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Neither Mr. Kerry nor the article has the integrity even to utter the word "occupation" or "settlements" – never mind the international judgment "illegal" – as they pretend to describe this dispute. This article will be cited in books on propaganda.
Their carefully balanced language of "both sides" reminds me of the family whose wife stole a baby by cutting it from the womb of a pregnant woman, leaving her to bleed to death, then rushed home with the bloody child to convince her friends she had just given birth.
The murderer's husband, interviewed on CNN, described the trauma of having to return the baby that he had bonded with all night to the dead woman's family. "Both families have suffered," he said.
It wasn't until I read it over a few times that I realized what a perfect analogy this is for the roles the Israelis and Palestinians if you consider your land — your birthright — your "baby". Perhaps the Times editors had the same slow reaction, as the comment soon disappeared.
Actually I have the same feeling about the US exit from the phony Mideast "peace process" as I do about the official end of campaign finance limits this week: it's a welcome end to an extended sham, where no one would take responsibility for their need to change their own role until the sham was over.
Instead of waiting for permission, Palestine is standing up as though it deserves statehood as much as anyone.
And now Democrats can stop pretending your donations can outweigh the (just 600) individual mill/billionaires who hit the maximum donation limit in the last election, who can now legally outspend Democrats in every race in every state. Instead any honest candidate can finally say:
For once I'm NOT going to outspend my corrupt opponent, and that's how I'm going to make news and win. Going forward, anyone you see from ANY party trying to outspend their opponent — you know they're corrupt and don't deserve your vote. And when there's a corrupt journalist trying to keep a Green or Independent candidate out of my debate, you'll see me on TV asking why, and making sure you know my opponents' web addresses. Because now my campaign is about having the best ideas, not spending enough money to prevent competition. I'm no longer too weak and scared to debate independents on their merits. So it'll finally be crystal clear who the corrupt money candidates still are and who should to replace them.
It turns out there's this Internet thing that you can find out all about ALL the candidates, whether your News station wants you to know or not. Voters, if you're only seeing the wealthiest candidates in ads and TV news, how about you grow up, stop blaming Citizens United, go on line and find out if there's a Peoples candidate on your ballot too — it'll take a whole minute — and tell your friends. After all, Anchor McHandsome's job his to help sell TV ads. As a citizen it's your job to find out who's on your ballot and whether they they represent you.
Of course some incumbent Democrats, utterly unacquainted with honesty, will simply run the money race again, lose bigger than ever and blame the Supreme Court. That means independents — 46% of todays electorate — will be more powerful than ever, whether they know it or not. Here in California, Marianne Williamson will replace the retiring Democrat, and so on. This is already happening; ending phony campaign finance limits will just accelerate it.
What a week! An end to the rigged, theft-ridden fake "Mideast Peace Process" and the fake SuperPacked "Campaign finance limits"?
I'm celebrating double today.
Caricature from DonkeyHotey licensed under Creative Commons
Cupertino — At Friday's Apple shareholder meeting, Apple's directors overruled an urgent, popular shareholder resolution entitled Spy Lockout, aimed at improving security and keeping NSA surveillance and other intruders out of Apple's products and systems. The same morning, Apple co-Founder Steve Wozniak endorsed the Spy Lockout initiative.
Apple had quietly advised shareholders in its January 10, 2014 Proxy Statement that directors Bruce Sewell and Peter Oppenheimer would exercise their discretionary voting authority — their ability to cast votes on behalf of shareholders who toss their voting forms in the trash — to defeat the proposal, without citing any reason.
The proxy statement does not refer to the proposal as "Spy Lockout" but as a "Floor Proposal" that "if approved, would, among other things, ask the Board 'to enact a policy to use technical methods and other best practices to protect user data.'"
An eligible shareholder has notified us of his intent to propose a resolution at the Annual Meeting that, if approved, would, among other things, ask the Board 'to enact a policy to use technical methods and other best practices to protect user data.' This shareholder proposal is referred to as the 'Floor Proposal.' … If the Floor Proposal is presented at the Annual Meeting, then to the extent permitted by applicable rules, the proxy holders will have, and intend to exercise, discretionary voting authority under Rule 14a-4(c) under the Exchange Act to vote AGAINST the Floor Proposal.
(bold face ours, capitalization Apple's)
Apple gave no indication why it would vote against a resolution to follow best practices recommended by industry technical experts and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect users.
Apple has likewise been conspicuously silent about a very serious internet security flaw, increasingly referred to as GoToFail, that was on all Apple mobile devices running iOS 6 or iOS 7 from September 2012 until last Friday, February 21st 2014, and which was on all Macintosh laptops and desktops running Mavericks OSX until the Tuesday before the meeting. Apple has received growing criticism that, while it has now released upgrades that resolve the flaw, it has not alerted users or provided any info describing how GoToFail may have compromised their data. The flaw allows any machine on the same network as an Apple customer to impersonate any site, whereafter the Apple user may then enter password information or unwittingly hand over control of their machine.
Experts on Apple and security have noted that within weeks of GoToFail's silent introduction in 2012, the NSA reported internally that Apple had joined the PRISM bulk surveillance program providing "direct access" to Apple users' data. These experts could not rule out complicity by Apple, perhaps under gagged National Security Orders. Although National Security Letters were ruled unconstitutional in March of last year, Apple privacy officer Jane Horvath declined to answer whether it is still cooperating with new orders. Apple's most recent transparency report says it may have cooperated with more than 200 such requests just between January and June of last year.
While the shareholder presenting the Spy Lockout resolution on Friday referred specifically to the importance of following best security practices and to the GoToFail crisis, Apple CEO Tim Cook declined to comment or take questions on GoToFail or Spy Lockout at the meeting.
Shareholders Employ Floor Proposal Tactic
The Spy Lockout resolution was led by Apple shareholders affiliated with Restore the Fourth, a national constitutional rights organization aimed at defending the 4th Amendment's guarantee that government search requires a specific warrant and bulk surveillance without suspicion is unconstitutional, through its Bay Area chapter Restore The Fourth SF.
Ordinarily shareholder proposals are submitted for consideration through a proxy system that allows shareholders to vote by mail in advance of the meeting. The Spy Lockout initiative, begun after the deadline for a normal 2014 proxy proposal, was submitted instead as an urgent Floor Proposal and voted on only by a few hundred shareholders present at Friday's meeting – to provide information, as a non-binding poll, and to spur debate with shareholders and directors.
This resolution, presented by Apple shareholder and Restore the Fourth SF national liaison David Levitt, was received warmly by shareholders present, earning a rare round of applause, as did a Human Rights Committee resolution that was also overruled.
While Bloomberg reported Apple Investors Reject All Shareholder Proposals, it misleadingly reported that shareholders had overwhelmingly rejected the proposal. But in fact under the unusual Floor Vote procedure for Spy Lockout, when Apple estimated the vote tally, the only shareholders who had voted against Spy Lockout were Apple directors – through their discretionary power to cast votes on behalf of shareholders who had tossed their ballots in the trash and did not attend the meeting.
In other words, though a vast majority of the shareholders who considered the proposal supported it, they were silently overruled by the directors without discussion or explanation.
