Greetings From Vermont It’s been a very late foliage season here in the Champlain Valley. This past week seemed to be the best time to start snapping some photos. Glad I did, since this weekend has been rainy and many trees are going straight from orange to letting go.
LINK to ABC.com This should scare us. Big time. Caught this at the ABC.com website. Two young girls are being raised and packaged as the white supremacists’ answer to the Olsen Twins. Swastikas all around, songs praising Hitler, with CDs, posters and other trash littering our landscape. Telling is how the child protective service system fails to recognize red flags (pun intended) but will fall all over themselves if a child so much as hints to have missed a meal once when they were six, and when Aunt Flora once said “No” to an ice cream cone. We can only hope and pray that it is not too late for these girls.
I took this one today, 10/21/05. Driving home on Shoreham-Whiting Road. Looked off to the right and saw this, pulled over and …click. Don’t know why I like it. There are many better from a technical standpoint, but it just felt good. BillO’
LINK Are Americans Ruder Than They Used To Be? Poll Cites Road Rage, Cell Phone Talk POSTED: 8:02 am EDT October 14, 2005 UPDATED: 8:10 am EDT October 14, 2005 WASHINGTON — Americans’ fast-paced, high-tech existence has taken a toll on the civil in society. From road rage in the morning commute to high decibel cell-phone conversations that ruin dinner out, men and women behaving badly has become the hallmark of a hurry-up world. An increasing informality — flip-flops at the White House, even — combined with self-absorbed communication gadgets and a demand for instant gratification have strained common courtesies to the breaking point. “All of these things lead to a world with more stress, more chances for people to be rude to each other,” said Peter Post, a descendent of etiquette expert Emily Post and an instructor on business manners through the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vt. In some cases, the harried single parent has replaced the traditional nuclear family and there’s little time to teach the basics of polite living, let alone how to hold a knife and fork, according to Post. A slippage in manners is obvious to many Americans. Nearly 70 percent questioned in an Continue reading →
