County Fair
County fairs, especially those in rural areas are usually the highlight of the year. Here are some pictures of the one in my county. A little something for everyone. Continue reading County Fair
County fairs, especially those in rural areas are usually the highlight of the year. Here are some pictures of the one in my county. A little something for everyone. Continue reading County Fair
Seattle WA – Pike Place Fish Company The Pike Place Fish Co is a well established tourist spot in Seattle but it is also a thriving fish market. And yeah they do throw fish around as a regular thing. The … Continue reading Pike Place…
One of the surest ways to get smarter is to surround yourself with those who are more intelligent than you and to insist on regularly stretching yourself beyond your comfort zone. If you’re just too smart for your current gig, that’s just not going to happen SOURCE: 3 Signs You’re Too Smart for Your Job – Yahoo Small Business Advisor. Another way of saying the above is that if you are not stimulated by what you do for a living then you should be looking elsewhere. But of course in our current economy where so many people are underemployed being … Continue reading 3 Signs You’re Too Smart for Your Job
“America is just like an insane asylum. There is not a soul in it will admit they are crazy.” – Will Rogers, 28 April 1935. I’ll even go one farther than you Will and say there ain’t a soul in it that will admit that they might be wrong about anything. That mentality is what has got us all into so much trouble lately. We all think that the way we see life is the only possible view. Any others are just plain wrong. This in itself is just plain wrong…. I don’t know when this became the face of … Continue reading Like An Insane Asylum….
Philadelphia PA – Liberty Bell I never really understood the significance of it but the Liberty Bell is a major attraction. I guess it was commissioned by someone from a London bell manufacturer. The myth that it was rung to … Continue reading Liberty Bell
Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about “Obama spending” and “Obama deficits” and how the “stimulus” just made things worse…. SOURCE: Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law Updated | Dave Johnson. In the old days, that is the time before I gave up on all the cable news channels I used to get a weekly dose of Fox News. As they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer. It was anything but news…… That’s all I want, or need, to say about this topic. It is too toxic … Continue reading Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law
Just what we don’t need in this country, another ultra extreme right wing narcissist vying for a leadership position. Continue reading A Snippet Here, A Snippet There…
Topeka KS – Brown vs Board of Education Historic Site Brown vs The Board of Education was a landmark case that launched the Civil Rights movement in America. It was the time that we finally forced upon an unwilling populace … Continue reading Equal Opportunities…
1: Mississippi. The poorest state in the U.S. Also the one whose corruption most approaches levels in a Third World country.SOURCE: Gallery: America’s most corrupt states. When they talk about corruption in this article they are talking about corruption of public officials and that is generally from taking bribes. As shown above Mississippi comes in as number one in this category. And as also mentioned they are also the poorest and most uneducated State. I suppose those facts are somewhat related. I read an article somewhere that much of the South’s poverty came from their reliance on slave labor which … Continue reading America’s most corrupt states
Dearborn, MI – Ford Museum The Henry Ford Museum is one of the premier museums in the country. Shown here is the bus that Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man. This was one of the … Continue reading Rosa Parks & Civil Rights…
Dearborn, MI – Ford Museum The Henry Ford Museum is one of the premier museums in the country. Shown here is the bus that Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man. This was one of the things that spurred the Civil Rights movement. Here is a little about that from Wikipedia: On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Continue reading Rosa Parks & Civil Rights…
For far too many of us the image of being religious is the above. This picture was taken on a busy Saturday night in Times Square NYC recently. Too many look at religion as some grim-faced old man telling us that we need to quit having any fun and get ready for the wrath of God. They didn’t take this old guy seriously anymore than take most current religious establishments seriously. In some ways religion has earned this moniker. Too many spend too much time worrying about God’s wrath rather than focusing on his love. Too many worry about the … Continue reading For Too Many….
Washington DC – Smithsonian Institute When John Kennedy started the mission to put a man on the moon he caused a technological revolution in America that still lingers today. The Space Shuttle as shown above was an important part of … Continue reading Man On The Moon
One of my many hobbies is to collect pictures of unique boxes and signs. Here is part of that collection Continue reading Boxes & Signs
Its hard to tell just who we are at war with in any given moment. But it seems we always gotta be a war with someone… Blessed are the Peacemakers…. Continue reading A Snippet Here, A Snippet There