tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post3394420417139532533..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Reading as a Creative Act - An Herbal Knotgarden of QueriesCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-90321740897084241062010-02-02T17:27:22.495-08:002010-02-02T17:27:22.495-08:00I chew charcoal pills to get rid of stomach acid/b...I chew charcoal pills to get rid of stomach acid/bloating caused by eating "stuff"<br />grown in soil that is fertilized with lime!<br /><br />then gargle with american beer which is rot-gut<br />from farms that produce wheat, barley, hops grown with pesticides and chicken shit and lime as growth enhancers...<br /><br />wine ain't much better.<br /><br />the most poisons/ pesticides/lime in a single food is our<br /> white potatoes!<br /><br />next is our white/processed flour (bread).<br /><br />beef and chicken and pork also mostly garbage<br /><br />(am I still in "the box"<br /><br />watching The ThinMan... need a martini and spanish oliveEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-25347884977424290672010-02-02T17:18:22.276-08:002010-02-02T17:18:22.276-08:00LZ's "Chloride of Lime and Charcoal"...LZ's "Chloride of Lime and Charcoal"Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-77188851845155531422010-02-02T17:05:50.466-08:002010-02-02T17:05:50.466-08:00that's the same lime!
it's used everywher...that's the same lime!<br /><br />it's used everywhere and in (just about) everything..<br /><br />the basis of our mega farms' fertilizer!<br /><br /> able 1: The six treatments<br /> Treatment Application Rate<br />Given the dollar amount of what you would like<br /> 3 ton/ha**<br /> 1 Lime<br />to invest in fertility treatments (e.g., lime,<br /> 150 kg/ha*<br /> 2 Nitrogen fertilizer (34-0-0)<br />fertilizer, legumes), what percentage do you<br />think you are currently spending? 200 kg/ha**<br /> 3 NPK fertilizer (21-6-18)<br /> 4 kg/ha*<br /> 4 Legume seed (Sonja white clover)<br />12% invest 100% of what they would like to<br /> 100 kg/ha**<br /> NPK fertilizer (21-6-18)<br />15% invest 75% of what they would like to 5<br /> 1.5 ton/ha**<br /> + Lime<br />26% invest 50% of what they would like to<br /> 4 kg/ha*<br /> Legume seed (Sonja white clover)<br />36% invest 25% of what they would like to 6<br /> 1.5 ton/ha**<br /> + Lime<br />5% invest 0% of what they would like to<br /> *<br /> Recommended application rate<br />6% don’t want to invest anything **<br /> Less than recommended appEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-51366121644650025192010-02-02T16:53:34.730-08:002010-02-02T16:53:34.730-08:00Hi Ed
I meant lime in the sense of construction/m...Hi Ed<br /><br />I meant lime in the sense of construction/mud mixture. But you are correct as well.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127984623890722872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-39247308616949307862010-02-02T15:12:13.743-08:002010-02-02T15:12:13.743-08:00if our national leaders ran the USA like "Big...if our national leaders ran the USA like "Big Oil" ran their company<br /><br />then<br />"we"wouldn't bee in this hole!<br /><br />besides<br /><br />where would everybody's retirement income come from if "Big Oil" (and the other mega profitable dividend paying "evil" entities<br />wasn't include in a large % of each fund?<br /><br />besides every distribution/dividend/interestt sent out quarterly it each stock holder is taxed!<br /><br />besides besides<br /><br />your children most likely have mutual funds families.. (college) funds via your UTMA account that you set up when they were born!<br /><br />the good ones with a no load and lots of tech, utilities world health financial<br /><br />over the past shitty 10 years have returned about 3.5 %<br /><br /><br />of course there are fees..<br /><br />better to own individual stocks and do the REIT... <br /><br />or<br /><br />stick your $1 under your mattress it s now worth about$0.48 and sinking!<br /><br />I think that the problem is more with our dysfunctional congress and local leaders and supreme court...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41015994901902708052010-02-02T14:41:01.552-08:002010-02-02T14:41:01.552-08:00It looks that way --then communications corps run ...It looks that way --then communications corps run the media as well. But you are right--the communication/search engine hustle seems quite odd--really, it's a sophisticated sort of advertising and marketing sca (I'm not too keen on postmodernism, but Google &Co do look...something like Simulacra--). <br /><br />Yet big Oil did very well under BushCo--. Exxon raked in record profits, as did others. Not real surprising, since Bush /Cheney play golf with oil execs, attend sunday school together, etc.--and that's not only in Texass. Kern county for instance has some very wealthy and powerful oil barons--Occi., Chevron. Cheney generally pays a visit to the Kern oil boys when in CA. <br /><br />So, commodification still matters. AS does political writing, however futile--or bor-eeng--it may seem to the tea-room-decoration school. Really I prefer like Joanie Didion's bitter yet humorous takes on 60-70s politics over about any beatnik's books you care to mention Well, maybe excepting Terry Southern's black comedy). Or even HS thompson's gonzo however unevenJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-18102932130327142262010-02-02T13:40:21.771-08:002010-02-02T13:40:21.771-08:00J:
Interesting. Maybe a bit over the top, here.
