The following article is written by Guest Blogger Mike Clifford of Heartland Outdoorsman.
Zumbo, Global Warming, Iraq and a New Chair
As someone who spends way too much time on the computer, I can’t help but feel there is a tremendous groundswell out there to make changes on this boulder we call Earth. Our Second Amendment rights are being fiercely protected by millions of sportsmen and women on thousands of message boards and blogs across this great country of ours. The outrage surrounding the whole “Jim Zumbo” issue is proof of this. Global Warming and “the environment” are topics that are sure to get us to break out of our shells and stand up for a cause. What message board or blog doesn’t instantly come alive whenever these topics are started?
Our brothers and sisters will defend freedom the world over in 2007 while we pontificate the next course of action that America should make by faithfully banging away on our keyboards. Politics is always sure to perk people up, no matter their interests or hobbies.
Did I just see a dirty word make its way into a post on the Black Bear blog?
Let me clarify….
I was recently bestowed with an award at the state level in my home state of Illinois:
Lt. Governor Pat Quinn’s “2006 Environmental Hero Award”. That’s the wording on the plaque that is attached to the wall over my computer. Upon my arrival at home after receiving this, my wife gave the customary “congratulations!” greeting and proceeded to bust out laughing as she took the plaque from my hand. “Does this mean that I’m married to a closet environmentalist?” or something close to that is all I heard in my haste to get to the computer. Staunchly conservative that she is, it shouldn’t have surprised me. I couldn’t help but wonder if there really is a difference in terms whenever we strive to honor people for their efforts, or if one is considered acceptable in sporting circles, while the other is just too filthy to toss around with reckless abandon.
Would it be perceived differently if it was called the “2006 Conservation Award”? I’m guessing it might. Perhaps it comes from the mindset that many of us have from too many hours spent indoors at our desks and not enough time spent actually
enjoying our “outdoors environment”, no matter where it might exist. At any rate, I can’t emphasize enough the importance of preserving our natural resources and have found perhaps one of the most important tools available today to achieve success in our efforts.
This HomeMedics Shiatsu massage chair thingy is a wonderful addition to my new computer desk chair. Can’t figure out how I ever got anything done without it. Ah yes, life is good indeed.
Speaking of filthy language…..
The Spring Edition of the free Heartland Outdoorsman eMagazine is being sent out this week to our subscribers. I have to apologize in advance for the column near the bottom. Somehow, no one here read it in advance, and we had no idea what was in it until it was too late as it was already sent to the host. I have always promised not to have *much* bad language in the Heartland Outdoorsman eMagazine, and have heavily edited the columns until this issue … and there it was … pool-hall language as big as sin, on the very back page. I would like to encourage all of you to not read that column, especially the ladies. Actually, if you get right down to it, we never intended the Heartland Outdoorsman eMagazine for lady readers anyway. It was my intention to allow only men to subscribe, but we were threatened with lawsuits and had to open it up to everyone, just like they had to do with that big golf club back east. Anyway, the spring issue is here- www.heartlandoutdoorsman.com
