Opinion

Having lived in C.O.

It gets tiring hearing Obama supporters continually trying to lay all the blame for the bailout at the feet of George Bush. Remember before the last presidential election how Obama and McCain rushed back to D.C. to vote on the bailout proposal? And remember how Mr. Obama voted for it right along with the rest of the cronies? That should have been a tip off, but most of us were too blind (dumb, misguided?) to see the writing on the wall, let alone read it.
If Mr. Obama really wants to put his money where his mouth is, he would call back a goodly portion of that unfair bailout money from the rich who got it so undeservedly and redistribute it among those who so desperately need it.
But in reality Mr. Obama is no different from those he appears to oppose. They are all the same; they just disguise themselves or attempt to hide behind different faces and labels to keep us erroneously thinking that we have a choice. We don't. They are all doing the bidding of those that run the show, and [they're] all working toward the same end.

I want to extend sincere thanks to the Interdisciplinary Environmental Education (IEE) students at Sisters High School for their efforts today at Rainshadow Organics. We have embarked on a yearlong project to refurbish our old potato cellar to once again store food for our community. At Rainshadow we produce a wide variety of vegetables and grains on 127 certified organic acres. That food feeds 65 families who are CSA farm members and provides many items to the Bend hospital, local restaurants and Melvin's Fir Street Market in Sisters. My goal at the farm is to extend our feeding season beyond June through October, into the winter with roots, cabbages, grains and other preserved foods.
Seventy students, five teachers and several volunteers showed up at the farm yesterday with pitchforks in hand. We ran four trucks and two dump trailers non-stop for two hours and this group cleaned out thirty years of accumulated hay. I was so impressed with their hard work, enthusiasm, and teamwork. Anyone who says kids don't know how to work anymore has not met these terrific kids from Sisters. Talk about troopers covered in sweat and hay, dust stuck to mascara, crawling under the trailer, jumping in the trailer to make more room, driving trucks, digging potatoes… totally down and dirty. Its incredible what teamwork can accomplish and what fun these kids made out of an awful job.

When will our mainstream media start covering the “Occupy Wall Street” event? It was so interesting to see that American media had no problem covering this type of activity around the world and criticized their governments and media for blacking it out. How are we any different? This matter isn’t going away and is expected to swell all over the country.

If Kay Redfield Jameson (upcoming OSU Cascades Program) and the Military/Industrial/Medical/Governmental Complex are suggesting we should think “normally” and quiet the “unquiet” mind, no thanks. Such assumptions would be a direct affront to critical, independent and natural thinking. May citizens reject political definitions of mental health? Quieting the “unquiet” mind (as Big Pill Industry and increasingly, government seems to want to do) ignores the dynamic, conscious, individual, evolutionary, exceptional, creative, visual, sensory and daily biorhythm of the structured mind.

Sirs,
Kudos to the Source for pointing out Bank of America's “humanitarian” plan to increase the return of its wealthy shareholders by cutting 30,000 of its employees from the pay rolls. Another example of the bullshit Bush Bailout gone awry.