Blogger's Breakfast in a Dining Car?

Somewhere between Beijing and Shenzhen, PRC (June 2008)

...reflections...

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get."
~ Tim Russert

As I walked along a dirt road in a small rice village in Thailand, I spotted this farmer chasing his little girl around the front yard. Pointing to my camera, I asked him if I could take a picture.

Looking at the girls face, she really wasn't happy that her playtime with dad was interrupted. Later, after I developed the film, I gave him a copy of the photograph. Staring at the image, he paused for a moment and then started to cry. It was the first photograph he had ever taken with his daughter. For a man who works a small plot of land to support his family, a camera and film are well beyond his financial means.

Baghdad, Iraq (March 2005)

Photo by Peter Rimar

I'm confused. I must be drinking the wrong flavor of Kool-Aid.

On June 20th, 2011, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R), speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Governors Summit on CSPAN, called the Deepwater Horizon OIL SPILL in the Gulf of Mexico a "natural disaster" (TWICE). Could somebody please tell me what I should call a flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake or landslide?


Update:
McDonnell flys to Vail to attend
Koch brothers seminar?
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Fenghuang, China (April 2009)
Photo by Peter Rimar.

World History 101?

"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."  ~ David Brinkley

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Why do AARP cards expire? Do they think you're going to get any younger?

...Chinese Love Locks...

Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (Paperback)

Food for Thought?

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated." ~ Will Rogers

It is what it is?

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Right Click and Save As?

...Testing One, Two, Three...

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."   
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel

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Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (MP3 Download)

Blast from the Past?

"Oil is a great reason to go to war. It's the lifeblood of a globally interconnected economy. With that said, it's an extremely bad reason to keep going to war." ~ Self

A New Perspective on Cost of War

In the Public Domain?

Over the last few years, I've been slowly POSTING various photographs of people and places from around the world.

Since all the images contained on ...completely random stuff... are in the public domain, this blogger grants permission to use any or all of these images for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Blogger along with any and all media outlets (to include Faux News).

Indeed, the undersigned has only one simple request: If you're going to use any or all of this site's uploaded images, please give credit to your original source (Peter Rimar).