Ike's Second Warning

President Eisenhower’s famous 1961 farewell address to the nation left the nation with two things of import to consider. Most everybody has heard about Ike's first warning, about the military-industrial complex. This warning came from a military man, so it has become common lexicon in American discourse.

Ike’s second warning: “…that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

“…Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”

“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded.”

Does anything come to mind when reading this? Smart people will always try and take advantage of lesser, you would be wise to choose careful which smart person you listen to.

The first warning fit the liberal idea of a world without conflict, the badly distorted kumbaya vision of the world, but the second forgotten warning, fits the notion of the liberals and their lies about many things cloaked in science. DDT, ALAR, the OZONE hole, all those are liberal hoaxes perpetrated on people with little of no science understanding. And now comes the grandest hoax of them all, the CO2 driven global warming hoax, designed to tax and ration energy for control of man's life on Earth, to the liberals idea of Gaia utopia.

Sadly, it's the later warning, that harbors the tentacles of Marxism in their fond embrace.

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Rollover Pass, Texas After Ike

A longtime favorite fishing spot taken, for now, by Ike ... Hopefully it will come back.




This areal photo was taken above the Rollover Pass, Gilchrist TX, after hurricane Ike. Rollover Pass was one of my favorite fishing spots when we lived in the Galveston area many years ago. It was a beautiful area to swim and fish.

I doubt the park is still there, nor the sign ...

Trivia: The pass is named for the practice of ship captains from the days of Spanish rule through prohibition, who, to avoid the Galveston customs station, rolled barrels of import or export merchandise over that part of the peninsula. (Handbook of Texas Online)

The pass was opened in 1955 by the Texas Game and Fish Commission to help state fish and wildlife resources and improve the local fishing conditions in the bay. Fish in and around the pass, Trout, Redfish, Flounder, Croaker and many more. Popping cork with live shrimp or jigs were my favorite baits. We liked to wade off the beach on an outgoing tide, for the fish that hung on the sides of the pass. Currents were very strong, wear a life jacket.

Aerial view, the way it was:





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