In Capitol Reef National Park, photographed on March 10th.
"Petroglyph panels throughout the park depict ancient art and stories of [Fremont and ancestral Puebloan] people who lived in the area from approximately 600-1300 common era (CE)."
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Gives new meaning to "the writing on the wall"
And the Devil's hand,
He'll take your land.
Erich Von Daniken was right!
They were visited by aliens in spacesuits, thats the only explanation.
Devil's soul,
of all times ol'.
Say a New sun shine,
Don't see you're blin'.
Only takes a few,
To compare you to.
Start seeing blue,
No matter what you do
Who talked to,
What you been through,
How your money spew,
How your baby coo.
In the Devil's Land,
He'll take your hand.
Tell you you're the man,
Say you're something Grand.
Maybe Meadehouse shouldn't give up on Portland yet.
Good news to counterbalance the backyard hobo shacks: they're clearing out wetbacks:
https://twitter.com/pdxlawgrrrl
And, it's a twofer. This dude fed loser hobos.
MAGA.
Careful who you talk to,
They'll come after you,
Compare ya to a slew,
Of known scofflaws true.
Beg your ass to sue,
Law needs cogs coggin' too.
My granddaughter draws arms like that - at the age of 5. What makes us think these drawings are from adults? Were older civilizations incapable of drawing well? The Egyptians could do it. Why do we think that Amerinds could not?
Look, I am Andy, Tony's alter ego.
And Tony is fake.
"I am music; I am love."
They are obviously realistic images.
The question is what they are realistic images OF.
By "BCE" they mean "BC". That's the way Americans have been writing it since 1789.
"Common Era" = cultural marxist crap that "everyone" started using about 10 years ago.
Fuck that noise.
The pundits on TV are still talking about how the recalcitrant ideologues in Congress need to to "reach across the aisle" and come together to make legislation that is "good for all Americans," etc, etc.
But it is the insurance companies who are losing real money - lots of it - and are most likely to feel a sense of urgency first.
There are lots of petroglyphs in Northern Arizona. I tried making a petroglyph in the same sort of stone found there. It takes a VERY long time to make a dent, even in sandstone.
These are done by people with time or focus, and I don't know if a child could keep rubbing with another rock on the sandstone long enough to make these glyphs. Or, maybe only children had the time?
CE/BCE was a Jewish idea. Dont want to seem antisemitic, but there it is. A lot of professors insisted on using that vs Christian-centered BC/AD, increasingly through the 20th century as Jews became more prominent in academia.
CE/BCE goes back to the 19th century I think. Its not new, its just much more common now. IIRC it was commented on by Chesterton or Belloc or someone of those guys.
Priests, keeping the rain gods happy. Then one year it did not rain.
Have you been hit hard by the recent (March 1) Amazon Affiliate rate change? Hope not, but I'm guessing it's hitting bloggers and small web publishers pretty hard, unfortunately.
3rdGradePB_GoodPerson said... [hush][hide comment]
Maybe Meadehouse shouldn't give up on Portland yet.
Good news to counterbalance the backyard hobo shacks: they're clearing out wetbacks:
https://twitter.com/pdxlawgrrrl
And, it's a twofer. This dude fed loser hobos.
MAGA.
There were five people under arrest in connection with the double homicide as of Saturday.
Natalie Partida, 16, and Derek Greer, 15 were found dead along a rural road in El Paso County March 12. The Colorado Springs teens attended Coronado High School.
Diego Chacon, 18,
Joseph Arthur Rodriquez, 18,
Marco Antonio Garcia-Bravo, 20
Alexandra Marie Romero, 20,
Gustavo Marquez, 19,
Charged with murder
Carry On
Althouse and Meade,
I've been there and seen those, it is one of my favorite places. And then I went on two all-day off road motorcycle rides from the campground. OMG! Most fun a man can have while wearing boots! You keep having fun.
PB, do you have any daughters in public schools? I thought not.
"Henry Sanchez, 18, of the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Rockville, Maryland, and Jose Montano, 17, have been charged with first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense in the violent assault of the female student. WTOP has a policy of not naming minors charged with crimes but Montano is being charged as an adult.
The victim told police she was walking in a school hallway on March 16 at about 9 a.m. when the two male students approached her, according to charging documents. Montano asked her twice to have sex, and after she refused, he forced her into a boys’ bathroom and then into a stall, according to police.
The student told police that Montano and Sanchez raped her multiple times, according to the court documents. She cried out in pain and repeatedly told the two students to stop, she told police.
Forensic investigators said an inspection of the boys’ bathroom later turned up suspected blood “that may be mixed with male fluid,” the court documents stated.
