Author: Curt Doolittle

History?

Dyaus pitar

Dzayus pater

Zeus pater

Jupiter

Dios pater

Sky father. Sun god.

Eat your heart out Jehova.

😉

I said grace at thanksgiving dinner. I hope Odin was pleased at the dedication

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Is there any mistletoe around here?

Traveling from the ecotopian culture, through the breadbasket culture to the foundry culture it is painfully obvious that the only declining culture in north america is the foundry sub civilization that was built around the great lakes and Erie canal in order to supply goods for the western expansion and rapid immigration that was made possible and then necessary by the Louisiana purchase.

The civil war was fought over which economy and culture would profit from westward expansion. And the success if the propagandists to define the war as over slavery or unity is exceeded only by the propaganda that Germany started the first world war.

We should never have ceded from England nor stopped the south from doing so. The end of the west is not started by the French revolution as much as the american.

economics tells us the incentives and the incentives tell us the truth. Words are too often used as deception to mask a fraud.

In history the French are always wrong – reveling in their creativity at corruption , the English a but less so because of their empiricism, and the Germans right about everything because it fell to them to keep the east at bay, but demonized for their discipline and treated as rubes — a convenient propaganda measure to hide the dependence that France and England relied upon for their freedoms.

How is that for casual analysis? 😉

Everything is related to everything across a ling enough time span.

Our vanities have consequences. Because small things in large numbers have vast consequences.

I need to find a catholic or Anglican church ( I belong to both) for midnight mass in Ottawa. Is there a cathedral there?

Entering Chicago. Sunny and cold. Clear roads continue. Skyline is a paper cutout of blue grey against the sky.

Chicago always seems a dirty city to me.

That is, until I go to Europe, or god forbid Asia.

Different cultural property definitions have different consequences. Americans make fewer tragedies if the commons. Religious particularism expresses itself as order and cleanliness.

Out of Minnesota and crossing Wisconsin. Not much between Issaquah and Minneapolis. Not much at all. ;). It’s beautiful nothingness, but it’s nothingness.

16 hours of driving. 950 miles covered. 250 miles to Bismarck. Not drowsy yet. Clear weather. Clear roads.

Leaving billings Montana. Is that all oil refineries? Charles got Lots of attention at the gas station. Six hours to Bismarck. I don’t know if I can pull another six tonight.

Did you know that all of Europe will fit inside of the USA east of the mississippi? This country is big… And I’m taking the short northern route.

Leaving Bozeman Montana. Can I make north Dakota in one day of driving?

IN NEED OF A CONE OF SILENCE

Sitting in a restaurant having breakfast. Overhearing a conversation next to me. A woman is planning her divorce over the next two years; including how she will increase her expenses, quit her job, take all the cash, run up the credit cards, lie to her husband in the process so that he doesn’t suspect anything. She’s asking her friend for advice on how long she can probably prolong the situation to get the maximum return.