Sunday - July 03, 2011
Kiss That Gold Goodbye
Local Royal Family has run temple for 20 generations and not lost a coin. Government will now provide security.
A treasure trove of gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones said to be worth billions of dollars has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India, officials said. The valuables have an estimated preliminary worth of over 500 billion rupees ($11.2 billion), said Kerala Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar, catapulting the temple into the league of India’s richest temples.
The thousands of necklaces, coins and precious stones have been kept in at least five underground vaults at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple which is renowned for its intricate sculptures.
“We are yet to open one more secret chamber which has not been opened for nearly 140 years,” Jayakumar told AFP.
The actual value of the treasure haul can be ascertained only after it is examined by the archaeological department, said Jayakumar.
The temple, dedicated to Hindu lord Vishnu, was built hundreds of years ago by the king of Travancore and donations by devotees have been kept in the temple’s vaults since. A necklace found on Thursday was 18 feet (six metres) long. Thousands of gold coins have also been found.
India’s Supreme Court recently ordered that the temple be managed by the state to ensure the security of valuables at the shrine. Until now, the Thirupathy temple in southern Andhra Pradesh state was believed to be India’s richest temple with offerings from devotees worth 320 billion rupees.
The revelation about the huge riches in the Padmanabhaswamy temple has forced police to sharply step install security cameras and alarms. Authorities also plan to set up a commando force for security, said Kerala director general of police Jacob Punnoose.
“Now it?s known all over the world that the Padmanabhaswamy temple has jewels worth billions of rupees we have decided to assign it maximum security,” Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told AFP.
Kiss your riches goodbye and go back to living in the mud while starving. I can guarantee you that the government is going to steal, lose, misplace, whatever, this treasure. Accounting errors. And the people will never get anything from it. Not that they ever have.
I don’t know the exact age of the temple, and the $11.2 billion figure is preliminary. But if the place has been around for ... 500 years ... that’s about $23 million in treasure donated every single year. While the people go without. And in India, they go without for reals. Without food, without clothing, without shelter, without everything and anything. Without life. And the temple gets all their wealth and then sits on it FOREVER and does nothing with it. But now it will all be stolen by corrupt officials.
Way to go.
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That about says it all, doesn’t it?
Onondaga, NY [ near Syracuse ] – A Parish man who was participating in a motorcycle helmet protest ride was killed this afternoon when he went over the handlebars of his motorcycle and injured his head on the pavement, state police said.
Philip A. Contos, 55, ... was not wearing a helmet while driving a 1983 Harley Davidson motorcycle south on Route 11 in Onondaga with a large group of other motorcyclists, troopers said.
About 1:30 p.m., troopers said, Contos hit his brakes, the motorcycle fishtailed and went out of control and Contos went over the handlebars.
Contos was taken to Upstate University Hospital where he was pronounced dead, troopers said.
Evidence at the scene and information from the attending physician indicate Contos would have survived if he had been wearing a Department of Transportation approved helmet, troopers said.
The protest in which Contos was riding was organized by American Bikers Aimed Towards Education, Trooper Jack Keller said.
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Permalink • england must screw itself rules foreign court
I think we can be reasonably certain that the average working Brit had no intention of screwing him or her self. Nevertheless, this country has gotten the shaft big time and all in the name of human rights.
They have people here with names as impossible to spell and pronounce as it is to deport them. This island is over run with illegals, failed amnesty seekers and criminals of every stripe. Unfortunately for the Brits, it might be somewhat easier to deport say a white criminal or illegal immigrant, then it is to deport those of a darker hue. And even then that isn’t always true, again due to the use of a human rights act, enabled by a court in another country. Generally though, the darkies come from countries where torture might be routine and rights just don’t exist, and so lawyers here (with names few can spell or pronounce) are hard at work making sure the scum can stay. And that isn’t all. Since these pitiful pissants have zero funds, there’s an agency that sees to it that ALL their legal fees are paid for. Interesting concept in the western world. The people who cause the problems get to screw the people who don’t who get to pay the expenses of the folks who do the screwin.’
Once allowed to remain in this country, with no jobs available to them, no guesses as to who has the burden of supporting them.
The bastards are on to a good thing.
And they know it.
Take a look at this.
