What is amazing about this is that this stuff was happening up to the 80s (and up to the 70s in the States)…and had pretty much been happening since the European invasion. Terrible, terrible thing to do to these families. We now know that this wasn’t about the child’s welfare as much as it was about a self-righteous idea of imposing one’s religion upon others–about forcing others to conform to what your narrow view of how a society should operate.
Category Archives: ethics and morals
Ice Cream
The local radio station airs a program where locals call in to sell or trade stuff they don’t want anymore. The hostess was remarking about buying a bread machine and how it came from a moment of inspiration (cold winter day)…but, yeah, didn’t progress past the thought…and she remarked how much stuff we buy that we don’t need. Don’t get me started…I’ve been through so much that material stuff no longer has its hold on me like before. It’s hard to get past that, because of the way our society values things instead of people, but once you do get past it, you become so much more free.
Anyway, the host talked about ice cream makers and how you cranked it a couple of times, and said “enough of this, I’m going to ___ (he names a popular ice cream place).”
Well, I started thinking about how much I loved home-made hand-cranked ice cream….
I was introduced to it at my summer camp. If you have never had hand-cranked ice cream, I highly, highly recommend it. Delicious.
The thing about it is that it was a group effort–all of us in our camp cabin took turns cranking. We actually argued over who would get to crank!
I think there is a lesson in there–what may seem too hard as an individual–can be achieved if we all took turns carrying the “load”.
Cisco asks Obama/NSA to stop interference
Cisco CEO John Chambers has written a letter to President Obama insisting the NSA cease its interference with Cisco products.
From the piece:
The letter follows the circulation of pictures on the Internet showing NSA staff opening boxes of Cisco gear, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. “There have been allegations that the NSA has intercepted IT equipment in transit from manufacturers to customers to help monitor and gain information on surveillance targets,” the paper wrote.
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So…Edward Snowden’s revelations haven’t had the impact…nor damage that is alleged…because apparently, they’re still doing it. I don’t see how Snowden can be charged with damaging information when the parties involved are still up to the same violation of the Fourth Amendment.
People who say the right things…
(hat tip to Thomas at Yes Means Yes)
An ex – NFL star is being accused of raping women after he drugged their drinks. It allegedly happened on several occasions in several different cities, but the m.o. was the same–drug their drinks and rape them.
What is outrageous about Darren Sharper is that he presented himself as a supporter of women and women’s rights….while he allegedly abused them. Good God.
Dept. of Defense…against Zombies…
(A side note~ Hello! to my Russian reader. Glad you’re back and apparently able to access the ‘net again.)
…well, here we go again with the “plan” that won’t die. Pun intended.
You might recall this is an old scenario bordering on ridiculous. I can’t believe the money spent.
The report is short on details–who were the sponsors that paid for this? If the attendees only paid $1,000 to go, who paid for their hotel rooms? Meals? Flight tickets? Rental cars? Lots of questions here, not a lot of answers.
Nor can I believe the concept that one can kill the undead…how does one do that, anyway?
What they really need are un – brain -dead Dept. of Defense employees who quit looking at life as one big disaster waiting to happen. And that the American public is the enemy–guilty until proven innocent.
Take Action against National Restaurant Association
The Mafia, in another form…
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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NRA is a leader in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) where it has pushed a measure to ban paid leave ordinances at the local level. (they don’t want to give those restaurant workers a day off when they have the flu!) It is a leading opponent of raising the minimum wage in states, helping Oklahoma’s governor ban local paid sick days and minimum wage hikes in one fell swoop! Plus, the NRA has successfully kept the tipped minimum wage at $2.13 since 1991!
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Google and the NSA
Yasha Levine at Pando Daily has a report on the alarmingly close relationship between Google and the Dept. of Defense.
At first glance, you wonder what all the fuss is about, since Google is a tech company…but as the report flows along, there is a link to this piece by Consumer Watchdog.
From the report:
When a deal between NASA and top Google executives to use the base was first disclosed in 2007, it called for only four jets to use the base.But newly released government records show that the Google executive 0leet has now grown to six jets and two helicopters, while at least 40 Google employees hold security badges at the base and all of the planes are supplied with Department of Defense jet fuel.~~~~~~~~~~
[Italics mine.]
