Thanks to Slick Rich for This Emailed Tidbit
Nobody loves the bird fellows more than me. I watch them surviving in our yards, building homes from sticks and twigs, raising their young in a world where even a chipmunk can be a danger, living their lives industriously in family units humans would envy.
Don’t take the birds and make them a political issue.
Because that’s surely what’s been done with the Northern Spotted Owl. Yes, the owl is endangered. No, human solutions have not made the situation any better.
Humans, no not even vaunted scientists, have all the answers. Sometimes, I whisper, species either adapt or they don’t survive. Unless we can correctly identify any human activity that is causing a possible extinction, as in stopping the shooting at the passenger pigeon which caused this species’ extermination, then we should continue our human lives as normal.
The whole issue plays on our emotions and is subject to scientific tomfoolery to a specified political end.
We will go straight to hell for being cause, knowingly, of any one of God’s creatures. Lest yon readers think I don’t care passionately. But listen up, God’s not going to hold us accountable for a species’ disappearance if humans are innocent.
Those that really care are not playing politics with the possible loss of a species.
From Junkscience.com:
Spotted Owl. News last week out of the US Forest Service described the failure of the Clintonoid forestry plan in the Northwest to protect the Northern Spotted Owl. The greens in charge of the National Forests seized some bogus counts of spotted owls as an excuse to all but shut down logging in the west. According to the greens, the owls needed old, decaying old growth forests to live in. The logging shutdown led to the loss of over 11,000 high-paying jobs, an increase in forest fires throughout the region, and a significant increase in the cost of lumber nationwide. You would expect that such a cost would lead to a healthy and increasing population of the birds. Not hardly. According to the report released last week, the population of spotted owls has decreased another 8% since 1994. The green solution is once again to shut down all remaining use of national forests.
The real solution would be to quit doing what we are doing and bring back the chainsaws, for it appears that the owls do not like dying, decaying forests. They like living, growing things - new forests, new trees, new vibrant growth - precisely those sorts of things that you would see following a clear cut. Will we see this? Probably not. But we might see the return of forest management back to the states where the locals at least have a shot at changing the rules.
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From and Email Circulating About the Internet
Here’s some interesting facts about just who, besides Tom Delay should you believe the Dems’ caterwauling, is hiring family and taking trips.
Harry Reid (D, NV), Senate Minority Leader - all four sons and a son in law are hired by companies that profit by Reid's legislative actions in the Senate. If a company doesn't have a family member working for them, they
don't get the real juicy contracts, friendly land variances and transfers. The companies have collected over $2 million in lobbying fees over the years and control everything in NV.
- Bernie Sanders (I, VT), the only admitted Socialist in the House hired
wife and stepdaughter as campaign staff, but doesn't want anyone to know about it.
- Barbara Boxer (D, CA), has her son Doug is in charge of her political operation; also on her campaign payroll.
- Joe Lieberman (D, CT), paid wife and kids on campaign staff.
- Pete Stark (D, CA), paid wife and kids with campaign money.
- Jim Costa (D, CA), paid cousin Kim with campaign money.
- Chris Shays (R, CT), first House Republican publicly out against DeLay. Wife was hired to head up AmeriCorps in 1998, a six-figure salary, six weeks before Clinton impeachment proceedings. Mysteriously, Shays also opposed Clinton's impeachment and trial.
- John Breaux (D, LA), was the top trip taker in congress from 2000 - 2004.
- Robert Wexler (D, FL), was the third top trip taker in congress from 2000- 2004.
- 8 House members filed the same travel papers as DeLay for the Korea trip. One of them was "Baghdad" Jim McDermott (D, WA).
- Over 4800 lobbyist-funded trips wee taken by congress-critters over the last 4 years, costing $14.8 million. 62% of the money was spent on democrat members' travel.
- Finally, Nancy Pelosi (D, CA, paid a $21,000 fine to the FEC for essentially buying votes for her to be House Minority Leader. Story is buried.
Also, check out this nut’s web site who’s making accusations about UN Ambassador Nominee John Bolton being ‘mean’ to her.
Lynn Finney.com
I’ll treat yon readers to a dreamy quote.
These pages, updated sporadically, are dedicated to each one of you. My mission is to help people overcome limiting beliefs, realize who we really are, tap into our inner power, live with passion, and discover the amazing power of our minds - and see the miracles all around us.
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From An Email as Well…
Real interesting story of Saddam’s capture.
AND NOW YOU KNOW...THE REST OF THE STORY
The Pentagon, understandably, has sanitized the account of Saddam Hussein's capture. But now the soldier, Samir, who dragged the Iraqi dictator out of his spider hole gives a more earthy account of the events.
Samir is actually an Iraqi who lost a number of family members to Saddam's brutality during the 1991 Shiite uprising. He escaped Iraq and resettled in St. Louis in 1994. He was a big fan of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne movies as a kid. And he's the guy responsible for those digital photos of Saddam's capture you may have seen on the Internet - photos the military unsuccessfully tried to cover up.
Oh, and Samir punched Hussein in the mouth. "A close inspection of the photo reveals blood on Saddam's lips where Samir's fists landed their mark."
This is an inspiring story...but is not for the faint of heart. BE WARNED: The soldiers on the hunt for Saddam weren't playing patty-cake with the prisoners they interrogated. They are soldiers, not Cub Scouts. And the language used did not come from Miss Manners. This story probably should NOT be read by women and children...or pantywaist liberals. For the rest of you, bon apetit:
Riverfronttimes:
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From Another Email
At this point, ladies and gems, I’ve lost complete track of what email came from where. But I look at all of it and use a lot of it. So thanks to all.
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW (ALMOST) EVERYTHING?
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
Now you know (almost) everything!
On Opportunity
"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
-- Margaret Mead
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
-- Francis Bacon
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Wisdom from 1776
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia
State House, August 1, 1776.
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Wisdom from the Court
Judge Learned Hand said, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women, when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
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The Lesson of the Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy,sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,
superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
- Author Unknown
Yet Another Bit of Web Site Genius
Here's a web site that would be great for writers and Bloggers. Just key in a dialect desired then enter a URL. Dialects available include ‘hillbilly', ‘moron', ‘cockney' and ‘pig latin'. Below is an excerpt of my Blog post true crime update from Tuesday 4/26/05.
Way cool.
Two thin's make this hyar case intriguin'. Fust is th' eerie similarity t'Baltimo'e prosecuto' Jon-Boy Luna, who went missin' an' whose hide was later discovahed, bleedin' fum menny shaller cuts but drowned in a small Pennsylvania creek. Shet mah mouth!
ah wrote an extensive account of Lunaâ ™s disappeareence:Th' Peekoolyar Death of Jon-Boy Luna. His death is classified a homicide by Pennsylvania po-lice; a sueycide by th' Baltimo'e FBI.
Even peekoolyarr is th' sto'y of Gricarâ ™s brother. Fum South Car'linaâ ™s Most Wanted Web Site
DIALECTIZER
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