I have heard many times that the main attribute of a good photographer is the ability to see the image of the moment and capture it on film (or digital today.)

Of course I hardly ever happen to have a camera in my hand when one of those Kodak moments slap me in the face.

Having a magnificent camera can help with sharpness, and the auto-exposure features on today's (newest and very costly) models from Germany and Japan can make even a photographer like me. One of modest talent reap the technical reward.

To wit this little story:

I awoke at 7:45 this morning. Just as I do most mornings. This being one reward of early retirement. The downside being the fractured spine from a night landing into the only tree within one hundred miles of any other. (another story not to be repeated).... I stretched, showered, and with my pajama bottoms back on -- (a bit chilly this morning after the newly arrived cold front) -- I brewed a K-Cup of morning blend and retired to the front porch to sit in the swing and offer thanks for another beautiful morning.

Beautiful it was also. At near 3,500 ft. asl, the morning clouds were rising from the valley and drifting past the porch. I could hear the noise from the newly arrived Canadian geese, rising into the sky in search of newly picked corn fields. Must have been fifty or more that flew within yards of my head as they rose into the clear sky above me.

As my eyes returned back down to earth, having searched for a glimpse of them, I saw one of those rare photo opportunities. (Of course my camera was in the closet)...

No, not a confused Canadian goose stuck in a tree rather a nature supplied moment. Quite a moment in time and hard to replicate tomorrow.

My moment in time? The sun was just rising above the treeline and casting rays of bright light through the clouds and by alignment was illuminating from behind, the American F**g which always flies from our porch.

I rose quickly, nearly stumbled over the porch railing and managed to grab the Nikon from the bedroom, return to the porch, aim, check the composition and press the shutter release button. I had my photo -- my moment in time. (Fact is, I captured four photos while bracketing the exposure)... I was taking no chances.

The photo? Look left!

" is Hollywood not allowed to take creative license? Is that something that is outlawed?

I suggest you take that discussion up with Paul Joseph Goebbels. In case you forgot, he was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in N**i Germany.

Goebbels exerted control over the media, arts and information in Germany. He used modern propaganda techniques to ideologically prepare the German people for aggressive warfare. Just as your heroes are doing in our media today as you promote social warfare.

Need any more clarification just let me know.

Thank you so very much. Your attempt at obfuscation was clearly shown as a reiteration of my points. Point by point, by point.

You were so very easy. So very short on brains so very verbose of mouth. I was expecting just such a retort from the brain dead on this board.

Now read very slowly and get the white powder out of your nose. Nowhere in any of Doyle's novels did he show Holmes use of cocaine acting as a detriment to his capabilities and a need for a girl to lead him around like you try and lead everyone off topic. His words which you just tried to magnify beyond the topic were nothing more than asides to the story, not a re-write as is the case in "Elementary".

To wit:

Lord.
Grant me the serenity to accept stupid people the way they are. The courage to maintain my self control and the wisdom to '"know that if I act on it, I'll got directly to jail without passing go.

The C*****r
cmvrwc

Hey! K**l them all and let Allah sort them out.....
They want a holy war, give them one they will remember into eternity.

For years Sherlock Holmes has been a British television crime drama that is derived from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.

Sherlock Holmes is presented by Doyle as a refined London gentleman with proper manners acting as a consulting detective; assisted by his flatmate, Dr Watson. Also a gentleman and steady country doctor.

Holmes has always been presented as a brilliant sleuth -- who with his trusted Dr. Watson solve crimes, over and over again. Up until now that is: Behold the new American series titled: "Elementary" where the feel good, politically-correct-dolts have changed the whole cast of characters to represent their PC view.

Yes. Dr. Watson is now a "minority-female" flatmate played by Lucy Liu and is being cast as the leader in the duo. She is shown out-sleuthing Sherlock with her own style of abductive reasoning, and leading him around like her own little, lost minion.

Sherlock is no longer being presented as a refined British Gentleman with proper manners and refined bearing. No! He is now being shown a recovering addict who is dependent on Watson to hold his mental state in a straight line. A teary eyed twit unworthy of the title "super sleuth" and visually portrayed as a modern metro male, lacking in class and long of wind.

Noteworthy; is both Watson and Holmes, were known as cigarette and pipe smokers, yet not one scene in the new American CBS series.

It is really quite sick, how the liberals who produce this mental trash, think they have our liberty to change characters to their choice of political correctness and try so very hard to change the future viewpoints of great writers and characters.

They must think we are so dense we cannot deduct their intent.

The C*****r
cmvrwc

Anyone for a down home smoked pig BBQ in their back yard?

Tell them it is BBQ beef until you feed the whole clan. Then have them squeal like pigs.

What fun!

"Grinding up pigs"..... Hmmm..... Good idea.

What would happen if we shipped free fertilizer containing ground up pigs to Obamas favorite golf courses and then notified the news papers in a month or two?

I am so bad....... (grin)

In Seville Spain, local people found a way to stop the construction of another mosque in their town. They buried a pig on the site, and made sure this would be known to the local press.

Islamic rules forbid the erecting of a Mosque on "pig soiled ground.

The Muslims had to cancel the project.

No protests were needed by the local people, and...
it worked!

