As I see it, Howard is da ONE!

Toow!

LOL! Once again Dennis Kucinich's supporters are the spoilers. Gotta luv 'um!

Good firsties, puddle!

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Great news about the Gore petitions in NY, volney!

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linda b: thanks for taking a look at Pickles and indeterminate sex co-poser and thanks for posting the picture of Desiree Farooz!

How's it going with the VA politics?

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putzCo are at it again ... as if we ever doubted. They are editing documents related to climate change.

They are already editing the Constitution with putz's signing statements.

Brava Boxer!

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October 25, 2007
Climate Change Testimony Was Edited by White House
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

The White House made deep cuts in written testimony given to a Senate committee this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health risks posed by global warming, but the director agreed yesterday with administration officials who said the cuts were part of a normal review process and not aimed at minimizing the issue.

Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, the agency’s director, said in a telephone interview that news reports and comments about the changes had made “a mountain out of a molehill.”

“I said everything I needed to say,” she said.

Dr. Gerberding, who addressed the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday, said she had freely spoken for more than a year about the implications for public health should warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases proceed as scientists project. Still, cuts made to her written testimony included the only statements casting the health risks from climate change as a problem, describing it variously as posing “difficult challenges” and as “a serious public health concern.”

The testimony that remained said, “Climate change is anticipated to have a broad range of impacts on the health of Americans and the nation’s public health infrastructure.” But a line saying “the public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed” was gone, and the testimony focused on the ways health agencies were already prepared to tackle any problems.

The changes were first reported Tuesday by The Associated Press, and the draft testimony, whose authenticity was not challenged by Bush administration, was disseminated to reporters and posted online yesterday by several private groups, including Climate Science Watch.

This shift in tone prompted criticisms of the administration by some Democratic lawmakers, including Senator Barbara Boxer of California, the committee’s chairwoman.

[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/scienc...

Need a plan for Iraq?  Just call the "policy shop"  and ask for Al From or Harold Ford.  They have their plan ready.  I was reading some blogs about their plan, and we all agree...it sounds like George Bush's plan.

 http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1588

Why are hired mercenaries in Iraq at all? I know the conventional wisdom response. I just don't buy it.

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October 25, 2007
Under Siege, Blackwater Takes on Air of Bunker
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER and JAMES GLANZ

BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 — The Blackwater USA compound here is a fortress within a fortress. Surrounded by a 25-foot-high wall of concrete topped by a chain-link fence and razor wire, the compound sits deep inside the heavily defended Green Zone, its two points of entry guarded by Colombian Army veterans carrying shotguns and automatic rifles.

In the mazelike interior, Blackwater employees live in trailers stacked one on top of the other in surroundings that one employee likens to a “minimum-security prison.”

Since Sept. 16, when Blackwater guards opened fire in a crowded Baghdad square, the compound has begun to feel more like a prison, too. On that day, employees of Blackwater, a private security firm hired to protect American diplomats, responded to what they called a threat and killed as many as 17 people and wounded 24.

Richard J. Griffin, the State Department official who oversaw Blackwater USA and other private security contractors in Iraq, resigned Wednesday.

For weeks, not a word has emerged publicly from the compound, as the F.B.I., the American military and the Iraqi government investigate the Sept. 16 and earlier Blackwater shootings in Iraq.

But in recent days, that secretive Blackwater world has begun to fray under so much scrutiny, said four current and two former Blackwater employees. They described a grating sense among many of Blackwater guards, especially those with years of experience, that the killings on Sept. 16 were unjustified.

“Some guys are thinking that it was not a good shoot, that it was not warranted,” said one Blackwater contractor, using military jargon for an episode that results in a wrongful death. “I don’t think there was criminal intent involved. I just think it was the application of the use of deadly force gone horribly wrong.”

He added, “To mitigate one threat, 17 people had to die?”

[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/world/...

how about a dem's rank and file "wake up" plan that publicly and loudly exposes the DLC/blue dog/corp realm for what it is.

a move-on venture???

Now that Myanmar is no longer in the headlines, let us not forget it.

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October 25, 2007
Across the River: 2 Divergent Paths in Southeast Asia
By THOMAS FULLER

MYAWADI, Myanmar, Oct. 19 — The Moei River separating Myanmar from Thailand is a modest-sized waterway, wide enough to make someone think twice before swimming to the other side but sufficiently narrow to allow smugglers to pile motorcycles, furniture and food onto rubber rafts and paddle across, as they do almost every night.

