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John McCain and the Republicans want for more years of Bush economic policies. This, despite the fact they have been clearly detrimental to the everyday realities of working men and women. The New York Times reports on another sign that shows just how bad things have become:
Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.
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42.Phil Specht
Mon, 03/31/08
Scientists are on the verge of a gasoline type product directly from biomass rather than an alchohol product intermediate step.
ethanol isn't the solution it is an interim solution to a oil based transportation system where much of the oil comes from the Gulf
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I agree. Ethanol is a research project into other kinds of biomass that won't need fertilizers. The oil companies will spread a lot of truths but they leave out a big part of the story. That's called propaganda
One f^ckin' link, Tom & Martha Miller.
Understand & Google fair use doctrine.
45 word count only on a citation.
http://www.emersoncentral.com/conservati...
Enough of the copyright infringement.
HQ~
Up in 48 hrs.: SoapBlox
*Legitimate* blogware.
http://www.soapblox.net/blog/frontPage.d...
Enough incompetence, already.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7319043.stm
Scientists probe meditation secrets By Naomi Law
Scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain.
I'd suggest DFA is more incompetent letting the blog problem go than the Millers are in their inability to complete a clickable link.
Bush won't let a food stamp increase pass in the Farm Bill and everyone knows grocery pices are up.
food banks will be crushed in the upcoming recession depths
7:34 PM EDT
two who break the mold:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-31-women-senators_N.htm?csp=34
Sens. for Obama break with women's group
Posted 2h 23m ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year ago, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Claire McCaskill were featured speakers at a luncheon for Emily's List, where the group's leader talked up her hope of electing Hillary Rodham Clinton the first female president.But Klobuchar and McCaskill, who won their 2006 races with the help of Emily's List, have broken ranks with the Democratic women's fundraising organization, throwing their support behind Barack Obama.
...
Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said she ran for Senate to bring change to Washington "and not simply to become a woman senator. And I'm proud to be a woman in the Senate. My best friends are the women in the Senate, but much like Senator Obama I ran on a platform of change."
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The two female senators, who did events together during the 2006 campaign, are the only two women in that year's Senate freshman class.
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BTW, in case anyone's interested, Rep. Davis suggests that having Don Siegelman testify before congress is not a good idea and I think I agree. I mean, he doesn't really know who done him in.
Sometimes when you hit enter before the cursor at the end of a link changes to black, the link will disappear. But then when you hit enter again it will come back. Anyway, as best i understand the Siegelman story, he borrowed money to promote some kind of referendum on the ballot and then some rich guy paid it off, but because Seigelmal had signed for the loan, the prosecutor argued that he'd derived a personal benefit in getting rid of the liability and then the rich guy got reappointed to some board he'd served on three terms before and that was supposed to be a pay-off to him. one suspects it was the kind of case where the motion to dismiss should have been granted to begin with, if the judge had been objective.
7:40 PM EDT
http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20080331/co_po/obamaholdslgbtfundraiserinnewyorkcity
Obama holds LGBT fundraiser in New York City
3 minutes ago
Sen. Barack Obama waded deep into Clinton territory Thursday evening at a private LGBT fundraiser in New York City
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attendees were struck by the Illinois senator's candor as well as his fluency with LGBT issues.
"I've been to many events over the past 10 years of candidates running for office," said Corey Johnson, one of the hosts, "This was the most forthright, eloquent, and detailed stuff I've heard from a politician [regarding gay issues]."
Molly Lenore, 43, compared Obama's discussion of the LGBT community to the speech he gave about race in America last week. "During his race speech, everybody said afterward that he treated the American people like adults, and I felt like that's what he did," said Lenore, who is transgender and an Obama supporter. "I might not agree 100%, but I want to have an intelligent conversation with somebody."
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Fred
ethanol works out to about a $1.50 a gallon for E-85. Big oil controls the final product and are ripping off consumers bigtime
the vast infrastructure required to export billions of bushels of corn surplus were all already in place and it was a simple switch over in farm country to process those bushels here
overseas livestock producers (poultry in asia) are taking the direct hit, but only if they are factory farms tied to globalism
little farmers all over the world are getting higher prices for what they produce without that competition
unfortunately they all moved to the cities to provide labor so can't respond with higher production on the old mass but dispersed models
HQ is too busy frittering away millions of dollars on D.C. Beltway "consultants," Phil.
And have been doing so for yrs.
Enough, already.
http://tinyurl.com/ol24e
It's already in the Technorati toilet.
Everyone flush in unison.
http://www.soapblox.net/blog/frontPage.d...
Unless one is an original author, 45 word count is appropriate on any citation.
No cut-n-paste beyond that allowed.
http://www.soapblox.net/blog/frontPage.d...
locust trees are a legume that fixes nitrogen out of the atmosphere, and nitrogen fertilizer is a big part of the production costs of corn (although much less than the cost of land per year)
locust tree biomass fuel would be one direction that would directly compete with Big Oil and the global trade in nitrogen
air we breathe has plenty of nitrogen in it and the earth's ecosystem was built around soil micro-organisms that utilized that source for amino acids that were processed by the food chain
a global industrial model ethanol as fuel instead of petroleum would only be a slight improvement, but there are sustainable systems that could be built
Wes Jackson at the Land Institute in Kansas is doing the pioneering work.
