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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Happy 90th Birthday Dad

Wow,
a flare on top of a stake of pancakes!
You look a little worried there Dad!
Happy Birthday!

This is,
Wishing You Many More Birthdays To Come Dad,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

 “You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” 
- Bob Hope -

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The Five Best Of September

I'm starting something new today.
At the end of each month I'm going to highlight the best Posts of that month.
I know I have one more day until the end of September,
but tomorrow is my Dad's 90th birthday
and I'm going to be celebrating it in my own way.
No I'm not going back to drinking.
OK,
the Five best Post of September 2015 are:

No. 1 "History Lost." Where I talk about how letters have given us the true insight on how people lived, how they thought, and who they loved before technology took away this personal type of written communication.
No. 2 "Wildfires." Explaining how many plant species in naturally fire-affected environments require fire to germinate, establish, or to reproduce.
No. 3 "Choices." My Philosophy on the meaning of the "Choices" we make in our lives, with a humorous ending.
No. 4 "If It Was Only That Easy." A beautiful Youtube video of a six year old girl telling her divorced Parents to be nice to one another.
No. 5 "Don't Take The Children - Music Video." A music video of a song I wrote with the help, from my friends, Electric Dave and F.A.S. Two of the greatest musicians a guy could have played with and I was lucky enough to have done so.


So,
there you have it.
The best of September 2015.

This is,
Modesty Isn't Always My Strong Suit,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart. The one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
- Marvin J. Ashton -

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Monday, September 28, 2015

VW Greed

Remember my September 21st Post,
where I talk about how
Stewart Parnell, the former Peanut Corporation of America owner, was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, wire fraud and other crimes related the 2008 and 2009 outbreak that killed nine people, sickened more than 700 and prompted one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history.
- Reported by Kim Bellware for The Huffington Post -

Now the
Environmental Protection Agency has accused VW of installing sophisticated stealth software that enabled "clean diesel" versions of its Passat, Jetta, Golf and Beetle models to detect when they were being tested and emit less-polluting exhaust than in real-world driving conditions. The agency says the "defeat devices" allowed those models to belch up to 40 times the allowed amounts of harmful fumes in order to improve driving performance.
- Reported by Michael Biesecker and Eric Tucker for the Associated Press -
The Justice Department says it's "working closely" with EPA investigators. "If there is sufficient evidence to show that Volkswagen intentionally programmed its vehicles to override the emission control devices, the company and any individuals involved could face criminal charges under the Clean Air Act, and for conspiracy, fraud and false statements," said David M. Uhlmann, a former chief of the Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Section who is now a law professor at the University of Michigan. He called criminal charges "almost certain.

After a week of being in the headlines deceiving the federal government and the public over its TDI "clean diesel" vehicles, Volkswagen has rolled out a new consumer-facing website that aims to answer some common questions and do some damage control in the wake of the widening scandal. Although if you've missed many of these headlines and own one of the affected vehicles, we don't recommend actually visiting VWDieselInfo.com—especially if you are currently taking any form of heart medication.
"It's pretty terrible."
- Reported by Richard Read for The Car Connection -
Once again,
rich Executives trying to wring every penny they can out of a product with not a care on who it hurts,
or how much it costs the little guy.
What happened to Stewart Parnell,
sentenced to 28 years in jail,
will most likely happen to some of the Executives at VW,
but the little guy will be hurt the most.
How?
People will be losing their jobs because of layoffs at Volkswagen,
the people who ship products overseas for VW will have cutbacks,
and it will trickle right down the line to sales people
and mechanics at VW Dealerships!
These are the innocent victims of
Corporate Greed
when
Executives
get caught cheating the system!

This is,
Wishing The Gap Between The Rich & The Poor Was Reversed For A Month,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,


“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit -

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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Choices

It happens to us all.
No one is excluded in life.
At different points in everyone's life,
there are choices to be made.
Sometimes,
you only have to decide between two choices.
Other times,
your decision is based on one of many choices.
The
 defines
Choice
as
- An act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.
Your choices in life also,
in my humble opinion,
define who you are,
who you were,
and who you will become.
You will find that some of your choices are easy ones,
others,
difficult.
Some will be good,
some will be bad.
Haters in this world will berate you for the independent choices you make,
that do not agree with what they believe.
They want you to choose what they believe is the right course for your life so they can control you.
This is how Cults work.
One individual controlling all your choices.
The people who love you,
will understand your choices,
be they good ones
or bad.
It won't matter to them as long as you learn from your mistakes
and grow as a person.
That is just one part of life that makes it so exciting.
Looking back at your choices,
you will see how they have shaped your life today.
The choices you make today,
will be interesting in seeing how they shape your future.