Sanchez and Montano were arrested at school, police said, and have been held since Thursday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says they have a detainer on Sanchez, a citizen of Guatemala. The agency could not comment on Montano’s case since he is a minor."
Carry on.
It's all a matter of perspective. If you or I decided to leave our mark on those walls for those in the next millennia to decode we'd be charged with defacing a national landmark.
"If you or I decided to leave our mark on those walls for those in the next millennia to decode we'd be charged with defacing a national landmark."
But we don't have to do that. The Internet is forever. Those in the next millennia will be decoding LOL cats and twerking and deciding that the Kardashians must have been wise and noble rulers who were worshipped as gods in the early 21st century.
I read about an outline of a dotted outline of an Indian with a Sioux headdress way up on a cliff in Arizona(?) that no one could understand how it got there.
It turned out that Ad Topperwein had done it with a 30-30.
If you are going to control the medical profession by controlling the insurance industry, you are first going to have to make sure they both survive your interference. That will sort of have to be the priority.
From the Fauxhaus Blog:
Riley Steele. I'm sure the name might mean something to a few of you out there: it's OK -- your Secret is safe with me...
For those pretending to not know who she is, Riley is an authentically Hot Porn Star. Who doesn't do anal. Except.
She has now released several 'private' Home Videos of her getting pounded in the ass. Yes: she leaked them herself, so you don't have to feel guilty about any of that Invasion of Privacy moral dilemma shit...
A few observations...
1. What the Fuck is with the Guy fucking her and holding the camera? We get it: you're fucking Riley Steele in the ass. She has a nice ass. But would it hurt to show her face more than just a few fleeting moments? She has a pretty face: would it hurt to show some reminders of who the ass belongs to? The constant close-up camerawork renders the video practically anonymous. That said, the dude is SERIOUS about his anal sex...
2. Riley sure likes to dress up a lot. Before they have sex you see her in a cheerleader outfit. In another video she is wearing a Schoolgirl Skirt pushed up above her hips. The Chick's got Style...
3. That Room. In one shot she is kneeling before a bare mattress, and there is all kinds of junk and discarded debris on the floor. Like: everywhere. That ain't Glamour, that's Embarrassing. Some quotes from a Reddit Thread (with NSFW GIF, I'll let you find it on your own) on this:
"That floor is disgusting."
"Very sexy woman - but goddamn disgustingly dirty room."
"Nothing like getting fucked in a crack den I guess..."
"Hopefully they use the money she earned to hire a maid."
"Clean up your room! No way I'd get wet when I have popcorn kernels digging into my knees."
I think you get the idea.
(to be continued)
4. Viral Marketing. When an Authentic Hot Chick shows up on the scene there is Great excitement. She is having sex! And she is Authentically Hot! Then the anticipation begins: "when is she going to do anal? Will her NEXT video finally be the one where she does anal?"
Then the realization sinks in: she is one of Those. 'Those' being the Authentically Hot porn stars who DON'T do anal. "Oh: she's too GOOD for anal." And then the audience goes off in search of the Next Hot Girl.
What is an Authentically Hot Girl supposed to do to stay popular? Break down and give them what they want? But they have invested so much Credibility into the "I don't do anal" and to change is to imply Surrender of Porn Integrity. But Riley: she figured it out.
She won't do anal in a 'real' porn video. But she WILL leak her own home videos of her having anal sex. The circle, squared. She is popular, again. AND it is even better: there is a sense of Intimacy now (despite the camera dude's close-up obsession). These were filmed with her, privately -- and she is now inviting you to Look. Well played, Riley: well played...
And now, back to Point Number 2: was she REALLY dressing up for just the two of them? Or did she know that she planned on leaking them, and dressed for THAT audience? Only she would know: cagey, that Girl...
But this comment isn't about anal sex porn. That is just the example of how Viral Marketing can be used to subvert a Persona, with the Persona's own permission. It is about The Brand: Give Them What They Want, but NOT by Playing The Game. It is practically a Shared Secret, and people like being in on Secrets...
I am sure major Advertising Firms are -- right now -- studying this Case History closely. Expect variations to appear with Mainstream Celebrities in Advertising: the 'Private' world of, say, LeBron James and Sprite. Maybe ketchup products. Ketchup has a lot in common with anal sex, but I'll leave that for another post...
Finally, back to Point Number Three: WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THAT ROOM? I don't know: maybe Scott Adams could explain the reasoning for her showing that....
Time for Poll:
What do you think about Riley Steele and Vital Marketing?
