Staff & Contributors

Still Seeking investors for Camp Shack Mining and Mineral Development Company

Forrest Johnson

The boys at Camp Shack are still seeking investors for an ambitious project that will eventually unearth and expose some of the finest and most useful minerals available on this or any other planet.

Elvis, deer ticks and shameless marketing

Forrest Johnson

I found a deer tick in my rear recently and it sure brought back a flood of memories about me and Elvis.

Flat Earth Economic Society at work in Minnesota again

Forrest Johnson

The Flat Earth Economic Society is back at it again, even in Minnesota, where I thought we were just a little bit above average. Yes, that fiscal wing of the New Conservative Neanderthal Party

2014 NUFA political alerts to begin

Forrest Johnson

“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.” -Will Rogers

Planet earth and the realities of living in an economocracy

Forrest Johnson

For quite some time I’ve been interested in economic theories that understand those limitations and propose new notions of progress, notions that call for a radical redesign of the “robber baron” capitalist economy

Better health through hard labor-Part Two

Forrest Johnson

It will be guaranteed that your hands will go through a personal transformation as well, changing from supple, nimble instruments of humanity to brutish, rather primitive tools not quite evolved enough to play a guitar or tie your shoelaces.

God might be taking a vacation real soon

Forrest Johnson

I tell you, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if God was ready to take a vacation from all of the wackiness that we bring his way on a daily basis.

Back in Naknek again, where every fisherman’s a friend

Forrest Johnson

I‘m back in Naknek, Alaska putting nets in boats, getting wet and windblown, staying with my Bristol Bay family that has adopted me as I’ve adopted them, enjoying life at the fishing shack with little contact with the outside world

Sports in general and the myths of patriotism

Forrest Johnson

We spent a trillion dollars or more for a theater of operations in Iraq. No, we borrowed and spent a trillion dollars or more for a theater of operations in Iraq. How quickly we forget that kind of wild spending on a war.

It doesn’t hurt to learn a little more—Part Two or Three

Forrest Johnson

Science and God are everywhere. One is blasphemous and the other sanctimonious according to the many candidates of the New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NCNP).

Don’t let the kids of the world fall into the hands of the superstitious - Part Two

Forrest Johnson

Climate change is a fad to the CEO of a coal company. The science that may indicate the planet is warming is the work of devils and witch doctors, according to many of the finest anti-intellectual scholars and creationists.

The employees lose their jobs when the smoke clears

Forrest Johnson

Stockholders seem happy at this point but employees generally don’t. They know that to pay the money back for the sale is going to mean a loss of jobs. The jobs are gone but somebody is making money during the transaction. It always happens.

The free market has me suspicious about the food market

Forrest Johnson

Tang was soon gone from the shelf. Gram was a Swede and suspicious of something that seemed too good to be true. She was particularly suspicious of white bread as well, even if it did build strong bodies twelve ways.

Dancing with old poverty and the new poor-still

Forrest Johnson

Real poverty. Poverty that leaves a family of four living on less than $22,314 per year. That’s not a living wage job supporting that income level, supporting those kids, trying to pay that rent.

Poor thinking tough nut to crack in climate change talks—Part Two

Forrest Johnson

While we are hopeless optimists, no one truly expects substantial progress on the issue even after the latest dire report was issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. So…

NUFA ride for Mirth, Merriment and Absolution will continue into May

Forrest Johnson

We will do the snow dance for ample snow so as not to delay the rides at all. Please do not blame us if we get another 50 inches of snow. Don’t blame, come join us.

It doesn’t hurt to learn a little more -Always

Forrest Johnson

Science is in your shoes. Science is in your soup. Science is in your soap. For some reason, and this is the reason the NUFA alert has been issued

Belief in the Backwards Doctrine moving US toward third world status-Part Three

Forrest Johnson

But thinking backwards, and in fear, resistant to the fact and certainty of our world, has led to the dogma embraced by the New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NCNP), formerly the Republicans.

NUFA and grandparents must work on addictions of the cloud

Forrest Johnson

Before I fixed another drink I looked them both in the eye and told them it sounded like addiction to me. Addiction. “You kids are addicted to those phones.

Industrial foods, farming methods and your brain—Part Three

Forrest Johnson

You are what you eat. Bad foods, bad thoughts. Chemically-based agriculture is an oxymoron of the first order and it has been the foundation of most American farming since the invention of DDT and other synthetic measures

Just say no to sulfide mining-Part Two

Forrest Johnson

The peril of possession is another of our human follies, something our large brains should have figured out by now but by and large we haven’t.

These shoes will cure all apathy

Forrest Johnson

People talk about all sorts of woes that afflict our national karma, the lackluster economy, the New Conservative Neanderthal Party (formerly the Republicans)

Belief in the Backwards Doctrine moving US toward third world status-Part Two

Forrest Johnson

There’s a big difference between being a luddite, an anachronist, and belonging to that group of people who simply believe that going backwards can sustain a democracy.

Don’t worry, our big brains will get us out of any mess

Forrest Johnson

We are a faithful people, we Americans. Steadfast. I’m not suggesting that we are an overly religious society in our faithfulness, though plenty of folks believe in a God of some sort, a higher power, the Boss.

