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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Gabby Giffords’ NYT Op-Ed by Teddy Partridge.
When you refer to people like Johnson and Kennedy and Dirksen and Rockefeller and so on, it comes to mind that yes, they were people with a lot of weaknesses and issues – but they also had a strong sense of doing what was right and best for the greatest number of people and they [...]
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Gabby Giffords’ NYT Op-Ed by Teddy Partridge.
Two words, Teddy, just two: NO GUTS. Period. They have completely abandoned public service – all of these assholes and craphats have made the conscious decision that they are in the business of keeping their heads in the government trough and keep their hands out for corporate and lobbyist grease. None of us is rich [...]
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TobyWollin commented on the blog post GOP: Obama Budget “a shocking attack on seniors”
Every single Democrat in Congress should be saying, “Screw you.”
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TobyWollin wrote a new diary post: Livestock producers are causing MRSA – We now have proof
People – get on the horn, email, tweet, whatever to your Congress Critters and Senators about this: “The groundbreaking study was conducted by genetics researchers who analyzed the genomes of MRSA bacteria from patients and their farm animals , and found the samples to be genetically identical. Published on Tuesday in EMBO Molecular Medicine, the study confirms [...] -
TobyWollin commented on the diary post OK, all you women at the top: Zip it. Right NOW. by TobyWollin.
The Yahoo CEO also has built herself her own private nursery next to her offices, and I assume she has hired her own private housekeeper/nanny to care for the baby while she’s doing HER job. Outlawing telecommuting was definitely a family-unfriendly thing to do. You combine both of these items (private nursery and not giving [...]
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TobyWollin wrote a new diary post: OK, all you women at the top: Zip it. Right NOW.
OK…so we now have another in yet a seemingly endless stream of women from elite backgrounds, who are playing at the top of their respective games, who are telling other women a) how to live their home and work lives, and b) that they are not trying hard enough. This one is from Katharine Weymouth, [...] -
TobyWollin commented on the diary post NOM Calls CJ Roberts’ Family “Second-Best” by Teddy Partridge.
Mary — “real” families only come in one flavor — man/woman and thefruit of that man and that woman’s loins.
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TobyWollin commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: Dirty Energy’s Decline
PW – we still have to deal with the fact that the grids owned by the coal/oil/gas/electric utilities are basically over-subscribed. Adding all of this renewable does not help if there is no way to get the energy where it needs to go. literally, generators have to get called by the state or regional ISOs and given an appointment to generate and push power into the grid. This is the bottleneck for us to get rid of coal, oil, and gas-fired generation. Those folks basically are first in line in terms of getting time on the grid.
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
OK guys – as always, thank you so much for joining in. PW is upstairs at the mother ship with a new post on energy. have a great week.
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Chives are perennials – if you want them bigger, just dig the clumps up, split them up and space them out. Berries are tough – they are subject to all sorts of viruses in the soil, etc. Even with strawberries, the first year is good, the next year is almost as good and by the [...]
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Kassandra – I don’t know about your county Cooperative Extension, but ours has a tree and bush program every spring and we’re able to buy small trees and bushes actually quite cheaply – sometimes they also do packages of related plants for specific uses, such as stream bank restoration or song bird attraction or wildlife [...]
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Ailanthus? ayyyyyyyyyy. Oh, they are awful.
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Sigh. In most areas of the country, hitting a bicyclist (whether or not you have ‘share the road’ laws)or a pedestrian is treated as almost nothing. I’ve been a member of my local pedestrian and bike advisory board and I keep yelling until I’m blue in the face that ‘whole streets’ and ‘bike rodeos’ and [...]
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
It’s not just you – I’m having issues too – I reported it to TPTB (the powers that be). have a good day!!
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
what sorts of trees are you going to put in? What’s native to your area?
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
I remember reading a story a LONG time ago, where families would put out unbleached muslin toward the end of the winter on top of the snow so that the end of the season snow would fall on top of the muslin and bleach it.
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Ruth – I think that anyone with a roof should be making plans for a rain barrel (barrel? how about plural barrels – any downspout should have a barrel at the bottom of it with a spigot).
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
It doesn’t help that Thomas worked for Monsanto for four years. He should have recused himself.
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Last week, we were talking about water (and lack thereof) – but I didn’t get to discussing mulches. I LOVE mulching stuff in my garden, especially tomatoes, which tend to suffer greatly if there is, shall we say, uneven-ness in the water supplies. I’ll use almost anything to mulch except for wood chips, which pull [...]
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TobyWollin commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Where Does the Shade Go? by TobyWollin.
Yes, it is a good thing to give a thought to that dear man. We miss him a lot around here.
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