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Back during the winter, I wrote about my State House Representative ,Gary Moore, who chaired the meeting that ended the possibility of a landfill on the Harpeth River. Not long after that, I was one of those who received a questionnaire from him about various issues facing the Tennessee legislature.. I was glad to be asked, and gladder still that he had managed to craft questions to which I could give a simple yes or no answer.
I don't know about you, but I frequently get so-called "surveys" from the Democratic Party that are just ridiculous—the questions are framed in such a way that I have no choice but to scrawl all over them, usually to the effect of, "you spineless shoelickers gave a free pass to the no-more bankruptcy for the poor bill, Mussalioto, the Patriot Act, and the war in Iraq—a war with as much moral justification as the Nazi invasion of Poland—and now you think if you promise to cut gas prices and boost ethanol production (and what a bad joke that is!) I'm gonna send you money? Fergeddaboutit!" Well, since I never send them any money, I doubt if they count my survey, but they haven't taken me off the mailing list yet. Not that I think that means they're paying any attention to me—more likely, it means they're NOT paying me any attention whatsoever. But, I digress.
Anyway, I recently received the results of Representative Moore's poll, and I want to share them with you, along with some reflections on what I think they mean. Also, I want to thank his office for being kind enough to answer some background questions about the questionnaire.. It was sent to a little over three thousand voters, identified by the board of elections as the most frequent voters in the district, and about seven hundred of us responded. About 22,000 people voted in this district in 2004, giving Democrat Moore a 2-1 victory over his Republican opponent. I'm willing to bet the voters out here weren't so enthusiastic about John Kerry, but I haven't been able to determine that from public information. (Since publishing this, a reader who knew which precincts constitute Rep. Moore's district has told me that, in fact, the district split about 50-50 between Bush and Kerry. Intuition confirmed–thank you, jeune66!)
So anyway, the seven hundred and some most opinionated and vocal citizens of my neighborhood have spoken, so I think it's worth some attention. This isn't a poll of what some of the more cosmopolitan parts of Nashville think. The northwest side of Nashville, where I live, is pretty rural, though not without suburban patches, but probably the most "old Tennessee" part of Davidson County, with the possible exception of Antioch. This is the red edge of a blue county. So, on with the show….he began with
"Do you feel the current law recently passed by the legislature adequately addresses the ethics issue?" (including a link to a website comparing "before" and "after"changes that were made by the bill www.legislature.state.tn.us . We were instructed to click on "joint ethics bill," then on "summary of joint committee ethics bill draft")
This "summary" is a 21-page pdf. Now, maybe I'm selling my fellow voters short, but I think I wasn't the only one who didn't have the patience to plow through 21 pages detailing that contributions must be reported within 24 hours instead of 72, that payments on credit cards must specify what was paid for, and that all this will be put online where nobody will have the time to read it. I mean, if you really want to clean up legislative ethics, give all candidates government funding and equal media access and bar ALL contributions from lobbyists, PACs, business associations, or businesses. They don't vote, why should they get to buy our legislators? Hey, I've given money to Moveon and the like, but I'd rather live in a world where I didn't have to fight the overwhelming influence of those with more money to throw around than I'll ever see.
Well, cut to the chase: 70% of Representative Moore's respondents agreed with me in principle—that the recent ethics bill did not adequately address the ethics issue. Slightly under eight percent thought the bill was adequate, and about 22%were undecided, one of the largest "undecided" calls on the survey. Those must be the folks that tried to form an opinion by reading the pdf.
So—how 'bout it, Representative Moore—are you willing to make a bold, positive move and propose public financing of political campaigns as a solution to the ethics and influence mess? It seems to be working well in Arizona and Maine.
Second question: "Would you support a law that would allow the Tennessee Highway Patrol to arrest undocumented illegal immigrants? This would be achieved by a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Immigration and Naturalization Services and the Tennessee Highway Patrol. "
Eighty-three percent of respondents would approve of that, and only ten percent would not.
I was one of the ten percent who did not approve, mostly out of sympathy for the murky mess it would create for the Highway Patrol. You rarely encounter people with no documents whatever—and that's where it starts getting sticky. To determine whether someone is here legally, you have to check the veracity of their papers. If the THP targets brown skinned people for this treatment, there will be a justifiable fuss raised, all the more so because not all illegal immigrants are Hispanic or Asian—there's European illegals, too, dontcha know? So the THP will have to check everybody's status every time they make a traffic stop. This could add a lot of time to an officer's day, for the most part to no real law enforcement benefit.
–Well, gee, if we had a National Identity Card that everyone had to have….
Hey, when I was a kid and the Cold War was almost hot, a great deal was made of how wonderfully free we are in this country. "In Russia, you have to have an Identity Card and show it to the police when asked"–that's what they told me. Now there is a strong move towards just such an ID card. When you couple that with our country's having the biggest per capita prison population in the world, calling America "The Land of the Free" starts to sound downright Orwellian.
Fortunately, the proposal to sic the Highway Patrol on illegal immigrants died in the Tennessee House, where the forces of reason prevailed. It's worth noting that they prevailed not by debate and vote, but by putting the bill in an isolated corner of the House where it would just kind of die. No impassioned speeches, just an administrative veto. Thank you, guys. Sometimes "nothing" is the right course of action..
The next immigrant question on Rep. Moore's survey found even more overwhelming support from the electorate but met the same fate as its companion—87% of respondents were in favor of "substantial fines for businesses caught utilizing the services of undocumented illegal immigrants." Whoa, that would mean going after Walmart, most likely, and after almost every construction contractor in the state. It would criminalize what's left of the state's fruit and vegetable industry. If you defined "business" loosely enough, you'd be issuing citations to half of Brentwood. Can't have that, by golly, those people are all major campaign donors. It could have been effective in discouraging undocumented workers, but oh well, can't throw out the babies with the bathwater now, can we?
I have to say that I feel a lot of ambivalence about the illegal immigrant question. On the side of compassion, I recognize that these people are economic refugees who are coming here because the North American Free Trade Agreement destroyed the economy of rural Mexico and Central America, and then the race to the bottom created by the World Trade Organization destroyed the nascent industrial economies of those same countries, leaving millions of people just south of here broke, hungry, and increasingly desperate. There's no place for these people to go but here. Before NAFTA, there were about a million illegals in the US; now there are at least ten times that many. QED, I believe?
But I also have to recognize that these huddled masses yearning to breathe free are being exploited by corporate America. They are a tool for depressing wages, benefits, and worker power in this country. And sure, America has an unnaturally high standard of living compared to the rest of the world, but we need to change that by redistributing our aristocracy's ill gotten gains, not by making the poor poorer.
What to do? It has been pointed out over and over again in this debate how difficult it is for Americans to work in Mexico, especially compared to vice-versa. So it seems to me that it would be OK to make it much harder for businesses to hire undocumented workers, as long as we renounce NAFTA and the WTO and make a concerted effort to rebuild localized, sustainable economies in our southern neighbors by recreating a small farm, small manufacturing economy—if our bankers, the Chinese, will let us, and if the pace of global warming doesn't turn Mexico into the Western Sahara. Two big ifs, fer sure.
music: James McMurtry, "Safe Side"
Rep. Moore's 4th question was about raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $6.15 an hour. About 75% approved that, less than 20% opposed. The Nashville Living Wage Coalition ran some numbers and figured out that a living wage in Nashville is someplace around eleven or twelve dollars an hour. The Nashville City Council was unwilling to guarantee that people working for the city would make that much. Five-fifteen an hour is about ten thou a year, six-fifteen is about twelve. The legislators just gave themselves a two-thousand dollar a year raise, but failed to do that for low-income Tennesseans who can't give themselves a raise.