Camp Shack Mining and Mineral Development Company seeking investors, just like Polymet

Forrest Johnson

At this time we’re being a little coy about the value of the aforementioned minerals simply because we’re still seeking investors for long term investments--real long, a week, a month, maybe even more.

The guy living under the bench was right

Forrest Johnson

Oh, that crazy, mixed up world of crude oil and fossil fuels. I was wondering just which crisis scared the oil traders and speculators this time as gas prices jumped back up to $3.29 a gallon after we had danced with visions of $2.91

From the side

Forrest Johnson

In the days when lutefisk ran the rivers

From the side

Forrest Johnson

Department of Mental Duress worried about our robotic future

From the side

Forrest Johnson

The National Union of Friendly Americans needs your help-Again

From the side

Forrest Johnson

Industrial foods and farming methods and your brain—Part Two

From the side

Forrest Johnson

Industrial foods and farming methods and your brain—Part Two

Better health through hard labor

Forrest Johnson

NAKNEK, ALASKA – Well, another National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fitness and fishing season is coming to a close.

Convenience will come to rule us

Forrest Johnson

Our local chapter of the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has severely restricted the use of drones after it was revealed that

Latest climate change report from the warming tundra

Forrest Johnson

Once again the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has been called upon to assist reticent nations and citizens in coming to terms with climate change. No one truly expects any real progress

NUFA fighting for the privacy of all Americans

Forrest Johnson

National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) espionage school instructors always make sure that the espionage we are involved in is done in good faith, is not hidden from view and is discussed in explicit detail with both sp

NUFA needs no hidden donors to fund its operations

Forrest Johnson

NUFA thinkers were in a quandary. Is the National Union of Friendly Americans a social group for charitable purposes, eligible for tax-exempt status and able to hide donors from scrutiny? NUFA, after a

The uprising of “Learning more can’t hurt”

Forrest Johnson

It may be time for an old fashioned revolt of the masses. An uprising for a sustainable planet and an educated populace that doesn’t fear the boogeyman and doesn’t form its opinions in the vacuum of intransig

The guy living under the bench in DC was right…again

Forrest Johnson

Oh, that crazy, mixed up world of crude oil and fossil fuels. I was wondering just which crisis scared the oil traders and speculators this time as gas prices jumped back up to $3.89 a gallon after we had danced with visions

Band-aids for the problems, not solutions—Part Two

Forrest Johnson

The patented portable carbon dioxide/methane/greenhouse gas vacuum is a proven technology and under construction as we speak. Climate change deniers and skeptics will cringe in the shadow of the vacuum as it rolls through the nation, not quite und

Industrial foods, farming methods, and your brain

Forrest Johnson

Long ago I wrote about efforts by the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) to remove intelligence-draining food products produced by the industrial food complex from our tables. Exac

We are evolving toward the cows every day

Forrest Johnson

While authorities are still seeking the cause of last week’s fertilizer factory blast in Texas the larger question regarding inorganic fertilizer use and a non-sustainable and industrial modeled farming method goes un

Ring the bell for Planet Earth

Forrest Johnson

At National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) world headquarters at Camp Shack, far from the encroachment of roads and humanity, a fresh new day is born after another howlin

Head To Your Nearest Nufa Recruiting Camp Soon

Forrest Johnson

The National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) held an emergency meeting at Camp Shack International Labor Temple early this week as the slave masters closed in on the hard-earned loopholes created across deer cam

Union of Fog Harvesters, Local 16, “We Harvest for You”

Forrest Johnson

Recent federal and state budget cutbacks have affected the Fishhouse Conservation Corps of the National Union of Friendly Americans (FCC-

Camp Shack Meteorological and Tectonic Administration on the job

Forrest Johnson

The Camp Shack Meteorological and Tectonic Administration of the National Union of Friendly Americans (CSMTA-NUFA) is busy gauging the movement o

Your health care crisis could be over

Forrest Johnson

A key component of the federal Affordable Care Act in Minnesota will be the creation of a state-run health care exchange. We at the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) have created a sensible, affordable, cost-effective way to manage

Seems like an inferiority complex is at work

Forrest Johnson

I thought the President was a bit optimistic when he rhetorically explained the other night that the state of the union was “strong.” Yes, he said economic revival is an “unfinished task” and as

Revisit the wolf plan before the next hunt

Forrest Johnson

Well, I added up the numbers, and it appears as though in 2012 700-plus wolves were taken by hunting, trapping, and through the state/federal problem wolf removal program in Minnesota. Over 400 wolves were taken during the hunting and trapping seasons.

Bring back the free-range kids

Forrest Johnson

I recently attended a workshop for a program I work with called Safe Routes To Schools. During the workshop, a very animated and dedicated fellow by the name of Mark Fenton asked us to reflect back on our days of growing up and whether we spent time in trees and roaming the landscape, free of parental and adult interference.

The guy living under the bench in DC was right

Forrest Johnson

Oh, that crazy, mixed-up world of crude oil and fossil fuels. I was wondering just which crisis scared the oil traders and speculators this time, as gas prices jumped back up to $3.39 a gallon