tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74084058422602823382024-02-06T18:16:02.271-08:00KMac's ObservatoryKmac observes the world as it whisks by and offers commentary, thought and the occasional recipe or cooking tip.I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-53031246166554897112015-06-08T11:25:00.005-07:002015-06-08T12:11:55.472-07:00Alec and Stephanie's wedding<br />
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<br />I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-31589277729429271992014-10-06T15:40:00.004-07:002014-10-06T15:40:44.424-07:00Costa Rica blogCan be found at kmacsobservtory.blogspot.com <br />
sorry for the inconvenience.I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-91135954172256150652013-09-12T15:11:00.000-07:002013-09-12T15:49:37.795-07:00What I learned while on a Breaking Bad bender during the Syria/Cyrus debacle1) Breaking Bad is a spot on caricature of so many average Americans. It seems that even the "poor" chemistry teacher has a pretty comfortable home with a pool and a nice family that gathers for meals. Jesse and pals have ways of accessing endless cash to addle their brains and bodies while degrading everything they come in contact with during their endless hours of idle banality. 6 million Syrians are displaced, many in refugee camps with no homes, dinner tables or cash for escapist drugs. Miley Cyrus, who presumably has the resources to wear the finest threads, has decided to shun clothing altogether.<br />
2) The kingpin drug dealer hiding behind a chicken stand is driven to make enormous piles of legal tender, but to what end when he also seems to already possess a nice family, home and stature and influence in the community? The civil war in Syria is rooted in the same, multi-century religious competition that has kept the Middle East in perpetual misery, the people oppressed and poor. What good is that?Cyrus is the ultimate product of the life of privilege-naked vacuity with no chance of any real importance to anything.<br />
3) American is the land of mental illness and disorders: egotism, addiction, codependence, kleptomania, personality disorder. Syria is the land of death and destruction. Cyrus lives in the land of debauched excess and as noted, has nowhere to go.<br />
4) All people lie. The only person in the show who has failed to lie is Walter, Jr. who is just too sweet and innocent to even think of it-yet (I have not made it through all the episodes). Bashar Assad is a confirmed liar and this week one of the top White House Syria advisors was caught having padded her resume. Miley lies to herself and lays naked all over a wrecking ball and piles of construction debris in her newly released video.<br />
5) Ethics seem to be situational in our modern age. Jesse Pinkman is pretty much a hedonistic narcissist except he gets all self righteous and mighty when it comes to kids, adhering to his own conception of morality. Really, Walter is not much different in that regard. President Obama backed away from his unilateral declaration of the redline when the going got tough, changing his tune as to the tenor of that declaration, not unlike his administration's chronic disregard for the rule of law as evidenced in so many examples, including the recent marijuana enforcement declaration. I don't think the word ethics is useful in a sentence that includes Miley Cyrus.<br />
6) Jesse is the epitome of Generation Y which is struggling to find a foot hold in life while experiencing mental illness requiring regular escape, even as he obviously craves respect and recognition of his worth from others. This is one symptom of growing up in an environment where one is deemed to be special despite there being no clear reason for that conclusion. This is an attitude that permeates boomers relationships with their own exceptional children, a condition we glimpsed early on when Jesse made a visit home where he has a younger sibling. As I write this Putin is mocking the US " [it is] extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional" he said. Miley Cyrus was a child TV star.<br />
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<br />I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-74979396152948930682012-12-31T13:50:00.000-08:002012-12-31T13:50:16.746-08:00Highly Anticipated Pate Party December 30, 2012<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brandishing knives never looked so good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mmm, Mmm, Good!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris, Ivan, Tom and Karen in full concentration mode.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let the fun infiltrate the product-pouring our toast in the pate!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheers: Karen, Chris, Tom, Chris, Laurent, Kim, Melanie, Ivan, Doug</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vast wine selection-we tried them all!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where the real work was done: Doug, Chris, Chris, Keven, Laurent, Karen, Kim<br />Too bad we failed to get a photo of the real estate previewers who came through in the middle of the mayhem. It was a fantastic staging technique. Let's hope it works.</td></tr>
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<br />I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-38334970605718014492012-10-18T18:00:00.002-07:002012-10-18T18:00:36.601-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Wow! It has been a loonnnngggg time since I have posted. Just thought I would check in and give you the links to the latest art by the Art Challenge club. We just finished our third season and it was the best yet. Here is my gallery:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://leafdogart.com/gallery11.htm">http://leafdogart.com/gallery11.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And here is the entire challenge: <a href="http://leafdogart.com/gallery21.htm">http://leafdogart.com/gallery21.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Would love your feedback.</span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-70774311136161662062012-01-29T12:41:00.000-08:002012-01-29T12:41:53.739-08:00ART CHALLENGE 2011 BETTER THAN A BOOK CLUB<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilq6BXH0co8RTXoPiEOOfC7TsJSDt3O2ZAtTIBgGOcVBPHA2B8VIotMnBsaLELRkJKNns0dsFlcle1XTlMpjYzUIlNBElb3qY-GOI3SatazPIWNF2Fa0WTfKXv7dCspn0EBPDDJ8mi-TVl/s1600/1+pose+it+in+avignon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilq6BXH0co8RTXoPiEOOfC7TsJSDt3O2ZAtTIBgGOcVBPHA2B8VIotMnBsaLELRkJKNns0dsFlcle1XTlMpjYzUIlNBElb3qY-GOI3SatazPIWNF2Fa0WTfKXv7dCspn0EBPDDJ8mi-TVl/s320/1+pose+it+in+avignon.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><a href="http://leafdogart.com/gallery21.htm">FOR A PREVIEW GO TO LEAFDOG ART</a><!--[if !mso]> <style>
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</div>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-47921481920387633462011-06-13T14:20:00.000-07:002011-06-13T14:26:53.421-07:00UB 40 and the Arizona connection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://cont-sjl-1.pandora.com/images/public/amz/4/2/7/0/826992010724_500W_500H.jpg" width="200" /></div><br />
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I am a sucker for coincidences and puns. I find them all the time. Today I have a perfect example.<br />
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Even as I sit here monitoring my screen for the legislature to commence the second day of the trainwreck otherwise known as the special session called by the Governor for the purpose of extending unemployment benefits from 79 weeks to 99 weeks, I am being serenaded by the reggae channel I have created on my Pandora account (what was life before Pandora-I can't even imagine it anymore). And what should come on but one of my all time favorite songs by UB40 "Red, red wine." Popular in the 80's I remember it well.<br />
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Here is the coincidence: according to the Pandora bio: UB40 is:<br />
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<blockquote>Named after a British unemployment benefit form, pop-reggae band UB40 were formed in a welfare line in 1978, and their multiracial lineup reflected the working-class community their members came from.</blockquote><br />
And in further coincidence:<br />
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<blockquote>In 1988, the group performed "Red Red Wine" at a Nelson Mandela tribute concert, and a Phoenix radio station trotted the single out for a second go-round. Listener response was far more enthusiastic, and "Red Red Wine" reentered the charts and went all the way to the top.</blockquote><br />
Now, I am not sure what all this means, but maybe this problem is unlikely to get solved without a hefty dose of red, red, wine. I would totally recommend Total Wine for the perfect selection. It, like Pandora, is another 21st Century development that I would argue is making us that much more civilized, much like Pandora.<br />
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In any case, they are currently voting to sine die, which means end the session without any action. Raise your glass.....or not!I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-69020427393097529882011-04-02T13:24:00.000-07:002011-04-04T15:33:03.201-07:00The Play's the Thing, Huckleberry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/lewis-lapham/headshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Was it mere coincidence that after spending the week basking in the theater of what passes for democracy in the morally and intellectually arid zone of the American Southwest I should pick up this month’s Harper’s magazine and find the post-millennial master of sarcastic socio-political analysis, Louis Lapham, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/lewis-lapham/headshot.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/lewis-lapham/headshot.jpg" /></a>waxing warmly about the post-civil- insurrection master of satire, Mark Twain against the background of an America that is at pretty the same low point on the well-being graph as it was 100 years ago? [Aside: Should I find it even more eerie that the 100 years coincides with the Arizona centennial?] I think not. <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2011/04/0083366">http://harpers.org/archive/2011/04/0083366</a></div><br />
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Even as the production numbers morphed from the dance floor to the stadium and the playbill was tossed in the bin leaving the audience to gape in wonder of what would happen next, I remained much more naive than those masters of the big picture, for I was cut to the quick upon learning that the denouement would reveal that even more earnest among us are merely mortal in the end.<br />
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Lapham relates his interaction with the initial dose of Twain’s autobiography, held under wraps for 100 years after his death, in the context of being asked to conjure some soothing words of salvation by the gentrified set who were panicked at the complete disarray they had made of each and everyone of our institutions. Apparently, in desperation, they were looking to Lapham to drag them back from the precipice with some raw but soothing words of hope. Oddly, they came to the one fellow who, unlike everyone else, has no compunction for telling it like it is and was (for he surely knows his history, unlike most of his contemporaries) --at least as he sees it.<br />
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Likewise, Twain has the same reputation, but his autobiography smashes the facade that Twain now admits never really separated him from the “poor, cheap wormy thing” that is humankind. Turns out, he could not even write the story of his life as the introspection became an exercise in disgust; instead he chose to dictate the multi-volume work, which apparently kept him from staring back in horror at himself from the written page.<br />
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Lapham chooses Twain’s take on Teddy Roosevelt to illustrate the point. Twain never takes out after the otherwise likeable fellow, Roosevelt, for his spin-doctoring of the massacre by General Leonard Wood of the Filipinos during the American occupation. In a letter to his daughter years later, Twain regrettably confesses that his own moral fortitude failed him as he succumbed to the pressure of a favor paid him by Roosevelt and as a result was never able to honestly speak to the acts of the man, rendering him disgusting to himself (and, worse, causing his superb command of the art of sarcasm to lay fallow).<br />
