Jesus Camp

Boy! This is scary. Just what we need.
Child indoctrination just like our friends in the deserts of the far East are doing.

Jesus Camp Synopsis

A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement.

JESUS CAMP, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors of the critically acclaimed The Boys of Baraka, follows Levi, Rachael, and Tory to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army." The film follows these children at camp as they hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled in how to "take back America for Christ." The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.

This is a long film, and you have to sit through a couple of ads, but hang in there.There is a lot here worth watching.  These poor kids are being brainwashed in the truest sense of the word. If this is not child abuse, I don't know what is.
If you can't sit through it & I don't blame you if you can't, this is a pretty good outline of the film:

Surviving 'Jesus Camp

Read the comments.
While this is probably old history to many people, watching it was a new experience for me. The camp was shut down following the negative reactions caused by the film.

Pastor will shut down controversial kids camp:

The summer camp featured in the documentary "Jesus Camp," which includes scenes with disgraced preacher Ted Haggard, will shut down for...

I hope there aren't more people doing things like this & that the pastor has retired permanently.

Still no beavers wanting to become hats!

Yet another day with nothing in the traps. I think they are all busy building their dam at the base of mine (after pretty much ruining mine), and haven't even had the time to try to rebuild the dam they made across my overflow ditch.

That's a good thing. Perhaps I should move the traps. There is still water flowing through the breach, but it seems to be the same amount each day, and most of the water is bypassing the dam via the overflow.
None the less, I have been reading up on how to make felt and hats.

Daisy's upset with the beavers too!

immigration

OK. We are over populated. I doubt you could find any major problem today that can't trace it's roots back to overpopulation. Greenhouse emissions & global warming? Overpopulation. Traffic Jams and over crowded highways at rush hour? It wasn't a problem when I was younger. Overpopulation. Price of fuel? higher demand, higher price. Overpopulation. So should we really limit the number of immigrants and crack down on the illegals? The policy's need to be overhauled to be sure, but the current lunacy in Alabama and some other states is backfiring and hurting the country at it's roots, the farmers.  Read this article.

The separatist New Black Panther Party

The separatist New Black Panther Party

Just another color klan in hoodies?  And I will say no more.

Mother Jones shocks and depresses me

I subscribed to Mother Jones back in the 60's (at least I think it was that far back), and stopped because the truth as printed was too depressing. Now somehow I find an issue in the mailbox, and I see that my action in the past was probably correct.  The cover page story is called: The Secret Hell of Online Shopping   or What happens when you click "place order"   I became a warehouse slave to find out.  This is way too much information. Is this really happening in America?  This is just one of the articles in the March-April issue that is shocking, but as I order my share of stuff online to save gas and time, it does take me a back that my convenience comes with a cost to some poor yahoo in the stockroom.
Read it if you want, but it's disturbing.
Now, morally, because of reading this one issue, I can't buy on-line, from WalMart, or purchase any more vitamins. And that's not mentioning all the articles.
I'll see how long that lasts.

More beaver or maybe not!

My first experience as a beaver trapper ended poorly today when I checked the four traps I set out yesterday. Not one beaver. There were, however, tracks in the mud at the other end of the dam where I didn't set any. Oh well, I should probably give it more than one day. I sort of expected to see at least four caught this morning.
I'm pretty sure we set them correctly, it's a pretty big area and they probably just haven't found them yet.

Starting in on some small trees below the my dam.

The overflow beaver dam that started the war.

Here's a photo I took of some swimming around laughing at me earlier.

I've seen them on the bank & yes they are beaver, not nutria. Although I wouldn't be surprised to catch some nutria as I have in the past in other ponds here.

Rare endangered pond turtles

Enjoying the sun!

I'm not sure where this was taken. Probably somewhere near Amity.