Another alleged school shooting. Another police drill (“6 weeks ago”) according to MSM reporting. “Fire drill today” just before the alleged shooting according to MSM. How many “active shooter drills” do we need? How many coincide handsomely with mass- school-shooting stories in the MSM. Today’s number: 54 (9) – the date, and the school’s name (Stoneman Douglas) is a match. Fear!!! Order out of chaos. Create the problem; solve the problem. Repeat. More gun control legislation waiting in the wings. More Chertoff Group, LLC (founded 2009) security contracts — more active shooter drills. Repeat. Where it stops, nobody knows.
Author: steve kelly
Killing Cats for Sport and Profit
On January 11, 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its “scientific review” of the Canada lynx in the contiguous U.S., which concluded that the species “may no longer warrant protection” under the ESA (Endangered Species Act of 1973).
An estimated 2,000 Canada lynx remain in the wild, its range extends from Maine, to northeastern Minnesota, and westward to western Montana, northeastern Idaho, north-central Washington and western Colorado. Lynx are a long-legged cousin of the bobcat – with tufted ears. Lynx can grow almost 36 inches long and weigh up to 30 pounds. These reclusive, snow-loving cats prefer dense forest habitat and feed primarily on the snowshoe hare, but will take pine squirrels when times are tough.
According to the Fish and Wildlife Service’s own scientist, Megan Kosterman, 50% of each lynx home range must be mature, dense forest to provide optimal habitat for lynx to breed and raise kittens, and no more than 15 percent of each lynx home range should be clearcut. Not a single National Forest is complying with this ecological recommendation – a system failure devastating to population trajectories. FWS refuses to address this issue. Continue reading “Killing Cats for Sport and Profit”
21st Century Rape Culture
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
Is there an environmental “rape culture” in the United States? Yes, of course, there is. Most contemporary ecological problems, or “rape the land” mentality, is deeply rooted in Western patriarchal culture.
Rape (transitive verb) definition for this piece: 1a: (archaic) to seize and take away by force b:despoil 2: to commit rape on Continue reading “21st Century Rape Culture”
More “Red Meat” for America
Could not resist sharing this. Of course, it’s not hard to see why artists and poets are the first to be rounded up when nationalism boils over.
And if you’re not sure what to get Uncle Grumpy for Christmas, there’s always the Trumpy Bear to consider.
I’ll leave you all with this mini-montage as the country watches (and worships) football, and fights in the stands and living rooms about who’s more patriotic. Rhymes with idiotic.
Won’t somebody give me a cheeseburger? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyV41-tFPcQ
“Saving” Watersheds and Urbanites
The Prussian “Iron Chancellor” Otto Von Bismarck is often credited with the saying: “To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) recently introduced legislation to speed forest clearcutting and thinning projects in the Forest Service’s Northern Region.
The “Protect Collaboration for Healthier Forests Act” would adopt a regional approach to disputes over forest management projects that Daines has sought to implement nationally. According to Sen. Daines, “fringe litigators — radical environmental extremists — sue to stop commonsense collaborative forest management projects that would reduce the risk of wildfire.” Continue reading ““Saving” Watersheds and Urbanites”
Bloody good blood.
” Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.” Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
With all the recent focus on peerage and landed gentry of the United States, and linkages back to distinguished, royal families of Great Britain, it seems to me that it all comes down to blood.
But how much do we understand about the blood in our own bodies? For example, which organ of the human body is most responsible for controlling blood pressure? Most people, when asked, simply do not know. Not surprisingly, this important fact is not part of most public-education curriculum. Continue reading “Bloody good blood.”
Love Your Lymph
The lymph is interstitial fluid that bathes our cells, brings them nutrients and removes waste. First and foremost, detoxification occurs through the lymph. As more chemicals enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the food and water we ingest, maintaining the lymph, a vital route of detoxification often goes unnoticed. In most people the lymph is operating far below its capacity because it is clogged with dead skin cells and un-removed waste excreted by perspiring. Continue reading “Love Your Lymph”