Yet the water also symbolizes a wider, more basic gulf between the nations: the major disparities in health, well-being and prosperity.

On one side, millions of Burmese suffer from chronic malnutrition. On the other, Thais enjoy a much more affluent society, where people are generally so well fed that obesity among children is a big concern.

Children die in Myanmar of diseases so easily preventable that most people in Thailand have never heard of them.

Burma, as Myanmar was known when it gained independence from Britain in 1948, was considered one of the most promising economies in Asia during the immediate postwar years. Today, the comparison with Thailand highlights Myanmar’s missed opportunities in the grip of its military government and the breadth of the country’s problems beyond the well-publicized political repression.

The world’s attention has been on recent crackdowns in Yangon and Mandalay, the country’s largest cities, but many if not most of Myanmar’s 47 million people are either too poor or too isolated to raise their voices. Their main preoccupation is survival.

According to Unicef, in Myanmar 10 children of 100 die before reaching the age of 5. In Thailand 2 of 100 die. A woman has a 1 in 75 chance of dying in childbirth in Myanmar, compared with 1 in 900 in Thailand.

Tony Banbury, the regional director of the United Nations World Food Program, says poverty and malnutrition in Myanmar are “one of the sad, forgotten stories of Southeast Asia.”

“There were a lot of wars and conflicts in Southeast Asia, but most countries have moved on,” he said. “There are millions of people in Burma that the world has simply forgotten about.”

[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/world/...

remember when toto pulled the curtain on the wizard how humble he immediately became???

6. Sounds good to me, mprov!

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A poignant message from an Iraqi journalist: a profile in daily courage. I am posting the full NYT editorial because the whole message needs to be read.

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October 24, 2007
Editorial
To Be a Journalist in Iraq

The International Women’s Media Foundation awarded its “courage in journalism awards” yesterday to women who risk their lives covering the news. One award was given to six Iraqi women who work in the McClatchy Newspapers bureau in Baghdad, a job so dangerous that they cannot take the chance of being photographed, not even in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue.

Speaking for the six, Sahar Issa had a powerful message that we wanted to share with our readers:

“To be a journalist in violence-ridden Iraq today, ladies and gentlemen, is not a matter lightly undertaken. Every path is strewn with danger, every checkpoint, every question a direct threat.

“Every interview we conduct may be our last. So much is happening in Iraq. So much that is questionable. So much that we, as journalists, try to fathom and portray to the people who care to know.

“In every society there is good and bad. Laws regulate the conduct of the society. My country is now lawless. Innocent blood is shed every day, seemingly without purpose. Hundreds of thousands have been killed for seemingly no reason. It is our responsibility to do our utmost to acquire the answers, to dig them up with our bare hands if we must.

“But that knowledge comes at a dear price, for since the war started, four and half years ago, an average of about one reporter and media assistant killed every week is something we have to live with.

“We live double lives. None of our friends or relatives know what we do. My children must lie about my profession. They cannot under any circumstance boast of my accomplishments, and neither can I. Every morning, as I leave my home, I look back with a heavy heart, for I may not see it again — today may be the day that the eyes of an enemy will see me for what I am, a journalist, rather than the appropriately bewildered elderly lady who goes to look after ailing parents, across the river every day. Not for a moment can I let down my guard.

“I smile as I give my children hugs and send them off to school; it’s only after they turn their backs to me that my eyes fill to overflowing with the knowledge that they are just as much at risk as I am.

“So why continue? Why not put down my proverbial pen and sit back? It’s because I’m tired of being branded a terrorist: tired that a human life lost in my county is no loss at all. This is not the future I envision for my children. They are not terrorists, and their lives are not valueless. I have pledged my life — and much, much more, in an effort to open a window through which the good people in the international community may look in and see us for what we are, ordinary human beings with ordinary aspirations, and not what we have been portrayed to be.

“Allow me, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to reach out. Help us to build bridges of understanding and acceptance. Even though the war has cast a dark shadow upon your nation and mine — it is never too late.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinio...

From EJ Dionne's blog at the WaPo ... Mitt has been careless ... or has he?

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E.J.'s Precinct: Romney, Osama and Obama

Now there's a slip. On Tuesday, Mitt Romney confused Osama bin Laden with....Barack Obama! "Actually, just look at what Osam -- Barack Obama -- said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield," Romney said, according to the Associated Press. "It's almost as if the Democratic contenders for president are living in fantasyland. Their idea for jihad is to retreat, and their idea for the economy is to also retreat. And in my view, both efforts are wrongheaded." What kind of slip is this? Freudian? Intentional? Accidental? Is this a sign of what Obama is in for from Repuiblicans, or is it a meaningless mistake? (And while we're on the subject of Mitt Romney, I argued in my column on Tuesday that Romney's Mormonism should absolutely not be an issue in the campaign, but that Romney faces a dilemma on the religion issue.) Let's talk about Mitt Romney, his slip and his future.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/com...

