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      • The Overland Stage: 5 – Julesburg to Junction Station (aka Ft Morgan)
      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
      • The Overland Stage: 7 – Latham Crossing to Fort Collins
      • The Overland Stage: 8 – LaPorte to Virginia Dale
      • The Overland Stage: 9 – Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek
      • The Overland Stage: 10 – Cooper Creek to Pass Creek
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      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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Tunesday: Two Steps From Hell – Blackheart

The New American Digest Posted on October 13, 2026 by DTOctober 3, 2026

A sample of some obscure – and maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today’s selection: Two Steps From Hell – “Blackheart” 2012

Two Steps From Hell is a manufactured group, formed in 2006 by a pair of Norwegian composers who had moved to LA for the purpose of providing music for film trailers. Their compositions have been described as “epic music” and have appeared in trailers for movies such as Star Trek and Harry Potter. Fans of the music requested the compositions be released for purchase so the composers began releasing albums. This composition is from their 4th album, “Skyworld”, which is the first to contain music created for public release instead of film soundtracks.

The pair separated in 2024, ending “Two Steps From Hell”.

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Safety Tips

The New American Digest Posted on October 12, 2026 by DTOctober 12, 2026

“Amid surge in crime across state“: Too many from “tolerance” locations moving in.

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Snot

The New American Digest Posted on October 12, 2026 by JeanOctober 9, 2026

posted by Jean, Sept 14, 2026 at Pondering

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Getting On ‘Simmon-Time

The New American Digest Posted on October 11, 2026 by DTOctober 9, 2026

Jamestown Island, Virginia

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Headline

The New American Digest Posted on October 10, 2026 by DTOctober 10, 2026

“Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows“
It was not deemed a fun hairstyle choice adopted on a vacation but rather a despicable case of cultural appropriation that warranted her termination.

despicable! I’m willing to bet the blonde in the lower right is OK with them.

they be mostly white folk …

Then again, theatre people are a bit off-balance anyway (been there, done that: I hold a theatre “degree” – aka “party”)

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NOSHA

The New American Digest Posted on October 10, 2026 by DTOctober 9, 2026

Boarding houses in Sneffels, Colorado

At a bit over 10,000 ft, the silver-based town was formed in the mid-1870s with a post office established in 1879. The town had a peak population of about 2000 with the Revenue mine and mill (employed 600 men) the primary employer. The mill existed to serve the mines further upgrade; the Virginius mine being the primary producer ($28M to 1919). “Fame” eluded the Revenue as the Camp Bird mine outproduced the Revenue and attention was drawn to it.

The mill burned in 1915, the post office closed in 1935, and the town faded away.

A few structures such as these still existed when I took this photo but many had already collapsed from snow loads. I had first visited the site in 1979 but haven’t been up there for a number of years now; a quick glance at Giggle Maps appears to show the Revenue mine as active again and no signs of the town itself.

“Sneffels August 1885”
Revenue Mine and Mill – 1897

Now a popular recreation area … the road is still dangerous but has been improved over the years; not good publicity to lose a few tourists over the edge every year.

going up
headed down
That overhang used to have less clearance but was carved out a bit in the 80s
to allow passage of trucks from the Ruby Trust mine – since closed again
It’s a fun drive in the winter ….
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Something To Read

The New American Digest Posted on October 9, 2026 by DTOctober 9, 2026

Warning: Right-wing stuff …

From “The Burning Platform – “Only One Box Left“

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An article from “On the North River”. Screams that England has become a classic “shit hole”.

The New American Digest Posted on October 9, 2026 by JoeOctober 6, 2026

suggested by Joe

Hell on Earth… in Britain.
Posted on June 17, 2026 by On the North River

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol

I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I’ve ever read in my life.

There is no close second… and it’s worse than you could ever imagine.

Here’s everything you need to know 

The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.
A QUARTER MILLION.

1) The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.
A QUARTER MILLION.
They are overwhelmingly white girls and they were raped, trafficked & tortured over decades. The 250k number is the MINIMUM, the FLOOR… there are likely even more than this.

2. The same crime was documented in at least 149 local authority districts … nearly 40% of the country. This wasn’t dozens of isolated local incidents, this was ABSOLUTELY a national pattern the state CHOSE to let grow for decades. The first recorded case dates to 1955.

