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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Mother Nature Calls
If you are a little squeamish over the term "cow poop" or get excitedly upset at the declasse and somewhat gauche discussion about bodily functions in polite conversation…stop now. This is a story about peeing on the farm. Yes, I … Continue reading
Why Aren't I Posting Every Day?
I'm sorry there has been a little lapse in my posts, but things have gotten very busy here. I'm in the process of doing final revisions of my Masters thesis in order to defend it in August and the garden is in … Continue reading
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Going to the Dogs
I woke up after daylight feeling better and have been able to drink some coffee and keep it down. I'm even feeling a little hungry, but afraid to try anything right now. Thank you to those who wrote wishing me … Continue reading
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Why Am I Jealous of Cows?
It was hot here yesterday. Miserably hot. While the thermometer only measured in the lower 90s, the humidity gave us a heat index of 112F. Just walking out to the garage and back into the house made you sweat. Even the … Continue reading
Want to Make More Than a Banker? Become a Farmer
I found this story today on a CNN.com link quite amusing. If you have read much of my blog, you understand why. The story is entitled, "Want to make more than a banker? Become a farmer." The writer is completely … Continue reading
In Pursuit of Time
Mike, Caddyshack, and Caddyson (who has asked for a new nickname on the blog, Blondie….uhm, no. I would, however, consider Dagwood) worked over the weekend before the latter two returned to the city. They harvested mushrooms and took them to the … Continue reading
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I Have the Power!
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This is my brain on clutter. <g>
Admission time. I've been under too much self-inflicted pressure. Actually, for a couple of weeks now. This weekend, I was reminded that a break is a necessary part of the process. I know this. Know how important it is to stop and take a breather–but sometimes, it takes outside reminders. Damn, I'm hard-headed.
Ever reach the point where you've forced it enough and the words just stop?
It was like I was racing forward, forward, forward and slammed head on into a huge stone wall. By Friday, I was dizzy and dazed from the impact and could not get my brain to function. Yet, I sat there in front of my laptop– frustrated, anxious and upset. (I'd like to thank both Rachel Vincent and Terri Schaefer for their timely phone calls–as always, my support system rocks.)
And my husband. Man, I'm nuts about this man. He recognized the signs and took me out of the house and away from my computer Saturday. We had to work part of the day-which is why I missed yet another OKRWA meeting–but we also took a little bit of time for ourselves. We've been under a lot of stress lately, so the break was good.
And then yesterday, I cleaned my office. I'm not the type who can sit in utter chaos and function and my office had become the catch-all for the entire house.
You see, that big, stone wall comes from lots of things, but mainly it's there to remind you that it's important to enjoy life once in a while. That you need to stop, go through the piles of mail, clean your house, play with your kids. Things get behind. I forgot all about a niece's birthday party–made it at the last minute, thank goodness. Basically, I'd let everything build up into one massive brain cluster f**k. LOL!
Dummy me didn't get that it was time to stop, take a deep, cleansing breath and catch up. Thankfully, I have loved ones who came forward to conk me on the head and now, I'm all caught up and ready to go again.
This business is about staying on pace, taking the hurdles as they come–but sometimes, you stumble. Best thing to do is pick yourself up, slow down for a little while, then face those next hurdles well rested and uncluttered. 😉

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We don't know yet whether Sen. John McCain's choice of Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin will jump start the Republican Party's sagging fortunes, but the choice and the resulting hubbub among the chattering class, in any case, suggests a classic Greek reversal of fortune.
Before Palin, Democrat ladies were licking their sores at Sen. Barack Obama's impertinent refusal to bring into his administration as Vice President Sen. Hillary Clinton, credited with putting 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling that has prevented women from rising from the kitchen to the steamy and hot political kitchen. It was feared that former President Bill Clinton might tag along and disturb Obama's so far placid universe.
(It was not necessary to read between the lines of Bill Curry's dispatches from the Democrat Party convention to understand that the enormously talented politician and columnist, once an advisor to president and co-president Clinton, quite obviously preferred Hillary as VP. And after Bill got a few drinks into him at the convention, he no doubt imagined such was possible. Before he left to write and think and dream and drink, we made a little side bet on the Democrat and Republican Veep choices. Bill thought McCain might choose Sen. Joe Lieberman as his Tonto. I said clearly, in the presence of his lovely sister Kathleen, that Palin might make a good choice for the Repubs, while Joe Biden would be best for the Democrats. This produced a scowl from Bill and a dollar bet – the exact terms of which now escape me. In any case, my predictions were sounder than his, and it will be very hard for him not to surrender that dollar to me. I just wanted to get all this on the record to avoid any needless litigation.)
(To continue)... after Palin it seems at least within the realm of possibility that the cracked glass ceiling may be dealt a fatal blow by a Republican Vice President, though I would not bet a dollar on it.
Before Palin, the choices for Republican VP were ordinary, if not bleek. To be sure, all the choices bruited about for so long were okay, but there was no crackling of electricity in the air – nothing to match Obama's star status. The Democrat mega-star had just put on a performance, with fireworks, in a standing-room-only football stadium that dwarfed the Roman coliseum. It was a show worthy of Caliguila, minus the gladiatorial contests and the lions chewing up the Christians.
After Palin, there is a buzz, an excitement. Who, in middle America, could help being excited by an ex-model (she's prettier than Barack) who was a basket ball star, a gun enthusiast (she rose at 4AM to hunt moose with her dad), a mayor of a wild-west Alaskan city, a wife of union worker, part Eskimo, who now is a stay at home dad, a mother of five, one of whom is a son newly deployed to Iraq, and a governor of Alaska?
There are some perfectionists who insist that Alaska is corrupt, to which Republicans have responded, "Chicago, Chicago, it's a Hell of a town…"; it was in that conch shell of corruption that Obama's political fortunes were born. And they also point out that the Moose hunter incurred the wrath of the political machine in Alaska by being to Mavericky… like John whatshisname.
