Call Congress: Ask for a "NO" vote on food labeling repeal
The House will be voting in a few hours on HR 4167, a bill that proposes to enact "uniform" food labeling laws. Uniform, as in if your state has more stringent labeling laws than the federal...
View ArticleTinfoil hats could be government plot: MIT research
In light of concern about the possibility that DHS might be monitoring dKos, I thought the community would wish to be informed about this matter. Some folks at MIT released a study on the efficacy of...
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Isfahan: Heart of Persia, Possible Ground Zero
And here we begin yet another entry whose title was so very nearly something like, "How F*cking Stupid Are These CheeseF*cking, P*ssDrinking, GoatBl*wing Cretins!?" And I thought to myself, "Self,...
View ArticleFearing Crusade in Qatar
I took a look at Al Jazeera's arabic version via Google's beta Arabic translator today. Oh boy. While the translations still have a way to go, sentence structure variations clearly still a big hurdle,...
View ArticleSen. Cantwell & the 'Death to Iran' bill
I can barely steady my hands enough to type right now, I am indescribably furious and can only request leniency for the inevitable rhetorical excess to follow. I checked the Daily Kos this morning to...
View ArticleDeath to Iran, the 2nd: Boxer did it too!
I'm happy because my post yesterday got at least one friend of mine to call Sen. Cantwell's office and express their disapproval over the egregiously named Iran Freedom Support Act, or as I've come to...
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Interview w/ Cindy Sheehan in Seattle for McDermott Fundraiser
Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace spoke in Seattle this past weekend and was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for Rep. Jim McDermott's legal fund Sunday, naming the congressman as one of...
View ArticleAyaan Hirsi Ali No Longer Dutch
Though the Dutch parliament has insisted on an appeal, as reported by Al Jazeera, the most famous Dutch politician outside the Netherlands was notified that she would be stripped of her Dutch passport...
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Shiny, Happy Lichens in the SEM
And now, for something completely geeky: I've been virtually sequestered for the last couple weeks writing a soil science report, but on Friday I let myself out of the house-food source-computer lab...
View ArticleMark Warner on Iran and Venezuela
Mark Warner gave a beautiful speech at YearlyKos today about getting a fair shot at the American dream that could have been lifted right of the frontpages of dKos. But what about his foreign policy? He...
View ArticlePBS Budget Cuts Proposed. Again.
A 23% budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hence PBS and NPR, made it out of committee June 7. Tell your congresscritter to vote against slashing funds for public radio and television....
View ArticleFrameshop: Party of Cain
From the New American Bible, Genesis, Ch. 4:8 Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out in the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the LORD...
View Article45 Minutes With Darcy Burner (WA-8)
Darcy Burner, running in the highly competitive 8th Congressional District of Washington State sat down for a taped interview with me last September. Do you want to know why it took nearly a whole...
View ArticleTSA Sanctions Mile High Club
I don't usually go to Neil Gaiman's site for new information about the war on terror, but he's got some anyway. While he was looking through the list of proscribed items, he discovered that ......
View ArticleWA-08: Another 45 Minutes w/ Darcy Burner
Darcy Burner, Democratic candidate for the 8th Congressional District of Washington State (WA-08) running against incumbent Republican Dave Reichert, as interviewed on 8/22/06 for another 45...
View ArticleFor Lieberman
The Conneticut polls are a little disheartening, though I'm going to hold out hope all the way until Tuesday. You've got Ned Lamont, a great Democrat, vs. lying, possibly criminalRepublican, Joe...
View ArticleThe Racism of the Anti-War Movement
A retrospective of one of the most insidious neoconservative slams of opposition to the war in Iraq ...Former CIA director James Woolsey on Nightline - 03/04/03... There's a word for people who say...
View ArticleThe free movement of terrorists and their money
It wasn't until I read Digby's post about Bush's ongoing Strangelovism, which indeed should hardly be news, that I really noticed this other largely untrue thing Bush said in his state of the union...
View ArticleIran: Some Democratic presidential candidate views
Not-quite-live from the Democratic National Committee's Winter Meeting, I got to ask some of the candidates and possible candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination about their views on the...
View ArticleRewarding sustainable farming: The Conservation Security Program
There are several government programs that either pay farmers to adopt sustainable farming techniques, mitigate environmental disasters or preserve wildlife habitat. That's great, though one thing...
View ArticleFarm Reports
Your keen curiousity about the wide world of agriculture can be assuaged below ...
View ArticleVegetables of Mass Destruction: Information, Commodities and Grazing
Last week, the meeting of the University of Wisconsin's board meeting for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) was all about sustainability. How to preserve the land, preserve farm...
View ArticleFarm and Biofuel Reports
Your curiosity about the wide world of agriculture assuaged below ...
View ArticleWhy I'm Not Backing A Primary Candidate
Melissa McEwan has followed Marcotte in resigning from the Edwards campaign: A second blogger working for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Tuesday under pressure from conservative...
View ArticleFarm and Biofuel Reports
Satisfy your burning curiousity about agriculture and the biofuels markets below ...
View ArticleCAFOs and Avian Flu
Unless you eat all organic meat, a CAFO, or Concentrated/Confined Animal Feeding Operation, was probably the source of all the animal products you've used recently. Meat, milk, cheese, eggs, gelatin...
