the yellow fringe

Lets see, herding global warming cats, or big money influencing politics and media?

2012-02-28T11:22:00.004-08:00

How wild is this? According to Senator Inhof (R-Koch) ((OK)) hundreds of scientist and researchers speaking different languages, in different fields, from nations and universities all over the world are taking directions and money from a few (mostly rag-tag) tree hugger groups to create this hoax. Diabolical ain't it? And amazingly, different groups looking at different events and causes are finding their data in different disiplines arrive at similar conclusions. Even more incredible they are so well organized and have such a fanatical belief, no one of them will admit to the hoax or stop participating in it.

It seems only massive corporations can save us from the information these scientist want to share with us, and thank goodness deniers can explain it away each time it snows somewhere. Long live the Oligarchs.
(90% in the cartoon above is wrong, the number of real scientist working in the field they were educated in which believe global warming is real is 98%, the agreement is much stronger than you think. We have a physicists in the extended family, climate specialist for NASA, two years ago their office had threats, they now have no signs telling what it is or who works there, the building and doors are guarded, for some reason people would do harm to people who record temperatures and ice thickness. Any time I ask him about his work he says it is depressing, the data is stronger with every new set, we are falling in a hole.)

Stocks, home sales, consumers, corp. profits, all up, GOP down on everything

2012-02-28T08:15:00.002-08:00

Speaking of what's up, or down. 1) The stock markets are up, for 75 years they have gone up more when democrats live in the White House than when Republicans do. It is so pronounced, even if you throw out the best stretch (Clinton) and the worst (Bush 43) the rule is still true. 2) Oil prices are down a little yesterday then more at opening this morning, there is no oil shortage, infact a world wide glut, the price rise is speculation by the job creators who prowl the earth stripping assets and creating imagined shortages for profit, the dictionary should define profit as your money when it's in a rich guys pocket. 3) Taxes at GE are down, 2.5% tax averaged over 10 years. How about you, if you had a job what did you pay? 4) The RED states are down on women, falling all over themselves with new zealotry to strip the privacy and dignity of women, their vagina's, their health. In Kansas (sometime over the last few years, it is not being divulged with any detail) a 10 year old was pregnant, today there is an army of thousands of Santorums out there right now saying 10 year olds cannot have an abortion, it is a gift. 5) Obama's approval ratings are up, but once the GOP race for village zealot is over the aristocracy and corporate boards will turn hundreds of millions of $'s to the smear machine, it will be close in the end, you better kick in $10, help him make that claim most of his money came in less than $100 lumps.

If you don't vote, don't talk politics in here.

Odds for village zealot race

2012-02-28T06:22:00.004-08:00

Michigan, no call.
Arizona, Romney, 99% chance of win.
Georgia, Gingrich, 78%.
Ohio, Santorum, 78%.
Oklahoma, Santorum, 96%.
Tennessee, Santorum, 93%.
Virginia, Romney, 94%.
Place your bets at the confessional. $10,000 minimum, no vomiting allowed.

Made another micro-loan to a small business

2012-02-27T11:05:00.003-08:00

If you need tires repaired or replaced in New Orleans, see my buddies at Al & Al.

Kiva, thats kiva.org finds small businesses looking for small loans, then they let guys like me and you form a group and we loan them money. So 10 to 100 people chip. The minimum you can loan is $25. I have made 7 loans over the last 4 years, $50 or less each time. 5 are paid back in full, one is almost finished and never missed a payment. This is the first US loan, all the others have been in Mexico, Central or South America, you can choose from the list of stories. I like to loan to art, service, or manufacturing businesses, once to a lady that grew flowers.

The default rate is only a couple of percent. Amazing isn't it? The people taking the loan must go to a class on business and they are screened heavily to be sure they are serious, and it pays off. Most of the loans being sought are around $1,000. I have given 3 times a $25 gift card to kids to others so they would get involved. Together we have made about a dozen micro-loans. These loans would not be possible in a bank because they do not count determination and knowledge as an asset, or in the third world they can get loans for 50% interest or more from people who are better to steer clear of. I don't get any interest, I just get my money back if it is paid back. Pretty much no one takes their money out of Kiva, we just keep rolling it over to another person with a dream to prosper. Take your $25 and head over to kiva.org

My dead ancestors are going to convert to Mormonism

2012-02-24T13:41:00.004-08:00

Two of my grandfathers, on dad's side, fought in the revolutionary war under Capt. Cox from Virgina. They were brothers, later the cousins married, therefore the brothers are both amongst my list of grandfathers. 50 years ago, in California an older cousin married a mormon, and their kids we learned are beginning the process of converting the dead to Mormon.

Is there any other religion that does this? I read today that the process, what ever it is, has started to convert Anna Frank. So will we need to change history now, to correct this. The Nazi's chasing down the Mormons, shaving their heads, taking their wealth, exterminated them? By the time they are done the Jews will have to ammend the number of dead, the Iranians will be right, the Jews have blown the whole thing out of proportion, it was the Mormons who have suffered.

If they convert my grandfathers, can't I enter the temple in Salt Lake, surely they won't turn me away, after all the Mormons did to win the Revolutionary War, and it's in my DNA, I need to start looking for some more wives, orgy time, ya gotta do it if you want your own planet when you die, and Obama better not make any more laws against religion like he did to make those stupid catholics give people working in their hospitals access to contraceptives, man that sucked.

Heart-land Department of Education

2012-02-24T08:43:00.004-08:00

http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/heartlandinstituteHeartland, a fossil fuel funded lobbying and propaganda firm, recently lost control of some of their documents. In these they clearly stated they are distorting information and making incorrect statements, harassing scientist, all to delay the day when they have to clean up their products, their manufacturing practices, our earth. It's greed, and they don't give a damn. Now they want to "give" schools a science class curriculum, a false one.

Foreign news papers view of the GOP race

2012-02-24T07:14:00.000-08:00

Every few days I spend some time looking at foreign news services, the english version except sometimes I can muddle through the German ones barley. It is pretty much unanimous, the view from outside the US is the Republicans are dragging the country too far to the right, to dangerous positions in religion, social and civil rights, and foreign policy. These foreign sources also seem more aware of the growing disparity of wealth and political access than many of our own citizens. I found some refer to Romney's corporate experience as an "asset stripper", and believe it an inappropriate vocational past for the head of a government.

Santorum, Romney, the Bible does'nt support your imagined rights to abuse resources and pollute the earth.

2012-02-23T14:24:00.002-08:00

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (Genesis 2:15)

“Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?” (Ezekiel 34:17-18)

“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants. Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.” (Leviticus 25:23-24)

“You must keep my decrees and my laws…. And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.” (Leviticus 18:26, 28)

“You shall not pollute the land in which you live…. You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the Israelites.” (Numbers 35:33-34)

“If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you?” (Deuteronomy 20:19)

“I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruits and its good things. But when you entered you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.” (Jeremiah 2:7)

Kansas residents lose 21 million last month in one of the states casinos

2012-02-23T08:57:00.000-08:00

Almost a million a day in just one casino. When will they investigate this? This is money mining. All but 22% of it leaves the state landing in the pockets of out of state gambling giants like the douche water that gave 10 million to Gingrich. That bastard makes (at 40 hours a week) about 4 million dollars an hour. I repeat, Kansas residents lose 21 million last month in a scam operation, the skimmings to be used against their better interest, and no one is worried.

Energy security from cyber warfare and hackers

2012-02-23T07:53:00.000-08:00

About 1 million rural homes in Bangladesh now run on solar PV panels. OK it's a small panel or two, it charges a few batteries for: cell phone, a half dozen LED or CF lights, maybe a computer and a tiny fridge. The number is growing every day. Bangladesh is poor, small, with a gazillion people. It is not possible to lay thousands of miles of power cables and to manage a network of power stations. Mini wind mills are popping up in Africa like this, some made of the junk they find. What seems like a primitive system, may turn out to be a lesson for us.
The grid in the US is managed by a combination of men and computers, moving electricity here and there to serve our needs, but these computers and the communications to switching stations and power plants can be attacked from tim-buc-2 at any minute. If it happens and as back up systems come to the end of their reserve you have: no city water, no municipal sewer pumps, traffic lights, ATM, internet, banking system, cold storage, gas pump at the Texico, etc.
Localized small scale wind and solar sources could be the safety net rendering an attack less destructive. Home owned, neighborhood owned, local businesses self equipped, the municipal water plant, if a few of these had the ability to continue off line in storm or attack, the nation would be much safer. Look at WallMart and Ikea and some other companies installing roofs full of solar panels are equipping themselves to save energy and be green, but also stay open if the grid crashes.

