Fried Green Tomatoes ... it'll be like that.

Funny thing is- lots and lots of deer running around here, everybody has killed one with a car, usually to tune of big bucks for repair ( groan!), and yet people who bitch about too many deer DON'T hunt them!

Right at the moment I have three split carcasses hanging in my coldcave, awaiting my work, and a lot more of my wife's work, to put them into nice little bags for the year's meat.

I tell people we eat no meat but deer and chickens. They shudder in disgust, as if I have confessed to cannibalism-- Jeez. I am sure that in need they would eat deer, or for that matter, rats -or students, but not now, still high on petroleum, they scorn anything but fat sizzling beafsteak.

So, I agree with Orlov- the higher we are flying now, the harder we hit the rocks when we run out of juice. So, for goddssake, people, let's get down to a lower altitude fast, please.

But then I keep coming back to that old bad, bad thought lying back there in my reptile brain- maybe people aren't worth saving anyhow.

I wonder about crawfish and nutria. In part because of their habitat(s) and limited human access to some of them.

Alan

At what point did the profits of multinational corporations become more important than the lives of farmers?

More important than the lives of everyone who isn't part of the rentier class.

If you think about it, we've not only been mining out the last of the oil, ores, and top soil, but even the health of our people. We feed them an all-corn-all-the-time diet, raised with Frankenchemicals on nutritionally depleted soils, and then suck the people who eat this crap into the for-profit health industry (Big Pharma) for the rest of their lives. (Chris Rock: The money isn't in the cure. It's in the come-back.) The people are malnourished and obese, and to deal with their symptoms we sell them drugs that destroy their livers. Then we sell them drugs to handle the symptoms of their destroyed livers.

All so the rentier class can get a cut of everything we do.

The other day x put up a comment in which he said that the key to dealing with peak oil was increasing utility--what that basically means is we need to get the rentier class off the backs of the people, and put the resources in the hands of the many, where they can do the most good. That's what westexas's ELP prescription actually comes down to as well. If we actually did that, I think peak oil could actually improve the quality of life of most people.

Of course, so far we're doing exactly the opposite--at the moment, the government is throwing everything we've got left at the rentier class.

I believe Airdale hails from W. Kentucky.

Hi all,

Now this is just one observation, but here in Vancouver, BC, I overlook an urban park with lots of open grassy fields where the kids play baseball and soccer. Three bird species are in strong supply at this park: geese, gulls and crows. Just yesterday evening, as the cool blue light of dusk began to fade I took a walk around the park, and watched the geese take off, group up in their classic V-formations and head south, probably to the wetlands around Richmond. Recently, I took my daughter to visit a pumpkin patch, and we saw a healthy population of ducks in a local pond. Also, bald eagles continue to occupy the forested areas around the University of British Columbia, with a host of other species.

I enjoy the antics of the three bird species that dominate the park--especially the crows as they are always getting into everything, with a focus on the garbage cans. Occasionally, we are treated to some other bird species, more often than not chickadees, and one time recently a woodpecker. From the urban "frontier" on the Pacific coast, the limited selection of birds that I see appear to be doing fine. At least for now.

Maybe some migration routes are indeed shifting in your area...

-best,

Wolf

Now that you mention it, it's unsettling. Haven't seen or heard the Snow or Canadian geese this fall. This is the time. I hope it's just late. Been warm, relatively snowless.

Checking, Waterfowler says the mallards should have started moving last week with the cold, they don't show much goose movement. Still in Canada.

http://www.waterfowler.com/inportal/index.php?env=-map#

Seriously. Anyone my age thinks government is pretty much completely useless. Lying weasels employing lazy bums.

Even the stuff government does relatively well (roads, sewers, policing) doesn't get much credit.

We've never seen an honest politician (although, reading from any time period from ancient Greece to Twain, neither has anyone else). We've never seen a government program do what it was supposed to, end when it was supposed to, or be much of anything other than a way to steal our money.

We, mostly, aren't yet sick or feeble enough to care about the social safety net. We don't remember a time when it didn't exist. We know that the "homeless" are still collecting welfare checks, even if they choose to drink or inject it rather than use it to eat.

Rely on the government? Hardly. Cluelessly dependent on it? Perhaps.