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Lapham’s selection of Twain’s summation of the source of his shame is well-taken if not poetic:<br />
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<i> “The gods value morals alone; they have paid no compliments to intellect, nor offered it a single</i><i> reward. If intellect is welcome anywhere in the other world, it is in hell, not heaven.” </i><br />
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How fateful that I should read this article right after reviewing a draft editorial my husband wrote about the role of Grant Woods in the Arizona scandal du jour, the Fiesta Bowl fiasco.<br />
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<a href="http://grantwoodslaw.com/blog/wp-content/rockettheme/rt_quantive_wp/frontpage/feature-a-light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://grantwoodslaw.com/blog/wp-content/rockettheme/rt_quantive_wp/frontpage/feature-a-light.jpg" /></a>Serendipity surely played a role as well in the fact that April Fools Day 2011 saw the hottest temperature on record-- breaking 100, spoiling the diversion of gambling on the exact moment of that first occurrence for the year and providing a Twain-like backdrop for the next act in the state of degradation otherwise called Arizona. <br />
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This is not just another guy caught up in a scandal. Unlike the majority of today’s “leaders” Grant was one part politician and one part regular dude. About the same age, we both grew up in what nostalgia now informs us was a carefree, romantic and quasi-rural lifestyle of mid-century Valley of the Sun; a sparsely populated but multicultural spot still in its formative stages as a place for people to actually live, air conditioning being a relative newcomer. [Aside: My pre-a/c grandfather opened every story–and there were many–with: “It was hot; god damn it was hot....”]. <br />
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Our Dads were both in construction and we were the first people in our families to go to law school. Being a small place, people who were not honest, hard workers did not have much of a chance of lasting in business if they wanted to stay around. Our families and the unfettered freedom of our unique Southwestern childhood instilled in us a common sense approach to the bigger picture and a strong sense of fairness, a socially liberal attitude and a fear of too much government. These traits immediately attracted me to want to align my legal career in his direction. I was thrilled to be a bit player in Grant’s first big political solo (he had previously worked with McCain) as Arizona Attorney General. <br />
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He is consistently a straight-talking, pragmatic and principled guy who loves music and having a good time. He gained a national reputation as a go-to person on several issues and knows how to pick the battles that would put him on the moral high ground. And he had the right idea about public service. Get in, do a great job and get out. He returned to the private sector and was doing his second act as a solo as well, but always remained in demand at the political level. Almost every time a political leadership opens up, his name appears at the top of list. <br />
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Although a star, he never forgot his regular guy roots. This came through in his banter on his radio show and the glimpses into his personal life one would get from his Twitter and Facebook posts, and through his musings on music and sports. And in his disarming approachability. He loves his wife and his kids and takes great joy in just being a regular person. <br />
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But for the larger audience, while he was the theater usher who would always be there to get you out safely if the building caught on fire, he would also cackle as hard as anybody at the goofball in the back row creating a sideshow by falsely yelling that it is on fire. At a time when the building is starting to smolder and the entire crowd is part of the joke, the laughter is starting to fade and we are groping for someone to show us the exits. <br />
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But Grant is no longer that guy. Taken down by the hubris that spreads like a cancer among those with even the slightest legitimate reason to have a slightly elevated ego, it is a tragedy that could have been a delightfully meaty comedy. Like Twain, Grant is no god, for he is a mere intellectual.<br />
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And for me, he can never again be my Huckleberry.I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-45399823521094205522011-03-11T16:32:00.000-08:002011-03-11T16:32:54.426-08:00Noshing Can Be Fun and HealthyI invented a new dish for a party last week, The theme was Fiesta. I was rummaging through my fridge and found a pile of Belgian Endive leaves. So I filled them with a spicy white bean dip that had a bit of olive oil and lots of flavor. There was literally no fat and very few calories in this dish. And even better, it was pretty cool looking when I was done:<br />
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Pipe into the rinsed leaves of fresh Belgian endive and top with a section of roasted red bell pepper. <br />
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There on the mall between the Old Capitol, the Senate and the House were two single-file lines of visiting students, a commonality at the capitol. They caught my eye when they were being directed to place their hands on top of their heads-something often seen in groups of prisoners of war. <br />
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I have fond memories of taking similar field trips. I usually had a relative working around there somewhere and got to go off on a side venture, which always made it fun. The sight of these kids did not evoke that nostalgia, however.<br />
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At the risk of sounding like an old person, I was completely appalled by the attire of these children. A large percentage of the girls were dressed in very short jean shorts. Although in my day this mode of dress was reserved for the beach or park, even then we would not be allowed to leave the house in such things for any event at the tender age of these children.<br />
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I took a poll of the veteran people watchers and we determined these kids were 5th or 6th grade. I was not alone in my amazement that, besides the fact that this means of dressing was completely inappropriate for any field trip, much less one to the statehouse, the parents of these kids would even let them go to school like that. I was equally offended by the chubby girl who was wearing hot pink baggy basketball shorts with the MICHIGAN sweatshirt-a top I would obviously have an affinity for having sent so much of the funds I have toiled so long at that same building to earn to that fine institution. <br />
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Just a couple of hours later I attended a presentation by the Protected Innocence Initiative. Shared Hope International is a non-profit started in 1998 by a former Congresswoman, Linda Smith, to rescue and restore women and children in crisis through a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness. Through the Initiative, Shared Hope rates the various states on their efforts to attack the problem of sex trafficking. <a href="http://www.sharedhope.org/Home.aspx">http://www.sharedhope.org/Home.aspx</a><br />
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The whole time I was sitting there all I could think about was how those children just out front in the short-shorts were prime targets for this horrifying thing, which apparently occurs with much greater frequency than normal folks like me can even conjure. <br />
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I feel bad for those children because what is very clear to me is that their parents are complete buffoons. But should that be any surprise? In a culture that hangs on every word of a complete degenerate like Charlie Sheen while barely paying any attention to the massive budget crisis that is about to impact their very ability to fund the cable TV that feeds their entertainment obsession, how can we expect that these parents would have any insight whatsoever into what is appropriate dress for 5th grade students. What they are clueless about is how that puts them at risk of becoming the sad statistics that cause people to come together on the International Day of Women to bring attention to these barbaric human interactions that are occurring in our very own backyards. <br />
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A pretty lousy way to “celebrate” if you ask me.<br />
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Post script: I just came across this article that says the extent of the human trafficking problem in our country is probably overstated. <a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-03-03/news/super-bowl-prostitution-100-000-hookers-didn-t-show-but-america-s-latest-political-scam-did/">http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-03-03/news/super-bowl-prostitution-100-000-hookers-didn-t-show-but-america-s-latest-political-scam-did/</a><br />
If even one child ends up in this nightmare it is horrific; at the same time if the numbers in this story are correct a cost/benefit analysis may be in order when it comes to using public money to fight the problem. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"> There are any number of reasons why Americans are behind in science and technology. Here is a retelling of a recent event on a major US campus that is illustrative of many things. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Today, as I was walking with a friend through the diag (the heart of the campus), I stopped to talk to a group of feminists that were picketing the new theater production that has come to campus: the 'Penis Monologues". Their issues with the production were numerous, but the main argument was that it was directly attacking and seeking to invalidate the 'serious message' of the "Vagina Monologues".</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now, I knew that by being brazen and snarky, I was likely to get myself into some trouble, but we were out in the public, in the diag, which is the Acropolis of the school--a place for open and interesting discussion. My first question was my first mistake:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Me</b>: "Don't you think that by protesting a satire, you are making a public mockery of your original cause?"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Angry Feminist #1</b>: "How could we not be infuriated by a counter-attack by the men that have been oppressing women since the agricultural revolution? We're fighting to save the message in our production."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Me</b> (this is where I really go wrong): "But what would you say the overall message is?"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>AF#2</b>: "Obviously it's about the beauty and integrity of the female anatomy!"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Me</b>: " Not the superiority?"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>AF#2</b>: "This production is a criminal attack on what women have worked for years to achieve! But still we find ourselves criminally oppressed, and "they" are allowed to criminally mock something that we find sacred. Just what are you getting at?"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Me</b>: "Look, I just think that the militant feminist message just works against the overall good for the female population. Men aren't stupid, or evil or part of a giant conspiracy to keep women in the household and out of the workplace. In fact, women currently enjoy a greater employment rate than men, and those that are married--even higher incomes. Maybe a little satire and reflection would do your cause some good. Your argument is theoretically contradictory to the first amendment. Your outrage isn't going to accomplish anything. If you really want to do something about it, I suggest that you sue the author of the "Penis Monologues" for copyright infringement."