Americans, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work solving the problem of this spreading menace to our American way of life.

Maybe we could get someone to even plant a pig at the White House.

Just thinking...

The C*****r
cmvrwc

John Kerry can finally say he knows how Richard Nixon felt.

Kerry rose to power because of his leading role in the American antiwar movement of the 1970s. His testimony accusing, sometimes wrongly, American soldiers of atrocities in Vietnam launched a political career that took him to the Senate, the Democratic nomination for the presidency and, now, to the top post in President Obama’s cabinet.

Vladimir Putin rose to power because of his service in the KGB, which in the 1970s was trying to exploit and manipulate the American antiwar movement. We know that while Kerry and others on the left were comparing American troops to Genghis Kahn and throwing their medals away, the KGB was working overtime to infiltrate antiwar groups and overtly propagandizing with the same messages embraced by American liberals.

Kerry has certainly changed his tune. It would appear that Putin has not.

Kerry, more than any other American, can take credit for bringing the country to the cusp of entering the Syrian civil war on the side of Islamist rebels. His relentless sales pitch in speeches, in internal administration debates and to members of Congress very nearly precipitated U.S. airstrikes against Syria in reprisal for the use of chemical weapons last month in that country’s years-long civil war.

When President Obama opted to duck the decision on launching the strikes, Kerry chased the war plan down Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress. There, relying on what we have since learned is some intelligence from at least one questionable source, Kerry vainly sought congressional approval for going to war.

But the same dovish tendencies inside the Democratic Party that made Kerry famous and powerful also made his task impossible. Since most Republicans opposed the Obama plan for a “shot across the bow” in Syria as being simultaneously weak and provocative, Democratic support was made more crucial. Since the president was unwilling to strongarm his fellow Democrats, observing that he was “elected to end wars, not start them,” hawkish hopes for action flitted away.

Obama shoved the Syria strikes onto Congress in a move one of his advisers publicly bragged would leave Republicans to blame for the resulting action or inaction. Instead, Obama found himself “the dog who caught the car.” A bipartisan defeat for his war plea would be a humiliation at home and abroad and leave his already tattered second-term agenda in ruins. Obama was stuck by his own escape plan.

A frustrated Kerry headed overseas to try to win allies that might convince anxious Democrats that this was not the start of a new quagmire for America. While abroad, Kerry gave a sardonic response to a question about a diplomatic solution. The gist: Oh sure, whenever Bashar al Assad gives up his weapons I’ll quit trying to bomb him.

It was very Louis Winthorp III.

The Russians, however, played it straight. And while Kerry was trying to make his own coalition of the willing, Vladimir Putin found the sweet spot with Obama. Putin offered Obama a way out of a political jam of his own making and allowed Obama to take a little credit for preventing, not starting another war.

Obama jumped at the chance and now, well, let’s let Putin tell the tale, via his New York Times OpEd today: “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, wh**ever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”

This is a double slap at Obama who early in his presidency tried to redefine American exceptionalism, saying: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Once he was beating half a war drum, Obama reverted to the more traditional, empowered sense of the term. Putin here reminds American liberals how much they liked the old Obama, champion of Greek exceptionalism.

Worst of all, Putin called Obama George W. Bush, dropping in buzz phrases Obama used to win the Democratic nomination and the presidency. The Cold War Kremlin tropes tailored for the American left about insufficient communication and the need for international e******y got gussied up for the 21st century.

But Putin was doing exactly what his bosses at the KGB showed him back in the day, especially when it comes to Democrats: tug at the pacifistic heartstrings of the left when trying to hamstring an American adversary at the negotiating table.

Kerry begins his negotiations with his Russian counterpart today, and any idea that the US was going to strike has evaporated. Obama is inert, rendering Kerry’s threats empty. As Putin’s op-ed shows, the old game can still be quite effective.

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You got that right!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday said “anarchists” have taken over Congress.

Reid (D-Nev.) said Tea Party Republicans are preventing progress on an energy efficiency bill by offering amendments on ObamaCare and other unrelated issues.

“We’re diverted totally from what this bill is about. Why? Because the anarchists have taken over,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “They’ve taken over the House and now they’ve taken over the Senate.

Perhaps Banjojack. We might also think of his posts as the ignorance of arrogance? He does seem to be suffering both.

HINT:

Do all those things which will keep you well above the bottom 25 percent.

Want some hints?

How to sum up the Democratic party in seventy five words?

“If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievment is entitlement.

So now you think you are owed something and you don't have to work for it and now you're on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggreivement and entitlement, and you still won't have a job.”

Condaleeza Rice

American families are becoming increasingly polarized along race, class and educational lines, according to a new report released Wednesday, a sign of growing economic ine******y that was exacerbated by the Great Recession.

The report, “Divergent Paths of American Families,” found a widening gap in recent years between families that are white, educated or economically secure and minority families, those headed by someone with a high school degree or less, and poor families.

The concern, report authors say, is not that American families are becoming diverse. Advances in civil rights and women’s economic independence have opened up individual choice and t***sformed the American family in the past 50 years. The concern, they wrote, is that the divisions fall along race, class and educational lines and that they are accelerating.

Once again the misplaced efforts of the liberal radicals screw up a great country.