4/24/11 RUMORS OF FISH, A LOW LAKE AND NOSY BUSBODIES

MOUTH OF THE SIOUX ON EASTER MORNING

MUST BE A BIG ONE, RIGHT THERE!

Easter Sunday, 9:00 AM.  38 degrees, wind W, calm.  The sky is cloudless, the barometer predicting partly cloudy weather.  It is a wonderful morning, one with the power to restore faith and hope in every creature, if we but let it.
    Rumors of fish took Lucky and I to the mouth of the Sioux River this morning.  I made a couple of dozen casts while Lucky puttered around on the beach.  There were a few surf casting fishermen and a couple of small boats in the water but nobody was catching anything.
     I have never seen the lake down so far, officially about 16 inches.  We didn’t get much late winter snow and have not had spring rains as yet.  To further contemplate things, one seldom knows how much water is being let out the Sioux Locks by the Army Corps of Engineers, also there was a major fissure in the bed rock at the end of the lake, cased by construction, that was reported a few years ago and one never hears anything about that leak either, so it is difficult to analyze the situation.
    How about that business of the I Phone, and I guess some other phones as well, storing all sorts of personal information; where the carrier has been, who he has talked with, what he has purchased, etc.  Was the information to be sold to businesses, or was it  mandated by the government so it could gather information on its opponents, or the average citizen?  Or, to be charitable, is it stored just because it could be?  In any case it is a civil rights violation of epic proportions and someone, perhaps many, should be prosecuted.  As for me, no more than a simple cell phone, and definitely no GPS installed in my car or truck.  I am opposed to any “black boxes” being surreptitiously installed in the vehicles of private citizens as well. Big business and big government are nosy busybodies at their best, criminals at their worst.