Constitution Club

Guerrilla Gardening

A young woman in a green jacket with horses printed all over it stopped to ask what they were doing.

“We’re gardening,” Reynolds told her.

“Who are you gardening for?”

“For everyone and ourselves,” he said. “We’re guerrilla gardeners.”

Nope not me, but apparently what some Londoners with nothing better to do have decided to do.  Probably the closest I’ve ever come to something like this is what I’m doing now. I’ve got this 12′ x 64′ public easement outside my fence that, according to the city, is my responsibility to keep the sidewalk cleared and shoveled in the winter and the weeds mowed down at minimum during the rest of the year. Not to mention keep litter free. So this year I planted some small, spare plum trees someone gave me and after thinking about it a bit, I decided to plant a whole bunch of pumpkins as well. The leaves of a pumpkin vine are beautiful, block the weeds, and may provide free pumpkins for the neighborhood kids who will undoubtedly help themselves to them when the time comes. Plus, I get a bit of satisfaction of showing the city if they are going to make me participate in their little pseudo-commie communalistic experiment then I’m going to start growing food crops on them instead of spending the time and effort to landscape and plant it like they want me too. We’ll see how they turn out. Perhaps next year I’ll add some gourds as well.

Some more from the article:

The week after I left London, however, a troupe of guerrillas were suddenly confronted by more than a half-dozen police officers while refurbishing a traffic circle outside Reynolds’s building. Reynolds was as forthcoming as ever (“I’ve put that flower bed in beneath those railings,” he tells the police in a video of the incident, laying it all on the table, “and we’ve got some nice forget-me-nots going there”) but was nevertheless threatened with arrest for “criminal damage.” The guerrillas retreated to his flat, where they spent an hour and a half with a bottle of red wine. Then, when the coast seemed clear, they began scampering out, two at a time, carrying purple primrose to finish the job.

Such rebels, oh my!

Pumpkin Vine

“…by the Buoys of Argos!“

Have you ever had a big barbeque ruined because you can’t get the grill hot enough to cook the meat? This must be how the Global Warming crowd is feeling these days.

From The National Post:

So much for ’settled science’

You may have heard earlier this month that global warming is now likely to take break for a decade or more. There will be no more warming until 2015, perhaps later.

Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.’s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future.

Of course, Mr. Keenlyside– long a defender of the man-made global warming theory — was quick to add that after 2015 (or perhaps 2020), warming would resume with a vengeance.

Climate alarmists the world over were quick to add that they had known all along there would be periods when the Earth’s climate would cool even as the overall trend was toward dangerous climate change.

Less well-known is that global temperatures have already been falling for a decade. All of which means, that by 2015 or 2020, when warming is expected to resume, we will have had nearly 20 years of fairly steady cooling.

Even Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, reluctantly admitted to Reuters in January that there has been no warming so far in the 21st Century.

Global Climate Forecasting is a science still very much in its infancy - the only thing “settled” about it has been the fact that it’s universally wrong. None of the two decades of predictions have come true. And, as others have noted, Anthropogenic Warming appears to be a theory that cannot be proved untrue. When temps rise - warming. When they fall - warming. Polar Bear populations have doubled in the past 40 years, but predicted arctic ice loss is going to kill them, so they go on the Endangered List. Even the recent spate of shark attacks and fatalities have beem blamed on Global Warming.

The question now is - will the Climate Change Advocacy take note of this good news, or will they ignore it so they can continue to promote their thinly disguised socialist political agenda under the false aegis of saving us all from a carbon dioxide oven that refuses to light?

Bets, anyone?

What think ye? Real Striped Bass or “digitally/photographically improved”?

Hat-tip to Steven in Surf Talk at Stripers Online.com

The Beast, his Producer Cindy and her cameraman boyfriend turned right just outside Weirs Beach, Laconia and drove over the little bridge that links Governor’s Island to the Lake Winnipesaukee shore. We were looking for footage of Deer for a story segment on the Beast’s local Hunting and Fishing show about overpopulation of said animals on islands in New Hampshire. One of the Beast’s hunter buddies told him that this little island was the place to go - which seemed quite odd at the time because it’s full of Mansions occupied by the super-rich.

View of Governor’s Island (center-right) and connecting bridge.

It was late November and both the lake and sky were the same dull bluish-gray hue. A sparse rubble of early snow dotted the side of the roads and the beautifully manicured lawns. The snow was slightly deeper in darker parts of the rare pine stands. We drove around the mansions with a sense of futility. Deer here? No way.

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