Martha Miller et all make my (huckster)teeth hurt.
I can only quote the late, great Euell Gibbons:
"Some parts of pine trees are edible." (citation needed)
LOL
-- volney
Great, post that should have been 15 vaults to 4 on the Hit Parade, with a bullet.
Long live the fractured blog!
-- volney
Warwick, Kiley, Meyer, & Lake don't get one red penny from Moi.
http://tinyurl.com/2mwtaw
HQ is frittering away money like drunks (Clintonistas).
I see no difference.
Time for a "Clean Sweep."
http://tinyurl.com/2mwtaw
puddle:
Changing threads and running away is not the solution to Conservatism and understanding that Liberalism IS the body politic. If you will read the following url information in its entirity by ThomasG of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Conservative" lecture you will gain understanding:
http://blogforamerica.com/view/24607
My post No. 13 on the previous thread shows examples of Conservatism and Liberalism, which is NOT what anyone I know thinks being a conservative is, and people need to know that Liberalism is the BODY POLITIC and Conservatism is the skeleton that supports the body politic..
http://blogforamerica.com/view/24671#comments
Puddle knows how to Google, Martha.
Your name isn't R.W. Emerson.
Stop committing copyright infringement (intellectual property theft). One link will suffice.
Unless you don't mind being sued?
Tell you what Martha: you ride your pony, and I'll ride mine. Thank you very much.
http://www.emersoncentral.com/conservati...
Plagiarism and Copyright:
http://tinyurl.com/2uvgnp
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Phil Specht 13 6:21pm EDT:
What do you mean clickable link? The link I put there was clickable, wasn't it? This blog appears to have been taken over by gremlins since last I posted on it.
The Yogis of the East have known about the benefits of meditation for thousands of years.
It reduces blood pressure, chloresterol, opens the heart and mind, reduces or eliminates pain, heals major and minor illnesses, calms the body and mind etc etc.
My doctor is a regular MD and an Ayurvedic doctor. He's been meditating 40 years and looks 38 years old. The man simply never ages...another benefit of TM, which is what he does and I do. His favorite prescription for me is: "Keep meditating." So I do. :-)
I think Keithie might like the idea of Gore for prez, being asked at the convention. Gore has not categorically said that he would not accept being drafted.
SOUNDS WONDERFUL TO ME!
On Keithie, the clip of BO was him speaking about all his small donations. What is this man thinking? He should be addressing the ME, attacking McC. What is he doing? And why?
8:23 PM EDT
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/alexdegolia/gGBx9h
By Alex DeGolia - Mar 31st, 2008 at 8:04 pm EDT
...
We've heard many stories of children convincing their parents to support Barack, but Brenda’s story works in reverse. She called her son and had to convince him that this kind of movement doesn’t come along frequently, and that “we cannot let go of it.” She continues, “It makes me tear up every time I think of it… Now almost all my son’s friends are supporting Obama.”
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puddle 26:
6:26pm 3/31 - Ride whatever pony you're big enough to ride; but if you answer me, you had better know what you're talking about. You didn't know what you were talking about, if you don't want to know, that is your problem, but there are people who do.
2. * rdorgan
Mon, 03/31/08
7:34 PM EDT
two who break the mold:
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Good for them - I always thought women who've had abortions didn't think they had a choice[but to have one.] That's why they had one.
Online Guides to Citing Electronic Sources:
http://tinyurl.com/29yebq
Sorry...laziness is not an excuse.
Phil Specht 24 (no time):
6:34pm 3/31/08 The threads could run longer and they do when they want to, it is just that this time they didn't want to. OK, I'll buy that. Now if this post doesn't go in ahead of your post, I will be surprised.
another (mostly) hidden cost of this war:
Sexual assaults are frequent, and frequently ignored, in the armed services.
The stories are shocking in their simplicity and brutality: A female military recruit is pinned down at knifepoint and raped repeatedly in her own barracks. Her attackers hid their faces but she identified them by their uniforms; they were her fellow soldiers. During a routine gynecological exam, a female soldier is attacked and raped by her military physician. Yet another young soldier, still adapting to life in a war zone, is raped by her commanding officer. Afraid for her standing in her unit, she feels she has nowhere to turn.
These are true stories, and, sadly, not isolated incidents. Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jane-harman/rapists-in-the-ranks_b_94338.html
mainefem 27:
8:54pm EDT, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been dead since 1882. Are you paying me something for putting that post on the blog? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. It is something the people need to know, and you are right puddle could have found Mr. Emerson's lecture, but would she have? I have the book and he has explained better than anyone I have ever heard what Conservatism and Liberalism really are, and it is worth repeating over and over to those who need to know. Here is the url that I found, and if I had known it was on Google, I would have gladly used Google, but I used Emerson's book of Essays and Lectures. I thank you for letting me know. It is hard to know everything Google has represented, but here is Google's url:
http://www.rwe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=42
Now, hope it works. If they didn't want it known, it would not be on the net.
