We have a group of people here called "Friends Of Lamont County" FLOC.
They're trying to do something about the Hazco sulfer storage facility.
There are signs all over the county, "say no to Hazco". They have a
website.
The least they can hope for is to slow Hazco down and make a few lawyers
rich. The best (for Lamont) would be that the facility gets moved to
another county. Unfortunate for someone else. They really want to place
it here because it's so close to the sites for the upgraders.
I recieved a newsletter in the mail about the county's proposed changes.
Their deadline for submitting concerns is May 9. I knew it was being
fast tracked but this is unbelievable. I just heard about it last week.
I checked the county website and it's 38,000 acres of expansion. A large
part of it being prime farmland. The county admin. won't say why it has
to go through so quickly. Some residents want to see it go to a vote. I
think someone did their homework and it's already a done deal.

Kid- I'm not familiar with the situation you are talking about but it
does have that universal smell of a done deal.

Canadian politics. Shove it through when nobody's looking. Like
Christmas Eve.
Too much is done behind closed doors right from the municipal to the
federal levels. Too much influence from the corporate sector. Boils down
to simple greed. Disgusting.

Steve Irwin had a passion for amimals that i have never seen before. It
was a sad day when he was killed. That ray was just doing his normal
thing. He was using his defense when he got a little scared. I never
knew that they used their tails like that.

battle #5 played out in kangaroo court. Custody court. IT OVER!! NO MORE
COURTS and NO MORE DADDY DRAMA!! IT IS OVER!!!

Kid, I don't think that is particular to Canadian politics. It happens
here as often as they can get away with it.

Interesting news article...I wonder where there resources are coming
from to support this mighty nation...that's a whole lot of people..


BEIJING - China's top family planning body has warned that the world's
most populous country could face a "population rebound" because the
newly rich are ignoring population control laws and because of early
marriages in rural areas, state media said Monday.


China's family planning policy — implemented in the late 1970s — limits
most urban couples to one child and rural families to two to control
population growth and conserve natural resources.

But a rise in incomes means some newly rich can afford to break the
rules and pay any resulting fines, while the traditional desire for sons
means the rules are also broken in the countryside.

"The number of rich people and celebrities having more than one child is
on a rapid increase, and nearly 10 percent of them even have three,"
Xinhua News Agency quoted a National Population and Family Planning
Commission survey as saying.

China's Constitution says that men may marry at 22 and women at 20, with
late marriages and later childbearing encouraged to keep population
growth down.

"Early marriages are still prevailing in some parts of the country,
especially in rural areas, which goes against the family planning
policy," Xinhua News Agency quoted commission director Zhang Weiqing as
saying.

China has about 1.3 billion people — 20 percent of the world's total.
The government has pledged to keep the population under 1.36 billion in
2010 and under 1.45 billion in 2020.




From Yahoo news..not the most reliable source, but reasonably indicative
of China's growth..

((( Lakeman)))

Steve Irwin had a passion for life and all that live on this planet.

Maybe he chose animals because the are much more hones and predictable
to work with...as opposed to humans.

The local corner store has awesome owners, and the family daughter is
due in around 4 weeks to give birth...

In other news...

Chesterfield, a nearby township... is suffering brushfires on the
mountainsides.

And, an idiot policeman shot a mother bear protecting her cubs. All due
to mistaken claims.
(big officerman was too damned scared, and wanted to shoot something)

Annd, we have the treasurer of the Babe Ruth children's baseball league
whom stole money from the funding...

oh, and Windham officials want to ban smoking on at the public beach.
LMFAO!

Thats pretty close jess. 23%of the Worlds POP and 9% of the land area..
In the eighties China had forced abortions and were killing female
children to try to mintain pop control. They have quit that as an
improvement in human rights so that they could become a favored trading
partner with the US, but they still fine people who go over i child and
cut out tax breaks and impose fines. I can see how the rich could get
around that, but they still only have a 2nd world economy with only 41 %
urbanization and the rest living on farming. 550,000,000 live in an
urban setting and 800,000,000 living in the country..Poverty runs rampid
and polution is terrible, since almost all the countries industries burn
coal. They are trying to improve though and have some massive
engineering projects going on. Like the three gorges dam on the yellow
river, and the grand canal. it runs 1700 miles diverting water to an
otherwise dry desert region of the country. burrowing under a mountain
range in one part and using pumps in others to pump the water.

Sorry about the spelling..
India is predicted to surpass China in Pop before 2025. They are
terrible, they have the worlds largest slum with millions who live in
the street and wash their clothes in the worlds most polluted rivers.
They have millions of people who do not even have toilets, so they ****
in the streets and dont bathe. It really is terrible and they dont even
try to hold the pop down. they have the largest gap between the haves
and have nots in the World and they have Nukes. Wild aye!!!

I could get the fiqures for you if you want but I think Chinas doubling
time in pop isnt too bad, something like 117 yrs. They estimate their
were 300 million forced abortions during the 80's.. something like that
anyway.....

Im good with geography and history. you can check, but that is pretty
accurate...

Nene!

A new baby in the neighbourhood! Whoo hoo!

Tiny hopes, and joyful bundles...yum.

