tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post5759826468924778118..comments2023-11-03T07:29:03.259+00:00Comments on Lettuce-eating: systemslettucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872380339261609060noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-4924001854346271392008-11-01T19:09:00.000+00:002008-11-01T19:09:00.000+00:002, I see it differently, that is, racism/sexism (O...2, I see it differently, that is, racism/sexism (Oh, and homophobia, that's a popluar one in the U.S.A.) are convenient receptacles to put fear of the other. If we had an invasion from Mars, you'd see National Brotherhood Week all the time here.<BR/>4, Growth, interesting how busiess steals a word to describe a process in nature, and of course economic growth is not QUITE so straightforwad. It's hysterical to me how the government continuously panics over the lack of consumer spending in an economic downturn while simultaneously throwing up its hands in horror at the amount of credit card debt people are racking up (latest I saw was $17,000)<BR/>6, Lovely about the frogs because they are not doing so well here in Yellowstone National ParkArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-2455456034942192622008-10-24T09:49:00.000+01:002008-10-24T09:49:00.000+01:00ps. i understand growth rather wellpfff tee heesni...ps. i understand growth rather well<BR/>pfff tee hee<BR/>snigger sniggerPodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13527833087641861394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-26249446243246682592008-10-24T09:48:00.000+01:002008-10-24T09:48:00.000+01:00hurrah for the frogs!(don't let the canaries scare...hurrah for the frogs!<BR/>(don't let the canaries scare 'em!)Podhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13527833087641861394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-24899891903088602372008-10-23T09:20:00.000+01:002008-10-23T09:20:00.000+01:00Yes they do! Otherwise they wouldnt jump out at yo...Yes they do! <BR/><BR/>Otherwise they wouldnt jump out at you in the dark on purpose.<BR/><BR/>When I lived in Charlton, they were always doing that. After several near heart attacks, I kind of went off them a bit.<BR/>:O)Trachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17095725083217996709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-92152148143556261362008-10-23T07:59:00.000+01:002008-10-23T07:59:00.000+01:00pretty messy over here too Tut-tut... Well, not so...pretty messy over here too Tut-tut... Well, not so pretty at all really<BR/><BR/>french frogs, rlb. i wonder how they'd get on in my part of london?<BR/><BR/>hurray indeed dumdad!<BR/><BR/>Vanilla, a leopard toadlet - i must google and see a picture! those herons, eh? tch<BR/><BR/>up with frogs, Akelamalu, down with politicians<BR/><BR/>goatman I haven't read it, thanks for the tip. i want to read more of her short stories - also her poetry. (twas quite nice and drifty thanks)<BR/><BR/>barbara, its hard to be hopeful sometimes. Frogs do help.<BR/><BR/>kimy it makes me spitting mad too. So you have canary ears too? :) The hair is its mid-mousey-quite a bit of grey normal now.<BR/><BR/>oh trac :( i'm sure they don't mean to be scarey.<BR/><BR/>steve, your no.3 really gets me - why not indeed? things really have got way out of whack...<BR/><BR/>chick I love that too - where theres water... My frog pool is too tiny for fish but i have plans for a larger pond too ...<BR/><BR/>lynne it is sad and scary how it becomes part of the system - including the human system<BR/><BR/>reya, there are bits of the past to be firmly put away and forgotten (though i don't know, maybe forgetting thatcher wouldn't be such a good thing...) and others i want to hold firmly onto. [and thankyou :o) ]<BR/><BR/>queenie, croak bah humbug indeed<BR/><BR/>CM it was a bit of a shower there. so, maybe thats where froggy was all summer, uh-huhlettucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872380339261609060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-28341271569872932782008-10-22T23:18:00.000+01:002008-10-22T23:18:00.000+01:008thly, nice thoughtful post.Sometimes it rains tho...8thly, nice thoughtful post.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes it rains thoughts and it may have been pouring in this case! ; )<BR/><BR/>Remember, the froggy went a courtin'!