Thoughts From the Periphery: 8/1/12

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Contrary to any hopes to the contrary, Sandspur has not fallen down a rabbit hole

For those of you who might hope Sandspur has gone silent, be not so encouraged. I have merely become distracted by my muscadine grape operation and trying to help the City of Brooksville return to a somewhat sustainable economy.

The Terminator, determined

For those of you who might hope I’ll soon be back (which I know is a wild assumption), I plan to return to the business of bugling to the digital winds all that is fast becoming a disaster wrought by the reign of chief-private-sector-CEO-and-ersatz-governor of our Great State of Florida, Rick Scott, shortly.

Gen. MacArthur returns

Sans pipe and khakis but otherwise as determined as Gen. MacArthur and as inevitable as the Terminator, I’ll be back … soon.

... Isaac notwithstanding.

SWFWMD matters

Our present political mindset has carried us away from a rational appreciation for the irrefutable relationship between a healthy natural environment and economic wellbeing. It is fundamental that one will not survive without the other. SWFWMDmatters is a Blog about the intentional trashing of Florida's environmental conscience by today's conservative politics and what can happen if we don't become newly refocused upon promoting, protecting, and preserving a healthy natural Florida. The state's economic future is at risk.

- Sandspur

Vietnam Helicopter Crews

"Helicopter casualties constitute a very high representation, percentage-wise, of ANC (Arlington National Cemetery) Vietnam War burials. According to the CoffeltGroup database there are 2,590 Vietnam War KIAs buried in this sacred cemetery, and of those KIA, pilot casualties make up over 9 percent. If one assumes non-pilot crewmember internments possess the same ratio, some 20 percent of Vietnam KIAs buried in Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) died while serving in rotary-wing aircraft."

“The
VHPA Aviator” - Issue 34-01 ~ January/February 2015

Grover Norquist

... the Norquist pledge is the worst thing ever to hit American politics. We are sacrificing America to stay elected. Without investments in our own house (roads, bridges, education, water, wastewater, energy, etc.), it will collapse. This is not a socialist notion. It is simply good business practice every good businessman practices.

Sandspur
02.04.12

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

George Orwell

Impaired Water Bodies

How many impaired water bodies does the state of Florida have?

According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) 2010 Integrated Water Quality Assessment for Florida (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss528), approximately 1,918 miles of rivers and streams (about 8% of assessed river and stream miles) and 378,435 acres of lakes (about 26% of assessed lake acres) were identified as impaired by nutrients. In addition, lakes, rivers, and streams classified as impaired increased 3% compared with the 2008 Water Quality Assessment. The extent of impairment may eventually be higher because not all of Florida's water bodies had been assessed as of 2010. Nutrients were ranked as the fourth major source of impairment for rivers and streams (after dissolved oxygen, mercury in fish, and fecal coliform contamination). For lakes and estuaries, nutrients ranked first and second, respectively.

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