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>AF#1</b>: "Do you even hear yourself? You're becoming a victim of their ideas!"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Me</b>: "Of course I do, but as a woman, and not an arcane second-wave feminist, I'm capable of thinking through foaming-mouthed conspiracy theories fed to me by girls who got stood up for their junior-year prom."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Then I started running. I didn't stop until I was behind the counter at the cafe.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I really did just want to have some semblance of a level-headed discussion with a feminist, and I don't know why I thought that a picket was the time or place. I probably shouldn't have been so snarky, and the above is abridged from the 5-minute conversation that took place. I tried to reason with them at first, but when the argument was essentially a really annoying conspiracy theory that they are allowed to <i>not only study but graduate with a concentration in</i>, I just rolled my eyes and told myself that even something as silly as Art History has more intellectual integrity than the Women's Studies department, I decided to just be as snarky as I possibly could. Rude? Yes. Entertaining? Highly.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">My end report: Feminists are ruining my chances at being taken seriously in my future workplace.</div>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-84814444595591091292011-01-15T11:48:00.000-08:002011-01-15T11:48:26.087-08:00A Few Thoughts About The Events of this Past Week<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:DoNotShowRevisions/> <w:DoNotPrintRevisions/> <w:DoNotShowMarkup/> <w:DoNotShowComments/> <w:DoNotShowInsertionsAndDeletions/> <w:DoNotShowPropertyChanges/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">For me the entire Tragedy in Tucson was almost surreal. Our attempts to show our out of town guests some of the things we love about living here were punctuated with reports of the mayhem and mistaken information about the death of a young and vibrant Congresswoman.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>I learned, minutes after it happened (while talking on the phone and simultaneously looking at Facebook), that <span></span>Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords <span> </span>and over a dozen others had been shot. <span> </span>This was just a couple of days after the Chandler mall incident wherein a paroled convict went a little goofy and caused a major lock down and freaked out a bunch of people at the Baja Fresh. That was just a few days after one of our state legislators, Frank Pratt, was beaten and tied up in his very own place of business by another recent parolee. </div><div class="MsoNormal">These were all news making events. Each was in a different county. Two involved politicians. Two involved parolees. Two involved guns. The news each case was completely different.</div><div class="MsoNormal">No mention of political motivations in the Pratt case, barely any mention of the suspects parole status. No sheriff grandstanding (which is interesting given it happened in Pinal County where the sheriff has been quite visible on immigration issues).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>Apparently in the mall case a covert investigation into the whereabouts of yet another wanted parolee sparked that mishap. No vilification of the system on that one. </div><div class="MsoNormal">But only seconds after the Tucson shooting, and in the same Facebook message where I first learned of it, the political vitriol started flying. And it spread like a virus, infecting everyone who came in contact with it. Perhaps status as a federal office holder is just that much higher profile than a state office holder, but the political tone is really not that much different at either level, so it is curious there was no political presumption firing an outcry in the Pratt case.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The fact is, all three of these incidents were crimes committed by troubled individuals. Period. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>In this age of community living we seem to be more interested in figuring out the often unanswerable question of why these things happen instead of just dealing with the fact that they did happen. It seems like everything these days in the gray area; there simply is no black and white, no good and evil (except in movies based upon comic books), no simple explanations. </div><div class="MsoNormal">This is not healthy. As we have seem from the ensuing political debate this week, when you focus on these gray areas then nothing is clear, no one is safe and everyone is at fault. In my view this is a symptom of our growing cultural indifference to personal responsibility.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe the most emblematic aspect of this theory was the crowd reaction during the Memorial Service, which featured one of the best speeches President Obama has ever given and the humble reaction of Daniel Hernandez who rightly pointed out that being is hero is a terrific burden. Made up of mostly college students, the collective response was inappropriate for the setting. Several people later justified it by saying that is what those people needed, to celebrate and move forward. </div><div class="MsoNormal">What it really showed is that our kids think it is all about them. We have failed to teach them civility (and civics but that is a topic for another blog), humility and critical thinking. <span> </span>It is all about the moment, all about me and tomorrow we can move on to the next thing. You can see this theme in just about every reaction to the Tucson events except for those of the President and Mr. Hernandez as noted. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Our way of life is changing. The technological revolution is at the root of these changes. Either we can accept the heightened level of responsibility that comes with the wonders that it offers and access all that is positive about it and truly have a wonderful life or we can continue to generalize, distort and misuse our resources in the name of self satisfaction. The choice is ours and so far I don’t see very many people rising to role model these behaviors. Ironically, hypocrisy reigns as people race to condemn others for the very sin they are committing in the act of their condemnation. Sadly,I think those people are doomed to a life of gray. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Continuing my penchant for cooking stews inside of vegetables (loyal readers will recall my frenzy over stuffed pumpkins of last fall), last night I served a slightly exotic dish that used wapiti for the meat.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Coming into possession of an elk roast this year was the work of my niece Trina. A 30-something beauty who happened to find herself in a family of avid outdoorsmen, she is no stranger to the massive elk hunt camp erected on a plot of land outside Williams, Arizona each fall. She can often be seen sporting perfectly coiffed hair atop an outfit of lavender camouflage. <span> </span>She always looks gorgeous and like she is right where she belongs, no matter how primitive the setting.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And Trina loves the place they camp so much she got married there a couple of years ago, to a guy she met through the hunting adventures their respective fathers shared with their kids. A match made in heaven. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73_WegKso8c28JMlQdQ6cS_ZP2aT3bAnUJ2akjilzmkXF2vGmCn0j0ayWUeSqqWtXYEyoLG5N7bIW5J_9rn7Twq2JlXd1xiHGC03xlZnfn-cfgSl6J5a0V3ftf_ajgJ4SCXmC0Vqgq40R/s1600/IMG_0754.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73_WegKso8c28JMlQdQ6cS_ZP2aT3bAnUJ2akjilzmkXF2vGmCn0j0ayWUeSqqWtXYEyoLG5N7bIW5J_9rn7Twq2JlXd1xiHGC03xlZnfn-cfgSl6J5a0V3ftf_ajgJ4SCXmC0Vqgq40R/s320/IMG_0754.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Although we never see them at Thanksgiving because it is always the beginning of elk season, they don’t miss out on the dinner. In their dining tent they hold a full blown turkey meal for the 30 or 40 folks on the hunt and include every detail, right down to the real dishes and cloth napkins. Quite a feat.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So we were a bit surprised this year to get a call from the camp right before our own relative-filled residential dinner. Trina asked to speak to her Grandfather and imparted the news (most fittingly from that location) that she is with child. The first great-grandchild is in the chute, so to speak. So fittingly, in a sort of circle of life kind of way, the next day she went right out and got herself an 800- pound 6-point elk!</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not the actual elk referred to in the story; this was my pal at the Thunderbird Lodge at the Grand Canyon as seen last fall.</span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Now elk meat is very lean and mildly flavored. I like the challenge of cooking it because for one thing it is free to me and for another it takes some creativity to take it from just OK to delectable. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Two of my favorite things are winter squash and braising, so I decided this would be the perfect solution for this meat.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Braising is favored because it involves a several steps that any multi-tasker can accomplish simultaneously, it requires a range of ingredients that can be used in endless combinations and, it results in the most tender meat and rich sauce. Even better, it is perfect for a dinner party because you can (and for best results should) make it in advance and simply reheat it in the oven so you can minimize kitchen time and maximize the cocktail hour with your guests. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>I must give a shout out to Tom Colicchio here. After about 4 seasons of watching Top Chef on Bravo I suddenly realized that the master braising recipe that I had practically tattooed to my right arm having found it in an early edition of Taunton’s Fine Cooking, was from him! He really is a great cook; he doesn’t just play one on TV.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So back to the Elk Braise, here is what I did:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cut up an elk roast into long strips about the size of boneless short ribs. There was no weight on the package but I am thinking it was about 3.5 pounds.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Season with salt and pepper. Brown in batches in hot olive oil in a large dutch oven or deep skillet. Reserve the cooked meat in a bowl.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, roughly chop a large onion and about 6 cloves of garlic. Dice 6 medium peeled carrots. Thinly slice one fennel bulb and cut the larger circles in half.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Upon removing the last meat from the pan, add the vegetables and stir to sauté and deglaze the pan. As the onion is about to become translucent, add a 15- ounce can of diced tomatoes, three large sprigs of rosemary, about 2 teaspoons of fresh, chopped oregano and 20 halved prunes and stir for about 5 minutes more. This skillet will look gorgeous.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Add about 1 cup of coffee, 1 can of Guinness, 1 tablespoon of molasses, a box of whole mushrooms (about 15 medium sized ones). Cut the meat into bite size pieces and add back to the pan. Stir all the ingredients together, adjust for salt and cook uncovered in a 350 </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">⁰</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> oven for 2 hours.