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I still think we dont know who the next President will be, one thing I am confident in predicting is that it will not be Obama.
More is the hope! The perfect bookend to Jimmy Carter.
Interesting that he was supplied a b'proof vest… chances were greater of stepping a rusty nail and getting lock jaw IMHO. ::)
So too… the government might dictate higher rates (or less coverage) for gun owners, people employeed in “dangerous” jobs, owners of certain fast cars, boats, or planes. How about the folks that have swimming pools (high risk factor. The list will become endless once Obama has a “risk czar” in place. ;D
A former student of mine was down from canada because dad was a MD. that got tired of their system; the pay was good and so was the treatments but the organization was prioitized not on seriousness of situation but upon who came in the door first. Broken arm after hangnail and ahead of heart attack if that was how they arrived.Another instance: a friend was told his (needed, at least triple) bypass was elective and would be at least 6 months… Dr. opinied he shoud seek treatment in the US if he had a connection (thankfully, son in Idaho). The second opinion (USA) was 5 way and done the day after the office call in Idaho. Good thing, as the (USA) doc figured he'd have lasted two to four months. In the end he had about 10 good years out of the deal. [/rant]I agree, no more regs….
What about the theory that he was not a British king but the Roman soldier Lucius Artorius Castus? … seems more plausible than the rest as Castus was a real, verifiable person and that his legacy grew into legend and thus the Arthur legend…
This is my thought too. A major part of the construct in my way of thinking.
I agree with the construct proposition; that said, this could be a relic used by one of the folks that make up that construct… perhaps.[/waffle mode] ::)
[quiet mode]I'm going to say this softly because it may upset some; I'm not sure 9/11 belongs on the top 10 list… too soon to tell the lasting impact of what may end up no more than a sidebar item in the history books. Much of what has been assigned status as a result of this attack would have been forthcoming anyway… just not the press coverage. IMHO[/quiet mode]
It is my understanding that the distinction between subject and citizen was a lively debate among the framers… freedom is as different from a liberty as a subject is from a citizen.Even now, people born in the UK are not citizens, they are subjects of the crown. It is a subtle yet profound difference, and one not often remarked upon.
David Hackett Fischer makes the distinction well in his book Liberty and Freedom, a must read by my way of thinking. I mentioned it sometime back… the implication I see of Jefferson shifting from subject to citizen is our (implied) from freedom to liberty upon the creation of the new nation.
… and there is nothing new under the sun (so it seems). 😀Aerocar video… or this 😉
Interesting but this is more my speed…
“This is the last cowboy song the end of a hundred year waltzVoices sound sad as they're singing along another piece of America's lostHe rides a feed lot and clerks in a market on weekends selling tobacco and beerHis dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fencesBut he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't hereHe blazed the trail with Lewis and ClarkAnd eyeball to eyeball Ol' Wyatt backed downHe stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in TexasAnd rode with the Seventh when Custer went downThis is the last cowboy song…Remington showed us how he looked on canvasAnd Louie L'Amore has told us his taleAnd Willie and Waylon and me sing about himAnd wish to God we could have ridden his trailThe Old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete nowAnd they truck 'em to market in fifty foot rigsThey blow by his market never slowing to reasonLike living and dying was all he didThis is the last cowboy song…This is the last cowboy song…This is the last cowboy song…” 😉
The HighwaymenWillie (tie with Waylon)”Desperados Waiting for a Train” (tie with “The Last Cowboy Song”)
Hasnt anybody heard of a Shotgun House? A/C is a luxury, people lived in Hot Climates ong before there was A/C and would still do so even if it had never been invented. My Greatgrandfathers house in Oklahoma had no A/C and he would not get it, siad it was too newfangled for him. Keep in mind that temperatures in the 90's and 100's are common in Oklahoma in the summer.
The founder of my community built a mansion incorporating the idea of orienting the stucture such that less of it was exposed to direct sunlight (in summer and more in winter) and giving it overhanging eves to keep it cooler… also some of the ideas allowed unrestricted air flow (ala shotgun houses), pretty good plan.
We had swamp coolers in Iraq, they work a little but personally I would rather do without. The water can get nasty and then people around them start coming down with all kinds of bronchial infections from the humid air full of bacteria and nastiness.
A concern; legionaires disease. When I worked in building maint. we had to clean and sanitize all the swamp coolers and cooling towers regularly… esp in the buildings with large 24 hr populations (jail, health clinics, etc.)
When I was a kid many of the older buildings in the downtown of my 'burg used fans that blew passed large ice blocks… I remember the Oddfellows hall was that way until the pans started to have lkeaks and they could't get them fixed they just used ceiling fans (5 or 6 foot dia) to move the air around. Sadfly, third floor and high ceilings meant the only evaporative cooling was accomplished as the hot air passed across ones' sweaty clothes or skin. 😛
