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Jobless rate drops to 8.5%... Obama winks at Michelle and does his happydance... O! Mamma!
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Are their happy days here again?
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
It is Saturday, January 7, 2012 as I write. The nation's air waves and print publications are filled with stories about Republicans. About today's flash-in-the-pan former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum... about the Boston Globe endorsing former Utah governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman over Boston's not-so-favorite son former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Bummer, but what can you expect from that crowd anyway?
Despite that little drawback, it's the Romney people who are cock-a-hoop this morning not only because they are ecstatic to be running against a pigmy like Santorum, whose friends and neighbors in Pennsylvania refused him -- and by a huge number -- a third U.S. senate term. Even better today's latest poll results show Romney still romping to an avalanche in the crucial New Hampshire primary, and, lordy, lordy, way out in front in what could be the make-or-break primary in South Carolina. I hear Mitt's got all those toothsome boys of his learning to deliver a winsome a cappella version of "Hail to the Chief." Cute.
If all this is so -- and I assure you it is -- why did one Barrack Obama, after seeing a certain news item on the front page of all the newspapers he reads with voracity, take Michelle in his arms and whirl her about the breakfast room letting those delicious blueberry scones he loves get cold?
It's because of this single number: 8.5%. And you don't have to be a political junkie to know what it means: It's the latest piece of welcome news... in what is getting to be a lengthening string of such news... because every time the jobless rate drops the political fortunes of Barrack Obama go up. Let's review the facts that make the First Mom and Dad so awfully cheerful, even giddy.
8.5% unemployment means the lowest rate in almost 3 years.
Barrack Obama is a very fortunate man, a man who can say to America, with complete factual accuracy, too, that "You've never -- at least in my Administration -- had it so good."
The nation added a tidy 200,000 jobs in December, 2011, a burst of hiring that drove the unemployment rate down to its lowest point in just under 3 years. Tra la!
Moreover, December was the sixth straight month that the economy added at least 100,000 jobs, the longest such streak since 2006. As a result of this happy-making data, more and more practitioners of the dismal science have resoundingly concluded there's a dance in the old dame America yet.
What makes a weak and vulnerable president purr with contentment?
Just this. The unemployment rate declined to 8.5% from 8.7% in November, and 9.1 percent at the start of 2011. The jobless rate peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009.
These numbers made Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands, positively rapturous. "There is more horsepower to this economy than most believe. The stars are aligned right for a meaningful economic recovery." Obama when he read this was heard to mutter "From your lips to God's ear" and beamed a mega-watt smile that had been little seen throughout the early days of his watch.
More good news.
But heart-warming though all these data were to the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they were only a portion of the good news arising from grass roots America. For instance, the nation added 1.6 million jobs in 2011, on top of 940,000 added in 2010. Mind you, more than 8,000,000 jobs were lost in the Great Recession that began in December, 2007... but this figure was History (and therefore of no interest) whereas the jobs added were very much about the present and give the President credibility when he launches into a rousing rendition of Franklin Roosevelt's iconic ditty, "Happy Days Are Here Again," the tune that always means we have something good to smile about, wide and broad, and which you can find in any search engine, to play along with this article.
The pretzeling of presidents; their dexterity with astonishing contortions.
Now President Obama knows... every Republican presidential candidate knows... every member of the Congress knows, whatever party they adhere to, that the good news is only part of the report, but what's a politician for if he can't take a crumb and turn it into a bakery?
Take this bothersome conclusion, for instance, the considered opinion of Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He said just a couple of days ago that he expects the economy to grow modestly this year -- 2 to 3 percent -- despite signs of building momentum.
The reason for this deflating opinion is that households and small businesses were especially hard hit during the recent economic turbulence now widely called the Great Recession. Until these sectors improve and get distance from their particular issues of foreclosure and falling house prices, the recovery won't be as glittering as you can be sure Obama and the Democrats will paint it. You can be equally sure Mitt Romney will be assiduous, morning and eve, about pointing out this and every lapse from the strict Truth.
Keep in mind that Mitt, too, is a close reader of these data and learned predictions. And more to the point, as a business wunderkind, practiced in high level (and very lucrative) leggerdomaine, he is the more likely to glean helpful suggestions and ideas from what he sees than Obama, who was a mere lawyer (albeit, like Mitt, Harvard trained.)
