Show at 3pm

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

God the Folks do so love Sarah !!!!
Submitted by OBAMAS 97 PERCENT on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 3:32pm.

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And,his Moronic Blather !

He's Shite is sooooo old..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

?

i think it's a useful reminder of where 28% of the voting citizenry are at.

i regard our blogs as a refuge, and a place where reason and sanity are preserved.

but in the real world of humans going about their lives, the 28-percenters still hold sway... the ignorant aren't only the poor and uneducated - they are our bank presidents, elected officials, and doctors, and lawyers, too.

>>i think it's a useful reminder of where 28% of the voting citizenry are at.

they can be found at rallies yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" when Obama is mentioned.
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

News Tid Bits
Submitted by toniD on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 3:02pm.
Recession began in 2007: report
It's official: Committee of economists finally makes determination.

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But,but,It's Bill Clinton's fault ! But,but,it's The Democrat Congresses Fault ! Ah..This Republican minority in Congress has Blocked More Bills In Congressional History,Ever !

Same old wingnut excuses..
Republicans Don't admit their mistakes..Just ask Bushtard,Cheney & Uncle Rummy !
(I don't have the time or the stomach to list them all)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I knew it waould tank today.

And Paulson just spoke his nonsense again.

Buddhist temple built entirely out of beer bottles.

?... I'm curious...

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mire..nice in the wire pictures of the moon...

the sky is falling,
the sky is falling...

Don't forget to look up tonite...

nice post, rc - i'm with ya

I can't wait.

Right as the time that GWB does his Mea Culpa dance.

Obama's Organizers in Georgia, But Not Obama

Barack Obama's choice not to visit the state personally has come under criticism. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich have all visited the state for Chambliss, and Sarah Palin will be stumping four times for the Republican on Runoff Eve. Jim Martin has had Al Gore and Bill Clinton stump for him, but the big missing name is Obama.

Different theories abound, but the simplest explanation is Obama is unwilling to squander any perception of strength this immediately into his term as President.

Whatever turns out to be the case, at the close of early voting Wednesday, according to the Secretary of State's office 345,564 had voted, and 22.5% of those votes were African-American, an ominous dropoff from the 34.5% of black early voters for the general election.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

A.) Action Figure

B.) Bobble Head

C.) Survival Manual

D.) All Of The Above

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Connecticut
Lieberman:
Favorable 35%, Unfavorable 63%
Job Approval 36%, Disapproval 61%

If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held today would you to reelect Joe Lieberman would you consider voting for another candidate or would you vote to replace Lieberman?

35% Reelect
14% Consider
48% Replace

If you could vote again for U.S. Senate would you vote for Ned Lamont theDemocrat Alan Schlesinger the Republican or Joe Lieberman an Independent?

59% Lamont
34% Lieberman
3% Schlesinger

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/

If you could vote again for U.S. Senate would you vote for Ned Lamont theDemocrat Alan Schlesinger the Republican or Joe Lieberman an Independent?

59% Lamont
34% Lieberman
3% Schlesinger

this is so sad after the fact.

Calling the 2008 elections a “repudiation of Republicans,” President Bush shouldered at least some of the blame for his party’s poor results in November.

“I’m sure some people voted for [President-elect] Barack Obama because of me,” the outgoing president said.

But not more logical:

Still, the outgoing president insisted that war with Iraq was inevitable, given Saddam Hussein’s unwillingness to allow inspectors into the country in compliance with numerous United Nations resolutions. Bush refused to speculate as to whether the country would have gone to war if Iraq proved it had no weapons of mass destruction.

“That is a do-over that I can’t do,” Bush said.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-some-voted-for-obama-because-of...

what's gunna be sad, is watching Barack campaign for Lieberman against Lamont in two years. Just watch.

First the librarian was paid $1.5 million for writing the book about her library's cat, now an Oscar winner will star as the librarian in the movie!

Meryl Streep Pounces on Dewey, the Library Cat - 11/12/08 - CBC

www.canmag.com/nw/12784-meryl-streep-dewey-library-cat

Meryl Streep has agreed to star in Dewey, an adaptation of the fact-based book Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.

Streep will play the title character, an author who works at the library and observed the impact that a kitten had on the townsfolk once it became the library mascot after wandering in through the after-hours book return slot on a cold night.

