Bidder 70

A while back, Tim DeChristopher from an area familiar with mountain top raping in Appalachia went to Utah to a government bid, to bid fr the rights to tear open the earth for oil or coal whatever you want, and picked up bidder paddle 70. He waved it a few times, which might have drove up the final bids on a few parcels against the Shells, BP's, Kochs and Massey's. Finally the bidding was stopped and he was declared to not have the money to pay for anything, the whole auction was declared null and void. The industry demanded the boy be killed and his arms be used to kill other environmentalist. During the investigation it was found the auction was illegal as not all the parcels offered were suppose to be offered, and there were industry finger prints on some of this. Never the less, Tim was found guilty, and jailed the instant he was found guilty. Tim got the absolute maximum; 2 years, 10K, 3 year supervised parole, the prosecutors and judge both making puffed up speeches as if they had caught public enemy #1.
Well you can decide for yourself, is he a hero, or something needing chased from the wilderness so the fossil fuel millionaires can haul the assets out of it unseen?
You can google the name and read the detail. You can watch the video below, he's a rebel rouser from the Grapes of Wrath school. You can write him at Tim DeChristopher, C/O Davis County Correctional Facility, PO Box 130, Farmington, Utah 840250-0130. I will write him one day, but at the moment I am not sure what I would say, it'll happen though. I write for amnesty international once in a while.

What happens in Africa stays in Africa

News moves slowly out of Africa, especially when it has to worm it's way past corrupt governments, industry thugs, local media bumpkins, and a disinterested western media and public.  It is now reported from Nov. 2008, a Shell oil spill in the Niger Delta flooded a swamp with oil, displacing 65,000 people who lived in, near by, or dependent upon the swamp for food and material.   The gulf oil spill did not displace more than a few, the losses were greater due to our bloated view of our self worth, but 69,000 refugees, thats a corporation caused hurricane or tsunami.
Try, try to conserve fuel, these problems are because of the market we piss our wealth into, and that too shall pass.

fascist general uniform for evenings in the White House

Here is another Cheerleader from Texas, totally undistinguished academically, an Aggie, a governor, a Republican, poor debater.  What harm could another Texas governor do?  ........  Texas A&M cheerleaders have a fetish for certain kinds of britches, cocksucker britches.

Fuck Rick Perry.  Perry is laying low, bundlers are lining up money to be given at the right time, he wants to stay out of sight of the press, he is a bit of a bumbler and this might hurt him when he battles the ship of fools in the primaries, but if history is a guide, it will help.   Rick has fun on weekends prancing and goose stepping in his fascist general costume.

Gig line is off on the belt buckle.
If first you don't secede, then try wearing cocksucker pants.
Fuck Rick Perry.

Drink of the day

Greek Banker:  Ouzo and Prune Juice 50/50, serve in large portions in a tall water glass with ice.

Read the financial news and gulp it down.  If the Congress defaults, order it by the pitcher & get home fast.

Who do you think will be Obama's next supreme court justice?

I see Obama as weak following the debt ceiling debacle.  Any one he names will be seen as dirty no matter their qualifications.


 I predict the only Supreme Court nominee he can get past the Senate now are either: 
Pat Buchanan, 
or "birther" lawyer Orly Taitz.


Who do you think he could get past this Senate?

No man is an island when it comes to climate change

Tomorrow's forecast for the central I-35 corridor Wichita to Waco, 114°F.  High temperatures are the enemy of all things mechanical, be prepared.  Cattle and horses in the field will lose a lot of weight tomorrow, some will lose their life.  Lakes throughout Oklahoma and parts of Kansas are off limits, toxic algae.  Deer now have a water borne disease expected to kill half of them by first frost.

I wrote a few days ago about a tundra fire in Alaska.  The BBC had a story over the weekend about that fire in 2007.  Scientist looking at it found a way to find how often fires like this occur.  Never before.  So far, reviewing data for about 5 thousand years, it has never happened (at least in the areas of Alaska  sampled).  Tundra in far north Alaska never burned before, it was always frozen, wet, and cold.  It's hard to see climate change taking place, but this photo is your chance.

Fukuyama, Japan, an industrial city of 460,0000 has every industry, every business committed to get off fossil fuel and to 100% solar within a couple of years, and all residential and transport in 3 or 4.  They are not alone, 35 Japanese cities are considering this, it's expected most all will do it.  Japan is moving to energy independence through immediately available and affordable technology.  We on the other hand believe wildly fluctuating prices for polluting oil purchased from our enemies, and coal torn from the earth and clouding our sky with poison is the wiser method.  

2011 is stacking up to be the most expensive year to date, natural disasters have taken 2 to 4 points off the GDP, and insurance rates will go up 70% or more over the next 5 years to recoup it.  Enjoy!