Though China has vowed to boost inspections for melamine contamination, it will be difficult to monitor the countless small, illegally operating manufacturers found across the country, other experts said.
"It could take five or even 10 years" before some companies stop adding the chemical to food products, said Yan, of the U.S. Grains Council.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Melamine
If you thought that the melamine crisis in the US ended with dog food, you are wrong. It is in any food or food ingredient imported from China. Though experts say that there is not enough melamine in foods to hurt an adult, what about an old dog. We thought that the cheap canned food that we bought Teddy as a supplementary treat was OK, but we have discovered that she has only 25% kidney function left. We will have to have her put to sleep before we head to Texas, as we cannot leave her to die with the pet sitter. Eat no processed food. I don't think any of is safe.
Halloween?
I planned for Halloween and no one came. Not a single Trick or Treater came to the door. There are a few kids on the street. I don't know why no one came. William will have to eat the raisins. Leah will recognize the crayons. I thought I might get rid of the rest of those Halloween crayons. So Sad.
The Last Voter
The last voter pores over his ballot trying to figure out why all the propositions are not in numerical order. I put his ballot in the mailbox in SPD, so if all goes well it should reach the election office by Nov. 4th.
He did not know I was taking the pic, as I was laying out the pills and vitamins at the counter and had turned off the flash. I want this election to be over.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Last of the White Concords
The last of a meager crop this year. They look bad, but they are oh so sweet. Used to be Jasmine's favorite.
Best New McCain Slogan
Leave it to a man who takes Metamucil every day to get America going again.(snark)
Funny Last Appeals
Closing Appeals
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Dear America,
Mine.
Mine mine mine.
Me Me Me Me Me Me Me!
Mine mine mine mine mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine!
In conclusion: Fear fear fear fear. Very scary fear!
Sincerely,
The Republican Party
P.S. If you liked Joseph McCarthy, you'll love us!
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Dear America,
We.
Us. We. Together. Americans. United States.
Hope compassion equality inclusiveness competence.
Brains common sense community respect hard work accountability.
Action change responsibility. More viewpoints, smarter solutions.
In conclusion: Yes we can.
Sincerely,
The Democratic Party.
P.S. Vote.
Problems in Collin County, Texas
__At one polling station in Collin County, election workers demanded photo IDs from every voter.
__ At another Collin County station, voters whose names were not listed in the state's new electronic voter database_ even some with registration cards — were turned away and told to come back later.
West Virginia, Tennessee and Texas use iVotronic machines made by Election Systems & Software.
ES&S voting machines have been banned in many states because of poor security and a history of vote flipping. Complaints are currently coming out of Palo Pinto county west of Dallas that votes are being flipped from Democratic party to Republican.
More about voting problems.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Voting vs Voting
Republicans: Voter suppression, caging of voters, misinformation to voters, purging of voter rolls, problems with touch screen machines owned by Republican companies, challenges of voters, blocking of democratic phone lines, intimidation of voters, less voting resources in Democratic areas, increasing restrictions on types of ID required to vote heading back to Jim Crow poll tax days. Challenging voters. Poor ballot design. Potential for millions of votes lost. Enough to change an election.
Democrats: Some poorly paid registration workers fraudulently filled out voter registration forms which were required to be turned in but were flagged as incorrect forms. No people were going to show up to vote as Micky Mouse, but a huge deal is being made about this as if the Democrats were going to steal the election. What kind of a problem is voter fraud? Over a period of 4 years 80 people were convicted of voter fraud and very few of these were actually people voting fraudulently. Hardly enough to change an election.
Democrats: Some poorly paid registration workers fraudulently filled out voter registration forms which were required to be turned in but were flagged as incorrect forms. No people were going to show up to vote as Micky Mouse, but a huge deal is being made about this as if the Democrats were going to steal the election. What kind of a problem is voter fraud? Over a period of 4 years 80 people were convicted of voter fraud and very few of these were actually people voting fraudulently. Hardly enough to change an election.
Fear vs Fear
What is the difference between the future McCain supporters fear if Obama is elected and the future Obama supporters fear if McCain is elected?
1. First of all the fear of McCain supporters has been artificially created out of lies that have been spread by the candidates and their surrogates. Also the fear is based on their own biases.
2. The fear of Obama supporters is based in fear of more Bush, more deregulation, and more shredding of the constitution. Also the fear is based on the statements of McCain and surrogates about how they will actually run the country.
1. First of all the fear of McCain supporters has been artificially created out of lies that have been spread by the candidates and their surrogates. Also the fear is based on their own biases.
2. The fear of Obama supporters is based in fear of more Bush, more deregulation, and more shredding of the constitution. Also the fear is based on the statements of McCain and surrogates about how they will actually run the country.
