Posted by
Dave Kooker on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:41:19 PM
I spent three great days with my son (Bryce) on this past Memorial weekend. Each day was a similar schedule. In the morning hours, we walked the dog Susie (American Bulldog) on our creek walks, which flow through the Willowbranch Park and the Boone Park (Jacksonville Florida). During the day, we kayaked the Cedar River and went swimming at the American Legion. At night, we walked the dog again and caught Leopard geckos on surfaces that face the city streetlights.
I never tire of my son’s nature treks. I truly enjoy watching my son catch & release and observe the animals on our nature adventures. He has an insatiable fascination for creatures great and small. Bryce caught fiddler crabs in the mornings and we observed many bullfrogs, fish, turtles, and snakes. On our Monday morning creek walk I almost stepped on a poisonous Copperhead snake. Note to self, buy Bryce a pair of boots for his protection. Also I was concerned about observing non-native fresh water fish swimming in the freshwater creeks. One of the fish looked like a Chinese Beta fish. I would assume that someone has dumped his or her unwanted aquarium fish into the Boone Park creek.
The Memorial weekend weather could not have been more perfect; mostly sunny skies, breezy, 91 Fahrenheit, and mid 80’s humidity. When I looked around the park, I realized that we were the only individuals enjoying the outdoors except for the tennis players. I began to wonder where are all the Liberal environmentally concerned citizens and their vehicles with the ‘Save The xxxxxxxxxxx (Name Your Animal Of Choice Here)’ bumper stickers plastered everywhere? On such a beautiful day and because our planet is going to die from climate change from us pesky humans you would think that the Liberal environmentalist would be enjoying the last few days of habitable weather before all of mankind perishes. Where are our Liberal environmentalist friends?
After lunch we loaded the tandem kayak on the nine-mile per gallon truck and headed to the American Legion for our kayak adventure. On the way we spotted our Liberal environmentalist friends caring about climate change while sipping on Starbucks products in a carbon creating A/C environment. I always wonder if the Liberal environmentalist have ever experienced nature beyond the cement boundaries of the sidewalk? Have they ever driven their un-maintained oil burning (belching) vehicles anywhere to personally experience nature? Does the Liberal caring mitigate the clouds of oil smoke belching out of their un-maintained vehicle(s)?
How is the Liberal environmentalist even going to have the vitality and ambition to experience nature living on a vegetarian carbohydrate starved diet and smoking Marijuana? Without even experiencing mother nature how does the Liberal environmentalist know what to save and how the mechanics of the environment works? I am sure the Greenpeace web site viewed on the Starbucks WIFI tells them everything the Liberal environmentalist needs to know.
So what is worse? A nine-mile a gallon truck that burns clean and can transport nature adventure equipment or a oil smoke belching vehichal and the ‘caring’ environmentalist consuming A/C? Yes I already know the answer. In the Liberal mind, it is about showing how much you care and appearances. In reality it is the individual who actually participates in the outdoors activities. Who wants to experience nature with pollution and evasive animal species but the Liberal environmentalist is unaware of their own natural surroundings what is endangered or what is healthy.
If any of you Liberal environmentalist ever venture outside to actually experience nature, that warm thing in the sky is called the sun. Please put on some sunscreen to cover that pasty white skin. If you do experience a sunburn, it is not due to climate change. Sunburns have been occurring as long as humans have existed.
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