Edit: Here is a story from today, July 11, regarding the beautiful little boy pictured below. This is sickening to me. UK Judge Gives Parents Two Days to Prove Son Should Be Kept Alive. Little Charlie is a ten-month-old baby, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, Mitochondrial-DNA-Depletion Syndrome, that has robbed him of sight …
Photo Challenge: Delta…Transitions and the Passage of Time
In the Inside Passage, the strait separating Vancouver Island from the mainland of Canada and Alaska, there is an intersection, where the protected waters of the Passage are met by the rougher waters of the North Pacific Ocean, between islands. You can actually see where the waters meet, because they form a whirlpool with rushing …
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Accordions…As Far as the Eye Can See
Last week was the Leavenworth (WA) International Accordion Celebration. Leavenworth is known as "Washington's Bavarian Village", and most of its buildings are dressed up in Bavarian Village style. LIAC consists of four days of accordion competition, performances by local and international groups and individuals, an accordion parade through town, and all sorts of impromptu and …
So, Democrats…Let’s Talk Money in Politics, Shall We?
Democrats just love talking night and day about getting the big money out of politics. They constantly rail about elections being "bought" by "special interest groups" and rich donors (they love to demonize the Koch brothers and Wall Street). Their cure for the big money in politics is often "public financing", meaning government support of …
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Photo Challenge……Transient
If a huge thundercloud isn't transient, nothing is. We outran this one in Iowa in the summer of 2010, on our way to Hillsdale College in Michigan. It nearly caught us when we stopped for lunch, but we got to our destination before the storm broke. I took this picture through the front windshield of …
Photo Challenge – Order – All Lined Up
See the differently-colored punts, all lined up on the banks of the River Cam, in Cambridge, England. They are just waiting for some people to come along and rent them for a lazy trip down the slow-flowing river. Perfect for a summer afternoon. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/order/
The Trump/Sessions Department of Justice just did “Justice”!
The DOJ has communicated to Congress that it is ending the Obama-era corporate shakedown regime, where it forced corporations who paid huge settlements to resolve conflicts relating to the financial crisis, to pay (liberal) third-party organizations as part of those settlements. Billions of dollars were siphoned off to various Obama special-interest groups, in violation of …
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It’s weird the things you remember from days gone by…Tricks of Memory
Today is June 6. 6/6. It is the 73rd Anniversary of D-Day, that momentous day in 1944 when the Allies invaded France to re-take Europe from Hitler's evil forces. But that's not what I remember. In June of 1966, I was a junior in high school in Seattle. I was taking a ceramics class, with …
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Friend..ly Photo Challenge
My friend likes to sit on my lap, whenever I'm sitting down. She leaps very quietly onto the chair or bed I happen to be using, and purrs loudly to get my attention. My lap is always warm when Kikyo the Aristo-Cat is on my lap. She also likes to snuggle up to her glass …
Memorial Day. Remember.
Remember all those who gave their lives, in defense of your Liberty.