Even the real world cowboys have thrown a lot of them away. Pick up trucks and dirt bikes are easier to handle than horses. John Deere Gators replaced Jeep CJs decades ago. The chuck wagon has an engine and a 4 wheel drive now, no more horse drawn wagons (except for the 'dude' ranches for tourists). Someone making a run to Arby's or McD's for 10 lunches to go is also a modern way. Walkie talkies are common but as cell phone coverage improves the portable hand held talkies are considered old school. I know some Eastern ranchers, they greatly prefer an AR or an AK with a red dot to an old style lever action. If they have a pistol it is more likely a Glock 19 or 43 than an ancient SAA. But of course for the most part their days are firearms free. Attacks by hostile Indians are kind of rare these days. Are their still horses, yes sure. Can't practice for a rodeo show without a horse. Ear tags seem to have replaced branding irons. Repairing fence line is still done, but would we call that a tradition or a chore? I do know some farriers, but people bring the horses to be shod to them in a truck drawn trailer and I don't know any farriers who travel (except to rodeos and fairs of course). The invention of the car changed a lot. Eastern cowboys mostly commute to work just like everyone else. If they do stay on the property it is usually in a fully equipped RV. About the only 'tradition' that has stood the test of time is Levi dungarees. The baseball cap is more common in the East than the cowboy hat.
It depends on your personality and theirs. In a decade here I have made several friends of the other sex. I know their phone numbersm emails and addresses, they know mine. I have video chatted with many of them. Absolutely if they knocked on my door I would let them in. I believe the opposite is true too. Sadly until new software is installed the planetary teleport system seems to be down. This means to knock on the door of someone 10,000+ miles away I would need a few thousand dollars just for the plane ticket, go through the Visa dances, get a new passport, And spend 2 days traveling by air just to spend 20 minutes on a cup of coffee somewhere. Then another two days to get back home at a cost of another $1,500 or so.
Then those silly endless debriefing sessions with FBI and CIA, etc. Did you take any photos of defense establishments of government buildings? How thorough were the Customs officials? Did they have dogs smelling the luggage? Did you see any military vehicles or aircraft? What types and models? Were you followed about in town? Did you find any listening devices in your hotel room? Which government officials did you meet and what was discussed? Was your rental car bugged? (Always a probably.) Do you suspect a government employee or anyone tried to lure you into a compromising act? Did you do anything on that visit you could be blackmailed about? Did anyone ask you to deliver messages or packages to someone else? What financial transactions did you participate in while outside the US? Were you asked about America's (or NATO's) defense plans or weapons during casual conversation? May we have the password to your phone and your tablet so we can examine them? And on and on. <I got so tired of those last time my passport expired, I left it expired. >
It is probably best for the women I speak with here to just slip across the Rio Grande with everyone else and come on by. I won't tell anyone she is here and we should be good for at least a decade before anyone figures it out. Much easier and cheaper than the Fiance Visa dance.
One of the great things about being born in the USA is the ability to throw the traditions of an ancestor's land (where Democracy was never done) in the trash where they belong and just walk away from that archaic, superstitious crap and just enjoy being a rootin-tootin American cowboy or gangster. Whichever one you prefer.
Silliness. Trumps says he won in 2020. That would mean he has already had his 2 terms in office. 2nd clause 3 of the 14th Amendment bars him from ever again holding any government position again, forever.
Hamas intentionally doomed the city of Gaza. Doing so served Tehran's purpose of making it hard for Saudi Arabia to enter into trade agreements with Israel while also making it harder for Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon to continue relations with Israel. Hamas (an Iranian Satrap (aka puppet)) launched the attack with the intent Israel would immediately attack the Palestinians that live inside Gaza City.
The attack was both well planned and very well done. A true sucker punch. However, like 9/11 it lacked follow-up knock-out blows and was therefore suicidal on it's face. Tehran doesn't care about that. Neither does Putin. Hamas is expendable in Iran's eyes. So too are the Palestinians living in Gaza.
The media is spending a lot of money keeping reporters and camera crews on the edges of the front. They want to see a ground offensive launched 5 days ago. It would increase the station / channel's ratings to have some good fight footage. Of course Israel doesn't give two figs about the viewer ratings of FOX/CNN/CBS/India 1, et al.
