Dear Mr. Next President -- Food, Food, Food

[Scarlett Wampus]

Dear Mr. Next President -- Food, Food, Food

This, in brief, is the bad news: The food and agriculture policies you've inherited -- designed to maximize production at all costs and relying on cheap energy to do so -- are in shambles, and the need to address the problems they have caused is acute. The good news is that the twinned crises in food and energy are creating a political environment in which real reform of the food system may actually be possible for the first time in a generation.

I doubt the next President of the USA will read Michael Pollan's letter but we should.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

The next President will have plenty of opportunity to enact change. In virtually every department. In virtually every cabinet post.

It is almost inconceivable that most of the change won't be for the better - unless the neocons have another handpuppet installed.

I shudder to think what another four years of these policies will do to our country.

 

[Sunstone]

I shudder to think what another four years of these policies will do to our country.

Oh, relax, TVOR! IF McCain's elected, we'll probably start a nuclear war and never have to worry about another thing again.

 

[3.14]

might be possible but way to risky for the president

 

[The Voice of Reason]

Oh, relax, TVOR! IF McCain's elected, we'll probably start a nuclear war and never have to worry about another thing again.

Talk about de-regulating healthcare!! No need to worry about reusing hypodermic needles - the radiation burns kinda put those worries about AIDS on the back burner, don't they.

 

[kiwimac]

As Tom Lehrer put it!

When you attend a funeral,
It is sad to think that sooner or
Later those you love will do the same for you.
And you may have thought it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.
But dont you worry.
No more ashes, no more sackcloth.
And an armband made of black cloth
Will some day never more adorn a sleeve.
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too,
Therell be nobody left behind to grieve.

And we will all go together when we go.
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we all will go together when we go.

We will all go together when we go.
All suffused with an incandescent glow.
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance,
Lloyds of london will be loaded when they go.

Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
Well be french fried p'tatas by and by.
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie,
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

Down by the old maelstrom,
There'll be a storm before the calm.

And we will all bake together when we bake.
Therell be nobody present at the wake.
With complete participation
In that grand incineration,
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak.

Oh we will all char together when we char.
And let there be no moaning of the bar.
Just sing out a te deum
When you see that i.c.b.m.,
And the party will be come as you are.

Oh we will all burn together when we burn.
Therell be no need to stand and wait your turn.
When its time for the fallout
And saint peter calls us all out,
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn.

<spoken>You will all go directly to your respective valhallas.
Go directly, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollas.</spoken>

And we will all go together when we go.
Evry hottenhot and evry eskimo.
When the air becomes uraneous,
we will all go simultaneous.
Yes we all will go together
When we all go together,
Yes we all will go together when we go.

 

[Jeremy Mason]

The next President will have plenty of opportunity to enact change. In virtually every department. In virtually every cabinet post.

It is almost inconceivable that most of the change won't be for the better - unless the neocons have another handpuppet installed.

I shudder to think what another four years of these policies will do to our country.

I have to say that while I admire your optimism for change, I am weary and pessimistic about congress passing effective reform in a reasonable time frame.

 

[tomspug]

As usual, the issues that candidates should really focus on are left on the back-burner for last-minute image wars.