Hai!
Full disclosure: I do absolutely love the Bissell mop I have and would sing its praises and recommend it 'til the cows come home. But this is not an advert for Bissell; I don't care about them per se. They are, however, donating to help pooties and woozles, about which I do care.
All you have to do is like Bissell on Facebook and they will donate fifty cents to Petfinder. How that can be bad, right? In my attempts to find out, I learned that petfinder.com was purchased by the Discovery Channel, but couldn't find any overt shenanigans.
So, whaddaya say? Politics aside, helping pooties and woozles is always good, right?
And now, onto the Water -- and political -- part of the diary. Yes, it's the same diary I did yesterday. What can I say except the line between lazy and efficient can be kinda murky at times? Anyhoo, in the ongoing saga of the evils of Nestle, they are now attempting to steal purchase water from Oregon's Oxbow Spring.
The deadline for comments is 5:00 pm on June 30th. We have today and tomorrow to get as many Oregonians as possible to weigh in. Both with the petition and by contacting Governor Kitzhaber about this:
Nestle has proposed to build a new bottling plant in the town of Cascade Locks on the Columbia River, capturing the pristine water of Oxbow Springs. Nestle would like to tap up to 100 million gallons of water a year from the Oxbow Spring. The spring is part of the Herman Creek watershed, known for its outstanding trail system. Herman Creek is also a thermal refuge for threatened steelhead. Currently, the spring supplies water for a salmon and steelhead hatchery run by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW).
...Also, if this project comes to fruition, large trucks will be barreling through downtown Cascade Locks every eight minutes, causing noise and pollution in this quiet and scenic town and the adjacent Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. We hope the Governor's office will join us in opposing Nestle's plan. We do not believe that Mt. Hood's water should be sold in polluting plastic bottles for huge profits by a multinational corporation with a long history as a bad actor.
There's just no arguing with that. And if you haven't yet watched Water Wars, you really ought. And I dunno if you've ever read Stranger in a Strange Land, but you also really ought to do that. The Stranger in question is Michael Valentine, the son of two astronauts who died during a mission to Mars. So Michael was raised by Martians.
There wasn't much water on Mars and so Martian culture viewed it as sacred. To share a glass of water was the highest honor you could possibly bestow upon a person. It made you water brothers and water sisters. The idea of bathing in an entire pool of it was beyond comprehension. Until he got to Earth.
But I think that's enough blathering for now. Time to make with the petitions and pootie rescues!
Peace