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by: JayinPhiladelphia

Fri May 27, 2011 at 19:00:00 PM PDT


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Stanley Cup, eh? (4.00 / 1)
Go Canucks, whoo!

:-D

I don't want to talk about basketball until next year.  Yuck to either potential champion, but a triple yuck to the ones from Florida...

Big sports doings on the TV Saturday. (4.00 / 2)
The French Open in the morning. The Prefontaine Classic at around noon. And, of course, baseball. And, a special treat for those among us who love futbol, the Manchester United vs. Barcelona match.

Stanley Cup? Eh, who needs it?  

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Futbol! (4.00 / 2)
Go Timbers!

They're the only ones I know.  Heh.  Oh, and the New Jersey MetroStars.  Their name changed a few years ago, though.  Had to look it up.  Ughh, they're named the Red Bulls.  After the friggin' drink, which said company is their owner.  How about that, eh?  How long until we have the Detroit Cheetos or the Seattle Sour Patch Kids?  Ridiculous.

Ha, the new stadium in Harrison finally opened.  Used to be an old PSE&G facility.  I used to pick up soil samples there years and years ago when it was just a giant field of (dirty, dirty!) dirt and rocks.  Across the river, the big ole' Newark F.D. training facility, too.

Newark's changed, I probably wouldn't even recognize it these days.  Oh well, that was a lifetime ago.

Heh, sorry for the late night ramblings.  Can't go to sleep.

Oh, whoa!  Those bastards are coming here to play the Timbers on June 19! I'm gonna try to go.  Haven't ever been to a Timbers game.  I hear they're... fun.  I'll bring a helmet, heh.  Good thing I don't drink any more!  :)

Btw, the little old European market on Hawthorne & SE 18th?  I don't know if you've been there lately, but it turned into a European-themed soccer bar last year and the food is said to be great.  They show tons of games from across the pond, if you're ever interested.

4-4-2 Soccer Bar

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Hands Across Hawthorne... (4.00 / 2)
I'll be here tomorrow evening, along with an expected 2,000 to 3,000 (or more?) of my fellow Portlanders -

Cascade AIDS Project, Basic Rights Oregon, Q Center, Pride NW, and HRC are coming together to host a peaceful event to show solidarity with those who were attacked last Sunday for holding hands while crossing the Hawthorne Bridge.

Let's show everyone we stand together in solidarity, unity, support, and love.

We will meet up at 7:30pm and then create a chain across the Hawthorne Bridge.

I'll have photos...

i'm (4.00 / 2)
looking forward to them!

come firefly-dreaming with me....
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I'll post something... (4.00 / 2)
...on it at your place tonight or tomorrow.
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(^.^) (4.00 / 2)
i'll be delighted to have it!

come firefly-dreaming with me....
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good fior you (4.00 / 3)
I hope there are thousands on that bridge
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There were at least four of those... (4.00 / 2)
Or maybe more.  Thousands, that is.  Organized in just a few days.

:-D

Photos and words can be found here.

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A great question (4.00 / 2)
Over on the Brown.Girl.Farming blog
http://browngirlfarming.com/
Natasha Bowens asks for help finding a sustainable
farming/activism plan.

Please read her blog, at least the latest entry.
Give her some help, eh?

Peace, Bob

Salvadorans Say No to Monsanto (4.00 / 3)
ALTERNET:
On Friday, officials representing the Ministry of Agriculture and the local governorship accompanied President Funes in inaugurating a new plan aimed at reactivating the country's historically ignored rural economy and reversing El Salvador's growing dependence on imported grains. The opening ceremony for the new plan was hosted by the Mangrove Association, a non-governmental organization established by members of a grassroots social movement called La Coordinadora del Bajo Lempa y Bahia de Jiquilisco (known locally as La Coordinadora), which has been supporting initiatives for food security and environmental sustainability in Usulután for over 15 years. Over the last three months, the Ministry of Agriculture has been working closely with the Mangrove Association and other campesino organizations to develop what may represent the new program's greatest break from past governments' agricultural policies: a goal that by 2014 all corn and bean seed needed for agriculture be produced by Salvadoran farmers, rather than purchased from multinational seed companies, namely Monsanto, as has been the case in recent years.


"If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove" Cheyenne
Good for them (4.00 / 3)
I've always said that if the developed countries, especially the USA actually wanted the other countries on this planet to be food secure and independant, they'd encourage them to do just what El Salvador is doing, not become dependant on some foreign seed and chemical company.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.
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thanks for that (4.00 / 2)
very interesting article.

come firefly-dreaming with me....
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A bike ride around Saratoga Springs, NY... (4.00 / 2)
Photos and words, courtesy of Jim Kunstler.  Bunch of farm and animal photos.
Majadra! (4.00 / 2)
And yet another new-to-me spelling, heh.

