Action: Potential closing of the USDA-ARS Pasture Lab
Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 08:37:07 AM PDT
This came across my email from the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA). If you are interested in publicly-funded research in sustainable agriculture, you'll be interested to know there is a petition to keep Penn State's Pasture Lab operational (Bush wants to zero out the funding). If you are from out-of-state and are concerned about this, please consider copying Casey and Specter on letters to your own congress critters as well. I am copying the relevant part of their email wholesale and would gladly link to it if it were available on the web. So far I can't find it.
A sign of the times?
Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 03:39:04 PM PDT
After years of having my 70-something uncle send me viral emails that basically bash liberals, he sent me this one today. Did hell freeze over, or is there really a change in the air?
PA-18 Kossacks - primary contenders who's who
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 11:21:53 AM PDT
Any interest in asking questions of the Dem primary contenders before the democratic party endorsement on February 10? I am willing to contact the candidates and post the answers to our questions if there is any interest out there. If it generates enough interest and there is a clear preference, perhaps we could even organize a money bomb.
I'll be glad to update the diary with questions asked in the comments. Candidates and links are below the fold.
PA-18 and PA-4: On donuts and turnovers in SW PA
Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 09:20:03 AM PDT
It's been a newsworthy weekend here in SW Pennsylvania -- just in time for the election. Some good stuff has been written about these events, but I think they could benefit from some more exposure -- so here's a summary and a little commentary of my own.
Mmmm, donuts.
I guess for Melissa Hart, some constituents are more 'real' than others. 40 senior citizens brought donuts to her Allison Park office on Thursday to protest the donut hole in Medicare coverage and she called the police. Why?
Our Allison Park office is a place of business, not politics. Their unruly behavior not only inhibited our ability to assist contituents with real requests for help, it also infringes on our constituents' privacy. We always welcome constituents in our offices who have real problems or want to deliver real input on the issues. This was, unfortunately, not the case today.
More and links below the fold.
Viruses Approved to Treat Food
Sat Aug 19, 2006 at 10:52:10 AM PDT
I originally included this at the end of an open thread, but I think its worthy of discussion -- if this isn't enough detail for a diary, comment below and I'll edit or delete.
This kind of stuff gives me the creeps. If these products are required to list ingredients and preservatives, what possible reason exists for them not to require labeling spray-on viruses on foods? These viruses are approved to be sprayed on lunchmeats and hot dogs.
2500 part 4: from April 2006 to present
Fri Jun 16, 2006 at 07:38:20 AM PDT
Meteor Blades posted the list of the 2,500 soldiers dead in Iraq in this diary:
'It's a number.' Saying the Names of the 2500, but the limits on the size of diaries cut the list off on April 30, 2004.
AllisonInSeattle posted a second part of the list in this diary: "It's a Number" -- More Names to Speak, which included soldiers dead before December 31, 2004.
Jerome a Paris lists the continuation in 2500 Part 3 to April 26, 2006.
Here's the rest of the names to June 9, 2006 (the last date released). I can't think of a more fitting topic for my first ever diary. Looking at this list, its hard to wrap my head around this number considering it only covers the last 7 weeks. More in the extended:
