Freeoples ....
Thread 318
Posted on 06/18/2002 10:23:29 PM PDT by Mo1
Freeoples ....
Thread 318
From the Idaho side, just before you reach the summit of Lost Trail Pass, you can see where the fires burned.....and you can continue to see--often on both sides of the highway--and in a number of places where the fires jumped the highway--all the way to about 2 miles north of Hamilton, MT. I clocked it the first time I drove it because it was such a shock....a 50 mile stretch!
The landscape was so eerie....where once had stood the wonder of God's creation--the beauty of the dark green forests raising majestically up to the blue, blue sky.....now reduced to a black, sooty somber testimony to what once was....there are trunks of trees burnt to a crisp, with an odd-looking branch reaching scraggly towards the sky as though trying to save itself from drowning! There are large areas where the soil looks black. Other areas look like someone took toothpicks, spraypainted them black, and stuck them into the landscape to indicate where trees used to be!!
When we drove over the first time to get my Dad to the airport, he was quiet for a long time and then said something like "I'll never live long enough to see anywhere near a return"....and then he said, "Sissy, you won't live long enough to see those trees grow up again". And he's right....sadly, he's right.
And their reasoning is just as stupid as the reasoning given for why the 4 firefighters lost their lives last year because no one would/could/did give an order to get some water there to save their lives!<
They can call it 'environmentalism' all they want--it is, in reality, sheer stupidity.
Get over yourself, woman...you obviously haven't the faintest idea what I did or didn't do, tried or didn't try....you just think you're so damn important that you can meter out other peoples feelings, motives, ideas, characteristics or whatnot.
This is so laughable ...."You went out of your way to be rude to me"....sweetie, I wouldn't walk across the road to give you a glass of water if your guts were on fire--that's how important you are to me, so whatever makes you think I would waste my time trying to be 'rude' to you! You apparently wouldn't know rude if it up and bit your butt! Your opinion of yourself exceeds reality greatly.
Using people? Aren't you just special--trying to impute your character traits into or onto others!
...."It was an awkward, conspicious and ill mannered stretch even for someone who was obviously raised in a barn"....
The only awkward, conspicious and ill-mannered stretch around here is from the three-dollar bill making believes she's important enough to warrant anyone trying to do anything to her! What part of "you ain't that important" don't you understand? And if your 'barn' reference means anything, I suggest it beats your brothel or dog house upbringing!
As I said, you deal with it....
Wound up eating at a place that cooks what they call an Idaho Omelet. And they smother it with country gravy...it is usually so goooood! Anyhow, Ray wanted that; and as I sipped on cup of fresh brewed coffee, it just seemed the right thing to order...so I did.
Once we got back to my house, we agreed that next year it will be at the pizza parlor!
This is a photo of my hubby, Jason, running in the Bay to Breakers, in the pouring down rain. He is in the upper center of the photo in the blue tshirt. Our friend, John, is to his right, our left, in the black tshirt. John is impressive. He is in his 60's, and in great shape.
I really feel bad for the wildlife that survived....they would have gone into breeding in a stressed state, tried to winter with insufficient fat reserves in terrain not generally their territory, the females trying to gestate, and then if they did give birth, to try to provide adequate milk nourishment to any offspring that survived in a weakened state at birth.
And to think of all the smaller little creatures that couldn't possibly have survived....when mature cattle couldn't run fast enough to get away, I'm sure little mice and other little ones didn't make it....so there's a weakening of the genetic pool.
A burned out old growth forest ain't worth much of nuthin' to nobody!
I hope ratt didn't fall asleep in the sun today.
Catty ? Cunning ? I thought I'd been fairly direct but let me give it another shot. I don't like you. You are crude, rude and obnoxious. You have been described as something one has to scrape off their shoe with a stick. Try as I might I can't find fault with the accuracy of that statement. It even smells accurate.
Now, this has gone far enough on the thread. You're making a spectacle of yourself. I hope this closes the matter but if you still haven't gotten it, then give me a minute. I'll be happy to send you a freepmail spelling it out in two very short, concise words that might just penetrate a head as thick as yours.
Knowing they feel that way, and with college profs like Paul Erhlick, the butterfly expert, who thinks he's an expert "on global freezing warming too many people on earth", one has to realize they don't care about the human race and how many are dead.
BTW, were you aware that he is an 'expert' based on his being the recipient of some award(s) by some environmental organization(s)? Never mind the little factoil that no one has decreed these organization(s) are qualified as an authority on anyone or anything!
And add to that the concept of 'sustainable development, or farming, or grazing, or forestry, or industry, or anything else', and you have problems.....the obvious question being by whose definition? Theirs? Yours? Mine? Some pseudo-scientist?
Speaking of runs, do you remember anything about the annual run they used to hold in, I believe, Spokane...I know it was Washington. I had friends in Missoula, MT, that would drive over so they could participate.
Seems like the name of the run started with a B.....Bloombergs, Bloomingdales, Bloopers, well--something along those lines.
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