Serious Eats has a featured recipe today, I wonder if they've been reading my comments at this blog?

;-P

This one's got an extra frying step for the onions at the end.  I'll have to try that...

Wikileaks on Haiti! (4.00 / 3)
WikiLeaks Haiti: The Nation Partners With Haïti Liberté on Release of Secret Haiti Cables:
What emerges is an extraordinary portrait of Washington's aggressive management of Latin America's first sovereign nation-and its bare-knuckled tactics on behalf of US corporate interests there. But the cables also show how Washington's designs are met with fierce resistance from the Haitian people. And they reveal how Haiti is a key arena for North-South struggle and East-West intrigue. Washington squares off against Caracas and Havana, particularly over oil, while Beijing and Taipei engage in fierce diplomatic arm-wrestling that threatens to derail the UN military mission in Haiti.


"If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove" Cheyenne
Just goes to show (4.00 / 2)
the more things change, the more they stay the same. These types of intrigue have been around for as long as groups of humans have been interacting with each other.

A friend of mine on FB asked why we still had to have wars, etc. This kind of activity with regard to Haiti is a good example of why.  

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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Heh... (4.00 / 2)
Looking back at my baseball preview, my World Series pick, Minnesota, is currently... 22-37.  Worst record in all of baseball.  Wow, I am the complete opposite of awesome at this!

My NL pick, San Francisco, is in first place in the NL West right now.  They're pretty good this year.

The Mets are only three games below .500!

You're a DKos kind of guy. (4.00 / 2)
Has Anthony Wiener received any support over there?

We've learned useful information about Wiener. One thing is, he's much too stupid to warrant paying him a federal salary. Another thing is, he's incorrigibly juvenile.

The time for useful proportionality is long gone. I don't care if Wiener's offense isn't as disgustingly reprehensible as in the cases of John Edwards, John Ensign, or Newt Gingrich, I just want all this to stop. Now. If we could accomplish that by chaining Wiener in stocks in front of Gracie Mansion, I'd be for it. Meanwhile, hound the little turd out of office.

Not that this has anything to for with Minnesota or San Francisco.

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I don't really... (4.00 / 2)
...keep up on things like that there, stuff with such potential to get that nasty and all.  There are enough problems there these days as is.  Ah, but of course, anyone who spends any time there can't help but notice it if even from the sidelines.

It really looks like, more than anything, a lot of people there are pissed off that they fell for some technical 'experts,' who were spewing all kinds of mumbo-jumbo jargon* for days about how this, that and the other thing 'proved' that there was no way this was true.  Which was, of course, all bullshit as we now know, and a lot of people have egg on their face.  Whoops, as they say.

Seems he had a lot of support there and now people are pissed that they were taken in, is my reading.

I'm a cynic, so I'm not at all surprised by anything these days.  The easy way for them to get rid of Weiner, of course, will be redistricting, and I'm sure that's what will happen.  New York has to lose two seats for 2012, anyway.

Also, if anything I think he should apologize to the rest of us for giving credibility to that lying, vicious racist little scumbag who should have been run out on a rail last year for the disgusting Shirley Sherrod incident, but of course not.  "Lib'rul" CNN hires the little fucking twit.  No pun intended on twit, heh.

Yeah, I wish it would stop, too.  But I guess we can't be surprised when a bunch of megalomaniacal morons act like, well, megalomaniacal morons eh?

*Heh, what other group of people do we know who are always telling the rest of us that we're st00pid and don't know anything about their science?  ;)

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Stumptown Coffee sold... (4.00 / 2)
Stumptown, the iconic and fiercely independent company that helped define coffee in this city, has been sold to a New York investment firm, according to records and interviews with industry officials.

A coffee industry executive has confirmed for WW that Stumptown's new investors claimed to have bought 90 percent of the Portland company. The sale ends the company's 12-year life as a local brand that pioneered high-end coffee here and around the world.

Stumptown, under its founder, Duane Sorenson, is renowned for purchasing the best coffee beans, cultivating an edgy image, and remaining free of corporate ties. It is the anti-Starbucks.

Or was.


Interesting. (4.00 / 2)
Mark Inman sold Taylor Maid Coffee (Sebastopol, California) recently, I think earlier this year. I don't know who bought it but I think it's still independent, not part of a consolidation trend. The website lists Chris Martin as Pres/CEO and Rob Daly as Executive Director - I've never heard of those guys. Who knows - maybe the Taylor Maid sale was a byproduct of Mark's divorce.

Stumptown, Intelly, and Counter Culture all have launched expansions beyond their home territories in the last couple of years, and Counter Culture recently reverted to an exclusivity business model - they won't supply a coffee shop unless the shop agrees to sell Counter Culture exclusively. The specialty coffee business is changing, and expansion isn't cheap or easy. Duane could have good business reasons for looking for outside investment. I wonder if the private capital business contacted him, or if he went looking for investors and ended up selling most of the company.

