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Línea Maginot recorrerá Colorado en julio

Desde Eres Sólo Historia Antigua – 10 de julio 2015

(Crested Butte) El legendario Línea Maginot, piensa que es inexpugnable por las fuerzas francesas antes de 1940, visitará este antiguo gigante de la minería del carbón como parte de un verano espectacular viaje a través de los Rockies.
Unirse a la Línea Maginot será el advenedizo Siegfried Line, o Muro Occidental, así como la stumblebum Hindenburg Line, una posición defensiva hacia adelante alemán construido en 1916-1917 cerca de Soissons en el Aisne.
Lo que las tres líneas tienen en común es que ninguno realmente mantiene a nadie. La Maginot estaba flanqueado, el Siegfried desierta en la cara de victorias y el Hindenburg, a pesar de la lucha irregular, se perdió al armisticio firmado en 1919.
Tal vez lo que sigue para deleitar los historiadores de la guerra es el fracaso de la Línea Maginot, que resultó inútil cuando los alemanes simplemente tomó un atajo a través de Bélgica, yendo alrededor de las defensas de lujo y marchando a Vichy Paraíso.
A pesar de su vínculo con la derrota más devastadora de la nación en la historia de la línea todavía evoca un cierto orgullo, patriotismo sutil. Descubierto en un montón de basura París la Línea Maginot en 1946 el hito fue limpiado y poner de nuevo juntos a partir de mapas y gráficos de la Segunda Guerra pre-Mundial. Sus acompañantes fortificaciones militares Siegfried y Hindenburg siempre se han mantenido y sólo tenía que ser recogido y enviado (fortines y todo) a Nueva York, donde la gira por Estados Unidos se origina.
“La verdadera atracción aquí sigue siendo la Maginot”, dijo Entraylea Maginot, bisnieta de André Maginot el homónimo de la zanja sin gloria. “Eso es lo que la gente viene a ver. Le costó 3 mil millones de francos sólo por la alfombra! ”
Los mayores Maginot, que, afortunadamente para su honor, pasó en unos ocho años antes de la ineficacia de la línea fue sacada a la luz por los generales alemanes en 1940, no sabía ninguna de las otras líneas. Se espera que todos ellos se llevan bien durante los viajes.
La División de Cumplimiento y Turismo de Colorado espera que la inclusión de los recorridos y la venta de marihuana legal aumentará el turismo en un 30% este verano. – Bambi Bumble

Hinckley Mistakenly Drafted by Raiders

(Special from The Federal Rehab Flyer – Gunnison, CO – July 10, 2015)

Longtime federal guests and Texas (not Colorado) native John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate then President Ronald Regan on a rainy Washington morning back in 1981, has been accidently drafted by the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (Aren’t long sentences hard to read?)
The foul-up came late in the meetings when most team representatives and player agents were bored and tired. It is not uncommon for a team to draft a dead person or a fictitious person, much to the chagrin of the sports franchise.
“Oversights can happen,” said Red White, organizer of the draft and subsequent festivities following the workday. “All those names and faces and the films and the statistics can make a normal person into a raving lunatic! It’s a wonder we don’t draft ourselves.”
White reminded the press that in 1985 Dallas drafted Sirhan Sirhan, who had changed his name to Mohammed Sirhan after assassinating Robert Kennedy in 1968. Of course the Cowboys dropped all contact after realizing they had acquired a pariah, especially when, due to prior commitments, he couldn’t make rookie camp.
Hinckley, who has not fired so much as one shot at a major politician since his incarceration, may be eligible for parole in 2020.
The Raiders employed Jack Tatum for all of those years,” said White. “The fact is that Hinckley has been legitimately drafted and now the ball is on our quart…or gridiron as it were. The team plans to pursue the mater until it runs out of rope,” he smiled.
Meanwhile Hinckley has been lifting weights and running pass routes in his cell. He has again began writing Jodi Foster, a former 49ers drum and bagel girl. The content of those letters has not been made public but cellmates say it is a confusing arrangement of Xs and Os with a progressive rendition of Taxi Driver, written in Greek and Latin, thrown in for ballast.
Other teams, most notably the Denver Broncos, have been mum on the development while awaiting the evolution of what could be a major precedent and newest hype in professional sports.
“Remember when Denver prematurely drafted the Manson Family in 1975?” smiled White. “The team wanted to shore up a porous offensive line and may have done just that, until someone came to his senses. This just proves once again that in this twisted society, there is no such thing as bad publicity,” he railed. – Kashmir Horseshoe

Summer camping above Crested Butte

Summer is never a given at a campsite above Crested Butte

Nudists offer clothes to earthquake victims

(Special from The Voice of the Volga – July 10, 2015)

