One year ago today: December 17, 2017, about Dec. 17, 1965 . . .
Five years ago today: December 17, 2013, money, the motivator.
Nine years ago today: December 17, 2009, ZIP 98054.
Random years ago today: December 17, 2003, my early warning system.
Ha, now I can't find the post at all. I intend to reconstruct it from other sources, but if I can't find the time, enjoy the pictures. This is the wall mural at Sacred Heart Church in Punta Gorda. It portrays the changes from the little white church on the left in 1922 to today's church and community hall, as big as an auditorium.
This middle picture is a moving display. I have it on video and my intention was to test the video feature in here. You'll have to wait. For some inane reason, Movie Maker will not operate on MP4 files. Those people are idiots from the word go. None of the free conversion services work and I'm not anywhere near dumb enough to use an on-line converter. The fact these on-line operators even exist is proof some people have not heard the news lately. A data or ecurity breach every other week. Funny, isn't it, how not that long ago when all this mess was predicted in this blog, they screamed "conspiracy theory". Whose screaming now.
This photo is the senior choir at Sacred Heart. Alas, although we arrived early and got good seats, the camera angle was less than ideal. In a lot of the better shots, or what should have been good shots, there were items like microphones in the path.
ADDENDUM
Here is your danger for the 2020s. Federal over-reach. This notice arrived with my vehicle papers this morning. The complacent masses will figure this is just another no-big-deal item to catch the bad guys. Wrong, very wrong. Everybody, including the good guys who want to fly will be required to have a “federally acceptable document”. The American Constitution was originally framed to prevent any central government from having that much power. They were aware of the creeping way that dictatorships arise and of governments that promise to restore order.
Soon that document will be required for other things, and it is step toward national ID cards, which any sane person is against. Not the card, but the abuse to which the government will put it. The logic that says you need a powerful central government to keep everything in line is your class road to loss of freedom. The whole idea was to have fifty separate states regulating their own affairs, and in a democracy, that would be one excellent idea. Because only the good forms of government would survive.
FMOR, the American Constitution gives very limited power to the federal government. And it specifically states that if a power is not granted (spelled out) in the Consitution, then that power belongs to the individual states. Sure, this means fifty different sets of requirements, but it ensures an overall level of voluntary cooperation. With federal laws, you get them involuntarily, and you cannot opt out. The US government has been on this tack for decades, using items not mentioned in the Constitution to trample over state and individual rights.
They enact flowery-sounding laws, like “environmental protection” but use it to prevent anyone they don’t like from building a factory or using their own land as they see fit. Farmers get arrested for digging wells or catching rain because the government owns the water. The expansion of control is insidious, always over issues on which the Constitution is silent. You know why that is? Because if you want to see the furor that starts if the government tries to pull a fast one over something that is in the Constitution, look at gun control.
[Author's note: there is nothing here to insinuate that Americans are not concerned about their continual loss of freedom. The problem is that the erosion of rights is very gradual and people don't have time to read every page, so to speak. Tihese federal laws are given flowery names, like 'environmental protection' and 'motor vehicle safety'. But buried on page 137 is the clause that gives the federal government the right to enforce the law in almost any situation it pleases.
One of the biggest snow jobs was the packaging of prohibition laws called "child protection". Things like that are an easy sell for the average busy citizen, he'll say sure, we're all for that. Then he finds out later if a woman lies about her age, he's the one going to jail. The system is dysfunctional. States used to set their own age of consent, now the feds dictate it is 18. That means potentially every male who has been in high school could be facing life in prison--should charges be pressed.]
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