Quote of the Day – Nancy Pelosi on comments made by Newt Gingrich:

“Let me just say this: One of these days, in the far future, when I’m not Speaker anymore, I will be irrelevant.”

- Nancy Pelosi

She hits it right on the head. The nail, that is.

U.S.Chamber of Commerce Spending Foreign Funds to Attack Democrats…

The world is changing right in front of us... and more material is turning up all the time.

This is the first couple of paragraphs by Paul Johnson in a special article in OpEdNews. It is a LONG article and bears reading.

I’ve been watching a POV documentary on Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. It dawns on me that the ability of major corporations to use secret funds in campaigns… even foreign funds… for US Congresspeople is as evil as the lies in the 60s and 70s that were told to the American People about the Viet Nam War.

If you are not concerned with what the US Chamber and Large Corporations can do to our freedom…especially our freedom to vote for candidates in a fair and honest way… then you are sleeping through a disaster.

Please read it all.
-Bill

clipped from www.opednews.com For OpEdNews: paul johnson – Writer Exclusive: Foreign-Funded “U.S.’ Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads The largest attack campaign against Democrats this fall is being waged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a trade association organized as a 501(c)(6) that can raise and spend unlimited funds without ever disclosing any of its donors. The Chamber has promised to spend an unprecedented $75 million to defeat candidates like Jack Conway, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Jerry Brown, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), and Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA). As of Sept. 15th, the Chamber had aired more than 8,000 ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates alone, according to a study from the Wesleyan Media Project. The Chamber’s spending has dwarfed every other issue group and most political party candidate committee spending. A ThinkProgress investigation has found that the Chamber funds its political attack campaign out of its general account, which solicits foreign funding.

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• Joan Walsh: Conservatives’ Con Game Conflates Corporate Interests With the Little Person (crooksandliars.com)
• Media Parrot Far-left Blog’s Smear Campaign Against Chamber of Commerce, Ignore Identical Activities by Unions (newsbusters.org)
• Chamber of Commerce Hypocrisy on Bailouts [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] (scienceblogs.com)
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Noodle Research… the new project.

My wife has been involved in Sustainable Shepherdstown, our local “what the town needs to do to survive if it becomes impossible to go anywhere else” organization. One of the ideas she has had for a business to set up that we can do locally, fulfill our Vegan eating requirements and be remotely interesting to do is a Pasta Making Company. So I’ve been researching all kinds of pasta shapes and noodle making machines and recipes.

So far I’ve found over 100 pasta and noodle shapes and product made from every kind of grain and non-grain that you can think of. Of course, a good many of the recipes use eggs, which are a Vegan no-no, or dairy products (which all can be replaced by soy or nut-milk products)… so before I can experiment with some of these, I’ll have to know what’s available locally or near-locally.

Then there are the machines, both electric and hand-cranked, which would be important for mass production. They run from the really inexpensive to the very expensive manufacturing giants. Setting up an original budget list for this project is going to require an armful of business costs, so all of them have to be considered and compared with potential earnings to see if this is really a profitable proposal.

In reality, this is just the first of many project ideas I can see Sustainable Shepherdstown instigating. But for a retired guy, it’s something to do.

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Let’s hear it for Tim Gunn…

The co-host of Project Runway makes a moving statement about his own life vis-a-vis the recent suicide of Tyler Clementi and other victims of gay teen bullying. Listen here:

Tim deserves a great deal of credit here and I hope those who have been victimized hear him.

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