Here's what happened: the Tennessee House actually passed a bill that officially raised the minimum wage by a dollar—but exceptions were made for companies employing less than fifty people, waitstaff who receive tips, college students working for their schools, people without a high school diploma or GED, farm and landscape nursery workers, undocumented workers—in other words, just about everybody who's getting less than $6.15 an hour—estimated to be about 40,000 people statewide and 12,000 here in Nashville. Oh, and there were no enforcement provisions in the bill—somebody making less than minimum wage would have had to sue their employer in order to enforce the law. Fat chance. I think that's taking privatization a bit too far!
So, the Tennessee Senate voted this bill down, 17-12, which was probably just as well—a bad bill can be worse than none at all, because it creates the illusion that something has been done.
Question 5 addresses health care costs:"Would you support a law that would require businesses with one hundred or more employees to provide insurance coverage for their employees, or be required to pay into a State-administered health care pool?"
About 73% supported this proposition while just over 18% opposed it. This is a reflection from a nationwide movement that is targeted primarily at Walmart, which is notorious for using Medicare and state health programs for the poor as employee health insurance. I'm not crazy about this kind of reformist proposal because it puts more money and power in the hands of the insurance companies, which are a big part of the problem, and also I'm not in favor of reforming Walmart, I'm in favor of hitting the company with antitrust lawsuits and hacking it into little bitty pieces and making sure it never rises again. Silver bullets, garlic, the works.
But Walmart need not fear even reform in Tennessee, let alone dissolution. The Fair Share Health Care Act died in committee. Walmart will not have to pick up health care costs for the nearly ten thousand of its workers who are (or were) on Tenncare, which is a good thing for the company's bottom line—because those ten thousand workers are about a quarter of the company's employees here in the state. Paying their doctor bills would really screw up profit margins. Can't have that.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress is revving up to repeal the estate tax, which will enable the Walton family (and a few other members of the uber-rich) to hang on to still more of their ill-gotten gains. When are all these rich white guys who are posturing about this being a "Christian Nation" going to get the part about "not laying up your treasures where moth and rust doth corrupt?"
music: Joan Baez, "Satisfied Mind"
A resounding 83% of respondents favored raising the cigarette tax to offset lowering the sales tax on food, but that didn't stop our state senators from voting this idea down, with encouragement from our so-called health-care governor. Tennessee has the highest food sales tax of any state in the country, and the third lowest tax on cigarettes—and, of course, no income tax, making the sales tax the backbone of state revenue. I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense not to base your revenue on taxing something people would be better off not using at all, but the food tax hits the poorest people in the state the hardest. Everybody admits it's unfair, but there's no political will to do anything about it. Chalk one up for the tobacco lobby.
Of course, the cigarette tax also hits poor people the hardest, because more poor people smoke, but to me that's kinda like the lottery—anybody dumb enough to get involved with tobacco or the lottery deserves to lose their money. At least the lottery won't give you cancer.
Question seven is about an issue you've heard about from me before: the Harpeth dump, which went down to defeat in the face of overwhelming neighborhood rejection. Overall, however, when more than those who were not looking at a dump in their backyard were polled, 49% thought it would be OK, with only 39% demurring—must be the folks who live near the Harpeth. Not in my backyard, but yours will do! Ah, the American spirit!
It's not exactly "Profiles in Courage" material, but I hope Rep. Moore would have fought the dump just as vigorously even if he had known that his constituents weren't solidly behind him on it.
Question eight asked whether Tennessee should require a photo ID before allowing an individual to vote, and a fairly decisive 71% came down in favor of this subtle but radical change in governmental procedure.
I think this indicates that we need to do extensive education on this issue. I alluded before to the totalitarian nature of mandatory ID cards, and this is a little different, because it's specifically about voting and not about the rest of life in wartime, but I think it indicates public misperception about the nature of voting fraud in this country. Old-fashioned, Tammany-Hall style voter fraud involved having people who were not actually registered cast ballots. New-style, Ed Blackwell/Katherine Harris style voting fraud removes people from the voting rolls unjustly and then hacks the computers so that, if you do get to vote, your vote goes to someone other than who you thought you voted for.
Georgia attempted to pass a law requiring photo id in order for citizens to vote, and it was struck down by the courts as too restrictive of voters' civil rights. I think that if people understood that this is a proposal that makes it harder for older and poorer citizens to vote, their opinion of this idea would shift. As far as I can tell, there was no proposed legislation on this question in Tennessee this year—but the Federally mandated "Real ID" act, which is an unfunded mandate, is coming into force in 2008 and will push the state to create a more rigorous form of ID. May I see your papers?
Slightly more people, 77%, wanted the state to restrict its driver's license tests to the English language. which seems to me to be a form of gratuitous racism—the amount of English you need in order to navigate the road system is considerably simpler than the conceptual grasp of English a person needs in order to pass a written test. I think this kind of racism is part of what the voodoo economists who are running America refer to as "the trickle-down effect," otherwise known to plumbers, parents, and battered women everywhere as "poop rolls downhill." Franz Fanon referred to it as "the psychology of the oppressed."
What it boils down to is this: almost all of us here in America are oppressed by this country's elite, those whom George Bush famously addresses as "my power base." Our oppression is carefully frosted over with a blitz of consumer goods, public spectacles, and the propaganda message that this is "the freest country in the world." (with, again, the highest prison population in the world) Even those of us who are aware of this snow job and the truth behind its lies feel practically powerless to counter it; those who are not aware will always be inclined to vent their frustration on some vulnerable "other." Now it's the Mexicans; it's been the hippies, it's been the communists, it's been the Jews, the labor organizers….if you can't stop the pain, pass it on.
Well, I'm philosophizing and psychologizing and getting far away from Representative Moore's questions. The next one is a bit of a no-brainer: "Should Tennessee require proof of automobile insurance before issuing or renewing license plate tags?" That one was favored 92 to 5. Hey, if you're going to travel at high speed in a small metal box that, if you lose control of it, will inflict damage on things you don't own and can't afford to pay for, the thoughtful, compassionate thing to do is have liability insurance.
As a raving anti-corporatist, of course I'd prefer to see single-payer car insurance that came out of gas taxes along with my single-payer health insurance that comes out of income taxes, but in the meantime (and I'm not holding my breath for nationalized insurance, believe me) I'm more than willing to be practical and buy from a private insurer. There's even a politically progressive company out there to buy from—most insurance companies do make most of their donations to Republicans, in case you didn't know.
music: James McMurtry,"Comfortable"
The next question surprised me, because I would have thought it as much of a no-brainer as the insurance question: Should Tennessee require seatbelts in schoolbusses, even if it means increasing taxes to pay for it? That gathered only a plurality, 45-31. To me it's the metal box deal again: if you're traveling at high speed in a metal box, strap yourself down so you won't go bouncing around if there's an accident. Especially, make sure your kids are strapped down. Did the tax increase bug people? How many seat belts could you install for the price of one kid having to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair? Or spend the rest of his life dead?
