Barb found these nifty little starter cubes at Big Lots the other day. They have a water tray, a lid and 72 little pots in each unit for $4.50 what a deal. I'll mix up some starter soil in my cement mixer and start the tobacco in about another month. They will need a controlled environment for the first 30 days, then I can plant them out side.
Goodbye America
I could have written this post before the State of the Union address because I could figure out what was going to be said the day after Obama was re-elected. I have been alluding to what was said in the address ever since his re-election. The only difference between now and when he was first elected is that he has learned to lie out of both sides of his mouth which makes his speeches sound more convincing to the mentally challenged. He has started to contradict himself within seconds though and he isn’t smart enough to know he’s doing it – either are the people who listen to his babble. He talked about trade with the EU and how many jobs it created and in the very next breath wanted to get us involved in a new Transatlantic Fee Trade Agreement – the exact opposite of creating jobs. He doesn’t quite get the fact that tariffs not only create revenue for the U.S. but they also protect our industries and jobs. All the while the EU has passed the Tobin Tax to tax the piss out of our financial markets because they know how tariffs work. How has NAFTA worked out for us? He wants to raise the minimum wage, a time proven job killer, oh but wait he wants more stimulus money to restart the WPA – rehabbing houses and repairing roads and bridges that we already paid to have repaired in the past two stimuli. He wants the rich to pay their fair share – didn’t we just do that? This time it’s different and will reach deep into the middle class, as if anything he has done hasn’t already, by changing the tax code. All in the same part of the speech as strengthening the middle class. How is taking away your mortgage deduction, increasing taxes on your investments and taxing the hell out of your 401k strengthening the middle class? He says he created 6 million jobs – isn’t there some other number in the equation to get a sum? He must have forgotten that in the same period of time our economy lost 16.8 million jobs, a net loss of 5.8 million jobs. He says he has figured out a way to control the weather, another sham to fleece us at the gas pump by applying big carbon taxes on petroleum use – have you been waiting for gas prices to go down? Wait no more, they are guaranteed to go higher, I hope it doesn’t get too cold next winter. Maybe, someday someone will pay attention, but it is not very likely, our population is devoid of common sense.
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