I am sorry that these seem so small. The top one says Propaganda slide produced by the Reich Propaganda Office showing the opportunity cost of feeding a person with a hereditary disease.  The illustration shows an entire family of healthy Germans can live for one day on the same 5.50 Reichsmarks it costs to support one ill person for the same amount

The bottom one says. ” You are sharing the load! A hereditary ill person costs 50.000 Reichsmarks on average up to the age of sixty.” reproduced in a high school biology textbook by Jakob Graf. The image illustrates Nazi propaganda on the need to prevent births of the “unfit”.

Does this look familiar?  Nothing it seems really changes in the world. These are from the Holocaust Museum. They are doing a traveling show here in KC, and this is some of the propaganda used during the time of the Nazis. What I thought was so interesting about this was how it seems like this same thinking is still around. Not so much said in this way but implied. Think about it.

I just couldn’t stop and go too bed like a sensible person. Oh no I just had to finish that book I was reading sitting on that hard wooden kitchen chair. I paid for it. My legs hurt most of the night and the bottom of my feet ached something awful. NO! Don’t any of you say you are sorry for me. I know better.

Will it is snake Saturday, and they have a big Irish parade down in the little city south of us called North Kansas city. I would not want to be sitting on the stone cold curb watching this parade today. It is wet windy and cold.

I always am amused by people asking me where I live. I know that for new people around these parts it is confusing. Kansas City Mo was south of the Missouri river. North Kansas City a separate city is north of the Missouri river. Kansas City grew up and around many smaller cities and villages. So when you drive through our greater Metropolitan city you go through several little towns and cities that have been surrounded by greater Kansas City. Which throw all of the street numbers and names all out of kilter. Up north here just too make is even more interesting we have a lot of dead end streets, and streets that stop and start over there. Which happens when people do what they want because they have no one too tell them they can’t do that sort of thing.

I rather like us Kansas City north people. We are rather our own people being that most of us moved from the country to the big city. Yet not really wanting to live in a big city. So people just came here and built any kind of house they wanted, and where ever they wanted a home, and the hell with rhythm or reason. Along winding country roads connecting one house to the next.

Then along came developers plopping little subdivisions here and there among the space left over. Letting those who wanted some rhythm and reason too where they live, and the wild places to us heathens. I prefer the heathens myself because of the freedom to be different and too be myself. So I live in one of those places that have no rhythm or reason, but hold a goodly amount of good people.

The rule amoung us heathens is that one leaves their neighbor alone as long as they do not make too big of a mess of things. Which most of us don’t, and because of who we are we look out for those around us. I like it here in this place I call home.

Coming at you from the old folks home

Ros

If I had known I would have baked you a cake. I hope you have a wonderful day.

Ros

I know I should have gone over and bought myself a new book. I just don’t know what too do with myself when I don’t have something too read. Get myself into trouble is what.

I sat down and looked at my taxes. Phh! Who cares. I really have to be in the mood to do them. I don’t owe anything, but you have to do them to get your realestate taxes back from the state. Which I save and use to pay for the next year. Kind of a circle thing. I give you money and you give it back. Neither of us is making any money off this little circle tax thing. The post office with the cost of the stamps maybe. Will at least I help keep them going.

So there you have it. Cold and rainy here today. I think Dee up in Canada sent her weather our way.

Ros