Human rights farce: meet the serial criminal who cannot be deportedAbdi Sufi, a serial criminal whose legal appeal has prevented Britain deporting hundreds of undesirable immigrants, is already back on the streets.
By Alastair Jamieson
Abdi Sufi 24, has at least 17 convictions for crimes including burglary, fraud and indecent exposure since he entered the UK illegally eight years ago.
But an attempt by the Home Office to send him back to his homeland of Somalia has been thwarted by judges in Strasbourg, who ruled last week that he would face the risk of inhumane treatment if he was returned. He is now living freely in London.The ruling in the key test case means that more than 200 further Somalis appealing against deportation, most of them convicted criminals, will be able to remain in Britain.
Critics say the ruling illustrates how human rights legislation is being exploited by lawyers and foreign criminals to make a mockery of British justice.Sufi’s case was taken to the European Court of Human Rights by the AIRE Centre, a legal advice body which has received funding from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the European Commission. Because the Home Office lost, both sides’ costs will be paid by British taxpayers.
Judges considered Sufi’s case together with that of another Somali criminal fighting deportation, Abdiaziz Elmi, a 42-year-old heroin addict with multiple convictions for drug-dealing and robbery who lives with his family in Camberley, Surrey.
The court ruled unanimously that sending either man back to his homeland would breach Article 3 of the European Human Rights Convention, which bans “inhuman or degrading treatment”.
The judges rejected the Home Office’s argument that the men could live safely in parts of Somalia. They ruled that the country as a whole was too dangerous to send the men home to.“The court reiterated that the prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is absolute,” they said. “Consequently, the applicants’ behaviour, however undesirable, could not be taken into account.”
The judgment described it as the “lead case” against the UK, meaning the outcome will set a precedent for 214 pending cases brought by Somalis attempting to avoid deportation, around two-thirds of them criminals.Sufi arrived in Britain as a 16 year-old in 2003, having paid a trafficking agent for false identity documents to get on a flight from Somalia via Dubai. He sought asylum, claiming that he belonged to a clan persecuted by militia, but his claim was rejected and a tribunal found his account was “not credible”.
Nevertheless, he was placed in the care of social services until he turned 18. In that year, 2005, he was convicted of burglary and dishonestly obtaining goods by deception, and ordered to spent 18 months in Feltham Young Offenders Institution. He later committed further crimes, including indecent exposure, theft and making threats to kill, culminating in a 2009 sentence of 32 months for five counts of burglary.
Following his latest release from an immigration detention centre, Sufi is back on the streets of west London, drifting between bail hostels and a friend’s flat.
Tracked down by The Sunday Telegraph, he said he was not even aware of the European court’s decision in his case, or its implications.
He apologised for his criminal record and said he wanted to start a new, law-abiding life as a bus driver or security guard.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said: “I have not spoken to the lawyer. They got me out of the detention centre so I am very pleased, but I am not celebrating as I still do not have money to eat.”
“I am seeing a psychiatrist for my nightmares and I do not sleep at night. It makes it difficult for me to be normal.
“I want to contribute to society, not to be costing the country money, but I have been unable to get education and skills here because of my status.
“I am full of shame for having to beg or borrow to live and I do not want to be a burden to anybody.“I understand why people are angry that I committed crimes, I see their point of view and I am sorry. I did not come to Britain to commit crimes.”
His father, a successful clothing shop owner and farmer, was persecuted by the Hawiye militia because his family were from a minority clan, Shanshi.
“Everything we had was stolen or destroyed, and my family was killed,” he said. “My mother contacted relatives and we scraped together enough money to pay people to get me out of the country to be safe.“I did not choose Britain, it was just where they took me. Later I heard my mother managed to get to Sweden but she died there.”
The court’s judgment said that while it was possible for well-connected individuals to live safely in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, anyone else being returned would face serious harm.Mahdi Aadam, director of the Pan African Relief and Development Organisation, a refugee support charity based in west London, said: “Mogadishu is worse now than ever.”
He said the rise of the country’s al-Shabaab Islamist insurgency had made the country “deadly”, but added: “It is a civil war, not a religious conflict.”
Mr Sufi said his 2007 conviction for indecent exposure followed an argument with a female warder over laundry at the West Drayton immigrant detention centre in west London.
So then, here since the age of 16 and still needs an interpreter as his ringlesh just am not quite there yet.
