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Another 40th is fast approaching (August 15) - WOODSTOCK! Over 4 million attended (if you count everyone who SAYS they were there!) It was a lot - the interstate detour went down Main Street in my town, so I got to see some of them.
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time for every one of these Democrats and Squishy Reps to get an earful at home.
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/03/2009 13:59 Comments ||
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The problem as I see it is these Congresscritters just blame the dissent on "Extreme Right Wingers". They can then do what they want because it's just a small faction. They know they have enough friends with money that they will get elected again.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/03/2009 15:47 Comments ||
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Since these clips were 22 June I wonder what he has to look forward to this August.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A jury is scheduled to resume deliberations in the corruption trial of a former Louisiana congressman who had $90,000 hidden in his freezer.
Deliberations in the case of William Jefferson didn't reach a verdict last week. The 12-member jury is to resume work Monday.
Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans, is accused of receiving more than $400,000 in bribes and soliciting millions more in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa. Jefferson's attorneys say he was acting as a private business consultant and his actions did not constitute bribery under federal law.
In August 2005, FBI agents searched Jefferson's Washington home and found the cash hidden in his freezer.
The Clintons. The gift that keeps on giving...
When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer. ...and, guess what? Thay can't blame Bush.
This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem. Sewage sludge tends to be laced with anything that people pour down the drain and often contains heavy metals. Not surprisingly, the National Park Service tested the dirt beneath Michelle's garden and found the plot has highly elevated levels of lead averaging 93 parts per million. That's below the 400 ppm that the Environmental Protection Agency says is a threat to human health. But I'd wager that Sasha, Malia and Barack won't be getting arugula or tomatoes from this garden any time soon. I'll put a few bucks on that. Maybe send it all down to a homeless shelter or sumthin... The likely source of the toxic sludge that has ruined Michelle's garden? The Clinton White House apparently used a sludge-based product to fertilize the lawn during the 1990s! Aside from casting a shadow on the first White House vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt resided there, the sludge ensures that Michelle's garden will never attain organic status. Organic certification processes strictly prohibit the use of sludge as a fertilizer substitute. ...and God knows what's in their sludge.
The White House has sought to downplay the issue, and a number of experts have pointed out that 93 ppm of sludge in soil is somewhat normal for older urban locales. Think Barry and the girls will be having it in their salads? Me neither...
However, the EPA recommends not growing food in soil that has 100 ppm. Several major food producers, including H.J. Heinz and Del Monte, won't accept produce grown in sludge. That's despite decades of U.S. government efforts to encourage farmers to use solid sewage wastes in lieu of traditional fertilizer products. And remember. They're here to help.
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Balderdash. Fertilizer made from sludge, e.g. Milorganite, isn't notably high in lead. It's far more likely it's a remnant from the decades of cars driving around the White House prior to the advent of lead-free gas.
It's a common problem when people try to garden in the inner city.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
