Here Kitty, Kitty...

I’ll say it again. Cowards. There’s no other word for it.

None of these idiots actually Believe that Sotomayor is a racist.
Not one of them.
And yet, they will sing that song at the top of their big ole white lungs because they don’t have the courage to tell the American people the truth. They don’t even particularly care if she’s a brown woman. (Remember Alberto Gonzales? She was a brown woman.) They just oppose anyone who they don’t have a 100% guarantee of how they are going to rule on any given case. You know, like Alito or Roberts, both of whom straight-up lied to congress during their confirmation hearings. Outrage anyone? Given her record, the chances that she will side with the right are about 50-50, but that’s not good enough for the Corporate He-Man Woman Haters Club. Activist Judge means, non-compliant.

BTW, Rove says lots of stupid people went to Yale. Name One! I dare you!

I believe it's called "Projection"

Let's see. Tancredo calls her a Racist. Limbaugh calls her a Reverse-Racist. Anyone wanna go for a full-twisting, half-in, full-out, double secret probation racist? I believe it's your turn, Newt.

Farewell to May and racing at Indy

A long weekend. Or at least long-er.

Thursday and Friday I was slammed. That’s what seems to happen when I drive. Lots and lots of work to do. It gives you great perspective. Heavy rests the head that wears the trucker’s cap. That part of the job is weighed heavily on lifting and also heavily on customer contact. What could be better? Problem solving with the Zen of hard work makes a day worth living. Solving problems on the run, really tests your mettle. So the best advice is: “Just keep walking.” Am I making any sense? I seem to be going on in something of a stream of consciousness or whatever you call it. Biggles’ head would be rocking back and forth as he stared at me in total fascination and confusion.

Friday, apparently Murphy’s Birthday. Challenges abound. All you can do, is all you can do. (Cliché much?)

Spent the weekend just kinda chillin’.
So did the weather.

Finished preparing my worm bins. Watched “Flow: for The Love of Water.” A documentary on global water rights which was chilling.
Tidied up around the house, primarily the balcony (which Janie has commandeered as her own personal toilet) while Collene and Jen went to Sunflower for supplies (back-bacon and bullets).
The Newlyweds came by for dinner and to watch Biggles Dad on the TV. TiVo and old video tapes.
On the Memorial Day holiday I watched Abraham-Hicks and tried to absorb what I could.
I’m learning my lessons of being-in-the-moment. My downstream story is: The world is a better place than today, people are becoming more and more enlightened and I’ve gotten thousands of them to start cleaning up the planet and our environment. Yummy food, not tainted by poisonous additives used to raise corporate profits. Living happily and healthily (are those even real words?).
Join me and my ilk. Jump into the stream and let’s go for a ride.

More Cowards

Listen, hear that?
That's Hannity wetting his pants.

"Let Pee-dom Ring!"

Cowards

It's kinda embarassing watching the former Vice-President (I didn't vote for him)running around doing whatever he can to try to affect "jury nullification". You can almost see him pissing his pants over it. That's the way these cowards operate. There's no other word for it.
Cowardice. Period.

"Sure it's repugnant and disgusting and completely against everything that this nation stands for but it got results.
Just because I kidnapped young babies (under one year old, or it's not effective. Oh, and by the way, it only works with blonde or redheaded babies.), and processed them through a Vita Health Master Juicer while they were still alive; smeared the resulting pulp all over my face and poured the juice over the Constitution, it was completely justified because it worked.
America has not been hit by an Asteroid (except those little teeny ones, but they don't count because I say so.) and I stand on my results.
Because I've learned the lessons of NINE-ELEVEN (patent pending).
Ooops, I just pissed myself, again. Mommy!"

Cowardice. No other word for it. Nice work Dick!

Here's an Idea. Set up a detention/gaming facility in Las Vegas. What happens in Gitmo stays in Gitmo.

Catch Up

Since its Thursday, I'll try to get tuesday and wednesday covered now so's I can pretend that I'm current.

I realized on Tuesday when I got to work at 7-ish, that I had a meeting of the GSBA at 8. Just general talk of the Stapelton Recycling Drive on June 30th. Last year we collected 24,000 pounds of E-waste recycling. Suck it, Executive Recycling!(they were the poster child for 60 Minutes this year) Maybe we'll see you there. Look for the Pedro's Planet truck.

While at that meeting I realized that there was a meeting downtown at the City, Re: working with the city. I buzzed down there and got my fill of bureaucratic employee-ese. We'll see how valuable that is in future.

Brush fires, emergencies and just plain, "oops, I forgots" filled the rest of the day. Since I'm sorta the face of office recycling the message leaks out everytime I'm at one of these events. Not exactly celebrity but, hey, whatever.

Wednesday. Again with the Brush fires. I had to drive way down south. I was so far south that they were speaking Portugese. Yuk, yuk. Ordered my worms today. Oooh, I'm so excited. It's like waiting for Santa only less red-suit quasi-christian and more, um, wormy. Yum.

Watched "Fast Food Nation" last night and I think I'll probably gag every time I look at a burger from now on. Ahh, with age comes wisdom. And Nausea.

Tomorrow I drive Pete's route while he enjoys the splendifitude of Yellowstone National Park. Don't drink the yellow geyser water.

I've got two quarters a nickel and three pennies. Change I can believe in.

Another Day, Another Three-fiddy.

I'm just a couple of days behind. Still trying to do two or three things at once. I believe the youngsters call it multi-tasking.

Therfore and Whereas, I will continue to try and get the Pedro's Planet message out: Try to do all you can to improve the planet's chances of survival and I'll be there to assist you in making the recycling part easy. To that purpose I went to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless "Bridges" to pick up a bunch of cardboard from Erica Winslow. That's a bunch more that's NOT going into the landfill. If we throw stuff into the landfill, the terrorists have won.

