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I talked earlier about how important it is to have friends and I told you all about my good friend Jim Butler who got with the wrong woman and they were doing drugs and jim fell out and this stupid girl was to scared to call for an ambulance,I got there 2 hours later and called but it was so late he had damage to his brain. He has been living in a home for brain damaged people and I made sure I visited him at least once a week,sometimes 3 times a week,well he died Monday the 23rd of june 2008. He was my best friend and I kept praying he would snap out of it but I know personally I would not want to live like jim was so im trying to look at it as a blessing. The funeral was nice,it was on thursday and I was amazed at how many friends he had. He was the type of person who was very outgoing and friendly,you couldn't dislike this man if you tried. He saved my life one time years ago but that wasn't why he was my best friend,it was the little things he did,like calling me out of the blue to see how im doing or just stopping by with fishing equipment and talking me into going. He was one of a kind and I know he's looking down on me and saying I wish I was as happy as he is, As promised I recieved some of his ashes that I will spread at one of our favorite camping places,it wasn't unusual for us to haul in 50 crappy each and a couple of 4-6pound bass,ill miss you Jim but ill never forget you buddy  Craig  Roboter

If you haven't read my stories by now about my adventures in the national parks let me tell you my latest phone call from the national park manager. They are having a hard time this year getting a full crew to fill there mountain rescue squad. The manager offered me not this summer but next summer to come back to the grand teton national park and be a ranger and be on the rescue squad. I was both for 8 years in yellowstone and the tetons. Im 48 years old but in great shape,my grandpa was a ranger and on the rescue squad until he was 64 years old. It really makes me feel good to get this offer,I have saved over or about 60 to 80 people off the mountain where most would have certainly died. I am thinking seriously about going next summer mainly because I love the risk and scenery that is the most exilerating place I have ever been. I have no clue if you have ever been offered such an honor but its like taking a drug that makes you feel the best you have ever felt. I owe everything to my grandpa who made me take climbing lessons when I was 10 in the tetons where I learned to love wildlife and all the precious land that herbert hoover bought and gave the national parks,without him there would be no beautiful land for millions to enjoy. I still go climbing and have all my gear so its going to be a really hard decision when I get the letter of intent to go back to the parks.I have plenty of time to decide but it would be nice to hear from some of you on your opinions to help me decide,im good on money,that is not a problem,its just weird to have this thrown at me when im thinking of retiring soon but maybe it would be better to go out of this world doing good for mankind instead of sitting around in my boat or traveling. I have always been a risk taker and have made peace with my higher power many decades ago,any thoughts would be appreciated  Roboter

Wheat Straw when you add enzymes and put it through the distillation process makes sugar into ethanol which im sure all the oil companies are trying to kep secret. Im here to tell you the facts,I didn't get my masters for nothing. Its a fact wheat straw or other grasses can make fuel to run cars or trucks cheaply. I already told you the simple way they make ethanol,the by produck of the grasses is lignin which is a mix of polymores found in woody plants that bind plants together. The great thing about making ethanol out of grasses creates electricity that can run farms or sell it back to the grid. The main problem is the companies are waiting for the first plant to start production so they can learn from there mistakes. Goldman Sachs is putting 30 million dollars towards this process along with the Royal/Shell Group. When the companies start making the fuel it will cut down considerably our need to import so much oil overseas. It is also a fact that that non profit studies have confirmed that corn ethanol is not half as expensive to produce as advertised,its all a campain from the giant oil companies. Look at Brazil,they make all fuel out of sugarcane but we refuse to import it even though Brazil is trying to sell it to us. There price of fuel in Brazil is under a dollar a gallon,when we start making our own fuel in america we can tell the big oil companies to eat grass,I just don't understand the hold up on making fuel out of grasses,it must be something connected with washington,the worthless people on earth for our economy. My hope is everybody learns about this and raises a fit to make washington do the right thing but knowing history it will take them forever and we will perish before they have common sense

While living in independence MO. I was married and 2 doors down the was a young kid approx. 11 who had no father and I felt for him and showed him fun times by taking him fishing,got him into racing his bike and then bought him a motocross motorcycle so we could go offroad. Well 5 years ago I got divorced from my wife and moved and within that time he was going to KC public schools which are crap and he quit school in the 10th grade. Recently he got a job working with my stepson in construction and said he was going to save for a car. He got his check and immediately bought an AK- 47 assault rifle. Then someone threatened his mom so he got his buddies from his gang I suppose he joined and had 2 people go into the house to clear a 36 year old woman out of the house. Unfortunately she got away and went back to her house while derrik sprayed her house with the machine gun and killed her. He is now in jail,his mom can't go back to her house out of fear of retaliation,derrik told his mom not to ever go back to her house or go to court. He has a sentence of 20 years to life,ruined his mothers house and she has to sell it. I partially blame his mother because she is a racist of blacks and homosexuals and it spread to her son. She is a hater of everything and I think mentally unstable. What im trying to say is you have to stay on top constantly while raising a boy or they will do crazy things. He was a mellow,polite,nice kid when I was his temporary dad,which he had none but me but in those three years I was gone he ruined his life forever and messed up his family,all I can say is if you have a son keep constant tabs on them or you could be going through something similar. I feel so bad for derrik but he is 18 and I don't know what he got into but I know if I was there he wouldn't have gotten in this trouble,I hope whoever reads this you take it to heart,if you dont believe me look up independence MO. examiner newspaper around may 23rd and you will have your proof,please watch your sons and don't give a damn if they get mad at you,its better that there life ruined  Roboter

