Broke My Diet.

Frist!

hows it goin Sam?

Keep us in the loop. We luv ya man!

Heya Sunny J!

Today was beautiful here. My golf game? Not so much.

more work on that 67 Camaro's panels.

just about perfect.

mowed my foot long grass finally!!!

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 11:40pm.
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Foot long grass and a '67 Camaro?

If you had a few concrete blocks, you could move into my neighborhood.

many years ago I owned a vegetarian restaurant in Reno, Nv. it did great for 20 years. Sold it in 2000. At the same time we also had a great organic , C.C.O.F. orchard , vineyard & farm that supplied some of the restaurants produce. The farm was 2 hours from Reno just north of Winters, Ca. It's a frost free zone and citrus does well. One of the most popular lemons we grow is the Myers and it goes great in this recipe.

Lemon Tahini Dressing

3/4 cup lemon juice, (if you can get them try the Myers)
3/4 cup raw or toasted sesame tahini, (raw for beginners)
1 cup safflower oil, canola's good too
1/2 soy sauce, or tamari
1 medium yellow onion
2 stalks of celery
1 green bell pepper
black pepper to taste

O.K. if you have a Cuisinart great, if not a household blender will work if you dice your vegies. Blend the bajessers out of the ingredients and waalaa.

This stuff is REALLY GOOD on falafels.

May All Beings Benefit!

thanks!

not enuff bullet holes in this one to qualify.

Whoa..that sounds tres yummy..

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm!

Sat May 17, 3:00 AM ET

Creators Syndicate - In what some Democratic Party insiders are calling a particularly ominous sign for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, former president Bill Clinton today became the latest super delegate to switch from Sen. Clinton to her rival, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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Sources close to the former president said that Mr. Clinton had been mulling such a defection for weeks, as early as the night of the Iowa primary, but that he only decided to make his decision public today.

"The American people want change," Mr. Clinton said at a press conference in New York. "Lord knows I do."

The former president said that "sometimes, at the end of a race, you have to put an old horse down," adding, "I'm not speaking metaphorically."

Mr. Clinton fueled speculation that he was seeking a role in an Obama administration, saying, "I know my way around the Oval Office, and I know how the super-secret double-lock works."

The former president said he would relish a return to the White House, calling his tenure there "good times."

For her part, Sen. Clinton said that the defection of her husband would not deter her from staying in the race, adding, "To my knowledge, he's the only white voter Sen. Obama has."

The New York senator denied that she was playing the race card, arguing, "Every other member of my family is supporting me, and by the way, they're white."

Elsewhere, a defiant John McCain said that his wife would not release her tax returns, "and neither will my girlfriend."

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diets never work.

lifestyle changes and a commitment to healthful whole foods.........success every time!

-focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year.

click to help!

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

big hug!

hows Nevada?

I have absolutely no idea what the name of the songs are since this is the only eminem i've ever listened to. I love it though, such a great mix. I tried to find out something about it long ago and apparently that song was taken down from other sites at the request of the publisher.

For those who have no idea what song we're talking about:

(lifted from April Winchell's fantastic music blog)

Whatcha need to do is change the way you eat. Mostly fresh, mostly seasonal, and eat slowly so your brain registers that your stomach is full. I have a letter I meant to send you, some months back. It's too hot to cope right now, but here are clues (and I'll find the letter one of these days).

1. Eat brightly colored foods (pomegranates, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, sweet potatoes, green lettuce instead of iceberg, dark greens like kale and spinach).

2. Eat whole foods (NO white flour, sugar, or rice)--i.e., brown rice, whole wheat flour, and limit the sugar--you can get a lot from fruits and veggies.

3. Eat what's in season for your area: cheaper, healthier, and it helps the local farmers.

4. Deny yourself nothing; just eat some of the "bad things" less frequently.

5. Try a "camping diet" one day: fresh fruit at every meal or for snacks, nuts and toasted grains for snacks, raw veggies for snacks, soup or salad for main meals, chocolate (dark) for dessert or a bit of ice cream, cheese and fruit, etc.

Until I re-find my draft to you, here are a few more ideas to incorporate.

1. Seaweed, miso, dried fruits--mucho healthy and flavorful.

2. Sprouts--possibly the most nutritious form of any/all foods.

3. Oddities--chew on roasted coffee beans instead of drinking coffee; do NOT gulp down your food (your tummy is full before it can send the message to your brain to stop feeding the mouth); hemp seed and oil--delicious and healthy.

4. "Whole" foods: whole grains, beans, using all parts of a veggie, don't peel, eat organic, grow something!

5. Eat/drink NOTHING with HFCS. Nothing! Mix lemon juice and sugar with water, or learn to drink unsweetened drinks. Eat zero to 1% of foods with HFCS products--no packaged foods, nothing with more than five ingredients, nothing with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Later....but that's a start. :)

thanks for the post.

Not that you need an excuse i'm sure, but i know my weight stays in check the more i get to go to the park, play redlight/greenlight, run my girls silly until they get tired and I have to carry them back home. ;-)

Thanks! And you just reminded me i need to hit the farmer's market tomorrow morning.

Here's a great parodic construction - an Eminem retelling of Beowulf. A friend sent me this when I was taking Old English in New Haven. I sent it to the REAL teacher, who's really good and who said this was one of the best readings she'd seen of that old epic. Dunno who really did this. Also, since I think there's no longer a link to this, I'm pasting it in here:

Rapper Eminem Joins Yale Faculty

"Real Slim Shady" to Teach Beowulf, Chaucer

NEW HAVEN, CONN. - Yale president Dr. Richard Levin ended weeks of media speculation yesterday when he confirmed that rapper Eminem will teach at the prestigious university this fall.