Why the ‘Keystone Vision’ is an Economic Mirage

2012-02-22T13:39:00.000-08:00

Why the ‘Keystone Vision’ is an Economic Mirage: pPoliticians say they want to support the “Keystone Economy.” Here’s why that vision means fewer jobs, no impact on gas prices, and more pollution by Daniel J. Weiss Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) told reporters during a recent press conference on the economy on that “Solyndra and Keystone represent what’s at stake this November. Two [...]/p

No time to read it, here's the highlights. Two studies from oil industry/economist say it will have 1.7 cents per gallon impact on your gas price, at best, and not for year and years from now. Most the oil is being exported so we just are the catch tray for the spills, all the risk, a tiny benefit. A bill in congress that would have mandated the oil to be for domestic use was defeated by the GOP. Even though it is not approved law firms are already working to begin condemnation of land actions, if the farmer won't sign on first approach, take the fuckers land away from him and give it to the corporations. The number of people to install the pipeline is inflated. The refining process will dump excesive pollutants on the surrounding state, much dirtier than traditional oil. Oil prices are set on world markets, being in possession of oil has minimum impact on local prices, you don't think the Saudis are going to say oh shit Texas got a new well or pipe, thats it give them a good deal now. There's more if you care.

Chart man attacks and CEO's are ask to do something about global warming

2012-02-21T07:41:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, 92 pension funds, asset managers, insurers and banks, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which holds the world's largest collection of self-reported corporate environmental data, has sent letters to the CEOs of 415 of the world’s largest public companies calling for cost-effective management and reductions of their carbon emissions. This follows a repeat warning a few days ago by the worlds largest insurance companies, underscoring last years notice, that global warming is increasing exposure to natural disasters, will increase risks of civil unrest, thus rates are headed up sharply.
Now.......some charts.

worlds trees by their height

Water shortages, top map with global warming, bottom map without.

talk about stolen valor

2012-02-20T11:21:00.000-08:00

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/how-rick-santorum-ripped-off-american-military-veterans

Lets talk about contraceptives and asking the richest 5% of Americans pay the share of taxes they paid during the Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Bush 41 years, or even the Clinton years, all of which belong to those good old days they want to take the country back to.

If you have the proof, this shotgun is yours

2012-02-20T09:06:00.000-08:00

http://conservationhawks.org/
free: Berretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge shotgun.
Fonder Todd Tanner of Conservation Hawks will give away his shotgun, shown above, if you can convince him climate change is not harming sportsmen's hunting and fishing now and in the future.
Thats all there is to it, just gather the facts that pollution and higher temperatures are not altering the health, range, or abundance of the wild animals, plants, water and fresh air sportsman love.

Scientist, the nerds we can't trust, found why millions of Alaska's trees are dying.

2012-02-19T14:47:00.000-08:00

Global warming. Yellow cedars in Alaska live for ever, resist insects, but can't live through the new snow patterns in Alaska the last 20 years. Snow cover for months insulate the shallow roots, now snow is on again off again, warm days melts what they get, not a reliable full winter cover. The roots freeze in the cold snaps. But don't believe the scientist, instead believe your red neck uncle, the loud mouth at work, or Sarah Fail'n, or fox news , but don't believe people trained in it for years.

Do you want to live under a theocracy?

2012-02-18T19:18:00.000-08:00

Rick Santorum: Obama Agenda Not 'Based On Bible

oh Maya me'o

2012-02-18T07:10:00.000-08:00

Tennessee marble, 17" tall. I have a little more to do with texture of the surfaces to make various areas stand out. What do you think? Of the many sculptures I have made, this one puzzles me, I don't know if it should go to the rock crusher or not. With his hands up like that maybe I should name him: I pity the poor emigrant, or, red state democrat.

If congress won't raise tax on big oil, Obama will

2012-02-17T13:02:00.000-08:00

There's more than one way to skin a rich oily pole cat. Obama, unable to get the Reichwing to raise tax or cut support programs for oil companies who enjoy billions of tax breaks and freebees already, today raised the oil royalties on wells on public land. The first time since 1920 fees went up. About time the public got a fair market return on letting drillers use our land for free. The rate went from 12.5% to 18.75%, which is what it is for offshore drilling. Since oil is traded world wide, and prices are set by speculators in castles and penthouses far and wide, this will not raise the price of gas at the pump, but it brings in more ~~tax~~ royalties to the government right off the oil giants bottom line.
Will this hurt Obama's election chances, unlikely, since it will be the 1%ers and corporations howling about their precious billions, and he didn't lose a single vote, they don't vote democrat anyhow. This should add a few dollars towards our red ink, and thats good, and after seeing record high profits almost every quarter for fossil fuel pumpers, well, I don't shed a tear.

Scrooge was a tree hug'n environmentalist.

2012-02-17T09:13:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I stopped at Home Depot and bought a pack of 4 pig tail CF bulbs for about $6.80. Instant on, warm white, 60 watt equals, the package has a price for electricity on it to estimate your savings, over $5 a year per bulb at 4 hours a day. I really like them in the bathroom at night, it comes on low and over 15 seconds it goes full bright, good for the ole sleepy peepers. I dropped off a dead one, they take them for recycle.

I have this business associate that thinks global warming is a joke, and he is a cheap cheap son of a bitch, will hardly tip at a restaurant. He clips coupons, buys only on sale, collect frequent flyer miles off the credit card, and he is busy cutting his energy use like a tie-dyed tree hugger. He told me his lighting is now 100% CF's, bought new insulated windows for the north side of his house, bought power strips for the TV and computer that shut off automatically when not in use, bought weather strip/seals to put on the doors this weekend. Brags he is making money off his energy investments. He plans to buy a hybrid car this summer. The guy is green but only by his Scroogeness to save money, a friggin environmentalist he's not, he just wants to keep his money from the energy companies, and the planet benefits.

Tell Republicans that women must be brought to the table when discussing women’s health issues. Add your name:

2012-02-17T06:11:00.000-08:00

Tell Republicans that women must be brought to the table when discussing women’s health issues. Add your name:: Tell Republicans that women must be brought to the table when discussing women’s health issues. Add your name: http://dccc.org/wherearethewomen

Hover your pointer over the blue print and click to jump to another site.

Energy Security - 24/7 Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plus...

2012-02-16T11:40:00.000-08:00

These guys don't give a damn about dictators or religious zealots, or pirates, they just take energy from the sun.
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By the way, this video has nothing to do with Australia so far as I can understand, but Spain, misnamed at youtube.

Your a coupon clipper & help the environment, get the kids involved

2012-02-16T06:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.recyclebank.com/

This site can get you some discounts and be fun and educational for the kids.

XL pipeline is buying the tar sand oil pipe already, from India, even though it's not approved yet.

2012-02-15T14:05:00.000-08:00

"TransCanada Will Import Much Of The Steel For The Pipeline. TransCanada has claimed that the Keystone XL pipeline would create 7,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. But an independent analysis called that figure “unsubstantiated and misleading” because TransCanada has already signed contracts to purchase “almost half” of the pipeline materials from companies abroad........some of the steel pipe for the project was produced in India, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked TransCanada to “immediately disclose where the steel to be used in Keystone XL is manufactured.”

from Climate Progress, for info only, full credit to Climate Progress, visit it.

Buy from foreign sources, why, if the pipe costs more what happens, the pipeline will be put from Sudan to South Africa, or Peru to Germany. The only reason is to make a few extra million fast, like over 20 years that will be even a percent. It's to fuck over the US worker, that and money is all corporations and the Republicans are interested in.

Back to the Start, factory food or something better? Chipolte, good on you.

2012-02-15T08:37:00.000-08:00

Willie Nelson sings Coldplay

Please check out a great read at: Disaffected and it Feels So Good: Seems the Cathars and Christopher Hitchens had it ...

2012-02-14T06:23:00.000-08:00

Disaffected and it Feels So Good: Seems the Cathars and Christopher Hitchens had it ...: About anal sex and the Catholic Church ... "Can you understand the feeling some conservative have?" -David Gregory, Meet The Press. Yes, I c...

Lets spend 2012 talking about contraception and how unfair taxing the rich is.

2012-02-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

Got a vagina, got a few assets, the GOP has plans for you.

Well, yea, now that you mention it.

2012-02-12T15:06:00.000-08:00

Heard any stupid anti-women statements out of the Republicans the last few days? Maybe Romney bashing birth control? Can any of that be used in a commercial .... say in October?

ungulate fetish

2012-02-12T14:44:00.000-08:00

Antelope,slate 3.5" square. I have about 5 sculptures underway at once now, all others are much much larger than this.

How You Can Help Michael Mann, Author of the Must-Read Book, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

2012-02-12T14:35:00.000-08:00

How You Can Help Michael Mann, Author of the Must-Read Book, emThe Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars/em: pThe most vindicated climate scientist in America, Michael Mann, has published an excellent new book. So of course the climate science disinformers have launched an attack on the book and on the positive reviews on Amazon.com. So here are 3 things you can do for Mann: Buy and read his book, The Hockey Stick and [...]/p

Or, check with your local library, reserve it, ask them to get it if they didn't already.