It amazes me that every day I drive to work I pick up two people so we can save gas but when I look at the cars I pass 19 out of 20 have one driver in it,talk about wasting energy. We are the champs in wasting everything there is to waste. Americans are spoiled but very soon they will have to start doing things differently only because they will have no other choice,when gas gets to six dollars a gallon you will see some changes,maybe not overnight but it will happen. Scientists are now able to make gas out of regular lawn grass but its going to take a couple of years to make it feasable to produce. Right now a company is selling a gas pump for seven thousand dollars that makes gas out of sugar for approx. one dollar a gallon,you can also put in your extra wine,beer or any spirits to turn into gas,its basically a still,but its legal and there selling like no tomorrow. If people would stop wasting everything so much we could get the price of gas down ourselves but that is too easy and will never happen. President Bush doesn't want to start drilling for oil in america,Why,because he has an agenda where his cronies make a fortune while the american public suffers,plus he's an idiot.lier and a cheat. All his friends have made a kings ransom in Iraq,while our young kids are being killed and wounded by people who would rather slit our throuts than look at us. Excuse me but Fuck Iraq,lets get the hewl out of there now,we are done,completed our mission,im sick of our kids being killed for money,let the iraqies deal with there problems,there not children but we treat them like they can't defend themselves,bullshit,there trained and capable of pulling a trigger,and there damn good at setting out bombs on the side of the roads so let them take the casulaties,not our men anymore.  Roboter

I took off two days to help my parents stain there deck,never mind I told them 10 years ago not to paint it because it will crack and peel and you can't walk on it,they painted it anyway and the next year,because the wood didn't have time to cure it peeled off and looked like crap. So now they believe me but they don't want to go pick out the stain or rent a powerwasher,so I borrowed one from a friend saving 60 dollars,now there complaining about how much stain will cost,and every concievable excuse. Parents can be a pain.  Craig

I was reading my old blogs and discovered I promised to write about another one of my rescues saving people on a mountain,this is my worst one involving my personal health. It was my second year as a ranger in Teton National Park and I got a call on my CB saying three people were 2 days late on the Grand teton mountain around 8pm. A spotter had located the three climbers 3 hours earlier and they were defenitely in trouble. This was only my fourth rescue and I was scared because the Grand had given me problems in the past but it was my job and 3 other more experienced climbers were helping also. The climbers were not very experienced with no guide with them and they were about three quarters high on the mountain. The helicopter took us a little over halfway up the mountain,and luckily we could walk most of the way to the climbers except for 2 easy climbs. We got to the climbers after about 4 hours and they just were scared and cold so we started bringing them back down. It took 7 hours to get them to the helicopter that came back and landed on a glacier. Stupid unexperienced me grabbed the most hurt one and started taking him to the helicopter,not paying close attention,and I fell in a 30 ft. crevice breaking my back and right foot,thank god the person with me was 30 ft. back conected to mel behind him. Well now my life is in danger so the other rescuers took all the people that were trapped and took them to the helicopter and took them to the hospital in jackson hole. All my friends stayed and mel had to be lowered to me to strap me up and pull me out,by that time the helicopter was back and I guess you know where they took me. It was very embarassing but my friends made me feel better when they told me there similar stupid mistakes. I was in the hospital for over a month but made a full recovery and was a ranger on the rescue squad for another 5 years.God has always been on my shoulder and I know its because I have strong carma for saving so many lives,I still have troubles in life and if I died tomorrow I would go knowing I did my best to be nice,caring,and put my life on the line to help our fellow man and woman,but I went through the most pain that I thought wasnt possible for 2 weeks and they were debating to put me in a coma because they thought the pain was to overwelming and I have a super tolerance to pain and I told them I would rather die than possibly never wake up. I swore I would never write about this but after 18 years maybe it will help sombody else even though I doubt anybody reads this,I definetely would never print it in a news paper,  Roboter

