February 22, 2011
February 22 is … Be Humble Day
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
Libya is Africa’s third largest oil producer. The unrest their gave oil speculators and oil companies a chance to raise oil prices and once again rape the oil consumer. Oil prices went up over 6%, surpassing $91.00 a barrel. Coincidentally, this happened on a day when the United States financial markets were closed. That prevented a full blown response from our markets and our government. We, as consumers, should be prepared to bend over and just take it. BP, a British company surely will offer no help, as they have proven with the lies and cover-up they perpetrated, with the help of the Obama Administration, after the Gulf oil spill. The industry follows BP’s lead. Get ready America for $4.00 a gallon gas and $125.00 a barrel oil. If you have money, buy oil stock.
There are some real jackasses in the United States. Another endangered whooping crane -- part of a breeding program to repopulate the species -- was found shot to death in the marshes of Alabama, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Over the past 14 months, a total of six cranes have been shot dead.
The whooping crane discovered last week, identified by the Fish and Wildlife Service as #22-10 because it was the 22nd to be hatched in 2010, was released last year in Wisconsin to migrate with other adult whooping cranes, federal investigators said Friday. I would bet the moron that killed this whooping crane or any of them is not bright enough to get from the world he/she lives in to Wisconsin. It was discovered in the same area as another whooping crane that was found shot to death late last month; investigators consider the deaths linked. The crane discovered last month, #12-04, was an adult male who had learned how to migrate behind an ultralight aircraft flown by Operation Migration, a partner in a group of dedicated people and concerns formed to increase whooping crane numbers.
The whooping crane discovered last week, identified by the Fish and Wildlife Service as #22-10 because it was the 22nd to be hatched in 2010, was released last year in Wisconsin to migrate with other adult whooping cranes, federal investigators said Friday. I would bet the moron that killed this whooping crane or any of them is not bright enough to get from the world he/she lives in to Wisconsin. It was discovered in the same area as another whooping crane that was found shot to death late last month; investigators consider the deaths linked. The crane discovered last month, #12-04, was an adult male who had learned how to migrate behind an ultralight aircraft flown by Operation Migration, a partner in a group of dedicated people and concerns formed to increase whooping crane numbers.
I hunt and own guns. I hunt within the limits of the law and I harvest and eat everything I kill. I do not kill for the sake of killing or target practice. When the culprit is found doing this to the whooping cranes perhaps he/she should be used for target practice, if not with guns then with whooping cranes with diarrhea. Just tie them to a stake in an area frequented by messy birds and leave them alone for 48 hours or so.
That crane made its first migration to Florida in 2004, wintering there for five years until it started spending winters on the marshes around Weiss Lake, Ala., where the Fish and Wildlife Service said it was found dead. The crane had nested with a female in the spring, producing a chick that did not survive. "This is a six-year-old bird, one of a couple of dozen that are old enough, sexually mature, and could breed," Liz Condie of Operation Migration told the St. Petersburg Times.
"This crane had a chick. Could this be any freaking worse?" Condie said.
Three cranes two males and a female that hatched in 2010 were found shot to death in Calhoun County, Ga., on Dec. 30. In November 2009, a crane hatched in 2002 and led south by an ultralight was found shot to death in Vermillion County, Ind. That crane had hatched and raised the first wild whooping crane in the eastern United States in more than a century, according to the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership. Operation Migration and the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership work together in the effort to increase whooping crane numbers.
That crane made its first migration to Florida in 2004, wintering there for five years until it started spending winters on the marshes around Weiss Lake, Ala., where the Fish and Wildlife Service said it was found dead. The crane had nested with a female in the spring, producing a chick that did not survive. "This is a six-year-old bird, one of a couple of dozen that are old enough, sexually mature, and could breed," Liz Condie of Operation Migration told the St. Petersburg Times.
"This crane had a chick. Could this be any freaking worse?" Condie said.
Three cranes two males and a female that hatched in 2010 were found shot to death in Calhoun County, Ga., on Dec. 30. In November 2009, a crane hatched in 2002 and led south by an ultralight was found shot to death in Vermillion County, Ind. That crane had hatched and raised the first wild whooping crane in the eastern United States in more than a century, according to the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership. Operation Migration and the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership work together in the effort to increase whooping crane numbers.
The chicks are painstakingly raised by handlers who costume themselves as cranes in order to keep the birds from becoming too trusting of humans. This is dedication that obviously should not be met with some selfish jackass killing an innocent bird. They then learn the migratory route by either following an ultralight plane flown by a costumed pilot or by following wild adult whooping cranes and sandhill cranes, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. How would you like to be flying your plane and notice another plane being flown by a person dressed like a crane? The cranes are tagged with transmitters and leg bands to track their movements. A variety of private groups are offering a reward -- now at $23,250 -- for information about the deaths. "The amount of effort that goes into a program such as this -- hatching young, raising them, teaching them to migrate -- is absolutely huge," Tom MacKenzie, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told the St. Petersburg Times.
"The loss of any of those birds to nonnatural causes is not acceptable."
"The loss of any of those birds to nonnatural causes is not acceptable."
Slaughter in America;
Elisa Baker was indicted today on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the death of her disabled 10-year-old stepdaughter, Zahra Clare Baker, whose remains were found in various locations around North Carolina. The indictment handed up by a grand jury in Catawba County, N.C., asserted that Baker had "a history and pattern of physical, verbal and psychological abuse of the victim," The Charlotte Observer reported, and that she had "desecrated the victim's body to hinder detection, investigation and prosecution of the offense." In documents released today by the state's chief medical examiner, it was revealed that authorities still haven't found the girl's skull, but an autopsy had still been performed. Medical examiners say Zahra died from "undetermined homicidal violence.” This woman has got to be a piece of work.
Music at the top of the charts on February 22 throughout history;
1949
1957 Too Much - Elvis Presley
1965 This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
1973 Crocodile Rock - Elton John
1981 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
1989 Straight Up - Paula Abdul
Holidays around the world on February 22nd;
British Commonwealth : Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857)
Central African Republic : President's Birthday
Egypt, Syria : Unity Day (1958)
India : Mothers Day
México : National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)
Qatar : Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972) A little ego here?
St Lucia : Independence Day (1979)
Virgin Island : Donkey Races Day. Not quite The Kentucky Derby.
World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Central African Republic : President's Birthday
Egypt, Syria : Unity Day (1958)
India : Mothers Day
México : National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)
Qatar : Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972) A little ego here?
St Lucia : Independence Day (1979)
Virgin Island : Donkey Races Day. Not quite The Kentucky Derby.
World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - - - - - ( Sunday )
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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