The difference between 20 below and 30 below

Moon through the skylight

New woodstove, hot water pots, and not enough wood

Got down to 30 below last night and I burned twice as much wood to stay warm. The new stove is hooked up, that was kind of stupid to install it in 25 below because it smoked like a tire burning and I had to open the door and air gertee out before I choked to death.

Put it together myself but got stuck on the stack piece. After struggling with the metal cutters I took it up to Tim's shop and he sawed off the 4 inches while I held it steady. Cutting metal with an electric saw is not something I ever wanted to learn how to do. It's just another one of those things that when I ask a man out here to help me with it they say "okay hold that end still" and next thing I know I'm freaking out wondering why we're not wearing safety glasses or something. I am still so afraid of saws and electrical tools, and I keep having to face that fear head on. I used the nail gun this summer and I did not want to try that either but man, am I glad I did, ended up wanting to nail a whole bunch of stuff. My brother Jimmy thinks I'm tough now but I'd still be a lot happier if he was here doing all these manly carpenter things for me. :)

Thank God I'm over my horror and just have a healthy fear left of the chainsaw because I sure need to cut wood now. I was getting so spoiled with the above zero temps and was wearing so few layers of clothes it was like I was in Seattle again. But that's over. Right now I still have my snowpants on and my hat because I want to be HOT after being outside for the past half hour. It is incredibly beautiful this morning though, the moon is right THERE above the hostel and I barely needed my headlamp on to see what I'm cutting. I couldn't help but be happy I had to be out there, and that is part of the appeal of this lifestyle. Now I think I know why mushers run the Iditarod, and I was imagining myself mushing into the crisp mtns and having to melt snow and feed and see to my dogteam, and then I ran back inside to warm up.

Anyway, I'm getting lots of great contacts from the last few blogposts and I have to say a huge thank you to all the people who are digging on this with me. Silvia in New Zealand (who has the cutest little gertee in her backyard) is working on a new gertee model. Tracy at Possum Living said the nicest things about me and my ACL work, the Survivalist News is linking to me now and my sister Susan may come visit Gerteeville next summer with her good friend Jane who I met in Madison in 1974. Those were the good old days when Madison was full of free spirits and friendly people. I'm thinking I should be ready for a fun summer, and that's what will keep me going for the next four months of this hard wintertime living. I sure hope I'm not glamorizing this in any way because that would be just wrong. This life is plain brutal, and so far nobody has asked if they could come visit me now, and why would they. Paris sounds oh so much better, right Sue?

The thing I've learned about myself in this is that I'm way better off if I don't think about the hard things I have to do before I do them. Thinking about putting on all my gear and going out there and tugging big logs off the pile and sawing them carefully and bending over and picking them up one by one and loading them on the cart and then carrying them inside and stacking them by the stove... it kind of depresses me. And there's no point in thinking about it anyway. I know what has to be done and I know it has to be done every day. It's when I put it off that I think about it and worry that I'm gonna run out before I get off my ass and go get more. My sister asked what I do when I get sick and I realized I haven't been sick since I started living like this. So then I decided I better have a stash of extra wood inside in case I do fall ill. But I know me, I'm gonna burn it like I have every other stash, I'll be like oh yay, I don't have to cut more right now cause I have that other pile in the corner.

This would all be so much easier if I was burning oil or propane and I did consider installing the oil stove Rick brought over. But the price of oil was so high then that I didn't want to get dependent on it and then not be able to afford it. Now it's less than $3 a gallon and oh well.

The Manifesto is finished!!! For real this time. Nord's picking up the proof tomorrow and if it looks good she's placing the order. Great Originals is pretty fast once we have it ready and the orders should go out by the end of the week. Some people have waited a long, long time for their books and I've stressed over it for almost a year now. We've had a lot of things happen that slowed things down but Nordica never gave up and I'm very lucky she's so committed to making it all come together. I was ready to give everyone's money back and she said "No mom, just chill, we can do this."

I've also been introduced to an amazing new thing called Earthing Technology. I'm going to get to try one of the bed pads! Thanks Bob!

Freedom Fighter Radio interview

temps down to 20 below again, but it's clear!

