Sweet Sweet Pea;
Many have tried to say they 'support' me in all of this- (No, really)!
But then they end up not truly supporting me. (more like stabbing me in the back).
Much reminiscent of how I raised my kids and all. I never had anyone to say "shush, (insert childs name here), and listen to your mother"
Oh wait, I did too- But then Dad up and died on me when Z, J, and R were too little to remember...
Dennis was no good, being a child himself.
Besides he couldn't 'make his point' if he agreed with me; OR, if we would ever present a united front as real parents in front of the girls.
Therefore they just made up their own little minds.
My boss, Gary, (Wouters) actually had the nerve to tell them straight out about more than a few things.
Sorry, but save for babysitting, mom was never a help to me either. And yes, those babysitting days helped a lot- But she had her own shit with me too.
If I begged her to stand by me, she would, reluctantly. But that is all. Guess I have yet to meet anyone who will stand up for ME, as their mother.
Maybe I should have beat them. Then they would have something to whine about. (Then again as adults, even most of those kids outgrow the BS).
I am enclosing this just so you know, in no uncertain terms, what has gone on between myself and Berta.
I would like to know however if she has said any further untruths within her f/b? (if you would anyway).
Love to you always.
XOXO
me
As always, the oldest posts start at the bottom...
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From Casey...
"About Roberta" hee hee hee
Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:39 PM
From:
"CaseyAnne DeGrave" <edbdkcn@gmail.com>
View contact details
To:
"ANNE, Anna-Anna," <onthefarm@prodigy.net>
About Roberta, from her f/b page
"I am a very hard worker while I am work.... I tend to be a little lazy at home, but my house is clean at the same time. I love to go for long walks in the country cuz there's more to look at there, but I also like to chill with a good book or crossword puzzle every now and then too. I am a pretty straight forward person and not afraid to tell it like it is. I always stick to my morals and will stand up for what I believe is right. I am just lovin life!"
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Curious??? Check out my blog:
http://edbdkcn.multiply.com/
Have a wonderful day!!!
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I did not reply to Casey's note; though, if I remember correctly we did chat about it after a doctor appointment that day.
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From Chuck's page-
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002220897189
OBAMA= One Big A** Mistake America. If you thought health care was expensive.... Wait till its free!!!
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Anne Yusvak You wouldn't say that if you couldn't afford a 3/4$ million transplant operation for your child.
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Charles Chuck Jonsson It wont matter cause when its free . The government will tell you wether your child can live or die. When you can eat what you can own. where you can live. how many children you can have. how old you can be before they kill you ect.... every one was so excited about obama's free $$$, Now everyone is broke. SAY NO TO COMMUNISM!!!
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Anne Yusvak Chuck, dammit, you are making me crazy now...
Tell me you don't really buy into that BS. You have never had such a child, and I am very happy for you- You have been very lucky you know. Trust me, it is HELL to go through; not only for the child! And how very long she had to wait- it damn near killed her, Chuck!
Alas, Casey is still needing more to help her so what damage her pancreas had done earlier, suffice to say she may never recover from it all.
HER PANCREAS WAS DIGESTING HER ENTIRE BODY FROM THE INSIDE OUT!
(As her mother, I don't really give a flyin' f**k where the money came from, as long as my daughter is alive).
FURTHERMORE, you are way off base if you are thinking that anything (Obamacare) past insuring our children has even kicked in yet. (It will, thankfully, in 2014).
Casey is not the only person that this kind of legislation benefits.
Wait til it gets to your doorstep- Perhaps someone you know and love.
Arizona is already KILLING people that are on their transplant list. Boy, now there's the REAL "death panel", isn't it?
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Charles Chuck Jonsson i am sorry for casey. And it is your right to feel how you like. But i do buy into my beliefs. And if you think it would change if Sam had it and not casey you are wrong. I still belive in fredom!!! Not over taxing and dependance on our goverment. Things happen and they suck but i would not sell out my country and freedom for it. No to communism!!! You are left i am right. Just the way it is.
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Charles Chuck Jonsson if GOD decides its Sams time to go who am i to question his design??? Further more not caring where the $$$ comes from is just selfish. A drug dealer sells drugs to survive not careing where it came from. But familys of the users care.
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Anne Yusvak Correction. You are wrong, not "right*... I am more liberal than you are. You are more Republican than I am. Go read the bill Chuck.
