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Bill <b2forewagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article
> <wildbilly-4957D0.11220306072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
> >
> > 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. . . .
> >
The last paragraph goes."Eat the View doesn't have the marching sound of
John Philip Sousa. It doesn't have the patriotic salience of a flag. But
in dicey times, the idea of growing just a bit of your own food carries
the real flavor of July Fourth. It smacks a lot of independence."
So you see, gardening is a revolutionary act. Viva la revolucion.
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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.
We are also suffering from lack of leader****p, where property rights
trumph human rights.
I hope the Angelenos appreciate the life that these people are trying to
breath into their world of concrete and black top.
> >
> > 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?
Absolutely nuthin', say it again.
>
>
> Bill Ranting
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