According to Dr. Levin, the controversial Detroit-based vocalist will lecture in Anglo-Saxon and old English poetry, with a focus on Beowulf, a work that Levin described as "a popular Medieval epic."

"We’re very excited that Mr. Eminem is joining the Yale family," Levin stated at a press conference. "The faculty feel they just aren’t reaching the students these days, that we aren’t even speaking the same language any more. We finally decided that a culture change is required, and one day Mr. Eminem’s name came up. I warmed to the idea right away. Having a star of Mr. Eminem’s caliber on campus will prove to our young people that school’s still cool, if you will; that literature professors aren’t just a bunch of swinging dicks with our noses stuck in old books."

"Solid," commented an unnamed journalist. "Shit sounds like the bomb, Professor."

"Word," replied Levin. "Very much so."

When asked if he believed Eminem’s own assertion that he is the "real" Slim Shady, Dr. Levin hesitated. "Based on the facts I have, yes, I think he is. His look is brutal, his rhymes are bad as shit, and he rocks all the bitches, all the time." When pressed on the issue, Levin would only say that, "If there’s a truer Slim Shady in all of academia, I certainly haven’t met him."

Levin refused to comment extensively on Eminem’s recent legal troubles. The entertainer is alleged to have assaulted a man he believed was getting jiggy with his old lady.

In Levin’s words, "The only information I have about the incident is that which Mr. Eminem himself gave me." When asked to elaborate, Dr. Levin replied, "Well, he was all, 'I was pissed off! I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one point in time, I really wanted to do that shit. For real.'" Levin paused, then added, "And besides, as we all know, Money’s hookahs be his own damn bid’ness."

Eminem himself was not available for comment at press time. Roger Carlisle, legal counsel for the embattled superstar, issued the following statement: "Mr. Eminem looks forward to sharing his passion for Anglo-Saxon verse with the gifted young minds at Yale. He's amped. He’s into it. His shit is tight."

The university later released the following sample from Eminem’s fall lecture notes on Beowulf:

Book One: The Hall Heorot is Attacked by Grendel
His name is Grendel, that evil bitch
Switch cocked a hit to the Hall Heorot
Its not a Hall for him, that son of Cain
But, slain he did about thirty Danes.

Book Two: The Coming of Beowulf to Heorot
"Punk ass mofo cocked his fist to my boys,"
Spoke Hygelac to Beowulf (whom he employs)
[In a manner of speaking, it was Hygelac who sought revenge, and thus in turn hired his bravest soldier Of the Danish Army, Beowulf, and then, at his behest, Beowulf did set sail to Heorot.]

Book Three: The Feast at Heorot
Brothers be feastin’ like a herd of Nell Carters
In comes Unferth talkin’ bout the waters--
How our main nigga Wulf lost a snap to Brecca,
Heck yeah, but now Wulf’s betta, spit em out like feta,
Cheese, put you on your knees, beggin, "Oh please,
Go find Grendel."

Book Four: The Fight with Grendel
Pump, pump goes Wulfie, throw up your hands, stand, in the air
I got clout, gonna take you out, spout, your blood
Buck, buck you down, Grendel, down like Skylab:
Down like feathers, Lewinsky, and mad TAB.

Book Five: Celebration at Heorot
Sup, Sup for da killah, cold chowin’ wid his boys
Got Sigemund, not Freud, dragon couldn’t avoid
His sword, got Hrothgar there givin’ props to Beo,
"You gotta new Daddy now--I’m takin’ charge like Baio!"

Book Six: Grendel’s Mother Attacks
"I’m Grendel’s mother, yes I’m the real mutha
All those other Grendel’s muthas are just undercover
So won’t the real Grendel’s mother please stand up? Please stand up! Please stand up!"
This Grendel’s mother was a tough-ass ho
Like my main dudes from Hazard, Luke and Bo
Slice the Danes like Velveeta, thick and cheesy
She got Ginsu on the ass of the great man Aschere.

Book Seven: Beowulf Attacks Grendel’s Mother
Bitch be flipped like Wilson, like a flapjack on Sunday
Beowulf, his sword Hrunting
Go hunting, bitch punting
Drop momma to the mat like my boy Max Schmelling
But his trusty sword’s limp, like Philip K’s dick,
So he grabs another blade and runs it through her quick.

Book Eight: Further Celebration at Heorot
"Give props to Allah, Lord God Mighty,
He’s tidy, mighty fine, he’s guzzlin’ down Shasta
Through the portals of Time."

Book Nine: Beowulf Returns Home
Welcomed back to the hood
Like comin’ back from Desert Storm
All the hussies in the house be feelin’ up his form.
Spake the hero: "I cleaned house like Pledge, like Florence, like Hazel
I’m the quicker picker upper from the planet Fatal."

Book Ten: Beowulf and the Dragon
Dear Diary, Fifty years gone by and I’ve not a thing to complain about. Really, all has been quite fine. But what’s this. . .?

Book Eleven: Beowulf Attacks the Dragon
Fire-breathin’, scaly-demon, no-money lizard
Settin’ things ablaze like a cheap-ass Mr. Wizard
Wulfie grabs the mike, tips his cap to the ladies,
Starts talking smack to reptilian Slim Shady:
"Step back, man; ain’t got no Fate, man.
But when I grab the mike I rock a phat jam."
[The dragon, puzzled at the absence of both mike and ladies, continues along his path of wanton Destruction until Beowulf’s kinsman Wiglaf intervenes.]
"Yo yo yo, I’m krazy-ass Wiglaf,
Fightin’ dragons to the death, so you can just kiss off."
But Wulf’s fucked up, he’s wounded and bleeding;
Wig busts a cap into the ass of the seething.

Book Twelve: Beowulf’s Funeral
They torched Wulf’s body like it was Hester Prynn
Shipped him out to sea cuz he couldn’t swim.

