National Association of Letter Carriers collects non-perishable food items today. Help stamp out hunger.
Put your food donation at your mailbox and your carrier will pick it up — it will be delivered to a local food bank or pantry.
It’s that time of year again. No, not bow hunting for possum! Silly! The Spiders are back in the estuary. Little- known Bolivian Monolithic Swamp Spiders arrive every May just around Mother’s Day. These members of the Bolivian Dirt Daubing Spider family are elusive, extremely hairy, and have long legs. They arrive by balloon cocoons, flying distances of over 2,300 mile kilometers. The spider cocoons descend upon the estuary with frightening frequency, catching small children unaware. Area residents, often enthralled by the tiny bubble-like edifices, forget to remove the cocoons from their toddlers. This causes a pin-prick rash similar to Globner’s Disease.
These amazing creatures spin four-pitted squamous webs near small bodies of water, such as the Bolivian Bland Lakes. The wind off the tidal craters drives straight into the center of the web, causing it to bubble up and fill with helium which oozes from the core sphagnum of the mossy plateau of the Bolivian highlands arena. The spiders began coming to the eastern NC area around 1927, following the Dutch to Mattamuskeet to settle in the fertile peat moss estuary.
Visit the Little IBX area today. The Spiders are usually seen at dusk, just in front of the Estuarium. They are protected by the Federal Bureau of BigAss Spider Protective Carriers and as such, you should not attempt to capture a spider for personal enjoyment.
That is all.
official IBX possum hunting season begins soon. Most of us enjoy hunting possum with coon mules, utilizing the bow and arrow technique for the kill. Since possums are notorious for their spitting, those new to the area are advised to steer clear of these fearsome beasts. There’s no call for getting hurt all on account of needin’ some stew meat, now is there?
Tagged coon mules, estuarium, estuary, spitting possums, washington ncIt’s both. $20 is $20. To lift the gas tax for the summer? Not gonna’ affect gas prices because the will of the corporate soul rules this country.
The real dialog here is about the big Band-Aid tax-payers are going to receive over the next week. The Bush Band-Aid. The Economic Incentive.
Hey, $600 buys a pair of Miu Mius, am I right? Just ask the Bush’s.
Bush is stuck on Band-Aids cuz Band-Aids stick on him.
Go to the polls today and vote for Obama or Clinton. Hell, at this point, who really cares just as long as the Lincoln bedroom isn’t filled with Bush Babies.
Stress is the curse of living in modern times. Everyone suffers from stress. And the stress we suffer takes a heavy toll on our bodies, emotions and minds.
Feeling stressed out, worn out by fatigue or just simply having a miserable day, the best thing to do is relax.
Watching television may be a form of relaxation for some, but is not a recommended method by experts. When we watch TV we are bombarded with commercials, ads, sounds and images. So how do we achieve relaxation? If there are thousands of ways we can get stressed, one of them is not meeting deadlines, there are also many ways we can relax.
These relaxation techniques are just some of the ways you can achieve relaxation. Another reason why we need to relax, aside from lowering blood pressure in people and decreasing the chances of a stroke or a heart attack, is because stress produces hormones that suppress the immune system, relaxation gives the immune system time to recover and in doing so function more efficiently. Take a moment for yourself and purchase something to make you happy. Something that helps you relax. Whether a new photo throw or warm fuzzy slippers.
Relaxation lowers the activities within the brains’ limbic system; this is the emotional center of our brain.
4240 Reedy Branch Road
Winterville, NC 28590
General Area:
Doors open at 6:30 am; event begins at 8:15 am
President Bill Clinton
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Craven County Regional Airport, Old Terminal
1501 Airport Road
New Bern, NC 28560
General Area:
Hillary Clinton will be at Pitt County Community College, Winterville (but to us, it’s all Greenville, isn’t it?) at 8:15 a.m. on May 5th. Get on over there now!
President Clinton will be at Elizabeth City on May 5th.
Get involved… we’ll be at PCCC. Listen to the candidates. Vote in the primary.
*Local “newspaper” WDN refuses to back a gubernatorial candidate. Now that’s just plain sorry and spineless. ECPC favors Clinton, yet will support Obama whole-heartedly if he wins nomination. For governor? Bev Purdue. It’s all about cultural affairs…
The Obama organization continues to run all over Beaufort County with amazing results. These people know their shit. Today, Saturday, you can catch a Gospel Concert, breakfast and/or lunch, and a glimpse at some of the local politicos at the Obama Campaign Headquarters next to the Washington Fire Department on Market St.
