Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Spotted Owls Die Along With Loggers

We took a shot of this sign near Westfir, OR. A once thriving town, is now not much since logging is all but prohibited.

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Now there will be less logging and fewer owls.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House released a big fat policy turkey: its final critical habitat rule for the endangered northern spotted owl. The Obama plan will lock up 9.6 million acres of land (mostly, but not all, federal) in Oregon, Washington and northern California. This is nearly double the acreage set aside by the Bush administration. Thousands of timber workers (along with untold thousands of related support jobs) will be threatened in the name of sparing a few thousand spotted owls from extinction.

Despite two decades of massive government intervention and the near-destruction of the northwest timber industry, the furry bird is vanishing faster than ever. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, “(t)imber harvest on 24 million acres of federal land had dropped 90 percent from its heyday” by the year 2000. Yet, northern spotted owls are now “disappearing three times faster than biologists had feared.” Indeed, spotted owl populations in key parts of Washington State “are half what they were in the 1980s.” And overall, the bird has seen a 40 percent decline over the past 25 years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Punishing loggers and bringing the timber industry to its knees have made vengeful environmental groups fat and happy. But the northern spotted owl they claim to care so much about is catastrophically worse off thanks to green zealotry. One root cause: habitat loss (thanks in part to raging wildfires resulting from poor forest management and green opposition to thinning/controlled burns).

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Friday, November 23, 2012

Smite My Enemies Redux

A little over 50% of the folks need to go. I am not changing and neither are they. Something has to give. I think it’s time for some Old Testament smiting.

smite (smt)

v. smote (smt), smit·ten (smtn) or smote, smit·ing, smites

To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.

Ezekiel 25:17.
"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you!"

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

FEMA

I started this Blog after the Maximum Leader was elected as a way to vent. I can not continue in that vein another four years. I need to distance myself from the daily noise, loss of freedom and the destruction of America. So there will be a change of course.

You perhaps heard that FEMA offices on Staten Island were closed when the Nor’easter hit. If I were running things, I would staff FEMA with retired Marines. Fat chance they would even think of closing due to weather.

Thursday, November 8, 2012