Every day the media asks when will the ground offensive begin, what is taking so long? LoL
From a military point of view, launching a ground offensive while the enemy holds the high ground guarantees high casualties. So a lot of those tall buildings (which make perfect observation points and sniper nests) need to be made a lot shorter. That work has been underway for several days now. There were many intelligence failures on Israel's part. But there were also some successes. Obtaining home address locations for many Hamas fighters could be classified as one of them. If the guy in the apartment above or below yours was a Hamas supervisor, don't be home when the GPS guided missile with a 240 lb warhead flies in his bedroom window at 2am.
There is other stuff going on too. Some of the Hamas guys that invaded took cell phone pictures of the things their teams did and put it on Telegram. Then they went home. Telegram like all websites collects the IPN of anything connecting to it. Israel got ahold of those IPNs and very quietly 'pinged' those cell phones to establish their GPS locations. Very stupidly a lot of those Hamas people were still carrying the phone they had brought into Israel. By last count over 75 of those cell phones have received large doses of high explosive and are no longer functional. Civilians in Gaza have been warned to move southward. We should anticipate more urban renewal is about to commence.
I would not assume a ground offensive will occur right away. I would expect when the Northern project is completed, the civilians in the area will be told to head North so an urban renewal of the South can commence. I don't consider the Special Forces Recon teams to be the main body of an offensive. That's just intel collection. I think while there may be some hostages still in Gaza, the important ones are someplace else. Yes, everyone is important, but some more so than others. Rich hostages by definition are worth more than poor ones, etc.
Hizballah and the Palestinian Front seem to be content to let their more suicidal members go to the border and attack Israel's artillery and claymore mines. There is no need for a full scale war just because Iran wants them to blindlyu follow the Hamas puppets into self immolation. The Revolutionary Guard does not represent Palestine and should therefore not become the last one standing. It will not be. Hexballah and the P. Front will wait for a time of their choosing.
I was invited in 1988 to a special breakfast at a Buddhist Temple near Washington, DC. The guest of honor was Miss Universe from Thailand, Porntip Nakhirunkanok. It was a small affair only about 15 people. She was a nice woman of about 20 Very pretty of course. I believe I was the only non-Thai there. She spoke very nice English and we made small talk over the breakfast. I was very sad for her when I later heard that officials in Thailand stole her prize money and dragged her to court on disloyalty charges when she told media people what had happened. I wasn't the only one who thought that was a lot thing to do. Eventually someone with influence interceded and she became the Goodwill Ambassador from Thailand to the UN. .While there she met an American and married him and now has 2 grown children. She has taken the first name Bui now. That was my only contact with that contest.
Let us first agree that beheading infants and children does not gain that side any good will. Neither does posting videos on Telegram of slitting the throat of hostages one by one. I do not believe either action is a politically sound tactic.
I do not care that much about the politics of either side. I understand the issue and believe they both have valid claims to the area. The King Solomon approach of split the baby in two (to see which mom is the liar) has been tried and failed. Only combat is left and Dawin will decide which one wins.
I am however interested in the mechanics of the (stupid) attack and how it was done without any becoming aware until the thousands of missiles suddenly began flying and 100 armed men in para gliders began crossing the border's air space.
Frones from different countries have details unique to their maker. On Telegram (and some UTube videos (mostly the Indian ones) we see rows of Iranian made drones being launched by Hamas. Several Hamas fighters captured alive have during dis assembly (kind of reminds one about the interrogation techniques used by the Goths when they captured some Roman soldiers, or how the Yuma Apaches amused themselves with captured Whites) revealed that they received their small unit training from Wagner at camps inside Syria.
Fiven the many former Al-Qaida and Isis fighters inside Hamas today and their past history of awarding captured women as gifts to worthy warriors for a temporary marriage coupled with the large numbers of young women captured by Hamas and dragged inside Gaza, I suspect many of them still surviving are experiencing bad things. The desecration of the body of the slain German Tattoo artist paraded and groped and urinated on by the crowd as she lay dead in the back of a pick up truck (again not a politcally astute tactic for the world stage) adds credence to that suspicion.
There has been no secret made of Israeli and US intents to go into Gaza someday and rescue the still surviving hostages after the big buildings no longer exist. However, I doubt the truly valuable hostages (there is at least one captured Israeli Army General, and several relatives of very rich people amongst the captured) are still in Gaza City. That would be dumb when you know rescuers are going there to rescue them. Those same not yet collapsed tunnels that brought weapons and ammunition into Gaza can take hostages out too. From Egypt to Syria, Afghanistan or who knows where. We will probably hear a name or two or ten for the next twenty years as different ones surface in different places.