Thus, whatever Rosengren and his ilk recommend, Mitt will (with alacrity) recommend... while strongly censoring Obama and his minions for not having acted. Rosengren wants the Obama Administration to do more to stimulate the economy.... Mitt does, too, whilst Obama (whatever he has done) has done it too little, too late. Rosengren says the housing market and small business should be a particular focus, because these two sectors have traditionally lead the nation out of recession and unemployment... but not this time round. Mitt says ominously that is because of Obama's ineptitude and lack of vision. Obama will point to what he has done for those folks... who were always in his mind,his heart, and his political calculus. He well knows he needs these people, especially with the acute disappointment and chagrin of Blacks, Liberals, and young voters (with high unemployment rates) who were once wild for Barrack but now mutter darkly about how they were hoodwinked and deceived by their hero and his mastery of high sounding, flatulent rhetoric.
And so it will go, ad nauseam, until our can't-come-quickly-enough-for-me November Election Day confirms what most of us already feel in our bones...
... that the President will defeat Mitt in a solid but not overwhelming victory.
... that both houses of the Congress will be comfortably Republican.
... that Obama's second term will be in such slow motion and so undistinguished you'll think the White House Sleeping Beauty's castle, all asleep.
What then should der Mittster do, when he's handed the worthless presidential nomination of his splintered party? Easy. He should tell the truth, the straight-forward, unvarnished truth about where this country is going and offer SPECIFIC proposals of the type congenial to policy wonks like him. In this role the Romney too few like to make him President will become respected and even admired, his considerable merits at last put to proper and significant work, saving America as he once saved the Olympics; greatly honored by all who love the Great Republic and wish her Godspeed.
*** What do you think? Your comments are invited below.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Commission AutoPilot -> http://silver45b.comauto.hop.clickbank.net
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So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of you
Are their happy days here again?
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
It is Saturday, January 7, 2012 as I write. The nation's air waves and print publications are filled with stories about Republicans. About today's flash-in-the-pan former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum... about the Boston Globe endorsing former Utah governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman over Boston's not-so-favorite son former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Bummer, but what can you expect from that crowd anyway?
Despite that little drawback, it's the Romney people who are cock-a-hoop this morning not only because they are ecstatic to be running against a pigmy like Santorum, whose friends and neighbors in Pennsylvania refused him -- and by a huge number -- a third U.S. senate term. Even better today's latest poll results show Romney still romping to an avalanche in the crucial New Hampshire primary, and, lordy, lordy, way out in front in what could be the make-or-break primary in South Carolina. I hear Mitt's got all those toothsome boys of his learning to deliver a winsome a cappella version of "Hail to the Chief." Cute.
If all this is so -- and I assure you it is -- why did one Barrack Obama, after seeing a certain news item on the front page of all the newspapers he reads with voracity, take Michelle in his arms and whirl her about the breakfast room letting those delicious blueberry scones he loves get cold?
It's because of this single number: 8.5%. And you don't have to be a political junkie to know what it means: It's the latest piece of welcome news... in what is getting to be a lengthening string of such news... because every time the jobless rate drops the political fortunes of Barrack Obama go up. Let's review the facts that make the First Mom and Dad so awfully cheerful, even giddy.
8.5% unemployment means the lowest rate in almost 3 years.
Barrack Obama is a very fortunate man, a man who can say to America, with complete factual accuracy, too, that "You've never -- at least in my Administration -- had it so good."
The nation added a tidy 200,000 jobs in December, 2011, a burst of hiring that drove the unemployment rate down to its lowest point in just under 3 years. Tra la!
Moreover, December was the sixth straight month that the economy added at least 100,000 jobs, the longest such streak since 2006. As a result of this happy-making data, more and more practitioners of the dismal science have resoundingly concluded there's a dance in the old dame America yet.
What makes a weak and vulnerable president purr with contentment?
Just this. The unemployment rate declined to 8.5% from 8.7% in November, and 9.1 percent at the start of 2011. The jobless rate peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009.
These numbers made Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands, positively rapturous. "There is more horsepower to this economy than most believe. The stars are aligned right for a meaningful economic recovery." Obama when he read this was heard to mutter "From your lips to God's ear" and beamed a mega-watt smile that had been little seen throughout the early days of his watch.
More good news.
But heart-warming though all these data were to the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they were only a portion of the good news arising from grass roots America. For instance, the nation added 1.6 million jobs in 2011, on top of 940,000 added in 2010. Mind you, more than 8,000,000 jobs were lost in the Great Recession that began in December, 2007... but this figure was History (and therefore of no interest) whereas the jobs added were very much about the present and give the President credibility when he launches into a rousing rendition of Franklin Roosevelt's iconic ditty, "Happy Days Are Here Again," the tune that always means we have something good to smile about, wide and broad, and which you can find in any search engine, to play along with this article.
The pretzeling of presidents; their dexterity with astonishing contortions.