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Stumptown, NYT (4.00 / 2)
Stumptown Expands With the Help of a Powerful Investor

Mr. Panos said in a telephone interview that he was not, in fact, an officer of Stumptown Coffee Roasters and was listed as such only for filing purposes.

"Duane runs the show, no ifs, ands or buts," he said. "He controls the company. I'm just an investor."

In filings in Oregon, he is named the president and secretary of Stumptown Coffee Corp., and as the authorized representative of its two subsidiaries, Stumptown Coffee and Stumptown Coffee Roasters Inc. Mr. Panos also said that he had no involvement with an entity registered in Delaware as Stumptown Coffee Corp. on April 11, even though it was originally listed under the name TSG Coffee Corp.

"We can't disclose the structure of the investment," Mr. Panos said. "What I can say is that Duane controls the company."

What's certain is that there will be more Stumptowns, and soon.

"Getting some money to grow your business is not evil," Mr. Panos said.


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yuck... (4.00 / 3)
and I don't like http://www.lacolombe.com Weavers Way sells it and I don't think its worth the price.I've been buying whatever fair trade dark roast is on sale at the Coop. They have weekly specials at 8.99 a pound.

Investment groups usually want short term profits so they can make money and sell.  

Yeah... (4.00 / 2)
The part of the story that struck me was that once the rumors broke last week, Sorenson apparently ran around town 'reassuring' (i.e. - lying to) employees at Stumptown's five shops (and I guess the roaster/warehouse-thingy on Division at 34th) here that this wasn't true.  Wishing them all the best, here's hoping nothing comes down on their heads so that some greedy fuckhead can buy a gold shower curtain for his third mistress's penthouse apartment.

As I'm sure quality is no longer going to be the main concern, I'm glad we still have like, eleventy billion other small independent roasters here in Portland.  I haven't really drank Stumptown in a couple years, anyway.  I don't know much about the coffee scene in these other cities, but here's hoping for the people who love these roasters that this doesn't become a trend -

According to Carmichael, Panos said his firm hoped to merge Stumptown with other coffee companies. Panos proposed that La Colombe join in, Carmichael says. And he says Panos asked Carmichael if he might reach out to other specialty coffee companies, such as Chicago-based Intelligentsia, Blue Bottle, which is based in San Francisco; and Counter Culture, from Durham, North Carolina.

On another point, watch for the certain garishly-designed 'drive-thru' boxes with their backlit plastic signs ("StumpGentsia BottleCulture!") to open soon on the high-speed corporate crud strip nearest you!

Directly across from the Starbucks and the McDonald's and the Target, natch.  And so it goes.

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when Bain Capital (where Romney made his fortune) (4.00 / 3)
bought the company I worked for (clothing wholesaler) the first thing they did was cut corners on the boxes. Of course Bain paid out big bonus's
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Chestnut Hill (4.00 / 2)
Does Chestnut Hill sell any roasted coffee in addition to their own? And what do you think of Chestnut Hill's coffee, if you've tried it?

I never heard anything good about La Colombe, but they seem to have a goodly share of Philadelphia's coffee business.

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best coffee (4.00 / 2)
around And its my daughter's second home and I can take my dog there:)

They only sell their own

Currently popular phrases that need to go away... (4.00 / 2)
1.  Make no mistake.

That is all.

two more (4.00 / 2)
2. No one could have predicted this.

3. We must ensure this never happens again.

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Okay, and so... (4.00 / 2)
Just a quick thought before bed.  When do we stop talking about Congressional Crotches and start talking about like, stuff that matters?

Oh silly me, we've never actually talked about that.  And now that Crotch is in the news again, I guess we'll never get there.

What are New Zealand's immigration policies like, anybody know?

Bah... (4.00 / 2)
That's right, I'm still relatively young enough that New Zealand will probably be underwater before my time is up.  Okay, need a higher country, as long as it isn't too cold...
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What I really want... (4.00 / 2)
...is one of those ancient deep-sea diving suits; you know, the kind that they have in seafood restaurants sometimes?  With the big bubbly, glass helmets and all?

Heh, forget New Zealand.  We'll all be wearing those to work (and everywhere else) one day, I guess.

Okay, my Night of Cynicism will come to an end here.  Good night, and good luck.

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Spooky... (4.00 / 2)
I meant to add that those ancient deep-sea diving suits are also vaguely spooky.  There's a seafood restaurant in Highlands, NJ, just off Sandy Hook, called Bahr's.  Went there all the time as a kid with the family.  Don't remember much about the food, and Chowhound and such seems to indicate it sucks these days, but I have an idea the place was always more about the view (excellent) than anything else.  And then of course, there's the shore right there for after dinner.  Type of place where anything on the menu that turns out even just slightly above average is a bonus.