Apple avoided discussion and debate by declining to call on Dr. Levitt during the question period and excluding any description of Spy Lockout resolution content from the official meeting Agenda. Whereas the Jan 10 proxy document and ballots summarized the proposal as "a policy to use technical methods and other best practices to protect user data," in the Agenda document distributed to shareholders and the press it appeared only as "Floor Proposal." Evidently in the midst of the newly revealed GoToFail internet security negligence crisis, reminding the press that Apple is doubling down to vote AGAINST "best practices to protect user data" was not something the firm was eager to mention, advertise or discuss.
Dr. Levitt's remarks, below, emphasized that an end to unconstitutional surveillance may be more readily achieved by technical means, and corporations seeking the trust of their customers, than by legislation.
Apple Spy Lockout shareholder remarks
(plain text shows prepared remarks; italics show improvisation upon news of Wozniak's endorsement of Spy Lockout)
I'm David Levitt, a fellow shareholder. I'm introducing the Spy Lockout proposal to regain our users' trust, which has been shaken ever since Apple was implicated in the NSA's bulk surveillance programs last June.
The Spy Lockout plan is simple common sense for any company truly committed to data security. Adopt best practices for security and encryption, as recommended by experts like the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Keep third party equipment off our networks. Investigate and stop invasions of user privacy. And when cooperating with police, require a warrant of limited duration, for a specific person or thing, instead of bulk collection.
The Spy Lockout proposal isn't in your shareholders' proxy materials. By the September proxy deadline, we hadn't yet learned how providers are threatened and coerced into breaking the law. Internet providers like Lavabit were still gagged.
So today the full set of Apple shareholders can't vote to compel Apple's directors to implement a Spy Lockout. Apple's directors will have to do it themselves, as a matter of both conscience and wise business practice. This is too urgent to wait another year.
Business leaders have successfully stood up to overreaching government power before. The McCarthy era Hollywood blacklist was ended not by our government, but by brave movie makers willing to challenge it.
In 1960 Universal Studios and the producers of Spartacus dared to include blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo's name on the movie, and almost instantly the government run blacklist that had ruined so many innocent lives was over. And then Spartacus went on to make more money than any other movie in history.
Apple can follow a similar path – leading our industry's escape from vast, wasteful surveillance that has invaded every home in America without catching a single terrorist. Apple can earn back the trust of users the world over, and reap well deserved financial rewards.
It starts with having the courage to protect our constitution when our government won't.
I should mention that I just got a message from Woz – Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple – and he's strongly in favor of the Spy Lockout. Apple should defend the constitution – especially when the government won't. He's looking forward to participating in a press release. We're praying this won't be a divisive battle between the original Apple values of courage and anti-totalitarianism, versus a new Apple that's more about cowardice or complicity. With a growing GoToFail security scandal, it makes no sense for Apple to reject a proposal for hardened security.
Join me in voting for the Spy Lockout today.
[general applause from audience]
Apple needs our help resisting intrusive bulk surveillance of its users by the NSA and other international spies.
A group of concerned shareholders is working with Apple to develop concrete ways to help. Collaborating with Restore the Fourth, we've submitted a draft shareholder proposal and have begun engaging with executives there amid a new Apple commitment to transparency.
We will address the board and shareholders at Apple's February 2014 annual shareholder meeting. We're preparing the final draft of our shareholder proposal, and we want your input.
I'm alerting my favorite Apple watchers, current or former employees, passionate users of its services, security nerds, etc. – and soliciting feedback on these ideas and support in this effort.
The final proposal, to be submitted in two weeks, must be under 500 words.
Last week Apple made a public vow to maximize its transparency about privacy in its services. For one, Apple sought to reveal aggregate numeric information about how Apple handles government information requests. Only the USA declined to fully cooperate.
Amid these revelations about specific Account Requests (with individual targets) and Device Requests (e.g. tracking of stolen devices) Apple hasn't included data on widely reported US attempts at bulk and suspicionless surveillance of Apple networks, users' data and metadata. But we've been able to learn more.
Last month Ladar Levison, founder of the encrypted email service Lavabit used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, was finally ungagged by US federal courts and able to reveal government tactics employed to secretly gain access to service providers' private user data.
Believing these requests to be unconstitutional violations of his customers' privacy, Levison shut down the Lavabit service rather than betray his customers' trust or be punished with imprisonment and growing fines. These facts, not revealed in detail until last month, provide a glimpse of how the US government deals with ISPs like Lavabit and iCloud.
In conversations with attorneys, Apple has been unable to reveal whether it has received FBI visits, bulk surveillance court orders, warrants, or pen register traps on any subset of its 350 million iCloud users. We don't know conclusively whether Apple is under the kinds of threats and gag orders Lavabit received. But it is reasonable to assume it is cooperating with such government requests, whether executives consider them constitutional and legal or not.
Apple executives and employees may already be gagged hostages. We aim to free them.
If en masse, shareholders compel Apple to take reasonable precautions to protect its users – such as revoking SSL keys and other digital certificates that may have been compromised by intruders – it's not clear any government can prevent Apple from doing it.
More important, if Apple is truly committed to its users' privacy and trust, it needn't wait for shareholders to compel it. Like any bank whose credit card database has been compromised, Apple has a duty to protect its customers from intruders, and faces potential criminal liability if it is complicit, negligent, or otherwise fails to do so.
Thus we are pursuing this to protect against threats to our beneficial investments in Apple.
Apple can, TODAY, begin revoking SSL keys, update its IT procedures, and take other steps to improve users' privacy, amid evident ongoing attempts to compromise its network.
Here's a segment from the previous shareholder proposal draft, which helped recruit Apple executives' cooperation:
Diminished trust inevitably slows the adoption of core Apple data services like iCloud and product features like Touch ID, for example. Specifically, users have no way to know which vows about Touch ID data made by Apple today may be reversed in the enforcement of a secret court order or National Security Letter tomorrow.
Failing to acknowledge and address these realities can cause the company serious ongoing financial harm, particularly in international markets. Instead, by addressing these issues forthrightly Apple can win back the trust of customers, provide leadership, offer competitive advantages, and strengthen the entire industry — as Apple has done before.
A week later we were contacted by Apple attorneys and Apple's new transparency and privacy initiative was launched.
Stay tuned…
]]>Lavabit received unprecedented attention in July when Snowden used a lavabit.com email address to invite human rights groups such as Amnesty International to a press conference at the Moscow Airport, announcing his international requests for political asylum.
At a CNET/Electronic Frontier Foundation event in San Francisco on Monday, Levison could finally describe how secret court orders and an unconstitutional search warrant demanding Lavabit's SSL key led him to close down the ten year old service rather than betray the trust of over 400,000 innocent users.
Unedited video captures the first half hour of the interview, conducted by CNET's Declan McCullagh.
As Levison explains, the process began with visits from FBI agents verbally demanding the SSL key, accompanied by a court order that never mentioned it. Levison wound up having to defend himself in a Virginia federal court while the government followed him, threatened him with prison, and assessed fines of $5000 per day until the FBI had the keys. Levison managed to shut down the Lavabit service by the time he handed them over.
Levison's detailed account clarifies a process by which the government obtains keys from private businesses to spy on users in bulk with little or no paper trail and without having to crack codes.
