The Boondocks blog, No. 39 for the week starting September 17, 2007.
Monday
Anazani Ruins, ATVs, and Reckless Use?
Are High Corn Prices Not Raising Food Pricing?
Obama Brings In the Rural Bucks
Energy looks at high energy prices and our future.
Enviroman looks at man and the environment.
Hayseeds looks at politics and life in our nation.
Individual looks at myself and how I'm changing
Outblog is all about my outdoor experiences.
Transit looks at the changing ways we get around.
Truck gives you stories and trips in my Ford Ranger.
Anazani Ruins, ATVs, and Reckless Use? What's the fastest way to get yourselves banned out of an area? To use your quad recklessly. As noted over on High County News GOAT Blog, some morons have lead to yet another series of trails to be closed because of reckless use.
Now Utah is nearly half a world away from New York, but the same is true with the reaon why we can't have an ATV trail—that an Assemblyman Joe Lentol in cohorts with the environmentalists always blocks Assemblyman Morelle's the bill.
It only takes a few minutes with a few morons to do a lot of damage for no reason at all. And when that happens we have closed trails. And if we go after those idiots and start shooting, they call the sherriff—who sides with them. Go figure. P'Link
Are High Corn Prices Not Raising Food Pricing? At least one study disagrees with that assertion that the higher corn prices are raising food prices.
These claims contain some truth that shields several decades of deception when it comesto the link between the price of corn and retail food prices. Although corn prices haverisen over the past year in part as a result of increased ethanol demand, the correlationbetween crop prices and retail grocery prices remains elusive. The prices farmers receivefor corn have risen this year, but over the past decade, the real price of corn has beenextremely low. During that period, livestock producers, slaughterhouses, and grocerymanufacturers benefited from artificially low corn prices but did not pass these savingson to consumers. Now, food and meat processors are using the ethanol smokescreen tojustify grocery price increases that are unlikely to decline when corn’s historicallyvolatile price falls.
Interesting. P'Link
Obama Brings In the Rural Bucks. Much like his previous campaign donations he's gotten so far topping the charts, the rural donations far exceed other candidates.
Other candidates doing good in rural areas are Romney, Clinton, mcCain, and Giuliani. Nothing too much different in urban or suburban areas. It's surpising to see how badly Republicans are doing in their own base areas for fundraising though—you'd think rural areas would be a place where they would get support. P'Link
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