Yeah, we packed a greenhouse full of tomato plants.

Time to cash in on the Salmonella scare like any good capitalist would.

OK, we’re gonna have jetstar, early girl, better boy, beefsteak, roma, sweet 100, and some other type of cherry tomato, if the weather treats us right.

Yummy. No human crap in our tomato beds, and they’re covered, so no bird crap either. Oughta be just fine for your gastrointestinal tract.

9th circuit court of appeals judge, Alex Kozinski suspended a significant LA obscenity trial after admitting that he has his own porn website. Seems that the good judge has a penchant for nude women painted as cows, posing on all fours. Mooooooooooooooo.

To each his own. Very nice of the judge to realize that maybe he can’t try a case involving practices fairly similar to his own, though apparently more hard core.

This link
might last longer than the above link, and has a synopsis of the story, as well as a more provocative headline.

Father Michael Pfleger has been temporarily suspended from Service at St. Sabina parish in Chicago after his latest big show at Trinity United Church of Christ.
He’s broken the rules against preaching partisan politics from the pulpit and has been “granted” a leave of absence to contemplate his actions.

This won’t be the first time that Pfleger has been in hot water with his Bishop. Life as a screaming liberal has often put him at odds with his superiors, and with Catholic teaching.

What comes first?? Your faith or a run for the president. Obama decided, (no big surprise) that his campaign trumps his religion.

The comments by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the visiting Rev Pfleger ( a renegade Catholic priest) and, and the newer pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Rev. Otis Moss, though they represent nothing new, have proven to be too much for public consumption.

Another official reason for leaving is the excess of media coverage visited upon the church and its members. Perhaps the public notice that this non-profit institution is doing things that other non profits are not permitted to do, might also be a driving force.

It’s all for the public “good”………. Obama has quit his church.

This one is hard to report, because there’s no way to convey what led up to what this teacher did.

Seems that a kindergarten kid with significant behavior problems was sent to the principal’s office for one more of apparently frequent visits. When he came back to class, his teacher had him stand up front and allowed the remaining kids tell the boy what they disliked about him. Then, teach had the kids decide if the boy should remain in class. The decision was 14/2 to vote the kid out of the classroom.
I’d recommend that you read the article for yourself.

This situation is pretty sad. I don’t know what to think because the full story certainly isn’t being conveyed. It appears to be a case of inappropriately mainstreaming a kid with developmental difficulties.

The trouble is that the article leaves out a good deal of information.
It’s true that teachers have little ability to control the classroom behavior problems, and a great fear of exerting discipline. Also people with not a great deal of training in special ed often are dealing with special needs students, along with those equipped for learning in the usual environment. So I bet the teacher was driven nuts by this kid.

However, her experiment in exerting social pressure to solve a behavior problem probably broke that little boy. Also it conveyed to the rest of the students an ethic that ganging up on one class member is OK, and encouraged. So I think she’s managed to screw up a bunch of kids to varying degrees. She might need to consider a different career.

No, I don’t think the mom ought to pursue a plan sue the school and the teacher in this case, unless she sues herself too. Seems that no one really knew what to do with her 5 year old boy. I think mom ought to spend her energy helping her kid to find the appropriate environment for his social training and education.

I never liked the premise of that Survivor show, so it only got about 15 total minutes of my time. I like it even less now……..

What’s the worst thing to happen on a space mission? The toilet craps out. Yep, they have issues at the space station. The liquid waste collection system of the toilet has broken down, and the astronauts are using the limited capacity facility on the Soyuz capsule while they await parts to repair the main throne of the space station.

Imagines floating yellow droplets…. everywhere… Best wishes to the intrepid crew for a speedy repair.

lifenews.com — A media sensation has been generated by news of sexually abusive clergymen. The significant problem of abusive physicians has produced not even a ripple. Rashid Sandhu faces 8 years for his offenses in the U.K. Linked to this story are several more cases of note among those practicing the specialty of abortion.

Sandhu himself is convicted of molesting a thirteen year old patient, and 17 charges related to child pornography.

Just a side comment from your blogger. Some people think that abortion is a solution for rape.

Note that most sex offenders do not have ready access to anaesthetic , sedative, or hypnotic pharmacological substances as this class of physicians does. This has been a significant social problem for a long time, and your mainstream media exhibits little interest in it.

Another link of interest

You really need to know that your federal government thinks you should pay taxes to subsidize the birth control pills for college students.

I really want all of you hard working tax payers, who could not afford college tuition, to understand that you are expected to buy the BIRTH CONTROL PILLS for those who CAN afford the tuition.

Please bear this in mind as you vote for democratic senators in the fall. This was their bright idea, and it got stuck in an appropriations bill for the Iraqi troops. This isn’t the first time. Planned parenthood also attempted a related addition to the Iraqi war spending bill in Spring of 2007.

The third court of appeals in Austin TX found the case against the Polygamist sect of Latter Day Saints in TX to be invalid. Ruling itself gives lower court judge 10 days to release the kids to their parents. Since the state prosecutors might appeal this decision, it’s not yet known when the kids will be returned to their parents.

Some major points are that the state of Texas didn’t establish that the kids were in imminent danger, and that the entire group should not have been treated as a single family.

Also, forgotten in all the details of this case: No one ever found “Sara” the supposed 16 year old caller, who is now believed not to exist. Instead these calls were traced to Rozita Swinton in Colorado, a 33 year old woman who has a history of making false calls complaining of abuse.
Internet analysis of this woman abounds, as well as this list of Obama delegates bearing her name.

This article addresses the damage done by false reports of crime, in impeding investigations such as this. Since the initial report is bogus, it has the effect of helping to invalidate the entire case. If there were some actual cases of abuse within the LDS sect, those kids have not been helped.

Some statistics in the case: Of the 31 women originally said to be underage mothers, 15 have been reclassified as adults, and one of the women is 27. This kind of thing isn’t helpful in prosecuting future cases concerning abuse of minors.

Whaddaya know!!! This might reduce the demand for sex selection abortions if people can change their kid’s sex later!

Dr Norman Spack of Boston Children’s Hospital is offering transgender treatment to kids as young as 7 years old.

Nah, I’m not in favor of a kid, still under his parent’s influence, having his sex changed by a doc. Nope. Even assuming the alteration itself were ethical, who would be doing the choosing?

We have parents in the U.S. who can choose to kill a kid for various gratuitous reasons. Offering this sex alteration option to such inhumane people is a major mistake.