The time change has given us light at night. Plus, it's getting warm again. So, I've planted tomatoes, onions, parsley and basil.
The bees love the rosemary flowers.
Oliver returns to the yard.
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Every conversation with every friend turns to the economic distress that more and more of us are feeling. But most of us are strangely hopeful, too. We have a great man as President, willing to try anything, no matter how controversial with the "head in the sand" crowd.
That Limbaugh is paid some $38 million a year, and then attacks Obama for igniting "class warfare" lacks any irony to people not capable of perceiving irony if it hits them in the middle of their own best interests.
Precisely two percent of Americans would pay more taxes under Obama's plan, which indeed means this would be class warfare. Fat Limbaugh, the ugliest man on earth, would suddenly owe $1.1 million more in taxes.
Yes, Obama (and all of us) need to join up in class warfare against these pigs rolling in the mud, like Limbaugh the Hun. Take it to them, Mr. President. In fact, given that this hate-filled, obscene, fiendishly obese monster, Limbaugh, has acquired his wealth by trying to tear down everything that is decent about this society, I suggest seizing his assets, arresting him, and try him as a traitor. If convicted, execute him.
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We consume such a massively disproportionate amount of the planet's total nonrenewable resources that we can scarcely even imagine what the daily life of an average homo sapiens consists of. That's because the great majority of us have a roof over our head, enough food to eat, all kinds of material possessions, and access to more credit individually than entire villages or towns have throughout the half of this world that is going to bed hungry tonight.
But we are Americans, and (if you are reading this blog) you, like me, are at least middle class, or above, in global terms. So we've developed certain expectations and, dare I say it, a shared sense of entitlement.
It is time to lose that.
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3 comments:
I think a great many are about to lose their sense of entitlement...and we may grow through the pains much like an addict...denial, acceptance, etc...
It is going to be a wild ride...
Thank you, Kane. I really appreciate your comment. And, as the son of a great dad, a man I respect very much, your words mean a lot to me. Next time I am back in the Midwest, hopefully this summer, I hope to learn a thing or two from you about food!
Now that the anti-science, superstition-based initiative presidency ends, we need several public works science Manhattan projects to make us great again and boost us out of this Grotesque Depression. First we must provide free advertising-based wireless internet to everyone to end land line monopolies. Then we must criscross the land with high speed rail. Because bovine flatulence is the major source of greenhouse gases, we must develop home growable microbes to provide all of our protein. Then we must create microbes which turn our sewage and waste into fuel right at home. This will end energy monopoly by putting fuel in our hands. We must address that most illness starts from behavior, especially from parents. Since paranoid schizophrenia is the cause of racism, bigotry, homelessness, terrorism, ignorance, exploitation and criminality, we must provide put the appropriate medications, like lithium, in the water supply and require dangerous wingnuts who refuse free mental health care to be implanted with drug release devices. Churches should be licensed to reduce supersition and all clergy dealing with small children should be psychiatrically monitored to prevent molesting. Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh were the ultimate superstition based initiatives. Aborting future terrorists and sterilizing their parents is the most effective homeland security. Widen navigation straits (Gibraltar, Suez, Malacca, Danube, Panama and Hellspont) with deep nukes to prevent war. In order to fund this we must nationalize the entire financial, electrical and transportation system and extinguish the silly feudal notion that each industry should be regulated by its peers. Technology mandates a transformation of tax subsidies from feudal forecloseable debt to risk sharing equity. Real estate and insurance, the engines of feudalism, must be brought under the Federal Reserve so we may replace all buildings with hazardous materials to provide public works. Insects, flooding and fire spread asbestos, lead and mold which prematurely disables the disadvantaged. Disposable manufactured housing assures children are not prematurely disabled and disadvantaged. Because feudalism is the threat to progress everywhere, we must abolish large land holdings by farmers, foresters or religions and instead make all such large landholding part of the forest service so our trees may diminish greenhouse gases. We must abolish executive pay and make sure all employees in a company are all paid equally. We must abolish this exploitative idea of trade and monopoly and make every manufactured disposable cottage self sufficient through the microbes we invent.
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