The Nature Conservancy the second largest land owner in the United States!

The Nature Conservancy is the second largest land owner (119,000,000 acres, yes 119 million acres!!) in the United States, right behind the U. S. Federal Government. More than all native indian tribes. Way more than the largest private land owner (~ 2.0M acres). Why is that? Their charter is to buy and turn it over to the Feds so the public can use it, but that rarely happens. Recently a scandal with The Nature Conservancy had them selling land to trustees and supporters. We've personally seen that happen in South Dakota. In Fall River County, they won't let the public on their land, claiming they are keeping the land pristine. Except they have a bunkhouse on the premises that trustees and donors frequently use as their private playground.

Haiku's

Fall haiku:   

White stuff is coming.

Carbs are clean and snowmobile is running. 

Life is good.

Snowboard haiku:

Last day of the season.

Sixty degrees is sweet.

Endless winter is a myth.

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State of Fear

 Can you imagine what these climate doomsayers would have proclaimed if they were living through the Great Depression? "The sky is falling, the sky is falling"!

The climate on earth has fluctuated since the beginning of time immemorial. Ice ages, global warmings, inland seas mini Ice Ages in the 1800's, etc, etc.

The academic elites want you to live in a "State of Fear", so they can propagate dependance on the government that makes them rich.

Just the Right Hat

Grew up in Minnesota.  When I was 14 a Remington Arms sales rep moved in across the street.  His name was Art Wheaton.  Many, many great memories following Art around hunting grouse in northern Minnesota.  Just told a story about Art to my co-workers todayas a matter of fact.  

On the weekends in the fall when not duck hunting, we would tear up north to grouse hunt.  One of Art's insider tricks was to carry a full complement of implement dealer hats in the back window of his company stationwagon.  We would slowly drive by any likely hunting spots and he would look to see what type of farm equipment that particular farmer would have sitting in the yard.  Then he would rifle through is hat collection to find a matching implement brand.  With that hat on, he would go to the door and ask permission to hunt their land.  In all my time hunting with Art, I never saw him get turned down.

By the way, I still shoot the 1974 Remington 870 Wingmaster that Art Wheaton helped me buy.  Have never found the need for a different shotgun, while hunting the lakes and upland of Minnesota, the pheasant fields of central South Dakota to the sharptail habitat of western South Dakota where I now live.

Democratic Fascism

 Sounds like the Democrats to me.  Fascism – “Force and terror are combined with massive propaganda to further the interests of the state. 

In Fascist states, only the political party of the ruling elite is allowed. No form of dissent is tolerated and a highly developed secret police and informer system is used to ferret out and eliminate all opposition. 

Fascism rests upon two tenets utterly contrary to those of democracy: (1) the leadership principle and (2) statism:  Unchallenged power whom all must obey. The extreme expression of totalitarianism – the state embodies everything. In fascist doctrine, all matters, political, social, economic are subject to the state.

The left and their big tech allies created a "cancel culture" that led our children through indoctrination to behave as mini antagonists. They’re told to insult, assault, confront, shout down others, commit violence, falsely accuse, and manufacture phony scenarios about conservatives. In other words, no form of dissent or you’ll be accosted, jeered and lied about and financially ruined. 

Main stream media's main goal is the dissemination of massive propaganda. The Democrats placed informants and “secret police” (the FBI and IRS) in positions to harm conservatives, and to spy on to defeat Republican opponents.

Moral Compass

The Left's motto is "I do what I want, don't judge me".  And they want you to agree, regardless of your moral and sociological background.  In their opinion, there is no such thing as morality anymore, because they want no accountability to anyone or anything.

It's interesting to think people will post arguments thinking they will sway readers over to their side. 

Polarized, self-centric, opinionated thinking is so imbedded in our national conciousness now (with the help of social media), that all of you rant to no avail on deaf ears. 

The left condems religion in their "don't judge me, I do what I want" no moral-compass world-view bubble, regardless of the fallout to the greater good for the rest of mankind. 

Ultimately, a narcissistic, self-centered, self and world destroying appathetic existence.

The Armistice Day Blizzard -- Novermber 11, 1940

 Growing up in Minnesota as a kid and duck hunter, there definitely was a hushed lore about the "Armistice Day Blizzard". 

It all happend on Armistice Day -- Novermber 11, 1940.  Armistice Day commemorated the peace treaty signed between the Allies and Germany that ended WWI in 1918.

Thousands of waterfowlers across the Midwest hunted into the afternoon as clouds of snow and clouds of ducks filled the atmosphere. As the weather got worse, the duck hunting got better.  What was taking place was a collision of cold, dry polar air from Canada and warm, moist, subtropical air from the Gulf of Mexico. The result was a "perfect storm" blizzard that brought 2 feet of snow, 40 to 50 m.p.h. sustained winds (with gusts of 80), and a 30-degree temperature swing from above freezing to single digits.  The two weather collided with each other right over the midwest. 85 duck hunter died on that day.  

Now, I've seen large fronts come in and the wild birds will ride the front edge of the storm while heading south to to winter-over in more temperate climates. Once while hunting a slew in southern Minnesota, such a situation arose.  Got up early to hunt a public walk-in area near Sherburne, MN. As the sun came up, ducks would jump up and settle down in waves -- from one side of the slew to the other. 

I was shaking so bad when legal hunting time finally came, that I flock-shot the first group I saw and missed them all. But thereafter, did not take much time to fill out. Spent an hour or so sipping coffee from my thermos and waiting for the big swarm to rise up off the water. When it finally happend, what a sight to behold!  The sky was nearly blackened and the sun blotted out by the cloud of waterfowl rising to head south to warmer locals.  It was a glorious and once-in-a-lifetime sight!