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RIP

Meinhardt Raabe,

'Wizard of Oz' coroner munchkin,

'really most sincerely dead'

at 94

Happy holidays to ALL

Happy Channukah
Bon Nadal
Joyeux Noel
Gelukkig kerstfeest
Mele Kalikimaka
Feliz Navidad
節日快樂.
Frohe Weihnachten
Happy Kwanza
Merii Kurisumasu
Veselé Vánoce
Merry Christmas

eclipsed

Hemp today, gone tomorrow!

Hurrah for Infinity Foods!

NatureFlex NK, a high barrier compostable cellulose-based material manufactured by Innovia Films, has been chosen by organic food wholesaler, Infinity Foods, to wrap its range of snack packs.

The transparent material was launched in 2008 and offers not only compostability, but also a moisture barrier approaching that of co-extruded OPP. This means it has the best moisture barrier of any transparent single layer biopolymer film currently available.

NatureFlex offers a sustainable solution for the packaging in this application as the film begins life as a natural product - wood - and breaks down at the end of its lifecycle in a home compost bin (or industrial compost environment) within a matter of weeks. It also offers advantages for packing and converting such as inherent deadfold and anti-static properties, high gloss and transparency, resistance to grease and oil, good barrier to gases and aromas, print receptive surface and a wide heat-seal range.

NatureFlex films are certified to meet both the European EN13432 and American ASTM D6400 standards for compostable packaging. The material typically has a renewable biobased content of some 95% by weight of material.

Repeal health care?

For 2 years, GOP leaders in Congress

fought

tooth and nail to oppose

health care reform.

They did their best to keep

tens of millions without coverage,

decrying any effort

to help citizens as "socialist,"or "fascist" .

And incredibly,

they are now talking about repealing it.

And yet, when it comes

to their own coverage,

Republicans in Congress are not only using government-sponsored health care,

they are whining about having to wait for it.

Well, four brave members of Congress

are calling GOP leaders on their hypocrisy,

demanding they practice what they preach,

and calling on them to give up their

government-sponsored health care:

Four members -- Joe Crowley (NY), Linda Sanchez (CA), Donna Edwards (MD), and Tim Ryan (OH) -- are rounding up signatures for a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker-to-be John Boehner, encouraging them to press their members to refuse their federal health benefits based on the same principles underlying their opposition to health care reform.

"It is amazing that your members would complain about not having health care coverage for a few weeks, even after campaigning to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which will help provide coverage to millions of Americans who find themselves without health insurance for months or even years," the letter reads. "It begs the question: how many members of the Republican conference will be forgoing the employer-subsidized FEHBP coverage and experiencing what so many Americans find themselves forced to face? If your conference wants to deny millions of Americans affordable health care, your members should walk that walk."

some people...

really do make a "joyful noise"

yeah... a little bit

a vain hope?

what do you do?

this

FilliBernie!

in the Mood...

for Moody

James Moody 3. 25. 1925 – 12. 9,.2010

for sister Re

I'm not liking this month much at all...

30 years

I think of him today

I think about him often...

but this is a day I'll never forget.

the last time I saw Marty...

I recently found this photo from Thanksgiving 2000

"that's all it 'tis..."

Frank Vincent Zappa 12. 21.1940 – 12. 4. 1993

Ever tried?

Ever failed?

No Matter, try again, fail again.

Fail better.

-- Samuel Beckett

I'm failing much better today, thank you.

since you've been gone

it's not the same...
an unbelievable 9 years!

george harrison 2.25. 1943 – 11.29 2001

in memory...

I'm also missing my uncle, H.B. "Chick" Frazee.
three good friends...









Roberta Josephine Smith Mills 11.24.1929-12.26.2008
Edward Feingold 11.24.1911- 10.29.1982

Public Speaking

“I am stunned that the two greatest desires (among gay rights groups) are gay marriage and gays in the military. Usually, a fight for freedom is a fight for freedom. This is a fight for slavery. There are no more confining institutions than marriage and the military. People used to pretend to be gay to get out of the Army.”

yeah?

the people have spoken

"Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
~Voltaire (1694-1778)

priceless...

on GWB's watch:

US Soldier deaths in IRAQ = 4427
Iraqi civilian deaths = hundreds of thousands
Lives lost in Katrina = 1836
Jobs lost during recession = 8 million
Lives lost on 9.11 = 2819


his worst moment?being dissed by Kayne West.

me too!

'tis the season, I guess

too much OJ?

greatest poem and delivery

and GREAT signage!




















thanks to CKoontz for this one

excellent tunage

good morning

Clare Fischer 10. 22.1928

that's the spirit !

Shame

We've come a LONG WAY, baby...

or have we??



















