Folly and ProvidenceWatercolor, 8 x 8"$150to purchase this painting, email meHere's what often happens when I'm traveling to a place I've never been before. Just before I get to the spot where I have to make my last turn, I panic, thinking that I've gone too far, or am headed in the wrong direction, or took a wrong turn way back when. I'll usually pull off the road to check on directions and, ni
Next year our school division plans to implement a laptop program - nowhere near a 1:1 but we are putting a 15 - 20 set of laptops in each school in the division that wishes to participate in the program. I must admit that I approach this project with some trepidation. Are our teachers ready? Will the laptops be used for authentic, meaningful learning or will they simply be used to do old things
Seven years ago, American forces, working with several tribal groups. destroyed the Taliban and drove them from Afghanistan. There was a moment in which an intelligent president of the United States would have focused on developing an effective Afghanistan army that surmounted tribal alliances and became the center of a new nationalism that might unite [...]
Sarah Palin, McCain's VP Selection I am not a political expert but rather a parent that, more often than not, think about the ramifications of families and children when I hear news headlines. For instance, when the news came out about Sarah...
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Folly Beach SunsetCharleston, South CarolinaJune 99SoldThe fifth, and final, installment of my Folly Beach series. Hope you enjoyed the views! Special edition of 5 signed and numbered $39 giclée printsEvery Sunday I post a new painting and story behind the watercolors I made while touring as a singer songwriter. Follow the stories behind the paintings of these serialized posts by working your w
Folly Beach MarshCharleston, South CarolinaJune 99SoldThe fourth installment in my Folly Beach series. Special edition of 5 signed and numbered $39 giclée printsEvery Sunday I post a new painting and story behind the watercolors I made while touring as a singer songwriter. Follow the stories behind the paintings of these serialized posts by working your way up from the bottom.Be sure to visit m
Folly Beach InletCharleston, South CarolinaJune 1999NFSThe third installment in my Folly Beach series. Special edition of 5 signed and numbered $39 giclée printsEvery Sunday I post a new painting and story behind the watercolors I made while touring as a singer songwriter. Follow the stories behind the paintings of these serialized posts by working your way up from the bottom.Be sure to visit my
Folly Beach WashCharleston, South CarolinaJune 99SoldThe second installment of my Folly Beach series. Special edition of 5 signed and numbered $39 giclée printsEvery Sunday I post a new painting and story behind the watercolors I made while touring as a singer songwriter. Follow the stories behind the paintings of these serialized posts by working your way up from the bottom.Be sure to visit my
Fred Bierman/New York Times:
On Sunday, Randy Johnson was facing San Francisco outfielder Fred Lewis in the first inning and threw a pitch so slow that it failed to even register on the radar gun. Lewis was obviously expecting something with a little more heat on it and the pitch fluttered in for strike two. Lewis eventually worked a single in the at bat on the way to becoming the first lefty e
Folly Beach RocksCharleston, South CarolinaJune 1999SoldBefore I left Charleston, I made sure to put in some time with my paint kit at Folly Beach. Beginning today and for the following four Sundays, I'll post the sketches I made wandering down the south end of the beach and around to the inlet. Special edition of 5 signed and numbered $39 giclée printsEvery Sunday I post a new painting and sto
The Canadian carbon tax set to go in effect on July is just an economic folly, according to this article. The poor and fixed income folks won’t have the money to upgrade to solar panels, yet will be penalized for heating their homes or driving their cars. [...]
Or shall we redefine this as “Mommy!!” In a brief pause between the continuous rain and thunderstorms, we opted to go out and tend to our garden a little bit. To our surprise, one little bird seemed to be not afraid of my hubby or me.
On closer examination, the bird [...]
So the candidate of CHANGE, OBAMA, keeps telling us just how unfair the tax code is because the rich aren't paying enough and corporations aren't paying enough. Even the slightly left of lunatic NY Times understands that raising the corporate tax hurts real people. . not fat cats.
The ultimate payers of the corporate tax are those individuals who have some stake in the company on which the tax..
The Folly of Maps
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IDEA: origin late Middle English, via Latin, from Greek idea, "form, pattern", from the base
of idein, "to see"
MAP: origin early 16th century, from Latin mappa mundi, lit. "sheet of the world"
FOLLY: origin late Middle Ages, from Old French folie, "madness"
Oxford Dictionary of English, Second Edition
There are parallel trails in the history of borders drawn
Kirk Kerkorian may be able to join Carl Icahn as a billionaire who has taken a lot of mad gambles recently. According to Reuters, "Kerkorian's investment...