3. The NHS treated 13-year-olds for gonorrhea & chlamydia, logged pregnancies from rape and injuries from assault… …BUT THEN DISCHARGED THE CHILDREN THE SAME NIGHT, back to their abusers!!!! They treated symptoms and ignored the crime ENTIRELY, pure evil.

4. Children’s homes became actual trafficking hubs.
Social services placed already-groomed kids in units they KNEW were targeted, returned girls to the exact addresses where they’d been raped, and stripped protective parents of authority… …often IN FRONT OF THE CHILD!!!

5. Police criminalized the victims and let rapists walk.
Girls were literally arrested for being “drunk & disorderly” after their own assaults. A South Yorkshire officer cut a “no-prosecution deal” with a known abuser. Some officers were INSIDE THE RAPE GANGS!!!

6. Pregnancy was used as a WEAPON.
Girls were deliberately impregnated for control. Some miscarried from trauma, some were forced into abortions… …and the state took the babies while leaving the mothers in the SAME HOUSES WHERE THE ABUSE CONTINUED!!!

7. Survivors described “red rooms” for extreme torture, daily rape, being passed between BROTHERS and friends, and trafficking across county lines. In some cases shipped to the Middle East for forced marriage. All of it was FILMED for blackmail purposes.

8. Schools literally saw older men collecting girls at the gates and heard disclosures of rape on school grounds. Their response? Exclude the VICTIM. In fact, taxi licensing renewed permits for the very drivers who were the logistical backbone of the trafficking networks.

9. The whistleblowers got punished… not the rapists. Social workers were suspended. Parents hit with home raids, asset freezes, gag orders. Records were shredded. In one case, a father was screamed at by police to STOP reporting his own daughter missing!!

10. The overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds. Between 87%-95% of the men involved in the rape gangs were Muslim… …despite them being 6% of the population.

DT:
Perhaps we need to rescue Great Britain more than Iran

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Bee On Hose Nozzle

The New American Digest Posted on October 8, 2026 by DTOctober 6, 2026

submitted by illinoisbeekeeper

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the drain that is my brain…

The New American Digest Posted on October 7, 2026 by DTOctober 6, 2026

Originally posted by Jean May 20, 2010

I have accepted the crapfact that depression
will never leave me alone. It is part of me.
*
damn you old black dog
wearing me out and down like
river rubbed canyon
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There is nothing to be done about it except
endure. Over and over and over again.
*
tomorrow looks less
than worthy after today’s
vain forward struggle
*
Pep-talks from well meaning friends don’t help.
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come along, you say.
you know precisely my need.
arrogant bastard
*
It makes it very difficult to be nice so I often hide.
*
it’s worse somewhere else
for many someone elses.
today I don’t care.
*
It turns me into someone I don’t like at all and I can’t help it.
*
do you doubt despair
can twist the heart, wring the soul,
blind all hope? You fool.
*
It sneaks up and every time I ask why.
*
you think you know
the reason, the answer, the
why. until this now.
*
I’ve read a gazillion books and been to therapy.
*
regurgitation
of all the pretty words ends
in ugly dry heaves
*
Remember the time I went to a shooting range and
enjoyed shooting and did very well? Did anyone
think it strange that I did not buy a gun?
*
it is not so hard
to understand that there are
some who will resign
*
It feels like living in hell and a glorious relief
when it subsides.
*
to wax poetic
do you mind much when I swear?
tough shit if you do.

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Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23

“This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it”
Psalm 118:24


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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  1. jean on Tunesday: Two Steps From Hell – BlackheartOctober 13, 2026

    "Two Steps From Hell"...clever.

  2. Joe on Tunesday: Two Steps From Hell – BlackheartOctober 13, 2026

    If we do not change our course sooner than later we are going to wake up with our headsets on…

  3. Anne on Safety TipsOctober 12, 2026

    We are inundated by white people from Minnesota and Michigan and Oregon. The most disgusting betrayal of this year is…

  4. Snakepit on Safety TipsOctober 12, 2026

    Stay out of MN. Shooting a dirtball has to be proved as last resort. In KS if you get the…

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    Me too. But I think we probably have to thank a walrus. I'm guessing some neanderthal ancestor watched them guzzling…


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