Here’s some things that hit close to home. Not a 100% match, and I’m getting better, but still… a lot of truth.
Running the Dunes on #Mars
February 10, 2014
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Tulare County Film Commission posts new promo video
February 10, 2014
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My Facebook “Look Back”
February 5, 2014
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Mars is a real place.
January 31, 2014
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Pictures like this just enthrall me. This is a real place. On another planet.
Proving my point – Obama haters operate on racism, not facts
January 27, 2014
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Photo: The White House
You can always rely on the wingnuts. In this case, rely on them to be all at once racist, hateful, and misinformed.
There’s been a long habit by some in the conservative fold for putting forth some really disgusting words and images about liberals, especially this President and his wife. George Bush took a lot of flack during his time in office, some of it undoubtably undeserved and unkind. Laura Bush, however, as best as I recall, never suffered from the abuse and slander at the hands of liberals as Michelle Obama has been forced to endure as First Lady. Some of the comments and photoshops are clearly hateful and racist. That’s bad enough, but when they start passing around lies in the wingnut echo-chamber, it really gets telling. Not only do they hate her, they’ll not do the slightest bit of research to verify what they’re being told and passing along.
Yesterday I posted a blog on Alternating Currents, my community blog on the local newspaper’s (The Visalia Times Delta) site. It concerned the calls for a boycott of Subway Sandwiches because they’ve joined the First Lady in a program to encourage children to eat healthy. Boycott Subway, because FLOTUS promotes healthy eating! Some folks really don’t like Michelle Obama!
I shared the link on my Twitter feed, and this is what I got in reply – More
Sometimes the universe just plays games with us
January 18, 2014
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Around 11pm on a Friday, just after a full Moon, on a winter day where the temperature hit 72 degrees that afternoon. It’s almost scary.
Self Evident Truth Project Visalia Pictures posted
January 15, 2014
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In October New York photographer iO Tillet Wright brought her photographic project to Visalia. Simple black and white photographs illustrate the basic humanity in members of the LGBTQ community. The Self Evident Project’s goal is 10,000 simple photos of people from all walks of life. Here’s mine.
For the complete Visalia set of images, go to Self Evident Truth / Visalia
Drone Training 101
December 29, 2013
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Important first steps in training your very own drone.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Local paper publishes my comments 3 days in a row
February 12, 2014
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The local newspaper, The Visalia Times Delta, has, like most papers today, an online site.
There, readers can post comments about articles and letters. I enjoy reading and commenting, and it’s become a fairly regular thing to see my comments published in the print edition on the “Local” page. It’s been a rare thing these past several months where I haven’t had at least one comment make the paper each week. This week I made it three days in a row!
I used to open the paper to the editorial page first, to check out political cartoons and letters to the editor. Now, in a bit of vanity, I open it to 3A first, to see if I’ve made it to the print edition again. (Actually, I cheat on that a bit. Since I subscribe to both the electronic and print editions, I can see the paper online several hours before it’s actually delivered to my home. I’ll check out the e-newspaper edition first to see if they published any of my comments, then add the print edition to my “archives” storage bin if they did. I may have to get a second bin!)
I also have a ‘Featured Community Blog’ at the Times Delta’s site (one of only three), called Alternating Currents. Feel free to check it out.
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