Max Eternity - In all the years since I first discovered Deepak Chopra, never in my life have I heard him speak the truth in such a hilarious manner as he wrote today in a post @ The Huffington Post:

The Pew Research Report said that “Nearly three-quarters (74%) now say news organizations are influenced by powerful people and organizations…” What a surprise!

Duh!

If there is anything that has become abundantly clear it’s that Southerners, especially Republican Southerners, can’t cope with the fact that we elected a black President. The Civil War, folks, is NOT the past.

For the 30+ years of my life spent in Northeast Ohio, in childhood and as an adult, University Circle has been at the center of my universe. What Place is at the Center of Your Universe?

Whereas, Universal Health Care was proposed by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1912; and

Whereas today, nearly 100 years later, 47 million Americans are uninsured and another 50 million are underinsured bringing great social and economic harm to the American family; and

Whereas, HR 676, authored by Congressmen John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich provides for Medicare for All, a universal, single payer, not-for-profit health care system which means the end of premiums, copays and deductibles; and

Ladies start rounding up your pins and needles as well as looking for those unusual odds and ends of yard goods that will put your mark in an american quilt.

Also bring your moms and grandma, aunts, sisters, daughters, nieces, etc.  This is a simple class and everyone can sew. 

We have a problem Plain Dealer.

Michael Pollan makes the connection between big insurance and big agriculture. He's good at it - drawing us the picture that is. Here's his roadmap to healthcare reform in the US:

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Yesterday I spent the better part of the day in the kitchen cooking. I had an abundance of harvest both from my garden and the farm's "family holdback" produce I had carried home over the past two weeks. I had to take all that fresh produce and prepare it for eating over the next few weeks and months.

Last weekend - summer squash blanched and prepared for freezing - summer onions chopped and packaged for the freezer, mizuna pesto prepared for stuffing tomatoes and for sandwich spread for the weekend trip to Detroit, first modest corn harvested - steamed and eaten with no added anything - delicious! Who knew you could grow any corn on 6 hours of sun a day?

If Jackson's stodges on Cleveland City Council go along with Jacob's aquarium scheme, Cleveland will once again allow itself to be used by a developer to further our national image as a second-rate, amateur town--a joke.

Do I need to point out that we have polluted Lake Erie and our Great Lakes to the point that native animal and plant communities no longer exist?  So, what are we going to feature at this Great Lakes Aquarium?  Sheepshead and carp?

Polar Ice Update:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MozcU7woNNQ&feature=related

It would seem that there are more of these iinteresting videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610

...and some comments from the creator of them:

I finally convinced my significant other to bicycle down to Rockside and we did it today.  He is not too happy with me now that we are home with our sore backsides, but the experience was worth it.

All the B&B Wrecking demolition equipment is gone from HoJo's - now B&B is hard at work tearing down the Carnegie Medical Building.   The new construction trailer and signage advertizes Lakeview - apartment/condo complex.   Evolution-Construction.com appears to be the builder.

Hugger-Mugger channels have brought to light the possibility that Civic Builders may be in the process of reviving the West 8th (multi unit housing on a postage size lot)  Development with the help of certain community leaders by circumventing the block club process and going straight to the zoning board. 

Of course, we all know this is business at the same old stand in Tremont. 

From Jennifer Brunner--today on September 11, 2009

 COME AND MEET ACLU REPRESENTATIVES ANGELA BARSTOW AND LAMA ALWAN FOR "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" SESSION AT THE OLD SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY COALITION MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2009, AT 6:00PM.

Chinese government officials are now attempting to protect themselves by dumping large portions of their dollar denominated reserves for gold and silver.

Former Nazi Hermann Schmitz looked for an alternative to brute force for controlling people and realized that people could be controlled through their food supply.

Bill Patmon slammed Mayor Frank Jackson on his “gift” of $2 million to Jeff Jacobs for a proposed fish tank for his Flats project. It’s a proper slam of the mayor.

Amazing similarity between orange in fiesta ware and orange in zinnia - perfectly the same at the handle.  Fresh flowers cut yesterday from Geauga County, Ohio.  What is this bouquet (minus vase) worth at market?