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Charles Chuck Jonsson Thats what i said i am right wing republican you are left wing liberal. Lol
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Anne Yusvak I believe that you believe you could be so nonchalant and flippant if any one of your children were that sick! You wouldn't be. or I have completely misjudged the man I thought you were. (That does not happen much, I promise you). Comparing being ill and needing your health made better is ludicrous too. Not even close. Casey never had a choice to be sicvk or not. Anyone that keeps on using HAS a choice- their parents did too as they were taught not to abuse either drugs OR alcohol.
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Charles Chuck Jonsson you missed my point. But never the less being a man does not mean you have to belive what Ann believes. And fighting on face book is pointless. This is my page to speak however i feel. If you do not like it and can not play nice. Then just as in real life friendships can be deleted.
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Anne Yusvak Let's see... I have one child fighting EVERY DAY just to stay alive- another that is doing her level best to end up like Michael Jackson. I am shaking my head at that kind of contemptible nonchalance regarding 'life'. While God may decide when it's time, we still have to love what he gave us and take care of it.
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Anne Yusvak Heart before politics.
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Charles Chuck Jonsson Fighting with me is not going to save your children or you. Call your govener
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Anne Yusvak Now I am in the midst of blogging on my other site. So I will come back later. Bye. For now.
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Charles Chuck Jonsson Have a good day
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Jennifer DeGrave Mullen How can you say "heart before politics"? Really? This is how someone with a heart speaks of her child?! End up like Michael Jackson?! Not everything needs an insult. Be nice.
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From: Anne <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
To: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2011 12:33 PM
Subject: Berta. Berta. Berta.
If this sounds like I am upset or angry, methinks it is high time that I am.
Don't you EVER EVER speak/write to me like that again.
Did I lie about anything? "I don't think so!" (Any decent and honor-worthy psychiatrist will tell you that). Besides, you are the one that had the death wish, or have you conveniently forgotten that too?
Did the "pot/black" thing help you feel better? "I don't think so!" See, I don't do pot. I did it in high school. I was always honest with all of my kids; furthermore I NEVER would even have thought of doing dope while I was pregnant.
Furthermore, I sure as hell haven't even had a drink in probably about 25 years! See Berta, those are 'stages' -and they are supposed to pass, (don't you agree?)...
Should you need an explanation re: my absence at your 'group therapy', here goes... FYI little girl... I have now broken 2+ ( + meaning = "probably more") vertebra this month, the last one just one day prior to you wanting; (correction, 'needing') me there, again.
Further, I had no way of calling you to let you know. You, very conveniently, left that info out.
And here I was going to bring the letter with me! (Silly me, WTF do you think I was thinking)?!?!
More, my AC had gone out in the car, and it was the better part of 95 degrees that afternoon.
Don't you give me that crap about talking 'about' you like that either.
I have NEVER said ANYTHING "about" you that I haven't already said to your face. (& Do not forget that "I" always have the proof).
Just WHOM was it that said it was you that I was talking about anyway? (Get over yourself already, and you may even have a chance to make something yet out of yourself. Ya think?).
Then, with an odd twist of real class, you delete the letter you wrote to me? So I can't even reply? That's cool Roberta, Real cool. Seems as I got it anyway. ;-)
You, of all people, who worked on the Obama campaign would only find THAT to complain about? How very entertaining you are!
Again I must ask you, just what made you think it was about you? Do you honestly not recall how very many people call me "Mom"?
As far as dumping me from your page, you can't even make your mind up about that... YOU came to me, (or don't you remember that either)? Of course, you had also told me that the 2nd OWI had woken you up.
I am SO done pussy-footing around you to catering to your every whim, especially to the "poor poor Roberta" thing.
You made your bed, you sleep in it.
MY hands are thrown up.
My heart is broken on you, wasted over you, for the very last time. You and I and God all know that you were raised much much better than that.
Which one of us was/IS it that actually "raised" every single one of her children? Whether or not you paid attention was your choice.
Your choice. And you blew it again?
I should not be surprised...
Until then, grow the hell up.
Go away, do anything, but just leave ME the hell out of it.
You have blamed me for something I had no control over, for the last time.
"Mom"
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Here's your note, in it's entirety, just in case you may think I am bluffing.
(And no, I will not tell you how I got it).
