the year of living surreptitiously...

A seal walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a drink.The bartender asks the seal, "What's your pleasure?"The seal replies, "Anything but Canadian Club."

ok..so I got my little list of things to do..to find out some things that I think I oughta...but first I took a midnite swim in our CEEMENT pond last night with Ellie May! that girl knows how to do the breast stroke!
First, I called the SB Yacht Club to get their take on Dr. Laura cheating in all those yacht races: reply: we have no official statement
Next, I call JOBSMART to ask how much the directors make...
reply: no reply
Next, I call the News-Press and ask if they are a non-profit since they haven't turned a profit in 5 years!
Next, I contact the Nature Conservancy...the folks who stole the Channel Islands and have worked with the government and private individuals to cleanse the islands of inferior species, a la Hitler! Years ago, they used then sheriff Jim Thomas to raid the islands and harass the ranch residents, including a 13 year old girl!!
and they don't answer their phones....and..THEY CALL THEMSELVES A CHARITY!!
http://www.newswithviews.com/your_govt/your_government52.htm

The Nature Conservancy is the richest, most powerful environmental colossus in the nation. It claims more than 700,000 individual members and 405 corporate members operating out of eight regional offices and fifty chapter offices across the nation. The Nature Conservancy has assets of over $2.6 Billion, with an annual income of $785 million, and an annual operating budget of over $400 million. TNC has 274 employees who are paid more than $50,000 per year.
THE SCAM: Real Estate. THE HOOK is "conservation through private action." According to the party line, The Nature Conservancy simply buys land with private money and sets up nature reserves, thereby helping the environment without infringing on anybody. It sounds like a wonderful, charitable idea, if only it was true.
In truth, The Nature Conservancy buys private land from owners (usually at drastically reduced, land-grab prices) who think it will remain in private hands and then sells it to the government! In fact, TNC has sold more than 9 million acres to the government at a nice profit.
THE VICTIMS are unsuspecting property owners, often elderly. THE METHODS utilized include hiding behind phony corporations; serving as a shill for government agencies; and working behind the scenes with more visible environmental groups to intimidate property owners into selling. THE GOAL is money and power.
The Nature Conservancy frequently uses phony front companies to get land from owners who wouldn't knowingly sell to an environmental group. It used this tactic to purchase most of the islands off the coast of Virginia, containing 40,000 acres and sixty miles of coastline. In doing so, The Nature Conservancy was able to stop all private development and control the use of the land, damaging the tax base, killing thousands of jobs, and severely curbing the locals from hunting, fishing, camping and joy riding on the islands.
Don't think the purpose was to preserve these beautiful, pristine islands for nature. The Nature Conservancy did bar others from developing the land, but not itself. Far from it. At a huge profit, the Conservancy developed upscale homes for the rich.
more on the many many many local charities and non profits to come...