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Note: I like to start the oven phase on convection roast at 300</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">⁰ </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">for about 45 minutes. The top gets a bit brown so I stir this back in and turn to bake and 350</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">⁰ for the duration. Keep your eye on it and stir in some water or broth if the sauce is cooking down too much.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At this point you can remove the rosemary sticks, cover, cool and store in the fridge.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For the squash I used an heirloom variety that was about 10 inches long and fairly fat. Cut in half lengthwise, seeds and strings removed and a bit sliced off the bottom to allow it to sit flat, it offered two wells large enough to take most of the warmed braise. This fit perfectly in a roasting pan which I then baked for about an hour at 350⁰ to cook the squash, lightly covering the stew with foil. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Served over a bed of arugula sprinkled with steamed, diced Yukon gold potatoes, the diners self-served </span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7dLlDFWn0kUu_OTijw5sAoWa13zTpaiuL5Z95bocTUJBbb4sAVw3OBUIIMzadAfhNbfZn1iRthewz1lvnNngqFcURB_kHRU-63V2y9bkDINxLGstvHv2DGSDW7aV12VfOYjoQQWbb05t/s1600/IMG_0258.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7dLlDFWn0kUu_OTijw5sAoWa13zTpaiuL5Z95bocTUJBbb4sAVw3OBUIIMzadAfhNbfZn1iRthewz1lvnNngqFcURB_kHRU-63V2y9bkDINxLGstvHv2DGSDW7aV12VfOYjoQQWbb05t/s400/IMG_0258.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:DoNotShowRevisions/> <w:DoNotPrintRevisions/> <w:DoNotShowMarkup/> <w:DoNotShowComments/> <w:DoNotShowInsertionsAndDeletions/> <w:DoNotShowPropertyChanges/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span>We started 2011 off right:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Lots of laughs with some great friends; </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Lots of rest on January 1 and lots of black-eyed peas (frijoles de ojos) on January 2 with a steady stream of luck seekers coming throughout the afternoon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAUSFuqbngjI3Ouo3yTASPBDN6Q9J6TTWLTRVSxe_wLBi3qM7szzdnRMMo5CVA2ugHvqyylmZveDjDLTx7bdasdO5rlOqTIeVhD-NszHX6HziK6sPhkurSxAFpxkY92MPJei7cEu3EUR5/s1600/IMG_0253.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAUSFuqbngjI3Ouo3yTASPBDN6Q9J6TTWLTRVSxe_wLBi3qM7szzdnRMMo5CVA2ugHvqyylmZveDjDLTx7bdasdO5rlOqTIeVhD-NszHX6HziK6sPhkurSxAFpxkY92MPJei7cEu3EUR5/s320/IMG_0253.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span>On a personal level things are pretty good; only 3 more tuition payments and we will have a graduate on our hands. She lined up a job during Christmas break-who could ask for more than that in this market? And she was looking for apartments just before she left. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Both of our fathers are in remarkably good health and our mothers are holding their own, for the moment anyway. <span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>We both have jobs we like and all the Christmas stuff is already put away. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>My first art show is coming up in February. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>We have a reasonable mortgage on a fabulous house and so far have dodged the declining real estate bullet as even now we have equity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>My 5 year- old car just turned over 48,000 miles and the pump on the right side was actually open at the gas station today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Our social calendar is filling rapidly and we have more great friends than we can even count. We are truly blessed and it would seem either the black-eyed peas are really working or we are just plain lucky. Probably a bit of both.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>If only things were looking as bright in the world of politics. Arizona is in a tragic state of underfunding which is going to cause lots of social unrest. Things at the federal level are not much better financially and with the influx of new party members to Congress it is going to be very interesting to watch. The financial future of our entire country is downright scary. And foreign affairs are not much better. I saw a list of 10 separate spots around the world in serious unrest. Yikes! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>In addition we have the interaction between state and federal policies. So it is interesting that the federal government has completely failed to manage illegal immigration-a job that should be a priority if you read the Constitution. In contrast, state after state is legalizing the use of marijuana to varying degrees but it remains illegal at the federal level creating uncertainty about how that is going to play out if the feds decide to enforce against Doctors and their patients in the medical marijuana field.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>As if that is not enough, an unaccountable Commission just voted 4-3 to regulate the internet which is government once again going looking for a problem to solve as if they don’t already have their hands full. This points up the problem inherent in trying to spread yourself too thin-the things you are supposed to be doing get ignored while you concentrate on items that are questionably within your bailiwick. The result is the entire system suffers, none of the governments receive the respect they require to function properly and the erosion of order is exacerbated. It is even worse here in Maricopa County where scandal after scandal continues to break. These may seem like small issues now but taken in the aggregate with everything else that is going on, these are hardly good <span> </span>developments. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>How can it be that things are so great on a micro level and so miserable on a macro level? If the positives that were being mentioned on today’s radio reports hold true, maybe economically things are looking up. That would be a step in the right direction. We can only pray and eat more black-eyed peas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG55gv0PayXYJYo8GQFESIDwLmQemzkHuY2r0cdwpCJK59kM6BuMhhaIIJBP6J8FK1MjZ_vqODV2KntVTa5hUpbsiKeaVD1rYMPgxCoViPPZCZGVwSSHHDqkv1mMj3kZesM7fu440PxioM/s1600/IMG_0254.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG55gv0PayXYJYo8GQFESIDwLmQemzkHuY2r0cdwpCJK59kM6BuMhhaIIJBP6J8FK1MjZ_vqODV2KntVTa5hUpbsiKeaVD1rYMPgxCoViPPZCZGVwSSHHDqkv1mMj3kZesM7fu440PxioM/s320/IMG_0254.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-49842714744136570512010-11-07T07:22:00.000-08:002010-12-03T03:30:58.312-08:00Pumpkin recipe-Heard It On NPR and Just Have to Make IT and my old favorite too.!This sounds amazing. Of course I plan to "Americanize" it. [Editor's note: I did make it with the rice and green chile flakes. Found some Gruyere/cheddar combo at Trader Joe's (of course) and used shallots. It was a big hit. I am definitely planning to do it again.][Did it again with arborio rice steamed first and chunks of Parmesan cheese and smoked pork from the Meat Shop downtown-also great]<br />
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It reminds me of our old favorite Pumpkin Pot Stew. The firrst is a French recipe, the second Argentine. As Dorie Greenspan notes in the NPR story we could use some culinary diplomacy in politics.<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130704456%20">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130704456 </a>The pumpkin could be the key.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">The best part of both of these recipes is you can apply your creativity very easily. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Pumpkin Stuffed With Everything Good</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Makes 2 very generous servings</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 pumpkin, about 3 pounds</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Salt and freshly ground pepper</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1/4 pound stale bread, thinly sliced and cut into 1/2-inch chunks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1/4 pound cheese, such as Gruyere, Emmenthal, cheddar, or a combination, cut into 1/2-inch chunks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2–4 garlic cloves (to taste), split, germ removed, and coarsely chopped</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">4 strips bacon, cooked until crisp, drained, and chopped</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">About 1/4 cup snipped fresh chives or sliced scallions</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">About 1/3 cup heavy cream</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment, or find a Dutch oven with a diameter that's just a tiny bit larger than your pumpkin. If baked in a casserole, it will keep its shape, but may stick requiring service from the pot — which is an appealingly homey way to serve. Baked on a sheet, you can present it freestanding, but take care in moving it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cut a cap out of the top of the pumpkin (think Halloween jack-o'-lantern) working the knife at a 45-degree angle. Scrape away the seeds and strings from the cap and the pumpkin. Season the inside of the pumpkin generously with salt and pepper, and put it on the baking sheet or in the pot. Toss the bread, cheese, garlic, bacon, and herbs together in a bowl. Season with pepper and pack the mix into the pumpkin. The pumpkin should be well filled -adjust the amount of ingredients accordingly. Stir the cream with the nutmeg and some salt and pepper and pour it into the pumpkin to nicely moisten the ingredients.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Put the cap in place and bake the pumpkin for about 2 hours — check after 90 minutes — or until everything inside the pumpkin is bubbling and the flesh of the pumpkin is tender enough to be pierced easily with the tip of a knife. Because the pumpkin will have exuded liquid, remove the cap during the last 20 minutes or so, so that the liquid can bake away and the top of the stuffing can brown a little.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When ready, carefully, very carefully — it's heavy, hot, and wobbly — bring it to the table or transfer it to a platter that you'll bring to the table.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Serving </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cut wedges of the pumpkin and filling; or spoon out portions of the filling, making sure to get a generous amount of pumpkin into the spoonful; or n dig into the pumpkin with a big spoon, pull the pumpkin meat into the filling, and then mix everything up.. Served in hearty portions followed by a salad, the pumpkin is a perfect cold-weather main course; served in generous spoonfuls or wedges, it's just right alongside the Thanksgiving turkey.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Greenspan's Stuffing Ideas</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are many ways to vary this arts-and-crafts project. Instead of bread, I've filled the pumpkin with cooked rice — when it's baked, it's almost risotto-like. And, with either bread or rice, on different occasions I've added cooked spinach, kale, chard, or peas (the peas came straight from the freezer). I've made it without bacon, and I've also made and loved, loved, loved it with cooked sausage meat; cubes of ham are another good idea. Nuts are a great addition, as are chunks of apple or pear or pieces of chestnut.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">2 1/2 T oil, divided use</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">2 lbs. Rump or chuck roast, cubed</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1 clove garlic, minced</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">2 medium onions, chopped</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1 red pepper, chopped</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">2 large tomatoes, chopped</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1 t salt</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1/4 t pepper</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1 t sugar</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">21 ounces beef broth</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1 dozen pitted prunes</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">6 ounces dried apricots</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">2 sweet potatoes, cubed</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">2 new potatoes, cubed</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">10 ounces frozen corn</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">1 large pumpkin, cleaned.