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:05 AM
"Are you serious? That is how you are going to talk about me on Charles Chuck Johnsson's wall? If you have something to say about me, you say it to me... Not to God knows who... But, anything you say in reguards to that is the pot calling the kettle black... If this is how you are going to treat me, we do not need to talk... I am deleting from my facebook... You are not good for my recovery being that you cannot even take any responsibility in trying to help your child at all... Not even write a letter... that was all i asked... Instead you badmouth me... Sorry you don't understand."
end note from Roberta
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Also know that I pulled this off too:
Dated, February 6, 2011
" my second OWI woke me up,"
Plus, "I have accepted the fact that the entire situation I was angry about was my own damnded fault and I am sorry I blamed you all this time"
And still one more, "I really do regret a lot of the choices i made, but I can promise I am doing better "
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I repeat:
"When you can mature into a respectful woman that I raised, and give me the respect that I have not only earned, but deserve, just let me know."
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From: Anne <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
To: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
I am not mean. You already know that. But I sure as hell am done molly~coddling you; or making excuses for you, (or your sisters).
All the lies have come home to roost. The buck stops here. I am done fighting simply for my children to love me. (Actions speak louder than words).
As I stated back in February: "As you well know, I am very boring. I have heard many times back in my face, that I have never changed. Have not, and will not ever change. If that is too hard for you to deal with then that is the way it is. I can do nothing about how you feel. To be honest, at this point I am also quite unwilling to."
I stand by my written words. I meant them then, and I mean them now.
Now this comes? But wait... You yell at me, and then want me to apologize for being upset? Wake up little girl. You are 31 years old. It's high time you did. Whose fault is it that you do not even know your own mother well enough to know a few things about her? Not only about this, but you have NO idea how much garbage, still, comes back to me.
Again, "you should be happy you are working on yourself, and whatever. Again."
When that is done, then maybe you will work on salvaging a relationship with me. But I will be honest and tell you this, it is not going to be easy.
Again I ask, do you "Feel better?"
--- On Tue, 7/19/11, Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
To: "Anne" <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 9:03 AM
Why are you so mean?
From: Anne <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
To: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
Feel better? I do not feel like playing this same inane game (over and over for how many years?). Nor do I feel like playing some idiotic semantics game with you. As always, you pass the buck- and right over anyone elses feelings, including your own mothers.
This is no fun.
But hey, you should be happy you are working on yourself, and whatever. Again.
--- On Tue, 7/19/11, Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
To: "Anne" <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 7:32 AM
I am not going to apologize for my feelings... I am currently working on self esteem issues, and teaching myself to stop calling people names that may lower their self esteem... I will apologize however if I said anything out of line... which I don't think I did... I just said I did not appreciate being called that, joking or not... I need to be able to express my feelings too... and it hurt to be called that... joking or not... I have made some mistakes, yes, but I am not unintelligent... We both have feelings... sorry if I hurt yours....
Love,
Berta
From: Anne <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
To: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
Well holy shit Berta. Where the hell did this come from? I most certainly did NOT mean it to be so repulsive to you. Cool off. Did I really need to add the 'hehehe'? You know me well enough that I have NEVER used the word ninny without it being tongue-in-cheek. And if you don't, that is YOUR fault.
How dare you forget that Mom has deep feelings too!
--- On Mon, 7/18/11, Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
To: "Anne" <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 9:48 AM
I am not a ninny... Just saying what I feel I NEED to do and what the jail feels I NEED to do are 2 different things... I know I NEED to vote... I am not unintelligent and not a simpleton... And I do not appreciate being called that.....
Love,
Berta
From: Anne <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
To: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
You NEED to vote you ninny.
XOXO
me
PS Rick IS a felon. he can no longer ever vote.
--- On Sun, 7/17/11, Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
To: "Anne" <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 7:54 AM
I will make the call today to see if they will let me... They don't usually let you do things you don't NEED to do though... I'm sure you remember from when Rick was on bracelet... But yes, will try to get there.
Love,
Berta
From: Anne <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
To: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2011 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
Sorry Berta, I wasn't thinking when I sent it to you.
Can you at least get to the polls on Tuesday, or are you considered a felon now? I doubt that.
XOXO
Mama D
--- On Sat, 7/16/11, Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Berta <robertagaither@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Recall Action
To: "Anne" <anna_loves_life@yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 10:33 PM
I would love to volunteer but jail wont let me right now because it's not court ordered... They didn't want to let me volunteer at the AA central office fundraiser either.... But since it was AA they allowed it... I can try, but don't get off bracelet until Sept 17th... Earlier if they decide I am following rules and they need the equipment...
Thank you... Will look into it....
Love,
Berta
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So, there ya have it, Sweet Pea. I think I have it all in order- but am sleepy yet and I'm not going over it all again.
