Jump (More on Discovery Article)

Jump
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Great minds think alike dept: No sooner do I blog about the Discovery article, than next day I get card from daughter --"Well trained by their mother, they were perfectly content just to watch their friends jump off a bridge and felt no compulsion to join them"---

Lil Loco Train

Lil Loco Train
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Lil loco train from our old trainyard, UP railroad in Cheyenne. This one is in a city park. I remember those when they were running!

Follow the Leader

Discovery peoples have an article in their mag this month -- that sheep, and other herding animals will go however a few leaders go. Schools of fish, birds in air do same thing. It's not mental telepathy as much as just going where the few individuals take. Hmm. Peoples do same thing. A few leaders can influence a whole 'herd' of people. yeahhh, but not ALL Lemmings go over the cliff - some actually say "Hey waitaminit ---" and put on brakes. Okay, okay, they don't actually do that, but some will stop and not go over. So with people. Some do not go with the crowd. Therein lies the difference that sometimes makes a few changes resulting in increased survival of species. Jump? Or not jump? That is a common choice we all have. It never continues to amaze me how people insist we do not have instincts that guide our behavior. We do. The trick is, to know it and base choices upon that awareness. We are in for a wet week. Spring is doing its thing out here on the prairie! Still not enough water.

Kick this over!

goalpostcat
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Lately saw a program on Decisions That Changed the World, and it was an article On Lyndon B. Johnson. Maligned and devalued, he nevertheless made some very important strides in legistation to fix segregation. But, never mind his problem with the Viet Nam War, his real problem is he's uglier than JFK. We still react very much to charisma and good looks, not that its not deserved, but often it stacks the favors. I am not a real dog, kinda cute, grandmotherly, don't scare horses or small children, but I have been at the crux of such discrimination. It bites, both ways. When the time will come when homo sapiens is truly wise, and no longer judges by surface impressions only, then perhaps we can finally progress as human beings worthy of continuation as a species. Ugly is as Ugly does, but dumb, stupid ignorance is to the bone.

Pic again...pic-ing away --

Picture 104
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Okay this pic should come up twice because I'm slightly dycletic (yes, I know - speling)

Anyways, not our horses! So the town's finest has to round em up... P.S. it took several hours. The horses were having way too much fun.

Picture 104

Picture 104
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There it goes. Easter morning, not eggs in the grass or even bunnies, but horses in the yard!!

copcars in the yard

copcars in the yard
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Now howscum we gots capcars in the yard?? Is it an episode of "COPS"? Noe, the reason is in the next pic

lionboy

lionboy
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I know, I know. This is firstest of April, not March --- but The lion still roared out of March in some places. This guy is happy, He survived Easter --and Easter morning we looked out the front as we were putting batteries in our digitcam and LO!
Horses In The Yard!!
Six horses, one cop car. Soon four cop cars. Every one else gets rabbits and eggs. we get cop cars and horses!!!!

Speaking of the Devil

Been reading and drifting around in the blogs -- According to the fiction series, Humans, Hybrids, and Hominids, A good punishment for sex crimes, rape, child molestations, etc, is castration. Take the balls. Take the testosterone. Stop it right now. Any freedom abused, is freedom lost.

While I'm on the subject of rights and the forfeiting of same, I feel that if you take a life, (murder, sweeties), Then you forfeit your rights. ALL OF THEM. They catch you in the act, and kiss your "rights" goodbye. You have none. We can take your carcass and do what we want. Test drugs, try out mind-experiments, operation experiments ---

Death penalty?? Too boring and staid. No punishment.

Become a lab animal. Right. Deterrent right there.

NO it's NOT April fool. I serious. Behave yourselves out there!!