Racist at CPAC and Wis. gov. Walker will withhold millions of Obama's foreclosure relief from victims

2012-02-10T10:15:00.000-08:00

Peter Brimelow is having the time of his life shmoozing, and being one of the main speakers at CPAC. Who is PB? Southern Poverty Law Firm says he is a dangerous racist, a dispenser of hate against Jews first, blacks and latino not far behind, and he wants an end to allowing emigrants never mind he is an emigrant himself. Well done PB, you know where your twisted shapes fit into the puzzle. Not one of the GOP dirt bag running for office spoke out against you. Well done PB.

Koch owned Wisconsin gov. Scott Walker is going to take millions of what Obama and the banks announced yesterday for foreclosure relief, and keep it for the state. It's too cruel to explain or believe, look it up yourself. The dude, the Republicans appear honestly to hate people who are in trouble, they just want to pile it on. What they are doing IS class warfare top down, 1%ers hammering the bottom rung, how can anyone claim it's not?

shsh, opera.

2012-02-10T07:39:00.000-08:00

"OK now I splain you"!

2012-02-10T06:58:00.000-08:00

Shall Charter Ordinance 216 entitled: "A charter ordinance amending and repealing Section 1 of Charter Ordinance No. 213, of the city of Wichita, Kansas, which amended and repealed Seciton 1 of Charter Ordinance No. 183 of the city of Wichita which amended and repealed Section 1 of Charter Ordinance No. 174 of the city of Wichita, Kansas, pertaining to the application of revenues from the transient guest tax" take effect?
Yes
No

A few years ago I visited a factory in Italy to learn of their products. The engineer, Tommasso, assigned to educate me spoke english like he was in a new sport, killing snakes and down hill racing combined. He lunged and dashed through technical diatribes, down down faster and faster he raced cutting close to the flags by dropping words he didn't have time for, he was an economist of speech, a fast breather, he sprayed just a little, and, there was the accent. But, if I ask a question, he paused long and seriously as he gathered up a wad of useful words to throw on me. Each question was answered, beginning with, "OK now I splain you", and like that he was back at full speed, it was exhausting.

Today I need some one to "splain me". Where is Tommasso when I need him? Can you help? Here is the ballot issue for an upcoming election, the language is above, and I don't know what it means. It has to do with tax. The local "job creators" are tearing themselves apart, it could come to a republican civil war. Taxes are forbidden, yet a business (in this case a hotel) can go quietly to the city and state and ask for additional sales tax to be levied on all the business they do, the extra tax skimmed from their customers is given to the business as a loan, oh, it's given up front, here take 500k$ and over the next 15 years charge all your customers 1% more and we the state will pay off your loan with this. "Splain me"? Why should the city state be doing a banks job here? Well, part of the GOP loves this, part hate it. Wichita being a wholly owned subsidy of Koch Industries, Koch is spending big to support the side that is against it which causes my kneejerk to think maybe I should vote for it. Now, look at that damn language at the top of the post. Do I vote yes or no, and what does the yes or no mean. Tommasso?

Todays science lesson is from Monty Python. Your welcome.

2012-02-09T08:26:00.000-08:00

Home schoolers can't find this in the bible. Poor buggers.

URGENT PETITION: Tell Eric Cantor not to water down a bill banning insider trading for Members of Congress

2012-02-09T07:56:00.000-08:00

URGENT PETITION: Tell Eric Cantor not to water down a bill banning insider trading for Members of Congress: URGENT PETITION: Tell Eric Cantor not to water down a bill banning insider trading for Members of Congress: http://dccc.org/stockact

If you remember, some time ago I explained a way to understand carbon

2012-02-08T15:25:00.000-08:00

If you burn the tree in your yard for firewood, depending on the type of wood and the water content we can say about 90% of it by weight vanishes into the atmosphere as carbon, instantly, a 10 pound log sends up 9 lbs perhaps. Into the atmosphere where it stays and as greenhouse gas further warms the earth from it's current norms.
OK now jump to oil and don't worry if your drive to the market sent up 2 pounds of carbon or 5, just think about all the oil man has available to burn. Scientist (the kind Republicans say are liars) say if we spew 565 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere, we’ll quite possibly go to far and change the earth completely and forever from the way we need it to be comfortable. But the oil companies, private and state-owned, have current reserves on the books equivalent to 2,795 gigatons — five times more than we can ever safely burn. It has to stay in the ground. IT HAS TO STAY IN THE GROUND. Now, I didn't even bring up coal burning, or natural gas, just oil. Most of that has to stay in the ground to.

Gigaton = a billion tons

fishing wolf, sea star 1 meter across, white spirit bear, excellent video

2012-02-08T08:30:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/19582018

I can't get the video embedded, only linked, but it is a wonderful video of the British Columbia coast and the native people there fighting the tar sands pipeline and 200+ super tankers a year from destroying their Eden. The tar sands, are the single most destructive industrial project in the world.

Watch the video. 45 minutes, but if you cannot spare it watch the first few 5 or 10 minutes, then drag the button over to 14 minutes to see the wolf fishing, and 35 minutes to see the spirit bear. It's interesting, most the natives want to continue as is, they reject the promise of wealth and villages turned to cities of high paying jobs, instead they want the wolf, bear and salmon.

First nation is one of the native groups fighting to save something of this world rather than tear it down, also check out the group below, very active in this fight.
http://www.pacificwild.org/

Did Oklahoma pass the no fetus in food act yet?

2012-02-07T12:00:00.000-08:00

Who the hell was putting baby batter in food down there in okieland? It sure as hell wasn't democrats, hell none of those slackers have a job let alone run a business. It was.........the job creators buying the cheapest bull mud substitute they could grind pump and fry. Did they pass it yet? I suspect the franchise-ee's put the kibosh on that along with banning downer cattle or increasing from 1 in 10,000 the mad cow testing.

Mean Old Florida Senator Won’t Let You Buy crap with Food Stamps

2012-02-07T11:31:00.001-08:00

from Wonkette.com, go there.

"Republican Florida state Sen. Ronda Storms has seen enough of these poor assholes in her grocery line buying candy and salty potato chips and chemical cancer juices with their food stamps. They’re everywhere, these poor people! You may have seen one yourself, hmm? It’s time to kill them all. Or at least to stick it to ‘em by restricting their food stamp purchasing ability. In the bill she’s moving through the state legislature, the poors would only be able to eat rocks, plastic, grass and poop, until they grow up and learn to stop being so goddamn poor."

I think rather than prohibiting these junk foods, the senator madam will just figure how much she thinks poor people spend on it, and reduce the budget by that amount. Snack food industry will kick her in the balls before this is over. It's not a bad idea in some ways to restrict this, it would force quick trips to sell food in poor neighborhoods. Anyhow, ain't gonna happen.

no to unilaterally disarming

2012-02-07T07:00:00.001-08:00

In 2011, the Super PAC supporting Mitt R. raised $30 million from fewer than 200 contributors. The engine of this effort to buy control of the executive branch is fueled by an average contribution of roughly $150,000. All this at the same time he roamed among his many homes, paid lower tax than you on yearly income greater than you will make in a lifetime from money hidden in foreign banks.

Barack Obama has received an average donation of $55 from 1 million 300 thousand people so far. All this at the same time he OK'd the rescue of seafaring men from pirates, exported more illegals than Bush, extended health insurance to millions of kids, OK's the end of Bin Laden while facing wobbly chin Speaker boner and the teary eyed oligarchs.

Barack has decided today to allow a pac to operate on his behalf according to the laws. Without it he would be swamped, the Kochs alone are pledgeing 100 million for just one of the Romney pacs, and they will give hugh to many local races all over the nation. Obama said he had to, it was not wise to unilaterally disarm. Insiders say even with this, Obama might be outspent. Democrats running for other offices will be outspent in most markets by hugh sums. At the end of this election cycle the GOP, the corporations, the 1%, the reichwing, may own far more of the government than they do now. At some point, your going to have to open your wallet and give a few dollars to some democrat somewhere. I always give a half dozen of them from 20 to 100 bucks each, less than 300 total I suppose, this year will be the same, maybe a bit more.

Romney's tar baby looks like a bunch of rich guys

2012-02-06T14:15:00.000-08:00

1.2 million of the 30 million raised by just one super pac for romney is from oil and coal. Among the list is Koch brothers, who gave (in this cycle & to just this group) less than a hundred thousand, but are promising 100 million, 40 million of it from their own bank accounts and Koch Industries & subsidiaries, the rest will be from arm twisting employees, associates and other oligarchs.

Does your senator take your phone call? No I thought not. Will Romney? No I thought not.

insider trading rule runs into K street

2012-02-06T12:55:00.000-08:00

The "Stock act", the rule that was sailing through that would stop members of congress and senate from an exemption on insider trading of securities is getting mucked up. K street lobbyist are on it now. Do they work for you? No, they work for the 1% that owns Congress and they don't want it.
Already some GOP dick wad has added a line to the bill removing exemptions from trading in land and property as well. I must say that is a good idea, and I didn't even know these pricks had that perk. But........this was done to kill it. Why? Who? Some sweet insider deals appear to be in the offing for some key senate or congress crooks and this is a way to kill it, kill it and they won't be able to do it. I have thought for a long time some of these shits were buying land to sell for the new army base, pipeline, or government office.

