Not long before he died, in 1926, the great Western artist, Charles Russell, was invited to speak at a Montana Booster Club meeting. But when he was introduced as a “pioneer,” Russell, shaking with anger, said this to his crowd of admirers…
“In my book, a pioneer is a man who comes to a virgin country, traps off all the fur, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes off all the grass, plows the roots up and strings ten million miles of barbed wire. A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. I wish to God that this country was just like it was when I first saw it, and that none of you folks were here at all!”
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A couple days after I got home, I awoke to…god help me…a terrific itch. I looked at my ankles and they were speckled with inflamed red welts. There must have been 30 or 40 marks. But what? How? We’d had some mosquitoes earlier in the summer after the rains, and I’d ventured out last night to see the full moon, but how had this many skeeters attacked me in those brief moments? I hadn’t been in any tall grass. Chiggers were out of the question.
I made some coffee and wandered into the living room; there on the couch was Rascal, inverted as usual. How a nine pound cat can occupy the entire sofa is beyond me, but as I dragged him from the center cushion, I saw a speck of something emerge from his fur, and it leapt upon me. It happened so quickly I could scarcely comprehend the event. But then I saw another. And another.
Fleas.
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From the article:
A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would “expect an alien civilization to build”, astronomers have said.
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.
I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told The Atlantic. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”
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http://artbell.com/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures/
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If there was one condo development that didn’t need to happen, it’s the Mill Creek Pueblos project. In the early 90s, the owner of that seven acre parcel was long-time Moab resident VENICE DENNY. Denny was looking toward retirement and needed to sell the land, but could not bear to see this lovely horse pasture condominimized. He went to the Moab City Council with a proposal to sell the land to the city for, even then, a rock bottom price of $125,000. It made perfect sense, even from a planning perspective. The Mill Creek Parkway was in its early stages and was directly adjacent to Denny’s land. But the Council would not consider his offer.
Not one member of the council would even bring the matter up for discussion. Finally, with all his other options expended, Venice Denny sold the land to a developer, who a couple years later, sold it again for double the price. Finally. a condo proposal acceptable to the council passed and the MILL CREEK PUEBLOS replaced the horse pastures.
Years later, we pay the price for the utter lack of vision from the Moab City Council…JS
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