Julie Smithson Unpack!
If this question were posed to most Americans today: Would you embrace the concept of losing your property rights and entire region's economy? The answer would be a resounding "No!"
Jun 14, 2009 - 3:18:09 PM
Julie Smithson Klamath Dams will Save a Republic
"A Republic, if you can keep it," replied Benjamin Franklin in 1787 to a query about what form of government was America's. Franklin knew the pressure that would be brought to bear against the fledgling Republic. "Pressure makes diamonds" is the saying, and pressure to be free made America a diamond, but in the case of America's hydropower -- her dams -- pressure seems to be creating breaches of ethics. The diamond may soon shatter under inestimable pressure.
Dec 17, 2008 - 10:39:53 AM
Julie Smithson Dam the Torpedos? Torpedoing the Dams ... and Much More
So, the hammer finally, officially fell on the Klamath Basin. Oh, the year 2020 makes it sound somehow less final to most, but the end result is the desired result: The people of the Klamath Basin and their honest, proud way of life are soon to be gone, swept away on the utterly false premise-current that fish cannot live and thrive with dams.
Nov 15, 2008 - 10:00:17 PM
Julie Smithson Property Owner Seeks Grounds to Sue (Satire)
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii - A Hawaiian coffee farm is threatening to sue an admitted coffee aficionado for "setting up camp" just outside the entrance to its property.
Nov 9, 2008 - 12:07:36 AM
Julie Smithson The Paulson Buffet
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 27-28, 2008) - Congress woos voters with a rare "weekend session" held not long after it voted itself a five weeks off -- and just before it goes missing until after the November elections.
Sep 29, 2008 - 11:30:07 PM
Julie Smithson Just the Ticket!
Fantasy Dateline: America, November 11, 2011 - President Sarah Louise Heath Palin, sworn in one year ago, after the death of President McCain due to a recurrence of skin cancer, has announced her selection of a running mate for the 2012 presidential campaign: bowhunter rocker Ted Nugent.
Sep 2, 2008 - 11:20:24 AM
Julie Smithson We're Watching, Too
What's so difficult about supporting us good guys/gals? You can't afford not to support us, but that's often the case. We starve, the bad guys jet hither and yon, the armchair politicians rant and rave about "change," unwilling to do more than rant, rave and babble. Go figure.
Aug 4, 2008 - 11:45:23 AM
Julie Smithson The Vital Species Act (VSA)
This suggested piece of legislation, appropriately dubbed the Vital Species Act, or VSA, could scarcely be better timed for introduction, debate and quick passage in the U.S. Congress.
Jul 15, 2008 - 8:12:31 AM
Julie Smithson Dams on the Klam(ath)
Would that PacifiCorp and its customers would all stand on their hind legs and STSSTTS: Send The Settlement Straight To The Shredder!
Jul 14, 2008 - 2:20:57 PM
Julie Smithson It Takes a Dot Gov to 'Raise Awareness'
"The Wildlands Project." The phrase is familiar to many and elicits a roll of the eyes, and perhaps a comment referring to "the black helicopter crowd," from others. These reactions should be perceived more as a lack of knowledge rather than anything demeaning, for language can be deceiving.
Jul 9, 2008 - 9:08:20 PM
Julie Smithson Glimpse of Helen
I hope you will enjoy this recollection of mine regarding a glimpse into a dear friend's life that I was blessed to experience in November 2001.
Jul 9, 2008 - 11:55:04 AM
Julie Smithson The Hairy Reed - Satire
The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) has received a petition to list the hairy reed as an artificial species under the Artificial Species Act of 2008 (ASA).
Jun 23, 2008 - 10:51:52 AM
Julie Smithson Deserting Their Jobs
Most will agree that actions by current and recent White House occupants and the U.S. Congress are at least partly to blame for the current abominable situation in America.
Jun 14, 2008 - 8:52:42 PM
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 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 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 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 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 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