It's gonna be fun
And Bill, don't forget – you owe me a dollar.


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The films were decent ones.
The food was very good.
The stewardesses were very nice and kind; the service was top class.
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WASHINGTON — Oil began flowing Wednesday through the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, as a massive environmental battle continues over whether President Barack Obama should approve the northern portion to tap Canadian oil sands.
WASHINGTON — Oil began flowing Wednesday through the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, as a massive environmental battle continues over whether President Barack Obama should approve the northern portion to tap Canadian oil sands.
The southern part of the pipeline runs 487 miles from Cushing, Okla., to refineries in Texas. Keystone developer TransCanada hopes to soon get permission to start building the northern leg and bring controversial Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast.
The planned 1,179-mile northern leg gets most of the attention because the Canadian oil sands result in more planet-warming gases than conventional oil. But Keystone opponents in Texas have been fighting the southern section for years.
"The pipeline starting does nothing more than fuel my anger," said Julia Trigg Crawford, who fought unsuccessfully in court to prevent TransCanada from using eminent domain to run the Keystone pipeline under her land near Paris in northeast Texas.
TransCanada said the southern leg can ship up to 830,000 barrels a day and help relieve the bottleneck of crude in Cushing, the Oklahoma town that is the world's largest oil storage hub. The pipeline runs from there to Nederland, Texas, with a planned spur to refineries around Houston.
"This is a very important milestone for TransCanada, our shippers and Gulf Coast refiners who have been waiting for a pipeline to supply oil directly from Cushing," TransCanada's chief executive, Russ Girling, told reporters Wednesday in a conference call.
Pipeline opponents in Texas pledged Wednesday to document all spills, leaks and disturbances along the route. They said the pipeline's ultimately planned cargo of Canadian oil sands crude would be difficult to clean up if it's spilled into Texas rivers and streams, as bitumen in such oil sinks in water rather than floating like conventional crude.
TransCanada's need to repair the pipeline before it started pumping oil fueled the opposition. So did letters the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration sent TransCanada in September warning of dents in the pipeline and complaining the company did not use qualified welders.
The federal agency gave the pipeline its approval, though, and TransCanada's executives said Wednesday that the spill protections are state of the art.
"This is the safest oil pipeline that has been built in America to date," Girling said.
TransCanada continues to anxiously await the fate of the proposed northern leg of Keystone. That section of the pipeline requires approval from the State Department because it crosses the U.S. international border with Canada.
A preliminary State Department report downplayed the environmental impact of the pipeline, boosting the hopes of TransCanada, which said Wednesday that it expects a final analysis from the agency within weeks. Obama suggested in June, though, that he will block the pipeline if he concludes it would worsen global warming.


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By Jose Antonio Rodriguez
"The Tea Party acted like terrorists in threatening to blow up the economy," said Vice President Joe Biden, according to Politico, during a two-hour meeting with angry House Democrats. In a CBS interview, the Vice President denied using the "terrorism word". Kendra Barkoff, Biden's spokesperson, added further clarification: "The word was used by several members of Congress. The vice president does not believe it's an appropriate term in political discourse." The closed-door caucus meeting took place amidst the scramble to pass a deal to raise the debt limit before the August 2nd deadline, a deal that some Democrats called a "Satan sandwich".
The perpetually thin-skinned Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska and John McCain's Vice Presidential running mate during the 2008 election, immediately took offense to the comment. "To be called a terrorist because of our beliefs from the vice president, it's quite appalling, it's quite vile," she said during a Fox News interview. Of course, she herself is quite famous for casually throwing around the "terrorism word". During the 2008 election, Palin famously accused then-Senator Barack Obama of "pallin' around" with terrorists, a reference to the fact that Obama sat onChicagoeducation boards with a former member of the Weather Underground named Bill Ayers. Indeed, Palin resurrected those allegations, saying, "He didn't have a problem palling around with Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers' apartment… You know, shaking hands with Chavez and saying he doesn't need any preconditions with dictators… wanting to read U.S. Miranda rights to alleged, suspected foreign terrorists." She added that, if she and her ilk were actually terrorists, "heck, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?"
It should be added that Paul O'Neil, a Treasury Secretary for President George W. Bush, made remarks similar to the ones that House Democrats made during the meeting with Vice President Biden: "[The] people who are threatening not to pass the debt ceiling are our version of al Qaeda terrorists. Really — they're really putting our whole society at risk by threatening to round up 50 percent of the members of the Congress, who are loony, who would put our credit at risk."
But how far off the mark are Paul O'Neil and the angry Democrats? Not that far.
The U.S. Department of Defense defines terrorism as: "The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological." The TEA Party backed freshmen in the House, elected in 2010, have threatened to shut down the government and throw it into default. More recently, they have shut down the Federal Aviation Agency, resulting in the furlough of 74,000 people, the halting of about 200 construction jobs, and causing the federal government to lose out on roughly $30 million a day in revenue. In every instance, these TEA Party backed members of the House have held the American people hostage, threatening to inflict economic violence if their narrow political, ideological demands are not met. Their efforts have supporters in conservative corners and from the Facebook page of the former Mayor of Wasilla. "Don't retreat," Sarah Palin routinely reminds her supporters. "Reload." Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, had this to say about the tactics of the House Republicans: "If you hold one-half of one-third of the reins of power in Washington, and are willing to use and maintain that kind of discipline even if you will bring the entire temple down around your own head, there is a pretty good chance that you are going to get your way."
This is not the first time our government has been threatened by right-wing zealots, however.