It is impressive to see a grassroots group get attention from a national campaign. I will wax poetic on political philosophy some other time. For now, Swamp Pundit backs Senator Clinton but come November? Whoever is on the Democratic ticket receives this vote. I was hoping for Elmer Fudd, but apparently he’s too busy running his exotic game hunting preserve down in Texas to run for president this year.
Tagged Barack Obama NC, bite me, dead mule, eastern NC, IBX, little ibx, washington ncMy newest online friend Mehmet, who lives in a place far far away, has graciously allowed the use of this fine template for our dear Little Washington blog. The glory of the Internet lies in its freedom. Estonia… imagine, the fall of the Berlin Wall precluded modern Estonia. Next time you’re feeling pissy about how your parents won’t let you stay out past midnight on a Friday night, ponder your possibilities. You could have been taking part in the
“Singing Revolution“, in a landmark demonstration for more independence, called The Baltic Way, a human chain of more than two million people was formed, stretching through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Mehmet’s site, Gabfire, will surely help many WordPress users and those of us who love all things Linux.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature features “Life on Black Mountain” a short story collection by Ann Hite. Damn fine fiction.
Tagged dead mule, ecpc, endless chain pig club, gabfire, little ibx, little washington, mehmet, washington ncApril 18 - big night for little Washington.
Those of us who remember Woodstock will appreciate how Mr. Havens looks exactly the same as he did in our youth — he hasn’t changed in 40 years. Amazing… hmmmmm.
Enjoy, puppets, enjoy.
FACTSHEET: Mountain States Legal Foundation,
MSLF DETAILS 2596 South Lewis Way Lakewood, Colorado 80227
Phone: 303-292-2021 Fax: 303-292-1980
A conservative public interest law founded in 1977 under the National Legal Center for Public Interest, with start up money largely provided by Joseph Coors. MSLF is “dedicated to individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government and the free enterprise system.” (mslf website) The group, initially headed by James Watt and now run by William Perry Pendley. Pendley has referred to environmentalists as communists in disguise, or “watermelons”- “green on the outside and red on the inside.” ( “Whither the West,” The Landman, January/February 1993.) MSLF files cases and amicus curiae briefs attacking environmental protections and designations on behalf of oil, mineral, development and timber interests. Ron Arnold, anti-environmental leader and executive director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, called MSLF “the litigating arm of the Wise Use Movement.” MSLF is active in the “wise use” and extremist property rights movement, was a sponsor of the first “wise use” leadership conference in Reno, Nevada in 1988, and has participated in many conferences hosted by “wise use” organizations. (CLEAR fact sheet) Over the past two decades, MSLF has served as a training ground for a number of attorneys most active in the anti-environmental movement., including Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Clint Bolick, William “Chip” Mellor and Karen Budd-Falen, Anne Gorsuch-Burford, and Roger and Nancie Marzulla, who started Defenders of Property Rights.
Mountain States Legal Foundation has received $2,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
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$2,500 ExxonMobil Foundation
general support
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
early 90s?
$unknown Exxon Corporation
Source: Greenpeace Guide
You got it –Reagan era love-child, William Perry Pendley. Welcome to Washington, Mr. Pendley. Hood and Stan will see you now. Citizens, ask yourself why this man would offer to pro bono “defend” the Beaufort County Commissioner’s ruling to remove Spanish from the local governmental phone directory options? Ain’t it just a little weird?
Strategic and Critical Mineral Development in the Exclusive Economic Zone: Solutions and Strategies
Pendley, W. –*WILLIAM PERRY PENDLEY*
W Comiskey and Hunt;
This paper appears in: OCEANS
Publication Date: Sep 1986
Volume: 18, On page(s): 296- 301
Posted online: 2003-01-29 10:32:23.0Abstract
The author addresses the evolving regulatory scheme being developed by the Department of the Interior to permit mining for non energy resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953. Compares and contrasts OCS Lands Act statutory scheme, as implemented with draft regulations, with Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act and onshore mineral development authorities. Discusses the alternative of potential enactment of new statutory authority, with delay and dislocations involved in the legislative process. The regulatory scheme is discussed in detail, exploring potential problems and offering solutions.
Want more?
Mining lobbyist info.
Or about our coastal waters?
Okay guys, your turn now. Google you some Pendley. Keep going, further into the internets than just his name. Try Assistant Secretary of Interior for Energy and Minerals William Perry Pendley, or Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, come on .. .dig dig dig…
Start reading, Beaufort County, NC. This man has offered to ride into our town on his black horse and defend Stan and Hood’s bigotry. Your tax dollars at work. Personally, I’d rather have an illiteracy rate below 60% than have my money go to lawsuits against Beaufort County.