Now President Obama knows... every Republican presidential candidate knows... every member of the Congress knows, whatever party they adhere to, that the good news is only part of the report, but what's a politician for if he can't take a crumb and turn it into a bakery?
Take this bothersome conclusion, for instance, the considered opinion of Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He said just a couple of days ago that he expects the economy to grow modestly this year -- 2 to 3 percent -- despite signs of building momentum.
The reason for this deflating opinion is that households and small businesses were especially hard hit during the recent economic turbulence now widely called the Great Recession. Until these sectors improve and get distance from their particular issues of foreclosure and falling house prices, the recovery won't be as glittering as you can be sure Obama and the Democrats will paint it. You can be equally sure Mitt Romney will be assiduous, morning and eve, about pointing out this and every lapse from the strict Truth.
Keep in mind that Mitt, too, is a close reader of these data and learned predictions. And more to the point, as a business wunderkind, practiced in high level (and very lucrative) leggerdomaine, he is the more likely to glean helpful suggestions and ideas from what he sees than Obama, who was a mere lawyer (albeit, like Mitt, Harvard trained.)
Thus, whatever Rosengren and his ilk recommend, Mitt will (with alacrity) recommend... while strongly censoring Obama and his minions for not having acted. Rosengren wants the Obama Administration to do more to stimulate the economy.... Mitt does, too, whilst Obama (whatever he has done) has done it too little, too late. Rosengren says the housing market and small business should be a particular focus, because these two sectors have traditionally lead the nation out of recession and unemployment... but not this time round. Mitt says ominously that is because of Obama's ineptitude and lack of vision. Obama will point to what he has done for those folks... who were always in his mind,his heart, and his political calculus. He well knows he needs these people, especially with the acute disappointment and chagrin of Blacks, Liberals, and young voters (with high unemployment rates) who were once wild for Barrack but now mutter darkly about how they were hoodwinked and deceived by their hero and his mastery of high sounding, flatulent rhetoric.
And so it will go, ad nauseam, until our can't-come-quickly-enough-for-me November Election Day confirms what most of us already feel in our bones...
... that the President will defeat Mitt in a solid but not overwhelming victory.
... that both houses of the Congress will be comfortably Republican.
... that Obama's second term will be in such slow motion and so undistinguished you'll think the White House Sleeping Beauty's castle, all asleep.
What then should der Mittster do, when he's handed the worthless presidential nomination of his splintered party? Easy. He should tell the truth, the straight-forward, unvarnished truth about where this country is going and offer SPECIFIC proposals of the type congenial to policy wonks like him. In this role the Romney too few like to make him President will become respected and even admired, his considerable merits at last put to proper and significant work, saving America as he once saved the Olympics; greatly honored by all who love the Great Republic and wish her Godspeed.
*** What do you think? Your comments are invited below.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Commission AutoPilot -> http://silver45b.comauto.hop.clickbank.net
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'Some of these days, you're gonna miss me....
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:.'Some of these days, you're gonna miss me....
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of you
Are we living the waning days of the great African elephant?
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. In 1911 Shelton Brooks wrote and composed a tune that became the signature song for the "Last of the Red-Hot Mamas", Sophie Tucker. There wasn't a woman alive (not a girl, mind, but a card-carrying woman) who didn't love Tucker for getting up off her backside and singing it like it is... about the woman who gave so much, only to be discarded and spurned by her man... the man who thereby let you know he was on his way to other places, other people. And so as Sophie got up and belted out the words, you knew she was singing for you...
"Some of these days. You're gonna miss me honey/" Some of these days. You're gonna feel so lonely."
And no matter how demur and sweet you were, when Sophie sang this strident song, a declaration of intent, you got up and sang it with her, yeah even if you were an arthritic 88... because you were angry about that no good man; because you were hurtin'... because you needed to make it clear you were still here, still desirable, still alive... and that your best days were not in the past... but just around the corner.
Sophie's song was liberating, cathartic, a soul-lifter, helping you get through the lonely days and even lonelier nights... so you could get up and keep going.
If only the elephants had a defender like Sophie Tucker... and a tune like this one.which you'll easily find in any search engine)... maybe they wouldn't be facing extinction by 2020. But they don't... and that's just one more reason for despair....
2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants.
Let's be clear about something: specialists have known for some time, and have regularly reported, that the end of the elephants is at hand unless radical action is taken and taken NOW. One of the greatest creatures on our Third Rock from the Sun, the elephant, is about to go the way of all flesh... only a comparative handful of bullets now stand between them and total, complete, irrevocable extinction. The latest installment of this tragedy is being reported now.