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Permalink • Soggy Sunday
Stole this from Theo’s
So of course this tune came bubbling up out of my memory, a good old tune that gets me going even better than a third cup of espresso.
Lowell George; what a talent. Died so young. Drugs are bad, m’kay?
Little Feet was another band that IMO couldn’t record a video or cut a decent sounding album to save their lives, but sounded awesome in concert. Days long gone by. Long, long gone by.
Phish captures the live vibe pretty well in their cover which is no surprise given the intense Dead influence on that band. Plus advances in technology of course.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 02, 2011
Good Linkage
I love that this blog is sort of part of a family ... several other blogs are run by folks who read here regularly (Pal2Pal, Soylent Green, etc) and some who read here go there as well. It’s like visiting family on the weekends; it’s a good thing.
Well, there’s a to-do just starting up on the core reality of Islam over at cmblake’s. Go there, follow the first link, read and return, watch the 2 Geert Wilder videos called A Warning To America, if you haven’t seen them yet, then join in the fun.
This is my idea of spreading the wealth around. The more voices that shout in the darkness, the sooner a candle may be lit.
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Permalink • Will We Ever Get There?
A divided federal appeals court [ the 6th Circuit ] on Friday struck down Michigan’s controversial ban on consideration of race and gender in college admissions.
The 2-1 panel at the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded the voter-approved ban on “preferential treatment” at state colleges and universities was unconstitutional, and “alters Michigan’s political structure by impermissibly burdening racial minorities.”
The issue is likely to renew the national, political and legal debate over affirmative action, which the Supreme Court could be poised to resolve in the coming months.
The affirmative action ban was passed five years ago in a referendum and was added to the state’s constitution, barring publicly funded centers of higher education from granting “preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” That prompted a series of lawsuits and appeals from various groups.
The issue comes after the justices in 2003 ruled that while Michigan universities could use race as a factor in choosing which students to admit, they could not make race the determining factor in deciding whether applicants are accepted.
The appeals court has now said the Michigan law violated the Constitution’s equal protection laws.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said today he will appeal a court ruling that overturned the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans the use of race and gender preferences in college admissions and government hiring and contracting.
Schuette said he will make a formal request for a rehearing with the appeals court, a move that will keep the civil rights initiative — known as Proposal 2 — in place at least temporarily.
“MCRI embodies the fundamental premise of what America is all about: equal opportunity under the law,” Schuette said in a statement. “Entrance to our great universities must be based upon merit, and I will continue the fight for equality, fairness and rule of law.”
A federal appeals court today overturned Proposal 2, saying the voter-approved measure harms minorities and is unconstitutional.
The 2006 law forced the University of Michigan and other state schools to revise their admission policies. In a 2-1 decision, the judges ruled that the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
The court in particular objected to the inclusion of the voter-approved ban in the Michigan Constitution in its 59-page ruling.
“Proposal 2 reorders the political process in Michigan to place special burdens on minority interests,” judges R. Guy Cole Jr. and Martha Craig Daughtrey said.
The ban, passed with 58 percent of the vote nearly five years ago, affected government hiring as well as college admissions.
In 2008, a federal judge in Detroit upheld the law, saying it was race-neutral.
Justices Ransey Cole Jr and Martha “Cissy” Daughtery, both Clinton appointees; Reagan appointed judge Julia Gibbons, dissenting
Jennifer Gratz, who headed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative ballot proposal, said she doesn’t think the ruling is going to stand long term because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled initiatives than ban ran preferences are constitutional.
“To me, this is the epitome of an activist court. These justices held onto this ruling for years and released it the day before the holiday weekend. They were hoping they would catch people off guard and not make the news,” said, Gratz, director of the American Civil Rights Institute, a California-based group that advocates against affirmative action.
Ward Connerly, a former University of California regent who was a major backer of Proposal 2 and California’s similar Proposition 209, said the ruling means the people have no right to govern their own institutions.
“It’s saying the people have no right to insist that everyone be treated equality. It places the ultimate decision in the hands of the university — that they are supreme ones,” Connerly said by phone from California. “It’s a terrible, terrible decision that will not stand.”
Michigan’s ban on affirmative action — covering both government hiring and admission to public colleges and universities — was made part of the State Constitution after a 2006 voter initiative that passed by 58 percent to 42 percent. It was known as Proposal 2 and prohibited public institutions from giving “preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.”
