Open Thread – White on Grey on White on Grey
Cloud, sky, snow, fog, rock…
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Cloud, sky, snow, fog, rock…
A very fun lip reading adventure with Michelle Bachmann:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/-jackpot-fishy-poopypants.html
Marines stand with Wall Street protesters:
“They’re going to stand out there with those young people in their dress uniforms. And one of them had a sign and the sign said, ‘This is the second time I fought for my country… It’s the first time I’ve known who my enemy was.'”
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/van-jones-marines-stand-wall-street-proteste
I kind of think this might fall into the “urban legend” category. I heard this a couple of days ago, but all I ever saw was an e-mail saying a marine and 15 of his buddies were going to join the protesters (in uniform) to protect them from the police.
I had my doubts then, as this is against military protocol as far I can tell. You can’t just don your uniform and join any and all causes that might be out there, especially when it might involve you
confronting law and order. They could be in deep kim-chee if they did.
This is awesome.
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/10/02/get-stuffed/
Governor “Moonbeam” Is full of surprises. Too bad he and Linda Ronstadt didn’t stay together. She would still be the foxieat first lady with a voice that could shake the leaves off the trees. On another musical sideboatd-Hank Williams Jr apparently compared the Potus to Hitler and lost his Monday Night Football gig. The patriotic Faux Noise morning crew were having a fine time with Hank this morning. Political Correctness gone wild. My lack of respect for ESPN has softened somewhat. There is a growing number of country artisits that are wearing their disdain for all things democratic on both sleeves.
This is fun–the end of Sarah Palin:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/campaign-in-100-seconds-whatever-happened-to-sarah-palin.php?ref=fpb
A very happy nineteenth anniversary to President Barack Obama, and his first and only lady, Michelle Robinson Obama. May the next nineteen years be blissful.
PoliticusUSA today has a little essay on how Republicans don’t even know what “G.O.P.” stands for.
The money quote, as a reminder of why it’s now immoral to vote Republican:
“It is that they consider their ignorance to be a good, pure, and virtuous trait that makes them fit to lead the country.”
http://www.politicususa.com/en/gop-meaning
It would be funny except that it is one more instance that shows the republicans have lost the understanding of their own identity.
It’s hard to pick out a best quote, but I particularly thought this is most appropriate to describe what is going on in the GOP (Grand Old Party):
The downside is that having too many intellect hating party members can lead to the party becoming untethered from reality and existing on a fringe outside of the American political mainstream.
Faith based anti-intellectualism has invaded the GOP (Grand Old Party) to such a degree that it is risking literally not knowing what it stands for anymore. Beyond giving us a chuckle at GOP (Grand Old Party) ignorance, these results highlight one of the problems in our current political system. How can the two parties come together when one party is distrustful of facts and promoting ignorance as a virtue? Without agreement on the facts, there can be no consensus on issues and solutions.
So true and should be required to be repeated in grade schools,much like the Pledge of Allegiance-which apparently doesn’t mean much to nutters who pledge to destroy the constitution in order to save Utopia for the wealthy. How’s your new Grandchild coming along? Can’t wait until they have their own contributions to the Mudflats.
BTW it is in the low eighties this day with some wind. Farmers are combining corn and beans and so far no fires. One last week North of me supposedlyu burned a strip a mile wide and two miles long. Ouch.
Hi, Mike – “combining corn and beans” – isn’t that what you call succotash?
Ohhh, now I get it – COMbining, not comBINing!
Speaking of fires – my son just returned from Crater Lake fighting fires there.
(Seems they have had a lot of lightening strikes, unusual for this late in the season.)
The reason they had to call firefighters from AK to OR is that there are so many from the Lower 48 down in Texas. For a guv who doesn’t want any federal help, he sure doesn’t mind calling on the Federal firefighters!
Tigerwine-in the summer of 1978,I worked at the grain elevator in the little town of Cleghorn,Iowa. My job was to unload trucks and wagons that hauled in grain. Sometimes if I was on lunch break,some joker would slip in and dump corn on top of beans or oats,so that resulting mess was augured into the succotash bin overhead for later disposal. Ah the memories of being young and dumb.
Be sure and read the Bloomberg Market Magazine article “Secrets of Koch Industries”. It’s on Huffpo and Obamadiary
Here’s the link:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
We all know that a certain political party in this country is waging war on women’s rights. Please take action here:
http://stopthewaronwomen.com/
Your mother, daughter, sister, wife, or self will thank you.
