Bad - Fish Declining -- Really Bad - Lousy Metaphor

Effects of climate change to further degrade fisheries resources

"Fisheries are already providing fewer fish and making less money than they could if we curbed overfishing," says Rashid Sumaila, principal investigator of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC and lead author of the study. "We could be earning interest, but instead we're fishing away the capital. Climate change is likely to cause more losses unless we choose to act."

Sports Beat Plus A Note On White Tail Deer Hunting

UW Badgers win 28-17. Refs appeared competent.

Packers win 35-26, but it was only pretty in spots. Refs up the the task, this week.

Yes, deer hunting. The Wisco gun deer season opened yesterday & I dreamt of a nine point buck walking past my blind & then when the time came, I let him pass. It was just a dream. In reality, I stayed indoors since it snowed quite a bit & I could not find my warm winter pacs. That my story & I'm sticking to it.

Health Matters, Yes, It Matters Quite A Bit

If the research shows hearing loss to be a health problem, why won't the goddamn insurance companies cover the cost of hearing aids? I used to think that the insurance companies felt that people themselves were responsible, since they could wear hearing protection, but I've changed my mind since so much hearing loss is due to things beyond an individual's control. I know, I have significant hearing loss, but right now can't afford the four thousand dollars it will take to get hearing aids in both ears. So I just go along nodding, asking several times to have someone repeat what they've said & continue arguing with mrs. coldH2Owi that I have convenient hearing loss.

Sports Beat - Ha

Oh, & the refs were pretty good. Packers win.

Do It, Don't Fret About It, Just Do It

& when you're done, basking in the afterglow, you will realize what a wonderful thing you've done.  Go join a credit union.

Hardly

Yes, it's been true that I've let the Creek run a bit low lately, but things are about to change.  You really don't want a list or a litany of the cause(s) of the lapse, do you?  Didn't think so.  So here is one answer to the dry creek question.

I now own a Macbook so I am working on becoming a creative fucking genius.  It comes with the Apple, you see.  So here is one more video for y'all:

Sports Beat: Badgers Lose, Packers Win

Lousy refs, indeed.

Great refs, luckily.

There was apparently some other very important contest going on involving a small white ball, a piece of 2 x 4 & a lot of spitting, but I couldn't find a link, sorry.

Packer's Win - 24-3 - Only Undefeated Team Left

Not pretty, but a win.

The 49's head coach shows what an asshole he is, (no link, you can find it yourself, OK?) & he won, for pete's sake.  Look where irrational exuberance took the economy of this country? 

Sports Beat - Wipeout

Badgers rout Indiana to stay unbeaten.

I Just Can't Get Enough Of This, Keep It Coming Oh Great Mother Britain

Sean Duffy is a Fat Dickless Arsehole.(Fail Troll) - Wall | Facebook

Occupy Appleton Or Four Other Great Wisco Cities

Occupy APPLETON.

 

Occupy GREEN BAY.

Occupy LA CROSSE.

Occupy MADISON.

Occupy Milwaukee.

& Here's the Daily Kos map & list of all the places my Loyal Five (Yes, 5!) readers can go & do the American Things, The Right Thing. 

 Now, here is some advice, not that you've asked for it, but I'm giving it anyway.

The Packers play at noon on Sunday, so that leaves the morning & late afternoon & evening to do some OCCUPYING. Or all day if you have a transistor radio (remember these, guys?) or most likely a smart phone. 

The Badgers play play Indiana at 11:00 CDT so see above about listening & if your are with your boyfriend make sure there are two smart phones or a transistor radio & a smart phone, then you shouldn't have any trouble picking up a station, or a new boyfriend for that matter. 

I believe there is another team of the professional sports variety that may a game sometime during the weekend but it won't start until 3:05 CDT on Sunday or later depending on much money the stinking corporations want to make, or some other reason that involves money. Since I don't like baseball, although I have blogged it before (after the fact), you'll need to find your own schedule, etc. Hell, people, I've given you the time, what else to you want? 

If you've got a street, artery, avenue, back alley, boulevard, byway, court, dead end, drag, drive, highway, lane, parkway, passage, pavement, place, road, roadway, route, row, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turf, way named WALL in your community (you could, I suppose, temporarily name some stretch of two-track WALL) you could plan your own OCCUPY WALL (WHATEVER). It would be a great Friday night pizza party. Just tune your smart phone, iTouch, or (wow) desktop computer to WWOZ You will not be disappointed & your OCCUPATION plans may hit a groove unknown until you put it into action.

FitzWalkerstan Recall

Here what needs to happen in order to get rid of the odious Walker & his heartless policies. Shareholder value should never trump the people's needs. I'm not just talking about the poor, I'm talking about the highway worker, the nurse, the physician, the logger, the farmer, the waitress/waiter, the barista, the guy who whistles on the street corner for nickels & dimes.

The petitions will begin being gathered November 15.

But first, Tate sent out a message to supporters with a fundraising request: "In fewer than 37 days, we will need to organize, train and fund an army of grassroots volunteers who will need to collect more than 540,206 valid recall signatures. Before I go on the air, can I count on you to make a donation of $11.15 towards our goal of raising $540,206 by Nov. 15th?"

Dick "Dick" Cheney, John Yoo, President Barak Obama, Sgt. Schultz, WTF? Sgt. Schultz?

In honor of nonheroicvet, whose insightful & humorous comments have made BillyCreek a better blog. John Yoo must have a secret office where he continues to write secret memos for President Obama to make the White House feel all warm & fuzzy about torturing people. President Obama, what a supreme disappointment -- what happened? what's wrong? where did you get these ideas? I thought you were a constitutional lawyer by training & education? Did you sleep through a bunch of classes after playing b-ball late into the night? 

Detainees are hung by their hands and beaten with cables, and in some cases their genitals are twisted until the prisoners lose consciousness at sites run by the Afghan intelligence service and the Afghan National Police, according to a United Nations report released here on Monday.

It paints a devastating picture of abuse, citing evidence of “systematic torture” during interrogations by Afghan intelligence and police officials even as American and other Western backers provide training and pay for nearly the entire budget of the Afghan ministries running the detention centers. 

The report does not assess whether American officials knew of the abuses. But such widespread use of torture in a detention system supported by American mentors and money raises serious questions about potential complicity of American officials and whether they benefited from information obtained from suspects who had been tortured.

The report, based on interviews over the past year with more than 300 suspects linked to the insurgency, is the most comprehensive look at the Afghan detention system and an issue that has long concerned Western officials and human rights groups. 

My emphases.

It's The Teacher's Fault, Of Course

Private, for-profit, shareholder value is the supreme good Insurance companies are why we have becomer a coarser society, a less caring society, a society in deep crisis.  Here's one reason--

...a statement from the California Assn. of Health Plans, an industry group, which warned that the new law will "drive up healthcare costs for families and businesses by nearly $850 million a year."

*****

California's new law highlights the fact that an insurance system led by profit-focused market forces often leaves people out in the cold. It also shows that government clearly has a role to play in healthcare when private companies fail to meet the responsibilities of a civilized society.

My emphases.

Calling John Yoo, Calling John Yoo, Another Secret Memo For You

Nothing has changed.