Thursday, May 16, 2019

riverwalk, town park, strasburg, virginia

"Town Park

The Town of Strasburg maintains the Town Park located along at Park Road at the east end of Queen Street. The park includes a large playground, tennis courts, basketball courts, baseball, softball, and soccer fields, a swimming pool, and a number of picnic and pavilion areas, as well as access to the Riverwalk and the Shenandoah River. The trail connects the park with Strasburg High School on Ram Drive. 


Riverwalk

​Begin your walk along the Strasburg Riverwalk at the Strasburg Town Park. The gravel walkway, located along the Shenandoah River, offers beautiful views of the river and the face of the Massanutten Mountain Range called Signal Knob. The .9 mile walk ends at Strasburg High School (Ram Drive) and three benches and three doggie clean-up stations are located along the walk. 


River Access

The North Fork of the Shenandoah River is easily accessed at the Strasburg Town Park. A boat landing and gravel parking lot are available for people wanting to float the river on kayaks, tubes, or canoes, and very shallow drafting aluminum boats. This is a great area to float to from the Deer Rapids access point, approximately five miles upstream. If floating downstream, please be cautious of a dangerous dam about five miles from the Strasburg Town Park. For your convenience, port-a-potties are available at the parking lot." 

Town Park | Town of Strasburg Virginia

unfortunately,
* this is a warning to all those dog owners who ignore the posted signs that say that your dog must be on a leash. if you fail to control your dog and it attacks me, then I will do whatever it takes to keep your dog from attacking me--whatever it takes. consider yourself warned.

unfortunately, failure to address user safety and security concerns, lack of enforcement of laws/rules and lack of maintenance have made a liability out of what should be an asset--not to mention diminishing the experience for those who use riverwalk.



while this photo shows the south fork of the shenandoah river,
it is typical of the north fork at riverwalk, town park, stasburg, va
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

iran, n korea, venezuela, cuba, china, russia

2020 Dems rebuke Trump on Iran, say they'd put US back in nuclear deal | TheHill 

why is it that some politicians don't understand that some "bad actor" countries in the world are at war with the USA and other freedom-loving nations? 
  • iran sponsors terrorism 
  • n korea's kim jong un threatens the world with nuclear ballistic missiles and starves n koreans 
  • corrupt dictator nicolas maduro's criminal actions oppress venezuela's citizens and destabilize peace 
  • cuba's dictatorship attacks our embassy with microwaves, oppresses it's citizens and is a continuing communist threat to the americas 
  • china's and russia's policies and aggressive military actions threaten world peace and stability

had enough?

who do you trust? 
   - republicans
   - democrats?
   - republican and democratic parties that are financed by billionaire corporations and billionaire PACs that supply us with candidates for public office? 
image by Democracy Chronicles

   - the biased news media?
   - or do you think for yourself?

to fix our dysfunctional government is simple and easy--stop voting for republican and democratic party candidates, who don't represent the best interests of our country to move our country forward. 

voting for a republican or a democrat is a vote for the party--the hand that holds the puppet/money strings. 

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in the next election--national, state or local--vote for someone who shares your values who is not a democrat or a republican. 

even with their billion dollar donors, the republican and democratic parties will shrivel up and die if no one votes for their candidates.

nothing will be better for our country.


the same goes for biased media--stop patronizing divisive, biased media and they'll go out of business. nothing will be better for the USA.