Pepe' The Artist

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2011-12-25T00:03:00.000-07:00

Remembering Pearl Harbor - 70 Years Ago

2011-12-07T00:07:00.001-07:00

I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God. December 8, 1941,
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tonight's Posts Brought To You By Hipster Newt

2011-12-03T00:25:00.002-07:00

Christmas Time is Here in Golden, CO

2011-12-03T00:17:00.000-07:00

VETERAN'S DAY 2011

2011-11-11T00:01:00.001-07:00

THANKS!

Captain Austin M. Noble

United States Air Force

Commander - C-21

Scott AFB

UFO CROSSING - County Road LL-56 in Saguache County, Colorado

2011-08-18T23:58:00.000-06:00

Seriously, this Cattle/UFO Crossing sign is for real.

Tonight's Post Brought To You By........SOON

2011-08-18T00:43:00.001-06:00

Father's Day is brought to you by Hugh

2011-06-19T00:58:00.010-06:00

50 REASONS WHY IT'S GOOD TO BE A MAN (link)

Get Your Hair Cut at Larry's (Salida, Colorado)

2011-06-06T00:24:00.001-06:00

Happy Birthday Mr. Eastwood

2011-06-01T20:16:00.004-06:00

Happy Birthday, Clint

So Mr. Eastwood turned 81 yesterday and to celebrate, here are the Top 10 Awesome Things You Didn’t Know About Clint Eastwood. Note that the vegetarianism-thing is just a slur - Clint eats healthy and all but meat still makes up two of his four food groups.

Memorial Day 2011

2011-05-30T15:26:00.000-06:00

Gail Lynn Strickland

Texas

SP4 US Army

Vietnam SS - BSM - PH

September 15, 1952 August 12, 1971

US releases picture of OBL funeral

2011-05-09T22:28:00.000-06:00

Thought you might be interested:

Osama Bin Ladin Loses Popularity and 30cc of Brain and Skull But Mostly 30cc of Brain and Skull

2011-05-01T22:38:00.003-06:00

Baseball's Greatest Play - 35 Years Later

2011-04-25T22:03:00.002-06:00

At a Dodgers game on April 25, 1976, a man named William Thomas and his 11 year old son ran onto the field, lighter fluid in hand, and tried to set fire to an American flag. Chicago Cubs center fielder Rick Monday snatched it from them before they could light it, and the rest is history:

PEPE NOTE: I am a lefty and my one and only baseball glove I used in Jr. High and High School was a Rawlings Rick Monday Special.

April 21, 1836 - Yeah....We Won

2011-04-20T22:31:00.000-06:00

The Surrender of Santa Anna

The Black Hole - Los Alamos, New Mexico

2011-04-12T13:47:00.001-06:00

Lost in the Black Hole in Los Alamos, NM

2011-04-12T13:46:00.000-06:00

Los Alamos National Lab - Discarded Vacuum Tubes

2011-04-12T13:45:00.000-06:00

Loa Alamos National Lab Old Lunch Menu

2011-04-12T13:43:00.000-06:00

NOTE: The name of the sandwiches in the lower left corner.

I present to you, The Chinese Red Army bustin' a move singing Michael Jackson, Just Beat It.

2011-04-10T22:42:00.001-06:00

Tonight They Come For You - Hope You Have Your Affairs In Order

2011-04-05T21:43:00.003-06:00

March 6, 1836 - REMEMBER THE ALAMO

2011-03-06T05:00:00.001-07:00

The Alamo - March 6, 1836

2011-03-06T01:00:00.005-07:00

Day 13!
At 1:00 am Mexican troops (1,400 men) move towards positions.
At 5:00 am Santa Anna gives signal : Mexican bugler sounds Deguello, four columns of the Mexican army advance on Alamo.
Texans repulse twice the invaders with desperate, intense fighting.
Heavy Mexican casualties (nearly 600 killed or wounded).
Battle rages through The Alamo.
6:30 am : Last firing over. The Alamo has fallen...
In the words of General Vincente Filisola, "... by grapeshot, musketshot and the bayonet, they were all killed at last."
Remember The Alamo !

The Alamo - March 5, 1836

2011-03-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

Colonel Travis assembles men in plaza of Alamo and tells them there is no hope of help.
He draws line on ground with sword to be crossed by all who will stand and fight.
All cross line but Moses Rose, who escapes over the wall.

