Sign of the Month - January 2014

Go Wendy! It's your birthday. Go Wendy!

High as A Bird - UPDATE # 3

Update # 3: 
Trey Radel is returning from drug and alcohol rehab to his job in Congress. Trey has not yet discussed his vote for drug testing poor people for food stamps. I cannot wait to hear what he has to say. I bet Trey never misses a meal. 

Want to bet drug testing for employment will go away if this petition goes viral? Congresspeople do not want to be drug tested either.

Please sign the NEW PETITION to randomly and regularly drug test Congress.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/congresspersons-both-senate-and-house-must-be-randomly-and-regularly-drug-tested/mGP6Nj5h

Update # 2: 
What would happen to you if you did cocaine and got caught? Would you get a paid leave of absence from your job? Would you even have gotten your job without passing a drug test?

So here goes another petition to randomly and regularly drug test Congress. One day so many people will sign it, we might actually get a sane and sober Congress. That would be new.
Please sign the petition and pass the link on: http://wh.gov/lKDCi 

Update: 
I did not get enough signatures on the first petition. So I have started another. See it and sign: http://wh.gov/lTPOk

I just started a petition on the White House petitions site, We the People. Will you sign it? How crazy does it have to get before we clean up the House and Senate? These folks supposedly work for us. They do not come to work much. When they do come to work, they act like they are nuts. If you did that, how long would you keep your job?

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Arrange for Congress, both House and Senate, to be regularly and randomly drug tested.

What is sauce for the working poor must be sauce for our legislators who work (or do not work these days) for the American public.

Created: Aug 28, 2013

Issues: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement, Government Reform, Homeland Security and Disaster Relief

Some Serious Crazy Here - Update

UPDATE: Cruiser Cruz just got promoted from Christian warrior to incarnate God in Iowa. Still waiting for word about Cruz's Canadian citizenship. Hmmmm.

Poster of Cruiser Cruz stolen from JuanitaJean and the Beauty Parlor

DES MOINES, Iowa — As an audience of 600 Republicans awaited the arrival of Sen. Ted Cruz Friday night at the Iowa Events Center, conservative Christian activist Steve Scheffler came to the podium to give thanks to God for the Tea Party savior — and plead for more principled conservative leaders like him willing to “be crucified for their belief system.” 

Cruz and his Dad scare me bigtime. Does this video of Cruz Senior's speech seem kool to you, Cher Reader?

We do not have kings and do not want kings in America. And who gets to decide who the "evil" are? And whose wealth are they "transferring?"

These dominionist authoritarian "Christians" are bad news. This is the kind of fascist ideology and tone my Nonno, Angelo Pietro de Angelis, emigrated from Italy to avoid. If you think I am overreacting, read this quote. It is the same deal. Adolf Hitler said:

I say: my Christian feeling tells me that my lord and savior is a warrior. It calls my attention to the man who, lonely and surrounded by only a few supporters, recognized what they [the Jews] were, and called for a battle against them, and who, by God, was not the greatest sufferer, but the greatest warrior. . .

As a human being it is my duty to see to it that humanity will not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did that old civilization two thousand years ago, a civilization which was driven to its ruin by the Jews. . . I am convinced that I am really a devil and not a Christian if I do not feel compassion and do not wage war, as Christ did two thousand years ago, against those who are steeling and exploiting these poverty-stricken people.

Two thousand years ago a man was similarly denounced by this particular race which today denounces and blasphememes all over the place. . . That man was dragged before a court and they said: he is arousing the people! So he, too, was an agitator!
Speech delivered on April 12, 1922; from Charles Bracelen Flood (1989). Hitler: The Path to Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 261-262.

Edible Gardens

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. - Alice Sebold

Edible Cities is a new book about gardening in unusual urban spaces. New to me that is. It is out in a paperback edition.

You can have fresh Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables without pesticides and with fabulous flavor. You can have them if the only space you have to garden is a sunny window, a wall, a balcony or an abandoned building next door.

Trust me, your own homegrown Oregano will have a flavor that is intoxicating. Fresh or dried, your Oregano will surpass any dusty commercial pulverized Oregano you can buy in the supermarkets. I thought I did not like Oregano. And then I grew and dried my own.

Did you know that it is easy to grow Mushrooms at home? Oh the possibilities are many and fascinating.

In side the book you will find:

• Principles of permaculture
• Worldwide examples of urban gardening projects
• Ideas for flats and balconies
• Green roofs
• Vertical gardening and urban beekeeping
• Guerrilla gardening and successful community projects
• Illustrated practical techniques with clear instructions

Scorzonera

A few plants that will grow in a sunny window:

Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)

Mustard cress (Lepidium sativum)
Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris)
New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonoides)

Parsley (Petroselinium crispum)

Peppermint (Mentha piperita)

Lettuce (Lactuca sative)

Scorzonera (Scorzonera hispanica)