Why do the religious demand to be taken seriously?
On another discussion forum which I haunt, we were going over the current silly-season SCOTUS case regarding the Hobby Lobby religious zealots' attempt to get their religion stuck firmly into LAW. I...
View ArticleSen. Mark Kirk, screed with an ACA "Horror Story"
I am quoting an email in it's entirety.Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois (Actually, he's from the Chicago Imperium, and we from the other end of the state don't consider that entire chunk of territory to...
View ArticleJust finished tilling the last half-acre.
EVERYONE should try to garden SOMETHING, even if it's just a couple of tomatoes in pots on the verandah. Some of us get to take it just a bit further than just a bit of a garden.A bit more than four...
View ArticleBack to the land, semi-urban style.
Update on the garden. Some successes, a couple of failures.Firstly, one of the items I have to put in the "failure" category, since nothing is as it ought tn be.One of my co-gardeners didn't seem to...
View ArticlePaying the Price for a Big Garden ....
And not minding a bit. Loving it, actually!That price is partly monetary, partly "sweat equity."The money is for the propane, the slightly-higher power bills from running the stove to process and...
View ArticleGarden Pests - Including Squash Beetles and Vine Borers
And Squirrels even get a mention....I was going to just make a comment on one of the comments to yesterday's diary entry, but it got so long I figured I should be better served to make it a diary entry...
View ArticleMidwestern US Citizens: Grow some MILKWEED!
The Monarch butterfly population is down at least 85% in the last 20 years. An area about the size of Texas which used to support their SOLE food plant, in fields, fence rows, marginal land areas, and...
View ArticleWhat criteria will we need to meet for REFUGEE status
In Canada or the UK ifTRUMP winds up as POTUS?My wife, one of the calmest, most laid-back people I have ever met, asked me recently if there was any way we could get out of the U.S. if...
View ArticleIs it me, or is television actually getting WORSE??
Is it wrong to want to neuter (castrate/whatever) the writers of “The Ding-Dong (“Big Bang”??) Theory”?? I do NOT want them to breed and continue this garbage.The premise of the whole thing is that...
View ArticleWhat's with the stupid FOG LIGHTS??
I know this forum is mostly for politics but does ANYONE ever notice their stupid automobile headlights???I have very good night vision. I drive a LOT, and prefer to make long trs at night when I can....
View ArticleHow do you go about finding a "LOST" ICE detainee?????
I am hoping that I can get some help in the “Comments” for a problem some of my Mexican friends are having with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I figure this is a big enough community there...
View ArticleAnother Good Reason To AVOID "Fast Food."
Looks as if Burger King has joined the “Sex Sells” fast-’food’ advertising game, with a vengeance. Hardee’s/Carl Junior’s, move over. BK is trying to out-sleaze you and they might have managed it...
View ArticleMonarch Butterflies.... R.I.P.
(Found this beautiful picture by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson on Wikipedia, licensed for non-profit use under the Creative Commons 3.0.)Bayer and Monsanto merged…..Millions of kilos of glyphosate being...
View ArticleDo not watch this YouTube video.
Emotional Deprivation in Infancy, A Study by Rene A. Spitz, Copyright 1952Don’t watch this. It will haunt you. Especially as this was done in 1952, and we are seeing a new wave of damaged children...
View ArticleCannot get OFF Bost's Congressional email list any more....
Once again landed on the unwanted screed-dump “Newsletter” from the pitiful excuse we here in IL-12 have for a CongressCritter. This makes about the third or fourth time I’ve been unwillingly...
View Article"But Climate Change Is Junk Science!"
“Hurricane Florence is the storm of a generation.”“Florence could have storm surge waters over 15 feet.”“Forty-plus inches of rain are possible in some already-saturated areas.”But remember, kiddies!...
View ArticleRepublican representative tweets "Happy Birthday" to the Navy with picture of...
Representative Brian Mast said "Happy Birthday, U.S. Navy" and added a picture of the "Peter the Great" Russian battle cruiser.If there was ever a “LAST STRAW” for me, this was it.(Edited to reflect...
View ArticleWhat's in the garden?
We have been growing a good portion of our own food for many years now. I have had a garden of some sort, even when living in the barracks in West Berlin, almost my entire life.I don't generally plant...
View ArticleGardening and weather and relaxation later.
It's a quiet evening, after working outside in the 32C humidity. We had our requisite thunder storm already, and it's all toads and frogs having crazy-wild amphibian sex outside now. Last night we...
View ArticleCongress-Traitor Mike Bost, You Have Betrayed Your Oath.
I know you can’t feel shame. You never could when we were growing up playing in the dirt of the trucking company yard across the street from the tar-paper shack I grew up in.But you SHOULD. You...
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