As Bernice noted we elder statesmen (I would have been one if the Council had accepted me to fill a vacancy years ago, but that was in the days when the city charter was followed) need a day or two for no brainers. Instead of a monologue I have revisited the not so blue Danube.
The first picture shows the Romanian shore at the down stream side exit of the Danube from the gorge between the Carpathian Mountains of Romania and the Balkan Mountains of Serbia. Up to the end of the 19th Century the cataracts made this portion of the Danube not navigable. After WWII a dam and locks were built to facilitate the up stream passage.
The second picture is north of Budapest where the Danube makes its great bend to ultimately flow between Hungary and Slovakia before entering Austria.
The picture immediately below of the famous Basilica in Estergom north of Budapest. The one below that is of a riverside town in what is now Serbia. There is a passenger station above a ramp to the quay which is presumably for river traffic.
Finally one of the locks on the river with some of the traffic that before the fighting in the breakup of Yugoslavia, traveled the Danube from above Vienna to the Black Sea.
Despite the Strauss waltzes and some of the pictures the Danube is anything but blue.
Any time something goes wrong, we in Plainfield turn and eat each other out. The British used the same strategy when they went into Africa. It was called "divide and conquer".
ReplyDeleteHere you blame the council. Dan blames Jerry. Jerry blames Ron West and the Plainfield BOD who are all affiliated with the New Dems when the real issue is the State & Solaris incompetence.
Aren't we just "Indians" easily divided by our rulers?
Do you think history repeats itself?