3rd Salsa
An odd year in my Salsa makin'. I made two batches in June, none in July and perhaps just one in August.
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July 17th, 2008 - 03:28PM
Fathers
'I've talked about this before, and sometimes people don't like hearing it, so I'll repeat it, and I'll keep on repeating it: Men, fathers, you need to be in the life of your child. Any fool can have a child — that doesn't make you a father. Too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They've abandoned their responsibilities. They're acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families have suffered because of it.' - Barack Obama, July 8th, 2008, speaking at a Town Hall meeting at McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Georgia.
'I know the toll it took on me not having a father in the house — the hole in your heart when you don't have a male figure that can guide you. ... So I resolved many years ago that ... if I could do anything in life, I would be a good father to my children' - Barack Obama, June 15th, 2008 [Father's Day] speaking at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Il.
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July 1st, 2008 - 02:08PM
2nd Salsa
Two weeks later I made the second batch of the season. This batch yielded 10 pints for a total of 17 pints this season - over two gallons before July!
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Tags: garden, onion, tomato, salsa, pepper
June 15th, 2008 - 11:08PM
Salsa, 1st of '08, Beginnings
Top: what I had at the start of the day.
Bottom: how I finished the day.
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Tags: onions, garden, salsa, peppers, tomatoes
June 10th, 2008 - 03:03PM
We the People, Need Not Apply
I think the disconnect between our elected 'leaders' and 'we the people' is obvious. I recently found where this divide begins. I just got home from the Texas Democratic State Convention. There, I saw a lot of work being done by just plain folks from my area at the Senate District Caucus level.
From our ranks, we elected members of various committees, delegates to the national convention and even a Presidential Elector to participate in the Electoral College. As we elected delegates to the national convention, we were warned that it would cost each of them 4 - 6 thousand dollars to attend and advised that the Democratic Party would bear none of this expense. Then, during the General Session we elected a State Party Chairperson.
There were at least 15 thousand chairs set up in the Austin Convention Center. When the delegates arrived on Saturday morning at least 10 thousand of these had literature from two of the candidates for State Chairperson on them. These were professionally printed, in color on heavy, coated papers. Expensive materials in mass quantities. Each bore the required 'paid political ad' disclaimer, leaving the impression that this is where the common man is left in the dust by well funded political machines.
I came away wondering, why the money spent on campaigning for Party offices wasn't being used to help send us common folks to the national convention instead. Could it be, the Party does not want our participation at that level?
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