The Alchemist, Cornelis Pietersz. Bega, 1663

Yesterday I did some sight seeing in Northern Minnesota.Virginia, Minnesota, is where I lived from kindergarten to fifth grade.  Below is a photo I took yesterday of my old elementary school, Lincoln School.  It now houses a law firm.  I remembered it as being bigger.  LOL

Right after I took this photo it started to rain.  I found a McDonald's to hole up in for awhile.  My old neighborhood is old and run down.  The actual house I lived in has been torn down.  The last time I was here I learned there had been a meth lab in it so they tore it down.

The business next door to my old house is now an insurance office.  It was a funeral home when I lived here.  The high school looks the same, as does the Presbyterian church around the corner.  The old shirt factory where I used to sell newspapers after school is now a county office. 

I left Virginia and headed south to Duluth.  This is the aerial bridge that Duluth is famous for.  It was 58 degrees and the wind was howling off of Lake Superior when I took this.  There were big waves moving through the canal there to the left. 

He says he'll testify under oath. But a pathological liar has no problem with a little thing like an oath.

Where's my flying car!!!

Vandals spray painted the work nigger on the front gate to his home. Well put.

Retirement home??

 

GunFAIL March 19-26

 

Interesting. We’re on to the week of March 19th in our endless pursuit of catching up on GunFAIL, and for the first time in recent memory, the leading category for the week is not the number of people who accidentally shot themselves. Unfortunately, though, it’s the number of kids who were accidentally shot. Nineteen kids were accidentally injured by gunfire from March 19-26, and sixteen people accidentally shot themselves during that time. Of course, some of these accidents count under both categories. Worse still, some of them also count among the 15 fatalities from gun accidents, as well. In fact, six minors were killed in gun accidents during the week, ages 2, 4, 8, 11, 13 and 16.

Among the week’s more bizarre incidents—as our title indicates—we had an accidental discharge in a public library in Fairbanks, AK. And curiously, nobody was willing to take the rap for it. A library patron was shot, but nobody was willing to say they had the gun, or saw anyone else who did. We also had an aspiring gunsmith in Pierce Co., WA who accidentally injured himself when a shotgun he’d aspired to smith apparently aspired to be a bomb instead, and exploded in his hands.

Read more in the below link.

http://www.dailykos.com/?page=

Pastor Gomez, from the Northwest Bible Baptist Church in Elgin, Illinoise, believes every word of this, stating,  "And some of you little whities can’t get it either. If it wasn’t for slavery, those folks would still be in Africa with a bone in their nose fighting lions, and if you don’t like that, you can lump it any way you want. That ain’t a prejudice. That is factual and historical."

Unbelievable!!! 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/05/baptist-pastor-defends-slavery-beneficial-biblical/