Posts from — April 2008

Good Professional Bird Photographers amaze me. I have tried it before and its a total discipline all of its own. You marry yourself to it or move on. More so than most photography, everything happens in an instant and then it is gone. I recently received an email with a link to photographer, Miguel Lasa’s site. I was floored by the images- just amazing. This guy has put his time in and done his homework.

I’d like to know where this Osprey is fishing too.

An interesting aside to the story about Nessie and Loch Ness, scientists have noticed a dramatic rise in green house gasses during this election year.

It appears that areas that are receiving the most campaign activity are also seeing huge spikes in green house gas levels. Initially scientists thought that most of the gas emissions were associated primarily with the GOP candidate but it appears now that the combined measurements taken from areas frequented by the Democratic candidates is nearly equal to those of the GOP.

Scientists suspect that recent anatomical changes displayed by the candidates could be playing a part. It appears that huge amounts of pressure appear to be forcing the upper cranium areas in, while massive build ups of carbon dioxide trying to escape are expanding the cheek and mouth areas to the point of bursting.

Campaign managers continue to ignore the scientists warnings citing that they are only theories and they have no credibility till the EPA, FDA and Homeland Security have had time to review the information and make a decision based on their recommendations. Scientists fear that if one of the candidates should “lock”, or fail to to release this pressure, the results could be catastrophic.

The theories and scenarios vary but this same group of scientists believe that while certain individuals can withstand various amounts of these pressures there is also the threat of outside influences, a terrorist attack for instance. A terrorist could easily launch an attack with a Bic pen exploding the candidate instantly. Scientists have begun work on a “valve” to safely relieve the pressure but Congress won’t pass a bill to further fund research so that project is currently at a stand still.

Note: The President has now classified sharp, pointed objects as WMD’s. Any country harboring this new class of WMD’s will be considered part of the “Axis of Evil” and dealt with accordingly.

After all these years of eluding cameras, contraptions and people, “Nessie” the Loch Ness monster may have fallen to the insidious evil, “global warming”. Robert Rines who has pursued the creature in the Loch for 37 years and is about to give up the hunt, fears that “Nessie” might have succumbed to the effects of global warming and drifted to the bottom of the lake. Its down there on the bottom that he hopes to concentrate his last effort of finding the final resting place of the famous serpent.

In light of this, fears are that this global catastrophe is much more advanced than even Al Gore anticipated. Rumor has it Gore is already at work on another publicity campaign, touring and selling “Nessie” t-shirts to help raise money to bring an end to the effects of “green house gasses”.