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So here is my dilemma.
The reason I am thinking about the choices I have made in my life.
What will become of my future,
because of the choice I have to make right now?
So I boldly went where I have never gone before
and said,
"YES, PUT SOME BLACK PEPPER ON THAT TERIYAKI FOOT LONG!"

This is,
50/50 On My Choices In Life,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"We are our choices."

That is my choice, to write this story.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Hazards Of Walking

I'm sweating right now. Not from the four miles I just walked, in the 87 degree, sunny California weather. It's from the confrontation I had with a neighborhood psycho. Every Sunday I extend how far I walk by a block or two. Last Sunday I decided to walk down a new cul-de-sac I've never been on before, adding two more blocks to my four miles. On Monday, as I was rounding the circle part of the cul-de-sac, someone I've never meet before started backing out of his driveway. The closer I got to his driveway the more he inched closer to the road. When I finally was in front of his driveway, I heard his engine rev up, and saw his truck coming at me faster then I thought was safe. I had to jump out of the way so I wouldn't get hit. You can imagine how my heart was racing. I was bent over, hands on both knees, trying to calm my breathing. I thought the guy probably didn't see me and was a careless driver by not looking where he was going when he backed up! Until I saw him drive by. He gave me the angriest look. Like it was my fault. As he drove off I thought, "what a jerk." I calmed myself down, and after awhile thought nothing more of it. Until today. I was circling the same cul-de-sac when the same pick-up, came down the street, this time, aiming it's front end right at me. I quickly moved onto someone's lawn when I heard and could smell the sidewall of a tire rubbing along the curb where I had been walking. Then this brute of a fellow sticks his head out the driver's side window and yells, "I thought I warned you off my street the other day. Sticking his head back inside the cab, he spins the truck around, heading back my way. I was sure the curb wasn't going to impede his driving this time. I reach down, picked up a decorative rock, lying between other rocks circling the base of a tree. It felt heavy. It was the size of a softball, I believe weighing in around four to five pounds. His speed kept increasing so I didn't have time to think. I threw the stone as if my life depended on it. I hit square in the middle of the windshield, causing spider web cracks all through the glass, blocking the driver's vision. He stuck his head out the driver's side window again, never taking his foot off the accelerator. In doing so, by looking out the window, he steered the vehicle slightly to it's right, hitting a telephone poll. The air bag deployed, pinning the driver's head out the window, snapping the back of his neck on the truck's frame, knocking him out cold. Then, after realizing it was all over, I continued on my evening walk. It felt like a scene out of the movie, "Gangs of New York!"

This is,
I Made The Whole Story Up On My Walk Today,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Every story needs to be worth telling.”
- Vera Narzarian -

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Still No Sign

It's September 23rd
and still no sign of the end of the World.
On September 1st I wrote a Post called,
"Here It Comes Again, The End Of The World,"
where I explained that the
Reverend Efrain Rodriguez
was writing letters to NASA stating that the end of the World was coming
and it would happen sometime between
September 21st to September 28th!
The good part is,
my friend Bob,
who I have known since 1978,
will be able to have his birthday tomorrow on the 24th.
Won't that be nice.
Next,
I hope we can get to the 27th of this month so my grandson can have his birthday.
Hoping the the good Reverend is mistaken about his dates on the end of the World,
my Dad's birthday is coming up on the 30th.
He'll be 90 years old
and wouldn't it be a pisser if the end of the World happened on his birthday!

This is,
Hunkered Down In My Home Made Bunker,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?”
- Fall Out Boy -