Well, it might just be the tax thing. One result of the corporate takeover of our government over the past several decades has been a shift of the tax burden from corporations to individuals, and from wealthier individuals to poorer ones. According to an Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy study, in 2003 the uppermost 1% of Tennessee taxpayers paid about 3% of their income in state and local taxes, while the middle of Tennessee's income pyramid, the people earning $24-38,000 a year, paid 8.7%. Those at the bottom, with incomes of $14,000 a year or less, pay 11.7% of their income in taxes—and that doesn't even count the lottery tickets they buy.
Nationally, corporate taxes are sinking towards 1% of GDP, from a 1960 level of 4% and, more relevantly, over 2% as recently as 1999. In Tennessee, there have been tax giveaways to encourage corporations like Dell and Nissan to locate here. "Tax giveaway" is a misleading term for this—the government may be giving it away, but you and I are paying for it. So, if people feel a little edgy about paying for seatbelts in schoolbusses, I can forgive them. Let Nissan be a "good corporate citizen" and donate 'em, hey? Of course, then they'd all hafta say "NISSAN" in big bold letters, but, gee, ya can't get something for nothing, can you?
Question 13 is another potential bureaucratic nightmare fueled by people's insecurity. 84% of all those responding to this poll would support fingerprinting of pawnshop customers to "help identify persons trafficking in stolen property." Oh, yes, it would also build up the government's fingerprint files, wouldn't it? And concentrate law enforcement's attention on small time criminals, leaving less time for corporate crime, which steals from thousands of us by making everything we pay for more expensive. Well, local law enforcement doesn't do much with that anyway.
As I investigated this peculiar law—which would net the fingerprints of more wannabe musicians than active burglars—I found that it has been implemented as a "special-case" law—only in Knoxville and Memphis must pawnshop customers give up their prints to buy or sell. How effective has this been? It's hard to tell; an article on stolen bicycles in Knoxville made no mention of fingerprinting, pro or con, and the Tennessee State Pawnbrokers' Association has nothing to say about it on their website.
Karl Marx, that supposedly discredited prophet, used to rave about what he called "commodity fetishism"—the attribution of great desirability to consumer goods that are not intrinsically valuable. It looks to me like this "commodity fetishism" is the water us American fish swim in—we are encouraged to have lots of stuff, and to keep our stuff secure. That's what makes the economy go 'round, and if too many people start stealing from others in order to satisfy their perceived needs, we have a breakdown of law and order.
With the vast disparities of income and opportunity that exist in this country, the eroding economy, and the lust for consumer goods that the mass media are built to feed, people are going to fear for their possessions, and they will look to the state to protect them from the perceived danger of robbery. My own view is that the way to work on this is to make the wealth more equal and back off on the commodity promotion. Many of those who clamor loudest for strong property protection are ones who follow a religion that enjoins them not to—here it comes again– "lay up wealth where moth and rust doth corrupt," and I think taking that more seriously would help, too; I'm just not sure what the State of Tennessee could do to promote it without becoming a theocracy.
music: Greg Brown, "The Way They Get Themselves Up"
And, speaking, at least obliquely, of theocracy, the next question asked, "Do you feel that alcohol products such as wine from out of state or outside the country should be allowed to be purchased over the internet?" That one lost on a plurality, 40%-45%. I checked online and, sure enough, you can't buy wine online in Tennessee and have it shipped to you. Why someone would want to go to the expense of having a bottle of wine shipped to them from out of state is a question I can't answer, as I've never understood why people drink wine in the first place—but why would some people want to prohibit other people from buying wine? That's another philosophical question that goes beyond the bounds of this survey. All I can say is, some people don't let logic or tolerance get in the way of their opinions. What to do?–"All intolerant people should be rounded up and shot?" I don't think so. I've devoted many hours of my life to trying to understand how a tolerant society should deal with intolerant people, and I still don't have an answer.
"The Green Party—the only political party honest enough to say,'We don't know.'" Well, maybe that's not a good campaign slogan.
Question 15 asks if "Tennessee should pass a law that would give local governments the power to enact laws to prohibit smoking in public places?" This power was stripped from municipalities by a 1994 law. As a nonsmoker, I was pleasantly surprised to find that getting a 72%-22% pass, although I am concerned that if they make smoking in public illegal, the next target will be passing gas, and then I'll be in trouble.
The last time I went out to a club to hear a band, I had to leave about halfway through the show because the thick pall of tobacco smoke in the room was making me sick. A couple of days later, I read a review of the show that complemented the club on how well its new ventilation system worked. Really?
Here's what I think about tobacco—and alcohol, for that matter: we need to take the corporate money out of the equation. Anybody who wants to grow their own tobacco, brew their own beer, ferment their own wine, or distill their own single-malt scotch is welcome to do so, and free to share it with their friends—but no public sale, advertising, resale, etc. allowed. Is that too draconian? How could we still have bars? OK, so maybe we can work in a way to create and license "public houses" for that purpose—and maybe we could treat all currently illegal drugs the same way. Just a thought.
The second to last question was "Do you think Tennessee should pass a law that would require a statewide uniform voting procedure utilizing a verifiable paper ballot?"
That got a slim majority—51%–with about 27% definitely opposed and 22% undecided, one of the highest undecided groups in the poll. This made me realize that, while I've been attentive to the furor over the apparent stealing of the last two elections, this issue has been pretty much absent from the mainstream media, which finds missing teenage girls and runaway brides more important than whether the guy in the White House is there legitimately or not. Hey, he's not a cute blonde. Even Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s authoritative, annotated article in a recent Rolling Stone hasn't raised a blip on the don't-rock-the-boat boys' radar. So I suppose it's a bit of a victory for us pesky types if over half the people out here in the boondocky, redneck part of Davidson County would like to make sure there's a paper record of how they voted.
OK, final question—an essay question! Well, not exactly—Representative Moore asked, "What are the three major issue that concern you the most?" Taxes was first, with 30%, followed by illegal immigrants at slightly under thirty percent, followed by health care at 26%, ethics at around 20%, education running a distant 5th at about 9%, and fuel costs the last large grouping at around 6%.
Taxes? Yes, the current system is unfair, even if most people don't understand why. This is an issue that will take a lot of voter education to counter the persistent smokescreen that covers the truth about corporate abandonment of civic responsibility.
Illegal immigrants? Not much Tennessee can do about that one—it's a national problem that needs an international solution. If they could stay where they came from, they would, y'know, so let's help 'em find ways to stay home. Meanwhile, we do need to admit that big business is complicit in bringing these people into the country because their willingness to accept low wages works to the advantage of the businesses that hire them, and that's going on because CAFTA, NAFTA, the WTO, and our open trade with China have created a race to the bottom in which the US has a long and unpleasant way to go. The US trade deficit was $9B ten years ago; it was over $70B last year, and that's a greater threat to our national security than terrorists or illegal migrant workers.
Health care? Yes, it's a serious concern. Even if you stay healthy all your life and then go into a nursing home when you can't take care of yourself anymore, the nursing home will suck up your savings, so you'll have nothing to leave your kids but memories. The for-profit, out-of-control health care industry is sucking America dry. We could do something about this at the state level in the short term, although it will take national legislation (or maybe a revolution) to recreate the health care industry in a way that truly serves people.
There are serious issues that didn't make it into this questionnaire. The interconnected questions of urban sprawl, peak oil, and global warming are intensely local in their effects. At this point, most of the people in Rep. Moore's district commute by car into Nashville; before the automobile, most of the few people in this area pretty much stayed put—they got to Nashville once a week or once a month, maybe. The district, along with the rest of Nashville, is too spread out for mass transit to work effectively. What is going to happen? It should certainly be a function of state government to create a co-ordinated regional plan for the future, but there doesn't seem to be much long-range vision in the legislature. Maybe longer terms would help; certainly public financing of campaigns would free legislators from constant fundraising and its concomittant preoccupation with the short-term needs of wealthy business owners.