In the elections of 1994, Republicans took control of the House and Senate. Led by Newt Gingrich and motivated by his "Contract with America"—or, as Democrats termed it, the Contract on America—right-wing ideologues in Congress sought to reshape the government by gutting programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, the Environmental Protection Agency, and programs for the poor, such as Head Start, food stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit. The Contract withAmerica also outlined an ambitious agenda, which included legislation for a balanced budget amendment and term limits. Gingrich, the new Speaker of the House, even threatened to not raise the debt ceiling. These right-wing freshmen were operating on two assumptions: (1) that the American people had provided them with an historic mandate to carry out their agenda and (2) that President Bill Clinton would cave in to their demands. After all, the American people just overwhelmingly swept the Republicans into power for the first time in over forty years. On the second point, they believed that President Clinton was politically weakened by scandals, which were manufactured by ultra-conservative Clinton-haters and fueled by a pliant media; they also believed that he was without convictions of any kind and lacked moral fortitude. By the end of 1995, they would be proved wrong on both fronts.
On the night of November 13, 1995, hours away from an impending government shut down, Republican leaders of Congress met with President Clinton in order to craft a last minute budget deal. Just a few days earlier, the Republican controlled Congress sent the President a budget that inflicted draconian cuts to entitlements and programs that millions of Americans depended upon. They also sent him a bill to raise the debt ceiling for another thirty days. The President, much to the surprise of the Republican leadership, vetoed both bills. During the tense, last minute negotiations in the White House, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Speaker Gingrich made conciliatory statements, while the zealous Dick Armey (now the leader of the TEA Party group Freedomworks) verbally attacked the President. Armey accused the President of fear-mongering, saying that he "could hardly get" his mother-in-law "into a nursing home, you guys have scared her so much." President Clinton, who still nursed resentment over Armey's claim that Hillary Clinton was a Marxist, lashed out at Armey: "I don't know about your mother-in-law, but let me tell you, there are a lot of older women who are going to do pretty darn bad under your budget." The President was feeling his blood boil. "So don't expect any pity from me." Armey, in a moment of petulance, retorted that the Republicans would shut down the government and effectively endClinton's presidency. "If you want to pass your budget," the President said with a glance to Bob Dole, who was planning to run for the presidency in 1996, "you will have to put somebody else in this chair!" As if to signal that the meeting was now over, the President declared that he didn't "care if I go to five percent in the polls. I am not going to sign your budget. It is wrong. It is wrong for the country."
At midnight, the government shut down began. Nearly 800,000 federal employees were furloughed and the lives of millions of Americans were inconvenienced. In order to prevent default, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin borrowed $61 billion from retirement funds and employed some financial gimmicks, a move that elicited cries for his impeachment from Republicans who preferred that the country be thrown into default. Briefly, the government shut down ended, and it appeared that there would be a budget deal. But the Republican lead Congress continued to send the President bills that unnecessarily inflicted economic pain on the most vulnerable Americans. So, it was not to be, and the government was shut down for a second time. The American people were angry. The poll numbers for Republicans (and Gingrich in particular) plummeted, while the President's poll numbers skyrocketed. In some polls, his numbers were almost 70% among likely voters over the age of 50. The American people rejected the extremism of the right-wing ideologues and supported President Clinton's defense of programs that helped millions of Americans keep their heads above water. They rewarded him for not caving in to the demands of over-zealous Republicans, who were holding the American people and the economy hostage. In early January 1996, a contrite Gingrich apologized toClinton, saying, "We made a mistake. We thought you would cave." On January 6, the government was back in business.
It is difficult not to look back over the last year and see that President Obama has, time and time again, been rolled by House Republicans, lead by Speaker of the House John Boehner. He has caved in to the demands of the TEA-orists, who have threatened to wreak economic violence if their demands are not met. In the wake of the recent debt limit deal, Speaker Boehner has boasted that he got 98% of what he wanted. Emboldened, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hinted that his party would continue the tactics that have allowed them to cut spending and risk government default. "I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn't think that. What we did learn is this— it's a hostage that's worth ransoming." The deal allows the debt ceiling to be raised until early 2013, but it cuts nearly a trillion dollars in discretionary spending over the next ten years and creates a bipartisan committee, which will be tasked with cutting an additional 1.5 trillion dollars. The TEA Partiers have thrown sanity into the wind. Though they brought the nation to the brink of economic devastation, many refused to vote for the deal that provided them with virtually everything they wanted and virtually nothing that the President wanted. These are people who will not take yes for an answer.
Not everyone is thrilled about the deal. Obviously, Democrats are enraged. Some progressive groups, such as MoveOn.org and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, are threatening to withhold support for the President's 2012 campaign. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist, has described the debt deal as an economic "disaster", warning that it will make our deficit problem worse and "takeAmericaa long way down the road to banana-republic status." Lawrence Summers, a former economic advisor to President Obama, said that there is a "one in three chance" that there will be a double-dip recession. Standard & Poor, a major credit rating agency, has also responded to the debt deal by downgradingAmerica's top credit rating. In a statement following the downgrade, S&P cited a dysfunctional political system and a failure to produce a credible, balanced plan. "The majority of Republicans in Congress," a representative from S&P said, "continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act." The American people, according to recent polls, also strongly dislike the deal. According to a CNN poll, 52% of Americans disapprove of the debt deal. The poll also found that three out of four Americans would describe elected officials as "spoiled children". A New York Times/CBS News poll, for example, has Congress's approval rating at a dismal 14%. Speaker Boehner's disapproval rating is at 57%, ten points higher than the President's. Public approval of the TEA Party is at a mere 20%. There are signs of hope for the White House in the polls, however. According to the latter poll, the American people trust President Obama over the Republicans with economic issues. They also blame Republicans for the crisis, believing that they refused to compromise. Despite all the drama, President Obama still stands with a 48% approval rating.