Sense and credibility
By appointing both Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, Obama has established a wary tension over US foreign policy goals

Lots of leftists are grinding their teeth at the number of former Clinton appointees in Obama's entourage, but since these are the only Democrats with government experience who can shuffle round without a walking frame, that is hardly surprising. However, with Hillary herself, he is playing for high stakes. Her foreign policy experience, whether at 3am or any other time, is negligible. Until she reached the US Senate, she had not held any elected or government office, unless you count being on the board of Wal-Mart. But then, Madeleine Albright's highest elected office was to the board of governors of the National Cathedral school in DC. It showed.

Hillary Clinton gives up her independent New York political base to take this office, which is somewhat mystifying, unless she expects the Rapture or whatever to claim Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi simultaneously. For his part, Obama may be applying the old LBJ principle about having people inside the tent urinating out rather than vice-versa.....

Which brings us back to Susan Rice...

But she has to be aware that much of that moral prestige will evaporate with the very first veto that Hillary asks her to deliver on behalf of Israel, when the non-aligned will decide that it may after all be business as usual. As for the last thirty years, it will be applicability of UN middle east resolutions that the US once voted for that will be the test for US credibility. Support for a condemnation of the settlements would do wonders. After all, it is US policy and an Israeli promise to the Quartet, not to mention international law.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/01/un-obama-...

The next labor secretary will be taking charge of an agency widely criticized for walking away from its regulatory function across a range of issues, including wage and hour law and workplace safety.

"My view is that this is a deeply troubled department," said Scott Lilly, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, who has written several reports critical of the agency's operation under the Bush administration. "As bad as the personnel situation may be in many departments, I think it tends to be worse in the Labor Department than in most places. "I think you've got people embedded there who are philosophically hostile to the mission of the agency."

There are few federal agencies where the ideological differences separating many Democrats and Republicans play out more plainly. Labor is one of the government's largest regulatory enforcement agencies, overseeing issues from overtime payments and pension regulations to workplace safety and training programs. The agency has a total budget of $50.4 billion and 16,800 employees.

Many businesses say the agency's enforcement regime often becomes onerous under Democratic administrations, leading to burdensome reporting requirements and a type of punitive enforcement that they say stifles economic growth. They applaud Republican administrations for focusing more on helping companies abide by the law than on penalizing those who violate it. So they are bracing for a big shift. "With the new administration, I think you are going to a shift from compliance assistance to pure enforcement," said Randel K. Johnson, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Labor activists say that focusing so closely on the concerns of employers shortchanges workers and that a shift in emphasis is long overdue. Under President Bush, they say, the pendulum has swung far away from enforcement, leaving workers vulnerable to dangerous workplaces and with little protection from exploitive employers....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR200811...

Obama choice dims hopes in Middle East for change

BEIRUT (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state gladdens Israel, but does not overjoy Arabs and Iranians keen for a new start after eight years of perceived U.S. policy calamities.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert congratulated Clinton on her appointment
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4B05FM20081201?feedTy...

Bush says 'I'm sorry' economic crisis is occurring (kind of blames Clinton for it)

WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush expressed regret Monday that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and shrinking retirement accounts and said he will support more government intervention if needed to ease the recession.

"I'm sorry it's happening, of course," Bush said in a wide-ranging interview with ABC's "World News," which was airing Monday. "Obviously I don't like the idea of people losing jobs, or being worried about their 401(k)s. On the other hand, the American people got to know that we will safeguard the system. I mean, we're in. And if we need to be in more, we will."

...

As he leaves office, Bush said he felt responsible for the economic downturn because it is occurring on his watch, but he added: "I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so" before he became president.

He said he would like to see "instant liquidity" in the markets given the extent of the financial rescue plan, yet he understands that fear has paralyzed the markets. "Slowly but surely the system is becoming unthawed, and it's going to take time for the system to become unthawed," he said. "What the American people have got to know is we've taken the steps to unthaw it, which is the first step to recovery."

"It is hard for the average citizen to understand how frozen the system became and how over-leveraged the system became," he said. "And so what we're watching is the de-leveraging of our financial markets, which is obviously affecting the growth of the economy."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/01/america/NA-US-Bush-Interview.p...

Iran sees no sign of U.S. policy change with Obama

Mon Dec 1, 2008 7:33am

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's comments about its nuclear program were an indication Washington's stance toward Tehran had not changed.

The remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi, quoted by the ISNA news agency, were the latest by an Iranian official playing down the prospect of improved ties between the two old foes when Obama takes office in January.

Obama has said he would harden sanctions on Iran but also held out the possibility of direct talks. After his election win last month, he called for an international effort to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb, saying it was "unacceptable."