XOXO
Me
Anna~Anna
"Flintville Annie"
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Honoring Native Americans on Thanksgiving « Transition Times
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/honoring-native-americans-on-thanksgiving/
by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 24, 2011 •
Thanksgiving in the U.S. is about gathering together with friends and family and giving thanks for being able to stuff oneself with a huge meal.
It’s one of the most important holidays of the American capitalist religion, second only to “Christmas.”
Its founding myth is the fateful meal shared by the indigenous peoples of Massachusetts with the starving English Pilgrims. The Pilgrims “gave thanks” at that meal for the generosity of their hosts, and thus was born the tradition of a November Thanksgiving feast.
To my way of thinking, Thanksgiving should actually be a day of atonement marked by fasting, in the spirit of Yom Kippur, Lent or Ramadan.
We Euramericans should be reflecting and repenting on this day for the way our ancestors turned on their Native hosts, once the time of starvation was past.
We repaid their kind welcome with a shameful record of stealing, swindling, enslavement, displacement and deliberate infection.
We waged vicious war that slaughtered children and old people along with warriors both male and female.
We occupied their lands without a second thought, and proceeded to cut the primeval forests to make room for our livestock, roads and cities.
This pattern started with the Puritan Pilgrims in Massachusetts, and spread inexorably West, all the way to California and Texas, where indeed the brutal work had already been begun by the Spanish.
I don’t really expect Americans to give up the tradition of the jolly Thanksgiving feast.
But we do need to be mindful of the real historical background behind the custom of gathering to celebrate with family and friends.
American Thanksgiving is a holiday that honors the spirit of sharing the bounty. When we dig into that heaped plate today, we should be giving thanks to the rich Earth that has nourished human beings for millennia, and for the Native peoples of this continent, who learned how to live in harmony with the flora and fauna of this place, cultivating the first corn, beans and squash, and craftily culling the abundant indigenous turkeys.
And we should pause in our feast to reflect on the ignoble history that unfolded after that original Thanksgiving in Plymouth MA, where America repaid her hosts not with honor, but with persecution, scorn and hate.
In the act of repentance springs redemption. The indigenous people of this continent are not gone–they are alive and well and living among us. Let us raise a glass to them today and give them the honor and thanks they deserve.
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I do not know Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, nor do I believe i have ever read any of her other entries.
I plan to change that fact as soon as possible.
XOXO
Me
Please feel free to do any of the 'clicks' above. This is an amazing mindset; one we would all benefit from having within our hearts, every day.
Grandbaby Sam. WHO t/f DOES THIS?!?
Good Morning All!
Y'all remember our Baby Sam and his less than perfect entrance to our world?
I have sat on this entry since I've found out...
I have been remiss in filling y'all in on young Sam.
So here's some pictures- I believe they are very self-explanatory too.
Daddy Chuck brought this to my attention a few days ago- Filling me in that this was done by someone he loved and trusted... (Yes, he called the police).
Quite like myself, Chuck shoots first, (then asks questions and takes names later). I am happy to report that as I type Sam and his dad are both on their way back to Wisconsin.
(Odd, but somehow that is a happy ending to something that should NEVER have happened in the 1st place).
I still fight back the tears...
Now would everyone please go hug their babies, all?
XOXO
Me
PS
One more link here if you will, I (STILL) get by with a little help from my friends.
Young Sam never did start with a fair shake.
Maybe now he can/will.
top pic credit in "It needed to be said" album here.
Our Classy GOP in Wisconsin
The campaign to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is going swimmingly well -- so well, in fact that it must be making someone (or a group of folks) incredibly nervous.
Police in Sun Prairie, Wisc. said Monday they were investigating reports of death threats made against two activists supporting the recall of Gov. Scott Walker (R).
Wisconsin residents Heather DuBois Bourenane and Tom Peer, who live in Sun Prairie and Madison, respectively, said they received early morning phone calls on Thursday of last week warning that they would be murdered.
Peer says he was told, "If you don't stop circulating recall petitions, we will kill you."
You can check out this interview with both Peer and Bourenane on Daily Kos.
Let's hope that authorities take this seriously and find whomever is responsible for harassing and threatening law abiding citizens who are participating in our democracy. Or what's left of it. It's fine to disagree passionately and peacefully about politics, but to threaten someone's life over an election is absolutely heinous.
By Tara Lohan | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at November 21, 2011, 4:55 pm
Hi Everyone!
It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round- But this is taking it all way out of proportion.
DEATH THREATS? C'mon-
Our "Grand Ole Badger State" seems to have a wart, or ten, on its nose.
