On Jul 15, 11:45*am, "JT" wrote:
"Giles" wrote in message

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While cruising the backroads of the coulee country (a bona-fide
segment of rural Murrica) and listening to Curdistanee public radio
early this afternoon, I was somewhat surprised to hear that the
austerity measures proposed to alleviate the burden on a currently
cash-strapped Merkin federal government included the closure of a
hundrred or more "national fish and wildlife refuges."

Um......

huh?

I mean, granted, English ain't my native language.....but ain't a
"fish and wildlife refuge" sorta a "closed" area by definition?

Are the blue-winged teal, the black-crowned night herons, the great
egrets, the amberwings, the marsh wrens, the crappie, the belted
kingfishers, the soras, the rock-bass, the Virginia rails, the twelve
spot skimmer, the bewilderingly myriad bluets, the backswimmers, the
pileated, the hairy, the downy, and the red-headed, the towhees, the
blue-gills, the long-eared sunfishes, the smallmouth and the large-
mouth black bass, the northern pike, the sauger, the hexagenias, the
blue-flag, the monarda, the (virtual infinitude of) salix, (not to
mention the absolutely hybridizationally stupefying hawthornes) to be
banned outright.....or merely subjected to body-cavity searches on
attempted entry?

Do they have adequate legal representation......or are they at the
mercy of public defenders?

Will they be allowed diplomatic immunity?.....political, religious,
racial, ethnic, species, sexual refugee status?.....green cards?

Or is someone suggesting that bubba and toivo will no longer be
allowed to enter and shoot at will?

Yeah......right.

giles
to whom an officially closed national fish and wildlife refuge rides
(precariously) the cusp between gut-bustingly hilarious and vomitously
hilarious.

giles

On a local level, I heard on the way home yesterday there are no funds
available to keep the park bathrooms clean,

Sounds a lot like a gas station,

garbage picked up, lawns mowed,
etc...

neighbors,

They are asking for volunteers to provide these services.

adopt a highway.....not that I've got anything against the Boy Scouts,
Kiwanis, or Lurlene's "Hair Today, Groin Tomorrow".....it's nice to
see them actually do something useful. But it DOES have an impact on
the economy. Just think of all the convicts and illegal aliens put
out of work!

Same is true with the public launch locations at local area lakes and there
is already garbage all over the place at a couple I have stopped at.

It helps to take an ecologicl point of view. Garbage is an indicator
species.....when it disappears, you know something is desperately
wrong.

Given the 75 plus parks in the Spokane area, I'm guessing the volunteer plan
isn't going to go very well.

Volunteers are an inexhaustible resource (like timber, petroleum,
Mexicans, etc.). The trick is to trick the volunteers. What have you
been asking them to do?

Hopefully some of the girl/boy scout troops with adopt a park to keep them
looking good.

Hm......

Well, I guess I should have looked down before beginning this
lesson.....or maybe you should have looked up.

JT-

g.
who sometimes wonders......why is it that pretty much EVERYBODY thinks
that the end of the world is a "BAD" thing?