On December 29, 2011, for instance, Tom Milliken, an elephant and rhino specialist for the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC said, "2011 has truly been a horrible year for elephants." Why? For the usual reason: ivory. 2011 was the worst year on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, so bad that the world is just 8 short years away from being present when the last great elephant is shot... thereby demonstrating yet again how unfit we humans are for the task of saving this planet and its creatures, wiped out one by one because of our proven ineptitude and malfeasance.
It's all about the ivory.
Milliken is clear and emphatic about the problem: "In 23 years of compiling ivory seizure data... 2011 is the worst year ever for large ivory seizures." As many as 3000 elephants were killed by poachers in the last year, a figure of horror... pushing these elephants, bullet by bullet... into a future without their majesty and wonder,
In one case in early December, Malaysian authorities seized hundreds of African elephant tusks valued at $1.3 million that were being shipped to Cambodia. The ivory was hidden in containers of Kenyan handicrafts. Per usual, avarice was in the driver's seat. Particularly in Asia....
Experts agree that most of the outrages nowadays involve ivory being smuggled from Africa into Asia, where growing wealth has fed the desire for Ivory ornaments and for rhino horn that is used in traditional medicine, though scientists proved long ago that it has no medicinal value whatsoever. And so African elephants die to provide gimcrackery for the nouveau riche and fake medicine for the credulous and duped. Yes, for such trivial causes do these great elephants die...
TRAFFIC said Asian crime syndicates are increasingly involved in poaching and the illegal ivory trade across Africa, a trend that coincides with growing Asian investment on the continent. From his headquarters in Zimbabwe Milliken said, "The escalation in ivory trade and elephant and rhino killing is being driven by the Asian syndicates that are now firmly enmeshed within African societies.There are more Asians than ever before in the history of the continent, and this is one of the repercussions." Tom Milliken is a brave man; these syndicates cannot like these words... and it is easy, so easy, to shoot one bullet in the night into an elephant -- or into the good people like Milliken who try to protect them and so notify the world about what's going on.
Fewer elephants every single day and less hope for the future.
By the end of this day another 25 elephants will die... and with their passing there will be even less chance to preserve the survivors. The problem is acute in Congo, northern Kenya, southern Tanzania, and northern Mozambique... and most of all, in Chad where the elephant population is at crisis level, worsening with every passing day as their dwindling numbers make clear.
For instance, in the 1980's experts estimated the total population of African elephants around 1 million, with 70,000 elephants being killed a year. Now, at the commencement of 2012, their numbers are less than 470,000 with poachers more ardent and determined as elephants move closer to extinction. Poachers sense they must act now... or never. Thus, authorities seized at least 13 large seizures in 2011... compared to 6 in 2010.
And as the elephant goes, so go all the creatures dependent on it.
Earth is a series of interlocking networks; we are all dependent on others who, in turn, are dependent on us. Thus as the elephants die, their essential work of opening habitats for other species is diminished; and so the fate of one becomes the fate of many until there is crisis and extinction for all.
The African elephant is at the crucial tipping point where, soon, it will be too late to change the course of events. We are close, so very close to this moment, but the important thing is that we are not there yet. We can still, just now, make a difference by...
* Writing to the President of the United States and urging his immediate action.
* Sending a few bucks to TRAFFIC and the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
* Asking your Congressman and Senator to introduce resolutions on the matter.
* Getting the kids in your school to sign a petition, then sending it to your mayor and asking for a "Save the Elephants" Day.
Get the picture?. We must not allow what could now so easily happen, allowing the African elephant to go gentle into this good-night. We must fight, fight against the waning of the light, like Dylan Thomas wrote.... and as Sophie Tucker sang...
for "when you leave me, I know it will grieve me You'll miss your little baby Yes, some of these days."
Let's all do our bit at once so we never have to grieve, in these or any other days...
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Commission AutoPilot -> http://silver45b.comauto.hop.clickbank.net
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I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:.'Some of these days, you're gonna miss me....
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of you
Are we living the waning days of the great African elephant?
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. In 1911 Shelton Brooks wrote and composed a tune that became the signature song for the "Last of the Red-Hot Mamas", Sophie Tucker. There wasn't a woman alive (not a girl, mind, but a card-carrying woman) who didn't love Tucker for getting up off her backside and singing it like it is... about the woman who gave so much, only to be discarded and spurned by her man... the man who thereby let you know he was on his way to other places, other people. And so as Sophie got up and belted out the words, you knew she was singing for you...
"Some of these days. You're gonna miss me honey/" Some of these days. You're gonna feel so lonely."
And no matter how demur and sweet you were, when Sophie sang this strident song, a declaration of intent, you got up and sang it with her, yeah even if you were an arthritic 88... because you were angry about that no good man; because you were hurtin'... because you needed to make it clear you were still here, still desirable, still alive... and that your best days were not in the past... but just around the corner.
