Julie Smithson
Julie Smithson
America Runs Self!
Many elected officials are running hither and yon on "election year business," leaving the halls of Congress a bit empty.
Jan 14, 2008 - 8:55:15 PM
Julie Smithson
Snowmobilers and Wildlife
KALAMA, WA -- Snowmobilers and wildlife co-exist with mutual benefits. Snowmobiling affords access to nature for all, including those who may find non-motorized forms of winter recreation too strenuous.
Jan 7, 2008 - 12:14:26 AM
Julie Smithson
The False Definition Idols to Which GangGreed Offers "Sacrifices" -- All in the Name of Control
In my own neighborhood, pets, domestic and wild ungulates are not offered up to the "large predator gods." If wildlife is part of what God charged people with dominion over in the Book of Genesis, He does not say for us to exercise speciesism (favoring one of the species over another). We are charged with dominion.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:10:43 AM
Julie Smithson
If You Are What You Eat ...
I am a potato! I have eyes, a thin but protective skin, and a scrubbed complexion.
Dec 10, 2007 - 8:21:00 PM
Julie Smithson
No Trouble with Christmas
I have no trouble with this time of year being called Christmas or the Christmas Season. After all, in this Christian nation in which I was born and bred, December 25th is celebrated as the day Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary in a humble stable in Bethlehem.
Dec 6, 2007 - 8:43:18 PM
Julie Smithson
The NAIS Suite at the Hotel California
You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave, says a song from the seventies sung by the Eagles. Could those words also be true for the National Animal Identification System, or NAIS?
Nov 18, 2007 - 8:07:40 AM
Julie Smithson
The Importance of Definitions
'"Is there a precedent where a court or agency has held that an owner of real property has lesser rights because it was referred to simply as "land" or "premise?"'
Oct 31, 2007 - 3:30:26 AM
Julie Smithson
Property Rights - 3 Important Notices.
Three pieces of official correspondance, the contents of which you should be aware. 1. R-CALF: Senate Asked to Place Moratorium on Further Premise Registration Efforts, Defund NAIS - 2. NLSA letter to NV Dept. of Ag Board - 3- WA legislator grouses.
Oct 28, 2007 - 1:30:01 AM
Julie Smithson
The Important Difference Between Property and Land
Most people think of land as the most important part of property because it's tangible. They are wrong. It took conversations with the late Wayne Hage, property rights champion and Nevada rancher, to help me understand this.
Oct 27, 2007 - 12:25:58 AM
Julie Smithson
NAIS is a RUSE
Touted as an asset to "homeland security" and "the threat of disease," the truth is that this is a property rights issue on more than one front.
Oct 26, 2007 - 12:38:37 AM
Julie Smithson
Property Rights Research.org Takes New Step in Journey
It is said every journey begins with the first step. This leap of faith began with a step in January 1999, but did not become Property Rights Research for three years.
Oct 26, 2007 - 12:10:29 AM
Julie Smithson
You Must Know These 3 Definitions: Property, Land, Premises
This is why property rights champions, researchers, activists, etc., are so adamantly opposed to "NAIS" and any other restrictions to their property rights.
Oct 25, 2007 - 2:24:15 AM
Julie Smithson
Every Square Inch of the North 40: Premises Registration and Your Property Rights
"Animal identification" already exists. Brand laws are proven effective in the 41 states where food animals are raised. This form of traceback is excellent.
Oct 25, 2007 - 1:28:28 AM
Julie Smithson
GAO Letter Report on USDA / NAIS: 90-page "Letter Report" Receives Analysis
The following should be of substantial interest to all that own animals and/or property. Like "voluntary compliance," "voluntary until mandatory" is the agenda.
Oct 24, 2007 - 1:09:07 AM
Julie Smithson
Premises Program Planned to Preempt Private Property
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is a means of acquiring property by default, causing property owners to acquiesce by making them think it is about protection against disease. Brand laws already cover that base.
