Buttered Noodles, and Oh Martha.....

So I was transplanting lettuce in the field at my friends farm and we were talking about the state of affairs in the world. I mention that New York city over the past year had paid out over 10 million dollars to the families of the victims of wrongful shooting or deaths. I kinda left the statement at that and began to think a little more about how fucked up what I just said was. A couple of things immediately come to mind and the first being that obviously the NYPD has an issue with itchy trigger fingers. One officer when asked why he fired his weapon replied " I was spooked", let that sink in, spooked, an officer on the streets of New York was spooked. I get spooked sometimes you know in the dark and stuff, but not with a gun and I sure as hell am not going to blindly fire a weapon. The second thing about all of this is that New York has set a monetary price on human life and it is between 2 and 3 million if you are a minority, and shot by them. As for for farms, a family farm is lots every 30 minutes in America, support your local farmer, support your local market.
Oh Martha, the antarctic ozone hole is 8 million square miles on a good day and the average learning curve of our culture is around 30 years. Company's now are gearing there campaigns to go green because the public is now demanding it,..now. G.E. ( who has raped and pillaged like no other), Walmart, 3M, DuPont, McDonalds and Home Depot to name a few. There is money to be made in green and there is money to be made in guilt. You know the best way to recycle, not to buy anything in the first fucking place. You know a little over year ago there was literally nothing in the papers about global warming or environmental issues and now you can't escape it. Day in day out and people are eating the hype, why, because they were never paying attention in the first place. This is not old, just ye old gas bag Al Gore ( lets not forget Tipper and the PMRC) made a fucking movie 20 years to late and the Laurie David goes around wasting more oxygen on Gore and not real issues like oh, maybe over population ( possibly the only and most important issue), deforestation, the huge fucking ozone hole. I worked for Greenpeace for 2 years back in 1988 an 89 and it was, an experience. I was young idealistic and wanted people to listen, but no one would. The recurring chime was " green who, you a hippie, slam". I was not the best canvasser in the world, kinda of sheepish and I would stumble over my words a bit. I worked in the D.C. / Baltimore metro area so whether we liked or not we would hit neighborhoods in Arlington and Alexandria that of course were DOE and DOD housing. Sometimes I would get the doting house wife and 100 buck, and it felt like pity because I could feel the litterateur go straight to the trash, but usually I scummed to a slammed door, every now and then a weapon was brandished, lots of verbal abuse, etc. Those who did listen and get past the "save the whales shit" I pressed small campaigns, like.... you guessed it greenhouse gas theory, reforming clear cut logging, and western grazing and the Bureau of Land Mismanagement. So I get the feeling now all these people running out buying green, and pulling there Prius's into their suburban duplexes feel a little guilty. Sell your Yukon and buy a Compact(this a good idea, but to make a point) but if you suck at driving it really won't make a huge difference, because the E.P.A. can't rate the color of their urine much less mileage of a piece of metal, and if you are a stop and gun it lead foot their goes the mileage. Speaking of driving people on the west side of Madison CAN NOT drive, man. But drive threw Coos County Oregon and you would be disgusted at the clear cuts, the mountain side are ravaged and laying down in front of a tractor only derails things for , oh 1 or 2 days. It's as if some one said hey lets just fuck everything up here, I mean it's pretty and all, but fuck it. So they polluted the air, fragmented the forest, destroyed the matrix, silted the steams and made some money off junk bonds while biodiversity goes out the window, yet does anyone ever really consider the impact not to just the area but to the nation/world and global warming. And as I ramble here and there like crossing the western states, one thing that has really been pissing me off lately is all the junk mail I have been getting. Someone and I know who sold my shit and now I get at least 1 or 2 pieces of mail from environmental, farm or animal rights groups a day. This kills me because it is the biggest waste of resources around, and some of the worst letters are the ones were they feel they need to underline shit as if you can't figure it out for yourself, and I am sure there are people out there who can't. But the other day I got a "package" from the Arbor Day Foundation and it weighted in at about 2 ounces and was full of paper stock. This is a foundation set up to protect and honor trees, and they are sending me one, ironic uh. You know it's like I have always thought it was funny when someone runs around telling everyone their an "environmentalist", what does that mean? Everyone should be it's patriotic and it is the land that keeps you alive, we should all be good shepherds. It all involves a little of What is and What isn't, and more importantly "If your not pissed off your not paying attention". Everything is connected, everything. Hayduke lives!