Throw away the key

Seems anyone can be detained as long as the republicans want now. You could be labeled a terrorist or combatant and be thrown in jail forever along with being tortured. Slowly the constitution is being whittled down where people without the big buck can't put up a fight. The republicans wanted to turn Mexicans into the Jews of Germany and generate hate to get votes. They did that against gays and abortion already. Now every ones a terrorist or a evangelical republican as Bush says. Bush has said numerous time the United States doesn't torture people but they do sub contract it out to other countries. If anyone is a flip flopper Bush has to fall into this category. Everything Bush has done and said is the opposite of what he says he's doing. For a party that suppose to believe in small government that doesn't interfere in your life the republican party is getting in you pants telling you what you can and can't do in the bedroom and with who. Forget the environment your kids will need to wear a gas mask to breath. This idea that the earth is disposable and so is everything on it need to change. If you look at all the large corporations that have failed in the past few years, they all were tied to the republican party and republicans. When the stock market fell apart leading up to the 2000 election, the brokers were all tied to the republican party donating millions. When it came to prosecuting the perpetrators of the stock fraud nothing happened. The brokers walked away with some 100 billion dollars and were only fined 1.2 billion dollars which is a minor cost of doing business. When it comes to an honest republican with morals you will have to search hell to find one.

Frisk has a big brown nose

Frisk has a big brown nose from Bush’s butt cheeks. It’s so funny watching the republicans supporting ideas they don’t believe in and turn to name calling when they can’t support these ideas. It’s always the same, simple catch phases to attack democrates. They have to bring up 9/11 every time they can’t answer any question. If you bring up increasing minimum wages they will say were giving into the terrorist. When will people start seeing that republicans mainly the Bush buddies are for big business and don’t care about the health and welfare of the people that work here in the U.S.  If anything the republicans want to take work place ethics back to the 18th century. They want and have destroyed the unions over years, which made this country great. When it comes to doing something right for the country they have a, “can’t do” attitude. Always saying it’s going to cost too much and send jobs over seas scaring people into keeping things the same. Since 9/11 there hasn’t been any improvement to chemical plants, ports or railroads. They seem to want to get rid of all social program and turning over to evangelical churches and getting rid of the separation of church and state. Iraq wants a religious based government but the U.S says no to that but doesn’t see a religious based country here at home. When it comes to chemical plants using safer chemicals they keep saying it would cost too much but some chemical plants that have changed to safer chemicals are doing just fine and haven’t gone out of business. It just a disregard for the people is an accident happens always arguing the bottom line. Now Bush want to torture terrorist sighting we do not torture people just question them aggressively. The only people that are profiting since Bush came to office are the energy companies and manufactures of war products. I really believe that this war was made to drive the price of oil higher by making the Middle East unstable. Inflation, prices at the pump and your electricity bill all have gone up while the worth of the dollar has gone down. How can anyone say the republicans are doing a good job is beyond me.

Big juicy shot in the knee

Big juicy shot in the knee. What a fun day, another shot in the knee. It went well or I should say the needle slipped right in there. Feels rather good so far. The headache though I don’t think is related has been driving crazy. I think it’s the heat it’s been 99 degrees today. The air hasn’t been the best quality. Could be my eyes they are getting so sensitive to bright light. Then again the air is real bad and my lungs hurt like those day of the all night party’s where I used to smoke a couple packs of cigarettes. Now it’s just pollution blown up the hill from the valley. The injection was a chemical similar to what’s naturally in the knee. It was something, something acid; what ever it is it does the job and make my knee feel much better. Can’t say so much for my back. Lower back is always bad and last night I woke up because of the pain in my mid-back.

No critter fighting

No critter fighting here. Broke up a fight between the hens today. The girls didn’t recognize their sister at first. Her mother trying was picking on the one hen to chase her off and away from the group. She had left the group to raise six chicks, the only hen to have chicks this year. Well the chicks are gone; this has been a real hard year on the turkeys. This hen was one of seven hens. Mom has come back to be with her girls after raising a clutch of chicks last year. The seven hens are two years old and mom is five. I watch last year as the seven hens chased off a black bear. Why they call them black bears when there brown, I don’t know. Anyways, the hen was trying to get through a chain-linked fence and was having problems finding he way through. The other hens heard the cry and all ran over to chase her off. Not sure but it might even been one of mom’s chicks from last year since it looked a bit small. I walked over to the hens and separated them from the one hen. They went down by the house but were looking on to see what this hen wanted. I sat in the pine needles with my back to the one hen listening to her walk back and forth. She flew to the top of the fence and down into the yard and right by me. I could see she knew me because of how close she came to me. We both walked towards the house and the other hens wanted to confront this hen. Soon they were chasing each other around the yard. I started to whistle one I’ve picked up from the turkeys when they are calm. Soon the birds found she wasn’t a threat and became part of the group again. I can only guess that they have to challenge the new bird to find out if she belongs. Turkeys are very family oriented and will stick close to each other. I really find them so very fascinating.

