June 11, 2013
Rebecca Marquez
Florida OCEANA Organizer
@The Sun Sentinel

RE: Two birds with one stone – Some comments on the editorial page contents and how there is a grand design to things.

MS Marquez,

“MORE ISSUES ON TRIAL
THAN JUST ZIMMERMAN”

What that means in the modern American Liberal double speak is – wink, nod, eyebrow raised – that even if Zimmerman is innocent he is guilty. The facts notwithstanding – Have we all forgotten the Duke “rape” case? – a guilty verdict will just be one more “I’m sorry, Black America for being White and having gotten away with so much since we bought you from your kinsmen and brought you here. Please accept this guilty verdict as proof that we really, really are sorry for our sins, past and present.”

The heading said it all.

“PROTECTING FLORIDA’S GREATEST TREASURE”

I am too old and far too jaded to fall into “traps set by knaves for fools” but I just did again.

Obviously Florida’s “greatest treasure” is its people. That’s why I thought your note would be one of protest about the only certified genocide in this country. Since Roe V Wade we have had ca. 55,000,000 abortions. About 3/8ths of those have been performed on Black women. Since 1876 some 3,400 Black men have been lynched in this country. “After the first death there are no others” is true figuratively but the difference in the numbers would suggest that our language must be expanded to accommodate the gargantuan imbalance.

Perhaps you were going to celebrate Western Civilization. Things like the Trivium, reasoned discourse, the scientific method, the Renaissance, the Rule of Law, Mozart, Madison…Curses! Lucy tricked me yet again. Just as I was about to kick the football she yanked it away.

Just one more lash on the back of a civilized man, a man who is devoted to the “permanent things”.

Your screed begins with you exalting a pet peeve of mine. “Three short years ago”. Unless someone is holding your head under water time is neither short nor long. It is…time. If you want to see how time can really fly sign an IOU for 90 days.
“Three short years ago” refers to the BP oil spill. It shut down the Gulf coasts of 4 states. Texas escaped the wrath of Gaia for some strange reason, perhaps political. Oil was spilling out in what seemed like an incalculable amount. The President of the United States said he would “kick someone in the ass”. It is known if that decreased the flow of oil but if he is as good an ass kicker as he is a baseball pitcher he would finish last in the one-legged ass kicking jamboree.

My questions are simple.

Have the fish and bi-valves returned to the Gulf? Has fish from the Gulf been banned from Publix? Have the vacationers returned to the Gulf? My last question has been bothering me for some time. 3 years to be exact. Be they “short” or “long” I yearn for an answer. Since you are listed as a “campaign organizer” for something called OCEANA maybe you can tell me where all the oil went. [As an aside is OCEANA a 501C3 or C4 non-profit? Did you have any problem getting IRS approved status? Is a “campaign organizer” akin to a “community activist”? I say that because the last community activist of note wound up in the White House. In fact, he is still there. Play your cards right and Quien sabe?]

If you can find out where the oil went get back to me, OK? Find out what happened to the guy who got his ass kicked also.

“AND WE CAN NO LONGER IGNORE THE FACT THAT
OIL IS DRIVING CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION”

Yes, we can or Si, se puede. Honest.

The New York Times, yes, The New York Times, said yesterday that by any known empirical standard it has been 15 years since there was any uptick in global temperature. I don’t know much about ocean acidification but I do know that The Last of the Mohicans, you have heard of it, haven’t you, was set in the Adirondacks in the 18th century. Adirondack means dry and bitter land. How it got to be called that before the Industrial Age, indeed even before the usage of petroleum products for anything but lumbago, is beyond me. Get back to me on that one also.

Should, as you say, we find ourselves with sick blue crab, spiny lobster, swordfish, and Spanish mackerel would they be covered under Obamacare?

It’s not that you’re dumb. You may be. It’s just that there is so much you don’t know.



KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET