Catching Up
I see a number of notes to myself marking submissions to be posted or discussed. Jean has a series in the queue, Joe has an article or two he’d like to start a discussion.
I’m going to do the easy ones first.
illinoisbeekeeper sent a couple of photos bracketing a day in the life – Oct 3, 2014 in this example.
Sunrise on I-72, perhaps Pike County, western Ill

Sunset turning west on US36 from US 385; Idalia, Co in distance

Travelling the Colorado Plains: I have see it snow hard and heavy in Denver on or around this date before. Hard to believe “safe” mountain travel may be over in a few weeks. Oh well, I don’t have any more road trips planned for the rest of the year.
Though spontaneous combustion of my sanity has been known to occur.

I was scheming just yesterday about how to work in a US 50 Colorado/Utah/Nevada road trip yet this year. But my September/October are already all ate up with schedule killing “gonna gotta have to do this” crap so now it’s looking like Spring 2027. Wherever does the time go.
No, no. That was a curse, not a question.
WWW’s Law: “Nobody cares about your schedule except you.
“US 50 Colorado/Utah/Nevada road trip”
That’s a nice drive. Being interested in the things that interest me – old railroads, ghost towns – I have to fight temptation to stop at every place I might find interesting along that route.
By Paul Craig Roberts.
Evidence is plentiful that Ireland as an Irish nation has ceased to exist. Geographically, a country still remains, but it is not Irish. It is a multicultural tower of babel, one created by the Irish themselves.
University College Dublin has a School of Social Justice that grants Ph.D. degrees in Equality Studies, which alone shows how far Ireland has progressed into non-existence. One such graduate, an immigrant-invader from Nigeria, is the Irish government’s Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism. On a recent news broadcast she said that “we,” by which she meant immigrant-invaders, “have inherited this island,” and she urged Ireland to let go of their language. “We need teachers who don’t have to speak Irish.”
The panel of five women included three immigrant-invaders and two Irish ethnics, both of whom agreed with the immigrant-invaders that Ireland is no longer an Irish nation.
The rapid replacement of white ethnics in the countries of the West has created belated awareness of The Camp of the Saints. In commenting on the Irish government official’s remark that it is time for Ireland to abandon its language, Bill Ponton observed:
“Jean Raspail got it right in The Camp of the Saints (1973), a political allegory about mass migration, Western guilt, and the collapse of a society’s willingness to defend its own institutions and identity. Raspail’s argument is that a civilization can destroy itself when it ceases to believe that it has a legitimate right to preserve its borders, culture, and way of life. In Raspail’s telling, the decisive weakness comes from inside the culture rather than from the migrants themselves.”
Dear Joe,
Your article on Ireland has our ancestors turning over in their graves.
Myrtle