The Alamo - March 4, 1836

2011-03-04T07:00:00.000-07:00

Mexicans advance their batteries about 200 yards of the Alamo's north wall.
General Santa Anna holds a council of war and lays out his plans for taking The Alamo by storm.

The Alamo - March 3, 1836

2011-03-03T07:00:00.004-07:00

James Bonham returns on his attempt to secure reinforcements.
Bombardment continues.
Travis sends out his last known letters.

The Alamo - March 2, 1836

2011-03-02T07:00:00.000-07:00

Convention held in Washington-on-the-Brazos declares Texas an Independent Republic.
Unaware men in Alamo remain under heavy Mexican bombardment.

The Alamo - March 1, 1836

2011-03-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

Thirty-two men arrive from Gonzales to reinforce The Alamo.

The Alamo - February 29, 1836

2011-03-01T07:00:00.002-07:00

Weather improves to 55 degrees.
Santa Anna moves his troops closer

The Alamo - February 28, 1836

2011-02-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

Little rest, little food for garrison.
New Mexican battery placed about 800 yards to north.
Santa Anna's tactics of harassment having effect on Alamo defenders.

The Alamo - February 27, 1836

2011-02-27T07:00:00.004-07:00

Bombardment continues.
Cold winds from the north bring temperature down to 39 degrees.
Travis sends Bonham to seek help from Colonel Fannin in Goliad.

The Alamo - February 26, 1836

2011-02-26T11:36:00.002-07:00

Texans make a raid on La Villita, burning several homes which have afforded the Mexican cover.

The Alamo - February 25, 1836

2011-02-25T19:12:00.000-07:00

Artillery bombardment continues.
Mexican batteries are planted across the river about 300 yards from Alamo.
Travis sends an appeal to Sam Houston. ("Give me help, oh my Country").

The Alamo - February 24, 1836

2011-02-24T14:23:00.002-07:00

Colonel Bowie, ill, turns full command over to Travis.
Mexican batteries begin bombardment of Alamo.
Travis writes his "To The People of Texas & all Americans in the world"

The Alamo - February 23, 1836

2011-02-23T22:12:00.000-07:00

General's Santa Anna troops move into San Antonio.
Colonel Travis and garrison move into Alamo.
Two scouts (Sutherland and Smith) are sent to Gonzales with appeal for assistance.
Santa Anna demands for surrender.
Travis answers with a 18-pounder shot.

God Bless You Omer, Wherever You Are

2011-02-14T00:01:00.002-07:00

Omer Baumgartner's obituary -- written, I am positive, by Omer himself -- makes me wish for an afternoon with this man before he passed on. (Here's a link where you can leave your own tribute to him.)

...Born on a dairy farm in Walnut, Ill., Baumgartner was prodigious with the movement of manure from an early age, and exercising these and other talents, earned recognition for his National 4-H Grand Champion Dairy Heifer, Clementine's Ramona, in 1930 at the age of 10. After this debut, and as the Depression raged, Baumgartner cut his teeth in the livestock industry while attending hundreds of county and state fairs, showing and selling cattle, frying oysters, skinning rabbits, and drinking whiskey. While still a freshman at the University of Illinois, he successfully quelled the great dairy upraising of 1938, averting a desperate ice cream shortage in Chicago, and was immediately recruited, without finishing college, by the state's Guernsey Breeders Association as a field agent.
Despite never learning to cook anything other than fried oysters, Baumgartner attained the rank of captain during World War II for running mess halls feeding over 5,000 in Tennessee and Alabama for the Army Air Corps. He was wildly popular with the troops for his mess hours bongo drum performances accompanied by dancing girls. Baumgartner notably worked for L.S. Heath and Company, running the dairy division and inventing Heath Bar ice cream in 1951. He also co-ran Wilkinson's Office Supplies with his wife Jattie Wilkinson Baumgartner, serving one-third of the state of Illinois and parts of Iowa. Baumgartner disliked vegetables his whole life. Despite consuming more than 2,000 pounds of butter, he never suffered from any kind of heart disease. His last meal was ice cream....

Midnight Snow Through Old Windows - Golden,CO

2011-02-07T23:18:00.002-07:00

The Challenger Disaster: 73 Seconds, 25 Years

2011-01-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

High Flight — John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

GODSPEED - BILL BOWER

2011-01-12T22:23:00.002-07:00

Bill Bower, one of the few remaining Doolittle Raiders has passed.

