All the talk about Hitler and fascism rings true in my body and mind.
It's interesting to talk about Nader but the question for me is not
who to vote for, but "what will I do next?"
I've been an activist since the mid-70s, so I know I'm not going
back to a non-political life no matter who wins. I'l
What is the appeal?
strong community
families which take care of elders and kids
hours spent with people you know cooking, eating, & singing
stimulation for both brain and emotion.
I am afraid of the evangelical mindset you speak about, but we
need to offer much more to contra-act it's appeal in a
Michael Perelman wrote:
> >>What is the attractiveness of the Evangelical faith.
Doug writes:
> >Absolute certainty, no? Every question is answered, every role is
> >prescribed. Just like some debased forms of Leninism.
Adrienne writes:
> What is the appeal?
> strong community
> families wh
My farm-based family is slightly better off this year due to
the dought letting up some in Nebraska. But it's not nearly
enough to make up for losses due to the dought. Generally
any figure that says "Net farm income" has to be analysized
carefully. There are many corporate farms and then there
I put a story about this announcement on our website's ag news page.
You might ck there once in a while, in a pinch, for my perspective on
big farm news.
http://www.northplattebulletin.com/NorthPlatteBulletin/stories/index.asp?pageID=29&storyID=4829
(My brother edits an alternative regional newspap
yr welcome.
a
Thanks for this.
Gene Coyle
adrienne lauby wrote:
I put a story about this announcement on our website's ag news page.
You might ck there once in a while, in a pinch, for my perspective on
big farm news.
http://www.northplattebulletin.com/NorthPlatteBulletin/stories/index.asp?p
"Farmers and ranchers I talk to are not prosperous. Most family
farmers are gone, and the ones that
are left survive by off-farm income... a job that provides medical
insurance, and/or, in some cases, investment income.
They are steadily leaving the land, and I fear they will be gone forever
withou
This is exactly the problem-- those who can play the stock market and
win (arguably a relatively small group of people) can pass on income
to their kids. And, for the kids of the losers, it's back to the ole system
whereby anyone who can't work due to age or disability must be cared
for by those w
Title: Re: [PEN-L] Global Warming: The Inuit Take on
Washingt
Anyone seen or heard anything more about this?
adrienne
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1215-24.htm
Is 400 gigatons of methane locked in the
frozen arctic tundra a ticking time bomb?
By John Atcheson for the Baltimore
Sun
Dece
Title: Re: [PEN-L] Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede
(?)
I don't know about the conjecture. Here's a bunch more
facts.
adrienne
Kenneth Blackwell has requested a
protective order to prevent him from being interviewed by lawyers as
part of a court challenge of the presidential vote. What is h
Title: know an economic writer or a grassroots
organizer?
Labor activists or writers about economics wanted for
scholarships to "windfall retreat"
Deadline: Saturday.
simple? application.
adrienne
To: "Adrienne Lauby"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: know an ecomo
Has anyone seen a timeline of when this is going to be introduced?
Which congressional committees it will land in?
adrienne
Title: E-mail to White House, Progressive
Secretary
Join this group. Support the power of the Internet
lobbying.
Notice the statistics at the bottom of this letter. In
December almost 45 thousand people asked this group to forward
their internet appeal. Only 200 joined as new members. That
t
May it be so-- and soon. >grin<
adrienne
GREENSPAN TO HEAD UP U2
Becomes Lead Singer as Bono Leaves for World Bank [by Andy Borowitz]
Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stunned the worlds
of finance and pop music today by announcing that he would leave his
post "effective immediately
This action by the right is a dangerous governmental precedent.
This can become an important wedge issue against the Administration and
the religious right on many levels, because the right wing supreme
court didn't take up the call from the right wing congress.
Nonetheless--
Did you also know that
when talking about Terry's husband. Again, apologies.
adrienne
At 11:32 AM -0500 3/25/05, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 8:13 AM -0800 3/25/05, adrienne lauby wrote:
Do you know that Terri's husband has refused for all these years to
let her have any kind of rehabilitation therapy?
I believe
I'd like an honorary membership. Would that be honorable?
adrienne
At 8:47 AM -0800 3/25/05, Devine, James wrote:
Max wrote:>It doesn't pay for anybody to get too
self-righteous about this, IMO.<
I think that this is a totally unjustified slur on us Self-Righteous
Americans.
We've been slandered,
I hope I'm not taking you out of context, Yoshie.
As I read these excepts of two posts
I see an underestimation of the power of (sensationalist) media
which is, ironically, shared by Marta Russell in her article.
California has a Physician Assisted Suicide bill coming up this
summer. Disabled voic
Title: Re: [PEN-L] Schiavo, Wedge issues, Disabled
Rights
This article addresses some of the
scientific medical issues
surrounding brain damage and the labeling
of Schiavo's
condition.
Adrienne
In Sunday's Chicago
Tribune:
THE ISSUES RAISED BY THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE
LINGER A
ND ARE AS COMPLI
I'll try to resolve the difference between these ways of assessing
this particular brain. In the meantime, how about a deep breath
and appreciation of all we don't know about the brain? I have
it from an academic expert that we are decades yet to put
everything we know about the brain into someth
In the interests of not milking, I'll keep this short.
I wrote my friend who works in a major university
as Assoc Professor, Cognitive and Neural Systems.
He said--
"Its the behavioral data that counts in the end. There
easily can be something
not picked up the a neurologists instrumentation."
If
way to go doyle
a
Greetings Economists,
Bill Lear writes,
I urge each member of PEN-L who is part of the culture of life to
phone Congress and George Bush to demand that they intervene in the
killing of Pope John Paul II, who does not have a feeding tube and who
is not being forced into the hospita
The deep trouble at WBAI is deeply troubling to a lot of people.
There are rational and smart folks who understand the
problems but not enough (yet) to make a sea change. WBAI
is worth working for-- A 50,000 watt station in the middle of
the FM dial in the largest metro area in the US during a ti
what Pacifica needs now is an competant
and wise new exec. director-- same with
the manager job at WBAI.
None of the current managers have proven to
be able to clean up the mess although, rumor
has it, a couple want to apply.
Please think who you know and talk to them
about it.
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