In keeping with the threads purpose a pic is below. Happy Friday!
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The American by Gordon Sinclair
“The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it's time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there -- I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it's the United States that hurries into help. Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.
Now, I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes. Come on now, you, let's hear it. Does any country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind -- as they will -- who could blame them if they said "the hell with the rest of the world. Let somebody else buy the bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes." When the railways of France and Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of 'em are still broke.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters -- with the year less than half-over -- has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.
Just realized this was an early model for the event poster. The dates should read August 1, 2, 3. We cal it a "jazz" festival, but it's really fun music of the 20, 30's and 40's.
"Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet." Louis Armstrong
Speaking of sharks, I recently picked up a couple of prehistoric shark teeth. These were found at Lee Creek in Aurora, NC.
The first one is 3.6 inches long from an extinct species and close relative of the C. Megalodon. These are from 5-28 million years ago and grew up to 40 ft. This one was estimated to be around 30 ft.
The second on is from an extinct species of giant Mako from 5-25 million years ago. This is 2.6 inches long. This species was an ancestor to the Great White..
Today in U.S. History the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920 after a long struggle known as the women’s suffrage movement.
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This little buck? (I think maybe due to dark crescent shape fur above the eye where antlers will grow someday) was born in our backyard to his (or her) mother, who was also born in our backyard a couple years ago next to the deck and porch. The two come around all the time. This picture it was only 10 feet away and it stayed while sitting looking at me.
These little guys are taught/instinct (?) not to move. Once, I backed in and sat down right next to one (until I finally got stir-crazy) near our lodge in the Shenandoah Valley. We were both hiding under a shady pine tree. It was hard resisting the temptation not to scratch her neck and possibly ruin the experience.
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This little buck? (I think maybe due to dark crescent shape fur above the eye where antlers will grow someday) was born in our backyard to his (or her) mother, who was also born in our backyard a couple years ago next to the deck and porch. The two come around all the time. This picture it was only 10 feet away and it stayed while sitting looking at me.
We went to Canada last week for a Rocky Mountain getaway. Here's a few shots from our first day: A deer in my dad's garden in Kelowna, Kinney Lake during a rainy hike, and a misty Mount Robson.
I'm not sure why, but when I post images on this forum they somehow seem duller than I see them in Photoshop or my other devices.
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Love the glass plates. I just bought a few myself. Weird to think about how everyone in them is dead.
Wow! That is not a few! What’s the story?
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@ECHOES Thanks! I was a way a bit to long, I’m glad to have the desire back!
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Here's a photo of moose getting ready for the rut. I took this in 1995 Milo, NH.
Unfortunately a bus bus load of tourist arrived and ruined it.
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Folks looked so happy back then. What happened? Lol
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Friday is here:
A few from earlier in the week:
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Most should know about the radio broadcast of Gordon Sinclair. If not, here you go. Transcribed text below.
In keeping with the threads purpose a pic is below. Happy Friday!
—————
The American by Gordon Sinclair
“The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it's time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there -- I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it's the United States that hurries into help. Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.
Now, I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes. Come on now, you, let's hear it. Does any country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind -- as they will -- who could blame them if they said "the hell with the rest of the world. Let somebody else buy the bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes." When the railways of France and Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of 'em are still broke.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters -- with the year less than half-over -- has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.
Whats on your radio?
Knowledge is the enemy of fear
My town is celebrating its 300th anniversary this year. Pics from last weekend.
ONE OF MANY
I found this in my mulch pit. I know what it is, Do you? I just stuck it in the cilantro to photo it.
Fishbone/spine
Indeed, now the species?
Old school collecting of widgets,............... with eye appeal.
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Louis Armstrong
Just realized this was an early model for the event poster. The dates should read August 1, 2, 3. We cal it a "jazz" festival, but it's really fun music of the 20, 30's and 40's.
Louis Armstrong
Being that the spine was pretty thick and very long spine bones, it’s a big fish.
WAG
Tuna, bluefin? Sashimi grade! Yum!
Maybe swordfish?
Not a mackerel.
Sharktopus Meglodonus
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None of the above.
It was a gamefish
Speaking of sharks, I recently picked up a couple of prehistoric shark teeth. These were found at Lee Creek in Aurora, NC.
The first one is 3.6 inches long from an extinct species and close relative of the C. Megalodon. These are from 5-28 million years ago and grew up to 40 ft. This one was estimated to be around 30 ft.
The second on is from an extinct species of giant Mako from 5-25 million years ago. This is 2.6 inches long. This species was an ancestor to the Great White..
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Central Valley Roosevelts
Great pictures! Happy Friday.
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Today in U.S. History the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920 after a long struggle known as the women’s suffrage movement.
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Maybe Amelia Earhart got WAY off course.
Tarpon?
This little buck? (I think maybe due to dark crescent shape fur above the eye where antlers will grow someday) was born in our backyard to his (or her) mother, who was also born in our backyard a couple years ago next to the deck and porch. The two come around all the time. This picture it was only 10 feet away and it stayed while sitting looking at me.
My US Mint Commemorative Medal Set
These little guys are taught/instinct (?) not to move. Once, I backed in and sat down right next to one (until I finally got stir-crazy) near our lodge in the Shenandoah Valley. We were both hiding under a shady pine tree. It was hard resisting the temptation not to scratch her neck and possibly ruin the experience.
That's cute.
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View from my deck this morning.
Jim
Buckeye Butterflies doing lunch
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
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We went to Canada last week for a Rocky Mountain getaway. Here's a few shots from our first day: A deer in my dad's garden in Kelowna, Kinney Lake during a rainy hike, and a misty Mount Robson.
I'm not sure why, but when I post images on this forum they somehow seem duller than I see them in Photoshop or my other devices.
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I agree about images being dulled down on this forum, can you look into this?
@PCGSPhoto Only you would notice that!
You have to be there to truly appreciate it anyway...
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Lots of updates occurring... take a look at the badges.
Or not.
West coast, so,
-marlin or sailfish?
Still no, I have posted the type of fish so many times here as it is the one of best fighting fish there is.
Uncanny.
This from along the trail on our blueberry picking hike earlier in the week:
Friday night!
American Bandstand...?