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will brady's ruminations
2004-07-24
SLOBS
Killing bambi in cages in not hunting! | A stupider bunch of sh*ts I can't think of | Bellar's Place, a deer ranch an hour or so north of Indianapolis, which promotes itself as "...a dream come true for the hunter..." and who has apparently hosted ESPN's Jimmy Houston, has been charged with "...illegal hunting, selling, and transporting of drug contaminated meat across state lines..."
I'm a bowhunter, and actively support hunting and harvesting of game animals for food and pelts | These people ~ by their actions ~ in no way support the ancient art of hunting, nor can they legitimately be called hunters | Assuming the charges are true, they ought to be shut down, fined and incarcerated | I'll stop short of thinking they ought to play decoys for sharpshooters, but I can understand how others might say as much |
Really, guys, the thrill of watching a target drop is a different kind of phenomena | Seems that could be accomplished by getting a Gameboy | I fervently hope that those legitimate hunting websites and publications who may have listed his place until now, pull them until the investigation is done and over |
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Killing bambi in cages in not hunting! | A stupider bunch of sh*ts I can't think of | Bellar's Place, a deer ranch an hour or so north of Indianapolis, which promotes itself as "...a dream come true for the hunter..." and who has apparently hosted ESPN's Jimmy Houston, has been charged with "...illegal hunting, selling, and transporting of drug contaminated meat across state lines..."
I'm a bowhunter, and actively support hunting and harvesting of game animals for food and pelts | These people ~ by their actions ~ in no way support the ancient art of hunting, nor can they legitimately be called hunters | Assuming the charges are true, they ought to be shut down, fined and incarcerated | I'll stop short of thinking they ought to play decoys for sharpshooters, but I can understand how others might say as much |
Really, guys, the thrill of watching a target drop is a different kind of phenomena | Seems that could be accomplished by getting a Gameboy | I fervently hope that those legitimate hunting websites and publications who may have listed his place until now, pull them until the investigation is done and over |
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21st CENTURY FEUDALISM
v-- image source ©2004 | Tim Jessell
The Lords and Ladies of the Realm, albeit self-appointed, hide behind the fiefdoms established by Corporate dominance of the polity | This circumvents of intent of the USA Constitution, which was to establish a free republic with democratically elected representatives making decisions on the collective governance of the nations |
Can this egregious perversion of an equitable governance be corrected | Probably, but we cannot expect it to happen right away | After all, the change toward this now blatent power shift didn't occur overnight and was done under the watch of some who weren't fully equipped to address it at the time | The Changeover was slow and insidious, aided and abetted by paranoid anti-government types, self-righteous yet fractious politically correct types, and the determined conspiracy of folks intent on being in power at all costs |
I ought to be careful with the word "conspiracy" here, much of what was done to make a descent into and age of the neofeudal feifdoms we refer to as corporations was done right in full view | It took perhaps half a century, since the conclusion of World War II | Some of the most overt changes have been in the form of international trade treaties effectively ursurping the power for land-based nations |
The change back, ~perhaps actually a change in an entirely new direction, may take equally as long, maybe not | It requires a number of steps along the way | They will have to be sweeping and comprehensive, inter-related and deliberate |
The internet will help; it's already helping by expanding the communication abilities of people who've never had direct contact globally |
The call for corporate accountability must continue as must the legal wrangling take place that eliminates the sham that corporation continue pretending to be indviduals | They must come to the bargaining table as nations without discrete land masses as their base |
As such, this would mean that corporate executives and their advance men [that is, lobbyists] must register with the governments of land-based nations as foreign agents | This would limit their autonomy in the seats of governments, place them under closer scrutiny and make it more difficult to hide behind the facade of some nation-based patriotic jingo |
Some start points on the road towards corporate responsibility | Businesses for Social Responsibility | CalPERS Corporate Governance Links | Council for Ethics in Economics | Eye on Corporate America | Global Exchange | Natn'l Labor Cmte for Human & Worker Rights | Scott + Scott, LLC | US Dept of State Awards for Corporate Excellence | Model Legal Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights | Program on Law, Corporations + Democracy | Government Accountability Project
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v-- image source ©2004 | Tim Jessell
The Lords and Ladies of the Realm, albeit self-appointed, hide behind the fiefdoms established by Corporate dominance of the polity | This circumvents of intent of the USA Constitution, which was to establish a free republic with democratically elected representatives making decisions on the collective governance of the nations |