Qashqavi said future relations between Iran and the United States, which severed ties with the Islamic Republic shortly after its 1979 revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed shah, would depend on Washington.

"One of Obama's conditions for the establishment of ties with Iran has been the cessation of Iran's uranium enrichment which in itself is indicative of lack of change in Washington's perspective toward Iran," he said according to ISNA.

Echoing that line, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Sheikhuleslam, also quoted by ISNA on Monday, said "nothing has changed with the coming of Obama."

Bush: "Slowly but surely the system is becoming unthawed,"

What does "unthawed" mean?

Then he goes on to say: "It is hard for the average citizen to understand how frozen the system became and how over-leveraged the system became,"

So if it's unthawing, does that mean it's refreezing?

Have a great afternoon.

Later

He still doesn't know how to talk

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 6:10pm.

Bush: "Slowly but surely the system is becoming unthawed,"

What does "unthawed" mean?

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I thawed I thawed a putty tat.

Of course you never know, but this team could be effective in the War on Terror...

Last week's attack in India demonstrates the danger that is still very real..

Obama and this team will be attending daily briefings that spell out that danger in great detail...

And the best part is Congress won't think of cutting funding!

Once we get this War thing rolling right along, we can turn our attention to Cutting Taxes!!!

Bush: I was "unprepared for war"

From ABC's interview ...

Bush: "A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein," Bush said. "It wasn't just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," Bush added.

When pressed by Gibson, Bush declined to "speculate" on whether he would still have gone to war if he knew Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction.

"That is a do-over that I can't do," Bush said.

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John Kerry idiotically said he still woulda voted for the war in 2004 even if he knowed there warn't no WMDs, 'n here comes our village-idiot-in-chief Jr. Codpiece bein' uncharacteristically circumspect 'bout the same prospect in 2008.

What a differnce four years makes.

(But, hey, buck it up, cowboy! You done liberated tens if not hunnerds of thousands of peoples of their lives, Jr., 'n that's legacy-enough for anyone.)

that wouldn't be a BUDdhist temple, would it?

Bunning's the Guy?

Is Sen. Bunning (R-KY) the Republican senator who secretly blocked the confirmation of an Inspector General to oversee the $700 billion we've forked over to stabilize the financial sector? ...

--Josh Marshall

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Inspector General? For $700 billion? For our titans of capitalism? How quaint.

What, after all, could possibly go wrong w/allowing a buncha greedy sociopathic [descriptive edited out inna "Physician, heal thyself" kinda way] who've already fucked up the economy to determine when, where 'n how a nearly trillion-dollar hand-out oughtta be spent?

After all, oversight, stipulations, conditions 'n regulations, may I have the temerity to observe, would only interfere w/the unimpeded looting of the public treasury.

(Ah, if only Donald Rumsfeld were present on the national stage to once again reassuringly coo about how looting is just what these people do and why should we worry about it?)

No, far better to shovel money into the hands of our beloved captains of finance and then when it all evaporates we know not where, then we can have good ol' Hank "Goldman Sacks Fulla Cash!" Paulson explain to a bewildered populace:

"No one could have predicted ..."

heh!

thanks.

i needed that.

(gorguss looking temple btw.)

Buddhist temple built entirely out of beer bottles.

Submitted by dan on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 6:53pm.

that wouldn't be a BUDdhist temple, would it?

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Temple motto: "More Bud, Buddhist weiser."

hows the fishin?

i gave er a few chunks of cheese and she's burying them in her blankets.

Jax is an opportunity feeder, he's watching her like a hawk while she does it.

Ooooh the eye she's giving that boy!

i gave er a few chunks of cheese and she's burying them in her blankets.

Jax is an opportunity feeder, he's watching her like a hawk while she does it.

Ooooh the eye she's giving that boy!

Turns out it matters....

Light freeze tonight, high 70's low 80's tomorrow. If you don't like the weather in Texas, wait five minutes.

FBI arrests Birmingham, Alabama, mayor!
Story Highlights:
Larry Langford engaged in fraud, bribery, indictment says
Investment banker and lobbyist also named in indictment.

Prosecutor describes "web of financing agreements" among the three.

Langford attorney says he told Langford not to talk to media and "he's got a city to run"

(LMAO!)

of one Heineken clapping?

ahm....?

The guy on the tee vee says commercial xmas light installs are up 50% this year. I stopped that here because its a waste of energy. What a hum bug eh?

Ahhhhh, Mmmmmm!

eya DR!