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Saute meat until brown in 1 T oil.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Separately saute onion, garlic and red pepper in remaining oil. Combine with all the other ingredients except corn and cook one hour. Add corn and transfer to pumpkin (bottom trimmed to sit flat).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Cover with pumpkin top or foil and bake at 325 for 1 1/2 hours or more. Serve in pumpkin. (see above for serving options) (Do not store leftovers in pumpkin).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I read a column by the great observer Peggy Noonan yesterday. In it she pointed out that for the last twenty years politicians have been telling us what a lousy group of losers they are through their use of negative attack ads. It appears that they have done a great job of applying the fundamental rule for marketing; that of managing expectations. And they all seem to be living down to them.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I was at yoga the other day and apparently someone passed gas because the instructor cautioned us not to worry as this exercise will cause such reactions from the most modest of us. </div><div class="MsoNormal">These two events, having occurred within close proximity of one another, got me to thinking about our social mores. We are completely embarrassed by the most human of bodily functions but we are unabashedly and magnetically attracted to the muddy side of the famous person--movie star and politician alike. And if there is a commercial reward involved there seems to be no boundary at all, at least in that most impersonal of mediums, the TV ad-we see folks holding hands in bathtubs and speedy acts of incredibly potent sexual climax on a regular basis. (See what you DVR’ers are missing?)</div><div class="MsoNormal">What is up with that?</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rules for polite society grew out of the Victorian era. Although on the surface people were most reserved, underneath it all they were amazingly human. Discretion, however, kept such things as homosexuality and extramarital affairs out of the public eye. These were not the topic of dinner conversation, much less the length of an erection, as they are now. No heart-wrenching revelations of the torture of carrying a sexually transmitted disease being revealed to the people who know you only through your role on reality TV and their interest in your ability to design things. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Why do we need to know the sexual activities of these people? </div><div class="MsoNormal">Yesterday I also read a very compelling essay by a gay army man about the burden of living with the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The military, being more than just a job, puts people in close living proximity for long periods of time. Of all the places where it might be relevant to discuss these things, it is off limits.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Does this make any sense whatsoever? How is it that the one place it would be handy to know a person’s sexual tendencies-in the field barracks that you will be intimately sharing for months on end-you are supposed to have no clue, but if you were at home watching TV you have a ring-side seat at the sexual banquet of any number of people, including your own Senator. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Too much information in all the wrong places! </div><div class="MsoNormal">This kind of thing gives me a headache. Especially when I consider that the means by which we pay for that dedicated army man to “protect” our national security is in great peril by the unprecedented and unsolvable deficit levels that threaten our national security in a very profound way.. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Could we please leave the talk of bodily functions to the boudoir and get back to the business of running the country? If we don’t, my migraine will only increase. And with Obamacare on the horizon I fear for the ability to get quick, effective treatment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-64386639144073563102010-09-16T23:28:00.000-07:002010-09-16T23:28:21.926-07:00Handy information; read all the way down<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very interesting and a must read!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;">The man that sent this information is a computer tech. He spends a lot of time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to complaints about speed. All forwards are not bad, just some. Be sure you read the very last paragraph.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with <a href="http://snopes.com/" target="_blank" title="http://snopes.com/">snopes.com</a>and/or <a href="http://truthorfiction.com/" target="_blank" title="http://truthorfiction.com/">truthorfiction.com</a> for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Advice from <a href="http://snopes.com/" target="_blank" title="http://snopes.com/">snopes.com</a> VERY IMPORTANT!!</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell to other spammers. Even when you get emails that demand you send the email </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus ---</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience. These people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease "how would you feel if that was your child" --- email tracking. Ignore them and don't participate!</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in <u1:state><u1:place>Florida</u1:place></u1:state> who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers -- to validate active email accounts for their own </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 20pt;">profitable</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> purposes.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them. You will be providing a service to your friends. And you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future!</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">Do yourself a favor and </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">STOP</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> adding your name(s) to those types of listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and nothing more.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus attached! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's not make it easy for them!</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">ALSO: Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress of any other organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a "</span></u></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">signed signature"</span></b></i><b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;"> and full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are just helping the email trackers.</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span xmlns="">Arizona's image is suffering lately. I had an East Coast friend call me the other day to make sure we are OK. Based on the news she was concerned that we might be experiencing intimidation or the victims of crimes. I assured her that although from the perspective of the outside world it might sound like things are really lousy here in Arizona, actually we are getting along just fine. What I didn't tell her is that on top of that we are eating better than ever.</span><br />
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<span xmlns="">Nationally we are in the midst of yet another food-borne illness scare, this time with eggs. I never have to worry about these alarming events because I purposely seek out locally grown fresh food and I tell you it is very easy to do, especially with eggs. Hickman's grows eggs right here in the West Valley and they have a great reputation. How [over] easy is that? <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fotosearch.com/bthumb/PTC/PTC001/066675.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.fotosearch.com/bthumb/PTC/PTC001/066675.jpg" /></a></div><span xmlns="">It is amazing to me that ANYONE could think it would be possible to properly control a farming operation of the magnitude represented by the TWO farms responsible for the nearly 1/2 BILLION eggs involved in the recent Salmonella event. While amassing such operations in fewer farms should certainly improve the statistical chances of getting an actual FDA inspection (fewer facilities in the agency's inspection universe) it is of little help when these operations are just a few of the thousands of operations spread nationwide that the FDA is responsible for. <br />
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<span xmlns="">First, with government intervention in the agriculture markets, the corporatizing of American food became the norm gaining the economies of scale that allow us to have whatever we want whenever we want it. Not only is this not natural, it is dangerous, both from a microbial standpoint and an overall health perspective. We are suffering from too much food and it is allowing us to stuff ourselves silly, if the creepy crawlies don't get us first. Second, we have blindly placed all of our trust in the government to protect us from our own food, thereby over–tasking it (it is just impossible to properly police it all as evidenced by one recall after the next). In doing so we have assumed a level of complacency and trust that is wholly unwarranted given the political pressures that immediately come to bear on an ever under-sourced regulatory program. <br />
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<span xmlns="">But not to worry, all is not lost. With the growing recognition of these problems as evidenced by documentaries like <i>Food Inc. </i>and <i>Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution</i> (see my April 20, 2010 blog entry), combined with a growing <i>think local</i> movement (see <a href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cuser%5CDocuments%5CFax">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#!/LocalFirstArizona?ref=ts</a>) not only is awareness being raised as to the options but more capacity is being gained. As farmer's markets become increasingly popular, access to the real McCoy becomes increasingly easy. We happen to have a burgeoning fresh food sector in Arizona. As an added bonus we also have a nearly year round growing season. Unlike those folks who experience hard freezes over the winter, our crops tend to wither only for a few weeks in the dog days of summer, but even then smaller operations are doing quite well thank you. Our bounty changes with the seasons and lasts through them all, providing an amazing variety of rotating eating pleasure and reliable quality.<br />