I have no doubt the Taliban who publicly support the invasion by Hamas happily supplied some of the many war toys the US abandoned in Afghanistan. President Zelinsky of Ukraine has acknowledged some of the Western supplied equipment captured by Russia inside Ukraine has surfaced in this new conflict.
I have to wonder, did the Hamas leaders totally not foresee Israel would level their city in retaliation? Did they truly believe Israel would do nothing? What kind of Kool-Aid were they drinking when they decided to launch this? I think it is miraculous Tehran did not get an Israeli 20 Meg nuke rammed into that city 15 minutes after the attack began. That is still a possibility of course, although less likely as more time passes.
I have no reason to believe once in Jupiter's gravity well much escapes it.
Jupiter and Saturn are our bodyguards. Both have in the past century taken hits for us that would have destroyed us. The Shoemaker Levy 9 comet collision hit Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. It took weeks for that impact mark to vanish. Our true danger time is when both Saturn and Jupiter are not in position to attract inbound objects. That is like a goal keeper walking away from the net to go grab a soda. Stuff can happen then. Of course stuff inside jupiter's orbit, such as asteroids, or traveling inward from North or South of the sun can still find us. We have very few observatories that point in those polar directions. A big advance was the aunch of space borne satellite radars, but they too have some coverage limitations.
Asteroid path prediction is a fairly inexact science. The further back in time of the first prediction the more likely the predicted path will need revision. Any impact with other space debris must and will affect the path. A small impact has a small effect, but the further away the impact was, the greater the orbit change an AU or 3 later away will be. Right now today a deflection of only 0.000032 degrees would put the impact dead center on the equator or knock it up high enough to be no threat at all. Of course the longer we wait the bigger the angle of deflection change has to be in order for the asteroid to be no threat at all. A;though this one is the size of the Rose Bowl Stadium, it is not hollow. It has enormous mass. If you wait 2 or 5 years before doing anything, you could put a dozen Saturn V booster engines on it and not cause enough deflection in it's orbit to do a durn thing.
Sadly the Earth lacks an Asteroid Defense Agency. We also lack enough technology to do a durn thing about an incoming threat even if we saw it coming from 40 years out. We would be like wasps trying to stop an oncoming 18 wheeler from hitting their nest by ramming the windshield. splat splat splat and then crunch.
When you physically see enough you learn to not waste breath about things that are obviously inevitable. Death waits for everyone. Life is short and brief. Very brief for some. Accept that reality and move on with your own life. Do not waste energy on things you can't fix or do anything about.
Meanwhile UN Peacekeepers along the edges of the West Bank have begun to retreat from crowds of Heballah fighters approaching the border of Israel. In Afghanistan the Taliban leaders have formally requested Jordan and Egypt to allow convoys of Taliban fighters to pass through those countries so they can go assist the 'brave men and women' of Gaza in their courageous struggle against Israel. Also meanwhile a US Navy fleet including a large aircraft carrier is approaching Israel with instructions to use US Marines to evacuate any Americans who want to leave. There will probably be other mission instructions just like there were when we did similar things in Lebanon back in the 60s and 70s. Things are heating up and will probably get more interesting as more nations get involved. After checking your fallout shelter supplies, grab your popcorn and settle back to watch. It is interesting to note that Hamas had been making good use of bomb carrying aerial drones in the early hours of the invasion and several Israeli Merkava tanks were taken out by drones. Apparently the army of Israel had not taken drone defence into their planning of tactics. We should expect many more incidents involving drones being used by both sides as we see daily inside Ukraine. Although drones are effective in the day, when equipped with FLIR and IR cameras they become postitvely, scary, deadly weapons at night. Virtually invisible in the night sky they become true visions of death from above. I would not want to be an infantry fighter in a drone filled environment.
At the time I posted this, even though it had already been almost 24 hours since the start of this war, nothing on Blog page 1 even mentioned it here on CS. Obviously the pro-Russian bloggers were waiting for Kremlin instructions on which side to take. The same was still true on Russian state TV where 28 hours went by before their 'world news' even bothered to mention the fighting. Only yesterday did Russia adopt a kind of don't blame us approach so Margarita S. was laughing at every Russian Jew who had moved to Israel while good old Vladimir S. (who recently admitted he us a Russian Army Lt. Colonel working as a 'jpournalist.') blamed the West and NATO. Just like when Russian Federal and State TV were forced to talk about Prigozhin, we should expect Russian attitudes to continue to be shaped by further instructioons from the Kremlin (aka Putin's mind set of the moment).