At some point, President Obama is going to have to take a stand and draw a line in the sand. During the debt ceiling negotiations, he warned Rep. Eric Cantor: "Don't call my bluff." Yet, when they called his bluff, President Obama caved. In 1995, President Clinton demonstrated that he had conviction and moral fortitude. He held firm, risking his political career, and refused to be rolled by the right-wing zealots who were trying to gut government programs and remake the country in their image. When the dust settled, President Clinton not only succeeded in his 1996 election, but his fiscal discipline resulted in a balanced budget and a projected surplus in the trillions of dollars. Today, President Obama faces an equally fanatical and nihilistic group of TEA Party backed Republican freshmen who are willing to blow up the economy. Unfortunately, the TEA-orists have learned that they can get their way if they take hostages. This is a fundamental fight for the future of our country. President Obama needs to decide if he has the conviction to risk his poll numbers and his Presidency in order to preserve our way of life and win the future.
By Jose Rodriguez
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, out of 11 potential options for Congress, rated unemployment extension as the most likely to stimulate the economy. The least likely: extending the Bush tax cuts, especially for the wealthy. Furthermore, the CBO estimates that every dollar spent on unemployment benefits will generate up to $1.90 in economic activity. Others, such as the Labor Department, argue that there is $2.00 worth of economic activity for every spent dollar. It is a basic fact that people who are unemployed spend every dollar in unemployment insurance that they receive, which fuels economic activity. Conversely, tax cuts for the rich tend to only generate somewhere between 10 and 40 cents of economic activity for every dollar, because the rich tend to save their money, not spend it.
Not extending unemployment benefits would have a deleterious impact on the already slow pace of economic recovery. With current low demand and excess supply, failure to extend unemployment benefits would further contract the economy and make it even more difficult for employers to hire new workers. The CBO estimates that the economy could see a 1% decline in GDP growth and up to one million additional people could lose their jobs. It goes without saying that we would have hundreds of thousands of people fall into poverty. A recent report by the Census Bureau found that over one out of three people cannot "make ends meet" at a basic level. Not extending unemployment insurance to Americans suffering from unemployment during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression would be a moral outrage.
The suggestion, posited by many conservatives, that people are simply too lazy to get a job would be laughable were it not so incredibly offensive. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report last August that indicated that there were five job seekers for every job listing. More specifically, there were 14.6 million people who were unemployed, but only 2.9 million job openings. Those numbers have shifted somewhat in recent months, but the ratio is constant. The misconception that the unemployed are simply lazy reflects a world view that suggests Americans are spoiled and feel entitled. The reality, in this economic crisis, is that Americans are struggling to keep their heads above water. They are struggling to survive. So, the notion that cutting off aid to lazy, spoiled Americans will get them back to work is completely false. Americans want to work, but there are simply not enough jobs.
The American economy is a consumer driven economy. And right now, Americans do not have the money to consume as much as they used to, which has driven demand downward. Now, corporations are sitting on $1.8 trillion. They claim that they have not invested that money for two reasons: there are excess supplies of goods, so there is no need to invest; and their confidence in the economic outlook is keeping them from making any risks in future investments. Others, such as myself, believe that there is a political dynamic, as well. Corporate America has not been happy with the Obama administration's attempts to regulate the economy, or his desire to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Under President Bush, regulations were ignored, regulators were in bed (in some cases literally) with the people they were supposed to be monitoring, and corporations could count on President Bush to side with them. Fareed Zakaria, in a Washington Post column, made this case, as well. In discussions with business leaders, he found that most of them complained more about President Obama than their economic or financial concerns. He found that most of them felt similarly: "… [President Obama] has almost no private-sector experience, that he's made clear he thinks government and nonprofit work are superior to the private sector. It all added up to a profound sense of distrust."
It is an agreed fact that during periods of economic booms generous unemployment benefits reduce the incentives for people to find employment. However, we are not currently in a period of economic success. We are crawling out of the bowels of an economic crash. In 2003, in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Alan Greenspan made comments about unemployment benefits which can be applied to today's debate about the issue: "Unemployment insurance is essentially restrictive because it's been our perception that we don't want to create incentives for people not to take jobs. But when you're in a period of job weakness, where it is not a choice on the part of people whether they're employed or unemployed, then obviously you want to be temporarily generous. We ought to be temporarily generous. And I think that's what we have done in the past and it has worked well. […]I think that because it is stringent in normal periods, that one should recognize that people who lose jobs not because they did anything and can't find new ones, you have a different form of problem, which means that you have to allow the unemployment system to be much broader and, indeed, that's what we need to do." People who now find themselves unemployed through no fault of their own should not be left out to dry. Not only is it morally indefensible, it is economically unsound.
By Jose Rodriguez
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and scum-bag who asked his ex-wife for a divorce while she was in a hospital undergoing cancer treatment, is hoping to run for president in 2012.
Asked by the Richmond Times-Dispatch about a possible run in 2012, Gingrich replied, "Callista and I will look seriously and we'll probably get our family totally engaged, including our two grandchildren, probably in January, 2011." While he mulls over a presidential bid with his… what? Third wife?… Newt might want to check out the polls. According to a November Quinnipiac poll, he is polling at 15%, which places him behind Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee.
Meanwhile, Newt might need to see a doctor, because he is suffering from a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease.
During the controversy over the so-called Ground Zero mosque, Newt compared the construction of a mosque several minutes and blocks from Ground Zero to the construction of a Nazi sign outside of the Holocaust museum: "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington… there is no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."
Before that regrettable (to decent people) comment, Gingrich described Sonia Sotomayor (President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court) as a racist. He even recommended that President Obama withdraw her name from nomination. The accusation came from a mischaracterization of a speech she gave, during which she used the words "wise Latina woman." Though he later apologized for using that term, he nevertheless continued to believe the sentiment: "My initial reaction was strong and direct — perhaps too strong and too direct. … Since then, some who want to have an open and honest consideration of Judge Sotomayor's fitness to serve on the nation's highest court have been critical of my word choice. … The word 'racist' should not have been applied to Judge Sotomayor as a person, even if her words themselves are unacceptable."
