Author Archives: Al Cooper

14 Mar

Fires in Oklahoma [Reader Post]

Oklahoma is having wildfires, from Kansas to Texas, mostly east of Interstate 35.

Seems strange to me, there are no storms; there has not been any lightning.

Cigarettes? In that large an area?

Conspiracy?

Do not ask me. Continue reading

Posted in Environment | 12 Comments | 349 views
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12 Mar

The Folly of Short Term Thinking [Reader Post]

….or How to Haul Hay at Night.

Hay bailing, and hauling, in Oklahoma summers is like being in hell during a dust storm.

I recall one particularly hot day when it was well over one hundred degrees with no wind and no clouds to give shade. Continue reading

Posted in Politics | 10 Comments | 410 views
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9 Mar

“Trouble in River City” [Reader Post]

….or, America in peril.

In the end, everything you do will be based on what you know or believe, even if it is wrong.

All of our actions are based on our perceptions,

Which are of course based on what we have learned, or think we know. Continue reading

Posted in Barack Obama, Economy, Obamanomics, Politics | 4 Comments | 220 views
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8 Mar

Ignorance is Curable [Reader Post]

Ignorance is curable; stupidity is permanent and can get you removed from the gene pool (killed).

Education will not save you.

To simply know stuff does not mean you can apply it or use it. Continue reading

Posted in Education, Personal, Politics | 10 Comments | 666 views
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26 Feb

Olden Times Values [Reader Post]

“Long long ago, someone I know, had a little red canoe, there was room for only two”…

So starts a song on an old quarter inch thick 78RPM record we played back in the fifties

on a wind-up Victrola with a bamboo needle.

In those days people had values that are laughed at today. Continue reading

Posted in Culture, Social Studies | 12 Comments | 360 views
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