Grateful Dead

Bob's in the US???

...is not new news. It came out at the time the bomber was released from prison. A lot of people in the US who had relatives on the plane who died were furious. The talking heads made all the right sounds but it was all a show. The fix was in for BP. If there is money to be made justice is always a casualty or a means to an end to make more money. I think people who call for justice and vengeance need to look long and hard at the country they live in, the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons and still the only country in the world that has not pledged 'no first use'.

and took a pie photo-perhaps will post it :-D********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain

Gonzo! Was for Spain. Learned to love Spanish-style soccer after I lived there 2008/2009. My analysis is that Germany choked. They were too intimidated by the idea of Spain, and not experienced enough to handle that fast pass style. Is very hard to get past the entire Spanish team in front of the goal to score, and their goalie Casillas is very good, Ramos ran his fanny off and was EVERYWHERE, as was the defender Puyol who scored, so...********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain

I like pies the way J'man likes cookies! Hope yours comes out good Lilly. Hope you wern't shattered by the Germany loss yesterday. My wife adopted the Germans and had a major tailspin yesterday. She blamed it on the psychic octopus.

I baked a pie today with blackberries from the garden. As this is about the 3rd pie crust have ever attempted in my life-it looks like a 6 year old made it. But I don't care-it's the taste that counts. In other news-had a brief SunshineDaydream1951 sighting today. First sign of him since 25/26 June, when he moved from Spain to Michigan. He sent me a hug on MSN messenger and then vanished again. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain

No doubt. Now, if I could just count on Exxon Mobil to bail them out, should they ever need it, I'd buy 1000 shares at the current price of $33.50 a share. (Chomping on my cigar like a true bottom-feeding capitalist)

In this morning's SF Chronicle, Debra Saunders--the "token conservative" columnist, and hence arguably in showbiz as much as the information biz because that's what columnists do--has dug up apparent evidence that freeing the Lockerbie bomber was closely tied to BP getting an oil contract in Libya. I have no strong opinions one way or another on the freeing of the Lockerbie bomber, but when Debra Saunders is bashing BP, and in such button-pushing fashion, I think we've got a bit of a sea change, as it were.

Thank you for posting this, lamagonzo. What an amazing life to have been in our time and a source of inspiration amongst all the suffering the Tibetan people. I am outraged whenever I think of what has happened in Tibet but his example reminds me to act with Loving Kindness. I try but I still get really angry at times about this. Turn that anger into compassionate action I keep reminding myself. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

...continues to this day GCowgirl, about 60,000 barrels a day making this the world's largest ever spill. Spill is actually incorrect as it connotes an event that has happened. Torrent is the better descriptor here, according to linguists. Nobody has ever cared about the cost of being addicted to oil until the Torrent started in our own backyard. Nigeria and Angola are a mess because of oil spills. Americans consume four times the amount of oil of any other industrialized country. And Americans do not believe that their consumption constitutes a co-dependent relationship with the oil companies. Whatever, whomever. The whole thing is a giant morality play perpetrated on a grand scale. Mentally it helps to stay away from the news and just numb it from your consciousness, a luxury the Gulf Coast residents do not have. ~ It's all too much ~