Sophie's song was liberating, cathartic, a soul-lifter, helping you get through the lonely days and even lonelier nights... so you could get up and keep going.
If only the elephants had a defender like Sophie Tucker... and a tune like this one.which you'll easily find in any search engine)... maybe they wouldn't be facing extinction by 2020. But they don't... and that's just one more reason for despair....
2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants.
Let's be clear about something: specialists have known for some time, and have regularly reported, that the end of the elephants is at hand unless radical action is taken and taken NOW. One of the greatest creatures on our Third Rock from the Sun, the elephant, is about to go the way of all flesh... only a comparative handful of bullets now stand between them and total, complete, irrevocable extinction. The latest installment of this tragedy is being reported now.
On December 29, 2011, for instance, Tom Milliken, an elephant and rhino specialist for the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC said, "2011 has truly been a horrible year for elephants." Why? For the usual reason: ivory. 2011 was the worst year on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, so bad that the world is just 8 short years away from being present when the last great elephant is shot... thereby demonstrating yet again how unfit we humans are for the task of saving this planet and its creatures, wiped out one by one because of our proven ineptitude and malfeasance.
It's all about the ivory.
Milliken is clear and emphatic about the problem: "In 23 years of compiling ivory seizure data... 2011 is the worst year ever for large ivory seizures." As many as 3000 elephants were killed by poachers in the last year, a figure of horror... pushing these elephants, bullet by bullet... into a future without their majesty and wonder,
In one case in early December, Malaysian authorities seized hundreds of African elephant tusks valued at $1.3 million that were being shipped to Cambodia. The ivory was hidden in containers of Kenyan handicrafts. Per usual, avarice was in the driver's seat. Particularly in Asia....
Experts agree that most of the outrages nowadays involve ivory being smuggled from Africa into Asia, where growing wealth has fed the desire for Ivory ornaments and for rhino horn that is used in traditional medicine, though scientists proved long ago that it has no medicinal value whatsoever. And so African elephants die to provide gimcrackery for the nouveau riche and fake medicine for the credulous and duped. Yes, for such trivial causes do these great elephants die...
TRAFFIC said Asian crime syndicates are increasingly involved in poaching and the illegal ivory trade across Africa, a trend that coincides with growing Asian investment on the continent. From his headquarters in Zimbabwe Milliken said, "The escalation in ivory trade and elephant and rhino killing is being driven by the Asian syndicates that are now firmly enmeshed within African societies.There are more Asians than ever before in the history of the continent, and this is one of the repercussions." Tom Milliken is a brave man; these syndicates cannot like these words... and it is easy, so easy, to shoot one bullet in the night into an elephant -- or into the good people like Milliken who try to protect them and so notify the world about what's going on.
Fewer elephants every single day and less hope for the future.
By the end of this day another 25 elephants will die... and with their passing there will be even less chance to preserve the survivors. The problem is acute in Congo, northern Kenya, southern Tanzania, and northern Mozambique... and most of all, in Chad where the elephant population is at crisis level, worsening with every passing day as their dwindling numbers make clear.
For instance, in the 1980's experts estimated the total population of African elephants around 1 million, with 70,000 elephants being killed a year. Now, at the commencement of 2012, their numbers are less than 470,000 with poachers more ardent and determined as elephants move closer to extinction. Poachers sense they must act now... or never. Thus, authorities seized at least 13 large seizures in 2011... compared to 6 in 2010.
And as the elephant goes, so go all the creatures dependent on it.
Earth is a series of interlocking networks; we are all dependent on others who, in turn, are dependent on us. Thus as the elephants die, their essential work of opening habitats for other species is diminished; and so the fate of one becomes the fate of many until there is crisis and extinction for all.
The African elephant is at the crucial tipping point where, soon, it will be too late to change the course of events. We are close, so very close to this moment, but the important thing is that we are not there yet. We can still, just now, make a difference by...
* Writing to the President of the United States and urging his immediate action.
* Sending a few bucks to TRAFFIC and the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
* Asking your Congressman and Senator to introduce resolutions on the matter.
* Getting the kids in your school to sign a petition, then sending it to your mayor and asking for a "Save the Elephants" Day.
Get the picture?. We must not allow what could now so easily happen, allowing the African elephant to go gentle into this good-night. We must fight, fight against the waning of the light, like Dylan Thomas wrote.... and as Sophie Tucker sang...
for "when you leave me, I know it will grieve me You'll miss your little baby Yes, some of these days."
Let's all do our bit at once so we never have to grieve, in these or any other days...
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