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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Ready or Not, Spring Is Coming by TobyWollin.
OT but sort of not: I went off to work on various non-internet things. Pulled out a turtleneck sweater I wanted to try to convert to a vee neck.
Did an “Ixquick” search for instructions and about halfway down the page – there was “Aunt Toby”: http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/11/06/1557/What a woman!
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Ready or Not, Spring Is Coming by TobyWollin.
You are most welcome…I hope you find something you like! It is such an honor to be of even a little help to you…I have learned so much from your postings here and at http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/! I think of you every time I look at my son’s apple tree that needs serious pruning! He is young [...]
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Ready or Not, Spring Is Coming by TobyWollin.
If I can find a plum tomato that comes from Eastern Europe or Russia, I’m sold.
Not quite plums, but tomatoes from Poland: http://www.polartcenter.com/default.asp#.UR-Pw_Kzm4w. The actual seeds come from this company: http://www.legutko.com.pl/. I ordered a pack of each kind (from the Polish arts site) and got them (and a bunch of other seeds) within a week. [...]
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Saturday Chorale: Music on the massacre of innocents by markfromireland.
I learned this song as a child from a Kingston Trio album. I thought it was a sad song and it always tainted Christmas for me afterwards, knowing what was coming a few days later. But it really hit me hard when I had a baby boy. He’s 32 now, and that’s how many years [...]
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MDCitizen commented on the blog post Robo-Signing Is Back, Now in Even More Robo-Form
I’m old … I remember the days when, if an attorney wanted to prepare bogus mortgage papers, someone had to write with a pen and scribble over a quarter to fake a notary seal.
So, through the magic of IPAD, you could show up as on the hook for all kinds of home purchases? Did you make the realtor take those documents off? What the hell could go wrong indeed?
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post What is Your Bumper Sticker? by Coach Bill.
I don’t have to do anything but die!
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post A Start of Somethin’ German…. by chebetts.
Love the love, skipping the bird poop – with all due respect. My connection to Germany is tenuous in terms of actual time there, but strong in other ways. The German language is one of my favorites … oh, and by the way, when I hear spoken Gaelic it reminds me of German. That’s on [...]
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MDCitizen commented on the blog post The Worker Is Worthy of His Hire
I forget how I know this, but in Washington, D.C., when “non-essential” personnel do not have to report to work when there is SNOW, the people who have to show up – the “essential personnel” are the people who shovel the roads and move the SNOW so the essential personnel can get to work easily later on. The “essential personnel” get paid dirt wages, naturally. So who, really, is “essential”? It seems to me that the essential workers – who really are worthy of their hire – are the ones who do physical labor. Physical labor means things like shoveling snow, making sure bridges don’t collapse, producing food, taking care of old folks and children. In my imagination I can do all sorts of amazing things – like figuring out how the whole world should behave. In reality – physical labor – helping other folks survive – is what I get paid for…and what enables life to go on.
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MDCitizen commented on the blog post The Worker Is Worthy of His Hire
So vote for Jill Stein…maybe she lies, maybe she doesn’t. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Don’t Go to Law School — Find Out Why by Crane-Station.
This is so distressing, but not really surprising. I spent many years in the admin side of law firms, so I am fully aware of how flawed lawyers and our legal system are. However, there’s a lot of good there … well, some good. If you do away with public interest lawyers and plaintiffs’ lawyers [...]
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Voices of Long-Term Unemployment. by TomThumb.
This was hard to read; I know it’s even harder to live these stories. I don’t have any idea what the background for this program is, but, here in Maryland, some of the community colleges offer a tuition waiver for people 60 and over – even for some degree programs. The student is responsible for [...]
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MDCitizen commented on the blog post The Roundup for August 21, 2012
Sigh. Roscoe Bartlett is not the former Congressman from Marylands 6th district. He is the incumbent. I was going to vote against him – again – but I got gerrymandered into Marylands 8th district. Sigh.
Hmpf. I was going to say something nice about Roscoe, that he voted against the Military Commissions Act of 2006. I went to get a link and found two different listings:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/h491 says he voted for it (and so did Chris Van Hollen and Elijah Cummings – which I did not believe).
So I checked here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll491.xml and all 3 men are listed as having voted no. So now Iam confused.Also, any time I type a word with an apostrophe – such as Maryland’s -
the preview shows it as though I had added . And when I tried to type the example with 3 back slashes, the preview showed about 9 of them. I do not know what to do about that except to avoid the apostrophe. -
MDCitizen commented on the blog post The Conservative Brookings Institute
This is not an uninformed community and there has been much discussion here about voting Green or sticking with the Dems. I hardly think my one little comment merits such a grand description (a clown show to scam some petition signatures). But it is kind of thrilling…in a very small way.
I am a Maryland voter and have been for years. It is troubling that we are always stuck with either tweedledum or tweedledee. So I mentioned that petition. Time is running out…
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post The $60 Trillion Petition for Taking Austerity Off The Table by letsgetitdone.
Well, if I’m drowning anyhow, I might as well please myself by signing hopeless petitions and voting for a presidential candidate who is neither of the evils.
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MDCitizen commented on the blog post The Conservative Brookings Institute
All those people are so exasperating in their arrogance and offhand cruelty. It is such a waste of our beautiful minds to have to keep dealing with them … like nasty little children (not any of ours, of course!) who just will not stop interrupting.
There are more interesting things to think about:
It is little enough on a Sunday evening, but it felt good to sign the petition here: http://my.firedoglake.com/letsgetitdone/2012/08/05/the-60-trillion-petition-for-taking-austerity-off-the-table/.
Also, if you are in Maryland, quick sign the petition to get the Green Party on the ballot (they were and now they are not) – tomorrow (8/6) is the deadline. http://www.marylandgreenparty.org/p/petition-central.html
Also, is it too late in the season to plant some hemp? And where does an American get seeds anyhow? http://my.firedoglake.com/normanb/2012/08/04/jill-stein-busted-for-defiant-trespass-for-knockin-on-the-door-of-a-giant-bank/
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post The $60 Trillion Petition for Taking Austerity Off The Table by letsgetitdone.
Recommended and signed.
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MDCitizen commented on the blog post Libor Revelations Reflect Badly on Everyone Involved
“theoretical models” … is that like pro forma?
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2002/04/my_pro_forma_life.html
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MDCitizen commented on the diary post Occupy Warzones: An Update on the Standoff in Southwest Colombia by Michael K. Busch.
Hmpf. Preview showed my link, but it appeareth not in the actual message.
Maybe this will work: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0202/S00069.htm -
MDCitizen commented on the diary post Occupy Warzones: An Update on the Standoff in Southwest Colombia by Michael K. Busch.
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