This (Monday) evening I went to an open house at the Wellington Webb building (City and County of Denver) for the OED ( Office of Economic Development) Small Business Assistance thingee. Very nice.

Please enjoy this lovely Video.
Thank you, Enjoy your dinners.

con respecto a Domingo

Sunday. A good day as always. Starts with a morning walk with Big Stuff and we almost always meet up with David Sipos to stroll around the park and discuss things trivial and profound. Okay, trivial.

The discussion of the 17th, concerned fidelity of movies to the book that sired them.
We allowed that "To Kill a Mockimgbird" was very faithful ("I was to be a ham.") and David offered that, except for the very last scene, so was the "The Grapes of Wrath".

My counter-example was one that disturbed me, which is ironic because the movie in question is one of the most disturbing I've seen. Now, the progenitor was a film, not a book, but the change of the ending, changed a seriously disturbing film, "The Vanishing" from Holland or some other Scandanavian country into Hollywood's "The Vanishing", in which the ending completely negated the original's ending. (I've been Disneyfied!)

Later we went to see the new "Star Trek" in IMAX and I was to be a ham.

Sabado y Domingo

Oh, well. The Best laid plans and all like that... I gotr started with my worm bins but realized that I didn't have all the materials that I needed so I paused in mid-stream. Once I do get them built, then I have to get worms and it's pretty difficult. Ah the good old days, when you could get worms merely by eating tainted pork. Back to the worms later.

The Big Man (Biggles) and I took a walk on Saturday morning and decided to check out a new route. The weather was a little misty/drizzely and we wandered down to the creek bottom where they are putting some HUGE (20 in. I.D.) pipe that I have to assume is for communications. Back out of the creek by the country club and through the country club neighborhood. Conspicuous Consumption Junction. Range Rovers, BMW, Mrecedes, Porsche SUV's for god's sake,
not an American car to be seen. That's how the Rich support US industry. Unfortunately, I guess it's up to the middle class, (another species soon to be added to the endangered list) to try to get america back on its feet.

The boy and I took a couple of laps around Cheeseman and headed home after about 5 Miles. I will soon get rid of my Tweedle-Dumber figure (I hope).

Worm Composting

I'm gonna build my worm composter today.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/build-your-own-worm-bin.php

Let's see if I'm smarter than a fifth grader.

Hard Work

Ouch.
I just spent the day driving a Delivery (office products)/Pickup (recycling) Route. It's good to know how the other guys live. This way I'll never lose touch with the working man, or woman. When you give really good customer service, sometimes they want more. I had two different customers call with one of those, "I've got an emergency, do me first." situations.
Apparently, I can keep my head when all about me are losing their's. I just jumped into the flow and let it take me. First I delivered paper to someone who was out, then I had to go pick up a bunch of cardboard to recycle. Funny, their estimate was 15 or so broken down boxes. The Reality came back as "Holy Feces! That's a lot!" I spent 30 minutes or so loading the truck, burying the boxes I had to deliver. Sweet! It keeps you running, yeah. It keeps you running. Then another 30 minutes unloading. All this was for free, mind you.
At least it's out of the landfill, and on it's way to becoming something else, just like me.

Serendipity-Do

Interesting. I just went to Samaritan House, a new customer and a division of Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. While there, I met Brother Augustine, a Franciscan Monk. I just saw a famous Fransiscan Theologian on that movie last night. How very weird.

"There's this lattice of coincidence. Suppose you're thinking of a plate of shrimp, and someone you says plate or shrimp or plate of shrimp. There's no sense looking for it."
"Did you do a lot of drugs in the hippie days?"
"And another thing..."
(paraphrasing Repo Man)

Cinema

Just watched a great documentary about spirituality and oneness, called "ONE". It's kinda fascinating seeing all of these great religious thinkers and scholars and practioners discussing spiritualism and saying in essence the same thing.

Slow down, you move too fast.
Got to make the morning last.
Kickin' down the cobblestones.
Lookin' for fun and feeling Groovy.
(Simon and Garfunkel)

Another Day on the Mud-ball

Lots of pessimism in the media on the economic and climate change front, but I'm opptomistic because I've met sooo many people lately that are not just commited but borderline obsessed with saving the planet.

These are really good people with some really good ideas or at the very minimum, a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Aspen Meadows Veterinary Hospital in Longmont, Colorado is in a building that is practically LEED. LED lighting, Dual flush toilets, recycled furniture, recycled office supplies (I'll take credit for that) and the whole nine yards. Very cool.

I was at the Denver Green Festival May 2 and 3, 2009 and was amazed by the exhibitors and the attendees. Thom Hartman, Van Jones, Laura Flanders and many many other spoke.
I gave and informational/comedy presentation called "All I need to know about Sustainability I learned in Kindergarten or from my Mother" which went over quite well. I also did a paper-making demonstration in the kids zone. If those crowds were any indication, we're on our way.
If you're not part of the solution, get outta the way! (I'm looking at you, Jim Inhofe)

The Master Plan for Earth Rescue and Rehabilitation

Baby steps.
I guess that's the plan for now. Even though I've been aware of the problems with our influence on the planet for a long time, I'm still learning what do do to help. Everyday's a new lesson. I used to think that man was a parasite on Earth, but we're more of a symbiot, so, give and take.

That's the reson I work for Pedro's Planet. We sell and deliver green office products to our customers and pick up their office recycling in the same trip. It doesn't seem like much, but by using the trucks in both directions, we save a butt load of fuel every year, fuel that doesn't get burned and turned into CO2. Plus trees (paper), and oil (plastics, toner cartridges), aluminun, etc.

So I'll just try to keep learning and keep passing on what I've learned. Knowledge is renewable power.