"I was fortunate to see it again this morning (mile marker 35). It took flight over 131 in front of me and flew toward WMU's business and technology park. It made my morning!" Sharon P.
A Northern Goshawk has been seen as recently as 01-21-10 long US-131 just north of I-94.
The goshawk is on the “concern” lists of several resource agencies, including the Michigan Departmentof Natural Resources’ (where it is designated Special Concern), the U. S. Forest Service’sEastern Region Sensitive Species List, and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's List of Nongame Migratory Birds of Management Concern.
We should never assume that angry people are rational. Massachusetts is a case in point. Conservatives are spinning the Brown election as the people voting against health insurance reform. Voters clearly wanted change when Obama was elected, yet conservatives have stood in opposition at every step along the way. The Republican strategy of saying no to everything a popular President wants seems on the surface to be irrational and destined to fail. It has not failed. Democrats have allowed it to succeed.
Voters want results and Democrats have proven themselves incapable of delivering much of anything. Now the voters in one state decide in anger to put the driver who drove the car into the ditch back in front of the steering wheel. The Democrats whose power in the Senate is diminished by just one percent immediately cave in and talk of backing off health insurance reform. Americans are looking for somebody who will stand up for them and fight to stop the ongoing rip off by Wall Street and health insurance companies. A minority of Americans like things as they are and yet they are still in control. This makes people angry and that’s what we saw in Massachusetts.
One year into the George W. Bush administration, there were 70 appointees awaiting confirmation. One year into the Obama administration, there are 177. Most notable, of course, is that there was no head of TSA when the underwear bomber incident occurred. Small wonder voters are angry.