Are these Republicans working for you? Who the hell are they working for? Why do these dicks think they should have exemptions from insider trading of any kind? I'll tell you why, because they are part of the aristocracy and it's not stealing to them, it's not unfair to them, their entitled. This needs to pass and instead of the real estate rule added being a killer it should be what makes it a must pass.

Global warming will change football

2012-02-05T14:28:00.000-08:00

Brisk winds at the football games will be a myth of the past as heat stroke deaths increase on the field in place of numb fingers.

A german friend got me to join avaaz, a world wide fast response team

2012-02-03T07:48:00.000-08:00

Huge Win on Hilton Hotels vs the Rape Trade

JANUARY 2011
317,000 PETITION SIGNATURES

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PINK RIBBONS (TRAILER)

2012-02-02T12:32:00.000-08:00

was the cut off of funding breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood a political statement, or a bottom line booster? Tough love for poor ladies from a charity that morphed into a business with right wing political loyalties. Is that what this nation is coming to, even charities withhold support for the needy to score political gains?

GM attacks Fox & Republicans praying for auto companies to fail

2012-02-02T09:50:00.000-08:00

"I never thought I’d see the day when an American political party would cheer for the demise of any American company, never mind an institution like General Motors. Yet the Republican party has ........." Bob Lutz
Read what the top engineer on the chevy volt has to say at:http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/02/chevy-volt-facts/

'Eco-Atkins", stay'n alive, stay'n alive, oh oh oh oh stay'n alive.

2012-02-02T08:12:00.000-08:00

Futures market indicate a 5% increase in prices this year for meat in the US. Thank drought in much of the continent, poor quality grassland, higher grain prices competing with ethanol, low animal weight gain in hot weather, in other words thank global warming and low mileage vehicles.

Did you know the feed stocks given to livestock world wide for food production would feed another 6+ billion people on a plant based diet? Don't worry, it won't happen, it can't happen, the food industry is not prepared to feed that many more people pears and lima beans, the capacity isn't there, the infrastructure and transport isn't either, and I sure as hell don't need 6 billion more fuckers like you living on earth. But, consider the original message here. And,...... I had triglycerides of 850 a few years ago, changed the way I eat and exercise and in a couple of months it was 450, over the next several months it went to 160 where it moves around ± 15 points each year. The doctor said take statins, I never filled the order, doc was not amused, they do not like shit like this, they believe in pills.

Susan Koman, the Cure Foundation, the pink ribbon people, yank funding for cancer

2012-02-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

Many women, many of those who did not have insurance, got their breast cancer screening and some treatments through Planned Parenthood. In the name of centuries of hateful religious fanatics I want to thank you religious right, thank you anti abortion zealots, thank you republicans, thank you for your pressure to get Koman to cut off money funding breast cancer care. Your hatred is brighter than the pink ribbons you hide behind. Is this what your Christ wanted? To increase the number of women without a chance at survival of breast cancer? Actually, I think maybe he does.

Kansas on a dead run to hand the baton to industry

2012-02-01T14:08:00.000-08:00

1) A bill working it's way through Topeka will let utilities raise rates as they wish when they wish, then they have some weeks or months to apply to the rate commission, if it is disapproved they would have to refund the overcharge. That's sweet, if they get in a jam or want to puff up the quarter for managers bonus then raise the rates, if they need cash this can be a source of a loan without going to the bank or Wall Street. Don't it make ya proud to have corporations working for the publics good like that?

2) But, not all the news was good for the GOP. A federal judge blocked a coal fired power plant here from starting construction until it files all it's papers including an environmental impact study. The utility and the state GOP are howling mad. They feel the permits should be applied for concurrently with the building process. That's sweet too, wonder if I could open a strip club and outdoor bar next to the baptist school while I work on that pesky paperwork for the permit?

Background. This power plant was denied a permit by the former state EPA office under Gov. K. Sebielus (D) (now Obama's secretary of Health). The reichwinger gov (Koch) Brownback fired almost everyone in the state EPA when he got here, left a kid with a rubberstamp in the room, and they promptly approved the coal burner with no care that it blows mercury on my farm. Since that approval it was learned the kids in the EPA office would take public or news posed inquires to the utility who would write the answers for them, see that's industry doing it cheaper than government. Oh, they also made 1/3 of the windy state of Kansas off limits for wind energy at the request of Koch Industries who fights all forms of energy that doesn't produce smoke, cancer, or profit for them, and to slow the perception that wind would reduce the need for this power plant.

diet related trouble keeping it up

2012-02-01T07:54:00.000-08:00

About 6 months into a plant based diet now. Well, not totally, in that time I think I have eaten 2 turkey sandwich, one roast beef sandwich, one sausage, 2 slices of bacon, 2 little barbque ribs, and about 2 times a month we have a tiny bit of fish, usually salmon. My wife has had only the salmon and at Christmas a small slice of turkey. Oh, and things work superbly.
Also we have had virtually no processed food, no dairy, white flour, high fructose syrup, sugar. Instead we have lots of nuts, which by the way nuts high calories and fat do not cause weight gain unless you eat more than 1/2 to 2/3 cup of them a day depending on your body size. We eat tons of vegi's and fruits, beans, whole grains. The only thing you might want to add if you go off meat and dairy is a B12 tablet, do not take multivitamins, instead throw the money in the toilet and save the drive to the store.

Please please pretty please stay, stay Noot, see you at the convention

2012-01-31T14:17:00.000-08:00

As long as noot stays in rummey spends money and takes a few chipped teeth. Stay noot, you can not let a guy who has spent millions on destroying you walk away swishing in his magic panties. Stay noot! Good boy.

Climate deniers never saw this coming, broadsided, can't buy him off.

2012-01-31T13:27:00.000-08:00

Saudi Oil Minister Al-Naimi tells an energy conference in London yesterday:

“We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.”
“Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity’s most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.”

The first quote above dovetails what we learned this week about the XL pipeline claim by the republicans and fossil fuel bullies that it would create 20,000 even 30,000 jobs, now the state department is embarrassed that they even got caught up in these bogus numbers, the estimate is only about 2,500, maybe 10% of the bloated figures.

Oh, a second oil news item of interest, ExxonMobile found out they had to pay a higher tax rate than Mitt Romney, 17.6% on billions, left them with an eensy-weensy $41 billion after taxes, a sad day for the oligarchs.

former pets eat up Florida swamps

2012-01-31T07:23:00.000-08:00

In areas where Pythons are numerous, in 12 years the impact on native wildlife is 99% drop in raccoons, 98% opossums, 87% bobcats, large drop (no figures available) in rabbit and fox, birds of all kinds.

Pythons (there are two or three species of them down there) turned loose in Florida are estimated in the tens of thousands now. A few fall prey to gators, but many gator babies fall prey to the snake. A few days ago it was made illegal to import or sell them. The damn things eat a lot, but, can live for months without eating at all. A number of efforts and neighborhood watch type programs are in place now to speed the killing of these pests, but I don't give it much hope, rarely have we been able to undo the damage of invasive critters.
I just hope none of you buy exotic pets. The parrot hunters are stripping the forests of birds, many die in transit, up here what good are they really, snakes and lizards and exotic plants likewise.

Nanomaterials, the new big thing is a little thing

2012-01-30T09:38:00.000-08:00

From cosmetics, to all kinds of new space age materials the new big thing is a little thing. Nano materials are materials made so tiny, 1/10,000th the width of a hair, they do amazing things. Including being so small you can breath them in, right through even the militaries common masks for filtering harmful substances, they fly into the lung, right through it into the blood or organs where they might act like tiny grit cutting your parts up, or stick and give off their chemical makeup which is usually poison to us, or gather in some organ or body part they find cozy and let your body try to attack or entomb them, or maybe they just cause cancer or bizarre behavior. I hate to be a ludite, but not every new thing should be put into use when industry has not shown a history of interest in safety for it's employees or customers.
For sure though, you'll never see it coming.

conservative news rags attacking electric cars safety

2012-01-30T08:34:00.000-08:00

Fux and other dim bulbs in the news world are helping big oil's rich investors attack anything that reduces their sales, this time is electric cars with claims of "fire traps", all from one fire which happened some days if not weeks after an accident.

How many gas/diesel cars/trucks catch fire in wrecks? How many deaths? How many of those fires were battery fires? How many were fuel fires? Did you see the pictures of the multi car crash in Florida yesterday, gas fires burned some of the cars. I am sure of this, none of those fires started in a battery, which is very rare.

