Then, when I leave the house, if I am not on my bike, I listen to KHOL in the car. This is pretty awesome, too, especially when the reggae show is on Saturday from noon to 2.

There are no ads, and it’s good music. Who needs XM?

.02: How long have you been a DJ?  What’s your show called?  Mission statement?

I have been on KHOL since pretty much the beginning, June 2008. I hesitate to call myself a DJ, more a selector. I don’t have a name for my show anymore, although at one point for about a year it was called “Deep Sea vent.” Now there is no real name. I’m just Sam and I have a show from 8 to 10 p.m. on Thursdays.

I play hip hop, reggae, independent rock and electronic dance music. Although we get this music in hard-copy form at KHOL on a weekly basis, the internet is faster and I spend a lot of time reading and listening to what’s out there. All week,everyday, I’m preparing for my next show. So always searching searching searching.

I owe a lot to the following:

thefader.com,

gorillavsbear.net,

chocolatebobka.com,

weeklytapedeck.com,

pinglewood.com,

passionweiss.com,

cocaineblunts.com, … etc. Oh, and the hype machine, hypem.com

If it weren’t for these sites and other music blogs, my show would suck.

I’d also like to add that anyone can volunteer at the station. People should contact station manager Walker White.  We are always looking for volunteers.  Tune in at 89.1 on the FM dial when in Jackson Hole.

.03: If you could send an album, just one, both 100 years into the past and future, what would it be and why?

Wu-Tang Clan’s “Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers”

Although it is not the best hip hop album of all time, it is the one that had the largest impact on me. It changed my life, musically. I was 14 when I heard this album. Everything changed after that. I sold off all my Led Zeppelin albums and started listing to … everything else.

Photo: Andrew Wyatt

Wage Peace: the non lethal weaponry solution

Bee keepers use puffs of smoke to pacify angry insects.  If the U.S. Military hopes to win their current struggles against justifiably enraged insurgents who have had their homelands wrongfully invaded then we need to apply a similar non-lethal strategy to the arena of Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond if necessary.  It’s debatable, however, if the goal is to win the deceptive “war on terror” or just prolong a most blatant act of corporate profiteering.

We have the technology and neurological understanding to apply these methods.  Unfortunately, our government seems to lack the care and compassion necessary to do so.  Bullets and bombs that target not the body, but the microscopic receptor sites of the brain may be our best hope to wage peace.

Within all human minds lie waiting known neurological “key holes” waiting to be activated that trigger predictable repercussions.  Rubber tipped tubular, mosquito inspired darts carrying a customized liquid compound could be used instead of deadly ammunition.  These projectiles would deliver a small, yet effective dose of a tranquilizing solution that would temporarily sedate instead of kill.  It’s time this nation, supposedly founded on Christian values, remembers the 6th commandment.

Modified “paint ball” ammunition could also be readily manufactured to deliver the dose in a variety of ways using existing CO2 powered game-based rifles which are surprisingly advanced.  A gaseous explosion could occur on impact to engage air or mucus membrane intake systems of the human body.  A silica compound could also be added so that just a slight flesh wound, perhaps with an added indigo or UV light sensitive dye to provide historical evidence, would allow access to the blood stream and deliver the mind altering molucules to the attacker’s brain.  Options would be designed and implemented to best suit operational needs.

Optimally, a psychotropic compound would also be included to engage a consciousness expansion.  We would explore indigenous concoctions for inspiration.  The solution should also be blessed from a shamanic perspective so the unforeseen “trip” heads in a transformative direction.  Intention is everything.  Gandhi warned us about an “eye for an eye”.  Now is the time to open each other’s 3rd eye.

Many among us would gladly test this system on our selves before unleashing it upon insurgents.  This would become protocol for boot camp training so that the soldier would understand the impact of his actions on others.   Candidates could also be readily recruited from the parking lots of various music festivals.  The CIA in the ’60s heavily explored this arena with their LSD investigations.  It’s clearly time to resume that research, but with the new biochemical, neurological and spiritual comprehension of current times.

An attacker, instead of having their body blown to bits, would merely have their mind and hopefully also their soul blossom wide open.  Awakening from their sedated inner journey a few hours later, the individual would find their weapons chopped into pieces by hydraulic pincers.  He or she would live another day, but not their AK-47 or rocket propelled grenade launcher.

Recently, de-crypted video footage emerged on the web that recorded the wrongful slaughter of innocent civilians caring camera equipment that was mistaken for weapons while crossing a street in Iraq.  Apparently, photo-journalists not following Pentagon protocols have a tendency of being gunned down by not-so-friendly fire.   Wrongful deaths like this would be avoided if bullets were replaced with sedative stings.