More information at BLACKFIVE

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

2010-12-25T23:43:00.004-07:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM GOLDEN, COLORADO

2010-12-25T23:35:00.001-07:00

Creepy Time Snowmen at the Christmas Parade in Golden

2010-12-25T23:33:00.000-07:00

And one little Demon Child (look at her eyes) as well

Cookiemen and Snowmen on the Christmas March!

2010-12-25T23:26:00.000-07:00

Cookiemen, Snowmen and Demon Children (look at their eyes) In Golden, CO

2010-12-25T23:23:00.001-07:00

Remembering Pearl Harbor - 69 Years

2010-12-07T22:37:00.000-07:00

The USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo.

VETERANS DAY 2010

2010-11-11T00:05:00.002-07:00

THANK YOU

1st Lt. Austin M. Noble

United States Air Force

Pilot C-21

Scott Air Force Base

H.M. Moreland Jr.

Petty Officer 1st Class

USS Shields (DD-596)

United States Navy

World War II

Ray F. Noble

Staff Sergent
270th Field Artillery Battalion

United States Army

World War II

bethewave2010.com

2010-10-22T23:11:00.000-06:00

11 - 2 - 2010 VOTE!

2010-10-20T23:51:00.000-06:00

Mine Rescue - Its Nice To Have Good News For Once!

2010-10-15T00:16:00.000-06:00

Trapped miner Esteban Rojas kneels to pray after reaching the surface to became the 18th to be rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapo October 13, 2010. (REUTERS/Hugo Infante/Government of Chile)

9.11.2001

2010-09-11T00:21:00.002-06:00

Old Cemetery In The Shadow Of The Sangre De Cristo Mountains

2010-09-04T01:01:00.001-06:00

Dead Padres - Old Mission Santa Barbara

2010-09-04T00:59:00.000-06:00

Sunset In The Texas Panhandle

2010-09-04T00:56:00.000-06:00

Pecan Gap, Texas

2010-09-04T00:52:00.000-06:00

Looking Down The Up Ramp - DFW Airport

2010-09-04T00:50:00.000-06:00

Yes, It Has Been Quite Awhile - Time To Gear Up For The Fall

2010-09-01T23:04:00.002-06:00

OK, all of you Pepe' Morons and Moronettes.................It has been too long of a Summer Vacation.

Fourth of July 2010

2010-07-03T23:00:00.006-06:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA

Screw You, We're From Texas

2010-05-18T23:09:00.001-06:00

Wall Art in Deep Ellum - Dallas, Texas

2010-04-30T22:22:00.000-06:00

2010 E Days Fireworks at the Colorado School of Mines

2010-04-30T22:21:00.001-06:00

Looking Outside at Denver International Airport

2010-04-30T22:19:00.000-06:00

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

2010-04-30T22:18:00.000-06:00

Crab Sampler (before) - Rustic Inn, Ft. Lauderdale

2010-04-30T22:16:00.000-06:00

Crab Sampler (after) - Rustic Inn, Ft. Lauderdale

2010-04-30T22:15:00.000-06:00

Pepe' Didn't Pay His Bar Tab - Coral Beach, Grand Bahama Island

2010-04-30T22:13:00.001-06:00

KALIK On The Beach

2010-04-30T22:12:00.000-06:00

TORNADO ON GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND !!!!

2010-04-30T22:10:00.002-06:00

Tornado Damage on Grand Bahama Island

2010-04-30T22:09:00.000-06:00

Plywood on the Fairway

2010-04-30T22:05:00.000-06:00

REMEMBER THE ALAMO - March 6, 1836

2010-03-06T05:00:00.000-07:00

Link to a Full Description of the Seige and Battle

Today is Texas Independence Day!

2010-03-02T19:18:00.003-07:00

March 2, 1836

Pepe' and Kinky

2010-03-01T22:26:00.006-07:00

For the Great Unwashed who do not know who Kinky Friedman is.........go to this link:

KINKY FRIEDMAN

For those of you in the know.......My life is complete......I may now go to Heaven as a Happy Texan

Eatin Big at the BIG TEXAN (in Amarillo, TX)

2010-01-10T23:00:00.001-07:00

Christmas Parade - Golden Colorado

2009-12-16T23:36:00.000-07:00

Air Force Academy Football - End of the Season - On to the Armed Services Bowl on December 31st!

