The Sierra Club Honors Service Members On 9/11
“Ah, they’ve changed,” I thought warmly -- and then I read further...
And realized they weren’t shilling for the troops, but for themselves. The Service Members they refer to are those who are bravely
... teaching about eating local at a farmers market
... tabling for the Sierra Club
… recycling and composting
... leading environmental walking tours
... getting trained to take youth backpacking in the wilderness
... engaging volunteers
... planting native trees and shrubs back into the areas where they use to be
(followed, appropriately enough, by the brave young lady)
After I calmed down enough to see straight, I realized they actually *believed* they were bravely serving the country by doing that a couple of hours each week.
I’d like to introduce you to some of this generation of Americans who are serving so that you can *have* a future. Period.
And the service they chose to perform isn’t limited to just one day a year.
They "engage" like this...
...and this is their "environmental walking tour"...
...and they "pull invasive weeds" like this...
...and when they go "backpacking into the wilderness," they take everything they need with them...
Now, if any Sierra Clubbers wander in here by accident, don't bother writing me a huffy note about the importance of Saving Teh Planet, or Protecting The Rivers, or Tabling For The Environment (whatever *that* means) --
-- but, while you're doing the feel-good stuff a few days a year, remember who's got your six *every* day of the year...
How am I -- and the Stryker folks from the 1-14th (cleared OPSEC) -- spending this Day of Service?
We're recycling.
We're helping teach our new friends how to turn our mutual enemies into worm food.
UPDATE: Go ahead and click the ad -- they pay John for every clickthrough. And, as he says in the comments, they're not the only ones allowed to be disingenuous...
Heh. No use looking in the scrolling remarks for the description I left on how I serve.
The Sierra Club is proud to join Americans across the country who are volunteering on September 11, the National Day of Service, in honor and remembrance of those who bravely serve our country. …
“Ah, they’ve changed,” I thought warmly -- and then I read further...
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, many Americans -- especially young Americans -- have embraced service as a way to restore and protect our neighborhoods, our nation, and our natural world.
And realized they weren’t shilling for the troops, but for themselves. The Service Members they refer to are those who are bravely
... helping build trails in the high country.
... teaching about eating local at a farmers market
... tabling for the Sierra Club
… recycling and composting
... leading environmental walking tours
... getting trained to take youth backpacking in the wilderness
... engaging volunteers
... planting native trees and shrubs back into the areas where they use to be
(followed, appropriately enough, by the brave young lady)
... pulling invasive weeds
After I calmed down enough to see straight, I realized they actually *believed* they were bravely serving the country by doing that a couple of hours each week.
In classrooms, national parks, and community centers all across this nation, young leaders are joining together to move our country toward prosperity, sustainability, and equity. The Sierra Club is dedicated to supporting, training, and empowering this generation of Americans as they lead us to a clean and equitable future.
I’d like to introduce you to some of this generation of Americans who are serving so that you can *have* a future. Period.
And the service they chose to perform isn’t limited to just one day a year.
They "engage" like this...
...and this is their "environmental walking tour"...
...and they "pull invasive weeds" like this...
...and when they go "backpacking into the wilderness," they take everything they need with them...
Now, if any Sierra Clubbers wander in here by accident, don't bother writing me a huffy note about the importance of Saving Teh Planet, or Protecting The Rivers, or Tabling For The Environment (whatever *that* means) --
-- but, while you're doing the feel-good stuff a few days a year, remember who's got your six *every* day of the year...
How am I -- and the Stryker folks from the 1-14th (cleared OPSEC) -- spending this Day of Service?
We're recycling.
We're helping teach our new friends how to turn our mutual enemies into worm food.
UPDATE: Go ahead and click the ad -- they pay John for every clickthrough. And, as he says in the comments, they're not the only ones allowed to be disingenuous...
Heh. No use looking in the scrolling remarks for the description I left on how I serve.
Bring lots of money for when they shake the tambourine under your nose...
I am honored to be participating in the annual motorcycle benefit ride hosted by Ray Price Harley Davidson for our local USO annex/military member area at our airport (RDU). Will be a remembrance of 9/11- Last year a WWII Combat Vet sang the anthem, then the bagpipes started. I didn't even try to keep my eyes dry, darned allergies -very moving event.
Every time I've been thru the airport (more often than I'd prefer) USO volunteers are really helping out the troops. Said troops seem to be largely coming out of Ft. Bragg or Jacksonville and going out into their new world. God Bless 'em!
And we're going to use the funds to buy a token box of ammo, and send the rest to Soldier's Angels, Project Valour-IT specifically.
So, they are supporting service members and other projects of which they don't approve.
They aren't the only ones who can be disingenuous.
Remember to click the ad - they're more likely to buy more (and I can charge 'em more when they do) if the click-throughs are above average...
Too young to be a Founding Member, she nonetheless poured her ability into serving them until she had to live in Reno for two years. She really, really hated trees after that....but the final disillusionment was yet to be. She got annoyed with them when it took 18 mules to pack out the trash the Sierra club left behind on an infamous campout. I read the ad, but was under no illusion; they are bizarre. I am rather more inclined to the Audobon Society because I like birds, but even they leave me cold.
So, I will do my duty. I will click through twice a day, if that will help. Mwahaha.
Yeah, the SC is notorious for that sort of nonsense.
Their Colorado Lodge (which is the largest collection of redwood lumber outside of three lumberyards) was closed down in the mid-'80s by the Colorado health department -- they refused to install a proper sewage treatment facility ILO a row of outhouses.
Then there was the time they clear-cut a road to their Boundary Waters Canoe area in Minnesota (through a National Forest) without filing for a permit or even requesting permission -- for which they received forgiveness instead of jail time, because they're *environmentalists*, yanno...
*click-through* *click-through*
thanks for the pics of the mad max machines.
**clicking 1, 2 and 3 times.
I hope it uses some carbon for each click!
God bless you & yours. If'n I'd not busted up my back in '93, I'd be there, wrenching on the fling-wings you are teaching them to fly. Thanks for doing what you are doing, and for having done what you did back in 'Our War' in SEA
They have a lodge or a cabin in or near the Santa Cruz Mountains...which have a bizarre reputation for some mighty strange people there...
Heck, that is enough beasts for half a battery of jackass howitzers! That's a lot of trash.