Model gertee shows my actual interior layout

Thanks to Debbie Lewis at www.takebackwashington.com, I'll be a guest on Jim Stach's show Fridaym December 19, 2008, from 8 to 10 pm Eastern. (That's 4 to 6 pm Alaska time. ) http://freedomfighterradio.net/

Had to get out and start pulling the snow load off the roof. Using a long pole with a fish net on the end. I grabbed last summer at Second Chance in Anchorage just in case I ever start fishing. It makes a good snow remover, catches the bigger chunks of ice in the net and doesn't scrape the tarp. I started on it last night about midnight, the moonlight is amazingly bright. Tim told me the moon is the closest to earth it will be in our lifetime. Said he heard it on "the news." I always feel like I need to fact check anything he gets from the TV but it IS bright tonight too. Temps are falling and I was a little chilly wading in snow over my knees but it's staying easily at 60 above inside and holding enough heat to help me get up and face another day.

Devvy Kidd has new audio files of Jerri Ball's The Great Communitarian Hoax. I never did find out what happened to Ball or why she shut down American Freedom Press. Another mystery. http://devvy.net/audio/dec08/communitarian_hoax.html

Nancy Levant's latest article at newswithviews:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy113.htm

DIY winter camping in Alaska - what it takes to survive

Gerteeville, December 10. 2008

Technically I wouldn't call this winter camping; everyone else I know does. Yes, it does qualify since my walls and roof are cloth, but this hardly resembles my wall tent camp in 2006. Today I'm in an insulated 20 foot wide gertee with a wood floor, stuffed full of furniture and things. Plus now that I'm covered in snow and the covers are frozen solid I don't even feel the wind.

In my 1:12 scale model I put all the furniture against the walls and I tried that when I first moved in here. That worked for a while I guess, but I have a lot more space using the furniture and fabric to divide my gertee into 3 rooms: a main living room with the stove, chairs, couch and table, a kitchen and a bedroom. If it wasn't for the leaking along the walls I would have stayed with the furniture against the walls method (like the Mongolians do). So my sucky roof turned out to be kind of a blessing in disguise because I can USE the leaking water and now it looks and feels just like a cute 3 room cabin (on the inside anyway). I know I've said this before but I have lived in plenty of "real" houses in Alaska that were draftier and lots colder than this "tent."

It was 20 above inside when I woke up today, and that may seem cold to non-arctic people, but in the Alaskan interior on Dec 10, it's almost perfect winter weather. Still fairly easy to crawl out from my worn-out 30 degree sleeping bag and go start a fire. I use homemade wax filled egg carton fire starters so I can have radiating heat in about 15 minutes. I'm keeping the chainsaw inside so it starts no problem, even though I do have to work myself into the mood to get out there and saw it every day. Got fresh water from the well yesterday and caught enough in pots along the walls where the drips are to do another load of dishes.

It's hard to catch up when you fall behind, the key is to not let anything pile up or get neglected. There are some things that can be put off, but wood, fresh water and raw sewage are not on the "I'll do that tomorrow" list.

Comparing my situation now to the first winter I stayed out here in my Girl Scout tent, and to last winter in my little gertee with Nord and Fred. Now I'm here alone in this huge gertee and while I want to reflect on the ACL and all the things I've learned from my mistakes, I keep getting sidetracked by how much more STUFF I've accumulated in 2 short years.

Now a guy like Tim (and my girlfriend Rene) could go into the woods with nothing but a sharp knife and have a great time. Tim says he'd use the knife to cut twigs and make them into a shelter and snares, he'd trap for food and hides to keep him warm. Me, I need more than a knife, and I don't know how to trap or skin or tan or anything of the sort. So I've been trying out different materials I buy second-hand, determining what is really an essential piece of equipment compared to what sounds good but in reality doesn't really matter.