Oct 24, 2007 - 12:12:44 AM
Julie Smithson
A Real Road Show: Wouldn't This Make a Funny Play?
That does it for Livestock Owner, who, even though his Mad Bovine is desecrating Town Property, just can't keep his composure one more second.
Oct 23, 2007 - 12:35:22 AM
Julie Smithson
SATIRE: Richardson Opens Handshaker Ranch for Wayward Wolves
Satire curtesy of Julie Kay Smithson -- Inspiration for this satirical article stems from recent efforts by Richardson to suspend the "three strikes" rule for marauding "endangered Mexican wolves." Perhaps Richardson believes wolves, rather than voters, were responsible for his cornering 69 percent of the vote in the last gubernatorial election...
Oct 23, 2007 - 12:20:07 AM
Julie Smithson
What Jim Saw on His Summer Vacation and Why it Matters to You
"Animal ID" in Alaska: Arizona man on vacation sees what may be in store for people.
Jul 2, 2007 - 10:30:38 AM
Julie Smithson
On this Fourth of July: Real Americans
President Bush and Company: That anyone, including, but not limited to, you, has the audacity to continue ignoring the rights and property and jobs of real Americans -- while continuing a global power ploy that does nothing but inundate America with illegal INVADERS, steal our jobs and benefits and outsource our property and freedom -- is almost beyond the scope of my imagination.
Jun 28, 2007 - 6:34:49 PM
Julie Smithson
The Real Greatest Threats to Us - and the Solutions
Three basic problems, and what to do about them.
Jun 27, 2007 - 8:59:51 PM
Julie Smithson
There's a Reason & The Magic State Line
With so many Americans concentrating on grilling out and otherwise enjoying feasts after work, a plateful of food for thought seems appetizing.
May 11, 2007 - 9:37:16 PM
Julie Smithson
If Wolves Had Coattails
Focus should be redirected from wolves to those behind their 're' introduction and that of other large predators. Such Endangered Species Act abuse provides sublime job security.
May 7, 2007 - 8:57:56 AM
Julie Smithson
'Proper Place in History' Not the Only Thing Endangered
The Klamath Bucket, like the Klamath Bucket Brigade, was born of necessity. Good people, promised water forever from the Klamath Project, saw that promise broken by contentious agency and organization actions. That, in and of itself, was not history-making, in the sense that the word "Klamath" now evokes nationwide.
Apr 16, 2007 - 8:15:45 AM
Julie Smithson
Regarding ANWR, Resource 'Protection' and 'Management'
Free the resource providers of America to do what they do best -- and let more than a dwindling few reap the benefits of this honest labor. Blood, sweat and tears equity is much more than just 'menial labor' -- it is the very spine that holds America to attention, her hand over her heart, courage in her soul and more than two hundred years of this equity driving her to care for her own and keep herself the standard-bearer of the world.
Apr 1, 2007 - 10:05:43 AM
Julie Smithson
Scenic Byways create Goodbyeways
The Old National Road, Madison County, Ohio - Two-thirds of the way westward across this former part of young America's Northwest Territory, the first road to span America from ocean to ocean plows through Amish and Mennonite farms and windbreaks of deer-sheltering trees. It slows and tarries in the small towns through which it passes, in some places with a traffic light or two, but often with nothing more than a speed limit sign and a parked police car to slow passing motorists. What keeps these towns alive are their small businesses, from antique shops to local honey dealers to used or antique car lots. Custom and culture thrive when ingenuity and the ability to advertise walk hand in hand.
Mar 22, 2007 - 9:28:24 AM
Julie Smithson
Swimsuit Issue Becomes Winter Coat Fashion Show
Sports Illustrated's annual "Swimsuit Issue" may be history. Unexpected "global cooling" caused this year's photo shoot to make last-minute design changes. A rush order of fur coats, confiscated from undetermined Rodeo Drive locations, cloaked the goosebumps that threatened to destroy SI's top-selling issue.