Levison has continued fighting back. On Wednesday, Lavabit and secure communications provider Silent Circle announced the Dark Mail Alliance, which will deliver a more secure, easy-to-use encrypted email service for iOS and Android devices next year, using an open source version of Lavabit's code and advanced Silent Circle technology.
You can support US constitutional rights to assembly and privacy, and the 4th Amendment prohibiting warrantless search, by joining thousands in contributing to Lavabit's legal fund at http://rally.org/lavabit If Lavabit wins the case, we all benefit.
]]>Daring to flip on the TV and flip channels. A soap opera. Some news channel. Another. Wait – a really interesting news channel.
A deep interview with a German privacy expert about surveillance technology. Coverage of massive demonstrations against Angela Merkel's policies handing 60 million communications of innocent Germans every day, "no questions asked", to the NSA. Now an American privacy ISP explaining why electronic privacy doesn't really exist in the US anymore.
Now an ad for smart Thom Hartmann's show The Big Picture. A gripping ad for a documentary on Police Tactics – falsified lie detectors and other methods of producing convictions and "confessions".
An ad for a regular news program, featuring the host opening a massive wall with a drill. Clearly a reference to the Berlin Wall.
Promos that emphasize it's news available in Spanish and Arabic as well as English. My son is saying, "Yeah, we've seen this channel – when we were in Mexico, and in Mongolia."
But now I know I'm still asleep dreaming. It's Larry King, who retired from CNN long ago, the last real journalist to depart. He's interviewing Ron Paul. Old footage as he talks about the 2012 election? No, now Paul is talking about Snowden as a hero, and promoting his own new internet channel.
Larry's show is called PoliticKing. Now he's interviewing Daniel Ellsberg.
Holy mother. In my Minnesota DoubleTree hotel, I'm watching Russia TV.
]]>The other day as Restore the Fourth visited Rep Mike Thompson's office, we unexpectedly recorded his staff's view that whereas citizens' private calls should be monitored with no suspicion or warrant, his staff's conversations with voters should only be recorded with advance permission. In the recording we hear staffers refusing to address the group's main concern – what role the Congressman thinks warrants should have in surveillance – and instead spending a full minute trying to get a journalist to turn off his recorder. It was stunning and kind of hilarious.
And in the same meeting, we discovered Rep Thompson could have singlehandedly prevented the Snowden leaks, but chose not to.
First, great news: to end the NSA's warrantless surveillance programs this fall, just 7 folks in Congress need to change their votes from "NO" to "YES" on the Amash-Conyers Amendment that was narrowly defeated last month.
Rep Thompson is one of just 10 California Democrats who voted against Amash-Conyers and its requirement for warrants; moreover, he was on the Intelligence Committee that was supposed to be providing NSA oversight these past 6 years – the key "Congressional oversight" that the president boasts about in every speech defending the NSA. California senior Senator Feinstein has been similarly keeping thousands of abuses and breaches secret – or failed to learn about them at all.
The vast majority of Democratic California Congressmen – 27 Reps – already voted for Amash-Conyers to end warrantless surveillance, but Rep Mike Thompson's committee has been standing in the way in several ways – including, misleading others in Congress by withholding documents, and insisting there have been no abuses – until they're revealed in the newspapers. On the day of our meeting, NSA defenders' other "oversight" claim was being fully debunked too – as we learned judges for the secret FISA court had secretly ruled some programs unconstitutional, and had expressed outrage over misleading reports and deceptions that have continued for years in the dark.
We previously wrote a bit about our meeting here, where Thompson's staff reacted to a journalist's recorder by saying, with a severe irony deficiency, "I would have preferred it if you had asked if I could be recorded."
Here is that recording, with some context:
And the recording reveals a larger context: when a Representative like Thompson's staff is visited by constituents, accountability isn't the staff's goal. They'd rather not answer any questions, especially about the specifics of legislation he voted on or the reasoning behind the vote. In fact, they would vastly prefer any such discussion to be secret, off the record, or not happen at all.
They generally achieve this by offering to be Good Listeners while treating any effort to obtain information as impolite or argumentative. When discussing the NSA, they of course also say that the answers to most questions are secret, and even secret from them. While touting Thompson's "Blue Dog fiscal conservatism" they insist they have no clue what any of these programs cost. They took notes as we spoke, but we have yet to receive the promised answers to any of our questions from last Wednesday.
They did admit that most of the calls from voters on the Amash-Conyers Amendment were in favor of passing it and ending warrantless NSA surveillance – but they also say they didn't get many calls. That's why it's important to contact his office by email (zip 95401 won't be ignored), by phone at (707) 542-7182, and ideally, attend the rally this Wednesday at his office: Protest Rep Mike Thompson's NSA Support this Wed Aug 28 – We'll gather in front of Rep. Thompson's office starting at 4:30 pm. Vigil begins at 5:00 pm. Speakers begin at 5:30 pm. — Speakers will include civil liberties attorneys, policy analysts, community leaders and activists.
Rep Thompson Could Have Prevented Snowden Leaks
Restore the Fourth's Gareth Scott made an important point in the meeting: Edward Snowden did not want to throw away his career and risk his life – and would never have done it if the US public had been able to learn the truth about NSA abuses without his help. Snowden watched Director of National Intelligence James Clapper commit felony perjury under oath in Congress – and waited for weeks to see if the lie would be corrected by Thompson or anyone else on the Committee who knew the truth.
Only then did Snowden give up on "Congressional oversight" and book his ticket for Hong Kong.
We went on to point out that Thompson was one of the only people in the country who knew better and could have corrected any of the lies without being busted as a whistleblower traitor. Thanks to the Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution, he can't be prosecuted for anything he says on the House Floor. (Thompson's staff didn't seem to know what that was.) It's the same rule that let brave Senator Mike Gravel read aloud from the Pentagon Papers to reveal classified lies.
If Rep Mike Thompson had simply had the integrity and courage to stand up and say, "I know what James Clapper said isn't true," Snowden's revelations would never have happened.
Thompson's staff looked very troubled but did not disagree.
Astonishing meeting at Congressman Mike Thompson's office in Santa Rosa. Thompson is the only rep here in northern California (aside from obedient party leader Pelosi) who voted against the Amash-Conyers amendment, which says what the Constitution says: that no one should be subjected to intrusive surveillance without a proper warrant. I was there with three other Restore the Fourth activists: two locals (Casey Chartier and me) and two who had driven up from San Francisco, Zaki Manian and Gareth Scott. I barely knew them – brilliant collaborators!
It turns out Mike Thompson is one of a handful of Congressman who was supposed to be providing oversight of the NSA on our behalf for the past 6 years. He is one of just 5 House Intelligence Committee members who knew first hand that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was lying to the public and Congress when he answered, under oath, that no data was being collected on millions of Americans. Thompson kept this felony perjury secret. (There's a second handful in the Senate Committee, including Wyden and Udall who've been sounding the alarm with gags on for two years, and Senator Feinstein, who has been unplugging the alarm and begging them to shut up.)
Two Thompson staffers, a young man and a woman senior staffer, greeted us as we introduced ourselves. It had taken weeks to set up the meeting, with many of Casey's efforts disappearing, perhaps into a Congressional spam box. We had many questions for Thompson's staff. I set my laptop on the table so I could refer to questions and take notes.