Wow, if ever there were a quid pro quo…supplying Google with expensive jet fuel? Giving employees security clearance? And all Google has to do is cooperate with divulging private information in contradiction of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits agencies from intruding into people’s privacy without a court warrant…
…but Google execs are too busy jetsetting to Cannes, Tahiti, and other places of interest…on the taxpayer dime…
Keyhole? What an apt name for the company…funded by the CIA…that was to become Google Earth. There’s just something unnerving to see one’s home on the internet for anyone to see. Keyhole, indeed.
I do find it ironic and slightly amusing that the emails going back and forth from the Google execs and the various gov’t. agencies are being used against them…they seem to forget that their own privacy is abused by the system they created.
As I am reading this, I’m wondering why they would have to use Google at all? Why is there such a push for privatization, when these services should be from government employees/agencies? Not that I’m advocating invasion of privacy, mind you, but questioning the privatization movement that gets short term $$ gains by selling off public interests in land and intellectual property that was paid for by public funds. And, of course, the lack of sunlight when something goes from public to private.
~~~~~As a side note…when I saw Eric Schmidt’s bespectacled face…I got a chill down my spine. Perhaps it’s because he just looks like a Nazi…and not a true evaluation of him…but there it is.
Eating the weeds…
…continuing to explore the weeds-are-a-figment-of-your-upbringing theme…
I found this podcast of EarthEats on public radio talking about the redbuds. It has special significance being here in Indiana.
Who knew that the redbuds were edible? Not I.
Also, Trader’s Point Creamery of Indiana, sells excellent milk products with their grassfed cows. Good stuff.
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Also, I subscribe to a farmer’s forum and one of the members talked about the “weeds” they harvest.
One of them is plantain. When I first read that, I thought of the banana-like fruit. Nope. It’s that weed that you can’t seem to kill that sprouts all over the place…and after reading this, one wonders what are we thinking–spraying them with poison to eradicate them?
The writer makes a good point about our lack of knowledge and how folks lining up for food banks had an abundance of good food that was free in the form of plantains scattered about. It’s depressing that we have been brainwashed against the natural world and good nutrition is available at no cost. The only problem is that unless they know if the plant has been sprayed with chemicals, they could make themselves ill. In poor neighborhoods, it’s probably a safe bet that those “weeds” have not been sprayed, as keeping up with the Joneses with manicured lawns is not on the top of their list of survival. But it’s always good to ask if you wish to eat the plant.
On a positive note~it’s also highly likely that they are GMO free, as Monsanto, Dow, et al, would not have a $$ profit incentive since they grow like…weeds. Heh.
Mom pays off Every student’s lunch bill after son denied lunch
What kind of cruel person would throw a student’s lunch in the trash because they didn’t have the money to pay?
Does anyone believe Mark Daniel, the superintendent, that there are “policies in place to avoid instances such as these…”? Me, neither. Somebody has given permission to that minimum wage cafeteria worker that it is perfectly okay to waste good food to punish a child for the parents’ mistakes. I don’t know if you can even call it a mistake when this parent is a single Mom working two jobs to take care of her family. What is missing from this picture, besides compassion…? The father, who is probably paying very little in support or nothing at all. My ex only paid one-fifth of his $100k income to support three children. And he begrudged even that little amount…
There is more to this story, folks, than is being written about here.
And God Bless the mother for her compassion and generosity. God Bless the son for he learned something through his pain of humiliation.
Diet and Health, via Weston Price **edited
A member of the mercury support group posted this link to the Spring Caustic Commentary on the Weston Price Foundation website.
It’s pretty informative for those who are unfamiliar with Weston Price’s work. He was a dentist who traveled the world, observing the indigenous tribes. He discovered that they had perfect teeth–no dental decay. When they became industrialized, and ate a more Western diet, their dental health began to suffer. Price also observed the changes in mouth structure–before the Western diet, the parents had bright, wide smiles….but the generations afterward had more narrow smiles and misshapened teeth by overcrowding the mouth. And yet, Western doctors refuse to see the connection between diet and overall health and wellbeing.
**edited to add the link. Geesh.
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