Can we really expect bullying and intimidation
to stop at the junior high and high school level
when we can't fix things
at the "adult" level?

REPEAL DADT NOW!

the real history...

10.10.10

I'm not the only one...

One of the good guys

"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be
gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a
helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that
must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity."





James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr 10.1.1024

4 years

seems like forever...



Stella byStarlight 12.29.1993-9.30.2006

get the message this time please

EPA Coal Ash Hearing Banner

Greenpeace activists Hope Kaye, left, and Lisa Ramsden rappel to unfurl a banner on the site of Coal Ash hearings at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky September 28, 2010. Highlighting the need for federal standards to protect public health from hazardous coal waste the activists unfurled the 23 x 23-square-foot banner that read “EPA: PROTECT PEOPLE, NOT POLLUTERS - QUIT COAL.” The protest was held at the location of the 7th of eight public hearings conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on two proposals for the regulation of coal ash disposal.

Photo by Brian Bohannon

Why?

not only is this man free to walk among us

he's rewarded with a TV show?

good night NY

http://911stories.net/

and then 1000 words...

words fail...

Soon?

music is the medicine...

and the magic





Anna Marie Wooldridge 8. 6. 1930 – 8. 14.2010

#@!

hurrah?

are we... the enemy?

A scorched earth policy

is a

military strategy

which involves

destroying anything

that might be useful

to the enemy ...

it bears a striking resemblance

to our public parks...

vertical integration at it's best

The primary sponsor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month















AstraZeneca


is a British-based multinational giant that manufactures the cancer drug tamoxifen as well as fungicides and herbicides, including the carcinogen acetochlor.
Its Perry, Ohio, chemical plant is the third-largest source of potential cancer-causing pollution in the United States, releasing 53,000 pounds of recognized carcinogens into the air in 1996.

When Zeneca created Breast Cancer Awareness Month in 1985, it was owned by Imperial Chemical Industries, a multibillion-dollar producer of pesticides, paper, and plastics. State and federal agencies sued ICI in 1990, alleging that it dumped DDT and PCBs-both banned in the United States since the 1970s-in Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors. Any mention of what role such chemicals may be playing in rising breast cancer rates is missing from Breast Cancer Awareness Month promos.

another behemoth General Electric:

"We bring good things to what again...?"

A major chemical and waste dumper with a financial interest in cancer products.

GE is a major polluter in PCBs in the Hudson River.

GE also manufactures mammogram machines.

An estimated million pounds of PCBs lie buried at the bottom of a 40-mile stretch of the Hudson, where GE dumped PCB oil until the mid-1970s, contaminating the entire 200-mile length of the river below Hudson Falls. Although PCBs (a family of 209 organochlorine chemicals) were banned in 1977, the chemicals persist in soil, air, lakes, and oceans. Classified by the EPA as probable human carcinogens, PCBs are found in the fatty tissue, sperm, blood, and milk of animals and humans the world over. Although PCBs vary in their effects, several studies link some PCBs to human breast cancer.

Faced with a government-proposed cleanup plan that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, GE launched a local media offensive assailing the measure as unnecessary because the river is "cleaning itself." These PR efforts (which happened to be aimed at a community with one of the highest breast cancer rates in the United States) prompted EPA Administrator Carol Browner to complain to the New York Assembly in 1998: "GE would have the people of the Hudson River believe, and I quote, 'living in a PCB-laden area is not dangerous.'

The science tells us the opposite is true."

do you think they might influence the media at all?

Click HERE to see what General Electric Owns

thanks to Sharon Batt & Liza Gross (Sierra Magazine)

“This product is safe when properly used”

Why do we have cancer?
I don't know.
I DO know Cancer is a multi-billion dollar a year INDUSTRY.
I DO know the Monsanto Corporation
(makers of Round-up herbicide and Round-up ready corn & soybeans, DDT, Agent Orange, NutraSweet, plastics, Bovine Growth Hormones etc etc etc) was founded in in 1901, by John Francis Queeny, a veteran of the PHARMACEUTICAL industry.

Monsanto merged with Pharmacia & Upjohn in 2000 and has extensive dealings with Eli Lilly and Co.



Anybody else smell the giant mutant rat??

(Monsanto GMO corn has been proven to cause organ failure in rats)




“This product is safe when properly used?”
leaves the EPA some very lethal wiggle room.

Gasland meets Gasbags

I understand Gasland was screened by Congress today...

this is not helping...

I can't say for certain what is causing cancer in our dogs

and in us

but I can say with absolute certainty

that this

and this

aren't helping...

Who IS Don Draper?

not this guy!

nuff said?

Independence?

U.S. of Oil