Look at those magnificent Forest Service Mules. Try walking over the ground they are walking over.
We fear for their future. Close down the Forest Service and what happens to them?
Is there nothing the long arm of this present administration can't reach???
Why are we letting this happen?
I am so mad I don't have any saliva left.
There has been a long-standing
use of horses and mules in managing the forest, the Parks, and the wild lands.
(Mules can carry more weight than horses and are more sure-footed over
treacherous terrains. Horses generally carry a rider.) Think of the Rocky
Mountains of the United States.
The forest service is being attacked by the present Administration.
Don’t we care about the wilderness or Nature anymore? Are we so stuck up with our gold faucets and following men who can spend their billions on buying people and elections that we can’t see the forest for the trees?
Did we know what we were signing up for when some of us voted for a President who doesn’t give a flying rat’s ass for the environment, the forest, the health of the planet, or human life—like sending innocents to a horrible jail—now he is going after the animals.
Oh, you didn’t like the previous administration? Well, change it, for crying out loud, but don’t ravish the earth and its people in the process. I thought we had a system for due process of law, but it seems that has changed, too.
When a man convicted of 34 felonies can walk away, a free man and step right into into the presidency, the highest office in the land it is serious.
"The court was rigged," so said the felon.
Anything against him is rigged, so he says.
Justice was blindfolded that day.
We didn’t spend 300,000 years evolving to become barbaric. Once, we believed in the advancement of our species. Now, all too many people are falling into lock-step behind the power structure.
What about the rest of us? Oh, we are enemies within. No, we love America. the land of the FREE.
Remember who we are.
We brought the Emancipation Proclamation into being. We marched for Peace. We marched for Civil Rights. We marched for votes for Women. We marched for a war we felt was unjust.
We followed a leader who preached Non-violent resistance. That leader patterned his philosophy after a man of color. We voted for Fair Housing, against Gerrymandering, against Segregation. We voted for due process of law. We voted for Women’s rights, for Pro-Choice, not because we believed in killing babies, but to give a woman her right as an individual to make her own choice. Force a man carry a child that he didn’t intend to have or was coerced or forced into conceiving. Force him into a lifetime of caring for that child while making a living and see what happens.
Gee, men, you learned that women were for more than cleaning your house and carrying your babies. A Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Caucasian woman could get a Medical Degree and save your sorry ass.
In a court of law, women lawyers, red, yellow, black, or white, could get you acquitted.
We discovered that preserving wild spaces was essential to our health and sanity and connected us to something greater than ourselves. We found that as the animals go, so do we. We learned that as we lose touch with nature, we lose our hearts, our souls, our humanity, and our spirituality.
Once we believed in “Send us yours tired, your poor, your hungry masses to breathe free.” Once other countries respected us. Now Canada, our dear friends to the North don't want anything to do with us. Well thanks, but no thanks Mr. President.
Once we cared that our children were saved from the childhood diseases that plagued people my age when we were children. If you can prove that vaccinations are harmful, then fix them so they are good. We learned from the Milkmaids who got a little cow pox and it saved them from getting the full grown version.
(Actually, the principle that have a small doze of a virus can render a person immune to the disease began in 1768 when Dr. John Fewster’s observation of a farmer who did not respond to the vaccination told him that he had cow pox of a vicious degree years earlier. The beautiful skin of the milkmaids is a pretty story, and true, but not the first. It was only when pharmaceutical companies began adding mercury, aluminum or other preservatives to vaccinations that they became suspect. And the Covid 19 was not a true “vaccine”—meaning give a small dose of the virus to create immunity, but dealt with the RNA of the body.)
Most people with smallpox recovered, but about 3 out of every 10 people with the disease died. Many smallpox survivors have permanent scars over large areas of their body, especially their faces. Some are left blind.
Thanks to the success of vaccination, smallpox was eradicated, and no cases of naturally occurring smallpox have happened since 1977.
Once, we encouraged our children to go after the arts and the sciences. We believed in the American Dream, that people could accomplish what they set out to do. We believed in progress, and once upon a time, one person could support a household. We could have that again if we weren’t climbing on the backs of each other.
You can see I’m mad. I’ve been waiting for that man in the White House to fall on his face, and it’s causing too much damage to wait any longer.
I believed that America was great without some slogan telling us we could be great again, insinuating that we were not.
People bought the lie.