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Monday, September 21, 2015

We Need A Man Like Teddy

Sometimes I look around
and all I can see is
Corporate Executives
stepping on the little guy,
gouging out profits from cutting employee's payrolls,
and continually taking yearly
Million Dollar Bonuses
even though the company they are at is faltering,
business wise.
Then I read a story where
Justice is Served as Sweet as a Peanut Butter Spread.
An ex-peanut company mogul may spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge in Georgia on Monday sentenced him to 28 years for shipping tainted products that caused a deadly nationwide salmonella outbreak seven years ago. Stewart Parnell, the former Peanut Corporation of America owner, was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, wire fraud and other crimes related the 2008 and 2009 outbreak that killed nine people, sickened more than 700 and prompted one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history. Two others involved with the now-bankrupt company also were sentenced to long prison terms. Monday's sentences are the first felony punishments for executives in a food-borne outbreak in 77 years, according to attorney Bill Marler, who represents several victims of Parnell's products. “It’s significant -- very significant," Marler said after the sentencing. "Even if [they] end up not spending much time in jail, the sentences send a strong message to executives." Four victims testified during the sentencing, including 7-year-old Jacob Hurley, who was 3 when he became seriously ill from crackers made with tainted peanut products. Also present was Lou Tousignant, whose 78-year-old father, Cliff, died after eating tainted peanut butter. Cliff Tousignant "was a Korean War vet with three Purple Hearts who lived in Minnesota. He got all shot up [in the war]," Marler said. "So he comes back and dies from eating peanut butter? There's something fundamentally wrong with that."
- Reported by Kim Bellware for The Huffington Post -
Tainted products from Parnell's Georgia processing plant led to the recall of approximately 4,000 processed foods, from crackers to pet food. Parnell's attorneys argued their client was a scapegoat. Jurors, who heard evidence of unsanitary conditions that included roaches, rodents, bird droppings and a leaky roof, were unconvinced. Email, lab and financial records showed that Parnell was aware of the conditions and wrote an email to a manager in 2007, saying: "Just ship it." In some cases, products were shipped the same day they were processed rather than held for lab tests, and records were faked to indicate the outgoing batches passed salmonella tests. Michael Parnell, the executive's brother, a food broker who provided companies like Kellogg's with peanut paste from Peanut Corporation of America, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Mary Wilkerson, quality control manager at the Georgia-based factory, was sentenced to five years in prison.
It's almost like,
Teddy Roosevelt
was back in Office
and the Country was heading back
To The Land Of The Free,
and
Justice For All!

This is,
We Need Someone Like Theodore Roosevelt To Run For President,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
- Thomas Jefferson -

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Prejudice Idiots

Isn't it a shame how profiling a whole group of people,
Muslims,
because of a few
Idiots
brings out the
Haters
living here in
America?
Like the two idiots at
Donald Trump's
rally in
Rochester, New Hampshire,
proclaiming that
President Barack Obama
is a
Muslim
and why we can't get rid of him?
To the obvious idiot
Teachers in Texas
who had,
14 year old,
Ahmed Mohamed
arrested because he brought in his
School Project,
making a Clock.
How come they didn't arrest the rest of the class of students who brought in clocks that day?
Oh,
that's right.
He was the only Muslim.
It is over 14 years when the
September 11th, 2001
attacks by Terrorist occurred.
The funny thing is,
Muslims were killed during those attacks too!
I guess they all sacrificed themselves for the
Jihad
so no American would be alerted.
Get real.
There are just as many
White Terrorist
as there are
Muslims Terrorists.
Remember Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army?
It sounds Islamic,
but they were a bunch of white guys who believed in Communism.
Oklahoma City Bombing.
White Guy.
The Klan.
White Guys.
Wisconsin Sikh Temple massacre, Aug. 5, 2012.
White Guy.
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church shooting, July 27, 2008.
White Guy.
Should I go on?
I'm just glad the White House invited Ahmed Mohamed to participate in its astronomy night next month with NASA astronauts
and other young people.
Plus he is a internet sensation.
Now I hope,
besides transferring to another school,
the family sues the school district
and the Irving, Texas Police Department.

This is,
Hoping Prejudice's Ugly Head Dies Someday,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
- Charlotte Brontë -

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"Calling All Hacker Groups"

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Presidential Canidate Donald Trump

