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A Day in the Life...
Lunch Bunch Topics-Delusional Ramblings
*Kick the Cockroach-"A game of suspense and intrigue." "Hey everybody canplay!"
*The terminal velocity of a penny dropped from a tall building
*Concealed weapons permits
*Shotguns
*Looking down from a 10-story window at the vehicles in the parking lot
*John Cappa, editor of Jp magazine, and a French maid costume.
*A white van plowing through some bushes then bursting into flames.
*How to order a fish taco in Hillbilly
Political & Environmental Beat
Info on Pismo AKA The Oceano Dunes
The Endangered Species Act was created by the people of the United States in 1973 to keep animals from becoming extinct. The act is seriously flawed because it failed to take into account the needs of the most important animal: Humans.
I used to pay little attention to stories such as the farmer in the San Joaquin Valley who was prevented from farming his land because of the Kangaroo Rat. I thought is was pretty funny when a proposed hospital site in San Bernardino was waylaid due to the presence of just eight single Delhi Sands flies. Now that $3,310,199 has been spent by that city to fight the extreme environmentalists and to make changes to their designs, I don't think it's very funny any more.
When the popular Southern California dune riding spot at Glamis had one-third of its area fenced off because of a weed called Pierson's Milk Vetch, I didn't get involved because I don't ride there. By this time, I should have seen it coming and done something. Shame on me!
The horror of the Endangered Species Act didn't hit me until the stories of impending closure of my favorite multi-use park, the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, started to surface. Now, as more information surfaces, it is becoming apparent that the ESA is far too drastic in its protection of plants, animals, and insects, because it does not take into account the affect of how its power is being used to restrict and/or eliminate things that are beneficial to people, such as recreation, flood control, and well thought out construction projects.
Lately, we have seen Santa Maria's long-planned airport business park delayed because it's a possible habitat for Tiger Salamanders, and a nasty algae bloom in Pismo is allowed to fester while the local government is tied up with permits to just open the stream to the ocean, which common sense and past experience tells us should not bother the stream or its inhabitants in the slightest.
Now, I wish I had done more earlier to fight the draconian implementation of the ESA by government agencies and extreme environmental groups. But, there is hope on the horizon for the silent majority of citizens who are in favor of moderation in the laws that govern us. A group called the National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition has begun the battle to try to put some sensibility into this totally misused set of laws that choke off all common sense in the management of our country's lands. The NESARC can be visited on the web at www.nesarc.org.