What does our right to bear arms,the young at heart, and NM 7th annual Chicken Festival have to do with…?
This is a long read. It’s even a longer read, if you go to thesun-news.com and review all the articles. Here’s a few clips to whet the appetite. Here’s a wonderful expresson of free press. This highly politicized rag providing multi viewpoint articles, keep in touch with another aspect of local heartbeat (particularly in this issue) with articles on health, and important news about the high plain prairie-chicken festival.
Fess up you probably know more about the UD Constitution than you do about prairie chickens or gut flora and fungus! Plus the doctor is a member of our Tibetan monk community! How cool is that? This intro to Santa Fe 405…yep this is the behind the scene you won’t hear much about in the town, but hurray for all the thinkers and supporters for this paper.
Why did I include an article about bearing arms? Especially as I am a pacifist and don’t like guns? Simple I love the constitution. It’s a good reread for all in one. Besides, if America faces too many internal trials, it may be wise to have those guns ready (watched a movie related to the subject). either way, we do have certain rights. Lately few government officials deem it important to uphold and protect the constitution or its citizens.
I am doing random reading and exploration on healthy gut and intestinal systems, so the article feeds those concerns. Did you know after 1 round of antibiotics, you need to take pro-biotics for 3 months? Your immune system depends on it! read on and think and then read the Sun News.
The Redundant Invididual Right to Own and Use Guns
by Brendan O’Brien
“A well regulated Militia, being
necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the STATE to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed.”
This would be nonsensical, especially
couched in the Bill of Rights.
The first ten amendments list numerous,
specific, and non-specific rights and
powers that individual persons have,
except for one? Yeah, right!
Suppose someday it was decided by a
vote, or even by an executive decision that
America no longer needed the reserve
component of the army known as the
National Guard, and it was then disbanded.
Could the National Guard then sue because
its rights were violated?
LOL! That’s a good one!
The militia, or National Guard is a
government POWER. It is not a right.
If you were to eliminate the subordinate
clause “A well regulated Militia, being
necessary to the security of a free state”
from the 2nd Amendment, which does not
even mention a right at all, you would still
have an independent clause which still
protects a right:
“The right of the People to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Even if the American people voted to
disband “Congress” as mentioned in the
1st Amendment, we all would still retain the
“individual rights” of freedom of speech,
religion, etc. mentioned in that amendment,
because a government does not grant
rights, rights are inherent. The same is
true that if we disbanded the “militia”
mentioned in the 2nd Amendment, we
would still retain the “individual right” to
keep and bear arms…..
for the Young at Heart Pt. 3
In the last article Dr. Fitzpatrick
mentioned some of the grim toxicities we,
as a society have created, and how they
are interfering with our health. Today she
talks about the resiliency of our bodies
and some guidelines for us as
environmentalists.
The call to action is to
understand your precious internal
ecosystem and to support and maintain it.
As with any ecosystem, our bodies are
resilient and have built in ways to detoxify
and rebuild.
All healthy living systems have the
capacity to restore and rebuild. By
cleaning, detoxifying and
re balancing our internal ecosystems we
insure the improved health of the next
generation of cells, tissues and organ
systems.
Here are some guidelines for us as
environmentalists to follow as we
approach care and maintenance of our
beings.
First, avoid exposure to any and all
chemicals. Remember that exposure occurs
through what you eat and drink but also
through your lungs and skin. Read labels.
Do not consume through your mouth or
skin anything you cannot pronounce or
spell! If you do not know what an
ingredient is, what it looks like or where it
comes from, avoid it!
Second, we must stop the relentless war
on germs !!
Bacteria and fungi are the very matrix
of life on earth. Our intestines should
contain 8-12 lbs. of bacteria! The GI tract is
home to 100,000 billion bacteria at any point
in time. Considering that the average
person has 10,000 billion human cells in
his or her body, one could say there are
more of “them than us.” These precious
intestinal bacteria cover the intestinal cells
which are the only barrier between what
you take in from the outside and what you
absorb into your many systems. In health,
these bacteria detoxify carcinogens,
produce vitamin precursors, and fully
New Mexico’s 7th Annual High
Plains Prairie-Chicken Festival
by Tish Mc Daniels
hey hear you are going to the prairiechicken
festival is
“You’re going to a
chicken festival? “
Then, lots of silly
clucking sounds and
then “And where is
Milnesand?” Well, it
turns out that
Milnesand is in
southeastern New
Mexico, in the heart of
the Southern Great
Plains, the traditional
breeding grounds of the lesser prairiechicken
(a relative of the sharp-tailed
grouse). Every year in mid-April or so the
males perform a mating ritual on breeding
grounds called “leks” that involves puffing
up bright red air sacs on the sides of their
heads, fluffing up their tail feathers,
stomping their feet, and calling, all in an
attempt to attract mates from the few females
that stroll seemingly uncaring by the
revved-up contenders.
The lesser prairie-chicken was once
abundant in New Mexico, Colorado,
Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas
panhandle. Its’ numbers have declined an
estimated 90% since the 1800’s primarily
due to alteration of habitat for ranching and
agriculture (www.audubon2.org/ watchlist/
viewSpecies.jsp?id=122 - 25k). The lesser
prairie-chicken is a candidate for listing
under the Endangered Species Act.
Nothing made the bird’s dilemma more clear
than seeing a photo of a lone male
Attwater’s prairie-chicken (an even more
endangered species) performing on a lek
where dozens once would have been, with
not another bird in sight. This could be the
fate of the lesser prairie-chicken.
The festival has
been held for the past
seven years, in an
attempt to educate the
public about the
dwindling population
of prairie-chickens. It
is put on by the NM
Department of Game
and Fish in
cooperation with the
Nature Conservancy
of New Mexico,
Grasslans Charitable Foundation, the
Community of Milnesand, and others. The
cost of the two-day festival includes five
delicious meals and coffee and donuts on
Saturday and Sunday for bleary-eyed
birders who rise at 4:00am or so to climb
into vans to go view the birds doing their
thing on the leks. Also included are late
morning and afternoon field tours like
Ecology of prairie dogs, Ecology of playa
lakes, or guided birding tours. Various
activities and demonstrations are offered
around the community center before the
afternoon tours. Some, (like me) just plain
collapse from exhaustion and instead of
watching knapping demonstrations, decide
to do a bit of the other kind of napping. But
it really is fun, trust me, and it certainly
makes it clear how truly worthwhile it is to
conserve the habitat of the lesser prairiechicken.
For information on next year’s festival
contact the festival co-coordinator, Tish
McDaniel at (575) 762-6997 or
chickenfestival@yahoo.com.
New Mexico’s 7th Annual High
Plains Prairie-Chicken Festival
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