The relatives of a tranguilized terrorist would also be less likely to seek revenge for no one died.  Although, hopefully, the enraged part of them would.  Over time, the repeated mental/spiritual “pulses” would alter their perspective of violence and lead to the dialog of peace that we all pray will unfold.  There is no way this is foreseeably possible based on current U.S. military methods which are primarily profit driven.  The business of war is so very lucrative.  Why stop when there’s so much money to be made?

Unfortunately, providing We The People with adequate food, housing, inspiring education, a healthy environement and free health care isn’t a lucrative endeavor.  All those bombs, bullets, planes and tanks really add up fast adding billions to our debt every day.  Then of course, there’s that pipe line to be put in across Afghanistan, the second largest oil deposit in the world to be secured in Iraq while bankrupting the US economy.

Psychotropics, derived primarily from substances that naturally grow from the earth, have been used by indigenous cultures for thousands of years to expand one’s awareness of life, the universe and everything.  Their foundation of reality and medicinal botanical knowledge is largely based on plant/brain/soul inter-communications.  It’s been documented that even early Europeans, prior to the systematic disruption of their link to Nature by the Catholic Church through their not-so-holy inquisitions, engaged in fungi induced reality shifts.

It seems, based on my personal experiences, that members of our community who have not explored  psychedelic experiences are somehow more agitated then those that have.  Not engaging those patiently waiting receptor sites, in my opinion, seems somehow to be detrimental to one’s mental and spiritual health.  I believe we would actually be providing a much needed experience to a very aggressive and understandably angry culture through non lethal, “illuminating” ammunition.  I suspect it might even turn out to be fun.

Several scientific experiments over the past 60 years have been conducted using psychotropics on volunteer test subjects.  The majority of “test pilots” report their experiences to be positive and world changing.  The book Breaking Open The Head by Daniel Pinchbeck is recommended reading on this subject.   It’s clear based on my research that plant based, non processed mind expanding substances were made illegal in this country to better control the American populace who have since been heavily domesticated by our deceptive and monopolized media.  Once you see the world differently, if only for a few hours, it’s never the same ever again. If you begin to question reality, then authority comes next.

Fire Photon Torpedoes…

The future rifle systems that await to be designed and implemented will fire non-lethal, consciousness expanding projectiles, but also need to be equipped with a customized, high powered laser beam.  This beam will assist in aiming when activated, but also induce temporary blindness making the threat unable to aim their weapons at our troops.  It’s activation will be optional and used when appropriate.

New advancements in “sonic disruptor” technology also exists that needs to be integrated into compassionate combat methods. These systems have all ready been prototyped and utilized as pirate deterents by the shipping industry and called Long Range Acoustic Devices.  Focused sound waves that repulse attackers without puncturing the body are needed if peace will prevail.

Imagine also Nerf inspired “smart bombs”, mortars and grenades that deployed their mind expanding sedative over larger areas through a gas expulsion system.  Whole battalions could be temporarily immobilized while their weapons were destroyed.  There would no longer be the fear of innocent civilians being killed in crossfire or air strikes for they would return to normalcy once the effect wore off. Architectural damage would also be minimized. The U.S. Military would then attract a new wave of enlightened enlistees who wish to make this world a safer place without the death, dismemberment and life altering psychiatric trauma that far too often follows our soldier’s home.

The development of tranquilizer/psychotropic non-lethal weaponry systems would also encourage more affirmative action in dealing with genocide and oppression in regions like Darfur.  People in need of safe haven could be protected in bamboo based refugee communities with out having to use deadly force against marauders that only adds fuel to the cultural fire.

Systematic elimination of sinister concentration camps in places like the jungles of Burma could also be peacefully liberated with out the loss of life.  These locations are widely known thanks to Google Earth, but largely ignored by the our government.  Peacekeeping efforts could actually become peaceful and proactive in nature.  It’s time to co-create a planet based on justice and freedom for all.  I am ready when you are.

Upon a quick scan of human history, we see endless waves of war.  We are currently engaged in the fabricated, yet now out of control, “War on Terror.”  The American people are awakening to the reality that Republican choreographed corporate profiteering is behind this latest cycle of madness.  As this new dawn unfolds, it is our responsibility to make right, in the best way possible, the atrocious “wrongs” committed by the Bush regime.

