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brian I doubt that corporations will find a conscience, so how 'bout limiting their size and at the very least life span.
Thom, it may have been better in the long run to let the banksters just blow themselves up.
I think they watched Blazing Saddles too many times.
america was once the clothing capital of the world . the corporations did not want to share the profits with a decient wage for the workers. the corporation wanted to maximize profits for the few the shareholders . this is what is wrong with the wall street mentality. to do anything to maximize profits at the expense of others. to me corporations need to become more humanistic and not be ruled by greed anger and folly.
rewinn are you trying to get Monsanto to show up on your doorstep? "You're meddling with the primal forces of nature......"
ooops I wrote "organize" instead of "organic".
As they say: "Don't mourn --- organic-ize!"
Since it's "Anything Goes Friday"
--- everyone can grow a little bit of their own food, even if it is so little as growing herbs in a pot on their desk.
Especially if you're unemployed and looking for something to so - replace that lawn with crops appropriate to your locality and easy to maintain. A $2 packer of seeds can yeild $50 or more of food with minimal work AND you'll know whether it's organize or not.
You can plant the humble potato in a pot on your apartment balcony; it'll make nice foilage and after a while you'll have a meal.
Try to get "heirloom" seeds so you can have food that is grown for taste and nutrition, not shippability and resistance to poisons a.k.a. chemical sprays.
Share your seeds with neighbors - usually there's more in a packet than you need.
Local groups like Seattle Tilth and countless "sustainability" groups will help you figure out what to plant and how.
It's good for your kids too!
A quote for these times from 1977 by Edward Abbey: "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." (The Journey Home)
@Nels- point taken. Nels. Absolutely, Let me validate you completely. There is a lot of work to do. I just attended a panel discussion about this the other day. I tend to like these organizations for what you are talking about. Also, when I sub for nutritional science, it does take requiring the average American to take a class in the subject before they will do it. And then, as I think you were saying...shopping becomes a research project, as it needs to be IF you have to shop in a conventional store. http://www.phi.org/ http://www.organicconsumers.org/
@ Bryan - ha ha
Repealing DADT will remove the fear of being outed and forced out. A gay soldier can serve honorably (if you discard concealing sexuality for a job as dishonorable) for years and have it all thrown away.
@Bryan: as I recall, many gays booted out of the military were translators trying to protect us from terrorist attack. If we hadn't lost those translators, maybe 911 wouldn't have happened in the first place.
'Self-sufficent' is the message and antidote to the pajoritive 'protectionism'.
NEWSFLASH: There are already gay people in the military! For people who think the effect of repealing DADT will be gay people lining up to serve and be killed have a distorted view of our military. Besides, the best thing that could come out from allowing gay people to openly serve would be more form-flattering uniforms and bedazzled weapons!
This was sent to me by friend on Facebook:
Kitty Lambert and her longtime partner Cheryl attempted to apply for a marriage license yesterday in Buffalo, New York. When she was denied, she turned to the crowd: "With news cameras rolling, Kitty then turned to the crowd and asked for any male who would be willing to get married to her. A gay man named Ed stepped f...orward and volunteered. They briefly exchanged information and presented the appropriate documents along with $40. City staff verified the information, and proceeded to give them a marriage license. Kitty’s point in approaching the City Clerk for a marriage license is that there is no religious basis for marriage, and it serves only as a legally binding contract in our society. Instead of being offered the ability to receive a license with her long-term partner, she was able to secure a license with a virtual stranger, strictly based on their gender."
http://www.towleroad.com/2010/02/watch-ny-lesbian-weds-male-stranger-in-...
Maybe we can unite against the real scammers...
Amen Brother
Cheers,
Joe
@KMH, well I am in LA (suburbs) and yes there are farmers markets and health food stores, that are open while I work, not so much when I'm not working.
However, my point was more subtle. I know somewhat how to find healthy foods, I was more or less pointing out that the common citizen doesn't really bother. My gripe is that our government really limits its regulations, so that many foods can have big flashy labels that are misleading, and unless you take a close look you miss what's really going on. I know better, but the average shmoe, doesn't, and to me that's at least negligent of our government, at the worst allowing insidious tactics by turning a blind eye.
Not saying that you haven't taught me more though. I know a bit more than the average bear, but there is certainly much more for me to study. Thank you.
@KMH - the closest thing to progressive radio in Dayton is NPR, enough said. The local news does a good job of talking up the 2nd St Mkt. If not for the internet, there would be no Thom in Dayton.
This area has John Boehner to the north and Jean Schmidt to the south. And "Touchdown Jesus" in between.
Just a lonely moose in the great white north.
Watch out for those cold metal statues in the deep of winter! ;-)
Cheers,
Rick
@ Rick in Canadia
re: "all upside down"
The Church Lady is curious. Which one are you?
(in your avatar) My fingers are crossed.
@ Harry - Outsourcing prisons to Mexico was not from some whack-job corporatist lobby group. It came from the Governator.
Thinking about 9/11 stock puts and so forth, perhaps the simplest explanation would be that bin Ladn told some of his financial supporters that something would happen around 9/11 that would mess with airline stocks, or whatever financial instruments were actually affected.
For the financial contributors, the information might be very low-risk to employ. If nothing happened, they would be as likely to make as to lose money due to normal market "noise". But if something did happen, they'd make out very well.
If they were clever, they would of course work through intermediares, perhaps not even profting personally but merely passing on investment advice to others, and reaping benefits only by later reminding the beneficiaries of their prior good advice. Further investigation would seem to be only common sense, even if nothing is ultimately found.
@Charles- cool. Maybe you get them to advertize on your local progressive station. Is your station still on the air there?
I tell you, thank goodness for Dish and Siirius Satellite. I am in a large condominium complex and almost every unit has a dish. So glad Thom is safely plugged into these networks. He is safe from the Republicans now. The world is watching.
Thom,
Apparently for the Iraqi election there is a question as to whether 'former Bathists' should be allowed to run.
Not the same thing of course but when I hear your republicans so full of themselves and how they are going to kill any form of health care reform, I can't help thinking that they are much the same.
Not 'should they be allowed to run' but should they be listened to?
They seem to believe that they should still be in power and that pesky election didn't mean anything. They and the public as a whole need to be reminded often that their party is down to 20 %.
When you hear that 50% of republicans are for or against something, remember that means only ten percent of Americans.
They have fun using the term 'Democrat party', maybe they should be either the Republic party' or just the American Bathist Party. They are like a lizard's tail left twitching on the ground; you shouldn't pay any attention to it if you are after that big meal.
I love that Eisenhower quote; ( http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/ike.asp ) "Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
Happily covered with single payer health care in Canada, except like you, we are currently governed by a Conservative Minority Government.
Rick in Canadia
Palin-Prejean 2012!! Single 'prayer' health care.
@Charles: huh! and Haiti is out-sourcing its law enforcement to the U.S.!
This free trade is getting out of hand. What's next, out-sourcing the Government to Fox?
@Brad- yeah, teach us some more. How do you know this solar stuff so well? Any links would be welcome!
@ Nels& Harry
Mr. Cuke, You stood out from the beginning. I knew you were a prodigy. I see great things ahead for you and Harry Ash. The Church Lady encourages all young men to work out at the "Y". You too can get ahead!