And that be the end of brave Beowulf--huh!
Massive props to that nigga: he was full-on nutz.

Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

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Link it..Ellwort. :)

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Sean Bell family, backers 'organize'
BY NICOLE BODE AND CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, April 30th 2008, 12:01 AM

Sean Bell's family held a raucous meeting on Tuesday night in a Manhattan union hall with hundreds of supporters to organize a massive show of civil disobedience aimed at shutting the city down.
"There will be several actions within the next 10 days," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. "These policemen should know they have not, I repeat not, closed this case."
Bell's dad said any protests will be peaceful.
"We don't want violence, it only hurts ourselves," William Bell said.
Participants said that amid all the angry denunciations of the police and the acquittal of the three detectives who killed Bell on his wedding day, committees were formed and loose plans were struck for a boycott of city businesses and a march on the Justice Department.
"It's organized," William Bell said. "It's going to be more organized."
Sharpton, who organized the meeting at the W. 43rd St. headquarters of the Service Employees International Union, vowed to stage citywide protests after the three cops were acquitted Friday.
Sharpton and other African-American leaders are attempting to pressure federal prosecutors into trying Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper for violating Bell's civil rights. And they have one of New York's most powerful unions on their side.
Valerie Bell, Sean's mother, an insurance investigator for Jamaica Hospital Home Care Department, is a member of 1199 SEIU.
Union members threw their support behind the Bell family following the Nov. 25, 2006, shooting, taking part in protest marches, holding press conferences at their headquarters, and helping shoulder the burial costs.
Various pro-Bell groups also are going online to organize a national boycott of stores and gas stations from May 19-23.
"The only thing that the establishment understands is the almighty dollar," says one e-mail message in circulation.
Asked about the planned protests, Michael Palladino, President of the Detectives' Endowment Association, said, "The same legal system that grants people the right to lawful assembly has found our three detectives not guilty."
csiemaszko@nydailynews.com
This is happening big time in New Jersey.
*TLL*

My son graduates from college tomorrow morning - which is REALLY SOON (oof!) at this longitude.
Pleasant dreams
A

It kind of comes down to eating like peasants, but man, some peasant food is mighty tasty. I wish I had been of drinking age when lobsters were the "peanuts" of the bar food!

I was barely 21 when I first heard of the Hunzas, a hard-working group (in Peru? in Asia? I can't recall now) who ate fresh, and a lot of yogurt. Yogurt was barely introduced in the U.S. at that time.

Oh, here's another thing: nutritional yeast. Man, that stuff tastes wonderful! I used to add it to soups and sprinkle on salads. Earthy. Pricey, though.

Given that the evil PTB are trying to poison us, we need to keep one step ahead of their sorry asses. Healthy foods are a good start!

BTW, Maron's Shaker Lemon Pie does not need as much sugar as called for--how do you tell? You can taste the lemon-sugar mix before you add the eggs. You can also avoid some fat/flour by lining the pie pan with crushed nuts, or just making it in a custard dish. Make it tart, add sugar to taste.

I freaked out once when I saw I was making desserts for the "crew" (lol) and going through 10 POUNDS of sugar in a week or two! OMG! Even then, I knew that was not a good thing.

All in all, it's just common sense when you get right down to it.

Even though some farmers' markets have higher prices, you can SAVE THE SEEDS from some of the food, and you'll be getting better nutrition from the food.

It's become a war of the haves vs. the havenots (yeah yeah, I've been saying that for like 30 years), but a few of us might manage to sneak by their evil ways. We have to try!

The farmers' market is a good place to get plants, fresh fish if you're near a shore, and, this is a good one: seeds (take a sample of the clementines, cherries, etc. with visible seeds....and spit the seeds in your pocket!) Obviously, buy some of the stuff you like, but be a little Johnny Appleseed and at least you'll feed the birds :)

My farmers' market has a stand that makes KILLER roasted tomato salsa. It's massively expensive. That sort of thing inspires me to try to duplicate it, so I'll wait until my tomatoes ripen, if I have the "right" kind of tomatoes, etc.

Hang in there, friends. Someone, I hope! is watching the goodness you spread :)

Seder so funny!

We meet every Sunday at Sullivan's Irish Pub in Lakewood OH around 6 pm. Sometimes we have "movie night", too, like
Iraq For Sale

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MATCH-UP SUNDAY!

Tune it in.
Or tune it out!

Brick TeeVee Match-up Sunday!

I still like the idea of Sam being the Host of an Extended Seder on Sundays - he snags the best interviews off the Air America shows and lines 'em all up PLUS HIS INTERVIEWS and CALLERS. Better than entire-show repeats they do now. Get KENT JONES NOW! to do the top-of the-hour news & sports too! Affiliates can join in live anytime! Say 12 - 8pm? Sam will mostly have to be host, but he can GLUE all the great interviews many of us miss during the week AND (under my programming plan) will still be able to take calls and do his own thing, plus start new conversations about the interviews he plays from other hosts' shows. C'mon Sam! ONE DAY ALL DAY!

Color me Seder.

can you give me best dressing ever too?

like many thing in life--

did not see the dressing!

i constantly get kicked around for not posting my source of info.

am going to kick you too---

could you back that up!

called

EMINEM---- "WITHOUT ME!!"

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

Opus

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Another Hollier than thou Creep !

May 17th, 2008 | PLANO, Texas -- A minister arrested in an Internet sex sting has resigned his position at a Dallas-area megachurch, its pastor said Saturday.

The Rev. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, said during services Saturday that the church accepted Joe Barron's resignation, effective immediately.

Barron was charged Friday with online solicitation of a minor. Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated with the 52-year-old minister for about two weeks. The online conversations were sexual in nature, police said.

