Well here is today's rant:

Here is the Willamette valley we have the largest concentration of grass seed farmers in the world. Driving down the freeway and you see what looks like huge lawns. When the grass goes to seed the seeds are harvested, packaged, and shipped around the world for lawns. That is all good and find except for a small percentage of grass seed farmers insist on burning the grass stubble every year after harvesting. Grass seed farmers are actually paid by the government large sums of money to not burn and to take care of the stubble in a different way. Most of the farmers do this but there are a few backward stubborn farmers who insist on burning their field as they did today. Huge clouds of smoke came rolling into my home town today causing problems for the elderly, very young, and people with respiratory problems like asthma. It was 100 degrees and the air was foul. These people are selfish and stupid and hire lobbyists to keep the practice legal. All I can say is shame on you oh stupid and selfish ones. I wrote an email to our Governor today and left a message on his answering machine complaining and I complained to my state Representatives as well. There were over 100 complaints about the smoke today to the Lane regional air quality protection agency. (our county air quality department) and it was covered on the news. I hope that some sort of common sense will kick in and maybe my state Representatives will get an ethical backbone and actually do something about this problem to help the common good and stop supporting stupid, stubborn people who have lobbyists with briefcases full of cash.