Wow! These British ladies from the 1930’s kick ass.
Author: Christopher Merle (Page 38 of 53)
I made these boots to honor the memory of those who came before.
In the same vein as Headlines to Piss You Off (subtext Republicans are to blame, mostly), I’ve found some headlines that take it to the next level.
With another great depression under way, it may be time to plant a food garden, learn canning and food preservation techniques, stock up on canned and dry goods. Oh, and help your local community to develop a barter economy, or at least prepare for one. The latter headline is a wee overdramatic, but it is of concern.
The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
(Lester Brown is someone I would recommend you pay attention to)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,606937,00.html
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/02/2009-global-food-catastrophe.html
Victory Garden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
And if that doesn’t scare the Bejebus out of you, here’s a little factoid you may not know. The Haber Bosch process takes nitrogen from the air and turns it into forms we can use as fertilizer. It was invented over a century ago as a response to an impending overpopulation crises. Well, that process helps to keep alive an additional 2 billion people. If they stopped producing the fixed nitrogen, they wouldn’t starve. So much nitrogen has bled into the environment we wouldn’t need any more for decades.
The Alchemy of Air
http://www.thomashager.net/
People complain that geoengineering to solve our environment problems is a bad idea. We’ve been geoengineering the planet for the last 150 years (e.g. burning fossil fuels). The problem with it as always is the unintended side effects that cause problems like global warming. We didn’t know early on that putting so much carbon into the atmosphere would cause a problem or that we were even causing a problem. We very well have to turn to rapid geoengineering to alleviate some of the worst symptoms of global warming and buy us time to implement long term solutions to our environmental woes.
It doesn’t take long for me to find Headlines To Piss You Off when surfing the intertubes. Now some might think that I hate the former administration and the Congressional Republicans still in office. No. I hate what they did and are doing (or not doing).
Summary of the following story Bush took a crap on the front doorstep of the White House before he left, metaphorically that is.
Bush Faithful Rewarded With Jobs
On the Way Out, He Placed Aides and Big-Money GOP Donors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/09/AR2009020902519_pf.html
Meanwhile
The Job Market is Collapsing
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/10/8619/07868/51/695571
And speaking of which, since this is the Great Depression 2.0, shouldn’t we call them Hooverville 2.0’s? Though I’m thinking Bush-Gramm-ville 1.0 might be more accurate.
Welcome to Hooverville
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/10/9112/71321/199/695431
This headline may seem a tad overly dramatic, but the video is a bombshell. The video is found in both of the next headlines. Also the second one has more details.
USA was 3 hrs away from Economic, Political Collapse in September 2008
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/9/234340/6189/142/695504
The One Jaw Dropping Video that Every Fool Must See
http://caps.fool.com/blogs/viewpost.aspx?bpid=143295&t=01006124249416869148
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And if you have any doubts as how the Republicans plan to behave over the next two years, let this clear that up right now.
GOP, Like Rush, Sees Hope in Failed Stimulus
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/10/121447/958/988/695675
In case you’d forgotten about the ‘Hey you got salmonella in my peanut butter’ incident.
House hearing to focus on peanut executives
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_go_ot/salmonella_outbreak
He’s talking to us. It’s so good to have a real President again.
Now if you think I have it in for Republicans, you’d be right. There are some Democrats I’m none too pleased with either. “Harry ‘n Nancy, you got some splainin to do.’ Don’t even get me started on Lieberman. I was never a big fan of the Clinton’s though I have a much higher opinion of them now that I did eight years ago. Until Sarah Palin came along, I still had a negative opinion of Hillary. She did after all do what McCain did to become a Senator. Each moved to a state that required almost no residency requirements to run. John “Get-off-my-lawn” McCain became the carpetbagger Senator from Arizona, and Hillary “I dodged bullets in Tuzla” Clinton became the carpetbagger Senator from New York. Should we blame them for taking advantage of a state? Or should we blame the state for allowing that to happen? Both I think, but more blame on the states.
I am willing to give Hillary a chance to prove herself as Secretary of State. I know she’ll do a heckuva lot better job than Condi. I know. The bar’s been set pretty low. Anyway, back to the Republicans. Phil Gramm was instrumental in helping to destroy our economy by deregulating the futures market. Not only did he make it possible for Enron to do what they did. But he made it possible for corporations to Enron the whole country. Sadly, this law was passed under Clinton and not Bush. There are few Republicans lower in my opinion than him. Dick Cheney is one of them.
You might be wondering why I am a Democrat now. They are less evil, but more importantly progressives are taking over in the same way as the evangelicals co-opted the Republicans. we are pushing the Democrats to do the rights thing for America. However, instead of a force for evil, we are a force for good. I know that sounds hokey, but I didn’t have time for something more nuanced.
Where’s the headline? I’m getting there. In fact I have only one:
Leahy Calls for Truth Commission…Why?
(It should really titled 101 ways Republicans screwed America)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/9/17620/73749/286/695360
Here’s seven reasons:
Republicans started spying on American Citizens before 9/11. And as recent revelations confirm, spied on ALL Americans. The Republicans did this with no due process, no probable cause and no warrants. The Republicans established Gitmo. The Republicans thus dissolved Habeas Corpus, the basis of all law in Western Civilization, and began to torture the detainees. Many of which have been proven to be innocent…and in the process established the number one recruiting cause of an entire generation of new terrorists. Number one anyway, until the Republicans transported their torture techniques and regimen from Gitmo….to Abu Ghraib. Which brings us to…the Republicans invaded Iraq. Widely viewed as the greatest foreign policy blunder in American history, the Republicans are directly responsible for the deaths of up to a million Iraqis…and over 4000 dead American soldiers and tens of thousands of wounded ones.
That’s not the America I grew up in. Yes, America has had many dark chapters in it’s history (e.g. Trail of Tears, Japanese internment), but it’s always pushed forward with the ideas of liberty, equality and justice for all. It’s got a long way to go to live up to them, but let’s not let the Republicans destroy it.