Anyway, back to my point.  They had one of those suits propped up right in the lobby when you walked in (probably still do), and it used to scare the crap out of me when I was a wee tyke.  So maybe it's a personal history / psychological kinda thing, but I still think those things look vaguely spooky.

Okay, that's all.  Good night this time.  Really.

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altitude (4.00 / 2)
The NZ Andes, or maybe the NZ Rockies, already are pretty high, and I think they're getting higher at the rate of something like 7 inches per year.
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growth rate (4.00 / 2)
The growth rate might be 7 centimeters per year, I'm not sure.
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fascination (4.00 / 2)
One thing about this fascinates me. Why would a person who has publicly admitted to being one of the stupidest people in the world think he should continue to hold public office? Everything about this reeks imbecility.
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I have mixed feeling about the whole Weiner thing (4.00 / 3)
Sad..because he spoke truth to power in ways that are unusual in DC. And that he was naive enough to think the photos and the whole situation wouldn't come out.

According to my therapist, a huge majority of men now use the internet for similar behavior( sorry don;t know where she got this info) Maybe we  need to be more open about it.

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not naive (4.00 / 2)
The truth is different according to Weiner himself, who said he knew the thing could blow up in his face. He knew Facebook and Twitter aren't secure, he knew anything he sent could be forwarded or discussed, but he continued the behavior anyway.

What Weiner didn't say was in the report from the NYT - a group of conservatives has been assiduously tracking Weiner's accounts all year, and he knew it. When they identified the porn actress, he deleted the contact. When they identified a 16-year-old girl in California, he deleted the contact. They warned women about his creepy behavior and sent copies of the warnings to Weiner. He continued the behavior anyway.

Maybe I'm wrong that he's stupid. Maybe he has a severe mental illness that could lead to much worse behavior.

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It's always the same old story (4.00 / 3)
when a democrat's doing this it's the republicans who are after him/her. And when it's a republican doing it then the democrats get to break out the virtual weapons.

It's always the pot calling the kettle black. That's why I say that there's no real substantive difference between the democratic and republican parties.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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right now the only difference (4.00 / 3)
is Medicare. And of course a smattering of Politicians like Bernie Sanders.

Sexual stuff like Weinergate has become a smoke screen for the stuff that really important to our lives. Did anyone get hurt (well maybe his wife but thats between him and her)because he tweeted pics of his junk? A friend of mine's take..
http://country2.blogspot.com/2...

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LOL (4.00 / 3)
I had to laugh when I read the quote about Breitbart wanting to take this out of the partisan rankor realm. He's one of the leaders of partisan rankor on the right. I've got no respect for that joker.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.
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It is partisan (4.00 / 3)
The bigger picture here is that Breitbart and other Republicans had a big bulls eye on Weiner's back ( he was going after Thomas) because of Clarence Thomas "forgetting" to report his wifes 700,000 salary from some right wing front group. And Weiner just played into their hands.
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Of course it's partisan, I just think it's ludicrous what Breitbart said about not wanting to be partisan, (0.00 / 0)
it's usually partisan. And it happens on both sides of the isle - Senator Bob Packwood (R-Oregon) had a big bullseye on his back that the democrats put there. They used Packwood's boorish behavior, kissing women at parties and groping them to get him out of office (don't use any of the policies he's made or his voting record, oh, no, that's way to weak of a platform to stand on). Republicans used the same defense of him that the democrats are using for Weiner - He's doing good works."Meh, him kissing those women was a minor thing."

Neil Goldschmidt, wildly popular, mayor of Portland and a big democrat in Oregon, went to work as transportation secretary under Carter. Banging a 15 year old girl. Democrats stood up and defended him all over the place when that one finally came out after years of it being hushed up and Neil and his wife Dianna paying a butt load of money to keep her quiet. I even had one contractor friend of mine defend him by saying "Hey, it was the 70s", like the 70s made pedophilia OK. At the time we were both doing work on one of Dianna's houses.

Clarence Thomas - Porn allegations and workplace harrasment. Republicans defended him up and down. Democrats didn't concentrate so much on his track record that related to being a supreme court justice as Anita Hill and Long Dong Silver.

Sam Adams - well, at least he waited until Bo Breedlove was actually 18. Democrats defended him up and down, republicans concentrated more on Sam's relationship with Breedlove rather than Sam's plans for Portland.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat... (0.00 / 0)
Just sayin'.

;)

But yeah, he's the best one out there.

Agree with what you said.  Don't look behind that curtain.  What wars?  What unemployment?  What rule of law?  Let's talk about Crotch.

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New Study on RoundUp and Birth Defects (4.00 / 3)
in pdf. Damning as ever.

http://www.swnews.net/folder/R...

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