The voter initiative followed the Supreme Court decisions, which found that while the University of Michigan could not set quotas for certain racial groups, or give them extra points, in undergraduate admissions, it could consider race as one factor in the holistic law school admissions process.
The 59 page court decision in .pdf format is here, wherein we find the words of the hateful Prop 2 now found unconstitutional. As you read those hateful words, bear in mind those other words, the ones from the Declaration of Independence as we head into the 4th of July weekend:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ...”
Here they are. Surely it takes an activist, living-Constitution, elitely superior liberal mind to see the blatant inequality in that amendment:
Proposal 2 amended the Michigan Constitution by adding the following pertinent
provisions to Article I—titled “Affirmative action”:
(1) The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and any other public college or university, community college, or school district shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.(2) The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
(3) For the purposes of this section “state” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the state itself, any city, county, any public college, university, or community college, school district, or other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the State of Michigan not included in sub-section 1.
To unenlightened evil conservative minds like mine, the above is the clearest possible statement of equal protection I think I have ever read. Sorry I is so stupit.
My aunt was a school teacher. She started teaching back in the late 60s in a small town school in almost-rural Georgia. Her students were mostly black kids. They had just about nothing in the way of books or school supplies, and she had to fight the prevailing powers to get them what they needed. That was a very long time ago. 17 years ago I spent the summer at my university, and I was amazed that my little school in the wilderness suddenly was wall to wall black kids when the weather got warm. Yet not one of these kids was in any of my classes. They were all incoming Freshmen, spending the summer beforehand taking remedial courses. The school also provided them mentors and free tutoring. The few who did make it to graduation had first pick of the jobs. In New Jersey we have a thing called Abbot Schools, which are a special kind of gold label inner city schools that get massively larger amounts of funding than another other schools in the state. Guess who attends them?
From kindergarten to grad school, the educational system has turned itself inside out to give blacks every possible leg up. And they still need special laws to get into schools?
I will be the first to say that, yes, once upon a time Affirmative Action was a necessary evil. That was 40 years ago. An entire generation of minorities have been through the educational system since then, and their children as well. 40 years worth. And being a minority is a distinct advantage in the jobs market, especially the corporate one. We even have an Affirmative Action President, elected for no reason other than half his heritage (because the election had nothing to do with race you know).
When is enough ever going to be enough? Our entire society caters to the whims, needs, and sensitivity of black people. They have help in all things from cradle to grave. And yet they’re always the victims, no matter how accepted everyone else tries to make them. We’ve removed all the glass ceilings and lowered all the bars right down into the mud, but that’s not enough. When will they ever be equal again, after being superior for all this time?
My wife is furious about this decision. “If I were black” she says “I’d be &^#+ing insulted! Where the hell is Al, or Jesse, speaking up about this? It’s a slap in the face to every minority in the country: we have to baby you, even by law, because you aren’t good enough.”
Isn’t she the greatest?
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Permalink • california there I went but it’s over. d i v o r c e
This last week could have been a lot better. For example. The Dodgers go bust. Jeesh. That was a shocker. Then I read that gov. moombeam of CA has signed a new law taxing out of state sales on the net. Can’t wait for his next hat trick.
Of course ... catalogs (some I’ve seen) have a place when ordering out of state that requires you to figure in your state tax. And they’ve been doing that for a long time. The fact that Brown could be elected gov. again just shows how badly my voting block is outnumbered.
HEY !!!! I just had this very serious and very scary thought. Really serious. I don’t know why it took me so long to make the connection.
The previous Prime Minister of this country was also named Brown. OMG-OMG!
I’ve now gone from “California Here I Come”
To ...
“Oh gee ... I hate, to think that we must part
But you know I love you, so deep down in my heart.
But there’s no need to pretend, our love is at an end.
It’s over ..... because ... we’re through.”
Taft Jordan with the Chick Webb Band 1930s
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Another day in Clinton. Baby bunnies having a snack and a nap in the neighbor’s flower garden. Awww.
Little bunny is lucky that Mr. Fox doesn’t have the nerve to come this close to the buildings. He stays in the woods down by the pond. Neighbor Nancy isn’t going to be too thrilled; she just planted those flowers a few weeks ago.