Can this egregious perversion of an equitable governance be corrected | Probably, but we cannot expect it to happen right away | After all, the change toward this now blatent power shift didn't occur overnight and was done under the watch of some who weren't fully equipped to address it at the time | The Changeover was slow and insidious, aided and abetted by paranoid anti-government types, self-righteous yet fractious politically correct types, and the determined conspiracy of folks intent on being in power at all costs |
I ought to be careful with the word "conspiracy" here, much of what was done to make a descent into and age of the neofeudal feifdoms we refer to as corporations was done right in full view | It took perhaps half a century, since the conclusion of World War II | Some of the most overt changes have been in the form of international trade treaties effectively ursurping the power for land-based nations |
The change back, ~perhaps actually a change in an entirely new direction, may take equally as long, maybe not | It requires a number of steps along the way | They will have to be sweeping and comprehensive, inter-related and deliberate |
The internet will help; it's already helping by expanding the communication abilities of people who've never had direct contact globally |
The call for corporate accountability must continue as must the legal wrangling take place that eliminates the sham that corporation continue pretending to be indviduals | They must come to the bargaining table as nations without discrete land masses as their base |
As such, this would mean that corporate executives and their advance men [that is, lobbyists] must register with the governments of land-based nations as foreign agents | This would limit their autonomy in the seats of governments, place them under closer scrutiny and make it more difficult to hide behind the facade of some nation-based patriotic jingo |
Some start points on the road towards corporate responsibility | Businesses for Social Responsibility | CalPERS Corporate Governance Links | Council for Ethics in Economics | Eye on Corporate America | Global Exchange | Natn'l Labor Cmte for Human & Worker Rights | Scott + Scott, LLC | US Dept of State Awards for Corporate Excellence | Model Legal Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights | Program on Law, Corporations + Democracy | Government Accountability Project
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2004-07-23
9/11 COMMISSION REPORT
the aftermath of inattention |
This is more a personal reflection | Shame on our leaders, who [in my estimation, and regardless of political persuasion] long ago ceded leadership for proximity to power | Vainglory that | History shall give them due credit |
Here's the actual report from the 9/11 Commission | Fair warning! It's a 7.9 mb Adobe Acrobat.pdf file |
On a related subject, read Anup Shah's well researched section on Terrorism at Global Issues ¶ 08:39 0 comments
the aftermath of inattention |
This is more a personal reflection | Shame on our leaders, who [in my estimation, and regardless of political persuasion] long ago ceded leadership for proximity to power | Vainglory that | History shall give them due credit |
Here's the actual report from the 9/11 Commission | Fair warning! It's a 7.9 mb Adobe Acrobat.pdf file |
On a related subject, read Anup Shah's well researched section on Terrorism at Global Issues ¶ 08:39 0 comments
LOCAL POLITICS
blatent endorsement | truth in spending I contributed 50 bucks to Mr. McNally's campaign chest | An interesting one at that, for he has been steadfast at refusing corporate monies |
Since I am not a single issue voter, his stance of Bush's Orwellian No Child Left Behind bill he'd like to see rescinded | Here's more on where he stands
for More on Mr. McNally:
McNally for Congress
300 State Street, Suite 418
New London, CT 06320
(860) 447-4515
info@votemcnally.com [cut and paste the addy when e-mailing] ¶ 00:42 0 comments
blatent endorsement | truth in spending I contributed 50 bucks to Mr. McNally's campaign chest | An interesting one at that, for he has been steadfast at refusing corporate monies |
Since I am not a single issue voter, his stance of Bush's Orwellian No Child Left Behind bill he'd like to see rescinded | Here's more on where he stands
for More on Mr. McNally:
McNally for Congress
300 State Street, Suite 418
New London, CT 06320
(860) 447-4515
info@votemcnally.com [cut and paste the addy when e-mailing] ¶ 00:42 0 comments
2004-07-20
WEBSITE + WEBLOG UPDATES
subject archives page started | Since 1999 I have kept a blog archive strictly by what date an entry had been written |
Now I've started one according to subject matter mentioned | I shall try to keep each entry to a single category, though, eventually, you may find some multiple listings of the same article and categorized by subject | As of this evening, the new subject archive is up | So far, the subject archive goes back to 5 july 2004 | I'll add older entries as I am able |
Here is where you'll find this new archives list ¶ 02:06 0 comments
subject archives page started | Since 1999 I have kept a blog archive strictly by what date an entry had been written |
Now I've started one according to subject matter mentioned | I shall try to keep each entry to a single category, though, eventually, you may find some multiple listings of the same article and categorized by subject | As of this evening, the new subject archive is up | So far, the subject archive goes back to 5 july 2004 | I'll add older entries as I am able |
Here is where you'll find this new archives list ¶ 02:06 0 comments
2004-07-19
LOCAL SCENE
v-- Georgia O'Keeffe 1929 / collection Wadsworth Atheneum
Our Georgia O'Keeffe was Destroyed! | Until about 1530 hours local time [GMT+5] on Saturday, we lost our Georgia O'Keeffe to a windstorm | Ripped in half and thrown to the ground, then subjected to a sudden violent burst of rain and windshear | It was priceless and irreplacable and we did not have insurance that allows for suitable compensation | Oh well | That's life | All gone now |