2009-12-16T23:34:00.001-07:00

Flying Southwest

2009-12-16T23:33:00.002-07:00

Lt. John William Finn: Pearl Harbor's Last Hero, 68 Years Later

2009-12-07T10:19:00.001-07:00

There were fifteen men awarded the Medal of Honor for their heroism on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Only five survived that horrible day. Only one of them remains.

Story continues via link to The Weekly Standard.................................

VETERANS DAY 2009

2009-11-11T10:59:00.004-07:00

1st Lt. Austin M. Noble
United States Air Force
Pilot - C 21
Scott Air Force Base

VETERANS DAY 2009

2009-11-11T00:02:00.002-07:00

Ray F. Noble
Staff Sergeant
270th Field Artillery Battalion
United States Army
World War II

VETERANS DAY 2009

2009-11-11T00:01:00.003-07:00

H.M. Moreland Jr.
Petty Officer 1st Class
USS Shields (DD-596)
United States Navy
World War II

It Was 20 Years Ago Today - The Berlin Wall

2009-11-09T22:44:00.002-07:00

PIKES PEAK

2009-11-09T22:33:00.001-07:00

Smokestack - Salida, Colorado

2009-11-09T22:25:00.001-07:00

Big Tex

2009-09-26T22:49:00.003-06:00

2009 State Fair of Texas
September 26, 2009

Art Deco Babe On a Cactus

2009-09-26T22:47:00.002-06:00

Women's Museum
State Fair of Texas
2009

WELCOME TO THE 176TH OKTOBERFEST

2009-09-22T21:22:00.006-06:00

Beers, food, rides and six million visitors...

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

2009-09-11T00:05:00.002-06:00

Click here to a link for a Memorial List of all of the Heroes and Victims

1st Lt. Joseph D. Helton USAFA - Class of 2007

2009-09-10T22:34:00.006-06:00

1st Security Forces Officer Killed in Iraq

An Air Force Academy graduate became the first security forces officer killed in Iraq or Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded close to his vehicle near Baghdad.

The Sept. 8 blast killed 1st Lt. Joseph D. Helton, who was deployed from the 6th Security Forces Squadron at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. Helton had recently volunteered to extend his deployment in Iraq, where he was training Iraqi police officers.

“Joe was an amazing airman and defender who volunteered to lead our best in Iraq,” Col. Lawrence Martin, commander of the 6th Air Mobility Wing, said in a written statement. “We are deeply saddened by his loss and very proud of his service.”

Seven enlisted security forces airmen have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Helton is the first officer, according to Air Force statistics.

Helton chose to join security forces when he graduated from the academy in 2007. He grew up in a military family and commanded the Junior ROTC unit at his Monroe, Ga., high school.

Helton turned down scholarship offers from other universities to attend the academy, a school spokesman said. There, he was ranked among the top 10 percent of his class in academics, leadership and athletics. He shared command of cadet Squadron 19.

“If someone walked into the room and had a question, nine times out of 10 he’d be the person they would approach,” Helton’s mother, Jiffy Helton, told The Tampa Tribune. “He just looked like he knew the answers.”

2009 Air Force Football Begins

2009-09-10T20:30:00.008-06:00

September 5, 2009
AIR FORCE 72.........Nicholls State O

Donate Your Vehicle to Goodwill

2009-09-10T20:29:00.002-06:00

Concrete Mermaid at the Broadmoor

2009-09-10T20:27:00.001-06:00

Getting Close to Timberline

2009-09-10T20:25:00.001-06:00

On The Way To Mt. Antero Summit

2009-09-10T20:22:00.002-06:00

Summer's Last Hurrah

2009-09-10T20:21:00.002-06:00

In Memory of Ernest

2009-07-30T21:24:00.007-06:00

Ace of Spades remembers Jim Varney who's best known as Ernest P. Worrell.
(be sure to check out the video clip at the end of the article)

In addition, here's a LINK TO THE JIM VARNEY TRIBUTE SITE.

Old School Gas

2009-07-28T23:18:00.000-06:00

Yep....it does work.

"Carney" Jail

2009-07-25T16:32:00.002-06:00

Buffalo Bill Days Begin in Golden, Colorado !!!

2009-07-25T16:30:00.000-06:00

Tin Cup Cemetery

2009-07-25T16:28:00.001-06:00

Tin Cup Pass Elevation 12,154 Feet

2009-07-25T16:27:00.003-06:00