"Education makes a people easy to lead..."

                      thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking
                                             THINK!
so i missed the G7 meeting
again
my invitation probably got lost in the mail
didn't really want to drink any french wine anyhow
I see where the US representative failed to make
the climate change meeting
the above article may give some insight into why
we
all of us
like to reinforce the ideas we already have
and do not like to see conflicting information
it is natural
it is normal
it is dangerous

"Education makes a people easy to lead,
but difficult to drive: easy to govern but impossible
to drive."

Joachim Ronneberg

"We are an intelligent species..."

                            one of the more pessimistic articles about climate and species


there is mention of the golden toad in this article
I happened to be in the monte verde cloud forest
in costa rica about the time that this article mentions
I was eating lunch in the golden toad cafe
the waiter said he had some of the toads
in an aquarium at home...and that he was a guide
in the biological reserve
as near as I could tell there was basically no effort
to breed these toads in captivity by experienced
breeders...i mentioned that as a zookeeper I knew of
several people who could undoubtedly breed these
toads in captivity...
wooops...too late...
so now we are all zookeepers
for better or worse

"We are an intelligent species and the use of
our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure.
In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When
it is use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous"
                                              Carl Sagan (Brocas Brain)

pareidolia

"I shall tell you a great secret my friend..."

         got stunk in lafayette
sprayed with a very noxious smelling stuff
in my home/van/castle
eventually it will go away but it is a violation
of my civil rights
as usual

spent time on the internet
saw way too much child pornography
someone is not doing their job
someone said that it was too hard to look at
well
people who do not like dog fights have to go to
dog fights to stop the dogs fights
I suppose when thousands go online
and look for illicit material there will
be less of it around
pretty saddening viewing

as usual the constabulary are harassing me
for imagined offenses
I am making a list of all the times I get
harassed so that when I go to court and ask
for monetary recompense for my stress
there will be no doubt in the minds of the jurors
as to what has been happening to me

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend.
Do not wait for the last judgement.
It takes place every day."  Albert Camus "The Fall"

Private Henry Gunther of Baltimore...10:59 AM

"There is nothing harder..."

                                         box turtle and toad come to visit my campsite


had to rescue two raccoons this morning
caught in the dumpster
they found and ate my last pack of cookies
last night because I left them outside
with a bag of oatmeal
which they also ate
as well as my popcorn
that is the thing about raccoons
they eat anything they find
they even chewed on some of my teabags
but I still felt bad when I saw them in the
dumpster this morning
so I dragged a tree limb over and put it in
the dumpster and they climbed out

lots of strange folks show up at the campsite
cant figure out why so many weirdos show up

"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference"
                                                          Juan Montalvo

saxatile

"Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragons teeth..."

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST ARTICLES I HAVE READ ON THE MEXICAN PEOPLE


"Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragons teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men."  Stephen Vincent Benet

Grace Mendoza

"And the end of the fight..."

                                                    shore birds on Pensacola Bay


finally rented a campsite at the federal seashore
fort pickens...used to be over-run with raccoons and skunks
now the raccoons are much less
but the two legged skunks are very numerous

got the snorkel gear and loaded it on the bike
rode across the road to the beach
suited up and was amazed at how many fish there were
mostly mullet and some small fish with yellow tails
the small fish followed me around
perhaps thinking I was a manatee getting ready
to poop
or a big fish that would make a kill of a mullet and leave some
pieces behind for them
but I was just gliding around and enjoying the underwater
views
money and time well spent
bought a new camera at the pawn shop that is supposed to
be waterproof  to three feet deep   but I was afraid to put it in the water
anyhow I did see these shorebirds from the fishing pier and
thought they were a good subject
I just bought a new bird guide for 75 cents but did not look them
up yet...so I will call them the " long lipped stilt legs"

also did some "Pliking, or riding the bike and picking
up trash...it has become very popular in Europe...not
so much here yet...too much spandex I suppose

also looked up what the rules are about
WHISTLE BLOWING
the U.S. government recovered $2.6 billion dollars
in 2017 from fraudulent overcharges
and this is the good part
it paid $262 million dollars to people for helping
to prosecute the thieves
it is called the
QUI TAM or false claims act
first used in 1863 when it was reported
that folks were selling
ailing mules to the military
so when you think
more than 700 bucks a day is a bit much to
take care of a confiscated kid  at the border
just do some investigating and help prove
that we are are being robbed

"And the end of the flight is a tombstone white
       with the name of the late deceased.
And the epitaph dreer, "A fool lies here who
         tried to hustle the east."  Rudyard Kipling

KATABATIC