20 December 09 - 21:10Down by the Lisbon, ND Mill Location
If you are from my home town, Lisbon, ND, I have a treat for you and a teaser. Some of you may not have seen my past blogs on the Lisbon Mill. The Lisbon Mill was in one location, southeast of the dam, and was a part of Lisbon for 40 years. it was a growing thriving business that went through the changes that all businesses go through until it burned in the 1920's.
Here is a small portion of a map I recently purchased. The map is in horrid shape, but I have extracted the Mill information and this small picture shows what I have found.
The map is a part of a Sanborn map of the Lisbon area which originated in 1919. The Sanborn maps were used to document buildings and their locations for various purposes, mainly insurance underwriting. The mill can be seen in the picture as item number 2. The other item of importance is the Sheyenne River which provided the power for the mill. The mill in 1919 is about at it's zenith. It was the 1920s when it burned and became a ghost of historical Lisbon.
Here are the items that I numbered in the touched up map picture.
1. The original Lozier, Armstrong Funeral Home building that was actually my home in the early 1970s. It was an old house that was in the north portion of the parking lot of the current Armstrong Funeral Home.
2. The main protion of the Mill. In 1919 when this map was made the mill was owned by the Sorensons. They were a family of skilled millers.
3. Valley Street. It exists today and is the street that you take to the top of the dam.
4. This was called 1st Street in 1919, but is First Avenue today.
5. This is the circular grain storage tower tha sat at the west end of the mill. The pit under this tower is a basement under a current garage in the area. If you live in Lisbon, go find it. If you do, you will find the rock that formed the foundation visible around the garage. The cirular foundation is unmistakable.
6. That is the river.
Later I will provide a better resolution rendition of this map. It is really neat if you are a history nut like I am!!
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14 December 09 - 22:54Who are the real racists?
I am not going to dwell on this because I have some sympathies in the direction of the oppressed, however, I think this is a real indicator of what I would call being genuine or honest.
One of the main reasons that suffrage for women was such a concern was objectivity. The same is true for American Blacks, often known as African Americans. One of the concerns with giving fuill citizenship to the former slaves was the sam. Would this group be objective. Years have passed since slavery was abolished. Years have passed since I was a young white man in a North Dakota high school.
It was a time when black skinned Americans were being forcibly squished into society. As a group, they were deserving, having been brought to this country as slaves, and never given full opportunity. As a group, they called me racist. It was not true, I knew nothing of racism for blacks in America. I had some skepticism for American Indians, based on anecdotal stories of occurances on local reservations, but I really did not pay much heed to that.
I wanted to be free of racism, so it was easy. Growing up in a community of 100% white people (with mayby a couple of hispanic people that we really condisdered part of the fold), in my mind, I granted the blacker Americans immunity from any prejudice, since I didn't have any, I didn't nheed any.
As a result of my decision and my wife's mirrored belief, my son was raised without prejudice to the point where at the age of five he learned his best friend was "black". Surprised that there was a difference, he confronted me and asked if this meant he was "beige". I considered my lessons on this part of reality complete, because that was the way I felt about it. What is the difference? We are all people, all Americans. This is something I have felt for years, until I finally caved in today to realize that the feeling is not reciprocal.
My darker skinned friends, look at this simple statistic and tell me your race is not racist. Here is a simple statistic from Rasmusson polls. The poll has showed the same numbers for weeks and months. This is the approval rating for President Obama based on race of persons responding.
"The President earns approval from 37% of White voters and 98% of African-American voters" -Rasmusson Poll
What say you? The only reason the blacks (African Americans) of America can feel this way is due to race. The white population miffors the overall poll which is approval of around 40%. Why do literally all black Americans approve of Obama? This fact is stunning, it can only be for one reason, he is black. Never again will I feel guilty about my position against Affirmative Action. Never again will I feel the need to search my soul when I am told that white folks are racist to the individual.
It would appear that the white population has shown they are much more apt to be color blind than people of the darkest color, and this is not my observation, just my reporting of a number.
I case you did not hear, Obama was interviewed over the weekend on the television. He gives himself a B+ for the job he is doing so far. For those of you who want to, I track the president's real progress at Rassmussen Polls. The rest of the nation seems to give him about a "C-".
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10 December 09 - 22:28Deny the Lie (Episode Two)
I have started reading a new book and have been locating new information on what I personally consider the most massive con job ever devised. i truely do not believe this is intentional, but an act of international idiocity. The root or this con job is not intentional (I am giving the benefit of the doubt), but simply the result of three things.
1) Lack of proper proper science education
2) Lack of professional ethics
3) Inability to seperate personal hopes and wishes from reality
There may very well be a fourth reason, "greed and vanity".
