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[cottonpicken]

The manifesto of the cop that snapped,he's hunting
down and killing cops he use to work with,gets pretty
interesting around the 100 line.

http://pastebin.com/TAzPRfPy

[mbratrud]

Wow, Scary and Sad at the sametime.

[BTO_farmall]

Who Cares, Its Not About Serve and Protect Anymore, Its About Serve and Collect, F#ck The 5-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Burbert]

Times r a changin. Amerikie's got some
huge problems, lots and lotsa guns and
guys and girls that know how ta use em.
They have youngsters that have returned
from conflicts and r now outta the
military who carry scars and gudges that
get settled wit firearms.
Think of the weirdest thing you kin
think of and I can assure you that its
already happened in the us of a at least
twice! Pretty scary eh....

[Burbert]

Good Post, this is unfortunately only
the beginning, tip of the ice berg so to
speak. 2012 produced a short crop in
Western Comedia, hence good prices and
competition amoung multies. Just wait
till a normal year returns, then the
true picture will emerge. All of us
sellers have been fed the same BS that
Eric has, at elevators time and time
again. F Gag minister ritz and his
ostrich fram. Can't wait fer them ta
get a taste of the upcoming Class Action
suit which may result in a
$17,000,000,000 payout to Comedian Bored
supporters. Heil Harper

[mbratrud]

Eric go crawl back under your rock. "Your truck is to small we only take semi's" give me a break.....

[sumdumguy]

Not going back, IDLE NO MORE, tyrants!

[sumdumguy]

Not going back, IDLE NO MORE, tyrants!

[hobbyfrmr]

Farmers get what they deserve. Eric is a typical
farmer. He can see things that are wrong he
talks about them in detail to many in the
industry. He goes as far as to publish his
opinion. He provides no independant thought
towards a solution or even an effort to help
himself.
He will get exactly what he deserves. Smart
enough to write newspaper articles but too
stupid to fax in a producer car application to
load with his small truck.
I hope it all jeats on him. Then he sells it for
feed at a severe discount which wont matter
because broker doesnt pay him anyway. Those
events alone can make him a living writing
articles blaming everyone but himself.

[DogPatch]

IDLE NO MORE, take the foot off the clutch and hammer down!

[ColevilleH2S]

Good one Dogpatch ;-)


"Sorry only semi loads, no smaller grain trucks! "

Ya right! What kind of credibility he gave up with a statement like that. I have delivered to large high throughput elevators many times with a less than full, single axle truck. Never once did I get an ill reaction. Because no matter if it is 6 tonnes, or 46 tonnes, business is business.

In fact the grumpiest I have seen an elevator staff in a long time was late this afternoon when I pulled in with a Super-B load of Canola. But I suspect it had more to do with the fact it was 4:30 Friday afternoon, and everyone just wanted to get home and start the weekend. He fails to realize the folks who buy grain are more motivated by personal issues like this, than whether you arrive in a C-50 or CH613.

I wonder why this writer never questions the large price differential that existed between the Northern US elevators and the CWB for decades, and then when the single desk dissolved, so did that differential. We are talking Billions of dollars lost to this alone. I find it funny how some choose to ignore it. And don't get me started on how they withheld sales forcing farmers to store Durum for years during periods of high world prices.

[oneoff]

It also irritates me with the lack of sensitivity and arrogance clearly exposed in most of the the replies above.

I could relate how not many years ago a supposedly large; "respected" line elevator company started to accept CWB winter wheat on my CWB contract. And because they had started the bin with #2 grade (which was never mentioned prior to requesting delivery); the trucker/owner noticed that the bushel weight exceeded #1 specs; no other degrading factors could be found etc. (ATACK COMES AT THIS POINT now a purist would say it had to be expressed a grams per hectoliter but I say thats worse than measuring with a micrometer and then splitting with an axe).......

Back to the actual story. Elevator manager says its going into the #2 bin and expresses concern; ending quite bluntly by saying "Thats it you're cut off, Only room for #2). You'll get paid for #1 for the delivered loads. and turns his back on customer.

I'll be the first to admit that everyone I know could tell their own unique story that shows ignorant disregard for fair dealing. Only those who have every base covered are immune to suprises. And not all my friends; and a wide array of those I converse with; are as stupid as myself; or are such insignificant producers.

Now as for the person who has been quoted above and also who has been soundly attacked for relating what no doubt has occured........ I personally sincerely respect and congratulate him for being brave enough to bring his points to the publics attention. And unlike other apologists and attack dogs; I have unfortunately never met this person to my knowledge. He deserves much better than the disgusting repulsive reception from classless (expletives will not be printed)

[AllisWD45]

Don't get to excited about Eric . He is an old man
who no longer makes his income from farming but
the little brown envelope that comes every month.
He will be the one to shut off the lights on the CWB
issue even after the crazy eight have totally quit
living in the past.
People like this are locked in the past and have no
idea what you people face in today's farming world.
The belief that we raise 6 kids on a half section and
milk 6 cows and feed 6 pigs etc,etc. That world no
longer exists but that is the world the CWB
philosophy served. To them marketing is a dirty
dirty word. Before the likes of Burbot shits all over
me i would just like to say thats just the way the
world is now. Either deal with it by facing it head on
or move to the sidelines where you belong. It has
been said that the only sure thing is that things are
always changing

[hobbyfrmr]

He wrote 3 articles or letters to editor, and not one
of them provided a solution or an attempt to work
toward the future.
Tom4 quite easily provided steps to help with
some facts how to make deliveries in these"new"
times.
Who, really, deserves the respect?

