The Riley Factor
Fort Plain, NY
September 4, 2012, Issue No. 122(All the Rock Creek Farm news that's fit to print, along with unfit-to-print rumors, prognostications & bloviations.)
Fort Plain, NY
September 4, 2012, Issue No. 122(All the Rock Creek Farm news that's fit to print, along with unfit-to-print rumors, prognostications & bloviations.)
Riley and the Littles -- On September 3, 2009, The Riley was born in a small town in South Dakota, so this Labor Day, he celebrated his 3rd birthday. He joined us in our chicken barbeque, went for a 2-mile run, and swam a bit in the pond. In other words, a typical day in the life of Riley. Earlier in August, Riley got his first grooming. He was a trooper and put-up with the half hour ordeal of cutting and clipping by Susan. As anesthesiologist, my job was to hold him down, which proved easy as Riley slept his way through more than half of it, He and Gabby have been troopers, getting-in their daily 2-4 mile runs, even in the heat of those many 90-degree days in June, July and August. From June 12 to mid-August, we experienced only three hours of rain (a couple of inches rainfall in total from two showers).
Plowing and Planting -- We began August with taking-in the rye grain - a poor crop this year, owing to the prolonged dry spell and resultant very small grain kernels produced. We fed half of it to the animals and mowed-down the rest of the couple of acres, soon to be plowed under. Rye does make a good natural fertilizer and many farmers grow it simply to plow it under to provide added nitrogen for the soil. Later in the month, we did a second cutting of hay, adding 200 bales to the barn from our 14 acres (our two large fields) and the acre that we hay behind Lloyd Vanalstine's house. So, for the year, we put a total of 1,200 bales of organic hay in the barn, which should last us for the year, until next June when the hay cutting begins anew.
In spite of what was essentially a summer drought, the potatoes came in strong and we started harvesting them in late August, eating the first bunch on August 25. Other big crops this year for us were tomatoes, green beans and onions. Smaller crops harvested this summer included garlic, carrots, peppers, radishes, cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts popcorn, and butternut squash. Sweet potatoes and eggplant are still growing. No cucumbers, yellow squash and zucchini were harvested this year due to the dry weather and many days above 90 degrees.
And They're Off -- We have had Rio out for riding a few times this year, but have yet to sit on Blondie. Never seems to be enough time to go galloping (to say nothing of the dust gathering on the Harley).
The Herd of Five -- Eli, Lily, Abraham, Isaac and Abby are all doing well in the Cow Palace. Lily went through a bout of mastitis, but she and Abby have taken to each other as if the were natural mother and her birth calf. After feeding Abby, Lily produces a few quarts of milk daily.
Mowings, Musings and the Woods -- On August 26, I woke up to a cacophony of yelling, screaming and animal noises, ran outside and shot a rabid skunk next to the chicken coop. P.S. The current score: Susan - 1 fox, Chris - 1 skunk.
Fowl Weather -- This year;s turkey chicks, a mixture of Narragansetts and Standard Broad-breasted Bronze are all growing nicely, each tipping the scales at 10-15 pounds, with over two months remaining to their least favorite holiday of the year. One turkey died of unknown causes, but we still have 7 Narragansetts and 9 Standard Bronze to go with the 4 Broad-breasted American Whites held over from last year. And still about 30 chickens (Jersey Giants, Rhode Island Red/Cornish Cross, and Red Stars) running around the place, including 10 or so roosters who greet each day crowing early and often.
Visitors -- Linda Cogswell spend the last weekend of July here at the Compound. She and Nancy baked, cooked and canned all weekend. Hopefully, next visit we won't ask Linda to do the windows. And Warrior Dash Weekend arrived for the third time at the compound, with CJ, Stevie and a bunch of swarming for the three-days of events. On site were CJ & Rebecca Pudlin, Stevie & Scott, James Godhino, Andie Johnson, Adam Wolny & Alicia Camelli, Basudde Kajubi, Erik Pardee & Lauren Kolozinski. On Labor Day, Susan's/Nancy's mother Barbara visited, along with Beverly and Miranda.
Blog -- The Riley Factor's official blog site is located at http://the-riley-factor.
Quotes of the Month --
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. -- Alexander the Great
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class. -- Ron Paul, End the Fed
The base of the Democrat Party is stupid, single women. -- Ann Coulter
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. -- Ron Paul
The first casualty of the Obama campaign is the truth. -- Mitt Romney
Bumper Stickers of the Month --
Government big enough to take care of all your needs is government big enough to take all you have.
Gun Control? Oh yes. The theory that becoming a victim is morally superior to defending yourself and your family. Makes perfect sense.
So when do we start blaming Obama?
It's unfortunate that our first black president is also our worst president.
Facts of the Month --
We are running out of everything, including farmers. The average age of farmers in America is 58; in Japan it's 66. The highest rate of suicide in the U.K. is in agriculture. Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers commit suicide every year. In Australia the average farmer age is 58. -- Jim Rogers
Commentary of the Month --
Ideally, the Congress, which constitutionally holds the purse-strings of the nation, should want to know what's going on with the nation's monetary system. But the Democrats in power don't want to look behind the curtain at the Federal Reserve. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland said, "I agree with Chairman Bernanke that congressional review of the Fed's monetary policy decisions would be a 'nightmare scenario,' especially judging by the track record of this Congress when it comes to governing effectively." And Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, has vowed not to put it to a vote.
ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez, January 15, 2008
I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered
a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews
and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned
a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people,
truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who
changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life:
science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These
are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted
to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we
opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and
ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty,
due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish
cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government,
they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical
hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness
and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe
and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined
clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people
consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children
and theirs.What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000;
that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION, or 20% of the world's
population. They have received the following NobelPrizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Economics:
(zero)
Physics:
(zero)
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is
FOURTEEN MILLION, or about 0.02% of the world's population. They
have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Mi chae l Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Mi chae l Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino
TOTAL: 129
The Jews are not promoting brain washing children
in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up
and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The
Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow
themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew
who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests
by killing people.The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad
and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more
in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims
must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the
Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more
culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:
"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more
violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more
Israel ." -- Benjamin Netanyahu
General Eisenhower warned us it is a matter of history that when
the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower,
found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs
to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be
ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.He did this
because he said in words to this effect:
'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses
- because somewhere down the road of history someone will get up
and say that this never happened'. Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust
from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population
which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this
is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily
each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe
ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the
6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic
priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented
on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.
A grand soul --
Arthur Joseph Fuchs
August 4, 1920 - December 1, 2001
