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What a shame!
How many candidates ask for money, and break down their projected expenses for you to see?

Wowza!

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It was. I did. I thought for a minute I might have to use a dog paw for part of that.
But it's done, and I'm browsing diaries (please, slap me upside the head if I comment in a candidate diary) and have opened the bottle of wine.
Will I be smashed by the time the debate starts?

"The Forest Service dropped sacks full of rattlesnakes into the Crawfish!    

From helicopters!"

Everybody on the Board of Supervisors and half the people in the room gasped. The Forest Service person stood up, said that they had not!!!!!!, never happened!!!!!, then sat back down again.

I grinned. And told them that I knew that was not true, but it was a fine example of a myth that many people take as fact. Like they believe that you can't fight fires in Wilderness Areas.

Ride up the trail with me, in to these woods, and I'll tell you all about it.

The kiddie pool will fall silent and dank. A useless and dangerous pit, into which small children and new users are likely to be fall and be injured.

What a shock to get to the once more functional Great Orange Satan, and find our Beloved Snark-fester has written a GBCWTTFN!
(h/t Ray Radlein, quibbler)

Fellow our farkin' BiPM, kos!

Update at bottom of diary......

Ah, what to do when the cities and industry suck so much power that we get brown outs and such?
We declare eminent domain, and grab "corridors". This is the first time I've seen corridors on a map that encompass whole states.

The residents don't want their land taken, Governers backed their citizens, yet north from Virginia, to include most of Maryland, all of New Jersey and Delaware and large sections of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, runs the widest "corridor" I ever seen. The other would stretch from Southern California into Arizona and Nevada.

Hell, I was worried about a little National Forest, and they're taking whole states.

Wolf Hinchlye Ammendment fails. Narrowly.
Katy, bar the door.  

A friend who knows I ‘ve got a  litter of pups forwarded me an e-mail by by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President. The info is dated 3/30, but I had been unaware of it until just now.  

The product is UniMilk, made by Manna Pro.

The patient that is our National Environmental Policy Act has been ill of late, and I am distressed to report that It has now been moved into Intensive Care. This is a call to the family to rush to the bedside. Please speak. It may look like the patient cannot hear or see, but it is possible that your energy will help rally the dying, and enable NEPA to live.

Jump the bump for an overview of NEPA's birth, life, and the attempted murder for profit that put NEPA in it's present condition.......

That's 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

Here we go again. EIRS Election Incident Reporting System.
They've got a pretty good bad database of 04.

Forgive the lack of comment on my part, please.
I have half a diary written on the posse comatose situation, and another on the mining road thing.

This made me so furious that I got distracted from those. lol.

update: Please unrecommend. This turned into another wait, and then an Ethics Commitee blog. Den must have had seconds at lunch. burrrrrrp. Marc in KC has a new thread up here. Dont' forget to UN rec this one, m'tay? A continuation of mytribes attempted coverage of the Hastert News Confrence which was postponed ?for lunch? while he tried to get his story straight?

Barrriiiinnnnnnggggg. I rush to the phone, expecting Hay Man, or Saddle Pal.
But noooooooo, it's Cami, with the Dove foundation, that's D.O.V.E. May I speak with the Lady of the House? This is not a solicitation.
I hadn't caught her name, so I said "Who is this?"
That's when the fun began.
Listen in.

Slacker that I am, and working to keep the wolf from the door, I have not diaried on any of the environment stories that are BREAKING!!!!!
In truthiness, things are so broken that I hear the click of the dominoes like automatic weapon fire.  Everything is under attack. Even Wilderness Areas.
This in from PEER
 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. They're the ones who see it up close and personal.

The U.S. Forest Service slyly released a new proposal on predator control two months ago, buried deep in the Federal Register and not announced on their website. The 60-day public comment period expires August 7, and we need you to take action today opposing the proposed anti-wildlife and wilderness rule.

SYFPH, and get in the chopper. We're gonna hunt what's left of the big cats. Clean up the Wolves while we're at it.

Friday. Tomorrow. Bidding will take place for timber in the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless Areas in southwest Oregon. Logging could start next week.

These roadless areas form the watershed of some of the most valuable wild salmon and steelhead habitat in the United States and are bordered by the world renowned Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Logging in these areas would devastate old growth forests, damage water quality and key wildlife habitat in one of the wildest corners of Oregon.