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<span xmlns="">So, in this time of bad economics, challenging statewide politics and an iffy national image, know that Arizona is THE place to be for fresh, delicious and healthy food if you take the little bit of time required to find it. But don't tell anyone--we can't afford to have the rest of the country move down here just to eat.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span xmlns=""></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-58545738853152804702010-08-16T21:13:00.001-07:002010-08-16T21:13:32.943-07:00True Confessions: How Eat, Pray, Love Challenged My Preference for Non-fiction<span xmlns=''><p> Amid the EPL mania of this past weekend, we also enjoyed the video of the JetFU "take this job and shove it" moment. I readily grasped how these two events are indelibly connected. They illustrate what, at the core, is a major symptom of the erosion of our American culture and perhaps even our financial well-being. <br /></p><p> My girlfriends bristle and wrinkle their noses when I tell them that EPL made me angry. Of course, they are caught up in the romantic aspects of Ms. Gilbert's world search for self, like most of the fans who mostly consist of young women raised in the Pocahontas era, at whom all the EPL merchandising is directed. I think my gals are at least not jumping on the consumer bandwagon with this thing. As for the younger set, I can hardly blame them; who can resist an EPL tea cup and yoga mat? Rationalizing the retail aspect of the EPL craze I heard one commentator explain that this is not just consumption for consumption sake, which is so 20-aughts; rather, it is strategic consumption in that it has a psychological purpose so it must be OK. Whatever. But my older friends should not take it personally. Even Ms. Gilbert was quoted in my favorite magazine THE WEEK as saying that she is open to honest criticism, just not the kind where people diss her without reading the book. I guess she will gladly take their harangue after she takes their money.<br /></p><p> With EPL I could never suspend disbelief long enough to rationalize her behavior. It seemed so put up and phony to me-so much so that her angst and the need to assuage it seemed premeditated from the get go. The basic reason for that, I suppose, is that rather being a cynic as many surely suspect, I am in fact a "benefit of the doubt"-type and I presume that most people are a bit stronger than portrayed on TV, even as I watch aspiring chef's and costume designers well up with tears week after week on their respective competition shows. (My affinity for quality reality shows no doubt comes from the same place as my affinity for non-fiction.) <br /></p><p> So when I finished reading EPL (ironically I read it while traveling in Europe) I wondered what was the redeeming quality of Ms. Gilbert's extended excursion? In my view she had not learned a damn thing, so what was the point? Short of making a fortune with a catchy gimmick the obviously had great appeal to the average American woman, I could not ferret out at moral to the story. Especially since the end consisted of her direct return to the exact same situation that set the whole thing in motion in the first place. She practically leapt at the first guy who came along.<br /></p><p> After some rumination I now see that this book hits home with so many people because it is a mirror on the contemporary American self. In short, it is completely consistent with the "All About Me" (AAM) mein. Greed, we try and convince ourselves by musing aloud in news reports, is relegated to the corporate world; the rest of us mere victims of capitalism. But who are the corporations but us? Stockholders consist of more middle Americans today than ever in history. And as part owners of these companies we demand a consistent and immediate profit. Meanwhile, on a micro-level we pursue retail spirituality by going green and attending hot yoga atop the finest felted wool mat any third world villager can weave. What this superficial quest for oneness cannot mask is the fact that our number 1 concern is above all things our own egos and needs. Sounds greedy to me.<br /></p><p> EPL was purportedly a healing expedition-just what the doctor ordered after an emotionally devastating divorce. Now, I am as emotional and sentimental as the next gal (I admit I cry at radio commercials) but I was truly embarrassed for Gilbert as I read her pathetic inability to drag herself off the tear soaked bathroom floor after being dumped buy her supposed spouse. I was reticent that anyone could possibly be so utterly clueless that her marriage was less than idyllic so as to be so caught off guard when the hammer came down. Her reaction was of one who was entirely unprepared and bordered on psychosis. And she apparently so ingrained herself in the (now obviously hollow) marital relationship that she had completely aligned her identity with it. Ironically, by doing so, she sunk the final nail in the coffin of that coupling because she apparently completely lost any sight of the fact that there was, indeed, another person involved. <br /></p><p> Having been married over 30 years and surrounded by people who have amazing longevity in their union by today's standards, I can say with some authority that a marriage is the most fatal context within which to be greedy. I even think the standard 70/30 rule people advocate falls short. Marriage, for each person, only works when it is not all about you but in fact all about the spouse. That said, a key component to achieving that is to never take your partner for granted, which means you must become self reliant and self confident enough to actually be all about the other person. Paradoxical perhaps, but true, nonetheless. This follows what in at least one book was called the <em>Prayer of Jabez</em> which reveals that Christian doctrine actually holds that it is OK to take care of yourself first for failure to do so will deprive you of the ability to take care of others-which is, of course, the one true aspiration of those who do not condone greed.<br /></p><p> So failing to recognize this, Gilbert apparently transferred her identity from herself to her status as a married woman. So without that framework she needed to go out and find herself. I totally get that part. The problem I have with the rest of the venture is that it was entirely superficial. I think she really may have been trying to achieve something but she never got out of herself long enough to truly do it, hence my suspicion that it was really the premise for a book from the outset and that is why it appears to have no moral; she repeats the same behavior in the end by self identifying with a new man and missed the truly spiritual boat.<br /></p><p> The same AAM fatality played out beautifully when a certain flight attendant, responding to the accumulation of disrespectful AAM detritus that piled up in the aircraft aisle to the point where his shovel could remove it no longer, demonstrated that he could take AAM to an even higher plane. His dramatic exit was the height of disrespect for himself and everyone else within even a remote orbit, exponentially topping that of more grounded mortals. And our collective reaction was to deify him. Next week look for JetFU teacups. <br /></p><p> As the truly prayerful person soon discovers, there is a reason that all the major religions of the world share a basic tenet-the Golden Rule. The ultimate paradox is that the more you give, the more you get. How is it that just like Ms. Gilbert and Mr. Slater we all seem to have overlooked this simple lesson yet are so quick to embrace unsatisfying superficiality? I am sad for these two and the rude air travelers. If only they/we knew how to truly love them/ourselves they /we would be so much better off.<br /></p><p><br /> </p></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-56036617677828934352010-07-10T10:30:00.001-07:002010-07-10T10:49:46.035-07:00No Book Clubs Allowed<span xmlns=""></span><br />
<span xmlns="">Now, I am in no way claiming to be an artist. However, I did have art lessons as a child and used to do some fun things with pastels. I have always been interested in making things and in visuals and I have been in dozens of museums in the US and Europe. I have a crafty mother and we were always doing arts and crafts as kids. We had some artistic ancestors mixed among the whacky ones, but that is another story. But it did just seem natural when my daughter Melanie started drawing around the age of 5.<br />
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<span xmlns="">So I was absolutely delighted when my high energy friend Julie Pace invited me to join the summer art challenge with "a bunch of friends." Some of the folks are the real McCoy, which could be intimidating but I am doing the yoga position 'ego eradicator' on a daily to allay my fears. <br />
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<span xmlns="">This all started when Jim and Tim (real artists ) recognized that they needed some motivation to keep making art during the heat of the summer. They decided to do a sort of Bobbie Flay- like throw down with one another. But being artists they got creative with the idea and it morphed into the Summer Art Challenge in which I now participate. Among the other members are a May graduate of the ASU MFA program, a couple of artist/teachers, an architecture-trained artist, a photographer/business person and three lawyers (including me) who long to use the other side of the brain. An eclectic bunch, certainly.<br />
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<span xmlns="">It was a gas. A great group of people, including in some cases the significant others and/or parent, all participated in the repartee. <br />
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<span xmlns="">As Julie noted at evening's end, "This is so much better than a book club!" I agree and suggested we change the name to <i>Book Clubs Suck</i>, but that got no votes for creativity. <br />
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<span xmlns=""></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-1365061943126702282010-06-24T11:15:00.001-07:002010-06-24T11:15:52.323-07:00Irish Rock Buns<span xmlns=''><p><span style='font-size:12pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'>Recipe adapted by Margie McGrath</span><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><br /> </span></span></p><p><br /> </p><p><span style='font-size:12pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'>Margie, my cousin, discovered these in Ireland this past winter. True confessions: they did not stick around long enough for me to take a picture; they are pure delicious evil. </span><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><br /> </span></span></p><p><br /> </p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:24pt'><strong>Ingredients <br /></strong></span></p><p><br /> </p><p><span style='font-size:12pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'>4 cups all purpose flour </span><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><br /> </span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'>2 teaspoons baking powder<br/>1 cup brown sugar</span><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><br /> </span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'>1 cup butter, softened <br/>1 cup raisins (I like to use ½ cup each golden raisins and craisins <strong><em>or</em></strong> 1 cup Trader Joe's, "Golden Berry Blend")<br/>1 cup shredded coconut<br/>4 medium eggs<br/>2 teaspoons vanilla<br/>2 T+ 2 t milk<br/> </span><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><br /> </span></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:24pt'><strong>Preparation <br /></strong></span></p><p><br /> </p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray baking sheet. <br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>1. Mix baking powder with flour and then mix in the sugar. <br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>2. Using fingertips, rub butter into flour until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.<br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>3. Add fruit and coconut. Mix in evenly. <br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>4. Whisk eggs. Mix in the milk and vanilla. Pour into flour mixture and combine using a large spoon, until moist dough is formed.<br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>5. With spoon or a ¼ cup measuring cup, shape dough into rough heaps or cone-shapes on the prepared baking sheet. Optional: Sprinkle with white sugar before baking. <br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>6. Bake for 15 minutes or until done. [It took my oven longer to bake them to a deep, golden brown.]<br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>7. Cool and serve at room temperature.<br /></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>8. Do not cover with Saran wrap or put them into plastic bags. The crunchy crust will soften and they'll lose their rockness!<br /></span></p></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-45340273597029239892010-06-22T17:12:00.001-07:002010-06-22T17:12:09.805-07:00Respect and Humility: Commodities Currently in Short Supply<span xmlns=''><p><br /> </p><p><a title='Click for further information about this <br />quotation' href='http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2232.html'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'><em>He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.