I have been commenting on the details of Representative Moore's survey from a Green perspective—what's the overall shape of it look like? I think that what we see here is a society and a legislature engrossed in, and all too frequently distracted by, the immediate symptoms of problems that are rooted deep in the structure of our political system, our society, and our economy. From the myopic mainstream perspective, these problems have complicated, uncertain solutions, or none at all—f'rinstance, the 21-page "summary" of the legislative ethics law. We Greens offer solutions to these questions that are, in the literal sense, radical—we see how to cut these afflictions off at the root.
Increasing corporate taxes and instituting a graduated income tax will take the burden of taxation off those least able to bear it—and that ain't Wal-mart. The way to solve the flood of illegal immigrants here in America is to improve conditions in their homelands. A national single-payer health plan, curbs on the for-profit health industry, and a strong emphasis on prevention will bring health care costs under control. Stating these solutions is easy; bringing them to statewide or national attention is another question entirely.
The harvest is great, the laborers are few, and the crop will soon spoil. There is no guarantee of success; we hardly even know what "success" will look like. Let's get moving, people.
Wow—I just did almost a whole show on state and local issues. There's just time to mention a few things: the honesty in unlikely places award goes to U.S. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, relentless drug warrior and architect of the plan to lock up all eleven million illegal immigrants, who chose to buck the corporate tide and work to preserve internet neutrality. We lost that battle in the House, but maybe the Communications Act of 2006 will meet the same fate as arresting eleven million people. If not, it's likely the end of America's Democracy Wall; how close are we to our own Tienamen Square?
If I'd had more time, I would have written about the accelerating thaw in the Arctic and the desertification of age-old oases in western China; about the peculiar and scary intersection of Christianity and Fascism that's going on in this country; about how even Republican judges don't like the new bankruptcy law, which our own Jim Cooper voted for, because it assumes that most bankruptcies stem from people being deadbeats when the truth is that eighty percent of all bankruptcies are the result of catastrophic medical bills…..like the lady here in Nashville who got hit by a police cruiser and has almost $400,000 in bills, but so-called "tort reform" in Tennessee has capped the damages the city can pay at $250,000.
I would have spent a lot of time talking about the latest bad news about electronic voting; I would have talked about how the psychiatric industry labels people—mostly women and children– as mentally ill, so they can sell them meds—did you know "road rage" is now a treatable—that means prescribable and billable—mental illness? I would have speculated on why Dick Cheney maintains such a veil of secrecy and why he recently empowered our Secret Service chief, John "the Butcher" Negroponte, to exempt corporations from SEC reporting rules. I would have talked about how funny it is that the mainstream media are alarmed that Venezuelan businessmen have just bought Sequoia, a voting machine company, but nobody seems alarmed about how Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel owns the voting machines that elected him in Nebraska. I could go on, and next month on July 15th, I will. Meanwhile, you can read this and other rantings of mine at brothermartin.blogsource.com. Rose will be in next week. Enjoy!.
music: James McMurtry, "Memorial Day"


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Welcome to another edition of Silent Movie Sunday. I was digging through the YouTube attic this afternoon and I came across something interesting. It goes all the way back to 1894 and the first kinetograph films, an early movie camera invented by Thomas Edison and William Dickson in 1892. What would you choose to be among the first things ever filmed? Edison and his crew decided on this:
"A series of vaudeville performers became some of the first subjects to appear before the Kinetograph at the Black Maria. These included such well-known acts as the strongman Eugene Sandow, the Spanish dancer Carmencita, and Annabelle Whitford performing her famous Butterfly Dance. Acts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show were filmed, including Annie Oakley and a troop of Native American dancers who performed in the show. Many of the films were expected to appeal to male audiences, and some even featured scantily-clad women. Other masculine activities, such as boxing and cockfights, were also filmed. Dickson and Heise filmed over 75 motion pictures during 1894."I have chosen these three shorts mainly because I find them weird and interesting. All were filmed at the world's first movie studio, Edison's Black Maria.
The Edison Company : Boxing Cats
Did you know that the first motion picture recorded with sound was the following short clip of two men slow dancing to the sound of a violin? The guy playing the music is Dickson himself.
To learn more about the Edison Company, click here. That is all for now, happy 4th of July.


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The following was reposted from Healthcare NOW - eds.
|Dr. Quentin Young
By Benjamin Day
Dr. Quentin Young, one of the most extraordinary leaders in our movement and a founding member of both Physicians for a National Health Program and Healthcare-NOW, died [March 7th, 2016] surrounded by family, at the age of 92.
Dr. Young was a founding member of the Committee to End Racial Discrimination in Chicago Medical Institutions (or CED), which during the 1950s fought for integration of hospitals and awarding staff privileges to black physicians. The CED evolved into the Chicago branch of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), the medical arm of the civil rights movement, about which John Dittmer has written an extraordinary history: The Good Doctors.
Dr. Young was a medical volunteer for the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964, and served as the national chairman of the MCHR from 1967-1968. In addition to their anti-segregation and -discrimination work in the north, MCHR organized medical professionals to provide free healthcare for civil rights activists putting their health and lives on the line at rallies and actions across the South.
In 1968 Quentin was summoned before the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee, which was trying to connect the Medical Committee to the Communist Party. A friend of Dr. Young's has posted his HUAC testimony online - he refused to answer whether he was a communist, and repeated his belief that HUAC's activities were unconstitutional.
Dr. Young served as President of the American Public Health Association in 1998; was the private physician of Barack Obama and Studs Terkel; and cared for Dr. Martin Luther King when he was injured by thrown rocks during a Chicago march. Dr. Young two years ago published an extraordinary autobiography, Everybody In, Nobody Out: Memoirs of a Rebel Without a Pause, and a documentary of Dr. Young's life - The Good Doctor Young - is currently under production. I'd encourage you to read the moving statement by PNHP in memory of Dr. Young.
Dr. Young, like Healthcare-NOW's founder Marilyn Clement, was one of the living bridges who built the single-payer movement out of the institutions and networks created by the civil rights movement.
At Healthcare-NOW, we hope to honor Quentin's memory by redoubling our organizing efforts until everybody is in, and nobody is left out of our healthcare system. I hope you'll join us.
Benjamin Day is Executive Director of Healthcare-NOW!
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Believing in God is not the destination, the point of arrival. Faith is the journey. But first, you must want it.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by RadioKnecht
And why would I want it? Why should I want him? Why?
edit on 5-3-2013 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
You are absolutely correct. I can not (and will not) give you a reason to believe in God, in the same manner as I can not give you reasons to fall in love with someone.
In order to experience them (i.e. God and love), you must first want them. Then life has a way of accomodating itself and things happen. Yeah, it all amounts to an exercise of your will. You either choose to want it, or you don't.
However, this much I will say, the experience of God (as is with love), is at the center of what we may call the "human experience". Endless rivers of ink throughout time have been spent debating this experience. Countless songs, paintings, carvings and sculptures have been made regarding the God issue. My point is that if you close yourself ab initio to the mere possibility of experiencing God, then you are also depriving yourself of one of the biggest experiences that make up for the human adventure in this universe. Very much in the same way that would happen if you closed yourself to the possibility of falling in love with someone, you would also be depriving yourself of one of the greatest experiences that life as we know it has to offer.
