^ That quote is good, especially now when people are SO ready to take offense.
I watched some of the Gorsuch hearings on TV this morning before Pam got up. Fascinating. And I understand why pundits say he's so hard for the Democrats to confront. The guy could read the phone book and sound brilliant, and totally engaging in a folksy, disarming way. Not that I think the Dem's won't trash the guy; it's politicians do in this situation.
Goats will do anything for grain. Ours go into a shark-like feeding frenzy when they know there's grain in the offing, which is why I'm so puzzled by Itzhak's behavior this morning. He wouldn't eat his allotment out of the feeder he always uses. (Each goat has his/her own feeder box to avoid the fights that would otherwise happen.) He put his nose in it and then walked away. I tried leading him back and taking some of it in the palm of my hand for him to eat. Nope. But when I filled up the little container I use to scoop it out of the bin he immediately stuck his nose in it and gobbled it up.
My only guess is that sometime during the night a rodent got into that feeder. It either scared Itzhak or it peed in there, thus putting him off anything in it or that comes out of it. So this afternoon I took it off, cleaned it thoroughly, and installed it in a different place. At this evening's grain feeding...no problem. Itzhak gobbled down his grain just fine.
I'm not sure why, but the OR press gives surprising coverage to some news events and political developments in WA. They ignore ID, CA, and NV. One of the stories this morning was about cell phone companies approaching WA for permission to put micro-transmitters on power poles and light standards at intersections in Seattle. There's new technology that would use transmitters placed lower and closer than the standard cell phone towers we're accustomed to with the result that the entire area would have 5g coverage, which is lightning fast. Verizon has chosen Seattle as a test market but for reasons I didn't catch it requires state approval. And for reasons I can't fathom the WA senate has balked at it. The likely outcome is that Verizon will go somewhere else to get permission and Seattle won't be the first to offer its residents 5g coverage virtually everywhere.
Would Verizon consider Elmira, OR?? Please???
I began writing the fourth section this morning and got all of two paragraphs done. Part of that was because I was double checking my memory on key dates in church history. That involves numbers, and I'm terrible at numbers. In the process it dawned on me that this Oct. 31 is the 500-year anniversary of Martin Luther's nailing of his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany. That has to rank as the most significant event in history since the close of the first century and it affected not just the religious world but also developments involving economics and international relations. I wonder what observances will held in Wittenburg on 10/31 to commemorate the event.
I went to the channel (C-Span?) that covers the US Senate hoping to catch more of the Gorsuch hearings but instead dropped in on Cory Booker railing about a bill that would roll back hunting regulations on federal land in Alaska recently imposed by an executive order in the closing days of President Obama's presidency. Both AK senators, one GOP and one Dem, have sponsored the bill that returns regulations for hunting on federal lands to the AK state fish and game department.
Booker was going on and on about people shooting bears from planes, wolf cubs in their dens and a third crime against human decency that I can't remember. He had his dander up, telling us we're better than that.
So I Googled it. Turns out all the terrible things prohibited in the Sen. Booker was warning about are already against the law in Alaska. Sen. Booker (New Jersey, a major hunting state) undoubtedly knew that, but he's looking ahead to higher office, and a tirade against kicking puppies plays well when you're on the campaign trail.
Politicians.
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