Methinks someone is increasingly paranoid, and very very worried and intimidated.
These people issuing death threats need to be imprisoned for a long time.
Maybe they will learn how to play fair there...
XOXO
Me
Do the clicks- They do work.
Think before you drink (water). Another Crime Against Humanity
Tell your Senator: Stop dangerous fracking
*** Did you know oil and gas companies are allowed to inject huge quantities of secret, toxic fluids, directly into our drinking water - and that the EPA is currently powerless to do anything about it?
More info:High Pressure Hydraulic Fracturing (or fracking) is a method of drilling for natural gas by pumping a mixture of water and toxic, cancer-causing chemicals deep underground, and it's already responsible for poisoning the groundwater in states across the country.
Fracking wells are spreading at an alarming rate. But even more alarming, thanks to the work of Dick Cheney and his infamous energy policy, Frackers don't have to disclose the chemicals used in their fluid, and the process is totally exempt from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The FRAC Act, a bill that has been in the Senate since 2009, would correct both these problems. As public concern over fracking has grown, the bill has gained some momentum, but we still need more Senators actively working to pass it. Will you urge your Senator to support and work to pass the FRAC Act?
Tell you Senator: Co-sponsor the FRAC Act to protect our water from dangerous fracking.
If you've ever seen the picture of the man lighting his tap water on fire from the recent documentary Gasland, that was because of nearby fracking.1
Fracking a single gas well uses hundreds of thousands, or even millions of gallons of water, combined with hundreds of tons of chemicals including known toxics and carcinogens.
While the exact contents of the fluid is still a secret, scientific examination reveals that it often contains diesel fuel, which includes benzene, as well as methanol, formaldehyde and hydrochloric acid and many others.2
The fluid is injected thousands of feet underground at extremely high pressure, literally cracking the earth to release trapped gas. Unfortunately, it must pass through our water table, where the fluids, along with natural gas, can leak through well casings into our drinking water.
Yet somehow, the EPA has been handcuffed from regulating fracking to keep our water clean since 2005, in what has become known as "the Halliburton loophole." Halliburton, where Dick Cheney was CEO before becoming Vice President, patented fracking in the 1940's and remains the third largest producer of fracking fluids. And in trademark Bush administration style, Halliburton staff were actively involved in a 2004 EPA report on fracking safety.
The "Halliburton loophole" (Another Bush gift that keeps on giving)- remains a dangerous legacy of the Bush Administration and if we're going to protect our water, we need to close it.
Tell you Senator: Co-sponsor the FRAC Act to protect our water from dangerous fracking.
Fracking is currently underway in 36 states. The ramifications to our water from expanded, unchecked fracking will be extreme and are only beginning to be fully realized by the public - thanks in no small part to the continued resistance of industry to disclose the poisons it involves.
An important investigative series by the New York Times recently concluded that "the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood."3
In addition to toxic, carcinogenic fluids which remain underground after a well is fracked, fracking also produces substantial quantities of waste water which can be literally radioactive. According to the Times, the water is "sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle."
What's more, above ground spills of toxic fracking fluids are becoming increasingly common. A large spill this April in Pennsylvania dumped thousands of gallons into fields and streams, eerily, on the one year anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill.
The oil and gas industry is the only industry in America that is allowed by EPA to inject known hazardous materials -- unchecked -- directly into or adjacent to underground drinking water supplies.
While some state regulations do exist, they vary widely. But water contamination isn't constrained by state boundaries, and we need a strong baseline national standard to make sure fracking chemicals are publicly disclosed everywhere fracking is taking place, and that this practice isn't putting our nation's drinking water at risk.
Tell you Senator: Co-sponsor the FRAC Act to protect our water from dangerous fracking.
We'll deliver your petition to the Senators who have not yet co-sponsored the FRAC Act. The ten current sponsors and co-sponsors are Boxer (CA), Cardin (MD), Casey (PA), Feinstein (CA), Gillibrand (NY), Lautenberg (NJ), Mikulski (MD), Sanders (VT), Schumer (NY), Whitehouse (RI)
1. Burning Tap Water and More: GASLAND Exposes the Natural Gas Industry," Treehugger, June 25, 2010.
2. Hydraulic Fracturing 101," EARTHWORKS.
3. Regulation Lax as Gas Wells' Tainted Water Hits Rivers," New York Times, February 26, 2011
S.587
Latest Title: FRAC Act
Sponsor: Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (10)
Related Bills: H.R.1084
Latest Major Action: 4/12/2011 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held with the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife.
