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June 24, 2005

Flag Burning Bill You've Got To Be Shitting Me

Is Congress really that insane that they've got to waste time trying to get a CONSTITUIONAL AMENDMENT to BAN Flag Burning?!?! How out of touch with reality can you be?

It's not like I'm looking to run out and burn a flag. It's disrespectful, and not something I'd do. But it IS a way that some people express their frustration and disgust with the country and its politics. It's an act of defiance and protest and yeah FREE FUCKING SPEECH. So note to congress: spend time on some real issues:

- An Exit Plan for Iraq
- Any plan for Iran, Korea and Egypt
- Some sort of plan for Saudi Arabia (they hate us you know! A ton of their citizens are crossing the border to drive car bombs at us and Iraqi's how about some sort of diplomatic addressing of this.)
- What the fuck will happen to Soldiers when they RETURN from Iraq (might be a good idea to stash some money aside to actually TAKE CARE of them when they get back)
- The WORKING poor who work 2 jobs and still cant afford basic living
- Health Care - Time to deal with this one way or another
- Social Security - Privatize it, overhaul it, who cares, just do something

or... We can debate burning the flag..... You tell me what's more important.... And I don't care which side of the aisle you sit on, demo or repub, libertarian or 'don't give a fuck' there are issues that our country faces which that are simply universal.

Posted by gkleinman at 5:40 PM

More Crazy Cows

Well folks, here we go again. ANOTHER cow in the US has been diagnosed with Mad Cow disease. This time there's no blaming Canada, the cow was good ole 100% USDA prime fucked. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns did a lot of cheast thumping and victory lap running saying that this only proves that the controls work, that the cow was a downer and that there was no chance it would ever have made it into the food supply. Considering that they test such a small percent of beef, it's pretty good odds that there ARE other cases, and that mad cow beef IS making it into our food supply. If you're a betting person, recall the stats that say that each fast food burger is a combo of flesh from up to 100 different cows and you're just asking to not be able to sleep at night wondering if you're at risk or not. So I'd never tell anyone to go veg, but this should give anyone pause about the safety of what they eat... if they do eat meat.

Posted by gkleinman at 5:34 PM

June 3, 2005

Take That Call For Me Argentina

Well it looks like MCI has completely outsourced their phone customer service to Argentina. I have nothing against the fine country, but they've got their CSR's on such a short leash and script that it makes it VERY tough to deal with an issue, like a phone that won't take incoming calls.

What a nightmare.

Posted by gkleinman at 9:02 PM

June 2, 2005

CSA is A OK

We took the plunge the other week and went ahead and purchased (I guess that's the word you'd use) a share of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Basically we pay a set amount to a local farm for a share of their harvest and then we benefit food wise from their good growing fortune or suffer from their harsh season. It's some what of a crap shoot in terms of what you get and when. But we've now had 2 weeks worth of produce from the farm and I can say without a doubt it is TOTALLY worth it. In case you're curious the CSA we purchased into is Dancing Roots Farm. This week's haul - Lettuce, Spinach, Fava Beans, Turnips, Pea Sprouts. All really really good.

Posted by gkleinman at 11:15 PM