You know I have been studying this trend for the last 3 years and the main reason I believe we the ice caps are melting is because I can see it as its happening. The national snow and ice center located in denver CO. shows all the sattelite images as the caps melt and this year they have photographic,radar and microwave proof not only the caps are melting but Antarcia. Its a shame there are so many people obvlious to this situation. Even the bush administration has said global warming is crap and not true until president bush realised he was making a fool of himself by saying that so the last few weeks he has called it climate change. Twenty years ago we had a substancial amount of sea ice on the north polar ice cap,now this year it has shrunk by 50% in twenty years. I personaly dont think there is a cure for it and we will be without ice on both polar caps in 30 to 60 years. That means the oceans will flood florida,new york, and all the places 100s of miles in from every coast and everyone will try to move to dry land and basically make the united states about half our size it is now. All the top scientists agree this is happening except for a very few who say its a natural warming trend but natural trends dont happen in 20 years its more like 1000 years. The bush administration has called global warming a crock until the last few weeks when they realised they looked so stupid to all americans they changed there minds and called it climate change,thats a major reason I knew global warming was real when bush said it wasnt real,when the biggest lier in presidential history says a statement you can bet your ass he's wrong. Wheres all the killer gas and earth ending munitions he said were in Iraq.Scientists dont go by opinion they only state what they can prove or its there reputation they ruin forever and since 90% agree with the warming trend I believe them and if you dont by now look up National snow and ice center and see all the melting around the world first hand,and if anybody has an opinion on this matter,dont hold back,let it rip and tell our group your opinion,thats what this group is for,maybe you have a different opinion,great,lets hear it,  Roboter

I have all my climbing gear ready to go to Montana and climb Crazy mountain with my uncle,I have already postponed it once last month because of the weather,and now my uncle who was going with me has changed his mind and doesn't want to tackle it this year,and you never go climbing with somebody who says something like that,you'll get hurt or killed for sure if you were able to talk him into it,I learned that a long time ago. Im kind of glad anyway because I think this year I want to do something more relaxing,I haven't gone scuba diving for 7 years and I just got off the phone with my buddy frank who lives in cancun mexico and he said to come on down and thats what im going to do,the main problem is you never want to leave when you get there.Frank taught me to dive in a swimming pool in 15 min. and an hour later I was 100 ft. down under the ocean with these tremendous rapids trying to take me out to sea. Supposedly its one of the most dangerous places to dive because of those rapids,the strongest almost anywhere to dive in. But I can't imagine just diving in a place where its perfectly calm,whats the fun in that,there's no danger as far as im concerned,and thats part of the fun,isn't it. I even went night diving with frank and his partner,we would go down around 110 ft. and these octopuses would wrap themselves around you and we would bring them back on the boat,the only reason I did it was because I ate some in a resterant and they tasted so good,and frank was there also and he said they were going to go get some tonight and invited me,so I had to go. I have never eaten one since,just havent had the opportunity. I will have plenty of time to eat them this summer,I will stay at franks place and he said I can just go with him everyday helping him and dive for free.I will of course pay him,probably 500 dollars for a week of fun and its a small fortune to him so we both will come out happy. My uncle thinks im still coming up to fish and hike and ride around in his helicopter,but ive lived in the mountains almost half my life and ill go to montana when Jim takes me up my damn mountain,im still sick of fishing and hiking and those helicopters are great for pulling off a hurt climber,thats intense and fun and gives you a sense of probably saving a life but to just fly around sightseeing is boring to me,but if he could get me on his military jet id be there in a week,but theres no way no how ive been told,I guess ill never go faster than a bullet,so this year instead of climbing up in the sky im going to glide way down,spear some fish,do some night diving and see how far down I can possibly go.  Roboter 

I had one of my best friends while growing up in a small town for some strange reason he decided to leave his great job in Houston and go back to the small town where we grew up. It didn't take him long to start acting like a teenager,got in good with another good friend of mine who now dealt meth,hung around all his old partying friends and in less than a year he was dead,from alchohol and meth. Not only that nobody found him for over two weeks after he died. I guess he thought he had some real friends in that town,but to be laying dead on the floor without anybody checking up on him or just coming over,nobody locks there door,shows me he had no real friends in that town. I have had maybe 3 or 4 real friends in my life not counting family,my definetion of a real friend is bailing you out of jail or picking you up when your stranded,something that they have to go way out of there way to help you. I had two real friends left last year,Steve died for no apparent reason and Jim had a horrible accident that left him half paralysed and brain damaged. I still go see jim every chance I get hoping he will snap out of it but the truth be known besides a few lucky encounters that evolve into a true friendship your real friends are your family. My family would do anything for me and I think there are a lot of people out there who might have 10 friends they believe are true ones but sooner or later they will find out that it is closer to 2 or 3. I have had friends that have stolen money or jewely who I thought would do anything for our friendship,thats how I felt. I guess bottom line what im trying to say is its real easy to have a friend but a true friend like family is very rare to find.  Roboter