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      • 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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Depression

The New American Digest Posted on December 1, 2025 by JeanDecember 9, 2025

first posted by Jean on June 20, 2008

For those of you who believe - and even those who don't - Jean will need your prayers or best wishes tomorrow. May she return here soon.

Depression

is not
just another bad mood.
it is
day after day after day after day
talking myself out of
dying.

But not today.

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Liberals Rage In Idaho

The New American Digest Posted on December 1, 2025 by DTNovember 30, 2025

Headline (Gateway Pundit): "Liberals are Raging After Idaho Bar Offers Free Beer for a Month to Anyone Who Helps ICE Identify and Deport Illegal Aliens"

Not that too many care about liberals or illegals. The bar is doing a booming business.

The Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, is offering a whole month of free beer to anyone who assists U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in identifying and deporting illegal immigrants from the state.

The saloon’s bio [also] proudly declares it as the “Birthplace of Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” and sells merchandise with slogans like “Make America Straight Again.”

And, as I drift off topic ...

Eagle being a semi-suburb of Boise; it's also the "richest" per capita city in the state ("city" hereabouts being over 5,000 people). Eagle is considered one of the "bluer" cities in the state (#5) with about 46% voting blue and just over 50% voting red.

There are 34 cities in the state; nine (including Eagle) being in the Boise metro area (or 13 depending on definition of metro area)

Only one city in Idaho has a D majority; Hailey, "home to the stars" near the Sun Valley/Ketchum resort area with 67% blue. Moscow (college town) is #2 with just under 50% blue.

The 10 most conservative cities each have over 75% voting red; #1, Preston, over 85%; the least red, Hailey, only 30%.

Idaho is about 2½ times larger than Indiana with a total population being slightly less than Indianapolis metro, a bit less than ½ being in Boise metro.

ghostsniper better not visit ... unless he brings his family and belongings with him.

For those curious, I meet friends for breakfast every so often near that little bump a bit SE of "Illinois". Boise proper is near that bump on the Indiana/Illinois border.

South fork - Payette River
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Rules

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


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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