So anyway, I figured either CS was in shock, or some were awaiting instruction. So I posted a speculation about future land values inside Gaza City. I am utterly amazed that some view an obvious truth about the value of that real estate in a week or so as being either pro or con the event itself.
As was utterly obvious would happen Israel is leveling the place and the Prime Minister voiced intent to make it all rubble as anyone with half a brain knew he would have to if he wants to be re-elected and not thrown out of office as a traitor. Attacked people usually want revenge. That it cuts both ways is irrelevant. He with the most bombs will decide the outcome.
The attack was very well planned and involved years of preparation. There are now almost as many structures underneath Gaza City as there are above ground. Some time ago Hamas negotiated with Israel to iissue many more worker Visas so workers from Gaza could work daily inside Israel. Iarael agreed and Hamas fighters became daily visitors to Israel as migrant workers. Collecting Intel with each approved visit. Some of the Hamas tunnels into Gaza and loading bays inside and underneath are large enough for trucks full of rockets to pass through, and they did. Body cam(!) footage from Hamas fighters shows most of them have Russian built AKM rifles. I have yet to spot footage showing any Hamas with western built M15s.or M4s. A video of a not exploded missile that landed as a dud shows it came from Russia (surprise, surprise). So maybe when Russia says their hands are clean, the reality is their hands are dripping with blood. Hamas is controlled by Iran and doesn't even go to the toilet if someone in Iran doesn't authorize it.
Gaza City is a prison guarded by Israel and Egypt. There are beaches but the Israieli Navy patrols them and searches or sinks boats it is suspicious of. They allow some food and goods to enter, but also deny entry to a lot of it. It has been that way for more than a decade. Both Israel and Egypt restrict who can enter or leave the City.
The conflict is now basically one sided. Most of the Hamas fighters who revealed themselves 3 days ago inside Israel are now already dead, or in hiding. The Iaraeli Air Force has lots of bombs as Gaza City is now learning. The US is shipping them more bombs and artillery shells. Many people, of ALL nationalities are now dead or maimed or just wounded. Over 700 people were captured and dragged into Gaza in the (probably mistaken) belief that their presence will prevent Israel from bombing or shelling things insiide Gaza City.
In terms of benefitting the people of Gaza City this invassion was a horrific mistake. Many upon whom Israel will drop bombs and artillery shells had no advance knowledge about any of it. There is no way to tell if a man or woman or 10 year old ever held a gun, so Israeli soldiers will not discriminate as they move forward. Tehran doesn't give a sh*t. Their Ayatollah cares as little about them as Putin does about dead Russian Jews who immigrated to Israel. Not one iota.
There are scheduled meteor showers every year. I have watched several of them. They are really cool to watch from a ship way out in the ocean. I once experienced a big one hitting the ocean near us close enough to see the splash and the hiss. About a mile away I think. Asteroids are different than meteors, Although if an asteroid got mixed in with a meteor swarm.it would be hard to tell them apart. Most asteroids aren't that big, baseball sized mostly and would disintegrate just like a meteor usually does as soon as it hit the atmosphere. It is the ones the sie of a house or a whole city we worry about.
Actually there are no prior qualified predictions, so we can't say they aren't any good at them. None of the asteroids tracked by astronomers included predictions of an actual impact. Always their predictions were of near misses, which is what we got. Predictio ns of actual impacts came from such sources as the Enquirer or Global News or similar media whose sales or viewings were based on not true stories.
I am not sure what you mean by surface pressure. Do you mean over population? Well, if that is what you meant, it would be like a colony of rabbits that over populates. Some (man) die off, but a few, enough to restart the colony always remain. They are fewer so they find food the dead ones can't eat. And lo, the colony grows again. So over population is not what killed them. A 500 degree day was probably more of a killer, especially if accompanied or followed by 2 or 4 years of no sun light for plants to grow with.
Regarding the small size of what survives, got to give it to Darwin and evolutionary pressure. Also how would you want those critters bigger than an elephant to move? Back in the Dino days the Earth's Oxygen content was higher which gave their cells more energy potential. Also the earth was smaller (it adds 1/8 inch every year to it'[s size) so the gravity was less which made it easier to move. Darwin again, stuff too heavy to move and always short of breath could not compete with lighter critters that could quickly move and not have breathing issues.
