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I hope you enjoy the updates to my art and life as presented in this blog. IF you don't like the political stuff and don't want to receive future blogs just say so, no hard feelings. So far, only three have taken me up on the offer. With that in mind, remember:
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And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present:
New Art:
A lot of projects, I want to finish the '39 Pontiac. Talked to the owner. Promise new art later this month.
Did I ever show you one of my "Other Peoples' Art" walls? I have several, this one is in my studio.
Florida:
Bonita Beach, Big Hickory Pass
Justice:
This I covered in an earlier blog when they caught this guy. 9-year old Angie got off her school bus at the end of just another day at school, not far from our rental homes in St Ann, MO and her family never saw her again, until hunters in St Charles Co found her duc taped to a tree. It haunted the community for quite a while. I did not know her but...a 9-year old little girl.
Stunning: I came across some numbers recently, I think on ESPN website...and I am not a 'Husker fan; however, think about this claim to the best college football team ever - In 1995 the Cornhuskers scored 638 points while only allowing 174. Their average margin of victory was 38.6 points, and their lowest margin of victory, against Washington State, was 14 points. The Cornhuskers successfully defended their 1994 national championship by defeating 2nd ranked Florida 62-24 in the Fiesta Bowl, at the time the second largest margin of victory ever between a No. 1 and No. 2 school.
Another: How fast have you ever driven? 80? 90? How fast have you ever ridden in an auto?95?
In my high school years (when else) a friend acquired a Boss 302 Mustang - I think hood locks and all. Back then Hwy 40 from I-270 to the Chesterfield Valley was noticeably hillier than today after several widening and re-do's. The speedometer had 120 at the top end. Would IT go that fast? We (he) ran it west on 40 and on the downside of each hill we could get it to 100.
In college, my sister's boyfriend had a ... Boss 302 with hood locks. The fastback did not leave much room for someone 6'2", however, the ride with them back to STL was free. So we rode hoe in 90 minutes, approximately 125 miles. 85 mph average when the speed limit was 55? You know we had to slowdown on a couple of bridges and when we reached the STL metro suburbs.
My point: 231
And then there I was on my Black Vespa, sold it to a guy here in Naples. I am pretty sure I ran it up to 35mph!!!Thoughts:
Jordan Peterson
How Does an Electric Car Work (Thanks to Dr Ginther for this one)
CLIMATE ALARM!!!!!! In a statement obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Wheeler said that national average ozone concentrations have dropped 25% between 1990 and 2019. They fell slightly again last year after flatlining since 2013, EPA data show.
Thomas Sowell systemic racism has no meaning. Link to this Black thinker
Kind of scary but not surprising: Pollaganda: "One of the world's largest public relations companies recently surveyed 1,000 Americans about their views of the coronavirus. Perhaps the most shocking finding was the extreme difference between perception and reality. ... They ... believe that 9% of the country — roughly 30 million Americans — have died from COVID. That's 225 times the number of confirmed deaths. If that's what the American people believe, then clearly the media are failing to report the facts. All they are doing is spreading fear and panic." —Gary Bauer
Last Blog I mentioned Mary and Undoe The Knots...One of my readers sent a Holy Card she has for that very same topic:
Some Good Thoughts and Deeds sent by another reader...
A Middle School started a "Breakfast With Dads" program; however, many fathers couldn't make it and several students did not have Father Figures. The school posted a FaceBook request for 50 volunteers...600 Fathers from all backgrounds showed up.The bride's father died ten years ago and his heart was donated. The man who received the transplant walked her down the aisle.
This old lady goes to the supermarket to read books (that you are supposed to purchase) quite often, so...the manager put together a bench for her."Life Gave Me The Gift Of You" - marine's 4-year old son cries tears of joy after hearing new step-moms vows for him...I tear up typing this one.
Music:
St Louisian guitarist and producer link. This should download from St Louis Post-Dispatch, great insight, 3 print pages, give it a minute to download.
Beautiful music links to Luka Bloom, plain and simple
Link to live Exploring The Blue. try try try to listen to a studio cut with headphones on.