Life imitating art

Life imitating art. I’m an old Monty Python fan and listening to Bush’s speeches this last week reminds me of the infamous parrot sketch. Where Eric Idle is the shop keeper and John Cleese is the customer bringing back his dead parrot. Eric insists that the parrot is only sleeping. John points out that the parrot’s feet have been tacked to the perch so it wouldn’t fall off. Finally John takes the bird out of the cage and bangs it on the counter. Bush in the same way has been pushing the war saying things are great, nothing to worry about, stay the course. Stay the course as the rowboat goes over the waterfall.

Rumsfeld is comparing terrorist and the war in Iraq to fighting Nazi’s in World War II. Only problem with that scenario, it only took five year to defeat the Germans.

To me it seems if your going to fight a war you would put all efforts into fighting the war and not sub it out to private company friends where you stand to make a lot of money having it last longer where equipment is constantly being replaced.

I don’t know if this is there strategy, letting the country go into civil war and the country destroys itself where you pick up the pieces down the road after many of the people in Iraq have killed each other.  

I'm a goat herder and I want a nuke

I've always loved my goats, Sheep aren't baaaad. No one kills my goats. I want a nuke to protect my goats.

Good old war

Good old war. We have been fighting the wimpy wars lately with settlements and agreements, terms and conditions. What ever happened to the wars where you got to kill every body? Remember the Semite’s, well they put up a fight and lost and are no more. The days you could cut their heads off and stick them on poles. The days you cold have your females cut off the genitals of the apposing army are good. We have turned out to a bunch of wimp warriors. All the good warriors live in jails, just a part of social evolution. Move them out and bring in the schemers.

Isn’t that how it works, use other peoples money and use other people to get what we call rich. Then when you think about the rich are only selling paper telling you it’s worth a lot. Nothing to back up the paper like metals or products they just tell you this is worth it. Isn’t that the ultimate? Since Bush was appointed to office, the dollar has been constantly dropping in value. It’s not at half but around 3/5 of what it once was worth in the year 2000. Well, that’ll keep those poor people in line.

Bush reselling the war again

Bush reselling the war, “Everything’s great.” “If we leave Baghdad now, there will be fighting in Our Streets,” Bush said. Don’t you love the lies? This is what he said about weapons of mass destruction, “We were going to find them every where over there” Bush and Chaney said before the war. Although I’ve seen some shady advertising there are laws against making false claims, we need that in politics also. The idea that you can come up with any kind of lie you want and sell it to the public, is just wrong. Every time a politician makes a false claim they need to be sued, fined and jailed. The tricks that Karl Rover has done to this country with out any type of guilt make me think Karl is criminally insane. Anyone that would put money and profit in higher regard then human life has to be mentally ill.

Republicans are trying to fight the green house gas cap here in California saying it’s going to cost jobs and cost the state billions. This is the same thing they said about raising the minimum wage, that all the jobs would move out of the states. It’s funny how the first thing a republican sees is the bottom line and not the health of the people of the state of California. As it is, 20% of the light which is destine to hit the surface of the earth doesn’t make it because of the amount of particulate in the air. For a state that makes a large portion of its income with farming this is a serious problem if you can’t grow plants.

There’s one thing you can count on by republican, anything they are saying while campaigning is a lie. They are only concerned about their wealth and not the good of the country unless it helps their wealth.

Working late download

Working late downloading and web site. National Public Radio is having a good lecture. Web site is starting to look good. Need to find out more about watermarks on pictures. Eyes are so tired I’m half awake and need to rest.

CO2 it hangs around for a long time

CO2 stays in the atmospher for 50 years.

When it gets so hot out that the snow doesn't happen in the Sierra where will the water come from?

Get your religious right hand out of my pants

Get your religious-right hand out of my pants. If the religious right is so moral, why do they have a hand down my pants and trying to get into everyone else’s? Must come from those celebrate priests fiddling about with those little boys. How can you make a decision that affects other people’s sex life when your house isn’t in order? It really gets me how these so-called religious people say they are right but do all the wrong things. Corporate corruption is a start, everyone that has been busted steeling from the people that invest in their company claim to be Christians. These same companies under fund their retirement programs. For a bunch of people saying they are “Christ like” they sure do a poor job showing it.

Bush says he won’t kill embryos but he will send people off to war to drive the price of oil higher so his friends can make billions at the expense of the American people.

It’s so amazing that religious zealots never see the things they are doing wrong. They will destroy the earth saying it’s Gods work they are doing. They talk about marriage and the family, how many of these families last more then a couple years in the red states. Seems they have more divorces then the blue states.