Here's what I use almost every day:

electric laptop computer
electric portable phone, mainly for the dialup modem
electric extension cords, power surge protectors
LED headlamp (sunset's at about 4:30pm)
Sleeping bag, felt insert
Lighter, matches
Pull dump cart
plastic pull sled
Snow shovel (cause it just keeps snowing)
Chainsaw (needs sharpening, gas, engine oil and chain oil)
3 axes (splitter, regular and small)
Woodstove, using about 3 12 foot long, 5 inch round logs a day, cut into 18 inches for the stove
egg carton wax fire starter (eliminates need for kindling)
pot holders (dirty for the stove, clean for food)
Chamber Pot
toilet paper
electric Coffee pot (sometimes electric bean grinder)
Water jugs
electric refridgerator
2 large metal pots of heating water
electric lamps (candles and oil lamps too)
Camerons Little Smoker (it's my oven)
Stoneware pots with lid (for rice and beans)
coffee cups
silverware
plates
bowls
electic skillet (a real help when you have no stove)
metal wash bins
dish soap
hand soap
toothpaste, brush
hairbrush, hairties
hand lotion
cotton towels

Here's what I wear:

thick wool socks
shorts (for when it's 70 above inside)
longjohns
t-shirt
sweat pants or loose jeans, carharts
various sweaters and fleece jackets

I have 5 essential pairs of winter boots, all 2 sizes larger than my normal shoe size:

Heavy Sorells with 4 extra felt liners
Medium Sorrels with same liners
Bearpaws sheepskin inside boots
Lands End ankle boots
Steger Mukluks

I have several pairs of gloves and mittens, ranging from ladies' felt to Army extreme weather. When one pair gets wet I hang them over the stove and use another. I found a pair of iinsulated rubber gloves that work really well in 20 above but they'll probably crack in 40 below.

I have 17 coats; I buy them for pennies on the dollar and give them away to women who just moved here from places where they don't need so many different kinds. Even the gals coming from New England are unprepared for how weather specific coats are. I've recently began a collection of old used furs off ebay. Won 3 so far under $35.00, the first to arrive is not any fur Tim recognises (maybe sheepskin?) and will be suitable for cutting and sewing. Still waiting on the sheared beaver and another unknown type to arrive snail mail, hoping one of them fits and is wearable. The 2 warmest winters I spent in Fairbanks were the ones when I had a full length fur. I like to put fur coats on top of my sleeping covers and crawl in it when I get up.

The Alaskan Natives make the warmest coats, hats, mittens and boots, but they are way out of my price range with beaver and sealskin mittens starting around $300.00.

I have 2 pairs of snowpants, one cheap thin pair and one expensive down pair of coveralls that's a men's x-large; I planned to tailor it to my medium women's size. I'm looking for better pants and a snowsuit that has the jacket attached (for when I get a snowmachine ~ heh!)


My hat collection is a joke, and I treat them like I do coats. My head is so small that most hats ride up my pinhead and I look ridiculous wearing them. Not that I care so much anymore what I look like, but other people do. I've begun buying childrens' hats and they at least fit. I'm simply going to have to start making my own hats or look like a dork for the rest of my life.

My scarves are another odd assortment of secondhand store neck warmers; my favorites are the thin one I took from Nordica and the thin one she crocheted for me last winter in hopes that I'd give hers back.

As for food, I won't bother listing all of it, but it IS such an issue that I'll describe it later on in a post all its own. Not only are all animals going to be required to be registered, most of the seed supply is genetically modified and the global government has specific plans regarding our access to store bought food supplies. The U.S. government and most states have passed emergency regulations allowing them to confiscate ALL stored goods from private homes in an emergency. I've been told Alaska does not allow us to have more than six months worth of food stored at any one time, and I've been meaning to check up on that (before I tell you what I got). The most obvious way to get people to go along with emergency procedures is to make sure they have to go to the refugee camp for food and supplies. Once there you will be required to sign up for ALL the new communitarian benefits. You can have all the gear and water you need to live, but if you don't have food and a way to replenish your food supplies, you will die. Remember, even the 18th century European settlers did not have the skills or knowledge to make it in America alone.

Tim and Wyatt, going trapping in 2007

Tim fell through the ice on the beaver pond up to his waist the other day. His 12 year old grandson was with him and they're so much alike neither of them said anything until they got back to the house and Tim was wringing out his socks. Sometimes I wish he were more of a writer so he could keep a blog about his daily expeditions and the way he handles the challenges he faces. Like most old timers, he spins a good yarn and unlike most people, he doesn't need to exagerate at all. He makes my adventure in my cute winter gertee look like a city girl playing Barbie dolls. The brutal truth of what it takes to really survive up here is still so surreal to me.