1. I have no idea who Riley Steele is.
2. Sure, I like Riley: I've masturbated to her on more than a few occasions. But I will only admit this anonymously. Of course.
3. Riley is only Exploiting herself. This is NOT Feminism.
4. Riley is Exploiting herself. I LIKE this kind of Feminism.
5. Riley has done anal sex? Really? Did you say Reddit?
6. What does Ketchup have to do with anal sex, anyway?
I am Laslo.
Exile and FullM, you're mixing up your perps. Not all Mexicans are the same Mexican. Of course to you they probably do all look alike, so I can see how you could be confused.
But, even though you may think all Mexicans were the same person, there were geographic and name distinctions that should have helped you make distinctions. You're having trouble reading what I wrote and the link I included.
Read it again, this time pay close attention to names and locations v the names and locations in your comments. In particular look for any hints which may indicate that these are different situations/people.
Spring has sprung, there's skinny lookin' bear outside.
"Its not new, its just much more common now. IIRC it was commented on by Chesterton or Belloc or someone of those guys."
Yeah, like a lot of crap, it was probably first forward by Cultural Marxists in the 1920s/1930s.
To say "its much more common now" is an understatement. I don't remember seeing it until about 10 years ago. And I read a lot.
Of course, like all this SJW nonsense, you only need a few people to push it for it in order for it to succeed. Assuming there's no opposition. To large extent, the Culture Marxists in the USA are just filling an intellectual vacuum.
3rdGradePB_GoodPerson said...
Exile and FullM, you're mixing up your perps. Not all Mexicans are the same Mexican. Of course to you they probably do all look alike, so I can see how you could be confused.
But, even though you may think all Mexicans were the same person, there were geographic and name distinctions that should have helped you make distinctions. You're having trouble reading what I wrote and the link I included.
Read it again, this time pay close attention to names and locations v the names and locations in your comments. In particular look for any hints which may indicate that these are different situations/people.
Yeah, my mistake in thinking you inferred all Mexicans are good people.
And, no doubt whatsoever I know, and have known more Mexicans than you,legal, illegal, good and bad.
Two comments, no -three.
1. I am convinced that the BC/AD being changed to BCE/CE is an attempt to break our caste. (See the sepoy revolt of 1857)
2. Laslo; I have no F*king idea what you are talking about, or why.
3. Petroglyphs took many months or years to carve, but if you look at the rhythm of a farmer's life, there are gaps between planting and harvest where there really isn't a helluva lot to do, and unlike their medieval peasant counterparts in Europe, they didn't have any beer.
Probably why they went extinct. Wouldn't you jump off the cliff under such circumstance?
damn. too many commas in the sentence of my last post. Hope it doesn't cost me 10 million dollars.
There was an SF book I read once that dated everthing "LC" as in "Long Count". I don't know what system he used, but whether's it's BCE/CE or BC/AD it's just crazy to have the years run backwards.
*My* idea for LC dates is to start the origin far enough back that nobody but cosomologists would care, so 1,000,000,000 LC is 1 BC and 1,000,000,001 LC is 1 AD.
For normal use, we just drop the 1 and leading zeros, so 1975 AD is 1975 ALC (abbreviated Long Count) and for historical use, we just add enough leading 9s to show what we mean, so 100 BC, which is 999999901 LC would be written 99901 SLC
PB, the people I was referring to weren't Mexican at all. I mean, it says so right in the story:
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says they have a detainer on Sanchez, a citizen of Guatemala."
So, I don't know what you're yammering on about.
The issue is not "Mexicans." It's illegal aliens, especially those who have committed violent crimes, who may or may not come from Mexico.
We're going to have to change to "Stardate" sometime, so it might as well be now.
My granddaughter draws arms like that - at the age of 5.
When these were made, greek statues were 1000 years old and the Romans had been enjoying central heating and running water for 500 years.
So why ooh and ahh over finger painting?
Pee-Wee:
Are you a real asshole, or do you just play one on the Intertubes?
Speaking of subjects,
Dear Donald: You got played.
Sincerely, MoDo
They were visited by aliens in spacesuits, thats the only explanation.
Or the may be the missing "link", one of many. Humans lost their square configuration with the evolution of the female sex, and their "bloated" heads after they emerged from the ivory towers.
Take your order and shove it!
'[Steve] Bannon confronted members of the House Freedom Caucus earlier this week during the White House's push for the American Health Care Act, Axios's Mike Allen reported Saturday in his newsletter.
"Guys, look. This is not a discussion. This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill," Bannon reportedly said.