...J:<br /><br />Interesting. Maybe a bit over the top, here.<br /><br />I do think there's been a sustantial shift in the character of corporate power in the last quarter century. <br /><br />Manufacturing and extractive energy companies once were the ruling centers of political influence, but they seem to be grudgingly giving way to information and communications concerns. China has built its power out of the old model, and there's no clear vision of what will win out. Clearly, we're using up resource at break-neck speed, and as food and energy and space are rapidly exhausted, there will be some terrifying "adjustments" to scarcity. Who will profit off that? I don't know...Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-1702223452558559042010-02-02T11:15:48.854-08:002010-02-02T11:15:48.854-08:00Technocrats --and finance capitalists, really---ap...Technocrats --and finance capitalists, really---approve of the glut of information, and the endless media-overload, I believe. They want to saturate the public with images, brand names, a massive consumer smorgasbord. <br /><br />Silicon valley executives and global management as a whole are dedicated to power, and increasing power, market share, etc. A world controlled by Microsoft, Apple, Google, Wally-mart, McDonalds, Ford-Chevy, military contractors, Exxon/Chevron, et al: that's what real progressives should be concerned with. Instead, they write little poems. <br /><br />Really, it's <i>more</i> dystopian than an Orwell or PK Dick ever imagined: I suspect Google and the like will be running the govt. in a few years, and overseeing some vast corporate police state, with gulags for the poor--that is, if they allow the world to survive. <br /><br />Texts will have been destroyed and/or converted to e-books, and reading will be confined to approved e-readers, probably at private universities.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-63131963441169006072010-02-02T06:33:39.648-08:002010-02-02T06:33:39.648-08:00Yah, Ed.
That's part of the picture.
Maybe w...Yah, Ed.<br /><br />That's part of the picture.<br /><br />Maybe we're all "dumping" on each other.<br /><br />But all this data's going to be swept away by the next paradigmatic media grid, whatever it is (becomes).<br /><br />We're floating on an artificial lake of data, which will quickly be allowed to dry up, once the new system supersedes. But we'll be dead or doddering then, so we won't care.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-68619885337301575562010-02-02T04:50:36.884-08:002010-02-02T04:50:36.884-08:00lime speeds up the process of decomposing just abo...lime speeds up the process of decomposing just about everything.<br /><br />when you bury your dead dog, cat, canary, gold-fish, hamster, etc<br /><br />in the back yard<br /><br />always sprinkle a hand-full of lime over the corpse..<br /><br /><br />lime is main additive in our<br />potable (drinkable) from-the-tap drinking water..<br /><br />it is added to our food, our soil our asphalt, etc<br /><br />without lime<br />we'd be mostly<br /><br />sick and disease infested.<br /><br /><br />googl "Useses of lime"<br /><br />lime --- our most important<br />rock<br /><br />and<br />it doesn't make the poop slushy...<br />the urine does that<br /><br />the lime decomposes the "stuff"<br />and kills the bacteria<br /><br />in the olden days like on 17 th 18 th 19 th century American farms<br /><br />first place to do an archaeological?<br /><br />find the original outhouse hold and dig there<br /><br />the latrine was also used as the dump for the<br />farmer's discarded small stuff: pots, pan,<br />old bottles, pens, shoes, etc, etc<br /><br />and<br /><br />all "cleaned" and saved by that periodic addition of a scoop of lime..<br /><br /><br />hey latrine used as a dump! geeze that where the phrase from my pre hippie daze<br /><br />"taking a dump" originated.. <br /><br />wow..<br /><br />to be yet "in the box"<br /><br />"Perhaps reading, as a form of data sharing.."<br /><br />as Curtis says..<br /><br />so I share...this pre cyber-s pre-google bit of info<br />out-of-my-memory's vast store house...<br /><br />the "stuff" of poems and art, eh?<br /><br />etcEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-84190700433214367742010-02-01T20:01:55.273-08:002010-02-01T20:01:55.273-08:00lime makes it sticky!
Curtis I hadn't pegged ...lime makes it sticky!<br /><br />Curtis I hadn't pegged you for a day over 45Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127984623890722872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-13675678419170664962010-02-01T19:35:00.550-08:002010-02-01T19:35:00.550-08:00.
Don’t You See?
Doesn’t anyone see around us
t....<br /><br />Don’t You See?<br /><br /><br />Doesn’t anyone see around us<br />this unnatural lethargy, a nation almost<br />hypnotized into digital complacency,<br />the loss of all community?<br />You look out for you. I’ll look out for me.<br />It’s as though we all agreed at once<br />to look away.<br /><br />Don’t you sense a certain general slow<br />decrease in energy, some kind of<br />supernatural invisibility?<br />And so the greedy and ambitious men,<br />disengaged from this reality,<br />after twenty-thousand years still<br />rule the Earth. Still make a mess.<br /><br />But if no challenge then no consequence,<br />no task to overcome, reason to proceed,<br />no victory or success.<br />Does no one see this debilitating need,<br />This desire to run away and hide?<br />Being handed what you want is not a challenge, or finding it or stealing or having lied.<br /><br />So how should we obtain, then,<br />rise up to take this challenge?<br />How do those without greed or blind ambition<br />learn to care for what the greedy need?<br />How do those without need for dominance<br />learn to fight and inflict violence?<br /><br /><br /><br />.<br />Copyright 2009 - Ponds and Lawns, Gary B. FitzgeraldGary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-68128105014886251692010-02-01T17:42:28.232-08:002010-02-01T17:42:28.232-08:00well
we are reducing things to merely masturbation...well<br />we are reducing things to merely masturbationing.<br /><br />contact with anything out side of "self" is phantasy<br /><br /><br />virtual schtick is the rule!<br /><br />just google what you desire!<br /><br />what a crock! hardly anybody knows how to use a shovel to dig a latrine... much less knows what a cup of lime is used for...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com