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Glenn Beck Thinks Some People Have Gone Too Far
04/28/2010 by Peter Hart
Fox host Glenn Beck has had it (4/27/10) with opponents of Arizona’s new immigration law making analogies to Nazi Germany:
I hate to rain on the hate parade here, but can we please slow down for just a minute and, I don’t know, think? You are comparing the systematic, cold-blooded extermination of millions of Jews to America making sure people are here legally. The parallels are… nonexistent.
Indeed. The guy who’s made a regular habit of deriding various White House officials as Communists, Maoists and the like is urging restraint with the historical analogies. Save the Hitler talk for people who really are behaving like the Nazis. Like Al Gore’s climate change activism, for example:
Here’s Beck talking about Al Gore on his radio show in 2006 (Media Matters, 6/8/06):
When you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that’s where you get people to believe. . . . It’s like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in “and it’s the Jews’ fault.” That’s where things get a [...]
A new trend–women going back to some cottage industry roots and raising chickens at home. In These Times has an article cataloging prominent feminist writers who have commented on the phenomenon. Jezebel, for some reason, chose to highlight Katha Pollitt’s negative nancy view.
First, what’s with the random dig at homeschooling? Second, I think it’s kinda cool, women raising chickens and gardening. In fact, Brenton’s wife, Beth, in addition to raising four small kids and probably a million other things I don’t know about, is doing this. She probably has about 12 pasture-rotated chickens that she raises for eggs, mostly for her family but she’s just started sending some with the farm interns to market. I’m continually impressed by Beth. My most recent encounter with her genius happened just yesterday, actually…
Let me set the stage: There is a resident pea hen that roams around Johnson’s Backyard Garden. She’s been there at least since I started interning, back in November, and I’m not sure how long before that. The crew at the farm has dubbed her Rosie. She basically just hangs around the barn, mostly, making the odd honking noise that pea hens make, that I can’t believe comes out of an animal. We’re so used to her by now, we see her as one of the gang.
Yesterday I was walking out to the field when I noticed Rosie was in a little cage with a group of chicks. I’ve never seen Rosie caged before, so I was way confused. I walked back to the barn and asked Brenton.
“Oh, Beth is trying to make Rosie mother the new baby chickens she just got. Rosie was sitting on a clutch of eggs that weren’t fertilized, so Beth took the eggs and replaced them with the chicks to make her think they were her babies. It’s working, too. For over a week, Rosie has been keeping them warm and protecting them, and the chicks are following her around.”
And I said, “WHAT?” Who thinks to do that? There was Rosie, sitting with about 8 baby guinea hens and 1 baby rooster. I started snapping pictures. When I asked Beth what the cage was all about, she said it was extra protection for the chicks from predators. She said she felt bad for Rosie because it was the third time she had been sitting on eggs, but there was no peacock around to come fertilize them. Pea hen with no chicks. Baby guinea hens (and 1 rooster) with no mother. A good arrangement for everyone.
When I was snapping pictures, Beth lifted the cage and let the chicks follow their mother pea hen around a bit. Pretty brilliant.
And so, all I want to say is that I’ve seen enough misogyny in farming without other women joining in on it. Let us persuade our wild pea hens to raise baby chickens in peace, please. Give the articles a read. I’d love other opinions. Is it giving up some independence for women to turn to farming or, I guess more specifically, homesteading?
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 For the past few years, New York State has been fighting hard to combat Climate Change. In the absence of a national effort, we’ve made great strides, partnering with nine other northeastern states on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation’s first cap & trade program for carbon dioxide (which to-date has raised more than $200 million for New York State), working to craft a detailed Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the year 2050, and pursuing a number of renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives.
Now, thankfully, the federal government is primed to join the fight. For the last few months a bi-partisan group of U.S. Senators, led by John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, has been working on legislation that would create a national climate and clean energy program. Earlier this week, those negotiations took a turn for the worse when Senator Graham backed out. And while Senator Kerry intends to move ahead without him, reports have surfaced that he is being pressured by corporate lobbyists to include in the bill a provision preempting states like New York from taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions once a federal climate program is implemented.
If we’re serious about dealing with Climate Change, that’s a big, big mistake.
Climate Change is an all hands on deck crisis – and we need action at the national, state, local and individual level. Not only are additional state efforts essential to meeting our national emissions reduction targets, they have tangible positive benefits – like creating good jobs and reducing energy bills. They also provide an opportunity to test new approaches that may benefit the entire nation.
The bottom line is, no one government entity can deal with the tremendous challenge of Climate Change alone. No matter how strong the federal program, states and localities should continue to be empowered to develop new approaches to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
If Washington is serious about dealing with Climate Change, it should allow us to keep doing what we’re doing.
Pete Grannis
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The GOP in Albany has never been particularly fond of Greg Ball. In the past, Ball has relished his outsider status, scorning the establishment while his supporters presumed the candidacy of Mary Beth Murphy was part of some anti-Ball conspiracy orchestrated by Leibell and his cohorts. Now Ball is changing his tune, and he’s [...] [...]
In March, the Senate Finance Committee redesigned their website. It had been languishing with the same design since 2001. Here’s what it looked like for the most of this decade. Here’s what it looks like now. Amazing progress! The problem is it took almost ten years to get to this [...] [...]
Assemblyman Greg Ball let loose the following head scratching statement in a recent article in City Hall News: “I get that I’ve been an independent voice, and there are people in the leadership there who want a puppet,” he said. “But I’ve been in the military. I absolutely know how to follow orders.” Assemblyman Ball’s bizarre comments were [...] [...]
Mayor Bloomberg, Sigourney Weaver, State Poet Kick Off Exhibition During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was better known as a gardener than as a poet. Plants and flowers significantly influenced her poetry and other writings, most of which were not published until after her death. The Garden’s exhibition, Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, co-presented with [...] [...]
My question about these things is always the same: why not put the effort into cleaning up the stormwater and septic problems that are causing all this vegetation to grow and solve the problem once and for all? Perhaps in the future, before DEC allows application of herbicides, they require that it be part of a larger program that will lead to that application being the final step in an overall process? Otherwise, we find ourselves repeating the same steps over and again and never really solving the problem at the base. [...]
Grocery stores are saturated with food products. Food products are made to resemble real food, but aren’t real food. Every Friday I’ll feature one of these products.To win Food Product of the Week, a food product must not only be artificial, but exhibi… [...]
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Glenn Beck Thinks Some People Have Gone Too Far
04/28/2010 by Peter Hart
Fox host Glenn Beck has had it (4/27/10) with opponents of Arizona’s new immigration law making analogies to Nazi Germany:
I hate to rain on the hate parade here, but can we please slow down for just a minute and, I don’t know, think? You are comparing the systematic, cold-blooded extermination of millions of Jews to America making sure people are here legally. The parallels are… nonexistent.
Indeed. The guy who’s made a regular habit of deriding various White House officials as Communists, Maoists and the like is urging restraint with the historical analogies. Save the Hitler talk for people who really are behaving like the Nazis. Like Al Gore’s climate change activism, for example:
Here’s Beck talking about Al Gore on his radio show in 2006 (Media Matters, 6/8/06):
When you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that’s where you get people to believe. . . . It’s like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in “and it’s the Jews’ fault.” That’s where things get a [...]