Since it was our first meeting I was hoping to break the ice by eliciting something nice about Thompson's oversight thus far – a success story or two from the staff. A few days earlier, after a report of thousands of NSA breaches of even its vast current authority, Thompson and Pelosi had both rushed out press releases. Thompson's was worded to suggest he knows absolutely nothing about the programs aside from what he read in the Washington Post last week. "Reports indicate … if accurate, this is outrageous, … all incidents of non-compliance, if substantiated…"
But since he also spoke of "the need for aggressive oversight of the NSA's intelligence gathering activities" I imagined his staff might have an anecdote or fact to share in that area, however vague, after his 6 years in that oft-vaunted oversight role.
His staff quickly assured us they had never seen any evidence of oversight of the NSA by Thompson. The only staff member with clearance to know anything about his Intelligence or NSA work was in Washington.
Priceless, illuminating – and suddenly I realized I hadn't turned on my recorder yet. I popped my phone out of my pocket, started up a new Voice Memo with a loud "DING!" and set it on the table beside my laptop.
The long, slow burn from both staff members was equally priceless. They froze, then moved in slow motion, neither daring to look up as Casey and Zaki continued to speak. If only there'd been a video camera on too.
The conversation continued for a bit – until we asked why Thompson had a problem with the Amash-Conyers Amendment. "Because it was either/or, up or down, turn on the lights turn off the lights," the senior staffer answered.
As I asked, "What would be wrong with requiring a warrant?" she cut me off: "Here is the thing that we're not going to do in this meeting — we're not going to get in an argument." I agreed. But she did not want another word said about warrants, and cut me off again, glaring at the iPhone.
"And I would have preferred it if you had asked if I could be recorded."
Funny. That's exactly what hundreds of millions of Americans and about 6 billion foreigners are saying – but about secret recordings of their private, personal conversations.
Several more amazing things happened, almost all recorded, but it's late and that will have to wait for Part 2. I hope to write up the rest of this exciting meeting later in the week.
North Bay folks: on August 28th at 5PM there will be rally outside Mike Thompson's office:
Tell Congressman Thompson we reject his support of NSA spying on We the People
Restore the Fourth will be there, and it will be fun. If you're local, can you make it? If not, please share what's up with your own Reps and Senators in Congress.
Don't miss Part 2, "Don't Record Us, We'll Record You" with audio.
]]>The clip shows that, despite Bill's repeated attempts to marginalize and mock Glenn's views, Glenn presses on with the truth, winning multiple rounds of applause from Bill's audience and – a rarity with Bill – the last word. My son's reaction: "Suddenly Bill Maher looked kind of old."
With his usual surgical precision Greenwald disproves Maher's smug insistence that Americans, Christians and Jews no longer make deadly attacks on innocent people of other faiths – when in fact, We're Number One. In Glenn's compact comments you may catch a reference to our General Boykin's military, whose pep talks included: "…My God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."
(I happen to know both Bill and Glenn a bit: I attended a party at Bill's house years ago, introduced my mom to him at a taping of Politically Incorrect in NYC, and I've spoken with him briefly after shows in Santa Rosa. I met Glenn at a Salon event in 2011; he's my favorite columnist and was quite proud when earlier this year he praised my political courage in a comment at his Guardian column.)
I have tremendous respect for Bill's intelligence and humor, but he has been uniquely scarred: as he puts it, "I was the only American to lose his job over the 9-11 attacks." While unequivocally condemning the attacks in September 2001, Bill dared to point out that, since those who attacked us gave their lives for their beliefs, "cowards" might not be the right word when comparing them to an American who fires deadly cruise missiles from complete safety. In today's age of death by drone, his comment is more timely than ever. Back then, Politically Incorrect was quickly cancelled.
Of course, HBO turns out to be a much better home for Maher than his former ABC/Disney could be. But it feels like he's spent a decade trying to prove his disrespect for terrorists by attacking a billion Muslims and Islam generally.
Glenn was well prepared since he recently dealt with Sam Harris, whose efforts to become a leader of New Atheists have been marred (or Mahered) by even more stunning open bigotry aimed directly at Muslims and Islam, thinly disguised as skepticism about religion generally. I was eager to read Harris's work, but his alarming comments quickly spoke for themselves. His eagerness to treat every Muslim as a terrorist just doesn't make logical or moral sense. Amid such blind, foaming Islamophobia, I'm sad to say Atheism hasn't had a more embarrassing champion since Stalin.
Glenn nails it: if they could stop cheering their own superiority for a moment and actually compare the history of deadly attacks – without automatically excluding terror against Muslims and attacks on them – they might see the kinds of patterns that a more honest scientist like Noam Chomsky would notice.
Terror Facts
It's maddeningly damaging to ordinary atheist scientists when a self-appointed Leader like Harris or Richard Dawkins slides from logical and scientific arguments into hate speech and jingoism, with so few facts and so little insight. By being as irrational and tribal as he claims most Muslims are, under the pretense of science, Harris and his kin smear all of us until we vocally object.
So let's honor the brave Bill Maher who lost Politically Incorrect for daring to share an unpleasant truth. Let's ask a few tough questions today, and actually count things – as if we were curious, rational, objective scientists rather than cheerleaders for our team.
Though of course they're different categories, let's at least roughly compare muslims with US citizens:
Who supports overseas attacks that kill innocent civilians and create terror?
Approves Attacks
Muslims approving jihad attacks: 1 in a million (roughly 1 thousand out of 1 billion)
US citizens approving drones: More than half
Provides Material Support
Muslims – 1 in a million
US Citizens – 100% of taxpayers
Provides Political Support
9-11 was condemned by every muslim government, including the Taliban, which called for Bin Laden prosecution
US drone strikes that have killed thousands, though long secret, are our popular president's policy
Risks Own Life
Muslims: many or most participants
US Citizens: 1%
Respect for Innocent Victims
9-11: attacks condemned universally, every innocent victim was recognized, name made known, death mourned; funerals attended by survivors without fear
US: drone victims who don't have posthumous proof of their innocence are treated as dead combatants; rescuers and mourners are targeted by more bombs; identities of civilian victims don't matter and are kept secret by the US, so even the murdered children must be counted by third parties
Number of Innocent Civilians Killed
Muslims: About 3000, mainly on 9-11
US: Amid intense secrecy we've now learned of over 4700 drone deaths that include fewer than 100 high level targets, multiple wedding party massacres, and over 178 children in Pakistan alone
An outsider looking at even the roughest numbers can't help but ask:
Why do most Americans embrace killing and terror thousands of times more eagerly than most Muslims?
]]>Yup – to president Obama, the unanimous Supreme Court ruling allowing his own parents to travel from Kansas to neighboring Nebraska, Missouri or Oklahoma without risk of being arrested for fornication (as the married Lovings were, in Virginia, before Robert F. Kennedy and the ACLU helped them sue and win) – to him, that ruling never mattered or existed.
Obama often opposes and despises the ACLU – his White House refers to such organizations as "The Professional Left". And of course he has never been a member – why should he join a group Republicans don't like when he's already black?