More recently, Newt bought into a ludicrous article by Dinesh D'Souza, which suggested that President Obama is heavily influenced by his father's "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview (since when was being anti-colonial a bad thing?). He went on to say, "This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president." According to David Frum, a former Bush aide and speechwriter, Newt's comments were an example of race-baiting, as well as an attempt to trump his extremist credentials for the radical right-wingers in the TEA Party: "When last was there such a brazen outburst of race-baiting in the service of partisan politics at the national level? George Wallace took more care to sound race-neutral."
It is not surprising then to hear that Newt blames our economic woes on the lazy unemployed. At a South Carolina event, attended by 250 Republican activists, Newt said, "I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing." What is even sadder is the fact that the audience cheered loudly. In his view, the nation wasted $134 billion dollars on people who "do nothing for 99 weeks" and "got nothing for it."
Yup. That's Newt.
So, let's evaluate his assertion that we "got nothing" for extending unemployment benefits for people out of work.
Let's first dispel the notion that the unemployed are lazy people who could easily find a job in no time. According to data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is roughly one job for every five unemployed people. There are simply not enough jobs and there are simply too many people looking for work. It is shameful and immoral for anyone to suggest that the unemployed are simply lazy.
Secondly, let's look at the claim that we "got nothing" for our $134 billion extension of unemployment benefits. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, every dollar spent on unemployment insurance generates up to $1.90 in economic growth. From a list of 11 options for stimulating the economy, extending unemployment benefits was at number one. Last? Extending the Bush tax cuts, which, according to CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, "would worsen the fiscal outlook" of our economy.
All I can say is this: Good luck, Newt. If comments like the ones you have made over the last year will characterize your presidential campaign, then I will enjoy watching you battle Sarah Palin for the Republican nomination.
It'll be fun to watch. And, for President Barack Obama, it will be a cake walk to re-election.
The Republicans in Congress have proven that they hate the poor and middle class, but really love the rich. Recently, they allowed unemployment benefits for 2 million people to expire. They have also blocked several attempts by Democrats to continue the Bush tax cuts for the bottom 98% of Americans. Talk about class warfare.
Yet President Obama has not done very much to exploit this. He has, instead, proclaimed that he will work with these people, even though they have bashed him repeatedly. Some Republicans, like Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the third-ranking House Republican, have said that President Obama and the Democrats do not want anyone to get a tax cut, which is a total lie. Pence stated: "Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one." While it is true all tax brackets will see a tax increase on January 1, 2011, it will not be because of the Democrats. President Obama has made it clear that he wants to see these tax cuts extended for those families making less than $250,000. He has even indicated that he is willing to make a deal with GOP leaders. The Democrats in Congress have attempted several times to extend the Bush tax cuts for the bottom 98% of Americans, but Republicans like Pence have blocked those pieces of legislation.
Why? Because they exclude the rich. The top 2% of income earners do not need unemployment, so why pass an extension? The top 2% need a tax cut, so why exclude them? This debate only underscores their affinity for the wealthy. They try to cover this by claiming that they are fighting for small business owners. They argue, with no one in the White House really disputing them, that they are trying to stand up for those who are in need of a job, so they cannot fathom a tax hike on the job creators. All of this is a load of crap.
First of all, only 3% of small business owners would be affected by the so-called "tax hike." Most small business owners do not make $250,000 in profit.
Secondly, the Republicans just blocked the passage of tax cuts for 98% of Americans, just so the top 2% can have $100,000 tax cuts. They are doing this at the same time they are saying that we cannot afford an extension of unemployment benefits and demanding that we start lowering the deficit. It's hypocrisy and blatant favoritism of the rich. A recent CBO study found that for every dollar spent through unemployment benefits there is as much as $1.90 put into the economy. A dollar spent by the rich from the tax cuts generates somewhere between 10 and forty cents . In fact, the CBO found that extending unemployment benefits would be the best stimulus for our economy, while extending the Bush tax cuts was dead last.
Thirdly, as for it being a "tax hike," these were tax cuts that were set by President Bush and the Republicans to expire at the end of 2010. These were not implemented as permanent rates, but a temporary tax gimmick to gin up support. Dan Bartlet, a former Bush White House Communications Director, admitted that they deliberately used the tax cut deadline as a trap for future political leaders: "The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tell you the truth."
And lastly, it is a falsehood to suggest that not extending the tax cuts for the rich would have an impact on jobs. When President Bush first introduced the tax cuts, he argued that it would create jobs. Over his eight year term, the economy only added 2.4 million jobs. In Clinton's first budget, he increased taxes for the rich. By the end of his eight year term, the economy added over 23 million jobs . This is a fact: job creators are motivated by demand. That's economics 101. As it stands now, the business sector is sitting on 2 trillion dollars, which they are not spending. Why? Because they have excess supply. People do not have the money to purchase things as they have in the past, which is causing this recovery to move sluggishly. So, money is not the problem: demand is. It's a vicious cycle: many people are out of work or are tightening their fiscal belts, so they do not consume as much, which causes businesses to have excess supply, which then prevents them from investing in their company, precluding any additional employment. And the cycle begins again.
This is why extending unemployment benefits is so important. Not doing so is a job killer. People who are unemployed spend the money they receive, which goes to businesses. Now that 2 million people are not going to be receiving unemployment benefits they will be tightening their fiscal belts even more, which will lead to even more excess supply and less demand. This will create a situation that will make it even harder for the business sector employ people.
But some people would rather pretend that giving the top 2% of income earners a tax cut will create jobs. It won't.
In the final analysis, it becomes evident that any time the poor or middle class need some help the Republicans can be counted on to ignore their pleas. You get some millionaires and billionaires complaining that they cannot afford to maintain their fifth house or buy the small island they wanted the Republicans are there to lend a helping hand. They like to play the "We feel your pain" game, but they are only doing so in order to score political points. If they really cared, they would have voted for the extension of tax cuts for 98% of Americans and for extending unemployment benefits.
