tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58812602024-03-07T17:25:10.554-05:00farm runoff...barking at birds and buried bonesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1149316120168922792006-06-03T01:24:00.000-05:002006-06-03T02:08:56.920-05:00it's a good day to give up blogging.*Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1148281554561753702006-05-22T02:01:00.000-05:002006-05-22T12:34:59.270-05:00weekend encounter report: summaryspent the weekend poking around under ash trees and thrashing around in old abandoned apple orchards looking for morels. didn't find one single morel. maybe still too cold. lots of rain lately but cold. a little warm weather following all the rain might bring em up.photo at left lifted from HEREspent some time in an old graveyard atop a small knoll with an orchard just beyond. 15 to 20 stones Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1148107807565137382006-05-20T01:39:00.000-05:002006-05-21T01:31:38.920-05:00i was attacked by a rednecked mother flickerthis is a harrowing true story. the other day (i forgot which one) i was poking around in the dirt in my salad patch; which is not to far from the edge of the woods (about 20 feet). as i was walking away from the lettuce beds on my way to inspect my fledgling turnips and fucking goddamed snow peas i sensed something strange at my back. me, being seriously paranoid and easily aroused by danger, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1146384798069713682006-04-30T03:08:00.000-05:002006-04-30T03:44:59.950-05:00A nation that sows together grows togetherPlanting the seeds of a cultivated future:Save Family Farms, Save AmericaBy Willie NelsonAlternet.orgApril 27, 2006It's time to abandon the failed model of industrial agriculture and join the Good Food movement: embrace healthy, delicious food that makes the entire country stronger.As one of the founders of Farm Aid, I have watched with admiration and a good amount of satisfaction the growth of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1146221823126405322006-04-28T05:52:00.000-05:002006-04-28T22:34:55.470-05:00International Respect for Chickens DayGranny gets it rolling. And has the important details! Like this picture here. Which i stole away with in the middle of the night like a chicken thief.May 4th - get involved = Invite Chicken a'la King to your city for a Head of State Dinner.= Always put the chicken before the egg.= Tune in, turn on, chicken out.= If someone calls you a cluck... remind them that at least you ain't no turkey.= Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1146125601201075322006-04-27T03:04:00.000-05:002006-04-27T14:04:48.616-05:00Raising awareness of nuclear disarmament issuesJackie Cabasso (Disarmament Activist.org) writes:Bringing Nuclear Disarmament “Home” to the Peace and Justice MovementReaders of this blog have been privy to in-depth information and analysis about the Iranian crisis and what it really means, by my colleagues, Andrew Lichterman, John Burroughs, and Michael Spies. You might wonder about the name of our blog, “DisarmamentActivist.org.” We believe Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1145686877522746752006-04-22T01:16:00.000-05:002006-04-27T03:17:45.466-05:00tending the gardenearth day 2006photo by me.8 For previous posts - prior to April 22 - including "Divine Strake" posts GO HERE*Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1145000404502646142006-04-14T02:33:00.000-05:002006-04-14T03:23:36.033-05:00Force De FrappeMan the Caffe e Latte Delonghi Magnifica EAM-3200! - Preposition the Catapult! - Alert the Sunday Gasbag Grapevine! - Hoist the Bullyrag of Demostrative Deterrence!... To Battle Stations! To Battle Stations!2 Boobs in a Balloon: Decaying old fool Michael "Benito12" Ledeen is busy frosting his yellow-cake, piloting new folders in his My Documents window, preparing for battle as I write... and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144901598675394562006-04-12T23:08:00.000-05:002006-04-14T16:42:34.243-05:00Divine Comedy ~ who names these god-damned things anyway?Apparently it ain't Karl Rove or Hal Lindsey or Marvin Olasky or Terry Southern... apparently...The Washington Post's William Arkin has an answer:NICKA assigns each Defense Department command and agency a series of two-letter alphabetic sequences, requiring each “first word” of a nickname to begin with a letter pair. In the NICKA then, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, formerly the Defense Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144820813391605602006-04-12T00:42:00.000-05:002006-04-12T10:36:28.683-05:00Divine Strake blast halted?"It is abundantly clear, at least to me, that the military has not given up the idea of a nuclear penetrator," said Christopher Hellman, a policy analyst with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington.From Scripps Howard News Service (bold emphasis below mine):Bush's denial of plans for Iran hit wrong chord before Test Site blast By LAUNCE RAKELas Vegas Sun 11-APR-06 LAS Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144783299028913242006-04-11T14:19:00.000-05:002006-04-12T01:12:25.896-05:00Divine War on TerraNative Americans Want 'Bunker Buster' Test Stopped by Haider Rizvi Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by OneWorld.netUNITED NATIONS - Native Americans want U.S. authorities to cancel plans to detonate 700 tons of explosives on what they say is tribal land in Nevada.The planned explosion, scheduled for June 2 some 90 miles from Las Vegas, is aimed at aiding U.S. efforts to develop ''bunker Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144706984409561712006-04-10T17:07:00.000-05:002006-04-10T17:11:31.086-05:00"wild speculation" reduxAUGUST 1, 2005Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in The American Conservative:Deep BackgroundAugust 1, 2005 IssueThe American ConservativeIn Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the UnitedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144657301964827512006-04-10T03:18:00.000-05:002006-04-10T20:43:19.323-05:00General outrageNYTimes (login not required):Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld OutBy THOM SHANKERWASHINGTON, April 9 — The three-star Marine Corps general who was the military's top operations officer before the invasion of Iraq expressed regret, in an essay published Sunday, that he did not more energetically