As absurd as these ’60s inspired visions may seem to the average, media mainlined American do we realistically have any other options for peaceful resolutions?  When the 9/11 investigations are inevitably opened and prosecutions against Bush, Cheney, Chumpsfeld, Rice and others are engaged how else will the US military calm the inevitable explosion of chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Timothy Leary may have once be viewed by Nixon as “the most dangerous man alive”, but I suspect his efforts in exploring biochemical catalysts for enlightening purposes will actually lead to a safer and peaceful world.  Time to turn on, tune in and “peace out”, dude.  Let’s set phasers to stun and end the unnecessary death and insanity once and for all.

Art: Shepard Fairey Please visit:  Obey Giant for more…

I didn’t intend to open a brewery that only served beer above 8.0% alcohol, it just kind of happened. My beers and the guest taps tended to be strong this winter. All these years living in Wyoming, I always wanted the beers that were tough to get – the ones I had to travel to Belgian or the coasts to taste. So I had to open a brewery and make them myself (dare to dream). And this winter I think I’ve shown the local distributors that there is a market for the more flavorful beers – how did that happen? Is there actually a group of people in JH who appreciate good beer? Was it the millions of tourists coming from a place known as a city?

Why do we get such taste challenged beer in Wyoming? Because that’s what people like? The beer commercials show us what a beer is supposed to look like – clear and refreshing like a cold mountain stream and light and cheap like a soap opera.

I started asking the distributors to get me the good stuff, they were reluctant – they’ve been doing just fine selling the over-commercialized union made beers (breweries that might have been considered craft brewers in the 1800’s). They were also comfortable with the microbreweries that used to be cutting edge - until they cornered the market with a ‘Brand’ - then went softer than the creepy ‘Don’t squeeze the Charmin’ grocer.

You can make a complex beer with small amounts of alcohol.

Some purist (as he would probably call himself) might even argue that the less complexity, then the cleaner and more isolated the taste - so the more complex it is. He would add that big beers try and cover up all the flaws with higher alcohol. I might agree with that if a brewery say, boosted their fermentation temps to speed up the process thus dumping phenols in the beer and giving you that crushing two beer hangover.

We all have different tastes, for instance I like women of color and you may not. But at the same time you might think you don’t like beers with color, yet when was the last time you had one? What if I were to give you a Rogue Imperial Porter with a blindfold on – the dark color would no longer hold you back. And you might actually like it while unintentionally breaking the color barrier.

Start this off-season by trying something new – let’s shed those old thoughts about beer like a winter layer – lets expand our knowledge together and learn interesting things about beer that we never knew existed. They do exist and they are sitting in the cooler waiting for us. The local brewers, bartenders and folks at the liquor stores can guide you through their beer selections and help you get a beer that you will like.

Look for amazing lighter beers this spring/summer at Thai Me Up and around town.

Beers on Tap: http://www.thaijh.com/draft-beer/ (we also have Bud in the bottle)

 The budget was signed this morning by the Governor.  Some highpoints of the budget that Rep. Gingery worked on and made sure that they passed

$2.5 million into the Wildlife Trust Fund

$2 million into the Cultural Trust Fund

$685,000 for telepsychiatry — Rep. Gingery serves as the Co Chair of the Select Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and worked to get this provision in the budget.  Many communities do not have psychiatrists and by allowing patients to access psychiatrists through teleconference will expand patient care and reduce costs considerably.

$5.5 million for Developmental Disabilities.  This was the area of the budget that Rep. Gingery worked the most and came into conflict with the House Leadership on this issue.  Rep. Gingery was successful in getting  the funding into the budget.

Rep. Gingery was also successful in getting the sex offender treatment program funded fully at the State Penitentiary and working with Rep. Jim Roscoe was able to obtain funding for a law clerk for Judge Tyler in Pinedale.

Teton County School District #1 will receive $37 million this year which translates to $16,000 per student with 2317 students.  This is an increase of about $1million from last year.  The average teacher salaries in Teton County have doubled in the last 10 years going from $33,000 in 2000 to $65,000 in 2010.

Teton County and the Town of Jackson will receive their standard under the cap appropriations, mineral royalty grant foundations, state aid for county roads, and business council funding.  In addition the Legislature has appropriated the following funds from  the general fund to assist the town and county in these times of decreased local sales tax and property tax revenue.  The Town of Jackson will receive an extra $603,531 to help them with their budgeting this year.  Teton County will receive $492,174.

The final budget numbers are as follows

$2.9 billion from the General Fund  (a decrease of about a $1 billion from the last budget)

$1.6 billion from the School Foundation Program to fund K-12 education

$244 million for new school construction out of school capital construction account

The Legislature chose not to touch any of the state’s reserve funds, so there is still $712 million residing in the primary rainy day account.  There is also $40 million in the School Foundation and about $150 million sitting in the Water Development accounts.