What a beaver coat looks like before it's a coat

Tim has generously offered to let me pillage his frozen fish and moose (they got to keep some roadkill somebody hit on the Edgerton last month!). So I don't need to go far to "find" meat. I can put my free time into useful things like I finally reorganized and made room for my miniatures.


Set up the model gertee in about 2 minutes; once it's built it's amazing how easy it is. I'm giving away my mini hutch scenes for Christmas presents this year so if you want one be sure to send me your address! Unpacked a few boxes of ornaments and glass pretties we stored, and with my pictures back on the dressers it doesn't feel like I'm camping at all.

I've been invited to participate in a new blog launched by the European Journal of International Law; I must have signed up on their mailing list or something. Maybe they'd be interested in my hands-on global poverty and safe and affordable housing research. http://www.ejiltalk.org/

And Now For A World Government, by Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The "respected" press could not go on forever pretending there are no plans to establish a One World Government. Rachman starts out assuring us he's not a conspiracy nut, and then moves right into describing the EU's supranational system of governance. He makes sure he mentions the EU's accumulated body of law twice in the second graph.

Of course he didn't feel it was important to NAME that body of law for his American readers. Nor did he feel it was relevant in this "fact based" story to describe how it is already underway across the globe (including the USA) via UN Local Agenda 21 Programmes and Community Economic Development. No mention of sustainable development or the role it plays in the balance between national law and international law. He gives just enough watered down information to lead Americans straight back into the dialectic. Heaven forbid Americans should have any other options for stopping Fabian plans besides fruitless armed rebellions. Peaceful non-compliance of unconstitutional laws, treaties, regulations and agreements doesn't play into the synthesis, so why bother explaining how that can be accomplished. It's much better for the globalists if American people think the only way to fight a War on Words is with guns. It's also a huge help if people never understand what communitarian law is. Leave them stuck in the capitalism versus communism divide and they'll never know what hit them.

"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."
- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 (posted by Bob Lanzer in a comment to Rachman's article)

Krushchev, like all the Soviets, was an EXPERT liar. If the synthesis was planned at the same time the thesis (capitalism) and antithesis (communism) were, and the goal was always to create a solution called world government, then should we believe Krushchev's 50 year old promise or the REALITY of what we actually live with today?

Will this revelation change my public status from wacko to intelligent political analyst (or at least just a concerned citizen)? I doubt it. My focus on the synthesis (the actual EU laws) means I'm still too ahead of their propaganda game. Barack Obama will be the one who introduces the synthesis to the global "masses," not me. And he'll make it sound a lot better than I do.

And now for a world government, by Gideon Rachman, Financial Times:

"I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

"A "world government" would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.

"So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might." {boldface mine} Read the rest of this article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a03e5b6-c541-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html

Many thanks to Larry G. for sending me this link!

"Tracking Judicial Dialogue-The Scope for Preliminary Rulings from the Italian Constitutional Court"

Personal news:

Back in gertee after a month in Palmer. It's snowed about a foot since we left and I had to shovel a path to my woodpile before I could chainsaw a load. It's warm though, staying above zero, and yeah, that makes my life a lot easier.

If it stays warm Tim promised he'll hitch up a team and start teaching all his eager neighbors how to mush. He hooked me up with 4 dogs 2 years ago today but I haven't done it since. I'm determined to mush this winter and hoping one of his leads can train our Osa to pull. He doesn't think Osa will be worth anything but that's only because he breeds champion race dogs. We have to clear trails first and he's busy trapping, plus the fact that he doesn't have any sleds left cause he's been selling them along with the teams, so he has to make more now. The work never ends around here and I'd be better off learning to make my own sleds too.

I called him from Palmer before I left and he had to hang up because he was trying to find a spot with thick enough ice to cross the river. Then he told me he's seen lot of grizzly tracks, figures they're still out cause it's been so warm. Said there's a long stretch of deadfall where the riverbank caved in and that's where they like to make their dens. I went with him once to check beaver traps cause there were bears that time too, but I decided I'm just not that interested in trapping. But I do eat meat and love wearing fur, nothing warmer in my experience, and with a little effort I've found some good deals on fur coats on ebay, one was only 10 bucks because it had a few rips. Won it, sewed it tonight and think it'll make a fine bathrobe and extra blanket when it does get down to 50 below. I know it will, only a matter of when.

