"Oh God."
By Jack Brummet - click to enlarge
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Thursday, July 07, 2011
Del Brummet on Mt. Si
Del and Keelin took a hike on Mt. Si yesterday. This is Del, near the top. Mt. Si is what remains of a volcano. According to The Wikipedia, "The 4-mile (6.4 km) long Mount Si trail climbs a total of 3,500 feet (1,100 m) reach to the summit ridge. The summit of Mount Si can then be reached by an exposed scramble, class 3, up the summit block which is known as the "Haystack"
click to enlarge
click to enlarge - by permission of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
A Salute To Dean Ericksen
By Pablo Fanque, Mona Goldwater, and Jack Brummet
One of our favorite contributors to All This Is That is having a birthday today. Dean is one of our most active tipsters, and often leads us to new and fertile meadows of starting points, content, warped stories, and strange and wonderful images. And, to top it off, he is funny, handsome, and facile at crossing the generational divide. He has fans from the octogenarians down to the one-year olds. Happy Birthday, Dean Ericksen!
Click here to view Mona's photo retrospective of Dean.
One of our favorite contributors to All This Is That is having a birthday today. Dean is one of our most active tipsters, and often leads us to new and fertile meadows of starting points, content, warped stories, and strange and wonderful images. And, to top it off, he is funny, handsome, and facile at crossing the generational divide. He has fans from the octogenarians down to the one-year olds. Happy Birthday, Dean Ericksen!
Click here to view Mona's photo retrospective of Dean.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2011
We have to put the screws to someone. Don't we?
By Mona GoldwaterAmateur Economics Correspondent
What do we do? If this was a real business--and it seems like we need to treat it like that once again--wouldn't we nick our employees and, especially, our vendors and buyers; we'd lower wages and raise prices (taxes) and hope we could find a middle ground on which to survive. Despite all the moaning and groaning, hasn't the TARP money done what it was supposed to do? In fact, haven't many/most of those "investments" been paid back, even with a little vigorish? Yeah, we ran up deficits dealing with the late 2000's financial meltdown, but isn't it approximately time to put a cork in that?
The U.S. ran up budget deficits for nearly 30 years--from 1970 through 1997. Bill Clinton was president in 1998, when the government finally achieved a surplus--a surplus created through bi-partisan cooperation. And we racked up further surpluses in 1999, 2000 and in 2001. 2001 was the final year of a Clinton-managed budget.
George W. Bush succeeded Clinton in 2001, and--surprise--we had a budget deficit in 2002 that has continued every year since then. The deficit is projected to increase massively and exponentially this year under President Barack Obama.
And one last question? How much gold do we actually have in Fort Knox? I know that virtually all the gold we own there was purchased at $35 an ounce or less, and most of it was accumulated when the price was far lower than that (when we were still on the gold standard). Why don't we break that gold out and sell it, now that it retails for around $1,500 an ounce--while all the knuckleheads are buying gold, shotguns, and canned goods like madmen?
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Monday, July 04, 2011
Painting: Map 26
Painting by Jack Brummet
[watercolor and pen on d'Arches paper 22"x30"]
[watercolor and pen on d'Arches paper 22"x30"]
click to enlarge
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Sunday, July 03, 2011
This photographer stole Richard M. Nixon's soul. . .
By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
This is a rare photograph of President Richard M. Nixon—one of the few I've ever seen (and I've seen many) that captures his heart and soul:
National Affairs Editor
This is a rare photograph of President Richard M. Nixon—one of the few I've ever seen (and I've seen many) that captures his heart and soul:
Several recent ATIT articles on President Nixon:
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Saturday, July 02, 2011
iPhone photos from The Methow
The North Cascades still had large amounts of snow...a couple of days before July
Dusk on the Methow River
The Hills surrounding The Methow Valley
The Hills
The Methow River at 9 pm.
The Curran-Brummet-Ford-Sanchez-Querfurth-Ericksen-Stewart Youth (and Eric holding Olivia)
The electric insulator gazebo at Newhalem
A field along Wolf Creek Road
Golden Hills
Snow along The North Cascades Highway
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Friday, July 01, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Photos from Winthrop/Wolf Ridge
by Jack Brummet
Family Life Editor
A few random shots from the Pete Curran family reunion, which happens every year with 35 people attending, give or take one or two who can't make it. Head shots of all of them will appear tomorrow.
Family Life Editor
A few random shots from the Pete Curran family reunion, which happens every year with 35 people attending, give or take one or two who can't make it. Head shots of all of them will appear tomorrow.
Eric and Otis Sanchez were among the early arrivals to Seattle
Just some hills/rangeland I like
The Methow River at 9PM
The Methow River at 10PM
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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