RMC Photo Essays
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Sunset On The Gulf
---------- At the end of the day.-----------
Fall is here at last and we can enjoy long
walks on the beach, beautiful sunsets and
being with those we love.
RMC Photos
---------- At the end of the day.-----------
Fall is here at last and we can enjoy long
walks on the beach, beautiful sunsets and
being with those we love.
RMC Photos
Water Moccasin
Water Moccasin in Park. It just ate something. River is very high and some parks are still closed. When water is real high snakes and alligators get on boardwalks.
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Water Moccasin in Park. It just ate something. River is very high and some parks are still closed. When water is real high snakes and alligators get on boardwalks.
RMC Photos ¶ 10:24 PM 0 comments
Good News For Democrats
This is a great place to keep up with predictions of electoral college votes. So far, it looks good for Democrats. http://www.electoral-vote.com/
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Evening Thoughts
It would pay everybody, all the time, to remember that we are complex human animals, and the only way we feel, think, know, believe and sense anything is because of hormonal neuro-transmitters and brain cell activity. Something that delights one person may offend another. We live ego-centric existences and have to work at keeping perspective and self awareness. We also try to control and change things sometimes for the sake of change, and for other known, and unknown, motives and intentions. This is true 24/7/365 from the time we're born until we die.
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Friday, September 10, 2004
I still like CBS 60 Minutes II
As of 9/22/04 things have stabilized temporarily in a precarious place for CBS and Rather.Investigators were chosen today and will probably unravel how and what happened. Still not at all clear who "doctored" the papers and why.
Well ... until CBS and Rather abjectly apologized on 9/20/2004, for making a big mistake I supported CBS 60 Minutes II for having the courage to air the segment about the favoritism and abuse of power that got Bush into the Texas Air National Guard. We need more courage from more individuals and media to tell the stories that are out there. I will try to watch more CBS shows than before.
P.S. I met Rather many years ago when he was just beginning his career. If the documents he showed turn out to be forgeries, which I doubt, they could have been planted as a disinformation action to embarrass critics of Bush. Who the heck knows?
Here's some good information on the variables about the document authenticity controversy:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to read the article.
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Well ... until CBS and Rather abjectly apologized on 9/20/2004, for making a big mistake I supported CBS 60 Minutes II for having the courage to air the segment about the favoritism and abuse of power that got Bush into the Texas Air National Guard. We need more courage from more individuals and media to tell the stories that are out there. I will try to watch more CBS shows than before.
P.S. I met Rather many years ago when he was just beginning his career. If the documents he showed turn out to be forgeries, which I doubt, they could have been planted as a disinformation action to embarrass critics of Bush. Who the heck knows?
Here's some good information on the variables about the document authenticity controversy:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to read the article.
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Thursday, September 09, 2004
A rare double yolk egg. I have only seen a few of these. Guess it would have been twin chickens.
RMC Photos
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Because of a card
I have always had a great interest in our Native Americans. A friend just gave me a card with a quote from Chief Seattle. So, I googled him and here's some interesting information on a very impressive man.
http://www.kyphilom.com/www/seattle.html
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http://www.kyphilom.com/www/seattle.html
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Why am I doing all this you ask.
It's slowly dawning on me that blogging may be a good thing to do. I have had web sites for many years, and some have been really good while others were worse. But, none of them got the exposure that blogs get and had to be visited directly i.e. without linkages from as many people and ways as blogs. Another advantage to blogs is facilitating immediate comments from readers. So, I invite you all to visit and comment on what you find at: http://rmcessays.blogspot.com/
You will soon find a link from my blog to my web site which will have an audio blog and later videos too. It costs some money to audio blog with a blogging host, so I'll use my own web site as a host. http://www.rmcmedia.com/
Why am I doing all this you ask. OK, you really didn't ask but ... as they say lately, just because I can, and want to. Above this essay is a photo of trees being bent over by 40-60 mph gusts of wind during Frances' visit. It's not very exciting, but that's what I saw in my back yard. What you don't see is that the top branches are hitting a power line, and the tops of the trees have been burned. This is probably dangerous, and we're lucky our lights were not out more than 12 hours. With all the tall trees I have around our house, we were very fortunate to have no damage at all.
