Live View: Brasstown Bald, Highest point in Georgia, from the South side of the lookout tower.
#20days20Artists Day 15
Agnes Lawrence Pelton
A modernist painter born in Germany & moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes & still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest people & landscape, & abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs-Wiki Ahmi in Egypt/Memory/ Smoke Tree
#20Artists20days.
Your favorites, those that move you etc. Any reason. Post with art example if you like.
Day 14: Amedeo Modigliani
Do you see it?
The new Axis?
Russia, USA, Hungary, Israel, North Korea
#politics
Netanyahu thanks Orbán for invite after ICC warrant, saying Hungary on ‘side of justice and truth’
Israeli PM thanks his Hungarian counterpart after he extends invite in defiance of moves by International Criminal Court
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/nov/22/benjamin-netanyahu-icc-yoav-gallant-mohammed-deif-israel-gaza
You. Can. Not.
In fact, you will EXACERBATE it. Trump wants massive tax cuts. At the same time, Musk is talking about massive firings. A massive number of people who will no longer be able to buy THINGS. Which means more people lose their jobs. Secondary, tertiary jobs will be lost. This isn’t me talking out of my butt, this is basic economics. Economists have been writing about this before any of you were born.
These people are too stupid to understand they are talking economic extinction.
43F / 6C / 68%H excellent air quality and cloudy on #longisland #weather @k_ratoncita @Slines 3" of rain so far 😃
Top senator calls Salt Typhoon “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history”
The severity of the Chinese breach highlights
#Trump's economic plans face a big potential foe: Bond vigilantes
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5186956/trump-election-bond-stocks-investors
I am a fan of both Schopenhauer and Voltaire.
"The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Guardrail Protecting Democracy Turns out to be Venmo
#politics #BorowitzReport
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/guardrail-protecting-democracy-turns
These galaxies have only grazed one another to date, with the smaller spiral on the left, cataloged as IC 2163, ever so slowly “creeping” behind NGC 2207, the spiral galaxy at right, millions of years ago.
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