Barna CemeteryBarna is a coastal town located outside of Galway. This is the original church cemetery. The church itself is gone. Of interest in this photo are the gate cap stones. Most of the original population of Barna left during the Great Famine…
The Dingle PeninsulaThe Dingle countryside. Words cannot describe it.Stone HutsThe Fahan Beehive huts built by prehistoric people and later occupied by hermits in the early Christian era.Ross CastleLocated next to Lough Leane in Killarney. At a distanc…
A Church in WaterfordDidn’t have time to find out what church this was. I took the shot because I liked the position of the statue, the layout of the door, with the tower in the background. The Quay at WaterfordThis is a “billboard” o…
O’Neill PubThis pub has been in continuous operation for 300 years. I ordered Irish stew. I was told I could choose three vegetables to go with the stew. The server then proceeded to put the vegetables in the stew. I also asked for a salad. The server …
Since embarking on my photographic odyssey I have become more aware of color, contrasts, and shapes and see opportunities to take the everyday and, hopefully, with a bit of computer magic, make the scene a bit more interesting. With a little cropping, …
People call these Obama/birth certificate nutjobs: Birthers. I have a new name for them: Republicans.
Political Wire:
Here’s an advance look at a new Public Policy Polling survey in Virginia completed over the weekend: An astonishing 41% of the state’s Republicans think President Obama was not born in the United States while just 32% think he was […]
I’m basing this post on the assumption that the information printed by the Emporia Independent Messenger is accurate. I’m also assuming that Benjamin Boyd’s defense attorney Morgan Griffith is telling the truth. No offense intended to Delegate Griffith, but he is a defense attorney after all. And you know what they say about assuming…
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This Volvo decides to resist (kinda long, you might want to just skip to the end):
Ace of Spades (which also gets a hat-tip for the video) reports that the dealers are pouring sodium silicate into the gas tanks.
Gotta wonder what all that oil is going to do to nearby rivers and steams. Oh well…
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Because the “Car Allowance Rebate System” (CARS) program (commonly referred to as “cash for clunkers”) needs a bailout after receiving higher than expected interest. The Obama Administration and Congress were shocked — shocked, I tell you — that when the government starts handing out $4,500 to anybody, they get a huge response!
It’s bad enough […]
A few days after I returned from Key West, my boss Dave went on vacation for just about two weeks, leaving me in charge. I was kind of looking forward to it as I figured the dead of summer would be a nice time to ease into the management chair. It turned out that juggling […]