<BR/>Burl IvesCoffee Messiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908162048706236634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-49331239307851318382008-10-22T16:53:00.001+01:002008-10-22T16:53:00.001+01:00Croak to hear about the frogs. Politics bah! humbu...Croak to hear about the frogs. Politics bah! humbug........Queeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246279000726252262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-44743981534887053222008-10-22T16:53:00.000+01:002008-10-22T16:53:00.000+01:00Croak to hear about the frogs. Politics bah! humbu...Croak to hear about the frogs. Politics bah! humbug........Queeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246279000726252262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-55026561146240984852008-10-22T15:57:00.000+01:002008-10-22T15:57:00.000+01:00What a lovely dream - putting away the dolls is li...What a lovely dream - putting away the dolls is like putting away the past, some kind of idealized past? Cut off the old hair, remember the "real" past (Margaret Thatcher? Bloody hell!) not just the romanticized past when Men were Men and Women were Polite and Stayed in the Kitchen.<BR/><BR/>Your ears are still itching? Maybe it's because your readers are talking about how marvelous you are. I at least LOVE the way you think.<BR/><BR/>Greetings to the amphibians! And love to you.Reya Mellickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076092659507965666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-57363673781707849472008-10-21T13:26:00.000+01:002008-10-21T13:26:00.000+01:00My mind has been having random disconnected though...My mind has been having random disconnected thoughts too. But I haven't managed to put them down on "paper" just yet.<BR/><BR/>I think that if people are fed a diet of racism and sexism from the time they are born they will grow up thinking it's normal and by then it's very hard to turn them around. Sad.<BR/><BR/>Hurray for the frogs! How exciting! <BR/><BR/>I feel your pain regarding your mum. :( Sometimes I still think I can just pick up the phone and call mine. Then I realize I can't.<BR/><BR/>Glad to hear your ears are nearly back to normal. What an awful thing to have to go through but glad it's over. <BR/><BR/>xxLynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05875008154587045790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-90427107779597885422008-10-21T03:48:00.000+01:002008-10-21T03:48:00.000+01:00That's a lot of thought...really...it is...I l...That's a lot of thought...really...it is...I love that frogs find you...I put in a pond in my garden & had to stock it with goldfish...but the frogs just showed up to the party (like magic)...& I love seeing them come back each spring.Chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883803556110223535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-27280724613558162562008-10-20T19:45:00.000+01:002008-10-20T19:45:00.000+01:001. Glad the hair has grown out. What a relief, I'm...1. Glad the hair has grown out. What a relief, I'm sure!<BR/><BR/>2. Yay frogs!<BR/><BR/>3. I don't understand "growth" either. Economists are all insistent that if our economy isn't growing, it's dying. But nothing can grow forever, can it? I can see why backsliding is bad, but can't we just reach a static point where we're producing and consuming the optimum level of goods and services?Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-43619852633901501092008-10-19T13:56:00.000+01:002008-10-19T13:56:00.000+01:00Wow! You thought all that while popping up the roa...Wow! You thought all that while popping up the road for a paper? :O)<BR/><BR/>I certainly haven't forgotten Thatcherism!<BR/><BR/>(I haven't forgotten how nice your hair looked black either)<BR/><BR/>But I am trying to forget scary frogs.Trachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17095725083217996709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-51887418786247595462008-10-19T05:32:00.000+01:002008-10-19T05:32:00.000+01:00ending on seventhly...rhymes with heavenly and thi...ending on seventhly...rhymes with heavenly and this is quite pleasant.<BR/><BR/>it is ironic that mccain (who I will call mcnasty - which incidently was his nickname in high school) is trying to attack obama by using the dreaded (to some, but not to me) S word in his attacks (socialism) - mcnasty is a third generation military brat and current double or maybe even triple dipper on the government dole - there is no group in the u.s.a. who has reaped the benefits of socialized systems more than dependents and members of the u.s. military and members of congress .... having been a navy brat for the first 18 yrs of my life, I know of what I speak! one would only wish that the 'every person' in the u.s. had the type of retirement and health care package that people in the military or congress have!<BR/><BR/>isn't it strange that to folks like mcnasty, helping poor and/or middle class people (and I mean those who's income is less than 100,000/yr with social programs is 'socialism' but giving trillions of dollars to the military-industrial complex, bailing out corporations and floating assistance to ceo's is not.... hummm.<BR/><BR/>ah, I best stop this comment as I do feel a BIG rant is coming on...perhaps thinking of frogs would be better for my blood pressure and over all health!