</em></span></a><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'><em><br /> </em></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><a href='http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow/'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; text-decoration:underline'><strong>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</strong></span></a><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><strong> (1807 - 1882)<br /></strong></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'><em>In every country <a title='Click for further information about this <br />quotation' href='http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/38048.html'>we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.</a></em><br /> </span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><a href='http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Carl_Sagan/'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; text-decoration:underline'><strong>Carl Sagan</strong></span></a><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><strong> (1934 - 1996)<br /></strong></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>This morning at the YMCA the topic of respect came up after an anecdote about the members dragging their weight lifting equipment across the beautifully finished wood floors to their exercise space. Of course, the floors don't stay beautiful or finished for long when people treat them that way. But then, who thinks of such things anymore? <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>Several times a day of late it seems we are subjected to another public "apology" as people in the political arena make a statement and, when criticized, rather than stand behind it they start with the <em>mea culpas</em> or, worse, personally attacking the critic. Take General Stanley McChrystal who today is being ripped for quotes in a magazine article that attributes criticism of his Commander in Chief. Despite the reporting, he now professes to have the utmost respect and admiration for the President and his staff. Reputations don't stay intact for long when people throw themselves under the bus.<br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>These are two diverse examples of a problem that has become endemic in our culture—lack of respect. We are not lacking for respect because everyone in our society has developed an acute sense of self respect. But we don't seem to take the respect beyond our own auras. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>From those folks working out at the Y who are so enthralled with themselves for actually exercising to the General who, at least from the Rolling Stone article, exhibits the highly developed ego that usually goes hand in hand with high flying military positions, we all seem to have an acutely developed sense of self importance and hold no one in higher esteem.<br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>This fullness of self knows no bounds. The blow back from the anti-illegal immigration measures that have flooded recent headlines is predominantly expressed by folks who have so much self respect that they have elevated themselves above the law. The enormously wealthy oil company responsible for recklessly polluting one of our major oceanic resources while simultaneously wasting vast amounts of one of our most coveted natural resources was so full of itself it took for granted that it could do no wrong and failed to put a proper contingency plan in place for just such a disaster. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>To be sure, as a society we have much to be proud of. We are more civilized and have the best quality of life in human history. But as progress has improved the standard of living for the vast majority of the citizens in the West, it has also brought with it unprecedented challenges. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>And let's face it, right now the negatives are reaching epic proportions: two majors wars and dozens of potential hot spots across the globe that the US cannot ignore, together with tanking economies, natural and human made disasters popping up in rapid succession, a series of large scale health threats from our food supply chain or super resistant biotins, the undefined impact of the ubiquitous chemicals on the human body, rising energy demand with serious environmental consequences, porous borders, drug cartels gone wild, overburdened and under-resourced governments, an ultra-expensive and questionably effective health care system-- the list goes on and on.<br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>Perhaps we have so much respect for ourselves, much of it rightfully earned, that we are taking ourselves for granted. We know there will be someone out there who will come up with the answers—they always have. Meanwhile we play Little League without keeping score, spend countless hours on video games, watch mass appeal movies that are invariably all the same plot dressed up with some special effects and buy IPads to enhance our distractions. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>Now, I am not advocating that we start hacking away at the precious fiber of the tenuous network of our self esteem; but when you have Generals publically dissing their Presidents and lawmakers grilling CEO's just to play for the cameras, it becomes very unclear how any of these big issues can be seriously addressed. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>We have no leaders because we are all so cock sure of ourselves. According to the polls at any given moment we all have a specific opinion about everything. With that ammo the politicians just set their navigators for that course and if they mess up along the way there is a quick apology and we are on to something else. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>But how can we be so confident? And sure about what? That we are Americans, so naturally it will all get taken care of because it always has? <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>A very small example of this phenomenon recently affected my campaign for Justice of the Peace. Because my decision came so late in the game, some great friends of mine spent chunks of their own time circulating petitions in their immediate areas. I am certain that these diligent people did their best to explain the rules, the most basic being you had to be a voter. Thirty one people were so self confident about this that without hesitation they signed. Later we found that indeed they were not registered. And since it takes several Presidential election cycles without voting to get dropped from the rolls it is most interesting that a person would not know this basic fact about themselves. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>How did this happen? Lack of respect. Yes, I just went through a whole litany about how people are suffering from an abundance of respect. But it is self respect gone wild. And just like Wordsworth said, all these folks are emotionally insulated by their own self respect. So much so that there is no respect left for each other, our politicians, our community or the wood floor at the YMCA.<br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>The lack respect for others goes hand in hand with having too much self respect. The Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"--which really is the only thing you need to know-- has the perfect balance of self respect. But in order to live by it one needs a good dose of humility. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>Those who aspire to be our leaders by definition need a raft full of self respect. But most often we see that abundance of self respect is offset by a complete lack of humility. Case in point: Maricopa County recently had a County Attorney who I know personally to be an intelligent and compassionate individual. This makes my disappointment in his performance all the greater. The thing I cannot get past is that while he was true to his ideals, he seemed to lose all contact with humility. This caused him to go to extremes that manifested as a complete lack of respect for the very system he claimed to be so adamantly protecting. It culminated in his unprecedented attack of members of the judiciary. His self respect, I surmise, had overcome his sense of relativity. Later, under the pressure of public scrutiny, the cases he brought against the Judges and elected officials crumbled beneath their own weight. So his over confidence clearly overshadowed his intellect.<br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman'><span style='font-size:12pt'>Humility, which is the essence of respect for others and which if you think about it is embedded in the Golden Rule, would have served him well. I once read that "[h]umility distinguishes the wise leader from the arrogant power-seeker</span>". <span style='font-size:12pt'>Stepping back and checking yourself is never a bad idea, but if you are so self important it is not likely to cross your mind very often. Carl Sagan nailed it when he observed that learning the scientific method instills humility. That is because the method is intended to ensure a certain amount of objectivity. <br /></span></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>He rang another bell with his suggestion regarding the Bill of Rights, which as Americans it should be our duty to learn. Ironically, the first 10 Amendments were designed to protect the individual, but it works much like the Golden Rule, by providing an internal correction mechanism. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>But civics is no longer taught in country. Perhaps after nearly 250 years we became so self-sure that we finally got it right that we forgot it is necessary to keep reminding people what <em>it</em> is and teaching the ensuing generations so that they never forget. But somehow that became derailed and the masses swoon after each new apology. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>One should not, however, confuse apology with humility. True humility would restrain the impulse that generated the need to apologize in the first place. But this, too, apparently must be taught. <br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><span style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'>Lessons can be learned two ways, easy or hard. In my humble opinion we should waste no time in getting back to teaching civics in school rather than wait and relearn this lesson the hard way.<br /></span></p><p style='margin-left: 36pt'><br /> </p><p><br /> </p></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-28325294383218765252010-06-21T11:18:00.001-07:002010-06-21T11:23:08.394-07:00Independence and Justice: Peace, not so much<span xmlns=""></span><br />
<span xmlns="">My recent foray into politics played out better than I had anticipated. Having been a sidelines politico for most of my life (it has been years since my last active participation in a campaign, mostly because I either held positions which would make it unseemly or because it is unethical for my husband to do so given his vow of objective journalism and since our funds are community property, there is not much I could do that does not involve giving money) I recently decided, too late in the game it would seem, to take a run at the Justice of the Peace. I figured this would be the least political of the offices I could run for given the above-mentioned constraints, and one for which I am certainly well qualified. After 13 years as a Judge Pro Tem, I am thinking I could easily handle the job. </span><br />
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<span xmlns="">The Justice of the Peace heads up "the people's court." As such, it is intended that the person be a community member but not necessarily a lawyer. Because the job entails all civil cases under $10,000 and small claims court, in addition to restraining orders, state highway traffic tickets and misdemeanors, including DUI's, signing search warrants and the like, it can get quite legally arcane, especially in this day and time. Having had several cases in Justice Court of late in other precincts I was concerned that the speedy adjudications were not happening and in fact the 60 day time limit for decisions was falling by the wayside. A man whom I have the utmost respect for became a JP and later a pro tem and he was assigned to go around and help these courts get back on track. Although not law-trained he is an exceptional person. Given this anecdotal evidence I concluded law training is certainly a plus. So I was a perfect fit for the job.</span><br />