Electric cars may in the most unusual set of events have a battery fire. I understand that Chevy, and others have come up with some type of disconnect and shield to reduce the chance of this now from the present near zero to an improved near zero.

How many flashlights burst into flames when you drop them? If fux news is really interested in our safety they will tell us to dump our flashlights or die, vibrators to. A vibrator fire is a terrible thing to waste.

Obama's vocabulary is to simple now, before it was to academic.

2012-01-30T08:13:00.000-08:00

I listened to Obama's state of the union address, I didn't think he talked like he was talking to kids, or Kentucky drop-outs. In the past I didn't think he talked like a college professor either. But there are some who took offense before at his university negroness, and I suspect they are behind taking offense again.
An article in the paper today said his vocabulary choices for this speech was at an 8th grade level, and it informed me I should be very insulted.
Lighten up people. I have read the vocabulary of Time magazine is written at an 8th grade level as well, and I suspect it's not living off Obama voters for it's survival. My rabid overthetop reichwinger dentist has Time in his waiting room, he seems OK with that level of vocabulary, I look at it, find some of the articles informative, I'm OK with it. I work with people that have terrible language skills, and people who have high degrees and are powerful wordsmiths, I don't take offense with either group, I don't feel either speak up or down to me when they work to explain something to me. It takes a skill to be able to explain complex issues in a way I (or others) can grasp it and use it. I don't see the insult, sorry if I am not outraged. So what is it with this hunt for the Goldilocks vocabulary, not to hot, not to cold?

Republican businessmen want to hire Mexican illegals

2012-01-30T06:59:00.000-08:00

It's pretty hard to understand how the human brain works. There's no easier way these days to get a room full of blue and white haired republicans up gripping their walkers than for a speaker to bash Mexicans and the democrats that are too chicken-shit to send em south. The Republican says those wet backs take our jobs, speak funny, and lets see, oh yea they walk through killer deserts to what, eh lets see, they work in bloody slaughterhouses with no health care, clean toilets, shingle steep roofs without safety equipment, pick blackberries, apples, oranges, fix flats, haul garbage, mow yards, sure sounds like people we don't want.

In Kansas, at the same time our AG writes laws for us and other states, he wrote the Airzona Mexican bounty hunter law, at the same time they want to hear if Noot or Mitt will hire the most busses to drive them south what do we have in Kansas? The Kansas Agriculture thingy in the state house has applied to the federal government for a waiver. Farm businesses such as farms, slaughterhouses, farm suppliers and service groups want to be able to hire illegals, exempt themselves and the illegal from the anit-illegal laws they want so badly for the public to support. There's more. The construction industry is going to ask the state to apply for a waiver for it too.

Last week it was made public this red state cut off needy children if they live with an illegal, citizen children of illegals cannot get food stamps or any type of support if illegals live in their house, the parents have to move out, leave for the kids to get support, then I guess the state has to put them in foster care or up for adoption, this is so fucked up. Yet, the business community, which in Kansas is 90% sure to be republican owned, wants illegals to stay, and awaits with glee the next dog whistle campaign add about dirty Mexicans.

magic panties don't protect against Noot

2012-01-27T07:32:00.000-08:00

Hey Sarge

2012-01-26T13:22:00.000-08:00

Sarge over at OneAngryZebra ask me a few days back to let him see what sculptures I am working on. Right now there are 5 in various stages. Here will be a robust stylized bull in Tennessee marble, about 15" long. It's overall shape is set, I have'nt settled on the size/shape of the horns so I left lots of marble up there for that. You see I marked up the next cuts already. The other is a football tackle in limestone, it's big, around 3 feet long. I don't work on the football piece very often, the bull more often but it's slow work, this piece of marble has been out of the earth a few years, it's pretty damn hard now. It will be a long time before either are finished. I have another big marble piece that may be finished, I can't decide, a modernistic limestone piece that I might finish in a week or two, and a slate piece that will take a week but when.....? I'll get pictures of the others in a week or so. Put on some blues or rock or classic music, beat rock till sparks come out of it.

Sunscreen, don't forget

2012-01-26T12:30:00.000-08:00

Everyone but the republicans owned by the fossil fuel industry want to save energy, save money, get new technology and sure, even have fun. This lady is demonstrating a valid way to stay cool. She turned off her home AC and got outside, her carbon footprint wouldn't fill a string bikini at the moment. We should stop giving moneyto big oil and give her some energy credit, right now I credit her with enough energy to make my heart beat like a baseball bat.

Walk on the wild side, and wonder why.

2012-01-26T07:58:00.000-08:00

God spoke to both of these people telling them to run for President. Why does God hate America?
(Did you notice the strap-on's have been photo-shopped out of both pictures?)

If I can get out of paying tax, it sure as hell won't help you none.

2012-01-25T12:32:00.000-08:00

Kansas Republicans are squirming like a jug full of ants. Falling over one another to pass more tax cuts. It looks like the state is going to have no income tax, no corporate tax, limit property tax rates (so cities and school districts can't pay for anything either). Today they are talking about treating business income as a pass through to the owner. The company makes a million in profit the owner takes it home tax free at the state level. Gov (Koch) Brownback hired a fossil from the Reagan Whitehouse to come tell us if company owners can avoid taxes they will hire 20,000, maybe a shit load more.

Oh, but, there are going to be new taxes. Big big hike in sales tax. This will take millions off the Koch brothers tax burden and reduce the purchasing power of the poor, elderly, middle class, unemployed, but fuck'm they should've got there's.

Plus the oil industry is after the Kansas legislature a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries to put a mileage tax on electric and hybrid cars to raise their operating cost against the oil burners. Pay by the mile, wasn't that a communist idea the Dems came up with a few years ago for road taxes that Rush boiled in hate and shit for a month.

OK, here's the deal, I own a farm, a share of an oil well, and I sell equipment on contract. I am sort of not really employed but sort of in business. I guess if I incorporated it as a farm/sales company I don't pay state tax and let all the fucking stupid people pay my share, ha, that's funny ain't it. But, hire 20,000 people, nope, not one swinging dick, and, I got everything I need, I'll save it all, I won't spend any more than I do now. Who wins? Not the fucking unemployed! Not the fucking state! I won't buy a fucking airplane or another suit, I won't eat more than I do now. Who the hell does this help? Sure not you.

A month old article at Rolling Stone, check it out

2012-01-24T17:06:00.000-08:00

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gops-crackpot-agenda-20111207

The GOP crackpot agenda. A good 6 minute read.

Keep in mind these facts, and they are facts.

2012-01-24T09:47:00.000-08:00

*In the last year 1.9 million were hired in the US private sector. *Private sector jobs hired under Obama in 2011 is larger than 7 of the 8 Bush years. *2.5 million young adults have health insurance through Affordable Care Act. *2.65 million seniors saved average $569 on prescriptions in 2011 through Affordable Care Act. *Illegals are being caught and deported at a much higher rate than under Bush. *Bin Laden was killed as were a number of Al Qaeda leaders. Bush and the GOP congress wiped out a gigantic surplus and put us in debt and invaded Iraq. *Bush and the GOP launched two wars on a tax cut, the first time in history we failed to pay for our war(s). *The 30 major corporations spend more on lobbying than taxes. *The US fell from #1 in college graduates to #14. *China spends more on infrastructure than the US. *400 wealthiest Americans pay 18% tax rate, some pay no tax. *Romney makes more each day than the middle class do in a year. *Romney pays 13.8% tax rate, almost no payroll or social security or medicare tax since he (and many wealthy) structure their income to be in the form of dividends, gains, options, often taking no wages from their company. *Romney paid 3 million in tax and gave 4 million to the mormons, who should be stripped of tax free status since they fund anti-gay legislation in many states. *Swiss, Luxembourg, Cayman, places where Romney admits having money stashed rather than investing in the US and our people. (since these are secret accounts, it is hard to believe he does not have more not reported, they certainly won't report him) *Santorum is the most war monger of the 4 viagra sots running for president, he rambled on and on he is ready to go to war with Iran.

Is our children learning?

2012-01-24T09:19:00.000-08:00

Gas prices fall, companies cut back on drilling, launch PR campaign for more drilling

2012-01-24T07:44:00.000-08:00

Natural gas prices are falling since Obama came into office and the number of rigs drilling for oil and gas is at the highest count ever. In order to prevent events benefiting consumers, gas companies like Chesapeake Energy, the nation’s second biggest natural gas producer, announced Monday that it would cut production of gas by about 8% to force prices up.

Global warming's higher winter temperatures are also driving down demand for natural gas, in some areas it's greatly reduced.

In spite of this reality, the industry is going ahead with a blitz of adverts crying for increased drilling rights and fewer regulations, pretending we have shortages, pretending we can have clean coal and risk free pipes and refineries. Even oil is currently in surplus, with production up, imports down and exports last year of oil exceeding all other products. Exporting a finite resource we have been short of most our history, it boggles the mind, it's capitalism by and for the 1%.

