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Back in the day with Walter Author: walter winch
Back in the day with Walter
Shared Chapters
The Balkan Cross
Thursday, October 30, 2014 to Sunday, November 09, 2014
Prologue
Not since the world was made was there ever seen or won so great a treasure, or so noble or so rich, nor in the time of Alexander, nor in the time of Charlemagne, nor before, nor after, nor do I think myself that in the forty richest cities of the world had thebeen so much wealth as was found in Constantinople. For the Greeks say that two-thirds of the wealth of this world is in Constantinople and the other third scattered throughout the world.
{Robert of Clari, a French crusader, who was in Constantinople in 1204 when it was pillaged}
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The spider weaves the curtains in t ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Sunday, November 09, 2014, 12:16:00 PM
- updated: Monday, December 01, 2014 1:14:00 PM
Slick Out
Saturday, November 22, 2014 to Tuesday, December 02, 2014
FRIDAY, JUNE 03, 2005 [first published]
SLICK OUT
"Here they come. You ever notice how kids and bovines travel in herds?" These were the last words I heard him say. Twenty minutes later the state of Missouri executed Richard Adrian Marsh. At 12:01 a.m. on December 1, 1997 he was pronounced dead.
I met Richard Marsh when I was writing an article on the state's legal system for a Kansas City magazine. It had taken six months for him to agree to see me. What finally persuaded him was an article I'd written several years before while living in Florida.
He was born in ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Tuesday, December 02, 2014, 11:18:00 AM
- updated: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 11:20:00 AM
The Problem with America is....
Tuesday, January 05, 2016 to Friday, January 15, 2016
Once again it's “Deja vu all over again.” Never ending white entitlement, delusional history and the usual threats of violence are now playing out at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon, one of the more important bird and wildlife sanctuaries in the country and located in an isolated corner of Oregon.
Malheur is being occupied by a handful of white (Christian?) terrorists with the apparent and enthusiastic support of ISIS no less. The Refuge, however, happens to belong to all the people of the United States.
But like a shopworn moral ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Friday, January 15, 2016, 11:32:00 AM
- updated: Friday, January 15, 2016 11:32:00 AM
Truth is clearly overrated among our kind (1)
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 to Friday, February 05, 2016
Orcs hate Elves with a passion.
(from Lord of the Rings by J. R.R. Tolkien)
“Home home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play”
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, Wildlife Services, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has killed, through gassing, poisoning and strangulation by snare, 27 million native animals since 1996, including more than 1 million in 2014. The animals have included prairie dogs, gray wolves, mountain lions, black bears, foxes, coyotes and even bald eagles, and possibly a few domestic cats.
...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Friday, February 05, 2016, 7:13:00 AM
- updated: Friday, February 05, 2016 7:13:00 AM
Truth is clearly overrated among our kind (2)
Friday, February 05, 2016 to Monday, February 15, 2016
They're making people everyday, but they ain't makin' any more dirt.
(Will Rogers)
Trespassers will be shot or worse
In July 2015 the United Nations estimated a global population of 7.349 billion people. Right now (2016) we are currently at 7.4 billion and increasing.
In 1700, only 316 years ago, the human population of the entire planet was approximately 600 million. In what we now call the United States the population (Europeans) was approximately 250,000 people. The industrial revolution in Europe wouldn't begin for another 80 years ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Monday, February 15, 2016, 8:45:00 AM
- updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:47:00 AM
Truth is clearly overrated among our kind (3)
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 to Saturday, February 27, 2016
The lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
(President Grover Cleveland, while vetoing a bill offering financial aid to the poor, 1887)
Collyfoxing
By coincidence I happened to see a YouTube video put up by Jon Ritzheimer a few weeks back, one of the gang leaders that occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and who is now in jail. He stood in front of a table piled high with dozens of dildos that his detractors had sent. What struck me, however, was the seemin ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Saturday, February 27, 2016, 9:18:00 AM
- updated: Saturday, February 27, 2016 9:18:00 AM
Truth is clearly overrated among our kind (4)
Thursday, February 25, 2016 to Sunday, March 06, 2016
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. (John Sawhill, former president of The Nature Conservancy)
A reflection of ourselves
Our national parks and preserves are located in all regions of the country (Our National Parks), but they are in need of help. From budget cuts, discussed previously, to climate change this remarkable American creation, which goes back more than 100 years, is under threat in the 21st century.
Shrinking available water supplies affects ecosystems and species survival. Non-native plants, insects, snakes ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Sunday, March 06, 2016, 2:17:00 PM
- updated: Sunday, March 06, 2016 2:32:00 PM
Truth is clearly overrated among our kind (5)
Saturday, March 12, 2016 to Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Climate change is real. It is the most urgent threat affecting our species. We need to work together and stop procrastinating.
(Leonardo DiCaprio, Oscar winner for best actor, The Revenant, 2016)
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, though they differ in shape.
(George Washington)
To the Great Plains Indians, nature was the center of our way of life. To whites, nature was the enemy to be conquered.
(Dr. Leo Killsback, citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation)
It ultimately matters a hell of a lot, regardless of whether or not you live in Fe ...continued...
- By: walter winch
- Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 5:50:00 PM
- updated: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 5:50:00 PM