A Freedom Caucus member reportedly replied: "You know, the last time someone ordered me to something, I was 18 years old. And it was my daddy. And I didn't listen to him, either.'
http://thehill.com/homenews/325767-report-bannon-told-conservatives-this-is-not-a-debate-you-have-to-vote-for-bill
I always thought Bannon (a former naval officer) was a lot smarter than a guy who believed he could successfully herd cats by playing Captain Queeg.
The answer to this disconnect probably can be found in this Bogart dialogue:
Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
The Aliens arrived, planted seed and left.
The Native-Americans arrived.
The White-man arrived.
The Native-Americans wiped-out by the White-man.
The Others started arriving.
2100
The White-man wiped out by the Others.
2500
The Aliens returned and wiped-out the Others and Everyone else.
The Circle-of-Life.
All the talking heads this morning want to yammer their talking points about health care yet The White House is says it's moving on. Not to worry talking heads you'll get to discuss it again in a few months once those people who have only one insurance option have zero options...
Tax policy will soon be dead in the water, too. While CBO is obligated to predict how people will change their behavior as a result of a change in health care policy they are prohibited from assuming anyone will change their behavior as a result of a change in tax policy. It's anti science, anti reality...Anyways, tax reformers needed the trillion dollars in savings CBO scored from healthcare to offset the CBO claimed loss in revenue from lowering rates. Now the deficit hawks in the GOP will balk at anything out of Ryan or Trump, and theres so many sacred cows in current tax policy there will be nowhere to go...
3rdGradePB_GoodPerson said...
Not all Mexicans are the same Mexican. Of course to you they probably do all look alike, so I can see how you could be confused.
DNA-wise, Mexicans or Guatemalans are all Native Americans. The boundary lines for Native Americans goes from the top of Canada down to the bottom of South America.
Unknown, if we reform year-numbering the way you suggest, we should also consider going to 1-based rather than 0-based numbering. Most people don't understand the concept of the year Zero, or that the first year of the new century was 2001, not 2000.
Also, let's stop with this "nth-century" crap. The "18th century" should mean the same as "the 1800s". The current usage makes sense mathematically, but linguistically, it's stupid.
buwaya said...
CE/BCE was a Jewish idea. Dont want to seem antisemitic, but there it is. A lot of professors insisted on using that vs Christian-centered BC/AD, increasingly through the 20th century as Jews became more prominent in academia.
3/26/17, 7:24 PM
Not antisemitic at all. Why should Jewish scholars (or any scholars who are not Christian) have to choke down "Year of Our Lord" a hundred times a day? Whose Lord? Which Lord would that be? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Why, no.
It's how you all (as do I, as do I) feel now about being required to call somebody Xe, or how Winston Smith felt about being told that the chocolate ration had increased from thirty grammes to twenty. For us it's the forced acceptance of a lie. Solzhenitsyn, Havel, Kundera could explain far better than I.
Year of Your Lord, Year of My Excuse to Enjoy a Pogrom Every Easter.
Anyway, that's the other side of it. Sorry to supply intellectual ammunition to commies. Much as the inventor of the airplane and the inventor of the boxcutter must have felt on September 11th.
Because we're not actually commies or Khmer Rouge we didn't want to rock the boat, so CE and BCE seemed the least disruptive alternatives. Fine. Let it be H. Beam Piper's Atomic Era dating, Year Zero beginning with the inception of the first atomic pile in Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942 CE.
BTW his "CE" was "Christian Era," a coinage which Jews may have co-opted for Common Era, but did not invent. So on that basis I'm may not be entirely necessary for, as PBJ would say, "y'all" to get shirty about it.
Anyhoo. Carry on. (Eugh, now I need a bath.)
See:
https://books.google.com/books?id=K3QrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=piper+atomic+era&source=bl&ots=U5jDJekmiV&sig=gUVI7dYbo8ULdljNqwJrhDptNdQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS0oWU1fbSAhVF4yYKHfAlBQAQ6AEIPzAN#v=onepage&q=piper%20atomic%20era&f=false
The real problem with pre-Columbian history of N.America is the residence had no written language. The other problem is that people tend to see the previous owners a homogenous mass of wise stewards of the land. Which is horseshit. Or would eventually become horseshit, you know, after horse were introduced.
The pictographs could be religious in nature. The could represent historical incidents or they could represent drug induces visions.
I think Donald Trump made Dr. Ben Carson Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
because he doesn't want to make the Lord angry
also to help out the people of Detroit, Michigan
but mostly because he doesn't want to make the Lord angry
I never understood, when I was a kid, why some people are afraid of the Lord
The Lord loves us! Why are you afraid?