View ArticleUSDA Recalls GMO Contaminated Rice Seed
Genetically modified plants are perfectly harmless and totally under control: The Agriculture Department last night took the unusual step of insisting that U.S. farmers refrain from planting a popular...
View ArticleFarm and Biofuel Reports
Chickens and Farm Bills and corn, oh my! Read on to join the ranks of the agricultural in-crowd ...
View ArticleVegetables of Mass Destruction: Fair Markets For Farm Country
OrangeClouds115 asked, so ...The typical American wage worker hasn't gotten a raise in somewhere around thirty years: [From the report], "A New Social Contract: Restoring Dignity and Balance to the...
View ArticleTiny, Little Countries Beat U.S. In Technology Innovation
Avedon Carol, in a news trawl that also pointed out the shadow war between the dirty hippie bloggers and the MSM, notes that the U.S. is slipping in terms of technological innovation and has fallen to...
View ArticleMy Life With Domestic Terrorism
Be afraid. Be very afraid.That's what terrorists want. That's what they feed on. That's how they exert control and influence, how they wield their power.Once they've given you a reason to fear them,...
View ArticleMy Life is Non-Negotiable To Me
In response to irishwitch's excellent diary about how OB-GYNs say that the Supreme Court was in the wrong, and in which she castigated anti-choice Democrats, someone predictably accused her of what's...
View ArticleLies The Economist Told Me
The Economist's latest issue, June 2nd-8th 2007, contains a 15-page special report on the business community's response to climate change. Other people may be more qualified than I to examine the...
View ArticleCan We Outsource Immigration Lawyers, Too?
Go to the Programmer's Guild for more:Found here at Information Clearinghouse, where they provide this description: Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in...
View ArticleFarm, Food and Biofuel Report
United StatesNote to would-be Farm Bill reformers everywhere: There are no U.S. Congresscritters whose constituencies include West African cotton farmers. There are no U.S. Congresscritters whose...
View ArticleHouse 2007 Farm Bill Hearing, Day 1
Washington, D.C. - "A sound compromise that no one is satisfied with, but nevertheless represents real reform." - From Rep. Collin Peterson's (D-MN) opening statement today on the 2007 Farm Bill.The...
View ArticleHouse Agriculture Committee Blocks Courts To Small Livestock Growers
Washington, D.C. - The House Agriculture Committee voted a little after 4pm ET to repeal a provision added to the 2007 Farm Bill by Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA), chair of the Subcommittee on Livestock,...
View ArticleWill netroots assist in seppuku by Farm Bill? [Updated]
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again.... There is a tiny splinter...
View ArticleElitist Food
So, if you didn't know, I sold my car before moving to DC. The last time I drove was to the U-Haul place to drop off the truck. Parking is a nightmare here and it's expensive, too. I figured, hey, my...
View ArticleDiversity and Mobility
Well, it looks like diversity is not only scary, it makes people unhappy. Erm, right.I wrote about what I think is a major hidden variable in the low social capital of modern, urban populations last...
View ArticleClimate: Consequences and Soil
Bill McKibben, who's run the Step It Up! efforts to draw attention to the climate crisis has urged people to support carbon emission reductions of 80% by 2050. That people are paying attention, that...
View ArticleWorld Warming Warnings
Is it just me, or is does it seem like the temperature's setting in to get warmer, or like the weather all over the world is going crazy, while Congress' response has been tepid? Right. Just me, then....
View ArticleClimate News Roundup
Again with the news about the eminent, catastrophic collapse of our human habitat ... unless we do something about it immediately. Is this an electoral issue? It could be, though it'd be nice if more...
View ArticleExpanding Medicare
"Everybody knows the insurance companies make money by not providing care." - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Oct. 30, 2007 "[The Republicans] don't get that a family of four making $50,000 a year can't pay...
View ArticleWhy I'm Endorsing Hillary Clinton
That does it. The final, frakking straw.I have five main political interests, as things go; climate change, agriculture, women's rights, war and corporate power. All of the major presidential...
View ArticleHomework - Three Nice Things
Barack Obama was a good progressive when he was an organizer and state legislator in Illinois and has a good telecom policy. John Edwards has done a tremendous amount of work to highlight inequality...
View Article'It's a favor not to arrest you'
Many environmentalists and conservationists in the US have cheered the possibility of a deal in Copenhagen at the COP15 that would funnel money to the developing world to preserve forests and wildlife...
View ArticleNot Nuclear, Again
I understand Dave Johnson's position that, given the scope of the climate disruption we're facing, we should throw everything we can at greening our energy production [link updated.] It makes sense...
View Article"We write legislation, and they pass our ideas."
Wisconsin State Rep. Mark Pocan is attending the ALEC conference in New Orleans this year. He'd been on the ground in New Orleans only a few minutes when he overheard this:“Yah, I’m down in New Orleans...
View ArticleWhat I learned about sitting down, a 2004 flashback
A friend shared this retrospective on the the Dean Scream, and asked me if it was like I remembered. More or less. I was living in Washington State then, and I went to Iowa to knock on doors and drive...
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