NoNAIS.org http://NoNAIS.org Protect our traditional rights to farm Wed, 16 May 2012 21:05:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en New Rulemaking See NAISSucks http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/16/new-rulemaking-see-naissucks/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/16/new-rulemaking-see-naissucks/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 21:05:17 +0000 walterj Alert - National http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/16/new-rulemaking-see-naissucks/ From snezzy in comments:

Darrol over at NAISstinks.org is reporting that the new USDA NAIS rule was presented to the OBAMA for sign off about a month ago. Does anyone know the status?

(April 27th, 2012) USDA submitted it Animal Disease Traceability Rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget for final review.

That just makes me SICK!

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/16/new-rulemaking-see-naissucks/feed/ Finals Week - Last Chance to Help Kickstart the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/09/finals-week-last-chance-to-help-kickstart-the-butcher-shop-at-sugar-mountain-farm/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/09/finals-week-last-chance-to-help-kickstart-the-butcher-shop-at-sugar-mountain-farm/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 13:29:46 +0000 walterj Other http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/09/finals-week-last-chance-to-help-kickstart-the-butcher-shop-at-sugar-mountain-farm/
We are now in our last week of our Kickstarting the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm. We made our initial goal of $25,000 for the butcher shop equipment thanks to all of you!

We made our second goal of an additional $5,000 for pouring the abattoir tower. Thank you, again!!

Some people have asked how high can we go? The sky’s the limit. There are more goals ahead such as pouring the floors of the abattoir, the roof of the abattoir, etc. Help spread the word to as many people as possible in this last week so as to raise additional funds for the higher levels where all backers can get additional rewards added on to rewards packages such as more sausage, hot dogs, bacon and other Goodies.

Spread the Word Game:

Win: T-shirts, mugs, DVDs, books plus more meat and other goodies on rewards tiers.

Goal: Get the word out in this last week. Let’s blast past a new level to help fund the next step: construction of the abattoir to bring slaughter on-farm!

The Message: Kickstart the butcher shop at Sugar Mountain Farm for pastured pigs http://smf.me Pls RT

Feel free to add to that but use at least those words and short link to get things spreading further.

Actions:

  1. Tweet the message to followers
    Bonus Credit: Follow @SugarMtnFarm
    https://twitter.com/SugarMtnFarm
  2. FaceBook write the message on your wall
    Bonus Credit: Like this post, Friend & Event “Finals Week”
    http://facebook.com/SugarMtnFarm
  3. Blog the message above with some intro discussion.

    4. Bonus Credit: link to a picture from the project so it shows on your blog - pictures attract attention and make people interested in things.

  4. Discuss our project and mention the message in discussion lists - don’t spam though.

Leave a comment on Update #41 letting me know what you did.
e.g., 1,2,3,4.

Our project ends May 15th. If we can break through to the $35,000 level then backers can get extra meat and goodies added to their rewards as show in in the chart on Update #40.

On May 16th when our project is done, I’ll pick seven random winners from the commenters on Update #41: one for each day of this final week, to receive their choice of a T-shirt, mug, Sugar Mountain Farm Book, Farm Tour DVD, a small ivory pig tusk or extra meat in their meat package!

Daily Spark: Resolve is an anagram of Lovers.

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/09/finals-week-last-chance-to-help-kickstart-the-butcher-shop-at-sugar-mountain-farm/feed/ Bulletin Board 201205 http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/01/bulletin-board-201205/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/01/bulletin-board-201205/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:01 +0000 walterj Bulletins http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/01/bulletin-board-201205/ Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/05/01/bulletin-board-201205/feed/ Kickstarted to 93%! http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/kickstarted-to-93/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/kickstarted-to-93/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:32:26 +0000 walterj Other http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/kickstarted-to-93/ This week we’ve gotten a bunch of publicity which has driven our Kickstarting the Butcher Shop project to over 93% funded. Check out the new Cartoon Info-Graphic by our son and daughter Ben & Hope.

If you haven’t been to visit it yet, go to http://smf.me where you can see a video of our farm, photos and description of our project. You can get great rewards including our pastured pork, bacon, hot dogs, sausage, T-shirts, ivory tusks and more.

Please back our project, even if only for a little bit. Help make the butcher shop at Sugar Mountain Farm a reality. We’re almost there!

Thank you!

-Walter

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/kickstarted-to-93/feed/ Government Backs Nose Out From Under Family’s Skirts http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/government-backs-nose-out-from-under-familys-skirts/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/government-backs-nose-out-from-under-familys-skirts/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:28:13 +0000 walterj Alert - National http://NoNAIS.org/2012/04/27/government-backs-nose-out-from-under-familys-skirts/ Score one for the family farm:

Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.

Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason for withdrawing the rule.
-DailyCaller.com

Be ever vigilant. Once the government gets their nose under the tent they rarely retreat. Rather they tend to force themselves more and more into control of our private lives. Government’s eyes should be looking outward, not inward at citizens lives.

