Showing posts with label agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agriculture. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
Back to the land!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Weblog
Ann Arbor Transportation Authority board is chock full of great new ideas! (Ann Arbor Chronicle)
Unfortunately they're all worthless, expensive, and unpopular non-starters. But if you're a gay/Lesbian, Pacific Islander who is Spanish-speaking, handicapped and a business owner AATA may have some (federally mandated) business opportunities for you. And so it goes in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor.com endorses all incumbent council members in the August Democratic primary (annarbor.com)
Utterly pointless. Whoever wins this election is on the council whatever happens in November. In effect this is the election such as it is. I don't know which is more laughable; That this is democracy or that anyone really cares what Ann Arbor.com's editorial board endorsements are. Half the council is gonna get picked by a few hundred (if that) local Democratic Party primary voters. This is what passes for representative democracy in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor these days. One party, no opposition, no newspaper, no election choices. The Democratic Party should hireStalinist hack local attorney and Democratic Party activist Tom Wieder who helped talk us into this idiotic situation back in the day ( Remember the Voting in November is Easy! AKA the "VINE" ballot initiative?) to just set up a Soviet-style Politburo and have them pick the council members directly and save us tax donors the cost of these strictly pro forma elections.
Where you get arrested for DUI determines whether you go to jail in metro-Detroit (Detroit Free Press)
In Detroit: small fines, suspension and probation. In the suburbs: big fines, big court costs, long suspensions, community service and jail.
If you want to get rich, become a farmer? (Time)
That's what some big shot investment types like Jimmy Rogers are saying. And they may have a point. Everything on the end your fork came from one, eh? And the world has a lot of mouths to feed. Worth a read.
Unfortunately they're all worthless, expensive, and unpopular non-starters. But if you're a gay/Lesbian, Pacific Islander who is Spanish-speaking, handicapped and a business owner AATA may have some (federally mandated) business opportunities for you. And so it goes in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
Utterly pointless. Whoever wins this election is on the council whatever happens in November. In effect this is the election such as it is. I don't know which is more laughable; That this is democracy or that anyone really cares what Ann Arbor.com's editorial board endorsements are. Half the council is gonna get picked by a few hundred (if that) local Democratic Party primary voters. This is what passes for representative democracy in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor these days. One party, no opposition, no newspaper, no election choices. The Democratic Party should hire
Where you get arrested for DUI determines whether you go to jail in metro-Detroit (Detroit Free Press)
In Detroit: small fines, suspension and probation. In the suburbs: big fines, big court costs, long suspensions, community service and jail.
If you want to get rich, become a farmer? (Time)
That's what some big shot investment types like Jimmy Rogers are saying. And they may have a point. Everything on the end your fork came from one, eh? And the world has a lot of mouths to feed. Worth a read.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
weblog - June 09, 2011
The food crisis of 2011 (Addison Wiggin, Forbes)
All it's gonna take (says Wiggin) is one big crop failure somewhere and they'll be food riots or worse. People aren't gonna sit still and watch their children starve. As the saying goes "no society is more than three meals away from revolution."
Mid-Michigan farmers playing catch-up after massive rains in May (Lisa Allmendinger, annarbor.com)
As one farmer put it: Things were better for farmers when, "they didn’t depend on just corn or soybeans to pay the bills. Instead, they planted other crops and had sheep, pigs, chickens and horses." But you have to nowadays. They don't call 'em "cash crops" for nothing, eh?
A grunt's view of the Afghan war: "Afghanistan is a waste of our time." (Chuck Spinney, Battleland blog)
Let's GTF out of there before we lose any more killed and wounded. Who has the most credibility here? The Washington think-tankers or the grunts on the front lines? Do you have to ask?
All it's gonna take (says Wiggin) is one big crop failure somewhere and they'll be food riots or worse. People aren't gonna sit still and watch their children starve. As the saying goes "no society is more than three meals away from revolution."
Mid-Michigan farmers playing catch-up after massive rains in May (Lisa Allmendinger, annarbor.com)
As one farmer put it: Things were better for farmers when, "they didn’t depend on just corn or soybeans to pay the bills. Instead, they planted other crops and had sheep, pigs, chickens and horses." But you have to nowadays. They don't call 'em "cash crops" for nothing, eh?
A grunt's view of the Afghan war: "Afghanistan is a waste of our time." (Chuck Spinney, Battleland blog)
Let's GTF out of there before we lose any more killed and wounded. Who has the most credibility here? The Washington think-tankers or the grunts on the front lines? Do you have to ask?
Sunday, August 8, 2010
weblog
Genetically Modified Canola Spreads To Wild Plants - via Slashdot.org
"...[T]he ease in which genetically modified canola has 'escaped' into the wild should be noted by seed makers like Monsanto because this is proof that it will happen."
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