Lest we forget our own disasters ...

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When the Hills Are Burning
By Amy Wilentz
Thursday, October 25, 2007; A25

I live in a fire bowl. As I write, the gigantopolis of Los Angeles is circled by fire: out in Malibu, up in Simi Valley, and down at Irvine and Arrowhead. For Angelenos in fire season, even if you are not personally affected, there is a feeling that there's no way out.

First there is fear, as you chart the fire's path in your mind, its next possible, unpredictable step. Then comes the realization that your own habitual geography is impermanent. A forest you knew, a canyon, a friend's house, some L.A. landmark -- any of these could be gone tomorrow. As with earthquakes, the place where you live could turn within minutes into something other, something unrecognizable, something dead.

Two days ago I drove down to Irvine, where I teach two days a week. Before leaving, I'd checked Sigalert to see how the roads were doing. On the Web site, a fire update in red type said: "PCH is closed from Topanga Canyon to Kanan Road. Malibu Canyon Road, Kanan Road and Topanga Canyon, Carbon Canyon, Tuna Canyon are all closed. Hwy 126 East closed . . ."

But my freeway wasn't listed.

So I headed south in the dark toward some of the biggest fires. I passed an Army convoy going to help out. That got my sleepy attention. To the east, the sun was coming up behind the mountains, but it seemed too soon for sunrise. Then I realized that what I'd thought was the sun was the fire, making a silhouette of the hills. Smoke was pouring into the sky like a cloud bank in a dazzling sunrise. Around me the pre-rush-hour traffic was moving nicely, past signs for new Hondas, past the dark developments to the west, still asleep. Yet a few miles away from normal life, just over the hills, was a holocaust.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

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GIT R DUN…

The New 'USRSF'

The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF)

 

 

 

 

 

These boys will be dropped off in Iraq and have been given only the following facts about terrorists :

1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus.
5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

The Pentagon expects the problem in Iraq to be over by Friday.

 

Naomi Klein ... if you haven't yet seen or heard about *The Shock Doctrine,* you should.

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The business press and me: a case of unrequited love
Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used
Naomi Klein
Thursday October 25, 2007
The Guardian

On a recent visit to Calgary, Alberta, I was taken aback to see my book on disaster capitalism selling briskly at the airport. Calgary is ground zero of North America's oil and gas boom, where business suits and cowboy hats are the de facto uniform. I had a sudden sinking feeling: did Calgary's business class think The Shock Doctrine was a how-to guide - a manual for making millions from catastrophe? Were they hoping for tips on landing no-bid contracts if the US bombs Iran?

When I get worried about inadvertently fueling the disaster complex, I take comfort in the response the book has elicited from the world's leading business journalists. That's where I learn that the very notion of disaster capitalism is my delusion - or, as Otto Reich, former adviser to President George Bush, told BBC Business Daily, it is the work "of a very confused person".

Many publications have seen fit to assign business journalists to review the book. And why not? They are the experts. Unabashed fans of the late free-market evangeliser Milton Friedman, these are our primary purveyors of the idea that ballooning corporate profits are on the verge of trickling down to the citizens of the world in the form of freedom and democracy.

[...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...

12. Was that for real, puddle?

India is finding that globalization is a mixed blessing.

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Poor but defiant, thousands march on Delhi in fight for land rights
The rush to industrialise has left tribal people and 'untouchables' far behind
Randeep Ramesh in Palwal
Thursday October 25, 2007
Guardian

On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."

Some 25,000 of India's poorest people - tribal peoples, "untouchables" and landless labourers - have stopped traffic for nearly three weeks on the road that links Delhi and Agra, home to the Taj Mahal. Headed by a group of chanting Buddhist monks, the marchers say they aim to shame the government into keeping its promise to redistribute land.

The human train has been eating, living and washing by the road since early October and by the end of the week will arrive at the Indian parliament, vowing to remain a public embarrassment until the government relents. Last week three marchers were killed by a speeding lorry.

With fists and voices raised, the scene is a world away from Indian newspaper headlines about the country's new luxury goods market or its soaring stock markets. Nowhere is this process of concentrating wealth in a tiny segment of the population more visible than in the ground beneath Indians' feet.