Don't Get Complacent
I worked today and will be working Saturday and Tuesday. I worry that anything can happen and that elections have been stolen before.
Jon or Cyndi: Who is the rider? Seems vaguely familiar, like I might have seen this clip before.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Yeah for Gregory Diaz
| Gregory J. Diaz, County Clerk-Recorder | |
| County of Nevada Elections Department | |
| Vote By Mail Ballot Receipt Confirmation Ol' Gregory confirms that my Ballot was received on 10/23/08 and ACCEPTED! |
Little Birds in the Maple
Maple tree in front of the house is putting on its fall colors and some little birds are attracted to it. Too hard to see, except the one flying above.
CA 04 BBQ for Charlie Brown
Smokey BBQ cooking. But nice cheese burgers or hot dogs with all the trimmings, salad and drinks courtesy of the campaign.
Charlie visits with the voters.
Charlie takes questions and answers all to applause after a short address. I asked his campaign manager if it was like herding cats to get the candidate to the next venue. He said he has cats and herding candidates is worse.
Last Saturday Market Downtown
Some of the vendors were dressed for Halloween. Lots of good produce still even though the nights have been getting cooler.
I bought beautiful red globe radishes and pearly white sweet turnips. The nice thing about farmers market vegetables is that you can eat the tops as well as the root vegetables. Also got a bag of nice small-medium pink red tomatoes.
Diamond the catfish is a feature of the fisherman's stand.
Nice tree color against the blue foothill sky.Thursday, October 23, 2008
Who is John McCain?
I sent this to the local paper, but I don't think they will publish it as they are getting too much from the public lately. They did publish 2 long "other Voice" articles on Oct. 13th that were totally anti Obama. This is just the truth about McCain. Well, some opinion.
John McCain graduated fifth from the bottom at the Naval Academy, but he was given pilot training. He was the son and grandson of admirals. He was John McCain.
He lost 5 aircraft, most by stalls. His second loss was when he was flying low over Spain. He took out power lines leading to a blackout. McCain’s third loss was while flying to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Another stall, which the Navy dismissed as "unavoidable", and assigned McCain to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in December 1966. An ordinary sailor would not have been allowed to keep flying, but not John McCain.
McCain lost his fourth plane on board the Forrestal on July 29, 1967 when a rocket slammed into the plane next to his starting a fuel fire. McCain scrambled out of his plane climbing off over the nose. A bomb fell from his plane. Those familiar with the plane state that the bomb fell because of actions that he took either in error or panic in his hasty exit from the plane. 134 sailors were killed when the bomb exploded and the fire blazed.
McCain did not stay on deck to help. He left the surviving crew behind and went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor.
When a reporter was leaving the ship, McCain boarded a helicopter with him and flew to Saigon. McCain said he left for “some welcome R&R” in Saigon, but he left without permission from his commanding officer. He rejoined the ship a week later and asked for a transfer. An ordinary sailor would have been at least court-martialed for desertion, but not John McCain.
On Oct. 26, 1967, he was shot down and captured by the Vietnamese after ejecting from his plane.
No name, rank, and serial number for McCain. "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital," McCain pleaded with his captors. McCain told them his father was an admiral. He gave up military information and made a tape for the North Vietnamese. Other POW’s referred to him as a songbird. The Vietnamese offered to release him early, but he refused knowing if he did his career would be over. An ordinary sailor would not have given in so easily, but not John McCain.
In 1973, McCain reunited with his wife, Carol, who had been permanently disabled in a car accident while he was a POW. What a shock to John McCain who left a beautiful model and returned to a short, heavy, disabled spouse. John McCain could not have been expected to stay faithful to that.
Still yearning to become an admiral, McCain pulled strings and enrolled in the National War College. At War College you take a trip abroad to see military and political leaders. He met a fellow former POW, who said he was going to the Middle East. McCain said he was going to Rio, so he could get laid. McCain was a chronic womanizer and gambler. He was a married father of three at this time.
McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs." This was a clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates. An ordinary sailor would have been penalized, but not John McCain.
In 1979, while attending a military reception in Hawaii, McCain met the young wealthy Cindy Lou Hensley. McCain filed for and obtained an uncontested divorce from his wife in Florida on April 2, 1980 and promptly married Cindy on May 17, 1980. He obtained the license while still married to Carol. Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Ross Perot never forgave him for dumping Carol. But why should John McCain care, he had a young, beautiful, wealthy wife.
He resigned from the Navy in 1981, after he knew he was not making admiral, and went to work for his father-in-law in Phoenix; where he made powerful and wealthy friends in Arizona including banker Charles Keating, who was later convicted of fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy.
After McCain was elected to Congress, he made sure that all information about POW’s was hidden. He did not want the true information about his 5 ½ years to come out.
He pals around with unrepentant domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy. He works almost exclusively with active and former lobbyists.