Bushfires...yep...we just had a fire through the National Park to the
south of us...more dingos, and kangaroos, snakes and lizards wandering
around the southern border of town, looking a little disshevelled...


And I can say with assurance, the snakes won't be getting a warm
welcome...kind of like the bear and her cubs.

Australian PM backs carbon trading scheme by Neil Sands
Fri Jun 1, 10:41 AM ET



SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday dropped
his objections to a national carbon emissions trading scheme but said he
would not be rushed into setting targets that could damage the economy.

Howard released a government-commissioned report that recommended
establishing a carbon trading scheme in 2012, drawing criticism from
green groups who want immediate action.

Howard, a long-time climate change sceptic who has resisted emissions
trading proposals several times during his 11 years in power, said the
delay will allow careful analysis to ensure minimum impact on the
economy.

"This is a hugely burdensome and responsible decision," he said.

"If we get this wrong, if we embrace a target, we'll do crippling damage
to our economy.

"If we embrace a target that will increase electricity prices more than
they should go up, then we'll do enormous damage to Australian
households and the broad economy."

Howard said the public had to realise that limiting greenhouse gas
emissions would come at a cost.

"All of us are going to be affected," he said. "We can't cure greenhouse
gas emissions over the years ahead without paying higher prices for
electricity.

"Anybody in the next 12 months, five years, 10 years who tries to tell
you otherwise is deluding you."

Howard's conservative government has adopted a cautious approach to
climate change, joining the United States in refusing to sign the Kyoto
Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.

But as Australia experiences its worst drought in a century and
scientific evidence linking global warming to human activity mounts, the
prime minister has declared himself a "climate change realist" and
embraced emissions trading.

The opposition Labor Party accused Howard of switching his position in
response to opinion polls showing widespread public concern about
climate change, saying he wanted to win over voters at an election due
later this year.

"This has been a government that has been so inactive on climate change
that anything it does now is explained by this year's election, rather
than a change of heart," Labor deputy leader Julia Gillard told
reporters.

The head of the government taskforce behind the report, Peter Shergold,
said emissions trading could begin in Australia by 2012.

Shergold said work should begin immediately on setting targets,
establishing emissions monitoring systems, creating legislation, setting
up an independent regulator, allocating permits and engaging
international partners.

"It's a huge reform and it's going to take time," he said.

"It would place Australia ahead of most other nations."

But World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia chief executive Greg Bourne said
the government needed to act with greater urgency in setting up the
scheme.

"It was done in Europe in two-and-a-half years, we can certainly do it
before the end of 2010," he told Sky News.

The trading scheme would involve the government setting a cap on
emissions then granting businesses permits to cover the amount of
greenhouse gases they produce each year.

The permits could be traded between businesses, allowing companies that
are not using all their allocation to sell them to those that will
exceed their quota.



So, why is it we can't do it in two and a half years???

A wonderful example of one of the Coalition Forces leaders... John
Howard has such deep concern for his own country, NOT!!!!

I can see how concerned he is for the people of Iraq...and Afganistan,
and Timor, and every other finger in the pie, he has placed Australian
troups in...

Man! That was wild Lee! It seems like the only thing that changes is the
country and not the issues. We can relate!

mornin Zap!!

mornin Lee

wow what a beautiful sunny day we have here!!

coffee anyone? tea maybe?

lookin out my window..the swan are filing down the canal . 8 of them and
3 young ones

the meercoot is nesting and as usual she had decorated her nest with
only red coke cans...funny bird

the sunlight is reflecting off the calm waters of the kade and some
small boats are wandering by. the roses are blooming

the scent of coffee is wafting thru the open balcony from so many
perking pots, and the seagulls are squalking as they play in the
thermals behind my house.

the heat on my cheek is soothing , my coffee is finished and all i can
say is how overwhelming it feels to have these simple pleasures

i am filled with gratitude for these moments...

that's what's outside my window for this moment

Alex Sounds lovely!

I had a beautiful sunrise this morning!

2,000 gather for Amsterdam nude photo By TOBY STERLING,

Sun Jun 3, 10:00 AM ET



AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles
on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals Sunday — a unique
sight even in a city famed for its relaxed attitude toward nudity and
sex.


They were among 2,000 men and women who participated in a series of four
nude group photos in the city in the early hours of the morning as part
of the latest project of U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick.

The first and largest composition was in a decidedly prosaic location: a
parking garage on the outer ring of the city.

But what the location lacked in romance, it made up for in style.
Participants lined the railings of the garage's twin circular towers,
creating a pattern of multicolor stripes against the white building and
an overcast sky.

The women on bikes were selected from the larger group and posed with
their chins pointed triumphantly upward toward the sky.

Other compositions included a group of men posing together near the
parking garage and a mixed group of men and women on another bridge.

Tunick, from Brooklyn, N.Y., has become famous for photographing
thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, from London and
Vienna to Buenos Aires and Buffalo. He set a record for naked
photography with a photo of 18,000 people in the buff in Mexico City
last month.



Glad the weather has warmed up over there Alex....what a sight that
would have been, I have seen some of his work...amazing..

that was great wasn't it!!!????


amsterdam is very chill...but i also heard about a violent orgy....some
skinhead infected a group of homosexuals with his HIV virus....i think
16 people were infected....ugh...