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rojo
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Interesting
It is about commercial tomato growing in Florida and why the tomatoes taste bad.
Or why I grow a garden.
rojo
It is about commercial tomato growing in Florida and why the tomatoes taste bad.
Or why I grow a garden.
rojo
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Stolen Directly From Atrios
But, a great question
It isn't the most important point, but when in modern warfare a little freedom bombing can cost you $1 billion in a week it's worth asking just which of the war's advocates would spend $1 billion on any other "humanitarian" mission like, say, providing a reliable source of potable water for millions of people.
rojo
But, a great question
It isn't the most important point, but when in modern warfare a little freedom bombing can cost you $1 billion in a week it's worth asking just which of the war's advocates would spend $1 billion on any other "humanitarian" mission like, say, providing a reliable source of potable water for millions of people.
rojo
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Somehow, It Just Doesn't Seem Fair
It may come as a shock to those too young to remember the FBI infiltrating the Black Panthers, the SDS and many other left wing groups, but here we go again. Yes, peaceniks of the world are now being targeted once again as terrorists. Yet this diatribe against US citizens that goes under the guise of right wing political talk radio gets no real investigation.
Yep, Neil Boortz can suggest the random killing of blacks and thugs and peace groups and labor unions get daytimers gone through and so on. For fomenting revolution and death to US citizens, you'd think the Patriot Act might just kick in. Weiner must retire, so goes the media call and yet those who want to foment killing just bop along with no punishment. Anyone who thinks that the right wing does not control much of the US, let alone the intelligence and decision making operations really do not have a firm grasp on reality. And where, oh where, is the liberal media on this one? Hint, it never existed.
I just don't even know what to say other than if you watch CNN you probably never saw either of these stories.
and now this. An academic who was a critic of Iraq was spied on by the CIA under the orders of President Bush. Thjis is treasonous and goes to the heart of the American dream. Are we political animals, political Darwinists, or a country that has hopes dreams and a Constitution?
rojo
It may come as a shock to those too young to remember the FBI infiltrating the Black Panthers, the SDS and many other left wing groups, but here we go again. Yes, peaceniks of the world are now being targeted once again as terrorists. Yet this diatribe against US citizens that goes under the guise of right wing political talk radio gets no real investigation.
Yep, Neil Boortz can suggest the random killing of blacks and thugs and peace groups and labor unions get daytimers gone through and so on. For fomenting revolution and death to US citizens, you'd think the Patriot Act might just kick in. Weiner must retire, so goes the media call and yet those who want to foment killing just bop along with no punishment. Anyone who thinks that the right wing does not control much of the US, let alone the intelligence and decision making operations really do not have a firm grasp on reality. And where, oh where, is the liberal media on this one? Hint, it never existed.
I just don't even know what to say other than if you watch CNN you probably never saw either of these stories.
and now this. An academic who was a critic of Iraq was spied on by the CIA under the orders of President Bush. Thjis is treasonous and goes to the heart of the American dream. Are we political animals, political Darwinists, or a country that has hopes dreams and a Constitution?
rojo
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Where Did All the Diversity of Life Go?
There is finally going to be a study of wetlands in the CA Central Valley. Too bad it is too late for the Tulare Lake Basin, which stretched in rainy years from Bakersfield to San Francisco, supported commercial fisheries, Native American tribes and a variety of wildlife. It was the largest lake west of the Mississippi and was drained to raise cotton (a small history to be found in the book The King of California.)
Granteed the central Valley is one of the largest agricultural areas in the US at this point, but I was saddened to see that the Kern River is often dry through Bakersfield, yet the irrigation ditches that parallel the river are full and once i tried to follow the King's River and it tends to end in irrigation ditches. They probably were once vibrant.
Sadly, you can't get back what was once there and has been destroyed for profit, at least not all of it. Hard to believe that there once was a huge wetland and not just an agricultural desert now subject to irrigation demands.
roj0
There is finally going to be a study of wetlands in the CA Central Valley. Too bad it is too late for the Tulare Lake Basin, which stretched in rainy years from Bakersfield to San Francisco, supported commercial fisheries, Native American tribes and a variety of wildlife. It was the largest lake west of the Mississippi and was drained to raise cotton (a small history to be found in the book The King of California.)
Granteed the central Valley is one of the largest agricultural areas in the US at this point, but I was saddened to see that the Kern River is often dry through Bakersfield, yet the irrigation ditches that parallel the river are full and once i tried to follow the King's River and it tends to end in irrigation ditches. They probably were once vibrant.