It's not just the moral thing to do: it's smart economics.
By Jose Rodriguez
Okay, how about we start with some TEA Party basics.
The people who organized the nationwide TEA Party protests originally were upset about the increased spending of the Obama administration and the creation of TARP (which was established by the Bush administration, not the Obama administration). Their rallying cry was "Taxed Enough Already!" At the tax day protests, in over 800 cities, there were people dressed in 18 century colonial attire; other people tossed tea into rivers and harbors, in a silly attempt to emulate the acts of the Sons of Liberty over 230 years ago in Boston Harbor. Get it? Tea Party? Boston Tea Party?
Here's the problem.
The Sons of Liberty were protesting the imposition of taxes by the British government. These taxes were then sent back to England. It was colonialism. Not only were the American colonists upset by the taxation, but they were angered by the imposition of taxes without representation. So, in other words, they were not bothered by taxes: they were bothered by the fact that they had no say in the taxation and that their tax dollars went to benefit a small country across a large body of water.
This is not happening now. We enjoy full representation, representation that has found it necessary to tax certain items since the creation of the Constitution and who also found it necessary to collect income tax since 1861. And our tax dollars are not going to benefit some colonial overlord in a far away land, but they are benefiting us here in the United States. So… there is no way to compare them to the Patriots who wrested our Independence from the British empire.
These TEA Parties have been described as "astroturf"; in other words, they are not a true "grassroots" movement, but are manufactured by partisan conservative groups. What is the reason for this characterization?
Well, how about the fact that the TEA Parties were organized by Freedomworks, a conservative political advocacy group established by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. The TEA Parties have also been heavily covered by Fox News, who has regularly portrayed the protesters as "real Americans," implying that those who support the President are not "real Americans." Fox has given ample time to the protesters and the screamers and the deathers, as well as providing a forum for lies and myths. These protests are not a spontaneously created movement, but have been created by the rich, the wealthy, interest groups, and conservative partisans seeking to bring the President of the United States to his "Waterloo".
Does that mean that all the people at these rallies and protests are political agents? Does it mean they are willing pawns for larger interests?
I would say all these people are really upset about the appearance that government is growing too big, that it is overreaching, and that they are going to be overtaxed. However, these people get their information solely from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, or Fox News. They are also readers of conservative blogs, or blogs that deal with lies and scare tactics. They probably are recipients of mass e-mails that are sent out by people trying to manufacture conspiracies. These people are not willing to seek out alternative information, nor are they willing to challenge what their ideological icons say, or to check the facts behind their bold statements and accusations. They are moved to action based on lies, myths, distortions, and their own ignorance.
Now, there has been a lot of talk that these protesters are "overwhelmingly" racist. Of course, all the conservative talking heads (who have encouraged these protesters) cry foul. Glenn Beck likened the accusation of "racist" to crying fire! in a crowded theater. Sean Hannity responded to the racist accusation by saying: ""[T]hese are despicable tactics. It's all designed to silence critics. It's all designed to intimidate. It's all designed to shut down opposition." Rush Limbaugh put his two cents in, of course: "Any criticism of an African-American's policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that's it. Therefore, the question: Can this nation really have an African-American president?" Charles Krauthammer even described Democrats as being "desperate," which he thinks is why many have accused the right of indulging in racism to shoot down the President's health care reform efforts.
I do not agree that the "overwhelming portion" of protesters are racist. There is inarguably a small portion of the protesters that are racist, and that is quite obvious. All one has to do is look at some of the signs carried at the 9/12 TEA Party in Washington D.C.:
Beyond that, the signs were also outrageous and ridiculous. This proves that the "overwhelming portion" were not racist, but extremist and crazy:
The political climate is becoming hostile. Words often times lead to actions, which can have violent and deadly consequences. These protests are a forum for hate speech. It appeals to the worst in all of us, particularly our anger against those who are not like us. They serve to divide American's against one another, and a house divided against itself cannot stand. We are all biased and prejudiced, and there are political talking heads who want to exploit those prejudices for their own political ends, or for their own aggrandizement. We should reject these hate mongers and expose them for what they are: opportunists.
Do not forget that political extremism exists on both sides of the aisle and across the political spectrum.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a self-avowed communist who hated President Kennedy for his policies against Cuba and communism in general. On the day of his death the Dallas Morning News ran an ad from the American Bible Society that blasted Kennedy's "softness" towards global "Godless" communism. This sentiment was common in the south, particularly in Texas. That political hatred and demonization, from left and right, ended with President Kennedy being assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
About one hundred years before, John Wilkes Booth killed President Lincoln at Ford's Theater after the end of the Civil War. Wilkes was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and hated President Lincoln because he had the audacity to wage a war to free African Americans from their bondage and to maintain the integrity of the Union. Booth was a racist, who hated abolitionists. He even attended the hanging of John Brown, who is yet another example of political extremism leading to violence and murder.
James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King jr, because he was angered by King's efforts to bring civil rights to African Americans and to force the south to integrate. He was a racist who used politcal grievances to justify this violent act.
Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant, was enraged by Senator Robert F. Kennedy's support for Israel, so he killed the Senator at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He was also drunk (according to Sirhan), but he was obsessed with Kennedy for quite sometime and had long determined to "eliminate" Senator Kennedy before "June 5th." He was successful.
In Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by a right-wing Jewish radical named Yigal Amir. Amir justified the killing of Rabin because Rabin was engaged in the Oslo Peace process with the Palestinians. Amir, like many on the right in Israel and the U.S., do not believe in working towards peace with the Palestinians, and instead believe in perpetuating violence. In his case, there were also religious motivations for killing Rabin, who he accused of surrendering the Holy Land to the Palestinians.
I can go on and on and on and on and on about this. There is no end to the examples of political opponents using violence to advance their own causes. There is a very real possibility that this can happen in our time. There is a very real possibility that our country will descend into race wars if this President is killed by a racist TEA bagger, believing that he is acting justly and morally by killing the President of the United States.
