Well, now. Didn’t expect they would do it. I seriously thought that Limbaugh was entrenched and nothing short of him murdering someone would they cut the strings. I’m happy that they are cutting off the hate-filled blather. Who are they going to get now to bang the drum for the rightwingers…?
I just hope they aren’t replaced with more hate-filled blather by someone even worse than Limbaugh and Hannity.
Michael Twitty has this up on some of the food the slaves use to prepare. When I think of the poor folk now, really, it’s not that far removed. One can only do so much with food stamps, and as I’ve posted before, if you’re on a Celiac diet or try to eat organic/non-processed food, it is pretty damn difficult to stay in budget.
From my experience, I do know that all the stuff that they tell you is bad (which is wrong, btw), such as bacon, fatty pieces of meat, and the like, sure do make the cheap meat and vegetables taste oh-so-much better. There were times when I walked through the building in FW, the aromas coming from apartments was soo good, I thought there should be some rule that if you make something that smells that good, you should have to share it with the rest of the building. Heh.
I have to hand it to African American folk–there were some pretty darn good cooks in my building. They used what little they had to make tasty meals.
And I learned something today–that there wasn’t segregation with the whites on plantations. That is heartwarming to hear. Good for them for not lumping all whites together and rejecting those that came around. Poor folk is poor folk, no matter. It’s too bad that after the commonality of being poor is no longer there, that folks no longer feel that community togetherness. Why?
The Rochester, New York CSA has put up a promo video on youtube:
I could have given them a couple of tips on a better sound quality and when asking someone to speak, make sure they’re comfortable in front of a camera.
All in all, though, I thought this was a pretty good piece on explaining about community supported agriculture. It would be great to have them close enough that one could bike over to either put in their hours of work, or on market day to bring groceries home. I like the idea of rickshaws, as was previously posted about. There are three-wheeled bikes out there with a big basket but they’re cumbersome to ride–slow as molasses. I don’t know if the rickshaws would be any different? Hmmm…
Here’s another video I thought was interesting–some folks use worms in containers instead of having compost piles. So I presume this is what this guy is doing although he doesn’t really come out and say it:
I like these two guys below. Folksy. They do a better job of explaining what they’re doing and why:
When they talk of cured horse manure, I’m assuming that they’re waiting a year before using it. I think a year minimum is the standard that they like to let manure cure, so any bad organisms have met their demise by this time.
(hat tip to fatster at FDL)
John Boehner, while constantly saying “The American people want, need, demand…” while ignoring what the American people want, need, and demand….has promoted the XL pipeline…while investing in the companies tied to it.
I’m just shocked, shocked, I tell you, that a politician who stands to benefit financially from legislation is…promoting that legislation. /snark
Where have all the good ones gone that did what was right for the country and not for their bank accounts…?
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Also from fatster~~
Related to this is a heartwarming story of a small group of folks protesting the Enbridge pipeline….unfortunately, they’re from Michigan…that will be the day when Hoosiers start protesting Enbridge…
I can’t believe they were charged with felonies. Seriously? Like a commenter said on the website, we should be concerned about the crackdown on public assemblies….you know, that First Amendment thingy?
From the comments:
Enbridge is being disingenuous. No one has come to harm from these non-violent protests. On the other hand, from the Athabasca Chippewa cancer rates to the impacts of climate change, many will be harmed if the tar sands industry achieves its goal of tripling production by 2030. Just imagine Bangladesh flooded by rising sees. That’s millions of refugees in that region alone. We should be working to stop changing the climate. We should have global peak emissions by 2020 then steadily decline. Tripling tar sands production is inconsistent with that goal. These protesters are the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks, who incidentally was hated by conservatives also. As FDR said “I welcome their hatred.” It’s a sign you’re doing something right. Go M-CATS.
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I have to admit a chuckle at the enthusiastic guy commenting on how beautiful state Michigan is…which it is…but then the conservative joker does have a point about him never being in poor Detroit, the dumping ground of the Kochs and anyone else who feels like it. But let’s say that MOST of Michigan is quite beautiful… NOT the parts that conservatives and DINO’s (Democrats in Name Only) have polluted.
It’s always interesting to me that these polluters will trash one area, and then move to a non-polluted area. It should be a rule somewhere that if you pollute an area, you must live in that area for the rest of your life…
…not only that, but your children and grandchildren must live in that area, too. Seems fair, eh?
I just love this stuff–it gives so much more of history than just names, places, and dates. The visual and cultural really brings it alive. I wish Michael Twitty had brought up a little more in the historical aspect of the recipes and cooking methods.
I am always fascinated at how wise they were back in the day…the women gathered the nuts, berries, and plants to eat…how did they know which were poisonous and which weren’t? How did they remember one plant from another? And the ability to put spices together is truly a gift.