Well,
well,
well.
Republican Candidate,
Donald "Let's Start Another Controversy" Trump,
has decided to cancel his appearance at a
Major GOP Campaign Stop,
The Heritage Action Presidential Forum
in Greenville,
South Carolina.
He will miss the event amid outcry from both parties that he did not correct comments made by two men at his Thursday night rally in Rochester,
New Hampshire.
Two Men stood up during the question
and answer portion of the rally,
with the first one asking,
“We have a problem in this country — it’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American. That’s my question, when can we get rid of them?” Trump responded with: “We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things, a lot of people are saying bad things are happening, we’re going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.” A second man stood and made the same claim. “I applaud the gentleman who stood and said Obama is a Muslim born abroad and about the military camps, everyone knows that,” he said. All Mr. Trump could say was, "Right."
- Reported by Jonathan Easley for The Hill.
"As recently as July, Trump has said he doesn’t know where the president was born even though President Obama publicly released his long-form birth certificate in 2011, with Mr. Trump taking credit, saying that he had pressured the president into doing so. At the rally, he hewed closely to his stump speech, saying that under his leadership, the U.S. military would be as powerful as ever, that he’d build a great wall to keep illegal immigrants out and that he’d deport illegal immigrants that are violent criminals “so fast your head will spin.”
What a blowhard.
If you didn't already know,
in the United States,
Illegal Immigrants
that are
Violent Criminals
are prosecuted in this country first,
if convicted,
spend their time in jail until their release date.
When they are released,
they don't get to step outside the
Prison Walls
and
Go Free,
they are
Immediately Deported
to the
Country of their Birth.
What about the Military?
The Military is in a transitional period.
Where
Technology
is replacing the
Human Factor
at the
Front Lines!
Drones,
Exoskeleton Combat Gear,
Sound Weapons,
Laser Weapons,
and so on.
And what about the
Humane Factor
on
Illegal Immigrants?
Right next door to us,
we have a
Country
that still can't control mass killings of it's citizens by it's own
Officials
and
Drug Cartels.
Do you really want a wall put up so we can watch innocent people get killed?
"The Mexican Government's account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sunday, citing deep flaws in the investigation and rejecting the claim that they were incinerated in a garbage dump."
- Reported by Henry Romero for Reuters
Posted on MSN World on 9/6/2015.
Let's face it.
All the people living here in the
United States
are either an
Illegal Immigrant
or a decedents from an
Illegal Immigrant.
Unless,
of course,
you are an
American Indian.
They are the original
Americans
and they forgot to check everyone's
Green Card
when we landed here from
Europe
and
Asia.
They just welcomed us in because they heard of the
Persecution
we were
Feeling
from our
Old Country!
And the two idiots who dislike
Muslims
so much,
all I can say to them is a quote from the 1960's!
"Love it or leave it!"
You Prejudiced Baboons!
Vote for Donald Trump if you think he is the Best Man for the Job.
But remember,
after he locked horns with businesswoman
Carly Fiorina
at the
GOP Debate
over her record as
CEO of Hewlett-Packard,
Trump bashed her record as an executive,
saying,
“She did a terrible, terrible job,”
And this is from a guy who claimed
Bankruptcy Four Times!
- Reported by Amy Bingham on ABC News.com April 21, 2011.

This is,
Not So Sure If The 3 Time Married, 4 Time Bankrupted Donald Is Our Man,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
- Abraham Lincoln -

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Under The Weather

Hi,
not feeling up to writing my Blog today.
Sorry about that.
But please,
take a look at some of the older Posts.
You'll find some interesting ones,
personal ones,
humorous ones,
and controversial ones.
That's a lot of ones.

This is,
Not Feeling So Good,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Calling All Hacker Groups

Next to the town I live in,
actually it boarders the town I live in,
is an Indian Casino.
The Pechanga Indian Casino.
The County I live in has one dedicated
District Attorney
who handles all the
Court Cases
coming from the
Pechanga Casino.
To say the Pechanga Casino has this guy in their back pocket is an understatement.
Hired Lawyers,
which means,
Not the Pretenders the Court Appoints to You for Your Defense if you can't Afford a Lawyer,
tell clients to take the District Attorney's deal because,
"It's not worth fighting because they have the District Attorney working for them."
You have to wonder what is going on?
I'm not going to say this guy is being payed
under-the-table
by the Casino,
because I don't know,
he might be,
but who is going to check?
All I'm saying is,
as much money the Casino gives to this town,
he knows his paycheck will increase with more money being donated to the
City by the Casino.
Well,
I'm tired of this Casino
and others like it,
pushing the little guy around.
I'm calling on all
Hacker Groups
to
Hack Casinos
all over the
World
on
New Year's Eve.
I want groups like
Deep Panda, Cult of the Dead Cow,
and
Goatse Security
to hack
Slot Machines
so they pay out thousands of dollars.
Groups like
Honker Union, TeaMpOisoN,
and the
Guardians of Peace
to award everyone with
Player Cards
a hundred thousand dollars of free play credits.
I want
Chaos Computer Club, LulzSec,
and my favorite,
Anonymous
to bring down the
Mobs
hold over these
Indian Casinos
for one night.
With
TeslaTeam,
and what is left to the
Lizard Squad,
to scramble all local communications with the
Casinos and their Security Teams that night.
All these
Hacker Groups
have hacked
Corporations
and
Governments.
Isn't it time to bring down the
Casinos,
to their knees,
so once again they treat people with respect
and give them complimentary service instead of just counting us as a
Heard of Sheep to be Slaughtered?