If he was a white Republican, Democrats might be outraged by such omissions and lies. If he wasn't known as a constitutional scholar and his own family's rights were never affected, we could pretend he's just ignorant. If he was George W. Bush he'd be condemned for both ignorance and lies. But he's black, a Democrat, and Barack Obama – and he insists he now opposes the Defense Of Marriage Act (which he used to defend in court and still enforces, ignoring two federal court rulings) – so really he's heroic.
As it happens I watched the movie The Help last night – and suddenly I'd never felt so angry. People like Medgar Evers and the Mississippi housekeepers depicted in it lost their jobs, risked their dignity, and even their lives challenging states' right to discriminate. But we have a president who's eager to pretend it never happened. And – because so many people trust him, voted for him, never suspect he's that venal, consider him an expert, and never dream a mixed-race president would mislead them about that – he succeeds. Especially for young people who don't know better, he can take decades of successful federal intervention into state discrimination – the core of the civil rights movement – and make it all go away.
His Justice Department's weird, famously inept argument from last week – that states can invent a new institution that's stronger than Civil Unions but isn't called Marriage – actually antagonized the justices. And with his signal to Justice Kennedy – if you chant 'States Rights' you never have to address the moral issues behind discrimination that led to your court's previous unanimous marriage equality ruling – he may actually help the Supreme Court reverse lower courts that ruled California's Prop 8 was obviously unconstitutional.
As it happens, I also just finished Orwell's 1984 and properly understand what the Memory Hole is.
But Orwell didn't envision the internet, where the truth is often sitting out there uncensored and the most serious barrier is readers' desire to discover it. (For instance, we can literally have a full year of "coverage" of a Presidential Election where the vast majority of the citizens literally have never heard of most of the candidates and don't even realize it – because the two wealthiest ones have joined a private corporation to manage "debates", agreeing never to mention the others, and the news media is even more eager to comply.)
So Orwell didn't realize: our rulers don't need an expensive internet Memory Hole system erasing our history from public view. Obama doesn't have to physically shred anything. Most of our lovable black Big Brother's trusting fans will believe his claims as long as they never hear them contradicted.
That's why the importance of blogs, adversarial columnists, social networks of activists and communities like Firedoglake just can't be overstated.
]]>There are many lowlights of Brennan's confirmation, but one of my favorites is: not a single Senator asked why Brennan had famously lied about the murder of the lead suspect/witness in the crime of the century, 9/11 – and about the number of civilian casualties from drones, which prior to leaks, Brennan had claimed was zero (Senator Lindsey Graham recently put the number at more than 4000, including over a hundred children).
Brennan had claimed Osama Bin Laden died in a firefight, using women as human shields. We learned the next day that he was unarmed when he took two bullets to the head. The president's press secretary sheepishly attributed the lies to the "fog of war".
Bin Laden had been boasting for more than a decade that he had played a key role in the 9/11 attack – after denying any involvement until the US attack on Afghanistan. Finally here was a witness who knew the truth and hadn't been tortured yet. Although he might have continued bragging, he would have to show some physical evidence or, as Chomsky writes, his "confession" of a key role would be akin to Chomsky "confessing" that he won the Boston Marathon. Was there an HSBC bank account or transfer date? A box cutter receipt? – Anything? The answer: two bullets to the head, followed by lie after lie. If Intelligence is about brazenly lying to people who don't want to know the truth, Brennan is qualified. If it's about getting vital information – not so much.
But actually I'm here to recycle a Gonzales filibuster diary. The reasons we should Break Strom's Filibuster Record are the same eight years later. Now, with Democrats and Republicans fully endorsing warrantless assassination, along with kidnapping and torturing muslims and foreigners, it's more germane than ever.
Let's Break Strom's Filibuster Record! (2/2/2005)
There are those who say it would be a waste of time to hold the Senate floor until Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales answers the questions he's been asked, about those memos that redefined torture. It's a lost cause. It's energy better conserved to fight a right wing Supreme Court Nominee.
But that's worse than cowardice. It's a lack of self respect — a failure of imagination and passion. Doesn't anyone remember "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"? Once upon a time, a Senator had that passion.
After Gonzales, Strom Thurmond's black daughter has been the biggest newsmaker this week. She kept their secret, revealing who her father was only after he was dead. Now she's released her autobiography and talks to everyone.
Strom (he deserves a worldwide first name basis – like Saddam) still holds the Senate filibuster record. The year I was born, Strom held the floor for 24 hours and 18 minutes all by himself, because he believed in something important and he wasn't afraid to stand up for it. CNN quoted him when he died a year ago:
"I want to tell you that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
Except I heard a recording of this on Comedy Central's The Daily Show – which was, as usual, more accurate than CNN – and Strom didn't say "Negro" race. As a 21st century American of some African descent, I am permitted to use his vocabulary, though most often I choose not to.
The pool thing was a big deal. When black movie star Dorothy Dandridge was staying at a 5 star Vegas hotel, she dipped her feet in the pool without permission, and the next thing she knew, the management had drained all the water out.
Today as I watch CSPAN flashing 'No Agreement on Debate Length,' and the somnolent announcer actually uses the phrase "possible filibuster' at the Gonzales hearings, I have hope. And I have an idea.
See, publicly Strom was full of passion and racism. Privately, he helped support his Negro daughter, and insisted he was just giving Americans in the south what they wanted – what they were used to, what would keep him popular with his people.
Last May, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham was stumbling out into the light after a screening of the other Abu Ghraib photos and videos – the ones that still have never been shown to the public. When asked what he'd seen, Graham answered, "Rape and murder." Rape, like severe beatings, no longer fit the new Gonzales definition of illegal torture, because neither necessarily causes "organ failure or death".
Then last week, the same Graham chastised Alberto Gonzales for his role in changing the official interrogation rules in ways that quickly led to Abu Ghraib, among at least 300 reports of abuse and murder in U.S. run prisons. "I think we've dramatically undermined the war effort by getting on a slippery slope in terms of playing cute with the law," said Graham. "We've lost our way."
And then he voted with his party – even though all of Gonzales's other support had disappeared – to recommend his confirmation as the next U.S. Attorney General, the nation's chief of law enforcement.
So let's learn a lesson from Strom. Maybe he didn't hate black people as much as we thought. Maybe it was just a popular act. But he sure put on a good show. He made it into the history books. And the 21st century history books still need to be written.
So whatever we feel deep down, let's act as if we really, deeply hate rape, murder, and torture for just a day or two. We've probably got 30 Senators or more, so it'll be easy to hold the floor compared to what Strom had to do. We could go for 25 hours easy, beat Strom's record, and then give up if we want. Then we'll be in the history books too.
And from that effort, future generations will believe we really hate it when Americans rape and murder arabs, just as much as we hate niggers in our pools.


