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My America Doesn’t Torture

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Should “Spiritual Advisers” Advise our Spirits?

McCain’s Current Spiritual Adviser

McCain’s 16th Century Spiritual Adviser

Obama’s Spiritual Adviser

 First thing that I note in comparing these three “advisers” is that two appear to be coming from a total obsession with aggression and hatred for another. The third appears to be coming from a point hurt and oppression and turning that hurt into a similar, but not as aggressive, anger.

They all have their own charismatic style, yet I can not feel the attraction to any of them.

I have had a lot of interaction with the two white types, but little to do with black churches. However, using rhetoric such as Rev Wright used is hardly a “black” thing. If you watch any of Parsley’s or Hagee’s shit, you quickly realize that they are both far more “radical” and aggressive than Rev Wright. Downright “militant”, as they say.

So, the thing that strikes me about righty’s is that they spend so much energy over this issue, yet keep silent about McCain’s embrace of his “advisers” who are exponentially more radical than the black guy.

And what is the outrage about God damning anything? He damned all sorts of stuff in the Bible. He damns the majority to eternal torment (according to many religions). Damning is what God does the most of, apparently.

For argument’s sake… Billy Graham(supposedly a anti-Semite… I can’t find any videos) is Hillary’s Spiritual Adviser.

Hillary’s “Religious Valet”

Since the MSM won’t say much…

I have been waiting to hear something about this for two or three says and nothing, really. We are so out of touch, as Americans (in general) that news like this, being critically important to us, isn’t mentioned (except in the slightest fashion) and even when it is, we really do not understand the fullness of its meaning. Global warming is real, but we say that because it snows during a cold snap that this is crazy.

Are people the only blame for this particular phenomena? Over eating salmon or just too many people pulling the water resources (which surely contributes). However, with the lack of rain out west and the fact that overall and on average, it IS warmer now, maybe there is less water to pull from, as well (compounding the issue).

What does this mean? That I won’t get to eat Salmon patties fried in grease?

No, rednecks, it means that we have a natural travesty happening with such a fast and substantial rate of loss of these fish that there is something much worse happening and at stake. As the doctor indicates, this is an indicator fish and the experts can see that this will and IS affecting us humans (more than just eating salmon).

We must become aware and divert our attentions from the fear mongering of “Terraists” and truly confront the fearful events that face all of humanity. 

From Firedoglake by Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Salmon: Canaries in The Water Mine

The largest salmon run in the largest estuary on this hemisphere’s Pacific Coast has collapsed. Why care about a bunch of fish and a big marsh? Well, healthy salmon runs require healthy water: fresh and salt. Crashing salmon runs tell us something in the water(s) has gone terrribly wrong. SF Bay fresh water is sucked up to supply central California crops and communities and Southern California taps. With over 17 million people in the LA area alone, and with California producing over half the nation’s fruit, vegetables, and nuts, SF Bay water affects the price of your greens - and the health of your family, wherever they live. And the salmon tell us the Bay is very sick.

How could the fate of one bay and one fish have such a huge impact? Well, estuaries are the final common pathway that carry a whole river - or multiple rivers - to the sea. The estuary that is the San Francisco Bay holds the water draining from almost one-half the land area of California: the estaury alone covers almost 1,600 square miles. The Sacramento River drains all water from the lands south of Mount Shasta (near the Oregon border) down through the Central Valley to Sacramento, and the San Joaquin River - when it flows - carries water from the arid counties north of the LA sprawl up to join with the Sacramento. Together, the two rivers formed the Bay. For millenia, both rivers carried spring flood waters from the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada across their respective valleys, covering the land between the Sierras and California’s coastal mountainns with a deep layer of rich fertile soil. This ancent gift created the most productive soils in America. Though much of this priceless resource has been covered by sprawl, the remaining soil is rich enough to produce 30 Billion dollars in produce each year, generating 100 Billion dollars for California’s economy.