This is,
I Gamble, Once Every Ten Years Or So,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Play interests me very much, but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.”
- Alexander Pushkin -

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Monday, September 14, 2015

I'm Putting My Head On A Computer

How many
Frankenstein Humans
do you think are walking around today?
Zero?
Within two years their could be one!
"Human head transplant edges closer to reality: Chinese surgeon teams up with Italian doctor to perform controversial procedure in 2017." Story by Sarah Griffiths for the Daily Mail. "A Chinese surgeon has joined forces with an Italian doctor to prepare for what would be the world's first human head transplant. A Russian man who suffers from a serious medical condition is set to become the first person to undergo the controversial procedure, devised by Sergio Canavero and Ren Xiaoping. Dr Canavero said that the operation will change the course of history and could lead to cures for previously incurable conditions, such as Valery Spiridonov's muscular atrophy. Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist, has previously told MailOnline he is ready to put his trust in the experts who claim they can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy body. He said: ‘My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind. A lifelong sufferer of the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease, he said he wants the chance of a new body before he dies. Doctor Canavero said a successful head transplant would change the course of human history by curing incurable medical conditions," China.org reported.
What do I think of
Head Transplants?
Well,
I haven't thought about living forever before.
I like to think of myself as a realist when it comes to
Life & Death.
Of course,
these two Doctors will do the
First One
for free.
For the
Fame & Glory.
Then they'll do
Head Transplants
for Billionaires,
then Millionaires.
When it finally becomes affordable for you and I,
we won't be here.
And come on?
How long do you really want to sit around,
on a couch,
watching Sitcom TV?
Until they bring back
Gilligan's Island?
With less people dying,
and more people being born,
the World will be getting pretty small,
with less resources,
splitting everything in two!
The
Haves
and the
Have-nots!
Keep me alive if you want someone to volunteer to inhabit a Planet around the Star KOI-351.
I'll go along for that ride!

This is,
Still Undecided If I Should Live Forever,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever!"
- Mahatma Gandhi -

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Wildfires

As usual,
this time of year always brings,
The California Wildfires.
Right now,
as I write this Post,
two California towns north of San Francisco,
Middletown & Cobb,
have been devastated by these
Wild Fires.
Thousands of residents have been evacuated from their homes,
and everyone living here in California should be prepared for the same.
As the population grows,
because of more children being born,
immigrates from other countries,
or people just moving to California from other states,
more land is needed to fulfill
The California Dream.
Everyone comes here for the hope of somehow having their dreams fulfilled for a better life then the one they already have.
California is Gold,
as they say.
If your dream is in Music,
Television,
Movies,
Sports,
Technology,
Business,
Inventing,
Medicine,
or being an Entrepreneur,
you come from all around the World to live here California.
Dreams are fulfilled here.
This is why we are encroaching further up the
Mountain Ranges
and the
Desert Sands
to build houses.
As we invade these areas,
we should be aware of the possibilities of natural disasters.
I can't quote how long it's been going on,
but in the
California Mountain Ranges,
wild fires have been going on for hundreds of years.
Maybe thousands.
It's a way for
Mother Nature
to replenish the nutrients in the soil.
"Many ecosystems, particularly prairie, savanna, chaparral and coniferous forests, have evolved with fire as a necessary contributor to habitat vitality and renewal. Many plant species in naturally fire-affected environments require fire to germinate, establish, or to reproduce." - Fire Ecology - Wikipedia.
We build houses in ares that have had
wildfires for centuries
and wonder why?
We build houses in the desert
and wonder why
it never rains?
I love California.
It gave me the riches I was seeking.
A family.
That is why I came here.
The California Dream.
So,
we will always be short of the annual rainfall
The Northwest United States
has,
and we will always have
Wildfires
every year.
It's the Cost of Living the California Dream.

This is,
The Richest Man I Can Be,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"California, A State Of Mind."
- Jim Hauenstein, I thought of it first! -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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Friday, September 11, 2015

Partial Solar Eclipse This Sunday

Take a look at this map.
What do you think it is?
Oh,
I didn't know that you were this smart.
Yes,
the Blue Line represents the path of the next
Total Solar Eclipse
traveling across the United States.
Of course,
it won't happen until
August 21, 2017,
but in the meantime,
why not check out the next
Partial Solar Eclipse
that will darken the
Southern African Skies
on this coming Sunday,
at 9:30 PM PDT.
You can either watch it on
which actually will be streaming the feed from the online
webcast.
Both of these websites I highly recommend to those who are interested in observing the Heavens,
as they say.
Both have live streaming of events,
like the Partial Eclipse,
Meteor Showers,
Comets flying by the Earth,
and so on.
The Slooh Community website even replays past events if you want to relive a Meteor Shower or two.
Thanks to
for supplying the map above.

This is,
I Suggest You Watch The Eclipse Because Football Will Be Over,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.”
- Richelle Goodrich -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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