What I don’t get is someone that read the bible doesn’t mean you’re a scientist. Reminds me of someone that wanted to become a programmer but was reading the bible for his direction, never picking up the programming manual.

All through history any mystery need to be blamed on some one or something because they didn’t know any better. Science is science and facts are facts you can’t change that or make it into some sort of there after. If you want to believe, believe but don’t make other have to follow you down your road, it my be the wrong one.

Bummer in the bones

Bummer in the bones. Went to the bone doctor today. Got to hear something I didn’t want to hear, that the surgeon is unable to really do anything but pain management. The surgery would be too extensive. I wouldn’t be able to bend after disk fusion. Synthetic disks aren’t approved for multiple levels, which I need. Until something drastically happens the coarse is the same for me. Until there is something drastically happening in science to help me, I’m just going to have to except the pain as a part of my life. Sad and depressing I have to say, everything’s going down hill form here. Now, how to stay balanced during all of this, mentally and physically.

Eeeek!

New redirected website with my pictures. http://outatbobs.lovez.it

Well woke up to some

Well woke up to some excitement. Raccoon was yelling, barking and screaming as he climbed into the cherry tree. Turns out to be two raccoons after checking the picture. Mean while back at the house what ever went after the raccoons took after on of the skunks. He ducted under the house into another families den. Yes the house has a strong spice smell.
 
I talked the stray skunk out from under the house. Since he didn't know his way he followed my voice to the entrance. He's one of the guys that lives on the north end of the property.
 
No worries, smell will clear up and everyone's safe.

Is it irenic when you

Is it irenic when your just getting by and you start talking to a cameraman who just got a $30,000 dollar camera from the manufacture to test out for free? Some things in life just aren’t far. He got the camera and can afford to buy the camera unlike me. It not like he doesn’t have cameras, he does video and they gave him a still camera. I was getting food from the food bank and he was getting a free camera.

Been working on my website

Been working on my web site for anyone looking for nature picture of my forest friends. My eyes are burning out staring at the screen.
http://www26.brinkster.com/bsakall/index.htm

A quiet Sunday evening

A quiet Sunday evening. The temperature is dropping to a comfortable level. Two young squirrels are eating sunflower seeds. A hen comes back to have a snack before turning in for the night. Con and Momma Deer and her two kids walk up. Soon one of the twins strolls in. They found the new alfalfa bale, candy for the deer. I almost got a few good pictures but the camera batteries failed. I knew this was coming a bought a pack of batteries yesterday. That’s when I found I had four batteries in the ridge. Well, the mouse is going to need batteries soon; I’ve been getting the battery low message. Those cheap alkaline batteries do the trick for a few days to get by but not for anything longer then a few weeks. If I could have took the shot it was one of the babies giving an older deer licks on the nose. I stepped back into the house to rapidly change the batteries but the deer ran off rather fast. One of the twins is back that means Con and Friend aren’t to far behind. Simpson’s are on, it’s a repeat but so what, nothing else on but fake reality shows. Might as well stick with an old standard.

The heats been hard

The heats been hard on all the critters, it’s cooling off now still in the high 80’s or 90’s. I spent several hours watching Momma deer and her two children. The kids are a month old today. Growing fast and love playing is their main concerns so far. Saw a vulture flying low yesterday going over the tops of the trees. I noticed I haven’t seen Con a two-year-old deer. I have to remember to get a salt block for everyone. I haven’t seen all the critters here and hope all are alright.

Feel so sorry

Feel so sorry, looking at the deer and wondering what is going on. How do you tell a deer your poor? Trying to tell some one my link with these forest friends is very difficult. It's not just a few animals but families that are living in this valley with me. I really see a need to help the wild life but others see it as just another animal, that they can do it on their own. There weren’t all these houses here before where they could do it on their own. When you don't see animals in the forest it's not because the moved away, it's because they have died off. Since injecting some help into the forest here so much more life mammals, birds, reptiles and plants have been coming back to a somewhat normal levels. I'm as much a part of their family as they are a part of mine.
 
There was a show on PBS the other day with the question why are the seals of the coast dieing? I didn't have to think long, it's that lack of animals up stream not filtering the water properly that is causing the down stream problems. Any time the balance of the eco system becomes upset it tries to compensate to get it back on course.

It’s the same with global warming; the earth wants to keep itself in a balance but that balance doesn’t work out on some people balance sheet. What a trade off, life on earth or lots of money for a short period of time. I guess it always boils down to the haves and the have-nots’.  Some one always pushing some sort of idealism that may look good for now but in the long run leads to wars, loss of cultures, loss of people. What do you tell your tribe, “Sorry, we made a bad deal many years ago and have to live with it, whether you like it or not.”

Hezbollah

There are no innocent terrorists. 220 mm rockets are terrorist weapons and nothing more, there filled with ball bearings to kill people. As they say, "you could hit the broad side of a barn."