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Permalink • Friday - July 01, 2011
One For Vilmar
Elsa Hosk, popular Swedish model. 5’9” tall, 23 years old.
She’s a natural ultrablonde, so they make her wear lots of makeup to hide the freckles and to give her some visible eyebrows. Um, what’s wrong with ultrablondes with freckles???
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Permalink • California Ignores The Law, Suffers
What part of “you can’t do that” does CA not understand? Businesses Go Gault to avoid this tyranny.
California tells online retailers to start collecting sales taxes
Beginning Friday, Amazon.com and other large out-of-state retailers will be required to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online.
Beginning Friday, a new state law will require large out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make on the Internet — a prospect eased only slightly by a 1-percentage-point drop in the tax that also takes effect at the same time.
Getting the taxes, which consumers typically don’t pay to the state if online merchants don’t charge them, is “a common-sense idea,” said Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed the legislation into law Wednesday
But those taxes may come with a price. Amazon and online retailer Overstock.com Inc. told thousands of California Internet marketing affiliates that they will stop paying commissions for referrals of so-called click-through customers.
That’s because the new requirement applies only to online sellers based out of state that have some connection to California, such as workers, warehouses or offices here.
Both Amazon in Seattle and Overstock in Salt Lake City have told affiliates that they would have to move to another state if they wanted to continue earning commissions for referring customers.
“We oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive,” Amazon wrote its California business partners Wednesday. Amazon has not indicated what further actions it might take to challenge the California law.
Amazon ends deal with 25,000 California websites
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California’s tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts say.
The bill, AB 28X, takes effect immediately. The state Board of Equalization says the tax will raise $200 million a year, but critics claim it will raise nothing because online retailers will end their affiliate programs rather than collect the tax.
Amazon has already emailed its termination of its affiliate advertising program with 25,000 websites.
Click a link on some blog that takes you to an online retailer - say one that sells crossbows perhaps? - and the blogger in California “owns” or “roots” the sale in that state, so the retailer then owes sales tax to that state? As in: you live in New Mexico, you click on a link at a blog run by some guy in New Jersey that takes you to a crossbow selling online retailer in Indiana, and now New Jersey has the power to collect sales tax from a transaction between Indiana and New Mexico? Is there a diplomatic way to say “Blow it out your ass, fuckface!”??
This is a Use Tax, plain and simple. And use taxes are the biggest loser idea that ever was. While the laws may require citizens to add up the things that they buy out of state and then pay the proper amount of sales tax to their home state, other than my mother nobody in the entire country does this. Nobody. Because deep down we all know that what we buy somewhere else is no business of the state we live in, so they can sod off.
Amazon was quick to turn the tables. Calling the new law unconstitutional, Amazon sent an email Wednesday to California affiliates immediately severing ties with them—and putting those businesses in the crosshairs.
“Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011,” the company wrote in an email to affiliates obtained by FoxNews.com.
By ending these local affiliate programs, Amazon and Overstock should largely exempt themselves from the law—meaning California shoppers probably won’t see taxes on books and other goods from them.
The States are just as out of control and out of their minds as the federal government when it comes to taxes. Neither group has been able to spend responsibly for the past 80 years or more, and both are now mired in debt. But neither will face the music and put their budgets under the chopper. The post I didn’t run: Obama wants to raise taxes hugely to attempt to balance the budget. Which will once again KILL any slight bit of growth the economy may have been showing. It’s like he’s doing this shit on purpose. Nobody could be that stupid by accident. Guess I was wrong: Jerry Brown is that stupid. And so is California, for re-electing this wasted old hippie 20 years past his sell-by date.
The internet is a duty free port. Just make sure that whatever you buy online comes from some other state. If it comes from your state, just go buy it locally instead. Personally, if I ran a web business I’d set it up off shore if I could. Failing that I’d set it up in Delaware, or another state that has no sales tax. Failing that, I’d make it abundantly clear that no sales would be made to the state the business resided in. And thus the taxman can go to hell. Because that’s what America is all about.
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HILLCREST HEIGHTS, Md. - Prince George’s County Police say a five-year-old boy shot a four-year-old boy on a playground in the 4400 block of 23rd Parkway in Hillcrest Heights.
Police are still trying to figure out where the five-year-old boy was able to access the gun. They believe he found it in the home, but don’t know whose gun it is.
