Day 20 #TeslaNashvilleRoadTrip
From Kansas City MO to WaKeeny, Kansas. 365 miles
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Left early from Kansas City. 7 am. 195 miles of charge. Stopped for breakfast in KC before we headed out. Eggs Benedict and coffee. $10. Three of the six waitresses had much of their upper body and faces tattooed. Disfiguring tattoos. Covering maybe 50% of their head and shoulders. Inky blends of not much artistic merit that covered much of their young faces.
We didn’t understand their motivation. All were young, maybe 18 or 19. They ended every exchange with ‘Y’all.” My standard thought when I see this is “You’ll never regret having that art done. It will open many doors for you.”
Driving out of Kansas City MO is this billboard. The first one I have seen that is not selling either 1.) Prosperity Jesus or 2.) Law firms. An especially poignant observation for both Blonde Billionaire Taylor Swift and her multiple Swifties for whom silence about everything except Taylor’s genius is what matters most.
On the way we stopped in Lecompton. Small town Kansas that provides a good flavor of Kansas past and present. Lecompton was a hotbed of pro-slavery sentiment during the mid-1800s in a time period was known as Bleeding Kansas, due to the violence perpetrated by the pro-slavery, and to a lesser extent the anti-slavery, factions in the eastern part of the state.
Here is their church in pro Slavery Lecompton.
Shots from the window while driving through Kansas. Listened to “Carry on my Wayward Son.”
Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles is the 15th-largest state by area, the 36th most-populous of the 50 states, with a population of 2,940,865 according to the 2020 census, and the 10th least densely populated.
The first non-military settlement of Euro-Americans in Kansas Territory consisted of abolitionists from Massachusetts and other Free-Staters who founded the town of Lawrence and attempted to stop the spread of slavery from neighboring Missouri.
Missouri and Arkansas continually sent settlers into Kansas Territory along its eastern border to sway votes in favor of slavery prior to Kansas statehood elections. Directly presaging the American Civil War these forces collided, entering into skirmishes and guerrilla conflicts that earned the territory the nickname Bleeding Kansas. These included John Brown's Pottawatomie massacre of 1856.
It did feel a bit conservative-right in Kansas. We saw two Trump signs. And many churches. There is some oil mining. Saw an oil rig store for the first time.
As usual on the road side, God is everywhere. God and Guns compete for the billboard space in Kansas. God wants abortion banned.
We saw many billboards advertising how important it is to STOP killing babies with Murder Abortion.
We saw a crop duster at work as we passed Fort Riley. As usual we googled our location. Fort Riley has some 25,000 daily staff.
There are many stories of accidents involving Apache and Blackhawk gunships. In that series of accidents there is one from November 2023.
Last year's incidents also include a November crash in which five Army special operations soldiers died in a Black Hawk crash in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Cyprus.
That Black Hawk came down within striking range of Palestine, after the October 7 genocide had begun. American deadly force ready and training just miles away from the genocide unfolding for 213 days so far in Palestine.
Topeka Kansas. The State capitol. Population 126,000. Then we arrived in WaKeeny, our overnight stop half way to Denver. Our pre dinner walk in WaKeeny took in Eisenhower park where we saw this F 14 fighter. Not every day you walk to dinner and see a $60 million dollar plane standing there.
An F 14. Tomcat. 62 feet long. 40,000 pounds dry weight. Served on strike force fighter squadrons with names like; Black Knights, Grim Reapers and Black Aces. Although never once was flown by a black naval aviator. This F 14 served is US Navy from 1980 up until 1998. It was not used to bomb civilians in Palestine, according to the docent.
Overnight there were two giant red rigs parked outside, carrying enormous diesel motors. Halliburton. Connected to mining. Halliburton is big in these parts. The Trucks had Oklahoma Plates.
Kansas is a leading producer of crude/Grade-A helium and a major producer of crude gypsum, salt, and pumice/pumicite. It produces construction sand and gravel, crushed stone, dimension stone, masonry/portland cement, montmorillonite, and gemstones.
The most popular theme on TV and on Church signs today explains that; God is angry about young Christians turning their backs on Israel. Troublemakers protesting because they have been deceived by fake news.
The Pastor explains they only turn their backs on Israel because they have not read their Bible enough. That was today’s TV sermon in WaKeeny. The evangelist explained too the renegade young evangelists “If you read the Bible you will know. God stands with Israel.”
Today is day two of the solar storm. Here’s tonight in WaKeeny Kansas at 8.30pm
Tomorrow. Denver. Colorado