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Happy Halloween!

Grilled Pork Ribs and Salmon

Minnesota Bat Festival 2019

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/minnesota_valley/

Fried Potatoes

So simple, yet so delicious...

Buena Vista Park

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/wisconsin/wi-breathtaking-scenic-overlook/

Hawks View Cottages

https://www.hawksview.net/

Kinstone

https://www.kinstonecircle.com/

Kurdish Child

Trump is an idiot. And if there is a young, Kurd child, who  is without a family now because of Trump's stupid ass decision, I will take that child into my house. I can have another son or daughter. My family is half Hmong. The U.S. bailed on the Hmong after they helped them fight in the Vietnam war. That appears to be what has happened to the Kurds as well.

C4

Suspicious! I found C4 in the library...

CuTRis to Play Batman

CuTRis to Play Batman UnAssociated Press October 3, 2019 As this recent UAP photo suggests, sources say that CuTRis is set to Play Batman in the movie due out in 2021, "Batman Kicks Ass!" St. Paul will Star as, Gotham City

Long Meadow Lake

 I hiked the bluff Trail around Long Meadow Lake and came back on the undeveloped Trail. It was at least 6 miles and took almost three hours and it was raining most of the time. I saw swans, four whitetail deer, a raccoon, and much more.

Raptor Release at Carpenter Nature Center

Minnesota's Answer to the Achievement Gap

Some racial groups are not scoring as well as others in academic testing. Some demographics have a higher number of behavior issues. How do we fix this? Should we "dumb-down" the standards and rules to close the achievement gap? Because that is what I'm seeing from our education system right now. Don't tell me some people can't live up to the standards. That is simply not true and another backhanded form of discrimination. If you work hard and obey the rules, good things should happen. My wife is from a family of immigrants and she was born across the world from where she lives now. Her family were refugees when she arrived in the USA. She now has her Master's degree in Education and teaches Art. When I met her she was teaching jr. high. The artwork the students created was spectacular. When the art program was cut due to funding, she left that district for a new one with a new emerging art program for elementary age kids. I expected the artwork would be less....

Political Dynamics of Climate Change

There has been a lot of talk about climate change recently—and rightly so. A young lady from Sweden by the name of Greta Thunberg , has brought the fight to the world leaders. She is quite right, that we need to be careful of what we do to the environment. I remember when I was a child, there were no hawks or eagles around my local area—because of the widespread use of DDT . Now after being banned in 1972, I see hawks daily and eagles weekly. But there are still climate change doubters . Even if the science shows the impact, some will always deny it. Part of this is due to how the World Economy plays into the politics. This is often frustrating for the activists; who usually don't want to think about this part of the issue—because they believe their point-of-view is of a higher importance. Perhaps it is, but when I visited the the climate protest at the Minnesota State Capitol , the first few speakers were more focused on racial inequality than they were on climate change. I was...

Ride Prince's Hondamatic