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 Anthony Canales is the President of the San Fernando Valley NRA Member’s Council. He works as a Quality Control Manager in Glendale, California. He is married with one son. The opinions expressed in 'News Briefs' belong solely to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Rifle Association of America or the NRA Members' Councils of California. |
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February 6, 2010
- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.) Satellite Picture of the Eastern Sea Board, Including the Washington D.C Area, 2-5-2010 (Color Enhanced) where 30 inches of snow are forecast to fall.
To All, It would seem that, once again, Hell Has Frozen Over...
"...It's The Lord, N.O.A.A... * : 2009 had been an "iffy" year for science (and a bad year for rock and roll...), what with all the "Gates" being outed in the press. We had Condor-gate, Climate-gate, Wind Power-gate, and Glacier-gate. All of these had to do with the discovery of "selective" reporting of gathered "data" by special interests in such a way as to support an environmentalist agenda at the expense of objectivity, discovery and veracity.
2010 stands a chance at being a similar year of scientific rebuttal, what with more review of climate data possibly showing that a reduction of the number of measuring stations might be partially responsible for data purporting temperature increases. If so, N.O.A.A. is going to have "...some 'splainin'..." to do to the public as to the perceived lack of objectivity in a host of programs covering topics from global warming to salmon recovery.
Also pending for public perusal will be upcoming reviews of California condor breeding data that could possibly remind one of a famous skit by Jeff Foxworthy ("...If your family tree doesn't fork, ....). Or possibly even revelations as to desert tortoise mortality factors that would enlighten the public as to the load-bearing capacity of Gopherus agassizii (How many environmentalist wish-lists can you fit on the backs of Master Oogway's American cousins, anyway?).
After all, it's not like Sierra Club, Audubon, or even Center for Biological Diversity are asking Americans "...How long can you tread water?..." when it comes to economic activity. What with lawsuits to ban modern farming, modern water distribution to cities and farms, modern chemistry and modern means of power generation, Big Environment is literally asking the citizenry to revert to a Biblical Standard of Living (In other words, the GDP one has after all the rain has fallen, and when the sewers have backed up...).
Just to give one an idea of how Big Environment works, here is a case in point. CBD has sent a Notice of Intent to Sue the Environmental Protection Agency. It appears to be CBD's belief that the EPA has not been consulting properly with agencies like the US Fish & Wildlife Service on the effects of various chemicals, measured in parts per billion, in the environment. Big on the CBD's Hit Parade are common pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, and anything else that has been used to produce affordable food for American and Third-World-Aid-Recipient dinner tables.
Even more odd is the way in which their Notice of Intent to Sue "tippy toes" around one of the more prevalent endocrine disruptors in urban effluent- synthetic estrogens used in human oral contraceptives. Forcing EPA to consult USFWS on a variety of endocrine disruptors here may just force a similar consultation on the end of use of such popular prescriptions as Alesse and Yasmin.
Given that CBD's goal appears to be the cessation of use of a host of chemicals, one must reasonably expect that they are "gunning" for a ban of the amount of human estrogen discharged by point sources into urban effluent as well. The reason why they would want to begin to eliminate one of the most effective means of human population control, especially when they link human "over-population to species extinction, eludes this poster. ( It does, though, "kind of" explain the recent announcement of a CBD campaign to distribute "endangered species" condoms in the hopes of reduced levels of human reproduction. One can only wonder as to how the folks who want to do away with Asian rubber tree plantations for the dream of forest restoration are going to react to this venture.).
Hunters, shooters, firearms activists and public officials are going to have to carefully review all of the representations coming from such erstwhile "friends" of environmentalism extant today. Whether it's the modern day adherents of the Legend of Ned Ludd, or those who follow in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger (along with H.G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and even a former German Reichskanzler, if Wikipedia is to be believed), one would do well to verify first before trusting at all. Anything less means dystopia.
*- With apologies to Bill Cosby.
Links at:
Washington+DC&product1=Blizzard+Warning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud
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http://landbase.hq.unu.edu/Symposia/2000Symposium/abstracts/05Fry.htm
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es001225c
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstract
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3455553
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2010/pesticides-01-28-2009.html
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/pesticides_reduction/pdfs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Round 3: California Audubon dropped a little suggestion into the hat the other day at the California Fish & Game Commission hearing.
They are proposing a lead shot ban for hunting purposes in State Wildlife Areas. Given the cycle of regulations, they may have a chance both this year and next. What is more, they appear to be using their "Go To" Guy, Assemblyman Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara Gold Coast), to float legislation banning lead on an expedited schedule (and an election year, to boot.). After all, what can one expect from a pol who prefers government hand-outs to high-paying petrochemical and drilling support worker jobs in the "blue-est" of California counties?
No, this should not surprise anyone out there, even considering last year's defeat of Team Wishtoyo over a proposed lead shot ban in Condor Country. Radical environmentalism takes the long view, especially when it comes to trying to seduce hunters into an incremental scheme to ban ammunition.
But what is different this time is that instead of relying on upon such subjective arguments as "hunting tradition", or nebulous arguments on cost to hunters (as if radicals ever gave a damn about cost to anyone else), hunting rights activists are going in "loaded for bear". There will be more than platitudes in the tube magazine for this event, and there won't be a wooden plug installed to limit capacity in the name of "sportsmanship".
That's not to say that it will be easy. Defending one's rights is a full time affair, especially with as "creative" a foe as radical environmentalism. But then no one had expected the defeat of "cap and trade" in Copenhagen, the outing of Climate Change Fraud at the University of East Anglia, or even the aggressive U.S. State Department campaign against Venezuela's preparations to become an out-of-control exporter of military small arms in the Western Hemisphere (Well, two out of three isn't that bad....). All it will take is some preparation, some road work, and the power of will. Stay tuned.
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Respectfully,
Anthony Canales SFVMC-NRA
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