“In 1964, Glenn Fisher, a brilliant and cantankerous Agriculture Department scientist whom I befriended years later, and Casey Kays, a New Jersey outdoorsman, independently began calling attention to the imminent destruction of Sunfish Pond and the lovely meadow around it, which was bisected by the Appalachian Trail” and which was threatened with extinction by a proposal to construct a dam on the Delaware River at Tocks Island.
This account is excerpted from the Kiko’s House blog of award-winning editor and reporter Shaun Mullen in his posting dated Monday, April 2, 2007.

“The persistent Fisher and Kays, who had joined forces to form the Lenni Lenape League, caught the first wave of the environmental movement and rode it to Sunfish Pond.

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Billybytes Publications have investigated and established the nexus between octogenarians Anna Mae Kessler, age 81, a former resident of 574 Bangor Road, Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Alice Mae (Nee Kays) Kitchen, 86, of Hainsburg Village, Knowltown Township, Warren County, New Jersey.

Anna Mae Kessler and Alice Mae Kitchen share more in common than just the initials of their middle name (which also, not coincidentally but through the inscrutable intervention of God Almighty, is also the middle name of my mother, Ida Mae Givens. age 92.

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Pennsylvania Act 71 of July 1, 2004, “legalizing” slot machine and horse racing-track (casino/racino) gambling occurred only four months following the admission by leaders of the National Museum of Industrial History including its Executive Director Stephen Donches that the project lacked sufficient funding to proceed.

The same kind of scam is being employed in Bethlehem’s sister city, Easton, located nine miles to the east on State Route 22 and on the Delaware River bordering New Jersey, to construct an interstate transportation bus terminal and/or depot-parking garage-shopping center-condominium mutation in the flood plain of the Delaware River and a major Delaware River tributary, Bushkill Creek.

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“As director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [OIRA] at the White House of Budget and Management [OMB], Susan E. Dudley will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies,” as reported by Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Joel Havemann at Latimes.com.

Much of the plot to overthrow our government through a bloodless coup centers on the so-called “Lehigh Valley,” a geographical area in eastern Pennsylvania, whose borders, like shifting sand (quicksand, that is) undulated with the latest U.S. Bureau of Census figures used to establish Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

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As reported in today’s New York Times, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling decided against defendants George W. Bush Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency’s that they lack authority to enforce Congress’s Clean Air Act (Justices Rule Against Bush Administration on Emissions).

The article quotes Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, as saying “It ia an[sic] historic moment when the Supreme Court has to step in to protect the environment from the Bush administration.”

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