Garden Problem Solving 101-- Blossom End Rot...
From time to time, I'm going to try and provide some advice and fixes for common garden problems for you. Stuff that I have encountered and battled with, and other problems that I might be currently experiencing and want to help you avoid.
Have you ever had a Squash, Pepper or Tomato plant growing wonderfully, setting lots of fruits, and suddenly one day, discover the blossom ends of the fruit starting to go black and rot?
Problem is BLOSSOM END ROT! Pretty aptly named, eh?
It seems terrible to look at-- worse yet when it strikes your beautiful Tomatoes! OH NOES!!!
But, fear not, this is an easy problem to fix, and the fix is cheap, as well.
Drop Jim Webb A Thank-You Note
Hat tip to shawnod at the Great Orange Satan.
Webb kept his promise. Legislation he introduced on his first day in the Senate was signed into law today:
The following is a statement from Senator Webb:
"This is a great day for our veterans. This bill properly provides a modern and fair educational benefit to address the needs of those who answered the call of duty to our country--those who moved toward the sound of the guns--often at great sacrifice.
Speaking of our famously free press...
A media study by the progressive think tank Center for American Progress found that though more people are turning to the web for news -- a trend that we here at Michigan Messenger are struggling to hasten -- when it comes to economic coverage, most people still go to mainstream news outlets that generally tell economic stories from the business point of view, leaving out the perspectives of ordinary workers.
Anybody know if Obama's managed to defund CAP as part of his ongoing gleischaltung policy?
By analyzing economic coverage from the leading print and television outlets for 2007, the center found that in stories about employment business was sourced 6.7 times as frequently as workers.
This imbalance threatens democracy by leaving citizens ill-informed and is largely the result of journalists' "decided preference" for elite sources such as spokespeople for business groups. The imbalance could be overcome, the study says, if editors and journalists would actively seek out the perspectives of workers.
And weasels might fly out of my butt.
"Hello? I'd like to speak to the Village
? Hello? Are you there?"
Truer words....
Finally, it is worth considering the meaning of patriotism because the question of who is – or is not – a patriot all too often poisons our political debates, in ways that divide us rather than bringing us together.
Too true. But then what would I know?
The Sound of No Money
The Sound of No Money
It sounds like this: I don't know how I'm going to heat my house this winter. I don't know how I can afford driving my car to work. There's not going to be enough money. They're going to freeze to death this winter. A lot of people are going to move South. I can't afford to heat my house and eat. I have to already buy all the food on sale now, what happens this winter? Everyone needs to have a little plot of land like a victory garden so they can grow their own food. Maybe going to college will have to be like during the Depression, took twice as long to get through school. You went to school one year, then you worked the next year to earn the money for the year after.
The God(ess)(e)(s) Of Your Choice, If Any
[The number of pagans] roughly doubles about every 18 months in the United States, Canada and Europe, according to the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
Nice growth curve.
People, especially teens, are rejecting what they see as the "autocracy, paternalism, sexism, homophobia and insensitivity to the environment" of some more traditional religions, the Canadian group concludes.
About time...
Giving the beans a leg up
That's what FeralLiberal suggested, and he was right. Not that I'm bragging....
Tragedy Strikes Our Good Friend, Dr. Sardonicus
Dr. Sardonicus has been our friend and commentator since the the first days of Corrente, when it still had a blogspot as part of it's URL.
On his own blog he has announced the following:
My wife Peggy, known as Mrs. S. in these parts, passed away in her sleep late this afternoon. She was only 48 years old.
Peggy had little use for the internets, except for Netflix, but she always appreciated the kind words of encouragement and support you gave her here. As I have said, I don't have the most readers in the blogosphere, but I have the best.
Activities at Pole Hill are suspended for the time being. I will return to blogging as I am able.
The post is dated last Wednesday.
Mrs. S. illness had a history, much of which is chronicled at Dr. Sardonicus' blog, Pole Hill Sanitarium". He managed to weave in this personal struggle with his regularly posting. Go read. He's a wonderful blogger.
What to say in the face of the death of someone who was only 48 years old. There are no words. But leave a message of support for him on his blog anyway.
I know I do speak for everyone at Corrente when I say, Dr. Sardonicus, you are in our thoughts and our hearts.
No one could have anticipated...
Stephen Ducat at HuffPo:
Obama's resort to the triangulation of the old politics is an admission of a much more serious limitation. It tells us that he does not believe in his own ability to reframe certain key issues in a way that makes a progressive stance the one that is obviously the most moral. It shows that he does not feel up to the task of rendering some liberal principles intellectually clear and emotionally compelling.
What you don't buy, you don't get buyer's remorse for
The Man Who Called His Shot on Bush, The Shrill One opines:
Progressive activists, in particular, overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama during the Democratic primary even though his policy positions, particularly on health care, were often to the right of his rivals’. In effect, they convinced themselves that he was a transformational figure behind a centrist facade.
Ya think? But what's with the "in effect"?
They may have had it backward.
Mr. Obama looks even more centrist now than he did before wrapping up the nomination. Most notably, he has outraged many progressives by supporting a wiretapping bill that, among other things, grants immunity to telecom companies for any illegal acts they may have undertaken at the Bush administration’s behest.
The candidate’s defenders argue that he’s just being pragmatic — that he needs to do whatever it takes to win, and win big, so that he has the power to effect major change. But critics argue that by engaging in the same “triangulation and poll-driven politics” he denounced during the primary, Mr. Obama actually hurts his election prospects, because voters prefer candidates who take firm stands.
In any case, what about after the election? The Reagan-Clinton comparison suggests that a candidate who runs on a clear agenda is more likely to achieve fundamental change than a candidate who runs on the promise of change but isn’t too clear about what that change would involve.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that Mr. Obama really is a centrist, after all.
Yeppers.
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