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Our Spring Round Robin has gone so well that we have decided to have another one. Please sign up quickly if you are interested; we want to beat the hot weather. Linda |
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If there's a mini box going around, count me in. I missed out on a mini box earlier, and I'm going through withdrawal! |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Fri, May 23, 14 at 17:38
Any interest? |
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I am in! Minal |
I am in! Minal |
I will be in, too! Weather is ok around here - not too hot yet at all! |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Sun, May 25, 14 at 16:36
How does the round robin work? |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, May 26, 14 at 14:21
Ok so far we have... Linda Minal Sue Bttrflii, Brunilda, Deb |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Mon, May 26, 14 at 15:42
Ok great - count me in! |
I would like to join in but would have to receive the box by June 17th at the latest as we are leaving on a series of trips and my return time is iffy. If you can work around this then I'm in; otherwise I will wait for a future round. Terri |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, May 27, 14 at 14:27
I am going to convention this week-end in Nashville-(woo-hoo!!!) but I can start things on their way next week if Deb doesn't want to. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Tue, May 27, 14 at 19:33
Linda, Thanks for offering to start the round robin. ;) Include me in the RR too! Have fun at convention! Deb |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, May 27, 14 at 23:02
Anyone who wants to participate in the next RR, send me your address. I will then be able to start planning as soon as I get home from Nashville. Linda |
Hi Linda, I couldn't send the my address, as it seems your send email link is not activated on your page account. Let me know if there's any other way I can send my address, thanks, |
yes, please count me in! |
If there's a mini box, I'm still interested. I also couldn't find a way to email you, Linda. |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Fri, May 30, 14 at 23:35
Everyone-try to e-mail again. I changed my settings. Linda |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Sat, May 31, 14 at 9:47
Sent you an email |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, May 31, 14 at 18:54
I wish I went to convention. I've been seeing all the pictures on facebook, and watching Annie's podcasts/"All about African violets" (on the road to convention- 3 parts). I wanted to go on the optimara tour too! Oh well, maybe next year... At least I was able to go when it was in Chicago. I hope you found tons of stuff Linda! :) And I hope Everyone that wants to participate in this quick RR-- sends addresses ASAP! We need to do this quick. So no violets are in the mail in July's heat. Deb |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 0:17
Okay-I have: Deb KC-if you want to participate, send me your address. Anyone else-I need your address by tomorrow evening. I would like to start this Monday if everyone is good with that. We don't have a lot of people but I think we are trying to beat the heat. Is everyone good with Monday? And, yes, I did find tons of stuff at convention. And tons. And I know...it's a sickness... |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 12:46
Here's the list so far and in this order: Deb Linda |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 22:23
I am starting this tomorrow. I have everyone in a different order from last time. We need to be prompt in sending these out-Terri needs hers by the 17th and we have a box going to Florida! Linda |
Great! Looking forward to another round! |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 17:29
We're off!!! Tracking number:9114901230801665976389. Terri needs her box by the 17th and CJ really would like to have minis if everyone could include some for her. Thanks, |
Hello! Unfortunately, I missed the last round robin, and I have been looking out for the next one. I'm so glad I decided to check for a round robin today! I hope I'm not too late!!! Is there any way I can also join? I sent you an email, Linda, please let me know! :) Thank you! |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 3, 14 at 0:29
Everyone, I've added Maya in-between Terri and Brunilda. The line-up now looks like this: Deb Terri, Cj and Maya would like minis so I said I would get the word out although we can't guarantee what they will get. (That's the fun part!!!) Linda |
Linda, Email received. I'm looking forward to receiving the box! Terri |
Great!, looking forward to the box!! |
Thank you so much, Linda! I can't wait to get the box!!!! Maya |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Jun 4, 14 at 22:29
The box arrived late afternoon. Everything is in perfect shape! I'll make my choices tomorrow, repack it. And post when it goes back out. Very nice selections, Thanks Linda! ;) Deb |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 5, 14 at 23:48
Ok, here's the list of what I'm keeping- Linda included 27 packages (with 1 leaf) in each. Wow- what a neat selection! Many of these are standards (my favorite) and were varieties I had and lost. So my fingers are crossed that each leaf makes it! Jolly frills Jolly fairy Louisiana lullaby Planet kid Okie Easter bunny Bob Serbin Opera's Il Staniero Little sweetheart Arabian night Jolly blue clouds Ma's Easter parade Quilting bee Jean's passion Ozio Firebird Strawberry kiss Ness Fantasy gold Ian Sasha Irish luck Ma's arctic sky Kentucky goose berries Ma's midnight spell Irish laughter Lacy lass Evening escort Harmony's frilly dilly Natalie's twilight I packed the box with fresh varieties. ;) This was so much fun, Thanks Linda! I'll post the dc# when I return home from the post office. Deb |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 6, 14 at 2:09
Deb, I'm glad you liked your leaves! On to Terrilou. :) Linda |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 6, 14 at 19:19
Have my fingers crossed, with the change in line up I'm a little concerned with getting the AV surprise box before my vacation on the 18th. I don't want the box to sit so we may need to flip my position if It cant get to me by the 16th so I can mail out on the 17th. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jun 6, 14 at 20:00
Delivery conf# 9114901075742767037743 |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 8:09
Terrilou and Maya, Do you both think that getting the Box to Brunilda by the 18th is possible? I have everyone in a loose geographical order so the box isn't in transit for long periods so I would have to rearrange it if not. Linda |
I should receive the box tomorrow. I am hoping to get it back in the mail tomorrow also, but that may not be possible as Monday delivery is usually late in the afternoon. If I mail it Tuesday latest, I estimate Maya will not receive the box until Friday the 13th. Brunilda, I think you mentioned that you need the box by the 16th? We don't know all the factors yet, but this could make it tight. Terri |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 10:27
I hope there is no mistake.. A list was in the box- and I followed it. Going to the next person on the list -as we usually do. The box is going to SD ***. It was scheduled to arrive 6/9! I hope I wasn't suppose to bounce names or rearrange names on the list? If I was suppose to rearrange the list, I feel soooo bad that I didn't realize it! Ahhh! I've been coordinating swaps forever and don't know everyone's names/addresses yet! I just go by lists! Deb |
This post was edited by debbya on Mon, Jun 9, 14 at 20:36
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 21:03
Deb, You were correct in sending to SD. Brunilda, Send me an e-mail and let me know when you need the box. I'll see if I can rearrange if need be. If I need to change the order, I will let everyone know. Until then, follow the enclosed list. Linda |
If I get the box on Friday, like Terri said, I can ship it out on Saturday and hopefully it will get to Brunilda on the following Monday (the 16th) or Tuesday, depending on how far she lives from me. Maya |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Mon, Jun 9, 14 at 3:40
Oh good, I'm glad I sent it to the right address. I noticed Terrilou's GW name had Indiana in it. I'm always in a rush, then thinking about it later! Deb |
I don't know how I got moved up from half a dozen down in the queue to next, but the box arrived here today. Judging by Linda's comment about the box moving onto Terrilou after Deb, I hadn't given a thought to it coming here. I am not ready and have nothing prepared, but I'll get it sent back out as quickly as possible. Terrilou, *now* it's coming to you next. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, Jun 9, 14 at 14:14
I'm confused- too.. I thought it was going to Terrilou? That's why I questioned the SD - as to Indiana! I get it now.. Lol! Deb |
