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Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07
> /04/whats_growing_at_the_white_house/?page=full
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> What's growing at the White House?
> By Ellen Goodman
> July 4, 2008
>
> SCARBOROUGH, Maine
>
> IT HAS BEEN decades since that famous forager Euell Gibbons reached
> through the White House fence and picked four edible weeds out of the
> president's garden. This is not something that the Secret Service would
> recommend you try today.
Euell took a lot of grieve fro eating in a fast food place. No mention
of the message just media ridicule. Ah it is nice to be a purist when
you point the camera at others.
>
> But Roger Doiron has a better plan for eating the view of 1600
> Pennsylvania Ave. He's started a campaign to get a kitchen garden
> growing on the White House lawn.
>
> Doiron works out of his small Cape house in Maine, where I find him one
> summer day. A wasp-thin 41-year-old, he's part of the fastest-growing -
> I used the word literally - movement in the country. His organization,
> Kitchen Gardeners International, is one link in a loose chain of
> partisans who are neither conservatives nor liberals but locavores. They
> want to think global, eat local. Very local. As in their front and
> backyard.
Locavorešs sounds like a tea ****rts to wear about. Wonder who would
care unless the message is real simple sort of like your food dollars at
work trans****t or farmers?
>
> He shows me the lawn sign that expresses his politics: "1,500 Miles, 400
> Gallons, Say What?" It's a reference to the average miles food travels
> to your plate and the gallons of fuel used in its migration. It's not
> the ***iest slogan, but kitchen gardeners are probably as passionate
> about vegetables as Republicans are about tax cuts. . . .
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>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-guerrilla-gard
> ening,0,6421881,full.story
>
> Guerrilla gardeners dig in to beautify Los Angeles
> By LAURA E. DAVIS, Associated Press Writer
> 12:20 PM PDT, July 4, 2008
>
> LOS ANGELES -- More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective
> gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started
> working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the
> Hollywood Freeway.
>
> It was a Saturday night and drivers whooshed past on their way to the
> Sunset Strip club scene.
>
> But the crew was undeterred, and by the wee hours, they had transformed
> the blight into bloom with green bushes and an array of colorful
flowers.
>
> City workers on overtime? Nope, no budget for that. These were
> "guerrilla gardeners," a global movement of the grass-roots variety
> where people seek to beautify empty or overgrown public space, usually
> under the cover of darkness and without the permission of municipal
> officials.
>
> "What we're fighting is neglect," said guerrilla gardening guru Richard
> Reynolds of London, founder of the Web site guerillagardening.org.
>
> Getting approval to beautify public property can be ***bersome, so
> guerrilla gardeners in cities worldwide take matters into their own
> dirt-caked hands. . . .
>
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Id say we are suffering from the lack of owner****p. All this work yet
if no one steps up for communion it is all for naught. By this I suggest
a garden where someone cares fares better then one where the count shows
up once a month.
>
> http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/35111prs20080430.html
>
> Home : Safe and Free : Torture
> Newly Unredacted Re****t Confirms Psychologists Sup****ted Illegal
> Interrogations In Iraq and Afghanistan (4/30/2008)
>
> Do***ents Obtained By ACLU Also Uncover "Widespread Use" Of Rescinded
> Unlawful Interrogation Techniques And Failure Of Medical Personnel To
> Re****t Abuses
>
> Whoops, wrong news group. Bad on me;o)
Casualties of foreign intervention is not confined to combatants.
People who do wrongful things carry it with them for life. Some may try
to heal otheršs just suffer and buy things to replace the heart damage.
Hope is their families are spared but history paints a tale of abuse and
divorce and sadness.
War what is it good for?
Bill Ranting
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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
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