All around Cleveland - in the local golf course, in the corner of the field - screened and painted green, there are sprouting gas wells.  Fracked wells.

And those fracked wells, full of all types of crazy chems - those chems will not migrate into the local water table.  

No. 

No migration. 

I believe that. 

We all can tell that something has gone off the rails in American - and in our entire western culture.  

Capitalism has a flaw.  Or 2.

So last Saturday, when I was listening to some on-the-fly progressive radio station - I heard a podcast lecture given by Richard Grossman.  A lecture describing why corporations were causing havoc - and why corporations under the US Constitution were not "people".  

Take a look at your local chain grocer or your local big box store - you will find pallets stacked with bags of firewood from Eastern Europe.  

Is collecting firewood work Americans will not do?

Bizarre.

This sack (volume 1.36 cubic feet) of white birch sells for $13.99.

 Sanitation, extension cords, fire hazards is what all the Mayor's intone. 

But those "reasons" don't ring true.

While in many cultures conflict means killing, with Occupy we have peaceful protest, and yet the "authorities" can't resist shutting that peaceful protest off. 

What a huge mistake. 

Occupy Boston faces sanitation tonight at midnight.   (dark, few onlookers, OT for the Force) 

That's American Sanitation!

Jon Corzine's a smart guy - been a United States senator, been the head of Goldman Sachs, been the Govn'er of New Jersey.....

But now Jon  doesn't know where 1.2 billion dollars is - money that was involved in "betting" on European government debt - could be "operational errors" at MF Global,  the hedge fund Jon piloted,  Jon notes.   

It turns out that this tire was included in the Firestone Tire safety recall implemented in 2001 -  however, the tire failed because of a different manufacturing defect than the steel belt separation defects cited in the recall.

The image shows the pattern made by an insect which chewed out tunnels between two sheets of rigid blue styrofoam insulation. 

The insulation was stacked faces together and left under an oak tree for a few years and when I moved one sheet off the other I noticed that there were several different types of tunneling geometry visible on the surfaces of the foam.   (I will upload other patterns soon)

Every item that is delivered to every store in the United States is palletized in the delivery truck - and a loading dock and fork lift is necessary for offloading the goods. 

So the corner store is out of the loop.  No fork lift.  No loading dock. 

And if the rat is killed with Warfarin, then maybe he'll be eaten and the anti-coagulant will then harm the next animal in the food chain..

What a horrible idea - feed a chemical which will make an animal hemorage internally. 

That's way out there. 

That's human ingenuity...

 The Republican con TENDERS are a sorry bunch.  (Maybe Huntsman, Paul  are not to be totally humiliated)

Mit has maintained the non-confrontational sideline as a strategy.  Which might be OK until the discussion turned to the fact that at the termination of his Massachusetts governorship Mr. Romney "allowed" about 11 of his top state staffers to "buy" the hardrives out of their state owned computers for $65 bucks a piece.

 I'm not into cut and paste, but the AP report needs to be read. 

In the USA, peaceful protest still pisses a lot of us off - and of course the natural reaction to being pissed off is  force.

At Kent State during the Viet Nam era, peaceful protest pissed off the Ohio National Guard, so they brought live ammo to their task, and murdered some young people.

They were pissed off at the peaceful protesting.  Peace can be antagonizing.  

Peace is antagonizing because it it never static, settled.    

Here is an Image from lmcshane which reminds me of the murals in old post offices - work project administration era - but not quite - cuz the baskets are woven and the dress isn't quite right for that era. So Where is this image?  I'll go back and read the post.

Lot's of fun picking up on this image and running it through Photoshop... thanks

Public parks across the nation are the address for many of us. 

I know because Tucker walks with me in parks. About twice a day. 

And this is what we see.

Lot's of people living out of shopping carts. 

and occupying a bench. 

Maybe they need an injunction to stay there! 

You think?

Old man Winter...What do You think?

If 

I'll bet these kids haven't  read Jack Kerouac's On The Road - like young people everywhere, they are in the moment - enjoying a warm weather (mostly junk food corn syrup laced) lunch on a United States National Park  bench near their high school in Lowell, Massachusetts - Kerouac's home town.  

Contemplate that.

Contemplate this:

WELCOME is the first thing you see when you look inside. 

Here is an Occupy media tent which has internet connected computers for the public to use to post news, do research, or read about other Occupy events around the world.  

Attached is a pdf of the Suffolk Superior Court Memorandum of Decision and Order issued this afternoon. See attached PDF: http://realneo.us/system/files/Occupy_4.pdf

Here is a link to the National Lawyer's Guild which represented the Occupy plaintiffs.  The link includes all the filings from the plaintiffs

For  the sake of Google searches, I put in the following text:

 roux

We have all seen this scene many times, maybe even a few of us have experienced this scenario:  The car in front stops short and in a split second you have smacked into the rear bumber of the car in front of yours.  

No one is hurt - because it was just a bump in a bumper to bumper traffic jamb - maybe 5 miles per hour.