tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post6863311790465983396..comments2023-12-21T03:31:54.013-07:00Comments on Alternate Reality: How To Tell a Joke (about Bush and Global Warming)/Springsteen's Latest Politicscapthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541180524537586259noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post-67648638876382999722007-10-01T09:03:00.000-06:002007-10-01T09:03:00.000-06:00New Thread<A HREF="http://alternatereality456.blogspot.com/2007/10/news-aboutme.html" REL="nofollow">New Thread</A>capthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541180524537586259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post-86850322963227575962007-10-01T08:48:00.000-06:002007-10-01T08:48:00.000-06:00White Supremacists Urge Followers to Hang Nooses i...<A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/64001/" REL="nofollow"><B>White Supremacists Urge Followers to Hang Nooses in Their Communities</B></A><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Brklyngrl: In a disturbing trend since the incident that sparked the Jena Six case, noose incidents are popping up all over the country.</B><BR/><BR/><BR/>This post, written by Brklyngrl, originally appeared on <A HREF="http://www.openleft.com/" REL="nofollow">Open Left</A><BR/><BR/><BR/>Although I've been extremely negligent in my Jena blogging, I assume most of our readers are acquainted with the basic outlines of the situation. If not, <A HREF="http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/message.html" REL="nofollow">Color of Change</A> is a great place to start. I was moderately hopeful that some good would eventually come out of this - but so far it seems to have kicked off a series of copycat noose incidents. The Southern Poverty Law Center <A HREF="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/09/20/jena-rally-sparks-white-supremacist-rage/" REL="nofollow">is reporting organized online efforts by white supremacist groups</A> to encourage followers to hang nooses in their communities, among other things.<BR/><BR/>First, there was <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/21/car.nooses/index.html?eref=rss_topstories" REL="nofollow">an incident in Alexandria, LA</A> (about 40 miles from Jena) where an unnamed 16 year old and 18 year old Jeremy Munsen were arrested with two nooses hanging from the back of Munsen's pickup truck. The 16 year old told police his family was in the KKK, and that brass knuckles and unloaded rifle found in the car belonged to him. Then, <A HREF="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3638457" REL="nofollow">4 nooses were found at a high school</A> in High Point, North Carolina. The nooses were found hung from the main flagpole, in a parking lot, and (two) hung in a tree at the front of the school. Also, there were the <A HREF="http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=7128844&nav=0RYb" REL="nofollow">two nooses at the Coast Guard Academy</A>. One was left in the bag of a black cadet in July, the other in the office of an officer who conducted a race relations training.<BR/><BR/>Up here in the North, it's a similar story. <A HREF="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-noose_bd_30sep30,0,4588729.story?coll=chi-technology-hed" REL="nofollow">Outside of Chicago</A>, an unidentified student drove to Warren Township High School with a noose hanging from his rearview mirror. Worse yet, people are trying to excuse it, using a variation on the same ludicrous excuses we're hearing from those down South.<BR/><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/64001/" REL="nofollow">More HERE</A>capthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541180524537586259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post-41311815318090424712007-10-01T08:23:00.000-06:002007-10-01T08:23:00.000-06:00Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Na...<I>Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.</I><BR/>~ John Muir (1838 - 1914)capthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541180524537586259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post-37026146279647932052007-10-01T08:21:00.000-06:002007-10-01T08:21:00.000-06:00If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summ...<I>If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.</I><BR/>~ Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992capthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541180524537586259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post-14008427108911801782007-10-01T08:20:00.000-06:002007-10-01T08:20:00.000-06:00The Blessings of Dirty Work_____________________Th...<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092801324.html?hpid=opinionsbox1&sub=AR" REL="nofollow">The Blessings of Dirty Work</A><BR/>_____________________<BR/><BR/>The Blessings of Dirty Work<BR/><BR/>By Barbara Kingsolver<BR/>Sunday, September 30, 2007; Page B01 <BR/><BR/>In my neighborhood of Southwest Virginia, backyard gardens are as common as satellite dishes. Now is the time of year for husking corn and breaking beans. Jars bobble quietly in water-bath canners on our stoves: tomatoes, allspice pickles, whatever the garden has overproduced today. If we don't have our own, we can buy bushels from our neighbors' trucks at the Saturday market, because farmers have plenty right now, and what they grow is our sustenance. <BR/><BR/>Elsewhere that connection may be a stretch of the imagination; here it's not. We move to the same impulse that makes squirrels hoard their nuts, rising at dawn to pick, returning in the evening to pick more. We freeze, we preserve, we give away excess. It's the gardener's World Series -- an all-consuming hoopla at the end of the season. We will finish with full larders, our chest freezers overstuffed like suitcases lugged home from the duty-free zone. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092801324.html?hpid=opinionsbox1&sub=AR" REL="nofollow">MORE</A><BR/>_________________<BR/><BR/>Barbara Kingsolver...<BR/><BR/>Need I say anything?<BR/><BR/>-THajjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08474174174383452147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529911467686742944.post-75152354071192293452007-10-01T08:15:00.000-06:002007-10-01T08:15:00.000-06:00October...Cool nights and reasonable days are upon...October...<BR/><BR/>Cool nights and reasonable days are upon us. No rain, yet, as the dust cloud rising from the gravel/dirt driveway below allows me to know someone's coming even before the dogs hear.<BR/><BR/>Fallen trees dissected by chainsaw and axe get my attention now. Always brushing wood chips and pine needles from clothes and shaking saw dust chips from my hair. The oaks bombing acorns down from heaven's heights for squirrels to plant in “later” larders. <BR/><BR/>Leaves are only just now barely paling. Waiting, I believe for a cool rain before they’re convinced to give the greening chlorophyll back to the limbs and roots and show the true colors before their flights of fancy on the November wind.<BR/><BR/>With no rain, it will be a short, dreary autumn.<BR/><BR/>There’s still time though, still time.<BR/><BR/>-THajjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08474174174383452147noreply@blogger.com