It might be a few days before I can fill in the title of this post. I am trying to be positive and think of adjectives like ‘great’, fabulous, and awesome. Sigh…It’s a struggle. Those of you who are thinking “what struggle?”, are obviously new readers. Thank you for stopping by 🙂
This Alaskan Adventure actually began months ago when hubby and his brother made the arrangements. Today, the adventure is underway. I’m writing this from a very nice desk, in our hotel room. We are doing the ‘park & fly’ deal because our flight to Seattle leaves early, and who wants to get up at 3:00AM and drive to the airport for 2.5 hours? Now we just have to get up at 4:00AM to drink coffee and stumble to the airport shuttle before 4:55AM. So – the real travel adventure begins tomorrow…
I most likely will only get a couple of hours of sleep, worrying about the security line. I, (for the first time) have to ask to be excused from the imaging machines. The pod part of my insulin pump should not be imaged or x-rayed. Apparently the little pod could explode. Lovely.
It is not the search that worries me, but the delay if they don’t have searchers there and available at the security line. The mental inventory of everything I packed, will take up at least two hours of sleep time. It’s how I roll.
An environmentalist group, is petitioning Federal Wildlife Managers to go forth with an update to a decades old recovery plan to help the grizzly bear move off of the “threatened” species list. The group, the Center for Biological Diversity, has filed a lawsuit with the US Fish and Wildlife Service accusing them of using a ‘fragmented approach’ to recover the threatened species.
Are we still talking about grizzly bears? Just who is threatening them? I mean besides the idiots that want to relocate them? Those same idiots won’t be doing the ‘relocating’, will they? Nooooo. They expect the US Fish & Wildlife Services to do it. In other words, we taxpayers will be paying for the Grizzlies moving expenses.
“110,000 Square Miles of Potential Habitat Identified in Colorado, California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Could Support 4,000 Additional Grizzlies”. HA! Someone actually did a study and came up with this hooey. Did they think to ask the species’ who now occupy this ‘potential habitat’? Both Black Bears and Humans are already here in the Sierra Nevada. My family lives in the Sierras, and we vote NO. NO. NO on Grizzlies! Let them stay in Alaska and Canada where they like it. They will hate the “forested areas” in the southwest also. Why? Because they are in the FREAKING DESERT! Please re-think this plan and don’t send grumpy grizzlies out west.
According to MY studies – there is a species that lives in a diverse range of habitats. Humans. But humans are not an endangered species. So they don’t need any protection, or consideration apparently, when environmentalists protest, file lawsuits or make demands in the name of a defenseless species. Humans, could become a ‘threatened’ species upon relocating Grizzly Bears into their habitat.
There are no caribou or elk up here for grizzlies to eat. What deer we have are few, thanks to the mountain lions. Can Grizzlies out run a mountain lion? Probably not. So that leaves the grizzlies a few scrawny wild turkeys, domestic animals, and people. To eat.
Do the math. People are by far the easiest to catch. If that does not stop the environmentalists from their ridiculous quest, perhaps the red flying squirrels, black-backed woodpeckers, and gray wolves will. Grizzlies could eat those endangered species too.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a busy organization. They are suing US Fish and Wildlife Services for several species who they claim had ‘inadequate protections’.
Black-backed Woodpeckers
Southern CA Red Flying Squirrel
Florida’s Microscopic Ichetucknee Silt Snail (WTF? a microscopic snail?)
Southwest Jumping Mouse
California Gray Wolves
Western Pond Turtles
Lesser Prairie Chickens
In my humble opinion, someone should do a study on how ‘environmentalist’ groups keep screwing with Mother Nature. Better yet – a relocation plan to a different habitat that ‘would support them’ might be in order.
Writing 101: Day 14 Pick up the nearest book and flip to page 29. What’s the first word that jumps off the page? Use this word as your springboard for inspiration. If you need a boost, Google the word and see what images appear, and then go from there. Today’s twist: write the post in the form of a letter.
On page 29 the word ‘blood’ got my attention…
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Dear Blood Bank,
I’m sorry, but I do not understand your ‘policies’. Today I got your letter saying that you can no longer accept any more blood donations from me. Yes, I was in Germany in 1981/82. Suddenly this question appears on your long questionnaire and now I can’t give blood. What the heck went on over there? Should I seek treatment?
You used to call me constantly. You acted like my O-Negative blood was more precious than gold, especially after my blood passed a test and could be used for babies. An O-Neg Baby Donor, the rarest of the rare, you told me “you are so special!” So I donated blood when the mobile unit came to my workplace, four-times a year.
Now? You tell me you don’t want my blood. I answered one lousy little question ‘yes’, and you dump me! You were just using me to get my blood, and lying about how I was so ‘special’!
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