Serious leaking action with all the fresh snow on the roof, got 4 main drips with containers underneath them, and already have almost 3 gallons, which is enough to do the dishes! Saves me hauling it in and making me realize how important it is to figure out how to collect rainwater, at least in a more organized way. Once I put the new roof cover up the drips will stop, and I hope I never slack in that department ever again. I'm gonna have to change all the wall coverings and replace the carpet. My car is buried under 18 inches so I'll be digging it out before I'm going anywhere. Put the new woodstove together but it's taller than the one I borrowed from Ron so I need to get the tin cutters from Tim and adjust the stack height before I install it.

The Mercantile is still open, Lisa Boone leased it and will hopefully be buying it in the spring. We agreed to put the site back up and figure the bill out later. This means I will not starve over the winter as long as there is still food available in the stores. Well, I wouldn't starve anyway with my beans and rice stash, but I have an income source and am very grateful for that. I took advantage of the fast internet in Palmer and wrote several pages for the Merc's Adventure Highways portion. We have the go-ahead to start realizing the Vacation Packages business too. This is also good news for Camp Redingon and could be a big boost to local tourist providers next season. The State of Alaska Division of Tourism and Palin's Rural Economic Plans DO NOT include advertising and marketing local businesses UNLESS they are connected to the Parks. I think Kenny Lakers are being punished for flat-out rejecting Scenic ByWay designation. If you're a tourist going to Wrangell St. Elias National Park, this "red" state would prefer you only know about Wellwood Center (the local School of the Earth), WISE, and McCarthy-Kennicott Mine.

My research turned up some rude facts regarding the future of my neighborhood. There really is no place left in the USA that exists outside the plan. If there were such a place it would be here, but it's not. Free Alaska ended when Alaska joined the union (1958) and all the regulators arrived to stop people from living off the land, Fabian style. It was pretty mind blowing to see the official sites' "facts" as opposed to what I found in the Alaska state historical archives. It's so hard to separate me from my work; even though the Merc's site is not political at all, I still went into ACL mode writing the essay on Kenny Lake. http://www.kennylake.com/kennylake.htm

In ACL News:

New constitutions are required to give the new governing bodies legitimacy (and enforcement powers). Here are a couple examples of how law students in the USA are taught the concepts for Communitarian Law (called Community Law) and what judicial supremacy entails.

"Dear friends of the Jean Monnet Center,

"We are pleased to announce the online publication of the tenth paper in the 2008 Jean Monnet Working Paper series. We include the abstract of this paper below:

"Marco Dani, "Tracking Judicial Dialogue-The Scope for Preliminary Rulings from the Italian Constitutional Court"
(JMWP no. 10/08)

"In cases 102-103/2008 for the first time the Italian Constitutional Court has referred a question to the Court of Justice under the article 234 EC procedure. The article analyses this decision in light of previous contrary case law and argues that, insofar as supremacy will be construed according to the Simmenthal doctrine, the scope for preliminary ruling from that Constitutional Court will be rather narrow, as mainly limited to principaliter proceedings.

"Such a conclusion brings about an important theoretical implication. Constitutional Courts such as the Italian one will face difficulties in interacting directly with the Court of Justice and, notably, in conveying at supranational level the authentic versions of national constitutional traditions. Conversely, ordinary courts seem in a better position to play a similar role. As a consequence, if we want the Court of Justice to modify its octroyée methodology of construing common constitutional traditions, we have to place all our stakes on a judicial dialogue based on ordinary courts as the privileged interface between the EU and national constitutional environments.

"We invite you to access this Working Paper on the Jean Monnet Center website at www.jeanmonnetprogram.org."

A keyword search for the phrase "Simmenthal doctrine" leads back to a Jean Monnet working paper: ("6) Constitutional law and European integration":
http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/98/985006.html

"Political integration of constitutional states, including the fifteen members of the European Union, requires a constitutional basis. The constitution is the supreme affirmation of the primordial power of a people over themselves (as a collectivity), and over the space they occupy. The constitution organizes various branches of government, establishes the balance between them, and sets the limits of power by guaranteeing a set of fundamental rights against (public or private) trespass. From this source derive the legitimacy of power and the validity of the law it enacts. In short, the constitution "constitutes" the state by establishing it as a legal entity[26].