On May 6, Barron suggested meeting the girl in person. He drove nearly 200 miles on Thursday to meet her in Bryan, where he was arrested. Police said they found a web-cam and condoms in the minister's car.

Con't-Salon

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsVkV3AZqqI

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/movies/18schw.html?th&emc=th
t. “The guy’s essentially a real life troll,” he [Kyanka] wrote. “Boll wants people to talk about him so he can get free publicity.” He added, “I’m not going to feed him.”

Those who have worked with Mr. Boll say they see a different man. Mr. Foley said he found him, in person, to be “quite a sweet guy” but tough.

Why work for the director called the worst in the world? “I knew nothing about Uwe Boll” at first, Mr. Foley said. He watched “BloodRayne,” he said, and found it so over-the-top gory that “it made me laugh.” It had, he said, the absurd feel of a Terry Gilliam film.

Mr. Boll is “like a quintessential German intellectual artist who has almost taken film arbitrarily as the medium he’s going to work in. The art form is, almost, in being hated,” Mr. Foley said. Comparing him to the comedian Andy Kaufman, he added, “It’s his relationship with the audience that is his creation, his relationship with the critics, more than the movies.”

What, then, does that make an actor like, say, Dave Foley?

“A pawn, I suppose, a bit of pigment on the canvas,” Mr. Foley said.

“This is either going to be the worst movie I’ve ever been in, or it’s going to be brilliant,” he said. “There’s not any middle ground.” Of course, he added, “I hope it’s brilliant.”

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http://StopUweBoll.org/

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Uwe Boll Is Antichrist!

Welcome to UweBollIsAntichrist.com. If you've come this far, chances are pretty
good that you know who Uwe Boll are, and that you dislike him. If you don't know
who Uwe Boll is, let us summarize it: Uwe Boll is a german director and producer who
recently started his quest to destroy the video game industry by producing some of
the worst movies ever. In 2003, House of the Dead was released, based on
the arcade shooter by SEGA. The movie quickly found it's way to the Internet
Movie Database over the 100 worst films of all time, currently residing at 33th
place. This didn't stop Uwe, who now decided that his next victim was going to be
the classic Alone in the Dark. Not only is the recently released movie a
mockery to the intelligence of any audience, it's a direct insult to the game that
it's "based" on. How one could POSSIBLY make such a bad movie out of such a good
concept is beyond human knowledge. Alone in the Dark is currently residing
at place 16 on IMDB's top 100 list of the 100 worst films in history.

Despite his complete failure at making both of these films, Uwe Boll has not given up.
Bloodrayne is currently in post-production, and featuring one of the worst
female "actors" of all time (Michelle Rodriguez), chances are pretty good that Uwe
will make it into the top 10 of worst films ever. If he fails with that, he still has
Far Cry coming, and God only knows what this man is planning for the future.

So, what drives this man? What makes him keep producing these films? He knows that
they are going to fail miserably. He knows that he will destroy the spirit of any game,
good or bad, that he makes a film based on. We here at UweBollIsAntiChrist.com think
that we have found the answer.

Through all times, people with different faith have often shared one commong conception -
that there exists a greater evil of some kind. Some people view this evil as the gathered
evil of mankind. Others prefer to see it as an entity of some sort, calling it the Devil,
Belzebub, or Antichrist.

Dr. Uwe Boll, we believe that this greater evil is you. We believe that the purpose of your
life is to inflict as much suffering and grief as possible in the heart of humans everywhere.
We believe that you find pleasure in destroying the spirit of great video games, and that you
plan to continue this evil work for a long, long time. We believe that you are Antichrist.

On behalf of the entire world, we beg you: Spare us from making another movie!.

Sincerly,

The people at UweBollIsAntichrist.com
http://www.uwebollisantichrist.com/

(Someone should proofread this and send it back.)
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with all these great food posts. It's 6am here and now I'm too hungry to focus on writing.

is my Ex wife's church and a big reason I'm an atheist. I've been to that church many, many times.

Cause we as Humand really dont know what thell is goin on, String theory, Multiverses....

So so much we dont knwo, But with that said, as a student of Bio and Bio Tech. We know quite a bit.

"Just Another FRUIT for Peace!"

Sammy, all you have to do to lose some weight is move to Puerto Rico like the cat and I did. It will be three weeks tonight that we've been here, and I've already lost almost TEN pounds, and I haven't been on any kind of a "diet". It's hot and humid here so I find I don't have much of an appetite, but the pounds are simply "melting" away - along with the rest of me. :-)

It's looking like a LOT of the people here in Puerto Rico are Hillary fans, but I'm still hoping that Oregon (where I moved here from and voted by early, absentee ballot) will easily go with Obama. We'll see this coming Tuesday.

Its the true liberal future.

AAR has been corrupted by sycophants.

Racing the sands of time
Tribune's Mark Silva sees a tall order in President Bush's bid for Mideast peace
Correspondent Mark Silva is covering President Bush's trip to the Middle East.
May 18, 2008

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — A dozen young people — Jews, Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and an Ethiopian — gathered around President George W. Bush the other day for a rare moment of candor and questioning at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.

"I think it comes out that you don't like Muslims," Henrietta, a 16-year-old Christian Palestinian, told the president. "Because, in most of your speeches, you do tend to relate extremism to Muslims."

"Actually," Bush replied, "what I say is, 'You're not a religious person if you're a murderer.' "

Then he abruptly abandoned the explanation and headed for the confession.

"You're right," the president told the teenager. "I've got to do a better job of making it clear."

The president has faced a tall order of communication during this five-day tour of the Middle East, and much of it has centered on convincing Arabs, Palestinians and Egyptians that this unwavering ally of Israel has more than the interests of the 60-year-old Jewish state at heart as he presses for the definition of a new Palestinian state during his final year in office.