Seriously, We didn't actually own the painting [even though the one shown here is within easy driving distance] but that image evokes the century old horse chestnut tree that stood guard over the front stone steps to the house | Many a night we'd look up and knew just what she saw, and marveled at the fact that in such a simple outline she gave us what she saw every day / and night |
What remains of that lost treasure is on view to the right | Once home to many birds and small mammals | Unlike it's distant relative the chestnut it had little useful value as lumber, though it's seeds have long been seen as an herbal remedy | And. rather like the chestnut tree itself, the presence of the species is now uncommon enough to almost be rare |
Fast forward to now, losing the tree was, we knew, only a matter of time | For years it had been sickly, the interior rotting, the exterior greadually choked out with a small arboretum of vines | Earlier in the year, the neighbors even mused about getting in cut down though the acceeded to my concerns about the wildlife and of the tree's rare nature | As luck would have it, no one was injured | 
A neighbor's car suffered a small ding and a lost aerial antenna |
We lost electricity for a couple of hours | And the id-jots who come speeding down our steep, blind-cornered road were temporarily inconvenienced [you know I'm not distressed about that!] But no one was injured, no humans lost their home | no major property damage
occurred [tell that to the birds, so suddenly and rudely evicted] | The same first responders to last night's car mishap arrived within minutes | The first repair guy from CL+P was here within the hour | Tree cutters from Asplundth [Tom * Edwin, to the left] arrived just under two hours later | ...and I was content to pull out the chainsaw and start at the branches I could deal with | More firewood, you know |
In a small, inexplicable way, the tree's departure marks a point in local history | Not unlike one of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, it's presence for me, was like a representative of the Spirit ~ elusive, mystic, eternal | It won't be something quickly easily replaced | It's presence always seemed so, well, permanant yet it was transitory | And, again, as with Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, when she'd found an imperfection in a painting, she was known to destroy it rather than keep some imperfect image around | So it is with impefections in nature | Some whim ~ or windshear ~ can strike it down, and life starts over, again | Mystic rthymns begin anew |
FOR MORE about Georgia O'Keeffe: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum || Ellen's tribute to Georgia ¶ 20:53 0 comments
v-- Georgia O'Keeffe 1929 / collection Wadsworth Atheneum
Our Georgia O'Keeffe was Destroyed! | Until about 1530 hours local time [GMT+5] on Saturday, we lost our Georgia O'Keeffe to a windstorm | Ripped in half and thrown to the ground, then subjected to a sudden violent burst of rain and windshear | It was priceless and irreplacable and we did not have insurance that allows for suitable compensation | Oh well | That's life | All gone now |
Seriously, We didn't actually own the painting [even though the one shown here is within easy driving distance] but that image evokes the century old horse chestnut tree that stood guard over the front stone steps to the house | Many a night we'd look up and knew just what she saw, and marveled at the fact that in such a simple outline she gave us what she saw every day / and night |
What remains of that lost treasure is on view to the right | Once home to many birds and small mammals | Unlike it's distant relative the chestnut it had little useful value as lumber, though it's seeds have long been seen as an herbal remedy | And. rather like the chestnut tree itself, the presence of the species is now uncommon enough to almost be rare |
Fast forward to now, losing the tree was, we knew, only a matter of time | For years it had been sickly, the interior rotting, the exterior greadually choked out with a small arboretum of vines | Earlier in the year, the neighbors even mused about getting in cut down though the acceeded to my concerns about the wildlife and of the tree's rare nature | As luck would have it, no one was injured | A neighbor's car suffered a small ding and a lost aerial antenna |
We lost electricity for a couple of hours | And the id-jots who come speeding down our steep, blind-cornered road were temporarily inconvenienced [you know I'm not distressed about that!] But no one was injured, no humans lost their home | no major property damage
occurred [tell that to the birds, so suddenly and rudely evicted] | The same first responders to last night's car mishap arrived within minutes | The first repair guy from CL+P was here within the hour | Tree cutters from Asplundth [Tom * Edwin, to the left] arrived just under two hours later | ...and I was content to pull out the chainsaw and start at the branches I could deal with | More firewood, you know |
In a small, inexplicable way, the tree's departure marks a point in local history | Not unlike one of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, it's presence for me, was like a representative of the Spirit ~ elusive, mystic, eternal | It won't be something quickly easily replaced | It's presence always seemed so, well, permanant yet it was transitory | And, again, as with Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, when she'd found an imperfection in a painting, she was known to destroy it rather than keep some imperfect image around | So it is with impefections in nature | Some whim ~ or windshear ~ can strike it down, and life starts over, again | Mystic rthymns begin anew |
FOR MORE about Georgia O'Keeffe: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum || Ellen's tribute to Georgia ¶ 20:53 0 comments