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 7:06pm.

hows the fishin?

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Slow. Tain't just me, evidently. Been slow for ever'body that's chanced to go out betwixt blows since the king opener. Price is good but fish is scarce. Thinkin' 'bout headin' back to Mich. till spring to sees my dogs 'n put inna new furnace so my pipes don't go ker-plooey if my 30-year-old furnace quits on me while someone's watchin' my place. Prolly go deer huntin' before I goes, tho'. Lotta deer out 'n about, but them's that's went huntin' also been seein' a lotta bear sign 'n the occasional Mr. Brown comes wanderin' round. Allus makes it innerestin'.

(As Willy Loman's wife Linda sez: "Attention must be paid!")

Havin' some boat work done this week (new 'luminum hatch-combing bein' fabbed to replace the fiberglass heavyweight that squats onnit's haunches at present like an immovable sumo wrestler, plus some firmin' up on the hayrack 'n incorporatin' the gurdies into the 'rack so's they're up offa the deck 'n I can reclaim the checkers 'n deck space 'n eliminate gut-traps).

Read you hadda coho come to dinner. ("Guess Coho's Coming to Dinner?") Very considerate. Life good out yer way, eh?

stuffed up "W"'s pooper would make a delightful and suffecient xmas display.

That was no deer dr. That was Sam.

long as we can blind fold him, turn him round and round then kick his a**.

Fer was impressed by the thawing out frozen salmon in milk trick.

that little coho was a real treat!

yum!

just making grilled cheese and sausage sammiches for me and the doggers currently.

you gonna drop by on the way down?

Here's my vote for the first official mantra...

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 7:21pm.

what is the sound of one Heineken clapping?

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If a Buddhist-weiser falls down drunk in the forest and no one cheers him, does he make another round?

An insulated Aluminium hatch cover?

My my my! how you city boys carry on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5eDQKaKLYE

"Terrorizing Dissent [the Election Cut], crudely cut together just two months from the RNC '08, will leave you speechless.... I urge anyone who cares about the future of our democracy to begin by watching Terrorizing Dissent"

[....doing my part to crush the right...]

...

O My padme yum.

(repeat as you wake up in the forest. Bonus soul points if you can get the deer, bears, beers and sam to join in)

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 7:34pm.

... you gonna drop by on the way down?

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Like to.

Will let you know more when I know more.

Gotta figger out my plane ticket 'n what's possible (overstayed my scheduled return flight by a coupla months).

If not, then maybe in the spring if the timing works for you. Am leanin' toward bringing my vehicle out, so would have time for a visit.

He made an excellent point about Liberals being filtered from access to Obama though his centrist cabinet.

Ever get the feeling you are being systematically marginalized???

lemme know!

ya know that Abbobtsford Airport is an international now?

we got a terminal and the whole nine yards now!

>>An insulated Aluminium hatch cover?

Yes. regular hatch covers aren't good enough for the likes on them! Lawdy, no! They need a fancy insulted one made of al-loon-nee-um!
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

yubb!

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 7:48pm.

lemme know!

ya know that Abbotsford Airport is an international now?

we got a terminal and the whole nine yards now!

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Speakin' a them city boys carryin' on!

I just can't stand watching this little kid on cnn, this little 2-year old jewish boy Moshe whose parents were killed in Mumbai; why does tv need to show that, to make a show out of people's sorrow, that's their business I understand, pulling the heart's strings of viewers

but this little boy calling out for his mom at the funeral is just too much, I can't stop crying, and I don't know if it's just a woman thing, I think it probably is, I have a 2-yr old grandaughter who cries for her mother every time she lives the room, so just seeing this little boy on tv calling his mother and crying just broke my heart

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 7:55pm.

>>An insulated Aluminium hatch cover?

Yes. regular hatch covers aren't good enough for the likes on them! Lawdy, no! They need a fancy insulted one made of al-loon-nee-um!

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My insulated hatch cover warn't well-'n-truly insulted till you two hooligans put yer hands to it.

I don't think it's an accident that they focus on the Jewish Rabbi and his wife and child from NY...

...

what the heck he's talking about on hardball right now, he's making no sense at all, and no, he's not drunk

they would...

As the Economy Plunges, These Books Soar

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One of those old books enjoying new life is The Guide to Good Cheap Hunting, first published in 1978.

Much to his surprise, says Lyons, Americans suddenly want to learn how to hunt and trap rabbit, waterfowl, and squirrel to feed their families. “There will be a revival of this kind of small game hunting to put food on table,” he says.