India has one of most iniquitous systems of land ownership in the world - much worse than China. Last week India's biggest real estate baron made a paper fortune of £500m in a day. Government figures show that the average expenditure of countryside household India to be just 500 rupees a month or about 20p a day.

Most of the marchers say their dire condition is because they have no patta (deeds) to their land. Unable to grow produce on their ancestral land and with no patta to access state welfare services, the villagers are now fighting a losing war against poverty.

"I haven't got any rights on my land," said Prem Bai from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. "I have got four boys and can hardly manage the family with few days' work labouring on other's fields. If we go to forests then the forest department arrests us. Our life is very difficult."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,33106...

Turkey has had a lot of words from putzCo and Iraq, but little action. So, they are beginning to act themselves.

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Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels on Iraqi border
· Warplanes seen setting off for refuge in mountains
· Campaign for military offensive intensifies
Volkan Sarisakal in Cizre
Thursday October 25, 2007
Guardian

Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships reportedly attacked Kurdish rebel positions just inside the Turkish border with Iraq yesterday, as Turkey's military stepped up operations.

Several F-16 warplanes loaded with bombs and attack helicopters took off from an air base in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir, according to an AP cameraman. The warplanes and helicopter gunships bombed mountain paths used by rebels to infiltrate from neighbouring Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported.

A government official said yesterday that Turkish helicopter gunships penetrated Iraqi territory and troops shelled suspected Kurdish rebel positions across the border in Iraq on Sunday. Helicopters chased Kurdish rebels three miles into Iraqi territory but returned to their bases in Turkey after a rebel ambush killed 12 soldiers near the border, the official said.

He also said Turkish artillery units shelled rebel positions as recently as Tuesday night but did not say which areas were targeted.

Turkey, which has moved troops to the Iraq border, warned Iraq and western allies on Tuesday that a large-scale incursion was imminent unless the US-backed government in Baghdad takes action against the rebels. The Turkish government said there would be no ceasefire with the fighters, who want an independent region in Turkey's heavily Kurdish south-east.

[...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,33106...

Okay, let's try again. (Jeeze Looeze, preview would have been nice.  Or an edit feature.)

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GIT R DUN…

The New 'USRSF'

The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF)

These boys will be dropped off in Iraq and have been given only the following facts about terrorists :

1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus.
5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

The Pentagon expects the problem in Iraq to be over by Friday.


 

 

Judy ~~ Nope.  Email.  If you wanna see the pic, gotta go to baby.  Won't take here for some reason.

Someday, the day of reckoning will come, brought on primarily by a feckless, heedless, calamitous and criminal administration and its enablers.

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Hamish McRae: America's lifestyle is paid for by savers in poorer nations – but for how long?
Published: 25 October 2007

Bahrain: Even brief visits give you a feeling for changes of mood. And the mood yesterday at a conference for investment advisers, not just from Bahrain but from all over the Gulf, was that they should be looking at as diversified a portfolio as possible, and particularly should be thinking about investment in Asia.

This is important because, of course, the United States has been relying on savings from the oil producers in the Middle East, along with Asian savings, to offset its current account deficit. One of the reasons why the dollar has been so weak in recent days has been the sense that the commitment of the international community to the US and to dollar assets has weakened. The US current account deficit has actually begun to narrow through the earlier part of this year, yet the dollar has become progressively weaker. Meanwhile, continuing rapid growth in China and the rest of the newly developing world has sustained demand for oil, pushing the price up and further boosting the balances of the oil exporters.

To put this into context have a look at the two graphs, which come from the latest World Economic Outlook, produced by the International Monetary Fund. As you can see in the first graph, the US current account deficit is more than 1.5 per cent of world GDP; yes, that is world GDP, not US GDP. On the other side of the balance sheet, the surplus of the oil producers is more than 1 per cent of world GDP. Thanks to the high oil price that surplus is at a sweet spot. It has shot up suddenly and the IMF thinks it will come down, at least as a share of world GDP. Elsewhere in the report the IMF predicts that the oil price will come slowly down, so it follows that if the present price levels are maintained it may be understating the size of the oil exporters' surpluses.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/business/c...

Wow, puddle, that guy has a really BIG ...!

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Loved the dark and stormy night story. LOL

Sarko sans Cecilia ... losing the best part?

We'll see.

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Sarkozy's green revolution in danger of producing nothing more than hot air
By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 25 October 2007

President Nicolas Sarkozy promises to add a green stripe to the French tricolour today in a speech which will place France at the cutting edge of the fight against global warming.

