probably a side blotched lizard...about 7 or 8 inches long
i was listening to the daily comments about bit-coin on the radio i heard the first purchase made with bit-coins was some pizzas which were bought for 10 thousand bit coins...how odd that the value of these tools for commerce would have reached the value of over $50,000 but when you consider the price put on a piece of canvas with oil paint on it at over $100,000,000 the whole concept of "value" becomes warped..... in the 18th century there were "Physiocrats" who believed agriculture was the the standard by which things should be valued....there are people who are worth in excess of 150 billion dollars today...in 1866 Lew Wallace went to mexico to hunt on an estate which was described as 8,131,242 acres with 7000 peons owned by Carlos Sanchez...i read the difference between mexico and the USA is that these huge land grants which were awarded to people in favor in Spain allowed power to be concentrated in a few people and therefore a wealthy class ruled the impoverished many...I wonder if the mega rich people in the USA will eventually lead to a serf/ruler society here now a cubic foot of lead weighs about 708 pounds and a cubic foot of gold weighs about 1204 pounds and neither one of them is good to eat...in other words a cantaloupe can keep you alive but gold cannot keep you alive...but I have heard that there is plenty of food to send to the starving people in Yemen but no money with which to purchase it...so people starve to death...how odd I do not think that history will be kind to the 20th century....
"It is a rare thing to find a combination of great means and of great conceptions in one mind." Colton
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