Sunday, September 29, 2013

The Subway at Zion's national park


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Wet suit time 
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Starting into the main corridor of the next subway picture
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Slipped three times to get this photo
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The "subway"
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The cascade falls... I slid down (on purpose )
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These may have been the cascading falls 
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Dinosaur prints
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Saw a couple if these critters along the way.















Monday, February 11, 2013

Our democracy...


Alexander Fraser Tytler – (1747 – 1813) – Professor of Universal History, and Greek and Roman Antiquities – University of Edinburgh
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage”.