Well I finally finished that #%$@#^&%$%& deck and here is the proof. The dog is not my idea.

I’m getting to old for this shit, but Mrs Sage approves so I guess its all worth it. It certainly is comfortable to relax in our little oasis.

Anyway I know all you avid readers have wondered just where the hell I’ve been so this it the reason.

But I’ve got another project on the front burner as it looks like I’m going to try and go mainstream with a commercial web site. I’ll be working on that for a long time but will try to write more often now as much of what the web development involves is writing.

I haven’t started to bash McSame yet either and will wait till he really does some ridiculous crap before I blast him. I’m glad the dumbocrats got their minds made up. I have to admit I’m a little worried about Barack. Some stupid redneck or nazi might take a pot shot at him. Lord I hope not. Who knows what shitstorm that would start.

Anyway, I plan on standing behind our guy as much as possible. Go Barack!!

PEACE!!
The Sage

In line with some of the subject matter I tend to write about, I wanted to go ahead and drill down into some of my 3E concerns. In this case I will focus on what I consider to be the most important of the three. Without a doubt the environment is the single most important topic that we should be concerned and talking about. Even though I’m no fan of homeboy Al Gore, I applaud his efforts regardless of how accurate his facts are. Not that I agree or disagree with all of his ideas, just the fact that he has brought more attention to the topic through the film and public efforts is highly commendable. I tend to subscribe more to the Gaia theory which essentially says that the earth is made up of a symbiotic group of interrelated systems. If one fails, the others react and Gaia will do what is necessary to bring it all back into balance. More on that later.

Consider the ambivalence of the powers that be, and this includes most of the rebumblicans and dumbocrats in Washington, on a topic that can and will have significant impact on our quality of life, nay the very existence of life as we know it. Instead of pursuing less than critical issues like gay marriage and the immoral war in Iraq, shouldn’t you be worried about whether our near term descendants will have clean air to breathe and water to drink? Oh come on you alarmist SOB, aren’t you overreacting? I don’t think so.

Consider the impact of few years of moderate to severe drought in the southeast that has the State of Georgia demanding a reevaluation of the border with Tennessee that has existed over 200 years simply because they want access to the Tennessee River. Consider the rise in respiratory disease and problems that have been directly related to pollution. Consider the rest of the world and how serious they take things with things like the Kyoto accord. Who is the only major country not to accept the Kyoto agreement?

Consider the humble honey bee and the potential for a devastating impact if the Colony Collapse Disorder is not solved. Without the bee, many of the food crops that we depend on for sustaining not only humans but feed animals as well will not be able to be pollinated and therefore not produce the fruits, grains or nuts that we need to survive. Does anyone doubt that this is a result of man made pollution?

Much has been made recently of the global warming issue with a shocking amount of naysayers contending its all a bunch of bunk. How stupid are you to doubt that there are not some influences of massive amounts of carbon dioxide, ozone depleting emissions, and other nasty byproducts of our industrial complex. The weather alone should give you a clue.

I remember growing up we had one tornado in TN that wiped out a trailer park. Just one incident in thirty years. In the twenty since then we have had at least 10 that I know of and at least one in each of the last three years. We all hear how the hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones (all the same thing just different parts of the planet) are far stronger on average in recent years. We can’t ignore this.

We have to ask ourselves why there would be debunker’s to this idea that we are having an effect on the planets environment. Who stands to lose? Of course its that same industrial complex that spews out the pollutants and would be responsible for controlling it and the costs associate with that effort. We by proxy would also stand to lose since we are the consumers of those products from the industrial complex. I for one am willing to pay that extra premium to help protect Gaia. Are you? Do your part, there is a veritable plethora of resources out on the net to tell you how.

Back to Gaia or more correctly the Gaia theory, I absolutely agree with the concept that trashing one sector of the ecosystem will have a downhill affect on other systems. These violent storms, loss of the bee and other species, respiratory disease, famine, drought are all results of the pollution and abuses to Gaia. She will react and her reactions don’t necessarily coincide with our concepts of time.  She has been around for billions of years and she will get back to the state she needs to be in. We are but grains of sand that can be swept away or extincted  at her whim. Just ask the dinosaurs.

PEACE !!!

The Sage