and say don’t you know that farmer can afford all the new combines and tractors and anything his family dreams about.
Each time I see a truck with wind turbines going down the freeway I think about the utter joy some farm family has to see them pull into their fields.
It would almost equal Jed Clampett striking oil in Bug Tussle, you know?
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