Old Guns, Again
on 01/13/2020 at 10:52 AM
You find the most interesting things. Reminds me of that ‘machine gun’ - that pre-dates the 2nd Amendment - putting a lie to the only muskets and hunting were what the 2nd was talking about.
People are so gullible and buy into the political lies. I guess most people really are lazy and stupid - and yet - those very people built America from the ground up.
Intellectual curiosity and a lack of an enlightened education is what is destroying America.
I’m reading my Dad’s WWII letters. To get through the war - his father was buying farms and stocking them with cows, sheep and pigs and planting veggies, even cleared land behind the horse barn at their home property and planted that. Even after the war - my parents had sheep (don’t name the lambs, it makes it hard to eat the lamb chops) and won ribbons for their veggies at local fairs. I think that eclectic approach to life - is what is needed. Do for yourself and learn as much as you can - and you can survive almost anything. Also interesting in these letters, was a letter from my Mom’s Dad about the ‘war effort’ - he had nothing but anger and disdain for the military after the death of my Uncle Geoff in the Army Air crash in 1942. Early on I had found a letter my Mom’s Mom wrote to a lifelong family friend about the crash - she took a more normal - horrible accident - approach. However she ending up grieving herself to death within 3 years. I do however, wonder about my Grandfather’s approach - since at the time of the letter - my Dad was about to deploy into a war zone. Was that the time to be so disdainful of the military?
One of my Dad’s Navy friend wrote him from Jacksonville (where he was stationed at the time) - his letter was a veritable track of what the USS Yorktown did - I love reading it. I guess Navy to Navy - they don’t censor like they did all the stuff coming from the Pacific. I’m amazed he survived what he did - kept saying - we saw so much action.
It’s been interesting to say the least.
Thanks! I try to find different things to write about, instead of the same-same you find everywhere. Plus, you know I’m burnt out on politics and the daily Dem insanity.
I just read the monthly note from Hillsdale College, their Imprimus thing. It’s free, sign up for it if you don’t get it already. This is one school with their head on right. This month it was a discussion of the classic approach that makes a real university, not a hotbed of anarchy and disillusion. Their little magazine is always a good read.
I was going to post on the “dying cave fish” story at Fox Snooze today, but you know me and my background work to any post ... it got huge. So here’s a micro post: Turns out Ken Jennings (the Jeopardy guy) used to write for Conde Nast Traveler, and did a concise essay on the Congo river and it’s amazing and very deep waters. Which is where the “dying fish” story leads. Nutshell: The Congo river is over 750 feet deep in some places, has no river delta, and is one of the biggest, widest, highest volume rivers on the planet. Placid for most of it’s length, there are parts where the currents are so fierce that fish can’t cross the river, and have evolved differently on either side.