The tour was closing with a weekend of revolving-door diplomacy with a long list of Mideast leaders before a public address in Sharm el-Sheik, the "city of peace."

The Israelis once held this Red Sea port at the base of the Sinai Peninsula before returning it to Egypt in a reconciliation that stands out as one of few landmarks in the modern-day pursuit of Middle East peace.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-letter_silva_for_sund...

Found out on Friday that they're terminating my contract. I know I'll end up on my feet, but the problem is where. And I've got 30 days to figure it out.

Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already controls America’s genetically modified food supply. Now it’s targeting milk. Barlett and Steele report on the company’s ruthless tactics and toxic history.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805

Yep..A Ex-wife could do it. ;)

I sent you something by email..
It might have something to do with restless leg syndrome. :)

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Hope all is well with everyone..

Good luck Icelander.. :)

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When Democrats Go Post-al
The vicious Clinton-versus-Obama rupture at Daily Kos, the most activist site in the liberal blogosphere, reflects a party-wide split. What really rankles, as Democrats tear at one another, is the free pass they’ve given McCain—and the White House.
by James Wolcott June 2008

It was supposed to be a run for the roses, only to turn into the chariot race from Ben-Hur, with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama grimacing like Chuck Heston down the brutal homestretch, lashing toward a multi-horse pileup. No, this wasn’t anybody’s dream finish.

After two terms of George W. Bush, which only seemed like a scarred eternity, American voters (so the scenario went) would be pining for Democratic recapture of the White House and a return to competency as a novel change of pace. Let the reclamation begin. In January 2009, the former president would pack his saddlebags and head back to his Texas ranch, secure in the knowledge of having wrecked pretty much everything there was to wreck (Iraq, the dollar, the national debt, America’s prestige abroad, the rebuilding of New Orleans, the Endangered Species Act). The president’s impromptu tap dance at the White House as he killed time waiting for a tardy Senator John McCain to arrive for his official endorsement as the Republican nominee was the perfect vaudeville symbol for the breezy, wanton disconnect of this administration from the consequences of its actions, the unsinkable cheer of its sunshine superman. Despite his dapper moves, Bush’s dragging approval numbers were proof that his old white magic had lost its spell, that his was not an aura in which it was healthy to bask. He shrivelled everything he touched. (So far 29 House Republicans have announced their retirement this cycle, one sure sign of blight.) In the electoral battle to succeed Bush, the positivity seemed lopsided: the Democrats had cornered the market on good vibrations and Pepsodent smiles, while the Republicans—apart from Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee—majored in grim tidings and sour dispositions. Poll after poll showed that Democrats were happy with their top candidates—Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama—while Republicans kept scanning the horizon for a hunk of salvation, measuring Fred Thompson for Ronald Reagan’s raiment until he went logy on them and had to be put out to graze. Even the second tier of Democratic contenders, from happy warrior Joe Biden to Dennis Kucinich, with his red-tressed, tongue-pierced, statuesque wife, seemed like a Happy Meal compared with furrowed Republican also-rans such as Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. One by one the camera fodder dropped out of the race as the winnowing process culled the weak, the fanged, and the superfluous, the Republican field reduced until John McCain became the winner by default, the last bowling pin standing.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/06/wolcott200806

THat would be perfect diet ice cream for me .... cause it sounds like something I wouldn't eat 8-)

Free Democracy

NRA bans guns during
its annual meeting

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"Firearms WILL NOT be allowed in Hall A during the Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/05/17/2008-05-17_with_mcca...

Huckabee makes tacky quip about
gun aimed at Obama

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Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee_obama;_ylt=Aj3K...

he turns around and makes me remember why i never liked him in the first place. what an ass.

I'm with you Kevin. Green tea?

Sam has a good idea. I planted mostly peppers and just one tomato. I've planted as many as five before but that gets messy. You can grow jalapeños like an ornamental. Often in bloom with small white flowers. Prune them into shapes if you want. Last nights dinner was full of them as well as the green chilies.

Bob26003 on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 7:28am.
we live in a relatively peaceful part of the galaxy. Pity we don't live like that too.

There's a lot we don't know. There's a lot of things we are also sure of that aren't even true. We used to think the world was flat. I think the best part of growing older is learning what is new but others find that the most disturbing.

a lot of things that aren't even true still makes humans act like apes.

Will new laws have an impact on cyber harrassment in political blogs?

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_MySpace_Suicide_Case_Leads_To_Tougher_Law...

After the troubling suicide commited by a Missouri teenager due to an Internet related incident, state lawmakers voted and gave final approval yesterday to a bill which will deal with cyber-harassment.

The bill is expected to cover several aspects of the new wave of technology, identifying as illegal the harassment from computers, text messages and many other electronic devices, besides the well known written and telephone communications.

looks much better today. These campaign's must get tough on them.

personal experience with mystical transcendance (and i struggle to phrase that without sounding self important, which isn't my intent) has left me less of an atheist but also not a religeous zealot.

one can be a spiritual being, a humanist, a liberal progressive, a universalist, a person with a mind for science - all at the same time.

i like being open to things i don't necessarily believe in.

here. Atheists don't necessary live with out religious beliefs.

just said the funniest thing about McCain.

It was about how while Hillary and Barack are in debate with each other, McCain is in constant debates with himself. Meaning he can't stand by any of his own opinions.

I find that heroin works wonders for pain....

Can't believe these peppers bloomed indoors

Last year my maters were barely a foot tall when I took them out, gonna need a crane to move these. ;-)

Growin' shit's fun, even if it is legal!
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http://www.healingfoodreference.com/

This is the one and only thing I don't like about this blog...there is such meanness directed to the trolls or to disagreements. People really do get very hurt. I remember the first time someone responded to me here and I was so happy, like I was becoming a member of the club. I try to play it safe, so I won't get attacked as I am sensitive...

