02.06.14
Nugent fixed Lake Erie; New Jersey & New York no longer America
It’s easy to figure out how Ted Nugent’s brain works.
Take the writing of his weekly column. When not calling someone a famous Nazi, metaphorically recommending death or arrest for various members of the administration, or illustrating how communist tyranny is being imposed on everyone, he gets up in the morning, thinks of something dear to his heart, and claims that the dear-to-heart something is responsible for some great national miracle.
In today’s column at WorldNetDaily, Nugent credits hunters and fisherman with cleaning up America’s dirty water in the seventies, specifically Lake Erie:
When I was growing up in that once grand city of Detroit, Lake Erie would occasionally ignite spontaneously …
The perfect “we the people??? ballet of whistleblowing sounded the alarm when real conservationist/environmentalist, you know, hunters, fishermen and trappers, with real boots on the ground, witnessed in the swamps and on the water our beloved muskrat, waterfowl and fish populations drop to unacceptable levels. We quickly stepped up to remedy this very dangerous condition that threatened our hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
We simply refused to accept the status quo of the industrial revolution mistakes …
It wasn’t that long thereafter that Lake Erie got cleaned up so well that it once again became the world’s top walleye and small mouth bass fishery.
It’s a nice story, pike fisherman and muskrat trappers fixed staggering industry-driven water pollution.
Except that’s not how it happened.
It was the hated federal government and the Clean Water Act that did the job.
From one of Ted Nugent’s hates, the EPA:
Fires plagued the Cuyahoga River beginning in 1936 when a spark from a blow torch ignited floating debris and oils. The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats and a riverfront office building. By the 1960s, the lower Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was used for waste disposal and was choked with debris, oils, sludge, industrial wastes and sewage. These pollutants were considered a major source of impact to Lake Erie, which was considered “dead” (devoid of fish) at the time. On June 22, 1969 a river fire captured national attention. Time magazine described the Cuyahoga as the river that “oozes rather than flows” and in which a person “does not drown but decays.” This event helped spur an avalanche of pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the federal and state Environmental Protection Agencies.
After the Clear Water Act of 1972 and other local initiatives started enforcement, Lake Erie gradually improved. Fishing recovered, mayflies, absent for close to four decades, returned.
However, a different and not uncommon problem in modern America, also caused by mass human action, has now arisen: massive algal blooms caused by agricultural run-off.
A 2013 report from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
In 2011, Lake Erie experienced the largest harmful algal bloom in its recorded history, with a peak intensity over three times greater than any previously observed bloom. Here we show that long-term trends in agricultural practices are consistent with increasing phosphorus loading to the western basin of the lake, and that these trends, coupled with meteorological conditions in spring 2011, produced record-breaking nutrient loads. An extended period of weak lake circulation then led to abnormally long residence times that incubated the bloom, and warm and quiescent conditions after bloom onset allowed algae to remain near the top of the water column and prevented flushing of nutrients from the system. We further find that all of these factors are consistent with expected future conditions. If a scientifically guided management plan to mitigate these impacts is not implemented, we can therefore expect this bloom to be a harbinger of future blooms in Lake Erie.
“And so it continues today with all my hunting, fishing, trapping friends as dedicated stewards to monitor the health of wildlife and wild habitat as the ultimate barometers for quality air, soil and water, and, therefore, overall quality of life,” continues Nugent.
The breast swells, a tear is seen in the eye. Then one last recommendation.
“Now wouldn’t it be great if only enough Americans could put forth such effort to cleanse our government of all that political pollution?”
One newspaper excerpt, October 2012:
In recent summers large blooms of toxic algae have returned. In 2011, the worst year so far, there were days when the algae was so thick that Unger couldn’t take his customers fishing. He once drove his 27-foot Sportcraft boat 14 miles straight north from Cleveland before he gave up and turned back. “I never got out of the algae,??? he says.
Ted Nugent does God’s work in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, informs public Maryland, New Jersey and New York are no longer states in America:
“I’m doing God’s work exposing the soullessness of the left, the evil agenda of the same liberal Democrats who engineered the destruction of the greatest city of America my birth city of Detroit. They did it on purpose and now we have a commander in chief who is actually following the recipe for destruction of Detroit for the whole country.???
As he has done in the past, Nugent called Attorney General Eric Holder a gun runner and President Obama an avowed racist.
He accused the Obama Administration of imposing communism on America. “That’s the redistribution of earnings, giving hard-earned money to people who didn’t earn it.
“This is ‘Planet of the Apes’ stuff,??? Nugent said. “This is so indecent, so criminal, that Americans who get up early and work hard are absolutely shattered by the abuse of power and corruption.???
He said Maryland, New York and New Jersey — all of which have legalized same-sex marriage — were no longer America.
Ted Jr said,
February 8, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Don’t be so hard on Ted Sr. It takes real skill to advance creative writing to a point where no one would recognize these events took place on planet earth.
And Ted Sr. is just as adept at this skill as A. Jones, R. Limpbaugh, B. Soetoro, J. McCain just to name a few that pop into my head.
So recognize that these people are just much better writers than you will ever be, Mr. D, and stick to writing about the facts.
“My city was gone”
George Smith said,
February 9, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Great song, BTW.