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More thoughts:
Oh Really? Mr. Loury earned a bachelor’s in mathematics from Northwestern, then a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He read Hayek alongside “moderate economics” at MIT, and was attracted to the ideas of Milton Friedman. In 1982, at 33, he became Harvard’s youngest ever tenured black economics professor.
Obama’s second term: “I kind of soured on him, soured on the cult of personality I saw, especially among African-Americans.”
Black Lives Matter also contributed to the rift with the left. “I became disillusioned “
he says, “with a lot of the rhetoric. I came to think that the incarceration issue is vastly more complicated than I’d come to regard it.” Black people in cities needed protection from the criminals in their midst. Individuals had to be held accountable for their lawbreaking. “The left’s deterministic argument—‘Well, there’s poverty, so of course there’s going to be crime’— left out human agency, and it left out morality.”
As the center of America’s racial politics moved left, says Mr. Loury, “and as wokeness came into be- ing,” he was reminded of why he had been on the right in the first place. “I began to repair back to some of my earlier positions in reaction against the excesses of the racial liberals.”
There are, Mr. Loury stresses, many aspects of American life “in which race will assert itself. And I want not to seem to be failing to acknowledge that.” There is certainly some discrimination in policing and the courts, he says. “But it can explain maybe 15% or 20% of the gap between black and white incarceration rates, not the whole thing.” Most of the difference, he insists, turns on the behavior of people.
“If you want to call that racism, then you’re calling everything racism.”
Humor:
PSA: Dear Friends,
There are just over 3 months until election day when people will decide who will be the next President of the United States.The person elected will be the President of all Americans.Not just the Democrats or the Republicans.
It’s time that we all came together, Democrats and Republicans alike, in a bi-partisan effort for America and showed unity.So, the week before Election Day:
If you support Donald Trump, please drive with your headlights ON during the day.
If you support Joe Biden, please drive with your headlights OFF at night.
Together, we can make this happen.
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I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.*******************************
As someone recently pointed out...
(ahem) color commentary part of an NBA broadcast if an announcer used what is printed on a player's jersey in lieu of his name to describe that player. To wit:
"Pigs in a Blanket" drives down the lane, and quickly dishes off to "Hands Up Don't Shoot," who head fakes before tossing a pass to "Check Your Privilege." Long shot from the corner ... score!
Tragically, reality intrudes. "NBA games will be 94-feet, divisive political rallies," Whitlock stated regarding this latest development. Toward what end? He says, "We're going to see a bunch of players far more concerned with building a social media following in China than building a fanbase here in America."
In other words, despite all the proselytizing, posturing, posing, and pompousness — it's still all about the money.
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How old is he? Per John Harris, "He is older than 94% of all living Americans, and older than 96% of all people alive on the planet per the UN" Do you know he had two brain surgeries for aneurysms?
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Or, as I have learned from your input, Preaching To The Choir vs Unbelievers
Or, as I have learned from your input, Preaching To The Choir vs Unbelievers
Enter at your own risk:
The hi-light links will take you to the rest of the story.
"With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learned to be perfectly indifferent; but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be passive." —Thomas Jefferson (1804)
Why can't we work together? Hyperbole??
"I'm a little older now and people are always like, 'You gonna have some babies? When are you gonna have some babies? You gonna drop some babies?' ... I would hate to give birth to someone that looks like me, and then, knowing that they're gonna be hunted or killed." —Black actress Tiffany Haddish
Black Columnist Larry Elder:
Biden's Lies for Black (and White-Privilege Guilt) Votes. Link to - Take a second to read pleaseBiden the Racist? Link to a little comedy
Well, maybe they are not perfect after all...
Unfortunately for the Times, its own "journalists" have a bit of a checkered history. As The Daily Wire reports, the Times was inundated with gentle reminders. Here's one: "In 1851," tweeted PragerU, "@nytimes founding editor Henry Jarvis Raymond published an editorial in which he supported a slaveowner's legal right to recover his escaped slaves." And here's another, from Andrew Klavan: "The @nytimes, a #formernewspaper, was built on land that belonged to the Canarsee tribe and covered up both the Holocaust and the Communist starvation of millions." Clearly, two can play the Times's game.
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