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You will soon find a link from my blog to my web site which will have an audio blog and later videos too. It costs some money to audio blog with a blogging host, so I'll use my own web site as a host. http://www.rmcmedia.com/
Why am I doing all this you ask. OK, you really didn't ask but ... as they say lately, just because I can, and want to. Above this essay is a photo of trees being bent over by 40-60 mph gusts of wind during Frances' visit. It's not very exciting, but that's what I saw in my back yard. What you don't see is that the top branches are hitting a power line, and the tops of the trees have been burned. This is probably dangerous, and we're lucky our lights were not out more than 12 hours. With all the tall trees I have around our house, we were very fortunate to have no damage at all.
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Does anyone else see the hypocrisy here?
Disclaimer: I am a loyal, patriotic American, and have risked my life countless times in the service of our country in places like the Korean DMZ and Vietnam. I would gladly do so again if needed but, after Vietnam, only if we were truly under attack and in self defense. I read this short essay to my wife who had reservations about my posting it. That, as they say, "speaks volumes" about the climate of suspicion, mistrust, distrust and anxiety that pervades our land these days and that, my friends, is very unfortunate.
When some countries are attacked by terrorists, the horrors and crimes committed by them are reported dramatically and frequently but never the incalculable terrorism that may have been done to the "terrorists" or their collective families over long periods. Something very important is usually missing in medias' incomplete and biased coverage, reporting and analyses of terrorism and here it is: When sophisticated bombs, rockets and artillery were used to attack places and people in Vietnam, Panama, Afghanistan Iraq and other countries, innocent children, women, men - young and old - were inevitably wounded and killed. After Vietnam, media familiar to us did not have free access to our combat operations, and never contemporaneously reported the casualties and damage inflicted on both sides. Foreign media, however, often covered and reported on all the civilian casualties that occurred, but their reports were not widely disseminated.
Family members and friends of most people who are wounded or killed by anyone often hate those who do it. Some nations grant themselves absolution for the wrongs they commit by calling them "mistakes" and by terming those they wound and kill, "collateral damage". In fact, wounded is wounded and dead is dead, and to the victims and their families there's no difference at all. Two wrongs do not make anything right, and that's a critical problem for all of us. The Russians must be careful about retaliating against innocent people in Chechnya, and we must do the same where ever we go. Or, we can do as other peoples have done and slowly, but surely, destroy ourselves.
Conclusion: What difference do you think it makes to innocent victims if they are wounded or killed by high tech weapons or by low tech (face to face) weapons and method(s)? Does anyone see the hypocrisy here?
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When some countries are attacked by terrorists, the horrors and crimes committed by them are reported dramatically and frequently but never the incalculable terrorism that may have been done to the "terrorists" or their collective families over long periods. Something very important is usually missing in medias' incomplete and biased coverage, reporting and analyses of terrorism and here it is: When sophisticated bombs, rockets and artillery were used to attack places and people in Vietnam, Panama, Afghanistan Iraq and other countries, innocent children, women, men - young and old - were inevitably wounded and killed. After Vietnam, media familiar to us did not have free access to our combat operations, and never contemporaneously reported the casualties and damage inflicted on both sides. Foreign media, however, often covered and reported on all the civilian casualties that occurred, but their reports were not widely disseminated.
Family members and friends of most people who are wounded or killed by anyone often hate those who do it. Some nations grant themselves absolution for the wrongs they commit by calling them "mistakes" and by terming those they wound and kill, "collateral damage". In fact, wounded is wounded and dead is dead, and to the victims and their families there's no difference at all. Two wrongs do not make anything right, and that's a critical problem for all of us. The Russians must be careful about retaliating against innocent people in Chechnya, and we must do the same where ever we go. Or, we can do as other peoples have done and slowly, but surely, destroy ourselves.
Conclusion: What difference do you think it makes to innocent victims if they are wounded or killed by high tech weapons or by low tech (face to face) weapons and method(s)? Does anyone see the hypocrisy here?
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004
This is the largest tree I saw blown down by Frances. Luckily, it did not hit a house.
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Human dregs.
9/5/04 Sunday
The funerals in Beslan have been on the news all day, deaths of 7 Marines and many Iraqi's on the news today, the Vietnam War is on a channel today, WW II is on a channel today, the Rwandan massacre is on Sundance channel, Tom Friedman is on a channel with a show on the roots of Muslim hatred against us and I'm sure there are more like these shows on today.
