I am actively campaigning to end or at least control wild animal (aka fur bearing) leg trapping in New Mexico.

There is no limit on coyote trapping (or for that matter on any other fur bearing animal), no fee or license is required, the season is year round and there are probably 300 or more trappers doing it (mostly for profit) in New Mexico and there is virtually NO government regulation or oversight.

Personally, I view this practice as being inhumane and extremely painful for those unfortunate animals who are caught this way.

Humans (especially children) are also at risk, not to mention our pets. 

Do you know that, by law, if you or your pet gets caught in a trap you are supposed to wait until the trap owner returns (which might be days or weeks)?

Or that it is illegal, for whatever reason, to remove someone else’s trap and that you can be fined and/or jailed for doing so? It’s true. 

If you or anyone you know of wishes to join me, and the hundreds of others who also feel this practice should be stopped, please have them contact me or the Sierra Club or Animal Protection of New Mexico.

An important decision-making conference is about to take place and we need individuals to voice their opinions to those in the decision-making process.

Thank You,
Bob (aka ‘Dances with Bears’), Española, NM. E-Mail: rfa@la-tierra.com.

Letter to the Editor
“Is our children learning?”

Editor,
Ever since a terrible November in Florida, when an illiterate, incompetent leader was appointed, our country has spiraled downward to its present debased nadir. No area of love for land, sea or air has escaped regression and our manufacturing infrastructure is being completely dismantled. (One can wonder if the Supreme Court justices now have any feelings of remorse for what they have facilitated?)

Thousands of ships by land and air have been launched in an ignoble, senseless war to kill another man. Deceptive ruses have misled even the political elite to accept our leader’s dishonest allegations of a mortal danger to our country. War is our leader’s best business. Not since the Gulf of Tonkin resolution have so many been misled by so few.

For over fifty years the people of the world have been held hostage by fear of our weapons of mass destruction (WoMD). Retaliation to that fear has brought, for the first time, destruction to our country. Ever since the destructions in New York and Washington, D.C., it has come to pass that we too now live in fear. Efforts to mitigate that fear are expensive and will be ineffective.

It was here in unique Los Alamos in 1945 that the world was changed and the very survival of the human race was placed in jeopardy. Laboratory directors have so far refused to participate in the political arena. Meekly they only continue to do their duty, only to follow orders and only to do their job. Isn’t it true that a social responsibility is a much higher duty?

I call on the living members of that very exclusive Los Alamos Directors fraternity to now revolt and speak with a single voice some political words of wisdom. Their mutation is imperative.

Harold (Agnew), Don (Kerr), Sig (Hecker), John (Brown) and Pete (Nanos) you must initiate a halt to the potential for a singular insane leader to have the power as Commander-in-Chief to launch WoMD. Who knows what our current, lawless, illiterate leader might do next? Is our Trident submarine commanders learning? Is our missile solo launching officers learning? Is our nuclear bomber pilots learning? Is they learning that an order to destroy any place on earth is an order to be disobeyed? (Our leader says, “Is our children learning?”)

Functional illiterates also graduate from college.

This is a time for mutiny, a time not far removed. Is everyone understanding this? “The pie could be made higher.” There is enough for all if the failed military/industrial complex were assigned projects for doing good. Fear would end and hope would begin. To destroy one’s own country would be a disaster. To destroy the world would be unforgivable and must not happen. Our country must long endure.

If you are not alarmed you should be. Our country is at a nadir. Can it rise again? Can there be a mutation from war (defense) to peace?

Peace and love,
Don Eduardo de Los Alamos, edgrothus@aol.com

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Movie Making in New Mexico

The movie “Scarlet Momentum” by C. Hawthorne O’Flaherty swept the awards
at the recent Digifest Southwest in Albuquerque. The movie won for Best Movie, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Music, and Best Art Direction. Other Digifest winners included “Something Red,” “Breakout,” “Drive By,” and “Cowboys.”

In other news, a complaint was filed by a Las Cruces individual against Prime
Time Casting of Oceanside, California, alleging that the company takes money
for casting people in films and never fills the positions. The Better Business
Bureau has indicated that they have received a number of similar complaints
against Prime Time Casting. According to the New Mexico Film Office “Prime Time also does business as: Exposed Casting; Extra Exposed Casting; Marketing International; MBC, Inc.; NBC, Inc.; Prime Time Entertainment; ShowTime Casting; Showtime Entertainment; and Star Search Casting.”

The producers of “Cruel World” aka “The Experiment” have asked for people interested in crew positions to fax your resumes to: (505) 247-3456.
“The Longest Yard” has requested that all crew and support service inquiries
be faxed to: (310) 244-0820.

A drama entitled “Sandman” is scheduled to be filmed in Roswell, 2004
Jul02-18. A six-part television series is slated to being production in and
around Santa Fe this coming November. For more information on these and
many other upcoming productions contact your local union office.

The Answer Is...

This one did not make the press, but my colleagues in the hospital all vividly remember this patient. At best, he earns an Honorable Mention, since he did not die, nor did he lose his reproductive capacity. This young man presented
himself to our Emergency Department covered with burns on all of his exposed skin. His hair was singed close to his scalp. What caused these injuries? He had posed himself a question, and become overwhelmed by curiosity. Needing to discover the answer to his question (revealed soon) he proceeded to shoot a propane tank with a .22 caliber rifle. Having survived the first stage of his
stupidity, he gave the propane ten minutes to leak out, and then held a burning lighter and walked slowly towards the hissing propane tank. The question was: How close do you have to be to the propane tank before it blows up? The
answer: fifteen feet. (www.darwinawards.com)

Marriage

Marriage (Part I) — Typical macho man married typical good-looking lady
and after the wedding, he laid down the following rules:

“I’ll be home when I want, if I want and at what time I want – and I don’t expect any hassle from you. I expect a great dinner to be on the table unless I tell you
that I won’t be home for dinner. I’ll go hunting, fishing, boozing, and card-playing when I want with my old buddies and don’t you give me a hard time about it. Those are my rules. Any comments?”

His new bride said, “No, that’s fine with me. Just understand that there will be
sex here at seven o’clock every night ... whether you’re here or not.”

                                          – She’s Good! –
Marriage (Part II) — Husband and wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 40th wedding anniversary!

The husband yells, “When you die, I’m getting you a headstone that reads, ‘Here Lies My Wife – Cold As Ever.’”  “Yeah?” she replies. “When you die, I’m
getting you a headstone that reads, ‘Here Lies My Husband – Stiff At Last.’”

                                         – He Asked For It! –
Marriage (Part III) — Husband (a doctor) and his wife are having a fight at
the breakfast table.

Husband gets up in a rage and says, “And you are no good in bed either,” and storms out of the house. After some time he realizes he was nasty and decides to make amends and rings her up. She comes to the phone after many rings, and
the irritated husband says, “What took you so long to answer the phone?”

She says, “I was in bed.”

He replied, “In bed this early, doing what?”

“Getting a second opinion!”

                                – Yep, He Had That Coming, Too! –
Marriage (Part IV) — A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement. 

He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his wife “Mother of Six” in spite
of her objections.

One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it’s time to go home and
wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well.  He shouts at the top of his voice, “Shall we go home, Mother of Six?”

His wife, irritated by her husband’s lack of discretion, shouts right back,
“Anytime you’re ready, Father of Four.”

                                           – Right On, Lady! –
God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough
draft before the masterpiece.
 

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