I took Ballet Blue Ice and Jolly Blue Clouds. We'll see if they make it! Tracking number is 9405 9036 9930 0199 5486 49. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Mon, Jun 9, 14 at 16:33
Both of those grow tiny, nice selections! Deb |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 3:34
I tried to put everyone in a loose geographical connection so the box would not be too long in transit. Here is the order I have on the paper in the box: Deb CJ Terri Maya Brunilda Vikki Susan Minal Me Brunilda tells me that she is going on vacation so I will have to put her towards the end. I am thinking after Susan would work. But for now Terrilou and Maya are next. Then we'll see what date it is. E-mail me if you need further clarification. Linda |
I get confused between the names on the list and the names on the posts. So who is it heading to now? I just am looking to get an estimate on when to expect it. |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 14:54
The confusion of the names on the posts and the names on the list comes because people are using both their user names and their actual names. I have to move Brunilda as she told me she is going on vacation. Here is the new line-up. I have sent Maya and Brunilda e-mails to tell them of the new order. I believe the box is on its way to Terrilou. Vikki you are after Maya. Deb Linda |
This post was edited by whitelacey on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 15:02
Linda, I haven't gotten an email from you. Maya |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 17:09
I agree about the confusion with using Gardenweb ID's and not going with real names. I wasn't sure if CJ was Terri's name/husbands name- etc. and she moved. ;) I'm glad I go by Deb! Linda, |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 11, 14 at 0:18
Maya, I sent the e-mail at 2:57 today. I'll re-send. It just to let you know not to send to Brunilda but to Vikki. Linda |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 11, 14 at 0:20
The name thing is confusing. I have three names for one person in this RR and two names for most everyone else. I'm glad you go by Deb, too! Linda |
The box arrived today with most leaves looking good. Buckeye Seductress was rotted, (darn!) as well as one of the Streps, Kim; Streptocarpella 'Concord Blue' is iffy to survive. I chose these: Cajun's Royal Knockout The box is now on its way to you Maya. Delivery number is 9114901230803422501162 Thanks for hosting this Linda, It was enjoyable to be able to participate. Have fun everyone! Terri |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 11, 14 at 23:22
Terri, You'll love your Cajun's! They are gorgeous! Linda |
I wish it were possible to change my user name here. I've looked all over but son't see where it's possible. Instead it's my first initial and my last name, if that helps anyone figure out who I am. Vikki |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jun 13, 14 at 16:35
Vikki, Now that you explained your GW ID, it's easy to remember who you are. ;) I'm not sure we can change them. Only because we used to have the trade/rate system. And if people constantly changed their ID's, we wouldn't be able to keep track on the rotten traders. LOL! I know I haven't used the rate system in several years. I probably should check mine! LOL!!! |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 13, 14 at 23:11
Maya, Let us know when you get the box! It should be soon! :) Linda |
Looks like Maya should have gotten it yesterday, So I'm next? Vikki |
This post was edited by vivey on Sat, Jun 14, 14 at 21:52
Hey! I'm so sorry for posting late! I have had a couple of really packed days (This is actually my first chance to get on the computer since Thursday!!!)! I got the box on Friday and shipped it out the same day. Lot's of great varieties! Vikki, you should get it Monday! The tracking number is 91149012308035719676 ---- Enjoy!!!! :D My choices were Biscayne Trail Blue Dragon Optimara Hawaii Rob's Loose Noodle California Victory Mermaid Nymph Fly Grandma's Love Jazz Bouquet NOW GROW!!!!! Lol, I can't wait to see how these varieties turn out. Thank you so much for letting me participate in this round robin!!! It was great fun, and I definitely hope to do this again :) Maya |
I would love to get in on this but I have none I bought with names but I do have a nice collection. If anyone would like to trade let me know. Most all mine are blooming now and I can get pictures of them. Also if anyone has any idea what mine might be. I too realize that might not be possible. Tami |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 15, 14 at 23:17
Tami, Post a new message here. Many people don't care about names and would be willing to trade with you. Pictures always help! Linda |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 16, 14 at 23:42
Vikki, Please let me know when you get the box. I am still working around Brunilda's vacation dates. Just a few thoughts for everyone: please make sure there are at least 25 varieties in the box when you ship it. Also, if any leaves look 'iffy', please remove them and replace so the next person does not get a box of mush! Linda |
I got the box, but it was a surprise. The notice that it was being sent just showed up in my email this morning. I was gone all of today, so all the leaves were soaking and I'll be able to get it back out tomorrow. Just to make sure, I'm suppose to send it on to Susan? I just want to make sure with the changes we've made. |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 17, 14 at 21:07
Yes, send it to Susan. If I need to switch, I will have her send it to Minal. Minal can then send to Brunilda. It all depends on how quickly everything goes. Make sure you let us know what you got! Susan please make sure you let me know when you get the box. Thanks! Linda |
I'll post the tracking # tomorrow. Can anyone tell me anything about Wrangler's Ruffled Warrier? I can't find anything about it. Is this the correct name? |
It's Wranglers Ruffled Warrior. I probably threw in an "e" by mistake. I don't have the official description, but the flowers are a reddish violet, mostly semi. . . Variegated leaves. Terri |
Thanx. I was finding lots of info on Wrangler's Savage Warrior, but not Ruffled Warrior. Vikki |
The box is heading off to Susan today. Tracking is 9405 5036 9930 0319 2791 27. I'll post the list of leaves I snarfed out of the box later :) |
I took a lot of the leaves, some because they were starting to turn. Tomorrow's Pink Ice Susan, I hope you enjoy what I left and what added :) |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 14 at 23:30
Susan, Minal, and Brunilda, Susan-send the box to Minal instead of Brunilda. Brunilda won't be home until the 23rd and it's cutting things a little close if you send to her as on the list. I'll send all of you an e-mail to make sure you know of the change. Let me know that you got it. Thanks! |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 11:57
Vikki, Thanks for taking the 'iffy' ones! Now Susan won't get a box of mush! Linda |
They wouldn't have made it to her. The leaves were already getting yucky. I soaked them overnight in sugar water and potted them up, but I really don't expect them to make it. BUT stranger things have happened. |
Thanks, Vikki! The tracking says the box should arrive here tomorrow. I am looking forward to it. Linda, I got your message and I'll send to Minal. Sue |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 20, 14 at 1:37
Vikki, Again, thanks for replacing the 'iffy' ones. It's very disappointing to open a box and be met with a bunch of unusable leaves. Susan, Let us know when you get them! And Minal is expecting the box from you so we are all set. Linda |
The box was here Friday when I got home. I have a really busy weekend, but I was able to get the box back out on Saturday morning. You should have it on Monday, Minal. Tracking # 9114901230801647272010 There were lots of great choices in the box and everything looked great. Thanks, Linda, for another great Round Robin. And thanks to everyone who participated. If it wasn't for the weather, I would love to do these all year long. Will be looking forward to the Fall RR. |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 1:32
Sue, I agree-all year 'round would be great! It's fun to look forward to the different varieties, watching them grow and anticipating what they will look like when mature. It's been fun for me dealing with everyone on this RR. All have been so nice and co-operative with our changes. It's been a pleasure. Linda |
Linda, I totally agree! |
Got the box today, only one leaf was iffy, all others were in great condition. Loved the variety this time!!! The ones I kept are: Ozio I will send it out to Brunilda next tomorrow. The tracking # is: 9405509699937665077477 Thanks Linda!! Minal. |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 21:02
Can't wait! |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 23:02
