Onions Lobby For Arctic Crude

The Intercept's Lee Fang reports that the National Onion Association very nearly replicated some  petroleum drilling financed astroturf. Who could predict that the onion industry would demonstrate such strong support for oil and gas development in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OC)?

Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward

1. Rebuilding Our Crumbling Infrastructure
2. Reversing Climate Change
3. Creating Worker Co-ops
4. Growing the Trade Union Movement
5. Raising the Minimum Wage
6. Pay Equity for Women Workers
7. Trade Policies that Benefit American Workers
8. Making College Affordable for All
9. Taking on Wall Street
10. Health Care as a Right for All
11. Protecting the Most Vulnerable Americans
12. Real Tax Reform

 If you are as sick of 30 second political ads as I am, you can sign Bernie's petition to the Democratic party asking to Debate Early and Often.

Wikileaks Explains Three Big T's (Corporate Ownership)

TPP, TTIP and TISA, all of these secret laws are alive and well.

Cleanliness Is Next To Donaldness!

The Domestic Donald video on the right won't make it any easier not to have some kind opinion about the Donald and his race for President, but it does illustrate the concept that anything we might see, think or believe  now is merely a snapshot of this current moment.          That said, enjoy this short video of the Donald hawking laundry detergent :)

Rep Cleve Loney's Vendetta- Why?

http://montanalegislature.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=5&clip_id=17987

http://billingsgazette.com/news/group-pickets-in-front-of-child-protective-services-in-downtown/article_834a4b52-1d91-5442-b88c-e7b078e6e54a.html#utm_source=billingsgazette&utm_campaign=most-popular-tabs-2&utm_medium=direct

Does anyone know how he has managed to get himself elected?

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Zachary Klundt Sentencing Today

I expected to be there while Zachary Klundt was scheduled to be sentenced for terrorizing long time health care provider Susan Cahill by trashing her clinic at 2:00 p.m. today. While the young Mr. Klundt was apparently struggling with some life issues and addictions after his divorce, but his crime did not happen in a vacuum. You may be aware, or you may not, that Klundt's mother is heavily involved with our local pregnancy crisis center. Update 

 A large nicely framed "Golden Rule" Norman Rockwell print hung right inside the entry to Cahill's clinic on Meridian before Michelle Reimer, director of our local crisis pregnancy center, bought the building to evict her.

Rumor has it that Reimer let the building go back to the bank some time after Zachary Klundt ruined this picture and every picture in Susan's newly reopened clinic on First Avenue East. Every picture. Why on Earth did the police/ prosecutors wait until yesterday to reveal that Klundt was coordinating with his mother before he chose to smash the pictures of Susan's family?

I know that Susan was looking into Restorative Justice in Kalispell without much luck, but anything else is insufficient address to the choices that created this tragedy.
Five Years

She's Beautiful

In the past, my thoughts about transgendered persons have been really all about me. First of all, there is the awkwardness of having to ask how they want to be addressed and not having a clue about proper etiquette for the situation. Then there is the gratitude  that I would never have to have the experience of making the difficult choices about how to proceed with life simply because I am what I was born to be.

 Caitlyn, though tempts me to say "I'll have what she's having"