There are some hundred billion galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars… ten billion trillion.  In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet?

-Carl Sagan

There is no greater “drug free” reality shift then experiencing your first UFO sighting.  Mine was back in 2003.  A reassuring voice was sensed inside my head that calmly said “go outside, go outside” and so I did.  It was in the evening an hour or so after dinner in the burbs of upstate NY.  Not a star was visible due to a low, thick blanket of clouds that glowed slightly orange due to the light pollution of nearby downtown Schenectady.

As I walked down the driveway of my parent’s suburban home my world changed forever.  Hovering about ½ mile away, roughly 45 degrees up was a glistening red orb.  My estimate was that this bright ember in the night sky was about 30′ in diameter and blazed like a small sun.  Every now and then it’d swirl erratically as if  being jiggled from heaven by a giant fishing pole.  I stared at it and “it” seemed to be staring back for about 20 minutes.  A curious long sleek military jet then appeared and cruised by the shining sphere, slightly above the red ball and just below the layer of clouds.

Without a fellow witness, I realized that no one would believe me.  So, I ran inside and grabbed my dad and the cordless phone to call a friend in Colorado.  A minute later we were both outside gazing at the orb which had drifted  a few degrees to the right, but maintained the same altitude.

My dad was a bit freaked.  The friend I had called was baffled and asked me to pass the phone to my father to confirm I wasn’t losing my mind.  While they were talking about the mysterious object hovering in the air the large barracuda-like airplane buzzed back for another fly by, but this time from below.

We gazed at the hovering anomoly for another 30 minutes or so, as the glowing ball slowly continued to casually drift west about 100′ beneath the urban induced orange haze.  Every few minutes it’d do a little swirling orbital dance as if to make sure we realized that what we were looking at was certainly not a weather balloon.  I’d lose my breath every time.

Houston, Do We Have a Problem or Possible Solution?

It turns out that former president Jimmy Carter had a UFO sighting while governor of Georgia back in 1969.  10 other members of his local Lions Club also witnessed a “self-luminous” object in the sky that according to Carter’s official report “Came close, moved away, came close and then moved away.”

Fast forward a few years and Carter as President of the U.S.A requests from the CIA director all government documentation of UFO or Extra Terrestrial activity.  George Bush Sr., “W’s” daddy, was in charge of the CIA at the time.  He refused to share any relevant information.  It’s also been revealed that Bill Clinton’s efforts accessing classified E.T. documentations were also largely denied.  Evidence has even surfaced to support that the choreographed assassinations of JFK, RFK and Marilyn Monroe were related to keeping the lid on “other worldly” matters from being publicly discussed.

There have been thousands of witnesses, many of them U.S. government or military personnel claiming to have seen UFOs and or E.T.s and their technologically advanced equipment.  The Disclosure Project, a group lobbying for total declassification of this expanding phenomenon,  has over 500 of these testimonials recorded on video.  Most begin with “I don’t expect you to believe this, but…”  However, they all seem to conclude with a commitment to attest before congress if given the opportunity.

January 8th, 2008, dozens of people including members of local law enforcement described seeing a roughly 1 mile long, ½ mile wide “space ship” silently floating over the town of Stephensville, Texas.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin has gone on record confirming UFO visitations and film footage taken of these encounters during the Apollo missions.

Even the Vatican, historically rather regressive pertaining to matter’s beyond Earth’s orbit, views life on other planets as “very interesting and deserves serious consideration”.

The fact that Bush Sr. refused Carter’s request for UFO/ET data is a classic example of whose really in charge of our government.  It’s not the President that’s for sure.  This obvious problem needs to be addressed soon.

Bush’s violations also clearly indicates ulterior motives directly related to his role as an ambassador of the oil industry and military/industrial empirical complex.  We know through testimonials of former government researchers that reverse engineered E.T. technology exists, but has been indefinitely “back shelved”.  Access to this advanced engineering would quickly subvert the oil companies dominance over us all.  Our dependence on fossil fuels for heating, electricity and transportation would be efficiently replaced with clean, environmentally responsible alternatives.  They don’t care about our current ecologic collapse, just maintaining profit and power.

The other prevailing reason that’s surfaced as to why aspects of our supposedly Democratic government refuse to acknowledge the existence of extra terrestrials and world changing technology?  They don’t want to initiate a panic with the people.  Concerned citizens are all ready quite frightened when it comes to our current planetary problems.  The truth and pending shift would actually be a huge relief.

