Is anyone else getting thoroughly nauseated with all the crap we are seeing in the corporate media about Ronald Reagan on his 100th birthday. Is anyone as disgusted as I am by hearing what a great president he was? Am I the only one who still remembers the general environmental devastation his administration wrought? Has everyone but me forgotten that he sold weapons to our sworn enemies and used the proceeds to fund terrorists? Is his callousness in the face of the AIDS epidemic forgotten? Does nobody remember his profound ignorance on just about every subject under the sun? I’ll say it, if nobody else will: President Reagan was a catastrophe!
Saturday, February 05, 2011
About Me
- Name: Desk-bound Nature Lover
- Location: The 'burbs, Illinois, United States
My motto: A bad day of birding is better than a good day of almost anything else.
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There are three broad and interrelated causes about which I care passionately: 1) protecting and healing our natural heritage, 2) religious tolerance / religious freedom, and 3) science education, especially the teaching of evolution and ecology. Here are links to organizations involved with one or more of those causes.
- The Save the Redwoods League
- The Sempervirens Fund
- The Sierra Club
- The National Audubon Society
- Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
- Defenders of Wildlife
- The Nature Conservancy
- MoveOn.org
- People for the American Way
- National Wildlife Federation
- World Wildlife Fund
- The Democratic Party
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- National Center for Science Education
- American Civil Liberties Union
- NatureServe
- The Wilderness Society
- California State Park Associations
- National Parks Conservation Association
- EarthJustice
- Greenpeace
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- BirdLife International
- The Earthwatch Institute
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
- Friends of the Earth
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Chicago Wilderness
- More to come...
Previous Posts
- ENSBC Trip to New Mexico and Arizona – January 21-...
- Is anyone else getting thoroughly nauseated with a...
- The Definition of a Good Hiking Trail
- Southwest Wings Bird and Nature Festival, Sierra V...
- "Wild Things" in Chicago.
- Mazatlan Birding Festival
- Back to Blogging
- Ten Things I Like About Northeast Illinois
- Bald Eagles Nest Again in Lake County
- Magical Moment with a Coyote
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Other people's Blogs
- Illinois Birds Blog about birding in my area.
- Abroad Journal My nephew's blog.
- Red State Rabble Here's a blog about the religious right's assault on science education. I don't deal with that much here, but it really alarms me.
- Evolution Blog Another good blog on about the same subject as the above.
- National Parks Traveler Good coverage of Republican efforts to destroy the US National Park system.
- ENN - Environmental News Network, The really important news of the world.
- BBC News, World news without a lot of ads.
- Mother Jones, On-line version of a magazine I like.
- Grist, great source of news stories on environmental issues.
- TheocracyWatch.org, News stories and resources on church-state issues.
- Pat Oliphant, my favorite cartoonist.
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Cost of the War in Iraq(JavaScript Error)costofwar.com I love this page
- Where I got the image for my profile. Lots of great pictures here.
- Cornell Lab About birding in general.
- American Birding Association
- Kenn Kaufman's Nature Site Web site of a famous birder.
- California Birding A page with lots of info about birding in California.
- The Breeding Bird Survey Information on the distribution and population trends of America's birds.
Piled Higher and Deeper A comic strip I can relate to, having spent ten years in graduate school.
- William Eaton A musician I really love, who deserves more exposure.
- Dilbert, a comic strip that's sort of like my life.
- Doonesbury, a comic strip I've loved for 35 years.
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Birds and birding
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