"Clearly, the process of integration profoundly transforms the states involved on a number of levels.

"By definition, integration involves a reduction in state sovereignty.[27] The extent of this reduction is pre-defined. It may be indefinitely increased either through reform of the founding Treaties, or, more informally, by the ever widening interpretation of the Treaties clauses establishingthe jurisdiction of Community bodies over member states. The tendency to increase the power of the Community, and consequently to limit that of the member states, is not a passing phase, nor is it attributable to power-hungriness among "Eurocrats" in Brussels. Rather, this tendency is structural - a necessary consequence of the telos of the system, which the Treaty of Maastricht defines as the search for "a more and more perfect union." As this formulation indicates, the process of integration is set on an infinite time scale without pre-defined techniques for determination and attribution of competencies to the Community.[28]

"This deliberate alteration of the status of member states, in turn, generates other changes, which are unavoidable if the integration process is to continue. First, integration changes the very structure of national legal systems. Logically, the submission of the State to the Community requires that Community law prevail over national law in the sphere of Community responsibilities. In each of the member states, the Community is source of a new law whose provisions prevail over domestic norms of any level. The supremacy of this new body of law liberates the national judges who must apply it from their duty of absolute submission to nation law, including national constitutional law, and, in effect, transforms them into Community judges. The main implication of this release is to allow national judges to escape in some measure the binding force of fundamental rights as defined in their respective national constitutions.[29]

"Secondly, the supremacy of Community law substantially modifies the formal subordination of governments to their respective Parliaments, whose principal consequence for the domestic legal orders of member states is the supremacy of statutes over delegated legislation and executive orders. The supremacy of "derived" or secondary Community law, made by the representatives of national governments in the Council of Ministers, turns upside down this relationship.

"Finally, integration also alters the balance established by national constitutions between the central government, and regional and local entities and organizations.

"Providing an adequate constitutional basis for a transformation of this magnitude is necessary for the states involved, since their own legitimacy would fall into doubt if changes were carried out in opposition to their respective constitutions. The Community is also in vital need of an articulated constitutional basis, given that it has only the power granted to it by its member states and its law exists only to the extent that national judges, whose decisions cannot be reviewed by the European Court of Justice, respect it.[30] Obviously, judges will not be able to respect Community law if its validity and its asserted primacy have no basis of support in the constitutions they are bound by oath to uphold."

And from Old Dog, here's a whole 'nother twist on the law, from the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog (Obama's comrades in community arms):
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2008/11/22/experts-on-the-future-of-the-sec/

Is Obama a Natural Born Citizen? The Donofrio Case

No matter what your opinion is of the continuing questions regarding Obama's eligibility status (and believe me, I have seen the way Obama supporters react to these charges), this attorney's blog is a good example of what happens to information when it makes its way into the alternative and mainstream news. Interesting role World Net Daily plays in distributing false information about him, and I really like this man's attitude about petitions, form letters and following him. Why do people assume that if you stand up for something, the next "natural" step is you have to lead others to reach the same conclusion? When people tell me that communitarianism sounds good to them now, I say, "Okay. See ya." Well, usually. :)
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

Living Other People's Lives, A Dutch view on the Communitarian v Liberalism divide

Have a few days of fast internet left and watching videos every chance I have. Here's a youtube presentation of another young European man's fundamental, philisophical view of the Dutch Prime Minister's Communitarian paternalism. He gets it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoi9joi2vm8&NR=1

I still find it amazing that Europeans know so much about this theory of law when Americans still call it a conspiracy theory.

Hardcopy Manifesto update: We are looking at the proof this week. We expect it to take one more week before they're ready to ship. Thank you for your paitence!

Obama's selection of Hillary Clinton as Sec State has to mean more than just a bottle of champagne for Communitarian Network founder Amitai Etzioni. I'd think 2 openly communitarian politicians leading the White House would call for something just a little bit stronger.

Wasn't Hillary the one who used the term communitarian when she was campaigning in Iowa? And Bill is going to distance himself from his Global Initiative when Obama sponsored the Global Poverty Act?