Related Bill:
H.R.1084
Latest Title: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2011
Sponsor: Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (63)
Related Bills: S.587
Latest Major Action: 3/21/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
*** Check out the major dollar contributions by vote -click here
I just signed a petition asking my Senator to co-sponsor the FRAC Act, which would allow the EPA to regulate fracking.
Please add your voice and help build the call to pass this vital bill to protect our drinking water:
Please sign the support for these bills or maybe we say Good-Bye to our Great Lakes.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/frac_act/?r_by=-4775131-YJo6_sx&rc=confemail
The Qualities of the Medicine Wheel
Native American Horoscope
When you look at the Qualities of the Medicine Wheel you will notice dates and an animal names.
For simplicity sake, you can pick the date you were born and learn more about the animal and the Characteristics of that area on the Medicine Wheel.
Remember, that in each quadrant of the Medicine Wheel we learn things about ourselves.
We are always changing and may take on other attitudes of another area.
We are never really totally one certain trait all the time.
We may have the general qualities of one animal, however, we can take on the heir of others in order to learn more about ourselves. That is the spiraling beauty of the Medicine Wheel...
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| When you look at the Qualities of the Medicine Wheel you will notice dates and an animal names. For simplicity sake, you can pick the date you were born and learn more about the animal and the Characteristics of that area on the Medicine Wheel.Remember, that in each quadrant of the Medicine Wheel we learn things about ourselves. We are always changing and may take on other attitudes of another area. We are never really totally one certain trait all the time. We may have the general qualities of one animal, however, we can take on the heir of others in order to learn more about ourselves. That is the spiraling beauty of the Medicine Wheel | |
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The Great Honey Swindle - Food Media - Food News - CHOW
http://www.chow.com/food-news/97458/the-great-honey-swindle/
Published on Monday, November 14, 2011, by Rebecca Flint Marx
The Great Honey Swindle
As if bees weren’t having a hard enough time of it lately, now there’s this: According to a report released last week by Food Safety News, the vast majority of store-bought honey sold in this country isn’t technically honey.
You see, the Food and Drug Administration requires any product labeled “honey” to contain pollen, which is reasonable enough. Unfortunately, many manufacturers seem to disagree—testing done for Food Safety News revealed that 76 percent of grocery store products claiming to be honey do not actually contain pollen. Instead, the substance lurking within the confines of those innocent-looking plastic bears is merely ultrafiltered golden sludge that probably came from China.
Ultrafiltering is a process that waters down honey and removes much of its nutritional value along with its pollen. The reason that Chinese producers love ultrafiltering is simple: honey laundering.
Like American corn, Chinese honey is cheap and heavily subsidized. In 2001, the Federal Trade Commission began imposing high tariffs on it because its abundance on the U.S. market had been driving American honey producers out of business. Since pollen is the only sure way to determine where honey originates, ultrafiltering has made it possible for the Chinese to continue dumping their honey on the U.S., often by channeling it through other countries.
And if that’s not shady enough, Chinese honey has been found to contain illegal animal antibiotics. A decade ago, tainted honey that came to the U.S. through Canada was sold to Smucker’s and Sara Lee, resulting in the recall of 12,000 cases of honey and a half-million loaves of bread.
A rep for the FDA told FSN that the organization hasn’t halted any honey imports because it has “yet to detect ‘ultra-filtered’ honey.” But should it be detected, “we will refuse entry.” Given that many in the honey industry expressed doubt that the FDA checks more than five percent of honey imports, that’s cold comfort for both consumers and bees.
Until the FDA steps up its game, you might want to be careful about where you buy. Food Safety News's tests, which were conducted by “one of the nation’s premier melissopalynologists,” found that 100 percent of honey sampled from big drugstore chains contained no pollen, as did 77 percent of the honey from big-box stores like Walmart and Costco, and 76 percent of the honey from grocery chains including Kroger, Safeway, and Giant Eagle. One bee expert told FSN that “unless you’re buying from a beekeeper, you’re at risk.”
The good news is that consumers do have a modicum of power: All of the honey FSN sampled from food co-ops, farmers’ markets, and “natural” chains like Trader Joe’s and PCC contained the full amount of pollen. And while those sources won’t do much to stem the tide of dodgy honey flowing from China, it’s probably best to take sweet relief where you can find it.
Image source: Flickr member cthoyes under Creative Commons
About all I can add is buy from your LOCAL Farmers Market-
Make a point to know your beekeeper.
XOXO
Me
(Picture from the above linked article).
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