Conclusion: Far too many "humans"(?) enjoy inflicting pain and death on others and will use any - or no - excuse to do so. It's not enough that we will all suffer and die some day. There are plenty of sick human animals who want to hurry it up, and enjoy the pleasure of taking lives. Some of the stories from Beslan are indescribable. The hundred plus million killed in wars and massacres last century seem to have been a preview of the 21st century. Good luck, folks.
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The funerals in Beslan have been on the news all day, deaths of 7 Marines and many Iraqi's on the news today, the Vietnam War is on a channel today, WW II is on a channel today, the Rwandan massacre is on Sundance channel, Tom Friedman is on a channel with a show on the roots of Muslim hatred against us and I'm sure there are more like these shows on today.
Conclusion: Far too many "humans"(?) enjoy inflicting pain and death on others and will use any - or no - excuse to do so. It's not enough that we will all suffer and die some day. There are plenty of sick human animals who want to hurry it up, and enjoy the pleasure of taking lives. Some of the stories from Beslan are indescribable. The hundred plus million killed in wars and massacres last century seem to have been a preview of the 21st century. Good luck, folks.
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What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Bottom line first: We are in a mess of our own making, and it will take guts and hard work to get out of it.
Democrats had political power and control for so many decades that we lost our direction, became complacent, and out of touch with too many citizens. Our democratic messages, methods and actions were too predictable (making us easy targets) and human beings get bored with predictable. NO MATTER how good people may have it, they are sometimes willing to take extreme risks, and endure considerable discomfort, for excitement, change and challenge. We may not like it but this is how growth occurs and we humans know it intelligently, intuitively or both.
Even though relatively rapid changes, such as those we've seen in our political system since 1994, may be excessive and harmful to those wanting, and causing it, e.g. voters, many folks are willing, and even eager, to suffer through it. Paradoxically we humans while liking security, comfort and stability, also seem to have a perverse need to punish and make ourselves uncomfortable, as if in need of penance for something.
The next phase in this perpetual, political life and death drama is that, even while suffering and aware that it's because of our own actions, humans tend to act defensive and recalcitrant about returning to better times e.g. when we had a Democrat as President. The complete process of profound political change can take decades or more, as we saw in the changes from Czarist Russia to the USSR to the current Russian Republic. In other words, we may be only in the beginning of a still recent, so-called, "conservative phase" which may last for a long time.
We are absolutely in a struggle for the very heart, soul, meaning and purpose of our nation. The "other side" hungered for power and control for a very long time. Now they have it and they intend to keep what it at all costs and to acquire more - even as much as total power and control. There will be no compromise for many of their "True Believers". Republicans seem to have thoroughly studied how to win, and seem very able and willing to apply what they know more effectively than democrats. I hope I'm wrong.
¶ 10:42 AM 1 comments
Democrats had political power and control for so many decades that we lost our direction, became complacent, and out of touch with too many citizens. Our democratic messages, methods and actions were too predictable (making us easy targets) and human beings get bored with predictable. NO MATTER how good people may have it, they are sometimes willing to take extreme risks, and endure considerable discomfort, for excitement, change and challenge. We may not like it but this is how growth occurs and we humans know it intelligently, intuitively or both.
Even though relatively rapid changes, such as those we've seen in our political system since 1994, may be excessive and harmful to those wanting, and causing it, e.g. voters, many folks are willing, and even eager, to suffer through it. Paradoxically we humans while liking security, comfort and stability, also seem to have a perverse need to punish and make ourselves uncomfortable, as if in need of penance for something.
The next phase in this perpetual, political life and death drama is that, even while suffering and aware that it's because of our own actions, humans tend to act defensive and recalcitrant about returning to better times e.g. when we had a Democrat as President. The complete process of profound political change can take decades or more, as we saw in the changes from Czarist Russia to the USSR to the current Russian Republic. In other words, we may be only in the beginning of a still recent, so-called, "conservative phase" which may last for a long time.
We are absolutely in a struggle for the very heart, soul, meaning and purpose of our nation. The "other side" hungered for power and control for a very long time. Now they have it and they intend to keep what it at all costs and to acquire more - even as much as total power and control. There will be no compromise for many of their "True Believers". Republicans seem to have thoroughly studied how to win, and seem very able and willing to apply what they know more effectively than democrats. I hope I'm wrong.
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