Police say the bullet passed right through the upper part of the four-year-old’s torso.
Ebony Webb says she was there when the four-year-old boy ran into his apartment after he was shot. She called 911 and helped clean the wound. Officials transported the four-year-old to Children’s Hospital. Authorities say the gunshot wound is not life-threatening.
Police say after shooting, they found the boy who pulled the trigger and the gun he used in the boy’s apartment. Police are questioning the shooter’s parents and other adults who had access to the apartment.
Ebony Webb rushed downstairs to discover the five-year-old had shot his four-year-old playmate through the chest.
She told ABC7: ‘He shot him real close so I took him upstairs… took metal pieces out of the wound.’ She added: ‘He didn’t cry or nuthin.’ He’s a soldier.’
Miss Webb said the injured boy was in shock, so she laid him on her bed and called police, then did her best to clean him up.
The shooter ran back to his family’s apartment, where police later found him and the weapon. Ebony Webb says she was there when the four-year-old boy ran into his apartment after he was shot.
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“We just heard a big boom, a big shot,” Webb said.
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“How did the five-year-old obtain the handgun, and who does it belong to?” Prince George’s County Police Officer Mike Rodriguez asked.One witness told MyFoxDC that it appeared to be a .22-caliber handgun. Dee Johnson, 29, who identified himself as the shooter’s uncle, told The Washington Post that the boy found the gun outside. He added that the boy’s mother, who lives in the apartment with three other children, does not keep guns there.
Authorities are questioning residents of the apartment complexes about the incident, and it is possible that charges will be filed.
Very sad state of affairs, that’s all I’ll say. I doubt that either of these boys will live to see 30. I don’t know Hillcrest Heights, but I can guess. And my guess is that it isn’t a good place to raise a family.
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Earlier today, the wife insisted I let her show me the fields across the road at the end of our street. There are four or five large farm fields, generally hidden behind the trees and hedges and vegetation that grows along both sides of a main road leading into Winchester.
At different spots as you drive you can spot a crop of some kind but folks don’t sight see on this road. Well, as it happens there is one little space where we can pull a car into and get out safely. Perhaps in normal times I might have walked it as it’s only a couple of minutes away. At first I wasn’t keen because I guess I’ve gotten lazy, and must face that truth. But honestly the back was acting up slightly and it showed itself in my left knee. How’s that for weird?
I’m glad I got off my butt though because the view was really nice and but for her I wouldn’t have thought to bring my camera.
There are four or five large fields growing FLAX.
The wife took this shot.
So after that she said she wanted to do a loop around our area and our village to see a particular field that grows something different almost every year.
But we had to drive in some pretty tight places to get there.
I am always nervous driving on these cart tracks, and that’s exactly what they were originally. A one horse cart track. Most of these roads weren’t even paved till after the 2nd War. We had no place to back up to where we could pull over, so that car you see here backed up about a quarter mile to a small spot used for just that purpose.
We were just tooling around our back garden in a manner of speaking. All of this is right on our doorstep. In fact, some of it is right outside our front door.
There are some things about this politically nutty place we would really miss.
Well, as I said. I was merely along for the ride and she did find the field she wanted to see. However, there wasn’t anything to see. At least, not at that place. But there was at this. It caught our eye and our breath and I wish I could have taken better photos.
Poppies. And yes. That kind of Poppy. As in, medicinal. The lighter colored poppies are actually Opium poppies and are grown under license for medical use. They are a good cash crop for the farmer and the program has only been introduced here recently.
The red poppies are wild. Poppy seed can stay in the ground for as long as 20 years until conditions are suitable for it to grow. So we never know where or when we’ll see them and have bad luck trying to grow the reds in our garden. Sometimes we get one lonely flower.
Don’t seem to have a lot of luck with morning glories either.
One year we were flush with them, as shown here, and then the next we couldn’t get any to thrive.
One year we seemed to have the snail and slug problem under control, and it seemed after that everything went to flower hell where we couldn’t control them at all.
The sky has gone back and forth between bright sun and blue skies to dark grey clouds every minute or two all day long.
I can’t believe I’ve spent the better part of an afternoon re-sizing and cropping and posting these few photos. Time seems to fly. Or is that just something we discover with age?
For now, from me, that’s all for today. As always, Stay Tuned.
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