Would we say the things we say directly to person, or does the written word make it easier to be cruel...it provides and anonymity that can be very dangerous as Mystics post indicates. We are not 13 year olds here but we do have tender hearts...

I love coming here for my news and connection to fellow lefty types. I live in a very republican county and even the dems are pretty conservative...but when it gets ugly, I go away...

Love you all....Michele

Nontheist atheist

Submitted by Fernando on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 8:51am.
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Do no harm.

Pass the existential plate.
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Sunday Talking Heads: May 18, 2008
By: Elliott Sunday May 18, 2008 4:30 am

Tonight the appalling plight of the approximately 100,000 Iraqis who assisted the US government in Iraq is highlighted on 60 Minutes. We have given only 5,000 refuge here, while a country like Sweden has taken in 40,000. What is wrong with us? Have we no decency?

Washington Journal: 7:30 am - Aaron Blake The Hill, Staff Writer & John McArdle, Roll Call, Staff Writer. 8:30 am - Bonnie Glaser Center for Strategic and International Studies, Senior Associate. 9:00 am - Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Senior Associate. 9:30 am - Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls. email guest questions

ABC's This Week: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) discusses President Bush's remarks to the Israeli Knesset earlier this week, the president's role in campaign '08, and the troubles for the GOP at home. House Republican Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) discusses the Republicans' striking loss in Mississippi and what it could mean for the party in November. Roundtable: Peggy Noonan, Matt Bai, Donna Brazile, and George Will. contact George

CBS' Face The Nation: Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL); Ed Rollins Republican Strategist; Former Gov. Mario Cuomo (D-NY); Former Gov. Roy Romer (D-CO). Topics:Republicans In Turmoil and the Race for Democratic Nomination. contact Bob Schieffer

Chris Matthews: Norah O'Donnell MSNBC Chief Washington Correspondent; Clarence Page Chicago Tribune Columnist; Andrew Sullivan The Atlantic Senior Editor; Gloria Borger U.S. News & World Report. Topics: Will Obama be able to draw working-class voters to his side? Does Obama need to pick Hillary as his running mate to get her support? contact Chris Matthews

CNN's Late Edition: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). Carlos Gutierrez (R) Commerce Secretary. Trent Lott (R) Former Senate Majority Leader. contact Wolf

Fox News Sunday: "How will a general election look between John McCain and Barack Obama? Sens. Jon Kyl and Chris Dodd join the debate. Karl Rove is asked "Time for the GOP to push the panic button?" e-mail the show: fns@foxnews.com

Read the rest of this entry »

http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/18/sunday-talking-heads-may-18-2008/#more...

either way, it's sad.

the trolls tend to get me riled up and i can be a meanie in print, even though i'm not in person - i can come off that way in print.

poison pen mystic.

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

The worst part is that is their goal. It just makes them look stupid when nobody replies and I like it when I see that.

Dr. Tim Leary use to say, "head west until you get to the coast, then go up"

not evangelizing here, just sharing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism

Late Night: The Conspiracy Unmasked
By: Thers Saturday May 17, 2008 8:02 pm

This is big. Very big. We should all be afraid, very afraid. I know I am.

And I think it goes all the way to the top.

Let me explain.

For the past several months I've been heading up an in-depth FDL investigation of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, John McCain. Way back in December, we here at FDL started to hear disturbingly consistent rumors from several of our highly-placed sources, startling and troubling information to the effect that McCain now has -- and has had for years -- uncomfortably close ties to an organization and individuals who have had the intent and the means to carry out an unnerving, even deadly, anti-American agenda. I do not wish to alarm anyone. But it is no less than the simple, raw truth that if our sources were correct, this organization, and these individuals, have already caused our people grievous, even deadly harm both at home and abroad, and it is their intention to wreak further destruction upon our democracy in the future.

And they have selected John McCain as their chosen vessel to execute their insidious plans.

We are fairly confident we have most of the puzzle pieces in place to blow this conspiracy sky-high. But one little corner piece with a bit of the sky on it eludes us. Maybe it dropped behind the couch. We sincerely need your help to nail this one down. Please read on.

Read the rest of this entry »

http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/17/late-night-the-conspiracy-unmasked/#mo...

Stick around for a couple of years or more,Michelle..

Your patience with the trolls will evaporate too ! :)

They are just like the assh*le neighbor who keeps

letting their big dog crap in Your yard and Never cleans it up..

Peeps usually don't give each other a hard time here unless someone asks another to stop doing something(or at least cut it back some) that is messing up the blog.. :)

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

Should we send them the picture of him hugging Dubbya?

When God is synonymous with the material universe Panentheism looks just like Atheism to me.

this conspiracy is just what Hillary Clinton was talking about years ago..there is a wing of the Republican party that believe that it is not appropriate for we the people to have a say in government. They believe that a few very rich very powerful people should be in charge for the betterment of humanity...this is fascism and it is alive and well amongst the neocons and withing the Bush dynasty...they just call it liberty and justice...sounds real pretty, but they would be more than happy if about 80% of the population had its demise...poverty, aids, war, all achieve those ends...

As we all get poorer...they all get so much richer....this is human nature unfortunatley...

MMR...I would leave the blog before I would to be degraded to fighting in anger...people who I disagree with or have been goaded by. I think there are lots of good people here who don't bite the bullshit who have been here for years...

weren't you asking about a rememdy for pain? emotional pain is just as poisonous as physical pain...the treatment is wisdom and compassion (I was just kidding about the heroin)....

rapist paroler Mike Huckabee.