Take a look at this link to Wikipedia, Wikitpedia Article - Heaven and Earth .
This is the book I am now reading titled "Heaven and Earth" by Ian Plimer. I have also been reading a book titled "Global Climate Change" by Dessler and Parson. The views are diametrically opposed.
In my last blog I related my belief that the global warming observations are not good science, but the results, both perported scientific conclusion and political solution are flawd and are either intentional or unintentional lies.
My new slogan is, "Climate Change - Deny the Lie"
More information for you all later so you cannot be fooled. This is not a hoax, not really a deliberate con, but is a travesty of science. I really don't give a crap about politicians and lawyers, for the most part they do not understand reality. They only understand self preservation and goal seeking. Reality is of little concern to them. What do you expect of a politician? Most are lawyers. They are in the business of creating "reasonable doublt" and other constructs to get their guilty client off. Reality is not a part of the legal process from the defense point of view. It is a business.
More later, my friends. Do NOT be confused. We will look at all matters at hand, science first, then the cesspool of politics to see how seriously things are going wrong in the arena of global climate understanding and the resulting response by the zealots.
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09 December 09 - 22:51Deny the lie (global warming)
Someone has started the research that I have been searching for. Before I go on, let me explain that my thinking on this started years ago, before the Global Warming Lie was so popular among the weak minded and greed. The story is this;
My Mother was a pilot. She is currently 91 years old and became a pilot in the late 1930's, about the time Amelia Earhart attempted her flight around the world. In fact, Amelia was an influence on her desire to fly. If you think about it, for a woman to become a pilot in the 1930's makes her somewhat of a pioneer. In a round about way this lead me to learn about weather. Weather is very important to pilots and often official weather recording stations are located in standard enclosures (called Stevenson Screens) at airports.
The idea behind scientific measurements is to be able to produce a reproducable, accurate result. I wondered, to myself, how can these weather stations can be giving reliable, reproduceable, and accurate results when airports used to be located out in the country near grass runways, and now they are located inside cities with concrete runways and other artificial heat sources nearby.
In my mind higher temperatures at a given weather station located at an airport over the years may be reading higher temperatures, but it is because it is now located in the city, and not in the country. This means that higher temperatures at airports are due to concrete, heat transfer devices (air conditioner exhaust), and all of the other things that make city temperatures higher than suburban and country temperatures in the same vicinity.
The basic principle of scientific method is control and comparison to a baseline. This is not the case when it comes to the basic data collected for the global warming experiments. For those of you that are rational, visit http://www.surfacestations.org/ and see what they have to say. The situation is far more serious than I had even realized from my personal viewpoint. Global warming data is not showing a relationship between warming and carbon dioxide, but something else.
See what you can see. The carbon dioxide connection may very well be incorrect.
Later.
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04 December 09 - 00:07What is common sense?
When I was taking my undergrad physics courses, one of the points made frequently to understand reality was to consider extremes and personal experience. From there we can draw comparisons and gain a starting point. Einstein called this a "thought experiment" and you can now utilize the same technique in yourself.
Assume we are asked to estimate the weight of a quart jar and it's contents without weighing it or handling it. We look at the jar placed on the table in front of us by an ordinary looking person and are asked to reach a conclusion.
Our starting point is to simply look at the jar and think of extremes, there is more weight than zero since the jar and contents exist and everything that exists has weight. As a series of random thoughts we realize the weight is less than the universe, solar system, planet earth, and certainly less than, say, the weight of a small car.
Instantly, we have a range between 0 and 2000 pounds. Next we discriminate a bit more and note that a normal person lifts the jar easily. Some thoughts of lifting a 40 pound bag of flour, a ten pound bag of sugar, and a similar jar of peanut butter that weighed around 2 pounds. The range of the thought experiment now tells us that this example is similar to the peanut butter and we could estimate 2 pounds. If we remember that metals weigh a lot more than peanut butter, we could look up mercury and find it weighs about 14 times more than water.
Referring to water, they used to say "a pint is a pound the world around" so a quart is two pounds.
We now summarize that our information indicates that the range of weight of the jar and contents is between 0 and 2 pounds times 14 or 28 pounds.
This assessment is not perfect, but does limit us to a weight less than 30 pounds and a likely weight of 2 pounds.
This is called "common sense." The same thing that Sarah Palin was recently criticized for espousing. I am not a fan of Sarah Palin, but, there is a lot to be said to being able to draw on our experience to quantify and solve problems.
This information can now be used to plan. We might take this thought to another level and compare our assessment to the runup to the Iraq war, but it may hurt the brain of some liberals, so we will stop here.
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