Our utility ask to increase rates, they actually got socked in the kisser, the state said they should lower rates, but you see what the industry would do if they could.

Red state is not (directly) starving owls

2012-01-23T08:50:00.000-08:00

White owls are rare in Kansas. Every few years a few arctic natives visit. This year we have lots of them, and most are said to be starving. Many are found weighing next to nothing and unable to fly. Wildlife specialist say they have come so far south for food, unable to find it in the northern states. The reason seems to be the constant reduction of prey animals through factory farming practices/chemical use, combined with drought conditions in some areas, and being illegal immigrants in a red state most are happy they will starve.
A few have been gathered up and fed, caretakers say they are in poor health, the attorney general has said it's OK to feed them if they are mostly white.

Sarah Palin's targeting finally pays off

2012-01-23T08:25:00.000-08:00

Gifford after a year of recovery but still a long way to go had to give the win to Palin. At last a democrat held seat won by a bullet. The best part for the tea party is that the shooter egged on by whipping up paranoia to a Santorum froth is the shooter was a ding bat. It doesn't get better than that. Exactly the kind of outcome the Palinist and Rush's need, the crazies that do the deed can be discounted as not one of us.

A few days before the shooting I had lunch with a tea bag buddie of mine, who ranted they should march all senators and congressmen onto the capital steps, and shoot in the head any who will not adopt the tea bag story line. So, a couple days after Gifford's shooting I called him and suggested he must be glad. No I never said things like that. Well I argued you did and over a burrito I bought for you, Oh yea but I didn't mean like that, not her, that was the wrong one. Not her! The wrong one! We use to eat twice a week, after I called him out on this he has only called me for lunch 2 times in a year. Oh, did I forget to say he is a regular at one of the local mega-church's with the political statement laden marquee.

Kansas finds a creative way to starve US born children of Mexicans .

2012-01-23T07:24:00.000-08:00

1) Reichwing uber Catholic convert Governor Sam Brownback quietly saved me some more tax money a couple months back and it only made news now. Kansas now refuses food stamps and other support to children who are citizens if any non citizen are at the same address. More than 2,000 households are cut off now. One speaking out is a Mexican women who works by the way and has a green card, but she is not a citizen, she has 3 children, 2 US citizens and one is illegal, they are all cut off of food stamps, she tried to get just the food stamps for the 2 citizen kids, but this will not be permitted. As I understand it the illegal kid and she will have to move out for the 2 kids to get support, at which point the kids would have to be taken from her for abandoning them. But, the good news is, I don't pay to feed this family now. I suppose if she robs someone so they can eat, and is arrested well that will prove she was another dangerous Mexican and we will put her in jail for 10 years to prove Kansas will not support her mixed up multi-citizen family, even if she is working legally. Strangely, a Catholic service in Kansas City is complaining about the plight of these kids.

2) But why should these kids be treated differently from the many thousands of disabled Kansans who are now cut off from home health care, some living in their own filth now, but that should take care of it's self through Darwinism.

3) The state house having changed the ways judges are appointed, no longer does the BAR have input, the governor now does it, is now moving on to allow the governor to give away hunting licenses to whom ever he wants. Wow, reads like the adventures of Robin Hood with the mean lords giving away high posts and control of the hunt. Did not include fishing licenses, maybe because he has closed some state lakes, no doubt he will soon sell them.

4) Some of you may know I own a farm, and I have a rare treasure, a water permit to pump 710 gallon per minute to a yearly limit of 1.3 acre feet, (like 16" of standing water), these permits are hard to get, or so I thought. Today I learn over 600 new wells are applied for and being approved without fail at a fast pace. Fracking! It is unlikely any new wells can be drilled for farming purposes in my area, but for fracking no prob. They are said to be temporary wells. They will each mine hundreds of thousands of gallons of wonderful cold clean clear wetness, mix it with chemicals and pump it far into the earth where it will never be returned to the surface/atmosphere, it's gone forever. This so we get some more oil and natural gas this year. This water is finite, in some areas the water table is falling fast, this is a waste of a resource to bring up a surplus of another resource (we now export much of the new found oil and gas capacity). Use it up folks, drill baby drill, profit now. This additional use of water will return some areas to "dry land farming" with far less food production. When? One growing season, 50 growing seasons, who cares, profit now.

South Carolina makes politics.

2012-01-22T11:12:00.000-08:00

Whit, here's your next make a caption subject. Take it.

2012-01-20T10:51:00.000-08:00

this offer to individuals with a net worth of at least 7.15 million who will invest at least 2.86 million

2012-01-20T10:08:00.000-08:00

Zero Taxation

A major factor that routinely sets us apart is the absence of any direct taxation. The government does not impose personal or corporation income taxes and there are no taxes on profits and gains from investments. There are no property taxes or controls on foreign ownership of property either.
"This is offered to individuals with a personal net worth of at least CI $ 6 million (approximately US$ 7.15m) who have made, or propose to make, an investment of at least CI $2.4 million (approximately US $2.86m)......"

Sure, out of context, but clipped from the banks in Caymen Island to give you a flavor of what gives the 1%ers the warm and fuzzies. You don't need this much really, this was just one particular offer. Now, Caymen is about 1 mile wide and 17 long, with most the hotels and condo's jammed in a couple of spots. No guns, even criminals respect this and from around the world tax dodgers and drug dealers come to enjoy the safety of no gun fun in the sun. Such a tiny place makes you wonder where they invest the billions, well, no restrictions there about boycott of Cuba or Iran or Burma, so let er rip. Get yours, the jokes on the rubes who pay taxes and can't meet the entrance fee.

Romney on Noot, I got nothing, lets move to something else.

2012-01-20T07:48:00.000-08:00

Mitt never passes up an opportunity to pass an opportunity to condemn the aspiring polygamist Noot. Ask about Noot's problem, the Cayman Island tax dodger begs lets move to issues that sound less Mormon. Mitt would be more believable as a Salt Lake based human if he would just admit, "sure what guy hasn't wanted to bring a blonde and a strap-on home so the wife could help bang her", then I could believe his Mormon faith is real, this tactic makes me think he may even be a fake mormon, he wants to act like men of faith can't be the minority in the bedroom, come on Mitt, Noot meets the threshold to join the temple tomorrow, that's why you don't want to talk about it.

It takes a crook

2012-01-19T17:26:00.000-08:00

The Republican party is all about stamping out voter fraud through a variety of restrictive devices being shoved into law. Yet, actual voter fraud is near zero, ........ until now, in Iowa, what the fuck? First Mitt wins by 8, now not so much. It seems Santorum wins by maybe 24, but, ......, they don't really know since whole blocks of ballots and records cannot be found. What's the chance some of these got trashed on purpose? No wonder the GOP is expert on voter fraud, all the way to the supreme court if need be.

OK so yer piss'n yer savings away on fuel but know this

2012-01-19T08:25:00.000-08:00

Don't take any crap from people who chant "drill baby drill" and rag on Obama for holding us back on fossil fuels. Here are the facts.
More drilling rigs are working now on new wells in the US than at any time since wooden derricks went out of style.
Crude oil production is 90,000 barrels a day more now than in 2010, wow.
Natural gas flow is up 7.4% passing the all time record set in 1973.
Oil imports were 57% of our consumption in 2008, now it's 45%.
Conservation and the new mpg standards will reduce use by 2.2 million barrels a day in only a few years.

The fossil fuel industry is not passing any savings from increased supply to the US consumer, instead they are exporting fuel and liquified natural gas now. We get the unsightly infrastructure, the dirt, the spills, they get the tax breaks and the profits from selling our natural resources.

Good health through a variety of foods, washed down with a Russian Margarita.

2012-01-19T07:42:00.000-08:00

Foods and plants are full of things that turn on anti-aging processes and improve our health. The bigger variety you eat, the more interesting it is, and you can stop choking down all those worthless vitamins and health powders from the pill isle.

Yesterday, as best I can remember I had:

Tangelo, banana, blueberry, dried fig, dried date, golden raisin, papaya, frozen peach, frozen blackberry, pecan, almond, pumpkin seed, ground flax seed, Kashi Heritage cereal (7 or 8 grains), mixed berry juice, soy milk, coffee, tea, whole grain multi-grain bread, chickpea, peanut butter, strawberry jelly, mushroom, wild rice, white potato, sweet potato, black bean, onion, garlic, jalapeno, cilantro, celery, red bell pepper, green cabbage, carrot, yellow split pea, blue corn chip, organic chocolate cookie, yogurt, black strap molasses, bottled picante sauce. Primary dried spices: cinnamon, cayenne, dill, allspice, cumin, chipoltle, cloves, oregano. A tiny Balalaika – vodka, triple sec, lemon juice, sort of the Russian Margarita. One B12 tablet, B12 is the only thing you may run short of not eating meat and dairy, multi-vitamins are a waste of money.

