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I can’t take any more bad climate news.  First it was disappearing glaciers, then drowning polar bears, droughts, famine, social upheaval…  But now, why, oh why does it have to doom French wine?  Surely the social fabric of Europe will unravel; throngs of Frenchman will storm the taverns and demand wine.  Yet, the EU will say, “Let them drink beer”.  Next they will lopping off the heads of state.  Oh the travesty! 

"Give them music and great coffee... and they will park and ride"; "I don't know... I really love my car"

Now showing in the Center Ring...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Congressmen of all States, focus your attention on Clean Coal in the center ring.  It will wow you with its utter lack of material and non-existence.  Throw your money at it and watch it dance.  

Wow, quite a show! In Ring 2 is The Big Three.  Watch how they tap-dance around congressional inquiry and make grand, audacious (and false) promises.  We'll all be driving cars that run on air, last forever, and cost $25.

And in Ring 3 is Big Ag; they're making more money than dirt but they still need you to pay them not to plant crops.  Watch how they parade around holding out their empty pockets.

What a circus big coal/three/ag has made of our legislative bodies.  W and his cronies have sure made a mess of a already screwed-up system.  Lets hope Obama can tackle the Big Congressional Corporations and take our country back!  

Most times for evil to win it doesn't take a large, horrible event; it just takes a lot of people each doing just a little bad. AOOOOOOooooooooo.........

Blog It!

There are so many ways to get the message out.  ABC, a failing national network, is just one avenue to spread the message.  As evidenced by this website, the world can access lots more information than the old, tired television networks could dream of providing.  In ten years, we'll be saying, "Wow, remember network TV?"

Most times for evil to win it doesn't take a large, horrible event; it just takes a lot of people each doing just a little bad. AOOOOOOooooooooo.........

Quite Potentially a Porn Star?

Palin just might concede that she used to be a porn star.  The sheeple in this country that are going ga-ga over her right now would love her even more by saying that she's just a hard workin' gal trying to make a living with her God given talents.

She's just an image cult, like all the rest.  A plastic personality and a pretty face.  This country is heading for a fall and the last thing we need is just another pretty face with an empty head behind it.  We are our own worst enemy and people worship like this will be our undoing. Pray I'm wrong!

Most times for evil to win it doesn't take a large, horrible event; it just takes a lot of people each doing just a little bad. AOOOOOOooooooooo.........

Our Day in Court... We won this one, for now.

Hurray and blessings upon those that stood up to the gov't/corporate machine that would like to see our brother wolves dissapear.

We still have a long way to go in the realm of human development.  Killing wolves and other animals for sport is just wrong.  It's thrill killing.  These sportsman and ranchers have little value for life, canid or human.

Perhaps we will just have to litigate them all the way back to the holes the crawled out of; the cowboy lifestyle is dead; and its about time.  Chalk up another victory for good.On Endangered-species protections reinstated for gray wolves posted 1 year, 4 months ago 17 Responses

Just Making More Food is Not the Solution

And there is no solution in the current paradigm.  Primarily, we are consumers.  We consume more than we make.  Eventually, we will consume the planet.  The paradigm relating to our "happiness" and "success" need to change; and change quickly!  We, as Americans, have set the standard for happiness and success - it comes from consuming stuff.  Now developing countries are getting their ideas of happiness and success from our example.

Our concepts of success were once tied to family and getting a good education for our children.  A happy life meant providing for your family, being a good neighbor, and being a good citizen.  Somewhere in the 1950's we decided that just providing for our family was not enough; we had to get them all of the newest toys and the biggest houses that we could afford.  Now we go well passed our abilities to afford the biggest and newest stuff.

There needs to be a global shift in the happiness paradigm.  Else, humans will never be satisfied with what our poor planet can provide.  Why expend more natural resources to feed more people, when educating and encouraging people to have fewer children would be so much more reasonable?  

Why teach our children to want more and more of the bigger and newer stuff? Teaching them to be satisfied with more environmentally friendly alternatives would make a lot more sense.  Teach them to fix up an old bicycle instead of getting the latest version every year.  Teach them to play with their friends instead of playing video games with their friends.  Teach them that its wrong to hate and steal.  And teach them that they can be happy with less stuff.  Might be a good lesson for parents, too.On USDA pessimistic on hunger outlook posted 1 year, 4 months ago 11 Responses

NIMBY? Its everyone's backyard!

The siting and the locations that the NRC selects for the nuke plants doesn't really concern me.  They usually place the plants upwind of a major population center, anyway.  Makes a lot of sense, eh?  I choose to live far away from the concrete jungle.

