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light shows

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We had a light show going on in a storm out East, which took a 30 second exposure to capture (you can see star trails). And the raging moon was happening higher up in the sky, which took a fast shutter to capture. So the two events were coincident, but captured differently. I thought they'd look good together in a single picture so I relocated the moon.

We had a light show going on in a storm out East, which took a 30 second exposure to capture (you can see star trails). And the raging moon was happening higher up in the sky, which took a fast shutter to capture. So the two events were coincident, but captured differently. I thought they’d look good together in a single picture so I relocated the moon.

Calhan windmills

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We see these Calhan windmills very well from high ground in Kiowa. Not sure they’re so evident over in lower parts of El Paso County because they’re set back on the mesa a bit – which makes me wonder if they’re positioned to be less visible to those who live most proximate to them.

America, listen up

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I had the great fortune to make a friend in Hong Kong last April from a random meeting while waiting for a table at a restaurant. Subsequently we visited one evening over a couple bottles of wine and a duck. We began to write each other. This is from his recent letter. The lesson to America couldn’t be more clear:

“Hong Kong is a small place. What has made Hong Kong a city actually serving the world as a genuinely global financial center are: the common law system in the city, English proficiency, a free vote, a free way of life, convertibility of the currency, simple and low tax regime – there is no value added tax (VAT) for exchange of goods, and personal income tax stands at only 12%. 99% of the population are formerly refugees escaping from Chinese Communism in the mainland.”

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Maul cows

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Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Aristotle

"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."

Karl Popper

“A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”