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Powerful Words

November 12, 2018 By Tom Sadler Leave a Comment

General Milley’s message is outstanding. Check it out

This is why we fight. pic.twitter.com/dYpqAEso6e— GEN Mark A. Milley (@ArmyChiefStaff) November 11, 2018

Filed Under: Featured

Fish are good for the fishing industry

November 2, 2018 By Tom Sadler Leave a Comment

Seems obvious doesn’t it. If you sell fishing tackle then you want people to buy it. People buy tackle if they think they will catch fish with it. If there are no fish to catch then you don’t sell tackle.

Logically then, the fishing tackle industry should be doing everything they can to protect and enhance the one commodity that makes it all possible, the fish.

But as you will see from Charles Witek’s excellent article, CONSERVATION IS GOOD BUSINESS FOR THE ANGLING INDUSTRY, that is not the case.

Notably the fly-fishing industry, ably represented by AFFTA, is the exception. Their posture reflects the long-held conservation ethos of those who fly-fish.

Filed Under: Business, Conservation, Featured, Fly Fishing, Marine

MOJO’s excellent interview with Yellowstone’s New Chief

October 30, 2018 By Tom Sadler Leave a Comment

Mountain Journal’s Todd Wilkinson digs deep with Cam Sholly.

Source: Yellowstone’s New Chief Breaks The Silence

Filed Under: Conservation, Featured

Vote!

October 21, 2018 By Tom Sadler Leave a Comment

A lot is at stake on November 6th.

If you don’t vote then you miss the chance to 1) change the make up of our government if you are unhappy or 2) ratify the status quo if you are happy.

But not voting is a shameful, selfish act. You don’t deserve to enjoy of the benefits of citizenship if you are not willing to participate in this most basic civic responsibility.

You can learn more about what at stake by reading US Midterm Elections 2018 – Vote on November 6  from Patagonia.

Want some recommendations on who not to vote for? Look no further than Hatch Magazine’s Dirty dozens: Who to vote out this November (full disclosure I write now and then for Hatch.)

Here are couple people you should vote for: incumbent Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, and Rep. Jacky Rosen, running againt Sen. Dean Heller (R) in Nevada > Patagonia Makes Another Bold Move to Protect Public Lands

Photo Credit: Patagonia

Now get out there and Vote!

Filed Under: Conservation, Featured Tagged With: Hatch, Patagonia, vote

From the “why we can’t have nice things file”

September 14, 2018 By Tom Sadler Leave a Comment

C’mon NYTimes, you can do better than this.

When we try to convince people journalists are not the enemy of the people, this does not help…Get it right or don’t do it.

Editors’ Note: September 14, 2018

An earlier version of this article and headline created an unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question. While Nikki R. Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations, the decision on leasing the ambassador’s residence and purchasing the curtains was made during the Obama administration, according to current and former officials. The article should not have focused on Ms. Haley, nor should a picture of her have been used. The article and headline have now been edited to reflect those concerns, and the picture has been removed.

 

Source: State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Residence of U.N. Envoy – The New York Times

Updates:

Media critic Eric Wemple weighs in the same day with an op/ed in the Times:

Backlash to the initial New York Times presentation has been robust, as well it should be. There are plenty of examples of bona fide Trump-era abuses of taxpayer money — see Scott Pruitt’s strange security purchases and Tom Price’s travel expenses. No need to fashion a headline suggesting that Haley belongs to that group.”

Source: New York Times wrongs Nikki Haley with curtain headline

And you people are not helping either:

Reporters in Hurricane Florence, please stop acting like you’re hanging on for dear life

The WaPo takes a look:

New York Times backtracks on a tale about some expensive curtains

 

Filed Under: Clips, Featured, First Amendment Tagged With: New York Times

Fighting words from Chuck Todd

September 13, 2018 By Tom Sadler Leave a Comment

Chuck Todd writes in the Atlantic:

“American democracy requires a functioning press that informs voters and creates a shared set of facts. If journalists are going to defend the integrity of their work, and the role it plays in sustaining democracy, we’re going to need to start fighting back.”

Worth the read and importantly, time to take some action.

“I’m not advocating for a more activist press in the political sense, but for a more aggressive one. That means having a lower tolerance for talking points, and a greater willingness to speak plain truths. It means not allowing ourselves to be spun, and not giving guests or sources a platform to spin our readers and viewers, even if that angers them. Access isn’t journalism’s holy grail—facts are. ”

Source: Chuck Todd: It’s Time for the Press to Fight Back – The Atlantic

Filed Under: Clips, Featured, First Amendment

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Insurrection most foul

Gerson’s article, “The U.S. must punish sedition — or risk more of it” captures much of what is going through my mind at this moment.

The post-election political theater has jumped the shark.

BLUF: Time to starve the conspiracy whack jobs and Trump sycophants of oxygen.

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“We opposed Trump because we recognized that what he stood for is an existential threat to the American experiment in constitutional democracy.”

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