That, in any case, is the theory. The contents of the President's speech will be decided this afternoon at the end of an unprecedented two-day conference and consultation exercise, which is intended to shape France's approach to everything from carbon emissions to pesticides and bio-diversity.

Comments after the first day of the conference yesterday suggested that radical proposals to limit carbon emissions would be included in the President's speech. The ecology minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, said France would halt all "significant increases" in airport or motorway capacity. Many long-distance lorries would be forced off the roads within three years and put on a new network of internal "train ferries".

Standards for the insulation of homes, and above all public buildings, would be increased enormously.

President Sarkozy is under pressure from environmental lobby groups – and his own campaign promises – to propel France into the forefront of the struggle against climate change. He is equally under pressure from industry to safeguard a stuttering economy and from his own centre-right party to avoid angering a nation of car-owners.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/art...

Need a plan for Iraq?  Just call the "policy shop"  and ask for Al From or Harold Ford.  They have their plan ready.  I was reading some blogs about their plan, and we all agree...it sounds like George Bush's plan.

DLC: Little Second Hand Policy Shop of Horrors. 

Good news from DU and AfterDowningStreet: Go, Dennis, go!

And I'm off for now. bbl

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KUCINICH TO MOVE IMPEACHMENT BEFORE THANKSGIVING!
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2007-10-24 15:53. Congress | Impeachment

By Hutch, ImpeachThem.com

At 9 pm New Jersey time, Tuesday, October 23rd, in a nationwide phone call to impeach organizers presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich announced he will go before the U.S. House of Representatives on a point of personal privilege to move the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Mr. Kucinich stated he will bring the impeachment forward before Thanksgiving. As soon as we learn more details we will post them immediately. NOW's the time to put pressure on all representatives, and tell them you will support only those candidates who get on board with impeachment and Dennis Kucinich's HRes 333 to impeach Cheney. CALL NOW - here are toll-free phone numbers you can use to call congressional offices in DC: 866.340.9281 - 866.338.1015 - 877.851.6437 - 800.828.0498 - 800.459.1887 - 800.614.2803 Don't wait for tomorrow, call right now, this second - jam the capitol switchboard with our demand to restore justice and reclaim democracy. Impeach the Bush gang!

[...]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...

Draft Gore Petition update:

Signatures | Total: 218,129

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algor...

Supernews,
"Goodbye Mr. Rove", video

http://current.com/items/77537621_goodby...

Dang....Bill Richardson could overtake Hillary on Thursday.

I'm thrilled that Al Gore is still on top, but just to keep him there, am going to pass out the Pulse Poll website at the big anti-war rally in L.A. Saturday.  Plus, of course, petitions to get him on the primary ballot.  And last but not least, draftgore.  It will be a well attended event, I feel sure.

Great news about New York!

Red Sox win in game one of World Series, 13-1 against the Rockies.

See ya all in a month from now.

Go Obama !

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have a good trip rdorgan

I want to travel to Africa someday myself in retirement.

puddle your blog is precious

Judy, I missed you while you were moving, so glad you are back

Southern California is a great disaster, it hasn't yet reached 10% of the Katrina damage and I sure hope it never gets there

I'm doing battle with a teensy tiny disaster of down corn and is slow and aggravating so I won't be posting much til I get it done. the loss is probably in the $10-15000 range but in the old days some of that could be recovered by gleaning the field with hogs

since the neighbors bulldozed out the fencerow to add another row of corn that is not an option

clear back in the middle ages when I was in High School the band bought new uniforms with a corn carnival that included four picket corn cribs on the school yard lawn that were filled with gleaned corn picked up out of the surrounding fields in a contest between the classes and I believe the record was something like 800 bushels

with the widespread damage in Iowa effecting the price of corn futures in Chicago right now that record would be in serious danger this year 

since the border is closed the avocado crop lost in the fires probably was never going to be picked anyway mprov

I thought about who were the "illegals" when someone that was collecting unemployment showed up for a job interview and asked to be paid in cash so those unemployment checks could continue

being paid in cash isn't quite as good a deal with a worthless dollar, but my guess is the under-ground economy is way bigger than the immigrant portion of it and having an "undocumented" portion just enables it

tax the movement of money through bank accounts folks if you want a "fair" tax

Feel free to forward to your email lists

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/22694 

Wow rdorgan, Africa, I would love to travel there.  Have a wonderful and safe trip.

Go Barack!