Earth to get new supply of minerals tonight, free.

December 13/14, 10pm - 5am, wherever their is a clear sky in North America.  Geminid meteor shower, up to 100 per hour, peak fall rate at 2am.  The stuff is free, intergalactic immigrants falling to earth,  stardust, get some.

Santa Claus Takes Action

 Santa video, making a list, check it twice.  I have called my representive's local office, emailed his DC office, called and emailed both Senators, called both congressmen from adjoining districts.  HO HO HO

Just a few more days and I am free of state taxes

No, I'm not retiring.  Better than that, the money I make will be tax free in the state of Kansas.  I'm a friggin job creator now, or soon will be, Jan 1.

The GOP run state decided to make more money for the state lets stop collecting tax dollars from job creators, the highest earners in most cases.  We had a surplus of hundreds of millions, now it's projected to dive into the red by the same amount in one year, and within a few years be a billion.  Oh not so not so at all say the Gov and the Repubs.  Here's how it's gonna work. ---  I don't pay taxes.  That will make me fucking rich.  I hire a guy to wash my car windows.  He pays taxes instead of me.  The state collects even more money than it use to.  Me, the window guy and the state are all rolling in dough.  That'll work, just ask anyone.

OK why don't I have to pay state tax starting next year?  Farm income, not taxable.  Small business income, not taxable.  I have a farm, and I sell crap (hey it's a business OK?).  So, you see I am a job creator.  What's my plan for the few hundred I will save?  My spending will not change one penny.  And that's what will happen with most the savings, nothing.  So, lets stop calling people in this situation, or the 1%ers or the 10%ers job creators.  Lets be honest.  Idle rich is the proper term.

For all the hubbub of this two things are very interesting.  More than one of the GOP have said they know this will crash the state into multiyear severe debt, and glad of it, bankrupt the state is the only way to cut services and make the poor scrounge for their own or get out.  (Can you say Christianista?)  The other thing is this helps the federal government pay off it's debt.  The deduction on federal income tax for state tax is lost, the added fed tax due will be about the same as the state cut, the GOP is helping Obama, and seem to be ignorant of it.

Conservatives hate the EPA, now I'm bummed after leaning this

 The EPA has given over 100 wavers to fracking operations to pollute the aquifer they are drilling in or near.  This is an exemption saying it's OK to violate the rules. ONE HUNDRED aquifers are now poisoned, and with a fucking government permit.  The gas and oil and chemicals seeping into the underground lakes makes them unusable for generations, 100 years minimum for most of these slow moving slow filling reservoirs.  For what?  So we can have a 10 or 20 years glut of natural gas.
Can you drink Natural Gas?  Can you wash your kids in it?

We need to let the EPA know this needs fixed.

Fox douche bag takes one to the puss

Watch this!  I haven't seen such an uplifting scene since John Stossel was bitch slapped by a wrestler.

The fossil fuel and utilities catch 22, and 23.

 
In 48 states self made electricity cannot be sent across a street or road.  The utilities happily set astride a law that says no.  In the case of a farmer, he has a solar driven water pump with excess energy, but cannot rout it across the road to power a pump in another pasture.

Most states have net metering, but in my state it is strongly in favor of the utility.  The excess you might sell to the grid is bought at a miserable low price, and in some utility zones they don't settle up monthly but yearly, cheap watts treated as a zero interest loan to boot.  Still, in many regions the pay back is  good and the satisfaction of selling your extra power I am told is akin to a toke of Lebanonese blonde hashish.

If ever you have a chance to speak up on changing the rules on these issues, please bluster and sputter and stamp until you win for all of us.

Your TRASHED again aren't you? Your gonna have to stop.

Did you know that the US consumer lifestyle produces 141 pounds of waste every day for every one of us.  How?  Not just the shit you throw away, loose, waste, or pack into basement like it's gold, but the manufacturing and marketing waste to make it, ship it, store it, advertise it, sell it.  And here we are at Christmas, and I'll bet your fucking trashed again.  Get help.  Stop buy'n all that crap, and recycle, and watch this video from Jeremy Irons.