* the mechanics are German
* the chefs are French
* the police are British
* the lovers are Italian
* and everything is organized by the Swiss.
In Hell…
* the mechanics are French
* the police are German
* the chefs are British
* the lovers are Swiss
* and everything is organized by the Italians.
There is an interesting article in the New York Times about the ever increasing rise in the cost of food around the world, mainly due to the inability to cheaply transport exports around the globe. Protests in Pakistan and Indonesia over the availability of wheat and soybeans are symptoms of a larger crunch as higher energy prices begin to cripple the ways in which the global economy satisfies the food needs of billions of people. And the rise of bio-fuels also contributes to this quandry…
A startling change is unfolding in the world’s food markets. Soaring fuel prices have altered the equation for growing food and transporting it across the globe. Huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
– Link.
Good Evening
This is Tracy Fennell writing an electronic mailing regarding…
OPOSSUMS AND THEIR WILY WAYS
An actual tale of the hunt of the great shaggy mammal of the didelphimorphia order,
SEE HERE
THIS MAILING SHALL CONTAIN INFORMATION ON 9 TOTAL ITEMS, NUMBERED SEQUENTIALLY
1. YESTERDAY EVENING (approximately 2:00AM), I was alerted to the presence of said opossum threat by the vocalizations of my canine associate known as ZILLA. I was soon dispatched to the back porch to investigate the call to action.
2. MEANWHILE, the canine known as BELLE came up the back porch steps, and attempted to familiarize herself with said OPOSSUM – to be met only with HISSING and BARING OF TEETH by the dangerous and rather large marsupial.
3. Previous attempts to shoot the beast with a PUMP-ACTION AIR RIFLE were all met with extreme failure and derision on part of the OPOSSUM and my human family. I decided that more EXTREME MEASURES were needed. I heroically charged at the BEAST, saving BELLE and watched as it scrambled away at a pace which could be referred to as “slovenly”.
4. Previous attempts at blocking the OPOSSUM from being able to find refuge under the house resulted in the beast climbing, somewhat magically, the nearest TREE.
5. ALMOST PENULTIMATELY, I will tell you dear reader that I by chance thought to catch said BEAST to display to all those that doubt my abilities at the FRONTIER ARTS. I hurriedly retrieved a PLASTIC CREATURE CARRIER and a very long piece of polyvinyl chloride pipe!
6. With plastic carrier/BEAST CAGE in place, I highlighted the BEAST on the branch with the MAG-LITE darkness illuminator, while attempting to poke the OPOSSUM into submission with the polyvinyl chloride pipe. My efforts to prod the beast into, as the country people say “playing possum” were a complete and utter FAILURE, as the beast only managed to climb out of the reach of my poking device.
7. Frustration set in as I then moved to HEAVE the polyvinyl chloride pipe at the wooly beast, and as the canine associates looked on, my third thrust of the PVC pipe unfortunately came speeding back squarely into my NOSE.
8. UNTIL THEN, I felt as though my attempts to capture the BEAST were sure. Almost being knocked out, seeing a FLASH, and causing my probiscus to BLEED soon caused my attention to the threats of the marsupial to wane, and I retreated to the house to apply tissue to my wounded face.
9. THE OPOSSUM is still on the loose. BE AWARE.
THAT IS ALL.
Howdy everyone, the semester is over and I’m free for about a month! I’ll be back to posting after a mad rush to finish some stuff last semester. So, sit back, enjoy yourself and I’ll be posting again more regularly! Glad to see you!
I will admit that I voted for Bush twice. Well, that’s not entirely true, for the mere fact that I am a Texan and have labored under the delusion that the Republican party is the lesser of two evils at least has led me to vote for Bush as governor of Texas as well. There may even be a picture (somewhere in a box in the closet) of Bush I took while I got his autograph during a campaign stop in Lubbock during his initial run for governor. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me multiple times…
I can attribute some of my voting record as a case of growing up and becoming wiser perhaps. And by saying that it was a mistake to vote for Bush, that does not mean that I would have voted for Kerry or Gore either. But, the two things that completely make me realize that the neoconservatives are morally bankrupt and inherently bad for America stem from the actions undertaken in the Iraq War and the War On Terrorism™.
The attempt to justify the use of torture by this administration is downright duplicitous and wrong. I hope everyone has been following the coverage Mark Shea has been giving the topic on his blog, Catholic And Enjoying It!. This latest post on the similarities of what our own government is doing, and what we prosecuted Nazis for at the end of the Second World War is unnerving. This has led me to look at the claims that the Republican party, neoconservatives, and Bush and his administration care about Christian concerns. They have hijacked Christian concern for specific issues like abortion and used them only to gain power. All they have to do is give false promises about being concerned on the issue of abortion, or two or three other topics, and they get the vote of most serious Christians. This has got to stop. We have got to stand for politicians who realize that big government does not care about the concerns of the everyday person. Therefore it is necessary that we keep political power based on a local a level as possible.
Secondly, the whole debacle with the mercenaries employed by our government is absurd and indefensible. This article in which pro-American Kurds witnessed the Blackwater mercenaries firing upon and killing unarmed civilians is the final straw for me. These neoconservatives have serious credibility issues and if they do not cancel all of these contracts with mercenaries immediately and prosecute them for the crimes committed, history will look down on the United States of America as having promoted the use of certified war criminals. It may be too late already.
Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants
What!? Doing something may have consequences several years down the line? Who would have been so far-sighted? Duh.
Did Ahmadinejad really say that “Israel should be wiped off the map”? Read this informative article that shows something I think that some ideologues don’t want you to know.
And Ahmadinejad going to the WTC? He is trying to show an act of condolence, but it seems everything thinks 9/11 somehow involved Saudi Arabia Iran. If I lived in New York, I’d be very interested in attending his speech at Columbia. Why can I not decide myself to listen to what he has to say?
This is potentially scary news…
I wonder if the Peruvian Steven King has green stuff growing all over his farm and person?
UPDATE – Several news stories are now reporting that scientists suspect that there was not a meteorite strike, but more likely an explosion of geothermal activity. The gases associated with such explosions could make exposed individuals sick. So much for the destruction of life on Earth!
In which Middle Eastern country were there spontaneous candlelight vigils in honor of the victims of the 9/11 attacks? Kuwait? Saudi Arabia? Israel? Guess again.
