My biggest pet peeve

The one nobody wants to talk about, deal with, pull their stupid heads out of their butts on, etc.

Overpopulation or sometimes they call it population momentum

Obviously I am not a Cornucopian

Wow, I got to here and then decided to go see what Growth is Madness had been up to lately.

Nosing around looking for information on what I consider the most important issue of my life and our time, I found this clip from a meeting last month.

It's fascinating. Let's face it, human rights don't have a chance unless population issues are addressed in a humane and productive way.

The Real News interviews Gore Vidal

If you're tired of being treated like an idiot by the mainstream media, this is the interview to watch. Some of the things I heard him say weren't fun to listen to, but it made me feel better to hear him say them.

Ok, now I'm off to go explore more stories on The Real News network site.

Chris Matthews on Jon Stewart

And this unrelated story caught my eye this morning:

The Point of Net Neutrality
Saturday, September 29, 2007; Page A17

"Capitalism and Freedom" Unmasked

"Capitalism and Freedom" Unmasked

By Stephen Lendman

10/04/07 "ICH" -- -

Iraq above all other nations today is a ghoulish testimony to the myth of free market magic, but it's even worse than that. It proves Friedmanomics a crime against humanity and the man who led it a Nobel prize-winning fraud whose legacy is failure. His real time record is so horrific, it's unrevealed in the mainstream to suppress it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18505.htm

Today I spoke with a woman from Vietnam. She said her family of ten tried to escape from Vietnam eight times because her father hated the communists. I asked if she thought that the communists there were controlled by the Chinese communists, and she said "No, they different." When she said she had 8 siblings I asked her if I looked a little green. I didn't go off on my population control tirade, but I couldn't help wondering why so few governments consider it a priority to help women control the size of their broods. She certainly didn't seem like she wanted to follow in her mother's footsteps on that one. I love San Diego because I get to meet all kinds of neat people here. People who can share stories from all over the world.

Stop Blackwater

Erik Prince testified today

Here's an interpretation of what happened.

(Oh Jeez, I just caught this sentence from the above article: "Every indication is that Prince is a very bad man." Totally cracks me up. I used to listen to squids try to impress me by trying to bullshit me into believing that they were Navy Seals. They didn't realize that that didn't impress or even interest most chicks raised in San Diego. Why? Because we knew that they were assholes. By the time I was eighteen I had had about enough of guys who thought that they were Billy BadAss.)

The asshole acts like his shit don't stink because of The Bush administration's ties to Blackwater


We don't want Blackwater in San Diego.

Encampment and Demonstration to Stop Blackwater West from building a training facility in San Diego County

Stop Blackwater in Potrero October 6-7 2007

The cancer that is killing this country is out of control in this city.
The military-industrial-complex can't even be surgically removed from San Diego.
The triage nurse just rolls her eyes and calls for morphine.

Here's a nice little local article about Brent Wilkes, Dukie Cunningham, ho's and hot tubs, and Wilkes' troubles before the Dukie thing.

He he he, this made me laugh

Conscientious people are less prone to Alzheimer's
Mon Oct 1, 2007 7:02pm EDT
CHICAGO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - People who lead a good clean life -- those who are conscientious, self-disciplined and scrupulous -- appear to be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.


The finding is the latest from a long-running study of nearly 1,000 Catholic nuns, priests and brothers by Robert Wilson of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The study appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

NYT Front Page

What I gotta read today and...

Exoneration Using DNA Brings Change in Legal System
October 1, 2007

Loyal Network Backs Obama After His Help
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: October 1, 2007
In 2000, after losing a Congressional race, Barack Obama was looking to revive his political fortunes. And he soon found a springboard — a group of black entrepreneurs also trying to break out.

October 1, 2007
Darfur Rebels Kill 10 in Peace Force
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

...Mr. Mezni said the rebels, whose precise affiliation was unclear as of late Sunday, came at the camp from every direction in what he called a “deliberate and sustained attack.” ...

The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste
October 1, 2007
By WALT BOGDANICH
...The news set off alarms. In 2006 the government had mistakenly mixed mislabeled diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine, and Panama was still coping with its aftermath. The day before Dr. Alleyne’s announcement, a front-page newspaper article here reported the finding by The Times that the diethylene glycol in the cold medicine had come from a Chinese company not certified to sell pharmaceutical ingredients, and that it had been sold under a false label...
...Over the years, counterfeiters have used diethylene glycol as a cheap substitute for its more expensive chemical cousin, glycerin, a common ingredient in medicine, food and household products...
...The toothpaste had entered Panama through the Colón Free Trade Zone on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. One of the world’s biggest free zones, with 30,000 workers and 2,500 businesses, it is a place where billions of dollars in goods are unloaded, stored and either sold or reshipped free of tariffs. From there, 5,000 to 6,000 tubes slipped into the Panamanian market, without proper certification, mixed in with animal products, investigators said. A much larger number of tubes were reshipped from the free zone to other Latin American countries...

Barred From Public Housing, Even to See Family
October 1, 2007
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
...For decades, crime has been a grim fact of life for public housing tenants, some of whom say they have no sympathy for neighbors who are barred for breaking the law....

Mets Complete Stunning Collapse October 1, 2007
Marlins 8, Mets 1
By BEN SHPIGEL

...what I want to read:

Two Clues for the Clueless
October 1, 2007

...In a reality-based existence, it is more effective to modify one's own behavior than to try to govern the behavior of other sovereign individuals and entities...

I like Jim Kunstler's Clusterfuck Nation


And my friend Annie Banannie, who keeps me from staying in bed all day with the covers pulled over my head. I'm fortunate to be able to call her a friend.