Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Disturbed - Inside the fire (Album version)

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Hey, I hope you find happiness, whatever the label.

The real reason I haven't gotten into rugby is because it doesn't get coverage.
Well, that and I don't own a TV.

Please tell me that the rugby camera men/producers don't home in on butt-shots.
I got so tired of them cutting from the play at hand to some fat guy's ass in tights.
I just don't swing that way.

Up the road, there's an interesting sight: Tulsa-made windmills driving by Tulsa refineries on Tulsa made trucks. I'd say it was sticking it to the man but I know both the alt. energy guys and the oil men.
The rich know where the money is going to come from next, it's their business to know.

As a side note, Jay Leno's Big Dog garage is known for restoring antiquated grease-burners but he has a solar array on the roof, feeding California clean power. More businesses should do that IMO, if only to cut their own costs.



If containment is really viable, that's not a terrible idea. Actually, I like it. There's plenty of waste to go around.

The new biodiesels put out incredibly low carbon emissions http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/analysis/biodsl/p02001.pdf, according to the EPA. The main problem now is an oxide of nitrogen, which the new Mahindra (East Indian tractor and Jeep co.) trucks coming to America this year have urea scrubbers to combat.
Because it might make production more valuable to farmers than the current subsidy farming, which would kick our gross national product up a little bit and possibly, just possibly, create a situation where food is more readily available. Oh yeah, and we'd be feeding farmers rather than oil men.
And because Western civilization is bent on feeding on the cheap and the greasy.
There might be an initial spike in junk food price. Bummer. But there would be companies that would spring into action and buy straight from the burger manufacturers. Truth be told, the better oil is "virgin" so that would be a drop in the bucket if bio went mainstream, too much of a pain to filter. Incidentally, according to a 2006 U.N. report, the livestock industry puts out 18% more carbon than automobiles. http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
Doing something is better than nothing. Trust me, big money is investing in alternative energy, it's just not something that they feel like sharing with the peons.

I lived within the five mile initial blast zone of Duke Energy's Oconee SC twin stacks. We could see their parking lot lights over the hill.

We knew several workers at the plant (including the guy who gets to go in and test the reaction chamber for dangerous rads), none of which were crazy about nuclear energy after seeing it firsthand.

The water in Lake Jocassee became toxic in a hurry. Mercury levels shot through the roof, nobody could eat the fish. It's not supposed to do that, right? No side effects, right? At least, not until you combine governments and corporations to get that wonderful profit vs. maintenance effect. Then they found a crack in the concrete stack that went all the way to the core. Oops.

Nuclear sounds great but the reality sucks. Bio isn't really good for the environment but it's one of the few fuels that is readily biodegradable, that is, the particles that are unburnt hit the ground as vegetable oil, not petroleum. Oh, and it generates profit, which is sexier to developers than a one-off solution.

Just missed you. (Double entendre.)

Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (Eroica)

Beethoven's symphony #7

Ernesto Cortazar - Beethoven's Silence

http://www.iqb.es/musica/cortazar01.mp3

Eh- , s'pose it had to happen sooner or later.

Tchaikovski - String quartet #1

Got me thinking (dangit):

Claire de lune by Debussy

Fenugreek seeds, if steeped properly, taste awesome as a tea.

I'm glad it turned out to be something innocuous.

Pretty sure I've met some of the ones who wouldn't have shot, too.

Because randomly knocking on doors looking for a date is dangerous and weird.

In this day and age I wouldn't say it's any better or worse than meeting in person first, as long as both people are rational... that's the sticky part no matter where you meet.

I'm thinkin' whipped cream now.

I'm probably one of a dozen people on this planet that don't like chocolate (I have a cousin who doesn't either).

Bah humbugger!

I think that it's time that we owned up to our part in this pile of sh*t.

-Confusing capitalism with consumerism, then flirting with communism.
-Buying volume products rather than "heirloom."
-Getting stuck with grid electricity and oil. The Model T was made to run on homemade ethanol, the original diesel motor (patented by Mr. Diesel) was biodiesel, it ran on vegetable oil... also to be made at home. We used to be self-sufficient.
-Living on credit. Period.
-Knowing that what we eat is junk, but doing it anyway.
-Sending kids to a stupid school, where stupid politicians run stupid curriculum's so that kids that they've made stupid- won't fail.
-Arguing and voting along party lines for any reason, seriously, grow up and get your own opinion.
-Butting in to anything anywhere without getting our own stuff straight first. That applies to moral dictation, political finger-pointing etc.
-Blaming everything on everyone else.

It's a mess that we all made, not the Taliban, not the Mexicans, the welfare queens, not American pigs or Euro-trash, the gay people, the religious right, the black people, white people, rich people, Chinese or Russians; not even the tax-raising, pork-barreling, buttinski law-making, weaselly politicians.

We f*cked up.
{/rant}

The price of freedom, people might disagree with you.

The school has the "right to refuse service" and the students have the right to love whoever they want.