Other newly popular books include:

* Great Growing at Home: The Essential Guide to Gardening Basics

* Beautiful Bread-Making

* Candlemaking

* Handmade for Profit

* The Derrydale Game Cookbook (originally published in 1937)

“Americans are looking for good, practical information about how to live a more sustainable life, how to save money by doing things like growing their own vegetables… and really returning to a way of living that was common for their grandparents,” says Lyons.
...

children who face the same thing if not worse at the hand of israelis but it just doesn't do it for me, it doesn assuage the grief, yes the media is manipulating this, and damn them for it, but the little boy has nothing to do with all this shit, it's just sheer pain there on display and i just can't stand it

>>My insulated hatch cover warn't well-'n-truly insulted till you two hooligans put yer hands to it.

Back in the day, we'd just an old bucket or wash tub and that'd be our hatch. No need for fancy insulation or aluminum.
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

Madam Secretary Clinton and the Middle East

By JOSHUA FRANK

It’s official.

Barack Obama has chosen Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State; a choice that confirms US foreign policy is not about to change significantly under the forthcoming Democratic administration. The US will continue to pander to Israel and the War on Terror will still be the rallying cry for our foreign interventions.

In a letter to her constituents in November 2005, Clinton expressed her belief that the war in Iraq shouldn’t be “open-ended,” but was clear that she would never “pull out of Iraq immediately.” She wrote that she wouldn’t accept any timetable for withdrawal and won’t even embrace a “redeployment” of US troops along the lines of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.).

“I take responsibility for my vote, and I, along with a majority of Americans, expect the president and his administration to take responsibility for the false assurances, faulty evidence and mismanagement of the war,” Clinton wrote in her lengthy letter that amounted to nothing short of denial for her own culpability in the mess.

Clinton soon after reiterated her position to a group of Democrats in Kentucky. “The time has come for the administration to stop serving up platitudes and present a plan for finishing this war with success and honor,” she said. “I reject a rigid timetable that the terrorists can exploit, and I reject an open timetable that has no ending attached to it.”

Translation: Clinton is all for an extended American stay in Iraq. She “takes responsibility” for her vote on the war, but won’t admit that it was wrong. And of course, Clinton is still for “winning” this war.
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank12012008.html

or Al Qaeda.

My instincts are telling me it is the ISI...it is no coincidence that Zardari canceled the ISI's political wing last week, right before the attack.

It appears shock doctrine is not limited to the US.

Sustainability books...

Submitted by Alice on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 8:14pm.

As the Economy Plunges, These Books Soar

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There was a wonderful fella on Bill Moyers here t'other night named Michael (how choiced is this?) Pollan.

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"Gardens are very powerful things"

On the PBS show Bill Moyers Journal last night, Michael Pollan was asked how regular people can fight the impact of agribusiness and eat better food:

POLLAN: Make yourself a real producer. Put in a garden. I mean, that is not a trivial thing. You know, it sounds kind of sweet and old lady-like. But gardens are very powerful things.

MOYERS: How so? What do you mean? Powerful things.

POLLAN: Not only will you discover that a very small plot of land, my garden now is only 10 foot by 20 foot, produces so much produce, I need to give it away. I have to spend time figuring out how to get rid of it. So you will actually get some of the healthiest, freshest food you can possibly get. It is the shortest food chain of all. But it teaches certain habits of mind that I think are really, really important. You know, Wendell Berry had a phrase. He talked about our kind of predicament with regard to energy. He said-

BILL MOYERS: -farmer, philosopher in Kentucky, right?

MICHAEL POLLAN: Yeah. And he said, "You know, we're afflicted by this cheap energy mind," that we, because cheap energy has allowed us to outsource so much of our lives. You know, we do one thing, right? We do our job, and everything else, we have a specialist who provides. They entertain us. They feed us. They clothe us. We don't do anything for ourselves anymore. It's one of the reasons that when we look at climate change, we feel so helpless, because we can't imagine doing any more for ourselves.

Well, as soon as you start gardening, it is a cure for the cheap energy mind. You're suddenly realizing that hey, I can use my body in support of my body. I have other skills. I can, you know, I can feed myself, if I needed to. And that is kind of a preparation, I think, for the world we may find ourselves in. But it's very empowering to realize that you're not at the mercy of the supermarket.

BILL MOYERS: We have 6.7 billion people on this earth, wanting to be fed. Do you think that we have a system that it will produce enough food, if we put into effect what you're talking about?