question those who had ordered the nation to war. He also urged active-duty officers to speak out Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144631423051496432006-04-09T20:02:00.000-05:002006-04-10T01:39:29.310-05:00Divine Strake and earth penetrating weapons - nukes and Iran debate"Tyson's rationale is that she is accurately reporting the statements of James Tegnelia, director of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which is conducting the test. There does not appear to be any obligation here to try to understand whether these statements bear any relationship to objective reality." - Global Security.orgThe Nuclear Information Project (NukeStrat.com):Divine Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144574942790714172006-04-09T04:22:00.000-05:002006-04-09T22:23:22.446-05:00Nuke-You-Lar Strategery4 "nuclear weapons in preemptive military strikes":FAS Urges White House to exclude Nuclear Weapons From National Security Strategy in War on TerrorismThursday, March 16, 2006The new “National Security Strategy for the United States” published yesterday by the White House strengthens the role of nuclear weapons in preemptive military strikes against terrorists and hostile states armed with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144534527737825572006-04-08T17:13:00.000-05:002006-04-08T17:15:27.750-05:00miscellaneaHow complex is the situation in Iraq? Read this:On the Ground in Iraq The roots of sectarian violenceBy Nir Rosen - Boston Review- - - - - -The State of the Media in Iraq:Baghdad: The Besieged PressBy Orville Schell - New York Review of BooksOne evening while I was in Baghdad, a British security guard mentioned that Fox News was giving a "party" in the nearby Palestine Hotel, once the almost Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1144251860964103992006-04-05T10:43:00.000-05:002006-04-05T11:06:44.040-05:00Batten down the booby hatch!Florida Rep. and GOP "sweater girl" Katherine Harris gets tough on immigration -- or is that emigration? -- anyway....From TPM Muckraker:We noted in this a.m.'s Daily Muck that Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) changed all the locks on the doors of her Senate campaign's Tampa HQ, and posted a security guard at the entrance. Roll Call's Heard on the Hill has this quote, from an unnamed former aide: "Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1143484678719839852006-03-27T13:33:00.000-05:002006-03-27T13:37:58.733-05:00Not so distant mirrorsAriel Dorfman writing in the Guardian UK: Out of FearIn Memoria del Saqueo (2004) he denounced the way in which previous governments, allied with the multinationals and the International Monetary Fund, had looted land that was once the bread-basket of the world and now could not feed its own people. Many of the "nobodies" documented by Solanas endure an existence on the outer margins of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1143293884233354382006-03-25T08:23:00.000-05:002006-03-25T08:53:50.816-05:00Pull on my dorkMr. P-Niss goes to WashingtonBREAKING NEWS: Mr P-Niss to replace Ben "Box Turtle" Domenech at the Washington Post.Unidentified "interested" sources near to the Washington Post have potentially verified Mr. P-Niss Genitalia of Pomonkey, Maryland as a replacement for deposed "Red State" blogger Ben Domenech. "The recent hire-n-fire wankoff surrounding the mooncalf Ben could not have come to a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1142939428407851272006-03-21T05:57:00.000-05:002006-03-21T08:22:55.346-05:00please don't eat the salviaJaneane Garofalo (Majority Report / Air America radio - dot com) brought up the subject of Salvia's woosie properties on The Majority Report last night. Similarly see this recent excitable bit of boing-eyed banana peel smoking hoo-haa from NPR: the great salvia scare of 2006!Run for your lives!Look. Please, all you college students out there listening to Air America or reading the the wow-wee Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1142745004659265232006-03-19T00:03:00.000-05:002006-03-19T00:57:26.736-05:00resound and reverberationCome you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masksYou that never done nothin'But build to destroyYou play with my worldLike it's your little toyYou put a gun in my handAnd you hide from my eyesAnd you turn and run fartherWhen the fast Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1142747091885424452006-03-19T00:01:00.000-05:002006-03-19T00:59:53.403-05:00Master of ceremony and sanctimonyand irony:"In this conflict, America faces an enemy who has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality." ~ George W. Bush, address to the nation, March 19, 2003*Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1141975674291177442006-03-10T02:18:00.000-05:002006-03-10T04:34:11.340-05:00"Chimes of Freedom Flashing"Rob Patterson on the Burns Sisters:At this critical juncture in this nation's history, music to move, inform and inspire the masses was in woefully short supply at folkie central. Hamell On Trial, the subject of my last column, was a notable exception. "This is what I wanted to hear more of here," said Marie Burns of The Burns Sisters, the other notable exception, as Hamell tore it up with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1141795367151578952006-03-08T00:19:00.000-05:002006-03-08T00:22:47.163-05:00retrospective and memorialI can feel all the sadness of the travelerwho has gone far away from his homeand he knows he can never return therefor the place and the people have gone.Now i wish that my heart would ever wanderin the days that will be first and lastin my memories of things to be cherishedlet me live with a touch of the past.~ from: A Touch of the Past, by Gary Williamson Springsteen Does Seeger by David CornUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1141599970398281822006-03-05T18:02:00.000-05:002006-03-05T18:09:44.900-05:00architects and aphid husbandry - "sky prawns" and the scorpion waltz...and the giant earthworms of Gippsland. New York Review of Books:4 Ant shepherds drive off aphid predators such as ladybirds, and in bad weather build shelters of leaf particles and soil to protect their livestock. They have even been observed marking their herds with a substance specific to one ant colony; it resembles our branding of livestock,...4 The idea of Australians eating their way Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0