Michelle Obama
Mike Krumboltz - Sludge in the Garden
by Mike Krumboltz
New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden?
The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic vegetable garden have been dragged down by a previous resident that refuses to leave: sludge.
Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama’s organic garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind.
According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found highly elevated levels of lead due to sewage used as fertilizer.
So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons. Yep, back when Bill and Hillary were living it up in the White House, their gardening team used sewage sludge for fertilizer. The fiends!
Sounds gross, but it’s actually fairly common. However, it does mean that the highly touted organic garden will never attain organic status. The certification process doesn’t allow the use of sludge as a fertilizer substitute. And there’s another problem: If Malia and Sasha weren’t into eating their veggies before, it’s going to be that much harder to get ‘em to eat ‘em now.
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869?fp=1
I thought it was in reference to the Victory Gardens that my Great-Grandma used to talk about… or maybe to encourage organic farming on a national level. Now I’m being told that I am a racist because I liked the idea of ending a silly childish tradition like an Easter Egg hunt in favor of a symbolic national garden with organic fruit and veggies? I don’t get it?
President Bush just unveiled a $2.9 trillion spending plan to murder more people in Iraq. Has he not sufficiently run this country deep enough into debt ??? What IS the present state of National debt in America ? Should it not be the first priority to crerate environmentally-freindly jobs, and feed and shelter the homeless in America ? Would those billions not be better spent cleaning up all the pollution created by criminal industrialists funded by Bush, pig farmers, etc…and be used to grow organic vegetables, grains, beans, etc…. isn’t it more intelligent to spend those trillions to educate people to depend LESS upon an oil-based economy through self-sufficient living ? How did we allow a criminal to get elected, and why are we still allowing him to create a hell on earth ???!!! If we don’t do something about him, are we also not guilty of indirectly participating in his atrocities ? Is he and Cheney not the greatest crminals in America at this moment ?
