Florida, is it low hanging fruit for Cain

Florida, thats the state that looks like a dick waiting on viagra.  Well the dicks are all in a froth slinging frenzy now.  Limp dick state moved up the Reichwing primary and the GOP wants none of it.  Interesting demographics there, it's a state crammed with minorities and land fills bloated with depends smelling of widowed women.  It also is the state where Herb (Palin calls him Herb, ah she can't help it, she was porned with an NBA dick in her mouth) Cain won the Florida straw poll, mopping the road to disneyland with chunks of Purry and Rummey.

Does anyone else wonder, hmmm, could it be the GOP wants to keep that black one from sucking all the momentum up with an early win?  Hey the contest is suppose to be formed early by atypical white bread states Iowa and New Hampshire.

Reality is known to have a liberal bias

This sign is wrong, it's not 100 years, it's now.

The whooping crane migration is due shortly, they fly from north of the tar sands mines in Alberta to Texas gulf coast.  I read the count a few days ago, it's less than 300 birds that will make this trip, there is another smaller group in the east and about that many in captivity, around 1,000 total.  This year is going to kill many of them, the two swamps they stop at in Kansas for a week or two to rest and feed, one is dry, the other has a few acres of water, much of it 2" deep.  This they will share with millions of ducks, geese, swans, etc.  There is also a couple of places in Nebraska and Texas they stop at, also dry.  The gulf coast is so dry salt water has invaded the swamp, cranes cannot drink it and will have to fly back a mile or so to drink after feeding in it.  Wildlife experts predict 40 to 80 birds will die during this migration due to lack of food and safe resting locations will lead to predator kills.  Rather than multiple stops as normal, in drought years they often fly straight through which weakens them so that many die upon arrival.

In past years my back yard has seen hundreds of monarchs gather for a week or so in mid Sept, hang in groups on the hackberry or mulberry leaves, then one day they all fly south usually on a brisk south wind for advantage.  14 years ago, the first year here, thousands covered the trees and lay in the grass, when the dog ran they puffed up in clouds around her.  This year we may have had 30 or 40 at once, since then a few randomly.

In southwest Kansas the pheasant count is 5% of normal, there is no water in any creeks in some counties, deer and cattle are being killed by the few rotting water pools.  Today the governor announced he will find hundreds of millions of tax breaks to bring in more commercial cattle operations into Kansas.  He better buy hay from Canada to feed them, pastures here are dead grass, and drill more wells into the falling water table.  The river through Wichita is a weed patch, you can jump over the tiny river flow in some spots. What a fuckup.

More than one have ask what the hell is that vegan crap, so, do this

Last nights menu, 4 dishes, desert and beverage.

1)I sautéd 1 large onion, 6 small bell peppers, 1 small yellow squash and 1/2 lb mushrooms with olive oil, salt, black pepper, dill weed.

2) Salad of black beans, yellow corn, cucumber, red onion, lime juice, incredible, can't stop eating it.

3) Brown rice with yellow split peas, onion, carrot, white wine, salt, coriander, saffron threads, this thing tastes fantastic.

4) Vegi Ruben: rye bread, but no meat, instead use 1/2 avocado sliced, replace thousand island with coarse mustard or Dijon and ketchup.  One of my favorite vegi sandwichs, but you have to get the bottled refriged sauerkraut, the canned is no good for this, the bottled keeps for at least a month, you will be happy with this investment.

5) fresh Strawberries with yogurt and cookies

6) My own margarita, equal part lime, triple sec, and tequila, kosher salted rim. 

We had a little left over of the sauté thing, finished it at lunch with an acorn squash baked full of apples, walnuts, cranberries, molasses, cinnamon and clove, also had baked beans in tomato sauce, cumin, garlic and jalapeño, and a serving of shredded red cabbage with oil and vinegar.

The wife baked a pumpkin today and made a pudding with it, I know she is working on two salads, don’t know what else is in store tonight.


If you don't know, I started this over a month ago with the wife, she had a stint, and some intestinal trouble.  So after 2 weeks on this her blood pressure went from sometimes a concern to really excellent, very low numbers and stayed there.  Her blood work from a few days ago, col. 152, trig. 74, HDL 62, LDL 84, thats real good.  For me, I have a family history of old men with shakey tremble hands and arms, vegetarians rarely get this problem, eating meat increases the chance of this like 14 times, cigarettes do not increase your chance of cancer even close to that, enough for me to swear off meat.  Plus now I read about penile angina, thats why little andy can't stand and wave at the girls without a crutch, also a meat eaters disease, the little blood tubes in andy are small and clog up before your heart does, the canary in the coal mine if you listen.  But the interesting thing is this, eat a gigantic variety of vegis fruit grains and nuts, it is amazing what is out there, most of us eat a few things over and over, variety is the spice of life, everything else is like being married, the same old stuff every night.

Now that the county laid off more ambulance drivers, this.

Just in time for millions of aging baby boomers to retire and squint through their cataracts the government decided to raise the speed limit to 80 on our pot hole infected hiways.  Oil companies in Kansas, along with the state wanting more tax dollars already did it here on roads they had jurisdiction over, why, to boost gas sales, they made no bones about it.  For most cars 70 to 80 is about a 20% decrease in economy.  Around 50mph aerodynamics kicks in hard and the rate of mpg goes down faster than the mph goes up, especially in a flatland wind.  Trucking companies fought for this with big oil, thank them the next time you follow a gravel truck at 80.
My uncle says it's about god damn time they open up the roads to drivers,  76,  pulls a boat with a jeep in between eating pills, has been known to get on the wrong side of the median, yea, this is good news for everyone on the road.

junk science from the fringe

I just figured my savings in fuel on my Toyota Camry Hybrid compared to the standard Camry and the aprox. $1,000 higher price for hybrid technology.  I keep complete record of gas purchases and miles.  In the 56,680 miles driven I saved $2,307.90 in fuel keeping about $1300 in net savings to piss away on organic cilantro, and huckleberry preserves.
For the last few months I put off digging through 4 years of expenses and mileage info, I was pretty sure I was far from breaking even on the higher cost option, the wife speculated we would never break even.   Wow!  Of course the high fuel prices in late 08 and again over the last year made that pay off sooner.

(Based on our "actual" life time average of 37mpg while the 08 standard model claims a combined 25mpg.)

Rick Perry Gets Confused About American History

More cow bell!   No rickie, people in old Boston were not afraid to walk around showing their face because they might get taxed, but because amazingly at that time it was illegal to vandalize property, so they disguised themselves as the indigenous minority, let them catch hell over it.  Furthermore, it was not really about the tax on tea, but that the British crown had given a monopoly to one company to be the exclusive tea importer to the colonies.  No other tea was taxed, since it was only available as a smuggled product.  This group was a business group of importers and merchants who went on board to vandalize the tea monopolies assets because they were pissed at being shut out of the importing and selling tea, not because they were shit faced averse to taxes.  And.....the no tax without representation was not chanted at this event, but came from other events.
Rickie was disguising himself as a douche bag the week this era was taught in school.  Fuck Rick Perry, a bunch.

and your tax dollars go to------coal, oil, gas, nukes.

See those tiny little green bars. Those are Solar, Wind, Hydro.  A few months ago, solar panels passed nuclear energy in US energy production.  Green energy sources are the fastest to develop, a new wind farm can be ordered, built and turned on in 10 to 16 months, break even on it's own carbon footprint in 8 months.  Build time for Coal fired 2.5-6 years, nuke 6 to 12 years, they increase their carbon footprint every day they operate.