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• Proposed changes to Social Security would make a majority of seniors 'economically vulnerable' || Economic Policy Institute
• Booz Allen — the world's most profitable spy organization || BusinessWeek
• Paul Krugman: How are these times different? || NY Times
• In Syrian chemical weapons claim, criticism of lack of transparency || Washington Post (Niger yellow cake?)
• Measure of America: Is Connecticut the best state now? || Slate
• Pentagon: Reading Salon makes you a threat || Salon
• GOP hates the poor too much to end farm socialism || NY Mag
• Four ways the government subsidizes risky coastal rebuilding || Mother Jones
• Bernanke kills credibility and confidence fairy in one shot || Naked Capitalism (1937)
• Welcome to the Police Industrial Complex || Huffington Post (oro valley, az had an armored car when i was there in 2003)
• Detroit's debt crisis: Everything must go || Rolling Stone
• Syria: Inventing a religious war || NY Review of Books (assad is smart. obomba is dumb)
• How poor students subsidize unworthy college sports || Bloomberg
• What the hell is happening in Brazil? || Andrew Sullivan (the governments control the media thru the few corporations that own it
all. you can bet the US would kill all smartphones in a nanosecond if
real riots broke out or fill the air with disinformation to subdue the
populace.)
• Who are the real traitors? || Zero Hedge (…the rich want to drive us into slavery and kill any and all entitlements…)
• The libertarian iCapitalists wouldn't have anything to do with the state…would they? || The Guardian
• America's emigration problem, in charts || The Atlantic
• 38 vintage conversation rules || The Art of Manliness
• Why India trails China || NY Times
• Investigation follows trail of virus in hospitals || NY Times
For phxsunfan
Detroits Debt crisis is about the closest thing to the following I could find from the above suggestions.
I had a great Uncle, named Gideon that never left the Iowa river bottom farm he was born on.He never had a companion in life except his guinea hens and the nature that living miles from civilization brought. He survived off a small garden, his chickens, and the river. He did not hunt.
My uncle Harold would take Gideon supplies once a month and occasionally I would go along to his house that was falling down from years of neglect surrounded by tall un-mowed grass and trees. His dinner plates are the most re occurring vision I have to this day. They had some type of fancy design but they had a million cracks in them. Somehow they did not fall apart.The Des Moines River was a place I learned how to bait 50 hooks on a line for fish and turtles. And where I learned to hand fish nude for Catfish and Carp. A forty pound carp can give a 90 pound kid quite a ride. I think I inherited some of my great Uncles desire to avoid civilization. He always had a smile, appeared to be happy and lived a long time. After he died the state bought his property, built a dam and now this once peaceful and tranquil slice of nature lies under many feet of water used to provide power for high density urban rats rotting in crumbling cities in small unhealthy, stacked on each other confines called apartments, condos and the like. And I repeat.
Clifford Simak from his novel City.
“And the dogs sat around the campfire and debated whether man ever existed.”
For JJ a note under Vines.
I hesitate to ask, but will anyway: what did you use for bait whilst nude noodling?
my, eclecticdog where does ur mind wander. Someone in an earlier blog suggested a possible answer. “4 inches”.
No bait needed. the fish lie along the banks under tree roots and on the bottom of the river, depending on the type of fish. The trick is to slip your hands into their gills and hold on. Is best to prepare these bottom feeders by use of a pressure cooker. I turned this skill into a profit in Arizona’s canals as my Zanjero father gave me a key that allowed me ahead start on capturing and selling fish from the canals as SRP drained them for cleaning once a year. SRP does this less frequently now. And SRP now has a contract with an out of state company to move fish stuck on the east side of the spillway at about 64th street and Indian School to the west side of the spill way. Your electric costs at work.
Hey cal, apropos your comments regarding the intelligence community’s compromising of Obama’s office:
The spirit of that old blackmailer J. Edgar is alive and well in the NSA.
Bush-Era NSA Whistleblower Makes Most Explosive Allegations Yet…
Petro nutin changes Lucy still has the football
Couple of good new comments from Buford on “More Vines”(previous post)
Buford have u been to Acrosanti? I think its going to fall apart and that is a shame but a few months ago I visited and enjoyed my time there. Also is a response I also posted to your comment on the inevitable people uprisings on the Vines blog.
Dont know if you all caught Bill Moyers Special on ALEC but reference Global Warming, ALEC is promoting the world temperature rise as having good profits for corporations. The drama may play out when a war against things like ALEC are recognized by the populace as the enemy. The coming internal war in the US will not play out like Star Wars where the little guy wins as the corporate Death Star ship is gearing up with the NSA and the military complex including the likes of Booze Allen and Blackstone to insure the survival of the Barons and their city states. Serfdom will be back and your children will be the ultimate losers. The time is now not later. Subscribe to Adbuster.
Cal Lash a 72 year old conservative Arizona Republican
Rand Paul may be one of the few thinking congressmen and women in the US.Especially when you see Diane Feinstein in bed with the likes of Peter King.
Rand Paul Warns Edward Snowden: Don’t Cozy Up To The Russians.
“I would say that Mr. Snowden hasn’t lied to anyone,” said Paul. “He did break his oath of office, but part of his oath of office is to the Constitution, and he believes that, when James Clapper came in March, our national director of intelligence came and lied, that he [Snowden] was simply coming forward and telling the truth that your government was lying.
Buford I left you a comment on vines about the coming conflicts.
Reference buildings, If you have not visited and stayed at Arcosanti I recommend it and soon as with the passing of Paolo Soleri I think its going to end up being lost probably to a developer or a cattle ranch.
From a cartoon by P.C. Vey in the New Yorker.
“I dont mind giving up the appearance of privacy to live with the illusion of safety.”