An altruistic nudist sect that donated several truckloads of clothing to earthquake victims in Chile is at it again. This time an airplane full of warm duds and blankets are headed for Hashishistan, a former Soviet republic located somewhere north of Turkey and west of China.
According to unpublished reports the Potomac Rambling Bares, an ancient society of nudists is still collecting generators and wool socks that are slated to be shipped Friday. Temperatures in Hashishistan, although temperate to date, can begin the plunge to zero as early as October.
The Bares, who wear clothes to work have been invited as honored guests to both Chile and Russia in September. However, political footballs, kicked from Kiev and Santiago may succeed in foiling the visit. In Chile nudity is no big deal. Even the serious Catholics don’t seem to give a damn. The group will probably never even be noticed unless, of corpse, there is coinciding trouble with Argentina, Bolivia or Peru and the black-tie nudists are buttonholed as spies, strip-searched and collared.
In Russia nudity, along with most everything else, is nothing new.
The unclothed were first discovered near Yekaterinburg near the Ural Mountains in 311. Many of the slapstick czars were born naked until Nicholas I put a stop to that in 1825. Czar Nicholas II, under the influence of Russian monk, Gregori Rasputin, banned nudity altogether in 1908, stirring hopeless resentment that may have ignited the revolution in 1917. Although a Communist, Stalin returned to the stringent norms of the Czar, making nudity a crime in the Soviet Union. Victorious German soldiers tell of newly liberated, nude villagers coming out to meet them in Belarus and Lithuania in 1941.
Today Russia proudly boasts over 4.8 million nudists with many more born each day. – Neville Hoser

NORWOOD BEACHES OFF LIMITS

Wright’s Mesa True Wave – July 10, 2015, 2015
Officials in Western San Miguel County have ordered the closure of four popular beaches Saturday morning after lifeguards sighted several sharks in the vicinity.
There was neither further explanation nor information as to the reopening in time for the summer holidays. Critics say the sharks are harmless and that the termination of beach services will all but cripple the spindly-legged economy based on sweatshop ceramics, leaf art, exotic livestock and the bi-sexual Gildaberry harvests in August and November.
Former mayor and post office jockey, Oral Noise, is hopping mad because he has nothing else to do.
“Do you really think those tourists come up here to look at the mountains? They come here to sit in the sand, not play net games with the political football. Our elected legislators forget that no one, including themselves and yours truly, is paying the least bit of attention to all of this drivel.”
Oceanographers studying the micro-issue here restated long-held theories that the imposing Disappointment- Redvale Current and the little known Cape of Norwood reef would dry up and decompose “at about the same time California reconnects with the North American continent, somewhere near Lake Tahoe.”
They go on.
“While we realize that we have detractors and others within our own ranks that question the validity of our research in disposed species and natural anomalies such as palm trees in Cork and penguins in Uruguay,” said
one scientist, “we also warn that any shark capable of travel through California, Nevada, and Utah in order to harass bathers here had ought to be taken seriously.”
Noise disagrees saying that Colorado has plenty of tourists and not that many beaches or sharks.
“We need to get our priorities straight,” he said.
– Ronald Reggae

“Opium is the television of the 21st Century.” – Merle Sparks

Explorers Discover Western Slope

From Mega-Mega News – July 10, 2015

(Confront Range) There’s water in them thar hills! That has been the persistent cry of thirsty development on the east side of the Rockies since the first gold came out of Cherry Creek. Now a modern Lewis and Clark wagon train, featuring stand-ins, Admiral John Hickenlooper and Major John Elway, has finally stood on the land west of the perilous Continental Divide.
The exploratory commission, sanctified on South Broadway in April, has collected thousands of samples, snapped hundreds of photographs and mapped the region topographically and politically. Both men are looking forward to what promises to be a grand reception upon their return to civilization next week.
According to press particulars the party has chartered a vast stretch of land somewhere in that treacherous, yet mystical land between the Animas and the Yampa. High deserts, prominent alpine peaks, green valleys and rigorous canyons abound as does water, the fool’s gold of the 21st Century.
Hickenlooper has already appointed Colonel Walter Weiss as Magistrate General and named two of the higher peaks after Elway and himself. The governor then gave thanks that the discovery would surely provide food and fuel, as well as water, for the growing Front Range population.
Busy with a pick and shovel looking for accessible vote veins Hickenlooper refused to comment on well-publicized plans to dump toxic waste materials here.
Meanwhile Elway, acting as a special envoy from the Denver Water Board, has reinstated the Homestead Act of 1869 that allows urban tribes to occupy unused portions of land with full intent to claim it after improvements are completed.
“And yes, we will build skyscrapers, stadiums, parks, low income housing and interstates just like we have in the real world,” said General Hickenlooper, who hopes to be knighted for his efforts.
The successful exploration puts to rest silly fears and ancestral myths that warn of a great abyss, west of Loveland Pass, that would suck foolhardy travelers into evil vacuums and suffocating cirques that pepper the landscape. The tales tell of surviving trekkers, that had drifted too far in any direction, inevitably falling off the steep, shear edge. Prospects had once allegedly included up front confrontations with a frightening sagebrush eternity full of predator colfax bruins and hungry brown cloud leopards.
When asked about the sparsely settled villages and sophisticated river communities (Grand Junction?) Hickenlooper said the stoned-age tribes inhabiting the terrain had nothing to fear.
“The blissful peoples who live west of here will share in the progress that is right around someone’s corner,” interjected Elway almost on cue. “We plan to create thousands of subsistence level jobs at minimum wage and show them what life is all about. Any malcontents and rebels can easily be shipped off to Zutah where they will live happily ever after on sunny, wide- open reservations, counseled by pompous, incapable federal and state ritual technicians with sociology degrees. It’s happened before and not so long ago, no?” – Harv Birdseede