The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to notify farmers and other people living in watersheds contaminated with atrazine, a pesticide used heavily in the corn growing industry.
Wonder if Steve Bradbury from the EPA would be willing to drink the water in these contamined watersheds.
This was actually a very busy date. In fact so many events occurred on this date that I have problems picking one of significance. Here are a few:
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash. (The Katrina of the Roman Empire!) Continue reading
I thought this was an interesting list. It not only illustrates some of the differences between the first seven months of the Bush and Obama presidencies, but shows that Obama is on top of his game (and a lot less nutty).
Obama, unlike Bush:
1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries.
2. Knows who president of Pakistan is
3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels
4. Does not take orders from his veep
5. Not on vacation 40% of time
6. Clears away Bush’s harm, rather than clearing brush on farm
7. Worried about 47 million uninsured, not about 47 thousand idle rich multi-millionaires
8. Not removing oversight from bankers on theory that financiers would never steal from own bank!
9. Does not believe US menaced by Gog and Magog
10. Not ignoring threat of al-Qaeda
Posted in full, with the espressed permission of Juan Cole.
In our regular Sunday serial, the Supersizers go back to the 50s.
Sit back and enjoy as Giles and Sue eat the foods and experience the lifestyle of post-war Britain: The end of rationing, television, smog, women finding “happiness” in keeping their men happy, and Italian rarebit (pizza).
Part 1 of 6 (each about 10 minutes long)
Part 2
Go figure, right?
The chimps are on duty tonight, so keep them busy with drink orders. They’re making the rounds with snacks, but the wise would politely refuse. Just sayin’…
Enjoy!
(Note: What is missing in this debate is the savings derived from taking the cost of health insurance out of the cost of manufactured goods. Were health care reform to mandate that savings be passed to consumers, the economy would receive an immediate boost in the form of reduced prices for goods. Our manufacturers would be on a level playing field with foreign companies based in single payer/universal health care countries.)
Sunset on the Sonoma Coast
Today is Saturday, so named after Saturn, the Roman God of Agriculture.
Here’s your open thread. Feel free to share thoughts/frustrations of the past week.
As for me, I think the Health Care Reform debate was best summed up by the statement “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
As Barney Frank said, debating with such people is like arguing with the dining room table. But at least the table won’t interrupt you when you speak.
John Lennon, Imagine
I’m still hopeful for such a world…
Too Many Sheeple
Original words and music “Too Many People” by Paul McCartney, 1971
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider, 2009
Too many sheeple tuning into Fox
Too many teaching that a Peace can wait
Too many sheeple fooled into a box
Too many waiting for that Judgment Day
That was your first mistake
You took a lie they made and spoke it as true
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Sunset on the Pacific
Photo by Zooey
It’s the end of another week, the sunset of my summer break.
Over all, it’s been a very mild summer, thank goodness. I hope this means we’ll have a mild winter.
Any big plans for the weekend? I think I’ll be cleaning up and organizing my office. Might as well start the semester fresh!
Remember, tonight is music night!
I laughed myself silly watching this. Rachel and Kent hit the nail on the head with their hilarious analogy of the G(No)P’s reaction to health care reform.
That’s no hyperbole. Louisiana Senator David Vitter has stated that his desire to re-import drugs from Canada isn’t meant to help lower the cost Americans pay for their prescriptions, but rather to implode the Canadian system in order to force them to adopt the free market — and pathetically inadequate — system we have in America. Via TPM:
The central Louisiana newspaper The Town Talk reports that Vitter was asked at a town hall meeting about the fact that he opposes government health care, but supports re-importing prescription drugs from, as a constituent said, “countries that have socialized medicine.” Vitter has campaigned in the past on re-importing drugs from Canada.
“My ultimate goal,” Vitter explained, “is to use that (re-importation) to cause that (pricing) system to collapse.”
Nothing like a senator attempting to force his free market dogma onto a government which he has no authority over. What a proud day for his constituents, who probably believe that each country has a right to govern their own affairs. Is it okay to just go ahead and call this guy and nutcase and an asshole? I hope so, because that’s what I just did.
Stuck in my head…
Another favorite!
*HT: Rachel Maddow
Cool water
Photo by Zach Meier
Getting a late start this morning, so I thought I’d go with actual water for the Watering Hole today.
My youngest son is the photographer today. He likes the close-up photos.
Open thread! Anything goes.
Obesity could cost Texas $15.6 billion next year
A ‘fat tax’ for Texas? Chew on it
Is there joy to be found amongst the town hall screamers? Well, yeah!
There’s a funny thing about most Americans — we can laugh at anything!
Not those Youth in Asia crackpots again!
Seems reasonable...
A bright light...
HT: Huffington Post