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I’m not sold on “Wall-E.” Not even a little bit. I didn’t see “Cars” until it was on cable, and even then, I missed the first thirty minutes or so. I skipped “Ratatouille” altogether. I found “The Incredibles” — the last Pixar movie I caught in theaters — to be cute, but cold. Okay, put [...]
The amnesty travesty considered by Congress last year included a fundamental and fatal flaw: It relied on people who have shown a blatant disregard for U.S. laws to become obedient and lawful.
Did Senators McCain and Kennedy and President Bush really expect illegal aliens to do the following?
- Heads of household voluntarily return to Mexico
Folly Beach HouseSouth Carolina23 December1997It's been a long time since I was last in Charleston so I'm not sure if this house is still standing. When I lived there, this was one of the last beach front houses on Folly Beach remaining from the pre-Hurricane Hugo era. it seemed like a very comfy, old-timey place with the last stand of palmettos on the beach front. The house was my personal Fol
Do leaders of the Democrat National Committee (DNC) actually expect the American people to believe that their party has the wherewithal to manage the most powerful nation of earth, when that same party is apparently unable to manage a simple system of pre-election primaries?
Brownie Cookie Points
Okay, so this particular paragraph has absolutely nothing to do with the title, but since it refers to one of Ant’s public school teachers, I thought I’d throw it in here anyway. It’s my blog, I can do what I please.
I just woke up to the sound of clamoring in my [...]
2 April 2008 - This is going to be a huge mistake. It will be fun to watch this thing cost the tax payer tons of money and have no real effect on improving the economy.
Behind the Pentagon’s closed doors, militay leaders met with President Bush in an effort to get him to grasp the human implications and consequences of his war in Iraq.
Wednesday’s 90 minute session held in a secure coference room kown as “the Tank” was arranged by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Military leaders discussed how the [...]
It should not surprise us to learn that Obama’s popularity is on the rise once again. With the left being extremely liberal, and most times biased, is it any wonder that more of our Constitutional rights as we know them today are not banished?
Between nanny states, big brother, and now racism flourishing once again akin [...]
Why Jesus had to die:
By SHAVAUGHN MOSS, Special Sections Editor -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Jesus was not killed, but rather decided to die in order to keep the integrity of his word to himself, and destroy the stain and power of sin in every man's life, according to Bahamas Faith Ministries senior pastor Dr Myles Munroe.
And that he said is the joy of the Easter message and cause for all men everywhere in every nation and race to have hope.
"Good Friday was the greatest act of a loving heavenly father expressing his love for his image in each man and paying the ultimate price to redeem us from our own folly."
Munroe says the death of Jesus was not, and must not be considered an act of suicide, because the notion of suicide is always motivated by an individual's response to personal dist
It is the fifth anniversary of the birth of the Iraq folly initiated by the dynamic trio of Dick, Don, and George. Saudi Gazette writers blasted the continued blindness of Vice President Cheney to what he helped create five long years ago. “Listening to US Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech in Baghdad Monday was almost [...]
By Robert GillisPublished in The Foxboro Reporter and in the Boston City paper 3/2007It's early morning and I had scored the impossible in Boston: On-street parking, not ten feet away from my doctor’s office. With no time on the meter, I ran across the street to pick up a Coke and lots of quarters. I raced to the counter, where the man ahead of me was rubbing a coin across a strip of scratch tickets, while explaining his lottery order to the clerk.“Two of the #5. First three any, first three exact. Quick-pick for megabucks.”I hate being in a hurry, behind someone placing a lengthy lottery order. But thankfully, “lottery guy” didn’t delay me too long, and I was able to feed the meter and thwart the omnipresent meter maid drones.The very next day at a store, I saw another man, si
'Human Folly' - the poemWhate'er the passions, knowledge, fame, or pelf,Not one will change is neighbour with himself.The learn'd is happy nature to explore,The fool is happy that he knows no more;The rich is happy in the plenty given,The poor contents him with the care of Heaven,See the blind beggar dance, the cripple singThe sot a hero, lunatic a king;The starving chemist in his golden viewsSupremely bless'd, the poet in his Muse.See some strange comfort ev'ry state attend,And Pride bestow'd on all, a common friend:See some fit passion every age supply;Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die.Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw:Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,A little louder, but as empty quite:Scarfs, garters, gold, am
Happy Xmas,
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Giving Kos Klowns
Lib Loon Lashes!
