Oh, I wish we could call a "do over"

Poll shows 7 of the 8 newly elected GOP govs would lose in a "do over" now that the voters see what they bought.  Where's the return desk?  I just hate this thing, it's more abrasive than I thought it would be!

I honestly thought this would happen.  Bob Dylan said, "you gotta serve somebody", and these guys appear to be doing a good job for the top 10% of the nations income earners.

your money is going to wind and heat

Mileage sucks:
Gas burning car engines explode fuel vapor to push the piston to turn the crank, shaft, wheel.  75% of heat off each explosion goes not to push the piston, but into the engine mass, moving out through the radiator.  Not a very successful use of heat, or your expensive fuel.  Keep the car tuned up, know what you are buying, some new engines are better now, hybrid and electric may fit a few of us.

In slow, stop and go traffic, about 90% of your fuel is used to accelerate the car, then in a few car lengths or a few blocks, you throw it all away as heat in the brakes.  Regenerative coasting and braking can harvest about 50% of this for later use.  Look for this in a new car if your shopping.  What can we learn from this tiny bit of info?  Weight of the car matters, lighter is better, and don't drive to the stop sign, I am amazed at the number of drivers maintaining 40 mpg until braking hard is the only choice.

In faster driving with few stops the cost in fuel is mostly to keep it rolling.  The main problem here is wind resistance, aerodynamics.  Here most the energy is going to swirl a tube of air behind the car.  The cross section, the total area of the car in front view determines the drag.  It can be mitigated by round corners and smooth lines, tight seams, clean slick surfaces, but the issue remains, the  wider & taller the car the greater the drag.  Narrow, low, long, beats fat, tall.

Rolling resistance is the smaller but an important contributor.  Tire tread & construction, bearings, drive train mechanical drain, road surface.  Drive the smooth road if equal distance, get the car greased, buy low rolling resistance tires if your going to keep the car for the tires life.

Faster X 8.  As a general rule most cars increase fuel consumption 8 times to double the speed.  40 to 80 isn't cheap.

Conclusion, Lighter, smaller, slower, fewer miles, more money in your pocket.

Burning hydrocarbons has driven CO2 pollution to record levels in 2010.  The volume of CO2 is higher than had been predicted.  Note: Global Warming Model Predictions if found to be in error, are almost always in error to our disadvantage, growing worse faster, always.

The research was released last weekend at a world conference.  CO2 is the main culprit in rising temperatures, caused by; burning coal 44% of it, oil 36%, natural gas near 20%.   Methane is just behind as a source, currently mostly from animal gas, but as the tundra thaws it may become the most common.  Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas, with warming and thawing we get more and warmer water surface for evaporation, thus more of it as well.

And we see pollution causes stupidity, Palin yesterday said of pollution, "I love the smell of emissions", and the house committee on pollution suspended it's look into these dangers and instead turned to increasing oil profits to "guarantee our security".

CO2 might (so far tests have not been very good at it and almost all are stopped) be able to be caught and pumped under ground.  But burning fossil fuel and catch it, even at 100% effective, would not reduce what we already released over the past 150 years.  The only possible way to do it, if you could catch it all for sequestration is burn trees.  Plant huge forests of trees, they are the only fast way to absorb CO2, convert power plants to burn wood and catch the shit.  You got a better idea?

Supreme Court and Obama agrees on one

A week or two ago the Supreme Court let an Arizona law stand that punished employers for hiring illegals.  The funders of the far right and the Chamber went into fits.  Hiring Mexicans and jipping them out of benefits and sometimes wages was just another profit center, a way to generate huge profits for the local franchise all the while funding racist and the gullible into a scapegoating froth.   Ouch, focus on the market not the supply and you cut it off, can you say "regional manager going to jail"?
Today I see it was made public that months ago Obama directed the Justice department to focus more on franchise and plant manager, regional manager, foreman, and less on the dishwasher and hotel maid and fruit picker, roofer.  If the manager of the slaughter house and paving company are facing jail time, word in Mexico will soon be no job there.

For the record, last year the Obama adm. deported about as many illegals as the Bush adm. did in any 4 year period.  Isn't this what most people wanted?  Instead you get Palin and Fox wringing their hands with lies about how little he is doing on the border.

Last Mountain, see it

Years of mergers and buy-outs have delivered to the market place ever larger and more parasitic corporations who cannot care about the community or the nation. Their only responsibility is to profit and the stock holders and board. They are godless entities in the Biblical sense, parasites, moneychangers in the temple. Their market democracy imperative is two-fold; profit and influence. Their interest does not even extend to the financial security of the nation, or the well being of the community, in fact they are often in conflict with it. They will do everything they can to hide and keep their money separate from the common good of the nation they feed on.

Hold em by their lapels and ride'm

Organic Wine:
If you are a wine buyer look for it, ask for it.  I like an organic Reisling from Oregon, and I have had a few different reds from Calif and one from South America.  The prices are right in there with the standard wines, all over the place. 60 years ago most all were organic.  I ask my dealer why he didn't bunch them together, he said they sell better mixed with other wine, otherwise some people think it's yukey poo.
Organic Beer:
My favorite beer is the Fat Tire beers from Colorado.  They use less water making beer than any brewery in the nation, they also use wind energy and give bikes to employees if they will ride them to work.  One of their 10 kinds is an organic beer with orange peel flavor, real good, same price as their other beers.

Organic does not always cost more, it's better for you, for the land, for the farmers/pickers, and it fucks the Koch's out of their fertilizer money and the chemical companies out of their's too, so there. phtttttttttt.  Shop like your fucking a rich guy!

Oil companies + business friendly courts + eminent domain = land rights trampled

Corporate pipeline operators have more rights and the final say over property they covet than the families who own the farms or the American Indians who hunted it for eons, and this will soon be demonstrated again for those who do not believe it.