So far this morning:

1/2 Grapefruit, 1/2 banana, golden raisin, cranberry juice, Kashi Heritage cereal, soy milk, walnut, sunflower seed, ground flax (sprinkle on cereal), coffee, dried apricot, cinnamon.

Tonights plan, if it holds up, sauté red bell peppers onions celery in tiny bit of olive oil, a red leaf lettuce salad with oranges and fennel sliced thin. Still not settled on the rest, maybe a rice and lintel pilaf with carrots and almonds, not sure yet. Or maybe a cool Hula salad, black eyed peas with pineapple chunks, red onion, green bell peppers and jicama, lemon juice, canola oil.

No animal was directly harmed by this diet.

Imagine a day without free information, fight SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-18T08:53:00.000-08:00

The internet is not the USA's to control and regulate. Information is evolutionary, evolute or die.

Call the corporations employee from your district in his Washington office and ask the secretary to pretend interest in your call and pray they actually put a check mark down on some tally sheet from the nobodies who are not part of the 1% who run this nation.

one sentence round ups of environmental news, and a math lesson.

2012-01-18T07:37:00.000-08:00

*Germans put up more PV solar energy capacity in the last 2 months of the year than the US did all year and installed at 1/2 the price of systems in the US.
*The Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli lost the case charging climate scientist Mann with fraud in his research has spent scarce tax dollars to put it before the state Supreme Court.
*Scientist in China warn Global Warming is reducing food production and extremely grim ecological conditions are on the way.
*51% of German renewable generating capacity owned by homeowners and farmers.
*China capped carbon emissions in 5 large cities and 2 provinces.
*Prominent MIT researcher Kerry Emanuel spoke to a conservative group recently and since is a target of cyberbullying, hate mail, threats on his family, pressure on his employer and associates, and much of it comes from the same people who launched the swift boat smears on Kerry.
*Airlines flying to England must charge a carbon tax according to how much that airplane pollutes, the airlines are furious saying passengers will stop flying, last week Ryan was the first to impose this forbidding new charge, 38 cents per person, the industry says it will cost the public billions.

So what do we have here? Economy of scale makes solar panels cheap enough that socialist europeans can buy them and become more independent and get low cost energy for 20-30 years. We also have the most populace nation in the world informing it's people that science has information that needs to be used whilst in the US there is a war on science. And last, the travel industry who will yank you around for a few dollars, hide charges, lie about delays, charge $7 for a tiny tiny little wee bottle of wine, cancel a flight then close the customer service window is now eager to complete our education by explaining that 38 cents repeated enough times adds up to a billion, wow, is that true of $20 dollar luggage charges too?

I miss John Huntsman already

2012-01-16T11:57:00.000-08:00

Did you ever get a good look at his wife? Did you ever get a good look at his 28 daughters? Hello trophy wife? I'd bang her at a picnic while the grandkids scream hysterically and pelt me with dirt clods, and I mean that as the highest compliment and with the greatest respect possible. I do wish he would get back in the race for a few more photo ops with the wife.

Power plants

2012-01-16T06:41:00.000-08:00

Eat a broad variety of fruits nuts vegi's beans and spices to get everything you need in a natural form, without insurance copay, without risk of overdose. Or, eat fast food, processed food, soft drinks, lots of meats and dairy for the opposite potential.

US made green house gases sources

2012-01-16T06:26:00.000-08:00

weather or not to believe the wheather

2012-01-15T08:40:00.000-08:00

My son spent 7 days including New Years Eve in Baniff National Park skiing. At high altitude conditions were good, in the town there was no snow. They skied in wind breakers with temp on the slope was above freezing much of the day. Normal temperatures would have been 15 to 0°f with dips to -20, and they should have had 6 feet of snow in town.

7 nations set all time high temps in 2011, Kuwait 127.9f topped the list and even a French Island near Antarctica at 96.1°.

Here in Kansas today temps are in the 60's for the next few days, not records, but far over the norm.

Kansas speaker sends email praying for Obama's death.

2012-01-13T13:17:00.000-08:00

ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her “Mrs. YoMama” and compared her to the Grinch.

Earlier that same week, the Lawrence Journal-World was sent another email that O’Neal had forwarded to House Republicans that referred to President Obama and a Bible verse that says “Let his days be few” and calls for his children to be without a father and his wife to be widowed.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

O’Neal forwarded the prayer with his own message: “At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up — it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray. Brothers and Sisters, can I get an AMEN? AMEN!!!!!!”

O’Neal’s office refuses to apologize for the email.

This is the shit I put up with in Kansas, where there are only a handfull of democrats in office at every level down to the smallest towns. It's brutal, without a fish on your car you can get scratched. The state Republican party and the Kansas Chamber of Commerce announced a few days ago they will fund strong Republicans to run against a couple dozen "moderate" Republicans in various offices around the state. Moderate Republicans are the ones that go to churches that won't put anti gay and anti democrat statements on their marquee.

And, did you know the mexicans and russians are sneaking into our state to vote on firehouse bond issues and shit like that in little local elections to such an extent it threatens our way of life, yea all the time, so...... the voter ID law that was to go into practice for the Nov. election is being moved up to this spring to make sure a bunch of Somalians don't vote a public swimming pool bond onto the backs of us freedom lovers.

Be careful what you wish for republicans, someone might just take up your cause and cut the size of government

2012-01-13T12:52:00.000-08:00

So Obama puts forward a plan to shrink government and save billions by combining organizations who might both do the same function. Sound good?

Guarantee you the Republicans are not going to vote for this. As a matter of fact, this will close some offices in many congressional districts. All of a sudden the Greedy Ole Party will not be for small government, but they won't say that, instead they will claim it was'nt big enough cuts it was for show, or that it targeted their district and so is political or that he can't be trusted to cut government in the right way and it should wait on a Reichwinger to do it.

And then the furnace stopped working, and it's cold.

2012-01-13T06:47:00.000-08:00

23°f outside, cloudy so no solar gain this morning. Furnace won't run, tried the breaker, reset, played with the switches, the wall unit thingy, vibrate the electric panel, called it whore, mother, begged it, stared at it.
It's 0845, I heard it run around 0500, that must have been it's time of death. the thing is 14 almost 15 years old and the service guys laugh softly every time they visit, mumbling this shit ain't made no more, one of these days you have to buy a new one. I can just see those fuckers thinking can we get 8,000 out of this guy or will he go cheap and buy the 3,500 system.
It's not to bad in here yet, 62°. All the service guys were already scheduled, maybe this afternoon, maybe this evening when 85 an hour becomes 130. I've got a big wooley sweater, may have that on in a couple of hours, and trade these cotton socks for some wool ones.
This furnace I have at 15 years old, when we bought it we did some research and it was the highest energy miser value at the time, 94.5 is the value they assigned it, today there are none better and few as good, amazing the industry sets on it's ass like that.
OK I need to do some jumping jacks or find that sweater.

The US is cutting down on meat, and most health studies think that's a really good trend.

2012-01-12T15:19:00.000-08:00

Beef consumption is back to 1950's level, pork to late 70's, chicken the charts red line has peaked to. Meatless Mondays and people going for smaller portions is most of it. Price has driven some to eat less. Also the number of plant based diet consumers is growing fast, in our extended family we went from none to three and there are a group of others who now eat meat in small amounts, totally different than what they did a couple of years ago.

There are some studies out that point to hormones and testosterone being given to livestock as causes of cancer in humans, obesity, early puberty onset, and other maladies as well. If you want to see these studies let me know I can hook you up, but if you want to be happy while you eat the medicines and chemicals they put in your meat, believe it won't really hurt you, and would rather have 12 minutes of chin drippin good times at the table than stay out of the hospital then don't let me bum you out. Shit, we use to raise cattle till my father-in-law was told by the vet to sell his cattle rather than butcher one for his own use because of the hormones, dad said thats it, what the hell are we doing being part of this.

People object to not eating meat on the false rationale they need the protein. Vegi's and grains and beans and nuts have protein, if you eat a good varitey of this you get enough, look at our ancestors that came out of Europe to settle the US, hell most those people in 1700 and 1800 rarely ever ate meat, as do few in India and China.

Did you know the livestock raised for meat consumes enough grain to feed 8 billion people, more people than we have living at the moment.

expand this to full screen, turn volume up, guaranteed you'll like it

2012-01-12T07:34:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/26569110

European newspaper prints story about Congress US papers ignore.

2012-01-11T07:15:00.000-08:00

The legalized corporate corruption around XL pipeline is bewildering to the Europeans and to the US it's barely known as our news agencies cannot print it. The US news sources are under a interwoven corporate imposed censorship of the news unfavorable to certain industries so severe Putin would be proud.

185 of the 195 members of the House of Representatives who count big oil in their top 20 contributors support the bill directing Obama's immediate approval of the pipeline to carry oil from border to border for the purpose of exporting most of it, all the risk with little gain. This of course would require the review be stopped before it is complete and rubber stamp big oil's wishes.

