Song in my Head: Break another little piece of my heart now, baby..........Janis Joplin

In Season: record grape harvest


The Best Looking Wal-Mart Store in Oregon

“In my opinion, this is the best looking Wal-Mart store in the state of Oregon because of the efforts that have been made to address the compatibility standard; we took that challenge to heart and created a unique ‘Hood River look’,” said Hathaway. (link)

Here is a sketch of the proposed rustic looking Wally-World (link).

Here is a "typical" store (link).

So, they will cut down a few more old growth Douglas fir, make some timbers out of them and erect a rustic looking store, full of cheap plastic crap.


Alter-Abled News


Black-Clad Ninja Warriors Found in Backyard


Travis Paulson was heading into the kitchen one recent morning to fix breakfast for himself and his 84-year-old mother, Loretta, when he noticed what appeared to be black-clad "ninja warriors" in his back yard.

It turned out to be a house call from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The agents took the marijuana plants Paulson had nurtured in a fiberglass-walled grow area to heights of 12 feet, his day planner, laptop computer, checks intended for deposit, $3,300 in cash and several firearms from underneath his mother's bed.

From The Oregonian

From Corvallis-Gazette Times


Supreme Court to Decide Tuesday Whether to Hear Crucial Medical Marijuana Case

The U.S. Supreme Court will announce on Tuesday, Oct. 14, whether it will hear Conant v. Walters, a case that could effectively decide the fate of state medical marijuana laws. Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) staffers on both the East and West Coasts will be available for comment on this historic case.

At issue in the case is the right of physicians to recommend marijuana to patients whom they believe would benefit from its use. After California voters passed its medical marijuana law, Proposition 215, in 1996, the federal government threatened to revoke the DEA registrations of physicians who recommend marijuana -- taking away their right to prescribe any controlled substance and effectively putting them out of business.

Link from Marijuana Policy Project


Boy with one kidney can play soccer....BUT............(link)

Wasn't that nice. Not.


Did My Appendix Burst or Was That Gas?

It's time we put someone in the White House who has some vision and some sense of responsibility for the health and well-being of the American people.

Hopefully my wisdom teeth and that case of appendicitis can wait until 2005.

Via Open Source Politics