tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57654522011-12-14T19:03:33.813-08:00SAVE US NOWEnvironmental Mental: Saving the World One Brain at a Time, Starting With MineScott Supaknoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1111173459942554182005-03-18T11:13:00.000-08:002005-03-18T11:17:39.943-08:00Questions for ChristiansWhile people who didn't help Terry while she was starving herself try to get the courts to force feed her today, Robin has started Questions for Christians to try to understand the hypocrisy of the religious right. Comments are open to anyone who wants to answer the questions. At least until we get Christian death threats.Scott Supaknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1110922952293518072005-03-15T13:38:00.000-08:002005-03-15T13:42:32.296-08:00Selfish, Shortsighted NeighborsThe selfish, shortsighted views of neighbors like [LA Times] letter writer Jim Blumel Sr. are why the Santa Clarita Valley, pristine little over a decade ago, now has some of the worst air in the country. It has to do with poor development planning of housing ( huge, thoughtless, waterless, tract housing owned by people that don’t even live here) and freeways, Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1109819042567686202005-03-02T19:00:00.000-08:002006-06-21T19:02:01.036-07:00Devotion Through Dignity:Hopes for the Memory of Terry Schiavo and Those Who Love Her.By Robin SupakTerry Schiavo’s tragically short life and equally tragic long death have touched me deeply. We are both forty-one year old white women, raised privileged Roman Catholic. We both entrusted a man with our lives and married him. The similarity abruptly ends there, because where I have a healthy Robinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1109820258226411072005-02-22T15:55:00.000-08:002005-03-02T19:24:18.226-08:00Re: “Opponents of ‘Clear Skies’ Bill Examined”, Feb 19Are anti-environmentalists extraterrestrial, selfish and childless, or just greedy?Andrew Wheeler, the majority staff director of the Environment and Public Works Committee, considers environmentalists “outside interests.” The funding, Wheeler said, “goes to who they’re speaking for.” Mr. Wheeler and Sen. Inhofe are clearly speaking for “Robinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1109820068946507962005-01-21T15:51:00.000-08:002005-03-04T09:59:33.130-08:00Re: Daily News “Eye for an eye” (Your Opinion, Jan.21)I’d like to respond to the letter writer who’s question was “Why don’t these people (that ‘get angry when the criminal system sends someone to die for his or her crime’) get angry at the criminal who thinks he is God by ending the life of others?” The answer is I do get angry. I am angered by unnecessary death, period. The evil, insanity, or Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1109819954743798652005-01-13T16:30:00.000-08:002005-03-02T19:19:14.743-08:00RE: LA Times “AQMD releases SCV smog study,” Jan. 13We in the SCV have some of the worst air in the nation, and the AQMD says it’s mostly not our fault. Travis Lange, Santa Clarita’s environmental services manager, is obviously relieved by that conclusion when he says “We had always understood that our ozone migrated here from other parts” and “The report pretty much says that air quality is oneRobinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1085855657346051562004-05-29T11:29:00.000-07:002004-05-29T11:35:45.216-07:00The Rose and Kettle RestaurantGourmet, fresh, often local and/or organic food is served at The Rose and Kettle in Cherry Valley, New York. If you're looking for a great Cooperstown restaurant for your trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame or the Glimmerglass Opera, you can't beat the gourmet dining in the Catskills at the Rose and Kettle, a gourmet upstate New York Restaurant.Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1071191437049864472003-12-11T17:10:00.000-08:002003-12-11T17:11:24.000-08:00New Ten Commandments:
1. Thou shalt not start wars.
2. Thou shalt not decimate the resources of the earth.
3. Thou shalt not pollute.
4. Thou shalt not shun nor exploit the poor or the weak.
5. Thou shalt not imprison people for growing plants.
6. Thou shalt not bring unwanted children into the world.
7. Thou shalt not dictate to whom one may marry.
8. Thou shalt not inflict pain upon Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1071191260258906272003-12-11T17:07:00.000-08:002003-12-11T17:43:09.310-08:00Connect the Dots Before It's Too Late!What a lousy week for fish. For us, too, if you think about it.
First the FDA says they won't regulate bioengineered fish due to an ..."absence of a clear risk to public health." ("In Reversal, FDA Says It Will Not Regulate Bioengineered Fish," Dec. 10) They prefer to wait and see how 'frankenfish' that are eaten by larger fish, then consumed by humans Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1109819735258801252003-09-18T21:48:00.000-07:002005-03-02T19:15:35.260-08:00Tell me, Mr. Summers, do you also consider laws against smoking in enclosed public places “copious busy body regulations?” No. Because unlike consensual sex, or getting your kid a puppy, other people not involved in the choice are negatively affected. “Liberty-loving Americans” have a right not to have their lungs harmed by someone else's choice. So why is your decision to drive a vehicle that Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1062635487581753992003-09-03T17:31:00.000-07:002004-02-12T23:47:14.200-08:00Re: “Go Ahead, Get Fresh” (LA Times, Food, Sept. 3, 2003)
L.A. may be “brimming” with fish, but the ocean is not. We have killed ninety percent of large ocean fish since fishing became industrialized after Word War II. Elliot Norse, president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) says, “If we give the oceans a chance now, we'll be able to take food from the sea for as long as Robinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765452.post-1109819461430775762003-05-22T20:37:00.000-07:002005-03-02T19:11:01.433-08:00Thanks to Sylvia Earle (LA Times, “Oceans Are in a World of Trouble”, May 20) for saying what I've been too mortified to articulate since reading Kenneth Weiss' "Seas Being Stripped of Big Fish, Study Finds", on May 15.The generally unfortunate aspect of saving the world's oceans is that it will take global cooperation to really make a difference, and that would take a miracle at this Robinnoreply@blogger.com0