I just want to add that God has little to do with religion. I can not stress that enough. God is an experience. You won't find him out there, in the phenomenological world. You won't find him in so called "holy" books. God is inside you.He is part of what Jung would call the numinous. The quest for God will take you to the center of your heart.
I guess all I am saying, is that even if you choose not to believe in him, just don't close yourself to the possibility. As with any other "ism", atheism may become a straightjacket for your mind and will determine how you experience life.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
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So you don't have a reason for me to believe in a god? Something a god could give me that I can't already give myself? Something I need, that I cannot live without?edit on 5-3-2013 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
You have just walked into the idea that
the SUN is God.
Because it is.
You might be onto something there. Not least of which is because that would be logically more dramatic, but also because of how I usually react to that idea as even exhibited in my previous post. Maybe that is due in part to the emotional gut reaction against it I would feel if it were indeed proven true.
YOu are butthurt that God doesn't do things as you see fit. Instead of hating on God just do what many others do and just not believe God exists.


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Alltracel Pharmaceuticals Plc., ("Alltracel", or "the Company"), (AIM:AP.L), the
medical technology company focused on the Woundcare, Oralcare and
Cardiovascular Health markets, today announces its preliminary results for
the year ended 31 December 2006.
- Turnaround in profitability with a first time full year positive
EBITDA of EUR1.2M versus a loss of EUR1.1M in 2005
- Significant growth in gross margin percentage up 4 points to 39%
driven by the commencement of first technology license revenue in the final
- Continued strong oral care trade performance with business wins in
all major markets and advanced discussions on potential M&A activity
- Successful development and commercialisation of patented Nanofibre
technology and securing of first license revenue via Nanopeutics(TM)
- Significant technological and commercial progress on proprietary PAGA
science leading to new market entry in CVH and Cosmeceuticals markets in
Financial Highlights:
- First year of positive EBITDA achieved, operating profit increased
and continued revenue growth with margin improvement:
- 2006 EBITDA of EUR1.2M positive versus EBITDA loss of EUR1.1M in 2005
- 2006 Operating profit of EUR315k versus operating loss of EUR1.7M in
- 2006 GM% of 39% versus 35% in 2005
- 2006 revenue of EUR20.1M versus EUR19.2M in 2005
- 2006 closing cash balance of EUR3.0M
Operating Highlights:
- Significant scientific breakthroughs in nanofibre technology for both
proprietary PAGA and other technologies, the establishment of the
Nanopeutics(TM) subsidiary and securing of first revenues:
- Following successful nanofibre trials and development work with
technology partners Elmarco and the University of Liberec; Nanopeutics(TM)
- a specialist subsidiary dedicated to the commercialisation of
Nanospider(TM) technology for the global woundcare and subsequently
specialist healthcare markets - was established.
- Nanopeutics(TM) consequently agreed a license bearing exclusive
nanotechnology development partnership with a global leader in professional
woundcare. This concept development project is ahead of schedule and the
successful conclusion to the development work is expected to lead to an
exclusive global royalty bearing license and supply agreement for
Nanospider(TM) based technology and specialist products and related
services for the professional sector.
- Commercial negotiations with this global leader have now commenced
and an announcement will be made to the market should these negotiations
successfully conclude.
- Nanopeutics(TM) has also signed an exclusive technology and product
concept development agreement with HemCon Medical Technologies Inc., the
haemorrhage control market leaders in military markets.
- Other partnership negotiations on similar exclusive concept
development agreements are ongoing with existing companies in the global
consumer woundcare and the global blood filtration markets.
- Technological breakthroughs in anti-microbial and healing properties
leading to the 2007 launch of Phytopeutics(TM) Dermal Health Technology for
the personal care cosmeceuticals market:
- Following earlier preclinical trials confirming wound and dermal
healing properties in a number of finalised product delivery systems and a
subsequent range of successful specialist dermal technology tests Alltracel
is developing a specialist dermal healing technology for the cosmeceutical
market. This proprietary technology covers a full range of dermal health
solutions for non traumatised skin; from anti-microbial for younger skin to
collagen expression for older skin and will be marketed under the
Phytopeutics(TM) technology brand name.
- Alltracel has already been in partnership discussions with a number
of specialist skin care and cosmeceutical suppliers and customers
internationally. The Company is currently in late stage negotiations with a
global leader in the specialist personal care market for an exclusive
global technology and business development alliance for Phytopeutics(TM)
which is expected to be formalised this quarter.
- Completed successful CVH combination trials and development of a
highly soluble variant and initiation of alliance discussions with North
American trial partner:
- Successful combination trials were completed with both sterol and
statin bio-actives, as was the successful development of a highly soluble
derivative of Alltracel's patented cardiovascular health benefiting
- Subsequent commercialisation negotiations are now in the final stages
with one of the sterol combination trial partners, a North American based
CVH specialist, for the establishment of a technology and business
development alliance to enter the global nutrition market with a range of
patented CVH functional food and bio-active technologies.
- A separate announcement will be made to the market in due course.
- Continued strong organic growth at Westone, the specialist Oral Care
Tony Richardson, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"2006 has been a watershed year in terms of financial performance,
technology breakthroughs and significant commercial developments. Our 2006
focus was on delivering first time full year profitability through improved
margins and cost controls, developing our proprietary technology to secure
revenue through licensing to large scale global partners in our chosen
markets and driving continued growth in Westone, our specialist oral care
subsidiary. We are pleased to have delivered on these three objectives.
The business reached full year profitability in 2006 for the first
time, in terms of both EDITDA achieving a positive EUR1.2M versus a loss of
EUR1.1M in 2005; as well as in operating profit where the EUR0.3M profit
compared to a loss of EUR1.7M in 2005. This EUR2.0M positive operating
profit swing is a result of both a move to a higher margin license model in
woundcare as well as continued overhead reduction across the business.
Gross margin percentage has grown to 39% for the year versus 35% in 2005
and we will continue to focus on the development of more profitable revenue
streams for our technology.
Our oral care business, Westone, continues to perform well and we have
continued to build on our strong share of the European private label sector
with numerous new business wins from both current and new customers in all
our main markets. We remain strongly committed to this business and are
looking at a number of M&A opportunities in this area.
We had major scientific breakthroughs during 2006 on our proprietary
PAGA technology across all the relevant markets and on a number of
technological platforms including thin film and nanofibre. In particular,
the establishment and immediate performance of our nanofibre specialist
subsidiary Nanopeutics(TM) has been encouraging with our first license
revenue deal secured in professional woundcare and exciting prospects for
significant subsequent revenue flows in professional and in a number of
other woundcare sectors. Securing these type of large scale partnership
deals with global market leaders remains a priority for Nanopeutics(TM) for
In CVH the successful combination trials and development of the soluble
variant of our bio-active has led to advanced commercial negotiations with
a North American based nutritionals company to establish a specialist
alliance to enter the global nutrition market with a range of patented CVH
functional food and bio-active technologies. We are excited by the
potential here and expect to see Alltracel's first revenue flows in the CVH
market in late 2007.