Unfortunately, for me, I live in a place where the nuke plants would like to get their fuel.  Uranium mines are the worst of the worst kind of mining, save for mountaintop removal.  Uranium mines pose all sorts of environmental hazards.  They can (and have) poisoned the air, water, and soil with unrefined uranium and arsenic compounds used to leach the uranium from the mine tailings. No uranium mines would exist if they were restricted to "inside the beltway".  Most folks when told of the danger that a mine like this could pose say NIMBY!  Therefore, the uranium-mining folks have to put these mines way out in the middle of nowhere. (where I live)

These mines are usually placed in beautiful, natural areas - even on public land.  Oh no, don't think for a second that the government would stop these exploiters from trashing rare and environmentally sensitive area.  The government land holding agencies are directed to roll over and play dead when the miners come to town.  No one else wants these things in their backyards.  Why should we country folk have to capitulate to the government subsidized uranium miners?  

Most times for evil to win it doesn't take a large, horrible event; it just takes a lot of people each doing just a little bad. AOOOOOOooooooooo.........

Sex it up!

Wow; this ad really got some folks panties in a bunch.  It sorta harkens back to our country's Puritan roots.  An add like this in Europe wouldn't get a scribble in the tabloids.  Try lightening up; live and let live, I say.  Although, it is reassuring that some folks found some humor in this whole situation.

Perhaps the NRA could take a lesson from this; forget crusty old Charlton Hesston and crazy Ted Nugent - get some sexy models sporting some major firepower!  Just kidding; the NRA is doing very well this administration by spreading fear and hate.  Get a machinegun for granny before Saddam gets granny!

Maybe I will pose for the next PETA shoot.  (thanks for the smile, Greta!)
On From Population to PETA posted 2 years, 2 months ago 101 Responses

Look Past the Media to the Message

Call me a salty old dog, but I think the message should speak louder than the media presenting it.  The message I think that PETA is trying to convey is that one does not have to be a stick thin model to be a vegetarian.  One can be healthy and energetic and still be a vegetarian.  A common fear for people who are considering becoming vegetarians is that they will not be healthy or will lack some vital nutrients; or "it's not natural to not eat meat".

I eat small amounts of meat occasionally - and Wolfy is a 305 lb, 6 foot tall tank.  If I can thrive on an almost 100% vegetarian diet, anyone can.  I think PETA's message is a good one.  They have chosen an inspiring media to do so (rock on, Alicia); it sure beats their old method of getting their message across by blowing up animal testing labs (and lab workers).  
On From Population to PETA posted 2 years, 2 months ago 101 Responses

"Civil Society"?

What we have here is a moral dilemma.  We are consumers.  The choice seems to be either an eco friendly consumer or a cost savvy consumer.  However, the choice of whatever consumer you want to be is only scratching the surface of the issue.  The real problem is that Americans don't know the difference between what is really valuable and what is financially valuable.  The difference is very easy to discern - things with real value never change in value.  Living a good life, loving you family, caring for the sick and needy, and honoring your maker are the real values in this world.  Material wealth is fleeting and could evaporate before your eyes; just ask someone who just survived a tornado or a wildfire and lost "everything".  

The problem with trying to promote a civil society is that most Americans do not have a moral code, a sense of civic duty, or a desire to look beyond themselves.  Most Americans do not feel that they own a debt to society.  The society that fought for the freedoms that they enjoy; the society that paves their roads, educates their kids, and whisks away their sewage.  To use an old phrase, our "society" (and I use that term loosely) lacks moral fiber.

A bad tree cannot yield good fruit.  Neither can a society that lacks ethics and a moral obligation create a good civil society.  The examples of moral ineptitude are all around us.  Corrupt politicians that get re-elected time after time infiltrate the political playing field from congress all the way down to the city council.  They represent their own corporate interests, not the people that they are supposed to serve.

Corporations set their own agendas, pick and choice what laws they will abide by.  NGO's squander money and act as land agents for the mining and oil companies.  We're waging war for cheap oil.  We are paying high dollar for corn to go into our gas tanks while people in our own country starve and live in filth.  Alcohol and drugs are poisoning our youth. We live in the most violent nation in the world.  

Apathy abounds and nobody cares.  Our country needs to find its moral compass and get back to a real value system before I would consider anything to be "civil" about this society.  

Most times for evil to win it doesn't take a large, horrible event; it just takes a lot of people each doing just a little bad. AOOOOOOooooooooo.........