Sadly, you can't get back what was once there and has been destroyed for profit, at least not all of it. Hard to believe that there once was a huge wetland and not just an agricultural desert now subject to irrigation demands.
roj0
Listen to Cantor Whine
I see Eric Cantor really believes Timmy Geitner's deadline for raising the debt ceiling. He wants trillions in cuts before then. Okay, let's start with Congress health care, cut salary for Congress and cut defense to 1965 levels and raise taxes to 1965 levels. I could live with that. I am frustrated because so few Regressives see the issue as a revenue problem. Grrrrrr!!!!!
and yes I know that my suggestions are facetious, do they?
rojo
I see Eric Cantor really believes Timmy Geitner's deadline for raising the debt ceiling. He wants trillions in cuts before then. Okay, let's start with Congress health care, cut salary for Congress and cut defense to 1965 levels and raise taxes to 1965 levels. I could live with that. I am frustrated because so few Regressives see the issue as a revenue problem. Grrrrrr!!!!!
and yes I know that my suggestions are facetious, do they?
rojo
Monday, June 06, 2011
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Where do people fabricate this sort of lie and why does not the media press them for sources? and tehn we wonder why the electorate is ill-informed. Make them tell the truth. That is the Fourth Estates job!!!!!!!
and is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that gas prices have come down since oil companies were actually called to Congress to testify. My only question is where there backroom deals made so they could keep tax exemptions or we they totally embarrassed? Oil companies, embarrassed? Naw.
Thanks, Dems, for making them come.
rojo
Where do people fabricate this sort of lie and why does not the media press them for sources? and tehn we wonder why the electorate is ill-informed. Make them tell the truth. That is the Fourth Estates job!!!!!!!
and is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that gas prices have come down since oil companies were actually called to Congress to testify. My only question is where there backroom deals made so they could keep tax exemptions or we they totally embarrassed? Oil companies, embarrassed? Naw.
Thanks, Dems, for making them come.
rojo
Monday, May 30, 2011
A not-too-subtle Reminder
Bordertown has reappeared! and with it the hopes and dreams of many. This little link will give you a taste. Yes, Bordertown. The series that started the whole urban fantasy genre that helps keep sane in a world where there is too much focus on material stuff and a lack of magick.
BTW, the first story in the new book just happens to embody the best of the series--a sense of displacement, longing, belonging and resolution. great fun.
rojo
Bordertown has reappeared! and with it the hopes and dreams of many. This little link will give you a taste. Yes, Bordertown. The series that started the whole urban fantasy genre that helps keep sane in a world where there is too much focus on material stuff and a lack of magick.
BTW, the first story in the new book just happens to embody the best of the series--a sense of displacement, longing, belonging and resolution. great fun.
rojo
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
He May Have Flunked Logic
A man is arrested and admitted he was in town to kill someone last week but wasn't "in sync with God!!" (my exclamation points) What God and what is his idea of God? Did he miss the new Testament? You know, that stuff about LOVE.
rojo
A man is arrested and admitted he was in town to kill someone last week but wasn't "in sync with God!!" (my exclamation points) What God and what is his idea of God? Did he miss the new Testament? You know, that stuff about LOVE.
rojo
Monday, May 23, 2011
Green Jobs?? No Way
The rub has always been alternative energy will stop traditional oil field and oil-based jobs. Well, yes, it does. But, it produces other new jobs based on alternative energy. Simple.
And I saw my first "bumpy" wind turbine blades being shipped yesterday. I have no idea where they were going but north on I-5, and there have been at least three separate shipments I have seen.
rojo
The rub has always been alternative energy will stop traditional oil field and oil-based jobs. Well, yes, it does. But, it produces other new jobs based on alternative energy. Simple.
And I saw my first "bumpy" wind turbine blades being shipped yesterday. I have no idea where they were going but north on I-5, and there have been at least three separate shipments I have seen.
rojo
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
A Holy Crock of Shit!
I knew many priests at my high school who had affairs, got married, etc. None of them were pederasts. They did not chase young boys! This is an endemic problem in a culture that has not owned, faced up to, admitted, etc. Because of that it cannot be solved. It was not Woodstock!!! I mean, how many priests were actually there?
rojo
I knew many priests at my high school who had affairs, got married, etc. None of them were pederasts. They did not chase young boys! This is an endemic problem in a culture that has not owned, faced up to, admitted, etc. Because of that it cannot be solved. It was not Woodstock!!! I mean, how many priests were actually there?
rojo
Sunday, May 15, 2011
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