And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
There is a national park centred on Mount Taranaki. The dark green is the trees in the park, the lighter green is farmers fields. Go to google maps and take a look. Al_in_Ottawa
Bit of back story; It has been called Mount Egmont for most of living people's memory, named after some British lord or whatever. But in a backlash fuelled by the United Nations 'indigenous rights' dictates, it has, without public consultation, been renamed Mount Taranaki. Now this may be warranted, the bloke called Egmont never even came to New Zealand, but the shift to renaming places, and government departments, and railway stations, AND BUS STOPS ... into the so called indigenous people's language continues like a bush ablaze with various hydrocarbon accelerants ... with scant care or thought being applied to the fact that the country was 'third world' and very primitive until the Europeans came and brought it into the modern world, circa the late 18th century. So we are getting a lot of actual history wiped from memory by place names being relabelled in a language that was never ever a written one until some European guy made it be so. Reverse racism, I guess, and the marginalisation of the 'White' people who made these cannibalistic islands, islands peopled by warring tribes of the Polynesian drift sailors descendants, into a civil and pleasant multi-cultural land, with bridges, buildings, hospitals, schools, police, KFC, cars, TVs, internet providers and other such pleasant buffers for modern day life. The 'indigenous' people of New Zealand are called Maori, even though everyone of them alive is only part, the other part being 'white', and the original Maori people came here, by chance ot the winds, sometime between the years 1100 and 1300, some 900 years ago (citation needed).
Same thing in this country. Highest peak in SoDak, at 7242ft ASL, was Harney Peak, but clowns in DC decided it had to be renamed Black Elk Peak. It is on federal land so that is how they accomplished the renaming. Great view from top though; been up there 3 times.
That the shadow of the Death Star above it ? :^)
ReplyDeleteIn this photo in full daylight, what is causing the dark circular area to appear around the mountain? Too symmetric to be a cloud shadow.
ReplyDeleteThere is a national park centred on Mount Taranaki. The dark green is the trees in the park, the lighter green is farmers fields. Go to google maps and take a look.
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Thanks for the explanation. Very cool...
Deleteit looks like a volcanic crater
ReplyDeleteThats cool.
ReplyDeleteBit of back story; It has been called Mount Egmont for most of living people's memory, named after some British lord or whatever.
ReplyDeleteBut in a backlash fuelled by the United Nations 'indigenous rights' dictates, it has, without public consultation, been renamed Mount Taranaki.
Now this may be warranted, the bloke called Egmont never even came to New Zealand, but the shift to renaming places, and government departments, and railway stations, AND BUS STOPS ... into the so called indigenous people's language continues like a bush ablaze with various hydrocarbon accelerants ... with scant care or thought being applied to the fact that the country was 'third world' and very primitive until the Europeans came and brought it into the modern world, circa the late 18th century.
So we are getting a lot of actual history wiped from memory by place names being relabelled in a language that was never ever a written one until some European guy made it be so.
Reverse racism, I guess, and the marginalisation of the 'White' people who made these cannibalistic islands, islands peopled by warring tribes of the Polynesian drift sailors descendants, into a civil and pleasant multi-cultural land, with bridges, buildings, hospitals, schools, police, KFC, cars, TVs, internet providers and other such pleasant buffers for modern day life.
The 'indigenous' people of New Zealand are called Maori, even though everyone of them alive is only part, the other part being 'white', and the original Maori people came here, by chance ot the winds, sometime between the years 1100 and 1300, some 900 years ago (citation needed).
Same thing in this country. Highest peak in SoDak, at 7242ft ASL, was Harney Peak, but clowns in DC decided it had to be renamed Black Elk Peak. It is on federal land so that is how they accomplished the renaming. Great view from top though; been up there 3 times.
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