More Side Stuff.

A picture from long ago has just been found.  It had somehow gotten in the back of Nancy's top drawer under some stuff that was seldom used.  I have no idea how this picture missed being put in one of our picture albums but it has now been discovered and it can be seen below.  Billy and Nancy are working in the garden at Thompson Mill Road back when we had the big, ... okay, huge garden.  Billy is making rows with Helen, (Our beloved Troy Built Tiller).  Get it?  Helen of Troy??  Well, I thought it was clever.  


Sorry, I digress.  Nancy seems to be telling me something as I took the picture.  Possibly, she was annoyed about something. Ya think??

While we are on a side trip there are a few more photo's that are from waaaay back when.

Bill and his Grandmother Tankersley

Carol, Bob, Bill, and our Mother.

Bill at Alatoona Lake.

Nancy at Tallulah River. (Back when you could do this.)

Nancy at Alatoona.

SIDE TRIP

In the 1970’s the New York Times ran a front page article on the coming “ICE AGE” and caused quite a stir.  It was a hot topic for quite a  while.  We were all going to freeze.  Years went by and they discovered that the earth was actually not getting colder anymore but was now getting warmer. 

That became “Global Warming” and paid off very well for folks like Al Gore for selling carbon credits and such.  By the turn of the century the seas were suppose to rise and flood coastal cities.  Then, a scientist in the UK leaked emails showing up the scam but many ignored them and they still believed.  Settled science, don't ya know. 

Years passed, and they found that the earth was not getting warmer anymore so it was changed to “Climate Change” so anything that happened could be blamed on it and it was getting bad for the image to have to keep changing the name every few years.  

We are now supposed to let China and India build a new coal fired power plant every week but we are expected to stop using coal and cause higher unemployment in places like West Virginia and let our electric bills go up.  (About 40% of our electricity is now generated by coal.)  Since the price of electricity is in everything we make it will continue to make us less competitive in the world markets.

I know that any event will have some reaction but count me in the unconvinced camp for now.   (By the way, Al Gore moved to California and bought an ocean side mansion on the Pacific coast after his wife kicked him out.  I guess the Pacific won't be one of the seas that will rise.)

It has not been widely reported, for some reason, so you may not have heard that the ship that has been frozen in the ice for over a week has a team of scientists on board that are studying "Global Warming" or is it "Climate Change", I forget.  You may not want to watch all of this but it also shows how the news media will ignore certain things that don’t fit their agenda.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2014/01/02/frozen-out-98-stories-ignore-ice-bound-ship-was-global-warming-missi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swcv9ju5K0