Hillary Cackling,
Plame Singing,
Unions Kill Show Tunes,
Oh Such Swinging!
No More Day Jobs,
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Some Puns. Mostly Politics. No Pardons. [This blog includes topical humor and satirical commentary that may not be suitable for some audiences. Parental discretion is advised.]
By Otto Soemarwoto, BandungThe Sunda Strait bridge project from Merak in West Java to Bakauheni on the southern tip of Sumatra island has been revived. The governors of Banten and Lampung, and the representatives of the consortium that will build the bridge, signed a memorandum of understanding last Thursday. The pre-feasibility study will be completed in 2009 and the feasibility study in 2012, after which construction of the bridge would start in the same year. The cost is estimated at US$10 billion.This is a huge amount of money. Does the bridge merit to be accorded such a high priority?We don't have to build it. Nor do we have to maintain it. We only need to build good and efficient terminals. It can be argued the bridge would improve transportation. But experience has shown that construction of toll roads in Jakarta and its surrounds, extending all the way to Merak in the west and to Bandung in the southeast, has not solved traffic congestion problems.We should learn from our hist
I'm not one to buy into or promote stereotypes which is why when the front running GOP candidates pulled a no show at the NAACP debates I didn't post about it. Additionally when the same candidates blew off the debates hosted by Univision I didn't post about that either. (They also all blew off a conservative Christian forum in Florida around the same time.) However now that they have all opted out of the PBS debates at a historically Black college we officially have the beginning of a pattern. While many may attribute the worst possible motives to this behaviour I see other more likely and more logical reasons.Number one being that by and large the GOP has written black voters off much in the same way the Dems had previously written off the South. Meaning that the numbers have shown that spending time and effort elsewhere turns out a greater number of voters or wins more districts. However in regards to the Hispanic debates I see another motive altogether. Simply put the odds of
Of the several beaches in the area, Folly Beach is the more youthful of them. The first time around I found myself there with Mark and Lindsay. The next time around it was just the guys, Mark, AJ, and myself. Folly Beach isnt the most glamorous of beaches Ive seen on the trip. There have been a lot of beaches, Long Beach, Canon Beach, Santa Cruz, Waikiki, North Shore, Biloxi, Panama City, St. Pete, Key West, South Beach, Tybee Beach, and even stopped at the beach along Lake Michigan way back on September 2nd when I first got started. I got my second sunburn of the trip, but thankfully it wasnt as bad as the damage Panama City Beach had on me.
Folly Beach Part II
Have you ever watched a movie where you see someone in the movie lose their bathing suit at the beach? I think weve all seen comedies of some sort that have a scene like that. I think for most people, at least for me, we think, How come I never actually see something like that happen? I mean it never happen
This image is a faithful reproduction of a two-dimensional work of art and thus not copyrightable in itself in the U.S. as per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.; the same is also true in many other countries, including Germany. The original two-dimensional work shown in this image is free content because: This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. High Resolution ImageWorks published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. (Free for commercial use)Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time, c. 1545 Oil on panel, 5 ft 1 in x 4 ft 8 3/4 in (London, National Gallery of Art)Around 1545, Agnolo Tori, called Bronzino (1503-72), painted a complex verbal alleg
Poor Yang Wu. You remember that old slogan, “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on”? In this case, Yang Wu may have to double up on his knots and hang on extra tight.
Yang Wu is a 51 year old resident of Chongqing, which is a heavily populated area in central China. He and his wife, along with approximately 280 other families, were offered resettlement packages in order to make way for a large commercial development. He had been offered space on two floors of the new building, or alternatively a cash buyout. While it’s apparently not known what exactly the developer offered him, his current home was valued at about 2.5 million yuan (about $325,000).
Here’s the problem- the developer refused to wait for Yang Wu and started construction. Yang Wu has been living without electricity or gas for two years now.
Yang Wu’s home has been called the ‘hardest nail house in China’ because of a Chinese proverb that refers to peopl
Prague is a grey city these days. The weather is definitely not winter-like, air is heavy, the polution is getting worse, people are getting worse. Therefore I'll show you a picture from much better day. It's Charles bridge with The Queen Anna's folly on the horizon. There are wonderful gardens around the folly (which is close to Prague Castle, too). And you can take a boat trip on Vltava river as seen on the picture :)