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Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

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Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/03/01/bulletin-board-201203/feed/ Bulletin Board 201202 http://NoNAIS.org/2012/02/01/bulletin-board-201202/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/02/01/bulletin-board-201202/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:01:01 +0000 walterj Bulletins http://NoNAIS.org/2012/02/01/bulletin-board-201202/ Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/02/01/bulletin-board-201202/feed/ Blacking Out the Internet http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/18/blacking-out-the-internet/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/18/blacking-out-the-internet/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:01:39 +0000 walterj Action Item http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/18/blacking-out-the-internet/

Stop the Stupidity.
Feel free to steal this graphic, this text, this post to help protest SOPA/PIPA!
Blackout your blog and web site. Spread the word.
Now is the time for all good netizens to fight back against censorship while you still have the ability to protest stupid laws.

“Blacking Out the Internet” What does that mean? Well, you know those classified documents the government gives out where all the interesting stuff has been blacked out? Imagine if the Internet looked like that. Imagine if without due process anyone, make that governments and big business, could take down web sites if they didn’t like what was being said. Forget honest reviews of products. Forget being able to discuss politics. Religion? No way. How-to information that lets you do things yourself rather than paying big bucks to Big Corps? That can’t be allowed as it cuts into their profits!

If SOPA/PIPA and other stupid censorship laws are allowed to become the rules of the road then I won’t be able to tell you about XXXXXXXXXXXX and how to XXXXXXXXXXX or make your own XXXXXXXXXX while saving money by XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Oops! Looks like the censorship has already started!

Congress is foisting this on us under the guise of protecting intellectual property rights but what they are doing is a clear violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Due process is being thrown out the door to feed the greed of the corporate giants who bribe our elected leaders.

Supporters of SOPA/PIPA are doling out some serious cash to bribe Congressional members. Our Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy received $1,321,560 from the proponents of these bills according to OpenCongress. I have corresponded with him about this and he is a strong supporter of SOPA/PIPA - no wonder! With a serious bribe like that maybe I would support these bills too! Hey! SOPA/PIPA people! You can send my million dollars to my PayPal address. Anyone else here want a million dollars? Check out the list of supporters who are passing out bribes as documented at OpenCongress.[1, 2] Also look at the list of people who got bribes. Did you get yours? Why not? If our Congressional representatives are getting millions of dollars in bribes shouldn’t the other 99% of us get our bribes too?!? Speak now while you still have the right to question.

If you value your rights to freedom of speech and the power of the Internet then fight back now!

Tell your Congressional Critters to block SOPA/PIPA Internet Censorship.
Write your:
Representatives
Senators

Also contact President Obama at the White House who has shown indications of possibly opposing these bills. Let him know you care and you want him to kill bill.

Dear Mr. President,

Please kill bills SOPA and PIPA because they would destroy due process, violation the Constitution and Bill of Rights and hurt the growth of the Internet. These bills will not stop piracy nor protect intellectual property rights. They are based on greed. We already have laws in place to deal with all of these issues. SOPA/PIPA is not needed.

Sincerely,

-Walter Jeffries

For more information and to see other protests visit:
Wiki, Google, Amazon, WordPress, WordPress Planet, American Censorship, YouTube, CraigsList, Reddit, NoNAIS.org, SeaOnTheMount, FlashWeb.com, BoarTaint.org, GrowlComics.com, TechDirt, Internet Archive, Musician Peter Gabriel, …

Want to be added to that list? Put up this graphic and page on your site (simply redirect if you know how) or something similar and email me the URL of your page. Spread the word. Shout it out. Oppose censorship while you still have the tools.


Outdoors: 999°F/-473°F In the Dark
Tiny Cottage: 70°F/67°F

Daily Sparks:
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -Thomas Jefferson

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -C.S. Lewis

Tomorrow we will return to our regularly scheduled programming, provided the Internet still exists.

]]> http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/18/blacking-out-the-internet/feed/ Warning: Internet to Go Down - Don’t Panic http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/17/warning-internet-to-go-down-dont-panic/ http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/17/warning-internet-to-go-down-dont-panic/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:50:12 +0000 walterj Blog Notes http://NoNAIS.org/2012/01/17/warning-internet-to-go-down-dont-panic/ This is just a little warning of preparations to black out the Internet. This is just a test. Had it been a real shutdown of the Internet you would now be in the dark.

The point is to XXYXX a XXXYXXXX to the folks in XXXXXYXXXXX, XXXYX about their abuse of Constitutional Rights and censorship.

This is only a test. Do not panic. When it is time to panic I’ll tell you.

The blackout will occur on January 18th, 2012. This is not the end of the world. Tune in later for that.

For more information see here.

Outdoors: 999°F/-473°F Dark
Tiny Cottage: 70°F/67°F

Daily Spark: “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” -T Jefferson

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