The ongoing technology development work in woundcare, particularly
around the anti-microbial and healing capabilities of m.doc(TM) and its
variants, has produced a major new market opportunity in the growing and
profitable cosmeceutical marketplace. Cosmeceutical efficacy testing and
ongoing discussions with potential suppliers and partners over the past six
months has led to the development of the Phytopeutics(TM) dermal health
technology brand which are now moving to commercialise in 2007. A further
announcement is expected on this move later this quarter. Finally we
strengthened our overall scientific resources and capability through the
appointment of Dr. Pat Fottrell to the Board in May.
Overall it has been a busy year for Alltracel, and we believe the
Company is well positioned with first class patented technologies,
products, partners and people. We have evolved the business model in the
past year to reflect our current stronger proof points on the base
technologies, our highly developed network of research, development and
manufacturing partners as well as our more profitable and collaborative
partnership route to market.
2007 has begun strongly for Alltracel and we expect to continue the
momentum throughout the year through these evolving capabilities as well as
our innovative approach to both science and commercialisation.
We remain confident of continued growth as we continue the transition
to focus on a licence and technology transfer business model rather than
one focused on product revenue alone."
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Alltracel Pharmaceuticals PLC Consolidated Profit & Loss Account Unaudited Audited FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2006 2006 2005 EUR EUR Turnover including share of associate turnover 20,054,717 19,244,673 Share of associate turnover (168,263) 0 Group turnover excluding share of associate turnover 19,886,454 19,244,673 Cost of sales (12,109,070) (12,547,970) Gross profit 7,777,384 6,696,703 Selling & Distribution Costs (2,705,743) (3,827,509) Administrative Expenses (4,756,364) (4,552,546) Operating Profit/ (Loss) - continuing operations 315,277 (1,683,352) Share of Loss in Associate undertaking (12,190) - (Loss) / profit on disposal of financial assets (17) (148,216) Interest receivable 62,034 81,727 Interest payable (485,880) (346,646) (Loss) on ordinary activities before taxation (120,776) (2,096,487) Taxation (519,734) (122,082) Minority Interests (968,072) (751,147) Loss for the financial period attributable to ordinary shareholders (1,608,582) (2,969,716) Loss brought forward at the beginning of period (19,452,487) (16,543,327) Translation 86,551 60,556 Loss carried forward at end of period (20,974,518) (19,452,487) Loss per ordinary share (cent) - basic (1.36) (2.76) Weighted average number of shares used in computing loss per ordinary share - basic 118,017,325 107,444,635 Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses Unaudited Audited FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2006 2006 2005 EUR EUR Loss for the financial period (1,608,582) (2,969,716) Translation differences 86,551 60,556 Total Recognised Gains and Losses for the financial period (1,522,031) (2,909,160) Consolidated Balance Sheet AT 31 DECEMBER 2006 Unaudited Audited 2006 2005 EUR EUR Fixed Assets Intangible assets 5,320,146 5,094,644 Tangible assets 1,094,237 1,044,336 Financial Assets 1,018,302 917,341 7,432,685 7,056,321 Current Assets Stocks 3,949,456 3,836,664 Debtors 5,376,047 5,184,047 Cash at bank and in hand 3,004,437 2,047,679 12,329,940 11,068,390 Creditors (amounts falling due within one year) (6,679,244) (7,118,574) Net Current Assets 5,650,696 3,949,816 Total Assets Less Current Liabilities 13,083,381 11,006,137 Creditors (amounts falling due after more than one year) (2,536,782) (2,418,897) 10,546,599 8,587,240 Financed By Capital and Reserves Called up share capital 1,619,745 1,347,904 Share premium account 28,673,822 25,805,353 Capital conversion reserve fund 6,736 6,736 Other reserve 40,350 32,350 Profit and Loss account - deficit (20,974,518) (19,452,487) Foreign Exchange Reserve 19,533 (15,730) Shareholders' equity - all equity interests 9,385,668 7,724,126 Minority Interest 1,160,931 863,114 10,546,599 8,587,240 Consolidated Cash Flow FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2006 Unaudited Audited 2006 2005 EUR EUR Net Cash Inflow/ (Outflow) From Operating Activities (12,389) (2,206,708) Returns on Investments and Servicing of Finance Interest received 62,034 81,727 Interest paid (485,880) (314,296) Paid to minority interest (716,852) (751,147) (1,140,698) (983,716) Taxation Taxation Paid (102,142) (362,687) Capital Expenditure and Financial Investments Payments to acquire tangible fixed assets (360,985) (534,702) Sale of tangible fixed assets 3,815 39,812 Payments to acquire intangible fixed assets (445,862) (591,903) (803,032) (1,086,793) Acquisations and disposals Purchase of subsidiary undertaking (1,553,216) (4,469,703) Cash acquired with subsidiary 0 2,583,454 Net cash outflow for acquisation (1,553,216) (1,886,249) Cash Outflow Before Management of Liquid Resources and Financing (3,611,477) (6,526,153) Management of Liquid Resources Disposal of current asset investments 0 539,858 Financing Issue of shares 3,343,983 58,034 Share issue expenses (203,673) (770) New secured Loans 2,789,766 4,232,321 Repayment of Loans (1,201,191) (600,895) Capital element of finance lease repaid (160,650) (38,530) 4,568,235 3,650,160 Increase/ (Decrease) in cash 956,758 (2,336,135) 1. Called Up Share Capital Unaudited Audited 2006 2005 EUR EUR Authorised: 50,000,000,000 ordinary shares of EUR0. 625,000,000 625,000,000 125 each Issued: As at 31 December 2005 129,579,598 shares of EUR0.125 each 1,619,745 As at 31 December 2005 107,832,325 shares of EUR0.125 each 1,347,904 2. Share Premium Unaudited Audited 2006 2005 EUR EUR Balance at beginning of period 25,805,353 23,899,356 Premium on shares issued during the period 3,072,142 1,947,801 Share issue expenses (203,673) (41,804) Balance at end of period 28,673,822 25,805,353 3. Reconciliation of Movement in Shareholders' Unaudited Audited Funds 2006 2005 Group EUR EUR Shareholders' funds at beginning of period 7,724,126 8,631,665 Loss for the year (1,608,582) (2,969,716) Transfer to Other reserves 43,263 32,350 Translation 86,551 44,826 Net proceeds from issue of share capita 3,140,310 1,985,001 Shareholders' funds at end of period 9,385,668 7,724,126 4. Reconcilation of operating profit to net cash flow from operating activities Unaudited Audited 2006 2005 EUR EUR Operating Profit / (Loss) 315,277 (1,683,352) Depreciation 498,181 404,369 Amortisation of Intangibles 124,860 127,029 Amortisation of Goodwill 232,921 188,000 Share in Loss of Associate 12,190 - Gain on sale of fixed asset (17) (19,132) Increase in stocks (112,792) (1,216,817) Increase/ (Decrease) in debtors (191,998) 1,254,537 (Decrease)/ Increase in creditors (1,068,105) (1,261,342) Movement in provisions 177,095 - Net cash outflow from operating activities (12,389) (2,206,708) 5. Analysis of Net Funds Non Cash 01/01/2006 Cashflow movement 31/12/2006 Cash 2,047,679 956,758 3,004,437 Total 2,047,679 956,758 0 3,004,437 Bank & third party loans (3,631,426) (1,588,626) (5,220,052) Finance Leases (326,066) 160,649 (317,084) (482,501) (1,909,813) (471,219) (317,084) (2,698,116)
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All the carriers I know drop the speed as you pass 2GB of data. Or you get hit with higher fees.
Some folk new to this are upset about it all. So let's be sure you know about the limits first.