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<span xmlns="">I chose to run as an Independent against the advice of my politically experienced friends. For one, I really think the judiciary should be independent and had dreams of emphasizing the words <i>Independent</i> and <i>Justice</i> in my printed material. Also, I just couldn't see myself hanging around with party oriented folks. That just comes with too much baggage. But there is also a downside. Without a party and without a pile of cash one cannot get access to the voter lists, which makes it nigh on impossible to do any door to door work that is efficient. Second, in the Encanto precinct there are actually more Independents than Republicans and together they outnumber the Democrats. Finally, the opposition consisted entirely of Democrats: the 3- term incumbent, who is a lawyer and has been doing a fairly good job if the lawyers I know can be relied upon to judge him (on the other hand, I did hear from several non-lawyers that he was kind of tough on the unrepresented, so there is probably a bias there); a 16-year veteran of the legislature who needs 4 more years in the system to avail himself of the retirement offerings; and the very late comer, who I believe is a bankruptcy attorney. I figured these guys would all duke it out in the primary and I would lay low until the fall, when I knew which one would be left standing.</span><br />
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<span xmlns="">That all hinged on getting the 380 signatures to qualify for the ballot. I had just over 3 weeks to do it by the time I decided to jump off the cliff. I wrangled two friends into chairing my committee and acting as treasurer over lunch the day I took out my paperwork. We knew going in it would be a very grass roots effort. My strategy, which turned out to be fairly effective, was to identify people spread out all over the precinct and ask them to get their friends and neighbors to sign petitions. The Democrats had already been combing the precinct for months with the precinct lists so it was going to be up to my friends to ferret out the Dem's who had probably already been hit up. Under the rules one can only sign one petition for each position.<br />
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<span xmlns="">I am truly humbled by the amazing response I got from so many people who were willing to commit their time and energy to the petition circulation process. In that short period we collected a remarkable 434 signatures. As late as 24 hours before the deadline I was sure I was not going to make it. But encouragement kept coming and unexpected signatures flowed in from truly dedicated folks. Along with a couple of young but able friends, good success came as we staked out the polls on the date of the Proposition 100 election to raise the 1 cent sales tax rate. In the heart of the precinct we had a great response. On the edges it got very complicated because people were voting from outside my precinct, but we got a few that way. Another couple of friends whom I had not even seen in quite a long while were extremely diligent and dedicated and I was so happy to reconnect with them and so humbled by their enthusiasm. One of them was a former Arizona Governor and long time friend of my family. Her 7000 name rolodex is nothing to sneeze at and she had 15 signatures in about a split second.</span><br />
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<span xmlns="">On the final weekend I was able to walk a voting precinct. This was the result of a kindness of some Republicans who were also engaged in the collection process for their own campaign and were gracious enough to share their data for the local voting precinct. This made a huge difference. I met some interesting people in those two days going door to door. And God was smiling on me because that was the weekend when the weather was unusually cool.</span><br />
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<span xmlns="">So, filing day came and I showed up for my appointment in a very crowded County Elections foyer. I only had to wait about ½ hour and I got in and my petitions were checked in personally by the elected County Recorder and her able staff. They did their counting and I was well over my minimum; I had made the ballot.<br />
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<span xmlns="">Bottom line, this meant I had to call the wonderful folks who had already worked so hard back to the drawing board. Could we figure out if any of these challenges were in error? I also had to consider hiring a lawyer (I have had no fund raisers yet so that was not an option) or read up on the law of challenges myself. Meanwhile I was hoping my circulators could track down the signers and get back to me so I could figure out a theory and how to prove it --all by 1PM June 16 when the case would be heard in the Superior Court. <br />
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<span xmlns="">During this time I learned that many people take advantage of the internet service provided by MVD when they move at servicearizona.com to comply with the 10 day deadline for updating their mailing info on their driving record. But, because of the motor/voter law many people presume that doing this automatically updates their voter registration record as well. This is an incorrect assumption for one must access a separate screen inside the website to do so. Once this was brought to these folks attention many of them went immediately to make the change. I figured I could make a colorable argument on those if these people would be willing to sign an affidavit to that effect. But this is an arduous task; getting people to take this much interest in your campaign, much less getting them to a notary, all in the allotted time. And how many of my wonderful circulator friends even had the time for this? So I chose to wait and see what the official tally was.<br />
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<span xmlns="">In the end this was a very gratifying experience. People truly rose to the occasion and many of them went above and beyond. I am forever grateful and humbled by their encouragement and support. You really do know who your friends are in these situations, so I am all the richer for the experience. And as my official paperwork terminating my campaign shows, I only spent $18 in the whole process!</span><br />
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<span xmlns=""></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7408405842260282338.post-51418415931207447192010-06-02T18:27:00.001-07:002010-06-02T18:27:45.602-07:00Oil , Oil, Toil and Trouble<span xmlns=''><p>Finally the President and I agree on something-government cannot do it all. And the fact of the matter is we don't really want them to.<br /></p><p>As much as the tragedy with BP in the Gulf of Mexico makes me crazy with sadness for the damage being inflicted, I am almost as distraught at the political response as I was in the Katrina situation. Although George Bush was a bit quicker on the draw than Barak Obama to go running down there, I am not sure it really makes any difference in the long run. The water kept flowing as does the oil.<br /></p><p>As a former environmental regulator I have been there. Sure, our situations were not anywhere near this level of mega-disaster, but we had some pretty tough challenges: algae blooms in Lake Havasu, sewage gushers across the international border at Nogales and false reports from the Scottsdale drinking water quality lab. In all of these cases the government was at least partially at fault. In Lake Havasu thousands of septic tanks were permitted; in the Nogales and Scottsdale cases the local governments were the permittees, the Nogales case being complicated with the fact that the broken sewer line actually crossed the border. <br /></p><p>These are complex issues for which a substantial amount of expertise and resources are required. Government can't afford either the former or the latter. But it sure can pretend that it does. There is such a fine line between the practical and the political when government is involved. <br /></p><p>The environment is an area where it makes sense to regulate. The impacts, as we can see so vividly in the Gulf mess, are directed at the community. It is more than prudent to hash these issues out in a public forum and debate them in depth, even though we can never quantify all of the true costs. Despite best efforts no regulatory program is fail safe, yet the fact of government regulation gives the public the false sense of a kind of guarantee. Therein lies the crux of the political danger.<br /></p><p>There are several reasons why these programs can never really work.<br /></p><p>First, we think we know more than we do. We take the expert's word for it because we have no way to counter him. And for sure the worst case scenario cannot be fully vetted because airing the real potential problems is a huge risk if you ever really want to get a permit and as the permittee you are probably the only party with that information.<br /></p><p>Second, there will always be human error. No one is perfect and under extreme conditions even less so. I just find it hard to believe that BP would risk this kind of nightmare to save a few bucks on mud or a few parts. Somebody just blew it--big time. <br /></p><p>Third, we don't understand the larger picture. It has been said that the reason BP is operating around out there in 5000 feet of water is because the government banned drilling closer to shore in response to concerns about the environmental impacts. At least they have lots of experience in 1400 feet which is by implication a much less risky place to conduct this kind of business, thus proving the adage "be careful what you wish for." Had this potentiality been considered in making the decisions to ban drilling hither and yon (which decisions seem to get made and reversed with an almost knee jerk frequency) and a more comprehensive approach taken with the government serving as the ultimate coordinator to efficiently manage the resource, the proper role for government would be achieved. As it is the politics seem to drive these basic needs determinations. <br /></p><p>In its zeal to be on top of it all, the government's failure to put the practical above the political can often be seen as making things worse. <br /></p><p>This brings to mind the statement to Congress from the CEO of the West Virginia mining company that recently exploded. The company posits that the government regulators' required changes in the ventilation system, against the advice of the company's own experts, contributed to, if not flat out caused, the gas build up that resulted in the underground devastation that killed so many and closed a facility with a wide economic devastation. <br /></p><p>Yep, those armchair pencil pushers know more about this stuff than the folks who do it for a living. I have personal experience with well meaning employees imposing baseless and unsupportable requirements on unsuspecting facilities, in an effort to prove they are doing something important. But many times the obsession with insignificant detail overshadows the larger issue. It takes a well-seasoned professional to appreciate that nuance, a rarity in government—save for the occasional personally dedicated individual, the real experts are making the big bucks in the private sector. <br /></p><p>Apparently Obama recognizes that there is not a whole lot the government can do in the BP case. It simply does not have the tools. This is a political reality that it takes a lot of guts to admit; especially with James Carville calling you out on it. (Policy wonks are always at the ready with a criticism but never have a plan in hand.) <br /></p><p>How is the President supposed to have a plan? He and his minions are more like the policy wonks than the businessmen, engineers and scientists who work these projects. I applaud Obama for admitting he is not IronMan. That is just a movie. This, sadly, is real life.<br /></p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p></span>I'll be the judge of thathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326917705234597703noreply@blogger.com1