McCain was a spoiled child and a spoiled young man who always thought he deserved the best and that he could do whatever he wanted. He learned no lesson from Vietnam. He now has an ambition to be president and will say or do whatever he thinks will further that goal.
This is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively crafted their own myth of greatness. In McCain's version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by Vietnam, learned to put "country first." Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, McCain re-emerged as a "reformer" and a "maverick," saying he would never do anything that would dishonor himself or his office. He is certainly not running an honorable campaign. It is his ambition to be president and he is willing to do anything to achieve that goal.
He knows he is not an ordinary person and the rules do not apply to John McCain.
John McCain graduated fifth from the bottom at the Naval Academy, but he was given pilot training. He was the son and grandson of admirals. He was John McCain.
He lost 5 aircraft, most by stalls. His second loss was when he was flying low over Spain. He took out power lines leading to a blackout. McCain’s third loss was while flying to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Another stall, which the Navy dismissed as "unavoidable", and assigned McCain to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in December 1966. An ordinary sailor would not have been allowed to keep flying, but not John McCain.
McCain lost his fourth plane on board the Forrestal on July 29, 1967 when a rocket slammed into the plane next to his starting a fuel fire. McCain scrambled out of his plane climbing off over the nose. A bomb fell from his plane. Those familiar with the plane state that the bomb fell because of actions that he took either in error or panic in his hasty exit from the plane. 134 sailors were killed when the bomb exploded and the fire blazed.
McCain did not stay on deck to help. He left the surviving crew behind and went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor.
When a reporter was leaving the ship, McCain boarded a helicopter with him and flew to Saigon. McCain said he left for “some welcome R&R” in Saigon, but he left without permission from his commanding officer. He rejoined the ship a week later and asked for a transfer. An ordinary sailor would have been at least court-martialed for desertion, but not John McCain.
On Oct. 26, 1967, he was shot down and captured by the Vietnamese after ejecting from his plane.
No name, rank, and serial number for McCain. "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital," McCain pleaded with his captors. McCain told them his father was an admiral. He gave up military information and made a tape for the North Vietnamese. Other POW’s referred to him as a songbird. The Vietnamese offered to release him early, but he refused knowing if he did his career would be over. An ordinary sailor would not have given in so easily, but not John McCain.
In 1973, McCain reunited with his wife, Carol, who had been permanently disabled in a car accident while he was a POW. What a shock to John McCain who left a beautiful model and returned to a short, heavy, disabled spouse. John McCain could not have been expected to stay faithful to that.
Still yearning to become an admiral, McCain pulled strings and enrolled in the National War College. At War College you take a trip abroad to see military and political leaders. He met a fellow former POW, who said he was going to the Middle East. McCain said he was going to Rio, so he could get laid. McCain was a chronic womanizer and gambler. He was a married father of three at this time.
McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs." This was a clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates. An ordinary sailor would have been penalized, but not John McCain.
In 1979, while attending a military reception in Hawaii, McCain met the young wealthy Cindy Lou Hensley. McCain filed for and obtained an uncontested divorce from his wife in Florida on April 2, 1980 and promptly married Cindy on May 17, 1980. He obtained the license while still married to Carol. Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Ross Perot never forgave him for dumping Carol. But why should John McCain care, he had a young, beautiful, wealthy wife.
He resigned from the Navy in 1981, after he knew he was not making admiral, and went to work for his father-in-law in Phoenix; where he made powerful and wealthy friends in Arizona including banker Charles Keating, who was later convicted of fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy.
After McCain was elected to Congress, he made sure that all information about POW’s was hidden. He did not want the true information about his 5 ½ years to come out.
He pals around with unrepentant domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy. He works almost exclusively with active and former lobbyists.
McCain was a spoiled child and a spoiled young man who always thought he deserved the best and that he could do whatever he wanted. He learned no lesson from Vietnam. He now has an ambition to be president and will say or do whatever he thinks will further that goal.
This is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively crafted their own myth of greatness. In McCain's version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by Vietnam, learned to put "country first." Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, McCain re-emerged as a "reformer" and a "maverick," saying he would never do anything that would dishonor himself or his office. He is certainly not running an honorable campaign. It is his ambition to be president and he is willing to do anything to achieve that goal.
He knows he is not an ordinary person and the rules do not apply to John McCain.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Who do Terrorists Support?
Terrorists are expressing glee over the US financial crisis and are hoping for the election of John McCain.
"Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush.Per the Washington Post.
Lobbyists
We need to get rid of lobbyists. Lobbyists have way too much influence. Stop money to politicians by lobbyists. Stop lobbyists from bundling money for politicians. Stop letting lobbyists write laws. Lawmakers can have assistants help them write laws, they do not need to have lobbyists write them.
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