It is true the US does not monitor that part of Russia for anit-air missile launches. Why would we? That area is well inside Russia's territory and anything flying there does so with Russian permission. We don't usually track Ukraine's drone attacks on Moscow either. Too small and no radar suitable for the task aimed in that direction. Regarding the Russian TV claim Ukraine did it (which Vladimir was speculating in the first day after the crash) Ukraine has no anti aircraft missile with enough range to reach past Moscow from Ukraine's border. If they did they would be using them on Soviet bombers taking off from places like Savvatiya or Aerodrom Kubinka, etc.before they could launch cruise missiles. It would truly be an awesome anti aircraft missile that could both climb to 28,000 feet and also reach past the area of Tver from inside Ukraine. They truly wish they had such a missile.
Regarding my not posting videos of the plane, you already complained about my cut and pasting, so I didn't bother this time. Anyone that cares can YouTube search for the local farmer's videos of the plane crash and see the shrapnel holes in the fuselage while the fires were still burning and before the area was roped off.
BTW the footage Margarita S. showed on her show was not Prigozhin's plane, not even the same model, just old footage of a Russian plane being falling out of the sky. <something they do a lot of lately. Possibly related to discount parts from Pakistan.>
Shrapnel going through sheet metal bends the metal. The protuberances are on the opposite side from the entry. Although Russia seized the wreckage and did not allow journalists, the plane maker, or unauthorized people to view it, it was too late. Villagers arriving at the crash sight had already both filmed what they saw on camera and also put those videos on the Internet (Bless them Lord). Find those first images while the fires were still burning, expand them and study the shrapnel holes in the plane fuselage. That shrapnel went into the plane from the outside, not outbound as Putin would have you believe. Conclusion, Putin lies to cover himself again.
Western media is almost always more accurate than Soviet style Russian media.
LoL that Lukeon classifies Russia TV 1 footage as MSM.
I don't think Europe is interested in that anymore. China will be a better trading partner, especially once it retakes back it's historic Pacific territories and Russia's oil fields.
A major downside of CDs that OP misses is that CD coatings are intended to decompose as time passes so the purchase of a new one becomes necessary. Conversely a Vinyl or bakelite 78 ct in the 1920s and stored will still play just fine today. The same is true of the newer 45s or 33s. But many CDs (and DVDs) from just 5 years ago have read errors caused by the (intentional) natural decomposition of their coatings.
"the might of Russia" The USSR of the early to mid 80s was mighty, no question. Modern day Russia however, literally NOT, And then it invaded Ukraine and became just another 3rd world nation. A large one to be sure, but nothing special to defeat. Rip out a few train tracks and it would grind to a stop. The problem was 30 years of corruption at every level rotted it out. From missing phone lines sold for the copper inside Strategic Command Centers, to ancient Soviet Nuclear warheads that passed their half life (based on both decay and oxidation) over a decade ago, to old Soviet artillery parked in the open with the barrels pointed to the clouds, now full of rain water and rust, to spare uniforms stored so long ago they crumble to dust when unfolded, to new recruits who not only can;t read and write, but don't know they should. 69 yr old battle tank that spew clouds of smoke everywhere they lurch, newer ones (72s) that are slower in reverse than a toddler can walk. Trucks with rotted towers, missiles that boomerang, Artillery shells stored in the rain and snow for 80+ years. Soldiers who would much rather run away than attack. Add to this a Supreme Leadership that views any competent field commander as a threat and kills them off whenever they can. What might?
So you really believe the West is scared of this technology?
go ahead, put a nuclear warhead on them. Save us some ammo.
Those in the US calling for the break up of the Russian Federation are guided by both the history of the USSR (begining with Stalin's then Secret pact with Hitler to invade Poland and begin WW2) and Russia's own more recent behavior starting with the fake Checna bombings and the invasion of that province, Georgia, Ukraine in 2014 and more recently Putin's pledge on Feb 23, 2022 that Russia would not invade Ukraine only 3 hours after he had signed an order to begin the invasion the next day. A government ruled by such two faced snakes can not be allowed if the world is to move forward.
Your claim that Russia has no ill intentions to the West is laughable because their own Federal TV says in broadcasts to the Russian people they do indeed intend to continue West once Ukraine falls. Those are Federal employees of Russia and everything they say is pre-approved by the Kremlin.
The hypocrisy of your attitude towards Westerners enlisting and fighting for Ukraine as part of their army vs. your whining that Cubans who did not enlist in Russia's army but went to fight in Ukraine for money anyway and which ones should be charged as mercenaries is clear to all.