The Appeaser comes to mind. BTW.... Where is the Appeaser in Chief? Is he still in Egypt?

within Vajrayana Buddhist practice there's an experience, after a lot of sitting,
translated as coemergent Dharmakaya. Alan Watts described it as the back of the rug.

the search for a system that works is so rewarding...I have been searching all my life and have found what works for me...I also believe in reincarnation of course and think that our belief systems are effected by our previous lives...that is why I don't try to push my own particular religion...It is so hard to find a system that we don't find some disagreement with. Even though within my system, I have been abused, that is just the imperfect humans, including Lama's who have been misguided or corrupted...happens all the time.

I like maggiesboy's religion, Do No Harm....

I liked the pantheism entry..I buy it for sure.

about harmony mhappenow.

And theres also THIS.

Dont forget teh coup planned to over throw FDR by Fascist, Prescott Bush was in on itl.

My point being, these Fascist are still here and gaining power and wealth and manipulation laws. They are taking the will of he poeple away.

Something truly has to be done.

I admit I am a bit shamed that Obama said he believes in Free Trade. Very disheartening.

Thats why I think the tickent shold be Obama Edwards. Thus Edwards with his more keep jobs in America approach could just pull it off.

But of course they have to deliver. And I think Edwards would be a good influence on Obama

One word , Tariffs on all goods produced outside the US

you seek might be over there \/

www.theperfectblogtitle.blogspot.com/ ;)

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

President Bush today told Arab leaders the time has come for leaders to move away from "one leader in power and the opposition in jail." Addressing the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, Bush urged Arab nations to "treat their people with the dignity and respect they deserve."

http://www.cnn.com

On Friday I noted that column by Bruce Ramsey in the Seattle Times. Rather than rebuke the president for his speech in Israel comparing those who sought to appease Hitler with those who would now appease terrorist groups and their sponsors, Ramsey defended Chamberlain's appeasement outright:

What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.

Ramsey has since written a follow-up post in which he laments that his reinterpretation of the events at Munich "inflamed a few hundred people." He also complains about the "Internet jeering section that considers [his] a weakling's argument." Yet, in a display of unabashed weakness, he also appeased his critics by rewriting the offending paragraph. His editors do not note the change, but the piece now reads:

The narrative we're given about Munich is entirely in hindsight. We know what kind of man Hitler was, and that he started World War II in Europe. But in 1938 people knew a lot less. What Hitler was demanding at Munich was not unreasonable as a national claim (though he was making it in a last-minute, unreasonable way.) Germany's claim was that the areas of Europe that spoke German and thought of themselves as German be under German authority. In September 1938 the principal remaining area was the Sudetenland.

It would seem there's a built-in advantage to arguing against those who favor appeasement--they'll roll over for anybody. Hitler, Ahmadinejad, right-wing bloggers, it doesn't matter. Just make your demands and Ramsey stands ready to submit.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/seattle_times_preach...

video Fernando since I implemented the spunk monkey rememdy....funny

I got in trouble in college for writing in a paper that science is like the goo goo bird who flies in smaller and smaller concentric circles until it flies up its own ass...my prof hated it...got a B-...I still think I am a bit right...

I admit I am a bit shamed that Obama said he believes in Free Trade. Very disheartening.

With world economy BS has got to stop. What we neeed is FAIR trake. TARIFFS

Out trade deficit is astounding.

What are we going to have a nation of pencil pushers, cops, hostpital workers and other servive industry jobs.

How can an economy survive if it produces nothing?

I truly think this is the elephent in the room, And yes that is metaphorical.

like a Sunday morning mocha latte

Culture matters. Democrats have long been frustrated to see their party, historically the party of America's working class, so often been rejected by the very working-class voters that its policies are intended to help.

Democratic nominees have not won a majority of working-class white males at the ballot box since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, when Obama was still a preschooler. Since then, Bill Clinton came closest in 1992 by connecting culturally, not just politically. When he said, "I feel your pain," a lot of people believed him.

Obama's weak appeal to blue-collar voters is tied to his other liability, his newness on America's political stage. Lower-income voters tend to be the least knowledgeable of "the skinny kid with the funny name," as Obama cheerfully introduced himself during his Senate campaign. In his presidential campaign, they have been the most likely to believe the false rumors that he is a Muslim, refuses to salute the flag, hangs out with radicals and doesn't appreciate the values of people who work hard for a living.

Obama's awareness of that cultural gap probably explains why he's taken to wearing his American flag lapel pin again. It may be a small thing to him intellectually, as he has said, but it does a lot to shatter some of the false Internet-fed impressions about him that have been allowed to grow and harden in some neighborhoods.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/obamas_culture_war.htm...

string theory is like that too. For example, I question the existence of time in a black hole.

a very important remedy as well as restoring the 60% tax rate on the wealthy and implementing a public works program ala Roosevelt...

I saw the video and listened to the bbc radio show yesterday....you are so right.

People hate your dog eat dog culture just as much as they hate, many admire the Middle Easter culture.

You dont even understand it.

I admit I am a bit shamed

Submitted by Bob26003 on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 9:52am.

I admit I am a bit shamed that Obama said he believes in Free Trade.

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That really DID make me laugh out loud.

I lived in the middle east for 15 years. How long have you spent in the middle east.

Obama talk about fair trade....that means tariffs..could have been Thom Hartmann though...he has been my teacher along with Ravi Batra on economics which I have been a complete moron on until Liberal talk radio.

Tehran hands proposals to Russia, China on nuclear security -:

Tehran has already submitted to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana "an array of its own proposals" on the resolution of outstanding international problems, including the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear program.

Lies of Aggression

By Paul Craig Roberts

16/05/08 "ICH" -- - On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to “the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It is Bush. It is not Bush who is appeasing. It is Iran.

