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not defending Rangel’s action…but,no, he is not ruling class. He is person the ruling class buys.
I’m confused. Is it correct to say that Snappy has (a) two cats that need to live in separate quarters who seem to eat and poop just fine but who almost no one has ever seen; (b) one, or maybe two goldfish that play dead from time to time but can be revived easlily with the threat of drowning — yeah, a fish drowning — in the toilet bowl abnd being flushed away; (c) a tempermental tarantual who needs to chill out in the fridge sometimes; and (d) a boa constrictor that lives in the fridge and doesn’t play well with tarantulas? Have I missed anything? Was there a turtle, too, or am I misremembering? You guys on snappy duty need combat pay. Or better yet, just hire Gunther Gabel-Williams.
I poked Soosie’s bag & she’s really out of it. Plus I put Tara on the top shelf – well away from Soosie’s drawer.
Pete, you wouldn’t say rangel is part of the ruling class?
Charlie was good in so many ways – it’s really disappointing that he, too, has feet of clay.
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rob – I put the tarantula in the fridge since I couldn’t find flies The cold slows his metabolism.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soosie the Boa is in the fridge!!!! they do not get along!
*rob*
“Great news, rangel finally realized that the head of the way and means committe shouldn’t cheat on his taxes and game the system.” — yeah, that is providence of the financiers and ruling class only.
CH – sorry I didn’t send you my chair pictures last night — I realized I didn’t have any of the redone ones (have before pictures though). I will definately do it tonight.
We export half of our corn. We are at a huge trade surplus re agricultural products. Organic farming is not the reason for hunger. By the way, something I found out at a conference last year — the yield per acre for corn in 1950 was 30 bushels per acre! That blew my mind — I knew that we had made advances in seed technology but that is amazing.
And the recent yields of 155 are a record. That was from Syngenta, which does R/D on seed technology and has developed many of these disease, bug, drought, etc. resistant seeds.
Given all of that, I don’t eat organic food if I can help it – why pay double? Besides I am trying to build up my immune system.
Organic and such is not the big issue for me (nor are we lacking acreage for farmland) – But is the big agribusiness that for perhaps all its effiencies in producing yield is environmentally become a disaster for areas such as Chesepeake Bay and midwest where huge pig and chicken farms reign. Bigger environmental disaster than the Gowanus canal by far. Yet agribusiness is so entrenched with washington dc there is no limit to their power.