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Today’s Quotes
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Thoughts for
the day
This morning, I got up to a cloudless blue sky with a huge yellow ball rising
in the sky. It has been over a week since this happened here. Much appreciated.
On Sunday the Broncos had a bye. The Cards lost to the Jaguars in OT.
60 minutes did a good piece on Montana last night. The current
administration is planning on selling huge area of public land in Montana to
private parties to increase housing and the economy. I spent 3 summers at my
great-uncle’s Montana ranch. His grandparents had homesteaded the area. He had
cattle, alfalfa, and wheat. My grandfather enjoyed walking around the huge
property that had recently been cultivated where he found remnants of the Crow
tribe. He found shards, arrowheads, and sharpened rock that had been used for
tanning and cleaning their game kills. Uncle Larry depended on the government
for the wheat crop. Each year they would subsidize his wheat crop…some years
with more money for the wheat, other years for not planting as much wheat. I’m
sure his cattle grazed on some public land. The government also helped pay for
the earthen dam that helped with irrigation of the alfalfa crop. That lake also
gave my grandfather a great summer of fishing trout. He would clean, cut up the
trout, freeze them in milk cartons so that our Denver family had huge amounts
of trout through the winter months. I sure hate to see those kind of ranches
disappear, only to become housing and business. There are so many positive outdoor
activities that will be lost forever.
On the political side, it has been revealed that a significant number of
MAGA accounts on ‘X’ are not from Americans, but from numerous countries that
may or may not be friendly to the US. Hmmm. To fix this I believe every account
should appear on ‘X’ with its point of origin.
History that is not true…
Julius Caesar was emperor of Rome
Julius Caesar is one of history’s main
characters – a military and political leader with an astonishing sense of his
own innate destiny. Shakespeare wrote that he sat "bestride the narrow
world like a Colossus", and he certainly did some pretty imperial things.
He subjugated Gaul (France) with a ruthlessness
that has been compared to genocide, quite literally changed time by
instituting the 365-day calendar and was brutally assassinated by Roman elites
on the steps of the Senate – classic emperor behavior. But although
Caesar was Rome’s first emperor – it wasn’t Julius.
Julius Caesar oversaw the dying days of the
Roman Republic – a democracy spearheaded by two elected consuls who were
limited to one-year terms. Caesar became Consul in 59 BC and used a mix of
military victories and backroom deals to accumulate a frightening amount of
power. In 44 BC he was declared ‘dictator for life’ and was promptly murdered
by a group of senators, whose own ambitions aligned with concerns that Caesar
wished to make himself king.
It was Augustus Caesar – Julius’s great-nephew
and adopted son – who emerged victorious from the civil wars that followed and
installed himself as the first emperor of an exhausted Roman state.
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
Columbus discovered America
You cannot discover the land occupied by
millions of people. By the time Columbus arrived in 1492, indigenous
peoples had been settled in the Americas for more than 10,000 years and had developed complex societies, such as the
Aztec Empire and the Mississippi culture.
Columbus did not set foot in the U.S. at all but
remained in the Caribbean and Central and South America. The story that he had
discovered America suggests that colonization is a predestination, not a
conquest.
Random Thoughts…
You’re
the only one who remembers your embarrassing experiences so vividly because
everyone’s got their own to remember.
Eight
hours of drinking is binge drinking, eight hours of TV is binge-watching, and
eight hours of sleep is barely enough.
Why don’t
you meet more people by the name of Elvis if Elvis Presley was
so popular?
If a
morgue worker died, they’d still need to come to work one more time.
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