Like so much around today the rural mills are fast becoming a thing of the past. I guess at the corporate farm level they take their grain directly to their corporate supplies. I found this mill about 40 miles east of Amarillo Texas this spring. Continue reading Mills of Bygone Days…
I recently made a ten-hour walking tour of the college I graduated from. I had briefly driven around campus a few time before but never got out of the car. It was fifty years ago this month that I had my first … Continue reading You Can’t Go Home Again…
There is a bush that we planted fifteen years ago that gives us twice annual beauty. I don’t know what kind it is, that is my wife’s thing, but I do appreciate it very much. It continues to thrive even though it took a pickax to plant it in the very rocky soil… Continue reading White Innocence..
Apple Inc. customers waiting for the company to revolutionize live television as it did for music and phone service will have to keep waiting, at least until next year. Source: Apple to delay live TV service to 2016 – Yahoo Finance. It is amazing how so few companies can change our culture so dramatically. Apple is certainly one of them. They revolutionized the music business so quickly. Gone are the black disks of my generation and now even tapes, CDs, DVDs, and record stores. Amazon is another who is shaking up the retail business. Where locally there are hundreds of choices, … Continue reading Apple Live TV ….
He nailed the insane reason we still need to talk about climate change Yes, 99.9% of the scientific literature shows that climate change is real and worsened by the things we do every day, like driving cars and burning fossil fuels. Yet political representatives who continue to deny that very real science continue to serve on government science committees. In September of last year, Stewart nailed Representative Larry Bucshon (R-Indiana) for saying the science on climate change “still isn’t clear.” … “If scientists could be bought,” said Stewart, “these companies would have already made it rain in nerd town.” He pinpointed exactly why health care just can’t … Continue reading I Am A Jon Stewart Fan… After The Fact…
The pictures shown in the slideshow are from the grounds of the Museum of Indian & Art Culture in Santa Fe New Mexico. It is a fantastic place to visit. Santa Fe is quickly become my favorite city on Native-America … Continue reading Museum of Indian & Art Culture – Santa Fe NM
An interesting way to look at our country. It helps you understand how all those very small conservative States have so much power over the majority of us in the U.S. congress. Continue reading States By Population..
Last week, Jeb Bush told an audience in California, “It is strength, and will, and clarity of purpose that make all the difference.” This is the Tinker Bell school of foreign policy that has spread over most of the Republican presidential field. Clap if you believe in a stable Middle East where Syria is rid of ISIS, Al Nusra, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and any Iranian influence. Clap if you believe Iraq will be safe for religious minorities and free of undue Iranian influence, too….. As an electoral strategy, it is absolutely nuts that Republicans would preemptively tell the American … Continue reading Like a Death Wish… I Can Only Hope….
Its been a while since I used my painter app on one of my photos. The app has many different style options but I kind of like this one.. Continue reading The Great Rocky Mountains..
Only 20 percent of Americans believe there will be enough money left when it’s time for them to retire. To fix the problem, some people believe Social Security should allow means testing, where benefits are based on a person’s income. Others think the tax should be raised, the retirement age should be raised or the benefits should be cut down. Though there’s disagreement over how, Social Security is a program that almost everyone agrees needs to be fixed before the well starts to run dry. So as Social Security turns 80, when it comes to the future of the biggest … Continue reading Fear # 4 – Social Security Will Disappear
Even junkyards look fantastic with the mountains in the background. Welcome to La Fruto…. Continue reading Even Junkyards…
SEATTLE — Microsoft said on Wednesday that it would offer new parents an additional eight weeks of paid time off from their jobs at the company, in a significant boost to its parental leave benefits. Microsoft’s changes to its policy came a day after Netflix, the online video service, said it would allow new mothers and fathers who are employees to take as much paid time off as they need during the first year after the birth or adoption of a child. The more generous policies are a way to hold onto employees, particularly the highly skilled technical workers who … Continue reading The Disparity of Benefits… And a Possible Solution…
This is the first post in a new category called “My Best of the Best List”. Over my life I have always been an avid read. I’m sure I have read thousands of books on many different topic. I have also traveled to all fifty States and to Canada and Mexico mainly with history in mind. So, with this post I am starting my recommended reading/visiting list for your perusal. I thought I would start out with perhaps the one book that mostly influenced by current views of Christianity and those who claim to follow Jesus. I want to … Continue reading Being a Radical… The Best of the Best…
But the chief said he ultimately decided Miller’s mistakes required his firing. While he said he had “serious concerns” about Miller’s use of deadly force, Johnson said it would be up to a grand jury to decide whether Miller’s actions were criminal. Source: Police Chief Fires Officer Who Shot and Killed Unarmed Texas Football Player | TIME. I’m not going to talk much about the story cited above but instead I will be talking about the “Use of Deadly Force”. For the most part this is probably an American thing. I’m sure that we are number one in the world of unarmed … Continue reading Use of Deadly Force….
RJ's Corner - Having My Say 