I am very happy with the way this RR has turned out. Talking to others who have done RR's in the past, there are sometimes a few people who do not follow the guidelines. They do not send forward the agreed number of leaves/plants or leave the 'iffy' ones in for the next in line. (Both very unfair to the next recipient). This has been a great group! We'll do this again come fall! Linda |
When should I be watching for the next one to be announced? I don't want to miss out on it! Also, anytime anyone here would like to do an AV trade, just let me know. I'm always up for a fun trade! Vikki |
I'm so sorry missed this RR! For some reason, notifications weren't being sent to my email and so it just slipped my mind...oh, well. Looks like everyone had a great time and got some wonderful varieties! Hoping to jump in next time around...still trying to track down Bob Serbin, which I see was in the box at some point! lol :) |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 0:05
How about I start collecting names in August with a thought to start in September, depending on how hot it is then. I'll put in on my calender so I don't forget. Sound good? Brunilda, I happened upon your Facebook page today. Great photos! Vikki, I'm up for a trade. Let me know! Linda |
This post was edited by whitelacey on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 0:16
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 4:30
Hmm, you know we could do another swap- a one to one swap. Boxes travel within 2 days, so things would be ok. Unless your temps are 100* then hold off shipping until temps are in the low 80's! Should we start another thread or is everyone done trading and waiting for fall? Our temps in chicago are bouncing- it's 55* tonight and 74* tomorrow. Then low 80's arrive, with more rain! |
Deb, I'm up for a one on one trade!. Temps are hotter here than by you, but if I know the box is coming, I just make sure I leave work early to get it as soon as it arrives. So far it's worked ok. |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 18:23
Box arrived arrived today most of these are not looking so good. Is there something in particular that I should do to the leave before I plant them to increase their survival rates? I have taken: Have about 10 semi\mini so I hope Vikki you grow them! |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 19:41
I added Floozie, harmony's news flash, Picasso, Bob Serbin, Buckeye Scrumptious, O Rhaosodie Ingrid, & O My darling. I put in a new box as the the box looked crushed. You should have Monday. |
- Posted by BrunildaFl 9 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 19:45
Sorry I just noticed I said it was going back to Vikki but actually its going home back to Linda. |
Linda, You might try soaking the leaves in Superthrive. That does work for Hoya and other plants. Might work for Violet leaves as well. |
I read that and it sounded stupid. I didn't mean to soak the whole leaf but the ends like some people root them when they root in water. Tami |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 27, 14 at 0:54
Brunilda, You can soak the leaves in warmish water with a little sugar added. You can also use a drop or two of Superthrive if you have it. Some people soak overnight but if they are mushy I would just do an hour or so. If anyone would like me to organize a one-on-one (since I have all the names and addresses), I will. We could keep this up all summer for those who want to and I could just keep re-arranging the names so there are no repeats. A thought-you could send me a list of your preferences-what you have and what you would like, and I could make up a list based on that. Nothing very specific, just minis, variegates, etc. as there were some who just wanted minis this time around. Just a thought. Let me know! Linda |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jun 27, 14 at 5:33
A simple tip.. Always hold the leaf up to the light, look at the veins, in back, they shouldn't have any noticeable color. if you see it water logged (brownish color) pronounced clear look- the leaf is rotted. You can't save it. It will rot! If it's only half, you can cut the clear/brown damaged part off, dust in cinnamon and *hope* that it makes it. Lots of times it does! it's easier to plump up a shriveled leaf than save a rotted. You can safely soak a leaf for 24 hours, I usually just give them a spray w/ warm water, keep it in the Baggie, sealed is ok or open a little is fine too. If it's going to make it- it plumps back up and looks good. I've been doing this lately- even keeping them for a week in the water 'spritzed' bag- and what looks good I plant. Rot shows up quickly! Doing this I save a ton of time planting. Or just add the blonde spag moss to the leaf bag that look crisp- good. And close pin the bag to my plant stand. The leaves root really well in the moss, and love the bag because it's the perfect greenhouse moisture environment! Once you see babies you can leave the bag open or snip the end w/ scissors and start getting the plants 'used' to the air. Just spray (feel) the moss and keep it slightly damp. Not over soggy. Seeing what survives in a bag saves lots of time planting! |
Sending to me?!? NOT A PROBLEM!!!!!! I would love to get the box again :) |
This post was edited by vivey on Fri, Jun 27, 14 at 12:28
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 27, 14 at 12:12
Vikki, I'll send to you if you send to me! Linda |
Linda, I would love to participate in a one-to-one trade! :D I prefer mini's as I don't have much room to grow at the moment. Please let me know if and when a pairing is arranged :) Maya |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 29, 14 at 2:28
Maya, Let me look through my notes and see who grows minis. Meanwhile, is there someone who would like to trade with Maya? Linda |
Sebding Maya a PM. |
I tried to send Maya a PM but it looks like her email is blocked. Maya, please PM me. Vikki |
Sent Vikki a PM |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 30, 14 at 1:35
Ladies! Here are a few that may be interested in one-on-one trades: Maya, Vikki, Vikki's friend Susan, (I have her e-mail if you would like to contact her I will send it to her. I don't want to print it without her okay), Deb and me. Linda |
Susan M. was part of the first spring RR. She's the one above who posted that she was sad she had missed this RR. She goes by kcgirl81 here on GW. |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 0:16
Everyone! Our RR finished up yesterday on a successful note. I have potted up all my leaves and now it's a waiting game as you all know. I will post my new treasures tomorrow as I have had a busy day. I do want to thank whomever included the Primula.(Who was it?) I have never grown one and am looking forward to it. It already has roots! Linda |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 2:10
It was probably me! Was it Kazu? I have a few of them.. And love them, they are beautiful and bloom constantly. And root in a bag really easy! Deb |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 11:44
Everyone! Here is the wrap-up on our second RR. I got: I also got five that were not viable. (My Chirita is not doing well, either:( ) I tried to figure out how long the leaves could be in transit before they started to go bad. It seems, by the handwriting on the bags, that the last three senders arrived safely and one or two of the others survived. So, without going through 100-plus postings, I am going to estimate that Susan, Minal and Brunilda's were the ones that arrived safely. Susan sent on June 19th and I got the last box on July 2nd. So that's about two weeks for future reference. It's been lots of fun and everyone was great. I'm looking forward to another one (or two) in the fall. Linda |
I'm already looking forward the the fall RR - 2 of them, hopefully!! |
- Posted by ima_digger 9 SE FL (My Page) on Mon, Jul 28, 14 at 16:14
I've been watching the posting of all the great leaves that have been shared. I didn't join the second Spring, because I thought it would be too hot for leaves to travel during the summer months. I guess I was wrong. It looked like everything went great. Now I'm getting antsy for the Fall RR. Can't wait for that one to start. Eileen |
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Craig To the Editor,
Why do I have to stop at intersection when the light is green? Doesn't green still represent go?
I have just had it with the drivers who feel yellow mean to accelerate so they can beat the red. I have had so many near misses with my children in the car. I also have witnessed several major accidents at the very intersections that are the worst. Namely the intersections of Victory and Green and Victory and Mack (Finley).
The worst time is from 7:45 and 8:05 a.m., when we all are getting our kids to school. I have yet to see law enforcement out near those areas. OK, if it is a matter of manpower and man hours, why not set up an unmanned car? Who doesn't panic just a little when they see a police car? Please, for the sake of my children's lives, slow down. Namely those individuals who feel the need to multitask while driving. Is it that important to call or text someone while driving?
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