Mikd from Iowa ——–I agree with you 100 %
Ahhhh, the state colors of AK – grey and white!
Ah, shit. You’re right.
Just hit me, you’re right
Well, this is scary!!!!! http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_mayer
This on top of the Koch brothers dirty work just coming out – and this is too close to my home!
thank you tigerwine. i live in NC and while i had heard of Art Pope, i actually had no idea. i kinda wish every person in NC would read this, and learn. as the article mentions, even conservatives and republicans are put off by this person’s tactics. and he’s infiltrating every segment of society.
And stories like this are exactly why I worry about having a sane, reasonable Republican candidate for President because, even if President Obama and the other Democratic candidates win the actual vote, the elections could very easily end up being ‘won’ by the GOP candidates.
I no longer trust our elections process because of the millions of dollars poured into campaigns by anonymous people and corporations who are willing and happy to lie about opposing candidates. The new touch screen voting machines have proven to be easily hacked, votes in unsealed bags suddenly turn up just in time to change the outcome of an election, all leading to the strong likelihood of rampant election fraud being perpetuated throughout our country. Add to that new laws designed to repress the votes of those who traditionally support Democrats, and fair and honest elections are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
There are no checks on this kind of enormous money being used to buy political (and therefore economic) power, and the vast majority of us regular people are seeing our country being sold to the highest bidder with no way to stop it.
A group of Marines is headed to Occupy Wall Street to protect the protesters. Will post more when I know more. Health and peace.
Winters are the time of rejuvenation for hard-worked croplands and the salt of the Earth folks that farm for a livelihood. Winter gives the soil time to mellow out and lose the compactrion of heavy equipment that drives back and forth on the surface.Mother Earth has time to repair itself and crop residue that forms the basis of new soil is allowed to break down and return some much needed nutrients for the next crop. Winter’s cold and winds bring a multitude of furry and feathered denizens to feast on spilled grain and assist their own chances of survival through the bitter cold and snow. Real stewards of the land and soil and water make improvements to their farms to accomodate most of Nature’s wild things except pesky insects and some noxious weeds. Take a walk on bitterly cold Iowa Winter days and hear the symphony of frigid cold and wind as it makes frozen power lines and barb wire fence sing and shiver. Wires actually vibrate from the cold and complain noisily,which is music to my ear.
Thank you for that Mike – it is just what my Grandfather would have said. He took his degree in Forestry at Iowa (Ames) and served the rest of his life a true Steward of the land. And a true socialist at heart, inspiring and teaching generations to serve and share.
Your description makes me look forward to winter! Once I get the unpleasant chore of putting away the summer clothes and getting out the winter ones, I’ll just enjoy the season to come at least until March when winter becomes old in northern Michigan. Where we live, cherry farmers worry that there will be a warmish spell in March because then the cherry trees sometimes start to bud and the subsequent and inevitable freeze can destroy the entire crop. So I’ll look forward to winter all through March and hope that the snow is gone by late April.
It is still warm in Southern Iowa, But the “tree” that is in our next-door neighbor’s house looks like Winter this morning. The principal of our High School lives there, and last night some “kids” T-pd the tree. The grocery must of sold out of Toliet paper by the looks of it. Will be interesting to see how all that white fluff is removed. At least his house wasn’t “egged”.
Too bad it wasn’t guv braindead’s hacienda. He could get his braindead eldest son out of reform school to clean up the stuff. Whenever I think of guv terry,I swear I can smell super-sized hog confinements in my nose holes.Yechhhh!
I remember doing that to a friend and then it rained over night. What a mess – we never did fess up that we were the ones who did it because her mom was really mad. By the time we realized what a pain in the neck it was for them, we couldn’t go over to help clean it up as they had already done it.
I can feel..the slicing cold..from..this downdraft..hear the sound of granules..drifting-falling..not yet stable..another..Birthing… ridges from whence we ..See-widely..and chart..the course…
Gosh, AKM, that photo captures the essence of frigid temperatures to come. We are going to be in the low eighties today here in NE KS, but that photo has me shivering already. One of the tests of a true artist (photographic or otherwise) is the ability to convey the essence or emotion of the subject. You certainly have accomplished that with this photo. Brrrrr.
I don’t suppose you’d consider doing another calendar……………………your photos are extraordinary.
Ditto that!!!
stunning. winter is on horizon. literally.