Rightwing ‘Version’ of the Sierra Club Challenges Clinton Monuments
29-Nov-02
corporate front groups
One of the most arrogant rightwing corporate front men is William Perry Pendley. Posing as a “wise use environmentalist” and backed by corporate dollars, Pendley runs several slick anti-environmental groups under various names, including the Mountain Legal Defense Foundation. This outfit is a dark imitation of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund. Pendley sucks people in the same way the Bush Reich does - preaching fear via the usual tactic: job loss, intrusive government, etc. But who on Earth would buy Pendley’s rants against intrusive government when his biggest backers are the same ones who back G.W. Bush? At present Pendley is seeking to undo Clinton’s efforts to save 3.7 million of America’s last unspoiled wildlands through establishng national monuments.
If William Perry Pendley and his hate-mongering minions come to Beaufort County, NC, we are doomed. Pendley believes in the Bill of Rights only for conservative ostriches who stick their heads in the sand when confronted by logic and reason. These are status quo bigots — the scariest of all Americans — the ones who claim to speak for freedom while limiting the rights of others.
A butt-buddy of former Sec’y of the Interior under Reagan, James Watts, Pendley seems aptly trained in fuck-the-environment politics along with my-rights-over-yours movement portrayed by our Beaufort County Republican Commissioners.
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out for me.”- Pastor Martin Niemoller, Berlin, 1939. Niemoller was a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent eight and one-half years in a Nazi concentration camp.
Washington, NC’s own Jane Olsen [blogger extraordinare!] is featured in the News & Observer today.
Then Knight-Ridder/Tribune grabs it and she’s on BusinessWeek.
Last week, we attended a nice little intimate Hillary Clinton campaign in Pittsburgh, PA prior to her Saint Patrick’s Day parade walk, now here’s Miz Jane with an Obama question. It’s a pretty decent time to be a Progressive (as in I love me some Norman Lear) but sometimes it’s interesting to be a Democrat, eh? As in, vote in the primary.
It’s a sweet week at the Olsen home, what with Andy finally leaving First South Blank and beginning his new job at Soundside Group *
[* shameles plug: 125 W Water St., Plymouth, NC 27962. 252-793-9226 *].
Yup… read all about Jane both here and on Dan Barkin’s News & Observer blog:
[...]
So I contacted her, and this is what she told me:
Life for Olsen used to be working in emergency services, as a firefighter/EMT and as an ambulance dispatcher. Life right now is pretty much taking care of her toddlers, Emmett and Ollie.
She has lived in the Washington-Greenville area for about 18 years. She and her husband, Andy, have been married for more than five years and decided to settle in Washington to be close to family.
“Other than following news about the upcoming election and trying to keep up with meals, laundry and diapers, my passion is the Carolina Hurricanes,” she said.
She’s not kidding. She and her husband come to Raleigh for games and watch faithfully on TV. And one of her two blogs is called Penalties and Parenthood [...] In her Thursday post on the Canes’ Atlanta win, she had some pointed remarks about her team’s inconsistent defensive play.
Her other blog, The Toddler Reality Show [...] is highly amusing.
Wednesday, Obama was stumping in Fayetteville and Charlotte. Olsen started her day in the backyard with her sons in their historic waterfront town.
She then went to the grocery store to get trash bags, and then the boys had lunch with dad. When he left to return to work, mom and kids went to a park. Then they stopped by her mother’s house so the boys could visit with Nana and Olsen’s 91-year-old grandmother. Then she took Emmett and Ollie home, cooked dinner, got the boys a bath and prepared them for bed.
Thursday, she was online, where she reads The N&O. A friend who had the print edition called, saying something like: Hey, do you know your face is on the front of the Raleigh paper?
“Quite a shock,” recalled Olsen, who ran out to buy a copy.
“It’s so strange,” she wrote me, “to try to parallel my day with Obama’s whirlwind travel schedule, speeches, and the countless people he talked to on Wednesday.”
“For one little block of all the time he allotted to so many souls, my little question got to be center stage. It really personifies what started out as some words on the screen of my Mac. Being able to have a question that was so fresh on my mind answered so quickly brought me a lot closer to the campaign trail than I would usually have access to, living in Eastern North Carolina.
“It felt almost humbling to think that while I was fixing lunch for my boys and then sitting at the park watching them play, someone was carrying my question to Fayetteville to be addressed by a presidential candidate. It was definitely the closest I’ve felt to the political process in quite a while.”
