BC News' Brian Hartman Reports: President Obama's latest shovel-ready project is close to home -- in fact, right in his own yard. In an effort to promote healthy eating, the first family will be planting a vegetable garden right on the White House grounds.
ABC News' Ann Compton and Sunlen Miller report that the new White House vegetable garden will be dug up and planted on the South grounds of the White House -- near the fountain but out of view of the main house.
Though the 16-acre complex is maintained by the National Park Service, one worker who preferred to remain anonymous assured ABC News that National Park Service staff won't do the sowing and planting. The White House residence staff will handle that.
I know Washington's all in a tizzy, and everybody is pointing fingers at each other, and saying it's their fault, the Democrats' fault, and the Republicans' fault. Listen: I'll take responsibility. I'm the President.
We didn't draft these contracts. We've got a lot on our plate. But it is appropriate when you're in charge to make sure that stuff doesn't happen like this, so we're going to do everything we can to fix it.
So for everybody in Washington who's busy scrambling to try to figure out how to blame somebody else, just go ahead and talk to me, because it's my job to fix these messes even if I don't make them.
But what's just as important is that we make sure we don't find ourselves in this situation again, where taxpayers are on the hook for losses in bad times, and all the wealth that's generated in good times goes to those who are at the very top of the income ladder.
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Morning :hug:
No room to plant a veg garden at the house, but I have been thinking of finding a place then lets you plant one for a small fee.
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Morning :hug:
No room to plant a veg garden at the house, but I have been thinking of finding a place then lets you plant one for a small fee.
If you have a place that gets sun where you can have a plant or two in a pot, you can grow tomatoes and/or have a planter with various herbs (rather than have a planter with flowers or "green" plants)
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I was going to say something about leading by example and taking responsiblilty re: the Obamas, but y'all beat me to it.
Speaking of gardens Madam President, isn't there common space behind your town houses? How about suggesting that some of that area be used for a community garden.
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Our tenant's association approached "the management" last year to see about getting some community garden space.
The property manager nay-nayed us, but she said she had firsthand experience in another apartment complex where the garden devolved into people stealing vegetables and cutting down plants, so she didn't want that here.
People still suck.
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Mondo: Was it your intent to call me 2 times this morning? your message sounded like NPR playing in the background....
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Mondo: Was it your intent to call me 2 times this morning? your message sounded like NPR playing in the background....
No, it was not. You were pocket dialed. My aplogies. : throws self at Raine's feet in gesture of suplication:
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Mondo: Was it your intent to call me 2 times this morning? your message sounded like NPR playing in the background....
No, it was not. You were pocket dialed. My aplogies. : throws self at Raine's feet in gesture of suplication:
That was what I thought... no harm...
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FUCK JP MORGAN CHASE!!!!!
:rage:
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as far as I am concerned there is but one fantasy RPG and we players don't need no steekin' sof'ware! We just needs dice a couple of rule books and some minatures. All hail the mighty D&D! : trips over cloak, uses inhaler of ulitmate nerdines+3: Maaaaaaaaaaaaam!
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as far as I am concerned there is but one fantasy RPG and we players don't need no steekin' sof'ware! We just needs dice a couple of rule books and some minatures. All hail the mighty D&D! : trips over cloak, uses inhaler of ulitmate nerdines+3: Maaaaaaaaaaaaam!
I am SO glad I never got sucked into the RPG abyss...
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FUCK JP MORGAN CHASE!!!!!
:rage:
What did they do now?
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I tried playing D&D a couple times. I just couldn't get into it.
Magic: The Gathering on the other hand... I was close to becoming a pro-tour player at one point.
Then like many other MTG players I quit and started playing poker. Remember David Williams, who came in second place at WSOP a few years back? He was a pro MTG player. Pretty damn good one too, I think he won a big tourney or two.
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*snort*
My only "RPG", as it were, is sweating getting a planeload of pax on the ground in one piece in zero-zero conditions, but certain others here don't consider that gaming.![]()
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FUCK JP MORGAN CHASE!!!!!
:rage:
What did they do now?
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*snort*
My only "RPG", as it were, is sweating getting a planeload of pax on the ground in one piece in zero-zero conditions, but certain others here don't consider that gaming.![]()
: snorts on inhaler: That'sh not a game, that is a sim! : adjusts retainer of geekdom +2: :smut superior:
:poke:
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*snort*
My only "RPG", as it were, is sweating getting a planeload of pax on the ground in one piece in zero-zero conditions, but certain others here don't consider that gaming.![]()
: snorts on inhaler: That'sh not a game, that is a sim! : adjusts retainer of geekdom +2: :smut superior:
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stealing my shtick now Mondo?
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stealing my shtick now Mondo?
I wouldn't call it stealing Random. I would think of it more a pastiche technique where a previously created text is incorporated into an something else creating what is in effect a new and previously unseen text. This show the plasticity of text and it's capacity for prermutation, recontexturalizing and variability. : drops 16 tonne copy of "On Grammertolgy on self:
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Distasteful?
No... distastful is wearing White after labour day... this is obscene.