I hope to get help here. I want to be able to tether my laptops to my cell phone. Is Virgin mobile the way to go? I don't have a land line and it would be so cool to be able to be online anywhere I want. I'm just thinking now that if I take my phone with me on the road I would not be able to keep downloading movies at home...any info would be helpful.


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A true tradition from 2720's past!
We are curating a semi regular (possibly weekly) Thursday Night Party showcasing the best local and regional producers and DJs in the dance music community. The night will always be FREE for 21+ and just $5 for 18+.
Our goal here is a night where all of you talented friends and family can come hang and build your community with each other. It will be a night where you can rub elbows and spitball ideas with many of the local artists, as well as show promoters, and production folks.. almost like an industry night for US.. with all the bells and whistles of a big banger show of course!
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Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes classified a second consecutive early exit from the U.S. Open Cup as a disappointment that would stick with his club for the remainder of the season.
This may soften the blow.
Three days after Portland eliminated them from the Open Cup competition, Sporting KC earned a form of payback with a 1-0 victory on the Timbers' home field Friday night.
Lawrence Olum gave the club an early lead with a goal in the 24th minute, and Sporting KC made it stick in its first MLS match in three weeks.
"That's who we are when it comes to fighting and not giving anything away," Vermes said. "We were superb."
It needed to withstand of flurry of action from Portland in the second half. That required an extraordinary defensive effort from a club that has led MLS in goals-against each of the past two seasons — but also one that leaked gaps in a home loss to Portland on Tuesday in the Open Cup.
Vermes was critical of his team following that loss — calling the defense "too easy to play against" — but that was far from problematic Friday.
"I thought from a tactical perspective, we were extremely efficient on the field," Vermes said. "We were picking and choosing our moments on when to counter."
Fittingly, a defensive specialist also provided the offense. Olum supplied the game's only goal before his night was cut short with a groin injury.
Olum, a defensive midfielder, cleanly struck a loose ball toward the far post and past a diving Portland keeper Donovan Ricketts. That finished off a throw-in from Seth Sinovic, who offered his best Matt Besler impersonation by launching the toss into the box, allowing Kevin Ellis to deflect the ball to Olum's right foot.
Olum picked up the second goal of his MLS career, with the first coming in last year's regular-season finale in Philadelphia. Ellis was credited with an assist.
The second half was much less celebratory for Olum. He left the match in the 55th minute with an apparent groin injury, though Vermes said it was a "tweak" rather than a pull. C.J. Sapong entered the match to mark only his second MLS appearance since the end of March.
To make up for the loss of its defensive midfielder, Sporting KC shoved numbers backward, allowing Portland to dominate possession. The Timbers played the majority of the second half on Sporting Kansas City's end of the field, but they couldn't find a prime opportunity to prevent Eric Kronberg from earning his seventh shutout of the season.
Seeking its third straight victory in MLS play, Sporting KC returns home to play host to Chicago on July 6. The match starts at 2 p.m. at Sporting Park.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Lemon Basil Dip
If you have Basil coming out your ears about now - this is the perfect way to use it up! My next door neighbor Jennifer first introduced me to this delicious dip about 6 years ago and it has become one of my favorite dips to serve with cold shrimp, cooked and cooled tortellini, or lightly cooked asparagus. I had not thought about it in a while - when low and behold, my friend Merry (who is just as happy as her name) brought it unexpectedly to a get together. I told her I was going home and putting the recipe on the blog!
1/4 fresh lemon juice (don't forget to "Beat the Lemon")
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 cup mayo
In a blender or food processor, combine all ingredients except mayo. Process until smooth. In a medium bowl, whip mayo until creamy. Stir in herb mixture. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. This dip SCREAMS summer!
12 comments:
- Cathy - wheresmydamnanswer said...
My mouse stopped on this while cruising tastespotting - This looks great and I will try this one for sure.
- August 7, 2008 at 7:38 PM
- Rindy R said...
Cathy - hope you love this refreshing summer dip as much as I do! Thanks for stopping by!
- August 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM
- My Sweet & Saucy said...
What a fun dip for asparagus! I love it!
- August 7, 2008 at 9:52 PM
- Robin Sue said...
This is one of my favorite Rindy dips! It is so delicious!
- August 8, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- Christine said...
Thank you! Because I do have an invasion of Basil in my Garden!
- August 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks - definitely going to try this with calamari!
- March 23, 2009 at 4:34 PM
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- Anonymous said...
This sounds great, I have only one question...1/4 WHAT? cup, tsp, Tbsp, or juice of 1/4 lemon??? Marlbea
- August 21, 2010 at 3:42 AM
- Rindy R said...
Sorry about that! It is 1/4 CUP Lemon Juice.
- August 21, 2010 at 2:21 PM
- Charmagne Smith said...
Ah, just exactly what I was looking for a zesty basil dip that is quite different from pesto - Thankyou
- April 27, 2011 at 3:46 AM
- Sweet.Caroline said...
I just saw my question answered as I was looking for cup or whatever.
- July 25, 2012 at 12:37 AM
- Claire Burke said...
This sounds awesome!!! I am going to have to find something to substitute for the garlic as I am nursing and it makes the baby gassy and pukey!!!
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"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day." ~ Abraham Lincoln
When things in my life fell apart several years ago, I remember desperately clinging to Romans 8:28: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose."
That verse slammed into my brain just as things started to unravel and it stayed there from that point on. Any time I started to panic (and oh, there were many of those moments), it would flash across my brain like a neon sign in Times Square. Any time I felt like I was drowning under the weight of uncertainty, of doubt, of sadness, of frustration, of fear...it was there.
And even though I know, on an intellectual level, that God is working things for my good, I am constantly amazed - particularly lately, but also in retrospect - how God gives me exactly what I need, exactly when I need it.
I don't know why I ever doubt Him on this, but I do. Obviously I do because, if I didn't, I wouldn't be amazed each time He comes through for me. And yet He does. Every. Single. Time. These past few weeks and months have been one giant, constant reminder that He always does. And I'm reveling in how grateful I am. I am doing my best to commit this feeling to memory so that, if I ever doubt again (and I'm sure I will - I'm human), I can recall this feeling right now and reconnect with that faith.
My pastor just wrapped up a 3-week series on the storms in our lives - how we know they're going to come, how to survive them, and finally how to heal from them. He used 2Cor4:6-10 as the key scripture:
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
He talked about how the storms in life move on, but often leave us devastated and in the dark; how restarting our hearts is essential; that on our healing journey getting up and and heading toward wholeness is the goal; that we all need to step out of darkness and into the light of God's grace.
He also pointed out that healing = wholeness but none of that equals a cure, per se. God doesn't always cure us, but He definitely makes us whole. Being cured usually means that things have basically been restored to their former state of 'normal'. You and I both know that, when bad (or good) things happen, you never go back to the way it used to be. It's not possible. And, really, it's not desirable. You've changed. You've learned (hopefully).
There is no going back.
I have no desire to go back. Oh, sure, there are parts of my life that I miss - people that I miss. There was an innocence that I miss. But now that I am on the other side of it and I'm working toward whatever it is that God is going to have me do next, things are so much richer. I've shed so much of the chaff of my life. So much has been winnowed away and I'm finding that I'm left with the things that truly matter to me: my family, my close circle of friends, my faith, and this burning desire to live out God's top two commandments:
1. Love the Lord, your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind
2. Love your neighbor as yourself
There is a richness to my life now that was never there before. Not that my life was bland - not by any stretch. But my perspective is different.