MICHAEL POLLAN: As long as the sun still shines. There is the energy to produce the food. The thing we need to remember, when people ask, "Can we feed the world sustainably?" is that about 40 percent of all the grain we're growing in the world, which is most of what we grow, we are feeding to animals. So there's an awful lot of slack there, if we're not eating nine ounces of meat a day. We're wasting 25 percent of what we're growing. I mean, there is, you know, there is plenty of food, if we organize our agriculture in a proper way.

The 'can we feed the world' argument has been used for 50 years to drive the industrialization of agriculture. It is agri-business propaganda, people who are not interested in feeding the world. They're interesting in driving up productivity, on American farms. Yes, some want to export it. ADM and Cargill want to ship it out to other places, but basically they want their raw materials as cheap as possible. I'm talking about Coca-Cola. I'm talking about McDonald's. And the way you keep you need overproduction to do that. You want your raw materials, if you're producing that McDonald's hamburger, or Coca-Cola, you're dependent on that corn and soy, and the cheaper that is, the more profit you're going to make.

BILL MOYERS: I'm sorry that I can't persuade you or convince you to take the job. You would be a provocative Secretary of Agriculture.

............

Here's the transcript if innerested.

Or video.

Also, Pollan cross-pollinated w/a piece in the NYT callt "Farmer in Chief", an open letter to Obama. Ain't read it yet, but one of the things he suggested on Moyers' program was for the Obama family to put a garden in at the White House, a wonderful idea, imo.

Then we win in Afghanistan.

Then we win in Iran.

That will go a long way toward cleaning up the Axis of Evil List...

Sounds like A PLAN to me!

I would guess that a lot of children had parents die in Mumbai
Submitted by Alice on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 8:10pm.
I don't think it's an accident that they focus on the Jewish Rabbi and his wife and child from NY...
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No, it was no accident .Norman Finkelstein and others write in detail on this. Analysts say this sort of bias really started in the aftermath of the June 1967 war.

In a related manner, did anyone hear Tariq Ali on Democracy Now today? He said that it was telling that the Mumbai attack is being called India's 9/11, but when peasants in villages are attacked by terrorists, and at least as many are killed, they use other images. Likewise when villages in Pakistan are hit by state-sponsored terrorists. It is not another 9/11 in these cases. Perhaps they dredge up aquinas, and argue it is "just war". Unfortunate consequences to necessary actions.

I'm glad I didn't see it (the orphaned child in Mumbai). Your description is heart-wrenching enough.

How about,Hung Over ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Deer gets revenge after hunter shoots him

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_deer_attacks_hunter.ht...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEDALIA, Mo. -- A hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain. Randy Goodman, 49, said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life.

The buck rose up, knocked Goodman down and attacked him with his antlers in what the veteran hunter called "15 seconds of hell." The deer ran a short distance and went down, and died after Goodman fired two more shots.

Soon Goodman started feeling dizzy and noticed his vest was soaked in blood.

So he reached his truck and drove to a hospital, where he received seven staples in his scalp and was treated for a slight concussion and bruises.
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

when the news divisions became 'profit centers' rather than a public obligation/service, news became competitive 'info-tainment'.

more important than the 'fairness' component, news that does not serve the public interest is mere gossip.

I believe that 'local' news stories or personal and private tragedies do not serve the public interest, and distort and degrade public discourse and the marketplace of ideas.

Showing a 2 year old at his parents' funeral is obscene.

'prurient interest' should mean something, don't you think?

will get to see it soon...

otherwise I'd have to look it up...That line struck me yesterday too when I heard it...."their 9/11"...

The GOP's McCarthy gene

Think Goldwater is the father of conservatism? Think again.

By Neal Gabler

The creation myth of modern conservatism usually begins with Barry Goldwater, the Arizona senator who was the party's presidential standard-bearer in 1964 and who, even though he lost in one of the biggest landslides in American electoral history, nevertheless wrested the party from its Eastern establishment wing. Then, Richard Nixon co-opted conservatism, talking like a conservative while governing like a moderate, and drawing the opprobrium of true believers. But Ronald Reagan embraced it wholeheartedly, becoming the patron saint of conservatism and making it the dominant ideology in the country. George W. Bush picked up Reagan's fallen standard and "conservatized" government even more thoroughly than Reagan had, cheering conservatives until his presidency came crashing down around him. That's how the story goes.