At the same time Europe is amused that Canada for the first time has it's fingers in US politics skirting international ethics in so doing, and a bit of gossip worthy interest, the mix of Canadian oil and politicians are bashing celebrities in the US who speak against the pipeline.

Rank of Oil & Gas as a Contributing Interest Group

Name / Vote on HR 1938 [the act to "direct the Ppresident to expedite the consideration and approval of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and for other purposes"] / Total contributions from oil lobby (1 July 1, 2009 – 30 June 30, 2011)

1 – Rep. Steven Pearce [Republican] / AYE / $370,020

2 – Rep. Mike Pompeo [R] / AYE / $333,156

3 – Rep. Bill Flores [R] / AYE / $266,184

4 – Rep. Cory Gardner [R] / AYE / $205,124

5 – Rep. Dan Boren [D] / AYE / $201,800

6 – Rep. John Sullivan [R] / AYE / $179,200

7 – Rep. Jeff Landry [R] / AYE / $176,050

8 – Rep. Tim Griffin [R] / AYE / $164,709

9 – Rep. James Lankford [R] / AYE / $156,760

10 – Rep. Rick Berg [R] / AYE / $151,561

11 – Rep. Michael Conaway [R] / AYE / $136,850

12 – Rep. Tim Murphy [R] / AYE / $133,700

13 – Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R] / AYE / $133,152

14 – Rep. Steve Scalise [R] / AYE / $125,335

15 – Rep. Francisco Canseco [R] / AYE / $121,767

16 – Rep. Pete Olson [R] – AYE – $106,400

17 – Rep. Tom Cole [R] / AYE / $103,400

My man Pompeo, number 2, is owned by Kochs, takes more than anyone from them, they gave him his chief of staff, their former top attorney fighting pollution cases, she was making a ton of money at Koch, they have to be helping with her pay working for Pompeo.

root'n toot'n noot an nanny

2012-01-10T14:59:00.000-08:00

I was speaker of the house, now no one wants to give me credit for that, you remember the contract with America, I did that to but everyone forgot, I have been a champion of conservatism and I took Clinton all the way to impeachment and still no one cares, no one remembers. But you fuck one goat.........!

three more things

2012-01-10T07:18:00.000-08:00

1) Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary could be driven to collapse by our sanctions and pressure on Iran. These former soviet block countries and some of those near by, rely almost totally on Iran for their oil. Weak already, collapse of these nations would play into the hands of the Russians who are keen to pick up some cheap property returning a series of forward bases and abuse ready populace. I am not so sure fucking over Iran is worth southeast Europe returning to Russia's breast.

2) Romney yesterday babbled a myth that fossil fuel is promoting as they fight renewables, he said investors and banks have pulled out of solar panel projects because of the solyndria failure. Pants on fire pants on fire. Investments are up, more projects than ever are in the pipeline. Even Bank of America funded the largest single project ever in the US last year.

3) EPA rules kill jobs, false. I now found out why we are exporting so much fuel to Europe, last year the largest export of the US was not corn or airlplaes or wheat, it was gasoline and refined oil. A few years ago the EPA forced refiners to reduce sulfur and some other crap in our fuels. The sky is falling industry said. Well, now that we make some of the cleanest fuel on earth, (and it could still be cleaner) Europe has to buy it to dilute the fuels they have in order to meet their changing standards. Without the EPA, the US would not be exporting fuel, the EPA by forcing these standards created thousands of jobs installing scrubbers to clean fuel and to drill for more oil. Downside, our gas prices are higher now even with more oil being produced here every day becuase we now compete for refined fuels with the European driver. Air up your tires, drive smart, coast to the stop light, buy your next car based on mpg.

take 10% of the trees out of Texas and the whole region will warm

2012-01-10T06:39:00.000-08:00

10% of the trees in Texas died in 2011. Drought and fire the primary cause of death.

In some areas, with a little rain, new growth will begin, grass, weeds, maybe trees. In some of the harshest areas the sun will fall on bare earth and rock and the temperature increase will make it unlikely plants can return. This is the warming feedback loop. Warm temperatures cause something to happen, which accelerates that very process to become more severe and operate faster. It gets hot and kills trees, plants die so no longer shades the earth, the soil and rocks are hotter causing even more plants to die from heat. We see this feedback also in the polar regions with ice melt, we see it in China and in Africa in the quickening growth rate of deserts.

More bad news for Mexicans

2012-01-09T16:49:00.001-08:00

Turns out Romneys are Mexicans, grandpa ran up here and got on welfare. No shit. If that won't frost the GOP, a fucking wet back mormon for president. This story is going to be on NBC tonight I think.

Door hits bigot on the way out

2012-01-09T12:41:00.000-08:00

Good bye Pat Buchanan. Sorry the white guy thing is so scary for you.

Well, I bet he's on fux before sundown.

The long hot winter

2012-01-09T07:40:00.000-08:00

This is what winter should look like today in the hilly parts of Kansas, and yes there are hills here especially all along the northern and the eastern tiers of counties. (though my farm land and my brothers are both flat as hell)

So far the end of December and January have been like spring, 50's day time and sometimes a light frost at night. Many new high temp records set. The central part of the state had one little snow, two inches maybe, melted within 24 hours. West near Colorado line they had one hard blow that closed I70 overnight once. Last winter we had one fierce cold snap for 3 or 4 days, the rest was like this, a long hot winter, it means more bugs to have mild winters, and more disease in animals both wild and farmed.

650,000 years of evidence on CO2

2012-01-08T14:05:00.000-08:00

So, what happens now that we increased the levels of CO2 to values nature has never had to adapt to before? Without wallowing in the chemistry of the "how", here's the simple result, the ocean absorbs some of the high levels of CO2 and it makes the seas more acidic. Acid attacks coral, killing it. Acid attacks and erodes calcium based shells of lobster for example, and crabs, oysters.

I hope you remember my earlier lessons on carbons origin, CO2. It is constant in the world, the problem is we are digging up and freeing up, and thawing and cutting down billions of tons of it in our wastful use of fossil fuels, forests, bogs, crops. We are not making more CO2, we are just taking it from it's proper locations in the world, and blowing it right up into our atmosphere, where it reacts with sunlight and other crap we send up to increase the earths heat.

If I only had a brain John McCain endorses President Obama For 2012 much to the shock of Mittens

2012-01-06T14:13:00.000-08:00

Mitt, next time you take some old fuck out of the nursing home for a walk-about, try to get one that has a brain, and a sack of depends.

No Maple Syrup by 2100?

2012-01-06T10:59:00.000-08:00

If you look at about 1 minute 30 seconds into it you will see some maps of how sugar maple/syrup production has changed with warmer weather of the last few decades. Sugar maple trees need cold weather and cannot tolerate pollution. In only a few years these trees have been eliminated from many areas of the US.

warning solar energy will run out in 2 billion years, what then?

2012-01-06T07:42:00.000-08:00

Say no to drugs by saying yes to more plants

2012-01-04T07:56:00.000-08:00

Been on a plant based diet for over 4 months. Feel great, and I can lift a little more at the gym. I jumped on it because of tremors. A few of the old relatives have the shakes, at about 60 I started getting it. I found a study that said meat could be the cause. I have not had any shaking in the last 2 months or so, meat eaters have a 20 fold chance of developing tremors in old age, smoking only gives 13 fold increase in chance of cancer.
Last night we had an Indian chili made of black beans, corn, onion, garlic, celery, jalepeno, yellow bell pepper, tomato, and lots of Indian spices, it was hot. With that we had an avocado, spinich salad, whole grain toast with cilantro pesto, a bottle of ale, for desert a bowl of blueberries and yogurt and after I washed the pots and pans, some hazelnuts. And, a B12.
Take B12 if you go off meat, and vit. D if your off dairy and not getting much sun, otherwise you got everything you need as long as you eat a varitey, we eat everything but coconuts and parsnips, a hugh varitey of all kinds of beans and exotic grains, fruit, vegi's.

Cleans the blood up, reduces weight, stops gout, diabetes, slows aging, and people on plant based diet do not get constipated so reduces hemorrhoids, skin trouble, allergies, the list drags on and on. So, do the meatless monday thing, then add another day, and another.

Romney Beats Santorum By Just 0.000002667% of U.S. Population

2012-01-04T06:48:00.000-08:00

Romney spent $113 per vote, Ricky spent 1.65 per vote, Rick Perry spent $817 a piece. No idea what Corporations and the 1% spent, but I did hear it was about 15 million in the last few days on TV and radio, I think most all of that was on Mittens.
(most of this info I got from Wonkette.com)

Gated community? Maybe not all of it.

2012-01-03T12:25:00.000-08:00

When middle class jobs dry up, when rural towns cave in till the only jobs are driving dump trucks for the county, and the politicians promote a gun culture or when being smart and well educated is no longer cool, then like Indiana, your going to get meth labs and gangs, dog fights, and violence the small town cops were never trained to handle. This book is a kick in the guts, it's bleak.