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    NHL Offseason 2009

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Norris: Green, Lindstrom, Chara

     

    Pay no attention to the League, it is actually spelled Lidstrom.

     

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    I'm not meaning to call you out on misspelling Lidstrom, I just needed to call attention to the League, at its own awards show, misspelling the name of a player who has won the Norris trophy six times. Green will win it this year.

     

    Also, this post constitutes my pick for your '09 champions.

    HR 875 could criminalize organic and backyard farming

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    DATE: March 20, 2009

    FROM: THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENT CONSUMERS AND FARMERS ASSOCIATION (NICFA)

    RE: BILL TO INDUSTRIALIZE FAMILY FARMS

    CONTACT: Deborah Stockton 434.295.7176 info@nicfa.org

     

    Washington DC-A bill creating a Food Safety Administration authorized to oversee management of every family farm in the United States is under consideration in Congress. HR 875, the "Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009" sponsored by Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-CT), also has a companion bill, S510 in the Senate. Because the new Administrator would be authorized to micromanage even the smallest farm, many see the bill as a vehicle to industrialize, or eliminate, family farms.

     

    The industrial food system is failing. Outbreaks, recalls, food-borne illnesses and deaths that are the result of industrial production and processing facilities are the excuse for this dragnet bill that also mandates a "national traceback system," which is the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) put into law. But rather than address the principle causes of food danger-centralized production, centralized processing, and long distance transport-this bill and others like it would impose on small farmers the same requirements as for large industry. The record keeping alone would consume so much time that the average family farmer would no longer be able to sustain his operation.

     

    This could have the net effect of shifting the cost and liability away from the processors to the small producer despite the fact that direct marketed goods-what most small farms sell-involve little processing and are immediately traceable to the seller. Family farmers and ranchers are being discriminated against because of their occupation.

    HR 875 could criminalize organic and backyard farming

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    The reason I posted this is because the wording is so nebulous. What will this do to organic farmers? It really seems to be designed to cut into the type of farmer who would produce organically for a farmers market. It has big business fingerprints all over it, and is written to control how food that is sold for profit is guarded against "foreign contaminants." Again, so nebulous. Is this mandating that food producers need to fertilize and herbicide their produce? Who will be the person determining that?

     

    What exactly is this legislation doing?

    Via Chicago's Top 100 Albums of All Time: Summer 2008 edition

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I organized this last time we did it.

     

    For your sanity, I would recommend that you cut the number of entries to 10.

     

    I also had people email me their list, which they could only do once. No drafts or anything like that. Pick ten and stick with it.

     

    The list was on my folks computer, cause that's where I was living 5-6 years ago when I did it, so I don't have the complete list, but I think that either YHF or Neutral Milk Hotel won. At any rate, they finished 1 and 2.

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