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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:30:37 -0700

This is perhaps one of the funniest things to come out of this entire election cycle, and that says a lot.

What if Jesus was running for President? Well, we know he'd be considered a leftist Democrat. How would the Republicans attack him. I think it'd go someting like this:

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI

Soft on terrorists, hard on the pocket book. How much do you really know about your lawrd and say-voyeur?

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:44:07 -0700

Yet another wonderful speech by my new boyfriend, Joe Biden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5klKRYMPEVY

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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:45:12 -0700

Oh, here's a good one: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=

Now conservatives are asking the big P to step down and stay home to take care of her baby.

Nice! But, could that possibly leave us with someone other than President Lieberman?

You may begin freaking out any time you like.

Voting Obama will, of course, help avoid any of these terrible scenarios, but the big bad is coming in the next few weeks whether we like it or not. I'm putting you all on warning, you have 10-14 days from NOW to get your shit together. I am not kidding. I'm talking seeds, dog food and ammo. I predicted this, to the week, back in 2005: http://www.hypothetical.net/diary.php?usr=sillydog&op=comments&id=1124996796 .

Here's Where I Lay It Down for Y'all
So, here's my worry: it seems clear that the Rove-style Republicans are more than willing to sell the country down the river just to make Obama look bad, since they can feel the election slipping away from them. They'll make you and I pay, on the off-chance we'll be foolish (or drugged) enough to them again, as if it weren't their fault in the first place and say, "Help me Jack Pepsi!"

Either way, we are all well-fucked -- it quite literally makes no difference. Here's how it works: the bail-out passes and they crash the economy so they can say that the Democrats fucked it all up by rushing in. They don't pass something and they blame the Democrats for inciting the wrath of Wall Street by not giving them what they want.

House Republicans (just one side of the ugly rabble) are claiming that they're getting constituents calling at a ratio of about 90:1 against this bail-out. Of course, the very same thing is going on at Democtratic offices, too. That's what my former boyfirend, Peter DeFazio (oh he's so dreamy) said, and I believe him. Finally, a bipartisan issue we can all get behind.

I would call someone who would sell the citizens of their own country out just to make a political point (as those who would argue that the act of "allowing" the 9-11 incident to happen would have done) to be a terrorist of some sort. These bankers (aka human ass-cancer) who are threatening to make us all pay big time, very much, if we don't pay them a ransom to the tune of several thousand dollars each.

To go a little further w/ the 9-11 thing, don't thinnk a paltry few thousand will die if the money just goes away tomorrow. To assume that Americans don't get worked up about death if it isn't in a fire-ball explosion is to blow us all a collective raspberry that suggests we are even lamer than a nation who is, on the whole, bad at math.

I mean really, aren't extortion and terrorism the same thing when you get right down to it? So, what is a smart guy running for president to do? Here's the game plan, Stan:

You need to do something the Rove isn't expecting. He's seen a lot of shit in his time, but I'll warrant that very little of it looks like confident and well-reasoned principle. You blow 'em all away by calling Wall Street out and use the Republican rhetoric against them. You call Paulson a freakin' terrorist and propose to give that $700 billion to people or, more specifically, pay off people's morgtages so the money crisis doesn't become a housing crisis since Wall Street is going to have its way with us, no matter what.

I'm sillydog, I'm the urban farmer of SE 7th Avenue, and I approve this message.

As for the crisis of 2010, it'll be an armed rebellion led by Christian evangelicals. You head it here first, and I expect you to hold me to it. I say we let 'em have Florida. Hahahahahahahahaha. I love irony.

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Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:22:47 -0700

This is the most valuable thing you'll read all weekend

This article spells out the hypocracy of the "outraged right" side of the aisle.

To hell with those lying liars and the supposedly "liberal media." This proves you don't have to be the 700 Club to pander to these idiots.

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Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:46:38 -0700

I made this tonight and thought you might find it a good for using the current crop of produce. It's

Sorta Thai and Sorta Japanese Soup
(shamelessly adapted from Kinta and online Pad Thai recipes, to suit Matt's tastes and to use what was in the fridge and what was left over from graduation barbecues)

Simmer up for about 45min (-1 hour) in a good-sized pot, 'til everything sinks to the bottom:

6c water
6 lime leaf
1/2c lemongrass
1 Tbs white/green/pink peppercorns
1 tsp grated ginger, fresh (or 1Tbs dried galangal)
1 tsp corriander seed, slightly ground
6-10 whole thai chiles, dried
2Tbs apricot jam
1Tbs fish sauce
1/2 lime, juice and zest
1 dash turmeric

Strain the chunky bits out and dump back into the big pot. While you're doing that, prepare in a small pot and simmer for about 20min

1/4c dried shitake
3Tbs fish sauce
1/4c soy sauce or tamari
3Tbs rice vinegar
2 tsp sugar
2 Tbs white or yellow miso
1/4c coconut milk (optional)

Dump into the big pot and add a handful of rice noodles - the thick ones are nice, but the thin ones will do. Let cook for a few minutes and add

3/4c bamboo shoots, julianned
1/2c radish (daikon or breakfast radishl), grated
3-4 pok-choi, leaves and stems pulled from center mass
1/4c fresh cillantro, chopped
3/4c cooked sweet corn, removed from cob

Cook 'til the 'choi is just turning bright green and noodles are done.