One Disclosure Project testimonial reports that a covert branch of our government has all ready classified 57 separate E.T. species many of them identical to human form, but with heightened telepathic abilities.  It makes one wonder if we actually evolved linearly from monkey’s or were we dropped off by flying saucers roughly 100,000 years ago?  Perhaps, George Lucas knows something that we don’t for humans intermingle with aliens in all of the Star Wars films.  Is Science Fiction merely a method of preparing humanity for the inevitable?  Time will tell.

It’s clear that we earthlings are like naive fishes swimming in a bowl.  My continuing UFO interactions, similar experiences amongst my community and collected historical evidence gathered around this world reveals that “Contact” has all ready occurred long ago.  It seems we’ve been in an intergalactic quarantine phase that is about to end.  When will the apparently compassionate and patient races from beyond this galaxy decide to literally make the world stand still is a looming question.

This day is likely approaching much sooner then expected.  A date with destiny is upon us that disregards our governments goals of secrecy and deception.  It’s time to meet our neighbors.  If you feel a pull to go outside and look up, please do.

As some of you probably recall from previous legislative sessions, I fight every year to get money into the developmental disability program.  Some years I have been successful and others I have not.  The vote today was 35 to 23. 

Last year the Governor did a 10% cut of the developmental disability budget.  This has caused considerable problems within the developmental disability community.  I met with parents of children with DD before I left Jackson and told them I would do what I could do.  They are greatly concerned that without this money, some group homes may have to close down.  The 10% cut translated to $8.2 million.  The appropriations committee had already put back in 5% which translates to $4.1 million.  This amendment today added back in the other 5% which was another $4.1 million.

Rep. Madden gave a great speech in support of the amendment quoting from the Wyoming Constitution that we have a duty to provide for those that can not provide for themselves.  It was a good argument and very persuasive.

We still have a battle ahead.  There will probably be an attempt to rip out the funding on 3rd reading on Thursday.  And then if it does pass the House of Representatives, we will still have to hold it in conference committee with the Senate committee. 

But at least we are moving positively forward.

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2010 BUDGET SESSION REACHES BILL CROSSOVER PERIOD

CHEYENNE - After convening just a few short weeks ago, the Wyoming Legislature has reached *halftime* of the 2010 Budget Session.

Tuesday marked crossover period for the body, meaning it was the last day for third reading in the house of origin.  Any legislation that did not successfully pass third reading in the primary house Tuesday will not go on for further consideration in the opposite chamber. 

At the start of the session on Feb. 8, a total of 224 bills were numbered for introduction.  With less than two weeks remaining in this year*s session, 149 bills remain active at the crossover period.  The Senate introduced 77 pieces of legislation and 62 of those bills have moved to the House for consideration.  The House introduced 137 bills and passed 87 bills on to the Senate for deliberation. 

Both the House and Senate have addressed a broad range of issues affecting Wyoming residents thus far, and now the second house will get a chance to make changes and pass or vote down those bills sent from the house of origin.  Although these bills have passed in their primary house, the legislation still must gain the approval of the second house and be sent to the Governor*s Office for consideration before becoming state law. 

Friday will be the last day for bills to be reported out of committee in the second house and Monday will mark the last day for Committee of the Whole on bills in the second house. March 2 is the last day for second reading on those bills and March 3 will be the last day for third reading on bills in the second house. Lawmakers hope to wrap up the 2010 Budget Session March 5.

In addition to the 149 bills currently being considered, legislators are crafting legislation for the State*s two-year budget. Both bodies received identical *mirror* copies of the budget bill Monday and will take up the third and final reading of the bill Thursday. During the week of March 1 the bodies will begin the process of reconciling the differences between the final House and Senate versions of the budget bill. It is anticipated that a joint conference committee will be appointed and meet the week of March 1 to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget bill. After each Chamber votes to concur on the conference committee*s action, the bill will be sent to the Governor for his consideration. 

With the 2010 Budget Session now at its halfway point, the Wyoming Legislature encourages the public to continue to actively participate in the legislative process.  For a complete list of all the bills that are still active and to track their progress as the session continues, please visit the Legislature*s Web site at http://legisweb.state.wy.us/. - End -

Anthony Sara

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Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002

Phone: (307) 777-7881

Fax: (307) 777-5466

Interview on Wyoming Public Radio

Senator Barrasso, Senator Enzi, and Congresswoman Lummis each spoke to the Wyoming Legislature on Friday.  All 3 had a common theme that Congress could learn a lot from the Wyoming Legislature.  Specifically we only have one subject per bill, the amendments are germane, we balance our budget, the Governor has line item veto.