But of course the Lord has tremendous power over us. So many things in life are outside of our control.
When you think about it, it's scary as shit.
That's why Woody Allen is always talking about fearful atheists
And why people say there are no atheists in foxholes
When you believe in the Lord, and the afterlife, it makes you so brave you wouldn't believe it
I drove to Napa on Sunday to pick-up my 81-year old Father in Law for a family get together. Napa has a different kind of picturesque beauty than these lovely places depicted in the Meade-House road-trip. Napa is flush with gentle green rolling hills.
The FIL is one tough old bird - an amazing combination of ruggedness and gentleness. He was a public school teacher for 30+ years, and still substitutes a lot, nearly 3 times/week.
He's the type of guy you'd want in a foxhole.
The funny thing is that he still votes Dem after all these years. He acknowledges that he lives a "conservative" life (married 6 decades, never did drugs, never cheated on wife, etc, etc).
I think as a young man he lost his connection to the Catholic Church (too much corruption, too much hypocricy), coupled with never really making it in the private sector (public school teacher), so he still clings to the myth (he says legend) of the Kennedy or Humphrey Democrats who exist no more.
I cut him slack though. To be that strong and to endure so much, and to still thrive with successful adult kids and grandkids, a nice home, a decent pension, and good health is really something.
Do the Peralta Stones lead to the Lost Dutchman Mine?
@retail lawyer, I can barely wait to go back. Utah highways 89, 12, and 24 must be some of the best motorcycle rides in the world.
Meade said...
@retail lawyer, I can barely wait to go back. Utah highways 89, 12, and 24 must be some of the best motorcycle rides in the world.
They were more fun before Utah paved them as part of their tourism "outreach", back when Moab consisted of a small grocery store, a gas station, and IIRC, one dinky restaurant.
"people who lived in the area from approximately 600-1300 common era (CE)."
That article and the articles it linked to were terrible; first the Amerindians were there 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, then it was 2K years ago, then 1400 years ago. I blame affirmative action hires.
Saint Croix said...
I never understood, when I was a kid, why some people are afraid of the Lord
Me neither.
So many things in life are outside of our control.
When you think about it, it's scary as shit.
No, it's not.
That's why Woody Allen is always talking about fearful atheists
Woody Allen was afraid Zeus was gonna jump out of the bushes and git 'im?
And why people say there are no atheists in foxholes
Those people are wrong.
When you believe in the Lord, and the afterlife, it makes you so brave you wouldn't believe it
I'm basking in your Christian humility.
A lot of men in foxholes, when under fire, use the Lord's name in vain. Loudly.
"Why should Jewish scholars (or any scholars who are not Christian) have to choke down "Year of Our Lord" a hundred times a day?"
And why should anyone who's NOT Jewish - assuming its actually "Jews" and not Cultural Marxists - have to go along with some made up nonsense by a few people, and stop using something that's been the standard way of dating for 1500 years? I'm sick and tired of a small number of PC lefties fucking around with the language.
I guess if tomorrow, these same so-called "Jews" were to say Christmas offends them, then we would all rename it "Holiday". Oh wait, we've already done that in some places. My local library for example, calls the "Christmas Songs" CD's, "Holiday Songs".
And we're not talking about "The Year of our Lord" - we're talking about writing AD and BC. You have to go out of your way to even know what they mean.
Meade said...
"@retail lawyer, I can barely wait to go back. Utah highways 89, 12, and 24 must be some of the best motorcycle rides in the world."
My BIL and his wife fly into Vegas and rent motorcycles and then cruise SW Utah. Sure beats riding all the way out.
I've loved these pictures of your Utah trip. I love the area, I've been there enough to recognize these places and the pictographs and petroglyphs, I have photos of them too. Some pre-digital,some digital.
I know I will never make it over there again.
Thanks for sharing them with us.
Come on, RC, Anno Domini and Before Christ is high scholarship? Have the standards slipped that much? Perhaps they have.
Anyway, Christians also devised Christian Era and Before the Christian Era so at worst this is a harmless sleight-of-hand. Old wine in new bottles. Or think of it as calling bull testicles Rocky Mountain oysters. I don't know. I myself use BC and AD but that's just because I'm lazy. It's all messed up anyway because somebody should have definitely thought of the year zero.
I happen to be fine with merry Christmas and if I see someone I think is a Christian all wish them a merry Christmas. If he or she is Savvy enough to wish me a happy Hanukkah, so much the better. But I don't expect it.
Riley Steele is more a porn dude's name.
Porn market has dubbed her strategy Anal Leak.
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