A polygamist judge, who is being sought for removal from the bench by the Judicial Conduct Commission, says it is his constitutional right to practice consensual bigamy.
The Judge, Walter Steed, has three wives and 32 children.
The Commission’s reason for seeking removal of the Judge is that he is violating the state’s bigamy laws.
Not only is Steed breaking the law, he is taxing our planet’s resources by increasing the population in such volume. That is totally irresponsible.
Earlier in October, I wrote about Frederick, Maryland Alderman Green Candidate Joanne Ivancic:
Frederick, Maryland and Greens
More on Joanne Ivancic, Frederick, Maryland
Ivancic Media Coverage
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1st, is the election there.
You can read her answers to questions at:
Views on red light cameras
Positions on slots
Answers on ADA issues
Answers on infrastructure
A fellow Green recently hooked me up with Peace History – a service of peacebuttons.info.
This morning, this cartoon by Gark Huck came across:
I do not like to see ranchers private livestock grazing in public lands. It actually disgusts me to be driving through our national forests only to see bovines trampling through the streams and destroying plant life.
Hikers and backpackers are warned to not “trample” on cryptobiotic soil (and so you should see me and Tom jumping from rock to rock where possible in such places), yet ranchers are permitted to have their herds of cattle and sheep walk all over the sensitive soil just so they can get food to get fattened up more in preparation for their ultimate demise in the slaughterhouse.
However, I was glad to see in today’s Utah news that ranchers have banded together to allow the Utah Nature Conservancy to purchase conservation easements on their ranches instead of selling off land to developers. The land will reamin open in perpetuity, which is a good thing.
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Tagged conservation, environmnet, planet, public lands, ranching, veganism
Today we harvested all of our winter squash because of the forcasted frost for tonight. We also picked quite a lot of tomatoes and covered the rest. We have a lot of food for winter. We had a lot of fun with our gardent this summer!
I’ve updated our garden page. Here are a couple of photos from today:
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Now that Chlorophyll is back up (yay!), I’d like to revive a thread that was started on there about Green Reads.
I think it is an excellent idea to start a list of books that align with the Green Ten Key Values. So look for my list as I accumulate ideas from folks. It will appear as a link in my links sidebar.
Today was Tom and my wedding anniversary. And how did we spend it? With our students!
I am the advisor of the Social Committee at my school, City Academy and my students planned an awesome Halloween Party which consisted mostly of a totally cool haunted house. I totally let the students plan and implement their plan.
Here is a link to photos:
Halloween Party
Here are a few of my favs:
Foreign Nuclear Waste Arrives in Utah….er, uh, I mean radioactive “ore”.
I reported in early October on the announcement that
Utah will be receiving 500 tons of toxins from Japan
It’s happening. Truckloads of radioactive ore from Japan began arriving this week at International Uranium Corp.’s mill in San Juan County, reports the
Salt Lake Tribune.
The state of Utah has no ban on radioactive material from foreign sources. It also does not have an oversight on the import of such material.
Semantics sometimes means the difference between what is and what isn’t permitted.
Meanwhile, in other “waste” news, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is expected to to determine whether Envirocare is allowed to continue disposing of depleted uranium waste — or even dig up the depleted uranium already there, reports the Deseret News. Envirocare has accepted DU previously and it could become the burial site for many thousands of tons of the material to be generated by a uranium enrichment facility that Louisiana Energy Services is proposing to build in New Mexico.
The NRC will have to determine whether or not the waste is classified as “A” or “C” waste. “A” is more dangerous than “C”.
Of course the NRC claims that whatever decision it makes will be “prudent” and “safe”.
The oxymoron is that no “waste” or the transportation of such is “safe”.
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Tagged envirocare, nuclear regulatory commission, radioactive waste, Utah
The Real Rosa Parks:Inspiration for us all
The Real Rosa Parks
By Paul Rogat Loeb
We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin Luther King Day, I was interviewed on CNN. So was Rosa Parks, by phone from Los Angeles. ”We’re very honored to have her,” said the host. ”Rosa Parks was the woman who wouldn’t go to the back of the bus. She wouldn’t get up and give her seat in the white section to a white person. That set in motion the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery. It earned Rosa Parks the title of ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’ ”
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 