But there is another rendition of the story of modern conservatism, one that doesn't begin with Goldwater and doesn't celebrate his libertarian orientation. It is a less heroic story, and one that may go a much longer way toward really explaining the Republican Party's past electoral fortunes and its future. In this tale, the real father of modern Republicanism is Sen. Joe McCarthy, and the line doesn't run from Goldwater to Reagan to George W. Bush; it runs from McCarthy to Nixon to Bush and possibly now to Sarah Palin. It centralizes what one might call the McCarthy gene, something deep in the DNA of the Republican Party that determines how Republicans run for office, and because it is genetic, it isn't likely to be expunged any time soon.

The basic problem with the Goldwater tale is that it focuses on ideology and movement building, which few voters have ever really cared about, while the McCarthy tale focuses on electoral strategy, which is where Republicans have excelled ...

McCarthyism was how Republicans won. George H.W. Bush used it to get himself elected, terrifying voters with Willie Horton. And his son, under the tutelage of strategist Karl Rove, not only got himself reelected by convincing voters that John Kerry was a coward and a liar and would hand the nation over to terrorists, which was pure McCarthyism, he governed by rousing McCarthyite resentments among his base.

Republicans continue to push the idea that this is a center-right country and that Americans have swooned for GOP anti-government posturing all these years, but the real electoral bait has been anger, recrimination and scapegoating. That's why John McCain kept describing Barack Obama as some sort of alien and why Palin, taking a page right out of the McCarthy playbook, kept pushing Obama's relationship with onetime radical William Ayers.

And that is also why the Republican Party, despite the recent failure of McCarthyism, is likely to keep moving rightward, appeasing its more extreme elements and stoking their grievances for some time to come. There may be assorted intellectuals and ideologues in the party, maybe even a few centrists, but there is no longer an intellectual or even ideological wing. The party belongs to McCarthy and his heirs -- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Palin. It's in the genes.

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also, a much more prescient examination of the John Birch-inspired deranged hyperventilating bedwetter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics

By Richard Hofstadter

Harper’s Magazine, November 1964.

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 8:48pm.

Deer gets revenge after hunter shoots him

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_deer_attacks_hunter.ht...

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Deerly departed.

http://www.ediblecitymovie.com/

Edible City is a documentary film that explores the issues of food justice, security, and sovereignty through a comprehensive view of urban farming in the Bay Area – a grassroots effort that sees people responding to climate change, rising food costs and gas prices, and increasing health concerns by strengthening connections to the food they eat and reaching out to their local communities.

Edible City is slated for release in the Fall of 2009.

http://vimeo.com/1814818
Trailer

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Oh yeah, Tariq is on now...

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http://astromed.iic.harvard.edu/

Astronomical Medicine

NGC 1333

The goal of the Harvard IIC's "Astronomical Medicine" (AM) project is to extend the state of the art of complex data understanding in two very different fields, astronomy and medical imaging, using a broad-based approach to data exploration and analysis.

The best of two disciplines

While astronomy and medical imaging seem very different, both fields search through large amounts of image data looking for meaningful patterns.
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http://www.change.org/ideas

Change.org, along with MySpace and other partners, has launched a new campaign called Ideas for Change in America. They are asking you to submit your idea for an innovative solution to change America, as well as vote for others ideas you like. The first round of voting will end on December 31, 2008.

The top three ideas in each category (there are almost 30 categories) that receive the most votes will make it to the second round of voting starting January 5, 2009 and ending on January 15.

The top 10 ideas will be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day, and will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen other nonprofits after the Inauguration.

I just submitted my idea:

Make Things That Are "Public" Cool

Obama said that he wants to make politics cool. I hope he'll make funding, supporting, and using "public" services like education, transportation, parks, libraries and broadcasting cool too.

You can vote for my idea by clicking on the button above, or voting on Change.org.

http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2008/11/post-your-ideas-for-obama.html

one of my favorite writers; i read his anti-intellectualism in america book, pure genius

for having similar thoughts...Lucky you...

Can you take some more pictures of the Planets ?

It's Friggin Foggy down here again !

2 nights in a row..Errrrrr !

If not..I can go to space.com..
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I thanked you yesterday for posting those pics,power lines
& all..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

...
Let’s imagine that every single atrocity being committed in Iraq and Afghanistan were broadcast like this by the world media, the effect would be electric, but it isn’t. So, we see these images, horrific though they are from Mumbai, and there’s immediately an overreaction, and we don’t contextualize what is going on in the world as a whole. And that, I think, can be dangerous.
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on the way back here from lunch.. neat.

Jeebus !