[TOM4CWB]

C.P.

Did you see this?

"Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second case of
mistaken identity
Torrance police say the man was driving a pickup
resembling the fugitive's. The incident happened just
after the LAPD fired on women delivering newspapers
nearby.

By Robert Faturechi and Matt Stevens, Los Angeles
Times
February 9, 2013, 8:50 p.m.

David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing
before work Thursday morning when police flagged
him down. They asked who he was and where he was
headed, then sent him on his way.

Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police
cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened
fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.

His pickup, police later explained, matched the
description of the one belonging to Christopher Jordan
Dorner — the ex-cop who has evaded authorities after
allegedly killing three and wounding two more. But the
pickups were different makes and colors. And Perdue
looks nothing like Dorner: He's several inches shorter
and about a hundred pounds lighter. And Perdue is
white; Dorner is black.

"I don't want to use the word buffoonery but it really is
unbridled police lawlessness," said Robert Sheahen,
Perdue's attorney. "These people need training and
they need restraint."

The incident involving Perdue was the second time
police looking for the fugitive former LAPD officer
opened fire on someone else. The shootings have
raised concerns that the fear Dorner has instilled has
added another layer of danger.

"Nobody trains police officers to look for one of their
own," said Maria Haberfeld, a police training professor
at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "I
wouldn't want to be in their shoes and I don't think
anybody else would."

Torrance police said the officers who slammed into
Perdue were responding to shots fired moments earlier
in a nearby area where LAPD officers were standing
guard outside the home of someone targeted in an
online manifesto that authorities have attributed to
Dorner.

In the first incident, LAPD officers opened fire on
another pickup they feared was being driven by
Dorner. The mother and daughter inside the truck
were delivering Los Angeles Times newspapers. The
older woman was shot twice in the back and the other
was wounded by broken glass.

In Perdue's case, his attorney said he wasn't struck by
bullets or glass but was injured in the car wreck,
suffering a concussion and an injury to his shoulder.
The LAX baggage handler hasn't been able to work
since, and his car is totaled, Sheahen said.

"When Torrance issues this ridiculous statement saying
he wasn't injured, all they mean is he wasn't killed," his
attorney said, referring to a press release reporting "no
visible injuries" to Perdue.

A department spokesman said Saturday that the
shooting is still under investigation. In a statement to
The Times, the department said: "The circumstances of
the incident known to the responding officers would
have led a reasonable officer under normal
circumstances — and these were far from normal
circumstances — to believe that fellow officers were
being shot at and that the vehicle traveling toward
them posed a serious risk.

"In the split seconds available to them," the statement
continued, "action was appropriate to intervene and
stop the actions of the driver of that vehicle."

According to the police department, Perdue's car was
headed directly for one of their patrol vehicles and
appeared not to be yielding. When the vehicles
collided, Perdue's air bag went off, blocking the view
of the driver, and one officer fired three rounds.

The Torrance police chief apologized to Perdue and
offered him a rental car and payment for his medical
expenses, the statement said.

Similarly, an LAPD spokesman said Saturday that Chief
Charlie Beck will provide a new truck to the two women
injured by officers in pursuit of Dorner.

Cmdr. Andrew Smith said he and Beck met separately
with the two women Saturday. The truck will be
purchased using money from donors, Smith said.

The action does not necessarily preclude a lawsuit
from the women or a settlement. The women's
attorney, Glen T. Jonas, said, "The family appreciates
that Chief Beck apologized on behalf of the LAPD."

The search for Dorner has spanned the region, with
authorities hoping they had tracked Dorner down in
Big Bear only for the trail to go cold there. His alleged
campaign to take revenge on those he blamed for his
dismissal from the LAPD has stoked fears among local
police, many of whom are involved in the search. The
sense of chaos has been amplified by police around
the state and beyond being forced to chase down
bogus leads and erroneous sightings.

Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney, said it's not
surprising when police make mistakes during
manhunts.

"They don't know where he is, and they're going to be
edgy and jumpy," she said. "Don't get in their way.
They're in a special state of consciousness right now,
and they're not used to being hunted."

Perdue's attorneys said their client was shot at without
warning.

"As you know, officers of the Torrance Police
Department attempted to kill Mr. Perdue" Thursday,
the attorneys wrote in a letter to the agency's chief.

robert.faturechi@latimes.com

matt.stevens@latimes.com

Times staff writer Richard Winton contributed to this
report."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-torrance-
shooting-20130210,0,3955268.story

"Authorities on Sunday will offer a reward for
information leading to the capture of a former Los
Angeles Police Department officer wanted in the
killings of three people and the wounding of two
others.

According to a statement, the news conference will be
attended by law enforcement officials from Los
Angeles, Riverside and Irvine. Officials from the FBI
and U.S. marshal's office also will be there.

The reward will come a week after Christopher Jordan
Dorner's alleged killing spree began.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced he
was reopening the investigation into the firing of
Dorner from the Police Department, the event that
apparently sparked his vengeful campaign.

Beck said he was reopening the investigation "not to
appease a murderer" but to assure the public his
department is fair and transparent. He said he wanted
to protect an "increasingly positive relationship with
the community" that the LAPD has developed over the
last few years.

"I am aware of the ghosts of the LAPD's past and one
of my biggest concerns is that they will be resurrected
by Dorner's allegations of racism within the
department," Beck said in a prepared statement.
"...Therefore, I feel we need to also publicly address
Dorner's allegations regarding his termination of
employment."

DOCUMENT: Chief Beck's statement regarding
Dorner..."http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013
/02/dorner-manhunt-reward-to-be-offered.html