Jo...maybe women shouldn't be in the military .... or....they should be allowed to shoot their attackers or at least send them to jail or to a doctor to be *fixed.*
Whatever happened to chivalry? I wonder if there are countries where rape is uncommon.
Invading armies are known to rape and pillage but to rape one's fellow soldiers?
Jo...maybe women shouldn't be in the military .... or
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Or maybe they should have segregated units like they did with blacks during Jim Crow days, only it would not be for inequality but for integrity.
Continue to copy & paste entire copyrighted works on a blog thread.
However, don't whine about being unmercifully flamed into oblivion for doing so, Martha.
45 word count on a citation/attribution (contextual purposes only--to illustrate your perception).
Self-educate.
D.I.Y., or enroll in a computer class for internet beginners.
No excuse for indolence.
If someone wants to read the entire effin' Emerson (or whatever) piece, they click the goddamned link.
What part of that is so difficult to comprehend?
I unsub from listserves who allow that idiotic behavior, also.
Emerson was a prolific writer and Martha did post just a snippet of that which she evidentally typed from a book of hers.
since we now have a neo-transcendental Presidential frontrunner I find those old references fascinating actually
google doesn't have to always get a hit if someone shares from a book they own if cited
that also is fair use
I'll pay Martha's legal fees if they haul her into court for that one post lol
on the other hand it is bad blog ettiquette and counter productive to make long posts and shout
thanks Martha for finding the link
Have you been living under a rock, seashell?
"Fixed?" How does a vasectomy change anything?
"Chivalrous?"
How patriarchal. You live in some sort of fantasy world inside your head.
There's zilch enforcement of policies, that's what. You're placing the onus of behavioral shifts *onto the woman*.
DV rates are also outrageous for women in the military.
Gang-bangs are common (always have been).
(No overseas abortions allowed, BTW).
Great "career" potentiality, dontcha think?
Be a "patriot."
All the more reason to opt out young minor girls (10th grade onward).
The Army came after my daughter two weeks before college (2002).
I refused to reveal her location or contact info.
...and she'd previously chided me for "over-reacting."
She was 3rd in her class.
http://tinyurl.com/kalcs
A "snippet?"
Phil, you know better than that.
http://tinyurl.com/22zwm5
Bloggers copy & paste into oblivion; and then are pissed when trivialized by MSM.
They deserve it (and to be rightfully sued).
Get a Creative Commons license, and read Lessig.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Blogger
mainefem 41:
10:04pm 3/31/08 - You and puddle get on your hobby horse and ride it into your combined puddles and drown yourselves, as you are useless.
If you cannot accept Ralph Waldo Emerson's, "The Conservative " on its own merit, without descending into the effluent of your septic tank and dragging the slime out on me, you are much better off for yourself and the rest of humanity at the bottom of the puddle where you can no longer be of harm to yourselves or anyone else.
Printable version India introduces rice export ban The Indian government has banned the export of non-basmati rice to try and control soaring domestic food costs.
The decision, one of a series of measures to curb inflation, was taken during an emergency cabinet meeting.
I watched one pretty good and one good movie from Netflix and Blockbuster. The Painted Veil was pretty good. The scenes of China were beautiful - looked like Guilin. How strange it must have been to have been a Brit in China in late 19th early 20th C. The good movie was Across the Universe. It was a musical of Beatles songs of the White Album/Sgt Pepper period turned into a little story taking place in the 60's. I really liked all aspects. It was very Julie Taymor (sp). As a non R&R person but having had those albums 'in the day' revisiting them in 'cover' style pointed up the amazing musicality of those songs that underlies the rhythmic noise that is R&R.
I hope they don't ban my OT posts -- no long uncited unlinked sources here anyways.
new thread
http://blogforamerica.com/view/24676#com...
Enroll in a beginner's internet class, Martha.
Or D.I.Y.
A total idiot can Google Emerson's works in less than a second.
You failed to cite it/provide just a "snippet."
Don't pi$$ & whine about being flamed.
Self-educate.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resour...
Know fair use/intellectual copyright law, also.
http://tinyurl.com/22zwm5
Quick somebody. a sock! The "mouth" is at it againd.
Phil Specht 47:
10:24pm 3/31/08. You do not need to defend me. What Ralph Waldo Emerson said in "The Conservative" stands on its own merit and has nothing to do with me. I appreciate your help, but if you really want to be of help, stand by Emerson and help to get a broad understanding among the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of what Emerson said in "The Conservative", so that the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION will be proud of being Liberals as they should be. It is not a personal thing for me.
"A total idiot can google Emerson's works in less than a second.
That is just too perfect to touch.
puddle
Mon, 03/31/08
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What is this supposed mean?
Woman that shows muscle? A woman that is mad? A woman that is not going to take it anymore?
A woman that uses the male approach? Macho?
42.
audrey.nc
Mon, 03/31/08
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Quick somebody. a sock! The "mouth" is at it againd.
Another stab at showing the world what a showplace we are? By posting this kind of stuff about a fellow blogger? You have quite a mouth yourself there, audrey.
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