Ask P if your period is over yet ! ;-)

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Shit..Now I'll Never get any pictures..Duh !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

what's that all about?

It is...but I'm still coming to get you!, MM! ;)

lunch is 430 - 530

D'oh ! ;)

Sorry,it just popped in my head as something you would laugh at..I'm not always right,though..Duh Really ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

you elitist...

I Already stole yours from your blog..Thanks :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

will on be Rachel soon to give her views about whether Obama is bringing enough change.
Hillaryious.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

started to go off on how there is only the corporatist party in the US now. At the same time he glibly stated the Rethugs are dead. I think they are dead. They are a racist, know-nothing, Palin loving , dead-end, shopper stomping collection of losers. But, the progressive Dems-- all five on them- have no party. Barack knows the future. He is the face of the new Republican Party. He's going to finalize the trend, started by Bill, of making the Dem. Party into the Republican Party of Eisenhower's time. We are going have to find somewhere else to go.

Written by Brian Robertson

freshbriefs.com

Resignations from the Bush Administration, provided by the great Rachael Maddow’s reckoning:

Bernie Kerik was going to be head of Homeland Security before he was indicted.

Scooter Libby, the vice presidents chief of staff, was convicted on four felony counts of lying
in the CIA leak case.

And finally, Alberto Gonzales, who resigned from his position as Attorney
General after being accused of lying to Congress about the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys.

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I'm not going to forget that the Bush bastards were an eight-year crime spree.

I also won't forget that Nancy Pelosi gave them permission to commit crimes.
www.bartcop.com

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I'm not offended..I did freely offer the info after all these years of not doing that... it was funny.. :)

one of the "chickenhawks"

was very supportive of making sure we took care of Saddam Hussein and his "WMD" programs.

Madeleine Albright, alias Maria Jana Korbel, born a Jew, baptized a Catholic, now an Episcopalian, appointed to the Secretary of State post is now in charge of our foreign policy?

If Albright was so eager to dump her Czech roots and her Jewishness for money and power, how can we be sure that this Secretary of State won't do the same with the American national interests? Or perhaps was that, in fact, the whole point and the main criterion for selecting her for the top foreign policy post?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton decided to join her one-time rival's team because she wanted to be part of the "greatest adventure of our century," she said Monday after President-elect Barack Obama named her as his nominee for secretary of state

"President Kennedy (read: Cuba, Vietnam.)

once said that engaging the world to meet the threats we face was the greatest adventure of our century," Clinton said during a news conference in Chicago, Illinois, when Obama unveiled his national security team. "Well, Mr. President-elect, I am proud to join you on what will be a difficult and exciting adventure in this new century."

(And George Bush could have said this):

"America is a place founded on the idea that everyone should have the right to live up to his or her God-given potential. And it is that same ideal that must guide America's purpose in the world today," she said.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/01/clinton.secretary.state/index.htm...

Expect, Obama, in eighteen months, under the pretext of "national service," to call for some new form of the draft; to find, and end, evil in Central Asia.

Keep freely offering info,it's funny.. ;)

I have a blunt sense of humor,sometimes..

You ought to hear my Older brother..

He cracks me up !

But,sometimes I have to tell him,Ah..that's not really
appropriate..

Ah..The Irish..We mean will,though :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

General Motors is ending their endorsement deal with Tiger Woods.
When asked why,
a GM spokesperson said, 'Tiger Woods is successful, competitive, and popular. And that's just not us.'"

-- Conan

Just management,right ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

making beef stew!

how many of you are coming over for dinner?

pirate treasure maps... and

he said he will share with us... :)

In Michael Wolff’s forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch, the author writes that he
has seemed to turn away lately from his cable news network, and isn’t fond of Bill O’Reilly.

“It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.’s highest levels) who absolutely despises
Bill O’Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator,” Wolff wrote, “
but Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other.
He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about O’Reilly but the money is the money; success trumps all.

Con't

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Ok..What do we win ? ;-)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

wilderness at our house... :)

cool.
check out my blog now. I stole it from here.

Warning: Drug References, Adult Concepts, Coarse Language, Filthy Jazz

Dearly Beloved - Xero Slingsby and the Works Live at Cafe Click

Hope all's well enough big guy.

someone was here, using sam's id, putting up a new thread.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4143

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4143

>>pirate treasure maps... and

>>he said he will share with us... :)

If you don't have any locap treasure maps. you might sell him on lost gold mines, etc.

California is FULL of lost tresure stories, I bet your library has some?

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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

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