I guess the bottom-line is this:
Whether these people are racists or not, there nonetheless is a significant level of hatred and anger from a fringe element in our society. We should all be concerned and afraid that this situation, with a single violent act, could throw our country into a tail-spin, the likes of which have not been seen since the civil war.
Now… can we get back to the Health Care debate, please?
By Jose Rodriguez
Man, I wish I were Rob Miller, a Democrat who is challenging South Carolina's Republican Representative Joe Wilson in 2010. Since President Obama's speech last night, Miller has raised $200,000 from 5,000 donors. Wilson has even provided Congress a rare moment of unity– both sides of the aisle have denounced Wilson's rude outburst. Senator John McCain, the GOP's 2008 Presidential contender, was on Larry King last night and called Wilson's comment "totally disrespectful" and said he should apologize. House Minority Leader John Boehner said in an interview that "his behavior was inappropriate." There is also speculation that Boehner and the Minority Whip Eric Cantor want Wilson to apologize on the House floor. I'm not even going to bother quoting Democrats, who were naturally demanding an apology.
Wilson has since apologized, though his apology was insincere and forced. President Obama has also accepted the apology and has urged the people to move on beyond the bickering.
But what did Wilson say that has earned him the scorn of sensible people?
President Obama refuted the false assertion that the Health Care reform bill would cover illegal immigrants. Well, that was simply too much truthiness for Rep. Wilson, who could not contain his disdain for facts: "You lie!"
Thank you, South Carolina for providing us with more political absurdity!
The media has been covering this outburst, and his subsequent apology, but they have not really analyzed the substance of his ridiculous remark. The bottom line is that Joe Wilson is the one who lied, not the President.
Quite simply, section 246 on page 143 specifically excludes "undocumented aliens" from receiving "affordability credits" to pay for health insurance. A racist and anti-immigrant group known as Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has come out with a fact deprived statement claiming that so-called illegal immigrants would receive "taxpayer-funded health care benefits," which is, as President Obama responded to Wilson during his speech, "not true." The bill (HR 3200), in fact, does not change the status quo. As it stands now, illegal immigrants can purchase their own health insurance through private insurers. On August 25, 2009, the Congressional Research Service reported that the House bill "does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens participating in the Exchange—whether the noncitizens are legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently." So, FAIR is correct in asserting that illegal immigrants would be able to participate in the insurance exchange, but it is simply not true that they would be getting, essentially, free health care. They would have to purchase their own health insurance and they would not be able to receive "affordability credits" to off-set that purchase. In other words, they would assume the full cost of health insurance, with no assistance from tax-payers.
Also, just to underscore the absurdity of the claim, section 246 is titled "NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS." Can it be any clearer?
There is a silly notion out there that the public option would essentially be free health care for the poor and lazy, at the expense of hard-working, rich, white people. The fact is, the public option, if it passes, would not be a free ride for the poor. In fact, they would be mandated to purchase health insurance. More than likely they would choose the more inexpensive not-for-profit government provided health insurance option. They would, however, if they are really poor, be able to receive government subsidies to purchase their health insurance.
So, no free ride for legal citizens or for illegal immigrants.
Now, whether or not not paying for undocumented immigrants is moral or financially sound, that is a different argument. Remember, if they continue to visit emergency rooms without health insurance, we will still be stuck with their hospital bills. It makes better sense to pay to cover them so that they receive better preventitive care. Paying for hospital visits and check-ups is far cheaper than paying for very expensive treatments that are completely preventable if caught early enough.
Another idiot making an ass of himself is Rush Limbaugh, the drugster.
He is trying to make a big fuss over the President's new number: 30 million. The President used the figure "30 million" when referring to the number of people who are uninsured. Though the Census Bureau estimates that the figure is closer to 46.3 million, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated that the figure does not take into account undocumented immigrants. So, the White House argues, the actual figure of uninsured Americans is somewhere in the 30 millions. As the Census reported on today, the number of insured Americans rose to 46.3 million, up from 45.7 million. As the President lamented in his speech, that includes the 17,000 people who lose their insurance everyday. Whether or not the figure is 46.3 million or roughly 30 million, the fact is that we have a moral obligation to provide every American access to health insurance.
And, finally, another embarrassing moment has come from GOP Chairman Michael Steele. Steele has taken issue with the President's use of a letter from the late Senator Ted Kennedy. The letter was delivered, after his death, to the President. Though health care reform was Kennedy's life issue, Steele characterized the letter as a "political tool." The moment in the speech was an emotional one as the President seemed to struggle through those words, the Vice President wiped a tear from his eye, and Kennedy's widow, Vicki, sat crying in the audience. "This cause stretched across decades," he wrote. "It has been disappointed, but never finally defeated. … In the past year, the prospect of victory sustained me — and the work of achieving it summoned my energy and determination."
Here is the entirety of the letter:
May 12, 2009
Dear Mr. President,
I wanted to write a few final words to you to express my gratitude for your repeated personal kindnesses to me — and one last time, to salute your leadership in giving our country back its future and its truth.
On a personal level, you and Michelle reached out to Vicki, to our family and me in so many different ways. You helped to make these difficult months a happy time in my life.
You also made it a time of hope for me and for our country.
When I thought of all the years, all the battles, and all the memories of my long public life, I felt confident in these closing days that while I will not be there when it happens, you will be the President who at long last signs into law the health care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society. For me, this cause stretched across decades; it has been disappointed, but never finally defeated. It was the cause of my life. And in the past year, the prospect of victory sustained me — and the work of achieving it summoned my energy and determination.
There will be struggles — there always have been — and they are already underway again. But as we moved forward in these months, I learned that you will not yield to calls to retreat — that you will stay with the cause until it is won. I saw your conviction that the time is now and witnessed your unwavering commitment and understanding that health care is a decisive issue for our future prosperity. But you have also reminded all of us that it concerns more than material things; that what we face is above all a moral issue; that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.
