packing for a little vacation

You won't have the yellow fringe to kick around anymore.  (Nixon said it better)

Thursday it begins.  

I'm that guy,

the one that drifts away from the slight-of-hand acts and their suckers.

My congressman,

after meeting with fossil fuel industry.

American men have the worst dicks

Ladies, you are more than likely not getting what you should.  American men have the highest level of  erectile dysfunction in the world.

100 million men around the globe have dicks that bend at the wrong time.  30 million of those softies are in the US.  With less than 5% of the worlds population we own 30% of the weak willies.

Erectile Dysfunction, fear of standing, is caused by plaque build up in the tiny blood vessels in the love tool.  A heart attack of the mighty sword.  These little vessels are suppose to fill with blood and hold on to it till the party is over, inflate like a blow up doll.  Cholesterol from a meat, starch and sugar based diet forms plaque in the penis first because they are tiny tiny passages, so they clog first.  This is the one wake up call you get boys and girls (who care about boys).  WAKE UP, YOUR DICK DON"T WORK AND YOUR HEART IS NEXT.   It goes like this, it kills your peter, then kills you!

And the disease is hitting men younger all the time, 40% of 40 year old men (in US) now have E.D., it's diet, it's exercise, it's meat.  Those countries turning to our diet are also finding their peckers point at their feet instead of their lovers jewels.

Viagra works for a while, but most men keep getting more blockage until it won't help.  It also doesn't work if your dead from a heart attack.  OK, in case you wonder, I am as near to a vegan as you can get and still be disqualified, small serving of fish or poultry one or two times a week, no sugars, the only dairy is low fat yogurt.  We eat a lot of Indian food, man they know how to make vegies taste like heaven.  Oh, about droop and deflection around here, nope, think pipe gate on a hickory post.

Today, 7 former EPA chiefs, 4 Republicans, said Global Warming debate is over

Speaking with one voice they wrote/said: There is no credible scientific debate about the facts: our world continues to warm, the last decade was the hottest ever, the deep ocean is warming even faster than the atmosphere, sea ice is melting and sea level is rising.  The cost of inaction will be crippling and the window of time to act is shrinking very very fast.  (paraphrased and shortened)   These remarks were specifically directed at the GOP they indicated either act now or bear the blame of a climate that is very hostile to human life.

Elsewhere, a study by U of C Berkley and Princeton University concluded warmer temperatures drive up violence, more wars, more civil insurrection (Arab Spring), more crime.  Shouldn't be a surprise, every old police movie the sheriff worries about riots and lynch mobs when the dog days of summer set in.

Political and economic pressure can change things.  Find the clean energy promoting group in your state and sign up for emails, learn, speak out, they are backing an industry, green products, don't be stupid about that, but it is also clean air, lower temperatures, and in most cases lower energy bills.  I will post some of the state organizations as I find them.

up up and away in my beautiful balloon

Not one scientific organization in any nation in the world disagrees that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses are causing global warming.  Not one, none!  All agree, and all understand where these gasses come from.  Human activity.  Much of which could be modified in a short time if enough political and commercial pressure is applied.
This balloon graph represents emissions if all electric generation was from a single source.  It's very instructive to see this.  The illustration provides stark clarity of how damaging fossil burners are, and where the well lit path to a solution really is.  It's not possible to have a single source, but you can see shuttering fossil burners and using the small balloons* in combination would result in about 5% of our current emissions.
* if too small to read, the little balloons left to right in gigatons: wind 0.3, geothermal 1, hydro 0.1, ocean 0.2, solar csp 0.5, biopower 0.4, nuclear 0.4, solar pv 1.

Petcoke cloud from storm July 27 13, thanks Koch brothers, thanks Canada

This is Petcoke in Detroit, it's the left overs from refining Canadian tar sands.  It's owned by Koch brothers Marathon refinery in Detroit, right on the shore of the great lakes, just over the river from Windsor, Canada.  The shit is being stored uncovered without permits, it's toxic, high sulfur, heavy metals including high in vanadium a cancer causing toxin.  It is carried aloft in the wind, it runs into the great lakes when it rains.  Only this week did Koch apply for a permit, the state parroted Koch's line, it has not been proven to be harmful.  So why not take it home, use it in their drive ways, flower gardens, kids sand box!  Residents in the area complained of black dust in their houses some months ago, testing showed it was Petcoke.