I am different. My life is different. And I am grateful for that.
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With the changing season, your Everyday Carry (EDC) gear should change, as well. An EDC setup needs to change with the changing environment, to prepare you for the jobs and difficulties that you may face that day.
One would do well to think about how winter differs than summer. Well, obviously, there's a weather phenomena called snow which seems to coincidentally appear when the weather gets cold. Snow increase the chance of car accidents or even getting your car stuck.
Winter also brings with it longer nights, which should also slightly alter your EDC setup.
Here are some of the pieces of gear that I would emphasize during the winter months:
Hat, Gloves & Warm Outerwear
|This skier may look like a marshmallow,
but I bet that he's pretty warm right now.
"But it's only a short walk from my car to my office."
You don't know what you'll be expecting. The way that I think of it, you should be prepared to stay outside comfortably for a length of time in any weather situation that you may find yourself in. That means, if it's raining, you have a rain jacket and appropriate shoes. If it's cold out, you wear warm clothes, and at least have a hat and gloves handy. You never know what may happen to you throughout the day, but at least you won't have to fight the cold.
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A good knife is a staple part of an EDC setup. In fact, I think that carrying a knife distinguishes people who leave the house with a preparedness mentality versus those who just grab a few things on the way out the door, often not having the tools necessary for even the smallest of unexpected tasks.
With the winter months and the addition of clothes layers, namely winter gloves, your knife selection may also need to change. In the winter, you may want to consider carrying a knife that you can use with gloves on. That may mean carrying a fixed blade or a larger folding knife. It's just something to consider.
Cell Phone
Nowadays, nearly everyone carries a cell phone, but just in case you don't, having one to call for help is very important. Winter carries a higher risk of accidents, since the weather is less hospitable, meaning that you can't stay out in it indefinitely. Communication is essential to surviving an emergency. A cell phone will almost always allow you to call for help should you need it.
Automobile Accessories
With snow, comes poor driving conditions. There are some basic items that you should have in the trunk of your car just in case something unexpected were to happen.
Wool Blanket
A wool blanket should be in your trunk no matter what the season. It takes up very little room and can be very useful if for some reason you need to stay warm or keep someone else warm. It can also be used to lay down on or as a carrier for other items by wrapping them up in the blanket. It can even be used as an improvised shelter, just to name a few jobs. If for some reason you were stuck out in the cold, you won't regret having one.
First Aid Kit
|Even a fairly basic First-Aid Kit, such as the First Aid 2.0,
can be very beneficial in an emergency.
Jumper Cables
Cold weather can be very tough on car batteries. If your car battery is weak, it's very likely that it will die during the cold winter months. This actually happened to me earlier this winter. Thankfully, I was trying to leave my driveway when it happened, so I wasn't stranded anywhere. A good set of jumper cables will be invaluable if and/or when your car battery ever dies.
Road Flares
Road flares are a great signaling device should you ever become stranded on the side of the road. It's actually a very common sight during the winter months. A good set of road flares will signal to other drivers that you need help, especially during times when visibility is poor due to snowfall or fog.
Small Snowshovel
Like I said earlier, cold weather brings with it snow. Snow can be very difficult to drive through, especially if your car does not have 4-wheel drive. A good but compact snow shovel kept in your trunk will help get you un-stuck should you ever try to drive through snow that's just a bit too deep for your car to traverse.
Those are just a few items that I recommend carrying with you or having in your trunk during the winter months. There are many more items that would be helpful as well, but these are some of the more basic.
Let me know what you think, along with any ideas that you may have for other items in the comments below.


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The taunt was a reworking of a line David Cameron had used on, then prime minister, Tony Blair in the Commons in 2005.
At the time he delighted Tory MPs by accusing Mr Blair of being "stuck in the past" and suggesting that New Labour was running out of steam.
"I want to talk about the future," he told the Prime Minister, adding: "He was the future once."
Mr Miliband threw the comment back at him at a heated Prime Minister's Questions but faltered when he tried it first, then stumbled into his second attempt, apparently put off by heckling from Conservative MPs.


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May 28, 2007
WhereCamp reminder at Where 2.0
Anselm Hook Meadan took the stage at Where to remind us about WhereCamp - an unconference format gathering of geo-enthusiasts, web 2.0 and mobile developers, social place hackers, artists, grad students, geographers, earth scientists and anybody else who wants to 'know their place'. WhereCamp is June 2/3 at the Yahoo Campus - see the website at http://wherecamp.org for details. Why wherecamp? Because location is important! Think of it as a post where20 camp, hacking code, hanging out, late night conversations, playing geo games, ect… think IRC in the real world.
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Isobutyl chloride is an organic compound. It consists of a butane molecule arranged in a three carbon chain with a single chlorine ion attached to one of the corners.Continue Reading
Isobutyl chloride has four carbon atoms, nine hydrogen ions and a single chlorine atom replacing a hydrogen atom in the base butane structure. It is also known as 1-chloro-2-methylpropane. It is a clear, colorless liquid at room temperature, as the melting point is -203 degrees Fahrenheit. It is very flammable and even explosive. It is also highly reactive with powdered metal and strong oxidants. When it burns, it produces toxic gases, including hydrogen chloride.Learn more about Chemistry


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Save a Stunning, Brutal World in Hob - August 29, 2017
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After two years in development, the action adventure Hob has been released. Presented without dialog, the game's narrative unfolds through exploration. Investigate ruins, befriend sprites and battle rogue creatures. Solve puzzles to repair a world in stress.
As a bonus, Kristina Ness of Runic Games has created a comic that serves as a short prelude to the main story. View it here, or download it for printing here.
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Hotel Santa Fe Los Cabos by The Villa Group is located in the city downtown of Cabo San Lucas, near of the Marina and of the Medano Beach, known as one of the city's best beaches. Hotel Santa Fe is just 45 minutes from the International Airport of San Jose del Cabo and 15 minutes from the International Airport of Cabo San Lucas.
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All our services will make your stay as pleasant and memorable, knows each of the activities that has this beautiful destination, our staff will gladly assist you.


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Welcome to the Carver Lake Veterinary Center tour. Click any image on the left to tour our facility.
Carver Lake Veterinary Center is set in a beautiful section of Woodbury. Because we are located next to 4 acres of federally protected wetland, visitors will often see deer, wild birds, geese, and other wildlife while at our clinic. During the summer, visitors can often watch agility classes in our ring.
Built in 1996 as a free-standing veterinary center, our state-of-the-art facility offers a variety of services for you and your companion animals.
A clean and welcoming atmosphere is what you will encounter when you first enter our building. Our friendly staff is always ready to help you with whatever you may need.
With our four exam rooms, varying in size and counter height, we have the ability to create a comfortable visit for animals and families of all sizes.
Our large treatment area is where we treat patients, perform lab tests, and monitor hospitalized pets.
Dental health is a very important part of a happy pet. This is why we dedicated an entire section of our clinic to helping you keep your pets' teeth and gums healthy. We provide dental cleaning, extractions, and x-rays.
Carver Lake offers a variety of surgical services for your pet. Our surgical team utilizes state of the art technologies to make sure that your pet receives the safest anesthesia and surgical care.
Sometimes the human eye cannot detect what is going on inside a patient. We utilize x-ray technologies to help us determine what your pet may need. We schedule regular consultations with veterinary radiology specialists to provide you with further information.