And so because of your vision and resolve, I came to believe that soon, very soon, affordable health coverage will be available to all, in an America where the state of a family's health will never again depend on the amount of a family's wealth. And while I will not see the victory, I was able to look forward and know that we will — yes, we will — fulfill the promise of health care in America as a right and not a privilege.
In closing, let me say again how proud I was to be part of your campaign — and proud as well to play a part in the early months of a new era of high purpose and achievement. I entered public life with a young President who inspired a generation and the world. It gives me great hope that as I leave, another young President inspires another generation and once more on America's behalf inspires the entire world.
So, I wrote this to thank you one last time as a friend — and to stand with you one last time for change and the America we can become.
At the Denver Convention where you were nominated, I said the dream lives on.
And I finished this letter with unshakable faith that the dream will be fulfilled for this generation, and preserved and enlarged for generations to come.
With deep respect and abiding affection,
As the President said, after decades of stalling, it is time to move forward. It is now time to bring about health care reform.


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On Saturday I, together with ten other people from St James sang in what was quite possibly the biggest choir I'd ever been a part of. I'm not quite sure of the exact numbers, but the choir took up all of the space on the stage at the Albert Hall, and a good deal of both the stalls and circle, and was large enough that the orchestra and conductor had to be on the arena floor.
The event was organised by The Really Big Chorus who describe themselves as Britain's largest choral society – their mailing list includes over 8500 contacts representing an estimated 35,000 singers. They do three major concerts a year in the Royal Albert Hall where essentially anyone can turn up and sing. By virtue of the old adage of safety in numbers there will be enough people around who will know the particular pieces of music, and will be able to carry you along if you are a weaker singer, as such it's a great way to get an experience of singing in a major venue. This time it was Mozart's Requiem, something I've done before, but not in quite such an illustrious venue.
This time we were going along in part to support the father of a friend of ours who at the end of last year bemoaned the fact that when he was younger and had sung in a choir he'd never done a big concert. As a result our friend and her sister arranged a special surprise for his sixty-fifth birthday and arranged for him to come along and sing with us. I dropped around a copy of the Chorusline Bass CD (a special series of CD's that are useful for learning particular parts), which he sang along with at home, and then on the night he sat between a couple of our choir members who are also in other local choirs who were able to keep him on track. Things were made slightly more difficult by the fact that we were sat in the back row of the bass section, well away from the tenor and alto sections, and with some of the soprano section behind us – on the bass line we are usually used to getting cues from the alto or tenor part, taking them from the soprano isn't something we're used to, however after the one hour full choir rehearsal it was straight into the performance.
Not surprisingly there were one or two ropey bits, but in the main we made it through, and certainly it is a fantastic experience singing in the Royal Albert Hall with so many others. The atmosphere is certainly not quite like a professional concert, as the bulk of the audience are supporters, but it is still great fun, and I'm sure something I hope I can do again before too long.
I've uploaded some pictures from the event to our photo galleries, and Beth took a short video panning across the whole choir, which should give some idea of quite how big the choir actually is.


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Common to both children and adults, ptosis, or blepharoptosis, causes the upper eyelid to droop. This eye problem can affect both your eyesight and appearance, most especially if the droop extends toward the entire pupil. In today's post, your trusted optometrist from Opti-Care explains this eye condition in detail.
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It's day 10!
Today is the best I felt towards plant based eating since I started. The excitement I once had is back and I'm hoping that today was my turning point for this process to get easier.
I made some A-M-A-Z-ING new recipes today and I can't wait to share them with you.
⬆⬆⬆Twix Bar Cups… supposed to be just bars but I couldn't find my 8×8 pan. I don't know if I'd consider them healthy with the amount of grade A maple syrup it calls for but man are they delicious.
These will not survive in my house..
They are so good I would serve them at Christmas..
Yeah, that good!!
I am going to a friend's house Saturday night for an epicure party and there is going to be so much amazing food that I won't be able to eat so, I was determined to make a recipe using epicure spices that I could enjoy.. which brings me to my guilt free spinach dip worth going vegan for! I kind of just threw things together hoping for the best while trying to mimic a recipe that usually includes cream cheese, mayo and shredded cheese and I think I did pretty good!
- 1 package soft tofu
- 1/2c vegan yogurt
- 1/2 pack frozen chopped spinach (defrosted and drained)
- 3 artichoke halves
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 medium onion
- 3 Tbsp epicure spinach dip mix
- 2 Tbsp epicure nacho dip mix
- Salt to taste
Pulse spinach, artichokes, Garlic and onion in food processor. Then cook in frying pan over medium-low heat with coconut oil for 7-10 min. While that is cooking mix yogurt and tofu until well blended in food processor. Add tofu yogurt mix to pan mix well. Add epicure spices and salt to taste!
Plant based or not if you are a spinach dip lover you will love this. I'll even go one further to say no one will even know this dip doesn't have dairy.. THAT GOOD!
I swear.
For lunch I had Vegan Tortilla Soup made by Josh's mom.
It was so good, food is always better when someone else makes it. Aaryn and I loved it.
The recipe for this soup is quite big and I'm not sure who to credit for it so instead of posting the recipe she gave me I decided to find one online that was pretty close. ⬇⬇⬇
For supper I decided to make a Vegan Pot Pie by the Minimalist Baker..
Clearly if you compare recipes you will discover I suck at following directions so the two look completely different. This recipe was good, I will make it again but next time I will add more liquid and a lot more veggies! I'm thinking broccoli and cauliflower would be a nice addition.
The biscuit recipe which is the crust on top of my pot pie was really good and very easy to make. I am thinking about making a batch tomorrow just to have as biscuits.
Overall today was awesome I feel great, ate lots of good nutrient dense food and I am very satisfied.
Maybe this isn't so bad after all?