Update (for the archives):

By JEFF BARNARD / Associated Press WKG Northwest news The U.S. Forest Service auctioned off timber-cutting rights Friday on 261 acres within the largest swath of undeveloped national forest on the West Coast.

And

Oregon Live: Competing against one other bidder, John West, president of Silver Creek Timber Co. of Merlin, went more than $64,000 over the minimum bid, offering $300,052 for the right to log 9.4 million board feet of the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area.

Nice Pootie you got there. You need to fill out these papers. Or perhaps you'd like to call in, as this is being discussed right now, and possibly voted on today.

Premises registration: Every person who owns even one horse, cow, pig, chicken, sheep, goat, deer, elk, bison, or virtually any livestock animal, will be forced to register their home, including owner's name, address, and telephone number, and keyed to Global Positioning System coordinates, in a government database under a 7-digit "premises ID number."

Keep writing......

Animal Identification: Every animal will have to be assigned a 15-digit ID number by the government. The form of ID will most likely be a tag or microchip containing a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID), designed to be read from a distance. (Plan, p. 10; Standards, pp. 6, 12, 20, 27-28.) The plan may also include collecting the DNA of every animal and/or a retinal scan of every animal. (Plan, p.13.)

Hey, where's Pootie? Look under the couch.

The effects of logging are vastly underrated by most of the general public. They still do not connect the increasing contamination of their water with the logging of watershed.   Anybody who needs water to live should be concerned.  

The Walden Logging Bill, HR 4200, is scheduled for a vote on the House floor this week. The vote is expected on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. American Lands Alliance is scheduling a national call in day on Tuesday, May 16th.  You can read about it here.

Jump this muddy ditch with me, for a closer look.

I have been aware of strip mining, in one form or another, since I was about 8. That was when they brought the dozers into the Phesant Fields next to the homeplace, to doze up earthen dams, to hold and filter the sludge dredged from the bottom of Mud Creek.   So that those who had keeled sailboats and big draggin' inboard/outboards could navigate the creek without having trouble. The property was being re-zoned too, for housing development.

My first stab at public speaking was over that. I was so upset! Mother nutured me, guided me, and when I froze, at my time to stand up to tell the Board of Supervisors about my problem, she gently pushed me into the asile, and quietly said, "It will be ok. Just tell them what you told me." And I did.

Although the dredging went on, it was several decades before they built the McMansions. It was long after I hit the road.

Let me tell you the tale of 25 years after that, and then the one about 45 years after.
Fast forward........

The headline reads "Rep. Taylor's subcommittee kills land sale".

Be still, my heart.  Sub-title....

Any future sales must have local support,Taylor says

Breathe.

Western North Carolina Representative Charles Taylor told U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth last week that the administration's proposal to dispose of 300,000 acres of national forest lands was "not going to happen."

I have just made plans to go get copies of deeds of the tracts that are for sale. For substantive comment,for my own purposes, but to send on to those who posess finer, more legally tuned minds. I will comment. You should too. It is as important now as ever. Tip this thing over the edge, into the Abyss.  This article makes no sense, when one considers his record.

I smell a rat. The Jacks are whining, the blood lust is up.

Bash us old Hippies all you want. I don't know who coined the phrase "You are what you eat", but I learned that somewhere around 1972, when I went Vegetarian. Boy, did I feel better after a couple of months!

Back then, you could be pretty sure that your veggies, at worst, had a bit of pesticide residue on them, and they assured us that if we washed them good with soap, it would come off.  We didn't pay much attention to that though, didn't buy, we grew and preserved for winter.

 While I'm writing this, I'm looking for links, and as I read, I'm slumping lower and lower in my chair, muttering "Oh man, oh man..."

Let's eat. I'm fixing pork and spinach soufle tonight.

I have been researching Bureau of Land Management land for sale and find it highly interesting. There seems to be quite an acceleration of leasing going on as well.

It is a seperate plan, and one that is hard to find much information on.

The Baltimore Sun  has an article on the FS sale, and says

No less sinister is a directive to the Bureau of Land Management to sell off enough western rangeland over the next five years - 500,000 acres, by some estimates - to raise $182 million, of which 70 percent would be used to reduce the federal budget deficit while preserving tax cuts for millionaires.  snippy..

C'mon down...