One of the commenters here called the absence of real oppositional parties the “Uniparty”. …yep.
See…the Dems really believe in the Fourth Amendment and the rights of the American public to be let alone…
bwhahahahaha *snort* bwahahahaha…
Don’t blame me. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. The first time in all the years that I had been voting that I wrote a candidate’s name on the ballet. Of course, now Indiana has changed to the computerized system so a voter wouldn’t be able to just write in a candidate. Supposedly, they have paper ballots at each voting station, but this voter was not told there were paper ballots available, not even when I voted early, nor were there any paper ballots visible so that one could ask for it.
They changed the law so that one had to have 2% of the general votes cast for the Secretary of State in the previous election. Note the deadlines were repeatedly pushed back in order to diminish the ability to gather signatures during summer events where crowds gather…
I found this page absolutely fascinating. I had no idea that we had other candidates to choose from, as the write in candidates were not on the electronic ballot. And being without access to media (no TV antenna in the community room at the time), nor did I have more than an hour per time from the library’s internet computers…so information was limited, as are most poor. And I would venture a guess that even with cable TV, many middle class were also ignorant of this–funny how the nooz just doesn’t seem to get around to covering important issues like this….they’d rather scare you into getting a vaccine that will likely cause as much harm to your body as any good or tell you not to take Vitamin E because some bogus *study* says it’s bad for you…pfft.
Wake-Up Call has a blog up on a new paper by scientists against genetically modified organisms (GMO’s).
From the paper:
For example, the claim that conventional plant breeders have been “genetically modifying” cropsfor centuries by selective breeding and that GM crops are no different is incorrect (see 1.1). The term“genetic modification” is recognised in common usage and in national and international laws to referto the use of recombinant DNA techniques to transfer genetic material between organisms in a waythat would not take place naturally, bringing about alterations in genetic makeup and properties.~~~~~~~~~
These unexpected changes are especially dangerous because they are irreversible.~~~~~~~~~~
The Guardian has this up on the U.S. bombing of the Great Barrier Reef. <sigh> What in the world were we doing there in the first place? It would seem to me that common sense should have been used to avoid the area. Running low on fuel? Seriously? Whose fault was that? Don’t they monitor their fuel gauges during these exercises?
I mean, really, who thought this would be a great place to even carry bombs, let alone do war exercises with them? The aussie asks “have we gone mad?” Yes, yes we have.
The decline in the environment was already happening, according to this.
So….this latest catastrophe will already add to a burdened environment that is struggling to maintain itself.
Give ourselves a pat on the back. Good goin’ /snark
I think this is brilliant. It’s going to be grown in a sustainable fashion. And through fair trade practices, the farmers will be paid a good price for their coffee. The economic support will help them fend off the outside forces (and inside forces) that seek to divide them.
There are other reports of millions of dollars leaving the country while the public struggles to survive. (Probably took their cue from Mitt Romney)
And what do power players always fall back on when they want to start trouble? Bring up religion. After the discover of oil in the region, suddenly religion became an issue, although the many different religions of the region didn’t make anyone uncomfortable before the oil discovery.
Here’s a map on the prominent religions of different areas in Sudan.
(I didn’t get much sleep last night, and my ADD is always worse when I’m tired, so forgive any faux pas.)
I’m flipping through the channels this morning and land on CNBC with Dan Gilbert, the grand pooh bah wizard of rejuvenating Detroit. I only caught the last part of his schpiel, but what I was hearing made me sick. He spoke of bringing in “interns”. Interns? Yep, he’s bringing in young minds that can be manipulated into believing what they’re doing is innovative and exciting and the right thing to do….
…I find it more than mildly curious that 50-somethings are by appearances being ignored.
And it’s disturbing how the article below reads that the sharks are circling to see how much they can get away with–everyone is watching to see who wins the “tug of war” between the unions and the moneyed interests.
From the NYTimes article:
….Detroit officials have proposed paying off small fractions of what the city owes, they have indicated they intend to treat investors holding general obligation bonds as having no higher priority for payment than, for instance, city workers — a notion that conflicts with the conventions of the market…
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An obligation is an obligation. I don’t know why the city would be any less obligated to the workers who labored and were made a promise than to bond holders who were also made promises but did nothing to earn that but sit on their butts? In my view, EVERYBODY should be made to give a little. Everybody loses a little bit for the good of the whole.
Now I know folks will be saying that “investors won’t invest if they aren’t getting top dollar…” I don’t believe that if they are still making money for doing nothing that they are going to pass on that opportunity. Investing is a risk….why shouldn’t the investors share in the losses as well as the gains?
(Ironically, or not, I’m playing David Crosby’s “Hero” )
My other blogs on Detroit here and here . Note the link to Dan Gilbert profiteering off of the carcass of Detroit.
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