WTF does all this have to do with salmon? Well, salmon depend on healthy fresh water for the beginning of their lives - and to begin the next generation. Each new generation of salmon arises from eggs laid and fertilized by their parents, who beat their way back upstream to spawn - and then die - in the precise stretch of water where they hatched out. On the way upstream, the adult salmon stop eating: their bodies nourish them. The hatchlings chow down in fresh water, swim out to sea and fatten up, and return to fresh water a few years later to begin the cycle anew. Salmon are so tied into West Coast biology that the nutrients the adult fish carry upstream in their bodies nourish the forests surrounding spawning beds: the trees return the favor by shading streams, keeping the water cool enough so the eggs and hatchlings will survive. A salmon “run” is the group of salmon that hatch out in a given stream or river at a certain time of year. Although the California coast once supported runs all the way south to Santa Barbara, with abundant runs in every season, the last decades have seen so much habitat destruction and water diversion that only two large river systems - the Sacramento and the Klamath - are healthy enough to support commercial salmon fisheries.

Even those two systems are teetering. If “crashing salmon runs” in California seems like a repeat, you’re right. Federally subsidized alfalfa farmers on/around the Klamath Basin use more water than the Klamath can sustain. In 2002, Rove/Cheney intervened to divert scarce flows to the Klamath welfare farmers. Result? 70,000 salmon downstream died as the now-shallow Klamath overheated. This caused a partial shut down of Pacific Coast salmon fisheries in 2005-2006, with net costs in the tens of millions.

The Klamath salmon died on their way out to sea. The now-collapsed Sacramento RIver salmon run was healthy enough as the left the Sacramento RIver on the way to the ocean for their return date with last fall - but that run was decimated.

The chinook salmon runs in the Sacramento River are the second lowest ever recorded, and the 90,000 adult fish are only one-tenth the all-time high (800,000 recorded five years ago)

What do the salmon meet as they leave the Sacramento for the sea? Well, they meet the immense pumps that suck up fresh water from the San Francisco Bay estuary (aka the Delta) and pump it to water lawns and subsidized commodity crops - along with water for 20 million Californians.

The Sacramento River’s “missing salmon” were juveniles migrating to sea in spring 2005, when state and federal water managers “set records for pumping delta water south,” said Mike Sherwood, an attorney with Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental legal group that has been jousting with water managers over water exports.

These pumps so damage the Delta’s aquasystems that last month a Federal judges ordered large decreases in the volume of water siphoned out of the Delta, in the hope of preventing extinction of several (non-salmon) fish species.

The court action comes too late for the Sacramento salmon run - and the thousands of fishermen and millions of families looking forward to this delicious gift. Yesterday - with the full agreement of West Coast fishermen - Federal officials proposed closure of the entire Sacramento salmon season. Early season fishing was ordered closed a few days ago.

We clever humans just crashed the biggest indicator species for half of all the land in California. As the salmon collapse, why should we expect to do better?

Bon appetit.

Saudi Man Buys Maker of Viagra… “Needs the Investment” says his wife

100-year-old Saudi gets 26-year-old wife

A 100-year-old Saudi widower has married a third time – taking a 26-year-old woman as his new bride, press reports said on Saturday.

Ahmed Ateeq Al-Hariri Al-Zahrani, who lives in Taif, near Mecca, faced no opposition from his bride-to-be or his family, despite the 80-year age gap, English-language daily, the Saudi Gazette, reported.

“We didn’t oppose dad’s marriage. We agreed to his marriage and we wish him happiness for the rest of his life,” said Abdul Rahman, Zahrani’s oldest son.

Zahrani, aged “over 100 years old”, has outlived his previous two wives, the paper said.

The guest list for the wedding ceremony included 120 of Zahrani’s sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, along with other friends and family.

Asked if he would marry a fourth time, Al-Zahrani told the Gazette:”I wish that but everything is in Allah’s hands.”