Mar 8, 2007 - 7:04:55 AM
Julie Smithson
Polar Bears Understand 'the Service
Sixty Below & Comfy, Nunavit, Canada - I understand the deadline for comment submission to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's proposal to list us as "threatened" is April 9, 2007. It is hoped that my comments, sent by a caring courier, will serve as inspiration for others to decipher the "proposal" that is ostensibly for us polar bears by sending their comments, too!
Mar 6, 2007 - 10:24:09 AM
Julie Smithson
More Like Global Swarming
I cannot too strongly urge the United States Senate to reject the 1997 United Nations Kyoto Protocols Treaty, which purports to address "global warming" by constraining economic growth in the United States while allowing unmitigated growth in 129 other nations, included two of the world's largest, but most impoverished, economies: China and India. It's more like Global Swarming: around a money/power hive.
Feb 21, 2007 - 8:43:48 PM
Julie Smithson
Illegal Paired With Immigrant Should Never Be Accepted Phrase
The phrase "illegal immigrant" is misleading and incorrect.
Jan 27, 2007 - 11:40:17 PM
Julie Smithson
Some of my Heroes are Now ... Snowmobilers
PACIFIC NORTHWEST -- One man, one man rescued alive. That's a great success rate.
Dec 9, 2006 - 8:45:03 PM
Julie Smithson
The Easement as a Conservation Technique
This document’s importance, for several reasons, cannot be overstated. It is the first International Union for the Conservation of Nature (www.iucn.org) also known as the World Conservation Union, ‘environmental law paper.’ Based in Switzerland, this organization seeks to acquire control of real property, but as much as possible without the full title to that property.
Oct 23, 2006 - 9:24:00 PM
Julie Smithson
Decorated Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming - Caps Year of Vindication for Skeptics
Don't beam me up just yet, Scotty; there may be intelligent life forms here, after all!
Oct 17, 2006 - 10:26:00 PM
Julie Smithson
Redford's ANWR Concern Flowery Fiction?
As children, the Play-Dough of our minds is easily molded and directed. Depending on who's doing the schooling, tomorrow's leaders can learn responsible stewardship or other views of the world and their place in it.
Sep 29, 2006 - 3:06:00 PM
Julie Smithson
Wolves as Radio-Collared Realtors?
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has forced large predators into becoming involuntary realtors.
Sep 5, 2006 - 7:55:00 AM
Julie Smithson
Wolves as Realtors
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has forced large predators into becoming involuntary realtors.
Sep 1, 2006 - 4:07:00 PM
Julie Smithson
An Extra Pet: Peeve
I have a wonderful pet, a dog that herds his toys instead of the cattle for which his breed is named. Wiggles is the only pet I own, but another pet has set up housekeeping in my daily life, and it's one I'd rather would find somewhere else to live.
Aug 28, 2006 - 8:26:00 PM
Julie Smithson
The Life of The Rileys?
They believed they were living "the life of Riley" in their retirement years. All that changed yesterday.
Aug 25, 2006 - 4:36:00 PM
Julie Smithson
Farmers Aren't 'Cute'
A recent Delta Farm Press article appears to suggest that farmers reinvent
themselves in order to compete with 'cute.' Mention is made of the "warm, fuzzy,
photogenic," etc., things that "endangered" species are, as though American
farmers would be more popular if only they could become 'cute.
Aug 24, 2006 - 8:45:00 PM
Julie Smithson
The Nature Conservancy a 'Conned' Servancy? How Conservation Appears to Equal Development
WEST JEFFERSON, OH -- A self-proclaimed "conservation" group that operated in the 1990s for more than three years on an expired charter is raising doubts about its motives and mission.
Aug 15, 2006 - 11:44:00 AM
Julie Smithson
ESA Steamroller and 'The Great Oz'
The insanity of how far some people are willing to go to steal other people's
freedom and property rights is seldom more clearly evident than this horrific
and true story about Blackey, Lady, Halley, Scott Richards and Byron Dunlop, and
the wolves that changed -- or ended -- their lives.
Jul 24, 2006 - 9:46:00 AM
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