Do Americans worry about a nuclear war with Russia? No, not really. Sure, the ones paid to do so do, but it is pretty obvious Russia has a few nasty surprises in store for Russia if it starts one. Would their be American deaths if it starts? Absolutely. Probably about as many die in car accidents annually, but in one day,. There is also a pretty good belief that the numbers of dead Russians inside Russia will be a lot larger. Time will tell. Russia daily marches forward to a self immolation.
You don't see any hypocrisy in Chins pretending to be a friend of Russia while at the same time knowingly loaning the US money to give to Ukraine to kill Russians with?
Yes truth is sometimes boring to those inventing BS.
Speaking of mercenaries, should Ukraine put those captured Cuban contractors carrying weapons before surrendering on trial as mercenaries? They were not enlisted in the Russian Army, but there as civilian 'general purpose' contractors hired by a Russian company to perform not specified (in the contract) duties in Russia. One or two of them are saying now they didn't realize at the time they signed up that meant fight inside Ukraine. But they did go along with the program and were carrying weapons when caught. It isn't my call of course, but I think Ukraine should try them as mercenaries and afford them the sentence the UN (at the behest of the USSR) approved for those found guilty of being a mercenary.
Actually if the Nazi loving Trump supporters get their way, Ukraine will lose and within 5 years we will have American soldiers dying in Europe trying to resist Russia's invasion of Germany, the Baltic States and France and the UK. We know this because the Russians talk daily on Russian Federal TV (everyone there is a govt. employee) about doing just that as soon as they conquer Ukraine.
I don't think they will need rowboats. There are plenty of good cargo ships in Europe, and a container ship can transport a lot of soldiers and their equipment. And of course there is also the North. The US owns 1 ice breaker. Russia owns 40 and at least 10 of those are armed Warships.. The Northwest Passage is both open and Canada's Northern coast line is pretty much undefended.
You stop and crush them now, or your kids and grand kids will die trying.
Regardless of America's total debt, let us not forget the money Biden has given to Ukraine was borrowed from and loaned to us for that purpose by China.
One aspect of the supposed friendship between China and Russia is that the money the US gave to Ukraine was paid for by the US borrowing money from China. In short China has knowingly been funding the Ukrainian war against Russia.
I agree about the statute of limitations in the rape case. A prosecution for that is also of course greatly hampered by the total lack of any physical evidence beyond the fact they both went into the dressing room. Personally I think Trump took totally the wrong defense approach to the dressing room thing. He should have simply claimed it was just another instance of his infidelity problem and maintained he had been under the impression for decades it had been a consensual encounter. But he didn't do that. Oh well.
Regarding the fraud case, yes, there are some evidence items that would be excluded, either under the 5th Amendment or promises by the prosecution. But there are other items that would be admissible and Trump's legal future hinges on the prosecutors mood.
He got a new gag order today then walked out of court in the midst of the proceedings. He was never required to be there anyway for this phase of the trial.
Donald Trump walked out of court today in the midst of proceedings. The judge had previously today issued a new gag order forbidding him from casting slurs on court staff, prosecutors, etc. Of course since it was a civil trial and his deposition had already been taken he was never required to be there anyway.
There was also an image posted on Twitter of him being in the court room alongside a white Jesus.
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RE: Traditions
Even the real world cowboys have thrown a lot of them away. Pick up trucks and dirt bikes are easier to handle than horses. John Deere Gators replaced Jeep CJs decades ago. The chuck wagon has an engine and a 4 wheel drive now, no more horse drawn wagons (except for the 'dude' ranches for tourists). Someone making a run to Arby's or McD's for 10 lunches to go is also a modern way. Walkie talkies are common but as cell phone coverage improves the portable hand held talkies are considered old school. I know some Eastern ranchers, they greatly prefer an AR or an AK with a red dot to an old style lever action. If they have a pistol it is more likely a Glock 19 or 43 than an ancient SAA. But of course for the most part their days are firearms free. Attacks by hostile Indians are kind of rare these days. Are their still horses, yes sure. Can't practice for a rodeo show without a horse. Ear tags seem to have replaced branding irons. Repairing fence line is still done, but would we call that a tradition or a chore? I do know some farriers, but people bring the horses to be shod to them in a truck drawn trailer and I don't know any farriers who travel (except to rodeos and fairs of course). The invention of the car changed a lot. Eastern cowboys mostly commute to work just like everyone else. If they do stay on the property it is usually in a fully equipped RV. About the only 'tradition' that has stood the test of time is Levi dungarees. The baseball cap is more common in the East than the cowboy hat.