This weekend open thread is sponsored by our friends at Ypsi’s Tuesday downtown farmers market.
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Swine flu in Washtenaw is up to 9 cases and 7 in Livingston. Anyone know anyone who has the H1 virus or how they got it? I’m cautious but not overly concerned that it will spread.
We’re playing at the Elbow Room tonight with flatfoot and the b sharps .
I ran out of cheap plastic balls to throw at us, so b.y.o.balls (toys r us).
I want to thank Growing Hope for this month’s offer. I’ve been to the Saturday farmers’ market in Depot Town several times, and each time I’ve been badly disappointed by vendors selling goods that they had obviously purchased at a grocery store: cabbage in May (still wrapped in plastic with the Dole logo), banannas (complete with Chiquita stickers), etc. This was my first time going to the Tuesday market, and I was pleasantly surprised. I just wish it went a little later — I was barely able to make it before the market closed.
Strange…I commented yesterday “Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful moms” and then the comment got deleted.
Enraging story about Abu Ghraib.
Cousin Geoff, I second your “Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful moms out there”, and I extend mine even to the not so wonderful moms out there. It’s a tough job, even just surviving it is doing a great job.
Let’s set the bar really low and just extend our appreciation to all the moms out there who didn’t purposely kill their children, sell them into slavery, use them for their organs, etc.
Hey, that’s me! (But don’t confirm that with my offspring…)
I don’t think a mother is necessarily a bad mother just for having a baby to provide a needed kidney. My wife and I had our son because I needed three feet of colon. We’re still great parents though. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
“I want to thank Growing Hope for this month’s offer. I’ve been to the Saturday farmers’ market in Depot Town several times, and each time I’ve been badly disappointed by vendors”
I just wanted to echo what cmadler said…but I did see one vendor with apples with little stickers on them and tomatos that were “produced in Canada”. Otherwise though, it was great, and I got my “Mark Maynard Oregano Plant” which continues to thrive along with its siblings under my grow light. I hope the cheese people come back! (Zingermans is great, but I really like the colby cheese from the other cheese folks) :)
Speaking of Abu Ghraib, Mr. Hope and Change looks more and more like Bush on Steroids (but more eloquent) every day, doesn’t he?
Maybe he’s waiting for just the right moment for the change part.
“Bush on steroids”
Wow. Incredibly generous to Bush.
= it’s okay if a Democrat does it.
is that to me? it equals nothing of the sort (should i go on a rant about how you don’t know my “character” if you think i’m this kind of partisan? hmm…nah). but that was 8 long years of bad shit. seems reckless to suggest obama is already worse. i’d feel uncomfortable being so anxious to tear obama down that i downplayed bush’s crimes. but that’s me.
Can’t seem to recall anyone on this site but yours truly doing any kind of whistleblowing posts about Obama breaking his transparency promises, extending warrentless wiretapping, bombing pakistan, bombing civilians, refusing to prosecute torturers, refusing to release torture photos even with a court order, etc.
Where’s the whistleblowing?
Where’s the outrage?
Where’s the speaking truth to power?
If it’s not because of partisanship, why is it?
Maybe everytime someone else wants to post something of the sort, a strong bowel movement comes on suddenly and it slips his/her mind.
Consider this a reminder and a chance to show your impartial character (non-specific “you”).
i can’t speak for others but i don’t get my whistleblowing from blog comments and i don’t judge the level of outrage by blog comments either. i follow all obama’s broken promises elsewhere–usually someplace that doesn’t annoy me by saying “he’s bush on steroids” (for example), since that seems a little far afield from “speaking truth to power.” for all i know, people are busy writing their congressional representatives. i wrote two congressmen last week. should i have gotten on here and trumpeted my outrage credentials? i can’t imagine why anyone would feel the need to prove their impartial character to you or anyone else.
Still nothing but crickets on the subject here, though.
anyone been to that little island in ford lake? it’s techincally a park. what’s it like?