Iran has not responded in kind to any of Bush’s warlike moves and provocations. Iran has not sunk a single one of our sitting duck ships and has not given the Iraqi insurgents any weapons that would easily turn the tide of war against the US.

It is Bush, not Iran, who sounds like Adolf Hitler blustering and threatening. It is Bush’s American Brownshirts, the neocons, who express the view: “what’s the good of nuclear weapons if you can’t use them.”

It is the US that is funding assassination teams inside Iran and using taxpayer dollars to fund dissident and violent organizations opposed to the Iranian government. Iran is doing no such thing here.

It is members of the Bush Regime and US generals who continue to lie through their teeth about Iranian support for insurgents, for which they can supply no evidence, and about Iranian nuclear weapons programs, for which the IAEA inspectors can find no sign

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19937.htm

Will he get asked about the NRA speeck

Would you just sit and watch a troll attack a friend here and/or fellow bloggie ?

I wouldn't and I don't think you would either..

Because unfortunately with Sam's open policy here the trolls have this blog marked as one of their fist stops..

I really do try to S.P.I.T. on them..(Thanks Maggiesboy !)
But,sometimes it's hard to do..I am human after all. :)

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

SROLL PAST DOUCHEBAG TROLLS :)

With his eyes fixed on the nomination finish line, Barack Obama did not expect a charge of appeasement from President Bush last week. Perhaps the surprise attack explains Obama's disjointed, mushy response.

Or perhaps he doesn't have a good response. That's more likely given Obama's failure to effectively defend his own plans in two tries.

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For Obama, that means more than a "Kumbaya" hope Iran, Syria and North Korea will suddenly behave in rational ways if he's elected. He needs to snap out of the liberal fantasy about root causes - that Islamic terrorists will drop their jihad in exchange for better jobs and schools.

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Beyond plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, neither Obama nor Clinton has articulated a serious plan for protecting America in a dangerous world.

Most revealing, Obama pledged to meet, without preconditions, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea. Even Clinton calls that naive.

Yet Obama is not alone in that loopy approach, with former President Jimmy Carter meeting with leaders of Hamas, despite its involvement in terrorism and its pledge to eliminate Israel. In that sense, Bush's broadside, delivered in Israel, was aimed at Obama, Carter and the peace-at-any-price wing of the party.

"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them that they have been wrong all along," Bush said, adding: "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.'"

Obama's responses, one in a statement and another at a campaign rally a day later, were peppered with mush that Bush was being divisive and fostering fear mongering. That was predictable. Obama's habit of calling every criticism a violation of fair play is a tired copout.

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Obama is smart and talented, but his views of Islamic fundamentalists, like those running Iran, are consistently muddled. He expresses a sloppy faith in standard political negotiation, as though Hamas and Hezbollah are just special interest groups haggling for a better deal.

He doesn't appear to take seriously their stated goal of wiping out moderate Muslim governments, Israel, the U.S. and anyone who tries to block a strict Islamic empire. No wonder Hamas endorsed him.

On the Hezbollah-led chaos in Lebanon, Obama called for "an end to the current corrupt patronage system ... and a fair distribution of services, opportunities and employment."

Ah, if only it were so easy. "Kumbaya," indeed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/05/18/2008-05-18_off_key_obama_...

trade policy.

I think this movement has a great future, check out the blogs http://www.karavans.com/blogs.html

we should have a spitting contest sometime...I bet I can spit better that you....

mmr...all humans are beasts unless they do alot of work and utilize great discipline...then they are kind.

Come on! Haven't you noticed that there is at least one on duty here at all times now. It's a hit squad and they are hitting Sam's blog. You are going to be losing even more of the few regulars that frequent. Dragon split yesterday. Who will be next? Who's is going to want to post here when you have to wade through incessant right wing blather?

To take a bike ride.

Its all wet, Gotta dry,

thanks for the link...I did not see tariffs mentioned...is he talking around them? remember my moron problem...it seemed to be implied to me.

"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice," Obama said. "He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics." - Barack Obama

"My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's work." - Barack Obama

"Obama forged a profound connection with the people of these communities. At their encouragement, he visited a local church one Sunday (Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church in Chicago). That day Obama felt a beckoning of the spirit and accepted Jesus Christ into his life." - Barack Obama

" We need to educate our children to the reality of white supremacy." - Rev. Wright

"We need to educate our children about the white supremacist's foundations of the educational system." - Rev. Wright

"When the levees in Louisiana broke alligators, crocodiles and piranha swam freely through what used to be the streets of New Orleans. That is an analogy that we need to drum into the heads of our African American children (and indeed all children!)." - Rev. Wright

" In the flood waters of white supremacy .  .  . there are also crocodiles, alligators and piranha!" - Rev. Wright

"The policies with which we live now and against which our children will have to struggle in order to bring about "the beloved community," are policies shaped by predators." - Rev. Wright

"We lay a foundation, deconstructing the household of white supremacy with tools that are not the master's tools. We lay the foundation with hope. We deconstruct the vicious and demonic ideology of white supremacy with hope. Our hope is not built on faith-based dollars, empty liberal promises or veiled hate-filled preachments of the so-called conservatives. Our hope is built on Him who came in the flesh to set us free. " - Rev. Wright

to cut the grass , Its just to wet.

is it better to plant in the late afternoon(dusk) or in the early morning?

Sure spams alot of shit

Meaningless shit

reg...want to join our spitting contest?

the trolls are nothing...it is the reaction that is the problem

"Whaaa! I don't like ideas that challenge me! Troll! Troll! I'm taking my toys and going home."

WCPT shuffles the deck, adding Maddow, local Hartmann hour
Well, it looks like Air America Radio's American Afternoon has lost a big affiliate.While Air America Radio is still trying to figure out its longterm afternoon thing, WCPT in Chicago is