This soup is ripe for changes in the veggies added, according to season. I'd replace bamboo shoots with carrots as the season progresses. You could sub spinach, mustards or turnip greens for the pok choi. I like to wait until Matt has finished a jar of jam and then add a bit of water to rinse out the 2Tbs that is invariably stuck to the side -- strawberry works good, too. Bean sprouts would be tasty, too.

Matt keeps telling me to write these down, so consider this one written down.

-M

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Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:25:39 -0700

No, I don't have a site to recommend here. In fact, it's a reprint of a letter that I sent a friend of mine who has a mould problem in her house. We not only had a mould problem but, the roof was leaking so bad that chunks of the bathroom ceiling were coming down with a deluge every time it rained. Well, that'll happen when the roof is down to the squirrel chewed plywood, but I digress.

I made a anti-mould formula that worked like gangbusters. As described here is my home-made whitewash recipe along with the wintertime vapour venting procedure. As you can tell, we work at home and are able to babysit the air in our house more than most.

Here's what I did:

I started by spraying down the surfaces with lemon juice, giving a good scrub and then spryaing again w/ lemon juice again after wiping all the surfaces dry. You can use that on pretty much anything. The whitewash is best for exposed sheetrock we were dealing with. I just did this 'til it seemed right, so the measurements are sort of a guess.

about 2c 100% isopropyl alcohol -- rubbing alcohol (about 30%) might do the trick, but I don't know how well the zinc will dissolve -- you might have to experiment
3/4c lemon juice (reconstituted citric acid)
1/2c powdered white zinc
40 drops tea tree oil
20 drops myrrh oil
20 drops lavender oil
30 drops myrtle oil or lemon myrtle oil
10 drops rosemary oil
40 drops cedar oil

I just mixed it all in a bucket and sort of painted it on with a rag -- giving what amounted to two coats and maybe three in the corner where it was the worst.

This dried and smelled very heavily for several days. I just kept the window open. Then I introduced a strict program of venting the moisture. What I'd do is turn on the heater in the b-room about an hour before Matt got in the shower so the air was nice and warm and able to hold a lot of moisture -- also the walls wouldn't be so cold and ready to condense the vapour. I'd leave the heater on during the shower. Then I'd be very careful to keep all that moiture from esacping into the rest of the house by keeping the door closed. Then, I opened the b-room window, and put a the heater in w/ just the fan blowing out in it. Next, I took a big box fan and pointed it in the other direction to blow against the wall and just let them both run
for about 1.5 hrs and then it'd be bone dry in there. Close the window, turn the fans off and open the door to let the room warm back up again.

The protocol was a very important component, but I know the witewash worked, too, because the medicine cabinet where I didn't put any whitewash on grew some mould this year. Also, since the house was pretty cold much of the winter, it only got above about 55F in that bathroom when I heated it up in the morning. I don't know what temperature bathroom mould grows best at, but I'm guessing it's about 70F. We had at least three kinds with the black, brown and pink.

I hope this helps. I've got the zinc powder, if you want as well as most of the oils. There's a shop over on Hawthorne that carries many of them, I think, otherwise you can get them from all sorts of places on line -- 1/4 oz of each is more than plenty to do your entire house, I'd think.

-Marie

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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:06:31 -0800

You know, for some reason it didn't occur to me that someone would actually give me a "negative review" and actually tag me as a "moron." This is the part where I remind myself that I probably deserve it for calling someone an asshole somewhere, sometime. This is where Matt reminds me that even the noble and mostly fictional JFC got mad sometimes, too. Well, no doubt the fellow who called me a moron would also call me a sensitive hippie or some such.

Still kinda hurts, tho.

That's a sissy girl thing to say, but my feelings are genuinely hurt, just as they were when I foolishly started publishing photos on that horrible FlickR group where people abuse and vote for and against others' photos. How shameful; I should know better at this point in my life. I mean, I don't even take or recommend anyone else to take herbs on anything like a regular basis (though the myrrh oil and zinc oxide did a great job on the bathroom mildew). Do I actually give off the impression that I'm not a believer in appropriate technology? If so, then perhaps I'm not a very good writer, as I have always suspected in my darker moments.

Perhaps I've not been rigorous enough in my thinking lately. Perhaps this "well-meaning" business is how a gal slips into yet another dark alley of the mind where terrible and illogical things like having your feelings hurt happens. Or perhaps the differnece is that I used to feel very much the same way about the vaunted science until my 7th or 8th year in college. Perhaps I miss being so sure.

But wait a minute, I did write a whole freakin' blog about all the cool science at NASA, applauding the people who actually have the clever ideas while outlining the motives of those who would manipulate actual Rocket Scientists. Moreover, I do have a freakin' degree in Ag and can prove with real numbers that sustainable farming will feed this country and in grand style. You know what, I apologize for nothing.

Regardless, I need to grow a damn skin. I mean really, what do I care? I really wish I didn't.