<BR/><BR/>oh, by the way, what color is your hair these days? glad the ears are doing better although are still some sort of indicator of tireness or stress....my ears have been alarms for years - ear today, gone tomorrow??mouse (aka kimy)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09385557065971602436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-63229820933479583962008-10-18T23:34:00.000+01:002008-10-18T23:34:00.000+01:00Well, for having nothing to say, you certainly gav...Well, for having nothing to say, you certainly gave us a lot of food for thought! We here in the US are experiencing a lot of evidence of the super strains of bigotry as we try to elect our first black President. I sometimes wonder if there's any hope that we can breed that out in successive generations or whether it is so much a part of these persons' being that it's like DNA.<BR/><BR/>I would actually much rather think about frogs. They are so cute and so innocent as they just hop around.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18356998698106275372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-10631788998282714982008-10-18T18:31:00.000+01:002008-10-18T18:31:00.000+01:00I have to agree with your proposition, on thought ...I have to agree with your proposition, on thought twoly, that bigotry and hatred seem to be a systemic disease with no antidote available. And it is continued through the offspring in many cases, so it is a self-sustaining exponentially- growing prejudice.<BR/>Every once in awhile though a person sees the light, usually through a life-changing extreme event or realization. We must take heart in those possibilities.<BR/><BR/>I would like your recipie for the elderberry syrup if it's not too much trouble. Sounds good and the maple stuff is way expensive.<BR/><BR/>One more thought: Have you read the Atwood short story where her cat gets raptured up into heaven? I think it's in the book "The Tent" and is typical "her".<BR/>Have a drifty sunday.goatmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02317617928368945316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-35592308204515729512008-10-18T18:30:00.000+01:002008-10-18T18:30:00.000+01:00Don't talk to me about politicians - they are all ...Don't talk to me about politicians - they are all a waste of space! Great news about the frogs. :)Akelamaluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234268568845148285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-46950929292084149172008-10-18T16:42:00.000+01:002008-10-18T16:42:00.000+01:00I read somewhere that racism is inherent in the hu...I read somewhere that racism is inherent in the human race and that best way of dealing with it was to acknowledge that and then move forward from there.<BR/><BR/>As for frogs... we, excitingly, found a rare and endangered baby leopard toadlet in our pool last week. He's been moved to the pond - but I suspect may have been guzzled by the ever present heron who clearly has neither clue nor care about endangered species.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871239587214383387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-23117828607806982252008-10-18T15:13:00.000+01:002008-10-18T15:13:00.000+01:00Forget the financial crisis, hurray for the frogs!...Forget the financial crisis, hurray for the frogs!Dumdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00070838905120958459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-68265743033996213592008-10-18T14:55:00.000+01:002008-10-18T14:55:00.000+01:00I like this randomness. Has me thinking in all kin...I like this randomness. Has me thinking in all kinds of directions - specially secondly. <BR/><BR/>re economic system: I'm no expert but the whole problem is the system's premises. There is no way to reform it and, although some off-the-wall economists may be coming up with new economic theories out there, nobody has yet latched on to them big time. So long as the system sort-of works, those for whom it sort-of-works won't throw it out, will they?<BR/><BR/>Glad to hear about the frogs. Although living as I do in a frog-rich enclave, you need only give out a shout, letty, and I'll see if the postal services between our two countries will oblige :-)<BR/><BR/>Enjoy your Saturday! (and best to those early warning devices on each side of your head.)R.L. Bourgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850533057828782722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21985601.post-1626327124644059172008-10-18T14:27:00.000+01:002008-10-18T14:27:00.000+01:00Well, here it's socialism and a bad thing when hea...Well, here it's socialism and a bad thing when health care is under consideration to be nationalized, but it's not when the banking industry is. We are in a mess here with consumerism, capitalism, crooked politics. It's frightening and I don't like it one bit. <BR/><BR/>But then, there are always the frogs to contemplate . . .tut-tuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15713003038275525797noreply@blogger.com